WEBVTT 1 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:42.439 Author's Playhouse. There's a part in Henry d. Pretend you're 2 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:46.320 the girl. You're watching the King. You've heard ugly things 3 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:46.640 of me. 4 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:51.280 You've heard I'm cruel and treacherous and middle aged. Not 5 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:54.880 what's to look after, you see. But in your simplicity 6 00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:58.960 you've seen deeper than all this I have. You've seen 7 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:03.039 that I'm thoughted, unhappy, a great man who can trust 8 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:07.040 no one just because he's great, who isn't sure he'll 9 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:11.719 ever find out what real love means, who's always hunting 10 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:30.000 for it more and more desperately. Greatness all too often 11 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:33.599 waives a background of loneliness. Such was the case of 12 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:37.519 this man, Robert No, who is acting all England paid homage. 13 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:43.640 Author's Playhouse presents I A. R. Wiley's poignant story command performance. 14 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:07.560 Say that's say my man or my act upon tailor apartment. 15 00:02:07.799 --> 00:02:11.280 Read all about Robert No, Piper, mister yeah boy, thank 16 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:15.479 you Government, Piper that stray Piper. 17 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:24.400 Robert No, former actor found dead an apartment. Stage manager 18 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:28.000 Norton blames alcoholism. 19 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:28.919 Robert No. 20 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:35.479 I say it's too bad about him, but he almost 21 00:02:35.639 --> 00:02:41.280 made the top. He did almost. Now Ben Norton his 22 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:46.520 enemy right in the story, Come on performance? Where is 23 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:50.439 he no about it? Not in the stage manager couldn't 24 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:56.479 see beyond his own miserable life. There were others like him. 25 00:02:56.520 --> 00:03:03.919 Isabel Isabella shopped, she saw in Knowles's perfection. 26 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:06.000 And she hated him for it. 27 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:10.520 Fred who took her words for truth because he had 28 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:15.719 no head of his own to do his thinking. And Jenny, Jenny, 29 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:20.120 who could have done so much good, cost so much bad, 30 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:27.159 almost without knowing it, who could have written Knowles's life story? 31 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:33.159 Oh but Robert himself, this story here in the paper 32 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:37.599 is not the truth. But I was staged doldwn of 33 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:42.759 his theater. I remember one night, about a year ago, 34 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:45.000 when a urse. 35 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:46.039 Who was going. 36 00:03:57.840 --> 00:03:59.879 I desire you do me right. 37 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:01.520 And justice for heaven. 38 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:04.960 They chose and proper feeling girl in this play. I'm 39 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:06.599 supposed to be the King of England. 40 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:07.639 I'm the bottle. 41 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:11.159 Rid myself of a worthy thought, tiresome wife and take 42 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:14.039 a new one. But I've still got my eyes in 43 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:18.600 my head. You're a pretty piece I'm bowling. Isn't going 44 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:21.920 to last forever, and you know it. You might be 45 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:25.480 the next in line. We'll show you know it. Don't 46 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:29.439 just read lines, leave your part hold on, give her 47 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:29.920 a chance. 48 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:30.839 She's a new one. 49 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:32.879 No, you are not not and this has got to 50 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:35.560 be right. You're a stage manager, you know that. 51 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:39.079 I think I understand, Sir hard try again. 52 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:42.279 And you, Isabel, You're to break for a moment inwardly 53 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:45.759 you're supposed to feel what's going to happen and where 54 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:48.439 the place is fred here I am just remember faith, 55 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:51.600 you're supposed to be a great cardinal. Don't behave like 56 00:04:51.639 --> 00:04:54.519 a toughennyhay off this pie. You'll take our lives to 57 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:56.160 take make it good this time? 58 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:56.959 All right? 59 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:01.480 Everyone, pleas. 60 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:04.920 Come man coming if you give him an a chance. 61 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:11.560 Oh hello, inspector, Hello, so wonder you recognize me? And 62 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:14.920 all this airfol it's thick enough to cut into piece 63 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:15.439 as it is. 64 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:17.560 The brave man you want to be hurt in a 65 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:21.680 night like this, coming coming come in just a nice 66 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:24.600 for ghosts to tell the truth. It wouldn't surprise me 67 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:27.160 if there was. It goes to do around this way. 68 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:30.480 The heck is still had toy. You can't keep. 69 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:32.560 Acting poke out of the theater no matter what. 70 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:36.439 Yeah, they've all seen a lot of them. 71 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:41.600 Henry Irving Ellen. Terry didn't live well bet they'd be 72 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:44.360 poking around somewhere on a spooky. 73 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:44.519 Night like this. 74 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:49.920 How's the ply going when his majesty now begins his honor? 75 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:51.240 And it's a good say. 76 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:54.279 Where you'll be having another these first night. 77 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:55.759 Be thu afore long, and. 78 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:58.120 The traffic will be all tied up in knots again. 79 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:01.759 Sometimes I wish they'd put me back in the nice 80 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:02.560 quite suburb. 81 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:07.319 Not you inspector get your past to reply one of 82 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:10.759 your off nights. Always it will be just like it 83 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:15.360 used to be. I saw Bilbone Tree and this here 84 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:20.600 Robert Nole walks right alongside of him, So I'll be seeing. 85 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:24.560 Him with the eight he with the eight wives. Everyone 86 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:28.000 help him. I've got one. 87 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:32.199 Yes, this is a Robert Knowle. He isn't and he 88 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:34.279 is he no, And it's said to. 89 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:38.720 Noel lives in a lonely world. Inspector. 90 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:42.199 From what they tell me, he's made it lovely for hisself. 91 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:45.959 Yeah, sure hear that talk. Take my word for it. 92 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:49.920 It's not true. There's a heart of golden Robert No, 93 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:53.600 but very few have ever given him reason to show it. 94 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:57.120 Most of them around here write him for his success. 95 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:00.240 Hey, maybe this pray would be the one to make 96 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:02.079 the command performance for now. 97 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:06.800 It might indeed, Inspector, it might indeed. 98 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:11.120 Well see you soon. Keep your door locked, can't tell 99 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:12.160 who you can walk in. 100 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:23.600 Don't worry about me, Inspector. I can handle myself. I 101 00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:28.879 beg your pardon, blame me, scared the living daylights hurt 102 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:29.040 of me. 103 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:31.639 Miss I'm sorry if I start with you. But is 104 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:32.519 rehearsal over? 105 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:34.720 Do you know if mister Knowles disengaged? 106 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:38.600 He he's busy. Mister Knowle is just cutting off his 107 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:42.319 wife said, you know him personally, only to. 108 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:44.160 Look at him. But I've got to see him. 109 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:49.240 I wait, I wouldn't. Once mister Knowle starts cutting off heads, 110 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:52.319 he never knows where to stop. You cut off your 111 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:54.720 head as soon as look at you, especially if you 112 00:07:54.720 --> 00:07:56.959 haven't got an appointment, and I'll wager you haven't. 113 00:07:57.120 --> 00:07:58.040 You don't understand. 114 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:01.759 I understand all right. I haven't been on the stage 115 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:04.920 door for my own twenty years for nothing. You want 116 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:06.079 to be an actress, don't you? 117 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:06.439 Yes? 118 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:09.759 And you think if only mister nor would hear you're 119 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:12.120 a sad direct of the esperers, he'd make you his 120 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:12.959 leading lady. 121 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:15.040 I don't know the wreck of the hispory. 122 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:17.600 Well, whatever it is, he won't listen to you, and 123 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:20.800 if he did, it wouldn't help a pretty young thing. 124 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:21.959 But you can't act. 125 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:22.959 That isn't true. 126 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:24.439 How do you know what I can do? 127 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:26.879 Because if you were a real actress, you'd have got 128 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:30.199 yourself inside that theater. No matter what anyone said or did, 129 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:34.639 their means a foul, as the saying goes, you run 130 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:36.919 our home and be a good girl and get married 131 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:39.840 and settled down. But I don't come on, that's your 132 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:43.519 good girl, that your girl? Oh but hurt you girl? 133 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:45.320 What your step? 134 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:46.960 Miss? 135 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:50.279 Why don't you try catching him as he leaves the 136 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:58.399 theater through for the day? Ladies and gentlemen, wasn't soon 137 00:08:58.519 --> 00:08:58.919 enough for me? 138 00:08:59.240 --> 00:08:59.639 You laugh? 139 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:01.360 Said miland Isabelle. 140 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:04.559 I'll wait you ten to one before the next year's out. 141 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:07.360 That rotter will be Sir Robert No, and then we'll 142 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:07.799 have him. 143 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:08.759 At the top of the profession. 144 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:11.639 I'll give you boys another tender one wager by hook 145 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:12.159 or crook. 146 00:09:12.360 --> 00:09:13.320 Sir Bibam will. 147 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:15.159 Be moved out of his niche there on the wall, 148 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:18.600 and we'll have our Sir Robert, bigger and better, hanging 149 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:19.240 in his place. 150 00:09:21.559 --> 00:09:25.639 The venom clamors of a jealous woman poisons more deadly 151 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:30.639 than the mad Dog's tooth Shakespeare, My dear, comedy of. 152 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:34.039 Errors in saying that I'm jealous prop joy? Did you 153 00:09:34.120 --> 00:09:35.919 buy any chance? Notice that he looked up at the 154 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:40.080 Royal Box. He was seeing things, my DearS, A command 155 00:09:40.279 --> 00:09:42.559 performance and then birthday honors. 156 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:43.799 Just did you say, Betty? 157 00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:46.679 We'll have to say sir Robert every time we look 158 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:51.200 at him, Sir Robert. Indeed rottle, but such a clever rotter. 159 00:09:51.559 --> 00:09:53.759 Did you notice that new bit of byplay with the 160 00:09:53.759 --> 00:09:57.519 girl's hand. It's just a touch, but it's good, and 161 00:09:57.600 --> 00:10:00.320 before he's done with it, he'll have everyone be leaving 162 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:00.919 its great. 163 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:04.360 I'll tell you a story, a good story. I got 164 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:07.360 it from Naughton, who is usually a tight mouthed customer. 165 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:10.200 You know, the yarn about his being the son of 166 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:12.919 a naval sea captain and away from sea to become 167 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:15.679 an actor, being cut off at the paternal shilling, and 168 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:15.960 all that. 169 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:17.720 Come on, where's the joke. 170 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:21.639 The truth, my dear Isabelle, is that his father was 171 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:25.600 a clown in a circus, and our Robert began life 172 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:30.720 as a baby clown, used to do conjuring tricks and 173 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:34.639 turn handsprings, ju Cho, they build him you. 174 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:39.440 Choo, why you too by glide him his lime light. 175 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:42.639 I don't know anyway, I'd keep it to myself. 176 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:45.559 Folks, don't worry. We know when to keep our mouth shut. 177 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:46.279 Old boy No. 178 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:49.519 Has the vanity of a peacock. It's sort of pathetic 179 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:50.120 in a way. 180 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:53.879 The greatest living actor on the English stage and not 181 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:57.279 one woman to love him. You know that's one of 182 00:10:57.320 --> 00:10:59.919 the things he's looking for in this life, a woman 183 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:00.679 to love him. 184 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:03.480 It can't be done, no matter how hard he's struck. 185 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:06.799 You're right, it can't. I'm a woman and I'm telling you. 186 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:08.679 Telling them what Miss Keane. 187 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:11.039 Oh nothing, sir. 188 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:13.679 I was just never mind. You're not on stage. You 189 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:17.879 needn't answer me. Bob Joy is my car out from afraid. 190 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:20.759 You've got to walk it, sir. It's your full telephoned. 191 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:23.720 He said this fog was your bad. He couldn't even 192 00:11:23.720 --> 00:11:24.679 see thead nights. 193 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:27.200 I prefer to walk tonight and I can see my 194 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:30.879 way in the dark like a cat. Yes, sir, good night, sure, 195 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:41.679 good night. Father to him. Oh, I'm steady the bus. 196 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:42.360 It's all right. 197 00:11:42.840 --> 00:11:45.360 I'm sorry you can't see a thing in this farther. 198 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:48.639 Let me help you. Where are you going or trying 199 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:48.919 to go? 200 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:53.519 Nowhere? I was just standing still, waiting for. 201 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:56.039 What a bus? That would have been like waiting for 202 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:56.600 a miracle. 203 00:11:57.159 --> 00:12:01.200 Yes, it was like waiting for an You must. 204 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:02.279 Have been coming from somewhere. 205 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:04.679 I was coming from the theater. 206 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:05.279 The Imperial. 207 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:06.000 Yes. 208 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:08.080 Ah, so you're an actress? 209 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:10.320 Oh no, just trying. 210 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:13.960 The old man at the stage door said, I couldn't. 211 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:14.360 See why not. 212 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:16.480 You're a pretty voice, and. 213 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:20.360 I am pretty. That isn't conceit. One must know a 214 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:25.320 thing like that. But I guess being pretty isn't enough. 215 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:25.879 Is it. 216 00:12:25.879 --> 00:12:26.960 It's a great deal. 217 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:30.279 I tried to see Robert Knowle. 218 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:32.159 I thought he'd help me. 219 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:33.279 Do you know him? 220 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:34.000 Then? Yes? 221 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:35.679 But he doesn't know me. 222 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:39.240 I've been to every play he's acted in. I mean 223 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:42.919 since I've been grown up. Lots of times. I've even 224 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:44.679 gone without food to see him. 225 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:47.600 That's the sort of thing one does for friends. You 226 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:49.159 ought to know that he has a friend like that. 227 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:53.600 He must have so many. He's such a great man. 228 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:58.679 Greatness doesn't bring one friends. Why should you think he'd 229 00:12:58.720 --> 00:12:59.080 help you? 230 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:03.720 Because he must have had a hard time too, how 231 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:10.480 he would understand, I'd feel it. He's kind and and generous. 232 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:12.240 That's not what they say of him. 233 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:16.279 I don't care what people say. They're jealous. I know 234 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:19.360 him better. You see, I've watched him. 235 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:24.559 And if you go without things for someone, you sort 236 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:25.879 of see deep into them. 237 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:34.240 You you've well, you get to love them. 238 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:38.399 That sounds all silly, like a stage struck schoolgirl raving 239 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:39.440 about her matinee hero. 240 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:40.759 But I don't care. 241 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:45.200 You mean you do? Might I see you save home? 242 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:49.000 Miss You can't. I haven't got a home. 243 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:49.840 That's silly. 244 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:51.720 One there has to have a roof over one's head. 245 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:52.919 It's a must. 246 00:13:53.279 --> 00:13:56.639 Not if you can't pay the rent, missus Stokes said, 247 00:13:56.639 --> 00:13:59.440 I'd have to pay or stay out, and I. 248 00:13:59.480 --> 00:14:00.440 Own off lot. 249 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:04.360 I'm a stupid dreamer, I guess. 250 00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:06.840 So I spent my last penny on a bus fare 251 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:09.960 on my last hope. 252 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:12.840 Isn't that funny? 253 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:13.720 What's your name? 254 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:17.120 Jenny? Jenny Rawlings? 255 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:21.679 Jenny Rowlings? That's pretty? Did you look well in the 256 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:22.399 theater lights? 257 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:23.720 It never will. 258 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:28.039 You can't be sure. Wonderful things can happen, especially in. 259 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:29.480 Fogs, not to me. 260 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:33.320 They can't suppose you took a chance. Suppose you trusted 261 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:35.240 a perfect stranger, Miss Rollings. 262 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:41.279 Oh I'm sorry. You must have misunderstood me. I wasn't begging, 263 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:42.200 don't you see? 264 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:44.240 It was the fog. 265 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:48.039 And look it's even lifting now. 266 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:53.279 It was like talking to myself. Why I said things 267 00:14:53.320 --> 00:14:57.399 I wouldn't have said to anyone. I didn't mean to 268 00:14:57.440 --> 00:14:58.600 pour out my heart. 269 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:02.120 To you, not even too Robert, no, least of all 270 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:02.679 to him. 271 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:09.240 I could never say, mister, No, you're great and good 272 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:11.480 and I love you. 273 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:12.639 No, you're making fun of me. 274 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:13.559 No, I'm not. 275 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:17.840 I what's the matter, Jenny? 276 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:23.639 I can see now you're you're. 277 00:15:23.759 --> 00:15:28.639 Yes, Wonderful things do happen in fogs, as I said, 278 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:48.519 even to a little miss Jenny. Are you hungry? Jenny? 279 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:50.519 Don't make it smell too good? I couldn't wait. 280 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:54.080 What would you say to Zoufley it's my specialty wonderful cocktail? 281 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:56.120 Well, I no. 282 00:15:56.399 --> 00:15:59.399 Great, I don't touch the steps. Perhaps I'm afraid of it, 283 00:15:59.639 --> 00:16:02.120 afraid you know they say all actors are easy on 284 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:06.240 sum accounts. My father drank himself to death. He was 285 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:10.440 a clown. He didn't want to be to play Hamlet. 286 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:13.919 All clowns do, so it broke his heart. 287 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:15.000 I'm sorry. 288 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:18.480 I I was his last hope. 289 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:23.360 But at my command performance, well, I'll imagine him standing 290 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:28.240 in the wings saying, well done, Robbie, well done. 291 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:30.720 Will there be a command performance? 292 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:36.519 There has to be, you know, Jenny, I've never told 293 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:37.600 anyone all that before. 294 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:40.960 It must have been a magical sort of fogg. 295 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:43.639 You're magical. 296 00:16:45.399 --> 00:16:46.679 Why are you so kind to me? 297 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:50.120 One good turn deserves another. You were kind to me, 298 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:51.279 I was. 299 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:54.639 Could I be kind to you? 300 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:55.600 I hope so? 301 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:58.639 I mean, well, I'm nobody. 302 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:01.519 What could I do to begin with? 303 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:04.559 You could eat my soufet before it falls flat. It's 304 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:06.960 not used to being kept waiting, and don't talk. Then 305 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:09.920 we'll have pesh flam day allah no, and real coffee. 306 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:11.920 I'll wait till your landlady doesn't make. 307 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:14.480 Real coffee, Bye says she doesn't make coffee of any sort. 308 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:18.440 Who's by just one of the borders? A young American? 309 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:21.960 He dances at the Palladium by Heck the Hoofer. 310 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:23.279 They dail him to be Frank. 311 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:27.240 I don't like young Americans, but I can't dance much, 312 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:29.160 but I can do other things. 313 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:30.279 You are nice. 314 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:34.400 I've just remembered there's a part in Henry the Eighth. 315 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:38.960 It's it's something just created. It's a girl's part. She's 316 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:44.759 one of the Queen's retinue, a simple, lovely girl. Stand 317 00:17:44.839 --> 00:17:49.680 up a moment, Jenny, Pretend you're the girl. Now you're 318 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:51.799 watching him in the great scene where Catherine pleads with 319 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:55.480 the King. You've heard ugly things of me. You've heard 320 00:17:55.519 --> 00:17:59.160 I'm cruel and treacherous and and middle aged, not much 321 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:02.319 to look after, you see. But in your simplicity you've 322 00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:05.519 seen deeper than all this I have. You've seen that 323 00:18:05.559 --> 00:18:08.559 I'm thwarted and unhappy, a great man who can trust 324 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:12.160 no one just because he's great, who isn't sure he'll 325 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:15.839 ever find out what real love means, but who's always 326 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:20.440 hunting for it more and more desperately. And suddenly it's 327 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:22.759 as though I feel your understanding. 328 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:23.160 Your pity. 329 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:26.160 I stop beside you, and hand idly as I might 330 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:28.960 pick up a trinket, and taking your hand as important, 331 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:32.319 because there are eyes meet yes, and in mine you 332 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:35.880 see your future. That one day'll be your turn with me. 333 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:43.160 But I shall pour jewels and power into your little hands, 334 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:46.720 and I shall be wondering if one day I shall 335 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:50.599 corrupt you like the rest with my gifts and if 336 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:51.599 you will fail. 337 00:18:51.359 --> 00:19:00.480 Me too, don't don't I say anything, mister Nell. Don't 338 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:07.119 I say anything? No, you just acted, mister No, how 339 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:08.119 can I ever thank you? 340 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:09.200 Don't cry, my dear. 341 00:19:09.400 --> 00:19:11.519 It's a bit of a miracle for me to finding 342 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:12.400 you out there in the dark. 343 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:14.480 I'll tell you about it someday. 344 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:16.519 But no, my dear, I just want to make you 345 00:19:16.599 --> 00:19:19.839 laugh and then send you home with a week salary 346 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:20.480 in advance. 347 00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:45.119 Take your time with Breakfast series. Too much stepping is 348 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:46.400 not good for your figures. 349 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:49.920 Taking inventory missus jokes so early in the morning too. 350 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:54.799 My John manace. Anyone seen Jenny do that? 351 00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:57.000 But her breakfast is getting cold? 352 00:19:57.160 --> 00:20:04.839 Okay? 353 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:07.640 Come in. 354 00:20:09.839 --> 00:20:13.200 Hello by Jenny Rawlings. 355 00:20:13.480 --> 00:20:15.759 If I didn't know you for a godfearing citizen, I'd 356 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:16.559 say you'd been drinking. 357 00:20:16.680 --> 00:20:19.720 I have been drinking, only this time it was nectar. 358 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:23.480 Come out of a Jenny, Come clean. You've been up 359 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:28.279 to something. Hi? U missed your last night at supper? 360 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:30.440 Where for Pete's sake have you been. 361 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:34.519 On the streets homeless, starving waife looking for a job 362 00:20:34.680 --> 00:20:35.799 for the last time? 363 00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:37.359 Are you a little idiot? If you were broke? Why 364 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:41.279 didn't you tell me? Are we friends? Aren't we something more? 365 00:20:42.519 --> 00:20:43.640 Aren't we darling? 366 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:47.039 Please? I wasn't broke, not quite, but I had to 367 00:20:47.079 --> 00:20:48.559 make my own way on my own. 368 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:51.119 Two foods you can't, Jenny, weren't made for it. 369 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:54.720 Here's something someone should take care of me, For instance, 370 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:56.640 all this bug about acting. 371 00:20:56.640 --> 00:20:58.039 You're no actress, you never will be. 372 00:20:58.119 --> 00:21:00.559 That's what the stage doing then told me. He said, 373 00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:03.839 if you could act, you'd act. So I went right 374 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:06.839 out into the fog and acted. I acted the part 375 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:10.200 of a poor little lost girl who runs into the great. 376 00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:16.160 Kind actor quite by accident. The fog is so thick 377 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:18.000 she doesn't recognize him, so. 378 00:21:17.839 --> 00:21:20.039 She's able to tell him how wonderful he is. 379 00:21:20.359 --> 00:21:23.400 It was a magnificent job. You sail for a darling. 380 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:27.160 He fell flat, you little devil. What a dirty trick, But. 381 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:29.440 That's what the stage man told me. Sayah means a foul. 382 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:32.119 Perhaps it was a bit foul, but it didn't do 383 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:33.079 any harm, did it. 384 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:35.359 No, he's probably just head over heels in love with you, 385 00:21:35.720 --> 00:21:37.359 and he sounds like a pretty square guy to me. 386 00:21:37.480 --> 00:21:39.640 Oh bye, he'd never fall in love with me. Why 387 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:41.039 it's old enough to be my father? 388 00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:44.279 Is he you listen to me, You're gonna marry me, Jenny. 389 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:45.759 Stop you're hurting my art. 390 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:46.799 I love you, Jenny. 391 00:21:46.920 --> 00:21:48.799 Just give me a year on Broadway, sweetheart, and I'll 392 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:50.759 settle down on a farm with cows and kids. 393 00:21:50.799 --> 00:21:51.880 You never would buy. 394 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:55.279 I don't know much about American hoofers, but I waited 395 00:21:55.319 --> 00:21:56.599 they dance at their own funeral. 396 00:21:57.119 --> 00:22:10.759 Come on, setch me down to breakfast. 397 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:16.200 Everyone on safe, Be quiet, please, I've an announcer to me. 398 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:27.160 This is miss Raleigh, Miss Jenny Rawlings. She's joined our company. 399 00:22:27.559 --> 00:22:28.279 He's fallen. 400 00:22:28.400 --> 00:22:28.680 Fred. 401 00:22:29.400 --> 00:22:30.680