 Screen Directors Playhouse star Norma Shearer production Waterloo Bridge director Mervyn Leroy This is the Screen Directors Playhouse one of the weekly features on NBC's all-star festival of comedy music mystery and drama Tonight the screen directors are honored to present the very beloved and distinguished star Miss Norma Shearer in Metro Golden Mayer screenplay of Robert Sherwood's drama Waterloo Bridge Now ladies and gentlemen transcribed the first act of Waterloo Bridge starring Miss Norma Shearer in the role of Myra The year was 1939 a regrettable year miserable dark maniacal War crowds long gathered and able to carry their swollen burden and come apart the seams The Nazi vouchos in the throes of spreading his vicious tentacles to entrap the world On Waterloo Bridge hair street gray Colonel Roy Cronin stood staring at an object in his hand Tenderly he looked at the good luck charm and caressingly he held it In his eyes, there was a look of loneliness It was as if he was searching into the past Groping desperately for the happiness and heartbreak that began here on Waterloo Bridge in another war the first world war Oh Never mind your bag now miss throughout the straightest bridge. We better get in a shelter. Come on Not till I pick up my good luck charm captain. You little fool. Are you tired of life? I've had it for years. It brings me luck such as air raids. Oh thank heavens. I've found it now captain You think it'd be unmilitary if we were were to run. Let's go Come along That one was close. I was safe here. There may be some space over there for the wall shall we wriggle through all right? Excuse us, please I'm sorry. Yeah, here we are better, huh? Oh, yeah, thanks much better Were you out walking alone? No, I lost my friends in the crush. I hope I'm not late for the theater Are you an actress? I know I'm a dancer Madame Olga Kirov is international ballet you a pirouette and all that sort of stuff. Oh, certainly I can do an entrechasse I beg your pardon. I can cross my feet six times in mid-air. Wow The jet skater do a ten but that only happens once in a lifetime. It must be good for the muscles of the Must be good for the muscles. I Should think of dancers muscles would be like a strongman. Oh, not quite that would be dreadful We try to combine slenderness with strength. I've been dancing since I was 12 and I don't think the muscles are overdeveloped Oh, no, no not in your case, of course We have to train like athlete Madame believes in rigid discipline. I wish I could go to the theater tonight. Oh, why don't you come? Unfortunately, I have a colonel's dinner and it takes a lot of nerve to miss a colonel's dinner Are you home on leave? I have been my home's in Scotland and now you have to go back to to France I mean tomorrow Oh, I'm so sorry I suppose it is yet around the corner of every second. There's the fascination of the unknown We're both facing at this instant. Oh, we face the unknown in peacetime too. You're rather a matter of fact, aren't you? Yes, you're rather romantic, aren't you? Well, I never enjoyed an air raid more Shall we go now wait for the next one? Oh, it's very tempting that I think we'd better go shall I carry your purse? No, no, I I only drop it in emergencies. Well, I hope I'm around the next time it happens You go back to France and I and you we may go to America. Oh, that does sound unlikely I'm sorry So am I So later I'm afraid I have to take a taxi if I can if I can get one I wish I could What were you going to say? I wish I could have seen your ballet. I'm sure it would have been a pleasant memory in the trenches What were you going to say? Oh, just that I I don't know anyone at the front And I'm afraid it'll bring it home to me now knowing you not that I really know you of course, but oh here's a cab Oh, thank you very much captain. I hope you get back safe and sound. Thank you here Take this you're you're good luck charm. Perhaps it'll bring you luck. I Hope it does. Oh now look here. I can't take it. It means so much to you You'd better have it. I was beginning to rely on it too much. Oh, that's wonderfully kind of you. Olympic theater, please caddy Goodbye Like you're talking on stage during a performer kitty is here in the audience who the captain in the underground I don't understand it. He said he couldn't come. Oh, I suppose he just came to see the show You don't suppose anything of a kind What you said he had to go to a colonel's dinner. That's not what I said You can stop dancing Hurry up with the wings kitty. I want to point him out to you there He's a bit of all right must have ditched the colonel You don't think you come backstage to you. Oh, what would Madame say? Well, we must watch and pray girls Kitty Mara Madame Mara, what is a part of a ray a Part of your a is a progression on points by a sequence very small even steps If you know it, why do you not do it during the performance and kitty? Yes, you're our best for a jumpy They were positively a pal of the the doorman calling. Oh, I'll see what he wants The performance tonight was his graceful, but I Kitty that note. I will just hand it to you bring it to me. Oh, it's nothing Handed to me Well, it's just an old friend of a man. I used to know in a show I do not need to be reminded that you were an American chorus girl in a review your behavior madam Keep out of it. Myra. No kitty it is for me, madam Then you may read it allowed, please But madam I read it, please as you see I cannot bear to spend my last evening with my colonel after all Please have supper with me your friend of the shelter PS I'm sure you will because I have a good luck charm, which has already changed signature There isn't one and if there were one what would it be? I don't know. I only know he's an officer, madam Indeed, I must emphasize again that if you want supper parties officers and delights You should not be here with me, but in other occupations Today a parent papierre, please. Yes, madam War is no excuse for intercorum. I got you do not honor the ballet with your presence in it The ballet honors you the pen and paper madam Set it on the table. All right, please myra. Yes, madam. Kiroa dear sir What is this around a captain? Dear captain, I am greatly honored by your kind invitation Wait a minute. I beg your pardon. I'm kitty. Myra's friend Where do you want to meet her Myra? Oh, well, how do you do? I do very well. Thank you, but where do you want to meet her? Well, I Refuse I'll take no notice the old dragon made her right that you mean she'll come after all name the place. Yes Well, I did does she know the candlelight club? No, but I do. Well good then. I'll be there in an hour say an hour Look here. I hope I'm doing the right thing Myra's the finest girl in the world You can see that can't you I can see that Bye-bye captain Hello captain. Hello. I'm delighted you're here. I'm afraid I made it difficult for you with madame corova. Haven't I well? You you gave up the Colonel so I expect I made it difficult for you to yes You did but I have my reward was wonderful of you to come Now nice you look. Thank you, and you look pretty too. Thank you By the way, what are dancers eat? Oh? Dull things mostly nutritious yet non-fattening all or not tonight supper for a queen and champagne But isn't it against the rules for a dancer to drink a bit of champagne is it well tonight good? It's icing in the bucket Tell me are you glad to see me again? Yes? I sense a reservation What why What's the good of it? You're a strange girl, aren't you? What's the good of anything? What's the good of living? That's the question to oh now wait a minute I'm not gonna let you get away with that The wonderful thing about living is that this sort of thing can happen in the shadow of a death raid I can meet you and feel more intensely alive than walking around in peacetime taking my life for granted Oh, it's a high price to pay for it. I don't think so I do Do people have to kill each other to to give them a heightened sense of life? But that's got nothing to do with people killing each other either you're excited about life or you're not You know, I've never been able to wait for the future when I was very young I climbed to the top branch of a high tree stood like a diver announced to my horrified governess now I shall leap into the future and spent three months in the hospital You should let the future catch up with you more slowly. Oh, no never temperament I can't open look here if we'd met in ordinary times in an ordinary way We just about be telling each other what schools we went to We're much further along don't you think are we you know, we are Let's open the champagne to you Thank you To us. I I still don't get it. Not quite. What? Your face It's all you all beauty. Oh, but what is it? You'd still don't get You know when I left you after the air raid I I couldn't remember what you looked like not for the life of me I thought was she pretty was she ugly? What was she like? I couldn't remember I simply had to get to the theater tonight to see what you looked like and you think you'll remember me now. I think so I Think so for the rest of my life Right to you Will you answer? Of course Wonderful evening wasn't it? Yes Thank you very much when I come back. We'll we'll go to the candlelight club again Yes That'll be our place. That's where we'll always recapture this evening. Do you think we'll ever see each other again? I think it's doubtful, don't you? Yes, I suppose it is What was it you started to tell me in the restaurant that you didn't understand about me? Oh? There's no use going into it now. No, but tell me please I'd like to know well it Struck me as curious ever since I met you You know from that very early moment ages ago that you're so young so lovely and so defeatist. I mean you You just don't seem to expect much from life. Well, aren't I right? For instance, I met you. I liked you and now so soon we have to part and Perhaps we'll never see each other again You can conceive that then are never seeing each other again Yes, I can this where you live Yes, nothing to do about it is there Nothing except except to say goodbye. I suppose so Goodbye Goodbye, my little deer. Goodbye. Oh darling darling. Oh, no, no, no, Roy Can't happen keep well Thinkin happen to me. You're you're lucky charm will see to that. Oh, I hope it will I Pray it will goodbye Goodbye Please leave me first. All right All right Captain Oh half past 11 Good morning. Good morning, madam. I came to congratulate you Mara I'm working on being up Considering that you did not go to bed until four It's remarkable. I had a feeling your performance tonight will give the effect of sleepwalking Well, it's the first time I was been out madame Mara, but I made you send the note to the gentleman last night. It was you I was trying to protect Yes, I know I am fond of my girls who work for me. I do not want them to be a Camp follower. Oh, you don't know him or you wouldn't say that. Can't we have any private lives at all? Not when he touched your public life in the theater My roof. I'm happy. He did not stay here a week. Otherwise, he would have ruined six performances instead of one He's a wonderful man, madam. That is unimportant If such a thing should happen again with you or any of the others it means instant dismissal I will see you at the day out tonight if he is not too much trouble Why is he so cruel and hateful? Oh the old broomstick. No, never mind. This was everything rubbish. You're just upset and tired Why don't you go back to bed? There's no rehearsal today and now come away from that window. No, I'm not tired Horrible morning for the channel crossing Well, I suppose he's gone now. Hmm. I suppose so Kitty What? Kitty! He's downstairs! Oh, pacing back and forth. Oh, I don't believe it. Oh, good heavens. Why, he's deserted. Kitty, he's here. He hasn't gone. He's here. She'll be cord-martialed for this. Oh, Kitty. Oh, you see him too, don't you? All of that is ghost. I could use one like him. Now get away from that window, you stupid mini. You'll see you. I can't help it. Out of my way. Oh, I've got to go. Where's my hat? Oh, why wasn't I... Where is my hat? This is your hat. I can't wear my handbag on my head. Not very well. Kitty, is he still there? Has he gone? Will he wait? Do I look all right? Yes. Yes, you look all right. You look better with the dress on. Oh, dress, dress. The thing I'm holding is the dress. Yes, yes, of course. Oh, he'll help me. Sorry, a little... Oh, Mar, will you stop it? Oh, Kitty. Oh, goodness. I don't know what I'm doing. Are you done? Oh, dear, these stupid... Oh, here, let me help you. Kitty, stop driving around. Oh, I wonder if he's gone. Kitty, Kitty, he's gone. He's gone. Then that thing by the tree must be a mirage. He's back. I'm going down the stairs first. You don't want to run into Madame on the way down. And for pity's sakes, please tell him no more false alarms. I can't stand the excitement. Darling, darling. Night of you to come and see me. Don't talk. Just let me kiss you. How did it go? Couldn't. Mine's in the channel. Forty-eight hours leave. Oh, isn't that one... Oh, darling, darling, darling. Let me hold you in my arms. What would we write out in the street? Everybody understands. Oh, forty-eight hours. Two whole days. Oh. You know, I thought about you all last night. I couldn't sleep a wink. Oh, you managed to remember me at last then? Yes, barely managed. Myra, what do you think we're going to do today? Well, I... Oh, you won't have time for that. What? For hesitating. No more hesitating for you. No? No. Well, what am I going to do instead? You're going to get married. Oh, Roy. Roy, you must be mad. I know it. It's a marvelous sensation. Oh, oh, oh, do be sensible. Not me. Oh, but you don't know me. Then I'll discover you. Spend the rest of my life doing it. Oh, Roy, this is wartime. It's because you're leaving so soon. Because you feel that you must spend the whole of your life in forty-eight hours. We're going to be married. It's you. It'll never be anyone else. But how can you tell that? Now, listen, darling. None of you are quibbling. None of you are questioning. None of you are doubts. This is positive, you see? Roy! This is affirmative, you see? This is final, you see? You're going to marry me, you see? Come on, hurry. Cab! This is Miss Lester, Vicar. How do you do, Miss Lester? How do you do? I'm sorry to disappoint you, Miss Lester. But I'm afraid it's impossible for me to marry you now. Oh. No doubt you forget that according to the law, no marriages can take place after three o'clock. I explained to the vicar, Myra, that this is an emergency that we thought during wartime something could be managed. Oh, isn't there something we can do, sir? We'd be most awfully grateful. Oh, I'd like to help you, but unfortunately, that is the law. However, if you come tomorrow to live no clock, I shall be most happy to perform the ceremony for you. But we have so little time. Well, it's only a few hours. It just means we'll have to be engaged for a whole day. Yes, darling. I never did build even long engagements. The performance Madame will give her the sack. Oh, I tell you, I just tremble for that, poor girl. Oh, you're always trembling, Marine. Hello, Kitty. Well, where have you been? I've been worried to death. I thought you were with a boyfriend, but he phoned a couple of times. Oh, did he? I wonder why. He had to go back to the barracks and I went shopping. Here. What's in those packages? Open them up. Myra, who's dressed as that? It's mine. It's yours. Yes. I spent my last penny on it. Are you crazy? Oh, quite, quite. And I bought a hat, a lovely hat, and the shoes, and the bag, and then gloves. Oh, isn't it a dream, Kitty? It's my wedding dress. Myra. Yes, I'm going to be married. Oh, darling, darling, come here and let me have it. Oh, it's so wonderful. Oh, well, tell me where I went. I'll quick. Oh, tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning, it's in Matthew's church. Oh, Kitty, I'm so madly in love, so madly happy. Oh, darling, I can't believe this. Neither can I. I've been crying all day. It's unbelievable. Things like this just don't happen. Oh, it is wonderful. Oh, what a joke on Madame. I'll get it. Hello? Miss Lester? One moment, please. A gentleman, Myra. That must be Roy. Hello? Hello, darling. Yes? What? Oh, no. When? Oh, that's terrible. Can't they give you one more day? You have to. Oh, of course I'll come at once. I love you. What is it? What happened? Oh, the order's been changed. He's going tonight. The train leaves in 10 minutes. Where are you going? I'm going to see him off. Going where? To the police station. But you can't. You won't be back in time. But the showman won't be off. Oh, I don't care. Myra, please. She'll never forgive you. Never. I may never see him again. What's wrong? He's gone. You talked to him? No, Kitty. I was too late. Didn't you see him at all? Oh, just a glimpse. Oh, what a shame. I knew it would happen. I knew it from the start. Oh, he'll be back. The war can't last forever. No. He won't be back. Good evening, Myra. It is very condescending of you to come here at all. She's very unhappy, Madame. Her fiancé was called to the front. I'm not interested in tube movement. She was to be married in the morning. Lore and social events. Well, the whole world doesn't begin and end with a ballet. My world does. And while you are with me, so must yours. That prescription no longer applies to Myra. Oh, don't sack her, Madame. I warn you, Myra. You are dismissed. I've never heard of anything so unreasonable. Be careful. No, I won't be careful. Oh, don't, Kitty. Don't you worry, Myra. I'm fed up with her. I've been wanting to tell her for two years. And now I'm going to tell you, Madame. And if you don't like it, you can lump it. I'm sick of you and your tyranny. You treat us like a lot of slaves and call it discipline. Well, it isn't bad. Well, it's just that you enjoy bullying us. Maureen. Yes, Madame? Rehearsal tomorrow at 11 with two understudies. Yes, Madame. Good night. Kitty. Kitty, you shouldn't have. You shouldn't have. Oh, it's all my fault. Forget it. I'm sick of ballet. I'm sick of being high-brow with my feet. You and I, Ducky, are going to get into a review. All we've got to do is get some manager to put one on. That ought to be simple. Kitty. Yes? Do you think... 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How could survive in their third-rate hotel room? Well, Myra, I didn't get the job. Oh, Kitty. How about you? No luck. We're a couple of harling successes. Sitting right on top of the world, aren't we? Well, you're in a nice mood, aren't you? And no wonder sitting here in the dark feeling sorry for yourself. Well, if I don't feel sorry for myself, who will? Trouble with you is you're hungry. You'll feel better when you have something to eat. Myra. Yes, Kitty? You're probably sick of hearing this. But honestly, why don't you let Roy know? That we're out of work. That we're broke, flat broke, down to our last bouillon cube. Oh, he'd worry. I don't want him to worry. Better for him to worry than for us to starve. Oh, Kitty, we're not starving. Nobody's starving. You mean people who starve don't live to tell about it? I don't know what we're going to do. We can't get jobs in the show. We can't get them anywhere else. Oh, Madame, we're still here. I go to a pride or no pride. As it is, there's nobody. Oh, Myra, I'm frightened. I've never been frightened before. Oh, Kitty. I don't like it. Oh, Kitty. Perhaps it's selfish of me not to let Roy know, but I've got a stupid sort of pride about it. Just let me wait a little while, just a little while longer. Something must turn up, and if it doesn't, well, it's Mrs. Clark for the rent. Oh, now remember, you were rehearsing. Oh, yes. Yeah, that's right. Miss Lester, for you, Myra. Oh, thank you. Seems like them, as gets flowers, could pay their rent. Oh, here. Here, let them. I can't imagine. Oh. Oh, they're lovely. Now, who do you suppose? Kitty. Oh, it's Roy. It's Roy at the time. Oh, they're beautiful. Oh, there's such a lovely old gentleman. Oh, not to buy us food for a whole week. Oh, listen to what he wrote on the card. One of my men got leave, and you'll be receiving these through him. And with them, I send you all my love. We, uh... We could sell them to the florist at the corner by ourselves a real meal. Eh, but I don't think you'd favor the idea. No. Oh, Kitty. His mother's coming here. To London? Yes, yes, listen. My mother is snatching a few days from her Red Cross work and is coming to town to especially see you. I know you'll get on well with her. She's very nice. In fact, she's quite like me. Kitty, what'll I do? I can't have her here in this hovel. Why not? Let's give her a little party and boil the bouillon cubes. Well, I can suggest meeting her somewhere. For tea, perhaps. Oh, but Kitty, imagine his mother. I'm awfully nervous at meeting her. I wonder... What, you funny love-struck instance. Oh, I wonder if she'll like me. Well, she'd better. We won't invite her at all. Tomorrow. Darling, you're trembling. Oh, Kitty, don't you see that? Meeting her will be like... like seeing Roy again. Oh. Oh, you've been such a darling to me. And now perhaps I'll be able to repay you. You know, I... Oh, I have the feeling that from now on everything's going to take a turn for the better. I'm just sure it is. Would you care to order? Not yet, thank you. I'll wait for my friend. She's Lady Margaret Cronin. And I'm Miss Lester. If she should ask for me, will you direct her to me here? Certainly. What time is it, please? It's, uh, ten minutes to five. Thank you. Would you care to look at the evening paper? No, thanks. Well, in that case, one... one moment. What does that headline say? At latest war casualties. Would you like to read them? No, no. Oh, yes. There you are, Miss. Killed in action. Fallen officers. Ashley. Abernathy. Barbara. Bern. Blair. Bull. Busy. Brothers. Vinnie. Cronin. Captain Roy Cronin. No. Oh, God, no. Cronin. Cronin. Cronin. Cronin. Easy, Miss. Here. You take another sip of brandy. Cronin. You don't give us a price. Would you like to go to the restroom and lie down a bit? No. No. I'd rather stay here. Take another sip of the brandy it held. Thank you. Better? Yes. Sure. I'll be all right. Sit quiet and rest. If your friend doesn't turn up, we'll call a cab. Blair. Bull. Busy. Brothers. Vinnie. Cronin. I beg your pardon. Cronin. Are you with Lester? Yes. Yes. I'm Margaret Cronin. Roy's mother. And may I sit down? Yes. Yes, of course. I'm afraid I've kept you waiting. I'm terribly sorry. No. But you we have. Tea and some little cake? No. No. No, thank you. I can't stay very long. Oh. I do hope you're not going to run off at once. Incidentally, I telephoned you from Scotland to the hotel where Roy told me. You were staying, but they said you'd gone away. I have my mail forwarded. There are reasons. Oh, my dear. I didn't mean to pry. Forgive me, my dear, but you're not afraid of me, are you? I know we're going to be friends. I feel that I know you already through Roy's letters. And I want to write him and tell him that you and I have met and that we like each other very much. May I write him that? Yes. Yes, of course. I suppose there are lots of things you want to know about Roy that I could tell you. And I'm sure there are things about him you could tell me. Oh, stop it. Oh. Oh. I'm sorry. Quite all right, my dear. Why don't they bring your tea there? They're very slow, aren't they? Shall I call the waitress? No, no. Don't bother. I mean, no, hurry. Would you rather that I didn't know you? No, hurry. Would you rather that I didn't speak about Roy? Oh, no, no. Why should you think that? But what is there to say? Forgive me, my dear. Have you been drinking? Oh, I had a drink that's all. It made me feel funny, sort of queer. Oh, what's it like in Scotland? I've never been there. It always sounds so quaint, you know. The heather and the peat. Oh, but peat comes from Ireland, doesn't it? I've never been there. Why do you stare at me like that? I'm trying to see you as Roy sees you. Mara, I want you to remember that I tried to be your friend. I've come because Roy wanted me to come. Because I wished to. Perhaps we'll try again someday. Perhaps on Roy's next leave, he'll bring you to the country. Goodbye, Mara. For the next three months, the physical condition of Mara fitted in with the hysteria of the world. A complete nervous breakdown accompanied by the bread influenza. As she slowly recovered, doubt assailed us to how the room rent was paid, where the money for food came from, the doctor's bills, and medicine. Hello, Kitty. Those wet things off double quick time, too. I'll fix you a hot water bottle. Oh, why did you go out? Kitty! How'd the show go tonight? Same as usual. Was it a good house? So-so. Why? I went to the theatre. Thought I'd surprise you by calling for you. Oh, well, you see, Mara, I didn't want to worry you. You see, I'm in a different sort of show than when I said I was in. It's a cheaper sort of show, so I... Kitty, you haven't got a job at all. You never did have one. How have we been living? What difference does it make as long as we live? Where's the money coming from? Where are you getting it? Where do you think I've been getting it? Try to keep it from you, but... Well, now you know. Did it for me? I don't know. I didn't ever have done it anyhow. C'est la guerre. No job. No boys who want to marry. Only men who want to kill a few hours. Because... Because they know it may be their last. No. You did it for me to get me food and medicine. I'd sooner have died. No, you wouldn't. You think you wouldn't, but you wouldn't. I thought of that, but I wasn't brave enough. I wanted to go on living. Heaven knows why. But I did, and so would you. Oh, we're young, and it's good to live. Even the life I'm living... Oh, God knows it. I've heard them call it the easiest way. Wonder who ever thought up that little phrase. I know one thing. It couldn't have been a woman. Kitty. Oh, darling, darling. I suppose you think I'm dirt. Oh, no, no, Kitty. I guess it was just... Just no other way. No other way. 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Then you're sure of enjoying the very best that your television set has to offer. Now the third act of Waterloo Bridge, starring Miss Norma Shearer. Hello, my babe. Hello. Care for a bit of a stroll, huh? What are we waiting for, dearie? Hello, Martin. Oh, look. Well, I'm not exactly prepared to retire yet. I'm holding it waterly with power. Oh, some of them soldiers are still on their feet, eh, Martin? Hope so, Clarky. Cheerio. Cheerio. Oh, baby. See you around wherever I go. Care for a bit of a stroll, huh? Myra. Oh, look. The buns I've waited for this moment. Oh, darling. Right. Oh, right. I told my darling it's all over. This time we're together for always. Why? You're... Feeling better, darling. Right. You're... you're alive. Of course I'm alive. Didn't you know I was indestructible? How could I die when we're engaged? Oh, but the papers... We're wrong. I was in a German prison for the better part of a year and then escaped. I came home to you. Did my mother get in touch with you? Tell you to meet me at the train? No. Then you didn't know I was coming? No. Then what were you doing at the station? Were you looking for a friend? Yes, a... a girlfriend. I got a thousand questions. What have you been up to? Have you got a job? Worries or what does it pay? I... I... I don't have a job. Oh, it doesn't matter. I'm not going to let you out of my sight this time. Not till we're married. You understand that? Oh, darling, you've... You've been through a lot, haven't you? It's been, uh... Pretty tough, huh? And I wasn't there to help you. But that's all over now. I never want to see you cry again except with happiness. If only I had known you were alive, that you were in the world. I'll never leave you again, darling. You're coming home with me to my mother's in Scotland. We're leaving right away just as soon as I arrange the tickets. I... I can't go with you. It's... it's out of the question. Why? Please don't ask me, but I... I simply can't. But I've got to ask you and you've got to tell me. Why? I... I look terrible for one thing. I... I... I haven't got any clothes. Well, Madam, calling to be, we'll see what we can do. How would you like to be the most smartly dressed woman in London? Oh, no, Roy. I... I can't. There's someone else, isn't there, Myra? After all, you've thought me dead. There is someone else, isn't there? Don't be afraid. Tell me. Oh, Roy. Of course there isn't anybody else. There couldn't be. I loved you. I've never loved anyone else. I never shall. That's the truth, Roy. That's all I wanted to know. Darling, smile for a change. I'll... I'll try. Have you forgotten how? Come on. That's a good girl. Oh, darling. I... I can't believe that I... that I'm with you again. But you are. Happy? Oh, yes. Personally, I'm delirious. Come on. We're going shopping. What's all about? What are all these packages? Have you taken to shoplifting? Oh, Kitty, darling. Roy's back. He's alive. Roy? Kitty wants to marry me. Oh, no. Such things don't happen. It's true. Oh, Kitty, it's going to be so wonderful. And for you, too. Oh, nothing will be too good for you when I'm Roy's wife. Oh, I know what you're thinking. I've been thinking, too. You think that'll be dreadful of me, don't you? Does he know? No. Well, do you think you can get away with it? You mean deceiving him? Yes. Oh, I... I'm going to tell him. There are two sorts of people, Myra. Those who get the breaks and those who don't. Well, I'm getting the breaks now. And I'm not good to think. You remember? You wanted so that you wanted to live. Oh, well, I want to live. This is my chance for life. And I won't let him go. I guess there are no rules, Myra, for what you feel and what he feels. Kitty. Oh, Kitty. After all, if he's mad enough about you, he may make up for everything. It must. It must. He's so kind, Kitty. So sweet and so clean and wonderful. I'm going to vote myself to him. After all, it's his happiness, too, Kitty. He loves me. He's waited for me and my... and in my soul. In my soul, I've waited for him. That's what really counts, isn't it? The soul? He is. Yes, Myra. That's all that counts. Roy. Oh, it's beautiful. This has been our home for generations. We're awfully good together, don't you think? RSVP, that was a question that requires an answer. Yes or no? Yes. Your answer is correct. Now off to bed with you, darling. Big day ahead tomorrow. Good night, darling. Good night, my love. Myra, forgive me for waiting for you in your room. That's quite all right, Lady Margaret. I couldn't go to sleep without getting something off my chest. It's about our last meeting in London. You know that has preyed on my mind ever since. Myra, do you bear a grudge against me? Oh, no, Lady Margaret. Frankly, I came with a prejudice. And when I saw you, you seemed strange to me. I thought you couldn't be... well, what I wanted Roy's wife to be. I have no excuse except a mother's excuse for wanting an impossible idea for her son. Can you forgive me? No, but there's nothing to forgive. When I got home the next day, I found the telegram telling me the dreadful news about Roy. And when I could think again, it suddenly struck me that you'd known all the time. That you'd just seen his name in the newspaper and you hardly knew what you were saying. Is that true? Yes. Oh, you poor child. If I'd only known. I did my best to find you, but you disappeared. And now I want to make it up to you in the future. I'm very happy about this marriage, Myra. And I know we're going to be wonderful friends. Forgive me for being sentimental. Good night, my daughter. Don't go, Lady Margaret. I must speak to you. Of course, my dear. I can't marry Roy. Sit down quietly, dear, and tell me. I must go away. I never should have come here. I knew it is impossible that I... I kept on seething myself. I've got to go away. I must never see him again. Well, perhaps if you'd hated me, if you'd fought me, I could have done it. But, well, you've all been so kind. My dear, why don't you tell me what it is? I'm sure I can help you. No, no one can help me. But, my dear, what can it be that's so terrible? Has there been someone else? Lady Margaret, you're naive. My dear, Roy loves you. He's happy with you. That's enough for me. If there are indiscretions in your life, forget them. Face the future. There's no future for me. Myra, look at me. Look at me. Can't you see? Can't you see the truth? Don't make me tell you this thought in your mind, which for telling yourself can't be true. It is true. Oh, I can give you plenty of excuses. I was poor, I was hungry, I thought Roy was dead. I might make you understand, but it couldn't save me. I'll never see him again. But I, well, I just can't tell him the truth myself. I can't hurt him like that. Promise me you'll never tell him. Promise me I'll leave early in the morning. You've been so kind. I wish I could have been, well, all that you'd hoped. Roy. What are you doing prowling around at this hour? You been with Mother? Yes. Isn't she wonderful? Oh, yes she is. I know I wouldn't sleep, so I've been walking in the garden and fighting my good luck to the stars. Oh, were they pleased? They seemed indifferent. They went on glittering the little exhibitions. Oh, um, have you ever seen this good luck charm before? Oh, I think so. Oh, here. But I, I gave it to you. It's yours. I think it'll be safer with you, just as I'll be. I dropped it in the garden a moment ago and I was frantic until I found it again. I think you'd better have it from now on because now that we're both, as they say, one, it really doesn't matter which one of us keeps it, does it? Brought me luck. I'll let her bring you luck. I'll keep it for you, Roy. Oh, I'm tired, darling. Yes, you're locked tired. It's been a strenuous day for you. Yes. Good night, darling. Goodbye, darling. Why goodbye when it's only till morning? Oh, because, because every parting from you is, well, a little eternity. That's the way I feel too. Goodbye. Goodbye, little sentimentalist. Tomorrow, all day to ourselves. Yes, my love. Now, is it, you mother? What? Oh, hello, Clarke. What did they wear on water, little bridge? How'd you was married, Ducky? No. No, I'm not married. But Kitty, she told me that you got off with some tough. I knew it was too good to be true. Yes, just too good to be true. Oh, well, cheer up. Things can't get worse. Coming down to the station, dearie. Who plans do I give? No, I... No. Oh, well. Clarke, do me a favor. Would you see that this good luck charm is delivered to this address? Sure, Ducky. Hello, baby. Care for a bit of it? Well, I'd say you for a long time. No. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. They never last. Likewise, those we truly love are never forgotten. And while the ears tend to cover all wounds, the scars remain, though invisible. And the heart remembers. As he stood at the parapet of Waterloo Bridge in the year of 1939, tenderly holding a very small charm in the palm of his hand, Colonel Roy Cronin lifted it to his lips. And with this gesture, all else, all the world except one voice was silent. And this voice he heard with exquisite clarity. Oh, here's a message from the makers of Annison. If you would like to know a quick, easy way to ease the pain of a headache, neuritis or neuralgia, then by all means try Annison. Your own dentist or physician may at one time or another have handed you an envelope containing Annison tablets. Then you already know how incredibly fast and defectively Annison brings relief. Annison is like a doctor's prescription. That is, Annison contains not just one, but a combination of medically proven active ingredients. For your own sake, try Annison. Annison is sold to you on this guarantee. 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We adore you, Norma, always. Oh, those are very kind words and so deeply appreciated, Mervon. And it's so good to be back home again. And we're certainly glad to have you back. Norma, you've been traveling all over the world having a wonderful time all over Europe, Switzerland, Paris and American and Paris. Say, that's an MGM hit starring Jean Kelly, Leslie Caron and Oscar Levant. Oh, so I've heard. And speaking of hits, I understand your great spectacle, Covatis, which you directed for MGM in Rome, is definitely an Academy Award contender for this year's honors. Norma, the only thing I can say is I've got my fingers crossed. Speaking for the Screen Directors Playhouse and your millions of fans throughout the world, thanks. And I can't tell you how much we look forward to seeing you again real soon. Good night, Norma. Good night, everyone. The series of the Screen Directors Playhouse brought to you by extra miles Fatima, best of all king-sized cigarettes. In Fatima, the difference is quality. By RCA Victor, world leader in radio, first in recorded music, first in television. And by the makers of Anison for fast relief from the pain of headache, neuritis and neuralgia. Now we bring to a close this series of Screen Directors Playhouse presentations. Next week, during this hour on most NBC stations, you will hear two new shows. The Roy Rogers show, starring Roy himself at Lovely Day Elevens. And during the last half hour, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis return to the air. Waterloo Bridge was adapted for radio by Jack Rubin. Screen Directors Playhouse is under the production supervision of Howard Wiley and is directed by Bill Karn. Portions of tonight's broadcast were transcribed. This is Jimmy Wallington speaking. For People in the Know, Sunday means the big show on NBC.