Campbell Playhouse - 18 - Victoria Regina
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00:00The Makers of Campbell Soup presents the Campbell Playhouse. Orson Welles, producer.
00:26Good evening, Mrs. Orson Welles. Tonight I present you Miss Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina.
00:33Of course, this is my proudest moment since I've been producing these broadcasts.
00:38For tonight, the Campbell Playhouse brings you, for the first time on the air,
00:42the American theatre's foremost success in this decade.
00:46And in it, one of the truly great performances of our time.
00:50Hundreds of thousands of you have seen Miss Hayes as Victoria in your playhouses all over this continent.
00:56I know you're with us now.
00:59It's our special privilege to bring her to the millions more of you who have no theatres, who have radios.
01:05I hope we're worthy of the privilege.
01:08First, a word from Ernest Campbell.
01:15I was thinking just last night about a birthday dinner I had at my grandfather's farm years ago when I was a little boy.
01:22It was a great event that visit, a glorious adventure.
01:25Grandpa and I drove up from the station in the buggy and he and Granny hustled me through the kitchen
01:29so that I shouldn't see the good things she was fixing.
01:32But one whiff of the aroma from Granny's cook stove and I knew that there would be roast chicken for dinner.
01:38And what a chicken it was too, cooked to a tempting russet brown and just falling apart under Grandfather's carving knife.
01:45I stayed overnight and the next day Granny made a pot of chicken soup.
01:49It shone like gold, that soup, and I remember that I thought it was the finest soup I'd ever tasted.
01:55These memories came back to me last night when I had chicken soup with the same glowing look,
02:00the same tempting aroma, and the same wonderful flavor.
02:05This was Campbell's chicken soup.
02:07And I can tell you that Campbell's is the kind of chicken soup that Grandmother made so well.
02:11Nourishing soup, heartwarming, and chicken tasting to the last spoonful.
02:16Into its making goes all the good meat of tender chickens and fluffy, perfectly cooked rice,
02:22and melting tender pieces of chicken meat too.
02:25And so I say, as sure as you like chicken, you'll like Campbell's chicken soup.
02:31Won't you make a point of having it this weekend?
02:34And now for our Campbell Playhouse production of Victoria Regina, starring Helen Hayes with Orson Welles.
02:39For this broadcast tonight, Orson Welles has prepared a script which contains not only the great scenes from the successful stage production,
02:46but some of the episodes from the original play, which have never yet been seen in the theater.
02:50And to complete the true picture of this great queen, Mr. Welles has used still another source,
02:56one which only a few years ago was still a closed book, locked away in the official archives of the royal family.
03:02The personal diary of Queen Victoria.
03:11Sometimes hard for us to understand now what Victoria meant to Victorians.
03:16Most of her subjects had never known another sovereign.
03:20And when this star of England fell out of the skies, the whole firmament was suddenly a little hard to believe.
03:28Everything changed, of course.
03:30But England and its empire, and indeed the whole world, waited a decent time after her death.
03:36For her imperial majesty, Victoria, by the grace of God, queen of the United Kingdom, of Great Britain and Ireland,
03:43defender of the faith, empress of India, was moreover, by the grace of God, the absolute monarch of a whole way of life.
03:52The defender of a viewpoint of a dignity that left the world with her.
03:57England grew a lot under her reign, as much as she could make it, and changed as little as she could help.
04:05It helped.
04:26Send a message at once.
04:28The matter is urgent.
04:29Yes, my lord.
04:30Say his grace, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Melbourne are here to see her royal highness on important business.
04:33Yes, my lord.
04:34Hurry, man, hurry.
04:35Yes, my lord, but I'll have to call the maid first.
04:37Clodaghin, call her, please.
04:39Yes, your grace, but the maidsleep, and I'm not supposed to go, and the door up to it is locked.
04:44I shall have to throw stones up at the window.
04:46Isn't there a bell?
04:47Yes, my lord.
04:48In her royal highness the duchess's room there is a bell.
04:51Then go and ask that it may be rung.
04:53Dad, go to her royal highness the duchess's room, my lord, not now.
04:57Her royal highness, the princess is there.
04:59Well, go and do the best you can, only hurry.
05:01And say her royal highness must come.
05:03Yes, my lord.
05:08Good lord, what a house.
05:10So the princess sleeps with the old cat, does she?
05:14You beg your pardon?
05:15I beg yours, yes.
05:17I suppose one oughtn't to say that now, but your grace knows the duchess has been a difficulty all along.
05:22Yes, my lord, we know.
05:24Have you not better sit down?
05:26We may have to wait, you know.
05:27If that man's stone-throwing is not good, we may have to wait a long time.
05:31So this is how history gets written.
05:33This won't get into history, my lord.
05:35No, I suppose not.
05:37Oh, it's a pity, you know, a pity.
05:40I don't know what to think of it.
05:41It meaning what?
05:42Female on the throne.
05:44King would have been so much better.
05:46I don't know, my lord.
05:47Heirs male of the last generation have not been a conspicuous success.
05:51No English king has been a conspicuous success since Edward I.
05:54Yet the monarchy has gone on.
05:56Yes, but it's gone off.
05:59His late majesty was a conspicuous example of it.
06:02You wouldn't believe the trouble we sometimes had with him.
06:05They say you can make a donkey go by tearing a carrot in front of its nose.
06:09Well, he was like a donkey with a carrot tied to its tail.
06:11Really?
06:12Was he just a little, like his father, you know?
06:15Mad, eh?
06:16No, not mad.
06:19It was the shape of his head, I think.
06:21It was pear-shaped, you know, just like a pear.
06:23The weakest fruit drops earliest to the ground, Sir Shakespeare.
06:26Well, his head was weak fruit.
06:27Distinctly amazing how it hung on.
06:29One can't exactly say lasted.
06:31I beg your pardon, my lord.
06:33Yes?
06:34My lord.
06:35Well?
06:36Her Royal Highness, my lord.
06:37I went in, but Her Royal Highness was asleep.
06:39Well, you must wake Her Royal Highness up, then.
06:41Such a beautiful sleep, my lord.
06:42I didn't like it.
06:43Even the most beautiful sleep must give way to affairs of state.
06:47You know who I am?
06:48Yes, my lord.
06:49You know His Grace?
06:50Yes, my lord.
06:51Then go at once.
06:52Wake Her Royal Highness and tell her that we are here waiting for an audience.
06:56Six o'clock.
06:57There's to be a council at ten.
06:59Where?
07:00Here?
07:01At St. James's, I think.
07:02No.
07:03Perhaps it will have to be here.
07:04She mustn't appear in public yet.
07:06It wouldn't be quite decent.
07:07People might cheer.
07:08Well, here's somebody coming.
07:10Madam.
07:11Your Grace.
07:12My lord, you have news for us?
07:13Her Royal Highness, the princess, we have news, madam.
07:15Oh, the king's in?
07:16He's dead.
07:17Then my daughter's dead?
07:18Queen.
07:19It has come, then, at last.
07:20And I am the queen mother.
07:22No, madam.
07:23Your Royal Highness is not the queen mother.
07:25Not?
07:26Your Royal Highness is the queen's mother.
07:27That's the distinction.
07:28Only had Your Royal Highness been queen in the first place would that other title now follow.
07:32Then if it is not mine by your law, she shall give it to me.
07:34That, madam, I fear, would be impossible.
07:36I shall go myself and speak to her at once.
07:37That shall settle it.
07:38Madam, we are here to see Her Majesty the queen on urgent business.
07:40We must not be delayed.
07:41Your presence at the interview, madam, will not be required unless Her Majesty sends for you.
07:44This is not to be borne.
07:45Your Grace, she's coming.
07:46Madam, if you would leave us, please, for a moment.
07:49For a moment only.
07:50But my own daughter.
07:51Madam, please.
07:52Madam.
08:01Your Majesty, it is our painful duty to announce to Your Majesty the death of His Majesty King William,
08:08following upon which sad event, by right of succession,
08:12Your Majesty is now sovereign queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
08:16defender of the faith.
08:18We beseech Almighty God, by whom kings and queens do reign,
08:22to bless the royal princess Victoria with long and happy years to reign over us.
08:28Your Majesty.
08:30Your Majesty.
08:42Mama.
08:43My child.
08:44My child.
08:45Oh, my child.
08:46A gentleman came to tell me that I am queen.
08:49Yes, you are queen at last.
08:51But really queen now?
08:53Before I've been crowned?
08:54Yes, now at once.
08:56The king has said, you are queen.
08:58Then my reign has already begun.
09:00I can do as I like?
09:01Yes, as you like.
09:02Do not mind what anyone says.
09:04If you want to do it, do it.
09:06Oh.
09:07Then, Mama, there is something I would like.
09:10Yes, say it.
09:11It shall be done.
09:12How strange that it should all have happened so suddenly.
09:16Yes, so suddenly after we've waited so long.
09:19But now, my love, do not stay here to catch cold.
09:22Come back to your own mother's bed.
09:23No, Mama dear.
09:25As I may now do as I like, I wish in future to have a bed and a home of my own.
09:31Of your own?
09:32Yes.
09:33Please, Mama.
09:34So?
09:35You have been waiting for that?
09:37I should be very glad if you don't mind.
09:39Now that I am my own mistress.
09:41Yes.
09:42Yes, I would rather be alone.
09:45What?
09:46Glad?
09:47Alone?
09:48Good night, Mama.
09:50What happened?
09:52What is going to become of me?
10:12My journal, Thursday, June 20th, 1 p.m.
10:17Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this royal station,
10:22I shall do my utmost to fulfill my duties towards my country.
10:26I am very young, and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced.
10:32But I am sure that there are very few who have more real goodwill
10:37and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.
10:43At nine came Lord Melbourne, whom I saw in my room,
10:46and of course quite alone, as I shall always do all my ministers.
10:49He kissed my hand.
10:51He was in full dress, and I can very much feel confidence in him.
10:55He is a very straightforward, honest, clever, and good man.
10:58You said yesterday, Your Majesty, with a courage which I thought remarkable in one so young,
11:02someday we must marry.
11:04Yes.
11:05Has Your Majesty given that matter any further thought?
11:08Oh, yes, Lord Melbourne, I have thought of it a great deal.
11:10Is Your Majesty prepared yet to take me into Your Majesty's gracious confidence?
11:14You mean?
11:15As to the possible recipient of so overwhelming an honor.
11:18Oh, I have not thought of any person in particular.
11:20I mean, I have made no decision.
11:22I am relieved to hear it, ma'am.
11:24Then Your Majesty has still an open mind.
11:27An open mind?
11:28Oh, of course, I shall make my own choice, Lord Melbourne.
11:31Why, of course, ma'am.
11:32I will not suggest otherwise for a moment.
11:34There are some things as to which I am quite resolved.
11:37As for instance?
11:38My marriage, Lord Melbourne, must be a marriage of affection.
11:43That I am sure, ma'am, can be arranged without difficulty.
11:46Someone, I mean, whose character I can respect.
11:49One whom I can love and look up to.
11:53Look up to?
11:54Yes.
11:55It may sound strange to you, Lord Melbourne,
11:57but I must have as my husband one whom I can eventually look up to
12:00when I have trained him for the position he will have to occupy.
12:03Not so, quite so.
12:05I trust that such a person will be found.
12:07And as Your Majesty has owned to an open mind of the subject,
12:10I have here with me a list of possibles.
12:13Oh, Lord Melbourne, how interesting.
12:15How many?
12:16Well, at present, ma'am, only five.
12:19But more are coming.
12:21Coming?
12:22That is, I am making inquiries about them.
12:23What kind of inquiries?
12:25All kinds of inquiries, ma'am.
12:27I would not wish to present Your Majesty with one to whom there could be any possible objection.
12:31Maybe found five, Lord Melbourne.
12:33How clever of you.
12:35I would like to see your list, Lord Melbourne.
12:38Do I know any of them?
12:40Your Majesty knows one of them very well.
12:42Oh, yes, I see.
12:44But I couldn't marry my cousin George.
12:47He's so...
12:48Nobody wishes to decide Your Majesty's choice.
12:51There are others.
12:52But it is for me to decide, is it not?
12:55It is for Your Majesty to decide.
12:57Your Majesty need not marry at all.
12:59Oh, I must marry.
13:00Mama always said so.
13:02Then I shall say no more, ma'am.
13:04I would only commend the matter to Your Majesty's good sense and conscience.
13:08But, Lord Melbourne, you haven't yet shown me any portraits.
13:12Portraits, ma'am?
13:14Why, portraits.
13:16I can't decide on anyone until I know what they are like.
13:19It wouldn't be fair to them or to me.
13:21Portraits are sometimes deceptive, ma'am.
13:25Court painters, like prime ministers, know their duties.
13:28And they only do what is expected of them.
13:30If they can't do that, they have to go.
13:32Here is a portrait that was sent to Mama the other day.
13:35It's of my cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Gotha.
13:39May I see it?
13:41Oh, yes.
13:42Surely he must have gone very handsome.
13:45It wouldn't be possible for a court painter to imagine anyone like that.
13:48Do you think so, Lord Melbourne?
13:50You never know, ma'am. You never know.
13:52Imagination sometimes goes a long way.
13:55Well, am I now to make a collection of portraits for Your Majesty?
13:58Oh, no, Lord Melbourne.
14:00I wasn't speaking seriously when I said that.
14:03No more was I, ma'am.
14:05But I do ask Your Majesty to think seriously.
14:08The future welfare of this country is now in this little hand of yours.
14:14Indeed, Lord Melbourne.
14:16I'll take great attention to everything that you tell me.
14:19And I shall continue to take your advice whenever I find it possible.
14:24My dear Lord Melbourne.
14:36The Thursday, October 10th, 1839.
14:40Today at half-past seven I went to the top of the staircase
14:43and received my two dear cousins, Ernst and Albert of Saxe-Gotha,
14:47whom I found gone and changed and embellished.
14:50It was with some emotion that I beheld Albert, who was beautiful.
14:55Friday, October 11th.
14:57Albert really is quite charming and so excessively handsome
15:01and such beautiful blue eyes and exquisite nose and such a pretty mouth
15:05and delicate mustachios and slight but very slight whiskers.
15:09A beautiful figure, broad in shoulder and a fine waist.
15:13About half-past ten dancing began.
15:16I danced five quadrilles.
15:18The first with Ernst, the second with dearest Albert, who dances so beautifully,
15:22and the third with Lord Henry and the fourth with Ernst,
15:24and the fifth with dearest Albert again.
15:27It is quite a pleasure to look at Albert when he galops and waltzes.
15:30He does it so beautifully, holds himself so well with that beautiful figure of his.
15:35Well, Albert.
15:47We must speak English.
15:49Why?
15:50For practice.
15:51One of us, you or I, will have to always.
15:54I suppose.
15:55Which of us do you suppose it is going to be?
15:57That is not for me to say. The decision will not be ours.
16:00But we shall have to say something, one of us, presently.
16:03Yes, presently, and only one answer will be possible.
16:06You mean that it must be yes?
16:08Since it cannot possibly be no.
16:10You don't seem very happy about it, no?
16:13Well, Ernst, the English do not like foreigners.
16:16Indeed?
16:17Oh, they like holding them. They do that as a favor.
16:20Here you or I will only be a puppet kept to breed by.
16:23If it is you, are you going to assign yourself to that willingly?
16:27If it is to be me, you say.
16:29It is time that I speak, Albert.
16:31It must be me.
16:32Did not Papa tell you?
16:34Tell me now what?
16:36Well, perhaps he found it more difficult to tell you, I don't know.
16:39But this is quite sure.
16:41He wishes it shall be me.
16:43You?
16:44You're sorry?
16:45That's why you made me come.
16:47Oh, well, she has to choose.
16:49Yes, she has to choose, but she has to choose me.
16:52Why?
16:53It is Papa's wish.
16:54He says that there are family reasons.
16:56If she asks me, I shall accept.
16:58And I must see that my father's wishes are obeyed.
17:01If you do not conform to his wishes, I shall have you sent home.
17:04Sent home?
17:05Yes, at once.
17:06You shall be ordered to return.
17:08I shall send word today.
17:09And what if I refuse to go?
17:11My dear Albert, we are not English.
17:13We are German.
17:15If the Duke, our father, our sovereign prince, sends for you to return, you will return.
17:20You know that perfectly well.
17:22Well, about that we shall see.
17:24Yes, Albert.
17:26What are you two looking so serious about?
17:29Oh, the rain.
17:30Oh, it was clear presently.
17:32And then we will go for a ride in the park.
17:34Oh, that will be very nice, to be sure.
17:36I hope you are going to enjoy your stay, cousin.
17:38Very much.
17:39I shall find it quite delightful.
17:41And you too, Albert.
17:43You're very kind, dear cousin.
17:45How could I help enjoying myself while I'm with you?
17:48Albert, that's the first pretty speech you have ever made me.
17:52Oh, I'm sorry, cousin.
17:53Oh, I like it.
17:54I mean that it should be only the first.
17:57Well, so long as it isn't the last, I don't mind.
18:00The rain is clearing.
18:02Yes.
18:03Shall we go out now?
18:04Certainly, after I've made all necessary arrangements.
18:06We will go out when we do go out and not before.
18:09Besides, have you practiced your music yet?
18:11I'm told at home you practice every day.
18:13Yes, but here one cannot find the time.
18:16Go and do it now and there will be time.
18:18Well, I tried one of the pianos the day we arrived, cousin.
18:21It was not in very good tune.
18:23That doesn't matter.
18:24You will be all alone.
18:25No one will hear you.
18:26Well, generally when we practice, Albert and I practice together.
18:30Duets, you mean?
18:31Yes.
18:32But if the piano's out of tune, duets would sound dreadful.
18:35Now, Aunt, you go and practice by yourself
18:37and Albert will practice by himself another time.
18:39Is that a command, cousin?
18:43Oh, my dear Aunt, I wouldn't think of commanding you.
18:46But I do want you to be quite at home here.
18:48And as you always practice at home,
18:51I want you to practice here and now.
18:54We shall not start our ride for another hour.
18:56That gives you just time, so do go.
18:58Now.
18:59Very well, cousin.
19:01Albert, remember.
19:07How strangely Aunt spoke to you then.
19:09Is anything the matter?
19:11Nothing serious.
19:12You haven't been quarreling, I hope?
19:14We never quarrel.
19:16I think it would be very hard to quarrel with you, Albert.
19:19We couldn't.
19:20Please don't ever try.
19:21Some people can quarrel without trying.
19:23Yes.
19:24I suppose they like it.
19:25I suppose, too.
19:28Won't you, won't you sit down, Albert?
19:30You're very kind, cousin.
19:32Ever since we came to, kind to both of us, I mean.
19:36I'm very fond of you.
19:37Yes, so am I.
19:40You have always been together, haven't you?
19:42We've never been apart yet.
19:44How very nice that it's been for both.
19:47Would it be a great trial to you if you had to live away from him?
19:51Oh, of course, parting would be a trial.
19:55But one would get used to it, as to other things, if it had to be.
20:00My life has been so different from yours.
20:02I've been so much alone.
20:04Except, of course, with Mama.
20:06I don't know what it could be like to have a brother.
20:09One gets very fond of a brother.
20:11Yes.
20:12But one can get fonder of someone else, can one not?
20:16It happens.
20:18Sometimes.
20:20Albert, what are you thinking?
20:23I was listening to Ernst practicing.
20:25I can just hear him.
20:26It's Beethoven.
20:27Don't listen to Ernst.
20:28You must listen to me.
20:30I beg your pardon, cousin.
20:31I was listening.
20:32Please don't think I was inattentive.
20:34Albert, I have something to say to you.
20:38Yes.
20:39What is it, cousin?
20:42My position.
20:44It is I who have to say it, unfortunately.
20:47Ordinarily, it is not what a woman would wish to say herself.
20:51She would rather he said it.
20:54Is there anything you wish me to say that I can say?
21:00To hear you say you can love me is all I can hope yet.
21:05If you could say you already do love me, that would be almost like heaven.
21:11I do.
21:12I do love you, cousin.
21:14Enough to marry me?
21:15More than enough to marry you.
21:17For people in our position often marry without any love at all.
21:20I couldn't do that, Albert.
21:22Nor could I, Victoria.
21:25Then you will marry me?
21:26Oh, my dear cousin.
21:28My sweet wife that is to be.
21:32Aren't you going to kiss me?
21:34If I may.
21:36Again, please.
21:38Again.
21:39I pray God you do not ever have to repent of this.
21:42Repent?
21:43Oh, Albert, how could I repent?
21:46It's not in my nature.
21:48Besides, there isn't going to be time.
21:50We must be married quite soon.
21:51Everybody expects it.
21:52Expects it?
21:53They don't know.
21:54Expects me to marry, I mean.
21:56I had to choose somebody, but I wasn't going to choose anybody.
21:59Not even Ernst?
22:00Oh, I liked Ernst from the first.
22:02I do still.
22:03Is that why you sent him to practice?
22:05He knew.
22:06That this was going to happen.
22:08No, he did not know that.
22:09What then?
22:10That you were going to ask me.
22:12Then what else could he suppose would happen?
22:15He expected me to say no.
22:17You couldn't say no to a queen, could you, Albert?
22:20No, dear.
22:21One couldn't say no to a queen.
22:23Did you want to?
22:24Oh, no, dearest one.
22:27All it means is that Ernst will be disappointed.
22:29Oh, I see.
22:31Oh, poor Ernst.
22:32Yes.
22:34We must both try to be very nice and kind to him.
22:38And now I think it is quite time that we went for our ride.
22:41Isn't Ernst to come too?
22:42Oh, yes, of course.
22:44Then won't you send him, say he may stop practicing?
22:47It hasn't taken an hour, you know.
22:48I think he has stopped.
22:50No, has he either?
22:51For here he is.
22:52Yes, cousin.
22:53Are you ready to come riding out?
22:55Quite, if you are, cousin.
22:57Oh, yes.
22:58We are quite ready now.
22:59Everything has been settled.
23:01Tell him, Albert.
23:03Ernst, you told me to remember.
23:08I forgot.
23:18February 10th, 1840.
23:21Got up at quarter to nine, well and having slept well.
23:25Mama came, brought me a nosegay of orange flowers.
23:28Wrote my journal and to Lord Melbourne.
23:31Had my hair dressed and the wreath of orange flowers put on.
23:35Saw Albert for the last time alone as my bridegroom.
23:40At half past twelve I set off.
23:42Dearest Albert having gone before.
23:44I wore a white satin gown with a very deep slant of Honiton lace, imitation of old.
23:49I wore my Turkish diamond necklace and earrings and Albert's beautiful sapphire brooch.
23:55Mama and the Duchess of Sutherland went in the carriage with me.
23:58I never saw such crowds of people as there were in the past.
24:00And they cheered as most enthusiastic.
24:20Here is your shaving water, your Highness.
24:22That's right, I want to shave myself this morning and I want your ring.
24:24Yes, your Highness.
24:27Hmm?
24:28Yes.
24:29Albert, may I come in?
24:31Oh yes, dearest, if you wish to.
24:35What are you doing?
24:37Shaving.
24:38Oh, how exciting.
24:40May I still watch you?
24:42If it would interest you, my dear.
24:44Oh, good.
24:46Oh, to see you shaving is wonderful.
24:49Something I never thought of.
24:51Do you think one did not have to shave at all?
24:53I just never thought about it till now.
24:54You know Albert, I've never seen a man shave himself before.
24:56No, I suppose not.
24:57How often do you have to do that, once a week?
24:59Every day.
25:00Every day, but that's absurd.
25:02It can't grow as fast as Albert.
25:03Yes, it does.
25:04How very troublesome.
25:06I only cut my nails once a week.
25:08Nails can wait longer, beards won't.
25:10I wouldn't like you to have a beard, Albert.
25:12Who would I?
25:13That's why I'm taking it off now.
25:15How strange it looks.
25:18And how interesting.
25:20Fascinating.
25:22Is it dangerous?
25:23Not if you don't talk to me.
25:25Oh, oh.
25:26Not just while I'm cutting myself.
25:30Cutting yourself.
25:31Oh, sorry.
25:32Albert, you're funny.
25:33Is that not the right word?
25:34What are they, a cell?
25:35Oh, really, Albert, you know, I'm not sure.
25:37It's a part of the English language,
25:39which from not having to know, I've not been taught.
25:41Oh, Vicky, it's nice to hear you say that.
25:43And you too don't know the English language quite like a native.
25:46For that, if it were not for soup, I would kiss you.
25:49Soup?
25:50Soup, this, I mean.
25:53Not soup, Albert, darling.
25:55Soap.
25:56Ah, soap, then, soap.
25:58But I don't mind the soap, Albert.
26:00Your soap, if you would like to.
26:02Very well, then.
26:03I will.
26:05Now, let me see what you do it with.
26:07Oh, how sharp it is.
26:08Yes, it does have to be sharp, always.
26:10Does it hurt?
26:11No.
26:12Do you ever cut yourself?
26:13No, not when I'm alone.
26:14I had a relative once that used to shave me
26:15before I knew how myself.
26:16One day, he cut me out of Bradley,
26:18and after that, I had to learn.
26:19For a long time, I shaved only myself.
26:20Oh, Albert, suppose you had died before we got married.
26:23Could I have ever married anyone else?
26:25Oh, of course, dear.
26:26If you had to marry someone,
26:27you could not disappoint your people
26:28by not giving them an heir to the throne.
26:30Oh, Albert, shall I really?
26:31Will that really happen?
26:33We hope so, dear.
26:34In time.
26:35In time?
26:36Oh, I hope it will be very soon.
26:38Isn't it wonderful?
26:39We really are married now, aren't we?
26:42Yes, wife, yes.
26:43I think so.
26:44Yesterday seems almost like another world so different.
26:48All the crowds and the cheering and the firing and the bells
26:52and thousands and thousands of people
26:54looking at us as if we belonged to them,
26:56as of course, in a way, we do.
26:58And now we are all by ourselves, all alone.
27:02Yes, all alone.
27:03Just we two.
27:05Just we two.
27:07Shall I be able to make you happy, I think?
27:10You are happy.
27:11Happy?
27:13Oh, so happy, I can't tell you, Albert.
27:17And to think that this will go on for years and years.
27:21It's like heaven.
27:22Well, no, Vicky, not just like this.
27:23That is not possible.
27:24It's not human nature.
27:25But I shall never love you less than I do now, Albert.
27:28Yes, perhaps not, but you will be less excited about it,
27:31less romantic, perhaps.
27:32I shall have become less strange to you.
27:34We love each other, but we are still both rather strangers.
27:37We have to learn each other's characters and ways.
27:39That will take time.
27:41Oh, yes, you've come to see me shave today for the first time.
27:44That pleases.
27:45That excites you.
27:46But it will not always excite you as much as today.
27:49You will not come, I think, to see me shave every day
27:51for the next 20 years.
27:52Why not?
27:53Oh, it should become less of a spectacle.
27:55It's only reasonable.
27:56I don't want to be reasonable with you, Albert.
27:59Oh, but you will want in time, I hope, Vicky.
28:02And so shall I.
28:03We have a great life of duties to perform
28:05in which I am to share.
28:07Is that not so?
28:08We can't share everything, Albert.
28:10Some things I shall have to do alone, you know.
28:13Affairs of state in which it would not be right
28:15for you to concern yourself.
28:16So?
28:17Oh, yes.
28:18You must take great care, dearest.
28:20The English are jealous.
28:22And to them, you are still a foreigner.
28:24And to you?
28:26To me, you are everything.
28:43You are listening to the Campbell Playhouse presentation
28:55of Victoria Regina starring Helen Hayes with Austin Wells.
28:59This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
29:13Now we resume our Campbell Playhouse presentation
29:26of Victoria Regina starring Helen Hayes with Austin Wells.
29:29May 6, 1840.
29:40My dearest angel, Albert, is indeed a great comfort to me.
29:44He takes the greatest interest in what goes on,
29:47feeling with and for me.
29:49We talk much together, and his judgment is always good.
29:52Vicky!
29:53Ah, here you are, Albert.
29:54I was wondering when you would come.
29:56It's after 10 o'clock.
29:57You do not think I have forgotten?
29:58No, I only thought you were a little late, as you are.
30:01Oh, just one minute.
30:02I do not yet quite know to realize how long, at winter,
30:05it shall take to get from one place to another.
30:07It is all very grand and large, is it not?
30:09It is.
30:10But that is what we in our position have to put up with.
30:12Wouldn't it be rather nice to make one corner of it for our own?
30:16How do you mean, our own?
30:18It is all ours, Albert.
30:20More private, where no one can come but ourselves.
30:23I mean, you know, during the day.
30:26Whereby ourselves you could sing to me,
30:28I could treat you and read to you.
30:29Yes, Albert, that is just what I should love.
30:32I shall have it arranged for.
30:34Will you not let me do it my own way?
30:37You think I will not do it as you wish, Albert?
30:39Oh, not so at all.
30:40But this I would just like to do myself.
30:44At present it seems there is so little I may do.
30:46But you do a great deal, dearest.
30:48Everything that I want you to do.
30:49Yes, and that is all.
30:51Is that not enough?
30:53What is the matter?
30:54I could wish that you wanted me to do a little more, Vicki,
30:57in my own way.
30:58What else can you do?
31:00Who knows?
31:01Gee, let me try.
31:02There are so many things here that one doing badly got us.
31:05Dearest, you judge people so strictly.
31:07But do I?
31:08Of course you do.
31:09And sometimes it's rather inconvenient, you know.
31:11For instance?
31:12The other night when Uncle Augustus came in after dinner,
31:14having dined elsewhere.
31:15And of course he dined well, as usual.
31:17And so almost at once you sent one of your gentlemen
31:19in your compliments and told him
31:21that this carriage was waiting.
31:23You wish that I had let him stay?
31:25I think you should have come to me before doing anything.
31:27Why?
31:28For permission, that you might have my authority.
31:30Vicki, I'm not going to ask permission for everything.
31:32Do you mean that?
31:33Oh, very much so, I mean it.
31:34Albert, is this going to be the first time you've disobeyed me?
31:37Perhaps it should have come earlier.
31:38It will not be the last.
31:40Albert, you forget yourself.
31:41Vicki, do you wish that I had let Uncle Augustus stay?
31:45Well, Albert, after all, he is an old man.
31:47We can't expect to alter him now.
31:48Even your uncle should be made to respect you.
31:51But they do, I'm sure.
31:52It was not respectful for him to come
31:54as he came the other night.
31:55It would not have been had he realized, had he known.
31:58How drunk he was.
31:59Albert, he is my uncle.
32:01Please don't use such a common expression about one of us.
32:04Is it too common, that word said in English?
32:06Forgive me, I will say it in German.
32:08No, Albert.
32:09Till you know it better, you must, please, still speak in English.
32:12And if it's the same about English ways and customs,
32:14you must get to know them better and be more like the rest of us.
32:17You wish me to become English?
32:19Why, of course.
32:20I am English, so my husband must be English, too.
32:23Well, that one should have begun earlier.
32:25I married you as soon as ever I could, Albert.
32:27Oh, bye, Phil.
32:29So long as you do not repent it.
32:31You are happy, Albert.
32:33I will be more than happy, so long as,
32:35serving you, I'm able to make a life worth living.
32:38But you must let me serve you, not feel myself useless.
32:42You?
32:43Sometimes I feel that I'm put,
32:45not quite in a corner, but on the shelf, just a little.
32:49Who does that?
32:50You, my dear.
32:51I?
32:52Oh, I worship you, Albert.
32:54Too much.
32:55Let me come down to earth a little now and then.
32:57Give my hands and brains something to do,
33:00so that I may be able to respect myself.
33:02Am I only your plating?
33:03Am I never to help or advise you?
33:05Never?
33:06From your life's work, am I always to be shut out?
33:08But you do help me so much.
33:10Well, let me help you now.
33:12How?
33:13Let me see some of those papers you spent so long over.
33:16I could read them for you, make a few notes.
33:18That would save you time.
33:19Oh, but I must see everything myself.
33:21That is what I am here for.
33:23Cannot you rely upon me a little?
33:25Albert, dearest, you distress me.
33:27In every way that is possible, I do rely on you.
33:30And in everything that I have had to decide for you,
33:34I've only done it for your own good.
33:36Yes, you even choose my secretary for me.
33:38Why, of course, Albert.
33:39How could you know coming here a stranger who would be the best?
33:41Who reports to you regularly, I believe.
33:43Surely you don't mind my knowing.
33:45I would prefer to tell you myself what I do.
33:47In future, I mean to.
33:48Why, of course.
33:49I always wish to hear everything.
33:50Yes, the other day I made an engagement.
33:52You cancelled it.
33:53Yes, Albert.
33:54You wish to hear everything.
33:55I had a very good reason for doing so.
33:57You see, not only do you not give me your confidence,
34:00but you have me watched.
34:01Tomorrow I'm going to choose another secretary for myself.
34:03Albert, you are making a great mistake.
34:05I am repairing a great mistake.
34:06I ought to have done this before.
34:08You are not to do it, Albert.
34:09I say you are not to do it.
34:10Then, for the present, I leave you.
34:13Where are you going?
34:14In here, to my own room, to write my own letters.
34:19Oh!
34:24Open the door!
34:25Albert!
34:26Open the door!
34:27Who is there speaking?
34:30Who is there speaking?
34:31Her Majesty, the Queen.
34:34Her Majesty, the Queen, must wait.
34:49Who is there?
34:50Who is there?
34:55Your wife, Albert, your poor, unhappy little wife.
35:01Oh, Albert, Albert, Albert!
35:05Hush, hush, wifey.
35:07Don't cry.
35:09Don't cry.
35:10It's all right.
35:11It's all right.
35:19Yes, what is it? Her Majesty is waking up.
35:28At least I think so. Then go along and get Her Majesty's breakfast,
35:31quick and sharp. Is Your Majesty awake?
35:34Yes, nurse, I'm awake. At least I'm going to be.
35:38What time is it? Six o'clock, Your Majesty.
35:41Morning? Yes, Your Majesty, it's morning now.
35:44Your Majesty has had six hours good sleep, and you'll have another after Your Majesty
35:48has had her breakfast. I don't think I want any breakfast, not yet.
35:51No, Your Majesty, but your breakfast warms you.
35:53Not till I've seen the prince, I mean. Your Majesty can't see His Royal Highness
35:57the Prince till you've had your breakfast. No, it's the doctor's orders.
36:01Then let me have it at once. Why, here it is. Bring it in, nurse, and put it down.
36:06What's that? That's what we call a feeding cup, Your Majesty.
36:10It's the same one Her Royal Highness the Duchess had when Your Majesty was born.
36:14Oh, this. Yes, the same one. Does Your Majesty hear the bells ringing?
36:19What are they ringing for? What for?
36:22Why, for the princess, to be sure. The princess? Oh, yes, of course.
36:28Oh, I do so want to see the prince. Nurse, go and say that His Royal Highness
36:34can come now. There, now I've sent word His Royal Highness will be here in another minute.
36:40Tidy me, nurse, tidy me. How do I look? Your Majesty looks very nice indeed.
36:45Just a little pale, but that's to be expected. Let me look at myself.
36:49Oh, nurse, I look pretty. You don't, ma'am. You look sweet and like a mother.
36:56How's baby? Oh, she's all right, Your Majesty, needn't worry about her.
36:59She's having a 24-hour sleep and having it well. 24-hour sleep? Impossible.
37:03No, Your Majesty, it's what babies always have to do when they first come,
37:07to get over the shock. The shock of what? Of being born, Your Majesty.
37:12It's hard treatment they get sometimes, poor wee thing.
37:15Did she have very hard treatment? No, Your Majesty treated her beautifully,
37:19like as if she'd been the mother of twelve. Oh.
37:23Now, you must lie still and not talk till His Royal Highness the prince comes.
37:27When he does come, nurse, you must go. Go? Your Majesty? Yes, I wish to see him alone.
37:32But I mustn't go, Your Majesty. It's doctor's order.
37:35This is queen's order. You will do as I tell you.
37:39I've never done such a thing before, but if Your Majesty really means it...
37:43I really mean it, nurse. Well, here His Highness is then.
37:48Mrs. Nurse, how long may I stay? Only five minutes, Your Royal Highness, please.
37:54Very well.
37:57Weibchen.
38:01Oh, Albert, darling. Have I disappointed you?
38:04Disappointed me? But how? Why, Weibchen?
38:08That it wasn't a boy.
38:10You wished it to be a boy? Albert, of course.
38:14How could one have wished anything else for an heir to the throne?
38:18The heir to a throne must be a boy, if possible.
38:21Oh, Vicky, if I did not know that this was to be,
38:24for if you had been your brother instead of yourself, this would not have happened.
38:28This? I mean that I should not have then married you.
38:32Then you're not disappointed. Oh, there's plenty of time.
38:36Vicky, you may yet be a mother of twelve.
38:39That's what nurse said. Oh, did she?
38:42Let's hope that she was right. Oh, no, Albert, I don't want to have twelve. Not quite.
38:46You see, it would be such an interruption to my being queen.
38:49Yes, I suppose. But while that was so, I could be looking after things for you, perhaps. No?
38:55No. No, Albert, that would never do. My people wouldn't like it.
38:59So... No. Two or three will be quite enough, I think.
39:03Perhaps I wouldn't mind four in time.
39:06Oh, you really don't mind. Oh, how good you are to me.
39:10I was so afraid I hadn't quite done my duty.
39:15Well, Vicky, if it's anyone's fault, it is my fault, too.
39:19Oh, no, no. No, Albert, no.
39:21The father has nothing to do with whether it's a boy or a girl.
39:24Oh, indeed. You seem to be very learned on the subject, Vicky. You surprise me.
39:27I thought it was something nobody knew anything about.
39:29Oh, yes, I'm quite sure. I've thought so much about it, you see, lately. So I know.
39:34Vicky, it's time I went. The nurse told me it was only five minutes I was to be here.
39:38The nurse told you? Yes, and she was quite right.
39:41It's the doctor's orders, and when doctors order, kings and queens must obey.
39:45So now for a little goodbye.
39:47Kiss me again. Again.
39:50No, no, not again. You must not so excite yourself.
39:53Goodbye. Oh, goodbye.
39:57Have I been more than five minutes, nurse? No?
40:01Oh, it's a little hard to obey, and now if you'll let me, I'd like to look at the Royal Highness of Flint, sir.
40:05She's in here, Your Royal Highness, asleep.
40:09Quite safe, if Your Royal Highness will allow me to go in, sir.
40:13This way.
40:15Oh, Vicky, what a thing to be a father. I've been wondering.
40:20Oh, he's pleased.
40:23Well, dearest, if you want twelve, you shall have them. Anything, anything to please you.
40:30But, oh, I do wish it had been a boy. A boy.
40:38Downing Street, 9th of January, 1862.
40:59Viscount Palmerston presents his humble duty to Your Majesty and begs to state that the Cabinet,
41:05at its meeting this afternoon, considered Mr. Seward's note announcing the refusal of the Federal Government of the United States
41:11to release Your Majesty's subjects, Messrs. Slidell and Mason.
41:15After long deliberation, the Cabinet then decided to send an ultimatum to the American Government,
41:20informing them that unless immediate compliance is made with the wishes of Your Majesty's Government...
41:27This looks very serious indeed, General Gray.
41:31Where's the messenger from the Foreign Office?
41:33He's gone, Your Majesty.
41:34Gone? Without waiting?
41:36He waited for an hour, ma'am, so I'm told.
41:38An hour? He should have waited all day, if necessary.
41:41Messengers from my other ministers know that they have to wait.
41:44Why do not Foreign Office messengers wait, too?
41:46You cannot want one of Your Majesty's messengers go, ma'am, the matter being so urgent.
41:50Yes, he must, of course. Tell one of them to be ready to start instantly.
41:53Yes, Your Majesty.
41:55Albert.
41:57Yes, Vicky?
41:59Albert, why did you wait to change? I've been so wanting you. It's after four.
42:02My uniform is wet, too, my dear. I was feeling very cold.
42:04You're cold still, dearest. Your hand is like ice.
42:07Oh, why did you go to Sandhurst in such weather when I begged you not to?
42:10I had to, my dear. What's the matter?
42:12It's about that trouble with America, for having taken the Confederate envoys off one of our ships.
42:16And most wrong it was of them, you know.
42:19This is the dispatch Lord Russell is sending to our ambassador in Washington about it.
42:22He wants it to go tonight.
42:23Is the messenger waiting?
42:24No. He's gone.
42:26He's gone. Well, that's what as long as now to expect, I suppose.
42:29Yes, it's that Palmerston again. Troublesome man.
42:32Albert, read it quickly. I want to know what you think about it.
42:36This means war.
42:38Oh, I was afraid so.
42:41How foolish of them not to give in.
42:44For they must know they are in the wrong.
42:47And everything that Lord Palmerston says there is true, is it not?
42:50Quite, quite. It's war, too.
42:53But Albert, as we are in the right, what else can we do?
42:57Also, if you would, say it, but say it differently.
42:59Often it's just the way a thing is said that decides whether it shall be peace or war.
43:03It's the same when two people quarrel. You and I, if I might, often have quarreled.
43:07Had we said the same thing that we did say, differently.
43:10But we could always beat America now, Albert.
43:13Ah, so.
43:15What if we were fighting someone else, Vicki, and America chose her time then?
43:18No.
43:19That is what these patriots never think about.
43:21It is always, this time, this time, we are right and we shall do what we like.
43:25Oh, what fools they are, perhaps it doesn't make clever men to be.
43:28And Palmerston, the cleverest fool of them all, when he dies, they would say of this man,
43:32oh yes, he had his faults, but he always upheld the honor of his country.
43:36When they say honor, they mean pride.
43:39For honor means that you are too proud to do wrong.
43:42But pride means that you will not own that you have done wrong at all.
43:46That's the difference.
43:48Then what are we going to do, Albert?
43:50We're going to offer this dispatch now, Vicki. Sit down at once and write.
43:53Say that this dispatch is not the goal till he has heard from you,
43:57and your messenger must go now at once and must see Lord Palmerston himself.
44:00This will take me more time, but you write your letter at once.
44:03Yes, I am, Albert, I am.
44:04And now will you leave me alone, my dear, while I draft this letter to America for you.
44:09Yes, Albert, dear.
44:18So, it's done. Done.
44:29Your Royal Highness.
44:31Tell Her Majesty that I finished this letter for America.
44:35Ask Her Majesty to come at once.
44:37Yes, Your Royal Highness.
44:43Albert.
44:44Oh, what's the matter, Albert? Are you ill?
44:46Oh, what's the matter, Albert? Are you ill?
44:48I've done.
44:50Read it, Vicki. If you approve, send it.
44:52Yes, yes, yes.
44:55Oh, I do.
44:57I do approve every word.
45:00Then let it go.
45:02Now.
45:03And, Vicki, there's one thing.
45:06Albert.
45:07Oh.
45:08What's the matter, dear? You look so pale. What is it?
45:10Take me to bed.
45:13Oh, my dear.
45:16I feel so weak.
45:18I feel...
45:23Albert.
45:25Albert!
45:43To lose one's partner in life is like losing half of one's body and soul, torn forcibly away.
45:52But to a queen, to a poor helpless woman, it is not that only.
45:58It is the stay, support, and comfort which is lost.
46:02To the queen, it is like death in life.
46:05Great and small, nothing was done without his loving advice and help.
46:11And she feels alone in the wide world.
46:26June 20th, 1897.
46:30Windsor Castle.
46:33Lucidential day has opened,
46:36and I pray God to help and protect me as he has hitherto done
46:41during these 60 long eventful years.
46:46How well I remember this day 60 years ago
46:50when I was called from my bed by dear Mama to receive the news of my accession.
46:59Her Majesty the Queen.
47:03Congratulations, Your Majesty.
47:06Congratulations, Your Majesty.
47:08How are you?
47:10I'm very kind.
47:12But very happy.
47:14To think now that it is all over.
47:17I'm so glad that I had the strength for it.
47:20And the courage, Mama.
47:21You were quite wonderful, Mama.
47:23Thank you, dear, thank you.
47:24Now, Mama, I think you had better take a glass of wine. It will do you good.
47:28Oh, certainly, certainly.
47:30And also drink to your good health, Mama.
47:32Oh, yes, yes, certainly. Please, all of you.
47:34At last, Your Majesty.
47:36What is it?
47:37Champagne, Mama.
47:38Mm-hmm. I will have sherry.
47:40Yes, Your Majesty.
47:41How long did the procession take?
47:43Nearly three hours, Mama.
47:44Oh, dear me, dear me.
47:46And it seems like yesterday and tomorrow almost.
47:49Three hours.
47:51Your Imperial and Royal Highnesses,
47:53I have great pleasure in asking you to drink to the health of Her Majesty the Queen.
47:59May she continue long in health and prosperity to enjoy the love of her children and her people.
48:06Her Majesty the Queen.
48:09Thank you. Thank you.
48:12Won't you go and rest now, Mama?
48:14No, I won't.
48:15That cheering that I heard means that my dear people are expecting to see me again.
48:21I must try not to disappoint them.
48:23It would be nice if you could, Mama, if you think you can.
48:25Oh, yes, oh, yes.
48:27I shall have to go as I am.
48:28You know, I can't get up.
48:29I can't get up.
48:33Oh, have the windows opened.
48:37Now, will you both sit?
48:39And some of the others go out and let them know that I'm coming.
48:42No, not for a minute.
48:43Just a few.
48:44Yes, Ma'am.
48:46Very well, now.
48:47Lift me up, please.
48:50There.
48:51There.
48:52That is enough.
48:53That is enough.
48:54Lower me up.
48:56It is very gratifying, very, to find after all these years that they do appreciate all that I have tried to do for them, for their good, and for this dear country of ours.
49:17We've been so near together today, they and I.
49:22All my dear people of England and Scotland and Wales and Ireland and the dear colonies and India.
49:34From all over the world I have had messages, you know.
49:38Such loyalty and such devotion is most extraordinary.
49:42Bertie, will you tell Mr. Chamberlain how very much I approve all the arrangements he has made for the proper representation of all parts of my empire in the procession.
49:53Everything was in perfect order.
49:57Very gratifying.
49:58Very.
50:00I'm so happy.
50:02Oh, Bertie.
50:03Bertie, if we were coming back, you were in front, and I don't think you saw this.
50:08It was just at Hyde Park Corner.
50:11There was a great crowd there, you know, and a lot of rough-looking men.
50:16Of course, it ought never to have happened, but it didn't matter really.
50:19Broke right through the lines of the police and the troops guarding the route, and they ran along beside the carriage shouting and cheering me, and I heard them say,
50:32Go it, old girl.
50:34You've done it well.
50:39Of course, that's very unsuitable of a word, but very gratifying.
50:45And, oh, I hope it's true.
50:48I hope it's true.
50:51Ah, they are still cheering.
50:57Oh, Albert.
51:00Albert, if only you could have been here.
51:21This concludes the Campbell Playhouse presentation of Victoria Regina starring Helen Hayes with Orson Welles.
51:45In just a moment, both stars will return to our microphone, but first a word from our sponsors.
51:50I told you how Campbell's chicken soup reminded me so vividly of the old-fashioned homemade soup I had as a child.
51:56I think when you have Campbell's chicken soup, it will remind you, too, of the best you ever tasted.
52:02I'm sure of this because truly I don't see how a chicken soup could be better made than Campbell's.
52:08Into it goes all the good meat of plump, tender chickens, chickens carefully selected and then approved by United States government inspectors.
52:17The broth is simmered slowly until it bubbles with good, deep chicken flavor all through.
52:22And tender morsels of chicken meat are added generously, along with fine, fluffy rice.
52:27I say again that just as sure as you like chicken, you like Campbell's chicken soup.
52:33I think that you like it just as much as the finest chicken soup you ever tasted and that you'll want to have it often.
52:39That's why I do urge you to try it soon, to plan on having Campbell's chicken soup this very weekend.
52:45And now, Orson Welles.
52:47Ladies and gentlemen, you've met Miss Helen Hayes on this program not so many weeks ago.
52:51Now, Miss Hayes won't let me tell you all I want to about what I think of her, Victoria.
52:55On this point, she's quite obstinate.
52:58But just before she says hello, I would like to tell her how very much her visits here have meant to us on the Campbell Playhouse.
53:03Thanks, Orson.
53:04I'm sure all our audience will understand why it's such a joy to an actress to return to your broadcast.
53:09You've done a great deal for radio on the Campbell Playhouse.
53:13And speaking just as one of your listeners, and I'm a faithful one, I'd like to say that we'll all miss you this summer.
53:18That's sweet of you, Helen.
53:20Now, before we say goodbye, let me remind you that you have a date with us here in the Campbell Playhouse next September.
53:25I couldn't forget that, Orson.
53:27I'm looking forward to it.
53:28You're going to let me pick the play I most want to do.
53:30That's a promise.
53:31And ladies and gentlemen, this is my cue to say goodbye.
53:34For tonight, with Victoria Regina, the Campbell Playhouse ends its present season.
53:40For us, it's been an eventful procession of varied and interesting Friday nights.
53:44And we hope that in some measure it's been so for you, too.
53:47That we've lived up to our aim expressed on our first Campbell Playhouse broadcast.
53:51That we've pleased most of you, most of the time.
53:54And we have news for you, too.
53:56The Campbell Playhouse will be back on the air in September after a summer of searching for the best stories and plays that we can find for you.
54:02So until then, until September, our sponsors, the makers of Campbell Soups, and all of us here in the Campbell Playhouse, remain as always, obediently yours.
54:13Tonight's broadcast of Victoria Regina, starring Helen Hayes with Orson Welles, concludes this present season of the Campbell Playhouse.
54:20Beginning in September, the Campbell Playhouse, Orson Welles producer, will bring you a new series of great dramatic presentations with a long list of celebrated guest stars.
54:29In the meantime, our good friend Raymond Page, who played for us so many years, brings his latest program, 99 Men and a Girl, brings it to you at the same time next Friday.
54:39If you have enjoyed our Campbell Playhouse presentations, won't you tell your grocer soul when you order Campbell's Chicken Soup?
54:46This is Ernest Chappell saying thank you and good night.
54:50This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.