 The story of dr. Kildare There will I go for the benefit of the sick what's one of the things I see or hear concerning the life of men I will keep silence there on counting such things to be held as sacred trust. I will exercise my art solely for the cure The story of dr. Kildare starring Lou Ayers and Lionel Barrymore Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer brought you those famous motion pictures now this exciting Heartwarming series is heard on radio in just a moment the story of dr. Kildare But first your announcer one of the great citadels of American medicine a Clump of gray white buildings planted deep in the heart of New York the nerve center of medical progress for great minds and skilled hands Wage man's everlasting battle against death and disease Blair general hospital Where life begins where life ends where life goes on? Did you complete your examination dr. Kildare? Yes, I did dr. Let's be and what was your diagnosis glaucoma. Yeah, no and operations is only hope and I'm afraid that's a rather thin hope You only come to us a little sooner. I know I know Well, that's so often the way I couldn't begin to tell you how many times I've said in my secret heart You know what why didn't you come a little soon? Just a little sooner so much more might have been done Is his wife still waiting? Yeah, I better tell her then we know no point in putting it off Will you come in mr. Simmons? Doctor, I I think I must have aged 50 years while I've been waiting My hair hasn't turned white has it. No, of course not sit out Mrs. Simmons As you know, I asked dr. Kildare to examine your husband so that I'd have another opinion beside my own on this case And also because if an operation was necessary, I felt he was the best one to do it You want to send this is merely a recommendation Your liberty to pick and you should pick any surgeon that you have confidence in then you have to operate No, I'm afraid so mr. Simmons your husband is suffering from an eye disease called glaucoma. Oh dr. Gillespie, I wanted him to come long ago, but you wouldn't listen to me He seemed to feel that it was a sign of weakness to go to a doctor Well, can you can you say beside there's only a very slim chance We operate to try to establish proper drainage and keep the pressure in the eye permanently low When are you going to do it soon as possible going up to your husband's room and tell him now? Mr. Simmons, that's the whole story All right Let's get it over with that's what I hoped you'd say hi I'll be able to see after this operation when I hope so hard to guarantee the results I'm not going to see you might as well finish me off in that operating room tomorrow I'm not going to see I don't want to live Drake Simmons he's resting operation Well, it was a surgical success as far as we can tell me a week before the bandages come off And we'll know whether he's going to see again. Yeah, I know We're going to have a problem with him if his sight isn't restored That's a good recipe. I have an idea How would you like to go across town and have a Spanish dinner with me? Have a what Spanish dinner? Why should I want to have a Spanish dinner tonight? Oh, I don't know Thought I detected a slight latin glint in your eye. I killed it. You've been working too hard You better go to bed Latin glint in my eye Of all the tomfool no, what have you got against Spanish rice? I haven't got anything against Spanish, right? Well, then come along and have some Come along and I'll introduce you to a very lovely lady. Ah, ah, ah So that's what's behind this Spanish rice. It certainly is Maria Espinoza one of the most charming gracious women you'd ever want to meet and Can she cook like an angel? My angels can't cook. Oh, you'll change that statement after you meet Maria I'm convinced she has second sight too One touch of your hand and she knows all about you killed there You're too sensible to be taken in by a line like that Well, you come along and see and if you don't lose your heart to Maria yourself. I miss my gas There she is over that corner table Maria Maria. How are you this evening? Oh Chula, hello boy. How are you? I have been thinking of you all day You have not been here in so long Maria I want you to meet my friend dr. Leonard Gillespie. I'm very happy to meet you dr. Gillespie And I like your hand class. I hope you come often But then of course I like all Jimmy's friends Here they don't want you Thank you. Thank you That's a very handsome dog you have madame Espinoza. Yes, and chula is a perfect gentleman He's my eyes my guardian and my best-look friend You are wondering how long I have been blind dr. Gillespie. Yes How did you know I don't know I just knew I have been blind for almost 30 years Maria and her husband were in an accident years ago Maria came out of it permanently blind my husband died. Oh, I'm sorry. No, you need not be One learns how to bear pain doctor pain of the heart as well as of the body My wounds have long since healed as indeed they must if one is to go on leaving it Like I do small some They had to be supported There was me the time for grief Maria take her insurance money to open this restaurant. You did the cooking herself You know the cooking yourself. Yes. I know that my blindness was an obstacle that had to be overcome I took a training course on when I feel is that I spend months practicing cooking So many steps to the cupboard so many steps to the stove It was trial and error, but I learned and now I have my restaurant It makes me a good living my sons are grown And now I have cooks in the kitchen to do the cooking for me I've seen Maria rush out to the kitchen until I thought there was something wrong with the sauce just from the way It smelled clear out here. Well, when a person loses one sense all the others to come much more perceptive Well, tell me a doctor killed there about the hospital Did you operate today? Oh? Oh, yes, I did and was the operation on someone's side Yes, yeah, how on earth did you have that? intuition You're a remarkable woman. I don't see so The man I operated on today doesn't want to live this site is gone That is the natural reaction Now imagine it is the first thought of almost everyone who realizes they're going to be blind Well, this man may not lose a site, you know, we won't know for a week Well, I'm confident that if he does you too will find a way to help him Well, no, I know you're both hungry. How about the Spanish pot roast is a Particularly good tonight. That's for me. Oh sounds wonderful. I get it for you myself. I won't be long What an amazing woman isn't she wonderful? Yeah, it's too bad more of us don't have her courage in her wisdom It takes a lot of guts to turn a liability into an asset. Hmm, you know whenever I leave Maria I leave with a new awareness of life Sky has a new brightness the air has a new vitality the world is a brand new beauty Hmm, I get a thrill from just the smell of the birth and bakery shops and stores Even exhaust pipes because there's a picture in those smells when you close your eyes Get a thrill out of touching things too Out of textures tween velvet pages of a book the softness of someone's hand Maria's blind, but she sees far more of life and most of us who walk around with her eyes open And if if Drake Simmons isn't to see again That's what we must teach him. I hope that operations is a success. Yeah Only before we'll know anything one whole ever-lasting week Yes, mr. Simmons and dr. Gillespie's with me. Yeah, yeah, how do you feel mr. Simmons? I don't think I ever fully realized what my eyes meant to me till this week Yeah I'm gonna ask when it was Dave when it was night People have come and gone nurses interns laboratory technicians. I haven't even known what they look like alone so completely alone dark black wool Well, mr. Simmons we must all try to condition ourselves to the blows that life gives Sounds like preaching. I don't mean it that way. No, no, no, it isn't it's common sense Are you trying to tell me that I'm not gonna see again? Oh, no only that we don't know Even after we remove these bandages today We can't be completely certain of the results for a while. I'll take them off. Take them off. Let's find out Take them off right now Well What's it like out today you want to rain? I said still miss Simmons while dr. Kildare works on those bandages What time is it? It's about 10 in the morning And a Any interesting news and headlines. Oh nothing particular There we are Now open your eyes, mr. Simmons can't see very much. Can you see anything? I can see Sort of a thin film of light. I can see a film of light. I dr. Kildare that that means something doesn't it doesn't it mean something? Yes, yes, of course it does. That's that's encouraged. Is this old? Now mr. Simmons you're going to have to remain for time being in a fairly darkened room and to your eyes get stronger I think you'll be more comfortable at home as a matter of fact There's no need to keep your ear and your wife can do more for you than the hospital can just now Well, I must be getting better if you let me go home Your wife is down the hall. I want to talk to her. I'd like you to try and take a nap now if you will oh, yes Of course, I will and when I wake up I'll I'll probably see more life. Yeah, yeah, it sometimes happens that way We'll be back to see you later in the afternoon. Thanks both of you never mind the thanks. Just get some rest His spirits picked up a little when we got that bandage off Say do you think he's going to get his sight back? The chance of that didn't look too good when we got that bandage off. Did it? He should have had more vision than he had but But there's hope of course that the light he saw meant that his sight was returning. Here's the waiting room Okay, almost walk right past it. Oh I thought you'd never come How is drink well, there's still hope of course, but I see Then the operation wasn't a success Dr. Kildare removed the pressure all right, but your husband doesn't see as much as he should well Well, then we we've got to prepare for the future It's funny, but This is the first time in all our married life, but I've really felt that Drake actually needed me I Shall do my best not to fail him. Oh, we know you will May I see him when he's resting now This was quite a lot of excitement for him You can see him this evening if you like and tomorrow I want to make arrangements for him to go home I'll have everything ready for him Oh one or the other of us will try to stop by your house every day or so because We can't give your husband back his eyesight then somehow between us. We've got to give him vision We return to the story of dr. Kildare in just a moment. Well, no, I thought you were sleeping You so quiet kill there you've been staring out of that window almost an hour without saying a word I was looking at the city modern miracle Metrically and beautifully laid out on Manhattan Island. How wonderful to be able to see it Kildare you've fallen into a very dangerous frame of mind. What do you mean? Well, subconsciously you're sympathizing so much with your patients. You may not even be able to help them Never follow that you may be right Drake Simmons doesn't need any sympathy He has plenty of that for himself He's got to stop thinking of the things he doesn't have and then look for the things that he has You've got to do the same thing. That is if you want to help him You've got to show Drake Simmons that there are things to live for Well Yeah, oh, yes, mr. Simmons What oh No, what just a minute? Let me put dr. Kildare. I kill there Simmons is taking poison. What ammonia he found a bottle in the bathroom. Give me the phone Hello, mr. Simmons Mrs. Simmons give your husband olive oil in large quantities of water. We'll be right over How easy it's going to be all right. It didn't get very much of the ammonia down We've neutralized it with hydrochloric acid that combined with the olive oil you gave him will do the trick I was so frightened He'd worked himself up into a terrible He kept saying that he couldn't even see a film of light night. I tried to talk to him Then after a while he was quiet. I thought it was all right I try not to think about it. It's all over. He's going to be all right It's just that I he is completely blind Yes Does this mean? I'm afraid it does For some and to live who wants to die. No, but you can try to make him want to live Would you come in Jimmy hmm? He's rational enough now. I think the senator's beginning to take a fake Well, mr. Simmons, you gave us quite a scare. Why'd you bring me back? It was my job I'm a doctor and you're my patient. I look here. I want to talk to you I'm not interested in the sir when you want to be you need one I'm not paying you to give me sermons. I'm paying you to get me well That's quite true But don't you see you're not going to get well as long as your mental attitude is wrong nice to get well I'm being seen again doctor You can't make me see again and you can't do a thing for me I can try to show you how you to live without sight if you let me I'm not interested in living without sight Jimmy I think mr. Simmons should try to rest for a while. Don't you yes? I do Will you stay here with him? Call I want to make I'll say right here. I don't want you know I won't bother you mr. Simmons. You just go off to sleep, but you won't even know I'm here I don't want to live. I don't want to live Maria I need your help The man you operate on is not going to see again No, no, he isn't tried to kill himself yesterday And before that I tried to talk to him in every way I knew tried to tell him your philosophy to point out all the things he has to live for I argued pleaded beg Don't think he heard a word I said You will take me to him If you will come You know I will I've never felt more helpless or more like a failure in my life Don't say that Jimmy This goes beyond medicine Remember the old saying about the blind leading the blind? Let me get my coat We go at once Mr. Simmons I want you to meet a very good friend Maria Espinosa How do you do? I'm very happy to meet you mr. Simmons And there I present my friend Shula Shula, speak to the gentleman Where? Where is he? Put out your hand He comes to you Go on Shula That's right He is a big dog Shula is my eyes Oh You You're Yes I'm blind You're blind too Well tell me I know you two will excuse me for a few minutes I have to call the hospital How are they getting on? I think they'll end up good friends Maria will know what to say I'm sure that Oh she's a lovely woman I'm very grateful to her for coming And to you for bringing her doctor killed her He seemed interested in Shula Oh Drake has always loved dogs Perhaps Maria can win where I failed Certainly hope she can Jimmy if Maria wins Then that's your success too Because a great part of being a good doctor Is knowing more medicine to give the patient Well I think Dr. Gillespie We ought to leave Drake with Maria And go back to the hospital The patient's in good hands And I'm confident of that Do you know I have hope now For the first time since Drake became you Well mr. Simmons I'm happy to say I find you in excellent physical condition And I'm equally happy To say I find you the same I feel splendid thank you Do you know what Drake's doing now Maria has taught him to cook And he's fixed us some of the most wonderful Spanish dinners you'd ever want to eat I couldn't even boil water Without burning it before I left my side Do you know what we're planning to do No what Well we're thinking of opening a school For blind children There's so much to be done in that field And with Drake and Maria to teach And some other people we've met We might really accomplish something Oh I think that's a splendid idea So do I Let us know if there's anything we can do to help We certainly will Goodbye Dr. Kildare Dr. Gillespie Thanks again for everything Goodbye, goodbye You did a fine job there Jimmy Oh I didn't do a thing I almost bailed completely Thank heaven for the Marias of this world We can all learn from them We can indeed Dr. Kildare We can indeed In just a moment We will return to the story of Dr. Kildare There might be just a snippet more Pot roast in the kitchen Of course there is Manuel Tell me Maria I've always meant to ask What did you say to Mr. Simmons that day Oh I told him he was a very foolish man To carry on like such a small child I told him how much more fortunate He was than I But he still had his wife A lovely home Security And that now He would discover a new world With things in it he never knew existed I told him He would see things with his soul That he had never seen with his eyes I know that inside I was praying that the right words would come to me And somehow they did Well, Drake Simmons is certainly a changed man He certainly is fortunate that we knew you And were able to take you to him Careful now you give me the big head With all this company No, big head never goes with a big heart Thanks Maria For what you taught Drake Simmons about courage And what you taught me about life You have just heard the story of Dr. Kildare Starring Lou Ayers and Lionel Barrymore This program was written by Gene Holloway And directed by William P. Russo Original music was composed and conducted by Walter Schumann Supporting cast included Isabel Jewel Bill Johnstone and Peggy Weber Dick Joy speaking