WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.520 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Richard Widmark, Kathy Lewis, and Elliott 00:11.520 --> 00:21.320 Lewis in tonight's presentation of Suspense. 00:21.320 --> 00:25.880 Tonight Auto Light proudly presents part one of the first radio dramatization of William 00:25.880 --> 00:30.720 Shakespeare's tragic history of love and death, Othello. 00:30.720 --> 00:35.840 Our stars Richard Widmark, Kathy Lewis, and Elliott Lewis. 00:35.840 --> 00:42.040 Harlow, what's this great electing system of yours? 00:42.040 --> 00:46.960 Oh, you mean the Auto Light Electrical System that's designed to work as a perfect team. 00:46.960 --> 00:51.280 The generators, starting motor, distributor, and coil, spark plugs, battery, and all the 00:51.280 --> 00:56.080 other units are related by Auto Light engineering design and manufacturing skill to give you 00:56.080 --> 00:58.320 the smoothest performance money can buy. 00:58.320 --> 01:00.640 Can it get me re-elected, Harlow? 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02:33.080 --> 02:36.280 For sooth one Michael Cascio of Florentine. 02:36.280 --> 02:42.960 He in good time must his lieutenant be, and I, God bless the mark, his worship's ensign. 02:42.960 --> 02:44.840 I would not follow him then, good Iago. 02:44.840 --> 02:46.560 Oh, sir, content you. 02:46.560 --> 02:49.640 I follow him to serve my turn upon him. 02:49.640 --> 02:54.520 We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed. 02:54.520 --> 02:58.760 In following him, I follow but myself. 02:58.760 --> 02:59.760 Call up her father. 02:59.760 --> 03:02.360 Rouse him, make after him, poison his delight. 03:02.360 --> 03:04.360 What are you doing? 03:04.360 --> 03:05.960 Signor Brabantio, huh? 03:05.960 --> 03:09.960 Look to your house, your daughter and your bags. 03:09.960 --> 03:10.960 Thieves! 03:10.960 --> 03:11.960 Thieves! 03:11.960 --> 03:15.760 What is the reason of this terrible summons? 03:15.760 --> 03:16.760 What is the matter there? 03:16.760 --> 03:20.080 Signor, is all your family within? 03:20.080 --> 03:21.760 Are all doors locked? 03:21.760 --> 03:23.640 What have you lost your wit? 03:23.640 --> 03:24.640 Most reverent, signor. 03:24.640 --> 03:25.640 Do you know my voice? 03:25.640 --> 03:26.640 Yes, must I. 03:26.640 --> 03:27.640 What are you? 03:27.640 --> 03:28.640 My name is Rodrigo. 03:28.640 --> 03:29.640 No worse welcome. 03:29.640 --> 03:33.040 I have charged you not to haunt about my doors. 03:33.040 --> 03:36.560 In honest plainness, you heard me say my daughter is not for you. 03:36.560 --> 03:42.960 Sir, I beseech you that your fair daughter, Desdemona, to the gross clasps of a lascivious 03:42.960 --> 03:43.960 moor has fled. 03:43.960 --> 03:44.960 Straight satisfy yourself. 03:44.960 --> 03:50.600 If she be in her chamber or your house, let loose on me the justice of the state for this 03:50.600 --> 03:51.600 delusion. 03:51.600 --> 03:52.600 Strike on the tinder hoe. 03:52.600 --> 03:53.600 Give me a taper. 03:53.600 --> 03:55.800 Call up all my people, like I say like. 03:55.800 --> 03:58.040 Farewell, Rodrigo, for I must leave you. 03:58.040 --> 04:03.280 It seems not meet nor wholesome to my place to be produced against the moor. 04:03.280 --> 04:08.320 Lead to the arsenal, the raisin search, and there will I be with him. 04:08.320 --> 04:20.280 So farewell. 04:20.280 --> 04:22.000 Scene two, outside the arsenal. 04:22.000 --> 04:26.120 A few moments later, enter Othello, Iago in attendance with torches. 04:26.120 --> 04:27.560 As better as it is. 04:27.560 --> 04:31.400 But I pray say, are you fast married? 04:31.400 --> 04:36.920 Or be sure of this, that Signor Babanchio is much beloved, and hath in his effect the voice 04:36.920 --> 04:39.040 potential as double as the dukes. 04:39.040 --> 04:40.200 He will divorce you. 04:40.200 --> 04:41.800 Let him do his spite. 04:41.800 --> 04:48.840 My loyal services shall out-tongue his complaints, for no Iago but that I love the gentle Desdemona. 04:48.840 --> 04:52.000 But look, what lights come yonder. 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 These are the raisin father and his friends. 04:54.000 --> 04:55.000 You were best go in. 04:55.000 --> 04:56.960 The Nataya must be found. 04:56.960 --> 04:57.960 Is it they? 04:57.960 --> 05:00.240 By Janus, I think no. 05:00.240 --> 05:03.560 The servants of the duke and my lieutenant Cassio. 05:03.560 --> 05:05.200 The goodness of the night upon you, friends. 05:05.200 --> 05:06.200 What is the news, Cassio? 05:06.200 --> 05:10.680 The duke does greet you, general, and he requires your haste post haste appearance even on the 05:10.680 --> 05:11.680 instant. 05:11.680 --> 05:12.680 What's the matter, thank you? 05:12.680 --> 05:14.360 Something from Cyprus, as I may divine. 05:14.360 --> 05:15.520 You've been hotly called for. 05:15.520 --> 05:16.880 It is well I'm found by you. 05:16.880 --> 05:17.880 Come captain, will you go? 05:17.880 --> 05:18.880 Have with you. 05:18.880 --> 05:21.160 Here comes another troop to seek for you. 05:21.160 --> 05:22.760 It is Babanchio, general. 05:22.760 --> 05:25.440 Be advised, he comes to bad intent. 05:25.440 --> 05:26.920 Polari, stand there! 05:26.920 --> 05:27.920 Signorities the moor! 05:27.920 --> 05:28.920 Stand down with him! 05:28.920 --> 05:29.920 Thief! 05:29.920 --> 05:32.960 Keep up your bright sword for the dual rustum! 05:32.960 --> 05:34.280 Foul thief! 05:34.280 --> 05:37.120 Where hast thou stowed my daughter I'll have disputed on? 05:37.120 --> 05:39.240 Where will you that I go to answer this your charge? 05:39.240 --> 05:40.240 To prison! 05:40.240 --> 05:41.240 What if I do obey? 05:41.240 --> 05:46.460 How may the duke be therewith satisfied whose messengers they hear about my side upon some 05:46.460 --> 05:48.800 present business of the state to bear me to him? 05:48.800 --> 05:51.120 The duke in council and this time of the night? 05:51.120 --> 05:52.120 Bring him away. 05:52.120 --> 05:53.320 Mine's not an idle cause. 05:53.320 --> 05:58.280 The duke himself cannot but feel this wrong as for his own. 05:58.280 --> 06:09.720 Scene three, a council chamber. 06:09.720 --> 06:12.640 The duke and senator sitting at a table with lights. 06:12.640 --> 06:19.800 Verlind Othello, we must straight employ you against the general enemy Ottoman. 06:19.800 --> 06:20.800 I did not see you. 06:20.800 --> 06:22.560 Welcome Signor Babanchio. 06:22.560 --> 06:24.520 We lacked your counsel and your help tonight. 06:24.520 --> 06:25.520 So did I yours. 06:25.520 --> 06:27.480 Good your grace pardon me. 06:27.480 --> 06:33.640 Neither my place nor ought I heard of business has raised me from my bed for my particular 06:33.640 --> 06:39.640 grief is of so floodgating or bearing nature that it engluts and swallows all the sorrows. 06:39.640 --> 06:40.640 Why what's the matter? 06:40.640 --> 06:41.640 My daughter. 06:41.640 --> 06:42.640 Oh my daughter. 06:42.640 --> 06:43.640 Dead? 06:43.640 --> 06:44.640 Aye to me. 06:44.640 --> 06:50.200 She is abused, stolen from me and corrupted by spells and medicines bought of mountain 06:50.200 --> 06:51.200 banks. 06:51.200 --> 06:55.680 Here is the man, this moor whom now it seems your special mandate for the state affairs 06:55.680 --> 06:56.680 has hither brought. 06:56.680 --> 07:00.800 Othello, what in your own part can you say to this? 07:00.800 --> 07:05.760 I do beseech you send for the lady and let her speak of me before her father. 07:05.760 --> 07:09.840 If you do find me foul in her report, let your sentence even fall upon my life. 07:09.840 --> 07:11.040 Fetch Desdemona hither. 07:11.040 --> 07:14.520 Iago conduct them, you best know the place. 07:14.520 --> 07:20.600 And till she come as truly as to heaven, I'll present how I did thrive in this fair lady's 07:20.600 --> 07:22.240 love and she in mine. 07:22.240 --> 07:23.240 Say it Othello. 07:23.240 --> 07:28.840 Her father loved me, oft invited me, still questioned me the story of my life from year 07:28.840 --> 07:29.840 to year. 07:29.840 --> 07:30.840 I ran it through. 07:30.840 --> 07:35.720 I spoke of most disastrous chances of moving accidents by flood and field, of being taken 07:35.720 --> 07:39.520 by the insolent foe and sold to slavery. 07:39.520 --> 07:42.360 And my redemption this. 07:42.360 --> 07:49.200 This to hear would Desdemona seriously incline and with a greedy ear devour up my discourse. 07:49.200 --> 07:53.960 When I did speak of some distressful stroke that my youth suffered, my story being done, 07:53.960 --> 07:56.780 she gave me for my pains a world of sighs. 07:56.780 --> 08:01.960 She swore in faith, it was strange, it was passing strange, it was pitiful, it was wondrous 08:01.960 --> 08:03.400 pitiful. 08:03.400 --> 08:08.920 She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished that heaven had made her such a man. 08:08.920 --> 08:14.200 She thanked me and bade me if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how 08:14.200 --> 08:18.120 to tell my story and that would woo her. 08:18.120 --> 08:21.240 On this hint I spoke. 08:21.240 --> 08:28.660 She loved me for the dangers I had passed and I loved her that she did pity them. 08:28.660 --> 08:33.200 This only is the witchcraft I have used. 08:33.200 --> 08:36.000 Here comes the lady, let her witness it. 08:36.000 --> 08:39.560 Come hither, gentle mistress. 08:39.560 --> 08:45.520 Do you perceive in all this noble company where most you owe obedience? 08:45.520 --> 08:51.360 My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. 08:51.360 --> 08:54.920 To you I am bound for life and education. 08:54.920 --> 08:58.520 My life and education both do learn me how to respect you. 08:58.520 --> 09:05.680 But here's my husband and so much duty as my mother showed to you, preferring you before 09:05.680 --> 09:11.920 her father, so much I challenge that I may profess due to the moor, my lord. 09:11.920 --> 09:19.640 Come hither, moor, I here do give you that with all my heart I would keep from you. 09:19.640 --> 09:23.280 For your sake, Jewel, I am glad at soul. 09:23.280 --> 09:25.680 I have no other child. 09:25.680 --> 09:26.680 I have done my lot. 09:26.680 --> 09:29.240 We seek you now to the affairs of state. 09:29.240 --> 09:32.800 The Turk with most mighty preparation makes for Cyprus. 09:32.800 --> 09:38.960 Othello, the fortitude of the place is best known to you and though we have there, Montana, 09:38.960 --> 09:44.200 a substitute of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion as sovereign mistress of effects 09:44.200 --> 09:45.800 throws a more safer voice on you. 09:45.800 --> 09:48.840 I do undertake these present wars against the Ottomites. 09:48.840 --> 09:50.840 At ten in the morning here we'll meet again. 09:50.840 --> 09:54.480 Othello, leave some officer behind and he shall our commission bring to you. 09:54.480 --> 09:58.720 Please, Your Grace, my Ensign Iago, a man he is of honesty and trust. 09:58.720 --> 10:03.400 To his conveyance I assign my wife with what else needful your good grace shall think to 10:03.400 --> 10:04.400 be sent after me. 10:04.400 --> 10:05.720 Let it be so. 10:05.720 --> 10:09.840 Good night to everyone, adieu, brave Moor, use Desdemona well. 10:09.840 --> 10:11.640 Look to her, Moor. 10:11.640 --> 10:13.440 Have a quick eye to see. 10:13.440 --> 10:15.760 She has deceived her father. 10:15.760 --> 10:17.660 May it be to thee. 10:17.660 --> 10:21.880 My life upon her faith. 10:21.880 --> 10:28.240 Come Desdemona, I have but an hour of love, of worldly matters and direction to spend 10:28.240 --> 10:30.080 with thee. 10:30.080 --> 10:36.720 We must obey the time. 10:36.720 --> 10:38.760 What sayest thou, Rodrigo? 10:38.760 --> 10:39.760 What will I do? 10:39.760 --> 10:41.560 Why, go to bed and sleep. 10:41.560 --> 10:44.200 I will incontinently drown myself. 10:44.200 --> 10:46.880 If you do, I shall never love thee after. 10:46.880 --> 10:48.520 Why, thou silly gentleman. 10:48.520 --> 10:50.480 What should I do? 10:50.480 --> 10:54.960 I confess it is my shame to be so fond of her, but it is not in my virtue to amend it. 10:54.960 --> 10:55.960 Virtue a fig. 10:55.960 --> 11:00.120 It is in ourselves that we are thus or thus. 11:00.120 --> 11:03.440 Our bodies are gardens to which our wills are gardeners. 11:03.440 --> 11:05.360 Come be a man. 11:05.360 --> 11:09.640 Drown thyself, drown cats and blind puppies. 11:09.640 --> 11:11.440 Put money in thy purse. 11:11.440 --> 11:15.100 It cannot be that Desdemona should long continue her love unto the Moor. 11:15.100 --> 11:17.920 Put money in thy purse, nor he to her. 11:17.920 --> 11:21.760 It was a violent commencement, and you shall see an answerable sequestration. 11:21.760 --> 11:24.540 Put but money in thy purse. 11:24.540 --> 11:27.200 These Moors are changeable in their wills. 11:27.200 --> 11:29.320 She must change for youth. 11:29.320 --> 11:31.920 She will find the error of her choice. 11:31.920 --> 11:33.520 She must have change. 11:33.520 --> 11:35.240 She must. 11:35.240 --> 11:38.440 If you must damn yourself, do it a more delicate way than drowning. 11:38.440 --> 11:41.440 Make all the money you can. 11:41.440 --> 11:43.560 You shall enjoy her. 11:43.560 --> 11:44.960 Will you be fast to my hopes? 11:44.960 --> 11:45.960 You are sure of me. 11:45.960 --> 11:47.280 Go, make money. 11:47.280 --> 11:52.280 I have told thee often, and I tell thee again and again. 11:52.280 --> 11:54.720 I hate the Moor. 11:54.720 --> 11:55.720 And you? 11:55.720 --> 12:04.640 I'll be with thee betimes. 12:04.640 --> 12:08.520 Thus do I ever make my fool my purse. 12:08.520 --> 12:11.200 I hate the Moor. 12:11.200 --> 12:12.560 Let me see now. 12:12.560 --> 12:14.920 Cassio's a proper man. 12:14.920 --> 12:20.640 To get his place and to make up my will, a double navery. 12:20.640 --> 12:22.640 How? 12:22.640 --> 12:23.840 How? 12:23.840 --> 12:29.320 After some time to abuse a fellow's ear, that his lieutenant Cassio is too familiar with 12:29.320 --> 12:31.120 his wife. 12:31.120 --> 12:34.520 Cassio hath a person and a smooth dispose to be suspected. 12:34.520 --> 12:40.760 The Moor is of a free and open nature that thinks men honest that but seem to be so, 12:40.760 --> 12:45.520 and will as tenderly be led by the nose as asses are. 12:45.520 --> 12:47.680 I have it. 12:47.680 --> 12:49.800 It is engendered. 12:49.800 --> 13:08.360 Well and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light. 13:08.360 --> 13:12.920 Auto Light is bringing you Richard Woodmark, Kathy Lewis, and Elliot Lewis in part one 13:12.920 --> 13:15.720 of William Shakespeare's Othello. 13:15.720 --> 13:23.720 It's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 13:23.720 --> 13:36.040 Sir Harlow, how long has Auto Light been making electrical systems? 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17:04.840 --> 17:06.720 Why, it is not possible. 17:06.720 --> 17:10.440 Mark me with what violence she first loved the more, but for bragging and telling her 17:10.440 --> 17:12.320 fantastical lies. 17:12.320 --> 17:14.400 And will she love him still, for prating? 17:14.400 --> 17:17.080 Let not thy discreet heart think so. 17:17.080 --> 17:19.280 Her eye must be fed. 17:19.280 --> 17:22.400 And what delight shall she have to look on the devil? 17:22.400 --> 17:28.240 Her delicate tenderness will find itself abused and compel her to some second choice. 17:28.240 --> 17:30.920 Now, sir, this granted. 17:30.920 --> 17:35.600 Who stands so eminently in the degree of this fortune as Casio does? 17:35.600 --> 17:39.600 I cannot believe that in her she is full of the most blessed condition. 17:39.600 --> 17:41.240 Blessed figs end. 17:41.240 --> 17:43.640 Dits not see her paddle with the palm of Casio's hand. 17:43.640 --> 17:44.640 Dits not mark that? 17:44.640 --> 17:46.920 Yes, but that was but courtesy. 17:46.920 --> 17:54.760 Blessery by this hand, and index an obscure prologue to the history of lust and foul thoughts. 17:54.760 --> 17:59.560 They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together. 17:59.560 --> 18:01.560 But sir, watch you tonight. 18:01.560 --> 18:02.560 Casio knows you not. 18:02.560 --> 18:03.960 I'll not be far from you. 18:03.960 --> 18:07.320 Do you find some occasion to anger Casio? 18:07.320 --> 18:09.480 Provoke him that he may strike you. 18:09.480 --> 18:14.080 For even out of that will I cause these of Cyprus to mutiny, whose qualification shall 18:14.080 --> 18:18.720 come into no true trust again but by the displanting of Casio. 18:18.720 --> 18:22.320 So shall you have a shorter journey to your desires. 18:22.320 --> 18:24.920 I will do this if I can bring it to any opportunity. 18:24.920 --> 18:26.120 I warrant thee. 18:26.120 --> 18:28.000 Meet me by and by at the citadel. 18:28.000 --> 18:30.760 I must fetch his necessaries ashore. 18:30.760 --> 18:31.760 Farewell. 18:31.760 --> 18:34.600 Adieu. 18:34.600 --> 18:41.360 I'll have our Michael Casio on the hip, abuse him to the moor in the rank guard, make the 18:41.360 --> 18:49.120 moor thank me, love me, and reward me for making him egregiously an ass, and practicing upon 18:49.120 --> 18:55.160 his peace and quiet, even to madness. 18:55.160 --> 18:58.960 It is here but yet confused. 18:58.960 --> 19:09.040 Navery's plain face is never seen till used. 19:09.040 --> 19:11.280 Seen a hall in the castle. 19:11.280 --> 19:12.720 The time early night. 19:12.720 --> 19:14.320 Enterer Iago and Casio. 19:14.320 --> 19:16.120 We must to the watch, Iago. 19:16.120 --> 19:19.040 Not this hour, lieutenant, is not yet ten o'clock. 19:19.040 --> 19:23.640 Our general cast us thus early for the love of his Desdemona, who let us not therefore 19:23.640 --> 19:24.640 blame. 19:24.640 --> 19:25.960 She is a most exquisite lady. 19:25.960 --> 19:28.840 Indeed, she is a most fresh and delicate creature. 19:28.840 --> 19:31.000 What an eyes she has. 19:31.000 --> 19:34.200 Me thinks it sounds a parley of provocation. 19:34.200 --> 19:37.560 An inviting eye, and yet me thinks right modest. 19:37.560 --> 19:41.520 And when she speaks, is it not an alarm to love? 19:41.520 --> 19:43.320 It is indeed perfection. 19:43.320 --> 19:45.680 Well, happiness to them. 19:45.680 --> 19:49.620 Come lieutenant, I have a stoop of wine, and herewith out are a brace of Cyprus galance 19:49.620 --> 19:52.040 that would fain have a measure to the health of a fellow. 19:52.040 --> 19:53.360 Not tonight, good Iago. 19:53.360 --> 19:56.000 I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking. 19:56.000 --> 19:57.560 But one cup I'll drink for you. 19:57.560 --> 19:59.560 I have drunk but one cup tonight. 19:59.560 --> 20:04.360 I am unfortunate in the infirmity, and dare not task my weakness with any more. 20:04.360 --> 20:07.640 What man, it is a night of revels, the galance desire it. 20:07.640 --> 20:08.640 Where are they? 20:08.640 --> 20:10.720 Here at the door, I pray you, call them in. 20:10.720 --> 20:11.720 I'll do it. 20:11.720 --> 20:12.720 But it dislikes. 20:12.720 --> 20:19.720 Gentlemen, let's look to our business. 20:19.720 --> 20:25.160 Do not think gentlemen I am drunk. 20:25.160 --> 20:29.160 This is my right hand, and this is my left hand. 20:29.160 --> 20:30.760 I am not drunk now. 20:30.760 --> 20:34.120 I can stand well enough and speak well enough. 20:34.120 --> 20:36.320 Very well then. 20:36.320 --> 20:38.560 You must not think that I am drunk. 20:38.560 --> 20:40.560 To the master's platform. 20:40.560 --> 20:42.600 Come, let's set the watch. 20:42.600 --> 20:45.240 Good Montano. 20:45.240 --> 20:48.240 You see this fellow that is gone before. 20:48.240 --> 20:52.200 He is a soldier fit to stand by Caesar. 20:52.200 --> 20:57.080 Yet I fear the trust a fellow put him in on some odd time of his infirmity will shake 20:57.080 --> 20:58.080 this island. 20:58.080 --> 21:00.040 Ah, but is he often thus? 21:00.040 --> 21:02.240 Is evermore the prologue to his sleep? 21:02.240 --> 21:04.640 It were well the general were put in mind of it. 21:04.640 --> 21:05.640 Help, help! 21:05.640 --> 21:06.640 The hark, what noise? 21:06.640 --> 21:07.640 Help you rogue, you rascal! 21:07.640 --> 21:08.640 What's the matter, lieutenant? 21:08.640 --> 21:09.640 I'll beat the knave into a wicker bottle. 21:09.640 --> 21:10.640 Beat me? 21:10.640 --> 21:11.640 Do you please? 21:11.640 --> 21:12.640 Wrong! 21:12.640 --> 21:13.640 Good lieutenant, pray sir, hold your hand. 21:13.640 --> 21:14.640 Let me go, sir, I'll knock you out of mazard. 21:14.640 --> 21:15.640 Come, come, you're drunk. 21:15.640 --> 21:16.640 Wrong! 21:16.640 --> 21:17.640 Rodrigo, away. 21:17.640 --> 21:18.640 Go out and cry a mutiny. 21:18.640 --> 21:19.640 Nay, good lieutenant, sir. 21:19.640 --> 21:20.640 Montano. 21:20.640 --> 21:21.640 Help, masters. 21:21.640 --> 21:22.640 Who's that that rings the bell? 21:22.640 --> 21:23.640 The town will rise. 21:23.640 --> 21:24.640 What is the matter here? 21:24.640 --> 21:25.640 Who, we alive? 21:25.640 --> 21:26.640 Lieutenant, sir. 21:26.640 --> 21:27.640 Montano. 21:27.640 --> 21:28.640 Gentlemen, have you forgot all sense of place and duty? 21:28.640 --> 21:29.640 Hold! 21:29.640 --> 21:30.640 The general speaks to you. 21:30.640 --> 21:42.640 Silence that dreadful bell. 21:42.640 --> 21:51.880 It quakes the aisle from the propriety. 21:51.880 --> 21:52.880 What's the matter, masters? 21:52.880 --> 21:58.440 Honest Tiago, that looks dead with grieving, speak, who began this? 21:58.440 --> 22:00.440 I do not know. 22:00.440 --> 22:04.440 I cannot speak any beginning to this, Peevishod's. 22:04.440 --> 22:06.640 How came it, Michael, you were thus forgot? 22:06.640 --> 22:11.200 I pray you, pardon me, I cannot speak. 22:11.200 --> 22:16.360 Worthy Montano, what's the matter that you unlace your reputation thus and spend your 22:16.360 --> 22:18.280 rich opinion for the name of a knight brawler? 22:18.280 --> 22:19.280 Give me answer to it. 22:19.280 --> 22:22.800 Worthy Othello, I am hurt to danger. 22:22.800 --> 22:25.000 Your officer, Iago, can inform you. 22:25.000 --> 22:30.400 Now, by heaven, if I stir or do but lift this arm, the best of you shall sink into the 22:30.400 --> 22:31.400 sink in my rebuke. 22:31.400 --> 22:32.400 Iago, who began? 22:32.400 --> 22:36.360 If you deliver more or less than truth, you are no soldier. 22:36.360 --> 22:38.720 Touch me not so near. 22:38.720 --> 22:45.360 I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth than it should do offense to Michael 22:45.360 --> 22:47.640 Casio. 22:47.640 --> 22:52.240 Yet I persuade myself to speak the truth, shall nothing wrong him. 22:52.240 --> 22:53.800 Thus it is, general. 22:53.800 --> 22:58.320 Montano and myself being in speech, there comes a fellow crying out for help and Casio 22:58.320 --> 23:01.560 following him with determined sword to execute upon him. 23:01.560 --> 23:05.080 Sir, Montano steps into Casio and entreats his pause. 23:05.080 --> 23:07.280 Myself, the crying fellow, did pursue. 23:07.280 --> 23:10.160 He swift a foot outran my purpose. 23:10.160 --> 23:13.960 When I came back, for this was brief, I found them close together at blow and thrust, even 23:13.960 --> 23:17.240 as again they were when you yourself did part them. 23:17.240 --> 23:22.360 Though Casio did some little wrong to him, yet surely he received from him that fled 23:22.360 --> 23:28.360 some strange indignity which patience could not pass. 23:28.360 --> 23:34.760 I know, Iago, your honesty and love does mince this matter, making it light to Casio. 23:34.760 --> 23:42.480 Casio, I love thee, but never more be officer of mine. 23:42.480 --> 23:46.160 Montano, for your hurts, myself will be your surgeon. 23:46.160 --> 23:48.360 Lead him off. 23:48.360 --> 23:55.760 Iago, look with care about the town and silence those whom this vile brawl distracted. 23:55.760 --> 24:01.320 Good night. 24:01.320 --> 24:06.680 Tell me, Casio, what was he that you followed with your sword? 24:06.680 --> 24:08.400 What had he done to you? 24:08.400 --> 24:16.520 I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly quarreled, nothing wherefore. 24:16.520 --> 24:17.800 But you are now well enough. 24:17.800 --> 24:19.640 How came you thus recovered? 24:19.640 --> 24:22.840 It has pleased the deviled wrath. 24:22.840 --> 24:27.920 One unperfectness shows me another, to make me frankly despise myself. 24:27.920 --> 24:30.720 Come, you are too severe immorally. 24:30.720 --> 24:32.780 I will ask him for my place again. 24:32.780 --> 24:35.200 He shall tell me I am a drunkard. 24:35.200 --> 24:36.740 Come, come, come, come. 24:36.740 --> 24:40.360 You were any man living, maybe drunk at some time. 24:40.360 --> 24:43.200 I'll tell you what you shall do. 24:43.200 --> 24:46.720 Our general's wife is now the general. 24:46.720 --> 24:49.000 Confess yourself freely to her. 24:49.000 --> 24:52.400 Impartune her help to put you in your place again. 24:52.400 --> 24:59.000 She is of so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition, she holds it a vice in her 24:59.000 --> 25:02.800 goodness not to do more than she is requested. 25:02.800 --> 25:09.400 This broken joint between you and her husband entreat her to splinter. 25:09.400 --> 25:12.320 You advise me well, I protest. 25:12.320 --> 25:17.480 In the sincerity of love and honest kindness, in the morning will I beseech the virtuous 25:17.480 --> 25:20.080 Desdemona to undertake for me. 25:20.080 --> 25:23.560 I am desperate of my fortunes if they check me here. 25:23.560 --> 25:24.560 You are in the right. 25:24.560 --> 25:27.240 Good night, lieutenant, I must to the watch. 25:27.240 --> 25:32.960 Good night, honest Iago. 25:32.960 --> 25:36.880 And what is he then that says I play the villain? 25:36.880 --> 25:41.720 When this advice is free, I give an honest probal to thinking, and indeed the course 25:41.720 --> 25:44.640 to win the moor again. 25:44.640 --> 25:51.480 For while this honest fool plies Desdemona to repair his fortunes, and she for him pleads 25:51.480 --> 26:00.680 strongly to the moor, I'll pour this pestilence into his ear, that she repels him for her 26:00.680 --> 26:01.680 lust. 26:01.680 --> 26:08.720 And by how much she strives to do him good, she shall undo her credit with the moor. 26:08.720 --> 26:16.840 So will I turn her virtue into pitch, and out of her own goodness make the net that 26:16.840 --> 26:40.560 shall enmesh them all. 26:40.560 --> 26:41.560 Suspense. 26:41.560 --> 26:47.600 Part One of Othello by William Shakespeare, tonight's stars Richard Widmark, Kathy Lewis, 26:47.600 --> 26:49.960 and Elliot Lewis. 26:49.960 --> 26:54.480 This is Harlow Wilcock speaking for Auto Light, world's largest independent manufacturer 26:54.480 --> 26:57.080 of automotive electrical equipment. 26:57.080 --> 27:00.640 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 27:00.640 --> 27:05.520 They are members of the Auto Light family, as well as are the 98,000 Auto Light distributors 27:05.520 --> 27:11.000 and dealers in the United States and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world. 27:11.000 --> 27:15.720 Our family also includes the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto Light plants 27:15.720 --> 27:20.520 from coast to coast, and Auto Light plants in many foreign countries, as well as the 27:20.520 --> 27:25.400 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in Auto Light. 27:25.400 --> 27:30.160 Every Auto Light product is backed by constant research and precision built to the highest 27:30.160 --> 27:33.060 standards of quality and performance. 27:33.060 --> 27:47.600 So remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 27:47.600 --> 27:53.320 Next week, we conclude this first radio adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragic history of 27:53.320 --> 27:57.240 love and treachery and death, Othello. 27:57.240 --> 28:02.820 Again next week, our stars will be Richard Widmark, Kathy Lewis, and Elliot Lewis. 28:02.820 --> 28:16.080 And again next week, we hope to keep you in suspense. 28:16.080 --> 28:20.800 The Abridged Othello was adapted for suspense by Anthony Ellis and Elliot Lewis. 28:20.800 --> 28:25.600 The program was transcribed and directed by Mr. Lewis, with music arranged by Lucian Morawick 28:25.600 --> 28:28.040 from Thieves by Giuseppe Verdi. 28:28.040 --> 28:30.080 The orchestra was conducted by Lud Bloskin. 28:30.080 --> 28:35.880 Featured in tonight's cast were Joseph Kearns as Cassio, William Conrad as Montano, Whitfield 28:35.880 --> 28:42.840 Connor as Rodrigo, Herb Butterfield as Barbacho, William Johnstone as the Duke, Byron Cain, 28:42.840 --> 28:45.760 and Larry Thorpe. 28:45.760 --> 28:52.600 Richard Widmark may soon be seen in the 20th Century Fox picture pick up on South Street. 28:52.600 --> 29:14.640 And remember, next week, we conclude Othello. 29:14.640 --> 29:17.020 Plan saving is best saving. 29:17.020 --> 29:21.200 Your bank will be happy to arrange for your regular purchase of United States savings 29:21.200 --> 29:22.200 bonds. 29:22.200 --> 29:23.200 All services free.