Speaker 1: The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents.
Speaker 2: Come in Welcome.
Speaker 1: I'm e. G.
Speaker 2: Marshall.
Speaker 1: I'd treat with the devil, give promise or pact to
make all my fantasies turn into fact. Thus spoke the poet.
Look at the world you live in today. If we
are worried troubled, it is because the meglomaniacal fantasies of
three men became actual hideous reality. Consider a certain half
mad Austrian housepainter, a bombastic Italian journalist, a sleepy eyed
Russian bank robber.
Speaker 2: What is the matter with you? Kearn? Are you all right?
Speaker 3: Yes, Tony, I'm all right.
Speaker 1: Something's wrong. Your cheeks are flushed. Let me feel your pulse.
Speaker 4: You mean you want to touch me?
Speaker 2: Karen? It's me Heinrich.
Speaker 3: Oh, I know now who you are, your God.
Speaker 1: Our mystery drama good Bye Karl Eric, was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Kevin McCarthy.
It is sponsored in part by Anhuser Busch Incorporated, brewers
of Budweiser.
Speaker 2: And Sinol, the Sinus Medicines.
Speaker 1: I'll be back shortly with that one.
Speaker 5: A long ranger and Tontowa kempting a woods just outside town.
And suddenly the Great or Silver and King Tamon, Yes,
Toto Silver, Census trouble come on quickly the mass rider
of the planes and his peaceful Indian companion headed at
They under.
Speaker 1: Brush, smell smoke, Kima Zaman over there, Tonte, hurry.
Speaker 5: Suddenly they come upon a clearing and they are just
inches for the hanging branches of a.
Speaker 1: Giant tree, a small green campfire.
Speaker 6: Quick, Tonto, grab that empty bucket.
Speaker 5: As Totto hurries to a nearby stream, the long ranger
stirs the fire until the embress cool Then Tonto returns
and drowns the fire twice.
Speaker 6: Good work, Tonto.
Speaker 1: Ah, But what about men who start fire?
Speaker 6: Well, Toto, they have a choice. Either they will put
an end to kellas fires, or they'll put an end
to the forest. Let's go, oh still away.
Speaker 5: A public service on behalf of the Forest Service, State Foresters,
and the ad Council.
Speaker 1: Here's a tip from your better businesspeer around the metric system.
Speaker 6: You know, the worldwide.
Speaker 1: Trend today is toward a universal system of measurement, the
metric system.
Speaker 2: The names of this new system may sound strange to you.
Speaker 1: At first, but fortunately there are only a few words
that have to be learned for everyday use, and these
are the millimeter, centevita, meter, and kilometer for describing length
and distance, the millimeter and leader for capacity or volume,
the gram, kilogram and ton for weight, the kilometer per
hour for highway speed, and the degree celsius or centigrade
for temperature. You're already using some of these terms more than.
Speaker 6: You may realize.
Speaker 1: For example, when you go to the supermarket, you see
weights expressed in grams on more and more packaged items.
Now for more information on this whole metric system, right
to Metric Information Office, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC.
When we wish to learn about history, we turned to
the writings of historians. Five hundred, one thousand years from now,
How will people look back at the arch villains of
our times? Who knows we are about to meet a
historian A diary keeper named Heinrich Stamler. When he first
started his diary many years ago in the city of Hamburg.
Heinrich Stamler, doctor of medicine, was very thin, very blonde,
very German, and still rather young. January two, nineteen twenty seven,
grandfather presented me with this beautiful leather bound book and
directed me to fail its empty pages with the day
by day story.
Speaker 2: Of my life.
Speaker 1: My promise to keep a journal would not have survived
had it not been for Frau Murder. And who we
is foul Muller?
Speaker 2: You ask?
Speaker 1: In the two years that I've been resident in the hospital,
Fraul Muller has been a wispy, white haired wraith of
a woman, constantly on her knees in the corridor, scrubbing
brush clenched in both fists as she performed her ceaseless
ritual to some goddess of cleanliness. We never spoke, We
never even exchanged casual greetings. Indeed, I never even knew
her name was foul Muller until yesterday. Yes, come in,
I said, come in. Yes, oh you're the cleaning woman. Yes,
is at that time of day? Already? Yes, it is
all right, I'm through here.
Speaker 2: You can tidy up.
Speaker 6: Hair? Doctor.
Speaker 1: Yes, well I I.
Speaker 4: My name is mu Uma Mulla.
Speaker 1: Well, well, happy new year to your flower miller, and
now I shall get out of the way.
Speaker 4: Hey, yeah, doctor, you you.
Speaker 6: What is?
Speaker 1: What is?
Speaker 6: What does be done?
Speaker 1: You must help me?
Speaker 2: What do you want?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 1: What do I want.
Speaker 4: I I realize I have no right to want anything,
to to ask anything.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 4: I'm forgetting my place, forgetting who I am.
Speaker 2: Well, don't be forgetting what you want to ask me.
Speaker 4: They say that that you uh are a kind man,
but I am a poor woman. I have no friends,
no mommy, I have no family.
Speaker 7: You are my only hope for what?
Speaker 4: But I I I have a son.
Speaker 6: His name is Carl Eric.
Speaker 4: Yes, I know I impose upon your.
Speaker 2: Kind No, no, no, stay with Karl Eric.
Speaker 6: You must help.
Speaker 4: What's wrong with him? He's unable to speak.
Speaker 1: He doesn't speak because he cannot or because he will not.
Speaker 4: He stopped speaking suddenly when his father died. And whatever
you do to him, whatever you say to him, he
will not utter a single word. Sometimes he makes sounds
in his throat, but he doesn't speak.
Speaker 1: Bring him here to the hospital and we will have
a look.
Speaker 2: Now, Frau Muller, you must excuse me.
Speaker 4: Carl Eric. He he cannot come to the hospital.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 4: He refuses.
Speaker 1: He can't afford to take that attitude.
Speaker 6: He won't go anywhere.
Speaker 4: I can't get him to set foot.
Speaker 2: Out of the house. And Muller, there's nothing I can do.
Speaker 8: Would you could you.
Speaker 1: Come to see him?
Speaker 4: But now, oh, please, I know I haven't the right class.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't because he himself must be interested enough.
Speaker 2: To come here.
Speaker 4: But he's stubborn, stupid.
Speaker 1: I am not permitted to treat patients privately.
Speaker 6: Please please here.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry if you have heard my final word on
the subject, but she hadn't. She wanted to hear more.
Do you know? This woman was waiting for me very
late last evening outside the South Skielhouse, where I had
gone to see the play by Berthel Brett. She was
standing under a lamp post in the falling snow.
Speaker 2: Hey, doctor, what is it? Oh you are.
Speaker 4: Froul Molly, Oh, forgive me you see you are my
only hope.
Speaker 6: My last hope, prow mother.
Speaker 1: I am willing to help you, but you will have
to bring your son to the clinic, but he won't come. Well.
In that case, there's nothing I can do.
Speaker 2: Don't you understand? No, she doesn't understand.
Speaker 1: She waits for me everywhere outside the hospital, outside the restaurant,
the theater, nightclub, my apartment, This frail, obsequious woman, begging, pleading, imploring.
Speaker 4: Please here, doctor, I'm all tired, pity me. I can
only live a little while longer, and then what will
become of my little carl Erict? What's to become of him?
Speaker 1: There's no escape. Her voice follows me, her face haunts me.
There's no getting rid of her, this clinging, unshakable leech
of a woman. And people are starting to notice you've.
Speaker 4: Been keeping something from me.
Speaker 1: Shasi Taxy?
Speaker 2: Who is she?
Speaker 6: Taxy?
Speaker 1: A former flame? Please? Karen?
Speaker 4: And now that she's grown old, would you refuse to recognize?
Speaker 1: Will you stop this ridiculous chatter? Why is it ridiculous? Skien?
Speaker 4: Years ago you were still a very young student.
Speaker 1: She might have been a very handsome.
Speaker 6: Woman, Percy.
Speaker 1: Of course she was your very first misty, Karen, I've
had enough. This isn't there's still a tender. There's a
cab atay.
Speaker 4: So the old sweetheart who initiated you into the beautiful
mysteries of love.
Speaker 2: Here we are.
Speaker 4: Oh, give her something for old time sake.
Speaker 1: You don't know what this is all about.
Speaker 4: If you won't give her something, I will hear mother a.
Speaker 6: Five mark note.
Speaker 1: Now look here, fraw Muller, enough is enough. If you
don't stop following me, I reported to the director of
the hospital January nineteenth, Last night.
Speaker 2: I went to see Kyle Eric.
Speaker 1: Yes, like the rains that arode the rocks, Vrau Muller
finally wore me down. She lives in a miserable black
not far from the docks. The smells, the dirt, the vermin.
All this was predictable, but the surprise was kind Eric.
After the way she talked about her little boy, I'd
anticipated a skinny.
Speaker 2: Brat of seven or eight.
Speaker 1: I was not prepared for a broad shouldered giant, perhaps
a few years younger than myself, blonde haired, blue eyed,
naturally handsome. His face was distorted, made ugly by a
terrible grimace of hatred and a look of madness in
his eyes. And yet this bruiser, who could have broken
me in half with one hand, cowered in the corner
like some terrifying animal.
Speaker 4: To say hello to the doctor, cal Eric, the nice
doctor has come all the way to help you.
Speaker 1: Say something. Well, up, your old.
Speaker 2: Tricks won't open your mouth.
Speaker 4: If the doctor is with the city Hospital, he's an
official of the government.
Speaker 1: Do you want him to arrest you?
Speaker 6: Animal?
Speaker 2: Open your mouth?
Speaker 4: You can speak from being stubborn stupid, speak speak, talk.
Speaker 1: Say something. Stop, stop it, tumbler, don't strike him. He's
a murderer.
Speaker 5: He wants to kill me.
Speaker 1: Worry me to death. Wait, please now, sit down, palm Miller,
I said.
Speaker 2: Sit down.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, doctor Keller, very happy to know you. My
name is doctor Heinrich Stamler. Now, as you can appreciate,
your mother is quite worried.
Speaker 6: Carl.
Speaker 1: Surely you agree that you're well. What you're doing now
is simply well. It simply has no future. Tell him
you're from the government.
Speaker 4: If he doesn't speak, if he doesn't go out and
find a job, you're arrest her.
Speaker 1: I'll tell him no such thing. I'll tell him the truth, Carl.
I want to help you, help make you happy. Surely
you cannot be happy here shut away from everything and everybody. Now, then,
the first thing I would like you to do is
to have you open your mouth so I can take
a look.
Speaker 2: Open your mouth, he's Balmuler. Open your mouth, you can exit.
Balm Muller, you must not interfere.
Speaker 4: Are you telling me how to handle my own son.
There's only one language he understands. A snack across is
a great facetash of it.
Speaker 1: I cannot help you if you persist in striking him.
All Eric, I'll come again another night when you feel
like talking.
Speaker 2: You're going.
Speaker 1: How can you leave?
Speaker 2: There's nothing I can do tonight. You won't come back.
Speaker 4: I know you won't come back. What is he doing,
answered the doctor.
Speaker 1: He's talking to you.
Speaker 2: What is he doing at that table?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 8: Table?
Speaker 1: I should throw down? No, no, no, what's right?
Speaker 6: Looks like that.
Speaker 1: Bayonette, soldier's belt, all sorts of military equipment.
Speaker 6: The way he picks up each arm.
Speaker 1: He's not a little boy.
Speaker 4: He can't play with soldier's toys anymore.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, he's not playing foul Muller.
Speaker 1: It's as if he's experiencing a religion.
Speaker 4: Two years ago, when he was twelve years old, in
nineteen seventeen, we learned that his father fell in France.
Since that day he.
Speaker 2: Has been dumb.
Speaker 6: He refuses to.
Speaker 1: Speak, and he has made himself a little shrine.
Speaker 2: Now I understand. Now I know how to talk to him.
Speaker 6: Doctor.
Speaker 4: Don't go near the table, don't touch anything on the table.
Speaker 2: Put away the bayonet.
Speaker 1: I mean to come.
Speaker 6: You're going that.
Speaker 1: Well. The therapy of doctor Heinrich Stammler may be rather
short lived. A furious Karl Eric is stabbing away at
his tormentors with a World War One German Army bayonet.
Some of you are probably saying, there's really nothing to
worry about, since we would never kill off a central
character in the first act. Well, there's a great deal
to that philosophy. But remember, like everyone else, we hate
to be taken for granted. We may just surprise you
in a very few moments.
Speaker 6: When you say that you've said a lot of things
like that. Askuday when you said.
Speaker 4: You've said us foris you can go to guess us.
Speaker 2: When you say.
Speaker 6: You've said the world that need you like to do
a m.
Speaker 2: When you said that, did.
Speaker 6: You see your chary of too on? You of you
want there?
Speaker 8: You don't mean something?
Speaker 1: Why you said it?
Speaker 2: Louis Hello, I'm Helen Hayes.
Speaker 4: There's something very important happening in this country. High school
students from sixty nations are living here for a year
in the United States. They're learning about us, about our families.
Speaker 1: Our schools, our communities, and we're learning from them. It
happens through American.
Speaker 4: Field Service AFS and the thousands of people who give
their time to help others. Volunteers help find families to
host students, They arrange activities in the community and help
raise scholarship funds. AFS is an exciting and rewarding activity
that deserves a place in your town or your city.
Speaker 1: To find out how you.
Speaker 4: Can help bring an international experience to your school and community.
Right AFS three one three East forty third Street, New York,
New York.
Speaker 1: That AFS three one.
Speaker 4: Three East forty third Street, New.
Speaker 1: York, New York. This is a day in the life
of doctor Heinrich Stamler, as recorded in his diary almost
fifty years ago.
Speaker 6: It describes the.
Speaker 1: Night of January nineteenth, nineteen twenty seven. He is in
a dismal flat and a dingy tenement in the city
of Hamburg. There is a tear in his coat, where
a wild thrust of a souvenir bayonet has narrowly missed
during him serious damage. The bayonet is in the hand
of a wild eyed, blonde giant.
Speaker 2: Of about twenty two, who.
Speaker 1: Has just undergone a fit of uncontrollable rage. He has
been subdued by his frail and wizened mother, who is
now beating him without mercy. How dare you, Brama let
him know? Hold balmula.
Speaker 6: I order you to be quiet. Stop it.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, said doctor.
Speaker 1: Now you will be silent or leave the room.
Speaker 4: He's only being stubborn, wilful. What why can't he talk?
Speaker 2: Because I'll try to explain.
Speaker 1: He suffers from the form of hysterical aphasia. The shock
of his father's death paralyzed that port paralyzed MM.
Speaker 4: You you say he's he's paralyzed.
Speaker 1: No, I let let us say the shock stunned that
portion of carl Eric's brain mm, which transforms ideas things
into words.
Speaker 2: Karl Eric and I are so much.
Speaker 1: In colonel, such a great deal to talk about.
Speaker 2: You do want to talk with me, don't.
Speaker 6: You, Carl Eric? H h ooh ooh.
Speaker 1: But you see, oh, hope, you see he is unable
to transform the idea yes into the word yes. He
must learn to speak all over again.
Speaker 2: Carl Eric, you.
Speaker 1: Must do this for your father. Can he rest in
peace if his death has made you dumb? Did he
die for the fatherland only to destroy his son?
Speaker 2: And tomorrow we begin.
Speaker 1: You'll come to the clinic. Don't be fight, move, don't
be fight. No one will hurt you. January twenty seven.
It proceeds slowly. What is the true ethiology of hysterical
speech disorders?
Speaker 6: Each case is a world of its.
Speaker 2: Very own, a dark and brooding place, filled with fear
and terror.
Speaker 1: And I must lead this lad from its jagged shadows
into the sunlight the tongue against the upperteeth, and explode.
Speaker 2: All of them.
Speaker 6: Soon Tu true, it's the t.
Speaker 1: See see, stay, stay.
Speaker 2: This is an orange. Try to say it.
Speaker 1: Oh, it has a color, a shape, a flavor, look, feel, taste,
taste of Collect all these things into your mind and say,
allround you.
Speaker 6: Row Jesus, this is.
Speaker 9: Uh a.
Speaker 1: Now watch you turn the cup upside down. The out
line of the cup is like the shape of the
off of your head.
Speaker 2: The key is the word head. Now the word cap
sounds like the word cup.
Speaker 6: And a cat.
Speaker 1: It's on your head.
Speaker 6: And a captain captain?
Speaker 1: Where do you find the captain at the head of what? Tolder? Captain?
Cup cop captain.
Speaker 2: A pair can be too A pair can be.
Speaker 6: Fruit too.
Speaker 1: Pair is too hot?
Speaker 2: May eighteenth.
Speaker 1: The boy is so quick, so bright, he almost frightens me.
He eats knowledge the way a starving man devowers food.
Speaker 2: Slowly, but slowly.
Speaker 1: The words are coming back in many words or words
he never knew.
Speaker 2: Karen said something about it. I took Kyl Eric out
to dinner with this. Later on, Karen.
Speaker 4: Asked me, how does it feel to be God?
Speaker 2: Why ask me?
Speaker 4: Because you have just created a living creature in your
own image I have Karl Eric. Oh, he studies you
so closely. He talks almost the way you do.
Speaker 1: Now it's all in your imagination. The boy is being grateful.
No one was every really kind to him before. He's
showing gratitude to a big brother.
Speaker 4: This isn't gratitude to his brother.
Speaker 2: This is worship to his God.
Speaker 4: Promise me something heinrich and easy.
Speaker 10: I'm serious.
Speaker 4: You must never fail him in any way.
Speaker 6: You are his God, then.
Speaker 1: I must fail him.
Speaker 2: In the end. All gods have feet of clay.
Speaker 3: If he finds your feet are of clay, it will
destroy him.
Speaker 2: June eleventh, Today I told him he would have to.
Speaker 6: Take his first test in the look.
Speaker 1: The look that I thought had vanished forever suddenly reappeared,
the look of a terrified animal.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm afraid you must do this.
Speaker 1: I can. You must go out into the world finally.
Speaker 6: Oh, I know, I know what will happen.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 6: I'll be standing in line.
Speaker 11: I'll be waiting for him for my turn.
Speaker 6: Brow I'm baker, will say next and me I'll be
next up. I'll just stand there and she'll say, well,
speak up, what'll it be? I'll just stand her all.
I ston't know you won't I will?
Speaker 1: I will? I forget the word for bread, you remember, won't.
Speaker 6: It's happened before. I can't go out there.
Speaker 2: I would like for us to have a loaf of
bread for our dear.
Speaker 1: You'll be a favorite. Please go around the corner to
the big show.
Speaker 6: If you forget the word for brands, even your saying,
I'll forget.
Speaker 1: If you forget, just stand there and think they'll laugh
at me. If anyone laughs, turn to them, look at them,
Say to them, slowly, distinctly, calmly, why are you laughing?
What's so funny about a human being in distress?
Speaker 6: Welcome? Please stop tying?
Speaker 1: Please, please please? Was a cry that almost broke my heart.
But the time comes when the core must be cut.
I followed him downstairs, up the street, around the corner
I saw him enter.
Speaker 2: The Big Shop.
Speaker 1: His face had a look of agony of a man
being led to the scaffold. I stood just outside the door.
I peered into the shop. One by one, the customers
in front of him were served, and then all right,
who's next?
Speaker 6: I guess it's you, young man?
Speaker 1: Well, what do you want?
Speaker 7: Are you dead?
Speaker 4: What you want? You've been standing there five minutes waiting
your turn? Couldn't you decide?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 1: Was this something.
Speaker 6: The cops? Stupid?
Speaker 1: Look at the comical faces you ought to be.
Speaker 4: Why why you wing?
Speaker 1: What's so funny about a person in distress? Well?
Speaker 6: Oh lord, I want hella?
Speaker 2: Oh but.
Speaker 6: Do you hear me? I want Helloa of fred bread
with a cry.
Speaker 1: He stood there, proud and tall, with fire in his eyes,
as if he were a hero of legend, and two
the half dozen people in the big shop. He was
a hero, a man who had performed the Titanic feat
And I knew then that he could stand alone. My
work was finished.
Speaker 2: I could let go.
Speaker 12: I could say goodbye, Rye Carol Eric.
Speaker 6: Doctor Heim, Okay, what can I say to you?
Speaker 1: I only did my duty as a doctor.
Speaker 6: Did you say goodbye to your mother?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 6: Yes, she made a scene. Munich is so far away.
It is time for me to leave.
Speaker 1: I know the job doesn't pay much, but it's a start.
Speaker 6: I work hard.
Speaker 1: I'm mother. Send me the nice girl. That's this you're blessing.
Speaker 6: I've already met her.
Speaker 1: You've been hurling out of me.
Speaker 6: Will she laugh at me?
Speaker 2: I'll only laugh at you if you deserve it.
Speaker 1: What's her name?
Speaker 6: Lisa rhyan Wood? Lisa are you am? I? What a
crazy do you mean?
Speaker 2: Lisa Rhyanewood the film star?
Speaker 6: Oh see, what do you see? A foolish plot?
Speaker 1: No? No, no, no.
Speaker 6: That's why.
Speaker 1: While she's there on the screen so idealistic, young.
Speaker 2: Men can fall in love with her.
Speaker 1: I know it's hopeless, hopeless, there's anything hopeless, bread fool jammin.
Look at what you've done already, look at what you've won.
Why not le sa Ryan Mutes set your sights high.
Speaker 6: Yes, you make me feel and anything is attainable. You
did from the very beginning, work hard. You've got the stuff.
If I have, it's thanks to you.
Speaker 1: No, no, I'll stop that. I admit that I've given
you a splendid gift, to magnificent gift of language.
Speaker 2: But you are the one who just use it.
Speaker 1: Promise me, Promise me you will use it wisely and well.
Speaker 6: I promise, I promise Doctor Hylish form.
Speaker 1: Card Eric Good Everywhere. The nineteen twenty nine Carl.
Speaker 2: Eric's regular weekly letter arrived.
Speaker 1: Again this morning. I think my boy is feeling his oats?
Speaker 6: Do you, doctor Heinrich. I lost my job, but I
have found my future. We were sitting around at the
loading dock during lunch Hower and the talk turned to
what talk often does women and the poor men and
men I really don't like was sounding off about a
certain person.
Speaker 1: You take these movie actresses, how do you think they
get their jobs in this corrupt society? It's not how
good they look on the screen, it's how good they
performed with the producer.
Speaker 6: Would you say all actresses are like that? I would
say they have to be. Even Lisa Rhin moot.
Speaker 1: Ether Ein Mutt is the listress of Sable? Are you
why you pot?
Speaker 6: You?
Speaker 1: Why yet? Why? Hey? A Carla? Like? All right?
Speaker 6: Friends?
Speaker 1: Oh you're gonna have one beauty of a black eye.
Speaker 6: You should see Meyer what happened? And I got fired?
Speaker 1: Hay the figures he starts to fight you get camp.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I like the way you handle yourself.
Speaker 1: Look at where it got me.
Speaker 6: What are you gonna do now? Look for another job?
You and a million others. Huh, got any money? Just
this week's pay? Tell you what moving with me?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 6: Well, I wouldn't want to do.
Speaker 1: Oh we got plenty of we a couple of.
Speaker 6: Buddies and me. You don't even know me. What is
there to know?
Speaker 1: All good Germans are brothers. Oh yeah, that's the most
caut I feel guilty. Look, one day I'll be out
of work, yeah, or Otto or Hans and you will
have a job.
Speaker 6: So go ahead. Where are Hans and Ata?
Speaker 1: Tonight? They left early? They had to set the place up.
What place by the meeting place? I don't have to
be there till later, but I better hurry.
Speaker 6: What kind of meeting is it? Say? Why don't you
come along?
Speaker 1: I mean in the ordinary way, you couldn't hope to
get in. We're really going to have a mob, but
I'll get you the best seat in the house.
Speaker 6: You sound like a man of influence, and I'm getting there.
Speaker 1: I'm German of the meeting, and I'm the one who's
going to introduce him.
Speaker 6: Introduce who the shuna Adolf?
Speaker 1: That's who Adolf, Adolf Hitler, Savior of Germany, and tonight.
Speaker 6: You're going to shake his head. Let's see.
Speaker 1: That was part of a letter written by Karl Eric
Miller to doctor Heinrich Stammer from Munich in the year
nineteen twenty nine. Nineteen twenty nine, things were touching go
that year. The world hung in a precarious balance, waiting
to be tipped one way or another, and some of
the people who helped to tip it finally will be
heard from when I return in just a few moments
with a.
Speaker 4: Three, I want that sinus medicine headache tablet. No, the
sinus medicine that relieves headache and congestion, internal sinus pressure
and post nasal drip.
Speaker 1: You mean sign off exactly. Compare sign off tablets with
anything you've ever taken for sinus. No sinus tablet you
can buy relieves more symptoms. Sign Off gives you a
full dose of pure aspirin plus a powerful sinus trainer.
Sign Off works fast to help sinus pain.
Speaker 2: Why do you drain si n e oss?
Speaker 6: Sign off?
Speaker 1: The sinus medicines in the bright red box, take when
needed only as directed. Frank Algaffio, Executive Director of Care,
calls for help for African drought victims. Millions of man,
women and children are still barely cling to life in
the drought stricken countries of Africa.
Speaker 2: With your help, CARE is.
Speaker 1: Beating millions of pounds of nutritious food, medicine, and other
essential supplies. This vital aid, extended now can make the
difference between life and death a desperate people. Your contribution
to CARE will save their lives. Please send your dollars
to CARE African Drought Famine Fund Department, I New York
one O one six, Oh, Great.
Speaker 11: Spirit, whose voice and the winds I hear, whose breath
give life to all the world.
Speaker 1: Hear me.
Speaker 13: The voice is parnized code of the Cherokee Nation. The
words are a prayer for it, spoken four hundred years.
Speaker 2: Ago by his people, of people who loved the land.
Speaker 1: Make me walk in beauty.
Speaker 6: Make my heart respect all you have made.
Speaker 11: Make me wise that I may know all you have
taught my people the lessons who have hidden in every rock.
Speaker 13: In some Americans today, that spirit is reborn throughout the land,
areas of boughless liver and pollution not being restored to
their natural beauty. And yet we still have so far ago.
So everyone must get involved.
Speaker 6: To contact the Keep.
Speaker 1: America Beautiful Team Nurist.
Speaker 13: You right, Keep America beautiful, ninety nine Park Avenue, New.
Speaker 2: York, New York. People start pollution and people can stop it.
Speaker 1: A public service message in the station and the advertising council.
What was it like in the past, Well, historians list
the events and enumerate the dates and describe the scenes.
But how did it look and how did it smell?
And how did it feel? You had to live it
to know it. Early in nineteen twenty nine, Adolf Hitler
addressed a National Socialist rally in Munich in Bavaria, and
Karl Eric Muller was in reduced to him. And now
Karl Erk tries to capture this faithful moment as he
writes to his adore, doctor Heinrich Stammer.
Speaker 6: He takes your hand in both of his. He looks
deep into your eyes, and at that moment you expose
your soul.
Speaker 1: At that moment, the world holds still.
Speaker 6: At that moment, nothing exists except for his eyes. And
then he smiles and he says, Carl Eric Miller, I
am happy to be your cond Oh, my doctor Stamler.
I have been born three times, once when my mother
gave me birth, once when you raised me from the
darkness and once when I looked into my fearer's eyes.
June fifteenth, nineteen thirty one, Dear doctor Stamler, I can't
explain how busy things are, but regardless, I shall write
you my letter each week religiously. I must share all
this with you. After all, if it weren't for you,
I know how uncomfortable I make you with my thanks.
Your prediction came true. I met her, Yes, I met her.
I finally met Lisa reinmult Karl. Good news. You've been
assigned to the film and theater section. For what do
I know about theater?
Speaker 1: With your mouth, how honey drips from your tongue.
Speaker 6: For what am I supposed to do?
Speaker 1: Convince people in the cultural world to join the party.
It'll keep you busy day night, but every one knows
you're a bear for word.
Speaker 6: Are talking about work. I have to find a job. Come,
you've got a job, I mean a job that pays.
You're on the pay roll. Now the party can give you.
Speaker 1: A good salary. Take money from the party. The Party
raises money to pay people like you and me so
that we may devote all all our time to our work.
Now start calling the names on this mad oh By
the way, the one on top is interesting, Lisa rhyme.
Speaker 6: How can I call her simple? She's a great star.
Why would she talk to me? Our party is the
wave of the future.
Speaker 1: You and I are riding the way.
Speaker 4: But I'm a completely unpolitical person.
Speaker 6: Life is politics, Frauline rhinmod.
Speaker 4: You are such a masculine smile.
Speaker 6: Our country has a rendezvous with fate.
Speaker 1: Fate. Yes, I believe in fate.
Speaker 4: It's fate that brings a man and a woman together.
Speaker 6: Every year the National Socialist Party grows stronger, more numerous,
and join us. Now stand with us now now when
we need you, I need you too.
Speaker 1: You call Eric.
Speaker 4: I need a man of strength, a man of ideals,
a man of spirit. Oh how hard it is for
me to meet up a man?
Speaker 6: What are you saying? Millions of MEEO would throw themselves
at your feet.
Speaker 4: What real woman wants a man who would kneel to
her car? Eric, Yes, how I have waited for you,
longed for you.
Speaker 1: January third, nineteen thirty two. Sometimes I wonder ifhy I
even bother to keep this diary. Oh well, I suppose
it's become a habit.
Speaker 2: Not that it wasn't an interesting day and evening.
Speaker 4: But how could they fire you shall see they need doctors.
Speaker 2: They didn't fire me.
Speaker 1: They simply didn't reappoint who but Eden, I'm not a
member of the party.
Speaker 4: Is that the way the wind blows?
Speaker 2: That's the way the wind blows.
Speaker 4: I see your boy is doing all right for himself.
Speaker 1: He'll come to his senses later.
Speaker 7: To all true German comrades. This is Fritz Dalton with
the program National Socialist Headlers.
Speaker 1: We turn him off all right.
Speaker 7: Our guest is a German hero who is also my closest,
viarest friend, Carl Eric Mueller.
Speaker 1: Why not he's still my Carl Eric.
Speaker 7: Carl Eric Mueller together with his beautiful fiance, and we
all know who she is, the lovely Lisa right and
also an honored guest, a woman who is a credit
to true German motherhood. Frau Irma Mueller. Let us hear
from Lisa Rinwood.
Speaker 9: First, I could only give myself to a true Arian,
to a man of the purest German blood. Children will
be superman.
Speaker 7: The best advice and now to hear all himself. Carl
Eric Huger.
Speaker 6: Thank you friends. My heart is full the dreams of
my lifetime are coming true. What can a man want?
An honored old age for his pleasant parents, a true
German woman to bear his children, honor and glory for
his beloved fatherland. None of this would have happened for
me had it not been for one man, one great man.
He knows who he is, and he knows I can
never forget him.
Speaker 2: All that's enough.
Speaker 6: Where will you go? Hanach?
Speaker 1: Oh, there are the jabs other hospitals that the Nazis.
Speaker 4: Are gaining power every day.
Speaker 1: It might be better to Nazis just come. It has
been royaled up from the bottom of the stream by
the political storms.
Speaker 2: This is a civilized country.
Speaker 4: But I've heard the people scream hile for Hitler.
Speaker 2: Hitler.
Speaker 1: How can an intelligent German take Hitler seriously? Why the
man's an Austrian. March twenty third, nineteen thirty three, I
saw Karl Eric today for the first time in four years,
for the first time since I put him on the
train to Munich. And what a day to see him.
On March twenty third, the day the Reichstag will vote
pull dictatorial powers to Hitler. Oh well, there are bands
playing the streets, and uniforms and cheering crowds everywhere. I'm
walking down the avenue and there's this all blond giant
of an essay officer with the most heavenly looking redhead
clinging to his arm. And then suddenly I'm seized in
a powerful griptor. Doctor Hine, Why.
Speaker 6: Karl Eric, your Karl Eric, Lisa, this is doctor Hinmi.
Speaker 4: Eric never stopped talking about what are you doing?
Speaker 6: Where you're going? Wait? He is there. Let's go in
for a dream. I have to walk. Go go somewhere,
do something O get it? Take his arm, Lisa, and
in we go time we shall sit uh here wait
that we shall order campaign the very best. This is
a celebration. Wait quickly, Champagne. Now talk to me, doctor Heinrich,
please talk to me.
Speaker 1: What can I tell you?
Speaker 6: Everything?
Speaker 2: What is everything?
Speaker 6: But I haven't heard a word from you in over
two years at the hospital. Nobody knows what happened. What
did happen to you? Your clothes?
Speaker 2: Look at you?
Speaker 6: Did you ever wear a rumpled jacket? I never saw
you in a in a ring good shirt? Well, who helped?
Speaker 2: That's how it goes, Oh.
Speaker 6: That's how it went. You once saved me. How thankful
I am that I can save you from what you know.
Fritz Stauber is my best friend.
Speaker 1: I heard Fritz Stauber.
Speaker 6: Was with Hitler in the nineteen twenty three push. Stauber
introduced me to Hitler an, don't you know what this
means for you? No, you're ill, but we will nurse
you back, Lisa and I won't we die. Of course,
you will become the most powerful man of medicine in
all of Germany. And please, Alice listened to me Dr Heinrich.
Ever since the day we met, I prayed, if only
I could thank you someday, if only I could perform
a service for you.
Speaker 2: It's so good to see you again.
Speaker 1: Before leave you live?
Speaker 6: Where where are you going to?
Speaker 1: America?
Speaker 6: America? Decadent America? How can you leave Germany? Now? Never by?
Speaker 2: Because I committed a crime.
Speaker 3: A crime.
Speaker 6: For a moment you had miscared crime? What kind of
a crime, whatever it is, forget it. It's fixed as
of this moment. It is fixed one way from me,
and that crime is wipe from the books.
Speaker 2: Not this crime crime.
Speaker 6: I don't care what it is. You are talking to me,
to Carl Eric Miller, What kind of a terrible crime.
Speaker 2: Could you have committed.
Speaker 1: I was born at you you you were.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm col Eric, col Eric, what what's the matter?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: Why do you make those faces? What are you saying? Speak?
Speaker 6: Speak to them, don't.
Speaker 4: Make those faces.
Speaker 6: I'm frightened.
Speaker 4: Oh doctor, doctor, do something.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid I can do nothing.
Speaker 1: Say something to call Eric.
Speaker 6: You are his god, I.
Speaker 2: Know, and he has just seen my feet of clay.
Speaker 1: Say something to him.
Speaker 2: Goodbye, Carl, Eric, Goodbye.
Speaker 1: From the Diary of doctor Heinrich Stammler. I left him
sitting there, staring into space, that dull and vacant look
that would remain forever on his countenance.
Speaker 2: Goodbye for Karl L Harry.
Speaker 6: And that is the last entry. The book is closed.
Speaker 1: I still have another page, and we shall read it
together in just a few moments. This is Arnold Palmer.
Speaker 8: In golf, we call someone who plays exceptionally well a champ,
and a champ works to win. His whole way of
life is geared to that talent, that ability in him
which makes him win.
Speaker 1: Well, that's one way of living.
Speaker 2: But there are others, and the March of Dimes.
Speaker 1: Offers us some of those ways.
Speaker 8: Ways to work to prevent birth defects or ways to
help kids born with birth defase.
Speaker 6: For many of those kids, a way of.
Speaker 8: Life is a difficult direction to discover.
Speaker 1: Me but for most of us it's not.
Speaker 6: By us I.
Speaker 8: Mean young people, middle aged people, senior citizens, everyone. As
honorary National Chairman for the March of Dimes, I can
tell you that the greatest gift do.
Speaker 1: You have any handicapped child is a.
Speaker 8: Little understanding, a little encouragement and a chance.
Speaker 4: To appreciate life.
Speaker 1: Won't you help join the March.
Speaker 10: Of Times today and find a way of life?
Speaker 1: The Twilight of the Gods, all of the gods of
power and conquest were finally blasted from their feet of
clay a decade after our story ended. Unfortunately, they have
been recreated, rededicated, and once again, so many of us
worship the gods of.
Speaker 2: Fire and destruction.
Speaker 1: Who will expose and destroy those gods in our time?
Our cast included Kevin McCarthy, Paul hect Bryana Raeburn, Joan
Shay and Sam gray m The entire production was under
the direction of Hymond Brown and now a preview of
our next tale.
Speaker 8: What is it?
Speaker 6: I don't know?
Speaker 2: Funny dead smell?
Speaker 1: Oh, we must get this house open and let them.
Speaker 2: Airy him and ah.
Speaker 1: And and what I thought it was oppression at first.
Speaker 2: But strange reaction, heavy.
Speaker 1: Listless, No, what's the word. I know something I've never
totally felt in my life, even at my parents' funerals. Sad,
just unbearably, inescapably sad.
Speaker 2: I knew as soon as.
Speaker 4: I saw the door opened, and the moment we got inside,
she's back again.
Speaker 1: You will let her back in Radio. Mystery Theater was
sponsored in part by sin of the Sinus Medicines and
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Speaker 11: This is E. G.
Speaker 1: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams,