 Remember a hallmark card when you will carry enough to send the very best Hallmark cards bring you a true story from the life of Sarah Sitton starring Miss Helen Hayes On the hallmark hall of fame here's our distinguished host Edward Arnold Welcome to the hallmark Hall of Fame Tonight our true story is transcribed from the life of one of England's greatest actresses Sarah Sitton It's the story of one woman's determination to win fame and success against tremendous obstacles We are pleased and proud to welcome as our star playing Sarah Sitton's another great actress Miss Helen Hayes Now here is Frank Goss as the Christmas season approaches One of the most enjoyable prospects is the sending of hallmark Christmas cards to be chosen with pleasure and mailed with pride For in hallmark cards of any price you find the inherent quality and craftsmanship You want in your personal greeting to your friends and the familiar hallmark and crown in the back of the card shows, too That you carry enough to send the very best And now with Miss Helen Hayes as Sarah Sitton's Mr. Arnold brings you the hallmark hall of fame In 1755 the daughter of the manager of a traveling troupe of actors All the years of her youth she dreamed of the time she would become a great actress Indeed she married a young player in her father's company Years passed and though she appeared in many provincial productions. She was summoned for no great role But finally one day there came a call from one of London's most famous producers There it is my love mr. Carrick's office not yet will you let's not go in just yet Come now Sarah you've waited too many years for this moment many many years will Still, I'm afraid the great producer David Garrick a great actress Sarah Sitton's Come along now Through Mrs. Sitton's I've been expecting you come in come in Well now welcome to London and how was your tour successful sir my husband We're grateful for this opportunity mr. Garrick a chance for Sarah to appear in the London State She'll be a great actress you wait and see yes that she will be you see mr. Siddons We believe in you. Thank you. I hope I prove you right my dear from the moment I saw you in that touring company. What was the name of it? Well, no matter from the moment I saw you in that tiny theater I said there is a lady who can become a great actress. Oh not yet. I said but someday Perhaps soon. It's what I've always said mr. Garrick good Mrs. Siddons yes, sir you have a husband and children Are you willing to give these up for success in the theater? But need I give them up in a manner of speaking your career will take time and effort if you want to achieve greatness I do good now. It's to the play. We'll open with a merchant of Venice. You will play Porsche Porsche Yes, that's a light roller a simpering role Sarah's usually played heavier parts. I Can do it of course you can mr. Siddons as I was saying we'll open in about four weeks You'll play Porsche, and you'll be delight All right Sarah all right Sarah and nothing is right Diagnosis opening night nerves is that it husband mine a simple fraying of the news Yes, and something more tell me then tell me what more sweet will Tell me oh stop it Sarah let the acting happen on stage and not here in your dressing room I mean it sweet will Tell me of the tempests in me. Tell me why I am cruel and scream at you like a fish wife Do tell me I've said it opening night nerves such as you've had a thousand nights in a thousand provinces But this is London will in a thousand provinces and now you're in London at the brewery lane with Garrick and a London audience I will not please I didn't say that province actress You called me and not fit for the London stage not fit to carry a cloak for the great Garrick Well, I tell you this William dear London and the great mr. Garrick will see tonight a Porsche such as they have never seen Gently Sarah gently a Porsche lovely pliant and gay Sarah dear stay and enchanting and growl Will yes dear hold me yes, I love you And the desperation I bring you forgive me for it. Forgive me. I beg you because you must live would you play? Because you must become Porsche to play Porsche as you become a hundred other women and use them on me My aunt and sir. Yes, tell me this London audience who they love me. Yes Sarah no don't touch me No I'm sorry, I'm sorry to give me That you yet to know not of we shall see our husbands before they think of us shall they see us They shall nurse her but in such habit that they shall think Well, how goes it? She seems tired. I don't like the part. It's not right for a nonsense She's a natural comedian. I'm not so sure a fellow of the two and wear my dagger with a grave of great and speak between the change of man and boy and turn To to mincing steps into a manly stride and speak of grays like a fine bragging youth They can die Sarah. You can still win them You hear me go back I'll work at anything else the lowest the most menial anything anything but not this not the theater Take me home It's beautiful. It's beautiful what Mrs. Siddons now that you're my house servant. It's beautiful. What? It's beautiful mom. No flex of dust I run a gloved finger over my possessions Mrs. Siddons now come over here These my goblets my wine glasses decanters crystal pure crystal Beautiful is it not beautiful the sound sparkling clean crystal make a lovely moon Mrs. Siddons. Yes The life you've led What about it? mom an actress and Having once been an actress Perhaps you will not find the climate and discipline of my house compatible with with my what moon the life you've led You must understand. I know a great deal about you Made inquiries how as a girl you ran off with an actor fellow Married him as my mother did before me there You see Mrs. Siddons. Yes, I must tell you but I Saw you as Porsche. Oh A performance without Without uh, you were not very good. No, I wasn't now The door mom no no no stay where you are. I'll go myself For love you to call No, stay for a moment dear and say nothing. I got her. I have Sara Siddons to make my bed to pour my tea to brush my hair and she minds like a puppy Wonderful Come in dear, Mrs. Stone carry for me pot for Mrs. Stone and briskly does it risk Bring you the second act of the hallmark hoax two weeks like most of us You will be puzzling over what to get those people who are still not checked off your Christmas list Well, you'll find some delightfully original and inexpensive gift ideas at the fine stores where you buy your hallmark Christmas cards For instance boxes of hallmark notepapers make most attractive and useful gifts These notepapers are so handy to have for all those occasions when you don't want to write a long letter And for thank-you notes or invitations You'll find boxes of these smart hallmark notepapers at only 59 cents one dollar and two dollars And if you want to thrill youngsters, you know or find stocking presents for your own children Be sure and see the amusing hallmark toy cards These are cards that are also gifts and the youngster first assembles a toy and then has it to play with for many happy hours Boys will love the hallmark jet wing a model jet plane that comes in an envelope for only 25 cents And for girls there are the charming hallmark paper dolls Each doll comes in an envelope complete with a cutout wardrobe and costs only 25 cents to Yes, you'll find many original Inexpensive gift ideas at the fine stores that feature hallmark cards the cards with a hallmark and crown on the back The symbol that you look for when you carry enough to send the very best And now with miss Helen Hayes as our star Edward Arnold brings you the second act of our true story from the life of Sarah sit Told herself. She was a poor actress at all the years. She had given to the theater with the nothing It was as if she punished herself for the fiasco of her first appearance on a London stage She took the most meal job. She could think out She became a housemaid and then one day Will my sweet will Come in will Mrs. Trowbridge gone for the evening. We'll have an hour to ourselves Come what wine will you have out of what priceless this all Sarah? Please? I must I've told you will well not to speak of it I am content She pays me very well. You come to visit me here when she permits it And I go to you the day she permits it and your miserable Sarah answer me truthfully Must you continue punishing yourself? Oh, well leave this Sarah go back to the theater No Because a London audience cat called and hissed because I am not cute it to it Because in the role of drab and slavy that I play here my dreams are not haunted by their hateful cries The pit wolves and the balcony baboons Am I a comic husband mind? No not comic but tragic. Yes a woman who can Feel sorrow a goddess who makes alchemy of emotion and for base metal uses the anguish soul The words you spoke will Not your surely no darling the words of William Brinsley Sheridan London's foremost playwright and the director of the Truery Lane Theatre. Will are you mad? He said them to me to me your husband Sarah Sidden's he said Sarah Sidden should never have been cast in a frivolous role This woman is a great tragedy in he said it to me. I don't believe it Sarah my dearest I ask only that you come with me to mr. Sheridan's office then decide will Very well William I will go And then decide because I was a failure. I was not worthy of it, and I am not now I think differently Then you did not see me as posture mr. Sheridan I saw you and I'm quite ready to agree you wear a failure And you've richly deserved to the catcalls of the pit then why I saw you play once in the provinces I saw your lady Macbeth the memory of it has not diminished nor dulled Mrs. Sidden's yes, mr. Sheridan. I am willing to gamble my reputation my money my peace of mind Surely yours is the lesser gamble. I ask it only once again mr. Sidden's Will you come back to the theater? Don't you understand mr. Sheridan to face an audience again to think that at any moment One of them or all of them may rise up and boom and yes Until you're driven from the stage in it in a storm of grief and humiliation No, no it would take the courage of a greater person than I mr. Sheridan. I cannot do it Yes, it would take courage mrs. Sidden's The kind of courage it takes for a woman to swallow her pride and seek employ as a housemaid to a wealthy snob It would take a great deal of courage mrs. Sidden's that kind of courage then you you know yes, and I also know mrs. Trowbridge so I can recognize real courage when I see it Surely Sarah surely you can't refuse him I Very well mr. Sheridan you have employed a new housemaid How do you feel what I said how do you feel? If I were dead and all the waters of the sea would be a wash over me, then you'd be happy. Yes Yes, I would may I say something you may stupid stupid woman what? Stupid stupid woman. How dare you talk to me as if I were an actress who was not a great actress You are quite right mr. Sheridan To wish myself dead at this moment would be the thoughts of a stupid woman This moment May I tell you of it? Time has small splendors for all of us and this is mine To go out there upon a stage again As if I'm being born again in a bright and shining world of imagined tragedies and laughter and applause. Yes, and Adulation. Yes Where's William? What's he doing now? Yes, William my husband William, where is he? What is he doing as I came in he was standing there outside your door and his head in his hands and worried William dear dear William, yes Oh my dear William worry. Oh, no, sir. It's just this night this dread night of the first appearance You're a great actress I was a great actress some years ago and they mocked me roles that were not proper for you Hasn't mr. Sheridan told you that time and time and time leave it. There's no you believe it. There's no doubt of it Oh my dearest dearest dearest beloved You are a great actress and that is going up. Give back there Yes Yes Like a day at door quiet Lady Macbeth walks in her sleep out Damn that spot out. I say One why then there's time to do it Hell is murky Fine my lord fine a soldier and a feared What need we fear who knows it one man can call our power to account Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him Do you mark that the pain of life had the wife where is she now? What Will these hands near be clean? No more of that my lord no more of that You ma are all with a starting go to go to you have known what you should not She has spoke what she should not I am sure of that Heaven knows what she has known here the smell of blood Oh The perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand The sigh is there the heart is solely charred I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the dignity of the whole body Well Pray God it be sir This disease is beyond my practice yet. I have known those which have walked in their sleep will have died Holy in their beds wash your hands put on your nightgown look not so pale. I Tell you yet again bankrose buried. He cannot come out on grave even so to bed to bed There's knocking at the gate Come Come come come give me your hand What's done can not be undone To bed to bed to bear Will she go now to bed how they love her to share it Tell me in one performance. You are the first lady of the English state your voice more delicious than delicious music I the applause the noise I did not hear you So what what you said I should like to present mr. Disraeli, Mrs. Sarah Sidney Mr. Disraeli I am honored dear lady your performance tonight a pavilion of wondrous women all called Lady Macbeth Thank you Where's William? I beg your pardon? Husband's name is William. Oh, I see in your dressing room waiting Mrs. Sidney your performance tonight was of such tenderness and beauty that You were so very good my dear and I'm so very proud And I love you so much Mr. Disraeli mr. Sheridan why they've gone That's nice That's very nice indeed Sarah Sidney's with an immediate success Her failure as a comedian rather I should say miscast in light-hearted roles She came into her own as an actress in tragedy The great people of the time came to pay her tribute the kings and the poets of the statesmen Never was there such a star as the immortal Sarah Year in year out each triumph greater than the one before and always with her husband beside her One of the theater's greatest actresses one of history's most courageous women will return in just a moment In your family, do you put your presence under the tree on Christmas Eve? We do and the excitement of that day every time someone goes through the room. They take a peek Even if you have no curiosity about what's inside you can't help thrilling to the outside beauty of the packages Yes, the way a gift is wrapped certainly adds to the excitement and pleasure of Christmas That's why so many people choose hallmark gift wraps exclusively You can do so much with them the colors are unusual and distinctive the patterns are designed by skilled artists and Everything the paper tags seals and ribbon is designed to blend for a beautiful effect With hallmark gift wraps you can select designs that are best for big packages or small boxes Or other hallmark wraps that carry out the theme of the gift itself like toy designs to wrap a child's toy You'll find special hallmark gift wraps that are designed particularly for men's women's and children's gifts And for that final added touch there are the new hallmark gift trims These are three-dimensional cutouts that come with their own adhesive sponge rubber Attached to the outside of your gifts They glitter and sparkle and give that extra touch of magic to the gifts you'll be putting under the Christmas tree And as with hallmark cards these trims and gift wraps They're the familiar hallmark and crown the symbol that you look for when you carry enough to send the very best Now here is Edward Arnold with Miss Helen Hayes Helen it's an exciting Sunday when you are with us on the hallmark hall of fame Thank you for your usual beautiful performance It's especially fitting to have Sarah Siddons a great lady of yesterday's theater portrayed by a great lady of our modern stage and Say didn't you win the Sarah Siddons award last year for the best performance by an actress? Yes, I did that happened in Chicago They've instituted that award to help create more interest in the theater in Chicago And I was thrilled with both the idea and the award and I just like to say that I'm always Happy to be asked to come back to the hallmark hall of fame. Thank you Helen Hayes You may be sure it is our pleasure Now Frank us I believe you have a special announcement to make yes, mr. Arnold I do for 19 consecutive years Lionel Barrymore has been heard in his unforgettable role of Scrooge in Charles Dickens a Christmas Carol Because the hallmark hall of fame feels his portrayal has become an important part of the Christmas tradition Next week we will present a transcription of mr. Barrymore's last performance as Scrooge and may I add Frank? That it was Lionel's favorite role. I know he would be pleased to see the tradition that meant so much to him personally Continued I hope you will join us next week until then. This is Edward Arnold saying good night That are sold only in stores that have been carefully selected to give you expert and friendly service Remember a hallmark card when you will carry enough to send the very best The hallmark hall of fame is produced and directed by William Frug Tonight's transcribed script by Morton fine and David Friedkin Kent Smith was featured as William Others in our cast were Virginia Lowe William Conrad Biola Roach Tutor Owen Joseph Kearns and Lorna Thayer Next Sunday the hallmark hall of fame on television will present John Collis Minotti's famous Christmas opera. 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