WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.000 Now, Roma wines present... 00:04.000 --> 00:10.000 Suspense! 00:10.000 --> 00:25.000 Tonight, a thing of beauty starring June Dupree. 00:25.000 --> 00:30.000 Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:30.000 --> 00:32.000 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 00:32.000 --> 00:37.000 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live. 00:37.000 --> 00:39.000 To your happiness and entertaining guests. 00:39.000 --> 00:42.000 To your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:42.000 --> 00:45.000 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant. 00:45.000 --> 00:48.000 As Roma Wines bring you... 00:48.000 --> 00:51.000 Suspense! 00:51.000 --> 00:56.000 Suspense is the man in black here for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 00:56.000 --> 01:01.000 Tonight in the absence of Ida Lupino, who was prevented from being with us because of illness. 01:01.000 --> 01:06.000 We are fortunate in being able to bring to you as star the actress whose performance in the RKO production, 01:06.000 --> 01:13.000 None But the Lonely Heart, has recently won her an award for one of the ten best of the year, Miss June Dupree. 01:13.000 --> 01:17.000 Miss Dupree appears tonight in a drama of crime and passion and punishment. 01:17.000 --> 01:21.000 As unfolded in a narrative of a celebrated actress of yesteryear. 01:21.000 --> 01:27.000 And so with A Thing of Beauty, and with the performance of June Dupree as Madeline Tremaine, 01:27.000 --> 01:29.000 We again hope to keep you in... 01:29.000 --> 01:31.000 Suspense! 01:31.000 --> 01:34.000 Suspense! 01:44.000 --> 01:47.000 You will give me your arm? Thank you. 01:47.000 --> 01:50.000 I think we should just miss the storm if we hurry. 01:50.000 --> 01:52.000 A rather somber place, isn't it? 01:52.000 --> 01:55.000 Oh, it gives her seclusion and that's all she's ever asked for since she came here. 01:55.000 --> 01:58.000 That and what little spiritual comfort I've been able to give her. 01:58.000 --> 02:01.000 How long ago was that, sir? That she came here, I mean? 02:01.000 --> 02:04.000 Eight, no, no, nine years ago in March. 02:04.000 --> 02:06.000 But it was long before that she left the stage. 02:06.000 --> 02:10.000 Oh, she was nearly ten years in an institution. A mental disorder. 02:10.000 --> 02:14.000 Though it's not her mind that was ever sick, unless I'm mistaken. 02:14.000 --> 02:16.000 I do say she's a bit on the eccentric side. 02:16.000 --> 02:21.000 Oh, I don't believe in gossip. You'll be her spiritual advisor soon enough when I've retired. 02:21.000 --> 02:23.000 And I want you to meet her without prejudice. 02:23.000 --> 02:26.000 And one day I'll tell you what I know, which is little enough. 02:26.000 --> 02:30.000 And what I have reason to believe, which is more. 02:30.000 --> 02:34.000 Oh, it seems we'll just about escape a drenching. 02:36.000 --> 02:39.000 She lives completely alone. Her other one's servant, that's all. 02:40.000 --> 02:42.000 Oh, Father Robinson. 02:42.000 --> 02:46.000 Oh, Suzette, this is my new curate, the Reverend Missy Sedley. 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 We are here to see Miss Plain. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 Really? Does she know you're not alone? 02:50.000 --> 02:52.000 My good Suzette, I haven't any idea. 02:52.000 --> 02:55.000 But you might let us in out of the rain while you so inform her if you will. 02:55.000 --> 02:58.000 But if... very well, come in. 02:59.000 --> 03:03.000 If you will wait in the study, I will ask if Mademoiselle is able to see you. 03:04.000 --> 03:06.000 What in the world got into the woman? 03:06.000 --> 03:10.000 She knows Miss Tremaine's been seeing me every fortnight at the same time for nine years. 03:10.000 --> 03:13.000 There's a picture here. Is it of her? 03:13.000 --> 03:14.000 Probably. 03:14.000 --> 03:16.000 My words, she was a beauty. 03:16.000 --> 03:19.000 Your father could have told you. She was a legend of two continents. 03:19.000 --> 03:23.000 Must have been a very tragic thing to make a woman like that shut herself away. 03:23.000 --> 03:26.000 Is it true, sir, that she sees no one but you? 03:26.000 --> 03:30.000 As far as I know, she has never set foot outside this house in all the time she's been here. 03:30.000 --> 03:33.000 Nor has she ever had a single visitor beside myself. 03:33.000 --> 03:42.000 Why? I think because she hopes that somehow, someday, a man of God will help her to find peace. 03:42.000 --> 03:45.000 And she doesn't care to face the world until she's found one. 03:47.000 --> 03:51.000 Mademoiselle will see you now, Fabio, in her parlor across the hall. 03:51.000 --> 03:53.000 Oh, thank you. 03:55.000 --> 03:59.000 Well, Father Benton, come in. Come in. 03:59.000 --> 04:03.000 I do hope you don't mind my receiving you in the dark. 04:03.000 --> 04:07.000 But I have a mortal dread of light during a storm. 04:07.000 --> 04:08.000 Not at all. 04:08.000 --> 04:11.000 You'll find two quite comfortable chairs just there by the window, I think. 04:11.000 --> 04:15.000 Thank you. Madeline, this is my new curate, Mr. Sedley. 04:15.000 --> 04:17.000 Oh, yes, Mr. Sedley. 04:17.000 --> 04:20.000 It's a great pleasure, Miss Tremaine, to meet such a famous beauty. 04:20.000 --> 04:22.000 Even in the dark. 04:22.000 --> 04:26.000 Ah, so you've heard of my beauty, of course, Mr. Sedley. 04:26.000 --> 04:30.000 You know, as you came in, I was looking at this little gold mirror, 04:30.000 --> 04:33.000 engraved on the back of the words, 04:33.000 --> 04:36.000 a thing of beauty is a joy forever. 04:36.000 --> 04:37.000 Ah, geese. 04:37.000 --> 04:42.000 Yes. Oscar gave it to me. He said it was a magic mirror. 04:42.000 --> 04:44.000 Was that Oscar Wilde, Miss Tremaine? 04:44.000 --> 04:49.000 Yes. Dear Oscar, dear dead days. 04:49.000 --> 04:54.000 Ah, I suppose you've already heard all the wild tales of my lurid past, Mr. Sedley. 04:54.000 --> 04:56.000 Oh, no, Miss Tremaine, I assure you I have. 04:56.000 --> 05:01.000 I don't believe that Father Bentham has ever caught me in a reminiscing mood, have you, Father? 05:01.000 --> 05:04.000 But since you will one day be vicar here, Mr. Sedley, 05:04.000 --> 05:08.000 perhaps it would be better if you heard the truth from me. 05:08.000 --> 05:10.000 Miss Tremaine, don't think I... 05:10.000 --> 05:12.000 Oh, the truth is wild enough. 05:12.000 --> 05:18.000 It all began, I suppose, when John Gaylord got me my first speaking part. 05:18.000 --> 05:23.000 That was all far too long ago to tell. 05:23.000 --> 05:27.000 John and L. Garrett were the leads in my part. 05:27.000 --> 05:32.000 Well, it was one of those obscure little parts that no one pays any attention to 05:32.000 --> 05:38.000 until some obscure little actress comes along and makes the start of a career with it. 05:38.000 --> 05:42.000 Because then I first experienced what will always be to me 05:42.000 --> 05:47.000 and all the range of human feelings, the supreme exaltation, 05:47.000 --> 06:09.000 when we hear the full friends and applause of an audience, for you, for you alone. 06:09.000 --> 06:10.000 Yes? 06:10.000 --> 06:11.000 It's me. 06:11.000 --> 06:13.000 Oh, come in, John. 06:13.000 --> 06:15.000 Madam, I'm John Gaylord. 06:15.000 --> 06:17.000 Oh, come in, John. 06:17.000 --> 06:19.000 Madeline, you are marvelous, simply marvelous. 06:19.000 --> 06:20.000 Thank you, John. 06:20.000 --> 06:21.000 And such a little fool. 06:21.000 --> 06:22.000 A fool? 06:22.000 --> 06:24.000 I told you to play the part down, but it's getting worse and worse. 06:24.000 --> 06:26.000 Tonight she's absolutely furious. 06:26.000 --> 06:28.000 She's going to make trouble for you, Madeline. 06:28.000 --> 06:30.000 Oh, trouble? What kind of trouble? 06:30.000 --> 06:31.000 You don't know Nelly Garrett. 06:31.000 --> 06:33.000 But I know my audience, don't I? 06:33.000 --> 06:37.000 Oh, Madeline, you're so young and foolish and so beautiful. 06:37.000 --> 06:38.000 Why, thank you, John. 06:38.000 --> 06:41.000 So terribly beautiful. 06:41.000 --> 06:44.000 Oh, John, now you're leading up to it again, aren't you? 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 This play isn't going to last forever. 06:46.000 --> 06:48.000 Even you can't keep it alive much longer. 06:48.000 --> 06:50.000 Why don't we make plans together now? 06:50.000 --> 06:51.000 We could have our own company. 06:51.000 --> 06:54.000 As the great John Gaylord and Mrs. Gaylord. 06:54.000 --> 06:55.000 Of course not. 06:55.000 --> 06:59.000 Why, in a couple of years, you'd be as famous in your own right as Nell Garrett herself. 06:59.000 --> 07:01.000 Perhaps I don't want to wait a couple of years. 07:01.000 --> 07:04.000 Besides, John, I don't love you. 07:04.000 --> 07:06.000 Do you love anyone? 07:06.000 --> 07:10.000 No, but when I marry, it will be, oh, and often coming... 07:10.000 --> 07:14.000 It's a fair in the dinner. Some of you must know about this. 07:14.000 --> 07:16.000 You're in for it now, Madeline. 07:16.000 --> 07:18.000 So there you are, my fine miss. 07:18.000 --> 07:20.000 Go easy, Miss Garrett. She's meant no harm. 07:20.000 --> 07:21.000 No harm? 07:21.000 --> 07:26.000 She has merely ruined my entire last act curtain for 29 consecutive performances. 07:26.000 --> 07:29.000 Hoisting her skirts clear above the ankle. 07:29.000 --> 07:32.000 Ogling the stalls like a music hall Gretchen. 07:32.000 --> 07:34.000 It's only because it's that kind of a ball. 07:34.000 --> 07:35.000 Oh, is it? 07:35.000 --> 07:37.000 Well, as long as I play the leads in this company, 07:37.000 --> 07:41.000 I will not have my best speech in the whole play utterly ruined 07:41.000 --> 07:45.000 by rowdy applause for the gutter antics of a half-baked ingenue. 07:45.000 --> 07:47.000 Nell, you're making a fool of yourself. 07:47.000 --> 07:50.000 And while we're on the subject, Mr. Gaylord, 07:50.000 --> 07:54.000 there are a few points I should like to discuss with you. 07:54.000 --> 07:58.000 When you help Miss remain down from the swing in the second act, 07:58.000 --> 08:03.000 there is no need for you to keep your arm around her during the entire remainder of the scene. 08:03.000 --> 08:10.000 Well, really, Miss Garrett, if you can no longer hold either your audiences or your lovers... 08:10.000 --> 08:11.000 Oh, no. 08:11.000 --> 08:13.000 Nell! 08:13.000 --> 08:16.000 I'll kill you for that, Nell Garrett. 08:16.000 --> 08:19.000 If I die for it, I'll kill you. 08:28.000 --> 08:32.000 I left the theater and walked aimlessly out into the night. 08:32.000 --> 08:35.000 My eyes blinded with the tears. 08:35.000 --> 08:39.000 Young, oh, yes, and foolish as I was, 08:39.000 --> 08:43.000 I believed my poor little heart was truly broken. 08:43.000 --> 08:48.000 For I knew that Nell Garrett could ruin me with every theater manager in London. 08:48.000 --> 08:50.000 And I knew she would. 08:50.000 --> 08:54.000 How long I wandered through those misty streets, or where, 08:54.000 --> 08:58.000 or even what I did, I shall never know. 08:58.000 --> 09:04.000 But just as dawn was breaking, I found myself by some art twist of fate 09:04.000 --> 09:08.000 passing by the lodgings of John Gaylord. 09:08.000 --> 09:13.000 On a sudden impulse, I climbed the steps to his door. 09:16.000 --> 09:17.000 Madeleine. 09:17.000 --> 09:18.000 Hello, John. 09:18.000 --> 09:19.000 Did anyone see you? 09:19.000 --> 09:20.000 See me? 09:20.000 --> 09:21.000 Come in. 09:21.000 --> 09:23.000 Where have you been? 09:23.000 --> 09:25.000 Just walking, walking. 09:25.000 --> 09:26.000 Oh, good Lord, alone? 09:26.000 --> 09:28.000 Yes. Why? 09:28.000 --> 09:29.000 Don't you know? 09:29.000 --> 09:32.000 Yes, John, I'm afraid I do. 09:32.000 --> 09:33.000 My career? 09:33.000 --> 09:35.000 Your career, oh, my poor child. 09:35.000 --> 09:36.000 John, what's the matter? 09:36.000 --> 09:39.000 Don't you know that Nell Garrett's been found dead with a knife in her back? 09:39.000 --> 09:40.000 Dead? 09:39.000 --> 09:40.000 Murdered. 09:40.000 --> 09:41.000 John! 09:41.000 --> 09:43.000 Police have been looking all over London for you. 09:43.000 --> 09:46.000 I've been expecting you here, expecting them here any moment. 09:46.000 --> 09:47.000 For me? 09:46.000 --> 09:47.000 Of course, for you. 09:47.000 --> 09:48.000 Me? 09:48.000 --> 09:52.000 Madeleine, last night you threatened to kill her in front of a dozen witnesses. 09:52.000 --> 09:53.000 Why wouldn't they be looking for you? 09:53.000 --> 09:54.000 Oh, no! 09:54.000 --> 09:56.000 Madeleine, listen to me. 09:56.000 --> 09:57.000 Where did you go? 09:57.000 --> 09:58.000 What did you do? 09:58.000 --> 09:59.000 Didn't anyone see you? 09:59.000 --> 10:00.000 Didn't you talk to anyone? 10:00.000 --> 10:01.000 No, no. 10:01.000 --> 10:02.000 You've got to tell them something. 10:02.000 --> 10:03.000 What can I tell them? 10:03.000 --> 10:07.000 Because if you don't, they'll hang you, Madeleine. 10:08.000 --> 10:11.000 Please, Madeleine, you've got to think, try to remember something. 10:11.000 --> 10:12.000 I'm so alone. 10:12.000 --> 10:15.000 If I only had a friend... 10:15.000 --> 10:16.000 You have got a friend, now, then I know. 10:16.000 --> 10:20.000 ...someone who loved me enough to at least say that they were with me. 10:21.000 --> 10:22.000 Who is it? 10:22.000 --> 10:24.000 Inspector Phillips, got the job. 10:24.000 --> 10:26.000 Madeleine, in there, quick, the bedroom. 10:26.000 --> 10:27.000 John. 10:27.000 --> 10:28.000 Don't worry, I'll tell them something. 10:28.000 --> 10:29.000 Hurry. 10:32.000 --> 10:33.000 Coming. 10:37.000 --> 10:39.000 I'm sorry to rouse you at this early hour, sir. 10:39.000 --> 10:40.000 Quite all right. 10:40.000 --> 10:41.000 Come in. 10:43.000 --> 10:44.000 You are Mr. John Gaylord? 10:44.000 --> 10:45.000 Yes. 10:45.000 --> 10:47.000 Of the Queen's Players Company, Dury Lane? 10:47.000 --> 10:48.000 Yes. 10:48.000 --> 10:51.000 Can you tell me, Mr. Gaylord, anything of the whereabouts of Miss Madeleine Tremaine? 10:51.000 --> 10:53.000 Madeleine Tremaine? 10:53.000 --> 10:54.000 Yes. 10:54.000 --> 10:55.000 Why? 10:56.000 --> 10:57.000 Did you call me, darling? 10:58.000 --> 11:00.000 Oh, excuse me. 11:00.000 --> 11:02.000 Who is this lady, Mr. Gaylord? 11:02.000 --> 11:04.000 Well, who are you? 11:04.000 --> 11:05.000 I am from the police, madam. 11:05.000 --> 11:06.000 Police? 11:06.000 --> 11:07.000 There has been a murder. 11:07.000 --> 11:11.000 Miss Nell Garrett of the Queen's Company was found stabbed in her home last night. 11:11.000 --> 11:13.000 Nell Garrett? 11:13.000 --> 11:14.000 Yes. 11:14.000 --> 11:15.000 Do you know her? 11:15.000 --> 11:17.000 Why, of course. 11:17.000 --> 11:20.000 I'm afraid, madam, that I shall have to ask you for your name. 11:20.000 --> 11:22.000 I'm Madeleine Tremaine. 11:22.000 --> 11:25.000 I'm so sorry that you find me somewhat in disarray. 11:25.000 --> 11:32.000 Miss Tremaine, I'm afraid that I shall also have to ask you to account for your whereabouts after you left the theater last night. 11:32.000 --> 11:33.000 Very well. 11:33.000 --> 11:36.000 Mr. Gaylord can account for my whereabouts. 11:37.000 --> 11:39.000 Well, Mr. Gaylord, why... 11:39.000 --> 11:47.000 You see, Inspector, it's a rather delicate matter, because since I left the theater last night, I have been here. 11:47.000 --> 11:52.000 Is... is that true, Mr. Gaylord? 11:52.000 --> 11:54.000 Yes. 11:54.000 --> 11:56.000 Oh, I see. 11:56.000 --> 11:58.000 Is that satisfactory, Inspector? 11:58.000 --> 11:59.000 Yes, yes. 11:59.000 --> 12:02.000 Well, I don't think I need trouble you any further for the moment. 12:02.000 --> 12:04.000 I quite understand your position, Inspector. 12:04.000 --> 12:07.000 It's a terrible, terrible thing. 12:07.000 --> 12:08.000 Yes. 12:08.000 --> 12:10.000 Well, good day to you. 12:10.000 --> 12:12.000 Good day. 12:12.000 --> 12:14.000 Madeleine. 12:14.000 --> 12:15.000 Yes, John? 12:15.000 --> 12:19.000 Madeleine, you shouldn't have done it. They'll have the scandal all over every newspaper in the city. 12:19.000 --> 12:21.000 A scandal is better than a hanging, isn't it? 12:21.000 --> 12:23.000 But there must have been some other way. 12:23.000 --> 12:27.000 Now they'll tear you to shreds. They wouldn't have you in anything better than a music hall for the rest of your life. 12:27.000 --> 12:31.000 John, there won't be any scandal if... 12:31.000 --> 12:33.000 If what? 12:33.000 --> 12:38.000 John, it wasn't just my tip with Mel Garrett that sent me wandering through the fog last night. 12:38.000 --> 12:41.000 I was thinking about something much more serious. 12:41.000 --> 12:42.000 What do you mean? 12:42.000 --> 12:45.000 I was thinking about what you had said. 12:45.000 --> 12:47.000 What I had said? 12:47.000 --> 12:53.000 John, perhaps I don't really love you yet, but there's no one else. 12:53.000 --> 12:56.000 And you're the kindest, finest man I've ever known. 12:56.000 --> 12:57.000 Madeleine. 12:57.000 --> 13:00.000 And now perhaps you've saved my life. 13:00.000 --> 13:05.000 Madeleine, I love you more than anything else in the world. 13:05.000 --> 13:07.000 But I wouldn't have you marry me for gratitude. 13:07.000 --> 13:11.000 I wouldn't marry any man for gratitude. 13:11.000 --> 13:15.000 Madeleine, if I were to tell you that I wasn't here last night either, 13:15.000 --> 13:18.000 that I couldn't explain my whereabouts... 13:18.000 --> 13:20.000 Oh, I see. 13:20.000 --> 13:22.000 Would you still marry me? 13:22.000 --> 13:26.000 Yes, John. 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It's completely absorbing. 16:20.000 --> 16:22.000 Indeed it is. 16:22.000 --> 16:26.000 Really. I hope you don't mind the light that turned off. 16:26.000 --> 16:31.000 It's the storm. I suppose perhaps I'm a sort of elemental creature, 16:31.000 --> 16:36.000 but I always love to sit here and have it dark when it's stormy outside. 16:36.000 --> 16:37.000 Not at all. 16:37.000 --> 16:40.000 Well, then... 16:43.000 --> 16:46.000 Our marriage was a very happy one. 16:46.000 --> 16:50.000 Perhaps not entirely in the high tradition of grand passion, 16:50.000 --> 16:53.000 but a thoroughly comfortable civilized relationship 16:53.000 --> 16:57.000 until something happened which is so often a tragic feature of 16:57.000 --> 17:01.000 wedded life between two stage personalities. 17:01.000 --> 17:06.000 For the first two seasons, John and I always played together. 17:06.000 --> 17:11.000 And then managers began to ask for me, alone. 17:11.000 --> 17:13.000 What could I do? 17:13.000 --> 17:17.000 I was young and just reaching the peak of my career. 17:17.000 --> 17:22.000 John was past his prime and popularity. 17:22.000 --> 17:26.000 And so at last he no longer even tried to have a career, 17:26.000 --> 17:33.000 but lived along on false hopes and idle dreams and tiresome reminiscences. 17:33.000 --> 17:40.000 Had took up little hobbies to pass the time away and grew a little stout. 17:40.000 --> 17:43.000 It was very difficult for both of us. 17:43.000 --> 17:52.000 And then for me came the time and opportunity that every actress dreams of. 17:58.000 --> 18:00.000 Ah, mademoiselle! 18:00.000 --> 18:03.000 Hello, Suzette. I've got the most wonderful news. 18:03.000 --> 18:05.000 The most wonderful, wonderful news! 18:05.000 --> 18:06.000 Is that you, Madeline? 18:06.000 --> 18:08.000 I'll tell you about it later. 18:08.000 --> 18:09.000 Yes, John? 18:09.000 --> 18:11.000 Come in here a moment. I want to show you something. 18:11.000 --> 18:12.000 Where are you? 18:12.000 --> 18:14.000 In here, in the den. 18:14.000 --> 18:16.000 Oh, good heavens. Now what? 18:16.000 --> 18:20.000 I thought I'd keep it a secret until I had my first exhibit, but I couldn't wait. 18:20.000 --> 18:22.000 I've taken up etching. 18:22.000 --> 18:23.000 Etching? 18:23.000 --> 18:25.000 Yes. Look. 18:25.000 --> 18:26.000 What's that? 18:26.000 --> 18:27.000 You. 18:27.000 --> 18:28.000 What? 18:28.000 --> 18:30.000 It's only the copper plate, of course. 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 You see, the whole principle of etching is... 18:32.000 --> 18:33.000 Madeline, look out! 18:33.000 --> 18:35.000 What's the matter? 18:35.000 --> 18:38.000 Almost knocked over that vat of nitric acid. 18:38.000 --> 18:41.000 One drop of that on your beautiful white skin. 18:41.000 --> 18:44.000 And it'll burn a hole right through you. 18:44.000 --> 18:47.000 Well, must you have that sort of thing around? 18:47.000 --> 18:49.000 Of course. That's the whole thing. 18:49.000 --> 18:53.000 You see, your sketch simply scrapes the wax off the copper plate. 18:53.000 --> 18:55.000 Then you drop it in the acid and... 18:55.000 --> 18:58.000 Well, that's very interesting. 18:58.000 --> 19:01.000 Yes. Well? 19:01.000 --> 19:03.000 And what happened in town? 19:03.000 --> 19:04.000 Anything? 19:04.000 --> 19:06.000 Anything. Everything! 19:06.000 --> 19:08.000 Got some plans, huh? 19:08.000 --> 19:10.000 Anyone ask for me? 19:10.000 --> 19:13.000 Oh, yes, everyone asked after you, John. I told them you were well. 19:13.000 --> 19:18.000 I mean, I thought there might be a couple of decent plays for a change. 19:18.000 --> 19:20.000 I might consider something... 19:20.000 --> 19:25.000 John, how are you on Romeo? 19:25.000 --> 19:26.000 Romeo? 19:26.000 --> 19:31.000 Yes. You see, Maxwell has finally asked me to do a Shakespeare repertory. 19:31.000 --> 19:33.000 And high time, by the way. 19:33.000 --> 19:35.000 And I'm starting in Romeo and Juliet. And I need... 19:35.000 --> 19:38.000 Madeline, why didn't you tell me Romeo? 19:38.000 --> 19:40.000 Oh, it'll be a sensation and it's just the thing I need to... 19:40.000 --> 19:41.000 But now, John... 19:41.000 --> 19:43.000 Oh, I can do it all right. Take off a little weight brush up on the lines. 19:43.000 --> 19:44.000 I've done it before, you know. 19:44.000 --> 19:45.000 John... 19:45.000 --> 19:49.000 Oh, Madeline, you're the dearest wife and the best friend a man ever had. 19:49.000 --> 19:55.000 You know, lately I've actually wondered sometimes if you might not think I wasn't... 19:55.000 --> 19:58.000 Oh, oh, darling. 19:58.000 --> 20:00.000 Now, John, don't count too heavily on this. 20:00.000 --> 20:03.000 I'm not quite sure yet how things are going to work out. 20:03.000 --> 20:06.000 Work out? How else can they work out? But perfectly. 20:06.000 --> 20:09.000 Very well. I'd like to begin reading here at home. 20:09.000 --> 20:11.000 First thing tomorrow evening. 20:25.000 --> 20:30.000 Now, shall we take it again from, uh, yet I should kill thee with much cherishing. 20:30.000 --> 20:34.000 Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing. 20:34.000 --> 20:38.000 Good night. Good night. 20:38.000 --> 20:45.000 Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good night till it be morrow. 20:45.000 --> 20:49.000 Sleep, dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast. 20:49.000 --> 20:55.000 Yes, yes. John, you see, on those last lines you should already be moving off stage. 20:55.000 --> 20:57.000 You don't want to make too much of them. 20:57.000 --> 21:00.000 After all, the scene really ends when Juliet leaves the balcony. 21:00.000 --> 21:02.000 But you can't just throw them away, Madeline. 21:02.000 --> 21:04.000 Those are famous lines. 21:04.000 --> 21:07.000 But John, we mustn't think so much in terms of lines as of performance. 21:07.000 --> 21:10.000 Excuse me, mademoiselle. Mr. Alexander Duncan is here. 21:10.000 --> 21:12.000 Oh, yes. Show him in. 21:12.000 --> 21:13.000 Yes, mademoiselle. 21:13.000 --> 21:17.000 Alec Duncan. Who's that young ham coming around for? 21:17.000 --> 21:20.000 Well, John, I've been meaning to tell you... 21:20.000 --> 21:22.000 Hello, Madeline. 21:22.000 --> 21:24.000 Hello, Alec. You know my husband? 21:24.000 --> 21:26.000 Why, yes. How do you do, Mr. Tremaine? 21:26.000 --> 21:28.000 The name is Gaylord. 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 Oh, oh, yes, of course, Mr. Gaylord. 21:30.000 --> 21:33.000 Well, say, aren't I the luckiest fellow in the world? 21:33.000 --> 21:34.000 Are you? 21:34.000 --> 21:35.000 John... 21:35.000 --> 21:37.000 To be playing Romeo opposite Madeline Tremaine? 21:37.000 --> 21:40.000 Why, Madeline, when I got your cable, I could hardly believe it. 21:40.000 --> 21:42.000 I jumped on the boat without even packing... 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 Is something wrong? 21:44.000 --> 21:48.000 John, I've been trying to tell you, but I didn't want to hurt your feelings. 21:48.000 --> 21:49.000 Well, if I've interrupted anything... 21:49.000 --> 21:50.000 It's all right, Alec. 21:50.000 --> 21:53.000 John, please don't make a scene. 21:53.000 --> 21:56.000 I had to have someone to rehearse with until Alec got here, 21:56.000 --> 21:59.000 and I knew he wouldn't be the slightest help to me if you thought... 21:59.000 --> 22:02.000 Oh, John, why must you make an issue of it? 22:02.000 --> 22:08.000 Madeline, I've always known you were the thoughtless, selfish woman. 22:08.000 --> 22:12.000 But I never would have believed that you could do anything quite so vile. 22:12.000 --> 22:14.000 How dare you speak to me that way? 22:14.000 --> 22:17.000 You didn't really think that a man with a 40-inch waistline 22:17.000 --> 22:19.000 and a double chin could ever play Romeo, did you? 22:19.000 --> 22:20.000 Why, you... 22:20.000 --> 22:23.000 Oh, I say... 22:23.000 --> 22:26.000 Get out of here. Get out of here. 22:26.000 --> 22:28.000 Get out, get out, get out! 22:28.000 --> 22:31.000 Why, get out. 22:31.000 --> 22:32.000 You'd better leave, Alec. 22:32.000 --> 22:33.000 Oh, yes. 22:33.000 --> 22:38.000 I'll go and apologize. 22:38.000 --> 22:40.000 John, I want to talk... 22:40.000 --> 22:43.000 Be careful of that acid, Madeline. 22:43.000 --> 22:47.000 Acid? Oh, John, I... 22:47.000 --> 22:50.000 I'm terribly sorry for what I said. 22:50.000 --> 22:52.000 It was beastly of me. 22:52.000 --> 22:54.000 Oh, it's quite all right. 22:54.000 --> 22:56.000 Oh, John, I knew you'd see it that way when you came to sing. 22:56.000 --> 22:59.000 Because, you see, I am going to play Romeo. 22:59.000 --> 23:01.000 Oh, John, must we go through it all again? 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 Madeline, I've forgiven, I've forgotten 23:03.000 --> 23:05.000 a lot of things since we've been married. 23:05.000 --> 23:07.000 I've pushed you out in front, I've given you the spotlight 23:07.000 --> 23:10.000 and watched your regard for me become somewhat less than that of a servant, 23:10.000 --> 23:12.000 if somewhat more than for your dog. 23:12.000 --> 23:13.000 John! 23:13.000 --> 23:15.000 But this, if only for my self-respect, I will not allow 23:15.000 --> 23:18.000 to dangle before my eyes the thing that I've wanted most in all the world, 23:18.000 --> 23:21.000 except your beauty that I gave it up for. 23:21.000 --> 23:24.000 The thing I've been wanting so much, I didn't dare admit it to myself. 23:24.000 --> 23:26.000 And then to have you snatch it away from me. 23:26.000 --> 23:28.000 No, Madeline. 23:28.000 --> 23:30.000 Waist lines and double chins can be concealed. 23:30.000 --> 23:33.000 But a mean spirit never. 23:33.000 --> 23:35.000 This one thing you can do for me, and you will. 23:35.000 --> 23:37.000 John, you're being a fool. 23:37.000 --> 23:39.000 You see, I haven't always, I've always known 23:39.000 --> 23:41.000 that you married me to save your career 23:41.000 --> 23:43.000 and to keep my mouth shut. 23:43.000 --> 23:46.000 But there's one thing you haven't known. 23:46.000 --> 23:49.000 Where I was the night Nell Garrett was murdered. 23:49.000 --> 23:51.000 Where were you? 23:51.000 --> 23:54.000 I was at Nell Garrett's home. 23:54.000 --> 24:00.000 Well, that explains quite a number of things, doesn't it, John? 24:00.000 --> 24:05.000 Madeline, where did you get that gun? 24:05.000 --> 24:09.000 I always thought that someday I might need one. 24:09.000 --> 24:10.000 Madeline. 24:10.000 --> 24:12.000 Don't come near me, John. 24:12.000 --> 24:19.000 Very well, I warned you. 24:19.000 --> 24:27.000 You monster, you beautiful terrible monster. 24:27.000 --> 24:45.000 John, no, no. 24:45.000 --> 24:48.000 You see, as he sank to the floor, 24:48.000 --> 24:51.000 he hurled a bowl of acid at my face. 24:51.000 --> 24:53.000 It was a frightful thing. 24:53.000 --> 24:57.000 Because of a self-defense, I was never even brought to trial. 24:57.000 --> 25:02.000 Particularly when I told that it was he who had killed Paul Nell Garrett. 25:02.000 --> 25:06.000 But I suffered a complete nervous collapse. 25:06.000 --> 25:09.000 And I suppose I've never really recovered. 25:09.000 --> 25:12.000 And yet Providence always seems kind enough 25:12.000 --> 25:15.000 to leave something to be thankful for, 25:15.000 --> 25:18.000 even in the worst of tragedies. 25:18.000 --> 25:23.000 Because not a single drop of acid ever touched me. 25:23.000 --> 25:30.000 I suppose if it had, I should be horribly disfigured to this day. 25:30.000 --> 25:32.000 Have I bored you, Mr. Sedley? 25:32.000 --> 25:34.000 No, oh no, Mr. Mann. 25:34.000 --> 25:36.000 Well, Madeline, the storm is almost over. 25:36.000 --> 25:38.000 I think we'd best push on. 25:38.000 --> 25:40.000 Must you? 25:40.000 --> 25:44.000 Well, but excuse me for just a moment. 25:44.000 --> 25:47.000 Of course. 25:47.000 --> 25:49.000 My word. 25:49.000 --> 25:50.000 Poor woman. 25:50.000 --> 25:51.000 Yes. 25:51.000 --> 25:53.000 I say, look here. 25:53.000 --> 25:54.000 What? 25:54.000 --> 25:55.000 This mirror. 25:55.000 --> 25:57.000 It's not a mirror at all. 25:57.000 --> 25:59.000 It has a picture pasted in it. 25:59.000 --> 26:01.000 The photograph that's in the study. 26:01.000 --> 26:04.000 Poor Madeline. 26:04.000 --> 26:09.000 Father Benson, Mademoiselle would like to speak with you a moment before you go. 26:09.000 --> 26:10.000 Oh, oh, oh, very well. 26:10.000 --> 26:12.000 I'll only be a moment, Sedley. 26:12.000 --> 26:13.000 This way, Father. 26:13.000 --> 26:16.000 Thank you. 26:16.000 --> 26:18.000 Ah, Father. 26:18.000 --> 26:19.000 Well, Madeline. 26:19.000 --> 26:22.000 You may turn the lights on, Suzette, as you go. 26:22.000 --> 26:26.000 Yes, Mademoiselle. 26:26.000 --> 26:30.000 So, that is your young curate, Father Bentham. 26:30.000 --> 26:31.000 Yes, yes. 26:31.000 --> 26:32.000 Do you like him? 26:32.000 --> 26:35.000 Oh, he seems a dear boy. 26:35.000 --> 26:36.000 But... 26:36.000 --> 26:38.000 But what, Madeline? 26:38.000 --> 26:41.000 I am afraid I can't see him again. 26:41.000 --> 26:43.000 Madeline, why? 26:43.000 --> 26:47.000 Because I... I don't want to hurt his feelings, and... 26:47.000 --> 26:49.000 it would not be the same. 26:49.000 --> 26:54.000 You have been my only true friend in all these years. 26:54.000 --> 26:57.000 And when you are gone, I would rather be alone again. 26:57.000 --> 26:59.000 I'm sorry, sir, but Mrs. Stokes is outside. 26:59.000 --> 27:02.000 Her little girl is dying, and when she heard you were here, she... 27:02.000 --> 27:05.000 Oh... 27:05.000 --> 27:06.000 Go away. 27:06.000 --> 27:07.000 Madeline. 27:07.000 --> 27:09.000 Go away. 27:09.000 --> 27:11.000 Both of you. 27:11.000 --> 27:13.000 Go away. 27:13.000 --> 27:15.000 Go away. 27:15.000 --> 27:16.000 Go away. 27:16.000 --> 27:18.000 Come, sir. 27:18.000 --> 27:21.000 Go away. 27:21.000 --> 27:23.000 Good Lord. 27:23.000 --> 27:25.000 Poor Madeline. 27:25.000 --> 27:27.000 It was... it was too much for her. 27:27.000 --> 27:28.000 Yes. 27:28.000 --> 27:30.000 Oh, she killed them both, of course. 27:30.000 --> 27:32.000 The woman and her husband. 27:32.000 --> 27:34.000 I think I always must have known it. 27:34.000 --> 27:37.000 All these years, she's... she's lived a lie. 27:37.000 --> 27:41.000 Yes, but that's not the lie that's hurt her. 27:41.000 --> 27:43.000 It was the acid. 27:43.000 --> 27:45.000 Acid? 27:45.000 --> 27:47.000 Didn't you see her face, sir? 27:47.000 --> 27:51.000 You forget, my boy, that I am blind. 27:51.000 --> 28:15.000 She has no face. 28:15.000 --> 28:18.000 And so closes A Thing of Beauty, starring June Dupre, 28:18.000 --> 28:21.000 tonight's tale of Suspense. 28:21.000 --> 28:25.000 Suspense is produced, edited, and directed by William Spear. 28:25.000 --> 28:29.000 Probably no woman alive has been hostess to so many famous 28:29.000 --> 28:32.000 and distinguished people as Miss Elsa Maxwell. 28:32.000 --> 28:35.000 This is what she says about Roma wine. 28:35.000 --> 28:38.000 When you entertain friends, you do everything you can think of 28:38.000 --> 28:40.000 to add to their enjoyment. 28:40.000 --> 28:44.000 And that is why I say, when you serve your guests Roma wine, 28:44.000 --> 28:49.000 you not only delight them, you also smartly and genuinely flatter them. 28:49.000 --> 28:53.000 These delicious wines add so much to hospitality 28:53.000 --> 28:56.000 and to enjoyment of everyday meals. 28:56.000 --> 29:00.000 Yet it's such a simple, easy addition to the joy of living, 29:00.000 --> 29:04.000 so wholesomely moderate and so inexpensive. 29:04.000 --> 29:06.000 Miss Maxwell gives you good advice. 29:06.000 --> 29:08.000 Enjoy Roma wine regularly. 29:08.000 --> 29:10.000 It's California's finest. 29:10.000 --> 29:15.000 Always good, unvaryingly fine in flavor and quality. 29:15.000 --> 29:20.000 Remember, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wines. 29:20.000 --> 29:24.000 Roma, R-O-M-A, Roma wines. 29:24.000 --> 29:29.000 Next Thursday same time, Mr. Keenan Wynne will be your star of... 29:29.000 --> 29:32.000 Suspense! 29:32.000 --> 29:37.000 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, made in California 29:37.000 --> 29:40.000 for enjoyment throughout the world. 29:40.000 --> 30:08.000 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.