WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:22.440 Loma wines present suspense. 00:22.440 --> 00:28.400 Loma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:28.400 --> 00:31.120 Salute for your health, Signor. 00:31.120 --> 00:33.560 Loma wines toast the world. 00:33.560 --> 00:40.040 The wine for your table is Loma wine, made in California for enjoyment throughout the 00:40.040 --> 00:43.040 world. 00:43.040 --> 00:53.080 This is the man in black here for the Loma wine company of Fresno, California to introduce 00:53.080 --> 00:55.600 this weekly half hour of suspense. 00:55.600 --> 01:01.640 Tonight from Hollywood, Loma wines bring you a star, Mr. Paul Muny. 01:01.640 --> 01:07.240 And so through Seale Fletcher's play for broadcasting called The Search for Henri Lafave, and with 01:07.240 --> 01:31.800 the performance of Paul Muny, we again hope to keep you in suspense. 01:31.800 --> 01:34.880 I had just set down the last note on paper. 01:34.880 --> 01:38.240 You know what it is to write a piece. 01:38.240 --> 01:41.560 The agony, the drudgery, the exaltation. 01:41.560 --> 01:44.560 A fever consumes one. 01:44.560 --> 01:46.560 Hours melt away at the piano. 01:46.560 --> 01:49.160 Time, people mean nothing. 01:49.160 --> 01:52.920 The world revolves around this rocking song, this tender magic. 01:52.920 --> 01:59.040 A heavenly feeling comes into your heart and nestles there. 01:59.040 --> 02:02.120 So it was with this music. 02:02.120 --> 02:05.600 I had just set down the last note on paper. 02:05.600 --> 02:09.000 I was happy and weary and full of peace. 02:09.000 --> 02:13.560 I lay down on the sofa to relax before Suzette brought my supper. 02:13.560 --> 02:16.520 There's a radio near the couch. 02:16.520 --> 02:35.120 That night I turned it on. 02:35.120 --> 02:39.440 You know what it is to feel horror, true horror, the animal thing. 02:39.440 --> 02:43.200 I've seen horror many times grimacing at me out of the corner of my room. 02:43.200 --> 02:44.640 But this time it was upon me. 02:44.640 --> 02:46.720 It was in my brain. 02:46.720 --> 02:55.240 For that music on the radio playing now was the music I had just set down on paper. 02:55.240 --> 02:56.240 Suzette! 02:56.240 --> 02:57.240 Suzette! 02:57.240 --> 02:58.240 Yes, Monsieur? 02:58.240 --> 02:59.240 Suzette, come here. 02:59.240 --> 03:00.240 Listen to this thing. 03:00.240 --> 03:01.240 You hear it, don't you? 03:01.240 --> 03:02.240 This is real music playing? 03:02.240 --> 03:03.240 Yes, Monsieur Flynn. 03:03.240 --> 03:04.240 The radio's playing real music. 03:04.240 --> 03:05.240 It is not an illusion, a hallucination of some kind of my own. 03:05.240 --> 03:06.240 I'm not a hallucinator. 03:06.240 --> 03:07.240 I'm a hallucinator. 03:07.240 --> 03:08.240 I'm a hallucinator. 03:08.240 --> 03:09.240 I'm a hallucinator. 03:09.240 --> 03:10.240 I'm a hallucinator. 03:10.240 --> 03:11.240 I'm a hallucinator. 03:11.240 --> 03:12.240 I'm a hallucinator. 03:12.240 --> 03:13.240 I'm a hallucinator. 03:13.240 --> 03:14.240 I'm a hallucinator. 03:14.240 --> 03:15.240 It's at the end of my own brain. 03:15.240 --> 03:16.240 No, Monsieur Flynn. 03:16.240 --> 03:17.880 It is real music and very pretty. 03:17.880 --> 03:18.880 Pretty? 03:18.880 --> 03:20.000 What is the matter, Monsieur? 03:20.000 --> 03:21.160 Is anything wrong? 03:21.160 --> 03:23.220 Don't you like it? 03:23.220 --> 03:24.220 No, no. 03:24.220 --> 03:25.320 Leave it on. 03:25.320 --> 03:26.720 Leave it alone. 03:26.720 --> 03:28.160 Listen to it. 03:28.160 --> 03:32.500 Sit there beside the radio and I shall get it for you. 03:32.500 --> 03:33.500 What, Monsieur? 03:33.500 --> 03:34.500 My score! 03:34.500 --> 03:35.920 Look at it. 03:35.920 --> 03:38.080 Note to note. 03:38.080 --> 03:41.080 I play my tonality, the oboe solo. 03:41.080 --> 03:45.080 And I thought, it's a joke. 03:45.080 --> 03:47.080 A joke, an incredible joke! 03:47.080 --> 03:50.080 Oh, monsieur, I cannot read music. 03:50.080 --> 03:51.080 I do not understand. 03:51.080 --> 03:55.080 Perhaps someone in this building has heard me play. 03:55.080 --> 03:58.080 But no, no, this orchestration is the same, 03:58.080 --> 04:03.080 and the orchestration is a secret, quiet thing that one does alone. 04:03.080 --> 04:07.080 Perhaps they have stolen the score. 04:07.080 --> 04:10.080 Someone has copied it. 04:10.080 --> 04:13.080 But I only finished it this afternoon. 04:13.080 --> 04:16.080 It has been here in a drawer and on the piano. 04:16.080 --> 04:21.080 Unless, unless someone else. 04:21.080 --> 04:27.080 There is someone else, someone like me, 04:27.080 --> 04:32.080 with my brain, my soul, a kind of double. 04:32.080 --> 04:35.080 Eh! 04:35.080 --> 04:37.080 It is over now, monsieur. 04:37.080 --> 04:38.080 Do you want me to turn it off? 04:38.080 --> 04:39.080 Oh, no, no. 04:39.080 --> 04:41.080 See what they announce. 04:41.080 --> 04:44.080 See what they dare to say. 04:44.080 --> 04:50.080 You've been listening to the Elegy for Orchestra, Opus 42, by Henri Lefebvre. 04:50.080 --> 04:53.080 Henri Lefebvre! 04:53.080 --> 04:55.080 Henri Lefebvre! 04:55.080 --> 04:57.080 Calm yourself, monsieur. 04:57.080 --> 04:58.080 Henri Lefebvre! 04:58.080 --> 05:00.080 Why, I've never heard of the man. 05:00.080 --> 05:03.080 He is an imposter, and they are liars. 05:03.080 --> 05:09.080 Give me the broadcasting station at once. 05:09.080 --> 05:12.080 She slipped out of the room, 05:12.080 --> 05:16.080 and I sat there staring at the freshly written pages. 05:16.080 --> 05:18.080 My brain was reeling. 05:18.080 --> 05:23.080 It was, it was my music, every little note, every turn of phrase. 05:23.080 --> 05:30.080 Before me, the silent radio faced me like a mocking sardonic spanks. 05:30.080 --> 05:32.080 Adolphus, my good fellow, what's happened? 05:32.080 --> 05:33.080 Monsieur Picard. 05:33.080 --> 05:35.080 I thought it best to bring him, monsieur. 05:35.080 --> 05:36.080 Your good friend. 05:36.080 --> 05:38.080 Did you call the broadcasting station? 05:38.080 --> 05:39.080 Yes, monsieur. 05:39.080 --> 05:40.080 And what did they say? 05:40.080 --> 05:43.080 They said, monsieur, oh, monsieur Picard, I'm afraid... 05:43.080 --> 05:46.080 They said, Adolphus, that it was a piece by Henri Lefebvre. 05:46.080 --> 05:49.080 An old piece, written nearly 15 years ago. 05:49.080 --> 05:50.080 What? 05:50.080 --> 05:52.080 Adolphus, dear boy, now try to be calm. 05:52.080 --> 05:55.080 Tell me, you composers are so temperamental. 05:55.080 --> 05:59.080 Sit down and try to analyze this thing from a mental viewpoint. 05:59.080 --> 06:02.080 15 years ago? 06:02.080 --> 06:04.080 But I finished it today. 06:04.080 --> 06:07.080 The brain is such a queer thing, Adolphus. 06:07.080 --> 06:11.080 And a musician's brain, that is still a puzzle to us scientists. 06:11.080 --> 06:15.080 Ten years ago, perhaps even 15 years ago, you heard this piece somewhere. 06:15.080 --> 06:18.080 Perhaps your conscious brain scarcely noted it. 06:18.080 --> 06:19.080 You were thinking your own thoughts, 06:19.080 --> 06:23.080 but your subconscious reached out and grasped it for yourself. 06:23.080 --> 06:25.080 And now, 15 years later... 06:25.080 --> 06:28.080 What are you trying to say, monsieur Picard? 06:28.080 --> 06:30.080 That this piece is not mine? 06:30.080 --> 06:32.080 That I stole it from this imposter? 06:32.080 --> 06:35.080 No, no, no, I assure you, my dear Adolphus, 06:35.080 --> 06:37.080 you've always been utterly original. 06:37.080 --> 06:40.080 I wrote that piece myself, do you hear? 06:40.080 --> 06:45.080 I tore it out bit by bit from my own creative imagination. 06:45.080 --> 06:48.080 If I had remembered it, even my own subconscious, 06:48.080 --> 06:50.080 would it have come so hard? 06:50.080 --> 06:53.080 It would have flowed out like a dream. 06:53.080 --> 06:55.080 But I had to struggle. 06:55.080 --> 06:59.080 I had to be gracious and disgust this coder. 06:59.080 --> 07:02.080 And you say it was exactly this way on the radio? 07:02.080 --> 07:06.080 Exactly as though they had copied out the parts in the twinkling of an eye. 07:06.080 --> 07:09.080 And an orchestra was reading my score. 07:09.080 --> 07:11.080 It's very strange, isn't it? 07:11.080 --> 07:16.080 The man either stole my piece somehow, or else... 07:16.080 --> 07:19.080 there was some terrible coincidence, 07:19.080 --> 07:23.080 some simultaneous crooked streak of identical inspiration 07:23.080 --> 07:25.080 that leaped across the world. 07:25.080 --> 07:28.080 Who is this Henri Lefebvre? 07:28.080 --> 07:33.080 I should like to know him, to confront him face to face. 07:33.080 --> 07:36.080 Henri Lefebvre? You've never heard of him, Adolphus? 07:36.080 --> 07:38.080 No. 07:38.080 --> 07:41.080 He was a rather famous composer in my youth, 07:41.080 --> 07:43.080 a writer of symphonies and operas. 07:43.080 --> 07:48.080 And what has happened to him? Is he still alive? 07:48.080 --> 07:51.080 It is an interesting question, Adolphus. 07:51.080 --> 07:54.080 I must confront him. Do you hear, Mr. Pigard? 07:54.080 --> 07:57.080 I'm convinced that there's something unreal about all this. 07:57.080 --> 08:00.080 Fate has played me some trick. 08:00.080 --> 08:05.080 There is some horrible linkage between this man and myself. 08:05.080 --> 08:11.080 Some string vibrating in his brain which has caused the like vibration in my own. 08:11.080 --> 08:13.080 I must find him. 08:13.080 --> 08:16.080 I must somehow break the spell. 08:16.080 --> 08:22.080 And supposing this Henri Lefebvre is dead or alive, 08:22.080 --> 08:25.080 I must discover where this music came from 08:25.080 --> 08:29.080 and what it meant to him 08:29.080 --> 08:55.080 and what it may mean to me. 08:55.080 --> 08:59.080 Tonight, Roma wines are bringing you a star, Mr. Paul Muny, 08:59.080 --> 09:04.080 whom you've heard in the prologue to The Search for Henri Lefebvre. 09:04.080 --> 09:16.080 Tonight's study in Suspense. 09:16.080 --> 09:21.080 Down in Bermuda, there's a famous club renowned for its fine food and gracious living. 09:21.080 --> 09:25.080 Suppose we go there now to the exclusive Carl Beach and Tennis Club 09:25.080 --> 09:28.080 and observe a dinner party on the terrace. 09:28.080 --> 09:32.080 One of the party, a North American, has just raised a toast to his host. 09:32.080 --> 09:37.080 As he lowers his glass, another is raised by his Bermudian friend who says, 09:37.080 --> 09:39.080 It has been a pleasure, my friend. 09:39.080 --> 09:43.080 And in a way, payment on a pleasant obligation to your United States. 09:43.080 --> 09:49.080 For your California has given us this superb wine in which we drink these toasts. 09:49.080 --> 09:56.080 So delicate, so excellent in flavor and bouquet that we imported your famous Roma wine. 09:56.080 --> 10:01.080 Yes, that is true, for in Roma wines, you will find the uniform qualities 10:01.080 --> 10:03.080 which make a wine truly magnificent. 10:03.080 --> 10:10.080 A delicacy so delightful, many foreign lands know Roma wines as an expensive, special occasion treat. 10:10.080 --> 10:15.080 But for millions of Americans, Roma wines have long been a daily pleasure 10:15.080 --> 10:19.080 for greater enjoyment of meals, for delighting their guests, 10:19.080 --> 10:22.080 a pleasure which costs you only pennies a glass. 10:22.080 --> 10:28.080 For you do not pay high import duties nor expensive shipping charges to enjoy this delicacy 10:28.080 --> 10:32.080 which brings you a combination of old world winemaking skill 10:32.080 --> 10:35.080 plus Roma's modern testing and quality controls. 10:35.080 --> 10:41.080 No wonder then that Roma wines are America's largest selling wines. 10:41.080 --> 10:50.080 Ask for R-O-M-A, Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 10:50.080 --> 10:56.080 And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage our star, Paul Muny, 10:56.080 --> 11:12.080 and the search for Henri Lafebvre, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 11:12.080 --> 11:19.080 Henri Lafebvre, born 1885 through an fran, educated at the Ecole Normale, 11:19.080 --> 11:23.080 fellowship student in composition, the Paris Conservatoire, 11:23.080 --> 11:30.080 won Prix de Rome in 1908 with a piece entitled Étude Contre Puntale, 11:30.080 --> 11:33.080 studied under Saint-Saens for two years, 11:33.080 --> 11:37.080 made first great success with performance of opera Ecdate, 11:37.080 --> 11:41.080 which was presented at the Paris Opera in the... 11:41.080 --> 11:43.080 Do you want me to go on, monsieur? 11:43.080 --> 11:45.080 No, no, no, these dictionaries tell you nothing. 11:45.080 --> 11:48.080 They make everything smell of dust and corruption. 11:48.080 --> 11:50.080 Has the meal come in yet? 11:50.080 --> 11:53.080 No, monsieur, only the package of music from the library. 11:53.080 --> 11:54.080 This music? 11:54.080 --> 11:55.080 Yes, monsieur. 11:55.080 --> 11:58.080 Then what are we waiting for? Give it to me. 11:58.080 --> 12:07.080 Henri Lafebvre, elegy, opus 42. 12:07.080 --> 12:11.080 Incredible to think of all those years. 12:11.080 --> 12:16.080 Look, Susette, the paper is already turning yellow. 12:16.080 --> 12:21.080 And draving is old-fashioned, and yet it's exactly... 12:21.080 --> 12:22.080 Adolfus. 12:22.080 --> 12:23.080 Yes? 12:23.080 --> 12:24.080 I have a letter from his publishers. 12:24.080 --> 12:25.080 He is still alive. 12:25.080 --> 12:26.080 Thank God! 12:26.080 --> 12:28.080 But there is some mystery about him. 12:28.080 --> 12:30.080 They would not give me his present address. 12:30.080 --> 12:31.080 What do you mean? 12:31.080 --> 12:33.080 They say they've not heard from him in ten years. 12:33.080 --> 12:35.080 His musical output has ceased. 12:35.080 --> 12:37.080 He submits nothing, does not answer their letters. 12:37.080 --> 12:40.080 Well, then how do you know he's still alive? 12:40.080 --> 12:42.080 They occasionally hear from Madame Lafebvre. 12:42.080 --> 12:43.080 Madame Lafebvre? 12:43.080 --> 12:45.080 He has a wife who's been living in Wynne. 12:45.080 --> 12:47.080 Good! We will write to her at once. 12:47.080 --> 12:49.080 That will not be necessary, Adolfus. 12:49.080 --> 12:52.080 Now calm yourself. This is the best news of all. 12:52.080 --> 12:56.080 Madame Lafebvre has arrived now in this very city. 12:56.080 --> 12:58.080 In fact, I brought her here to see you. 12:58.080 --> 12:59.080 Bring her up at once. 12:59.080 --> 13:01.080 Adolfus, I beg of you, now calm yourself. 13:01.080 --> 13:03.080 You'll frighten her. You must not be too hasty. 13:03.080 --> 13:06.080 I will not frighten her. 13:06.080 --> 13:09.080 I will only find out where he is. 13:09.080 --> 13:15.080 Or perhaps even seeing her. 13:15.080 --> 13:18.080 Sometimes reality shrivels everything. 13:18.080 --> 13:22.080 The truth becomes drab, commonplace. 13:22.080 --> 13:24.080 This way, Madame Lafebvre. Over here. 13:24.080 --> 13:27.080 Yes, Madame, this door. 13:27.080 --> 13:32.080 I stood quite motionless in the center of the room. 13:32.080 --> 13:38.080 A woman dressed in black confronted me across the waist of the polished floor. 13:38.080 --> 13:43.080 She was thin, middle-aged, a little stooped. 13:43.080 --> 13:46.080 Her pale eyes looked washed out with crying. 13:46.080 --> 13:50.080 Yet there was another look in them. 13:50.080 --> 13:54.080 A look of some drowned in monstrous terror. 13:54.080 --> 13:57.080 Monsieur Adolfus Wynne? 13:57.080 --> 13:58.080 Yes. 13:58.080 --> 14:01.080 I am Cécile Lafebvre. 14:01.080 --> 14:05.080 I have heard that you are searching for my husband, Henri? 14:05.080 --> 14:06.080 Yes, Madame. 14:06.080 --> 14:08.080 Why do you wish to see him, Monsieur? 14:08.080 --> 14:11.080 Why do I wish to see him? 14:11.080 --> 14:15.080 You have not heard of my strange predicament, Madame? 14:15.080 --> 14:17.080 No, I have heard nothing. 14:17.080 --> 14:19.080 I arrived in this country only today. 14:19.080 --> 14:22.080 You arrived alone? 14:22.080 --> 14:23.080 Yes. 14:23.080 --> 14:25.080 And your husband? 14:25.080 --> 14:29.080 My husband remained in Switzerland, Monsieur. 14:29.080 --> 14:30.080 Switzerland? 14:30.080 --> 14:32.080 Yes, Monsieur. 14:32.080 --> 14:34.080 He has lived there for many years. 14:34.080 --> 14:35.080 But why? 14:35.080 --> 14:37.080 I thought they said your home was the one. 14:37.080 --> 14:39.080 No, I was my home, Monsieur. 14:39.080 --> 14:44.080 My husband and I have been estranged for the last ten years. 14:44.080 --> 14:46.080 Oh. 14:46.080 --> 14:49.080 But there is much I know about my husband's work. 14:49.080 --> 14:52.080 If it is about that, you wish to know. 14:52.080 --> 14:54.080 Ten years. 14:54.080 --> 14:56.080 You have not seen him for ten years? 14:56.080 --> 14:58.080 No, Monsieur. 14:58.080 --> 15:05.080 You know his Opus 42, his Elegy for Orchestra? 15:05.080 --> 15:06.080 Yes, Monsieur. 15:06.080 --> 15:08.080 When did he write it? 15:08.080 --> 15:11.080 About fifteen years ago. 15:11.080 --> 15:14.080 Yes, I remember the piece well. 15:14.080 --> 15:17.080 I copied out the parts for him myself. 15:17.080 --> 15:22.080 Then you would know the music when you see it. 15:22.080 --> 15:27.080 Is this the piece, Madame? 15:27.080 --> 15:29.080 Yes, Monsieur. 15:29.080 --> 15:33.080 I wrote this music, Madame, a month ago. 15:33.080 --> 15:34.080 Out of my own head. 15:34.080 --> 15:35.080 Impossible, Monsieur. 15:35.080 --> 15:37.080 Impossible? But I tell you it is so. 15:37.080 --> 15:38.080 How could it be? 15:38.080 --> 15:40.080 This is my husband's piece. 15:40.080 --> 15:42.080 I remember the night he wrote it. 15:42.080 --> 15:44.080 Hot midsummer night. 15:44.080 --> 15:46.080 The windows were open. 15:46.080 --> 15:49.080 We could hear the bells of Rouen ringing in the hours. 15:49.080 --> 15:51.080 He could not sleep. 15:51.080 --> 15:53.080 Our little daughter had been crying. 15:53.080 --> 15:57.080 Your little daughter? 15:57.080 --> 15:58.080 Does this distress you, Monsieur? 15:58.080 --> 16:01.080 No, no, no. Please go on. 16:01.080 --> 16:04.080 He wanted to call the piece Parvin for Louise. 16:04.080 --> 16:06.080 After our little daughter. 16:06.080 --> 16:08.080 But I wouldn't let him. 16:08.080 --> 16:09.080 It was too sad, I said. 16:09.080 --> 16:13.080 And I made him call it just... just Elegy. 16:13.080 --> 16:15.080 But he said it was her piece. 16:15.080 --> 16:19.080 That he had been thinking of her crying all the time he set it down. 16:19.080 --> 16:25.080 It was as though all the sadness that was in his love for her had gone into the melody. 16:25.080 --> 16:29.080 But... but I still don't understand. 16:29.080 --> 16:36.080 I wrote this music out of beauty, out of spring sunshine and happiness. 16:36.080 --> 16:39.080 He could never understand why it was so popular. 16:39.080 --> 16:41.080 He didn't want to publish it. 16:41.080 --> 16:46.080 He hid it away saying it was like... like a premonition. 16:46.080 --> 16:52.080 He'd come to him like some hideous omen from another world. 16:52.080 --> 16:54.080 And he was right, Monsieur. 16:54.080 --> 16:56.080 How do you mean? 16:56.080 --> 17:00.080 Our little daughter Louise. 17:00.080 --> 17:04.080 She died a little while later. 17:04.080 --> 17:06.080 Madame Lefebvre? 17:06.080 --> 17:10.080 Yes, Monsieur. I beg your pardon for crying. 17:10.080 --> 17:17.080 I do not want to see your husband or hear this music ever again. 17:17.080 --> 17:20.080 My search has ended. 17:20.080 --> 17:22.080 Do you believe in ghosts, Madame? 17:22.080 --> 17:24.080 No, Monsieur. 17:24.080 --> 17:27.080 I've been through too much to believe in poor, sad ghosts. 17:27.080 --> 17:29.080 But I do. 17:29.080 --> 17:37.080 I believe that neither your husband nor myself really wrote that piece. 17:37.080 --> 17:44.080 There is some further horror, some demon force at work in this music. 17:44.080 --> 17:49.080 It captured him and it has captured me. 17:49.080 --> 17:55.080 Tell me, Madame Lefebvre, did your husband write any music after he wrote this piece? 17:55.080 --> 17:57.080 Not much more, Monsieur. 17:57.080 --> 18:02.080 You mean it racked his brain as it has racked mine? 18:02.080 --> 18:04.080 Leaving him without inspiration? 18:04.080 --> 18:06.080 No, no, it was not that. 18:06.080 --> 18:09.080 I'm not sure if you're right. He still writes. 18:09.080 --> 18:14.080 But nothing he has written for ten years has had any meaning. 18:14.080 --> 18:15.080 What do you mean? 18:15.080 --> 18:20.080 Monsieur, have you not already guessed the truth? 18:20.080 --> 18:22.080 My husband has gone mad. 18:22.080 --> 18:28.080 He has been mad for the last ten years, shut up in an asylum in Switzerland. 18:28.080 --> 18:29.080 Oh. 18:29.080 --> 18:32.080 I have told very few people. 18:32.080 --> 18:37.080 It is a form of horrible neurosis, work neurosis the doctors call it. 18:37.080 --> 18:40.080 He seems to have lost his heart. 18:40.080 --> 18:44.080 The events of his past life are meaningless to him. 18:44.080 --> 18:48.080 He has even forgotten our little dead Louise. 18:48.080 --> 18:50.080 How terrible. 18:50.080 --> 18:54.080 And now he sits in a bare room and writes music all day long. 18:54.080 --> 18:56.080 He has become a slave, a machine. 18:56.080 --> 18:59.080 They tell me that his shelf is packed with scores. 18:59.080 --> 19:02.080 But all of them are only an endless jumble of notes. 19:02.080 --> 19:06.080 Notes such as a child might scrawl across the page. 19:06.080 --> 19:12.080 And it was the music, the ghost music that did this? 19:12.080 --> 19:13.080 Who knows, Monsieur. 19:13.080 --> 19:15.080 Yes. 19:15.080 --> 19:19.080 There were seeds of madness in this thing. 19:19.080 --> 19:21.080 Even from the beginning. 19:21.080 --> 19:23.080 There was something uncanny. 19:23.080 --> 19:29.080 Why should that radio play that music just after I had finished the piece? 19:29.080 --> 19:36.080 Why should you, you a perfect stranger have come here and found me? 19:36.080 --> 19:45.080 Perhaps, perhaps I too am destined to go mad. 19:45.080 --> 19:48.080 Monsieur, believe me, people do not go mad so easily. 19:48.080 --> 19:51.080 To be destroyed as my husband was destroyed. 19:51.080 --> 19:55.080 One must have deep sadness and love. 19:55.080 --> 20:00.080 One must have human ties, a wife, a beautiful little child. 20:00.080 --> 20:03.080 You have no such ties, Monsieur. 20:03.080 --> 20:06.080 No. 20:06.080 --> 20:09.080 I have no ties. 20:09.080 --> 20:12.080 My husband went mad because he loved too much. 20:12.080 --> 20:16.080 When I looked at Louise to hide, he thought that he had killed her. 20:16.080 --> 20:19.080 She died of simple pneumonia, but he could never understand. 20:19.080 --> 20:21.080 He became insane with grief. 20:21.080 --> 20:25.080 He thought he was her murderer. 20:25.080 --> 20:34.080 Don't you see, Monsieur, you who live here alone, whose life is so quiet? 20:34.080 --> 20:37.080 Madame Lefebvre. 20:37.080 --> 20:39.080 I beg your pardon, Monsieur. 20:39.080 --> 20:44.080 I have seen you before, Madame Lefebvre. 20:44.080 --> 20:49.080 I have met you somewhere. 20:49.080 --> 20:52.080 I have heard your story. 20:52.080 --> 20:56.080 You have come here before? 20:56.080 --> 20:59.080 No, no, Monsieur. I have never come here before. 20:59.080 --> 21:02.080 Then why should your face seem so suddenly familiar? 21:02.080 --> 21:04.080 And your words? 21:04.080 --> 21:07.080 There is something uncanny about this thing, Madame. 21:07.080 --> 21:11.080 For a moment there, for a moment, I thought I knew. 21:11.080 --> 21:13.080 Knew what, Monsieur? 21:13.080 --> 21:22.080 I thought I knew you and your husband and Louise, and that I had lived. 21:22.080 --> 21:24.080 Monsieur. 21:24.080 --> 21:32.080 Perhaps, perhaps it was only in one of my nightmares, but somehow. 21:32.080 --> 21:34.080 Try to remember, please. 21:34.080 --> 21:35.080 Remember. 21:35.080 --> 21:37.080 The little house in Rouen. 21:37.080 --> 21:38.080 The stone house. 21:38.080 --> 21:39.080 Remember. 21:39.080 --> 21:40.080 The tree in the garden. 21:40.080 --> 21:42.080 The coffee on Sunday afternoons. 21:42.080 --> 21:44.080 The Bechstein piano by the window. 21:44.080 --> 21:46.080 The bedroom with the calico curtain. 21:46.080 --> 21:50.080 The little doll carriage underneath the stairs. 21:50.080 --> 21:52.080 Louise's doll carriage. 21:52.080 --> 21:55.080 Louise. 21:55.080 --> 21:58.080 Louise. 21:58.080 --> 22:02.080 What have they done to her? 22:02.080 --> 22:04.080 They have taken her away. 22:04.080 --> 22:08.080 And I, I have killed her. 22:08.080 --> 22:16.080 The little doll carriage waits at the bottom of the stairs, but she will never come back. 22:16.080 --> 22:19.080 Never come back. 22:19.080 --> 22:21.080 No, no, no. 22:21.080 --> 22:23.080 She's been dead for ten years. 22:23.080 --> 22:25.080 You must not think of her anymore. 22:25.080 --> 22:27.080 You're getting better. 22:27.080 --> 22:30.080 Dr. Picker says you are getting well. 22:30.080 --> 22:32.080 Dr. Picker? 22:32.080 --> 22:34.080 You're a doctor, Henri. 22:34.080 --> 22:36.080 What are you talking about? 22:36.080 --> 22:38.080 I? 22:38.080 --> 22:40.080 I have no doctor. 22:40.080 --> 22:42.080 Don't you see, my darling? 22:42.080 --> 22:45.080 Your long search is over. 22:45.080 --> 22:49.080 I? 22:49.080 --> 22:53.080 I am Henri Lefebvre? 22:53.080 --> 22:54.080 Yes, darling. 22:54.080 --> 22:56.080 I? 22:56.080 --> 22:58.080 Ha. 22:58.080 --> 22:59.080 Ah. 22:59.080 --> 23:03.080 Ha ha ha ha. 23:03.080 --> 23:07.080 I am shriveled old man. 23:07.080 --> 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. 23:14.080 --> 23:18.080 Then who is Adolfus Flann? 23:18.080 --> 23:20.080 A name you made up, darling. 23:20.080 --> 23:22.080 A poor mad name. 23:22.080 --> 23:26.080 My symphonies are rubbish, you say? 23:26.080 --> 23:31.080 My adoring public are only shadows running across the walls. 23:31.080 --> 23:35.080 And these mountains beyond my window. 23:35.080 --> 23:37.080 These mountains. 23:37.080 --> 23:38.080 Ha ha ha ha. 23:38.080 --> 23:39.080 You are lying to me. 23:39.080 --> 23:40.080 Henri. 23:40.080 --> 23:43.080 I tell you my name is Adolfus Flann. 23:43.080 --> 23:44.080 Look, Henri. 23:44.080 --> 23:45.080 This room. 23:45.080 --> 23:47.080 These bare white walls. 23:47.080 --> 23:48.080 These bars across the window. 23:48.080 --> 23:51.080 This door one cannot open from the inside. 23:51.080 --> 23:53.080 For ten years, Henri. 23:53.080 --> 23:57.080 For ten years I have waited for a glimmer to come. 23:57.080 --> 24:00.080 For some little memory like that music. 24:00.080 --> 24:03.080 For ten years I have prayed for you every day. 24:03.080 --> 24:06.080 For ten years. 24:06.080 --> 24:09.080 While I sat here. 24:09.080 --> 24:11.080 I do not believe it. 24:11.080 --> 24:13.080 Dr. Picker. 24:13.080 --> 24:15.080 Henri, my dear fellow. 24:15.080 --> 24:16.080 You. 24:16.080 --> 24:18.080 Call me Henri too? 24:18.080 --> 24:21.080 I cannot tell you how happy I am, Madame Lefebvre. 24:21.080 --> 24:24.080 The experiment has worked beyond our fondest hopes. 24:24.080 --> 24:27.080 I've been listening to every word and you've handled it exactly right. 24:27.080 --> 24:29.080 Monsieur Picker. 24:29.080 --> 24:31.080 Am I Henri Lefebvre? 24:31.080 --> 24:32.080 Yes. 24:32.080 --> 24:36.080 I have been mad for ten years. 24:36.080 --> 24:40.080 You have deceived me for ten years. 24:40.080 --> 24:42.080 I am not Adolfus Flann. 24:42.080 --> 24:46.080 Oh, Henri, if you could have known how my heart beat. 24:46.080 --> 24:48.080 When Dr. Picker first telephoned. 24:48.080 --> 24:50.080 And now. 24:50.080 --> 24:51.080 Naturally. 24:51.080 --> 24:52.080 My poor fellow. 24:52.080 --> 24:54.080 It must be a terrible shock. 24:54.080 --> 24:57.080 After ten years one cannot be cured overnight. 24:57.080 --> 25:00.080 Rest. Much rest will be necessary. 25:00.080 --> 25:03.080 And many little talks. 25:03.080 --> 25:04.080 But you will see. 25:04.080 --> 25:06.080 In a few months. 25:06.080 --> 25:09.080 We may hope for something quite remarkable. 25:09.080 --> 25:28.080 Monsieur and Madame Lefebvre. 25:28.080 --> 25:31.080 In a few months, he said. 25:31.080 --> 25:36.080 In a few months I would be able to go back. 25:36.080 --> 25:39.080 I would take up the threads of my own life. 25:39.080 --> 25:43.080 As Henri Lefebvre. 25:43.080 --> 25:45.080 I'm still here. 25:45.080 --> 25:47.080 Here in this room. 25:47.080 --> 25:49.080 With its bare white walls. 25:49.080 --> 25:53.080 And its door that locks from the outside. 25:53.080 --> 25:56.080 I'm still here. 25:56.080 --> 25:59.080 Although I know now for sure that. 25:59.080 --> 26:03.080 My name is Henri Lefebvre. 26:03.080 --> 26:07.080 As sadness is in my heart. 26:07.080 --> 26:12.080 And a natural pain that I can never conquer. 26:12.080 --> 26:14.080 War has come back. 26:14.080 --> 26:16.080 The stone house. 26:16.080 --> 26:20.080 The little doll carriage underneath the stairs. 26:20.080 --> 26:25.080 And my arms ache with longing for a little dead child. 26:25.080 --> 26:29.080 With long honey colored hair. 26:29.080 --> 26:32.080 There's no music in me now. 26:32.080 --> 26:35.080 No music save that one tune. 26:35.080 --> 26:39.080 Which sings in my head all day long. 26:39.080 --> 26:43.080 My parven for Louise. 26:43.080 --> 26:46.080 If I could only get it out of my mind. 26:46.080 --> 26:50.080 I might be able to work again. 26:50.080 --> 26:53.080 I might be happy as I once was happy. 26:53.080 --> 26:55.080 I might look out of my window. 26:55.080 --> 27:00.080 And find a symphony in the sunset on the mountains. 27:00.080 --> 27:04.080 That is why I will not go back. 27:04.080 --> 27:07.080 I will not leave this room. 27:07.080 --> 27:10.080 Until I find him again. 27:10.080 --> 27:13.080 Until I find. 27:13.080 --> 27:36.080 Adolphus Fleck. 27:36.080 --> 27:41.080 And so closes the search for Henri Lefebvre by Lucille Fletcher starring Paul Muny. 27:41.080 --> 27:44.080 Tonight's tale of suspense. 27:44.080 --> 27:48.080 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 27:48.080 --> 27:50.080 Roma wine makes every meal taste better. 27:50.080 --> 27:58.080 That's the proven experience of those who have discovered the flavor complementing magic of these superbly delightful yet inexpensive wines. 27:58.080 --> 28:02.080 For a new mealtime thrill, try serving food with Roma wines. 28:02.080 --> 28:05.080 Whether it be fish, meat or poultry. 28:05.080 --> 28:09.080 Then simply place the bottle well chilled on the table with the meal. 28:09.080 --> 28:11.080 Serve it in any kind of glass. 28:11.080 --> 28:18.080 Once you taste the addition these delightful wines bring to the zest and savoriness of even the simplest dishes. 28:18.080 --> 28:21.080 You'll wonder why you've ever done without Roma wines. 28:21.080 --> 28:30.080 Remember it costs you only pennies a glass to add the marvelous flavor complementing magic of Roma wines to your daily meals. 28:30.080 --> 28:34.080 Ask for R.O.M.A. Roma wines. 28:34.080 --> 28:37.080 America's largest selling wines. 28:37.080 --> 28:39.080 Made in California. 28:39.080 --> 28:43.080 For enjoyment throughout the world. 28:43.080 --> 28:44.080 This is Paul Muny. 28:44.080 --> 28:51.080 It's been a great pleasure to appear in this distinguished radio play theater which is devoted to the art of suspense. 28:51.080 --> 28:56.080 I should like to pass along to you the information that I just gleaned from Mr. Spear. 28:56.080 --> 29:01.080 The next week at the same time my friend Mr. Herbert Marshall will be your star. 29:01.080 --> 29:07.080 In that very extraordinary novel of vengeance and retribution called The Beast Must Die. 29:07.080 --> 29:09.080 And one more word. 29:09.080 --> 29:12.080 You've been hearing a great deal about the fifth war loan drive. 29:12.080 --> 29:17.080 It may sound to you as though we on the radio are being a little overly insistent about it. 29:17.080 --> 29:19.080 Well we are being insistent. 29:19.080 --> 29:21.080 You must listen. 29:21.080 --> 29:23.080 You must respond. 29:23.080 --> 29:26.080 Buy an extra war bond tomorrow. 29:26.080 --> 29:32.080 And on Thursday same time you will hear Herbert Marshall as star of suspense. 29:32.080 --> 29:35.080 Presented by Roma wines R.O.M.A. 29:35.080 --> 29:40.080 Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 29:40.080 --> 29:56.080 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.