March 3, 2026 • 43 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a noteworthy attempt to revive in American radio dramas like Inner Sanctum (1941-1952) and Suspense (1942-1962). Radio dramas were widely considered "dead" 12 years prior to this series. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, or simply Mystery Theater, was created by Inner Sanctum creator Himan Brown and ran on CBS from 1974-1982. The show, much like older radio dramas, was introduced by a host (E.G. Marshall in this program), who steers us through the creaking door to start the episode. Many voices from the golden age of radio were featured, including Richard Widmark, Bret Morrison, Agnes Moorehead and many more. Find more classic, old-time radio series at Theater of the Mind - OTR | Spreaker | Apple | YouTube
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Come in.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Welcome.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
I'm E. G.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Marshall. Some trades, said the Philosopher may be considered unpleasant
or even ugly.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
However, they all may.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Have their moments of pleasure.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Now, if I were a gravedigger or even a hangman,
I know some people I could work for with a
great deal of enjoyment. So you see, everything has its
bright side, not to mention its reward.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
What are you doing here? You know what I'm doing here?
Believe me, I don't. I've come here to kill you.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Kill me?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
What for for what you did to me? I never
did anything to you.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Think I never think back, way back, go back a
thousand years.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Our mystery drama This Time Around was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Gordon Heath.
It is sponsored in part by sign Off the Sinus
Medicines and ex Lax.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
I'll be back shortly with that one.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
His name is Kenneth B.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Sturgis, and his initials KBS are familiar throughout the country.
He's the vice president and chief executive officer of a
mammoth conglomerate enterprise, which happens to be as they say
into everything. It's been just marvelous for Kennesby Sturgis. It
has made him one of the movers and shakers of
our nation. It has paid him an annual salary and
(02:13):
six figures. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Underneath are all kinds of bonuses, options, expense accounts.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Well, you have the idea.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
But in one respect, the great KBS is even like
you and me. He shows up for work in the morning.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Good morning, miss Berguda, Morning sir, your coffee? Thank you?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Hell?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
What's on the desk?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Nothing important? Sir?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
What do I have to do this morning?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Of the company jets standing by? Who do you take
you to Washington? What's for meeting of the President's Commission
on Energy Conservation?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I'll skip this one.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'll save energy by staying home.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
What else?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Oh, the chairman of the board is here?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Why isn't he in Bermuda?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I don't know. He would like you to stop in
his when anytime you're convenienced?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Who's there?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Who was? What?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
That's what I just asked?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
You? Stand there is again that voice?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
What voice?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Are you telling me? You didn't hear a voice? Just now?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
No, sir, I didn't you didn't.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Hear a voice, they stand, Sir Kenneth.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I didn't hear anything of the sword.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Just no, you mean you don't hear that, Sir?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Who bids me?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Stand I Baldwin en lawyer, the king?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
The King?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I carry the orders of his magister. King Stephen can
have no envoy because there is no king in England.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
There is a queen, and her name is Maud. I
warn you, Sir Kenneth, of treason.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Stephen is the tratter, the daughter of King Henry the
First is our lawful ruler? By what rights I can
if by the right of this thought and every loyal
blade in England, Carenth Kenneth. For how many years? And
we've blooded ourselves in this battle? How many good men
have died? And for what?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
For what?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
The country has been bled white? The people starve? Where
will it all end? When traitors like you recognize the
lawful Queen Maud?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Why not have an agreement? What thought of agreement?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
An agreement that allows Stephen to rule for the rest
of his life, to be succeeded by Maud's son, Henry.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
You're mad.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
This is the time for moderish mother race for cooler
heads to prevail for wise men to seek conciliation. You see,
they will need scapegoats for what? For all these foul
years of unholy carnage? Reasonable men will ask, if we
can have peace and agree now, why could we not
(05:01):
have had it then and prevented so much misery?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
You know what the answer will be, Baldwin.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You presume the answer will be that the conflict was
instigated and prolonged by ambitious nobles who sought chance to
profit by it. My traitors, But Maude is the rightful
ruler of this realm, rightful, wrongful? After fifteen years, does
it even matter?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Truth and justice always matter. It's not too late.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Join me become a moderating force. I cannot accept, Stephen. Never,
we have nothing further to talk about, Bolwin. The issue
can only be resolved by Steele.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Will you fight?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
I shall withdraw my troops and you are afraid.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
You know, Kenneth. I can think of nothing more tragic
and futile than to be the last man killed in
a war. That is all over.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Mister Sturge's I don't understand. What are you saying?
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Are you all right?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Miss Mabuda?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Oh, oh, yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
All I asked you, was when does the chairman of
the board want to see me?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yes, sir, and I told you any time at You're convenient.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
And what's the problem.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You asked me If I heard a voice, a voice, yes, sir,
a voice that said, stand, sir Kenneth.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I ask you, oh, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And you just stood there for almost two minutes, just staring,
and then and suddenly you shouted Baldwin, Baldwin. What you
You called out the name Baldwin, Baldwin.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Why would I call out the name Baldwin.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I'm sure I couldn't say.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I don't even know anybody by the name of Baldwin.
I'll answer that place.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Oh, but it's your private executive line, sir.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Hello, Hi, well hello, what are you doing shooting? That's good,
I should say.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
This little epic we're filming will make your company a
billion dollars and me an Academy Award winner.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
You miss me constantly.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
That isn't true.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
It isn't.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
You only miss me when you think about me, and
you only think about me when you don't have something
more important on your mind.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I know my place, yes, and it's a secure place.
In the hearts of millions of American red blooded men.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
How secure is it in yours? Strong heart?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
What did you just call me? You called me strong heart?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Well?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Sure, why della?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
How did you call me strong heart?
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Because it's kind of sort of I don't know. It
seems to suit you. Strong heart. Yes, now that I
think of it.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I like it, strong Heart, Kenneth, is something wrong?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
No, uh, I may fly out tonight. We'll have dinner.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Would you like to?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (08:09):
Yes, my lord?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Now why did you say that?
Speaker 7 (08:15):
I'd better not say anymore. You're having a.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Bad lord, I am not.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
I'll see you tonight at.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Dinner if I can make it, well, darling.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
If you can't make it, then I won't see you.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Goodbye for now, strong Heart, strong Heart, strong Heart, I
beg your pardon. Said. You're saying something to me, but
I'm not sure I understand what it means.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
If I wasn't saying anything, Miss Maguda, were you.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Were looking right at me and you're look mister Sturge's.
I believe you should see a doctor.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
You do.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
You seem to be having some sort of problem. You've
been hearing things that no one else has heard, and
you've been saying things without being aware of the thing,
but you've said them. Well, it seems to me you've
just been muttering the word strong heart.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Oh yes, Miss Downing just used it on the phone.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Oh talking about Miss Downing. Sir. You asked me to
monitor the media, as you put it, to see if
anything has surfaced, and well the gossip columns in both
the Globe and the Press linked your name and Della Downing.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Thank you, cancel my afternoon. I have to fly out
to the coast.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yes, yes, of course, marriage I'll tell him. The chairman
of the board wants to know if you can pop
in there for a minute or two.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
Strong heart, strong, Sir Kenneth, strong heart, Here this fear
of a tinder because of your act of treason.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Against His Majesty kingst because of the high crimes committed
against the people of England.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Your lands and foods.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And shuttles are forfeit to the Crown, and you are
here by condemned to death. Baldwin, have you seen her?
Have you seen Queen Maud? Yes, Kenneth, I have.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
There is no need then to speak. I read the
verdict on your face.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
If she wants you to know, she tried to save you,
did she I think she did a little.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
And this is to be my reward for faithful service.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
No, it's the price you pay for guessing wrong.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
And you, Baldwin, you are now more secure than ever.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Not really, I have merely weather the storm. How strongly
you fought against Queen Maud and now you can accept
her son. What did you always call him? This loud
mouthed little Plantagenet? Upstart as the next king of England.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Rich the way of the world, Kenneth.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
For years we have been enemies, but I respected you
because I believe you fought for a principal. Well, there's
no help for it, Kenneth. We reached that point where
the practicalities of life take over and there's nothing we.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Can do for our principal.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yes, there is.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
We can die for them, and that's what you've chosen
to do.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yes, I'm sorry for you, Kenneth, And I am sorry
for you Baldwin.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I'm sorry for you Baldwin.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And mister Stooges. Who is Baldwin? And why are you
sorry for him?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
What are you talking about, miss Magruder.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I'm sorry, sir, but you keep talking to yourself.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
You mean I seem to be saying things again.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Yes, sir, let's just forget about it, shall we.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yes, mister Stegis.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
The chairman of the board has issued his summons, and
I don't want to keep his majesty waiting. Oh, good morning,
can morning, Steve?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
How's it goal?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
It's been better? How's the fishing? It's been worse. How's Caroline?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Oh, she's just great?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
And Edna can't complain. How are the kids kids? Janie
is engaged and Bobby's entering law school in September. My
god's son is going to be a lawyer, He says.
He has dreams of the Supreme Court. When the time comes.
We could pull a string or two for him. I
thought you were on vacation, I am, And what are
you doing here? I came back because I have something
(12:52):
to say to you.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
You could have said it on the phone.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
It wouldn't sound good on the phone.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
What wouldn't sound good on the phone?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
You're fired?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Those two words don't sound good wherever, whenever, or however
they're said.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
You're fired?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Now, isn't there some sort of parallelism running through the
story here? We have a modern captain of industry who
seems to have some intimations of a past life as
a nobleman during the Middle Ages, and he got fired.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
There in a way.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Also, well, that's enough for the first act. We'll go forward.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And also backward when I returned with that too. What
are the saddest words of tongue or pen I'm sure
you're fired would certainly rank high on everybody's list. Yes,
(14:00):
we have a mister Kenneth B. Sturgis one of the
highest and mightiest. His daily decisions could affect the lives
of millions of people, and yet, like any one of those.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Millions, he too can arrive.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
At a day when someone higher up can say to him,
you're fired.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Do you mean I'm out? Just cool down a minute.
You just told me I'm fired, and you want me
to be cool, and you're not quite fired. Let's say
you're as good as fired. What are you trying to
do to the English language, Steve, I'm either in or
I'm out right now, you're in the doorway.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
What's going on here?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
And you can move in either direction. Get to the point.
We showed a profit for every single one of the
five years I've been Chief operating Officer the Board of
directors is frankly worried about what if you'd spend a
little more time in understanding the attitudes on the board.
I don't have it to spare. I spend all my
time making money for this company, and not all your time.
(14:52):
Can you spend quite a bit of it in Hollywood
with miss Della Downing? There are people in the this
country who finds that sort of thing distasteful and immoral. Ken,
you're not playing according to the rule. Come on, Steve,
just because I'm having an affair with a movie actor
(15:13):
coause she's not just a movie actress, Ken, she's probably
the most famous star of them all right now. And
for this reason the board intends to fire me. It's
a part of a bill of particular. You mean a
bill of attainer? Or what a bill of attainder? What's that?
You're a lawyer, you know perfectly well what? Yes? Well,
but it's a medieval kind of What does this heir
(15:37):
to do with anything? It was a way you could
strip a man down and chop off his head. Now
nobody wants to chop off your head, Kenny don't know. Actually,
I'm trying to suggest away you can keep it.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I don't even know if I want.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
To hear it.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
For over fifteen years, I've gone.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
All out for this company.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Won DENI isa, I pushed our value up into the
top tenners Kenneth, But but nothing. I quit, Oh you
quit to do what I can get a better job
than this tomorrow morning. There is no better job than this,
and nobody would hire you any.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
What is it you want?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I'll tell you what the board wants. Reassurance. Give it
to them at the next meeting. And it's not too late.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
What kind of reassurance?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Board feels it we're expanding too far, too fast. This
is a time to consolidate. Oh no, this is the
time when the weak sisters are being pushed out. There'll
ever be an opportunity like this again. Board feels an
obligation to protect the stockholders. I can only operate in
one way. By way, then you're going to be out.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
What you're telling me to do is to go.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
To the board with my hat in my hand and
fall on my knees and promise to be their faithful
little lack. What I'm telling you to do is give
the board the assurance that you can be the proper
operating officer for the very difficult economic, political, and social
problems that lie ahead of us. If I do go
to the board, it'll be the talent to go soak
their heads. Do that, and they'll promptly take yours off.
(17:04):
I'll go directly to the stockholders. You can't win that
kind of battle, you know it. We'll see if I Cannada.
If the board wants war, I'll oh war.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Poor Kenneth.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I can think of nothing more futile or tragic than
to be the only man killed in a war that
never got off the ground. I received your message, Kenneth.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Thank you for coming, Sir Baldwin.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
It was a request from one night to another I
could not refuse. I am totally hour for the execution
has been set yes tomorrow morning, at first light.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I have one hope.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I'm afraid there's no the Queen Queen more to herself.
Surely you know she agreed your death.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
But if I could see her, just for a moment,
it would do no Baldwin.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Do me this service, Oscar, just Oskar. But do me
the service, Baldwin, this one thing for me. Do this
thing for me, this one thing for me, Kenneth, Kenneth,
what are you saying what do you want me to
(18:21):
do for you? What you just said?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Do this for me?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Now?
Speaker 4 (18:27):
What do you want me to do for you? But
what are you talking about? Hello, Darling Kenneth, Hey, you
seem surprised to see me.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Well, I am in a way.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Why I said I'd fly out for dinner, didn't I?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (18:49):
But what?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
M h? Nothing?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Where should we go to dinner?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
How about blue zettos?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Oh? Why not? Spend a quiet evening at home and
I'll prepare dinner.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
You know how to cook, of course I do.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Let's just have a quiet evening. Besides, in view of
the situation, it might be wiser a fut situation. You
your situation, your upcoming problem with the board.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
What do you know about it?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
A great many people know.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
About it, that's But how do you know about it?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Darling? I'm a very large shareholder, after all, you invested
my money wisely for me.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Who spoke to you?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Ken? The word is out. If you fight the board,
you're done for and everybody knows you've chosen to fight.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
I can fight and win. I can go to the stockholders.
You're a stockholder. I made you rich, Darling.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Let us not rewrite history. I was rich before I
met you.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I tripled your net worth. You can't deny it.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I admit it.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Do you owe it to my way of doing business?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I do? But it's quite possible that now your wait, Yes,
oh darling, Yeah, you've heard it said that generals lose
wars today by using the winning tactics of yesterday flexibility darling,
excuse me? Hello, Yes, but we don't have to talk
(20:20):
about that now, do we No. I plan to be
home all evening, Yes, Tommy, good bye. Dear that Tommy
always tries to impress me with the fact that he's
working for me day and night, calls me at home
at all hours.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Did he call you to make sure you'd stay home tonight?
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Now?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Why would he do that?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Maybe you all decided it might be best to go
easy on this romance with Kenneth B.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Sturgis. It might be wise to start phasing it out
of the media and the mind of the public.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
What are you saying, you don't know? Let me explain.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
There's something adventurous, romantic when your lover is one of
the tough men in Wall Street in Washington. Successful and
powerful people are always forgiven their little peccadillos. But there's
something disreputable and sordid when the man in the case
has lost out is on the way down, Jennet, who
is no longer a wheeler and dealer, a mover and shaker.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
That thought never entered my mind.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Maybe it didn't enter of its own accord, but it
was very.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Definitely put there by people who have a stake.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
In your career.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Kenneth.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
I don't blame them. They're doing their jobs, protecting their investment.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I still love you.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
What is the word still doing in.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
There, Kenneth? Please don't turn this into an inquisition.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I won't.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
I also think i'd better be getting back early.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
You're going to fight it out.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
It's the only way I know how to operate.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Will I see you again?
Speaker 4 (21:57):
That depends, I'm what on whether I win or lose.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Oh, Kenneth, why can't we just be two people in love?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Because we're not just two people. You love me because
I'm rich and powerful and important.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
That isn't.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
See you were about to tell a lie, but you're
too honest. And I love you because your beautiful, desirable, glamorous,
and every man envies me.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
The moment either of us loses those special qualities.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I I'd better be starting back.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Goodbye, strongheart?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Why do you call me that?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I don't know? Ken? Why do you look like that,
so so serious, as if your mind is a million
miles or a thousand years away from here?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Why?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Strong Heart? I was called that name once?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
But when?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Where?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Hello, Carolyn?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Ken? I thought you were in California.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
No, I have some important things to do here at home.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
And besides, she threw you out.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Oh I walked out on her?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Was the handwriting on the wall.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Carolyn. I want to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Can you fit me into your schedule?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
You have a right to talk that way, but it
would be counterproductive.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Do you want a divorce?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
No, I've been thinking, Carolyn. We haven't had much of
a life together these past fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
The reason is we haven't made any real life together,
have we?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
No?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
We have, and so I want to tell you what
I would like always that, Sir? Do you hear him?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Do I hear who?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Her? Majesty Queen Maud, Please rise.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Sir Kenneth, your majesty you've come.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yes, I have come to see a good and loyal knight.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Have you come to save me? Your Majesty, I am pleading.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
For mercy, please, Sir Kenneth, for more than mercy, for justice.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
The judges have spoken, but they are your judges.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
It was the way you would have it, Sir Kenneth.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
No, it was the way your father would have it.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
King Henry, son of William the Conqueror himself, at the.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Great close of his life, as.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
He lay dying, clasped my right hand in both of
his swear to me, Noble Kenneth, that my only living child,
my Maude, shall be queen of this land that my
father has wrested from the Saxons. Swear to me that
your sword will always uphold her right. Swear, and I
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took an oath I know, to defend your right to
the throne, and you have. But Sephen is king.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
My son will succeed him, and so my right to
the throne.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Is secure, and my head is to be forfeit.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
That is the price, Sir Kenneth. You were willing to
give your life.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
For that right, to defend it, not to buy it.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I'm sorry, truly sorry.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Your majesty. I don't ask this for myself. You cannot
trust Stephen. I don't ask this for myself, not for myself.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
What don't you ask for yourself?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Kenneth? Ah, I I guess I'm under a kind.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Of strain lately.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I shouldn't wonder.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I see things, I hear things.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
What sort of things?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Voices? Images? I can't figure them out? It says, if
I'm actually living somewhere else and involved in something else?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Should you see a doctor?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I want to ask you something.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yes, I want to change my entire way of living,
my philosophy of life. You do, I would want us
to start all over again, to.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Work at our marriage the way other people do.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
What's your answer?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
It's the most serious and important question a man can
ask his wife.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Do you want to sell our marriage?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yet?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
It seems that just a few moments ago, in a dream,
or in another incarnation, or in another world, he asked
the most serious question a man could ask his queen,
will you save my life?
Speaker 5 (27:12):
And he was turned down? There shall we balance the
equation here? Wait for Act three?
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Is one time around?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Or you get it doesn't seem right somehow? After all time,
time stretches on and on out into infinity, and life
is so short over before it's even fairly.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Begun for so many of us.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Well, maybe we do keep going, maybe we do keep
coming back, Maybe we keep doing the same things over
and over again, from now to eternity.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
You want us to begin all over again, yes, Carol,
and make our marriage happy and fulfill it.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yes, I want that.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
It's remarkable I've changed, have you, Kenneth.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Yes, I'm not driven to to I I know what
this word must sound like, but it expresses the truth.
I'm not driven to conquer, not anymore.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
What are you being driven to do?
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
I have more money than I could ever spend. I've
worked very hard, and now why not relax?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (28:43):
You haven't answered my question?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I know I'm overwhelmed by it. Overwhelmed, yes, by the
arrogance of it.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Arrogance here I express the absolute humility.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Your idea of humility. Well, it isn't your fault, it's
how you're made.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
How can you say I'm being arrogant when I'm.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
When you're what? Don't you realize what you're saying to me?
My dear? For almost twenty years, we have had what
amounted to a marriage of convenience for me. We shared
a home, but we didn't really live together, well, not
very much. I needed you for social and political purposes,
and now I want to change. I want this marriage
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to be meaningful. It suits my needs for us to
have a serious relationship. That, in effect is what you're
telling me.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Yes, but why is it arrogant?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Because because it doesn't take into consideration my needs. And
the fact is, Kenneth, I had to learn to do without.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
You, you won't ever have to do without me again.
I know you're angry, and you have a right to
be about those other women.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yes, I do have that right. I'll never forgive you.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Do you know why I had no right to be unfaithful?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Oh? I could have overlooked that it's whom you were
unfaithful with. You See, the average betrayed wife can look
down at her husband's mistress and say, oh, whatever does
he see in her that allows her to feel superior,
and so she can forgive him. But you, the women
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you chose were more than I could ever be. Every
one of them only reminded me that I was a nobody,
and so what right did I have to complain? Your first,
she's considered the finest woman. Paint her alive today. Your
second will soon be elected to the United States Senate.
Your third is not just a pretty face on the screen,
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but an actress of stature who plays Shakespeare and Shaw.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
We're talking about the past. It's dead.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
No, no, it's alive. It's very much alive. It's what molds
us and makes us.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
The fact is I need you now.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
But the fact is I don't need you.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
You trying to tell me there's someone else.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yes, I see, No, I don't think you do. There's
someone else, because there had to be someone else if
there wasn't you. And do you know why, Because.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
You didn't need me.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
I tell you that was in the past.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
You didn't need me. You don't need me now. You'll
never need me. You'll never need anyone. There are those
men who can live only for their own purpose. Kenneth,
It'll pass, what will pass? This moment of panic? You're afraid,
aren't you? Yes, you are for the first time in
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your life, and you don't know how to handle it.
So you decided to play it Stephen's way and to
become a tame lap dog for the board. And you'll
even try to become respectable. Oh kness, how long can
those good resolutions of yours last? Only till you see
the next spectacular financial opportunity or encounter your next spectacular woman.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Yes, thanks, Carolyn, Well.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
It has to be a fight to the finish.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
You were born out of your time. You should have
lived in the age of the rubber barons, the rubber
in those Middle Ages, when the only limit to your
ambition was the strength of your arm. You took what
you wanted. Land women will take over the corporation, take
it away from Stephen?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Why not? I took the crown away from Stephen once.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
What did you say, hmm about a crown?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Now, don't tell me you're hearing things too, Miss Mabrudo, Yes, sir,
have all those that has gone out to the stockholders?
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Yes? And the proxies are coming down.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
I'll show Steven that board with a heading.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Has mister Damien called back? Has anybody called back? General
Morrison the Pentagon? Are you sure you left your message?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
All right, I don't want to be.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
Disturbed for a while.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
What do they say it's always darkest just before it's done.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Hello, let me speak with miss Downing please.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
This is mister Sturgis Kenneth be Sturges in reference to what.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Are you new? Around there.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
No, I don't want to leave a message. I want
you to tell her I'm on the telephone. I understand
that she's on the set. Just tell her that I
see here. You just go out there and tell her
that hello, Hello there, Kenneth.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Well, Steve, you're late, you think so?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Why did you start this fight?
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Why did you continue to fight?
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Sir Kenneth, I had no choice.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
I had no choice.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Wise, men always have choices.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
sKenneth, Your majesty, listen to me. What are you saying, your.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Majesty, Your majesty, Stephen before Stephen, he has a son
who will seek the crown.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
We have signed an agreement, an agreement, yes, and you
could have been part of that agreement, but you were
instead headstrong and.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Stubborn in your cause. My Queen, my.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Cause has been peace and the crown for my son.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
There can be no peace while Stephen is alive, Your majesty,
the army will follow me. Let me leave the army.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
The army will follow you no longer.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
It's my army. I trained it, I led it for you.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Army is tired. They long for peace, to go home,
to till the soil, to sow the crops, for twenty
years there has not been a harvest in England that
has not been drenched with blood.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Hear me, madam, No, hear me.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
It was turbulent men like yourself who have kept Stephen
and me apart, who have prevented us from making this
land peaceful and fruitful and happy. You sought to enrich
yourselves with your source.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Oh, my lord, you were right, Sir Baldwin. You told
me they would have.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
It, so perhaps you should have listened.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
I see now Stephen has truly one.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
England has won, Sir Kenneth, for the sake of my father,
I give you my deepest regard and affection in this
hour of your travel.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Thank you, madam.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
We shall meet, I hope in another world.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I shall pray.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Goodbye, Sir Kenneth. Do you forgive me?
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Yes, Madam, I forgive you for your father's sake.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
I forgive you. I forgive you. I forgive you, I
forgive you.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
You forgive me for what? No?
Speaker 3 (36:41):
I don't forgive you.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
What are you talking about? What are you doing here? Ken?
Speaker 3 (36:48):
I want us to be friends. Friends. We had a
difference of opinion. You lost.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Does it have to be the end of the world?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Yes, Oh. Look, if it's really olden days, I would
have cut off your head. And the olden days you did.
Oh what are you talking about? I don't know. I
just don't know. I can appreciate you're under a strain.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
You think you've won.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
You and the board have won. But I've got some
defense contracts I've been holding in reserve.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Are you that'll give me some leverage?
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Yes, mister.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
What is it about your call to the Pentagon to
General Morrison?
Speaker 7 (37:26):
Well, he's been transferred.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
Who has been transferred to General Morrison?
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Has been transferred? Is that what she's telling you? Morrison transferred? Yes,
your strong right arm.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
He's out of procurement. How did it happen when.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
The Defense Department makes these transfers all the time. As
a matter of course, Ken, you've had it now about
your letter.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
Of resignation, my letter of resignation.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Charlie has a very bright young kid in his PR
group who could compose a very graceful sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
All right, Steve, you won, I didn't win.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
The company won.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
Funny, isn't it. I went quietly last time last time.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Uh what do you mean by last time? Yes, I
listened to my lady your lady. You were the enemy
then too. Is it a coincidence that your name is Stephen? Also,
miss McGruder, get a doctor, Yes, Steve Stephen, King Stephen Thoughts,
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King Stephen ol Kennearth. Just sit quietly for a moment.
You led the revolt. You turned England into a child.
No house, everything's're gonna be all right. No, as long
as you live, they will be scheming and treason at Kenneth, Stephen,
I accuse you. Put down that letter opener, you Stephen
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usurp her of the Colonel of England, for the crime
of high season to the Rightful Queen of England. And
I'm crazy. You're help somebody help.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Justice, Justice, my lady has finally been done.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
How are you this morning, sir?
Speaker 3 (39:54):
What manner of place is this?
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Oh? This a new sort of castles?
Speaker 3 (40:00):
And why are you dressed in this fashion? My lady?
Speaker 2 (40:03):
It's the new fashion?
Speaker 3 (40:06):
I think it revealing, perhaps, but if the Good Lord
did not wish female beauty to be shown, he would
not have bestowed it upon the fair Sex to begin with.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
And so Madam you rule in England.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Oh yes I do.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
I know that your Majesty must keep me in prison
it is the price I must pay for Stephen.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yes, it's see the price you must pay.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
It was murder, but I did it gladly for my Queen.
I too, am descended from royalty, Scottish royalty. My name
Kenneth means handsome in our Scottish tongue.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Do you do you have everything you need?
Speaker 4 (40:52):
Yes, my good Queen Morgen, I am not your good.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Queen mordm I'm miss Begruder. I'm just your your secretary.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
You just my lady? What is a secretary?
Speaker 2 (41:05):
It's getting late.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
This is the place of many wonders.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Lights come on without fire, Voices and pictures issue from boxes.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
I know I shall be happy here.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Oh I.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Hope, sir, Not because I am warm and well fed,
but because I killed Stephen.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
And I know that you rule in England. Well, what
is happiness? Each of us defines it in his own thoughts,
and seeks it in his own way, and enjoys.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
It in his own fashion. And it's the.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Belief that he is a twelfth century Scottish knight in
the court of Queen Maud of England makes Kenneth by
Sturgis happy.
Speaker 4 (41:57):
Who are we to destroy his illusions?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
I have an illusion that you will be here when
I return shortly. The men who run our mammoth mills
and mines and factories, the men who control our commerce
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and industry, the men whose decisions mold the lives of millions,
These men, who would they have been a thousand years ago?
When Duke William of Normandy decided to invade Saxon, England.
Speaker 4 (42:39):
He sold shares in the.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Enterprise for so many soldiers, weapons, ships and supplies.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
You would be entitled to so much.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Conquered english Land. The entire thing was a business proposition.
Our cast included Gordon Heath, William Griffiths, Terry Keene and
Briana Rayburn.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
The entire production was under the.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Direction of Hymon Brown.
Speaker 4 (43:03):
This is E. G.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant Stream,
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Come in.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Welcome.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
I'm E. G.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Marshall. Some trades, said the Philosopher may be considered unpleasant
or even ugly.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
However, they all may.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Have their moments of pleasure.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Now, if I were a gravedigger or even a hangman,
I know some people I could work for with a
great deal of enjoyment. So you see, everything has its
bright side, not to mention its reward.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
What are you doing here? You know what I'm doing here?
Believe me, I don't. I've come here to kill you.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Kill me?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
What for for what you did to me? I never
did anything to you.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Think I never think back, way back, go back a
thousand years.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Our mystery drama This Time Around was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Gordon Heath.
It is sponsored in part by sign Off the Sinus
Medicines and ex Lax.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
I'll be back shortly with that one.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
His name is Kenneth B.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Sturgis, and his initials KBS are familiar throughout the country.
He's the vice president and chief executive officer of a
mammoth conglomerate enterprise, which happens to be as they say
into everything. It's been just marvelous for Kennesby Sturgis. It
has made him one of the movers and shakers of
our nation. It has paid him an annual salary and
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six figures. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Underneath are all kinds of bonuses, options, expense accounts.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Well, you have the idea.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
But in one respect, the great KBS is even like
you and me. He shows up for work in the morning.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Good morning, miss Berguda, Morning sir, your coffee? Thank you?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Hell?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
What's on the desk?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Nothing important? Sir?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
What do I have to do this morning?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Of the company jets standing by? Who do you take
you to Washington? What's for meeting of the President's Commission
on Energy Conservation?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I'll skip this one.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'll save energy by staying home.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
What else?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Oh, the chairman of the board is here?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Why isn't he in Bermuda?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I don't know. He would like you to stop in
his when anytime you're convenienced?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Who's there?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Who was? What?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
That's what I just asked?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
You? Stand there is again that voice?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
What voice?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Are you telling me? You didn't hear a voice? Just now?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
No, sir, I didn't you didn't.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Hear a voice, they stand, Sir Kenneth.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I didn't hear anything of the sword.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Just no, you mean you don't hear that, Sir?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Who bids me?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Stand I Baldwin en lawyer, the king?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
The King?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I carry the orders of his magister. King Stephen can
have no envoy because there is no king in England.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
There is a queen, and her name is Maud. I
warn you, Sir Kenneth, of treason.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Stephen is the tratter, the daughter of King Henry the
First is our lawful ruler? By what rights I can
if by the right of this thought and every loyal
blade in England, Carenth Kenneth. For how many years? And
we've blooded ourselves in this battle? How many good men
have died? And for what?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
For what?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
The country has been bled white? The people starve? Where
will it all end? When traitors like you recognize the
lawful Queen Maud?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Why not have an agreement? What thought of agreement?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
An agreement that allows Stephen to rule for the rest
of his life, to be succeeded by Maud's son, Henry.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
You're mad.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
This is the time for moderish mother race for cooler
heads to prevail for wise men to seek conciliation. You see,
they will need scapegoats for what? For all these foul
years of unholy carnage? Reasonable men will ask, if we
can have peace and agree now, why could we not
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have had it then and prevented so much misery?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
You know what the answer will be, Baldwin.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You presume the answer will be that the conflict was
instigated and prolonged by ambitious nobles who sought chance to
profit by it. My traitors, But Maude is the rightful
ruler of this realm, rightful, wrongful? After fifteen years, does
it even matter?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Truth and justice always matter. It's not too late.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Join me become a moderating force. I cannot accept, Stephen. Never,
we have nothing further to talk about, Bolwin. The issue
can only be resolved by Steele.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Will you fight?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
I shall withdraw my troops and you are afraid.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
You know, Kenneth. I can think of nothing more tragic
and futile than to be the last man killed in
a war. That is all over.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Mister Sturge's I don't understand. What are you saying?
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Are you all right?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Miss Mabuda?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Oh, oh, yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
All I asked you, was when does the chairman of
the board want to see me?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yes, sir, and I told you any time at You're convenient.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
And what's the problem.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You asked me If I heard a voice, a voice, yes, sir,
a voice that said, stand, sir Kenneth.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I ask you, oh, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And you just stood there for almost two minutes, just staring,
and then and suddenly you shouted Baldwin, Baldwin. What you
You called out the name Baldwin, Baldwin.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Why would I call out the name Baldwin.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I'm sure I couldn't say.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I don't even know anybody by the name of Baldwin.
I'll answer that place.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Oh, but it's your private executive line, sir.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Hello, Hi, well hello, what are you doing shooting? That's good,
I should say.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
This little epic we're filming will make your company a
billion dollars and me an Academy Award winner.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
You miss me constantly.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
That isn't true.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
It isn't.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
You only miss me when you think about me, and
you only think about me when you don't have something
more important on your mind.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I know my place, yes, and it's a secure place.
In the hearts of millions of American red blooded men.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
How secure is it in yours? Strong heart?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
What did you just call me? You called me strong heart?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Well?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Sure, why della?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
How did you call me strong heart?
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Because it's kind of sort of I don't know. It
seems to suit you. Strong heart. Yes, now that I
think of it.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I like it, strong Heart, Kenneth, is something wrong?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
No, uh, I may fly out tonight. We'll have dinner.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Would you like to?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (08:09):
Yes, my lord?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Now why did you say that?
Speaker 7 (08:15):
I'd better not say anymore. You're having a.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Bad lord, I am not.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
I'll see you tonight at.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Dinner if I can make it, well, darling.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
If you can't make it, then I won't see you.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Goodbye for now, strong Heart, strong Heart, strong Heart, I
beg your pardon. Said. You're saying something to me, but
I'm not sure I understand what it means.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
If I wasn't saying anything, Miss Maguda, were you.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Were looking right at me and you're look mister Sturge's.
I believe you should see a doctor.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
You do.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
You seem to be having some sort of problem. You've
been hearing things that no one else has heard, and
you've been saying things without being aware of the thing,
but you've said them. Well, it seems to me you've
just been muttering the word strong heart.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Oh yes, Miss Downing just used it on the phone.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Oh talking about Miss Downing. Sir. You asked me to
monitor the media, as you put it, to see if
anything has surfaced, and well the gossip columns in both
the Globe and the Press linked your name and Della Downing.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Thank you, cancel my afternoon. I have to fly out
to the coast.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yes, yes, of course, marriage I'll tell him. The chairman
of the board wants to know if you can pop
in there for a minute or two.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
Strong heart, strong, Sir Kenneth, strong heart, Here this fear
of a tinder because of your act of treason.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Against His Majesty kingst because of the high crimes committed
against the people of England.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Your lands and foods.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And shuttles are forfeit to the Crown, and you are
here by condemned to death. Baldwin, have you seen her?
Have you seen Queen Maud? Yes, Kenneth, I have.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
There is no need then to speak. I read the
verdict on your face.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
If she wants you to know, she tried to save you,
did she I think she did a little.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
And this is to be my reward for faithful service.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
No, it's the price you pay for guessing wrong.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
And you, Baldwin, you are now more secure than ever.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Not really, I have merely weather the storm. How strongly
you fought against Queen Maud and now you can accept
her son. What did you always call him? This loud
mouthed little Plantagenet? Upstart as the next king of England.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Rich the way of the world, Kenneth.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
For years we have been enemies, but I respected you
because I believe you fought for a principal. Well, there's
no help for it, Kenneth. We reached that point where
the practicalities of life take over and there's nothing we.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Can do for our principal.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yes, there is.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
We can die for them, and that's what you've chosen
to do.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yes, I'm sorry for you, Kenneth, And I am sorry
for you Baldwin.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I'm sorry for you Baldwin.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And mister Stooges. Who is Baldwin? And why are you
sorry for him?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
What are you talking about, miss Magruder.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I'm sorry, sir, but you keep talking to yourself.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
You mean I seem to be saying things again.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Yes, sir, let's just forget about it, shall we.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yes, mister Stegis.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
The chairman of the board has issued his summons, and
I don't want to keep his majesty waiting. Oh, good morning,
can morning, Steve?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
How's it goal?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
It's been better? How's the fishing? It's been worse. How's Caroline?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Oh, she's just great?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
And Edna can't complain. How are the kids kids? Janie
is engaged and Bobby's entering law school in September. My
god's son is going to be a lawyer, He says.
He has dreams of the Supreme Court. When the time comes.
We could pull a string or two for him. I
thought you were on vacation, I am, And what are
you doing here? I came back because I have something
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to say to you.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
You could have said it on the phone.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
It wouldn't sound good on the phone.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
What wouldn't sound good on the phone?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
You're fired?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Those two words don't sound good wherever, whenever, or however
they're said.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
You're fired?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Now, isn't there some sort of parallelism running through the
story here? We have a modern captain of industry who
seems to have some intimations of a past life as
a nobleman during the Middle Ages, and he got fired.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
There in a way.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Also, well, that's enough for the first act. We'll go forward.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And also backward when I returned with that too. What
are the saddest words of tongue or pen I'm sure
you're fired would certainly rank high on everybody's list. Yes,
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we have a mister Kenneth B. Sturgis one of the
highest and mightiest. His daily decisions could affect the lives
of millions of people, and yet, like any one of those.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Millions, he too can arrive.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
At a day when someone higher up can say to him,
you're fired.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Do you mean I'm out? Just cool down a minute.
You just told me I'm fired, and you want me
to be cool, and you're not quite fired. Let's say
you're as good as fired. What are you trying to
do to the English language, Steve, I'm either in or
I'm out right now, you're in the doorway.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
What's going on here?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
And you can move in either direction. Get to the point.
We showed a profit for every single one of the
five years I've been Chief operating Officer the Board of
directors is frankly worried about what if you'd spend a
little more time in understanding the attitudes on the board.
I don't have it to spare. I spend all my
time making money for this company, and not all your time.
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Can you spend quite a bit of it in Hollywood
with miss Della Downing? There are people in the this
country who finds that sort of thing distasteful and immoral. Ken,
you're not playing according to the rule. Come on, Steve,
just because I'm having an affair with a movie actor
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coause she's not just a movie actress, Ken, she's probably
the most famous star of them all right now. And
for this reason the board intends to fire me. It's
a part of a bill of particular. You mean a
bill of attainer? Or what a bill of attainder? What's that?
You're a lawyer, you know perfectly well what? Yes? Well,
but it's a medieval kind of What does this heir
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to do with anything? It was a way you could
strip a man down and chop off his head. Now
nobody wants to chop off your head, Kenny don't know. Actually,
I'm trying to suggest away you can keep it.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I don't even know if I want.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
To hear it.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
For over fifteen years, I've gone.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
All out for this company.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Won DENI isa, I pushed our value up into the
top tenners Kenneth, But but nothing. I quit, Oh you
quit to do what I can get a better job
than this tomorrow morning. There is no better job than this,
and nobody would hire you any.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
What is it you want?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I'll tell you what the board wants. Reassurance. Give it
to them at the next meeting. And it's not too late.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
What kind of reassurance?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Board feels it we're expanding too far, too fast. This
is a time to consolidate. Oh no, this is the
time when the weak sisters are being pushed out. There'll
ever be an opportunity like this again. Board feels an
obligation to protect the stockholders. I can only operate in
one way. By way, then you're going to be out.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
What you're telling me to do is to go.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
To the board with my hat in my hand and
fall on my knees and promise to be their faithful
little lack. What I'm telling you to do is give
the board the assurance that you can be the proper
operating officer for the very difficult economic, political, and social
problems that lie ahead of us. If I do go
to the board, it'll be the talent to go soak
their heads. Do that, and they'll promptly take yours off.
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I'll go directly to the stockholders. You can't win that
kind of battle, you know it. We'll see if I Cannada.
If the board wants war, I'll oh war.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Poor Kenneth.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I can think of nothing more futile or tragic than
to be the only man killed in a war that
never got off the ground. I received your message, Kenneth.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Thank you for coming, Sir Baldwin.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
It was a request from one night to another I
could not refuse. I am totally hour for the execution
has been set yes tomorrow morning, at first light.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I have one hope.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I'm afraid there's no the Queen Queen more to herself.
Surely you know she agreed your death.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
But if I could see her, just for a moment,
it would do no Baldwin.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Do me this service, Oscar, just Oskar. But do me
the service, Baldwin, this one thing for me. Do this
thing for me, this one thing for me, Kenneth, Kenneth,
what are you saying what do you want me to
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do for you? What you just said?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Do this for me?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Now?
Speaker 4 (18:27):
What do you want me to do for you? But
what are you talking about? Hello, Darling Kenneth, Hey, you
seem surprised to see me.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Well, I am in a way.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Why I said I'd fly out for dinner, didn't I?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (18:49):
But what?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
M h? Nothing?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Where should we go to dinner?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
How about blue zettos?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Oh? Why not? Spend a quiet evening at home and
I'll prepare dinner.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
You know how to cook, of course I do.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Let's just have a quiet evening. Besides, in view of
the situation, it might be wiser a fut situation. You
your situation, your upcoming problem with the board.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
What do you know about it?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
A great many people know.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
About it, that's But how do you know about it?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Darling? I'm a very large shareholder, after all, you invested
my money wisely for me.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Who spoke to you?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Ken? The word is out. If you fight the board,
you're done for and everybody knows you've chosen to fight.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
I can fight and win. I can go to the stockholders.
You're a stockholder. I made you rich, Darling.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Let us not rewrite history. I was rich before I
met you.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I tripled your net worth. You can't deny it.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I admit it.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Do you owe it to my way of doing business?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I do? But it's quite possible that now your wait, Yes,
oh darling, Yeah, you've heard it said that generals lose
wars today by using the winning tactics of yesterday flexibility darling,
excuse me? Hello, Yes, but we don't have to talk
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about that now, do we No. I plan to be
home all evening, Yes, Tommy, good bye. Dear that Tommy
always tries to impress me with the fact that he's
working for me day and night, calls me at home
at all hours.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Did he call you to make sure you'd stay home tonight?
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Now?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Why would he do that?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Maybe you all decided it might be best to go
easy on this romance with Kenneth B.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Sturgis. It might be wise to start phasing it out
of the media and the mind of the public.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
What are you saying, you don't know? Let me explain.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
There's something adventurous, romantic when your lover is one of
the tough men in Wall Street in Washington. Successful and
powerful people are always forgiven their little peccadillos. But there's
something disreputable and sordid when the man in the case
has lost out is on the way down, Jennet, who
is no longer a wheeler and dealer, a mover and shaker.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
That thought never entered my mind.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Maybe it didn't enter of its own accord, but it
was very.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Definitely put there by people who have a stake.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
In your career.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Kenneth.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
I don't blame them. They're doing their jobs, protecting their investment.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I still love you.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
What is the word still doing in.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
There, Kenneth? Please don't turn this into an inquisition.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I won't.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
I also think i'd better be getting back early.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
You're going to fight it out.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
It's the only way I know how to operate.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Will I see you again?
Speaker 4 (21:57):
That depends, I'm what on whether I win or lose.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Oh, Kenneth, why can't we just be two people in love?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Because we're not just two people. You love me because
I'm rich and powerful and important.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
That isn't.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
See you were about to tell a lie, but you're
too honest. And I love you because your beautiful, desirable, glamorous,
and every man envies me.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
The moment either of us loses those special qualities.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I I'd better be starting back.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Goodbye, strongheart?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Why do you call me that?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I don't know? Ken? Why do you look like that,
so so serious, as if your mind is a million
miles or a thousand years away from here?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Why?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Strong Heart? I was called that name once?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
But when?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Where?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Hello, Carolyn?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Ken? I thought you were in California.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
No, I have some important things to do here at home.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
And besides, she threw you out.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Oh I walked out on her?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Was the handwriting on the wall.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Carolyn. I want to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Can you fit me into your schedule?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
You have a right to talk that way, but it
would be counterproductive.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Do you want a divorce?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
No, I've been thinking, Carolyn. We haven't had much of
a life together these past fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
The reason is we haven't made any real life together,
have we?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
No?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
We have, and so I want to tell you what
I would like always that, Sir? Do you hear him?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Do I hear who?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Her? Majesty Queen Maud, Please rise.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Sir Kenneth, your majesty you've come.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yes, I have come to see a good and loyal knight.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Have you come to save me? Your Majesty, I am pleading.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
For mercy, please, Sir Kenneth, for more than mercy, for justice.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
The judges have spoken, but they are your judges.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
It was the way you would have it, Sir Kenneth.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
No, it was the way your father would have it.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
King Henry, son of William the Conqueror himself, at the.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Great close of his life, as.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
He lay dying, clasped my right hand in both of
his swear to me, Noble Kenneth, that my only living child,
my Maude, shall be queen of this land that my
father has wrested from the Saxons. Swear to me that
your sword will always uphold her right. Swear, and I
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took an oath I know, to defend your right to
the throne, and you have. But Sephen is king.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
My son will succeed him, and so my right to
the throne.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Is secure, and my head is to be forfeit.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
That is the price, Sir Kenneth. You were willing to
give your life.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
For that right, to defend it, not to buy it.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I'm sorry, truly sorry.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Your majesty. I don't ask this for myself. You cannot
trust Stephen. I don't ask this for myself, not for myself.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
What don't you ask for yourself?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Kenneth? Ah, I I guess I'm under a kind.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Of strain lately.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I shouldn't wonder.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I see things, I hear things.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
What sort of things?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Voices? Images? I can't figure them out? It says, if
I'm actually living somewhere else and involved in something else?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Should you see a doctor?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I want to ask you something.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yes, I want to change my entire way of living,
my philosophy of life. You do, I would want us
to start all over again, to.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Work at our marriage the way other people do.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
What's your answer?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
It's the most serious and important question a man can
ask his wife.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Do you want to sell our marriage?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yet?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
It seems that just a few moments ago, in a dream,
or in another incarnation, or in another world, he asked
the most serious question a man could ask his queen,
will you save my life?
Speaker 5 (27:12):
And he was turned down? There shall we balance the
equation here? Wait for Act three?
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Is one time around?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Or you get it doesn't seem right somehow? After all time,
time stretches on and on out into infinity, and life
is so short over before it's even fairly.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Begun for so many of us.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Well, maybe we do keep going, maybe we do keep
coming back, Maybe we keep doing the same things over
and over again, from now to eternity.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
You want us to begin all over again, yes, Carol,
and make our marriage happy and fulfill it.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yes, I want that.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
It's remarkable I've changed, have you, Kenneth.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Yes, I'm not driven to to I I know what
this word must sound like, but it expresses the truth.
I'm not driven to conquer, not anymore.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
What are you being driven to do?
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
I have more money than I could ever spend. I've
worked very hard, and now why not relax?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (28:43):
You haven't answered my question?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I know I'm overwhelmed by it. Overwhelmed, yes, by the
arrogance of it.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Arrogance here I express the absolute humility.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Your idea of humility. Well, it isn't your fault, it's
how you're made.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
How can you say I'm being arrogant when I'm.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
When you're what? Don't you realize what you're saying to me?
My dear? For almost twenty years, we have had what
amounted to a marriage of convenience for me. We shared
a home, but we didn't really live together, well, not
very much. I needed you for social and political purposes,
and now I want to change. I want this marriage
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to be meaningful. It suits my needs for us to
have a serious relationship. That, in effect is what you're
telling me.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Yes, but why is it arrogant?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Because because it doesn't take into consideration my needs. And
the fact is, Kenneth, I had to learn to do without.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
You, you won't ever have to do without me again.
I know you're angry, and you have a right to
be about those other women.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yes, I do have that right. I'll never forgive you.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Do you know why I had no right to be unfaithful?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Oh? I could have overlooked that it's whom you were
unfaithful with. You See, the average betrayed wife can look
down at her husband's mistress and say, oh, whatever does
he see in her that allows her to feel superior,
and so she can forgive him. But you, the women
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you chose were more than I could ever be. Every
one of them only reminded me that I was a nobody,
and so what right did I have to complain? Your first,
she's considered the finest woman. Paint her alive today. Your
second will soon be elected to the United States Senate.
Your third is not just a pretty face on the screen,
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but an actress of stature who plays Shakespeare and Shaw.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
We're talking about the past. It's dead.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
No, no, it's alive. It's very much alive. It's what molds
us and makes us.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
The fact is I need you now.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
But the fact is I don't need you.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
You trying to tell me there's someone else.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yes, I see, No, I don't think you do. There's
someone else, because there had to be someone else if
there wasn't you. And do you know why, Because.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
You didn't need me.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
I tell you that was in the past.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
You didn't need me. You don't need me now. You'll
never need me. You'll never need anyone. There are those
men who can live only for their own purpose. Kenneth,
It'll pass, what will pass? This moment of panic? You're afraid,
aren't you? Yes, you are for the first time in
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your life, and you don't know how to handle it.
So you decided to play it Stephen's way and to
become a tame lap dog for the board. And you'll
even try to become respectable. Oh kness, how long can
those good resolutions of yours last? Only till you see
the next spectacular financial opportunity or encounter your next spectacular woman.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Yes, thanks, Carolyn, Well.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
It has to be a fight to the finish.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
You were born out of your time. You should have
lived in the age of the rubber barons, the rubber
in those Middle Ages, when the only limit to your
ambition was the strength of your arm. You took what
you wanted. Land women will take over the corporation, take
it away from Stephen?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Why not? I took the crown away from Stephen once.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
What did you say, hmm about a crown?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Now, don't tell me you're hearing things too, Miss Mabrudo, Yes, sir,
have all those that has gone out to the stockholders?
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Yes? And the proxies are coming down.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
I'll show Steven that board with a heading.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Has mister Damien called back? Has anybody called back? General
Morrison the Pentagon? Are you sure you left your message?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
All right, I don't want to be.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
Disturbed for a while.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
What do they say it's always darkest just before it's done.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Hello, let me speak with miss Downing please.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
This is mister Sturgis Kenneth be Sturges in reference to what.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Are you new? Around there.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
No, I don't want to leave a message. I want
you to tell her I'm on the telephone. I understand
that she's on the set. Just tell her that I
see here. You just go out there and tell her
that hello, Hello there, Kenneth.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Well, Steve, you're late, you think so?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Why did you start this fight?
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Why did you continue to fight?
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Sir Kenneth, I had no choice.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
I had no choice.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Wise, men always have choices.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
sKenneth, Your majesty, listen to me. What are you saying, your.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Majesty, Your majesty, Stephen before Stephen, he has a son
who will seek the crown.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
We have signed an agreement, an agreement, yes, and you
could have been part of that agreement, but you were
instead headstrong and.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Stubborn in your cause. My Queen, my.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Cause has been peace and the crown for my son.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
There can be no peace while Stephen is alive, Your majesty,
the army will follow me. Let me leave the army.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
The army will follow you no longer.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
It's my army. I trained it, I led it for you.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Army is tired. They long for peace, to go home,
to till the soil, to sow the crops, for twenty
years there has not been a harvest in England that
has not been drenched with blood.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Hear me, madam, No, hear me.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
It was turbulent men like yourself who have kept Stephen
and me apart, who have prevented us from making this
land peaceful and fruitful and happy. You sought to enrich
yourselves with your source.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Oh, my lord, you were right, Sir Baldwin. You told
me they would have.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
It, so perhaps you should have listened.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
I see now Stephen has truly one.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
England has won, Sir Kenneth, for the sake of my father,
I give you my deepest regard and affection in this
hour of your travel.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Thank you, madam.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
We shall meet, I hope in another world.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I shall pray.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Goodbye, Sir Kenneth. Do you forgive me?
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Yes, Madam, I forgive you for your father's sake.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
I forgive you. I forgive you. I forgive you, I
forgive you.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
You forgive me for what? No?
Speaker 3 (36:41):
I don't forgive you.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
What are you talking about? What are you doing here? Ken?
Speaker 3 (36:48):
I want us to be friends. Friends. We had a
difference of opinion. You lost.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Does it have to be the end of the world?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Yes, Oh. Look, if it's really olden days, I would
have cut off your head. And the olden days you did.
Oh what are you talking about? I don't know. I
just don't know. I can appreciate you're under a strain.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
You think you've won.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
You and the board have won. But I've got some
defense contracts I've been holding in reserve.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Are you that'll give me some leverage?
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Yes, mister.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
What is it about your call to the Pentagon to
General Morrison?
Speaker 7 (37:26):
Well, he's been transferred.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
Who has been transferred to General Morrison?
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Has been transferred? Is that what she's telling you? Morrison transferred? Yes,
your strong right arm.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
He's out of procurement. How did it happen when.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
The Defense Department makes these transfers all the time. As
a matter of course, Ken, you've had it now about
your letter.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
Of resignation, my letter of resignation.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Charlie has a very bright young kid in his PR
group who could compose a very graceful sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
All right, Steve, you won, I didn't win.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
The company won.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
Funny, isn't it. I went quietly last time last time.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Uh what do you mean by last time? Yes, I
listened to my lady your lady. You were the enemy
then too. Is it a coincidence that your name is Stephen? Also,
miss McGruder, get a doctor, Yes, Steve Stephen, King Stephen Thoughts,
(38:51):
King Stephen ol Kennearth. Just sit quietly for a moment.
You led the revolt. You turned England into a child.
No house, everything's're gonna be all right. No, as long
as you live, they will be scheming and treason at Kenneth, Stephen,
I accuse you. Put down that letter opener, you Stephen
(39:17):
usurp her of the Colonel of England, for the crime
of high season to the Rightful Queen of England. And
I'm crazy. You're help somebody help.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Justice, Justice, my lady has finally been done.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
How are you this morning, sir?
Speaker 3 (39:54):
What manner of place is this?
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Oh? This a new sort of castles?
Speaker 3 (40:00):
And why are you dressed in this fashion? My lady?
Speaker 2 (40:03):
It's the new fashion?
Speaker 3 (40:06):
I think it revealing, perhaps, but if the Good Lord
did not wish female beauty to be shown, he would
not have bestowed it upon the fair Sex to begin with.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
And so Madam you rule in England.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Oh yes I do.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
I know that your Majesty must keep me in prison
it is the price I must pay for Stephen.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yes, it's see the price you must pay.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
It was murder, but I did it gladly for my Queen.
I too, am descended from royalty, Scottish royalty. My name
Kenneth means handsome in our Scottish tongue.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Do you do you have everything you need?
Speaker 4 (40:52):
Yes, my good Queen Morgen, I am not your good.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Queen mordm I'm miss Begruder. I'm just your your secretary.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
You just my lady? What is a secretary?
Speaker 2 (41:05):
It's getting late.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
This is the place of many wonders.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Lights come on without fire, Voices and pictures issue from boxes.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
I know I shall be happy here.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Oh I.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Hope, sir, Not because I am warm and well fed,
but because I killed Stephen.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
And I know that you rule in England. Well, what
is happiness? Each of us defines it in his own thoughts,
and seeks it in his own way, and enjoys.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
It in his own fashion. And it's the.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Belief that he is a twelfth century Scottish knight in
the court of Queen Maud of England makes Kenneth by
Sturgis happy.
Speaker 4 (41:57):
Who are we to destroy his illusions?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
I have an illusion that you will be here when
I return shortly. The men who run our mammoth mills
and mines and factories, the men who control our commerce
(42:23):
and industry, the men whose decisions mold the lives of millions,
These men, who would they have been a thousand years ago?
When Duke William of Normandy decided to invade Saxon, England.
Speaker 4 (42:39):
He sold shares in the.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Enterprise for so many soldiers, weapons, ships and supplies.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
You would be entitled to so much.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Conquered english Land. The entire thing was a business proposition.
Our cast included Gordon Heath, William Griffiths, Terry Keene and
Briana Rayburn.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
The entire production was under the.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Direction of Hymon Brown.
Speaker 4 (43:03):
This is E. G.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant Stream,
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