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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Obsession New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
What does it suggest that is besides shrimp creole Jeanne
Lafitte and the broad girth of the Mississippi rolling into
the sea.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
There are legends in New Orleans, strange legends, one of
which you'll hear in a moment in the Story of
the Peacock Screen starring Annabella as Yvette. When you hear it,
you'll no doubt SERTs the inner most recesses of your
soul for the true meaning of the word obsession. The
(01:31):
time is now the place, glamorous New Orleans. And the girl, well,
the girl she is, the lovely Yvette, desired by many,
but in love with none, a situation which is proving
most distressing to her voluptuous and eloquent maman. And as
(01:56):
our story opens, Maman is propound in the many danagies
of an early marriage.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Eive it.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
In a year you will be twenty four, almost an
old maid. It is time to think very carefully about marriage.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Mamma. Oh, but I have thought of it.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Oh, that is good. I was afraid you might still
be drooling about Douglas Hayes that one.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Oh please, mamma, that's over.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I should hope so no money, no background, and no good.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
He was very handsome and he kiss me very nice.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Kisses are for fun, not for food and a roof
over the head. You must be practical, Oh Mamo, no love,
mape tit? Why do you not wear the brooch from Tony?
He would be so pleased?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Why should I please him?
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Get a lot of money? And he is mad about you?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Oh, mammo, always with you? The money is important. Was
it your great grandfather or your great great grandfather who
was a parrot with your life?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Hit?
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Now that is beside the point. Has Tony said anything
to you?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Not yet, dear mamma, But he will. How do I look?
It is dreys right for a proposal.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Oh, the dress is beautiful and you are lovely. You
will accept him up at it?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
You are quite shameless. How can I tell you when
he hasn't asked me yet?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
But he will? You said so yourself, he will, he will.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
You're so lovely of it. I'm almost afraid to touch you.
Why Tony, because you look like something that should be
put upon a pedestal and worshiped from afar.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I'm very human.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
I don't believe it, you know I want very much
to put my arms around.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You, but afraid, afraid of what that.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
You'll vanish in the thin air and it won't be
true after all?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Why don't you try it? That you've got to marry
me just because I kissed you.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Because I love you and you love me, and you
couldn't have kissed me the way you did just now
if you didn't love me. Will you marry me?
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Darling?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Of course, Anny, I think it would be very nice.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
My daughters too, so almost have two dozen of everything.
I was married when I was fifteen is the lest
and on my petticoats even there was real lays. But Madam,
since you were fifteen, there is a new time, no petticoats.
And so where can one sew the lace?
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Or nothing?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Use your imagination, celest for the bride. Nothing is more
important than this. Love is more important matter. Oh love, love,
it is all I hear. So some lace I love?
Then how does it look? Don't be a fool, Celeste,
You are too old for nonsense. Hello, mamma, that you
are so late, no consideration.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I'm sorry, mamma. I went to see Mike a nause
and he's oh cut.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
You should see you Cea, Celeste. She is seeing Mickey Mouse,
and I am thinking about the veil of my grandmar.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Now will you have.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
A straight back or falling before the face.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Anyway you like? Mama, I do not care.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
You do not care. Look, I was mad with excitement
weeks before my wedding. I knew to have fold how
I wish the bail to fall. And I was about
fifteen years old.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Dear Mama, that does explain so much.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Well, I knew what I was doing, and so do
I come, celest let us get on with.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
A fitting a vett. Forgive me for dropping in on
your darling, but I want you to meet an old friend.
This is Douglas Hayes. He's going to be best man
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at our wedding. Douglas, this is my fiancee, Yvette. Isn't
she lovely?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Hellot, you're even lovelier than Tony said you were.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Thank you, mister Hayes. Haven't we met before the year
I came out? Perhaps?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Oh yes, yes, I believe so. I'm really surprised that
you remember. I thought I made a very bad impression.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Perhaps that's why I remember you?
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Oh please? Is that this will amuse you? You see
some time ago, I made a bet with Doug that
i'd never marry. I didn't believe there was a woman
in the world who could possibly be all the things
you are.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Thank you, Johnny.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
What was a wager only that if I ever did marry,
Doug would drop everything of many places in the world
and be my best man at the wedding.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Best man. Yes, I've often wondered why they call it
best man. In any case, I'm glad you're here well,
thank you, and I'm also very glad Tony lost his wager.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Darling, you do love. I've been worried. You know.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
I don't believe it. Oh, Tony, Mamma is waiting upstairs
to see you about something, a surprise I'm not to
know about.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Oh, yes, yes, I know what it is. Excuse me,
Will you, oh entertain Doug for a minute, Darling, I'll
be right back.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
You. You haven't changed, Douglas, that you're lovelier than ever?
Did you expect me to waste away because you left
without saying goodbye?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I couldn't explain them, Darling, but I can't tell you now.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
It isn't really necessary. Let us say it was just
a pleasant memory and leave it that way, shall we?
But if that is, I'm going to marry Tonian and
you will be the best man and we'll all live
happily ever after.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Nesa, No, I won't let you marry him.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
I'm afraid you have nothing to say about it.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
But you can.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
You loved me four years ago and it was true
and real. You still love me a bit I can
tell by your eyes. Oh, darling, Douglas.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Please, it's over. We mostly did that way.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
It will never be over, you know that event.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
No, no, please, Tony is coming back.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Well, darling, it's all fixed, am I agreed with me entirely. Now.
Was I away long enough for you to to catch
up with all anxiety?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
I think we got as far as the four years ago,
and perhaps on another occasion we may finished a season.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
It's great. As a matter of fact, you can probably
wind up the whole thing tonight. Your mother has asked
us for dinner.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
What that is you losing? How the poor man must
have stopped when he learned his mistake.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Oh, I don't think he suffered too much. I left
a substantial tip.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Money heals a lot of wounds. The ancients, too, believed
in the healing properties of gold. It's interesting how that,
along with other beliefs, has survived the present day.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Like the haspill of the bags. Mothers you to hang
around their youngsters next to ward off contagious diseases. I
had one. I remembered it smelled of high heavens.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
But yes, it is very good.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
She's very superstitious. Hav instance that lovely peacock's scream before
the fireplace. She will not have the peacock's tail turned
towards the room.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
But what harm would that do?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
It is very bad luck. Someone would become jealous.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Now there you have a very definite link with the
old lawyer.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
You see, I know what I am saying.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Well, of course you do. But now that I know
how you feel about peacocks, I'm almost afraid to give
a better wedding present. But I suppose I have to
take a long chance. You are, darling. Please like them?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Oh my, what beautiful clips, Tony. They are too lovely.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Thing's too lovely for you. You see how the tails
of the peacock's former clips.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I let me put them on for you. After all,
the best man should do something to deserve the honor.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Very bad, I.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Don't think I will wear them now. I look at
them tonight, and and we wear them tomorrow to the opera.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Well, just as you wish, darling, although I was anxious
to see them, mon you, oh.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Please don't please understand me, Tony. They are beautiful and
I'm most grateful to you. Believe me only. I'm sorry,
but I don't feel a tory way that you're shaky?
Speaker 6 (10:19):
You ill?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Oh why didn't you tell me, Tony?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
I do think, of course, We'll go right away. Take
care of her, Mamma. Good night, Eve, my dearest, Good.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Night Tony, and thank you for understanding.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
I love you. Remember hold on Douglas, good night Evet.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
What was it he said?
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Good night Yvette?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Hm, I wonder what sort of a good night Evette
will have? Peacock feathers? Well, have you ever heard the
cry of a peacock? It's rather horrible. His beauty turned
his face to the wall in the presence of a
raucous and unearthly scream. And there are many to whom
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the peacock cry awakens the furtive creeping robbers and becomes insanity.
The charter members of that Black guild known as Obsession,
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an ould romance in the form of the glass, Hayes
has returned to jeopardize the happiness of Yvette and Tony.
It is now the following evening, and Yvette has recovered
sufficiently from her illness to attend the opera.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
As our second act.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Opens, they have returned home, and Tony, at a loss
to understand Ivet's strange behavior, is saying.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Is there is there anything wrong of it? Have I
done or said something that displeased you?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Tony? You have been most kind as always.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Something is different. Well, I know Mano is your favorite opera,
but I've never before seen you so overcome by it.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I'm tired. I suppose so many parties, so many people
like Manu. My life has been a little too gay lately.
Poor Manu. I always weep when she dies.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
You're an adorable little girl. I hope you feel well
enough to rehearse the wedding ceremony tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
He'll be all right, I promise you, Tony.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Good go to bed now, Darling, good night, my dear.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Good night, Tony. Tell tomorrow then, Oh, Douglas, what are
you doing in here?
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Forgive me, but I had to talk to you a bet.
We haven't had a minute alone since Tony interrupted our
conversation yesterday.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
There is nothing to talk about.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
There's everything to talk about.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
No, Douglas. It is late and I am tired. Besides,
Mamma would be very angry if she found you here.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
How your mother never liked me? That I won't stay long,
only long enough to find out what you intend to do.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Then that makes it very simple. I plan to marry Tony.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
You don't plan anything in the kind or before I came, perhaps,
but not now.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
How How can I convince.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
You you can't? Because I know you'll love me. You
don't love Tony?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Uigho amazes me.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
It isn't ego, it's something I know, something I knew
four years ago.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
And running away from don't forget that, Douglas.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Well, I thought I was doing the best thing for
both of us, Dearest, If you're the same, I bet
who loved me four years ago? You couldn't love Tony?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
And why not? Tony's fine and thought fool?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
And can he kiss you like this just as warm
as I remember?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Please let me go?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Do you think i'd let him have you? You love
me once? I'll teach you to love me again.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I can't, Oh, I mustn't. Please Douglas. If you love me,
let me go.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
What is the meaning of this?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Well, we were just saying good night, just good night with.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
You that in your arms, mamma, and you leave it.
If you have no conservation for me, at least you
should consider your promise to Tony.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
And if you, Madam, had any consideration and for a
bad's feelings and our happiness it release it from this
ridiculous promise and let her come to me.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
If that's happiness is my happiness, you think I want
to see it destroyed by you, Mamma. Yevett, are you
still in love with this man?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Mamma, please, I I don't know if that darling.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
If you are foolish enough to fall in love with
him again, you will be sorry the rest of your life.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
And if I do not, I may regret that the
rest of my life.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
If that, dearest, I saved you once from this man, Yvette.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
This time, Mamma, you can do nothing. I must find
out for myself whether it is Tony or Douglas that
I truly love. I'm sorry, mamma, but if you try
to interfere, I will go away from his Douglass.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Tonight if that, Darling, come with me now.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
No, Douglas, I must have time to think. There must
be no mistake. It is too important. I will see
Tony night at the rehearsal, and then tomorrow I will
tell you one way or the other.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
All right, Darling, tell them allow then?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
I love you.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Always remember that.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
It is so exciting.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
The rehearsal is about to start.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
But you are shaking, Missievette.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
It is the nervousness.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
No, I'll be all right, Celeste. It's just as you say.
I am nervous. Oh, they're waiting to us. It is
time to begin. Douglas. What are you doing here? Where
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is done?
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Well?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
He couldn't come.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Do you mind?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
If certainly I mind? What are you doing in his place?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Tony asked me to stand.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
In for him.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I don't believe you, all right?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Shall we stop the rehearsal?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
No? No, oh, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Are you still going through with this tomorrow? After kneeling
here beside me where you really belong?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Please, Douglas, you.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Can still escape.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Don stop it, Douglas.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
You can't stop your heart. You know you love me.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Oh, I can't stand it.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Please?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Olmore the day.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Do I come stand it anymore?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Wakening?
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Darling? What is it? You're so pale? You better rest
a little.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
No, I'll be all right. You mustn't worry, Tony.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
But I am worried, dearest. Oh you are upset because
I couldn't come to the rehearsal. Is that an event?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
No, No, it's Tony. I must tell you something.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Oh, I'll get it. You you stay there with a fire.
Oh hello, Doug, Oh, Tony Avett, how are you feeling better?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Thank you?
Speaker 6 (18:50):
I was rather expecting you, Douglas. You were. Yes, It
come straight to the point. Does either of you wish
me to release event from her promise to marry me?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Oh you're pretty frank, aren't you.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
It's necessary for me to be frank. Abet, my dear,
When you said you would marry me, I was the
happiest man in the world. I'd loved you for a
very long time, you know. But wait, dear, You see,
and embarking upon any association, business or otherwise, I take
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stock of the situation. Here was I ten years older
than you, Yvette, and inclining to be practical rather than emotional.
You see, I would have been very foolish not to
recognize the potential danger of my position. What if after
we were married, some younger man should come into our
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lives take you away from me. Wouldn't blame him, and
I certainly couldn't blame you. You see, Darling, I knew
about your romance with Doug, and I also had known
Doug in the east rather well. Well, tony, don't be impatient.
I had to know if a BET's infatuation for you
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is definitely over. That's why I ask you to come
out to the wedding as my best man. I wanted
you two to see each other again and decide for
yourself so there could be no unhappiness for any of
us later on.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Didn't you take a great deal for granted to so?
Speaker 6 (20:20):
You tricked this? Did you?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
You knew about he vetting me all the time and
didn't say a word. You went behind our backs and
made fools of both.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Of us, making rather a fool of yourself right now?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Why you are please stop.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Still lead with your.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Chin I Doug.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Sorry, Bet, I'll see if I can have your mother's.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Screaming is nothing. Perhaps the peacock's do goes jealousy and
just patient.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
As for Doug. I want you to know that if
you love him, I won't stand in your way.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
You're too generous, Tony, but I'm afraid the best man
wins is that Darling. There's nothing standing in our way now.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Nothing, Douglas, nothing but the decision I promised to give
you tonight. I've something to say to both of you. Douglas.
When I loved you four years ago and lost you,
I thought I would never again love anyone. Mamma and
Uncle Pierre made you go away, But if you had
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really loved me, you would have taken me with you.
I kept every letter you wrote me, telling me you
were coming back for me, and then the letter stopped,
and I thought you had forgotten me. Until the other day,
when you stepped into this room. I thought my love
for you was dead. But seeing you again brought everything back,
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and I was afraid. I thought I loved on you,
but I had to be sure. So after the rehearsal,
I came home and took out your role. Later, I
put them in a box of my mask for safe keeping,
and they were all things of hers. In the same box.
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There were several canceled checks in that box, checks that
had been made out to you, Douglas, because you took
my day from Mama and Alpierre to stay away from me.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
That you don't understand.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I'm sorry that.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
That case.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I think I better go.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Oh that, my dearest Tony, I was so terribly afraid.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Afraid. You need never be a.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
You have been listening to obsession.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Obsession has come to you through the worldwide facilities of
the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
Speaker 3 (25:15):
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Obsession New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
What does it suggest that is besides shrimp creole Jeanne
Lafitte and the broad girth of the Mississippi rolling into
the sea.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
There are legends in New Orleans, strange legends, one of
which you'll hear in a moment in the Story of
the Peacock Screen starring Annabella as Yvette. When you hear it,
you'll no doubt SERTs the inner most recesses of your
soul for the true meaning of the word obsession. The
(01:31):
time is now the place, glamorous New Orleans. And the girl, well,
the girl she is, the lovely Yvette, desired by many,
but in love with none, a situation which is proving
most distressing to her voluptuous and eloquent maman. And as
(01:56):
our story opens, Maman is propound in the many danagies
of an early marriage.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Eive it.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
In a year you will be twenty four, almost an
old maid. It is time to think very carefully about marriage.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Mamma. Oh, but I have thought of it.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Oh, that is good. I was afraid you might still
be drooling about Douglas Hayes that one.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Oh please, mamma, that's over.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I should hope so no money, no background, and no good.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
He was very handsome and he kiss me very nice.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Kisses are for fun, not for food and a roof
over the head. You must be practical, Oh Mamo, no love,
mape tit? Why do you not wear the brooch from Tony?
He would be so pleased?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Why should I please him?
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Get a lot of money? And he is mad about you?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Oh, mammo, always with you? The money is important. Was
it your great grandfather or your great great grandfather who
was a parrot with your life?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Hit?
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Now that is beside the point. Has Tony said anything
to you?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Not yet, dear mamma, But he will. How do I look?
It is dreys right for a proposal.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Oh, the dress is beautiful and you are lovely. You
will accept him up at it?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
You are quite shameless. How can I tell you when
he hasn't asked me yet?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
But he will? You said so yourself, he will, he will.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
You're so lovely of it. I'm almost afraid to touch you.
Why Tony, because you look like something that should be
put upon a pedestal and worshiped from afar.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I'm very human.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
I don't believe it, you know I want very much
to put my arms around.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You, but afraid, afraid of what that.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
You'll vanish in the thin air and it won't be
true after all?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Why don't you try it? That you've got to marry
me just because I kissed you.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Because I love you and you love me, and you
couldn't have kissed me the way you did just now
if you didn't love me. Will you marry me?
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Darling?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Of course, Anny, I think it would be very nice.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
My daughters too, so almost have two dozen of everything.
I was married when I was fifteen is the lest
and on my petticoats even there was real lays. But Madam,
since you were fifteen, there is a new time, no petticoats.
And so where can one sew the lace?
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Or nothing?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Use your imagination, celest for the bride. Nothing is more
important than this. Love is more important matter. Oh love, love,
it is all I hear. So some lace I love?
Then how does it look? Don't be a fool, Celeste,
You are too old for nonsense. Hello, mamma, that you
are so late, no consideration.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I'm sorry, mamma. I went to see Mike a nause
and he's oh cut.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
You should see you Cea, Celeste. She is seeing Mickey Mouse,
and I am thinking about the veil of my grandmar.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Now will you have.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
A straight back or falling before the face.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Anyway you like? Mama, I do not care.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
You do not care. Look, I was mad with excitement
weeks before my wedding. I knew to have fold how
I wish the bail to fall. And I was about
fifteen years old.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Dear Mama, that does explain so much.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Well, I knew what I was doing, and so do
I come, celest let us get on with.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
A fitting a vett. Forgive me for dropping in on
your darling, but I want you to meet an old friend.
This is Douglas Hayes. He's going to be best man
(05:51):
at our wedding. Douglas, this is my fiancee, Yvette. Isn't
she lovely?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Hellot, you're even lovelier than Tony said you were.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Thank you, mister Hayes. Haven't we met before the year
I came out? Perhaps?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Oh yes, yes, I believe so. I'm really surprised that
you remember. I thought I made a very bad impression.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Perhaps that's why I remember you?
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Oh please? Is that this will amuse you? You see
some time ago, I made a bet with Doug that
i'd never marry. I didn't believe there was a woman
in the world who could possibly be all the things
you are.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Thank you, Johnny.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
What was a wager only that if I ever did marry,
Doug would drop everything of many places in the world
and be my best man at the wedding.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Best man. Yes, I've often wondered why they call it
best man. In any case, I'm glad you're here well,
thank you, and I'm also very glad Tony lost his wager.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Darling, you do love. I've been worried. You know.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
I don't believe it. Oh, Tony, Mamma is waiting upstairs
to see you about something, a surprise I'm not to
know about.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Oh, yes, yes, I know what it is. Excuse me,
Will you, oh entertain Doug for a minute, Darling, I'll
be right back.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
You. You haven't changed, Douglas, that you're lovelier than ever?
Did you expect me to waste away because you left
without saying goodbye?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I couldn't explain them, Darling, but I can't tell you now.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
It isn't really necessary. Let us say it was just
a pleasant memory and leave it that way, shall we?
But if that is, I'm going to marry Tonian and
you will be the best man and we'll all live
happily ever after.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Nesa, No, I won't let you marry him.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
I'm afraid you have nothing to say about it.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
But you can.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
You loved me four years ago and it was true
and real. You still love me a bit I can
tell by your eyes. Oh, darling, Douglas.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Please, it's over. We mostly did that way.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
It will never be over, you know that event.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
No, no, please, Tony is coming back.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Well, darling, it's all fixed, am I agreed with me entirely. Now.
Was I away long enough for you to to catch
up with all anxiety?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
I think we got as far as the four years ago,
and perhaps on another occasion we may finished a season.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
It's great. As a matter of fact, you can probably
wind up the whole thing tonight. Your mother has asked
us for dinner.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
What that is you losing? How the poor man must
have stopped when he learned his mistake.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Oh, I don't think he suffered too much. I left
a substantial tip.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Money heals a lot of wounds. The ancients, too, believed
in the healing properties of gold. It's interesting how that,
along with other beliefs, has survived the present day.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Like the haspill of the bags. Mothers you to hang
around their youngsters next to ward off contagious diseases. I
had one. I remembered it smelled of high heavens.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
But yes, it is very good.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
She's very superstitious. Hav instance that lovely peacock's scream before
the fireplace. She will not have the peacock's tail turned
towards the room.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
But what harm would that do?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
It is very bad luck. Someone would become jealous.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Now there you have a very definite link with the
old lawyer.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
You see, I know what I am saying.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Well, of course you do. But now that I know
how you feel about peacocks, I'm almost afraid to give
a better wedding present. But I suppose I have to
take a long chance. You are, darling. Please like them?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Oh my, what beautiful clips, Tony. They are too lovely.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Thing's too lovely for you. You see how the tails
of the peacock's former clips.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I let me put them on for you. After all,
the best man should do something to deserve the honor.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Very bad, I.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Don't think I will wear them now. I look at
them tonight, and and we wear them tomorrow to the opera.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Well, just as you wish, darling, although I was anxious
to see them, mon you, oh.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Please don't please understand me, Tony. They are beautiful and
I'm most grateful to you. Believe me only. I'm sorry,
but I don't feel a tory way that you're shaky?
Speaker 6 (10:19):
You ill?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Oh why didn't you tell me, Tony?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
I do think, of course, We'll go right away. Take
care of her, Mamma. Good night, Eve, my dearest, Good.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Night Tony, and thank you for understanding.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
I love you. Remember hold on Douglas, good night Evet.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
What was it he said?
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Good night Yvette?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Hm, I wonder what sort of a good night Evette
will have? Peacock feathers? Well, have you ever heard the
cry of a peacock? It's rather horrible. His beauty turned
his face to the wall in the presence of a
raucous and unearthly scream. And there are many to whom
(11:12):
the peacock cry awakens the furtive creeping robbers and becomes insanity.
The charter members of that Black guild known as Obsession,
(11:57):
an ould romance in the form of the glass, Hayes
has returned to jeopardize the happiness of Yvette and Tony.
It is now the following evening, and Yvette has recovered
sufficiently from her illness to attend the opera.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
As our second act.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Opens, they have returned home, and Tony, at a loss
to understand Ivet's strange behavior, is saying.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Is there is there anything wrong of it? Have I
done or said something that displeased you?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Tony? You have been most kind as always.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Something is different. Well, I know Mano is your favorite opera,
but I've never before seen you so overcome by it.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I'm tired. I suppose so many parties, so many people
like Manu. My life has been a little too gay lately.
Poor Manu. I always weep when she dies.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
You're an adorable little girl. I hope you feel well
enough to rehearse the wedding ceremony tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
He'll be all right, I promise you, Tony.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Good go to bed now, Darling, good night, my dear.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Good night, Tony. Tell tomorrow then, Oh, Douglas, what are
you doing in here?
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Forgive me, but I had to talk to you a bet.
We haven't had a minute alone since Tony interrupted our
conversation yesterday.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
There is nothing to talk about.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
There's everything to talk about.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
No, Douglas. It is late and I am tired. Besides,
Mamma would be very angry if she found you here.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
How your mother never liked me? That I won't stay long,
only long enough to find out what you intend to do.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Then that makes it very simple. I plan to marry Tony.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
You don't plan anything in the kind or before I came, perhaps,
but not now.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
How How can I convince.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
You you can't? Because I know you'll love me. You
don't love Tony?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Uigho amazes me.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
It isn't ego, it's something I know, something I knew
four years ago.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
And running away from don't forget that, Douglas.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Well, I thought I was doing the best thing for
both of us, Dearest, If you're the same, I bet
who loved me four years ago? You couldn't love Tony?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
And why not? Tony's fine and thought fool?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
And can he kiss you like this just as warm
as I remember?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Please let me go?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Do you think i'd let him have you? You love
me once? I'll teach you to love me again.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I can't, Oh, I mustn't. Please Douglas. If you love me,
let me go.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
What is the meaning of this?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Well, we were just saying good night, just good night with.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
You that in your arms, mamma, and you leave it.
If you have no conservation for me, at least you
should consider your promise to Tony.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
And if you, Madam, had any consideration and for a
bad's feelings and our happiness it release it from this
ridiculous promise and let her come to me.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
If that's happiness is my happiness, you think I want
to see it destroyed by you, Mamma. Yevett, are you
still in love with this man?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Mamma, please, I I don't know if that darling.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
If you are foolish enough to fall in love with
him again, you will be sorry the rest of your life.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
And if I do not, I may regret that the
rest of my life.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
If that, dearest, I saved you once from this man, Yvette.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
This time, Mamma, you can do nothing. I must find
out for myself whether it is Tony or Douglas that
I truly love. I'm sorry, mamma, but if you try
to interfere, I will go away from his Douglass.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Tonight if that, Darling, come with me now.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
No, Douglas, I must have time to think. There must
be no mistake. It is too important. I will see
Tony night at the rehearsal, and then tomorrow I will
tell you one way or the other.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
All right, Darling, tell them allow then?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
I love you.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Always remember that.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
It is so exciting.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
The rehearsal is about to start.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
But you are shaking, Missievette.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
It is the nervousness.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
No, I'll be all right, Celeste. It's just as you say.
I am nervous. Oh, they're waiting to us. It is
time to begin. Douglas. What are you doing here? Where
(17:18):
is done?
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Well?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
He couldn't come.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Do you mind?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
If certainly I mind? What are you doing in his place?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Tony asked me to stand.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
In for him.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I don't believe you, all right?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Shall we stop the rehearsal?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
No? No, oh, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Are you still going through with this tomorrow? After kneeling
here beside me where you really belong?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Please, Douglas, you.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Can still escape.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Don stop it, Douglas.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
You can't stop your heart. You know you love me.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Oh, I can't stand it.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Please?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Olmore the day.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Do I come stand it anymore?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Wakening?
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Darling? What is it? You're so pale? You better rest
a little.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
No, I'll be all right. You mustn't worry, Tony.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
But I am worried, dearest. Oh you are upset because
I couldn't come to the rehearsal. Is that an event?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
No, No, it's Tony. I must tell you something.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Oh, I'll get it. You you stay there with a fire.
Oh hello, Doug, Oh, Tony Avett, how are you feeling better?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Thank you?
Speaker 6 (18:50):
I was rather expecting you, Douglas. You were. Yes, It
come straight to the point. Does either of you wish
me to release event from her promise to marry me?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Oh you're pretty frank, aren't you.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
It's necessary for me to be frank. Abet, my dear,
When you said you would marry me, I was the
happiest man in the world. I'd loved you for a
very long time, you know. But wait, dear, You see,
and embarking upon any association, business or otherwise, I take
(19:24):
stock of the situation. Here was I ten years older
than you, Yvette, and inclining to be practical rather than emotional.
You see, I would have been very foolish not to
recognize the potential danger of my position. What if after
we were married, some younger man should come into our
(19:45):
lives take you away from me. Wouldn't blame him, and
I certainly couldn't blame you. You see, Darling, I knew
about your romance with Doug, and I also had known
Doug in the east rather well. Well, tony, don't be impatient.
I had to know if a BET's infatuation for you
(20:06):
is definitely over. That's why I ask you to come
out to the wedding as my best man. I wanted
you two to see each other again and decide for
yourself so there could be no unhappiness for any of
us later on.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Didn't you take a great deal for granted to so?
Speaker 6 (20:20):
You tricked this? Did you?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
You knew about he vetting me all the time and
didn't say a word. You went behind our backs and
made fools of both.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Of us, making rather a fool of yourself right now?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Why you are please stop.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Still lead with your.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Chin I Doug.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Sorry, Bet, I'll see if I can have your mother's.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Screaming is nothing. Perhaps the peacock's do goes jealousy and
just patient.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
As for Doug. I want you to know that if
you love him, I won't stand in your way.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
You're too generous, Tony, but I'm afraid the best man
wins is that Darling. There's nothing standing in our way now.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Nothing, Douglas, nothing but the decision I promised to give
you tonight. I've something to say to both of you. Douglas.
When I loved you four years ago and lost you,
I thought I would never again love anyone. Mamma and
Uncle Pierre made you go away, But if you had
(21:25):
really loved me, you would have taken me with you.
I kept every letter you wrote me, telling me you
were coming back for me, and then the letter stopped,
and I thought you had forgotten me. Until the other day,
when you stepped into this room. I thought my love
for you was dead. But seeing you again brought everything back,
(21:48):
and I was afraid. I thought I loved on you,
but I had to be sure. So after the rehearsal,
I came home and took out your role. Later, I
put them in a box of my mask for safe keeping,
and they were all things of hers. In the same box.
(22:09):
There were several canceled checks in that box, checks that
had been made out to you, Douglas, because you took
my day from Mama and Alpierre to stay away from me.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
That you don't understand.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I'm sorry that.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
That case.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I think I better go.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Oh that, my dearest Tony, I was so terribly afraid.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Afraid. You need never be a.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
You have been listening to obsession.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
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