Latest / Lux Radio Theatre / Lux Radio Theatre - Portrait Of Jenny

Transcript

Lux Radio Theatre - Portrait Of Jenny · Lux Radio Theatre

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Lever Brothers Company, the makers of Luxe Plates, bring you
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: the Luxe Radio Theater, starring Joseph Cotton and Ann Baxter
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: in Portrait of Jenny.
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keeler.
• 0:23
  Speaker 3: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Once in every few years,
• 0:27
  Speaker 3: a motion picture comes along which gives audiences a special
• 0:31
  Speaker 3: feeling of adventure with a story that's off the beaten track.
• 0:35
  Speaker 4: Tonight's play is a fine example because it's David O.
• 0:39
  Speaker 3: Selznick's stirring production of Portrait of Jenny, one of the
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: current hits of the screen and one which ranks very high.
• 0:46
  Speaker 4: On your request list.
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: You'll hear Joseph Cotton in his original role, giving one
• 0:52
  Speaker 3: of those fine, sensitive performances for which he's noted both
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: on the screen and in the Lux Radio Theater. Co-starring
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: with Mr. Cotton is the brilliant young actress Anne Baxter
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: in the title role of Jenny. Over the years, we've
• 1:07
  Speaker 3: come to expect a fine job from stars like these,
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: just as you expect a high standard of performance from
• 1:14
  Speaker 3: Lux Flakes. Certain names always stand for quality. And Lux
• 1:18
  Speaker 3: Flakes is one of those names. Now, Act One, A
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: Portrait of Jenny, starring Joseph Cotton as Evan and Ann
• 1:26
  Speaker 3: Baxter as Jenny. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art in
• 1:42
  Speaker 3: New York City is a painting entitled Portrait of Jenny.
• 1:47
  Speaker 3: Out of that painting comes our story, the truth of
• 1:50
  Speaker 3: which lies not in the.
• 1:52
  Speaker 2: Telling, but in your heart.
• 1:54
  Speaker 3: This much we know, that there was a girl named Jenny.
• 1:58
  Speaker 4: Who sat for the portrait.
• 1:59
  Speaker 3: For the rest, science tells us that nothing ever dies,
• 2:04
  Speaker 3: but only changes, and that the past and the future
• 2:08
  Speaker 3: are together at our side forever.
• 2:11
  Speaker 5: ¶ ¶.
• 2:18
  Speaker 6: It was during the Depression, the winter of 1934. There's
• 2:23
  Speaker 6: a type of suffering for the artist which is worse
• 2:25
  Speaker 6: than anything a winter of poverty can do. It's more
• 2:29
  Speaker 6: like the winter of the mind, a dreadful feeling of
• 2:32
  Speaker 6: the world's indifference.
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: Good morning, sir.
• 2:39
  Speaker 6: What can I do for you? Well, you can buy
• 2:41
  Speaker 6: one of my paintings, perhaps. Well, of course, we buy
• 2:45
  Speaker 6: very little, times being what they are.
• 2:47
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: They're landscapes, mostly. Landscapes. Too bad. They come in every
• 2:52
  Speaker 2: day by the dozen. No, I'm afraid... Oh, Miss Spinney,
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: you startled me.
• 2:56
  Speaker 8: Another artist, Mr.
• 2:57
  Speaker 9: Mather.
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes. This is Miss Spinney, my partner. How do
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: you do?
• 3:01
  Speaker 8: What's your name?
• 3:02
  Speaker 2: Adams. Evan Adams.
• 3:04
  Speaker 8: Oh, what are you so defensive about?
• 3:06
  Speaker 9: I'm not.
• 3:07
  Speaker 8: Then don't be in such a hurry to put away
• 3:08
  Speaker 8: your paintings.
• 3:09
  Speaker 9: Landscapes, Miss Spinney.
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: Nothing that'll interest you.
• 3:12
  Speaker 8: You're probably right. But I'd like to see what interests you.
• 3:15
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 3:17
  Speaker 8: You paint a nice boat.
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 3:20
  Speaker 8: Ever read Robert Browning?
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: Long time ago.
• 3:23
  Speaker 8: You remember his poem about Andrea del Sarto, the perfect painter? Proportion, anatomy, color. Oh,
• 3:30
  Speaker 8: he had everything and nothing. He painted a perfect hand
• 3:35
  Speaker 8: while Raphael drew a formless cloth. But Raphael loved his work.
• 3:41
  Speaker 8: Poor Andrea del Sarto.
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: I think I get your point.
• 3:44
  Speaker 8: There isn't a drop of love in any of these paintings.
• 3:46
  Speaker 9: Oh, really, Miss Spinney?
• 3:47
  Speaker 8: I'm an old maid, Mr. Matthews, and nobody knows more
• 3:50
  Speaker 8: about love than an old maid. What's the matter with you, Adams?
• 3:55
  Speaker 8: You'll have to learn to care deeply for something.
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: What do you mean by that, Iris?
• 3:58
  Speaker 7: Anyway, we'll take the boat.
• 4:00
  Speaker 8: Twelve dollars and a half, Mr.
• 4:01
  Speaker 5: Adams.
• 4:01
  Speaker 8: If there's any argument, there's no sale.
• 4:03
  Speaker 2: There's no argument.
• 4:04
  Speaker 8: Pay in, Mr.
• 4:04
  Speaker 4: Matthews.
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, here. Have you changed for a dollar? I haven't
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: got a dime.
• 4:09
  Speaker 8: He'll owe us 50 cents, Mr.
• 4:11
  Speaker 5: Matthews.
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: I don't think you really want the painting.
• 4:13
  Speaker 8: If I hadn't wanted it, I wouldn't have taken it.
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: Your eyes... Well.
• 4:18
  Speaker 2: You have beautiful eyes. Goodbye. Oh, dear. I'm afraid that
• 4:22
  Speaker 2: picture isn't worth more than a couple of dollars.
• 4:24
  Speaker 7: No.
• 4:25
  Speaker 8: But Adams is.
• 4:26
  Speaker 2: We're supposed to be in business for profit.
• 4:28
  Speaker 8: I bought this for myself.
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, Miss Finney. Of course.
• 4:40
  Speaker 6: Last I had a little money in my pocket, I
• 4:42
  Speaker 6: started walking to a central park filled with a sudden
• 4:44
  Speaker 6: awareness of something extraordinary. The city sounds were muted and
• 4:49
  Speaker 6: far away like something in a dream. I sat down
• 4:52
  Speaker 6: on a bench and then I noticed a little package there, something.
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: Wrapped up in newspaper. That package, it's mine. Oh, I
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: didn't know. Isn't anyone here with you?
• 5:03
  Speaker 9: No.
• 5:05
  Speaker 10: Why should there be?
• 5:06
  Speaker 2: Getting dark.
• 5:07
  Speaker 10: But I don't have to go home yet. Anyway, you're
• 5:11
  Speaker 10: with me. I'm Jenny.
• 5:13
  Speaker 2: Jenny? Jenny what?
• 5:15
  Speaker 10: Jenny Appleton. My mother and father are actors. They're working
• 5:19
  Speaker 10: down at Hammerstein's, Victoria. They do juggling on a roll.
• 5:23
  Speaker 2: Hammerstein?
• 5:24
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 5:25
  Speaker 9: Why?
• 5:26
  Speaker 2: That theater was torn down years ago when I was
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: a boy.
• 5:28
  Speaker 10: Oh, you must be thinking of some other place.
• 5:32
  Speaker 12: Because.
• 5:33
  Speaker 10: I was there yesterday.
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: Now, really, I remember.
• 5:35
  Speaker 10: Now let me see your pictures.
• 5:37
  Speaker 2: How do you know their pictures?
• 5:39
  Speaker 10: Oh, I just know. What's this one here?
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: The church near the sea.
• 5:45
  Speaker 10: Those are awfully little windows for such a big church.
• 5:48
  Speaker 2: They have to be little. There's so much wind on
• 5:50
  Speaker 2: Cape Cod.
• 5:51
  Speaker 10: I don't like it.
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: It scares me.
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: The wind?
• 5:55
  Speaker 9: No.
• 5:57
  Speaker 10: The black water. There should be a lighthouse out there
• 6:01
  Speaker 10: by the ocean.
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: How do you know?
• 6:04
  Speaker 10: I don't exactly remember. Someday I'll show it to you
• 6:08
  Speaker 10: out there on the rock. It's called Lands and Life.
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: But you just said you didn't remember.
• 6:14
  Speaker 9: I don't.
• 6:16
  Speaker 10: I just know. I wish I liked your pictures, but
• 6:21
  Speaker 10: I don't.
• 6:23
  Speaker 2: That's what everybody says. That's why I can't sell them.
• 6:26
  Speaker 10: Don't you sell anything you paint?
• 6:28
  Speaker 6: Oh, an illustration once in a while for a story
• 6:30
  Speaker 6: or an advertisement, but not very often.
• 6:33
  Speaker 10: Cecily Brown's house is full of pictures.
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: Who's Cecily Brown?
• 6:36
  Speaker 10: She's my best friend. I go to school every day now,
• 6:41
  Speaker 10: but only in the morning.
• 6:43
  Speaker 2: What do you learn?
• 6:44
  Speaker 10: Well, yesterday we learned about the Kaiser. He's the king
• 6:48
  Speaker 10: of Germany.
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: Well, he was a long time ago.
• 6:51
  Speaker 9: Oh, you're wrong.
• 6:53
  Speaker 10: Cecily's father is in Germany now, and he sees him
• 6:57
  Speaker 10: all the time.
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: I see. Well, I'm afraid I have to go now.
• 7:00
  Speaker 10: I'll walk with you if you don't mind. I know
• 7:04
  Speaker 10: a song. Want to hear it?
• 7:06
  Speaker 2: Yes, I'd love to.
• 7:08
  Speaker 11: Where I come from, nobody knows. And where I am going,
• 7:21
  Speaker 11: everything goes.
• 7:24
  Speaker 10: The wind blows, the sea flows.
• 7:29
  Speaker 11: Nobody knows. And where I am going, nobody knows.
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: Who taught you that?
• 7:43
  Speaker 7: Nobody.
• 7:45
  Speaker 10: It's just a song. Do you know the game I
• 7:48
  Speaker 10: like to play, dear? It's a wishing game. I'll tell
• 7:52
  Speaker 10: you what I wish most.
• 7:53
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 7:55
  Speaker 9: I wish.
• 7:56
  Speaker 10: that you could wait for me to grow up so
• 7:59
  Speaker 10: that we could always be together. But you won't, I guess. Well,
• 8:05
  Speaker 10: I can't talk to you anymore. Goodbye.
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute. That parcel on the bench, you forgot it.
• 8:10
  Speaker 9: Oh, dear.
• 8:10
  Speaker 2: Stay here. I'll get it for you.
• 8:12
  Speaker 10: Oh, thank you.
• 8:20
  Speaker 6: The little package wrapped in newspaper was still on the bench,
• 8:23
  Speaker 6: but when I returned with it, Jenny was gone. I
• 8:27
  Speaker 6: had dinner and went back to my room, but I
• 8:29
  Speaker 6: couldn't get her out of my mind. Half amused, I
• 8:32
  Speaker 6: started to sketch her from memory. A pencil sketch of
• 8:36
  Speaker 6: a little girl in Temple Park.
• 8:38
  Speaker 5: Hiya, Mac.
• 8:44
  Speaker 9: Where you going? Morning, Gus.
• 8:46
  Speaker 2: Had your breakfast?
• 8:46
  Speaker 9: Just on my way. Come on, hop in the cab.
• 8:48
  Speaker 9: How about having breakfast with me?
• 8:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, not again, Gus. Besides, I'm wealthy. I sold a
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: picture yesterday.
• 8:53
  Speaker 9: Are you kidding?
• 8:54
  Speaker 2: Got $ 12 and a half for it.
• 8:56
  Speaker 9: Well, in that case, I might even start the meter.
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: You know, Gus, I don't get you at all. Why
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: should you care if I.
• 9:02
  Speaker 9: You want to know why?
• 9:03
  Speaker 7: Hmm.
• 9:03
  Speaker 9: Because I got a lot of respect for a guy
• 9:05
  Speaker 9: that's doing what he's got to do. Even if maybe
• 9:08
  Speaker 9: it's killing him. You want to paint pictures. So you're
• 9:11
  Speaker 9: going right ahead and doing it no matter what. I
• 9:13
  Speaker 9: like that, Mike.
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: Hey, how about having.
• 9:16
  Speaker 9: Breakfast at Moore's? I just remembered. Moore's said should I
• 9:18
  Speaker 9: happen to see you, to send you in.
• 9:20
  Speaker 7: Me?
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 9:21
  Speaker 9: Well, how do I know? I guess he wants to
• 9:23
  Speaker 9: see you.
• 9:28
  Speaker 2: Gave me a job, Gus Moore. Gave me a job.
• 9:30
  Speaker 9: A job here?
• 9:31
  Speaker 6: Well, I get all my meals for nothing. All I
• 9:33
  Speaker 6: have to do is paint a mural on that wall
• 9:35
  Speaker 6: there over the bar.
• 9:36
  Speaker 9: Oh, that's not bad. All your meals, huh?
• 9:38
  Speaker 6: Yesterday I sold a painting. Now I'm commissioned to do
• 9:40
  Speaker 6: a mural. What's happened to me?
• 9:42
  Speaker 9: Maybe your luck's changing. Well, come on. Eat your breakfast. Hey,
• 9:46
  Speaker 9: what's that on the floor?
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, must have dropped out of my coat pocket. It's
• 9:52
  Speaker 2: a scarf, see? Belongs to a little girl I met
• 9:54
  Speaker 2: in the park.
• 9:56
  Speaker 9: Pretty big scarf for a little girl.
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: She left it on a bench wrapped up in a sneaker.
• 10:00
  Speaker 6: Funny kid got said her parents were acrobats at hammerstein.
• 10:04
  Speaker 9: Hammerstein what that was torn down years.
• 10:07
  Speaker 13: Ago she said she was there yesterday some imagination them
• 10:11
  Speaker 13: kids got hey there's newspaper about it well look at
• 10:15
  Speaker 13: it the date 1910?
• 10:17
  Speaker 2: 1910.
• 10:18
  Speaker 6: Where did you get an old paper like that? I
• 10:20
  Speaker 6: told you, the little girl. A scarf was wrapped up
• 10:22
  Speaker 6: in it. Well, guys, look at this, this ad.
• 10:26
  Speaker 9: Huh? Hammerstein's Victoria, now appearing Eva Tangway, the American comedian. Well,
• 10:34
  Speaker 9: Will Rogers, expert lariat thrower. How do you like that?
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, down, down further, look.
• 10:39
  Speaker 9: Huh? Oh, oh, the Appleton's novelty high wire actor. Well,
• 10:43
  Speaker 9: what about her?
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: That's just what she said. She said her name was
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: Jenny Appleton.
• 10:47
  Speaker 9: So?
• 10:47
  Speaker 6: Now that I think of it, she wasn't dressed the
• 10:49
  Speaker 6: way kids are now at all.
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: Her clothes, her hat, they were old-fashioned.
• 10:53
  Speaker 9: Hey, Adams!
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: Here, yes, Mr.
• 10:54
  Speaker 9: Moore. Hurry up, will you?
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: I want you should have my ideas for that Muriel. Oh, yes, Mr.
• 10:58
  Speaker 8: Moore.
• 10:59
  Speaker 2: I'll be right there.
• 10:59
  Speaker 14: That's a sketch, eh?
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: Well, let me see it. Well, the little girl I
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: saw in the park, Mr. Matthews.
• 11:16
  Speaker 11: Well, now, well.
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: It's very good. Isn't it, Miss Spinney?
• 11:21
  Speaker 9: Oh, yes.
• 11:21
  Speaker 8: Very good.
• 11:22
  Speaker 2: You have a feeling for a face, Mr. Adams. Ever
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: tried portrait? Oh, not seriously. Oh, but you should.
• 11:27
  Speaker 9: You should.
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: As for the sketch, I'll give you $ 25 for it.
• 11:31
  Speaker 8: Well, Adams, you can stop feeling sorry for yourself.
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: Sorry?
• 11:34
  Speaker 6: I'm getting three meals a day for painting a mural
• 11:36
  Speaker 6: and now $ 25 for a sketch.
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: Here's your money.
• 11:39
  Speaker 4: Take it before I change my mind.
• 11:41
  Speaker 8: And where are you going now?
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, nowhere, anywhere. Where I come from, nobody knows. And
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: where I'm going, everything goes.
• 11:47
  Speaker 8: What's that?
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: What's the song that little girl sang in the park?
• 11:50
  Speaker 8: Well, if you don't know whether you're coming or going,
• 11:52
  Speaker 8: perhaps you'd like a cup of tea.
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: Thank you, I would.
• 11:54
  Speaker 8: We'll be in my office, Mr.
• 11:56
  Speaker 9: Matthews.
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: You have a wonderful view of the park, Miss Finney.
• 12:02
  Speaker 8: What's going on over there?
• 12:03
  Speaker 6: Lots of ice skaters today. You know, I haven't skated
• 12:06
  Speaker 6: since I was a kid in Maine.
• 12:07
  Speaker 8: Real down east, isn't it?
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: It's a fine little town. Rivers, lakes, mountains. My father
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: ran the general store until he died. My mother died
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: a couple of years later.
• 12:15
  Speaker 8: And what happened to you?
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, worked my way through three years of college, and
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: then I.
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: Fascinating, isn't it?
• 12:21
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 12:22
  Speaker 8: I think it's interesting.
• 12:24
  Speaker 6: I want to ask you a question, Vinnie. I don't
• 12:26
  Speaker 6: feel sorry for myself the way you said. I'm facing
• 12:29
  Speaker 6: a very practical problem.
• 12:31
  Speaker 8: An artist facing a practical problem.
• 12:33
  Speaker 6: Not the kind you think. I... I don't mind being hungry.
• 12:36
  Speaker 6: I don't even care about having to dodge the landlady
• 12:39
  Speaker 6: most of the time. Well, I know that every artist
• 12:43
  Speaker 6: who ever amounted to anything went through a lot more
• 12:45
  Speaker 6: than I have, but they knew they had something.
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: You can take a lot of beatings when you know that.
• 12:50
  Speaker 8: But you're not sure? You don't think you're a good artist?
• 12:54
  Speaker 6: Why should I believe that of all the thousands of
• 12:57
  Speaker 6: artists fighting for recognition, that I'm one who has something
• 13:01
  Speaker 6: worth putting on canvas?
• 13:02
  Speaker 8: Oh, relax, Adams. It irritates me when you go on
• 13:04
  Speaker 8: like this. You know, something about you appeals to me.
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: I can't imagine what.
• 13:11
  Speaker 8: I think you're like the beau I wanted when I
• 13:13
  Speaker 8: was young. When I was doubting myself.
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: No, not you, too.
• 13:17
  Speaker 8: Look what it brought me. Just a frustrated old maid
• 13:19
  Speaker 8: lecturing a frustrated young painter.
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: Miss Benny, what should I do?
• 13:24
  Speaker 8: That pencil sketch shows what you can do. All you
• 13:27
  Speaker 8: need is a little inspiration. Any inspiration. That little girl
• 13:32
  Speaker 8: in the park.
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: Well, I guess that does it.
• 13:33
  Speaker 9: Now.
• 13:34
  Speaker 6: How about you and me taking a twirl out there
• 13:35
  Speaker 6: on the ice?
• 13:36
  Speaker 8: Oh, go along with you.
• 13:44
  Speaker 6: I left Miss Finney with a feeling of exhilaration I
• 13:46
  Speaker 6: hadn't known in years. And just as if I could
• 13:49
  Speaker 6: afford such luxuries, I rented a pair of ice skates.
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: It was a fine, clear day. Everyone around me.
• 13:54
  Speaker 9: Seemed young and full of laughter.
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 13:57
  Speaker 9: Adams!
• 13:57
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 13:58
  Speaker 15: Adams!
• 13:59
  Speaker 9: Jenny!
• 13:59
  Speaker 16: Well, hello.
• 14:00
  Speaker 9: Hello.
• 14:01
  Speaker 5: Isn't it fun?
• 14:03
  Speaker 7: Oh, I love ice skating.
• 14:04
  Speaker 9: I can't believe it's you.
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: You've grown so much taller.
• 14:08
  Speaker 7: Oh, well, maybe you didn't see me so good before.
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: No, I'm sure you've grown.
• 14:12
  Speaker 7: Of course I have. I'm hurting. Don't you remember our wish?
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: Sure I do.
• 14:19
  Speaker 9: You called me Mr. Adams.
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: How did you know my name?
• 14:22
  Speaker 7: The paintings you showed me. Your name was on them,
• 14:24
  Speaker 7: Stephen Adams.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah, of course. Oh, by the way, I
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: have something of yours.
• 14:29
  Speaker 7: What a pretty scarf.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: You said it was yours.
• 14:32
  Speaker 7: Did I? I'll tell you what. Why don't you keep
• 14:35
  Speaker 7: it for me till I grow up? And then I'll
• 14:37
  Speaker 7: have one more reason to grow up fast.
• 14:39
  Speaker 9: All right, I will.
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: I owe you a favor anyway.
• 14:41
  Speaker 7: You do?
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: I drew a sketch of you and sold it.
• 14:44
  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm glad.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: The man who bought it told me I ought to
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: paint portraits.
• 14:48
  Speaker 7: Well, who would you.
• 14:49
  Speaker 9: Paint, Mr.
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: Adams?
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I haven't decided yet.
• 14:53
  Speaker 9: Maybe.
• 14:54
  Speaker 7: Will you let it be me?
• 14:55
  Speaker 9: Well.
• 14:56
  Speaker 7: Oh, you're not joking.
• 14:57
  Speaker 9: You mean it.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 14:59
  Speaker 7: I'm going to have my picture painted. Won't Emily be mad?
• 15:02
  Speaker 9: Emily?
• 15:03
  Speaker 7: Emily's my best friend. I told you you were going
• 15:05
  Speaker 7: to paint my picture. She said I was crazy.
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: Emily, I thought you said Cecily was your best friend.
• 15:09
  Speaker 9: Cecily?
• 15:10
  Speaker 7: Cecily Brown? Oh, she moved away three years ago. I
• 15:13
  Speaker 7: thought I told you.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: No, no, you didn't.
• 15:15
  Speaker 7: Oh, that's funny.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: Doesn't matter. How would you like some hot chocolate?
• 15:19
  Speaker 7: Oh, I love hot chocolate, Mr.
• 15:20
  Speaker 9: Adams.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: Let's have some. We can get it right over there.
• 15:27
  Speaker 7: This is wonderful chocolate, Mr.
• 15:29
  Speaker 9: Adams.
• 15:29
  Speaker 12: Thank you.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Jenny, tell me, where do you live?
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: I'd like to come and see you.
• 15:33
  Speaker 7: Well, I don't think there's any place you can come
• 15:36
  Speaker 7: and see me yet.
• 15:36
  Speaker 9: Why?
• 15:37
  Speaker 7: Oh, it's just the way it is. When will you
• 15:40
  Speaker 7: start my portrait?
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: Well, whenever your parents will let you sit for me.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: Where are they now?
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: At Hammerstein's again. They've got wonderful new tricks way up
• 15:47
  Speaker 7: on the high wire. Sometimes it scares me to watch them.
• 15:51
  Speaker 7: Of course, they're silly. That's why they're so famous. They
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: scare everybody.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: I'd like to see them. Why don't you take me
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: to Hammerstein?
• 15:58
  Speaker 12: Oh, do let's go.
• 15:59
  Speaker 7: I can get us in free. Could you go to
• 16:01
  Speaker 7: the matinee on Saturday?
• 16:02
  Speaker 9: I think so.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Where will we meet?
• 16:03
  Speaker 7: Well, let's meet here in the park at that bench
• 16:06
  Speaker 7: where we met before. I'll be there at 2 o'clock.
• 16:08
  Speaker 7: At least I'll try. Well, I really must go now.
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: Must you?
• 16:14
  Speaker 8: Goodbye, Mr.
• 16:15
  Speaker 9: Adams. Goodbye, Jenny. Goodbye.
• 16:20
  Speaker 8: Looking for someone, Adams?
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, Miss Spinney.
• 16:22
  Speaker 8: I just thought I'd take a little walk.
• 16:25
  Speaker 12: Well?
• 16:26
  Speaker 9: Well?
• 16:27
  Speaker 8: Who were you staring after?
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, that little girl I told you about.
• 16:31
  Speaker 9: See?
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: She's crossing the road.
• 16:34
  Speaker 9: There by the tree.
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: I know now that Spinney didn't see Jenny. She looked
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: at me as though I were a patient who needed watching.
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: When Saturday came, I went again to the park and
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: waited for Jenny, but.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: I sat there alone. Apparently, she'd forgotten.
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: Suddenly, I decided to find out for myself what I
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: could about Jenny's parents. I found their names in old
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: programs at the public library, and then by sheerest accident,
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: someone told me about an old wardrobe woman.
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: That's right, Mr. Adams.
• 17:19
  Speaker 17: I worked in wardrobe at Hammerstein's for many, many years.
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: Then you remember some of the old acts. I'm trying
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: to find someone who knew the Appletons. They were acrobats,
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: I think.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: High trapeze.
• 17:29
  Speaker 17: Oh, I knew them all, Mr.
• 17:31
  Speaker 9: Adams.
• 17:32
  Speaker 13: All.
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: All of those wonderful people.
• 17:36
  Speaker 8: And I have them right here in my scrapbook.
• 17:38
  Speaker 17: Of course I remember the Appletons. And here's their picture.
• 17:42
  Speaker 17: Mary and Frank Appleton.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Who's this little girl with them?
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: Why, that's their daughter.
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: That's Jenny.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Daughter?
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: She must have been about 10 or 11 then.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Well, isn't it possible that this child is their granddaughter? Oh, no, no.
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: I knew, Jenny, when this picture was taken.
• 17:59
  Speaker 17: Sweetest little girl. Big eyes and sad. I used to
• 18:04
  Speaker 17: give her rock candy.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Would you know where she is now, Mrs.
• 18:06
  Speaker 12: Morgan? No.
• 18:08
  Speaker 17: No, I lost track of her after her parents were killed.
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: That was many years ago.
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: Killed? The wire broke.
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: Jenny was in the theater when it happened.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: You're sure you don't remember what happened to her?
• 18:19
  Speaker 17: Well, it seems there was some talk about her aunt
• 18:22
  Speaker 17: wanting to put her in a convent. Jenny wasn't a Catholic,
• 18:25
  Speaker 17: but her aunt said a convent was the best.
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: Place for a girl to be.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Mrs. Morgan.
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: Oh, don't thank me, Mr.
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: Adams.
• 18:32
  Speaker 17: Isn't often I have a chance to share my memories. Well,
• 18:36
  Speaker 17: I hope you're fine, Jenny.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: She was a.
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: Dear little girl.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: I hope so, too.
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: I knew now that a child named Jenny Appleton was
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: not just a creature of my imagination. Such a child
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: had existed. But beyond that, I couldn't think. The park
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: that night was strangely empty. Nothing seemed real, not even
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: the towers of the city or the myriad lights.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: And then as I came nearer to the bench, Jenny's there.
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: Jenny.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Jenny, what's the matter?
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: Father and mother.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Father and... Something's happened. They've had an accident.
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: I knew it would happen. I was always scared it
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: would happen. And tonight.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Tonight? Oh, Jenny, I... I know how you feel. I
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: know how much it hurts. But it isn't hurting them.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Nothing will ever hurt them again.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Please.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Try to think of it that way.
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: But they're dead.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: We all die sometimes.
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: I love them. They love me.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: You mustn't be too unhappy. They wouldn't want you to be,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: would they? Would they?
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: They told me once. They said if anything happened to them,
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: they mustn't be unhappy because they were doing what they
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: wanted to do.
• 19:58
  Speaker 12: And if they.
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: If anything happened, it would happen to them both at
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: the same time. The way they wanted.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: There.
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: You see?
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: So I shouldn't cry, should I?
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: I'm only crying for myself because they're gone and because
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: I'm lonely.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: No, Jenny, don't, don't, don't.
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: Maybe I won't always be lonely. I don't know why,
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: but I don't think I'll be lonely very long. I'm hurrying.
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: I'm hurrying fast now. My aunt is sending me to
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: a convent.
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: Convent?
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Do you want to go?
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: Oh, yes, yes.
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: After that, I'll be grown up. Don't you understand?
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: No, Jenny, no. I don't understand. Each time I see you,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: you've changed. You're older. You talk about things that happened
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: long ago.
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: Did they? Sometimes I kind of think that, too. But
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: maybe that's because I have to find something.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Find something? But what?
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: I'm not sure. But I think I'll know someday. I
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: think I'll know when I find it. And I think
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: you'll know, too.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I hope so.
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: You'll wait for me, won't you? You'll give me a
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: little more time.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: All right, Jenny.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: Oh, listen. The stars.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: Can't you hear them? Listen to the stars coming out.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: There aren't any stars, Jenny. Not that I can see.
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: It's too cloudy and.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Jenny!
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: And once again, as sudden as her coming, Jenny was gone.
• 21:48
  Speaker 12: Our stars will return with Act Two of Portrait.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Of Jenny in a moment. Libby, I'm still trying to
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: decide whether it's the moving story or the magnificent acting
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: that makes the 20th Century Fox production of Pinky such
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: a great picture.
• 22:03
  Speaker 15: Well, I think Daryl Afzanik deserves credit for the combination.
• 22:07
  Speaker 15: When a lovely, light-skinned Negro girl tries to run away
• 22:11
  Speaker 15: from herself, it makes an important human story.
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: Jean Crane gives a very sympathetic performance.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: The part of Miss M, a domineering, warm-hearted aristocrat, seems
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: meant for Ethel Barrymore. Isn't her vitality wonderful after 50 years.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: In the theater?
• 22:28
  Speaker 15: William Lundigan, who plays the young Boston doctor in Pinky,
• 22:31
  Speaker 15: says she inspired everyone on the set.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Jean Crane's acting has matured remarkably.
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: Well, she's growing up. Jean has two darling babies, you know,
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: and takes personal care of them.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Even the 6 a.m.
• 22:45
  Speaker 9: Feeding?
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: Oh, yes, indeed.
• 22:47
  Speaker 15: And even at that early hour, I'm sure Jean looks charming.
• 22:51
  Speaker 15: You know, she has a wardrobe of smartly simple negligees
• 22:55
  Speaker 15: in pastel colors that looks like a charm. In fact,
• 22:59
  Speaker 15: Jean insists on Lux Flakes' care for all her slips
• 23:02
  Speaker 15: and nighties as well as her negligees.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Hollywood stars are smart about such things. They know that
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Lux Flakes Care really does keep washable silks, rayons, and
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: nylons new-looking far longer.
• 23:16
  Speaker 15: And luxing is so easy. These tiny diamonds of lux
• 23:19
  Speaker 15: make rich suds in a flash. Whisk away every trace
• 23:24
  Speaker 15: of perspiration and soil. Yet slips and nighties stay color-fresh
• 23:29
  Speaker 15: and new-looking.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Tests prove that. Wrong washing methods are hard on pretty undies.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: But Luxe Flakes Care keep colors lovely three times as long.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: That's one reason this fine product of Lever Brothers is
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: so popular with women everywhere. Now, here's our producer, Mr.
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: William Keeley.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Act Two of Portrait of Jenny, starring Joseph Cotton as
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Eben and Ann Baxter as Jenny.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: ¶ ¶.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Jenny was gone.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: And the mystery which surrounded her, the way she had
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: come and the way she had disappeared, left me helpless
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: and brooding. I was seized by memories so urgent that
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: they were more real to me than my own identity.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Everywhere I saw her. Everywhere I heard her.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: As the winter went by, I worked at whatever jobs
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: I could find, and between times I struggled with the
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: mural in Moore's Saloon. But mostly I was content to
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: do nothing, for I knew that I was worthless until
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: and unless Jenny returned. But I needed to tell someone,
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: and who was there to tell but Miss Spinney.
• 25:01
  Speaker 9: At the art gallery.
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: So at last you're ready to talk about it. All right, Adams,
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: you're an artist who's lost his art, is that it?
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: Something like that, I suppose. But I still could paint
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: one important picture, Spinney. Maybe that's all I'm good for,
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: but that much I know I can do.
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: The portrait of Jenny?
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's the only thing I've ever been sure of
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: in my life.
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: But you can't do it without her?
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Of course not.
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: Suppose you never see her again?
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: No, I can't even think of that.
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: Maybe you never did see her, not really.
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: Well, you think I created her. That's what you think,
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: isn't it? That I imagined her because I needed her for.
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: For an inspiration?
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: Why not?
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: Maybe you saw her, maybe you didn't. What's the difference?
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: By the time you're my age, you'll learn to believe
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: in lots of things you can't see. But if I
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: were you, I'd stop moping.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: And do what?
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: Stretch a new canvas. Get your brushes ready. You asked
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: what I think, and I think that... I think that
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: Jenny's coming back.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: That week I finished the mural for Moore. It covered
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: the wall. The colors were bright and Moore was delighted.
• 26:12
  Speaker 9: But what's eating you, Mac? It's a great painting you've done.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: Come on now, get up to the bar. They all
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: like it, don't they, Gus? Maybe that's all that matters.
• 26:19
  Speaker 13: Ha, ha, ha.
• 26:20
  Speaker 9: Moore's that proud of you? You'd think he'd painted it himself.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: The worst thing I've ever done. I'm ashamed of myself.
• 26:25
  Speaker 9: Ah, you're drunk.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: I wish I were.
• 26:27
  Speaker 9: Then come on. Free beer. You'll never have a better chance.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Gus, tell Moore I'm glad he's pleased. I'm going home.
• 26:33
  Speaker 9: Mac, no. No, Mac. It's early yet. Mac, come back here.
• 26:49
  Speaker 12: Hello, Evan.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Jenny. Jenny, it can't be you.
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: I tried to get here sooner, Evan, but I couldn't.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: You're beautiful, Jenny. And you've grown so.
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: Well, of course I have.
• 27:00
  Speaker 12: I'm hurrying.
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: I'm in my first year of college at the convent.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Let me look at you.
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: Oh, Evan, I've thought of you so much. I could
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: fill an eternity.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: What did you think?
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: About how wonderful it all is. Now I've searched and
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: searched how we'd be together always. I'm almost sure Do
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: you know what Emily wants to know? When you're going
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: to marry me. Don't laugh at me, Evan. I know
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: I'm not old enough yet, but I will be soon. Evan,
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: what's that sketch? That's Land's End, isn't it, in the lighthouse?
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: How do you know? Have you ever been there?
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: I don't know. I think.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: It's an old, deserted lighthouse up on Cape Cod. I
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: painted it long ago.
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: Makes me unhappy.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Well, then I'll put it away. Jenny, remember the portrait
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: we planned? Your portrait?
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: Then you haven't forgotten.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Let's start it now, please. Jenny, sit over here. You
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: don't mind?
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: Mind? Oh, Eben, the girls will be so jealous when
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: I tell them. Am I sitting right?
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Now, turn your head the other way.
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: No, no, no, no.
• 28:00
  Speaker 12: Leave your hair alone.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: It's fine. Just the way I want it.
• 28:03
  Speaker 18: Yes, Eben.
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: Some of my friends at the convent are taking the
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: veil this Sunday.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Now, don't move.
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: Could you come and see the ceremonies with me?
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: I'd love to, Jenny, only please sit still.
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, Eben. Eben... Promise you won't forget me.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Now, fix your eyes on something, Jenny. Hold your head.
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: That's fine.
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: That's fine, Jenny.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: It was morning before I knew it.
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: Jenny left to go back to the convent, and I
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: let her go with hardly a word as I kept
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: working intently on the portrait. But that Sunday, I went
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: to New Jersey to the convent she'd.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Told me about.
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: Heaven, heaven, what's wrong?
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, nothing's wrong now, Jenny, but I was.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: I was afraid you might not be here.
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: I told you I'd be here.
• 28:50
  Speaker 14: This way, Evans.
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: We'll have to hurry if we want to see the ceremony.
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: The ones with the candles are the ones who are.
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: Taking the veil.
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: I see.
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: Our teachers are in back of them. That's my favorite,
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: the one nearest the altar, that Sister Mary of Mercy.
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: I'm so glad you're waiting for me, Evans. As if
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: pretty soon I would understand.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: The sun's going down.
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: In the same lovely sky. Just as it did yesterday
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: and will tomorrow.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: What is tomorrow, Jenny?
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: Doesn't matter. It's always. This was tomorrow once.
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: Where I come from, nobody knows. And where I'm going,
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: everything goes.
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: I've heard that somewhere.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Of course you have. You sang it to me that
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: first day in the park.
• 29:53
  Speaker 12: Did I?
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: I'd forgotten. The wind blows, the sea flows. God knows.
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: I think he knows everything.
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: Oh, this is where the master works. Well, Adams, where
• 30:14
  Speaker 8: is it?
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Where's the portrait? Sit over here, Spinning. It's not much
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: of a place, Mr.
• 30:18
  Speaker 9: Matthews.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Here, here's a chair. We're not here to admire your studio,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: you know. Now, about the portrait, remember, it isn't finished yet.
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: Oh, don't be coy. Let's see it.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Well, here it is.
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 30:30
  Speaker 9: Well, now. Well.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: What do you think?
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: That you found what you were looking for.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: You like it?
• 30:37
  Speaker 16: Adams, it's... It's always a dream in my business that
• 30:40
  Speaker 16: someday you'll come across, shall we say, a great painting.
• 30:45
  Speaker 16: This is, I feel now, a sort of fulfillment of my.
• 30:51
  Speaker 9: Well.
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: He means he likes it.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I'm glad. But it isn't finished. It really isn't.
• 30:56
  Speaker 8: Take it easy, Adams.
• 30:58
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: Yes, it's a great painting.
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: I left my work on the portrait only to walk
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: in the park, to linger at that bench, knowing I
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: was caught by an enchantment beyond time and change.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Knowing at last.
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: That love is endless and today is little happiness, only
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: a part of it. A few such days went by
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: and then late one night in the park, Jenny was
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: there waiting for me.
• 31:32
  Speaker 7: Hold me, Evan, hold me. Hold me tight.
• 31:34
  Speaker 9: Jenny.
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: Jenny.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Jenny, I haven't looked for you here so often.
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: Oh, I had to see you tonight. I'm leaving the convent, Evan.
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: I've graduated.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Jenny, then we can be together. Together always.
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: Evan, my aunt is ill. She wants me to go
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: away with her for the summer.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Well, when do you have to go?
• 31:52
  Speaker 7: Tomorrow. I couldn't go without saying goodbye.
• 31:55
  Speaker 9: Goodbye?
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: It'll only be for a few months.
• 31:58
  Speaker 9: Anyway.
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: We have until the morning.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'll be lost without you.
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: No, no, don't say that. We can't both of us
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: be lost. Eben, you're unhappy.
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: You're going away with your aunt for the summer. Wherever
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: it is, no matter how far away, it's a place
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: that can be reached. That kind of distance I know about,
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: you can measure it in miles and hours.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: But now I feel there's another kind of distance, Jenny.
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: Eben, what is it?
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean. A distance of yesterday and tomorrow.
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: And it frightens me because there's no way.
• 32:31
  Speaker 9: To bridge it. Oh, but there is.
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: At this moment, I know there is.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, I want it to be forever.
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: It will be, Evan.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: It will be.
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: Jenny, I'm not going to think of the summer or
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: the future at all. I leave that to you. Why
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: we met, how it came about, I don't know.
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: I know we were meant for each other. The strands
• 32:49
  Speaker 7: of our lives are woven together and nothing can tear
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: them apart. Oh, Eben, I wish you'd finish my portrait.
• 32:56
  Speaker 9: Portrait? Yes.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: We'll finish it now.
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: Well, suppose if I talk, Eben?
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you if it does.
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: Eben, do you think people can know what lies ahead?
• 33:15
  Speaker 9: I mean.
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: What's going to happen to them? You know how you
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: feel sad about things sometimes. About things that have never happened.
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: Perhaps they're the things that are going to happen to us.
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: Perhaps we know it. And we're just afraid to admit
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: it to ourselves.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Jenny, you must... Oh, I guess that's silly.
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: I guess it's just my funny mind. I won't talk anymore, Evan.
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: I'm just going to sit here and let you work.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Jenny, Jenny, are you all right?
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: Hello, Eben.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, hello. You fell asleep. Where are we?
• 33:56
  Speaker 9: Together.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Poor darling, you must be worn out. I'm sorry.
• 34:01
  Speaker 9: Jenny, look.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: It's finished.
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: My picture. Oh, Eben, is it really me?
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: It's you. Portrait of Jenny.
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: Oh, I think it's a fine painting.
• 34:16
  Speaker 9: Say it.
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: I think it'll make you famous. I think someday it'll
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: hang in a museum and people will come from all
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: over the world to see it.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: If they do, it won't be my work they'll come
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: to see. It'll be you.
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: Oh, Eben, I want always just to sit and watch
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: you paint.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Now that I've found a perfect model, I'll paint her
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: again and again.
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: Oh, no, no, I didn't mean that. I mean I
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: want you to paint all the beautiful things in the world.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: You're the most beautiful thing in the world.
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: Eben, these pictures of yours of the sea and land
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: and light, Each time I see them, my heart seems
• 34:48
  Speaker 7: to stop.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Lands and light. I suppose it is a forlorn sort
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: of place.
• 34:52
  Speaker 8: Well, don't let's talk about it anymore.
• 34:54
  Speaker 7: Tell me about Paris. Did you study there?
• 34:56
  Speaker 12: A while.
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: Oh, Evan, I wish we could be there together. It
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: would be such fun.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: We'll do it, Jenny. I'll take you to the Luxembourg,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: to the fair at Fontainebleau, to Saint-Cloud.
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: Oh, I feel as though we were there already, as
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: though we've been spending our whole lives together.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Jenny, what is it?
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: What is it that makes a man and a woman
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: know that of all the other men and women in
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: the world, they belong.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: To each other?
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: Is it just chance they're being alive in the world
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: at the same time? You think it's possible that there
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: might be others in other times whom we might have
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: loved and who might have loved us?
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: Oh, no.
• 35:33
  Speaker 9: No other.
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: Among all the people who've lived from world then to
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: world then, there's just one you must love. One you
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: must seek till you find him. You, Eben, you, my darling.
• 35:47
  Speaker 9: Jenny.
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: I must go, Eben.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: No, Jenny, no, no, please.
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: I don't want to. We'll meet again when the summer's over.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Are you sure, Jenny?
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: I don't quite know where. The wind blows, the sea flows. Oh, Eben,
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: I want to be sure. Tell me you're sure.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: I'm sure, Jenny.
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: I'll get my things. Evan, what a lovely scarf.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: It's yours, Jenny.
• 36:12
  Speaker 17: A present for me?
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: I've been saving it for a long time, ever since
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: we first met in the park. You're going to wear
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: it because if you.
• 36:19
  Speaker 9: Jenny!
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Jenny! The room was empty and without sound. Only the
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: beat of rain striking against the window.
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: As the weeks went by, the sun in the afternoon
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: slanted law over the city. And sometimes at dusk, a
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: wedge of wild.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Duck wavered southward against the Manhattan sky. Summer had turned
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: into fall and Jenny did not return. I felt a
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: dreadful loneliness. Where was she?
• 37:04
  Speaker 8: There's just one thing I'd like to ask, Adams, before
• 37:11
  Speaker 8: you tell me to mind my own business.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: All right, Spinny, what is it?
• 37:14
  Speaker 8: I've asked it before. What if she never comes back?
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, she's got to.
• 37:18
  Speaker 8: Things happen to people. But the others still must go
• 37:21
  Speaker 8: on living.
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: You've never really believed any part of it, have you, Spinny?
• 37:24
  Speaker 9: Well.
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: It.
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: Doesn't matter whether anyone believes or not, because I know.
• 37:29
  Speaker 8: You once told me she was going to a convent.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: She's not there anymore. She graduated.
• 37:32
  Speaker 8: But isn't it possible that the sisters would know where
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: she is?
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: Sisters?
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: Maybe they kept in touch with her.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, there was one who was a favorite.
• 37:38
  Speaker 8: Well, then why don't you write to her or see her?
• 37:40
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, of course.
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: Oh.
• 37:43
  Speaker 8: And when am I going to see her? The Jenny
• 37:46
  Speaker 8: of a portrait, I mean.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: A portrait? You'll see it, Spenny, one of these days.
• 37:51
  Speaker 19: And what is it you wanted to see me about, Mr.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: Adams? There was a girl, sister, who graduated from here.
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: I thought possibly you might have some information as to
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: where she is.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Her name is Jenny Appleton.
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: Jenny Appleton.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Do you remember her? You were her favorite teacher?
• 38:15
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: Yes, I remember Jenny very well.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Have you heard from her?
• 38:20
  Speaker 9: Where is she? Mr.
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: Adams, Jenny... Jenny died.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: When?
• 38:28
  Speaker 12: Years ago.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid I've shocked you.
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Well, no, we.
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: We obviously aren't speaking of the same person.
• 38:39
  Speaker 8: Did you know her family?
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: No, I only know they were killed in an accident.
• 38:43
  Speaker 8: They were trapeze performers?
• 38:45
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 38:47
  Speaker 20: Then I'm afraid it must be the same Jenny Appleton.
• 38:50
  Speaker 20: Her aunt brought her here shortly after the parents' death.
• 38:53
  Speaker 20: She stayed with us until she graduated. Then her aunt
• 38:57
  Speaker 20: came and took her to New England. It was that
• 38:59
  Speaker 20: autumn that the terrible tidal wave hit the New England coast.
• 39:04
  Speaker 7: Ten years ago, October.
• 39:05
  Speaker 12: 5th, I remember it well.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Tidal wave?
• 39:09
  Speaker 20: I learned later that Jenny was in the habit of
• 39:11
  Speaker 20: sailing out every day to a little cove near an
• 39:14
  Speaker 20: abandoned lighthouse.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: Lands End Light?
• 39:16
  Speaker 20: It was during one of those trips that the tidal
• 39:19
  Speaker 20: wave struck. That was the last anyone ever saw.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Lands End Light. That's where I'll find her.
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: But Jenny is dead, Mr.
• 39:27
  Speaker 9: Adams.
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: You must accept that fact.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Pardon it may be.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: I won't accept it. Don't tell me she's dead. I
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: held her in my arms three months ago, not ten
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: years ago. I love her and I want her back.
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: What vision you've had, I can't say. But don't doubt
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: the ways of Providence.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: You must have faith.
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: We know so little, Mr.
• 39:46
  Speaker 8: Adams. So very little.
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: I didn't mean to be abrupt. I'm most grateful, sister.
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: When did you say that wave struck the coast?
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: October 5th. And today is? October 3rd. That leaves me
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: two days.
• 39:58
  Speaker 7: Mr. Adams, that October 5th was many years ago.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Are you so sure?
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: You say we know so little. You say Jenny's parents
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: were killed. I found her sobbing on a park bench
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: the night it happened. You say she was a student here.
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: I visited her here. You say she went to New
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: England with her aunt. I was with her just before
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: she left. Then how can you say it all happened
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: many years ago? Yes, we know so little, and yet
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: now I know a little more. Now I know the
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: pattern of Jenny's life, but I also know that I
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: am part of it.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: She herself said that.
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: Strands of our lives were woven together and nothing could
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: break them.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: This I have faith in.
• 40:43
  Speaker 9: Thank you, sister.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: Thank you for your kindness.
• 40:47
  Speaker 9: You.
• 40:48
  Speaker 7: You're going to Land's End?
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Yes. I'm going to Jenny.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: We pause now for station identification. This is CBS, the
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: After a brief intermission, we will continue with Act Three
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: of Portrait of Jenny. Tonight we have as our guest
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: a color photographer's delight, lovely Donna Martell. I understand, Donna,
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: you're taking a well-earned vacation after your first leading role
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: for Universal International.
• 41:50
  Speaker 7: A busman's holiday, Mr.
• 41:51
  Speaker 9: Keeley.
• 41:52
  Speaker 18: Watching other pictures being filmed. Ann Blythe and Robert Cummings
• 41:56
  Speaker 18: had such fun playing in Free For All, I turned up.
• 41:58
  Speaker 7: Regularly to watch them.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: An unusual story of boy meets girl. You know, Percy
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: Kilbride's handling of broad comedy makes good entertainment, too.
• 42:07
  Speaker 18: I love the scene in Free For All in which
• 42:09
  Speaker 18: Bob gets covered with oil. When he goes into Ann's
• 42:11
  Speaker 18: shower to get it off, he has to dive through
• 42:14
  Speaker 18: some nylon stockings hanging over the.
• 42:15
  Speaker 7: Tub to dry.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm sure many a husband has experienced that.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Wherever there are nylons, you'll find luxe flakes.
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: That's right, Mr.
• 42:23
  Speaker 18: Kennedy. I always keep a box of them in my bathroom.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: A very easy way to make nylons last longer. These
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: tiny diamonds of luxe bubble up into suds so fast,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: it takes almost no time to luxe a pair of nylons.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Strain tests showed that rubbing stockings with cake soap or
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: using strong soaps made runs come sooner. Identical nylons that
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: were washed with gentle luxe flakes lasted twice as long.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: You can see why over 90% of the makers of
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: stockings recommend luxe flakes.
• 42:56
  Speaker 18: I've noticed that colors stay true also when I use
• 42:59
  Speaker 18: luxe flakes.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: That's important for a carefully planned ensemble. It's no wonder
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: smart American girls, stars, and secretaries alike stick to luxe
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: for nylons. Thank you for coming tonight, Donna Martell. Here's Mr.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: William Keeley, our producer.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: The curtain rises on the third act of Portrait of Jenny,
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: starring Joseph Cotton as Eben and Anne Baxter as Jenny.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: The next morning, I went to the art gallery of
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: Matthews and Spinney. I brought along my Portrait of Jenny.
• 43:41
  Speaker 16: I'm impressed, Adams. Tremendously impressed. Of course we can sell
• 43:45
  Speaker 16: it for you.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Not for sale, Mr.
• 43:46
  Speaker 9: Matthews.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: Not yet.
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: I brought the portrait here hoping you'd store it for
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: me until I come back.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Come back?
• 43:51
  Speaker 9: Well, yes.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: Yes, I'll put it in the vault immediately.
• 43:54
  Speaker 8: Where are you going, Adams?
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: I think I know where Jenny's going to be, and
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: I've got to be there waiting for her.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: A little place on Cape Cod called Land's End.
• 44:01
  Speaker 8: You seem to be in a great hurry to get there.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: There's not much time. I can get a train in
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: an hour. If you let me show that portrait, Mr. Adams,
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: I think I can promise you a lot of commission.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: In that case, perhaps you'll advance me $ 100.
• 44:11
  Speaker 8: Give him the $ 100, Mr. Matthews.
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: Yes, of course.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: What's the matter, Adams? Something wrong?
• 44:18
  Speaker 8: Just give him the money.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: Thank you. As you say, Miss Finney. Thank you both
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: for everything. Have a good rest, my boy.
• 44:24
  Speaker 8: And paint me a little church while you're there. A
• 44:27
  Speaker 8: little white church with a big steeple. And don't get
• 44:29
  Speaker 8: yourself drowned in the sea.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: What makes you say that?
• 44:32
  Speaker 8: Oh, men do such foolish things. And I'm afraid of
• 44:35
  Speaker 8: the ocean.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: You're tough. The sea wouldn't get you.
• 44:38
  Speaker 8: Tough ones drown, too, you know. Now get out of
• 44:41
  Speaker 8: here before you miss your train.
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: On the night of October 4th, I reached the village
• 44:53
  Speaker 6: of Land's End, facing the Atlantic Ocean. It was a
• 44:56
  Speaker 6: quiet night, heavy with mist and fog. There was a
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: light on in the hardware store.
• 45:03
  Speaker 12: I guess my niece can put you up all right.
• 45:05
  Speaker 12: You'll find her place on the side of the grade school.
• 45:07
  Speaker 9: Thanks. I'll stop by later.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: Any warning of a storm yet?
• 45:11
  Speaker 12: No storm around here, young fella.
• 45:12
  Speaker 9: There's the barometer. Fair weather, that's what he says.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: How far in advance would the barometer show if a
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: storm were coming up?
• 45:20
  Speaker 12: Far enough. It didn't show far enough when we had
• 45:22
  Speaker 12: that hurricane back in the 20s.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: I heard about that hurricane. It happened just about this
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: time of year, didn't it?
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: I gotta come to think of it, it did.
• 45:29
  Speaker 12: October the 5th.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: I'd like to get out to Land's End Light. Do
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: you know where I could rent a boat? Land's End Light?
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: That light ain't been used for years, mister.
• 45:36
  Speaker 12: Can't think why anybody'd want to go out there.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Never mind my reasons. Do you know someone with a boat?
• 45:41
  Speaker 12: You better go and see Eek Ellis. I've heard that
• 45:43
  Speaker 12: he rents out sometimes.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll find him.
• 45:46
  Speaker 12: Oh, ain't hard to find Eek. He's always sitting in
• 45:48
  Speaker 12: the same place. Just you go down to the jetty, mister.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: You'll find him.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: Mighty nice of you to rent me your boat, Mr. Ellis.
• 46:00
  Speaker 12: Don't know what good it'll do you. How'd you figure
• 46:02
  Speaker 12: to get her out in all this fog? Ain't a
• 46:04
  Speaker 12: breath of wind, either.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: There'll be wind tomorrow. Plenty of it.
• 46:08
  Speaker 12: Maybe. Never been too sure about them things. Not since
• 46:11
  Speaker 12: that hurricane we had back in the 20s.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: What about the wave? I heard something about a great wave.
• 46:17
  Speaker 12: Great wave. Yeah, there was a wave, all right. Sometimes
• 46:21
  Speaker 12: you think you never really saw it, but I just
• 46:24
  Speaker 12: read about it like something in the scriptures.
• 46:26
  Speaker 9: It rose up out of the sea like.
• 46:29
  Speaker 12: A mountain, coming toward the land like the day of judgment.
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: You didn't happen to know a girl, a visitor, who
• 46:35
  Speaker 6: was caught by the wave? Her name was Jenny Appleton?
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: Huh.
• 46:39
  Speaker 12: We should ask that. Why, I used to rent her
• 46:42
  Speaker 12: a boat. I shall never forget her till the day
• 46:45
  Speaker 12: I die. You knew her, Mr. Adams?
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: Yes, I knew her.
• 46:49
  Speaker 12: Pretty little thing, wasn't she? Big, sad eyes she had. Big,
• 46:54
  Speaker 12: sad eyes. And there's something about her that seemed to
• 46:56
  Speaker 12: come from far away.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: What happened exactly? Where was she when... When the waves struck.
• 47:02
  Speaker 12: Well, she reached Land's End Point, that much is certain,
• 47:05
  Speaker 12: because I found the Balmer boat tied to the wharf there. Well, anyway,
• 47:09
  Speaker 12: what was left of it?
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: Well, if she had made the lighthouse, she might have
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: been saved. Isn't that so?
• 47:14
  Speaker 12: Yeah, but she didn't make it. It's a pretty tough
• 47:17
  Speaker 12: climb up them rocks to the light, especially for a female.
• 47:20
  Speaker 12: All that wind and sea.
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: I suppose it would be, alone.
• 47:24
  Speaker 12: Well, you come by in the morning, Mr. Adams. The
• 47:27
  Speaker 12: boat will be ready for you.
• 47:35
  Speaker 6: The air was still and heavy when I left the
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: jetty early the next morning, but once offshore, the fog
• 47:40
  Speaker 6: lifted quickly.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: Overhead, the clouds were gathered, large and low and ugly.
• 47:47
  Speaker 6: And then the wind came, sweeping up off the water,
• 47:49
  Speaker 6: and I had all I could do to hold my course.
• 47:52
  Speaker 6: A few miles out on a tiny point of land,
• 47:55
  Speaker 6: I could see the old lighthouse and the white water
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: beating against the rocks. Storm broke suddenly under lightning and
• 48:02
  Speaker 6: the angry lashing of the Black Sea. I sailed straight
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: for the light, for the towering rocks that rose out
• 48:08
  Speaker 6: of the surf. Somehow I reached the shore. Somehow I
• 48:27
  Speaker 6: climbed over the rocks to the shelter of the lighthouse.
• 48:31
  Speaker 6: Maybe if I reached the top of the lighthouse, I
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: would see.
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: Her.
• 48:40
  Speaker 9: Jenny! Jenny! Jenny! Jenny!
• 48:55
  Speaker 6: Suddenly, from the top of the light, the storm seemed
• 48:57
  Speaker 6: to wheel, to turn in its course and sweep out
• 49:00
  Speaker 6: toward the sea. And in the clearing light, I saw
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: the boat, Jenny's boat, driving toward the beach. I rushed
• 49:07
  Speaker 6: from the lighthouse, remembering what Eke Ellis had told me.
• 49:09
  Speaker 12: She reached Land's End Point that much is certain, because
• 49:12
  Speaker 12: I found the bar on the boat tied to the
• 49:14
  Speaker 12: wall there.
• 49:22
  Speaker 5: Jenny!
• 49:24
  Speaker 9: Jenny! Heaven!
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: Heaven!
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: The boat reached the shore. She saw me. She was
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: running to me now across the rocky beach.
• 49:33
  Speaker 9: Heaven! Evan.
• 49:35
  Speaker 7: Oh, it's been so long.
• 49:36
  Speaker 9: Jenny.
• 49:37
  Speaker 7: Let me look at you.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: I was so afraid I wouldn't find you. I'll never
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: let you go again. Never.
• 49:40
  Speaker 9: Hurry, darling.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Give me your hand. We can't stay here.
• 49:42
  Speaker 7: It's all right, Evan.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: Jenny, the wave, the tidal wave, it's coming.
• 49:45
  Speaker 7: It's all right, Evan. Whatever happens.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Whatever happens, it's you I want, Jenny, not just dreams
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: of you. Please, please believe me. The wave will strike
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: again and soon, but we can have a whole lifetime together.
• 49:55
  Speaker 9: We have all.
• 49:56
  Speaker 7: Eternity together, Evan. Can't you see? We were lonely and unloved.
• 50:00
  Speaker 7: Time made an error, but you waited for me and
• 50:02
  Speaker 7: we found each other.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: And now we must lose everything.
• 50:05
  Speaker 9: No, no, Eben.
• 50:06
  Speaker 7: Now we're just beginning. There is no life, my darling,
• 50:09
  Speaker 7: until you've loved and been loved. And then there is
• 50:11
  Speaker 7: no death.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: You are coming with me, Jenny. We can reach the lighthouse.
• 50:15
  Speaker 7: Eben, no. Go without me, please.
• 50:17
  Speaker 12: How can I?
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: There's nothing in life, nothing at all without you.
• 50:19
  Speaker 7: You must live on, Eben.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: Take a wave, Jenny.
• 50:22
  Speaker 9: Here it comes. Goodbye, my darling. Jenny!
• 50:25
  Speaker 8: Jenny!
• 50:38
  Speaker 12: He's all right now, Miss Penny. That is, he'll be
• 50:40
  Speaker 12: all right. Still in bed.
• 50:41
  Speaker 8: Of course.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: You've got company, young fella. Penny.
• 50:45
  Speaker 7: Hello, Adam.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: What are you doing here?
• 50:47
  Speaker 8: Well, frankly, I was worried about you, and it seems
• 50:50
  Speaker 8: I had reason to be. You can thank Mr. Cobb
• 50:52
  Speaker 8: you're alive.
• 50:53
  Speaker 12: It's a mighty lucky thing he told Nick Ellis where
• 50:55
  Speaker 12: he was able to stand for her. It ain't likely
• 50:57
  Speaker 12: we'd ever have been able to find him at all.
• 50:59
  Speaker 9: Mr.
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: Cobb, tell me. Did you find anyone else?
• 51:02
  Speaker 12: There weren't nobody else darn fool enough to keep a
• 51:05
  Speaker 12: boat out in that blow.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: But her boat, she had a boat.
• 51:09
  Speaker 12: Don't rightly know what you're talking about, young fella. T'were't
• 51:12
  Speaker 12: no other boat. Well, I best get into the store.
• 51:17
  Speaker 8: You saw Jenny again, didn't you, Adam?
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, it was awful, Spinney. I tried to hold on
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: to her, but the wave... Take it easy.
• 51:25
  Speaker 20: At least you saw her again.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: You believe, Spinney. I'm glad.
• 51:31
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: You do, don't you?
• 51:34
  Speaker 8: You believe it.
• 51:35
  Speaker 7: That's all that matters.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: Vinnie, that scarf. Where'd you get it?
• 51:41
  Speaker 9: This?
• 51:43
  Speaker 8: It was near you when they found you out there
• 51:45
  Speaker 8: on the beach.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, Vinnie, I... I saw Jenny again.
• 51:50
  Speaker 7: You mean this is her?
• 51:53
  Speaker 9: Jenny?
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: It's all right, Vinnie. I haven't lost her.
• 52:00
  Speaker 6: Everything's all right now.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: Well, Miss Binnie, they bought it.
• 52:11
  Speaker 16: I sold Adams' painting, the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: Well, did you hear me? The Metropolitan Museum.
• 52:18
  Speaker 9: Oh, yes.
• 52:18
  Speaker 8: I'm pleased beyond words, Mr. Matthews, but I'm not surprised,
• 52:22
  Speaker 8: not really.
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: Adams is still on Cape Cod. I'll send him a telegram.
• 52:25
  Speaker 8: Yes, I think you might.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: It's remarkable when you stop and think, isn't it, Miss Binnie?
• 52:29
  Speaker 12: Remarkable.
• 52:35
  Speaker 21: And now, ladies and gentlemen, we come to the celebrated
• 52:38
  Speaker 21: painting by Eben Adams, acquired by the museum a few
• 52:41
  Speaker 21: years ago. There was nothing distinguished in any of Adams'
• 52:45
  Speaker 21: earlier work, but all of his later period is now
• 52:48
  Speaker 21: recognized as being greatly inspired, commencing with this haunting and
• 52:53
  Speaker 21: almost legendary portrait of Jenny.
• 52:57
  Speaker 18: ¶ ¶.
• 53:02
  Speaker 7: A portrait of Jenny. Oh, isn't she beautiful?
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: I wonder if she was real, Miss Finney. I.
• 53:11
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 53:12
  Speaker 7: Oh, she must have been. What does it matter? She
• 53:16
  Speaker 7: was real to him, or she couldn't look so alive.
• 53:18
  Speaker 8: How very wise you are.
• 53:27
  Speaker 7: Oh, Evers, is it really you? I think it's a fine.
• 53:36
  Speaker 5: Painting. People will come from all over the world. Our
• 53:43
  Speaker 5: stars will return in.
• 53:46
  Speaker 14: A few moments.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: For their curtain call.
• 54:00
  Speaker 7: If you have trouble, trouble, trouble with washing dishes, change
• 54:05
  Speaker 7: to Luxe Flake. And they will bubble, bubble, bubble your
• 54:09
  Speaker 7: troubles away.
• 54:10
  Speaker 9: These gentle studs are richer.
• 54:13
  Speaker 7: They do your dishes quicker. Let LUX bubble your troubles away.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: These tiny diamonds of luxe really speed up dish washing.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: They burst into suds instantly. Thick, rich suds that last
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: and last. Luxe flakes are thrifty, too, because they go further.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Ounce for ounce, luxe flakes wash up to twice as
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: many dishes as any of ten other leading soaps. Yes,
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: luxe flakes do more dishes and do them faster. And
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: mild luxe flakes leave hands smooth, lovely, in spite of
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: dish washing three times a day.
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: Here's Mr.
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: Keeley with our stars.
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: Returning to the footlights now are the stars who brought
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: the portrait of Jenny to life, Joseph Cotton and Anne Baxter. Joe,
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: it seems that each time you're a guest here, you've
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: just returned from Europe.
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: Where was it this time?
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: Italy, Bill.
• 55:19
  Speaker 6: Lovely country, but the best part of traveling is always
• 55:22
  Speaker 6: the trip home.
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: And we're certainly glad to have you back. Incidentally, I
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: remember the last time you worked with Anne, you played
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: her father.
• 55:30
  Speaker 7: Yes, I was thinking how much younger Daddy is looking.
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: And hasn't that actor-star husband of yours, John Hody Ackman, abroad,
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: making a picture, too?
• 55:40
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 55:41
  Speaker 7: John just returned, and... I gave him quite a surprise.
• 55:44
  Speaker 7: I started to remodel the house while he was gone.
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: Well, they'll do it every time.
• 55:48
  Speaker 7: I thought I'd make a few simple changes, but you know,
• 55:51
  Speaker 7: it got so complicated, we had to move to an
• 55:52
  Speaker 7: apartment till it's finished.
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: Well, be sure to leave room in the cupboard for
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: Lux Flakes.
• 55:57
  Speaker 7: I certainly will. I couldn't get along without Lux Flakes
• 55:59
  Speaker 7: wherever I live. Now, won't you tell us about next
• 56:02
  Speaker 7: Monday's play?
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: First, let me tell you about our stars. We'll have
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: one of our popular favorites, Dan Heflin. And co-starring with him,
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: a bright new star who has just made a spectacular
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: hit on the screen, Miss Janet Leigh. The play is
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: a real spine-tingler. The Metro-Golden-Mare hit, High Wall. This is
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: a story of a man accused of murder who tracks
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: down the real killer and clears himself. A thrilling drama
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: of suspense.
• 56:31
  Speaker 7: I know we'll all enjoy that, Bill. Good night.
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: Good night, and thank you both. Leave our brothers' company,
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: the makers of Lux Flakes. Join me in inviting you
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: to be with us again next Monday evening when the
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: Lux Radio Theater presents Van Heflin and Janet Leigh in
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: High Wall. This is William Keeley saying goodnight to you
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: from Hollywood.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: Joseph Cotton will soon be seen in the Carol Reed production,
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: The Third Man, co-starring with Valli and Orson Welles. Ann
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: Baxter appeared through the courtesy of 20th Century Fox, producers
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: of Prince of Foxes, starring Tyrone.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: Ordley as Miss Spinney... Bill Johnstone as Matthews, Eddie Marr
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: as Gus, and Norma Jean Nilsen, Tudor Owen, Janet Scott,
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: Gwen Delano, Herbert Butterfield, Donald Randolph, Charlotte Lawrence, Lou Krugman,
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: and Jane Webb. Our play was adapted by S.H. Barnett,
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: and our music was directed by Louis Silvers. This is
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: your announcer, John Milton Kennedy, reminding you to join us
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: again next month.