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Lux Radio Theatre - "Romance" (Old Time Radio, 1938) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A young man, hoping to marry an actress, seeks counsel
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  Speaker 1: from his bishop grandfather and hears the story of a
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  Speaker 1: youthful romance that challenged the expectations of New York society.
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  Speaker 1: On February 21st, 1938, CBS presented Lux Radio Theater, episode 164, Romance,
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  Speaker 1: adapted from Edward Brewster Sheldon's 1913 play. Madeline Carroll and
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  Speaker 1: Herbert Marshall head the cast, with Ralph Morgan in a
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  Speaker 1: drama framed by a New Year's Eve conversation and a
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  Speaker 1: rector's meeting with Italian opera star Rita Cavallini. Lux Soap
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  Speaker 1: brings its familiar radio theater setting to a story of
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  Speaker 1: private feeling and public opinion. We now take you back
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  Speaker 1: to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: ¶ ¶.
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  Speaker 3: From Hollywood, California, the Lux Radio Theater presents Madeline Carroll
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  Speaker 3: and Herbert Marshall in Romance.
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  Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood and extends thanks to you, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: for your purchases of Lux Toilet Soap and Lux Place.
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  Speaker 2: It is your loyalty to these fine products that enables
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  Speaker 2: us to bring you the Lux Radio Theater every Monday night.
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  Speaker 2: This evening, our cast is headed by Herbert Marshall and
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  Speaker 2: Madeline Carroll, starring in Romance, with Ralph Morgan and Claire Dodd.
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  Speaker 2: Walter Wanger, Hollywood's eminent producer, will be heard as special guest.
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  Speaker 2: Our music is conducted by Louis Silvers. And now, your
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  Speaker 2: host and producer, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil B.
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  Speaker 4: DeMille.
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  Speaker 2: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. For me, as perhaps
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  Speaker 2: it does for some of you, tonight's play holds many
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  Speaker 2: golden memories and brings me back to the Broadway of
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  Speaker 2: exactly 25 years ago, to a season of theatrical grandeur
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  Speaker 2: seldom seen before or since. It was in February 1913
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  Speaker 2: that this eternally young play, Romance, by Edward Sheldon, opened
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  Speaker 2: its remarkable run with Doris Keene and William Courtney at
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  Speaker 2: the Maxine Elliott Theatre. And it was during that run
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  Speaker 2: that Jesse Lasky, Samuel Goldwyn and I met at the
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  Speaker 2: old Claridge Grill on Broadway and decided to take Horace
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  Speaker 2: Greeley's advice and start making pictures in a little town
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  Speaker 2: called Hollywood. We wondered if we could persuade Dustin Farnham,
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  Speaker 2: then playing in a melodrama called Arizona, to take a
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  Speaker 2: chance and star for us in our first motion picture.
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  Speaker 2: It was a season that saw Jane Cowell in Within
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  Speaker 2: the Law, George M. Cohan in Broadway Jones, Lorette Taylor
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  Speaker 2: in Peg of My Heart. At 69, Sarah Bernhardt was
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  Speaker 2: playing vaudeville at the Palace George Alice was starring in Disraeli.
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  Speaker 2: Billy Burke, Nazimovar, and Maude Adams were there. And so
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  Speaker 2: were William Favisham and Tyrone Power, father of the present
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  Speaker 2: star of that name. At the same time, a young
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  Speaker 2: man named Douglas Fairbanks was bounding through a piece called
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  Speaker 2: Hawthorne of the USA. And 25 years ago as today,
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  Speaker 2: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was playing to packed houses.
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  Speaker 2: Only the star then was Marguerite Clarke. And so tonight,
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  Speaker 2: on its 25th anniversary, we bring back romance, a drama
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  Speaker 2: as ageless as love itself. Twice a motion picture, our
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  Speaker 2: radio play stars one of the loveliest ladies of the screen,
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  Speaker 2: Madeline Carroll as Margarita Cavallini, and Herbert Marshall in the
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  Speaker 2: role of Thomas Armstrong, whom we meet for the first, first,
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  Speaker 2: after he had become Bishop Armstrong. Miss Carroll is now
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  Speaker 2: engaged in filming The River is Blue, a Walter Wanger production.
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  Speaker 2: and Mr. Marshall has just completed Mad About Music for
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  Speaker 2: Universal Studios. As Cornelius Ventile, we welcome that veteran performer,
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  Speaker 2: Ralph Morgan, while Claire Dodd will be heard as Susan.
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  Speaker 2: Deluxe Radio Theater presents Herbert Marshall and Madeline Carroll in Romance.
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  Speaker 2: Christmas Eve in New York. In the library of a
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  Speaker 2: pleasant old house on Washington Square, Bishop Thomas Armstrong rests
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  Speaker 2: comfortably in his favorite chair beside the fire. Out of
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  Speaker 2: the corner of his eye, he watches his grandson, Gerald,
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  Speaker 2: who stands looking out of the window, a worried frown
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  Speaker 2: on his face. The silence is broken only by the
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  Speaker 2: ticking of the clock. The old bishop lights his pipe
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  Speaker 2: and blows a reflective ring at the high ceilings.
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  Speaker 4: And speaks casually. Who is she, Gerald?
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  Speaker 5: What's that?
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  Speaker 4: I said, who is she?
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  Speaker 6: Who is who?
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  Speaker 4: The young lady who's causing you so much anxiety.
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  Speaker 2: Why, I.
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  Speaker 6: How did you know?
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  Speaker 4: When a young man comes to visit his grandfather on
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  Speaker 4: Christmas Eve and devotes the entire evening to cracking his
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  Speaker 4: knuckles and looking at his watch, I jump to the
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  Speaker 4: obvious conclusion. Who is she, Gerald?
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  Speaker 6: Well, as a matter of fact, there is someone... I
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  Speaker 6: was just debating whether to tell you about it. I'd
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  Speaker 6: like your advice, Grandfather.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. A great many people have come to me
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  Speaker 4: for that, Gerald. It usually turns out, though, that what
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  Speaker 4: they were looking for was a sympathetic listener.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that's part of it, too. You see, I can't
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  Speaker 6: speak to Mother about it. Not yet, anyway. Well, you'd
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  Speaker 6: better prepare yourself for a shock.
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  Speaker 5: You see, I.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to be married.
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  Speaker 7: When?
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  Speaker 6: You're not surprised?
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  Speaker 4: No, not very surprised. It's quite an old custom, you know.
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  Speaker 4: What's her name?
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  Speaker 6: Lucille Anderson. I don't think you've ever heard of her,
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  Speaker 6: but she's an actress.
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  Speaker 4: I see.
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  Speaker 6: That does surprise you.
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  Speaker 4: Just a little. She's very beautiful, I suppose.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, she is. And clever, too, and sweet. I never
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  Speaker 6: met anyone like her before. When you come right down
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  Speaker 6: to it, she's ten times too good for me. She's wonderful, really.
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  Speaker 4: Of course she is, of course. Go on, Gerald.
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  Speaker 6: Well, things have been pretty tough for her lately. You see,
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  Speaker 6: she has no folks and jobs are scarce and... Well,
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  Speaker 6: she's living all alone in a rotten little boarding house
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  Speaker 6: up in the 50s. That's why I... I think I
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  Speaker 6: ought to marry her now, right away. You think I'm right,
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  Speaker 6: don't you?
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  Speaker 8: Well?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, Gerald. You're pretty young, of course.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, but.
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  Speaker 4: And your life's just beginning. You'll change. And there may
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  Speaker 4: come a time when you'll need more than any little
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  Speaker 4: actress can ever give you. You've got to be very sure, Gerald.
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  Speaker 6: But I am sure. I.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I might have known I couldn't make you understand.
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  Speaker 6: You changed the minute you heard she was on the stage.
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  Speaker 4: No, I didn't, my boy. I didn't change. I only remembered.
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  Speaker 4: And I do understand, Gerald. Believe me.
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  Speaker 6: I don't see how you could very well. When you
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  Speaker 6: were my age, things were different. You were a minister.
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  Speaker 4: And ministers don't have emotions, is that it? Well, I
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  Speaker 4: didn't mean it that way. I know, I know. Sit down, Gerald.
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  Speaker 4: I want to tell you something. Something I've never told
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  Speaker 4: anyone before. I used to think I never would.
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  Speaker 5: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: Something that happened to me when I was just about
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  Speaker 4: your age, nearly 50 years ago. I was rector of St.
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  Speaker 4: Giles then. That was before I married your grandmother. Well,
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  Speaker 4: one night, in November it was, November 1888, I went
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  Speaker 4: to an evening party at old Cornelius Van Tile's house.
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  Speaker 4: It was a party in honor of Rita Cavallini, the
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  Speaker 4: Italian opera star. She was a beautiful woman, Cavallini. Beautiful
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  Speaker 4: and fascinating. The whole town had turned out to meet her,
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  Speaker 4: and the old house was blazing with lights. As I
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  Speaker 4: came up the front steps, I could hear the laughter
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  Speaker 4: and the.
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  Speaker 9: Music.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Armstrong. Evening, Joseph. Am I late?
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  Speaker 2: A bit, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Ventile's been asking for you.
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  Speaker 5: Tom, where have you been?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Susan.
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  Speaker 10: I thought you'd never get here. Uncle Cornelius has been
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  Speaker 10: pestering me to send a carriage around after you and.
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  Speaker 3: Tom.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 10: What's the matter with your eye?
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  Speaker 8: Eye?
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  Speaker 6: Your right eye.
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  Speaker 5: It's all red.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that. Well, the regular Wednesday evening boxing class met
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  Speaker 4: in the gymnasium of the church. One of my pupils
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  Speaker 4: is on the way to becoming a master.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Tom.
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  Speaker 5: And you know you're supposed to lend dignity to the party.
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  Speaker 4: And dignity it shall be. I'll present her with the
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  Speaker 4: left side of my face.
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  Speaker 6: Where is he?
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  Speaker 2: In the hall, sir.
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  Speaker 5: There's Uncle Cornelius.
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  Speaker 4: Good evening, Mr. Ventile.
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  Speaker 2: Tom, I've been looking for you. How are you, my boy?
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  Speaker 4: Splendid, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, have you met her yet?
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  Speaker 4: Cavallini, no.
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  Speaker 2: But you must, of course. I'll see if I can
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  Speaker 2: pry her loose from her admirers. I'll be back in
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  Speaker 2: a moment.
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  Speaker 10: Well, shall we get some supper?
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  Speaker 4: Cavallini first, supper afterwards.
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  Speaker 10: Business before pleasure. You're not very keen on this, are you?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 10: Being presented to the great Cavallini.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's a little out of my line, if that's
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  Speaker 4: what you meant.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I'm glad you're here, even if you aren't. You
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  Speaker 10: can help put the gossip brigade in their places. They've
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  Speaker 10: started already.
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  Speaker 4: Aunt Cavallini?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, they've been whispering all sorts of things about her. Tom,
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  Speaker 10: I want you to be very nice to her.
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  Speaker 5: You will, won't you?
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  Speaker 4: Of course I will.
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  Speaker 10: Well, come along then and have some supper. It'll be
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  Speaker 10: hours before Uncle Cornelius gets her away.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, please, please, Madame Cavallini.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, my, I can't dance with Madame Cavallini.
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  Speaker 5: I remember distinctly.
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  Speaker 4: But Madame Cavallini promised it to me.
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  Speaker 11: Carita, carita, signore, I have danced so very much tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Gentlemen, if you please, Madame Cavallini is tired. If she's
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  Speaker 2: to sing again tonight, I think she ought to rest.
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  Speaker 5: Si, si, I really think so. Thank you so much, signore.
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  Speaker 5: Take me away, Cornelius, quickly, please. Come along.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse us, please. This way, madame. Sit down, Rita.
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  Speaker 6: Here.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, I thought you would never rescue me, Cornelius. Oh,
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  Speaker 11: those young men.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, dear. They are so enthusiastic.
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  Speaker 2: You'll be safe up here.
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  Speaker 5: But no more people tonight, please.
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  Speaker 2: Just one or two. There's a young fellow here. Rector
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  Speaker 2: of St. Giles.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Cornelius.
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  Speaker 2: Do you mind?
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  Speaker 5: I am very angry with you. Why? You invite me
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  Speaker 5: to your house. Bear me. I am happy to come.
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  Speaker 5: But I find I am invited as an artista, not
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  Speaker 5: as a friend.
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  Speaker 2: Rita, don't be absurd.
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  Speaker 5: It was not like this in France. In Mille Fleurs.
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  Speaker 11: I was not just a singer from the opera then.
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  Speaker 11: You have not forgotten?
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  Speaker 2: Do you think I ever could?
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  Speaker 11: Do you remember the night I sing to you when
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  Speaker 11: you walk up and down below the window and how
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  Speaker 11: we watch the sea? Il bellissimo mare. Side by side
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  Speaker 11: in the moonlight.
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  Speaker 4: I remember.
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  Speaker 2: And other evenings, too. It makes me sad a little.
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  Speaker 5: But why?
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  Speaker 2: Because I also remember that I'm growing old, Rita.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, you will forget that in Mille Fleurs when we
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  Speaker 11: go there again.
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  Speaker 2: If we ever do.
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  Speaker 5: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: Time doesn't stand still, Rita. You're young. You've everything before you.
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  Speaker 2: And I... Well?
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  Speaker 5: Well?
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  Speaker 2: Rita, why don't you marry?
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  Speaker 5: Marry?
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  Speaker 8: Me?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Dio mio.
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  Speaker 4: I'm serious.
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  Speaker 2: Haven't you ever loved anyone?
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  Speaker 5: You ask me that?
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  Speaker 4: No, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Hasn't there ever been anyone who.
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  Speaker 5: I am happy now. It is enough.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking of the years to come. It isn't good
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  Speaker 2: to be alone then. I know. What will you do?
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  Speaker 11: I will turn my face to the world and I
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  Speaker 11: will say, I am Rita Cavallini. I have lived as
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  Speaker 11: I wanted to live and I have been happy. I
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  Speaker 11: am happy now.
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  Speaker 5: Sono felice.
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  Speaker 11: Then, if I must cry a little, I will turn
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  Speaker 11: away so no one will see me.
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  Speaker 2: Just as you do now.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, go away, Cornelius. You are much too clever for me.
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  Speaker 5: And you make me sad. I will not be sad.
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  Speaker 4: All right, dear.
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  Speaker 2: You'd better rest anyway.
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  Speaker 4: Are you sure Mr. Van Tile isn't in the drawing room, Joseph?
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  Speaker 2: Quite sure, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Armstrong. I'd like to see him before I leave, but... Well,
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  Speaker 4: I'll wait.
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  Speaker 2: If you'd like a quiet place, sir, you might try
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  Speaker 2: the library upstairs.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Joseph.
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  Speaker 5: Good evening.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know anyone was here. The
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  Speaker 4: butler told me that I could.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, go.
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  Speaker 5: Please.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't mean to disturb you. I was just looking
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  Speaker 4: for a quiet place.
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  Speaker 11: I am not disturbed. I shall only be here for
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  Speaker 11: a moment anyway. Please, you sit down.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: You don't like parties, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I... I wish you hadn't asked me quite so directly.
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  Speaker 5: I know. I don't like them either.
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  Speaker 4: I don't believe we've met. My name is Armstrong, Tom Armstrong.
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  Speaker 4: I'm rector of St. Giles' Church.
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  Speaker 10: Rector?
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  Speaker 5: Que vuol dire?
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  Speaker 4: The minister, clergyman. Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I see. Peccato. How very sad.
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  Speaker 4: I beg your pardon?
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  Speaker 5: You are too young.
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  Speaker 4: No, not really. I mean, ministers aren't always old. Any
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  Speaker 4: more than opera singers are always robust.
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  Speaker 5: You think they are not?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't know. From what they tell me of
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  Speaker 4: this Madame Cavallini... Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Then you have never seen her.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't care very much for the opera.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, ecco.
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  Speaker 12: Well, you have not missed much when you miss la Cavallini.
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  Speaker 4: Really? Do you know her?
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  Speaker 12: Ah, oh, si, si.
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  Speaker 5: We are very intimate.
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  Speaker 4: Is she as beautiful as they say?
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  Speaker 5: Do they say that?
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  Speaker 4: Well, of course.
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  Speaker 5: Well, she is not. She is really very ugly.
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  Speaker 11: But people do not know she is ugly because they
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  Speaker 11: cannot see beneath her make-up.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sure you must be mistaken. I'm talking of
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  Speaker 4: Rita Cavallini.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I am too, but you have never seen her.
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  Speaker 4: No, I merely bow to public opinion.
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  Speaker 5: That is very dangerous.
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  Speaker 11: If you believe the rumors of her beauty, you must
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  Speaker 11: also believe the stories of her past.
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  Speaker 5: That is public opinion too.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't heard any stories.
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  Speaker 5: Shall I tell you some?
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  Speaker 4: I'd rather you didn't.
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  Speaker 5: As you wish.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: What are you thinking?
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  Speaker 4: I was thinking that you are being very charitable. Of
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  Speaker 4: all the people who are willing to carry tales, a
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  Speaker 4: friend should be the last.
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  Speaker 11: Of all the people who know her, I am the
• 15:27
  Speaker 11: one who knows her best. She will not mind what
• 15:30
  Speaker 11: I say about her.
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  Speaker 4: I should like to have her word for that.
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  Speaker 5: You are defending her. That is most unusual.
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  Speaker 12: There are very few people to defend Rita Cavallini.
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  Speaker 4: Then please count me as one of them. You see, I...
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  Speaker 4: I preach goodwill and brotherly love to my pulpit every Sunday...
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  Speaker 4: It's only right that I should practice it myself on Monday.
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  Speaker 12: And you would like me to practice it, too?
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  Speaker 4: That's the general idea.
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  Speaker 5: Then you have my word, Mr. Armstrong.
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  Speaker 11: Never again will I speak badly of Rita Cavallini.
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  Speaker 4: You've made a very sudden reformation.
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  Speaker 5: Very sudden, poverina.
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  Speaker 10: Are you ready, dear?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you here, Tom.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I.
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  Speaker 12: Is it time, Cornelius?
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  Speaker 2: The guests are waiting. I told them you were going
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  Speaker 2: to sing your aria from La Singera.
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  Speaker 5: But I sing La Singera tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Well, shall we call this a rehearsal, then?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, easy. You will excuse me, Mr. Armstrong.
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  Speaker 2: Grazie, grazie. Tom, shall we go down? I'd like you
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  Speaker 2: to hear this. I'm sure you'll enjoy her singing.
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  Speaker 4: Tom.
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  Speaker 2: Tom, what's the matter? Is there anything wrong?
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Van Tile, I... I feel very, very silly.
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  Speaker 6: I feel very, very silly.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you.
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  Speaker 12: You will take my cloak, Vanucci, cara?
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  Speaker 2: Si, madama, si.
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  Speaker 12: The outfit was back of full tonight.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, so many encore. I am very tired, Vanucci. Madama,
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: you are the visitor.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: Good evening.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: Oh, oh, Mr. Armstrong.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: Hope you don't mind my coming back here.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, no, certo no.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: I felt I owed you an apology. For last night,
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: I mean. I, um... I must have sounded rather pompous.
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: Oh, we will forget last night. It was my fault.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: I should have told you who I was.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: I should have known without your telling me.
• 18:07
  Speaker 12: But you had never seen me.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: I've corrected that. I heard you sing tonight. You were wonderful.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: Oh, grazie, grazie, mille grazie.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: You are not going so soon.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: I live downtown, you know. It takes quite a while to.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: My hotel is there. I will drive you in my carriage.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Well, that's very kind of you.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: Will you wait? I shall only be a moment.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: It's really more than just being a minister. You see,
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: our parish is rather large and we have more than
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: our share of slums.
• 18:44
  Speaker 10: Slums?
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: Ah, those are the poor?
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: And they are in your care too?
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Well, we try to help them as much as we can.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: It's all part of the job.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: I see. Would it help sometime if we were to
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: give a concert?
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: To raise money?
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: Si.
• 19:03
  Speaker 12: I would be glad to sing if you would like it.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Would you?
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Really? You are good.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: It is not goodness.
• 19:12
  Speaker 12: I was poor once, too.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: I know what it is like.
• 19:16
  Speaker 12: So, we will work together, then.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: It will be nice.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: I can't tell you what it will mean.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: Is that it, madam?
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: Yes. Good night, Mr. Armstrong.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Good night, Madam Cavallini. Good night. Anne, thank you.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: You... You kiss my Anne? Mine?
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: Because you are kind. And because you are lovely. Good night.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: Good night. Drive on, please. Quick.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Tonight, in our brief intermission, I want to introduce a
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: man who's been creating quite a little stir around here.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Just between us, I mean among the ladies. He's dark, handsome,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: and mysterious. Who are you anyway, stranger?
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: I'm the charm man.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: So I've noticed. But do you think you ought to
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: boast about it? I don't mean what you think. I
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: mean I tell the ladies how to rate their charm.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Rate it?
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Figure out how much they have in actual percentages.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: No wonder you interest the fair sex. Can you tell
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: the ladies in our audience how to do that?
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Yes, I can.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: They can rate themselves or have someone else do it.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: They'll need pencils.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Pencils? All right. Are you ready, ladies?
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Go ahead, Mr. Charm Man.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: A perfect charm score would add up to 100%. Ready?
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: I'll give you the top percentage allowed for any one charm,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: and then you give yourself as much of that as
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: you think you deserve.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Ready now?
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: A really beautiful figure rates 40%. Mark down what you deserve.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Got it? All right.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Smooth, well-kept hair rates 15%. Got your percent? Exceptionally nice eyes,
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: rate 15%. Good teeth, rate 15%. Smooth white hands, 15%.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Hold on a minute, Mr.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Charm Man.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: That adds up to 100%, and you haven't even mentioned
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: a lovely complexion. You've got to remember this is a
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Lux Toilet Soap broadcast, and we think a lovely complexion
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: is the most important charm of all.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Well, don't get excited, Mr.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: Roy.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: I agree with you perfectly. There's a very good reason
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: why I don't put clear, smooth skin on my chart.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Yes? What is it? You see, Mr. Ruick, the point
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: is that.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Unless a girl has clear, smooth skin, there's just nothing
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: I can do for her. I have to call this
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: whole charm rating thing off.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Mr. Charm Man, but I'm sure that isn't
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: going to frighten the lovely ladies in this audience. They
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: know how to keep skin soft, smooth, attractive. How to
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: guard against the choked pores that cause cosmetic skin. Dullness,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: tiny blemishes, enlarged pores. They remove dust and dirt, stale
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: rouge and powder thoroughly with Lux Toilet Soap's active lather
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: before they put on fresh makeup and always at bedtime.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: You see, they know Lux Toilet Soap is the mild,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: pure white soap that nine out of ten screen stars
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: use to guard their million-dollar complexions. And the ladies in
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: this audience are pretty and wise. We return now to Mr.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: DeMille and our play. We continue with Romance, starring Madeline
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Carroll and Herbert Marshall with Ralph Morgan. The fire in
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: the bishop's library burns to a red glow. The old
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: man has paused in his story, looking thoughtfully into the flames.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Now he turns to his grandson and in a low
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: voice picks up the thread of his old romance.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: And so we planned the concert together, Rita Cavallini and I,
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: almost 50 years ago. We saw a good deal of
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: each other for a few weeks. We became very good friends.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: It was more than friendship, but I didn't know it then.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: One evening, a few days before Christmas, Susan came here
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: to the rectory to speak to me about some church affairs.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: She was sitting near the fireplace. Almost where you.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: Are sitting now. The decorations for the church. Mrs.
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: Vander is taking care of those. I think that's all,
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: except for the midnight service on Christmas Eve. Have you
• 23:36
  Speaker 10: decided about that, Tom?
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: Tom!
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry. What did you say, Susan?
• 23:43
  Speaker 10: About the midnight service on Christmas Eve.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes. I thought I'd arrange for the choir to
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: sing carols and a procession to the church. We could
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: start over on West Broadway.
• 23:53
  Speaker 10: Is there anything I can do for you on that?
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Oh, thanks. I'll take care of it myself.
• 23:59
  Speaker 10: Well, I suppose that's all.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Yes, for now, anyway. Please let me help you with
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: your coat.
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: We don't see very much of.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: You these days, Tom.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: I know. I've been pretty busy. Madame Cavallini's concert took
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: a lot of time.
• 24:14
  Speaker 10: That was over last week.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Well, there were other things too, Susan.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 24:22
  Speaker 10: Did you enjoy Mignon the other night? I thought I
• 24:25
  Speaker 10: saw you there.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: I enjoyed it very much.
• 24:29
  Speaker 10: She was very lovely, wasn't she?
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: I liked her even better in La Boheme. And I
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: thought her violetta was superb. I've been quite often, you see.
• 24:38
  Speaker 10: I didn't mean it that way, Tom.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: It was in your mind, though?
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: There's nothing in my mind except, well, what people have
• 24:43
  Speaker 10: been saying.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: The gossip brigade. Have they been talking about me?
• 24:47
  Speaker 10: Oh, you know how they are. They've got to have something.
• 24:50
  Speaker 10: I've been doing my best to keep them quiet.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: I don't need a champion, Susan. I don't need anyone
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: to defend me.
• 24:55
  Speaker 10: Tom, I'm not going to quarrel with you. We've been
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: friends too long to let a thing like this come
• 25:02
  Speaker 10: between us. I just thought you should know. That's all
• 25:06
  Speaker 10: I have to say, Tom.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry. I've been on edge lately. Please forgive me.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: Of course.
• 25:13
  Speaker 10: And you'll come to see us again, won't you? When
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: you find time?
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Good night, Susan.
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: Overture.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Overture.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Ready, madam. Overture.
• 25:35
  Speaker 11: Presto, presto, presto.
• 25:38
  Speaker 12: We must hurry, madame. Overture, the boy says.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: I am ready, cara. My scarf, please. The scarf.
• 25:44
  Speaker 12: The scarf.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: Where is it? Go away. It is too late. Go away.
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: No.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: Open the door, Vanucci. But, madame... Open the.
• 25:52
  Speaker 12: Door, please.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Hello. Cornelius. I thought you.
• 26:01
  Speaker 12: Come in.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: Avanti.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Well, you seem a little disappointed. Were you expecting someone else, Rita?
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: Perhaps. Sit down. I.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: I'd like to speak to you alone for a moment.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: May I?
• 26:13
  Speaker 12: Vanucci, will you wait outside, please? Could you not come
• 26:21
  Speaker 12: to my hotel, Cornelius?
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: I could have, yes. But I may be wrong. I
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: had an idea I might not be received there.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: Maybe you are not so wrong.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: And you know why I've come, Rita?
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: I think so.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Rita, I have always had a very fond hope that
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: someday Susan and Tom Armstrong would be married.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: A month ago, I took it for granted. Right now, I'm...
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Not so sure. Has Tom asked you to marry him yet?
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: No.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: And if he should?
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: I would refuse him.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: I'm glad of that, Rita. For both of you. But
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: why do you lead him on, then? Is it just
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: that you're amusing yourself at his expense?
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: Si. It is very amusing, Cornelius. To feel your heart
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: torn in two.
• 27:13
  Speaker 11: To lie tossing each night in the darkness, waiting for
• 27:16
  Speaker 11: sleep which never comes. To want with all your heart
• 27:19
  Speaker 11: what your heart forbids your having.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: To know that tomorrow will be empty as today and
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: every day long, long into the year. It is very amusing, Cornelius.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: You love him that much? I, who have.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: Been so wise. It is very funny, isn't it?
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: What will you do, Rita?
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: I have my passage. I sail for England Thursday.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Does he know?
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: I have not told him yet.
• 27:50
  Speaker 11: I have promised to see him again the day before Christmas.
• 27:56
  Speaker 12: You will excuse me?
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: Wait.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: If you sail Thursday, that's Christmas Day. You can't sail
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: on Christmas, Rita.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: They are the same, Cornelius.
• 28:08
  Speaker 11: All days are the same.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Was it the rectory you wanted, madam?
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: Please, you may stop here.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Yes, madam.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Beautiful day, isn't it?
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: You want me to wait?
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: What is that singing?
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Comes from the church.
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: St.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Giles' Choir, I guess.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: Yes, wait.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: Will the altos come in stronger on this section, please?
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: A little more. Mr.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Armstrong.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: There's a lady just came in the back of the church.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: Someone to see.
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: Will you take the rest of the rehearsal?
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Rita, I didn't expect you so soon.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: You must not let me disturb you.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, it's quite all right. Shall we go into
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: the rectory?
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: If you want.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: We can cut across the garden. This way, Rita. We're
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: rehearsing for the procession tonight. Do you think you'll be
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: able to watch it?
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: Perhaps.
• 29:29
  Speaker 12: I am usually tired after the theater.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, you'll probably be able to hear it from
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: your hotel. There we are, Rita.
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: Thank you. Mr.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: Armstrong? Yes, Kate? Mr.
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: Armstrong, Mr.
• 29:45
  Speaker 10: Van Tile is here. And the ladies from the Mother's
• 29:48
  Speaker 10: Aid Committee have been waiting since four o'clock.
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Do you suppose they'd mind waiting another half hour, Kate?
• 29:54
  Speaker 10: I don't think so.
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: They seem to be using their time very well.
• 29:57
  Speaker 10: They're getting a donation from Mr.
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: Van Tau.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: Good. I'll be in the library, Kate.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: Go in, Rita. Here, sit over here by the fire.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: You must be cold.
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: I'm not really.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: You have some tea?
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: Thank you. I cannot stay very long, Tom.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Oh, but you've got to.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: I think perhaps I feel a little out of place here.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: Oh, nonsense. You've got to come often. My sister's coming
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: down from Boston next week. I want you to meet her. You'll... Tom!
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: What?
• 30:30
  Speaker 12: I will not be able to meet your sister. I
• 30:32
  Speaker 12: will not be here next week.
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: Tonight is the last performance. I am sailing tomorrow. Rita,
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: you can't. I must, Tom.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: When did you decide this? It must have been very sudden.
• 30:46
  Speaker 11: No, no.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: And you didn't tell me.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: I didn't want anything to spoil these last few weeks.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: I don't want anything to spoil them now.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Rita, you mustn't go. Stay just a little while. Stay
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: until spring.
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: Non posso. I must sing in Roma next month. In Aprilia,
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: I go to La Scala in Milano.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: Rita, listen to me. You're not going to leave. You've
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: never given me a chance to tell you how I
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: really feel about you. I'm going to tell you now.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: I love you, Rita. I want you to stay here.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: I want you to marry me. Will you, Rita?
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: Rita.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: Why do you look at me like that? Didn't you
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: know it, Rita? Didn't you know that someday I'd tell you?
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: I was afraid you would. You are very foolish to
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: love me, Tom.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: I don't believe that.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: I must make you believe it.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: You can't. Because I think you love me too, Rita. No.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Then what have all these weeks meant to you? Have
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: they meant nothing?
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: A little light in all the darkness. No more. A
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: little warmth in the cold. A little flame that burns
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: not long and then goes out.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: No, Rita, you don't mean that. You can't, Rita.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: No, please.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: Rita.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: Let me go.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: Tell me I'm right. Tell me you love me.
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: I love you, Tom. Rita. I love you. Caro, I
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: love you. There is nothing in this world but you
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: and me.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: Nothing.
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: This is our moment. Our little moment that will never
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: come again. Hold me close, Tom. Close to you. And
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: then let me go away.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: I'll never let you go. Do you understand? Never. You're
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: going to marry me, Rita. No, no.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: What's the matter?
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: What's wrong, darling?
• 32:42
  Speaker 8: Rita.
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: I cannot marry you, non posso. Don't ask me again, Tom. Please, carissimo.
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: Please don't ask me.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: Why shouldn't I? Why shouldn't you marry me?
• 32:53
  Speaker 11: Oh, Tom, Tom, you poor blind fool. Don't you know
• 32:58
  Speaker 11: what I am? Don't you know what I've been? Cannot
• 33:01
  Speaker 11: you see it in men's eyes? The men who crowd
• 33:04
  Speaker 11: around me with their knowing little smirks? Ask your friends
• 33:07
  Speaker 11: why you cannot marry me. And your churchgoers.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: Ask your friend, Cornelius Van Tile.
• 33:12
  Speaker 12: He'll tell you.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: I don't believe you. You're lying. There's something else.
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: Ask him.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: Very well, I will. Come in.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: Armstrong, the ladies are all ready to.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: Will you, Kate, ask Mr. Van Tile to come here, please?
• 33:30
  Speaker 10: But the committee.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: Ask him to come here.
• 33:32
  Speaker 9: Yes, sir.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: Sit down, Rita.
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: I think I had better leave. Please.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: Please. You said he'd tell me. Well, I'm willing to
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: ask him. And you should be willing to stay. I
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: know it's not true. And if he says it isn't,
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: you're going to marry me, Rita.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: Oh, Tom. Tom, dear. Why do you torture yourself? Let
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: me go now. Forget everything we've said.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: You think I could? Come in.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, Tom, I.
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: Hello, Rita.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: Garnier.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Kate said you wanted to see me, Tom.
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: Van Tile, I... I've just asked Rita to marry me.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Have you, Tom?
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: She insists that there's a reason why she can't. Do
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: you know? Do you know what that reason is? I?
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Why, of course not. Why should I know?
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: Would you approve of our marriage? You're a friend. She
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: said I was to ask my friends. Would you approve? Yes, Tom.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: Thank you. But if Rita has reasons of her own...
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: We were to take your word. I see.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: Well? My congratulations to you both. Rita, I knew you'd
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: lie to me. Why did you lie?
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: It was the truth, Tom.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: You said you loved me.
• 34:53
  Speaker 11: I do, and that's why I told you the truth.
• 34:56
  Speaker 11: That's why I'll tell it to you now. You believe
• 34:59
  Speaker 11: Cornelius when he says he know no reason. Don't you
• 35:01
  Speaker 11: see he's only being kind to me? Don't you see
• 35:03
  Speaker 11: that he's the one who's lying?
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: Ask him about Mildred. He was there. I was there.
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: Ask him. I spoke to you about the look in
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: men's eyes. Ask him about that. He was one of
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: those men.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Rita.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: Is this true? I... Is it true?
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: I wish I could make you understand, Tom. I'd have
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: given anything in the world to a spare Judas. I
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: don't want your pity. Let me alone.
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: Get out. Both of you.
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: Oh, Tom, if only you had listened to me first.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: Why did you make me tell you? We would have
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: said goodbye.
• 35:51
  Speaker 11: Everything would have been so, so sweet.
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: Now there is nothing but pain and bitterness. Goodbye, Tom.
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: And thank you for having loved me.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: We pause for station identification. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Madeline Carroll and Herbert Marshall return shortly for the third
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: act of Romance. Next to a good friend, give me
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: an honest enemy. Or if I'm to have both, give
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: me Walter Wanger. Today, like Samuel Goldwyn and David O. Sells, Mr.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Wanger is an independent producer, a picture term for a
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: man with sufficient fortitude and capital to compete with the
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: major studios. A man who makes his own films under
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: his own roof and has his own stars under contract.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Distinguished for three things, his pipes, his polo, and his pictures, Mr.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Wanger brings to the screen a youthful vigor and originality
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: that's won him the admiration of his contemporaries and the
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: gratitude of the public. For 15 years, he's been alternately
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: my business ally and competitor. But however the tides of
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: business may have swung us, we've managed to remain the
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: best of friends. And you can now prove the quality
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: of your friendship, Walter, by giving me the $ 120 you
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: owe me.
• 37:47
  Speaker 9: I'm terribly sorry, C.B., but I didn't quite hear you.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Now, perhaps your ears will prove a little sharper if
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: I ask you to remember a certain night in New
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: York some years ago when you and ten other gentlemen
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: tended me a dinner party. Oh, that's better.
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: Of course I remember. And if I may say so,
• 38:02
  Speaker 7: it was all my idea. You had entertained us so
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: lavishly at your ranch that we just thought it'd be
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: nice to reciprocate.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: And after dinner, you all went to a prize fight?
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: But I had a cold and had to go to bed?
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
• 38:15
  Speaker 9: How is your cold?
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Much better, thank you. And all of you left in
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: such a hurry that I found myself in the unique
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: position of having to pay for a dinner party given
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: in my honor. The bill was $ 120, and if you
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: don't mind, I would.
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: Nobody can hear a word you're saying, C.B. I must say,
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: as a producer, your diction doesn't set a very good example.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: And you can prove how good a producer you are
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: by producing $ 120. Oh, well, never mind. I suppose you
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: are my guest. What would you like to talk about?
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: Well, as a rule, producers always talk about how good
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: they've been. Let's you and me be different and talk
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: about how bad we've been at times.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Walter, you're always a leader in new ideas, but I
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: think that idea is terrible.
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: Oh, you do?
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: Speaking of poor ideas, did you happen to see a
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: picture quite a few years ago called Four Frightened People?
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: Who made it?
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: You did. Oh, did I?
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, so I did. That was very funny. After making it,
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: I thought of changing the title to Five Frightened People.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: I was the fifth. But what about that super colossal
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: idea you made, the president vanishes?
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: That was also an artistic success. After seeing it, I
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: packed my bags and left a note telling them to change.
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: It to Wanger Vanishes. But seriously, C.B., I only.
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: Hope that by the time I've spent 25 years trying
• 39:36
  Speaker 7: to pull them out of the hat, that my record
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: of hits will be half as brilliant as yours.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Walter. And I meant what I said about
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: your being the top new idea man. The industry will
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: never get enough of your courage and foresight.
• 39:48
  Speaker 9: Thanks. And speaking of ideas, apparently you had a great
• 39:51
  Speaker 9: one in the buccaneer.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, have you seen it?
• 39:54
  Speaker 9: Of course not.
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 39:57
  Speaker 7: You think I'll stand in line for three hours? You
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: can't get near the box office.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Well, Lafitte was a great pirate. You might get some ideas.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Tell me, what pictures are you working on now?
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: Well, by this time next year, I hope to have
• 40:13
  Speaker 7: completed eight. Among them, a story on modern Spain called
• 40:17
  Speaker 7: The River is Blue, starring Madeleine Carroll and Henry Fonda.
• 40:20
  Speaker 7: Then there will be a screened version of Vincent Sheehan's autobiography,
• 40:23
  Speaker 7: Personal History. Another one with Charles Boyer and the Arabian Nights.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: They sound fascinating, Walter. But a couple of those pictures
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: may not be so well received abroad. Does censorship scare you?
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Do you think pictures would be better if regulations were
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: stricter or more lenient?
• 40:39
  Speaker 7: I have no particular complaint along those lines at all, C.B.,
• 40:42
  Speaker 7: except that I must say I feel we deserve the
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: same freedom as the press. But certainly, crudeness and vulgarity
• 40:48
  Speaker 7: have no place in motion pictures.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: I agree with you 200%.
• 40:52
  Speaker 7: Besides, with so much lux soap around my studio, how
• 40:55
  Speaker 7: could our product be anything but clean?
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: That's right, Walter. Give credit where credit is due.
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: Well, I just wanted you to know that Lux soap
• 41:03
  Speaker 7: is part of our official equipment. But getting back to pictures,
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: what are we going to do, C.B., when it seems
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: that the greatest stars of the moment are the seven
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: dwarfs and a woodpecker's pantry called Charlie McCarthy?
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: Well, we will do what we've always done, Walter. Find
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: new stars like those you're now cultivating. Louise Platt, Tim Holt,
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Marla Shelton.
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: But doesn't it take more than a producer to make
• 41:26
  Speaker 7: a star? It's the public who really makes them. And
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: you who are listening now can help Mr. DeMille and
• 41:31
  Speaker 7: me and every other producer if you'll do simply this.
• 41:34
  Speaker 7: When you see a newcomer on the screen or someone
• 41:36
  Speaker 7: who isn't so new but whom you think should be
• 41:38
  Speaker 7: given more of an opportunity, just let your theater manager
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: know your opinion or send it to us direct. You
• 41:44
  Speaker 7: don't want to see mediocre pictures, and we don't want
• 41:46
  Speaker 7: to make them. You'll minimize them by letting us know
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: what type of pictures you want to see and the
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: people you want to see in them.
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: Good luck to your eight pictures, Laura.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: And I'll forget the $ 120. Our play, starring Herbert Marshall
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: and Madeline Carroll with Ralph Morgan, continues. On Christmas Eve
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: of the present day, the old bishop relives the scenes
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: of his youth. His grandson leans forward with eyes intent
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: on the old man's face.
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: And here on that night, 50 years ago, the whole
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: world suddenly seemed to fall away from me. They left,
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: Rita and Van Tile, and I sat here alone, alone
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: with my thoughts and the broken pieces of my life.
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: And then suddenly I was on the street, walking blindly
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: through the snow. I must have walked for hours, seeing nothing,
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: hearing nothing. Only the dim echo of Rita's voice ringing
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: in my brain. I remember people on the street stopping me,
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: staring at me. I remember thinking how light.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Good evening, Mr.
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: Armstrong.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: Good evening, Mr.
• 43:11
  Speaker 6: Armstrong.
• 43:12
  Speaker 10: Good evening, Mr.
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: Armstrong.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Good evening, Mr.
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: Armstrong.
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: I'll put on the coat in this weather. You'll get
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: your death call, mister. You poor blind fool.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: Don't you know what I am?
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: Don't you know what I feel? Can't you see it
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: in men's eyes?
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: Blind fool. Blind fool. Good evening, Mr.
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: Armstrong. Good evening, Mr. Armstrong.
• 43:28
  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: Armstrong.
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: Mr. Armstrong.
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: They've been looking for you at the rectory. Procession almost
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: ready to start. I love you.
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: Armstrong.
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: I love you.
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: Carissimo. I love you. Mr.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Armstrong, where are you going?
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: The procession starts over this way.
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: Mr. Armstrong.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Ask him about me, sir. He was there. I was there.
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: I was there. Ask him. Ask him.
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: Ask him.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Ask him.
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: Ask him.
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: Blind fool.
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: Blind fool.
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: Fool.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: Fool.
• 44:02
  Speaker 6: Fool.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: I love you.
• 44:04
  Speaker 9: I love you.
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: I love you.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: Good evening.
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: Good evening.
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: Let me take your coat, Rita. Here, sit down, dear.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: You must be tired out.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: It is good to be home again.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: I left a message at the desk that you were
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: not to be disturbed. You were magnificent tonight, Rita. Did
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: you hear them cheer? Twenty minutes. My ears are ringing yet.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: It was a great triumph, Rita. The greatest of your
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: whole career. Did you know that?
• 44:44
  Speaker 11: A great triumph. Tomorrow they will have someone else to worship.
• 44:49
  Speaker 11: A month from now, they will not even remember my name. Si, si,
• 44:54
  Speaker 11: and grand triumphal.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: Rita, you didn't always feel this way.
• 44:59
  Speaker 11: Things were different then. Something happened to me this afternoon, Cornelius.
• 45:04
  Speaker 11: Something went dead inside of me. I'll never really live again.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: You will, Rita. Don't think I'm being hard, but time
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: has its own way of healing wounds.
• 45:15
  Speaker 11: I know time heals everything. But will it take that
• 45:18
  Speaker 11: look from his eyes when I told him, Cornelius? Can
• 45:22
  Speaker 11: time give him his youth again? His smile, his light heart?
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: Even that, Rita, believe me. And for you, there's work.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: And perhaps in Mille Fleurs, perhaps we can find that
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: magic again, Rita. You and I.
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: No, Cornelius.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: Why not? Why can't we try?
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: Don't you know? That part of my life, it's over.
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: It's finished, Cornelius. Oh, I know you're trying to be kind,
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: but is it kindness? In these last few weeks, I
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: learned something all new and beautiful. The goodness of the world.
• 46:01
  Speaker 11: It come like some great light that burn and blind
• 46:07
  Speaker 11: and strike me.
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: To the ground.
• 46:10
  Speaker 11: For the first time, I see myself as I am,
• 46:13
  Speaker 11: and it hurts me so. I cannot go back now, Cornelius.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: What if you could only forget?
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: I do not want to forget. I want to remember.
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: Every day, every hour, every minuto, I want to remember.
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: Because he'll remember too. And perhaps, someday, he'll know how
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: much I really loved him.
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: Madama.
• 46:56
  Speaker 10: Madama Cavallini.
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: It is almost midnight.
• 47:00
  Speaker 12: You are going to sit up more?
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: Si, Vanucci. But if we are to sail tomorrow... I
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: am not tired, Cara.
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: No, madame.
• 47:09
  Speaker 10: You are so nastanca.
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: Have you finished with the packing?
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: Almost.
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: Then go to bed. I will not need you any.
• 47:18
  Speaker 10: Tom.
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: Tom, why did you come here?
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: Vanucci.
• 47:22
  Speaker 9: Si, madama.
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: Tom. What is it? Why do you stare at me? You...
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: Your hair is wet. Have you been walking in this snow? Yes.
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: Yes, I've been walking. I was thinking about you. And
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: praying for you. Praying for you in the twilight.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: In the evening.
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: In the black night.
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: Praying... For me?
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: In my prayers, I felt a hand here on my arm.
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: Someone stopping me to speak. And I looked down. And
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: it was you.
• 48:01
  Speaker 5: Tom.
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: I heard you crying as I ran away. Ran I
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: don't know where. Till I saw lights and people. And
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: then a beggar woman standing at the curb held up
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: her hand. I gave her something. She thanked me. With
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: your voice.
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: Tom, you must.
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: I saw you walking by me in the streets and
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: looking at me out of windows... I couldn't move. You
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: were so thick and close around me. Then it began
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: to snow and I thanked God, hoping it would blot
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: you from my sight. But each snowflake was a tiny face.
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: Your face. Thousands and thousands of you swearing in your
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: devil's dance by the glare of the street lamps. And
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: not one spoke. You looked at me imploring, speechless. Then
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: suddenly I knew. You were begging me to bring your
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: soul to God before it was too late.
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: Tom, Tom, you frighten me.
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: Everything is over between us. See it away. But I
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: am still a minister of God. And you are a
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: woman who needs my help. Our love is gone. But
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: I'll be another. The love I bring you tonight is
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: God's alone.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: Don't, please.
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: You don't know what you're saying.
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: Hold out your arms to him. Open your heart to him.
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: For though your sins be a scarlet, they shall be
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: white as snow. For you come out of great tribulation
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: and have washed your robes in the blood of the Lamb.
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: Open your heart to him. And no longer shall you hunger.
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: No longer shall you thirst. For he will lead you
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: to the living waters and the tree of life. And
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: you shall be a bride. A bride.
• 49:49
  Speaker 5: Oh, Tom. Tom, my darling. Have I hurt you so much?
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: So much that you cannot even pray for me? No,
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: let me hurt you, Tom.
• 50:02
  Speaker 11: Please, no, let me hurt you. We were not meant
• 50:06
  Speaker 11: to love each other. I know that now. We are
• 50:11
  Speaker 11: brought together, you and I, only that you might help me.
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: And you have. You come tonight to bring my soul
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: to God. But your work was over. Long, long ago.
• 50:26
  Speaker 5: That night in the carriage. Do you remember, Tom? You
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: kissed my hand. It was then your work was done.
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: Now go away, dear. Va via. And forget.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: No.
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: I've lied to you. I've lied to myself. I thought
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: I came here tonight to save my soul. I didn't.
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: I came because I love you.
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: No.
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: I love you. I don't care what you are or
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: what you've been. Do you understand that? I don't care.
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: I want you.
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: I want you to... I want to marry you.
• 51:05
  Speaker 5: You don't know what you're saying.
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: I do. We could be married tomorrow. We could go
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: away together.
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: Go away, yes. Go away and hide. That's what we'd
• 51:12
  Speaker 5: be doing. Oh, Tom, listen. Listen to me, please. For
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: the first time in my life.
• 51:21
  Speaker 11: I know what it is to be strong. Let me
• 51:25
  Speaker 11: keep that strength. Let me be a little proud and
• 51:28
  Speaker 11: hold my head up high. Don't make me shamed again.
• 51:33
  Speaker 11: You have your church, your work.
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: You're more to me than that. You're more to me
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: than life.
• 51:38
  Speaker 5: Tom! Am I more to you than God himself? You
• 51:46
  Speaker 5: prayed for me before. Now let me pray for you.
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: Rita.
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: Please go.
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: Before it is too late.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: Listen.
• 52:03
  Speaker 11: You hear?
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: That's your world. That's where you belong. Go back to it, Tom.
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: Go back to God.
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: Rita.
• 52:17
  Speaker 8: Ave Maria.
• 52:20
  Speaker 5: Grazia plena.
• 52:22
  Speaker 8: Dominus Dei.
• 52:25
  Speaker 5: Benedicta tu in mulierebus, et benedictus fructus ventris tuis, Gesi.
• 52:37
  Speaker 8: Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis, peccatoribus, nun et
• 52:48
  Speaker 8: in hora mortis.
• 52:50
  Speaker 11: Amen.
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: How I remember her. Standing there with her eyes closed,
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: her head thrown back, praying for me. I never saw
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: her again. Some years after, I married Susan, your grandmother.
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: She made me very happy, Gerald, all my life.
• 53:19
  Speaker 6: And Madame Cavallini, where is she now?
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: She went back to Europe that Christmas day in 1888.
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: She sang for a few years more in Berlin... in Paris,
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: in Italy, and then she died. She was a great woman, Gerald.
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: I think you were pretty fine, too. Nonsense. But I
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: hope you understand now that I haven't quite forgotten what
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: it feels like to be young.
• 53:46
  Speaker 6: Grandfather, I've been a fool, but your story has helped
• 53:49
  Speaker 6: a lot. I know now what I'm going to do.
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: Do you?
• 53:52
  Speaker 6: I'm going to marry Lucille just as soon as I
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  Speaker 6: can get hold of a license.
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  Speaker 2: What?
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: But that wasn't why I told you the story.
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  Speaker 6: I know. But I hope you don't mind.
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  Speaker 4: No, Gerald, I don't mind. Thanks.
• 54:09
  Speaker 6: Good night, Grandfather, and Merry Christmas.
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: Merry Christmas, my boy.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: Slowly the curtain falls, and our evening's romance is over.
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: Not since a year ago last December, when we presented Cavalcade,
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: have we had the pleasure of hearing from Madeline Carroll
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: and Herbert Marshall together, and as themselves. To their native England,
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: Hollywood owes a great debt for giving us not only
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: two superb performers, but two very charming people, Miss Carroll
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: and Mr.
• 54:57
  Speaker 6: Marshall.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, Mr. DeMille.
• 54:59
  Speaker 11: You know, Hollywood is the most amazing place in the world.
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: Are you speaking for the Chamber of Commerce, Madeline, or
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: for yourself?
• 55:07
  Speaker 5: For myself.
• 55:08
  Speaker 11: Last fall, I left Hollywood to visit my place in Spain.
• 55:12
  Speaker 11: I traveled 6,000 miles only to find that the better
• 55:15
  Speaker 11: part of valor was to keep out of Spain. Then
• 55:18
  Speaker 11: I came back to Hollywood, and before I had a
• 55:20
  Speaker 11: chance to catch my breath, I found myself in Spain.
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: Just one moment, Madeline. Would you mind starting again at
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: the beginning? I'm afraid that.
• 55:27
  Speaker 5: Well, it's just as startling as it sounded, Bart.
• 55:31
  Speaker 11: This picture I'm making, The River is Blue, is as
• 55:33
  Speaker 11: Spanish as a bullfight or a hot tamale. And if
• 55:36
  Speaker 11: you'd like to see what Spain really looks like, just
• 55:39
  Speaker 11: come along to the location set Mr. Wenger has built
• 55:41
  Speaker 11: down the coast, some 30 miles from here. I can't
• 55:44
  Speaker 11: show you my house, but I can show you a
• 55:46
  Speaker 11: Spanish seaport to the life.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: Speaking of Mr. Wenger, Madeline, do you suppose he was being, well,
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: just polite when he complimented Luxo?
• 55:54
  Speaker 11: I'll have you know that Walter Wenger is never just polite.
• 55:58
  Speaker 11: Don't expect a compliment from him unless you've really earned it.
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  Speaker 5: I know. I work for him. Believe me, Mr. DeMille,
• 56:05
  Speaker 5: there's no chance of anyone getting conceited working for Walter Wanger.
• 56:09
  Speaker 11: Now, if you still want his statement verified, well, I'm
• 56:11
  Speaker 11: the one to do it. Lux soap is always in
• 56:14
  Speaker 11: my dressing room at Wanger Studios. And that's most accommodating,
• 56:18
  Speaker 11: for then I don't have to bring it from home.
• 56:20
  Speaker 5: From that, Mr.
• 56:20
  Speaker 11: DeMille, you may gather that I'm one of the most
• 56:22
  Speaker 11: faithful users of your product.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Madeline, I do. And by the way... I
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: understand an important birthday will be observed this week. Of course, Mr.
• 56:30
  Speaker 5: DeMille. Washington's birthday. Tomorrow.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: I should have said two important birthdays. Washington's and yours.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: I'm a bit early, but many happy returns from.
• 56:40
  Speaker 5: All of us. Thank you, sir.
• 56:42
  Speaker 11: But if that surprised look on your face is the
• 56:44
  Speaker 11: result of my remembering Washington's birthday, then be informed, please,
• 56:48
  Speaker 11: that you're talking to an ex-school teacher.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: Madeline, with a teacher as beautiful as you at the Blackboard...
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: I'll bet you got a carload of red apples a year.
• 57:03
  Speaker 5: That I wouldn't know.
• 57:04
  Speaker 11: My career as a school mom lasted only three months.
• 57:08
  Speaker 11: But that was long enough to find out, Mr. DeMille,
• 57:10
  Speaker 11: that your old hometown of Washington, North Carolina, was the
• 57:14
  Speaker 11: first town in the United States to be named after Washington,
• 57:17
  Speaker 11: way back in 1775.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: I hardly blame them for changing the original name, Madeline.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: The town was first called Forks in the Tower River.
• 57:28
  Speaker 5: As for you, Mr.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: Marshall, while I know you never taught school, I'm sure
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: your impressions of a man like Washington would be interesting
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: to all of us.
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: Well, C.B., you see, when I first came to this country,
• 57:38
  Speaker 4: I felt rather sorry for myself. It was all so
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: new to me, so strange and different. But as I
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: became acquainted with America with its vigorous romantic background, I
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: was able to see it as I think so few
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: Americans are privileged to see it. To so many Americans,
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: it's an old, taken-for-granted story. Valley Forge is an old story,
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: something to be learned in grade school and then filed
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: away in the distant cabinets of youthful learning. May I
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: suggest in all humility that someday all of you dust
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: it off and read it again, the story of a
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: solemn man torn with pity for a starving, ragged rabble
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: of freezing skeletons once dignified by the name of Army.
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: A man heckled and tormented and abused by those who
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: had given him a command he had not sought. A
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: man facing enormous odds. Robbed by defeat of everything but
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: a dream. A vision of a new land. Washington turned
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: that dream into a truth. And in so doing, lifted
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: his name to immortality. And now, C.B., my thanks and
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: good night.
• 58:39
  Speaker 5: Good night, Mr. DeMille.
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: Good night, Madeline.
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: Good night, Bob.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: That was finally said. Louis Silvers appeared at the courtesy
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: of 20th Century Fox Studios, where he was in charge
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: of music for the new picture, The Baroness and the Butler.
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: Marshall's latest RKO film is Breakfast for Two. And now,
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: here's our producer. Like tonight's story, the play we bring
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: you next Monday evening comes to the radio, backed by
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: an enviable record of success on stage and screen. Its title,
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: Forsaking All Others. The romance of a modern girl jilted
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: on her wedding day. The girl will be played by
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: one of the most talented dramatic actresses in Hollywood, Miss
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: Betty Davis. Co-starred with her will be Joel McRae. And
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: resuming the part he played in the Broadway production, Anderson Lawler.
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: Our sponsors, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, join me
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: in inviting you to be with us again next Monday
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: night when the Lux Radio Theater presents Betty Davis and
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: Joel McRae in Forsaking All Others. This is Cecil B.
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: DeMille saying goodnight to you from Hollywood. The waltz D.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: Chandrana heard tonight is from the collection Waltzes of Vienna.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: Our visit with Lux Radio Theater's Romance is complete. Follow
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: Lux Radio Theater for more classic broadcasts.