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Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

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Producer Irving Cummings

Greetings from Hollywood. Ladies and gentlemen, there is an ever present question that has puzzled and intrigued our world for centuries. Is there life on any of the other planets? So in tonight's play, we will tell you of a possible momentous event in our future. The arrival of this planet on this planet, of a man from the outer space, the Day the Earth Stood Still. And as our stars of this provocative drama from 20th Century Fox, we have one of their fastest rising stars, Michael Rennie. Co starring with that outstanding actress, Jean Peters. Now, before raising the curtain on the Day the Earth Stood still, starring Michael Rennie and Gene Peters, here is Ken Carpenter.

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Producer Irving Cummings

Now act one of the Day the Earth Stood Still. Starring Michael Rennie as Plateau and Jean Peters as Helen Benson.

Narrator

It was a pleasant spring day, an ideal day for a walk in the park. A day to push the baby buggy and be glad you were alive. There'd been at least 20 such sparkling days that spring, and perhaps a billion or more of them since the Earth began. And nothing had ever happened to spoil them but a few small fires or a slight head cold in the evening or a rain squall. This spring day in the middle of the marvelous 20th century was different. It was the most different day that had happened to mankind since the first Christmas. The thing was noticed in Hong Kong, first on the British radar.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

But that's impossible. That thing must be doing about 4,000.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

That can't be aircraft, sir.

Reporter / News Announcer

It must be a buzzball.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Better give an alarm. Keep it steady, though. Maybe faulty equipment.

Narrator

If the British radar in Hong Kong was faulty, so was the radar all over the Orient and Asia and Europe. So were the announcers on the radio.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

This is Moscow.

Mr. Harley

This is Kalkappa India.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

This is Radio Luxembourg.

Narrator

The American radar screen quickly confirmed the fact that there was nothing wrong with the British radar and that there was something very gravely wrong 40 miles out in space, far above the Earth.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

Luck.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Then, at Ferris to Baker. Ferris to Baker. I have an object at 2, 000ft, 4, 000 miles an hour.

Narrator

Then it was here. Incredibly, it was here, burning down through the sky over Washington, D.C. hovering over the Mall, descending. Not a sound. Stillness. Not a move from the cordon of tanks and armored cars and troops in full battle dress. Not a sound or gesture from the monstrous domed disc resting on the grass.

Reporter / News Announcer

The ship, designed for travel outside the Earth's atmosphere, landed in Washington today at 3:47pm Eastern Standard Time. We still do not know where it came from. The ship is now resting exactly where it landed two hours ago. So far, there is no sign of life from inside the ship. Behind the cordon of troops, tanks and artillery is a huge crowd of curiosity seekers. Every eye, every weapon is trained on the ship. The atmosphere is one of terrific tension rather than of fear. It's been that way for just a minute. Ladies and gentlemen, I think something's happening. The spaceship is opening up. Someone is coming out.

Helen Benson

Keep calm, everybody. Don't get excited. Keep calm.

Reporter / News Announcer

Quiet.

Narrator

A wedge is opened in the smooth, unbroken metal skin of the spaceship. A ramp slithers out on the grass against an eerie glow of unearthly light from inside the spaceship station. The spaceman. He is a man entirely like ourselves. He wears a close fitting suit like a deep sea diver's armor, but of alien material. The spherical helmet entirely conceals his head. He holds up his hand. He is going to speak.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

We have come to visit you in peace and with goodwill. Receive me as a friend. Here he comes, men.

Tom Stevens

Watch it.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Keep that bar trained on him. He's going for something in his tunic, sir.

Reporter / News Announcer

Quiet.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

It's a ray gun or something.

Tom Stevens

I'm gonna let him have it now.

Bobby Benson

No, wait,

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

you fool.

Mrs. Crockett

He's down.

Helen Benson

Hold back that crowd. Everybody back.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Your wound doesn't look too bad.

Mr. Harley

I'm sorry.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

But you shouldn't have gone for that ray gun. It was not a weapon. He understands us. It was a gift for your president. With it you might have studied life on other planets. What's bothering the crowd? Lieutenant, tell him to. Oh, no.

Helen Benson

Oh, no.

Narrator

A nightmare stands on the ramp leading out of the spaceship. A mechanical giant, monstrous, all metal and menace, with a visor in his helmet, lifting slowly, revealing a dreadful light boiling within that metal head. And suddenly, out of that incandescence, a narrow ray. Rifles, tanks, artillery glow with that terrible incandescence and become vapor in a mush of puddled steel. And in the deathly silence that follows, the robot strides down the ramp. The Avenger.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

From where, God, the glad of Roscoe. It won't hurt you. Now let's get you to a hospital.

Mr. Harley

Good afternoon, sir.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Good afternoon.

Mr. Harley

The doctors here tell me a wound is not serious.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

It amazes them that it's almost healed already.

Mr. Harley

I'm very glad.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

It should serve as some sort of indication of our powers.

Mr. Harley

My name is Harley, secretary to the President. I've been told you speak our language fluently. That Your name is Mr. Klatu.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Just Klatu.

Mr. Harley

The President has asked me to convey our deepest apologies for what has happened.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Sit down, Mr. Harley.

Mr. Harley

I'm sure I don't have to point out that your arrival was something of a surprise. Had you been traveling long?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

About five months.

Mr. Harley

Your months must have come a long way.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

About 250 million of your miles.

Mr. Harley

Naturally, we're very curious to know where you come from.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

From another planet. Let's Just say that we're neighbors.

Mr. Harley

It's rather difficult for us to think of another planet as a neighbor.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I'm afraid in the present situation, you'll have to learn to think that way.

Mr. Harley

A.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I mean the reasons for my coming here.

Mr. Harley

Would you care to talk about it?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Not now. Or with you alone.

Mr. Harley

Perhaps you'd rather discuss it personally with the President.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I want to meet with the representatives from all the nations of the Earth.

Mr. Harley

I'm afraid that would be a little awkward.

General Cutler

Why?

Mr. Harley

In view of the tensions and suspicions in our world today, such a meeting would be impossible.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Mr. Harley, my mission here concerns the existence of every last creature who lives on Earth. It must not be complicated by the childish jealousies intrigues suspicions of your planet.

Mr. Harley

Our problems are very complex. You mustn't judge us too harshly.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I'm impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it.

Mr. Harley

The President will of course do his best to bring about the meeting you desire. I know it'll be quite useless. I wish it were otherwise. I'm very sorry. Mr. Klatow.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Wait. Before making any grave decisions, I think I should get out among your people. Become familiar with the basis for these strange, unreasoning attitudes.

Mr. Harley

Our military people insist that you do not attempt to leave the hospital. The door will be locked. I'm sure you understand. Good day, Mr. Claro.

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Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

The door will be locked. Will it now?

Narrator

Plato escaped. Nor could the embarrassing news of his disappearance long be suppressed. It was read about in the papers and described in excited tones over the radio.

Reporter / News Announcer

Authorities at Walter Reed Hospital still refuse to comment on how he managed to escape, except to say that he broke into a hospital locker and stole clothing belonging to a staff doctor. While the government does not minimize the

Narrator

crisis, this was the latest and the only news. And among the countless millions listening were two men and a woman in an ordinary home on an ordinary street in Washington. Mrs. Crockett's rooming house. It was Mrs. Crockett and Helen Benson and little Bobby Benson.

Mrs. Crockett

I just can't stand any more of this.

Helen Benson

Oh, I wanted to hear more, Mrs. Crockett.

Bobby Benson

It's exciting, isn't it, Mother?

Helen Benson

Hushbobby?

Mrs. Crockett

Exciting? It's enough to drive a person.

Helen Benson

Who are you?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I'm sorry. I saw your sign outside and the door was open. My name is Carpenter.

Mrs. Crockett

Yes?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I'm looking for a room.

Mrs. Crockett

Oh. Oh. Oh, yes, I do have a nice room.

Bobby Benson

Are you a G man?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

No, I'm afraid I'm not.

Bobby Benson

I bet he is, Mom. I bet he's looking for that spaceman.

Helen Benson

I think we've all been hearing too much about spacemen.

Mrs. Crockett

Mr. Carpenter, this is Mrs. Benson. Mr. Carpenter.

Helen Benson

How do you do?

Mrs. Crockett

And this is little Bobby, my youngest guest.

Bobby Benson

Hi.

Mrs. Crockett

I'm Mrs. Crockett. You're a long way from home, aren't you, Mr. Carpenter?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

How did you know?

Mrs. Crockett

Oh, I can tell a New England accent every time. This way, please, Mr. Carpenter. And so, this Sunday morning, we ask the question that has been plaguing the entire world for two days now. Where is the creature, and what is he up to?

Helen Benson

Eat your cereal, Bobby.

Bobby Benson

Oh, Mom, I'm almost as it is.

Tom Stevens

Bobby.

Bobby Benson

Okay, Mr. Carpenter.

Helen Benson

I'm sorry, Mrs. Crockett. Please go on reading.

Mrs. Crockett

Creature and what is he up to? If he can build a spaceship that can fly to Earth and a robot that can destroy our tanks and guns, what other terrors can he unleash at will?

Bobby Benson

What a man.

Mrs. Crockett

Obviously, we must track down this monster and destroy him before he destroys us. Correct. Then why don't they do it?

Helen Benson

This spaceman, or whatever he is, we automatically assume he's a menace. Maybe he isn't, after all.

Mrs. Crockett

Then where is he, Mrs. Benson? What's he up to?

Helen Benson

Maybe he's afraid.

Mrs. Crockett

He's afraid?

Helen Benson

Well, after all, he was Shot the minute he landed here. I just was wondering what I'd do.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Perhaps before deciding upon a course of action, you'd want to know more about the people here.

Mrs. Crockett

Nothing strange about Washington.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

A person from another planet might disagree with you.

Helen Benson

Oh, it's all right, Mrs. Crockett. That's Mr. Stevens calling for me. I'll go to the door.

Mrs. Crockett

That awful robot standing there like an ugly iron statue gives me the shivers.

Helen Benson

Morning, Tom.

Tom Stevens

Hello, Helen.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

Hey.

Tom Stevens

Can anybody see us?

Mrs. Crockett

No.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

So, all right.

Tom Stevens

We're all set. I picked up some sandwiches and put

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

gas in the car.

Tom Stevens

And the radio is busted, so we can forget about the spaceman.

Helen Benson

I haven't been able to arrange for anyone to stay with Bobby. Mrs. Crockett's going out, and I don't suppose we could take him with us?

Tom Stevens

Well, we could just.

Helen Benson

Today. Mrs. Crockett has plans, and I don't know who else to ask.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I haven't any plans.

Helen Benson

Oh, Mr. Carpenter.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I'd be glad to spend the day with Bobby, if you'd let me.

Tom Stevens

Oh, great. Thanks.

Helen Benson

Well, it's very nice of you to offer. Oh, I'm sorry. Mr. Carpenter, this is Tom Stevens.

Bobby Benson

Hi.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

How do you do? Bobby and I had a fine time yesterday afternoon. I thought he might show me around the city today.

Helen Benson

Well.

Tom Stevens

Please.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I'd enjoy it.

Bobby Benson

And this is where my father is buried. Robert Benson, Virginia. First Lieutenant, 45th Infantry, April 10, 1960. January 29, 1944.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Your father was very young, wasn't he, Bobby?

Bobby Benson

He was killed at Anzio.

Reporter / News Announcer

Did.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Did all these people here die in wars?

Bobby Benson

Well, most of them. Didn't you ever hear of Arlington Cemetery?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I'm afraid not.

Bobby Benson

You don't seem to know much about anything, Mr. Carpenter.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I've been far away.

Bobby Benson

Bobby, don't they have places like this where you've been?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Not like this one. You see, they don't have any wars. Let's walk.

Bobby Benson

All right.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

What would you like to do now?

Bobby Benson

Go to the movies.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

All right.

Bobby Benson

No fooling?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

No fooling. Do you have to have money to go there?

Bobby Benson

Well, I've got $2. I'll treat you.

Producer Irving Cummings

Okay.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

No, I want to take you. Look. Do you think they'd accept these?

Bobby Benson

Gee, what are they, diamonds?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Well, in some places, these are what people use for money. They're easy to carry, and they don't wear out.

Bobby Benson

I bet they're worth a million dollars.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Could you Give me your $2 for two of these?

Tom Stevens

Sure.

Bobby Benson

Okay.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

There you are.

Helen Benson

Um.

Bobby Benson

Let's not say anything to mom about this, huh?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Why not?

Bobby Benson

Well, she doesn't like me to take advantage of people. Hey, before we go to the movies, would you like to see the Abraham Lincoln Memorial?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Thank you. Yes, I would.

Bobby Benson

Well, this is it. That's the Gettysburg speech up there.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

That gets this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom. And that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth. Those are great words.

Bobby Benson

That's some statue.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

That's the kind of man I'd like to talk to. Bobby, who is the greatest man in America today?

Bobby Benson

Gee, I don't know. The spaceman, I guess.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I was speaking of Earth men.

Bobby Benson

I don't know. The president.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I mean, the greatest philosopher, the greatest thinker, scholar.

Bobby Benson

Oh, well, that's Professor Barnhart, I guess.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Yes, Professor Barnhart.

Bobby Benson

He's the greatest scientist in the world, and he lives right here in Washington, right near where my mother works.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Where is that?

Bobby Benson

Department of Commerce. She's a secretary. Why?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I have an idea. Bobby, let's go see Professor Barnhart.

Bobby Benson

What for?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

You just said he's the greatest man in America.

Bobby Benson

Are you kidding? Aren't you?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Wouldn't you like to meet him?

Bobby Benson

Oh, sure I would. Aw, go on. I bet you'd be scared.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Maybe we can scare him more than he can scare us.

Bobby Benson

I like you, Mr. Carpenter. You're a real screwball. Gee, maybe the professor isn't at home.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Let's take a look through that window.

Bobby Benson

I'll bet this is where he works. Look in there. Books all over. Blackboard's full of stuff. That door's locked too.

Tom Stevens

Is it?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I know it isn't, Bobby.

Bobby Benson

That's funny.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

We'll go in and wait for him. I'm sure he won't mind.

Bobby Benson

Gee, just think. All the brains that goes on in here. What's all that stuff on the blackboard?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

It's a problem in celestial mechanics.

Bobby Benson

What's the matter?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

You'll never get the answer that way. Let's see.

Bobby Benson

Hey. It says, don't erase, don't touch.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

This is right. Check.

Mr. Harley

Correct.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Correct. And here's where he gets off the track. We'll fix that.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

So?

Bobby Benson

So you must be an arithmetic teacher, I bet.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Differentiate the equation There.

Helen Benson

Who are you?

Mrs. Crockett

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Helen Benson

How dare you come in like this. How dare you write on that blackboard.

Bobby Benson

Do you realize the professor's been working

Mrs. Crockett

on that problem for weeks?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

He'll solve it in no time.

Helen Benson

Now what do you want?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

We came to see Professor Bernhardt.

Helen Benson

Well, he's not here, and he won't

Mrs. Crockett

be back until evening.

Helen Benson

I think you Better leave.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Will you tell him that Mr. Carpenter was here? 1615 M Street Northwest. I think he'll want to talk to me.

Mrs. Crockett

Indeed.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Thank you. Oh, it may have entered your mind to erase what I've written on the blackboard.

Mrs. Crockett

It certainly has.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I wouldn't do that. The professor needs it very badly. Come on.

Tom Stevens

Bobby

Helen Benson

Carpenter. 1650 M Street Northwest.

Mrs. Crockett

Carpenter.

Helen Benson

M. M Street. Operator, give me the police.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

Act two of the Day the Earth Stood still. In a few moments after we see if Francis Scully has any big news for us tonight.

Mrs. Crockett

Oh, I do, Ken. About a big man in a big picture.

Helen Benson

The picture is Warner Bros. Wayne Fellows production.

Mrs. Crockett

Hondo in 3D.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

And the big man must be John Wayne. Even bigger in 3D.

Mrs. Crockett

Oh, and better than ever too. For his leading lady, John Drew, one of last year's most talked about and talented Broadway actresses, Geraldine Page.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

Oh, yes. Hondo is her first Hollywood picture, isn't it?

Mrs. Crockett

That's right.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

And isn't that the one that was filmed in a really wild part of Mexico?

Mrs. Crockett

Camargo, Mexico can where it's hot as well as wild. In the picture, John plays a part Indian dispatch rider for the US Cavalry around 1870.

Helen Benson

Geraldine is lovely as the woman he

Mrs. Crockett

falls in love with.

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Producer Irving Cummings

Act two of the day the Earth Stood Still. Starring Michael Rennie as Plateau and Jean Peters as Helen Benson.

Narrator

It is early evening of the same day. Tom Stevens and Helen Benson drive up to the boarding house at after their picnic, quite unaware of the dark squad car parked at the curb a few feet ahead.

Tom Stevens

Well, here we are.

Helen Benson

Thank you, Tom. It was a wonderful day.

Tom Stevens

You still haven't answered my question.

Helen Benson

You know how I feel, Tom. But I still want time to think it over.

Tom Stevens

If I could only tell the boss I was getting married and acquiring two dependents.

Helen Benson

You're a good salesman.

Tom Stevens

A good salesman wouldn't give you time to think about it.

Helen Benson

Good night.

Tom Stevens

Didn't you forget something? Now, good night.

Helen Benson

Good night.

Tom Stevens

Night.

Helen Benson

Oh, Mr. Carpenter.

Bobby Benson

Hi, Mom.

Helen Benson

Hello, darling.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Uh, Mrs. Benson, this is Mr. Brady.

Helen Benson

How do you do?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

How do you do?

Bobby Benson

Mr. Brady's a government agent.

Helen Benson

Oh. Did you have a nice day, Bobby?

Bobby Benson

We had a swell time, didn't we, Mr. Carpenter?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Yes, we did.

Bobby Benson

We went to the movies and had a banana split. And we went to see Daddy.

Helen Benson

Oh, I don't know how to thank you, Mr. Carpenter.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I enjoyed every minute of it.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

We better get going.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Yes. Good night, Bobby.

Bobby Benson

Good night.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I'll tell you the rest of that story tomorrow. Good night, Mrs. Benson.

Helen Benson

Good night.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

Nice meeting you, Mrs. Benson.

Helen Benson

Thank you.

Bobby Benson

Why did Mr. Carpenter have to go with Mr. Brady?

Helen Benson

I don't know. Maybe it was a mistake upstairs with you.

Bobby Benson

Yeah, we sure had fun today. We went all over Washington, and we went to see Professor Barnhart.

Helen Benson

Professor Barnhart?

Bobby Benson

Oh, sure.

Helen Benson

Barnhart. Up to bed now, pronto.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

Is this the man you want to see, Professor Barnhart?

Professor Barnhart

Oh, thank you, Mr. Brady. If I may speak to Mr. Carpenter alone, please?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I'll wait outside, Professor.

Professor Barnhart

You are Mr. Carpenter?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Yes, Professor.

Professor Barnhart

Who wrote those equations on my blackboard?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

My clumsy way of introducing myself.

Professor Barnhart

Forgive the manner in which you were picked up. Hilda called the police before I saw your annotations on the board.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I appreciate the need for security, Professor.

Professor Barnhart

I have not quite fathomed the problem, even with your remarkable assistance, Mr. Carpenter.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Let's look at it, sir. All you have to do now is substitute this expression at this point.

Professor Barnhart

Yes. That will reproduce the first order term. But what about the effect of the other terms?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Negligible. With variation of parameters, this is the answer.

Professor Barnhart

How can you be so sure? Have you tested this theory?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I find it works well enough to get me from one planet to another.

Professor Barnhart

Klaatu.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I spent two days at your Walter Reed Hospital. I was interviewed. Very soon.

Professor Barnhart

I need no proof. This blackboard is proof.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

If you are not interested, or if you intend to turn me over to the army, we needn't waste any more time.

Professor Barnhart

Interested? Will you excuse me one moment, please? Mr. Brady, you may go now. Please thank General Cutler and tell him. Tell him that I know this, gentlemen. So much for that, Klatu. Now, please sit down.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

You have faith, Professor.

Professor Barnhart

Faith and curiosity. Do sit down. I have several thousand questions to ask you.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I would like to explain my mission here.

Professor Barnhart

That is my first question.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

It was my hope to discuss this officially with all the nations of the world. I was not allowed the opportunity. Now, we know from scientific observation that your planet has discovered a rudimentary kind of atomic energy. We also know that you're experimenting with rockets.

Professor Barnhart

Yes, that is true. What exactly is the nature of your mission?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

To warn you that your planet faces danger. What I have to say must be said to all concerned. I come to you as a last resort. Must I Take drastic action in order to get a hearing.

Professor Barnhart

What sort of action do you mean?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Violent action. Perhaps leveling the island of Manhattan. Or toppling the Rock of Gibraltar into the sea.

General Cutler

Well.

Professor Barnhart

Would you, for example, be willing to meet with a group of scientists I am calling together? We are having our first meeting tonight. Perhaps you could explain your mission to them, and they, in turn, could present it to their various peoples.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

That is what I came to see you about.

Professor Barnhart

One thing. Plateau. Suppose this group should reject your proposals. What is the alternative?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

There is no alternative, Professor. In such a case, the planet Earth would have to be. Eliminated.

Professor Barnhart

Such power exists?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I assure you, such power exists.

Professor Barnhart

The scientists who are attending these meetings have come here from all over the world. Now, this power you speak of, they must be made to realize that it exists. Now, you mentioned a demonstration of force.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Yes.

Professor Barnhart

Something that would affect the entire planet.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

That can be arranged.

Professor Barnhart

Perhaps a little demonstration.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Something dramatic, but not destructive. It's quite an interesting problem. Would tomorrow be all right?

Professor Barnhart

If you say so.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Say about noon, then?

Professor Barnhart

Tomorrow at noon. Good.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Going out tonight, Mrs. Benson?

Helen Benson

Oh. Oh, it's you, Mr. Carpenter.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I'm afraid I startled you.

Helen Benson

Yes, I am going out. Mr. Stevens is calling for me.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Everyone seems so.

Helen Benson

So Jittery is the word.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Bobby's the only person I know who isn't. Jittery. He's a fine boy, Mrs. Benson.

Helen Benson

Naturally, I think so.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Warm, friendly, intelligent. He's the only real friend I've made since I've been here.

Helen Benson

Mr. Carpenter, this is none of my business, but why did that detective come here last night, that Mr. Brady?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Bobby and I tried to see Professor Barnhart in the afternoon, but he wasn't in. Apparently they thought I was looking for secrets of some kind.

Helen Benson

Well, that must be Tom now. Oh, Mr. Stevens.

Mrs. Crockett

Do come in. Helen is in the sitting room.

Helen Benson

Alert Mrs. Crockett. She has a romantic mind.

Tom Stevens

Hello there, Helen. Not a minute to spare. You ready? Hello, Carpenter. Picture starts at 8. 50 on the dot.

Helen Benson

Helen, I'll be ready in a minute. I was just talking to Mr. Carpenter.

Reporter / News Announcer

Oh.

Tom Stevens

I hope Mr. Carpenter won't think I'm intruding.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Excuse me. I was just going up to my room. Good night.

Helen Benson

Good night, Mr. Carpenter.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Have a good time, both of you.

Helen Benson

Thank you. Tom, that was awful.

Mr. Harley

I'm sorry.

Tom Stevens

Sorry. I guess I'm just tired of hearing about Mr. Carpenter. Mr. Carpenter. I don't like the way he's attached himself to you and Bobby. After all, what do you know about him?

Helen Benson

Very little, it's true. Well, let's not stand and talk about it anymore. I'll go up and get my things.

Bobby Benson

Gee, Mr. Carpenter, thanks a lot for helping me with my homework.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

That's all there is to it, Bobby, my boy, all you have to remember is first find the common denominator, then subtract.

Bobby Benson

I got you. Thanks, Mr. Carpenter.

Helen Benson

I'm leaving with Tom. Bobby, you'll go to bed on time now, won't you?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I'll say Good night again, Mrs. Benson.

Helen Benson

Mr. Carpenter.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Yes?

Helen Benson

Nothing. Good night.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Good night. Good night. Bobby.

Helen Benson

Bobby, I think it would be better if you didn't see quite so much of Mr. Carpenter.

Bobby Benson

Well. Gee. Why, mom, he's swell. I like him. And he's awful good at arithmetic. He even helped Professor Barnhart.

Helen Benson

I. I'm sure he's a very nice man. I just think he might prefer to be left alone. Now go to bed, darling.

Bobby Benson

Why would he want to be left alone?

Helen Benson

Don't forget to brush your teeth.

Mrs. Crockett

Come in.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Bobby, do you have a flashlight I might borrow for tonight?

Bobby Benson

Oh, sure, Mr. Carpenter. It's a real Boy Scout one.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Thank you, Bobby.

Bobby Benson

Why do you want it?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

The light in my room went out. See you tomorrow. Better get into bed now.

Bobby Benson

Gee, I wonder if the batteries are any good, Mr. Carpenter?

Narrator

Bobby went to the door and opened it. What he saw down the hallway puzzled him. Mr. Carpenter's door was ajar and light was pouring out of his room.

Bobby Benson

Funny. Who said his light went out?

Narrator

Then Mr. Carpenter came out, carrying the flashlight and stealing down the steps like a thief. This was peculiar, but this was adventure. Bobby followed Mr. Carpenter, and what he saw couldn't have been a dream, was too real. But it couldn't have been true. It was too deliciously frightful. Dream or not, it was filled with darkness. Stung by staccato flashes from a genuine Boy Scout flashlight, flashes that activated a giant robot into knocking out his guards, so that Mr. Carpenter from the boarding house could get into the shed the army had built around the spaceship. And, dream or not, Bobby saw this Mr. Carpenter go into the spaceship. And then a wave of sheer terror swept over Bobby at last, and he turned and ran wildly away, the way little boys always run in nightmares. Trying so hard and moving so slowly and all the time falling down. It was awful. It was swell. When his mother came home around midnight, Bobby was curled up on the sofa. Instantly, he jumped up and ran to her and to Tom Stevens as they came into the hallway.

Bobby Benson

Mom. Mom, listen.

Helen Benson

Bobby, what are you doing down here at this hour, fully dressed?

Bobby Benson

Hello, Mr. Stevens. Mom, I had to tell you.

Helen Benson

Tell me What?

Tom Stevens

What's the matter, bobby?

Bobby Benson

I followed Mr. Carpenter tonight right after you left. And, gee, where do you think he went? Right into the spaceship.

Helen Benson

Now, Bobby, just one minute.

Bobby Benson

Honest, Mom. I saw him. They got a shed built around the spaceship so nobody can get to it. But Mr. Carpenter flashed a signal to that iron man up there, and what do you think, Bobby?

Helen Benson

Have you been dreaming again?

Tom Stevens

Why, sure.

Bobby Benson

No, mom, honest, I haven't. I promise you, I saw it.

Tom Stevens

Where did you see all of this?

Bobby Benson

Well, I'm telling you. On the lawn down at the Mall. In that place where the soldiers are all out in front.

Tom Stevens

And where were the soldiers all this time?

Bobby Benson

Well, that robot fella grabbed him and knocked him out.

Helen Benson

Oh, Bobby.

Bobby Benson

Yeah. And then Mr. Carpenter walked into the shed, and the spaceship opened up, and he walked right inside, and it closed again. Gee, I like Mr. Carpenter, but I'm scared. Mom, what was that?

Helen Benson

Darling, it was just a bad dream. We'll prove it to you. Tom, will you see if Mr. Carpenter's still up? Ask him to come down here a minute.

Tom Stevens

Helen.

Helen Benson

Yes, Tom?

Tom Stevens

Ellen? He's not there, but look what I found on the carpet.

Helen Benson

It can't be a diamond, can it?

Tom Stevens

I don't know.

Helen Benson

It's much too big.

Tom Stevens

It looks real to me.

Bobby Benson

Mr. Carpenter's got lots of them. He gave a couple of them to me here.

Helen Benson

He gave you these?

Bobby Benson

Well, not exactly. I gave him $2.

Tom Stevens

I don't know, but this whole thing, it just doesn't make sense. Look, Helen, do you think it's all right for you to stay here?

Helen Benson

There's a strong lock on my door, and Bobby's going to sleep in my room tonight.

Bobby Benson

Okay.

Helen Benson

Upstairs. Nightmare boy.

Bobby Benson

It wasn't a nightmare.

Helen Benson

Bobby.

Bobby Benson

Yeah, Mom?

Helen Benson

Bobby, your shoes are soaking wet.

Bobby Benson

Yeah. Grass on the mall was kind of wet. Good night, all.

Helen Benson

Oh, Tom, I wonder.

Narrator

Klaatu had promised what Professor Barnhart termed a little demonstration. Promised it? For the following day at noon. It is now 2 minutes to 12 in the department of Commerce building. Helen Benson has left her office on her way to lunch. She stands in the corridor waiting for an elevator.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Mrs. Benson.

Helen Benson

Mr. Carpenter. What are you doing here?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I came to see you.

Helen Benson

I was just going to lunch. What is it?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I saw Bobby this morning before he went to school.

Helen Benson

Yes?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I want to know what he told you.

Helen Benson

Oh, Bobby has such an active imagination.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Did you believe what he told you?

Helen Benson

Really, Mr. Carpenter, this is where I work. And I only have a short time for lunch today. If you'll excuse me, I'll go down with you, if you like. The service elevator's open. You'll have to press the button, Mr. Carpenter.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Oh, yes, yes.

Narrator

It was just five seconds before noon of that fateful day when Helen Benson and Mr. Carpenter stepped into that electric elevator. At that same moment, the enormous commerce of our briskly modern world roared and thundered in the streets. Five seconds to noon. Four seconds. Three seconds. Two seconds. 1 0. High noon and silence all over the world. Traffic stopped dead in a million streets. Here and there, a horse drawn vehicle clubped its melancholy way among the motionless motors. Bicycles moved before awe, and the common desolation made the riders stop of their own free will. Electric clocks stopped on the dot of noon. All across the powered world, the machines stood still. Toasters failed to pop, and Battle Fleet's unmaneuvers drifted aimlessly on their dead propellers. Joe Smith's milkshake didn't spin, and the humming turbines deep in Hoover Dam didn't produce currents. Mrs. Housewife's washer stopped in the middle of its cycle and electric lights went out all over the world. At a conference table in Washington, a hasty council of the armed services was held.

Military Officer

As far as we can tell, gentlemen, all electric power has been cut off all over, with few exceptions. And even these exceptions are remarkable hospitals, planes in flight, that sort of thing. I wish I could be more specific, but all communications are out. I can tell you that we are preparing to declare a state of national emergency. But before we start discussing plans, I want a report from Colonel Ryder.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

All I can report, General, is that the robot at the spaceship was discovered

Mr. Harley

to have moved last night. It knocked unconscious the two soldiers guarding the entrance to the shed the army engineers had built around the spaceship, indicating that someone, presumably the spaceman, had wanted

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

to get into the ship for one reason or another, in our likelihood to

Military Officer

signal for this demonstration of his planet's presence. Go on, Colonel.

Mr. Harley

Well, that's all, sir.

Military Officer

Well, gentlemen, until now we've agreed on the desirability of capturing this man alive. We can no longer afford to be soft in this matter. We will get him, alive if possible, but we must get him. Is that clear, gentlemen? Dead or alive. Get him.

Producer Irving Cummings

Before we continue with act three of the Day the Earth Stood Still, I want to say hello again to a very pretty, very young lady who still attends high school on the 20th Century Fox lot. When she's not making pictures, that is. Gloria Gordon.

Helen Benson

Good evening, Mr. Cummings.

Producer Irving Cummings

Gloria, I want to congratulate you on your splendid performance in 20th Century Fox's CinemaScope 3 beneath the 12 Mile Reef.

Helen Benson

Well, it was a break for me, getting to work with Terry Moore, Robert Wagner and Gilbert Rowland. I'm Bob's sister in the picture. You know, it's my first CinemaScope appearance, too.

Producer Irving Cummings

Those Technicolor deep sea diving scenes are beautiful as well as exciting. A fine picture like beneath the 12 mile reef can start a career zooming, Gloria. I'm sure it will.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

Yours and that peaches and cream complexion won't hurt a bit neither, Gloria.

Helen Benson

Thanks, Mr. Carpenter. You can call mine a luxe complexion if you like. Because I use luxe all the time to keep my skin looking just right. I think there's nothing like it.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

You know, it's hard to find a movie star who doesn't depend on luxe complexion. Care in the bath too. Luxe toilet soap is so gentle, so refreshing. And like all Lever Brothers products, Lux toilet soap is unconditionally guaranteed. If it isn't always say it is. Your money will be returned. We pause now for station identification. This is the CBS Radio Network.

Producer Irving Cummings

The curtain rises on act 3 of the day the earth stood still. Starring michael rennie as klatu and gene peters as helen benson.

Narrator

All over the world, electric power has been neutralized on the stroke of noon. As a token of the spaceman's power, and as a warning to the Earth, while they've been trapped between floors in an elevator, the spaceman has told Helen his identity and purpose here.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I've already told you more than I told Professor Barnhart. Because my life, in a sense, is in your hands. But if I die, a world, your world may die too.

Helen Benson

Yes, I understand.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I thought if you knew the facts, you'd appreciate the importance of my not being caught before the meeting tonight with the world scientists.

Helen Benson

Yes, of course. Of course I do. You hold great hope for this meeting, don't you?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I can see no other hope for your planet. If the meeting should fail, then I'm afraid there is no hope.

Helen Benson

Oh, the lights. And we started again.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

It must be 12:30.

Helen Benson

Yes, exactly. Where are you going now?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Back to the boarding house. I'll be safe there for the afternoon. I'll be able to keep an eye on Bobby. He's the only other person who knows about me.

Helen Benson

No, wait a minute. There is someone else.

Professor Barnhart

How?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

They can't be Tom.

Helen Benson

He was with me last night when Bobby told me what he saw. Well, of course he doesn't know anything definite. And he talked to me first before. But then we can't take a chance, can we?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Can you get in touch with him?

Helen Benson

I think so.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I mean, at once. Now, I'll try. You will? You must.

Helen Benson

Hello, operator? I was connected with my party, please. Hello? Oh, is this Mr. Tom Stevens? Office again. We were discon. Well, I must speak to Mrs. No, Mr. Stevens. Yes, this is Mrs. Benson.

Mrs. Crockett

Benson?

Helen Benson

Well, when do you expect him in then? Well, will you tell him I called? And please not to leave his office. I'm coming down to see him. Yes. Yes, it's very important to you too.

Tom Stevens

Margaret. This is Mr. Stevens. I just got in. Now, listen. Call the Pentagon. Who?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Mrs. Benson.

Tom Stevens

When? Never mind. This is more important. Listen. Call the Pentagon and find out who's in charge of the spaceman business. Whoever it is, I want to talk to him. Tom, call me back right away. And don't take any other calls. I'll brush them off fast.

Helen Benson

Tom, I've been trying to get you all afternoon.

Tom Stevens

I've got some pretty terrific news about your good friend Mr. Carpenter.

Helen Benson

What about him?

Tom Stevens

He's the man from the spaceship. I had that diamond, or whatever it is, checked at three different places. Nobody on Earth's ever seen a stone like that. And after what Bobby's told us, that's enough for me. Why is it nobody knows about this, Mr. Carpenter? Why hasn't he got any money?

Helen Benson

All right, Tom. It's true.

Tom Stevens

How do you know?

Helen Benson

You've just got to promise me you won't say a word to anybody.

Tom Stevens

Oh, nobody but the Pentagon.

Helen Benson

Please.

Reporter / News Announcer

Tom, are you crazy?

Tom Stevens

After what happened today? He's a menace.

Helen Benson

You don't understand. You don't realize how important this is.

Tom Stevens

Important? Of course it's important, and we can do something about it.

Helen Benson

You mustn't do anything about it.

Mrs. Crockett

Tom.

Helen Benson

Believe me, I know what I'm talking about.

Tom Stevens

I say he is dead. It is our duty to turn him in.

Helen Benson

He isn't dangerous. He isn't a menace.

Mrs. Crockett

He.

Helen Benson

He told me what he came here for.

Tom Stevens

Oh, honey, don't be silly. Because you happen to like the guy. Do you realize what this will mean for us? I'll be the biggest man in the country.

Reporter / News Announcer

I'll write my own ticket.

Helen Benson

Is that what you're thinking about?

Tom Stevens

Listen, somebody's gotta get rid of him.

Helen Benson

Tom, I'm not gonna let you do it. Tom, don't.

Tom Stevens

Hello, Margaret? Yeah. General Cutler.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

Good.

Tom Stevens

Now hold on.

Helen Benson

You don't know what you're doing. It isn't just you and Mr. Carpenter.

Tom Stevens

Mr. Carpenter.

Helen Benson

It's everybody. The rest of the world is involved.

Tom Stevens

I don't give a hang about the rest of the world. I'm in this for me, Tom. Now, you'll feel different when you see my picture in the papers.

Helen Benson

I feel different right now.

General Cutler

You'll see.

Tom Stevens

You're gonna marry a hero.

Helen Benson

I'm not going to marry anybody, not even a hero.

Tom Stevens

Hey, Alan.

Reporter / News Announcer

Hello, General Cutler.

Tom Stevens

General, my name is Tom Stevens, with a voice. I. I have positive information about the spaceman and where he's staying.

General Cutler

Right.

Tom Stevens

Yeah, of course. I'm sure he's living in a boarding house at 1615 M Street Northwest. That is correct, General.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

Yes.

Military Officer

I have all of it now, Mr. Stevenson. Thank you very much indeed. I don't want to talk to you further. But I haven't time now. We want to act on this.

Reporter / News Announcer

Yes, sir.

Military Officer

Have Colonel Ryder deploy all Zone 5 units according to Plan B. Immediately investigate 1615 M Street Northwest for presence of spaceman. Repeat.

Helen Benson

Mr. Carpenter?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Right here. Did you see Tom? What does he say?

Helen Benson

It's no good. It's too late. I got a taxi outside. Hurry.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Attention, zone five. Attention, zone five. Man and woman observed entering taxi at

Reporter / News Announcer

1615 M Street northwest.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Man is probably Klaatu, alias Carpenter.

Reporter / News Announcer

Establish roadblocks according to Plan Baker and maintain station.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Remain on radio alert until further order. I don't know. I think we may have been seen getting into the taxi.

Helen Benson

Where can you go?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I'm sure Barnhart can arrange to hide me until the meeting tonight.

Helen Benson

Where is it going to be?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

At the ship. Now look there. Army cars, full troops in full gear. The alarm is out. All right.

Helen Benson

It's only a few more blocks to Professor Barnhart's.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I'm worried about Gort. I'm afraid of what he might do if anything should happen to me.

Helen Benson

Gort? But he's a robot.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

He's a product of centuries of refinement.

Helen Benson

But what could he do without you?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

There's no limit to what he could do. He could destroy the Earth.

Helen Benson

And the city is swarming with patrol cars hunting you. How can we tell them?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

They won't listen. You must listen. If anything happens to me, you must go to Gort. You must give him this message. Klaatu barada nikto. Gott. Klaatu barada nikto.

Helen Benson

Say it, Gord. Platu barada nikto. Gord. Klaatu barada nikto. Klaatu barada nikto.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Remember those words?

Helen Benson

Platu barada nikto.

Reporter / News Announcer

Attention, zone 5. Taxicab moving north on 14th street from Harvard Street. Man and woman in back seat. License number H0012. H0012, section 2, close in. This is Your target vehicle.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

We're hemmed in. Driver will get out here. I'm gonna try to run for it. If they get me, you get to Gort now.

Helen Benson

There he is.

Mr. Harley

Stop.

Bobby Benson

It will shoot.

Helen Benson

Stop.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

It will fire.

Helen Benson

Mr. Carpenter.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

God.

Producer Irving Cummings

Run.

Military Officer

Never mind.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I check the guy.

Helen Benson

Marauder, nick. Tom.

Narrator

Centuries, ages of superhuman super planetary skill had bred intuition and a dim power of reason into the enormously complex intelligence inside of Gort's metal brain. When Helen Benson stumbled up to the shed that housed the space machine, the guards were not there. Then she saw them. They were lying inside, their rifles fused and bent. Gort somehow knew that Klaatu was dead. Gort was already on the move. He was on the move toward Helen.

General Cutler

No.

Tom Stevens

No. God, no.

Narrator

The visor of his helmet was opening on that cosmic inc. Incandescents within, seething with world ruin, aiming impassively at Helen.

Professor Barnhart

Good.

Tom Stevens

Good.

Narrator

Helen Benson fainted. When she returned to consciousness, she was lying on a dais, bathed in a soft, shadowless light in a chamber vaguely circular, of completely unfamiliar build. She was in the space machine. Across the room stood Gort with his back to her, and lying in front of him on a platform. This was Klaatu, Mr. Carpenter. Gort, the machine. The automaton was applying electrodes to his master, and a piercing, whining, maddening sound filled the ship. Platu moved. He sat up, stood up.

Helen Benson

Mr. Carpenter?

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Hello.

Helen Benson

I. I thought you were.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

I was. They took me to an emergency hospital at the city jail. Gort broke in and took me back here. This technique can restore life. In some cases, only for a limited time.

Helen Benson

How long?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

No one can tell. Time enough and more for me to go outside and speak to Professor Beinhardt's scientists. I must speak to them. It's what I came for. Goats will put out the ramp. You people of Earth, you men of science, you are here from all over your world. Europe, Asia, representing many nations, many ideas. I am leaving soon. You will forgive me if I speak bluntly. The universe grows smaller every day. Where I come from, we believe there must be security for all, or no one is secure. This does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly. This is the message that I ask you to take back. When you return to your native lands, tell your people and your governments that we have created a race of robots whose function it is to patrol the planets and spaceships and preserve the peace. At the first sign of treachery, they will act automatically. Nothing you have here on Earth can Stop them. The penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk. Your choice is simple. Live in peace or perish in violence. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you. Gott. Baringo,

Narrator

Remember?

Helen Benson

I remember, Mr. Carpenter.

Narrator

And as they had seen him come, so did they see him depart. And the people of the Earth pondered upon the warning.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

In a moment, our stars will return.

Bobby Benson

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Tom Stevens

Pepsodense, New flavor.

Professor Barnhart

Pepsodense, New flavor.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Pepsodense, New flavor and the clean mouth taste for hours.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

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Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Grown ups prefer it, but kids, well,

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

kids go crazy for it. And that's not all. I've seen the research that proves Pepsodent gives you the cleanest teeth of all leading toothpastes.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

That's because Pepsodent's gentle oral detergent cleans

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

not just the surfaces of your teeth, but around and between them, even where your brush can't reach.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Your own personal proof of this is

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

Pepsodent's clean mouth taste for hours. So try new Pepsodent White.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Or if you prefer, chlorophyll.

Tom Stevens

Pepsodent.

Reporter / News Announcer

Chlorophyll.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

You like Pepso dense new flavor. Pepso dense new flavor. Pepsodense, new flavor and a clean mouth taste for hours.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

And now, here's Mr. Cummings with our stars.

Producer Irving Cummings

And here they are after two out of this World performances. Michael Rennie and Gen. Mike, have you ever seen any UMOs?

Helen Benson

What's a UMO?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

An unidentifiable moving object. Yes, I saw several years ago in London.

Producer Irving Cummings

You mean during the war?

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

No, when I was a very young actor. But the flying objects were later identified as ripe tomatoes and eggs and cauliflower.

Producer Irving Cummings

And how about Eugene? Seen any flying saucers?

Helen Benson

Oh, actresses aren't interested in such things, Irving. We prefer King of the Kyber Rifles. After all, who cares about spacemen when you can see Tyrone Power and Michael Rennie in their latest picture, co starring with Terry Moore.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Oh, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall in How to Marry a Millionaire.

Helen Benson

And both these 20th Century Fox pictures are in Technicolor and Cinemascope. And these exciting new mediums are especially interesting to actresses.

Producer Irving Cummings

Then you stars must be especially interested in Lux soap for your complexion.

Helen Benson

We certainly are. I, for one, started using Lux soap for my complexion years ago. And I'm certainly glad I did.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Now, Irving, what's in store for next week?

Producer Irving Cummings

Well, Mike, we're going from life in the future back to the charming era of The Roaring Twenties. It's a delightful, amusing story of a multimillionaire who, for sentimental reasons, presents an average happy family with $100,000 and almost ruins their lives. It's has anybody seen my gal? And as the stars of this highly entertaining comedy romance from the Universal International Studios, we have two of their most popular young stars. Rock Hudson and Piper Laurie. Co starring with that fine actor, Gene Lockhart.

Helen Benson

Oh, the whole family will love it. Good night.

Mr. Carpenter / Klaatu

Good night.

Producer Irving Cummings

Good night. And happy landing.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

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Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

Thanks, Aunt Linkletter. And I'd like to say again that when you wash things with surf, they smell like sunshine. And that's important because things aren't really clean unless they smell clean. It's true that all good detergents these days get clothes clean looking, but surf does more. Yes, surf gets clothes so clean they smell like sunshine. And that means they're clean clear through. So ladies, why don't you prove it to yourselves? Get serif tomorrow and discover what a really clean wash is.

Producer Irving Cummings

Lever Brothers Company, makers of Lux toilet Soap and Lux liquid detergent. Invite you to be with us again next Monday evening when the Lux Radio Theatre presents Has Anybody Seen My Gal? Starring Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson and Gene Lockhart. This is Irving Cummings saying good night to you from Hollywood.

Announcer / Lux Radio Theater Host

Knowing how to save regularly is sometimes the only difference between success and failure. The savings bond way is the sure way to save. Every year, United States savings bonds grow in value. Interest increases year by year. As your bond investment grows, so does your security. Save for the future by Investing in United States Savings Bonds Today join the Payroll Savings Plan where you work every payday. The amount you name will be set aside automatically, systematically and invested for you in savings bonds. And remember, savings bonds are better than than ever because they return 3% interest compounded semi annually when held to maturity. What's more, they're fully guaranteed by Uncle Sam against loss, theft or destruction. There's no safer investment in the world than United States Savings Bonds. If you're self employed, save regularly through the Bond a month plan where you bank Heard in our cast tonight were Paul Free, says the narrator Lamont Johnson as Tom, Herb Butterfield as Professor Bond, Tudor Owen as Mr. Harley, Billy Gray as Bobby, Edith Evanson as Mrs. Crockett and Tyler McVeigh, Bill Conrad, Robert Griffin, Tom Brown, Fred Shields, Marvin Bryan, Shep Mencken, Alastair Duncan, Steven Roberts, Adeline A. Smith and Eddie Marr. The Day of the Earth Stood still was based on Harry Bates story Farewell to the Master, which appeared in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine. Our radio play was adapted by Milton Geiger and our music was composed and directed by Rudy Schrager. Lever Brothers company Guarantees you'll be glad you bought the products you heard about on this program or you can have your money back. This is your announcer, Ken Carpenter, reminding you to join us again next Monday night to hear Has Anybody Seen My Gal? Starring Rock Hudson, Piper Laurie and Gene Lockhart. Every Thursday evening, Lever Brothers company Brings you the Lux Video Theater. Consult your local newspaper for time and station. This is the cbs radio network.