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Lux Radio Theatre - "The Life of Emile Zola" (Old Time Radio, 1939) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On May 8th, 1939, Lux Radio Theater presented episode 218,
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  Speaker 1: The Life of Emile Zola, on CBS under Lux sponsorship.
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  Speaker 1: Adapted from the 1937 Warner Brothers film, the broadcast brings
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  Speaker 1: Paul Muni back to his screen role as the French novelist,
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  Speaker 1: with Josephine Hutchinson as Zola's wife, Alexandrine. Leslie Howard serves
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  Speaker 1: as guest producer and host. The drama follows Zola from
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  Speaker 1: his early struggles into his emergence as a public voice
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  Speaker 1: against injustice, as the case of French Army officer Alfred
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  Speaker 1: Dreyfus brings the writer into the Dreyfus affair. The setting
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  Speaker 1: moves through Paris and France in the late 19th century.
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  Speaker 1: And now, we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: The End.
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  Speaker 3: From Hollywood, California, the Lux Radio Theater presents Paul Muni
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  Speaker 3: in the life of Emil Zola with Josephine Hutchinson and
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  Speaker 3: as guest producer, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Leslie Howard.
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  Speaker 5: Lux presents Hollywood. To the thousands of loyal listeners who
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't miss a Monday night with us, to the thousands
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  Speaker 5: of women who insist on Lux Flakes, we extend our
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  Speaker 5: grateful thanks. It is your loyalty to our product that
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  Speaker 5: makes these programs possible, and it is your purchases of
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  Speaker 5: Luxe Flakes that have made Luxe the world's largest selling
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  Speaker 5: packaged soap for fine fabrics. Women everywhere depend on gentle
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  Speaker 5: Luxe for their own and the children's things because they
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  Speaker 5: know Luxe lives up to its famous promise, it's safe
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  Speaker 5: for everything safe in water alone. Our play tonight, filmed
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  Speaker 5: by Warner Brothers and winner of the Academy Award, is
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  Speaker 5: the drama of one who challenged the world with his writings.
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  Speaker 5: and fought fearlessly with the spoken word in the cause
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  Speaker 5: of justice, Emil Zola.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Paul Muni, who created the role on the screen, will
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  Speaker 5: repeat his performance, and with him, you'll hear Josephine Hutchinson.
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  Speaker 5: Louis Silvers conducts our music, and our special guest between
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  Speaker 5: the acts is the man who directed the film version
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  Speaker 5: of our play, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: William Dieterle.
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  Speaker 5: Our regular producer, Cecil B. DeMille, will be back with
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  Speaker 5: us again next Monday night. Filling his place is the
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  Speaker 5: star and co-director of Pygmalion, who is in Hollywood for
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  Speaker 5: the filming of his current picture, Gone with the Wind,
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  Speaker 5: and who has been here during the past week preparing
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  Speaker 5: tonight's production. Ladies and gentlemen, our guest producer, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Leslie Howard. Thank you, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Ruick. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is an exceptional evening.
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  Speaker 6: We have an exceptional star. We have an exceptional play.
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  Speaker 6: Paul Muni in the life of Emil Zola. I doubt
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  Speaker 6: if the screen has ever known an actor who drives
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  Speaker 6: himself harder than tonight's star. In his current Warner Brothers picture, Juarez,
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  Speaker 6: went 64 weeks of preparation before Mr. Muni was ready
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  Speaker 6: to face the camera. And just as exhaustive was his
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  Speaker 6: research into the life of the man he plays tonight,
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  Speaker 6: Emil Zola.
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  Speaker 4: With Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Muni comes another real artist, that very fine actress, Miss
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  Speaker 6: Josephine Hutchinson, in the part of Zola's wife, Alexandrine.
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  Speaker 7: And now, we journey to another place, another time.
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  Speaker 6: We cross the Atlantic, and we pause in France, a
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  Speaker 6: France of 75 years ago. And so begin the life
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  Speaker 6: of Emile Zola.
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  Speaker 2: The End.
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  Speaker 4: Paris in 1862.
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  Speaker 6: Louis Napoleon is Emperor of France, and his reign is
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  Speaker 6: one of suppression. New thoughts, liberal ideas are vigorously opposed.
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  Speaker 6: The great city lies beaten under the lash of authority.
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  Speaker 4: It's deep winter.
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  Speaker 6: A biting wind screams across the roofs of the Latin Quarter,
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  Speaker 6: rattling the frost-covered windows of squalid garret rooms. Behind one
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  Speaker 6: of these windows is the young Emile Zola, A shock
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  Speaker 6: of unruly hair crowns his gaunt, hunger-pinched face, and his
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  Speaker 6: eyes burn feverishly as he stuffs rags into the window panes.
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  Speaker 6: From the other side of the bare, draughty room, his friend,
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  Speaker 6: Cezanne the painter, speaks quietly.
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  Speaker 4: It's no use, Emile.
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  Speaker 8: The place is like a sieve. It would take all
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  Speaker 8: the rags of Paris to stuff half its holes.
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  Speaker 4: Paris, vast, motionless. A gigantic mother brooding over her millions
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  Speaker 4: of children, good and bad. It's magnificent, Cezanne. You must
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  Speaker 4: paint it. Like some day I will write it. No, Zola.
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  Speaker 9: It's hopeless.
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  Speaker 4: Useless. Wasting our youth like this. Butting our heads against
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  Speaker 4: a stone wall. Look at us. Not a sou between us.
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  Speaker 4: No wood for a fire, not even a crust of bread.
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  Speaker 4: But we're young and ripe. We're still stammering, groping for
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  Speaker 4: our way. But when we find it, Cezanne, I shall
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  Speaker 4: write what I see. Slices of life. Real, ruthless.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, stop chasing rainbows, Emile. People don't want to see
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  Speaker 8: the stark paste of truth. They much prefer perfumed lies
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  Speaker 8: like these. The books of hypocrites and liars. They ought
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  Speaker 8: to be burned like something unclean.
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  Speaker 10: Burned?
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  Speaker 4: That's splendid. Why don't you think of that before? We'll
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  Speaker 4: have a fire. Hand them over. Wait, wait. We could
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  Speaker 4: sell them a meal. What? And expose others to their
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  Speaker 4: stinking hypocrisies? No, my friend. Burn them. And let their
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  Speaker 4: lying pages warm the bones of men of truth. I'm ill.
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  Speaker 4: The smoke. I can't breathe. Paul, close that window. Do
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  Speaker 4: you want me to catch my death cold? But we'll suffocate.
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  Speaker 4: That will be better than perishing from a miserable draught. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: you and your draughts. I shall die of one someday.
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  Speaker 4: You'll see. Open windows are dangerous. Paul. It's a concierge.
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  Speaker 4: For the rent. He'll toss us into the street. Don't
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  Speaker 4: let him in. Tell him I'm in bed. Some horrible disease.
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  Speaker 4: It's catching. Anything. Anything.
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  Speaker 11: Who.
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  Speaker 4: Who's there?
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  Speaker 7: Emile's mother.
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  Speaker 4: Madame Zola. Come in, Madame Zola.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Good afternoon, Mama. What are you doing in bed so early? Emile,
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  Speaker 4: you are ill. Nonsense, Mama. We thought you were the
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  Speaker 4: man for the rent, that's all.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, Emile, it tears my heart out to see you
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  Speaker 11: living like this.
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  Speaker 4: But now it is going to end.
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  Speaker 12: Alexandrine, come and make this rascal of mine listen.
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  Speaker 4: Alexandrine?
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  Speaker 11: Good afternoon, Emile.
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  Speaker 4: Alexandrine, what brings you here?
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  Speaker 11: We have good news for you.
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  Speaker 4: Good news? Tell him.
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  Speaker 11: We have a job for you, Emile.
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  Speaker 4: A job?
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  Speaker 11: With Larue, the book publisher. We arranged everything this morning.
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  Speaker 11: You will be a clerk. And now we can get
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  Speaker 11: married at... Oh, Emile!
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  Speaker 4: A job!
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  Speaker 11: Marvelous.
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  Speaker 4: I'll have time to finish my book. Maybe even get
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  Speaker 4: Larue to publish it. Cezanne. Take Maman's coat and hock. Yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 10: Get meat and bread.
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  Speaker 13: A bottle of wine.
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  Speaker 7: We'll celebrate.
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  Speaker 14: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Cezanne, we have a job. Cezanne, we have a job.
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  Speaker 2: We have a job.
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  Speaker 11: Emil. Emil.
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  Speaker 4: Alexandrine. You must not come here to the shop. Monsieur
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  Speaker 4: Larue has issued orders.
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  Speaker 11: I had to come. Oh, I hate to trouble you, Emile,
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  Speaker 11: but the butcher, he refuses us any more credit.
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  Speaker 4: But you told him we'd settle at the end of
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  Speaker 4: the month.
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  Speaker 11: He wants his money now. And the landlord was very
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  Speaker 11: nasty about the rent.
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  Speaker 7: Zola, Monsieur Larue wants you in his office right away.
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  Speaker 4: Very well. I'll do what I can. Don't worry. This
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  Speaker 4: book was not published by me. Nothing about it. Nothing whatsoever. Well,
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  Speaker 4: we shall see. Monsieur Larue? Come in, Zola. Zola, this
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  Speaker 4: gentleman here is an agent of the police. He has
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  Speaker 4: something to say to you. Yes, monsieur. You have a
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  Speaker 4: book published called The Confessions of Claude. Is that right? Yes.
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  Speaker 4: It is my duty to tell you that the public
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  Speaker 4: prosecutor is highly displeased. Why? It's a bad book. Badly written,
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  Speaker 4: you mean? It is an offensive book. It will do
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  Speaker 4: great harm to public morals. I beg your pardon, but...
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  Speaker 4: Keep quiet, Zola. We've been watching your writings, young man.
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  Speaker 4: You're a troublemaker. These articles of yours. Attacking our leading
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  Speaker 4: men of letters, the arts, criticizing the civic authorities. Perhaps
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  Speaker 4: you know something better for me to criticize. I don't
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  Speaker 4: want any of your impudence. And I'm telling you, you've
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  Speaker 4: got to stop it. This is an official warning. And
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  Speaker 4: I hope I won't have to come here again. Well, Zola...
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  Speaker 4: I didn't mean to get you into trouble, Monsieur Larue.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you have to.
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  Speaker 5: Write such muckraking stuff when there are so many pleasant
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  Speaker 5: things in life?
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  Speaker 4: And so many unpleasant things. That is not your business
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  Speaker 4: while you're working for me. From now on, you'll attend
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  Speaker 4: strictly to your work. And stop writing trash! No, Monsieur. What?
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  Speaker 4: Is that a bad exchange for a job? A very
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  Speaker 4: bad exchange. You're a foolish young man. If you prefer
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  Speaker 4: to go hungry, that's your business. You're discharged. I'm very
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  Speaker 4: grateful to you, Monsieur Larue. Grateful? Yes, for allowing me
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  Speaker 4: to devote all my time to my writing. Then go
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  Speaker 4: ahead with your scribbling. Maybe a lean stomach will teach
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  Speaker 4: you better. But a fat stomach like yours sticks out
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  Speaker 4: too far, Monsieur Leroux. It prevents you from looking down
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  Speaker 4: and seeing what's going on around you. While you continue
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  Speaker 4: to grow fatter and richer, publishing your nauseating confectionery, I
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  Speaker 4: shall become a mole, digging here, rooting there, where life
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  Speaker 4: is hard, raw, and ugly. I'll stir up the whole
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  Speaker 4: rotten mess. You will not like the smell of my books,
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  Speaker 4: Monsieur Leroux. Neither will the public prosecutor. But if the
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  Speaker 4: stench is strong enough, maybe something will be done about it.
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  Speaker 4: Good day, monsieur. I'm sorry, but I can't print this
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  Speaker 4: in my paper, monsieur. But they're true. All these things
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  Speaker 4: are true. The horrible conditions in the factories and the
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  Speaker 4: mines and the way the men live. I said I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: I have no use for you.
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  Speaker 2: Take this, Henri.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, it is the truth. But I cannot print it.
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  Speaker 4: But why? Why? Because, monsieur, it is the truth. Very well,
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  Speaker 4: I'll buy some of these things. Ten francs for the lot.
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  Speaker 4: Why I'm doing it, I don't know. Thank you, Monsieur Charpentier.
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  Speaker 4: You won't regret it. You'll see. You'll see how they'll sell.
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  Speaker 4: You'll see. And this book, too. Perhaps you'll like that.
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  Speaker 5: A book?
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  Speaker 4: What kind of a book? A story of a girl,
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  Speaker 4: a poor girl from Artois who came to Paris and
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  Speaker 4: lived in the slums. Sounds like trash. I'm not interested.
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  Speaker 4: It would be, Monsieur. If you'd only read it. I
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  Speaker 4: call it Na-Na. Nana. Nana. Finest book I've ever read.
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  Speaker 10: Give me a copy of Nana, please.
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  Speaker 4: Nana.
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  Speaker 11: It's really a sensation.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone's reading it.
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  Speaker 11: Nana, please.
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  Speaker 4: Nana.
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  Speaker 11: Nana by Emile Zola, please.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, but we're sold out. We'll have more tomorrow. Who
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  Speaker 4: is the man who wrote that book? Emile Zola, madame.
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  Speaker 4: I never heard of him. You will, madame. Believe me,
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  Speaker 4: you will.
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  Speaker 8: You hear, my friend, in every store, on every street
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  Speaker 8: corner in Paris, they.
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  Speaker 4: Talk of nothing but your books. Yes, the years have
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  Speaker 4: been kind to us, Emile. And I'm lucky to be
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  Speaker 4: your publisher. Nonsense. But you're famous, Emile. Who else knows
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  Speaker 4: the people of France as you do? How they love
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  Speaker 4: to cry over a pretty heroine. No, no, Charpentier. That
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  Speaker 4: is not why they buy my books. It's because they
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  Speaker 4: tell the truth. That is why. Truth? Listen. Soldiers. They're
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  Speaker 4: marching this way. The crowd cheering. For what? You there, soldier!
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  Speaker 4: Where are you going? Haven't you heard? We're bound for Berlin!
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  Speaker 4: War has been declared!
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  Speaker 2: War?
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  Speaker 4: War with Germany!
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  Speaker 5: No!
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  Speaker 4: Horrible. Horrible.
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  Speaker 10: We shall all be murdered in our beds.
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  Speaker 4: The Germans at the very gates of Paris.
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  Speaker 11: There isn't a morsel of food. Even the horse flesh
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  Speaker 11: has been sold out.
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  Speaker 4: How will it end, Emile? How does it always end?
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  Speaker 4: In misery. In suffering. In the blood of the people.
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  Speaker 4: But those are the fortunes of war. Those are indeed
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  Speaker 4: the fortunes of war. The whole rotten structure had to
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  Speaker 4: collapse before we could learn the truth. But France shall
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  Speaker 4: know why. I shall name her betrayers. She shall see
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  Speaker 4: who led her men to the slaughter, who's responsible for
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  Speaker 4: her downfall. The Downfall.
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  Speaker 15: The Downfall by Emil Zola. I tell you, Monsieur Zola,
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  Speaker 15: as the chief censor of France, I will not tolerate
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  Speaker 15: this book.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, Monsieur Le Censor. Listen to what you have written here.
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  Speaker 4: I believe I can remember.
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  Speaker 5: Listen.
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  Speaker 15: The army was governed by dry rot and slow paralysis.
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  Speaker 15: The general's staff were mediocre, of an ignorant past belief.
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  Speaker 4: But if the army made mistakes, monsieur... The army does
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  Speaker 4: not make mistakes. Really? How interesting.
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  Speaker 15: Every book you've written has caused us trouble. You attacked
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  Speaker 15: the Second Empire. You attacked the Third Republic. And now
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  Speaker 15: this downfall attacking our army. Such a book makes the
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  Speaker 15: public lose confidence and respect.
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  Speaker 4: Lose confidence in inefficiency? Lose respect for cowardice and stupidity?
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  Speaker 4: That would be a pity, monsieur. Nevertheless, you'll write no
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  Speaker 4: more such books, monsieur Zola. Except perhaps one about the
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  Speaker 4: rascality of army-ridden politicians. The chief censor, perhaps. What? That's
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  Speaker 4: an idea. No, no. I mean....
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  Speaker 15: You're a reasonable man, Monsieur Zola. We only wish to
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  Speaker 15: do what is best for our country. That is so,
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  Speaker 15: isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: You'll do what is best for yourself by leaving me
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  Speaker 4: strictly alone to write what I please, as I please.
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  Speaker 4: Good day, Monsieur.
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  Speaker 11: Are you working, Emil?
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, my dear. Come in.
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  Speaker 11: But I thought you had so much to do.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, so I have, so I have. Somehow it won't come. Ah, well,
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  Speaker 4: perhaps tomorrow. All packed, my dear? We're leaving soon.
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  Speaker 11: Emil, what about your new book? Charpentier is waiting for it.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I know.
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  Speaker 11: But you promised, dear. And if we're going to be
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  Speaker 11: traveling so much, I don't see.
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  Speaker 4: Now, now, now, don't worry so, Alexandrine. I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: work on the boat. Every day, every day. You just
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  Speaker 4: wait and see.
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  Speaker 16: And all this time I've been saying to myself, today
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  Speaker 16: Emil will send me his book.
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  Speaker 4: Now you're here, Emil, and still you have nothing for me.
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  Speaker 4: But you must give me time, Charpentier. Time? You've had
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  Speaker 4: three years. Has it been that long? Oh, well, we're
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  Speaker 4: not as spry as we used to be, eh, Charpentier?
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  Speaker 4: Out of there! Out of there! More wine! Fill the glasses, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 4: I have a rare treat in store for you. Indeed,
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  Speaker 4: of 1,809. I tell you, the conditions in the mines
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  Speaker 4: are worse than ever before. Another catastrophe last week. The
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  Speaker 4: second in a month. All they need is a guild,
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  Speaker 4: an organization. More than that, gentlemen. They need a champion.
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  Speaker 4: Someone with influence to show them the way. Another Zolo, perhaps? Why,
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  Speaker 4: not Zoli himself. Or is he more interested in the
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  Speaker 4: vintage of 1809? Ah, they'll work out that problem somehow.
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  Speaker 4: They have youth, they have courage. Albert, where's that wine?
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  Speaker 4: At times I have felt that you have been deliberately
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  Speaker 4: avoiding me. Avoiding you? That's nonsense, Emile. When old friends
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  Speaker 4: do not see each other for almost ten years, that's
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  Speaker 4: past the stage of nonsense. However, it's good to be
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  Speaker 4: together again, just like old times. Your house doesn't look
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  Speaker 4: like our old garret. Well, I'm comfortable, Cezanne. Very, very comfortable. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Perhaps too much so. Hmm? What is that? Paul.
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  Speaker 11: Shall we go into the other room? I want to
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  Speaker 11: show you the pearls that Emil bought for me when
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  Speaker 11: we were in Italy.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, yes. Come along, Cesar. Albert. Yes, monsieur. Make certain
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  Speaker 4: that the windows are tightly shut. Still afraid of drafts, Emil? Yes,
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  Speaker 4: my chest. Your chest is as strong as a barrel
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  Speaker 4: and always was. Come, Paul. Here. I want to show
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  Speaker 4: you something. A priceless bit of wood carving. I'm sorry, Emil.
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  Speaker 4: I must go. What? So soon? Yes. Goodbye, Emil. Goodbye?
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  Speaker 4: I'm going south. Back to the country. Come, come, Paul.
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  Speaker 4: We're old friends. Out with it. What's troubling you, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Do you really want me to tell you? Why, of course. Well,
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  Speaker 4: we've drifted apart, Emil. Or perhaps I should say, you've
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  Speaker 4: outgrown me. Nonsense. No, no, you know it isn't nonsense.
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  Speaker 4: It's home. It's carpet. Servants. You're wealthy now. World famous.
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  Speaker 4: A member of the Legion of Honor. You've come a
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  Speaker 4: long way from the day when we started together in
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  Speaker 4: an attic... and you shouted, burn the books of the hypocrites.
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  Speaker 8: Let their lying pages warm the bones of a man
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  Speaker 8: of truth.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes I'm tempted to give in and paint only for money.
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  Speaker 4: But no. An artist should remain poor, Emil. Otherwise his talent,
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  Speaker 4: like his stomach... Those fats and stuffy. Like mine, eh?
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Emil, but I had to say it. You're
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  Speaker 4: my oldest and dearest friend. I couldn't go without telling
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: you this. Goodbye, Emil. Paul, will you write? No. But
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: I'll remember. Emile.
• 18:48
  Speaker 11: What's the matter, dear?
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: Tired? No, no, no. Just thinking. Cezanne's gone. Back to Provence. Emile.
• 19:01
  Speaker 11: You didn't quarrel.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Quarrel? With Cezanne? No, but he's taken something of me
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: with him. last of my youth. Strange.
• 19:15
  Speaker 17: Cezanne and I struggled together, starved together. Now our paths
• 19:25
  Speaker 17: have divided.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Well, I fought my battles and now I want calm, rest.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: From now on, I can only look that way.
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: That's just idle talk.
• 19:41
  Speaker 11: Come along. Play me a game of piquette.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: Life is tricky, and I suppose we don't influence our fate.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: While we play piquette, a starving mother and child jump
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: into the river Seine. A servant forgets to extinguish a stove,
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: and someone suffocates. Who knows whose fates may mingle with ours?
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Or when?
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: You have just heard the first act of The Life
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: of Emil Zola, starring Paul Muni with Josephine Hutchinson. During
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: our brief intermission, we present that lovable family, the Brownings.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: The family's finished dinner, and the girls are just getting
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: up from the tables.
• 20:40
  Speaker 10: Well, come on, Midge. Let's get the dishes out of
• 20:42
  Speaker 10: the way, huh?
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Okay, Dot.
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: I'll help tear off the table. Oh, wash your dishes
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: in lux today. It's kind to your hands.
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: Hooray, hooray.
• 20:49
  Speaker 11: Why, that's a cute little song, Midge.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: Where'd you hear it?
• 20:51
  Speaker 11: Over the Dr.
• 20:52
  Speaker 10: Susan program the other day. But that program's in the afternoon, Midgey.
• 20:55
  Speaker 10: You haven't been cutting classes, have you? Of course not, silly.
• 20:59
  Speaker 10: It was while we were washing dishes in our home
• 21:00
  Speaker 10: economics class. We had the radio turned on. Very apropos,
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: I should say.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: I hope you were using Lux Flakes.
• 21:06
  Speaker 10: Oh, but definitely. Teacher says it's thrifty on account of
• 21:09
  Speaker 10: a little go so far, you know.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Well, she's right. And it makes dishwashing loads easier.
• 21:14
  Speaker 10: And the way it helps your hands stay nice looking.
• 21:16
  Speaker 10: Any girl likes that.
• 21:17
  Speaker 11: I'll say.
• 21:18
  Speaker 10: You know, two of the girls said their mothers don't
• 21:20
  Speaker 10: buy Lux. And they're going to pick at them.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: We want Lux.
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: Harsh soaps are unfair to hands.
• 21:27
  Speaker 11: Oh, Mother, isn't that cute?
• 21:29
  Speaker 12: Yes, it is.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: And I'm sure their mothers will be glad to know
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: about Lux. It's such a help. And it's real thrifty, too.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Those girls are right.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: Harsh soaps are unfair to hands. They contain harmful alkali
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: that's apt to dry the natural oils in your skin
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: and make your hands rough and red. Lux flakes have
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: no harmful alkali. Absolutely nothing to spoil the beauty of hands.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: So use Lux for your dishes, won't you? To help
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: your hands stay soft and smooth. Remember, a little goes
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: so far. Lux is thrifty. And now, Leslie Howard is
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: ready to raise the curtain on the second.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: Act of our play.
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: Paul Muni in the life of Emil Zola with Josephine Hutchinson.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: ¶ ¶.
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: And so, while Émile Zola grew paunchy and contented, the
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: stage of France was being.
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: Set for the greatest crusade of his career.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: In the office of the Army Intelligence Service, the Minister
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: of War has called a meeting of his staff. Important
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: military information has been disclosed to the German embassy, and
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: in the minds of the French general staff is one word.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Treason!
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: Treason, I say!
• 22:40
  Speaker 18: This paper is a border roll, a list of our
• 22:42
  Speaker 18: secret army documents. It was found by one of our
• 22:45
  Speaker 18: agents in an office at the German embassy.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: That's amazing. Listen, gentlemen, this excerpt.
• 22:50
  Speaker 18: I am sending you notes on the French 120 gun,
• 22:53
  Speaker 18: the new plan on covering troops, changes in artillery formations,
• 22:56
  Speaker 18: new shooting manual for field artillery, very difficult to procure.
• 23:01
  Speaker 18: The man who wrote this is our traitor. Haven't any
• 23:04
  Speaker 18: of you any idea who he is?
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: He must be on the general staff, sir. One of us? Ridiculous.
• 23:08
  Speaker 13: Here's a roster of all our officer students, Colonel Sandhair.
• 23:11
  Speaker 16: We'll have it.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Traitor is here, gentlemen, on this list. Ayaris. De Beauville. Darcy. Ridiculous.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: De Rancey. Dambigui. Dreyfus. Mr. Housey. Mr.
• 23:31
  Speaker 11: Housey.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Well... Have you found something?
• 23:34
  Speaker 16: I was wondering about Esterhazy. Ferdinand Carl Walsh and Esterhazy.
• 23:39
  Speaker 16: He's of Hungarian descent.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: But his father was a general in the French army.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: But wait. What about that fellow just above him? Dreyfus. Dreyfus?
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Here we are. Alfred Dreyfus. Look here, gentlemen.
• 23:54
  Speaker 16: Captain of the 14th Regiment of Artillery. He was born
• 23:57
  Speaker 16: in Mulhouse, Alsace, of religion Jew... Attach Section 2 of
• 24:01
  Speaker 16: the General Staff.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Artillery officer. Attach to General Staff. Speaks German. Interested in
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: all branches. Well to do. He's the man. That settles it.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Take action at once. Yes, sir. Very good, sir. Major Dodd. Sir.
• 24:14
  Speaker 16: Summon Bertillon, the handwriting expert from the Bank of France.
• 24:17
  Speaker 16: Get samples of Dreyfus' handwriting. Send a message to Dreyfus
• 24:21
  Speaker 16: to have a report here in the morning.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 24:29
  Speaker 13: Major Picard to see the chief of staff.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: Come in, Picard. Well? Captain Dreyfus is waiting in Major
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Dort's room now, sir. Is he nervous? No, sir. Then
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: he's more of a rascal than we think. One moment, sir, please.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Is it possible, sir, that we're making a mistake? The
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: French army, Major Picard, does not make mistakes. But we
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: know so little about Dreyfus. Exactly. We have no proof.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: We'll attend to that. You mean we'll manufacture our own?
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: That's enough, Major Picard. Yes, sir. Major Dorn. Sir. You
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: will see Captain Dreyfus at once. You know what to do.
• 25:04
  Speaker 13: Very well, sir.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Good morning, Captain Dreyfus. Yes, Major Dorn. I was instructed
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: to report to the Chief of Staff. Oh, he's busy
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: just now. Please sit down. Thank you, sir.
• 25:21
  Speaker 13: He might be some time yet. While we're waiting, you
• 25:23
  Speaker 13: can help me out, if you will.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 25:26
  Speaker 13: I have an important memorandum to write for the Chief
• 25:27
  Speaker 13: of Staff, and unfortunately I... Managed to cut my hand
• 25:31
  Speaker 13: rather badly this morning.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Oh. Well, let me write it for you, sir. Thanks.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: I'll dictate. You ready? Yes, sir.
• 25:38
  Speaker 13: Monsieur, it is important that I regain immediate possession of
• 25:43
  Speaker 13: the documents.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: Got that, Dreyfus? Documents?
• 25:47
  Speaker 13: Which I gave you before going on maneuvers. What was
• 25:51
  Speaker 13: the last word?
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: Maneuvers. Yeah.
• 25:54
  Speaker 13: Consisting of a note on the hydraulic brake of the
• 25:57
  Speaker 13: 120 gun.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Brake? Of the 120 gun. Yes. That's all. What? Let
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: me have that paper. I beg your pardon, Major. Sit
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: where you are. You may come in, gentlemen. Yes, sir.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: Place this man under arrest. Arrest? On what charge? Treason. Treason?
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: How can you be so stupid? I've spent my life
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: in the army. Sacrificed a prosperous commercial career for it.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: It's outrageous.
• 26:26
  Speaker 13: I've been instructed to offer you the usual alternative. Here
• 26:30
  Speaker 13: is a service revolver. We'll leave the room. You know
• 26:33
  Speaker 13: what to do with it.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: Kill myself. And so provide you with a perfect case.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: I'm not so obliging, nor so stupid. Very well, then.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Take him away. Dreyfus found guilty. Traitor protests innocence. Mourning bullet.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Army Judas faces degradation.
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: Dreyfus guilty.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: There it is. I told you so. A traitor to France.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: They ought to hang him. Down with Dreyfus. Down with Dreyfus.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: Hang the traitor. Hang Dreyfus. Down with him. Hang him.
• 26:58
  Speaker 12: Death to the traitor.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: Hang him.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Hang him. Hang him.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Hang him. I just sit here at a total.
• 27:15
  Speaker 19: And if my friends want to sit with me, they
• 27:17
  Speaker 19: must bear my misery. Is there anything quite so uncomfortable
• 27:23
  Speaker 19: as a busted footbath? Or quite as silly as a
• 27:26
  Speaker 19: cold in the head? It starts at one end and
• 27:30
  Speaker 19: you retreat it from another. Oh, well, you were saying, Anatole.
• 27:36
  Speaker 9: I was speaking of Dreyfus, Sir Neil.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Dreyfus, Dreyfus, Dreyfus. Will they ever stop speaking of him?
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: What a fuss over nothing. How do you feel, Emile?
• 27:48
  Speaker 11: Oh, I didn't know you had a guest.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Oh, come in, dear. You know Aratoul France?
• 27:52
  Speaker 11: Of course, of course.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Good morning, Madame Zola. Aratoul has been suffering for Dreyfus again.
• 27:58
  Speaker 9: You might have suffered too, Emile, if you'd seen him
• 28:00
  Speaker 9: yesterday as I did. Publicly stripped of his rank. Sentenced
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: for life to a dripping cell on Devil's Island. Saying
• 28:08
  Speaker 9: to the end, I'm innocent. Long live France. Over and over,
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: he said it. Why, they struck him, spat on him,
• 28:18
  Speaker 9: reviled him. All else he needed was a crown of thorns.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: Oh, 30 pieces of silver. After all, the man is
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: a traitor. Perhaps, Emil, but still he's human, not a dog.
• 28:30
  Speaker 9: And that crown, their faces, like rabid beasts.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Well, human and animal skins are very much the same thickness.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: We can't expect too much.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: Oh, my head, my head.
• 28:47
  Speaker 19: How it rewards me, this ungrateful monstrosity that I've combed
• 28:52
  Speaker 19: and fed for 50 years.
• 28:54
  Speaker 11: Some more hot water in you. You're killing me. Stop
• 29:01
  Speaker 11: your nonsense, Amy. It isn't hurting you at all, big baby.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: Oh, that Alexandrine. A fine woman, but no heart.
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: No feelings. Wives are all alike.
• 29:23
  Speaker 13: In other words, Major Picard, you mean to tell me
• 29:25
  Speaker 13: you ferreted out another criminal?
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: Not another criminal, sir. The criminal. I've come to you first, sir,
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: as chief of staff. Major Picard, the Dreyfus case is closed.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: But I've never been fully convinced of Dreyfus' guilt, sir.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: I tried for three years to find out the truth.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: Well?
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: I examined the Dreyfus evidence and discovered that he was
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: convicted not on the border row, but on a secret document,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: secretly introduced, which Dreyfus and his counsel were not allowed
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: to see and were not even told about. This made
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: me doubly sure that someone had sacrificed Dreyfus to cover himself.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: So I determined to ferret out the real traitor, and
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: I've got him. Who is it? Major Count Bolson Esterhazy. Look.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: But I.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: One of my agents got hold of a special delivery
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: message from the German military attaché addressed to Esterhazy.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: I compared a letter of Esterhazy's with the writing on
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: the border row, and... Well, look for yourself. Both writings
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: are Esterhazy's. I tell you, sir... And I tell you, sir,
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: that you've exceeded your duty. Exceeded my... Your duty toward
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: the army. But, General, this is my duty. There must
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: not be another treason trial in the army. Understand? Must
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: not be. But what about Dreyfus rotting on Devil's Island?
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: You can't close the tomb over a living man. Can't we?
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: If you say nothing, no one will ever know. And
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: you will say nothing. Understand? That's an official order. You
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: may go. Yes, sir. Very good, sir. Pardon, monsieur. Yes?
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: Monsieur Zola. I'm sorry, monsieur. But there's a... How many
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: times must I tell you I must not be disturbed
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: after dinner? I was just dozing. But there's a lady
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: to see you, monsieur. A lady? Madame Lucille Dreyfus.
• 31:07
  Speaker 13: Dreyfus?
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: Tell her I'm not at home. She's just outside the door, sir. What?
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: You blackhead. Why don't you come and tell me? But, monsieur,
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: I thought you... Tell her to come in. Yes, monsieur.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: Madame Dreyfus. Come in, Madame Dreyfus.
• 31:27
  Speaker 12: Monsieur Zola, please forgive me for intruding like this, but
• 31:32
  Speaker 12: I had to see you. Talk to you about my husband.
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: But, Madame, what can I do for your husband?
• 31:39
  Speaker 12: He is innocent, Monsieur Zola.
• 31:40
  Speaker 11: I have absolute proof.
• 31:42
  Speaker 12: But no one will listen.
• 31:44
  Speaker 13: No one.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: Oh, please.
• 31:46
  Speaker 11: Please, monsieur.
• 31:47
  Speaker 12: You're the only man in all of France who can
• 31:49
  Speaker 12: make them listen. All your life, you've stood for truth
• 31:51
  Speaker 12: and justice.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: I'm hardly the one to help you. I'm just an
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: ordinary citizen. I work. My book's to write. What is
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: this new proof you say you have?
• 32:05
  Speaker 12: A certain Colonel Picard has.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: Oh, that... And within all the papers, Picard came back
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: from Africa and accused Estahazi of riding the border road.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: But Estahazi was acquitted, madame.
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 32:17
  Speaker 12: Acquitted by the same army group that convicted my husband. Well,
• 32:20
  Speaker 12: they'll stop at nothing to protect themselves. They're even ready
• 32:23
  Speaker 12: to sacrifice one of their own class. Richard, Colonel Picard
• 32:28
  Speaker 12: was arrested and imprisoned in Mount Valeria.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: They've arrested Picard? Yes.
• 32:35
  Speaker 12: I have all the facts, Monsieur Zola.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: Look, look, Monsieur. Here.
• 32:39
  Speaker 12: These are copies of letters written to Colonel Picard by
• 32:41
  Speaker 12: the assistant chief of staff, proving beyond doubt that the
• 32:44
  Speaker 12: general staff knows that my husband is innocent and Esterhazy
• 32:48
  Speaker 12: is guilty.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: They knew? And ordered Picard to suppress the truth? Why,
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: that's monstrous.
• 32:55
  Speaker 12: Oh, Monsieur Zola, you will help me, won't you?
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: How can anyone help you? All France believes your husband guilty.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: Hates him as a traitor. Don't you see? They would
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: hurl down and destroy any man who would dare champion him.
• 33:08
  Speaker 12: But surely there must be some way to right this
• 33:10
  Speaker 12: terrible wrong.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: There's nothing, nothing that can be done. Nothing. Unless some
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: fool would publicly accuse the general staff and get himself
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: dragged into court on a charge of criminal libel, then probably... Yes, yes, monsieur. Madame,
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: you wouldn't honestly expect me.
• 33:25
  Speaker 20: Why, I have my family to consider. I've lived my life.
• 33:33
  Speaker 20: I've had enough of fighting and turmoil. I'm happy and contented.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: Why should I?
• 33:38
  Speaker 12: I'm sorry, Monsieur Zola. It was only my despair that
• 33:44
  Speaker 12: brought me. You see, I was thinking of my family, too.
• 33:50
  Speaker 12: Of my children, who ask me every day where he
• 33:55
  Speaker 12: is when he's coming back.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: My husband, condemned to suffer a living death. I'm sorry.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: Good night, Monsieur. Madame Dreyfus, you've left your paper. Albert! Albert! Monsieur. Albert,
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: follow Madame Dreyfus. Tell her she's left her portfolio, these papers,
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: these letters. Emil. Emil.
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: Burn the books of the hypocrites.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: Let them warm the bones of a.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Man of truth.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: Well, monsieur. A man of truth. Stomach. Rose fat and stuffy.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: Monsieur Zola.
• 34:44
  Speaker 17: A man of.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: A man of truth. Well? Well, Albert, what are you
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: standing there for? But the papers, monsieur. Oh, no, no, no.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: Just leave them. Get out. Get out. I've work to do.
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: Emile?
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: Emile, dear. Ah! One moment, one moment, one moment, dear. Ah, there.
• 35:13
  Speaker 11: Working so late, dear? I haven't seen you work like
• 35:17
  Speaker 11: this for years.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: Cezanne was right, Alexandrine. I was growing fat and stuffy.
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: But that's over now.
• 35:25
  Speaker 11: But what is it?
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: Alexandrine, I've just written a letter to the president of France.
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: Listen.
• 35:37
  Speaker 14: Mr.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: President of the Republic, a court-martial has recently, by order,
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: dared to acquit one Esterhazy. A supreme slap at all truth,
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: all justice. The Minister of War, the Chief of the
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: General Staff, and the Assistant Chief never doubted that the
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: famous Bordereau was written by Esterhazy. For over a year,
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: they have known that Dreyfus is innocent. Yet they have
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: kept this knowledge to themselves. And those men sleep, and
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: they have wives and children they love. One talks of
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: the honor of the army. The army is the people
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: of France themselves. And the driver's affair is a matter
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: pertaining to that army. I affirm with intense conviction, the
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: truth is on the march, and nothing will stop her.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: I accuse the Minister of War of having concealed decisive
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: proofs of the innocence of Dreyfus. I accuse the Chief
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: of Staff of being an accomplice to the same crime.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: I accuse the handwriting experts of having made lying and
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: fraudulent reports. And finally, I accuse the War Office of
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: having vilely led a campaign to misdirect public opinion and
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: cover up its own sins. In making these accusations, I'm
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: aware that I render myself open to prosecution for libel.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: But that does not matter. Let there be a trial
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: in the full light of day. I am waiting. I
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: accused by Emil Zola. I accused? What trifle is that
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: to publish?
• 37:28
  Speaker 11: Who is he to accuse anyone of anything?
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: A fine state the country's in when a fellow like
• 37:32
  Speaker 8: that dares to tell us our army's rotten.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: I never heard of a rich writer. How'd he get
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: his money then, from Germany? Where else? And let me
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: tell you another thing. Look, there he is now.
• 37:41
  Speaker 8: Zola, across the street.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: Hey, there's Zola. Come on, let's get him.
• 37:44
  Speaker 12: Kill the traitor.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Kill him.
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: Kill him.
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  Speaker 13: Come on, let's get him.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: Let's get him.
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  Speaker 2: Kill him.
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  Speaker 5: Kill him.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Kill him.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: Emil, what's happened? The crowd. They're after me. Is it
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: because of... Yes. My letters to the president.
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  Speaker 11: You must stay indoors. You mustn't leave. Oh, they're throwing
• 38:03
  Speaker 11: things at the house.
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: Yes. Listen, listen to them. They hate me, Alexandrine. They've
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: burnt me in effigy. They've thrown stones at me. At me, Alexandrine.
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  Speaker 4: The people of France. At me. The one who's fought
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: for them all his life. But it will do them
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: no good, Alexandre. The truth is on the march. And
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: nothing will stop them.
• 38:44
  Speaker 13: The cause for station identification.
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  Speaker 5: This is the Plum Bear Broadcasting System.
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  Speaker 2: The Plum Bear Broadcasting System.
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: The curtain falls on Act Two of The Life of
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: Emil Zola, starring Paul Muni with Josephine Hutchinson. Before going
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: on with Act Three, we present our guest of the evening.
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: But first, here are eight little words I wish you'd remember.
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: A little goes so far, lux is thrifty. Remember that,
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: won't you? Just a few flakes make such a lot
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: of suds. Lux is the thrifty care for stockings, underthings, blouses, sweaters,
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: and dresses. For everything, safe in water alone. And for
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: extra economy, be sure to buy the generous large-sized box
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: of Lux flakes. Here's Leslie Howard now with our guest
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: of honor.
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: Physically, he's a big man, is William Dieterle, and cinematically,
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: you can measure his stature by those fine pictures, the
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: life of Emil Zola, the story of Louis Pasteur, and
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: his latest handiwork, Juarez. All three films have three things
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: in common. Each is a product of Warner Brothers, each
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: starred Paul Muni, and each was directed by the ex-actor,
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: William Dieterle. One doesn't have to think very hard, Mr. Dieterle,
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: to recognize that you have a decided taste for historical biographies.
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: Well, Mr.
• 40:16
  Speaker 14: Howard, if nothing else, they proved one intensely satisfying point,
• 40:21
  Speaker 14: that the intelligence of picture audiences is considerably higher than
• 40:25
  Speaker 14: many producers seem ready to admit. You proved the same
• 40:28
  Speaker 14: point in Pygmalion, when, among other things, you were brave
• 40:31
  Speaker 14: enough to keep the title of the play intact and
• 40:33
  Speaker 14: not change Pygmalion to something like The Passionate Professor or
• 40:37
  Speaker 14: London Love or.
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: Perhaps.
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: But quite a few people, I understand, fully expected Pygmalion
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: to be an animal picture. You know, really, I've even
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: heard it called... I've even heard it called Pygmalion.
• 40:51
  Speaker 14: Incidentally, your co-direction of Pygmalion was great. I know of
• 40:55
  Speaker 14: no one who could have done better as a director
• 40:57
  Speaker 14: and actor.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: Thank you very much. Now, here's something that should be
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: right down Dieterle Lane.
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: Ever since history came to the screen, critics have accused
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: Hollywood of twisting history around for its own purposes.
• 41:07
  Speaker 7: Now, tell me, A, is that true? And B, if so,
• 41:11
  Speaker 7: what about it?
• 41:11
  Speaker 14: It's partly true, of course, and here at least is
• 41:13
  Speaker 14: my answer. It's a director's job to sell to an
• 41:17
  Speaker 14: audience a definite idea, an idea whose course should be
• 41:20
  Speaker 14: as direct and steady as an error toward a target.
• 41:23
  Speaker 14: When factual accuracy is unessential to the general honesty of
• 41:26
  Speaker 14: the theme, I think he makes a mistake by tipping
• 41:29
  Speaker 14: his hat too frequently to the history book. The events
• 41:32
  Speaker 14: of his drama must be told in an understandable, logical manner.
• 41:36
  Speaker 14: And that, I think, justifies the minor rearrangements we have
• 41:39
  Speaker 14: to make from time to time.
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: Yes, I imagine that could easily work both ways, that
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: at times it's a great temptation to forget the picture
• 41:46
  Speaker 6: in favor of history.
• 41:47
  Speaker 14: Especially when you are dealing with as great and fantastic
• 41:49
  Speaker 14: a character as Mr. Muni portrays tonight, Emil Zola. His
• 41:53
  Speaker 14: books brought him a huge fortune. But as a youth,
• 41:56
  Speaker 14: he was so poor he had to stay in bed
• 41:58
  Speaker 14: because he hadn't the money for fuel. He once flunked
• 42:02
  Speaker 14: literature in school and became the most famous author of
• 42:05
  Speaker 14: his time. He created 1,200 characters, but is best known
• 42:09
  Speaker 14: perhaps for his electrifying letter, I accuse. If this play
• 42:14
  Speaker 14: you are doing so admirably tonight has a message to convey,
• 42:17
  Speaker 14: it is that there are millions of people in the
• 42:19
  Speaker 14: world today like Dreyfus, and there is not always a Zola.
• 42:24
  Speaker 14: Yet this is no reason to despair, for at any time,
• 42:28
  Speaker 14: through any chance, a Zola might come along.
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: Let's hope so.
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: Thank you, William Dieterle, for making pictures that are more
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: than entertainment. Now we come to Act Three of The
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: Life of Emil Zola, starring Paul Muni with Josephine Hutchinson. Defiantly,
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: Emil Zola pursued his course. An open attack on the
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: high command of the French army.
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: An attack which.
• 43:01
  Speaker 6: Was to lead directly to a court of justice and
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: a trial for criminal libel. But Zola's primary aim was thwarted. Stubbornly,
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: the court refused to allow any mention of.
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: The Dreyfus case. The Dreyfus case is closed. Witnesses favorable
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: to Zola were silenced. The witness will step down. His
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: opponents favored. Continue, General.
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: The crowd encouraged to jeer at the man of truth.
• 43:26
  Speaker 6: Until the whole trial assumed a nightmare aspect reeling madly
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: toward one objective.
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: Convict Emil Zola.
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: Now Zola himself is on the stand. Calmly he faces
• 43:41
  Speaker 6: the jury.
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: Gentlemen. My profession is writing, not talking. But for my
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: struggling youth until today, my principal aim has been to
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: strive for truth. That is why I entered this fight.
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: It has been said that the state summoned me to
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: this court. That is not true. I'm here because I
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: wished it. I alone have chosen you as my judge.
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: I alone decided that this abominable affair should see the
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: light so that France might at last know all and
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: voice her opinion. Gentlemen, I know you. You are the heart,
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: the intellect of my beloved Paris, where I was born
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: and which I've studied for 40 years. I see you
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: with your families under the evening lamp. I accompany you
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: into your factories, your shops. You're all workers and righteous men.
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: You will not say like many, what does it matter
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: if an innocent man is undergoing torture on Devil's Island?
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: Is the suffering of one obscure person worth the disturbance
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: of a great country? Gentlemen, I know that tremendous pressure
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: has been put upon you. Save the army. Convict Zola
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: and save France. I say to you, pick up that challenge.
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: Save the army and save France. But do it by
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: letting truth conquer. Not only is an innocent man crying
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: out for vindication, but more, much more. A great nation
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: is in desperate danger of forfeiting her honor. Do not
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: take upon yourselves a fault... the burden of which you
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: will forever bear in history. At this solemn moment... before
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: you gentlemen of the jury... before France... before the whole world...
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  Speaker 4: I swear that Dreyfus is innocent. By my 40 years
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: of work... by all that I have written... By all
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: that I have won, by all that I have done
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: to spread the spirit of France, I swear that Dreyfus
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: is innocent. May all that melt away. May my name
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: perish if Dreyfus be not innocent. He is innocent.
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  Speaker 2: Hooray!
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  Speaker 4: Hooray!
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  Speaker 16: The jury will retire to form its verdict. And Emil Zola,
• 47:11
  Speaker 16: having been found guilty of criminal libel, is hereby sentenced
• 47:16
  Speaker 16: to one year's imprisonment.
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: And 3,000 francs fine. It's the only thing, Emil. You
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: must leave France immediately. Leave France?
• 47:29
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: Clemenceau, my friend, are you mad? You are still free, Emile.
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: Go into hiding. England.
• 47:35
  Speaker 13: Any place where they can't get at you.
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: Run away like a common criminal? I would be denounced
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: by my friends as well as my enemies. It's true.
• 47:43
  Speaker 15: In prison, you would be a martyr, a symbol for
• 47:45
  Speaker 15: the whole world to overwhelm with its sympathy.
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: But helpless to do anything. In London, you're all-powerful. You
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: can still fight for Dreyfus. Write smashing articles, pamphlets. Keep
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: pricking at the conscience of the world. Emile... There are
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: times when it's more courageous to be cowardly. Alexandrine, pack
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: me a few warm things. Must be cold in London.
• 48:20
  Speaker 7: You see, he's run away.
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: Turned tail like a coward and run to England. There's
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: more to it than that. Have you seen the posters
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: all over Paris? Look. Look here.
• 48:29
  Speaker 10: The truth is still on the march.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: Read all our startling articles. From England. So that's why
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: he went.
• 48:40
  Speaker 12: Good morning, Mr.
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: Zola. Oh, it's you, eh? Good morning.
• 48:44
  Speaker 10: Is your cold better, sir?
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: Worse, worse, much worse. What's become of your old scab
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: of a father? Is he ever going to get back
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: from the village with my newspapers?
• 48:51
  Speaker 8: Emile!
• 48:52
  Speaker 10: He's here now, Mr.
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: Zola.
• 48:53
  Speaker 13: Emile, look, look.
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: What is it, my paper, the papers? It's happened, Emile,
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: it's happened. Listen to this. Colonel Henry's suicide after Dreyfus' confession. Fish? Horry.
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: He was the man who framed the evidence against Dreyfus.
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: Let me see. Let me see. Let me see. And
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: this one here. French chief of staff resigns. Zolas fight
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: for truth. Vindicated at last.
• 49:10
  Speaker 5: Estahazi in flight.
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: He's running away. And Dreyfus. Dreyfus. What's happened to Dreyfus? Look.
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: Dreyfus case revision inevitable. Emile, do you hear? You can
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: go home now. Dreyfus will be freed. Home. Paris. You see, Bridget,
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: the truth is still on the march. And nothing will
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: stop her. This next will be my greatest book, Alexandre.
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: My very greatest. I'm going to call it just this.
• 49:49
  Speaker 11: Please, dear. It's past midnight. You've done nothing but drive
• 49:54
  Speaker 11: yourself ever since you came home. You must come to bed.
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes. Presently, presently, my dear. Presently. Oh, yes. There's
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: so much to do and so little time to do it.
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: I see it all so clearly now. The future of
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: France and the world. The cause and the effect. The
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: roots and the tree. That's good. The roots and the tree.
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: I must write that down. The cause and the.
• 50:28
  Speaker 11: I can't understand this frantic hurry. There's always tomorrow.
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: Always? I wonder... I wonder if in the middle of
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: my greatest work, there will always be a tomorrow.
• 50:45
  Speaker 11: Please, you're tired. You must get some rest. You've got
• 50:51
  Speaker 11: to be up early for the driver's ceremony.
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: Yes, driver's. Tomorrow he will be restored to the army.
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: You know, it's a queer thing, this old driver's business.
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: Before it, I thought my work was done. Then suddenly
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: came this driver's explosion and I'm alive again.
• 51:06
  Speaker 21: My head bursting with ideas. This new book, it's bigger
• 51:09
  Speaker 21: than anything I've ever dared before. The world about to
• 51:13
  Speaker 21: hurl itself to destruction. The will of nations for peace.
• 51:19
  Speaker 21: A powerful break. Stopping it on the brink.
• 51:23
  Speaker 11: Emil.
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: You don't believe it? Wait. Listen. To save Dreyfus, we
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: had to challenge the might of those who dominate the world.
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: It's not the swaggering militarists there, but puppets that dance
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: as the strings are pulled. It's those others. Those who
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: would ruthlessly plunge us into the bloody abyss of war
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: to protect their power and their gold. Think of it, Alexandrine.
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: Thousands of children sleeping peacefully tonight under the roofs of Paris, London, Berlin,
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: all the world. Doomed to die horribly on some titanic battlefield.
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: Unless it can be prevented. And it can be prevented.
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: It must. Now, there's something else I wanted to write here.
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: Let's see.
• 52:16
  Speaker 7: Good night, Emil.
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: Yes, good night, my dear. What are you doing? No, no, no.
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: Close the window, please.
• 52:24
  Speaker 11: But, Emil.
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: Please close it. I'll catch my death of cold. And
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: stir up the fire on the stove.
• 52:29
  Speaker 11: Emile, it's dangerous to leave the window closed with a
• 52:32
  Speaker 11: fire burning.
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, nonsense, nonsense. Just stir up the fire. Now,
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: where was I? Mm-hmm. Can be prevented. It must be.
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: The world... The world must be conquered. Not by the
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: force of arms, but by ideas. Ideas that liberate. Then
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: we can build anew. Build for the humble. And the wretched.
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: I hope... I sincerely hope I shall live to see
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: the rising of a new... A new.
• 54:01
  Speaker 11: Emile, are you still working? Emile, dear.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: Emile!
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: He's dead. Zola's dead. Died at his desk. Carbon monoxide poisoning.
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: A great man. A great man.
• 54:27
  Speaker 11: France will remember Emile Zola.
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: All the world will remember Emile Zola. What is it, Mama?
• 54:34
  Speaker 10: What is everybody waiting for?
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: Hush, darling. A great man has died, my dear.
• 54:39
  Speaker 11: He's going to his rest in the Pantheon with all
• 54:44
  Speaker 11: the great men.
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: Of our country.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: Anna told France he's delivering the orations.
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: Save in truth. So let us not mourn him.
• 54:55
  Speaker 9: Let us rather salute that bright spirit of his which
• 55:00
  Speaker 9: will live forever and like a torch enlighten a younger
• 55:05
  Speaker 9: generation inspired to follow him. Take to your hearts the
• 55:12
  Speaker 9: words of Zola. Enjoying today's freedom, do not forget those
• 55:19
  Speaker 9: who fought the battles for you and bought your liberty
• 55:23
  Speaker 9: with their genius and their blood. Do not forget them,
• 55:29
  Speaker 9: nor applaud the lies of fanatical intolerance. Be human, for
• 55:36
  Speaker 9: no man in all the breadth of our land more
• 55:40
  Speaker 9: fervently loved humanity than Zola.
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: Let us not pity him because he suffered and endured,
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: Let us envy him.
• 55:52
  Speaker 9: Let us envy him because of his great heart, which
• 55:58
  Speaker 9: won him the proudest of destinies. He was a moment
• 56:05
  Speaker 9: of the conscience of man.
• 56:24
  Speaker 5: In a moment, our stars return for their curtain calls.
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: But first, I'd like to make a little suggestion.
• 56:30
  Speaker 5: Lots of people right now are thinking about Mother's Day gifts.
• 56:33
  Speaker 5: Stockings are always a popular present. But have you ever
• 56:36
  Speaker 5: thought of sending along a box of Luxe flakes when
• 56:38
  Speaker 5: you give stockings? It's a little touch that adds a
• 56:41
  Speaker 5: lot to your gift. You see, with Luxe, there's no
• 56:44
  Speaker 5: harmful alkali, no cake soap rubbing to weaken elasticity. Luxe
• 56:47
  Speaker 5: saves stocking elasticity and cuts down on runs and helps
• 56:51
  Speaker 5: stockings wear longer and fit better. I guess your mother
• 56:53
  Speaker 5: would like that, wouldn't she? So remember, stockings for Mother's
• 56:56
  Speaker 5: Day and Luxe Flakes for stockings. The perfect combination. And
• 57:00
  Speaker 5: be sure to buy the generous large-sized box of Luxe Flakes.
• 57:04
  Speaker 5: Our guest producer, Leslie Howard.
• 57:08
  Speaker 6: Our stars step out of their characters now. Here, ladies
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: and gentlemen, are Paul Muni and Josephine Hutchinson.
• 57:16
  Speaker 11: Well, Mr.
• 57:16
  Speaker 8: Howard.
• 57:17
  Speaker 11: Acting has brought me many, many pleasant hours, but I'm
• 57:20
  Speaker 11: especially grateful to the Lux Radio Theater for this chance
• 57:23
  Speaker 11: to work with you and Mr.
• 57:24
  Speaker 15: Muni.
• 57:25
  Speaker 11: It's been something I won't easily forget. But there is
• 57:29
  Speaker 11: something that I have forgotten, and I think most of
• 57:32
  Speaker 11: the world has forgotten, too, about Alfred Dreyfus.
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: Is he living?
• 57:37
  Speaker 11: What finally happened to him, Mr. Muni?
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: Well, when Zola was buried at the Pantheon six years
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: after his death, there was an attempt to assassinate Dreyfus.
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: He was wounded while attending the services, but survived. During
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: the World War, France made Dreyfus a lieutenant general in
• 57:54
  Speaker 4: the army and gave him the cross of the Legion
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: of Honor. He died quietly just a few years ago.
• 58:01
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 58:01
  Speaker 6: Muni, now that you've finished Juarez, I think everyone is
• 58:03
  Speaker 6: just as interested as I am in learning what you're
• 58:05
  Speaker 6: going to do next.
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: Won't you tell us something about your plans? Well, I
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: wish they were a little more definite right now. I
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: Don't know just what my next picture will be. There
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: is a fair chance, however, that it will be based
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: on the life of a man who is very exalted
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: in music, Beethoven. I sincerely hope that if we do it,
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: the picture will in some measure be worthy of that
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: great man. And now, my sincere thanks to you, Mr. Howard,
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: to the sponsors, Ms. Hutchinson, Mr. Dieterle, and our cast.
• 58:37
  Speaker 4: Good night.
• 58:38
  Speaker 11: Good night, everyone.
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: Good night.
• 58:44
  Speaker 7: Congratulations to you both.
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: And now a word from Mr. Rui.
• 58:48
  Speaker 5: Paul Muni appeared through courtesy of Warner Brothers and Leslie
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: Howard through David Old Selsnick. He'll soon start work as
• 58:53
  Speaker 5: co-producer and star of Intermezzo. Louis Silvers is from 20th
• 58:56
  Speaker 5: Century Fox Studios and directed music there for the new
• 58:58
  Speaker 5: film Rose of Washington Square. Be sure to listen to
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: the new Lux daytime radio program The Life and Love
• 59:04
  Speaker 5: of Dr. Susan every afternoon Monday through Friday. Look in
• 59:07
  Speaker 5: your newspapers for the time and station. The Life and
• 59:09
  Speaker 5: Love of Dr. Susan comes to you in addition to
• 59:11
  Speaker 5: the Lux Radio Theater. Here's Leslie Howard.
• 59:14
  Speaker 6: With four billion francs that belong to the old Tsarist regime,
• 59:17
  Speaker 6: but not a sou of their own, they come to
• 59:18
  Speaker 6: Paris in comparative safety, two young white Russians, formerly a
• 59:22
  Speaker 6: prince and a grand duchess. Soon discovering that appetites as
• 59:25
  Speaker 6: well as kings must be served, they are forced to
• 59:27
  Speaker 6: get jobs as household servants, embarking on a series of
• 59:29
  Speaker 6: dramatic and comic episodes. which become that highly entertaining play, Tovarich.
• 59:34
  Speaker 6: Tovarich did exceedingly well both on the stage and screen,
• 59:37
  Speaker 6: and it comes to this stage starring two of the
• 59:39
  Speaker 6: most deft and delightful artists in Hollywood, William Powell and
• 59:42
  Speaker 6: Miriam Hopkins, and with them Melville Cooper and C.
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: Henry Gordon.
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  Speaker 6: And our sponsors, the makers of Lux Flakes, join me
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  Speaker 6: in wishing you all, inviting you to listen to us
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  Speaker 6: again next Monday night when the Lux Radio Theater presents
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  Speaker 6: William Powell, Miriam Hopkins, Melville Coop, and C.
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  Speaker 4: Henry Gordon in Tovarich.
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  Speaker 6: With the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia as the evening
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  Speaker 6: special guest, your special producer, your regular producer, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Cecil B. DeMille, will be back once again each Monday
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  Speaker 4: night thereafter. Thank you for listening.
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  Speaker 7: Until we meet again, this is Leslie Howard saying.
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  Speaker 4: Good night and good luck.
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  Speaker 5: Robert Warwick played the part of Anatole France. This is
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  Speaker 5: the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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  Speaker 1: Our presentation of Lux Radio Theater's The Life of Emile
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  Speaker 1: Zola now comes to a close. Follow Lux Radio Theater
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