April 22, 2025 • 29 mins
This anthology series presents dramatized stories from the world of medicine, highlighting the dedication and challenges faced by healthcare professionals. Each episode offers a glimpse into the human side of medical practice.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Henley Laboratories, producer of penicillin. Shenley and Shenley Pharmaceuticals
presents Yon Core. Theare yon Core Theatre play.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Tonight, Dark Victory.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Our stars are Franchial Tone and Susan Peters.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Tonight, Shenley Laboratories presents another and 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 idea, individual heroism, or
break courage. By these programs, Shenley Laboratories would remind you
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that medical science.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And progress is not cold in personal research.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Or pages of statistics, but a warm human story told
in living terms, whether it's the life of one of
medicine's immortals or the everyday record of service rendered by
your own physician. Now Dark Victory, starring Susan Peters as
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Judith Treherne and Franchial Tone as doctor Fred Steel.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Now look, doctor Pars's, I'm sorry, but I've closed my
office for good. I've built a little laboratory on my
farm up in Vermont, and I've been waiting nine years
to get started on my research don't tell me you've
been bitten by the bug for scientific research or something
like that on what sells brain cells? Tell me why
to healthy cell suddenly go ber circ and grow wild?
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Do you know nother? Does anyone? We call them tumors, gliomas, cysts, cancers.
We operate and cure with the knife. But one of
these days someone's going to find a serum that'll be
to these growths what antie toxin is to diphtheria. Can't
you put off leaving and see this girl?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
She's desperately ill.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
I've been watching her like a hawk, and she's losing
ground each day. Confound that you're always talking about the
obligation of doctors to humanity. Well there's humanity waiting for
you in the reception room.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Well all right, I'll have a look at the girl,
but I warn you I'm taking that train. I'm not
going to be stuck here another nine years.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
I'll have her come in, Oh, Fred, you may find
her a bit well defiant.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
She didn't want to come.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
She's trying desperately to convince herself and me that nothing's
wrong with it.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
All right, let me see.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Her come in. Judis this doctor.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Steele How do you do, doctor Steele?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And now?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Will you please excuse me?
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I have to run over to the hospital.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Sit down, mister hearn uh. Doctor Parson tells me you're
a great hunter. You don't look like a hunter.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
You could hardly expect me to enter your office leading
a pack of hounds.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Hardly. Well, tell me about yourself.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
I'm twenty three years old and only child. I weigh
one hundred and fifteen pounds stripped. I've had mumps, beatles
and hooping cough, all of the proper ages?
Speaker 8 (03:28):
Is that all?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
All the inconsequential facts?
Speaker 6 (03:31):
What are the consequential ones?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Does that light bother you? No? Do you use your
eyes a great deal?
Speaker 7 (03:35):
I generally keep them open.
Speaker 8 (03:36):
Doctor.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
That light is in your eyes all lower the shape.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
I wish you wouldn't keep popping on that. There's nothing
the matter with my eyes.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
You're squinting.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
There.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
That's better suit yourself to your office.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
What did you do yesterday?
Speaker 7 (03:50):
I went to the theater in the afternoon. I played
Bridge in the evening by the way around, wasn't it yes?
Speaker 6 (03:55):
I guess it was?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
What was the play?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Serano?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Wasn't it yes? Why did you like it. Well, you
see if you.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Had a headache, didn't you? How long have you had
these headaches?
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I don't have you have one?
Speaker 7 (04:04):
Now?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
No?
Speaker 7 (04:05):
I have not.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
How did you come out at bridge yesterday? Quickly?
Speaker 7 (04:07):
I don't remember.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
You've been losing a lot lately, haven't you.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Why do you ask me these stupid questions. There's nothing
wrong with me. I'm well, absolutely well. I'm young and
strong and nothing can touch me. Neither you nor doctor
Parsons can make an invalid out of me.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Now I'm going I'm.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Sorry to have wasted so much of your time.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Running away because you're frightened, don't you that's not true?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yes it is.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
That's why you held certain things back from Dodor Parsons.
You were afraid to admit them. You've been having those
headaches for months. They've been getting worse lately, and your
eyes have been cutting up too, just as though someone
were shutting a pair of folding doors until your vision's
almost cut in half. You pretended it was imagination, but
it isn't. You can't concentrate. You're irritable because your nerves
are all on edge. You're afraid to admit it, but
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you can't deny it.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
It's a lie.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
I'm well, why do you bully me like this?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Because I want to help you. Won't you let me?
Speaker 6 (05:00):
How about your train to Vermont?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
There will be other trains to Vermont. I want to
examine you. Now take some X rays.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Yes, of course, I'm sorry I was so difficult.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I like the way you fought back at me. You've
been a good sport. Come on, now, let's see what
we can find out about this head of yours. Well, friend,
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it is glyolma, doctor Parsons, I was afraid of that.
We'll have to operate immediately, of course, but there'll be
a recurrence. Yes, you know, all the men I called
in for consultation they were all of the same opinion.
And that means approximately ten months she'll be an invalid
in the meantime, I suppose, No, this is a rare case.
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She'll apparently be as well as any of us. That is,
until well her sight may sail near the end. There'll
only be a little time after that. Fred, I don't
know what to say. I love that girl, so do
I Awre you going to tell her? Would you want
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her to know? No, that's your.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
Answer ready in surgery, doctor steel, Fred.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Fred, Yes, Judis Well, I be all.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Right, Fred, Yes, darling, you'll have a complete surgical recovery.
Speaker 9 (07:01):
That's good.
Speaker 10 (07:04):
Fred.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
When you got inside my head, did you find any
sense in it? How do you like this hat? Anne?
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Well, I like you to the other twelve? So you've
certainly gotten fuzzy since that operation. One day out of
bed and you're going through those hats like a cyclone. Oh,
I want to look my best. Bring meet Fred at five.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Oh, I want to look so dazzling that he won't
look at another girl. Judath you're in love with Does
it show?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Does it show? Just like a good look in that mirror? Oh?
Has he given you any encouragement?
Speaker 7 (07:49):
Not a ripple on the water. It's awful, but it's wonderful.
I've got something to live for now, something to hope for.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Anne. The next time he comes over.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Anytime there's a lull in the conversation, you might just
mention what a good WiFi i'd make, and but an
ideal mother.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Well, as a matter of fact, I have an appointment
with him in this afternoon in his office. I'll I'll
toss it in the conversation and let you know the results.
If you're serious. I'm horribly afraid. I'm terribly serious. Well,
it couldn't happen to a nicer girl.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Well you take these powders, Missus Robertson. You'll be all right,
doctor Steele.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
I've only known you since Judith's operation, but I've known
her and loved her most of her life. May I
take the liberty of an old friend?
Speaker 11 (08:50):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Of course.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
Does Judith mean anything more to you than just the patient?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Very much more?
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Marriage would mean to her a home, children, plans for
the future. Could you watch her growing happier every day
with this thing creeping up behind her back? Could you
stand that?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
It isn't a question of what I could stand. The
only thing that matters now is that she should be
happy every hour. All my life, I've told people what
to do. No, I don't know what to do. I
love her, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Fred.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Oh, hold on, mister Hearn. Doctor Steele had to go
out on a case. He wants you to wait. He
didn't think he'd be long after five.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
All right, miss Wayne, Right, I'll sit down here at
the desk and wait.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Oh, do you mind if I finished packing the books
in the reception room, not at all.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Do you think he's really going to Vermonte this time?
Speaker 8 (09:58):
I don't know. I've given up. I guess I'm just
going to have everything ready just in case.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
He's going to be a great scientist.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
He in case history folded Judith Treharne. Wow, this looks interesting.
Might as well spend my time reading about myself? What
did you say, mister hearn Nothing, just doing a little reading,
my dear doctor Steele. A study of the case history
of Miss Judith Trehearne and an examination of the tissue
sample sent me lead me to.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Concur with your diagnosis. The prognosis is definitely poor death
in such cases, is.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
Miss Wainwright?
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
What does prognosis mean?
Speaker 8 (10:43):
What it means? What the future of a case looks?
Speaker 11 (10:45):
Slowly?
Speaker 8 (10:46):
What does.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
Prognosis poor?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Me?
Speaker 8 (10:51):
It means bookless? Why did you ask? What are you reading.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
My case history, Miss Wainwright?
Speaker 7 (11:03):
My case history? Tell the doctor that I couldn't wait,
telling that I had nothing to see him about after all.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Oh, mister Herne, please wait, these things don't Nestli.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Just tell doctor.
Speaker 9 (11:18):
Steele thanks and goodbye.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
In a moment, we shall return to our play Dark Victory.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
But first a message of importance concerning the miracle drug
of our time. Ladies and gentlemen, you and most other
people realized that the only production of penicillum was beset
by countless difficulties. But do you also realize that the
expansion of production facilities for penicillum has resulted in more
than increased quantities, has permitted the development of new forms
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of penicillin as well. When Shenley Laboratories, along with twenty
other firms, was designated by the United States Government to
produce penicillin for the saving of lives on both battle
front and home front, the miracle drug is manufactured only
in its original powdered form.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
To day.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
However, the Shenley laboratori's program of continuing research has developed
additional specialized penicillin products that your doctor may and his
judgment prescribe as penicillin trophies and tablets for administration by mouth,
penicillin ointment to be directly applied to affected skin surfaces,
and of thealmic ointment for treating certain infections of the eye.
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In a spirit of medical progress, Shenley salutes at this
time the extensive experimentation which has brought the boon of
many new cures to all mankind. In addition, Shenley Laboratories
pledges itself to continue its extensive program of research in
the field of pharmaceuticals, with the purpose, ever before it,
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of placing more and greater healing aids in the hands
of your doctor.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Now we return to our play, Dark Victory, starring franch
O'tonue and Susan Peters.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
Why aren't you laughing?
Speaker 9 (13:33):
Alec?
Speaker 7 (13:34):
I came out with you because I thought you'd be.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
Gay and laughing.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
All right, I'll be gay and laughing.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
What you we laugh about?
Speaker 6 (13:39):
How about life?
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Life and the things it does to us. When we
think we're on top, we're.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
On the bottom.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
When we start making plans about all the years we're
going to live, we find we haven't any left.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Oh here you are, Judas, I've been hunting all over town.
Did you forget you had a date with me?
Speaker 7 (13:56):
I suddenly thoughnd I didn't have time.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
To keep it.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Oh, doctor Steele's yes, you sit down.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Join the party.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
The more the merryer.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Let's keep everything as merry as possible.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
A short life.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
But to Mary, when I always say, what do you
always say, I've been meaning to ask you, doctor. Was
I a specimen case? Will I make the medical journal?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Judas, I don't.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Why didn't you tell me what it's all about?
Speaker 7 (14:19):
Tell him what it's all about, explained Alec about prognosis poor.
A few months of pretending you're will and blindness. Then
so long, my friend.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Judas, don't talk.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Oh stop it, Fred, it's no longer necessary to youmor
a patient.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
You'd have done anything to make me happy.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Wouldn't you even married me if necessary?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Out of pity?
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Oh you're very kind, But thank you so much. It
won't be necessary.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
You see, I'm not in your care anymore.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
You will always be in my care. Judas, I hadn't
thought to say it here under these circumstances. But I
do want to marry you. I want to marry you?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Why?
Speaker 8 (15:01):
What for?
Speaker 6 (15:02):
What's the point, what's the reason.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Judas, don't do this, don't strike back at me this way.
I want you to find peace. We all have to die.
The tragic difference is that you know when and we don't.
The important thing is the same, for all of us
to live our lives so we can meet death when
it comes decently beautifully.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Finally, I'll die as I Please, come on, Alec, let's
get out of here. Let's go someplace where there's more laughs, Judith, goodbye, Fred.
Sorry I can't stay longer, but I'm sure you understand.
I just haven't the time.
Speaker 12 (15:47):
Hi, miss Judith, what are you doing down here in
the stables of this hour of the night.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
I couldn't sleep.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
I just got in from a party and I didn't
feel like going to bed.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Saw your liar thought you might like some company.
Speaker 12 (16:00):
Yeah, Oh, sit down and make yourself comfortable.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Thanks, House challenger.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
He's a good horse. You will write about him.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
I can tell a champion every time. Oh, I'm so tired, Michael.
Speaker 12 (16:16):
You've been going too hard for weeks now. It's been
party at the party. If you'll forgive my saying so,
it's a great waste of time.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Waste of time. But why do you say that.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
You only live once?
Speaker 6 (16:28):
Miss judiph that's right, only once.
Speaker 7 (16:32):
Talk to me, Michael. I need someone to talk to tonight.
Talk to me as one human being to another, Talk
to me as a man.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Are you happy, Michael?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Is anybody?
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Are you afraid to die?
Speaker 12 (16:47):
Michael? I wouldn't want to die while you're alive.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
You're making love to me.
Speaker 12 (16:53):
He invited me to talk to you as a man.
One thing I know, I'm a lot better than a
lot of them. That's playing, are you?
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Michael?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (17:03):
If you only knew the things I've wanted to say
to you ever since the first time I came to
work for you, say the Michael had any idea at
all what you're saying, Miss Judith. And I think we're
both a little crazy to night.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
You're right, we are a little crazy, and you're right
about something else.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
I can't go on this way tonight.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
It would be you, and after tonight someone else, and
on and on until the last hour.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Michael, I can't die like that.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Die.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 7 (17:37):
I'm going to die in a few months, Michael.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Does that frighten you?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Heaven forgive you for saying thing like that?
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Yes, Heaven forgive me.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
When it comes it It's got to be met finely
and beautifully, doesn't it.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Michael? Thank you? Thank you for waking me up.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
Judah, Hello, Fred, look here, I came over to save it.
I'm sorry. I hope you don't mind the unorthodox hour.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Come in, Judith.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
I've been such a fool dying I've been such a fool, and.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
That happens to all of us periodically.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
If only Holmp you let me see you sometimes.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
You're going to every day, You're coming to Vermont with me.
All this time, I've been waiting for you, counting the moments.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
The moment is all we have.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
It's all lovers ever had a few perfect hours. I
tried to explain that to you before.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
What will this do to you?
Speaker 7 (19:00):
The shadow's fallen on myers, It mustn't fall on yours.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Your shadow's mine, and your victory over it will be
mine too.
Speaker 13 (19:10):
I'm afraid it will be a dark victory.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Oh, Judiph Darling, you look wonderful. Ramon agrees with you.
Oh but look, I haven't seen Fred yet.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Oh I'd forgotten he's working in there. You go on
in and talk to him.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
I've got to see you about Danny, all right? Hello Fred, Oh, it's.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Good to see you. I'm sorry I couldn't get away
to meet you with the train, but we're working out
an experiment.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Why know you just couldn't tear yourself away from the microbes? Huh?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
How does look to you.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Just like a bride of two months should look? Radiant? Fred?
Is there a chance for her?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
No?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Does she realize?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Yes, all my life I've seen people suffer and seen
them die, but I've never seen anyone like her. From
what deep well she draws her courage. I can only wonder.
Well you saw her? She laughs, sticks out her chin.
She can take it.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
But she must think that.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
No, she doesn't think it's forgotten. That's our packed. We
never mentioned it, and you mustn't either. You'll want to,
but you mustn't, not even with your eyes. You're in
the pack too.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Huh. I'll try. Isn't this a nice gardener? Beautiful? Pretty
soon i'll be all in bloom. There'll be roses over
that arbor over there.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Hey, hey, look how it's clouding up.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
It must be going to ring, But Judah does not.
It's getting darker by the second. Well, and look how
dark it's s getdy. Yes, yes, I see, dear Anne.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
I can still feel the heat of the sun.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
No, no, it isn't true. There are clouds. The sun
has gone.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
It's all right, and it's all right.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Hey out there, I got some news.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
We're going to New York. They just read me a
wire over the phone. Come on in, I'll.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Show you you can't go doing. Maybe it isn't anything.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Come on, hey, read this a wire from Fisher in Philadelphia.
Martha took it down.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Yes, of course, Darling. Well it's very nice.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Nice?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Is that all?
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Will you read it?
Speaker 8 (21:40):
Anna?
Speaker 7 (21:40):
I never could read Martha's writing.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Doctor Frederick Steele Battlebory of Vermont, wild with excitement over
your latest report biological tasks convinced me you may be
on right road with isolation.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Isolation you see choke off the oxygen. No, No, you
two wouldn't understand.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Believe we should present material at board meeting in New
York tomorrow. Please wire usiastic congratulations Fisher. Oh it's wonderful, Darling,
isn't it? Anne? Oh, excuse my lack of enthusiasm. I
was bulled over for a moment.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Sure, don't I know. I'm in the clouds myself. I
wired Fisher I'd meet him at ten in the morning.
I've got to hurry and get packed. Martha's got your
bags already.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
You're going to tell him and keep him from going. No,
I wouldn't dream of it.
Speaker 11 (22:24):
This means everything in the world, his career and his future,
his life must go on.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Judah, come up here.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
A moment, Leda, and please just go on as though
nothing had happened. Please, I know what's best all, Darling.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Whatever you say, Judah coming, Where did Marta hide my
shirts this time?
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Darling? You know I don't think i'll go. You'll be
busy and I just be sitting around the hotel room.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
A couple of days in New York will do you good?
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Please, Darling, don't force me to go.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Force you well, of course, Honny, it's anything you want,
but New York would bore me.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Really, what this is my home now? I'd rather stay here.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Judith, you're trembling, am I?
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Well, it's the first time we've been separated. Mayn't a
girl get a little sentimental?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
I'm not going, Darling.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Are you worried about me?
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Every moment you're not in my sight?
Speaker 6 (23:23):
You needn't be. Anne's here.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Yes, but if anything should happen, it won't.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
But even so, I'm not afraid anymore. Hey, didn't we
agree we wouldn't talk about it. I used to be afraid.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
I died a thousand times. The next time death will
come as an old friend gently and quietly, old Judith.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
We've had so much Fred. If we live to be
a hundred. We could have no more. Darling. You've done
so much.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
For me, Judith. I I don't want to go on
living without you.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
You must, you must go on with your work.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Oh, Darling, I'm so.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Proud of that.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
What a great thing it is to be a doctor
and a scientist, and what a proud thing to heal
pain and save lives.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
You have so much to give to the world for
it it. I don't want my death to be futile
and meaningless.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
I want you to wipe out this thing that is
going to take me away from you.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
You must and you.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Will, Darling. I'll try.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
Nothing can hurt us now, for what we've had can
never be destroyed. That's our victory over the dark, and
it's a victory because we're not afraid.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Thank you, Judith.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Oh now come on, you got to hurry. You take
your bag and I'll take your hat and coat. You
certainly back to hurry. Oh. I bought the car on
the front for you.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
You will take care of everything.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Anne, hurry, Dinana, you've got to drive like mad.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Good Bye, Darling. You know where to reach me if
you need.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Me myself in the big city.
Speaker 10 (25:03):
Bye, good Bye, did we plan any hyacinths yet, Anne, Yes, no,
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
I would you go out now and plant some?
Speaker 11 (25:20):
They're his favorite flowers. They should do well in this soil.
The garden will be very beautiful.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
In June with everything blooming. You'll take good care of
my flowers, won't you? Yes, go on plant them now?
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Do you think i'd leave it? You must please.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
Understand, Anne, that no one must be here, no one.
I have to prove to him that I can do
it alone. Maybe it will help him over some bad
moments in the future, to remember it.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
I'm going up now and.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
Sleep.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
There used to be a prayer. Do you remember it?
If I should die? Now I lay me down to sleep. Yes,
that's it. I pray the Lord my soul to keep
if I should If I should die, before I wake,
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I pray the Lord my soul to take. That's a
beautiful prayer.
Speaker 9 (26:28):
Isn't it.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
I haven't thought of it years. Good Night, Anne, good.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Night, Judah, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Before franch or tone comes back to the microphone, may
well leave this thought with you. All of us take
for granted our feeling of confidence in our own doctor.
Could there be any greater tribute to the medical profession
than this fact that we do take for granted the
confidence we feel in its members. Shemy Laboratories presents this
series of programs in honor of America's doctors and now franchoton.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Ladies and gentlemen. To sum up the spirit of this program,
the simple and beautiful prayer of the Physician, written centuries
ago by my monodes, seems to me to be apt
and fitting. The eternal Providence has appointed me to watch
over the life and death of all thy creatures. May
I always see in the patient a fellow creature in pain.
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Grant me strength and opportunity always to extend the domain
of my craft. This is the prayer of the physician.
It's ages old, yet to day it is as new
as the hope for a peaceful way of life for
all the world. May we in write you to listen
again next week at the same time, when Shenley Laboratories
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presents a Man to Remember, starring mister Lionel Barrymore, a
great star in a great story. Good Night.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
That Victory was produced and directed by Bill Lawrence.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I was presented to the courtesy.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Of Warner Brothers, who this year is celebrating the twentieth
anniversary of Sound Pictures.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
It was a Gene Holloway adaptation.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Susan Peters appeared through the courtesy of Metro Golden Mayer,
producers of the Technicolor musical Holiday in Mexico. This is
Frank Graham speaking for Shenley Laboratories, producer of Penicill and Shenley,
and inviting you to listen next Tuesday at the same
time when you will hear mister Lionel Barrymore in a
Man to Remember.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
M hmm.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System
The Henley Laboratories, producer of penicillin. Shenley and Shenley Pharmaceuticals
presents Yon Core. Theare yon Core Theatre play.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Tonight, Dark Victory.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Our stars are Franchial Tone and Susan Peters.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Tonight, Shenley Laboratories presents another and 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 idea, individual heroism, or
break courage. By these programs, Shenley Laboratories would remind you
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that medical science.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And progress is not cold in personal research.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Or pages of statistics, but a warm human story told
in living terms, whether it's the life of one of
medicine's immortals or the everyday record of service rendered by
your own physician. Now Dark Victory, starring Susan Peters as
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Judith Treherne and Franchial Tone as doctor Fred Steel.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Now look, doctor Pars's, I'm sorry, but I've closed my
office for good. I've built a little laboratory on my
farm up in Vermont, and I've been waiting nine years
to get started on my research don't tell me you've
been bitten by the bug for scientific research or something
like that on what sells brain cells? Tell me why
to healthy cell suddenly go ber circ and grow wild?
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Do you know nother? Does anyone? We call them tumors, gliomas, cysts, cancers.
We operate and cure with the knife. But one of
these days someone's going to find a serum that'll be
to these growths what antie toxin is to diphtheria. Can't
you put off leaving and see this girl?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
She's desperately ill.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
I've been watching her like a hawk, and she's losing
ground each day. Confound that you're always talking about the
obligation of doctors to humanity. Well there's humanity waiting for
you in the reception room.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Well all right, I'll have a look at the girl,
but I warn you I'm taking that train. I'm not
going to be stuck here another nine years.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
I'll have her come in, Oh, Fred, you may find
her a bit well defiant.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
She didn't want to come.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
She's trying desperately to convince herself and me that nothing's
wrong with it.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
All right, let me see.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Her come in. Judis this doctor.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Steele How do you do, doctor Steele?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And now?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Will you please excuse me?
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I have to run over to the hospital.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Sit down, mister hearn uh. Doctor Parson tells me you're
a great hunter. You don't look like a hunter.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
You could hardly expect me to enter your office leading
a pack of hounds.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Hardly. Well, tell me about yourself.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
I'm twenty three years old and only child. I weigh
one hundred and fifteen pounds stripped. I've had mumps, beatles
and hooping cough, all of the proper ages?
Speaker 8 (03:28):
Is that all?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
All the inconsequential facts?
Speaker 6 (03:31):
What are the consequential ones?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Does that light bother you? No? Do you use your
eyes a great deal?
Speaker 7 (03:35):
I generally keep them open.
Speaker 8 (03:36):
Doctor.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
That light is in your eyes all lower the shape.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
I wish you wouldn't keep popping on that. There's nothing
the matter with my eyes.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
You're squinting.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
There.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
That's better suit yourself to your office.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
What did you do yesterday?
Speaker 7 (03:50):
I went to the theater in the afternoon. I played
Bridge in the evening by the way around, wasn't it yes?
Speaker 6 (03:55):
I guess it was?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
What was the play?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Serano?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Wasn't it yes? Why did you like it. Well, you
see if you.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Had a headache, didn't you? How long have you had
these headaches?
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I don't have you have one?
Speaker 7 (04:04):
Now?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
No?
Speaker 7 (04:05):
I have not.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
How did you come out at bridge yesterday? Quickly?
Speaker 7 (04:07):
I don't remember.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
You've been losing a lot lately, haven't you.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Why do you ask me these stupid questions. There's nothing
wrong with me. I'm well, absolutely well. I'm young and
strong and nothing can touch me. Neither you nor doctor
Parsons can make an invalid out of me.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Now I'm going I'm.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Sorry to have wasted so much of your time.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Running away because you're frightened, don't you that's not true?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yes it is.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
That's why you held certain things back from Dodor Parsons.
You were afraid to admit them. You've been having those
headaches for months. They've been getting worse lately, and your
eyes have been cutting up too, just as though someone
were shutting a pair of folding doors until your vision's
almost cut in half. You pretended it was imagination, but
it isn't. You can't concentrate. You're irritable because your nerves
are all on edge. You're afraid to admit it, but
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you can't deny it.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
It's a lie.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
I'm well, why do you bully me like this?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Because I want to help you. Won't you let me?
Speaker 6 (05:00):
How about your train to Vermont?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
There will be other trains to Vermont. I want to
examine you. Now take some X rays.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Yes, of course, I'm sorry I was so difficult.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I like the way you fought back at me. You've
been a good sport. Come on, now, let's see what
we can find out about this head of yours. Well, friend,
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it is glyolma, doctor Parsons, I was afraid of that.
We'll have to operate immediately, of course, but there'll be
a recurrence. Yes, you know, all the men I called
in for consultation they were all of the same opinion.
And that means approximately ten months she'll be an invalid
in the meantime, I suppose, No, this is a rare case.
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She'll apparently be as well as any of us. That is,
until well her sight may sail near the end. There'll
only be a little time after that. Fred, I don't
know what to say. I love that girl, so do
I Awre you going to tell her? Would you want
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her to know? No, that's your.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
Answer ready in surgery, doctor steel, Fred.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Fred, Yes, Judis Well, I be all.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Right, Fred, Yes, darling, you'll have a complete surgical recovery.
Speaker 9 (07:01):
That's good.
Speaker 10 (07:04):
Fred.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
When you got inside my head, did you find any
sense in it? How do you like this hat? Anne?
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Well, I like you to the other twelve? So you've
certainly gotten fuzzy since that operation. One day out of
bed and you're going through those hats like a cyclone. Oh,
I want to look my best. Bring meet Fred at five.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Oh, I want to look so dazzling that he won't
look at another girl. Judath you're in love with Does
it show?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Does it show? Just like a good look in that mirror? Oh?
Has he given you any encouragement?
Speaker 7 (07:49):
Not a ripple on the water. It's awful, but it's wonderful.
I've got something to live for now, something to hope for.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Anne. The next time he comes over.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Anytime there's a lull in the conversation, you might just
mention what a good WiFi i'd make, and but an
ideal mother.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Well, as a matter of fact, I have an appointment
with him in this afternoon in his office. I'll I'll
toss it in the conversation and let you know the results.
If you're serious. I'm horribly afraid. I'm terribly serious. Well,
it couldn't happen to a nicer girl.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Well you take these powders, Missus Robertson. You'll be all right,
doctor Steele.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
I've only known you since Judith's operation, but I've known
her and loved her most of her life. May I
take the liberty of an old friend?
Speaker 11 (08:50):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Of course.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
Does Judith mean anything more to you than just the patient?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Very much more?
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Marriage would mean to her a home, children, plans for
the future. Could you watch her growing happier every day
with this thing creeping up behind her back? Could you
stand that?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
It isn't a question of what I could stand. The
only thing that matters now is that she should be
happy every hour. All my life, I've told people what
to do. No, I don't know what to do. I
love her, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Fred.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Oh, hold on, mister Hearn. Doctor Steele had to go
out on a case. He wants you to wait. He
didn't think he'd be long after five.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
All right, miss Wayne, Right, I'll sit down here at
the desk and wait.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Oh, do you mind if I finished packing the books
in the reception room, not at all.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Do you think he's really going to Vermonte this time?
Speaker 8 (09:58):
I don't know. I've given up. I guess I'm just
going to have everything ready just in case.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
He's going to be a great scientist.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
He in case history folded Judith Treharne. Wow, this looks interesting.
Might as well spend my time reading about myself? What
did you say, mister hearn Nothing, just doing a little reading,
my dear doctor Steele. A study of the case history
of Miss Judith Trehearne and an examination of the tissue
sample sent me lead me to.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Concur with your diagnosis. The prognosis is definitely poor death
in such cases, is.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
Miss Wainwright?
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
What does prognosis mean?
Speaker 8 (10:43):
What it means? What the future of a case looks?
Speaker 11 (10:45):
Slowly?
Speaker 8 (10:46):
What does.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
Prognosis poor?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Me?
Speaker 8 (10:51):
It means bookless? Why did you ask? What are you reading.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
My case history, Miss Wainwright?
Speaker 7 (11:03):
My case history? Tell the doctor that I couldn't wait,
telling that I had nothing to see him about after all.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Oh, mister Herne, please wait, these things don't Nestli.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Just tell doctor.
Speaker 9 (11:18):
Steele thanks and goodbye.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
In a moment, we shall return to our play Dark Victory.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
But first a message of importance concerning the miracle drug
of our time. Ladies and gentlemen, you and most other
people realized that the only production of penicillum was beset
by countless difficulties. But do you also realize that the
expansion of production facilities for penicillum has resulted in more
than increased quantities, has permitted the development of new forms
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of penicillin as well. When Shenley Laboratories, along with twenty
other firms, was designated by the United States Government to
produce penicillin for the saving of lives on both battle
front and home front, the miracle drug is manufactured only
in its original powdered form.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
To day.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
However, the Shenley laboratori's program of continuing research has developed
additional specialized penicillin products that your doctor may and his
judgment prescribe as penicillin trophies and tablets for administration by mouth,
penicillin ointment to be directly applied to affected skin surfaces,
and of thealmic ointment for treating certain infections of the eye.
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In a spirit of medical progress, Shenley salutes at this
time the extensive experimentation which has brought the boon of
many new cures to all mankind. In addition, Shenley Laboratories
pledges itself to continue its extensive program of research in
the field of pharmaceuticals, with the purpose, ever before it,
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of placing more and greater healing aids in the hands
of your doctor.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Now we return to our play, Dark Victory, starring franch
O'tonue and Susan Peters.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
Why aren't you laughing?
Speaker 9 (13:33):
Alec?
Speaker 7 (13:34):
I came out with you because I thought you'd be.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
Gay and laughing.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
All right, I'll be gay and laughing.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
What you we laugh about?
Speaker 6 (13:39):
How about life?
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Life and the things it does to us. When we
think we're on top, we're.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
On the bottom.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
When we start making plans about all the years we're
going to live, we find we haven't any left.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Oh here you are, Judas, I've been hunting all over town.
Did you forget you had a date with me?
Speaker 7 (13:56):
I suddenly thoughnd I didn't have time.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
To keep it.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Oh, doctor Steele's yes, you sit down.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Join the party.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
The more the merryer.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Let's keep everything as merry as possible.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
A short life.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
But to Mary, when I always say, what do you
always say, I've been meaning to ask you, doctor. Was
I a specimen case? Will I make the medical journal?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Judas, I don't.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Why didn't you tell me what it's all about?
Speaker 7 (14:19):
Tell him what it's all about, explained Alec about prognosis poor.
A few months of pretending you're will and blindness. Then
so long, my friend.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Judas, don't talk.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Oh stop it, Fred, it's no longer necessary to youmor
a patient.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
You'd have done anything to make me happy.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Wouldn't you even married me if necessary?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Out of pity?
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Oh you're very kind, But thank you so much. It
won't be necessary.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
You see, I'm not in your care anymore.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
You will always be in my care. Judas, I hadn't
thought to say it here under these circumstances. But I
do want to marry you. I want to marry you?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Why?
Speaker 8 (15:01):
What for?
Speaker 6 (15:02):
What's the point, what's the reason.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Judas, don't do this, don't strike back at me this way.
I want you to find peace. We all have to die.
The tragic difference is that you know when and we don't.
The important thing is the same, for all of us
to live our lives so we can meet death when
it comes decently beautifully.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Finally, I'll die as I Please, come on, Alec, let's
get out of here. Let's go someplace where there's more laughs, Judith, goodbye, Fred.
Sorry I can't stay longer, but I'm sure you understand.
I just haven't the time.
Speaker 12 (15:47):
Hi, miss Judith, what are you doing down here in
the stables of this hour of the night.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
I couldn't sleep.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
I just got in from a party and I didn't
feel like going to bed.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Saw your liar thought you might like some company.
Speaker 12 (16:00):
Yeah, Oh, sit down and make yourself comfortable.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Thanks, House challenger.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
He's a good horse. You will write about him.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
I can tell a champion every time. Oh, I'm so tired, Michael.
Speaker 12 (16:16):
You've been going too hard for weeks now. It's been
party at the party. If you'll forgive my saying so,
it's a great waste of time.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Waste of time. But why do you say that.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
You only live once?
Speaker 6 (16:28):
Miss judiph that's right, only once.
Speaker 7 (16:32):
Talk to me, Michael. I need someone to talk to tonight.
Talk to me as one human being to another, Talk
to me as a man.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Are you happy, Michael?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Is anybody?
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Are you afraid to die?
Speaker 12 (16:47):
Michael? I wouldn't want to die while you're alive.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
You're making love to me.
Speaker 12 (16:53):
He invited me to talk to you as a man.
One thing I know, I'm a lot better than a
lot of them. That's playing, are you?
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Michael?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (17:03):
If you only knew the things I've wanted to say
to you ever since the first time I came to
work for you, say the Michael had any idea at
all what you're saying, Miss Judith. And I think we're
both a little crazy to night.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
You're right, we are a little crazy, and you're right
about something else.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
I can't go on this way tonight.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
It would be you, and after tonight someone else, and
on and on until the last hour.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Michael, I can't die like that.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Die.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 7 (17:37):
I'm going to die in a few months, Michael.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Does that frighten you?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Heaven forgive you for saying thing like that?
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Yes, Heaven forgive me.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
When it comes it It's got to be met finely
and beautifully, doesn't it.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Michael? Thank you? Thank you for waking me up.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
Judah, Hello, Fred, look here, I came over to save it.
I'm sorry. I hope you don't mind the unorthodox hour.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Come in, Judith.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
I've been such a fool dying I've been such a fool, and.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
That happens to all of us periodically.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
If only Holmp you let me see you sometimes.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
You're going to every day, You're coming to Vermont with me.
All this time, I've been waiting for you, counting the moments.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
The moment is all we have.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
It's all lovers ever had a few perfect hours. I
tried to explain that to you before.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
What will this do to you?
Speaker 7 (19:00):
The shadow's fallen on myers, It mustn't fall on yours.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Your shadow's mine, and your victory over it will be
mine too.
Speaker 13 (19:10):
I'm afraid it will be a dark victory.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Oh, Judiph Darling, you look wonderful. Ramon agrees with you.
Oh but look, I haven't seen Fred yet.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Oh I'd forgotten he's working in there. You go on
in and talk to him.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
I've got to see you about Danny, all right? Hello Fred, Oh, it's.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Good to see you. I'm sorry I couldn't get away
to meet you with the train, but we're working out
an experiment.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Why know you just couldn't tear yourself away from the microbes? Huh?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
How does look to you.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Just like a bride of two months should look? Radiant? Fred?
Is there a chance for her?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
No?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Does she realize?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Yes, all my life I've seen people suffer and seen
them die, but I've never seen anyone like her. From
what deep well she draws her courage. I can only wonder.
Well you saw her? She laughs, sticks out her chin.
She can take it.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
But she must think that.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
No, she doesn't think it's forgotten. That's our packed. We
never mentioned it, and you mustn't either. You'll want to,
but you mustn't, not even with your eyes. You're in
the pack too.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Huh. I'll try. Isn't this a nice gardener? Beautiful? Pretty
soon i'll be all in bloom. There'll be roses over
that arbor over there.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Hey, hey, look how it's clouding up.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
It must be going to ring, But Judah does not.
It's getting darker by the second. Well, and look how
dark it's s getdy. Yes, yes, I see, dear Anne.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
I can still feel the heat of the sun.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
No, no, it isn't true. There are clouds. The sun
has gone.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
It's all right, and it's all right.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Hey out there, I got some news.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
We're going to New York. They just read me a
wire over the phone. Come on in, I'll.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Show you you can't go doing. Maybe it isn't anything.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Come on, hey, read this a wire from Fisher in Philadelphia.
Martha took it down.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Yes, of course, Darling. Well it's very nice.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Nice?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Is that all?
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Will you read it?
Speaker 8 (21:40):
Anna?
Speaker 7 (21:40):
I never could read Martha's writing.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Doctor Frederick Steele Battlebory of Vermont, wild with excitement over
your latest report biological tasks convinced me you may be
on right road with isolation.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Isolation you see choke off the oxygen. No, No, you
two wouldn't understand.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Believe we should present material at board meeting in New
York tomorrow. Please wire usiastic congratulations Fisher. Oh it's wonderful, Darling,
isn't it? Anne? Oh, excuse my lack of enthusiasm. I
was bulled over for a moment.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Sure, don't I know. I'm in the clouds myself. I
wired Fisher I'd meet him at ten in the morning.
I've got to hurry and get packed. Martha's got your
bags already.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
You're going to tell him and keep him from going. No,
I wouldn't dream of it.
Speaker 11 (22:24):
This means everything in the world, his career and his future,
his life must go on.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Judah, come up here.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
A moment, Leda, and please just go on as though
nothing had happened. Please, I know what's best all, Darling.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Whatever you say, Judah coming, Where did Marta hide my
shirts this time?
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Darling? You know I don't think i'll go. You'll be
busy and I just be sitting around the hotel room.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
A couple of days in New York will do you good?
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Please, Darling, don't force me to go.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Force you well, of course, Honny, it's anything you want,
but New York would bore me.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Really, what this is my home now? I'd rather stay here.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Judith, you're trembling, am I?
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Well, it's the first time we've been separated. Mayn't a
girl get a little sentimental?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
I'm not going, Darling.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Are you worried about me?
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Every moment you're not in my sight?
Speaker 6 (23:23):
You needn't be. Anne's here.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Yes, but if anything should happen, it won't.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
But even so, I'm not afraid anymore. Hey, didn't we
agree we wouldn't talk about it. I used to be afraid.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
I died a thousand times. The next time death will
come as an old friend gently and quietly, old Judith.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
We've had so much Fred. If we live to be
a hundred. We could have no more. Darling. You've done
so much.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
For me, Judith. I I don't want to go on
living without you.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
You must, you must go on with your work.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Oh, Darling, I'm so.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Proud of that.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
What a great thing it is to be a doctor
and a scientist, and what a proud thing to heal
pain and save lives.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
You have so much to give to the world for
it it. I don't want my death to be futile
and meaningless.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
I want you to wipe out this thing that is
going to take me away from you.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
You must and you.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Will, Darling. I'll try.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
Nothing can hurt us now, for what we've had can
never be destroyed. That's our victory over the dark, and
it's a victory because we're not afraid.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Thank you, Judith.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Oh now come on, you got to hurry. You take
your bag and I'll take your hat and coat. You
certainly back to hurry. Oh. I bought the car on
the front for you.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
You will take care of everything.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Anne, hurry, Dinana, you've got to drive like mad.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Good Bye, Darling. You know where to reach me if
you need.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Me myself in the big city.
Speaker 10 (25:03):
Bye, good Bye, did we plan any hyacinths yet, Anne, Yes, no,
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
I would you go out now and plant some?
Speaker 11 (25:20):
They're his favorite flowers. They should do well in this soil.
The garden will be very beautiful.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
In June with everything blooming. You'll take good care of
my flowers, won't you? Yes, go on plant them now?
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Do you think i'd leave it? You must please.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
Understand, Anne, that no one must be here, no one.
I have to prove to him that I can do
it alone. Maybe it will help him over some bad
moments in the future, to remember it.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
I'm going up now and.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
Sleep.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
There used to be a prayer. Do you remember it?
If I should die? Now I lay me down to sleep. Yes,
that's it. I pray the Lord my soul to keep
if I should If I should die, before I wake,
(26:22):
I pray the Lord my soul to take. That's a
beautiful prayer.
Speaker 9 (26:28):
Isn't it.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
I haven't thought of it years. Good Night, Anne, good.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Night, Judah, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Before franch or tone comes back to the microphone, may
well leave this thought with you. All of us take
for granted our feeling of confidence in our own doctor.
Could there be any greater tribute to the medical profession
than this fact that we do take for granted the
confidence we feel in its members. Shemy Laboratories presents this
series of programs in honor of America's doctors and now franchoton.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Ladies and gentlemen. To sum up the spirit of this program,
the simple and beautiful prayer of the Physician, written centuries
ago by my monodes, seems to me to be apt
and fitting. The eternal Providence has appointed me to watch
over the life and death of all thy creatures. May
I always see in the patient a fellow creature in pain.
(27:42):
Grant me strength and opportunity always to extend the domain
of my craft. This is the prayer of the physician.
It's ages old, yet to day it is as new
as the hope for a peaceful way of life for
all the world. May we in write you to listen
again next week at the same time, when Shenley Laboratories
(28:04):
presents a Man to Remember, starring mister Lionel Barrymore, a
great star in a great story. Good Night.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
That Victory was produced and directed by Bill Lawrence.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I was presented to the courtesy.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Of Warner Brothers, who this year is celebrating the twentieth
anniversary of Sound Pictures.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
It was a Gene Holloway adaptation.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Susan Peters appeared through the courtesy of Metro Golden Mayer,
producers of the Technicolor musical Holiday in Mexico. This is
Frank Graham speaking for Shenley Laboratories, producer of Penicill and Shenley,
and inviting you to listen next Tuesday at the same
time when you will hear mister Lionel Barrymore in a
Man to Remember.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
M hmm.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System
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