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00:00The Campbell Playhouse, Orson Welles Productions.
00:27Good evening. This is Orson Welles. The play tonight, What Every Woman Knows. Our guest,
00:49Miss Helen Hayes. Except that Helen Hayes is now so regular a visitor to the Campbell
00:54Playhouse that we're bold to call her a member of the family. But I think I've told you she's
00:58promised to appear with us, and only with us, as many times this year as she can manage.
01:02Last week she was busy getting ready a new play, which opens soon on Broadway. But tonight,
01:08openings notwithstanding, she kept her promise, and here she is to play Maggie for you. Maggie,
01:12in the beautiful, warm-hearted comedy, What Every Woman Knows. J.M. Barrie wrote no better play. If
01:21you saw Miss Hayes in the play or the moving picture, you will never forget it. I'd like to
01:26tell you more about it. I'd like to talk about Barrie, about Miss Hayes too, but I'd rather give
01:31the time to show it to you. And I hope when it's over, you'll agree with me. Now, just before we
01:42begin, here's a word from Ernest Chappell. The other night I had an opportunity to look over a
01:47real old American family cookbook. And as I turned the pages, I was particularly struck by
01:52the number of different recipes for preparing chicken. Just for the fun of it, I counted them,
01:56and would you believe it, there were 88. Now, of course, some of us like chicken prepared one way,
02:01some another. But however we prefer it, roasted to a delicate brown, crisply fried in Southern
02:07style, or tenderly fricasseed, there's just no denying that we in this country do like our
02:12chicken. Now, I think it's because we like chicken so well that Campbell's chicken soup
02:17continues to grow so steadily in popularity. Here indeed is a chicken that is chicken,
02:22through and through. From your first appreciative sip of the golden gleaming broth to the last
02:27delicious drop, you'll taste real chicken. And there are whole pieces of tender chicken meat
02:33in it, and fluffy white rice full of the flavor of the chicken, to add still more to your hearty
02:37enjoyment of this homey old-fashioned chicken soup. And so I say, just as sure as you like
02:43chicken, you like Campbell's chicken soup. Won't you have it for dinner, perhaps tomorrow night?
02:49And now Helen Hayes and Orson Welles tell us what every woman knows.
03:07A few minutes ago, the clock in the Wiley home struck ten. And a few minutes before that,
03:21Alec Wiley and David, his son, came in from outside wearing black coats and their Sabbath
03:25boots. Now they're sat down in the little room which David calls the wet room, while his father
03:31calls it the room, which is to him the natural name for any apartment without a bed in it.
03:37Maggie Wiley, who is David's sister, calls it the library, because there's a bookcase of pitch
03:43pine along one wall which contains six hundred books with a glass door to prevent you from
03:47getting at them. We could describe Maggie Wiley for you at great length, but what's the use?
03:53What you really want to know is whether she's good-looking. No, she's not. She has soft scotch
03:59speech and a more resolute manner than is perhaps fitting to her plainness and,
04:06well, in a few seconds she'll be with you herself. Maggie, who is not good-looking.
04:13Who was at the meeting, father? Well, Maggie, that was the minister of Galashield.
04:17You have to be remembered, dear father. And, I mean, I mean...
04:21I suppose you mean what you say, father. I hear, David, that the minister of Galashield
04:27is to be married to that Miss Turnbull. Well, I can see she's made a poor bargain.
04:30How can you say that, father, when you don't know her? I expect she's full of charm.
04:35Charm? What is that exactly, Maggie? Charm? Oh, it's a sort of bloom on a woman.
04:43If you have it, you don't need anything else. And if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter
04:48what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all, and most have charm for one.
04:57And some have charm for none. Well, I have a sister that has charm.
05:01No, David, you haven't. But, Maggie, you...
05:04Oh, come, come now. Let's be practical. Let's go to our beds. It's quarter after ten.
05:10Well, I don't feel very sleepy yet. Nor do you either. You go along, Maggie.
05:15Good night to you, Maggie. Both of you aren't sleepy.
05:18One is as well-known ten o'clock as our regular bedtime.
05:21Yes, it's common knowledge that we go to our beds at ten, Maggie. That's what we're counting on.
05:26Oh, you stupid young whelp. Now go outside and watch.
05:29Yes, Father.
05:35There's something up. You've got to tell me, Father.
05:38Maggie, there are burglars about. Burglars?
05:41We hadn't meant for to tell you till we nabbed them, but they've been in this room twice of late.
05:45Oh.
05:45The policemen saw a man climb out of this window last Tuesday.
05:48Father, the silver plate.
05:49That's safe as yet. But we were thinking that very likely he'd come again tonight.
05:54Don't know if you're good to bed, Maggie.
05:56Me? Am my family in danger?
05:58There's just one of them.
06:00The policemen just saw one.
06:02I'd be very pleased if there were two of them.
06:04I would be very pleased if there were three of them. And I watch with you.
06:09Father! Father, he's there! I saw him sliding down the garden wall close to the robe arm.
06:14What's he like?
06:15He's an ugly customer. That's all I could see.
06:17Slunk into the rodent entrance. And he's there now, watching the window.
06:21We have him. Out with the light.
06:24Maggie, you go upstairs.
06:26I will not.
06:27Then into the hallway. And stay there behind the door.
06:30David, you go into the kitchen. I'll be in the hallway with Maggie.
06:33Yes, I'll stick, Father.
06:35Behind the door. Quick. He's coming.
06:46It's the silver.
06:47No, it's not. It's the bookcase.
06:50He's lighting the light. He's shutting down.
06:53And in the fine chair, too.
06:55Come on!
06:58John Shand!
06:59I hope you found that chair comfortable, young man.
07:03I have no complaint to make against the chair.
07:05John Shand, you, a native of the town, a disgrace to your family.
07:09I feel pity for the Shands this night.
07:11I'll thank you, Mr. Wiley, not to pity my family.
07:14If you're looking for a good clout in the head, John Shand.
07:16Come on, David. I think we should let the young man explain.
07:19It may not look so bad as we thought.
07:21Explain away, my Billy.
07:23Only the uneducated that need an explanation.
07:25I'm a student and I'm desperate for one of the books.
07:28You have all I want here on that shelf, no use to you but for display.
07:31Well, I came here to study.
07:33I come twice weekly.
07:35Brother Winder.
07:37You think a Shand would so far lower himself as to enter your door?
07:41Well, what about it?
07:43Is it a case for the Polish?
07:45It seems to me it's a case for us all to go to our bed and leave the young man to study.
07:49But not on the fine chair.
07:51Thank you, Miss McGee, but I couldn't be beholden to you.
07:53Tell me, Mr. Shands, are you a poor scholar?
07:58On the contrary, I'm a brilliant scholar.
07:59What's your professor's opinion of your future?
08:01They think me a young man of extraordinary promise.
08:04I have a name here for high moral character.
08:07And justly.
08:08Are you serious minded?
08:10I never laughed in my life.
08:12Are you a Sabbath school teacher?
08:14I am.
08:15One more question.
08:17Are you promised?
08:18Dear lady?
08:19Yes.
08:20I have never given one of them a single word of encouragement.
08:24I'm too much occupied thinking about my career.
08:26Oh.
08:28Father, if you'll come outside just one minute.
08:30There's something I'd like to talk to you about.
08:31Yes, dear lady.
08:32Do you want me to, Father?
08:33No, Maggie, it is Father.
08:35You stay here and keep an eye on Mr. Shands.
08:41Well, I don't know what mad that they've got in their head, but
08:44sit down, young man, till they come back.
08:46My name is Mr. Shands.
08:47Until I'm called that, I decline to sit down again in this house.
08:50Then I'm thinking, young sir, you'll have a weary wait.
08:57Wait now, Shands.
08:59Sit down, Mr. Shands.
09:00I'm cooling your chair.
09:02You'll have a single full of something to keep the cold out.
09:04Glasses, Maggie.
09:06You're not a totaler, I hope.
09:07I'm practically a totaler.
09:09Well, so are we.
09:11How do you take it?
09:12Maggie, will you get me glasses?
09:14Yes, David.
09:16Now, David, quick, before she comes back.
09:18Mr. Shands, we have an offer to make you.
09:21No patronage.
09:22Strictly a business affair.
09:23Leave it to me, Father.
09:26Maggie, don't you see you're not wanted?
09:29I do, David.
09:30Why do you not go, then?
09:31I have a proposition to put before Mr. Shands, and women are out of place in business transactions.
09:36I think I'll stay here, Father.
09:38Well, you'll have to let her by, David.
09:40Very well, then.
09:41Look, Maggie, sit here at the table and don't interfere, mind.
09:44Mr. Shands, we are willing, the two of us, to lay out 300 pounds on your education.
09:50Take care.
09:51On condition that five years from now, Maggie, while she is still unmarried,
09:56can claim to marry you should such be her wish.
10:01The thing should be perfectly open on her side, but you should be strictly tied down.
10:05Now, what have you to say?
10:07Decide.
10:08I regret to say...
10:09It does no matter what you regret to say, because I decide against it.
10:13Oh, and I think it's very ill done of you to make any such proposal.
10:16Quiet, Maggie.
10:17Seeing that I've refused the young man...
10:18Refused?
10:19That's no reason why we shouldn't have his friendly opinion.
10:23Your objections, Mr. Shands?
10:24Simply, it's a one-sided bargain.
10:27I admit I'm no catch at present, but what could a man of my abilities not soar to with 300 pounds?
10:32Something far above what she could aspire to.
10:34Indeed.
10:35The position is that without the 300, you can't soar.
10:38You have me there, Mr. Wiley.
10:40You see your thief got it, Maggie.
10:42You don't need to take him unless you like, but he has to take you.
10:45Yeah, that's an unfair arrangement also.
10:46I wouldn't really love it without that condition.
10:49Then you are thinking of it.
10:52It's a good arrangement for you, Mr. Shands.
10:54The chances are you'll never have to go on with it, for in all probability, she'll marry soon.
10:58She's a tremendous run after.
11:00Well, even if that's true, it's just keeping me in reserve in case she misses doing better.
11:05That's the situation in a nutshell.
11:06Another thing.
11:07Supposing I was to get fond of her.
11:09It's very likely.
11:10Yes, and then suppose she was to give me the go-by.
11:12You have to risk that, Mr. Shands.
11:14What's her age?
11:15She looks young, but they say it's the curls that does it.
11:18Well, Maggie's one of those women who are eternally young.
11:22I can't take that for an answer.
11:24She's 25.
11:25I'm just 21.
11:27Reading a book about 40 years difference in the ages is the ideal thing.
11:32Well, Mr. Shands.
11:33I'm willing if she's willing.
11:35Maggie.
11:36There can be no if about it.
11:38It must be an offer.
11:40I can't give a whine.
11:41It's such a chance to humiliate him.
11:43Never.
11:43Then all is off.
11:44Come, come, Mr. Shands.
11:46It's just a forum.
11:47Well, Miss Maggie, will you?
11:52Is it an offer?
11:54Yes.
11:56Oh.
11:57Before I answer you, I want first to give you a chance at drawing back.
12:01Maggie.
12:02When they said that I'd been a run after, they were misleading you.
12:05Nobody's ever been after me.
12:07Oh, they will be it.
12:08And there's one thing more.
12:09David said I'm 25.
12:11He's wrong.
12:12I'm 26.
12:13Aha.
12:14Now, be practical, Mr. Shands.
12:15Do you withdraw from the bargain?
12:17Or do you not?
12:19It's a bargain.
12:21Then so be it.
12:22I'll have the document ready for you.
12:24I think, Maggie, you might see Mr. Shands to the door.
12:27Certainly.
12:28This way, John.
12:30Have you a mask, Mr. Shands?
12:31Yes, I have, Miss.
12:32I think we'd better put it twice around.
12:38Well, well, it's a most romantical affair.
12:41I wonder how it'll turn out.
12:43She's queer, Maggie.
12:45I wonder how some clever writer has never noticed how queer women are.
12:49It's my belief you can write a whole book about them.
12:52It was very noble of her to tell him she's 26.
12:55But I thought she was 27.
13:02Six years have elapsed, and John Shands' great hour has come.
13:11Perhaps his great hour really lies ahead of him.
13:14Perhaps he had it six years ago.
13:17It often passes us by in the night with such a faint call that we don't even turn in our beds.
13:24But according to the trumpets, this is John's great hour.
13:28He's standing for Parliament, and this is the election night.
13:32I'm in.
13:42I'm in.
13:42I'm elected.
13:44Majority 244.
13:46I'm John Shands, M.P.
13:49Majority 244.
13:51I've beaten the baronet.
13:52I've done it, Maggie.
13:54I'm not a fool to help me.
13:55I've done it alone.
13:58I'm as harsh as a crow, and I have to address the Calcadans.
14:00Well, you stay right there, John, and rest yourself a minute.
14:03What are you frowning at?
14:05I was thinking of the peregrines.
14:07Just because I beat him, he took mean advantage and congratulated me in French.
14:11Oh, would it help you, John, if you were to marry a woman who could speak French?
14:16Not at all.
14:16Mon cher John, laissez-moi parler Français.
14:21Je suis la seule Française de ma famille Ecossais.
14:25Listen to her, John.
14:26Listen to her.
14:26She's been learning French without our knowing it.
14:28Very good, Maggie.
14:29Very good.
14:30Wait a minute, John.
14:30Look at me.
14:31Look at me.
14:31This is London.
14:33And this is our first reception, and Mrs. Johnstown is the receiving of the door.
14:38How do you do, sir peregrine?
14:40Is it fair to booze at Très Bien?
14:42So sorry we beat you at the pole.
14:44I'm thinking the baronet would sit on you, Maggie.
14:46I've invited a lord to sit on the baronet.
14:48Maggie, you're dust.
14:48Mr. Shutt, Mr. Shutt.
14:50What is it?
14:51It's some swell.
14:52They're outside at Carriage and Faire.
14:54Two ladies, and they ask to see you.
14:55Do you know who they are?
14:56One of them is Lady Sibyl Senselton.
14:58Lady Sibyl, eh?
14:59Who's she, John?
15:00That's the sister of the baronet.
15:02A married woman?
15:03No, Maggie.
15:03And there's an older lady.
15:05Foreigner, she sounds like.
15:06What's the matter?
15:07Say to them, Mr. Shutt.
15:07They are very busy, but if they care to wait in here, I hope presently to give them a few minutes.
15:11Good heavens, Mr. Shutt.
15:12You can't do that.
15:13You heard what I said.
15:14Come on now.
15:16I'll go up and let the crowd see me from the window.
15:19I'll be back in a moment, Maggie.
15:20Yes, but John, what are we to do with these ladies?
15:23Your reception, Maggie.
15:25Oh, but John.
15:26John, David.
15:27Oh, father, I'm afraid.
15:30This way, my lady.
15:32Yes, my lady.
15:32Mr. Shunt said for you to wait.
15:34Aren't you ready for something?
15:36Yes, I do, Sibyl.
15:37I insist on seeing the great man.
15:39Oh, dear.
15:41Will you have a chair, my lady?
15:43Oh, thanks.
15:44Ah, so these are Mr. Shunt's quarters, eh?
15:47They are.
15:48Ah, how fascinating.
15:49If you'll excuse me, ladies.
15:51I'll go and tell Mr. Shunt you're here.
15:53Oh, really, there is no haze.
15:54I'll tell him.
15:55I'll tell him now.
15:57He seems so agitated, dear.
15:59Perhaps he's some relation of Mr. Shunt's, eh?
16:02Sibyl, Sibyl, I believe you're asleep.
16:05No, I'm not, auntie.
16:07Sibyl, don't you love a strong, self-made man?
16:10I never met one.
16:11Ah, neither have I.
16:14But if you did meet one, would he wake you up?
16:16How do you say he'd find over two of us?
16:18Ah, I think he would.
16:21Ever been in love, you cold thing?
16:23I've never shot up in a flail, auntie.
16:25Think you could manage it?
16:26It's Mr. Wright's turn along.
16:30Yes?
16:32Oh, thank you.
16:33Lady Sibyl and I were wondering, um,
16:35is this your Mr. Shunt a married man?
16:38No, no, he's not married.
16:40But he will be soon.
16:41Ah?
16:42Is he a friend of yours?
16:45I don't think much of it.
16:47In that case, kid me all about her.
16:49There's not much to tell.
16:51She's common.
16:53Stupid.
16:53Oh, but it is not that sad.
16:56Oh, figure to her yourself,
16:58how many men with greatness before them have been shipwrecked
17:00by marrying in the rank from which they sprang.
17:02I've told her that.
17:03But she will not give him up.
17:04No.
17:05Oh, I should be of the care for her.
17:07What's her name?
17:08It's Maggie.
17:10Oh, that is very, very sad, is it not?
17:13I am afraid Mr. Maggie is going to be the ruin of y'all.
17:16Oh, that's him now.
17:17He's coming down.
17:18All right, now, keep you ladies waiting.
17:20Lady Sibyl.
17:21Oh, Mr. Kerr, this is my aunt, the Countess Labriere.
17:24Countess.
17:24What a triumph, Mr. Shunt.
17:26Oh, pretty fair, Countess, pretty fair.
17:28Lady Sibyl, I hear you think I'm vulgar.
17:30Oh, my dear Mr. Shunt, what I dread.
17:32I was told you said that after hearing me speak.
17:34Well, it's quite a mistake.
17:35Is it not true?
17:36Well, you seem to know, Mr. Shunt.
17:38And that you praise me so unnecessarily.
17:41Well, yes, that is how you struck me.
17:43I told you you would have it.
17:44I just wanted to know, Lady Sibyl,
17:46because if it's true, I must alter it.
17:48Of course, it can't matter to me what you think of me.
17:50What I mean is that I must not be vulgar
17:52if it would be injurious to my career.
17:54I see.
17:55No, of course, I could not affect your career, Mr. Shunt.
17:58That's all, Lady Sibyl, meaning no offense.
18:00And we are friends again.
18:02Certainly.
18:02Then I hope you'll come and see me when you're in London.
18:05I'll be very pleased.
18:06Any afternoon, about five.
18:07Much obliged, Lady Sibyl.
18:08Goodbye till then.
18:10Auntie, I do think we'd better be getting back to the hotel.
18:12Very well, my dear.
18:13My dear, the ladies are going.
18:15Goodbye, Lady Sibyl.
18:16Goodbye, Countess.
18:17Lady Sibyl, if you'll allow me to see you through the crowd, I think perhaps...
18:21Thank you, Mr. Shunt.
18:25Are you, then, thee, Maggie?
18:27Oh, the one that John is going to marry?
18:30Oh, that if I had known, I would not have said those things.
18:34Please, Miss Maggie, forgive an old woman.
18:36Oh, it doesn't matter.
18:37I admire your courage, and I dare say you will be very happy.
18:43Bon voyage, Miss Maggie.
18:44Goodbye, Countess.
18:45Countess!
18:49Ah, that's that.
18:50Have you more speaking to do, John?
18:52I must run across and address the Cowcats.
18:54Oh, yes.
18:55I wonder if I am vulgar, Maggie.
18:57Oh, no, John.
18:58Of course you're not.
19:00John, you couldn't stay and have a little talk a few minutes, huh?
19:04Yes, if you want me, Maggie.
19:06The longer you keep them waiting, the more they think of you.
19:09When are you to announce that we're to be married, John?
19:11It won't be long.
19:12You've waited a year more than you need to have done, Maggie.
19:15But I think if you're due, I should hurry things up now.
19:17That noble of you.
19:19Is it terribly hard for you, John?
19:22It's not hard at all.
19:23I can say truthfully, Maggie, that nearly all I've seen of you in these six years has
19:26gone to increase my respect for you.
19:28Respect?
19:29And a bargain's a bargain.
19:31If it wasn't that you're so glorious to me, John, I would let you off.
19:34In my opinion, Maggie, we'll be a very happy pair.
19:37Yes, John.
19:38But can you look in my face and deny that there's surging within you a mighty desire
19:42to be free?
19:43Leave such maggots alone.
19:44If I were John Shand, I would no more want to take Maggie Wiley with me through that
19:48beautiful door that's open wide for you than I'd want to take an old pair of shoes.
19:53Why don't you bang the door in my face, John?
19:55Bargain's a bargain, Maggie.
19:57You say one word about wanting to get out of it, and I'll put the lawyers on you.
20:00Have I hinted at such a thing?
20:01The document holds you hard and fast.
20:03It does?
20:04You'll miss the prettiest thing in the world, John, and all owing to me.
20:09What's that?
20:10Romance.
20:12All's cold and gray without it, man.
20:16Those that have had it have slipped in and out of heaven.
20:19Ah, you're exaggerating, Maggie.
20:20Ah, you've worked so hard, John.
20:23You've had none of the fun that comes to most men long before they're your age.
20:26I never was one for fun.
20:28I cannot call to mind, Maggie, ever having laughed in my life.
20:32No, you've no sense of humor.
20:33Not a spark.
20:35I sometimes thought if you had, it might make you fonder of me.
20:39I think one needs a sense of humor to be fonder of me.
20:42You feel sure, I suppose, that an older man wouldn't suit you better, Maggie?
20:46I couldn't feel surer of anything, I'm afraid.
20:49You're just my ideal.
20:51Yes, yes, well, that's as it should be.
20:54David has the document, too.
20:56It's carefully locked away.
20:58He would naturally take good care of it.
21:00John, I make you a solemn promise that in consideration of the circumstances of our
21:06marriage, if you should ever fall in love, I'll act differently from otherwise.
21:12That is a pledge, Maggie.
21:15John, David doesn't have the document.
21:19He thinks he has, but I have it here.
21:23Look.
21:24That's it?
21:25Well, do I mind the look of it, Maggie?
21:27You don't ask why I brought it.
21:28Oh, why did you?
21:29Because I thought I might have the womanliness and the courage to give it back to you.
21:33Will you never hold it against me in the future, John, that I couldn't do that?
21:36I promise you, Maggie, I never will.
21:38Oh, to go back to the house and take up my life there, when all these years my eyes have
21:42been centered on this night.
21:44To go back there and weasel and dry off, when I might have been married to John Chan.
21:49And you will be, Maggie.
21:50You have my word.
21:51Never, never.
21:53Maggie.
21:53Maggie, what have you done?
21:55I've torn up the document.
21:56That's what I said.
21:57Maggie.
21:59Oh, I'm a fool.
22:01I'm a fool to let you go.
22:03Oh, John, you're rude this day.
22:06I could have helped you in your career.
22:07In no circumstances, Maggie, would I allow any meddling with my career.
22:14Yes, yes, yes.
22:20I pledge myself, I pledge myself, I pledge myself to the preservation of human liberty.
22:28But gentlemen, one may have too much even of freedom.
22:31No, no.
22:32Yes, Mr. Adamson and Mrs. Adamson, one may want to be tied.
22:36I say yes, Willie Cameron, and I have found a young lady who I am proud to say is willing
22:41to be tied to me.
22:42I'm to be married.
22:44Her name's Miss Quiet.
22:46Her name's Miss Wiley.
22:48She's here now.
22:50She was here.
22:51Where are you, Maggie?
22:53I'm here.
22:55I'm here, but I'm too little.
22:57You can't see me.
22:58Father, have you got a grip of her?
22:59Yes, David, I've got her.
23:00Then hoist her up.
23:05Gentlemen, the future, Mrs. John Shannon.
23:10No, no, no.
23:12Being a lady, she can't make a speech.
23:14Yes, I can make a speech, and I will make a speech, and it's in two words, and they'll
23:20be my constituents.
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25:45Now we resume our Campbell's Playhouse presentation of What Every Woman Knows,
25:48starring Helen Hayes and Orson Welles.
25:51A few minutes ago, the contest, Delabriere, who has not recently been in England, was
26:06shown into the London House of the Shands.
26:09She had presumed that the Shand scheme of decoration would be as themselves.
26:13She is agreeably surprised.
26:15In a small but charming room, she is now engaged in listening to Mr. John Shand, MP,
26:21read the peroration of a speech he is going to make before the House of Commons.
26:25Mrs. Shand is there, too, in a little grape rock that not only deals gently with her personal
26:30defects, but is in harmony with the room.
26:33Evidently, however, she is not risen with her husband, for she is as stupid as ever.
26:39The contest, who remembers having liked her the better of the two, could shake her now
26:44for being so stupid.
26:46In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, there are the reasonable demands of every intelligent English
26:51woman.
26:52I'd better say British woman.
26:53And I am proud to nail them to my flag.
26:55Oh, defy his leaders.
26:57So long as I can do so without embarrassing the government.
27:00Ah, ah, Mr. Shand.
27:01I warn the front bench, loyally but firmly.
27:03Now, sir, him again.
27:04That though I will not bring this matter to a vote just now, I will bring it forward
27:09again in the near future.
27:10But not to bring the matter to a vote is hedging, isn't it, John?
27:14Is that strong?
27:15Not to make the speech at all, Maggie.
27:16It's stronger than most would dare.
27:18They'd ruin me if I pressed for a vote.
27:20Bark, but not bite.
27:21Now, now, Maggie, you're out of your depth.
27:23Yes, I suppose that's it.
27:24And now I think I'd better go to my committee.
27:26Maggie, I'm ready.
27:26Will you open the doors?
27:27Yes, John.
27:28Good afternoon, ladies.
27:29Good afternoon.
27:30And now, Mrs. Smithers, if you'll kindly call this meeting to order.
27:34Well, Miss Maggie, well, as I looked through the door at the ladies' committee just now,
27:39I caught sight in there of my dear niece.
27:41Since when has my dear Sibyl become one of Mr. Shand's committee, ladies?
27:45It is not like her.
27:47I think it was about the time that my husband took up their cause.
27:50Mrs. Shand, excuse me for saying that if I have what I hear is be true.
27:54Your husband is seeing that lady a great deal too often.
27:58Mrs. Shand, why do you not complain yourself to take an intelligent interest in your husband's
28:02work?
28:02I typewrite his speech.
28:04Well, you know what they are about.
28:06They are about various subjects.
28:08I see.
28:09Mrs. Shand, a gentleman to see you.
28:11To see me?
28:12Yes, ma'am.
28:13Oh, will you ask him to come in, please?
28:15Yes, ma'am.
28:17The card says Mr. Charles Venables.
28:20Charles Venables?
28:22Mr. Venables is a minister of your cabinet.
28:24One of the most powerful men in the country.
28:27Really, can't he?
28:28Well, since you know him so little, why should he call on you?
28:31I wonder.
28:31Mr. Charles Venables, I hope you'll pardon my calling, Mrs. Shand.
28:35We had such a pleasant talk the other evening.
28:37I think it's very kind of you.
28:39Do you know each other?
28:40The Comtesse de l'Aubriere.
28:42Countess, how delightful.
28:43Mrs. Shand, I warn you, Mr. Venables is an old friend of mine.
28:48He is here for some crafty purpose.
28:50Oh, surely not.
28:51I hope your husband is well, Mrs. Shand.
28:53Yes, thank you.
28:54You know, Mrs. Shand, I admire your husband very much.
28:57He puzzles me a little.
28:59I've known few men make a worse beginning in the house.
29:01He had the most atrocious bow-wow of public park manners.
29:04No, he hadn't.
29:05Well, first he did.
29:06But by his second session, he'd shed all that.
29:09He's now a pleasure to listen to.
29:10I think so.
29:11Then again, I admire him for his impromptu speeches.
29:15What's impromptu?
29:16Unprepared.
29:17Oh.
29:18They have contained some grave blunders of not too much of judgment as of taste.
29:22I don't think so.
29:23But he's righted himself subsequently in the neatest way.
29:26I've always found that men whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.
29:30My, you are wondering, Mr. Venables, whether Mrs. Shand can tell you
29:33who gives mistress Shand these second thoughts.
29:35I know.
29:36You have even thought it might be his wife, Miss.
29:39Oh, I would like to see anybody try to give thoughts to John.
29:43Forgive me.
29:44I see I was wrong.
29:45Now, if he's at home, Mrs. Shand, may I see him?
29:48I think he's a rather charming gentleman.
29:50Yes, he is.
29:51Uh, yes, but...
29:52Well, that is to say, if he proves himself the man I believe him to be.
29:55He's very busy just now.
29:56He has a ladies' committee in the dining room.
29:58I think he'll see me, Mrs. Shand.
30:01Is it something about his speech?
30:02Well, uh, yes, it is.
30:04Oh, I know it by heart.
30:06These are the demands of the intelligent British woman,
30:09and I'm proud to nail them to my flag.
30:11That's very well, Mrs. Shand.
30:12And I don't care how they may embarrass the government.
30:14And I warn the front bench, loyally but firmly,
30:18that whatever the consequences may be, I will bring this matter to a vote.
30:22Capital, capital.
30:23You mean you are pleased to know that he means to bring the matter to a vote?
30:26Delighted.
30:27The courage of it will be the making of him.
30:29Mrs. Shand, let's have him in as well.
30:31Yes, yes, indeed.
30:32Let us have him in.
30:33Oh, yes, Mr. Venables.
30:35I'll tell him you're here.
30:36And now, ladies, to come to the matter of my speech.
30:40The speech that I propose to make this week before the House of...
30:45Yes, Maggie, what is it?
30:46Mr. Townes, Venables is here to see you, John.
30:49If you ladies will excuse me for a moment.
30:52Uh, excuse me.
30:56Mr. Venables, this is an honour.
30:58Oh, you, Shand.
30:59You see, you're a busy man, so I'll get to the point immediately.
31:02You may know that you're to have a big meeting at these on the 24th,
31:05and two ministers will speak.
31:07There's room for a third speaker, and I'm authorised to offer that place to you.
31:11To me?
31:11Yes.
31:12But that would mean speaking for the government, almost like a cabinet member.
31:17In a way, yes.
31:18John, isn't that wonderful?
31:19Mr. Venables, here is the speech I'm making in the House tomorrow.
31:23Thanks.
31:24If you still make me the same offer after you've read it.
31:26Sure, you, we look on the speech as a small matter.
31:29The thing that really decided it was your determination to put the matter to the vote.
31:32To put the...
31:33What's that?
31:34And the government agrees to that, too.
31:36You agree to put the matter to a vote?
31:38Yes, we agree.
31:40But you've been threatening to excommunicate me if I did.
31:43All done to test you, Shand.
31:45Test me?
31:46Yes, Shand.
31:47Had you been intending to talk big in this speech,
31:49and then back down through fear of the government,
31:51we'd have had no further use for you.
31:53I understand.
31:54Well, I'll take the speech along.
31:56Which isn't really necessary to, uh, sir.
31:58There's only one copy, John, you know.
32:00Let me make a fresh copy, Mr. Venables, and send it to you in an hour or two.
32:03Oh, I couldn't put you to that trouble, Mrs. Shand.
32:05Oh, really?
32:05I'll take good care of it.
32:06If anything were to happen to you on the way home, Mr. Venables,
32:10wouldn't whatever is in your pocket be considered the property of your heir?
32:14No, there's four or ten.
32:17I think after that you'd better take your speech back immediately.
32:20You see, countess, Mrs. Shand is Scottish, too.
32:23Yes, sir, I observe.
32:26Well, I must be going now.
32:28I'll take you to the door, sir.
32:30Goodbye, countess.
32:31It's been a great pleasure.
32:32Goodbye, Mr. Venables.
32:33Goodbye, Mrs. Shand.
32:34Goodbye, Mr. Venables.
32:40So, madame.
32:42I beg your pardon?
32:42Mm-hmm, I said so, madame.
32:45I don't know what you mean.
32:46Yes, you do.
32:48I mean that there is someone who helps our Mrs. Shand.
32:51There's not.
32:52And it is a woman, and it's you.
32:54Oh, I help in the little things.
32:56The little things.
32:57What I want to know is whether your John is aware that you have it all.
33:01Well, Maggie, countess, congratulate me.
33:04You heard what he said.
33:05I've done it again.
33:06I'm so glad, John.
33:07And all because you made up your mind to bring the matter to a vote, Mr. Shand.
33:12They just guessed I'd be for him because they knew I'm a strong man.
33:15As to you, Maggie, a little sore.
33:16What a good turn you were doing me when you said you wanted me to make a copy of the speech.
33:20How, John?
33:21Because now I can alter the end.
33:22Oh, so you can.
33:24Countess, I tell you, there's a little cherub who sits up aloft and looks after the career of John Shand.
33:29Where does he sit, Mr. Shand?
33:31It's just a figure of speech, countess.
33:33Well, now, I'd better be going back to my ladies' committee.
33:36Goodbye, countess.
33:36Goodbye, Mr. Shand.
33:38I'm sorry, ladies.
33:40Sorry to have kept you waiting.
33:41But, uh, Mrs. Benham.
33:43This, uh, this is cherub we speak of.
33:47You are sure it is not down here she sits, Mr. Shand, right in this room?
33:51No, it isn't.
33:53Goodbye, Scotty.
33:55Goodbye, countess.
33:56And thank you for coming.
33:58Maggie, why do you do it?
34:00He loves to think he does it all himself.
34:03That's the way of men.
34:05I'm six years older than he is.
34:07I'm plain, and I have no charm.
34:10I shouldn't have let him marry me.
34:13I'm trying to make up for it.
34:23Lady Sybil.
34:25Sybil.
34:27It is you who inspires my work.
34:29Oh, John.
34:30You mustn't talk like that.
34:31Sybil, let us declare our love openly.
34:35Oh, my dear.
34:36My dear.
34:39John.
34:40Yes, my love?
34:41Did you hear anything?
34:43Did you hear the door shut?
34:44I thought she was coming.
34:45I thought she was coming.
34:46I thought she was coming.
34:47I thought she was coming.
34:49I thought she was coming.
34:50I thought she was coming.
34:51I thought she was coming.
34:52It was shut already.
34:53Well, it seemed to me that...
34:54Well, it's nothing, but I think I hear voices now in the hall.
35:03Oh, John, dear.
35:04I'm sorry to bother you, but I brought some flowers.
35:06I bought them from a man in the street, and he has no change.
35:08Will you come out and take them?
35:09I will, Maggie.
35:10I'll be back in a minute.
35:13How do you do, Lady Sybil?
35:15This is nice of you to come to see us.
35:17I was so sorry not to find you in, Mrs. Stanley.
35:20Will you sit down?
35:21I think not.
35:22I'm Lady Fitzkiss.
35:23I really ought to...
35:24I'm glad you're so beautiful, Lady Sybil.
35:26I mean, I had no idea it was with Lady Fitzkiss, and...
35:30Mrs. Stanley, why do you look at me so?
35:34The door did open.
35:35Yes.
35:37What are you going to do?
35:39That would be telling.
35:40Sit down, my pretty.
35:42Well, Maggie, I paid the man with the flowers.
35:45John, I think I'll go upstairs now.
35:48I'm sure you have something you want to talk over with Lady Sybil.
35:51Maggie...
35:52Or would you prefer John to say it before me?
35:54No.
35:55Yes.
35:56Yes, I prefer to say it before you, Maggie.
35:59Then sit down for me.
36:00Maggie knows.
36:02Don't you, Maggie?
36:03Yes, John.
36:05I'm mortal sorry, Maggie.
36:07And I also.
36:08I'm sure you are.
36:10But as it can't be helped, I see no reason why the three of us
36:12shouldn't talk the matter over in a practical way.
36:14If you could understand, Maggie,
36:16what an inspiration she is to me in my work.
36:18Indeed, Mrs. Shams.
36:19I think of nothing else.
36:20That's splendid.
36:21That's as it should be.
36:22Oh, Mrs. Shams, I think you're very kind to take it so reasonably.
36:26That's the Scotch way.
36:28When are you thinking of leaving me, John?
36:30I think now that it's come to a breach, the sooner the better,
36:32so long as it's convenient to you, Maggie.
36:34Oh, it couldn't well be before Wednesday.
36:36That's the day the laundry comes home.
36:38And it's the day the House of Commons rises.
36:40It may be my last appearance in the house.
36:42No.
36:42No, please don't say that.
36:43And you love the house, don't you, John?
36:46Next to Lady Sybil.
36:48It's a pity you couldn't wait till after your speech at least.
36:51Mr. Venables won't have you there if you leave me.
36:55What a chance it would have been.
36:57But let it go.
36:58It wouldn't be fair to you, Maggie, if I was to stay on now.
37:02What shall we do, Maggie?
37:05Now's the time, Lady Sybil, for you to have one of your inspiring ideas.
37:09Yes.
37:10Yes, but what?
37:12John.
37:12John, what do you think of this?
37:14I can stay on here in London.
37:16And you can go away somewhere and devote yourself to your speech.
37:20Yes.
37:20That might be, but where could I go?
37:23Where?
37:23I know.
37:24I know.
37:24Maggie, what are you doing?
37:26Hello.
37:26Hello.
37:27Give me Gerard 5-0-7-2, please.
37:29Yes, 7-2, thank you.
37:30Well, don't be in such a hurry, Maggie.
37:32Hello.
37:33Is this Lamb's Hotel?
37:34Put me on to the Comtesse de l'Aubriere, please.
37:36Oh, Maggie, I wish I was fond of you.
37:40I wish you were, John.
37:42Hello.
37:43Hello.
37:43Is that you, Comtesse?
37:44Uh, this is Maggie.
37:46Yes, Maggie Sands.
37:48Oh, I'm very well, Comtesse.
38:00Why, Maggie Sands, you dear, abominable one.
38:04Why did you not let me know you were coming?
38:06It's a surprise visit, Comtesse.
38:08I walked up from the station.
38:11Well, how is everybody?
38:13Yes, quite well.
38:15But my child, he seems to me to be a most unhappy man.
38:19Really, Comtesse?
38:20What is it that pleases you, oh heartless one?
38:23I won't tell you.
38:24Oh, I couldn't take you and shake you, Maggie.
38:26Here have I put my house at your disposal
38:28for almost two weeks now for some sly Scotch purpose,
38:31and you will not tell me what it is.
38:33No.
38:33Very well, then.
38:35At that game, two can play as well as one.
38:39Maggie, I have a nasty surprise for you.
38:42For me?
38:43Yes.
38:44I want Mr. Venables to tell you what
38:46he thinks of your husband's latest speech.
38:48Oh, that speech?
38:49Oh, yes.
38:50John wrote me that Mr. Venables was dissatisfied with it
38:52and that he was writing another.
38:54We have heard nothing of that, Maggie.
38:56Well, you know, Mr. Venables says
38:57that John's second thoughts are sometimes
38:59such an improvement on the first.
39:01Yes, I remember he's been there.
39:02Well, then, when John shows him his second speech,
39:04what are you up to now, Scotchie?
39:06You know as well as I do that there is no such speech.
39:09Contest.
39:10Put your cards on the table, Maggie Shandor.
39:13What precisely is that?
39:15What?
39:16What you've got there.
39:17Those papers.
39:19John's speech?
39:20You have written it yourself.
39:22I felt it.
39:23You guessed that the speech he wrote
39:24unaided would not satisfy him.
39:25You prepared this to take its place.
39:27Oh, not at all, Contest.
39:28It's a draft of his speech that he left at home, that's all.
39:31Ah, with a few trivial alterations by yourself,
39:33I swear.
39:34Can you deny it?
39:36These insinuations are unworthy of this.
39:38Ah, Scotchie.
39:39Scotchie.
39:40You rang the lady?
39:41Oh, did I?
39:42Oh, yes.
39:43Yes, take this envelope to Miss Venables, please.
39:45But, Contest, you must...
39:46And say it is from Mr. Shandor.
39:48Oh.
39:49Contest.
39:50How cold you are.
39:51Have a good time.
39:52I will come now.
39:53Your husband.
39:54Oh, and she is with him.
39:55My niece.
39:56Shall I get rid of her?
39:57No, no, no.
39:58I want her to be here, too.
39:59Now I shall know.
40:00Now what?
40:01As soon as I look into his face, I shall know.
40:02Mr. Shandor.
40:03How do you do, ladies?
40:04Maggie.
40:06How do you look in that frock?
40:07You're a feast to the eyes.
40:08Maggie, I never wrote you were coming.
40:09Oh, no, John.
40:10It's a surprise, really.
40:11I just ran down to say goodbye.
40:12To say goodbye?
40:13To whom, Maggie?
40:14Oh, Auntie Julie, of course.
40:15Mm.
40:16I tried.
40:17It's becoming far too interesting.
40:18I suppose there's no reason why the Contest shouldn't be told.
40:19She'll know too soon, at any rate.
40:20Well, that's so.
40:21It's so simple, you see.
40:22Contest, John and Lady Sybil have fallen in love with one another.
40:23And they're to go off as soon as the meeting at Leith has taken place.
40:24My dear.
40:25I think that's putting it correctly, John.
40:26Well, in a sense.
40:27Well, in a sense.
40:28Maggie, but now it turns out I'm not to attend the meeting at Leith after all.
40:29My speech doesn't find favor with the government.
40:30There's something wrong with it.
40:31Oh, well.
40:32Now, since you won't be speaking at Leith, Mr. Sand, there is nothing to detain you here
40:33any longer, is there?
40:34You and Sybil.
40:35Oh, should I send for a carriage?
40:36Auntie, please.
40:37I promised Maggie to wait till the 24th.
40:38This is only the 21st.
40:39I'm a man of my word.
40:40But I gave you back your word.
40:41But I gave you back your word.
40:42But I gave you back your word.
40:43But I gave you back your word.
40:44But I gave you back your word.
40:45But I gave you back your word.
40:46But I gave you back your word.
40:47But I gave you back your word.
40:48But I gave you back your word.
40:49But I gave you back your word.
40:50But I gave you back your word.
40:51But I gave you back your word.
40:52But I gave you back your word.
40:53But I gave you back your word.
40:54But I gave you back your word.
40:55But I gave you back your word.
40:56But I gave you back your word.
40:57But I gave you back your word.
40:58But I gave you back your word.
40:59But I gave you back your word.
41:00But I gave you back your word.
41:01But I gave you back your word.
41:02But I gave you back your word.
41:03But I gave you back your word.
41:04But I gave you back your word.
41:05But I gave you back your word.
41:06But I gave you back your word.
41:07But I gave you back your word.
41:08But I gave you back your word.
41:09But I gave you back your word.
41:11And the ceiling of the dining room
41:12would do for a lick of paint, I think.
41:13Oh, can't you stop her?
41:14She's meaning well.
41:15Maggie, I know it's natural for you to value those things
41:18because your outlook on life bounded them.
41:21But all this jars on me.
41:24Douglas.
41:25Why should you be so ready to go away?
41:28I promise not to stand in your way.
41:30There needn't be in such a hurry.
41:32There are three days to run yet.
41:34For the countess, all this is just a joke.
41:36And it seems to be no joke to you, Mr. Sands.
41:39Oh, Sybil, my dear, why don't you let him off?
41:42Let him off?
41:43What is it?
41:45Do you?
41:46If you come with me, Sybil, I'll do all in a man's power
41:50to make you never regret it.
41:51Oh, so I can make my arrangements for Wednesday.
41:54No, you can't.
41:55Auntie, I'm not going on with this.
41:57I'm very sorry for you, John, but I see now.
41:59I couldn't think.
42:00Sybil.
42:01I'm wary of you, John.
42:02Sybil.
42:03I find you oh so dull.
42:04Sybil.
42:05I'm sorry, John, but I have to tell you before it's too late.
42:07Auntie, I can't stand it.
42:08I'm going to kill you.
42:09Sybil.
42:10Sybil.
42:11By heaven.
42:12It's more than I deserve.
42:14Congratulations to you both.
42:16Yes.
42:17Yes.
42:18What's that?
42:19It's just a venerable speech.
42:20Oh, there you are, dear.
42:21Then get it done.
42:22Stay where you are.
42:23Don't go.
42:24What on earth?
42:25Do you know what I think?
42:26I think it is about your speech.
42:27Your venerables have said all you need
42:28say on that subject and more.
42:29I think it is about the second speech.
42:31What second speech?
42:32Countess, you gave it to him.
42:33Wasn't I mean to?
42:34What is it?
42:35What second speech?
42:36Oh, John.
42:37It's a draft of your first speech that you left at home.
42:40And I brought it here with a few little things
42:42I'd added myself.
42:43What's that?
42:44Just trifles, you know.
42:45Things that I was to suggest to you while I was missing.
42:46And then if you liked them, you could have polished them
42:48and turned them into something good.
42:50And now she's shown it to Mr. Venerable.
42:52That's my work, Countess.
42:53It is your work, John.
42:54Nine-tenths of it.
42:55You presumed magician.
42:57Yes, hello.
42:58Very well.
42:59And there he comes.
43:00And now we'll see to what extent you've helped me.
43:01Yes, he is.
43:03I congratulate you.
43:04Give me your hand.
43:06You've improved it out of knowledge.
43:08You see in speech that those new tactics
43:10make all the difference.
43:11Mrs. Shand, be proud of it.
43:12I am, John.
43:13I am.
43:14Oh, Shand.
43:15Oh, this will go to the government.
43:17You always said that his second thoughts were best,
43:19Mr. Venerable.
43:20Didn't I?
43:21Didn't I?
43:22Excuse me, Countess.
43:23I'm off to read the whole thing again.
43:25It's amazing the difference a few tactics make.
43:27I too would like to read the speech, Mr. Venerable.
43:29I will go with you.
43:31You heard what he said, John.
43:33It's a combination, you and me, John.
43:38Oh, it is so terrible to you to find that my love for you
43:41has made me able to help you in the little things.
43:44The little things?
43:46It seems strange to me to hear you call me by my name, Maggie.
43:50It's as if I looked on you for the first time.
43:54Look at me, John, for the first time.
43:57What do you see?
43:59I see a woman who has brought her husband low.
44:02Only that?
44:04I see the tragedy of a man who has found himself out.
44:08I can't live with you again, Maggie.
44:11Oh, why did you shiver, John?
44:14Was it myself for saying that I couldn't live with you again
44:16when I should have been wondering for how long you've lived with me?
44:20I suppose you've forgiven me all the time.
44:23Yes, John.
44:24And forgive me still.
44:26Yes, John.
44:27Heavens above.
44:30John, am I to go or are you to keep me on?
44:34I'm willing to stay because I'm useful to you,
44:36if it cannot be for a better reason.
44:39Oh, it's nothing unusual I've done, John.
44:42Every man who's high up loves to think he's done it all himself.
44:46Every woman knows that.
44:48It's our only guilt.
44:51Oh, John, if I could only make you laugh at me.
44:55I can't laugh, Maggie.
44:58Oh, John, don't look at me.
45:00Oh, how easy it is.
45:03Laugh, John.
45:29This concludes our Campbell Playhouse presentation
45:32of What Every Woman Knows, starring Helen Hayes and Orson Welles.
45:36In just a moment, they will both return to our microphone, but first,
45:40if you could make the trip with me to Campbell's kitchen
45:43to see them make their chicken soup,
45:45I know you'd need no urging from me to try it.
45:48You'd see that Campbell's use not merely some,
45:50but all the good meat of carefully selected, plump-breasted chicken.
45:54You'd see them patiently simmer the broth long and slowly
45:57in true old home kitchen style
46:00till every fragrant drop gleams with chicken richness
46:03deep and full and golden.
46:05And then you'd watch them add whole pieces of tender chicken
46:07and measure in snowy white rice
46:09to make this chicken soup really nourishing as well as tempting.
46:13But after all, when it comes to judging a chicken soup
46:15as downright good as this,
46:17tasting is even better than seeing,
46:19so why not plan to have it tomorrow?
46:21Once you do try it,
46:22I think you'll want to have it time and time again
46:25because just as sure as you like chicken,
46:28you like Campbell's chicken soup.
46:30And now, here is Orson Welles.
46:38In a very short time, ladies and gentlemen,
46:40at the Martin Beck Theater,
46:42a bouquet's throw from these microphone emplacements,
46:46there's an opening.
46:48This means the Broadway season has really begun.
46:51Also, it means our star will want to get to bed early these nights
46:54because it's Helen Hay's new show that's opening.
46:57The name of a new play, Ladies and Gentlemen.
47:01I saw it this summer when she tried it out on the West Coast
47:03and I'd like to tell you about it, but she won't let me.
47:06Oh, it's not that I don't want to have the story given away, Orson,
47:09it's just that somehow one hates to talk about an opening until it's open.
47:12Sometimes even then you don't talk about it unless you can help it.
47:15I know just what you mean.
47:17Well, I hope you break a leg.
47:18Oh, thank you very much, Orson.
47:20But maybe you'd better explain that to our listeners, I mean.
47:23I wish you your biggest hits.
47:25But you asked me to break my leg.
47:27I think we should make your intentions quite clear.
47:30Ladies and gentlemen, our producer isn't rubbing his hands
47:32and shuffling seamlessly in the hope that I'll end up in the hospital.
47:35It's an old backstage ritual.
47:37We're superstitious about wishing our friends good luck in the theater,
47:39so we wish them the opposite.
47:42A compound fracture is likely to interfere slightly with a good performance,
47:46so broken bones are the favorite sentiment.
47:49They used to kick me in Ireland.
47:51Orson, who kicked you?
47:52All the Irish actors.
47:53Oh, using this good luck business for a pretext?
47:56Almost invariably.
47:57And now, Miss Helen Hayes, before we say good night,
48:01allow me to extend in the best tradition of these things our worst wishes.
48:07Your new comedy, ladies and gentlemen, needs no such mumbo jumbo,
48:11but we throw it in to keep up appearances.
48:14Please fall down a deep, dry well.
48:16Have hay fever from the flowers you'll get,
48:18and may the runs in your stockings be as long as Victoria Regina.
48:22You'll break records.
48:24Your radio producer and all of us on the Campbell Playhouse entreat you to break a leg.
48:39In tonight's Campbell Playhouse production of What Every Woman Knows,
48:42the role of Maggie was played by Miss Helen Hayes.
48:45Orson Welles played John Chan.
48:47The part of Alec Wiley was played by Alfred Shirley, David Wiley by Everett Sloan.
48:51Agnes Morad was the countess, and Naomi Campbell was Lady Sybil.
48:54The part of Mr. Venables was played by Eustace Wyatt and Willie Cameron by Ray Collins.
48:59Music for the Campbell Playhouse is arranged by Bernard Herrmann.
49:02And now, Orson Welles, will you please tell us about next week's story?
49:10Well, next week.
49:12Ladies and gentlemen, I'm ad-libbing this.
49:15It's hard to tell you about next week's show because everything that could be said about it
49:19has been very well said before me.
49:22We've gotten hundreds and hundreds of letters from people all over America
49:25asking for adventure and romance on these programs.
49:29So to satisfy this evidently increasing appetite,
49:34for these, we are bringing
49:38the favorite work of the world's favorite writer of adventure,
49:42Alexander Dumas.
49:44We're bringing the story of the man who was imprisoned on his wedding day.
49:48And don't tell me you've guessed it.
49:50And to return 20 years later for his revenge, the man who was known in Paris
49:54as the Count of Monte Cristo.
49:57And so, ladies and gentlemen, until next week,
50:01until the tragic wedding day of the Count of Monte Cristo and his terrible and exciting revenge,
50:07until the swords and daggers and cloaks and poison,
50:11and sealed murder, and revenge,
50:15my sponsors, the makers of Campbell Soups and all of us in the Campbell Playhouse
50:19remain as always, obedient for yours.
50:41The makers of Campbell Soups join Orson Welles in inviting you to be with us
50:52at the Campbell Playhouse again next Sunday evening
50:54when we bring you Alexander Dumas' masterpiece,
50:57one of the most colorful and adventurous stories in all romantic fiction,
51:00The Count of Monte Cristo.
51:02Meanwhile, if you have enjoyed tonight's Campbell Playhouse presentation,
51:05won't you tell your grocer so tomorrow when you order Campbell's chicken soup?
51:09This is Ernest Chappell saying thank you and good night.
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