Speaker 1: Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage. Kathy Lewis Elliott Lewis,
Speaker 1: two of the most distinguished names in radio, appearing each
Speaker 1: week in their own theater, starring in a repertory of
Speaker 1: Franz Brod's stories of their own and your choosing radio's
Speaker 1: foremost players in radio's foremost plays, Ladies and Gentlemen, Elliott Lewis,
Speaker 1: good evening, May I present my wife Kathy Good Evening
Speaker 1: during this series on stage.
Speaker 2: We haven't done a classic until tonight.
Speaker 1: We've done a hymn Mary James' Story, a novel by
Speaker 1: Leonard Merrick east Lynne and our American cousin, but we
Speaker 1: haven't done what we've all learned to consider a.
Speaker 2: Classic until tonight.
Speaker 3: Until tonight, because tonight you are going to hear Candide
Speaker 3: or the Optimist by Voltaire, and that's a real, honest
Speaker 3: to goodness classic.
Speaker 4: And to tell you the story, we have a guest.
Speaker 1: His name is Larry thor So, first fred Steiner and
Speaker 1: then Larry thor To tell you the story of Candide.
Speaker 5: It happened a long time ago in Germany in the
Speaker 5: castle of Baron Thunderton Frank lived. They used the dal
Speaker 5: with the most gentle character. He was honest by instinct
Speaker 5: and very simple minded, which accounted for his being named Candide.
Speaker 4: The baron was very rich and powerful.
Speaker 5: The baroness weighed three hundred fifty pounds, and therefore was
Speaker 5: very respective. The baron's daughter, Cunigonde, was young, well formed,
Speaker 5: and very beautiful.
Speaker 4: It was only natural for.
Speaker 5: Candide to fall in love with Mademoiselle Quinegonde, but because
Speaker 5: of his.
Speaker 4: Character, he was never bold enough to tell her so.
Speaker 5: The most intelligent person in the castle was doctor Pengloss,
Speaker 5: the tutor. Candide listened to his teachings with reverence and respect.
Speaker 6: Everything is made for an inn, since this is the
Speaker 6: best of all possible rules.
Speaker 4: Everything is made for the best inn. Is that claar Madmoiselle.
Speaker 7: Kunegarm, Yes, doctor Pangloss, very clear?
Speaker 4: Is it clear, Candy?
Speaker 5: It's stupid of me, But not exactly, sir. We then observe,
Speaker 5: noses were made to wear.
Speaker 8: Spects, and so we had spects.
Speaker 6: Legs obviously leave clothing, and so we have riches. And
Speaker 6: as pigs were made to be easy, we had poured
Speaker 6: all year around. Consequently, those who say all is well
Speaker 6: talk nansense. What they should say, is all's.
Speaker 4: For the guest? Now do you see? Yes, it's all
Speaker 4: clear now, sir, thank you.
Speaker 5: Candide was happy and, in his innocent way, considered himself
Speaker 5: extremely fortunate.
Speaker 4: He had a roof over his head.
Speaker 5: He could see Mademoiselle Cunegonde every day, and he was
Speaker 5: taught by doctor Pendloss, the greatest philosopher in the province
Speaker 5: and therefore the whole world. But it was not to last.
Speaker 5: One day, Cunigond was walking in the garden.
Speaker 2: What a lovely day. It's good to be alive.
Speaker 5: She felt very aware, and for the first time in
Speaker 5: her life noticed the birds.
Speaker 9: And the beads.
Speaker 2: How lovely they are. I wonder what.
Speaker 7: Attracts them to the flowers. It's scientific. I suppose Candide
Speaker 7: might know. I'll ask him after supper.
Speaker 5: After supper, Cunigund found herself a long with Candide.
Speaker 4: Candy asked, Mademoiselle Cunigon you wish to speak to me?
Speaker 7: Yes, I will you see I you dropped your handkerchief.
Speaker 2: You may pick it up if you like. Thank you.
Speaker 7: You may kiss my hand if you like, Cunigond, how
Speaker 7: nice you kiss my hand just like a bird at
Speaker 7: a flower. Do it again, Cunigond, you may kiss me
Speaker 7: on the lips too.
Speaker 5: Shuni gone, father, my lord the baron.
Speaker 2: I was just asking Candide to question Father.
Speaker 5: I listen to my lord. I was just please, my Lord.
Speaker 10: I was on it.
Speaker 8: Please come from me.
Speaker 5: Oh, Cunigon, I am parted from you, expelled from paradise.
Speaker 4: What will become of me?
Speaker 5: Candy picked himself up and started blocking. He wandered aimlessly
Speaker 5: until the next morning, shivering and pennilessly came to an end.
Speaker 5: Two soldiers dressed in blue noticed him.
Speaker 4: And ask him to have something to eat. Gentlemen, I'm honored,
Speaker 4: but I have no money to pay.
Speaker 11: Ah, sir, persons of your merit.
Speaker 8: Never pay anything.
Speaker 4: Are you not? A well built young man.
Speaker 11: Over five feet long five feet ten perfect. We'd never
Speaker 11: let a man like you be short of money. Men
Speaker 11: were made to help each other.
Speaker 5: Yes, that is what doctor Pangloss was always telling me.
Speaker 5: I see that everything is for the best.
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 2: Tell me do you love?
Speaker 4: Oh? Yes, I love Mademoiselle Cunigon.
Speaker 12: No, no, Oh, What I mean is do you love
Speaker 12: the King of the Bulgarian?
Speaker 4: Not a bit. I've never seen him. Why, he's the
Speaker 4: most charming of kings. You must drink his health. Oh gladly,
Speaker 4: that's enough.
Speaker 8: Bring out the leg irons.
Speaker 11: Corporal, what what are you doing? You are now the defender,
Speaker 11: the hero of the Blue Bulgarians. You are now in
Speaker 11: the army with your fortune and gloria.
Speaker 4: Shot attention. Huh.
Speaker 5: The two soldiers cook can lead to a regiment. He
Speaker 5: was taught to drill, to shoot, and given thirty strokes
Speaker 5: with a stick. The next day he did better and
Speaker 5: was given only twenty strokes. On the third day, the
Speaker 5: King of the Bulgarians went to war with the King
Speaker 5: of the Abaris. Tundy couldn't quite understand how he happened
Speaker 5: to be in the middle of it, so he decided
Speaker 5: to go elsewhere.
Speaker 4: He left the war and.
Speaker 5: Headed for Holland, where he arrived starving and in ranks.
Speaker 5: A kind merchant, observing the plight of a fellow creature,
Speaker 5: took him in, cleaned him up.
Speaker 4: And fed him.
Speaker 5: Even orfered to teach him how to make.
Speaker 4: Persian jewelry, which is made in Holland.
Speaker 5: A month later he met a beggar covered with sores
Speaker 5: and dirt.
Speaker 2: To that, sir, just a penny.
Speaker 4: Here you are, my good man. Thank you sir.
Speaker 6: Wheat, it can't be Candy.
Speaker 4: Yes, that is my name. Don't you recognize me?
Speaker 5: Doctor Pangloss, you, my dear master, in this horrible steak.
Speaker 4: What's happened to you?
Speaker 6: Tragedy, my boy, exhausting physical tragedy. In fact, your face
Speaker 6: is the first happy sight I've seen since the castle
Speaker 6: was destroyed.
Speaker 4: The castle destroyed.
Speaker 6: Utterly, the Bulgarians came, not a stone left standing, or
Speaker 6: even a chicken left alive.
Speaker 4: And Mademoiselle Cunigon.
Speaker 6: Junigone, the pearl of young ladies, that masterpiece of nature.
Speaker 9: She's dead.
Speaker 4: They have dispeared by one of the soldiers.
Speaker 6: They broke the baron's head when he tried to defend her,
Speaker 6: sliced up the baroness, and skewed.
Speaker 4: The baron's son. Cunigon dead, best of all worlds? Where
Speaker 4: are you?
Speaker 6: They left me alone only because I have the pox.
Speaker 8: No one will have anything to do with me.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm almost dead myself.
Speaker 5: Not when we've just found each other. You must be cured,
Speaker 5: can I have? I will take you to my benefactor,
Speaker 5: a good kind merchant, and tell him everything. He cannot help,
Speaker 5: but have compassion for you as he did for me.
Speaker 4: Such people still exist. I can't believe him. Come, I
Speaker 4: will show you.
Speaker 5: And within the hour doctor Pandluss learned one such person
Speaker 5: did exist.
Speaker 4: The good kind merchant paid for a cure out of
Speaker 4: his own pocket.
Speaker 5: Doctor Pendluss explained the candied how these amazing events proved
Speaker 5: his philosophy.
Speaker 2: If I had not had the pox, the soldiers.
Speaker 4: Would have killed me.
Speaker 8: I've never been digging.
Speaker 6: On the streets where you found me, which resulted in
Speaker 6: my cure. And therefore, if one catches the pox, it
Speaker 6: can only be for the best.
Speaker 5: Some weeks later, the merchant found it necessary to go
Speaker 5: to Lisbon on business, and took his two philosophers with him.
Speaker 5: Just as they stepped off the boat, the earth began
Speaker 5: to tremble under their feet. A tidal wave smashed all
Speaker 5: the ships, and the houses crashed in the streets.
Speaker 4: Pangloss.
Speaker 6: Our benefactor completely buried under that house.
Speaker 5: And why how can it be for the best? There
Speaker 5: was not another man like him.
Speaker 6: It can only be that he was just too good
Speaker 6: to live. He will never be tempted to do a
Speaker 6: wrong thing, so he will remain good forever. Not many
Speaker 6: of us are that fortune they come, we must search
Speaker 6: for food.
Speaker 4: There seems to be a light over there. Hello, Hello,
Speaker 4: do you need help? Have you any food?
Speaker 6: You're serving?
Speaker 8: Soup and bread just thrown, But two more this way, gentlemen, We.
Speaker 4: Thank you very kindly.
Speaker 5: Ah smells im compliments of the city officials.
Speaker 4: A terrible disaster.
Speaker 5: Yes, our benefactor was killed most immediately, my sympathy. This
Speaker 5: horror can only be the work of the devil. Something
Speaker 5: must be done the survivor. They're in an ugly mood.
Speaker 6: If they understood philosophy would be clearer than that.
Speaker 4: All this is for the best.
Speaker 5: Oh, doctor Pangloss is the greatest philosopher in the world,
Speaker 5: said I am his disciple. Oh, then you must be
Speaker 5: strangers to our city. You don't believe our desired. That
Speaker 5: will be evil begging.
Speaker 4: Your Excellency's pardoned. But not in this case.
Speaker 6: It is impossible for things not to happen.
Speaker 4: When they do.
Speaker 6: Therefore, all happenings must be accepted for the best.
Speaker 5: But then you wouldn't agree that a public hanging is
Speaker 5: the only preventative for earthquakes. Public hanging, with all the
Speaker 5: frills and ceremony, of course, I don't quite see how
Speaker 5: it would serve any purpose except to take the people's
Speaker 5: minds off their own misery for a while. Precisely, especially
Speaker 5: if those who are hanged happen to be strangers, have
Speaker 5: no local importance to your.
Speaker 4: Planning such a spectacle. Precisely when will it take place?
Speaker 5: Almost immediately, gods, In almost no time, Candid and Pangloss
Speaker 5: were shackled together and marched outside. A procession was formed,
Speaker 5: with a few musicians at the head, and they marched
Speaker 5: off to the public squares. A gibbet had already been erected,
Speaker 5: and the waiting crowd brinted, the strangers warmer. It was
Speaker 5: all according to custom and very colorful. I can't believe
Speaker 5: this is happening. It must be a bad dream. Cage
Speaker 5: my boy, farewell, Pangloss.
Speaker 4: It was pure providence.
Speaker 5: The crowd panicked and ran. Candide was struck by some
Speaker 5: falling stones and terrified. Bewildered and bleeding, he crawled away, young.
Speaker 4: Man, why, old woman? What is it? My son?
Speaker 10: Follow me?
Speaker 4: I'm too weak, clean on me? Why are you? Why
Speaker 4: are you so kind?
Speaker 10: Just come along and don't speak a word. Your new
Speaker 10: suit of clothes fits quite well. I had to guess
Speaker 10: at the size.
Speaker 5: Please tell me whose house am I in who has
Speaker 5: inspired you with so much kindness.
Speaker 10: Now that you're presentable, you shall see.
Speaker 2: Cuney gun, Candy.
Speaker 4: It's impossible this time I am dreaming.
Speaker 5: No, it is I but Pangloss assured me that you
Speaker 5: had been speared.
Speaker 2: Yes, but a spearing is not always fatal.
Speaker 4: It's a miracle. Tell me.
Speaker 7: When the soldiers came to the castle, one of them
Speaker 7: found me and took me as his prisoner.
Speaker 2: I did his shirts and cooking. Then he lost all
Speaker 2: his money and got tired of me, and I was
Speaker 2: sold to a marriage broker who.
Speaker 4: Brought me here. How terrible for you.
Speaker 7: One day the chief official of the city noticed me
Speaker 7: and asked for my hand. You're marriage No, since the
Speaker 7: marriage broker has gone to some expense.
Speaker 2: To show me off, they're still bargaining. Thank heaven, Thank heaven.
Speaker 4: But how did you find me?
Speaker 7: The chief official invited me to the ceremony. I had
Speaker 7: an excellent seat. When I saw that you and doctor
Speaker 7: Pangloss were the strangers.
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it when our teacher was yes, terrible,
Speaker 2: dear sweet.
Speaker 10: Candy, ah my heavens, it's the chief official.
Speaker 5: Why did I fighting for your have This is what
Speaker 5: goes on behind my back is it's social, You scoundrels.
Speaker 2: Please, Candid run stand behind.
Speaker 4: Me, cueing a gun. So you think you're gonna fight.
Speaker 7: Indeed you cured him, you who were always so, My
Speaker 7: dear Cunigon.
Speaker 5: When a man is in love, jealous, and almost been
Speaker 5: hung to prevent earthquakes, there is a tendency to lose
Speaker 5: one's temper.
Speaker 2: But he is the chief official. If the police come,
Speaker 2: we're lost.
Speaker 10: If you don't mind my suggesting, there are three horses
Speaker 10: in the stable. We could ride to the nearest seaport
Speaker 10: and take ship for another country.
Speaker 4: That's wonderful. We'd better hurry.
Speaker 5: They rolled thirty miles to the nearest seaport and found
Speaker 5: a ship that was leaving for the New World. Soldiers
Speaker 5: were needed for one of the garrisons in South America,
Speaker 5: so Candide went through the Bulgarian drill for the general
Speaker 5: and was made a captain on the spot. The three
Speaker 5: went on board and the ship sailed. We are going
Speaker 5: to a new world, my Cunigon.
Speaker 3: I look forward to it, for one might lament a
Speaker 3: little over the happenings in our own world.
Speaker 5: I was beginning to believe Panglass lied to us when
Speaker 5: he said everything is for the best. It must be
Speaker 5: the new one that is the best of all possible worlds.
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Speaker 5: The voyage to the New World was without incident or
Speaker 5: miss o. The sea air was very invigorating, and Candide
Speaker 5: Cunigonde and the Old Woman landed in South America much refreshed.
Speaker 4: Following the custom, they went to call on the Royal.
Speaker 5: Governor, Don Fernando I Figueroa E Lomparda si Suza.
Speaker 4: A man with an appreciation for the finer things in life,
Speaker 4: including women charming. Oh yes, mademoiselle, what.
Speaker 2: Was it, Mademoiselle Cunegonde, Your Excellency.
Speaker 4: Cunigone, Yes, indeed married.
Speaker 5: Mademoiselle Cunegon has done me the honor of accepting my proposal,
Speaker 5: Your excellency, it would be a double honor to have
Speaker 5: you present at the wedding.
Speaker 13: Yes, you're a captain, aren't you, young man? I have
Speaker 13: some troops outside. How would you like to inspect them?
Speaker 4: I'd be very happy to your excellency this afternoon.
Speaker 5: Now you go out that door there that door, yes, sir,
Speaker 5: Thank you, sir.
Speaker 13: Mademoiselle, your excellency. For some reason, I find myself very interested.
Speaker 9: In your welfare.
Speaker 13: You are, sir, a woman of your charm and perfection
Speaker 13: most certainly should be married.
Speaker 8: But not to a captain, my dear.
Speaker 13: What you need is a man of position who can
Speaker 13: do things for you.
Speaker 2: Yes, your excellency, but you see it, ah ah.
Speaker 4: It is impolite to interrupt governors.
Speaker 2: Excuse me.
Speaker 13: Yes, Fortunately for you, I am unmarried at the present time,
Speaker 13: and for your benefit, I'm willing to marry you myself.
Speaker 2: That's very kind of you. Could I be allowed a few.
Speaker 7: Moments to discuss your considerations for me with the old
Speaker 7: woman who.
Speaker 2: Came with us.
Speaker 13: Of course, I wouldn't think of rushing you take all
Speaker 13: the time you like minutes.
Speaker 5: Junigonde went quickly to the old woman and started to
Speaker 5: tell her of the governor's kindness.
Speaker 4: The old woman could.
Speaker 8: Hardly wait for her to finish.
Speaker 10: Excellent, mademoiselle, it solves a very awkward situation of which
Speaker 10: I have just learned. We have been followed here to the.
Speaker 2: New World, followed by the authorities. Their ship just arrived.
Speaker 10: They are looking for the persons responsible for the death
Speaker 10: of the chief official.
Speaker 2: For good heavens, then we must all flee. There is
Speaker 2: no need.
Speaker 8: With the governor in love with you.
Speaker 10: He's the most powerful man of South America.
Speaker 2: They wouldn't dare touch you. But Candid the governor won't
Speaker 2: save him. I must run and warn him quickly.
Speaker 10: You are fifteen minutes a almost up.
Speaker 2: You run back to the Governor.
Speaker 10: I will warn Captain Candide.
Speaker 5: The old woman ran to Candid and warned him there
Speaker 5: was not a moment to lose. Candid rushed to find
Speaker 5: his manservant, who had been hired just before.
Speaker 8: They left Europe. His name was Cacambo, and he.
Speaker 4: Was just the man for such an occasion.
Speaker 5: Experienced, well traveled and He loved his master because he
Speaker 5: knew Candy to be a good man. Where are you
Speaker 5: taking me? Where are we going through the back country?
Speaker 5: They are shooting bridemaster Bride. Candide had never ridden so
Speaker 5: fast in his life. They flew until the road came
Speaker 5: to an end in the jungle. The horses collapsed with fatigue,
Speaker 5: so they went on foot, living on wild fruit, wandering
Speaker 5: deeper and deeper until they came to a little river.
Speaker 5: There they built a canoe. Then they drifted, watching.
Speaker 4: The river get wider and wider.
Speaker 5: Finally it disappeared under an arch of towering rocks. When
Speaker 5: they saw daylight again, they were in a country surrounded
Speaker 5: by giant mountains.
Speaker 4: It was very beautiful.
Speaker 5: Candide and Cacambo landed at the first village where they
Speaker 5: saw some children at play. What are those children playing
Speaker 5: with those red, green and yellow stones that sparkle? So
Speaker 5: here are some the ground master, look, gold emeralds, rubies
Speaker 5: all over the place.
Speaker 4: This country is much better than west failure. But where
Speaker 4: are we? What country can this be? There is a house,
Speaker 4: maybe there is someone who can tell us. It was
Speaker 4: one of the plainer houses.
Speaker 5: The paneling was only gold studded with rubies, but done
Speaker 5: with taste, which are torn for the simplicity.
Speaker 4: An old man welcomed them and began to talk.
Speaker 12: This kingdom is the ancient country of the Incas. Since
Speaker 12: we are surrounded by impossible mountains, we know little of
Speaker 12: the outside world.
Speaker 4: That is why we live so simply. Well, yes, that's
Speaker 4: very understandable, sir. The Spaniards have a vague knowledge of us.
Speaker 12: They call our country El Dorado. I believe it means
Speaker 12: place of great wealth. Ridiculous, isn't This simple life is
Speaker 12: the best. That's why we are all very happy. We
Speaker 12: have no jails because there is nothing to steal, no
Speaker 12: mad people, because there is nothing to drive us crazy.
Speaker 4: So you see, we.
Speaker 12: Are no different than anyone else. I hope I'm not
Speaker 12: boring you.
Speaker 4: Oh no, sir, Please go on.
Speaker 5: When they had finished their conversation, the old man made
Speaker 5: arrangements for the two travelers to be received at court.
Speaker 5: A carriage arrived, drawn by six red sheep.
Speaker 4: They all got in and rolled on to the capitol.
Speaker 4: The city was magnificent.
Speaker 5: Everything was beautiful and useful, and everyone smiled. The king
Speaker 5: greeted them with hospitality beyond belief. At the end of
Speaker 5: the month, Candide had a talk with Cacambo. They sat
Speaker 5: by a pool of twenty year old.
Speaker 4: Brandy and dropped diamonds into it. Watching the circles.
Speaker 5: They made, Cacambo, Yes, Master, this is all very pleasant,
Speaker 5: But Cunegonde is not here.
Speaker 4: Isn't there someone you love? There's a girl in Europe.
Speaker 1: If we returned to our own world with only six
Speaker 1: sheep laden with these pebbles, we'd be richer than all
Speaker 1: the kings put together.
Speaker 4: We'd have nothing to fear.
Speaker 5: Yes, I've never thought of that, and we could easily
Speaker 5: regain Mademoiselle Cunegon.
Speaker 4: Then let's do it. Let us go ask the old
Speaker 4: man to ask the king if.
Speaker 8: We may go.
Speaker 5: Sure, there were no laws against foreigners leaving, and the
Speaker 5: king agreed to give them. The sheep loaded with pebbles.
Speaker 4: And yellow men. They could not go out the way they.
Speaker 5: Came in, so the scientists were ordered to invent a
Speaker 5: machine to carry them over the mountains. It was a
Speaker 5: hard journey, and four sheep were lost with their heavy burdens.
Speaker 5: Even so, they still had plenty when they got to
Speaker 5: the nearest town.
Speaker 4: There is the tom Master. We are at the end
Speaker 4: of our troubles.
Speaker 8: And the beginning of happiness.
Speaker 1: This is what you must do, since I am still
Speaker 1: wanted for killing the chief official in self defense. Yes, Master,
Speaker 1: you are more clever than I.
Speaker 5: So you go to the governor. We each have five
Speaker 5: or six millions in diamonds. Offer him a million for Cunigon.
Speaker 5: If he is obstinate too, I will take ship for Venice.
Speaker 4: There is nothing to fear there. I will wait for
Speaker 4: you to bring Cunigon. That is an excellent plan. We
Speaker 4: will part here.
Speaker 8: I trust you, Cacambo, do not fear, master.
Speaker 4: I will join you in Venice.
Speaker 5: Gandid sold a few eldado pebbles and bought a ship
Speaker 5: to take him to Venice.
Speaker 4: On the way, they were.
Speaker 5: Attacked by pirates, and all of his treasure.
Speaker 4: Except a handful of diamonds, was lost.
Speaker 5: At last, he arrived in Venice and spent every day
Speaker 5: waiting at the docks. Three months went by, and one night,
Speaker 5: while Kandide was having his dinner, a man with a
Speaker 5: face of soot came up.
Speaker 4: From behind and lean down. Get ready to come with us.
Speaker 4: Do not fail, what, Cacambo, where is Cunegonde? Take me
Speaker 4: to her.
Speaker 5: Sh Kunegond is not here she is in Constantinople, Constantinople.
Speaker 4: Does she still love me? How is she? She is
Speaker 4: the slave of a prince master, she works in his kitchen,
Speaker 4: and she has lost her beauty.
Speaker 5: Beautiful or ugly. I shall always love her. But how
Speaker 5: did this happen? You had six millions? Ah, but did
Speaker 5: I not give two to the governor? And a pirate
Speaker 5: ship stripped me of the rest. These pirates old Cunegand
Speaker 5: and the old woman to the prince. And me, I
Speaker 5: am the slave of a dethroned sultan. What a chain
Speaker 5: of calamity. But I have a few diamonds left. I
Speaker 5: will buy you both. Candide paid a high rants and
Speaker 5: for kakam, and they went on board a Turkish galley.
Speaker 5: As they went toward Constantinople, one of the galley slaves
Speaker 5: cut Candide. If I hadn't seen him hanged, i'd swear
Speaker 5: that was Pandloss Candid, It is Pandlass Hundy, my boy.
Speaker 8: My dear teacher. But I saw you hanged.
Speaker 4: The rope was wet, my boy.
Speaker 8: It wasn't a good job of hand.
Speaker 4: I'd been through worse since I became a galley slave.
Speaker 5: I will ransom you immediately, what fortune to find you.
Speaker 5: We are going to get Cunigund too, dear Pangloss. She's alive.
Speaker 5: After ransoming Panglas, there was just enough left to buy Cunigund,
Speaker 5: and the old woman from the face Tunigund was indeed
Speaker 5: quite huggy. In fact, Candide could hardly look.
Speaker 2: Candy Candy, my love.
Speaker 4: But since he was a man of honor, he married him,
Speaker 4: and they.
Speaker 5: All settled down on a little farm, bought.
Speaker 4: With the last diamonds.
Speaker 5: It is natural to suppose they all lived happily ever after.
Speaker 5: But Cunigonde grew uglier every day.
Speaker 4: The old woman was ailing and bad tempered.
Speaker 5: Cacambo complained of being worked too hard, and Pangloss claimed
Speaker 5: he should be teaching in a universal My boy, all
Speaker 5: events are linked up for the best.
Speaker 4: Please, Panangloss, We've got to work our fields.
Speaker 6: Yes, but don't you realize if you had not been
Speaker 6: kicked out of the castle almost hung to prevent earthquakes,
Speaker 6: and had not traveled to the New World and found Eldorado,
Speaker 6: we would not be.
Speaker 4: Eating candid sin Che and Pistacilis. Yes, well, haven't Julie
Speaker 4: I have learned?
Speaker 1: We must work to make this the best of all
Speaker 1: possible worlds.
Speaker 4: Let us grow something good in.
Speaker 9: Our fields.
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Speaker 1: rest of the Millie Gang will be doing their Christmas show,
Speaker 1: stopping early tomorrow night at the Star's address. And now
Speaker 1: once again Kathy and Elliott Lewis.
Speaker 5: That was Richard Chandley's free translation of Voltaire's Candide or
Speaker 5: the Optimist.
Speaker 2: Larry Thor told you the.
Speaker 5: Story, which included sage advice from Pangloss, who was Howard mcneer.
Speaker 3: Candide got into the army when he had.
Speaker 2: A drink with a soldier who was Jack Khrusian.
Speaker 5: His troubles multiplied when he met an official who was.
Speaker 3: Ben Right, and he found his love again through the
Speaker 3: old woman who was Martha Wentworth.
Speaker 5: Trouble reappeared when he met the governor of El Dorado,
Speaker 5: who was Edgar Barrier.
Speaker 3: But his good right hand Cacambo stayed with him until
Speaker 3: the end and was Byron King.
Speaker 4: We're very grateful to them all.
Speaker 3: Next week at this time, there's a special holiday show
Speaker 3: here on CBS Radio. We'll be back two weeks from tonight.
Speaker 5: And two weeks from tonight if being that time of
Speaker 5: the year, We're going to have rayin Noble as our
Speaker 5: guest again, and we're going to do our Happy Holidays
Speaker 5: album for you.
Speaker 3: Until Happy Holidays. Thank you for listening, good Night, good night.
Speaker 1: Music for tonight's story was composed and conducted by Fred Steiner.
Speaker 1: The Kathy and Elliott theme is by Ray Noble, and
Speaker 1: the program is transcribed and directed by mister Lewis George Walsh.
Speaker 1: Speaking weekday evenings, Beulah cooks up comedy on the CBS
Speaker 1: Radio network.