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You're a success boy a success a success Well on the way towards being rich on the marquee above the theory in lights Garryk Drury and bitter Laurel and then in slightly smaller lights By John scales new clothes best food a fashionable hotel new and fashionable queen And I owed it every bit of it Everyone said that everyone except Gary We're just finished seeing the men from the motion picture company Gary had been charming courteous thoughtful protecting my royalties Protecting his rights and finally they were gone Walters Gary's valid came into the room Not tonight I'll pick you up in the car at the stage door at five minutes. Yes, I'm going to see mr. Scale Taxi sure I can't drop you anywhere John. No, no quite sure. Thanks glad who you know. Oh, well Walters Oh, yes, bring along that play of young. What's his name? Ruggles bugles? You know who I mean I promise Fanny Taylor. I'd read it. But well, it's perfectly useless, of course We'll be playing bitter Laurel for another two or three years. Yeah, they were John. Well, come on five minutes water Now look here don't you worry about his movie deal. I've handled these characters before Before before Listen to that John wonderful sound the empty theater the empty echoing endless theater John you know what sure There's a play in in the last scene the actor dies in the empty endless theater Pouring out his death on eight pages to the ghosts of all the audience who didn't realize how great he was alone His wife scorned to her Hollywood perfect. Well, what are we waiting for Johnny? I'll put you in your taxi you go home and write it Bring it to me tomorrow night. We'll fix it and there we are. I can read the notices now Sensational aren't there Gary Grury does it again actors death scene draws Bravo sir. Gary Grury may be Well, come on. We'll get you on your way I thought your performance was exceedingly fine tonight. Thank you. Good night, Scotty Waters will be right out. You've been locked up. Good night. Mr. Drury. Nice guy Well, this is his reigning. There's a cab stand right at the corner. We make a run for it. John John are you all right? Oh No, no, Dr. Lee dr. Brett on him. Yeah, my side How about you? You all right? Yeah, let me help here. Bye. You are hurt. Oh, no, no, just jarred up a little no broken bones Gary, oh my lord. I Picked myself up from the curb with a card thrown me when it hit us my side hurt in my head real but Gary So I'm staggered out from the other side of the car saw the jagged pain of broken glass and the store window Saw the bright spurts dying the pavement crimson where Gary's right hand clutched his left arm The policeman came running for it. Yeah. Yeah, what happened? It's Mr. Drury officer. They've been cast skidded over the curb and knocked it through the window. Yeah, let's have a look You know catch him catch him. It's your fate. They've got him there. Oh, no wonder. He's got an artery Hey, you call an ambulance get a doctor. This little bleep today. We're not quick. Are you all right, sir? I hurt the side a little all I feel that faint. I'll be all right. Good. Good We've got to stop this bleeding here now help me. You put your hand right here. That's right Squeeze odd yes, and keep on squeezing you. You come on. Give us a hand. I'll take you said you take his feet now What happened in an accident what if here give me a hand hang on to the artery now trying to know The jury cut an artery Mr. Drury is dressing them off. They're right around this way What end of the light and up the light painted guy All right. All right here. You're on the couch You get an ambulance and a doctor my left arm nature You suppose I'll lose the use of it Well, it's lucky the arm and play in the John I can always go on pain keep always the rest of my life my play And again to be sick the officer took his strong hand and gripped the artery in Gary's arm above my own shaking fingers You look vegan lie down mr. Scales at me over and now you were helped we'll rig up a tourniquet Well, Walt is whatever your name is there was someone tried to get a doctor Just call for the doctor. There's no one on emergency everyone's out and so are the ambulances and call a private hospital This man is bleeding to death Bleeding to death This was the end with it. No doctrine duty and Garrick Drury bleeding to death and then I came to I'll find a doctor But it was 40 minutes before the doctor finally came 40 minutes while Garrick Drury's life Seeped out from the improvised tourniquet. The doctor sat down his bag and took one look We're still trying to get hold of an ambulance doctor. Don't ever mind. We couldn't move him now Anyway, there's only one thing to do give him a transfusion right here. Yes First we'll make a decent tourniquet now. This is blood for type. Oh, by the by wait around all of you I have to find someone among you with type of blood that matches his Gary lay on a couch behind a screen in the dressing room There was a plate on the table one with a border of pink roses which during rehearsals We'd often eat in hasty sandwiches Now there were four round blobs of red on it blood Two blobs of mine and two of Gary's valid waltters behind the screen waltters was blubbering with grief while an intern arrived At last for the ambulance was murmuring fearfully my doctor. I can't find his But wait a minute. Yeah, let me see We must hurry you will be gone Steady now Walter steady. We know you love him. We're doing all we can now Go look at those tests Important thing is to give transfusion as soon as possible. Let me give it. I'll give my life for mr. Drury Let me give the child now. We'll see I've already told you Drury's blood is type 3 very difficult I can only give him a transfusion from someone of his own type or a type 4 universal donor Anything else would be like giving him prusik acid. I only hope that you are mr. Scales will do We'll have to make sure All right. Let me see The doctor bent over the plate pouring liquid out of vials onto the red drops I stood where I'd been standing when he put the blood onto the plate before the intern's voice had cried out Oh, that's right. I can't find his pulse Walters and the doctor had plunged around the screen to where Gary lay unconscious I watched while the doctor finished with a vial And he picked up a grease pencil from the dressing table and drew a line across the plate cutting it in half Then with a pencil he marked the side on which I stood with an S and the side on which Walters it stood with a W Now I will be sure of which is which We'll take a few minutes to see if there's any agglutination Let's hope that's all we can do is hope He disappeared once again behind the screen It was then that I noticed the one rose on the border of the plate which had been blurred in the firing I noticed it before many times. I've noticed it today in the last few minutes looking Stupidly at it as you do it such things but before Before the doctor had marked it before he and walters had gone running behind the screen Then hadn't the blood rose been on the left my left But now it was on the right Might Walters in passing have brushed it and turned it around I stood and stared at the tiny pool on the side marked W Little hard purple crystals were beginning to form around the edges I looked at the side of the plate marked S my side supposedly The blood was clear and bright But what if the plate had been turned around and the blood on the other side was mine? It was mine that was forming little purple crystals. I Stood staring at the plate as the doctor came around from behind the screen. Oh, let's have a look at this Hmm. Yeah Looks as though we're in luck. Is it mine me arguing the transfusion. Sorry old man Not unless you want to murder. Oh, no, no, but mr. Scales here it looks as if he were that useful animal or universal donor Alright, mr. Scales. Let's make ready. What you're it mr. Scales. Oh, there's something guy. Oh Well, I ought to mention that you're not frightened are you not that I danger from giving a transfusion No, no, no, no, no, I'm not right. Come around here. Let's get busy. We have much time Doctor What's this I know curtain don't be silly that you're rotten exit dying I Not dead yet. I long shot. Take off your coat. He's mr. Scales roll up your sleeve rotten exit Rotten Rick for you too, John Close the play close the play I'm ready doctor. Yes to be sure. I'll sit down here. Oh, still you will hardly notice this make a fist like this That's it. Maybe feel a little dizzy for a minute afterward, but in an hour. You'll be right away. No, not still Not bad was it my back. That's right. Good old John Lord what a publicity story this will make Playwright had actors bedside gives blood to save famous stars life It kept quiet if he'd only It might not have been too late then But then I knew I I knew that I would never tell the doctor. I would never tell anyone But only wait and see The revulsion that contempt the hatred that had been caged up in me for that smiling post ring ape on the couch Sleep now clawing at the bars howling for revenge Going all right scale. Yes Yes, perfect me. Thank you, doctor Auto light is bringing you Joseph cotton in blood sacrifice tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills Suspends now. It's my turn Wilcox riddle me this What is it that lives a long time has great power and endurance and can store water? Well, that's easy happen auto light stay full battery. 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I Haven't wanted to send the play to Gary in the first place But I was new in London and good old George so parts with handling me said he had a hunch about everything to gain my boy Nothing to lose may as well try you know can't get her trying Lord George. Gary. Drury. It's just just not his kind of play It's a tragedy of bitter cynical disillusioned tragedy. He may he just may like it You know, I'll sit it along over to his hotel. We'll see I've never met Gary Of course this tremendous charm of his this flashing winning infectious and comparable style of the man when When you talk to him you were lost He did like the play at least he said he liked. Oh, yes, wonderful idea very strong Perhaps a little grim, but then these are grim time Of course, there are one or two things that lead touching up and we may have to make a change here and there There's never been a play produced. It didn't have to have a certain amount of rewriting during rehearsal. You understand But I didn't understand I was still too bewildered to understand man had this Fantastic charm and it used it before I was out of his office I'd signed a contract giving me a very pretty share of the royalties and Gary the right to make any Reasonable changes he might be necessary to the script reasonable changes During rehearsals. We said halfway back in the theater Cocktail scene in the first time It seems out of character Keep wouldn't have acted that way He's been shocked and angry at the change Nonstra and left the body And then at the very end Keith rolls up his uniform to put all the decorations on it Lays it under his head for a pillow and lies down in the vision Wonderful curtain line. He said I'll rest upon my laurel Wonderful, can you write it boy? You're not serious. I'm serious. I look here Johnny. This is your play. I'm only good But that's not the play Gary It's all out of key with the rest of it. Oh, you said remind me I've been a little bothered about the ending too Was very dramatic of course, but just at this time it seems a little bad taste, don't you think? Play all too butchered finally open We sat up waiting for the morning papers and then they came I read them and I wanted to run away Couldn't the voices of the critics saying to the public This broken back play is only held together by the magnificent acting of mr. Gadot Grury Sacran as it is bitter Laurel provides a personal triumph to get it through it Nothing in the place consistent except the assured acting get it through it Mr. John's scales has constructed his situations with great skill to display mr. Drury in all his attitudes And that is a sure recipe for success. We prophesy a long run for bitter Laurel And run it dead. There was no stopping it I caught myself wishing Garrick Drury would die or lose his looks or his voice or his popularity so that the Old thing could be buried and forgotten well now Perhaps he was going to die I watched the blood from my veins fill up the container Thought of the blurred rose on the plate that might have got turned around I heard walters still complaining about something. I listened to the doctor Lucky for mr. Drury that mr. Scales was around good man ever on universal donor blood mixes with all types But was it my blood or walters that mixed with all types I didn't know I couldn't be sure Yet somehow I was sure that the plate had been turned around and That would mean that if the doctor used my blood for a transfusion it What was it he said Would be like giving Gary prusik acid Would be murder No one would ever know the doctor might guess but he would never dare speak it would be put down to his own negligence Came over to me and looked at the level in the container Not at its head approvingly and then turned to gary again I felt myself Pulsing and drifting like a man dosing in a snow drift Good evening, buddy. Oh good evening, mr. Drury looks like Ryan down. He does indeed, but then we can't complain Well, john, you must let me run. Yes, sir Take a flower. Thank you. Laurie. The show must go on, you know Oh We have a connation. Yes, sir You shilling sir. Mm-hmm. Hey, well, send it on for you. Oh, thank you It's wonderful about your plane. Mr. Scales has been a wonderful runner But then mr. Drury does know how to pick them. Yes. Yes, it does Looks as if it might run forever, doesn't it no matter what he's in they all come to see him Not that yours isn't a wonderful play. Mr. Drury gave me a ticket for the second night. Oh, it is always so thoughtful What'd you think of it? I thought it was lovely. I cried ever so When mr. Drury came back with only one arm and found his fiancé with that other fellow at the cocktail party exactly I will rest on my lord With a beautiful curtain line you gave him there mr. Scales and the way you put it over Yes, there's no one like Drury to put over that kind of line Leaving flurry Better love Oh, good lord. Molly Sheridan. Hello. It's good to see you've been months. Look who's here New york's rising drama. Oh, no, don't don't have you seen it. I I sent you tickets. Yes Kind of you think of us in your busy life? Yes, we saw the show. I know I know but like a fool I signed a contract without a controlling clause And by the time Drury and his producer had finished knocking the script around there wasn't John It's a shame. Now. Look, let's forget the play and go have a drink together. Shall we? Sorry. Oh, but we have to think of our reputation, you know Good night, John. Come along, Sherry John John it was a good play How under any circumstances could you have let them do this to it? Come along, Sherry. Good night, John. Yes Good night Almost full court. That ought to do it. You're all right, Mr. Scales. Yes Good. Now we'll fool you out of here and go to work The doctor should be out of the room onto the stage I saw him disappearing around the screen with a flag in his hands as I closed the door Just as I thought There were the reporters waiting. I sat down. I I felt weak not not right Hey, Mr. Scales, how is he? Where he lives do they think? Well, they think he may they're giving him a transfusion with your blood. Oh, what a story Please don't use that. Oh, yes, you know how you feel I'm just doing what anyone else would do. He was my friend. I owed him everything Well, of course, but you're a hero. You don't know how people feel about get it to worry. Don't I? Incidentally, Mr. Scales, we hear you sold these screenwriters. Oh, no. No, not yet. It was well We've been talking it over tonight But if anything happens to mr. Drury, I mean you we won't sell Anything happens to Gary bitter Laurel will never be performed again My hands were wet and cold I could feel the perspiration running down my back My head was light and I seemed to be walking on air The voices of the reporters were distant and indistinct. I felt a sudden need to lie down to rest The door to Gary's dressing room opened and I saw the doctor standing there his face and his voice was blurred Will you come please what is it? Complaining of a pain in his back. He did almost immediately. We started the transfusion. He's he's asking for you. Of course Don't understand it. I don't understand We all did our best so much hemorrhage shock cardiac strain It's always a gamble to see when the operation is left so late Sometimes there is a particular idiosyncrasy. I should have preferred a direct test No good of the patient dies while you wait to make sure Mr. Drury First brand He'll be here in a minute mr. Drury waiting brand That's brand The cutting Must go up. Yes. Yes. He's dead. Why did he die doctor blood transfusion? But I don't understand it This is the scale of the type 4 universal donor Still there are sometimes personal idiosyncrasies I caught Walter's gaze and followed it. He was staring fascinated at the plate which still stood on the table The rose that one there they smart from the firing I remember noticing it was originally on my right now. It's on my left ridiculous You did it you turned the plate around because you knew that my blood would save him and the joy of your food I lost everything by his death. Why should I want him dead? You hated him I've known I've seen it all the time because of the plate You killed it. Don't be a fool. Too fantastic. What current or coroner's funeral? What current? The roaring in my ears is the spastic constriction of my stomach The room began to deteriorate. Well, let's stagger to a chair Now I can hear the dr. Veatley's Go from a long, long way on He's in shock. No, no, no here here my My style where where the car hit me. Well, show me just Dear good lord, man. Why didn't you tell us you're hurt? Walter just tell them to bring in the stretcher from the ambulance quickly, man Yes It's ironic when the car hit me it was an injury to the spleen The spleen think of it So you see all the time I was giving gary blood for a transfusion. I was Leading to death inside myself Ironic isn't it death from shock and loss of blood Hey, they gave me a transfusion too Too late But I wouldn't have to die. 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