WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:11.160 The Shenley Laboratories Producers of Penicillin. Shenley present the Encore Theater, 2 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:37.119 Yoncore Theater play Tonight Magnificent Obsession. Our star is Cornell Wire. Tonight, 3 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:40.479 Shenley Laboratories present the first in a new series of 4 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:44.560 great dramatic programs. Some of our stories are fact the 5 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:49.119 struggles and accomplishments of great men of medicine. Others are fiction, 6 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:54.600 stories of devotion to an ideal individual, heroism, or great courage. 7 00:00:55.560 --> 00:00:59.679 By these programs, Shenley Laboratories would remind you that medical 8 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:03.880 science some progress, is not cold in personal research or 9 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:08.159 pages of statistics, but a worn human story told in 10 00:01:08.239 --> 00:01:11.280 living terms, whether it's the life of one of medicine's 11 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:15.200 immortals or the simple every day record of service rendered 12 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:32.200 by your family physician. Now The Encore Theater presents Magnificent Obsession, 13 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:36.280 starring Cornell Wild as Doctor Robert Merrick and Green Tuttle 14 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:37.519 as Helen Hudson. 15 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:54.760 To me, doctor Wayne Hudson had always been a legend, 16 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:58.040 even back in those days when my life was dedicated. 17 00:01:57.560 --> 00:01:59.519 To pleasure and very little else. 18 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:02.480 He was one of the world's great surgeons and one 19 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:05.599 of the world's great men we never met, and yet 20 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:09.280 his life ended because of me, and my life began 21 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:12.199 because of him. That was many years ago, but I 22 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:14.879 can still recall that dark morning when I came to 23 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:18.800 in doctor Hudson's Brightwood hospital with a splitting headache and 24 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:20.800 no idea at all what I was doing there. I 25 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:24.240 heard voices outside my door, and I lay there in 26 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:25.879 a cold sweat listening. 27 00:02:26.360 --> 00:02:28.159 How did it happen? Doctor Ramsey. 28 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:30.840 Doctor Hudson had gone for a swim to freshen up. 29 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:34.479 He was very tired, his heart was over text. We 30 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:36.879 could have saved him with the pull mutter, but it 31 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:37.479 wasn't there. 32 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:38.560 Where was it. 33 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:39.960 On the far side of the lake. 34 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:42.759 Young Bobby Merrick and some of his friends had stayed 35 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:46.039 an all night poker party. Early this morning, Marrek decided 36 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:47.759 to take them off for a sail on his boat. 37 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:51.280 He was knocked out and overboard by a swinging boom. 38 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:53.800 They rushed over in a speedboat for the pull mutter, 39 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:57.319 and Justin took it to them. If we had had it, 40 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:11.479 we could have saved doctor Hudson over. 41 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:11.360 We could have saved doctor Hudson. We could have saved 42 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:14.560 doctor Hudson. I lay there for days with those words 43 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:16.599 lashing at me. I saw them in the eyes of 44 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:18.879 the people who came to see me. I saw them 45 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:21.039 in the eyes of the nurses and the doctors when 46 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:24.560 I began to think I'll never escape them. Every time 47 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:27.639 I read a death notice, I think, could doctor Hudson 48 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:30.719 have saved that life? And at last I couldn't stand 49 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:33.800 it anymore, and I cornered. Nancy Ashford, the head nurse. Look, 50 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:36.000 missus Ashford, I'd like to ask you something, and I'd 51 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:38.439 like to have you ask yourself the same question. Is 52 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:40.479 it my fault that my life was saved and young 53 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:41.680 doctor Hudson was drowned? 54 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:45.520 How did you know? Nurses are always under strict daughters 55 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:46.159 not to tell. 56 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:47.879 No, the nurses didn't tell me. But I have ears 57 00:03:47.879 --> 00:03:48.560 and I have eyes. 58 00:03:48.759 --> 00:03:52.159 Unfortunately, you're all asking yourself what right have I to 59 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:55.680 be alive and doctor Hudson dead? No, well, I'm asking 60 00:03:55.719 --> 00:03:57.960 myself that I know my life isn't worth his. 61 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:00.879 Doctor Hudson wouldn't want you to feel that way. 62 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:03.680 No, well, how would doctor Hudson want me to feel? 63 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:06.840 I think doctor Hudson would say that if you felt 64 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:09.560 responsible for the loss of a man, then you'd better 65 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:11.319 find a way to make up for that loss. 66 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:13.080 That's a pretty big order, sister. 67 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:16.240 Yes, mister Merrick, that is a pretty big order. 68 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:30.639 After I left the hospital, I spent the days and 69 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:33.199 the nights walking and thinking. I couldn't sit still, I 70 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:37.120 couldn't sleep. I was confused and lost, and growing more 71 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:40.240 and more convinced that Bobby Merrick was a pretty miserable 72 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:43.240 character and the world would be much better off without him. 73 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:46.399 And then one day, when I was out walking, I 74 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:48.800 met a girl. Her car had broken down. 75 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:52.160 Hell, hell, there, I wonder if you could help me. 76 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:54.920 She smiled at me, and for a moment the fires 77 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:57.800 burning inside me flick it out, and I was almost 78 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:01.279 at peace. I've always laughed people who talked about love 79 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:04.480 at first sight, but her smile went straight to my 80 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:07.879 heart and stayed there. I took all the time I 81 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:10.319 quit fixing her car, and I was sorry when I 82 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:10.879 had finished. 83 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:13.399 Thank you so much. I'm very grateful to you. 84 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:15.240 Oh was nothing at all. I always glad to help 85 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:16.120 a lady in distress. 86 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:17.480 I don't know what I would have done if you 87 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:18.279 hadn't come along. 88 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:21.199 I don't suppose that there would be a chance of 89 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:23.399 seeing you again. I don't suppose I could call her 90 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:27.319 just to see how the car was getting along. Never 91 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:29.759 mind that probably sounded pretty fresh. 92 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:30.639 Your alone, so. 93 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:33.959 Much loneliness is only part of what's wrong with me, lady, 94 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:35.519 Only a very small part. 95 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:36.160 You know. 96 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:39.439 My husband used to say, did you know doctor Hudson? 97 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:41.720 By any chance? So many people did. 98 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:44.560 I beg your pardon? What did you say? 99 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:46.759 I just ask you if you knew my husband, doctor 100 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:47.560 Wayne Hudson. 101 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:50.279 No, I never had that pleasure. 102 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:52.959 Well, anyhow, he used to say that all paying passes 103 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:56.519 and that we grow by it. Well, I'm not going 104 00:05:56.560 --> 00:05:58.839 to preach a serve. Can I give you a lib? 105 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:01.279 No? Thank you, Missus hud good night. 106 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:03.319 Wait a minute, aren't you going to tell me your name? 107 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:04.639 Sure? Why not? 108 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:09.279 The name's Merk, Missus Hudson, Bobby Merrick, Bobby married. Yes, 109 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:11.160 it's a pity, isn't it? For a moment we were 110 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:16.720 almost friends? Or am I presuming you are presuming good 111 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:34.160 nights to me? I stood there watching her card disappear 112 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:36.639 over the hill, feeling as though I had been slammed 113 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:40.480 against the earth, until every nerve was bleeding, and then 114 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:44.800 once more I started walking, hour after hour, mile after mile, 115 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:47.079 I didn't know where I was walking. 116 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:48.160 I didn't care. 117 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:52.959 I lost all consciousness of my surroundings, until suddenly I 118 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:56.560 realized that it was very late at night, and I 119 00:06:56.680 --> 00:06:57.800 was cold. 120 00:06:57.879 --> 00:06:59.920 And lost in more ways than one. 121 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:04.959 I stopped at a house whose lighted windows suddenly appeared 122 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:11.560 like a beacon. Yes, I beg your pardon, but I'm 123 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:14.079 afraid i've lost my way to come in. 124 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:15.439 Thank you? 125 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:20.399 If I could just use your telephone. 126 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:21.720 You look all in. Why don't you sit down and 127 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:22.600 rest a few moments. 128 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:26.560 Thanks. I'm sorry to bust in like this. 129 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:29.360 I thought I knew my way perfectly. 130 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:33.759 Well. They wait, where have I seen that face before? 131 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:36.800 Oh that's a bluster of doctor Hudson, I may just 132 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:39.920 before his death. It's for the hospital. You may have 133 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:40.240 heard of. 134 00:07:40.279 --> 00:07:42.360 Him, heard of him? Oh? 135 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:45.639 Yes, I've heard of him. He's haunting me. First, my 136 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:49.480 life is saved with someone's lung machine. Who's doctor Hudson's. 137 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:53.360 Then they take me to a hospital, who's doctor Hudsons. 138 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:57.480 Then I meet a girl, a very beautiful girl, and 139 00:07:57.519 --> 00:08:00.279 whose wife is she doctor Hutchon? That's right, right? 140 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:04.360 And I come here to borrow a telephone. There he 141 00:08:04.439 --> 00:08:08.639 is again, he's haunting me. He's haunting me. I see 142 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:13.519 your own mister Merrick's grandson. Yes, that's me, Bobby Merrick. 143 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:17.680 A name that will go down, and inform me a 144 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:19.079 name that will go down. 145 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:20.920 You go right to sleep, mister Merrick, and in the 146 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:22.920 morning we'll have a long talk. I've been wanting to 147 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:38.000 talk to you for some time. Morning, mister Merrick. 148 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:41.519 Sleep, Well, why I beg your pardon? Would you mind 149 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:42.360 telling me where I am? 150 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:44.600 You're in my house, on my couch. As a matter 151 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:47.240 of fact, my name is Randolph. I'm a sculptor. 152 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:50.600 Oh well, of course that accounts for everything. Yeah, I 153 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:53.840 have some coffee while we talk. Thanks. I hope I 154 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:55.240 didn't cause you any trouble last. 155 00:08:55.159 --> 00:08:55.919 Night, not at all. 156 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:58.000 When I learned you were a friend of doctor Hudson's, 157 00:08:58.000 --> 00:08:59.480 I was glad to be of any service I could. 158 00:08:59.559 --> 00:09:01.759 I'm sorry, but I can't claim any sort of friendship 159 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:02.639 with doctor Hudson. 160 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:05.679 Doctor Hudson was every one's friend. I think you should 161 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:08.120 know a little about him and a magnificent obsession of his. 162 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:10.759 If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be a sculptor. 163 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:13.759 You see, Doctor Hudson taught me how to use my 164 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:16.840 life how to make contact with the source of infinite power? 165 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:19.759 But what the power that keeps the world and the 166 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:23.559 stars spinning through infinite space? It applies to humans too, 167 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:26.440 and once you establish contact with that powerhouse, you can 168 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:27.559 fulfill your destiny. 169 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:30.120 Well, I'm afraid this is all a little beyond me. 170 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:33.840 There's no reason why it should be. Christ originated the 171 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:36.960 science of generating human power, and so successfully did he 172 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:39.720 practice it that he's more alive to day than he 173 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:41.720 was over nineteen hundred years ago. 174 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:44.399 Well, supposing there is such a power, how do you 175 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:45.679 establish contact with it? 176 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:48.240 All you do is go out find people who need 177 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:50.960 help and help them. Only it has to be done 178 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:53.559 in absolute secrecy, and you must never let anyone know 179 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:57.399 about it. Doctor Hudson lived by that doctrine. If you 180 00:09:57.440 --> 00:09:59.360 took it up, that would be one way of making 181 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:02.120 up his law. And there's another thing you might take up. 182 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:17.000 What's that his profession. I have something to tell you, 183 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:21.879 missus Ashford. Yes, I'm going to study surgery. You Yes, 184 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:24.320 you told me. Doctor Hudson would say I should make 185 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:26.840 up the loss. Well that's what I'm going to try 186 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:27.039 to do. 187 00:10:27.480 --> 00:10:30.320 Maybe I won't succeed, but if I'm ever to have 188 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:32.600 any respect for myself again, I have to try. 189 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:36.879 Nancy, would you like I'm sorry I disturbed you, Nancy. 190 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:38.000 I'll start by later. 191 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:40.919 Helen Bob is going to study surgery. 192 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:45.600 Surgery, Bobby Mark, Yes, it does sound funny. 193 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:47.879 Doesn't it have you any idea at all? What it 194 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:50.720 means to be a surgeon. It means years of study 195 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:53.519 and work. It means discipline and self denial. 196 00:10:53.639 --> 00:10:56.639 It means much more than that, missus Hudson. It means 197 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:58.639 being able to look people in the eye again and 198 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:01.159 to sleep at night. Means being able to look at 199 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:04.720 some people and think I have eased your pain, and 200 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:07.559 at others and think, with God's. 201 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:08.720 Help, I've given your years to live. 202 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:12.000 It means being able to look at your hands. I 203 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:14.919 know that there's life in them and healing, and that 204 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:16.519 you're earning your place in this world. 205 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:18.919 Where did you learn all that from? 206 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:19.679 Doctor Hudson? 207 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:24.600 Yes, for a moment you sounded like him. 208 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:28.480 She stood looking at me for a moment, and then 209 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:31.080 she reached out her hand and I took it, and 210 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:35.480 once again, for that moment, we were friends. I asked 211 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:37.159 if I could drive her home, and she said yes, 212 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:40.240 and a lot of things seemed to be beginning, but 213 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:41.559 they came to a quick end. 214 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:43.279 It was my fault. 215 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:45.639 She wanted to go straight home, but I was so 216 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:47.039 happy to be with her that I went in the 217 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:50.519 opposite direction. She was angry with me then, and when 218 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:52.639 we came to a stoplight, before I could do anything, 219 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:55.440 she jumped from the car. What happened then is still 220 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:58.519 a confused, blurred thing. Helen wait a monment. 221 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:11.519 Well, doctor Ramsay, the operation was a success, at least 222 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:13.000 as far as her life is concerned. 223 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:14.120 Thank God for that. 224 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:16.919 But there seems to be a depressed fracture involving the 225 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:18.279 occipital lobe of the brain. 226 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:21.399 I'm afraid she will never see again. 227 00:12:21.720 --> 00:12:35.120 No, oh no, she will never see again. She will 228 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:38.919 never see again. The words branded themselves into my brain. 229 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:41.799 They were always there through the days that became weeks, 230 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:46.480 the weeks that became months, months that gradually grouped themselves 231 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:51.080 into years. I went on with my studies, always searching 232 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:54.480 desperately for the thing that might restore Helen's sight. I'd 233 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:56.240 try to watch over her from a distance. 234 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:58.919 Bob is your lawyer, I must tell you that Helen 235 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:01.360 Hudson's stocks aren't worth the paper there printed. 236 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:03.759 All right, replace her bad stocks and bonds with some 237 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:04.559 of my good ones. 238 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:06.159 What she must have a steady income. 239 00:13:06.440 --> 00:13:09.039 I heard from doctor Richard this morning. Five of the 240 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:11.360 specialists we wrote to have agreed to meet in Paris. 241 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:14.960 Good. Hey, what time is it? Well that's about two. Why, Oh, 242 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:17.240 I've got to get to the park. The park, Yes, 243 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:18.840 I go there every day at this time. 244 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:22.240 Well, this is certainly a switch on the old Merrick. 245 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:31.879 You bet it is. She came every day into the 246 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:34.720 little park near her house, and I would sit there 247 00:13:34.759 --> 00:13:36.960 and watch them. She brought her bray of books with 248 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:39.639 her and she would sit there and study. It was 249 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:41.879 a long time before I had an opportunity to speak 250 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:44.600 to her, But at last one day she dropped her 251 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:47.000 book and I was able to pick it up and 252 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:49.559 hand it to her. Here's your book. 253 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:53.919 Oh, thank you. I didn't realize anyone was near. I 254 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:55.120 was studying my lesson. 255 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:57.159 Oh would you let me coach? 256 00:13:57.519 --> 00:13:57.679 Oh? 257 00:13:57.759 --> 00:13:58.399 I couldn't do that. 258 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:01.440 I'd be embarrassed learning ABC's with a grown up. 259 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:04.159 It won't be long before you'll be reading Shakespeare. Did 260 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:05.200 you know they have him and Brail? 261 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:05.519 Now? 262 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:06.399 Yes I did. 263 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:09.000 But how do you know, well. 264 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:11.480 I'm interested in the Braille system. 265 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:15.159 Oh are you a doctor, a fledgeling doctor? 266 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:15.840 Really? 267 00:14:17.159 --> 00:14:17.720 What did you say? 268 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:24.399 Your name was, doctor Robert? Oh, doctor Robert. I'm missus Hudson. Doctor. 269 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:27.759 Thank you so much for your courtesy. I must be 270 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:28.240 going now. 271 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:29.759 Will you be here tomorrow? 272 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:30.120 Yes? 273 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:31.080 I come here every day. 274 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:47.240 Well, I'll be waiting for you. Hello, Missus Hudson. You're 275 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:47.799 late today. 276 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:50.799 Yes, I know, but so many exciting things have happened. 277 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:53.279 You've been so good to meet these past months. I 278 00:14:53.320 --> 00:14:56.240 want you to be the first to know. I'm going 279 00:14:56.240 --> 00:14:59.200 to Paris for a consultation. Yes, a number of eyes 280 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:02.080 specialists and meet there. And while they're having that convention, 281 00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:05.039 I suppose it's because of what my husband stood for 282 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:08.440 in the medical profession if asked me to come. 283 00:15:08.559 --> 00:15:09.759 Oh, I'm so happy for you. 284 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:13.159 Surely men like Rochard, Darnelli Rittenbacker will be able to 285 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:13.960 find the answer. 286 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:15.360 How did you know they'll be there? 287 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:18.480 Well, they're the most famous. I just suppose they would 288 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:20.759 be the ones. I'm sure they'll be able to help you. 289 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:24.759 I just can't tell you what it means to me. 290 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:29.840 There's so many things I'm so hungry to see you again, 291 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:34.879 you'll see them not telling something else. I'm very anxious 292 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:41.320 to see you all these months knowing you. Yes, I'm 293 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:44.879 very anxious to see you. 294 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:58.840 I watched her go that day, knowing that if her 295 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:02.919 sight was restored, I would never see her again. And 296 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:05.200 I wish that, somehow, some way I had managed to 297 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:08.039 say to her, I love you as ever to be 298 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:08.440 a woman. 299 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:11.919 For me, it can only be you. And suddenly I. 300 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:17.879 Was very cold, and I walked away along a lonely street. 301 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:30.679 Between the acts of Encore Theater. Shenley Laboratories bring you 302 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:33.360 an announcement that is vital and important for to day. 303 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:36.639 Penicillin is in the news. You read that wonder drug 304 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:39.600 is now standard equipment in first aid kits on leading airlines, 305 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:42.159 or that penicillin is playing a part in research on 306 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:45.360 preventing a tooth decay. The number of people whose lives 307 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:48.600 have been saved by penicillin grows day by day. Yet 308 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:52.480 only a year ago penicillin was comparatively rare in civilian medicine, 309 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:56.159 and two years ago Shenley Laboratories, together with a few 310 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:59.679 other ferns authorized to produce penicillin, was just beginning to 311 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:02.919 produce sufficient penicillin to supply the needs of our army 312 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:07.880 and navy. Since then, constant research at Sheenleigh Laboratories has 313 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:11.160 produced many new penicillin products from tablets to be taken 314 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:15.359 orally to ointment for local application. These are already available 315 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:19.000 and prescribed by your physician. Other penicillin products and other 316 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:21.720 types of drugs derived for research on many kinds of 317 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:25.039 molds are now being developed for the physician's use by 318 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:29.000 Shenley scientists. Because of the importance to humanity of drugs 319 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:33.039 of this type, Shenley Laboratory resources are currently being concentrated 320 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:35.119 on their development and improvement. 321 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:36.599 Certainly, as one of. 322 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:39.279 The world's largest users of applied research in the field 323 00:17:39.319 --> 00:17:43.200 of mols, Shenleigh knowledge and experience will be useful in 324 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:46.559 the continuing task of supplying your doctor with more and 325 00:17:46.680 --> 00:17:51.640 better tools to aid in his work of healing. Now 326 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:56.240 Shenley Laboratories present the second act of Magnificent Obsession, starring 327 00:17:56.319 --> 00:18:10.200 Cornell Wilde and Lorene Tuttle. Doctor Merrick continue was his story. 328 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:20.319 Helen went to Paris for the consultation. I followed her day. 329 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:23.880 I was in that consultation room. Oh, Helen didn't know it. 330 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:26.839 Now missus Hudson, just fix your eyes as though you 331 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:29.799 were looking straight in front of you. Now, then please 332 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:33.119 tell me if you see a little light. No, a 333 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:36.160 day before yesterday, she had definitely perception of light. You 334 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:38.799 say you perceived light the other day, Missus Hudson, I 335 00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:43.119 think so, yes, which indicates slightly less trouble on one 336 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:45.920 side of the brain than the other. Just rest for 337 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:47.039 a few moments. 338 00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:02.720 Well, gentlemen, dot to Merrick. Personally, I wouldn't operate, and 339 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:03.359 the rest of you. 340 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:06.759 Gentlemen nine, it is no good for operation. 341 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:10.799 Every year we make new discoveries, Doctor Merrick. Perhaps next 342 00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:13.559 year or the following we may be better able to 343 00:19:13.640 --> 00:19:17.079 help her, But right now an operation is not the answer. 344 00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:33.839 Yes, it's doctor Robert. 345 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:38.400 Dr Robert will come in, come in. What are you 346 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:39.480 doing in Paris? 347 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:40.759 Or I had some business? 348 00:19:43.079 --> 00:19:47.000 I may as well tell you right away. I'm not 349 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:47.920 going to see you again. 350 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:51.039 And don't say that, Helen, you're going to see with 351 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:53.039 my eyes. I have nothing else to do with the 352 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:54.880 rest of my life but help you to see whatever 353 00:19:54.920 --> 00:19:56.880 you want to see. Come on now, I'll tell you why. 354 00:19:57.160 --> 00:19:58.720 Let's get all dressed up and go out and do 355 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:02.559 the town show you Paris, and show Paris you. 356 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:13.960 Have some popcorns. 357 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:18.160 Thanks, tell me some more about the carnival. 358 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:22.079 Well, on your right, madam is a Tinka, the faintest 359 00:20:22.160 --> 00:20:24.279 lady in the world. She tips the scales of three 360 00:20:24.359 --> 00:20:28.119 hundred and sixty pounds made down. And on your left 361 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:29.279 we have a sword swallower. 362 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:30.839 Yes, there it goes. 363 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:33.279 A sword is disappearing right down his stomach. 364 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:36.920 Can you imagine doing that for a living twice a day? 365 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:39.640 Yes, but not swords. Hey, there's a ferris wheel. Come on, 366 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:40.839 let's go right on the ferris wheel. 367 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:51.720 Where are we now? 368 00:20:52.279 --> 00:20:55.000 We're standing on top of a hill, and all Paris 369 00:20:55.039 --> 00:20:57.680 is at your feet. That music is coming from a 370 00:20:57.680 --> 00:20:59.119 little Italian inn down the hill. 371 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:03.680 Away lovely, isn't It makes you think of moonlight and 372 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:08.400 gondolous and stars and romance. 373 00:21:09.319 --> 00:21:10.799 Will you marry me? Helen? 374 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:14.039 Oh? This combination of moonlight and music can be a 375 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:16.240 very heady, dangerous thing, got it? 376 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:18.680 Oh? Don't. I've never been so serious about anything in 377 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:19.119 my life. 378 00:21:20.200 --> 00:21:24.200 I wish I could say yes, I wish I could say, 379 00:21:24.519 --> 00:21:27.640 here is my life, take it and let me be 380 00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:28.839 all things to you. 381 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:31.240 But I can't say that. 382 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:35.640 I haven't even half a life to get you. You 383 00:21:35.680 --> 00:21:40.359 can't enter my world, and I've lost my passport to yours. 384 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:42.119 There's only one world. 385 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:47.160 I wish that were true. Bobby Merrick, you know I 386 00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:48.680 knew the first time you spoke to me. 387 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:50.640 Oh why didn't you say something? 388 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:58.240 Why didn't I Probably because somewhere along the line and 389 00:21:58.240 --> 00:22:02.559 I couldn't tell you when or what more I fell 390 00:22:02.599 --> 00:22:06.359 in love with you? And has that operation have been 391 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:09.599 a success? I was going to find you and. 392 00:22:09.559 --> 00:22:12.119 Tell you, darling, will you marry me? Will you please 393 00:22:12.160 --> 00:22:12.640 marry me? 394 00:22:13.119 --> 00:22:13.759 It's getting late. 395 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:18.000 We better start back, Helen. I'm very tired. Please will 396 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:19.480 you let me give you my answer. 397 00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:19.680 In the morning. 398 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:21.119 If it's the right one, I will. 399 00:22:21.799 --> 00:22:42.519 It will be the right one. 400 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:38.680 In the morning. 401 00:22:38.680 --> 00:22:40.440