Speaker 1: Author's Playhouse. There's a part in Henry d. Pretend you're
Speaker 1: the girl. You're watching the King. You've heard ugly things
Speaker 1: of me.
Speaker 2: You've heard I'm cruel and treacherous and middle aged. Not
Speaker 2: what's to look after, you see. But in your simplicity
Speaker 2: you've seen deeper than all this I have. You've seen
Speaker 2: that I'm thoughted, unhappy, a great man who can trust
Speaker 2: no one just because he's great, who isn't sure he'll
Speaker 2: ever find out what real love means, who's always hunting
Speaker 2: for it more and more desperately. Greatness all too often
Speaker 2: waives a background of loneliness. Such was the case of
Speaker 2: this man, Robert No, who is acting all England paid homage.
Speaker 2: Author's Playhouse presents I A. R. Wiley's poignant story command performance.
Speaker 3: Say that's say my man or my act upon tailor apartment.
Speaker 4: Read all about Robert No, Piper, mister yeah boy, thank
Speaker 4: you Government, Piper that stray Piper.
Speaker 5: Robert No, former actor found dead an apartment. Stage manager
Speaker 5: Norton blames alcoholism.
Speaker 6: Robert No.
Speaker 5: I say it's too bad about him, but he almost
Speaker 5: made the top. He did almost. Now Ben Norton his
Speaker 5: enemy right in the story, Come on performance? Where is
Speaker 5: he no about it? Not in the stage manager couldn't
Speaker 5: see beyond his own miserable life. There were others like him.
Speaker 5: Isabel Isabella shopped, she saw in Knowles's perfection.
Speaker 3: And she hated him for it.
Speaker 5: Fred who took her words for truth because he had
Speaker 5: no head of his own to do his thinking. And Jenny, Jenny,
Speaker 5: who could have done so much good, cost so much bad,
Speaker 5: almost without knowing it, who could have written Knowles's life story?
Speaker 5: Oh but Robert himself, this story here in the paper
Speaker 5: is not the truth. But I was staged doldwn of
Speaker 5: his theater. I remember one night, about a year ago,
Speaker 5: when a urse.
Speaker 7: Who was going.
Speaker 8: I desire you do me right.
Speaker 7: And justice for heaven.
Speaker 4: They chose and proper feeling girl in this play. I'm
Speaker 4: supposed to be the King of England.
Speaker 9: I'm the bottle.
Speaker 4: Rid myself of a worthy thought, tiresome wife and take
Speaker 4: a new one. But I've still got my eyes in
Speaker 4: my head. You're a pretty piece I'm bowling. Isn't going
Speaker 4: to last forever, and you know it. You might be
Speaker 4: the next in line. We'll show you know it. Don't
Speaker 4: just read lines, leave your part hold on, give her
Speaker 4: a chance.
Speaker 7: She's a new one.
Speaker 4: No, you are not not and this has got to
Speaker 4: be right. You're a stage manager, you know that.
Speaker 6: I think I understand, Sir hard try again.
Speaker 4: And you, Isabel, You're to break for a moment inwardly
Speaker 4: you're supposed to feel what's going to happen and where
Speaker 4: the place is fred here I am just remember faith,
Speaker 4: you're supposed to be a great cardinal. Don't behave like
Speaker 4: a toughennyhay off this pie. You'll take our lives to
Speaker 4: take make it good this time?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 4: Everyone, pleas.
Speaker 5: Come man coming if you give him an a chance.
Speaker 10: Oh hello, inspector, Hello, so wonder you recognize me? And
Speaker 10: all this airfol it's thick enough to cut into piece
Speaker 10: as it is.
Speaker 5: The brave man you want to be hurt in a
Speaker 5: night like this, coming coming come in just a nice
Speaker 5: for ghosts to tell the truth. It wouldn't surprise me
Speaker 5: if there was. It goes to do around this way.
Speaker 3: The heck is still had toy. You can't keep.
Speaker 5: Acting poke out of the theater no matter what.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've all seen a lot of them.
Speaker 5: Henry Irving Ellen. Terry didn't live well bet they'd be
Speaker 5: poking around somewhere on a spooky.
Speaker 10: Night like this.
Speaker 5: How's the ply going when his majesty now begins his honor?
Speaker 5: And it's a good say.
Speaker 3: Where you'll be having another these first night.
Speaker 1: Be thu afore long, and.
Speaker 10: The traffic will be all tied up in knots again.
Speaker 10: Sometimes I wish they'd put me back in the nice
Speaker 10: quite suburb.
Speaker 5: Not you inspector get your past to reply one of
Speaker 5: your off nights. Always it will be just like it
Speaker 5: used to be. I saw Bilbone Tree and this here
Speaker 5: Robert Nole walks right alongside of him, So I'll be seeing.
Speaker 10: Him with the eight he with the eight wives. Everyone
Speaker 10: help him. I've got one.
Speaker 3: Yes, this is a Robert Knowle. He isn't and he
Speaker 3: is he no, And it's said to.
Speaker 5: Noel lives in a lonely world. Inspector.
Speaker 3: From what they tell me, he's made it lovely for hisself.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure hear that talk. Take my word for it.
Speaker 5: It's not true. There's a heart of golden Robert No,
Speaker 5: but very few have ever given him reason to show it.
Speaker 5: Most of them around here write him for his success.
Speaker 10: Hey, maybe this pray would be the one to make
Speaker 10: the command performance for now.
Speaker 5: It might indeed, Inspector, it might indeed.
Speaker 3: Well see you soon. Keep your door locked, can't tell
Speaker 3: who you can walk in.
Speaker 5: Don't worry about me, Inspector. I can handle myself. I
Speaker 5: beg your pardon, blame me, scared the living daylights hurt
Speaker 5: of me.
Speaker 7: Miss I'm sorry if I start with you. But is
Speaker 7: rehearsal over?
Speaker 8: Do you know if mister Knowles disengaged?
Speaker 5: He he's busy. Mister Knowle is just cutting off his
Speaker 5: wife said, you know him personally, only to.
Speaker 7: Look at him. But I've got to see him.
Speaker 5: I wait, I wouldn't. Once mister Knowle starts cutting off heads,
Speaker 5: he never knows where to stop. You cut off your
Speaker 5: head as soon as look at you, especially if you
Speaker 5: haven't got an appointment, and I'll wager you haven't.
Speaker 8: You don't understand.
Speaker 5: I understand all right. I haven't been on the stage
Speaker 5: door for my own twenty years for nothing. You want
Speaker 5: to be an actress, don't you?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 5: And you think if only mister nor would hear you're
Speaker 5: a sad direct of the esperers, he'd make you his
Speaker 5: leading lady.
Speaker 8: I don't know the wreck of the hispory.
Speaker 5: Well, whatever it is, he won't listen to you, and
Speaker 5: if he did, it wouldn't help a pretty young thing.
Speaker 9: But you can't act.
Speaker 7: That isn't true.
Speaker 8: How do you know what I can do?
Speaker 5: Because if you were a real actress, you'd have got
Speaker 5: yourself inside that theater. No matter what anyone said or did,
Speaker 5: their means a foul, as the saying goes, you run
Speaker 5: our home and be a good girl and get married
Speaker 5: and settled down. But I don't come on, that's your
Speaker 5: good girl, that your girl? Oh but hurt you girl?
Speaker 5: What your step?
Speaker 1: Miss?
Speaker 5: Why don't you try catching him as he leaves the
Speaker 5: theater through for the day? Ladies and gentlemen, wasn't soon
Speaker 5: enough for me?
Speaker 11: You laugh?
Speaker 3: Said miland Isabelle.
Speaker 2: I'll wait you ten to one before the next year's out.
Speaker 2: That rotter will be Sir Robert No, and then we'll
Speaker 2: have him.
Speaker 1: At the top of the profession.
Speaker 6: I'll give you boys another tender one wager by hook
Speaker 6: or crook.
Speaker 7: Sir Bibam will.
Speaker 6: Be moved out of his niche there on the wall,
Speaker 6: and we'll have our Sir Robert, bigger and better, hanging
Speaker 6: in his place.
Speaker 5: The venom clamors of a jealous woman poisons more deadly
Speaker 5: than the mad Dog's tooth Shakespeare, My dear, comedy of.
Speaker 6: Errors in saying that I'm jealous prop joy? Did you
Speaker 6: buy any chance? Notice that he looked up at the
Speaker 6: Royal Box. He was seeing things, my DearS, A command
Speaker 6: performance and then birthday honors.
Speaker 8: Just did you say, Betty?
Speaker 6: We'll have to say sir Robert every time we look
Speaker 6: at him, Sir Robert. Indeed rottle, but such a clever rotter.
Speaker 6: Did you notice that new bit of byplay with the
Speaker 6: girl's hand. It's just a touch, but it's good, and
Speaker 6: before he's done with it, he'll have everyone be leaving
Speaker 6: its great.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you a story, a good story. I got
Speaker 2: it from Naughton, who is usually a tight mouthed customer.
Speaker 2: You know, the yarn about his being the son of
Speaker 2: a naval sea captain and away from sea to become
Speaker 2: an actor, being cut off at the paternal shilling, and
Speaker 2: all that.
Speaker 8: Come on, where's the joke.
Speaker 2: The truth, my dear Isabelle, is that his father was
Speaker 2: a clown in a circus, and our Robert began life
Speaker 2: as a baby clown, used to do conjuring tricks and
Speaker 2: turn handsprings, ju Cho, they build him you.
Speaker 5: Choo, why you too by glide him his lime light.
Speaker 5: I don't know anyway, I'd keep it to myself.
Speaker 1: Folks, don't worry. We know when to keep our mouth shut.
Speaker 9: Old boy No.
Speaker 8: Has the vanity of a peacock. It's sort of pathetic
Speaker 8: in a way.
Speaker 6: The greatest living actor on the English stage and not
Speaker 6: one woman to love him. You know that's one of
Speaker 6: the things he's looking for in this life, a woman
Speaker 6: to love him.
Speaker 2: It can't be done, no matter how hard he's struck.
Speaker 8: You're right, it can't. I'm a woman and I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: Telling them what Miss Keane.
Speaker 8: Oh nothing, sir.
Speaker 2: I was just never mind. You're not on stage. You
Speaker 2: needn't answer me. Bob Joy is my car out from afraid.
Speaker 5: You've got to walk it, sir. It's your full telephoned.
Speaker 5: He said this fog was your bad. He couldn't even
Speaker 5: see thead nights.
Speaker 1: I prefer to walk tonight and I can see my
Speaker 1: way in the dark like a cat. Yes, sir, good night, sure,
Speaker 1: good night. Father to him. Oh, I'm steady the bus.
Speaker 1: It's all right.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry you can't see a thing in this farther.
Speaker 1: Let me help you. Where are you going or trying
Speaker 1: to go?
Speaker 8: Nowhere? I was just standing still, waiting for.
Speaker 1: What a bus? That would have been like waiting for
Speaker 1: a miracle.
Speaker 7: Yes, it was like waiting for an You must.
Speaker 1: Have been coming from somewhere.
Speaker 7: I was coming from the theater.
Speaker 1: The Imperial.
Speaker 8: Yes.
Speaker 1: Ah, so you're an actress?
Speaker 7: Oh no, just trying.
Speaker 8: The old man at the stage door said, I couldn't.
Speaker 9: See why not.
Speaker 1: You're a pretty voice, and.
Speaker 6: I am pretty. That isn't conceit. One must know a
Speaker 6: thing like that. But I guess being pretty isn't enough.
Speaker 2: Is it.
Speaker 1: It's a great deal.
Speaker 8: I tried to see Robert Knowle.
Speaker 7: I thought he'd help me.
Speaker 1: Do you know him?
Speaker 7: Then? Yes?
Speaker 8: But he doesn't know me.
Speaker 6: I've been to every play he's acted in. I mean
Speaker 6: since I've been grown up. Lots of times. I've even
Speaker 6: gone without food to see him.
Speaker 2: That's the sort of thing one does for friends. You
Speaker 2: ought to know that he has a friend like that.
Speaker 8: He must have so many. He's such a great man.
Speaker 2: Greatness doesn't bring one friends. Why should you think he'd
Speaker 2: help you?
Speaker 6: Because he must have had a hard time too, how
Speaker 6: he would understand, I'd feel it. He's kind and and generous.
Speaker 1: That's not what they say of him.
Speaker 8: I don't care what people say. They're jealous. I know
Speaker 8: him better. You see, I've watched him.
Speaker 6: And if you go without things for someone, you sort
Speaker 6: of see deep into them.
Speaker 8: You you've well, you get to love them.
Speaker 6: That sounds all silly, like a stage struck schoolgirl raving
Speaker 6: about her matinee hero.
Speaker 8: But I don't care.
Speaker 1: You mean you do? Might I see you save home?
Speaker 7: Miss You can't. I haven't got a home.
Speaker 9: That's silly.
Speaker 1: One there has to have a roof over one's head.
Speaker 1: It's a must.
Speaker 6: Not if you can't pay the rent, missus Stokes said,
Speaker 6: I'd have to pay or stay out, and I.
Speaker 7: Own off lot.
Speaker 8: I'm a stupid dreamer, I guess.
Speaker 6: So I spent my last penny on a bus fare
Speaker 6: on my last hope.
Speaker 8: Isn't that funny?
Speaker 1: What's your name?
Speaker 8: Jenny? Jenny Rawlings?
Speaker 2: Jenny Rowlings? That's pretty? Did you look well in the
Speaker 2: theater lights?
Speaker 9: It never will.
Speaker 2: You can't be sure. Wonderful things can happen, especially in.
Speaker 7: Fogs, not to me.
Speaker 2: They can't suppose you took a chance. Suppose you trusted
Speaker 2: a perfect stranger, Miss Rollings.
Speaker 6: Oh I'm sorry. You must have misunderstood me. I wasn't begging,
Speaker 6: don't you see?
Speaker 8: It was the fog.
Speaker 7: And look it's even lifting now.
Speaker 6: It was like talking to myself. Why I said things
Speaker 6: I wouldn't have said to anyone. I didn't mean to
Speaker 6: pour out my heart.
Speaker 1: To you, not even too Robert, no, least of all
Speaker 1: to him.
Speaker 6: I could never say, mister, No, you're great and good
Speaker 6: and I love you.
Speaker 1: No, you're making fun of me.
Speaker 7: No, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I what's the matter, Jenny?
Speaker 8: I can see now you're you're.
Speaker 1: Yes, Wonderful things do happen in fogs, as I said,
Speaker 1: even to a little miss Jenny. Are you hungry? Jenny?
Speaker 7: Don't make it smell too good? I couldn't wait.
Speaker 2: What would you say to Zoufley it's my specialty wonderful cocktail?
Speaker 7: Well, I no.
Speaker 2: Great, I don't touch the steps. Perhaps I'm afraid of it,
Speaker 2: afraid you know they say all actors are easy on
Speaker 2: sum accounts. My father drank himself to death. He was
Speaker 2: a clown. He didn't want to be to play Hamlet.
Speaker 2: All clowns do, so it broke his heart.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I I was his last hope.
Speaker 2: But at my command performance, well, I'll imagine him standing
Speaker 2: in the wings saying, well done, Robbie, well done.
Speaker 7: Will there be a command performance?
Speaker 2: There has to be, you know, Jenny, I've never told
Speaker 2: anyone all that before.
Speaker 1: It must have been a magical sort of fogg.
Speaker 7: You're magical.
Speaker 8: Why are you so kind to me?
Speaker 1: One good turn deserves another. You were kind to me,
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 7: Could I be kind to you?
Speaker 1: I hope so?
Speaker 8: I mean, well, I'm nobody.
Speaker 1: What could I do to begin with?
Speaker 2: You could eat my soufet before it falls flat. It's
Speaker 2: not used to being kept waiting, and don't talk. Then
Speaker 2: we'll have pesh flam day allah no, and real coffee.
Speaker 2: I'll wait till your landlady doesn't make.
Speaker 6: Real coffee, Bye says she doesn't make coffee of any sort.
Speaker 8: Who's by just one of the borders? A young American?
Speaker 7: He dances at the Palladium by Heck the Hoofer.
Speaker 1: They dail him to be Frank.
Speaker 2: I don't like young Americans, but I can't dance much,
Speaker 2: but I can do other things.
Speaker 8: You are nice.
Speaker 2: I've just remembered there's a part in Henry the Eighth.
Speaker 2: It's it's something just created. It's a girl's part. She's
Speaker 2: one of the Queen's retinue, a simple, lovely girl. Stand
Speaker 2: up a moment, Jenny, Pretend you're the girl. Now you're
Speaker 2: watching him in the great scene where Catherine pleads with
Speaker 2: the King. You've heard ugly things of me. You've heard
Speaker 2: I'm cruel and treacherous and and middle aged, not much
Speaker 2: to look after, you see. But in your simplicity you've
Speaker 2: seen deeper than all this I have. You've seen that
Speaker 2: I'm thwarted and unhappy, a great man who can trust
Speaker 2: no one just because he's great, who isn't sure he'll
Speaker 2: ever find out what real love means, but who's always
Speaker 2: hunting for it more and more desperately. And suddenly it's
Speaker 2: as though I feel your understanding.
Speaker 1: Your pity.
Speaker 2: I stop beside you, and hand idly as I might
Speaker 2: pick up a trinket, and taking your hand as important,
Speaker 2: because there are eyes meet yes, and in mine you
Speaker 2: see your future. That one day'll be your turn with me.
Speaker 2: But I shall pour jewels and power into your little hands,
Speaker 2: and I shall be wondering if one day I shall
Speaker 2: corrupt you like the rest with my gifts and if
Speaker 2: you will fail.
Speaker 7: Me too, don't don't I say anything, mister Nell. Don't
Speaker 7: I say anything? No, you just acted, mister No, how
Speaker 7: can I ever thank you?
Speaker 1: Don't cry, my dear.
Speaker 2: It's a bit of a miracle for me to finding
Speaker 2: you out there in the dark.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about it someday.
Speaker 2: But no, my dear, I just want to make you
Speaker 2: laugh and then send you home with a week salary
Speaker 2: in advance.
Speaker 6: Take your time with Breakfast series. Too much stepping is
Speaker 6: not good for your figures.
Speaker 10: Taking inventory missus jokes so early in the morning too.
Speaker 8: My John manace. Anyone seen Jenny do that?
Speaker 6: But her breakfast is getting cold?
Speaker 9: Okay?
Speaker 7: Come in.
Speaker 8: Hello by Jenny Rawlings.
Speaker 12: If I didn't know you for a godfearing citizen, I'd
Speaker 12: say you'd been drinking.
Speaker 7: I have been drinking, only this time it was nectar.
Speaker 9: Come out of a Jenny, Come clean. You've been up
Speaker 9: to something. Hi? U missed your last night at supper?
Speaker 9: Where for Pete's sake have you been.
Speaker 6: On the streets homeless, starving waife looking for a job
Speaker 6: for the last time?
Speaker 9: Are you a little idiot? If you were broke? Why
Speaker 9: didn't you tell me? Are we friends? Aren't we something more?
Speaker 9: Aren't we darling?
Speaker 7: Please? I wasn't broke, not quite, but I had to
Speaker 7: make my own way on my own.
Speaker 9: Two foods you can't, Jenny, weren't made for it.
Speaker 12: Here's something someone should take care of me, For instance,
Speaker 12: all this bug about acting.
Speaker 9: You're no actress, you never will be.
Speaker 6: That's what the stage doing then told me. He said,
Speaker 6: if you could act, you'd act. So I went right
Speaker 6: out into the fog and acted. I acted the part
Speaker 6: of a poor little lost girl who runs into the great.
Speaker 7: Kind actor quite by accident. The fog is so thick
Speaker 7: she doesn't recognize him, so.
Speaker 6: She's able to tell him how wonderful he is.
Speaker 7: It was a magnificent job. You sail for a darling.
Speaker 9: He fell flat, you little devil. What a dirty trick, But.
Speaker 6: That's what the stage man told me. Sayah means a foul.
Speaker 6: Perhaps it was a bit foul, but it didn't do
Speaker 6: any harm, did it.
Speaker 12: No, he's probably just head over heels in love with you,
Speaker 12: and he sounds like a pretty square guy to me.
Speaker 7: Oh bye, he'd never fall in love with me. Why
Speaker 7: it's old enough to be my father?
Speaker 9: Is he you listen to me, You're gonna marry me, Jenny.
Speaker 8: Stop you're hurting my art.
Speaker 9: I love you, Jenny.
Speaker 12: Just give me a year on Broadway, sweetheart, and I'll
Speaker 12: settle down on a farm with cows and kids.
Speaker 8: You never would buy.
Speaker 6: I don't know much about American hoofers, but I waited
Speaker 6: they dance at their own funeral.
Speaker 7: Come on, setch me down to breakfast.
Speaker 4: Everyone on safe, Be quiet, please, I've an announcer to me.
Speaker 4: This is miss Raleigh, Miss Jenny Rawlings. She's joined our company.
Speaker 7: He's fallen.
Speaker 1: Fred.
Speaker 8: See the way he looks at her.
Speaker 6: He thinks he's found the love of his life. Debt
Speaker 6: and a command performance would make me reading pussy.
Speaker 2: Hmmm, good looker, probably can't act a tuppence.
Speaker 1: What a ride she's taking him for?
Speaker 8: Perhaps to the church door, darling.
Speaker 9: Don't be silly.
Speaker 2: She's in the twenties, he's miss forties and no glamor
Speaker 2: boy at that. There's something our Robbie can't get away
Speaker 2: with our little scenemental But big darling, you could hear
Speaker 2: a kin drop.
Speaker 7: I was so excited.
Speaker 8: I guess I'll never get used to a big.
Speaker 2: Hoardian if you won't have to worry about that anymore. Jenny,
Speaker 2: remember what we talked over last night.
Speaker 9: Oh yes, my dear Jenny.
Speaker 1: I want the world to know the world.
Speaker 13: Yes, right now, pop Joy, Isabelle said, come here, Robert,
Speaker 13: we make a seen of it second way or too
Speaker 13: later when the season's over in book established you with
Speaker 13: your command performance, Branson.
Speaker 1: And nonsense, it's too good to wait.
Speaker 7: What's all this whispering about.
Speaker 2: We just wanted you to know that in a few days,
Speaker 2: my Jenny will be missus, Robert.
Speaker 6: No, take your claton course, Robert.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna along announce to you tonight.
Speaker 1: All right, dear, but that was my last call.
Speaker 2: Well, we're through for the night, ladies and gentlemen tomorrow
Speaker 2: at nine.
Speaker 5: Sorry to bother you, sir, but I almost forgot this
Speaker 5: special message came for you.
Speaker 1: Thank you, pop Joy. Give it here. Listen to this.
Speaker 1: We have just had a message from the Lord Chamberlain.
Speaker 2: Their majesties will be present tomorrow night at the command performance.
Speaker 12: Just a moment, please, Hi, came in a congratulate you.
Speaker 12: I read about tonight's command performance in the papers. You're
Speaker 12: in the case, aren't you.
Speaker 6: It's a matter Jenny, you're all, Oh by, what's the
Speaker 6: use of fooling myself?
Speaker 7: Why I can't act?
Speaker 8: And everyone knows it.
Speaker 7: He knows it too. Oh bye, I've overplayed my act.
Speaker 6: I've made such a mess of of things for him,
Speaker 6: for me.
Speaker 7: By marry me?
Speaker 9: Eh? Aren't you getting your love life a little mixed?
Speaker 7: But Robert means nothing to me.
Speaker 6: He was just a means of getting somewhere, And now
Speaker 6: that I've reached there, I don't want it.
Speaker 7: I'll even quit right now. What's the matter? Don't you
Speaker 7: love me?
Speaker 9: Of course? Of course?
Speaker 12: But isn't that playing a mean trick on him? That
Speaker 12: command performance? It must mean everything to know all he's
Speaker 12: counting on you.
Speaker 6: Well, then I won't let on tonight. By afterwards, let's
Speaker 6: not talk about it anymore. Come on, I've got the afternoon.
Speaker 6: You can buy me a ring, That's what you can do.
Speaker 9: Here.
Speaker 2: The first act went on jolly well, notting.
Speaker 7: I say, what's holding up.
Speaker 9: The curtain for the next act? Why has Nolan on
Speaker 9: stage for Q? And I'm going to find out?
Speaker 7: Right now?
Speaker 9: Stand by?
Speaker 2: Will you freddie?
Speaker 9: Right o? Along? The double? Know?
Speaker 5: Noel?
Speaker 9: Are you there? No Noel? Whatever?
Speaker 1: And Jenny what's wrong with you two?
Speaker 4: You've been due on stage for the last three minutes.
Speaker 1: No, Jenny, Jenny, how could you do this? How could you?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 8: Robert, I'm terribly sorry you had to be this way?
Speaker 1: Jenny?
Speaker 2: Tell me?
Speaker 1: Was it a game all alone?
Speaker 9: At first?
Speaker 7: Robert? At first? But it got beyond me.
Speaker 8: I never meant to hurt you.
Speaker 2: What is all this?
Speaker 7: Robert? You're on?
Speaker 9: Good bye, goodbye, Robert. You can't run out.
Speaker 3: It's the command performance.
Speaker 7: Oh, mister Norton, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 9: Oh what happened? Jenny? What have you done to him?
Speaker 6: When he came in here and took my hand? I
Speaker 6: had forgotten to take off my wedding ring. I was
Speaker 6: married to someone else this afternoon, My.
Speaker 11: Man, No wrong, you have heard I A. R.
Speaker 1: Wiley's story.
Speaker 2: Command Performance, directed by Homer Heck. William Everett, was heard
Speaker 2: as Robert knowle Lorette Phil Grant has Jenny. The musical
Speaker 2: score was conducted by Joseph Calichio. Next week, same time,
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