WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:08.000 The last real broadcasting company presents Radio City Playhouse Attraction 2 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:33.600 twenty one. Ladies and gentlemen, here's the author of tonight's 3 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:37.000 play and the director of Radio City Playhouse, Harry W. 4 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:38.439 Duncan thank you, Bob Warren. 5 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:42.240 Good evening everybody. Although this is not by any means 6 00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:45.280 her first appearance on our show, we are very happy, 7 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:48.399 indeed to welcome miss jan Minor back to Radio City Plans. 8 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:52.479 It was this talented young actress who opened our series 9 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:56.439 last July third with a sensational performance in a play 10 00:00:56.520 --> 00:01:01.119 called Long Distance. So stirring was the impression created by 11 00:01:01.119 --> 00:01:03.799 Miss Minor in this play that we repeated it some 12 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:08.560 weeks later. It is then, with justifiable pride that we 13 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:12.239 welcome her back tonight, in response to many, many requests 14 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:15.560 from all across the country. She plays the part of 15 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:19.599 Janet Wood, a role seldom equalled for the depth and 16 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:21.680 intensity of emotion which it required. 17 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:24.319 Here is Jan Miner in. 18 00:01:24.359 --> 00:01:29.079 Strange Identity Attraction twenty one on Radio City Playhouse. 19 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:52.280 Somehow I got out of that room. I don't know 20 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:55.079 how that I did. I got down the stairs and 21 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:58.159 across the street and stumbled into the same dull, dirty 22 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:02.000 little Hamburger joint down in one of the bulls. That's 23 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:06.840 where I am now numb. I'm incapable of any thoughts. 24 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:10.360 My mind refuses to function in the face of anything 25 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:16.800 so fantastic, so incredibly evil. I've just seen something that 26 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:21.639 no man or woman has ever seen before, and I'm stunned. 27 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:26.800 I'm stunned and horrified. I'm so frightened that when the 28 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:29.599 waitress brings my coffee, I'm not going to be able 29 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:33.599 to speak to her. She's coming now. She thinks something's 30 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:37.879 wrong with me because of yesterday has ten cents lady. 31 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:42.479 Thanks, Hey, weren't you in here yesterday afternoon? 32 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:46.560 Say, honey, you are right listen to this. Do you 33 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:49.960 gonna please go away? I'm not going to faint. I 34 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:51.800 I've got to decide what to do. 35 00:02:52.719 --> 00:03:00.120 Yeah, well, don't do it in here, honey. 36 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:05.520 It began four weeks ago. I was riding in a 37 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:08.879 taxi going north on Fifth Avenue at seventy second Street. 38 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:11.159 We stopped for a red light, pulling up alongside of 39 00:03:11.159 --> 00:03:14.080 a Fifth Avenue bus. We waited for a few seconds, 40 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:16.599 and just as the light changed to green, I happened 41 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:20.520 to look up. He was sitting on the bus. We 42 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:23.479 were so close we could have reached out and touched 43 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:28.400 each other. I looked right into his face, right square, 44 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:32.199 smack into his face. There's no possibility that I made 45 00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:34.960 a mistake. I was married to him for five years, 46 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:37.919 and I looked directly into his face for at least 47 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:45.759 five seconds. That's a long time. It's one, two, three, 48 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:51.319 four five that long. I looked right at him for 49 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:54.800 that long, and I slid down the level seat onto 50 00:03:54.800 --> 00:04:06.520 the floor of the cab and fainted. The driver was 51 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:11.080 very kind, kind, nice looking boy with a gentle voice. 52 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:15.560 He brought me home. He helped me upstairs to the apartment. 53 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:18.600 Then he went next door and got Grace Henderson to 54 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:20.279 come in and stay with me for a little while. 55 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:24.120 Grace was an old friend. I say it was because 56 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:27.279 now she thinks I'm not quite all there, and it's 57 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:29.639 hard for friendship to stand up against that sort of thing. 58 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:33.480 She got me undressed, prought me up on the couch, 59 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:36.639 and poured me a stiff shot of brandy. Grace believes 60 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:38.040 that brandy don't cure anything. 61 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:44.639 Drink that Janet you'll feel better. Brandy cure is anything. Thanks, Grace, 62 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:49.720 scare the living daylights out of me painting and taxis. 63 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:52.480 What's the matter with you? Anyway? Grace? Hand me Clinton's 64 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:56.079 picture party, good picture on the table there, Hand it 65 00:04:56.120 --> 00:05:06.079 to me. Why sure, honey, sure there? Thanks? You never 66 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:11.439 knew him, did you? Nope? I wish you had. Well, 67 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:16.319 that's war. Yes, it's funny that you know me so 68 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:18.639 well and yet that you've never known Clint. 69 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:20.720 I don't want to be brutal, Janet, but there's no 70 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:22.079 use brooding over Clint. 71 00:05:22.399 --> 00:05:24.600 He's been dead for five years and it's over. 72 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:27.240 And that's that he's not dead, I know, honey, and 73 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:28.839 it's fine to think of him that way. 74 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:32.160 I saw him in a Fifth Avenue bus this afternoon. 75 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:35.680 That's why I fainted, Janet. I took a cab home 76 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:38.279 from shopping. We came to seventy second Street and stopped, 77 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:40.480 and we pulled up alongside a bus. I looked up 78 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:43.639 and saw him in the bus. He wasn't more than 79 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:47.000 three feet away from me. I looked right into his face, 80 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:50.800 and then I fainted. Janet's baby, you mustn't talk that way. 81 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:53.199 I know it's been tough getting over Clint. I know 82 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:53.600 you were. 83 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:55.800 Pretty gone on the guy, but Honey, this isn't healthy. 84 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:58.360 He's been dead for five years, and you've just got 85 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:00.800 to face it. You've got to stop brooding. Um, he 86 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:03.040 will start seeing him out of every street corner. That's 87 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:04.319 the way people start going nuts. 88 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:06.879 You've dice the top that you're behaving like a right 89 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:09.560 into his face, Janet stopped. I did. I saw him. 90 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:11.360 I looked at him for at least five seconds. I'm 91 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:13.040 going to call it. I can call all the doctors 92 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:15.000 you like. I saw him. I was as calm and 93 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:17.319 cool as could be. I wasn't even thinking about him. 94 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:19.759 I'd been shopping and had my hair done that I 95 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:22.240 looked up the bus and there he was. You can 96 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:24.000 call all the doctors in New York, but there's nothing 97 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:27.120 neurotic or double vision or queer about this, Janet. 98 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:29.759 Baby, it's so easy to be fooled in things like this. 99 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:32.319 You saw somebody that looked like Clinton, and just the 100 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:34.360 way the lights fell or something of the shape of 101 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:37.319 his head. I mean, it's so big alive. Janet's a 102 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:41.160 war department. Never makes mistakes like that. Never they sent 103 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:44.519 you his belongings, his letters. He made a mistake, baby, 104 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:45.360 and it's upset you. 105 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:50.600 He was the strongest man I ever knew he was 106 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:55.800 so big. He taught me so much. He took me 107 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:57.879 up into the mountains, and in two weeks I was 108 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:04.160 skiing like an expert. He taught me to shoot, to ride. 109 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:07.279 When he was with me, I could do anything, Janet. 110 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:11.279 I began to get part of his mind inside mine. 111 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:14.600 He took up painting one time. In four months later 112 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:17.240 he gave a one man exhibition. More than half the 113 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:21.360 pictures were sold. That's what he's like, Janet. Please. He 114 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:24.560 used to say that only geniuses were normal, that the 115 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:26.920 rest of us were subnormal. He didn't think that he 116 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:29.199 was unusual. He just thought that he utilized all of 117 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:35.600 his ability. He he had the most beautiful body I 118 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:40.720 ever saw On the beach. Women and even men would 119 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:45.360 look at him with all his strength and brilliancy. He 120 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:51.639 was so tender, honey, so tender. I could pick out 121 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:55.439 his hand from every hand in the world. I know 122 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:59.120 it wasn't any optical illusion, grace or mistake. He's alive 123 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:03.199 and I saw him. I don't know what to say. 124 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:06.480 After five years, is what are you going to do? 125 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:11.199 I don't know. You could check with the War Department. 126 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:15.160 They wouldn't believe me. No, no, they wouldn't. You don't 127 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:19.439 believe me, do you? Hi? Yes, honey, But it's just 128 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:22.480 that there's no possible way of explaining it. Do you 129 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:25.519 know anything about private detectives? How do you find one? 130 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:29.439 Why don't you call what's his name? Your lawyer? Grange? 131 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:32.399 And you'd better get some rest or you'll break up. 132 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:46.799 You look terrible. I called to it Grange, my lawyer. 133 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:50.080 He recommended a man named Powell, a private detective company. 134 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:53.200 I made an appointment with mister Powell for the next afternoon, 135 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:56.240 and then I tried to get some sleep, but I couldn't. 136 00:08:57.120 --> 00:09:03.399 Over and over and over, I asked myself, why, why, why? Why? 137 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:05.720 Why would he be alive and in New York and 138 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:10.120 not get in touch with me? Why? There was no answer, 139 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:13.480 no reason. Why would he be alive and let me 140 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:16.519 go on thinking he was dead? That's the first question 141 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:17.600 mister Powell would ask me. 142 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:20.480 Why would he be alive and let you go on 143 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:21.720 thinking he was dead? 144 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:22.480 Why? 145 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:24.120 What reason could there be? 146 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:26.879 I don't know, all right? 147 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:30.840 Could he be ill? I don't know, I mean mentally ill? 148 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:33.440 Perhaps, I don't know. 149 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:35.279 Have you checked with the War Department? 150 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:35.519 No. 151 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:38.320 Five years ago they sent me his belongings and some letters. 152 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:41.000 He's buried in the military cemetery in Pyrol. That's what 153 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:44.159 they said. If I went to see them, they well, 154 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:45.600 you know how far I did. 155 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:47.240 Have you collected his insurance? 156 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:52.000 Yes, in a lump sum. I also have a war pension. 157 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:53.559 What would he be using for money? 158 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:54.480 I don't know. 159 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:58.759 Did he leave you reasonably well fixed? I mean, would 160 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:01.519 the money be of no inter to him? Or how 161 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:02.440 you understand I'm. 162 00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:05.039 Not trying to He let me thirty five thousand insurance, 163 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:07.519 about five thousand cash and the pension. 164 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:14.960 It's a very baffling thing. You know, you could have 165 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:15.480 the caskets. 166 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:17.840 It's the Powell. I'd like to start with the fact 167 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:21.080 that I saw him alive yesterday. 168 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:22.720 Well, and we've got to find a reason. 169 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:23.200 Not yet. 170 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:25.480 We've got to find Clinton first, and then he'll tell 171 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:26.080 me the reason. 172 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:26.919 I don't think. 173 00:10:27.639 --> 00:10:30.559 Please help me. Can you imagine how I feel? I'll 174 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:31.840 pay pay anything you have. 175 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:34.440 He isn't important, it's we've so little. 176 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:34.679 To go on. 177 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:37.000 I brought you his picture, surely. 178 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:41.039 Missus Wood. We often have missing person cases. 179 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:43.440 But usually not one where there's such incontrovertible proof that 180 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:46.639 the person is dead. The War Department never makes mistakes 181 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:48.759 like this. They'd have every widow and mother and wife 182 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:52.000 and the country raising the very devil. They absolutely never 183 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:55.159 could declare a man dead until they've absolute and final proof. 184 00:10:55.960 --> 00:10:57.639 I think you've made a mistake, missus. 185 00:10:57.679 --> 00:10:59.919 Will you stop treating me as if I were feeble minded? 186 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:02.000 I saw him. I tell you stop talking to me 187 00:11:02.039 --> 00:11:05.000 about the War Department. I saw him. I'm asking you 188 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:08.039 to find him. I'm not asking for psychiatric help. I'm 189 00:11:08.039 --> 00:11:09.720 insane and as sharp witted. 190 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:09.960 As you are. 191 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:12.279 If you can't be of any please, missus Wood, I'm 192 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:14.200 sorry if it makes me so furious. 193 00:11:14.679 --> 00:11:16.960 We got to start with the assumption that he's alive. 194 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:20.080 We can't prove he's alive. We've got to believe he 195 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:24.399 is alive, and then we've got to try to find him. 196 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:28.000 Could there be any sort of secret mission, any reason 197 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:30.120 why the government wishes your husband to be thought that? 198 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:31.919 I don't know. It doesn't sound very likely. 199 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:36.799 Could he be Uh could be having any sort of 200 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:41.799 affair you mean a woman? Yes, I suppose he could. 201 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:44.440 But can you imagine a man pretending he's dead just 202 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:46.759 because he's married and wants to live with another woman? 203 00:11:47.080 --> 00:11:51.039 But he'd come back and ask for a divorce. Well, 204 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:53.679 I've asked myself every possible question as to why there 205 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:57.080 isn't any answer. You just got to find him. 206 00:11:57.120 --> 00:11:59.320 Well, missus Wood, I'll put some men on it at once, and, 207 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:02.320 believe me, will the very best we can. I'll go 208 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:03.960 home and write me a list of every place he 209 00:12:04.039 --> 00:12:04.840 ever mentioned. 210 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:06.399 Or ever went to. We'll get busy right away. 211 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:08.159 How long does this sort of thing usually take? 212 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:13.840 Oh, two days, two weeks, maybe two years, maybe never. 213 00:12:14.840 --> 00:12:15.279 I see. 214 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:18.159 We'll keep in touch with you, all right, missus Wood. Yes, 215 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:24.240 you realize, of course that if we do find him, 216 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:26.200 there may be something behind his. 217 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:31.320 Well, behind this his strange behavior. 218 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:34.440 That will make you wish you'd never tried to find 219 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:34.960 him at all. 220 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:54.600 I'm quite prepared for anything, anything. For three weeks I 221 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:57.039 heard nothing. I'd go to bed at nights and it 222 00:12:57.080 --> 00:13:02.360 would start, Why why, why? What? Why? Over and over? 223 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:05.120 Why should he want me to think he was dead? 224 00:13:06.039 --> 00:13:10.200 Why when we were so in love, so happy, so 225 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:14.039 completely wonderful to get us? Why would he do this? 226 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:19.240 Then I began to get sick, I couldn't eat. I 227 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:21.720 began to go over our life together, wondering what I 228 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:24.720 could have done with his maids. Clinton hate me. I 229 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:28.080 exaggerated the silly little differences of opinion which we'd had. 230 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:31.919 I began to manufacture terrible, non existent crimes which i'd committed, 231 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:35.279 always against Clinton. And then I began to think that 232 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:38.759 perhaps I had made a mistake. It couldn't have happened. 233 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:42.799 He was dead and i'd seen his double. I began 234 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:46.200 to get a funny twisting feeling in my legs. I'd 235 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:48.240 be walking around the apartment and I began to feel 236 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:51.200 as thought nerve was loose in my knees. And then 237 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:58.440 one day, mister Powell phones, they'd had some luck. 238 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:10.840 You want to be down there right away. 239 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:15.600 One of my men located him in a cheap walk 240 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:19.159 up on West fiftieth Street. He's apparently spending a lot 241 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:21.000 of time in Saint Patrick's Cathedral. 242 00:14:21.159 --> 00:14:22.919 St. Patrick's Cathedral. 243 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:24.120 Yes, does that surprise you? 244 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.039 Yes, it does rather. But I don't think I better wait, would. 245 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:30.320 Wait a minute, don't go yet. 246 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:37.080 I'm quite sure there's something, well, something sinister about this. 247 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:39.360 I don't know why, but it's not like any case 248 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:43.039 I've ever had before. I was wondering if you'd like 249 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:44.200 me to go and see him first. 250 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:44.919 Then let you know what. 251 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:47.480 No, No, I'll go give me the address. 252 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:48.960 It's written down. 253 00:14:51.240 --> 00:14:54.440 Thanks. You've been very kindly to Powell, very understanding. 254 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:57.519 You look very tired. Try to get calm down little 255 00:14:58.159 --> 00:14:59.399 before you see him. 256 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:02.679 All right, I'll go in somewhere and have some coffee. 257 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:12.120 I'll be all right. That was yesterday. I came into 258 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:16.519 this frowzy little hamburger place yesterday afternoon. Yesterday it looked 259 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:19.879 exactly the same way it looks now, and it looked 260 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:22.960 the same way tomorrow. I came in here because it 261 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:24.879 was right across the street from the address that mister 262 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:30.000 Paul had given me. That was yesterday, less than twenty 263 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:33.639 four hours ago. I've got to go over everything very 264 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:37.120 careful in my mind, because I don't dare forget. I 265 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:40.240 don't dare forget anything, he said. I came in here 266 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:43.559 yesterday afternoon about four o'clock. The waitress thought I was 267 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:46.799 behaving strangely. I can hear the suspicion in her voice. 268 00:15:47.080 --> 00:15:48.960 I asked her for a check, and she said. 269 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:52.960 Why sure, honey, Yes, five coffee, fifty cents. 270 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:56.679 Listen, Darie, are you sife? Here's a dollar? No, I'm 271 00:15:56.720 --> 00:15:59.200 all right, well, you don't look so good. I'm all right. 272 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:00.559 The change. 273 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:03.639 Well, thanks baby, thanks a lot, and take care of yourself. 274 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:14.679 Tell what where you're going? 275 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:38.720 What it sounds dirty? So horrible? Yeah, Dear God, whatever 276 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:41.759 this is, give me the strength to be, give me 277 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:50.159 the strength to take it. Please God, Please, I can't 278 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:54.720 go on. It would make him hide in this dirty, 279 00:16:54.759 --> 00:17:03.759 horrible house to be. 280 00:17:09.519 --> 00:17:20.519 There's nobody home, quin, good God, let me. 281 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:26.960 I'll tell you. You're gonna help me, help you understand this, 282 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:27.599 help me. 283 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:40.400 Come in, Janet, don't say anything, just to me. Please, 284 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:41.279 don't say anything. 285 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:49.599 Yes, is it really you? 286 00:17:49.960 --> 00:17:58.160 Oh, Janet, Janet Darling. 287 00:17:58.680 --> 00:17:59.200 Never it is. 288 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:02.160 It doesn't matter. It's so long as you're alive. I 289 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:06.599 don't care. I want to hear anything. I just want 290 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:10.359 old you like this and not care about why, what's happened? 291 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:47.400 You love me? There's nothing, nothing else. It's it's morning, Clint. Yes, 292 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:51.480 we've got to talk about it now. Yes, you've got 293 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:54.799 to tell me. I know I'm waiting, j. 294 00:18:56.680 --> 00:18:56.920 Jane. 295 00:18:57.039 --> 00:18:57.640 I can't tell you. 296 00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:01.440 Listen, there's absolutely nothing you can't tell me. I'm your wife. 297 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:04.240 I love you. I love you so much that I 298 00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:06.680 forgive anything. There isn't anything you could have done that 299 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:09.680 I wouldn't forgive. There's no crime, no wickedness, no nothing 300 00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:12.000 that I but you've got to tell me if we're 301 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:14.119 ever to have any life together again, you've got to 302 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:16.440 tell me why you let me think you were dead for. 303 00:19:16.839 --> 00:19:21.240 Five years where we're not going to have any life together. 304 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:25.319 You're sick, that's it. You're sick and you've been through something. 305 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:27.759 You need rest, rest and a good food and a 306 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:32.720 good bad and me you need manna. Boy. Is there 307 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:36.759 some sort of secret mission that you're on that I well, 308 00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:38.039 has it something to do with the war? 309 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:38.240 No? 310 00:19:40.599 --> 00:19:41.880 Yes, then tell me. 311 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:42.799 I can't tell him. 312 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:45.400 Please don't touch yourself. Whatever it is, I can take it. 313 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:48.119 I'm not afraid. I'll look after you. I want you 314 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:51.000 to come home with me now, away from this dreadful, 315 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:51.880 dark apartment. 316 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:55.839 I'm not going home with you, chatny y, you're what 317 00:19:56.160 --> 00:19:59.920 This is my last day here. HI may have to 318 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:02.920 leave at any minute. 319 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:06.559 I just can't understand anything worse. Nothing could be worse 320 00:20:06.599 --> 00:20:09.039 than this, nothing, not knowing, not knowing what's behind this 321 00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:12.279 fantastic and tell you. I demand that you tell me. 322 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:14.480 You've got to tell me. I can't you understand? Look 323 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:17.720 you're go on like this. I go crazy. I lost 324 00:20:17.759 --> 00:20:18.200 my mind. 325 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:19.799 I saw you that day on the bus. I should 326 00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:21.519 have left New York and gone away. I knew you'd 327 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:23.440 trying to find me. I knew it would be like. 328 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:34.519 Now, tell me it. 329 00:20:37.319 --> 00:20:41.640 Happened. In Cairo. I was hungry forty eight hour pass. 330 00:20:43.160 --> 00:20:46.400 A taxi i'd hired for the day went over an 331 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:50.960 old man. He was a funny, tiny, wistened old man, 332 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:55.319 a beggar, an Egyptian. He didn't seem to be hurt 333 00:20:55.400 --> 00:20:59.240 very much, but he was so old that I made 334 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:01.160 him come back to my hotel and lie down. 335 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:05.200 For a bit. He was very clean, but so old 336 00:21:05.240 --> 00:21:06.319 that his bones. 337 00:21:05.960 --> 00:21:11.039 Were like like little bits of stick. I made him 338 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:13.359 lie down on my bed for a few minutes. I 339 00:21:13.400 --> 00:21:16.440 gave him a sip of wine, and he closed his 340 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:21.559 eyes for about ten minutes, then opened them, looked up 341 00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:25.440 at me, and told me he was dying. 342 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:27.839 He seemed read. 343 00:21:28.119 --> 00:21:30.559 His whole face lit up as though it were the 344 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:33.079 most tremendous relief. He told me not to be worried, 345 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:35.319 not to try to help him, that he was very 346 00:21:35.319 --> 00:21:41.799 old and quite ready to die. Then he reached into 347 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:49.559 his clothes and handed me this. What is it? 348 00:21:49.759 --> 00:21:50.480 It's the holder? 349 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:52.559 What the holder? 350 00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:58.039 It's a little wheelbarrow made of the finest cold, a 351 00:21:58.119 --> 00:22:02.440 tiny little golden wheel bar and the green stone inside 352 00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:04.720 it as an emerald. He said it would be of 353 00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:09.559 no use to anybody but me. I didn't understand what 354 00:22:09.640 --> 00:22:15.359 he meant. He said I'd been picked, picked, chosen. I 355 00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:16.920 asked him what he meant, but he wouldn't say. He 356 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:20.640 told me the howls had brought good luck and bad luck. 357 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:23.319 He said, if I held it over my heart and 358 00:22:23.400 --> 00:22:26.960 wished that I get my wish. 359 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:32.640 Then he sort of breathed once, and I can't. 360 00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:38.279 I can't go, Wader, I can't, Janet, please don't make me. 361 00:22:39.920 --> 00:22:40.240 Well. 362 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:46.839 In just a few seconds, there was nothing left, nothing 363 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:52.400 but a thin, fine, silvery powder. He he just disintegrated 364 00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:58.039 in front of my very eyes, to dust, dry fine 365 00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:00.759 gray dust. 366 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:03.960 Is old as old this forever, like poor mis power. 367 00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:06.880 I didn't know what to do. 368 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:09.119 I I called the manager, but he wouldn't believe that 369 00:23:09.160 --> 00:23:10.960 anybody had just died in my bed. 370 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:15.160 There was nothing there, just half a cupful of dust, 371 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:20.559 dry white dust. 372 00:23:22.079 --> 00:23:23.039 And then I. 373 00:23:24.640 --> 00:23:25.400 Went on with my leave. 374 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:27.200 I was a little shaken, so I went out and 375 00:23:27.240 --> 00:23:30.519 got drunk. The next night I reported back to camp. 376 00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:32.920 I blurted out the story in the mess. One night, 377 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:35.799 I passed the haul around and everybody wished. Some wished 378 00:23:35.839 --> 00:23:39.519 for money, some for girl something. Of course, nothing happened. 379 00:23:39.640 --> 00:23:44.960 Did you expect something? What? Oh? Not? Really? I I 380 00:23:45.079 --> 00:23:47.160 don't know then what? Then? 381 00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:50.480 I took it and wished that you standing in front 382 00:23:50.519 --> 00:23:54.079 of me. Everybody laughed. We knew there was nothing in it. 383 00:23:54.200 --> 00:23:58.200 Nobody believed the story. I certainly didn't. I felt sort 384 00:23:58.240 --> 00:24:04.279 of sheepish. That night I went to bed, I got 385 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:06.759 the hauled out and looked at it again. 386 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:08.960 It sort of fascinated me. 387 00:24:10.039 --> 00:24:11.759 I began to imagine all sorts of. 388 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:12.559 Wishes I could make. 389 00:24:13.279 --> 00:24:15.240 I wished that I could be made invisible, that I 390 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:17.440 could move my body from one place or another instantly, 391 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:22.359 silly day dreaming kids, Stop Clinton. 392 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:24.480 Please come home? Knew not well, you'll let me finish. 393 00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:31.559 Days passed by January. This was nineteen forty three. The 394 00:24:31.640 --> 00:24:35.160 advance in an issue was told German dive bombers were 395 00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:38.480 continuously in action. It was a time of horror and death, 396 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:42.640 and and all through those terrible days, the feeling gradually 397 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:46.279 came over me that the halder would for some time 398 00:24:46.359 --> 00:24:47.759 when I was in desperate trouble, that. 399 00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:48.359 It would help me. 400 00:24:49.079 --> 00:24:52.160 This feeling became very strong. I can't describe it, but 401 00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:58.279