In this episode, we take a nostalgic journey to a Welsh coal mining community through the story of "How Green Was My Valley." The narrative unfolds with the tale of Hugh Morgan, who reflects on his childhood in a once-beautiful valley now marred by the coal industry. We explore the lives of the Morgan family, their struggles, and the community's spirit amidst the challenges of mining life. The episode highlights the themes of family, love, and the harsh realities of industrialization, as well as the power of unity and resilience in the face of adversity.
We also delve into the personal stories of the characters, including the romantic tensions between Angharad and Mr. Griffith, and the societal pressures that lead to misunderstandings and conflicts. The episode captures the essence of community life, the impact of economic hardships, and the enduring strength of familial bonds. Through the lens of the Morgan family, we witness the triumphs and tragedies that shape their lives, offering a poignant reflection on the passage of time and the enduring spirit of the valley.
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Let's present Hollywood. The
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Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. When our session rises tonight, it will disclose a scene far removed from the battle scarred world we live in now. A scene out of yesterday's world. And like the little girl who stepped through the looking glass, you're invited to cross the footlights and spend an hour with the sturdy people of how green was my valley. From the original cast of this Academy Award picture, we have Walter Pigeon, now starring in Metro Goldwyn Mayer's White Cargo, and Donald Chris, Maureen O'Hara, Ryder McDowell, Sarah Alsworth, and a chorus of Welsh singers.
Besides the award won by this twentieth century Fox production, our green with my valley brought another academy award to Donald Chris for the finest performance of the year by a supporting actor. And then the academy made it a triple play by presenting John Ford with the award for directing. And before any of this happened, Richard Llewellyn's novel had been a bestseller. So tonight's play comes well recommended. It's a story of a little Welsh coal mining community, a place where life, love, and drama go hand in hand. Because every descent into the depths of the earth must always be a perilous adventure for the men who dig out its wealth.
From soldier and stenographer, from farmer and factory worker, have come letter after letter suggesting how green was my valley for this theater. So many, in fact, they stopped doing suggestions and became a command. So this is a command performance for all the friends of Luxorla soap. Luxorla has always been a favorite with beauty. But nowadays, you'll find beauty at work on the farm and in the factory. And unless the papers deceive me, in the army too. Hard for an old line sergeant to understand probably. But in this war, woman power is just as important as manpower.
And wherever woman power goes to work, Flux Phillips is right there helping to, keep up the morale. Here's the opening curtain now on the first act of how green was my valet, starring Walter Pigeon as Griffith, Donald Chris as mister Morgan, Maureen O'Hara as Anne Howard, Roddy McDowell as Hugh, and Sarah Allgood as Beth Morgan.
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I am packing my belongings in the shawl my mother used to wear when she went to market, and I'm going from my valley. And this time, I shall never return.
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So begins the story of Hugh Morgan, a man who looks back through sixty years of memories and finds them clear and bright as yesterday. His birthplace and his home is a small Welsh coal valley, once a place of beauty, now ugly and dirty. Towering heaps of its flag and belting smoke stacks have made his valley so. But old Hugh Morgan is oblivious to all that.
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I close my eyes on my valley as it is today, and I see it as it was when I was a boy. Green it was, possessed of the plenty of the earth. In all Wales, there was none so beautiful. For in those days, the black flag of the coal pit had not yet marred the countryside nor blackened the beauty of our village. Coal miners were my father and all my brothers and proud of their trade. Saturday was payday at the mine, and my father and all my brothers would stand in line to receive their wages for a week of honest work.
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William Morgan, three pound seven. Thank you, sir. Eva Morgan, three pound seven. Thank you, sir. Morgan Morgan, three pound seven. Thank you. Robbie Morgan, two pound five.
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That's it. Owen Morgan, two pound five. Thank you, sir. Young William Morgan, one Thank you, sir. $9.00 £3.06. £1.10.
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Good boy. Now home all of you to your mother.
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Someone then would strike up a song, and the valley would ring with the sound of many voices. For singing is in my people as sight is in the eyes. At home, my mother would be sitting at the door. My father and all my brothers would drop their hard and insolvent in for eight.
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There you are, girls. A fine hard worker at you. Your mother.
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David.
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It was happy we were at that time, and happier still on the day my brother, was married. I will never forget the party after the wedding. And the wedding cake is to zoom in to lift. My father, here's a man won't get drunk. Can't get drunk. Can't get drunk. It was then that mister Griffith came to the door. Mister Griffith, the new minister from the university at Cardiff. I ran to tell my father.
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I will offer the wine. What boy? The minister. Oh. Oh. Oh. The new minister. Put away the beer. Put away the beer. Good evening, mister Morgan.
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Good evening, sir. Some, a cup of tea. Is it mister Griffith?
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Girl, Beth, brew a cup of tea. Oh, no. Don't bother, please. What are you having, miss Morgan? We oh, We share a beer, sir. Beer it is then, if you please. Beer? Uh-huh. Beer. A pint of beer. Sorry. We found them that mister Griffith could stay as well as drink. But my sister and Harry did nothing at all for watching. My sister and Harry brought him something to eat. There was a great sign of an ad that spoke to him. Mister Griffith. Good evening. I have brought you something. Thank you. I am Evo's sister. Evo's sister. Then, you must be on Howard. Yes. All around, the valley echoed with our joy.
Happy then, all of us. But soon, very soon, there would be trouble at the.
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You know this, beginning August 3, the stale wages of this nine will be reduced. One chilling topping. That night, my father stayed late at the mine, talked to the owners.
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When he came home, my brothers were waiting for him at the table.
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Sit down, Yanto. Sit down all of you, supper. We were waiting for your father. We want to know what happened. The cut is only a few shillings. There will still be plenty for all of us. Why should there be any way it's cut for us? Why, darling? It is because they are not getting the old price for coal coming to suffer. May we speak first? Well, Yantu, the owners have not given you the real reason for the cut. Ever since the iron works at Dallas have closed down, the men from there have come to the colliery willing to work for any wage. The oil has come down. And this is only the beginning. Nonsense, Yantu. A good worker is worth good wages and he will get them. Why should the owners say more if the men are willing to work for less? Because they are not savages. They are men too like us. Men. Yes. But not like us. Would they deal with Newtonites?
No. That is because they have power and we have none. How will we get power then? From the air? No. From a union of all the men. Union, is it? I had no thought I would ever hear my own sons talking socialist nonsense. What is sense? Unless we stand together. Silence. I hear no more about it. This matter is too important for silence. It is not more important than good manners. They will punish you for acting as our spokesman, Harper. We must do something about it. Let us all stand together and see how they will act then. Right. Then they will come out as we say the word. I will not be a plank for your politics.
I will not be the excuse for any strike. What's wrong, sir? Enough now. It is not enough. Owen. I am sorry, sir, but Hold your tongue until I have given you permission to speak. I will speak against injustice anywhere
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with permission or without. Not in this house. In this house and outside.
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Leave the room. I will also leave the house. I too will leave. I'm with you. We can find lodgings in the
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village. All of you then.
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For the last time, come sit down. Finish your supper. I will say no more. We are not questioning your authority, sir. But if manners present out speaking the truth, we will be without manners. Get your clothes and go.
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Boba? Boba?
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Yes. You.
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Yes. My son. I know you are still there.
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Twenty two weeks, the men were out of the strike moved into winter. Any man who was not their friends became their enemy. They knew that my father had opposed the strike, and now it's as they opposed him. One night I was in the hills. My mother made me take her. She stood before the men in the snow and faced them with fury in her eyes.
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Wait. Wait. Wait till you have heard me. I am Beth Morgan, as you all know. I I have come up here to tell you what I think of you all because you are talking against my husband. You you are talking against my husband. You you are a lot of powers to go against him. He has done nothing against you, and he never would, and you know it well. To say he is with the owners is not only nonsense, but downright wickedness. There's there's one thing more I've got to say, and it is this. If harm comes to my Guillam, I will find out an end, and I will kill them with my hands.
And this, I swear by God
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almighty.
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With my mother holding firmly to my arm, we turned and passed through the ranks of strange, silent men and into the bitter wind. For hours, it seemed we stumbled through the snow toward home. Then on the low wooden bridge over the river, blinded by the storm, we slipped and fell into the icy water. On a rocky ledge, I found support and held my mother clear. How long it was we were there, I cannot tell.
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But when they found us, it was carried home
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near to death. For weeks, I lay in my bed. And then one day, I heard mister Griffith speaking to the doctor outside my door. Well, doctor, how long for the little one? It's hard to tell, mister Griffith.
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His legs were frozen to the bone. A year, two years quiet like that, but I can't promise that he will ever walk again.
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Nature must take us off, mister Griffith. I just cannot see if he heard you. Well,
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Let me go to him. Good morning, Hugh.
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Good morning, sir.
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Now now where is the light I thought to see in your eye? Are you afraid, boy? I I You heard what the doctor said, Yes, sir. And you believed it? You want to walk again, don't you? Yes, sir. Then you must have faith. And if you have, you will walk no matter what all the doctors say. But he said nature must take her course. Nature is the handmaiden of the Lord. I remember one or two occasions when she was given orders to change her course. You know your scripture, boy? Yes, sir. Then you know what's been done before can be done again for you. Do you believe me, Hugh?
Yes, sir. Good. You shall see the first daffodil out on the mountain in the spring. Will you? Indeed, I will. Then you will. Now here is the book I have brought you. Pleasure Island. Uh-huh. I could almost wish that I were lying there in your place. If it meant reading this book again for the first time, read it boy. And I will come back and see you soon again. Thank you,
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sir. Mister Griffith? Yes, Anne Howard? I couldn't let you go without thanking you for giving comfort to my brother. It was only my duty, girl. Oh, no. It was more than duty.
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Yes. You is a fine boy. And you are a fine family.
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Will you will you be coming to supper soon, mister Griffith?
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Later, perhaps, when you are finished with doctors and fetches. I will hurry them away then.
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Good.
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For many months, I lay there and my mother upstairs. And we could talk to each other with tapings on the wall.
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For the great day when she came down into her house,
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on my father's arms, she came to my bed and stood watching me with diamonds in her eyes, her hand to her
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mouth. You you are my son. My son. Mama. You're raw. It's it's very wild. It's it's your snow down into the boy.
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Then she touched my cheek and kissed me fiercely. My father tiptoes at the door and beckoned for my brothers to come in for they had returned to the house to leave. We have come back, mother. Oh. In an instant, my mother was in their arms, love knowing whether to laugh or cry.
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Daddy.
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Come, girl. Come. Then outside, we heard the voice. The men of the mind coming to sing for my mother.
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Will it? Will you come to the door, girl? Okay. It is for you, girl.
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Long now. Easier? Well,
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come. Say something, girl. Say something. What what can I say? You found plenty to say the last time you spoke.
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It should be easier now with friends. Well,
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come come and eat everyone.
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It was a gay time. We laughed and sang Christopher's Dolan. Even old mister Parry, the tourist of the elders in Archer.
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Good evening, mister Parry. Miento.
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I haven't seen you in chapel lately. I've been too busy. What this is may I ask? Mine?
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Only asking a civil question ever. And having a civil answer, mister
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I have been busy with the the union. The union.
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Unions are the work of the devil.
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You will come to know Berlin, and American. Least I am doing something, not talking a lot of rubbish in chapel. D'Anton. D'Anton.
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Why do you think we have the chapel talk rubbish? My remark was not aimed at you, mister Griffith. Then aim it. Aim it, my boy. Very well.
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Because you make yourselves out to be shepherds of the flock, and yet you allow your sheep to live in filth and poverty. And if they try to raise their voices against it, you'll calm them by saying their suffering is the will of God.
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Enough now. Miss Morgan. I have not expressed my views here because I have no wish to interfere with a family disagreement. You have my permission to speak, mister Gritty. Well then, here is what I think. Have your union. Alone, you are weak. Together, you are strong. But remember that with strength goes responsibilities to others and to yourself, for you cannot conquer injustice with more injustice. Only with justice and with the help of God. Mister Griffith, are you coming outside your position in life? Your business is spiritual. My business, mister Parry, is anything that comes between man and the spirit of God. The deacon shall hear that you've been preaching social Mister Parry, who still give a secret? Jan He is our guest.
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Now enough. Best girl, give mister Parry a pint of home brewed and put his pipe back into his mouth. I will give him a good self with a frying pan.
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Oh, no. No. No. No. Fun. A bit of singing is it? A song or a song.
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I'm Howard. In the kitchen again? All is hungry they are. Yeah. Let me help you with the fire. Mister Griffith, do we always be in your debt now you have made us a family here? Ah, there's enough call, I think. Oh, look at your hands. They lead to me. Here, let me see. Oh. Why? What is it? Why? Your hands. They are like my father's and my brother. Have you been down the mine? Ten years while I was studying. Ten years? Mhmm. Oh, you're now a bit of sober. Oh, no. No. Please don't bother. I'll get it. Now look here. You are king of the chapel, but I will be queen in my own kitchen. Now the hand please.
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You will be queen wherever you want.
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What does that mean?
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I I should not have said it. Why not? I have no right to speak to you so.
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It's the right of mine to heal. You have it.
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In just a few moments, mister DeMille and our stars, Walter Pigeon, Donald Critt, Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowell, and Sarah Allgood will bring us act two of how green was my valley. And now here's a young business girl greeting her roommate a bit enviously.
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Hi, Mary. I would love for you to get home early. Oh, what a day we have. Except it's nearly ready, dear. Oh, wonderful. I'm certainly for a cozy evening right here at home. Darling. Now don't get mad, but I promise we'd both beat the USO dance at nine. They needed more girls. Mary Lou Davis, if you fall, not Jenny, see an angel. There's plenty of warm water in the bathroom. And look, here's a nice new take of luxe soap. Oh, you'll feel lost if it happens to your beauty bath. You know you will.
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our producer, mister DeMille. Act two of how green was my valley. Darling Robert Pigeon as Griffith, Donald Chris as mister Morgan, Maureen O'Hara as Anne Howard, Roddy McDowell as Hugh, and Sarah Allgood as Bess Morgan.
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While I lay in the wall bed recovering from my hurt, the strike was settled, and the men returned to the mine. Always through that time, I kept my face that I would walk again. Then one quite windy day in early spring, mister Griffith came for me as he had promised. He carried me to the top of the hill above our village. Now then boy, down you go. Now put your feet apart and stand on it. Yes, sir. Now you can walk you if you try. Come, lad. Walk to me.
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What I, sir?
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Walk over here. One step. One step. Oh. And now another. Come
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on. See. I'm walking. Too rocky I am, sir.
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There's a good lad. There's a good old man you are. Now rest a bit,
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Mister Griffith, I have lost. Of course you have.
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And you have been lucky, Hugh. Lucky to suffer and lucky to spend these weary months in your bed. Or so God has given you the chance to make spirit within yourself. And as your father cleans his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit. How, sir? By prayer, boy. And I don't mean shouting and mumbling and wallowing in religious sentiment. Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think. Think well what you are saying, and make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that manner, your prayer will have strength, and that strength shall become a part of you, mind, body, and spirit.
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Yes, sir.
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Now then, up on my shoulders, boy. And My new leg is carriage winter chapel and home again too. And it was on that Sunday that mister Evan came to call on my father. Mister Evan, the owner of the mine.
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Yes. Yes. Yes. Come in. Come in. What's under the blazes? Who is it? Good morning, Martin.
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Oh, mister Evan. Good morning, mister Evan.
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Sit down, sir. Thank you, Martin. Oh,
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your pardon. A pail of water, sir. I, I've been soaking my four feet, sir. Beth, my boots. My boots. Sit down, sir. Now now, Morgan, to business. Yes, sir.
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I come here on a very delicate mission,
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Morgan.
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No trouble at the mind. No. No. No. No. No trouble, but it worries me. Yes. I'm here to get your permission, but my pun guessing may have permission. Bless you, Morgan.
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Thank you, sir. Now now where was I,
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permission? Oh yes yes. But permission.
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That my son Yesing may have permission with your daughter Anne Harrods' permission to call upon.
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There we are.
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Your son and my
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well,
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we are a very close family, mister Ivan. But you have my permission, mister Ivan, to give your son permission
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to speak to Angharad with her permission. Thank you. Thank you, Morgan. I'm very much obliged. You he's just outside. I'll tell him I'm not obliged.
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And so it was that wealthy, yes, Cindy vans came to ask for Angharad in Marad, and mister Griffiths knew of it and stayed away from our house. For a whole week, we never saw his safe. Until at last, Angharad would wait no longer. Who is it? One moment. Angharad?
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You shouldn't be here. I couldn't spend another night without knowing what has happened. What is wrong? Wrong? Oh, you know what I mean? Why have you changed towards me? Why am I a stranger now? What have I done?
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No. You've done nothing. The blame is mine. Your mother spoke to me at the chapel. She is happy to think you will be having plenty all your day. Put yes to me, Ivan. You could do no better. I don't want him.
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I want you. I'm hard.
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I too have spent nights trying to think this thing out. When I took up this work, I knew what it meant. It meant devotion and sacrifice. That I was perfectly willing to do, but to share it with another. Do you think I'll have you going spread there all your life depending on the charity of others for your good meals. Our our children growing up in cast off clothing and ourselves thanking God for parenthood in a house full of bits. It could make no difference. No. I can bear with such a life for the sake of my work, but I think I would start to kill if I saw the white come to your hair twenty years before its time. Why?
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Why would you start to kill? Look at me. Are you a man or a saint?
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I am no saint, but I have a duty towards you. Let me do it. Go back to your house, I'm Howard. It is late. My sister and Justin Ewelling were married at the chapel by mister Griffith. My sister left our village then to live in Cape Town. My brothers, Guillam and Owen, left too for America, and our house was lonely without them. Mister Griffith used to come up in the evening to tutor me for school. Many problems he gave us, me and my father sitting in the kitchen by the stove. Now then, the bathtub holds 100 gallons.
A, fills it at the rate of 20 gallons a minute, and b, at the rate of 10 gallons a minute. Got that, mister Morgan?
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Twenty and ten gallons. Yes, sir.
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Now then c is a hole that empties it at the rate of five gallons a minute. How long to fill the top? Oh, very silly. Trying to fill a bathtub full of holes indeed.
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At some it is, girl, a sum. A problem for the mind. But she was examination into school next month. That old national school. It's silly they are with her sum. Who would pour water in the bathtub full of holes? Who would think of it only a madman?
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It is to see if the boy can calculate girls.
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Figures, nothing else. How many gallons and how long? In a bathtub full of holes.
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Now I know why I have such a tribe of sons.
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It is you, Beth Morgan, is the cause.
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Look you, mister Griffith. Have you something else?
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The decimal point.
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The decimal the decimal point then. And piece to my house. Oh,
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go and
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scratch.
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I went to the national school. On the first day, I returned in tatters with my face bruised and bleeding. It had been a fight in the yard with a school bully.
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What happened to you? What is it, lad? Speak up. I I fell on the mountain. There indeed. Look at him.
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You. Did you win, boy? No. Nyanto, fetch the fighter. Bring him here.
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Win him. Quiet, girl.
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You. Are you willing to go to school tomorrow? Yes, sir. Good.
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From tonight, you shall get a penny for every mark on your face. 6p for a bloody nose, a shilling for a black eye, and 2 shillings for a broken nose. Helen, stop it.
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Fight again you, and when you come home, not another look will you get from me, not another word. Break your old nose then. Break your mother's heart every time you go out of the house. A boy must fight then. Fight? Fight is it? Another beating like that and he'll walk home dead.
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Beating. Beating, is it? He said no beating. Hiding, yes, but no beating.
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Give the boy time, and it will be he that's giving the beating, is it? Mister Morgan? Dikando.
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Coming to the house. Good evening. Good evening, missus Morgan. Leave off your hat. Yes, missus Morgan. Is Capaca coming? Is he here? How much is it? He'll make no match without his trainer, mister Morgan. Oh, it's not a match. I want you to teach my son how to box. No. No. To fight first. Too many call themselves boxers who are not even fighters. Boxing is an art, is it? It is. It is an art. Bloody head's an art. Oh, go along with you, girl. A cup of tea for the man, is it? Tea? No tea, missus Morgan. No. In training, we are. A glass of beer, if you please. Dark tub full of coal. And now pride, fight, fight, flight. Now, boy, to work. Your hands like this. Go. Yes, sir. Your feet apart. Yes, sir. Now mind find your guard. And when your man rushes, you lose soul and soul. Go on.
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Go on. Go on. You're talking now. Mister Jonas, mind you.
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So our little coal mining friend has been indulging in his favorite sport again, I I was fighting, mister Jonas, but it is not my favorite sport, sir. Come here.
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You see this stick? You know what it is for? Yes, sir. Good. Fight, will you? Fight. Oh, I'll see you. Fight. You thrashing little oh, I'll see you now. Fight.
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Well, I will go to my death. Just cut to the bone. Did you get that in school, Hugh? I I was fighting. Was it? Mister Jonas, is it? We'll have a word with mister Jonas. No. And why not? I broke the rule at four. There is no rule for that. But if he ran this Rubbish for. Wait a minute. This is who's affair. He shall decide. Say the word lad and we'll have the phone hot from his
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flesh. No. Leave him alone. Okay. Carry him into the house. Carry him in. Easy lad. Easy.
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Tabarfa. Where is I, Vango? The lad is hurt bad. He is?
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I think there is work for us, is it? There is. Miss
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Miss Sparks will come to order. Yesterday, all of you brilliant children made some progress, a very small progress, in the matter of linear measurements. We will now begin Good morning. Yes?
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What is it? Good morning, mister,
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Jonas is my name.
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Jonas. We have come to the right place indeed, Kvartha. Mister Jonas, I am Daibando. What can I do for you? A man is never too old to learn, is it, mister Jonas? No. I was in school myself once, but no great one for knowledge.
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Look here. What do you want? Knowledge?
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Mister Jonas, how would you go about taking the measurement of a stick? By length. Of course. And how would you measure a man who would use a stick on a boy one third his size? Yes. How? I don't understand. Now you are good in the use of a stick, mister Jonas, but boxing is my subject according to the rules laid down by the good Marquess of Queensbury. Have a nasty soul. And happy I am to pass on my knowledge to you. What what what do you want, please? Get him into position now, Kvartha. Yes. Put up your face, mister Jones. Stop it. Stop it. Now look. To make a good boxer, you must have a good right hand like this, mister Jonas. You see?
Stand him up, Kavarfa. Up. Ready. Up, mister Jonas. And this, mister Jonas, is how you will punish a man with your left and put your soul into into it. Hey. Hello. Stop.
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Here.
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Here. Here. Here, mister Jonas. No sleeping now. White and gentlemen is talking to you. Raise him up. On your feet, mister Jonas. Quite a lesson. You're the beginning. Boys and girls, would I have your attention, please? I am not accustomed to speaking in public. Only public houses. What is it? No. Never use. It's against the rules. Brick a man's nose, but this one is fair. Help me to sleep again. Sleep visit. I'm afraid he will never make up, sir. No aptitude for knowledge. Good morning, mister Jonas.
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I stayed on at the national school, and mister Jonas left. And then one evening as I returned home, I heard the whistle of the muffin. The whistle that meant only one thing to us, tragedy, an accident. Someone in that black pit had died. Hello. Come here. Mama, who are you? Quiet, lad. We'll know in a moment. They are And so Yvor was gone. Yvor, the eldest, the solid and dependable one. And our grief was nameless. There came a time later when I returned from school with my certificate of graduation. My father's eyes were pride filled when I placed it in his hand.
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Art is a good paper with honors then.
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Our son is a scholar girl. What is it you? I can't make sense with it. Latin it is. It is written in Latin, mama. Latin is it? Or not good Welsh or even English?
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It is the fashion girl. Fashion.
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Decimal points and bathtub full of holes. Oh, my poor Hugh. They stuffed your head with lucken then.
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Best my old using you.
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A black eye, is it? Latin
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too. Now then you, what will it be? Took Cardiff to school, then the university to be a lawyer, is it, or a doctor?
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Doctor you, Morgan, that would be something special with a lovely horse and trap and a good black suit and a shirtless star. Oh, there is good, my little one. Well, you, what will it be? I will go down the colliery with you, sir. The colliery?
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Have sense, boy. The colliery is no place for you. Why not try for a respectable job? Respectable? Are you and his brothers a lot of old jailbirds then? Oh, leave it now, Beth.
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I only want the best for the boy. If he is as good a man as you and his brother, I will rest happy.
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I'm thinking of the boy's future. You is a scholar. Why take brains down a coal mine? I would rather, sir. Alright. Decide for yourself, but blame yourself
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It was to work then. Work to earn bread for those one loves. But I felt a man in truth, to be coming up the colliery cage with my father, sharing his tiredness, blacked by the same dust, and I was happy. Then in time, my sister and Harriet came back, but alone without her husband. She did not come to our house, but stayed at the big Evan's house, her house on the top of the hill.
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Who is it? To see mister Divan, please. And who are you? I am Hugh Morgan. Oh, her brother. Her brother, is it? Yes, missus Nicholas. Hugh Morgan. This way, please. Is there someone for me, missus Nicholas? It's your brother, missus Evans. Hugh. Oh, Hugh. He didn't come to see it, young Harren. He Missus Nicholas, will you bring some tea, please? Tea. Yes. This is me darling. Sit down, Hugh. Oh, there is groan you are and changed. You too. Oh, I look ill and ought to take care of myself. Everyone coming in the house says so. So you say it too and let us finish with it. But tell me all the news, how is how are all the boys and girls we used to know? Well, the Jenkins girls are married.
Rosemary Hughes has gone to be a doctor. These howls is in a solicitor's office. And mister Griffith is still first up and rushed to bed. You how is he? Not as he was. Is he ill? Inside. In his eyes, meaning his voice. Thank you. Please go home, you. Go home at once. I'm sorry. Now then, missus Yvonne, can you eat it? Here you are. Leave it, missus Nicholas. I will pour. Where? I always did the pouring for missus Yvette's poor mother. I will pour, I said. Yes, missus Yvonne. A new mistress is like new sheets. A little bit stiff, but washing is to come.
Why do you have her here? Oh, thirty seven years with the family or so she tells me 60 times a day. Have some tea, Hugh. You don't want me to go? No, Hugh. I'm sorry for being nasty. Please stay. Oh, shoot. I I tried to tell mother. I tried to write. Oh, shoot. It's lonely, I am.
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Hello. In the kitchen, the tongues began to wag. This is Nicholas and the women of the neighborhood.
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Not for me to say. Only the housekeeper I am. Thirty seven years in the family and living to curse the day. Why? What is it, mister Nicholas? Divorce. Divorce. No. Saying nothing, I am, but that is what is in her mind. She is here without her husband, is it? And why? It is because she's in love with this preacher. Preacher? Preacher, I said, mister Griffith it is. But mister Griffith has not been near the house. What difference is that girl? Not a word now. We will not say a word, missus Nicholas. No. Oh, no. Indeed. Not a word. No. Mister graffiti.
The preacher and missus Ivan. Don't say I told you. Divorce, divorced.
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The knives that can be hidden in idle tongues. For generations, the Morgans had lived in this valley. Missus Griffith and missus Luther. And now our name was touched with slander. Please, boss. Our house looked strange to me, and then I knew why. For the first time I could remember, our front door was shut tight in the daytime. We pause now for station identification. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. After a brief intermission, mister DeMille presents Walter Pigeon, Donald Chris, Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowell, and Sarah Allgood, who will bring us act three of how green was my valley.
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mister DeMille returns to the microphone. The curtain rises on the third act of how green was my valley, starring Pigeon, Donald Christ, Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowell, and Sarah Allgood.
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As the flag had spread over my valley, so now blackness spread over the minds of its people. My sister and the preacher. Each day, I heard their names together, and as many times did I fight in the streets.
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Dada? Fighting again, Hugh. More trouble with The Philippines, is it? Yes, Dada. Hugh? What is it now? Look at your face. Even John. He he said things about an Arab, mister Griffith.
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Children too. You were right, my son. You were right to fight. My coat girl, I'm going to the mine. You will be back? I will be back for breakfast.
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You will not go to chapel then? No.
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And if they do this thing, I will never set foot in the chapel again as long as I live. I will have a sheet warm on your bed.
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There's an old beauty you are. Go and scratch, boy.
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Mother, what is this about the chapel? Tonight, after the service, a deacon's meeting over Anne Howard. Anne Howard? But she has done nothing. Nothing is enough for people who have minds like theirs. Oh, you, my little one. I hope when you're grown, their tongues will be slower to hurt. But will Aang Harrod be at the meeting? No. None of us will be there. For the disgrace will not stay away. I will go, mother.
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Mister Griffith spoke that night in the chapel. Pale and looking very old, he descended from the pulpit and faced the deacons. This is the last time I will talk in this chapel. I am leaving the valley with regret toward those who have helped me here and who have let me help them. But for the rest of you, those of you who have only proved that I have wasted my time among you, I have only this to say. There is not one among you who has had the courage to come to me and accuse me of wrongdoing. And yet by any standard, if there has been a sin, I am the one who should be branded the sinner.
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Will anyone raise his voice here now to accuse me?
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No. You're cowards too as well as hypocrites, but I don't blame you. The fault is mine as much as yours. The idle tongue. The poverty of mind which you have shown mean that I have failed to reach most of you with the lesson I was given to teach. I thought when I was a young man that I would conquer the world with truth, with the golden sound of the word. But only a few of you heard. Only a few of you you understood. The rest of you put on blackened satin chapel.
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Why do you come here? Why do you address your hypocrisy in black and parade it before your god on Sunday? From love? No. For you've shown that your hearts are too withered to receive the love of your divine father. I know why you've come. I've seen it in your faces Sunday after Sunday as I've stood here before you. Fear has brought you here. Horrible, superstitious fear. Fear of divine retribution. A bolt of fire from the skies, the vengeance of the Lord and the justice of God.
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But you have forgotten the love of Jesus. You disregard his sacrifice.
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Death, fear, flames, horror, and black clothes. Hold your meeting then, but know if you do this in the name of god and in the house of god, you blaspheme against him and his word.
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My dear Angharad. I am leaving the valley. I am leaving tonight. And
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Mister Griffith?
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Well, Hugh, I'm glad you've come. Thank you, sir.
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Is there anything I can do?
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Indeed there is. You can do me a great service. This watch, my father gave it to me when I entered the ministry. It's marked time we both love. Take it. Oh, no, sir. A service I said you'd be doing me. No need for us to shake hands, Hugh. We will live in the minds of each other. Mister Grissett,
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won't you see Ayn Harrow before you go? She wants you to?
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No. If I were to see her again, Hugh, I couldn't
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mine. Come along, lad. Mister Glitters, data is there. Data is there.
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A cave in and 30 men beneath it. There's another case coming up. Stand back, you men. Stand back. Those women with relatives, set them to the pit. There we are, the second case. Woah.
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Is this the group if I don't Is Guillermo Morgan up? Not yet, sir. Guillermo Morgan. Guillermo Morgan. Has anyone seen Guillermo Morgan? I'm horrid.
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How about my father? He is still there.
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Oh, he's still there. The moment he's still there. Willow.
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Men, men, listen to me. Who is for
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I am going with you, sir. I'm going to find data. If you wish that, let me know. Wait. Wait, mister Griffith. Yes, ma'am, Harris. You will come back. You must come back.
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I said tonight, if I were to see you again, I couldn't find the strength to leave you. Oh, you will come back then. I know. Ready there? In the case,
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He's over there. This bird diver is coming very much. Hold on. We're coming, daddy. We're coming. What's your foot near a zebra? You mean, I can't hear pink tops. There he is. There. Easy, man.
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Mister Krissy, he's caught beneath the rock. We'll never get him out alive. Never. Dada.
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Fall. We are going to take you out.
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You might not dig. There's a good old man you are. I could hold her. Get down. Oh, get down. Come at you.
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Here comes the cake.
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Oh, the cake, mama. They are bringing him up. Guillen. Guillaume is dead. Oh, no, mama. He'll be alive. Guillaume is dead. I know he is dead. He came to me just now as I stood here. Ivar was with him. He spoke to me and told me of the glory he has gained.
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My father was no more, but men like him can never die. They They're with us still, real in memory as they were real in flesh. Loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have
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gone? Your applause calls back five stars who gave five brilliant performances tonight. Walter Pigeon, Donald Chris, Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowell, and Sarah Alvert.
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Thank you, CB. The five of us spent a number of weeks together making the picture. And, well, speaking for myself, this little reunion is a very great pleasure. And for all of us, Walter, you have rather a special feature in this cast tonight, CB. Two players from the world famous Abbey Theatre of Dublin, Sarah Orgood and Marina Herr.
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Well, I've spent only a few years there, mister Crisp, but but that was long enough, to appreciate the tradition established by many fine artists like miss Orgood. Thank you, Maureen. That's very nice of you. Nothing gives a producer more satisfaction than a cast of real troopers, whether they've had years of experience or take to acting as young as Riley McDowell. If I can stay in the theater as long as you have, sir, I'll be very happy. What have I got to go about forty years?
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You'll have at least that if you keep up the kind of work you've been doing, Roddy. And tonight, we're delighted to welcome you and Sarah and Maureen O'Hara to this stage
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for the first time. I've enjoyed being here, mister DeMille, but I don't really feel like a stranger. I've heard the Luxe Radio Theater so much, and of course, I use Luxe soap ever since I came to Hollywood. I hardly think I could get along without it. You see, complexion care is so easy when you have Luxe soap. And even now, it's easy to get Luxe soap anywhere.
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CB, we're all anxious to hear about your next play.
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Well, next Monday, we have a comedy order. One of the screens recent laugh hits hits from twentieth Century Fox. It's called The Magnificent Dope. And our stars are the same three players who are making a hit in the picture. Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, and Lynn Barrett. Don plays a kind of human dynamo who thinks he can make a success out of anyone until he tackles mister Thaddeus Page played by Henry Fonda. At any rate, it makes a great show for us next Monday night. I've heard a lot about the picture, CB, and I want to hear it. Good night. Good night. Good night. Good night. We won the Academy Award all over again tonight.
Our sponsors, the makers of Luxe Toilet Soap, join me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday night. And the Luxe Radio Theater presents Donna Michie, Henry Fonda, and Lynn Barry in the magnificent dope. This is Essel B. DeMille saying good night to you from Hollywood.
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Here's a question for the ladies. Have you been throwing away explosives we need to win the war? Well, if you still throw away waste fats, you're doing that very thing. Keep all used frying fats, meat drippings, and bacon grease, and strain them into a clean wide top can. Your meat dealer will pay you for them, so save waste kitchen fats to make explosives. Donald Crisp will soon be seen in the Warner Brothers picture, The Adventures of Mark Twain. Maureen O'Hara, Rowdy McDowell, and Sarah Allgood appeared by courtesy of twentieth Century Fox. Miss O'Hara will be seen in The Black Swan. Miss Allgood in Life Begins at 08:30, and Roddy McDowell is currently on the screen in The Pied Piper.
Aired in tonight's play were Gail Gordon as narrator, Joseph Kearns as Kaphata, Paul Langston as Yanto, Kembo Cooper as mister Jonas, Gloria Gordon as missus Nicholas, Frederick Warlock as mister Yvonne, and Este Mason, Herbert Evans, Fred MacKay, Claire Vedera, Norman Field, and Stephen Muller. Tune in next Monday night to hear Donna Michie, Henry Fonda, and Lynn Barry in the magnificent dope. Our music was directed by Lewis Silvers, and your announcer has been John M. Kennedy. Size absolutely free. V I, double m, s, VIMS, f r, double e, free.
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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Let's present Hollywood. The
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Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. When our session rises tonight, it will disclose a scene far removed from the battle scarred world we live in now. A scene out of yesterday's world. And like the little girl who stepped through the looking glass, you're invited to cross the footlights and spend an hour with the sturdy people of how green was my valley. From the original cast of this Academy Award picture, we have Walter Pigeon, now starring in Metro Goldwyn Mayer's White Cargo, and Donald Chris, Maureen O'Hara, Ryder McDowell, Sarah Alsworth, and a chorus of Welsh singers.
Besides the award won by this twentieth century Fox production, our green with my valley brought another academy award to Donald Chris for the finest performance of the year by a supporting actor. And then the academy made it a triple play by presenting John Ford with the award for directing. And before any of this happened, Richard Llewellyn's novel had been a bestseller. So tonight's play comes well recommended. It's a story of a little Welsh coal mining community, a place where life, love, and drama go hand in hand. Because every descent into the depths of the earth must always be a perilous adventure for the men who dig out its wealth.
From soldier and stenographer, from farmer and factory worker, have come letter after letter suggesting how green was my valley for this theater. So many, in fact, they stopped doing suggestions and became a command. So this is a command performance for all the friends of Luxorla soap. Luxorla has always been a favorite with beauty. But nowadays, you'll find beauty at work on the farm and in the factory. And unless the papers deceive me, in the army too. Hard for an old line sergeant to understand probably. But in this war, woman power is just as important as manpower.
And wherever woman power goes to work, Flux Phillips is right there helping to, keep up the morale. Here's the opening curtain now on the first act of how green was my valet, starring Walter Pigeon as Griffith, Donald Chris as mister Morgan, Maureen O'Hara as Anne Howard, Roddy McDowell as Hugh, and Sarah Allgood as Beth Morgan.
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I am packing my belongings in the shawl my mother used to wear when she went to market, and I'm going from my valley. And this time, I shall never return.
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So begins the story of Hugh Morgan, a man who looks back through sixty years of memories and finds them clear and bright as yesterday. His birthplace and his home is a small Welsh coal valley, once a place of beauty, now ugly and dirty. Towering heaps of its flag and belting smoke stacks have made his valley so. But old Hugh Morgan is oblivious to all that.
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I close my eyes on my valley as it is today, and I see it as it was when I was a boy. Green it was, possessed of the plenty of the earth. In all Wales, there was none so beautiful. For in those days, the black flag of the coal pit had not yet marred the countryside nor blackened the beauty of our village. Coal miners were my father and all my brothers and proud of their trade. Saturday was payday at the mine, and my father and all my brothers would stand in line to receive their wages for a week of honest work.
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William Morgan, three pound seven. Thank you, sir. Eva Morgan, three pound seven. Thank you, sir. Morgan Morgan, three pound seven. Thank you. Robbie Morgan, two pound five.
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That's it. Owen Morgan, two pound five. Thank you, sir. Young William Morgan, one Thank you, sir. $9.00 £3.06. £1.10.
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Good boy. Now home all of you to your mother.
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Someone then would strike up a song, and the valley would ring with the sound of many voices. For singing is in my people as sight is in the eyes. At home, my mother would be sitting at the door. My father and all my brothers would drop their hard and insolvent in for eight.
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There you are, girls. A fine hard worker at you. Your mother.
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David.
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It was happy we were at that time, and happier still on the day my brother, was married. I will never forget the party after the wedding. And the wedding cake is to zoom in to lift. My father, here's a man won't get drunk. Can't get drunk. Can't get drunk. It was then that mister Griffith came to the door. Mister Griffith, the new minister from the university at Cardiff. I ran to tell my father.
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I will offer the wine. What boy? The minister. Oh. Oh. Oh. The new minister. Put away the beer. Put away the beer. Good evening, mister Morgan.
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Good evening, sir. Some, a cup of tea. Is it mister Griffith?
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Girl, Beth, brew a cup of tea. Oh, no. Don't bother, please. What are you having, miss Morgan? We oh, We share a beer, sir. Beer it is then, if you please. Beer? Uh-huh. Beer. A pint of beer. Sorry. We found them that mister Griffith could stay as well as drink. But my sister and Harry did nothing at all for watching. My sister and Harry brought him something to eat. There was a great sign of an ad that spoke to him. Mister Griffith. Good evening. I have brought you something. Thank you. I am Evo's sister. Evo's sister. Then, you must be on Howard. Yes. All around, the valley echoed with our joy.
Happy then, all of us. But soon, very soon, there would be trouble at the.
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You know this, beginning August 3, the stale wages of this nine will be reduced. One chilling topping. That night, my father stayed late at the mine, talked to the owners.
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When he came home, my brothers were waiting for him at the table.
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Sit down, Yanto. Sit down all of you, supper. We were waiting for your father. We want to know what happened. The cut is only a few shillings. There will still be plenty for all of us. Why should there be any way it's cut for us? Why, darling? It is because they are not getting the old price for coal coming to suffer. May we speak first? Well, Yantu, the owners have not given you the real reason for the cut. Ever since the iron works at Dallas have closed down, the men from there have come to the colliery willing to work for any wage. The oil has come down. And this is only the beginning. Nonsense, Yantu. A good worker is worth good wages and he will get them. Why should the owners say more if the men are willing to work for less? Because they are not savages. They are men too like us. Men. Yes. But not like us. Would they deal with Newtonites?
No. That is because they have power and we have none. How will we get power then? From the air? No. From a union of all the men. Union, is it? I had no thought I would ever hear my own sons talking socialist nonsense. What is sense? Unless we stand together. Silence. I hear no more about it. This matter is too important for silence. It is not more important than good manners. They will punish you for acting as our spokesman, Harper. We must do something about it. Let us all stand together and see how they will act then. Right. Then they will come out as we say the word. I will not be a plank for your politics.
I will not be the excuse for any strike. What's wrong, sir? Enough now. It is not enough. Owen. I am sorry, sir, but Hold your tongue until I have given you permission to speak. I will speak against injustice anywhere
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with permission or without. Not in this house. In this house and outside.
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Leave the room. I will also leave the house. I too will leave. I'm with you. We can find lodgings in the
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village. All of you then.
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For the last time, come sit down. Finish your supper. I will say no more. We are not questioning your authority, sir. But if manners present out speaking the truth, we will be without manners. Get your clothes and go.
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Boba? Boba?
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Yes. You.
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Yes. My son. I know you are still there.
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Twenty two weeks, the men were out of the strike moved into winter. Any man who was not their friends became their enemy. They knew that my father had opposed the strike, and now it's as they opposed him. One night I was in the hills. My mother made me take her. She stood before the men in the snow and faced them with fury in her eyes.
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Wait. Wait. Wait till you have heard me. I am Beth Morgan, as you all know. I I have come up here to tell you what I think of you all because you are talking against my husband. You you are talking against my husband. You you are a lot of powers to go against him. He has done nothing against you, and he never would, and you know it well. To say he is with the owners is not only nonsense, but downright wickedness. There's there's one thing more I've got to say, and it is this. If harm comes to my Guillam, I will find out an end, and I will kill them with my hands.
And this, I swear by God
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almighty.
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With my mother holding firmly to my arm, we turned and passed through the ranks of strange, silent men and into the bitter wind. For hours, it seemed we stumbled through the snow toward home. Then on the low wooden bridge over the river, blinded by the storm, we slipped and fell into the icy water. On a rocky ledge, I found support and held my mother clear. How long it was we were there, I cannot tell.
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But when they found us, it was carried home
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near to death. For weeks, I lay in my bed. And then one day, I heard mister Griffith speaking to the doctor outside my door. Well, doctor, how long for the little one? It's hard to tell, mister Griffith.
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His legs were frozen to the bone. A year, two years quiet like that, but I can't promise that he will ever walk again.
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Nature must take us off, mister Griffith. I just cannot see if he heard you. Well,
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Let me go to him. Good morning, Hugh.
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Good morning, sir.
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Now now where is the light I thought to see in your eye? Are you afraid, boy? I I You heard what the doctor said, Yes, sir. And you believed it? You want to walk again, don't you? Yes, sir. Then you must have faith. And if you have, you will walk no matter what all the doctors say. But he said nature must take her course. Nature is the handmaiden of the Lord. I remember one or two occasions when she was given orders to change her course. You know your scripture, boy? Yes, sir. Then you know what's been done before can be done again for you. Do you believe me, Hugh?
Yes, sir. Good. You shall see the first daffodil out on the mountain in the spring. Will you? Indeed, I will. Then you will. Now here is the book I have brought you. Pleasure Island. Uh-huh. I could almost wish that I were lying there in your place. If it meant reading this book again for the first time, read it boy. And I will come back and see you soon again. Thank you,
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sir. Mister Griffith? Yes, Anne Howard? I couldn't let you go without thanking you for giving comfort to my brother. It was only my duty, girl. Oh, no. It was more than duty.
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Yes. You is a fine boy. And you are a fine family.
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Will you will you be coming to supper soon, mister Griffith?
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Later, perhaps, when you are finished with doctors and fetches. I will hurry them away then.
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Good.
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For many months, I lay there and my mother upstairs. And we could talk to each other with tapings on the wall.
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For the great day when she came down into her house,
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on my father's arms, she came to my bed and stood watching me with diamonds in her eyes, her hand to her
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mouth. You you are my son. My son. Mama. You're raw. It's it's very wild. It's it's your snow down into the boy.
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Then she touched my cheek and kissed me fiercely. My father tiptoes at the door and beckoned for my brothers to come in for they had returned to the house to leave. We have come back, mother. Oh. In an instant, my mother was in their arms, love knowing whether to laugh or cry.
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Daddy.
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Come, girl. Come. Then outside, we heard the voice. The men of the mind coming to sing for my mother.
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Will it? Will you come to the door, girl? Okay. It is for you, girl.
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Long now. Easier? Well,
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come. Say something, girl. Say something. What what can I say? You found plenty to say the last time you spoke.
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It should be easier now with friends. Well,
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come come and eat everyone.
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It was a gay time. We laughed and sang Christopher's Dolan. Even old mister Parry, the tourist of the elders in Archer.
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Good evening, mister Parry. Miento.
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I haven't seen you in chapel lately. I've been too busy. What this is may I ask? Mine?
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Only asking a civil question ever. And having a civil answer, mister
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I have been busy with the the union. The union.
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Unions are the work of the devil.
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You will come to know Berlin, and American. Least I am doing something, not talking a lot of rubbish in chapel. D'Anton. D'Anton.
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Why do you think we have the chapel talk rubbish? My remark was not aimed at you, mister Griffith. Then aim it. Aim it, my boy. Very well.
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Because you make yourselves out to be shepherds of the flock, and yet you allow your sheep to live in filth and poverty. And if they try to raise their voices against it, you'll calm them by saying their suffering is the will of God.
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Enough now. Miss Morgan. I have not expressed my views here because I have no wish to interfere with a family disagreement. You have my permission to speak, mister Gritty. Well then, here is what I think. Have your union. Alone, you are weak. Together, you are strong. But remember that with strength goes responsibilities to others and to yourself, for you cannot conquer injustice with more injustice. Only with justice and with the help of God. Mister Griffith, are you coming outside your position in life? Your business is spiritual. My business, mister Parry, is anything that comes between man and the spirit of God. The deacon shall hear that you've been preaching social Mister Parry, who still give a secret? Jan He is our guest.
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Now enough. Best girl, give mister Parry a pint of home brewed and put his pipe back into his mouth. I will give him a good self with a frying pan.
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Oh, no. No. No. No. Fun. A bit of singing is it? A song or a song.
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I'm Howard. In the kitchen again? All is hungry they are. Yeah. Let me help you with the fire. Mister Griffith, do we always be in your debt now you have made us a family here? Ah, there's enough call, I think. Oh, look at your hands. They lead to me. Here, let me see. Oh. Why? What is it? Why? Your hands. They are like my father's and my brother. Have you been down the mine? Ten years while I was studying. Ten years? Mhmm. Oh, you're now a bit of sober. Oh, no. No. Please don't bother. I'll get it. Now look here. You are king of the chapel, but I will be queen in my own kitchen. Now the hand please.
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You will be queen wherever you want.
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What does that mean?
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I I should not have said it. Why not? I have no right to speak to you so.
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It's the right of mine to heal. You have it.
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In just a few moments, mister DeMille and our stars, Walter Pigeon, Donald Critt, Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowell, and Sarah Allgood will bring us act two of how green was my valley. And now here's a young business girl greeting her roommate a bit enviously.
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Hi, Mary. I would love for you to get home early. Oh, what a day we have. Except it's nearly ready, dear. Oh, wonderful. I'm certainly for a cozy evening right here at home. Darling. Now don't get mad, but I promise we'd both beat the USO dance at nine. They needed more girls. Mary Lou Davis, if you fall, not Jenny, see an angel. There's plenty of warm water in the bathroom. And look, here's a nice new take of luxe soap. Oh, you'll feel lost if it happens to your beauty bath. You know you will.
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And later. Oh, to think I might have missed this party. Gotcha. Wonderful dancing with you, Jane. Your mighty sweet dinner. Score one for Jane's smart little roommate. She knew what a wonderful beauty pickup a luxe toilet soap bath can be. Try it next time you're tired and have a day to keep. Cover yourself all over with the rich, creamy luxe soap lather, Active lather that carries away perspiration, every trace of dust and dirt in a twinkling. Relax a few moments in this fragrant delightful bath. When you step out, how soft and smooth your skin feels. And most important of all, it's exquisitely fresh. You're sure of daintiness, sure of skin that's sweet.
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our producer, mister DeMille. Act two of how green was my valley. Darling Robert Pigeon as Griffith, Donald Chris as mister Morgan, Maureen O'Hara as Anne Howard, Roddy McDowell as Hugh, and Sarah Allgood as Bess Morgan.
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While I lay in the wall bed recovering from my hurt, the strike was settled, and the men returned to the mine. Always through that time, I kept my face that I would walk again. Then one quite windy day in early spring, mister Griffith came for me as he had promised. He carried me to the top of the hill above our village. Now then boy, down you go. Now put your feet apart and stand on it. Yes, sir. Now you can walk you if you try. Come, lad. Walk to me.
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What I, sir?
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Walk over here. One step. One step. Oh. And now another. Come
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on. See. I'm walking. Too rocky I am, sir.
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There's a good lad. There's a good old man you are. Now rest a bit,
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Mister Griffith, I have lost. Of course you have.
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And you have been lucky, Hugh. Lucky to suffer and lucky to spend these weary months in your bed. Or so God has given you the chance to make spirit within yourself. And as your father cleans his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit. How, sir? By prayer, boy. And I don't mean shouting and mumbling and wallowing in religious sentiment. Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think. Think well what you are saying, and make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that manner, your prayer will have strength, and that strength shall become a part of you, mind, body, and spirit.
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Yes, sir.
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Now then, up on my shoulders, boy. And My new leg is carriage winter chapel and home again too. And it was on that Sunday that mister Evan came to call on my father. Mister Evan, the owner of the mine.
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Yes. Yes. Yes. Come in. Come in. What's under the blazes? Who is it? Good morning, Martin.
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Oh, mister Evan. Good morning, mister Evan.
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Sit down, sir. Thank you, Martin. Oh,
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your pardon. A pail of water, sir. I, I've been soaking my four feet, sir. Beth, my boots. My boots. Sit down, sir. Now now, Morgan, to business. Yes, sir.
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I come here on a very delicate mission,
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Morgan.
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No trouble at the mind. No. No. No. No. No trouble, but it worries me. Yes. I'm here to get your permission, but my pun guessing may have permission. Bless you, Morgan.
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Thank you, sir. Now now where was I,
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permission? Oh yes yes. But permission.
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That my son Yesing may have permission with your daughter Anne Harrods' permission to call upon.
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There we are.
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Your son and my
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well,
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we are a very close family, mister Ivan. But you have my permission, mister Ivan, to give your son permission
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to speak to Angharad with her permission. Thank you. Thank you, Morgan. I'm very much obliged. You he's just outside. I'll tell him I'm not obliged.
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And so it was that wealthy, yes, Cindy vans came to ask for Angharad in Marad, and mister Griffiths knew of it and stayed away from our house. For a whole week, we never saw his safe. Until at last, Angharad would wait no longer. Who is it? One moment. Angharad?
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You shouldn't be here. I couldn't spend another night without knowing what has happened. What is wrong? Wrong? Oh, you know what I mean? Why have you changed towards me? Why am I a stranger now? What have I done?
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No. You've done nothing. The blame is mine. Your mother spoke to me at the chapel. She is happy to think you will be having plenty all your day. Put yes to me, Ivan. You could do no better. I don't want him.
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I want you. I'm hard.
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I too have spent nights trying to think this thing out. When I took up this work, I knew what it meant. It meant devotion and sacrifice. That I was perfectly willing to do, but to share it with another. Do you think I'll have you going spread there all your life depending on the charity of others for your good meals. Our our children growing up in cast off clothing and ourselves thanking God for parenthood in a house full of bits. It could make no difference. No. I can bear with such a life for the sake of my work, but I think I would start to kill if I saw the white come to your hair twenty years before its time. Why?
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Why would you start to kill? Look at me. Are you a man or a saint?
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I am no saint, but I have a duty towards you. Let me do it. Go back to your house, I'm Howard. It is late. My sister and Justin Ewelling were married at the chapel by mister Griffith. My sister left our village then to live in Cape Town. My brothers, Guillam and Owen, left too for America, and our house was lonely without them. Mister Griffith used to come up in the evening to tutor me for school. Many problems he gave us, me and my father sitting in the kitchen by the stove. Now then, the bathtub holds 100 gallons.
A, fills it at the rate of 20 gallons a minute, and b, at the rate of 10 gallons a minute. Got that, mister Morgan?
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Twenty and ten gallons. Yes, sir.
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Now then c is a hole that empties it at the rate of five gallons a minute. How long to fill the top? Oh, very silly. Trying to fill a bathtub full of holes indeed.
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At some it is, girl, a sum. A problem for the mind. But she was examination into school next month. That old national school. It's silly they are with her sum. Who would pour water in the bathtub full of holes? Who would think of it only a madman?
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It is to see if the boy can calculate girls.
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Figures, nothing else. How many gallons and how long? In a bathtub full of holes.
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Now I know why I have such a tribe of sons.
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It is you, Beth Morgan, is the cause.
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Look you, mister Griffith. Have you something else?
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The decimal point.
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The decimal the decimal point then. And piece to my house. Oh,
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go and
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scratch.
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I went to the national school. On the first day, I returned in tatters with my face bruised and bleeding. It had been a fight in the yard with a school bully.
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What happened to you? What is it, lad? Speak up. I I fell on the mountain. There indeed. Look at him.
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You. Did you win, boy? No. Nyanto, fetch the fighter. Bring him here.
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Win him. Quiet, girl.
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You. Are you willing to go to school tomorrow? Yes, sir. Good.
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From tonight, you shall get a penny for every mark on your face. 6p for a bloody nose, a shilling for a black eye, and 2 shillings for a broken nose. Helen, stop it.
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Fight again you, and when you come home, not another look will you get from me, not another word. Break your old nose then. Break your mother's heart every time you go out of the house. A boy must fight then. Fight? Fight is it? Another beating like that and he'll walk home dead.
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Beating. Beating, is it? He said no beating. Hiding, yes, but no beating.
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Give the boy time, and it will be he that's giving the beating, is it? Mister Morgan? Dikando.
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Coming to the house. Good evening. Good evening, missus Morgan. Leave off your hat. Yes, missus Morgan. Is Capaca coming? Is he here? How much is it? He'll make no match without his trainer, mister Morgan. Oh, it's not a match. I want you to teach my son how to box. No. No. To fight first. Too many call themselves boxers who are not even fighters. Boxing is an art, is it? It is. It is an art. Bloody head's an art. Oh, go along with you, girl. A cup of tea for the man, is it? Tea? No tea, missus Morgan. No. In training, we are. A glass of beer, if you please. Dark tub full of coal. And now pride, fight, fight, flight. Now, boy, to work. Your hands like this. Go. Yes, sir. Your feet apart. Yes, sir. Now mind find your guard. And when your man rushes, you lose soul and soul. Go on.
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Go on. Go on. You're talking now. Mister Jonas, mind you.
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So our little coal mining friend has been indulging in his favorite sport again, I I was fighting, mister Jonas, but it is not my favorite sport, sir. Come here.
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You see this stick? You know what it is for? Yes, sir. Good. Fight, will you? Fight. Oh, I'll see you. Fight. You thrashing little oh, I'll see you now. Fight.
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Well, I will go to my death. Just cut to the bone. Did you get that in school, Hugh? I I was fighting. Was it? Mister Jonas, is it? We'll have a word with mister Jonas. No. And why not? I broke the rule at four. There is no rule for that. But if he ran this Rubbish for. Wait a minute. This is who's affair. He shall decide. Say the word lad and we'll have the phone hot from his
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flesh. No. Leave him alone. Okay. Carry him into the house. Carry him in. Easy lad. Easy.
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Tabarfa. Where is I, Vango? The lad is hurt bad. He is?
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I think there is work for us, is it? There is. Miss
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Miss Sparks will come to order. Yesterday, all of you brilliant children made some progress, a very small progress, in the matter of linear measurements. We will now begin Good morning. Yes?
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What is it? Good morning, mister,
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Jonas is my name.
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Jonas. We have come to the right place indeed, Kvartha. Mister Jonas, I am Daibando. What can I do for you? A man is never too old to learn, is it, mister Jonas? No. I was in school myself once, but no great one for knowledge.
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Look here. What do you want? Knowledge?
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Mister Jonas, how would you go about taking the measurement of a stick? By length. Of course. And how would you measure a man who would use a stick on a boy one third his size? Yes. How? I don't understand. Now you are good in the use of a stick, mister Jonas, but boxing is my subject according to the rules laid down by the good Marquess of Queensbury. Have a nasty soul. And happy I am to pass on my knowledge to you. What what what do you want, please? Get him into position now, Kvartha. Yes. Put up your face, mister Jones. Stop it. Stop it. Now look. To make a good boxer, you must have a good right hand like this, mister Jonas. You see?
Stand him up, Kavarfa. Up. Ready. Up, mister Jonas. And this, mister Jonas, is how you will punish a man with your left and put your soul into into it. Hey. Hello. Stop.
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Here.
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Here. Here. Here, mister Jonas. No sleeping now. White and gentlemen is talking to you. Raise him up. On your feet, mister Jonas. Quite a lesson. You're the beginning. Boys and girls, would I have your attention, please? I am not accustomed to speaking in public. Only public houses. What is it? No. Never use. It's against the rules. Brick a man's nose, but this one is fair. Help me to sleep again. Sleep visit. I'm afraid he will never make up, sir. No aptitude for knowledge. Good morning, mister Jonas.
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I stayed on at the national school, and mister Jonas left. And then one evening as I returned home, I heard the whistle of the muffin. The whistle that meant only one thing to us, tragedy, an accident. Someone in that black pit had died. Hello. Come here. Mama, who are you? Quiet, lad. We'll know in a moment. They are And so Yvor was gone. Yvor, the eldest, the solid and dependable one. And our grief was nameless. There came a time later when I returned from school with my certificate of graduation. My father's eyes were pride filled when I placed it in his hand.
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Art is a good paper with honors then.
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Our son is a scholar girl. What is it you? I can't make sense with it. Latin it is. It is written in Latin, mama. Latin is it? Or not good Welsh or even English?
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It is the fashion girl. Fashion.
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Decimal points and bathtub full of holes. Oh, my poor Hugh. They stuffed your head with lucken then.
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Best my old using you.
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A black eye, is it? Latin
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too. Now then you, what will it be? Took Cardiff to school, then the university to be a lawyer, is it, or a doctor?
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Doctor you, Morgan, that would be something special with a lovely horse and trap and a good black suit and a shirtless star. Oh, there is good, my little one. Well, you, what will it be? I will go down the colliery with you, sir. The colliery?
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Have sense, boy. The colliery is no place for you. Why not try for a respectable job? Respectable? Are you and his brothers a lot of old jailbirds then? Oh, leave it now, Beth.
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I only want the best for the boy. If he is as good a man as you and his brother, I will rest happy.
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I'm thinking of the boy's future. You is a scholar. Why take brains down a coal mine? I would rather, sir. Alright. Decide for yourself, but blame yourself
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It was to work then. Work to earn bread for those one loves. But I felt a man in truth, to be coming up the colliery cage with my father, sharing his tiredness, blacked by the same dust, and I was happy. Then in time, my sister and Harriet came back, but alone without her husband. She did not come to our house, but stayed at the big Evan's house, her house on the top of the hill.
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Who is it? To see mister Divan, please. And who are you? I am Hugh Morgan. Oh, her brother. Her brother, is it? Yes, missus Nicholas. Hugh Morgan. This way, please. Is there someone for me, missus Nicholas? It's your brother, missus Evans. Hugh. Oh, Hugh. He didn't come to see it, young Harren. He Missus Nicholas, will you bring some tea, please? Tea. Yes. This is me darling. Sit down, Hugh. Oh, there is groan you are and changed. You too. Oh, I look ill and ought to take care of myself. Everyone coming in the house says so. So you say it too and let us finish with it. But tell me all the news, how is how are all the boys and girls we used to know? Well, the Jenkins girls are married.
Rosemary Hughes has gone to be a doctor. These howls is in a solicitor's office. And mister Griffith is still first up and rushed to bed. You how is he? Not as he was. Is he ill? Inside. In his eyes, meaning his voice. Thank you. Please go home, you. Go home at once. I'm sorry. Now then, missus Yvonne, can you eat it? Here you are. Leave it, missus Nicholas. I will pour. Where? I always did the pouring for missus Yvette's poor mother. I will pour, I said. Yes, missus Yvonne. A new mistress is like new sheets. A little bit stiff, but washing is to come.
Why do you have her here? Oh, thirty seven years with the family or so she tells me 60 times a day. Have some tea, Hugh. You don't want me to go? No, Hugh. I'm sorry for being nasty. Please stay. Oh, shoot. I I tried to tell mother. I tried to write. Oh, shoot. It's lonely, I am.
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Hello. In the kitchen, the tongues began to wag. This is Nicholas and the women of the neighborhood.
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Not for me to say. Only the housekeeper I am. Thirty seven years in the family and living to curse the day. Why? What is it, mister Nicholas? Divorce. Divorce. No. Saying nothing, I am, but that is what is in her mind. She is here without her husband, is it? And why? It is because she's in love with this preacher. Preacher? Preacher, I said, mister Griffith it is. But mister Griffith has not been near the house. What difference is that girl? Not a word now. We will not say a word, missus Nicholas. No. Oh, no. Indeed. Not a word. No. Mister graffiti.
The preacher and missus Ivan. Don't say I told you. Divorce, divorced.
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The knives that can be hidden in idle tongues. For generations, the Morgans had lived in this valley. Missus Griffith and missus Luther. And now our name was touched with slander. Please, boss. Our house looked strange to me, and then I knew why. For the first time I could remember, our front door was shut tight in the daytime. We pause now for station identification. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. After a brief intermission, mister DeMille presents Walter Pigeon, Donald Chris, Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowell, and Sarah Allgood, who will bring us act three of how green was my valley.
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mister DeMille returns to the microphone. The curtain rises on the third act of how green was my valley, starring Pigeon, Donald Christ, Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowell, and Sarah Allgood.
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As the flag had spread over my valley, so now blackness spread over the minds of its people. My sister and the preacher. Each day, I heard their names together, and as many times did I fight in the streets.
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Dada? Fighting again, Hugh. More trouble with The Philippines, is it? Yes, Dada. Hugh? What is it now? Look at your face. Even John. He he said things about an Arab, mister Griffith.
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Children too. You were right, my son. You were right to fight. My coat girl, I'm going to the mine. You will be back? I will be back for breakfast.
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You will not go to chapel then? No.
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And if they do this thing, I will never set foot in the chapel again as long as I live. I will have a sheet warm on your bed.
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There's an old beauty you are. Go and scratch, boy.
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Mother, what is this about the chapel? Tonight, after the service, a deacon's meeting over Anne Howard. Anne Howard? But she has done nothing. Nothing is enough for people who have minds like theirs. Oh, you, my little one. I hope when you're grown, their tongues will be slower to hurt. But will Aang Harrod be at the meeting? No. None of us will be there. For the disgrace will not stay away. I will go, mother.
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Mister Griffith spoke that night in the chapel. Pale and looking very old, he descended from the pulpit and faced the deacons. This is the last time I will talk in this chapel. I am leaving the valley with regret toward those who have helped me here and who have let me help them. But for the rest of you, those of you who have only proved that I have wasted my time among you, I have only this to say. There is not one among you who has had the courage to come to me and accuse me of wrongdoing. And yet by any standard, if there has been a sin, I am the one who should be branded the sinner.
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Will anyone raise his voice here now to accuse me?
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No. You're cowards too as well as hypocrites, but I don't blame you. The fault is mine as much as yours. The idle tongue. The poverty of mind which you have shown mean that I have failed to reach most of you with the lesson I was given to teach. I thought when I was a young man that I would conquer the world with truth, with the golden sound of the word. But only a few of you heard. Only a few of you you understood. The rest of you put on blackened satin chapel.
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Why do you come here? Why do you address your hypocrisy in black and parade it before your god on Sunday? From love? No. For you've shown that your hearts are too withered to receive the love of your divine father. I know why you've come. I've seen it in your faces Sunday after Sunday as I've stood here before you. Fear has brought you here. Horrible, superstitious fear. Fear of divine retribution. A bolt of fire from the skies, the vengeance of the Lord and the justice of God.
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But you have forgotten the love of Jesus. You disregard his sacrifice.
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Death, fear, flames, horror, and black clothes. Hold your meeting then, but know if you do this in the name of god and in the house of god, you blaspheme against him and his word.
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My dear Angharad. I am leaving the valley. I am leaving tonight. And
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Mister Griffith?
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Well, Hugh, I'm glad you've come. Thank you, sir.
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Is there anything I can do?
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Indeed there is. You can do me a great service. This watch, my father gave it to me when I entered the ministry. It's marked time we both love. Take it. Oh, no, sir. A service I said you'd be doing me. No need for us to shake hands, Hugh. We will live in the minds of each other. Mister Grissett,
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won't you see Ayn Harrow before you go? She wants you to?
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No. If I were to see her again, Hugh, I couldn't
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mine. Come along, lad. Mister Glitters, data is there. Data is there.
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A cave in and 30 men beneath it. There's another case coming up. Stand back, you men. Stand back. Those women with relatives, set them to the pit. There we are, the second case. Woah.
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Is this the group if I don't Is Guillermo Morgan up? Not yet, sir. Guillermo Morgan. Guillermo Morgan. Has anyone seen Guillermo Morgan? I'm horrid.
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How about my father? He is still there.
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Oh, he's still there. The moment he's still there. Willow.
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Men, men, listen to me. Who is for
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I am going with you, sir. I'm going to find data. If you wish that, let me know. Wait. Wait, mister Griffith. Yes, ma'am, Harris. You will come back. You must come back.
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I said tonight, if I were to see you again, I couldn't find the strength to leave you. Oh, you will come back then. I know. Ready there? In the case,
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We
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He's over there. This bird diver is coming very much. Hold on. We're coming, daddy. We're coming. What's your foot near a zebra? You mean, I can't hear pink tops. There he is. There. Easy, man.
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Mister Krissy, he's caught beneath the rock. We'll never get him out alive. Never. Dada.
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Fall. We are going to take you out.
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You might not dig. There's a good old man you are. I could hold her. Get down. Oh, get down. Come at you.
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Here comes the cake.
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Oh, the cake, mama. They are bringing him up. Guillen. Guillaume is dead. Oh, no, mama. He'll be alive. Guillaume is dead. I know he is dead. He came to me just now as I stood here. Ivar was with him. He spoke to me and told me of the glory he has gained.
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My father was no more, but men like him can never die. They They're with us still, real in memory as they were real in flesh. Loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have
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gone? Your applause calls back five stars who gave five brilliant performances tonight. Walter Pigeon, Donald Chris, Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowell, and Sarah Alvert.
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Thank you, CB. The five of us spent a number of weeks together making the picture. And, well, speaking for myself, this little reunion is a very great pleasure. And for all of us, Walter, you have rather a special feature in this cast tonight, CB. Two players from the world famous Abbey Theatre of Dublin, Sarah Orgood and Marina Herr.
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Well, I've spent only a few years there, mister Crisp, but but that was long enough, to appreciate the tradition established by many fine artists like miss Orgood. Thank you, Maureen. That's very nice of you. Nothing gives a producer more satisfaction than a cast of real troopers, whether they've had years of experience or take to acting as young as Riley McDowell. If I can stay in the theater as long as you have, sir, I'll be very happy. What have I got to go about forty years?
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You'll have at least that if you keep up the kind of work you've been doing, Roddy. And tonight, we're delighted to welcome you and Sarah and Maureen O'Hara to this stage
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for the first time. I've enjoyed being here, mister DeMille, but I don't really feel like a stranger. I've heard the Luxe Radio Theater so much, and of course, I use Luxe soap ever since I came to Hollywood. I hardly think I could get along without it. You see, complexion care is so easy when you have Luxe soap. And even now, it's easy to get Luxe soap anywhere.
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CB, we're all anxious to hear about your next play.
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Well, next Monday, we have a comedy order. One of the screens recent laugh hits hits from twentieth Century Fox. It's called The Magnificent Dope. And our stars are the same three players who are making a hit in the picture. Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, and Lynn Barrett. Don plays a kind of human dynamo who thinks he can make a success out of anyone until he tackles mister Thaddeus Page played by Henry Fonda. At any rate, it makes a great show for us next Monday night. I've heard a lot about the picture, CB, and I want to hear it. Good night. Good night. Good night. Good night. We won the Academy Award all over again tonight.
Our sponsors, the makers of Luxe Toilet Soap, join me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday night. And the Luxe Radio Theater presents Donna Michie, Henry Fonda, and Lynn Barry in the magnificent dope. This is Essel B. DeMille saying good night to you from Hollywood.
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Here's a question for the ladies. Have you been throwing away explosives we need to win the war? Well, if you still throw away waste fats, you're doing that very thing. Keep all used frying fats, meat drippings, and bacon grease, and strain them into a clean wide top can. Your meat dealer will pay you for them, so save waste kitchen fats to make explosives. Donald Crisp will soon be seen in the Warner Brothers picture, The Adventures of Mark Twain. Maureen O'Hara, Rowdy McDowell, and Sarah Allgood appeared by courtesy of twentieth Century Fox. Miss O'Hara will be seen in The Black Swan. Miss Allgood in Life Begins at 08:30, and Roddy McDowell is currently on the screen in The Pied Piper.
Aired in tonight's play were Gail Gordon as narrator, Joseph Kearns as Kaphata, Paul Langston as Yanto, Kembo Cooper as mister Jonas, Gloria Gordon as missus Nicholas, Frederick Warlock as mister Yvonne, and Este Mason, Herbert Evans, Fred MacKay, Claire Vedera, Norman Field, and Stephen Muller. Tune in next Monday night to hear Donna Michie, Henry Fonda, and Lynn Barry in the magnificent dope. Our music was directed by Lewis Silvers, and your announcer has been John M. Kennedy. Size absolutely free. V I, double m, s, VIMS, f r, double e, free.
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Introduction to 'How Green Was My Valley'
Hugh Morgan's Nostalgic Recollection
The Struggle for Fair Wages
A Mother's Courage in the Snow
Hugh's Recovery and Return to School
The Boxing Lesson
Tragedy Strikes the Mine
Community Tensions and Accusations
The Final Collapse and Legacy
