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- 0:00Speaker 1: On March twenty sixth, nineteen forty five, CBS presented episode
- 0:04Speaker 1: four hundred seventy six of Lux Radio Theater. Charles Dickens
- 0:08Speaker 1: is a tale of two cities set in London and
- 0:12Speaker 1: Paris before and during the French Revolution. The drama follows
- 0:16Speaker 1: Lucy Manette, her father Charles Darnay, and the English barrister
- 0:20Speaker 1: Sidney Carton as their lives become entwined amid political upheaval
- 0:25Speaker 1: and old family connections. Orson Wells stars as Carton, with
- 0:30Speaker 1: Rosemary de Camp as Lucy Manette, Dennis Green as Charles Darnay,
- 0:35Speaker 1: and Verna Felton as Madame Defarge. Frank Craven serves as
- 0:39Speaker 1: guest host and producer and now the original broadcast.
- 0:45Speaker 2: Luck Presents Hollywood. The Luck Radio Theater brings you Autumn
- 1:03Speaker 2: Weald and Rosemary DeCamp in a tale of toothities, Ladies
- 1:09Speaker 2: and gentlemen. Your guest producer was your Bright Craven.
- 1:20Speaker 3: Good evening, Ladies and gentlemen. Between the peoples of the
- 1:23Speaker 3: English speaking world are fortunately many strong and common bonds,
- 1:28Speaker 3: respect for freedom and democracy, a sense of fair play,
- 1:31Speaker 3: and the love of tolerance. And to those bonds you
- 1:34Speaker 3: may Well add a commonwealth of Dickens. There are many
- 1:38Speaker 3: writers we pay homage to, but none us come as
- 1:41Speaker 3: close to our hearts and moved us so thoroughly to
- 1:44Speaker 3: tears and laughter as the author of Tonight's great story,
- 1:47Speaker 3: a Tale of two Cities. And I say great not
- 1:50Speaker 3: from my judgment only, but because time in the world.
- 1:53Speaker 2: Have called it so.
- 1:54Speaker 3: And Dickens himself expressed the humble hope that posterity would
- 1:58Speaker 3: consider it the best thing that the written for.
- 2:01Speaker 4: To him, it was an attempt.
- 2:02Speaker 3: To explain in terms of one man's life and actions,
- 2:05Speaker 3: one of the most inexplicable and violent periods of human history,
- 2:09Speaker 3: the French Reign of Terror, when twenty five million people
- 2:13Speaker 3: armed with torch and saber bathed Europe in the blood
- 2:16Speaker 3: of vengeance. Here, indeed, is the material of drama recorded
- 2:20Speaker 3: by a vivid and imaginative brighter, and portrayed for us
- 2:24Speaker 3: tonight by two stars worthy of this staunch assignment, Arson
- 2:28Speaker 3: Wells and Rosemary de Camp, both veterans of this stage
- 2:32Speaker 3: and of the screen and theater. Originally, most of Charles
- 2:36Speaker 3: Dickens's works were published in installments and came to America
- 2:40Speaker 3: by sailing vessels.
- 2:41Speaker 5: Records tell us.
- 2:42Speaker 3: Of how crowds thronged the wards of New York City
- 2:45Speaker 3: to receive the latest news of their favorite heroin a
- 2:47Speaker 3: hero for already the names of Dickens's characters were household words,
- 2:52Speaker 3: as much, I imagine as Rock's toilet self as a household
- 2:55Speaker 3: world throughout America to day, and for very much the
- 2:58Speaker 3: same reason, the ability to find approval among people of
- 3:02Speaker 3: all kinds, of ages, and every walk of life, not
- 3:05Speaker 3: only among women who are anxious to preserve their loveliness,
- 3:08Speaker 3: but with.
- 3:09Speaker 6: Every member of the family, young and old.
- 3:11Speaker 3: Lux toilets Soap is quick to make friends and to
- 3:15Speaker 3: keep them. And now our curtain rises on Europe one
- 3:18Speaker 3: hundred and fifty years ago, as we bring you the
- 3:21Speaker 3: first act of A Tale of Two Cities, starring Arson
- 3:24Speaker 3: Wells as Sydney Carton and Rosemary de Camp as Lucy Manette,
- 3:29Speaker 3: with Dennis Green as Charles Darnay. Paris, seventeen ninety three.
- 3:40Speaker 3: The French Revolution is over, the cause is won, but
- 3:43Speaker 3: the bloodshed has only started. The Reign of terror sweeps
- 3:46Speaker 3: through the land and all its fury, and each day
- 3:49Speaker 3: Madame mcguillotin.
- 3:50Speaker 4: Has had her share of human life.
- 3:52Speaker 3: The dripping blade rises and falls, and the crowd counts,
- 3:56Speaker 3: and monotonous rhythm is each noble head rolls to the ground.
- 4:03Speaker 3: The knife rises again and sweeps downward. Me Ulty two lives.
- 4:09Speaker 4: On a single day, and more to come, and.
- 4:12Speaker 6: More and more, until night falls.
- 4:14Speaker 3: Draws a curtain on the scene. Behind the bleak walls
- 4:22Speaker 3: of the forest prison, the doomed of the following day
- 4:24Speaker 3: await their fate.
- 4:26Speaker 5: In a bare dungeon cell.
- 4:28Speaker 3: A single lantern throws a ghostly glow on their faces
- 4:31Speaker 3: with a rattle of chains.
- 4:32Speaker 4: With great iron door has flown open him.
- 4:36Speaker 7: Everyone rises, rise, Aristocrats.
- 4:40Speaker 8: The name of the people of francis right.
- 4:42Speaker 7: Funeral here by declares that you shall be put to
- 4:44Speaker 7: death by the guillotine on the morning of February second,
- 4:46Speaker 7: seventeen ninety three. Citizen Jaylor, which one of these is
- 4:50Speaker 7: Charles Evremon, everyman, Devord Evreman, Charles Evreman, called Charles Dannay,
- 4:56Speaker 7: Which one of you would he.
- 4:59Speaker 8: Him?
- 4:59Speaker 9: Everyman, step forward, Charles Evreman, known as Charles Darny. In
- 5:05Speaker 9: view of the excitement occasioned by your trial, it was
- 5:08Speaker 9: felt that some small favor would be an order we
- 5:11Speaker 9: have decided therefore that you shall live long enough to
- 5:14Speaker 9: witness the execution of your friends. Here fifty one heads
- 5:18Speaker 9: will fall tomorrow, Yours will be the fifty second.
- 5:26Speaker 10: Citi everymore.
- 5:27Speaker 11: Yeah, I didn't know you were here with us so dark?
- 5:32Speaker 8: Yes, what is it you wanted?
- 5:34Speaker 10: Don't you know me?
- 5:35Speaker 6: I'm deserted with a blottle.
- 5:38Speaker 8: Of course, together, course I forget for the moment of
- 5:42Speaker 8: what you were accused.
- 5:44Speaker 12: They accuse me.
- 5:44Speaker 13: Of plak I'm innocent. How could I part against the Republican.
- 5:52Speaker 10: I'm nothing, no one, no crida.
- 5:56Speaker 8: Too late for tears.
- 5:57Speaker 12: I'd try to be brave. Soon in the morning will come.
- 6:03Speaker 12: It's going right, even though.
- 6:05Speaker 8: You haven't eye yet. That's more than's God for courage.
- 6:10Speaker 12: Look, sun's riding. I'm afraid, but I'm glad. Weish you
- 6:18Speaker 12: can see it is you.
- 6:22Speaker 10: You are not a bransh You are not jos the room?
- 6:27Speaker 3: Are you?
- 6:27Speaker 6: Jaw?
- 6:28Speaker 8: The room?
- 6:29Speaker 12: His eyes?
- 6:29Speaker 6: Would you the grow? His hair was light? And yours?
- 6:33Speaker 8: Who are like you? I am nobody nothing?
- 6:38Speaker 12: You're going to die for him?
- 6:40Speaker 14: Why, monsieur?
- 6:42Speaker 8: I could never make you understand.
- 6:43Speaker 12: But I could set you free. One would for me
- 6:46Speaker 12: that you must not please tell me about yourself? How
- 6:52Speaker 12: can I it would help?
- 6:54Speaker 8: So?
- 6:54Speaker 12: Do you talk to me? Perhaps it would help you too.
- 6:58Speaker 8: Monsieurs, so much to tell. So it began so long ago,
- 7:07Speaker 8: twenty five years ago, seventeen sixty eight. Ever been in England? No,
- 7:17Speaker 8: there's a long hill on the Dover Road that sweeps
- 7:19Speaker 8: down to the seas, the Pleasant Road on a summer
- 7:23Speaker 8: day with the sun shining, the devil's Own Highway at
- 7:27Speaker 8: night in the winter rains On just that sort of night.
- 7:32Speaker 8: In seventeen sixty eight, a coach topped the rise of
- 7:35Speaker 8: the hill the male boundary the Dover. Get up there,
- 7:44Speaker 8: get up, get up, Tell the nail tom and rest
- 7:48Speaker 8: them for an Oh, we'll be lucky if we make
- 7:52Speaker 8: the boat recaliation. You should see that, I say, a horse.
- 7:58Speaker 8: If you can't coming up, you are, I say all
- 8:01Speaker 8: the gab? Oh there tender on fire?
- 8:07Speaker 5: Oh are you?
- 8:08Speaker 8: What do you want?
- 8:09Speaker 15: Is that a overnails?
- 8:11Speaker 8: I'm a passenger? What passenger? Mister Jarvis Lorry? Keep where
- 8:15Speaker 8: you are?
- 8:17Speaker 2: A gentleman name of John, Miss Lourie, and the coach
- 8:19Speaker 2: I'm Larry.
- 8:20Speaker 16: Who wants me?
- 8:21Speaker 8: If me, mister Lorry Jerry, I know.
- 8:23Speaker 16: This messenger guard. There's nothing wrong.
- 8:25Speaker 8: I hope I ain't hell, are you? I'm on at
- 8:27Speaker 8: a footpace. Well, Jerry, what is it?
- 8:32Speaker 16: I just batched their set after you're from London.
- 8:34Speaker 8: Quit quick about reading it her. I don't like this.
- 8:37Speaker 17: It's not very long. You've see wait at Dover for Mademoiselle.
- 8:42Speaker 17: Very good, Jerry. Yes, Mitter Lorry, right back to London
- 8:46Speaker 17: as passed as you can tell them. My answer was recalled.
- 8:51Speaker 8: To life, recall life. There is mister Lorry's business that night,
- 9:05Speaker 8: to recall to life a man who had been buried
- 9:07Speaker 8: alive for eighteen years, a prisoner of the French nobility,
- 9:11Speaker 8: the man who escaped and is now hidden by friends
- 9:14Speaker 8: in the village of San Antoine. To that village went
- 9:17Speaker 8: mister Lorry to the wine shop of a certain Madame Defarge.
- 9:23Speaker 8: You are Madame Defarge.
- 9:25Speaker 14: I am.
- 9:26Speaker 17: My name is Jervis Lorry. I've just arrived from London.
- 9:29Speaker 17: This young lady with me is missus Lucy Manette.
- 9:32Speaker 14: Good morning, mamseau.
- 9:33Speaker 13: Please tell us is my father here?
- 9:36Speaker 14: Did he say your father? There is no one here, ma'amselle.
- 9:40Speaker 17: But mister Lorry was taking one moment my child Madame Defarge.
- 9:44Speaker 16: Perhaps I should have.
- 9:45Speaker 17: Presented my credentials sooner recalled to life.
- 9:51Speaker 18: There is a man here, a man all beyond these years,
- 9:55Speaker 18: a mender of shoes.
- 9:57Speaker 14: Will you come this way? My husb and and I
- 10:00Speaker 14: have kept him locked in a room up the stairs.
- 10:03Speaker 16: Did you say, lot.
- 10:04Speaker 15: Yes, of his own desire, of his own necessities.
- 10:08Speaker 18: He has lived too long alone. He would be afraid
- 10:11Speaker 18: if his door was left un left.
- 10:14Speaker 6: Mister Laurian's right.
- 10:22Speaker 14: The doctor Manette, you are hard at work.
- 10:26Speaker 15: Yes, I am working.
- 10:30Speaker 18: You have a visitor, doctor, showing the shoe you are making.
- 10:36Speaker 18: Now tell us here the maker's name. You asked my name, yes,
- 10:42Speaker 18: one hundred and five. Nor a power that is all
- 10:47Speaker 18: one hundred and five, Nor a power.
- 10:52Speaker 17: You see us here hearing members nothing? Doctor Manette, Do
- 10:57Speaker 17: you remember nothing of me?
- 11:00Speaker 8: Look at me?
- 11:01Speaker 16: Is there the old banker?
- 11:03Speaker 4: No old business rising in your mind?
- 11:06Speaker 17: Think of England, a man who was your friend, Jarvis Lorry.
- 11:14Speaker 17: It's no use. This is what they have done to him. Lucy,
- 11:18Speaker 17: come here, my child, Yes, now speak call him, Speak
- 11:22Speaker 17: to him as you did long ago.
- 11:26Speaker 6: Father.
- 11:28Speaker 16: Who is this? Do you remember? Doctor Minnette?
- 11:34Speaker 15: I remember a little girl with long golden hair, ages
- 11:41Speaker 15: ages ago?
- 11:43Speaker 16: What was her name?
- 11:44Speaker 5: Her name?
- 11:45Speaker 16: She laid her head upon my.
- 11:47Speaker 6: Shoulder when they came for me that night.
- 11:51Speaker 8: Don't let him take you further.
- 11:54Speaker 15: Hush, my Churney and that big Lucy.
- 12:09Speaker 8: They crossed the channel that night to a safe refuge
- 12:12Speaker 8: in England. There for five years the good doctor rested,
- 12:16Speaker 8: until at last his memory returned and he was well again.
- 12:20Speaker 8: But now in the English courts a trial was in progress,
- 12:26Speaker 8: a trial of a certain trial's done. He accused of
- 12:28Speaker 8: plotting treason against his Majesty's government. Doctor Mannette, called as
- 12:33Speaker 8: a witness, sat with his daughter in the judge's bench.
- 12:36Speaker 8: The court was hot, humid. Only one man seemed quite
- 12:41Speaker 8: at ease, the assistant counsel for the prisoner. His court
- 12:45Speaker 8: whig dipped in a slovenly fashion. Over one eye is caught,
- 12:49Speaker 8: gown stained with wine. His name if anyone was interested
- 12:55Speaker 8: for Sydney Carton.
- 12:58Speaker 5: Cotton stack.
- 13:00Speaker 19: Quickly with the evidence they presented, Donnie will hang by morning?
- 13:04Speaker 8: Cardon?
- 13:05Speaker 2: Do you hear me?
- 13:06Speaker 8: I hear you, missus? Driver? What shall I do? Why
- 13:10Speaker 8: will you? I should sit down? Darnay is my client.
- 13:13Speaker 5: I'm trying to protect him. I pay you well for
- 13:16Speaker 5: your assistance, expector, and you will have it.
- 13:18Speaker 8: Missus driver, when the time comes.
- 13:21Speaker 5: So you've already had your bottle today too.
- 13:24Speaker 8: I believe drunk, always drunk, Cotton, listen to me at
- 13:29Speaker 8: present time. I'm more interested in Doctor Manette, Doctor Manette,
- 13:34Speaker 8: to the stand.
- 13:37Speaker 17: You are doctor Manette, I am Doctor Manette. The prisoner
- 13:41Speaker 17: tells Darnay, it's been accused of carrying secret messages from
- 13:44Speaker 17: Louis of France to spies here in England. Look upon
- 13:47Speaker 17: the prisoner. Have you ever seen him before? I don't know, really,
- 13:53Speaker 17: Is it not true, doctor Manette, that the prisoner was
- 13:55Speaker 17: a fellow passenger with you five years ago on a
- 13:57Speaker 17: boat from Calid to Dover. I cannot say when I
- 14:00Speaker 17: came from France that night, I had been newly released
- 14:03Speaker 17: from a long imprisonment. I have little remembrance of the occasion.
- 14:07Speaker 17: My mind was a blank for some time. I see
- 14:11Speaker 17: your daughter made the trip with you, did you not?
- 14:13Speaker 8: Yes?
- 14:14Speaker 16: That will be all. Are there any questions from.
- 14:18Speaker 5: The defense, any questions, Carson, No questions, No questions. You're
- 14:23Speaker 5: worship Miss Lucy Mannette to.
- 14:26Speaker 17: The stairs, and now, miss Mannette, look upon the prisoner.
- 14:30Speaker 8: Please?
- 14:31Speaker 16: Have you ever seen him before?
- 14:34Speaker 6: Where on board the packet?
- 14:36Speaker 16: Thought you mentioned you spoke to him, you were friendly
- 14:39Speaker 16: with him?
- 14:40Speaker 4: Yes?
- 14:40Speaker 8: Good?
- 14:41Speaker 16: And now tell me did he come aboard alone?
- 14:44Speaker 18: No?
- 14:45Speaker 13: When the gentleman came on you mean.
- 14:46Speaker 16: The prisoner, yes, then say the prisoner.
- 14:51Speaker 13: When the prisoner came on board, there were two gentlemen with.
- 14:54Speaker 17: Him, but these two did not make the crossing.
- 14:58Speaker 6: No.
- 14:59Speaker 16: Now tell me did you see them give certain papers
- 15:02Speaker 16: to the prisoner that night?
- 15:04Speaker 6: No?
- 15:04Speaker 16: You're sure of that.
- 15:05Speaker 10: I er, I don't know.
- 15:07Speaker 16: It was dark, then they might have given him certain papers.
- 15:10Speaker 16: Is that right?
- 15:11Speaker 17: Yes?
- 15:11Speaker 16: But I'm that would be honest?
- 15:12Speaker 8: Man?
- 15:13Speaker 6: Please, I know he isn't guilty.
- 15:14Speaker 8: That will be.
- 15:15Speaker 5: Are there any questions from the defense, Will Cotton? No,
- 15:21Speaker 5: you're mad, no question, No questions, your worship.
- 15:26Speaker 8: Your worship.
- 15:27Speaker 16: The prosecution would like to recall his chief witness, the
- 15:30Speaker 16: prisoner's accuser.
- 15:31Speaker 17: Mister John barsaid, Now, stra they might have some questions,
- 15:39Speaker 17: mister John Marson, right here, sir, mister b said, look
- 15:43Speaker 17: upon the prisoner.
- 15:44Speaker 16: Do you recognize him? I do, sir.
- 15:46Speaker 17: He's a spy against his Majesty's government.
- 15:48Speaker 2: That's what he is.
- 15:51Speaker 19: I was on that Mayle packet myself that night, and
- 15:54Speaker 19: I saw the kind of papers that passed into the
- 15:56Speaker 19: ends of the prisoner.
- 15:57Speaker 2: They were lists of our troops.
- 15:59Speaker 16: Thank you, mister, No more question.
- 16:01Speaker 8: We can't hold what it bead Will Carton asking these
- 16:06Speaker 8: questions I've written down here.
- 16:09Speaker 19: Mister Barr said, how do you know the papers you
- 16:12Speaker 19: saw were lists of British soldiers? I saw them, You
- 16:16Speaker 19: saw them, then you took them out of the pockets
- 16:18Speaker 19: of the prisoner. Charles Darnay, Yes.
- 16:20Speaker 8: Sir, and no, sir, they sell out they did.
- 16:23Speaker 5: Oh, then you didn't take them.
- 16:25Speaker 19: You're not a spy yourself, a man who makes his
- 16:28Speaker 19: living by making accusations just or otherwise against his fellow comfortable.
- 16:32Speaker 19: That's a lie, I done right, insinuated lie.
- 16:35Speaker 8: One moment, Will Carton, missus driver, no imagination. There's the birth.
- 16:44Speaker 8: Where did you get money to live on my property?
- 16:47Speaker 8: Your property? Where is it?
- 16:49Speaker 2: I don't exactly remember.
- 16:53Speaker 8: And perhaps you can remember how you got that property.
- 16:56Speaker 2: You neherited it from whom from relative?
- 16:59Speaker 8: This sense realities? How many times have you been in prison?
- 17:03Speaker 8: Six times? Isn't it?
- 17:04Speaker 2: What's they gotta do with it?
- 17:05Speaker 8: Heaven kicked the cheating guys.
- 17:07Speaker 2: Well, now, mister Basad, who are positive with the prisoner
- 17:09Speaker 2: who saw.
- 17:09Speaker 8: That night with those lists?
- 17:10Speaker 2: I am it couldn't possibly have been someone else?
- 17:12Speaker 8: Now it cut You will please face this witness now,
- 17:16Speaker 8: mister Basad, look at mister Darnay, look at him carefully. Well, now,
- 17:21Speaker 8: mister Bassad look at me, at me, the assistant counsel
- 17:25Speaker 8: for the defense. You notice the resemblance between us. We
- 17:31Speaker 8: are very much alike, are we not? Well, now that
- 17:34Speaker 8: you mention it, you are as a matter of fact,
- 17:37Speaker 8: it could have been me who saw with those supposed
- 17:39Speaker 8: lists that night, could it not?
- 17:40Speaker 6: Well? Now could it not?
- 17:42Speaker 8: Mister Bassard? All right, yes, it's all thank yo. Are
- 17:52Speaker 8: there any more questions?
- 17:54Speaker 5: The jury were required to consider him.
- 17:55Speaker 8: Learning July agreed. We have your own worship, and now
- 18:04Speaker 8: you find the prisoner, Charles Donney. We find the prisoner,
- 18:08Speaker 8: not Jilney.
- 18:17Speaker 2: Mister Donney, may we congratulate you, saying, thank you, doctor.
- 18:20Speaker 6: I'm happy our testimony.
- 18:21Speaker 13: Did you know harm?
- 18:22Speaker 8: Thank you, Miss Lucy. I'm sure I did nothing but good.
- 18:25Speaker 8: It was mister Carton who really won your case. Mister
- 18:27Speaker 8: Carton with the Carton, sir, don't call me may I
- 18:31Speaker 8: thank yourself for saving my life. It's only a part
- 18:34Speaker 8: of my business. Mister Carton. This is doctor Manette and
- 18:37Speaker 8: miss Lucy Mannette. Mister car how do you do?
- 18:39Speaker 6: Oh? We thought you were splendid. Mister Carton.
- 18:42Speaker 8: Here professional clap trap ah. May I ask how did
- 18:47Speaker 8: you happen to notice the resemblance between you and me?
- 18:49Speaker 8: Or it was very simple. I looked at you and
- 18:52Speaker 8: admired Joe Burying and your character. You see, I have
- 18:54Speaker 8: nothing but admiration for myself.
- 18:59Speaker 16: Lucy, my dear, we miss school.
- 19:01Speaker 13: Goodbye, mister Donny.
- 19:03Speaker 6: Will you call it our house soon?
- 19:05Speaker 8: Thank you? Miss Lucy, Hi, thank you. Good day, said gentlemen.
- 19:13Speaker 8: Good day doctor mister Cotton. Would you care to dine
- 19:17Speaker 8: with me? Or you feel you must repay me? I
- 19:20Speaker 8: could never repay you for my lifeester he don't be
- 19:22Speaker 8: too certain. Bottle of wine or two? My fees are
- 19:26Speaker 8: very low. Another glass, mister Johnny, thank you. I've had enough. Donnay.
- 19:43Speaker 8: How's it feeling to be alive again instead of hanging
- 19:46Speaker 8: by your neck? Well, I'm a little confused regarding time
- 19:49Speaker 8: and place, but it's good to feel at home in
- 19:51Speaker 8: the world again. Or it must be an immense satisfaction
- 19:55Speaker 8: to me. The world has a little author of wine
- 19:58Speaker 8: like this, So you not very much like in that
- 20:01Speaker 8: particular howe you speak very faintly, Donnie, I didn't speak
- 20:09Speaker 8: at all. It comes, Donnie Cola Hill oppose you to
- 20:12Speaker 8: what I done, A typically a tongue man that's in
- 20:15Speaker 8: there all evening out of this very well, then, Miss
- 20:18Speaker 8: Lucy Manette, Miss Mannette, as a very young lady to
- 20:27Speaker 8: hand into a coach in the dark. Gay, mister Donne,
- 20:31Speaker 8: there's a say young lady to be pitied by and
- 20:34Speaker 8: wept for by. How the feelings to Donny, it's worth
- 20:38Speaker 8: big tribe for one's life to be the object of
- 20:40Speaker 8: that sympathis and compassion. I don't take your meaning, mister.
- 20:46Speaker 8: Let me ask you a questions.
- 20:48Speaker 2: Do you think I particularly like you?
- 20:50Speaker 8: You've acted as if you do, but I don't think
- 20:55Speaker 8: you do. I don't think I do either. Nevertheless, I
- 20:59Speaker 8: hope that last and that dislike to prevent my calling
- 21:02Speaker 8: to the reckoning and parting without your blood nothing at
- 21:05Speaker 8: all you call the whole reckoning in my maser. In
- 21:09Speaker 8: that case, innkeeper, more wine, yes, sir, good night, mister Cotton.
- 21:14Speaker 8: There you go.
- 21:15Speaker 2: One last word, mister Darney, you think I am drunk?
- 21:19Speaker 8: I think you have been drinking. Mister Cotton, you know
- 21:23Speaker 8: I have been drinking. Well since I must say so,
- 21:26Speaker 8: I know it. You should likewise know why, because I
- 21:30Speaker 8: care for no man on earth, No man on earth
- 21:34Speaker 8: kiss me much to be aggressive. You might have you
- 21:36Speaker 8: with your talents better, Maybe so, missus Jarney. Maybe not.
- 21:40Speaker 8: Good night, sir night, and don't let your sober face elate.
- 21:44Speaker 8: You never know what it may come to, innkeeper the whine, Well, well, Gordon,
- 21:57Speaker 8: have mister Dnney shown you that you've fallen away from?
- 22:02Speaker 8: But she might have been changed places with him? And
- 22:06Speaker 8: would you've been looked at by those blue eyes to
- 22:09Speaker 8: see worse? Come on, have it out in plain woods.
- 22:18Speaker 8: You hate the fellow. Sydney Carton knew it was too
- 22:27Speaker 8: late to change his way of life, but he took
- 22:31Speaker 8: to brushing his shabby coat and combing his untidy hair.
- 22:36Speaker 8: And there were times even when he remembered that a
- 22:39Speaker 8: gentleman does not drink himself nightly into a stupid On
- 22:43Speaker 8: Sunday afternoons, he would appear in miss mannet garden, sitting
- 22:48Speaker 8: quietly speaking, but seldom for Charles Daney was there too.
- 22:54Speaker 8: One evening, just at dust, an approaching storm sent him into.
- 22:59Speaker 20: Him Listen, it's coming soon, mister Darnay.
- 23:03Speaker 8: It's comes slowly but surely.
- 23:05Speaker 6: Isn't it impressive?
- 23:07Speaker 13: Sometimes, when I've sat here of an evening like this,
- 23:09Speaker 13: listening to the thunder in the distance, I've had.
- 23:12Speaker 6: Such a strange fancy. I've imagined that the thunderclaps were echoes, the.
- 23:17Speaker 10: Echoes of footsteps that were one day.
- 23:19Speaker 6: Enter our lives.
- 23:21Speaker 8: If that is so, there is a great crowd coming
- 23:24Speaker 8: into our lives, I take them into mind.
- 23:26Speaker 6: Gladly, was my foolish fancy, mister Carton.
- 23:29Speaker 8: Well, there is a great crowd bearing down upon us,
- 23:33Speaker 8: now thousands above. Thus here they come, fast, fierce, curious.
- 23:42Speaker 13: You'll make my fancy seem too real.
- 23:44Speaker 6: Mister Carton.
- 23:54Speaker 8: There was a great crowd coming into their lives, a numberless,
- 23:59Speaker 8: over powering crowd, which one day would decide the fate
- 24:03Speaker 8: of these three. At first, it was but a whisper
- 24:06Speaker 8: in the city of Paris, a whisper that was to
- 24:09Speaker 8: grow with the years into a crashing roar of hatred.
- 24:15Speaker 8: Slowly but surely, as the storm.
- 24:18Speaker 6: Came, the crowd was coming too, up from.
- 24:22Speaker 4: The cellars of Paris, up.
- 24:24Speaker 8: From the bare fields of a starving peasantry. The crowd
- 24:28Speaker 8: was coming, panting it hate, screaming of.
- 24:32Speaker 4: Blood, and me run and all their might rising.
- 24:37Speaker 3: You have a.
- 24:49Speaker 8: In vesterbod Freg.
- 24:51Speaker 4: Craven and our sars Orson Wells.
- 24:53Speaker 2: And Rosemary de Kent will return in act two of
- 24:56Speaker 2: a Tale of Two Cities. And now here's a dense music.
- 25:02Speaker 2: A soldier and this girl.
- 25:04Speaker 10: Did I have a dream this afternoon I'd be dancing
- 25:07Speaker 10: with you to night, Deale.
- 25:08Speaker 6: I just couldn't believe it when you called me from
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- 25:11Speaker 4: Gosh, what a thrill saying you know you're pretty? Doesn't
- 25:14Speaker 4: ever marry You're sweet to say that.
- 25:16Speaker 10: Bill and me wearing my old rainy day dress.
- 25:19Speaker 6: I plan to wear a real glam gum for our
- 25:21Speaker 6: first date.
- 25:22Speaker 4: Oh you look like a glamor girl to me. Mary,
- 25:24Speaker 4: with those eyes and that peaches and cream skin, say,
- 25:28Speaker 4: I wouldn't care if you were.
- 25:29Speaker 8: Wearing blue jeans, darling man.
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- 26:01Speaker 2: Lux toilet soap is a real beauty soap. You see.
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- 26:14Speaker 20: in gently but thoroughly. I rink with warm water and
- 26:17Speaker 20: splash with cold tap my face dry with a soft towel.
- 26:21Speaker 6: That's my beauty facial. It really does things to my skin.
- 26:25Speaker 8: Why not try these Hollywood beauty facials.
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- 26:32Speaker 2: tests showed actually three out of four complexions improved in
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- 26:44Speaker 2: pause now for station identification. This is CBS, the Columbia
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- 27:12Speaker 3: Back too of a Tale of Two Cities, starring Auson
- 27:16Speaker 3: Wells as Sydney Carton and rose married to camp as
- 27:19Speaker 3: Lucy Manette. In La Course prison, awaiting death by the guillotine,
- 27:31Speaker 3: the man called Darnay continues his story. The little seamstress,
- 27:35Speaker 3: condemned to die with him within the hour, listens quietly,
- 27:39Speaker 3: her eyes fixed on his face.
- 27:45Speaker 8: As time went on, Sydney Carton appeared less and less
- 27:50Speaker 8: frequently in the man at Home, for he knew that
- 27:54Speaker 8: Lucy loved Charles Darnay. As an evening in April, almost
- 28:00Speaker 8: ten years ago, the childs Darnay spoke to Lucy's father.
- 28:06Speaker 8: I've only hinted that marriage to Lucy, Sir. I didn't
- 28:09Speaker 8: want to speak until. Well, there are certain things about
- 28:13Speaker 8: myself that you should know. Yes, doctor Manette, my name
- 28:17Speaker 8: is not Darnay. I chose that name when I first
- 28:20Speaker 8: left France, and my heritage herita. I'm a noble birth, sir,
- 28:24Speaker 8: but I do not boast of it. Through generations, my
- 28:27Speaker 8: family gained its wealth of the expense of the poor.
- 28:30Speaker 8: When my uncle died, I was the sole remaining heir.
- 28:32Speaker 8: I returned to France to sign away my title to
- 28:35Speaker 8: the estate. Why do you tell me this because sir,
- 28:38Speaker 8: I know what you have suffered at the hands of
- 28:40Speaker 8: the French aristocracy. Your uncle's name and yours? What what
- 28:44Speaker 8: was it? Son? Everyman? The marquis sent everyone he was
- 28:49Speaker 8: doctor your gilsa No Chiles, Lucy is not to know
- 28:54Speaker 8: what you have just told me?
- 28:56Speaker 14: Not now?
- 28:57Speaker 8: Do you mean not? Now? What cover she not to know?
- 29:01Speaker 8: The work? Very well? Doctor, you you have my word?
- 29:05Speaker 8: Now go please go.
- 29:09Speaker 16: Vermont say no.
- 29:12Speaker 21: Raymond followed me in, looking at me in Oh, I
- 29:29Speaker 21: got your message?
- 29:30Speaker 8: Any wrong?
- 29:32Speaker 6: Room? All day?
- 29:35Speaker 8: Doctor Manette? Opened the doors, Doctor Manette, the key in
- 29:40Speaker 8: the Room'll give it to me and take me to down.
- 29:43Speaker 6: Come, my dear.
- 29:50Speaker 8: Doctor Manette, Doctor Manette, what are you doing? Do you
- 29:55Speaker 8: hear me? Doctor? What work is this? You're doing?
- 30:00Speaker 16: The lady's shoes, the young lady's walking shoe, which should
- 30:06Speaker 16: be finished?
- 30:07Speaker 8: Let me be.
- 30:15Speaker 6: Did he all right?
- 30:17Speaker 8: He's all right, doctor Jamison.
- 30:20Speaker 13: You'd been very kind to stay so long. I tried
- 30:23Speaker 13: to reach travel. He wasn't at home.
- 30:25Speaker 6: Don't worry.
- 30:25Speaker 8: There's nothing to worry about now a few days and
- 30:29Speaker 8: he'll be well again.
- 30:30Speaker 13: What could have caught it after all these years to
- 30:33Speaker 13: go back to that, what happened to him.
- 30:35Speaker 8: How can we know a shock had some sudden shoulder
- 30:39Speaker 8: of memory. Man's mind can play queer tricktion.
- 30:44Speaker 18: I brought you a cup of chocolate, that's all, thank you, mister,
- 30:47Speaker 18: And the doctor says everything will be all right.
- 30:50Speaker 6: You are not to worry.
- 30:51Speaker 4: Oh, thank you.
- 30:55Speaker 6: Well, Stydney.
- 30:56Speaker 13: You're not leaving.
- 30:58Speaker 8: It's growing late. Not for me course. I doubt if
- 31:02Speaker 8: you see the dawn very often?
- 31:04Speaker 13: No, I don't, but I can welcome it today the article.
- 31:08Speaker 6: Everything is so black and fearsome.
- 31:10Speaker 13: Now all my troubles are past, all my hopes, Preepole.
- 31:15Speaker 10: It's always that way, isn't it.
- 31:18Speaker 8: There are some hopes a man may have which remain
- 31:20Speaker 8: in the shadows forever.
- 31:23Speaker 6: Do you have such hopes?
- 31:24Speaker 12: Sidney?
- 31:26Speaker 8: No more? I'm like one who died young.
- 31:32Speaker 12: Sydney.
- 31:33Speaker 13: You've come often to the house in the past few months,
- 31:36Speaker 13: and yet we know very little about you except that
- 31:39Speaker 13: you're our friends. Is there nothing I can do to
- 31:42Speaker 13: help you?
- 31:43Speaker 6: Sidneys?
- 31:44Speaker 8: I can never hope to repay what you've already done.
- 31:48Speaker 8: May I tell you something? Will you hear me without
- 31:50Speaker 8: shrinking from me? What is it You've been? The last
- 31:54Speaker 8: dream of my soul seeing you here in your home,
- 31:58Speaker 8: and stood old shadows that I thought had died out
- 32:01Speaker 8: of me. I've heard whispers from old voices impelling me
- 32:05Speaker 8: upward that I thought was silent forever. I've had unformed
- 32:10Speaker 8: ideas of striving afresh, fighting out the abandoned fight dream
- 32:18Speaker 8: or a dream. But I wish you to know that
- 32:21Speaker 8: you inspired it.
- 32:25Speaker 6: Will nothing of it remained.
- 32:27Speaker 8: Perhaps as a dream might linger on after the dreamer awakes.
- 32:33Speaker 8: But try to hold me in your mind is sincere,
- 32:36Speaker 8: and this one thing I would embrace any sacrifice for you,
- 32:43Speaker 8: for those dear to you. I think now, man, that
- 32:47Speaker 8: there's a man who would give his life to keep
- 32:51Speaker 8: a life you love. Besides you, the poor fool cut drunk,
- 33:05Speaker 8: drunk this time with self pity, and from that day
- 33:10Speaker 8: on he was seen rarely in the men at home.
- 33:14Speaker 8: He was there when Lucy and Danay were married, and
- 33:17Speaker 8: again some years later when their child was born a girl,
- 33:24Speaker 8: but his visits were short, as he slip away at
- 33:26Speaker 8: the first opportunity. In France. During these years, the echoing
- 33:34Speaker 8: footsteps of the crowd had been growing louder. Grim patriots
- 33:38Speaker 8: who had obeyed the soil of France in the blood
- 33:40Speaker 8: of the hated nobility. Then the storm broke and all
- 33:44Speaker 8: its furia. In July seventeen eighty nine, they swarm from
- 33:49Speaker 8: the rattholes of Paris to cover the country with a
- 33:52Speaker 8: blanket of red, an army of vengeance bent upon destruction.
- 33:57Speaker 8: To death.
- 34:02Speaker 6: Column a power colom got down the park.
- 34:09Speaker 11: How can you sit a nittle calmly on the thing?
- 34:12Speaker 11: Our victory will come only when every noble head has
- 34:16Speaker 11: rolled on every noble shoulder. And in this knitting I
- 34:20Speaker 11: have inscribed their names, the names of those have starved us,
- 34:26Speaker 11: killed us. And for every stitch another head shall roll.
- 34:32Speaker 11: For every stitch we shall be evens.
- 34:45Speaker 8: Who is Who's that open the door? What do you want?
- 34:52Speaker 8: If this? I'm looking for mister Sidney Cotton. He is
- 34:55Speaker 8: not open.
- 34:56Speaker 2: There's no in London open at this time of night.
- 34:58Speaker 8: I want to see mister Sidney Cotton.
- 34:59Speaker 2: Let me, ah, where arey?
- 35:03Speaker 6: He's in there?
- 35:08Speaker 8: Cotton Cotton?
- 35:09Speaker 15: Wake up?
- 35:11Speaker 8: Who is it? Who? Donny?
- 35:14Speaker 14: Who?
- 35:16Speaker 8: Oh, mister Donny. Welcome mister Danney. The more I have
- 35:21Speaker 8: no time for that. Listen to me. I'm leaving for
- 35:23Speaker 8: Paris within the hour. Piss some business there that I
- 35:27Speaker 8: must attend to at once. Peris very warm this time
- 35:33Speaker 8: of the year. By your lawyer, I should advise against
- 35:36Speaker 8: the journey. How much do you know of me? This
- 35:41Speaker 8: is an excellent wine, mister Darney, French wine from the
- 35:45Speaker 8: cellars of the aristocrats who fled the country. There will
- 35:49Speaker 8: be few of these bottles left now being poured into
- 35:54Speaker 8: the streets long as the blood of the nobles. Who
- 35:58Speaker 8: wants drink it? Must you go to Paris? I see
- 36:03Speaker 8: there's little I have to explain to you, But I
- 36:05Speaker 8: received a letter this morning from a man who was
- 36:07Speaker 8: once my servant. They threatened or send him to the
- 36:09Speaker 8: guillotine unless he can explain why he's in possession of
- 36:12Speaker 8: certain property. That's why I must go to save his life.
- 36:15Speaker 8: Of your own life, I'll be a note, dame, and
- 36:17Speaker 8: I pronounce my inheritance that it easily proves. Why do
- 36:21Speaker 8: you come to me? There's no one else I can
- 36:23Speaker 8: turn to. I don't know how long I shall be gone.
- 36:25Speaker 8: I should like to feel there's someone here in London
- 36:29Speaker 8: who is watching over my family. Hi, you trust me
- 36:35Speaker 8: towards you with your child? Who's your wife? Yes? I
- 36:40Speaker 8: know that you loved her? When did you say you,
- 36:43Speaker 8: miss Steve tonight. Now I have no fear about your
- 36:47Speaker 8: family that he said, thanks your cousin, good night, good night,
- 36:51Speaker 8: God's seen pardons more.
- 36:54Speaker 15: Why sir, no, no, take it away.
- 37:09Speaker 8: Oh you're there and the coach.
- 37:14Speaker 6: Where are you going?
- 37:14Speaker 8: Citizens, I'm going to Paris. Let me see your paper.
- 37:17Speaker 8: If you'll hurry, please, Citizen, I must be in Paris
- 37:19Speaker 8: within the hour. What is your name? Citizens? Karl Danna
- 37:23Speaker 8: Sarna also known as every Mall Why, why? Yes?
- 37:26Speaker 2: But you are confined every monk to the prison of
- 37:29Speaker 2: the fort. And just a moment our stars will return
- 37:43Speaker 2: in Act three of a Tale of Two Cities. And
- 37:46Speaker 2: now here comes our young friend Sally. My said, helly,
- 37:50Speaker 2: that's a pretty cissage you're wearing.
- 37:52Speaker 10: I got it at the flower shows this afternoon, mister Kennedy,
- 37:55Speaker 10: What a lovely.
- 37:56Speaker 22: Show it was, to a regular preview of the spring God,
- 38:00Speaker 22: Lily to the Valley, lilacs, daffodils, narcissus, oh, in dozens
- 38:05Speaker 22: of other kinds of flowers.
- 38:06Speaker 8: I can't think of anything more refreshing to see right now, Sally.
- 38:09Speaker 10: The whole air was fragrant with them.
- 38:11Speaker 6: A fresh, delicate person.
- 38:13Speaker 2: You never tire of a fresh, delicate perfume you never
- 38:16Speaker 2: tire of.
- 38:17Speaker 8: H How when you say that, Sally, you.
- 38:19Speaker 22: Make me think of something play of closer to Kennedy,
- 38:22Speaker 22: The perfume of Luck's toilet.
- 38:24Speaker 2: Soap, sure thing, because that's just what the makers of
- 38:26Speaker 2: Luck Soap had in mind when they created its perfume.
- 38:29Speaker 2: They knew women would enjoy delicate, subtle fragrance, like the
- 38:32Speaker 2: combined scent of many spring flowers.
- 38:34Speaker 10: Yes, and they do enjoy it, mister Kennedy.
- 38:37Speaker 23: Screen staws say, that's why Luck Soap makes a wonderful
- 38:40Speaker 23: bad soap.
- 38:41Speaker 10: It leaves such a lovely, clinging fragrance on the skin.
- 38:44Speaker 2: Well, it took a lot of experimenting to make that
- 38:46Speaker 2: Luck soap perfume. To be statistical, Sally, it took a
- 38:49Speaker 2: brand of thirty four different ingredients. It's a fragrance that's
- 38:53Speaker 2: distinctive and different, and expensive too. I should think, Yes,
- 38:57Speaker 2: many of those ingredients are costly, but the price of
- 39:00Speaker 2: lux toilet soap is very low because so many millions
- 39:02Speaker 2: of cakes are sold every year. It's a fifty as
- 39:05Speaker 2: well as a luxurious bath soap.
- 39:07Speaker 23: Here's a little trick I've discovered other women might like
- 39:10Speaker 23: to know about. I slip a few cakes of Luck
- 39:13Speaker 23: soap in my dresser drawer till I want to use them.
- 39:15Speaker 23: They make a perfect sachet for my laxurie and handkerchiefs.
- 39:19Speaker 2: Thanks Sally, Why don't you enjoy the luxury of this fine,
- 39:23Speaker 2: fragrant white soap. Nine out of ten screen Stars recommend
- 39:26Speaker 2: use it for your daily beauty bath. Luck soap is
- 39:29Speaker 2: hard milled to Satin's movements. It's economical. Each cake can
- 39:33Speaker 2: be used as the last thin sliver. And now Frank
- 39:38Speaker 2: Craven returns to the microphone for a verbal.
- 39:41Speaker 3: Introduction to our stars. Tonight you're invited to join us
- 39:44Speaker 3: after the final.
- 39:45Speaker 8: Curtain for a brief chest Now act Free.
- 39:48Speaker 3: Of a Tale of Two Cities starring Auson Wells as
- 39:51Speaker 3: Sydney Cotton.
- 39:52Speaker 5: And Rose Merry to Camp as Lucy Manette.
- 39:55Speaker 4: Oh.
- 40:02Speaker 5: The sun rises slowly over the roofs of Paris and the.
- 40:05Speaker 3: Long shadow the guillotine falls against the walls of the
- 40:08Speaker 3: horse prison. In the cell of the condemned, Sydney Carton
- 40:12Speaker 3: speaks in a hush voice, his story meant only for
- 40:15Speaker 3: the years of the little seamstress.
- 40:23Speaker 8: They brought Charles Darnay hid Lutfors prison to be held
- 40:28Speaker 8: in secret. Somehow the news filtered back to England. Soon
- 40:34Speaker 8: his wife and child were in perrots with doctor Manette
- 40:36Speaker 8: and mister Lorree, their old friend. For months they waited
- 40:41Speaker 8: for some word from Darnay and his cell, but no
- 40:45Speaker 8: word came, and every day through the streets the tumbrils passed,
- 40:50Speaker 8: filled with the condemned on their last journey to the guillotine.
- 40:57Speaker 8: And yet chat, No, they would not take you to
- 41:00Speaker 8: his soul, but I have used. Yes.
- 41:03Speaker 16: Charles is summoned tomorrow for trial.
- 41:05Speaker 6: Tomorrow, O, father, I.
- 41:07Speaker 8: Think it will go well, my child. They're going to
- 41:09Speaker 8: allow me to testify for him.
- 41:12Speaker 6: You are your brand. You would try to they'll kill
- 41:14Speaker 6: your father.
- 41:15Speaker 8: O, my child. I bear a charmed life in the city.
- 41:18Speaker 8: I have been a prisoner of the Bastille. Silent silence,
- 41:34Speaker 8: Doctor Manette, is this tribunal to understand that you endorsed
- 41:38Speaker 8: the accused, the prisoner, Charles Evremond. That is so. He
- 41:43Speaker 8: is of noble blood, he is a traitor. He is
- 41:45Speaker 8: no traitor. I will swear to it, Doctor Manette. We
- 41:49Speaker 8: know your life because you fought for you are one
- 41:54Speaker 8: of us.
- 41:55Speaker 17: Yes, and as one of you, I speak the accused.
- 41:58Speaker 17: Charles Evremond was my first friend when I was released
- 42:01Speaker 17: from the best to you, the accused, Charles Everyman is
- 42:05Speaker 17: my daughter's husband. In all these years he has had
- 42:10Speaker 17: no part in the tyranny against which we thought. He
- 42:13Speaker 17: has renounced his share of the estate and returned it
- 42:16Speaker 17: to the people. Charles Everyman is no enemy of the revolution.
- 42:19Speaker 17: I give you my word, he is innocent.
- 42:22Speaker 10: Were the prisoner give the doctor Bovey said he is innocent.
- 42:25Speaker 6: Free him.
- 42:29Speaker 8: Here's the jury ready to declare itself. We are, I'll
- 42:33Speaker 8: say you then.
- 42:34Speaker 16: Let the prisoner be freed.
- 42:38Speaker 8: Wait, I say the prisoner.
- 42:41Speaker 6: Cannot be paid.
- 42:43Speaker 8: Citizenus defar, I say the prisoner stills hands.
- 42:47Speaker 5: Accused by whom citizens by three voices than.
- 42:51Speaker 11: My husband Ernest it has than myself and the third
- 42:55Speaker 11: I got doctor of the way, doctor Alexander Manette.
- 43:01Speaker 8: I protest against continue citizen they heal me. All of you.
- 43:06Speaker 11: Talk to Maneth, you have said, Charles Evreman was your
- 43:10Speaker 11: first friend.
- 43:12Speaker 5: I was off first friend.
- 43:14Speaker 6: It is my wine shop.
- 43:15Speaker 11: You are block where you made shoes under my care.
- 43:18Speaker 11: You knew yourself sale only as a number one hundred
- 43:22Speaker 11: and five not tower, the cell in which you had
- 43:25Speaker 11: been confined.
- 43:26Speaker 6: Is that not true?
- 43:28Speaker 8: If you say it is, I must believe it.
- 43:30Speaker 16: I can't remember, but I.
- 43:31Speaker 11: Remembered that, resolved one day to examine that cell, And
- 43:36Speaker 11: on the day the back steel tail, I went to
- 43:38Speaker 11: one hundred and five nor power hear me citizens In
- 43:43Speaker 11: that cell, hidden of the stone work of a wall,
- 43:47Speaker 11: I found a paper, a paper written by doctor on
- 43:50Speaker 11: the Nette in a year seventeen sixty seven, before the
- 43:55Speaker 11: dark and loneliness drove in mad. It is that paper
- 43:59Speaker 11: I hold in my hand now. It describes, in the
- 44:03Speaker 11: doctor's words, how he was called one night to attend
- 44:06Speaker 11: the peasant girl dying in a miserable bed of rag,
- 44:11Speaker 11: A girl in her unborn child in the stable. Her brother,
- 44:14Speaker 11: with a wound in his chest, was to breathe his
- 44:17Speaker 11: last before the morning.
- 44:20Speaker 8: And why.
- 44:22Speaker 11: Because these two teachers had protested against a noble family
- 44:26Speaker 11: who held them in bondage, had protected against the murder
- 44:30Speaker 11: of a girl father and her husband killed by those
- 44:33Speaker 11: same noble hands. The doctor buried the girl and her
- 44:40Speaker 11: brother the following morning.
- 44:42Speaker 6: But he had seen too.
- 44:44Speaker 11: Much and heard too much from the lists of that
- 44:47Speaker 11: dying girl. That night the doctor was thrown into the
- 44:51Speaker 11: back field. The noble family had silenced him forever, and
- 44:57Speaker 11: the name of that family, the name of those murderers
- 45:03Speaker 11: an never eman. Here, everyone, and now here this listen
- 45:09Speaker 11: to the words of that for Alexander Manett him health,
- 45:12Speaker 11: the words he wrote, I Alexander Manette, prisoner the back field,
- 45:18Speaker 11: having thus set forth the causes for my imprisonment. Do
- 45:21Speaker 11: you know some Martis and Nigman and his descendants against
- 45:26Speaker 11: the time when these crimes till the answer for I did?
- 45:29Speaker 11: Don'tsten to heaven and earth.
- 45:31Speaker 8: No me the stuff listen to me.
- 45:37Speaker 11: I long have the crimes of the Evreman fambly knitted
- 45:40Speaker 11: in my register.
- 45:41Speaker 13: What my husband is that soul?
- 45:43Speaker 6: It is on the Greek day when the bus heels hill.
- 45:46Speaker 13: I brought this paper home and.
- 45:48Speaker 11: Was ready together my husband and I ast him.
- 45:51Speaker 4: Is that soul?
- 45:52Speaker 9: It is?
- 45:52Speaker 8: Then?
- 45:53Speaker 13: I told him that I have a secret to communicate
- 45:55Speaker 13: with him.
- 45:56Speaker 6: I stocked this for them with these two hands.
- 45:59Speaker 10: I strike it now, and I said, because.
- 46:04Speaker 11: I was brought up among the fisherman a show, and
- 46:08Speaker 11: that peasant family so injured by the everre month is.
- 46:12Speaker 13: My family that sister of a motly wounded.
- 46:16Speaker 3: Boy was my sister.
- 46:18Speaker 2: That husband was my sister's husband.
- 46:22Speaker 10: That unborn child was their child.
- 46:25Speaker 11: That brother was my brother sostead of lighted, And that
- 46:30Speaker 11: summons to answer of those things depends.
- 46:32Speaker 3: To me that.
- 46:36Speaker 13: A wind and fire to stop.
- 46:39Speaker 6: But don't tell me.
- 46:43Speaker 4: What were you?
- 46:45Speaker 6: That is everyone.
- 46:56Speaker 8: Back to the prison of love, force to await death
- 46:59Speaker 8: by the guillotine. That was the sentence passed by the tribunal.
- 47:06Speaker 8: That same night, a coach smift Calais for Paris, carrying
- 47:10Speaker 8: but one passenger, slouched low in his seat, his shabby
- 47:14Speaker 8: great coat pulled high about his neck. Reaching Paris, he
- 47:19Speaker 8: haunted the inns and taverns, wandered like a lonely ghost
- 47:23Speaker 8: through the city, and at last made his way to
- 47:27Speaker 8: the lodging house, where Lucy waited news from the host.
- 47:33Speaker 12: Sydney.
- 47:34Speaker 8: Sydney, he must forgive my coming this hour. I didn't
- 47:38Speaker 8: wish to be seen.
- 47:38Speaker 13: I knew you'd come. I've been waiting, Sidney.
- 47:41Speaker 12: You're going to take child.
- 47:42Speaker 6: They're going to kill him.
- 47:43Speaker 8: How long has he until the morning?
- 47:45Speaker 12: You will let me see.
- 47:47Speaker 13: I can't be near him in his last hour.
- 47:49Speaker 8: Lucy, remember what you said long ago, the dark hours
- 47:56Speaker 8: before the dawn, they have.
- 47:58Speaker 12: Been knocked down.
- 47:58Speaker 6: Tomorrow be dark now always.
- 48:01Speaker 8: Lucy, because there was some way I could comfort you.
- 48:08Speaker 8: You must hope. What hope is there? What comfort?
- 48:12Speaker 6: My husband is going to die?
- 48:14Speaker 8: Lucy, Oh forget me. You were right. I have no
- 48:21Speaker 8: strengths to offer you.
- 48:23Speaker 13: You came to us tonight. I shall never forget that.
- 48:37Speaker 8: I tell you.
- 48:38Speaker 16: It is useless to speak to Document.
- 48:40Speaker 8: He's in no condition to see you. Now, the Lorry,
- 48:42Speaker 8: if you will forgive me, there's nothing you can do here,
- 48:44Speaker 8: mister Carton, nothing to lorry. You are a man of business,
- 48:47Speaker 8: are you not? I am well, I am here on business.
- 48:50Speaker 8: I know your opinion of me, mister Lorry. But a
- 48:52Speaker 8: drinking fellow may learn things around the town, so you
- 48:55Speaker 8: can listen. At the same time, I've learned the doctor
- 48:59Speaker 8: Manette is in great danger. He and Lucy must leave
- 49:01Speaker 8: Paris tonight. They must take a child with them. But
- 49:04Speaker 8: why the revenge of Madame Dessarge does not start with Charles.
- 49:09Speaker 8: The accusation is against the Marquis of Savoymond and all
- 49:14Speaker 8: his races. Lucy her child. Now, may I see doctor Bennett.
- 49:17Speaker 5: It would do no good, sir, he's gone back to
- 49:20Speaker 5: his work.
- 49:21Speaker 8: His work.
- 49:22Speaker 16: He would not know what you are saying. Mister Carton,
- 49:26Speaker 16: it's Laurie.
- 49:27Speaker 8: You have a pass. It will let you through the Calais.
- 49:29Speaker 8: Would it serve the doctor, Mannett and Luciers for as
- 49:31Speaker 8: many as are with me? And you will use it Tonight?
- 49:32Speaker 8: You will arrange for a coach to meet you all
- 49:34Speaker 8: here at midnight. The coach will take you to the
- 49:35Speaker 8: side gate of Lafosse prison. Do you understand prison? There
- 49:38Speaker 8: you will be joined by another person who makes a
- 49:39Speaker 8: trip with a you England. You will not stop to
- 49:41Speaker 8: ask questions. Proceeded once to the gates of Parison onto
- 49:44Speaker 8: Calais as fast as the coach can take you.
- 49:46Speaker 5: This this other person, who would it be?
- 49:48Speaker 8: Who? Mister Sydney Carton, I don't understand. I may be
- 49:53Speaker 8: in poor condition for travel. I usually am at that hour,
- 49:56Speaker 8: but as soon as I'm in the coach drive on.
- 49:57Speaker 16: But you at the gate of Lafoce Will you be
- 50:00Speaker 16: within the prison to night?
- 50:02Speaker 8: Yes? Yes, I'm going to see Charles as certain mister
- 50:06Speaker 8: Barsad English spy a Turkey in the prison. He'll opened
- 50:09Speaker 8: the doors for me. I don't understand all this, sir,
- 50:12Speaker 8: but you give me hope and you will save them all,
- 50:16Speaker 8: mister Lorry, not only I, sir, I shall have a
- 50:19Speaker 8: young and ardent man at my side with the help
- 50:22Speaker 8: of heaven. You shall tell me, mister Lorry, yours is
- 50:27Speaker 8: a long life to look back on.
- 50:29Speaker 16: I'm in my seventy eight year Sir.
- 50:31Speaker 8: I've in useful a your life, trusted respected. There are
- 50:35Speaker 8: many in this world who would miss you, your solitary
- 50:38Speaker 8: old bachelor.
- 50:40Speaker 16: No, there is nobody to weep for me.
- 50:43Speaker 8: Wouldn't she weep for you? Lucy?
- 50:47Speaker 17: Yes, thank god, I didn't quite mean what I said.
- 50:51Speaker 8: It is a thing to thank God for, isn't it. Surely?
- 50:55Speaker 8: Surely if you had to say, with truth to night,
- 51:01Speaker 8: I have gained the love of no human creature, I've
- 51:05Speaker 8: done nothing good, not serviceable. To be remembered by your
- 51:11Speaker 8: seventy eight years would be seventy eight heavy cursis, would
- 51:16Speaker 8: they not? I think they would be. But you are
- 51:19Speaker 8: not old Carton, No, I'm not old. But the road
- 51:27Speaker 8: I took was never the way to age. Good Night,
- 51:32Speaker 8: mister Vorian. How long before DNA has taken from himself?
- 51:44Speaker 8: But with the others.
- 51:45Speaker 16: I can't till it.
- 51:46Speaker 2: Perhaps only an leave us alone, stay with him?
- 51:49Speaker 4: Call?
- 51:50Speaker 6: Did you keep your promise?
- 51:51Speaker 2: I told you that I could get you in and
- 51:52Speaker 2: out again.
- 51:53Speaker 8: But the abot no I know, opened the door. Who's there?
- 52:00Speaker 8: Have you come for? Cotton?
- 52:02Speaker 3: You?
- 52:03Speaker 8: Of all the people on earth, I'm the least expected
- 52:05Speaker 8: to say, Why are you here? You shouldn't have taken
- 52:07Speaker 8: the risk. It can serve no press can serve one.
- 52:09Speaker 8: I bring you a message from Lucy, A request rather
- 52:11Speaker 8: that you do exactly as I say it, ask no questions.
- 52:13Speaker 8: To take off your coat, take off, Take it off
- 52:15Speaker 8: and change it for mind quickly in our man so
- 52:17Speaker 8: as I say. It's a wish. Put on my coat.
- 52:20Speaker 8: Your hair rumple it so is mine, cotton.
- 52:23Speaker 2: There's no escaping from this place. You will only die
- 52:25Speaker 2: with me. Have I mentioned escape?
- 52:27Speaker 8: Do as I say?
- 52:27Speaker 15: And now take my crevait give me your cotton.
- 52:30Speaker 8: I warn you it's quiet. Look we're paying an ink
- 52:33Speaker 8: on the table. Is your handsteady enough to write? It
- 52:35Speaker 8: was when you came in steady it? Then write what
- 52:38Speaker 8: I dictate quickly? Now whom do I address it to?
- 52:40Speaker 2: No one?
- 52:42Speaker 8: Right? If you remember the words that passed between us
- 52:47Speaker 8: long ago. You will understand when you see this. Have
- 52:53Speaker 8: you written that I don't know what what vapor is?
- 52:57Speaker 8: The vapor is a strange vapor, something that crossed me.
- 53:01Speaker 8: I am not conscious of it. Take up the pin
- 53:03Speaker 8: and finish. I told you once that there was nothing
- 53:06Speaker 8: that I would not do, nothing that I would not
- 53:10Speaker 8: What is it? There is something that that's odor? You
- 53:13Speaker 8: mean this on my handkerchief? Yes, yes, it's to breathe deeply? No, no, no,
- 53:18Speaker 8: please breathe But I can't. You don't me?
- 53:26Speaker 5: I finished? Are you ready to what's this?
- 53:30Speaker 2: What's the matter with this?
- 53:30Speaker 8: Nothing is unconscious carrying out the gates, but you you've
- 53:33Speaker 8: changed clothes. Listen to me.
- 53:34Speaker 2: Sydney Carton fainted from the shock of parting with an
- 53:37Speaker 2: old friend.
- 53:37Speaker 8: You'll find a coach at the side gate. Put him
- 53:39Speaker 8: into it. Tell him to drive as fast as they
- 53:41Speaker 8: came to Calais.
- 53:42Speaker 24: No wait, I finished this note. If you remember the
- 53:47Speaker 24: words that passed between us, you will understand. I told
- 53:50Speaker 24: you once that there was nothing I would not do
- 53:54Speaker 24: to keep a life you love beside you, God bless.
- 53:59Speaker 8: You this week commercial here, take this note and hurry.
- 54:14Speaker 17: Where are you going to Kenny Wia Javis lottery from
- 54:18Speaker 17: Tessa's Bank, asked doctor Minnette, as his daughter, as his grandchild.
- 54:26Speaker 8: He's hell on the floor.
- 54:27Speaker 17: He he has missed the Sydney Conson Museum.
- 54:31Speaker 8: Skinny Garden asked, I'm on the gate that just caut.
- 54:45Speaker 8: They're on their way now. Perhaps by this time they've
- 54:49Speaker 8: reached calay abound for England and home and you.
- 54:57Speaker 10: You are, said n oh, yes.
- 55:01Speaker 6: And you're dying for Charles.
- 55:03Speaker 8: Johnny, hold on, there's someone else, Aristocrat. Your carriage is awaiting.
- 55:13Speaker 7: Six tumbrels will carry the day's wine to Madame la Guillotine.
- 55:16Speaker 7: God chake them out you every month. It will be
- 55:20Speaker 7: as I promise for you. You shall wait for the
- 55:23Speaker 7: last tumbris. Your head shall be the fifty second today.
- 55:27Speaker 8: I'm ready. Move along there, move along?
- 55:37Speaker 6: May I go with you?
- 55:39Speaker 8: Keep your eyes on me, child, mind nothing else.
- 55:44Speaker 4: I'm mind nothing when I hold your hip.
- 56:00Speaker 5: He on.
- 56:08Speaker 8: It is a far far better thing that I do
- 56:13Speaker 8: than I've ever done. It is a far far better
- 56:17Speaker 8: rest that I.
- 56:19Speaker 4: Go to.
- 56:21Speaker 8: Than I have ever known. Too.
- 56:46Speaker 3: We lower our curtain on the roaring crowds of Paris
- 56:49Speaker 3: and the sacrificial destiny of Sydney Cotton, and raise it
- 56:52Speaker 3: again on the stars who have made to Night's performance such.
- 56:54Speaker 6: A vivid memory, Awes and Wells and rosemarried the camp.
- 56:58Speaker 8: Well, Frank, it is a real privi to be cast
- 57:00Speaker 8: as Sydney Carton had to play opposite Rosemary.
- 57:04Speaker 6: Thank you, Austin.
- 57:05Speaker 3: Austin, I understand that. How many attributes as writer, actor,
- 57:09Speaker 3: producer and magicians, you've added a new one, journalism.
- 57:12Speaker 8: It's right, Frank. I've got a newspaper column running now
- 57:15Speaker 8: called Orsen Wales Almanac.
- 57:16Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, I have a couple here, those.
- 57:18Speaker 13: Biting wit decisions imagine frying well.
- 57:21Speaker 3: It depends upon what you call biting witticisms. It starts
- 57:24Speaker 3: with the following items. Never salt turnips while cooking. Always
- 57:29Speaker 3: wash spinach with warm water.
- 57:32Speaker 22: You pray your start a social revolution with those radical ideas.
- 57:36Speaker 3: And the final item in the column is as follows,
- 57:39Speaker 3: Always use lux toilet soap for the complexion.
- 57:42Speaker 8: Wait a minute, I've been sabotazed.
- 57:44Speaker 6: Oh no, you haven't, Norton. That's the best advice if
- 57:46Speaker 6: you could get to any.
- 57:47Speaker 10: Girl who wants to look her best, and I can
- 57:50Speaker 10: see it's the.
- 57:50Speaker 3: Advice you follow rose money. Tell us what was your
- 57:53Speaker 3: first bit of actium the failure?
- 57:55Speaker 6: Uh, the very first.
- 57:57Speaker 2: I was a bunny and an Easter pageant, the original
- 58:00Speaker 2: female Harvey.
- 58:03Speaker 6: Were you ever a rabbit?
- 58:04Speaker 8: Arthur?
- 58:05Speaker 6: Well, if he hasn't been just given time, you don't
- 58:07Speaker 6: get around.
- 58:09Speaker 8: As a matter of fact, when I was five, I
- 58:11Speaker 8: impersonated Peter Rabbit and Marshall Field's department.
- 58:13Speaker 3: Sir Well, anytime you too want to be rabbits hearing lucks,
- 58:17Speaker 3: we lay in a supply of carrots.
- 58:19Speaker 8: Bank, What do you have for luck next Monday night, Frank?
- 58:23Speaker 3: For next Monday night, we have a deeply moving play
- 58:25Speaker 3: that brings us some of America's best loved music. It's
- 58:28Speaker 3: the twentieth century Fox hit Swannie River, the story of
- 58:31Speaker 3: that brilliant, colorful composer Stephen Poster, whose life of romance
- 58:35Speaker 3: brought us such immortal songs as Old Kentucky Holmes, Susannah,
- 58:40Speaker 3: Jeanie with a light brown hair, Old Folks at Home,
- 58:43Speaker 3: and many others.
- 58:44Speaker 6: Whom do you have in the cast, Frank, Well, for.
- 58:46Speaker 3: This special occasion, we have a gentleman who's building all
- 58:49Speaker 3: was rid the world's greatest entertainment al Joson co starred
- 58:55Speaker 3: with the ever popular Dennis Morgan, and the lovely France was.
- 58:58Speaker 8: Given Well, it's like a great combination Frank, good night.
- 59:02Speaker 13: Good night, good night, and happiness before.
- 59:12Speaker 3: And now a brief reminder from Uncle Sam that to
- 59:16Speaker 3: the millions of American men and women overseas, nothing is
- 59:18Speaker 3: more important than male from home right. Often make your
- 59:22Speaker 3: letters cheerful and be sure to use the mail. The
- 59:26Speaker 3: mail is private, speedy, safer, and it helps to lighten
- 59:29Speaker 3: the burden of delivery.
- 59:31Speaker 25: Our sponsors to maker the LUTs Toilet Soap, join me
- 59:39Speaker 25: in inviting you to be with us again next Monday night,
- 59:41Speaker 25: when the Lux Radio Theater presents Dennis Morgan, Al Joson.
- 59:45Speaker 8: And Francis Different and Swanne River.
- 59:47Speaker 5: This is Frank Craven saying thanks for.
- 59:49Speaker 6: Listening and good night.
- 1:00:00Speaker 2: Frank Craven will soon appear in the twentieth Century Fox's
- 1:00:03Speaker 2: thirtieth anniversary production Colonel Effingham's Raid Horson Wells, currently working
- 1:00:08Speaker 2: in the international picture Tomorrow is Forever can be heard
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: on This is my best every Tuesday over this network.
- 1:00:15Speaker 2: Rosemary de Camp will soon be seen in the Warner
- 1:00:17Speaker 2: Brothers picture Pride of the Marines. Heard and tonight's play
- 1:00:21Speaker 2: were Dennis Green as Charles Darnay, Griff Barnett as Doctor Mannette,
- 1:00:26Speaker 2: Berna Felton as Madame Defarge, Norman Field as Laurie and
- 1:00:31Speaker 2: Ken Christy, Charles Seal, Loreen Tubble, Ferdinand Munier, j Lovello,
- 1:00:36Speaker 2: Robert Regent, Eric Snowden, Boyd Davis, Paul McVay, Alec Harford,
- 1:00:41Speaker 2: Thomas Mills, Regina Wallace, Virginia Gordon.
- 1:00:44Speaker 8: And Herb Litton. Our music was directed by Lewis Silvers.
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: This program is broadcast to our fighting forces overseas the
- 1:00:52Speaker 2: cooperation with the Armed Forces Radio Service Ourlex Radio Theater
- 1:00:56Speaker 2: production of A Tale of Two Cities has come to
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: you with the good wishes of the makers of Luck
- 1:01:00Speaker 2: Toilet Soap, the beauty care that nine out of ten
- 1:01:03Speaker 2: Hollywood screen stars use. This is your announcwer John M.
- 1:01:07Speaker 2: Kennedy reminding you that Tunion again next Monday night to
- 1:01:10Speaker 2: hear a Swanee River with Hal Jolson, Dennis Morgan and Francis.
- 1:01:13Speaker 1: Kipferd Lux Radio Theaters, A Tale of Two Cities has
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: come to its close. Good night, and thank you for
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: joining us.