Speaker 1: The Damon Runyon Theater.
Speaker 2: Once again, the Damon Runyon Theater brings you another story
Speaker 2: by the master story teller, Damon Runyon, unless one the
Speaker 2: melancholy Dane, and to tell it to you here is Broadway.
Speaker 3: Thanks well.
Speaker 4: It is a matter of a few years back that
Speaker 4: I am sitting in Mindy's enjoying a snack when I
Speaker 4: look up and see that Ambrose Hammer, the dramatic critic, is.
Speaker 3: Looking down at me.
Speaker 4: Now, it happens quite often the citizens come into Mindy's
Speaker 4: and pick my table for some discussion or other, so
Speaker 4: I think nothing of it when Ambrose.
Speaker 3: Seats himself and opens the proceedings as fun.
Speaker 5: Hello Broadway, doing anything special to night?
Speaker 3: No, what is on your mind?
Speaker 5: Want to go to a play? But kind Hamlet.
Speaker 3: Owner never see it. I never see it, but I
Speaker 3: know all about it.
Speaker 4: At two in the morning, this place is crowded with
Speaker 4: citizens who think they are acted, and who do all
Speaker 4: their practicing as followed.
Speaker 3: To be or not to be, That is the question
Speaker 3: whether it is nobler in the mind.
Speaker 4: To suffer et cetera, et cetera, to wit You know, Ambrose,
Speaker 4: That makes for very dull conversation because it is very
Speaker 4: one sided.
Speaker 5: Anyhow, go with me tonight.
Speaker 3: What is special about tonight?
Speaker 5: Mansfield Southern is playing the Melancholy Dame.
Speaker 3: I think you say it is Hamlet. Yes, it is
Speaker 3: Mansfield Southern.
Speaker 5: Eh the same.
Speaker 4: But is he not the musical comedy citizens It seems
Speaker 4: to me he is reaching for a wide moment when
Speaker 4: he swings at Shakespeare.
Speaker 3: Ah, that is just.
Speaker 5: It, Broadway. We are going to see Hamlet tonight and
Speaker 5: in the morning I'll make Mansfield Southern with Shakespeare had
Speaker 5: written only letters to his tailor.
Speaker 4: So I go along with Ambrose Hamlet to see Mansfield
Speaker 4: Southern in a Hamlet. It seems to me at the
Speaker 4: time that Ambrose is more than somewhat prejudiced before he
Speaker 4: even sees the play.
Speaker 3: And I wonder why I find out. And the story
Speaker 3: from there is a peculiar one.
Speaker 4: Indeed, in fact, it does not stop in New York,
Speaker 4: but goes on to a place.
Speaker 3: Called North Africa.
Speaker 4: It takes in a war, and the strangest performance of
Speaker 4: Hamlet that ever takes place. And I will tell you
Speaker 4: all about it in a minute.
Speaker 2: And now back to the Damon Runy in theater and
Speaker 2: a famous story, the Melancholy Dane.
Speaker 4: Like I am saying, I see a Hamlet with Ambrose Hammer. Now,
Speaker 4: I personally prefer shows which have a little more dancing
Speaker 4: and singer. So I am glad when Ambrose nudges me
Speaker 4: at the end of the first act and says he
Speaker 4: has enough. Well it comes up the next morning when
Speaker 4: I am again an innate at this time for breakfast, and.
Speaker 3: In comes Mansfield Southern.
Speaker 6: He looks at me and says, ah, Broadway.
Speaker 4: Ah, mister Southern, what brings you shuffling into this mortal quail?
Speaker 6: Don't be flippant? Where's Hammer?
Speaker 3: Why I do not see him this morning? You are
Speaker 3: looking for him? I am going to kill him my
Speaker 3: mine for breakfast.
Speaker 7: That man is a duster, the coward. He uses his
Speaker 7: position to revent all his petty spies and hatreds. I
Speaker 7: tell you, Broadway, it will but skin and film the
Speaker 7: ulcerous place whilst rank corruption mining all within infects unseen.
Speaker 3: Please Mansfield, not while I am eating.
Speaker 6: Oh what a rogue Broadway read that review.
Speaker 4: Last night Mansfield Southern played Hamlet, but not to win.
Speaker 4: M Hm, mister Southern, who has stolen the names of
Speaker 4: two great actors to make one bad one?
Speaker 7: The dog, the lowly treacherous dog that doth snap at
Speaker 7: heels in passion and frenzy. Too churlish to assume me
Speaker 7: in the mosque of courage and make a fight of
Speaker 7: greater things in Mansfield.
Speaker 3: If you wish me to read this, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: Read Mister Southern.
Speaker 4: Sounded as though he were delivering lines from the depths
Speaker 4: of a coal mine.
Speaker 3: By voice.
Speaker 6: He is making sport of my boy.
Speaker 4: In his interpretation, the melancholy Dane assumed the stature of
Speaker 4: a frantic housewife who has left her keys behind and
Speaker 4: smells the meat burden in the kitchen. In this case,
Speaker 4: Amasa tis enough, Broadway, I'll kill him.
Speaker 8: You will kill who?
Speaker 5: Southern you you were talking about killing somebody?
Speaker 7: You ooh you by logical extravagance.
Speaker 5: I'll go someplace else and blow off that head of steam.
Speaker 6: For two pins, I twist your neck.
Speaker 5: If I had two pins, I'd pay the admission to
Speaker 5: see you try it.
Speaker 6: You know you're safe.
Speaker 7: I'd never get another job if I touched the hair
Speaker 7: of your fiendish head.
Speaker 5: Well, maybe someday you'll get the chance.
Speaker 3: Oh tis a hope I cherish to my heart.
Speaker 7: Get off the stage, Southern, you didn't even wait for
Speaker 7: the last four hours.
Speaker 5: Sudden, when I open an egg, I don't have to
Speaker 5: eat the whole thing to find out if it's bad.
Speaker 7: You know why you gave me that review because of
Speaker 7: miss Chanelle Cooper.
Speaker 5: You're crazy.
Speaker 7: Ay, yes, because she preferred me to you. You took
Speaker 7: this course of vilify me to stretch me out upon
Speaker 7: a rack of ridicule.
Speaker 5: Look when you took on Hamlet to lay yourself open
Speaker 5: to this, you should have started a musical comedy.
Speaker 7: Someday, someday you eat those words, so help me, I'll
Speaker 7: make you eat them.
Speaker 5: I'll have to be very, very hungry.
Speaker 6: You know what you've done. You've blasted my life, blasted at.
Speaker 5: Is thought to have the engineer hoist with his own patent.
Speaker 7: Miss Cooper refuses to see me this morning, Miss Pursho's
Speaker 7: remarkable taste. Someday you're going to be at my mercy
Speaker 7: and everything help you.
Speaker 5: But by mister Southern Oh, and by the way, I'm
Speaker 5: dining with Miss Cooper this evening. Then we're going to
Speaker 5: a good show.
Speaker 7: Hasten my steps, lest my hands betray my intelligence and
Speaker 7: strike again.
Speaker 5: Exit one bad Hamlet.
Speaker 3: You play pretty rough with him.
Speaker 5: Ambro Well, he shouldn't have taken a fancy to miss Cooper,
Speaker 5: not while I had a fancy.
Speaker 3: That is the only reason you put the fire and rim.
Speaker 5: Well, No, he is a very bad Hamlet, don't you
Speaker 5: think so.
Speaker 6: I am no judge.
Speaker 3: That is your business.
Speaker 4: But it seems to me that the affair of this
Speaker 4: miss Chanelle Cooper does more than a little too.
Speaker 3: Word Well, they say in books, sir, color your judge.
Speaker 5: Ah, forget it.
Speaker 3: He is very mad.
Speaker 5: So what all actors get mad at a bad review?
Speaker 5: They blame the critics, accuse us a biased stupidity, Broadway,
Speaker 5: any actor will blame anyone but himself for a bad performance.
Speaker 3: No, but the less Ambrose, it seems you now make
Speaker 3: an enemy.
Speaker 5: Him, Broadway. I'll never live to see the day that
Speaker 5: costume Geiser can hurt me, so says Ambrose.
Speaker 3: Hammer. Well, it is about this time that the war
Speaker 3: breaks out, and.
Speaker 4: I see nothing of Ambrose or Mansfield Southern, but quite
Speaker 4: a spell. Then it is a long time later that
Speaker 4: I am sitting at Middies when I see it for me,
Speaker 4: your face, Ambrose it He comes over to me, and
Speaker 4: the scene is as follows.
Speaker 5: Well, Well, Broadway, this is where I left.
Speaker 3: You, Ambrose May. It is good to see you again.
Speaker 5: It's good to be back, even with this.
Speaker 3: Since when do you take the carry in the cane?
Speaker 5: Got to my ward? You mean you are in the war, correspondent,
Speaker 5: North Africa. I pick up a piece of Jerry Leada.
Speaker 5: No you are a hero hero Oh no, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: not me Broadway. Why do you say it like that?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: Just because? Oh? But have you been good? Good?
Speaker 4: I missed the hostilities because it seems the army does
Speaker 4: not want or the Navy or the Marines, or.
Speaker 3: You tried several times.
Speaker 5: You're wearing a service ribbon merchant marine. Oh uh? Would
Speaker 5: you like to hear a story? If it is a
Speaker 5: good one, always good with a great cast and a
Speaker 5: great performance by by a guy named Mansfield Southern.
Speaker 3: Man's what about him?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm here now because of him.
Speaker 4: But the last time I see you two together, Mansfield
Speaker 4: Southern is in the mood to take you apart.
Speaker 5: Huh, okay, settle back?
Speaker 6: Are you am ready? Well?
Speaker 5: My paper sent me over as a correspondent. Pick up
Speaker 5: human interest stories, how the gis live, what they say
Speaker 5: and things?
Speaker 4: Who lives during the war and who says anything? Good
Speaker 4: and who thinks of anything but getting it over with?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I know. But there I am in North Africa.
Speaker 5: I get to a place called Bonne and walk into
Speaker 5: a knocked out stone house where some GI's are sitting around.
Speaker 5: One of them looks up and says, God these cigarettes.
Speaker 5: Oh sure? Yeah? Thanks are you bud?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 5: Okay? Uh, I just quiet sector Huh, it'll get noisy.
Speaker 5: It always gets noisy when I get sleepy.
Speaker 3: The Jerry's lay quiet all day when I ain't sleepy.
Speaker 6: Then when I.
Speaker 3: Started drowse off, they open with the eighty eight.
Speaker 5: So where's the front? It moves around mister, First, it's back,
Speaker 5: then it's in the middle. Then it ain't no place. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I see you. You'll mind if I sit awey help yourself.
Speaker 5: I'm a correspondent. Yeah, I see right. Huh that's right.
Speaker 5: When I get home, I am to go to Tusbedee
Speaker 5: know where that is? Oh sure? At Alabama? Yeah? Maybe
Speaker 5: I can write? Why not? No reason? I guess you're crazy, Bama.
Speaker 5: Why what do.
Speaker 3: You want to write for?
Speaker 5: Well? I got things to say.
Speaker 3: Sure, everybody's got something to say.
Speaker 5: I got lots to say. I guess you had. How
Speaker 5: are you gonna say it?
Speaker 1: Bama?
Speaker 5: That's what I gotta learn. I gotta say it the
Speaker 5: way my skin will lett me say it. You do
Speaker 5: all right, Bama? Oh? Things back home? Mister? All right,
Speaker 5: I guess you'll come one eighty eight? Big great, keep going,
Speaker 5: keep going on, da.
Speaker 1: Bamma.
Speaker 9: You only six bits six bits market in the book Ginger,
Speaker 9: what was the the bet we got to stand in bed?
Speaker 9: Five cents on every eighty eight? Ginger bets that don't
Speaker 9: hit us? I bet it does?
Speaker 5: You? You bet it does? I suppose you win? Bama?
Speaker 5: How do you collect? I don't mind, and I never
Speaker 5: think of collect.
Speaker 3: Well, we gotta get gone, Bama.
Speaker 5: Guess so where are you going? Gotta go to war?
Speaker 5: There's one out there?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Hey, you say you're looking for the front, Well, yes,
Speaker 5: we are too. Want to go around? How gee? He
Speaker 5: used to be four of us?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Or oh? I see? Well then if you don't mind
Speaker 5: my tagging along, I'd like to go. Glad to have
Speaker 5: you sure, and you can do us a favorite too, well,
Speaker 5: glad to us. What did it get the FBI.
Speaker 3: To investigate the guy who invented these rations?
Speaker 5: And see which side he's betting on. Let's go well, Broadway,
Speaker 5: I found myself in that jeep tearing along a road
Speaker 5: that's been hit by everything from machine gun bullets to
Speaker 5: airplane bombs. Then we get to a place where two
Speaker 5: roads branched off. Ginger stopped the gee. Looks like we
Speaker 5: take the road to the right.
Speaker 6: Bama.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess so the fronts up that way. Yeah,
Speaker 5: from the sound of the fire and the jerry's a
Speaker 5: pound in that sector.
Speaker 3: So wherever they're pounding is wherever the war is ready?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I guess so.
Speaker 6: Scared.
Speaker 5: Well, it's not exactly. A bit of roads is to
Speaker 5: be tried about it. I ain't never stopped being scared.
Speaker 6: Who has.
Speaker 5: Saint bat Bama? You got that one's coming close?
Speaker 1: Hit the side of the road path, Bmma.
Speaker 5: Bma, why are we eighty since now this will happen?
Speaker 9: He they sense I'm glad to hey, Hey, where is he?
Speaker 5: Hey, mister mister here, I'm here?
Speaker 6: You all right?
Speaker 5: I think I'm here? Oh, come on, Ginger, yeah here
Speaker 5: here I am. Well, well, here mister sit, we'll get
Speaker 5: a good look at you. Yeah, I'll get off your face.
Speaker 5: I hate to tell you this, but you can see
Speaker 5: what I'm hit much better if I'm dying on my
Speaker 5: face like that. Look where he caught one bam out
Speaker 5: of place? Can you can you do anything? Can you
Speaker 5: get up? I'll try? What are you doing? All our
Speaker 5: first aid stuff was in the jeep and the chief
Speaker 5: just ain't no more. But I'm hit.
Speaker 9: I'll tell you what chances are the medicals ain't much farther.
Speaker 9: We'll make you nice and comfortable and we'll send them
Speaker 9: back after you.
Speaker 5: Well, I'll die, I don't think. So what do you say, Bamma?
Speaker 5: As long as you don't try to sit please? Please? Sorry?
Speaker 5: Will you? Yeah, let's go, Bama. Yeah, mister put this
Speaker 5: ringcot under your head? Yes, yes, thanks? Oh what don't
Speaker 5: move around too much? Oh wait wait, wait wait a minute.
Speaker 5: What if another shell hits Likely it won't. No, likely,
Speaker 5: it won't because you know what they say about lightning. Okay,
Speaker 5: but I'll thank you to deliver that message to the cherries.
Speaker 5: The chances are they they haven't heard it.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go, Bama.
Speaker 6: Back to the war.
Speaker 5: So long, mister, so long? Did you good luck? So long,
Speaker 5: mister so long, Bamma. I hope you keep losing bets
Speaker 5: And so there I was Broadway out in the middle
Speaker 5: of North Africa with a very embarrassing wound.
Speaker 4: But then what happen? Where is Mansfield Southern coming right there?
Speaker 5: But not until later and Broadway. Maybe you won't believe
Speaker 5: what I'm gonna tell you, but so help me, it's
Speaker 5: the absolute truth.
Speaker 3: With that, Ambrose settles back and lights a cigarette.
Speaker 5: Then he begins to talk again.
Speaker 3: And what he tells me is.
Speaker 4: A strange story, indeed, and I will tell you what
Speaker 4: it is in a minute.
Speaker 2: And now back to the damon runy in theater and
Speaker 2: the famous story the melancholy dame.
Speaker 3: Like I say, Ambrose Hamma goes on with his store.
Speaker 5: Yeah there, I was all by myself in the night.
Speaker 5: Then I guess I passed out because I don't remember
Speaker 5: a thing until I heard somebody talking Broadway. What I
Speaker 5: heard made the goose flesh come up on my skin.
Speaker 5: Just think a dark night. The jairy is blasting away
Speaker 5: in the distance, guys in tanks behind guns, and suddenly
Speaker 5: I hear a voice.
Speaker 6: Like beds fight for a plot where on the numbers
Speaker 6: cat I'll try the cause.
Speaker 7: Men's Field Southern shut up, cannot dry the cause which
Speaker 7: is not toomb enough and continent to hide the sleeve.
Speaker 6: Recognize that hammer, Southern you. Yes, how are you?
Speaker 5: I'm hit?
Speaker 6: Anatomically speaking, you're hitting the only place a drama critic
Speaker 6: has feelings.
Speaker 5: Look, what time is it?
Speaker 6: Time three?
Speaker 5: But when Ginger and Bama went, it was only nine.
Speaker 6: Ginger and Bama friends of yours.
Speaker 5: They went to get the medicals for me. They ought
Speaker 5: to be back by now.
Speaker 6: So well, the chances are they won't be back.
Speaker 5: Why not while you were asleep. I passed out from
Speaker 5: my wound.
Speaker 7: While you were asleep, the jerry sliced through and cut
Speaker 7: off this sector.
Speaker 6: Amma, you and I are alone.
Speaker 5: Look someone, I'm wounded. I'll bleed to death.
Speaker 6: Yes, while you were sleeping, I poured something powder on
Speaker 6: your wood. You're in no danger.
Speaker 5: Well, I've got to see you're in pain. Hammer, Yes,
Speaker 5: I'm in pain.
Speaker 6: It hurts just so not so wide?
Speaker 5: Does a church door all so deep as a well?
Speaker 5: But listen, will you stop spouting Shakespeare and get us
Speaker 5: out of here? Do you have any suggestion I'm a
Speaker 5: stranger here, I'm not. I've been here for weeks and
Speaker 5: week Yes, yes, I see you're in uniform.
Speaker 7: Yes, try to move all right, Oh, I can't bright
Speaker 7: bright pain that maketh children of us. All Now, you
Speaker 7: know what I felt like after that review you gave
Speaker 7: me for.
Speaker 5: The love of Mike Mansfield. You're not thinking about that
Speaker 5: at a time like this, but I am.
Speaker 6: I've thought of nothing else. Hammer. Do you know what
Speaker 6: you did in my dramatic career over that review?
Speaker 5: Stars? You were a musical comedy star. You shouldn't have
Speaker 5: tried Shakespeare much.
Speaker 7: Less, Hamy, I see, according to your philosophy, Hammer, a
Speaker 7: man must live and die in the same right, all right,
Speaker 7: all right.
Speaker 5: I just need to hear no there, right now, just
Speaker 5: get me to a doctor.
Speaker 6: I could leave you here.
Speaker 7: I could leave you here and spend night afternoon, day after.
Speaker 3: Day thinking delicious.
Speaker 5: Thoughts of the pain you are sudden, You're insane. You
Speaker 5: wouldn't allow.
Speaker 7: No, I guess I wouldn't, Hammer. I have a much
Speaker 7: better idea, much better.
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 7: Ah, You'll see, my kindly viper, You'll see I guess
Speaker 7: I've got to carry you. It won't be comfortable, Hammer,
Speaker 7: not at all. In fact, it will probably hurt a
Speaker 7: great deal, But for your sins you shall pay.
Speaker 6: Ah, this will do very well. Down you go.
Speaker 5: Where are we? What is this place?
Speaker 6: At one time it might have been a stone house?
Speaker 6: Right now your guess is as.
Speaker 5: Good as mine, for we can't stay here?
Speaker 6: Why not?
Speaker 5: Where the jerry? You? You said they had this sect?
Speaker 6: That's right?
Speaker 7: But you and I have a little business, Hammer, and
Speaker 7: this is an excellent place to conduct it. What do
Speaker 7: you mean, as I recall, you saw only one act
Speaker 7: of my hamlet?
Speaker 5: Or what's that got to do?
Speaker 6: Is anything you missed my greatest scene?
Speaker 5: Suddenly sudden you've gone.
Speaker 7: Crazyes my greatest scene, for example, the scene with the
Speaker 7: grave diggers. You have to mention that at a time
Speaker 7: like this, mister Hammer, since you missed most of my performance,
Speaker 7: it's only far to you that you've see it.
Speaker 1: Now what.
Speaker 6: The grave digger scene? This is quite a setting for it.
Speaker 7: Ruins earth that has felt the terr of war, the
Speaker 7: terrible wind of combat.
Speaker 5: You are crazy, No, quite the law Lord Harry.
Speaker 6: You're going to watch me this time. You're going to
Speaker 6: sit through my performance.
Speaker 7: This is an experience any actor would give his soul
Speaker 7: to go through.
Speaker 6: Now, let's see a scall. I've got to have a skull.
Speaker 6: Don't look at me like that.
Speaker 5: Uh, stone not a skull, but near enough.
Speaker 6: Now listen, Hammer.
Speaker 5: Listen, shut on the jerry are shelling this place?
Speaker 6: Quiet?
Speaker 10: Now?
Speaker 6: Listen alas, poor Jory. I knew him Horatio.
Speaker 7: I forgot to tell you, Hammer, you're playing Horatio, Horra,
Speaker 7: saysan not.
Speaker 6: Now wait for your queue please.
Speaker 7: I knew him, a fellow of infinite jest, of most
Speaker 7: excellent fancy.
Speaker 6: He has borne me on his back a thousand times now.
Speaker 5: And there I lay Broadway, watching and listening.
Speaker 3: He really goes on through Hamlet.
Speaker 5: Everything I missed he did, and you're a wound. It
Speaker 5: gave me terrible pain. And believe me, Broadway, it is
Speaker 5: not easy to remember Hamlet and play Horatio lying on
Speaker 5: your face in stone and mud.
Speaker 3: But what happens then?
Speaker 5: For more than an hour sudden went on. He played
Speaker 5: all the parts, and I watched him and listen a.
Speaker 6: While. And in this harsh world.
Speaker 5: Thanks for the love of Mike, that one came close
Speaker 5: enough to shaves, very close. But there's not much more,
Speaker 5: not much more, looks there's another speech by him, and
Speaker 5: fought and Bras and Horatio and English. No, no, we'll
Speaker 5: all be killed.
Speaker 6: That is entirely possible. But what have I to live
Speaker 6: for my career.
Speaker 7: You ruined that, Ms Cooper, You roasted me so completely,
Speaker 7: she thought I as an idiot.
Speaker 5: You mind if I say I'd like to go on living.
Speaker 6: Why should you to ruin another career?
Speaker 7: Tonight's the hopes of still another actor?
Speaker 5: You're kidding, You're not serious.
Speaker 6: How do you know?
Speaker 5: Well, you can't be.
Speaker 6: It's murder.
Speaker 5: I prefer to call it justice.
Speaker 6: I and your career as you ended mine.
Speaker 5: All Right, you stay, I'll go very leave. I can't walk.
Speaker 6: I thought that.
Speaker 5: Well, goodbye, Hammer, you're leaving me. If you're lucky, the
Speaker 5: Jerry's will take over soon.
Speaker 6: Then it's only capture for you. Goodbye, Hammer.
Speaker 7: Sudden Wait, wait, Sudden, Sudden, all stop squawking.
Speaker 6: You can't be Yes, I came back.
Speaker 7: I'm about to do something for which my final actors
Speaker 7: will never forgive me.
Speaker 5: Hammer.
Speaker 6: I'm I'm going to get you.
Speaker 2: Out of here.
Speaker 5: Why did you come back, Summer?
Speaker 7: Why because I didn't finish the last act?
Speaker 5: Hammer, I've almost let you walk too easy, but I
Speaker 5: swore you here the whole thing, and you will I see. Okay, Man,
Speaker 5: let's go.
Speaker 6: Put your arms around my neck and hold on.
Speaker 7: I'll have to crawl, crawl, as soon as the place
Speaker 7: is infested with Jerry's. But before we go home, tell
Speaker 7: me one more thing, Hammer, what's that means?
Speaker 5: Feel?
Speaker 6: Are you still suffering with pain?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 10: Then to my task and hammer, please groan once in
Speaker 10: a while to keep up my morah.
Speaker 5: So he crawled with me on his back Broadway through
Speaker 5: the Jerry line, right through. I'll never forget that night,
Speaker 5: especially while I remember Southern whispering very softly to himself,
Speaker 5: imperious Caesar dead and turned to Clay might stop a
Speaker 5: hole to keep the wind away.
Speaker 3: How long does this go on?
Speaker 5: I don't know. I passed out, and when I woke up,
Speaker 5: I was in a field hospital in American World.
Speaker 3: But what about Serven? What becomes a him?
Speaker 5: I never saw him again? I heard he was decorated
Speaker 5: for saving me, and several times later for various actions.
Speaker 3: But where is he?
Speaker 5: And I see you don't keep.
Speaker 3: Up with the theater Broadway, just the musical comedist search why.
Speaker 5: Mansfield Southern is opening tonight in.
Speaker 3: Hamlet again? Wait a minute, are you gonna review it?
Speaker 5: My paper? Assign me to it?
Speaker 6: O Broadway?
Speaker 5: He is a lousy Hamlet, you still think? So I'll
Speaker 5: never change my mind.
Speaker 4: But if he opens the night and you are going
Speaker 4: to review the show and he saves you, I've already
Speaker 4: written the review without seeing the play.
Speaker 5: If you think I'm going to sit through one more
Speaker 5: performance of Hamlet, You're crazy. I've written my review and
Speaker 5: it'll be printed as I.
Speaker 3: Wrote it for Ambrose.
Speaker 5: That's all Broadway. You can read my review in tomorrow's paper.
Speaker 4: With that, Ambrose Hammer gets up and leaves Limpin more
Speaker 4: than someone naturally. I am very curious, indeed, as to
Speaker 4: what his review is. I find out the next morning. Also,
Speaker 4: the payoff to the story comes the next morning, and
Speaker 4: what it is I will tell you in a minute. Well,
Speaker 4: like I say, I am in Mindy's the next morning,
Speaker 4: and I am just starting to read the dramatic page
Speaker 4: when I look up and see somebody come into my table,
Speaker 4: and who is it but Mansfield's servant.
Speaker 3: He looks at me and then speaks, as.
Speaker 6: Fun, Broadway, have you seen Ambrose Hammer not.
Speaker 3: This morning, Man's Field? Why are you looking for him?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 8: I am looking for him. Oh I see, did you
Speaker 8: read the review? I am just getting to it when
Speaker 8: you come in read it maybe later. I saved his life.
Speaker 8: I saved his miserable, narrow life. All what a fool,
Speaker 8: just Amy you are? Read that review?
Speaker 3: Sure, sure, Mansfield.
Speaker 7: I'll say one thing for him, though he praised me
Speaker 7: to miss Chanel Cooper. But what a little thing, What
Speaker 7: a small return for my gesture?
Speaker 3: Ore, Then everything between you and miss Cooper is all right.
Speaker 6: I suppose that we're going to be married.
Speaker 4: Well, that seems to indicate a pleasant relationship between the
Speaker 4: two of you.
Speaker 6: The review man. Read it, and see what a scurrilous
Speaker 6: knave that hammer is.
Speaker 4: Sure in Mansfield, Southern's inspired performance of Hamlet last night
Speaker 4: leads us to the hope that in this sterling young actor, well.
Speaker 6: Go on, go on, you haven't come to the villainous part.
Speaker 4: Oh, in this sterling young actor, we have a new
Speaker 4: dramatic force of the power in Shakespearean roles.
Speaker 3: Of all the mighty figures of another day, Mansfield.
Speaker 4: I see nothing in miss to make you the next phrase, Broadway,
Speaker 4: The next phrase, that's the one. Read it, of all
Speaker 4: the mighty figures of another day, including even the immortal
Speaker 4: John Barrymore.
Speaker 7: The dog, the treacherous dog.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, at Mansfield, it seems to me that
Speaker 4: Ambrose pays you off in full account with him, including
Speaker 4: saving his life.
Speaker 3: He gives you Mischonelle Cooper. He also establishes your future
Speaker 3: in the theater Broadway.
Speaker 7: There is still a streak of venom left in Ambrose Hammer.
Speaker 6: If there weren't, why.
Speaker 7: Should he even mention John Barrymore in the same review.
Speaker 2: And so ends the famous Damon Runyon story The Melancholy Dame,
Speaker 2: listening again next week for.
Speaker 1: The Damon Runyon Theater. The Damon Runyon.
Speaker 2: Theater with John Brown as Broadway is directed by Richard
Speaker 2: Sandvil and The Stories of That for Radio by Russell Hughes.
Speaker 2: Berne Carstensen is in charge of production. This is a
Speaker 2: Mayfair production.