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00:00The
00:13makers of Campbell Soup present the Campbell Playhouse.
00:17Orson Welles, producer.
00:39Good evening, this is Orson Welles.
00:41There are clearly a number of ways in which a Christmas carol could be introduced.
00:46Myself, I am most struck by the happy fortune that enables us on this Christmas Eve to
00:51present Mr. Lionel Barrymore, the best loved actor of our time in the world's best
00:58loved Christmas story, A Christmas Carol.
01:02When Charles Dickens presented this little story to the world almost 100 years ago, it
01:08found an instant response in the hearts of people everywhere who saw in it their
01:12favorite fictional chronicle of what Christmas is and what Christmas means to all the
01:18simple people of the earth.
01:20From the day of its first printing, families have been innumerable in which there has
01:25remained unbroken the tradition that the reading of a Christmas carol was an item
01:30indispensable to a proper observance of the most important of days.
01:36It is the American way, as we know, to establish traditions quickly where popular
01:41instinct and sentiment pronounce them sound.
01:45And so it is that today, actually only the fifth anniversary of Mr.
01:48Lionel Barrymore's first playing of the part of Ebenezer Scrooge for the Campbell
01:52Playhouse. There is, I think, in all America, nothing more eagerly awaited, more firmly
01:57rooted in the hearts of the radio family that numbers millions than this yearly
02:02performance of A Christmas Carol.
02:05A Christmas Carol, as Charles Dickens wrote it, has by common consent long been a
02:09classic. Mr.
02:11Lionel Barrymore's appearance in it is rapidly becoming one.
02:15And now, just before A Christmas Carol, Ernest Chappell has a special Christmas greeting
02:19from the makers of Campbell's Soups.
02:21Mr. Chappell. Thank you, Orson Welles.
02:24As the old year draws toward its close, we of Campbell's feel a bond of warmth and
02:28gratitude toward each of you, our friends.
02:32For you see, in homes everywhere throughout the land, Campbell's Soups have been
02:35welcomed. Day by day and week by week, you have placed confidence in us and in the
02:41foods we make. And there isn't anything we appreciate more deeply than the fact that
02:46so many of you have elected to let Campbell's make your soups for you.
02:51And so when Christmas comes, we look about to find some way to show our appreciation,
02:55some Christmas present by which to say thank you.
02:59The gift we chose five Christmases ago and have chosen each year since has become a
03:04part of Christmas to many and many a family.
03:07It has become a Christmas custom, as Mr. Welles said, to gather around the radio, to
03:11hear and to enjoy A Christmas Carol.
03:14And since it is Christmas Eve, we hope, too, that the younger members of the family are
03:19permitted to stay up and listen before dreams and visit of Santa.
03:24We get a great deal of pleasure planning and preparing this Christmas gift, and now
03:28it's ready. Off come the wrappings, off come the tags that say, please do not open
03:33until Christmas. Out comes the card to you from Campbell's, and here is the gift
03:40itself.
04:03Marley was dead to begin with.
04:11There's no doubt whatever about that.
04:13The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker and the
04:16chief mourner. Scrooge signed it, and Scrooge's name was good upon change for anything he
04:22chose to put his hand to.
04:24Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.
04:27Scrooge knew he was dead.
04:28Of course he did.
04:30Scrooge and Marley were partners for I don't know how many years, but he was a tight
04:35fisted hand at the grindstone with Scrooge, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping,
04:43clutching, covetous old sinner.
04:45And once upon a time, of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve, old Scrooge
04:53sat busy in his counting house, a grim, cheerless place if ever there was one.
04:58The door of Scrooge's counting house was open that he might keep his eye upon his
05:01clerk, Bob Cratchit, who in a cold and dismal little cell beyond worked at his ledgers.
05:0619, 20, 21, 22.
05:08Merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay.
05:1323, 26, 29, 9, carry to, on Christmas Day, 11, 13, 17, 17.
05:21Bob Cratchit!
05:21Yes, Mr. Scrooge?
05:23Stop that infernal chatter-walling.
05:26Yes, sir.
05:279, 15, 17, 21, carry to, on Christmas Day, 11, 13, 17, 17.
05:32Infernal impudence, singing their idiotic Christmas carols at my very door.
05:39Let nothing you dismay.
05:40Go on!
05:41Get away from my door!
05:43Go somewhere else and fill where your blasted carols are, or I'll give you in charge.
05:49Sorry, Governor.
05:50It's an old custom at Christmas time, you know.
05:52Yes, and I don't want any of your old customs.
05:56Take your fellow fools and go away.
05:59Christmas.
06:00Blah.
06:01Right, sir.
06:02Merry Christmas anyway, sir.
06:04Blah.
06:07Now you get that letter from Higgins and Blackthorn, Cratchit, and then I want you to finish posting
06:14this ledger.
06:15And after that, you can pop over to Fothergill's and tell him, Fothergill, you've come after
06:20the 17 shillings and sixpence he's owed me since Michaelmas.
06:24And tell him I shall have a constable over there if he doesn't pay up at once.
06:29Mr. Fothergill's wife has been ill, sir.
06:31Oh, why do I care about his wife?
06:33I want my 17 and six.
06:35I just thought it being Christmas, sir.
06:37Christmas, Christmas.
06:40You mention that word to me once more, Bob Cratchit, and I'll...
06:44Merry Christmas, Uncle.
06:45Merry Christmas, Bob.
06:46Merry Christmas, Mr. Cratchit.
06:47God save you, Uncle.
06:49Humbug.
06:50Christmas a humbug, Uncle.
06:51Now I'm sure you don't mean that.
06:53I mean just that.
06:55Exactly that.
06:56Merry Christmas.
06:58What right have you to be merry?
07:00What reason have you?
07:02You're poor enough.
07:03Well, what right have you to be dismal about Christmas, Uncle?
07:05You're rich enough.
07:06Yeah.
07:07Now, Uncle, don't be cross.
07:09Well, what else can I be when I live in such a world of fools?
07:14What's Christmas to you but a time for paying bills without money?
07:18Merry Christmas.
07:21A time for finding yourself a year older and not an hour richer.
07:25If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips
07:31would be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
07:37He should.
07:38Uncle.
07:39Now, nephew, keep Christmas in your own way and let me keep it in mine.
07:44Keep it?
07:45But you don't keep it, Uncle.
07:46Well, let me leave it alone, then.
07:49What do you want?
07:50A Christmas gift, I've no doubt.
07:52I came to wish you a Merry Christmas, Uncle.
07:54A Merry Christmas.
07:55Much good may Christmas do you.
07:58Much good it ever has done you.
08:00There are many things from which I derive good by which I have not profited materially,
08:04I dare say, Uncle.
08:05Christmas among the rest.
08:06But I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time.
08:09A kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
08:12And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket,
08:16I believe it has done me good and will do me good.
08:19God bless it.
08:20God bless Christmas.
08:21Hurrah!
08:22Let me hear another sound out of you there, Bob Cratchit,
08:26and you'll keep your Christmas by losing your situation.
08:29As to you, nephew, I wonder you don't go into Parliament.
08:34You talk enough nonsense.
08:35Oh, don't be angry, Uncle.
08:36I want nothing from you.
08:37I ask nothing of you.
08:39Why can't we be friends?
08:40Good afternoon.
08:41I'm sorry you feel that way.
08:43Well, I've tried.
08:44A Merry Christmas to you, Uncle.
08:45Good afternoon.
08:46And a Happy New Year, too.
08:49Ah, humble.
08:50And a Merry Christmas to you, Bob, and the missus.
08:52And to Tommy, too.
08:53Thank you, Mr. Cratchit.
08:54Same to you, sir.
08:55Good day, sir.
08:56Good day, Bob.
08:57Nonsense.
08:58Twaddle, flummery.
09:00It's a talking of Christmas and not two sixpences to jingle together in his trousers pocket.
09:07Hey, you there, Bob Cratchit.
09:09Come here.
09:10What are you doing there?
09:12I was only putting a bit more coal in the fire, Mr. Scrooge.
09:15Seeing it's so cold in there, sir.
09:17You put that coal back into the scuttle.
09:20A fire.
09:21A fire, indeed.
09:23I can tell you if you use coal at that rate, you and I will soon be part in company, Bob Cratchit.
09:29Do you understand that?
09:31There's many a young fellow like your situation, you know.
09:34I'm sorry, sir.
09:35My fingers were getting a little stiff with the cold.
09:37Then put on your mittens.
09:41Someone at the door.
09:42Go on.
09:43See who it is.
09:44Yes, sir.
09:45Good afternoon, sir.
09:46This is the firm of Scrooge and Marley?
09:48Yes, sir.
09:49I should like to see the head of the firm, if I may.
09:51Oh, very good, sir.
09:52What is it?
09:53A gentleman to see you, Mr. Scrooge.
09:54Huh?
09:55Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge or Mr. Marley?
09:57Marley's been dead these seven years tonight.
10:00I'm Scrooge.
10:02Well, now, Mr. Scrooge, at this season of the year, it's only fitting that we who are more fortunate
10:06should raise a fund to buy the poor some meat and drink and means of warmth.
10:09You may not believe it, sir, but many thousands are now in want of common necessities.
10:14And hundreds of thousands are in want of the simplest comfort, sir.
10:18Are there no prisons?
10:20Well, there are plenty of prisons, sir.
10:22And the workhouses, they're still in operation, I trust?
10:25I wish I could say they are not, but they are, sir.
10:29The treadmill and the poor law are in full figure, then?
10:32Both very busy, sir.
10:34I'm glad to hear that.
10:36I was afraid from what you said at first that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course.
10:42Well, these institutions that you mention are flourishing.
10:44But it's nevertheless true that some additional provision for the poor and the destitute must be made.
10:49A few of us upon change are endeavoring to raise such a fund, you see.
10:53And what shall I put you down for?
10:55Nothing.
10:57Oh, I see. You wish to be anonymous, sir.
10:59I wish to be let alone.
11:01I don't make merry myself at Christmas time.
11:05And I can't afford to help make a lot of idle people merry.
11:09I help to support the establishments that take care of the poor.
11:13They cost enough.
11:15Let those who are badly off go there.
11:17Many can't go there, sir.
11:19And many would rather die.
11:21My advice to them is to do so and decrease the surplus population.
11:25Besides, I have only your word for it that all this is so.
11:29It's the truth, Mr. Scrooge.
11:31So be it then. It's not my business.
11:33It's enough for a man to understand his own business and not to interfere with other people's.
11:39Mine occupies me constantly.
11:42Good afternoon, sir.
11:44I quite understand, Mr. Scrooge.
11:48Show this gentleman out.
11:50Yes, sir. This way, sir, please.
11:52Sir, I couldn't help overhearing.
11:54I should like to contribute something.
11:58Yes, sir.
12:00It isn't much, but it's all I can afford.
12:02But there are others in worse situation than I.
12:04You're a generous fellow.
12:06I wish I might say so of your employer.
12:08Thank you. Merry Christmas.
12:10Yes, sir.
12:12Close the door.
12:14Yes, sir.
12:16Twenty-four, thirty-one.
12:18One and carry three.
12:20New scarlet tippet for Tiny Tim.
12:22New comb for Martha.
12:24Thirty-three. Three and carry three.
12:26A hair ribbon for Belinda.
12:28Four, seven, twelve, fifteen.
12:30That's it.
12:32Yes, sir.
12:34It's too late to have you go to Falker Hills.
12:36He'll be closed up for Christmas like these other fools.
12:38We may as well close up the place now.
12:40Yes, sir.
12:42It is getting a little dark.
12:44Hard to see the figures.
12:46I suppose you'll want the entire day tomorrow.
12:48If it's quite convenient, sir.
12:50It's not convenient.
12:52And it's not fair, either.
12:54But I suppose I can't do anything about it.
12:56If I was to stop half a crown of your wages,
12:58you'd think yourself very ill-used,
13:00I'll be bound to say.
13:03Well, sir, I...
13:05Yes, but you don't think me ill-used
13:07when I pay a day's wages for no worth.
13:09It's only once a year, sir.
13:11Once a year.
13:13Once a year, indeed.
13:15A fine excuse for picking a man's pocket
13:17every 25th of December.
13:19But I suppose there's no good talking.
13:21You must have the whole day.
13:23Well, we'll see that you're here
13:25all the earlier the next morning.
13:27You understand?
13:29Oh, I will, sir. I will indeed.
13:31Good night, sir.
13:33And Merry Christmas.
13:35Merry Christmas.
13:47The office was closed on a twinkling
13:49and Bob Cratchit, with the long ends
13:51of his white comforter dangling below his waist,
13:53for he boasted no greatcoat,
13:55went down a slide on Corn Hill
13:5720 times in honour of its being Christmas Eve
13:59and ran home to Camden Town
14:01as hard as he could pelt
14:03to play with his family at Blind Man's Buff.
14:07Scrooge, on the other hand,
14:09took his melancholy dinner
14:11in his usual melancholy tavern
14:13and having read all the newspapers
14:15and spent the rest of the evening
14:17with his banker's book,
14:19went to his dismal house.
14:21Darkness is cheap
14:23and Scrooge liked it.
14:25The yard was so dark
14:28that even Scrooge,
14:30who knew it's every stone,
14:32had to grope with his hands
14:34through the fog and the frost
14:36to find the door.
14:38Scrooge walked through his rooms
14:40to see that all was right.
14:42Sitting room, bedroom, lumber room,
14:44all as they should be.
14:46Nobody under the table, nobody on the sofa,
14:48nobody under the bed, nobody in the closet.
14:50He closed the door.
14:52He locked himself in.
14:54He double locked himself in
14:56and took off his cravat, put on his dressing gown
14:58and slippers and his nightcap
15:00and sat down before the fire
15:02to take his gruel.
15:12Marley.
15:14Marley?
15:16Marley!
15:18I could have sworn
15:20I saw...
15:22Marley's been dead
15:24for seven years.
15:26Humbug.
15:28All humbug.
15:30What I need is a good night...
15:34What?
15:36What's that?
15:38Someone's in the plane, sir.
15:40But the door's locked
15:42and double locked.
15:44Something's...
15:46It's coming.
15:48Something is...
15:50It's coming closer.
15:53Outside my door.
15:55Ah, shut up.
15:57I will not believe it.
15:59It's humbug still.
16:01Ebenezer Scrooge.
16:03Ebenezer Scrooge.
16:07Marley.
16:09Oh, no.
16:11What do you want with me?
16:13I want much of you, Ebenezer.
16:15Who?
16:17Who are you?
16:19Ask me who I was.
16:21In particular for a goose.
16:23All right, then.
16:25Who were you?
16:27In life, I was your partner.
16:29Jacob Marley.
16:31Jacob Marley.
16:33But you're dead.
16:35You died seven years ago.
16:37Seven years ago this very night.
16:41You are a goose, then.
16:43What's wrong, Ebenezer?
16:45Don't you believe in me?
16:47I do not.
16:49You doubt your senses, Ebenezer?
16:51Yes.
16:53Yes.
16:55Because a little thing affects me.
16:57A slight disorder of the stomach
16:59makes them cheats.
17:01You can't be a goose.
17:03You may be an undigested bit of beef
17:05or a blot of mustard
17:07or a crumb of cheese.
17:09A fragment of an underdone potato.
17:13There may be more gravy
17:15than grave about you,
17:17whatever you are.
17:19Ah, humbug, I tell you.
17:21Humbug!
17:23Excuse me, Jacob.
17:27Excuse me.
17:29I do believe in you.
17:31You are a goose, Jacob.
17:35Why do you walk the earth, Jacob?
17:39Why do you come to me?
17:41It is required of every man
17:43that the spirit within him
17:46should walk abroad among his fellow men
17:50and travel far and wide
17:52to witness what it cannot share
17:54but might have shared
17:56on earth
17:58and turn to happiness.
18:00Tell me, Jacob,
18:02what is that chain
18:04you wear around you?
18:06I wear the chain I forged in life.
18:10I made it link by link
18:12and yard by yard
18:14free will.
18:16Is its pattern strange to you,
18:18Ebenezer?
18:20Cash boxes, keys,
18:22padlocks, ledges
18:24and purses.
18:26Yours was as heavy and as long as this
18:28seven years ago.
18:30You have labored on it since,
18:32Ebenezer.
18:34Ah, Jacob, speak comfort
18:36to me, Jacob.
18:38Comfort I have none to give.
18:40I cannot rest.
18:42I cannot stay.
18:44I cannot linger.
18:46Weary journeys lie before me.
18:48You travel far?
18:50Yes, Ebenezer.
18:52On the wings of the wind.
18:54Seven years dead
18:56and traveling all the time?
18:58Seven years, Ebenezer.
19:00Seven years of remorse.
19:04Ebenezer, do you know
19:06that no space of regret
19:08can make amends
19:11for life's opportunities misused?
19:13But you were always
19:15a good man of business, Jacob.
19:17Business?
19:19Mankind was my business.
19:21Charity, mercy,
19:23benevolence, they were all
19:25my business. The dealings
19:27of my trade were but a drop
19:29of water in the comprehensive ocean
19:31of my business. Jacob, Jacob,
19:33don't take on so now.
19:35Jacob. Listen to me,
19:37Ebenezer. I listen to you,
19:39Jacob. Go on, Jacob, now.
19:41Speak to me, but don't be
19:43so flowery. Ebenezer,
19:45I am here to warn you
19:47that you have yet a chance
19:49of escaping my fate.
19:51Do you hear that,
19:53Ebenezer? Yes, Jacob.
19:55Yes, you always were
19:57a good friend to me, Jacob.
19:59Thanks, Jacob. But go on,
20:01go on, go on, go on.
20:03How shall I escape?
20:05Oh, I'm afraid, Jacob.
20:07You will be haunted by free
20:09spirits. Is that the only
20:11chance and hope, Jacob?
20:13It is your only chance and hope.
20:15Well, then I think I'd rather not.
20:17Without their visit, you cannot
20:19hope to shun the path I tread.
20:21Expect
20:23the first tomorrow
20:25when the bell tolls one.
20:27Couldn't I take them all at once
20:29and have it over, Jacob? Ebenezer,
20:31look that for your own sake
20:33you remember what has passed between
20:36us. And remember
20:38when the bell
20:40tolls one,
20:42look for the first spirit.
20:44Marley!
20:46Marley! Jacob! Marley!
20:58Scrooge awoke.
21:00He was lying on his bed
21:02fully dressed. Suddenly
21:04the curtains of his bed were drawn aside and Scrooge
21:06found himself face to face
21:08with the unearthly visitor who drew them
21:10as close to it as I am now to you.
21:12And I am
21:14standing in the spirit at your elbow.
21:16It was a strange
21:18figure, like a child.
21:20Yet not so like
21:22a child as like an old man.
21:24Its hair, which
21:26hung about its neck and down its back
21:28was white as if with age.
21:30And yet the face had
21:32not a wrinkle in it and the tenderest bloom
21:34was on the skin.
21:36The arms were long and muscular,
21:38the hands the same
21:40as if its hold were of uncommon strength.
21:42Ebenezer Scrooge.
21:44Oh!
21:46Who's that?
21:48Ebenezer Scrooge, I have come
21:50for you.
21:52You?
21:54Are you this spirit, sir, whose
21:56coming was foretold me?
21:58I am that spirit.
22:01What
22:03are you? I am the ghost
22:05of Christmas Pass.
22:07Long pass? No.
22:09Your pass.
22:11What do you want of me?
22:13What brings you here
22:15to haunt me? Your welfare,
22:17Ebenezer Scrooge.
22:19Rise
22:21and walk with me. Oh no!
22:23No, no, no. Not out
22:25of the window. I can't do that.
22:27I'll fall down.
22:29I'm not a spirit. I'm mortal
22:31and I'll fall. There but a touch of
22:33my hand upon your heart
22:35and you shall be upheld in more
22:37than this. Come
22:39follow me.
22:48Where are we?
22:50What's become of the city?
22:54There's snow upon the ground.
22:56Where are we?
22:58These are the shadows of the things that have been.
23:00You recognize this
23:02countryside?
23:06I know every inch but
23:08every rock, every tree.
23:10And that bleak building over there?
23:12Oh, that building.
23:14I was a boy there.
23:16Yes. I went
23:18to school in that horrible
23:20place. Do you recollect that path?
23:22I could walk it
23:24blindfolded. Strange you should
23:27get it so many years.
23:29Come, let us go closer.
23:31Look through the window
23:33into that cold, barren room.
23:35What do you see,
23:37Ebenezer Scrooge?
23:39I see a boy.
23:41A solitary child, neglected
23:43by his family, alone.
23:45Yes, yes, I see.
23:47I know that
23:49boy.
23:51I was so lonely.
23:53Poor boy. Your lip
23:55is trembling, Scrooge. And what is
23:57that on your cheek? It's nothing.
23:59Nothing at all.
24:01I wish I...
24:03Ah, it's too late now.
24:05What's the matter? Nothing, nothing.
24:07Waits came to
24:09my door singing Christmas carols
24:11last night, and there was a boy like
24:13that among them. A poor,
24:15pale, thin little boy in a
24:17ragged coat.
24:19I should like to have given him something, I thought.
24:21Is that all?
24:23Come, Ebenezer Scrooge.
24:25Let us see another Christmas.
24:33Do you know this place,
24:35Ebenezer Scrooge?
24:37Know it?
24:39Know it?
24:41This is the caroling house where I was
24:43apprenticed. Listen.
24:49It's my old master.
24:52Old Fezziwig.
24:54My master, alive
24:56again, and hosted
24:58one of his Christmas parties.
25:10And there's Dick
25:12Wilkins. Poor Dick.
25:14Dear, dear, dear.
25:16Yes, and look.
25:18There's Mrs. Fezziwig herself,
25:20looking younger than any of them.
25:22And the table's all loaded with
25:24roast and cider
25:26and mince pie and beer.
25:28Oh, what a jolly
25:30time we used to have.
25:32That carefree young man with a light heart
25:34and a gay smile. Do you
25:36recognize him? Yes, yes, yes.
25:38Merciful heaven.
25:40How happy I was then.
25:42A small matter for old Fezziwig
25:44to make those silly folks
25:46so full of joy. Small matter?
25:48Small indeed.
25:50Isn't it? He has spent only a few
25:52pounds of your mortal money.
25:54Is that so much that
25:56he deserves praise?
25:58It's not that. It's not that,
26:00spirit. Old Fezziwig
26:02has the power to make us happy
26:04or unhappy. To make our service
26:06light or heavy.
26:08His power lies in words
26:10and looks and in things
26:12so tiny that it's impossible
26:14to count them up. The happiness
26:17he gives is quite as great
26:19as if it cost her...
26:21What is the matter?
26:23Oh, nothing. Nothing at all,
26:25spirit. Something, I think.
26:27No, no. Speak.
26:29Well, only
26:31it's just that I should like
26:33to be able to say a word or two
26:35to my clerk, Bob Cratchit.
26:37That's all.
26:39Advance and retire!
26:49My time grows short
26:51and we have yet another
26:53journey to make.
26:55Where now? Come.
26:59This is our last visit to the past,
27:01Ebenezer. Here,
27:03in this little room,
27:05with a fair young girl by your side.
27:07Do you recognize yourself,
27:09Ebenezer? No, no,
27:11no, no, no, spare me this.
27:13You're older now,
27:15a man in the prime of life.
27:17Your face has begun to wear the signs
27:19of care and avarice.
27:21Your eyes are greedy,
27:23the eager, restless eyes
27:25of a miser. No, no,
27:27please. She knows it, too,
27:29that girl by your side.
27:31There are tears in her eyes.
27:33That is little Ebenezer
27:36to you. Very little,
27:38I know that. Belle, have I
27:40changed toward you? When we
27:42were engaged, we were both poor.
27:44Was it better then, better to be poor?
27:46Better at least to be happy.
27:48You're changed.
27:50You were another man then.
27:52I was a boy! You blame me
27:54because I've grown wiser. Have I ever
27:56tried to break our engagement?
27:58In words, no. Never.
28:00In what then?
28:02In a changed nature, in an
28:04altered spirit, in everything
28:06that made my love of any value
28:08in your sight. So I
28:10release you from your promise.
28:12Belle! Oh, at first it may cause you
28:14pain to lose me, a very
28:16brief pain. But soon it will
28:18be dim, like a half-remembered
28:20dream, an
28:22unprofitable dream.
28:24And you will be glad to be awake
28:26from such a dream.
28:28May you be happy in the life you have chosen,
28:30Ebenezer, for the
28:32dream you once had.
28:38It's enough! Show me no more!
28:40Take me home!
28:42These were shadows of the things that have been.
28:44That they are what they are
28:46do not blame me. No.
28:48No more! No more!
28:50One shadow more
28:52comes!
28:56Do you see this man,
28:58Ebenezer Scrooge?
29:00This man might have been you
29:02and the woman beside him your wife
29:04and that girl.
29:06That girl might have been your daughter,
29:08Ebenezer Scrooge.
29:10She might have called you father.
29:12She might have been a springtime
29:14in the haggard winter of your life.
29:16Spirit, let me go.
29:18Show me no more.
29:20Listen now while they speak,
29:22Ebenezer. Belle,
29:24I saw an old friend of yours today.
29:26Who was it? Yes.
29:29How can I?
29:31Oh, I know.
29:33Mr. Scrooge. Mr. Scrooge it was.
29:35I passed his office window.
29:37It wasn't shuttered. There was a candle inside
29:39so I couldn't help seeing him.
29:41His partner Molly lies at the point of death
29:43I hear. And there Scrooge
29:45sat. All alone.
29:47Quite alone in the world
29:49I do believe.
29:51Spirit. Spirit, I can't
29:53bear it anymore. Leave me.
29:55Haunt me no more.
29:57Take me back.
29:59Take me back.
30:21You are listening to the Campbell Playhouse.
30:23Bringing you tonight the fifth
30:25annual presentation of Charles Dickens
30:27A Christmas Carol. Produced by
30:29Orson Welles and starring
30:31Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge.
30:33This is the Columbia Broadcasting
30:35System.
30:37This is the WBBM Air Theatre
30:39Wrigley Building, Chicago.
30:41When we met in business
30:43King and monarch
30:45forth they went.
30:47Forth they went together
30:49Through the rude winds
30:51while the men turned
30:54the people well
30:56for
30:58the people well