August 17, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
The Shenley Laboratories Producers of Penicillin. Shenley present the Encore Theater,
Yoncore Theater play Tonight Magnificent Obsession. Our star is Cornell Wire. Tonight,
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Shenley Laboratories present the first in a new series of
great dramatic programs. Some of our stories are fact the
struggles and accomplishments of great men of medicine. Others are fiction,
stories of devotion to an ideal individual, heroism, or great courage.
By these programs, Shenley Laboratories would remind you that medical
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science some progress, is not cold in personal research or
pages of statistics, but a worn human story told in
living terms, whether it's the life of one of medicine's
immortals or the simple every day record of service rendered
by your family physician. Now The Encore Theater presents Magnificent Obsession,
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starring Cornell Wild as Doctor Robert Merrick and Green Tuttle
as Helen Hudson.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
To me, doctor Wayne Hudson had always been a legend,
even back in those days when my life was dedicated.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
To pleasure and very little else.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
He was one of the world's great surgeons and one
of the world's great men we never met, and yet
his life ended because of me, and my life began
because of him. That was many years ago, but I
can still recall that dark morning when I came to
in doctor Hudson's Brightwood hospital with a splitting headache and
no idea at all what I was doing there. I
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heard voices outside my door, and I lay there in
a cold sweat listening.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
How did it happen? Doctor Ramsey.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Doctor Hudson had gone for a swim to freshen up.
He was very tired, his heart was over text. We
could have saved him with the pull mutter, but it
wasn't there.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Where was it.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
On the far side of the lake.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Young Bobby Merrick and some of his friends had stayed
an all night poker party. Early this morning, Marrek decided
to take them off for a sail on his boat.
He was knocked out and overboard by a swinging boom.
They rushed over in a speedboat for the pull mutter,
and Justin took it to them. If we had had it,
we could have saved doctor Hudson over.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
We could have saved doctor Hudson. We could have saved
doctor Hudson. I lay there for days with those words
lashing at me. I saw them in the eyes of
the people who came to see me. I saw them
in the eyes of the nurses and the doctors when
I began to think I'll never escape them. Every time
I read a death notice, I think, could doctor Hudson
have saved that life? And at last I couldn't stand
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it anymore, and I cornered. Nancy Ashford, the head nurse. Look,
missus Ashford, I'd like to ask you something, and I'd
like to have you ask yourself the same question. Is
it my fault that my life was saved and young
doctor Hudson was drowned?
Speaker 6 (03:42):
How did you know? Nurses are always under strict daughters
not to tell.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
No, the nurses didn't tell me. But I have ears
and I have eyes.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Unfortunately, you're all asking yourself what right have I to
be alive and doctor Hudson dead? No, well, I'm asking
myself that I know my life isn't worth his.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Doctor Hudson wouldn't want you to feel that way.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
No, well, how would doctor Hudson want me to feel?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
I think doctor Hudson would say that if you felt
responsible for the loss of a man, then you'd better
find a way to make up for that loss.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
That's a pretty big order, sister.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Yes, mister Merrick, that is a pretty big order.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
After I left the hospital, I spent the days and
the nights walking and thinking. I couldn't sit still, I
couldn't sleep. I was confused and lost, and growing more
and more convinced that Bobby Merrick was a pretty miserable
character and the world would be much better off without him.
And then one day, when I was out walking, I
met a girl. Her car had broken down.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Hell, hell, there, I wonder if you could help me.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
She smiled at me, and for a moment the fires
burning inside me flick it out, and I was almost
at peace. I've always laughed people who talked about love
at first sight, but her smile went straight to my
heart and stayed there. I took all the time I
quit fixing her car, and I was sorry when I
had finished.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Thank you so much. I'm very grateful to you.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Oh was nothing at all. I always glad to help
a lady in distress.
Speaker 8 (05:16):
I don't know what I would have done if you
hadn't come along.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I don't suppose that there would be a chance of
seeing you again. I don't suppose I could call her
just to see how the car was getting along. Never
mind that probably sounded pretty fresh.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
Your alone, so.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Much loneliness is only part of what's wrong with me, lady,
Only a very small part.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
You know.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
My husband used to say, did you know doctor Hudson?
By any chance? So many people did.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I beg your pardon? What did you say?
Speaker 8 (05:44):
I just ask you if you knew my husband, doctor
Wayne Hudson.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
No, I never had that pleasure.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
Well, anyhow, he used to say that all paying passes
and that we grow by it. Well, I'm not going
to preach a serve. Can I give you a lib?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
No? Thank you, Missus hud good night.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
Wait a minute, aren't you going to tell me your name?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Sure? Why not?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
The name's Merk, Missus Hudson, Bobby Merrick, Bobby married. Yes,
it's a pity, isn't it? For a moment we were
almost friends? Or am I presuming you are presuming good
nights to me? I stood there watching her card disappear
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over the hill, feeling as though I had been slammed
against the earth, until every nerve was bleeding, and then
once more I started walking, hour after hour, mile after mile,
I didn't know where I was walking.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I didn't care.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I lost all consciousness of my surroundings, until suddenly I
realized that it was very late at night, and I
was cold.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
And lost in more ways than one.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I stopped at a house whose lighted windows suddenly appeared
like a beacon. Yes, I beg your pardon, but I'm
afraid i've lost my way to come in.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
If I could just use your telephone.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
You look all in. Why don't you sit down and
rest a few moments.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Thanks. I'm sorry to bust in like this.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I thought I knew my way perfectly.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Well. They wait, where have I seen that face before?
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Oh that's a bluster of doctor Hudson, I may just
before his death. It's for the hospital. You may have
heard of.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Him, heard of him? Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yes, I've heard of him. He's haunting me. First, my
life is saved with someone's lung machine. Who's doctor Hudson's.
Then they take me to a hospital, who's doctor Hudsons.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Then I meet a girl, a very beautiful girl, and
whose wife is she doctor Hutchon? That's right, right?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And I come here to borrow a telephone. There he
is again, he's haunting me. He's haunting me. I see
your own mister Merrick's grandson. Yes, that's me, Bobby Merrick.
A name that will go down, and inform me a
name that will go down.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
You go right to sleep, mister Merrick, and in the
morning we'll have a long talk. I've been wanting to
talk to you for some time. Morning, mister Merrick.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Sleep, Well, why I beg your pardon? Would you mind
telling me where I am?
Speaker 5 (08:42):
You're in my house, on my couch. As a matter
of fact, my name is Randolph. I'm a sculptor.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Oh well, of course that accounts for everything. Yeah, I
have some coffee while we talk. Thanks. I hope I
didn't cause you any trouble last.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Night, not at all.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
When I learned you were a friend of doctor Hudson's,
I was glad to be of any service I could.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I'm sorry, but I can't claim any sort of friendship
with doctor Hudson.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Doctor Hudson was every one's friend. I think you should
know a little about him and a magnificent obsession of his.
If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be a sculptor.
You see, Doctor Hudson taught me how to use my
life how to make contact with the source of infinite power?
But what the power that keeps the world and the
stars spinning through infinite space? It applies to humans too,
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and once you establish contact with that powerhouse, you can
fulfill your destiny.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Well, I'm afraid this is all a little beyond me.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
There's no reason why it should be. Christ originated the
science of generating human power, and so successfully did he
practice it that he's more alive to day than he
was over nineteen hundred years ago.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Well, supposing there is such a power, how do you
establish contact with it?
Speaker 5 (09:45):
All you do is go out find people who need
help and help them. Only it has to be done
in absolute secrecy, and you must never let anyone know
about it. Doctor Hudson lived by that doctrine. If you
took it up, that would be one way of making
up his law. And there's another thing you might take up.
What's that his profession. I have something to tell you,
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missus Ashford. Yes, I'm going to study surgery. You Yes,
you told me. Doctor Hudson would say I should make
up the loss. Well that's what I'm going to try
to do.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Maybe I won't succeed, but if I'm ever to have
any respect for myself again, I have to try.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
Nancy, would you like I'm sorry I disturbed you, Nancy.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
I'll start by later.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Helen Bob is going to study surgery.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Surgery, Bobby Mark, Yes, it does sound funny.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
Doesn't it have you any idea at all? What it
means to be a surgeon. It means years of study
and work. It means discipline and self denial.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
It means much more than that, missus Hudson. It means
being able to look people in the eye again and
to sleep at night. Means being able to look at
some people and think I have eased your pain, and
at others and think, with God's.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Help, I've given your years to live.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It means being able to look at your hands. I
know that there's life in them and healing, and that
you're earning your place in this world.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
Where did you learn all that from?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Doctor Hudson?
Speaker 8 (11:20):
Yes, for a moment you sounded like him.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
She stood looking at me for a moment, and then
she reached out her hand and I took it, and
once again, for that moment, we were friends. I asked
if I could drive her home, and she said yes,
and a lot of things seemed to be beginning, but
they came to a quick end.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
It was my fault.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
She wanted to go straight home, but I was so
happy to be with her that I went in the
opposite direction. She was angry with me then, and when
we came to a stoplight, before I could do anything,
she jumped from the car. What happened then is still
a confused, blurred thing. Helen wait a monment.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Well, doctor Ramsay, the operation was a success, at least
as far as her life is concerned.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Thank God for that.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
But there seems to be a depressed fracture involving the
occipital lobe of the brain.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I'm afraid she will never see again.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
No, oh no, she will never see again. She will
never see again. The words branded themselves into my brain.
They were always there through the days that became weeks,
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the weeks that became months, months that gradually grouped themselves
into years. I went on with my studies, always searching
desperately for the thing that might restore Helen's sight. I'd
try to watch over her from a distance.
Speaker 10 (12:56):
Bob is your lawyer, I must tell you that Helen
Hudson's stocks aren't worth the paper there printed.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
All right, replace her bad stocks and bonds with some
of my good ones.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
What she must have a steady income.
Speaker 10 (13:06):
I heard from doctor Richard this morning. Five of the
specialists we wrote to have agreed to meet in Paris.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Good. Hey, what time is it? Well that's about two. Why, Oh,
I've got to get to the park. The park, Yes,
I go there every day at this time.
Speaker 10 (13:19):
Well, this is certainly a switch on the old Merrick.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You bet it is. She came every day into the
little park near her house, and I would sit there
and watch them. She brought her bray of books with
her and she would sit there and study. It was
a long time before I had an opportunity to speak
to her, But at last one day she dropped her
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book and I was able to pick it up and
hand it to her. Here's your book.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Oh, thank you. I didn't realize anyone was near. I
was studying my lesson.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Oh would you let me coach?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I couldn't do that.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
I'd be embarrassed learning ABC's with a grown up.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It won't be long before you'll be reading Shakespeare. Did
you know they have him and Brail?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Now?
Speaker 9 (14:05):
Yes I did.
Speaker 8 (14:07):
But how do you know, well.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I'm interested in the Braille system.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Oh are you a doctor, a fledgeling doctor?
Speaker 8 (14:15):
Really?
Speaker 9 (14:17):
What did you say?
Speaker 8 (14:17):
Your name was, doctor Robert? Oh, doctor Robert. I'm missus Hudson. Doctor.
Thank you so much for your courtesy. I must be
going now.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Will you be here tomorrow?
Speaker 9 (14:29):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (14:30):
I come here every day.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Well, I'll be waiting for you. Hello, Missus Hudson. You're
late today.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Yes, I know, but so many exciting things have happened.
You've been so good to meet these past months. I
want you to be the first to know. I'm going
to Paris for a consultation. Yes, a number of eyes
specialists and meet there. And while they're having that convention,
I suppose it's because of what my husband stood for
in the medical profession if asked me to come.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Oh, I'm so happy for you.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Surely men like Rochard, Darnelli Rittenbacker will be able to
find the answer.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
How did you know they'll be there?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Well, they're the most famous. I just suppose they would
be the ones. I'm sure they'll be able to help you.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
I just can't tell you what it means to me.
There's so many things I'm so hungry to see you again,
you'll see them not telling something else. I'm very anxious
to see you all these months knowing you. Yes, I'm
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very anxious to see you.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I watched her go that day, knowing that if her
sight was restored, I would never see her again. And
I wish that, somehow, some way I had managed to
say to her, I love you as ever to be
a woman.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
For me, it can only be you. And suddenly I.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Was very cold, and I walked away along a lonely street.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Between the acts of Encore Theater. Shenley Laboratories bring you
an announcement that is vital and important for to day.
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or that penicillin is playing a part in research on
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on their development and improvement.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Certainly, as one of.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
The world's largest users of applied research in the field
of mols, Shenleigh knowledge and experience will be useful in
the continuing task of supplying your doctor with more and
better tools to aid in his work of healing. Now
Shenley Laboratories present the second act of Magnificent Obsession, starring
Cornell Wilde and Lorene Tuttle. Doctor Merrick continue was his story.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Helen went to Paris for the consultation. I followed her day.
I was in that consultation room. Oh, Helen didn't know it.
Speaker 11 (18:24):
Now missus Hudson, just fix your eyes as though you
were looking straight in front of you. Now, then please
tell me if you see a little light. No, a
day before yesterday, she had definitely perception of light. You
say you perceived light the other day, Missus Hudson, I
think so, yes, which indicates slightly less trouble on one
side of the brain than the other. Just rest for
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a few moments.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Well, gentlemen, dot to Merrick. Personally, I wouldn't operate, and
the rest of you.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Gentlemen nine, it is no good for operation.
Speaker 11 (19:07):
Every year we make new discoveries, Doctor Merrick. Perhaps next
year or the following we may be better able to
help her, But right now an operation is not the answer.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Yes, it's doctor Robert.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
Dr Robert will come in, come in. What are you
doing in Paris?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Or I had some business?
Speaker 8 (19:43):
I may as well tell you right away. I'm not
going to see you again.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
And don't say that, Helen, you're going to see with
my eyes. I have nothing else to do with the
rest of my life but help you to see whatever
you want to see. Come on now, I'll tell you why.
Let's get all dressed up and go out and do
the town show you Paris, and show Paris you.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Have some popcorns.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Thanks, tell me some more about the carnival.
Speaker 12 (20:18):
Well, on your right, madam is a Tinka, the faintest
lady in the world. She tips the scales of three
hundred and sixty pounds made down. And on your left
we have a sword swallower.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yes, there it goes.
Speaker 12 (20:30):
A sword is disappearing right down his stomach.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Can you imagine doing that for a living twice a day?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yes, but not swords. Hey, there's a ferris wheel. Come on,
let's go right on the ferris wheel.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Where are we now?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
We're standing on top of a hill, and all Paris
is at your feet. That music is coming from a
little Italian inn down the hill.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Away lovely, isn't It makes you think of moonlight and
gondolous and stars and romance.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Will you marry me? Helen?
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Oh? This combination of moonlight and music can be a
very heady, dangerous thing, got it?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Oh? Don't. I've never been so serious about anything in
my life.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
I wish I could say yes, I wish I could say,
here is my life, take it and let me be
all things to you.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
But I can't say that.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
I haven't even half a life to get you. You
can't enter my world, and I've lost my passport to yours.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
There's only one world.
Speaker 8 (21:42):
I wish that were true. Bobby Merrick, you know I
knew the first time you spoke to me.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Oh why didn't you say something?
Speaker 8 (21:51):
Why didn't I Probably because somewhere along the line and
I couldn't tell you when or what more I fell
in love with you? And has that operation have been
a success? I was going to find you and.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Tell you, darling, will you marry me? Will you please
marry me?
Speaker 7 (22:13):
It's getting late.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
We better start back, Helen. I'm very tired. Please will
you let me give you my answer.
Speaker 9 (22:19):
In the morning.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
If it's the right one, I will.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
It will be the right one.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
In the morning.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
There was a note for me at the hotel desk,
and she was gone. She said no, it doesn't matter
particularly what she said. She didn't want to be a burden.
Thank you for the days we've had together. Thank you
for your love and your devotion. Words a few dozen
of them that rattled emptily against my heart. So then
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then I had nothing but my work. And while it
was exciting and gratifying, as time went on, I was
more and more lonely for the happiness that had eluded me.
It was a long time before I returned to America,
before I returned to take over doctor Hudson's position at
Brightwood Hospital.
Speaker 10 (23:17):
Doctor Mary, this is a proud day for Brightwood Hospital.
It's going to be a great pleasure working with you, sir.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I thank you, Doctor Thomas.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
I tell you it makes us feel pretty good to
be a part of something that is constantly growing. Medicine
and surgery have changed since I was your age, and
they'll change more by the time you were mine, and
always for the better.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Hello, Bobby, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Oh Hello, Nancy Darling. You look wonderful.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
I hate to tear you away from all these compliments,
but there's a mister Randolph waiting, but you could just
see him for a moment.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Of course, I'll be glad to ride over here. Mister Randolph.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Hello, Bob, don't you remember me? I'm afraid I you
spent a night in my studio once, of course, the sculptor.
How are you, sir? Please sit down. It's good to
see you again. You've come a long way. I've got
a long way to go. You've become a great doctor
at a very young age. And also, if I'm not mistaken,
you've given with real generosity. Well you did establish contact
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with the source of power, didn't you.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
You're mistaken about one thing, mister Randolph. I didn't give
anything to better myself in any way I've found it clinics.
I've donated to medical research, but it was for one
person only who needed the kind of help that a
doctor can give. Whatever I've been able to do was
done in the hope that she might be one of
those helped somewhere.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Doctor Merrick, let me tell you what I've come to
you about. Not long ago, I was in Virginian. While
I was there, I happened on a very unfortunate case
a woman who is blind.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Blind.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
This blind woman whom I want you to help afford
just the opportunity to complete a circle. She is missus Hudson.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Helen. Yes, she's critically ill, Helen.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I'll go to her at once. She hasn't rallied since
this morning. No, all right, prepare for the operation. We
don't want to lose a minute if we can help it.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
They're ready in the operating room, Bob, Nancy.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I don't know if I can do it, Bah, I
can't hold my hands steady, look at them. All these
years I've been hoping, praying that someday I'd be able
to help her.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Now, no, doctor Merrick, this is no time for emotions
of sentiment.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
This is surgery. The fact that the patient is Helen
Hudson makes no difference.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
This is a woman whose life is in your hands,
and you can save her.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
You can, and you will.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
You're not a man right now, You're a surgeon, Thank.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
You, Nancy. Come on, lie still, Darling. Don't try to move.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
Bo.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yes, dear, it's very important for you to be perfect
and quiet.
Speaker 9 (26:13):
You operate me.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Yes, my eyes? What about your eyes? Darling?
Speaker 8 (26:22):
I think I can see just a little lie.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Are you sure?
Speaker 9 (26:30):
Yes, yes, I am sure.
Speaker 8 (26:35):
What does it mean?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
It means that one day, very soon, you will be
able to see again. You must go to sleep now, Darling.
You mustn't get excited today.
Speaker 8 (26:48):
Tomorrow, Bob. Can I get excited.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Tomorrow, Yes, Darling, tomorrow. Tomorrow is such a beautiful word.
Tomorrow our world will begin again, and from now on
it's going to be the same world for both of us.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
In a moment, we'll bring back our star Cornell wild.
But first, ladies and gentlemen, may we leave you with
this thought. Shenley Laboratories, makers of penicillin, bring you this
program in tribute not only to the famous men of medicine,
but also to the one man whose responsibility is your
health and welfare, your doctor. Today, your life expectancy is
fifteen years greater than that of your grandfather, and part
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of the credit belongs to your doctor. It is the
purpose of Shenley Laboratories to waid by every means at
our disposal, the service rendered you by your physician. Now,
ladies and gentlemen, Cornell.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Wild Words are magnificent instruments for the expression of thoughts
and ideas, and simplicity is the soul of clarity. I
can think of nothing at this time better sums up
the spirit of this Shenley Laboratory's program than this simple prayer.
The eternal Providence has appointed me to watch over the
life and death of all thy creatures. May I always
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see in the patient a fellow creature in pain. Grant
me strength and opportunity always to extend the domain of
my craft. This is the prayer of the physician. It
is ages old, yet today it is as new as
the hope for a peaceful way of life for all
the world. May we invite you to listen again next
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week at the same time when Shenley Laboratories presents The
Life of Louis Pasteur, starring Paul Lucas a great star
in a great vehicle.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Good Night, Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd S.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Douglas was produced and directed by William Lawrence and is
broadcast through the courtesy of Universal Pictures, producers of Knife
and Paradise. The musical score was by Eat Stephens and.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
The adaptation by G.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Holloway for Now Whild appeared to the courtesy of twentieth
Century Fox and will soon be seen in their technicolor
production Centennial Summer. This is Frank Graham speaking for Shenley Laboratories,
produces of Penicillin, Shenley, and inviting you to listen to
the Encore theater next Tuesday at the same time when
you will hear Paul Lucas in the Life of Louis Faster.
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This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System
The Shenley Laboratories Producers of Penicillin. Shenley present the Encore Theater,
Yoncore Theater play Tonight Magnificent Obsession. Our star is Cornell Wire. Tonight,
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Shenley Laboratories present the first in a new series of
great dramatic programs. Some of our stories are fact the
struggles and accomplishments of great men of medicine. Others are fiction,
stories of devotion to an ideal individual, heroism, or great courage.
By these programs, Shenley Laboratories would remind you that medical
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science some progress, is not cold in personal research or
pages of statistics, but a worn human story told in
living terms, whether it's the life of one of medicine's
immortals or the simple every day record of service rendered
by your family physician. Now The Encore Theater presents Magnificent Obsession,
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starring Cornell Wild as Doctor Robert Merrick and Green Tuttle
as Helen Hudson.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
To me, doctor Wayne Hudson had always been a legend,
even back in those days when my life was dedicated.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
To pleasure and very little else.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
He was one of the world's great surgeons and one
of the world's great men we never met, and yet
his life ended because of me, and my life began
because of him. That was many years ago, but I
can still recall that dark morning when I came to
in doctor Hudson's Brightwood hospital with a splitting headache and
no idea at all what I was doing there. I
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heard voices outside my door, and I lay there in
a cold sweat listening.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
How did it happen? Doctor Ramsey.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Doctor Hudson had gone for a swim to freshen up.
He was very tired, his heart was over text. We
could have saved him with the pull mutter, but it
wasn't there.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Where was it.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
On the far side of the lake.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Young Bobby Merrick and some of his friends had stayed
an all night poker party. Early this morning, Marrek decided
to take them off for a sail on his boat.
He was knocked out and overboard by a swinging boom.
They rushed over in a speedboat for the pull mutter,
and Justin took it to them. If we had had it,
we could have saved doctor Hudson over.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
We could have saved doctor Hudson. We could have saved
doctor Hudson. I lay there for days with those words
lashing at me. I saw them in the eyes of
the people who came to see me. I saw them
in the eyes of the nurses and the doctors when
I began to think I'll never escape them. Every time
I read a death notice, I think, could doctor Hudson
have saved that life? And at last I couldn't stand
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it anymore, and I cornered. Nancy Ashford, the head nurse. Look,
missus Ashford, I'd like to ask you something, and I'd
like to have you ask yourself the same question. Is
it my fault that my life was saved and young
doctor Hudson was drowned?
Speaker 6 (03:42):
How did you know? Nurses are always under strict daughters
not to tell.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
No, the nurses didn't tell me. But I have ears
and I have eyes.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Unfortunately, you're all asking yourself what right have I to
be alive and doctor Hudson dead? No, well, I'm asking
myself that I know my life isn't worth his.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Doctor Hudson wouldn't want you to feel that way.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
No, well, how would doctor Hudson want me to feel?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
I think doctor Hudson would say that if you felt
responsible for the loss of a man, then you'd better
find a way to make up for that loss.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
That's a pretty big order, sister.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Yes, mister Merrick, that is a pretty big order.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
After I left the hospital, I spent the days and
the nights walking and thinking. I couldn't sit still, I
couldn't sleep. I was confused and lost, and growing more
and more convinced that Bobby Merrick was a pretty miserable
character and the world would be much better off without him.
And then one day, when I was out walking, I
met a girl. Her car had broken down.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Hell, hell, there, I wonder if you could help me.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
She smiled at me, and for a moment the fires
burning inside me flick it out, and I was almost
at peace. I've always laughed people who talked about love
at first sight, but her smile went straight to my
heart and stayed there. I took all the time I
quit fixing her car, and I was sorry when I
had finished.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Thank you so much. I'm very grateful to you.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Oh was nothing at all. I always glad to help
a lady in distress.
Speaker 8 (05:16):
I don't know what I would have done if you
hadn't come along.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I don't suppose that there would be a chance of
seeing you again. I don't suppose I could call her
just to see how the car was getting along. Never
mind that probably sounded pretty fresh.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
Your alone, so.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Much loneliness is only part of what's wrong with me, lady,
Only a very small part.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
You know.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
My husband used to say, did you know doctor Hudson?
By any chance? So many people did.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I beg your pardon? What did you say?
Speaker 8 (05:44):
I just ask you if you knew my husband, doctor
Wayne Hudson.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
No, I never had that pleasure.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
Well, anyhow, he used to say that all paying passes
and that we grow by it. Well, I'm not going
to preach a serve. Can I give you a lib?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
No? Thank you, Missus hud good night.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
Wait a minute, aren't you going to tell me your name?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Sure? Why not?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
The name's Merk, Missus Hudson, Bobby Merrick, Bobby married. Yes,
it's a pity, isn't it? For a moment we were
almost friends? Or am I presuming you are presuming good
nights to me? I stood there watching her card disappear
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over the hill, feeling as though I had been slammed
against the earth, until every nerve was bleeding, and then
once more I started walking, hour after hour, mile after mile,
I didn't know where I was walking.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I didn't care.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I lost all consciousness of my surroundings, until suddenly I
realized that it was very late at night, and I
was cold.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
And lost in more ways than one.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I stopped at a house whose lighted windows suddenly appeared
like a beacon. Yes, I beg your pardon, but I'm
afraid i've lost my way to come in.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
If I could just use your telephone.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
You look all in. Why don't you sit down and
rest a few moments.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Thanks. I'm sorry to bust in like this.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I thought I knew my way perfectly.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Well. They wait, where have I seen that face before?
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Oh that's a bluster of doctor Hudson, I may just
before his death. It's for the hospital. You may have
heard of.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Him, heard of him? Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yes, I've heard of him. He's haunting me. First, my
life is saved with someone's lung machine. Who's doctor Hudson's.
Then they take me to a hospital, who's doctor Hudsons.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Then I meet a girl, a very beautiful girl, and
whose wife is she doctor Hutchon? That's right, right?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And I come here to borrow a telephone. There he
is again, he's haunting me. He's haunting me. I see
your own mister Merrick's grandson. Yes, that's me, Bobby Merrick.
A name that will go down, and inform me a
name that will go down.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
You go right to sleep, mister Merrick, and in the
morning we'll have a long talk. I've been wanting to
talk to you for some time. Morning, mister Merrick.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Sleep, Well, why I beg your pardon? Would you mind
telling me where I am?
Speaker 5 (08:42):
You're in my house, on my couch. As a matter
of fact, my name is Randolph. I'm a sculptor.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Oh well, of course that accounts for everything. Yeah, I
have some coffee while we talk. Thanks. I hope I
didn't cause you any trouble last.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Night, not at all.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
When I learned you were a friend of doctor Hudson's,
I was glad to be of any service I could.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I'm sorry, but I can't claim any sort of friendship
with doctor Hudson.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Doctor Hudson was every one's friend. I think you should
know a little about him and a magnificent obsession of his.
If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be a sculptor.
You see, Doctor Hudson taught me how to use my
life how to make contact with the source of infinite power?
But what the power that keeps the world and the
stars spinning through infinite space? It applies to humans too,
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and once you establish contact with that powerhouse, you can
fulfill your destiny.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Well, I'm afraid this is all a little beyond me.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
There's no reason why it should be. Christ originated the
science of generating human power, and so successfully did he
practice it that he's more alive to day than he
was over nineteen hundred years ago.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Well, supposing there is such a power, how do you
establish contact with it?
Speaker 5 (09:45):
All you do is go out find people who need
help and help them. Only it has to be done
in absolute secrecy, and you must never let anyone know
about it. Doctor Hudson lived by that doctrine. If you
took it up, that would be one way of making
up his law. And there's another thing you might take up.
What's that his profession. I have something to tell you,
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missus Ashford. Yes, I'm going to study surgery. You Yes,
you told me. Doctor Hudson would say I should make
up the loss. Well that's what I'm going to try
to do.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Maybe I won't succeed, but if I'm ever to have
any respect for myself again, I have to try.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
Nancy, would you like I'm sorry I disturbed you, Nancy.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
I'll start by later.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Helen Bob is going to study surgery.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Surgery, Bobby Mark, Yes, it does sound funny.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
Doesn't it have you any idea at all? What it
means to be a surgeon. It means years of study
and work. It means discipline and self denial.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
It means much more than that, missus Hudson. It means
being able to look people in the eye again and
to sleep at night. Means being able to look at
some people and think I have eased your pain, and
at others and think, with God's.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Help, I've given your years to live.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It means being able to look at your hands. I
know that there's life in them and healing, and that
you're earning your place in this world.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
Where did you learn all that from?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Doctor Hudson?
Speaker 8 (11:20):
Yes, for a moment you sounded like him.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
She stood looking at me for a moment, and then
she reached out her hand and I took it, and
once again, for that moment, we were friends. I asked
if I could drive her home, and she said yes,
and a lot of things seemed to be beginning, but
they came to a quick end.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
It was my fault.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
She wanted to go straight home, but I was so
happy to be with her that I went in the
opposite direction. She was angry with me then, and when
we came to a stoplight, before I could do anything,
she jumped from the car. What happened then is still
a confused, blurred thing. Helen wait a monment.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Well, doctor Ramsay, the operation was a success, at least
as far as her life is concerned.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Thank God for that.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
But there seems to be a depressed fracture involving the
occipital lobe of the brain.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I'm afraid she will never see again.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
No, oh no, she will never see again. She will
never see again. The words branded themselves into my brain.
They were always there through the days that became weeks,
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the weeks that became months, months that gradually grouped themselves
into years. I went on with my studies, always searching
desperately for the thing that might restore Helen's sight. I'd
try to watch over her from a distance.
Speaker 10 (12:56):
Bob is your lawyer, I must tell you that Helen
Hudson's stocks aren't worth the paper there printed.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
All right, replace her bad stocks and bonds with some
of my good ones.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
What she must have a steady income.
Speaker 10 (13:06):
I heard from doctor Richard this morning. Five of the
specialists we wrote to have agreed to meet in Paris.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Good. Hey, what time is it? Well that's about two. Why, Oh,
I've got to get to the park. The park, Yes,
I go there every day at this time.
Speaker 10 (13:19):
Well, this is certainly a switch on the old Merrick.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You bet it is. She came every day into the
little park near her house, and I would sit there
and watch them. She brought her bray of books with
her and she would sit there and study. It was
a long time before I had an opportunity to speak
to her, But at last one day she dropped her
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book and I was able to pick it up and
hand it to her. Here's your book.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Oh, thank you. I didn't realize anyone was near. I
was studying my lesson.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Oh would you let me coach?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I couldn't do that.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
I'd be embarrassed learning ABC's with a grown up.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It won't be long before you'll be reading Shakespeare. Did
you know they have him and Brail?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Now?
Speaker 9 (14:05):
Yes I did.
Speaker 8 (14:07):
But how do you know, well.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I'm interested in the Braille system.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Oh are you a doctor, a fledgeling doctor?
Speaker 8 (14:15):
Really?
Speaker 9 (14:17):
What did you say?
Speaker 8 (14:17):
Your name was, doctor Robert? Oh, doctor Robert. I'm missus Hudson. Doctor.
Thank you so much for your courtesy. I must be
going now.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Will you be here tomorrow?
Speaker 9 (14:29):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (14:30):
I come here every day.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Well, I'll be waiting for you. Hello, Missus Hudson. You're
late today.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Yes, I know, but so many exciting things have happened.
You've been so good to meet these past months. I
want you to be the first to know. I'm going
to Paris for a consultation. Yes, a number of eyes
specialists and meet there. And while they're having that convention,
I suppose it's because of what my husband stood for
in the medical profession if asked me to come.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Oh, I'm so happy for you.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Surely men like Rochard, Darnelli Rittenbacker will be able to
find the answer.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
How did you know they'll be there?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Well, they're the most famous. I just suppose they would
be the ones. I'm sure they'll be able to help you.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
I just can't tell you what it means to me.
There's so many things I'm so hungry to see you again,
you'll see them not telling something else. I'm very anxious
to see you all these months knowing you. Yes, I'm
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very anxious to see you.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I watched her go that day, knowing that if her
sight was restored, I would never see her again. And
I wish that, somehow, some way I had managed to
say to her, I love you as ever to be
a woman.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
For me, it can only be you. And suddenly I.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Was very cold, and I walked away along a lonely street.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Between the acts of Encore Theater. Shenley Laboratories bring you
an announcement that is vital and important for to day.
Penicillin is in the news. You read that wonder drug
is now standard equipment in first aid kits on leading airlines,
or that penicillin is playing a part in research on
preventing a tooth decay. The number of people whose lives
have been saved by penicillin grows day by day. Yet
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only a year ago penicillin was comparatively rare in civilian medicine,
and two years ago Shenley Laboratories, together with a few
other ferns authorized to produce penicillin, was just beginning to
produce sufficient penicillin to supply the needs of our army
and navy. Since then, constant research at Sheenleigh Laboratories has
produced many new penicillin products from tablets to be taken
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orally to ointment for local application. These are already available
and prescribed by your physician. Other penicillin products and other
types of drugs derived for research on many kinds of
molds are now being developed for the physician's use by
Shenley scientists. Because of the importance to humanity of drugs
of this type, Shenley Laboratory resources are currently being concentrated
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on their development and improvement.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Certainly, as one of.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
The world's largest users of applied research in the field
of mols, Shenleigh knowledge and experience will be useful in
the continuing task of supplying your doctor with more and
better tools to aid in his work of healing. Now
Shenley Laboratories present the second act of Magnificent Obsession, starring
Cornell Wilde and Lorene Tuttle. Doctor Merrick continue was his story.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Helen went to Paris for the consultation. I followed her day.
I was in that consultation room. Oh, Helen didn't know it.
Speaker 11 (18:24):
Now missus Hudson, just fix your eyes as though you
were looking straight in front of you. Now, then please
tell me if you see a little light. No, a
day before yesterday, she had definitely perception of light. You
say you perceived light the other day, Missus Hudson, I
think so, yes, which indicates slightly less trouble on one
side of the brain than the other. Just rest for
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a few moments.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Well, gentlemen, dot to Merrick. Personally, I wouldn't operate, and
the rest of you.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Gentlemen nine, it is no good for operation.
Speaker 11 (19:07):
Every year we make new discoveries, Doctor Merrick. Perhaps next
year or the following we may be better able to
help her, But right now an operation is not the answer.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Yes, it's doctor Robert.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
Dr Robert will come in, come in. What are you
doing in Paris?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Or I had some business?
Speaker 8 (19:43):
I may as well tell you right away. I'm not
going to see you again.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
And don't say that, Helen, you're going to see with
my eyes. I have nothing else to do with the
rest of my life but help you to see whatever
you want to see. Come on now, I'll tell you why.
Let's get all dressed up and go out and do
the town show you Paris, and show Paris you.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Have some popcorns.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Thanks, tell me some more about the carnival.
Speaker 12 (20:18):
Well, on your right, madam is a Tinka, the faintest
lady in the world. She tips the scales of three
hundred and sixty pounds made down. And on your left
we have a sword swallower.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yes, there it goes.
Speaker 12 (20:30):
A sword is disappearing right down his stomach.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Can you imagine doing that for a living twice a day?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yes, but not swords. Hey, there's a ferris wheel. Come on,
let's go right on the ferris wheel.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Where are we now?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
We're standing on top of a hill, and all Paris
is at your feet. That music is coming from a
little Italian inn down the hill.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Away lovely, isn't It makes you think of moonlight and
gondolous and stars and romance.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Will you marry me? Helen?
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Oh? This combination of moonlight and music can be a
very heady, dangerous thing, got it?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Oh? Don't. I've never been so serious about anything in
my life.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
I wish I could say yes, I wish I could say,
here is my life, take it and let me be
all things to you.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
But I can't say that.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
I haven't even half a life to get you. You
can't enter my world, and I've lost my passport to yours.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
There's only one world.
Speaker 8 (21:42):
I wish that were true. Bobby Merrick, you know I
knew the first time you spoke to me.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Oh why didn't you say something?
Speaker 8 (21:51):
Why didn't I Probably because somewhere along the line and
I couldn't tell you when or what more I fell
in love with you? And has that operation have been
a success? I was going to find you and.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Tell you, darling, will you marry me? Will you please
marry me?
Speaker 7 (22:13):
It's getting late.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
We better start back, Helen. I'm very tired. Please will
you let me give you my answer.
Speaker 9 (22:19):
In the morning.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
If it's the right one, I will.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
It will be the right one.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
In the morning.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
There was a note for me at the hotel desk,
and she was gone. She said no, it doesn't matter
particularly what she said. She didn't want to be a burden.
Thank you for the days we've had together. Thank you
for your love and your devotion. Words a few dozen
of them that rattled emptily against my heart. So then
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then I had nothing but my work. And while it
was exciting and gratifying, as time went on, I was
more and more lonely for the happiness that had eluded me.
It was a long time before I returned to America,
before I returned to take over doctor Hudson's position at
Brightwood Hospital.
Speaker 10 (23:17):
Doctor Mary, this is a proud day for Brightwood Hospital.
It's going to be a great pleasure working with you, sir.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I thank you, Doctor Thomas.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
I tell you it makes us feel pretty good to
be a part of something that is constantly growing. Medicine
and surgery have changed since I was your age, and
they'll change more by the time you were mine, and
always for the better.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Hello, Bobby, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Oh Hello, Nancy Darling. You look wonderful.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
I hate to tear you away from all these compliments,
but there's a mister Randolph waiting, but you could just
see him for a moment.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Of course, I'll be glad to ride over here. Mister Randolph.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Hello, Bob, don't you remember me? I'm afraid I you
spent a night in my studio once, of course, the sculptor.
How are you, sir? Please sit down. It's good to
see you again. You've come a long way. I've got
a long way to go. You've become a great doctor
at a very young age. And also, if I'm not mistaken,
you've given with real generosity. Well you did establish contact
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with the source of power, didn't you.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
You're mistaken about one thing, mister Randolph. I didn't give
anything to better myself in any way I've found it clinics.
I've donated to medical research, but it was for one
person only who needed the kind of help that a
doctor can give. Whatever I've been able to do was
done in the hope that she might be one of
those helped somewhere.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Doctor Merrick, let me tell you what I've come to
you about. Not long ago, I was in Virginian. While
I was there, I happened on a very unfortunate case
a woman who is blind.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Blind.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
This blind woman whom I want you to help afford
just the opportunity to complete a circle. She is missus Hudson.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Helen. Yes, she's critically ill, Helen.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I'll go to her at once. She hasn't rallied since
this morning. No, all right, prepare for the operation. We
don't want to lose a minute if we can help it.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
They're ready in the operating room, Bob, Nancy.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I don't know if I can do it, Bah, I
can't hold my hands steady, look at them. All these
years I've been hoping, praying that someday I'd be able
to help her.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Now, no, doctor Merrick, this is no time for emotions
of sentiment.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
This is surgery. The fact that the patient is Helen
Hudson makes no difference.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
This is a woman whose life is in your hands,
and you can save her.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
You can, and you will.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
You're not a man right now, You're a surgeon, Thank.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
You, Nancy. Come on, lie still, Darling. Don't try to move.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
Bo.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yes, dear, it's very important for you to be perfect
and quiet.
Speaker 9 (26:13):
You operate me.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Yes, my eyes? What about your eyes? Darling?
Speaker 8 (26:22):
I think I can see just a little lie.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Are you sure?
Speaker 9 (26:30):
Yes, yes, I am sure.
Speaker 8 (26:35):
What does it mean?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
It means that one day, very soon, you will be
able to see again. You must go to sleep now, Darling.
You mustn't get excited today.
Speaker 8 (26:48):
Tomorrow, Bob. Can I get excited.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Tomorrow, Yes, Darling, tomorrow. Tomorrow is such a beautiful word.
Tomorrow our world will begin again, and from now on
it's going to be the same world for both of us.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
In a moment, we'll bring back our star Cornell wild.
But first, ladies and gentlemen, may we leave you with
this thought. Shenley Laboratories, makers of penicillin, bring you this
program in tribute not only to the famous men of medicine,
but also to the one man whose responsibility is your
health and welfare, your doctor. Today, your life expectancy is
fifteen years greater than that of your grandfather, and part
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of the credit belongs to your doctor. It is the
purpose of Shenley Laboratories to waid by every means at
our disposal, the service rendered you by your physician. Now,
ladies and gentlemen, Cornell.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Wild Words are magnificent instruments for the expression of thoughts
and ideas, and simplicity is the soul of clarity. I
can think of nothing at this time better sums up
the spirit of this Shenley Laboratory's program than this simple prayer.
The eternal Providence has appointed me to watch over the
life and death of all thy creatures. May I always
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see in the patient a fellow creature in pain. Grant
me strength and opportunity always to extend the domain of
my craft. This is the prayer of the physician. It
is ages old, yet today it is as new as
the hope for a peaceful way of life for all
the world. May we invite you to listen again next
(28:32):
week at the same time when Shenley Laboratories presents The
Life of Louis Pasteur, starring Paul Lucas a great star
in a great vehicle.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Good Night, Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd S.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Douglas was produced and directed by William Lawrence and is
broadcast through the courtesy of Universal Pictures, producers of Knife
and Paradise. The musical score was by Eat Stephens and.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
The adaptation by G.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Holloway for Now Whild appeared to the courtesy of twentieth
Century Fox and will soon be seen in their technicolor
production Centennial Summer. This is Frank Graham speaking for Shenley Laboratories,
produces of Penicillin, Shenley, and inviting you to listen to
the Encore theater next Tuesday at the same time when
you will hear Paul Lucas in the Life of Louis Faster.
(29:27):
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System
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