August 23, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The National Broadcasting Company presents Radio City Playhouse Attraction twelve.
(00:31):
Soundless Attraction twelve on Radio City play House stars Jan
Minor in the taxing role of Constance Blake. The script
was written by Harry W. Jenkin, who also directs the production.
So Welcome to Radio City Playhouse Attraction twelve Soundless.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Not the Scotch, Joe, Joe, I'll get excited, Connie.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Oh, you treat me as though I was a Oh
what I can pay for it.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Let's see your money.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I get ready to leave. I'll pay my bill.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Sorry, Connie, the boy said, no more credit.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Treat me as if I was just nobody or something.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
Sorry, Conny, Joe, Yes, please, you know me nearly nine bucks.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Connie the boy said, to cut you off, not run along?
Euh like good kid. Bartender.
Speaker 7 (01:37):
Yes, sir, would you take the lady's bill out of
this and bring us two scotches?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Why?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Why?
Speaker 8 (01:42):
Yes? Sir?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Just who do you think you are?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
I'd like to buy your drink, that's all.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I don't get any funny ideas.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I won't What was it, honey man trouble? How was
the booze too much for you?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
You or can it okay?
Speaker 7 (02:01):
Uh, yeah, sir, two scotches any change here and thanks,
thank you sir.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
You wanted to drop daddy, I've been a buck tip
in years.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Well, here's to life.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Mm cheers good.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Yeah, what happened, Donnie?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Don't call me honey?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Well you're sick. I mus talk about some sort of
nervous trouble.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Look, Sonny, boy, why don't you push it off?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
And we have two more here about tender?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Say what do you think I am?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I don't know what you are, but I know what
you were.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I was twenty two when you played the Eastern Lily.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I saw it seven times. Yeah, he was uebelievably lovely.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Take a good look and beat it.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Steal a little of it left around the mouth.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
The eyes looks, sonny when you lay off the fabulous, beautiful, wonderful.
Constance Blake, the greatest music comedy star Broadway ever, had.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Scotch his set.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
This guy bothering.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
You're cunning?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, he's harmless, so catching.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Okay, just call him if you want anything cunning.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
See that Joe remembers too.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
I guess so well, here's too, Constance Blake, thanks, still
married to Paul Blake, Oh, he's making a fortune in Hollywood.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Doesn't he send you anything?
Speaker 8 (03:31):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Alimo an.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Generous, isn't it. He always was a stinker.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
He just never grew up. He never got over being
so handsome. He was always my leading man first and
my husband second.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
He was in love with fame, and he loved fame.
What is this anyway?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
But had two more? Please?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Why don't you leave me alone?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Why don't you relax? Honestly, I'm not apt to. I mean,
it's only because I recognize you, because I used to
cut your pictures out and.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I still have one.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
I'll bet yeah, I got you out of a scale.
Oh what sure? I got to hear my wallet? It's
here somewhere by weight and the picture of Constance Blake
off for a penny. Huh, oh, here it is. But your
single list of purpose you should go far. One hundred
and sixty eight pounds and you on the other side.
I mean, look, it's faded a bit, but it's a
long time since I weigh a hundred and sixty eight.
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Those are feathers or.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Something, egg grits. That was the sunshiness bright. The girls
are dressed as sunbeams and.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Stars, and I wore a white chif on dress all
over rhymestones fluttered every time I moved.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
At the end, the lights went down, all the little sunbeams.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Scamped away, the stars came out, and I sang that song.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
It was a lovely, lovely song.
Speaker 9 (04:57):
And when the sun shine fade into the twilight and
start the twinkling in the sky. My heart is full
of sweet, familiar sadness and may moreries that never dies.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I know my.
Speaker 10 (05:24):
Love is allways close beside you, and so I pray,
my dearest one, the love will god you.
Speaker 9 (05:40):
Back to my ows, away.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
From all lot.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
It's me honey.
Speaker 10 (06:05):
Come out, gold and shut the door.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Oh Connie, you are sensation.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I tell you to run forever. Thanks Cording.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
They loved your boat. It's wonderful, wonderful. Everything's wonderful. Well,
I'll let your folks get dressed. I just wanted to
make sure you're coming to the poddy.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
You're awfully tired, Goldie.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Oh no, listen just for a little while. Old man
locking his wife are counting on you. After all, they
did back half the show. But you need to stay late.
But gee, you gotta turn up. Missus Locke wants to
cut off her arm and give it.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
To your Paul, she doesn't.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
We'll come for a little while.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Sure, Sure, and Connie wear that great dress with the
stuff all over it?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Will you? Conny?
Speaker 8 (06:45):
Will you wear that dress?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
What?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
The dress and the gray one with the silk roll over.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
It isn't a bit gaudy.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
No, when you are to style, you gotta look like it.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
And I promise you can leave early.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Oh, I thought we'd never get home.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I rather enjoyed myself.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Am I being temperamental?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
You're the star? So why not, Paul?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
You're cross about something?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
No, No, it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Forget it?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
What did I do? What did I say?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
That's the point? You didn't say anything.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Hi hatting the backer's wife is a little silly, isn't.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
It, Hi having her? What do you mean when.
Speaker 11 (07:47):
We were leaving, standing at the door, and she said
good night and about how beautiful you looked in that dress.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Honestly, Paul, I didn't even see her.
Speaker 11 (07:54):
See her, she was right beside her. You just flounced
out without even saying good night.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Honestly, Paul, I was so tough by the time we
got standing at the door, standing the night and I
almost keeled over.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Comming, what's the matter? You sure you're feeling all right?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Cause I looked back. H I guess that was the
first time it happened.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I didn't think anything of it. Two weeks later I
was walking along Fifth Avenue and suddenly it all vanished. Traffic, people,
everything like being dropped into an empty room.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
You mean, like panting.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Oh, what's the use of talking about something that's over?
Speaker 5 (08:45):
I won't interrupt again, honestly.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
I won't.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Well, I started to misunderstand people like like the brooch.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Hm.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I took a brooch into a jewelry store to have
it repaired.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Two weeks later, I went back for it wasn't worth much,
but I belong to my grandmother.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
Yes, Missus Blake, the brooch is finished. We reset the
two big stones and put on a new class.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Thank you so much. Will you put that on my account?
Speaker 8 (09:12):
I certainly, Missus Blake.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And by the way, how much is it ninety dollars?
Speaker 8 (09:15):
Ninety? Well, well, listen to that. It wasn't there atimate.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Ridiculous ninety dollars for a brooch.
Speaker 8 (09:22):
But I was sure we've told you when you brought
the brooch in that However, if you.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Feel that, did you tell me it would be ninety dollars?
Speaker 8 (09:28):
Well, yes, missus Blake, I am sure I did.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Oh, then it must have been my mistake. I it's
quite all right. It was probably my fault.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
But how could you possibly mistake nineteen for ninety?
Speaker 11 (09:54):
You just don't listen, Connie. People are always playing you
for a sucker, but you are money.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
But the matter with you lately?
Speaker 11 (10:01):
You want to shake the cobwebs out of that pretty
golden head of yours and pay attention to what people say.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
But I do, Paul, honestly I do.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Honey, Are you sure there's nothing wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And then one night in the show I missed a que.
Everything suddenly got all confused. I nearly ruined the last
AGGT finale. Well that was a dandy, that was I'm sorry, Paul,
everything just seemed to go back. I'm terribly sorry.
Speaker 11 (10:39):
You stood there like a great stupid car and left
me down center with Hot and Brett. How did you
think I was gonna get off fall through the stage.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It all happened so quickly, I just didn't notice.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Notice What do you think about when you're on stage? Anyway?
Dinner what you're going to do tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Please, Paul.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
You stink of all the lousy performances I ever saw.
Speaker 11 (10:57):
Just because the show has had a long run, there's
no reason to stand up it and he kidding the
cars could have done it better than that.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I couldn't help it. It was an accident.
Speaker 11 (11:05):
Stop blubbering, because anything gives me a pain. It's you
with the weeps. I'm going out for a drink.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Please, don't don't know what.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
I'll see you at home. Don't wait up for me either,
I'll be late.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I can't even more launch Goldie. I'm to upset Paul,
and I never called like that before.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
The way that guy can cut you up, A big
phony hunk of muscles and profiles.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Talk that way.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Okay, Okay, so he's Lincoln and Golden Boy rolled into what.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Well he was right, I ruined the whole last d act.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
So you made a mistake.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
So who noticed except our hero?
Speaker 8 (11:50):
All right, all right, I think he's a.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Genius, godly.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I know that you and Paul disagree about things sometimes,
but you don't honestly.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Think that I think that he gives you a raw deal.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
You don't mean other women who knows, Goldie, why not
you mean he's in love with somebody else.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
I know he is who himself.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Oh, Goldie, first he loves you.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Then if first he loves himself, then maybe you And
believe me, baby, the only reason you got second place
is because you're famous.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
You're making dough.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
You think that if I wasn't a start.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Baby, I think he'd leave you flat.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I don't think you're being fair to him, Goldie. He's
not like that. If anything happened that I that I
wasn't to start.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Honey? What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (12:37):
If anything happened, nothing's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Sunshine will run another two years. I what is it?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Baby, Goldie?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
There is something about I don't know how to say it.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Connie, Baby, what is it?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
You're shaken?
Speaker 8 (12:52):
Something's the matter? Yes, but you can tell golder baby.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Oh Connie, don't let Paul upset you like this.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Isn't that there's something the matter with me?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
What do you mean, baby, I'm not well.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I have spells.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Spells? What are you trying to say?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Connie?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Sort of blank spots? My my ears buzzed.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Hobby in the middle of a conversation and suddenly I
realized that I've I've been somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I think I'm going. I don't know. I'm afraid of
I think maybe.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
I Connie Blake, you're silly, little fool. Are you trying
to tell me that you think there's something that matter
with your mind? I do know, Oh Connie, snap out
of it. People like you don't go crazy, they go
to a doctor.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I'm scared, Goldie, I'm scared.
Speaker 8 (13:52):
Well, doctor, we're not quite true yet, Missus Blake.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
There is something, isn't it? It is my mind, isn't it.
I'm I am crazy.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Now now, Missus Blake.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Whatever gave you.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
That idea, you're just trying to keep it from me?
Speaker 8 (14:05):
Nonsense. Sit down here, there's one more test I want
to try.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Doctor Bradley. I'm not a child. I'd rather know the two.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
Don't get excited, Missus Blake. I want you to listen
to these notes as long as you can hear them.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Say yes, we.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Do certainly good, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 12 (14:33):
Yes, all right, that's all Missus Blake. Stop yes, doctor,
what is it?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
What is wrong with me?
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Missus Blake? There's no need for alarm. There's absolutely nothing
the matter with your mind. You don't seem to want
to believe that, but it's true. Your trouble is something
quite different, something different. To put it bluntly, you're you're
losing your hearing. What you have catarrhal deafness?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Deafness?
Speaker 8 (15:08):
Yes, deafness?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Is that all you mean? All these months when I've
been imagining all sorts of things.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Oh, doctor Bradley, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
I've been so childish and I'm glad. I think perhaps
you'd better investigate a hearing aid. What a hearing aid?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Why?
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Well, dear lady, I think it's obvious.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
You mean it'll get worse.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
So you mean not be deaf stone death?
Speaker 8 (15:40):
Well, no, not that bad, but you'll need a hearing aid.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
A hearing aid I did, doctor Bradley. You'll have to
do better than that. I'm looking for a cure, not
a makeshift. Can you possibly imagine me on the stage
with a few strings of marrabu and a square of chiffon,
and all hung over with batteries and microphone the thing?
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Unfortunately, missus bleake, there's not much else that can be done.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Side is ridiculous. Why my whole career hum.
Speaker 8 (16:11):
What is it, missus Bleake.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I I don't want anybody to know about this, Doctor Bradley.
I particularly want to keep it from mister Goldman, my producer,
and Paul, my husband. Is well well, I don't want
anybody to know, not anybody.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
That's take it for granted, missus Blea.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Send the bill too.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
At the theater?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Were you in market personally?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
If anybody knew that I was going there, well it
would be I don't understand, missus Blea.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
So that was it my Scotch buying friend death death.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
There's anything more useless than a deaf musical comedy Starr.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I could imagine Paul's reaction if he ever found out.
I couldn't believe it would really get worse. I thought
a rest was all I needed, and I couldn't just
stop and leave the show for a rest just like that.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I had to have a reason.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
So I had a baby.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I wanted a baby, and I wanted a rest, and
I wanted something for Paul to hang on to. I
told him as soon as I was sure. At first,
Paul was furious, but gradually he came around. In fact,
before very long he was just like any other father.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Wow, what's the matter, fella? Come on, that's it? Oh god,
he isn't your honey? Whose boy are you? Huh? Who'se boy? Surious?
Good looking too, just like his old man.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Paul and I we were closer that summer than we'd
ever been. But about a month after the baby was born,
I realized that my hearing was much worse. Apparently having
a child sometimes does that in glands or something. It
was so much worse that I was terrified Paul would
find out. He kept talking about my coming back to
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the show in the fall, and I was afraid I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
So I took up lip reading. Flip reading. I thought
it would be easy, easy, that's a laugh.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I got to be pretty good, but I was afraid
to let Paul out of my sight for fear he'd
say something and I wouldn't hear.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I had to keep him where I could read his lips.
Speaker 11 (19:04):
What's the matter with you, Connie, that's the fourth time
this afternoon you followed me out of the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Are you upset about something?
Speaker 10 (19:11):
Pardon?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Are you upset about something?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
No? Nothing, Harry Goldman. I produced and noticed that I
was getting more nervous all the time. He came to
the conclusion that I needed a rest change of scene,
so he insisted that Paul and I use his summer
cottage for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I was happy about it, but at the.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Last minute, Paul couldn't come until Saturday morning, so I
went up on Friday by myself.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I thought it would do me good to be loan
for the day.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Friday night, I went to bed early, and when Paul
arrived Saturday morning, I was still asleep.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
That seems that during the night there.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
Was a storm.
Speaker 11 (20:20):
You sure must have tied on a Please. Every window
downstairs wide open, water all over the porch, plant pot's
blown over, pictures off the wall, mud and corruption all
over everything.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
How to get ahead with producers?
Speaker 11 (20:31):
Wreck this summer homes get dead and four thousand bucks
with the furniture, and you're going a fender and ruin to.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
The drapes like wet dish rags.
Speaker 11 (20:40):
Good night, constantire in your second childhood or something.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Let's have another.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Drink, sure, hey, bartender, two more please?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I almost told Paul the truth that night. I was afraid.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
You can't imagine what it's like to love someone that much,
so much that you're afraid to do anything for fearial I'll.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Always be the wrong thing.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
So I thought that if I could only manage to
do the show, if everything went well, that I'd tell
him then just so long as I remained a big star,
he wouldn't care whether I was deaf.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
For dumb or dead.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Well we opened, we got brave notices, Paul and Connie
blake together again. I had to watch everything like a hawk.
At least, change and routine made me sweat like a steer.
I knew the show backwards, but I was still terrified.
Month after we opened, and I was beginning to breathe easier,
it happened.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Audrey Hart, one of the principals.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Got sick in the middle of the third act, and
we had to change the finale routine. We had to
change it a lot, Paul told me in our dressing
room just before we went on, and I never was
so terrified.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
In my life.
Speaker 11 (22:03):
Good night, There's no need to get upset, Connie, where's
the understand She's gone home.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Now, it's easy.
Speaker 11 (22:09):
Connie just jumped to the second chorus after the verse,
then ad lib with me until Barrett comes in. Downstage
with a wheelbarer. From there on the routine is the
same as usual.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
We can't, don't be a fool.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I can't do it. I tell you.
Speaker 11 (22:18):
I'm all right now, snap out of it. I've got
to get on stage, keep your head, watch me and
stop being a fool.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
And when the sun shine fade into the twilight and
start a twinkling in the sky, my heart is fool off.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Sweet famil your sadness and man reason that never die.
Speaker 10 (22:59):
I know my love is all always.
Speaker 9 (23:03):
Close beside you, and so I pray, my dearest one,
the love God you back to my honors, away from
all home.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
And she can shake a fine face.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
The tie.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
I I can't, I tell you, I can.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
So never been on the stage since. Of course I
had to tell Paul that night, tell him everything, and
I got a hearing aid it can see it if
I push my hair back, see it. Anyway, the show
just quietly slipped away to nothing. I couldn't keep it
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going without me, and Paul didn't like that, of course,
but he had to face it that I was the
drawing cart and not him, and he got a job
in another show, not much of a part, but it
was something I stayed home.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I loved the baby. I love to play with him.
He was so healthy. Nurse Black used to say he
was the healthiest baby she'd ever seen. Yeah, the healthiest
baby she'd never seen. I tell you, missus, Blake, he's
the healthiest baby I've ever seen.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
You.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Better hurry, Nurse Black, you miss your train. I hate
leaving you all alone.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Don't be silly, mister Blake will be in by one.
He's coming home right after the show.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I'll get back just as soon as I can, by
the end of the week, for sure.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Now, please don't worry about it. I'm terribly sorry your
brother's so sick. I hope you'll be better.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
And then during the evening it happened.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
It happened between the time Nurse Black left around eight
and the time Paul got home around one. Sometime during
those five hours, it happened.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
But I didn't hear it all. You stop it, leave
(25:38):
me alone.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Want to murder anything.
Speaker 11 (25:42):
I wish they could. He knew you wouldn't hear them.
He knew you would get you blasted people.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
No.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I sat in a chair outside his room. I was
reading and listen to me pleased. I was reading and
I was wearing my hearing head and I fell asleep.
I must have leaned on the battery or something. It
just just broke, Paul. I couldn't help it. I had
to pull it one of the wires and something, and
then I just couldn't hear it. I was asleep and
I couldn't hear you.
Speaker 11 (26:07):
Let him strangle the death one thing in the world,
the one thing that I cared about.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
And you, you and your dad.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I couldn't help it.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Something brought up.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
You fell asleep, didn't didn't you?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
But I couldn't help it.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Please Ball, please, I'll please. You killed me, just as
you've done it with your own hands. Forget this. I'm cruisy.
Who I think you're? Homely and ugly dull?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Now murder it.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
I'm sick of you. I'm so sick of you I
could bun it.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
That's all the end.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I just turn off my little loud speaker, stay in
a little old foundless world on my own.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Let me take you home.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
Please.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
This isn't the way to do it, not this way.
There's hopefully yet, really there is.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Hey, Joe, thank this guy. Leave me alone, Just make
and leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That was soundless radio City Playhouse Attraction twelve, as written
and directed by Harry W. Jncan Jan Minor was heard
as Constance Blake, John Larkin as Paul. Other players in
the cast included Land Clark, Danniaco, Gregory Martin then Madeline Fears.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
The music was.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Composed and conducted by doctor Roy Shield. Miss Eve Young
rca Victorycotting artist, was featured in the singing sequences. Radio
City Playhouse is supervised for the National Broadcasting Company by
Richard P.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
McDonough.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Next week, The Strange and tragic Story of Paul Gallagher,
his White, his bewilderment and his end The Dark Hour
by Charles Bennett. We feel sure you'll enjoy it, and
we sincerely invite you to join us. That's next Saturday,
The Dark Hour Attraction third seen on Radio City Playoffs
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Final Rico speaking. This is NDC, the National Broadcasting Company,
The National Broadcasting Company presents Radio City Playhouse Attraction twelve.
(00:31):
Soundless Attraction twelve on Radio City play House stars Jan
Minor in the taxing role of Constance Blake. The script
was written by Harry W. Jenkin, who also directs the production.
So Welcome to Radio City Playhouse Attraction twelve Soundless.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Not the Scotch, Joe, Joe, I'll get excited, Connie.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Oh, you treat me as though I was a Oh
what I can pay for it.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Let's see your money.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I get ready to leave. I'll pay my bill.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Sorry, Connie, the boy said, no more credit.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Treat me as if I was just nobody or something.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
Sorry, Conny, Joe, Yes, please, you know me nearly nine bucks.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Connie the boy said, to cut you off, not run along?
Euh like good kid. Bartender.
Speaker 7 (01:37):
Yes, sir, would you take the lady's bill out of
this and bring us two scotches?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Why?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Why?
Speaker 8 (01:42):
Yes? Sir?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Just who do you think you are?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
I'd like to buy your drink, that's all.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I don't get any funny ideas.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I won't What was it, honey man trouble? How was
the booze too much for you?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
You or can it okay?
Speaker 7 (02:01):
Uh, yeah, sir, two scotches any change here and thanks,
thank you sir.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
You wanted to drop daddy, I've been a buck tip
in years.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Well, here's to life.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Mm cheers good.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Yeah, what happened, Donnie?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Don't call me honey?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Well you're sick. I mus talk about some sort of
nervous trouble.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Look, Sonny, boy, why don't you push it off?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
And we have two more here about tender?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Say what do you think I am?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I don't know what you are, but I know what
you were.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I was twenty two when you played the Eastern Lily.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I saw it seven times. Yeah, he was uebelievably lovely.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Take a good look and beat it.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Steal a little of it left around the mouth.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
The eyes looks, sonny when you lay off the fabulous, beautiful, wonderful.
Constance Blake, the greatest music comedy star Broadway ever, had.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Scotch his set.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
This guy bothering.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
You're cunning?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, he's harmless, so catching.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Okay, just call him if you want anything cunning.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
See that Joe remembers too.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
I guess so well, here's too, Constance Blake, thanks, still
married to Paul Blake, Oh, he's making a fortune in Hollywood.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Doesn't he send you anything?
Speaker 8 (03:31):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Alimo an.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Generous, isn't it. He always was a stinker.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
He just never grew up. He never got over being
so handsome. He was always my leading man first and
my husband second.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
He was in love with fame, and he loved fame.
What is this anyway?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
But had two more? Please?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Why don't you leave me alone?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Why don't you relax? Honestly, I'm not apt to. I mean,
it's only because I recognize you, because I used to
cut your pictures out and.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I still have one.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
I'll bet yeah, I got you out of a scale.
Oh what sure? I got to hear my wallet? It's
here somewhere by weight and the picture of Constance Blake
off for a penny. Huh, oh, here it is. But your
single list of purpose you should go far. One hundred
and sixty eight pounds and you on the other side.
I mean, look, it's faded a bit, but it's a
long time since I weigh a hundred and sixty eight.
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Those are feathers or.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Something, egg grits. That was the sunshiness bright. The girls
are dressed as sunbeams and.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Stars, and I wore a white chif on dress all
over rhymestones fluttered every time I moved.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
At the end, the lights went down, all the little sunbeams.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Scamped away, the stars came out, and I sang that song.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
It was a lovely, lovely song.
Speaker 9 (04:57):
And when the sun shine fade into the twilight and
start the twinkling in the sky. My heart is full
of sweet, familiar sadness and may moreries that never dies.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I know my.
Speaker 10 (05:24):
Love is allways close beside you, and so I pray,
my dearest one, the love will god you.
Speaker 9 (05:40):
Back to my ows, away.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
From all lot.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
It's me honey.
Speaker 10 (06:05):
Come out, gold and shut the door.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Oh Connie, you are sensation.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I tell you to run forever. Thanks Cording.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
They loved your boat. It's wonderful, wonderful. Everything's wonderful. Well,
I'll let your folks get dressed. I just wanted to
make sure you're coming to the poddy.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
You're awfully tired, Goldie.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Oh no, listen just for a little while. Old man
locking his wife are counting on you. After all, they
did back half the show. But you need to stay late.
But gee, you gotta turn up. Missus Locke wants to
cut off her arm and give it.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
To your Paul, she doesn't.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
We'll come for a little while.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Sure, Sure, and Connie wear that great dress with the
stuff all over it?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Will you? Conny?
Speaker 8 (06:45):
Will you wear that dress?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
What?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
The dress and the gray one with the silk roll over.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
It isn't a bit gaudy.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
No, when you are to style, you gotta look like it.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
And I promise you can leave early.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Oh, I thought we'd never get home.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I rather enjoyed myself.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Am I being temperamental?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
You're the star? So why not, Paul?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
You're cross about something?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
No, No, it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Forget it?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
What did I do? What did I say?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
That's the point? You didn't say anything.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Hi hatting the backer's wife is a little silly, isn't.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
It, Hi having her? What do you mean when.
Speaker 11 (07:47):
We were leaving, standing at the door, and she said
good night and about how beautiful you looked in that dress.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Honestly, Paul, I didn't even see her.
Speaker 11 (07:54):
See her, she was right beside her. You just flounced
out without even saying good night.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Honestly, Paul, I was so tough by the time we
got standing at the door, standing the night and I
almost keeled over.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Comming, what's the matter? You sure you're feeling all right?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Cause I looked back. H I guess that was the
first time it happened.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I didn't think anything of it. Two weeks later I
was walking along Fifth Avenue and suddenly it all vanished. Traffic, people,
everything like being dropped into an empty room.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
You mean, like panting.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Oh, what's the use of talking about something that's over?
Speaker 5 (08:45):
I won't interrupt again, honestly.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
I won't.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Well, I started to misunderstand people like like the brooch.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Hm.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I took a brooch into a jewelry store to have
it repaired.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Two weeks later, I went back for it wasn't worth much,
but I belong to my grandmother.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
Yes, Missus Blake, the brooch is finished. We reset the
two big stones and put on a new class.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Thank you so much. Will you put that on my account?
Speaker 8 (09:12):
I certainly, Missus Blake.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And by the way, how much is it ninety dollars?
Speaker 8 (09:15):
Ninety? Well, well, listen to that. It wasn't there atimate.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Ridiculous ninety dollars for a brooch.
Speaker 8 (09:22):
But I was sure we've told you when you brought
the brooch in that However, if you.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Feel that, did you tell me it would be ninety dollars?
Speaker 8 (09:28):
Well, yes, missus Blake, I am sure I did.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Oh, then it must have been my mistake. I it's
quite all right. It was probably my fault.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
But how could you possibly mistake nineteen for ninety?
Speaker 11 (09:54):
You just don't listen, Connie. People are always playing you
for a sucker, but you are money.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
But the matter with you lately?
Speaker 11 (10:01):
You want to shake the cobwebs out of that pretty
golden head of yours and pay attention to what people say.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
But I do, Paul, honestly I do.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Honey, Are you sure there's nothing wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And then one night in the show I missed a que.
Everything suddenly got all confused. I nearly ruined the last
AGGT finale. Well that was a dandy, that was I'm sorry, Paul,
everything just seemed to go back. I'm terribly sorry.
Speaker 11 (10:39):
You stood there like a great stupid car and left
me down center with Hot and Brett. How did you
think I was gonna get off fall through the stage.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It all happened so quickly, I just didn't notice.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Notice What do you think about when you're on stage? Anyway?
Dinner what you're going to do tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Please, Paul.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
You stink of all the lousy performances I ever saw.
Speaker 11 (10:57):
Just because the show has had a long run, there's
no reason to stand up it and he kidding the
cars could have done it better than that.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I couldn't help it. It was an accident.
Speaker 11 (11:05):
Stop blubbering, because anything gives me a pain. It's you
with the weeps. I'm going out for a drink.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Please, don't don't know what.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
I'll see you at home. Don't wait up for me either,
I'll be late.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I can't even more launch Goldie. I'm to upset Paul,
and I never called like that before.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
The way that guy can cut you up, A big
phony hunk of muscles and profiles.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Talk that way.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Okay, Okay, so he's Lincoln and Golden Boy rolled into what.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Well he was right, I ruined the whole last d act.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
So you made a mistake.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
So who noticed except our hero?
Speaker 8 (11:50):
All right, all right, I think he's a.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Genius, godly.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I know that you and Paul disagree about things sometimes,
but you don't honestly.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Think that I think that he gives you a raw deal.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
You don't mean other women who knows, Goldie, why not
you mean he's in love with somebody else.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
I know he is who himself.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Oh, Goldie, first he loves you.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Then if first he loves himself, then maybe you And
believe me, baby, the only reason you got second place
is because you're famous.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
You're making dough.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
You think that if I wasn't a start.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Baby, I think he'd leave you flat.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I don't think you're being fair to him, Goldie. He's
not like that. If anything happened that I that I
wasn't to start.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Honey? What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (12:37):
If anything happened, nothing's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Sunshine will run another two years. I what is it?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Baby, Goldie?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
There is something about I don't know how to say it.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Connie, Baby, what is it?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
You're shaken?
Speaker 8 (12:52):
Something's the matter? Yes, but you can tell golder baby.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Oh Connie, don't let Paul upset you like this.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Isn't that there's something the matter with me?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
What do you mean, baby, I'm not well.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I have spells.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Spells? What are you trying to say?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Connie?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Sort of blank spots? My my ears buzzed.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Hobby in the middle of a conversation and suddenly I
realized that I've I've been somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I think I'm going. I don't know. I'm afraid of
I think maybe.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
I Connie Blake, you're silly, little fool. Are you trying
to tell me that you think there's something that matter
with your mind? I do know, Oh Connie, snap out
of it. People like you don't go crazy, they go
to a doctor.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I'm scared, Goldie, I'm scared.
Speaker 8 (13:52):
Well, doctor, we're not quite true yet, Missus Blake.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
There is something, isn't it? It is my mind, isn't it.
I'm I am crazy.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Now now, Missus Blake.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Whatever gave you.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
That idea, you're just trying to keep it from me?
Speaker 8 (14:05):
Nonsense. Sit down here, there's one more test I want
to try.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Doctor Bradley. I'm not a child. I'd rather know the two.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
Don't get excited, Missus Blake. I want you to listen
to these notes as long as you can hear them.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Say yes, we.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Do certainly good, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 12 (14:33):
Yes, all right, that's all Missus Blake. Stop yes, doctor,
what is it?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
What is wrong with me?
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Missus Blake? There's no need for alarm. There's absolutely nothing
the matter with your mind. You don't seem to want
to believe that, but it's true. Your trouble is something
quite different, something different. To put it bluntly, you're you're
losing your hearing. What you have catarrhal deafness?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Deafness?
Speaker 8 (15:08):
Yes, deafness?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Is that all you mean? All these months when I've
been imagining all sorts of things.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Oh, doctor Bradley, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
I've been so childish and I'm glad. I think perhaps
you'd better investigate a hearing aid. What a hearing aid?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Why?
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Well, dear lady, I think it's obvious.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
You mean it'll get worse.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
So you mean not be deaf stone death?
Speaker 8 (15:40):
Well, no, not that bad, but you'll need a hearing aid.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
A hearing aid I did, doctor Bradley. You'll have to
do better than that. I'm looking for a cure, not
a makeshift. Can you possibly imagine me on the stage
with a few strings of marrabu and a square of chiffon,
and all hung over with batteries and microphone the thing?
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Unfortunately, missus bleake, there's not much else that can be done.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Side is ridiculous. Why my whole career hum.
Speaker 8 (16:11):
What is it, missus Bleake.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I I don't want anybody to know about this, Doctor Bradley.
I particularly want to keep it from mister Goldman, my producer,
and Paul, my husband. Is well well, I don't want
anybody to know, not anybody.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
That's take it for granted, missus Blea.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Send the bill too.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
At the theater?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Were you in market personally?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
If anybody knew that I was going there, well it
would be I don't understand, missus Blea.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
So that was it my Scotch buying friend death death.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
There's anything more useless than a deaf musical comedy Starr.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I could imagine Paul's reaction if he ever found out.
I couldn't believe it would really get worse. I thought
a rest was all I needed, and I couldn't just
stop and leave the show for a rest just like that.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I had to have a reason.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
So I had a baby.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I wanted a baby, and I wanted a rest, and
I wanted something for Paul to hang on to. I
told him as soon as I was sure. At first,
Paul was furious, but gradually he came around. In fact,
before very long he was just like any other father.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Wow, what's the matter, fella? Come on, that's it? Oh god,
he isn't your honey? Whose boy are you? Huh? Who'se boy? Surious?
Good looking too, just like his old man.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Paul and I we were closer that summer than we'd
ever been. But about a month after the baby was born,
I realized that my hearing was much worse. Apparently having
a child sometimes does that in glands or something. It
was so much worse that I was terrified Paul would
find out. He kept talking about my coming back to
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the show in the fall, and I was afraid I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
So I took up lip reading. Flip reading. I thought
it would be easy, easy, that's a laugh.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I got to be pretty good, but I was afraid
to let Paul out of my sight for fear he'd
say something and I wouldn't hear.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I had to keep him where I could read his lips.
Speaker 11 (19:04):
What's the matter with you, Connie, that's the fourth time
this afternoon you followed me out of the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Are you upset about something?
Speaker 10 (19:11):
Pardon?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Are you upset about something?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
No? Nothing, Harry Goldman. I produced and noticed that I
was getting more nervous all the time. He came to
the conclusion that I needed a rest change of scene,
so he insisted that Paul and I use his summer
cottage for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I was happy about it, but at the.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Last minute, Paul couldn't come until Saturday morning, so I
went up on Friday by myself.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I thought it would do me good to be loan
for the day.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Friday night, I went to bed early, and when Paul
arrived Saturday morning, I was still asleep.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
That seems that during the night there.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
Was a storm.
Speaker 11 (20:20):
You sure must have tied on a Please. Every window
downstairs wide open, water all over the porch, plant pot's
blown over, pictures off the wall, mud and corruption all
over everything.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
How to get ahead with producers?
Speaker 11 (20:31):
Wreck this summer homes get dead and four thousand bucks
with the furniture, and you're going a fender and ruin to.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
The drapes like wet dish rags.
Speaker 11 (20:40):
Good night, constantire in your second childhood or something.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Let's have another.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Drink, sure, hey, bartender, two more please?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I almost told Paul the truth that night. I was afraid.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
You can't imagine what it's like to love someone that much,
so much that you're afraid to do anything for fearial I'll.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Always be the wrong thing.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
So I thought that if I could only manage to
do the show, if everything went well, that I'd tell
him then just so long as I remained a big star,
he wouldn't care whether I was deaf.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
For dumb or dead.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Well we opened, we got brave notices, Paul and Connie
blake together again. I had to watch everything like a hawk.
At least, change and routine made me sweat like a steer.
I knew the show backwards, but I was still terrified.
Month after we opened, and I was beginning to breathe easier,
it happened.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Audrey Hart, one of the principals.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Got sick in the middle of the third act, and
we had to change the finale routine. We had to
change it a lot, Paul told me in our dressing
room just before we went on, and I never was
so terrified.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
In my life.
Speaker 11 (22:03):
Good night, There's no need to get upset, Connie, where's
the understand She's gone home.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Now, it's easy.
Speaker 11 (22:09):
Connie just jumped to the second chorus after the verse,
then ad lib with me until Barrett comes in. Downstage
with a wheelbarer. From there on the routine is the
same as usual.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
We can't, don't be a fool.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I can't do it. I tell you.
Speaker 11 (22:18):
I'm all right now, snap out of it. I've got
to get on stage, keep your head, watch me and
stop being a fool.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
And when the sun shine fade into the twilight and
start a twinkling in the sky, my heart is fool off.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Sweet famil your sadness and man reason that never die.
Speaker 10 (22:59):
I know my love is all always.
Speaker 9 (23:03):
Close beside you, and so I pray, my dearest one,
the love God you back to my honors, away from
all home.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
And she can shake a fine face.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
The tie.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
I I can't, I tell you, I can.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
So never been on the stage since. Of course I
had to tell Paul that night, tell him everything, and
I got a hearing aid it can see it if
I push my hair back, see it. Anyway, the show
just quietly slipped away to nothing. I couldn't keep it
(24:08):
going without me, and Paul didn't like that, of course,
but he had to face it that I was the
drawing cart and not him, and he got a job
in another show, not much of a part, but it
was something I stayed home.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I loved the baby. I love to play with him.
He was so healthy. Nurse Black used to say he
was the healthiest baby she'd ever seen. Yeah, the healthiest
baby she'd never seen. I tell you, missus, Blake, he's
the healthiest baby I've ever seen.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
You.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Better hurry, Nurse Black, you miss your train. I hate
leaving you all alone.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Don't be silly, mister Blake will be in by one.
He's coming home right after the show.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I'll get back just as soon as I can, by
the end of the week, for sure.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Now, please don't worry about it. I'm terribly sorry your
brother's so sick. I hope you'll be better.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
And then during the evening it happened.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
It happened between the time Nurse Black left around eight
and the time Paul got home around one. Sometime during
those five hours, it happened.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
But I didn't hear it all. You stop it, leave
(25:38):
me alone.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Want to murder anything.
Speaker 11 (25:42):
I wish they could. He knew you wouldn't hear them.
He knew you would get you blasted people.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
No.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I sat in a chair outside his room. I was
reading and listen to me pleased. I was reading and
I was wearing my hearing head and I fell asleep.
I must have leaned on the battery or something. It
just just broke, Paul. I couldn't help it. I had
to pull it one of the wires and something, and
then I just couldn't hear it. I was asleep and
I couldn't hear you.
Speaker 11 (26:07):
Let him strangle the death one thing in the world,
the one thing that I cared about.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
And you, you and your dad.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I couldn't help it.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Something brought up.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
You fell asleep, didn't didn't you?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
But I couldn't help it.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Please Ball, please, I'll please. You killed me, just as
you've done it with your own hands. Forget this. I'm cruisy.
Who I think you're? Homely and ugly dull?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Now murder it.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
I'm sick of you. I'm so sick of you I
could bun it.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
That's all the end.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I just turn off my little loud speaker, stay in
a little old foundless world on my own.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Let me take you home.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
Please.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
This isn't the way to do it, not this way.
There's hopefully yet, really there is.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Hey, Joe, thank this guy. Leave me alone, Just make
and leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That was soundless radio City Playhouse Attraction twelve, as written
and directed by Harry W. Jncan Jan Minor was heard
as Constance Blake, John Larkin as Paul. Other players in
the cast included Land Clark, Danniaco, Gregory Martin then Madeline Fears.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
The music was.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Composed and conducted by doctor Roy Shield. Miss Eve Young
rca Victorycotting artist, was featured in the singing sequences. Radio
City Playhouse is supervised for the National Broadcasting Company by
Richard P.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
McDonough.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Next week, The Strange and tragic Story of Paul Gallagher,
his White, his bewilderment and his end The Dark Hour
by Charles Bennett. We feel sure you'll enjoy it, and
we sincerely invite you to join us. That's next Saturday,
The Dark Hour Attraction third seen on Radio City Playoffs
(29:25):
Final Rico speaking. This is NDC, the National Broadcasting Company,
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