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Speaker 1: At her Long Island estate, Judith Trehearne dismisses physical symptoms
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Speaker 1: until eminent surgeon Dr. Frederick Steele takes charge of her care.
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Speaker 1: On January 8, 1940, Lux Radio Theater brought that situation
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Speaker 1: to CBS in episode 245, Dark Victory. Bette Davis reprises
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Speaker 1: her film role as Judith, opposite Spencer Tracy as Dr. Steele,
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Speaker 1: with Lorene Tuttle as Anne King. Adapted from the 1939
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Speaker 1: Warner Brothers film, the drama follows Judith as treatment forces
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Speaker 1: her to reconsider the reckless rhythm of her life while
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Speaker 1: doctor and patient find themselves drawn into romance amid an
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Speaker 1: uncertain future. Cecil B. DeMille is the producer and host. Now,
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Speaker 1: back to the golden age of radio.
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Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood.
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Speaker 3: The Lux Radio Theater brings you Betty Davis and Spencer
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Speaker 3: Tracy in Dark Victory.
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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings
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Speaker 2: from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 3: Each year, the actors, directors, producers, and other members of
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Speaker 3: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences vote on
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Speaker 3: the Outstanding Accomplishments of the Year in Hollywood. The last
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Speaker 3: Academy Award for the best performances by an actor and
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Speaker 3: an actress went to Spencer Tracy and Betty Davis.
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Speaker 2: Both these stars are with us tonight. And even the unemotional.
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Speaker 3: Lights in front of the Lux Radio Theater have a
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Speaker 3: special glow of pride in our players and our play,
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Speaker 3: Dark Victory. Our stage is set for a prize-winning achievement.
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Speaker 3: And so is the stage in your home when Lux
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Speaker 3: Flakes is starred. many domestic producers have discovered that casting
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Speaker 3: Lux Flakes in a leading role is good business at
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Speaker 3: the household box office. If there's a little more gray
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Speaker 3: in my hair this week, believe me, it came from
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Speaker 3: the task of finding the right dramatic material for two
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Speaker 3: such splendid artists as Betty Davis and Spencer Tracy. In fact,
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Speaker 3: we considered and rejected dozens of plays before selecting the
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Speaker 3: one we think is perfect, Dark Victory.
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Speaker 2: As a producer.
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Speaker 3: I've always disliked the type of play known as a vehicle,
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Speaker 3: one that's designed for the actor instead of the audience.
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Speaker 3: And when there are two noted players in a cast,
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Speaker 3: there's a double danger that the play will turn out
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Speaker 3: to be a double vehicle.
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Speaker 2: But Dark Victory has grip and power and human appeal.
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Speaker 3: And when our curtain falls on the third act, I
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Speaker 3: believe you'll agree with me that this play is really
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Speaker 3: a great emotional experience. Each woman in our audience will
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Speaker 3: unconsciously put herself in the place of Judith Trehearne, Each
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Speaker 3: man will wonder what he would have done as Dr.
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Speaker 2: Frederick Steele.
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Speaker 3: Dark Victory is a love story, but not one of
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Speaker 3: the simple boy-meets-girl variety. It's the love story of two
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Speaker 3: strong-willed people who must concentrate in a few gallant months
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Speaker 3: all the happiness of a lifetime. Our footlights shine their
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Speaker 3: brightest now as the curtain rises on Act One of
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Speaker 3: Dark Victory, starring Betty Davis as Judith Trehearne and Spencer
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Speaker 3: Tracy as Dr. Frederick Steele. At Miss Judith Trehearne's estate
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Speaker 3: on Long Island, another all-night party has run its course.
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Speaker 3: It's just six o'clock in the morning as the last
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Speaker 3: car swerves through the gate and the phone begins to
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Speaker 3: jangle wildly. First in one room, then another, from the
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Speaker 3: servants' quarters to the kitchen, and then at last in
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Speaker 3: the bedroom of Miss Trehearne's secretary and companion.
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Speaker 2: Hello? Mr.
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Speaker 4: Hearn's secretary speaking.
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Speaker 2: Well, good morning, Miss Anne. It's a cheerful day now,
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Speaker 2: isn't it?
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Speaker 4: Who is this?
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Speaker 2: This is Michael over at the stable.
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Speaker 4: Michael? What do you mean by calling at this hour?
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Speaker 2: I was wondering if I might speak to Miss Judith.
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Speaker 4: You certainly might not. You know there was a party here.
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Speaker 4: She hasn't had an hour's rest. Anne, who is it?
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Speaker 4: Not important. You'd better go back to sleep. Now, don't
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Speaker 4: argue now.
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Speaker 2: Hello?
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Speaker 4: This is Miss Judith Trehearne of the Sleepy Trehearns.
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Speaker 2: Is it now? Well, this is Mr.
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Speaker 5: Michael O'Leary of the Wide Awake O'Leary's. We've got a
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Speaker 5: customer for that cold of yours. He's down at the
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Speaker 5: stable now. We can get 10,000 if we snatch it quick.
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Speaker 4: If you mean challenger, Michael, not 10 and not 20.
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Speaker 4: My head's just woozy, not vacant.
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Speaker 5: If you don't mind my saying so, Miss Traherne, it
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Speaker 5: might be a good idea for you to take charge
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Speaker 5: of the cups and ribbons and take the handling of
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Speaker 5: the horses to me.
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Speaker 6: I do mind your saying so. You had your orders
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Speaker 6: last night. I ought to slap that man's face. Michael's
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Speaker 6: impregnant sometimes, but he's just about the best trainer money
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Speaker 6: can buy.
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Speaker 4: Help me up, darling. I'm going down to the stable.
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Speaker 2: Will you please? Oh!
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Speaker 4: Well, you know, I'm absolutely giddy. Look at me. What
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Speaker 4: is it? Another headache? A hangover you could hang your
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Speaker 4: hat on. Oh, from what? You didn't touch a drop
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Speaker 4: last night. Oh, I did so gallantly. No, you didn't.
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Speaker 4: I watched you. As fast as you were handed cocktails,
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Speaker 4: you slipped them into the flower bowls. It was your
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Speaker 4: petunias that got tied, not you. Well, why can't I
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Speaker 4: walk straight then? You're silly if you don't believe me. Judith,
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Speaker 4: I don't like the way... I'm going to send for Dr. Parsons.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 4: Why not, Judith? Now, listen, I'll be all right in
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Speaker 4: a minute. Be a darling and get my things, will you?
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Speaker 4: And tell John to bring up the car.
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Speaker 2: Tell him to hurry.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what Michael got me down here for, Judith.
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Speaker 2: He said you wanted to sell that colt.
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Speaker 4: Well, I don't, Colonel Mansell.
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Speaker 2: I still think you should buy him, Colonel.
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Speaker 4: Michael, shut up.
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Speaker 3: That colt's a perfect darling. He could play on the
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Speaker 3: lawn with the dogs or the children. Of course, unfortunately,
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Speaker 3: a steeplechaser has to have guts. Catch this fellow at
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Speaker 3: the two-mile pole with his heart bursting in a water
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Speaker 3: jumper head and he'll fold.
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Speaker 2: Up on you.
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Speaker 4: Michael, I said I wanted to run him this morning.
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Speaker 4: Where is he?
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Speaker 3: He's in his stall having his extra 40 winks before
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Speaker 3: we give him his morning.
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Speaker 2: Cup of tea.
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Speaker 4: Get him out here. And when I tell you to
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Speaker 4: do something, you do it.
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Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am. Right away, ma'am. Well, I'm sorry, Judith. I'd
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Speaker 2: like to make a deal.
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Speaker 4: Oh, don't go away, Colonel. I'm going to take him
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Speaker 4: over the jump. Judith, is it your head again? No.
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Speaker 4: And I'll show him if that horse has courage.
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Speaker 2: Here's your fine horse, Miss Judith. Shall I give you
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Speaker 2: a hand up? Up you go.
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Speaker 3: Thanks.
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Speaker 4: Michael, how long have I had you?
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Speaker 2: One month and three days.
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Speaker 4: Reminds me to think about firing you.
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Speaker 3: Oh, you'll not be firing me, Miss Judith. We're going
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Speaker 3: to get on together. Just because I call your darling
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Speaker 3: a coward.
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Speaker 4: Someday you'll learn, Michael, that courage is in the blood.
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Speaker 4: When any of us hits that last hurdle, it's all
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Speaker 4: that counts.
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Speaker 2: Sure, sure. And I'll take your little horse and go along.
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Speaker 6: Michael, she's not going to take the high jump, is she?
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Speaker 2: Looks like it. But she's leading him in wrong. Stay
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Speaker 2: over to your left, Miss Judith.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I thought she was going to fall.
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Speaker 2: She will if she comes around like that again. Miss Judith,
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Speaker 2: you're way off to the right. Come in straight for
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Speaker 2: that jump.
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Speaker 6: Who's riding this horse?
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Speaker 4: What's the matter with her?
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Speaker 2: Miss Judith, straight.
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Speaker 4: It's a gash on the head. But it was you
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Speaker 4: we were worried about. Michael said he had a hunch
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Speaker 4: he'd throw you.
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Speaker 7: Ann.
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Speaker 4: Ann, listen to me. That colt didn't throw me. I
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Speaker 4: threw him. What do you mean? Do you know what happened?
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Speaker 4: I saw two jumps. I tried to put him over
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Speaker 4: the wrong one. You saw two jumps? Yes, that was it.
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Speaker 6: It was the ghastliest feeling. Everything went fuzzy. Why didn't
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Speaker 6: you tell that to Dr.
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Speaker 4: Parsons?
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Speaker 6: Oh, poor old befuddled Parsons. My dear, you're staying up
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Speaker 6: too late, smoking too many cigarettes. If only he knew
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Speaker 6: about last week at the colony, when the old lady
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Speaker 6: was coming out of the swing doors, I knocked.
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Speaker 4: The umbrella out of her hand.
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Speaker 2: Why?
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Speaker 4: Somebody said I was drunk.
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Speaker 6: And another time coming out of her lanes on Park Avenue,
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Speaker 6: I ran right into a woman with her dog on
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Speaker 6: a leash.
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Speaker 4: I ran right into the... You did?
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Speaker 6: Oh, I didn't hurt the dog, but the woman was furious.
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Speaker 2: Darling.
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Speaker 4: Darling, confidentially, this is more than a hangover. If you
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Speaker 4: don't tell Parsons these things, I will. Ah, no, you won't, Anne.
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Speaker 6: You're my truest and best friend, and you won't tell
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Speaker 6: a soul. I, uh... I wouldn't have told you except
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Speaker 6: that I won't have a dumb animal blamed for my mistake.
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Speaker 6: Come on now, we're going to town, aren't we? Judith,
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Speaker 6: Parsons is coming back. Why? I promised we'd go with
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Speaker 6: him to a specialist about this Gideon. I haven't time
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Speaker 6: for doctors.
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Speaker 4: But you may be really ill. I haven't time to
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Speaker 4: be ill.
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Speaker 2: Come in. Dr.
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Speaker 4: Parsons is here, Miss Judith. Oh, boy.
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Speaker 2: Well, Judith, are we ready to go?
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Speaker 4: No, Dr. Darling, we're not. She says she's not going
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Speaker 4: with you.
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Speaker 2: But, Judith, I think you ought to. There's a man
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Speaker 2: in town, Dr. Steele. Now, Dr.
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Speaker 4: Darling, I've got much too much to do, you know that.
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Speaker 4: You take Anne to Dr. Steele. She could use an examination.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Anne, haven't you any influence over her? None at all.
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Speaker 2: What was that? Martha, what's the matter?
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Speaker 4: Miss Judith! Miss Judith! She fell down the stairs!
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Speaker 2: Please! Please!
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Speaker 7: Hello?
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Speaker 4: Hello, I can't hear you. Yes, this is Dr. Steele's nurse. No,
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Speaker 4: I'm afraid it'd be useless. Dr. Steele has closed his office. Permanently, yes. No,
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Speaker 4: he's not coming back. You're welcome. Goodbye.
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Speaker 2: Sounds good, eh, Wainwright?
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Speaker 4: If you want to hear a fine woman break down
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Speaker 4: and sob, Dr. Steele, just keep talking like that.
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Speaker 2: Have to leave in 45 minutes. Remember that now.
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Speaker 4: What about this case of Dr. Parsons? He's very worried.
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Speaker 4: Told me to keep you here by force if necessary.
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Speaker 3: You tell old Parsons I've waited nine years for this train.
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to miss it just because some Long
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Speaker 3: Island glamour girl fell off her horse.
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Speaker 4: Dr. Steele.
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Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: I wouldn't talk so loud. They're outside now.
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Speaker 7: Who? Dr.
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Speaker 4: Parsons and his patient. Wainwright. Well, I'm sorry, doctor, but
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Speaker 4: he insisted.
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Speaker 2: All right. You have to be polite, I suppose.
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Speaker 4: Will you come in, Dr.
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Speaker 7: Parsons?
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Speaker 2: Thanks. Sit down, Dr. Parsons. Don't forget about that train, Wainwright.
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Speaker 6: I won't.
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Speaker 2: Steele, can't you put off leaving? I'm sorry, Parsons. I've
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Speaker 2: closed my office.
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Speaker 3: Why? I've told you. I'm through with private practice. You're
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Speaker 3: going into research, is that it?
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 3: I want to work on cells, brain cells. I want
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Speaker 3: to find out why healthy cells suddenly go berserk, grow wild.
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Speaker 8: Do you feel you can do as much for people
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Speaker 8: that way as you have done in surgery?
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Speaker 2: Yeah. More if I have any luck. Why? Because I
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Speaker 2: have a patient who needs you, Steele. But, uh, please.
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Speaker 2: The girl is desperately ill. She's been losing ground every day.
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Speaker 3: I read your report. Well, if two minutes of talk
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Speaker 3: will do any good, go ahead. What's this about headaches?
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Speaker 2: She's been having them persistently. Even before the accident. Before?
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Speaker 8: She calls them hangovers. And you wait until now? You
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Speaker 8: don't know that girl. She's stubborn. Only yesterday she went
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Speaker 8: to a revival of Serrano in the afternoon and played
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Speaker 8: bridge half the night.
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Speaker 2: She won't cooperate. She won't even tell me anything.
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Speaker 3: By the way, if she's such a crack horsewoman, why
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Speaker 3: was she thrown? It was a queer sort of accident.
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Speaker 3: She steered her horse into the right wing of a jump.
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Speaker 2: What's that? You sure it was the right?
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Why? Well, I think your best bet is to get
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Speaker 2: in touch with Findlay. Findlay is in Europe. Well, I'll
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Speaker 2: get Park. I don't want Park or any of the
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Speaker 2: rest of them. Hang it all. They're no better than
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Speaker 2: I am. I want you. But, Parsons, if I start...
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Speaker 2: You're always talking about the obligation of doctors to humanity. Well,
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Speaker 2: there's humanity waiting for you in that room. Oh, all right.
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Speaker 2: Have her come in. Thank you. Judith, come in. Judith,
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Speaker 2: this is Dr. Steele.
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Speaker 4: How do you do? My name's Trehearne. Judith Trehearne, or
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Speaker 4: don't names matter.
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Speaker 2: What's that?
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Speaker 4: I mean to the cold scientific eye, we're guinea pigs,
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Speaker 4: aren't we? Glad to have met you, Doctor.
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Speaker 2: Wait a minute. How'd you get those burns on your hand? Where?
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Speaker 2: On your right hand, right here, between the first two fingers.
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Speaker 4: Well, I never noticed until now.
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Speaker 2: I see. Wait outside, Judith. Won't you sit here?
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Speaker 4: I haven't much time.
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Speaker 2: Neither have I. Parsons tells me you're a great hunter.
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Speaker 6: Well, you could hardly expect me to enter your office
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Speaker 6: leading a pack of hounds. Hmm?
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Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 2: I understand you don't like to talk about your health.
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Speaker 4: I don't.
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Speaker 2: Any reason why?
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Speaker 4: It's a boring topic, that's all.
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Speaker 2: Most people love it. I make my living by listening
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Speaker 2: to them.
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Speaker 4: Then I'm afraid you're wasting your time.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'll send you a bill.
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Speaker 4: I'm 23 years old, an only child. I weigh 115 pounds, stripped.
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Speaker 4: I've had mumps, measles, and whooping cough all at the
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Speaker 4: proper ages.
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Speaker 6: I take a great deal of exercise.
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Speaker 4: I'm accustomed to a reasonable quantity of tobacco and alcohol.
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Speaker 4: I'm said to have a sense of humor. Is that all?
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Speaker 2: That's all the inconsequential facts.
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Speaker 4: Part of the consequential ones.
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Speaker 2: Does that light from the window bother you?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 2: Use your eyes a great deal?
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Speaker 4: I generally keep them open, doctor.
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Speaker 2: What on earth do you do with yourself down there
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Speaker 2: on Long Island?
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Speaker 6: Oh, horses, dogs, shooting, yachting, parties, travel, gossip. All the
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Speaker 6: pleasures of the station wagon crowd. You don't think much of.
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Speaker 2: That, do you? No, not much.
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Speaker 4: Why not?
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Speaker 2: Well, it just doesn't appeal to me.
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Speaker 4: Do you condemn everything that doesn't appeal to you, Dr. Steele?
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Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, no, by no means. You asked for
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Speaker 2: my opinion and I gave it.
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Speaker 4: Well, anyway, that's my racket. What's yours?
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Speaker 3: Well, I've been a surgeon up to now. But I'm
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Speaker 3: clearing out for northern Vermont in about 30 minutes.
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Speaker 2: Vermont?
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Speaker 4: Not really.
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm, no kidding.
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Speaker 4: What are you going to do up there between yawns?
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Speaker 2: You wouldn't be interested.
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Speaker 4: Oh, come now, after leading me on like this.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to do scientific research on the growth
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Speaker 2: of cells.
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Speaker 4: In guinea pigs?
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Speaker 2: No, no, just cells.
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Speaker 4: Sounds silly.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm told.
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Speaker 4: Still, you know, you know, I almost envy you. Must
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Speaker 4: be nice to believe in what you're doing.
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Speaker 2: Why, don't you?
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Speaker 6: Oh, not in the way you do. I'm not complaining.
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Speaker 6: Take it all in all, they dealt me a very
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Speaker 6: good hand.
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Speaker 4: I'm young.
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Speaker 6: I have no particular responsibilities. I shan't cultivate them either,
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Speaker 6: once free or without. Oh, I shall probably marry someday.
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Speaker 6: No hurry about that. When I do, I shall build
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Speaker 6: a house on a ridge I know, the glorious view.
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Speaker 6: I'll have my horses, and with luck I'll have about
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Speaker 6: 40 years of it. I think that's a pretty good setup.
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Speaker 2: That light is in your eyes.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I wish you wouldn't keep hopping on that. There's
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Speaker 4: nothing the matter with my eyes.
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Speaker 2: You're squinting.
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Speaker 4: I'm not squinting.
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Speaker 2: I'll put the blinds down.
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Speaker 7: There.
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Speaker 2: There, that's better.
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Speaker 4: Well, suit yourself. It's your office.
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Speaker 2: What did you do yesterday?
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Speaker 4: I played bridge in the afternoon. I went to the
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Speaker 4: theater in the evening.
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Speaker 2: It was the other way around, wasn't it? I, uh.
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Speaker 4: Yes, I guess it was.
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Speaker 2: What was the play?
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Speaker 7: Um.
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Speaker 2: Cyrano, wasn't it?
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Speaker 4: Well, yes, why?
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Speaker 2: Do you like it?
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Speaker 4: Well, my head was aching.
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Speaker 2: How long have you had these headaches?
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Speaker 4: Oh, I, uh... I don't have them.
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Speaker 2: You have one now.
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Speaker 4: No, I have not.
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Speaker 2: How did you come out of bridge yesterday?
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Speaker 4: Let me think.
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Speaker 2: Quickly.
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Speaker 4: I don't remember.
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Speaker 2: I know. You lost.
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Speaker 4: Yes, I lost.
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Speaker 2: How much?
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Speaker 4: Well, how can I remember? I play bridge every day.
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Speaker 2: You've been losing a lot lately, haven't you?
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Playing badly? Forgetting what the cards are and what's the bid?
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Speaker 4: Why do you ask me these stupid questions?
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Speaker 2: Wait a minute. Did Parsons say you could go out yesterday?
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Speaker 4: I'm accustomed to looking after myself.
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Speaker 2: But you did disobey his orders, didn't you?
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Speaker 4: But what if I did?
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Speaker 2: Well, why pay a doctor to advise you and then
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Speaker 2: disregard his advice?
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Speaker 4: I didn't call him. Someone else called him.
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Speaker 2: So you're taking orders from someone else, aren't you?
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Speaker 4: Doctor, listen to me.
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Speaker 6: I've never taken orders from anyone. And as long as
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Speaker 6: I live, I shall never take orders from anyone.
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Speaker 4: And here's something else. I'm well. Absolutely well. I'm young
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Speaker 4: and strong and nothing can touch me. Neither you nor Dr.
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Speaker 4: Parsons can make an invalid out of me. And now
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Speaker 4: I'm going.
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Speaker 6: I'm sorry to have wasted so much of your time.
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Speaker 4: This is my last interview with doctors.
15:35
Speaker 2: That's right. Run away because you're frightened.
15:37
Speaker 4: That isn't true.
15:37
Speaker 3: Come on over here. Now sit down. I want to
15:40
Speaker 3: talk to you. You held certain things back from Dr.
15:45
Speaker 3: Parsons because you were afraid to admit them. You didn't
15:48
Speaker 3: tell him that you've been having these headaches for months.
15:50
Speaker 3: But you have and they've been getting worse lately until
15:52
Speaker 3: now you're never free of them. And your eyes have
15:54
Speaker 3: been cutting up, too, just as though someone was shutting
15:56
Speaker 3: a pair of folding doors until your vision is almost
15:58
Speaker 3: cut in half. You pretended it was imagination, but it isn't.
16:02
Speaker 3: Then that queer, dull feeling in your right arm. You
16:04
Speaker 3: couldn't laugh that off. I'll tell you how you got
16:07
Speaker 3: those burns.
16:07
Speaker 2: A cigarette.
16:08
Speaker 3: It burned your fingers and you never felt it because
16:10
Speaker 3: your tactile nerves are paralyzed. Your memory is all shot
16:12
Speaker 3: to pieces. You can't concentrate. Look at your bridge scores.
16:14
Speaker 3: You're irritable because your nerves are all at edge. You're
16:16
Speaker 3: afraid to admit it, but you can't deny it. Now,
16:18
Speaker 3: that's true, isn't it?
16:20
Speaker 4: Yes. Yes, it is true. I can't deny it.
16:26
Speaker 2: Then why don't you let me help you?
16:31
Speaker 4: Dr. Steele, you have to leave now to go to
16:33
Speaker 4: pass that train.
16:34
Speaker 2: Train, train. Yeah, well, there'll be other trains on other days.
16:36
Speaker 4: Doctor!
16:37
Speaker 2: Cancel the tickets.
16:38
Speaker 4: Yes, doctor. Oh, thank you very much for staying.
16:42
Speaker 2: Not at all, not at all. A few days one
16:44
Speaker 2: way or the other won't matter.
16:45
Speaker 4: I'm sorry I was so difficult.
16:47
Speaker 2: I like the way you fought back at me. You
16:48
Speaker 2: did a good sport.
16:50
Speaker 4: Well, if I weren't that doctor, I'm afraid I wouldn't
16:52
Speaker 4: be much of anything. Tell me. What's wrong with me?
16:58
Speaker 4: Is it my eyes?
17:00
Speaker 3: Now, I'd be a poor excuse for a doctor if
17:02
Speaker 3: I told you before I posited myself. For the next
17:05
Speaker 3: few days, I'm going to ask you to have some
17:06
Speaker 3: x-rays taken, lots of them. Otherwise, you're going to live
17:08
Speaker 3: your normal life. Do everything you've been doing. See your friends,
17:11
Speaker 3: have parties, everything the same. With one exception.
17:14
Speaker 4: What's that?
17:16
Speaker 2: You'll have to see a good deal of me.
17:18
Speaker 4: I'll bet you'll be a frost at a party. Well, Dr. Steele,
17:29
Speaker 4: have you reached the verdict?
17:30
Speaker 3: Yes.
17:31
Speaker 4: The prisoner will rise. The sentence.
17:34
Speaker 2: We will have to operate.
17:36
Speaker 4: Operate?
17:38
Speaker 6: On me?
17:40
Speaker 2: Where?
17:40
Speaker 4: My, uh, my head?
17:42
Speaker 2: Yes. Oh, no, no, I won't.
17:43
Speaker 9: I won't.
17:43
Speaker 6: I won't. Dr.
17:50
Speaker 3: Walker.
17:50
Speaker 4: Dr.
17:51
Speaker 3: Walker.
17:51
Speaker 2: Surgery, please. Dr. Carvell. Administration, please.
17:55
Speaker 4: Dr.
17:55
Speaker 2: Carvell. Good morning. How is everything?
17:58
Speaker 4: Everything is awful. Look what you make me wear.
18:01
Speaker 3: The operating gown? Pretty dowdy, aren't they? I suppose you
18:04
Speaker 3: brought a lot of nice things of your own.
18:05
Speaker 4: Well, of course I did. I have lovely nighties. I
18:08
Speaker 4: bought two new ones, especially for this.
18:11
Speaker 2: Miss Anne, I see no reason why Mr. Hearn shouldn't
18:13
Speaker 2: wear something of her own.
18:14
Speaker 4: They're in the drawer.
18:15
Speaker 2: Have them ready for her when she gets back from
18:16
Speaker 2: the operating room, will you? And now, Mr. Hearn, how
18:19
Speaker 2: about drinking this?
18:20
Speaker 4: What is it?
18:21
Speaker 2: It's just something that'll make you sleep. Write down. That's right.
18:26
Speaker 4: Well, I don't want to go to sleep. How could
18:29
Speaker 4: anyone sleep in a two-by-four like this? At home, I
18:31
Speaker 4: have a bed big enough for six, and here I
18:33
Speaker 4: can't move.
18:34
Speaker 3: Now, wait a minute, wait a minute. I'll show you
18:36
Speaker 3: something nice about this bed. See, it goes up to
18:39
Speaker 3: rest your legs. It goes up and down to make
18:42
Speaker 3: your back feel better. Why, before you're through, you want
18:45
Speaker 3: to take it home with you.
18:47
Speaker 6: You know, you do make it feel better. I can't
18:50
Speaker 6: understand me. I've never given in a fraction to anyone else.
18:54
Speaker 6: Here I am letting you bounce me up and bounce
18:56
Speaker 6: me down. In fact, I'm letting you tell me exactly where,
19:05
Speaker 6: where does it happen? Here in my head?
19:08
Speaker 2: That's my worry.
19:08
Speaker 4: Doctor, how do you do it? Just what do you do?
19:10
Speaker 2: Shatterbox, aren't you?
19:11
Speaker 4: Ah, good tears.
19:12
Speaker 6: Very distasteful, isn't it? Oh, well, I don't care. I
19:17
Speaker 6: don't care about anything. This is such a nice bed.
19:21
Speaker 6: And it's a nice room, too.
19:23
Speaker 4: Thank you, Anne. Ann, you're standing over there miles away.
19:27
Speaker 4: Come over here. I love you, Ann. I don't know
19:31
Speaker 4: what I'd do without you. I love you. Do you
19:35
Speaker 4: and the doctor like each other?
19:37
Speaker 2: Of course. Sure.
19:38
Speaker 4: I want you to like each other. Because, you see,
19:41
Speaker 4: I love everybody. Will they cut off my hair?
19:45
Speaker 2: Just a little of it.
19:45
Speaker 4: But I don't want my hair cut off.
19:47
Speaker 2: It'll grow back. Oh, Ann.
19:50
Speaker 4: Course it will. Isn't that silly of me? I feel
19:54
Speaker 4: so good. Nothing to think about.
19:59
Speaker 2: You're going to sleep now.
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Speaker 4: That's right. I must do everything you say. I'm in
20:07
Speaker 4: your hands, doctor. Ah, they're such nice hands. Nice, strong hands. Doctor?
20:19
Speaker 5: Yes?
20:20
Speaker 4: When you get inside my head, see if you can
20:24
Speaker 4: find any sense in.
20:28
Speaker 2: It. She's asleep.
20:34
Speaker 4: Hello.
20:35
Speaker 2: Dr. Steele speaking. Will you call surgery? We're ready now. Well,
20:47
Speaker 2: how is she? The operation was a complete success. Go on.
20:55
Speaker 3: I told you what to expect before we operated. She's
20:58
Speaker 3: bound to have a recurrence. An invalid, I suppose. No. No,
21:03
Speaker 3: I'd say it's a rare case. She'll apparently be as
21:05
Speaker 3: well as any of us. That is, until, well, her
21:09
Speaker 3: sight may fail near the end.
21:11
Speaker 7: Amblyopia?
21:12
Speaker 3: Yes.
21:12
Speaker 7: Yes.
21:14
Speaker 2: There'll only be a few hours after that. Oh, hang it, Steel.
21:18
Speaker 2: Isn't there anything we can do? Anything at all? No, no,
21:21
Speaker 2: there's nothing. It's a rotten business, Doctor.
21:26
Speaker 3: A girl like that, so alive, so entitled to live,
21:28
Speaker 3: to have this contemptible, meaningless growth come along and put
21:31
Speaker 3: a period to it, you could almost wish it had
21:33
Speaker 3: happened on the table.
21:34
Speaker 2: Are you going to tell her? Would you want her
21:37
Speaker 2: to know?
21:39
Speaker 3: No.
21:41
Speaker 2: Well, then that's the answer. Steel.
21:45
Speaker 8: Just one more thing. You said she'd have a recurrence
21:49
Speaker 8: and then a few hours of life. How long has
21:53
Speaker 8: she got before the recurrence?
21:58
Speaker 2: Well, I can't say exactly. She'll die within a year.
22:25
Speaker 3: You have just heard Act One of Dark Victory, starring
22:28
Speaker 3: Spencer Tracy and Betty Davis.
22:30
Speaker 6: Mr.
22:31
Speaker 3: DeMille brings you Act Two in just a moment. But first,
22:34
Speaker 3: I have some important news for you. Listen a moment
22:36
Speaker 3: and you'll hear how it sounds over the wires. The
22:42
Speaker 3: telegraph is saying just three words.
22:44
Speaker 2: Here's what they are. New Quick Luxe.
22:48
Speaker 3: Yes, that's our big news for millions of housewives. News
22:51
Speaker 3: about a marvelous new quick Lux that suds with almost
22:54
Speaker 3: unbelievable speed.
22:55
Speaker 4: You know, I thought Lux Flakes just couldn't be improved.
22:59
Speaker 4: It's so swell.
23:00
Speaker 3: Well, Sally, I've heard lots of women say just that.
23:03
Speaker 3: It's so safe, so gentle, so easy on your hands
23:06
Speaker 3: or your clothes, we couldn't make it milder. But here's
23:09
Speaker 3: what scientists working for years in the laboratories have done.
23:13
Speaker 3: They found a way to speed up Lux Flakes. They've
23:16
Speaker 3: added an ingredient costing many thousands of dollars a year,
23:19
Speaker 3: which makes New Quick Lux give you suds in a second.
23:23
Speaker 2: So fast, well, it's almost unbelievable.
23:27
Speaker 3: You'll think so, too, when you pour out these delicate,
23:29
Speaker 3: surer flakes. Why, you turn on the water, and they
23:32
Speaker 3: bubble into suds like veritable magic. In water, as cool
23:36
Speaker 3: as your hand, New Quick Lux dissolves three times faster
23:40
Speaker 3: than any of ten other leading soaps tested. Flakes, chips, beads,
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Speaker 3: and bars... Yet you can get this wonderful new quick
23:47
Speaker 3: lux at no extra cost. Here's another grand point. New
23:51
Speaker 3: quick lux goes further. Gives more suds ounce for ounce
23:56
Speaker 3: than any of these other soaps. It's so very thrifty
23:59
Speaker 3: to use. And it's so gentle. So safe for everything
24:03
Speaker 3: safe in water. Why not stop at your grocer's tomorrow
24:06
Speaker 3: and say, new quick lux, please. Your grocer has it.
24:10
Speaker 3: It's in the same familiar box. But it's the wonderful
24:13
Speaker 3: new quick lux flakes. It suds faster, it's thrifty, it's
24:18
Speaker 3: so safe.
24:19
Speaker 2: You'll love it. Now our producer, Mr. DeMille.
24:24
Speaker 3: Act II of Dark Victory, starring Spencer Tracy as Dr.
24:27
Speaker 3: Frederick Steele and Betty Davis in the role of Judith Trehearne,
24:31
Speaker 3: with Irene Tuttle as Anne.
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Speaker 4: The End.
24:43
Speaker 3: In a few weeks, Judith returned from the hospital, a
24:46
Speaker 3: new Judith with sparkling eyes and steady hands. She's invited
24:50
Speaker 3: some friends to celebrate her recovery. As she moves gaily
24:55
Speaker 3: among them, Dr. Steele watches from the doorway, his face drawn,
24:59
Speaker 3: his eyes filled with pity. At last, Judith sees him
25:03
Speaker 3: and runs quickly to him.
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Speaker 4: Doctor, where in the world have you been?
25:09
Speaker 2: Hello, Judith.
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Speaker 6: My friend, this is the gentleman who did my operation.
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Speaker 2: Dr.
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Speaker 4: Steele, my gang.
25:15
Speaker 2: How do you do?
25:16
Speaker 4: Now, come over here. I want to speak to you.
25:18
Speaker 4: You're late, you know.
25:19
Speaker 2: I was at the hospital.
25:20
Speaker 4: Ah, never mind that. We're not interested in medicine here.
25:24
Speaker 4: Sit down, won't you? Have some champagne?
25:26
Speaker 2: No, thanks.
25:27
Speaker 4: I had one. I said I could.
25:28
Speaker 2: Have you been a good girl? No. I thought not.
25:31
Speaker 2: Did you drive into town for lunch and come right back?
25:34
Speaker 4: Father, I cannot tell a lie.
25:36
Speaker 2: What did you do?
25:37
Speaker 4: I bought these shoes. Like them?
25:39
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. They're very pretty. What else?
25:41
Speaker 6: This dress and some other new frocks that will stun you. Oh,
25:45
Speaker 6: thank you so very much for the two inches off
25:47
Speaker 6: my middle. And, Doctor, thank you.
25:50
Speaker 4: For my life. What can I ever do for you?
25:54
Speaker 3: Oh, Ann.
25:55
Speaker 7: Ann!
25:55
Speaker 3: Coming. Hot.
25:57
Speaker 4: Excuse me, Doctor. Ann, has the package come yet? Just arrived.
26:00
Speaker 4: Shall I get it? No, let me. Be right back.
26:02
Speaker 4: Don't go away. Well, Doctor, doesn't she look wonderful? Aren't
26:07
Speaker 4: you proud?
26:09
Speaker 2: Proud? Yes, yes, I'm very proud.
26:13
Speaker 6: Doctor, when you came down to Judith's room right after
26:16
Speaker 6: the operation, you had a certain look in your face.
26:20
Speaker 4: I thought it was a strain, the tension of the operation.
26:22
Speaker 2: I don't understand you.
26:23
Speaker 4: Well, you have that same look in your face now.
26:27
Speaker 4: Is there anything wrong?
26:28
Speaker 2: Anne, I'd rather not.
26:29
Speaker 4: If there is, please. You see, I am her best friend.
26:35
Speaker 2: Will you come outside?
26:39
Speaker 8: Well?
26:41
Speaker 2: Are you strong enough to hear the truth?
26:44
Speaker 4: Then there is something.
26:44
Speaker 2: Yes, there is. I can't save her, Anne. Nothing can, nothing.
26:49
Speaker 4: You mean she's going to.
26:50
Speaker 2: Yes. She'll die.
26:52
Speaker 4: Well, so are we all.
26:53
Speaker 2: She's going to die of that growth for which we uplift.
26:56
Speaker 7: No.
26:56
Speaker 2: It's true.
26:56
Speaker 6: You mean she'll have that pain again? And that horrible confusion?
27:01
Speaker 2: No, she's not going to suffer again. That's all behind
27:04
Speaker 2: her now.
27:05
Speaker 4: How will it come?
27:06
Speaker 2: It'll come quietly, peacefully.
27:08
Speaker 6: Oh, God's last small mercy. You mean it will come
27:13
Speaker 6: without warning? She'll have no chance to be ready.
27:16
Speaker 2: There may be a moment very near the end when
27:18
Speaker 2: she won't be able to see quite as usual.
27:20
Speaker 4: She'll go blind?
27:21
Speaker 2: A dimming of vision. Then after a few hours, say
27:24
Speaker 2: two or three.
27:24
Speaker 4: Doctor, how long has she? A year? Six months?
27:29
Speaker 2: Possibly more.
27:30
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't believe it.
27:31
Speaker 3: And if I could literally cut off this arm.
27:33
Speaker 4: I know, I know.
27:34
Speaker 2: You'll have to buck up. She mustn't know.
27:40
Speaker 4: You sneak. You're hiding out on me. What's the idea? Well, actually,
27:44
Speaker 4: we were talking about just how much you ought to do.
27:47
Speaker 4: I told him you'd had a devil of a day,
27:48
Speaker 4: and he doesn't seem to think it matters. I've had
27:50
Speaker 4: the best day of my life.
27:53
Speaker 6: Doctor, here's a present for you. Oh, Judith, you shouldn't... Oh, now,
27:57
Speaker 6: don't play surprise. You know, you doctors always expect your
28:00
Speaker 6: GP presents.
28:01
Speaker 4: And if I'm not a grateful patient, there never was one.
28:04
Speaker 2: What's in it?
28:06
Speaker 4: A little gold and a lot of sentiment. Look at
28:10
Speaker 4: that man, Ann. I thought surgeons had to have such
28:13
Speaker 4: steady hands. Let me help you, Doctor.
28:14
Speaker 2: Thank you.
28:17
Speaker 4: Well, do you like them? Or don't you wear cufflinks?
28:22
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. It's the best present I've ever had.
28:26
Speaker 4: I'm so glad you like them. Of course it isn't enough.
28:30
Speaker 4: Nothing ever could be.
28:30
Speaker 7: Wait! Wait!
28:32
Speaker 4: I have an idea. This is my birthday. What? Well,
28:35
Speaker 4: it is really, you know, my new birthday. Every year
28:38
Speaker 4: on this date we'll meet. Just us three. We'll meet
28:40
Speaker 4: and have a party. Why, what's the matter?
28:44
Speaker 2: Nothing. It's a grand idea.
28:46
Speaker 4: Of course it is. Come on, we'll start now. Anne,
28:50
Speaker 4: do you think we ought to dress for dinner tonight?
28:59
Speaker 4: Give him a bit of swish? Just as you please.
29:02
Speaker 4: My first real weekend. Marvelous. Anne, you will put on
29:06
Speaker 4: your best dignity, won't you? And help me keep dignified. Judith,
29:10
Speaker 4: look at me. I'm looking at you. You're in love. Yes,
29:15
Speaker 4: I thought so. What about him? Has he given you
29:18
Speaker 4: any encouragement? Not a ripple in the water. Drives me crazy.
29:22
Speaker 4: But when I just think of him, I... Anne, it's awful,
29:26
Speaker 4: but it's wonderful.
29:27
Speaker 2: Thank you.
29:27
Speaker 4: You know, for the first time I get up in
29:29
Speaker 4: the morning with something to live for.
29:30
Speaker 6: Something besides horses and hats and food.
29:35
Speaker 4: Oh, Anne, he's very fine, isn't he? He's worthwhile, isn't he?
29:39
Speaker 6: But oh, if only the Spaniards or the French had
29:42
Speaker 6: settled New England instead of the Pilgrims. But if he's
29:44
Speaker 6: given you no sign, then how do you know? Now, Anne, darling,
29:48
Speaker 6: don't be against me.
29:49
Speaker 4: He didn't go away, did he?
29:51
Speaker 6: That's one sign. Keep both fingers crossed for me, please.
29:56
Speaker 6: One day it'll happen to you.
29:57
Speaker 4: Darling, and then you'll know.
30:09
Speaker 2: Come in, Ann. I got your call. Trouble.
30:13
Speaker 4: We have something to talk about, Doctor.
30:15
Speaker 2: Yes?
30:16
Speaker 4: Does Judith mean anything more to you than... than just
30:20
Speaker 4: a patient? Perhaps it's impertinent of me to ask.
30:23
Speaker 2: No, it isn't.
30:25
Speaker 4: I think I know. You do care for her.
30:29
Speaker 2: Yes, I care. Very much.
30:31
Speaker 4: Well, what are you going to do? Are you going
30:33
Speaker 4: to tell her? She'll expect you to marry her. Or
30:38
Speaker 4: is it better for you to go away and leave
30:40
Speaker 4: her to us?
30:42
Speaker 3: Well?
30:44
Speaker 2: You know, I am.
30:45
Speaker 3: Women have never meant anything to me before. I'd never
30:48
Speaker 3: met anyone like her. I was all set till I
30:51
Speaker 3: had plans, arrangements made.
30:53
Speaker 4: Yes, Vermont. Why don't you go away for your own sake?
30:57
Speaker 4: For your work? Work?
30:59
Speaker 3: When I can't cure her, there's nothing else on my mind.
31:01
Speaker 3: Look here, I had a letter from Vienna today, the
31:05
Speaker 3: last finding in the case.
31:06
Speaker 2: Here's the translation. Not a chance in the world. And
31:10
Speaker 2: the others, 12 of them.
31:12
Speaker 3: Prognosis negative, prognosis negative, prognosis negative.
31:16
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm so sorry.
31:18
Speaker 2: For you both.
31:20
Speaker 4: You couldn't marry her.
31:21
Speaker 6: You couldn't watch her growing happier every day with this
31:23
Speaker 6: thing creeping up behind her back.
31:25
Speaker 4: Could you stand it? I couldn't.
31:27
Speaker 3: It isn't a question of what you or I could stand.
31:30
Speaker 3: The only thing that matters is that she should be
31:32
Speaker 3: happy every hour. All my life I've told people what
31:37
Speaker 3: to do. Now, Anne, what shall we do?
31:41
Speaker 2: What can we do?
31:50
Speaker 4: You're quite sure she isn't home yet, Martha? Yes, Miss Judith.
31:54
Speaker 4: She said she was going into town. And then I
31:56
Speaker 4: heard her call Dr. Steele's number. Dr. Steele? Oh, I see. Judith,
32:01
Speaker 4: I'm back. Oh, there she is now. You may go, Martha. Yes, ma'am. Hello, darling. Hello, darling.
32:07
Speaker 4: Where have you been? Oh, for a drive. Where to?
32:11
Speaker 4: To town. What for? Oh, I... Anne, where did you go? Judith, please.
32:17
Speaker 2: Hello, hello. How are you, Anne? Oh, I'm sorry. Did
32:21
Speaker 2: I stumble into something? Yes.
32:23
Speaker 4: We were just on the verge of a jealous scene
32:25
Speaker 4: about you. What? Judith, don't.
32:28
Speaker 3: Well, I.
32:30
Speaker 4: I suppose I'd better go.
32:33
Speaker 2: You didn't mean that, Judith.
32:35
Speaker 4: Darling, you poor fool. Don't you know I'm in love
32:39
Speaker 4: with you? Well, of course I've.
32:44
Speaker 6: Made an idiot of myself. Naturally, you must be embarrassed.
32:49
Speaker 6: You see, you've been proposed to.
32:52
Speaker 4: Well... Well, all you have to say is that you
32:55
Speaker 4: don't want me.
32:55
Speaker 2: But I do want you. I came here today to
32:58
Speaker 2: tell you I wanted you.
33:01
Speaker 4: Oh, my darling.
33:02
Speaker 2: Judith. Judith, darling.
33:13
Speaker 4: Hey!
33:14
Speaker 2: Anybody home?
33:15
Speaker 4: What do you do, Mr. Hearn? The doctor's not here.
33:17
Speaker 4: Where is he? I'm to have lunch with him. He
33:18
Speaker 4: wants you to meet him at the restaurant. Oh.
33:21
Speaker 6: I haven't seen you to congratulate you. Oh, thank you, Wainwright.
33:24
Speaker 6: It's a strange world, isn't it? When I first came here,
33:27
Speaker 6: you were packing, and I thought it was the end
33:29
Speaker 6: of my life. Now you're still packing, but my life
33:32
Speaker 6: is just beginning.
33:33
Speaker 2: Huh.
33:34
Speaker 4: Wainwright, don't let me disturb you. I'll help pack up
33:36
Speaker 4: his papers and things. Go ahead. Thank you, Mr. Hearn.
33:40
Speaker 4: You know, Wainwright, it's nice to marry the man you love.
33:43
Speaker 3: Hmm?
33:44
Speaker 6: I darn nearly broke my neck to get him.
33:47
Speaker 4: Of course, it's a perfectly screwy setup. Vermont and Long Island...
33:51
Speaker 4: We don't live in the same world. Do you suppose
33:54
Speaker 4: Vermont and I will understand each other? I don't know
33:56
Speaker 4: much about Vermont except what he's told me. He loves it,
33:59
Speaker 4: doesn't he? Ah, then I will too. You know, Wainwright,
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Speaker 4: I'm going to sell my house and my apartment, everything. Well,
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Speaker 4: what's this?
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Speaker 6: Case history, Miss Judith Traherne. Examination of the tissue samples.
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Speaker 6: Prove the original diagnosis. The prognosis is definitely negative. Negative.
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Speaker 3: Oh.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 4: Wainwright?
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Speaker 6: Yes?
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Speaker 10: What does prognosis mean? It means what the future of
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Speaker 10: a case looks like. What does negative mean? It means hopeless,
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Speaker 10: a case that.
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Speaker 2: Ah!
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Speaker 6: Mr.
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Speaker 4: Hearns! What is it? Mr. Hearns!
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry I'm late, darling. I had a consultation. Oh,
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Speaker 2: you look lovely.
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Speaker 4: Have a drink.
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Speaker 2: No, thanks.
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Speaker 4: Another for me, waitress.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Miss Bradway.
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Speaker 4: You should try one someday.
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Speaker 2: I will, I will. Perhaps on our wedding day.
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Speaker 4: Our wedding day.
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Speaker 2: What's the matter?
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Speaker 4: Oh, could anything be... If I'm late, I'm sorry. Oh,
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Speaker 4: don't be sorry, Anne, about anything. Sit down and join
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Speaker 4: the party. We're playing games. Hide and seek. You can play, too.
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Speaker 4: Puss in the corner. What are you talking about? Oh,
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Speaker 4: I don't know. Of course, if you like, I'll leave.
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Speaker 6: You two dear friends probably have a lot to talk over.
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Speaker 6: My two dearest friends.
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Speaker 4: Anne, have a cocktail. I'm going to have another. Yes,
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Speaker 4: I'll have a cocktail.
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Speaker 2: Oh, they're fine.
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Speaker 4: They deaden the brain. You know about brains, Dr.
35:39
Speaker 2: Steele.
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Speaker 4: They loosen inhibitions and make the tongue waggle. You should
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Speaker 4: both have one. Are you quite well, Judith? You should
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Speaker 4: know how well I am. Am I well, doctor?
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Speaker 2: Shh, the secret.
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Speaker 4: Oh, wouldn't you know about secrets?
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Speaker 2: Judith!
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Speaker 4: I've meant to ask you, doctor. Was I a specimen case?
35:54
Speaker 4: Will I make the medical journal?
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Speaker 2: Why don't you tell me what this is about?
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Speaker 4: Why don't you tell me? Why didn't you tell me?
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Speaker 4: Wait up!
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Speaker 6: I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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Speaker 4: What do you mean?
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Speaker 6: Do you know what prognosis negative.
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Speaker 4: Means, doctor? Explain to Anne. Or have you? A few
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Speaker 4: months of pretending you're well, then blindness, then.
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Speaker 6: So long, my friend.
36:18
Speaker 4: Wait, Judith. We can't talk here, but... Yes, we can.
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Speaker 4: It was a question of humor, the patient, wasn't it?
36:24
Speaker 4: Give the poor darling everything she wants. The time's so short.
36:27
Speaker 4: Marry her if necessary. Now I know why you went
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Speaker 4: to his office that day. It was to beg him
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Speaker 4: to marry me. Out of pity. You're both so kind.
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Speaker 4: Thank you very much. Judith, you're wrong.
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Speaker 2: Judith!
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Speaker 4: Don't touch me, please. Let me go. Let me go.
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Speaker 3: of Dark Victory. With only a few months of life
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Speaker 3: before us, Judith Trehearne lives desperately, cramming her days and
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Speaker 3: nights with excitement, striving vainly to forget. At a horse
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Speaker 3: show in New York, her reckless jumping has won her
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Speaker 3: first prize. And now she stands at the bar, receiving
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Speaker 3: the congratulations of her friends.
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Speaker 2: Miss Judith, can I speak to you?
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Speaker 4: Well, Michael, what's the matter?
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Speaker 3: I've got the horses packed. I wondered if you'd care
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Speaker 3: to drive back with me. That mare's got bronchitis and
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Speaker 3: can't possibly last the night.
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Speaker 2: Jessica's girl? Yes.
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Speaker 4: Why don't you put her out of her misery? I'll
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Speaker 4: get there if I can. Ha!
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Speaker 2: Kid!
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Speaker 4: Kid, there's a tragedy for you. Ha!
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Speaker 6: Jessica's girl has bronchitis and can't possibly last the night.
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Speaker 4: Jessica's girl is a whore. Poor Jessica's girl. Ha!
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Speaker 2: Judith, they want you outside. The presentation of the cup.
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Speaker 4: Ah, yes, the darling little cup. Excuse me, kids.
40:29
Speaker 2: Judith.
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Speaker 4: Well, if it isn't the extraordinary surgeon.
40:33
Speaker 2: I've tried to see you.
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Speaker 4: How's your mortality rate these days, doctor? Any more fun
40:37
Speaker 4: with the knives?
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Speaker 2: Drop it, Judith.
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Speaker 4: Why aren't you in Vermont with the bugs?
40:39
Speaker 2: You know I am not. I want to talk to you.
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Speaker 4: When I need a doctor, I'll send for one. I'm
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Speaker 4: not in your care any longer.
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Speaker 2: You'll always be in my care.
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Speaker 4: Will I? Is that part of your duty?
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Speaker 6: To hang on until the very end and watch through
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Speaker 6: those scientific eyes?
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Speaker 2: Stop it! I know how you feel. Anything to strike
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Speaker 2: back at me, but don't do it this way.
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Speaker 4: What do you want me to do? Sit alone in
40:57
Speaker 4: my room and think how in a few months?
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Speaker 2: Judith, I want you to find peace. We all have
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Speaker 2: to die, Judith.
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Speaker 3: The tragic difference is that you know when and we don't.
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Speaker 3: The important thing is the same for all of us,
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Speaker 3: to live our lives so we can meet death when
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Speaker 3: it comes decently, beautifully, and finally.
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Speaker 4: Finally. Beautifully. I'll die if I please. Leave me alone.
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Speaker 2: Do you hate me so much?
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Speaker 6: Oh, so much, and for so many reasons. I hate
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Speaker 6: you for not telling me the truth. I hate you
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Speaker 6: for letting me hurl myself at your head.
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Speaker 4: I'm for shame.
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Speaker 2: I can understand. I'm sorry. Easy, girl. Easy, Jessica. That's
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Speaker 2: the girl.
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Speaker 4: Well, is she going to live, Michael?
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Speaker 3: I guess so. It was touch and go for a while,
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Speaker 3: but she's game. She put up a brave fight.
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Speaker 4: How nice.
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Speaker 2: Can I take you home, Miss Judith?
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Speaker 4: No, thanks. I have a car.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'll have it sent around.
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Speaker 4: No, I'm not leaving yet. Michael, talk to me.
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Speaker 2: What shall I talk about?
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Speaker 4: Oh, anything. Just talk. Tell me about you, Michael.
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Speaker 2: Me?
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Speaker 4: Yes, just as one human being to another.
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Speaker 2: All right. Sure.
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Speaker 4: Do you have a happy life, Michael?
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Speaker 2: Not always. I have thoughts I have to smother down.
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Speaker 4: Thoughts? What thoughts?
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Speaker 3: I guess I was born out of my time, Miss Judith.
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Speaker 3: I should have lived in the days when it counted
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Speaker 3: to be a man. The way I like to ride
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Speaker 3: and the way I like to fight. What good's riding
42:35
Speaker 3: and fighting and having good muscles these days? What do
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Speaker 3: they get you?
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Speaker 4: What do you want?
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Speaker 3: I told you I have thoughts to smother down.
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Speaker 2: What's about you, Miss Judith?
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Speaker 4: Why, Michael, you're making love to me.
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Speaker 3: You invited me to talk to you as a man,
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Speaker 3: and it's as a man I'm talking. Surely I'm better
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Speaker 3: than some of them that's playing around with you.
42:56
Speaker 2: They're afraid of you. I've heard them talking. They'd go
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Speaker 2: after you, but they're afraid. I wish that I was
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Speaker 2: in their boots.
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Speaker 4: Do you, Michael?
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Speaker 3: You wouldn't need to risk your lovely neck jumping horses
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Speaker 3: for excitement. One of the nights I've laid awake thinking
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Speaker 3: of you. The things I've wanted to say to you
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Speaker 3: ever since the first time I saw you.
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Speaker 4: Well, why don't you say them, Michael?
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Speaker 2: We're of a kind. Will you belong to me and
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Speaker 2: no one else? Kiss me, Judith. Oh, Michael, let me go.
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Speaker 2: I'm only a stable hand, is that it?
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Speaker 6: Oh, no, no, it isn't that. I can't go on
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Speaker 6: this way. Tonight it would be you, and after tonight, what?
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Speaker 4: What? You again or someone else and so on and
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Speaker 4: on until the last hour. Michael, I can't die like that.
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Speaker 2: Die? What's this crazy talk about dying?
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Speaker 6: I'm going to die in a few months, Michael. Does
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Speaker 6: that frighten you?
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Speaker 2: Heaven forgive you for saying anything like that.
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Speaker 4: Yes, heaven forgive me. When it comes, it's got to
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Speaker 4: be met finally, beautifully. That's what he said. Michael, I'm
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Speaker 4: all shocked.
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Speaker 2: I'm all shot. Hello.
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Speaker 4: Murray Hill, 773403. Judith? Is that you? Yes, Ann.
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Speaker 2: Come in.
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Speaker 4: Oh, it's so late, Judith. I was afraid something had
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Speaker 4: happened to you.
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Speaker 2: Hello?
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Speaker 4: I see. Never mind, then. Whom were you calling? It
44:37
Speaker 4: doesn't matter.
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Speaker 9: Business of apologizing to a gentleman for ruining his life.
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Speaker 9: Really doesn't matter. Oh, Ann, I'm so tired. Let me
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Speaker 9: put you to bed.
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Speaker 4: Why? So I can dream. No, Judith, don't talk like that.
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Speaker 4: Please don't. It's the waiting, Ann. Day and night. Ann,
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Speaker 4: would it be wrong if I made it happen?
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Speaker 2: Judith.
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Speaker 4: Judith, darling. And I must see him again just once
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Speaker 4: before he goes away.
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Speaker 2: Hello, Judith.
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Speaker 4: Hello, Doctor.
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Speaker 2: Come in.
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Speaker 4: It is a fine time for a lady to be calling.
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Speaker 2: Isn't it?
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Speaker 4: Oh, can you ever forgive me?
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Speaker 2: I have already.
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Speaker 4: Oh, but the things I said to you.
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Speaker 2: It's good to say things, Judith. It gets them out.
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Speaker 2: I do understand. Do you?
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Speaker 4: Can you?
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Speaker 6: You said you wanted me to find peace.
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Speaker 4: Where is peace?
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Speaker 2: Within yourself.
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Speaker 4: I've tried to do the things I said I would.
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Speaker 4: I couldn't.
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Speaker 6: Darling, there's been no one but you. Darling, how good
45:52
Speaker 6: it is to call you that again. You see, I
45:56
Speaker 6: had to come to tell you there's.
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Speaker 4: Been no one. I couldn't go on with you bitter
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Speaker 4: towards me. Please don't think of me like that.
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Speaker 2: I love you, Judith.
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Speaker 4: Yes, I believe you. It isn't just pity. Oh, I
46:08
Speaker 4: take back every unkind thing I said to you. Darling,
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Speaker 4: help me. I've been so stupid. I've crammed every minute
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Speaker 4: so full of waste. And now there's so little time,
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Speaker 4: and I don't know what to do. And I'm afraid,
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Speaker 4: and you're so right and strong. Judith, Judith.
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Speaker 2: It's all right now, Judith.
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Speaker 4: If only you'd let me see you sometime.
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Speaker 3: You're going to see me every day. I'll show you
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Speaker 3: what peace I can, Judy. You're coming with me to Vermont.
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Speaker 4: Emma. Oh, no, no, no. That wouldn't be fair to you.
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Speaker 4: We'd only have.
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Speaker 2: Forever. Will you marry me, Judy?
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Speaker 4: Marry? Wouldn't it be marvelous if we could? A real wedding?
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Speaker 4: Given away in church bells and champagne.
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Speaker 10: A white frock and orange blossoms and a wedding cap.
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Speaker 4: But that's one thing I wouldn't have missed. And you're
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Speaker 4: giving it to me.
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Speaker 6: Oh, darling, I can never love you enough.
47:25
Speaker 2: Oh, look.
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Speaker 4: It's a letter from Anne.
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Speaker 2: Is she coming up to see us?
47:28
Speaker 4: Well, not yet, but soon, I think. Listen.
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Speaker 6: I've been trying to rent the house ever since your wedding.
47:33
Speaker 6: But no one seems to have any money. And I'm
47:35
Speaker 6: not going to let tramps have it. Darling, tell me,
47:39
Speaker 6: why do people complicate their lives so?
47:41
Speaker 4: All those horses, that house. Here we have nothing. And
47:45
Speaker 4: yet we have everything.
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Speaker 2: Everything.
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Speaker 4: Are you supposed to be helping me, Anne? Where are
47:58
Speaker 4: the jonquilla bulbs? Oh, here. Jonquilla narcissus to be planted
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Speaker 4: in early spring. Let me have them, darling. Won't they
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Speaker 4: be beautiful next summer? How deep do you plant them?
48:06
Speaker 4: I don't know. Let's see. Plant the bulbs about... Anne,
48:10
Speaker 4: look how dark it's getting. It must be going to rain. Why, Judith.
48:13
Speaker 6: Well, it's getting darker every minute. We must be going
48:14
Speaker 6: to have a storm. Well, you know, that's funny.
48:18
Speaker 4: I can still feel the heat of the sun on
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Speaker 4: my hands. I.
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Speaker 2: Oh!
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Speaker 4: Ann. Ann. No. No, it isn't true. No, there are clouds.
48:33
Speaker 4: The sun has gone. A few hours of.
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Speaker 7: Blindness, Ann.
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Speaker 2: Oh, no. It's out there. Shh.
48:37
Speaker 6: Shh.
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Speaker 4: Ann, Ann, it's all right. No, be quiet, darling. Hello.
48:40
Speaker 2: Say, if the ladies' gardening group can adjourn their meeting
48:43
Speaker 2: for a moment, I've got some news.
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Speaker 4: Yes, darling.
48:45
Speaker 2: Start packing. We're going to New York. Wait a second.
48:47
Speaker 2: I'll be right out.
48:48
Speaker 4: Judith, you can't. Ann, you mustn't say a word, please.
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Speaker 4: You mustn't.
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Speaker 2: Judith. Judith, this is great news.
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Speaker 4: What's happened?
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Speaker 2: Look, a wire from Dr. Fisher in Philadelphia. Martha took
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Speaker 2: it down over the phone. Here, read it.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 4: Ann, you read it. I never could read Martha's writing.
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Speaker 2: Dr.
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Speaker 4: Frederick Steele, Brattleboro, Vermont. Wild with excitement over your latest experiment.
49:08
Speaker 4: Biological tests convince me you may be on right road
49:11
Speaker 4: with isolation.
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Speaker 2: Isolation? He'd choke off the oxygen... Oh, no, you two
49:14
Speaker 2: wouldn't understand.
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Speaker 4: Believe we should present material at board meeting in New
49:17
Speaker 4: York tomorrow. Seize wire. My enthusiastic congratulations, Fisher. Oh, but darling,
49:24
Speaker 4: it's wonderful. Don't I know?
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Speaker 2: I'm in the clouds. I wired Fisher. I meet him
49:27
Speaker 2: at 10 in the morning.
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Speaker 4: Oh, did you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it means driving over to Mills Junction. It gets
49:30
Speaker 2: to 4.40. Come on, now.
49:32
Speaker 4: Give me a hand.
49:33
Speaker 2: I can't even find my socks.
49:34
Speaker 4: Judith, I'm going to die. Now, Ann, you must go
49:36
Speaker 4: right on with your planting, please.
49:38
Speaker 6: But you can't let him go. This is the chance
49:40
Speaker 6: he's been waiting for. The chance to help other people
49:42
Speaker 6: who are sick. He's got to go, Ann, if I
49:45
Speaker 6: can only last.
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Speaker 4: Judith. Ann, please, Ann.
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Speaker 3: Judith, you know what this means, don't you? If it's true,
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Speaker 3: it means that in 10, 15, 25 years, I'll begin
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Speaker 3: to get someplace.
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Speaker 4: Oh, it's very exciting, isn't it?
49:59
Speaker 2: I'll say it is. Say, which one of those dresses
50:01
Speaker 2: do you want to wear, the gray or the black?
50:03
Speaker 4: Darling, I'm not going.
50:04
Speaker 3: What?
50:05
Speaker 4: Well, I'd rather not. You'll be busy, and I'll just
50:07
Speaker 4: be sitting around in a hotel room.
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Speaker 2: Oh, nonsense. Now, a couple of days in New York
50:10
Speaker 2: will do you good. You can buy some new clothes.
50:11
Speaker 4: But I don't need any new clothes.
50:13
Speaker 2: Well, you can see your friends.
50:14
Speaker 4: Now, please, darling, don't force me to go.
50:16
Speaker 2: Force you? Well, of course, darling. It's anything you want, but.
50:19
Speaker 4: Well, New York would bore me. Really, it would. This
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Speaker 4: is my home now. I'd rather stay here.
50:25
Speaker 2: Judith, you're trembling.
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Speaker 4: Am I? Well, it's the first time we've ever been separated.
50:32
Speaker 4: Can't a girl get a little sentimental?
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Speaker 2: Judith, I'm not going. I don't know what I could
50:36
Speaker 2: have been thinking about. I'll call Fisher and tell him.
50:38
Speaker 3: Darling.
50:39
Speaker 4: Are you worried about me?
50:41
Speaker 2: Every minute you're not in my sight.
50:42
Speaker 4: Oh, but you needn't be, Angie.
50:43
Speaker 2: But if anything should happen.
50:45
Speaker 4: It won't, and even so, I'm not afraid anymore. I
50:49
Speaker 4: used to be. I died a thousand times.
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Speaker 6: The next time, death will come as an old friend,
50:55
Speaker 6: gently and quietly.
50:56
Speaker 2: Judy.
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Speaker 4: Ah, but we've had so much, darling.
50:59
Speaker 2: Just minutes.
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Speaker 4: If we lived to be a hundred, we couldn't have
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Speaker 4: had more. When the time comes?
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Speaker 2: When the time comes, I'll go with you.
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Speaker 4: Oh, no.
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Speaker 2: I swear I will.
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Speaker 4: No, you won't. You couldn't be that unkind to me.
51:11
Speaker 2: I couldn't live without you, Judith.
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Speaker 4: Darling, you must. I wouldn't want my death to be futile, meaningless.
51:16
Speaker 2: It is futile, meaningless, cruel.
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Speaker 4: No, not if you live. If you can save others
51:21
Speaker 4: in the future who might die without you.
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Speaker 6: Don't you see you must go on with your work?
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Speaker 6: You must wipe out this thing that's going to take
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Speaker 6: me away from you. And with each blow you strike,
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Speaker 6: you'll say, that.
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Speaker 4: Was for Judith, my wife.
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Speaker 3: Judith.
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Speaker 2: Now, come on.
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Speaker 4: No more nonsense. You go to New York, and I'll
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Speaker 4: wait home as a proper wife should. Darling, tell me,
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Speaker 4: have I been a good wife?
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Speaker 2: Oh, my darling.
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Speaker 6: That makes me very happy. Happier than anything else. You see,
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Speaker 6: I've loved it so every minute. Oh, how can I
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Speaker 6: make you understand? Look. Out there, out the window. Somehow
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Speaker 6: it's been like that. Shining and quiet.
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Speaker 2: Judith, I can't lose you.
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Speaker 4: You'll never lose me, darling.
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Speaker 6: Nothing can hurt us now, for what we've had can't
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Speaker 6: be destroyed. Don't you see that's our victory? Our victory
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Speaker 6: over the dark. And it's a victory because we're not afraid. Now,
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Speaker 6: come on.
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Speaker 4: You'll miss your train.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to go, Judith.
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Speaker 4: Please, darling, here. Let me fix your tie. And for
52:33
Speaker 4: heaven's sakes, buy a new hat.
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Speaker 2: I made up a list of the places where we
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Speaker 2: could be reached.
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Speaker 4: We won't need it.
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Speaker 2: I'll be back as soon as I can.
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Speaker 4: I know you will.
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Speaker 2: Judith. Kiss me goodbye, darling.
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Speaker 4: Mind yourself in the big city.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to be awfully lonely.
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Speaker 4: Oh, don't tempt me. Go on. Goodbye, my darling.
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Speaker 2: Goodbye. Goodbye, Judith.
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Speaker 3: Hurry home.
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Speaker 4: Hurry home, darling.
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Speaker 2: Judith.
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Speaker 4: Did he... Did he go?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Judith. Anne, have you planted the hyacinths yet? I'd like
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Speaker 4: to help you with them. You see, they're his favorite flowers.
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Speaker 4: Here they are. I'm afraid I won't be much help,
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Speaker 4: but if you'll dig the holes, I can drop in
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Speaker 4: the seeds. Darling, you shouldn't. Anne, please, dear. You see,
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Speaker 4: I want to so very much. They should do well
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Speaker 4: in the soil. Oh, the garden will be lovely in June,
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Speaker 4: won't it, with everything blooming. I can see it. Anne,
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Speaker 4: you will take care of my flowers, won't you? Water
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Speaker 4: them well.
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 4: And Anne, you will take care of my doctor. You
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Speaker 4: know what I mean, Anne? Judith, please.
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Speaker 6: You see, he'll need someone. He mustn't be alone. It's
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Speaker 6: so much worse for him than me.
53:55
Speaker 4: I'm the lucky one.
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Speaker 6: All I'll miss is growing old and being sick and
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Speaker 6: tired and worn out.
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Speaker 4: Promise me you'll never leave him. I promise.
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Speaker 7: Anne, Anne, darling, darling, now don't cry, please. I'm very happy, really,
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Speaker 7: I am. I, uh, I think I'll go in now.
54:17
Speaker 7: It's growing so very dark.
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Speaker 4: I'll go with you. No, no, please understand, Anne. No
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Speaker 4: one must be with me. No one. I have to
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Speaker 4: prove to him that I can do it alone.
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Speaker 6: Maybe it will help him over some bad moments in
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Speaker 6: the future to remember it.
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Speaker 4: Be my best friend, Ann. Just take me to the
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Speaker 4: stairs and let me go up to my room alone. Yes, Judy.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, Ann. I'll just go up and lie down
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Speaker 4: for a while.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. The brief time that destiny allotted to Judith
55:28
Speaker 2: Trehearne has ended. But it ends with the triumph of
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Speaker 2: a gallant spirit as the curtain falls on her dark victory.
55:39
Speaker 3: In just a moment, Mr. DeMille returns with our stars.
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Speaker 3: The other day I was driving through Pasadena and I
55:45
Speaker 3: stopped in at a grocery store for something.
55:47
Speaker 2: A couple of women were standing near me giving their orders. Oh, yes.
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Speaker 6: I want a large box of Lux Flakes, too.
55:53
Speaker 4: I hear they have a new Lux now. That's right.
55:55
Speaker 4: It's new Quick Lux. It's so fast, it suds in
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Speaker 4: a second. Oh, that's wonderful. I want a couple of boxes, too.
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Speaker 3: Well, naturally, that interested me. So I said to the grocer,
56:06
Speaker 3: looks like you're doing a rush business on Lux Flakes.
56:09
Speaker 2: I'll say. That new Quick Lux is going like hotcakes.
56:12
Speaker 2: You know, it's a funny thing.
56:14
Speaker 3: I've heard plenty of my customers say they thought Lux
56:16
Speaker 3: just couldn't be any better.
56:18
Speaker 2: It's so safe and gentle.
56:20
Speaker 3: But darned if they haven't gone and made its suds faster.
56:23
Speaker 3: My wife says it makes just about the fastest sud
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Speaker 3: she ever saw.
56:26
Speaker 2: She ought to know.
56:27
Speaker 3: She's tried lots of different soaps, and she thinks new
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Speaker 3: quick looks beats them all hollow. Yes, ladies, we've made
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Speaker 3: Luxe Flakes so much faster. A wonderful new ingredient gives
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Speaker 3: you suds in a second. The flakes are so fine
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Speaker 3: and so sheer, they burst into suds at the touch
56:42
Speaker 3: of water. In water as cool as your hand, they
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Speaker 3: dissolve three times faster than any of ten other leading
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Speaker 3: soaps tested. Flakes, beads, bars, and chips. Yes, new quick
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Speaker 3: lux gives faster suds, but that's not all. It goes further.
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Speaker 3: It gives you more suds, ounce for ounce, than any
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Speaker 2: You know what that means?
57:03
Speaker 3: It means a little goes so far, it's thrifty, really thrifty.
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Speaker 3: Your grocer has this wonderful new Quick Lux right now
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Speaker 3: in the same familiar Lux Flakes box.
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Speaker 2: Asking for it tomorrow. I know you'll like it. And remember,
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Speaker 2: it costs you no more.
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Speaker 3: It's so fast, so thrifty, and so safe for all
57:21
Speaker 3: your washables.
57:22
Speaker 2: For everything safe in water alone. Now, Mr. DeMille is
57:26
Speaker 2: bringing our stars to the microphone.
57:28
Speaker 3: If radio had an Academy Award, I'd present it to
57:30
Speaker 3: Betty Davis and Spencer Tracy as they return now for
57:33
Speaker 3: their curtain call.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, C.B.
57:35
Speaker 3: I'd like to pay my respects to George Brent, who
57:38
Speaker 3: created this part so beautifully in the picture.
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Speaker 2: Betty, it was wonderful to work with you again.
57:42
Speaker 4: And the same to you, Spence. You know, Mr.
57:45
Speaker 6: DeMille, when I first came to Hollywood, I was in
57:46
Speaker 6: one picture with Spence. Then we worked for different studios,
57:49
Speaker 6: and we've never appeared together since. That was eight years ago.
57:53
Speaker 6: Working with Spence in Dark Victory is particularly nice because it's.
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Speaker 4: My favorite play.
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Speaker 3: I think I can guarantee that you'll be back here
57:59
Speaker 3: together before another eight years go by. Maybe the eight
58:02
Speaker 3: years was quite a victory for us after all. The
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Speaker 3: title of the picture we made was 20,000 Years in
58:07
Speaker 3: Sing Sing. Well, I hereby sentence both of you to
58:12
Speaker 3: report back soon with a play as good as Dark Victory.
58:16
Speaker 6: What are you planning for the Lux Radio Theater next.
58:17
Speaker 4: Week, Mr.
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Speaker 9: DeMille?
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Speaker 3: Next Monday night, our star is Bing Crosby. And he's
58:22
Speaker 3: going to appear in Sing You Sinners. Bing will have
58:26
Speaker 3: the same role he played on the screen in the
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Speaker 3: Paramount picture success. Sing You Sinners is a gay comedy
58:31
Speaker 3: that combines adventure and romance. And in addition to Bing Crosby,
58:35
Speaker 3: we'll have Ralph Bellamy, Elizabeth Patterson, and Jacqueline Wells. Miss
58:40
Speaker 3: Patterson is from the original cast of Sing You Sinners.
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Speaker 4: I know we're all going to enjoy that, Mr.
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Speaker 2: DeMille.
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Speaker 4: Good night.
58:46
Speaker 2: So long, C.B. Good night. Dark victory is a great
58:52
Speaker 2: victory for both of.
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Speaker 8: You.
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Speaker 3: Our sponsors, the makers of Lux Flakes, join me in
59:03
Speaker 3: inviting you to be with us again next Monday night
59:06
Speaker 3: when the Lux Radio Theater presents Bing Crosby in Sing
59:09
Speaker 3: Your Sinner. with Ralph Bellamy, Elizabeth Patterson, and Jacqueline Wells.
59:15
Speaker 2: This is Cecil B.
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Speaker 3: DeMille saying goodnight to you from Hollywood. The part of
59:22
Speaker 3: that was played by Levine Tuttle. Fred Shields was heard
59:25
Speaker 3: as Michael, Wright Kramer as Dr. Parsons, Martha Wentworth as
59:28
Speaker 3: Miss Wainwright, Clara Blandick as Martha, Lou Merrill as Colonel Mantle,
59:32
Speaker 3: and Nancy Leach as a nurse. Spencer Tracy appeared through
59:34
Speaker 3: the courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and has just completed this studio's
59:38
Speaker 3: production of Northwest Passage. Betty Davis is now starring on
59:41
Speaker 3: the screen in the Warner Brothers picture Elizabeth and Essex.
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Speaker 3: The play Dark Victory was written by George Brewer and
59:46
Speaker 3: Bertram Block. The Warner Brothers screenplay was written by Casey Robinson.
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Speaker 3: Our music was directed by Louis Silvers, and your announcer
59:54
Speaker 3: has been Melville Roy. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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Speaker 1: Our presentation of Lux Radio Theater's Dark Victory now comes
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