August 1, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Author's playhouse.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
And there in the rain a miracle must have occurred,
for she held in her hand the Roman coin she'd
given him, the coin that had the word always on it.
It must have been a miracle, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Doctor, Yes, miss Ellman, a miracle, A miracle in the rain.
We have been told that faith will move mountains. Perhaps
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then faith will reunite those who, through circumstance, have been
forced apart.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
But what it was and how it happened, we'll leave
to you.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Ben Hecked, who wrote the story, says it was a
miracle in the rain.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
All right now.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
The data is salad, jar of sweet pickers, and a
loaf of bread.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Anything else, miss Wood?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
That's all m.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I guess we're getting plan to your hard rain.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
This evening pretty hard?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Yes, you're pretty wet.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
No umbrella, No umbrella?
Speaker 8 (02:10):
Oh here, I'll.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Put your things in another sack, might get wet and tear.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
How's your mother?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (02:18):
Same as him?
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Good night, mister Stone.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Good night, miss Wood.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Don't get too wet going on. I'll try not to,
oh say I'm sorry. Goshall I ever learn to look
in front of me when I walk?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
My sergeant told me I was going to get into
trouble if I didn't in private hugons.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Wait here, I'll pick up your packages. That's the least
I can do. I'm really sorry, believe me.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Well, if you no, no, don't go yet.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Here's the dry doorway.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Better stop a minute to get your bearings.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
I don't think.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Oh come on all right now you're talking there, good night.
Just as I suspected, you're as well as the duck
pond in the middle of a flood. Here, here's a
clean akerchief. Now watch your face. Sure, come on, I.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Want to see what you look like beneath that three
feet of water. Well, thanks, gosh, look at her, go
what the rain?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Look at her go?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
You know that like this makes a town almost human.
There's nothing so good as a real rain.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Just listen to.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Her personally, I'm not so crazy about rain.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
It's all in the point of view. This rain won't
let up for hours. What do you say we just
walk out.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
And let her soak. I'll put your bundles under my
coat and then they won't get wet. Here, come on,
I can't.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
I've got to catch the bus.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
The bus come long, right, we'll catch a bus. Come
on out, we go.
Speaker 7 (03:49):
Come on, you're sitting here all right?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
You know your face needs this again?
Speaker 8 (04:06):
Oh no, no, I've one of my own handkies here
in my purse.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Have any idea where we're going?
Speaker 7 (04:11):
I'm going home, and that's what I figured.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Hein't got a mall or paw or something.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
My mother's home.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Oh that's wonderful. Now down to brass tacks. My name
is not Huguenot, Private US Army. I'm on my second day.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
I have a ten day furlough.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
What's your name?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Ruth Wood?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Ruthie.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
I can see by looking at you that you're a
girl a man can trust.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Why No, I'm serious. A fellow has to be pretty careful.
I tell you what.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I'm inviting you and your mom to have dinner with
me tonight. Ohose pickles will keep till tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
My mother can't go out. She's a cripple.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Oh well, then there's nothing left to do but eat
at your house.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Do you mean you sure I can wipe dishes?
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Look at that rain now it's turning Somersault. This is
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a happy home.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
The staerwell is our front yard, saying.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Not bad, not bad? And I could do with a
few more trees here. Come on, give me your kid.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
You know you got all you can do with that package.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Mister Shugerman, Hey, hey, hey, not that.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
The name's art as an art colonade.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
All right, Art. My mother may not speak to you.
She doesn't talk very much to anybody.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I see. Well, come on, we'll cheer up there.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
You can put the package on the table.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Okay, on the table.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
It is.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Mother, this is mister Hugenan. He's going to have dinner
with us.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Good evening, missus Wood. Nice place you have and a.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Piano way till I did said, I only sing after supper.
Keeps me being thrown out before I get my fiddles.
And don't pay any attention to your.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Daughter, missus Wood. My name is Art.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
As in art color, long lady, Art as in where
I fell.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
Good Heaven? Don't you ever stopped?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
And which is the way to the nearest bathtom? Sure,
I need a shave in the shower to look like
a flower.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
All right, to that door in there. There's a clean
towel in the closet behind the door.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Thanks a lot.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Now you fix everything up, and when you see me again,
I'll be looking very pretty. Another cup of coffee, yeah,
I thinks good stuff for your coffee.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Our you made mother smile. I haven't seen her do
that in years.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Good, I told you we'd cheer up.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Well, come on, missus Wood, I'm gonna wheel your chair
by the piano and sing your tune.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
I know here, let me do that.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Oh no, this is my job for the evening.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
There.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
How's that, missus Wood?
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Fine? You see? Are she likes you? She hasn't spoken
to anybody but me since I can remember.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Oh that's a good sign. Well, here goes.
Speaker 9 (07:14):
Chickens the crone on solid mountain. Hold y y, don't
doodle holiday.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
So many thirty girls I can counter holding Holiday.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
My true loves are blue, white Daisy. Come on, Rue,
sing it with me, doodle Holiday.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Sometimes she drives me almost crazy, old.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Doodle Well, Ruth, twelve o'clock on fine Saturday afternoon. All
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your work finished, all finished? Incidentally, young lady, I've been
watching you all morning.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Oh is anything wrong wrong? No?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Something's right?
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
How about letting an old friend in on the secret.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
What's his name? Oh? But I mean I didn't know
it was that.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
This, my dear young lady, When old man McCarey came in.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
He almost fell out of his.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Skin when you smiled at him and said, good morning,
mister McCarey. How's the old boy. Something's come up and
it ain't a raising faith.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Miss Elman, Why don't you come along with me? He
said he'd meet me downstairs at twelve to fifteen, and
I'd like you to sort of be there me.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
Yes, you're the best friend I have and I want you.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
To meet him. His name is our hug and Anim.
He's a soldier. I met him last night on my
way home. He's very nice, but I don't know much
about him. Will you come? Well?
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Come on, here's your head there he is which one
see the.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Social I see at least twenty within walking distance.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Hi, I got lost. That's why I'm not here ahead
of time.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
If we just got here ourselves. I want you to
meet miss Almond, my boss. This is mister Hugenan. Miss Almond.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Hello, Please to meet you.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
So your roof's boss, just as I pictured you. Mine's
got three stripes on his arm and four chips on
his shoulder. And listen to Miss Almond, don't get any tension.
To Ruthie, my name is Art wrong again.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Art is in my art belongs to daddy.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
We just can't stop him.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
Miss Olmon, don't try.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Well.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
I guess i'd better run along now.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Oh, nothing doing up.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
He'serve the table for three. But you didn't know I
should be a sign of the State Department.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I know everything.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
And just then I heard the bugle blowing revelle, and
I woke up in a cold sweam. Oh gosh, I
was afraid I already had said something to the hotel.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Left.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Well, you better save something to the matt Nate. I
have three tickets to my sister Eileen. We've just got
time to make it.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
My goodness, that's really not necessary.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Oh you children, run along.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
And have fun, nothing doing.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
If you'll leave a blight to the send on me,
I'll get the hiccups and bump into my start.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Oh my goodness, I should have met you twenty years ago.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
All right, you say you have three tickets?
Speaker 10 (10:39):
Yep, I told you I was psychic. Pretty good show,
oh dear, yes, in.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
The second act by the Sound American Sailors all.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Time, But.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
It was subway work.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
I like to see you laugh.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
You're nice.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Well, hate to take up. I've got to go home
and get suppered.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Sure you do.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
You know, this town certainly gives you the willies.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Look, it's full of blind people, so I wonder they
don't bump into each other or get run over him.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You know what, Ruth, We're all going home with you
and pick up some things on the way, so stop worrying.
How do you feel about some coming here tonight, miss
Alvan For.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Heaven's sake, Oh my, I've never had any I'm sure it's.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Awful, A very sensible attitude, is it okay if we
come with me?
Speaker 8 (11:44):
Since we manage to start asking me, you know it's okay?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Swell, hey, wait a minute, what's going on in here?
Speaker 6 (11:51):
It's one of those auctions. I wouldn't go near.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Them, No, not even if I push them.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Here we go, ready or not?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
If you can stop pushing, Admiral.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Says, anything you want, just the attendant.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
And I've seen to it that it goes on the
block right away.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
I want to deliver this, folks at genuine.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Roman car in a priceless down it up from.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
The tomb of the Caesars. Think of what this piece
of gold has seen if it can only dumping and
generous in the Roman emperors.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Hello, one of my read for this table piece.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
Of I have been two dollars price of enting?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Do I hear three?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Three?
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Three?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Three?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Do I hear three dollars twice?
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Hands holding you youngly in the greenback?
Speaker 9 (12:37):
Or I should say given away?
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Where? Let's see what you got through here? Let's sort
of antique, doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (12:47):
That look it says something around here? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Can you make it off?
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Dominus noster just geniamus perpetuous Augustus.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
I remembered my Latin that perpetuous means always.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Though I remember that much always.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I wonder if that hole belongs in it or if
somebody made it recently. You can't tell about Roman coins.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Whatever made you buy it? Rupe, I don't really know.
I just had to have it here a right, it's
for you?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
For me?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Well?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Thanks?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
You know what, I'm gonna word it around my neck
pair lucky piece like in that poem, remember it around
his neck he wore the maid, you child his charm,
little silver crucifix that keeps a man from harm. Thanks Ruthy.
That perpetuus was written there for us, you know, means
that I will always think of you, no matter where
they send me, and always love you all right.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
I hoped you'd say that, felling. It was a miracle
how we met in the ring. Remember, I love you too.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
For always always.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
About that cat yard. I know I won't like it,
but you've got my curiosity around.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
How's that boyfriend of ours? Oh?
Speaker 8 (14:20):
Oh, when you're startled me, I was thinking, how is he?
Speaker 6 (14:23):
He's just fine.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I guess you two had quite a week, haven't you.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
Oh wonderful, the most wonderful week of my life, Miss Almon.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
We haven't gone many places. Most of the evenings we
were home with mother, but it couldn't have been more wonderful.
I think he's about the best in the world. I
really mean that. Oh excuse me, Hello, oh ours? Hello, No, no,
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I'm not busy. I'm glad you called. Oh no, Art, Yes, yes,
I'll be right down, goodbye.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
All right, what's the matter, Ruth.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
He's leaving, Miss Elman. It's cut his leave short and
he's got to go right away. He wants me to
meet him downstairs in five minutes. May I go, Miss Elman?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Certainly quick?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Now off with you and don't try to come back
this afternoon, and wish him all the luck in the.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
World from me.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Here, I am Ruthie art oh arth Oh, no, don't cry, baby.
I've only got about ten minutes. They told me an
hour ago. I'm supposed to be on my way to
the boat. I can say I got lost for a
few minutes.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Boat.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
You mean that's right overseas, Darling. I had to see
you before I left Art.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
I won't see you again.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Sure you will, Ruthie, after it's all over. I'm coming
back to you.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
Darling.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
You're gonna marry me.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
You will, don't you, ruth You know I will. You're
the swellest thing that ever happened to me. I'll be
back as soon as I can with you.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Please don't, Ruthie. It's hard enough this way, darling. Rightly,
will you here? Have written down where you can send
your letters.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
They'll be forwarded. Don't worry if they don't hear from
me sometime. I'll be off the mailman's root for.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Quite a while, all right, Darling, right me? Please?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yes, I'll think of you every minute, be loving you.
Always got your coin and a silver chain around my neck.
I'll never take it off until I come back and
give it to you. Remember it says always, So you
don't have to worry. About anything, and I don't eat it.
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I love you, ruth You don't know how wonderful you are.
Nobody does, only me, Darling. Kiss me once so I
can remember on that jungle island.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Keep your eyes closed, Ruthie. I want to remember you
this way.
Speaker 11 (17:08):
Goodbye, Ruthie, Goodbye, Darling, my darling art.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
All day, I've been remembering how you kissed me goodbye,
just two months ago, exactly. I can't tell you how
it makes me feel. I close my eyes and you're
near me again for a second. Then I opened them
and I want to cry because you're so far away, Darling.
I'm so anxious to hear from you. I know you've
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written as I have written every day, but you must
be terribly far off that male Ma answered, who are you?
When I see you again, I'll look at you so
long you'll think I'm crazy. Months now, three whole months,
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not a word. It's a terrible miss.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
Omen not knowing where he is.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
I know it's too bad we didn't ask him some questions.
Then we'd know where his folks live and might get
some news about him from them. He doesn't have any folks, Oh,
I didn't know that. Well, doesn't he have an aunt
or an uncle or somebody not a soul, then you're
the only one close to it. Yes, why did it
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have to be this way? I hate all these people
sitting around looking so smug.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
I hate them. I hate them.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
I hate them.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
You always keep asking you what I think.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Well I'll tell you.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
I want to die because I hate everything. I can't
stand to sit down. I don't want to sit down.
It's all such a fake, everybody walking around being as
a smug. I hate them all. Ruth, dear, please, I
know how it is, Ruth.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Let's get out of here. I know a place I
want to take you.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
This is my church.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Root gives me a lot of comfort when.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
I need help. Yes, there's the statue Saint Teresa.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
The one with all the lighted candles in front Saint Teresa.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Which one is back in the corner? Oh there, Oh
that must be Saint Andrew. Yes, Saint Andrew. He was
the first friend of Jesus and is remembered for his
generosity and self effacement. Why hasn't he got any candles?
You think somebody'd pay attention to him? I don't know, Ruth.
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I'm gonna take him a couple of candles from Saint Teresa.
She won't mind them, all right, I'll wait here here
Saint Andrew. Two candles help him to know, Saint Andrew
that I love him, that I.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
Think of him. Always help him to know. Thanks for
bringing me here.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Miss Allman. It does help. I knew it would. Every
evening I'm gonna light a candle for Saint Andrew. It'll
help to cheer him up in his dark corner. That's
a good idea, Ruth.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Oh would I be in the way if I came
over to see you this evening? Oh?
Speaker 6 (21:04):
No, please do come all right, I'll be there around eight.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Well, here, I am on the dot.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
I've brought you a book.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
Why, Ruth, what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Child?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Are yes?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
What about him? Have you heard where?
Speaker 11 (21:39):
He is?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Dead?
Speaker 8 (21:41):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Dead?
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Just before you came, I got this, he says. He
died bravely on side pen. He told them to notify me.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Ruth.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Oh, you poor darling. It's never coming back to.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Ruth.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
Ruth.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Well, doctor, I don't understand it, Miss Ullman.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
She's been in this strange coma for five days, and
now as she was seeming to get better, it appears.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
That she has pneumonia.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
How serious is it?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Doctor, She's a very sick young lady. I don't mean
to allow you, but I think we should get her
to a hospital as soon as possible. I'm going to
give her the self a treatment.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
Poor Ruth, she's had such a hard time.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
By the way, Miss Ulman, she was mumbling something about
a Saint Andrew.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
What good she had meant by that?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Oh, she made a vow to light a candle each
day in front of the statue of Saint Andrew at
my church.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
She must have that on her mind, now, yes, yes,
that's probably it.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Well, if you don't mind, I'll call an ambulance.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Go right ahead, doctor, I'll go in and see if
I can make her understand that I've lit a candle
for each.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Day, to say that, yes, that might sue.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
There, doctor, doctor, she's not in her room.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
What her door to the hall's opened. She must have
walked out by herself. Good Lord, we've got to find her.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
She's gone out in this rain.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Heaven only knows what will happen.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Sat Andrew, Sat Andrew, I'm coming to light a candle.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Same Andrew, Ruthie. But here I am over here. Art sure,
say I'm glad I caught you.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Come in here and let me look at you.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Oh, Ruthie, let me look at your face.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
Hard Is it really you?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Isn't the King of England?
Speaker 8 (24:27):
You've come back?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Of course I've come back.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
What did you think i'd stay away, Ruthie.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I'm so glad to see I haven't been a start.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Yelling like an Indian.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
You didn't write me.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
You can't send letters without any mailman. What this one
needs is more mailman at the front or art.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
You've come back. It's just the same. Tell me, is
everything else still the same as it was?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Infinitely worse. I love you so much. I can't sleep
or eat or anything. It just like living cast away
in a jungle without you.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Come here. I want to hold you.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Remember it was raining like this I saw you the
first time. Remember, Oh yes, I got all your letters.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
And look.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Remember this it's the lucky piece. I gave you a
genuine Roman coin here. You'll keep it now. I don't
need it any more. You're not going back, no, never more.
I'm here to stay like this with you in my
arms always.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Doctor.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
I found her, she's over here.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yes, she must have fainted in this doorway. Thank heaven,
it's dry here. Let me take a look at her. Oh,
what's the matter.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
She didn't seem that far gone dead.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
She was such a nice little person, Doctor Lewis.
Speaker 7 (26:09):
I am sure she was.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Look something in her hand. Let's see. Hmm, that's strange.
Where could she have picked this up? Looks like an
old coin with a hole in the middle.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Let me see it. Oh, Dominus nostered just in the
armis perpetuous, Augustus, do you know what it is?
Speaker 8 (26:38):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yes, it belonged to and perpetuous means always.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Oh, doctor Lewis, this is a miracle, a miracle.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
M you have just heard Ben Hecht's story A Miracle
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in the Rain, adapted for Author's Playhouse by Nelson Armstad
and directed by mister Albert Cruz. Miss Fern Persons and
mister William Everett were heard as Ruth Wood and Art Hugenon.
Others in the cast were Miss Hope Summers, mister Charles Eggleston,
and mister Jess Pew. The original musical score was composed
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and conducted by doctor Roy Shield. This has been the
fourth in a new summer series of Author's Playhouse productions.
Radio adaptations of the best in the field of short stories.
Selections from the works of contemporary writers as well as
the acknowledged masters of the past. These dramas represent outstanding
productions presented on the weekly Author's Playhouse series, heard regularly
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open BC for the past three years. Next Author's Playhouse
will bring you the late Stephen Vincent Finney's story, Doc
Melhorne and the Pearly Gates. This is the national broadcasting
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company
Author's playhouse.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
And there in the rain a miracle must have occurred,
for she held in her hand the Roman coin she'd
given him, the coin that had the word always on it.
It must have been a miracle, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Doctor, Yes, miss Ellman, a miracle, A miracle in the rain.
We have been told that faith will move mountains. Perhaps
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then faith will reunite those who, through circumstance, have been
forced apart.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
But what it was and how it happened, we'll leave
to you.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Ben Hecked, who wrote the story, says it was a
miracle in the rain.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
All right now.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
The data is salad, jar of sweet pickers, and a
loaf of bread.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Anything else, miss Wood?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
That's all m.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I guess we're getting plan to your hard rain.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
This evening pretty hard?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Yes, you're pretty wet.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
No umbrella, No umbrella?
Speaker 8 (02:10):
Oh here, I'll.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Put your things in another sack, might get wet and tear.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
How's your mother?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (02:18):
Same as him?
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Good night, mister Stone.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Good night, miss Wood.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Don't get too wet going on. I'll try not to,
oh say I'm sorry. Goshall I ever learn to look
in front of me when I walk?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
My sergeant told me I was going to get into
trouble if I didn't in private hugons.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Wait here, I'll pick up your packages. That's the least
I can do. I'm really sorry, believe me.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Well, if you no, no, don't go yet.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Here's the dry doorway.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Better stop a minute to get your bearings.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
I don't think.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Oh come on all right now you're talking there, good night.
Just as I suspected, you're as well as the duck
pond in the middle of a flood. Here, here's a
clean akerchief. Now watch your face. Sure, come on, I.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Want to see what you look like beneath that three
feet of water. Well, thanks, gosh, look at her, go
what the rain?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Look at her go?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
You know that like this makes a town almost human.
There's nothing so good as a real rain.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Just listen to.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Her personally, I'm not so crazy about rain.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
It's all in the point of view. This rain won't
let up for hours. What do you say we just
walk out.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
And let her soak. I'll put your bundles under my
coat and then they won't get wet. Here, come on,
I can't.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
I've got to catch the bus.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
The bus come long, right, we'll catch a bus. Come
on out, we go.
Speaker 7 (03:49):
Come on, you're sitting here all right?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
You know your face needs this again?
Speaker 8 (04:06):
Oh no, no, I've one of my own handkies here
in my purse.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Have any idea where we're going?
Speaker 7 (04:11):
I'm going home, and that's what I figured.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Hein't got a mall or paw or something.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
My mother's home.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Oh that's wonderful. Now down to brass tacks. My name
is not Huguenot, Private US Army. I'm on my second day.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
I have a ten day furlough.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
What's your name?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Ruth Wood?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Ruthie.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
I can see by looking at you that you're a
girl a man can trust.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Why No, I'm serious. A fellow has to be pretty careful.
I tell you what.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I'm inviting you and your mom to have dinner with
me tonight. Ohose pickles will keep till tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
My mother can't go out. She's a cripple.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Oh well, then there's nothing left to do but eat
at your house.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Do you mean you sure I can wipe dishes?
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Look at that rain now it's turning Somersault. This is
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a happy home.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
The staerwell is our front yard, saying.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Not bad, not bad? And I could do with a
few more trees here. Come on, give me your kid.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
You know you got all you can do with that package.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Mister Shugerman, Hey, hey, hey, not that.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
The name's art as an art colonade.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
All right, Art. My mother may not speak to you.
She doesn't talk very much to anybody.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I see. Well, come on, we'll cheer up there.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
You can put the package on the table.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Okay, on the table.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
It is.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Mother, this is mister Hugenan. He's going to have dinner
with us.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Good evening, missus Wood. Nice place you have and a.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Piano way till I did said, I only sing after supper.
Keeps me being thrown out before I get my fiddles.
And don't pay any attention to your.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Daughter, missus Wood. My name is Art.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
As in art color, long lady, Art as in where
I fell.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
Good Heaven? Don't you ever stopped?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
And which is the way to the nearest bathtom? Sure,
I need a shave in the shower to look like
a flower.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
All right, to that door in there. There's a clean
towel in the closet behind the door.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Thanks a lot.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Now you fix everything up, and when you see me again,
I'll be looking very pretty. Another cup of coffee, yeah,
I thinks good stuff for your coffee.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Our you made mother smile. I haven't seen her do
that in years.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Good, I told you we'd cheer up.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Well, come on, missus Wood, I'm gonna wheel your chair
by the piano and sing your tune.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
I know here, let me do that.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Oh no, this is my job for the evening.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
There.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
How's that, missus Wood?
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Fine? You see? Are she likes you? She hasn't spoken
to anybody but me since I can remember.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Oh that's a good sign. Well, here goes.
Speaker 9 (07:14):
Chickens the crone on solid mountain. Hold y y, don't
doodle holiday.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
So many thirty girls I can counter holding Holiday.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
My true loves are blue, white Daisy. Come on, Rue,
sing it with me, doodle Holiday.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Sometimes she drives me almost crazy, old.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Doodle Well, Ruth, twelve o'clock on fine Saturday afternoon. All
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your work finished, all finished? Incidentally, young lady, I've been
watching you all morning.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Oh is anything wrong wrong? No?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Something's right?
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
How about letting an old friend in on the secret.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
What's his name? Oh? But I mean I didn't know
it was that.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
This, my dear young lady, When old man McCarey came in.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
He almost fell out of his.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Skin when you smiled at him and said, good morning,
mister McCarey. How's the old boy. Something's come up and
it ain't a raising faith.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Miss Elman, Why don't you come along with me? He
said he'd meet me downstairs at twelve to fifteen, and
I'd like you to sort of be there me.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
Yes, you're the best friend I have and I want you.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
To meet him. His name is our hug and Anim.
He's a soldier. I met him last night on my
way home. He's very nice, but I don't know much
about him. Will you come? Well?
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Come on, here's your head there he is which one
see the.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Social I see at least twenty within walking distance.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Hi, I got lost. That's why I'm not here ahead
of time.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
If we just got here ourselves. I want you to
meet miss Almond, my boss. This is mister Hugenan. Miss Almond.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Hello, Please to meet you.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
So your roof's boss, just as I pictured you. Mine's
got three stripes on his arm and four chips on
his shoulder. And listen to Miss Almond, don't get any tension.
To Ruthie, my name is Art wrong again.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Art is in my art belongs to daddy.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
We just can't stop him.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
Miss Olmon, don't try.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Well.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
I guess i'd better run along now.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Oh, nothing doing up.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
He'serve the table for three. But you didn't know I
should be a sign of the State Department.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I know everything.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
And just then I heard the bugle blowing revelle, and
I woke up in a cold sweam. Oh gosh, I
was afraid I already had said something to the hotel.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Left.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Well, you better save something to the matt Nate. I
have three tickets to my sister Eileen. We've just got
time to make it.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
My goodness, that's really not necessary.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Oh you children, run along.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
And have fun, nothing doing.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
If you'll leave a blight to the send on me,
I'll get the hiccups and bump into my start.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Oh my goodness, I should have met you twenty years ago.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
All right, you say you have three tickets?
Speaker 10 (10:39):
Yep, I told you I was psychic. Pretty good show,
oh dear, yes, in.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
The second act by the Sound American Sailors all.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Time, But.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
It was subway work.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
I like to see you laugh.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
You're nice.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Well, hate to take up. I've got to go home
and get suppered.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Sure you do.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
You know, this town certainly gives you the willies.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Look, it's full of blind people, so I wonder they
don't bump into each other or get run over him.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You know what, Ruth, We're all going home with you
and pick up some things on the way, so stop worrying.
How do you feel about some coming here tonight, miss
Alvan For.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Heaven's sake, Oh my, I've never had any I'm sure it's.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Awful, A very sensible attitude, is it okay if we
come with me?
Speaker 8 (11:44):
Since we manage to start asking me, you know it's okay?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Swell, hey, wait a minute, what's going on in here?
Speaker 6 (11:51):
It's one of those auctions. I wouldn't go near.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Them, No, not even if I push them.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Here we go, ready or not?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
If you can stop pushing, Admiral.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Says, anything you want, just the attendant.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
And I've seen to it that it goes on the
block right away.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
I want to deliver this, folks at genuine.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Roman car in a priceless down it up from.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
The tomb of the Caesars. Think of what this piece
of gold has seen if it can only dumping and
generous in the Roman emperors.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Hello, one of my read for this table piece.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
Of I have been two dollars price of enting?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Do I hear three?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Three?
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Three?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Three?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Do I hear three dollars twice?
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Hands holding you youngly in the greenback?
Speaker 9 (12:37):
Or I should say given away?
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Where? Let's see what you got through here? Let's sort
of antique, doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (12:47):
That look it says something around here? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Can you make it off?
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Dominus noster just geniamus perpetuous Augustus.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
I remembered my Latin that perpetuous means always.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Though I remember that much always.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I wonder if that hole belongs in it or if
somebody made it recently. You can't tell about Roman coins.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Whatever made you buy it? Rupe, I don't really know.
I just had to have it here a right, it's
for you?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
For me?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Well?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Thanks?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
You know what, I'm gonna word it around my neck
pair lucky piece like in that poem, remember it around
his neck he wore the maid, you child his charm,
little silver crucifix that keeps a man from harm. Thanks Ruthy.
That perpetuus was written there for us, you know, means
that I will always think of you, no matter where
they send me, and always love you all right.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
I hoped you'd say that, felling. It was a miracle
how we met in the ring. Remember, I love you too.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
For always always.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
About that cat yard. I know I won't like it,
but you've got my curiosity around.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
How's that boyfriend of ours? Oh?
Speaker 8 (14:20):
Oh, when you're startled me, I was thinking, how is he?
Speaker 6 (14:23):
He's just fine.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I guess you two had quite a week, haven't you.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
Oh wonderful, the most wonderful week of my life, Miss Almon.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
We haven't gone many places. Most of the evenings we
were home with mother, but it couldn't have been more wonderful.
I think he's about the best in the world. I
really mean that. Oh excuse me, Hello, oh ours? Hello, No, no,
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I'm not busy. I'm glad you called. Oh no, Art, Yes, yes,
I'll be right down, goodbye.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
All right, what's the matter, Ruth.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
He's leaving, Miss Elman. It's cut his leave short and
he's got to go right away. He wants me to
meet him downstairs in five minutes. May I go, Miss Elman?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Certainly quick?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Now off with you and don't try to come back
this afternoon, and wish him all the luck in the.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
World from me.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Here, I am Ruthie art oh arth Oh, no, don't cry, baby.
I've only got about ten minutes. They told me an
hour ago. I'm supposed to be on my way to
the boat. I can say I got lost for a
few minutes.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Boat.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
You mean that's right overseas, Darling. I had to see
you before I left Art.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
I won't see you again.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Sure you will, Ruthie, after it's all over. I'm coming
back to you.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
Darling.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
You're gonna marry me.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
You will, don't you, ruth You know I will. You're
the swellest thing that ever happened to me. I'll be
back as soon as I can with you.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Please don't, Ruthie. It's hard enough this way, darling. Rightly,
will you here? Have written down where you can send
your letters.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
They'll be forwarded. Don't worry if they don't hear from
me sometime. I'll be off the mailman's root for.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Quite a while, all right, Darling, right me? Please?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yes, I'll think of you every minute, be loving you.
Always got your coin and a silver chain around my neck.
I'll never take it off until I come back and
give it to you. Remember it says always, So you
don't have to worry. About anything, and I don't eat it.
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I love you, ruth You don't know how wonderful you are.
Nobody does, only me, Darling. Kiss me once so I
can remember on that jungle island.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Keep your eyes closed, Ruthie. I want to remember you
this way.
Speaker 11 (17:08):
Goodbye, Ruthie, Goodbye, Darling, my darling art.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
All day, I've been remembering how you kissed me goodbye,
just two months ago, exactly. I can't tell you how
it makes me feel. I close my eyes and you're
near me again for a second. Then I opened them
and I want to cry because you're so far away, Darling.
I'm so anxious to hear from you. I know you've
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written as I have written every day, but you must
be terribly far off that male Ma answered, who are you?
When I see you again, I'll look at you so
long you'll think I'm crazy. Months now, three whole months,
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not a word. It's a terrible miss.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
Omen not knowing where he is.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
I know it's too bad we didn't ask him some questions.
Then we'd know where his folks live and might get
some news about him from them. He doesn't have any folks, Oh,
I didn't know that. Well, doesn't he have an aunt
or an uncle or somebody not a soul, then you're
the only one close to it. Yes, why did it
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have to be this way? I hate all these people
sitting around looking so smug.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
I hate them. I hate them.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
I hate them.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
You always keep asking you what I think.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Well I'll tell you.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
I want to die because I hate everything. I can't
stand to sit down. I don't want to sit down.
It's all such a fake, everybody walking around being as
a smug. I hate them all. Ruth, dear, please, I
know how it is, Ruth.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Let's get out of here. I know a place I
want to take you.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
This is my church.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Root gives me a lot of comfort when.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
I need help. Yes, there's the statue Saint Teresa.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
The one with all the lighted candles in front Saint Teresa.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Which one is back in the corner? Oh there, Oh
that must be Saint Andrew. Yes, Saint Andrew. He was
the first friend of Jesus and is remembered for his
generosity and self effacement. Why hasn't he got any candles?
You think somebody'd pay attention to him? I don't know, Ruth.
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I'm gonna take him a couple of candles from Saint Teresa.
She won't mind them, all right, I'll wait here here
Saint Andrew. Two candles help him to know, Saint Andrew
that I love him, that I.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
Think of him. Always help him to know. Thanks for
bringing me here.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Miss Allman. It does help. I knew it would. Every
evening I'm gonna light a candle for Saint Andrew. It'll
help to cheer him up in his dark corner. That's
a good idea, Ruth.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Oh would I be in the way if I came
over to see you this evening? Oh?
Speaker 6 (21:04):
No, please do come all right, I'll be there around eight.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Well, here, I am on the dot.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
I've brought you a book.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
Why, Ruth, what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Child?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Are yes?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
What about him? Have you heard where?
Speaker 11 (21:39):
He is?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Dead?
Speaker 8 (21:41):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Dead?
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Just before you came, I got this, he says. He
died bravely on side pen. He told them to notify me.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Ruth.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Oh, you poor darling. It's never coming back to.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Ruth.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
Ruth.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Well, doctor, I don't understand it, Miss Ullman.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
She's been in this strange coma for five days, and
now as she was seeming to get better, it appears.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
That she has pneumonia.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
How serious is it?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Doctor, She's a very sick young lady. I don't mean
to allow you, but I think we should get her
to a hospital as soon as possible. I'm going to
give her the self a treatment.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
Poor Ruth, she's had such a hard time.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
By the way, Miss Ulman, she was mumbling something about
a Saint Andrew.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
What good she had meant by that?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Oh, she made a vow to light a candle each
day in front of the statue of Saint Andrew at
my church.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
She must have that on her mind, now, yes, yes,
that's probably it.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Well, if you don't mind, I'll call an ambulance.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Go right ahead, doctor, I'll go in and see if
I can make her understand that I've lit a candle
for each.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Day, to say that, yes, that might sue.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
There, doctor, doctor, she's not in her room.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
What her door to the hall's opened. She must have
walked out by herself. Good Lord, we've got to find her.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
She's gone out in this rain.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Heaven only knows what will happen.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Sat Andrew, Sat Andrew, I'm coming to light a candle.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Same Andrew, Ruthie. But here I am over here. Art sure,
say I'm glad I caught you.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Come in here and let me look at you.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Oh, Ruthie, let me look at your face.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
Hard Is it really you?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Isn't the King of England?
Speaker 8 (24:27):
You've come back?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Of course I've come back.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
What did you think i'd stay away, Ruthie.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I'm so glad to see I haven't been a start.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Yelling like an Indian.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
You didn't write me.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
You can't send letters without any mailman. What this one
needs is more mailman at the front or art.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
You've come back. It's just the same. Tell me, is
everything else still the same as it was?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Infinitely worse. I love you so much. I can't sleep
or eat or anything. It just like living cast away
in a jungle without you.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Come here. I want to hold you.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Remember it was raining like this I saw you the
first time. Remember, Oh yes, I got all your letters.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
And look.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Remember this it's the lucky piece. I gave you a
genuine Roman coin here. You'll keep it now. I don't
need it any more. You're not going back, no, never more.
I'm here to stay like this with you in my
arms always.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Doctor.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
I found her, she's over here.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yes, she must have fainted in this doorway. Thank heaven,
it's dry here. Let me take a look at her. Oh,
what's the matter.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
She didn't seem that far gone dead.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
She was such a nice little person, Doctor Lewis.
Speaker 7 (26:09):
I am sure she was.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Look something in her hand. Let's see. Hmm, that's strange.
Where could she have picked this up? Looks like an
old coin with a hole in the middle.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Let me see it. Oh, Dominus nostered just in the
armis perpetuous, Augustus, do you know what it is?
Speaker 8 (26:38):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yes, it belonged to and perpetuous means always.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Oh, doctor Lewis, this is a miracle, a miracle.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
M you have just heard Ben Hecht's story A Miracle
(27:34):
in the Rain, adapted for Author's Playhouse by Nelson Armstad
and directed by mister Albert Cruz. Miss Fern Persons and
mister William Everett were heard as Ruth Wood and Art Hugenon.
Others in the cast were Miss Hope Summers, mister Charles Eggleston,
and mister Jess Pew. The original musical score was composed
(27:55):
and conducted by doctor Roy Shield. This has been the
fourth in a new summer series of Author's Playhouse productions.
Radio adaptations of the best in the field of short stories.
Selections from the works of contemporary writers as well as
the acknowledged masters of the past. These dramas represent outstanding
productions presented on the weekly Author's Playhouse series, heard regularly
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open BC for the past three years. Next Author's Playhouse
will bring you the late Stephen Vincent Finney's story, Doc
Melhorne and the Pearly Gates. This is the national broadcasting
(28:50):
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