August 10, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Friends.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
When you're telling your neighbors about this story, will you
also tell them that you heard it on Radio City Playhouse.
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Ladies and gentlemen, here's the director of Radio City Playhouse.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Harry W. Duncan thank you, Bob friends.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Tonight's story was written by Stephen Vincent Benet, Pulitzer Prize
winner and one of America's most outstanding men of letters.
Elementals is a shocking story concerning the deep and hidden
chambers of the human soul, which, once they have opened
upon a man, leave them change forever.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
The leading role of Sherwood.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Latimer is played by a young actor new to Radio
City Playhouse, Mister Hall's studor. Mister Studter began his radio
career in nineteen forty six in NBC's The Adventures of
Frank Merriwell. He was recently featured in the Broadway success
Hope is the Thing with Feathers, and he now has
more radio and television engagements than he can handle. Here then,
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is Elementals by Stephen Vincent Bennet, starring Hal Stuter as
Sherwood Latimer. Attraction twenty six on Radio City.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Playhouse, Upper Fifth Avenue in New York. It is a
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clear winter evening, and the air is soft and amazingly warm.
For j Any Worries, Sherwood Latimer and Catherine.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Vaine walk arm in arm.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Even the casual passer by, I can see that they
are in love, very much in love.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Oh Sherry, don't you love this avenue? The park and
the gorgeous old homes.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
And everything mostly apartments now at the park, so beautiful.
Wonder if we'll ever have enough money to live on
Fifth Avenue?
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Of course we will. You're going to be famous.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
You'll write a play or a novel or something, and
everybody who thinks you're a genius. We'll have a beautiful
apartment and dozens of wonderful children, and I'll have a mink.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
Coach and a convertible on a limousine and six servants.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
And you'll see, oh, you just prejudiced, Kathy.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Well, aren't you the youngest assistant professor on the.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
Staff and the lowest paid money? How can you say
money like that? Still talk about mink coach.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
It's a woman's privilege to be in consist.
Speaker 8 (02:49):
That's my girl, Thank you, professor.
Speaker 9 (02:51):
Oh Kathy, I.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Wish we could get married, do things right, go to
the theater and never read hamburgers.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
You read hamburgers.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
What a horrible thought, hamburgers.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
I wonder what mister Slake will give me for dinner.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
You are to remember everything.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I want the complete details.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Probably hamburgers served on solid gold.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Plates and gold buns.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
I can see it all now.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Gee, Honey, I wish you were coming. I hate to
think of you going to dinner alone. I couldn't Slack
have invited you. He knows we're engaged.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
He knows, Jerry, don't be silly. I'll be fine. Or
did you send him a bill for the translation?
Speaker 8 (03:28):
Two hundred dollars?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Wonderful? Maybe he'll give you the check tonight. Maybe he
will be nice to him, Sherry, be real polite and
let him leave the talking and well, don't talk about
soaking the rich or anything. Just be real nice and normal.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I will.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
A man like John Slake has influenced you.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Never can tell what will happen if.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
He takes a liking toe.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
I promise I'll be on my very best behavior.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
This is the place here, this big gray one, all
five stories of him.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
He lives all alone in that roomy isn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
You should have charged him more two hundred dollars.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
You should have charged him two thousands.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
I wish you were coming, Kathy, it'd be such a
wonderful dinner.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Don't be silly, Sherry. I don't mind it. Bee and anyway,
he wanted it to be just the two of you.
Maybe he's gonna all be on yob or something.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
Maybe.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Well, bye, darlingell me when you get home.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
I will you better go in.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
It's after seven.
Speaker 8 (04:21):
Now where are you going to eat?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
You stop worrying out where I'm going to eat?
Speaker 8 (04:25):
Do you need any money?
Speaker 6 (04:26):
No? I five or six dollars? Now?
Speaker 10 (04:28):
Go on?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Why, Sherry Latimer, I believe you're nervous.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
I don't go to dinner with millionaires every night.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
Well, just be perfectly natural. You look fine. That's a
nice suit and you've just had a haircut.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Go on, Darling, you'll be late if.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
You don't forget and remember, be on your best.
Speaker 11 (04:47):
I will bye, Keathy.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
More coffee, Sherry, No thanks, mister slake A liquor? Oh nothing,
thank you. It was a wonderful dinner.
Speaker 10 (05:21):
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
This is a wonderful room. I think it's even more
attractive than the dining room.
Speaker 10 (05:29):
But a dining room should be simple, Sherry. A man
can't enjoy art if his mouth is full. This room,
of course, is different, is it where I spend most
of my time? I see you're admiring the fireplace. It's
magnificent sixteenth century Italian. I had it chipped block by
block from Rome. Oh. By the way, speaking of sixteenth
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century Italian, I have your check here for the Greek
ardiny fans place.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
So there's no rush, mister Slake anytime, not at all.
Speaker 10 (05:59):
I made it out before you arrived.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
Hey, I thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 10 (06:04):
He did a splendid job. Splendid. You're the best man
in the country on Italian translation.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
Thank you, you're very kind.
Speaker 10 (06:12):
Tell me, Sherry, what did you think of the little
experiment of Prince Alessandro? Which one but you remember the
chapter Marry the versions of Prince Alessandro.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
I ought to took me long enough to translate it.
Speaker 10 (06:25):
What did you think of Alessandro?
Speaker 8 (06:27):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (06:28):
I thought him an animal, an incredibly cruel animal.
Speaker 12 (06:31):
Really, I thought it rather intrieding a very clever way
of proving that there are but three elemental emotions.
Speaker 10 (06:42):
I see you're admiring my heart. Yes, do you play
a little music seems to release me from the dull,
vulgarity of life. You know, there's a certain spirituality about
the heart. It seems to embody every how should I
see see it? There's such an esthetic feel about it.
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Sometimes I sit here all night and just play that
very set. You play beautifully, en amateur, but I enjoy it,
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you know Brown, No, I don't. And he wrote so
little for the half. He's my favorite composer.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
I'm afraid I'm not very musical.
Speaker 10 (07:41):
So you consider Prince Alessandra an animal? Do you? You're
very young?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Serry.
Speaker 10 (07:51):
As a matter of fact, I was going to suggest
to you that, oh no, no, I suppose we wouldn't
considered it.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
Consider what.
Speaker 10 (08:07):
I understand. You're engaged to a miss Vain, Catherine Vaine.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Yes, she works in the Secretary's office of the university.
Speaker 10 (08:17):
I'll in love with her.
Speaker 13 (08:19):
Very much, planning on getting married.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
As soon as we can afford it.
Speaker 10 (08:24):
But you can't afford it now.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
Well, assistant professors aren't too well paid.
Speaker 9 (08:29):
Now, I suppose.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
What did you mean when you said I wouldn't consider something, Cherry.
Speaker 10 (08:42):
I'm a very rich man. I've literally so much money.
I don't know what to do with it. I'm fifty
four now, and I've experienced everything. I've been everywhere, I've
seen everything, I've done everything. Sometimes I get very bored,
very bored. Indeed, I thought maybe that perhaps you might
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be interested in giving me a little amusement and at
the same time earning yourself some money. I thought that
perhaps you No, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
What's ridiculous?
Speaker 10 (09:23):
Huh? When I'm intrigued with Alessandra's experiments, I'd love to
repeat it.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
You're not serious, Yes, yes, I'm serious, but well I
don't understand.
Speaker 10 (09:39):
I'd pay you twenty.
Speaker 11 (09:40):
Five thousand dollars not.
Speaker 10 (09:44):
To go exactly now. Look, I thought it all out
this afternoon. There's space on the fourth floor of this
house is never used. Now, I would lock you in
Miss Vane and adjoining room. See, I'd have a glass
partition built between them so that you could see each
other but not communicate, and I'd cut the time down
to seven days. After all, neither you are Missday and
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have the physique of the sixteenth century attack.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
You're not actually suggesting that Kathy and I should, But
of course, for.
Speaker 10 (10:16):
Twenty five thousand dollars, isn't this a puplod so sweeping,
so sad? I wish i'd known Brown.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
I wish you'd leave that harp alone and tell me
what's on your mind.
Speaker 10 (10:31):
Well, it's very simple. You and Miss Vane need money,
or shall I say you'd like to have it? Sew?
I'll pay you twenty five thousand dollars. You'll be locked
in two rooms that are separated by a glass petition.
You'll go each one into one of these rooms on oh,
let's say, a Sunday at midnight, and until the following
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Sunday at midnight. You'll be given nothing to eat. Nothing.
You'll be allowed plenty of water, and that's all. You'll
starve yourself for seven days. And at the end of
the week, on the second Sunday, at midnight, I shall
raise the glass partition and place a thick slice of
bread and butter exactly half way between you and Miss Vain.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
And pay us twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
Shall it not quite?
Speaker 8 (11:19):
You?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
See?
Speaker 10 (11:20):
I agree with Alessandro. There are just three elementals, dear
eight and hunger. I believe that you are Miss Vain
for all that you say you are in love. I
believe that after seven days without food, you'd fall on
each other like a couple of snarling animal You crazy,
You're crazy. Nevertheless, I believe you'd cry each other to
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bits and your struggle for that one slice of bread.
I believe you'd forget all about love and respect and tenderness.
You'd be ruled by an elemental in this case, hunger. Now,
of course, if I'm wrong, if you share the bread
gently and tenderly, then i'd pay you twenty five thousand dollars.
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But if you perform as I expect, if you become
animals instead of human beings, then you'd have to work
for me for nothing for ten years. Thank goodness, I
have my music to console me.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Don't sit there staring at me, Sherry.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
I find it hard to believe that you're serious.
Speaker 10 (12:26):
Oh, I'm perfectly serious.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
But it's insane.
Speaker 10 (12:28):
It's impossible. I look lots of health crank diet for
longer than seven days, you say, in love with his skirls.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Mistake, Yes, but I would never subject it to it
to such a monstrous experiment once she had the courage.
Speaker 10 (12:40):
Of your convictions. You believe that love is stronger than hunger,
don't you?
Speaker 12 (12:44):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (12:45):
But that isn't the same thing.
Speaker 10 (12:46):
You're young, you're an idealist. You believe that love is
a big, golden, wonderful thing. Well, I say that it
isn't I say that after seven days of not eating.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
You would hate Catherine Lee you tear.
Speaker 10 (12:58):
The bread flummer and stopping in the other.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
Will you please leave.
Speaker 10 (13:01):
That harple over? I enjoy it so much myself. I
forget sometimes that others don't appreciate.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
You could never ask a woman too. Will you say
you're in love?
Speaker 10 (13:13):
Don't you?
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Well, of course we're in love.
Speaker 10 (13:14):
You could get married at once. No more clubbing, no
more tutoring at night. Miss Vain could resign her position.
Speaker 12 (13:21):
You have a nice little house, a car, all in
exchange for seven days.
Speaker 10 (13:25):
Of not eating. Why don't you talk it over in
this vein? Tell her how easily you can earn twenty
five thousand dollars. Why don't you erry another pastry? And
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Miss Vain remember you will be eating again until next Sunday.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I couldn't.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I couldn't possibly eat another mouthful.
Speaker 10 (14:00):
Well, since it's almost midnight, shall we go upstairs?
Speaker 8 (14:04):
We can't do it, We can't do it.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Catch cherry sherry, please, it's so easy. No more pinching,
no more going without things. All we have to do
is lie quietly on a couch for a week without eating.
Speaker 10 (14:15):
You want to call it off?
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Of course he doesn't want to call it off. Besides,
we've signed all those papers. I don't know if they're
legal or not.
Speaker 10 (14:22):
Oh, my dear miss Vane, you wander restimate me. I
had my lawyers draw up the agreement very carefully. Of course,
we can't come out and say that Sherry was to
be my slave for ten years.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
But don't worry.
Speaker 10 (14:34):
I'm quite sure I'll collect my payment if you're so
unfortunate as to lose the wager. Well, now I've had
workmen in and rooms are all ready. We replaced the
wall between the two bedrooms with a full sheet of glass.
You'll each have a lamp and the Bible. I'm afraid
I'll have to forbid you soap and toothpaste.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Are you afraid we might eat the soap?
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Yourem I refuse to believe it. It's so difficult, Kathy.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
You don't know.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
I was hungry in the war. I know what it's like.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
You get crazed and desperate.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
I'm sure we can do it. I'm positive. Don't look
so bleak, Sherry.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Please think of all the things we can do with
twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Oh, it's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
We can have a home, a nice little house somewhere
and furnish it, furnish it attractive.
Speaker 10 (15:21):
Two minutes to twelve, shall we go up?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Come on, Sherry, we can't be ruled out for a
late start.
Speaker 10 (15:26):
Come on, Erry. This is your room exactly the same,
except that your wallpaper has bluebirds, whereas miss Dains has daisies.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Hello, Kathy, Oh.
Speaker 10 (15:48):
She can't hear you. That last petition between you was
an inch thick.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
Oh like, she's so tiny, such.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
A little bit of a thing. I like her.
Speaker 10 (15:57):
When the nights are on, in both room as you
can see each other very well. Looks now. I shall
visit you once every twenty four hours. There are glasses
in the bathroom there. Drink as much water as you wish.
And at twelve o'clock next Sunday night, this partition will rise.
I had it especially installed, as I told you, so.
At next Sunday midnight, I shall bring you one thick
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slice of bread and butter. You'll be exposed to the
food for twenty minutes. I shall take pictures.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
If God can possibly condone such idiotic treatment of the
human body, I'm sure he'll help us.
Speaker 10 (16:29):
Oh that's very good, Sadry. I think you're going to
need help. Is there anything else?
Speaker 8 (16:34):
I don't think so.
Speaker 10 (16:35):
Miss Vain looks very lovely, Sherry. He's the most charming girl.
I don't wonder that you're in love with her. But
remember there are just the three elemental far eight, hunger,
and now of course that you've lost your wage.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Hecklingus wasn't part of the market.
Speaker 10 (16:53):
I can see you now clawing at each other like Anna,
Oh stop it, stop it, I'll say. By the way,
say I ran across.
Speaker 13 (17:01):
The most tantasizing thing today are sort of hop concerto.
Speaker 10 (17:05):
Written by a chap called Malmeck Maddam Malneck. It's called
hap Fantasy and jazz Excu.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Will you stop making small talk and leave me alone?
Speaker 10 (17:14):
All right, Jerry, I'll leave you until tomorrow night.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Twenty one bluebirds pasted to the wall. Twenty one bluebirds
a B bass he called the ef aall twenty one
bluebirds trying not to fall. I let's see twenty one
bluebirds paste it to the wall. Twenty one bluebirds trying
not to fall, bluebirds happy in their little trees. Something
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something something smiling at the bees.
Speaker 10 (18:01):
Well, the first twenty four hours are over, Sherry.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
How do you feel fine?
Speaker 10 (18:08):
Not too uncomfortable? No, Kathy's fine.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
Good, not very talkative out it?
Speaker 8 (18:16):
That wasn't in the bargain.
Speaker 10 (18:18):
All right, then I'll leave you.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Are you enjoying yourself immensely?
Speaker 10 (18:22):
I can hardly wait? You see, the first twenty four
hours are easy, so what the second? The third day
gets worse, and the fourth and fifth that's when the fun. Hello, Sherry,
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how are you you sto? You were in here yesterday?
Speaker 8 (18:46):
You deliberately saw my pipe?
Speaker 10 (18:49):
Sorry, Sherry, we're getting a little asthetica. The Bible is
on the floor right in fourth.
Speaker 9 (18:57):
What that?
Speaker 10 (18:58):
Why are you pointing at miss Vain?
Speaker 8 (19:01):
She has moved.
Speaker 10 (19:03):
She's nonsense. She's asleep. I can see her breathing from here.
Say better, get hold of yourself.
Speaker 12 (19:13):
This is only the third day.
Speaker 10 (19:23):
Good evening, Cherry, Cherry, wakem that's is how are you feeling?
You know you're an admirable guest. You and miss Vain,
you make so little demand on one's hospitality. I've just
been in to see her. She sends you a message.
Do you want to hear? Ah? I see my elemental
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has begun to touch you. You're not so interested in
miss Vain?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Now? Why can't you leave me?
Speaker 10 (19:52):
Why can't you leave us alone?
Speaker 8 (19:54):
People aren't supposed to tortures.
Speaker 10 (19:55):
My dear father, I'm interested, Believe me.
Speaker 13 (19:58):
I worry about your booth. I thought of you tonight
at dinner. The bisk and a trifle, too much whipped
cream for my taste.
Speaker 10 (20:07):
But the roast was the election, rich red, succulent roe.
That wonderful, delicate shade of drink. It cut like, shut up,
shut up?
Speaker 12 (20:16):
What's another sherry?
Speaker 10 (20:17):
You were ever getting a feeling? But you shouldn't. This
is only the fourth day.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
It's the fifth day?
Speaker 14 (20:26):
Is it?
Speaker 8 (20:28):
It's the fifth day?
Speaker 10 (20:29):
Or is it the third?
Speaker 8 (20:31):
You've been here five times?
Speaker 10 (20:32):
Oh yes, but the first visit of the Sunday we began?
That doesn't count?
Speaker 8 (20:37):
Is it Thursday?
Speaker 14 (20:37):
Friday?
Speaker 10 (20:38):
I wonder? I surry?
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Sleep well the fifth day, the fifth day?
Speaker 7 (20:56):
Let me sleep, God in Heaven, let me sleep.
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Please don't let me think about food.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Please don't let me think about food.
Speaker 15 (21:08):
Sausages?
Speaker 10 (21:14):
Who me?
Speaker 7 (21:18):
I wanna I wanna pick it. I wanna beat it
me like an enemy.
Speaker 16 (21:31):
Hotcakes, golden puffy, trying to maple syrup, the little sausages
bursting with meat and spice, bacon, bake.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
They're taking over?
Speaker 10 (21:47):
What fire?
Speaker 8 (21:51):
Please Heaven.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
I can't stand any sale, mold, even a dry.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Tale, moldy press.
Speaker 10 (22:10):
Dammit, damn, dammit, dumm it.
Speaker 15 (22:16):
Okay, okay, hey, I have anyone thought of And this
is only the fifth day, the fifth day, fifth day.
Speaker 10 (22:33):
The fifth day, the fifth day.
Speaker 14 (22:39):
Who is it?
Speaker 10 (22:40):
Who is it? Why is the red? Everything's read the
walls and red the blubbers, and read everything. Read the Bible.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Here, eat the Bible, sherry.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
Oh, I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't eat paper. That'll
make you will much longer, much longer. Don't you wish
you knew to tell me? Tell me the name of God.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
Don't touch me like this, please, I can't stand it.
Speaker 10 (23:08):
Will you'll be able to stand it better if you'd
stop these elevating hysterics. Look at miss Vanes. He just
lies there on the couch. She doesn't prance around the
room tearing the pages from her Bible. By the way,
you better give me the Bible after all, the binding
of his leather and leather was once a former meat.
I wouldn't want to disqualify.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
You on the technicalssidy. Your night, Jerry, and the time
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is up, say Jerry, for.
Speaker 10 (23:52):
Seven days around or you'll revive soon enough. I brought
you a wonderful thing slice of bread and butter. If
you just remit the ears of your couch over against
the glass, can you hear me?
Speaker 9 (24:12):
Sorry?
Speaker 10 (24:13):
Can you hear me? At this moment, you're about one
foot away from Catherine Vane. There's just a sheet of
plate glass between you. Remember I had the glass petition installed.
It's like a great big window between two room. Remember Erry,
remember Kathy. Now I'm going to raise the glass petition. Now, Sherry,
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I'm lifting it up there. Now there's brendon you see it.
A slice of fresh bread, but a wonderful soft white bread,
gold and fresh butter. Aren't hungry, Sherry, Aunt, you're hungry.
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Be careful, Jerry. There's a woman over there. She's very
close to you, that model the foot away. She wants
the bread to Sherry. She wants to, but she's going
to steal it from you. She thinks it's hers. Perhaps
perhaps you'd better kill her, Sherry, Yes, well, then slip
down off the couch.
Speaker 8 (25:18):
Cherry.
Speaker 10 (25:20):
She's very clever. She's pretending to be asleep, but she's.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
After the bread too.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
She'll grab it and eat it and then there won't
be any for you, Sherry, you don't want that to happen. My,
she's greedy, shaddy, shill eat it, get rid of her,
get rid of her. Now, which quick? You've got it
in your hand, eat it.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
You can't have it, you can't have it. It's mine.
It's my bread, my bread, and go on eat it.
Speaker 10 (25:48):
Stup it into your mouth, go on, go on, Jerry,
it's me.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
Cally.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Oh, Jerry, I'm so hungry.
Speaker 11 (26:04):
Bad Eat it? Shall he?
Speaker 8 (26:23):
Oh he's just a little bit, she would slowly he.
Speaker 10 (26:31):
No, no, nodiot, there's only one slice.
Speaker 14 (26:34):
Eat it, she would slowly, Sure, Sure, I sweet a
little more?
Speaker 8 (26:47):
Dolly, Yeah, oh, Kelly, I love you.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
No, thank you, you have.
Speaker 8 (26:59):
You?
Speaker 16 (27:00):
Ye, thanks darling. You're a beast, mister slake. You're a beast,
a powerful beast. We proved you're wrong. You're wrong, mister slake.
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There's another elemental. There's faith and fear and hunger, and
there's that.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
There's love.
Speaker 10 (27:33):
Jerry, I Love you.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
You have just heard Elementals, written by Stephen Vincent Denay
and directed by Harry W.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
Junkin.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Hal Stodter starred as Sherwood Latimer. James Van Dyck was
John Slake. Kathy was played by Marilyn Erskine. The music
was composed and conducted by doctor Roy Shield. Harp solos
were by Edward Vito. Radio City Playhouse is supervised for
the National Broadcasting Company by Richard P.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
McDonough. This is Harry Junkan again next week.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
A story that in print is as simple as one
from three leads to in fact, that is its title,
One from three leads to a dramatic and suspenseful story
is starring Jan Minor and John Larkin. Next week Attraction
twenty seven on Radio City.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Playhouse, Bob Warn speaking. This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.
Friends.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
When you're telling your neighbors about this story, will you
also tell them that you heard it on Radio City Playhouse.
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Ladies and gentlemen, here's the director of Radio City Playhouse.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Harry W. Duncan thank you, Bob friends.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Tonight's story was written by Stephen Vincent Benet, Pulitzer Prize
winner and one of America's most outstanding men of letters.
Elementals is a shocking story concerning the deep and hidden
chambers of the human soul, which, once they have opened
upon a man, leave them change forever.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
The leading role of Sherwood.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Latimer is played by a young actor new to Radio
City Playhouse, Mister Hall's studor. Mister Studter began his radio
career in nineteen forty six in NBC's The Adventures of
Frank Merriwell. He was recently featured in the Broadway success
Hope is the Thing with Feathers, and he now has
more radio and television engagements than he can handle. Here then,
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is Elementals by Stephen Vincent Bennet, starring Hal Stuter as
Sherwood Latimer. Attraction twenty six on Radio City.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Playhouse, Upper Fifth Avenue in New York. It is a
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clear winter evening, and the air is soft and amazingly warm.
For j Any Worries, Sherwood Latimer and Catherine.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Vaine walk arm in arm.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Even the casual passer by, I can see that they
are in love, very much in love.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Oh Sherry, don't you love this avenue? The park and
the gorgeous old homes.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
And everything mostly apartments now at the park, so beautiful.
Wonder if we'll ever have enough money to live on
Fifth Avenue?
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Of course we will. You're going to be famous.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
You'll write a play or a novel or something, and
everybody who thinks you're a genius. We'll have a beautiful
apartment and dozens of wonderful children, and I'll have a mink.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
Coach and a convertible on a limousine and six servants.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
And you'll see, oh, you just prejudiced, Kathy.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Well, aren't you the youngest assistant professor on the.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
Staff and the lowest paid money? How can you say
money like that? Still talk about mink coach.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
It's a woman's privilege to be in consist.
Speaker 8 (02:49):
That's my girl, Thank you, professor.
Speaker 9 (02:51):
Oh Kathy, I.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Wish we could get married, do things right, go to
the theater and never read hamburgers.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
You read hamburgers.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
What a horrible thought, hamburgers.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
I wonder what mister Slake will give me for dinner.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
You are to remember everything.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I want the complete details.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Probably hamburgers served on solid gold.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Plates and gold buns.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
I can see it all now.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Gee, Honey, I wish you were coming. I hate to
think of you going to dinner alone. I couldn't Slack
have invited you. He knows we're engaged.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
He knows, Jerry, don't be silly. I'll be fine. Or
did you send him a bill for the translation?
Speaker 8 (03:28):
Two hundred dollars?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Wonderful? Maybe he'll give you the check tonight. Maybe he
will be nice to him, Sherry, be real polite and
let him leave the talking and well, don't talk about
soaking the rich or anything. Just be real nice and normal.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I will.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
A man like John Slake has influenced you.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Never can tell what will happen if.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
He takes a liking toe.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
I promise I'll be on my very best behavior.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
This is the place here, this big gray one, all
five stories of him.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
He lives all alone in that roomy isn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
You should have charged him more two hundred dollars.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
You should have charged him two thousands.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
I wish you were coming, Kathy, it'd be such a
wonderful dinner.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Don't be silly, Sherry. I don't mind it. Bee and anyway,
he wanted it to be just the two of you.
Maybe he's gonna all be on yob or something.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
Maybe.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Well, bye, darlingell me when you get home.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
I will you better go in.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
It's after seven.
Speaker 8 (04:21):
Now where are you going to eat?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
You stop worrying out where I'm going to eat?
Speaker 8 (04:25):
Do you need any money?
Speaker 6 (04:26):
No? I five or six dollars? Now?
Speaker 10 (04:28):
Go on?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Why, Sherry Latimer, I believe you're nervous.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
I don't go to dinner with millionaires every night.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
Well, just be perfectly natural. You look fine. That's a
nice suit and you've just had a haircut.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Go on, Darling, you'll be late if.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
You don't forget and remember, be on your best.
Speaker 11 (04:47):
I will bye, Keathy.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
More coffee, Sherry, No thanks, mister slake A liquor? Oh nothing,
thank you. It was a wonderful dinner.
Speaker 10 (05:21):
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
This is a wonderful room. I think it's even more
attractive than the dining room.
Speaker 10 (05:29):
But a dining room should be simple, Sherry. A man
can't enjoy art if his mouth is full. This room,
of course, is different, is it where I spend most
of my time? I see you're admiring the fireplace. It's
magnificent sixteenth century Italian. I had it chipped block by
block from Rome. Oh. By the way, speaking of sixteenth
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century Italian, I have your check here for the Greek
ardiny fans place.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
So there's no rush, mister Slake anytime, not at all.
Speaker 10 (05:59):
I made it out before you arrived.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
Hey, I thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 10 (06:04):
He did a splendid job. Splendid. You're the best man
in the country on Italian translation.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
Thank you, you're very kind.
Speaker 10 (06:12):
Tell me, Sherry, what did you think of the little
experiment of Prince Alessandro? Which one but you remember the
chapter Marry the versions of Prince Alessandro.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
I ought to took me long enough to translate it.
Speaker 10 (06:25):
What did you think of Alessandro?
Speaker 8 (06:27):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (06:28):
I thought him an animal, an incredibly cruel animal.
Speaker 12 (06:31):
Really, I thought it rather intrieding a very clever way
of proving that there are but three elemental emotions.
Speaker 10 (06:42):
I see you're admiring my heart. Yes, do you play
a little music seems to release me from the dull,
vulgarity of life. You know, there's a certain spirituality about
the heart. It seems to embody every how should I
see see it? There's such an esthetic feel about it.
(07:03):
Sometimes I sit here all night and just play that
very set. You play beautifully, en amateur, but I enjoy it,
(07:30):
you know Brown, No, I don't. And he wrote so
little for the half. He's my favorite composer.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
I'm afraid I'm not very musical.
Speaker 10 (07:41):
So you consider Prince Alessandra an animal? Do you? You're
very young?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Serry.
Speaker 10 (07:51):
As a matter of fact, I was going to suggest
to you that, oh no, no, I suppose we wouldn't
considered it.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
Consider what.
Speaker 10 (08:07):
I understand. You're engaged to a miss Vain, Catherine Vaine.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Yes, she works in the Secretary's office of the university.
Speaker 10 (08:17):
I'll in love with her.
Speaker 13 (08:19):
Very much, planning on getting married.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
As soon as we can afford it.
Speaker 10 (08:24):
But you can't afford it now.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
Well, assistant professors aren't too well paid.
Speaker 9 (08:29):
Now, I suppose.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
What did you mean when you said I wouldn't consider something, Cherry.
Speaker 10 (08:42):
I'm a very rich man. I've literally so much money.
I don't know what to do with it. I'm fifty
four now, and I've experienced everything. I've been everywhere, I've
seen everything, I've done everything. Sometimes I get very bored,
very bored. Indeed, I thought maybe that perhaps you might
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be interested in giving me a little amusement and at
the same time earning yourself some money. I thought that
perhaps you No, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
What's ridiculous?
Speaker 10 (09:23):
Huh? When I'm intrigued with Alessandra's experiments, I'd love to
repeat it.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
You're not serious, Yes, yes, I'm serious, but well I
don't understand.
Speaker 10 (09:39):
I'd pay you twenty.
Speaker 11 (09:40):
Five thousand dollars not.
Speaker 10 (09:44):
To go exactly now. Look, I thought it all out
this afternoon. There's space on the fourth floor of this
house is never used. Now, I would lock you in
Miss Vane and adjoining room. See, I'd have a glass
partition built between them so that you could see each
other but not communicate, and I'd cut the time down
to seven days. After all, neither you are Missday and
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have the physique of the sixteenth century attack.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
You're not actually suggesting that Kathy and I should, But
of course, for.
Speaker 10 (10:16):
Twenty five thousand dollars, isn't this a puplod so sweeping,
so sad? I wish i'd known Brown.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
I wish you'd leave that harp alone and tell me
what's on your mind.
Speaker 10 (10:31):
Well, it's very simple. You and Miss Vane need money,
or shall I say you'd like to have it? Sew?
I'll pay you twenty five thousand dollars. You'll be locked
in two rooms that are separated by a glass petition.
You'll go each one into one of these rooms on oh,
let's say, a Sunday at midnight, and until the following
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Sunday at midnight. You'll be given nothing to eat. Nothing.
You'll be allowed plenty of water, and that's all. You'll
starve yourself for seven days. And at the end of
the week, on the second Sunday, at midnight, I shall
raise the glass partition and place a thick slice of
bread and butter exactly half way between you and Miss Vain.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
And pay us twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
Shall it not quite?
Speaker 8 (11:19):
You?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
See?
Speaker 10 (11:20):
I agree with Alessandro. There are just three elementals, dear
eight and hunger. I believe that you are Miss Vain
for all that you say you are in love. I
believe that after seven days without food, you'd fall on
each other like a couple of snarling animal You crazy,
You're crazy. Nevertheless, I believe you'd cry each other to
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bits and your struggle for that one slice of bread.
I believe you'd forget all about love and respect and tenderness.
You'd be ruled by an elemental in this case, hunger. Now,
of course, if I'm wrong, if you share the bread
gently and tenderly, then i'd pay you twenty five thousand dollars.
(12:04):
But if you perform as I expect, if you become
animals instead of human beings, then you'd have to work
for me for nothing for ten years. Thank goodness, I
have my music to console me.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Don't sit there staring at me, Sherry.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
I find it hard to believe that you're serious.
Speaker 10 (12:26):
Oh, I'm perfectly serious.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
But it's insane.
Speaker 10 (12:28):
It's impossible. I look lots of health crank diet for
longer than seven days, you say, in love with his skirls.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Mistake, Yes, but I would never subject it to it
to such a monstrous experiment once she had the courage.
Speaker 10 (12:40):
Of your convictions. You believe that love is stronger than hunger,
don't you?
Speaker 12 (12:44):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (12:45):
But that isn't the same thing.
Speaker 10 (12:46):
You're young, you're an idealist. You believe that love is
a big, golden, wonderful thing. Well, I say that it
isn't I say that after seven days of not eating.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
You would hate Catherine Lee you tear.
Speaker 10 (12:58):
The bread flummer and stopping in the other.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
Will you please leave.
Speaker 10 (13:01):
That harple over? I enjoy it so much myself. I
forget sometimes that others don't appreciate.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
You could never ask a woman too. Will you say
you're in love?
Speaker 10 (13:13):
Don't you?
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Well, of course we're in love.
Speaker 10 (13:14):
You could get married at once. No more clubbing, no
more tutoring at night. Miss Vain could resign her position.
Speaker 12 (13:21):
You have a nice little house, a car, all in
exchange for seven days.
Speaker 10 (13:25):
Of not eating. Why don't you talk it over in
this vein? Tell her how easily you can earn twenty
five thousand dollars. Why don't you erry another pastry? And
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Miss Vain remember you will be eating again until next Sunday.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I couldn't.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I couldn't possibly eat another mouthful.
Speaker 10 (14:00):
Well, since it's almost midnight, shall we go upstairs?
Speaker 8 (14:04):
We can't do it, We can't do it.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Catch cherry sherry, please, it's so easy. No more pinching,
no more going without things. All we have to do
is lie quietly on a couch for a week without eating.
Speaker 10 (14:15):
You want to call it off?
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Of course he doesn't want to call it off. Besides,
we've signed all those papers. I don't know if they're
legal or not.
Speaker 10 (14:22):
Oh, my dear miss Vane, you wander restimate me. I
had my lawyers draw up the agreement very carefully. Of course,
we can't come out and say that Sherry was to
be my slave for ten years.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
But don't worry.
Speaker 10 (14:34):
I'm quite sure I'll collect my payment if you're so
unfortunate as to lose the wager. Well, now I've had
workmen in and rooms are all ready. We replaced the
wall between the two bedrooms with a full sheet of glass.
You'll each have a lamp and the Bible. I'm afraid
I'll have to forbid you soap and toothpaste.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Are you afraid we might eat the soap?
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Yourem I refuse to believe it. It's so difficult, Kathy.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
You don't know.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
I was hungry in the war. I know what it's like.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
You get crazed and desperate.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
I'm sure we can do it. I'm positive. Don't look
so bleak, Sherry.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Please think of all the things we can do with
twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Oh, it's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
We can have a home, a nice little house somewhere
and furnish it, furnish it attractive.
Speaker 10 (15:21):
Two minutes to twelve, shall we go up?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Come on, Sherry, we can't be ruled out for a
late start.
Speaker 10 (15:26):
Come on, Erry. This is your room exactly the same,
except that your wallpaper has bluebirds, whereas miss Dains has daisies.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Hello, Kathy, Oh.
Speaker 10 (15:48):
She can't hear you. That last petition between you was
an inch thick.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
Oh like, she's so tiny, such.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
A little bit of a thing. I like her.
Speaker 10 (15:57):
When the nights are on, in both room as you
can see each other very well. Looks now. I shall
visit you once every twenty four hours. There are glasses
in the bathroom there. Drink as much water as you wish.
And at twelve o'clock next Sunday night, this partition will rise.
I had it especially installed, as I told you, so.
At next Sunday midnight, I shall bring you one thick
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slice of bread and butter. You'll be exposed to the
food for twenty minutes. I shall take pictures.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
If God can possibly condone such idiotic treatment of the
human body, I'm sure he'll help us.
Speaker 10 (16:29):
Oh that's very good, Sadry. I think you're going to
need help. Is there anything else?
Speaker 8 (16:34):
I don't think so.
Speaker 10 (16:35):
Miss Vain looks very lovely, Sherry. He's the most charming girl.
I don't wonder that you're in love with her. But
remember there are just the three elemental far eight, hunger,
and now of course that you've lost your wage.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Hecklingus wasn't part of the market.
Speaker 10 (16:53):
I can see you now clawing at each other like Anna,
Oh stop it, stop it, I'll say. By the way,
say I ran across.
Speaker 13 (17:01):
The most tantasizing thing today are sort of hop concerto.
Speaker 10 (17:05):
Written by a chap called Malmeck Maddam Malneck. It's called
hap Fantasy and jazz Excu.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Will you stop making small talk and leave me alone?
Speaker 10 (17:14):
All right, Jerry, I'll leave you until tomorrow night.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Twenty one bluebirds pasted to the wall. Twenty one bluebirds
a B bass he called the ef aall twenty one
bluebirds trying not to fall. I let's see twenty one
bluebirds paste it to the wall. Twenty one bluebirds trying
not to fall, bluebirds happy in their little trees. Something
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something something smiling at the bees.
Speaker 10 (18:01):
Well, the first twenty four hours are over, Sherry.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
How do you feel fine?
Speaker 10 (18:08):
Not too uncomfortable? No, Kathy's fine.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
Good, not very talkative out it?
Speaker 8 (18:16):
That wasn't in the bargain.
Speaker 10 (18:18):
All right, then I'll leave you.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Are you enjoying yourself immensely?
Speaker 10 (18:22):
I can hardly wait? You see, the first twenty four
hours are easy, so what the second? The third day
gets worse, and the fourth and fifth that's when the fun. Hello, Sherry,
(18:43):
how are you you sto? You were in here yesterday?
Speaker 8 (18:46):
You deliberately saw my pipe?
Speaker 10 (18:49):
Sorry, Sherry, we're getting a little asthetica. The Bible is
on the floor right in fourth.
Speaker 9 (18:57):
What that?
Speaker 10 (18:58):
Why are you pointing at miss Vain?
Speaker 8 (19:01):
She has moved.
Speaker 10 (19:03):
She's nonsense. She's asleep. I can see her breathing from here.
Say better, get hold of yourself.
Speaker 12 (19:13):
This is only the third day.
Speaker 10 (19:23):
Good evening, Cherry, Cherry, wakem that's is how are you feeling?
You know you're an admirable guest. You and miss Vain,
you make so little demand on one's hospitality. I've just
been in to see her. She sends you a message.
Do you want to hear? Ah? I see my elemental
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has begun to touch you. You're not so interested in
miss Vain?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Now? Why can't you leave me?
Speaker 10 (19:52):
Why can't you leave us alone?
Speaker 8 (19:54):
People aren't supposed to tortures.
Speaker 10 (19:55):
My dear father, I'm interested, Believe me.
Speaker 13 (19:58):
I worry about your booth. I thought of you tonight
at dinner. The bisk and a trifle, too much whipped
cream for my taste.
Speaker 10 (20:07):
But the roast was the election, rich red, succulent roe.
That wonderful, delicate shade of drink. It cut like, shut up,
shut up?
Speaker 12 (20:16):
What's another sherry?
Speaker 10 (20:17):
You were ever getting a feeling? But you shouldn't. This
is only the fourth day.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
It's the fifth day?
Speaker 14 (20:26):
Is it?
Speaker 8 (20:28):
It's the fifth day?
Speaker 10 (20:29):
Or is it the third?
Speaker 8 (20:31):
You've been here five times?
Speaker 10 (20:32):
Oh yes, but the first visit of the Sunday we began?
That doesn't count?
Speaker 8 (20:37):
Is it Thursday?
Speaker 14 (20:37):
Friday?
Speaker 10 (20:38):
I wonder? I surry?
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Sleep well the fifth day, the fifth day?
Speaker 7 (20:56):
Let me sleep, God in Heaven, let me sleep.
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Please don't let me think about food.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Please don't let me think about food.
Speaker 15 (21:08):
Sausages?
Speaker 10 (21:14):
Who me?
Speaker 7 (21:18):
I wanna I wanna pick it. I wanna beat it
me like an enemy.
Speaker 16 (21:31):
Hotcakes, golden puffy, trying to maple syrup, the little sausages
bursting with meat and spice, bacon, bake.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
They're taking over?
Speaker 10 (21:47):
What fire?
Speaker 8 (21:51):
Please Heaven.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
I can't stand any sale, mold, even a dry.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Tale, moldy press.
Speaker 10 (22:10):
Dammit, damn, dammit, dumm it.
Speaker 15 (22:16):
Okay, okay, hey, I have anyone thought of And this
is only the fifth day, the fifth day, fifth day.
Speaker 10 (22:33):
The fifth day, the fifth day.
Speaker 14 (22:39):
Who is it?
Speaker 10 (22:40):
Who is it? Why is the red? Everything's read the
walls and red the blubbers, and read everything. Read the Bible.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Here, eat the Bible, sherry.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
Oh, I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't eat paper. That'll
make you will much longer, much longer. Don't you wish
you knew to tell me? Tell me the name of God.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
Don't touch me like this, please, I can't stand it.
Speaker 10 (23:08):
Will you'll be able to stand it better if you'd
stop these elevating hysterics. Look at miss Vanes. He just
lies there on the couch. She doesn't prance around the
room tearing the pages from her Bible. By the way,
you better give me the Bible after all, the binding
of his leather and leather was once a former meat.
I wouldn't want to disqualify.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
You on the technicalssidy. Your night, Jerry, and the time
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is up, say Jerry, for.
Speaker 10 (23:52):
Seven days around or you'll revive soon enough. I brought
you a wonderful thing slice of bread and butter. If
you just remit the ears of your couch over against
the glass, can you hear me?
Speaker 9 (24:12):
Sorry?
Speaker 10 (24:13):
Can you hear me? At this moment, you're about one
foot away from Catherine Vane. There's just a sheet of
plate glass between you. Remember I had the glass petition installed.
It's like a great big window between two room. Remember Erry,
remember Kathy. Now I'm going to raise the glass petition. Now, Sherry,
(24:39):
I'm lifting it up there. Now there's brendon you see it.
A slice of fresh bread, but a wonderful soft white bread,
gold and fresh butter. Aren't hungry, Sherry, Aunt, you're hungry.
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Be careful, Jerry. There's a woman over there. She's very
close to you, that model the foot away. She wants
the bread to Sherry. She wants to, but she's going
to steal it from you. She thinks it's hers. Perhaps
perhaps you'd better kill her, Sherry, Yes, well, then slip
down off the couch.
Speaker 8 (25:18):
Cherry.
Speaker 10 (25:20):
She's very clever. She's pretending to be asleep, but she's.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
After the bread too.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
She'll grab it and eat it and then there won't
be any for you, Sherry, you don't want that to happen. My,
she's greedy, shaddy, shill eat it, get rid of her,
get rid of her. Now, which quick? You've got it
in your hand, eat it.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
You can't have it, you can't have it. It's mine.
It's my bread, my bread, and go on eat it.
Speaker 10 (25:48):
Stup it into your mouth, go on, go on, Jerry,
it's me.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
Cally.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Oh, Jerry, I'm so hungry.
Speaker 11 (26:04):
Bad Eat it? Shall he?
Speaker 8 (26:23):
Oh he's just a little bit, she would slowly he.
Speaker 10 (26:31):
No, no, nodiot, there's only one slice.
Speaker 14 (26:34):
Eat it, she would slowly, Sure, Sure, I sweet a
little more?
Speaker 8 (26:47):
Dolly, Yeah, oh, Kelly, I love you.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
No, thank you, you have.
Speaker 8 (26:59):
You?
Speaker 16 (27:00):
Ye, thanks darling. You're a beast, mister slake. You're a beast,
a powerful beast. We proved you're wrong. You're wrong, mister slake.
(27:21):
There's another elemental. There's faith and fear and hunger, and
there's that.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
There's love.
Speaker 10 (27:33):
Jerry, I Love you.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
You have just heard Elementals, written by Stephen Vincent Denay
and directed by Harry W.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
Junkin.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Hal Stodter starred as Sherwood Latimer. James Van Dyck was
John Slake. Kathy was played by Marilyn Erskine. The music
was composed and conducted by doctor Roy Shield. Harp solos
were by Edward Vito. Radio City Playhouse is supervised for
the National Broadcasting Company by Richard P.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
McDonough. This is Harry Junkan again next week.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
A story that in print is as simple as one
from three leads to in fact, that is its title,
One from three leads to a dramatic and suspenseful story
is starring Jan Minor and John Larkin. Next week Attraction
twenty seven on Radio City.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Playhouse, Bob Warn speaking. This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.
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