1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:22,440 Loma wines present suspense. 2 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:28,400 Loma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 3 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:31,120 Salute for your health, Signor. 4 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:33,560 Loma wines toast the world. 5 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:40,040 The wine for your table is Loma wine, made in California for enjoyment throughout the 6 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:43,040 world. 7 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:53,080 This is the man in black here for the Loma wine company of Fresno, California to introduce 8 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:55,600 this weekly half hour of suspense. 9 00:00:55,600 --> 00:01:01,640 Tonight from Hollywood, Loma wines bring you a star, Mr. Paul Muny. 10 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:07,240 And so through Seale Fletcher's play for broadcasting called The Search for Henri Lafave, and with 11 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:31,800 the performance of Paul Muny, we again hope to keep you in suspense. 12 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,880 I had just set down the last note on paper. 13 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:38,240 You know what it is to write a piece. 14 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:41,560 The agony, the drudgery, the exaltation. 15 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:44,560 A fever consumes one. 16 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:46,560 Hours melt away at the piano. 17 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,160 Time, people mean nothing. 18 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,920 The world revolves around this rocking song, this tender magic. 19 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:59,040 A heavenly feeling comes into your heart and nestles there. 20 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,120 So it was with this music. 21 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,600 I had just set down the last note on paper. 22 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:09,000 I was happy and weary and full of peace. 23 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:13,560 I lay down on the sofa to relax before Suzette brought my supper. 24 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,520 There's a radio near the couch. 25 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:35,120 That night I turned it on. 26 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:39,440 You know what it is to feel horror, true horror, the animal thing. 27 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:43,200 I've seen horror many times grimacing at me out of the corner of my room. 28 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:44,640 But this time it was upon me. 29 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:46,720 It was in my brain. 30 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:55,240 For that music on the radio playing now was the music I had just set down on paper. 31 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:56,240 Suzette! 32 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:57,240 Suzette! 33 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:58,240 Yes, Monsieur? 34 00:02:58,240 --> 00:02:59,240 Suzette, come here. 35 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:00,240 Listen to this thing. 36 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:01,240 You hear it, don't you? 37 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:02,240 This is real music playing? 38 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:03,240 Yes, Monsieur Flynn. 39 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:04,240 The radio's playing real music. 40 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:05,240 It is not an illusion, a hallucination of some kind of my own. 41 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:06,240 I'm not a hallucinator. 42 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:07,240 I'm a hallucinator. 43 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:08,240 I'm a hallucinator. 44 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:09,240 I'm a hallucinator. 45 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:10,240 I'm a hallucinator. 46 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:11,240 I'm a hallucinator. 47 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:12,240 I'm a hallucinator. 48 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:13,240 I'm a hallucinator. 49 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:14,240 I'm a hallucinator. 50 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:15,240 It's at the end of my own brain. 51 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:16,240 No, Monsieur Flynn. 52 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:17,880 It is real music and very pretty. 53 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:18,880 Pretty? 54 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:20,000 What is the matter, Monsieur? 55 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:21,160 Is anything wrong? 56 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,220 Don't you like it? 57 00:03:23,220 --> 00:03:24,220 No, no. 58 00:03:24,220 --> 00:03:25,320 Leave it on. 59 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:26,720 Leave it alone. 60 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:28,160 Listen to it. 61 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:32,500 Sit there beside the radio and I shall get it for you. 62 00:03:32,500 --> 00:03:33,500 What, Monsieur? 63 00:03:33,500 --> 00:03:34,500 My score! 64 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:35,920 Look at it. 65 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,080 Note to note. 66 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:41,080 I play my tonality, the oboe solo. 67 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:45,080 And I thought, it's a joke. 68 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,080 A joke, an incredible joke! 69 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:50,080 Oh, monsieur, I cannot read music. 70 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:51,080 I do not understand. 71 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:55,080 Perhaps someone in this building has heard me play. 72 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,080 But no, no, this orchestration is the same, 73 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:03,080 and the orchestration is a secret, quiet thing that one does alone. 74 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:07,080 Perhaps they have stolen the score. 75 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,080 Someone has copied it. 76 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,080 But I only finished it this afternoon. 77 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,080 It has been here in a drawer and on the piano. 78 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:21,080 Unless, unless someone else. 79 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:27,080 There is someone else, someone like me, 80 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:32,080 with my brain, my soul, a kind of double. 81 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,080 Eh! 82 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,080 It is over now, monsieur. 83 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:38,080 Do you want me to turn it off? 84 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:39,080 Oh, no, no. 85 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:41,080 See what they announce. 86 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,080 See what they dare to say. 87 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:50,080 You've been listening to the Elegy for Orchestra, Opus 42, by Henri Lefebvre. 88 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,080 Henri Lefebvre! 89 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:55,080 Henri Lefebvre! 90 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,080 Calm yourself, monsieur. 91 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:58,080 Henri Lefebvre! 92 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:00,080 Why, I've never heard of the man. 93 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:03,080 He is an imposter, and they are liars. 94 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:09,080 Give me the broadcasting station at once. 95 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:12,080 She slipped out of the room, 96 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:16,080 and I sat there staring at the freshly written pages. 97 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,080 My brain was reeling. 98 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:23,080 It was, it was my music, every little note, every turn of phrase. 99 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:30,080 Before me, the silent radio faced me like a mocking sardonic spanks. 100 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:32,080 Adolphus, my good fellow, what's happened? 101 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:33,080 Monsieur Picard. 102 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:35,080 I thought it best to bring him, monsieur. 103 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:36,080 Your good friend. 104 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,080 Did you call the broadcasting station? 105 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:39,080 Yes, monsieur. 106 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:40,080 And what did they say? 107 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,080 They said, monsieur, oh, monsieur Picard, I'm afraid... 108 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,080 They said, Adolphus, that it was a piece by Henri Lefebvre. 109 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,080 An old piece, written nearly 15 years ago. 110 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:50,080 What? 111 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,080 Adolphus, dear boy, now try to be calm. 112 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,080 Tell me, you composers are so temperamental. 113 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:59,080 Sit down and try to analyze this thing from a mental viewpoint. 114 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,080 15 years ago? 115 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:04,080 But I finished it today. 116 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,080 The brain is such a queer thing, Adolphus. 117 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:11,080 And a musician's brain, that is still a puzzle to us scientists. 118 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:15,080 Ten years ago, perhaps even 15 years ago, you heard this piece somewhere. 119 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:18,080 Perhaps your conscious brain scarcely noted it. 120 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:19,080 You were thinking your own thoughts, 121 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:23,080 but your subconscious reached out and grasped it for yourself. 122 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:25,080 And now, 15 years later... 123 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,080 What are you trying to say, monsieur Picard? 124 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:30,080 That this piece is not mine? 125 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,080 That I stole it from this imposter? 126 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:35,080 No, no, no, I assure you, my dear Adolphus, 127 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,080 you've always been utterly original. 128 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:40,080 I wrote that piece myself, do you hear? 129 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:45,080 I tore it out bit by bit from my own creative imagination. 130 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:48,080 If I had remembered it, even my own subconscious, 131 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:50,080 would it have come so hard? 132 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:53,080 It would have flowed out like a dream. 133 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:55,080 But I had to struggle. 134 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:59,080 I had to be gracious and disgust this coder. 135 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,080 And you say it was exactly this way on the radio? 136 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:06,080 Exactly as though they had copied out the parts in the twinkling of an eye. 137 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,080 And an orchestra was reading my score. 138 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:11,080 It's very strange, isn't it? 139 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:16,080 The man either stole my piece somehow, or else... 140 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:19,080 there was some terrible coincidence, 141 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:23,080 some simultaneous crooked streak of identical inspiration 142 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:25,080 that leaped across the world. 143 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:28,080 Who is this Henri Lefebvre? 144 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:33,080 I should like to know him, to confront him face to face. 145 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:36,080 Henri Lefebvre? You've never heard of him, Adolphus? 146 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:38,080 No. 147 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:41,080 He was a rather famous composer in my youth, 148 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:43,080 a writer of symphonies and operas. 149 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:48,080 And what has happened to him? Is he still alive? 150 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:51,080 It is an interesting question, Adolphus. 151 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:54,080 I must confront him. Do you hear, Mr. Pigard? 152 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:57,080 I'm convinced that there's something unreal about all this. 153 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:00,080 Fate has played me some trick. 154 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:05,080 There is some horrible linkage between this man and myself. 155 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:11,080 Some string vibrating in his brain which has caused the like vibration in my own. 156 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:13,080 I must find him. 157 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,080 I must somehow break the spell. 158 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:22,080 And supposing this Henri Lefebvre is dead or alive, 159 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:25,080 I must discover where this music came from 160 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:29,080 and what it meant to him 161 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:55,080 and what it may mean to me. 162 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:59,080 Tonight, Roma wines are bringing you a star, Mr. Paul Muny, 163 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:04,080 whom you've heard in the prologue to The Search for Henri Lefebvre. 164 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:16,080 Tonight's study in Suspense. 165 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:21,080 Down in Bermuda, there's a famous club renowned for its fine food and gracious living. 166 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:25,080 Suppose we go there now to the exclusive Carl Beach and Tennis Club 167 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:28,080 and observe a dinner party on the terrace. 168 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:32,080 One of the party, a North American, has just raised a toast to his host. 169 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:37,080 As he lowers his glass, another is raised by his Bermudian friend who says, 170 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:39,080 It has been a pleasure, my friend. 171 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:43,080 And in a way, payment on a pleasant obligation to your United States. 172 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:49,080 For your California has given us this superb wine in which we drink these toasts. 173 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:56,080 So delicate, so excellent in flavor and bouquet that we imported your famous Roma wine. 174 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:01,080 Yes, that is true, for in Roma wines, you will find the uniform qualities 175 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:03,080 which make a wine truly magnificent. 176 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:10,080 A delicacy so delightful, many foreign lands know Roma wines as an expensive, special occasion treat. 177 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:15,080 But for millions of Americans, Roma wines have long been a daily pleasure 178 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:19,080 for greater enjoyment of meals, for delighting their guests, 179 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:22,080 a pleasure which costs you only pennies a glass. 180 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:28,080 For you do not pay high import duties nor expensive shipping charges to enjoy this delicacy 181 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:32,080 which brings you a combination of old world winemaking skill 182 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,080 plus Roma's modern testing and quality controls. 183 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:41,080 No wonder then that Roma wines are America's largest selling wines. 184 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:50,080 Ask for R-O-M-A, Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 185 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:56,080 And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage our star, Paul Muny, 186 00:10:56,080 --> 00:11:12,080 and the search for Henri Lafebvre, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 187 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:19,080 Henri Lafebvre, born 1885 through an fran, educated at the Ecole Normale, 188 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:23,080 fellowship student in composition, the Paris Conservatoire, 189 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:30,080 won Prix de Rome in 1908 with a piece entitled Étude Contre Puntale, 190 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:33,080 studied under Saint-Saens for two years, 191 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:37,080 made first great success with performance of opera Ecdate, 192 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:41,080 which was presented at the Paris Opera in the... 193 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:43,080 Do you want me to go on, monsieur? 194 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:45,080 No, no, no, these dictionaries tell you nothing. 195 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,080 They make everything smell of dust and corruption. 196 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:50,080 Has the meal come in yet? 197 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:53,080 No, monsieur, only the package of music from the library. 198 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:54,080 This music? 199 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:55,080 Yes, monsieur. 200 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,080 Then what are we waiting for? Give it to me. 201 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:07,080 Henri Lafebvre, elegy, opus 42. 202 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:11,080 Incredible to think of all those years. 203 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:16,080 Look, Susette, the paper is already turning yellow. 204 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:21,080 And draving is old-fashioned, and yet it's exactly... 205 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:22,080 Adolfus. 206 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:23,080 Yes? 207 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:24,080 I have a letter from his publishers. 208 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:25,080 He is still alive. 209 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:26,080 Thank God! 210 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:28,080 But there is some mystery about him. 211 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:30,080 They would not give me his present address. 212 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:31,080 What do you mean? 213 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,080 They say they've not heard from him in ten years. 214 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:35,080 His musical output has ceased. 215 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:37,080 He submits nothing, does not answer their letters. 216 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:40,080 Well, then how do you know he's still alive? 217 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:42,080 They occasionally hear from Madame Lafebvre. 218 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:43,080 Madame Lafebvre? 219 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,080 He has a wife who's been living in Wynne. 220 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:47,080 Good! We will write to her at once. 221 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:49,080 That will not be necessary, Adolfus. 222 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:52,080 Now calm yourself. This is the best news of all. 223 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:56,080 Madame Lafebvre has arrived now in this very city. 224 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:58,080 In fact, I brought her here to see you. 225 00:12:58,080 --> 00:12:59,080 Bring her up at once. 226 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:01,080 Adolfus, I beg of you, now calm yourself. 227 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,080 You'll frighten her. You must not be too hasty. 228 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:06,080 I will not frighten her. 229 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:09,080 I will only find out where he is. 230 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:15,080 Or perhaps even seeing her. 231 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:18,080 Sometimes reality shrivels everything. 232 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:22,080 The truth becomes drab, commonplace. 233 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:24,080 This way, Madame Lafebvre. Over here. 234 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:27,080 Yes, Madame, this door. 235 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:32,080 I stood quite motionless in the center of the room. 236 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:38,080 A woman dressed in black confronted me across the waist of the polished floor. 237 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:43,080 She was thin, middle-aged, a little stooped. 238 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,080 Her pale eyes looked washed out with crying. 239 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:50,080 Yet there was another look in them. 240 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:54,080 A look of some drowned in monstrous terror. 241 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:57,080 Monsieur Adolfus Wynne? 242 00:13:57,080 --> 00:13:58,080 Yes. 243 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:01,080 I am Cécile Lafebvre. 244 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:05,080 I have heard that you are searching for my husband, Henri? 245 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:06,080 Yes, Madame. 246 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:08,080 Why do you wish to see him, Monsieur? 247 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:11,080 Why do I wish to see him? 248 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:15,080 You have not heard of my strange predicament, Madame? 249 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:17,080 No, I have heard nothing. 250 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,080 I arrived in this country only today. 251 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,080 You arrived alone? 252 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:23,080 Yes. 253 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:25,080 And your husband? 254 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:29,080 My husband remained in Switzerland, Monsieur. 255 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:30,080 Switzerland? 256 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:32,080 Yes, Monsieur. 257 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,080 He has lived there for many years. 258 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:35,080 But why? 259 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:37,080 I thought they said your home was the one. 260 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:39,080 No, I was my home, Monsieur. 261 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:44,080 My husband and I have been estranged for the last ten years. 262 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:46,080 Oh. 263 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:49,080 But there is much I know about my husband's work. 264 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:52,080 If it is about that, you wish to know. 265 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:54,080 Ten years. 266 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:56,080 You have not seen him for ten years? 267 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:58,080 No, Monsieur. 268 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:05,080 You know his Opus 42, his Elegy for Orchestra? 269 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:06,080 Yes, Monsieur. 270 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,080 When did he write it? 271 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:11,080 About fifteen years ago. 272 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:14,080 Yes, I remember the piece well. 273 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:17,080 I copied out the parts for him myself. 274 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:22,080 Then you would know the music when you see it. 275 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:27,080 Is this the piece, Madame? 276 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,080 Yes, Monsieur. 277 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:33,080 I wrote this music, Madame, a month ago. 278 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:34,080 Out of my own head. 279 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:35,080 Impossible, Monsieur. 280 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:37,080 Impossible? But I tell you it is so. 281 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:38,080 How could it be? 282 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:40,080 This is my husband's piece. 283 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:42,080 I remember the night he wrote it. 284 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:44,080 Hot midsummer night. 285 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:46,080 The windows were open. 286 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:49,080 We could hear the bells of Rouen ringing in the hours. 287 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:51,080 He could not sleep. 288 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:53,080 Our little daughter had been crying. 289 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:57,080 Your little daughter? 290 00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:58,080 Does this distress you, Monsieur? 291 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,080 No, no, no. Please go on. 292 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,080 He wanted to call the piece Parvin for Louise. 293 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:06,080 After our little daughter. 294 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:08,080 But I wouldn't let him. 295 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:09,080 It was too sad, I said. 296 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:13,080 And I made him call it just... just Elegy. 297 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:15,080 But he said it was her piece. 298 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:19,080 That he had been thinking of her crying all the time he set it down. 299 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:25,080 It was as though all the sadness that was in his love for her had gone into the melody. 300 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:29,080 But... but I still don't understand. 301 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:36,080 I wrote this music out of beauty, out of spring sunshine and happiness. 302 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:39,080 He could never understand why it was so popular. 303 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:41,080 He didn't want to publish it. 304 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:46,080 He hid it away saying it was like... like a premonition. 305 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:52,080 He'd come to him like some hideous omen from another world. 306 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:54,080 And he was right, Monsieur. 307 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:56,080 How do you mean? 308 00:16:56,080 --> 00:17:00,080 Our little daughter Louise. 309 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:04,080 She died a little while later. 310 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:06,080 Madame Lefebvre? 311 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:10,080 Yes, Monsieur. I beg your pardon for crying. 312 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:17,080 I do not want to see your husband or hear this music ever again. 313 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:20,080 My search has ended. 314 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:22,080 Do you believe in ghosts, Madame? 315 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:24,080 No, Monsieur. 316 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:27,080 I've been through too much to believe in poor, sad ghosts. 317 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:29,080 But I do. 318 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:37,080 I believe that neither your husband nor myself really wrote that piece. 319 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:44,080 There is some further horror, some demon force at work in this music. 320 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:49,080 It captured him and it has captured me. 321 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:55,080 Tell me, Madame Lefebvre, did your husband write any music after he wrote this piece? 322 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:57,080 Not much more, Monsieur. 323 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:02,080 You mean it racked his brain as it has racked mine? 324 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:04,080 Leaving him without inspiration? 325 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,080 No, no, it was not that. 326 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:09,080 I'm not sure if you're right. He still writes. 327 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:14,080 But nothing he has written for ten years has had any meaning. 328 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:15,080 What do you mean? 329 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:20,080 Monsieur, have you not already guessed the truth? 330 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:22,080 My husband has gone mad. 331 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:28,080 He has been mad for the last ten years, shut up in an asylum in Switzerland. 332 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:29,080 Oh. 333 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:32,080 I have told very few people. 334 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:37,080 It is a form of horrible neurosis, work neurosis the doctors call it. 335 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:40,080 He seems to have lost his heart. 336 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:44,080 The events of his past life are meaningless to him. 337 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:48,080 He has even forgotten our little dead Louise. 338 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:50,080 How terrible. 339 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:54,080 And now he sits in a bare room and writes music all day long. 340 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:56,080 He has become a slave, a machine. 341 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:59,080 They tell me that his shelf is packed with scores. 342 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:02,080 But all of them are only an endless jumble of notes. 343 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:06,080 Notes such as a child might scrawl across the page. 344 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:12,080 And it was the music, the ghost music that did this? 345 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:13,080 Who knows, Monsieur. 346 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,080 Yes. 347 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:19,080 There were seeds of madness in this thing. 348 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:21,080 Even from the beginning. 349 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:23,080 There was something uncanny. 350 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:29,080 Why should that radio play that music just after I had finished the piece? 351 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:36,080 Why should you, you a perfect stranger have come here and found me? 352 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:45,080 Perhaps, perhaps I too am destined to go mad. 353 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:48,080 Monsieur, believe me, people do not go mad so easily. 354 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,080 To be destroyed as my husband was destroyed. 355 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:55,080 One must have deep sadness and love. 356 00:19:55,080 --> 00:20:00,080 One must have human ties, a wife, a beautiful little child. 357 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:03,080 You have no such ties, Monsieur. 358 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:06,080 No. 359 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:09,080 I have no ties. 360 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,080 My husband went mad because he loved too much. 361 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:16,080 When I looked at Louise to hide, he thought that he had killed her. 362 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:19,080 She died of simple pneumonia, but he could never understand. 363 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:21,080 He became insane with grief. 364 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:25,080 He thought he was her murderer. 365 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:34,080 Don't you see, Monsieur, you who live here alone, whose life is so quiet? 366 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:37,080 Madame Lefebvre. 367 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:39,080 I beg your pardon, Monsieur. 368 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:44,080 I have seen you before, Madame Lefebvre. 369 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:49,080 I have met you somewhere. 370 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:52,080 I have heard your story. 371 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:56,080 You have come here before? 372 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,080 No, no, Monsieur. I have never come here before. 373 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:02,080 Then why should your face seem so suddenly familiar? 374 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,080 And your words? 375 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:07,080 There is something uncanny about this thing, Madame. 376 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:11,080 For a moment there, for a moment, I thought I knew. 377 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:13,080 Knew what, Monsieur? 378 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:22,080 I thought I knew you and your husband and Louise, and that I had lived. 379 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:24,080 Monsieur. 380 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:32,080 Perhaps, perhaps it was only in one of my nightmares, but somehow. 381 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,080 Try to remember, please. 382 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:35,080 Remember. 383 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,080 The little house in Rouen. 384 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:38,080 The stone house. 385 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:39,080 Remember. 386 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:40,080 The tree in the garden. 387 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,080 The coffee on Sunday afternoons. 388 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,080 The Bechstein piano by the window. 389 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,080 The bedroom with the calico curtain. 390 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:50,080 The little doll carriage underneath the stairs. 391 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,080 Louise's doll carriage. 392 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:55,080 Louise. 393 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,080 Louise. 394 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:02,080 What have they done to her? 395 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,080 They have taken her away. 396 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:08,080 And I, I have killed her. 397 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:16,080 The little doll carriage waits at the bottom of the stairs, but she will never come back. 398 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:19,080 Never come back. 399 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,080 No, no, no. 400 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,080 She's been dead for ten years. 401 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,080 You must not think of her anymore. 402 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,080 You're getting better. 403 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:30,080 Dr. Picker says you are getting well. 404 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,080 Dr. Picker? 405 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,080 You're a doctor, Henri. 406 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,080 What are you talking about? 407 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,080 I? 408 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,080 I have no doctor. 409 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,080 Don't you see, my darling? 410 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:45,080 Your long search is over. 411 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:49,080 I? 412 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:53,080 I am Henri Lefebvre? 413 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:54,080 Yes, darling. 414 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,080 I? 415 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:58,080 Ha. 416 00:22:58,080 --> 00:22:59,080 Ah. 417 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:03,080 Ha ha ha ha. 418 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:07,080 I am shriveled old man. 419 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:14,080 I locked up in the walls of a lunatic asylum for ten years writing a jumble of notes like a little child. 420 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:18,080 Then who is Adolfus Flann? 421 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,080 A name you made up, darling. 422 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,080 A poor mad name. 423 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:26,080 My symphonies are rubbish, you say? 424 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:31,080 My adoring public are only shadows running across the walls. 425 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:35,080 And these mountains beyond my window. 426 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,080 These mountains. 427 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:38,080 Ha ha ha ha. 428 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:39,080 You are lying to me. 429 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:40,080 Henri. 430 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:43,080 I tell you my name is Adolfus Flann. 431 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:44,080 Look, Henri. 432 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:45,080 This room. 433 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:47,080 These bare white walls. 434 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:48,080 These bars across the window. 435 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,080 This door one cannot open from the inside. 436 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,080 For ten years, Henri. 437 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:57,080 For ten years I have waited for a glimmer to come. 438 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:00,080 For some little memory like that music. 439 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,080 For ten years I have prayed for you every day. 440 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,080 For ten years. 441 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:09,080 While I sat here. 442 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,080 I do not believe it. 443 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:13,080 Dr. Picker. 444 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,080 Henri, my dear fellow. 445 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:16,080 You. 446 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,080 Call me Henri too? 447 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:21,080 I cannot tell you how happy I am, Madame Lefebvre. 448 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:24,080 The experiment has worked beyond our fondest hopes. 449 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,080 I've been listening to every word and you've handled it exactly right. 450 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,080 Monsieur Picker. 451 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,080 Am I Henri Lefebvre? 452 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:32,080 Yes. 453 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:36,080 I have been mad for ten years. 454 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:40,080 You have deceived me for ten years. 455 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,080 I am not Adolfus Flann. 456 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:46,080 Oh, Henri, if you could have known how my heart beat. 457 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,080 When Dr. Picker first telephoned. 458 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,080 And now. 459 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:51,080 Naturally. 460 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:52,080 My poor fellow. 461 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,080 It must be a terrible shock. 462 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,080 After ten years one cannot be cured overnight. 463 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,080 Rest. Much rest will be necessary. 464 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,080 And many little talks. 465 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:04,080 But you will see. 466 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,080 In a few months. 467 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,080 We may hope for something quite remarkable. 468 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:28,080 Monsieur and Madame Lefebvre. 469 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,080 In a few months, he said. 470 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:36,080 In a few months I would be able to go back. 471 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,080 I would take up the threads of my own life. 472 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:43,080 As Henri Lefebvre. 473 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,080 I'm still here. 474 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,080 Here in this room. 475 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,080 With its bare white walls. 476 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:53,080 And its door that locks from the outside. 477 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,080 I'm still here. 478 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:59,080 Although I know now for sure that. 479 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:03,080 My name is Henri Lefebvre. 480 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:07,080 As sadness is in my heart. 481 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:12,080 And a natural pain that I can never conquer. 482 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,080 War has come back. 483 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,080 The stone house. 484 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:20,080 The little doll carriage underneath the stairs. 485 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:25,080 And my arms ache with longing for a little dead child. 486 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:29,080 With long honey colored hair. 487 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,080 There's no music in me now. 488 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,080 No music save that one tune. 489 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:39,080 Which sings in my head all day long. 490 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:43,080 My parven for Louise. 491 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,080 If I could only get it out of my mind. 492 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:50,080 I might be able to work again. 493 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:53,080 I might be happy as I once was happy. 494 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,080 I might look out of my window. 495 00:26:55,080 --> 00:27:00,080 And find a symphony in the sunset on the mountains. 496 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:04,080 That is why I will not go back. 497 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,080 I will not leave this room. 498 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,080 Until I find him again. 499 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:13,080 Until I find. 500 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:36,080 Adolphus Fleck. 501 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:41,080 And so closes the search for Henri Lefebvre by Lucille Fletcher starring Paul Muny. 502 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,080 Tonight's tale of suspense. 503 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:48,080 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 504 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,080 Roma wine makes every meal taste better. 505 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:58,080 That's the proven experience of those who have discovered the flavor complementing magic of these superbly delightful yet inexpensive wines. 506 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:02,080 For a new mealtime thrill, try serving food with 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