 Hollywood Radio Theater In Thunder on the Hill Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Irving Cummings Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen Tonight we welcome back from her recent trip abroad One of those rare combinations of Hollywood A versatile actress, a beautiful woman, a glamorous personality Claudette Colbert We will present Ms. Colbert in her original role In an exciting mystery drama Thunder on the Hill Produced by Universal International Pictures And also from that studio We have invited one of their newest, brightest stars Barbara Rush Now, Thunder on the Hill Darring Claudette Colbert at Sister Mary And Barbara Rush at Valerie Cobb Now the rain had beat down since the play We launched in the little valley The dread warning spread across the southern countryside Blood For the villagers, there was only one refuge The convent and hospital of our Lady of Reeds As Mother Superior, I issued orders To open our doors to all who asked for shelter Now, Stella, may I ask what you're doing here? There have been casualties, Sister Mary We'll leave this recreation room with an annex to the hospital I don't remember giving you permission to leave the ward You didn't But when everything's in a turmoil, I forget formalities There is no turmoil here unless we create it now Bring the car here, Willie Yes, Miss, Sister Mary Phillips asked my permission to leave the ward Well, Dr. Jeffries, I didn't know I planned to use this room for a children's dormitory You see, I walked them away from the contagion ward And I was preparing this for Dr. Jeffries' wife Well, we'll find some other beds Your wife, Doctor, she's no better? No, I'm afraid not Mr. Harmer is bringing her up from the village She'll be here any moment I'll have a bed for that in my office Please don't be offended It's just that it's my duty to see that things are done in the right way Oh, of course The right ways, Sister Mary, are your way Please return to the ward, Nurse Don't send anybody here with the will of her own Maybe if I were a thief being huffed with like Willie He would approve of me You're done on me, Yard I'll teach you calling me names Willie, Willie, no! No! Leave when you're safe Get down, Willie, put it down at once Oh, Willie My hands be clean, Sister They have no sin on them Go to the kitchen Sister Josephine needs help Yes, Sister Oh, we're all a little jumpy tonight I'm sure Nurse Lyft didn't mean what she said I meant every word and more What's happened here? What is it? I'm fed up, Reverend Mother Sister Mary, it would do her so good to be wrong once in a while If you weren't so positive about everything Perhaps your sister would still be alive Oh, she doesn't mean it, Sister Doctor, Mr. Harmer and your wife have just arrived Oh, thank you Excuse me Mr. Mary, Willie's proved once more that he can't be trusted He's a good workman, but as soon as conditions are back to normal He must be sent away Yes, Reverend Mother Ah, you're preparing this room for the children Yes, they'll be safer here, and they won't disturb the patient To be sure, how well you plan everything Oh, no Nurse Phillips is furious with me In fits of anger, Sister, we all say things we don't really mean But how she found out about your sister, I really... Phillips must have resented me for a long time We can't expect to be loved by everyone We've got to accept the fact that we're less than angels And to make the best of ourselves Reverend Mother, have I made the best of myself? Of course you have And you came to us later in life than most of the others Sometimes I think it was too late It's never too late to serve guard on the aiding Your record is a glowing example of it From novice to matron of our hospital in eight short years Oh, if I can only be sure that in changing my life I have succeeded in changing myself You mustn't hold yourself responsible for what happened to your sister I should have left her alone If she wanted that man, I had no right to interfere But he was all together and I'm a good person for her It was your duty to protect her I couldn't have taken the thought that it was I who... Your side is such a horrible sin Oh, Mother, no matter how I've tried I find no comfort, no pain It will come to you, Sister, in its own way, in its own time Now then, how many do we have here? So far, 72 adults and 25 children In addition to all our regulars Sister, you're wanted in the Great Room Is it urgent? A man and two women have arrived They want to borrow some petrol or a car Thank you, I'll see them in a moment These people, do you know them? No, they're another But I heard some of the villagers talking They said to bring her to a convent is blaspheming her A young woman The other woman and the man, I'm not certain But they appear to be in charge of it As if she were from the police I see Well, Sister Mary will take care of them Take off your coat, Miss It's so worried about my health, Sister Spirit I only want you to be comfortable We'll be back on the road soon Good evening, I brought you a tray It's just soup, but it's hot and nourishing Oh, I was told there were three of you Sergeant Melling will be back in a moment Here's your soup Sit down, won't you? Thanks, but I don't want him soup Please, it will warn you I'm not cold Then let me have your coat Perhaps you don't care about getting ill, but we do Why should you? Oh, for one thing, our wards are overcrowded Oh, I want to get out of here What's keeping him so long? Why are you in such a hurry? Oh, but I'm not They are Well, isn't there anything I can do? Perhaps if you'd explain Explain what? You know who I am You're only being kind because it's your duty Well, that's true And if I can't be of any help It only means I've failed in my work A very clever system Appeal to the thinnest conscience The trick that never failed Well, with me it does, I have no conscience Well, and I'll have no tricks left Except to ask you once more Take off your coat All right, I'll take it off I don't want you to be a failure on my account You'd make me even a greater success If you took your soup Now, will you stop? Really, me Is there a time when I... Yes? Well, well, they've all been evacuated, I'm sure But if there's anything we... Hello? Hello? Hello? Sister, I was just talking to the chief engineer The dyke, I was cut off Will you ring through, please? What? Oh, oh, thank you Oh, get ready, Pierce They're giving us petrol We'll be in a nudge in an hour I'm afraid you can't Oh, I'm not, ma'am What is it, Sister Mary? The dyke has been abandoned, Reverend Mother They expect it to collapse at any moment Oh, then if I may use your phone I'll have nudge senders to launch I'm afraid you can't do that either The wires are down There's no way to communicate with the outside But we must be in a nudge before tomorrow That's impossible, sergeant Even if the rain stops It will be at least two or three days before... Two or three days? I couldn't stand it Sister Mary, you'd better put the entire staff on emergency duty They're bringing in more casualties from... Valerie Good evening, Dr. Daphne How do you get here? Valerie Valerie Cohn That's right, sister Valerie Cohn is the murderer Valerie Cohn, she was on her way to nudge Prison to be hanged in the morning But now they'll just have to wait Oh, can't you see it in the newspapers? Postpone because of rain Just like a cricket net All right, miss Andy, now take her to my office Put her on the couch Don't leave her alone, sis Not for a second Among those now under our roof Was Dr. Jeffrey's wife, Isabelle She'd been ailing for some weeks A nervous disturbance The doctor had set up makeshift quarters For her in his office As for their meals They would eat with Mr. Harmer The pharmacist in his dispenser Mr. Daphne, Isabelle Breakfast is getting cold Where's Mr. Harmer? Oh, he'll be back in a moment We're taking some drugs to the ward Have you seen her again, Edward? Valerie? No Not since last night She's innocent I swear she is Really, your voice and the head And state be sensible Good morning Good morning, Harmer Well, it's good to see you up and about Mrs. Daphne Thank you Won't you sit down and join us? Oh, I had breakfast an hour ago But I shall refuse another cup of tea Edward, please let me see her It's impossible She's under arrest Oh, sister Mary Don't get up, doctor Good morning, Mrs. Daphne I've brought the ward charts But they can wait till you've had breakfast Sister, please Miss Kahn, where is she? Where are they keeping her? She was moved to my quarters this morning We decided it would be better If she were completely separated from the others Yes, the villagers are so set against her It's a pity But after all, she did kill her own brother Wicked, though he was Did you know Jason Kahn, Mr. Harmer? Only slightly Dr. Jeffleys is the one who really knew him What actually was the matter with him? A stroke It left him almost completely paralyzed A result of chronic alcoholism An overall distalate life Isabel, dear If you don't eat sister Mary You will think you don't like their cooking Oh, but I do It's excellent Valerie Kahn I'll never forget the look in her eyes And all I did was tell the truth After all, it was I who filled the prescription He poisoned him, wasn't that the charge? She gave her brother three taps A fatal dose Would have killed the whore I'll wait until she wasn't glad to see you here, doctor Mr. Harmer's redness Why not? I was a key witness to the crown You did everything you could to save her You brought up all the extenuating circumstances If only Willie hadn't ever had Willie? Our Willie? He used to help out of the Kahn's house Pandemon, just as he is here What did he over here? Well, Jason was in agonizing pain When I got there, I found Valerie terribly distraught She had no idea what you were saying He kept repeating I wish he were dead Oh, Edward I'm sorry dear Yes, we were all shocked by it It was very tragic of her You mean the court took Willie's evidence That's testing money? No, not Willie's, mine I had to admit, he was telling the truth Oh, oh Well, the charge I'll leave them here with you Oh, oh yes Thank you, doctor Oh, two sister, come in I, uh, I haven't had a chance yet to thank you For allowing us to use your rooms here There's no need to thank me, sergeant I'll only be a moment There's some papers in my desk Who's playing? Miss Kahn's, ma'am Since you have a piano Well, I hope you don't mind Oh, no, of course not She plays beautifully Tell me, has she been a difficult prisoner? Oh, not more than most, ma'am Of course, these last days are the worst After the home secretary turned down the appeal May I see her? Well, these rooms are yours, sister I have no right to stop you Thank you Please don't stop What do you want? I wanted to see if there's anything I can do To make you comfortable It's cold here, isn't it? I'll have Willie bring some logs for the fireplace How is Willie? Oh, I don't know Unpredictable as always And just to strike him He didn't look at me once during the trial Just a bite in his face But I'm not angry with him He only repeated what he heard Miss Kahn, as that music you were playing a moment ago I knew so little about music Was it Debussy? No, it's Kahn You're a composer? Jason Kahn Your brother? Yes The one I killed You don't like it, do you? Oh, but I do Oh, no, you don't Poor Jason All his life, he had to contend with it Were you all wrong? Jason's music has great merit I will be remembered That's the only thing I still believe in Miss Kahn, is there nothing I can do to help you? Oh, but you have You're sure you don't mind a murderous using your room? You didn't kill your brother I'm sure you didn't How very kind of you That makes two of us Even if you had done it out of some false sense of mercy His death would be on your conscience And you wouldn't find peace, not for a second You had peace while you played Why? Why do you think I'm not guilty? Tell me Perhaps because I know how it feels to be guilty Well, suppose you do believe in my innocence What does that mean to me? Can you do something about it? I can pray for you More words Sister, if you really want me to believe you Help me to live through these last few days Oh, I will Bring me the human being who really cares about me His name is Sidney Kenham Is he here? No, no, no, it's only eight short miles away But you know it's impossible to get to know it Well, you're a nun Oh, holy woman Why don't you perform a miracle? Oh I seem only to upset you, Miss Kant Forgive me Later that night, Sister Mary went to the kitchen She wanted to talk to Sister Josephine In the corner, Willie was eating his supper The supper ended up in St. William Tomorrow is another long day Bye, sister Bye, go up soon Sit down, sister It's something on your mind, isn't it? You have that faraway look in your eyes Is it still that unfortunate girl? There isn't last night From the first moment I saw her Something passed between us Sister Josephine, I know She's no more guilty of murder than... Than you are But you can't be such a... I am, I am certain It's as if I... It's as if I were driven from within to do something This great flood It must have been God's will to surround our house with water To let no one in and no one out God's will it is If I could only go to Norwich Norwich? I'd do anything if I could get there tonight Well, that's the first foolish thing I've heard you say in eight years Sister, I need your help My help? I want to know everything about that trial But how would I know? Those old newspapers you're always saving There's no way to throw out newspapers Why? I use them to line the shelves Oh, I know That's why they must be here somewhere Please, won't you find every newspaper you can from last January When the trial is on? Sister Mary, is this why? I must know what more about it, please Come then, we'll find the papers sometime Here's another one, Sister Listen, listen to this Prosecution If no one else was in the house Who then but you could have given your brother the three tablets? Miss Khan, I told you a hundred times I took one tablet from the fire I did not substitute the aspirin for the two missing tablets I gave him one tablet, just one tablet And here, down here Mr. Khan has kept the money Now, if we can find the other Who's there? It's me, Willy Come in You're doing this well I hear you talked it to Mary So I come to fetch her You'd be wishing to go to Norwich And so you will Got it Tonight? Willy found a way Nobody could but Willy Be your ready sister Yes, Willy I'm ready Come We go to Norwich now Make a friend and you make an ally There's a thought for you to keep in mind As many another American has Take the famous all-negro basketball team The Harlem Globetrotters As unofficial ambassadors In one year, they played ball Before more than a million people on four continents In Rio de Janeiro, they entertained crowds Of from 30,000 to 50,000 During one summer, they toured Europe and Africa Chalking up another 600,000 fans In 1952, they celebrated Their 25th anniversary as a team By circling the globe Yes, sir, the team Organized by Abe Saperstein Really gets around And their exhibitions have been more Than just a demonstration of American basketball They've been a lot more The team is a living example Of American fair play and sportsmanship In and out of uniform Abe Saperstein now carries a letter Which reads in part The Harlem Globetrotters have proved themselves Ambassadors of goodwill On any future tours, please call on us For any help we can give And the letter is signed by The United States State Department In being ambassadors of fair play The Harlem Globetrotters proved That by helping others, you help your country And now our producer, Mr. Cummings Act two of Thunder on the Hill starring Claudette Colbert as sister Mary And Barbara Rush as Valerie Kahn Willie had found a rowboat This was the means by which he takes Mr. Mary to knowledge It has stopped raining now The flood waters were heavy with mist from the park But Willie never so much at four as they are We'll be there soon, sister The dykes be right under us now Crushed flat by the flood Willie, do you know a man named Sidney Kingham? I, sister Do you know where he lives? Maybe Norwich this night Willie finds him Willie, did Mr. Kingham come often To visit Miss Kahn? Not often Mr. Jason, he hated it He hated it? He was afraid Mr. Kingham Be taken Miss Valerie away He was a mean one, all right Orting others be his pleasure Mr. Jason was a very fit man He hurt me Through a jog at me he did And caught my head I'd be bleeding like a pig Why did he do that? He said my hands be thickened and steelen He'd be looking for some letter But Willie didn't take the letter Not then But you did take it, late man I, after he caught me with the jog I, I, I took it Oh Willie He punishes Willie for picking Well, Willie be picking What did you do with that letter? I, I'd be hiding it in the room Hiding it? Why? Do you know what it says? What it says? No? I just smell it every night Before sleeping Willie, when we get back to the convent I want you to show me that letter I, I, sister Smells proper sweet it too Ah, lilac Like lilac combs the springtime We, we be near the land, sister Oh, terrible father I can't see a thing Stay close to Willie and be careful Soon we be in Norwich, proper They were back at the convent shortly after dawn With them was Sidney Kingham Mrs. Pierce rushed at once for sergeant's notice Who's this, sir, you've been to Norwich? Yes, sergeant Well, of course you know to find the authorities there That were here No, no, I didn't have it in mind Well, that's unfortunate However, I'll have Willie or whatever his name is Take us back immediately I'm afraid that's impossible, sergeant As soon as we return to the convent We'll be there I'm afraid that's impossible, sergeant As soon as we return, Willie's smashed the boat to pieces Oh, why didn't you stop him? He couldn't Oh, this is Mr. Kingham, sergeant Kingham? Oh, yes, a fiance So that's why you went to Norwich I'll have to advise my superiors about this I have no choice You must do your duty, sergeant It's my fault, sister I never should have asked you I knew what I was doing, Miss Clown Now if you'll excuse me, my place is in the ward Oh, wait, please I, I have a gift for you Oh, we don't accept this You did this for an innocent woman I swear this to you It's all I have I make you a gift of it My innocence It's day, you'll grasp it I'll carry it Good morning, Miss Pinnott So you're here We've been looking all over for you for hours Well, it's too late now What is it? Mrs. Smithsons had her baby He said you promised to be with her Yes, yes, I did promise What about her and the baby? She's all right But the baby's barely breathing It's hopeless But Dr. Jeffries is still trying I'll see him at once Just a minute Most of the villagers are here And they know all about you How you had to go and bring that That evil woman's love about Her pleasure meant more to you Than poor Mrs. Smithsons and her baby If I were you, I'd keep away from the villagers Thank you for warning me, Nasser I had everything, sister Mary Yes, the infant's alive But how much longer I can't stay Would you like me to take over, doctor? Well, you must be twice as tired as I am No, I'm not tired I won't undo what you can If you respond at all, try the oxygen game I wish you'd spoken with me before you went to knowledge I'm afraid you couldn't have changed my mind You'll break your heart if you get involved In this calm affair Well, call me if there's any sudden change Oh, doctor, how is your wife this morning? I really don't know Sister Agatha said she's trying to help Mr. Harmer in the dysentery I'll see her as soon as I check the other things I feel relieved, nurse Cibet I know the villagers They'd never raise a finger against a holy woman And I tell you, Mrs. Jeffries, that I saw them Sister Mary went to relieve your husband They tried to block her way They shook their fists at her You hate her very much, don't you? I hate hypocrites, Mr. Harmer People with a superiority complex Hey, sister Mary, be here No, she is not And you should know better than to come to this dysentery Filthy as you are But you aren't, Willie Sister Mary is busy in the nursery Will you be kind then and tell her Willie has the letter with the smell of the lilac Lilac? Mrs. Jeffries? I just said lilac They're my favorite flower They may be smelling sweet on the letter If sister Mary lets me keep it What are you talking about? You break it as usual Tell sister Mary The letter Mr. Jason be looking for Jason come? Aye, don't you know that Mr. Jason's dead? Aye, he be proper dead Petl, we'll talk later Give the letter to me and I'll take it to her I don't have him I'll be hiding it in my room Mr. Harmer, I must go and lie down I don't feel well I'm so sorry, Mrs. Jeffries My husband, he sent for my husband He's still in the ward, Mrs. Jeffries I'll find him I'll go and lie down Please tell him to hurry We're all too occupied that morning for me to press the mattress for sister Mary's journey to Norwich But it was something I could not ignore Finally, I was able to summon them all to my office Sergeant Merring, Dr. Jeffries, Mr. Kingham and sister Mary Now, first of all, madam there's a matter of this report I've prepared a simple declaration of facts concerning the deliberate destruction of the robo Have you read this report, sister Mary? No, Reverend Mother, but I'm certain it's accurate I regret having to do this but there's been an obstruction of justice Oh, please don't worry, sister Mary I'm sure they'll forget all about it after valley Well, I mean... What do you mean to say is after she's been hanged? I'm sorry, Kingham Regardless of official charges, sister I wish you'd use better judgment But Reverend Mother, my heart went out to that poor girl Has any real harm been done in letting her see this man? The fact remains, she's a convicted murderess I don't suppose I should say it But Jason Kahn deserves what he got Why shouldn't you say it? You see, the torment and abuse vary constantly Oh, stop being so certain of her guilt Both of you Sister Mary, look at the facts, sister I prescribed tablets to let him sleep Harmer made up a three-week supply the day my wife and I left for a holiday Twenty-one tablets Before I left, I cautioned Valerie to give Jason only one each night No more, no matter how severe the pain And four days later, Jason was found dead of an overdose Yes, I know After four days, how many tablets should there have been? Seventeen And there were seventeen But two of the remaining tablets were aspirin Even so, that doesn't prove that Valerie puts them there Jason couldn't reach the fire He was paralyzed And even if he could Why should he want to replace the tablets with aspirin? It doesn't make sense First off, if Jason Kahn was paralyzed and Valerie Kahn was alone in the house with him And I told you what she said to me the time Will he overheard it? That she wished him dead But you also told me that she really didn't mean it Remember, Doctor? Yes, I had reason to feel that she didn't When Jason had his second stroke, the one which left him paralyzed If she hadn't sent for me in time, I... I think he would have died So she could have let him die, but didn't Yes, she could have, couldn't she? She saved him from dying a natural death and then turned around and poisoned him I don't understand that kind of logic It's conceivable that one can come to the end of one's patience, you know? No, not Valerie Only the day before Jason died, I begged her to send her to a nursing home so that she could be free to marry me But you wouldn't hear of it You couldn't say she'd come to the end of her patience, could you? I'd let no sense in putting her on trial again Nothing we can say can change a jury's verdict Oh, please, keep away Lonely break your heart Well, if you don't mind, I'd like to be alone with Sister Mary Thank you for coming, gentlemen Yes, thank you, Reverend Mother Would you mind closing the door? Yes, ma'am Dr. Jeffery told me that Mrs. M's baby's a little better We won't know much for a few hours yet If the child survives, he says we'll have you to thank We have God to thank How much better it would be, Sister, if you can find all your efforts strictly to your duty Oh, she's innocent, Reverend Mother Never in all my life have I been filled with with such complete convictions Then you must renounce that conviction You'll have no further contact with Miss Karn You'll not speak to her again But, Reverend Mother This girl has prepared herself for death It would be cruel to raise false hopes in her heart That will be all It was evening once again As I walked to Bethbers, I saw Valerie and Mr. Kingham in the garden Watching closely was Mrs. Kier Valerie, please, you're only torturing us But we know what's going to happen to me Why not talk about it? All right So you've left your will with your attorney And I want it changed, Sidney I'm going to leave half of what I own to the sisters I'll write it all down and you can take it to London I'll do whatever you want me to do And I want you to forget me Darling, please, I won't listen to such talk I want you to promise me if you meet another girl That you won't turn away You must be thinking that if you fall in love again You'll be trailing me If you're all I ever had I'll never look for anyone else But you must, you must, and above all Don't kill Valerie because you can't believe that I'm innocent Valerie, how can you say such a thing? Oh, you've tried so hard to hide it, darling Oh, no, no, it's not true By this time tomorrow I may be in knowledge Don't lie to me now, Sidney Not even white lies Did... did Mr. Mary tell you this? No, and told me But if you didn't do it, there's only one other person who could have Who else had a reason to kill Jason? But I didn't do it And I didn't do it? Well, nobody did it Maybe it didn't happen Maybe it's all a joke Valerie Jason's at home waiting for his dinner We decorate this, we get him I don't want to go in Oh, it's beautiful The evening, the fresh air I didn't do it, Sidney I'm innocent and I'm young and I'm in love with you I want to live I want to be your wife I don't want you to touch any other woman but me I don't want to die Darling, my darling Mrs. Karn, Mrs. Karn Mr. Mary Something important has just come up This letter What is it? It was written to her brother to Jason Karn How did you get it? From Willie Your brother accused him of stealing it He punished Willie Then later when Willie signed the letter He decided to keep it It was his childish way of satisfying his resentment Do you recognize the writing, Mrs. Karn? No It was obviously written by a woman Mr. King, please read it Here is Jason I'm mortally afraid of getting in touch with you And yet I must We are suspected I haven't been questioned but I feel it There is nothing either of us can do Except to go on as if we'd never met If you're asked, you must deny everything Take care of yourself and please, please get well I'll never change, I couldn't if I wanted to But, but no signature Have you any idea who it could be? No The envelope postmarked Norwich But he knew women in London but But Norwich Why didn't Willie produce this letter of the trial? He was afraid And besides he never read it He kept it only because it smelled sweet Are you sure your brother never spoke of anyone? No, no telephone calls, messages Mr. Mary You are definitely warned not to come in contact with the prisoner I know, Sergeant, I'm sorry I have absolutely no right to continue to interfere Here's, take Ms. Carnes to her room From now on, no more personal favors and no visitors Take her away Give up, Sister It's too late Come along, Miss There's nothing more you can do As for you, Sister Yes, Sergeant I've reported you again to the Mother Superior See you at once Five There's a thought for you to keep in mind As many another American has In 1945, Lyle Hayden was sent to Iran By a privately financed organization To help the farmers with their agricultural problems At first they were listless and disinterested But Hayden started a small demonstration farm To show them what could be done He began to drill for the water He was sure lay beneath the villages And when he hit it His second hand pump began pumping 15,000 gallons an hour Now the Iranians welcomed his help With their aid he purified the water Removed the threat of malaria from the irrigation ditches Started a successful chicken breeding program He opened a free school To teach the children reading and writing And it was so successful That the Iranian Minister of Education Asked him to organize his teaching methods In other villages Hayden offered a teaching job To any young villager who could learn To read and write The successful ones came from his night school classes As the months and years went by Hayden continued educational and agricultural programs Throughout the country And today, what prosperity The peasant farmers of Iran enjoy Can be attributed to the tireless work Of Lyle Hayden Who combined the best qualities Of missionary and businessman To win the thanks of a grateful people Once again, an unselfish American Proves that by helping others You help your country We pause now for station identification The curtain rises on Act 3 Of Thunder on the Hill More including Claudette Colbert as sister Mary And Barbara Rush as Valerie Kahn Yes, I've sent again for sister Mary And for good reason This latest interference was inexcusable I cannot defend my actions, Reverend Mother Other than to explain It's fine, sister You openly disobey my orders I felt I had to see Miss Kahn Because of the matter This letter suggests only that Jason Kahn Had a secret romance But doesn't it suggest That a third person's involved, Reverend Mother A person who may have decided to take revenge That's merely a guess You've done nothing but harm This unfortunate young woman Raising false hopes Bringing her fiancé here Rekindling her passion and desire to live All that I've done, I've done Because I felt compelled to help her Compelled, yes But not so much to help her As to prove once more that you're right Oh, Reverend Mother Surely you don't think that I Stubborn fanatic manner In which you cling to your opinion I can't even call it an opinion It's just a wild notion An idea It's not just an idea Suddenly this letter You were convinced of her innocence long before You saw that letter Admit that much I do I was convinced of it the first time I saw her And every moment I've spent with her Since has only strengthened my faith Don't call it faith, sister Call if I its proper name A premonition, a wild notion How can you be so stubborn? You keep blaming yourself For your sister's death And yet you're doing the same thing All over again Forcing your will on others No matter at what cost You're right, Reverend Mother All my life I've had this relentless drive That's why you feel yourself a failure You keep trying to do too much You forget there's a greater power Who guides our lives Whose ways are not always our ways Just as you believe you came here Because the outside world Have become empty and meaningless to you It had quite meaningless But you didn't come here, sister You were led here by our Lord When will you accept that And bring peace to your heart? If I could only believe that God was with you Yes? Reverend Mother, it's Willie In his room in the bell tower Unconscious and a terrible wound on his head Who could have done such a thing? You've called out to Jeffrey? Yes, and the poor lad's belongings All strewn about If it's someone who tried to rob him Rob Willie? That doesn't make sense Except for the letter What does Willie to do with this letter? It goes back to when he worked for Jason Cards He found it, he kept it Oh, don't you see, Reverend Mother? Someone here in our house Must have found out about it And tried to steal it Nonsense It probably was one of the villagers They're all outraged with him For helping you to bring Mr. Kingham here For destroying the boat But if there's one child I forbid you to go on with this No more of this playing, Scotland Yard You have a hospital full of patients They're your only concern, not this letter There's the fireplace, sister Mary I want you to throw this letter Into the fire No, I can't I beg you for the sake of your soul I can't, I can't Then I shall burn it Oh You can forget about the letter now And try to forgive me Willie was badly hurt, but he'd recover He had no idea who his assailant was Dr. Jeffries left him and went to his quarters His wife was lying down She was very distressed Did you get it, Edward? Get what, Isabelle? My letter, the letter I told you about But you didn't tell me about the letter, dear? I did, I did The letter I wrote, Jason You've been sleeping, Isabelle You had another one of your dreams I'd hope you get over them Edward, this wasn't a dream How do you know? Because they heard Willie talk about the letter too Mr. Harmer, nurse Philip But what makes you so sure they weren't part of your dream? It wasn't a dream Ask them, ask them Let them know how ill you are I've told you before, Isabelle I can help you only if you trust me I don't think you'd like me to admit you to a nursing home Edward, no No don't It was a dream A bad dream We'll have supper with Mr. Harmer You'll feel better, dear I made it especially for you Jeopard's pie and Yorkshire pudding Especially for me, sister Josephine You make it sound like my slasper Now, now, child, you mustn't even think about it Haven't you heard the news? The telephone lines are being repaired The flood water is running off They'll probably come for me tomorrow Please Eat your supper before it gets cold There's something the chaplain reads to the last I heard it once from the cell next to mine I am the resurrection and the light Fails alone And he that believeth in me Though he were dead, yet he shall live And he that believeth in me shall never die If you don't mind, sister The audits are no visitors Yes, Mrs. Kess I'm leaving I must follow dear lord for I'm lost Grat me, please And forgive my sins and help me Who is it? Kingdom, I must speak to you, sister Mary I'm sorry, Mr. Kingdom But it's terribly important I need your help The telephone's been fixed Melling's already called the Norwich police They're sending a launch Then it's all over I won't let them kill her I'll get her out of here somehow But that's impossible Now if you help her Look, if you could arrange for Mrs. Pierce To leave Valerie's room for just a few minutes I can't do that And you mustn't You'll be caught, you know you will Then I'll do it without your help You know nothing about it But I do Oh, this makes it clear how wrong I've been I've done nothing but harm Nothing but evil will come of it You've lost your courage, sister You know she's innocent What about the letter, the attack on Willie? They don't prove anything Not really Oh, excuse me I thought you were alone I brought you more newspapers, sister Some of them you haven't seen Well, I've seen them I've read them all over and over again It's no use, sister You might as well burn them Indeed I won't Never burn the newspaper Or throw away a piece of string You must read them You can't give up Did you know, for instance Now, oh, where was it? Oh, yes, here Did you know that Jason Carnes Once wasn't arrested in London For assaulting a man he claimed infocusing? It has no bearing on his death, Manador And did you know that Mr. Harmer the chemist Has two key rings? Sister, please What difference does it make? Well, I found the testimony very interesting It's right here, sister They asked Mr. Harmer Why do you keep two separate key rings? And Mr. Harmer said In case one gets lost They're identical keys I remember every word he said Identical keys and identical order And identical key rings Ah, there was more to it than that Listen to this, sister Do you recognize all the keys, Mr. Harmer? Indeed I do Well then, name them The keys are as follows House, car, garage, barn, shop Poison cabinet, dorm Wait a minute Wait, there's something wrong here Something wrong? Look at this newspaper The counsel for the defense asked Mr. Harmer If he'll also name the keys on the second ring Yes, I know Harmer said it was ridiculous That the keys in each ring were identical But the lawyer insisted, didn't he? And here's what Mr. Harmer says House, car, garage, barn, poison cabinet, shop Store room Mr. Harmer is a meticulous man But don't you see? In naming the keys on the first ring He said house, car, garage, barn, shop Poison cabinet, store room And on the second... On the second, he said shop After poison cabinet Well now, what did I tell you? Never burn the newspaper Sister, sister, come with me Please, we've got to see Mr. Harmer I said, sir, I'd never make mistakes That's one of the few virtues I can boast of In all modesty, of course But you've just read what the newspaper says Your own testimony, Mr. Harmer I don't argue that, sister Mary I merely suggested the mistake was not mine Of course, class, perhaps, for the newspaper reporter Then you're certain the order of the keys Was the same on the screen? Well, now that's very easily confirmed This is the key ring that I carry with me And over here on the shelf is the set of duplicates Jamie, I... Oh, I hope I'm not disturbing anything Not at all, Dr. Jesses Dr. How's Willie? Oh, he'll be all right, I think I was on my out to see him now I just remembered I... Hadn't given my wife a sedative Anything I can do for you, Mr. Harmer? Oh, no, no, Dr. Just a little mess about my key ring Oh, but neither Here are my two key rings They were both entombed by the court I got them back I never thought to look I suppose we do so now Each ring has 17 Correct? And each key... It... I do I do Of course, Mrs. Edicure Edicure? Well, that's not what I mean It's me You are right They're not in the proper order at all Someone took the keys to the poison cabinet They put it back on the ring Is it wrong, please? But who could have done it? Who? I hope no, Mr. Kidman I think it's perhaps us Oh, Willie Who else, Mr. Harmer? Well, any of my professionals I can tell for that matter The doctors, the visiting nurses of the district They all have the wrong of this distinction Fine Sergeant Melling, Mr. Harmer You must tell them at once Of course Of course, Ed, once Mrs. Edicure? How can I help you to keep resisting me? Edward, no No, I've had my sedative I don't want another But this is only half a grain, darling Then you'll be short of youth No, Edward, don't I don't want another Edward Mr. Mary had not gone with Mr. King and Mr. Harmer in touch with Sergeant Melling He remained in the dispensary Now in her hand was a tiny box Dr. Jeffries had dropped it in the waste basket when he left the dispensary a few moments ago The box had contained a powerful sedative Please, Ed, with no more It's Sister Mary, Mrs. Jeffrey You've got to get out of bed You've got to keep moving You'll be all right if you keep away Edward, there it is Jeffrey, you knew Jason Kahn I'm not allowed to say it Oh, you must tell me You can save an innocent life Now lean on me and just keep walking Where are you taking me? I must find Sergeant Melling You don't want Valerie Kahn to die Oh, Valerie I love Jason too It only lived I wouldn't be here You loved him You wrote that letter Your husband had found out Yes, I loved him He wanted me to take me away from him No, no, no We mustn't stop Please, Mrs. Jeffrey Try to stay awake We must tell Sergeant Melling No, no, I don't want him Hold on to me You must get out of here Now think hard, Mrs. Jeffrey Don't let yourself go We will We will meet in London Take the boats and serve empty Keep walking, Mrs. Jeffrey It's not much farther It's for your station The luggage office There's a suitcase full of things he bought for me It's about Edward You killed Jason You killed him Go back to your room, Isabelle You killed him because I loved him You hated him and he had to die Isabelle, go back to your room I'll help her He can go back by herself It doesn't matter Nothing matters anymore Why, doctor? Jason Kahn was a hopeless crippled doon to die No No, he was going to get well Isabelle was going to go away with him What is only one thing to do We must tell Sergeant Melling the truth That's all right There's no way to escape I'm tired How are you going, doctor? He's downstairs No, I saw him just a moment ago He's gone up to the bell tower Bell tower? He went up to watch for the police launch You don't have to come You're a sick man, Dr. Jeffrey Have you just found it out? I've known it for a long time My love for Isabelle is a thickness An incurable one And you would have let Valerie die I placed the two aspirins in the files For a diverse suspicion for myself It happened to fall on her As you can see, I'd stop at nothing to keep Isabelle Why couldn't you have let things alone, sister? Why did you have to interfere? Where's Sergeant Melling? Where? Oh, let me go down Let me go down, doctor They'll never go down, sister No, no Oh, it's quite quiet up here Just the wind No one can hear No, you wouldn't fail, no No one will ever know But they'll find out You came up here to be alone You were severely reprimanded by Mother Superior You were engrossed as best it was dark You couldn't see the rail And you fell Dr. Jeffrey, try to think it It was just the law you have to answer to There's a higher authority you must take someday I know what I'm doing out there My punishment when the time comes if I have to I'm sorry about you and Valerie Why are you so afraid of death? Why don't you pray? Maybe your higher authority will hear you Haven't I? I beg you, haven't I? The rail, sister Let go of that rope Let go of that rope It was Willie who first heard the bell and saved her Willie whose room was near the tower And who, in spite of his wound, overpowered the unfortunate doctor He fell, your ever mother Fell to the stone below I had no thought to hurt him Only to help Sister Mary God forgives you, Willie You have the gratitude of us all I'd be better by morning I've been lighting the fires like always Come five o'clock Sister Mary Brother mother, I disobeyed you again Yes, thank God you did You've shown great ingenuity and courage I'm sorry it was made it so difficult for you Thank you I don't deserve your praise It's Sister Josephine who really saved this town Me She insisted on my reading the newspapers After I'd given her up hope Sure, I only insisted Because I happen to see Miss Collins Unafraid, praying for almighty God Now I know her, mother We were chosen by him Yes, I think you found the answer, Sister To be right is a heavenly gift That's wasted unless it's wrapped in meekness and grace Theographies Theographies In a moment, our stars will return At ten minutes after two, on the afternoon of August 5th, 1949 The country of Ecuador suffered one of the most disastrous earthquakes of the present century The dead numbered from six to eight thousand Twenty thousand or more were injured and a hundred thousand were made homeless Fifty-three towns were destroyed or badly damaged But from United States Army installations in Panama Came immediate aid Military planes shuttle back and forth with emergency supplies Food, medicine, clothing And especially tents for the homeless Besides material things Doctors, nurses and engineers volunteered from far and near With their own hands in the work of saving lives The warm-heartedness of these angels in uniform Is remembered in Ecuador as a bright light in its darkest hour Such acts as these, by you and your friends today Are shaping our world of tomorrow And now, Mr. Cummings, with our stars And here they are coming forward for a well-deserved curtain call Claudette Colbert and Barbara Reich How about your show next week, Irving? Next week we are again fortunate in having an outstanding screen personality An actress who has proved herself expert in both comedy and drama Lovely, Ginger Rodgers And for next Monday night, we thought you might like to hear Miss Rodgers starring in a delightful comedy role That of a housewife suddenly possessed of all the money she needs Because she discovers it grows on trees I'm sure you'll agree that the theme of this gay universal international picture Will appeal to everyone Well, it certainly will, Mr. Cummings Good night, good night Good night, and hurray back Third in our cast tonight were Norma Vardon as Mother Superior Leo Britt as Dr. Jeffries Paul Treese as Willie Mary Flynn as Isabel Herb Butterfield as Mr. Hammer Othello Neschmiss as Mr. Josephine Nano Hurley as Sydney Joseph Kearns as Melling Gene Wood as Nurse Phillips Lois Corbett as Pierce And Yvonne Petey as Mr. Agatha The Hollywood Radio Theatre is produced by Mr. Irving Cummings Our orchestra directed by Rudy Shrager This is Ken Carpenter inviting you to be with us again next week For another worldwide presentation of the Hollywood Radio Theatre Brought to you through the facilities of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service