Speaker 1: The Shenley Laboratories Producers of Penicillin. Shenley present the Encore Theater,
Speaker 1: Yoncore Theater play Tonight Magnificent Obsession. Our star is Cornell Wire. Tonight,
Speaker 1: Shenley Laboratories present the first in a new series of
Speaker 1: great dramatic programs. Some of our stories are fact the
Speaker 1: struggles and accomplishments of great men of medicine. Others are fiction,
Speaker 1: stories of devotion to an ideal individual, heroism, or great courage.
Speaker 1: By these programs, Shenley Laboratories would remind you that medical
Speaker 1: science some progress, is not cold in personal research or
Speaker 1: pages of statistics, but a worn human story told in
Speaker 1: living terms, whether it's the life of one of medicine's
Speaker 1: immortals or the simple every day record of service rendered
Speaker 1: by your family physician. Now The Encore Theater presents Magnificent Obsession,
Speaker 1: starring Cornell Wild as Doctor Robert Merrick and Green Tuttle
Speaker 1: as Helen Hudson.
Speaker 2: To me, doctor Wayne Hudson had always been a legend,
Speaker 2: even back in those days when my life was dedicated.
Speaker 3: To pleasure and very little else.
Speaker 2: He was one of the world's great surgeons and one
Speaker 2: of the world's great men we never met, and yet
Speaker 2: his life ended because of me, and my life began
Speaker 2: because of him. That was many years ago, but I
Speaker 2: can still recall that dark morning when I came to
Speaker 2: in doctor Hudson's Brightwood hospital with a splitting headache and
Speaker 2: no idea at all what I was doing there. I
Speaker 2: heard voices outside my door, and I lay there in
Speaker 2: a cold sweat listening.
Speaker 3: How did it happen? Doctor Ramsey.
Speaker 4: Doctor Hudson had gone for a swim to freshen up.
Speaker 4: He was very tired, his heart was over text. We
Speaker 4: could have saved him with the pull mutter, but it
Speaker 4: wasn't there.
Speaker 5: Where was it.
Speaker 3: On the far side of the lake.
Speaker 4: Young Bobby Merrick and some of his friends had stayed
Speaker 4: an all night poker party. Early this morning, Marrek decided
Speaker 4: to take them off for a sail on his boat.
Speaker 4: He was knocked out and overboard by a swinging boom.
Speaker 4: They rushed over in a speedboat for the pull mutter,
Speaker 4: and Justin took it to them. If we had had it,
Speaker 4: we could have saved doctor Hudson over.
Speaker 2: We could have saved doctor Hudson. We could have saved
Speaker 2: doctor Hudson. I lay there for days with those words
Speaker 2: lashing at me. I saw them in the eyes of
Speaker 2: the people who came to see me. I saw them
Speaker 2: in the eyes of the nurses and the doctors when
Speaker 2: I began to think I'll never escape them. Every time
Speaker 2: I read a death notice, I think, could doctor Hudson
Speaker 2: have saved that life? And at last I couldn't stand
Speaker 2: it anymore, and I cornered. Nancy Ashford, the head nurse. Look,
Speaker 2: missus Ashford, I'd like to ask you something, and I'd
Speaker 2: like to have you ask yourself the same question. Is
Speaker 2: it my fault that my life was saved and young
Speaker 2: doctor Hudson was drowned?
Speaker 6: How did you know? Nurses are always under strict daughters
Speaker 6: not to tell.
Speaker 3: No, the nurses didn't tell me. But I have ears
Speaker 3: and I have eyes.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, you're all asking yourself what right have I to
Speaker 2: be alive and doctor Hudson dead? No, well, I'm asking
Speaker 2: myself that I know my life isn't worth his.
Speaker 6: Doctor Hudson wouldn't want you to feel that way.
Speaker 3: No, well, how would doctor Hudson want me to feel?
Speaker 6: I think doctor Hudson would say that if you felt
Speaker 6: responsible for the loss of a man, then you'd better
Speaker 6: find a way to make up for that loss.
Speaker 3: That's a pretty big order, sister.
Speaker 6: Yes, mister Merrick, that is a pretty big order.
Speaker 2: After I left the hospital, I spent the days and
Speaker 2: the nights walking and thinking. I couldn't sit still, I
Speaker 2: couldn't sleep. I was confused and lost, and growing more
Speaker 2: and more convinced that Bobby Merrick was a pretty miserable
Speaker 2: character and the world would be much better off without him.
Speaker 2: And then one day, when I was out walking, I
Speaker 2: met a girl. Her car had broken down.
Speaker 7: Hell, hell, there, I wonder if you could help me.
Speaker 2: She smiled at me, and for a moment the fires
Speaker 2: burning inside me flick it out, and I was almost
Speaker 2: at peace. I've always laughed people who talked about love
Speaker 2: at first sight, but her smile went straight to my
Speaker 2: heart and stayed there. I took all the time I
Speaker 2: quit fixing her car, and I was sorry when I
Speaker 2: had finished.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much. I'm very grateful to you.
Speaker 2: Oh was nothing at all. I always glad to help
Speaker 2: a lady in distress.
Speaker 8: I don't know what I would have done if you
Speaker 8: hadn't come along.
Speaker 2: I don't suppose that there would be a chance of
Speaker 2: seeing you again. I don't suppose I could call her
Speaker 2: just to see how the car was getting along. Never
Speaker 2: mind that probably sounded pretty fresh.
Speaker 8: Your alone, so.
Speaker 2: Much loneliness is only part of what's wrong with me, lady,
Speaker 2: Only a very small part.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 8: My husband used to say, did you know doctor Hudson?
Speaker 8: By any chance? So many people did.
Speaker 3: I beg your pardon? What did you say?
Speaker 8: I just ask you if you knew my husband, doctor
Speaker 8: Wayne Hudson.
Speaker 3: No, I never had that pleasure.
Speaker 8: Well, anyhow, he used to say that all paying passes
Speaker 8: and that we grow by it. Well, I'm not going
Speaker 8: to preach a serve. Can I give you a lib?
Speaker 3: No? Thank you, Missus hud good night.
Speaker 7: Wait a minute, aren't you going to tell me your name?
Speaker 3: Sure? Why not?
Speaker 2: The name's Merk, Missus Hudson, Bobby Merrick, Bobby married. Yes,
Speaker 2: it's a pity, isn't it? For a moment we were
Speaker 2: almost friends? Or am I presuming you are presuming good
Speaker 2: nights to me? I stood there watching her card disappear
Speaker 2: over the hill, feeling as though I had been slammed
Speaker 2: against the earth, until every nerve was bleeding, and then
Speaker 2: once more I started walking, hour after hour, mile after mile,
Speaker 2: I didn't know where I was walking.
Speaker 3: I didn't care.
Speaker 2: I lost all consciousness of my surroundings, until suddenly I
Speaker 2: realized that it was very late at night, and I
Speaker 2: was cold.
Speaker 3: And lost in more ways than one.
Speaker 2: I stopped at a house whose lighted windows suddenly appeared
Speaker 2: like a beacon. Yes, I beg your pardon, but I'm
Speaker 2: afraid i've lost my way to come in.
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 2: If I could just use your telephone.
Speaker 5: You look all in. Why don't you sit down and
Speaker 5: rest a few moments.
Speaker 3: Thanks. I'm sorry to bust in like this.
Speaker 2: I thought I knew my way perfectly.
Speaker 3: Well. They wait, where have I seen that face before?
Speaker 5: Oh that's a bluster of doctor Hudson, I may just
Speaker 5: before his death. It's for the hospital. You may have
Speaker 5: heard of.
Speaker 3: Him, heard of him? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, I've heard of him. He's haunting me. First, my
Speaker 2: life is saved with someone's lung machine. Who's doctor Hudson's.
Speaker 2: Then they take me to a hospital, who's doctor Hudsons.
Speaker 3: Then I meet a girl, a very beautiful girl, and
Speaker 3: whose wife is she doctor Hutchon? That's right, right?
Speaker 2: And I come here to borrow a telephone. There he
Speaker 2: is again, he's haunting me. He's haunting me. I see
Speaker 2: your own mister Merrick's grandson. Yes, that's me, Bobby Merrick.
Speaker 2: A name that will go down, and inform me a
Speaker 2: name that will go down.
Speaker 5: You go right to sleep, mister Merrick, and in the
Speaker 5: morning we'll have a long talk. I've been wanting to
Speaker 5: talk to you for some time. Morning, mister Merrick.
Speaker 2: Sleep, Well, why I beg your pardon? Would you mind
Speaker 2: telling me where I am?
Speaker 5: You're in my house, on my couch. As a matter
Speaker 5: of fact, my name is Randolph. I'm a sculptor.
Speaker 2: Oh well, of course that accounts for everything. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: have some coffee while we talk. Thanks. I hope I
Speaker 2: didn't cause you any trouble last.
Speaker 3: Night, not at all.
Speaker 5: When I learned you were a friend of doctor Hudson's,
Speaker 5: I was glad to be of any service I could.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but I can't claim any sort of friendship
Speaker 2: with doctor Hudson.
Speaker 5: Doctor Hudson was every one's friend. I think you should
Speaker 5: know a little about him and a magnificent obsession of his.
Speaker 5: If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be a sculptor.
Speaker 5: You see, Doctor Hudson taught me how to use my
Speaker 5: life how to make contact with the source of infinite power?
Speaker 5: But what the power that keeps the world and the
Speaker 5: stars spinning through infinite space? It applies to humans too,
Speaker 5: and once you establish contact with that powerhouse, you can
Speaker 5: fulfill your destiny.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm afraid this is all a little beyond me.
Speaker 5: There's no reason why it should be. Christ originated the
Speaker 5: science of generating human power, and so successfully did he
Speaker 5: practice it that he's more alive to day than he
Speaker 5: was over nineteen hundred years ago.
Speaker 2: Well, supposing there is such a power, how do you
Speaker 2: establish contact with it?
Speaker 5: All you do is go out find people who need
Speaker 5: help and help them. Only it has to be done
Speaker 5: in absolute secrecy, and you must never let anyone know
Speaker 5: about it. Doctor Hudson lived by that doctrine. If you
Speaker 5: took it up, that would be one way of making
Speaker 5: up his law. And there's another thing you might take up.
Speaker 5: What's that his profession. I have something to tell you,
Speaker 5: missus Ashford. Yes, I'm going to study surgery. You Yes,
Speaker 5: you told me. Doctor Hudson would say I should make
Speaker 5: up the loss. Well that's what I'm going to try
Speaker 5: to do.
Speaker 2: Maybe I won't succeed, but if I'm ever to have
Speaker 2: any respect for myself again, I have to try.
Speaker 9: Nancy, would you like I'm sorry I disturbed you, Nancy.
Speaker 8: I'll start by later.
Speaker 6: Helen Bob is going to study surgery.
Speaker 2: Surgery, Bobby Mark, Yes, it does sound funny.
Speaker 8: Doesn't it have you any idea at all? What it
Speaker 8: means to be a surgeon. It means years of study
Speaker 8: and work. It means discipline and self denial.
Speaker 2: It means much more than that, missus Hudson. It means
Speaker 2: being able to look people in the eye again and
Speaker 2: to sleep at night. Means being able to look at
Speaker 2: some people and think I have eased your pain, and
Speaker 2: at others and think, with God's.
Speaker 3: Help, I've given your years to live.
Speaker 2: It means being able to look at your hands. I
Speaker 2: know that there's life in them and healing, and that
Speaker 2: you're earning your place in this world.
Speaker 8: Where did you learn all that from?
Speaker 3: Doctor Hudson?
Speaker 8: Yes, for a moment you sounded like him.
Speaker 2: She stood looking at me for a moment, and then
Speaker 2: she reached out her hand and I took it, and
Speaker 2: once again, for that moment, we were friends. I asked
Speaker 2: if I could drive her home, and she said yes,
Speaker 2: and a lot of things seemed to be beginning, but
Speaker 2: they came to a quick end.
Speaker 3: It was my fault.
Speaker 2: She wanted to go straight home, but I was so
Speaker 2: happy to be with her that I went in the
Speaker 2: opposite direction. She was angry with me then, and when
Speaker 2: we came to a stoplight, before I could do anything,
Speaker 2: she jumped from the car. What happened then is still
Speaker 2: a confused, blurred thing. Helen wait a monment.
Speaker 4: Well, doctor Ramsay, the operation was a success, at least
Speaker 4: as far as her life is concerned.
Speaker 3: Thank God for that.
Speaker 4: But there seems to be a depressed fracture involving the
Speaker 4: occipital lobe of the brain.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid she will never see again.
Speaker 2: No, oh no, she will never see again. She will
Speaker 2: never see again. The words branded themselves into my brain.
Speaker 2: They were always there through the days that became weeks,
Speaker 2: the weeks that became months, months that gradually grouped themselves
Speaker 2: into years. I went on with my studies, always searching
Speaker 2: desperately for the thing that might restore Helen's sight. I'd
Speaker 2: try to watch over her from a distance.
Speaker 10: Bob is your lawyer, I must tell you that Helen
Speaker 10: Hudson's stocks aren't worth the paper there printed.
Speaker 2: All right, replace her bad stocks and bonds with some
Speaker 2: of my good ones.
Speaker 3: What she must have a steady income.
Speaker 10: I heard from doctor Richard this morning. Five of the
Speaker 10: specialists we wrote to have agreed to meet in Paris.
Speaker 3: Good. Hey, what time is it? Well that's about two. Why, Oh,
Speaker 3: I've got to get to the park. The park, Yes,
Speaker 3: I go there every day at this time.
Speaker 10: Well, this is certainly a switch on the old Merrick.
Speaker 2: You bet it is. She came every day into the
Speaker 2: little park near her house, and I would sit there
Speaker 2: and watch them. She brought her bray of books with
Speaker 2: her and she would sit there and study. It was
Speaker 2: a long time before I had an opportunity to speak
Speaker 2: to her, But at last one day she dropped her
Speaker 2: book and I was able to pick it up and
Speaker 2: hand it to her. Here's your book.
Speaker 8: Oh, thank you. I didn't realize anyone was near. I
Speaker 8: was studying my lesson.
Speaker 3: Oh would you let me coach?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: I couldn't do that.
Speaker 8: I'd be embarrassed learning ABC's with a grown up.
Speaker 2: It won't be long before you'll be reading Shakespeare. Did
Speaker 2: you know they have him and Brail?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 9: Yes I did.
Speaker 8: But how do you know, well.
Speaker 3: I'm interested in the Braille system.
Speaker 2: Oh are you a doctor, a fledgeling doctor?
Speaker 8: Really?
Speaker 9: What did you say?
Speaker 8: Your name was, doctor Robert? Oh, doctor Robert. I'm missus Hudson. Doctor.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much for your courtesy. I must be
Speaker 8: going now.
Speaker 3: Will you be here tomorrow?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 8: I come here every day.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll be waiting for you. Hello, Missus Hudson. You're
Speaker 2: late today.
Speaker 8: Yes, I know, but so many exciting things have happened.
Speaker 8: You've been so good to meet these past months. I
Speaker 8: want you to be the first to know. I'm going
Speaker 8: to Paris for a consultation. Yes, a number of eyes
Speaker 8: specialists and meet there. And while they're having that convention,
Speaker 8: I suppose it's because of what my husband stood for
Speaker 8: in the medical profession if asked me to come.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm so happy for you.
Speaker 2: Surely men like Rochard, Darnelli Rittenbacker will be able to
Speaker 2: find the answer.
Speaker 8: How did you know they'll be there?
Speaker 2: Well, they're the most famous. I just suppose they would
Speaker 2: be the ones. I'm sure they'll be able to help you.
Speaker 8: I just can't tell you what it means to me.
Speaker 8: There's so many things I'm so hungry to see you again,
Speaker 8: you'll see them not telling something else. I'm very anxious
Speaker 8: to see you all these months knowing you. Yes, I'm
Speaker 8: very anxious to see you.
Speaker 2: I watched her go that day, knowing that if her
Speaker 2: sight was restored, I would never see her again. And
Speaker 2: I wish that, somehow, some way I had managed to
Speaker 2: say to her, I love you as ever to be
Speaker 2: a woman.
Speaker 3: For me, it can only be you. And suddenly I.
Speaker 2: Was very cold, and I walked away along a lonely street.
Speaker 1: Between the acts of Encore Theater. Shenley Laboratories bring you
Speaker 1: an announcement that is vital and important for to day.
Speaker 1: Penicillin is in the news. You read that wonder drug
Speaker 1: is now standard equipment in first aid kits on leading airlines,
Speaker 1: or that penicillin is playing a part in research on
Speaker 1: preventing a tooth decay. The number of people whose lives
Speaker 1: have been saved by penicillin grows day by day. Yet
Speaker 1: only a year ago penicillin was comparatively rare in civilian medicine,
Speaker 1: and two years ago Shenley Laboratories, together with a few
Speaker 1: other ferns authorized to produce penicillin, was just beginning to
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Speaker 1: molds are now being developed for the physician's use by
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Speaker 3: Certainly, as one of.
Speaker 1: The world's largest users of applied research in the field
Speaker 1: of mols, Shenleigh knowledge and experience will be useful in
Speaker 1: the continuing task of supplying your doctor with more and
Speaker 1: better tools to aid in his work of healing. Now
Speaker 1: Shenley Laboratories present the second act of Magnificent Obsession, starring
Speaker 1: Cornell Wilde and Lorene Tuttle. Doctor Merrick continue was his story.
Speaker 2: Helen went to Paris for the consultation. I followed her day.
Speaker 2: I was in that consultation room. Oh, Helen didn't know it.
Speaker 11: Now missus Hudson, just fix your eyes as though you
Speaker 11: were looking straight in front of you. Now, then please
Speaker 11: tell me if you see a little light. No, a
Speaker 11: day before yesterday, she had definitely perception of light. You
Speaker 11: say you perceived light the other day, Missus Hudson, I
Speaker 11: think so, yes, which indicates slightly less trouble on one
Speaker 11: side of the brain than the other. Just rest for
Speaker 11: a few moments.
Speaker 3: Well, gentlemen, dot to Merrick. Personally, I wouldn't operate, and
Speaker 3: the rest of you.
Speaker 4: Gentlemen nine, it is no good for operation.
Speaker 11: Every year we make new discoveries, Doctor Merrick. Perhaps next
Speaker 11: year or the following we may be better able to
Speaker 11: help her, But right now an operation is not the answer.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's doctor Robert.
Speaker 8: Dr Robert will come in, come in. What are you
Speaker 8: doing in Paris?
Speaker 3: Or I had some business?
Speaker 8: I may as well tell you right away. I'm not
Speaker 8: going to see you again.
Speaker 2: And don't say that, Helen, you're going to see with
Speaker 2: my eyes. I have nothing else to do with the
Speaker 2: rest of my life but help you to see whatever
Speaker 2: you want to see. Come on now, I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2: Let's get all dressed up and go out and do
Speaker 2: the town show you Paris, and show Paris you.
Speaker 3: Have some popcorns.
Speaker 7: Thanks, tell me some more about the carnival.
Speaker 12: Well, on your right, madam is a Tinka, the faintest
Speaker 12: lady in the world. She tips the scales of three
Speaker 12: hundred and sixty pounds made down. And on your left
Speaker 12: we have a sword swallower.
Speaker 3: Yes, there it goes.
Speaker 12: A sword is disappearing right down his stomach.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine doing that for a living twice a day?
Speaker 3: Yes, but not swords. Hey, there's a ferris wheel. Come on,
Speaker 3: let's go right on the ferris wheel.
Speaker 7: Where are we now?
Speaker 2: We're standing on top of a hill, and all Paris
Speaker 2: is at your feet. That music is coming from a
Speaker 2: little Italian inn down the hill.
Speaker 8: Away lovely, isn't It makes you think of moonlight and
Speaker 8: gondolous and stars and romance.
Speaker 3: Will you marry me? Helen?
Speaker 8: Oh? This combination of moonlight and music can be a
Speaker 8: very heady, dangerous thing, got it?
Speaker 3: Oh? Don't. I've never been so serious about anything in
Speaker 3: my life.
Speaker 8: I wish I could say yes, I wish I could say,
Speaker 8: here is my life, take it and let me be
Speaker 8: all things to you.
Speaker 9: But I can't say that.
Speaker 8: I haven't even half a life to get you. You
Speaker 8: can't enter my world, and I've lost my passport to yours.
Speaker 3: There's only one world.
Speaker 8: I wish that were true. Bobby Merrick, you know I
Speaker 8: knew the first time you spoke to me.
Speaker 3: Oh why didn't you say something?
Speaker 8: Why didn't I Probably because somewhere along the line and
Speaker 8: I couldn't tell you when or what more I fell
Speaker 8: in love with you? And has that operation have been
Speaker 8: a success? I was going to find you and.
Speaker 3: Tell you, darling, will you marry me? Will you please
Speaker 3: marry me?
Speaker 7: It's getting late.
Speaker 8: We better start back, Helen. I'm very tired. Please will
Speaker 8: you let me give you my answer.
Speaker 9: In the morning.
Speaker 3: If it's the right one, I will.
Speaker 9: It will be the right one.
Speaker 3: In the morning.
Speaker 2: There was a note for me at the hotel desk,
Speaker 2: and she was gone. She said no, it doesn't matter
Speaker 2: particularly what she said. She didn't want to be a burden.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the days we've had together. Thank you
Speaker 2: for your love and your devotion. Words a few dozen
Speaker 2: of them that rattled emptily against my heart. So then
Speaker 2: then I had nothing but my work. And while it
Speaker 2: was exciting and gratifying, as time went on, I was
Speaker 2: more and more lonely for the happiness that had eluded me.
Speaker 2: It was a long time before I returned to America,
Speaker 2: before I returned to take over doctor Hudson's position at
Speaker 2: Brightwood Hospital.
Speaker 10: Doctor Mary, this is a proud day for Brightwood Hospital.
Speaker 10: It's going to be a great pleasure working with you, sir.
Speaker 3: I thank you, Doctor Thomas.
Speaker 4: I tell you it makes us feel pretty good to
Speaker 4: be a part of something that is constantly growing. Medicine
Speaker 4: and surgery have changed since I was your age, and
Speaker 4: they'll change more by the time you were mine, and
Speaker 4: always for the better.
Speaker 6: Hello, Bobby, welcome home.
Speaker 2: Oh Hello, Nancy Darling. You look wonderful.
Speaker 6: I hate to tear you away from all these compliments,
Speaker 6: but there's a mister Randolph waiting, but you could just
Speaker 6: see him for a moment.
Speaker 3: Of course, I'll be glad to ride over here. Mister Randolph.
Speaker 5: Hello, Bob, don't you remember me? I'm afraid I you
Speaker 5: spent a night in my studio once, of course, the sculptor.
Speaker 5: How are you, sir? Please sit down. It's good to
Speaker 5: see you again. You've come a long way. I've got
Speaker 5: a long way to go. You've become a great doctor
Speaker 5: at a very young age. And also, if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 5: you've given with real generosity. Well you did establish contact
Speaker 5: with the source of power, didn't you.
Speaker 2: You're mistaken about one thing, mister Randolph. I didn't give
Speaker 2: anything to better myself in any way I've found it clinics.
Speaker 2: I've donated to medical research, but it was for one
Speaker 2: person only who needed the kind of help that a
Speaker 2: doctor can give. Whatever I've been able to do was
Speaker 2: done in the hope that she might be one of
Speaker 2: those helped somewhere.
Speaker 5: Doctor Merrick, let me tell you what I've come to
Speaker 5: you about. Not long ago, I was in Virginian. While
Speaker 5: I was there, I happened on a very unfortunate case
Speaker 5: a woman who is blind.
Speaker 3: Blind.
Speaker 5: This blind woman whom I want you to help afford
Speaker 5: just the opportunity to complete a circle. She is missus Hudson.
Speaker 3: Helen. Yes, she's critically ill, Helen.
Speaker 2: I'll go to her at once. She hasn't rallied since
Speaker 2: this morning. No, all right, prepare for the operation. We
Speaker 2: don't want to lose a minute if we can help it.
Speaker 3: They're ready in the operating room, Bob, Nancy.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can do it, Bah, I
Speaker 2: can't hold my hands steady, look at them. All these
Speaker 2: years I've been hoping, praying that someday I'd be able
Speaker 2: to help her.
Speaker 6: Now, no, doctor Merrick, this is no time for emotions
Speaker 6: of sentiment.
Speaker 8: This is surgery. The fact that the patient is Helen
Speaker 8: Hudson makes no difference.
Speaker 6: This is a woman whose life is in your hands,
Speaker 6: and you can save her.
Speaker 7: You can, and you will.
Speaker 6: You're not a man right now, You're a surgeon, Thank.
Speaker 3: You, Nancy. Come on, lie still, Darling. Don't try to move.
Speaker 8: Bo.
Speaker 3: Yes, dear, it's very important for you to be perfect
Speaker 3: and quiet.
Speaker 9: You operate me.
Speaker 3: Yes, my eyes? What about your eyes? Darling?
Speaker 8: I think I can see just a little lie.
Speaker 3: Are you sure?
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, I am sure.
Speaker 8: What does it mean?
Speaker 2: It means that one day, very soon, you will be
Speaker 2: able to see again. You must go to sleep now, Darling.
Speaker 2: You mustn't get excited today.
Speaker 8: Tomorrow, Bob. Can I get excited.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow, Yes, Darling, tomorrow. Tomorrow is such a beautiful word.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow our world will begin again, and from now on
Speaker 2: it's going to be the same world for both of us.
Speaker 1: In a moment, we'll bring back our star Cornell wild.
Speaker 1: But first, ladies and gentlemen, may we leave you with
Speaker 1: this thought. Shenley Laboratories, makers of penicillin, bring you this
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Speaker 1: health and welfare, your doctor. Today, your life expectancy is
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Speaker 1: purpose of Shenley Laboratories to waid by every means at
Speaker 1: our disposal, the service rendered you by your physician. Now,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, Cornell.
Speaker 2: Wild Words are magnificent instruments for the expression of thoughts
Speaker 2: and ideas, and simplicity is the soul of clarity. I
Speaker 2: can think of nothing at this time better sums up
Speaker 2: the spirit of this Shenley Laboratory's program than this simple prayer.
Speaker 2: The eternal Providence has appointed me to watch over the
Speaker 2: life and death of all thy creatures. May I always
Speaker 2: see in the patient a fellow creature in pain. Grant
Speaker 2: me strength and opportunity always to extend the domain of
Speaker 2: my craft. This is the prayer of the physician. It
Speaker 2: is ages old, yet today it is as new as
Speaker 2: the hope for a peaceful way of life for all
Speaker 2: the world. May we invite you to listen again next
Speaker 2: week at the same time when Shenley Laboratories presents The
Speaker 2: Life of Louis Pasteur, starring Paul Lucas a great star
Speaker 2: in a great vehicle.
Speaker 3: Good Night, Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd S.
Speaker 1: Douglas was produced and directed by William Lawrence and is
Speaker 1: broadcast through the courtesy of Universal Pictures, producers of Knife
Speaker 1: and Paradise. The musical score was by Eat Stephens and.
Speaker 3: The adaptation by G.
Speaker 1: Holloway for Now Whild appeared to the courtesy of twentieth
Speaker 1: Century Fox and will soon be seen in their technicolor
Speaker 1: production Centennial Summer. This is Frank Graham speaking for Shenley Laboratories,
Speaker 1: produces of Penicillin, Shenley, and inviting you to listen to
Speaker 1: the Encore theater next Tuesday at the same time when
Speaker 1: you will hear Paul Lucas in the Life of Louis Faster.
Speaker 1: This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System