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00:00The Makers of Campbell's Soup presents the Campbell Playhouse, Orson Welles producers.
00:27Good evening, this is Orson Welles. Our offering for tonight is The Citadel, a novel by A.J.
00:43Cronin, an English doctor which achieved great and instant popularity immediately upon its
00:47publication. It was then made into a distinguished and highly successful picture in England.
00:52As with all stories that have a true popular basis, however, the problem with which it deals is not a
00:58national one, but is universally human. The struggle of a young doctor who has dedicated his life to
01:04the highest ideals of his profession, among the harsh realities of the workaday world.
01:09As our guests are, playing the part of Christine, the doctor's clear-eyed wife, we're extremely
01:16fortunate in having with us Miss Geraldine Fitzgerald, the most promising of the new talents that
01:21have come to the screen from the stage in recent months. In a moment, our story, The Citadel, begins.
01:28But first, Ernest Chappell has a comment to make about a dish that seems to suit just about everybody
01:33to a tee. Thank you, Orson Welles, and this dish does suit most everybody literally to a tee.
01:40It's tomato soup, Campbell's tomato soup. In the week just past, millions of families all across the
01:46land sat down to enjoy steaming fragrant platefuls. Some had it as a main dish at lunch, some had it at
01:52supper, still others began dinner with it. And just about all of them welcomed Campbell's tomato soup
01:58as an old familiar friend. You know, there isn't any other soup in the world that people turn to with such
02:04eager enthusiasm time after time. There's something about the bright, inviting color of Campbell's tomato
02:10soup, about its enticing aroma, about its keen, delightful flavor that wins friends and holds them.
02:18People like the way this smooth tomato soup awakens the appetite at the first sip and they like the way it
02:24helps satisfy that appetite with each delicious spoonful. That's why Campbell's tomato soup is a frequent
02:30choice at so many meals in so many millions of homes. People never seem to tire of its magic, matchless
02:37flavor. And today that flavor is deeper and fuller than ever because this past year, sun and rain joined in
02:43making Campbell's tomatoes exceptionally fine and luscious. So may I remind you, since I'm sure a reminder is
02:51all that's necessary, treat yourself and the family to Campbell's tomato soup again soon, won't you?
02:57And now, Orson Welles and Geraldine Fitzgerald in The Citadel.
03:03And Rumanson, it is with extreme pleasure that this university awards you your degree. And with it is our
03:25supreme honor, the Hunter Gold Medal, awarded each year to the best student in clinical medicine. In the name of
03:35St. Andrews University, I congratulate you.
03:49Good evening. Oh, good evening. I saw a light in the window of your surgery. I thought I'd drop in and get acquainted.
03:57But my name's Manson. I'm Dr. Page's new assistant. Oh, welcome to Renneslie. My name is Denny, an assistant to your
04:06chief competitor. Well, I must say, Manson, you've picked a dreary black hole of a town for your first practice.
04:13I thought a mining village like this might give me the most experience. Besides, you see, I'm interested in lung work, and I
04:19thought among the miners that I might find some interesting cases. Matter of fact, I've just been examining my first case of
04:25Mrs. Williams in Glider Place. Chills, fever, headaches. Pretty sick, eh? I believe those were her symptoms. And so you prescribed
04:36one tablespoon every three hours, I believe, under the circumstances. That's a pretty legitimate prescription. Now, Dr. Manson, there
04:42seem to be one or two things about this place you ought to know. There's no hospital, no ambulance, no x-ray, no nothing. If you want to operate,
04:52you use the kitchen table. You wash up afterwards at the scullery sink. Sanitation won't bear looking at. In the dry summer, the kids die like
05:01flies with infantile cholera. It doesn't come to think of it, if I were you, I should look out for typhoid. Typhoid? Yes, typhoid. Some of these
05:10cases aren't exactly typical. Thank you very much, Dr. Denny. See, I am new, not only to this place. I've not had the proper experience. But
05:18these people here need help, and after all, that's why I'm here. You know, by Jove, I believe you mean that. Why else would I say it? It's been a long time
05:30since I've run into a man like you, Manson. The medical profession doesn't turn him out like that very often. Have a drink. Well, I thought you
05:40wouldn't. Well, I will. Ed, while you're about it, take a look through that microscope there. Oh, it's a beauty. It's nice, isn't it? Yes, it's the only precious thing I have
05:51left. But it was the slide I meant. Take a good look. Typhoid, I ought to be shocked for not having recognized it myself. That Williams woman has it in... I see you've got
06:02cases, too. Poor. All in the same area as yours. The bugs you're looking at come from that well in Glider Place. The main sewer, Mr. Blaine, leaks like the devil
06:13and seeps into half the low wells at the bottom of the town. I've hammered a griffin for medical examiner about it till I'm tired. He's a lazy, evasive, incompetent, pious swine.
06:23Afraid to ask the council for anything in case they dock his wretched salary to pay for it. We've got to do something. Yes, yes, that's a good idea. Well, sir, let's have a drink. Well, I'll have another
06:35drink. That cursed sewer starts leaking, and all the isolation and boiling of water won't have a bit. The typhoid epidemic has spread all over the district. That's right. You can write the Ministry of Health.
06:45We could write a dozen letters, and all we'd get would be a doddering commissioner down here in six months' time. No, you know, I've thought it all out. There's only one way to make them build a new sewer. Oh, blow up the old one.
07:05Ah, pretty little sewer, isn't it, eh? No wonder people are dying. It's part of the gangrenous. Well, take one last look, Manson. Got a match? Here.
07:19Now, he's ready to run for it. Don't you worry about me. Dynamite. Here. Elastic of dynamite. Quick, quick, the men will come. Run!
07:50Well, Manson, I just feel like to be one of the saviors of Blenheffley. I think we ought to have a drink, a bottle or two at the very least. How about it, old boy? Sorry, Danny, but I've got some other work to do. I've been hearing reports of that little schoolmistress.
08:05Schoolmistress? Oh, you mean Christine Barlow? I think that's the name. She's been keeping measle cases in her class, and she knows perfectly well they should be isolated.
08:14Yes, but look here, you know, Christine Barlow is pretty much a law of her own in Blenheffley. Well, she is, is she? Well, I'm going to see about that. It's all very well when I thought there was only measles to contend with, but this is different.
08:25Evan only knows that she's been controlling those children, too. Well, Manson, I wouldn't worry about Christine. She's a pretty intelligent girl. Just the same, the law is the law. I intend isolating any suspicious case I find, whether it's measles or typhoid.
08:44All right, children, you're dismissed now. Be back at two. Quiet, quiet, children. The little ones will stay for their milk. Idris, you sit over there by the fire in the big chair. Here's your milk. The rest of you sit at your regular places. Yes?
09:04You, uh, oh, you're Miss Barlow, the schoolmistress? Yes. Oh, I'm Dr. Manson, Dr. Page's assistant. Oh, won't you come in? Thank you. We're not having school just now. It's our mid-afternoon break. The children are having their milk.
09:20Because of the threat of a typhoid epidemic, we're isolating all suspicious cases. Yes, I was told. And I understand you have a contact here, Idris Howells. But you don't understand, Doctor. You don't know the conditions in Lanesi. These children are starving, and their well is not enough of the right kind of food, and when they're ill, it's, well, it's often fatal. And Idris's brother only has the measles, and if Idris had stayed home, he'd have missed his milk. You must understand, Doctor.
09:44It isn't a question of his milk, Miss Barlow. The child ought to be isolated. I have got him isolated in a kind of a way. If you don't believe me, look for yourself. He's all by himself by the fire. Well, that may be your idea of isolation. I'm afraid it isn't mine. Send that child home at once.
09:58Doesn't it occur to you that I'm mistress of this class? You may be able to order people about in more exhorted spheres, but here it's my word that comes first. You're breaking the law. You can't keep him here if you don't want him to report you. Then you'd better report me, or have me arrested. I've no doubt it'll give you immense satisfaction. There's nothing more, is there? Stand up, children, and say, Good morning, Dr. Manson. Thank you for coming. Good morning, Dr. Manson. Thank you for coming.
10:28Good morning, Dr. Manson. Have you sent for the police yet, Dr. Manson? You see, Idris is still with me. Miss Barlow, I've got to tell you that I'm sorry about that. I ought to be kicked hard. What you're doing about those kids is splendid. I've learned a lesson. I've learned that sometimes it's better to observe the spirit than the lesson.
10:56Sometimes it's better to observe the spirit than the lesson of the law, and I'm sorry to bother you with all this. I had to say it. Good morning. Wait, wait, Dr. Manson. I understand. I know just how you felt. I felt the same way at times. Then you don't mind? You'll be friends? Of course. Could I walk home with you? Not far, but if you'd like to. I'd love it. We've had a lot of excitement lately for Blunethley, haven't we? Yes, yes, we have.
11:25I love that sewer blowing up. Quite a coincidence, really. Yes. Dr. Denny's threatened to blow it up so many times. He must be quite pleased, don't you think? I rather imagine he is, yes. I think it was splendid. Splendid of you both. You mean you guessed? Yes, of course. It was Denny's idea, not mine. I wouldn't have had the courage. You know, I've learned a good deal from him. When I came down here, I was full of a lot of formula and theories of diagnosis that aren't right at all.
11:52All I knew were a lot of trick prescriptions that were perfectly harmless, but no earthly good. Fix them up, that's the rule. Even though it's only burnt sugar and soda bicarbonate. Dr. Manson, what are you going to do? What do you mean? With your life. You're not going to go on living in this dirty little village forever, are you?
12:10I've been so busy, I guess I hadn't thought much about it. Glad it's not since I left the university. You see, I had so many ideas then. I'd planned some research on tuberculosis. My thesis, I wrote a paper on inhalation. Pretty good it was. Only the other day, I had a letter from a remarkable chap in America, Richard Stillman. Who's he? Some well-known doctor over there?
12:30No, he's a physicist, really. He runs a clinic for disordered lungs near Portland, Oregon. And he's really a big man. Does wonderful experimental work. Some of the finest in the country. And he's identified all sorts of opposition. That's the sort of thing I'd like to do. You know, when I get a chance, get out of the...
12:46Get out of Lynette, please?
12:47Oh, sorry. I didn't mean...
12:49Oh, I understand.
12:50To do some real work for a change. Some real work where I'm needed. Where I can be of real use.
12:55I was told of a place the other day over at Abaralo. The medical society there is looking for a new assistant. If the head doctor's name is Llewellyn, you might try.
13:03Gosh, I think I will try. I'm going right home now to apply. They can't do any more than turn me down. Thanks a lot, Christine. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to call you by your first name. It slipped out.
13:17Oh, but I'd like you to call me Christine. Only at home I was more used to Chris.
13:22I like that, Chris. That's good. That suits you.
13:27Good night. And thanks.
13:29Good night.
13:31I...
13:35Good night.
13:37Good night.
13:46Chris? Chris?
13:47Andrew, what's the matter? You're so pale. Oh, Andrew, didn't you get the job?
13:52Yes, I got the job. It's the most wonderful job.
13:54Oh, I'm so happy for you, Andrew.
13:56There's big things to be done. There's a hospital there. I can go on with my research and my lung work. And I'll be right in the thick of things with every opportunity to study my cases.
14:04A regular beauty of a hospital to get them well in them. Chris, I can hardly wait to begin.
14:08Oh, it's wonderful.
14:09You've just seen Aberral all open and clean, Chris, with green fields and decent shops and roads and parks and...
14:15Oh, Christine, actually a hospital, if you'd only marry me, darling.
14:20We can start right away if you'd marry me.
14:24Could you? Would you marry me? I...
14:27I can't get the job if you don't.
14:29Is this because of the job, Andrew, or because of me?
14:32Oh, it's you, Chris. You know I love you, but, you know, I never thought of this. Maybe you don't love me.
14:39Oh, but I do, darling. I do. Ever since I saw you walk into that stupid classroom.
14:43Darling, darling. Darling. I mean, everything's perfect.
14:48But shouldn't you tell him I mean that we're...
14:50Well, you see, I already have.
14:52Oh, Andrew.
14:53Well, you said not to let anything stand in my way. Not anything.
15:03Look at it. A dining room, a library, a morning...
15:06No wonder they wanted a married man. At least it's well-built. It'll be warm.
15:10I say, Christine, what's that?
15:12A present from Denny. A wedding present.
15:14Denny? Say, that's decent of him.
15:16It's probably a joke, though. It'd be just like Denny to send an old shoe down up in a fine prison.
15:20But it isn't. Oh, Andrew.
15:23Say, it's in microscope. It's precious size.
15:26Oh, Chris, I can't accept it.
15:29Read the note.
15:30What does it say?
15:31Where I'm going there'll be no use for microscopes.
15:34For when you get this, Andrew, my lad,
15:37be on my way south where I intend to spend my days sitting in the sun.
15:42Now, leave the bacteria and sewers of Wales to you.
15:46Good luck.
15:48Chris, you know he's going away?
15:49Yes, I knew two or three weeks ago.
15:51Well, he didn't say anything to me.
15:52He was self-conscious. He was afraid you'd think him sentimental.
15:55You see, he's going to try and get hold of himself.
15:57And if he can, he's coming back and thinks that by that time,
15:59perhaps you and he can work out that plan you had for the experimental hospital.
16:03He's very keen on that, Andrew.
16:05Oh, Denny, and I didn't think he cared at all about my idea.
16:09I tell you, Chris, this room won't be the library in the morning or anything like that.
16:13In honor of Denny, I hereby christen this room the lab.
16:16Isn't it wonderful, darling? A real honest-to-goodness laboratory.
16:19And a real honest-to-goodness wife.
16:23Come here.
16:25Come here.
16:26You know what day this is?
16:28Our wedding day?
16:29What's your name?
16:30Christine Barlow.
16:31Christine what?
16:32Christine Manson.
16:50Andrew, what is that?
16:51It sounded like an explosion.
16:53I say, I think that's the mine, Chris.
16:55Doctor?
16:56Yes?
16:57Doctor Manson, there's been an explosion at the mine.
16:59You'd better come, Doctor.
17:01I'll come at once. Get my bag, Chris.
17:07Doctor, oh, Doctor, can you come?
17:09There's been a cave in at number three shafts.
17:11Sam Bevan got buried there.
17:12They don't seem able to lift the lad.
17:13He's on your list.
17:14Bring instruction. The emergency team can follow me.
17:16Is the cave still working?
17:17Well enough, I guess.
17:18We've got to get to him as soon as we can, Doctor.
17:20There's danger of another cave in.
17:24My light's away, Doctor Manson.
17:26There he is. We can't shift, Sam, or hold.
17:29Are they still trying to get the poor fellow out?
17:31I don't know.
17:32Come on, Doctor.
17:33His arm's caught in a...
17:34Are you wrong, Doctor?
17:35Let's have a look at him.
17:36Doctor!
17:37Sam.
17:38Oh, Doctor.
17:39Looks like you've got to have some ambulance practice on me proper.
17:42Sam, there's only one way to get you out.
17:44I guess you know that.
17:46I've got to amputate.
17:48Do you know what that means?
17:50Yes, Doctor.
17:52Yes, Doctor, I know.
17:54Only getting out of here...
17:55Right now, where's my bag?
17:56Here, Doctor.
17:57It's all right, Sam.
17:58Don't worry. I'll send you to sleep now.
17:59And then when you wake up, you'll be...
18:01What's the matter, Doctor?
18:02My chloroform, the bottle's broken.
18:04I'll have to send up for an anesthetic.
18:05You can't, Doctor.
18:06There's no time. There's a flight.
18:07You can hear it.
18:08There won't be any time till the room caves in under this mic.
18:11Get us out.
18:12Right, Doctor Manson.
18:13Doctor Manson, it's all right.
18:14Go ahead.
18:15Without it...
18:17You're a brave man, Sam.
18:19Daddy.
18:20Daddy.
18:21Daddy.
18:22Daddy.
18:23Daddy.
18:24Daddy.
18:29He's fainted, Doctor.
18:30Thank heaven for that.
18:31He'll not feel a pain.
18:32Now, hand me the saw, quick.
18:33All right.
18:34Now, stand ready with the bandages.
18:35Stand ready.
18:37Hold it.
18:38Give me the bandage.
18:39There we are.
18:40Right.
18:41Quick.
18:42The bandage.
18:44Here we are.
18:45Please.
18:46Is that it, Doctor?
18:47Is that it?
18:48Take him away.
18:49Go steady with the stretcher.
18:50Leave those blankets around him.
18:51We want steady hot water bottles.
18:52If we ever get out.
18:53Doctor says...
18:54As hurry as you can.
18:55The rope can't hold up much longer.
18:57Hurry.
18:58Hurry.
19:10Daddy.
19:11Daddy.
19:12Daddy.
19:13Daddy.
19:14Daddy.
19:15Daddy.
19:16Oh, Andrew, you're fainted.
19:17My darling.
19:18They told me what you'd done.
19:19I'm so proud of you.
19:20Oh, sweet.
19:21But, Andrew, they told us the roof was down.
19:23Oh, no.
19:24You wouldn't come out again.
19:25Darling.
19:26Darling.
19:35All right, then, Franken.
19:36Put your shirt back on.
19:37Certificate?
19:38Here.
19:39Say, this don't say certificate.
19:41No, it doesn't.
19:42For 15 years, you men have been getting compensation for an illness
19:45you haven't got.
19:46I'm not going to do it.
19:47You're perfectly able to work and work you're going to do.
19:49Now, get out of here before I put you out.
19:51All right.
19:52I'll get out.
19:53But we'll all believe in you, Doctor.
19:55That's what we'll be doing.
19:56We'll go to the doctor that gives the certificate.
20:02There's only one thing wrong with you, Mrs. Hinch.
20:04You should walk.
20:06Walk several miles a day.
20:08Thank you, Doctor.
20:09Then, may I have my medicine?
20:11There'll be no medicine.
20:12Walk.
20:13That's the only prescription I'll give you.
20:15No medicine?
20:16Taint doctrine.
20:17That's a taint.
20:18When I don't have my medicine, I know what happens to me.
20:21If you won't give it to me, I'll go where I can get it.
20:23Or you can get something for your money.
20:26Very well, Mrs. Hinch.
20:32Chris, everything's gone wrong.
20:33Outside of that one night I was called to the mine,
20:35it hasn't been at all what I thought it would be.
20:37I've tried to do what's right.
20:39And the hospital.
20:40I counted on that hospital.
20:42I know, dear.
20:43It's the chief doctor's hospital, not mine, not the company's,
20:46not even the worker's, but his.
20:48Oh, when I think how I started out, Chris.
20:52What I was going to do, what I was going to accomplish,
20:55what I was going to be.
20:57Andrew, we're not going to stay in Welsh mining villages all our lives, are we?
21:01Why can't you just have a practice for yourself?
21:03Maybe in London.
21:04Chris.
21:05Why not?
21:07Maybe you're right, Chris.
21:08Why not?
21:09Yes, why not?
21:10Maybe the system is the same in London.
21:12At least there you'd have a chance of recognition.
21:14Things might be easier.
21:16Maybe you'd have more time for research and experiments.
21:18Oh, but the risk, darling.
21:20With not-be-sure money, you know,
21:22you'd have to take a chance with a poor, down-at-the-heel Scotch doctor.
21:27I don't know how I'd make out in the city.
21:29I'm pretty much of a country lout.
21:31Maybe I'm only fit for slogging around in the slush
21:34and turning over dirty blankets and collecting fleas.
21:36That's not true, and you know it.
21:39All right.
21:40All right, if you've got faith enough, then I have.
21:44Chris, it won't be easy, but still...
21:49Yes, I...
21:51I believe I can do it.
21:54You are listening to Orson Welles in the Campbell Playhouse presentation of The Citadel,
22:11starring Geraldine Fitzgerald.
22:13This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
22:1712 shillings, 16.
22:2114 shillings, 7.
22:23Three shillings were piercing the lady's ears this morning.
22:26Well, Chris, that's our week's receipts.
22:2914 shillings.
22:30It's not much, darling, but it's more than last week.
22:33We've only been in London three months.
22:35You can't expect to make a fortune overnight.
22:37Heaven knows, Chris.
22:39Heaven knows how we live on 14 shillings.
22:43Heaven knows how we live on 14 shillings.
22:46We've got to somehow.
22:47We will, darling.
22:49Things need to look well to impress patients.
22:52They can't know we're as bad off as we are.
22:54You've got to spruce things up, Chris, and economize.
22:57Economize?
22:58Don't I always economize for you?
23:00Do I cost you anything?
23:01Chris, now...
23:02Oh, I'm sorry, Andrew.
23:03It's this house.
23:04I didn't realize.
23:05That basement, the stairs, the dirt.
23:07I know, sweetie.
23:08Oh, Andrew, I didn't realize what London was like.
23:10It's so squalid and mean.
23:11Chris, darling.
23:12I know, I know.
23:13I won't say anything ever again.
23:15Only, Andrew, London isn't what I thought.
23:18Not at all what I thought.
23:19I'll make money for you if you'll only give me time, darling.
23:22That's not it.
23:23We've never had money, and we've been happy.
23:25But there's no warmth here, no friendliness.
23:27Darling, we haven't had a chance to find out what London's really like.
23:30It's just that I want a place with a garden and some trees
23:33like we've always dreamed of.
23:34I'm rich and successful.
23:35We'll have a great house in the country.
23:37Why are you laughing at?
23:38Just imagine you rich and successful.
23:40I suppose you think that won't happen.
23:41Well, it will.
23:42And pretty soon, too.
23:43We'll be getting next week.
23:44Next week?
23:45Thursday night, darling.
23:46We're invited to dinner.
23:48Our big chant.
23:49Dinner?
23:50With whom?
23:51I ran into a fellow yesterday that I used to know, Freddy Hampton.
23:53Quite an up-and-coming doctor in the West End.
23:55Swank officers, big practice, you know.
23:58He's done well for himself in London.
24:00I used to pal about with him in the early days,
24:02and he insists we come over Thursday night.
24:04Oh, Andrew, you go.
24:05Oh, that's nonsense.
24:07We need to get out, the two of us, away from ourselves.
24:09Make friends.
24:10Be a good.
24:11Lucky I bought myself that dinner jacket.
24:14What about you, Chris?
24:16What did you wear?
24:17We'll have to get you a new dress.
24:18A new dress?
24:19Nonsense.
24:20What I need is a new gas cooker.
24:32Cigar, ma'am?
24:34Thank you, Freddy.
24:35I advise you not to miss this brandy.
24:371894, absolutely no nonsense about it.
24:39Have some more, I read.
24:40Freedman?
24:41Oh, just a spot.
24:43By the way, I bought myself one of those new radium lamps today.
24:47Well, I don't think much of expensive apparatus.
24:50It's got to be paid for before you show a profit.
24:53Besides, the date loses its vogue.
24:56Honestly, old chap, you'll find nothing to beat the good old hypo.
25:00You certainly use it, Dr. Ivory.
25:02Yes, you know it's interesting.
25:04If I prescribed the same thing as a powder,
25:07it wouldn't cut one guinea's worth of ice.
25:10But give it hypodermically,
25:12swabbing up the skin, sterilizing,
25:14and all the rest of the game,
25:16and the patient thinks it's all very scientific and smart
25:19and you can double your fee.
25:21Yes, and they call in Dr. Freedman here to consult,
25:24and they're triple fee.
25:26Now, Freddy, I don't quite understand.
25:28You mean you and Dr. Ivory and Dr. Freedman
25:30consult one another about patients?
25:32You mean you split fees?
25:34Oh, no, sir. Listen to him.
25:36You know, you can't learn an awful lot about this game, Manson.
25:39With some patients, the more doctors the better.
25:41It impresses them, and they surely really are sick.
25:44You'll learn in time, the more money you charge,
25:46the more doctors you call in to consult,
25:48the more patients you'll get.
25:49Oh, I certainly look at old Lady Raven.
25:51Oh, Andrew, you ought to come up with me sometime.
25:53You've no idea what a goldmine this old girl's been to us.
25:56We've taken, well, we've taken nuggets out of her.
25:58Haven't we, Ivory?
25:59Yes, and believe me, she's grateful, too.
26:01Oh, ring me up sometime, Manson, and I'll take you up.
26:04It'll flatter her, and, well, it'll mean five Guinness for you.
26:07Well, now, what do you say, gentlemen,
26:09if we join the ladies and drop over to the 400 Club?
26:12I've reserved a table over there.
26:13It's a jolly good show.
26:22Ha, ha, ha!
26:24That's a good story, Freddy.
26:27I think you'll like that.
26:29I think I'd better dance with Chris.
26:31You know how it is, Freddy.
26:32Oh, why, sir, you can dance with your wife any time.
26:34Ask Frances Blunt-Lawrence.
26:36She can do more for you than anybody else in London,
26:39if she takes a fancy to you.
26:40My boy, at this time in your career,
26:42you can't waste any time on sentiment.
26:44The right people, that's the whole thing.
26:47Frances?
26:48Yes, Freddy?
26:49A dark, handsome gentleman is pining away
26:51because he hasn't the courage to ask you to dance.
26:53Oh, I do adore dark, handsome men.
26:55I should be delighted, Dr. Manson.
27:05I'm sure Dr. Manson thinks we're all quite mad.
27:08No, Mrs. Lawrence.
27:10I assure you, it's just that I might as well be honest.
27:15I'm a bit new to your sort of people.
27:17My practice has been made up mostly of Welsh miners
27:20and handings and boarding housekeepers.
27:23Oh, I think it's delightful of you to be honest.
27:25But surely, Dr. Manson,
27:27you don't intend to spend all your days in Paddington.
27:30You don't mind my saying this, do you?
27:32Not at all. I appreciate your interest.
27:34Perhaps I can help you.
27:35If you'll forgive me, I'm not without influence,
27:38and I know London very well.
27:39I love London.
27:40But from what Freddy tells me
27:42and what I can judge for myself,
27:44I think you go far, Dr. Manson.
27:46And I'd like to feel that I, well, in some measure or other,
27:49I contributed to your success.
27:50Mrs. Lawrence, I...
27:51There's so little difference really
27:52between charging a shilling in Paddington
27:54and five guineas in Mayfair.
27:57It's all a matter of appearance.
27:58That's where I shan't come off at all.
28:00I should suggest moving from Paddington, Dr. Manson.
28:03Perhaps rooms in Welbeck Street.
28:05A car, and most important of all, a good tailor.
28:09I suggest Rogers and Pondwick Street.
28:11I assure you, Mrs. Lawrence, that it's impossible on my income.
28:14I should see that you get patients
28:16that will make it possible, Dr. Manson.
28:21Oh, my God.
28:27It's very funny, those doctor chaps.
28:29Chris, it's been a wonderful evening.
28:31I hate to leave.
28:32Oh, now look here, Chris, what's wrong?
28:34Couldn't you see that everything,
28:36the food, the furniture, the way they talk,
28:38money, money, all the time,
28:40and the way that Mrs. Lawrence looked at me.
28:42It was actually funny when she realized what a nobody I was.
28:45Oh, the whole thing was disgusting.
28:47I'll make money for you, Chris.
28:49I'll buy a pair of expensive clothes.
28:50Betty, you don't...
28:51I don't...
28:52You're telling me I...
28:53I don't want money, and I hate expensive clothes.
28:55Darling, please.
28:56Don't kiss me, Andrew.
28:57I love you, Andrew.
28:59But when you're like this, you...
29:00I seem to be with a stranger.
29:02All right, my girl, if that's the way of it.
29:04I'll show you I can get out of this hole.
29:06You don't have to worry about clothes or your cook stove.
29:08I'll make money.
29:09You'll see.
29:17Good morning, Mrs. Everett.
29:18I'm Dr. Manson.
29:19Oh, good morning, doctor.
29:21I asked you to call on the recommendation of Mrs. Lawrence.
29:23I think perhaps you might suit me.
29:26I shall do my best, Mrs. Everett.
29:28Mrs. Lawrence says you're a very brilliant young man.
29:31Thank you, I...
29:32And Dr. Manson, I do dislike bills.
29:35Would you object to my paying in advance?
29:37I never pay more than one guinea a visit.
29:39Is that all right?
29:41Oh, that's quite all right, Mrs. Everett, quite all right.
29:44Now, if you'll permit me.
29:49You know, Manson, I'm glad you chucked your old dog-in-the-manger,
29:53holy-willy attitude.
29:55You know, a doctor can make a pretty good thing out of London these days
29:58if he's, well, if he's willing to play along.
30:00Oh, I hope.
30:01You know, I've got an idea that you and Ivory and I
30:04could work out something really worthwhile.
30:06Make some real money, Manson.
30:08What do you say if you drop round to my office one afternoon this week
30:11and talk it over?
30:12Well, I'd be glad to.
30:14I say, there's a favour I'd like to ask of you.
30:17I'd like to ask of you if it's a charity case.
30:19Oh, I say, another one, Manson?
30:21You know, for a fella who's only been in London a few months,
30:23you've suddenly loaded yourself down with those.
30:25This is a rather special case.
30:26The girl has TB, left apex, primary stage.
30:28Of course, it's pretty bad.
30:29I wonder if you'd arrange to have her taken to Victoria Chest Hospital.
30:32Oh, well, of course.
30:33Anything for a friend.
30:34I'll bring her up.
30:35Fine.
30:36And afterwards, why not drop into the Ritz and we'll have a drink?
30:37I'm sorry.
30:38I've got an appointment to see Richard Stillman.
30:39Stillman?
30:40You know, the American health expert.
30:42He's in town for the day.
30:43Oh, the quack.
30:45Where is he?
30:46He's quite a big man in America.
30:48Yes, well, I'd be very careful of that if I were you, Manson.
30:50You know, in your position, it isn't too good to be seen with men of that type.
30:53And you're just at the point where the wrong connections can ruin you, old boy.
30:57Just think it over.
31:13Is that you, Andrew?
31:15Yes.
31:19Oh, Chris.
31:20The dinner party, Mrs. Lawrence.
31:23It was a stupid affair.
31:25She had some people there she felt I should know.
31:27Turned out to be a good thing, too, I think.
31:28Really?
31:29Yeah.
31:30Well, we can't complain, eh, Chris?
31:32Not like it was in the old days.
31:34We used to sit and wait, counting up the hours before patients would show up.
31:39Now we're getting the things we wanted, Chris.
31:42And we'll have a lot more.
31:44I want to buy you things.
31:46Furs, clothes, a car.
31:47I want you to be like other women.
31:48Andrew, do we really want to be rich?
31:51I know I don't.
31:52When we didn't have any money at all, we were deliriously happy.
31:55Can't say we are now.
31:57You'll know we're not.
31:58After years of tramping about in slush, eating sausage and soused herrings,
32:03taking dog's abuse from picketed committees,
32:05and tending miners' wives in dirty back bedrooms,
32:08I should think you'd welcome a change, if not for your sake, then for mine.
32:11Oh, if only I could make you see.
32:13Andrew, you're falling victim to the very system you used to attack.
32:16Don't you remember how you used to speak of life, you and Demi?
32:19That it was an attack on the unknown, an assault uphill,
32:22as though you had to take some castle that you knew was there, but couldn't see,
32:26way on the top?
32:27I was part of romantic nonsense, Joyce.
32:29Then I prefer the romantic nonsense to your talk now.
32:32Checks, money, your fees, I hear nothing else anymore.
32:35How much you made off this patient or that one.
32:38That check Dr. Ivory sent you for that operation, for instance.
32:41What did you do?
32:42Nothing.
32:43Yet you were paid, merely for standing by.
32:46I don't care what you call it, Andrew, if you take it.
32:49Underneath it's cheap and grasping and dishonest.
32:52It's changed you.
32:53I can see it, day after day, you're a bit different.
32:56A little harder, a little cleverer.
32:58You're not the Andrew Manson I married.
33:00Oh, darling, darling, don't sell yourself.
33:02The last time, Christine, I warned you to stop making a neurotic fool of yourself.
33:06Can't you be a help to me, instead of a hindrance,
33:09nagging me every minute of the day, darling?
33:11I haven't nagged you.
33:12I've wanted to speak before, but I haven't.
33:14Well, then don't, you hear me, don't.
33:17You talk as if I was some kind of a dirty crook.
33:20I only want to get on, darling.
33:21If I want money, it's only as a means to an end.
33:24People judge you by what you have.
33:26If you're one of the have-nots, you get ordered about.
33:28Well, I've had enough of that in my time.
33:30In the future, in the future, I'm going to do the ordering.
33:33Now, do you understand?
33:34Yes, yes, Andrew, I'm afraid I do.
33:42Andrew, guess who's here.
33:44Denny.
33:45Denny.
33:46Oh, back at last.
33:47Denny, you old scoundrel.
33:49Yes, Manson, I had about enough of the wide and starry sky.
33:52You know, the best way to get to like this rain country is to go abroad.
33:56Denny, how are you?
33:57I'm fine.
33:58But, say, I haven't made a mistake, have I?
34:02This well-dressed young man, he's a fine fellow.
34:05He's a fine fellow.
34:07Say, I haven't made a mistake, have I?
34:10This well-dressed gentleman is Dr. Manson, isn't he?
34:13No other.
34:14Come on in, Denny.
34:15How about a bottle of ale?
34:16I'll bring some, Andrew.
34:17Well, now that you're back, I hope you're going to settle down, Denny.
34:22After all, you're on the right side of 40 and, oh boy, with your talent.
34:27Oh, don't be so smug, Professor.
34:29I may still show you a few tricks one of these days.
34:31What are you going to do?
34:32I've just been appointed surgical registrar of the South Hartfordshire Infirmary.
34:37I don't know how they gave me the job.
34:39It must be another case of mistaken identity.
34:41Oh, boy, Denny, a first-class degree like that will get you anywhere.
34:44Here's your ale, gentlemen.
34:45Christine, what have you been doing to me?
34:48You don't sound like the bloke who blew up that sewer with me.
34:51Do you want to join us, Christine?
34:53No, you must want to talk over old times.
34:55And I know you want to explain to Andrew the scheme you were speaking of to me.
34:58What scheme, darling?
34:59You tell him, Denny.
35:00I'll answer the phone.
35:01All right.
35:02Manson, you remember the great theories you used to spout in Vernettly?
35:06About tuberculosis hospitals, special hospitals, away from the dust and noise of cities?
35:11Of course I do.
35:12Well, I have been talking to Stillman.
35:14You know him?
35:15Yes.
35:16The more I talk with him, the more I realize how practical his ideas are.
35:20That's one reason I took this job in South Hartfordshire.
35:23You see, I thought that you and I and Stillman...
35:26Andrew, it's Mrs. Higgins on the phone.
35:28A little boy is very ill.
35:29Could you go over?
35:30Excuse me, of course.
35:31Denny, old boy, you put up with us tonight.
35:33Sorry, I've got to get back to my job or else they might change their minds.
35:36I can't afford that.
35:37Well, it's been awfully good to see you.
35:39Sometime, Chris and I will run out and visit you just as soon as I can find a free afternoon.
35:44Yes, do I. I'd like to have you look the place over.
35:46See you soon, then.
35:49Christine, you're worried, aren't you?
35:52Oh, could you tell?
35:53Well, I wouldn't worry too much.
35:56I guess we all go through this period.
36:00Andrew will be all right.
36:08Is it terrible serious, Dr. Midgerton?
36:10Higgins, an operation is absolutely necessary.
36:12Johnny shows a cystic condition which will have to be removed.
36:14I'll see what I can do about getting him into a ward at once.
36:16Well, I don't want that, Doctor.
36:18We're not well-off people, but we've a bit put by.
36:20Enough for a private room and a good surgeon.
36:22I'll see if I can't arrange to have a friend of mine, Dr. Ivory, perform the operation.
36:25Well, whoever you say, Doctor. I'm trusting in you.
36:31The operating room is ready, Dr. Ivory.
36:33Dr. Gray is waiting to be anesthetized.
36:35Oh, thank you, nurse.
36:37Well, Manson, it'll soon be over.
36:40Let's see, just 10.30.
36:43I don't have time to drop in on Lady Rayburn before lunch.
36:46Oh, here's our patient.
36:48Morning, young man.
36:49Johnny.
36:50Hello, Dr. Manson.
36:51Dr. Manson, you're not going to hurt me, are you?
36:54All right.
36:55Hello, Dr. Manson.
36:56Dr. Manson, you're not going to hurt me, are you?
36:59Oh, I'm not going to hurt you. Just lie still, darling.
37:01I'm just going to sit the mask over your face.
37:04I won't hurt you at all.
37:05You're a fine doctor.
37:07Don't be frightened, Johnny.
37:08Here, let me sit it on.
37:10That's the mask. That's a good boy. Now breathe deeply.
37:13That's the boy.
37:15Deep as you can.
37:18That's it. Breathe.
37:20Everything's ready, Dr. Ivory.
37:22Johnny.
37:25Johnny, can you hear me?
37:27Johnny.
37:28Oh, she's taking the E for Grey.
37:30He's gone under, Dr. Ivory.
37:31Thanks, sir.
37:32Good.
37:33All right, now we get to work.
37:35May I uncover the patient, nurse?
37:37Yes, sir.
37:39Ready, nurse?
37:41Nice, please.
37:55I'm so frightened, Mrs. Nansen.
37:57Dr. Ivory's a very famous surgeon.
37:59I'm sure Andrew wouldn't have recommended him unless he was the best.
38:02Yeah, I know, I know.
38:03But Johnny looked so white. It was almost as if...
38:05Oh, please, Mrs. Higgins, you mustn't worry.
38:14Dr. Ivory, you've cut the cyst!
38:17Clamp, please.
38:18Doctor!
38:19Swab, please.
38:20Ivory, for...
38:21Why haven't they done something?
38:22Dr. Ivory, it's hot. The boy's dying.
38:24Quick, nurse!
38:25That's a stimulant!
38:27Ivory, can't you do something?
38:29I'm afraid there's not much use.
38:30He's going fast.
38:31Where's that hypo?
38:32Hypo, nurse!
38:33Quick!
38:34Quick, for heaven's sake.
38:35There's no use, doctor.
38:36He's gone.
38:41Very unfortunate.
38:44I rather imagine it was the shock, don't you?
38:50Well...
38:52I'm sorry, Manson.
38:54You know, I never dreamed that cyst was hemorrhagic.
38:57But all these things happen in the best regulated circles you know.
39:02Of course, he didn't die on the table.
39:06I finished before that, so it's all right.
39:08There's no necessity for an inquiry.
39:10Won't you stop talking, Ivory?
39:12What's the use?
39:16I know you killed him.
39:18It's the worst botch of an operation I've ever seen.
39:20You're not a surgeon, you're a butcher.
39:22I watched the whole thing.
39:23Of course, it was a tight place.
39:24I've seen plenty of surgeons.
39:26Fellas in mining villages operating on kitchen tables that could do better.
39:29You couldn't reach the ligatures without thinking or caring or knowing you cut the cyst.
39:35Any fool should have known better than that.
39:36There was no excuse for his dying.
39:38You know, it was a very straightforward operation.
39:40I don't recommend that line of talk, Manson.
39:42You don't.
39:43I know you don't.
39:44It's the truth.
39:45All the cases I've given you up to now have been child's play.
39:47But this is the first real case we've had.
39:49Put yourself together, you hysterical fool.
39:51You'll be heard.
39:52What if I am?
39:53You know, it's the truth as well as I did.
39:54You bungled it.
39:55You bungled it so much that that boy's death is just plain murder.
40:12Is that you, Randall?
40:14Yes, it is.
40:16But it's so early.
40:17Surely you've not finished surgery.
40:18There won't be any more surgery tonight.
40:19This is your busiest night.
40:21Andrew, what's the matter?
40:23Oh, Christine.
40:25Christine, darling.
40:26Andrew, there is something the matter.
40:28Something's happened to you.
40:29Yes, yes, Christine.
40:30Oh, Andrew, Mrs. Everett's been here.
40:32She's been waiting nearly 20 minutes to see you.
40:34Tell her to come in.
40:37Good evening, Doctor.
40:38I'll go, Andrew.
40:39No, wait.
40:40I want you to hear, darling.
40:41Oh, Dr. Manson, I just had to come to see you.
40:44It's my heart.
40:45I'm sure it's my heart.
40:46Now, let me tell you my secret.
40:47Mrs. Everett, why do you come to me?
40:49What?
40:50Oh, I know I'm not to blame.
40:51I told you to come to me.
40:53There's nothing really wrong with you, Mrs. Everett.
40:55Dr. Manson.
40:56This is the first time in your history you're going to be told the truth.
41:00You've never done a day's work in your life.
41:02Your body is soft, pampered, and overfed.
41:04You don't sleep because you don't exercise.
41:06You don't even exercise your brain.
41:09You haven't got anything to do but cut coupons and scold your maid
41:12and wonder what you and that miserable little Pomeranian of yours
41:15are going to eat.
41:17Stop all the little pills and sedatives and hypodermics
41:20and every other kind of rubbish.
41:22There's nothing in this world wrong with you, Mrs. Everett.
41:24What a little unselfishness can't cure.
41:27I'm sorry I can't give any further service to you,
41:29but I've no doubt you'll find other doctors
41:31who'll be only too happy to pander to you.
41:33Well, I...
41:34Good day, Mrs. Everett.
41:35Good day.
41:36Oh, hello, Mrs. Everett.
41:37How are we?
41:39Oh.
41:40I say, what's, uh, what's happened to her?
41:42Oh, hello.
41:43Hello, Mrs. Manson.
41:45You go along, Chris.
41:46I'll talk to Dr. Hammond.
41:48Join you right away.
41:49If you'll excuse me, Doctor.
41:52What do you want, Freddy?
41:53I say, I just heard about that little affair with Ivory.
41:57Oh, you did?
41:58Yes.
41:59I don't mind telling you, I'm darn glad.
42:02About time we had an inside stand on that fellow.
42:04He's no surgeon.
42:05Never was.
42:06I could have told you that a long time ago.
42:08And why didn't you?
42:09Well, I mean, as long as we were working together, it didn't matter.
42:12But after the affair, I can see it won't do to have him with us, you know.
42:16It might be something that counted next time, then we'd be in trouble.
42:19I've got a scheme, old boy.
42:20Let's ditch Ivory and Freeman altogether and start a tight little partnership of our own.
42:25Thanks, Freddy.
42:27I, I can't do it.
42:28I'm getting out of here.
42:29I'm moving on.
42:30You're...
42:31What?
42:32While you're on the subject, Freddy, I'd better tell you that I've taken that girl,
42:34Flory Schmidt of yours, out of Victoria Tent Hospital today.
42:37You...
42:38You've taken my patient?
42:39I, I've taken her to Stillman at Wickham.
42:42You've taken my patient to Stillman?
42:43Yes.
42:44Oh, so you're feeding patients to him now, eh?
42:46Flory would never get well in that hole of yours.
42:48And you know it, Freddy.
42:49She will get well at Stillman's.
42:50What's more, you might as well know it now as later.
42:53I'm going in with Stillman.
42:54Oh, you are?
42:55Yes.
42:56Well, I suppose you know that Stillman isn't a doctor.
42:57If you cooperate with a quack like him, you can be hauled up by the council for malpractice as quick as that.
43:03I'm warning you.
43:04Well, I'll take the chance on that, Freddy.
43:09Mr. President, gentlemen, the facts of the case are these.
43:24The patient, Flory Schmidt, suffering from tuberculosis,
43:28was admitted to the wards of Dr. Frederick Hampton at the Victoria Chest Hospital on July the 18th.
43:33There she remained under the care of Dr. Hampton until August the 15th,
43:37when Dr. Andrew Manson took her to a private institution by the name of Wickham,
43:42which purports, I believe, to undertake the cure of pulmonary disorders
43:47and is conducted by a certain Mr. Stillman, an unqualified person and, I understand, an alien.
43:56Dr. Manson, is this a fair statement of the charge against you?
44:01It is.
44:02Then, Dr. Manson, what have you to say in your own defense?
44:07Sir, have you heard of Louis Pasteur?
44:11Yes, yes, who hasn't?
44:12Exactly, who hasn't?
44:14You're probably aware of the fact, but perhaps you'll allow me to remind you
44:17that Louis Pasteur, the greatest figure of all in scientific medicine,
44:21was not a doctor, not a qualified doctor.
44:24There was Ehrlich, the man who gave medicine the best and most specific remedy in its entire history.
44:30There was Metchnikoff, inferior only to Pasteur in his greatness.
44:35And there was Hafkine, who fought the plague in India.
44:39Forgive me for reminding you of these elementary facts, sir.
44:43They may show you that every man fighting disease who hasn't got his name on the register
44:47isn't necessarily a knave or a fool.
44:50Yes, yes, yes, these are illustrious names, we know.
44:53Surely you don't compare Stillman with them?
44:56Why not?
44:58They're only illustrious because they're dead.
45:02Bertschell laughed at Koch in his lifetime, abused him.
45:06We don't abuse him now.
45:08But we abuse a man like Stillman, who's done more for medicine than thousands of men with degrees,
45:14men who ride about in motor cars and charge their fees free as air.
45:17Dr. Mentzen, do you realize what you're saying?
45:19I do, I know I'm speaking more strongly than I should, but I can't help it.
45:23What I'm saying has got to be said.
45:26If we go on trying to make out that everything's wrong outside of the profession
45:30and everything is right within, it means the death of scientific progress.
45:34We'll just turn into a tight little trade protection society.
45:38It's high time we started putting our own house in order.
45:41And I don't mean the superficial things either.
45:44Go to the beginning.
45:45Think of the hopelessly inadequate training doctors get.
45:48Gentlemen, when I qualified, I was more of a menace to society than anything else.
45:53All I knew was the names of a few diseases and the drugs I was supposed to give them.
45:59I couldn't even lock a pair of midwifery forces.
46:02Anything I know I've learned since then.
46:06How many doctors do learn anything beyond the ordinary rudiments they pick up and practice?
46:12They haven't got time, poor devils.
46:14They're rushed off their feet.
46:16That's where our whole organization is rotten.
46:19We ought to be arranged in scientific units.
46:22There ought to be compulsory postgraduate classes.
46:26There ought to be a great attempt to bring science into the front line,
46:29to do away with the old bottle of medicine idea,
46:31give every practitioner a chance to study and cooperate with research.
46:35And what about commercialism?
46:38The useless, money-chasing treatments, the unnecessary operations,
46:43the crowds of worthless pseudo-scientific proprietary preparations we use.
46:47Isn't it time some of these things were eliminated?
46:50The whole profession is far too intolerant and smug.
46:53Structurally we're static.
46:55We never think of advancing, ordering our system.
46:57We say we'll do things and we don't.
46:59For years we've been bleaching about the sweated conditions under which our nurses work.
47:04The wretched pittances.
47:05We pay them well.
47:06They're still being sweated, still being paid.
47:08Pittances.
47:10That's just an example.
47:12I know I've made plenty of mistakes and bad mistakes in practice.
47:17And I regret them.
47:21But I make no mistake with Richard Stillman.
47:25And I don't regret what I did with him.
47:28Three months ago that girl sitting there was dying of tuberculosis in Dr. Hampton's Victoria Chest Hospital.
47:34I took her away.
47:35I sent her to Stillman.
47:37And gentlemen, in these three months Stillman cured her.
47:42If you want any justification of my infamous conduct,
47:45I give it to you in the person of Flora Schmidt.
47:48The council has heard your testimony, Dr. Manson.
47:51While it deliberates the case, I must ask all strangers to withdraw.
47:58Oh, Chris.
48:00I made a silly fool of myself again.
48:02A Richard Declamatory fool.
48:05I should have been a stump orator, not a doctor.
48:07That's all I'm good for.
48:08You've spoken the truth and that's all that matters, Andrew.
48:11But don't you see, whatever the verdict is, it doesn't matter any longer.
48:14You've been true to yourself and that's the most important thing of all.
48:17Andrew Manson.
48:19Yes, sir.
48:21Andrew Manson.
48:23The council is of the opinion that you are acting in good faith
48:26and would sincerely desire us of complying with the spirit of the law.
48:30I have to inform you accordingly
48:32that the council has not seen fit to direct the registrar to erase your name.
48:37Dr. Andrew Manson.
48:43Chris.
48:47Chris, I've won, did you hear?
48:50I've won.
48:51I knew you would, darling.
48:53Now I can get on with my job, Chris, my real job.
48:55I know.
48:56The castle way up on the hill that you can't quite see that you've got to take.
49:00And we'll take that castle too, Chris.
49:03You and Denny and Stillman and me.
49:06We'll build that hospital I've dreamed about.
49:09We'll do the things that ought to be done.
49:13Doesn't that sound crazy to you, Chris?
49:15A dark, staring man.
49:17Yes, darling.
49:18But it's the crazy things that matter.
49:20That's the word, Chris.
49:22And this does matter.
49:25It matters a lot.
49:28THE CITADEL
49:41You have been listening to Orson Welles and Geraldine Fitzgerald
49:45in a Campbell Playhouse presentation based on the novel by A.J. Cronin, The Citadel.
49:51Mr. Welles and his guests will be back with us in just a moment.
49:54Meanwhile, I have a guest with me who wants to...
49:57Who simply wants to say, Mr. Chappell,
49:59that Campbell's tomato soup is a family standby in our home
50:03and made as cream of tomato with milk added.
50:06Campbell's tomato soup is just a grand way to give my small child more milk.
50:11Its sunny color is so attractive to it and its flavor is so nice.
50:15He just spoons up his bowl full in no time, I can tell you.
50:18Oh, thank you.
50:19And I'd like to repeat that last point of yours to every young mother listening.
50:23Campbell's tomato soup, prepared as cream of tomato with milk added,
50:27is indeed a big help in solving the problem of how to give a child more milk.
50:32Have you tried it?
50:34And have you Campbell's tomato soup on hand?
50:38And now here is Orson Welles who will present our guest star to you.
50:41Thank you, Mr. Chappell.
50:43And now, Geraldine, what would normally be said at this time goes like this.
50:48Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to introduce
50:52and so on, which under the circumstances is a pretty silly way to be carrying on.
50:56Geraldine Fitzgerald, ladies and gentlemen, and your obedient servant are all friends from the Mercury.
51:01I'm glad you've broken the ice, Orson. Good evening, everybody.
51:04I hope you'll forgive me, ladies and gentlemen,
51:06but I can't help reminding our guest of the evening of Heartbreak House.
51:09I can't help remembering it.
51:10It's not entirely painful to me to recall that our Mercury production of the Shaw play was a success
51:15and I wonder now if the audience outside of New York knows how very considerable was your success in that play, Geraldine.
51:24We were so happy and proud to be able to persuade you to come to New York from Ireland to play Ellie Dunn with us.
51:29I tried not to make it too obvious that I was just as happy as you were.
51:32This is getting to be terribly sentimental.
51:34But Geraldine, do you remember that opening night when I took you by the hand
51:37and brought you out on the lawn in front of Heartbreak House?
51:39The most wonderful opening night I've ever had, Orson, or ever expect to have.
51:43And so much has happened to your career since that night two years ago, Geraldine.
51:48We've all followed your rise to stardom as if you were a member of our own family, as of course you are.
51:53Your first picture with Merle O'Brien, Wuthering Heights, and then Dark Victory with Betty Davis,
51:58and now your first starring vehicle, A Child is Born.
52:01Orson, do you want to know something that's made me very, very happy?
52:04I certainly do.
52:05Well, it just occurred to me how wonderful it is that I've made my first appearance in a full-length presentation on the air
52:10on the Campbell Playhouse with you.
52:12My first theatrical appearance in New York, my first full-length appearance on the air.
52:16Thank you very much, Orson.
52:18We here on the Campbell Playhouse thank you very much.
52:20And you've got to promise us here and now that you'll be back soon again.
52:24I will. I promise gladly.
52:25Can't imagine better news. Thank you.
52:27Again, Geraldine, and good night.
52:29Good night, Orson.
52:30Geraldine Fitzgerald, of course, was Christine.
52:34Everett Sloan was Dr. Ivory.
52:37Ray Collins was the rector.
52:39Mary Taylor was Mrs. Lawrence.
52:41Edgar Berrier was Dr. Friedman.
52:43Georgia Backer was Mrs. Higgins.
52:45George Kulor was Dr. Denny.
52:47And Mr. Robert Coop was Dr. Fred Hampton.
52:51Her obedient servant played Andrew.
52:55And that's the next week.
52:57Next Sunday night, ladies and gentlemen, our offering
53:00will be our version of one of the most famous motion pictures that has ever come from Hollywood,
53:04a picture that is certain to be on everybody's list of the ten best pictures ever produced.
53:10It happened one night.
53:12As our guest stars, in parts that still remain clear in all of our memories,
53:16though there have been a hundred carbon copies of them since their first presentation,
53:20we are very pleased to be able to announce Mr. William Powell and Miss Miriam Hopkins.
53:25Mr. Powell, one of the most famous players of our time,
53:28is in particular no stranger to the Campbell Playhouse audience.
53:32Nor is Miss Hopkins, who has won enduring distinction in the theater, the films, and on the air.
53:39And so, until then, next Sunday, and it happened one night, my sponsors,
53:45the makers of Campbell Soups and all of us here in the Campbell Playhouse remain,
53:49as always, obediently yours.
53:53This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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