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And now with a marvelous barastro produced and directed by William Spear 22 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:24,080 and with the performance of Orson Welles we again hope to keep you in suspense. 23 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:31,760 This is William Spear. Three weeks ago I was seated in my office pouring over possible future 24 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:37,360 stories with which to hold you in suspense when a stranger appeared unannounced. I am the marvelous 25 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:42,000 barastro I've come to tell you a story. How did you get in here? I am a magician by trade I do 26 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:48,880 such things perhaps you've heard of me barastro. No. I'm the greatest magician alive. No that is 27 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:55,440 not so I am the second greatest but soon I will be first. I am leaving tonight for Mexico City. You 28 00:02:55,440 --> 00:03:00,080 see me now for the first and last time you will never see me again no one will ever see me again. 29 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:05,200 It is the last of barastro. How's that? I'm going to Mexico City to murder a man. 30 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:13,200 Uh well. His name is Rico Sansone. Why are you going to kill him? Because he is the most evil 31 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:19,520 man in the world. I've been waiting 20 years for his name to appear. For as long as he chose to 32 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:25,520 hide there was no hope. He's too clever far too clever even for me. But I knew that his vanity 33 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:31,680 would betray him and that someday I would read again the name Rico Sansone. I knew he would return 34 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:36,640 to the stage. Is he a magician? He's greatest to ever live. The most profound the most subtle 35 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:43,040 and the most evil. He's greater than I. He begins his first performance in 20 years in Mexico 36 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:48,720 next week. I will be there to see it. Well I would like to hear your story. I can tell you all but 37 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:55,360 the end that I will be unable to provide now but you will find it out for yourself. Well I'd like 38 00:03:55,360 --> 00:04:00,320 to hear what you can tell me. I will tell you Mr. Spearbutt on one condition. And that? I must have 39 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:05,040 your oath not to interfere. Oh really now you can understand I can scarcely give you that after all. 40 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:12,320 Ah very well very well very well. I would take my chances with you. The story begins 20 years ago. 41 00:04:23,840 --> 00:04:29,360 I was a young man. I traveled as a magician with a small carnival through southeastern Europe. 42 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:34,400 One night we came to a village in Malo Russia. Our cymbals sounded, our torches flickered in the 43 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:39,280 spring wind and the villagers gathered around our tents and wagons. I had taken my place in the black 44 00:04:39,280 --> 00:04:44,240 box outside my tent. There were holes in the box through which I could watch the crowd while the 45 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:51,440 barker made his announcement. Barastro the marvel of marble. Barastro the magician who speaks with 46 00:04:51,440 --> 00:05:00,640 the dead and reads the secrets of life. At this moment, at this moment I saw her for the first time. 47 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:08,560 Her young and gentle face surprised me among so many peasants. I said to myself what a strange girl, 48 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:14,240 what a beautiful child. I kept watching her. I couldn't keep my eyes away from her. At length an 49 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:21,680 old peasant led her in holding her by the hand. I saw at once that she was blind. My granddaughter 50 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:28,560 would like you to tell her future. Can you tell my future? Yes. Will it be a happy one my future? 51 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:37,280 Hold out your hand and I will tell you. Here. A dark mist passed over me. I felt a sudden 52 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:43,600 chill as I touched her hand. I listened to the voices which would tell the future. Sorrow sorrow 53 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:52,640 they breathe. Pain and sorrow. Fly run. I studied the girl's face. A fear gripping at my heart. 54 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:58,320 Her large cyclous eyes were calm resigned. I could not bring myself to tell her what I saw. 55 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:06,480 These spirits promise you happiness. I lied. Your hands will touch beautiful things. 56 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:13,040 Love and delight will await you. Oh thank you sir. Thank you. 57 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:28,960 That was the beginning. Her face haunted me that night. I could not sleep. I'm in inquiries the 58 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:34,000 next morning and I found her. We walked through the hills. She did not need my hand to guide her. 59 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:39,600 She knew every stone, every turn of the path. She spoke of the trees around her. She had strange 60 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:45,440 names for them. I call that tree lullaby because it sings when it sways in the wind. Lullaby. 61 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:52,800 And that one see when its branches open towards heaven. I call that one prayer. How do you know 62 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:58,480 its branches open toward the sky? When I was younger I climbed it. Anna. Come I'll raise you 63 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:04,560 to the bed of flowers at the turn. Anna. Hurry I ran far. We walked often through the hills. 64 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:11,040 I knew that she was aware of her destiny. The stars had told me she would not live long. 65 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:19,760 And that agony and terror awaited for her on the short journey. Our caravan remained for two weeks 66 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:27,040 in the village. At the end of that time I asked Anna to come with me as my wife. You make me very 67 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:34,080 happy Shari. I could live only with you. I will love you with all my heart. And you will teach me 68 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:42,960 Shari. You will teach me to see. To see? Does one need eyes to see as you do? Shari you will teach 69 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:50,640 me to see beyond the horizons. You will teach me to see as you see. We were married. We rode 70 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:59,760 together in the gilded wagon and the vows were taken under a clear sky. Suddenly the sky changed. 71 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:09,120 It was only then that I realized what I had done in seeking to save her. I was fulfilling the 72 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:19,360 terrible message of the stars. For it was I Shari Barastro who was the instrument fate had selected 73 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:37,360 for her ruin. Then it came. One night as I stood in the black box outside my tent 74 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:48,880 I knew that I needed no further word from the mists of prophecy. It was there. It had come. 75 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:57,200 He stood among the peasants before our tent. A graceful figure smiling, leaning on his cane. 76 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:02,480 A man of the world amusingly out of place in this far away little village. I looked at him through 77 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:10,560 the holes in my box as I looked. I turned cold. I watched him and I felt afraid. He was studying 78 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:16,480 Anna. Never once did he stop looking at her. My temper is quick and fiery. I went up to him 79 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:22,160 as he was watching Anna. How subtle he was. How graceful. I seized his arm and demanded to know 80 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:26,880 what he meant by staring at my wife. He removed my hand as if I were a child. I can tell you there 81 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:32,800 was something, something terrifying in his strength. My most humbly beg your pardon for this 82 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:37,600 misunderstanding. Let me introduce myself. My name is Rico Sansone. I'm a student of the occult 83 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:42,560 traveling about the world in search of knowledge. Inside of me I feel that girl has the remarkable 84 00:09:42,560 --> 00:09:48,240 psychic powers. I'd hope to be able to induce her to join me as my assistant. Soon planning to go 85 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:54,400 on the stage but now that I know she's your wife I apologize again for my seeming forwardness. 86 00:09:54,400 --> 00:10:04,800 Oh I suppose there's nothing to do but to accept that apology. And you madame? 87 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:15,760 Anna, I think it is fair Anna. Anna? No, I have nothing to say. 88 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:27,040 I have nothing to say. It was thus Rico Sansone entered our lives. Little by little during the 89 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:32,800 days that followed he attached himself to us. We listened, Anna and I, to his tales. He'd been 90 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:39,120 everywhere, seen everything. He brought the world into our gilded wagon. In his presence I always 91 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:46,000 felt elated and flattered. Thus does a man move in the grip of his destiny. Thus do we dig with 92 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:52,800 our own hands the appointed grave for our happiness. For one night Anna came to me 93 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:58,800 and took my hands and told me something that made my heart grow black. 94 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:06,800 Shari, Rico Sansone has made love to me. Anna. I've done nothing wrong. I'm afraid of Rico. 95 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:14,640 I tell you this so you will understand my fear. You, you want to tell me about it now? Yes. 96 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:22,880 Tell me then. Rico came to me this afternoon while I was alone. He took my hand and held it gently 97 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:29,680 in his. I suspected nothing until he asked me if I loved you and how deeply I loved you. 98 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:36,320 Then he asked me if I love you more than happiness or life. I took my hand from him and said I cannot 99 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:46,320 talk of love to you. Even if my love for my husband, please go. Yes? Rico. She's told you. 100 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:53,520 Shari, forgive me. For a moment I grew weak. Let me remain your friend. I brought you both some 101 00:11:53,520 --> 00:12:04,560 flowers. I picked them myself. Will you accept them? You won't accept them? Of course we will, my friend. 102 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:09,920 How good I have doubted you. I understand. Come, forget the entire incident. 103 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:15,520 You are kind. Really, you're kind. 104 00:12:24,560 --> 00:12:29,600 This was the third month of our friendship and now I began to feel it was my companionship he desired. 105 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:37,600 Not Anna's. We spent long hours together without Anna under his wing. I was afraid of him. 106 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:43,680 We spent long hours together without Anna under his care. My mind was expanding. My power was developing. 107 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:50,400 He seemed interested in my every move and again I was flattered, lured, disarmed. You have a funny 108 00:12:50,400 --> 00:13:01,200 way of saying the word beautiful, my friend. How is it you said? Beautiful. That's it. That's it. 109 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:11,520 Beautiful. Is that all right? You're telling me about the Houdini method of the respiration. 110 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:21,840 Oh yes, so I was. Beautiful. Very good. I like you, Shari. I like you very much. 111 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:29,040 Amazing, isn't it? Amazing how one can be drawn in by flattery and charm. 112 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:36,160 Then one day I was sitting in my tent. When a curious sense came over me I felt a pressure on 113 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:43,760 my heart as if a hand were closing around it with a warning. I left quickly. I hurried to the apartment. 114 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:48,720 Anna had remained there. She frequently did in the afternoon. I found myself running toward the door. 115 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:57,840 I paused, waited until I recovered my breath and then forcing a smile to my lips opened the door. 116 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:12,560 Oh, I saw Rico. Rico standing with his arms around her face raised to his lips. 117 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:17,600 Speechless, powerless, I looked at them. I heard her voice murmuring words of love. 118 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:24,880 Her arms moved around his neck and she kissed him. Then I heard his voice. 119 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:36,000 Anna, Anna my darling. Shari my love. Anna my darling, my beautiful darling. 120 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:44,160 My beautiful darling. The sound of his voice a horror seized me. Now I knew why he had spent 121 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:51,280 so many hours with me. Why he was so interested. It was my voice. It was Barastro talking. 122 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:56,640 It was a voice that seemed to come from my own throat. A horrible familiar voice and I understood 123 00:14:56,640 --> 00:15:02,320 what had happened. I sprang forward shouting his name Rico. He turned and faced me. He pointed 124 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:06,160 his finger at me as if he were an image in a mirror. Rico! The echo. 125 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:20,720 Murder was in my heart. I flew at this monster. We struggled across the room. He answered my cries 126 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:27,840 with cries that echoed his notes. His inflection of my voice. I saw him through my rage. His face was 127 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:35,440 contorted like my own. His every feature had changed. He was Barastro. There were two Barastros 128 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:38,160 screaming together, tumbling over each other. 129 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:53,200 He held me in his hands. In his hands that were like steel. I could not move or cry out. 130 00:15:53,200 --> 00:16:00,480 His hand was on my throat. I lay gasping crazed and it was Barastro who was holding me. 131 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:08,400 Then this horrible and familiar figure changed. It became Rico. It was Rico Sansone who spoke. 132 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:14,640 The breath was leaving my body. I was strangling dying yet I could hear him. Barastro, God, you're 133 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:24,480 killing me. Shari Shaya Merzi, I'm dying. His voice was faint. I felt in this moment the 134 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:31,920 agonies of a hundred deaths. For as my eyes grew dark, I saw with horror the thing he had in his mind. 135 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:38,560 He was pretending it was I who was killing him and thus he would kill me and go to her. 136 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:44,480 He would be Barastro. It would be Rico Sansone who would be buried. It would be Barastro who 137 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:49,520 remained. For a moment I caught a glimpse of his cold ruthless eyes burning now over my face as 138 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:55,200 he enacted his false death groaning, pleading for mercy and the strength drawn from his soul filled 139 00:16:55,200 --> 00:17:02,960 my lungs. I cried out with all my might, Anna, Anna! Knowing that by this she would understand 140 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:11,520 that it was I, I who was dying and darkness, darkness seized me. 141 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:27,120 An hour had passed when I opened my eyes. My head was splitting. My throat was stiffened. I raised 142 00:17:27,120 --> 00:17:34,880 myself and looked. He was gone. I saw her. She was standing in the corner of the room, crouched 143 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:39,760 against the wall, her hand against her teeth and staring, staring into the terrible dark around her. 144 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:48,880 Anna! I whispered to her, Anna! It is I, Anna. I, Shari. 145 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:59,920 Anna! Oh, God! Anna, please! Anna! Anna, darling, listen to me! Anna, give me your hand! Anna! 146 00:17:59,920 --> 00:18:07,440 Anna, listen! It is I, Anna! Anna! Shari, your husband, Anna! Listen, Anna! Remember, Anna! 147 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:13,440 Remember! Remember when we first kissed! When we first kissed, Anna! That time on the hill, Anna, 148 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:19,280 remember! I called you little princess, remember, Anna, and Anna about your trees, Anna, about lullaby, 149 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:25,360 the names you had for them, lullaby and prayer, Anna! One with its branches pointing toward him, 150 00:18:25,360 --> 00:18:35,360 the one we climbed, Anna, please! Anna, please! Please, Anna! It is I, Anna! Come here, listen! 151 00:18:35,360 --> 00:18:46,080 Listen carefully, Anna! The spirits promise you happiness. Your hands will touch beautiful things. 152 00:18:46,080 --> 00:19:03,040 Love and delight await you. Oh, Shari! Oh, my darling! My Anna, my sweet! Oh, Shari, hold me close! 153 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:09,040 Yes, my darling, yes. Oh, my spirit, you are his darling. There, there, my darling, it's all right now. 154 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:17,040 It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. 155 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:27,040 Oh, my darling, oh, my darling! 156 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:37,040 Rico had disappeared. We laid our plans, Anna and I. As soon as she was able to walk, we abandoned the carnival. 157 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:43,040 We were in separate revenge. She could not bear to have me wait for a moment. I understood everything, everything in her soul. 158 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:51,040 Yes, even the trembling that would seize her sometimes when I took her in my hand. It was I alone he could not deceive. 159 00:19:51,040 --> 00:20:01,040 I alone, to anyone else, he could become Barastro, even to her, whose senses had learned every breath, 160 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:11,040 every inflection of the man she loved. Even to her, he had been Barastro. 161 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:21,040 The months passed. Her life had become again almost like a honeymoon. Almost, I say, for there were nights when I would awake 162 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:31,040 to find her fingers tracing the contours of my face. Then it was I pretended to be ill and remained at her side. 163 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:39,040 We said nothing, but we knew the shadow, the shadow in each other's mind. Everything went smoothly, though, until one evening. 164 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:45,040 When I entered the cabaret, when I was performing, I felt unusually disturbed. It was winter. 165 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:53,040 I was removing my coat when it came again. As I had known it would, the warning, the hand closing over my heart. 166 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:59,040 I ran from the place and raced home. I entered our cottage by the back door quietly like a thief, and I stood listening. 167 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:03,040 From inside, I could hear a voice. 168 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:11,040 Oh, sorry, dear. Darling, you're ill again. I'll take care of you, darling. I'll make you feel better. 169 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:15,040 Anna, my dear Anna, how I love you. 170 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:29,040 He was back. One doesn't reason. One does not reason in the midst of a nightmare. 171 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:35,040 Yet terror can wake the mind to a clairvoyance and understanding beyond thought. 172 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:44,040 I stood motionless, silent, listening. The light was turned out. I heard her laugh, laugh like a child in the dark. 173 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:53,040 And this sound killed me. Yes, one is dead forever. When happiness is torn from the heart. 174 00:21:53,040 --> 00:22:00,040 I wanted to rush into the room. I wanted to shout, Anna, Anna, don't touch him. He's Rico. 175 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:05,040 But instead, I slept quickly from the house. I walked in the cold streets. My thoughts returned. 176 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:12,040 I had acted out of one clear impulse. Through the terror and agony of those moments when I heard him take her in his arms, 177 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:19,040 there had remained a certainty above everything else. I must save her. 178 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:25,040 And I knew I had acted wisely had I rushed into the room and made a noise. 179 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:37,040 She would have died. She would have known in that moment, as I knew listening to him, that he had been there before. 180 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:46,040 That he had been there before. That he had crept through our defenses as our shadow creeps. 181 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:53,040 And we had not known. I thought of them together as I walked. 182 00:22:53,040 --> 00:23:02,040 And then I thought again that I had only to rush back to speak her name. Yes, and destroy her. 183 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:10,040 Destroy her. I kept on walking. And as I walked, I began to understand him. Yes, I was dealing with a monster. 184 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:16,040 He would manage to leave her, as he must have done so often before, a few moments before I was due to return from the cabaret. 185 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:21,040 And if I sensed something was wrong, he would rely on my lover to keep this sense of secret. 186 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:27,040 He knew me well. He understood I would allow my heart to be eaten away with grief. 187 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:32,040 And I would not make a sign lest I destroy her whom I love more than myself. 188 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:40,040 It was I who must be careful. Not he. Yes, he knew me. He gambled on me. 189 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:43,040 I determined to kill him the first moment I saw him. 190 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:48,040 And I began to think. To think of his superhuman strength. 191 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:53,040 That he might kill me, even as he had first intended. 192 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:56,040 And that he would go on living with her as per astro. 193 00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:00,040 She would never know I was dead. She would continue to love me in his arms. 194 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:04,040 To press her kisses upon my murderer. 195 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:09,040 And this was the thought that contained in it. The fullest measure of horror. 196 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:15,040 The thought of that moment when she would see him. 197 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:22,040 And not me. You understand the grief? The grief of that night? 198 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:27,040 Yes, it is fortunate I cannot remember it all. 199 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:32,040 I returned home. At the time, at the time Rico wanted me to. 200 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:36,040 I wasn't careful about my coming. I trusted him. 201 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:43,040 Do you understand? I trusted him that out of his evil he would spare her. 202 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:47,040 As I spared her out of love. 203 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:53,040 I entered the bedroom, opened the door and walked in. She was alone. 204 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:57,040 Anna. Anna dear. 205 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:05,040 Anna! Anna, it's I. It's I, it's not Rico, it's I. It's I. 206 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:10,040 Anna! Anna! 207 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:20,040 This is my memory of Anna. My memory. 208 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:26,040 She seized her face with her hands. As if she were tearing something. 209 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:32,040 Yes, the darkness. As I rushed towards she fell. 210 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:54,040 She did not speak again. In the morning she died. 211 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:58,040 That is the story as nearly in Barastro's words as I can remember them. 212 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:02,040 When he finished he got up quietly, looked at me a moment and said, 213 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:09,040 Thank you for listening to me Mr. Spear. You understand now my prediction that there will be one less magician alive in the world within a fortnight. 214 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:15,040 And he turned and left my office. I must admit that the whole thing shook me rather badly. 215 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:21,040 I've been spent the whole week wondering if something might happen. Something I couldn't predict this morning. 216 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:28,040 I think perhaps it came, at least while I was reading through the theatrical weekly variety and my eye caught a notice. 217 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:33,040 You probably saw it too, of a magician who had been killed in Mexico City. 218 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:38,040 The account said that two magicians had been together in an automobile accident. 219 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:46,040 While driving through the railyard district their car stalled on a track and had been demolished by an oncoming train. 220 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:51,040 One of the magicians, unidentifiable, had been cut to pieces. 221 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,040 The other miraculously escaped with his life. 222 00:26:54,040 --> 00:27:01,040 Although his features were so horribly disfigured that plastic surgery will have to create a new face for him. 223 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:21,040 The survivor identified himself as the Marvelous Barastro. 224 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:26,040 And so closes Ben Heck's story of the Marvelous Barastro starring Orson Welles. 225 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:35,040 Tonight's tale of suspense. 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It was a great pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, as it always is, to appear as a purveyor of suspense. 239 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:54,040 And next week, Mr. Spear would like me to tell you that Mr. Ed Gardner, better known to you as Archie, 240 00:28:54,040 --> 00:29:00,040 the elite proprietor of Duffy's Tavern, will make his debut as a dramatic actor. 241 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:08,040 Mr. Spear has also asked me to mention that Orson Welles played the part of both magicians on the program tonight. 242 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:17,040 Universal Pictures would like me to mention that Orson Welles plays a magician in a new picture of theirs called Follow the Boys. 243 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,040 Or is it Orson Welles? 244 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:26,040 Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Ed Gardner radio's famous Archie in Suspense. 245 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:32,040 Presented by Roma wines, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 246 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:47,040 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.