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Mr. O (Arch Ovler)

Lights out for the devil and Mr. O. It is

Narrator

later

Mr. O (Arch Ovler)

than you think. Turn out your lights now. We bring you stories of the supernatural and the supernormal, dramatizing the fantasies and the mysteries of the unknown. We tell you this frankly so that if you wish to avoid the excitement and tension of these imaginative plays, we urge you calmly but sincerely to turn off your radio now. This is Mr. O. Arch Ovler. Once upon a long time ago in New York City, on top of the Empire State Building, I met a pair of very young and very much in love honeymooners. I remember those two. When I wrote this play you were about to hear. It's not a horror story, and yet there is terror in it. And wonder. I give you now a story about one of the strangest days since our planet began to circle the sun

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Mr. O (Arch Ovler)

And now, if you haven't already done so, turn off your lights now and listen to. Where are you?

Narrator

All about it. War in Europe. War in Europe. Paper, Read all about and War in Europe Express to the observation roof.

Michael

Going up in here, Eve?

Eve

Yes.

Narrator

Face front place.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Eve.

Eve

Hmm?

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Forget all about what's happening outside.

Michael

Newspapers and things.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Don't let it spoil this.

Eve

Nothing can spoil being with you, Michael.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Sweet.

Eve

I can't hardly feel the elevator moving. It is moving, Michael.

Michael

Oh, sure. Look at the lights. 25th floor already.

Eve

It doesn't seem possible. Oh, my ears. Yeah, mine too, because we're going so fast.

Michael

No, it's something about air pressure. You know, like getting on top of a mountain.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Gee, look at those lights. We're at the 50th floor.

Michael

At least they say so.

Eve

It's so scary. Wonderful.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Just Think, 102 Floors Up in the Air.

Narrator

Not on this Elevator, Mister.

Michael

Huh?

Narrator

You'll have To Change the 80th. And at the 86th Again.

Michael

Oh. Oh, thanks.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Look, you, 70th Floor Already.

Narrator

Of course. This is one of the longest elevator shafts in the world.

Michael

Yeah, I should think it is.

Narrator

I heard there's an extra paper out that the war is going.

Michael

Please, huh? If you don't mind, we don't want to talk about those things. Oh, yeah.

Narrator

I don't blame you. Well, far as we go. Where do we next elevator? Right over there, sir.

Michael

Thanks. Better hold on to my arm.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Eve.

Eve

Yes? Why does everyone have to talk about the war all the time, Michael?

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

It's just the way it is, I guess.

Mr. O (Arch Ovler)

Come on up.

Michael

Come ahead, Eve.

Mr. O (Arch Ovler)

Watch your step, please.

Michael

Wonder how much you can see up there.

Eve

Oh, New York. The guide fire as we go

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

here.

Michael

You mean this is where we.

Mr. O (Arch Ovler)

86th floor, mister.

Narrator

Take the elevator right over there for the observation rope.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Oh, thanks.

Michael

Come on, Ian.

Eve

But, Michael, we no sooner got in than we got out.

Michael

Six floors higher, at least he says. So I guess this is the place where we get. Come on, Eve.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

We'll never get closer to heaven.

Narrator

Observation roof. Next stop, 102nd floor.

Michael

I used to think that I was getting up high when I climbed the apple tree.

Narrator

Observation roof, 102nd floor.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Gosh. Express is right. All right, Eve, this is it.

Eve

Will the wind blow? Will it be all. Michael, it's all glassed in.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Yeah.

Eve

Oh, Michael, how wonderful.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Gosh.

Eve

Michael, come over here. Look, the ocean out there.

Michael

I can see the Statue of Liberty.

Eve

Oh, it's wonderful.

Michael

And you didn't want to come up here.

Eve

It's like the world right under it.

Michael

Not scared a bit, are you?

Eve

Why should I be? It's just wonderful. Oh, look over here.

Michael

Hey, will you quit running around here like a doodle bug?

Eve

What's the bridge is over the river? Which one is that?

Michael

Well, I don't know. Brooklyn or something.

Eve

Oh, so many buildings. I. I had no idea New York was so. So spread out. So many buildings. So wonderful.

Michael

Yeah. From up here.

Eve

What? What did you say, Michael?

Michael

I said it's all wonderful from up here, but get down there and. Well, I bet it's like one of those Hollywood, you know, glamour stars when she gets up in the morning.

Eve

Michael, what do you know about things like that?

Michael

Well, I know you're super colossal or something when you wake up. Aw, you are. Your eyelashes sort of flutter, and then you stretch Out. Just like a little pup dog.

Eve

Like a pup dog. Michael, is that romantic?

Michael

Oh, I don't know the words. I just know that I'm gladder every

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

minute that you married me.

Eve

You married me.

Michael

Don't argue with your husband.

Eve

Husband.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Eve. Lips are so soft.

Eve

Your son.

Michael

Glad no one else is up here.

Eve

All right, Michael. $2.20. To make love to me or to see the sight?

Michael

I married a beautiful cash register.

Eve

Mr. Smith, will you let go of it? You're going to see me for 99 years. And maybe this is the last time we'll ever be able to get away from the farm and see New York this way. And we're.

Additional Narrator/Voice

Michael.

Eve

Huh? Look over there.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Hey, how do you like that? Clouds.

Eve

Where did they come from?

Michael

Well, the usual place clouds come from,

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

I suppose, but so quickly.

Michael

We're up plenty high.

Eve

Look at them. They're coming right at us.

Michael

It's a strong wind, I guess.

Eve

Oh, Michael, this is so exciting. Up in the clouds.

Michael

Made to order for you and me. Uh, rain.

Eve

There goes the rest of our day.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Sure.

Michael

A good thing they got this place glassed in. Oh, Eve, it's only lightning.

Eve

Oh, no.

Michael

You've been in thunderstorms before.

Eve

Michael.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Eve, what is it?

Eve

The clouds. They're fighting. Huh? Look at them fighting each other.

Michael

Well, is that any reason to be afraid? Gosh, thunderclouds always sort of boil around

Eve

like armies fighting.

Michael

Eve, what kind of talk is there?

Eve

Fighting?

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Why do you keep saying that?

Eve

I can't help it. I keep thinking.

Michael

Well, don't think. Remember we said our honeymoon we wouldn't think about anything but us?

Eve

But this is us. How can I be happy when all over the world.

Michael

All right, I will talk about it. I'll talk about it once and for all, and then you and I won't have to talk about it anymore.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Gosh, I don't know anything about this, about those things the newspapers are always talking about.

Michael

Maybe I'm not so smart as the people who live in this town and all the other big towns when it comes to dodging taxicabs and throwing wisecracks. But I know this. I don't want to own everything I can get my hands on. And I know that it isn't right for some people to have too much

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

and some people have too little. And I know that when I go to fight, I will fight. And it'll be for what I know is right, for the kind of world

Michael

where all the little people have a chance, no matter what they look like or what their name is.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Or what their blood is.

Michael

Because I know that no matter what any little dictator says, people all over

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

the world are just like you and me.

Michael

All they want. And all I want is happy work

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

and someone they care about to work for and. And a little time left over in which just to enjoy being alive.

Eve

I love you, Michael.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Let's go down.

Eve

No, just a minute more. Storm's breaking.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Yeah, I guess it is.

Michael

First time in my life I ever talk like that.

Eve

You're very good, Michael.

Michael

Not bright, but good.

Eve

Michael, look.

Michael

Look at what?

Eve

You just can't see anything down there.

Michael

Yeah, air's full of mist, that's why.

Eve

See things and yet you don't see them.

Michael

Let's go, huh? All right, hold on to my arm. If it's still raining when we get

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

down, we'll take a taxi back to the hotel.

Eve

All right.

Michael

I guess this is the button I

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

pressed to get the elevator up here.

Michael

Well, I don't want to bring him up. Gosh, thunderstorms and everything. It's been some experience, hasn't it? Yes, it sure jumped out of my skin when you screamed. I mean, when you saw those thunderclouds.

Eve

I didn't scream, Michael.

Michael

Well, you certainly did, kind of. I sure don't know much about women, I guess. I mean, you were afraid of the clouds, and then you weren't afraid of the thunder and lightning.

Eve

Clouds were horrible.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Hey, what's the matter with that elevator?

Eve

We'll ring again.

Michael

Well, that's all I've been doing.

Eve

Something must be wrong with it. The button.

Michael

Yeah. No answer. That's plain enough.

Eve

Don't be so impatient.

Michael

Well, we certainly can't walk down.

Eve

They'll come up for us.

Michael

Gosh, my thumb's getting sore punching this thing. Something sure is out of order.

Eve

Maybe we had better walk down 102 floors. No, I mean just to the next landing where we can get the next elevator. See you. Stairway.

Michael

Okay. I guess there's nothing else to do about it. Come on.

Eve

Don't walk so fast, dear.

Michael

Oh, what a life.

Eve

Oh, it isn't so bad walking downstairs.

Michael

You're swell. Here, take my arm. Down we go. Mrs. Smith. You know, elevators are all right, but me, I'll take the good old fashioned horse crazy.

Narrator

Hey. Hey, isn't there anyone here? Hey, we want to get downstairs.

Eve

Hey, there's no use, dear.

Michael

Well, there's got to be somebody on this floor.

Eve

Don't get so excited, Michael.

Michael

Oh, gosh, there's 80 floors between us and the street. We can't walk all that Way.

Additional Narrator/Voice

We'll have to.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Telephone, huh? Yeah, telephone. That's it. I'll call the operator and tell her what's happened.

Eve

Come on, Michael. Wait for me. Michael, you can't go in there. Come on, it's a private office.

Michael

Oh, sure, but they won't mind if I.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Say, can you beat there no one

Michael

here going off with the elevator, Mayor. I'll bet you. Well, at least they left the telephone. Hope I can dial this thing right here.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

It says operating, Michael, they won't like

Eve

it at all if they come back in here and find we walked right in without a. Gosh, what's the matter?

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

The telephone.

Michael

Here, listen.

Eve

Sounds sort of dead.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Yeah, I'll see you. Here, give it to me.

Michael

I gotta get somebody.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Hey.

Narrator

Hey, listen.

Michael

Operator, how about answering? Operator. Operator.

Eve

No use. Michael.

Michael

Yeah. What is this? A mess?

Eve

Have to walk down, I guess.

Michael

Where is everyone in this building? Gosh, you'd.

Eve

Michael, maybe there's been a fire.

Michael

Fire? Yeah, maybe.

Eve

Michael, quick, let's get to the stairway and get out of here. Quick, Michael, How. How far have we gone?

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Five or six floors, I guess. Hold tight to my arm. We have to walk. We have to walk.

Eve

The. The whole building can't be empty, Michael.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

I tried every office on that floor. I tell you, there was no one.

Mr. O (Arch Ovler)

No one.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Oh, gosh, there's a. The screwiest thing I ever heard.

Eve

Can't be a fire, Michael.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

No, there's no smoke or anything.

Eve

But where is everyone, Michael, where?

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

I don't know. I don't know. Honest, I don't know. I don't. Michael, honey, I'm as tired trying to figure it out as I am walking down the hole. Blasted 102 floors, floor after floor. Offices all fixed up as if people were working in them. And no one there. I give up.

Eve

I tell you, Michael, the war. I mean, the war. News. Everybody ran out into the street.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Now, Eve, does that make sense? Our whole sky scraper emptied out just to grab newspaper.

Eve

Michael.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

About a war that's all the way over the ocean. Oh, that makes about as little sense as everything else. Well, this is it.

Eve

Are we.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

So help me, the main floor. All out. Oh, gosh. Police.

Eve

No, Michael, don't. Don't sit down. Hurry. Hurry away out of here. In the street. Don't you want to know what's happened?

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Well, yeah, sure. That door says to the street. Let's go.

Eve

Here. Away from me, Michael.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Sure glad to get out of this place. Come on. Out we go.

Eve

Yes, Michael.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Gosh.

Eve

Oh, Michael.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

It's all right, dear. It's all right.

Eve

Michael, what's happened?

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Not a person in the streets.

Eve

There were so many.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Yeah.

Eve

Michael. Michael, listen.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

I don't hear anything.

Eve

Listen.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

The wind.

Eve

Yes, that's it. That's it. Only the wind. Michael, don't you remember? Ever since we got to New York. All day yesterday, all night, all morning. The noise, Michael, don't you remember the noise?

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Yes.

Eve

And now nothing but the wind. What's happened? Why is it so quiet now? Where are the people? Michael, Tell me.

Mr. O (Arch Ovler)

We leave our the Devil and Mr. O's story. Where are you? To return after a message from your station.

Unknown Minor Character

See? See the leaf right here in my hand.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Oh, yes.

Unknown Minor Character

Isn't that new leaf?

Mr. O (Arch Ovler)

Yes, it is. A new leaf.

Unknown Minor Character

Here. I'm going to turn over a new leaf.

Additional Narrator/Voice

Get it?

Unknown Minor Character

Leaf new.

Mr. O (Arch Ovler)

What does that mean, to turn over a new leaf?

Unknown Minor Character

Well, in serious means that you're gonna have a little change.

Mr. O (Arch Ovler)

From what to what?

Unknown Minor Character

From bad to good.

Old Time Retro Radio Announcer

Oh, really?

Unknown Minor Character

Yeah.

Mr. O (Arch Ovler)

Well, suppose somebody was crying.

Unknown Minor Character

They could switch from tears to a smile.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Suppose they were.

Unknown Minor Character

They could go from loneliness to having somebody to play with.

Mr. O (Arch Ovler)

Well, suppose somebody wasn't loved. Could they turn over a new lease?

Unknown Minor Character

They could go from not loving somebody to loving somebody.

Old Time Retro Radio Announcer

How do they do that?

Unknown Minor Character

All they have to do is try to love somebody.

Old Time Retro Radio Announcer

Just try?

Unknown Minor Character

Yeah. It's easy to love people when you try.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Love makes all things new again. Hey, what was that?

Eve

Another sound of love from the Franciscans.

Mr. O (Arch Ovler)

And now back to our the devil and Mr. O story of where are you? The boy and the girl walk along the deserted city streets. There are only the two of them. The millions who have filled the megapolis are strangely gone.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Do you want a rest?

Eve

No, just keep walking.

Michael

All right.

Eve

If we'd only meet one. Michael. If we'd only meet one person.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Stop it. Of course we'll meet someone. We've got to. There's millions of people in this town. Millions, I tell you.

Eve

Not a living thing. Horse.

Additional Narrator/Voice

Dog.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

There's an explanation, I tell you. There's an explanation for everything. Everyone's gone somewhere, that's all. Gone somewhere.

Eve

Where have they gone? Michael,

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

careful. Automobile

Eve

standing still like all the rest.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Crazy people leave their cars standing right in the middle of the street. But they'll come back. They got to millions of people, I tell you.

Eve

People.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Where are you?

Narrator

People?

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Hey, somebody, come out, blast you.

Additional Narrator/Voice

Come out.

Narrator

People. People, catch a. Here.

Eve

Please, Michael, stop. You're frightened.

Narrator

People, where are you?

Eve

Empty street. Stop yelling.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

People, where are you?

Michael

Hold.

Eve

Hold me.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

What's happened to us? What?

Michael

No.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

No. I gotta stop asking questions. I gotta keep going. I gotta find someone. They'll tell us. They'll. Eve. What? Tremble. What is it? Eve.

Eve

Michael. I just thought.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Thought?

Eve

Why all these empty streets? Michael, listen to me. What if there is no one else, huh? What if you and I are the only ones left? Michael.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Yes?

Eve

I. I can't walk another step.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

All right, we'll rest.

Eve

Where?

Michael

Anywhere.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Doesn't matter much, does it? All New York's ours.

Michael

You ought to know that by now.

Unknown Minor Character

No.

Eve

No, don't look.

Michael

You know where we are?

Eve

No.

Michael

Broadway, Times Square.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Well, I give you Time Square. It's all yours. Wedding presents.

Narrator

Yeah.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Yours. Shops and big signs. And all the taxi cabs and buses and cars standing around.

Narrator

Yours.

Mr. O (Arch Ovler)

Eve.

Narrator

Yours.

Michael

To have or to lose or burn up.

Eve

Michael, please.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

I'm sorry, honey. Guess I'm a little goofy. Let's keep going.

Eve

All right. Tired? Yeah. It's going to get dark soon.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Yeah.

Eve

Will there be light?

Michael

Nope.

Eve

How do you know?

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

I tried the light switches all along the way.

Eve

I won't be afraid in the dark.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Well, I guess that's one advantage we've got.

Eve

Coming from the country, There'll be people there, won't there?

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

I don't think so.

Eve

Why do you say that?

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Well, when we went to that store before, there were radio sets, battery ones. I tried them when you weren't looking. There was nothing on the air.

Eve

What does that mean?

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

It means what you said before. Maybe it's true.

Eve

Where's the only? The only?

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Yeah.

Eve

Somehow I'm not as frightened as I was.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Me neither. My head. I'm just all mixed up, that's all. They left the doors open and the automobiles right in the middle of the street. And everything's just as if they stopped right in the middle of what they were doing. But why? Why? That word's got me dizzy, chasing around in my head.

Eve

Michael.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Millions of people. Where have they disappeared to? If we only had some idea. Any idea. Michael, what's the matter? Why are you.

Eve

That newspaper right at your feet, huh? Pick it up. The headline,

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

War Fury Rages. Armies March in Europe.

Eve

Well, the headline.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Well, what of it?

Michael

The same one as this movie.

Eve

Couldn't that be the answer?

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Answer to what? What are you talking about?

Eve

Why they disappeared.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Eve, get hold of yourself. What's a war thousands of miles away got to do with this?

Eve

Maybe it's the same over there.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

People gone?

Eve

Yes.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Let's keep going. No, the curb. Let's sit here.

Eve

All right.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Now, you got to tell me what you started to say.

Eve

Don't don't laugh at me when I say it, Michael.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Just tell me.

Eve

Maybe God got tired of it.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

What?

Eve

He's been so patient, waiting all these years for people to learn how to live on the earth. So today, well, he just got tired and took everybody away. Michael, don't look at me like that is what I said anyway, more crazy than. Than what's happened. Look. This street should be like daylight with electric signs. There should be so many people around us and automobiles coming and going and streetcars and a whole city living. But there's nothing, Michael. Who else but God could have taken them away? Why can't it be true? He got so tired of the horrible mess they were making of things that he. He took them away. Yes, that's it. He took.

Mr. O (Arch Ovler)

No.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Stop it. No, it's crazy talk. I won't listen.

Eve

Crazy because we don't understand.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

It's impossible, I tell you.

Eve

Why is it impossible, Michael? I don't know very much, but I know this. I've been thinking about it all the time we've been walking. Call the way people got here on earth any name you want. But no matter how you say it, when you really think about it, it's all a miracle. Things joining in the empty air and growing and burning and cooling. The animals growing out of things that couldn't move. The animals changing for millions of years until there were men. I tell you, it's all crazy and impossible, and yet someone made it happen. So why not this? If he made men, why couldn't he get tired of the way they were doing things and destroy them?

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

I can't believe it's you talking.

Eve

Michael, I. I think I'm saying the truth. Someone made mankind, and that someone just destroyed them.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Then what are we doing here? We're flesh and blood like the rest.

Eve

Maybe he just forgot us, or maybe.

Michael

Why?

Eve

It doesn't matter.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Tell me.

Eve

Maybe you and I. Well, maybe he wanted just a couple of people to start over with.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

You say crazy things and. And then you say crazier ones.

Eve

Oh, what if it's true? Michael, think. What if it's true? The things you set up on the roof during the storm. Those good things. Maybe he heard them and liked them.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Getting so dark.

Eve

Maybe he heard them and liked them.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

I'm awfully tired. Let's find a place to sleep.

Eve

All right.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

I'll help you up.

Eve

Where will we go?

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Anyplace. We can go anyplace Now?

Eve

Yes, Let's hurry. It'll be terrible on the streets when it's very dark.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Yes.

Eve

No, wait, Michael.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

Huh?

Eve

Why should we hurry and be afraid? Who can harm us now?

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

You're right, Oliver. The harm is out of the city.

Eve

Now, Michael, you don't quite believe all the things I said before. But tomorrow, when the sun is shining again and we really know that this happened and isn't kind of a dream. You'll believe then, won't you, Michael?

Michael

Maybe you're.

Eve

You're thinking something. Tell me what, huh?

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

If what you think did happen, and maybe. Maybe he left a few more people like us at different places on the earth. I mean, plain, ordinary people could join together and make a new world. We'll have to help run things, Michael.

Eve

Yes, but.

Michael (alternate tag or continuation)

But, Eve, we don't know anything about running a world. You and I, we're. We're just you and me. How can we do better than. And they did, the millions of them.

Eve

Maybe. Maybe by remembering something, they sort of forgot what. It's just to do unto others as they should do unto you.

Mr. O (Arch Ovler)

This is our job. Our play has ended. And may it always continue to be just that. A play. The actors, by the way, were the very gifted Mercedes McCambridge and Byron Cain. Next time we meet, a favorite story of mine, and perhaps some of you will remember it from the past. I'll tell you more about it after a message from your station.

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The world has known many kinds of love, but a deep, unselfish love is both noble and beautiful. This is Claire Bloom speaking for the March of Dimes. All of us know life must sometimes hold suffering and pain. But the one who loves endures. In this country, a quarter of a million babies are born each year with birth defects. That means 700 children a day. And how much love and understanding they all need. There are far too many forms of crippling. That's why the March of Dimes works, to prevent birth defects. This work is supported by the compassionate concern of people like you. You see, the March of Dimes fights birth defects through scientific research, public education and medical service programs and contributions, an expression of your much needed interest and support are so very important. Remember, birth defects are forever unless you help. Please give to the March of dimes.

Mr. O (Arch Ovler)

This is Mr. O. Again. Ugliness. They tell us that's all a state of mind. What is beautiful in Hollywood terms, for example, is grotesque in the eyes of a New guinea tribesman. What is lovely in the eyes of an Australian bushman would cause snickers on an Atlantic City boardwalk. Ugliness.

Old Time Retro Radio Announcer

Beauty.

Mr. O (Arch Ovler)

I invite you to listen next time to the freak. It is

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later

Old Time Retro Radio Announcer

than

Mr. O (Arch Ovler)

you. You think?