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00:16Makers of Campbell's Soup presents the Campbell Playhouse, Austin Wells produces.
00:30Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, this is Orson Wells.
00:45The late William Archer was as formidable a gentleman as you'd wish to meet.
00:48From 1884 to 1923, he wrote dramatic criticism for almost every important paper in England,
00:54and almost every American and English playwright at one time or another winced beneath his
00:58ten lashings.
00:59Even later in life, he developed a secret passion, a disgraceful passion for a dramatic
01:03critic.
01:04He wanted to write a play.
01:05Mr. Archer was a very thorough old gentleman.
01:08The first thing he did was to write a book in which he explained exactly and in great
01:12detail how plays should be written.
01:14This became a classic.
01:16No young playwright since then would dream of writing a play without carefully consulting
01:19and following the rules and dictates laid down by Mr. William Archer.
01:24No young playwright, that is, except Mr. William Archer, who at the age of 63 sat down and
01:28wrote a play in which he took care to break every single one of the rules that he'd set
01:32down in his manual.
01:33It was called the Raja Rukh, The Change to the Green Goddess, opened on December 27,
01:401920 at the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia with Mr. George Arliss in the leading part,
01:45and was an immediate and overwhelming success.
01:48Ladies and gentlemen, it only remains for me to tell you that our guest tonight is the
01:52star of such fine motion pictures as The 39 Steps, The General Dies at Dawn, The Prisoner
01:57of Zenda, and the new Paramount Picture Cafe Society, the beautiful and talented Madeline
02:04Carroll.
02:05But before we begin, a word from Ernest Chappell.
02:14Not so many years ago, tomato soup and cream of tomato were unusual dishes enjoyed very
02:19much, but not very often.
02:21Today, of all the soups in the world, tomato soup is the one most often served, not because
02:27women have taken to making tomato soup frequently, no, on the contrary, few housewives ever attempt
02:32it anymore.
02:33There's just one reason for tomato soup's popularity, and it is this, the magic matchless
02:38flavor of Campbell's tomato soup.
02:40There's a lively verve, a dashing zest about this flavor that people take to at once and
02:45come back to and enjoy again and again.
02:48The first racy taste of it has a way of arousing a desire to eat, and yet there's a pleasant
02:52feeling of satisfaction when the last spoonful is gone.
02:56So this soup is a happy choice for the main dish at lunchtime or at supper, and it also
03:00is a fine way to start today's main meal.
03:03Serve it sometimes, too, as cream of tomato, made with milk instead of water.
03:08You can always be sure that it will be received with pleasure, because this, of all soups,
03:13is the one people like to have most often, Campbell's tomato soup.
03:19Now for Miss Madeline Carroll, Mr. Orson Welles, and the Green Goddess.
03:43Griffin!
03:44Yes, Doctor?
03:45Can you do anything about the wireless?
03:47Pray not.
03:48The coil's gone.
03:50How far's Baha'i?
03:51Oh, make it two.
03:53Anthony, I'm frightened.
03:55The fog's getting thicker.
03:56Yeah, that's good.
03:57Take a drink of whiskey.
03:58It'll freshen you up.
03:59No, thanks.
04:00You've been drinking enough for both of us.
04:01We'll have to get my warmth somewhere.
04:03My wife certainly doesn't provide any.
04:06Now, do you, my dear?
04:07Anthony, I'm sure we should have landed at Baha'i by now.
04:10I'm confident in her.
04:11Don't tell me you haven't perfect confidence in our kindness, is there?
04:14Gee, Anthony, this is no time.
04:16On the contrary, it's a very good time.
04:18You have to sit still and listen to me for once.
04:21Miss Hiller, I know very well what's on your mind.
04:24What's been on your mind for months.
04:27You're cursing the mistake you made in marrying a poor devil of a soldier man
04:31instead of a first-rate scientific genius like our Dr. Traherne.
04:36Come on, make a clean breath of it.
04:38I have nothing to say.
04:40Well, my dear, if you only have patience for a year or two,
04:42I'll do the right thing for once and drink myself to death.
04:52Any word, Dawson?
04:53No use, Captain. The air is dead.
04:55We're out of contact.
04:56Well, the colonel's worried. He sent me over.
04:58Major Critchford and his wife were passengers on Dr. Traherne's plane.
05:02How long ago was his last message?
05:04Forty minutes.
05:05Oh, that's not too long.
05:06One minute more and he'll be flying blind in a Himalayan fog, sir.
05:09Oh, you're a confounded pessimist, Dawson.
05:11Well, I've done some flying over the Himalayas, Captain.
05:13Well, couldn't Traherne possibly make a fort landing?
05:16Yes, in one of the valleys.
05:17But I'd almost rather he take a mountain right in the face.
05:20Those wild beggars in the interior...
05:22Oh, nonsense, Dawson. They wouldn't dare molest British subjects.
05:25Oh, wouldn't they?
05:26Three of the devils just shot down one of our deputies right here in Amal Sarai.
05:29Yes, and they're going to hang for it.
05:31Well, you can't hang all the savages in those mountains, Captain.
05:34Not even the British government.
05:35Another time again, Dawson.
05:36Right-o, sir.
05:42I'm afraid the fog's thrown us off our course.
05:44We're running short of petrol. I've got to make a landing.
05:46There's nothing but mountains all around.
05:48Had to take a chance with the valley.
05:50I tried to get out of the fog.
05:52Looks like a peak straight ahead.
05:54I see it.
05:55I'll nose down to the right.
05:57There's a hole in the fog.
05:58Anthony, your glasses. Quick, on my side.
06:00Traherne, I see a green patch.
06:03I'll nose down to the right.
06:05There's a hole in the fog.
06:06Anthony, your glasses. Quick, on my side.
06:08Traherne, I see a green patch.
06:10Right below it.
06:11Careful as you dive.
06:13Jenny, I'll bank.
06:15If the petrol holds out,
06:17there's a clearing in the woods.
06:19A castle or something.
06:21I see it.
06:22About a thousand feet and a little overland.
06:24It's no use.
06:25The petrol's gone.
06:27I'll make the castle.
06:29Macy, the door.
06:30Mrs. Gretzmann's died.
06:32Open it.
06:33Hold tight, everybody.
06:35Here we go.
06:41Easy there. Easy.
06:43Take it easy, everyone.
06:45Are you hurt?
06:46No, I'm all right.
06:48How about it, Traherne?
06:49It's no use.
06:50The fellow's smashed.
06:52We'll have to depend on the natives.
06:54Perhaps we could get word to that palace we saw up on the hill.
06:56Well, the natives did that for us, Lucilla.
06:58Listen,
07:00I'll keep you at a safe distance.
07:02They're scared of us.
07:04No wonder, the way we landed.
07:06I wonder what sort of place we've struck.
07:09Look over there.
07:10Right above us.
07:11That statue.
07:12By Jove.
07:14What a creature.
07:15Oh, isn't she?
07:17One, two, three, four,
07:19six arms.
07:21What a horrible colour.
07:22Some goddess they worship.
07:23Cully, I shouldn't wonder.
07:25Let's have a close look at the lady.
07:27Anthony,
07:28they don't want you near the statue.
07:30Devil's what they want.
07:31I wouldn't tangle him.
07:32Think of your wife.
07:33I'm quite able to take care of myself and my wife, too, Dr. Traherne.
07:37Please, Anthony.
07:38We've got to show them we're friendly.
07:40Try talking to them in Hindustani.
07:51You were splendid, Lucilla.
07:52All true.
07:53I had faith in you.
07:54If I'd had another pint of petrol,
07:56then I simply had to trust the luck.
07:58It wasn't luck.
07:59It was you that saved the statue.
08:01Oh, it's no use.
08:02They can't understand it.
08:03We must fare well into Central Asia.
08:05Rook!
08:06Rook!
08:07Rook!
08:08Rook!
08:09Ruck?
08:10Where's that?
08:11Why, I've heard that name recently.
08:13Look, I can't remember exactly.
08:15I remember.
08:16Anthony,
08:17see that Calcutta paper.
08:18It's still in the cockpit.
08:19Yeah, I got there.
08:20I was reading it on the way.
08:21I may have spurned it.
08:22No, here it is.
08:23It's still in my pocket.
08:24I read something just this morning.
08:25Let me have it.
08:26Probably on the province dispatches.
08:28Here.
08:29Here.
08:30This is the paragraph.
08:31Abdullabad, Tuesday.
08:32Sentence of death has been passed on three men
08:34found guilty of the murder of Mr. Hairdale,
08:36agent of His Majesty's government.
08:38It appears these criminals are inhabitants of Rook,
08:40a small and little-known independent state
08:42among the northern surges of the Himalayas.
08:44That's it.
08:45Rook.
08:46I read it too.
08:47By the way,
08:48this news isn't the best possible passport
08:49for three Englishmen.
08:50But if we're a hundred miles from anywhere,
08:51it can't be known yet.
08:52Oh, they won't dare touch us.
08:54Still, I think I'll burn this page.
08:55Have you got a match, Professor?
08:56Here you are.
08:57Thanks.
08:59Well, there she goes.
09:02Just in case there's anyone here who can read.
09:04Look out.
09:05They're watching us, Doctor.
09:07What's that?
09:09Look.
09:10Figures moving through the trees.
09:12It's a profession of some sort.
09:14Oh, isn't it?
09:15By the heavens.
09:16In uniform.
09:18Oh, putting out their best foot for us, eh, Doctor?
09:20Well, I hope it's a friendly gesture.
09:22I don't like their looks very much.
09:24What's that in the center?
09:26They're carrying someone on a litter.
09:28Look at the gold on it.
09:29Probably the roger.
09:30I'd better fill my revolver.
09:32Ready, Major.
09:33Better take our chances on their being friendly.
09:35Anthony, try to explain to him.
09:37I'll see if he knows any Hindustani.
09:47There's no use.
09:48The ignorant beggar probably only knows some tribal language.
09:50Much like I have with Afghans.
09:52Professor!
09:53Can you hear me?
09:54Say it!
09:55May I ask you a question of your heart?
09:59Come here!
10:03I bid you welcome to my humble kingdom.
10:05Oh, yes.
10:06Your Highness speaks English.
10:07Then I can apologize for our landing uninvited in your territory.
10:11Uninvited, but I assure you, not unwelcome.
10:13Well, we're given to understand that this is the state of Rook.
10:18The kingdom of Rook, Major.
10:20Major, if I rightly read the symbols of military rank on your cup.
10:24Major Crespi.
10:25Permit me to introduce my wife.
10:26I am delighted, Madam, to welcome you to my secluded dominions.
10:29You are the first lady of your nation I have had the honor of receiving.
10:32Your Highness is very kind.
10:33And this is Dr. Basil Trehearne.
10:35Who's airplane, or what's left of it, you see.
10:38Dr. Trehearne.
10:39The Canadian Dr. Trehearne, whose name I have so often seen in the newspaper.
10:43The Pasteur of Malaria.
10:44Well, the newspapers make too much of my work.
10:46Very incomplete.
10:47But you're an aviator as well.
10:49Only an amateur.
10:50I presume it is some misadventure,
10:52a most fortunate misadventure for me,
10:55that has carried you so far into the wilds of the Himalayas.
10:58Yes, we got lost in the clouds, pity.
11:00While I was waiting for hurry, for my meals to arrive.
11:03Major Crespi is stationed there.
11:05I offered to take him in my plane.
11:07I'm afraid it was a rash suggestion, Madam, as a sportswoman.
11:10Oh, I've been up many times.
11:12Yes, many times.
11:13Well, you've made a sensation here, I can assure you.
11:15My people have never seen an airplane.
11:17They are not...
11:19sure, simple souls.
11:22Whether you are gods or demons.
11:24But the fact that you're having descended in the precincts of a temple of our local goddess,
11:28allow me to introduce you to her,
11:30is considered highly significant.
11:32Is your machine past repair, Dr. Tehran?
11:34Utterly, I'm afraid.
11:35Let us look at it, I guess.
11:37Propeller smashed, planes crumpled up.
11:39Undercarriage wrecked.
11:40I'm afraid we can't offer to repair the damage for you.
11:42I'm afraid not, sir.
11:43A wonderful machine.
11:44Yes.
11:45Europe has something to boast of.
11:47I wonder what the priest here thinks of it.
11:50He...
11:51says it's the great rock.
11:53The giant bird, you know, of our eastern stories.
11:55And he declares that he plainly saw his goddess
11:57hovering over you as you descended
11:59and guiding you towards her temple.
12:01I hope, sir, we...
12:03we shall find no difficulty in obtaining transport back to civil...
12:06to India.
12:08To civilization, you were going to say.
12:10Why hesitate, my dear friend?
12:12I'm afraid we can't.
12:14I'm afraid we can't.
12:16I'm afraid we can't.
12:18Why hesitate, my dear sir?
12:19We know very well that we are barbarians.
12:21We are quite reconciled to the fact
12:23we have had some 5,000 years to accustom ourselves to it.
12:26This sword is a barbarous weapon compared with your revolver,
12:29but it was worn by my ancestors
12:31when yours were dobbing themselves blue
12:33and picking up the precarious livelihood in the woods.
12:36But madame is standing all this time.
12:37Watkins.
12:38Your Highness.
12:39Watkins, what are you thinking of?
12:40Some cushions, a litter for madame,
12:42and mountain chairs for gentlemen.
12:43They'll be here in a few minutes.
12:45And I hope you will accept the hospitality of my poor heart.
12:48I'm afraid we've given you a great deal of trouble, Your Highness.
12:50A great deal of pleasure, madame.
12:52I hope, sir, there will be no difficulty about obtaining transport back to India.
12:56Time enough to talk of that, Major.
12:57When you have rested and recuperated after your adventure,
13:00you will do me the honor of dining with me this evening, I trust.
13:02Your Highness, we've nothing to wear but what we're in.
13:04Oh, I think we can put that all right.
13:06Watkins.
13:07Your Highness.
13:08You are in the confidence of our mistress of the robes.
13:12How does our wardrobe stand?
13:13Fresh consignment of Paris models come in only last week, Your Highness.
13:17Good.
13:18Then I hope, madame, that you may find among them some rag that you will be able to wear.
13:21Paris models, Your Highness?
13:23And you talk of being uncivilized.
13:24We do what we can, madame.
13:26I sometimes have the pleasure of entertaining European ladies,
13:30though not the other two English women, in my solitudes,
13:33and I like to mitigate the terrors of exile for them.
13:35Then, as for civilization, you know,
13:38I always have at my elbow one of its most finished products.
13:41Watkins.
13:42Your Highness.
13:43You will recognize in Watkins, gentlemen,
13:45another representative of the ruling race.
13:47I assure you he rules me with an iron hand,
13:50not always in a velvet glove.
13:52Hey, Watkins.
13:53Your Highness, we'll have your little joy here.
13:55He's my prime minister and all my cabinet,
13:58but more particularly, my Lord Chamberlain.
14:00No one can touch him at mixing a cocktail or making a salad.
14:03My entire household trembles at his nod,
14:05even my chef quails before him.
14:07Nothing comes amiss to him,
14:08for he is like myself a man without prejudices.
14:12I have sometimes thought of instituting a peerage
14:14in order that I might raise Watkins to it,
14:16but I mustn't let my admiration for British institutions
14:19carry me too far.
14:21Ah, here comes the litter.
14:26Permit me, madam, to hand you to your panacake.
14:28Thank you, Your Highness.
14:29I see you have a newspaper, madam.
14:31A recent paper is such a rarity.
14:33You must allow me to glance at it.
14:35Of course.
14:36Ah, the telegraph news is gone.
14:37What a pity.
14:38In my seclusion, I hunger for tidings from the civilized world.
14:41I'm sorry, Your Highness.
14:42I pour out that sorrow.
14:43Ah.
14:45I know your motive, Dr. Trehearne, and I appreciate it.
14:49You destroyed it out of consideration for my feelings,
14:52wishing to spare me a painful piece of intelligence.
14:55That was very thoughtful, but quite unnecessary.
14:58I already know what you tried to conceal.
15:00No.
15:02I know that three of my subjects,
15:04accused of a political crime,
15:06have been sentenced to death.
15:08How is it possible?
15:09Sir, we have a saying here in the East,
15:11good news travels on the back of a tortoise,
15:14but bad news flies with the eagle.
15:18But one thing you can perhaps tell me,
15:20is there any chance of their sentences being remitted?
15:23I'm afraid not, Your Highness.
15:24Remitted?
15:25I'd rather say not.
15:26With a cold-blooded, unprovoked murder.
15:28Unprovoked.
15:30Unprovoked, you think.
15:32Well, I won't argue the point.
15:34The execution is to be, I think, tomorrow or the day after.
15:37Tomorrow or the day after, yes.
15:39If you'll give me a minute, I might get you waiting.
15:41You'll be seated once.
15:42Your Highness seems so interested.
15:44Does Your Highness know anything of these men?
15:46Know them?
15:47Oh, yes.
15:49Yes, Doctor, I do know them.
15:51They are my brothers.
15:52They are my brothers.
16:03Pahari, Omnipotent,
16:05Sohamilkarai.
16:07Your message received.
16:10No sign plane you describe.
16:15Ready to seek missing plane,
16:18please advise location
16:21last known.
16:23Pahari.
16:24No, they're down, all right.
16:26Petrel couldn't last.
16:27If they'd only made a landing.
16:28If they had,
16:29Creston would have rigged up their wireless on the ground.
16:31He's a good hand at it.
16:32You're a comforting soul, Dawson.
16:33One of those born obituary writers.
16:35Well, I don't see no reason to feel cheerful.
16:37Well, keep it coming.
16:39I lost the Colonel about orders for Pahari.
16:41Oh, by the way, advise mountain stations
16:44to see murders of head ale
16:46are sentenced to be hanged tomorrow at sunset.
16:48Might serve as a warning.
16:49Right, Chief.
16:51To all mountain stations,
16:55please,
16:56murderers
16:57of head ale
16:59are sentenced
17:00to be hanged tomorrow at sunset.
17:10Excellent dinner, Roger.
17:11Aye, dinner.
17:12How you manage a gourmet feast in this savage country?
17:17Maybe you English field civilization is your peculiar possession.
17:20Oh, my husband didn't mean that, Your Highness.
17:22Naturally, we didn't expect such splendor in your mountain kingdom.
17:25Thank you, madame.
17:26My humble castle is indeed splendid if it pleases you.
17:30But I must really replenish this salon one day.
17:33My ancestors had no notion of comfort.
17:35They had considerable notion of abuse, I should say,
17:37when they built this lotion.
17:39I never felt closer to the stars.
17:41My dear doctor,
17:42is that a premonition
17:43or an observation?
17:44The doctor to her is quite an astronomer.
17:46Oh, well, not exactly an astronomer.
17:48I can pick out a few constellations, that's all.
17:50For my part, I look at the stars as little as possible.
17:53Today, I was guilty of a little showing off
17:55when I met you with Sancerre and troops.
17:59Think of the Maharaja up yonder
18:01who, night after night,
18:03whistles up his glittering legions
18:06as much as to say,
18:07see what a devil of a fellow I am.
18:10I think it's quite good taste.
18:12I'm afraid you're jealous, Roger.
18:14You don't like having to play second fiddle
18:16to a still more absolute ruler than yourself.
18:18Perhaps you're right, madame.
18:21Perhaps it's partly that.
18:23But there's something much more to it.
18:26I can't help resenting it.
18:29Let me recommend the brandy, Major.
18:31I think you'll find it excellent.
18:32Oh, it is indeed.
18:33What is it you resent so highly?
18:35Oh, the respect paid to mere size.
18:40To the immensity, as they call it.
18:42The universe.
18:44Are we to worship a god because he's big?
18:46Well, if you resent his bigness,
18:47what do you say to his littleness?
18:49The microscope, you know,
18:50reveals him no less than the telescope.
18:52And reveals him in the form of a death-dealing speck of matter,
18:56which you, I understand, Doctor,
18:58are impiously proposing to exterminate.
19:00I am trying to marshal a life-saving
19:02against the death-dealing powers.
19:04To marshal God's right hand against his left, eh?
19:09This mosquito that I just killed.
19:11I'm glad to see you smoke, Madam,
19:12to keep them off.
19:13This mosquito,
19:14or any smallest thing that has life in it,
19:17is to be far more admirable
19:19than a whole lifeless universe.
19:22Hmm?
19:23What do you say, Major?
19:24I say, Roger,
19:25if you give me another glass of brandy,
19:27I'll let you have your own way about the universe.
19:30It's a very satisfactory trade.
19:31Your glass, Major.
19:32Thanks.
19:34I say, Your Highness,
19:35all this is rather out of my depth.
19:37We've had rather a fatiguing day,
19:39rather a fatiguing day.
19:40Mightn't we...
19:41To be sure, to be sure.
19:42We are now going to committee upon your position here.
19:45Aye, do please, sir.
19:46I'm afraid you may find it rather disagreeable.
19:49Communication's fair, eh?
19:51Will we have a difficult journey before us?
19:53A long journey, sir.
19:56Not precisely difficult.
19:58Well, it surely can't be so very far,
19:59since you'd heard of the sentence
20:01passed upon those who said it.
20:02I am glad, Major,
20:03that you have so tactfully spared the pain
20:05of reopening that subject.
20:07We should have had to come to it sooner or later.
20:09But when Your Highness said they were your brothers,
20:11you were, of course, speaking figuratively.
20:13You meant your tribesmen.
20:14Oh, not at all.
20:15No.
20:16They are sons of my father.
20:18They're not of my mother.
20:19And we come upon you at such a time.
20:21How dreadful.
20:22Oh, pray don't apologize.
20:23Believe me,
20:24your arrival has given me great satisfaction.
20:26How do you mean?
20:27I'd explain presently, but first...
20:29First, let's understand each other.
20:31You surely can't approve of this abominable crime.
20:33My brothers are fanatics,
20:35and there is no fanaticism in me.
20:37My education was wholly European.
20:39I shed all my prejudices.
20:41I became the open-minded citizen of the world,
20:43whom I hope you recognize in me.
20:45My brothers, on the other hand,
20:47turned to India for their culture.
20:49The religion of our people
20:50has always been a primitive idolatry.
20:52My brothers naturally fell in
20:53with the adherents of the same superstition,
20:55and they worked each other up
20:56to a high pitch of frenzy
20:58against the European exploitation of Asia.
21:01You mean to say you defend this wicked murder?
21:04Oh, no, I think it foolish and futile.
21:07But there is a romantic
21:09as well as a practical side to my nature,
21:11and from the romantic point of view,
21:13I rather admire it.
21:14Then, sir, the less we intrude on your hospitality,
21:16the better.
21:17If you'll be good enough to furnish us
21:18with transport tomorrow morning...
21:19That is just where the difficulty arises.
21:22No transport, eh?
21:23Uh, materially it might be managed,
21:25but morally, I fear...
21:28Excuse the colloquialism,
21:29but I have no go.
21:30What the blazes you mean, sir?
21:32Will your highness be good enough to explain?
21:33I mentioned that the religion of my people
21:35is a primitive superstition.
21:37Well, since the news has spread
21:39that three Feringas have dropped from the skies
21:41precisely at the time
21:42when three princes of the royal house
21:44are threatened with death
21:45at the hands of the Feringic government
21:47and dropped moreover in the precincts of a temple,
21:49my subjects have got it into their heads
21:51that you have been personally conducted hither
21:53by the goddess whom they especially worship.
21:55The goddess?
21:56Uh, here's her portrait on the mantelpiece,
21:59much admired by connoisseurs.
22:01Then the upshot of all this palaver
22:03is that you propose a whole lot of hostages
22:06in exchange for your brothers.
22:07That is not precisely the idea, my dear sir.
22:10My theologians do not hold that an exchange
22:13is what the goddess decrees,
22:15and nor, to be quite frank,
22:17does it altogether suit my purpose.
22:19Not to get your brothers back again?
22:21You may have noted in history, madame,
22:23that family affection
22:24is seldom a strong point of principle.
22:26But I don't quite see, your highness,
22:27what all this has to do with us.
22:29We are approaching the crux of the matter,
22:31a point which I fear
22:32you may have some difficulties appreciating.
22:34I would beg you to remember
22:36that though I am what is commonly called an autocrat,
22:39there is no such thing under the sun
22:41as a real despotism.
22:43All government is government by consent of the people.
22:46It is very stupid of them to consent, but they do.
22:50If I defied their prejudices or their passions,
22:53they could have set my throne tomorrow.
22:55Will you be so kind as to come to the point, sir?
22:57Gently, major, gently.
22:58We shall reach it soon enough.
23:00Please remember, too, that I am a slave to theology.
23:03The clerical party can do what it pleases with me.
23:05Leave your hand. You're torturing us.
23:07The point is, dear lady,
23:08that this theology on which, as I say,
23:10my whole power is founded
23:12has not yet emerged
23:13from the very primitive stage of development.
23:17It demands an eye for an eye,
23:20a tooth for a tooth,
23:24a life for a life.
23:28You mean to say...
23:29Unfortunately, I do.
23:30You would kill us?
23:31Not I, madame. The clerical party.
23:34And only if my brothers are executed.
23:37If not, I will merely demand your word of honor
23:39that what has passed between us
23:40shall never be mentioned to any human soul.
23:41You should go, please.
23:42Well, if your brothers are sat in their hanged,
23:44they certainly will be.
23:46You...
23:47You'll put us to death in cold blood?
23:49Oh, not in cold blood, major.
23:51There is nothing cold-blooded about the clerical party
23:54when white goats, as their phrase goes,
23:56are to be sacrificed to the gods.
23:58What of his discretion?
23:59Does your goddess demand the life of a woman?
24:01Well, on that point, she might not be too exacting.
24:05If madame would be so gracious
24:08as to favor me with her...
24:11suicide.
24:12You're hired. Not a word, and I'll shoot you.
24:13Anthony.
24:14No use, major.
24:15That gun wouldn't help you a bit.
24:17If you killed me,
24:18you'd only be torn to pieces instead of beheaded.
24:20We'll take our chances.
24:21Besides, I've had your pistol unloaded.
24:23That precaution was taken while you were at your bath.
24:25You devil.
24:26Anthony, please.
24:27I gather, madame, that my offer does not please you.
24:30Well, I scarcely hoped it would.
24:34I do not press the button.
24:36Nonetheless, the suggestion is open.
24:39What?
24:40What's that sound?
24:41It's interesting.
24:42If you wait a few minutes, I may have some news for you.
24:44I recognize the service call,
24:45a message to the air base.
24:46Dammit, sir, I excuse myself.
24:51Well, Watkins?
24:53It's the army post.
24:54How are you?
24:55What do they say?
24:56Just a moment, your highness.
24:57How are you?
24:58Army post.
24:59When will you arrive?
25:01No sign plane you describe.
25:06Ready to seek missing plane.
25:11Please advise location.
25:14Last known...
25:16Much good. That will do them.
25:18Health contact, Watkins?
25:20He hasn't had air, your highness.
25:22It's for manual survive.
25:24Two full mountain stations.
25:28Three murderers of Airedale
25:32sentenced to be hanged tomorrow at sundown.
25:38Turn it off.
25:39That's all I need to know.
25:40Yes, your highness.
25:42I find your friends are very interested in your whereabouts.
25:45What's that?
25:46Amil Sarai is transmitting messages to Pahari,
25:48and Pahari to Amil Sarai.
25:49How do you know?
25:50Why, Major, you're an army man.
25:51You must know something of wireless.
25:52Never had occasion.
25:53I had operators at my command.
25:54And you, Dr. Trehearne?
25:55I know even less than the Major.
25:56We heard those sounds, of course, and you went out.
25:58You see, Doctor, we are not entirely benighted.
26:00We have a wireless installation.
26:03Do you have anything further to tell us, your highness?
26:06Yes.
26:07I'm afraid I don't.
26:09Yes.
26:10I'm afraid not very good news.
26:13My brother's execution is fixed for tomorrow.
26:15Then tomorrow...
26:16Yes.
26:17Sunset.
26:20But meanwhile, I hope you will regard my poor house as your own.
26:24I should not advise you to pass the palace gates.
26:27It will not be safe.
26:28Your highness.
26:29Yes, madam.
26:30I can't believe that you really mean what you've told us tonight.
26:33Perhaps you're testing us, having fun at our expense.
26:36Will you please now, for my sake,
26:39communicate with Amilcaray and bring about an exchange?
26:42Your brother's lives for ours.
26:44No, madam.
26:45I am desolated to have to refuse you.
26:47It is always difficult to refuse a beautiful woman anything.
26:51And you are a very beautiful woman.
26:54But you must not ask for the impossible.
26:56I've already given you my reason.
26:58And what's to prevent us from throwing ourselves from that lodger onto the rocks below?
27:01From cheating your... your goddess?
27:04Nothing, dear lady, except...
27:07that... with that clinging to the known and shrinking from the unknown that all of us feel.
27:13And besides, you cannot read my mind.
27:16As you suggested a moment ago, I may only be playing a little joke on you.
27:21You have observed that I have a sense of humor.
27:25I'm afraid I've been talking a great deal.
27:28Madam, my servant will take you to your room.
27:31Yes, sir.
27:32You will see that madam has everything she needs for her comfort.
27:35Yes, sir.
27:37And may I hope that you will rest well in my humble abode.
27:40Good night, Anthony. Basil.
27:42Good night, my dear. Good night, Lucille.
27:44If there is anything, madam, that is not entirely to your liking,
27:50I trust you will not hesitate to make your wishes known.
27:55Good night, madam.
27:58And now, gentlemen, tomorrow we have all day.
28:04Shall we start it with a game of billiards?
28:06Say at ten o'clock.
28:09Our last whiskey and soda.
28:12No?
28:15Then good night.
28:17Good night.
28:28THE CAMPBELL PLAYHOUSE
28:40You are listening to the Campbell Playhouse presentation of The Green Goddess starring Madeline Carroll and Orson Welles.
28:46This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
28:57THE CAMPBELL PLAYHOUSE
29:07This is Ernest Chappell, ladies and gentlemen, welcoming you back to the Campbell Playhouse.
29:11In a moment or two we shall resume our presentation of The Green Goddess starring Orson Welles and Madeline Carroll.
29:17Leaving our guest star as an uneasy dinner companion of the Raja,
29:21whose table talk was so disturbing, though the service, I'm sure, was flawless,
29:25let's consider this question of food in the drama.
29:28So many plays have been written around meals or have featured meals,
29:31you can't get through an English drawing room comedy without at least one afternoon tea,
29:36or an old coward play without breakfast.
29:39In Old English, George Wallace solved all his problems by eating a dinner so good and so elaborate that it killed him.
29:45And Dinner at Eight wove the threads of half a dozen dramas into the preparation for a dinner party that was just about to start as the final curtain fell.
29:52The reason that meals have such an important part in plays is that meals and mealtimes form an all-important center of our social life,
29:59a sort of hub, so to speak, around which all our doings revolve.
30:03Meals, from the beginning of our society, have been the occasion and the backbone of entertaining and the focal center of the family.
30:10Few things bind people together more than the sharing of meals, provided those meals are gracious and graciously served.
30:18Perhaps it sounds exaggerated to say that a meal can't help but be a gracious occasion if soup is on the menu.
30:24But it does mean something that for centuries past, soup has been the traditional opening of dinner in many countries,
30:30countries whose habits differed in almost every other particular.
30:34Soup is at once relaxing and invigorating.
30:37Soup greets us at the table with a warm welcome, and this is particularly true of Campbell's tomato soup.
30:43Its rich aroma and bright color flash an appeal to eye and appetite, and its sprightly flavor makes you want to enjoy it again and again.
30:51So serving the soup becomes a happy family custom, and adds a gracious note when you have friends in for dinner.
30:58Now we resume our Campbell Playhouse presentation of The Green Goddess, starring Madeline Carroll and Orson Welles.
31:14Good shot, Major. I see biggards is another of your many attainments.
31:21I missed that one.
31:23Too bad, too bad. I'll try my luck.
31:29It's an easy one. I'll try a three-cushion shot now.
31:34Very good, Roger.
31:35Thank you, Doctor.
31:37Roger, joke's a joke. This cat-and-mouse business is getting on my nerves.
31:42Have another drink, Major. It'll clear the spot for you.
31:48Chalk that up, Major.
31:50I wonder if I can cannon off the fright now.
31:56Send him back to the nearest British outpost, or we'll give you our word to say nothing of this pleasant thing you've played on us.
32:03Send you back, my dear Major. I assure you, if I were ever so willing, it would be as much as my life's worth.
32:08Watch this message, gentlemen. One of my favorite chops.
32:13I have.
32:14You don't know how my subjects are looking forward to tomorrow's ceremony.
32:17You must be reasonable, my dear sir.
32:19I ask you no favors except for my wife's sake.
32:22But for her, we'll make any concession.
32:25Promise you anything.
32:26What can you promise me that's worth a brass farthing?
32:29No.
32:31Asia has long had a long score against you swaggering, blustering lords of creation.
32:41And I mean to see some of it paid tomorrow.
32:44In the meantime, gentlemen, there's no reason why we shouldn't behave like civilized beings.
32:48It's your turn, Major. I bet you're set up.
32:52Let me try the red ball from the cushion.
32:55Beautiful shot.
32:56Why should I keep you from my opponents?
32:59If it were possible.
33:01Yes, Watkins.
33:02Mrs. Crispin is kept downstairs.
33:04Oh, you'll pardon me, gentlemen. I'll detain Mrs. Crispin only for a few moments, then she'll join you here.
33:09Please continue the game.
33:14Dr. Trahearne.
33:15Yes?
33:18Last night to inform you, you knew nothing of the wireless.
33:20It's been reported to me there's a wireless set installed in your plane.
33:22That's true.
33:24Wireless is now a part of the plane's standard equipment.
33:27Unfortunately, I neglected to alert the operators.
33:30We might have escaped being lost in the fog.
33:33And your hospitality.
33:34Doctor, I'm forced to admire your tact as well as your billiards.
33:45Good morning, Mrs. Crispin.
33:48Would you please sit down?
33:49I thought my husband was here.
33:50He's in the next room playing billiards with the doctor.
33:52I trust that you slept well?
33:54More or less.
33:55More rather than less, if one may judge by your looks.
33:58Does it matter?
34:00What can matter more than the looks of a beautiful woman?
34:03If you'll excuse me, I'll join my husband.
34:05Oh, please spare me a few moments.
34:06I want to speak to you seriously.
34:09Well, I'm listening.
34:11You're very curt, Mrs. Crispin.
34:12I'm afraid you bear me malice.
34:14You hold me responsible for the darkest trying situation which you find yourself.
34:18Who else is responsible?
34:19Who?
34:20Why, chance, fate, the gods, providence.
34:24Did I bring you here?
34:26Did I conjure up the fog?
34:28When you once set foot upon the goddess's precinct,
34:30it was utterly out of my power to save you.
34:33At any rate, the men of your party,
34:35if I raised a finger to thwart the goddess,
34:38it would be the end of my rule.
34:40That's my life.
34:41What you really mean, Rajai, is that you don't dare risk it.
34:44You haven't the courage.
34:45You take a mean advantage, madam.
34:47You abuse the privilege of your sex in order to taunt me with cowardice.
34:51Let us say, then, that you haven't the will to save us.
34:53Reflect one moment, madam.
34:56Why should I have the will at the risk of all I possess
34:58to save Major Crispin and Dr. Trehearne?
35:00Major Crispin is your husband.
35:01Does that recommend him to me?
35:03Forgive me if I venture to guess that it doesn't greatly recommend him to you.
35:08He is an only too typical specimen of the breed I detest.
35:13Big-headed, bald-necked, blustering, out-of-bearing.
35:16Dr. Trehearne is,
35:18agreeable enough, I dare say, a man of genius.
35:20If you kill him, if you cut short his work,
35:22you kill millions of your own race whom he would have saved.
35:25I don't know that I care very much about the millions you speak of.
35:29Life is a weed that grows again as fast as death mows it down.
35:34At all events, he is an Englishman of Ferengi, and I may add,
35:37without indiscretion of the interest you take in him,
35:40oh, the merest friendly interest, I'm sure,
35:43does not endear him to me.
35:46One is, after all, a man,
35:49and the favor shown to another man by a beautiful woman...
35:53Madam,
35:55think over my suggestion of last night.
35:57I do not talk to you of romantic love.
35:59I respect you too much to think you accessible to silly sentiment.
36:02But such as it is, I ask you to
36:05share my kingdom as its queen.
36:09Your son, if you bore me one,
36:11should be the prince of princes.
36:15You have the courage to die.
36:18Dear lady,
36:19why not have the courage to live?
36:22I feel sure, Madam, you might find life with me quite interesting.
36:27If you've finished, Prince,
36:28please allow me to be with my husband and my friend.
36:30For what time we have left.
36:32As you wish, Madam.
36:35But the privilege of changing your mind is open to the last.
36:38Allow me.
36:45Watkins.
36:46Yes, Your Highness.
36:47It occurred to me, Watkins,
36:48that perhaps it's not quite safe to have our visitors so near the wireless room.
36:51Their one chance would be to communicate with India.
36:53They appear to know nothing about wireless,
36:55but I have my doubts.
36:56It's quite possible.
36:57I want you to stay in this room and in their presence
36:59to send out a message that will startle or enrage them.
37:01We will watch their faces very closely
37:03and try not to give any sign of understanding it.
37:05Here, I've written a message in this paper. Here you are.
37:08The lady has come to terms.
37:11She will enter His Highness' house.
37:13Very good.
37:14I'll get them in here on the pretext of a little wireless demonstration
37:17and then I'll tell you to send out an order to Tashkent for champagne.
37:20That'll be your cue.
37:21Very good, Your Highness.
37:23But afterwards,
37:24if, as you were saying,
37:26they were to try to corrupt me...
37:28Corrupt you?
37:29That would be painting a lily with a vengeance.
37:31Suppose they try to bribe me, sir.
37:33What are your instructions?
37:35You may do exactly as you please.
37:36I have the most implicit confidence in you, Watkins.
37:38My grateful thanks to you, sir.
37:40But I thought if I was to pretend to send a message for a minute,
37:44it might keep them quiet, like...
37:46Very true, Watkins.
37:47It would not only keep them quiet,
37:48but the illusion of security would raise their spirits,
37:50which would be a humane action.
37:52I am always on the side of humanity, Watkins.
37:54Yes, I am, sir.
37:55Then I'll humor them.
37:56Just a moment. We shall test them now.
37:57Watch closely as you send the message.
38:01Major Crispin!
38:02What is it?
38:03Watkins is just going to send a message by wireless.
38:06I thought he might amuse you and the doctor to see it work.
38:08Mrs. Crispin, too, if she wishes.
38:10Very well.
38:11You coming, sir?
38:12Yes, of course.
38:14Here you are.
38:16This, you see, is the apparatus.
38:18Ready, Watkins?
38:19Yes, sir.
38:20Have you ordered for Tosca?
38:21Yes, Your Highness.
38:22But I haven't counted it.
38:23Oh, never mind.
38:24Even if some outsider does pick it up,
38:25I dare say we can order 12 cases of champagne
38:27without causing international complications.
38:31He's waiting for a fly signal, you see.
38:34May I help myself to some more of your excellent brandy, Roger?
38:37By all means, Major Crispin.
38:40I've got him.
38:43May we speak?
38:44Oh, yes, sir.
38:45You won't be heard in such a hurry.
38:46Have a drink, sir.
38:47No, thanks.
38:48Let's eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow.
38:50Gee, that's all.
38:51That's our stuff.
38:52How many words did he send?
38:54What was it, Watkins?
38:55Forward by tomorrow's caravan.
38:5612 cases champagne.
38:57Usual brand.
38:58Charge on account 30.
38:59That's right, sir.
39:0012 words.
39:01Can they really make such sense out of those
39:03blasted, silly fireworks?
39:04I hope so, else we shall run short of champagne.
39:07Any orders, Your Highness?
39:08No orders, Watkins.
39:09May I remind you, sir, that it's time for your appointment
39:12with the eye priest.
39:13Very well, Watkins.
39:14You can send word that I'm coming.
39:16Very good.
39:17And now I trust you will excuse me for a little
39:18of some arrangements for tomorrow's ceremony.
39:21Please make yourselves quite at home.
39:25What was the message?
39:26Quick.
39:27He said the lady had accepted our life on his term.
39:29A crap forest.
39:30Anthony, you were splendid.
39:31You gave no sign.
39:33Compliment from you.
39:34Most unusual.
39:35I'll have another drink on that.
39:37I think he was fooled.
39:38But he wouldn't have left us here.
39:41Can we break the door to the wireless center?
39:42No good.
39:43It would make a noise.
39:44We'd be interrupted, and then the game would be up.
39:45Then we'd better try to bribe Watkins.
39:47We must settle what message to send if we get the chance.
39:49Dictate.
39:50All right.
39:51What about this now?
39:52Wait.
39:53Major Crespen, Wyatt, Tejon, imprisoned Rook, Rogers,
39:56Pallis, lives in danger.
39:58We want something more definite.
39:59How would this do?
40:00Death threatened this evening.
40:02Rescue urgent.
40:03Excellent.
40:04How do we get Watkins?
40:05There's a bell.
40:06I'll try it.
40:07Now we'd better decide what to do if he won't take money,
40:11and we have to use force to get his keys.
40:13What should we do with him?
40:14There's only one thing.
40:15Over the balcony.
40:16Oh, no.
40:17There's a drop of 1,000 feet.
40:18Anthony.
40:19Save your sympathy, my dear, for a worthier object.
40:20But it can't be helped.
40:21If I can get three minutes of that instrument, I'll...
40:23You ready, sir?
40:24Yes, Watkins.
40:25We want a few words with you.
40:27Oh.
40:28Do you mind coming over here?
40:29You don't want to speak loud.
40:30How?
40:31I just...
40:32I just say you can guess what we want with you.
40:35I ain't no hand at guessing, sir.
40:37Rather, you're daft with your claims.
40:38You know what's proposed for tomorrow.
40:40My word is air.
40:41Your numbers is up.
40:42Surely you don't intend to stand by and see us murdered.
40:43Three of your own people, and one of them a woman.
40:45What's me own people ever done for me?
40:47A woman, immediately.
40:48No good for her.
40:49Come down to Kintec.
40:50All right.
40:51What do you take to get us out of this?
40:53Get out of this.
40:54Boy, if you was to offer me a million, where could I do that?
40:57By opening that wireless cabinet and sending this message through to the annuus at iAerodrome.
41:01That's already fine.
41:03But what price have you gents to offer?
41:05Nothing down.
41:06No spot cash.
41:07That's clear.
41:08You'll have to take our word for whatever bargain we come to.
41:09Your word?
41:10Our written word.
41:11We'll give it to you in writing.
41:13Well, that's better.
41:15What about a little first instalment?
41:18You ain't quite on your uppers, are you now?
41:20You could come down with a little something, couldn't you?
41:22Be it ever so amble.
41:23I have three hundred rupees and five ten-pound notes.
41:27On the table, if you please.
41:31And you, Major?
41:32Two hundred and fifty rupees.
41:34Oh, and some loose change.
41:35There.
41:36There's your first instalment.
41:37What about the balance?
41:39Shall we say a thousand pounds apiece?
41:41A thousand apiece?
41:42Three thousand pounds?
41:44Boy, you're joking, Dr. Trehearne.
41:46Well, I'd double my bid.
41:48Two thousand apiece.
41:49If your lives ain't worth five thousand apiece to you, there ain't nothing doing.
41:53My place here is worth fifteen thousand to me.
41:56And there's all the risk, too.
41:58I ain't charging you nothing for this.
42:00We appreciate your generosity, Watkins.
42:02Fifteen thousand it is.
42:04Now get to work quick and call it.
42:05I know sir I.
42:06Right you are, ma'am.
42:12Isn't there some special service called you must send out to get amputated?
42:16Hold on there.
42:17I know it.
42:18Here it is.
42:21That's not the service call.
42:23Right.
42:24Got them, sir.
42:25Now the message.
42:36That's it.
42:37Take him this way.
42:38Over to the balcony.
42:39Hurry him up.
42:40Hurry up.
42:41Put him along to the balcony.
42:43Hello.
42:46Now that's a good job.
42:47Now, can you lock that outside door?
42:49No key in it, Anthony.
42:50The passage.
42:51I've got to hold it.
42:52Can you send through a message?
42:53Give me a minute.
42:54I can.
43:01There it goes.
43:02There it is.
43:03Hang on, sir.
43:04No, I can't even get him.
43:09Hold on to her.
43:11Just a few more seconds.
43:12I'm almost through.
43:13Close that door.
43:18Tomator.
43:19And the cat's away.
43:20Anthony, watch out.
43:21You're shot.
43:27Did you get that message through?
43:28Anthony.
43:29Did you?
43:31Wouldn't you like to know?
43:36Anthony.
43:40What kind of public statement is this?
43:42Step right upstairs and get your phone out.
43:45All right, Tomator.
43:46That's enough.
43:47Come down to the balcony.
43:48I've got to go.
43:49If you don't want a hell of a reception at lunchtime
43:53you don't get anything.
43:54Stay a little longer.
43:55We'd better wave goodbye to Redford.
43:57I know.
43:58Only if you guys keep moving.
43:59You don't know how long I've been on the never-ending pole.
44:02Should I put you in the elevator?
44:04企庫ituation
44:05Okay were open the doors a bit.
44:07Keep going down.
44:08You're right.
44:09I. Apologize
44:18madam for this unseemly display the fanaticism of my people is beyond my control I
44:22show you what are they doing your husband's body but then they are laying at the
44:27feet of the god as you see I have three brothers head for a head right here you'll
44:32pay for this whether we're dead or alive I'm not so sure the major didn't get your
44:37way through I have nothing to fear if he did nothing can save me I may as well be
44:41hanged for a wolf with a lamb along every left till the sun's rim touches the
44:46crest of the mountain the blast of our great mountain horn will announce the hour
44:51and you'll be led to the secret enclosure your highness will you grant us a last
44:55favor by all means if it is in my power in spite of your inconsiderate action
45:00of yesterday consider it Watkins you know poor Watkins great loss to me but I
45:06bear no malice for a fair act of war then you'll leave us alone for the time that
45:10remains very well it's quite brief I'm afraid and oh by the way you need have no
45:15fear of the ceremony being protracted it will be brief and I trust painless those
45:20are my orders and before I go madame may I remind you of my offer not yet too
45:27late
45:34yes it can make no difference now if I tell you what I couldn't before I knew
45:40without your telling me you might have been very happy not easy to die just to
45:45know every reason to live perhaps easier than it was living without a reason we
45:51found each other and we know tell me that I can think of it when they see just
45:57one I love you I love you
46:02madam
46:14I regret to intrude but the time of the ceremony has unfortunately come I am
46:19ready pity madam the last time must I do violence to my feelings by including
46:30you in the approaching ceremony there is still time remember my power madam if I
46:37may not take you back to my palace as my queen I can send you back as my slave
46:45have you nothing to say nothing I repeat my offer
46:58chivalrous but ill-advised dr. Trehearne I regret it and so will you I am for the
47:05moment not a king but a priest and must observe a certain dignity ridiculous
47:14my colleagues here now insist that since you have publicly struck the chief of
47:25their sacred caste your death alone will not appease the fury of the goddess they
47:31insist on subjecting you to a process of expiation a ritual of great antiquity
47:35but you mean torture well to put it crudely yes I'm quite remarkable
47:41combination not you but then I must speak to you I speak to you alone send
47:49Dr. Trehearne away what are you speaking of I beg of you I beg of you one minute
47:56no more very well well madam we have less than a minute let him go
48:10send him back to India unharmed and it shall be as you wish how am I to know
48:16that you will keep your word I must have a pledge of your good faith for without
48:20a pledge madam I don't believe in this one little bit what pledge only one is
48:24left dr. Trehearne himself I may though it will
48:29strain my part of the uttermost save his life while keeping him in prison then
48:35when you have fulfilled your bond we'll let him go free but the moment you
48:42attempt to evade your pledge by death or by escape I will hand him over to the
48:47priests to work their will with and I will put no restraint upon their
48:52savage instincts choose my dear lady choose you have exactly 20 seconds but
49:02your highness yes madam I no longer have to choose. Do I?
49:32Grand Duchess von Ferlstein, Dr. and Mrs. Trehearne, the Grand Duke Dmitri of Croatia, Madam Lafitte of the Belfort, His Highness the Raja of Rooks, Sir Alfred of Cambridge.
49:52If it's good of you to come your highness may I present you to Lady Beatrice Tinsdale. How do you do?
49:56and Lord Tinsdale your highness. How do you do? A pleasure my lord. May I present Mr. Trehearne the Raja of Rooks.
50:01Ah, I believe we've met before. Yes, your highness and I have met before.
50:08Under somewhat different circumstances were they not Mrs. Grestin. Oh excuse me how silly I am Mrs. Trehearne.
50:15The moment I'd almost forgotten the major's heroic end.
50:18You should have every reason to remember it. I see you persist in regarding me as a murderer.
50:22What a pity. Madam your husband killed my faithful servant. His own death at my hands was a fair act of war.
50:28His majesty's government didn't do it in that light. No, no the English government has difficulty in taking an unprejudiced view about such matters.
50:35For that reason you now see me Madam swelling the ranks of the kings in exile.
50:42But I find retirement has its compensations. For instance the clerical party of Rooks no longer bothered with them.
50:50Mrs. Trehearne for the sake of old times may I have the pleasure of this walk.
50:55You must excuse me your highness.
50:57Well then perhaps you and your husband will do me the honor of staying a visit in my villa at Monte Carlo.
51:01It is less picturesque than my castle in Rooks but you will find it more comfortable and I assure you a great deal less hazardous.
51:07I think I prefer not to impose upon your hospitality again. Now will you excuse me here is my husband.
51:14Oh Dr. Trehearne. Your highness. How do you do dear doctor.
51:17Your wife and I were just having a most charming conversation. Quite like old times.
51:24Just between us men Dr. Trehearne it was really a blessing that things turned out as they did don't you think.
51:30You and Mrs. Trehearne appear to be exceedingly happy and I can't help but conclude that perhaps in some small way I have contributed to your happiness.
51:41And for my part had she remained in Rooks I am now of the opinion she would have turned out to be a confounded nuisance anyway.
51:53You have been listening to the Campbell Playhouse presentation of The Green Goddess starring Madeline Carroll and Orson Welles.
52:10In just a moment Orson Welles will return to the microphone with Miss Carroll but meantime I spoke a little while ago of the popularity of tomato soup.
52:19Almost anywhere you go you'll find this is the ruling favorite among soups. Indeed I believe that if people could have only one kind of soup they would choose tomato soup.
52:28And furthermore in nearly every case it would be Campbell's tomato soup. Now why is this so?
52:34One reason is that it is such a versatile soup. The lively aroma and the bright glow of it back into the appetite so that it makes a tip top beginning for dinner.
52:43There's real nourishment in it too making it a fine lunch or supper dish. And for extra nourishment it may be served as cream of tomato with milk added instead of water.
52:53For the main reason Campbell's tomato soup is the world's favorite is its flavor. Just about everybody likes the tang and liveliness of it.
53:02Little folk just learning to feed themselves spoon it up eagerly and throughout their growing years it holds their favor.
53:09Men liking keen racy foods take to this soup with enthusiasm. Women like its bright flavor too and its bright look on the table and the bright greeting it receives.
53:19Yes there's no question but America's number one soup is Campbell's tomato. Is it number one on your weekend grocery list? It should be.
53:29And now here's Orson Welles.
53:32Ladies and gentlemen I think you'll agree with me that when Mr. Archer set out to write a melodrama he wrote a melodrama.
53:41I'm glad however to report that not a single hair of Miss Carroll's lovely head has been ruffled by this evening's harrowing experience.
53:48Here she is none the worse for it. Miss Madeline Carroll.
53:51Thank you Mr. Welles. Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
53:54I might explain that Miss Carroll has just returned from a vacation trip to Europe. Miss Carroll on behalf of these United States of America may I say how pleased we all are to have you back.
54:04Not nearly so pleased as I am to be here tonight. Especially since I can now be the first to congratulate you on the great tribute that was paid you this week.
54:12When you were voted the outstanding new radio star of the year in the Scripps Howard radio editor's poll. I was very sincerely delighted to hear it. You deserve it.
54:20That's very nice of you Miss Carroll. Of course I'm very proud and so is everybody else in the Campbell Playhouse.
54:25And we'd like to take this opportunity to thank all the editors in this country and in Canada who have paid us such a fine compliment.
54:32And to tell them that we shall continue to try and live up to the honor they've done us.
54:36I don't think there's any doubt of your doing that. Thanks again and good night.
54:41In tonight's Campbell Playhouse production of The Green Goddard, the role of Lucilla Crespin was played by our guest Miss Madeline Carroll, the Raja by Orson Welles.
54:55Robert State played Major Crespin, Ray Collins was Dr. Feherne. The part of Watkins was played by Eustace Wyatt, that of Dawson by Edgar Barrier.
55:03Alfred Shirley was Caldwell and Maurice Ancrum was the High Priest, the part which he played in the original production about 18 years ago.
55:10Music for the Campbell Playhouse tonight was composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann.
55:14And now Orson Welles, will you tell us something about next week's story.
55:25Well there it is. That's next week. Next week we're doing a Broadway success of some 10 years ago.
55:30Burlesque. Burlesque by James Manker Waters and that great American producer Arthur Hopkins.
55:39Burlesque is about the show business, about a girl and her love for a ham comic as he called himself, how she left him and how she went back to him.
55:48And it's really more than that. It's a great story of a great business.
55:51So until next Friday night when we present Burlesque, my sponsors, makers of Campbell Soups and all of us in the Campbell Playhouse remain obediently yours.
56:21The makers of Campbell Soups join Orson Welles in inviting you to be with us at the Campbell Playhouse next Friday evening to hear Burlesque.
56:48Meanwhile, if you have enjoyed tonight's Campbell Playhouse presentation, won't you tell your grocer so tomorrow when you order Campbell's Tomato Soup?
56:56This is Ernest Chappell saying thank you and good night.
57:12This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.