 Vicks presents the Matinee Theatre starring Victor Jory in Intermezzo. The makers of Vicks' Vapour Up, Vicks' Vaternau, Vicks' Cockdrops and Vicks' Inhaler brings you the Matinee Theatre starring Victor Jory and featuring Gertrude Warner in the play that you selected for this week. David O. Selznick's unforgettable love story, Intermezzo. Here's a good thing to remember when you catch a cold. The best-known home remedy for relieving miseries of colds is Vicks' Vapour Up. Intermezzo, a love story of a world-famous violinist, Holger Brandt and a young piano student, Anita Hoffman. Holger opens the story of Intermezzo. It's difficult to know how to begin to talk about Anita. Anything so lovely in a man's life should be without beginning and without end. Must be remembered as a scent of perfume is remembered as a sweep of music as a kiss. But there was a beginning and there was an ending. The first time I looked in her eyes was the beginning. I returned to my family in Stockholm after a series of concerts all over the world. The first thing to say to be with my wife and my little Anne-Marie. Yes, because you're here. They're my favorite flowers. I helped Mommy buy them, didn't I, Mommy? Yes, dear. Holger, it's so good to have you here once more. I've missed you, my dear. I missed you, too. We have all of your records, Daddy. We played one every night that you were away. Oh, I beg your pardon. Ellen told me she'd be in here. Miss Hoffman! Hello, Miss Hoffman! Come, Roddy and Anita, my dear. Holger, this is Miss Hoffman, Anne-Marie's music teacher. My husband, Mr. Brandt, Miss Hoffman. How do you do? Anne-Marie played for me a little while ago. You are a good teacher. Anne-Marie is very talented. And why shouldn't she be with such a father? Thank you. Come, Anne-Marie, we must start our lesson. Did you practice? Oh, yes, Miss Hoffman. What a lovely girl. There's something about her face that's like gold. It's almost like springtime. Something fresh and very young and sweet. Margaret, you realize it's been almost three years since we've been together. I realize it very well. I hope you'll stay home with us for a while now, though. I can't play any more concerts until I find a new accompanist. Thomas says he positively will go on no more tours. He's going to stay home and teach. Margaret, let's go away on a trip together. What do you say? Oh, Holger. Anne-Marie's going to school now. I have to be here with her. A home and a family are a responsibility, my husband. Very well, Margaret. We'll say no more about it. Do you think Miss Hoffman would mind if I watched Anne-Marie take a lesson? I'm sure she'd be very pleased. I'll go have a look. Oh, please, don't stop. Miss Hoffman always plays one piece for me during my lessons, Harry. Please, please go on. All right. How strange that you choose Russell of Spring to play. Why do you say that? Because I've been thinking of that music today, too. That music is spring running barefooted down the mountains of Sweden. It's sunshine on green grass and bright flowers. It's clear cold water rushing across fields. It's fresh spring winds with a kiss that's like clarity and hearties after struggle and confusion and flight of surviving winter. Make it sound like cold music. Oh, no, no, it's not cold music. It's cool like the fresh wind from the mountains. At the same time, it's warm and pulsating and exciting because it's young and vibrant and beautiful. Do you, Russell of Spring, is all those things? Yes, and you are all those things. That was a good concert we just heard, eh, Thomas? Yes, indeed. A strange feeling to be down in the audience instead of up there performing, huh? You sure you don't want to change your mind and accompany me for one more tour? Oh, quite sure. Yeah? I'm absolutely going to stay home this time and teat. You've talked me out of it for the last time, Holger. Good evening, Mr. Stenborg. Good evening. Mr. Bryant? Miss Hoffman, were you at the concert, too? Yes. Wonderful. You know each other? Yes, Miss Hoffman is studying me with me now, Holger. I listened to her play for Anne-Marie yesterday. Miss Hoffman has great talent. Yes, she certainly has. Why don't you speak to her about accompanying you? Well, I have to get home. Good night, Holger. Miss Hoffman. Good night. Good night, Thomas. I think you have a splendid idea there. Oh, good luck. What do you say, Miss Hoffman? Would you like to be my accompanist? Like it. Oh, Mr. Bryant, of course you couldn't be serious. Why not? I think that you and I feel the same way about music might do very well together. Let's see if I'm right. Come on, my violin's in the car. Let's find a piano. Oh, neat. I need it. We were meant to play together. There's the same music inside you as in me. They fire the same tears, the same beauty. You do feel it, don't you? How could I help but feel it? It seems so strange. Ever since I first began to care about music, you've been like a god to me. And now here you are, and here I am. Yes, here you are, and here I am. It's like the beginning of the world. Look, it's getting light out. I must go. I've kept you up very late. I don't mind. I'm surprised your landlady hasn't been down. My landlady loves music. Here, let me help you with your coat. Thank you. Well, my dear, I feel as though I'd made a very rich discovery tonight. Finding you is like coming into a kingdom, all. Anita, Anita, do you understand? You must understand what's happened to me. Anita. You shouldn't have kissed me. I could no more keep from kissing you than I could keep from loving you. Please, you mustn't say such things. I love you, Anita, I love you, I love you, I love you. Aren't you playing the intermetso a bit out of character, Anita? Why do you say that, Mr. Stenborg? Oh, you're giving it too much importance. You were going at it as if it were the climax of a tremendous symphony. You'll frighten my neighbors. I'm sorry, I wasn't conscious of it. Mr. Stenborg, this will be my last lesson for a time. I'm not going away. I must go away. I have an invitation to visit relatives in Denmark. Oh, you're running away, huh? I don't know anything else to do but run away. I thought I could see him. I thought it would be enough just to see him and work with him. Does Holger know that you love him? I've never told him, but I think he knows. Well, perhaps it's best that you do go away for a while then. Are you going to tell Holger? No. I'd like to practice. I want it to be just like any other evening. I'll write him a note and mail it after I've gone. Anita, what's wrong? Wrong? Nothing. Why do you ask, Holger? You don't seem like yourself tonight. Is something troubling you? No, of course not. I'm just a little tired. I practice longer than usual today. Holger? Yes, Anita? These past months have been very wonderful to me. Music has been with me every hour of the day and night. Something I'll never forget. I hope my music will always be part of your life. Just as you will always be part of my life. Anita, I wish just once that you would say, you loved me. Somehow I need to hear you say it. You're married, Holger. You have no right to ask such a question. And I have no right to answer. Anita, my dear, you cannot say to your heart, this woman and not this one. Sometimes love comes so quickly and so fiercely that you can no more stamp it out than you could stamp a forest fire. I loved you the first moment I saw you. I will love you until the last moment I live. Holger, Holger, please go. Please don't say anymore. I'll ask you again tomorrow. I'll ask you every day until I hear the answer I'm waiting to hear. Good night, Holger. Good night, Anita. Hey, well, tonight, Miss Hoffman was tired. Where's Anne-Marie? I spent her to bed. She'd been crying so long she was worn out. Why was she crying? Well, Miss Hoffman said today she couldn't teach Anne-Marie anymore. She said she was going to visit relatives in Denmark. She... going away? Yes, on the midnight train tonight. Didn't you know? No. No, she didn't say a word. She can't go like this. She decided very suddenly, she said. Well, Holger, I must have a talk with you. Holger, you don't have to tell me anything. I must tell you. Very well. And of course, I must listen. Holger, what are you doing here? How did you know? Holger told me you were leaving on this train. Holger told you? You little fool. How could you do a thing like this running away on the night? Didn't you know I'd come after you wherever you went? You must let me go, Holger. No, no, no, not now or ever. Anita, I told Margaret everything. She sent me after you herself. She understands Anita. I have no home any longer except with you. You told her? Oh, Holger, how could you hurt her like that? She already told me first. Oh, Anita, don't you understand? Sometimes things do happen to people regardless of whether they're right or wrong. And when they happen, you can't run away from them. It doesn't help. It wouldn't help Margaret or you or me. We belong together. We were just a little late finding one another. Come on, darling, take my arm. Let's go out of here. What are we going to do, Holger? We're going on a concert tour. You and I were going to fall a spring around the world. And you weren't going to play music. The most wonderful music that's ever been written. It's going to be like no music has ever been played before because we'll be playing it and playing it together. Oh, Holger, I do love you. I love you so much. My darling. Oh, my darling. In just a moment, act two of Intermezzo, starring Victor Jory. My friends, these changeable days are cold-catching days and it certainly pays to be careful. 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So when cold strikes, rub on vapor rub because only vapor rub gives you this special penetrating, stimulating action, the best-known home remedy for relieving miseries of colds. Vic's vapor rub. And now the second act of intermatch-starring Victor Jory and featuring Gertrude Warner. Holger Brant and Anita Huffman started on their tour. They went to all the great cities of the world and everywhere they were applauded and acclaimed. Have you ever heard such music in the Paris Opera House before? Such tenderness, such fire. They make a handsome couple, don't they? Yes. And isn't she beautiful? May one point out the sights to a stranger? You're standing now in the Eiffel Tower and below you is Paris. It's yours. It's yours because you're young and because you're beautiful. But I'm very old. I shall love to remember when you gave me the cities of the world one by one when I was young. When you're old, I will say, remember that night I kissed you in Paris, that night when we ran away and found a spot halfway between the city and the stars where we could be completely alone and you will say, oh, let's go back again. We'll come back and live the moment over. Shall we make it a date? Ask me when I'm 70. Just kiss me now. Darling, you're so sweet, so wonderfully sweet. Look, my dear, simply everyone that is is here tonight. There's the Duke in the Royal Box. I wish they'd never stop playing. I've never heard our Italian songs played like this. Look how the moonlight patterns the canals. You know, all my life I've wanted to ride in a gondola in Venice. Oh, Olga, what wonderful places we've seen. Bombay and Shanghai and Algiers and Vienna. All the fairy tale places of the world. Now, Venice, look at those stars. I just touched one. How did it feel? The way I feel when you kiss me. Oh, Anita, life is such fun. You made me young again and I was so close to being old when I met you. I love you very much, Olga. And no matter what happens or when it ends, I'll love you forever. It's never going to end, Anita. It's never going to end. A phenomenally successful tour for them and they certainly can see why. They've played every big city in the world, haven't they? Just about. I understand this will be their last concert for the season. I'm sorry the concert tour is over. It's been something I'll never forget. I'm glad it's over. It's been a great holiday on the Riviera. The whole trip has been a holiday. Oh, I have so many wonderful memories of you to file away in my heart. You don't really believe in your heart that it will last, do you? I believe our love will last, Olga. That's the only thing I can fully believe. No, Anita, don't ever leave me. Promise me you'll never leave me. The only thing I can promise, Olga, is that I will always love you. Come get up off that beach. Let's get some dinner. Oh, I hate to move. Macal, a letter just came for you. A letter for me? Thank you. Oh, and there's a gentleman waiting to see Mr. Brandt at the house. There's no hurry, he says. He's taken a room for the night. Oh, Mr. Stenborn. Thomas, what do you suppose he's doing here? Oh, I can't imagine. Well, let's see what your letter says, and then we'll go and find out. Oh, dear Miss Hoffman, the Royal Academy of Music has awarded you the Jenny Lin Scholarship. I hope you will not let anything interfere with the fulfillment of the bright future within your reach. Faithfully, Thomas Stenborg. Why, he must have come to talk about that. See, the letter has been following us around. Look at all the postmarks. Darling, that's wonderful. Is it? What are you all doing? Tearing it up. That's how I feel about anything that might come between us. That makes me very proud, Anita. Nothing's ever, ever going to separate us. Nothing in the world. No. Nothing ever. Let them keep their scholarship. And let me keep my happiness. Thomas, it's good to see you. How did you ever find us here? Well, as a matter of fact, I traced you through your bank. Oh. I wrote Anita a letter sometime back, and I never received an answer. We just got it today. She tore it up, Thomas. Oh. Well, how would she? Fine. She'd be right here. She'd stop in the room, change. What news do you have of my family, Thomas? I've got a new target, and Anne-Marie is both splendid. Yes, Anne-Marie is getting quite tall. She talks about you constantly. She wants you to bring her a camera when you come home. I'm glad they're well. I'll send Anne-Marie a camera. Come in. Mr. Stenborg, it's good to see you. And, Anita, well, you look lovelier than ever, my dear. Thank you. Will you excuse me for 15 minutes while I go down and give Suzette her lesson? Of course, darling. Yes, Anita and I will have a chat. Suzette's the daughter of the innkeeper, which is eight years old. He gives her a lesson every night. He misses Anne-Marie. Did you think he wouldn't? I've tried not to think of it at all. I've tried to pretend there was no past. A man's past has never completely gone, my child. His roots are twined deep in the things that have made him what he is. In your heart, I think you know that. Yes. In my heart, I've always known it. What are you going to do about the scholarship? You think I should take it, don't you? I think you must take it. All this time I've known that one day there would be staring me in the face. The last hour. I hoped I'd be ready for it. But I guess I'll never be ready. Holger must go back to his family. He's needed there. And you must go on with your career. You must make it mean something to you again. I'll be so alone. Have you been happy? Yes. I've been very happy. Well, then be grateful for that. Because you see, my dear, happiness is sometimes an expensive commodity. Sometimes it can only be paid for in tears. Now, think it over, Anita. I know that you will do what's right for both of you. Come for a walk with Thomas and me, darling. Holger, I'm a little tired. I think I'd rather not. Do you mind? All right, we'll only be gone an hour or so. Would you kiss me goodbye? That's always a pleasure. Thank you for so many things. Thank you for all the things I'll remember. For Paris and Venice and Rome and London. For your lips, for your arms, for your love. For making my life so beautiful that it hurts inside. That sounds funny, but I think you know what I mean. I do know. Why are you suddenly saying all these things tonight? Because tonight, I love you more than I've ever loved you in all my life. And because tonight, it's important that you know that. Have a nice walk, darling. See if you can wangle the innkeeper out of his teapot. Well, you will have some tea when we get back. See you later, darling. Goodbye, Holger. Anita. Anita, try the door. Anita, where is the light switch? Oh, yes. Why, the room's empty. Look, all the things, they're gone. Innkeeper! Innkeeper! Where is that confounded man? Innkeeper! There's a note on the table addressed to you. A note? Oh, Thomas. Listen, I'm going away, Holger. We have been pretending and hoping for too long that what we had, we could make splendid and good. But I've always known, my darling, that the most I could be was an intermezzo in your life. And so I'm going to take the scholarship. God bless you, Holger. And take you someday safely home. Anita. I'm going after her, Thomas. We belong together. Well, perhaps you did belong together for an hour, Holger. But you had the hour. And now it's ended. I loved her. I will always love her. Well, then let her go. For she has a life to live, and so have you. And though it must be a tragedy for both of you, those lives must go in different directions. Come, Holger, get your things together. Margaret and Anne-Marie are waiting. So I went home. I went back to Margaret and Anne-Marie, both of whom I love, very dearly though in a different way. And Margaret was most kind and most generous. Welcome home, Holger. Welcome home, my husband. Oh, yes, anything as lovely as Anita should be without beginning and without end. But it had no right to begin, and it had no right to end. Had to take its place among those things remembered as a scent of perfume is remembered for a sweep of music as a kiss. Intermezzo to me is a melody half tears, half laughter, bittersweet upon the tongue and on the heart like the memories of a love put by. In just a moment, a word for Victor Jory. If you have a cold today, you have a lot of folks to commit with you because new thousands every day are catching contagious colds and to relieve miseries of colds, it's extremely unwise to take needless chances with unpride remedies, unwise and foolish because you can benefit by the experience of millions of people. The modern way they rely on for welcome relief is to rub Vic's vapor rub on throat, chest and back tonight at bedtime. Yes, vapor rub is the best known home remedy you can use to relieve distress of colds. The very moment you rub on vapor rub, its relief giving action goes right to work and keeps on working for hours to bring such grand relief. It invites restful sleep and often by morning, most of the misery of the cold is gone. So if you have one of those infectious colds, be sure to rub on time-tested, home-proved Vic's vapor rub. This is Victor Jory, ladies and gentlemen. Today's play was adapted from David O. Selznick's famous motion picture in Dometso. I have had the pleasure of seeing a preview of Mr. Selznick's latest picture. I'll be seeing you, and when you see it, I'm sure you'll agree that it looks like another Selznick success. Now, I'd like to ask you again to help me decide about next week's matinee theater production. We have three great stories in mind. One, a fast-moving romance from the pages of Cosmopolitan magazine some years back. It was called Night Bus. And it was made into a well-known motion picture starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. The original story by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which we are considering, is about a boy who meets a girl on a night bus to Miami bound for New York. One of the high spots in this hitchhiking romance will be the walls of Jericho. Our blanket made two bedrooms out of one small tourist cap. And another play we've been considering is Alice Dewar Miller's dramatic manslaughter, the story of a madcap Harris whose reckless driving becomes responsible for the death of a policeman. And another is the famous Van Dyne mystery, the Canary murder case. Now, suppose you help me make the choice between manslaughter, the Canary murder case and Night Bus. Please write me care of Columbia Broadcasting System 22, New York. Our script today was adapted by Gene Holloway from David O. Selznick's famous motion picture and was directed by Richard Sanville. This series is under the direction of Mark Warnold. Be sure to be with us next week when Vicks, the makers of Vicks People Rub, Vicks Vaternail, Vicks Cough Drops and Vicks Inhaler brings you another great matinee theater production starring Victor Jory. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.