November 3, 2024 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
And now mystery theater. Come in Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm e. G.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Marshall, and I'm ready if you are for another mysterious
voyage through the shadowy mist of imagination. You ask what
is the world, and most people will answer the earth,
the universe. But isn't it true that for most people
the real world is a certain house on a definite
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street in a particular town. And for most people doesn't
the real world consist of perhaps a fifty or one
hundred or so faces? And isn't everything and everyone else
just a name in a newspaper, an image on a screen,
a voice speaking from a small box. Close your eyes,
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stop up your ears, and there is no world. I
have something to tell you, Harry. Yes, you have just
become the most powerful man in the world. Me. Yes,
you you, Harry Corn. You have just become more powerful
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than any dictator, king or zar might here, than any general,
emperor or present. You sure you feel all right? And
listen and that terrible storm outside. Yes, you can end
it by saying just one word, say yes, and the
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storm will be over.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You can't be serious.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Try it, Say yes and see what happens.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
All right?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
No, no, not all right? Yes, yes, What.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Did I Do? What Did I Do?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And our mystery drama The thirty sixth Man was written
especially for the Mystery theater by Sam Dan and stars
Ross Martin. Sometimes when we are particularly appalled by the
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flagrant evil, the unspeakable inhumanity, and the dark ignorance that
seems to engulf us constantly, we may ask ourselves, why
does the Lord permit this most imperfect planet to exist?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Why?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Perhaps the answer is written in the Old Hebrew legend,
which tells us that there are in every generation thirty
six human beings whose lives are completely without blemish, and
it is for their sake that the Lord allows the
world to continue. And since the Hebrew letters Lamed and
vov form the symbols for the number thirty six, these
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persons are called Lamed Vovniks. And so long as there
will always be thirty six of these saintly people in
each generation, the world shall not be lost. Our tale
begins in the opening years of the nineteen hundreds, down
on the Lower East side of New York City in
a tiny candy store. Ariy, where are you aary Ruth?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I was down in the cellar.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Oh, you were down in the cellar.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I was putting away the empty bottles, and.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Why you're downstairs?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Anybody could come in and walk away with the whole store, Oh, Ruth.
The people in this neighborhood are honest.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Is that why we're always short newspapers?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Well maybe when we count them, we don't add and.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
The candy bars disappear off the counter by magic.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, you know sometimes it could be our mistake.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Please give me.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Is the eye, the human eye, It very often.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Deceives the person. Sometimes you think you see enough? Ruth?
Are you angry?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Who me angry? What would I have to be angry about?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Just trying to explain that?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Don't whatever you say, It'll be wrong and I'll lose
my temper. I don't want to do that, so just
just keep quiet.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I know how much you hate this place, Ruth. If
you want, I can stay here by myself. Oh sure,
I don't want you to come in the afternoons anymore.
After all, why shouldn't you be free?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Uh huh, thank you, thank you so much for my
wonderful freedom. Mister Enrico Caruso and miss Nellie Melba are
singing at the Metropolitan Opera.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Now I'm free to use.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Our box sink, Ruth.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
I wish I could afford something, and afterwards I'll be
free to join mister Diamond, Jim Brady and miss Lily
and Russell for supperate.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Corrected.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Please, Ruth, don't just stand there. Bring in the newspapers
with you.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Why can't you hear?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Why the sun?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
The sun was shining so brightly just a minute ago.
It just torn holly before we lose all the papers?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yes, you're right, I'm going.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I'm going here here, hand them to me.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Why such a storm all of us?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
The door, shut the door.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Oh look at these papers.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Look at the comic pages.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Oh half of them torn, dirty finger marks everywhere. Now,
how can we sell? Did you let the kids read
the funny papers?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Again?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Well?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Did you, Ruth? Most of these children can't afford to
buy a new school.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Do you think you are mister Andrew Carnegie?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
How many times I have to tell.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
You we're not running a free public library.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
No, get your head out of the clouds, Ruth.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Please, you can't give away a whole quart of milk
and a five cent more.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I know that, So if you know, why do you
do it?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
These children are so poor?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Nobody's as poor as we are.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Kids shouldn't grow up without a piece of candy now
and then a toy of funny paper. But if you
can only hear how the kids laugh when they look
at the funny pages.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Where do you get this from?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
This sickness is so happy you don't even notice how thin, how.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Scrawny they craziness.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
It doesn't run in your family. Your brothers are sensible,
they're rich.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Important, Ruth. Everything will be all right. You'll see where
you're going.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
To look through the bills.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
I don't know why there's no money to pay them.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, yeah, it isn't easy, is it to know? Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't hear anyone come in?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Hello Harry?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
You say my name is If you.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Know me, I've been looking for you, Harry.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Why would anybody be looking for me? After all? Who
I am?
Speaker 6 (07:31):
On?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
It's been such a long trip and I'm so tired.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Please sit down.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Can offer you a little something, milk or something. Let
me look at you, Harry.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
You're very pale.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
You're trembling, mister, are you sick? Let me see if
what they said about you is true. There's a doctor
just up the block. I think it's true, it doesn't
charge much. If you don't have enough money, maybe I
can help all right, I'm very old, Harry. My time
is after all? What a talk. I'll take you to
this dark but I can't. I can't leave this world
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until I find somebody to take my place. Do you understand?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Pooh man, what's troubling?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Harry? Just tell me. Assure me that you'll always be
just the way you are right now? Tell me you must?
Will you take my place?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
See?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Marry?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
You have to chew the fat with every old.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
One that walks in the sirup jars have.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
To be washed, yes, Ruth, I'll do it.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
And you, mister bomb, this is no flophouse on your way.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
Who who are you?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I'm one of the thirty six, the thirty six. There
must always be thirty six of us. So the world
is lost, comes to an end, and you sit here.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It'll only take a minute.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I get the doctor. Each of us before he dies
must name the man to succeed him. I choose you
here first.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
You drink this?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Huh? You look very you accept You must try to
be calm because I'm dying and I have no successor
the world. The world is ending here and now the
world is ending.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
No, no, no, everything's all I tell you.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
The world is ending. Eh No, look look outside. Have
never seen a storm like this, have you? It will
destroy the whole world?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Is eight when it's not good for the.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
World, It's lost. Unless there is a new thirty six
man take my place. He must do it quickly, quickly
as well.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I think you don't try to get up.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Please say yes, Harry, say yes. And suddenly there is
an end to thunder and lightning, the wind. Suddenly every
cloud will disappear, a bright sun will shine in a
peaceful heaven. Just rest not try to say yes. Only
you can save the world. Say yes, me me save
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the world. Yes, you owe me, you can save the world. Harry, Harry,
say yes, Harry, Yes, Yes, all right, yes, all right now, yes,
now it's all right. Listen. I don't hear anything that's right.
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You don't hear. The storm that was sent to destroy
the world stopped in its tracks because of you, stopped
because you just became the thirty sixth man.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Fine, fine, Now let me take you to the doctor.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
He must always be thirty six, and you must never change.
Before I die, I have the power to grant my
successor one request, ask for anything, ask what what do
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you really want in this world? Oh? I would want
for people to have enough? No, no, no, no, this
must be for yourself. What would you really want?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
What I'd really want?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
If it could somehow be arranged, it would be wonderful
if my wife, Ruth, well, if she just understood me
a little better, Is it all right to ask for that?
That's all you want? That's really all I want? Then
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one day she shall one day, when you least expect it,
she will suddenly understand you. Now, goodbye, Harry, I must leave.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Look at you. You can't even walk.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I need not be able to walk in order to
leave this world. Helena me, Ruth, Ruth, quick help me, Ruth.
Good Bye, lahmade of Olney. Good Bye.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
The old man, the old man. We have to help
the old man, the old man.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Harry, Harry, listen to me.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Listen to the doctor.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Doctor. Yes, he's the doctor.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
This is very old man. My store a doctor.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
No, no, no, no, Harry, we're in the store right now. Now,
your wife says, you keep shouting for help.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Now, what happened?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
It was an old man?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
What old man?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
He fell to the floor.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
He said, he was staying. Are you are yell for
you to help me?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
There was no old man, but you saw him. I
saw him, Yes, you saw him. You asked him to
leave the store.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
When was this?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
When?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Five ten minutes ago?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Are you sure you I'm imagining all this, Harry?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Why should I suddenly.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Say it's too hard? Doctor?
Speaker 5 (13:16):
He doesn't get enough skap, he forgets to eat.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
You mean that there was no old man?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Where is he?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Have you seen so? Just like a real person. We
talked to each other, and he just fell dead on
the floor.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
If he fell dead, Harry, where is he?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Doctor?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Did you ever hear of the lumb at vovniks? Yes,
the old man said he was a lum atvovnik.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
The old man again, he.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Had chosen me as his successor.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Harry.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
It was a hallucination. You thought you saw him. No, no, no,
I I saw him. He was real to you. He
was in that chair. He was real, He was in
your mind. There are new things, Harry, An entirely new
dimension of the mind is being opened, explored. I wonder
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what that doctor Freud would say. Who there's a doctor
Freud in Vienna. Something new? He's what they call a
mind doctor. I wonder what he would say about your
old man. What could he say? He's never seen him.
I think I'll write to this doctor Freud. He's involved
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with everything that happens inside the mind. The old man
wasn't inside my mind. He was inside the store. No, Harry,
I know what I saw.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Why are you arguing with a doctor.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
You can't even run your own business. You're trying to
tell him all about his Look all.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I'm trying to say, Mind what you say?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Does the doctor say there was no old man?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Yes, but there was no old man and that's.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
The end of it.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
She can say that, But you and I we know
that isn't the end of it. No, sir, If anything,
it's only the beginning. You will have to give the
devil his due, and I mean that literally. When I
shall return shortly with that two on the Lower East
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Side of New York City has just succeeded a dying
member of the group, thus keeping the roster at the
required thirty six. Ruth, his wife, refuses to take Harry seriously. However,
there's always a first time for everything, and right now
Harry is a up keeper on the Lower East Side
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of New York City has just succeeded a dying member
of the group, thus keeping the roster at the required
thirty six. Ruth, his wife, refuses to take Harry seriously. However,
there's always a first time for everything, and right now
Harry is about to be taken very seriously, indeed by Well,
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since you would never guess, I'll come right out with it,
the devil.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
You don't believe it, I can prove it.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
The very next voice you'll hear will be Satan himself. Yes,
who I suppose you might just as well let her
come in. Prince, don't use that he is hating title.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Well, I can't very well call you the king of
the universe. You're only the Prince of darkness so far,
your district captain in New York. Here's that the new
Islaminvovnik is in its territory. So well, it might present
you with a quick way to destroy the world.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
There is no quick way. Slow and steady is how
to go. Now, in eight or ten years, I'm arranging
for a wall.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
There have always been wars.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Ah, but this will be a world war.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Oh you've had those before.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Ah, but not with these weapons. Oh, the weapons they'll
have this time now. In about a year, there's going
to be an invention called the aeroplane, a machine that
flies through the sky. You can drop bombs from it,
destroy entire cities. I'm going to let them invent weapons
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so awful that one man will be able.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
To It's always been your problem.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
What problem?
Speaker 8 (18:01):
You're gadget happy?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Now?
Speaker 6 (18:04):
I have a simple plan whereby you can destroy the world.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
This very afternoon. You have the newest lamad Vovnik.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Yes, just help him fall from grace as it were impossible.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
No one has ever been able to get a lamed vovnik.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
You never asked me to help.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Your specialty is wasted. They're mostly elderly men. Long ago
they abandoned the pursuit of earthly pleasure, or maybe it
abandoned them.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
This new one is young, young, I even think he's handsome.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh well, this places everything in a brand new perspective.
Are you seducing anybody important these days?
Speaker 8 (18:57):
Oh? Couple of kings? If you pray some generals.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
And let's go after this one. And what's his name again?
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Harry Harry Cohen, Harry.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Harry Cohen, Oh, yes, Ruth, what are you doing there?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I was just reading a book.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Oh that's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Oh, yes, Ruth is wonderful. It's a book about bees. Bees.
This is a new filix shows how bees talk to
each other. Be's talk by the way they dance around
each other. You may just think it's aimless, buzzing around
without rhyme or reason. But every motion means something.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
And while you've got your nose buried in that book,
anybody can come in and walk off with.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
A whole store.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
No, Ruth, I was watching.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Listen, I have to go see my brother.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Oh all right, say hello to him from.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Oh no, the very mention of your name gives him indigestion.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Now just tell me.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Can I trust you not to give away the storm
while I'm gone?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Ruthe no, no, don't answer. I'll just have to pray
for a miracle.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Ruth, m I just wish I could make her happy.
There it is Lily Thaidia, the shop of Harry Coin.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
You're gonna hang around for the kill, Prince.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I still say you're not going about it in the
right way.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Tell you what you do, Prince.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
You go get yourself an umbrella, cause in five minutes
there's gonna be the biggest storm in the history of
the world.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
So hello, Harry, Yes, what can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Did anyone ever tell you how handsome you are?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
No?
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Well, you just listen to mama. Harry.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Well, they never told me because it isn't true.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I mean, why should people tell me I'm handsome?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
As my father used to say, his face is not
aspat you.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Just come here, Harry, Honey, listen.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I'm afraid I don't know your name. Lily, Honey, Lily,
I don't have very much money.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Money, No, how sweet you said anything about money.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Maybe I can help you, help me, Yes, if you
need a few dollars, so that you can, so that
you can, so I can watch, so that you can quit, quit,
quit this life you lead.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
Just wait a minute, Harry, Billie, I.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Don't judge people. After all, which person has the right?
All we can do is help one another right.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
And say, who do you think you're talking?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Know who I'm talking to? A child of misfortune, a
child of sorry.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Fault.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Something tells me it's not your fault. Maybe you didn't
have parents, Maybe there was no one to love you,
no one to teach you.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
Why not enjoy life?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Harry, Yes, exactly, life is so short. What better way
to enjoy it than by helping another human being?
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Harry, we could have such a good time, you and me.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
A few dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
It's not much, but it's all I have you.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
Taken, Harry, Harry, you're not listening.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
First, wash all the paint and powder off your face,
and then buy yourself some nice clothes and get yourself
a job.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
There's a factory right down the street. They make sure it.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
Goes Harry, Harry, let me explain.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
They always need girls. That's not what I change your
whole life. You'll feel better.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Take the money, get.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
A new saw. Are you afraid to break with the past,
foolish girl? The good Lord is so filled with love,
with forgiveness.
Speaker 9 (23:15):
Here let me here.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Well, I don't see a cloud in the sky.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
That man isn't human.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Ah, but he is his and that's why we will
do this my way. Now, get rid of those clothes,
get an old black dress, a torn black shawl. Put
some white in your hair, some lines in your face.
You'll be a poor widow lady, and make sure that
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butter doesn't melt in your mouth.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
The prince, and don't call me prince, excuse me, Oh.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I'm sorry I didn't see you.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
How much for these candies?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Those? They're two for a penny?
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Oh well I would need four because there's Joey and
Sarah and Tessy and Benny and oh never, thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Don't you want the candy?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Well?
Speaker 6 (24:25):
No, no, because I can only spare one penny, you see,
otherwise I won't be able to buy milk.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
You mean you can't spare a penny for candy?
Speaker 8 (24:36):
Well, well not this week?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Here you take this now?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Take Oh no? Why not?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Well because because it's charity.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
And charity what.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
A beautiful word.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
It really means love, you know, it's what people should
do for each other.
Speaker 8 (24:51):
Oh I'm sorry, Sarah. I have my pride.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Four little children. Shouldn't each of them have a piece
of candy?
Speaker 6 (24:58):
No?
Speaker 8 (24:58):
Not unless I could afford it.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Why should they pay for your pride?
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I take it?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Come on, just take it.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Well you knew I haven't seen you before.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Well, I just moved across the street, top floor. Oh
what's that book on the counter. It looks familiar. Well
do you read well, no, no, my husband did before
he died.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Huh it's a book on philosophy.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Oh yes, that sounds like what he used to read.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Have been an educated man.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Oh yes, he was a man like you, very kind,
very intelligent. Oh he would come home from work at
night and he would read to me from the Philosophy book.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
Oh that's what I miss so much.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Well, bye, goodbye.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Where's the record for the setup?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I forgot to keep it?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
What do you do all day that you can't keep.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
The simplest figures? I'm sorry, I'll try to do better
those books.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
That's what you're busy with this John, garbage, garbage, nonsense
in any of these books? Is there even one word
that can tell you how to make a dollar?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Ruth?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
It is written, man does not live by bread alone.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
I'll make a bargain with you, mister philosopher. You live
on books and I'll live on bread, and we'll see
who lives longest.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Let me read you something beautiful from Philosophy. Here.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Listen to me.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
No, no, you listen.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
You go home, you eat your supper, you go to sleep,
because six o'clock tomorrow morning you have to be here
to open the store.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
But Ruth, I just want to read this to you.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
All I want in this life is a little peace
and quiet.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
This is such a beautiful thought. I have to share
it with somebody.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
Leave me alone, will you please?
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I share too much with you as it.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Is just a minute. Good evening, Oh, good evening.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I uh, I brought a bottle of milk for your children.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Oh, oh, you're so kind.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Well, it's not.
Speaker 8 (27:25):
It's everything.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
And there's this paragraph and in a book of philosophy
that I I I'd like to read to you.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
Oh well, oh, won't you come in?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Won't you come in? Never did so devious a spider
speak such honeyed words to so and unsuspecting a fly.
And the battle is on the ceaseless, the eternal battle
between the forces of good and evil. I'll be back
shortly with Act three. You know, of course, that the
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old Jewish legend tells that the Lord allows this sinful
world to continue only because in each generation there are
thirty six saintly souls called Lamedvovnik's. Should there ever be
one less than this required number, the world will be
immediately destroyed. Satan, unfortunately, is also aware of the situation,
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and he has sent Lilith, the seductress, to work her
evil charms. The fate of the world hangs on the
outcome of the next scene.
Speaker 8 (28:49):
Won't you come in?
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Oh don't you?
Speaker 6 (28:55):
My uh, my children are asleep and now thanks to you,
they will have milk tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Oh please say no more about it. I came across
this passage in the book and I just thought you
might like to hear it.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Oh, yes, oh, yes, yes, this is what I miss most,
just talking having my husband read to me.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
Explain to me.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
Your wife, she must be a fortunate woman to have
a man like you, well, to have a philosopher, a sage,
for a husband to live with wisdom every day.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Well, it was just this passage that I came across.
It says, it is truth that turns a hovel into
a palace, that makes a youth handsome and a maiden fair,
that transforms all the base metal within us into pure
and shy gold.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Hm.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Yes, And there is more than the truth we know.
There is the truth we feel, the truth that beats
in our hearts. Yes, the truth that pounds in our pulse.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
It's a little bit close in here, isn't it, Harry?
Speaker 6 (30:20):
There is this truth between you and me.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I think i'd.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Better go, Are you afraid?
Speaker 3 (30:29):
I just should have been home? A long time ago?
Speaker 8 (30:33):
Where is home, Harry? What is home?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Look, it's starting to rain.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
Home is where the truth abides.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
The moon was shining so brightly before.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
Oh, don't deny the truth, Harry.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
All of a sudden, where did it come from?
Speaker 8 (30:51):
Who were a hurry?
Speaker 6 (30:53):
Bold enough to speak the truth but too timid to
live it?
Speaker 8 (30:58):
Why are you afraid, Harry?
Speaker 3 (31:01):
I'm not afraid.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Then obey the command of your heart, your senses.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
What do they command you to do?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
You're so beautiful?
Speaker 8 (31:11):
Then, why are you afraid of me?
Speaker 6 (31:13):
Didn't the poet say beauty is truth? Yes, come to me,
Harry and learn the truth.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Yes, no, I know, so you know. I know who
you are.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
No, I know where there are coming from.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
A stry you came back here?
Speaker 5 (31:36):
You're back.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Where?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Another brilliant performance that gets us nowhere?
Speaker 8 (31:45):
My dear, I give up.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
He's all yours, Yes, Lily, he's all mine. He doesn't
know that yet, but soon he will be all mine.
I wish you luck, not luck skill. If you really
want a man, you work on his wife. And she
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has a brother, a wealthy brother, and tonight he will
have a dream.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
Ruth, Jacob, what are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Ruth, what you just said?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
It's a knife through my heart?
Speaker 8 (32:37):
What did I just say?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
He asked me what I'm doing here with such surprise
in your voice.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Well, yes, because because you never come.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Here, and that's my sin. I have one sister. I
never visit her. I never asked myself does she need anything?
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Jacob, Jacob, you'd better sit.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
Now.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Let me let me get you something to drink.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
A little soda, put a little syrup in it.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
You are sick.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
I really haven't been a good brother.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Yes, that's true, you haven't.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
But now I'm gonna make up for it. You are
my sister, my little sister. She isn't going to waste
her youth and her beauty in a candy store.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Jacob, you want to go in the back, maybe lie down, am.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
My brother in law.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Such a splendid person, a man with a heart of gold,
that's true, and a brain, such a brain. Em I'm
getting old.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I need help.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
I need a man, a brilliant man who can run
my business for me.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
A man like Harry.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
No, no, no, what you don't need is a man
like Harry.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Harry, what a wonderful person, A man and a million
Now he's ready for real responsibility.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I want Harry to become my right hand man.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
This is Jacob, my brother.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Send your husband to see me the first thing tomorrow morning. Harry.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Yes, it's Harry.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Did you go see my brother? Yes, Well we'll tell me.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
Did you ever suspect such a thing?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Look at you? You still in a daze? Yes. His house,
he lives in a palace.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
He has five bedrooms.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
He can only sleep in one of them at a time.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
Where do you want to live, Harry?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Live?
Speaker 8 (34:47):
Of course live.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
We're certainly not going to live in this neighborhood anymore.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Why not because we're going to sell the store.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Why are we going to sell the store?
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Why?
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Well?
Speaker 5 (35:01):
Because, huh, Harry, what did you and Jacob talk about?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
We talked about a job.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
And what happened?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
What happened? Well, I will the way it ended. He
threw me out of the house. What he lost his temper?
Speaker 4 (35:27):
What did you do?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
I didn't do anything?
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Did you say it?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Say anything? You know, Jacob, he has a very strong temper.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Marry, tell me everything started at the beginning.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Well, when I got there, he was already angry. Why
because I was late? You see, there was an old
man on the car and he was afraid to travel alone,
so I had to go to his stop with him.
And then just tell me, well, Jacob said he wanted
me to help him take care of his money. And
you said, I said, how wonderful.
Speaker 8 (35:58):
Oh, then you did take the job.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Well, what I said was what a wonderful opportunity to
help people?
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Help people?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Isn't that the best way to take care of money? Ruth?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Feed people who are hungry, clothes people, send an offan
child to school.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
I can see where we're going.
Speaker 8 (36:15):
He left.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
He thought it was a joke, and you imagine he said,
money isn't something you give to people.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Money is something you.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Take from.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
He wanted me to learn about.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Money by starting to collect rent. You and if a
person couldn't pay to put him out?
Speaker 4 (36:31):
No, now, now, now you wouldn't have to No.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I said I couldn't. And then he wanted he wanted
me to work in his store. Wh that's better, better, Ruth?
Speaker 5 (36:40):
He cheats people, Oh, dare you say that.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
About my charges? Too much? He doesn't give them right weight.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
So you're not taking the job, please.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Ruth, please please it Ruth.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Now she won't talk to me for a whole week.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Hello Harry, Hello doctor, how.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Are you fearing? Harry? Say anymore lamitvovniks lately?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I'm not please doctor, I don't feel so good right now.
Oh what's wrong? Oh?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
An argument with my wife?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
That's what I came to see her about.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
I got a letter from this specialist in Vienna, an
answer from this doctor Freud.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Very interesting.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yes, Now, why do you believe you became a lammitvovnik?
Why do I believe? I know the old man was
here the storm he died. Harry, you needed it, I
needed it. You manufactured it for your own self esteem?
Speaker 3 (37:43):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
It means you realize deep inside that you failed your wife.
I failed her all the things she wants. She can't
have clothes, fair parties, money, those things. They're not important
to you, But I mean so much to Rue. Isn't
it more important to help one's neighbor, and so to
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give importance to yourself to convince yourself that what you're
doing is right. You make it appear that if you
stop letting people walk all over here, then the world.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Will come to an end.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
But that isn't what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
It could look that way to somebody else besides Harry.
What makes you so sure you're the one who's right?
Come hello, Ruth, Ruth, Please talk to me, Ruth. Why
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are you handing me this piece of paper? Alice? Harry,
I will not talk to you until you go to
work for my brother and take your head out of
the clouds. All right, I'm going what tomorrow morning?
Speaker 3 (39:04):
I'm going, Harry.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
You don't mean it?
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Yes, yes, I mean it?
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Oh, Harry, Oh, we'll be so happy saying who am
I to judge?
Speaker 3 (39:16):
And yet I judge constantly?
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Where's it written that I, Harry Cone must starve on
a crust, freezing a cellar. Now I've spent the first
part of my life giving, I'll spend the rest of
it taking.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
Harry. What's the matter with you?
Speaker 9 (39:31):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Nothing's the matter?
Speaker 1 (39:33):
No, no, no, you won't fool me. The world isn't.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
Ending, Harry. What's the matter with your face?
Speaker 1 (39:40):
My face?
Speaker 3 (39:40):
My face so so hard?
Speaker 4 (39:44):
W Why do you look so mean? I don't like
that look.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Stop pooling myself. That's all what hurrogans to think.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
I'm one of the lords chosen rage, and I don't
believe you. The world will go on. I won't wait
until tomorrow. Go to No, the sooner the better. He's
a boon.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
You thinks he knows how to make money for us.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
He knows how to sweat penny's from a for.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
You know a drink?
Speaker 1 (40:10):
No watch, you want money? First, juice, whine?
Speaker 2 (40:14):
First wife will be a bigger woman.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Besides, you won't go.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Don't think I'm afraid of that song.
Speaker 6 (40:20):
Go me, I go.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Don't don't know.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
I don't want you to go.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
You watch.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
I don't like you this way.
Speaker 7 (40:28):
I don't want you this way. Oh, Harry, why do
I make you so miserable?
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Ruth? Why do I want to change you?
Speaker 4 (40:46):
I love you just the way you are, just the.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Way you are, Yes, Harry, One days and you will
understand you.
Speaker 8 (41:05):
Your wife will understand new.
Speaker 10 (41:09):
You're the sweetest person in the whole world. I I
don't care if you're not rich, if you're not important.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
I love you.
Speaker 6 (41:24):
Oh look, it's such a nice night.
Speaker 8 (41:28):
Go upstairs, get some rest, because you look tired.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Yes, Ruth, I am tired.
Speaker 4 (41:37):
You look at Harry so tired.
Speaker 10 (41:41):
You look as if the whole world is resting on
your shoulders.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
And according to what is written in one of the
old legends, the world is resting on Harry's shoulders. As
an additional thought, if a sudden storm should upset the
weather man's predictions for a beautiful day, remember someone of
thirty six people may be having a momentary lapse, because,
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after all, even the saintliest of humans still are human.
I'll be back shortly. You may pass him or her
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on the street without knowing it. You may look at
some insignificant, retiring, unimportant person and never know that he,
assisted by thirty five others, holds your fate, your life,
your world. We think the world is saved by the strong,
the mighty, the powerful, But no, they can't save it.
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They can only destroy it. Remember it is the meek
who not only inherit the earth, but maintain it as well.
Our cast included Ross Martin and Potoniac, Robert Harris, Carol Titel,
and Robert Dryden. The entire production was under the direction
of Hymon Brown. This is E. G. Marshall inviting you
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to return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure in
the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams. Fie
And now mystery theater. Come in Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm e. G.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Marshall, and I'm ready if you are for another mysterious
voyage through the shadowy mist of imagination. You ask what
is the world, and most people will answer the earth,
the universe. But isn't it true that for most people
the real world is a certain house on a definite
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street in a particular town. And for most people doesn't
the real world consist of perhaps a fifty or one
hundred or so faces? And isn't everything and everyone else
just a name in a newspaper, an image on a screen,
a voice speaking from a small box. Close your eyes,
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stop up your ears, and there is no world. I
have something to tell you, Harry. Yes, you have just
become the most powerful man in the world. Me. Yes,
you you, Harry Corn. You have just become more powerful
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than any dictator, king or zar might here, than any general,
emperor or present. You sure you feel all right? And
listen and that terrible storm outside. Yes, you can end
it by saying just one word, say yes, and the
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storm will be over.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You can't be serious.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Try it, Say yes and see what happens.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
All right?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
No, no, not all right? Yes, yes, What.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Did I Do? What Did I Do?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And our mystery drama The thirty sixth Man was written
especially for the Mystery theater by Sam Dan and stars
Ross Martin. Sometimes when we are particularly appalled by the
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flagrant evil, the unspeakable inhumanity, and the dark ignorance that
seems to engulf us constantly, we may ask ourselves, why
does the Lord permit this most imperfect planet to exist?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Why?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Perhaps the answer is written in the Old Hebrew legend,
which tells us that there are in every generation thirty
six human beings whose lives are completely without blemish, and
it is for their sake that the Lord allows the
world to continue. And since the Hebrew letters Lamed and
vov form the symbols for the number thirty six, these
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persons are called Lamed Vovniks. And so long as there
will always be thirty six of these saintly people in
each generation, the world shall not be lost. Our tale
begins in the opening years of the nineteen hundreds, down
on the Lower East side of New York City in
a tiny candy store. Ariy, where are you aary Ruth?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I was down in the cellar.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Oh, you were down in the cellar.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I was putting away the empty bottles, and.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Why you're downstairs?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Anybody could come in and walk away with the whole store, Oh, Ruth.
The people in this neighborhood are honest.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Is that why we're always short newspapers?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Well maybe when we count them, we don't add and.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
The candy bars disappear off the counter by magic.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, you know sometimes it could be our mistake.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Please give me.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Is the eye, the human eye, It very often.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Deceives the person. Sometimes you think you see enough? Ruth?
Are you angry?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Who me angry? What would I have to be angry about?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Just trying to explain that?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Don't whatever you say, It'll be wrong and I'll lose
my temper. I don't want to do that, so just
just keep quiet.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I know how much you hate this place, Ruth. If
you want, I can stay here by myself. Oh sure,
I don't want you to come in the afternoons anymore.
After all, why shouldn't you be free?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Uh huh, thank you, thank you so much for my
wonderful freedom. Mister Enrico Caruso and miss Nellie Melba are
singing at the Metropolitan Opera.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Now I'm free to use.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Our box sink, Ruth.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
I wish I could afford something, and afterwards I'll be
free to join mister Diamond, Jim Brady and miss Lily
and Russell for supperate.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Corrected.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Please, Ruth, don't just stand there. Bring in the newspapers
with you.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Why can't you hear?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Why the sun?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
The sun was shining so brightly just a minute ago.
It just torn holly before we lose all the papers?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yes, you're right, I'm going.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I'm going here here, hand them to me.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Why such a storm all of us?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
The door, shut the door.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Oh look at these papers.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Look at the comic pages.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Oh half of them torn, dirty finger marks everywhere. Now,
how can we sell? Did you let the kids read
the funny papers?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Again?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Well?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Did you, Ruth? Most of these children can't afford to
buy a new school.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Do you think you are mister Andrew Carnegie?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
How many times I have to tell.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
You we're not running a free public library.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
No, get your head out of the clouds, Ruth.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Please, you can't give away a whole quart of milk
and a five cent more.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I know that, So if you know, why do you
do it?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
These children are so poor?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Nobody's as poor as we are.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Kids shouldn't grow up without a piece of candy now
and then a toy of funny paper. But if you
can only hear how the kids laugh when they look
at the funny pages.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Where do you get this from?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
This sickness is so happy you don't even notice how thin, how.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Scrawny they craziness.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
It doesn't run in your family. Your brothers are sensible,
they're rich.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Important, Ruth. Everything will be all right. You'll see where
you're going.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
To look through the bills.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
I don't know why there's no money to pay them.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, yeah, it isn't easy, is it to know? Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't hear anyone come in?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Hello Harry?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
You say my name is If you.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Know me, I've been looking for you, Harry.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Why would anybody be looking for me? After all? Who
I am?
Speaker 6 (07:31):
On?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
It's been such a long trip and I'm so tired.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Please sit down.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Can offer you a little something, milk or something. Let
me look at you, Harry.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
You're very pale.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
You're trembling, mister, are you sick? Let me see if
what they said about you is true. There's a doctor
just up the block. I think it's true, it doesn't
charge much. If you don't have enough money, maybe I
can help all right, I'm very old, Harry. My time
is after all? What a talk. I'll take you to
this dark but I can't. I can't leave this world
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until I find somebody to take my place. Do you understand?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Pooh man, what's troubling?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Harry? Just tell me. Assure me that you'll always be
just the way you are right now? Tell me you must?
Will you take my place?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
See?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Marry?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
You have to chew the fat with every old.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
One that walks in the sirup jars have.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
To be washed, yes, Ruth, I'll do it.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
And you, mister bomb, this is no flophouse on your way.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
Who who are you?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I'm one of the thirty six, the thirty six. There
must always be thirty six of us. So the world
is lost, comes to an end, and you sit here.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It'll only take a minute.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I get the doctor. Each of us before he dies
must name the man to succeed him. I choose you
here first.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
You drink this?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Huh? You look very you accept You must try to
be calm because I'm dying and I have no successor
the world. The world is ending here and now the
world is ending.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
No, no, no, everything's all I tell you.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
The world is ending. Eh No, look look outside. Have
never seen a storm like this, have you? It will
destroy the whole world?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Is eight when it's not good for the.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
World, It's lost. Unless there is a new thirty six
man take my place. He must do it quickly, quickly
as well.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I think you don't try to get up.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Please say yes, Harry, say yes. And suddenly there is
an end to thunder and lightning, the wind. Suddenly every
cloud will disappear, a bright sun will shine in a
peaceful heaven. Just rest not try to say yes. Only
you can save the world. Say yes, me me save
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the world. Yes, you owe me, you can save the world. Harry, Harry,
say yes, Harry, Yes, Yes, all right, yes, all right now, yes,
now it's all right. Listen. I don't hear anything that's right.
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You don't hear. The storm that was sent to destroy
the world stopped in its tracks because of you, stopped
because you just became the thirty sixth man.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Fine, fine, Now let me take you to the doctor.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
He must always be thirty six, and you must never change.
Before I die, I have the power to grant my
successor one request, ask for anything, ask what what do
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you really want in this world? Oh? I would want
for people to have enough? No, no, no, no, this
must be for yourself. What would you really want?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
What I'd really want?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
If it could somehow be arranged, it would be wonderful
if my wife, Ruth, well, if she just understood me
a little better, Is it all right to ask for that?
That's all you want? That's really all I want? Then
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one day she shall one day, when you least expect it,
she will suddenly understand you. Now, goodbye, Harry, I must leave.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Look at you. You can't even walk.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I need not be able to walk in order to
leave this world. Helena me, Ruth, Ruth, quick help me, Ruth.
Good Bye, lahmade of Olney. Good Bye.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
The old man, the old man. We have to help
the old man, the old man.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Harry, Harry, listen to me.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Listen to the doctor.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Doctor. Yes, he's the doctor.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
This is very old man. My store a doctor.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
No, no, no, no, Harry, we're in the store right now. Now,
your wife says, you keep shouting for help.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Now, what happened?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
It was an old man?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
What old man?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
He fell to the floor.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
He said, he was staying. Are you are yell for
you to help me?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
There was no old man, but you saw him. I
saw him, Yes, you saw him. You asked him to
leave the store.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
When was this?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
When?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Five ten minutes ago?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Are you sure you I'm imagining all this, Harry?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Why should I suddenly.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Say it's too hard? Doctor?
Speaker 5 (13:16):
He doesn't get enough skap, he forgets to eat.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
You mean that there was no old man?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Where is he?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Have you seen so? Just like a real person. We
talked to each other, and he just fell dead on
the floor.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
If he fell dead, Harry, where is he?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Doctor?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Did you ever hear of the lumb at vovniks? Yes,
the old man said he was a lum atvovnik.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
The old man again, he.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Had chosen me as his successor.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Harry.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
It was a hallucination. You thought you saw him. No, no, no,
I I saw him. He was real to you. He
was in that chair. He was real, He was in
your mind. There are new things, Harry, An entirely new
dimension of the mind is being opened, explored. I wonder
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what that doctor Freud would say. Who there's a doctor
Freud in Vienna. Something new? He's what they call a
mind doctor. I wonder what he would say about your
old man. What could he say? He's never seen him.
I think I'll write to this doctor Freud. He's involved
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with everything that happens inside the mind. The old man
wasn't inside my mind. He was inside the store. No, Harry,
I know what I saw.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Why are you arguing with a doctor.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
You can't even run your own business. You're trying to
tell him all about his Look all.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I'm trying to say, Mind what you say?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Does the doctor say there was no old man?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Yes, but there was no old man and that's.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
The end of it.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
She can say that, But you and I we know
that isn't the end of it. No, sir, If anything,
it's only the beginning. You will have to give the
devil his due, and I mean that literally. When I
shall return shortly with that two on the Lower East
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Side of New York City has just succeeded a dying
member of the group, thus keeping the roster at the
required thirty six. Ruth, his wife, refuses to take Harry seriously. However,
there's always a first time for everything, and right now
Harry is a up keeper on the Lower East Side
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of New York City has just succeeded a dying member
of the group, thus keeping the roster at the required
thirty six. Ruth, his wife, refuses to take Harry seriously. However,
there's always a first time for everything, and right now
Harry is about to be taken very seriously, indeed by Well,
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since you would never guess, I'll come right out with it,
the devil.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
You don't believe it, I can prove it.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
The very next voice you'll hear will be Satan himself. Yes,
who I suppose you might just as well let her
come in. Prince, don't use that he is hating title.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Well, I can't very well call you the king of
the universe. You're only the Prince of darkness so far,
your district captain in New York. Here's that the new
Islaminvovnik is in its territory. So well, it might present
you with a quick way to destroy the world.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
There is no quick way. Slow and steady is how
to go. Now, in eight or ten years, I'm arranging
for a wall.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
There have always been wars.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Ah, but this will be a world war.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Oh you've had those before.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Ah, but not with these weapons. Oh, the weapons they'll
have this time now. In about a year, there's going
to be an invention called the aeroplane, a machine that
flies through the sky. You can drop bombs from it,
destroy entire cities. I'm going to let them invent weapons
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so awful that one man will be able.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
To It's always been your problem.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
What problem?
Speaker 8 (18:01):
You're gadget happy?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Now?
Speaker 6 (18:04):
I have a simple plan whereby you can destroy the world.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
This very afternoon. You have the newest lamad Vovnik.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Yes, just help him fall from grace as it were impossible.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
No one has ever been able to get a lamed vovnik.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
You never asked me to help.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Your specialty is wasted. They're mostly elderly men. Long ago
they abandoned the pursuit of earthly pleasure, or maybe it
abandoned them.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
This new one is young, young, I even think he's handsome.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh well, this places everything in a brand new perspective.
Are you seducing anybody important these days?
Speaker 8 (18:57):
Oh? Couple of kings? If you pray some generals.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
And let's go after this one. And what's his name again?
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Harry Harry Cohen, Harry.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Harry Cohen, Oh, yes, Ruth, what are you doing there?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I was just reading a book.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Oh that's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Oh, yes, Ruth is wonderful. It's a book about bees. Bees.
This is a new filix shows how bees talk to
each other. Be's talk by the way they dance around
each other. You may just think it's aimless, buzzing around
without rhyme or reason. But every motion means something.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
And while you've got your nose buried in that book,
anybody can come in and walk off with.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
A whole store.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
No, Ruth, I was watching.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Listen, I have to go see my brother.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Oh all right, say hello to him from.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Oh no, the very mention of your name gives him indigestion.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Now just tell me.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Can I trust you not to give away the storm
while I'm gone?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Ruthe no, no, don't answer. I'll just have to pray
for a miracle.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Ruth, m I just wish I could make her happy.
There it is Lily Thaidia, the shop of Harry Coin.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
You're gonna hang around for the kill, Prince.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I still say you're not going about it in the
right way.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Tell you what you do, Prince.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
You go get yourself an umbrella, cause in five minutes
there's gonna be the biggest storm in the history of
the world.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
So hello, Harry, Yes, what can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Did anyone ever tell you how handsome you are?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
No?
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Well, you just listen to mama. Harry.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Well, they never told me because it isn't true.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I mean, why should people tell me I'm handsome?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
As my father used to say, his face is not
aspat you.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Just come here, Harry, Honey, listen.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I'm afraid I don't know your name. Lily, Honey, Lily,
I don't have very much money.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Money, No, how sweet you said anything about money.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Maybe I can help you, help me, Yes, if you
need a few dollars, so that you can, so that
you can, so I can watch, so that you can quit, quit,
quit this life you lead.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
Just wait a minute, Harry, Billie, I.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Don't judge people. After all, which person has the right?
All we can do is help one another right.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
And say, who do you think you're talking?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Know who I'm talking to? A child of misfortune, a
child of sorry.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Fault.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Something tells me it's not your fault. Maybe you didn't
have parents, Maybe there was no one to love you,
no one to teach you.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
Why not enjoy life?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Harry, Yes, exactly, life is so short. What better way
to enjoy it than by helping another human being?
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Harry, we could have such a good time, you and me.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
A few dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
It's not much, but it's all I have you.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
Taken, Harry, Harry, you're not listening.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
First, wash all the paint and powder off your face,
and then buy yourself some nice clothes and get yourself
a job.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
There's a factory right down the street. They make sure it.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
Goes Harry, Harry, let me explain.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
They always need girls. That's not what I change your
whole life. You'll feel better.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Take the money, get.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
A new saw. Are you afraid to break with the past,
foolish girl? The good Lord is so filled with love,
with forgiveness.
Speaker 9 (23:15):
Here let me here.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Well, I don't see a cloud in the sky.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
That man isn't human.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Ah, but he is his and that's why we will
do this my way. Now, get rid of those clothes,
get an old black dress, a torn black shawl. Put
some white in your hair, some lines in your face.
You'll be a poor widow lady, and make sure that
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butter doesn't melt in your mouth.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
The prince, and don't call me prince, excuse me, Oh.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I'm sorry I didn't see you.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
How much for these candies?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Those? They're two for a penny?
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Oh well I would need four because there's Joey and
Sarah and Tessy and Benny and oh never, thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Don't you want the candy?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Well?
Speaker 6 (24:25):
No, no, because I can only spare one penny, you see,
otherwise I won't be able to buy milk.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
You mean you can't spare a penny for candy?
Speaker 8 (24:36):
Well, well not this week?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Here you take this now?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Take Oh no? Why not?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Well because because it's charity.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
And charity what.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
A beautiful word.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
It really means love, you know, it's what people should
do for each other.
Speaker 8 (24:51):
Oh I'm sorry, Sarah. I have my pride.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Four little children. Shouldn't each of them have a piece
of candy?
Speaker 6 (24:58):
No?
Speaker 8 (24:58):
Not unless I could afford it.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Why should they pay for your pride?
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I take it?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Come on, just take it.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Well you knew I haven't seen you before.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Well, I just moved across the street, top floor. Oh
what's that book on the counter. It looks familiar. Well
do you read well, no, no, my husband did before
he died.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Huh it's a book on philosophy.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Oh yes, that sounds like what he used to read.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Have been an educated man.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Oh yes, he was a man like you, very kind,
very intelligent. Oh he would come home from work at
night and he would read to me from the Philosophy book.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
Oh that's what I miss so much.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Well, bye, goodbye.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Where's the record for the setup?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I forgot to keep it?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
What do you do all day that you can't keep.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
The simplest figures? I'm sorry, I'll try to do better
those books.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
That's what you're busy with this John, garbage, garbage, nonsense
in any of these books? Is there even one word
that can tell you how to make a dollar?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Ruth?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
It is written, man does not live by bread alone.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
I'll make a bargain with you, mister philosopher. You live
on books and I'll live on bread, and we'll see
who lives longest.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Let me read you something beautiful from Philosophy. Here.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Listen to me.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
No, no, you listen.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
You go home, you eat your supper, you go to sleep,
because six o'clock tomorrow morning you have to be here
to open the store.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
But Ruth, I just want to read this to you.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
All I want in this life is a little peace
and quiet.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
This is such a beautiful thought. I have to share
it with somebody.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
Leave me alone, will you please?
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I share too much with you as it.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Is just a minute. Good evening, Oh, good evening.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I uh, I brought a bottle of milk for your children.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Oh, oh, you're so kind.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Well, it's not.
Speaker 8 (27:25):
It's everything.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
And there's this paragraph and in a book of philosophy
that I I I'd like to read to you.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
Oh well, oh, won't you come in?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Won't you come in? Never did so devious a spider
speak such honeyed words to so and unsuspecting a fly.
And the battle is on the ceaseless, the eternal battle
between the forces of good and evil. I'll be back
shortly with Act three. You know, of course, that the
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old Jewish legend tells that the Lord allows this sinful
world to continue only because in each generation there are
thirty six saintly souls called Lamedvovnik's. Should there ever be
one less than this required number, the world will be
immediately destroyed. Satan, unfortunately, is also aware of the situation,
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and he has sent Lilith, the seductress, to work her
evil charms. The fate of the world hangs on the
outcome of the next scene.
Speaker 8 (28:49):
Won't you come in?
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Oh don't you?
Speaker 6 (28:55):
My uh, my children are asleep and now thanks to you,
they will have milk tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Oh please say no more about it. I came across
this passage in the book and I just thought you
might like to hear it.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Oh, yes, oh, yes, yes, this is what I miss most,
just talking having my husband read to me.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
Explain to me.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
Your wife, she must be a fortunate woman to have
a man like you, well, to have a philosopher, a sage,
for a husband to live with wisdom every day.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Well, it was just this passage that I came across.
It says, it is truth that turns a hovel into
a palace, that makes a youth handsome and a maiden fair,
that transforms all the base metal within us into pure
and shy gold.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Hm.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Yes, And there is more than the truth we know.
There is the truth we feel, the truth that beats
in our hearts. Yes, the truth that pounds in our pulse.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
It's a little bit close in here, isn't it, Harry?
Speaker 6 (30:20):
There is this truth between you and me.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I think i'd.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Better go, Are you afraid?
Speaker 3 (30:29):
I just should have been home? A long time ago?
Speaker 8 (30:33):
Where is home, Harry? What is home?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Look, it's starting to rain.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
Home is where the truth abides.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
The moon was shining so brightly before.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
Oh, don't deny the truth, Harry.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
All of a sudden, where did it come from?
Speaker 8 (30:51):
Who were a hurry?
Speaker 6 (30:53):
Bold enough to speak the truth but too timid to
live it?
Speaker 8 (30:58):
Why are you afraid, Harry?
Speaker 3 (31:01):
I'm not afraid.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Then obey the command of your heart, your senses.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
What do they command you to do?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
You're so beautiful?
Speaker 8 (31:11):
Then, why are you afraid of me?
Speaker 6 (31:13):
Didn't the poet say beauty is truth? Yes, come to me,
Harry and learn the truth.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Yes, no, I know, so you know. I know who
you are.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
No, I know where there are coming from.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
A stry you came back here?
Speaker 5 (31:36):
You're back.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Where?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Another brilliant performance that gets us nowhere?
Speaker 8 (31:45):
My dear, I give up.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
He's all yours, Yes, Lily, he's all mine. He doesn't
know that yet, but soon he will be all mine.
I wish you luck, not luck skill. If you really
want a man, you work on his wife. And she
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has a brother, a wealthy brother, and tonight he will
have a dream.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
Ruth, Jacob, what are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Ruth, what you just said?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
It's a knife through my heart?
Speaker 8 (32:37):
What did I just say?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
He asked me what I'm doing here with such surprise
in your voice.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Well, yes, because because you never come.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Here, and that's my sin. I have one sister. I
never visit her. I never asked myself does she need anything?
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Jacob, Jacob, you'd better sit.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
Now.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Let me let me get you something to drink.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
A little soda, put a little syrup in it.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
You are sick.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
I really haven't been a good brother.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Yes, that's true, you haven't.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
But now I'm gonna make up for it. You are
my sister, my little sister. She isn't going to waste
her youth and her beauty in a candy store.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Jacob, you want to go in the back, maybe lie down, am.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
My brother in law.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Such a splendid person, a man with a heart of gold,
that's true, and a brain, such a brain. Em I'm
getting old.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I need help.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
I need a man, a brilliant man who can run
my business for me.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
A man like Harry.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
No, no, no, what you don't need is a man
like Harry.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Harry, what a wonderful person, A man and a million
Now he's ready for real responsibility.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I want Harry to become my right hand man.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
This is Jacob, my brother.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Send your husband to see me the first thing tomorrow morning. Harry.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Yes, it's Harry.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Did you go see my brother? Yes, Well we'll tell me.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
Did you ever suspect such a thing?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Look at you? You still in a daze? Yes. His house,
he lives in a palace.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
He has five bedrooms.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
He can only sleep in one of them at a time.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
Where do you want to live, Harry?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Live?
Speaker 8 (34:47):
Of course live.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
We're certainly not going to live in this neighborhood anymore.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Why not because we're going to sell the store.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Why are we going to sell the store?
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Why?
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Well?
Speaker 5 (35:01):
Because, huh, Harry, what did you and Jacob talk about?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
We talked about a job.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
And what happened?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
What happened? Well, I will the way it ended. He
threw me out of the house. What he lost his temper?
Speaker 4 (35:27):
What did you do?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
I didn't do anything?
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Did you say it?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Say anything? You know, Jacob, he has a very strong temper.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Marry, tell me everything started at the beginning.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Well, when I got there, he was already angry. Why
because I was late? You see, there was an old
man on the car and he was afraid to travel alone,
so I had to go to his stop with him.
And then just tell me, well, Jacob said he wanted
me to help him take care of his money. And
you said, I said, how wonderful.
Speaker 8 (35:58):
Oh, then you did take the job.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Well, what I said was what a wonderful opportunity to
help people?
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Help people?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Isn't that the best way to take care of money? Ruth?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Feed people who are hungry, clothes people, send an offan
child to school.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
I can see where we're going.
Speaker 8 (36:15):
He left.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
He thought it was a joke, and you imagine he said,
money isn't something you give to people.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Money is something you.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Take from.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
He wanted me to learn about.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Money by starting to collect rent. You and if a
person couldn't pay to put him out?
Speaker 4 (36:31):
No, now, now, now you wouldn't have to No.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I said I couldn't. And then he wanted he wanted
me to work in his store. Wh that's better, better, Ruth?
Speaker 5 (36:40):
He cheats people, Oh, dare you say that.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
About my charges? Too much? He doesn't give them right weight.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
So you're not taking the job, please.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Ruth, please please it Ruth.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Now she won't talk to me for a whole week.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Hello Harry, Hello doctor, how.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Are you fearing? Harry? Say anymore lamitvovniks lately?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I'm not please doctor, I don't feel so good right now.
Oh what's wrong? Oh?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
An argument with my wife?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
That's what I came to see her about.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
I got a letter from this specialist in Vienna, an
answer from this doctor Freud.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Very interesting.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yes, Now, why do you believe you became a lammitvovnik?
Why do I believe? I know the old man was
here the storm he died. Harry, you needed it, I
needed it. You manufactured it for your own self esteem?
Speaker 3 (37:43):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
It means you realize deep inside that you failed your wife.
I failed her all the things she wants. She can't
have clothes, fair parties, money, those things. They're not important
to you, But I mean so much to Rue. Isn't
it more important to help one's neighbor, and so to
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give importance to yourself to convince yourself that what you're
doing is right. You make it appear that if you
stop letting people walk all over here, then the world.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Will come to an end.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
But that isn't what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
It could look that way to somebody else besides Harry.
What makes you so sure you're the one who's right?
Come hello, Ruth, Ruth, Please talk to me, Ruth. Why
(38:44):
are you handing me this piece of paper? Alice? Harry,
I will not talk to you until you go to
work for my brother and take your head out of
the clouds. All right, I'm going what tomorrow morning?
Speaker 3 (39:04):
I'm going, Harry.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
You don't mean it?
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Yes, yes, I mean it?
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Oh, Harry, Oh, we'll be so happy saying who am
I to judge?
Speaker 3 (39:16):
And yet I judge constantly?
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Where's it written that I, Harry Cone must starve on
a crust, freezing a cellar. Now I've spent the first
part of my life giving, I'll spend the rest of
it taking.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
Harry. What's the matter with you?
Speaker 9 (39:31):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Nothing's the matter?
Speaker 1 (39:33):
No, no, no, you won't fool me. The world isn't.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
Ending, Harry. What's the matter with your face?
Speaker 1 (39:40):
My face?
Speaker 3 (39:40):
My face so so hard?
Speaker 4 (39:44):
W Why do you look so mean? I don't like
that look.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Stop pooling myself. That's all what hurrogans to think.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
I'm one of the lords chosen rage, and I don't
believe you. The world will go on. I won't wait
until tomorrow. Go to No, the sooner the better. He's
a boon.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
You thinks he knows how to make money for us.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
He knows how to sweat penny's from a for.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
You know a drink?
Speaker 1 (40:10):
No watch, you want money? First, juice, whine?
Speaker 2 (40:14):
First wife will be a bigger woman.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Besides, you won't go.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Don't think I'm afraid of that song.
Speaker 6 (40:20):
Go me, I go.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Don't don't know.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
I don't want you to go.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
You watch.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
I don't like you this way.
Speaker 7 (40:28):
I don't want you this way. Oh, Harry, why do
I make you so miserable?
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Ruth? Why do I want to change you?
Speaker 4 (40:46):
I love you just the way you are, just the.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Way you are, Yes, Harry, One days and you will
understand you.
Speaker 8 (41:05):
Your wife will understand new.
Speaker 10 (41:09):
You're the sweetest person in the whole world. I I
don't care if you're not rich, if you're not important.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
I love you.
Speaker 6 (41:24):
Oh look, it's such a nice night.
Speaker 8 (41:28):
Go upstairs, get some rest, because you look tired.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Yes, Ruth, I am tired.
Speaker 4 (41:37):
You look at Harry so tired.
Speaker 10 (41:41):
You look as if the whole world is resting on
your shoulders.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
And according to what is written in one of the
old legends, the world is resting on Harry's shoulders. As
an additional thought, if a sudden storm should upset the
weather man's predictions for a beautiful day, remember someone of
thirty six people may be having a momentary lapse, because,
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after all, even the saintliest of humans still are human.
I'll be back shortly. You may pass him or her
(42:35):
on the street without knowing it. You may look at
some insignificant, retiring, unimportant person and never know that he,
assisted by thirty five others, holds your fate, your life,
your world. We think the world is saved by the strong,
the mighty, the powerful, But no, they can't save it.
(42:58):
They can only destroy it. Remember it is the meek
who not only inherit the earth, but maintain it as well.
Our cast included Ross Martin and Potoniac, Robert Harris, Carol Titel,
and Robert Dryden. The entire production was under the direction
of Hymon Brown. This is E. G. Marshall inviting you
(43:21):
to return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure in
the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams. Fie
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