Orson Welles- Ah, Wilderness

Orson Welles’s adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s play from 1933. This performance was performed live on September 17, 1939, on The Campbell’s Playhouse, a CBS Radio series sponsored by Campbell’s Soup.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hudson River Radio dot com. This is Austin Wells.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Tonight we broadcast a Fulis Prize played by a great
American dramatist. Simple enough story, more point and plot, more
truth than glamour tonight.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Dear Leanor, we won't.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Try to take you out of yourself, but if we can,
we'll take you back back to nineteen ten. Remember if
you were our hero's age at the time, maybe you
won't want to. When Richard Miller is a protagonist tonight,
I guess the easiest way to take him is to
try to pretend he isn't us, dredging Brakeley down into
the carefully forgotten depths of the awkwardness. Your obedience and

(00:39):
will Tonight' attempt to perform Richard Miller the lifelike coloring,
as far as possible, will be maintained, but our wilderness
is best remembered for another character to play Richard's father.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
The only actor I could.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Think of who could follow George M Cohen, Will Rogers
and Lionel Barrymore is Ray Collin.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Here.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Okay, now look out for the fuse.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Keep it straight, man, Wait now a minute.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
I like this.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
Put the counter top of it.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Here going quick run.

Speaker 5 (01:09):
Run, Yeah, alright, well turn.

Speaker 6 (01:17):
More time yeah, every moment, July, I gotta.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Doing Hey, look out you can you want to blow
your hose? Comit put out of the.

Speaker 6 (01:53):
Park and doing it? Oh, I had a.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Okay, hey day a comber?

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Well hard did Dave on this glorious fourt?

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Hey, where's your berreom?

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Your kick's been looking poor all over?

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yes, well he.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
Won't he won't have Well, I've come. You're here, Dave.
I've seen you at a picnic for years.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
And he won't see me at this long. I'm here
to talking that. Well, go ahead, I'll come to the
point at once for something disagreeable, disgraceful, will be near
of the truth.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
And I concern your son Richard.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Oh come now, Dave. I'm sure Richard had done anything,
and I'm positive he has. I bought the proof with me.
I've got a lot more at home. These are good
samples of the rest. See my wife discovered them.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
And one of your euro drawers hitting under the underwear.
They're all in handri and you can't and.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
I it uh huh.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
I'll go on read them.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
All night against my heart. I felt your warm heart
beat night long within mine arms in love and sleep
you lay well, well, my breath will shd betwixt the
kisses and the wine. Well, if a little good poetrait anyway,
what do you want me to do?

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Do?

Speaker 2 (03:01):
What a shock playing duty to do as a citizen
to protect other people's children.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Take and give him a hiding. He remembers the li
of his life.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
You'd ort to do it for his sake if you
had a sense, unless you want him to end up
in jail life shot a camstand from you. You get along,
get along quick. You don't want to kick him in
the rear.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Help me now you need to lay hands on me.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
That my verse.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
I'm going. But there's one thing more. Here's a letter
from Muriel dear son.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
I hope he he's what's inside for his own good
and yours, because if I.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Have Eme hanging around my place again, I'll have him
a round. You will and I will. And don't think
I'm not going to make you regret the insults you be.
I'm mad. I'm taking the advertisement for my store out
of your newstay, all right, cow kick it out. You
may be the biggest advertiser in tron, but you can
get out and go to the devil. Do you mean
the time will that's all, but you wouldn't get t war.
Oh you wouldn't want too well.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Good day, o, Richard? Do you mind you?

Speaker 6 (04:01):
That's the way you read the credit day before the queen?

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yes, you want me?

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Park thought i'd made that place.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Oh I'm sorry, but I didn't hear you. I was
off another world.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Listen, Son, I'm gonna ask you a question. I want
an honest answer. I warned you beforehand. If the answer
is yes, I'm gonna punish you, and't punish your heart,
because you will have done something no boy of my
own to do. Never lied to me before, I know,
and I believe even to save yourself punishment. You'd love me, now,

(04:44):
would you?

Speaker 1 (04:44):
If I won't lie?

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Father?

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Is anything between you and Muriel?

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Anything?

Speaker 1 (04:52):
You shouldn't?

Speaker 2 (04:54):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (04:55):
What do you think I am?

Speaker 5 (04:56):
What?

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Father? I love Youiel.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
I'm gonna marry here after I get out of college.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
She said she would.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
We're engaged and that's all I wanted to know. They
won't talk about it anymore. Oh, here's a letter from her.
He said, he give you her father, you better be
prepared for a bit of a blush on. Never mind,
there's lots of other fish in to see here.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Young, here's a letter. Well thanks, Pa, Say what's happened
to your mom?

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Aunt? Lily's a darn busy keeping an eye on the
CID today, the pair of them.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
I think I'll go down the beach aways to see
if they're there, and need.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
You say hello?

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Come to the folk if you show up right best?

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yes, far.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Dear rich Please don't try and answer this. It's no
use after what you've done. I never want to see
you again.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Never.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
If that's all you think me, goodbye forever. Muriel, it's
a little cord.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
I hate her. She can't treat me like that.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
I'll shore what is it looking for you?

Speaker 6 (06:01):
He win? Hearing it?

Speaker 4 (06:02):
You will be a nickel. I told him you'd be here.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Hello, Oh hello Jack, Hey, Tommy, skid up? I want
to talk to Dick.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
What me after I told you where he was? And
come all the way over out of the water.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Shot.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Go on, Tommy, here's a dime, Now get up.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
There's a good kid.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (06:18):
I don't want to listen anyway.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Say Richard, I'm in trouble.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
What does it win? Can I help?

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Can you keep your face shut.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
I'll tell you what it is. I ran into a
couple of swift days from New Haven this noon. I
did them up for the night. Of course, you know
now I can't find anyone to go with me, so
I have to pass it up. I'm broke. I can't
afford to blow them both to drink.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
I got eleve them dollar saved up. I could loan
some say a.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Good sport o nixt kid. I don't want to buy money.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Say have you got anything on for to night?

Speaker 2 (06:50):
No, I want to come along with me.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
You mean I'm trying to lead you astray.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Understand you don't have to do anything, not even take
a glass of beer unless you want you.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
What do you think? Guy in a room? You mean
you're green for a thing that's doing? Sure, I am will.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Ever drink anything besides sodas. Sure, lots of times, deer
and flow, gin fizz and Manhattan. Say you know more
than I thought, and you pick your folks, won't get wise,
I'll be easy and fourth, Sure, don't worry about that. Okay,
then you'd be a pleasant beach hotel at nine o'clock.
Sure in the back room, that's.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Easy watch your step kid, so so on. Oh sure,
I'm sorry for it. That's all I could say.

Speaker 8 (07:35):
Oh hello, Richard, what to do a man? Mccombery wand
so I'm way down the beach talking to your pall.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
I'm foolish.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
I'll bet the old blue nods.

Speaker 8 (07:44):
I see, well, Richard, what do you want? Whatever's the
matter with you?

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Richard?

Speaker 8 (07:52):
Moving around that way?

Speaker 1 (07:54):
And on the fourth of July to hold on fourth
of July anyway? I wish we still long single?

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Michar'd you come.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Back to Richard?

Speaker 2 (08:03):
No, he's a queer boy.

Speaker 8 (08:05):
Sometimes I can't make her tail of him. He sid,
where do you think you're going?

Speaker 1 (08:10):
I wondered where that was.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
I thought i'd go down the beach.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
It wouldn't look fun.

Speaker 8 (08:14):
Are you sure that's all you're looking for?

Speaker 6 (08:16):
Is did?

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Why?

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (08:17):
She?

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Are you buying a chance and seeing?

Speaker 3 (08:19):
You know what I mean? You see how it is,
Lily when my own sister thinks the worst.

Speaker 8 (08:24):
I'm not thinking of thing. I'm just remembering what happened
last year at the picnic.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Last year?

Speaker 1 (08:29):
Why what happened last year?

Speaker 4 (08:30):
Is what happened again?

Speaker 7 (08:31):
Is I think you've been on the paper and Waterberry
that's what he swore to me last night, didn't you did?

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Sure as the driven snow, that's me.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
You did your caution.

Speaker 9 (08:43):
We'll go on down the beach.

Speaker 8 (08:45):
And when you find that you bringing back here? Do
you hear me? Once you too start talking around?

Speaker 3 (08:48):
With everybody's getting late, it will have to be starting.

Speaker 8 (08:50):
Home, dont gets upper ready?

Speaker 6 (08:53):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (08:53):
And many a promise.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
I swear to you, lily, that if any man offers
me a drink, I'll kill him, that is, if it
changes his mind.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
And you tell that if you aren't back in ten minutes,
we're starting home here, But Tommy and Rinchard we're taking
the car. You still come on anyway, Dad, Oh dear,

(09:50):
they're coming.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
I'll heard him way down the all right here?

Speaker 8 (09:55):
All right?

Speaker 2 (09:55):
And you said right down to supper, Tommy, you go.

Speaker 9 (09:57):
Wash your ha, didnt I'm hungry always are?

Speaker 2 (10:01):
I love?

Speaker 9 (10:03):
Supper's ready, Richard.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
You've got to look away, and.

Speaker 8 (10:05):
I'm riding at the down, Lily.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
We'll get them right in here and get some food
in them.

Speaker 8 (10:09):
They'll be all right.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Fan.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
It sounds like I'm gon sit thus again. I mean
you'll be quiet.

Speaker 8 (10:13):
You get too smart, You sit right down and the
word out.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Mother.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
Then everybody keep quiet.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Here we are ready.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
Here, we are.

Speaker 9 (10:42):
You canide in here now, don't stop to wash up
or anything.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
HER's on the table.

Speaker 9 (10:46):
All right, lily, you start passing the soup.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Here, we are.

Speaker 9 (10:52):
Here, we are so I see you're here.

Speaker 8 (10:54):
And if I didn't, you've told me four times already.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Don't be critics, don't be carpingly let ago good news
can stand repeat canted, of course.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
Norah bring that sup here this minute?

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Well well well, well, well, well it's good to be
home again. Now start eating everybody good.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Days where it did?

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Uh see? I think sid sort of embarrassed about coming
in down on the beach there. You have such a
lot of friends and well, you know, forcause you lies
like Christmas comes with once a year. I don't pretend
to know this. Don't you kiss you here?

Speaker 1 (11:33):
And don't you let me sit? She rush head cord
in what you mean? Beauty? Beautiful you? I never remembered.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
Seeing more beautiful sunset?

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Well you say, well, just horrized, my friends.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
I give you to soup, the stafford life, the old
man's comfort, the young man's.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Joy, the maid Shut up for a minute and eat
your soup.

Speaker 8 (12:19):
Everybody else is fished past me, your sup late everybody
else they'll be here all nice, your ma.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
After this, there's lobster and that's all.

Speaker 8 (12:28):
Tell me you pass a lot to start with your fee.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
I love lobster, lobster pot. Thanks, have a good time.
The beach starming all fine, pass thanks.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
The water was wonderful and warm.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
Swim far yes for me, but that isn't so awful far,
you know.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Speaking of swimming, I ain't never go down to that beach,
but what it caused to mine?

Speaker 1 (12:49):
To day?

Speaker 2 (12:49):
I and Red Sisk went swimming there, and I saved
his life, Red Sis.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
I thought we'd have him have one.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Ah nothing you you go on with his swimming mad?

Speaker 4 (13:03):
Don't you mind me?

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Uncle said lobster. Oh you think Red Sis?

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yes, sir, we kids call him Red because he has
a darned this red dropper hair.

Speaker 4 (13:14):
What the curious.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Imagination the little children did?

Speaker 9 (13:19):
Eat your lobster and shut up?

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Go on there?

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Well, as I was saying, Red and I went swimming
that day. Let me see Red was fourteen, I was
only twelve. Forty one year ago there was a steak
out where the Whistling Boy is now about mile low, oh, steak,
one more sound out of.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
You, young Manuel. You cable eat your lobster at all?

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Well, I'm going to be interrupted every second anyway.

Speaker 9 (13:46):
How's that mother's relativesm Tommy betterm she was waiting today.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
She says, all water is the only thing that really
helps her.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Bunion.

Speaker 9 (13:54):
Tell me where are your man is?

Speaker 2 (13:55):
It takes no place? Were as I was saying, there
was iron Red and he did had me to raise
him out to the steak and back. Well, I didn't
let anyone dare me those days, A spunky kid I was.
So I said, all right, we started out. All of
a sudden, I heard a sort of a gasp from
behind me like this, I heard it. I turned and

(14:21):
there was Red, his face all pinched and white, and
he said.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
Weakly, help.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
I got a cramp in my leg.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Well, I don't mind telling you. I got mighty scared.

Speaker 4 (14:32):
I didn't know what to do.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Then suddenly I thought of it eight and that steak
was well, I calculated it must have been two hundred
feet away, two hundred and fifty, two hundred and fifty.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
I've taken down the distance every time you saved red
life for years, and the mean average distance, So that
steak is two hundred and fifty feet.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
I get it, sid Sorry, folks, I guess I've told
that one too many times and bored everyone getting old.
I guess my lady getting to.

Speaker 8 (15:07):
Repeat me, no such saying you're as young as you
ever were. Did you eat your lobster? Maybe keep your shots?

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Oh sure, sure, I even left.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
Ladies and gentlemanly, I give you lobster lobsters save merthy sakes?

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Can't you shut up?

Speaker 3 (15:22):
Ma?

Speaker 4 (15:22):
Looking? Uncle said eating not cross shelves and all?

Speaker 7 (15:26):
Do you want to kill yourself?

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Take it away from him, lady, I prefer the shells
all finished.

Speaker 4 (15:31):
Lopster loves prefer the show.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
He better go right up the baker.

Speaker 4 (15:38):
Yeah maybe you're immediately, not sooner.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Oh but waiting, ladies and gentlemen, there is no one judy,
I must.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
Fuck no days completely.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Really answer once and for all.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Will you marry me?

Speaker 4 (15:57):
No?

Speaker 1 (15:57):
No?

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Right?

Speaker 6 (16:00):
Perhaps all for the best, right right, good night, ladies,
and that will me fify?

Speaker 4 (16:16):
What is it a laver? That that's downfall?

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Everyone always laughing, everyone always saying what.

Speaker 9 (16:22):
A card he is?

Speaker 8 (16:22):
What a cake for a cotton?

Speaker 9 (16:24):
Go fuck?

Speaker 4 (16:25):
And he's gone on we're all responsible making it easy
for him, and all.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
We do is left now Lily, you mustn't take on.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
So isn't as serious as all that?

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Maybe it's to me?

Speaker 8 (16:36):
Well one, Oh, I'm sorry that, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
I see I didn't mean to.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
I'm not feeling myself tonight.

Speaker 4 (16:42):
If you will excuse me, I think I'll just go
to my room for will.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Of course, I suppose she's right. Never knew Lily to
come out with things that way before anything special happened.

Speaker 8 (16:53):
Is nothing I know.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
I thought she'd got completely over foolishness about said long ago.
Oh she never will you better? He's got fired out
of that new Waterbury job. He is it's picnic, Oh dear,
isn't he the food? I knew something was wrong when
he came home. Well, I'll find a place for him
on my again.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Do you know what I think? I think it's that
Litterally's faul uncle says, going to ruin. It's all because
he loves her, and she keeps him dangling after and
eggs him on and ruins.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
His life like all women love to ruin end's lives.
I don't blame him for drinking himself to death. What'd
you care if he dies? That's the way she treated him.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
I'll do the same thing myself, and I would if.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
You stop that time.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
Drink for you? No, not once you came, nor why
drink for you know? Not why you go, nor where
drink of you?

Speaker 2 (17:43):
That's what I am.

Speaker 8 (17:46):
Come on that, let's go into the parland if nor
canse to clear away?

Speaker 6 (17:50):
Really that boy?

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Talk now on, Richard, you keep that dun food talk yourself.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
Are you're gonna regret it?

Speaker 4 (17:57):
Hear me?

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (17:58):
And about all I can and your nonsense for one day?
Oh what do I care? I'm sure a little coward.
I'll show them all.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Boy, haven't ever been to a pot like this before? Oh?

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Sure, I have lots of times. Why do you think
I anyway?

Speaker 9 (18:32):
I don't know, kid, honest you got me getting what
did you say?

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Your name was?

Speaker 4 (18:37):
Richard?

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Well drinking be Richard? Come on, it's getting smarter. Oh
I let it get that way on purpose?

Speaker 2 (18:43):
I like it better. I want to flat say, honestly, kid,
did your mother know you're out?

Speaker 1 (18:48):
I'll cut it down. Why don't you trying to kid me?

Speaker 4 (18:51):
All right?

Speaker 1 (18:51):
I didn't mean to Darry, Please don't get sore at me.
Not sure you see it's this way with me, chin.

Speaker 9 (18:58):
I think you're one of the sweetest kids I've ever met,
and I could like you a lot if you'd give
me half a chance instead of acting so cold and indifferent.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
I'm not cold and and different. It's only that I
I gotta weight on my mind as.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
You drink it. Oh, this wall of up forty cents
with a scar.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Uh, here's a dollar, keep the change, thanks, don't mention it.

Speaker 4 (19:22):
Hey, anybody here, I'm.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Bottoms a mouse all right? Bombs up?

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Ah?

Speaker 9 (19:33):
Whoa, that's something like it?

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Feel better?

Speaker 1 (19:38):
You bet it.

Speaker 9 (19:39):
You'll still feel better in a minute, and then maybe
you won't be so distant. None surely?

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Huh Oh I'm not, Yes you will.

Speaker 9 (19:47):
I think you just do like me?

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Why, I'm sure?

Speaker 6 (19:49):
Right?

Speaker 9 (19:50):
How much a lot?

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (19:52):
What show me?

Speaker 2 (19:53):
How much?

Speaker 1 (19:54):
UH want me to come sit on your life? Yes?

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Well, now you're too talking?

Speaker 1 (20:03):
How that swell?

Speaker 9 (20:06):
Why don't you put.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Your own around me? Oh?

Speaker 3 (20:08):
No?

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Not that dead way? Holy tight?

Speaker 9 (20:13):
You needn't be afraid of hurting me.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
I like to be healthy, don't you?

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (20:18):
I do?

Speaker 9 (20:20):
And then want you kiss me?

Speaker 1 (20:22):
All right? They call that kidding here.

Speaker 9 (20:30):
What's another honey boy? Haven't you ever been kissed before?

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Sure? Lots of times?

Speaker 9 (20:35):
And why'd you jump it?

Speaker 1 (20:35):
If I bitch you?

Speaker 9 (20:37):
Gee, I'm getting crazy about you. Come on kiss me again.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
I can't. I just remembered I sworn off, sworn off kissing.

Speaker 9 (20:48):
What do you mean you've thwown off too?

Speaker 1 (20:50):
I'd be faithful?

Speaker 8 (20:51):
So that's us?

Speaker 9 (20:52):
Who's the girl?

Speaker 1 (20:53):
Never mind?

Speaker 2 (20:53):
I did not to talk about it.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
I suppose I didn't mean that you're all right, only
mean you wanted to do this kind of thing, and
right for a nice girl.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Trouble sister, I'm hopeful here getting a non Maybe you'd
like a change of atmosphere.

Speaker 9 (21:06):
No, he's all right, I guess a little south.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Mind if I join your party with me? I got
no party on so.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
I forgot much cinera gone with the wind, flung roses,
roses right with us? Throng yay, hungry for the lips
of my desire. Hey, what's the talking about?

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Have another drink?

Speaker 2 (21:31):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (21:31):
A child?

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Poet or a child?

Speaker 1 (21:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Well, if you could check that cradle robbing acnetia, you
and I could have a little fun.

Speaker 9 (21:41):
I just pulled my friend. Listen, kid, here's an old
friend of mine, mister sniff and new heads just come in.
I'm gonna go over and sit at his tape for
a while. See, and you better go on home.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
I'm never going home. I sure each man kills the
thing he loves by each Let this speirt.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Hey, this is rich. That's well, dope, young feller.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Give something more.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Some do it with a bitter look, some with a
flaring word. The coward does it with a kiss, the
brave man with a sword. I did it with a
kiss on the cord.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
That's the old stuff, kid, all right, all.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Right, give us another right over the old pan that
at ten o'clock, I alert Loveburg will come with vine
leaves in his hair and beats in his belf If
he's you, I don't mind her kids.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
She's just ignorant. Come on, now, come on, kid man, listen,
you o me. I don't believe you ever knew her
in new wavend. You just picked her up. Now see
you leave her alone. You hear you won't do anything her,
not while I'm around to protection her. Curse you, Jack Dalton.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
If I vote unhandle what's that, I'll give you a
caution as note, that's why you cut out the noise.

Speaker 4 (22:52):
What's in my ass?

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Not my business, brother, but in your boothed this young
Si at the gate.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
He's under age. He told me he was over eighteen.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
I guess you'll come on.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
You'll follow anyway. You'll start off proble feet it now,
I won't not feet it.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Oh we'll be calling.

Speaker 6 (23:07):
I'm quiet.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Had a very joy of.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
Bryan Sutenly.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
Well you.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
And I'll show.

Speaker 7 (23:32):
You are listening to the Campbell Playoffs presentation of our
Wilderness starn Orson Wells. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Now we resume our Campbell Playhouse presentation of a wilderness

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starting Arson Wells.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Was that Tommy, can I come in? Are you allowed?

Speaker 3 (24:22):
Up?

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Of course I'm allowed?

Speaker 2 (24:24):
How did pop punish it?

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Didn't? He went back to the author without saying me,
she after last night I.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Thought here that you died.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
I don't forget it. Can't you go trying to get
out of here? I'm sick if I get out of here.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Can't give you something I've got.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
For Oh, don't try to kid me. You haven't got
anything too.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
What wouldn't you like to know? I'll give you three gifts.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
Or don't bother me. Tommy, I don't know. Moved to
play riddles with kids.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (24:49):
Well?

Speaker 1 (24:50):
What would you like best in the world? I don't
know what it's from your health? You mean? Yeah? Just now?

Speaker 2 (24:55):
When I went by, I saw her waving from their
parlor window, and so I went out, and.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
She's give this note to Dick. So so I took
here it is now, are too glad?

Speaker 3 (25:03):
I came?

Speaker 9 (25:04):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Thanks, tom meys she do you know what it says?

Speaker 2 (25:11):
She loves me and only me always will, and she's
gonna try and sneak out and meet me tonight, I.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Shared, I though, you wait and see. If I can't
go right to window, I'll see you tonight. If the
last thing I ever do, I care what they do
to me after that, I don't care if they kill
me here. If the trouble with most folks is they
don't understand what love means? Oh, oh, Muriel, is it

(25:44):
not already? Gosh? Time passes in here? Thank you.

Speaker 9 (25:48):
I thought you'd be waiting now here at the end
of the past.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
I'll bet you'd forgotten.

Speaker 9 (25:52):
I was even camel.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
No, I hadn't forgotten me, honest, but I was just
thinking about life, you.

Speaker 9 (25:57):
Might think of change throne to see.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Oh Gosha, pretty tonight, muriell seam's age. Since we've been together,
you know what I've suffered. I did too, Gosh, Muriel,
Oh Gosha, You're as wonderful to be with you again.
I'm glad it makes you happy. I'm happy too, Muriel.
Can't I won't you let me kiss you? And no?

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Please?

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Oh why can't I?

Speaker 8 (26:27):
Because I'm afraid?

Speaker 1 (26:30):
That's what you will always say. You're always so afraid.
Aren't you ever gonna? Honey?

Speaker 8 (26:35):
I will sometimes.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
Tonight I'll see promised I press maybe all right, remember
you promised? Don't Let's stand here? Come on, we can
sit on the bench in the moonlight. Was running around pocket.

Speaker 9 (26:51):
I know there isn't That's why I thought it would
be the best place.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
But there might be. What use of a moon if
you can't see it? It's only in you moon?

Speaker 9 (26:58):
That's not much to look at it.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
I want to see you I can't hear in the shadow.
I wanted to drink in on your beauty. That I
look a sight I do not. You look wonderful, Muriel.
You don't realize what I've been through. What bad letter
of yours made me do? What did my letter make
you do? Oh? It's too long a story. That's the

(27:21):
dead past area. It's dead.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
No kill me, dick.

Speaker 9 (27:23):
I want to know begin at the beginning.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
In two well after year old father, Your father gave
me a letter, your ill. I figured your love for
me was dead. Nice. You never loved me. You don't
even cruelly mocking me, torture me.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
I'd never you know.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
I wanted to die, and I sat and brooded about death,
and finally I made up my mind.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
I killed myself.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
You did, I did too.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
When I'm dead, she'll be sorry. She ruined my life.
Oh have you ever had to?

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Honest?

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Suicide is the act of a coward. And that's what
stopped me. And anyway, I thought to myself, she isn't
worth it.

Speaker 9 (27:53):
That's a nice thing to say.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
If you meant what was in that letter, you wouldn't
have been worth it, would you?

Speaker 2 (27:57):
So I said to myself, through with women, they're all alike,
And I thought, what difference does it make what I do?

Speaker 1 (28:03):
And I might as well forget her and drown all
my sorrows and lead the pace that kills. So after
it was dark. I sneaked out and went to a
low dot. I know about Kick Miller.

Speaker 8 (28:12):
I don't believe you went.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
You wackon down to the Pleasant Beach House. If I didn't,
they won't forget me and her.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
You went there, Well, that's a terrible says.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
It ought to be closed by the police.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
I said it was a die, didn't I.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
And they let me into a secret room behind the
bar room. Wasn't anyone there but the Princeton senior, and
he had two chorus girls from New York women. They
were all drinking champagne.

Speaker 9 (28:36):
Kick Miller, I hope you didn't.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Oh you would have known.

Speaker 6 (28:39):
Paul made me.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Write that old lads. One was called Bell, yellow hair.
Bell had kind of burns and stings.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
You know, I'll bet it was.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
And then what oh, we just kept king champagne, all
of us. And she said she'd fall in love with
me at first, and you know, came and sat on
my lap, kissed me. Oh sullen fun. And then we
just kept on drinking champagne. And did you kiss her?

Speaker 6 (29:08):
No?

Speaker 1 (29:08):
I didn't. You did too?

Speaker 2 (29:10):
You're lying and you knew it. Oh, I hate you.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
I wish you we did.

Speaker 5 (29:13):
I'm going this minute.

Speaker 8 (29:14):
I never want to lay eyes on you again.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
This wait. Listen.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
If you don't know you.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
I don't let you. You've got to let me explain.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
I got.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Did bite me?

Speaker 2 (29:28):
If you want, If you'm the decency to let me explain,
I I hate you too, I'll go and see Belle.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
I'll go and see if that's a good girl.

Speaker 9 (29:37):
You're like, what do I care?

Speaker 8 (29:39):
You can't explain?

Speaker 2 (29:40):
What can you explain? Don't you kids?

Speaker 1 (29:41):
I didn't said she kissed me.

Speaker 6 (29:43):
I suppose you just.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Sat and let yourself be.

Speaker 6 (29:45):
Sell that to the marine, all right.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
If you're going to call me a liar, every word
I said.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
I.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Only meant it.

Speaker 4 (29:52):
It sounds skishy, you know it does.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
I don't know anything. I oh me no, I wish
I was dead.

Speaker 9 (29:58):
Say that it's with you.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
I suppose you were telling me you didn't fall in
love with her. I should say, not fall in love
with that kind of a girl.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
What did you take me for?

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Do you know what you did?

Speaker 8 (30:10):
If she dragged so much champagne?

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Watch up my head, I'm a lot of sucker and
no matter watch things.

Speaker 9 (30:16):
Then then you don't love her.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
I hate her. I she wasn't even pretty in that anyway?

Speaker 2 (30:21):
How could I love her? I love you?

Speaker 3 (30:23):
H well, then I still love you?

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Then come back here? Why aren't you?

Speaker 6 (30:31):
It's getting late.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
It's not that passed you alright? I mean I'll have
to go soon, Gosham. That was nothing felt wonderful even
to bite there.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Oh kiss it.

Speaker 8 (30:44):
I don't care its.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
You shouldn't waste that on my hand. You and you
said you'd let me.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
I said, you know.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
I wanted so? Was it wash you and make you
forget your I should say so? I never remember anything
but dear, never want anything but it ever again?

Speaker 3 (31:11):
All right?

Speaker 1 (31:15):
The moon is beautiful, isn't it? Not as beautiful? Nothing is?
I want to be wonderful when we're married.

Speaker 8 (31:21):
Yes, but it's so long to wait.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Perhaps I need to go to Congress. Probably give me
a job that we're making enough.

Speaker 9 (31:27):
You better do what your Paul thinks. That and I'd
like you to be at Yale.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
I'll poor you.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
Do you think you'll punish you off? I don't know.
I don't care either. How I love you? Oh gosh,
I love you, darling. I love you too, sweet heart?
Where don't we going on tonight?

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Before that, dumb warl was till we fool gone, I
should say not. Oh no, we'll go some far off
wonderful place somewhere somewhere out on the long trail, the
trail that is always new on the road to mandalay.

Speaker 8 (32:24):
My. But I'm glad, Tommy hold us where Richard went
off to tonight. I have worried my heart if he hadn't.
But no, it's just all right, all right, as for
his being in Look, Muriel, I don't see but what
it might work out real well.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
But you could do worse. I thought you had no
use for Muriel, thought.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
She was stupid.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Well so I did.

Speaker 8 (32:45):
But if she's good for Richard and he wants her,
I used to say, you weren't over bride, where'd you
stay sitting the lid?

Speaker 1 (32:55):
Gone off to to the beach, to the band.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
Oh, I'm glad.

Speaker 8 (33:00):
What's that?

Speaker 1 (33:01):
What did you hear something? Yes?

Speaker 2 (33:04):
I did. That's Richard now coming around the house. Nobody
else had come that way. I'll go out on the
portion need him. You better leave him to me alone
for a while.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
I see.

Speaker 8 (33:13):
Well, call me if you want me. But you'll remember
all I've said, now, won't you?

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Hello? Richard?

Speaker 4 (33:23):
Hello?

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Pa?

Speaker 6 (33:24):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (33:25):
Sit down rich In.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Yep, no, right here next to me.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
That's better.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
Eh.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Well, how the vine leaves in your hair this evening? Why?
I don't know?

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Pam turned out to be poor and ivory, didn't they? Huh,
you needn't look so alarmed. I'm not going to read
you any terrance lection that had.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Bore me more than would you still giving your.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Credit for having brains. So I'm pretty sure anything I
can say to you you've already said to yourself.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Oh I know I went to down fool. You sure
were not only a fool, but.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
A downright stupid disgusting I know, pa alright. Then I said, now,
one more thing. This girl at the Pleasant Beach House,
oh party, if they've told you about it down there,
they must have tipally, wasn't anything you know, honest father,
wasn't I wouldn't do a thing that's a mur old
matter how bad I thought she treated me honestly. How

(34:17):
did you happen to meet this lady?

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Anyway? I can't tell that I have to snitch on something.
You wouldn't want me to do that.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
No, I suppose I wouldn't. Well, I believe you, and
I guess that settles there there's nothing more to say,
and we'll forget it.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
How are you gonna punish me? Part?

Speaker 2 (34:34):
I was sort of forgetting that, it wasn't I. Well,
I'd thought of telling you you couldn't go to college.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
Don't I have to go?

Speaker 5 (34:42):
Honest?

Speaker 2 (34:43):
See that's great Murray thought you'd want it. I was
telling you I'd rather you give me a job on
the paper because she get married soon. See if I
picked a lemon, that isn't any punishment. You have this
something to talk, Then you'll go to college and stay
there and you graduate. That's the answer to that. You
know it's got good sense?

Speaker 1 (34:58):
You haven't.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Now we're finished, we'd call your ma? Yes, see where
should come?

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Hello?

Speaker 3 (35:09):
Ma?

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Hello? Richard?

Speaker 9 (35:13):
Night, a beautiful night.

Speaker 8 (35:15):
The moon's way down low, almost setting.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Yes, I don't believe I've hardly ever seen such a
beautiful night, such a wonderful.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
Moon, have you, Richard? Oh? It was wonderful beach in Wand.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
To remember a few nights that were as beautiful as this.
They were long ago, when your mother and I were
young and planning to get married. Yeah, I bet those
must have been wonderful nights too. Sorry, I forget the
moon that's the same wa accident and everything.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
You're all right, Richard, you're a good boy.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
Richard.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
Better get to better.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Ad night, Sounjine. We'll sleep sleep. I couldn't sleep. Can't
I stay out here on the fortune sit for a
while till the moon sets? All right, and you'd better
say good night now. I don't know about your mother,
but I'm going to bed right away.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
I'm dead tired. Good Night, dear, good night, Pa, good night.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
The first time he's done that in years. I don't
believe kissing between fathers and sons after a certain age
seems mushi and silly, but that meant something. I don't
think we'll ever have to worry about his being safe
from himself again. I guess no matter what Bot will

(36:45):
do to him, he can take care of it. Now.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
My darn Peter giving me fitting? Do you bother?

Speaker 8 (36:51):
I'm making your shoes now, it goes, and we're.

Speaker 9 (36:53):
Going right up to bed.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
I guess you're right. You mind if I don't say
my prayers to night essay, I'm certainly heaven.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
I'm too darn tired to talk that way.

Speaker 8 (37:02):
It's real sinful, Oh that isn't you? Oliver always looking
for an excuse. You're worth some tunning.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Well, all right, I goes, You needn't.

Speaker 8 (37:15):
We've had a hard day. We're gonna turn out the
lights already.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Yeah, let it go gall again. Look at Richard out
there in that point, like a statue of love's young dreams.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
What's it that Rubate says?

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Yet?

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Ah, that springs vanished with the rose, that youth, sweet
scented manuscript should close?

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Well?

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Spring? Isn't everything?

Speaker 3 (37:43):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Essay? There's a lot to be said for autumn that's
got beauty too. In winter you're here to get her,
It's not how Speaking as reducer, the worst I can

(38:14):
say for our guest tonight is he doesn't always approve
of my reductions. Seeing as a citizen with the vote,
the least I can say for George gen Nathan is
that I always approve of what he writes. I didn't
say agree, mind you, Heaven and the entire personnel of
Actors Equity bid that I should recite for your catalog
of mister NAT's unmentionably numerous virtues. I needn't remind you

(38:34):
of the magazine which he founded in the straight ol Menkinemating,
from which my theater took its name in both which
would be nameless, nor of the list of his books,
which don't need what I'd like to say about them.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
It's not for me to.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Celebrate celebrated Nathan prose that blend the richness and a
stringency against whose infinite variety, time and custom seemed to
be getting nowhere.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
But let me say this much.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Eugene Neeial's dedication on the first page of Our Wilderness
reads as follows, to George G. Nathan, who also once
upon a time wore peg top trousers. And when the
path that kills along the road to ruin.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
Tonight, ladies and.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Gentlemen, the Campbell Playhouse rededicates Our Wilderness to George G.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
Nathan, And we have our own good reasons.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
They are, among other things, his love of theater, as
much as the gift and intelligence with which he served it.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
Mister Nathan.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
O'Neill affectionately dedicated Our Wilderness to me, And it's only
in the present tradition to close friends that I should
now return the compliment by saying unclemmorary things about him.
I've more on discoverle intimately for more than twenty years,
and I should like take advantage of this occasion to
tell you confidentially that the popular idea of himself which

(39:46):
he has so cleverly built up through his plays, books
which he has had written about him, and the expensive
photographs of himself which he has sped around the world,
is a fopping fraud.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
What picture of you got O'Neill?

Speaker 2 (40:00):
He is you believe the fellow's persistently gloomy and morbid,
that if the funeral passes his house, his wife joyfully
mistakes it for a Mardi Gras coddle. But if O'Neill
is gloomy and morbid, all I can say is that
someone has got the Scandinavian weather report fixed up with
the dictionary. He is so gloomy and morbid. In point
of fact, Once, while I was staying with him on

(40:22):
Sea Island, I had a brime with one of my
best duhores and kidis nectar to quit singing Rosie, you
are my posy at top of his lungs after midnight
so I'd get a little decent sleep. He roars with
delight over Damon Runyon's stories of mugs who go around
shaking hands with pieces of Limburger cheese concealed in halms.
He thinks Jack Benny is a scream and worth all

(40:44):
the intenactulous side of Stockholm. He wrote, daught forget this
our wilderness, which is not only a possibly as gloomy
and morbid as Charlie, is that by the dear barrel poker,
but which on it you how to have twenty one
consecutive minutes of howling low cut out of the dinner
table scene. So following sentimental scenes might stad chance of

(41:05):
getting over O'Neill. You've further believe given to a large,
steady and copious indignation. In other words, the combination of
in Growing toenail Boil and second act of the Volcira. Well,
as I say, I've been pretty close to the fellow
for almost quarter of a century, and the one and
only time I've ever seen him indignant about anything, it

(41:26):
was three years ago. Was one I argued with him
that he was a jackass in not believing Joe lewis
a topknot fighter. Prize fighting accidentalie is more than almost
anything else except for sauerkraut. He loves sauer kraut. I've
seen him down six big dishes of it in half
an hour, you've rest being a painfully slow and laborious worker.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
You've heard that it takes him two.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
Years even to get to the profound point of putting
down the line Act one, the curtain rises, it's truely
laborious worker. But so far as the painfully glow Seff
goes is oftened, a lot of buncom if our will is,
for example, he wrote in exactly twenty six days. So
you also think that O'Neill, from what you've heard, must
be a quick tempered and nasty rooster. Any feelings with

(42:09):
the stage director as he played I'll give you an
illustration out of menace. During rehearsal to the Our Wilderness,
Philip Muller, the director, came down to the footlights and suggested,
you are Neil sitting huddled into thee. Yet he thought
it would be grand by there, for Neil permitted him
to order one line in the verious scene than being tried.
Why one'll want it now? It would, answered Muller, telling

(42:32):
how it changed. The line be a beautiful, relieving laugh.
Well quietly mumbled O'Neill. It's funny all right. In fact,
it's pretty darned funny. In fact, it's fine. But and
here our friend gently squinted at Muller, it would be
a whole heap funnier if you yourself played the role facing.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
The audience, and then, very very slowly, while speaking the line.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Chained around and showed him a large cromore of William
Jennings fan Fasten to the seat of your past. Muller
had no more to say. The scene proceeded as O'Neil
had written it. And that's the scene, and that's the
play that you have heard tonight.

Speaker 7 (43:10):
The makes of Campbell's Soups join Arson Wells inviting you
to be with us at the Campbell Playhouse again next
Sunday evening. Meanwhile, if you have enjoyed to nuts Campbell
Playoffs presentation, won't you tell your grocery old tomorrow when
you order Campbell's Chick Soup. This is Ernest Chappell saying
thank you and good night bye busses. The makers of

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Campbell Soups and all of us on this program remain
as always obediently

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