1 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:15,599 Come in welcome, I need ye, marshal. Doomsday is the eighth day 2 00:00:15,599 --> 00:00:19,600 of the week. It's a day out of time and out of place, 3 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:25,160 and it dawn as quietly and rus's course, just like another day, and 4 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:30,719 lillions, even a billions of people may be unaware of it. After all, 5 00:00:31,239 --> 00:00:37,520 it may not be Wednesday for everybody. I'll stop eating, Roger lily 6 00:00:38,359 --> 00:00:44,039 from but from destroying my daughter, ruining her life, squandering her fortune. 7 00:00:44,119 --> 00:00:47,320 Lou, what makes you think I do a thing like that. I won't 8 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:53,039 allow it to happen. I'll stop you. How you'll be dead, I 9 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:59,719 know and buried. I nodded at two, but still I'll stop you. 10 00:01:07,519 --> 00:01:12,640 Our mystery drama The Eighth Day was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam 11 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:42,359 Dan and stars mad L Kreamer. I'll bet exhortly that one is a lovely, 12 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:47,840 dark and deep. But I have promises to keep and mile lost to 13 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:52,959 go before I sleep, And like the poet, we all have promises to 14 00:01:53,079 --> 00:01:57,000 keep and miles to go. But of course the matter is all of our 15 00:01:57,079 --> 00:02:05,079 hands. Rouget and populars our journal may be wes were sleep overtake us. 16 00:02:05,799 --> 00:02:13,680 Finally, Rogers father wants to see you. Of course I fight Julia. 17 00:02:13,759 --> 00:02:19,560 Everything's going to bed. Doctor Vince told a lot of fathers going wife forever. 18 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:24,039 He looks so to die. I didn't just relax. I have a 19 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:30,520 cup of tea and become and beautiful. I'll go out on us a little 20 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:45,800 chat with daddy. Roger. Here's the gal baking for that's right. I've 21 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:53,240 been waiting eight years in eleven n three weeks, four dollars and what I'm 22 00:02:53,879 --> 00:03:01,199 sixty. He always get a head for figures, an appetite for them too, 23 00:03:04,479 --> 00:03:07,439 and wish upon her listen to a word, I say, absolutely not. 24 00:03:08,759 --> 00:03:15,159 Don't plunder the business, Roger, Oh both a good classical world follow 25 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:20,319 told her there's no way I can keep it from falling into your hands. 26 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:25,919 I know that I left him to Julie, but it's just a legality. 27 00:03:27,719 --> 00:03:31,639 She will do whatever you tell her. Don't you worry, Loom. I'll 28 00:03:31,719 --> 00:03:38,719 run things for her. Run years, add the letter eye to run and 29 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:44,639 you've got ruin, Roger. Life is more than just spending money, is 30 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:47,919 it? Really? It's spending money? Wisely, pity you never became a 31 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,680 minister Loo. You're going to die preaching a sermon where when you reach this 32 00:03:53,879 --> 00:04:00,280 point, you see things so clearly. You're breaking my heart. So important 33 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:08,560 to help people. I do help people, Yes, hustlers, gamblers, 34 00:04:08,759 --> 00:04:13,400 refrat Lou. I don't go downgrading your friends. You're going to have a 35 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:17,800 lot of money. Yes, thanks to you, invest in people. Feel 36 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:24,720 like I did help someone who who could make an impact on the world, 37 00:04:25,399 --> 00:04:30,199 make it a better and brighter place to live in. You old reprobate, 38 00:04:30,399 --> 00:04:35,720 I change trata. I saw the Oh good lord, oh this must sound 39 00:04:36,639 --> 00:04:41,639 the error of my ways. We should have violins in the background. As 40 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:45,839 a man of wealth, you have obligation, a thundering cords of a mighty 41 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:51,519 organ. I subsidized this young man, this artist, Peter Strizik, not 42 00:04:51,639 --> 00:04:55,079 the one who did the portrait of you that hangs in the office. The 43 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:59,600 boys are genius. One day the world will know it. The day I 44 00:04:59,759 --> 00:05:02,720 take over. That nightmare goes off the wall and into the dump where it 45 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:12,680 belongs. Right, I'm saying these things for your own court. I should 46 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:18,279 have gone, you're hopeless. You'll make Julia miserable. Oh that's where you're 47 00:05:18,319 --> 00:05:24,000 wrong. I make Julia very happy. Yes may not be you're kind of 48 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:29,040 happy, but it's her kind of happy. You'll run through her money and 49 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,439 throw her out into the street. Oh, I don't think I'll ever throw 50 00:05:31,519 --> 00:05:35,199 her out into the street. I like her. You don't know the meaning 51 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:39,040 of the world love. That's why I never use it. I said, 52 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:44,639 like, she's nice, she's sweet, she's dumb. A guy like me 53 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,560 needs a girl like that to come home to. You're hotly like if all 54 00:05:48,639 --> 00:05:56,040 only you could outlive me, But you can't love. Doctor Evans says, 55 00:05:56,079 --> 00:06:00,839 you're checking out by midnight at the latest. For nine long years, you 56 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:04,639 slapped away my fingers every time I reached for the money. Now it's going 57 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:13,759 to be mine, all mine, Russia. If there's even a single spark 58 00:06:13,879 --> 00:06:19,360 of decency, tiniest shred, if you manageable, man, Lu, don't 59 00:06:19,399 --> 00:06:23,879 go soft down. You will kind of talk. Is this it's phoney, 60 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:27,040 it's completely out of character. Just because you're on your deathbed, I will 61 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,920 not allow you to destroy my daughter. Your day is done. Lu. 62 00:06:30,199 --> 00:06:38,040 I'm warning you, Roger, I'll stop you. You'll be dead or don't 63 00:06:38,079 --> 00:06:42,519 you know it? Russia? I know, and you'll be in your grave. 64 00:06:42,879 --> 00:06:48,560 I know that too, But still I'll stop you. Do you know 65 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:56,759 what you're saying? I know what I'm saying, I don't stop you somehow, 66 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:08,160 Hello, lou I'm really going to miss you. He lingered on a 67 00:07:08,199 --> 00:07:15,240 little past midnight. But finally Louis Tremont Paradel went to his reward and his 68 00:07:15,399 --> 00:07:18,319 lawyers and his bankers and his friends urged his daughter to hire a competent man 69 00:07:18,399 --> 00:07:23,600 to run the Paradil Paint company. But I had my eye on that job 70 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:27,560 for ten years, after all, that's where the money was, and Julia's 71 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:33,199 adoring eyes. Who could be more competent than her beloved to die? Go 72 00:07:33,399 --> 00:07:43,680 ahead, open the door, fucking it's your office now. Until now, 73 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:48,120 only I knew how brilliant you are, how talented. Now you can hear 74 00:07:48,199 --> 00:07:51,160 the world. Yes, darling, and I have ideas, Oh I know 75 00:07:51,319 --> 00:07:56,680 you do. Your father, with all due respect, was somewhat old fashioned. 76 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:01,519 You could say he was conservative. This office. I want to get 77 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:07,759 rid of all this furniture, But father's desk is a genuine Luis to antique. 78 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:11,480 Furniture can subconsciously create an antique style of thinking, a viewpoint that looks 79 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:16,920 backward rather than forward. To succeed, business must turn toward tomorrow, not 80 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:22,800 urine for yesterday. Oh right, that is brilliantly conceived. I'm so right. 81 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:28,199 My office shall be spare very simple, a lean but elegant understatement. 82 00:08:28,839 --> 00:08:31,440 And that foil painting of your father. No, no, no, you 83 00:08:31,559 --> 00:08:35,919 must hear me out after what do my treasure most about our relationship, the 84 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,440 fact that we're totally honest and completely open with each other. Of course, 85 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:46,080 well, I have a falsehood on my conscience sture. For a long time 86 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:52,840 I have pretended, But the truth is, I simply detest that painting. 87 00:08:52,279 --> 00:08:58,399 It doesn't even look like your father, which it does. It completely captures 88 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:03,200 his mood. It is. So it's just a massive blobs and law its 89 00:09:03,279 --> 00:09:07,919 first, But then when you bring your own sensitivity to it, all the 90 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:13,519 elements resolve themselves into a radiant likeness of Louis Tremont Paradel, a man who 91 00:09:13,919 --> 00:09:20,000 both of us knew and adored. Perhaps darling, perhaps it's a completely new 92 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:24,759 form of art. Peter Stizik will have done for line and mass what Unbred 93 00:09:24,799 --> 00:09:28,919 did for light and shadow, Titian for colorness so well, at this point 94 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,759 only Peter Stuzik's ys so. But here we discovered one day he has to 95 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:37,840 be. I didn't care for the way he looked at you when he would 96 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:41,320 come to see your father. Oh, Peter, he doesn't see me as 97 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:45,360 a woman. Well then he's a bigger fool than I thought. Darling. 98 00:09:45,519 --> 00:09:50,960 I know you have great sweeping changes in mind, but could I ask you 99 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:58,360 to do one small thing for me? Of course, please leave father's painting 100 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:03,200 this after it was his creation, he built it from nothing. If his 101 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:09,480 picture remains in this office, it'll signify that his presence is still felt. 102 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:18,799 Darling, how can I deny you anything? Why shouldn't the old scoundrel be 103 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:24,720 around to see my changes? So he remained on the wall as time went 104 00:10:24,799 --> 00:10:26,919 on. I know he didn't like what he saw. At times I could 105 00:10:26,919 --> 00:10:31,679 almost see him WinCE. Crosbie and Dow are complaining about the price again, 106 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,279 are there, mister Stevens, Yeah, hinting they can do better elsewhere. 107 00:10:35,799 --> 00:10:41,639 Then we'll have to cut the prices. Yes, sir, mister Stevens, 108 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:46,080 you don't approve. It's not for me to approve or disapprove. We have 109 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:52,039 a reputation as a high quality house and our customers pay the price for it. 110 00:10:52,159 --> 00:10:54,200 Well, then you tell that to Crosbie and down. Mister Perrodo was 111 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:58,000 the one who would tell that to all of our customers. He would tell 112 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:01,480 them and make him like it. You know, I believe you're right. 113 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:07,159 That is the boss's job. Ask miss Cooper. Come in here, miss 114 00:11:07,279 --> 00:11:13,480 Cooper. Yes, sir, may something wrong where Miss Cooper does leave a 115 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:18,519 great deal to be desired when it comes to stenography and typing. That may 116 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:22,799 be so, but she does have other attributes, yes, sir, which 117 00:11:22,879 --> 00:11:28,799 is why I hired her. That will be all mister Stebbins, Yes, 118 00:11:28,879 --> 00:11:39,519 sir, Miss Cooper, please come in and close the door. Hi about 119 00:11:39,519 --> 00:11:48,399 a little kiss? How did you like that? Lou? Who are you 120 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:54,440 talking to? It's a private little thing. Roger, do you mind if 121 00:11:54,519 --> 00:12:00,600 I say something you have to? What are you doing this for? Doing? 122 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:05,480 What? This whole managerial bit? Why don't you just relax and enjoy 123 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:07,440 life. I've never enjoyed life as much as I am right now. But 124 00:12:07,639 --> 00:12:11,639 you could hire someone to run the place. You could just concentrate on having 125 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:15,960 a ball. I had that kind of ball for nine years. Now I 126 00:12:16,039 --> 00:12:18,519 have to go to work. Still can't imagine why? You know, everyone 127 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:24,440 sense that I married Julia for her money, didn't you sure? So what's 128 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:28,000 the complaint? Well, when I met Julian. I was a kid pastibly, 129 00:12:28,519 --> 00:12:33,200 you were thirty years old. You've been overseas with your army. You've 130 00:12:33,279 --> 00:12:35,840 even done a little time. Who told you all this? You did? 131 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:41,320 Sometimes I talk too much, which is about being a kid. I didn't 132 00:12:41,399 --> 00:12:48,120 know what money was for. It's to enjoy life, Roger, what do 133 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:54,759 you really want? Power? What kind of power? Look at him up 134 00:12:54,799 --> 00:12:56,840 there, the man in that picture. That's a picture of a man. 135 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,000 Yes it is. You could have fooled me, me too until just a 136 00:13:01,039 --> 00:13:03,919 little while ago. But now I understand him. You know, I used 137 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:07,039 to think it was nose to the grindstone day and night, and maybe it 138 00:13:07,279 --> 00:13:11,720 was. But he got more out of living than I ever did. I 139 00:13:11,799 --> 00:13:15,440 would disagree with Roger. You're just about the best liver I ever knew. 140 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:20,360 He was respected, feared, He ran things, he ran people. And 141 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:22,840 me what have I always been? I've been a bum I mean, anny, 142 00:13:22,879 --> 00:13:26,240 I know how to wear clothes, I had good manners. I play 143 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:28,799 a gentleman's game of bridge and golf and a little tennis, But I'm still 144 00:13:28,799 --> 00:13:33,120 a bum nabe. Roger. Maybe there's no doubt about it. You're very 145 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:37,720 good. They're even great. That's something to be proud of. Lou Paradel 146 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:41,799 used this place as a base of operations. He had his fingers and everything. 147 00:13:41,639 --> 00:13:46,960 He was in the group. What group, The group that runs things 148 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:50,720 in this city. It's made up of men who have money and power. 149 00:13:50,639 --> 00:13:54,120 He was also a member of another group, the one that runs things in 150 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:58,320 the state. He should go around. But that's as far as he did 151 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:03,279 get. Wow, there's even another group. Ah, it runs things in 152 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:09,879 this country. And then there is the most exclusive group of all, the 153 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,720 one that runs the world. And now that we're going out into space, 154 00:14:15,399 --> 00:14:18,240 you think there's a group that runs the universe has to be I'm serious. 155 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:22,240 Look, I have to be able to talk to somebody. I'm serious too. 156 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:24,919 I still say, hire some guy to run this place, and you 157 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:30,679 just take life easy. My father was nobody and I'm nobody. At least 158 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,759 you are a rich nobody. That's the worst kind. That's what lou Paradol 159 00:14:33,799 --> 00:14:35,759 had against me, Not that I didn't have money, but that I was 160 00:14:35,879 --> 00:14:41,440 nobody. I'm going to show him. What are you going to show him? 161 00:14:41,039 --> 00:14:46,120 He is dead in a way, he is still here. Roger the 162 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:52,480 chick isn't whether you're nobody or somebody how you live with it. You can't 163 00:14:52,519 --> 00:14:56,279 help being what you are. He lived for power. Before I'm finished, 164 00:14:56,320 --> 00:15:00,639 I'll be more powerful than he ever dreamed of. A butterfly flies. But 165 00:15:00,879 --> 00:15:05,240 just because he's way up there looking way down here is no reason for him 166 00:15:05,279 --> 00:15:09,440 to think he's an eagle a Roger, Honey, you're just a butterfly. 167 00:15:09,879 --> 00:15:13,840 Maybe, But a butterfly can become an eagle. Sure, sure, think 168 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,679 Roger, honey? Why not? After all, he began life as a 169 00:15:18,759 --> 00:15:37,759 worm, didn't he. Oh so that's what's bothering our friend, Roger. 170 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:41,960 The itch for power. It's the type of affliction a man never really gets 171 00:15:43,039 --> 00:15:48,080 rid of. Scratching brings no lasting relief, and there is no ointment or 172 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:52,919 medicine that can affect a permanent cure. The itch becomes more intense in Act 173 00:15:52,960 --> 00:16:14,120 two, very shortly. See is this what it's all about? The certain 174 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:18,720 men raise themselves to heights of power to compensate for being nobody's and neglected while 175 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:22,679 they were children? Why not? It's as good a theory as any other. 176 00:16:25,679 --> 00:16:29,399 Darling, Are you busy this evening? I'm going to be late at 177 00:16:29,399 --> 00:16:32,480 the plants. Well, I was going to ask you to come to a 178 00:16:32,519 --> 00:16:36,799 showing with me. Peter's physic is having a small exhibitor. Oh, I 179 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:41,159 feel that I'm carrying on father's work by trying to launch Peter's career. It's 180 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:45,840 difficult to get critics and dealers interested. Oh, I'm sure, Darling. 181 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:49,440 Uncle will call me last night. Dear uncle, will he hears that things 182 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:55,919 are not going too well at the plant. He hears that doesn't And there 183 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:59,320 were times when things did not go too well, even when your father was 184 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:03,240 alive. If that's true, these things running cycles, Julia, I mean 185 00:17:03,279 --> 00:17:06,799 you've heard of business cycles. Think, well, there is a small recession 186 00:17:06,799 --> 00:17:10,519 and it's cutting down on orders. Then there is this inflation which keeps raising 187 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:15,759 our expenses. I understand these things that'll be expected. There are times when 188 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,480 I think you're working too hard. Male hard work never killed anyone. You 189 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:22,200 kill father. Well, I'm going to be working even harder, Darling. 190 00:17:22,319 --> 00:17:26,640 I volunteered to join the Mayor's committee. I feel someone has to take your 191 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:30,960 father's place. Oh, Roger, if father could only see you now, 192 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:38,720 he'd be so proud of you. I joined the committee that I was, 193 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:44,680 I suppose tolerated more than anything else. I guess the problem was money. 194 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,559 The high powered, successful men who formed the committee. Since that so far 195 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:55,079 I wasn't in their league. Maybe I was wearing my father in law shoes, 196 00:17:55,599 --> 00:18:00,599 but I wasn't going anywhere in them. Yes, mister Criswell to Stevens, 197 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:03,880 our volume is way off. It's to be expected, sir. Expected 198 00:18:04,279 --> 00:18:08,680 housing starts her down for all building material. According to these figures, we're 199 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:12,799 just about breaking even. That isn't bad for the present situation. Well, 200 00:18:12,839 --> 00:18:17,319 that doesn't impress me, mister Stevens. We don't make money because we're stargy 201 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:22,200 and unimagined. It may be he'll start by cutting prices. We can't do 202 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:26,640 that and turn out our traditional quality product. What's quality, It's a state 203 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:30,480 of mind, is what it is. I mean, what do people know 204 00:18:30,759 --> 00:18:33,000 anyhow? You tell them as something that's good. You tell them loud enough 205 00:18:33,079 --> 00:18:37,279 and long enough and strong enough, and I'll believe you. You're talking about 206 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:41,759 cheapening our product. I'm talking about making paradel paint available to a far greater 207 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:45,839 group of people. Now you too can enjoy the perfection of a paradel paint 208 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:49,519 job. What you mean, sir, here's a snow job. Ah, 209 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:53,039 there is hope for you. Stevens. You do have a sense of humor 210 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:57,440 buried deep down there somewhere. I also have what I like to think of 211 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:03,440 is a sense of honor. I must ask you to accept my resignation. 212 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:08,519 He quit, and so did a lot of the others, the chief chemists, 213 00:19:08,519 --> 00:19:12,119 a production foreman. But these were near sighted old timers. They didn't 214 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:17,000 know the name of today's game. It's promotion. Maybe you know the name 215 00:19:17,079 --> 00:19:18,279 of the game, but are you sure you know how to play it? 216 00:19:18,559 --> 00:19:22,119 Joan? The place is ready to bust loose love you. You should see 217 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:26,519 the bumble that I put on for advertise. Sure you know that's your problem. 218 00:19:26,559 --> 00:19:29,640 You don't have any real confidence in me, Roger, What do you 219 00:19:29,839 --> 00:19:34,119 need it for? Hey? You jealous of who the Paradel pink girl. 220 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:41,440 Come on, But she was some genius at the advertising agency had come up 221 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,599 with the concept of a Paradel pint girl and we planned a le they call 222 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:56,079 it a saturation campaign on TV. Maybe you saw it, and here she 223 00:19:56,440 --> 00:20:03,319 is, ladies and gentlemen, your lovely Pradel Paint girl. Only nature and 224 00:20:03,519 --> 00:20:07,960 Paradel could create the gold of that hair, the red of those luscious lips, 225 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:15,319 the creamy, milky whiteness of that sensational skin. Remember, folks, 226 00:20:15,519 --> 00:20:25,039 whatever the hue, there's a paradil color for you. She was not only 227 00:20:25,079 --> 00:20:27,799 a sight for the eyes. She was a delight to have around in a 228 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:30,880 nice, cozy little retreat when I simply had to get away from it all. 229 00:20:32,559 --> 00:20:34,960 Unlike Julia, who gushed and Joan who jabbered, this one was a 230 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:41,000 lady of remarkably a few words, and she sold the paint. Orders poured 231 00:20:41,079 --> 00:20:45,880 in from all over the country. The factory went to three shifts. Paradel 232 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:48,400 Pink was moving into places and in quantities that lou Paradel had never dreamed of. 233 00:20:49,279 --> 00:20:52,960 I looked up at his painting at least once a day and reminded him 234 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:57,640 of it. Lo, you ain't seen nothing yet. Well, John, 235 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,880 you're gonna have to get yourself a secret. They I'm up to my ears 236 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:03,599 around here. The mayor wants to talk with me, and how do you 237 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:10,160 put it? Matters of mutual interest? Julia's uncle. Will you know the 238 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:12,000 banker who never approved of me? He wants to know. I'm free for 239 00:21:12,079 --> 00:21:15,640 lunch. Do you know what our volume has been just last month alone, 240 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,920 and I'm putting all of it and more back into advertising. Why were you 241 00:21:21,279 --> 00:21:23,720 I would take the money and run. Why do you say a thing like 242 00:21:23,839 --> 00:21:27,720 that. We're starting to get letter sure orders, complaints, What do you 243 00:21:27,799 --> 00:21:33,640 mean complaints? Wholesalers are complaining, Retailers are complaining. Customers are complaining. 244 00:21:34,279 --> 00:21:38,880 Missus Jane consumer who spends ten ninety five of her hard earned money to buy 245 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:42,559 a gallon to brighten her living room, is yelling the loudest of our what's 246 00:21:42,599 --> 00:21:47,279 the matter with the paint? It's supposed to be a washable paint. It 247 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:51,960 is, only it turns out to be a disappearing paint. It washes right 248 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,759 off the wall. That is simply not so. You did take a lot 249 00:21:53,839 --> 00:21:56,799 out of the product. I guess which you took out is what kept it 250 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:04,279 on mostly blue? What did you say? Didn't you hear him laugh? 251 00:22:04,559 --> 00:22:12,440 Just now? I didn't hear anything. Are you all right? I looked 252 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:17,400 at the portraits. I was sure he winked. It was such a crazy 253 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:22,160 painting. You could leave anything but one thing. I knew. I could 254 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:26,359 tell there was trouble. D even Julia, who was starting to ask questions, 255 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:32,319 Darling, Everything's all right, isn't it? Of course, It's just 256 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:36,160 that I ran into an old friend of father's yesterday a friend and customer, 257 00:22:37,519 --> 00:22:41,519 Frank Watkins. He owned a big chain of paint stores. Yes, he 258 00:22:41,759 --> 00:22:45,720 was complaining about the paint quality he was. Yes, he said he was 259 00:22:45,799 --> 00:22:52,480 thinking of canceling his orders. Is that what he said, mister Watkins? 260 00:22:52,559 --> 00:22:56,160 I said, there must be some mistake. You've brought paradil paint for almost 261 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:03,160 forty years. I think I taught him out of Roger. Yes, is 262 00:23:03,279 --> 00:23:07,920 there a problem with the quality, Trulian? I wanted to shield you from 263 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:12,079 all this. The problem is what the Frank Watkins is of this world. 264 00:23:12,519 --> 00:23:17,960 I'm afraid your father didn't handle him properly. Watkins thinks he's entitled a special 265 00:23:18,039 --> 00:23:22,039 treatment, special credit, term, special discount arrangements. Well, it's banned 266 00:23:22,039 --> 00:23:25,000 for our business. I'm afraid your father let him get away with it. 267 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,319 Oh, your father was so tough on the outside, but really so soft 268 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:30,240 hearted when it came to old friends. You remember that, don't you. 269 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,640 Yes, Well, things are going along just fine at the factory, dearest. 270 00:23:36,079 --> 00:23:41,720 Oh, I shall need your signature for something. Of course, for 271 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,160 what I have to go to the bank. Why why would anyone go to 272 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,359 the bank to borrow money? Silly? But why do you have to borrow 273 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:52,279 money. Were everybody in business borrows money. I don't think father is well. 274 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:56,119 Instead of diverting your own cash flow and spending your own money, you 275 00:23:56,279 --> 00:24:00,400 let that work for you, and then you borrow for or term business expenses. 276 00:24:00,839 --> 00:24:04,880 Oh, it's also dreadfully complicated. I'll never understand any of it. 277 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:11,519 Oh Roger, I'm so glad I have you to take care of these things. 278 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:18,519 The trouble with these things is they didn't get better. They didn't even 279 00:24:18,559 --> 00:24:23,200 hold still. They kept getting worse and worse. Hipments were returned, orders 280 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:27,720 were canceled, Customers were lost, and no matter how my Paradil Pink Girls 281 00:24:27,799 --> 00:24:33,960 smiled on TV, business kept dwindling. And I owed money to everyone for 282 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:38,920 everything. I could only go to one place for it. Julia had things 283 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,480 in her own name that Luke had left her. But you'd be surprised how 284 00:24:42,559 --> 00:24:48,359 quickly I went through all that tool of the manuw I told you, it's 285 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:52,200 all being plowed into the business. We're expanding every day. I mean, 286 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:56,200 within the year, Paradil Paints will be triple the size. Oh, lu 287 00:24:56,319 --> 00:25:00,960 wouldn't know the place. Oh that'd be wonderful. Now, Julia, I 288 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:06,799 have to meet a note before the fifteenth. Well, I'm afraid I don't 289 00:25:06,839 --> 00:25:14,640 have any more money. You don't the insurance bonds and stocks. I mean 290 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,279 they're all gone. Oh oh, they're not gone in that sense. I 291 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:22,920 mean they're in the business. They're part of the brick in the mortar, 292 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:26,319 in the machinery, and the plans and production at Paradel Paint. It isn't 293 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:32,960 that so, well, Roger? It is so Oh yes, yeah, 294 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:44,720 of course, I absolutely lover. Everybody is asking for their money, our 295 00:25:44,759 --> 00:25:48,359 sales. Why don't we forget about that aspect of the business. Get into 296 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,960 this last last I went through the assets of this company in less than a 297 00:25:53,079 --> 00:25:56,720 year. I also joined all my wife's money. It wasn't easy. It 298 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:02,440 takes a certain amount of talent. That special talents you're filled with. I 299 00:26:02,559 --> 00:26:04,440 sure know how to spend it. Oh, Roger, why didn't you listen 300 00:26:04,519 --> 00:26:08,559 to me? You could have been the happiest bum in the world. We 301 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,720 could have lived off the fat of the land. We still will. No, 302 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:18,039 No, Roger, give it up. You want to be powerful, 303 00:26:18,519 --> 00:26:25,720 be one of those movers and shakers. Forget it. How bet Lou paradis 304 00:26:25,839 --> 00:26:29,720 laughing at you. He didn't you just hear him. No, then why 305 00:26:29,759 --> 00:26:34,480 did you say that? Because he should be laughing at you. How would 306 00:26:34,559 --> 00:26:41,279 you like to have the last laugh? Oh, you simply can't pay your 307 00:26:41,319 --> 00:26:45,799 bills. You destroyed the credibility of the company, so nobody's willing to let 308 00:26:45,839 --> 00:26:48,279 you keep on doing business. In less than a month, your creditors will 309 00:26:48,319 --> 00:26:52,480 foreclosed. Don't say that. I wish I could say something happier. In 310 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:57,279 less than a month, you'll be out on your ear unless unless, what 311 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:03,880 unless you just I do save yourself. How was it's very simple? Just 312 00:27:04,319 --> 00:27:22,079 blow the place up? I'm not sure that's really very simple. I mean 313 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:26,759 the act, the explosion itself, that's a fairly simple chemical event. But 314 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:32,359 to do it, to decide to do it, to accept the rationale for 315 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:37,599 doing it, that could be a most complex procedure. It'll either happen or 316 00:27:37,680 --> 00:28:04,599 it won't. In Act three, fire and ice within me, fight beneath 317 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:12,400 the suffocating night, Fire and ice, passion and reason, the essential conflict 318 00:28:12,839 --> 00:28:18,519 of man's basic nature. The surprising thing about it all is that we may 319 00:28:18,599 --> 00:28:22,599 not even be aware of the turbulence that is taking place inside us until it's 320 00:28:22,839 --> 00:28:29,440 burned out or frozen over. I said, you have to blow up the 321 00:28:29,519 --> 00:28:33,480 factory. Are you crazy? No, I'm saying, I'm talking saying, 322 00:28:33,519 --> 00:28:37,240 blow up the factory. What choice have you? You're going to lose it. 323 00:28:37,319 --> 00:28:40,480 You'll have nothing but you and Julia. You'll be lucky to have the 324 00:28:40,599 --> 00:28:45,599 clothes on your back. And that's another thing, Julia, how would you 325 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,880 like to be poor and married to Julia? I don't want to talk about 326 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,400 it. That's why I have to talk about it before. It's wrong. 327 00:28:51,759 --> 00:28:53,599 Roger, you've never made an honest dollar in your it's wrong for me. 328 00:28:55,799 --> 00:28:57,960 I never did anything that was tied up with violence. With me. Well, 329 00:28:59,039 --> 00:29:00,920 it was a kind of a con game where you never got your hands 330 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,519 bloody or even dirty. You have no other choice. The insurance money will 331 00:29:04,599 --> 00:29:07,920 let you live in style for the rest of your life. Insurance companies always 332 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,799 suspect arson and these kind of things that they won't be able to prove its 333 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,599 flow up the first triy, don't you think about it for a while. 334 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:19,000 I'm sure you'll convince yourself to do the right thing. The only thing, 335 00:29:21,359 --> 00:29:26,119 incidentally, I have already got the fellow lined up. Which fellow, the 336 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:30,000 fellow who's going to put you back in the money. The one who's going 337 00:29:30,079 --> 00:29:37,279 to do the job. I sat there for a long time after she left 338 00:29:37,319 --> 00:29:41,960 the office, even after everyone had left the plant, I kept thinking, 339 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:47,480 how could I do a thing like that? I looked at the painting of 340 00:29:47,559 --> 00:29:51,680 blue. It must have been my imagination, but I could have sworn. 341 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:56,319 Lou was talking to me, Go do it to Russia one. I asked 342 00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:03,599 you, what the business? You didn't rist this time? I last? 343 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:08,480 You don't destroy it, don't discoy it. The business I've already done it. 344 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:15,720 Risk to me. Go to my brother Will. He'll refurnace the company. 345 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,759 You wouldn't give me fifteen cents? What banker would? You'll be heart 346 00:30:18,799 --> 00:30:25,039 of it. The Paradol name is fun enough to come back. Will knows 347 00:30:25,079 --> 00:30:27,960 who to hire. In a couple of years, the company will be spunker 348 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,839 than ever. And what am I supposed to be doing? What were you 349 00:30:32,079 --> 00:30:34,680 doing while I was alive? Then go back to being a bum. You'll 350 00:30:34,759 --> 00:30:38,319 be a rich one with Julia share of the propets, and I'll still be 351 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:44,759 a bum. As your girlfriend show says, you're very good at it. 352 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,519 You think you know everything. But I may have made some mistakes. But 353 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,839 I can come back, and in my own terms, the insurance money will 354 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:57,599 put me back in the ball game, Ruga, Ruger, You'll never love. 355 00:31:03,599 --> 00:31:07,759 Sit down, Roger. I want you to meet Professor X. How 356 00:31:07,799 --> 00:31:12,559 do you do The professor chooses to remain anonymous. I understand, mister quiswell, 357 00:31:12,599 --> 00:31:17,720 that you have a problem. He does. I have discussed the fee 358 00:31:17,799 --> 00:31:21,519 with your friend. The professor get a percentage of the insurance, a most 359 00:31:21,759 --> 00:31:26,839 reasonable arrangement. It's very fair, Roger. I understand. It's a paint 360 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:30,200 factory, one of the biggest in the country. That means we'll have the 361 00:31:30,359 --> 00:31:34,079 biggest bang in history. Well, Roger, oh, it's not necessary for 362 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,960 him to speak. Many people are not used to this. They have to 363 00:31:38,079 --> 00:31:45,480 accept the idea slowly gradually. Professor X has great Credentially, I have a 364 00:31:45,599 --> 00:31:49,519 pH d in chemistry. I tell you that not to blow my own horn, 365 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:55,440 but to do your sense of security. Actually, what the professor is 366 00:31:55,519 --> 00:32:00,599 doing is moonlighting, what with inflation and all lots of people to hold down. 367 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,400 Two charge jol has been kind enough to furnish me with the schematic of 368 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:09,240 the plant. No trouble at all in arranging a most superbitive accident. He 369 00:32:09,319 --> 00:32:15,480 already described his plan to me. You have on the premises a quantity of 370 00:32:15,799 --> 00:32:21,440 fifty five gallon drums. Yes, I suppose they contain beautiful alcohols. I'll 371 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:22,680 all certainly, am I be killed? Or do I have to know the 372 00:32:22,759 --> 00:32:29,119 details? You should make you feel better? Now these drums are some of 373 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,759 them half empty, quarter empty? And so all right, I guess. 374 00:32:32,799 --> 00:32:39,079 So do you know what happens inside those drums? Gases are building up, 375 00:32:39,599 --> 00:32:46,240 explosive gases, and do you know what they're waiting for? For spontaneous combustion 376 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:52,200 to create the biggest explosion you ever heard. Spontaneous combustionity happened? Why not? 377 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:58,480 Then we control the forces of nature. But there's a problem. I 378 00:32:58,519 --> 00:33:01,000 thought there wouldn't be any problems. Well, it's not really a problem. 379 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:07,839 We cannot wait around for spontaneous combustion to happen. We make it happen. 380 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:14,519 We can light a long fuse, a fuse, my goodness. And you 381 00:33:14,599 --> 00:33:17,359 ever seen those movies where I have a length of fuse leading to the dynamite 382 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:22,039 and it sputters along. One night, we light one of those little fuses 383 00:33:22,039 --> 00:33:25,440 and let it burn near the drums. That's all. Oh, no, 384 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,359 he won't remember. No, you make a note of this note to your 385 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:37,319 production man, fill a pigment mixer with chrome green and let it sweat overnight. 386 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:44,640 I could really account for the spontaneous combustion, so you see no problems 387 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:46,640 at all. When do you want to do this, professor? One day 388 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:52,039 this week? So soon? Well, I quote mister Shakespeare, if it 389 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,759 were done, it would be well, if it were done quickly. Oh, 390 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:59,359 words to that effect. I made it in the sciences, you know, 391 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:04,759 I'm rather and the classics sometime this week. Then what do you say? 392 00:34:05,359 --> 00:34:10,679 Lover? And all of it went past me, over my head, 393 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:15,400 and beyond all that gibberish about the chemicals and the combustion and the chrome green 394 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:19,559 and the mixer, I only knew that I had embarked in a course of 395 00:34:19,599 --> 00:34:22,159 action that would give me another spin of the wheel. I could refinance and 396 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:27,039 try again, and this time I'd succeed him, becoming somebody of importance and 397 00:34:27,159 --> 00:34:31,559 power. That was Monday. Tuesday, I waited and it didn't happen. 398 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:37,199 Then Wednesday, I came home early. I wondered, what did he do 399 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,320 it tonight? Probably not? It might be better over the weekend. Still 400 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:45,480 I waited. Then the door opened and Julia came and she was breathless. 401 00:34:45,519 --> 00:34:52,079 I never saw her face so flushed with excitement. You're darling home. Tell 402 00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:55,079 me what happened. They came all the critics, the dealers, the experts, 403 00:34:55,079 --> 00:35:00,280 the authority. I guess you could say the establishments. What establish sshment 404 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:05,719 is that the art establishment? Ever wonder why one artist is in, another 405 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:07,880 is out? Why one painting itself for a million dollars and another isn't what 406 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:13,559 fifty says, not exactly. Finally they came to see Peter's work. You 407 00:35:13,679 --> 00:35:15,239 remember I'd set up a showing far Oh yes, yes, of course. 408 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:21,760 They were absolutely rocked back on their heels. No one expected an artist of 409 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:27,119 this caliber. And the prices that were being thrown around unbelievable. What do 410 00:35:27,159 --> 00:35:32,840 you mean unbelievable? Fifty sixty seventy thousand for small works? If you know 411 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:37,280 that painting, the one of fathers that's in the office, do you know 412 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,280 what that will be worth one day and not too far in the future, 413 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:44,880 an amount in six figures? That painting of your father, Well, it 414 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,599 should have been at the exhibit, but I insisted it belongs in the office. 415 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,840 Oh no, no, no, it shouldn't stay there. But it's 416 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,320 only sitting in progress. A father to be in a pace he left there. 417 00:35:52,599 --> 00:35:55,360 That's a terrible place for a painting. And then that whole building is 418 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,360 filled with chemical orders. I mean, after all, it's a paint factory, 419 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,719 you know, strong corrosive things. The paintings will be A repainting would 420 00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:07,599 be ruined there. Do you think absolutely already there's a film of fine dust 421 00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,800 all over it. Some of those dust particles can eat away at the canvas. 422 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,320 I didn't think, oh, we can't treat it, I mean mistreated 423 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,599 like that? Oh certainly, Now you just sit here. I'll be right 424 00:36:17,679 --> 00:36:21,239 back. What are you going? I'm going to the factory. I won't 425 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:29,639 allow that glorious painting to hang there a minute more than necessary. I approached 426 00:36:29,679 --> 00:36:31,960 the building it when I reached the gate, I stopped. What was I 427 00:36:32,119 --> 00:36:37,800 doing? Suppose the professor had picked tonight? Still I had to get to 428 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,239 back painting. But wouldn't it be better to call Joan first? What if? 429 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:46,559 What if there were a smaller infused listen is um? Did the professor 430 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:51,440 you know what about it? Did he say it would be tonight? Why? 431 00:36:51,639 --> 00:36:54,480 I have to know? Oh, do you want to come up in 432 00:36:54,519 --> 00:37:02,719 your part? After? After what after. I had to take a chance. 433 00:37:04,119 --> 00:37:07,280 It was still very early. Even if this were then, it couldn't 434 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,199 happen till well into the small hours. I went into the factory and I 435 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:15,679 entered my office. There was the painting on the wall, the painting that 436 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:22,599 was worth a fortune? Who Roger? Hello? Loo? She would I 437 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:28,159 chold to Roger cash your break above the waters? Thank you? It's all 438 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,800 coming back to me, you think so, I'll have the insurance money. 439 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:37,199 I've also had Salvag's this portraits? Will that ever be worth a fortune? 440 00:37:37,559 --> 00:37:43,960 You'll never said the nickel of it? Your troubling should never listen to me. 441 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:51,280 Remember I said you wouldn't destroy my daughter. Remember I said I'd stop 442 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,679 you. How can you stop me? You're a dead man, Roger, 443 00:37:55,480 --> 00:38:00,519 or you will be enlisted a minute. A whole place is going to blow, 444 00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:05,079 Not tonight, lou the professor isn't going to do it tonight. The 445 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,400 brace will go up, baby, Now you ready to go to head? 446 00:38:08,559 --> 00:38:16,480 Blood every views become struck hazards. Why I have indeed troubles just lying around 447 00:38:16,639 --> 00:38:22,280 the building up guests. You won't be able to get out of here before 448 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:27,079 the exposer. What explosion? No one that's building up in those problems. 449 00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:32,320 You don't have more than deep seconds. You couldn't even get out the window. 450 00:38:32,559 --> 00:38:37,239 What explosion? I said? I stop you now, as we see 451 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:42,360 in assurance, money will go to children, and she won't be never what 452 00:38:42,599 --> 00:38:46,800 explosion? Deep five seconds? The first truck will go. That will set 453 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:51,320 all our second of a herd. That a all, and by the time 454 00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:55,239 ball goes, there won't be a single respending in the entire brace. She 455 00:38:55,320 --> 00:39:00,679 said the professor wouldn't do it tonight. That's not what she said. She 456 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,719 doesn't go. I gotta get out of here. It's too late. Just 457 00:39:05,079 --> 00:39:08,960 of all the build up her guesses reaches the exposure point, there's the briefest 458 00:39:09,639 --> 00:39:20,440 mood of heavy loop silence. Can you hear it? The silence? No 459 00:39:21,360 --> 00:40:00,320 go to buy Roger? Oh? Should I say hello Roger? Had the 460 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:05,119 professor come by earlier and set up the explosion, or did the natural forces 461 00:40:05,159 --> 00:40:10,320 of spontaneous combustion pick that exact moment to assert themselves. It makes sense either 462 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:15,880 way to everyone, but poor Roger, who never knew what hit him. 463 00:40:15,559 --> 00:40:37,079 I shall return shortly. We're told to cast our bread upon the waters. 464 00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:45,519 And of course it makes sense sometimes we wait and wonder will it ever return? 465 00:40:46,199 --> 00:40:51,239 But this is a kind of bread that never becomes soggy or stale. 466 00:40:55,079 --> 00:41:00,599 It returns when it does, even fresher, tasty, and more nutritious than 467 00:41:00,679 --> 00:41:10,679 ever. Our cast included Mandal Kramer, Evie Jester, Cortbenson, and William 468 00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:19,159 Griffiths. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown, and now 469 00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:23,760 a preview of our next days Awhile back, I had decided to refuse their 470 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:30,920 blandishments, to let hunger shrivel my stomach and thirst blacken my tongue, to 471 00:41:30,119 --> 00:41:36,679 cheat my jailers by dying in their death proof cell. But the snakes had 472 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:40,800 floated and coiled and mocked at my noble intentions, knowing that sooner or later 473 00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:46,519 I would clutch them fiercely in a loving embrace. I would eat and drink 474 00:41:46,639 --> 00:41:52,320 until I was sated and sick with self disgust, and fall back, panting 475 00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:58,840 against my prison wall, and sleep like the miserable, unloved infant I had 476 00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:06,719 become. No, I couldn't die. They wouldn't let me. It was 477 00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:12,280 against the code of my jailers, a law more inflexible than any written for 478 00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:17,559 humanity since the days of Moses. But of course my jailers weren't human. 479 00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:23,400 Missus e. G. Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for 480 00:42:23,559 --> 00:42:25,639 another adventure in the macabre.