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  Speaker 1: On January 18th, 1954, Lux Radio Theatre presented episode 864,
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  Speaker 1: Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy. Set in Edwardian England, the
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  Speaker 1: drama follows young Ronnie Winslow after his expulsion from the
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  Speaker 1: Royal Naval College over an accusation involving a five-shilling postal order.
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  Speaker 1: His father, Arthur, will not let the charge stand, and
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  Speaker 1: the family's effort to clear Ronnie's name brings barrister Sir
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  Speaker 1: Robert Morton into their cause. Ray Millen stars as Morton,
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  Speaker 1: with Dorothy McGuire as Kate Winslow and Brian Ahern as
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  Speaker 1: Arthur in F.H. Barnett's radio adaptation. Here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood. Hollywood.
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  Speaker 3: Lever Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, brings
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  Speaker 3: you the Lux Radio Theater, starring Ray Moland, Dorothy McGuire,
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  Speaker 3: and Brian Ahern in.
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  Speaker 2: The Winslow Boy. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Irving Cummings.
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  Speaker 4: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. When The Winslow Boy
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  Speaker 4: opened on Broadway, playwright Terrence Rattigan was acclaimed not only
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  Speaker 4: for creating a heartwarming drama.
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  Speaker 3: but because.
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  Speaker 4: He immortalized the right of the individual. In this case,
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  Speaker 4: the individual is a small boy, defended against the charge
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  Speaker 4: of theft by all the resources of three people who
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  Speaker 4: believed in him.
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  Speaker 3: His father, his.
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  Speaker 4: Sister, and his lawyer. And to play the role to
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  Speaker 4: this important trio, we are presenting three stars who have
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  Speaker 4: long been noted for their histrionic ability. Ray Milan, Dorothy McGuire,
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  Speaker 4: and Brian Ahern. Now, before our play gets underway, here's
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  Speaker 4: an important message from Ken Carpenter.
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  Speaker 3: off plates. Dishes actually soak clean in Luxe liquids. So
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  Speaker 3: and it's economical. One can will outlast several boxes of
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  Speaker 3: that won't break with a spout that won't drip.
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  Speaker 2: And it's mild.
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  Speaker 3: Lux mild on your hands. Behind both Lux Flakes and
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  Speaker 3: Lux Liquid is the Lever Brothers' money-back guarantee. Your money
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  Speaker 3: will be refunded if both these products don't live up
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  Speaker 3: to everything we say about them. Now, Act One of
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  Speaker 3: The Winslow Boy. England, 1912.
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  Speaker 4: For several months now, an obscure gentleman named Arthur Winslow,
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  Speaker 4: a retired banker.
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  Speaker 3: has been waging war with the British Empire.
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  Speaker 4: A war involving justice, his little boy, and the absurd
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  Speaker 4: sum of five shillings.
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  Speaker 3: This morning, Mr. Winslow has a caller.
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  Speaker 4: Another in the endless parade of reporters who have made
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  Speaker 4: the name of little Ronnie Winslow famous throughout England.
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Winslow, you're surprised to see a lady reporter?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I know everyone is, but the editor sends me
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  Speaker 5: out on stories with special appeal to women.
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  Speaker 6: Like this one. A father's fight for his little son's honor.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I believe this case has wider implications, Miss Barnes.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, the political angle. Yes, I know. Now then,
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  Speaker 6: you do have other children, do you not?
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  Speaker 3: Ronnie is the youngest. My other son, Richard, has been
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  Speaker 3: attending Oxford. And Catherine, my daughter, is the oldest.
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  Speaker 6: Catherine Winslow.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, why, yes.
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  Speaker 5: She works quite actively for the Women's Suffrage Association.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, she does indeed. She has also been a tower
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  Speaker 3: of strength in my efforts to bring this dastardly case
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  Speaker 3: to trial.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, yes, I see. Now, what I'd really like to
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  Speaker 8: do is get a nice photograph of you and your
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  Speaker 8: little boy together. I have my camera, but where is
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  Speaker 8: our little hero?
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  Speaker 3: He's arriving from school. His mother's at the station to
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  Speaker 3: meet him.
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  Speaker 6: From school? You've got another school to take him?
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  Speaker 3: Huh?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, they didn't mind all the unpleasantness.
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 6: Why is he coming back this time?
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  Speaker 3: Well, hasn't been expelled again, if that's what you mean.
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  Speaker 3: He's coming home to be interviewed by Sir Robert Morton.
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  Speaker 3: We hope he'll agree to take the case.
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  Speaker 6: Sir Robert Morton? A little case like this?
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  Speaker 3: My dear madam, if you ever read newspapers, including the
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  Speaker 3: one that you represent, you'll be aware by now that
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  Speaker 3: this is not a little case.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, of course not. But still, Sir Robert Morton.
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  Speaker 3: I understand he's the best lawyer in England. He's certainly
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  Speaker 3: the most expensive.
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  Speaker 6: Well, now, if you won't mind giving me a few
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  Speaker 6: of the details. When did it all start?
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  Speaker 3: Nine long months ago. First I knew of the charge
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  Speaker 3: was when my son arrived home with a letter informing
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  Speaker 3: me of his expulsion for stealing a five-shilling postal order.
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  Speaker 3: I telephoned Osborne at once and was referred to the
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  Speaker 3: Lords of the Admiralty. My lawyer, Mr. Desmond Currie, requested
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  Speaker 3: the fullest possible inquiry. For weeks we were ignored and
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  Speaker 3: then met with a blank refusal and only finally granted
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  Speaker 3: reluctant permission to review the evidence.
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  Speaker 8: Really?
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  Speaker 3: We decided that the so-called evidence fully justified a reopening
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  Speaker 3: of the proceedings. We applied to the Admiralty for a court-martial.
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  Speaker 3: They ignored us. We applied for a civil trial. Again,
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  Speaker 3: we were ignored. But after tremendous pressure had been brought
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  Speaker 3: to bear... letters to the newspapers, questions in the House
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  Speaker 3: of Commons... and other means open to private citizens of
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  Speaker 3: this country... the Admiralty agreed to what they called an
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  Speaker 3: independent inquiry. Oh, God! It was not good, madam. At
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  Speaker 3: that independent inquiry... conducted by the judge-advocate of the fleet...
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  Speaker 3: My son, a child of 13, was not represented by counsel, solicitors,
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  Speaker 3: or friends. Now, what do you think of that?
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  Speaker 6: And what happened?
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  Speaker 3: Inevitably, he was found guilty again. Branded for the second
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  Speaker 3: time as a thief and a forger.
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  Speaker 9: What a shame.
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  Speaker 3: I have fought this monstrous injustice with every weapon and
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  Speaker 3: every means at my disposal. I shall continue to fight.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, what charming window curtains.
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  Speaker 3: I beg your pardon?
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  Speaker 6: Your window curtains. They're perfectly delicious. What are they made of?
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  Speaker 3: Madam, I... I fear I have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: Father?
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  Speaker 7: Father, where are you?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, do I have a poor little chap himself?
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Father. Hello, Ronnie.
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  Speaker 7: Actually, Father, Mr. Moore says I'm to tell you I
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  Speaker 7: needn't come back till Monday. Three whole days.
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  Speaker 3: Here, mind my leg. Oh, sorry, Father.
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  Speaker 7: Arthritis again?
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  Speaker 3: So the doctor repeatedly tells me at one guinea-pole visit. Well,
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  Speaker 3: how are you?
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely top-hole, Father.
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  Speaker 6: Ah, now, that's exactly the way I'd like to take
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  Speaker 6: my picture. Would you hold it, Mr. Winslow, please? And, uh, Sonny?
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  Speaker 7: Who's she?
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  Speaker 6: Now a bit of a smile, Mr. Winslow. A sad smile,
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  Speaker 6: if you don't mind. There we are.
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  Speaker 3: Oh. Oh, Grace, dear, this is Miss Barnes from the
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  Speaker 3: Daily News. She's extremely pleased with your window curtains. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: how nice.
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  Speaker 8: I would so much like to know what they're made of.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's an entirely new material, you know. I'm afraid
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what it's called.
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  Speaker 7: Father, are we going to be in the Daily News?
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  Speaker 3: It appears so.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, good.
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  Speaker 7: They get the Daily News in the school library. And
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  Speaker 7: everyone's bound to see it. Well, goodbye, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Winslow.
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  Speaker 7: Goodbye, little chap.
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  Speaker 6: Goodbye, ma'am.
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  Speaker 8: And remember, the darkest hour is just before the dawn. Well,
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  Speaker 8: it was very good of you to tell me all that, Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Winslow. I'm sure our readers will be most interested.
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  Speaker 10: Father, do you know that the train had 14 coaches?
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  Speaker 3: Did it indeed.
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  Speaker 7: I walked all the way down from one end to
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  Speaker 7: the other.
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  Speaker 3: Remarkable. Now run upstairs like a good boy and get washed.
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  Speaker 3: So Robert will be here in a few minutes.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, Kate. Kate, I'm back.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, darling.
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  Speaker 7: My, how you've grown.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you can come in, Kate. Miss Barnes is gone.
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  Speaker 3: Thank heavens. Arthur.
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  Speaker 5: Why, I thought she was charming. Well, dear, I must
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  Speaker 5: say that old dress has come out very well.
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  Speaker 6: John will never know it isn't brand new. John is late, Kirsten.
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  Speaker 3: Grace, go on up and attend to Ronnie, will you, dear? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: and prepare that witch's brew the doctor left for me.
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  Speaker 3: I'll come up when you're ready.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, but you look lovely, Kate.
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  Speaker 6: Lovely, lovely.
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  Speaker 11: Arthur.
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  Speaker 3: Kate, are we both mad, you and I?
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  Speaker 6: What's the matter, dear?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I feel suddenly suicidally inclined. A father's
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  Speaker 3: fight for his little boy's honor. Special appeal to all women.
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  Speaker 3: Photo insert of Mrs. Winslow's curtains. So we just drop
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  Speaker 3: the whole thing.
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  Speaker 6: I don't consider that a serious question.
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  Speaker 3: You realize that if we go on your marriage settlement,
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  Speaker 3: the money I've been saving for you, it must go.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I gave that up the last weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: Things... Things are all right between you and John, aren't they?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, but of course, darling.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it wouldn't make any difference between you two,
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  Speaker 3: will it?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, good heavens, no.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, very well, then. Let's pin our faith on Sir
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  Speaker 3: Robert Morton.
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  Speaker 6: You know what I think of Sir Robert.
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  Speaker 3: Morton, Father. Kate, I want the best.
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  Speaker 6: The best in this case certainly isn't Morton.
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  Speaker 3: Then why does everyone say he is?
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  Speaker 8: Because if one happens to be a large monopoly attacking
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  Speaker 8: a trade union or a touring newspaper libeling a labor leader,
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  Speaker 8: then he is the best. But it utterly defeats me
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  Speaker 8: how you or anyone else could expect a man of
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  Speaker 8: his record to have even a tenth of his heart
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  Speaker 8: in a case where the shoe is entirely on the
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  Speaker 8: other foot.
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  Speaker 3: I imagine if his heart isn't any. he won't accept it.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, he might. It depends what there is in it
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  Speaker 6: for him. Luckily, there isn't much.
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  Speaker 3: There's a fairly substantial check.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, he doesn't need money.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what does he want, then?
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  Speaker 6: Anything that advances his interests.
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  Speaker 3: You're prejudiced because he spoke against women's suffrage. Is that it?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: And because he's always speaking about... Against what is right
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  Speaker 8: and just.
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  Speaker 3: Arthur?
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  Speaker 7: Arthur, dear?
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  Speaker 3: Coming, coming. You're my only ally, Kate. Without you, I
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  Speaker 3: should have given up long ago.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Fabulous.
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  Speaker 3: But I do have an instinct about Morton.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Father.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we'll see which is right. My instinct or your reason, huh?
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  Speaker 6: I'm afraid we will.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Kate.
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  Speaker 6: What's the matter, Dickie?
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  Speaker 3: Haven't you heard?
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  Speaker 9: Father says I'm through at Oxford at the end of
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  Speaker 9: the year.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Dickie, I'm awfully sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Did you know it was in the wind?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I knew there was a risk. There are many
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  Speaker 6: things Father can't afford anymore.
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  Speaker 9: I could just about murder that little Ronnie. What's he
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  Speaker 9: have to go about pinching postal orders for?
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  Speaker 3: And what's worse, why does he have to get himself
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  Speaker 3: nabbed doing it?
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  Speaker 6: That's enough, Vicki.
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  Speaker 3: Silly little blighter.
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  Speaker 2: A five-shilling postal order and my college career is ended.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well. It'll all work out, I suppose. The old
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  Speaker 3: man says they'll find me a job in the bank.
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  Speaker 7: It's all right, Violet.
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  Speaker 8: I'll answer it.
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  Speaker 2: John?
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  Speaker 6: It better be. Oh, I'm so sorry. I was expecting
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  Speaker 6: a friend.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening. My name is Morton.
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  Speaker 6: My name is Winslow. Won't you come in? My father
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  Speaker 6: will be down in a moment.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I have a dinner engagement. My time is rather limited.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I see.
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  Speaker 6: Is there anything I can get for you? A whiskey
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  Speaker 6: and soda, brandy?
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  Speaker 2: No, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Will you smoke?
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  Speaker 2: No, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: I hope you don't mind if I do.
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  Speaker 3: Why should I?
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  Speaker 6: Well, some people find it shocking.
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  Speaker 2: A lady in her own home is surely entitled to behave.
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  Speaker 3: As she wishes.
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  Speaker 6: You're looking at your watch.
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  Speaker 8: May I ask what time you're dining?
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  Speaker 2: Eight o'clock.
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  Speaker 6: Far from here?
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  Speaker 2: Devonshire House.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Then, of course, you mustn't on any account be late.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 6: I suppose you know the history of this case, Sir Robert.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen most of the relevant documents.
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  Speaker 6: Do you think we can bring the case into court
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  Speaker 6: on a collusive action?
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  Speaker 11: I really have no idea.
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  Speaker 6: Desmond Curry seems to think that might hold.
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  Speaker 2: Does he? Desmond Curry is a very reliable man.
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  Speaker 6: I'm rather surprised that a case of this sort should
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  Speaker 6: interest you at all.
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  Speaker 2: Are you?
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  Speaker 8: It seems such a very trivial affair compared to most
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  Speaker 8: of your great triumphs. I was in court during your
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  Speaker 8: cross-examination of Len Rogers in the trade union embezzlement case.
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 6: It was masterly.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: I suppose you heard that he committed suicide a few
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  Speaker 6: months ago.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I had heard.
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  Speaker 6: Many people believed him innocent, you know.
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  Speaker 2: As it happens, however, he was guilty.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Sir Robert, I'm Arthur Winslow. How do you do?
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  Speaker 6: He's dining at Devonshire House, Father. He's rather pressed for time.
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  Speaker 3: My son will be down directly. I expect you'll want
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  Speaker 3: to question him.
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  Speaker 2: I fear I'll have time for only a few questions.
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  Speaker 3: Rather sorry to hear that. I was hoping to know
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  Speaker 3: definitely if you'd accept this case or not.
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  Speaker 8: Perhaps Sir Robert.
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  Speaker 6: Will consent to finish his examination some other time.
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  Speaker 2: It might be arranged sometime next week.
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  Speaker 3: Desmond Curry has been telling me that you think it
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  Speaker 3: might be possible to proceed by petition of right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, granting the assumption that the Admiralty, like the Crown,
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  Speaker 2: can do no wrong.
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  Speaker 3: But I thought that.
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  Speaker 6: Was exactly the assumption we refused to grant three months ago.
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  Speaker 2: The subject can sue the Crown by petition of right,
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  Speaker 2: Miss Winslow, redress being granted as a matter of grace.
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  Speaker 2: It is the custom of the Attorney General, on behalf
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  Speaker 2: of the Crown, to endorse the petition and allow the
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  Speaker 2: case to come to trial... It's interesting to note that
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  Speaker 2: the exact words used on such occasions are, let right
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  Speaker 2: be done.
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  Speaker 3: Let right be done. Here's.
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  Speaker 6: Father.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, this is my son. Ronnie, this is Sir Robert Morton.
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  Speaker 7: How do you do, sir?
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to ask you a few questions. You must
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  Speaker 3: answer them truthfully. As you always have. I expect you'd
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  Speaker 3: like us to leave. No, provided that you don't interrupt.
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  Speaker 3: Miss Winslow, will you please sit down? What? Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Now, tell me, Master Winslow, exactly what happened.
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  Speaker 7: Well, it was last year, sir. The 7th of July.
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  Speaker 7: Just before lunch, I went.
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  Speaker 10: To see the chief petty officer and asked him to
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  Speaker 10: let me have 15 and 6 out of what I
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  Speaker 10: had in the college bank.
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 7: I wanted to buy an air pistol.
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  Speaker 2: And how much money did you have in the college bank?
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  Speaker 7: Two pounds, three shillings.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, sir, you see, sir, what possible incentive could there
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  Speaker 3: be to steal five shillings?
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  Speaker 2: I must ask you not to interrupt. After you'd withdrawn
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  Speaker 2: the 15 and 6, what did you do?
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  Speaker 7: I had lunch.
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  Speaker 3: Then what?
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  Speaker 7: I went to the locker room to put the 15
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  Speaker 7: and 6 in my locker.
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  Speaker 3: And then?
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  Speaker 10: I went to get permission to go down to the
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  Speaker 10: post office. Then I went back to the locker room,
• 14:35
  Speaker 10: got out my money, and went down to the post office.
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 14:38
  Speaker 7: I bought my postal order.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: For 15 and 6?
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 14:41
  Speaker 10: Then I went back to college. Then I met Charlie Elliott,
• 14:44
  Speaker 10: and he said, I say, isn't it rot? Someone's broken
• 14:47
  Speaker 10: into my locker and pinched a postal order.
• 14:50
  Speaker 7: I've reported it to the P.O.
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: Those were Charlie Elliott's exact words.
• 14:53
  Speaker 7: He might have used another word for rot.
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: Continual.
• 14:58
  Speaker 7: Well, then, just before class, I was told to see
• 15:00
  Speaker 7: the commander.
• 15:02
  Speaker 10: The woman from the post office was there. And the
• 15:04
  Speaker 10: commander said, is this the boy?
• 15:06
  Speaker 7: And she said, it might be. I can't be sure.
• 15:09
  Speaker 7: They all look so much alike.
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: You see, she couldn't identify. Mr. Winslow, please. Go on.
• 15:16
  Speaker 10: Then she said, I only know that the boy who
• 15:18
  Speaker 10: bought a postal order for 15 and 6 was the
• 15:21
  Speaker 10: same boy that cashed one for 5 shillings. So the
• 15:24
  Speaker 10: commander said, did you buy a postal order for 15
• 15:26
  Speaker 10: and 6?
• 15:28
  Speaker 7: And I said, yes. Then they made me write Charles'
• 15:31
  Speaker 7: name on an.
• 15:31
  Speaker 10: Envelope and compared it to the signature on the postal order.
• 15:35
  Speaker 10: Then they sent me to the sanatorium. And ten days later,
• 15:38
  Speaker 10: I was sacked.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: I mean, expelled. I see.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: Well, when the commander asked you to write Elliot's name
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: on an envelope, what did you write?
• 15:45
  Speaker 7: I wrote Charles K.
• 15:47
  Speaker 12: Elliot.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: Because that was the way that Charlie usually signed his name.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: How did you know?
• 15:52
  Speaker 7: Well, he was a friend of mine.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: That's no answer. How did you know?
• 15:55
  Speaker 7: I'd seen him sign things.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: What things?
• 15:58
  Speaker 7: Ordinary things.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: What things?
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: Bits of paper.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: Bits of paper? Why did he sign his name on
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: bits of paper?
• 16:04
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: You do know.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Why did he sign his name on bits of paper?
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: He was practicing his signature.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: And you saw him?
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: Did he know you saw him?
• 16:14
  Speaker 7: Well, yes.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: In other words, he showed you exactly how he wrote
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: his signature?
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: Yes, I suppose he did.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: Did you practice writing it yourself?
• 16:22
  Speaker 7: I might have.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: Just tell me if you did or if you did not.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Yes. Raleigh. You never told me that.
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: It was only for a joke, Father.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Joke or not, the fact is you practiced forging Elliot's signature.
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: It wasn't forging.
• 16:35
  Speaker 11: Oh, and what would you call it?
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: Well, writing.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Very well, writing.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Whoever stole the post, Laura, and cashed it also wrote
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Elliot's signature, didn't he?
• 16:45
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: And oddly enough, in the exact form in which you
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: had earlier been practicing writing his signature.
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: I say, which side are you on?
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Don't be impertinent. Are you aware that the Admiralty sent
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: up the forged postal order to Mr. Ridley Pierce, the
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: greatest handwriting expert in England?
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: And you still say you didn't forge that signature?
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: Yes, I do.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: In other words, Mr.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Ridley Pierce doesn't know his job.
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: Well, he's wrong anyway. Really, Sir Robert?
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Be quiet, please.
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: I won't be quiet.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: I have a.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: When you went into the locker room after lunch, were
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: you alone?
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: I don't remember.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: I think you do. Were you alone in the locker room?
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: What did you do after leaving the locker room?
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: I told you. I went for permission to go to
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: the post office.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: What time was that?
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: About a quarter past two.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Which means that you were alone in the locker room
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: for half an hour.
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: I wasn't there all that time.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: How long were you there?
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: About five minutes.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: What were you doing for the other 25?
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: I don't remember.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: How odd your memory is so good about some things
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: and so bad about others.
• 17:39
  Speaker 10: Perhaps I waited outside the CO's office.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: And perhaps no one saw you there either.
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: No, I don't think they did.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: What were you thinking about outside the CO's office for
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: 25 minutes?
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: I don't even know if I was there. I can't remember.
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: Perhaps I wasn't there at all.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: No?
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Perhaps you were still in the locker room rifling Elliot's locker.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Robert, I must ask you.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Please be quiet.
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: I remember now.
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: I remember.
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: Someone did see me outside the CO's office. A chap
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: called Casey. I remember I spoke to him.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: What did you say?
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: I said, come down to the post office with me.
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: I'm going to cash a postal order.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Cash a postal order?
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: I mean, get.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: You said cash. Why did you say cash.
• 18:18
  Speaker 9: If you meant get?
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I suggest cash was the truth.
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: No, no, it wasn't. It wasn't really. You're muddling me.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: You seem very easily muddled. How many other lies have
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: you told?
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: None.
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: Really, I haven't.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: I suggest your whole testimony.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Is a lie. No, it's a.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: I suggest that there's barely one single word of truth
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: in anything you've said either to me or to the
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: judge advocate or to the commander. I suggest that you
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: broke into Elliot's locker, that you stole the postal order
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: for five shillings and cashed it by means of forging
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: his name.
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: I didn't.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: I didn't.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: I suggest that you did it for a joke, meaning
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: to give Elliot the five shillings back. But, that when
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: you met him and he said he'd reported the matter,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: that you got frightened and decided.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: To keep quiet.
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: No, no, it isn't true.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: I suggest that by continuing to deny your guilt, you
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: are causing great hardships to your own family and considerable
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: annoyance to high and important persons.
• 19:00
  Speaker 11: In this country.
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: That's a disgraceful thing to say.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I agree. I suggest that the time has come at
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: last for you to undo some of the misery that
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: you've caused by confessing to us all now that you
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: are a forger, a liar, and a thief.
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: I'm not, I'm not. I didn't do it.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Well, this is outrageous. Is it? Yes.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: The boy is plainly innocent. I accept the case and
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: will do my utmost to bring it to trial.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Good evening.
• 19:22
  Speaker 13: Thank you.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: Act II of The Winslow Boys, starring Ray Molander as
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Sir Robert Morton, Dorothy McGuire as Kate, and Brian Ahern
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: as Mr.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Winslow. Seven weary months have passed... since Sir.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Robert Morton agreed to defend Master Ronnie Winslow... against the
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: government of England. And from Piccadilly Circus to Hong Kong...
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: wherever there are Englishmen... the case is argued endlessly. The
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: theft of the five shillings doesn't seem to matter. What
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: matters tremendously... is whether or not this little boy has
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: the right to sue the British Empire.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: In a court of law.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: It's evening now, and Mr. Winslow is reading aloud from
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: the newspaper.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Concluding with still another attack upon the Admiralty, whereupon the
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Right Honorable First Lord leapt to his feet and... Ronnie,
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: I trust my reading isn't keeping you awake? Good heavens, Grace,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: the boy's asleep. Poor little lamb.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: It's way past his bedtime.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: At this very moment, your poor little lamb is responsible
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: for considerable disturbance in the House of Commons. Ronnie, wake up!
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: Oh, yes, Father?
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: I'm reading the account of the debate.
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm listening, Father. I like to listen with my
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: eyes closed.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Very well. Now then, the House obviously was moved by
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Sir Robert Morton's resonant use of the words, Let right
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: be done. Nevertheless, it is argued that Conduct Ronald Winslow
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: was a servant of the Crown, and therefore has no
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: more right than any other member of His Majesty's forces
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: to sue the Crown in open court. To allow him
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: to do so would... Oh, he's asleep again.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: I'd better take him upstairs. He'll be so much more
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: comfy in his little bed.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: I dare say, but the debate in the House of
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Commons continues, and until it's ended, the cause of it
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: all certainly will not make himself comfy in his little bed.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Excuse me.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Yes, Violet.
• 21:25
  Speaker 14: There are three more reporters at the door, sir.
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: Shall I let them in?
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: No, certainly not.
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Grace, Grace dear, might this not be a good opportunity
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: to talk to Violet? No, it would not. to talk, Arthur.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: You don't have to do it.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: I will if you like. No, thank you. We'll give
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: her excellent references.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: I won't have it.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: It's nothing short of brutal to send her packing after.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: All these years.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Facts are brutal things.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: I don't think I know what facts are anymore.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: The facts at this moment are that we have one
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: half of the income we had a year ago and
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: we're living at almost the same rate. However you look
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: at it, that's bad economics.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: I'm not talking economics. I'm talking about Violet. I'm also
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: talking about the happy home we once had and A.
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: Future for us and the children. Oh, I wish I
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: could see the sense.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Of it all.
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: There's Ronnie, perfectly happy.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: He's at a good school and doing very well.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: No one need ever have known about Osborne if you
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: hadn't gone and shouted it out to the whole world.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: As it is, whatever happens, he'll go through the rest
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: of his.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Life as the boy in the Winslow case.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: The boy who stole that postal order. The boy who
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: didn't steal the postal order?
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: You talk about sacrificing everything for him.
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: But when he's grown up, he won't thank you.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: For it, Arthur.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Even though you've given your life to publish his innocence.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: As you call it. Grace, really?
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: Yes, Arthur, your life.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: You're destroying yourself. And for what, I'd like to know.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: For what?
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: For justice.
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: Justice? Or is it just plain pride and sheer stubbornness?
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: No, I don't think it is. I really don't think
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: it is.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: Arthur, I can stand anything if there's a reason for it.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: But for no reason at all, it's unfair to ask
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: so much of me.
• 23:08
  Speaker 11: It's unfair.
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: What's the matter, Father?
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Well, your mother's a little upset.
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: Aren't things going well?
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, Ronnie. Very well. Very well indeed. By Jove,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: how does he do it.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Sandwiches, sir, for Miss Casey.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, Violet.
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: She's just come home.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: She says she'll be right in, sir. Violet? What do
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: you think of this case?
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's a fine old rumpus, no mistake.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: It is, isn't it? A fine old rumpus.
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: And when you think it's all because of our master, Ronnie,
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: I have to laugh about it sometimes. I rarely do.
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: Wasting the government's time at his age.
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: Well, would that be.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: All, sir? Yes, yes, Father, that'll be all.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: Hello, Father. All alone?
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: No, Ronnie. But he's sound asleep.
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: Oh, look at him.
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: An honorable member described him not an hour ago as
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: a piteous little figure crying aloud to humanity for justice
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: and redress.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: I wish you could see him now.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Kate, Kate, what happened? Is the debate over?
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: As good as.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: What about it? Are they going to allow us a
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: fair trial?
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: Apparently not.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: That's iniquitous. Well, then, we're back where we started, then.
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: It looks like it, dear.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: The debate's done us no good at all. But didn't
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Sir Robert make any protest?
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: Not a verbal protest.
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: Something far more spectacular.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: He'd had his feet on the treasury table and his
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: hat over his eyes and suddenly got up, glared at
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: the first lord, threw a great bundle of notes on
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: the floor and stalked out of the house.
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: Oh, it made a magnificent effect.
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: If I hadn't known, I could have sworn he was
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: actually indignant.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Oh, of course he was indignant. So would any man
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: of feeling be.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: Sir Robert is not a man of feelings. I don't
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: think any emotion at all can stir that fishy heart.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Except perhaps a love of justice?
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: Oh, nonsense. A love of Sir Robert Morton. The man
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: is a fish. A hard, cold-blooded, sneering fish.
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: Sir Robert Morton.
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: Yuki.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: Good evening. Good evening.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: I thought I'd call and let you know what's happened,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: but I see your daughter has forestalled me.
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: You knew I was in the gallery?
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: In such a charming hat, how could I have missed you?
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: It's very good of you to call.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Do I detect a small snore coming from the couch?
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Ah, Master Ronnie. Oh, Kate, wake him up.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, please. Besides, I'm sure that since
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: our first encounter, he is rather understandably at price nervous
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: of me.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: Tell me something, Sir Robert. What happened in that first
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: interview to make you so sure of his innocence?
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, he made far too many damaging admissions.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: The guilty person would have been much more on guard. Secondly,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I set a trap for him, and thirdly, I left
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: him a loophole. Anyone who was guilty would have fallen
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: into the one and darted through the other.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Master Ronald didn't either.
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: The trap was to ask him suddenly what time Elliot
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: put the postal order.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: In his locker. Am I right?
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: And the loophole?
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: My suggestion that he'd stolen the postal order as a joke.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Had he been guilty, he'd have leapt on that as
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: the lesser of the two evils.
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: You're very clever.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Thank you. My daughter just told me of your demonstration
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: during the First Lord's speech. She described it as magnificent.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Dead shame.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: And it's a very old trick, you know, and nearly
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: always surprisingly effective. Was the first lord at all put
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: out by it, did you notice?
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: Oh, how could he have failed to be?
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: Oh, I wish you could have seen it. Father, when
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: did this come?
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: When did what? Oh, oh, that letter. Some time ago.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Do you know the writing?
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: Yes, it's from John's father. I, uh, shouldn't bother to
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: read it if I were you.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, but I must. It came by special messenger. Uh,
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: forgive me, Sir Robert, if I read it now... Well,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: what do.
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: You think the next step should be, Sir Robert?
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: The renewal of our efforts to get the Director of
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Public Prosecutions to act.
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: You think there's any chance of that?
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, since it's mostly a matter of making ourselves
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: a confounded nuisance.
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: We've certainly done that quite successfully so far, thanks to you.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: That is perhaps the only quality I was born with,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: the ability to annoy.
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: Father, Sir Robert thinks we might get the Director of
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: Public Prosecutions to act.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: Oh, excuse me, I thought you'd finished your letter.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: We were discussing how to proceed with the case.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: The case? Forget the case. All things considered, very little
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: purpose would be served by going on. Kate, here. Of
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: course we must go on. The choice is mine, sir,
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: not yours.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: To give up now would be insane.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: My sanity already has been questioned tonight for going as
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: far as I have.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Whatever is in that letter or whatever else has happened
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: to make you lose heart, I insist that we continue.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Insist? We? It is for me alone to judge when
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: the time has come to give up. In heaven's name, why?
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: I have made many sacrifices for this case. Some of
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: them I had no right to make. But there is
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: a limit, and I've reached it. I'm sorry, Sir Robert,
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: but the Winslow case is closed. All the best.
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: My father doesn't mean that, Sir Robert.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: I'm glad to hear it.
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: This letter, let me explain it.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, Kate, no.
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: Sir Robert, this letter is from the father of the
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: man I'm engaged to. We've always known he was opposed
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: to the case, so it comes as no surprise. He
• 28:02
  Speaker 8: says that unless my father promises to drop this whining
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: and reckless agitation, that he'll exert every influence to prevent
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: John's marrying me.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: I see.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: An ultimatum.
• 28:13
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: But a pointless one.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: He has no influence over his son?
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: But John's of age and his own master.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Well, Mr.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Winslow, your daughter seems prepared to take the risk.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: But I am not. At least until I know how
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: great a risk it is.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: How do you estimate the risk, Miss Winslow?
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: Negligible.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: I see. Mr.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Winslow, I must apologize for speaking to you as.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: I did just now. Oh, you were upset for giving
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: up the case. And to be frank, I liked you
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: for it.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Of course, you must decide as you wish. That is
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: really a most charming hat, Miss Winslow.
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: Oh, well, I'm glad you liked it.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: It seems decidedly wrong to me that a lady of
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: your political persuasion should be allowed to adorn herself with
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: such a very feminine allurement. It really looks so awfully
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: like trying to have the best of both worlds.
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: I'm not a militant, Sir Robert.
• 29:03
  Speaker 8: I don't go about breaking shop windows with a hammer
• 29:05
  Speaker 8: or pouring acid down letterboxes.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: I'm truly glad to hear that. Both those activities would
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: be highly unsuitable in that hat. Tell me, what active
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: steps do you take to propagate your cause?
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: I'm an organizing secretary at the West London branch of
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: the Women's Suffrage Association.
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: Indeed.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Is the work hard? Very.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: And not, I should imagine, particularly lucrative?
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: Starting in January, I shall be paid two months, two
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: pounds a week.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Dear me.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: What sacrifices you young ladies seem prepared to make for
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: your conviction?
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: Excuse me, it's your intended.
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: He says, could he please.
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: Have a word with you in private, miss?
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: John.
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: Tell him, tell him I'll be right there, Violet.
• 30:04
  Speaker 9: I have no right calling at this hour unexpectedly, but
• 30:07
  Speaker 9: I had to see you. My father's written a letter
• 30:10
  Speaker 9: to your father.
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: I know, I've read it.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Well, what's he done to him?
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: My father.
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: I don't suppose he'll send one.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: You think he'll ignore it?
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: Isn't that the best answer to blackmail?
• 30:20
  Speaker 9: Well, it was terribly high-handed of the old man, I'll admit. But, darling,
• 30:23
  Speaker 9: this is going to take the most tactful sort of handling. Otherwise,
• 30:26
  Speaker 9: we'll find ourselves in the soup.
• 30:27
  Speaker 11: I mean, that's it all.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: I can't even live on my army pay as it is.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: But with two of them.
• 30:32
  Speaker 8: Don't tell me, dear. What do you suggest?
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Well, this is the way I see it.
• 30:38
  Speaker 9: Your young brother pinches, or he doesn't pinch, a fight
• 30:40
  Speaker 9: by both lauders. And for over a year, you and
• 30:43
  Speaker 9: your father fight a magnificent fight on his behalf, and
• 30:45
  Speaker 9: I'm sure that everyone admires this one.
• 30:46
  Speaker 8: Including your father. Go on, dear.
• 30:49
  Speaker 9: Well, now, you've had two inquiries, the petition of Wright's case,
• 30:52
  Speaker 9: which the Admiralty has thrown out of court, and the appeal.
• 30:55
  Speaker 9: And now, amazingly enough, you've the whole House of Commons
• 30:58
  Speaker 9: in a frenzy about it. Well, now, darling, surely that's enough.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Surely the case can end there, hmm?
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: I suppose it can.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Ronnie won't mind.
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: No, I know he won't.
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: What's more, I'm not so sure he didn't steal the
• 31:09
  Speaker 8: money in the first place.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: Good Lord.
• 31:11
  Speaker 9: Well, then, why in heaven's name have you and your
• 31:13
  Speaker 9: father spent all this time and money trying to prove
• 31:15
  Speaker 9: his innocence?
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: His innocence and guilt aren't important to me. They are
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: to my father, not to me. I don't believe he
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: did it, but I may be wrong. All that I
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: care about is that people should know that a government
• 31:28
  Speaker 8: department has ignored the fundamental human right to a fair trial...
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: and that it should be forced to acknowledge it. That's
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: all that's important to me, John. But it is terribly important.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Well, darling, look.
• 31:40
  Speaker 9: There's a European war blowing up. There's a coal strike on,
• 31:43
  Speaker 9: and there's a fair chance of civil war in Ireland.
• 31:45
  Speaker 9: And yet, with all that on its mind, the House
• 31:47
  Speaker 9: of Commons takes a whole day to discuss Ronnie Winslow
• 31:49
  Speaker 9: and his ballet postal order. Well, now, surely that's a
• 31:51
  Speaker 9: little out of proportion.
• 31:52
  Speaker 8: All I know, John, is that if ever the time
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: comes when the House of Commons can't find time to
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: discuss a Ronnie Winslow and his ballet postal order, this country...
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: It would be a far poorer place than it is now.
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: But you needn't go on, dear. I entirely see your
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: point of view.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: Well then, darling.
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: Do you want to marry me, John?
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Well, of course I do. Oh, you know I do.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: I'm only telling you what I think is best for us.
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: Even if we gave up the case, you'd still want
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: to marry.
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: The Winslow girl?
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: All that would blow over in no time.
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: And we'd have the allowance from your father?
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: And that's so important.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Well, it is, darling. I'm sorry, but you can't shame
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: me into saying that it isn't.
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: I didn't mean to shame you, John.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: Well, now, what's the answer?
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: I love you, John. I want to be your wife.
• 32:36
  Speaker 9: Well, then that's all I want to know. Ah, darling,
• 32:39
  Speaker 9: I was sure nothing so stupid and trivial could possibly
• 32:41
  Speaker 9: come between us.
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: Excuse me.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Hello?
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: Yes, Desmond. Will you wait a moment, please? Sir Robert,
• 32:50
  Speaker 8: Desmond Terry wants to talk to you on the telephone.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. I'm sorry to interrupt.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: You didn't.
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: We've finished our talk.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Hello?
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't know he was going to speak. I see.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Go on. Thank you. There has been a most interesting
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: development in the house. Well? Resmond Curry tells me that.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: A barrister friend of mine has just delivered.
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: One of the most scathing denunciations.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Of the government department ever heard in the house. What
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: a shame we missed it, Miss Winslow. His style is
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: quite superb.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: The debate revived, of course, and the First Lord suddenly
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: found himself under attack from all parts of the House.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: It appears that rather than.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Risk a party split, he has instructed the Attorney General
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: to endorse our petition of right. The case of Winslow v.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Rex can now therefore come to court. Well, sir, what
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: are your instructions? The decision is no longer mine. You
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: must ask my daughter.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Miss Winslow? Forgive me, Sir Robert, but I believe that
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: I can give you, Miss Winslow, a decision.
• 33:57
  Speaker 8: John, please. You need my decision, Sir Robert. Aren't the
• 34:02
  Speaker 8: instructions already on the petition? Don't be afraid.
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: Let right be done.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Okay, well then, we must endeavor to see that it is.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: The curtain rises on Act Three of The Winslow Boys,
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: starring Ray Moland as Sir Robert Morton, Dorothy McGuire as Kate,
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: and Brian Ahern as Mr.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: Winslow.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: At long last, the Winslow case has come to trial.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: And what is even more remarkable, her verdict actually is
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: in the office. At home, Arthur Winslow waits impatiently for
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: Kate to return from the courtroom.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: She's late, Grace. Yesterday, she was home by half past one.
• 35:26
  Speaker 8: You'll be along. Meanwhile, your lunch is ready, dear.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: I did it myself. Where's Violet?
• 35:31
  Speaker 8: At the trial, of course.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Oh, this is incredible. Every member of the household attends
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: the trial except the one person who has the greatest
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: cause for being there.
• 35:39
  Speaker 8: But you know what the doctor said.
• 35:41
  Speaker 12: Yes, fantastic.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: I must sit at home in a wheelchair while two
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: years of struggle, hope, and abuse hang in the balance.
• 35:49
  Speaker 8: Oh, we had a letter this morning from Vicki.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: Vicki? Yes? How is he?
• 35:52
  Speaker 14: Splendid, dear, and getting on so well.
• 35:55
  Speaker 8: He says he took Mr. Lamb, the manager, to the
• 35:57
  Speaker 8: races on Saturday.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: The bank manager?
• 36:00
  Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
• 36:01
  Speaker 11: Dickie said Mr.
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: Lamb had the time of his life and... and lost
• 36:04
  Speaker 8: his shirt.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Did he? Oh, I've no doubt that given the chance,
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: our Dickie will convert the entire Reading branch into a
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: bookmaking establishment.
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: Catherine, is that you?
• 36:15
  Speaker 8: Oh, don't report it. Don't they ever go away?
• 36:17
  Speaker 14: Did you bring Ronnie with you, dear?
• 36:19
  Speaker 8: He's having lunch with Desmond Curry. You're to meet him
• 36:21
  Speaker 8: in the corridor, Mother.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Poor little pet.
• 36:23
  Speaker 9: He did so well in the witness box yesterday.
• 36:26
  Speaker 8: I guess he was there this morning.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: John. John?
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Well, I hoped you.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Could speak to him.
• 36:31
  Speaker 8: But of course I did.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: Kate, how could you?
• 36:34
  Speaker 8: What did he say? He wished us luck.
• 36:37
  Speaker 9: What impertinence.
• 36:38
  Speaker 8: The idea of his coming there after the.
• 36:40
  Speaker 9: Way he's treated you.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: Oh, great. You'll be late for the afternoon session.
• 36:43
  Speaker 14: Oh, well, I'm off then, dear. Now, don't let your
• 36:47
  Speaker 14: father leave that wheelchair, darling.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Well, how did it go?
• 36:52
  Speaker 8: I'm... I'm not sure, Father. Oh, but I could fearfully
• 36:55
  Speaker 8: strangle that old boot of a judge.
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: He's dead set against us.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Does Sir Robert share that opinion?
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: Who knows?
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: He's worried.
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: That much I do know. I must admit, the Attorney
• 37:05
  Speaker 8: General's speech this morning was very clever... think a verdict
• 37:08
  Speaker 8: for Ronnie would simultaneously cause mutiny in the Royal Navy
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: and jubilation in Berlin.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: I wish you could be there this afternoon.
• 37:16
  Speaker 8: And have Mother missed out again.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: You know Mother doesn't understand a word of what's going on.
• 37:21
  Speaker 8: No, but she does enjoy it so dear.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: But what about Sir Robert?
• 37:24
  Speaker 8: Well, he finished his gross examination of the postmistress. Oh,
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: I thought he'd demolished her completely. He admitted... He couldn't
• 37:32
  Speaker 8: identify Ronnie, but he couldn't be sure of the time
• 37:34
  Speaker 8: he came in and that all Osborne cadets looked alike
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: to her in their uniforms, so that it might easily
• 37:40
  Speaker 8: have been another who cast the five shillings.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Good, good.
• 37:42
  Speaker 8: Then, when he finished, The Apprentice General asked her again
• 37:46
  Speaker 8: whether she was absolutely positive that the same boy that
• 37:49
  Speaker 8: bought the 16 and 6 postal order also cashed the
• 37:52
  Speaker 8: 5 billion one. And she said yes, she was quite,
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: quite sure, because Ronnie was such a good-looking little boy
• 37:57
  Speaker 8: that she'd noticed him especially. Oh, I could see those
• 38:01
  Speaker 8: 12 good men and two nodding away at each other.
• 38:04
  Speaker 8: I believe it undid the whole of Sir Robert's cross-examination.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: If she thought Ronnie was especially good-looking, why didn't she
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: identify him two years ago? Oh, Kate, this is our
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: last chance. Are we going to lose?
• 38:16
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: I wonder if you were right. If we could have
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: found a better man than Sir Robert.
• 38:20
  Speaker 9: No.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, you admit that now.
• 38:23
  Speaker 8: Only that he's the best advocate in England. And for
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: some reason, trustees, I suppose, he seems genuinely anxious to win.
• 38:32
  Speaker 8: I don't go back on anything else I've ever said
• 38:34
  Speaker 8: about him.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: The newspapers say he began this morning by telling the
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: judge he felt ill. Might have to ask for an adjournment.
• 38:41
  Speaker 8: Just another trip, dear. It got him the sympathy of
• 38:44
  Speaker 8: the court and possibly provided him with an excuse if
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: we should lose.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: If we should lose.
• 38:51
  Speaker 9: May I come in?
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: Oh, Desmond, of course.
• 38:54
  Speaker 9: I entered by way of the kitchen. The crowd at
• 38:56
  Speaker 9: the front.
• 38:56
  Speaker 11: Door, rarely most alarming.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Oh, sit down, Desmond.
• 38:59
  Speaker 9: Uh, hmm. I wonder if I might see Catherine alone.
• 39:03
  Speaker 9: I have a matter of some urgency to communicate to her.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, very well. I'll finish my lunch, Kate. Oh, allow me, please. Oh,
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: take your hands off this wheelchair. Dear me. I can
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: manage without assistance. Thank you, Desmond.
• 39:14
  Speaker 8: Well, Desmond?
• 39:16
  Speaker 9: I have only a moment, Kate. I really should get
• 39:18
  Speaker 9: back to court, but it suddenly occurred to me during
• 39:20
  Speaker 9: the lunch adjournment that I had better see you today.
• 39:23
  Speaker 8: Really? Why?
• 39:24
  Speaker 9: I have a question to put to you, which, if
• 39:26
  Speaker 9: I had postponed it until after the verdict, you might,
• 39:28
  Speaker 9: who knows, have thought it prompted by pity if we
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: had lost. Or if we had won, your reply might, again,
• 39:33
  Speaker 9: who knows, have been influenced by gratitude. Uh, do you
• 39:37
  Speaker 9: follow me?
• 39:38
  Speaker 8: As a matter of fact, I think I do.
• 39:41
  Speaker 9: Ah, then possibly you have some inkling of what the
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: question is. Yes.
• 39:45
  Speaker 8: And I need hardly tell you how grateful I am.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: There is no need, Kate. Oh, no need at all.
• 39:52
  Speaker 9: However, I know very well what your feelings for me
• 39:54
  Speaker 9: really are.
• 39:55
  Speaker 8: Do you, Desmond?
• 39:56
  Speaker 9: I've known you so long, dear Kate, and I've proposed
• 39:58
  Speaker 9: to you so many times before. That is, up until
• 40:01
  Speaker 9: your recent proposal.
• 40:03
  Speaker 8: Which is now no more.
• 40:04
  Speaker 9: And thus permits me to again, if I may say so,
• 40:06
  Speaker 9: examine the facts.
• 40:08
  Speaker 8: Which are?
• 40:10
  Speaker 9: Fact one, you don't love me and never can. That, too,
• 40:15
  Speaker 9: I love you, always have, and always will. That, then,
• 40:18
  Speaker 9: is the situation.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: No matter what you feel.
• 40:22
  Speaker 9: Or do not feel for me.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: I.
• 40:24
  Speaker 9: Want you to be my wife.
• 40:27
  Speaker 8: Thank you, Desmond.
• 40:28
  Speaker 9: Oh, there is so much more that I should like
• 40:30
  Speaker 9: to say, but I shall.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: Put it all in a letter.
• 40:32
  Speaker 8: Yes, Desmond, please.
• 40:33
  Speaker 9: Now, I must get back to court. How do you
• 40:36
  Speaker 9: think it went this morning? What a brilliant cross-examination, was
• 40:38
  Speaker 9: it not?
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: Brilliant.
• 40:40
  Speaker 9: Oh, here's a strange man, Sir Roberts. Oh, time so
• 40:43
  Speaker 9: cold and distant and... Fish-like. Fish-like, exactly. And yet he
• 40:48
  Speaker 9: has a real passion about this case. Oh, a real passion.
• 40:52
  Speaker 9: I happen to know... Oh, of course, this must on
• 40:54
  Speaker 9: no account go any further. But I happen to know
• 40:56
  Speaker 9: that he has made a very great personal sacrifice in
• 40:59
  Speaker 9: order to bring.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: It to court.
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: Sacrifice?
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 41:02
  Speaker 8: Some other case?
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, that would be no sacrifice for him.
• 41:05
  Speaker 9: Oh, no. He was offered the appointment of Lord Chief Justice.
• 41:09
  Speaker 9: He turned it down simply to carry on with Winslow
• 41:12
  Speaker 9: versus Rex. Strange are the ways of men, are they not?
• 41:17
  Speaker 11: Goodbye, dear Kate.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: Goodbye, Desmond.
• 41:20
  Speaker 12: Well, what did Desmond want?
• 41:33
  Speaker 8: To marry me.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: What, again? Oh. Pure lunacy.
• 41:37
  Speaker 8: Oh, I don't know. He's nice and he's doing very well.
• 41:40
  Speaker 8: I told him I'd think it over.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: By all means. As long as you decide against it.
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: Father, I'm 30 years old.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: Oh, 30 isn't the end of life.
• 41:49
  Speaker 8: It might be for an unmarried woman with not much look.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: Rubbish. Better far to live and die an old maid
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: than to marry Desmond Curry.
• 41:57
  Speaker 9: Even an old maid must eat. I, uh, I'm leaving.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: You and your mother everything, you know. There is still
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: little left. Oh, there must be something you can do,
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: something useful.
• 42:09
  Speaker 8: You don't think suffrage work is useful? Well, maybe you're right.
• 42:14
  Speaker 8: But it's the only work I'm fitted for all the same.
• 42:16
  Speaker 8: So the choice is quite simple, Father. Either I marry
• 42:19
  Speaker 8: Desmond and settle down to quite a comfortable and not
• 42:22
  Speaker 8: really useless existence, or I go on for the rest
• 42:25
  Speaker 8: of my life earning two pounds a week in the
• 42:27
  Speaker 8: service of a hopeless cause.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: Hopeless? I never heard you say that before.
• 42:31
  Speaker 8: I never felt it before. John's going to be married
• 42:34
  Speaker 8: next month.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: Is he?
• 42:35
  Speaker 8: The girl I know slightly. She's a general's daughter.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: Very suitable. My dear. Oh, I've messed up your life. No.
• 42:45
  Speaker 8: Any messing up that's been done has been done by me.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm so sorry, Kate.
• 42:49
  Speaker 8: Don't be. We both knew what we were doing.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, have we just been stubborn? Selfish to the refusing
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: to admit defeat. That's what your mother thinks.
• 42:56
  Speaker 8: Father, if you could go back and choose again... Would
• 43:01
  Speaker 8: your choice be different? No, I don't think it would.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: I don't think so either.
• 43:08
  Speaker 8: I still say we both knew what we were doing.
• 43:11
  Speaker 8: And we were right to do it.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: But you aren't going to marry Dismond, are you?
• 43:16
  Speaker 8: Well, in the golden words of the Prime Minister, Father,
• 43:19
  Speaker 8: wait and see.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: Here. Say, do you hear a newsboy? What's he shouting?
• 43:24
  Speaker 8: Let me open a window.
• 43:28
  Speaker 14: Only wind locates latest.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: Didn't sound to me like latest.
• 43:33
  Speaker 7: You're right.
• 43:35
  Speaker 14: Wind locates results.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: Results?
• 43:37
  Speaker 14: But the verdict wasn't to come in till tomorrow.
• 43:39
  Speaker 8: There must be some mistake.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: Violet, come in here.
• 43:45
  Speaker 8: What's happened?
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, Mr.
• 43:49
  Speaker 14: Winslow, she wasn't here neither, no, Master Ronnie. The cheering
• 43:55
  Speaker 14: and the shouting and the carrying on. Oh, you never
• 43:58
  Speaker 14: heard anything like it in all your life.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: Oh, Violet.
• 44:00
  Speaker 14: And Sir Robert standing there at the table with his
• 44:03
  Speaker 14: wig on, crooked, and the tears running down his face.
• 44:06
  Speaker 14: Running down his face. They were, and not able to
• 44:09
  Speaker 14: speak because of the noise. And then some man behind me,
• 44:13
  Speaker 14: he knocked my hat down over my face. He was
• 44:15
  Speaker 14: hearing Saul waving his arms and shouting about liberty. And
• 44:19
  Speaker 14: the judge kept on shouting, but it wasn't any good
• 44:22
  Speaker 14: because by now the jury was sharing poo.
• 44:24
  Speaker 8: And some of them.
• 44:26
  Speaker 14: Trying to rush out of the box to shake hands
• 44:28
  Speaker 14: with the robber. And then outside in the street they
• 44:32
  Speaker 14: were shouting, Good! Good old Winslow is singing. Jolly good fellow.
• 44:37
  Speaker 14: And I had my hat knocked off again at this
• 44:39
  Speaker 14: time to board. Oh, it was lovely. Well, sir, you
• 44:44
  Speaker 14: must be feeling nice and pleased now that it's all over.
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: Yes, pilot, I am.
• 44:49
  Speaker 14: Two years, but one month it's been, sir, fancy.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 44:54
  Speaker 14: Poor madam, what a shock when she gets to court
• 44:57
  Speaker 14: and finds us all over. Well, congratulations, sir, I'm sure.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, Violet, thank you. Well, it would appear
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: then that we've won.
• 45:07
  Speaker 8: Yes, Father, it would appear that we've won.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, I would have liked to have been there.
• 45:14
  Speaker 14: It is him, Mr. Winslow, he's here, Sir Robert Morton.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: I thought you might.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: Like to hear the actual terms of the Attorney General's statement.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: So I've jotted it down for you, Mr. Winslow, and
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: now I should read it. I say now, on behalf
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: of the Admiralty, that I accept the declaration of Ronald
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: Arthur Winslow and that he is innocent of all charges
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: brought against him two years ago at the Royal Naval College, Osborne.
• 45:39
  Speaker 11: I make this statement without any reservation, intending it to
• 45:42
  Speaker 11: be a complete acceptance of.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: The boy's innocence. It's rather difficult to find the words
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: I should say to you.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: Please don't trouble to search for them. Let us take
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: these rather tiresome expressions of gratitude for granted, shall we?
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: Now, on the.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: Question of damages and costs, I fear we shall find
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: the Admiralty rather niggardly. You are likely still to be
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: left considerably out of pocket. However, undoubtedly, you can.
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: Apply a slight spur to the First Lords for Syria
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: and the House of Commons. Oh, please, no more trouble,
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: I beg of you. This is... All I've ever asked for.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: Good pity we're not in court, Miss Winslow. The verdict
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: appeared to cause quite a storm.
• 46:21
  Speaker 8: So I heard. But why did they surrender so suddenly?
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: Well, it was a foregone conclusion once the handwriting expert
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: had been discredited.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: I knew then we had a.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: Sporting chance, and no jury in the world would convict in.
• 46:33
  Speaker 11: The postmistress's evidence.
• 46:34
  Speaker 8: But this morning you seemed so depressed.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: Did I?
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: Well, the heat in the courtroom was very trying, you know,
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: and I was a little fatigued.
• 46:41
  Speaker 14: Oh, sir, the gentlemen at the front door say please
• 46:44
  Speaker 14: would you make a statement. They say they won't go
• 46:46
  Speaker 14: away until you do.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, very well, Violet, thank you. Yes, sir. Oh, Sir Robert,
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: what shall I say?
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: I hardly think it matters. Whatever you say will have
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: little bearing on what they'll write.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: What shall I say, Kate?
• 47:00
  Speaker 8: You'll think of something, Father. Here, let me hear you out.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: No, no, just hand me my cane, I... I refuse
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: to meet the press in this ridiculous chariot. I could
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: say I'm happy to have lived long enough to have
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: seen justice done to my son.
• 47:17
  Speaker 8: Isn't that a little gloomy? You're going to live for
• 47:20
  Speaker 8: ages yet.
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: Am I? You'll wait and see. I could say the
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: victory is not mine, but it's the people who are triumphed,
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: as they always will triumph. Over-desperate.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: How does that strike you, Sir Robert? A little bit pretentious, perhaps?
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: I should say it nonetheless. It would be very popular.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: Well, perhaps I'd better say what I really feel, which
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: is merely, thank God we beat them.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: Miss Winslow, might I be rude enough to ask you
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: for a little of your excellent whisking?
• 47:52
  Speaker 8: Oh, yes, of course.
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 47:54
  Speaker 11: And with your forgiveness, I shall sit down.
• 47:56
  Speaker 8: Sir Robert, are you feeling all right?
• 48:00
  Speaker 11: Just a slight nervous reaction. I've not been feeling myself
• 48:03
  Speaker 11: all day.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: I told the judge so this morning, if you remember,
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: but I doubt that he believed me.
• 48:09
  Speaker 11: He thought it was a trick. What suspicious minds people have,
• 48:12
  Speaker 11: have they not?
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
• 48:15
  Speaker 6: Your whiskey.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 48:18
  Speaker 8: I'm afraid I have a confession and an apology to make.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: My dear young lady, I'm sure the one is rash
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: and the other superfluous. I would far rather hear neither.
• 48:28
  Speaker 8: I'm afraid you must, since this is probably the last
• 48:31
  Speaker 8: time I shall see you. I have entirely misjudged your attitude. I've...
• 48:37
  Speaker 8: I've been rude and ungrateful. I'm sincerely and humbly sorry.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: No rubbish.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: My attitude has been quite the same as yours. A
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: determination to win at all costs. Only when you talk
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: of gratitude... You must remember that these costs were not mine,
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: but yours.
• 48:52
  Speaker 8: Were they not also yours, Sir Robert?
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: I beg your pardon?
• 48:57
  Speaker 8: Haven't you two made a very special sacrifice?
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: The rules of that office are not a stupid name.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: Wouldn't they?
• 49:06
  Speaker 11: And what's more, I fully intend to report Mr.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: Desmond Curry to the Law Society.
• 49:09
  Speaker 8: Oh, please don't. He did me a great service by
• 49:12
  Speaker 8: telling me.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: Well, I must ask you never to devote it to
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: another living soul and to forget it yourself.
• 49:16
  Speaker 8: Now, are you always at such pains to prevent people
• 49:19
  Speaker 8: from knowing the.
• 49:21
  Speaker 6: Truth about you?
• 49:22
  Speaker 11: Am I, indeed?
• 49:23
  Speaker 6: You know you are.
• 49:24
  Speaker 8: Why? Why are you so ashamed of your emotions?
• 49:29
  Speaker 11: Because, as a lawyer, I must necessarily distrust them.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: To fight a case on emotional grounds is the surest
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: way of losing it. Emotions muddy the issues. Cold, clear
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: logic and buckets of it should be the lawyer's only equipment.
• 49:42
  Speaker 8: Was it cold, clear logic that made you leave today
• 49:45
  Speaker 8: at the service?
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: Your maid, I suppose, told you that?
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: No.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: Doesn't matter. It's in the papers tomorrow anyway. Very well, then.
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: If you must have it, here it is.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: I wept today because right had been done.
• 49:59
  Speaker 8: Not justice?
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: No, not justice.
• 50:01
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: It's not hard to do justice, but very hard to
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: do right.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, while the appeal of justice is intellectual, the appeal
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: of right appears for some odd reason to induce tears
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: in court. That is my answer and my excuse.
• 50:19
  Speaker 11: Now, may I leave the witness box?
• 50:21
  Speaker 14: No.
• 50:21
  Speaker 8: One last question.
• 50:23
  Speaker 7: How can you.
• 50:24
  Speaker 8: Reconcile your support of Winslow against the Crown with your
• 50:27
  Speaker 8: narrow political beliefs?
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: Very easily.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: No one party has a monopoly of concerns for individual liberties.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: On that issue, all parties are united.
• 50:37
  Speaker 8: I don't think so.
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: You don't?
• 50:39
  Speaker 8: No, not all parties. Only some people from all parties.
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: That is a wise remark.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: We can only hope, then, that those some people will
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: always prove enough people.
• 50:53
  Speaker 11: You know, you'd make a good advocate.
• 50:55
  Speaker 8: Would I?
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: Why don't you channel your feministic impulses toward the law court,
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: Miss Winkler?
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: Are you going to continue to pursue it?
• 51:09
  Speaker 6: Certainly.
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: Will you be wasting your time?
• 51:11
  Speaker 8: I don't think so.
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: If it is.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: In the House of Commons in days to come, I
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: shall make a point of looking up at the gallery
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: in the hope of.
• 51:20
  Speaker 11: Catching a glimpse of you in that provocative hat.
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: Whereupon, I shall.
• 51:24
  Speaker 8: Like this, Sir Robert.
• 51:25
  Speaker 7: I'm most awfully sorry.
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: Master Winslow, are you indeed?
• 51:29
  Speaker 14: I didn't know anything was going to happen this afternoon.
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: And where were you?
• 51:33
  Speaker 8: At the picture.
• 51:34
  Speaker 7: Well, I'm most awfully sorry, sir.
• 51:36
  Speaker 14: I say, we won, didn't we?
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: Yes. Yes, we won.
• 51:40
  Speaker 11: Well, goodbye, Miss Winslow.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: Shall I see you in the house then one day?
• 51:46
  Speaker 6: Yes, Sir Robert.
• 51:48
  Speaker 14: One day.
• 51:50
  Speaker 8: But not in the gallery. Across the hall. Among the opposition.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: Perhaps.
• 51:56
  Speaker 13: Goodbye.
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: Goodbye.
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: For three splendid performances, we'd like to congratulate Ray Moland,
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: Dorothy McGuire, and Brian Ahern.
• 52:14
  Speaker 9: It's nice to be working with you again, Irving.
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: It's been a long time since we made a picture together.
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: Irving's directed me in pictures, too. We're old friends.
• 52:26
  Speaker 8: Well, I guess that leaves me out in the cold.
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: Dorothy, a lust girl, is always a friend of mine.
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: Particularly when she's such a talented lust girl.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: And Darby certainly qualifies. Have you seen her latest picture,
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: Three Coins in the Fountain? She's great and she looks
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: terrific in Cinemascope.
• 52:42
  Speaker 6: Well, thank you.
• 52:43
  Speaker 8: Let's hope that I are certainly old friends.
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: Why, aren't you also in one of 30th Century Fox's
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: Cinemascope productions?
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: Yes, Prince Valiant. Little did I think when I left
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: a brilliant career in England to come to America that
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: I'd wind up in a comic strip.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: Well, don't mark it. Last week I was offered the
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: part of Canhead in Big Trouble.
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: Oh, you'll be great, Ray. Seriously, I was delighted to
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: appear in such a magnificent production as Prince Valiant.
• 53:08
  Speaker 8: And I imagine Ray is delighted with his latest picture, too,
• 53:11
  Speaker 8: Dial M for Murder.
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: Oh, I wouldn't dial anything for murder. Wouldn't even pick
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: up the phone. Not even if it was directed by
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: Alfred Hitchcock? Ah, well, that's different.
• 53:19
  Speaker 8: Now, Irving, how about next week's show?
• 53:22
  Speaker 6: Is it something different?
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: Yes, it's very unusual. Emotionally adult love story. We've invited
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: two of the top stars of Hollywood to recreate it
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: for you.
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: That exceptionally fine actor, Cary Grant.
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: Co-starring with one of the loveliest ladies of the screen.
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: Jean Craig.
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: We'll present them in their original roles in one of
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: the finest motion pictures 20th Century Fox has brought to
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: the screen, People Will Talk.
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: I thought it was a wonderful picture. Good night. Good night.
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: Good night.
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: And thanks for a memorable evening. And now, here's a
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: man with a letter. Yes, it's a letter I.
• 53:59
  Speaker 9: Got from a woman in New Jersey, and I'd like to.
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: Read it to you.
• 54:02
  Speaker 9: She says, Dear Art Linkletter, If you'll answer me this,
• 54:06
  Speaker 9: I'll buy a box of syrup. You say that when
• 54:09
  Speaker 9: you wash clothes with syrup, they smell like sunshine. But
• 54:12
  Speaker 9: whoever said you could smell sunshine?
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: Signed, Mrs. Robert Borden. Well, Mrs. Borden, I said it.
• 54:20
  Speaker 9: And I can tell you how to find this out
• 54:22
  Speaker 9: for yourself. You just try the nose test the next
• 54:25
  Speaker 9: time you do your laundry. I mean that when your
• 54:28
  Speaker 9: clothes are still wet or when they're dry, you just
• 54:31
  Speaker 9: hold them right up to your nose real close and
• 54:34
  Speaker 9: give a good sniff. Now, if there's a medicinal odor
• 54:38
  Speaker 9: or a stale, sour smell, that's not sunshine, is it?
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: But when you wash your clothes with.
• 54:44
  Speaker 9: Surf, you'll find they smell fresh and clean. And that's
• 54:48
  Speaker 9: what I mean by sunshine. Now, these days, all good
• 54:52
  Speaker 9: detergents get things clean-looking. Surf does that, of course. But
• 54:56
  Speaker 9: when it comes to clean laundry, you can't.
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: Go on looks alone.
• 55:00
  Speaker 9: Because to be really clean, things just have to smell clean, too.
• 55:04
  Speaker 9: And you can depend on surf to get things so
• 55:07
  Speaker 9: clean they smell like sunshine. And that means they're clean,
• 55:11
  Speaker 9: clear through.
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: So, Mrs. Borden, and all you ladies who haven't tried
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: surf lately.
• 55:16
  Speaker 9: Buy a box of surf and get to know what
• 55:18
  Speaker 9: sunshine smells like.
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: Get the big.
• 55:20
  Speaker 9: Money-saving economy-sized box of surf and put it to the test.
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: Lever Brothers Company, makers of Lux toilet soap and Lux
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: liquid detergent, invite you to be with us again next
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: Monday evening when the Lux Radio Theater presents Cary Grant
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: and Gene Crane in People Will Talk. By the way,
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: those of you with television sets, have a big treat
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: in store. On Thursday, January 28th, the Lux Video Theater,
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: our sister show, will present a special one-hour live telecast
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: of Paramount's A Place in the Sun. I'll have more
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: details for you next week. This is Irving Cummings saying
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: goodnight to you from Hollywood.
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, the crisis in our schools is growing worse.
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: Three classrooms out of every five are overcrowded. And above all,
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: there's a growing shortage of qualified elementary school teachers. Won't
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: you join and work with your local civic groups and
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: school boards, which are actively seeking to improve educational conditions?
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: Heard in our cast tonight were Martin Dean as Ronnie,
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: Norma Varden as the mother, Helen Cleave as Violet, Mary
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: Flynn as Miss Barnes, Ben Wright as John, Joe Kearns
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: as Desmond, and Alistair Duncan as Dickens. Our radio play
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: was adapted by S.H. Barnett, and our music was composed
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: and directed by Rudy Schrager.
• 56:44
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