 Remember a hallmark card when you carry enough to send the very best. A dramatic true story from the life of Simone Boulevard on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Our distinguished host, Mr. Lionel Barrymore. Gentlemen and welcome to the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Tomorrow we celebrate George Washington's birthday. As Washington fought for our independence and became the father of our country, so did Simone Boulevard bring democracy and freedom to South America. And the great liberator, Washington, was his constant source of inspiration. Tonight we tell you the true story of Simone Boulevard's saddest and greatest moment. Now here is Frank Goss. 365 days a year, hearts are lightened by hallmark cards. Happy days are made happier, lonely days become no longer lonely. And every day is a brighter day when the mail brings a hallmark card. For hallmark cards are more than just a message of cheer or sympathy or love. They are the right message thoughtfully expressed in the right design, the right words. And that hallmark on the back shows that you cared enough to send the very best. Lionel Barrymore appears by arrangement with Metro Golden Mayor, who celebrate their 30th anniversary at your favorite theater with the Long Long Trailer, starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. And now Mr. Barrymore brings you tonight's exciting story on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. In the South America failed. Simone Boulevard was forced to flee to the safety of British Jamaica. Spain was strong. The cause of freezing, weak, handful of men and without funds tried desperately to hold the revolution together. The men are beginning to grumble about the training general. They say they are so few that it is useless to consider them even part of an army. Next time they complain, Lieutenant Amistoy, explain that though they are few, they are the most important part of the new army. These men here will be training the others when the time comes. Far away is useful. Good day, gentlemen. All yours, sir. I suppose I was talking about our situation, my general. At times it seems as if we stand still, waiting to do nothing ever again. Simone is more aware of our circumstances than myself. Ah, we will have an army, Felix. Felix, word has come that the ship Avon arrives sometime this night from Nucleonada. I want you to meet her. Ignacio Iturbe may be aboard. If so, bring him here to me. Iturbe may have been able to raise money that will help us gather our army. I would sell my soul to swing a sword at Monteverdi just once before I die. We will all do that. Now go. Go. And God go with you. To see General Boliva. I'm in charge here. I am. Then it is most urgent that you take me to his excellency at once. All right, on your post, ma'am. Yes, General. What is your business with the general? My name is Annette Benet. My home is on this island. I assure you what I have to say to him is very important. So, in that case, you may speak. I am Simon Boliva. You are the general? Yes. Somehow I understood he was a much older man. What is so urgent? I have been visiting a new Garnada. I have just returned on the Avon. There was a man among the passengers named Calderba. He is a Spanish officer on Captain Monteverdi's staff. Although he was not in uniform, I recognized him. Corbaba? I know of him. Did he land here? Yes, he is on Jamaica at this moment. Is he not a threat to you? And his Spanish officer is a threat to me. I believe there is a price on my head. On the boat, there were many of your countrymen. They spoke of a great man named Boliva and told how he would free a whole land. Is this the way a great man reacts to the news that he is in danger? I thank you for the warning. You... you are interested in freedom? In the revolution? No, I am not general. Your revolution means war and death. I have seen enough of that. Good night, Your Excellency. Good night, Annette Penny. Go on this way, Petron. A man with a fever must sleep and rest. The dreams are worse than going without rest. That is much better, Carlos. Thank you. General. Fetix, I've been waiting for you. I came as quickly as I could. Don Pablo Morillo and 10,000 Spanish troops have been ordered to sail from Cadiz. 34 warships, 70 transports. They mean to stop us once and for all, eh? Yes, and they will unless we act. How is the resistance in the cities? Useless. Our people are helpless. There is no one to protect them. They are without hope. They say the revolution is ended. A peasant cries out and he is played alive. The Spanish offer a peso of peace for a public and ears. This is the way they are replanting the Spanish crown on our country. General, listen to me. I have spoken to the others. Our people would rather die than live under the Spanish. We could go back by night and cross the country by night and raise an army by night. We have time before Morillo lands his troops. And then we would meet his 10,000 with a half-star unequipped band of men who have never seen a battlefield. No, once we tried that, I saw my men cut down the grass at Porto Cablo. We have right on our side, General, and that is strength. Our enemies have muskets and five years in the field on their side. The others want to go, Marino, Mendez, Rivas. They have no wish to stay here in rot. No do I. What will we do, General? We will wait. Soon we will have answer from London. It could be advantageous for England to assist us at this moment. I have every reason to believe. The Foreign Office will listen to my petition. In the interim, we wait. Is that what you want me to tell the others? Yes. Tell them we still wait. I wait, too, old friend. Forgive me, General. Forgive me. Forgive you for thinking only of your country. If all thought and thought as you, my friend, the revolution would have been one long ago. What news of Ignacio Itorbi? He's dead, my general. Dead? Murdered by a faithful servant as he slept on board ship. They say it was engineered by one of Monteverdi's officers. He hires people to kill. What officer? A man named Cordoba. Seems somehow that I should see you to thank you again for the warning of last night. The warning meant nothing to you there? It means something to you now? Yes. My men are on the watch for Cordoba. You look at me so strangely. The warning was not the true reason you came to me last night. Was it merely to look at me and make something certain in your own mind? Yes. Some things must be certain, General. They tell me you spend many hours sitting out there watching the sea. A look at the land beyond the sea? My land. Is your wife there, General? My wife is buried on a hill above Paris. Then you have a sweetheart across the sea? No. Being a soldier is not to complete life. A man must have a woman. How are you satisfied to be in love with freedom? To sit and wait and sharpen your weapons to go back to the killing? You puzzled me before. You puzzled me now. Do not like your war and your revolution and your cry for freedom. It is a just cause and it is my life. And your love. My brother believed, as you believe, he died fighting for your freedom in one of your armies. What was your brother's name? He was killed at Porto Cablo. I'm sorry. But the cause is just. Do you leave? I disturb you. It seems we cannot talk. It is because I cannot talk of armies and revolution and freedom. Is that all that is inside of you? You came here tonight to sit and speak to a woman. Yes, that is why I am here. How long has it been since you have spoken to a woman? Weeks, months perhaps. And how long has it been since you have kissed a woman? A century. Stay with me a while, Simon Bolivar. Stay with me. It's by the sea when I was a very young man. And did you dream of revolution even then? I dreamed of freedom for my people. I dreamed of the French Revolution and of the United States and of a man named Washington. Washington? General George Washington. He let his people to freedom as I shall lead mine. And was it hard for him? For him there was valley forge as I have my island of Jamaica. And as he conquered despair so shall I. Is there to be no life for Simon Bolivar, the man? Is he to give nothing to himself? Annette, do you believe I have never said those same words to myself? Oh yes, and I have done more. Many times I have promised myself that I will leave the revolution. I will go to France or Italy and take another life. It will never happen. The moon is failing, Annette. I must return. But if the revolution should... if it all fails I would come to me. I would come to you, Annette. Second act of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Yesterday afternoon I shopped for a friend's birthday present and as usual I debated a half dozen times before I finally decided on something I felt was right for him. 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And our Lionel Barry Moore brings you our true story of Simone Bolivar. The maker by the Spanish didn't occur but for Simone Bolivar there was the eternal waiting for money. And as the waiting grew longer the strength of the great liberator grew weaker. Then one night a visitor came to see him Maxwell Hyslop an envoy of the Duke of Manchester who was then governor of Jamaica. How is he? Worse than when you saw him last in your Hyslop. The spells come and go more frequently now. Most of the time he is burning with fever or shaking with cold. He will not rest. He paces back and forth like a caged animal. Can't you do anything for him? Make him comfortable? I am only his servant. It is something else something worse than the fever which tears at him now. He has been most anxious for the answer from England. He will be pleased to see you. Maxwell friend, welcome. Welcome. The sight of you does me good. Carlos, have we wine? No, no, please General. This is only a short night. See if we have a glass. General, I could not drink your wine. Not with the kind of news I bring you now. It would choke me. Will there be anything? No, no, that is all, Carlos. General, the papers you so carefully prepared were brought to the attention of the Parliament by Mr. Richard Wellesley. England's advantage in assisting you to raise men at arms to fight the Spanish is without question. Max, Max, you can speak to me. What did they say? They sympathize with you, General, but they cannot help you. Are they aware that Monteverdi is in Caracas growing stronger by the hour? Do they know about Mario's fleet? Do they understand that this new Spain and the Ferdinand is more decadent and more treacherous than the old one? Where are England's great statesmen these days? Of course. Do they know all these things? They knew them before I did. There were some other comments. Some members of Parliament did not feel that Latin America is ready for independence yet. Others refused to believe there is a revolution. For 300 years, my countrymen have been starved and slaughtered by the Spanish crown when is a nation ready to rule itself? The Duke of Manchester asked me to see you, General. I am repeating his instructions. Yes, yes, I know. Forgive my impatience. May I speak not as a representative of the Governor? No, we are friends, Max. We are old friends. I know the humiliation it has caused you asking for help abroad. I hoped, as you hoped, that the Foreign Office would give you funds and help you rearm and fight back. I am truly sorry that they have acted otherwise. But if not English help, perhaps some other source. Petion, the president of Haiti. He believes in freedom. Yes, yes, perhaps some other source. Your country is not dead as long as your sword exists. And you will go back somewhere somehow. Ah, you've been an unfortunate soldier. But you are a great man. How long can a man watch a lizard? What? How long can a man lie in a hammock and watch lizards on the ceiling and dream of freedom? I am a fool, Max, a fool! Wait, General, wait, wait! Is there anything you wish? Oh, no, no. I did not ask you when you first came in because you were burning with the fever. But I will ask you now. Something has gone wrong and you are here. Why did you come to me? I promised I would come to you. Tell me what it is to feel as you do to have a life that belongs to yourself and not to a country or people. Oh, so it has become hopeless. No arms, no men, no money. They cannot expect me to go on. I have given up a fool's task. There is no reason trying to carry it further. You knew when we met before a moment like this would happen, huh? Yes. Could you love me, Annette? Yes. Could you love me? Or have they taken too much from you already? Only time will answer that. Then I am willing to wait. How will you tell them? I will go back and resign my commission. Colonel Marino, Captain Ribas, Captain Mendez, Lieutenant Mommisto, I tell them to meet tomorrow morning without fail. Yes, Excellency. Good night. That came from my quarters. Yes, Excellency. Carlos. General. You? What is it, man? What is wrong? You? You still live? General, he has a knife. No, you're right. We all know this, man. Carlos, what is it? Do not come close, Adjera. You would kill me? I have killed you. You are mad. He paid me to do it. Cordoba? Yes. And I shall do it now? No! Excellency, you are all right? Yes. Carlos is dead. Quickly to my tent. Yes. Felix, what happened? I was concerned for you. I heard Cordoba was here. I fell asleep on your bed waiting for your return. Cordoba paid my servant to kill me. Carlos thought you were me. You are safe. Lyle, I say. Felix, sentry. Sentry! A doctor. Find the doctor. Yes, General. It is too late for a doctor. No, no, no. You cannot die for me. How, Felix, you do not know what I was about to do. I would rather die for you, General. No. No, you must realize that this way the Spanish tried to kill you. The seal of the President of Haiti? Your love is for the land and the people. I cannot understand it. But I can understand that a few men are made that way. And it is impossible to change that. But there is that one moment when he might forget it. Yes. I will watch this ship from the rock. As it goes by, I will say the revolution goes by. I must go now. I have lost my dream, Simone Bolivar. But you have regained your... I mean every turn. He established free governments and constitutions and democratic law. He gave his repose and all his life to his country. He fought for her and he freed her. George Washington of South America. Like General Washington, he had met his valleyfords and had conquered it. There you sat, pencil in hand that big blank sheet of white paper staring at you, defying you to fill it with words. What punishment. You know I've decided that big blank piece of paper was half the problem. Because recently I got a thank you note from my little niece. It was written on some gay hallmark note paper. There were little blue forget-me-nots all over the cover with two cute cherubs floating in a basket drawn by bluebirds. And I realized my niece wanted to use that pretty paper. And that's true of all hallmark note paper. Yes, everyone finds these small decorative papers inviting to use. They come in many different designs. Some with flowers, some with a touch of whimsy, some with a modern motif. All of them ideally sized for your short notes for the thank you or invitation that should be brief. And like hallmark cards, these attractive note papers have the hallmark and crown on the back to show that you'll carry enough to send the very best. And now here again is Lionel Barrymore. You know, Frank, I used to know a very lovely lady who was one of our most famous hostesses. She once told me that a sure way to get on her preferred guest list was to be prompt in the matter of thank you notes. Seems like those hallmark notes you just told us about would be mighty handy to have around in a situation like that. They are, Mr. Barrymore. They're helpful for almost any occasion you can think of. I suppose you tell the folks about our story on the hallmark hall of fame next week, Frank. Next week, Mr. Barrymore, we will present one of the most important and amazing incidents of modern history. A true and highly dramatic episode from the life of America's elder statesman Bernard Baruch. Oh, well, well, well, that sounds unusual, Frank. Until next week then, this is Lionel Barrymore saying good night. From the makers of hallmark cards, boys and girls of high school age can win big cash prizes for themselves and for their schools in the hallmark hall of fame contest. 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