Lux Radio Theatre - Story Of Louis Pasteur

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hollywood, California, Monday, November twenty Perth and the Lux Radio
Theater presents Paul Muney in the Story of Louis Pasteur,
with Fritz Liber.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
And Crawford Kent.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Lux Presents Hollywood Our stars Paul Muny, Fritz Liber.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Crawford Kent, and Barbara Luddy.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Our guests Adrian Hollywood's most noted designer and William K.
Howard Director, Our producer Cecil B. De Mille, our conductor,
Leuis Silvers, the makers of Lux Blakes, together with our
stars and guests.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Welcome you all to another hour in the Lux Radio Theater.
Here's a word to the ladies.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
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your skin, making it rough and red and making the
nails brittle.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Lux flakes contain no harmful alkali.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
They protect the natural oil in your skin, safeguard your manicure,
and give your hands beauty care right in the dishband.
Lux Flakes are just as good for washing dishes as
for washing fine fabrics.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
And that's saying a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
And now it's time to hear from our producers, ladies
and gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Mister Cecil B.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
DeMillo greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen. Paul Muney is
a paragon of paradoxes. Born in Vienna, he doesn't waltz.
Trained in the Yiddish hot theatre, he's been playing the
role of a Chinese and the Good Earth for the
past six months. At the age of eleven, mister Muney

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went on the stage in the part of a bent
and withered old man. The whiskers he wore were obviously false,
but he grew his own beard for the story of
Louis Pasteur, and here are some sidelights on his sidelines.
He plays violin and talks to strangers for relaxation. He
rehearses all his lines into a dictaphone to study his
own inflections. He experiments with makeup at home and obtains

(02:10):
material for his characterization's first hand.

Speaker 5 (02:13):
In other words, if he's.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
Playing the part of a Chinese, he spends a great
deal of his time in the Chinese quarter. And it
is to be a gangster on the screen. He mingles
with the gangster element. And if he's a scientist, he
reads everything available on the science he's supposed to represent.
It's nearly two years since mister Muniy's last appearance on
the air. Then as to Night, he was heard from
the Lux Radio Theater and starred in his favorite stage play,

(02:38):
Councilor at law Tonight, we hear him in his favorite screenplay,
The Story of Louis Pasteur. The part of doctor Chabonnet
is played by the same distinguished performer who enacted it
on the screen, Mister Fritz Leiber.

Speaker 5 (02:52):
Crawford Kent will be heard as doctor Radis.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
Louis Silvers raises his baton to start the music as
the Lux Radio Theater presents The Star Worry of Louis Pasta,
starring Paul Munich. Paris in the eighteen sixties. We're in

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the laboratory of Louis Pastor. The long, sparsely furnished room is.

Speaker 5 (03:27):
Lined with deep shadows.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
Along the walls ten crates of guinea pigs and squeaking mice,
and in the center, a crudely built table is littered
with twisted test tubes and cardross.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
It's early evening.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Under the garish light of an overhanging lamp. Pastor leans
over his microscope, his eyes glued to the black cylinder.
His wife enters the room and stands for a moment
watching him.

Speaker 6 (03:52):
Louis, Yes, Louis, yes, haven't you worked long enough?

Speaker 7 (03:58):
Aren't you tired?

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Tired?

Speaker 7 (04:00):
I've been here all day, since early this morning.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
I know I know who. Yes? Have you finished with
those slides in a moment?

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Hurry them along, Louis.

Speaker 7 (04:10):
I I brought the newspaper.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
For your newspaper.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
What do I want?

Speaker 7 (04:16):
There's something in it you should know.

Speaker 6 (04:18):
Doctor Frederick is dead dead. He was killed shot.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Oh did it?

Speaker 6 (04:25):
The husband of one of his patients slitten. When asked
by the magistrate why he had killed doctor Frederick, the
men shouted, he killed my wife with his dirty hands.
He gave her fever to child bed fever. Then the
prisoner produced a pamphlet which read, doctor's surgeons, wash your hands,
boil your instruments. Microbes caused disease. The pamphlet was signed Louis.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Pasteur, Hm my pamphlet.

Speaker 7 (04:51):
Louis, don't you know what it means.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
They're blaming you for the death of doctor Frederick.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Nonsense.

Speaker 6 (04:55):
They are doctor Chabonet, doctor Reddy's, all of them.

Speaker 7 (04:58):
They call you a murderer, yen to science.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
And they are a menace to humanity.

Speaker 7 (05:02):
They should appeal to the Emperor.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Let them. The Emperor is no fool. Look at the facts, Marie.
Three out of every ten mothers today die in childbirth.
Why because our learned physicians are too pig headed to
realize that germs have the power to invade the bloodstream
and cause disease.

Speaker 6 (05:21):
But Louis, you tell them to wash their hands, boil
their instruments.

Speaker 7 (05:24):
Till you can't be sure you haven't found the germs.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
But I will, I will.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Haha.

Speaker 7 (05:30):
Oh, but is it in it? And Papa and nothing
you're got in the carriage?

Speaker 2 (05:34):
They were two shoulders, really, Louis, give me the letter.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Hmm, it's from the Emperor.

Speaker 7 (05:41):
The Emperor, then it's.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Just as I thought.

Speaker 7 (05:43):
Chagune and Rodies have gone to him.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Quiet, my dear, it's not as you thought. Listen to this.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
At the request of the Court Chamberlain and the command
of His Majesty Napoleon the Third, you are invited.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
To a reception of the Palace.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Oh, Louis, a carriage be sent for you at eight
o'clock next Thursday.

Speaker 7 (06:03):
A reception at the palace.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
LOOI, what an.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Honor it is, my chance? Marie Radis charbonnet or signor
they'll all be there. It is my chance at last.

Speaker 8 (06:27):
I heard, your majesty.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
This man Pastor is not even a doctor. He's only
a chemist, I know, Charbonet, but his work interests the Empress.
It was at her suggestion that I invited him tonight.

Speaker 6 (06:43):
Yes, doctor Charboney, if I am not mistaken, Castor was
instrumental in discovering the cause of fermentation of wine some
years ago.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yes, your majesty, I recall it now.

Speaker 7 (06:55):
He claimed to have discovered little.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Animals in it, infinitesimal.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Beasts, and he still does, sire, only now he finds
them everywhere.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Ah, they're such creatures. Do they really exist, your majesty?

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Microscopic organisms have long been observed. Yes, they spring at a
being of their own accord wherever there is pupid matter
or fermentation. They are the result, rather than the cause
of disease.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Oh, I see, by heating wine a.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Certain temperature, Monsieur Pastor was able to destroy them. I
presume me plans to cure blood poisoning in the same manner,
namely by boiling our blood.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Heaven forbid, It's not unlikely, I assure you, Doctor Chaubonnet.

Speaker 7 (07:37):
I'm afraid you exaggerate.

Speaker 6 (07:39):
I too, have read Pastor's pamphlet. It says nothing about
boiling blood, merely to boil the instruments.

Speaker 5 (07:45):
You surgeons, you madam.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
If I did anything so absurd as to boil my
instruments or scrub my hands, they'd think I was a
witch doctor resorting to charms and laugh me out of
the hospital.

Speaker 7 (07:57):
That would be a novelty, monsieurs.

Speaker 6 (08:00):
Most people who go to hospitals are carried out dead.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Your magistery, what is it, sir Louis Pastor has arrived.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
Your magistry?

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Oh yes, show him to the east room and ask
him to wait for me there.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yes, your mast Charboney, find doctor Rastinol and doctor Radice
and any others who might be interested. We see Pastor
together and discover for ourselves.

Speaker 8 (08:23):
Whether the man is a genius.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
And it's possible, I refoose to believe it's quan bowman,
Doctor Raddee. Pastor, will you please tell us precisely what
you mean? I will, sire. The hospitals of Paris are
pest houses. There's scarcely a doctor in the city who
is not carrying death on his hands and on his instruments.

(08:52):
Because of microbes mess your private managerie of invisible beasts exactly.
The Charbonnet could see them for himself, if he took
the trouble to use his microscope, he could watch them
multiplying to murderous millions. They breathing filth. They may start
from the gutters of Paris tonight and by tomorrow claim

(09:14):
some mother from this very cast.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Preposterous to think.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
That a human being could be destroyed by an animal
ten thousand times smaller than a flea. It is, though
an army of m should destroy your Majesty's empires. Listen,
a young woman died here tonight, the wife of the
coachman who brought me. She was your patient, Charbonet, a

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victim of your bigotry.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
You'll dare you accuse me.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
In the end, the woman who attended her, your nurse,
will carry the infection to your next, a more illustrious patient.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
A contest. Gabrielle de villebo your magistrate, stop, I've had enough.
You should know better, Pastor.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
The Comtesse Gabrielle is her Majesty's sister.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
I regret, sire, but death.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Knows no right.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Silence. In the preservation of wine and beer, you have
been of service to France. We appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
In the future you will confine your work to that field,
or suffer my displeasure. That will be all your majesty,
that will be all pastor good night, your majesty.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Here there's no host to say a thing like that.
Get no registine.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Carritt Please, yes, monsieur, monsieur por yes, permit me please.
I am Jean Martelle, physician and surgeon, Doctor of medicine
from the Sorbonne Secretary of Hygiene, member of the International
Society of Doctors at Edinburgh.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Personally, I'm convinced that there is some truth in what
you say. You, honor me.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Charbona is a fool when it comes to any You
are the leading your pardon, aren't you doctor Charbonnet's assistant.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yes, I suppose I am.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
But it is your duty to respect him then not
to ridicule him.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
I miss you, good night.

Speaker 6 (11:29):
Mama, Mommy. Is he trying?

Speaker 7 (11:31):
How don't tum quicken it? Run and open the door
for him. You will light the candles on the cake.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Thirty eight, only thirty eight and already to have done
so much for the world.

Speaker 7 (11:43):
She's coming. Open the door in it.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Happy Brithday, Happy Brithday. Oh, thank you, thank you, Maddie.

Speaker 7 (11:56):
Louis, Yes, is anything wrong?

Speaker 1 (12:01):
You'll have to pack, Marie. We're leaving Paris tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Tomorrow, Louis, what happened?

Speaker 1 (12:08):
I've stepped too hard on the toes of our doctors.
I've insulted the Academy of Medicine.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
They forbid me to work on human diseases.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
You must leave here, Marie.

Speaker 7 (12:22):
Yes, Louis.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
When I was a boy, I used to read of
scientists fleeing from the cities.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
To avoid persecution. It thrilled me. Eh, I didn't realize
what a nuisance it was.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
But Usa, uh, perhaps you might better apologize to the
academy a few lines.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Take back what we know is true. Never I'd die first.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Don't worry who.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Someday we're going.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
To prove that we're right, to the Emperor, to the Academy,
to the world.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Moment.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Ruda continue for the Let's Radio Theater.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Presentation of Loway past Her, starring Paul Newmi.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
But now we're going to the stock room of Columbia's
wardrobe department on Gower Street. A seamstress is taking one
of our new assistants through the department, showing how and
where the dresses and coats are kept.

Speaker 6 (13:33):
Now over here are Irene Dun's dresses. These are the
ones she wore and Theodora goes wild. We might as
well take the pink one ow. It's got to be
washed before we make it over for another picture.

Speaker 7 (13:43):
Washed or can you wash your dress like that?

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (13:47):
Yes, they were fifteen days making that particular scene, and
I know that dress has been washed at least three times.

Speaker 7 (13:52):
Well, I didn't believe you could wash that kind of material.

Speaker 6 (13:55):
Home arias it washes beautifully and lux flakes. Of course,
we wouldn't risk it in any anything else.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
You see, these cluthes are worth a lot.

Speaker 6 (14:02):
Of money, and we can't take chances.

Speaker 5 (14:04):
They've need lucks.

Speaker 7 (14:04):
A rule here in the wardrobe department.

Speaker 6 (14:06):
You better keep that in mind too. Always see that
there's plenty of lucks now on this side.

Speaker 7 (14:13):
Always here.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
All the big Hollywood studios use lux flakes for washing
fine fabrics because they've discovered it's the sure safe way
to keep them looking like new. Lux contains no harmful alkali,
and with lucks there's no harsh take soap rubbing. Even
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and fine cuttons. You will love the way they come
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once again, mister de Mille, eight years have gone by,
while men fought and killed each other in the Frank

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Opprussian wars, Sir fought microbes.

Speaker 5 (15:01):
The real enemy of all mankind. The war is over now.

Speaker 4 (15:05):
And the government, hard pressed to meet the heavy indemnity
imposed by pressure, has turned its attention to rebuilding the
ravaged countryside. A devastating plague and Franks is destroying the
livestock of France, the government's chief source of revenue, in
only one small province, the district of Albois.

Speaker 5 (15:25):
Is there any immunity to the dread disease?

Speaker 1 (15:28):
To that district are sent two representatives of the Academy
of Medicine, doctor Radisse and Jean Martel. Their coach comes
to an abrupt halt near a herd of sheep.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Look at that heard, doctor Redies. They seem to be
healthy enough.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Luck, that's all pure luck these fields have become immune.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yes, but how why?

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Why, dear Martel, subscretions are beyond the scope of science.

Speaker 5 (15:58):
And you ask me how or why? I must refer
you to the theologian.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Thanks, I'll ask it this farm.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Houseper well, Martell, don't waste your time asking questions. There's
never a waste of time, my dear fellow. At least
the future of France. Our whole financial structure lies in
the health of our livestock. If we're the meto indemnity,
we must have a source of income.

Speaker 7 (16:19):
Who didn't running, monsieur, Oh, good.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Morning, Good morning. I'm sorry to intrude upon you. I'm
doctor Jean Martel. This gentleman is doctor Ready's. We were
sent here by Presidentierre to discover, if possible, why your
sheep have escaped the plague.

Speaker 7 (16:33):
Who You're quite welcome.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
My name is Annette, Annette Pastor.

Speaker 7 (16:38):
I'm sure father will be delighted to see you.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Pastor not Louis Pastor that that chemist.

Speaker 9 (16:46):
Yes, monsieur, will you come this way a father's back
and the yet vaccinating to sheep, vaccinating, yes, monsieur, against
the anthrax, the shimmers.

Speaker 7 (16:57):
For what the NCRO monsieur the germ that causes anentery.

Speaker 5 (17:02):
Do you hear that, Martel?

Speaker 1 (17:04):
The germ? But oh, yes, yes, you seem to be
very well informed, Mademoiselle Prester.

Speaker 9 (17:12):
Oh thank you.

Speaker 7 (17:14):
I couldn't help but know something about it.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Oh, father, there's someone to see you.

Speaker 9 (17:19):
Oh, good morning, Monsieur doctor Martell and doctor Reddy.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Doctor that O.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yes, so Monsieur Pastor, you are now the savior of
the sheep. Eh, very interesting. Do you remember Pastor Martel.
He's the man who's responsible for doctor Frederick's death.

Speaker 5 (17:39):
Remember we'll run out of Paris.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Not quite, doctor, don't deny it.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
You were and you were worn not to practice positively?
What's that?

Speaker 2 (17:52):
The sheep doesn't seem to agree with you?

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Doctor Reddy's the prophet is never without his followers, it seems,
but rarely such inteil legend one. These animals know what's.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Good for them.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Perhaps you'll tell me what's good for them.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
I'd like to know too.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
Ooh yes, come here. Oh will you try to explain
to doctor Radis just what we are doing. He's a
member of the Academy of Medicine, so you'll have to
use very simple language. We are convinced doctor Redie after
eight years of experimenting, that this vaccine, when injected into

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the animal, will set up an immunity.

Speaker 7 (18:32):
Ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (18:33):
It will take eighty years to convince me.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Eighty aren't you a bit optimistic?

Speaker 1 (18:38):
The simple truth of the matter is that your fields
are immune. It's impossible for you to be strictly in
this neighborhood. And when I make my report to the
agricultural board, I'm going to advise that all healthy cattle
be moved to this district.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
No, you can't do that.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
I tell you the experience our rating with contagent.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
I'll dive at a.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Thousand bah I'll come along, Matteo. I've heard enough.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
Ready, Well are you coming?

Speaker 1 (19:02):
No?

Speaker 2 (19:03):
I'm going to stay very well, set.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Still, disobeying your superiors. Eh, Doctor Montest, What I didn't think?
You remembered me at the palace the night I told
the Emperor contest de Villefort would die.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
You were right, she did die. Chabone has never forgiven you.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
It's a pity.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
May I ask why you want to stay.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
I'm no longer an idle courtier monsieur. I work for
the government. My job is to help the farmers of primes.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
So well, if you don't mind, I'd like to work
with you.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Monsieur Annette, come here there, ask your mother if we
have room for a guest.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Oh, yes, I'm here.

Speaker 7 (19:48):
We have Oh I mean I see. Excuse me, monsieur.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Em my daughter blush is a pretty color. Gee, he's
a very pretty girl.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Monsieur.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
Mmm, so uh you want to render your country or
real service?

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Is that it?

Speaker 6 (20:10):
Why?

Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yes, yes I do.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
If you've discovered a vaccine against dan Franx, it's my
duty to make it known. And you think the Academy
would be interested if you can convince me, monsieur, I
should be honored if you'd allow me to convince them.
Thank you, come along, Mofaz.

Speaker 10 (20:36):
Perfectly ridiculous and the practice insurable and unprop order.

Speaker 11 (20:43):
Order, gentlemen, he continues doctor Martyre.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Thank you, gentlemen.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
I have seen with my own eyes what pastor can
do and has done for the cattle of air one. We,
on the other hand, members of the Academy of Medicine,
have contributed nothing in the fight against night sell.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
In Heaven's name, why don't we listen to a man
who has I have.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
Three If someone's gon't yours, and I want.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
To know about her.

Speaker 11 (21:10):
Will Visitors in the gallery please refrain from talking, mister chairman.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Doctor Ready's has the floor.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
I have only one question to raise, and that is
it whether Dr Martell's purpose here is to further the
cause of science or the cause of love. Personally, I'm
inclined to the last of you were having. Memis her
Pastor's amiable daughter. I can hardly blame our young colleague
who wanted to become his son in law.

Speaker 5 (21:40):
That's a lie.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
I'm here because I think Pastor is right. I know
he's right.

Speaker 12 (21:44):
They shall recognizes, Doctor Rosenov, is what you're saying, Doctor Rosigno.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Friends garleague.

Speaker 11 (21:56):
In my laboratory, I have found that I can produce
antracks in healthy sheep by injecting into their veins the dark,
poisonous blood of an animal already affected.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
This treatment invariably results in death.

Speaker 11 (22:10):
I should like, therefore, to propose an experiment that would
rid us once and for all of.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
This medical multi bank.

Speaker 11 (22:16):
Really, past Urn, what's your play, a gentleman. Let us
take fifty normal healthy sheep, twenty five of which.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Will be vaccinated by misheur past Turn. The other twenty
five will remain as they are.

Speaker 11 (22:30):
I shall then infect all fifty sheep with anfects by
the method I have just explained. And I defy any
man or any vaccine. Just save a one of them,
Yes problem save you old Why he wouldn't there.

Speaker 12 (22:43):
Mister Turman, Doctor Shoberry, I agree with doctor Russikhall's experiment.
We all agree, and we tear doctor martell orlei plaster
to try it.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
We dare him. They care, I act tell him? Are
you blewing? Pastor? I am.

Speaker 11 (23:05):
I've enjoyed listening to your discussions from the gary here,
and I repeat, I set your challenge, Doctor Tarpony.

Speaker 5 (23:22):
The experiment has been carried out.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
Fifty sheep, all of them infected with the deadly antrak specialists,
half of them vaccinated by Pastor.

Speaker 5 (23:32):
Will pastor sheep live?

Speaker 4 (23:34):
Will the vaccine immunize them against Antraks? From all the
world over come scientists to witness the experiment. They mingle
with the peasants in the fields of Arbois. Suddenly a
cry goes up.

Speaker 5 (23:46):
The unvaccinated sheep are dead. Then another cry which.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
Heralds the success of the experiment. Pastor sheep are alive.
They have resisted the disease antrax has been conquered.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Well, doctor Signor, are you convinced alive? All of them?

Speaker 1 (24:11):
It's almost unbelievable, monsieur.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
I offer my apologies.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
And you work in the primph and for you too,
my boy, congratulations for me.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
I'm not wrong, am i? Anne? We are not.

Speaker 7 (24:32):
We're going to be married.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Father. I thought so the day he arrived. I thought so,
mister post May.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
I congratulate you, sir.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
I've come all the way from Edinburgh to watch this experiment.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, monsieur.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
My name is Lister, Lister, Doctor Lister. I feel it
a great honor to be present. The honor is my messieur.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
I'm well acquainted with the work you're doing on antiseptic,
thanks to you.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
And your brilliant leadership. It's a dog, Go to my dog,
loose jump take an air to the carriage sickness. A
man has been bitten the dog. Yes, too late, the black.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
To the blacksmith should have a red hot iron burned
deep into his flesh.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Oh fellow, all the doctors in Europe couldn't do more
for him.

Speaker 5 (25:38):
If he doesn't get rabies even now to the countroization.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
He'll be very lucky to die of rabase.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
And yet.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
There must be a way.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
The cure.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
There must be.

Speaker 6 (26:01):
Louis, please sit still and eat your dinner. So after
eleven and you haven't had a bite to eat all day.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
But they're waiting for me in the laboratory. We're working, Maggie.

Speaker 7 (26:08):
Let them wait. Look, I have a letter for you.

Speaker 6 (26:11):
It came by special posts from England from doctor Lister.
Let me see nothing until you've eaten.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Oh, but it's important.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
May I must know what it says very well.

Speaker 7 (26:19):
I'll read it to you.

Speaker 6 (26:21):
Dear sir, My observations lead me to believe that you
are a scoundrel. What I am told that in the
year you've been in Paris you've become a slave driver
to your assistance, that you neglect your wife abuse.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Come, come, come marry. This is no time to joke.

Speaker 6 (26:40):
Very well, I'll tell you what he really says. Your
recent paper on the known sources of infection is admirable
in every detail.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Ah, a very clever man.

Speaker 7 (26:53):
Listen to this.

Speaker 6 (26:54):
Forgive the frankness with which a common love of science
inspires me.

Speaker 7 (26:58):
I embrace your seller workers.

Speaker 6 (27:00):
In Brussels and proud report that their hospitals are.

Speaker 7 (27:03):
Rapidly becoming safe. Mothers can go to them without fear.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
That's where our Annett should be sent to have a baby.

Speaker 7 (27:10):
I tell you, listen, there's more.

Speaker 6 (27:12):
I do not hesitate to acclaim you the most valuable
men yet to enter the field of science.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Good list.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
You see, Marie.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Now I must work and work and work, Louis, what
was there, nothing, Marie, nothing.

Speaker 7 (27:34):
Down the laboratory.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
I heard it.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
What is it? What is it?

Speaker 1 (27:40):
A dog?

Speaker 2 (27:41):
A mad dog? All right, Marie, we have a mad
dog down there.

Speaker 6 (27:44):
But please, Louis, please not hydrophobia.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Don't work on hydrophobia as well.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
Tell you, Marie, I've been trying to discover a cure
for months. I pledged myself to wipe it from the
face of the earth. Come in, Come in, gentlemen, Come in,
do doctor Lator, thank you. I'm afraid I haven't enough

(28:11):
mind little need for them in my laboratory, monsieur. Yes,
doctor Chavroney. It is the wish of some of us
that the Academy of Medicine honor you with this visit,
honor me.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Do they brieve?

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Doctor Saranov has been reading your recent statements in the
journal promising a cure for rabies.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
The press takes liberties doctor.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
As usual, my remarks were grossly exaggerated. In your last
paper to the Academy, Mosieur, you said you were on
the threshold of a great discovery. Yes, might I inquire
if you have crossed that threshold. Science takes a step,
then another, then it stops and reflects before taking a third.

(28:53):
Go on, please, step by step, messieurs, I'm reaching the
ultimate conclusion that microbes are the cause of all disease. Oh,
if germs are still a myth to you, then listen.
In my hand, in this little test tube, I hold.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Enough rabies barries to wipe out the city.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
May I see that test tube, monsieur, if you wish,
thank you, But be careful. Why you have the tiniest
scratch on your hands a scratch? Suppose I make one
on my arm with my pen life, and suppose I
rob this so called.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
Virus into the open wound.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
Like, we shall see why the germs cause disease.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
All I want now is to have you predict the
hour of my death.

Speaker 5 (29:50):
The shaving in sitting at the table, he seems.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
To be enjoying his beer.

Speaker 13 (29:54):
Too strange for a dead man.

Speaker 5 (29:59):
How do you feel to very well? Got your adise
and you it's over a month now.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
According to Pastor, you should be in your grave. The
more germs I've given, the better I feel. Sir, I've
come to warn you about Charboney. You can't afford to

(30:25):
be made ridiculous. The work you're doing is too important.
I wish it were important, but it Isn't.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
You seem so confident today we were here.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
I'll ham every animal that was vaccinated with the contents
of that testube diet except Charboney.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
For some reason, he was able to resist the disease.
Why don't know?

Speaker 7 (30:49):
Are you sure it is the same?

Speaker 5 (30:50):
Too positive?

Speaker 1 (30:52):
It was the only specimen I had.

Speaker 7 (30:54):
You may have let it stand too long, you told me.
Once the germs grow weaker, less virulant with.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
Age, wait.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
It it might be.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
Come into the laboratory.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Ooohyss ooh. How old with that virus when Charboney rubbed
into his arm? Fourteen days? And when was the last
used on a rabbit?

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Markel? Why about a week before? I believe a week?

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Are you sure?

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Wait a minute? Wait, here's the record? Nine days to
be exact.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
There's your answer, ar signor.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
There it is. It must be. It's the only conceivable explanation.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Well, do you think by allowing the virus to wads
that you were able to render it harmless? Not harmless,
but week we cannot for the system to overcome. Well,
even if that's true, it won't help you any When
a man's bitten, he gets the germ full strength, percisely.
But suppose we start with a fourteen day old virus
that's no longer deadly. Suppose we injected into a healthy animal,

(31:55):
and day by day, as nature builds up his resistance,
we increase the doses with stronger, fresher samples until he's
able to withstand the actual diseases we find in the
world at large.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Would he not then be immune? Now impossible.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
It would never work if the first injection didn't kill him.
The second world or the third test?

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yes, monsieur.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Where are those two you've been preparing?

Speaker 5 (32:14):
Right here?

Speaker 2 (32:15):
They're all in order, each one is dated. There we
are fourteen days.

Speaker 5 (32:18):
How many dogs have we left?

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Ten?

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Are they well? Healthy?

Speaker 1 (32:22):
In perfect condition?

Speaker 2 (32:23):
They've never been exposed.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Give them hydrophobia, monsieur, Give them hydrophobia. Fourteen days injections

(32:46):
every day of our signal, and all of our dogs
are alive and well.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Yes, you've made them immune. Absolutely. And if it hadn't
been for Charbonnet, we might never have discovered this street.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
But poor Charbonnet, little does he know that he's it's
been our favorite guinea.

Speaker 5 (33:04):
Marie.

Speaker 14 (33:05):
Will you come into the sitting room.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
There's a doctor, a doctor.

Speaker 7 (33:09):
He brought a woman here and a little boy.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
I'd better go with you, past her. Yes, yes, come along,
oh mother, oh dear past Yes, this is the doctors
in your good evening, Doctor m Doctor Pfeiffer.

Speaker 13 (33:25):
I apologize for not giving notes, but we've come all
the way from Alsatz. This madame meister, her child is
a patient of mine.

Speaker 7 (33:31):
My little boy, my little Joseph good.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Leaving Joseph good evening, sir.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
The boy was bitten. I have done all I could,
but that isn't very much. Should he developed grophobia, they
told us you could give me your hand. Little fellow
here here, don't be afraid. How long has it been
eleven days? You cross rise the wounds?

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Not right away, must have been twenty four hours.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
It's a long time to wait.

Speaker 7 (34:00):
Let me and I'm going to die.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Of course, a dozen little boys don't die.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
They have too much to live for.

Speaker 6 (34:07):
I know you won't live noise last year?

Speaker 2 (34:12):
What does that have to do with yours?

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Put into bed, See that he's kept warm.

Speaker 7 (34:22):
Come, Joseph, don't you'll go up?

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Thank you?

Speaker 1 (34:26):
This is there anything you can do?

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Missie?

Speaker 1 (34:32):
I don't know. I'm just experimenting. I have hopes, but
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
You're quite sure the dog was rabbit, Doctor Fiber. Beyond
a doubt, I may detest myself.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
The first symptoms shouldn't appear for at least two weeks.
We might have time to produce an immunity. Is sure.
I'm employing, if this understand me, my treatment to save dogs.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
But I haven't the fai this notion. What effect it
would have.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Upon a human being?

Speaker 2 (35:03):
If I failed, it would mean prison, perhaps the guillotine.

Speaker 13 (35:10):
Since death is the only alternative for the boy, I'd
be willing to try anything, wouldn't you know? Doctor Rossing Note.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
No, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
I can't agree, much as I admire Pastor's accomplishments.

Speaker 5 (35:19):
Nevertheless, where human life is at stake.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
I'd hesitated a long while before going contrary to the
best medical knowledge whish in the.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Case of hydrophobias, to let the patient die.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
We do what we can, We administer drugs and saidator,
is there a single cure on rhyme?

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Not arguing for it.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
I'm merely pointing out what the accepted treatment happens to be.
To embark upon a new course is always dangerous from
a professional point of view. It would be doubly so
Monsieur Pastor, who is not a doctor and could expect
the old support from the medical professional team these for
his sake, therefore, I strongly advise that nothing irregular be attempted.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Good leavening gentlemen, Mischieur Pester. You're not going to listen
to him, are you? Dog is one thing, but a
human life. I don't know. Well, if you change your mind,
don't hesitate to call me the way? Where are you?

Speaker 1 (36:21):
I've I've been in to look at the boy.

Speaker 7 (36:24):
That's a turne in your hand. What are you doing
with it?

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Quiet Marie?

Speaker 1 (36:30):
That boy, he's so young, so young to die. Someone
had to help him.

Speaker 7 (36:38):
You didn't give him the treatment?

Speaker 2 (36:40):
You didn't Lewis, Yes, Mary, I I did.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
You will go to prison sells into the prison.

Speaker 15 (36:47):
Not so loud, he'll need a sleep. We pause for
station identification. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. Paul Muney

(37:10):
resumes the story of Louis Pasteur shortly. In a few weeks,
American audiences will see what is reported to be the
finest picture ever made in Great Britain, called Fire Over England.
Yet the ball of Fire responsible for it is an American,
William K. Howard of United Outist Studios, who was borrowed
from Hollywood to direct it. It was just ten years
ago that I met mister Howard at Paramount. He joined

(37:31):
me later at the Mill Productions and has since directed
films at Fox, Metro, Golden Mayor in Paramount, turning out
such hits as White Gold, Transatlantic Rendezvous and Mary Burne's Fugitive.
It was mister Howard who directed Paul Muney's first picture,
The Valiant Ladies and Gentlemen.

Speaker 5 (37:46):
William K.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Howard, I'll thank you, mister Demo, thank you.

Speaker 16 (37:54):
May I tell you how happy I am going to
meet you again and to appear on the same program
with you and mister Muni American grat soul on the
success of the brilliant picture of.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
The Plainsman yours, HM. I had the pleasure of seeing
last week.

Speaker 16 (38:04):
Thank you, Bell, Thank you nice to hear you referring
to my directing mister Muni and the Valiant. That was
an interesting experience because well, mister Munie's first picture was
almost his last. You see, the producers stop production almost
before it began. I'm sure that Paul recalled the first
line he ever said in any motion picture.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
It was I've just killed a.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
Man, and the producers thought that this speech would kill
the picture and kill Muni.

Speaker 16 (38:27):
What the picture went on and Paul Muni emerged the
great screen personality that he is today.

Speaker 5 (38:31):
Very interesting, Bell, But please tell us something about England.
Is it true what they say about the Tea.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
Over that I knew that was coming, cbe And here's
the answer.

Speaker 16 (38:42):
Tea is almost as important to British production as the
film itself.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
It goes something like this.

Speaker 16 (38:46):
One stops production for Tea at ten o'clock in the morning,
then one stops production again for tea at four in
the afternoon, and then one goes to the country for
the weekend to rest up.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
But seriously, CB would be absurd for.

Speaker 16 (39:00):
Us to dismiss British film production as a factor in
our business. They're enthusiastic, they're aggressive, their determined.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
They've tasted success with such pictures.

Speaker 16 (39:08):
As Henry the Eighth, The Scarlet Pimpernel, I was a
spy thirty nine steps, and are going ahead in the
hope of enjoying more of that success, which until now
has been particularly ours.

Speaker 5 (39:16):
You sound to me like Paul Revere, shouting here come to.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
British, not all c B. I'm shouting here, come the Americans.

Speaker 16 (39:22):
If you could have been with me last summer in London,
you would have seen Molina Dtrich, Sylvia Sidney, Edward g Robinson,
Anne Harding, Henry Fonder all making English films. I'm sure
you'd have thought you were in your own studio. London
films are using the best British talent they can secure
and the best American talent they can buy.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
They're going ahead, and I assure you they're a factor
to the erecon book.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
Now I was right, you are Paul Revere. You talk
like a man who's taken the next boat back, not the.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Next boat CB, but next summer.

Speaker 16 (39:50):
Surely you see when I'm directing, I'm generally in a
fog anyway, I want all the sunshine I can get,
and you know those London winces.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Good night, see thee at you're that Goodbye.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Back to the story of Louis Pastor, starring Paul Muni.
Three days have past and the little boy Joseph is
still alive. Pastor, torn with anxiety, looks years older, his
shoulders droop and his step lags.

Speaker 5 (40:29):
He's also worried about his daughter, Annette, and as he
enters the living room, he sinks, exhausted into a chair.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
Any news, Everett.

Speaker 7 (40:41):
Her time is drawing very near, that's all.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
What does the doctor say?

Speaker 7 (40:45):
He hasn't been here today. I sent round for him
and they said he was ill.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
Ill.

Speaker 7 (40:49):
We'll have to get someone else.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
When it comes to the use of vents septics, it's
difficult to find one you can trust. I speak to
doctor Bedell in the morning.

Speaker 7 (41:00):
Louis, how is the boy doing?

Speaker 2 (41:03):
The third injection made him sick? He has a fever,
a fever.

Speaker 7 (41:08):
What are you going to do do?

Speaker 1 (41:10):
Give him a fourth, a fifth, a sixth if he lives, Marie.
I've been lucky all my life, luckier than I deserve.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
But if I fail. Now you're not.

Speaker 7 (41:27):
Going to fail. He'll recover, and when he does, we'll
go away. We'll take a long vacation.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
Woo.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
I tell all of them.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
They needed more than we do.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
How fine they've been, how patient they'll never know? How
grateful I am?

Speaker 7 (41:47):
And why don't you tell them?

Speaker 2 (41:49):
I will?

Speaker 1 (41:50):
I will? And you, Marie, you most of all? What
have I done to warrant such devote?

Speaker 6 (42:00):
Do you remember what you said when you asked me
to marry you. You said, there's nothing in me to
attract the young girls fancy, But those.

Speaker 7 (42:08):
Who have known me very well have come to like me.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
Did I say that? Was I really that vain?

Speaker 7 (42:15):
And you knew better too. You were looking in a
mirror when you spoke, Yes, what is it? Secure? And
Madame the coachman has just come from her house.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
She she wants you soon. Doctor Leclark is ill, Louis,
But go to the house. How kind of doctor meet
you there?

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Hurry?

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Married?

Speaker 7 (42:34):
Why doesn't he come? Why doesn't he come?

Speaker 2 (42:36):
He'll be here, madame, don't worry.

Speaker 7 (42:38):
Did you boil the water secre? Yes, madame? And there's
sterile god Looie, Yes, you.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
See all right?

Speaker 7 (42:45):
Yes, for doctor Lewis.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
I have one come in doctor. This is my wife, Marry.
This is doctor Charbonny at your service, madame. But only
because doctor Leclarke is intersposed and doctor Badelli is away
on Vacationion, I had to have someone.

Speaker 7 (43:04):
I'll go to her neck to see who come with me?

Speaker 2 (43:07):
Little? Would you mind picking up that instrument? Please? Not
at all? Thank you?

Speaker 1 (43:14):
Well, where's the patient?

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Wait?

Speaker 1 (43:17):
You're you're not going to use those instruments without boiling them, certainly,
I say no, my dear Pasta. I'm doing this is
a professional courtesy.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Then then do it my way please.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
I'm a little tired of doing things your way. Today
twelve Russian peasants came to the hospital asking for your
treatment for hydrophobia.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
What has that to do with? They said you sent them?
I did, doctor sharper name. My daughter is in that room.
She there's not much time.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
Please, I am to do things your way, please, very well,
one moment, pastor, what what are you doing? I am
writing a statement for you concerning your work on the
treatment of rabies the charbonnet.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
This isn't the time. One moment, please shall I read
it to you? Listen?

Speaker 1 (44:07):
I hereby acknowledge that my investigations into the cause of
hydrophobia has proven fruitless and is of no value whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
That's not true.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
If you will kindly sign that statement, I shall follow
your instructions exactly.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
Well.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
Give me the pin. Thank you, sir. If I live
another month without developing hydrophobia, I shall feel justified to
publish this note in the leading scientific journals of Europe.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
Take off your coat, of course.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
Now, roll up your sleeves and wash your hand. Yeah,
wash them thoroughly, to the elbows, to the elbows.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
What's in that basin?

Speaker 1 (44:49):
Don't worry, it's just a little chloride. It won't hurt you.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Hey, now you better use the brush.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
That's very well, that's.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
Right to say.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Yes, monsieur, take his instruments, put them into boiling water
and keep them down until doctor Shopli asked for them.

Speaker 5 (45:09):
I think my hands are quite clean.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
Now there's a towel at your elbow, Thank you. Yes,
are you ready? Except for my bag? Oh here it is.
Don't touch it.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
What pug it down?

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Your hands?

Speaker 3 (45:23):
You boiled it.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Now you'll have to wash them again.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
See here, you're making a fool out of me. I've
brought hundreds of babies into the world.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Do as I say.

Speaker 5 (45:34):
This is ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Yeah, thoroughly wash them thoroughly. Now, hould them up? Hie,
touch nothing but the.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Patient doctor, Yes, Marie, my daughter is ready now, doctor chamberlayue.

Speaker 14 (46:02):
Louis, are you asleep?

Speaker 7 (46:06):
We have a grandson. You're here a grandson, Lourie.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Wake up, doctor sharpen he come here, Lorie, watch the matter?
My husband here, he doesn't menswer me quiet?

Speaker 1 (46:23):
Please?

Speaker 2 (46:25):
What is it? Doctor? He's not No, he's had a stroke.

Speaker 7 (46:41):
You stay, Joan. He's opening his eyes.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
He'll be all right now, Mary.

Speaker 7 (46:46):
Yes, Louis, I'm here on.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
My left side.

Speaker 7 (46:50):
It's paralyzed, only slightly. It isn't serious.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
When did it happen?

Speaker 7 (46:55):
A few days ago? A few days you were more
tired than an. It's yes.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
I have no fear of death, Marie, no fear.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
Oh jng.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
The mister boy, how is he? He's doing splendidly, Thank god,
thank god?

Speaker 2 (47:18):
And the Russians? Were you able to help them?

Speaker 1 (47:22):
H The hospital refused to allow our treatment without permission
from the Academy. Permission was granted this morning, but too late.
Three of them died yesterday, horribly let me up.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
I must go lo way, Please let me up. How
many are left? Nineteen?

Speaker 1 (47:35):
But it's no use of hopeless. If our efforts can
save one, it will be worth it.

Speaker 8 (47:41):
Help me up.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
Someone, get me dressed, Order the carriage. I'm going to
the hospital.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
Pasta man, pasta.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Bus.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
He will give me number six, first treatment, fourteen day
old virus.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Give it to him.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Yes, my sure, patient number seven, fourth day any changed
this morning?

Speaker 1 (48:12):
Continue treatment eleven eleven day virus patient number eight. Mons Oh,
good morning, doctor Cherboney. I've been watching your patience mens here.
They're doing very well. Yes, indeed even better than I hoped. Uh, Charbonnet,

(48:33):
I didn't thank you for delivering my grandchild.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
You you've been ill, monsieur. I'm sorry. Perhaps this note
will speed your recovery.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
Note the statement I ask you to sign.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
I'm giving it back to you.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
No, a bargain's a bargain.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
There is your note, monsieur. I was wrong, and now
I ask you for one thing more.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
Yes, I want to test your treatment for hydrophobia. How
is messire passed her today?

Speaker 3 (49:17):
No?

Speaker 7 (49:17):
I don't know, Jean, he's he's so tired. He seems
to have lost all interest.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
Did you tell him about the meeting at the academy
in no, no, but he won't go.

Speaker 7 (49:25):
He doesn't care any much.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
They're expecting him. I know, yes, I know. Tell him
someone's going to refute his theories. You don't care about
that head.

Speaker 7 (49:35):
Where is he in the living room with Joseph. I'd
better see him. Joseph's mother he had to take him home.
I'll wait at the academy, Louis, Madame Mike just waiting.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
Well, Joseph, you're going home? Yes, and sir, thank you
come here? Can you write?

Speaker 3 (49:53):
Yes, sir?

Speaker 1 (49:55):
Would you like to write to me? Yes, very much.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
Then let me hear from you every month, won't you?

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Yes, sir, I don't forget.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
I'll be looking for your letters.

Speaker 8 (50:11):
Goodbye, Joseph, goodbye, good bye.

Speaker 7 (50:14):
There, sir, goodbye, dear well. I never thought he'd leave
here alive.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Lewis, Thank god that he do.

Speaker 6 (50:24):
Oh, by the way, Lewis, RU just told me that
a foreign scientist is giving a lecture at the academy
this afternoon. He claims to have disproven your entire germ theory.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
What again? Why what's name?

Speaker 7 (50:42):
I don't know?

Speaker 2 (50:43):
Disprove my theory? We've got to go. We'll say about that.
Get your coat, we'll leave it once one.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
Come in, monsieur, you're just in time. They've arranged for
you to sit on the platform.

Speaker 7 (51:00):
Courage, my dear, I'll be leslie.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
This way, monsieur whom aber abert applauding. It's doctor Lister
from England list list to speak against me. Oh here
here's the door leading to the platform. How your chair
is over this way? Oh oh, what.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
What is it? Why it's you? They're applauding you. Why
I don't understand you said, lister.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
There's no one.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
Speaking against your theory.

Speaker 1 (51:36):
Hope here he is now, mis Her Pastor, I greet
you in the name of humanity, Lester.

Speaker 10 (51:44):
Great lister, Monsieur Pastor, from his majesty to child of Russia,
the Diamond Cross of the Order of Saint Anne, with
our profoundest gratitude.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
You young men, doctors and scientists of the future, do
not let yourselves be tainted by a barren skepticism, nor
discouraged by the sadness of certain hours that creep over nations.
Do not become angry at your opponents, for no scientific

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area has ever been accepted without opposition live in a
serene peace of libraries and laboratories. Say to yourselves first,
what am I accomplishing?

Speaker 2 (52:39):
Until the time comes when you may have the immense.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
Happiness of thinking that you have contributed in some way
to the welfare and progress of mankind.

Speaker 4 (53:07):
And so we end the last chapter of Louis Pasteur.
Paul Muni, however, returns to us in a few moments.
The fits a king in Hollywood, whose scepter is a pencil,
and who subjects are women.

Speaker 5 (53:17):
In the world over.

Speaker 4 (53:18):
His realm is fashioned, and in this sphere his name,
like Abu beIN Adams, leads all the rest.

Speaker 5 (53:23):
I refer to Adrian.

Speaker 4 (53:24):
A few years ago when I went to Metro Goldwyn Mayor,
I brought three associates with me Mitchell Lyson, now a
paramount director, Joel McCrae, now a United Artists star, and Adrian.
And there he's remained dictating styles by designing clothes for
such passion pacers as Greta Gabo, Joan Crawford, Jeanette MacDonald,
Myrna Loy and Norma Shearer. Ladies and gentlemen, Adrian, thank you.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
The best advice I could possibly give any woman. Who
wants to dress well is summed up in two simple words,
be yourself. Women are inclined to drift carelessly into persons
they would like to be, rather than what they really are.
There are women who just know their garbles, while actually
their thoughts and characteristics are much more like Simone Simone,
or even at times like Shirley Temple. You will never

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be well dressed until the clothes you wear are the
true reflection of your real self.

Speaker 5 (54:17):
Right, sounded vice, Adrian. But how does a woman find her.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
Real self by observing herself intelligently and by dropping all insincerity?
Women have acquired many affectations through years of confused associations.
When they can push all that aside, they will see
themselves simply. They will dress simply, look smart, and be
attractive for it.

Speaker 4 (54:35):
At your opinion, then, that women should not be influenced
by what they see on.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
The screen, only if they're smart enough to realize that
many gowns in motion pictures are designed solely for dramatic
purposes and may be quite ridiculous in real life. It's
all very well to tell women that proper dress will
do wonders for them, But suppose they don't have a.

Speaker 5 (54:51):
Great deal of money or a great deal of beauty,
what then, or.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
Frankly, mister de mill a, lack of money can be
a distinct advantage. Women who must watch their budgets are
much more apt to show better taste because their dresses
must be more conservative for all round, whear as for
good looks the women. The women who lead fashion are
rarely beauties. Girls like Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Carol Lombard,
Kay Francis are not pretty from the accepted magazine cover standard,

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but they use their heads and they're constantly doing the
unexpected in their dress.

Speaker 4 (55:19):
For the three most important pictures you've worked on recently,
Adriana are Pon Hour with man Ali Maytime with Jeanette
MacDonald and Camera with Greta Garbo. Do you expect these
pictures to set on a new style trends?

Speaker 1 (55:30):
For each is a costumed film of about the same period.
It may be that next spring you'll see ladies wearing
bonnets like garbles, but they'll be dashing rather than prim.
Dresses may have a bit of a bustle, and I
wouldn't be surprised if shawls are worn next summer.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
Over evening gowns.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
I'm only guessing now, and that's a good signal to
call a hawk. I hope I've been as much help
to the women in our audience as to the women
in the audience as lux flakes are in protecting our.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
Wardrobe at MGM.

Speaker 4 (55:55):
Thank you, good night, Adrian, good night, and now tonight's star.
Ladies and gentlemen, Paul your name.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
Thank you, mister de mill.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
There's no character I've enjoyed portraying more than that of
Louis Pasteur. When we stop to think, with this lone
man contributed to society, it makes the best of us
feel a little insignificant and useless.

Speaker 4 (56:19):
Mister Murray, now that the good Earth is almost finished,
what do you plan.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
To do next? Well?

Speaker 1 (56:23):
I have two pictures to make, Esquadrill for RKO together
with Miriam Hopkins, and then The Truth is on the
March for Warner Brothers. The latter is based on the
Unforgettable Document of Emil Zola's book. I accuse I'd like
to talk more if I thought I had something really
interesting to say, but ask and what is known as
poor copy. However, I do want to say how much

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enjoyment the Luxus Radio Theater has given me both as
a listener and a performer.

Speaker 5 (56:48):
Good Night, good night, mister Maria.

Speaker 4 (56:53):
Next week the Lux Radio Theater brings you Loretta Young,
our play Polly of the Circus, famous on the stage
and twice.

Speaker 5 (56:59):
Ahead in motion pictures.

Speaker 4 (57:05):
Our sponsors, the makers of Lux Flakes, join me in
inviting you to be with us again next Monday Night
for the Lux Radio Theater presents Loretta Young and Polly
of the Circus with James Gleeson.

Speaker 5 (57:14):
This is Cecil B.

Speaker 4 (57:15):
De Mill saying good night to you from Hollywood. This
is the Columbia Broadcasting System.