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The Columbia Workshop, under the directionof Irving Leech. Ladies and gentlemen,
the Columbia Workshop offered a fifteenth programin the series devoted to experimental radio.
Some two months ago we offered youon the Workshop a radio version of the
first two acts of Hamlin by WilliamShakespeare. The response from our listening audience

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was instantaneous and highly flattering, somuch so that tonight they go on to
send it to play. Would youenjoy the drama? If you believe actor
Tonight's performance, that Shakespeare to becomea regular feature on radio, write to
us and sato, we are eagerto have this gauge of radio public opinions
to Night's version of Hamlet, likethat of some weeks ago, is the

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work of Orson Wells, who alsoplays the role of Hamlet. And now
we take pleasure in introducing to youin person mister Orton Wells. In our
previous broadcast we concerned ourselves with establishinghis causes that led to Hamlet's tragedy,
in especial the revelation by the ghostof his father's murder by Hamlet's own uncle,

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who is now the King of Denmark. This and the knowledge that his
mother had remarried immediately has left Hamleta creature mad for revenge. Assuming,
as he calls it, an antiquedisposition, Hamlet clocks to trap the scene
into an open confession of guilt.The arrival of strolling players at the court
has provided the messageary meanings. Hamletarranges that are performance be given, duplicating

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the circumstance of his father's death.The plays the Things, wherein I'll catch
the conscience of the king. Theplays the Things when I'll catch the conscience
of the kings. It is thenight of the play. The hall of

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the castle has been arranged for performance, and in a moment, of course
will assemble. The blare of trumpetswill announce the arrival of the King and
queens, with Colonius, the King'scounselor, and his daughter appear. In
a moment display of Hamlet's contriving willbegin. But now for an instant we
find him giving some last minute adviceto the players. Speak the speech I

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pray you as I pronounced it toyou, tripping me on the tudle.
But if you mow that, there'smany of our players to try it.
To beat the town crier spoke mylife. Nor do not saw the air
too much with your hands, butuse our jestice I warrant your honor,
or be not too paying neither,but let your own discretion to your tutor.

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Oh, there be prayers that Ihave seen play, But neither having
the accent of Christians, nor thegait of Christian pagan, nor man have
so strutted and bellowed that I havethought some of nature's journeymen had made men
and not made them well, theyimitated humanity so abominably. I hope we
are in reform that indifferently with us, Oh, reform it altogether. Go

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you make ready, Horatio, Yeswe lord, at your service. There
is a play tonight before the king. One scene of it comes near the
circumstance which I have told thee ofmy father's death. Observe mine uncle,
Well, well he's coming to theplay. Get your pay, your magity.

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How pairs are cousin Hamlet e syllogrifaithof the chameleon fish, I eat
the air, promise Crams you cannotsee cap and so I have nothing but
the fans Hamlet, Who's words ona mind mine now polonious to the players.
Ready, I see for your pitch, sit you their opinions, fair
opedia, you are, my lord. What should a man do but be

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merry to look you how cheerfully?My mother looks, and my father died
within me two hours. Nay,he's twice two months, my lord,
too long. We shall know aboutthese fellows for us and for out here.

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Stooping to your clement, say wethank you're hearing patiously full thirty times
have fevers caps on wrong Neptune saltwalk and tell us all but Graham since
love of and I'm indeed and unitecommutuo in most sacred stands. So many

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jaily made the fun and moon makesagain now the word their love be gone.
Day I must leave they love,and shortly to my operant powers their
functions, leave to do, andthou shalt live, Oh, come pound
the rest God love must leave besleazing the mydlm and second husband let me

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be a curse. Noe wes thesecond? But who killed the third?
Warm wood? Wo So think thouwilt no second husband wit? But die?
I thought when I first lord isdead, both here and hence shall
kill me lovely joy if one's awidow. Ever I be white is deeply

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swarmed. Sweet believe me here awhilenice, fierce growdell, and saying I
will beguile a tedious day with sleep, Please love thy brain. I never
Ladham. I'd like to play ladyprotecting much? Oh you keep a word?

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What do you call the place?The mousetrap verry? How tropically this
play is the image of a murderdone in Vienna, Blast and that drum
distance. This one is Luciana's nephewto kill the sea. He poisoned him
in the garden for the steep.The story's extension riches twice The canyon shoe

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Man. How the murderer gets thelove of Gonzago's white of all the place,
writing with forse fire, Why herego week and call it play?
What's come with watch? Why comewith sleep? Go run the world away?

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It is now the very witching timeof night when churchyards yawned and fell
itself breathe out contagions this world?Now? Could I drink hot blood and
do such bitter business as the daywould quake? To look on him lost?

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How to my mother? The realizationof his crime has been re enacted
up all the entire court, underthe guise of an evening's entertainment, has
completely unnerved the King. He seesthere can be no peace for him while
Hamlet remains in Denmark. So ina desperate moves, he arranges that Hamlet

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shall be sent to England and secretlyput to death in his chamber. The
King, torn by conscience, attemptsto pray Hamlet, passing on his way
to the Queen's apartment, observes thekneeling figure. Now might I do it?
Pat now he's present, Oh,fire Pence's ranks. It smells to

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heaven. You have the primal eldestcurse upon a brother's murder. Oh what
form of prayer can serve my turn? Help angels make us say bow,
stubborn knees, all may be well? And now I don't tell him?

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So am I revenged? He ishigher and salary not revenge. He took
my father grossly full of bread,with all his crimes broad flown as flush
as may, And I then revengeto take him in the purging of his
soul when he is fit and seasonedfor his package. No absort and no

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Thou'm a hurrident when he is drunkasleep pouring his rage. It's a gaming
swearing here about the fact that haveno relish or salvation. Then trip him
that his he may kick at heavenand that his soul may be as damned
as black as hell. Where doit goes? My mother's say good to

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you? Who's there? Hello?Letting straight? Now? Look you lay
home to him? Tell him hisfather in too broader? I hear him.
Come, I hide behind the sayris, I convey myself to hear the
process. What's the matter? Hemless? Thou hast thy father? Mutt?

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Mother? You have my father muchoffended? Hell? Now hands have you
forgotten me? No? By therude? Not so you are the queen
your husband brother's wife. Would wenot so you are my mother? Nay?
Then I said, those tears thatcan speak calm, Come and sit
you down on a budge, goingnot till I set you up a glass

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before you may see the inmost partof you that was not messing. Help
a rat dead for a decade,Hey, I know it's the king,
a bloody a bloody death, almosta fat good mother. Let's kill a

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king and marry with his brother.Kill a king, all right, lady,
what's my word? You wretched?Including food that will I took people

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that desert me wringing of your head. He sets you down and lets you
wring your heart. So I shareit that he made a penetral stop it,
damn it custom of my breast.It so that it's the proof and
bulwark again, chances, what haveI done without death? Wagged thy tongue.
Night rode against such an act thatblurred the grace and flush of modesty,

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calls virtue hypocrite, takes off therose from the bare forheat of an
innocent love, and set the breakof air. I me, what act
the lord so loud and thundered inthe indepth. Look here upon this picture,
and on this the counterfeit presentment oftwo brothers. See what a grace

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was seated on this brow. Hyperion'scured the front of joke himself, and
I like Mars to threaten and commanda station like the herald mercury new lighted
on a heaven kissing us worth yourhusband, Look you now, what follows

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here is your husband? Let amillion dear blacking your hoodsome brothers and you,
why put you on this pale mountain? Leaves to feet and fatten on
these more. And you why youplotoll it love for a chry say?
And the blood is tame, it'shumble, and it's winked upon the judgment,

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And what judgment? What step fromdeath? You there? Oh ten,
think the more that tense man eyesinto my very tone, and there
I see that black and grain isfat as will not leave their teeth.

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A murderer and a villain, aslave. But it's not twentieth part the
tithe of your forgeaten lore, athing of friends and patches. H And
how only were your wings you heavenGod? What were your gracious figures?

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Mm? Hmmm do you not comeyour tribes? Son told child less?
How is with you? Did youdo? Then your eye on vacant you?
Why look you there? Look itsteals away my father, you cann't

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lived, not very close even nowout of the parcel. This is a
very clineage of your brain, mother, or love of breakway, not that
flackering unction into your soul, butnot your bress, but my madness peak
it will but skin and film theultimate place, while frank corruption mining all
within the text, contem and setyourself to heaven, oh hamless, thou

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hast blest my heart in train,or throw away the worst part of it,
and live the purer with the otherhands. Good man, But growing
up to my uncle's death, assumea virtue if you've had it not.

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But when you are desirous to beblessed, I will blessing the goods you
gain, be less. I mustbe cruel, iver, be kind,
Be thou assured. If words bemade of breath and breath of life,

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I have no life to Breathe whatthou hast said to you, I'm not
swing them. You'll know that,alike I had forgot. He's so concluded
on, good Lord. Thus Hamletleaves his mother, hoping his words have
had the desire that text. Butthe Queen, after her son's converse with

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an unseen spirit, is now moreconvinced than ever that Hamlet is mad.
She reports her conclusions to the king, who speedily commands that Hamlet shall leave
at once for England. And soHamlet is banished from Denmark. But the
peast for which the king has prayedis not to come. The murder of
Polonius proves the mainspring of greater andmore tragic events the rest of our father,

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Ophelia goes insane. The Danish peopleare stirred almost to rebellion, and
finally, with the return of Laites, the son of Polonius, they are
provided with the necessary leader. Nowthe ravel has risen, and led by
Laiaites, toms the cattle in whichthe king and queen have secluded themselves.
Suddenly the doors break open and Ladiesappears as the head of them. Up

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where is and you? I thankyou? Leave keep it all? Oh,
oh vile king, give me myfather. Tell me Lacy why the
lost us? And ten I cango get big and where is my father?

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But not by him? How camehe said? I want big uncles
if I am kill less of yourfather's death, to tell us level for
your judgment there and chase us foryour life. Oh no, what noise
is that? Is it? Youjust legacy of How do you? Pretty

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lady will gather? Huh? Theysaid? The old make his daughter?
Oh hate, dry up my brain, there's seven times, so turn out
the tents and virtue of my eyesyear made kind sister sweet of Felia,
Oh that it is possible a youngmaid's which should be as mortal as an

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old Any life why there's route me. That's the remembrance. There's room for
you, and here's some for me. We may call it every grade this
Sunday. Oh, you must wearyour room with a difference. I would
give you some violence, but theywill it all. When my father dies,

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God would mess you on the storeand on all good Christians stouls.
I'll take a don't oh, ohand soul fear before her brother's eyes drifts
from the castle to die a suicideby drowning. Meantime, Hamlet's, unaware

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of what has happened in his absence, has managed to escape the king's plots
to have him murdered, and hassecretly returned to Denmark. We find him
once more with the ratio in achurchyard. Nearby. A great digger sings
that it will who has this fellowno feeling of his business ratio, with

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his things and grave, making customthat made it an even the property of
easiness. I would figure this fellowwhose grave, fellow mine, sir?
I think it be thine, indeed, for thou liest in it, and
you lie out on, sir.Therefore it is not yours. For my
part I do not lie in,and yet it is mine what man does

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thout thing? It for? Forno man, sir? What woman man?
For none neither? Who's to beburied in one that was a woman?
But rest her soul she's dead?How absolute the name is oration?
How long has that been? Agreat maker of all the days of the
year. I came to it thatthey are last? King Hamlet or camp
fort in pass? How long isthat him? Can't you tell that?

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Every fool can tell that it wasthe very day young Hamlet was born?
He that's mad and sent into Englandas Mary? Why was his candidate?
Because he was mad? He shallrecover his wits there If he do not,
is no great matter there? Theyare the manner as mad as he?
How long will the men lie theearth there he was? Okay,

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sir? If he be not rottenbefore he die, he lasts is omat
her nine year? Here's a skull, now, this skull of lame of
the earth three and twenty years?Whose was it? A horse? Mad?
Fellas? It was this same scull, sir, was Yarlick's skull the
king's death? That let me see? Yes, poor york I knew him.

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Rachel, a fellow of infinite giftof most excellent fancy. He has
borne me on his back a thousandtimes. No, I don't have hollered.
In my imagination. It is whereveryour drives, now, your gambles,

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the songs, your flashes of merriment, that will want to set the
table on a rod, play theirrational. Tell me one thing? What's
thatten alone? If I think Alexanderlook to this fashion in the earth means
and spelt her to what base?Uses they return to ratie of it's off

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to side becomes a king, thequeen courtious? Who's this? This fellow
country widing mark? What ceremony elsethat is here? It is very noble
youth, what ceremony else? What'sfell? No more be done? No
more be done? We should propainethe service of the dead, to sing

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her equiem, and such rest toher as to peace parted souls. Lady
dear, I tell thee churlish priest, a ministering angels, tell my sister
even now liars howling, what thereare fewals? Sweet to the sweet farewell?

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I hope that should have been myhamlets. Why I thought I'd ride
bed to a death, sweetman,and not have chewed this thy gray hold
off the earth of while till Ihaf caught her once more in Mahan.
What is he whose Greek the suchan emphasis? This is I harmlet,
theay devil, take u Aul andthe thunder. I love no feelure.

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Forty thousand brothers could not, withall their quantity of love make up by
some. Do thou come here towhine love? Take me with leaping in
her gratious mad for love of God? Prepare him? Yet, what is
the reason that you use me?That I loved you? Ever? But

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is no matter? Red Hercules himselfdo what he may. The cat will
mew, and God will have hisday. Now. Laity is determined to
be revenge finds an ally in theKing. Thus the latter arranges the hamlet,

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and Laity shall view it ostensible forspot the contest is treacherously conceived.
Laities rape your bears an envenomed point, and the disc fails. The King
has prepared a poisoned drink to ensurethe death of Hamley. All his majesty
sends to know, as your pleasurehold to play with Latin, I am

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constant to my purposes. The Kingand Queen are all coming down. You
will lose this wager. I donot think so, but thou wouldst not
think how ills all hear about myheart? It's no matter. If your
mind is like anything, will payit. I will forestall a repair here
and say you are not far ofwhich we defy our garad. There's a

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special providence in the fall of asew. If it be not now,
it is enough to come. Ifit be enough to come, it will
be now. If it be notnow yet, it will come. The
readiness is all hum Hammelet humman takehis hand from me. Give them the

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boils. You know the wages verywell, my lord. Set me the
soups of wine upon that table.The king shall drink your hamlets feat of
breath. Come begin, come answer, Come lord, what no ahead,
some very palpable here say, giveme drink hamlet. Here's to thy health.

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Give him the cuff I have prayed, this aster said his fire.
Come come ahead. I tell youI do contents queen glouses that I was
in handy. Do not drink Iwill, my lord. I pray you
play disappointing company is too late coundsthirty. And if you were daddy,

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I pray you pass your best fire. How about you no breathfully out here,
Hey, come again, not fifteyes, I'm not gonna plain the
whole. It wounds to see them. Please not tell the drink I think
I am poisoned, Oh billy,I cannot be locked pratice. You can

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out let this here Hamlet, hamletthe flame and the teacherous instrument is in
thy hand, countated and antennam thymother's poisoned. Hi, and no more
the kings to the kings to blamethe pointing penom too, then do I

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work? Oh? Yet defend mefrom here though in testuous, murderous standard
day very cock is a portion followmy mother, You that look pale and
tremble at this chance that I butMutS or audience to this sent had I

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was time, Oh I could tellyou, but let it be. I
die harish you thou livest report meand my cause a right to the unsatis.

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Never believe it. I am morean antique Roman than a tain gives
you some little laugh about a man. Give me the couple O good horishue,
what a wounded mean things standing thusunknown to live behind me the loudest

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ever old names I had, ohhad sent me from Felicity Ohio, and
in this harsh world, draw thybreast in peace to tell my joy.
The wrist yes o woo, nowcracks a nob of heart. Good night,

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sweet prim and flights of angels seemthe to direst So end the tragedy
of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.Again, may we say that if you

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enjoy this presentation, if you areconvinced that the tragedies and comedies of Shakespeare
have a place on the air andshould become a permanent radio feature, right
to us, help give us thisgauge of public opinion. The night's cast
included Miss Frank Hale, Miss LauraStraub Wrist, Virginia Wells, Mister Whitford,
Kane, Sidney Smith, Joseph Cotton, Shirley Oliver Santles, Arteaga,

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George Busy, Eduton Paul and HiramSherman. The narrator was Edward Jerome.
Next week, the workshop will beata special demonstration in conjunction with the meeting
of the New York Electrical Society.Doctor E. E. Free will have
charge of the demonstration. The knight'spresentation of Hamlet was arranged and produced by
Orson Wells in the absence of misterReese. Brewster Morgan assisted. The Columbia

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Workshop's presentations are conceived and directed byIrving Reef. This is a Columbia broadcasting
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