November 16, 2024 • 43 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Come in, welcome, I meet you, marshall. Have you ever
paused to wonder what happens to famous people when fame
is wrenched away? Consider this to singers, actors, dancers, to
all who perform on stage before live audiences, applause is
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their life's blood. To performers, that sound is the music
of the spheres. They live on it, thrive on it,
feed on it. But when homage fades, dies away into silence?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
What then?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Some accept retirement gracefully or seem to, as did a
world renowned ballerina until her fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I will pay anything everything to be young to dance again.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I warn you the cost will be high. And before
we go on, I give you one last chance not
to go on.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
You are here of your own free will. You still
have free will?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Decide you still wish to collaborate with me. If yes,
then there is no turning back. What do you say, Alexandra?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Oh no?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Our Mystery Drama Give the Devil his Due? Written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Nancy Moore and stars Mercedes McCambridge.
Alexandra incomparable Ballerina Toast of two Continents, Alexandra the unsurpassed.
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It was said of her dancing that she was more
than a star flung from the heavens.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
She was a constellation.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
What what is wrong? What happened to my applause? Where
is it? My applause? The promise? I can't hear them?
Please applaud? Call my name?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
What is wrong? Wake up?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Applause?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Where did it copy?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Wake up?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I want my applause? That lovely sound?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Someone is taking it away?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
God in wait? Wake up there?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Now that's right, John, Yes, there it's John. You were dreaming.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I was dreaming, Yes, bad dream? Right now?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Where am i? What am I doing in this place?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Andrew?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Your home? Now, come on back to bed.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I'm all mixed up.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I'm on Now take my hand. I'm so cool.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Course you are that thin nightgown dancing around the room.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Oh my head it aches so there.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Now that's my good girl. You feel better in a minute.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Swan Lake. H I danced Swan Lake.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Oh in the dream? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yes, what dream? What are you talking about? I danced
Swan Lake last night?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
In such applause?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
John, I can't remember how many curtain calls and the
flowers there were never so many. Thandra brov Alexandra brov
and one young man was calling out, I love you,
I love you, And after the seventh one corner or
was it the eighth.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Sondra, stop it, stop it right now?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
John? What has happened to you? You've always been so
proud of my talent, my fame, and lately you seem
actually jealous ofthing.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Alexander, will you listen to me?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You did not dance last night, You will not dance tonight.
You haven't danced for thirteen years since you retired. You're
fifty years old. I am not.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Fifty years old. Why do you say such things? Why
have you turned on.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Me like this? You're a heel. It began a week
ago and you're fifty.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
It's not that I am not fifty.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I am not.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Exactly what you said on your birth and you screamed
that you're not the cake horn. I am not fifty,
I am not, I am not. Where are you going
to get your hammerer? What you look at yourself? Something
you refuse to do all week?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
No, all right, then if you can tell me you're
not fifty years old? There go ahead, Look no, don't
turn away, Look I won't you will.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Please, don't do that. You're hurting me. There will be
marks on my arm.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
They will show in my costume. Tonight, I open your
eyes and I'll let you go. Eh good, Now tell
me what you see.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I see beautiful Alexandra, the greatest collerina the world is even.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Stop looking past the mirror, look into it.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Look.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
No, that's not me, that is someone else. She's ugly,
Oh so ugly.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Take her away.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
No, she's not ugly. She's still very beautiful, but she.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Is fifty Face Exandra, face yourself?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Do you make me face it? Why? I hate what
I am?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Then you do know what you are? You know?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Sometimes I know, but I don't want to. I want
to go back, to go back.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You can't go back. You can't live in the past.
This is now. I hate now, but it exists, and
you're part of it.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yes, John, you are right? Of course you.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Are you listening?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
You heard, understood?
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I listened.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I heard. Now will you do the same for me?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Listen?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Certainly I've known what's been going on this past week.
Part of my mind has always known. I tried to
blot out the truth pretended it is lies, and sometimes
I can't do it. But you you dragged me back.
How cool? Just now in the mirror to wrinkles.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Andra.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I don't want to hurt you, but I can't let
you go on like this. You're getting deeper and deeper
into there's pretense. I don't know where to lead. Thank God,
we've talked about it honestly, and tomorrow talk more. Now,
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let's try to get some.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Sweet No, I haven't finished. There's something I haven't told you.
You say I need to know that I am fifty,
that I can't dance, that I will never dance again. Well,
you need to know.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That I will dance. I will.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I know it sounds impossible, do you even mad? I
know you can't believe it, but it is true. Alexandra
the unsurpassed will dance again.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
All right, Andre, will you promise me something?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
All right, I'll stop talking about it, but that does
not change what will be.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
No, no, no, I want you to talk about it
to a doctor, to a psychiatrist.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I see, please, Darling.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I beg you this, This is madness.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
What you're saying.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You're headed straight for a breakdown.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Do you think so, John?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
There's been plenty of evidence now this, but I think
it can be prevented.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Very well.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Then I shall see a doctor. Yes, I certainly will.
You will tomorrow, doctor Sterne.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I want the truth.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Please, don't make promises you cannot keep.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Well.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I have no intention of doing that, Missus Scott. What
would be gained by you or me? Aside from that,
it is an honor to have the Great Alexandra come to.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Me for help.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I have simply come to the best doctor in the profession. Now,
exactly what can you do for me?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
First, you must understand there is no absolute guarantee. None
Plastic surgery will make you look younger. That is absolute,
but for exactly how many years is speculative. However, I
can make a very educated guess. You have fine bone structure,
and that is basic to all beauty. Bones don't change, only.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
The in the muscles.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
When your skin is smooth again, wrinkles gone, loose, flesh tightened,
eyelids no longer sagging. Oh, fifteen to twenty years, I think,
Missus Scott. That's a lot of years, I know, but
I believe I can achieve it.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Twenty years I will be twenty years old again.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
No, no, no, no, you misunderstand. Fifteen to twenty years
off your present age.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Oh, how silly of me to put it that way.
In other words, I would.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Look thirty thirty thirty five.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I suppose that will have to do. Now about my body?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You want body surgery as well?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Of course you can do the same thing for.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
My body or missus Scott No no age takes a
toll of the body. We cannot change.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yes, breast lifted, superfluous fat removed. But if if you
mean your entire body made firm and beautiful, that is
precisely what I mean, My dear lady, be realistic, only
magical accomplish such a thing.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Magic. Yes, good morning, doctor Sterne. I am sorry if
you're taking so much of your time. What is the
lady's wish? Her fortune in the tarot cards, the palm
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or the crystal ball? I think.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
The crystal ball.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
The lady has chosen, will and please please. I am
in a hurry. Something troubles you very deep. We will
begin my hands upon the crystal. Oh, it's most strange
what I see. I see you young, young and beautiful.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Tell me.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Tell me if I am dancing, tell me you'll he
The crystal grows cloudy, The mist I can see no
more gone hold one. But I have told you true
you will be young again.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Please please try again.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I must know if I will dance. Carlotta has no
power to see what her crystal ball does not wish
to reveal. But you have other powers, no ancient magic.
Can you make me young?
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Tell me?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Does the lady fear a witch? I don't fear anything
except age and not dancing again. Send me to her.
The witch is a man, a warlock. But lady beware
the cause. I don't care what it costs. Tell me
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his name. He wears many names, many faces. What name today?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
What face?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I do not know, but I do know where he dwells,
Number thirteen, Ye Hannah Street. The door knock, it's hideous, gargoyle.
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Never mind that, just knock.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
That sound.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
It's like doom. There is still time to run back
down this crooked street.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
No I will not.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
There is still time to run back down the crooked street.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Man of Scott, you know my name.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Your true name is Alexandra. I've been expecting you. My
house is honored.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
How strange this rule is.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
I don't be alarmed by my treasures. They are ancient
symbols of the accult.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I am not alarmed. I'm only surprised. Since you expected me, sir,
and you know my name, you must also know my need.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Your quest, your heart's desire.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Yes, yes I know.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Can you do it? Not?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Can I? But will I?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Then?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Will you?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
If, and only if you agree to my terms? I
warn you they are costly.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
To be young to dance again. There is nothing I
wouldn't pay. And now, since we are here to do business,
I should know your name. You haven't told me.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Well, my name for a while, as long as it
amuses me is as Asah Assassin.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I never heard that name before.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
That may prove to be your loss.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Well I have heard it now, So can we get started?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Please not yet, not yet, Before we go on, I
give you one last chance not to go on.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
You are here of your own free will you still
have free will? Decide?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Do you still wish to collaborate with Azazel? If yes,
then there is no turning back. What say you, Alexandra?
Yes or no?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yes, mister.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yes Azazel? If Xandra's got a correction. If Alexandra had
remembered Milton's Paradise Lost, she would recall that Azazel is
the name of a fallen angel who with Satan rebelled
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against heaven, and perhaps she would have run.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
For her life down the crooked streets.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
We will return to that street shortly with that too.
It was Daniel Defoe who wrote, every devil does not
have a cloven foot, nor has Azazel. If devil he is,
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we can't be certain, can we. He may very well
be only a charlatan, preying on the gullibility of foolish,
vain people who.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Wander down his crooked street.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
However, this I can tell you with certainty. Azazel is
devilishly handsome. And wasn't it Shakespeare who wrote the Prince
of Darkness is a gentleman. So seems as ozel genial, courtly, charming, madam?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Will you sit here pray?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It's a kind of truth?
Speaker 5 (17:13):
And what's more appropriate for Alexandra?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Oh how lovely it is to hear you call me that?
Nobody does anymore? They call me Sandra?
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Now, please please. I dislike mister Asazel is enough.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Such an odd name, but I like it.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
I'm flattered.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Now you are about to ask what price I demand
to make you young?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Twenty? That's the age I want.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
What if I said I take your husband from you, John,
I wouldn't care your fortune.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
I caught you money, It's nothing to me.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
How charmingly we agree that I'm saying neither of those things.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Merely testing you. All I require of you.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Now is your promise that you will indeed pay anything
anything I should ask. You'll learn the cost only after
your transformation. Are you willing to enter a pact so blindly?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Yes, yes, how swiftly you leap like a ballerina. But consider,
my lady, consider as Azel may demand more than you.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Care to pay.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
What have I to lose? I have nothing, I care
about nothing.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Very well, your promise stated, I promise I will give you.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I promise I will give anything everything to be young,
to dance as I danced when I was truly Alexandra.
Don't make me wait any longer.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Change me hurry here this moment, Yes, a greedy, impatient Alexandra.
The metamorphosis will be done my way, in my time,
not yours.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Three nights must pass.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
The morning after the third night you will be Alexandra.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
You must wait three whole nights.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Thirty years you've waited to be twenty again. You can
wait three nights more surely. Now each night you will
drink from this bottle.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
How much of it you.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Require a label as an ordinary medicine bottle, So very well,
shake well before using three tablespoons before bedtime.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Prescription not refillable.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Now you're laughing now indeed.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
No, no, I'm laughing at other people who take only
man made potions.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Now all is understood.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Yes, give me not not so fast, not quite. All
is understood. One more promise. On the morning of the
third day, you will come here down the crooked street,
go nowhere else. First you will come towards as well
to pay what you will pay. Give me your promise, yes, yes,
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I promise excellence, and I give you the magic potion.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Sandra, what are you taking?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
What's in that funny looking bottle?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Oh it's medicine, John, What are well? I'm not feeling
quite myself.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You're not well?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Isn't that what you have been saying for a week.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
But I didn't know psychiatrists prescribed medicine.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
But how silly you are. Of course they do tranquil life.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Things like that.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Oh oh, and you do seem better already. Yes, I
am not all evening, not one word about it.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
No, No, I I don't I don't want to get.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
You started about being young again, about how I will
dance again?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Mos, Please don't start.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Turn off to night darling. A dancer needs a full
night's sleep.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
You've said that with humor and a smile, and you
know it's a joke.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
You are getting back to normal.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yes, back to normal. Good night, John, John? Don't wake up?
Oh please?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
John?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Huh? What time is it?
Speaker 5 (22:01):
It's six six?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
What?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
What the devil you wake me up at six o'clock for?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Because I want to know if I well, how do
I look this morning?
Speaker 5 (22:16):
How you look? Yes?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
That medicine last night?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
The doctor said, well, he said take it and you'd
feel better, didn't he.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yes, of course, But I thought I just got a
notion that I might look.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Better to do I? John?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
You look arrested and very pretty, and there's a light
in your eyes you haven't had for a long time.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
And I think your doctor is a genius.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
We might even say a magician, John John, it's nearly
seven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Oh, Sandra, what has gotten into you? We never opened
an eye until eight thirty or nine now, two mornings running?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
You?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
What?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
John?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
John? John?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
How do I look?
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Sandra?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
What is it you want?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Me to say, I told you.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Sandra, what.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Sandra?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Are you taking some kind of of youth restoring quack medicine?
Is that what you're up to?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I am taking what the doctor told me to take,
And yes, I did hope it would make.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Me look better.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I mean all week I've had such worry lines, so nervous,
that's all. I just wanted to look better at doctor.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You never call him by name? Why?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Well, it is such an odd name. It's hard to say.
Just what is this doctor's name? It is doctor?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
What nationality is that?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
How do I know? And I certainly didn't ask.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Has Andrew listened to me? Something's wrong? There's something phonny here?
What do you know about this doctor's credentials? About his
Where are you going?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Do you mind to wash my teeth? I can't stand
this awful dit to taste? Oh the mirror? Look at me?
Nothing has changed? Is something wrong? As a zellophony?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Is he Andrew?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I can't hear what you. I can't hear you.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
No, I was just looking at myself and I can't
bear it.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Oh, darling, please don't start all that again.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Oh you old woman staring at me?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I lost you.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Want an ever happened in here? If nothing, Johnny, doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I broke the mirror.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
By accident.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Thandre, you wake?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
What time is it to die with that blasted light?
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Oh? Not quite sick, damn.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
And just got me in a habit of honey.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
It's not fair you sleep while I Oh my god,
oh my god, what's happened to you?
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Sandra?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Will wake up?
Speaker 5 (25:56):
What do you?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Please?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
My God? Take over your eyes?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
John? What I know?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Are you shot him?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
John?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Have I changed? Am I different?
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Different?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Answer to me? I'm afraid to go and look?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Go go look?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Oh yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Oh, don't believe this.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Just now?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
When I got out of bed, it was not my heavy,
fifty year old body.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
You get to the mirror.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
This can't be Oh I mad?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Or do you look the way.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I think you look?
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I am twenty years old. I am Alexandra.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
The name of Heaven.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Will you explain to me how this could happen? Yes,
it is the medicine.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
It was a magic potion given me by a warlock,
a witch. Ass Hell, no, you are not dreaming, You
are not mad. I am exactly what you see. He
has given me back my true self. Please, John, No
more arguments I am going now. This is goodbye.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
He's under one last time.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Undo this unnatural, unholy thing before it's too late.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
You are too late. There is no turning back, even
if I wanted to wait.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Once you leave his apartment, walk out that door. Now
would I leave this apartment? I am free?
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Where will you go?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Where else?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Would I go to? The most famous of all pallet companies,
to Sersius Kerensky, balletmaster and.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Old friends mixed up? You are Sergius managed you thirty
years ago.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
He's dead.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Oh how could I forget that?
Speaker 5 (27:44):
You see?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Come back here and close the door.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Don't be stupid, John. It is his son's company now,
Peter Kerensky. I will go to him.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
He doesn't know.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
It, but this is the luckiest day of his life
and mine. Goodbye, old man t Sabra. I am free.
It is the luckiest day of my life.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
On the morning of the third day, you will come
here down the croocket street.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
You will go nowhere else.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
First you will come to Azazel to pay what you
will pay.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
But I have paid Azel. I lost, poor old John,
and is silly old money. Why should I go down
your crooked street again?
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Do not play fast and loose your promises made here,
it will be at your peril.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Mister Azazel, doctor Azazel. All this abacadabra has done so
that I could dance.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I can't dare to waste another minute.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I am terribly sorry, but I have an appointment with
Peter Kerensky.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
It was servants who wrote he needs must go whom.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
The devil drives.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
But is that quotation appropriate here? Is it the devil
who drives Alexandra? We still do not know who Azazel is.
To her, He's only a sorcerer, and with the arrogance
of newfound youth, she now dares defy him.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
It may well be that.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
By not keeping her packed with Azazel, Alexandra is traveling
down another crooked street.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
A dead end street will follow her when I return
shortly with Act.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Three backward turn backward O time in your flight? Can
the clock be turned back? Can youth be relived? It
would seems so. But is it wise to reach for
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the past finding it? May we not live it worse
instead of better. Alexandra, age twenty again has billed herself
to Peter Kerensky as Xandra Scott, curious that she should
send in that name curious too that Kerensky agrees to
see her. As a rule, he is not interested in
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unknown young dancers. Zandra Scott? Is that right?
Speaker 3 (30:41):
That is the name I am using just now, mister Kerensky,
Or you have another a name you would recognize if
I told it to you?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Then why the secrecy?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
No, it is not secrecy. You will know exactly who
I am when you see me dance.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
That's your hair. I'm not sure. I'm amused by such games.
And why are you so sure? I will give you
an audition?
Speaker 3 (31:02):
I know that's all I am absolutely certain.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Well that's more than I am. I can't think why
you will let.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
You in here?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Perhaps because I am a relative of the great Alexandra?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Are you? But I didn't know that when your name
was sent in?
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Ahh, you knew it intuitively.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Oh come now, well, at least I know why you
looked familiar when you walked in. There's a very strong
resemblance to Alexandra, quite remarkable, really, So you remember how she.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Looks, dear lady?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
How could I forget? My father left a collection of
at least a thousand photographs of that incredible face you keep.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Staring at me, mister Krensky.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yes, you know it's uncanny. More and more I see
her face in yours?
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Are you her daughter?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Alexandra had no children? Unie them again, mister Krenski, you
will know who I am when you see me dying.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Oh no, wonder you were sure i'd audition you. What
fool would refuse any relative of Alexandra's. I did rather
count on that, Yes, but it's not like me to
waste time this way. Let's get on with it, please.
You've brought leotard and toe slippers in that bag. Yes, yes,
well I'll get hold of the practice pianost what music man?
Speaker 3 (32:17):
She's ill? The mad scene right, that's one of the
most difficult. Isn't that rather ambitious of you? For some ballerinus. Yes,
for this window. I have doneced that role many.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Times as you will.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Oh that door just to your left, you can dress
in there, then come on stage. I'll be waiting out
front with my assistant.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
But why should I audition for anyone but you?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Because I wanted that way? How much warm up will
you need?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
None?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
None.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
I shall be ready in five minutes.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Vain is a peacock. But if you're as good as
you think, you are then why not?
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Wait until you see her?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Trina the reincarnation of Alexandra.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
That's the feeling I have if she.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Has half Alexandra's talent, a quarter of it.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
But she's a fine the real beauty too, eyes like,
oh there she is in the wings.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
She could be Alexandra's twin.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
What did I tell you?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
You?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Ready? Miss Scott?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
I have always been ready.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Oh very well, music begin now, you maain, lovely creature.
Let's see what you can do. A little fool should
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have had a warm up. All right, all right, I
expected her so start, But come on, let's see something.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I don't believe this. What's going on up there? Wait?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Peter, give her a chance?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
I am, I am, oh, I will be Damn what
is that?
Speaker 2 (34:30):
It's nothing?
Speaker 3 (34:31):
No elevation nor extension, no technique.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Whatever, not even any grace. This girl's clumsy.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
That is a trained dancer. She's a rank amateur.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Did she really think she could put this over on
Kerensky a chance resemblance to Alexandra? And she palmed herself
off as a relative.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
She couldn't have a teaspoon of Alexander's blood.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Damn, the lopside tricked me?
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Does she really believe she can dance?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Oh I got that enough?
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Well why did you stop me?
Speaker 6 (35:02):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Come down here, please, miss Scott, Trina, this girl's out
of her mind. I'd better handle us alone. Wait for
me in the office, please in Ice Peter handled with Kate.
I know, I know, how could you do.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Such a thing. I was just beginning the marvelous dramatic passage.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
I yes, yes, I know, but I'm terribly sorry. But
I don't think you're quite ready for that?
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Just yet?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Not ready, miss Scott? Do you think you're ready?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
From my experience, my talent? How could I not be ready?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
You actually think you danced well up there?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
You believe that.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Indeed you did not.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
But I felt so marvelous, and the music and the stage,
I was yourself. It all came back to me as
if I were mister Kensky. What are you saying to me?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I'm saying you're not ready for this company, or any
company for that matter.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
No, no, please, you don't understand. I came here too soon.
I should have trained. I thought I didn't need to,
But I, mister Kerensky, I have not danced for some time.
I did not realize I would be so rusty.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Any real dancer. No, she has to practice every day
of her life.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
That I didn't think that I had to. But I
will go and I will train, and I will be back.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Miss Scott. Please, I'm a busy man. You've had your audition.
It's over. Don't bother to come back. I'd be less
than kind to encourage you.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
I'm sorry to be so blunt, but you simply have
no talent.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
How dare you say that to me?
Speaker 1 (36:42):
How dare you claim you're related to Alexandra if by
some mischance you are you blight that famous name. No,
I am not related to her, so you admit it.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
I am Alexandra. I am Alexandra. Wait you tell me
I have no talent?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I who danced with Nijinski? Oh, my poor child, Lejinsky
died before you were born.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
So what have you done to me?
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Why have you done it?
Speaker 5 (37:29):
In Alexander?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I am not Alexandra.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I am nothing.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Why did you do it?
Speaker 5 (37:35):
Why did you break your promise to come here?
Speaker 3 (37:37):
There was no need to keep it.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
I paid what you wanted.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
You have not paid. You went your own foolish way.
That was your gratitude to the one who made you
young and fair.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
I am young again, yes, but my body it won't
a baby.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Can you say that you didn't do that?
Speaker 4 (37:56):
If you kept your promise, you would have kept your talent.
And I must ask you to stop shouting.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
I want to go now. I don't like you.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Not so fast, Alexandra.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
It may be I shall reconsider what I have done
if you are still willing to give everything in return.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
But I have already given everything. No, I don't know
what else you want, but I don't care. Whatever it is,
you take it, You take it all and let me dance.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
The bargain is struck.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
You shall dance as I used to, far better than that,
but you shall dance to my tune.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
Look into my face, Alexandra, what do you see?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
You?
Speaker 5 (38:47):
You am? I?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (38:51):
Oh? You know my name? Say it? No, you've known
me from the beginning.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
If you thought of anyone except yourself? Are you ready
to dance?
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Now here?
Speaker 5 (39:11):
Now here.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
A kind of rehearsal. You could call it that, but
in these clothes, I can't the first change.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
Then look upon yourself, Alexandra.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
It is my costume for a sleeping beauty, and my
balance sleepers everything.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
An appropriate costume yes, have you not been sleeping? But
now the Prince has awakened you.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
Alexandra, may I have this.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Dance, dance with with.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
A parted with the devil himself. You are highly honored.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
That can the devil dance?
Speaker 5 (40:07):
You will find that the Djinsky was an ox compared
to me.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
All that, I don't believe you doubt.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
That Satan can do anything he desires music.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
Come, coum your hand.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Beautiful, beautiful Alexandra, you dance like like an angel.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Yes, I know, I feel it. Never before like this. Oh,
thank you, thank you. No, I will conquer the world again.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
No, what do you mean?
Speaker 3 (41:07):
Now you promised me.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
My promise will be kept as you have kept yours.
You promise to give everything. At this precise moment you
have what have I given the world?
Speaker 5 (41:21):
You've lost it.
Speaker 4 (41:23):
Alexandra will dance forever, but only in limbo with Satan.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
Warning.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
The devil will have his due. To those who refuse
to heed that warning, let them learn from the fate
of Alexandra.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Yes, she realized her ambition, we can accurately say her
burning ambition. But until the end of time, the flames
of hell will lap at her dancing feet. I'll be
back shortly. You don't believe in the devil, there is
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no such evil being, then a final warning needs to
be sounded. Here in the too often ignored words of Bodelaire,
the devil's cleverest while is to persuade.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Us that he does not exist.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Our cast included Mercedes McCambridge, Joe Silver, Ian Martin, Brina
Raeburn and Peter Donald. The entire production was under the
direction of Hyman Brown.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
This is e. G.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant Dreams,
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FA
Come in, welcome, I meet you, marshall. Have you ever
paused to wonder what happens to famous people when fame
is wrenched away? Consider this to singers, actors, dancers, to
all who perform on stage before live audiences, applause is
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their life's blood. To performers, that sound is the music
of the spheres. They live on it, thrive on it,
feed on it. But when homage fades, dies away into silence?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
What then?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Some accept retirement gracefully or seem to, as did a
world renowned ballerina until her fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I will pay anything everything to be young to dance again.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I warn you the cost will be high. And before
we go on, I give you one last chance not
to go on.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
You are here of your own free will. You still
have free will?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Decide you still wish to collaborate with me. If yes,
then there is no turning back. What do you say, Alexandra?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Oh no?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Our Mystery Drama Give the Devil his Due? Written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Nancy Moore and stars Mercedes McCambridge.
Alexandra incomparable Ballerina Toast of two Continents, Alexandra the unsurpassed.
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It was said of her dancing that she was more
than a star flung from the heavens.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
She was a constellation.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
What what is wrong? What happened to my applause? Where
is it? My applause? The promise? I can't hear them?
Please applaud? Call my name?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
What is wrong? Wake up?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Applause?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Where did it copy?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Wake up?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I want my applause? That lovely sound?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Someone is taking it away?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
God in wait? Wake up there?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Now that's right, John, Yes, there it's John. You were dreaming.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I was dreaming, Yes, bad dream? Right now?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Where am i? What am I doing in this place?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Andrew?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Your home? Now, come on back to bed.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I'm all mixed up.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I'm on Now take my hand. I'm so cool.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Course you are that thin nightgown dancing around the room.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Oh my head it aches so there.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Now that's my good girl. You feel better in a minute.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Swan Lake. H I danced Swan Lake.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Oh in the dream? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yes, what dream? What are you talking about? I danced
Swan Lake last night?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
In such applause?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
John, I can't remember how many curtain calls and the
flowers there were never so many. Thandra brov Alexandra brov
and one young man was calling out, I love you,
I love you, And after the seventh one corner or
was it the eighth.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Sondra, stop it, stop it right now?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
John? What has happened to you? You've always been so
proud of my talent, my fame, and lately you seem
actually jealous ofthing.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Alexander, will you listen to me?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You did not dance last night, You will not dance tonight.
You haven't danced for thirteen years since you retired. You're
fifty years old. I am not.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Fifty years old. Why do you say such things? Why
have you turned on.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Me like this? You're a heel. It began a week
ago and you're fifty.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
It's not that I am not fifty.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I am not.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Exactly what you said on your birth and you screamed
that you're not the cake horn. I am not fifty,
I am not, I am not. Where are you going
to get your hammerer? What you look at yourself? Something
you refuse to do all week?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
No, all right, then if you can tell me you're
not fifty years old? There go ahead, Look no, don't
turn away, Look I won't you will.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Please, don't do that. You're hurting me. There will be
marks on my arm.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
They will show in my costume. Tonight, I open your
eyes and I'll let you go. Eh good, Now tell
me what you see.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I see beautiful Alexandra, the greatest collerina the world is even.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Stop looking past the mirror, look into it.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Look.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
No, that's not me, that is someone else. She's ugly,
Oh so ugly.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Take her away.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
No, she's not ugly. She's still very beautiful, but she.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Is fifty Face Exandra, face yourself?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Do you make me face it? Why? I hate what
I am?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Then you do know what you are? You know?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Sometimes I know, but I don't want to. I want
to go back, to go back.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You can't go back. You can't live in the past.
This is now. I hate now, but it exists, and
you're part of it.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yes, John, you are right? Of course you.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Are you listening?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
You heard, understood?
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I listened.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I heard. Now will you do the same for me?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Listen?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Certainly I've known what's been going on this past week.
Part of my mind has always known. I tried to
blot out the truth pretended it is lies, and sometimes
I can't do it. But you you dragged me back.
How cool? Just now in the mirror to wrinkles.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Andra.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I don't want to hurt you, but I can't let
you go on like this. You're getting deeper and deeper
into there's pretense. I don't know where to lead. Thank God,
we've talked about it honestly, and tomorrow talk more. Now,
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let's try to get some.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Sweet No, I haven't finished. There's something I haven't told you.
You say I need to know that I am fifty,
that I can't dance, that I will never dance again. Well,
you need to know.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That I will dance. I will.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I know it sounds impossible, do you even mad? I
know you can't believe it, but it is true. Alexandra
the unsurpassed will dance again.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
All right, Andre, will you promise me something?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
All right, I'll stop talking about it, but that does
not change what will be.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
No, no, no, I want you to talk about it
to a doctor, to a psychiatrist.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I see, please, Darling.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I beg you this, This is madness.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
What you're saying.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You're headed straight for a breakdown.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Do you think so, John?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
There's been plenty of evidence now this, but I think
it can be prevented.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Very well.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Then I shall see a doctor. Yes, I certainly will.
You will tomorrow, doctor Sterne.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I want the truth.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Please, don't make promises you cannot keep.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Well.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I have no intention of doing that, Missus Scott. What
would be gained by you or me? Aside from that,
it is an honor to have the Great Alexandra come to.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Me for help.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I have simply come to the best doctor in the profession. Now,
exactly what can you do for me?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
First, you must understand there is no absolute guarantee. None
Plastic surgery will make you look younger. That is absolute,
but for exactly how many years is speculative. However, I
can make a very educated guess. You have fine bone structure,
and that is basic to all beauty. Bones don't change, only.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
The in the muscles.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
When your skin is smooth again, wrinkles gone, loose, flesh tightened,
eyelids no longer sagging. Oh, fifteen to twenty years, I think,
Missus Scott. That's a lot of years, I know, but
I believe I can achieve it.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Twenty years I will be twenty years old again.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
No, no, no, no, you misunderstand. Fifteen to twenty years
off your present age.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Oh, how silly of me to put it that way.
In other words, I would.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Look thirty thirty thirty five.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I suppose that will have to do. Now about my body?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You want body surgery as well?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Of course you can do the same thing for.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
My body or missus Scott No no age takes a
toll of the body. We cannot change.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yes, breast lifted, superfluous fat removed. But if if you
mean your entire body made firm and beautiful, that is
precisely what I mean, My dear lady, be realistic, only
magical accomplish such a thing.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Magic. Yes, good morning, doctor Sterne. I am sorry if
you're taking so much of your time. What is the
lady's wish? Her fortune in the tarot cards, the palm
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or the crystal ball? I think.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
The crystal ball.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
The lady has chosen, will and please please. I am
in a hurry. Something troubles you very deep. We will
begin my hands upon the crystal. Oh, it's most strange
what I see. I see you young, young and beautiful.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Tell me.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Tell me if I am dancing, tell me you'll he
The crystal grows cloudy, The mist I can see no
more gone hold one. But I have told you true
you will be young again.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Please please try again.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I must know if I will dance. Carlotta has no
power to see what her crystal ball does not wish
to reveal. But you have other powers, no ancient magic.
Can you make me young?
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Tell me?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Does the lady fear a witch? I don't fear anything
except age and not dancing again. Send me to her.
The witch is a man, a warlock. But lady beware
the cause. I don't care what it costs. Tell me
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his name. He wears many names, many faces. What name today?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
What face?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I do not know, but I do know where he dwells,
Number thirteen, Ye Hannah Street. The door knock, it's hideous, gargoyle.
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Never mind that, just knock.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
That sound.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
It's like doom. There is still time to run back
down this crooked street.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
No I will not.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
There is still time to run back down the crooked street.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Man of Scott, you know my name.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Your true name is Alexandra. I've been expecting you. My
house is honored.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
How strange this rule is.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
I don't be alarmed by my treasures. They are ancient
symbols of the accult.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I am not alarmed. I'm only surprised. Since you expected me, sir,
and you know my name, you must also know my need.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Your quest, your heart's desire.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Yes, yes I know.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Can you do it? Not?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Can I? But will I?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Then?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Will you?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
If, and only if you agree to my terms? I
warn you they are costly.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
To be young to dance again. There is nothing I
wouldn't pay. And now, since we are here to do business,
I should know your name. You haven't told me.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Well, my name for a while, as long as it
amuses me is as Asah Assassin.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I never heard that name before.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
That may prove to be your loss.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Well I have heard it now, So can we get started?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Please not yet, not yet, Before we go on, I
give you one last chance not to go on.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
You are here of your own free will you still
have free will? Decide?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Do you still wish to collaborate with Azazel? If yes,
then there is no turning back. What say you, Alexandra?
Yes or no?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yes, mister.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yes Azazel? If Xandra's got a correction. If Alexandra had
remembered Milton's Paradise Lost, she would recall that Azazel is
the name of a fallen angel who with Satan rebelled
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against heaven, and perhaps she would have run.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
For her life down the crooked streets.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
We will return to that street shortly with that too.
It was Daniel Defoe who wrote, every devil does not
have a cloven foot, nor has Azazel. If devil he is,
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we can't be certain, can we. He may very well
be only a charlatan, preying on the gullibility of foolish,
vain people who.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Wander down his crooked street.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
However, this I can tell you with certainty. Azazel is
devilishly handsome. And wasn't it Shakespeare who wrote the Prince
of Darkness is a gentleman. So seems as ozel genial, courtly, charming, madam?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Will you sit here pray?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It's a kind of truth?
Speaker 5 (17:13):
And what's more appropriate for Alexandra?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Oh how lovely it is to hear you call me that?
Nobody does anymore? They call me Sandra?
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Now, please please. I dislike mister Asazel is enough.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Such an odd name, but I like it.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
I'm flattered.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Now you are about to ask what price I demand
to make you young?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Twenty? That's the age I want.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
What if I said I take your husband from you, John,
I wouldn't care your fortune.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
I caught you money, It's nothing to me.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
How charmingly we agree that I'm saying neither of those things.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Merely testing you. All I require of you.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Now is your promise that you will indeed pay anything
anything I should ask. You'll learn the cost only after
your transformation. Are you willing to enter a pact so blindly?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Yes, yes, how swiftly you leap like a ballerina. But consider,
my lady, consider as Azel may demand more than you.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Care to pay.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
What have I to lose? I have nothing, I care
about nothing.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Very well, your promise stated, I promise I will give you.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I promise I will give anything everything to be young,
to dance as I danced when I was truly Alexandra.
Don't make me wait any longer.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Change me hurry here this moment, Yes, a greedy, impatient Alexandra.
The metamorphosis will be done my way, in my time,
not yours.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Three nights must pass.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
The morning after the third night you will be Alexandra.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
You must wait three whole nights.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Thirty years you've waited to be twenty again. You can
wait three nights more surely. Now each night you will
drink from this bottle.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
How much of it you.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Require a label as an ordinary medicine bottle, So very well,
shake well before using three tablespoons before bedtime.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Prescription not refillable.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Now you're laughing now indeed.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
No, no, I'm laughing at other people who take only
man made potions.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Now all is understood.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Yes, give me not not so fast, not quite. All
is understood. One more promise. On the morning of the
third day, you will come here down the crooked street,
go nowhere else. First you will come towards as well
to pay what you will pay. Give me your promise, yes, yes,
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I promise excellence, and I give you the magic potion.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Sandra, what are you taking?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
What's in that funny looking bottle?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Oh it's medicine, John, What are well? I'm not feeling
quite myself.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You're not well?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Isn't that what you have been saying for a week.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
But I didn't know psychiatrists prescribed medicine.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
But how silly you are. Of course they do tranquil life.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Things like that.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Oh oh, and you do seem better already. Yes, I
am not all evening, not one word about it.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
No, No, I I don't I don't want to get.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
You started about being young again, about how I will
dance again?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Mos, Please don't start.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Turn off to night darling. A dancer needs a full
night's sleep.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
You've said that with humor and a smile, and you
know it's a joke.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
You are getting back to normal.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yes, back to normal. Good night, John, John? Don't wake up?
Oh please?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
John?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Huh? What time is it?
Speaker 5 (22:01):
It's six six?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
What?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
What the devil you wake me up at six o'clock for?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Because I want to know if I well, how do
I look this morning?
Speaker 5 (22:16):
How you look? Yes?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
That medicine last night?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
The doctor said, well, he said take it and you'd
feel better, didn't he.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yes, of course, But I thought I just got a
notion that I might look.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Better to do I? John?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
You look arrested and very pretty, and there's a light
in your eyes you haven't had for a long time.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
And I think your doctor is a genius.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
We might even say a magician, John John, it's nearly
seven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Oh, Sandra, what has gotten into you? We never opened
an eye until eight thirty or nine now, two mornings running?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
You?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
What?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
John?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
John? John?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
How do I look?
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Sandra?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
What is it you want?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Me to say, I told you.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Sandra, what.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Sandra?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Are you taking some kind of of youth restoring quack medicine?
Is that what you're up to?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I am taking what the doctor told me to take,
And yes, I did hope it would make.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Me look better.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I mean all week I've had such worry lines, so nervous,
that's all. I just wanted to look better at doctor.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You never call him by name? Why?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Well, it is such an odd name. It's hard to say.
Just what is this doctor's name? It is doctor?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
What nationality is that?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
How do I know? And I certainly didn't ask.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Has Andrew listened to me? Something's wrong? There's something phonny here?
What do you know about this doctor's credentials? About his
Where are you going?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Do you mind to wash my teeth? I can't stand
this awful dit to taste? Oh the mirror? Look at me?
Nothing has changed? Is something wrong? As a zellophony?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Is he Andrew?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I can't hear what you. I can't hear you.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
No, I was just looking at myself and I can't
bear it.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Oh, darling, please don't start all that again.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Oh you old woman staring at me?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I lost you.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Want an ever happened in here? If nothing, Johnny, doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I broke the mirror.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
By accident.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Thandre, you wake?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
What time is it to die with that blasted light?
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Oh? Not quite sick, damn.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
And just got me in a habit of honey.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
It's not fair you sleep while I Oh my god,
oh my god, what's happened to you?
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Sandra?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Will wake up?
Speaker 5 (25:56):
What do you?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Please?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
My God? Take over your eyes?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
John? What I know?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Are you shot him?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
John?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Have I changed? Am I different?
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Different?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Answer to me? I'm afraid to go and look?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Go go look?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Oh yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Oh, don't believe this.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Just now?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
When I got out of bed, it was not my heavy,
fifty year old body.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
You get to the mirror.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
This can't be Oh I mad?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Or do you look the way.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I think you look?
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I am twenty years old. I am Alexandra.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
The name of Heaven.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Will you explain to me how this could happen? Yes,
it is the medicine.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
It was a magic potion given me by a warlock,
a witch. Ass Hell, no, you are not dreaming, You
are not mad. I am exactly what you see. He
has given me back my true self. Please, John, No
more arguments I am going now. This is goodbye.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
He's under one last time.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Undo this unnatural, unholy thing before it's too late.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
You are too late. There is no turning back, even
if I wanted to wait.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Once you leave his apartment, walk out that door. Now
would I leave this apartment? I am free?
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Where will you go?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Where else?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Would I go to? The most famous of all pallet companies,
to Sersius Kerensky, balletmaster and.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Old friends mixed up? You are Sergius managed you thirty
years ago.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
He's dead.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Oh how could I forget that?
Speaker 5 (27:44):
You see?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Come back here and close the door.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Don't be stupid, John. It is his son's company now,
Peter Kerensky. I will go to him.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
He doesn't know.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
It, but this is the luckiest day of his life
and mine. Goodbye, old man t Sabra. I am free.
It is the luckiest day of my life.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
On the morning of the third day, you will come
here down the croocket street.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
You will go nowhere else.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
First you will come to Azazel to pay what you
will pay.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
But I have paid Azel. I lost, poor old John,
and is silly old money. Why should I go down
your crooked street again?
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Do not play fast and loose your promises made here,
it will be at your peril.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Mister Azazel, doctor Azazel. All this abacadabra has done so
that I could dance.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I can't dare to waste another minute.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I am terribly sorry, but I have an appointment with
Peter Kerensky.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
It was servants who wrote he needs must go whom.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
The devil drives.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
But is that quotation appropriate here? Is it the devil
who drives Alexandra? We still do not know who Azazel is.
To her, He's only a sorcerer, and with the arrogance
of newfound youth, she now dares defy him.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
It may well be that.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
By not keeping her packed with Azazel, Alexandra is traveling
down another crooked street.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
A dead end street will follow her when I return
shortly with Act.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Three backward turn backward O time in your flight? Can
the clock be turned back? Can youth be relived? It
would seems so. But is it wise to reach for
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the past finding it? May we not live it worse
instead of better. Alexandra, age twenty again has billed herself
to Peter Kerensky as Xandra Scott, curious that she should
send in that name curious too that Kerensky agrees to
see her. As a rule, he is not interested in
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unknown young dancers. Zandra Scott? Is that right?
Speaker 3 (30:41):
That is the name I am using just now, mister Kerensky,
Or you have another a name you would recognize if
I told it to you?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Then why the secrecy?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
No, it is not secrecy. You will know exactly who
I am when you see me dance.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
That's your hair. I'm not sure. I'm amused by such games.
And why are you so sure? I will give you
an audition?
Speaker 3 (31:02):
I know that's all I am absolutely certain.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Well that's more than I am. I can't think why
you will let.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
You in here?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Perhaps because I am a relative of the great Alexandra?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Are you? But I didn't know that when your name
was sent in?
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Ahh, you knew it intuitively.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Oh come now, well, at least I know why you
looked familiar when you walked in. There's a very strong
resemblance to Alexandra, quite remarkable, really, So you remember how she.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Looks, dear lady?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
How could I forget? My father left a collection of
at least a thousand photographs of that incredible face you keep.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Staring at me, mister Krensky.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yes, you know it's uncanny. More and more I see
her face in yours?
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Are you her daughter?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Alexandra had no children? Unie them again, mister Krenski, you
will know who I am when you see me dying.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Oh no, wonder you were sure i'd audition you. What
fool would refuse any relative of Alexandra's. I did rather
count on that, Yes, but it's not like me to
waste time this way. Let's get on with it, please.
You've brought leotard and toe slippers in that bag. Yes, yes,
well I'll get hold of the practice pianost what music man?
Speaker 3 (32:17):
She's ill? The mad scene right, that's one of the
most difficult. Isn't that rather ambitious of you? For some ballerinus. Yes,
for this window. I have doneced that role many.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Times as you will.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Oh that door just to your left, you can dress
in there, then come on stage. I'll be waiting out
front with my assistant.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
But why should I audition for anyone but you?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Because I wanted that way? How much warm up will
you need?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
None?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
None.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
I shall be ready in five minutes.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Vain is a peacock. But if you're as good as
you think, you are then why not?
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Wait until you see her?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Trina the reincarnation of Alexandra.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
That's the feeling I have if she.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Has half Alexandra's talent, a quarter of it.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
But she's a fine the real beauty too, eyes like,
oh there she is in the wings.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
She could be Alexandra's twin.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
What did I tell you?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
You?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Ready? Miss Scott?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
I have always been ready.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Oh very well, music begin now, you maain, lovely creature.
Let's see what you can do. A little fool should
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have had a warm up. All right, all right, I
expected her so start, But come on, let's see something.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I don't believe this. What's going on up there? Wait?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Peter, give her a chance?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
I am, I am, oh, I will be Damn what
is that?
Speaker 2 (34:30):
It's nothing?
Speaker 3 (34:31):
No elevation nor extension, no technique.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Whatever, not even any grace. This girl's clumsy.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
That is a trained dancer. She's a rank amateur.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Did she really think she could put this over on
Kerensky a chance resemblance to Alexandra? And she palmed herself
off as a relative.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
She couldn't have a teaspoon of Alexander's blood.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Damn, the lopside tricked me?
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Does she really believe she can dance?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Oh I got that enough?
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Well why did you stop me?
Speaker 6 (35:02):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Come down here, please, miss Scott, Trina, this girl's out
of her mind. I'd better handle us alone. Wait for
me in the office, please in Ice Peter handled with Kate.
I know, I know, how could you do.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Such a thing. I was just beginning the marvelous dramatic passage.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
I yes, yes, I know, but I'm terribly sorry. But
I don't think you're quite ready for that?
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Just yet?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Not ready, miss Scott? Do you think you're ready?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
From my experience, my talent? How could I not be ready?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
You actually think you danced well up there?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
You believe that.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Indeed you did not.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
But I felt so marvelous, and the music and the stage,
I was yourself. It all came back to me as
if I were mister Kensky. What are you saying to me?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I'm saying you're not ready for this company, or any
company for that matter.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
No, no, please, you don't understand. I came here too soon.
I should have trained. I thought I didn't need to,
But I, mister Kerensky, I have not danced for some time.
I did not realize I would be so rusty.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Any real dancer. No, she has to practice every day
of her life.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
That I didn't think that I had to. But I
will go and I will train, and I will be back.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Miss Scott. Please, I'm a busy man. You've had your audition.
It's over. Don't bother to come back. I'd be less
than kind to encourage you.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
I'm sorry to be so blunt, but you simply have
no talent.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
How dare you say that to me?
Speaker 1 (36:42):
How dare you claim you're related to Alexandra if by
some mischance you are you blight that famous name. No,
I am not related to her, so you admit it.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
I am Alexandra. I am Alexandra. Wait you tell me
I have no talent?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I who danced with Nijinski? Oh, my poor child, Lejinsky
died before you were born.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
So what have you done to me?
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Why have you done it?
Speaker 5 (37:29):
In Alexander?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I am not Alexandra.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I am nothing.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Why did you do it?
Speaker 5 (37:35):
Why did you break your promise to come here?
Speaker 3 (37:37):
There was no need to keep it.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
I paid what you wanted.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
You have not paid. You went your own foolish way.
That was your gratitude to the one who made you
young and fair.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
I am young again, yes, but my body it won't
a baby.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Can you say that you didn't do that?
Speaker 4 (37:56):
If you kept your promise, you would have kept your talent.
And I must ask you to stop shouting.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
I want to go now. I don't like you.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Not so fast, Alexandra.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
It may be I shall reconsider what I have done
if you are still willing to give everything in return.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
But I have already given everything. No, I don't know
what else you want, but I don't care. Whatever it is,
you take it, You take it all and let me dance.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
The bargain is struck.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
You shall dance as I used to, far better than that,
but you shall dance to my tune.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
Look into my face, Alexandra, what do you see?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
You?
Speaker 5 (38:47):
You am? I?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (38:51):
Oh? You know my name? Say it? No, you've known
me from the beginning.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
If you thought of anyone except yourself? Are you ready
to dance?
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Now here?
Speaker 5 (39:11):
Now here.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
A kind of rehearsal. You could call it that, but
in these clothes, I can't the first change.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
Then look upon yourself, Alexandra.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
It is my costume for a sleeping beauty, and my
balance sleepers everything.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
An appropriate costume yes, have you not been sleeping? But
now the Prince has awakened you.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
Alexandra, may I have this.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Dance, dance with with.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
A parted with the devil himself. You are highly honored.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
That can the devil dance?
Speaker 5 (40:07):
You will find that the Djinsky was an ox compared
to me.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
All that, I don't believe you doubt.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
That Satan can do anything he desires music.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
Come, coum your hand.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Beautiful, beautiful Alexandra, you dance like like an angel.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Yes, I know, I feel it. Never before like this. Oh,
thank you, thank you. No, I will conquer the world again.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
No, what do you mean?
Speaker 3 (41:07):
Now you promised me.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
My promise will be kept as you have kept yours.
You promise to give everything. At this precise moment you
have what have I given the world?
Speaker 5 (41:21):
You've lost it.
Speaker 4 (41:23):
Alexandra will dance forever, but only in limbo with Satan.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
Warning.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
The devil will have his due. To those who refuse
to heed that warning, let them learn from the fate
of Alexandra.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Yes, she realized her ambition, we can accurately say her
burning ambition. But until the end of time, the flames
of hell will lap at her dancing feet. I'll be
back shortly. You don't believe in the devil, there is
(42:12):
no such evil being, then a final warning needs to
be sounded. Here in the too often ignored words of Bodelaire,
the devil's cleverest while is to persuade.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Us that he does not exist.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Our cast included Mercedes McCambridge, Joe Silver, Ian Martin, Brina
Raeburn and Peter Donald. The entire production was under the
direction of Hyman Brown.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
This is e. G.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant Dreams,
(43:20):
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