Speaker 1: Boys and girls your attention, please presenting a new exciting
radio program featuring the thrilling adventures of an amazing and
incredible personality. Faster than an airplane, more powerful than a locomotive,
impervious to bullets.
Speaker 2: Up in the sky. Look, it's a bird, it's a plain,
It's Superman.
Speaker 1: And now Superman, a being no larger than an ordinary man,
but possessed of powers and abilities never before realized on Earth.
Able to leap into the air an eighth of a
mile at a single bound hurdle a twenty story building
with ease, raise a high powered bullet to its target,
lift tremendous weights, and rends solid steel in his bare
hands as though it were paper. Superman a strange visitor
from a distant planet, champion of the oppressed, physical marvel extraordinary,
who has sworn to devote his existence on her to
helping those in need. As our story begins, we ask
you to come with us on a far journey, a
journey that takes us millions of miles from the Earth,
where the planet Krypton burns like a green star in
the endless heavens. Here, civilization is far advanced. It has
brought forth a race of supermen, men and women like ourselves,
but advance to the absolute peak of human perfection. As
we near Krypton, we see high walls and gleaming turrets.
We approach the magnificent Temple of Wisdom, and there in
a great hall. Jorel, Krypton's foremost man of science, is
about to address a meeting of the planet's governing council.
Speaker 3: Attentions, attention, gentlemen, follows speech.
Speaker 4: Members of the council.
Speaker 3: I have completed my solar calculations, and what do I dread?
Speaker 4: Uttering these words? I have come to the conclusion Krypton
is doomed.
Speaker 2: Did I hear him right?
Speaker 4: Tender man, gendle man, gender man, hear him out?
Speaker 3: These internal quakes we've been experiencing, These volcanic eruptions, tidal waves,
gas escaping from giant craters.
Speaker 2: All point to only one thing.
Speaker 3: Gentlemen, Krypton is utterly and finally doomed.
Speaker 1: I'm a mass man.
Speaker 4: One moment, tangle man, one moment. There is no cause
for anxiety. I am certain Joell has made a mistake.
Speaker 5: Through we have had a few minor quakes and your options,
but nothing very serious.
Speaker 4: There must be some error in your calculations. You're like,
oh no, there is.
Speaker 2: No herosand I only wish there were.
Speaker 4: The Sun is gradually drawing Krypton closetly.
Speaker 3: Within a month, possibly only a week, the gravitational pull
will be so true tremendous that Krepton will not be
able to weather the strain. And then then our planet
will explode like a giant bubble, destroying every living thing
on it.
Speaker 1: Assuming for the.
Speaker 4: Moment, Joel, and what you say is true, how are
we to avoid it? What can we do to stop it?
There is only one way.
Speaker 3: As you all know, I have been working on a
spaceship designed for interplanetary trap.
Speaker 6: With time and ignited at.
Speaker 3: What we might transport the entire population of Krypton to
another world.
Speaker 4: Impossible? Where will we go to the Earth? My studies
tell me the atmosphere of the Earth is very nearly
the same as our own. You have been working too hard,
jo Men.
Speaker 2: You need a rest.
Speaker 7: Believe me.
Speaker 4: We have the utmost respect for your knowledge and integrity.
But this is carrying into bom Man's as large as
Krypton do not explode, Jodell. Wait, do you hear that?
Speaker 7: Gentleman?
Speaker 4: It's a forewarning of tomb.
Speaker 2: Every moment is.
Speaker 4: Pressureus now thanks like that as sounding the death bell
a Krypton.
Speaker 2: It will happen, gentlemen.
Speaker 4: And happen soon when the last.
Speaker 7: Very eruption comes.
Speaker 5: When it comes shot old, it shall find all of
us ready. If Crypton is to die, we shall die
with it. The party would be much too severe.
Speaker 4: You like Hosanna and you members of the council. I
have no time to laugh. My wife Lara, and my
infant son.
Speaker 2: Are dear to me.
Speaker 4: It is not my wish to stand by and see
the nasty do I follow you.
Speaker 3: But the time will come, and that time is perhaps
very close at hand, when you will wish you had
heeded the words of your ell.
Speaker 2: Now you me a fool, But.
Speaker 3: Remember what I have said, gentlemen, when Kryptom is shattered
to a thousand million stars, when the glorious civilization we
have built is no more, when you.
Speaker 4: And your families are swept from the faith of Krypton,
like that horder you have heard Giorrel speak. Isn't your
waste that.
Speaker 5: Need of both time and money for the building of
spaceships or the transportation of Kryptom's.
Speaker 4: Population to another planet. I am sorry, Jourel. The council
has spoken yes and signed the jet warans and every
living thing on Crypton. Well, I have done mymestic convintional.
Now all that remains for me is to proceed my
own means of salvation, my own spaceship, to save the
lives of those near and dear me. As for the
rest of you, may the.
Speaker 3: Gods have mercy on your soul your rather smile absolutely, ah.
Speaker 2: Lara, I can see.
Speaker 7: I came out to take the air on the terrace.
It's been terribly hot all day. Is that because we're
being drawn to the sun? Girelle. Yes, what did the
council have to say about that?
Speaker 8: I I didn't mention.
Speaker 7: It is the model of your spaceship almost finished.
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, I just drove the last river. How does
it look?
Speaker 7: Splendid? But will it work?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 8: That remains to be seen.
Speaker 6: If it does work, I shall immediately begin construction of
another just like it, only much larger, one big enough
to carry all three of us to another world.
Speaker 2: Gurelle.
Speaker 7: When will that be? Every moment that we spend waiting
and wondering?
Speaker 8: I know, I know, Lara, It's been hard on all
of us, and particularly hard on you. How is the
boy sleeping?
Speaker 7: Girelle? That bick this afternoon frightened him, But he's all
right now. Can't you come in and look at him?
You scarcely see him these days? What was working all
hours on the spaceship model?
Speaker 6: It can't be helped, dear. I'm racing against time right now.
I am anxious to know whether the model will behave
as I hope.
Speaker 7: How does it operate?
Speaker 8: Very simply?
Speaker 6: When all is ready, I throw this switch that closes
the circuit, and electric energy bills up pressure in the
atomic generators. Then at the final moment, the pressure forces
the ship from its carrier and speeds it on its way.
Speaker 7: But where does it go?
Speaker 8: Wherever? It's pointed this one? I am directing to the
planet Earth, Earth?
Speaker 7: What is that? Jerome?
Speaker 6: A planet smaller than our own, situated on the other
side of the sun. It's inhabited by a race of
people similar to ourselves, like ourselves, well only partly, of course,
my dear. They're about the same size, but nowhere nearly
is developed, very weak and helpless, and with all their
faculties extremely limited.
Speaker 8: How do you mean there's something like this. You know
how far you step when you want to go somewhere
practically as.
Speaker 7: Far as I want? Why one step takes me to
Brasta's house near the fountain.
Speaker 8: Exactly well down where I'm sending this spaceship. It's quite different.
Speaker 6: An earth man steps only three feet at a time
at most, and everything else is in proportion.
Speaker 7: And that's where we're going.
Speaker 8: Oh, how dreadful, my dear, Which would you rather do?
Go to Earth and live or stay on Krypton and die.
Speaker 7: I'll do anything you say, Zuel anything. It doesn't matter
to me whether we live or die, as long as
we're together. It's only the boy I worry about.
Speaker 8: I know, a Lara Darling. Don't worry, He'll be saved.
Speaker 7: When are you testing the spaceship model?
Speaker 6: In the morning, just as dawn breaks, I'll send it
on its way, watching its flight through a high powered
telescope to see whether it lands safely on Earth?
Speaker 7: Is Earth the only planet place we can go to? Gerrel.
Speaker 6: We couldn't breathe on any other planet but the Earth.
It happens to have atmosphere similar to Krypton's.
Speaker 7: I suppose you know, Bears Jerrell are you coming in?
It seems to have gotten oppressively hot.
Speaker 8: Yes, it has, I wonder, Lara, do.
Speaker 3: You hear that?
Speaker 7: Yes, Churel, what is it?
Speaker 8: Subterranean explosions? Do you feel that I'm trembling?
Speaker 7: Yes? I do?
Speaker 8: Gerrell, do you think, Lara, Lara, I'm afraid it's come.
Speaker 2: Where's the boy?
Speaker 8: Hello? What do you mean? Get him quickly? This is
the end? Gurell?
Speaker 2: What can we do?
Speaker 8: Nothing?
Speaker 2: Nothing? I'm not ready. Oh what a fool I've been
to the ley.
Speaker 7: Isn't your fault, Jarell. You did all you could.
Speaker 8: If only this model were lodge enough, we could take
a chance, Durell.
Speaker 7: Would it carry one of a safety to earth? Oh?
Speaker 2: I think so, Lara, where you're going? Stay here with me?
I'm getting Callel.
Speaker 7: If one of us gonna be saved, Gerrel, it.
Speaker 8: Should be the book.
Speaker 2: No, No, Lara, come back. If one must go, it
should be you, Lara, I said, come back, come back?
Speaker 8: Here?
Speaker 7: Is Jael still asleep? Goodbye?
Speaker 8: Can you please?
Speaker 7: No, Juel, listen to me. We will stay here. Canell
goes in the spaceship. If there is a chance, jurrelle
one little chance I wanted for my son.
Speaker 8: Maybe you're right, Lada, Gurell.
Speaker 7: Look the sky, it's fiery red the mountains. Look, the
mountains are holding in guarrel.
Speaker 2: What's happening?
Speaker 8: The end of Prickton bar Just as I foretold, this
is the last great Quick, Churelle, listen, explosion here quick, quick,
give me the boy.
Speaker 7: What are you doing, Torell?
Speaker 2: Opening the door putting.
Speaker 7: Inside, Terrelle, The house is Wait, it's breaking up.
Speaker 2: Hot chall there there is safe and side. Now for
the switch.
Speaker 1: Stand back, father, oh Juelle, will you reach the ear
holding the god snow?
Speaker 8: But there's a chance, the only chance.
Speaker 2: Stand by the Lla. I'm going to throw the switch.
Speaker 7: Churell, it's getting dark. I can't stay.
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 2: Fire smoke from the center of the planet.
Speaker 6: Not much time now, holding Grell, there's a space you've
gone No, no, not yet, waiting for pess.
Speaker 2: We may have been too late. If it doesn't work
up soon, Wait, Clara, it's off. It's on its way.
Well where are you here here, Sadulara, listen?
Speaker 8: Can you hear me?
Speaker 2: Our boy Calll, our sun Larah. He's on his way,
on his way toward.
Speaker 1: So the tiny rocket ship roars into the uncharted heavens
as the mighty planet of Krypton explodes into millions of
glowing fragments glittering stars to remain wherever in the night sky.
Joel and Lara, devoted parents of the tiny Boy, perish
in the giant quake that destroys Krypton. But what of
the rocket ship? Does it reach the Earth? Does it
find it mark in all the far flung darkness of space? Remember,
don't miss the next installment of Superman.
Speaker 2: Up the Sky.
Speaker 8: Look the kind purname It's Superman.
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