December 20, 2024 • 56 mins
Welcome to the Heavenly Mandate Public Domain Christmas Special! The Hoary Urchin, the Drunken Master, the Deadliest Venom, and Lady-Death-Stab-Behind-the-Novi-Mall present 1938’s Campbell Playhouse’s production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” It was produced by John Houseman, directed by Orson Welles, and features an all-star cast! We hope you enjoy your holiday with us and your loved ones. Happy Holidays!
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Speaker 5 (00:45):
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Speaker 9 (00:58):
Welcome to the Welcome to the Heavily Mandate. Ladies and gentlemen,
Welcome to the Heavily Mandate Public Domain. Christmas Special Today,
The Whore Urchin, The Drunken Master, The Deadliest Venom and
Lady Desstat Behind the Nova MA presents nineteen thirty eight's
(01:20):
Campbell Playhouse's production of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. It
was produced by John Houseman, directed by Orson Wells, and
features an all star cast. So we hope that you
pull yourself some eggnog, spark a blunt nibble, some sugar cookies,
and enjoy your holiday with us and your loved ones.
(01:41):
Without further ado, I'm going to pass the heavily mic
over to mister Orson Wells. Wells, my man, please take
it away.
Speaker 10 (02:01):
The makers of Campbel Suits present the Campbell Playhouse, Orson
Wells producer.
Speaker 11 (02:32):
Good evening, missus Orson Wells. There are clearly a number
of ways in which a Christmas Carol could be introduced. Myself,
I am most struck by the happy fortune that enables
us on this Christmas Eve, to present mister Lionel Barrymore,
the best loved actor of our time, in the world's
(02:54):
best loved Christmas story, a Christmas Carol. It is the
America way, as we know, to establish traditions quickly where
popular instinct and sentiment pronounce them sound. And so it
is that today actually only the fifth anniversary of mister
Lionel Barrimore's first playing of the part of Ebenezer.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Scrooge for the Campbell Playoffs.
Speaker 11 (03:18):
There is, I think in all America, nothing more eagerly awaited,
more firmly rooted in the hearts of the radio family
that numbers millions, that this yearly performance of a Christmas Carol.
A Christmas Carol, as Charles Dickens wrote, it has by
common consent long been a classic. Mister Lionel Barrymore's appearance
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in it is rapidly becoming one, and now just before
a Christmas Carol, Ernest Chappel has a special Christmas greeting
from the makers of campbell Soups.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Mister Chappel, like yours andwells.
Speaker 10 (03:51):
As the old year draws toward its close, we of
Campbell's feel a bond of warmth and gratitude toward each
of you. Are friends, for you see homes everywhere throughout
the land. Campbell's soups have been welcome day by day
and week by week. You have placed confidence in us
and in the foods we make. And there isn't anything
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we appreciate more deeply than the fact that so many
of you have elected to let Campbell's make your soups
for you. And so when Christmas comes we look about
to find some way to show our appreciation some Christmas
present by which to say thank you. The gift we
chose five Christmases ago and have chosen each year since,
has become a part of Christmas to many and many
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a family. It has become a Christmas custom to gather
around the radio to hear and to enjoy a Christmas Carol.
And since it is Christmas Eve, we hope too that
the younger members of the family are permitted to stay
up and listen. Before dreams and visit of Santa. We
get a great deal of pleasure planning and preparing this
Christmas gift. And now it's ready. Off come the rappings,
(04:58):
Off come the tags that say please do not open
till Christmas.
Speaker 11 (05:02):
Out comes the card to you from Campbell's, and here
is the gift himself. Marley was dead to begin with.
(05:41):
There's no doubt whatever about that. The register of his
burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker,
and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it, and Scrooge's name
was good upon change for anything he chose to put
his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.
Scrooge knew he was dead, of course he did. Scrooge
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and Marley were partners for I don't know how many years. Oh,
but he was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone
with Scrooge, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous Oulstiner.
Once upon a time of all the good days in
the year, on Christmas Eve, Old Scrooge sat busy in
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his counting house, a grim, cheerless place, if ever there
was one. The door of Scrooge's counting house was open
that he might keep his eye upon his clock. Bob Cratchitt,
who in a cold and dismal little cell beyond, worked
at his ledgers.
Speaker 12 (06:45):
Twenty two.
Speaker 13 (06:47):
Merry gentleman, let nothing you dismay sixty nine.
Speaker 12 (06:56):
Christmas Day, eleven, thirteen seventy seven.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Carry let's see I'm practicing, Yes, mister Scrooge.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Stop patting fannel cattle warling, yes, sir, nine fifteen seventeen twenty.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Nitary impudents singing their ind the art the Christmas cattles
in my very jaw. Go somewhere else and fellow your
plasted cattles, or I'll give you in charge yes, and
I don't want any of your own customs.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Take your fellow fools and go away. Christmas, yeah right,
Merry Christmas, uncle, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 13 (07:42):
Ball, Merry Christmas, mister press, God save you.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Uncle.
Speaker 14 (07:45):
Humbug Christmas A humbug uncle.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
No, I'm sure you don't mean that. I mean just that,
exactly that. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
What right have you to be many there? What reason
have you? You're bored enough?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Well? What right of you to be dismal about Christmas? Uncle?
You're rich enough? Ah? Now, Uncle, don't be cross? Well?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
What else can I be when I live in such
a world of fools? What's Christmas to you but the
time for paying bills without money?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Merry Christmas, a.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Time for finding yourself a year older and not an
hour richer. If I could work my will, every idiot
who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
And be boiled with his own pudding and.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Buried with the stake of holly through his heart, he
should Uncle.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Have you keep your Christmas in your own way and
let me keep it in mind?
Speaker 15 (08:40):
Keep it?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
But you don't keep it, uncle, Well, let.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Me leave it alone.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Then what do you want a Christmas gift.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I've no doubt I came to wish you a merry Christmas, Uncle.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Merry Christmas, much good? May Christmas do you much good?
It ever has done.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Yet, there are many things from which I derive good,
by which I have not profity material. I dare say, Uncle,
Christmas among the rest. But I have always thought of
Christmas time as a good time, a kind for giving, charitable,
pleasant time. And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put
a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I
believe it has done me good and will do me good.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
And I say God, bless us, God, bless Christmas. Hurrah.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Let me hear another sound out of you there, Bob, cretcheit,
and you'll keep your Christmas by losing your situation. As
to you, nephew, I wonder you don't go into parliament.
You talk enough nonsense. Don't be angry, Uncle. I want
nothing from you. I ask nothing of you. Why can't
we be friends?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Good afternoon? Oh, I'm sorry you feel that way. I've tried.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
A merry Christmas to your uncle, good afternoon, and a
happy New Year too, humbug.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
And a merry Christmas to you, Bob and melissus as
a tiny tim Thank you to your bread.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Say to you, sir, good gay, sir, good day, Bob.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Nonsense glummery talking Christmas and not two sixpences to jingle
together in his trouser's pocket.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You and here, Bob cretch it, come here? What are
you doing there?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I was only putting a bit more coll on the fire.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Mister Scrooge, seeing itself cold in there, say well, you
put that coal back.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Into the structor a fire a fire.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Indeed, I can tell you if you use coal at
that rate, you and I'll soon be parting company.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Bob dretch it.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
You understand that there's many a young fellow like your situation.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I'm sorry, so my fingers were getting a little stiff
with the cold.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
And put on your mittens. There's someone at the door.
See what it is, yes, sir, good afternoon, sir. Could
have to know a firm of Scrooge and the Marley.
Speaker 14 (10:46):
Yes, I should like to see the head of the firm.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
If my name or very good si, what is it
a gentleman to see mister Scrooge.
Speaker 14 (10:53):
By the pleasure of addressing mister Scrooge or mister.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Morley Marley's been dead these seven years tonight I'm true.
Speaker 16 (11:00):
Now, mister Scrooge, at the season of the year, it's
only fitting that we who are more fortunate should raise
a fund to buy the poors and meat and drink
and means of warmth. You may not believe it, sir,
but many thousands are now in what of common necessities?
And hundreds of thousands are in what of the simplest comfort?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Sir. Ooh, are there no prisoners?
Speaker 14 (11:20):
There are plenty of prisons, sir.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And the workouses they're still in operation. They dress.
Speaker 14 (11:25):
I wish I could say they are not, but they are, sir.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
The treadmill and the poor law are in full vigor, then.
Speaker 14 (11:31):
Both very busy, sir.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Well, I'm very glad to hear that.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
I was afraid, from what you said at first, that
something had occurred to stop them in their useful call.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
They'll shore.
Speaker 14 (11:41):
All these institutions that you mention are flourishing.
Speaker 16 (11:44):
But it's nevertheless true that some additional provision for the
poor and the destitute must be made. A few of us,
upon change, are endeavoring to raise such a fund, you see, And.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
What shall I put you down for nothing? Oh?
Speaker 14 (11:56):
I see you wish to be anonymous, sir, I wish to.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Be let her rose. I don't make marry.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Myself at Christmas time, and I can't afford to keep
a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Of idle people and make them merry.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
I help support the establishments that take care of the poor.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
They cost enough. Let those who badly off go there.
Speaker 14 (12:18):
And he can't go there, sir, and many would rather
die well.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
And my advice to them is to do so and
decrease the surface population. Besides, I've owly your word for it.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
There.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
All this is soul truth, mister Scruge, shall be it.
Then it's not my business. It's enough for a man
to understand his own business and not to interfere with
other people's. Mine occupies me constantly, good afternoons.
Speaker 14 (12:45):
I quite understand, mister Scruge.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Right, it show this gentleman out, yes, sir, at this
white place, Sir, I couldn't help overhearing I should like
to contribute trumpings, Yes, sir, it isn't much, but it's
all I can a there. Ah, this is worse situation
than I.
Speaker 14 (13:02):
You're a generous fellow.
Speaker 16 (13:03):
I wish I might say so if you're employer, Yes, sir,
good afternoon, sir.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Good afternoon. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Merry Christmas, yes, sir, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Close it all, yes, sir, I have closed it, sir.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Twenty four thirty one one, and carry three a new
scholar tipet for tiny Tim, the comb for Martha thirty
three three, and carry three hair ribbon for Belinda four
seven twelve fifteen.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
I suppose you want the entire day tomorrow if it's
quite convenience, Sir. It's not convenient and it's not fair.
But I suppose I can't do anything about it. If
I wish to stop half a crown of your wages,
you'd think yourself very ill used.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I'd be bound well, sir I.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
And yet you don't think me will used when I
pay a day's wages.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
For no one. It's only once a year, sir, once
a year.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
See you indeed a fine excuse for picking a man's
pocket every twenty fifth of December. But I suppose it's
no good talking. You must have the whole day. Well,
see that you're here all the earlier the next morning,
do you understand?
Speaker 11 (14:14):
Why?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Will sir?
Speaker 13 (14:15):
I wilster indeed, good night, sir, and merry Christmas. There
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 11 (14:32):
The office was closed in a twinkling, and Bob Cratchett,
with the long ends of his white comforter dangling below
his waist, for he boasted no greatcoat, went down a
slide on corn Hill twenty times in honor of its
being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town
as hard as he could pelt to play with his
family at blind Man's buff And Scrooge, on the other hand,
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took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern, having
read all the newspapers and spent the rest of the
evening with his banker's book, went to his dismal house.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge likes it.
Speaker 11 (15:13):
The yard was so dark that even Scrooge, who knew
it's every stone, had to grope with his hands through
the fog and the frost to find the door.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Scrooge walked through his rooms to see that all was right.
Speaker 11 (15:27):
Sitting room, bedroom, lumber room, all as they should be.
Nobody under the table, nobody under the sofa, nobody out
of the bed, nobody in the closet, closed the door,
locked himself in, double locked himself in, and took off
his cravat, put on his dressing gown and slippers in
his nightcap, and.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Sat down before the fire to take his gruel.
Speaker 17 (15:55):
Eh Molly, Molly, Molly, I could have sworn I saw, Oh,
h humbug.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Morley's been dead these seven years. Humbug. It's all humbug.
What I need is a good night watch. What's that?
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Someone's in the pines, Celler put your door locking, double locked.
Something's it's it's kind something in h it's coming closer
outside my door.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I won't believe it. There's humbug. Still a scoog ebany'
is a scrooge. Oh, now what do you want with me?
Speaker 12 (16:52):
I want much of your ebony? As uh?
Speaker 15 (16:56):
Who are you?
Speaker 12 (16:57):
Ask me?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Who I was? You're very particular? Or a ghost? All right?
Who wear you?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Then?
Speaker 12 (17:06):
In life? I was your partner, Jacob.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Molly, shake of Molly. But your date you died seven
years ago?
Speaker 12 (17:17):
Seven years ago?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
This very nice? You part of ghosting? What's wrong? Ebanieza?
Don't you believe in me?
Speaker 18 (17:29):
I do not?
Speaker 12 (17:30):
You doubt your senses?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Ebaneza, Yes, because the little thing affects them, The slight
disorder of the.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Stomach makes them cheats. You can't be a ghost you.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot
of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an
underdone potato. There may be more gravy than grave about you.
Whatever you are, humbug, I tell you hung about Excuse me, Jacob,
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excuse me. I do believe in you.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
You are the ghost, Jacob? Thank you? That's what. Why
do you walk the earth? Jacob? Why do you come
to me?
Speaker 19 (18:20):
It is required of every man that the spirit within
him should walk abroad among his fellow men, and travel
far and wide to witness what it cannot share, but
might have shared on earth and turned to happiness.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Oh tell me, Jacob, what is that chain you wear
around you?
Speaker 12 (18:41):
I wear the chain I forged in life.
Speaker 19 (18:45):
I made it link by link and yard by yard
by my.
Speaker 12 (18:49):
Own free willow? Is its patterns strange to you?
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Webonezer, cash boxes, keys, cad blocks, ledgers.
Speaker 19 (19:00):
I see yours was as heavy and as long as
this seven years ago, and you have labored on it since.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Oh Jacob, speak comfort to me. Comfort I have none
to give.
Speaker 19 (19:17):
I cannot rest, I cannot stay, I cannot linger.
Speaker 12 (19:22):
Weary journeys lie before me.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
You travel five.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Yes, Ebeniza, on the wings of the wind, seven years
head and traveling all the time.
Speaker 19 (19:34):
Seven years, Eveniza, seven years of remorse, Eveniza, do you
know that no space of regret can make amends for
one life's opportunities misused?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
But you were always a good man of business, Jake to.
Speaker 19 (19:52):
Business mankind was my business, charity, Mercy Beenevers, they were all.
Speaker 12 (20:00):
Oh my business.
Speaker 19 (20:01):
The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water,
and the comprehensive ocean of my business.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Oh, Jacob, don't take on, so Jacob, listen to me, Ebeneza,
I listen to you, Jacob.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Go on, Jacob, speak to me. But don't be so flowered, Ebenezer.
Speaker 12 (20:20):
I am here to warn you.
Speaker 19 (20:22):
That you have yet a chance and hope of escaping
my fate.
Speaker 12 (20:27):
Do you hear that, Ebenezer?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yes, Jacob, you always are a good friend to me.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Jacob.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Thank you, Jacob. But go on, go on, go on?
How shall I escape? Oh, I'm I'm afraid, Jacob.
Speaker 12 (20:42):
You will be haunted by free spirits?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Is that the only chance and hope? Jacob?
Speaker 12 (20:48):
It is your only chance and hope?
Speaker 3 (20:51):
And I think I'd rather not without that visit.
Speaker 12 (20:54):
You cannot hope to shun the path eye tread. Expect
the first tomorrow when the bell tolls. One couldn't I take.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Him all at once and have it over.
Speaker 12 (21:05):
Jacob evans A. Look that for your own sake. You
remember what has passed between us, and.
Speaker 19 (21:13):
Remember when the bell tolls, one look for the first spirit.
Speaker 11 (21:19):
Molly Jeter Mar Scrooge awoke. He was lying on his bed,
fully dressed. Suddenly the curtains of his bed were drawn aside.
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Scrooge found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor,
who drew them as close to it as I am
now to you, and I am standing in the spirit
at your elbow.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
It was a.
Speaker 11 (21:56):
Strange figure, like a child, yet not so like a child,
as like an old man.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
The eBones a screw oo? Who who is that?
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Ebenezer screwed?
Speaker 18 (22:11):
I have come for you.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
You You are the spirit, sir, who's coming which foretold me.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
I am that spirit?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Oho oho? What are you? I am the ghost of
Christmas past long past?
Speaker 6 (22:29):
No, your past?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I oh, what do you want of me? What brings
you here to haunt me?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Your welfare? Ebenezer screw rise and walk with me.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Oh, no, will no, No, you're not out of the window.
I can't do that.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
I'll fall down. I'm not a spirit, I'm mortal. I'll
fall bear.
Speaker 18 (22:52):
But a touch of my hand upon your heart and
you shall be upheld in more than this.
Speaker 20 (22:59):
Come follow me, errah, what's become of the city.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
And there's snow upon the ground where round me?
Speaker 18 (23:15):
These are the shadows of the things that have been
You recognize this countryside?
Speaker 15 (23:21):
Do oh?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I ain't know every inch of it, every rock, every tree.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
And that bleak building over there, er that building.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
I was a boy there, Yes, I went to school
in that horrible place.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Do you recollect that path?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
I could walk it blindfold?
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Strange? You forgot it so many years. Come. Let us
go closer.
Speaker 18 (23:49):
Look through the window into that cold, barren room.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
What do you see, Ebenezer Scrooge.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
I see a boy.
Speaker 18 (23:58):
A solitary child, neglected by his family alone.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Yes, yes, I see, I know that boy. Uh, I
was so lonely, poor boy.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Your lip is trembling, Scrooge. And what is that on
your cheek?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
It's nothing, nothing, nothing at all.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I wish I Uh, it's too late for that now.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
What's the matter?
Speaker 15 (24:25):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Nothing, the weights came to my door singing Christmas carol
last night. It was a boy like that among them,
a poor, thin, pale boy in a ragged coat.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I'd like to give him something at all?
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Is that all?
Speaker 18 (24:43):
Come, Ebenezer Scrooge, Let us see another Christmas?
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Do you know this place of at either school?
Speaker 21 (25:03):
Know it? Know it?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Why this is the counting house where I was apprentice? Listen,
Why it's my old master nurse his heart, old Fezieway,
my master alive again.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
And the host in one of his Christmas pockets.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Leave into it, rending it off and back to your place.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
And there's Dick Wilkins, Oh, Dick, dear, dear dear, Yes,
And look there's missus Vezzie Wi yourself, looking younger than
any of them. And the tables all loaded with roast
and cider and mint spy and beer. Oh what a
jolly time.
Speaker 18 (25:52):
We used to have, that carefree young man with a
light heart and the gay smiles.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Do you recognize him?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yes, yes, merciful heaven. How happy I was then.
Speaker 18 (26:05):
A small matter for old Fezziwig to make those silly
folks so full of joy.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Small matter, small, indeed.
Speaker 18 (26:14):
Isn't it he has spent only a few pounds of
your mortal money.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Is that so much that he deserves praise?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Oh, it's not that. It's not that spirit, old Fezziwig.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Has the power to make us happy or unhappy, to
make our service light or heavy.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
His power lies in words and.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Looks, in things so Chinese impossible to count up. The
happiness he gives is quite as great as if it
cost her.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Were What is the matter?
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Nothing, nothing at all, but something, I think, No, no, only,
it's just that I should like to be able to
say a word to the micra bob cratch It just now,
that's all.
Speaker 21 (27:07):
I'll hire calm and critcher.
Speaker 18 (27:17):
My time grows short, and we have yet another journey
to make.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Where now come?
Speaker 6 (27:27):
This is our last visit to the past.
Speaker 18 (27:29):
Ebeneze, Here in this little room, with a fair young
girl by your side, do you recognize yourself, Ebenezer?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, spare me this.
Speaker 18 (27:42):
You're older now, a man in the prime of life.
Your face has begun to wear the signs of care
and avarice. Your eyes are greedy, the eager, restless eyes
of a miser. No, she knows it too, That girl
by your side. There are tears in her eyes.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
It matters little, ever easier to you, very little.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I know that Bell. Have I changed towards you?
Speaker 7 (28:14):
When we were engaged, we were both poor?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Was it better then? Better to be poor?
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Better at least to be happy? You're changed? You were
another man then I was a boy.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Do you blame me because I grow wiser? Have I
ever tried to break our engagement?
Speaker 7 (28:32):
In words? No?
Speaker 6 (28:35):
In what?
Speaker 10 (28:35):
Then?
Speaker 8 (28:36):
In a change nature, in an altered spirit, in everything
that made my love of any value in your sight?
Speaker 7 (28:45):
So I release you from your promise.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
Belle.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
Oh, At first it may cause you pain to lose me,
a very brief pain. But soon it will be dim
like a half remembered dream, an unprofitable.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Dream, and you will be.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
Glad to be awake from such a dream. May you
be happy in the life you have chosen, Ebenezi, for
the love of him you once were.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Spirit. It's enough, Show me no more, take me all.
Speaker 18 (29:17):
These were shadows of the things that have been, that
they are what they are.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
Do not blame me.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
No more, no more.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
On shadow more? Do you see this man, Ebenezer Scrowge.
Speaker 18 (29:36):
This man might have been you and the woman beside him,
your wife, and that girl. That girl might have been
your daughter, Ebenezer Scrooge.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
She might have called you father.
Speaker 18 (29:48):
She might have been a springtime in the haggard winter
of your life.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Please let me go, show me no more.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
Listen now while they speak, Ebeneze, No.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I saw an old friend of yours to day.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
Who was it?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (30:04):
How can I it's Oh, I know, mister Screw.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Mister Scrooge, it was. I passed his office window.
Speaker 16 (30:13):
It wasn't shuttered, and there was a candle inside, so
I couldn't help seeing him. His partner Marley lies at
the point of death, I hear, And there Scrooge sat
all alone, quite alone.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
In the world.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
I do believe.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Spirit, Spirit, I can bear no more. Leave me, holt
me no more.
Speaker 15 (30:35):
Take me back, Take me back, King.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Princess lost now on the east, Dusty and willing was
no name. I love about deep and chrispan me rightly.
Speaker 15 (31:01):
Night.
Speaker 10 (31:02):
You are listening to the Campbell Playhouse bringing you tonight
the fifth annual presentation of Charles Dickens, a Christmas carol,
produced by Orson Wells and starring Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge.
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
When the solely round about Deep and Chris Band.
Speaker 22 (31:26):
Last night the crost My Screw, where a poor man came.
Speaker 10 (31:33):
In sight calling, And now back to the Campbell Playhouse
in the fifth annual presentation of a Christmas Carol, a
Christmas Present from the makers of Campbell Soups.
Speaker 11 (32:01):
On the stroke of one, Scrooge awakened suddenly and sat
him bowled upright in his own bed. He remembered the
words of Marley's Ghost and wondered from which direction the
second specter would appear.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
At that moment.
Speaker 11 (32:16):
Nothing between a baby and a rhinoceros would have astonished
him very much. Now, being prepared for almost anything, he
was not, by any means prepared for nothing. And consequently,
when no shape appeared, he was taken with a violent
fit of trembling. Five minutes, ten minutes, quarter of an
hour went by, yet nothing came. Then, as he sat
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in his bed, he became aware gradually of a great
blaze of ruddy light seemed to shine upon him from
the adjoining room. He got up softly and shuffled in
his slippers to the door. It was his own sitting room.
There was no doubt about that, but it had undergone
a surprising transformation. The walls and ceiling were so hung
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with living green that it looked a perfect grove. And
there sat a jolly giant, glorious to see. You bore
a glowing torch in shape not unlike Plenty's horn, and
held it up high up to shed its light on
Scrooge as he came peeping round the corner.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
Come in, Come in.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Nobody's a scrooge and know me better than you. I
am the ghost of.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
Christmas, presant.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Spirit. Take me where you will.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Last time I went against my will and learned a
lesson which is working.
Speaker 10 (33:38):
Now.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
If you have anything to teach me, let me provide
my Touch my.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
Robe, emeries, a scrooge, touch my robe?
Speaker 22 (33:55):
Well, you brought me spirit to an humble dwelling in
an humble street.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
It's miserable enough, yet there is happiness there. Who are
these people? Who's that woman? And the children? These are
the family of your clerk, Bob Cratchit.
Speaker 22 (34:11):
See his wife's dressed in a twice turned gown, but
brave in ribbons, laying the table for their Christmas dinner.
And there assisting her is her daughter Belinda, And the
young man with a fork in the stuffing. That's Master
Peter Cratchit and the two little Cratchits. Listen, Scrooge and watch.
Speaker 20 (34:31):
Yes, mother, mother?
Speaker 23 (34:33):
Why why why now? Sit you down before the fire, Martin,
have a warm, long flesh.
Speaker 8 (34:40):
Where's father?
Speaker 23 (34:40):
He's been to church with Tiny Tim? If you are directly,
how is tiny Tim, mother any better?
Speaker 18 (34:45):
Door?
Speaker 23 (34:46):
Sometimes I think he is, and sometimes I think, oh,
dear God, if anything should happen to tiny Tim.
Speaker 8 (34:52):
Oh, mother, you mustn't do anything of such a thing.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Everybody, Malcolm, I, Oh.
Speaker 21 (35:00):
Merry Christmas, father, and Jim Merry Christmas.
Speaker 23 (35:04):
Oh, kim you darling, Oh father, I'm so glad to be.
Speaker 15 (35:08):
Hot, and we're glad to have you.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
Mother.
Speaker 7 (35:10):
And how did little Tim behave in church?
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Bo as good as gold and better?
Speaker 20 (35:14):
I like church?
Speaker 18 (35:15):
Mother?
Speaker 21 (35:15):
Oh, they sang the nicest songs. I hope people saw
me there, saw you there? And why to him, well,
don't you see? Because I'm lame, and if they saw
my crutch, it might be pleasant for them to remember
on Christmas who it was made lame beggars walk and blind.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Men see bless you, my son?
Speaker 21 (35:37):
Are you ready to eat?
Speaker 6 (35:38):
Father?
Speaker 23 (35:39):
You're already come ta glaody of stopping and dressing and
plum pudding for all of you. Martha, take care of
tiny Tim and see that he eats plenty. He must
get strong and well.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Now sit down there, rock, my DearS.
Speaker 22 (35:56):
I see a vacant seat in the portumney corner, and
without an owner carefully preserved to.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Say, he'll be spared, say live.
Speaker 22 (36:08):
If these shadows remain unoutered by the future Ebonza, the
child will die.
Speaker 24 (36:16):
And to praise name, Amen, Amen, And now, my DearS,
with such a dinner, a toast, A Merry Christmas to
us all, and God bless.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Me, blessure everyone, and now to mister Scrooge.
Speaker 24 (36:32):
I'll give you a toast to mister Scrooge, the founder
of the beast, the founder of the feast, indeed, who
pays you all of fifteen shillings a week.
Speaker 23 (36:41):
I wish I had him here. I'd give him a
piece of my mind to feast on. And I hope
you'd have good appetite for.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Dear the children. Christmas Day.
Speaker 23 (36:48):
It should be Christmas Day. I'm sure on which one
drinks the health of such an odious, stingy, unfeeling man
as mister Scrooge.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
You know he is Bob.
Speaker 14 (36:55):
Nobody knows it better than.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
You, poor fellow.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Dear Christmas Day.
Speaker 23 (36:59):
I'll I think his health for your sake, and the
days not for his long life. To him, a merry
Christmas and a happy New Year. He'll be very merry
and very happy.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
I have no doubt.
Speaker 21 (37:12):
And I say God bless him to mother and everyone.
Speaker 11 (37:16):
Yeah, there was nothing of high mark in all this.
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They were not a handsome family, these crotchets. They were
not well dressed, Their shoes were far from being waterproof,
their clothes were scanty and a known very likely the
insides of a pawnbroker's. But they were happy, grateful, pleased
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with one another, and contented with a time. And when
at last they faded, Scrooge had his eye upon them,
and especially on tiny Tim until the last many calls
Scrooge made that night, with a ghost of Christmas present.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Down among the miners, they went to.
Speaker 11 (38:33):
Labor in the bowels of the earth, and out to
sea among the sailors. At their watch, dark ghostly figures
in their several stations. Much they saw, and far they went,
and many places they visited, but always with a happy end.
The spirits stood beside sick beds, and they were cheerful
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on foreign lands, and they were close at home by povert.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
And it was rich in armshouse, hospital.
Speaker 11 (39:04):
And jail, where a vain man, in his little brief
authority had not made fast the door and barred the
spirit out.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
The spirit left his blessing. It was a long night,
It was only a night.
Speaker 11 (39:25):
And it was strange too, that while Scrooge remained unaltered
in his outward form, the ghost grew older, clearly older.
Speaker 22 (39:36):
Wild life upon this globe is very brief, Eboniza. It
ends tonight, good night, tonight at midnight. Ah, the hours come.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Oh lud chat lund chet. Well, there's still more things
I wish to learn.
Speaker 22 (39:55):
These you will learn from still another spirit, Still another spirit, Eberneza.
Speaker 11 (40:06):
Scrooge looked about him for the ghost that had vanished.
He found himself once more in his bed, in his
dressing gun and his nightcap.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
He'd heard the clock strike, and then.
Speaker 11 (40:20):
You remember the prediction of old Jacob Marley, and lifting
up his eyes, beheld the third spirit, a solemn phantom,
shrouded in black, draped and hooded, coming towards him, slowly
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and silently, like a mist along the ground.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
I know you you you heard the ghost of Christmas
yet to come.
Speaker 5 (40:57):
You will show me the shadows of things that have
not happen, but will happen in the time before us.
Handsome me spirit goes to the future. Oh, I fear
you more than any specter I've seen. And yet as
I know your purpose is to do me good, and
as I hope you live to be another man from
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what I was laid on, laid on the night is
waiting fast. Time is precious, spin it. Why have you
brought me here again? Bet to Bob cratchits home.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
We it's not to say.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
Why is it so quiet?
Speaker 3 (41:42):
So very quiet here?
Speaker 20 (41:49):
Mother?
Speaker 7 (41:49):
Clean my sob my little and.
Speaker 6 (41:55):
Ti till I loved him.
Speaker 8 (41:58):
So mother, you mustn't. It's almost time for father to
be home. Don't let him see you crying.
Speaker 7 (42:07):
Yes, yes, mother, he's late to night. He walks slower
than he used to.
Speaker 23 (42:16):
Yet I've known him to walk very fast, indeed, with
tiny tim on his shoulder, so.
Speaker 7 (42:21):
Have I, Mother. But he was light to carry, and
his father loved him so that it was no trouble,
no trouble at all. Bob good evening, my dear you're late, Bob.
Speaker 4 (42:36):
I'm sorry, my dear. I've I went to the churchyard
to day. I wish you could have gone with me.
It would have done your heart good to see how
sweet and green a price it is. He'll see it often,
I promised him. I promised Tiny Tim we'd walk there
on Sunday.
Speaker 7 (42:52):
Oh, father, dear, it's God's will, Bob.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
I'm trying to understand it, my dear, my son, my
little son, Tiny Tim, and I loved.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Him so.
Speaker 5 (43:10):
Oh that's cruel, cruel, Spirit, can't you give me wonder?
I of hope that I may change all that the
tiny Tim may live?
Speaker 15 (43:40):
Spirit?
Speaker 3 (43:42):
Where are we now? Oh?
Speaker 12 (43:44):
Mast?
Speaker 5 (43:45):
For have a churchyard overrun by grass and weeds, choked
with too much betting, desolate, lonely, crumbling gravestone? Spirit, how
before I drawn near to that gravestone? Answer me one question?
Are these are the shadows of things that we will be?
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Or are they the shadows of things that?
Speaker 3 (44:11):
Maybe? Only? Would you not speak to me? Spence? What
is that grave to wish? You? Point? Oh? Now I
see there's writing on that store. The name on the
gravestone is Eben Schools.
Speaker 5 (44:32):
Screwoo, Oh Spirit, No, no, no Spirit, hear me.
Speaker 3 (44:42):
I'm not the man I was. Why show me this?
If I'm past all hope.
Speaker 5 (44:48):
Tell me that I may change these dreadful shadows that
have come that you've shown me by an altered life.
I'm honor Chris in my heart, and I'll try and
keep it all the year. I live in the past,
the present, in the future. I will not shut out
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the lessons that they teach. Tell me, do spir it,
Please tell me that I can sponge away the writing
on that stone. Spirit, I beg you, spin it, spin it, sir.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
I promise on my knees. I promise, I promise. What's this?
Speaker 5 (45:51):
I'm home in my own bed, in my own room,
on the sun, the sunshine, it's clear, it's bright, no
far Oh what.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
A beautiful day. Glorious, glorious.
Speaker 15 (46:13):
Boy, oh boy, yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
It what's today?
Speaker 15 (46:20):
What's that? Sir?
Speaker 3 (46:21):
What day is it? My fine fellow?
Speaker 15 (46:24):
Today?
Speaker 3 (46:25):
What's Christmas Day?
Speaker 15 (46:27):
Christmas Day?
Speaker 3 (46:29):
And I haven't missed it?
Speaker 5 (46:30):
The spirits have done it all in one night, all
in one night.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
Heaven be praised.
Speaker 15 (46:38):
How's that?
Speaker 5 (46:38):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (46:39):
Listen, my dad, do you know where the poultry is?
And in the next street, I should say, I do.
Speaker 5 (46:47):
An intelligent boy, a remarkable boy. Tell me, do you
know if they've sold the prize turkey that was hanging
in the window as me?
Speaker 3 (47:00):
What a delightful boy. It's a pleasure to talk to you. Yes,
my buck, now, sir, oh that's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (47:08):
Now go around, will you and tell him to send
it to Bob Cratchett and his family on Broad Street.
Speaker 3 (47:15):
And mind you, they're not to know who paid for it.
Hurry along, male, and he is half a crown for
your trouble.
Speaker 5 (47:23):
Yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
Ha. And a merry Christmas to you too, my boy.
I don't know what to do.
Speaker 5 (47:33):
I'm as light as a feller, as happy as an angel,
I'm as.
Speaker 3 (47:39):
Married as a schoolboy.
Speaker 5 (47:41):
A merry Christmas, A merry Christmas to everybody, A happy
New Year to all the world.
Speaker 11 (48:03):
Next morning, Scrooge was early at his office. He went
early for a reason. If he could only be there
first and catch Bob cratch It coming late, that was
the thing he'd set his heart upon.
Speaker 3 (48:17):
And he did it, Yes he did.
Speaker 11 (48:20):
The clock had struck nine, no Bob, A quarter past
no Bob. Scrooge sat with his door wide open that
he might see him come in. And at last he came.
His hat was off before he opened the door. His
comforted to he was on his stool and Jiffy, driving
away with his pen as if he were trying to
overtake nine o'clock.
Speaker 4 (48:41):
Fifteen, carry the one, forty four, carry the two, thirty one,
carry four, eight and six or fourteen carry the eight.
Speaker 5 (48:46):
Oh you crachit, yes, sir, step this way, cratch it,
if you please.
Speaker 3 (48:52):
Crack it. What do you mean by coming in at
this time of day? Oh? I'm very sorry, sir, I'm
behind my time. You are you are?
Speaker 15 (49:05):
Yes, I think you are.
Speaker 4 (49:06):
It's only once a year, mister Scrooge. It shall not
be repeated. I was making rather merry yesterday, sir.
Speaker 3 (49:13):
I'll tell you what my plan.
Speaker 5 (49:15):
I have not sell this sort of thing any longer,
and therefore, Bob crunch it.
Speaker 3 (49:22):
I'm about to raise your salary, mister Scrooge.
Speaker 4 (49:25):
Are you quite yourself?
Speaker 3 (49:28):
Sir? No, no, thank heaven, I am not quite myself.
Speaker 5 (49:33):
Merry Christmas, Bob, ha ha, Many Christmas, my good fellow,
and merrier Christmas than I've given you in many a year.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
I raise your salary and we'll see what we can do.
For Tiny Tim and the rest of your family.
Speaker 5 (49:49):
We'll discuss it this very afternoon over a Christmas bowl
of smoking Bishop Bob, make up the fire, take it up,
and buy another cold sk rundle before you've done another
eye on prest.
Speaker 11 (50:08):
Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all
and infinitely more to Tiny Tim, who did not die.
He was a second father. He became as good a friend,
as good a master, and as good a man as
the good old city knew, or any other good old city,
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town or borough in the good old world. Some people
laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let
them laugh, and little heeded them. His own heart laughed.
That was quite enough for him. He had no further
intercourse with spirits, but lived upon the total abstinence principle
ever afterwards. And it was always said of him that
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he knew how to keep Christmas well. If any man
alive possessed the knowledge, may that be truly said of us,
all of us, And so as Tiny Tim observed, God
bless us everyone.
Speaker 10 (51:36):
You have just heard our annual presentation of Charles Dickens,
a Christmas carol starring Lionel Barrymore brought to you by
the makers of Campbell's suits, and now here is Awson well.
Speaker 11 (51:47):
At this point in the program, ladies and gentlemen, it
is my custom, as you know, to present to you,
with a few words of introduction, our guest of the evening.
With your consent, I shall dispense with this tonight. To
introduce tonight's guest to the Campbell Place audience, or to
any other American audience is an extravagant and superfluous procedure.
For if ever an actor has won for himself a
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lasting place in the hearts of his fellow countrymen through
years of unsparing and inspiring service, that actress Lionel Paramore,
it's to Lionel Paramore.
Speaker 3 (52:22):
Thank you orson well. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (52:28):
This is the fourth year I've had the pleasure of
appearing in the Christmas Carol here in the Campbell Playhouse,
and I assure you all it's a pleasure that never ties.
Speaker 3 (52:39):
As long as I can remember, this has been one
of my favorite stories when we were children.
Speaker 5 (52:44):
It was read to us regularly this time of year,
as it is to millions of children right now. Unlike
many of them, I'm sure the three of us, ethel
Jack and I, with the aid of a sheet and
some old ironware, made a play of it. As I remember,
we had three scrooges in that production.
Speaker 3 (53:05):
Mister Barrymore, who played Tiny Tim. I think we had
three tiny Tims too. Well.
Speaker 5 (53:11):
Seriously, I can think of no part that I've enjoyed
playing again and again as much as I have the
part of that squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching.
Speaker 3 (53:25):
Covered as old sinner Evan He's a scrooge.
Speaker 5 (53:29):
And I can think of no happier or more suitable
choice for the makers of Campbell's Soups to offer the
people of America as their Christmas present each year than
Charles Dickens's well beloved story Christmas Cattle. Good night Dawson,
Good night everybody, and merry Merry Christmas.
Speaker 15 (53:48):
To you all.
Speaker 11 (53:49):
Good night, mister Barrymon, Merry Christmas to you, sir, ladies
and gentlemen. For next Sunday night, we're happy to announce
our version a great and truly American story by a
great American novelist, Come and Get It, by Edna Ferber
against a background of the mighty forests of Miss Ferber's
own Wisconsin. It tells a stirring tale of the men
and women who live and die in the woods in
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order that lumber may come down the rivers every spring
into the cities of the modern world. Like so many
of Miss Ferber's ethnic romances of American life, was made
from a best selling novel into a highly successful motion picture.
Now we bring it you on the air, the story
of a man and his son and the girl they
both loved, Lota, played for us by one of the
loveliest and most accomplished of Hollywood's younger dramatic actresses, Miss
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Francis D.
Speaker 3 (54:34):
And so until next week, until come and Get It
with Francis D.
Speaker 11 (54:38):
My sponsors, the makers of Campbell Soups, and all of
us on the Campbell.
Speaker 3 (54:41):
Playoffs remain as always obediently yours.
Speaker 10 (55:04):
The makers of Campbell's Soups, join Ars and Wells in
inviting you to be with us in the Campbell Playhouse
again next Sunday evening, when we bring you Edna Ferber's
Come and Get It with Miss.
Speaker 3 (55:14):
Francis D as our guest.
Speaker 10 (55:17):
Meanwhile, if you have enjoyed our fifth annual presentation of
a Christmas Carol, won't you tell your grocery show this
week when you order Campbell's soups. This is Ernest Chappel
saying thank you and Merry Christmas to you all.
Speaker 6 (56:21):
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Speaker 3 (56:23):
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Speaker 3 (00:41):
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Speaker 4 (00:43):
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Speaker 5 (00:45):
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Speaker 6 (00:51):
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Speaker 7 (00:52):
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Speaker 8 (00:53):
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Speaker 9 (00:58):
Welcome to the Welcome to the Heavily Mandate. Ladies and gentlemen,
Welcome to the Heavily Mandate Public Domain. Christmas Special Today,
The Whore Urchin, The Drunken Master, The Deadliest Venom and
Lady Desstat Behind the Nova MA presents nineteen thirty eight's
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Campbell Playhouse's production of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. It
was produced by John Houseman, directed by Orson Wells, and
features an all star cast. So we hope that you
pull yourself some eggnog, spark a blunt nibble, some sugar cookies,
and enjoy your holiday with us and your loved ones.
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Without further ado, I'm going to pass the heavily mic
over to mister Orson Wells. Wells, my man, please take
it away.
Speaker 10 (02:01):
The makers of Campbel Suits present the Campbell Playhouse, Orson
Wells producer.
Speaker 11 (02:32):
Good evening, missus Orson Wells. There are clearly a number
of ways in which a Christmas Carol could be introduced. Myself,
I am most struck by the happy fortune that enables
us on this Christmas Eve, to present mister Lionel Barrymore,
the best loved actor of our time, in the world's
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best loved Christmas story, a Christmas Carol. It is the
America way, as we know, to establish traditions quickly where
popular instinct and sentiment pronounce them sound. And so it
is that today actually only the fifth anniversary of mister
Lionel Barrimore's first playing of the part of Ebenezer.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Scrooge for the Campbell Playoffs.
Speaker 11 (03:18):
There is, I think in all America, nothing more eagerly awaited,
more firmly rooted in the hearts of the radio family
that numbers millions, that this yearly performance of a Christmas Carol.
A Christmas Carol, as Charles Dickens wrote, it has by
common consent long been a classic. Mister Lionel Barrymore's appearance
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in it is rapidly becoming one, and now just before
a Christmas Carol, Ernest Chappel has a special Christmas greeting
from the makers of campbell Soups.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Mister Chappel, like yours andwells.
Speaker 10 (03:51):
As the old year draws toward its close, we of
Campbell's feel a bond of warmth and gratitude toward each
of you. Are friends, for you see homes everywhere throughout
the land. Campbell's soups have been welcome day by day
and week by week. You have placed confidence in us
and in the foods we make. And there isn't anything
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we appreciate more deeply than the fact that so many
of you have elected to let Campbell's make your soups
for you. And so when Christmas comes we look about
to find some way to show our appreciation some Christmas
present by which to say thank you. The gift we
chose five Christmases ago and have chosen each year since,
has become a part of Christmas to many and many
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a family. It has become a Christmas custom to gather
around the radio to hear and to enjoy a Christmas Carol.
And since it is Christmas Eve, we hope too that
the younger members of the family are permitted to stay
up and listen. Before dreams and visit of Santa. We
get a great deal of pleasure planning and preparing this
Christmas gift. And now it's ready. Off come the rappings,
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Off come the tags that say please do not open
till Christmas.
Speaker 11 (05:02):
Out comes the card to you from Campbell's, and here
is the gift himself. Marley was dead to begin with.
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There's no doubt whatever about that. The register of his
burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker,
and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it, and Scrooge's name
was good upon change for anything he chose to put
his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.
Scrooge knew he was dead, of course he did. Scrooge
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and Marley were partners for I don't know how many years. Oh,
but he was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone
with Scrooge, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous Oulstiner.
Once upon a time of all the good days in
the year, on Christmas Eve, Old Scrooge sat busy in
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his counting house, a grim, cheerless place, if ever there
was one. The door of Scrooge's counting house was open
that he might keep his eye upon his clock. Bob Cratchitt,
who in a cold and dismal little cell beyond, worked
at his ledgers.
Speaker 12 (06:45):
Twenty two.
Speaker 13 (06:47):
Merry gentleman, let nothing you dismay sixty nine.
Speaker 12 (06:56):
Christmas Day, eleven, thirteen seventy seven.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Carry let's see I'm practicing, Yes, mister Scrooge.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Stop patting fannel cattle warling, yes, sir, nine fifteen seventeen twenty.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Nitary impudents singing their ind the art the Christmas cattles
in my very jaw. Go somewhere else and fellow your
plasted cattles, or I'll give you in charge yes, and
I don't want any of your own customs.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Take your fellow fools and go away. Christmas, yeah right,
Merry Christmas, uncle, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 13 (07:42):
Ball, Merry Christmas, mister press, God save you.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Uncle.
Speaker 14 (07:45):
Humbug Christmas A humbug uncle.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
No, I'm sure you don't mean that. I mean just that,
exactly that. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
What right have you to be many there? What reason
have you? You're bored enough?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Well? What right of you to be dismal about Christmas? Uncle?
You're rich enough? Ah? Now, Uncle, don't be cross? Well?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
What else can I be when I live in such
a world of fools? What's Christmas to you but the
time for paying bills without money?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Merry Christmas, a.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Time for finding yourself a year older and not an
hour richer. If I could work my will, every idiot
who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
And be boiled with his own pudding and.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Buried with the stake of holly through his heart, he
should Uncle.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Have you keep your Christmas in your own way and
let me keep it in mind?
Speaker 15 (08:40):
Keep it?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
But you don't keep it, uncle, Well, let.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Me leave it alone.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Then what do you want a Christmas gift.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I've no doubt I came to wish you a merry Christmas, Uncle.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Merry Christmas, much good? May Christmas do you much good?
It ever has done.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Yet, there are many things from which I derive good,
by which I have not profity material. I dare say, Uncle,
Christmas among the rest. But I have always thought of
Christmas time as a good time, a kind for giving, charitable,
pleasant time. And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put
a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I
believe it has done me good and will do me good.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
And I say God, bless us, God, bless Christmas. Hurrah.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Let me hear another sound out of you there, Bob, cretcheit,
and you'll keep your Christmas by losing your situation. As
to you, nephew, I wonder you don't go into parliament.
You talk enough nonsense. Don't be angry, Uncle. I want
nothing from you. I ask nothing of you. Why can't
we be friends?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Good afternoon? Oh, I'm sorry you feel that way. I've tried.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
A merry Christmas to your uncle, good afternoon, and a
happy New Year too, humbug.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
And a merry Christmas to you, Bob and melissus as
a tiny tim Thank you to your bread.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Say to you, sir, good gay, sir, good day, Bob.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Nonsense glummery talking Christmas and not two sixpences to jingle
together in his trouser's pocket.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You and here, Bob cretch it, come here? What are
you doing there?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I was only putting a bit more coll on the fire.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Mister Scrooge, seeing itself cold in there, say well, you
put that coal back.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Into the structor a fire a fire.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Indeed, I can tell you if you use coal at
that rate, you and I'll soon be parting company.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Bob dretch it.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
You understand that there's many a young fellow like your situation.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I'm sorry, so my fingers were getting a little stiff
with the cold.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
And put on your mittens. There's someone at the door.
See what it is, yes, sir, good afternoon, sir. Could
have to know a firm of Scrooge and the Marley.
Speaker 14 (10:46):
Yes, I should like to see the head of the firm.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
If my name or very good si, what is it
a gentleman to see mister Scrooge.
Speaker 14 (10:53):
By the pleasure of addressing mister Scrooge or mister.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Morley Marley's been dead these seven years tonight I'm true.
Speaker 16 (11:00):
Now, mister Scrooge, at the season of the year, it's
only fitting that we who are more fortunate should raise
a fund to buy the poors and meat and drink
and means of warmth. You may not believe it, sir,
but many thousands are now in what of common necessities?
And hundreds of thousands are in what of the simplest comfort?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Sir. Ooh, are there no prisoners?
Speaker 14 (11:20):
There are plenty of prisons, sir.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And the workouses they're still in operation. They dress.
Speaker 14 (11:25):
I wish I could say they are not, but they are, sir.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
The treadmill and the poor law are in full vigor, then.
Speaker 14 (11:31):
Both very busy, sir.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Well, I'm very glad to hear that.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
I was afraid, from what you said at first, that
something had occurred to stop them in their useful call.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
They'll shore.
Speaker 14 (11:41):
All these institutions that you mention are flourishing.
Speaker 16 (11:44):
But it's nevertheless true that some additional provision for the
poor and the destitute must be made. A few of us,
upon change, are endeavoring to raise such a fund, you see, And.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
What shall I put you down for nothing? Oh?
Speaker 14 (11:56):
I see you wish to be anonymous, sir, I wish to.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Be let her rose. I don't make marry.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Myself at Christmas time, and I can't afford to keep
a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Of idle people and make them merry.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
I help support the establishments that take care of the poor.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
They cost enough. Let those who badly off go there.
Speaker 14 (12:18):
And he can't go there, sir, and many would rather
die well.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
And my advice to them is to do so and
decrease the surface population. Besides, I've owly your word for it.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
There.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
All this is soul truth, mister Scruge, shall be it.
Then it's not my business. It's enough for a man
to understand his own business and not to interfere with
other people's. Mine occupies me constantly, good afternoons.
Speaker 14 (12:45):
I quite understand, mister Scruge.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Right, it show this gentleman out, yes, sir, at this
white place, Sir, I couldn't help overhearing I should like
to contribute trumpings, Yes, sir, it isn't much, but it's
all I can a there. Ah, this is worse situation
than I.
Speaker 14 (13:02):
You're a generous fellow.
Speaker 16 (13:03):
I wish I might say so if you're employer, Yes, sir,
good afternoon, sir.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Good afternoon. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Merry Christmas, yes, sir, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Close it all, yes, sir, I have closed it, sir.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Twenty four thirty one one, and carry three a new
scholar tipet for tiny Tim, the comb for Martha thirty
three three, and carry three hair ribbon for Belinda four
seven twelve fifteen.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
I suppose you want the entire day tomorrow if it's
quite convenience, Sir. It's not convenient and it's not fair.
But I suppose I can't do anything about it. If
I wish to stop half a crown of your wages,
you'd think yourself very ill used.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I'd be bound well, sir I.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
And yet you don't think me will used when I
pay a day's wages.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
For no one. It's only once a year, sir, once
a year.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
See you indeed a fine excuse for picking a man's
pocket every twenty fifth of December. But I suppose it's
no good talking. You must have the whole day. Well,
see that you're here all the earlier the next morning,
do you understand?
Speaker 11 (14:14):
Why?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Will sir?
Speaker 13 (14:15):
I wilster indeed, good night, sir, and merry Christmas. There
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 11 (14:32):
The office was closed in a twinkling, and Bob Cratchett,
with the long ends of his white comforter dangling below
his waist, for he boasted no greatcoat, went down a
slide on corn Hill twenty times in honor of its
being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town
as hard as he could pelt to play with his
family at blind Man's buff And Scrooge, on the other hand,
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took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern, having
read all the newspapers and spent the rest of the
evening with his banker's book, went to his dismal house.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge likes it.
Speaker 11 (15:13):
The yard was so dark that even Scrooge, who knew
it's every stone, had to grope with his hands through
the fog and the frost to find the door.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Scrooge walked through his rooms to see that all was right.
Speaker 11 (15:27):
Sitting room, bedroom, lumber room, all as they should be.
Nobody under the table, nobody under the sofa, nobody out
of the bed, nobody in the closet, closed the door,
locked himself in, double locked himself in, and took off
his cravat, put on his dressing gown and slippers in
his nightcap, and.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Sat down before the fire to take his gruel.
Speaker 17 (15:55):
Eh Molly, Molly, Molly, I could have sworn I saw, Oh,
h humbug.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Morley's been dead these seven years. Humbug. It's all humbug.
What I need is a good night watch. What's that?
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Someone's in the pines, Celler put your door locking, double locked.
Something's it's it's kind something in h it's coming closer
outside my door.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I won't believe it. There's humbug. Still a scoog ebany'
is a scrooge. Oh, now what do you want with me?
Speaker 12 (16:52):
I want much of your ebony? As uh?
Speaker 15 (16:56):
Who are you?
Speaker 12 (16:57):
Ask me?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Who I was? You're very particular? Or a ghost? All right?
Who wear you?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Then?
Speaker 12 (17:06):
In life? I was your partner, Jacob.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Molly, shake of Molly. But your date you died seven
years ago?
Speaker 12 (17:17):
Seven years ago?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
This very nice? You part of ghosting? What's wrong? Ebanieza?
Don't you believe in me?
Speaker 18 (17:29):
I do not?
Speaker 12 (17:30):
You doubt your senses?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Ebaneza, Yes, because the little thing affects them, The slight
disorder of the.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Stomach makes them cheats. You can't be a ghost you.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot
of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an
underdone potato. There may be more gravy than grave about you.
Whatever you are, humbug, I tell you hung about Excuse me, Jacob,
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excuse me. I do believe in you.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
You are the ghost, Jacob? Thank you? That's what. Why
do you walk the earth? Jacob? Why do you come
to me?
Speaker 19 (18:20):
It is required of every man that the spirit within
him should walk abroad among his fellow men, and travel
far and wide to witness what it cannot share, but
might have shared on earth and turned to happiness.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Oh tell me, Jacob, what is that chain you wear
around you?
Speaker 12 (18:41):
I wear the chain I forged in life.
Speaker 19 (18:45):
I made it link by link and yard by yard
by my.
Speaker 12 (18:49):
Own free willow? Is its patterns strange to you?
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Webonezer, cash boxes, keys, cad blocks, ledgers.
Speaker 19 (19:00):
I see yours was as heavy and as long as
this seven years ago, and you have labored on it since.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Oh Jacob, speak comfort to me. Comfort I have none
to give.
Speaker 19 (19:17):
I cannot rest, I cannot stay, I cannot linger.
Speaker 12 (19:22):
Weary journeys lie before me.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
You travel five.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Yes, Ebeniza, on the wings of the wind, seven years
head and traveling all the time.
Speaker 19 (19:34):
Seven years, Eveniza, seven years of remorse, Eveniza, do you
know that no space of regret can make amends for
one life's opportunities misused?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
But you were always a good man of business, Jake to.
Speaker 19 (19:52):
Business mankind was my business, charity, Mercy Beenevers, they were all.
Speaker 12 (20:00):
Oh my business.
Speaker 19 (20:01):
The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water,
and the comprehensive ocean of my business.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Oh, Jacob, don't take on, so Jacob, listen to me, Ebeneza,
I listen to you, Jacob.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Go on, Jacob, speak to me. But don't be so flowered, Ebenezer.
Speaker 12 (20:20):
I am here to warn you.
Speaker 19 (20:22):
That you have yet a chance and hope of escaping
my fate.
Speaker 12 (20:27):
Do you hear that, Ebenezer?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yes, Jacob, you always are a good friend to me.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Jacob.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Thank you, Jacob. But go on, go on, go on?
How shall I escape? Oh, I'm I'm afraid, Jacob.
Speaker 12 (20:42):
You will be haunted by free spirits?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Is that the only chance and hope? Jacob?
Speaker 12 (20:48):
It is your only chance and hope?
Speaker 3 (20:51):
And I think I'd rather not without that visit.
Speaker 12 (20:54):
You cannot hope to shun the path eye tread. Expect
the first tomorrow when the bell tolls. One couldn't I take.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Him all at once and have it over.
Speaker 12 (21:05):
Jacob evans A. Look that for your own sake. You
remember what has passed between us, and.
Speaker 19 (21:13):
Remember when the bell tolls, one look for the first spirit.
Speaker 11 (21:19):
Molly Jeter Mar Scrooge awoke. He was lying on his bed,
fully dressed. Suddenly the curtains of his bed were drawn aside.
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Scrooge found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor,
who drew them as close to it as I am
now to you, and I am standing in the spirit
at your elbow.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
It was a.
Speaker 11 (21:56):
Strange figure, like a child, yet not so like a child,
as like an old man.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
The eBones a screw oo? Who who is that?
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Ebenezer screwed?
Speaker 18 (22:11):
I have come for you.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
You You are the spirit, sir, who's coming which foretold me.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
I am that spirit?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Oho oho? What are you? I am the ghost of
Christmas past long past?
Speaker 6 (22:29):
No, your past?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I oh, what do you want of me? What brings
you here to haunt me?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Your welfare? Ebenezer screw rise and walk with me.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Oh, no, will no, No, you're not out of the window.
I can't do that.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
I'll fall down. I'm not a spirit, I'm mortal. I'll
fall bear.
Speaker 18 (22:52):
But a touch of my hand upon your heart and
you shall be upheld in more than this.
Speaker 20 (22:59):
Come follow me, errah, what's become of the city.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
And there's snow upon the ground where round me?
Speaker 18 (23:15):
These are the shadows of the things that have been
You recognize this countryside?
Speaker 15 (23:21):
Do oh?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I ain't know every inch of it, every rock, every tree.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
And that bleak building over there, er that building.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
I was a boy there, Yes, I went to school
in that horrible place.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Do you recollect that path?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
I could walk it blindfold?
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Strange? You forgot it so many years. Come. Let us
go closer.
Speaker 18 (23:49):
Look through the window into that cold, barren room.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
What do you see, Ebenezer Scrooge.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
I see a boy.
Speaker 18 (23:58):
A solitary child, neglected by his family alone.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Yes, yes, I see, I know that boy. Uh, I
was so lonely, poor boy.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Your lip is trembling, Scrooge. And what is that on
your cheek?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
It's nothing, nothing, nothing at all.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I wish I Uh, it's too late for that now.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
What's the matter?
Speaker 15 (24:25):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Nothing, the weights came to my door singing Christmas carol
last night. It was a boy like that among them,
a poor, thin, pale boy in a ragged coat.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I'd like to give him something at all?
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Is that all?
Speaker 18 (24:43):
Come, Ebenezer Scrooge, Let us see another Christmas?
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Do you know this place of at either school?
Speaker 21 (25:03):
Know it? Know it?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Why this is the counting house where I was apprentice? Listen,
Why it's my old master nurse his heart, old Fezieway,
my master alive again.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
And the host in one of his Christmas pockets.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Leave into it, rending it off and back to your place.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
And there's Dick Wilkins, Oh, Dick, dear, dear dear, Yes,
And look there's missus Vezzie Wi yourself, looking younger than
any of them. And the tables all loaded with roast
and cider and mint spy and beer. Oh what a
jolly time.
Speaker 18 (25:52):
We used to have, that carefree young man with a
light heart and the gay smiles.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Do you recognize him?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yes, yes, merciful heaven. How happy I was then.
Speaker 18 (26:05):
A small matter for old Fezziwig to make those silly
folks so full of joy.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Small matter, small, indeed.
Speaker 18 (26:14):
Isn't it he has spent only a few pounds of
your mortal money.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Is that so much that he deserves praise?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Oh, it's not that. It's not that spirit, old Fezziwig.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Has the power to make us happy or unhappy, to
make our service light or heavy.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
His power lies in words and.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Looks, in things so Chinese impossible to count up. The
happiness he gives is quite as great as if it
cost her.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Were What is the matter?
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Nothing, nothing at all, but something, I think, No, no, only,
it's just that I should like to be able to
say a word to the micra bob cratch It just now,
that's all.
Speaker 21 (27:07):
I'll hire calm and critcher.
Speaker 18 (27:17):
My time grows short, and we have yet another journey
to make.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Where now come?
Speaker 6 (27:27):
This is our last visit to the past.
Speaker 18 (27:29):
Ebeneze, Here in this little room, with a fair young
girl by your side, do you recognize yourself, Ebenezer?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, spare me this.
Speaker 18 (27:42):
You're older now, a man in the prime of life.
Your face has begun to wear the signs of care
and avarice. Your eyes are greedy, the eager, restless eyes
of a miser. No, she knows it too, That girl
by your side. There are tears in her eyes.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
It matters little, ever easier to you, very little.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I know that Bell. Have I changed towards you?
Speaker 7 (28:14):
When we were engaged, we were both poor?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Was it better then? Better to be poor?
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Better at least to be happy? You're changed? You were
another man then I was a boy.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Do you blame me because I grow wiser? Have I
ever tried to break our engagement?
Speaker 7 (28:32):
In words? No?
Speaker 6 (28:35):
In what?
Speaker 10 (28:35):
Then?
Speaker 8 (28:36):
In a change nature, in an altered spirit, in everything
that made my love of any value in your sight?
Speaker 7 (28:45):
So I release you from your promise.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
Belle.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
Oh, At first it may cause you pain to lose me,
a very brief pain. But soon it will be dim
like a half remembered dream, an unprofitable.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Dream, and you will be.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
Glad to be awake from such a dream. May you
be happy in the life you have chosen, Ebenezi, for
the love of him you once were.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Spirit. It's enough, Show me no more, take me all.
Speaker 18 (29:17):
These were shadows of the things that have been, that
they are what they are.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
Do not blame me.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
No more, no more.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
On shadow more? Do you see this man, Ebenezer Scrowge.
Speaker 18 (29:36):
This man might have been you and the woman beside him,
your wife, and that girl. That girl might have been
your daughter, Ebenezer Scrooge.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
She might have called you father.
Speaker 18 (29:48):
She might have been a springtime in the haggard winter
of your life.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Please let me go, show me no more.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
Listen now while they speak, Ebeneze, No.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I saw an old friend of yours to day.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
Who was it?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (30:04):
How can I it's Oh, I know, mister Screw.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Mister Scrooge, it was. I passed his office window.
Speaker 16 (30:13):
It wasn't shuttered, and there was a candle inside, so
I couldn't help seeing him. His partner Marley lies at
the point of death, I hear, And there Scrooge sat
all alone, quite alone.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
In the world.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
I do believe.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Spirit, Spirit, I can bear no more. Leave me, holt
me no more.
Speaker 15 (30:35):
Take me back, Take me back, King.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Princess lost now on the east, Dusty and willing was
no name. I love about deep and chrispan me rightly.
Speaker 15 (31:01):
Night.
Speaker 10 (31:02):
You are listening to the Campbell Playhouse bringing you tonight
the fifth annual presentation of Charles Dickens, a Christmas carol,
produced by Orson Wells and starring Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge.
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
When the solely round about Deep and Chris Band.
Speaker 22 (31:26):
Last night the crost My Screw, where a poor man came.
Speaker 10 (31:33):
In sight calling, And now back to the Campbell Playhouse
in the fifth annual presentation of a Christmas Carol, a
Christmas Present from the makers of Campbell Soups.
Speaker 11 (32:01):
On the stroke of one, Scrooge awakened suddenly and sat
him bowled upright in his own bed. He remembered the
words of Marley's Ghost and wondered from which direction the
second specter would appear.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
At that moment.
Speaker 11 (32:16):
Nothing between a baby and a rhinoceros would have astonished
him very much. Now, being prepared for almost anything, he
was not, by any means prepared for nothing. And consequently,
when no shape appeared, he was taken with a violent
fit of trembling. Five minutes, ten minutes, quarter of an
hour went by, yet nothing came. Then, as he sat
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in his bed, he became aware gradually of a great
blaze of ruddy light seemed to shine upon him from
the adjoining room. He got up softly and shuffled in
his slippers to the door. It was his own sitting room.
There was no doubt about that, but it had undergone
a surprising transformation. The walls and ceiling were so hung
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with living green that it looked a perfect grove. And
there sat a jolly giant, glorious to see. You bore
a glowing torch in shape not unlike Plenty's horn, and
held it up high up to shed its light on
Scrooge as he came peeping round the corner.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
Come in, Come in.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Nobody's a scrooge and know me better than you. I
am the ghost of.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
Christmas, presant.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Spirit. Take me where you will.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Last time I went against my will and learned a
lesson which is working.
Speaker 10 (33:38):
Now.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
If you have anything to teach me, let me provide
my Touch my.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
Robe, emeries, a scrooge, touch my robe?
Speaker 22 (33:55):
Well, you brought me spirit to an humble dwelling in
an humble street.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
It's miserable enough, yet there is happiness there. Who are
these people? Who's that woman? And the children? These are
the family of your clerk, Bob Cratchit.
Speaker 22 (34:11):
See his wife's dressed in a twice turned gown, but
brave in ribbons, laying the table for their Christmas dinner.
And there assisting her is her daughter Belinda, And the
young man with a fork in the stuffing. That's Master
Peter Cratchit and the two little Cratchits. Listen, Scrooge and watch.
Speaker 20 (34:31):
Yes, mother, mother?
Speaker 23 (34:33):
Why why why now? Sit you down before the fire, Martin,
have a warm, long flesh.
Speaker 8 (34:40):
Where's father?
Speaker 23 (34:40):
He's been to church with Tiny Tim? If you are directly,
how is tiny Tim, mother any better?
Speaker 18 (34:45):
Door?
Speaker 23 (34:46):
Sometimes I think he is, and sometimes I think, oh,
dear God, if anything should happen to tiny Tim.
Speaker 8 (34:52):
Oh, mother, you mustn't do anything of such a thing.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Everybody, Malcolm, I, Oh.
Speaker 21 (35:00):
Merry Christmas, father, and Jim Merry Christmas.
Speaker 23 (35:04):
Oh, kim you darling, Oh father, I'm so glad to be.
Speaker 15 (35:08):
Hot, and we're glad to have you.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
Mother.
Speaker 7 (35:10):
And how did little Tim behave in church?
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Bo as good as gold and better?
Speaker 20 (35:14):
I like church?
Speaker 18 (35:15):
Mother?
Speaker 21 (35:15):
Oh, they sang the nicest songs. I hope people saw
me there, saw you there? And why to him, well,
don't you see? Because I'm lame, and if they saw
my crutch, it might be pleasant for them to remember
on Christmas who it was made lame beggars walk and blind.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Men see bless you, my son?
Speaker 21 (35:37):
Are you ready to eat?
Speaker 6 (35:38):
Father?
Speaker 23 (35:39):
You're already come ta glaody of stopping and dressing and
plum pudding for all of you. Martha, take care of
tiny Tim and see that he eats plenty. He must
get strong and well.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Now sit down there, rock, my DearS.
Speaker 22 (35:56):
I see a vacant seat in the portumney corner, and
without an owner carefully preserved to.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Say, he'll be spared, say live.
Speaker 22 (36:08):
If these shadows remain unoutered by the future Ebonza, the
child will die.
Speaker 24 (36:16):
And to praise name, Amen, Amen, And now, my DearS,
with such a dinner, a toast, A Merry Christmas to
us all, and God bless.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Me, blessure everyone, and now to mister Scrooge.
Speaker 24 (36:32):
I'll give you a toast to mister Scrooge, the founder
of the beast, the founder of the feast, indeed, who
pays you all of fifteen shillings a week.
Speaker 23 (36:41):
I wish I had him here. I'd give him a
piece of my mind to feast on. And I hope
you'd have good appetite for.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Dear the children. Christmas Day.
Speaker 23 (36:48):
It should be Christmas Day. I'm sure on which one
drinks the health of such an odious, stingy, unfeeling man
as mister Scrooge.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
You know he is Bob.
Speaker 14 (36:55):
Nobody knows it better than.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
You, poor fellow.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Dear Christmas Day.
Speaker 23 (36:59):
I'll I think his health for your sake, and the
days not for his long life. To him, a merry
Christmas and a happy New Year. He'll be very merry
and very happy.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
I have no doubt.
Speaker 21 (37:12):
And I say God bless him to mother and everyone.
Speaker 11 (37:16):
Yeah, there was nothing of high mark in all this.
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They were not a handsome family, these crotchets. They were
not well dressed, Their shoes were far from being waterproof,
their clothes were scanty and a known very likely the
insides of a pawnbroker's. But they were happy, grateful, pleased
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with one another, and contented with a time. And when
at last they faded, Scrooge had his eye upon them,
and especially on tiny Tim until the last many calls
Scrooge made that night, with a ghost of Christmas present.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Down among the miners, they went to.
Speaker 11 (38:33):
Labor in the bowels of the earth, and out to
sea among the sailors. At their watch, dark ghostly figures
in their several stations. Much they saw, and far they went,
and many places they visited, but always with a happy end.
The spirits stood beside sick beds, and they were cheerful
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on foreign lands, and they were close at home by povert.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
And it was rich in armshouse, hospital.
Speaker 11 (39:04):
And jail, where a vain man, in his little brief
authority had not made fast the door and barred the
spirit out.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
The spirit left his blessing. It was a long night,
It was only a night.
Speaker 11 (39:25):
And it was strange too, that while Scrooge remained unaltered
in his outward form, the ghost grew older, clearly older.
Speaker 22 (39:36):
Wild life upon this globe is very brief, Eboniza. It
ends tonight, good night, tonight at midnight. Ah, the hours come.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Oh lud chat lund chet. Well, there's still more things
I wish to learn.
Speaker 22 (39:55):
These you will learn from still another spirit, Still another spirit, Eberneza.
Speaker 11 (40:06):
Scrooge looked about him for the ghost that had vanished.
He found himself once more in his bed, in his
dressing gun and his nightcap.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
He'd heard the clock strike, and then.
Speaker 11 (40:20):
You remember the prediction of old Jacob Marley, and lifting
up his eyes, beheld the third spirit, a solemn phantom,
shrouded in black, draped and hooded, coming towards him, slowly
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and silently, like a mist along the ground.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
I know you you you heard the ghost of Christmas
yet to come.
Speaker 5 (40:57):
You will show me the shadows of things that have
not happen, but will happen in the time before us.
Handsome me spirit goes to the future. Oh, I fear
you more than any specter I've seen. And yet as
I know your purpose is to do me good, and
as I hope you live to be another man from
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what I was laid on, laid on the night is
waiting fast. Time is precious, spin it. Why have you
brought me here again? Bet to Bob cratchits home.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
We it's not to say.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
Why is it so quiet?
Speaker 3 (41:42):
So very quiet here?
Speaker 20 (41:49):
Mother?
Speaker 7 (41:49):
Clean my sob my little and.
Speaker 6 (41:55):
Ti till I loved him.
Speaker 8 (41:58):
So mother, you mustn't. It's almost time for father to
be home. Don't let him see you crying.
Speaker 7 (42:07):
Yes, yes, mother, he's late to night. He walks slower
than he used to.
Speaker 23 (42:16):
Yet I've known him to walk very fast, indeed, with
tiny tim on his shoulder, so.
Speaker 7 (42:21):
Have I, Mother. But he was light to carry, and
his father loved him so that it was no trouble,
no trouble at all. Bob good evening, my dear you're late, Bob.
Speaker 4 (42:36):
I'm sorry, my dear. I've I went to the churchyard
to day. I wish you could have gone with me.
It would have done your heart good to see how
sweet and green a price it is. He'll see it often,
I promised him. I promised Tiny Tim we'd walk there
on Sunday.
Speaker 7 (42:52):
Oh, father, dear, it's God's will, Bob.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
I'm trying to understand it, my dear, my son, my
little son, Tiny Tim, and I loved.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Him so.
Speaker 5 (43:10):
Oh that's cruel, cruel, Spirit, can't you give me wonder?
I of hope that I may change all that the
tiny Tim may live?
Speaker 15 (43:40):
Spirit?
Speaker 3 (43:42):
Where are we now? Oh?
Speaker 12 (43:44):
Mast?
Speaker 5 (43:45):
For have a churchyard overrun by grass and weeds, choked
with too much betting, desolate, lonely, crumbling gravestone? Spirit, how
before I drawn near to that gravestone? Answer me one question?
Are these are the shadows of things that we will be?
(44:09):
Or are they the shadows of things that?
Speaker 3 (44:11):
Maybe? Only? Would you not speak to me? Spence? What
is that grave to wish? You? Point? Oh? Now I
see there's writing on that store. The name on the
gravestone is Eben Schools.
Speaker 5 (44:32):
Screwoo, Oh Spirit, No, no, no Spirit, hear me.
Speaker 3 (44:42):
I'm not the man I was. Why show me this?
If I'm past all hope.
Speaker 5 (44:48):
Tell me that I may change these dreadful shadows that
have come that you've shown me by an altered life.
I'm honor Chris in my heart, and I'll try and
keep it all the year. I live in the past,
the present, in the future. I will not shut out
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the lessons that they teach. Tell me, do spir it,
Please tell me that I can sponge away the writing
on that stone. Spirit, I beg you, spin it, spin it, sir.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
I promise on my knees. I promise, I promise. What's this?
Speaker 5 (45:51):
I'm home in my own bed, in my own room,
on the sun, the sunshine, it's clear, it's bright, no
far Oh what.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
A beautiful day. Glorious, glorious.
Speaker 15 (46:13):
Boy, oh boy, yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
It what's today?
Speaker 15 (46:20):
What's that? Sir?
Speaker 3 (46:21):
What day is it? My fine fellow?
Speaker 15 (46:24):
Today?
Speaker 3 (46:25):
What's Christmas Day?
Speaker 15 (46:27):
Christmas Day?
Speaker 3 (46:29):
And I haven't missed it?
Speaker 5 (46:30):
The spirits have done it all in one night, all
in one night.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
Heaven be praised.
Speaker 15 (46:38):
How's that?
Speaker 5 (46:38):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (46:39):
Listen, my dad, do you know where the poultry is?
And in the next street, I should say, I do.
Speaker 5 (46:47):
An intelligent boy, a remarkable boy. Tell me, do you
know if they've sold the prize turkey that was hanging
in the window as me?
Speaker 3 (47:00):
What a delightful boy. It's a pleasure to talk to you. Yes,
my buck, now, sir, oh that's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (47:08):
Now go around, will you and tell him to send
it to Bob Cratchett and his family on Broad Street.
Speaker 3 (47:15):
And mind you, they're not to know who paid for it.
Hurry along, male, and he is half a crown for
your trouble.
Speaker 5 (47:23):
Yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
Ha. And a merry Christmas to you too, my boy.
I don't know what to do.
Speaker 5 (47:33):
I'm as light as a feller, as happy as an angel,
I'm as.
Speaker 3 (47:39):
Married as a schoolboy.
Speaker 5 (47:41):
A merry Christmas, A merry Christmas to everybody, A happy
New Year to all the world.
Speaker 11 (48:03):
Next morning, Scrooge was early at his office. He went
early for a reason. If he could only be there
first and catch Bob cratch It coming late, that was
the thing he'd set his heart upon.
Speaker 3 (48:17):
And he did it, Yes he did.
Speaker 11 (48:20):
The clock had struck nine, no Bob, A quarter past
no Bob. Scrooge sat with his door wide open that
he might see him come in. And at last he came.
His hat was off before he opened the door. His
comforted to he was on his stool and Jiffy, driving
away with his pen as if he were trying to
overtake nine o'clock.
Speaker 4 (48:41):
Fifteen, carry the one, forty four, carry the two, thirty one,
carry four, eight and six or fourteen carry the eight.
Speaker 5 (48:46):
Oh you crachit, yes, sir, step this way, cratch it,
if you please.
Speaker 3 (48:52):
Crack it. What do you mean by coming in at
this time of day? Oh? I'm very sorry, sir, I'm
behind my time. You are you are?
Speaker 15 (49:05):
Yes, I think you are.
Speaker 4 (49:06):
It's only once a year, mister Scrooge. It shall not
be repeated. I was making rather merry yesterday, sir.
Speaker 3 (49:13):
I'll tell you what my plan.
Speaker 5 (49:15):
I have not sell this sort of thing any longer,
and therefore, Bob crunch it.
Speaker 3 (49:22):
I'm about to raise your salary, mister Scrooge.
Speaker 4 (49:25):
Are you quite yourself?
Speaker 3 (49:28):
Sir? No, no, thank heaven, I am not quite myself.
Speaker 5 (49:33):
Merry Christmas, Bob, ha ha, Many Christmas, my good fellow,
and merrier Christmas than I've given you in many a year.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
I raise your salary and we'll see what we can do.
For Tiny Tim and the rest of your family.
Speaker 5 (49:49):
We'll discuss it this very afternoon over a Christmas bowl
of smoking Bishop Bob, make up the fire, take it up,
and buy another cold sk rundle before you've done another
eye on prest.
Speaker 11 (50:08):
Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all
and infinitely more to Tiny Tim, who did not die.
He was a second father. He became as good a friend,
as good a master, and as good a man as
the good old city knew, or any other good old city,
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town or borough in the good old world. Some people
laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let
them laugh, and little heeded them. His own heart laughed.
That was quite enough for him. He had no further
intercourse with spirits, but lived upon the total abstinence principle
ever afterwards. And it was always said of him that
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he knew how to keep Christmas well. If any man
alive possessed the knowledge, may that be truly said of us,
all of us, And so as Tiny Tim observed, God
bless us everyone.
Speaker 10 (51:36):
You have just heard our annual presentation of Charles Dickens,
a Christmas carol starring Lionel Barrymore brought to you by
the makers of Campbell's suits, and now here is Awson well.
Speaker 11 (51:47):
At this point in the program, ladies and gentlemen, it
is my custom, as you know, to present to you,
with a few words of introduction, our guest of the evening.
With your consent, I shall dispense with this tonight. To
introduce tonight's guest to the Campbell Place audience, or to
any other American audience is an extravagant and superfluous procedure.
For if ever an actor has won for himself a
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lasting place in the hearts of his fellow countrymen through
years of unsparing and inspiring service, that actress Lionel Paramore,
it's to Lionel Paramore.
Speaker 3 (52:22):
Thank you orson well. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (52:28):
This is the fourth year I've had the pleasure of
appearing in the Christmas Carol here in the Campbell Playhouse,
and I assure you all it's a pleasure that never ties.
Speaker 3 (52:39):
As long as I can remember, this has been one
of my favorite stories when we were children.
Speaker 5 (52:44):
It was read to us regularly this time of year,
as it is to millions of children right now. Unlike
many of them, I'm sure the three of us, ethel
Jack and I, with the aid of a sheet and
some old ironware, made a play of it. As I remember,
we had three scrooges in that production.
Speaker 3 (53:05):
Mister Barrymore, who played Tiny Tim. I think we had
three tiny Tims too. Well.
Speaker 5 (53:11):
Seriously, I can think of no part that I've enjoyed
playing again and again as much as I have the
part of that squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching.
Speaker 3 (53:25):
Covered as old sinner Evan He's a scrooge.
Speaker 5 (53:29):
And I can think of no happier or more suitable
choice for the makers of Campbell's Soups to offer the
people of America as their Christmas present each year than
Charles Dickens's well beloved story Christmas Cattle. Good night Dawson,
Good night everybody, and merry Merry Christmas.
Speaker 15 (53:48):
To you all.
Speaker 11 (53:49):
Good night, mister Barrymon, Merry Christmas to you, sir, ladies
and gentlemen. For next Sunday night, we're happy to announce
our version a great and truly American story by a
great American novelist, Come and Get It, by Edna Ferber
against a background of the mighty forests of Miss Ferber's
own Wisconsin. It tells a stirring tale of the men
and women who live and die in the woods in
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order that lumber may come down the rivers every spring
into the cities of the modern world. Like so many
of Miss Ferber's ethnic romances of American life, was made
from a best selling novel into a highly successful motion picture.
Now we bring it you on the air, the story
of a man and his son and the girl they
both loved, Lota, played for us by one of the
loveliest and most accomplished of Hollywood's younger dramatic actresses, Miss
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Francis D.
Speaker 3 (54:34):
And so until next week, until come and Get It
with Francis D.
Speaker 11 (54:38):
My sponsors, the makers of Campbell Soups, and all of
us on the Campbell.
Speaker 3 (54:41):
Playoffs remain as always obediently yours.
Speaker 10 (55:04):
The makers of Campbell's Soups, join Ars and Wells in
inviting you to be with us in the Campbell Playhouse
again next Sunday evening, when we bring you Edna Ferber's
Come and Get It with Miss.
Speaker 3 (55:14):
Francis D as our guest.
Speaker 10 (55:17):
Meanwhile, if you have enjoyed our fifth annual presentation of
a Christmas Carol, won't you tell your grocery show this
week when you order Campbell's soups. This is Ernest Chappel
saying thank you and Merry Christmas to you all.
Speaker 6 (56:21):
One two, three minuted Palms
Speaker 3 (56:23):
Is dank, straight up
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