In this episode, we delve into a captivating narrative that intertwines the allure of youth with the consequences of indulgence. Our journey begins with a discussion on the intriguing concept of influence and its moral implications, as explored through the character of Dorian Gray. As Dorian navigates the complexities of life, he is drawn into a world of pleasure and vice, influenced by the charismatic yet morally ambiguous Lord Henry. The episode explores the philosophical musings on youth, beauty, and the price of indulgence, as Dorian's portrait becomes a haunting reflection of his soul's corruption.
The narrative takes a dark turn as Dorian's actions lead to tragic consequences, including the death of his fiancée, Sybil Vane, and a confrontation with his own conscience. The story culminates in a chilling exploration of the supernatural, as Dorian's wish for eternal youth manifests in a portrait that bears the scars of his sins. This episode offers a thought-provoking examination of the human condition, the nature of sin, and the ultimate price of vanity and moral decay.
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CBS News. According to Republican leaders, president Nixon must either resign or face almost sure impeachment in the Senate. I'm Jim Kilpatrick reporting on the CBS Radio network. Three Republican leaders met late this afternoon with mister Nixon, senators Hugh Scott and Barry Goldwater, and house GOP leader John Rhodes. The three told reporters that they discussed the impeachment situation with president Nixon. Senator Scott said they told mister Nixon the situation was very gloomy on Capitol Hill. In the Washington interview, senator Barry Goldwater was fairly noncommittal. But in an interview with newsmen in his home state, he was more specific.
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The house is a foregone conclusion to almost unanimously no impeachment. And in the senate, after Monday night's, disclosure, it felt by those of us in that body that we might be able to select 15 votes or hence the impeachment.
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Senator Barry Goldwater speaking tonight with Arizona newsmen including Don Andrews at CBS radio affiliate station KOL in Phoenix. More news after this. Are you an unpublished author? Do you have a book length manuscript ready or almost ready for publication? Or do you know of anyone else who is an unpublished author? If so, Vantage Press invites you to write to a leading New York publisher for a free illustrated brochure titled to the author in search of a publisher. It explains how you may have your manuscript printed and published in a matter of months. Just write to GPO Box 1414, New York, New York.
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The president has been warned that he cannot win a senate vote to remain in office. Such warnings come from virtually every leader in his own party. The president himself has said nothing publicly. He met briefly earlier this evening with secretary of state Henry Kissinger. He walked in the White House Rose Garden with his elder daughter, Tricia, then the whole family had dinner together. Several White House aids in positions to know have indicated to CBS News that they expect the president's intentions to be made known tomorrow or at the very most within a few days.
The leap is widespread on the White House staff that the president will resign, but persons who have seen the president during the day and evening say he led them to believe that he had not reached any decision. According to congressional leaders in both parties, one factor may be whether an arrangement can be worked out that would allow the president, as they put it, to exit gracefully and be assured that he would not be pursued in the courts. Negotiations or such an arrangement are underway. That does not necessarily mean that the president has agreed even to consider such an arrangement if it could be worked out. Some Democratic congressional leaders are known to take the position that no effort should be made to give the president community unless he agrees to a statement of culpability.
Officially, White House spokesman tonight, before they went home, said they were standing by previous statements that the president intends to remain in office and face us on a trial. Dan Rather, CBS News, The White House. President Nixon's lawyer told a federal court today that that nine more subpoenaed Watergate conversations apparently were never recorded. The missing tapes include mister Nixon's telephone conversation with his former top aides, HR Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, at a time when the Watergate cover up was unraveling. Presidential lawyer James St. Clair says the calls apparently weighed on a telephone which was not wired into the taping system.
Republican representative Orville Hanson of Idaho has become the fifth incumbent member of congress to lose his seat in a party primary this year. Hansen says, uneasiness and anxiety stemming from the national political crisis might have been partially to blame. More CBS news after this. Time magazine. What's in it for you this week? Cover story, a portrait of Jack Nicholson, the movie star with a killer smile. Past master of the Hollywood site. Actor who scratched and clawed his way to the top. Time tells you the Nicholson storm. $30 a week mail clerk to the man Mike Nichols says will become one of the great film stars of all time. The nation, how the odds on president Nixon's survival in office are shortening. Visits with voters in the home districts of the six Republicans and the Alabama Democrat who voted for impeachment. A study of the loneliness of Richard Nixon in a world that has shrunk almost to himself. The world. The end of the last empire as Portugal prepares to leave Africa. These are just ports that help you view the whole world's week. Where time takes you to anchor up. Athens, Nicosia as the tragedy in Cyprus continues. To the American Midwest where the worst drought since 1934 is raising the specter of economic disaster. European playgrounds where with tourism way off, the cry now is Yankee come back. It's all in time this week. Kick up our copy today. Where time makes everything more interesting, including you.
United Press International reports president Nixon who told republican congressional leaders Wednesday he was considering resigning, has begun work on a resignation statement. Repeating, United Press International says it has learned that president Nixon has started to work on a resignation statement. President Nixon told Republican leaders earlier he was considering resigning according to UPI. I'm Jim Kilpatrick, CBS News.
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Welcome. I'm EG Marshall. Welcome to the world of no. No. Not your imagination this time, but that of a man, a writer, who had more than enough for both of us. This time then, I bid you relax. Let your imagination take a holiday as I bring you not only a story of horror, but of wit and brilliance. Oscar Wilde's, A Picture of Dorian Gray.
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But the portrait of you, Dorian,
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the portrait I painted on you, it is hideous.
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Dorian, what does this mean? It means that the wish, the frightful wish I made in your studio eighteen months ago
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was granted impossible. The room is damp. Mildew has got into the canvas. The paints I used had some mineral poison in them. I tell you the thing is impossible. This is the face of of a monster. Yes, Hallward. The face of a monster. The face of my soul.
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Our mystery Our mystery drama, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was especially adapted from the Oscar Wilde classic for the mystery theater by George Lother and stars Nick Pryor. It is sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser and Buick Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with act one.
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Nothing is new under the sun. Women's lid is as old as the Greeks And the vaunted liberality of our times, you know, do your own thing. Live today, pay tomorrow. Whatever is pleasurable is right was more than anticipated by a certain Victorian named Oscar Wilde, who in 1891 wrote the picture of Dorian Gray. Come with me now to the London studio of the celebrated portrait painter Basil Hallward. A handsome young man, Dorian Gray, is having his portrait painted as he chats with Lord Henry Walton,
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a rather dissolute, depraved man about town. Please don't move about so much, Dorian, and don't pay any attention to what lord Henry says. He has a very bad influence on people. Have you, lord Henry, a bad influence on people? There is no such thing as a good influence, mister Grey.
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All influence is immoral. Oh, why? Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his own thoughts or burn with his natural passion. And so when one person influences another, if you were to influence me, for example Your individuality would be to that degree destroyed. Just turn your head a little more to the right, Doreen. Well, I doubt if you could influence me very much, sir Henry. I'm told you're a very wicked man. Wicked? I only believe in living my life fully, completely, in giving expression to every thought, reality, to every dream.
Most men believe in virtue. I believe in sin. In sin? Dorian, don't move, please. But, of course, the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. A provocative thought, Lord Henry. The truth, nothing more. You, mister Gray, you yourself are fresh youth of twenty summers. You have already had passions that made you afraid, thoughts that filled you with terror, daydreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might bring a flush of shame to your cheeks. Perhaps. Take my advice. Live while you're young. Youth is the one thing worth having. Oh, I don't feel that way, lord Henry. Because you are young, have you, youth?
But someday when you're old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, then you will feel it. You will feel it terribly. You talk too much, Harry, and frankly, I don't much care for these thoughts you're putting into Dorian's head.
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Well, you'll not talk any longer. The portrait is finished. Come and look at it. Oh. But, Dorian, what is it? Why did you draw back from your portrait? Don't you like it?
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I I like it too much. Too much. What do you mean? You have you have painted me as I am. But as lord Henry just said, someday I shall be old, wrinkled, ugly. Come, mister Grey. Don't take me too seriously. Many, many years will pass before you were old. But but why should it be that way? Why should this portrait keep what I must lose? If it were only the other way. If the picture could change and and I could always be what I am now, I'd I'd sell my soul to the devil if that could be true. This apartment collapse. The portrait's fallen to the floor. God damn heaven, Horwood, Lord Henry.
You don't think the devil heard me, do you? Nothing as supernatural as all that, Dorian. I've been meaning to fix a cracked leg in that easel for weeks, and it finally broke. That's all. Is the portrait damaged? No. Not in the least. Are you, mister Grey? Aye, damaged. Did you mean what you said about selling your soul to the devil? I I'm not sure. But you you can never know if if the portrait could grow old instead of me. I I I think I might. I I really think I might. Beg pardon, mister Gray? Yes, Parker. What is it? Miss Veen calling, sir. At this hour of the morning, it's not yet 10:00.
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Well, sure in, Parker. Thank you, Parker, but I'm already in.
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Yes. So, well, my darling, this is indeed a surprise. An unpleasant one, Dorian. Oh, my dear. We're engaged to be married. How could seeing you be unpleasant?
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Well, since you haven't seen me in over a week and have broken two engagements with me, I
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thought it might be. Oh, no. No. Not at all. It's it's just that I I've been terribly busy. Come now. Don't frown at me like that. Give me a kiss to show you forgive me.
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Oh, Dorian. You smell of brandy.
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I, I I had a drink. Yes. So early in the day. Well, I wasn't feeling well. I thought it might make me feel better. Dorian,
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what's happened? Happened? You've changed. You're not the same man I fell in love with, consented to marriage.
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You haven't been the same since that portrait of you over the fireplace came into this house. Oh, that's a silly thing to say. You're you're certainly not blaming my portrait for what I do. No.
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I simply date the change in you from the day it was finished. But there is no change in me. You only imagine Did I imagine you're not calling on me in a week? Did I imagine you're ignoring my messages and and the stories that I'm hearing about you, do I imagine them? What what stories? Stories concerning you and Lord Henry Watson. Stories so coarse, so
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vile that I I dare not repeat them. He is anything but wicked, Sybil. He he he he lives differently from most others. That's all. He he he believes in doing what you want to do and in living freely without constraint.
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Do you believe in that too?
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I I I don't quite know. Dorian, darling,
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it's one thing to be free, another to be depraved.
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You think me depraved?
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I think that you're easily led and that Lord Henry is leading you into a life you'll have reason to regret. Oh, don't don't look at me as if you hated me. I'm only saying these things to you because I love you. I love you deeply, devotedly, passionately. You're so precious to me. So precious I think I'd die if anything happened to you.
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Oh, forgive me, Stival. You're you're you you are just as precious to me as as as precious as life itself. Oh, Dorian, my dear. Oh, sweetheart. Are you free this evening? Can you dine with me? Of course. Then I'll call for you at HR. Oh, wonderful.
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I'll spend the entire day looking forward.
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That's odd. What? Your portrait.
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Odd? What's odd about it?
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This is only the second time I've seen it, but it it seemed to me that the but the first time I saw it, it seems that it was a superb likeness. Oh, it is. It is. Basil Hallward is one of the most brilliant portrait painters in all of Europe. Yes. There's no doubt in that. But but there's something a little wrong with the mouth. Darling, there's always something a little wrong with the mouth. Be be serious. Your mouth is gentle and sensitive, almost tender. And the mouth of the portrait, don't you see it? It it has almost a
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cool look about it. Nonsense. It must be the light. No. I think it's more than imagine things. Tonight at eight.
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Dorian? Oh, Dorian?
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I knew that was you turning into Bond Street. Oh, hello, Basil. How are you? Let me look at you. Oh, by heaven. You're the handsomest young hellion in all of London. Hellion?
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There's a good deal of talk going on around about you. Estacate, Dorian.
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Yours and Lord Henry. I think it's called sowing one's wild oats, Basil. Nothing more. I'm not sure. You certainly don't look as if you've been leading a dissipated life.
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Clear eyes, healthy skin. Now you delight my painter's eye, Dorian. But of course, that's why I wanted to do your portrait in the first place and why I want your permission to exhibit it. Exhibit it? Yes. I,
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I I'm afraid I can't. Well, you Curtain. Let's say I prefer not to.
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Oh, I see. Well, it's it's yours, of course, and you've every right to do with it as you wish. And I don't wish it to be exhibited.
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No hard feelings, I hope. I
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no. No. Of course not. Dorian, will you be home later in the day? Yes. Why? Well, it needs to be varnished, the portrait. It's more than a month now since I finished it. Time to give it a protective coating.
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Shall we say 04:00? Well, shall we? I'm afraid you've forced me to tell you something. I'd, I'd rather not reveal to you, Basil. Oh? There isn't any portrait. I destroyed it. What? Oh, you you don't mean that. I do indeed. You destroyed one of my finest in heaven's name, man. Why? I simply didn't care for it. That's all. Well, you liked it well enough the first time you saw it. Very true. But the the more I looked at it, the the the the more I felt it wasn't me.
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I see that the stories about you are true. I was afraid they might be once I heard you'd become close friends with Harry Wootton. Your friend too, Basil. Yes. But I'm older than you by twenty years, Doreen, and not easily led or rather misled.
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I am not being misled. I'm being taught, instructed, if you will, in what real pleasures life can hold if one will only let himself go.
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I'm, Baldrige, sir. You heard me, Parker.
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I want the portrait taken down from over the fireplace and carted off to the attic. Whatever you say, sir. Of course. But might I venture to suggest that if you had it placed in a different light What has a different light to do about? The light changes a good deal during the day and the portrait seems changed with it. You you've noticed the change there? Oh, yes, sir. The changes that take place in the different light altogether are fascinating, sir. Much as I shall be sorry to deprive you of your entertainment, Parker, have it taken to the attic. I'll do it first thing in the morning, sir. No. Damn it. You'll do it now.
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It would seem that Dorian Gray's wish is coming true, that the portrait is beginning to show the ravages of his dissipations, not he. But if that is so, and certainly it seems to be, what price will he be forced to pay before the end is reached? Who sells his soul to the devil deals with a harsh bargainer? I'll be back shortly with act two. Buick introduces a new concept for you to consider in light of today's concern about miles per gallon, range. Range is what you get when you multiply the mileage your car gets per gallon by the number of gallons your car's gas tank holds. Range is what you need to get you there and back, especially if you plan to travel even just a little.
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Hearing the loss of youth, even though only 20 years old, young Dorian Gray states that he would be willing to sell his soul to the devil if he could remain young always. While Basil Hallward's portrait of him grows old, seemingly the devil has taken him at his word. For as Dorian Gray becomes more depraved and dissolute, the portrait shows the increasing ravages of the life he leads while he remains the same handsome youth who sat for the picture some months ago. But his fiancee, Sybil Raine,
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is not fooled. I beg you as you love me, Doreen. Give up this this sword. It's life. It's life
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of gutter pleasure. How do you know what kind of life I lead, Sybil? You don't live it with me. Report of your disgusting escapades.
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Newers and Lord Henry's are known in every drawing room in London.
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If you love me, you'll give them up. But you see, that's the point. I don't love you.
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Don't say that, Doria.
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Even if you mean it only to wound me to strike back, don't say it. It's of no consequence to me whether I wound you or not. You're you're not yourself. Not myself. My dear, I am more myself than I have ever been in all my life before. In any case, I am sufficiently myself to tell you now what for so called reasons of decency I have not told you before. I no longer love you. In fact, Sybil, I'm through with you. Dorian,
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you loved me. No longer. You gave me your heart, your very soul.
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My heart, I take back. As for my soul, it belongs to another, I'm afraid. I
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can't believe this. You look unchanged. You look as you've always looked, gentle, tender, compassionate and kind, but you are not. You're cruel and vicious and ruthlessly selfish.
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You've become an animal. Be grateful then that I'm releasing you from any obligation we may have had. And, please, don't be tiresome. Just go now, won't you? I love you. Whom did you say, Parker? Mister Basil Hallward, sir. That's who I thought you said. Well, I'm already late for the opera. Tell him I'm not at home. Yes, sir. I'm sorry, mister Hallward, but mister Grey is not mister Hallward, please. You can't go in there. Hallward, how dare you? I must see you. I thought you wished Nella to see me again. I am not here from choice, Dorian. What did you do to Sybilvane?
I? Nothing. Whatever is being done to Cybill Vane, she did to herself. What do you mean by that nonsense? Simply that I told her I no longer love her and want none of her. Cybill is dead, Dorian, by her own hand. Pity. Now, if you'll excuse me You you aren't going to the opera. Why not? You have just heard of the death of the woman you loved, the woman who took her own life for love of you. And you can go to the opera. Death, my dear Hallward, is a most unpleasant subject. And I live only for pleasure. Good night. Coming.
Coming. Why, mister Dorian, sir? Did you forget your key? Damn it, man. Would I be standing out here in the cold, banging away at the door if I hadn't? Come in, Harry. Sir Henry, let me take your head and cluke, sir. You may go to bed, Parker. Thank you, sir. Put my eye. Well, and where shall we go after a brandy or two, Harry? I shall go home, I think. But the evening's young. I am not. A brandy or two will revive you, and then we'll be off to where? I'm in the mood for a pipe myself. You're not open for me tonight, Dorian. Come along now.
We'll go to that little dive down in Wapping By the top. No. Not tonight. But you can't ask me to go alone? I'm not asking you to go at all. Harry. What's come over you? Age, my dear fellow. I get tired these days. I am growing old, Dorian. A life of pleasure does exact payment. Though I must say you look as if you keep up with your payments easily. I have no complaint. How do you do it? In the last six months since we first met in Hallward's studio, we have indulged ourselves in every form of vice, every variety of sin, giving full vent to our passions. And yet now look at me.
I have aged twenty years in these six months keeping up with you. But you, you're as fresh and healthy and young as ever you were. How do you do it? Shall I show you my secret? Show me. I keep a diary, a rather remarkable diary, Harry. In it is recorded every single action of mine since since that fatal day. Fatal day? The day we met. I thought you were grateful for our meeting. Why do you say fatal day? Come and read my diary, and you'll see. Bring your brandy. Always stare, Dorian. Where are you taking me? The attic. Keep your diary in the attic.
You'll see. Here we are. Wait a moment while I light a candle. All right, Harry. There. In that corner.
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I can't see a thing too dark, too many shadows. It's a dark diary, Harry, and it has many shadows. Here.
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Take this candle. Now go forward. Good lord. I thought you'd be shocked here. Shocked? I'm shattered. Where did you get this? This this hideous painting. Basil Hallward. Impossible. Basil never painted anything as unholy and ungodly as this. Well, really, he didn't. I did. You. And you? Dorian, I'm tiring quickly of your veiled answers. What is this thing? It is a portrait done by Basil Hallward. It is the portrait of Dorian Gray. Of you? This is a portrait he finished that day. It was. It no longer is. I don't understand that. What has happened here?
What indeed? Darnell, tell me what? I made a wish in Hallward's studio. You remember? No. I said I would willingly sell my soul to the devil if I could remain forever youthful no matter what excesses of physical pleasure I indulged in and only this portrait aged. Yes. Spell and remember. Yes. The devil heard and remembered even though you did not. This is it's incredible. So have been the vile delights you revealed to me, Harry. The, gutter Plato as Sybil turned them. Sybil Vane, your fiancee? Yes. She's dead, Harry. Oh, no. Now, yes.
And by her own hands. Suicide.
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Why?
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Why? You're such a lovely thing, fresh as a rose, innocent as a new fallen snowflake. You break my heart to tell me this. Why would she have done such a thing? Well, she didn't. I did. You and again you. Damn enough of this, I say. Hutton Hills, murder me, you giving out. I think the truth What truth? That you were wrong, Tragically wrong. You said that day, that day in Basil's studio, the body sins once and has done with its sin for action is a mode of purification. Oh, Harry. Harry, how wrong you were. Not wrong.
Beaten, whipped, vanquished, conquered by my own vices. And you led me into a life of sin. Ned, hoo. Ned, you wanted it. I tell you truly that I have never been so appalled by such viciousness as I found in you. You said that day, you said the only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. But I might have added that the only way to overcome temptation is to fight it.
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What are you holding there in your hand? I can't see it in the candlelight. What A knife. What are you going to do with it?
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Kill you. Why? You deserve to die. Or put another way, you don't deserve to live. You will never learn, will you? Life isn't something you deserve. It's a burden you must carry. And be grateful to me, Harry. I'm about to relieve you of yours. No matter. Mhmm. A good deed. Well done. Do you not agree, portrait? Speak to me, my likeness. My soul, have I not done well to rid the world of this creature? Speak. I tell you, speak. Oh, Lord, what's this? The hands the hands of the portrait plight it, one with the blood of Harry. But the other?
Ah, yes. Civil. Poor, dear, innocent, civil. Oh, Lord. I fall on my knees and beg you. Forgive me. Forgive me. I knew not what I did. You you you knew. Die. And you How
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much more?
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How much more? How much more indeed?
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Why is it that the pleasure of minutes must be paid for in hours? As you sow, so shall you reap. Is that it? Appears that way. Well, Dorian Gray sowed much seed, and his reaping of the harvest was not yet over as we'll hear when I return shortly with act three. Project hope is reaching out, bringing hope to more countries around the world this year than ever before. Newest addition to Hope's international programs is Ethiopia, where Project Hope's doctors, nurses, and other medical specialists will be working side by side with Ethiopians, teaching while they treat. Since 1960, Hope has trained more than 7,000 physicians, dentists, nurses, and other health care personnel, has helped establish new schools of nursing, dentistry, and physical therapy in several countries, and assisted in the development of hospitals, teaching institutions, and public health services.
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The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine as they did and were yet to do for Dorian Gray. See him as he sits now, near three in the morning in the library of his London house, a youth uncommonly handsome, not a line in his attractive face, the personification of young innocence. Yet in the attic above stands the portraits of not him, but his soul. A soul made hideous by unmentionable sins.
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Oh, Basil, I am grateful to you for coming. I I I cannot tell you how grateful. You should be. Candidly, I don't know why I came. But the message you sent with Parker, well, I'd be inhuman not to answer such a plea even from the likes of you. Sit down. Let me give you a band aid. No.
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Now tell me what you want of me and be quick about it. Oh, I need your help. I am desperate. So I gathered from your message. Will you help me? I should not be here at three in the morning otherwise.
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Yes. I'll help you if I can, though you don't deserve it.
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I'll do it for the friendship we once had.
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Well, I I went to the opera tonight with sir Henry. You forget I brought you the news of Sybil Vane's death. Oh, yes. Yes. And you were scandalized justifiably so that that I should still attend the opera. When I return here, Harry and I quarrel and Basil, I killed him. Dorian. I stabbed him to death. At this moment, his body lies upstairs in the attic. The attic? It was there. I killed him. It it it in a sudden fit of rage. What in the world were you doing in the attic? Attic? I had taken him there to show him my portrait. What portrait?
The one you did of me. The one I But, Dorian, you told me you destroyed it. I lied. I I I didn't want you to exhibit it. You couldn't have in any case. But I I I didn't even want you to see it. Why in heaven's name not? You will see
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when we go up.
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You want me to go up there? Basil, you you must get rid of the body for me. What? Are you mad? It would involve me in a murder. A murder for which you bear as much responsibility as I Responsibility I bear as much as You painted the portrait. You introduced me to Sir Henry. Had it not been for either, I I should not be in this frightful situation. Nonsense. You can't blame me for what you use, sir. No, me. I beg you. I tell you no. Get someone else, anyone, or do it yourself. I can't. I dare not touch the body. I dare not even go near it.
It revolts me. If I say if I were to consent to this, how am I to get rid of the body? You came in your carriage, did you not? Yes. Alright. Alright. You have only to carry the body down from the attic. Put it in your carriage, drive to the river,
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and dump it in. What if I am seen? Well, you must take care not to be.
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Basil, please, for the friendship you once bore me, for the responsibility you do bear in all this whether you agree or not. Please. Well, I can at least go up with you and and see what may be done. Thank you, please. Thank you. I'll I'll take the candelabra. Follow me. Take care, Basil. Don't stumble. There. Whatever Harry may have been, he was my friend. But I cannot help but say, the world is well rid of him. As it will be of me. I'll not deny it. Now,
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where is the portrait? Oh, you don't want to see that? Dorian, if you wish me to help you get rid of Harry's body,
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then you'll have to let me see the portrait. It's that or nothing. Very well. It's there in the corner. Here. Take the candelabra. Oh, thank you.
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You see? Oh. But this is horrible. It's hideous. I never painted this. No. I did. No. It can't be. The room is dead. Mildew is gone into the campus. That would account for the the green splotches on the cheeks. The paints I used had some mineral poison in them.
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Hence, the cancerous growths on the nose,
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the forehead.
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Oh, heaven help me. This is the face of a of a monster. Yes, baby. The face of a monster. If this is the face of my soul. If this if this is what you are, truly a It is. I am. And I have nothing to do with you. Oh, you're not human. And you're a devil. A fiend. Oh, let me out of here. Wait. You said you'd help. I must get out of here. I must leave this hellhole you call a hollow. Basil. No. Come back. Help me, Basil. You must help me. Help me. Someone help me. Help me. Yes. Come. What now, Parker? You have visitors, Who? A miss Catherine Wilson from British Charities. Oh, yes.
Yes. So so who? And, Parker? Hello? You conveyed my order to the other servants? About the attic. Oh, yes. No one will enter the attic, sir, without your permission, not even you. Not even I, sir. Tell miss Wilson then. You come this way, miss Wilson. Miss Catherine Wilson. Good of you to come, miss Wilson. Won't you sit down? Thank you, mister Grey.
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May I say it's good of you to wish to contribute so handsome a sum to our charity.
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Yes. Tell tell tell me about your charity. How how will the money I give you be spent? Oh, in many ways.
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To help poor children, orphans, widows in need of assistance, young people Young? People? Well, yes. Young men, young women, many of whom need help in all sorts of ways. Why do you look at me like that? What?
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What did you say your name is?
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Catherine. We'll while you are. You you look
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you look very much like a young woman. I I was engaged to Mary once. It's strange. You you didn't look like her when you came in, but now you you seem to be changing before my very eyes.
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I no, mister Grey. I am me.
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No. No. You're not. You you're Cybill Vane. Mister Gregg. You're Cybill. Only you can't be because you're dead. Dead. You are dead. Aren't you, please, mister Gregg? Take your hands off me. What What's come out of you first? You're you're not dead. You are here. It it is you. Oh, Cyril. Cyril, my darling. I'm dead. No. Don't pull away. Let me hold you embrace you, love you as I once. Oh, oh, good lord. Oh, what am I doing? You're you're not Cybill Vane. Mister Graham,
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I'm afraid you're ill. Not yourself. I shall come back some other day. No. Good day, mister Graham.
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What happened to me? What is happening to me? Sir, are you alright? The young lady said she thought you were ill. I I confess. I I I don't feel altogether well. Brandy, sir? Yes. Please, Harry. Beg pardon, sir. Why why I think you called me Harry. Oh, how could I possibly have called you Harry? Harry's dead. Sir, Henry dead, sir. What? What? Sir, you are ill. No. No. No. No. Don't try to get upset. Right there, I'll fetch the brand new. Yes. Yes. Do that. You'll forgive my saying so, sir. But to the judge from sir Henry's high spirits when you returned from the opera last night, he has many years yet to live. In hell.
Sir, you're saying the strangest thing. Here. Here. Thank you. Oh, thank you, Harry. Sir, it's Parker, your man servant. The best servant a man ever had. A devoted man. More friend than servant. Better friend than any of them. Better friend than you are, Harry. You swine, sir. Get out, Harry. Damn you. Get out. Mister Dorrance. What? What, Parker? Sir, I'm going to fetch the doctor. Doctor. Don't doctor can help me, Parker, for me mister Dufus, sir. I I shall fetch him at once.
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Who's there?
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Early, Parkers. It's 11:00. I thought I'd just look in on you before tiring. How do you feel, sir? Not well. I can't sleep. The powders the doctor prescribed, they they don't help. They've made me worse. If anything, filled my head with all sorts of fearful thoughts, Parker, nightmarish thoughts of death, decay. What have I done? Oh, what have I done? No, mister Dorry. And don't take Sir, if you could see yourself in the glass. But never mind now. Here, let me pull the quilt up around your shoulders and then you'll sleep. One thing, Who was that at the front door earlier tonight? Oh, well, nothing important to her. It was a message from mister Horwad's housekeeper, sir.
Basil's housekeeper? Why would she send a message? Well, she thought you'd want to know since you were one of his closest friends. Where? Well, I'm sorry to tell you his death, sir. How? He took his own life, sir. Oh, sir. Sir, I shouldn't have told you. Oh, no. I'll fetch the doctor. Doctor. No. No. Yeah. You need help. Yes. Yes. And you can help me, partner. Anything, sir. Anything. Help me. Help me to the attic. I think I feel too weak to go alone, nor do I dare go alone. And there is something I must do. Help me, good friend. Please help me. Careful. Careful. Let me get an arm around you. The camera, can you manage easily?
Let us go then. Here we are, sir. What is it you wish to do? I shall I shall need a knife. I'll go down and fix it. No. No need. No need. Shine that candle over there. It's wish to talk to him. It looks like a body. A dead body. It is. It is sir Henry's body. Henry? I murdered him last night with a knife. It is in his back. Take it out and bring it to me. Oh, you said you would help me. Yes. Yes. And I shall
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Well, a knife, sir.
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And now the portrait. Storwarts painting of you. The one we brought up here months ago. It is still there in the corner amidst the shadows. I must destroy it. Oh, no, sir. Bring the candle. Sir, I don't know what this is all about, sir Hendren. Murder and destroy your pocket. One of the most beautiful paintings that ever oh, no. Yes. Now you see why it must be destroyed fires of the pit. Suffer, suffer, torture and torment the devil can heap upon you for the purification of your soul. Mister Donnie, mister Donnie, mister Donnie, the portrait.
Look at the portrait. Changing. Heaven protect us. It's changing before my very eyesight. My hideous monster is becoming young and handsome and and beautiful. It's you, sir. You but mister Hallward painted you. Yeah. Let me hold you up so you can look for oh, oh, you have a copy. Yes. With that scampers, loads and I have become what I really am, the true picture of of Dorian Gray.
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And so died Dorian Gray, turning physically into the hideous and loathsome fame which was his soul as the portrait became once again the handsome youth he once had been. As I read the picture of Dorian Gray, I couldn't help but wonder if our modern penchant for doing your own thing might not be leading some of us, at least, to the same end as poor Dorian. I don't know. What do you think? I'll be back shortly.
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Who knows how to help you solve your shopping problems? Your Better Business Bureau
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I saw this perfectly darling mirror in the showroom, so I bought it. But when the truck came, they delivered this thing I never saw before. Now what am I going to do?
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I'll tell you what to do, madam.
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Then who are you? I'm the man from the Better Business Bureau. Now the first thing to do is to call the store manager and tell him what happened. But in the future, when your merchandise is delivered, you should examine the item before the delivery truck leaves. And if it's to be delivered from a warehouse, have a clear understanding with the dealer that unless it is the same as the sample shown to you, you will not accept it or pay for it. Oh, thank you. Just part of my job, madam, to help people with their shopping problems. Oscar Wilde poured into the picture of Dorian Gray all his brilliant wit and all his wisdom too.
The wisdom of experience for Wilde lived life to the hilt and paid for it as must we all. Our cast included Nick Pryor, Norman Rose, and Roger de Koven. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
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Now approve you of our next tale. Unmute that belt, pale face, or I'll use it to make your other end red. Better get on your voice. Dexter, my mom. I love
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you. I love you too, Billy boy. And I also could kill your uncle Ralph for this stupid birthday present.
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Gun.
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What place may they have in our life or anyone? What does the back doorbell always ring when you're at the front? Coming. Alright. Alright. What's so important? Yes?
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Hello, wife. Long time no see.
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Who are you? What do you
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Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser. This is EG Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theatre for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant dreams.
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CBS News. According to Republican leaders, president Nixon must either resign or face almost sure impeachment in the Senate. I'm Jim Kilpatrick reporting on the CBS Radio network. Three Republican leaders met late this afternoon with mister Nixon, senators Hugh Scott and Barry Goldwater, and house GOP leader John Rhodes. The three told reporters that they discussed the impeachment situation with president Nixon. Senator Scott said they told mister Nixon the situation was very gloomy on Capitol Hill. In the Washington interview, senator Barry Goldwater was fairly noncommittal. But in an interview with newsmen in his home state, he was more specific.
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The house is a foregone conclusion to almost unanimously no impeachment. And in the senate, after Monday night's, disclosure, it felt by those of us in that body that we might be able to select 15 votes or hence the impeachment.
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Senator Barry Goldwater speaking tonight with Arizona newsmen including Don Andrews at CBS radio affiliate station KOL in Phoenix. More news after this. Are you an unpublished author? Do you have a book length manuscript ready or almost ready for publication? Or do you know of anyone else who is an unpublished author? If so, Vantage Press invites you to write to a leading New York publisher for a free illustrated brochure titled to the author in search of a publisher. It explains how you may have your manuscript printed and published in a matter of months. Just write to GPO Box 1414, New York, New York.
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The president has been warned that he cannot win a senate vote to remain in office. Such warnings come from virtually every leader in his own party. The president himself has said nothing publicly. He met briefly earlier this evening with secretary of state Henry Kissinger. He walked in the White House Rose Garden with his elder daughter, Tricia, then the whole family had dinner together. Several White House aids in positions to know have indicated to CBS News that they expect the president's intentions to be made known tomorrow or at the very most within a few days.
The leap is widespread on the White House staff that the president will resign, but persons who have seen the president during the day and evening say he led them to believe that he had not reached any decision. According to congressional leaders in both parties, one factor may be whether an arrangement can be worked out that would allow the president, as they put it, to exit gracefully and be assured that he would not be pursued in the courts. Negotiations or such an arrangement are underway. That does not necessarily mean that the president has agreed even to consider such an arrangement if it could be worked out. Some Democratic congressional leaders are known to take the position that no effort should be made to give the president community unless he agrees to a statement of culpability.
Officially, White House spokesman tonight, before they went home, said they were standing by previous statements that the president intends to remain in office and face us on a trial. Dan Rather, CBS News, The White House. President Nixon's lawyer told a federal court today that that nine more subpoenaed Watergate conversations apparently were never recorded. The missing tapes include mister Nixon's telephone conversation with his former top aides, HR Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, at a time when the Watergate cover up was unraveling. Presidential lawyer James St. Clair says the calls apparently weighed on a telephone which was not wired into the taping system.
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United Press International reports president Nixon who told republican congressional leaders Wednesday he was considering resigning, has begun work on a resignation statement. Repeating, United Press International says it has learned that president Nixon has started to work on a resignation statement. President Nixon told Republican leaders earlier he was considering resigning according to UPI. I'm Jim Kilpatrick, CBS News.
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Welcome. I'm EG Marshall. Welcome to the world of no. No. Not your imagination this time, but that of a man, a writer, who had more than enough for both of us. This time then, I bid you relax. Let your imagination take a holiday as I bring you not only a story of horror, but of wit and brilliance. Oscar Wilde's, A Picture of Dorian Gray.
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But the portrait of you, Dorian,
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the portrait I painted on you, it is hideous.
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Dorian, what does this mean? It means that the wish, the frightful wish I made in your studio eighteen months ago
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was granted impossible. The room is damp. Mildew has got into the canvas. The paints I used had some mineral poison in them. I tell you the thing is impossible. This is the face of of a monster. Yes, Hallward. The face of a monster. The face of my soul.
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Our mystery Our mystery drama, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was especially adapted from the Oscar Wilde classic for the mystery theater by George Lother and stars Nick Pryor. It is sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser and Buick Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with act one.
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Nothing is new under the sun. Women's lid is as old as the Greeks And the vaunted liberality of our times, you know, do your own thing. Live today, pay tomorrow. Whatever is pleasurable is right was more than anticipated by a certain Victorian named Oscar Wilde, who in 1891 wrote the picture of Dorian Gray. Come with me now to the London studio of the celebrated portrait painter Basil Hallward. A handsome young man, Dorian Gray, is having his portrait painted as he chats with Lord Henry Walton,
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a rather dissolute, depraved man about town. Please don't move about so much, Dorian, and don't pay any attention to what lord Henry says. He has a very bad influence on people. Have you, lord Henry, a bad influence on people? There is no such thing as a good influence, mister Grey.
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All influence is immoral. Oh, why? Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his own thoughts or burn with his natural passion. And so when one person influences another, if you were to influence me, for example Your individuality would be to that degree destroyed. Just turn your head a little more to the right, Doreen. Well, I doubt if you could influence me very much, sir Henry. I'm told you're a very wicked man. Wicked? I only believe in living my life fully, completely, in giving expression to every thought, reality, to every dream.
Most men believe in virtue. I believe in sin. In sin? Dorian, don't move, please. But, of course, the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. A provocative thought, Lord Henry. The truth, nothing more. You, mister Gray, you yourself are fresh youth of twenty summers. You have already had passions that made you afraid, thoughts that filled you with terror, daydreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might bring a flush of shame to your cheeks. Perhaps. Take my advice. Live while you're young. Youth is the one thing worth having. Oh, I don't feel that way, lord Henry. Because you are young, have you, youth?
But someday when you're old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, then you will feel it. You will feel it terribly. You talk too much, Harry, and frankly, I don't much care for these thoughts you're putting into Dorian's head.
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Well, you'll not talk any longer. The portrait is finished. Come and look at it. Oh. But, Dorian, what is it? Why did you draw back from your portrait? Don't you like it?
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I I like it too much. Too much. What do you mean? You have you have painted me as I am. But as lord Henry just said, someday I shall be old, wrinkled, ugly. Come, mister Grey. Don't take me too seriously. Many, many years will pass before you were old. But but why should it be that way? Why should this portrait keep what I must lose? If it were only the other way. If the picture could change and and I could always be what I am now, I'd I'd sell my soul to the devil if that could be true. This apartment collapse. The portrait's fallen to the floor. God damn heaven, Horwood, Lord Henry.
You don't think the devil heard me, do you? Nothing as supernatural as all that, Dorian. I've been meaning to fix a cracked leg in that easel for weeks, and it finally broke. That's all. Is the portrait damaged? No. Not in the least. Are you, mister Grey? Aye, damaged. Did you mean what you said about selling your soul to the devil? I I'm not sure. But you you can never know if if the portrait could grow old instead of me. I I I think I might. I I really think I might. Beg pardon, mister Gray? Yes, Parker. What is it? Miss Veen calling, sir. At this hour of the morning, it's not yet 10:00.
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Well, sure in, Parker. Thank you, Parker, but I'm already in.
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Yes. So, well, my darling, this is indeed a surprise. An unpleasant one, Dorian. Oh, my dear. We're engaged to be married. How could seeing you be unpleasant?
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Well, since you haven't seen me in over a week and have broken two engagements with me, I
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thought it might be. Oh, no. No. Not at all. It's it's just that I I've been terribly busy. Come now. Don't frown at me like that. Give me a kiss to show you forgive me.
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Oh, Dorian. You smell of brandy.
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I, I I had a drink. Yes. So early in the day. Well, I wasn't feeling well. I thought it might make me feel better. Dorian,
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what's happened? Happened? You've changed. You're not the same man I fell in love with, consented to marriage.
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You haven't been the same since that portrait of you over the fireplace came into this house. Oh, that's a silly thing to say. You're you're certainly not blaming my portrait for what I do. No.
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I simply date the change in you from the day it was finished. But there is no change in me. You only imagine Did I imagine you're not calling on me in a week? Did I imagine you're ignoring my messages and and the stories that I'm hearing about you, do I imagine them? What what stories? Stories concerning you and Lord Henry Watson. Stories so coarse, so
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vile that I I dare not repeat them. He is anything but wicked, Sybil. He he he he lives differently from most others. That's all. He he he believes in doing what you want to do and in living freely without constraint.
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Do you believe in that too?
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I I I don't quite know. Dorian, darling,
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it's one thing to be free, another to be depraved.
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You think me depraved?
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I think that you're easily led and that Lord Henry is leading you into a life you'll have reason to regret. Oh, don't don't look at me as if you hated me. I'm only saying these things to you because I love you. I love you deeply, devotedly, passionately. You're so precious to me. So precious I think I'd die if anything happened to you.
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Oh, forgive me, Stival. You're you're you you are just as precious to me as as as precious as life itself. Oh, Dorian, my dear. Oh, sweetheart. Are you free this evening? Can you dine with me? Of course. Then I'll call for you at HR. Oh, wonderful.
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I'll spend the entire day looking forward.
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That's odd. What? Your portrait.
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Odd? What's odd about it?
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This is only the second time I've seen it, but it it seemed to me that the but the first time I saw it, it seems that it was a superb likeness. Oh, it is. It is. Basil Hallward is one of the most brilliant portrait painters in all of Europe. Yes. There's no doubt in that. But but there's something a little wrong with the mouth. Darling, there's always something a little wrong with the mouth. Be be serious. Your mouth is gentle and sensitive, almost tender. And the mouth of the portrait, don't you see it? It it has almost a
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cool look about it. Nonsense. It must be the light. No. I think it's more than imagine things. Tonight at eight.
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Dorian? Oh, Dorian?
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I knew that was you turning into Bond Street. Oh, hello, Basil. How are you? Let me look at you. Oh, by heaven. You're the handsomest young hellion in all of London. Hellion?
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There's a good deal of talk going on around about you. Estacate, Dorian.
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Yours and Lord Henry. I think it's called sowing one's wild oats, Basil. Nothing more. I'm not sure. You certainly don't look as if you've been leading a dissipated life.
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Clear eyes, healthy skin. Now you delight my painter's eye, Dorian. But of course, that's why I wanted to do your portrait in the first place and why I want your permission to exhibit it. Exhibit it? Yes. I,
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I I'm afraid I can't. Well, you Curtain. Let's say I prefer not to.
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Oh, I see. Well, it's it's yours, of course, and you've every right to do with it as you wish. And I don't wish it to be exhibited.
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No hard feelings, I hope. I
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no. No. Of course not. Dorian, will you be home later in the day? Yes. Why? Well, it needs to be varnished, the portrait. It's more than a month now since I finished it. Time to give it a protective coating.
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Shall we say 04:00? Well, shall we? I'm afraid you've forced me to tell you something. I'd, I'd rather not reveal to you, Basil. Oh? There isn't any portrait. I destroyed it. What? Oh, you you don't mean that. I do indeed. You destroyed one of my finest in heaven's name, man. Why? I simply didn't care for it. That's all. Well, you liked it well enough the first time you saw it. Very true. But the the more I looked at it, the the the the more I felt it wasn't me.
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I see that the stories about you are true. I was afraid they might be once I heard you'd become close friends with Harry Wootton. Your friend too, Basil. Yes. But I'm older than you by twenty years, Doreen, and not easily led or rather misled.
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I am not being misled. I'm being taught, instructed, if you will, in what real pleasures life can hold if one will only let himself go.
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I'm, Baldrige, sir. You heard me, Parker.
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I want the portrait taken down from over the fireplace and carted off to the attic. Whatever you say, sir. Of course. But might I venture to suggest that if you had it placed in a different light What has a different light to do about? The light changes a good deal during the day and the portrait seems changed with it. You you've noticed the change there? Oh, yes, sir. The changes that take place in the different light altogether are fascinating, sir. Much as I shall be sorry to deprive you of your entertainment, Parker, have it taken to the attic. I'll do it first thing in the morning, sir. No. Damn it. You'll do it now.
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It would seem that Dorian Gray's wish is coming true, that the portrait is beginning to show the ravages of his dissipations, not he. But if that is so, and certainly it seems to be, what price will he be forced to pay before the end is reached? Who sells his soul to the devil deals with a harsh bargainer? I'll be back shortly with act two. Buick introduces a new concept for you to consider in light of today's concern about miles per gallon, range. Range is what you get when you multiply the mileage your car gets per gallon by the number of gallons your car's gas tank holds. Range is what you need to get you there and back, especially if you plan to travel even just a little.
Range is one of the things that helped make the Buick Apollo such a special small car, a small car with range. It comes from coupling the Apollo's economical six cylinder engine with a standard 21 gallon gas tank. It holds a lot, but it doesn't use a lot. Holds a lot of people too. There's room for six in Buick Comfort, and the ride is Buick too. In fact, the only place the Apollo may deviate from your conception of a Buick is in its low price. Look into the Apollo. It's what you'd expect a Buick to be and a lot more than you'd expect a small car to be. Apollo.
It's the Buick of small cars. This is the dawn of a great breakfast. Breakfast at McDonald's with Egg McMuffin. What's an Egg McMuffin? Well, McDonald's takes a fresh egg, grills it in creamery butter, and covers it with a slice of cheese, then tops that off with a sizzling slice of Canadian bacon and serves it all up on a toasted buttered English muffin, egg McMuffin. Have it by itself or with orange juice and coffee. Either way, you'll have it at a price that won't jolt you awake. So tomorrow morning, get up and get away to breakfast at McDonald's with Egg McMuffin. We like to say it's a Sunday kind of breakfast you can grab any day of the week.
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Available at one of the nine twenty two hour McDonald's. One of which is at the McDonald's with a fountain on Transit Road between Sheridan and Maple.
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Hearing the loss of youth, even though only 20 years old, young Dorian Gray states that he would be willing to sell his soul to the devil if he could remain young always. While Basil Hallward's portrait of him grows old, seemingly the devil has taken him at his word. For as Dorian Gray becomes more depraved and dissolute, the portrait shows the increasing ravages of the life he leads while he remains the same handsome youth who sat for the picture some months ago. But his fiancee, Sybil Raine,
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is not fooled. I beg you as you love me, Doreen. Give up this this sword. It's life. It's life
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of gutter pleasure. How do you know what kind of life I lead, Sybil? You don't live it with me. Report of your disgusting escapades.
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Newers and Lord Henry's are known in every drawing room in London.
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If you love me, you'll give them up. But you see, that's the point. I don't love you.
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Don't say that, Doria.
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Even if you mean it only to wound me to strike back, don't say it. It's of no consequence to me whether I wound you or not. You're you're not yourself. Not myself. My dear, I am more myself than I have ever been in all my life before. In any case, I am sufficiently myself to tell you now what for so called reasons of decency I have not told you before. I no longer love you. In fact, Sybil, I'm through with you. Dorian,
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you loved me. No longer. You gave me your heart, your very soul.
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My heart, I take back. As for my soul, it belongs to another, I'm afraid. I
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can't believe this. You look unchanged. You look as you've always looked, gentle, tender, compassionate and kind, but you are not. You're cruel and vicious and ruthlessly selfish.
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You've become an animal. Be grateful then that I'm releasing you from any obligation we may have had. And, please, don't be tiresome. Just go now, won't you? I love you. Whom did you say, Parker? Mister Basil Hallward, sir. That's who I thought you said. Well, I'm already late for the opera. Tell him I'm not at home. Yes, sir. I'm sorry, mister Hallward, but mister Grey is not mister Hallward, please. You can't go in there. Hallward, how dare you? I must see you. I thought you wished Nella to see me again. I am not here from choice, Dorian. What did you do to Sybilvane?
I? Nothing. Whatever is being done to Cybill Vane, she did to herself. What do you mean by that nonsense? Simply that I told her I no longer love her and want none of her. Cybill is dead, Dorian, by her own hand. Pity. Now, if you'll excuse me You you aren't going to the opera. Why not? You have just heard of the death of the woman you loved, the woman who took her own life for love of you. And you can go to the opera. Death, my dear Hallward, is a most unpleasant subject. And I live only for pleasure. Good night. Coming.
Coming. Why, mister Dorian, sir? Did you forget your key? Damn it, man. Would I be standing out here in the cold, banging away at the door if I hadn't? Come in, Harry. Sir Henry, let me take your head and cluke, sir. You may go to bed, Parker. Thank you, sir. Put my eye. Well, and where shall we go after a brandy or two, Harry? I shall go home, I think. But the evening's young. I am not. A brandy or two will revive you, and then we'll be off to where? I'm in the mood for a pipe myself. You're not open for me tonight, Dorian. Come along now.
We'll go to that little dive down in Wapping By the top. No. Not tonight. But you can't ask me to go alone? I'm not asking you to go at all. Harry. What's come over you? Age, my dear fellow. I get tired these days. I am growing old, Dorian. A life of pleasure does exact payment. Though I must say you look as if you keep up with your payments easily. I have no complaint. How do you do it? In the last six months since we first met in Hallward's studio, we have indulged ourselves in every form of vice, every variety of sin, giving full vent to our passions. And yet now look at me.
I have aged twenty years in these six months keeping up with you. But you, you're as fresh and healthy and young as ever you were. How do you do it? Shall I show you my secret? Show me. I keep a diary, a rather remarkable diary, Harry. In it is recorded every single action of mine since since that fatal day. Fatal day? The day we met. I thought you were grateful for our meeting. Why do you say fatal day? Come and read my diary, and you'll see. Bring your brandy. Always stare, Dorian. Where are you taking me? The attic. Keep your diary in the attic.
You'll see. Here we are. Wait a moment while I light a candle. All right, Harry. There. In that corner.
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I can't see a thing too dark, too many shadows. It's a dark diary, Harry, and it has many shadows. Here.
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Take this candle. Now go forward. Good lord. I thought you'd be shocked here. Shocked? I'm shattered. Where did you get this? This this hideous painting. Basil Hallward. Impossible. Basil never painted anything as unholy and ungodly as this. Well, really, he didn't. I did. You. And you? Dorian, I'm tiring quickly of your veiled answers. What is this thing? It is a portrait done by Basil Hallward. It is the portrait of Dorian Gray. Of you? This is a portrait he finished that day. It was. It no longer is. I don't understand that. What has happened here?
What indeed? Darnell, tell me what? I made a wish in Hallward's studio. You remember? No. I said I would willingly sell my soul to the devil if I could remain forever youthful no matter what excesses of physical pleasure I indulged in and only this portrait aged. Yes. Spell and remember. Yes. The devil heard and remembered even though you did not. This is it's incredible. So have been the vile delights you revealed to me, Harry. The, gutter Plato as Sybil turned them. Sybil Vane, your fiancee? Yes. She's dead, Harry. Oh, no. Now, yes.
And by her own hands. Suicide.
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Why?
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Why? You're such a lovely thing, fresh as a rose, innocent as a new fallen snowflake. You break my heart to tell me this. Why would she have done such a thing? Well, she didn't. I did. You and again you. Damn enough of this, I say. Hutton Hills, murder me, you giving out. I think the truth What truth? That you were wrong, Tragically wrong. You said that day, that day in Basil's studio, the body sins once and has done with its sin for action is a mode of purification. Oh, Harry. Harry, how wrong you were. Not wrong.
Beaten, whipped, vanquished, conquered by my own vices. And you led me into a life of sin. Ned, hoo. Ned, you wanted it. I tell you truly that I have never been so appalled by such viciousness as I found in you. You said that day, you said the only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. But I might have added that the only way to overcome temptation is to fight it.
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What are you holding there in your hand? I can't see it in the candlelight. What A knife. What are you going to do with it?
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Kill you. Why? You deserve to die. Or put another way, you don't deserve to live. You will never learn, will you? Life isn't something you deserve. It's a burden you must carry. And be grateful to me, Harry. I'm about to relieve you of yours. No matter. Mhmm. A good deed. Well done. Do you not agree, portrait? Speak to me, my likeness. My soul, have I not done well to rid the world of this creature? Speak. I tell you, speak. Oh, Lord, what's this? The hands the hands of the portrait plight it, one with the blood of Harry. But the other?
Ah, yes. Civil. Poor, dear, innocent, civil. Oh, Lord. I fall on my knees and beg you. Forgive me. Forgive me. I knew not what I did. You you you knew. Die. And you How
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much more?
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How much more? How much more indeed?
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Why is it that the pleasure of minutes must be paid for in hours? As you sow, so shall you reap. Is that it? Appears that way. Well, Dorian Gray sowed much seed, and his reaping of the harvest was not yet over as we'll hear when I return shortly with act three. Project hope is reaching out, bringing hope to more countries around the world this year than ever before. Newest addition to Hope's international programs is Ethiopia, where Project Hope's doctors, nurses, and other medical specialists will be working side by side with Ethiopians, teaching while they treat. Since 1960, Hope has trained more than 7,000 physicians, dentists, nurses, and other health care personnel, has helped establish new schools of nursing, dentistry, and physical therapy in several countries, and assisted in the development of hospitals, teaching institutions, and public health services.
Hope's work has been heralded by heads of many nations. Its service is requested by many, many more. Help hope reach out. Right. Project hope room a Washington DC.
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Sometimes a gentle rain in one place adds up to a raging torrent in another. A torrent that can uproot lives as well as trees. To remedy the things that can be remedied in a disaster, America has a unique emergency force, the American Red Cross, America's good neighbor. Red Cross is on call twenty four hours a day, every day to cope with emergencies, whether they're on the next block or a continent away. Most of the help that's given is from volunteers. The money's from volunteers too. Volunteers like you. If you need help, join us. If you can give help, join us.
The American Red Cross. Help us help people just like you.
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The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine as they did and were yet to do for Dorian Gray. See him as he sits now, near three in the morning in the library of his London house, a youth uncommonly handsome, not a line in his attractive face, the personification of young innocence. Yet in the attic above stands the portraits of not him, but his soul. A soul made hideous by unmentionable sins.
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Oh, Basil, I am grateful to you for coming. I I I cannot tell you how grateful. You should be. Candidly, I don't know why I came. But the message you sent with Parker, well, I'd be inhuman not to answer such a plea even from the likes of you. Sit down. Let me give you a band aid. No.
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Now tell me what you want of me and be quick about it. Oh, I need your help. I am desperate. So I gathered from your message. Will you help me? I should not be here at three in the morning otherwise.
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Yes. I'll help you if I can, though you don't deserve it.
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I'll do it for the friendship we once had.
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Well, I I went to the opera tonight with sir Henry. You forget I brought you the news of Sybil Vane's death. Oh, yes. Yes. And you were scandalized justifiably so that that I should still attend the opera. When I return here, Harry and I quarrel and Basil, I killed him. Dorian. I stabbed him to death. At this moment, his body lies upstairs in the attic. The attic? It was there. I killed him. It it it in a sudden fit of rage. What in the world were you doing in the attic? Attic? I had taken him there to show him my portrait. What portrait?
The one you did of me. The one I But, Dorian, you told me you destroyed it. I lied. I I I didn't want you to exhibit it. You couldn't have in any case. But I I I didn't even want you to see it. Why in heaven's name not? You will see
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when we go up.
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You want me to go up there? Basil, you you must get rid of the body for me. What? Are you mad? It would involve me in a murder. A murder for which you bear as much responsibility as I Responsibility I bear as much as You painted the portrait. You introduced me to Sir Henry. Had it not been for either, I I should not be in this frightful situation. Nonsense. You can't blame me for what you use, sir. No, me. I beg you. I tell you no. Get someone else, anyone, or do it yourself. I can't. I dare not touch the body. I dare not even go near it.
It revolts me. If I say if I were to consent to this, how am I to get rid of the body? You came in your carriage, did you not? Yes. Alright. Alright. You have only to carry the body down from the attic. Put it in your carriage, drive to the river,
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and dump it in. What if I am seen? Well, you must take care not to be.
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Basil, please, for the friendship you once bore me, for the responsibility you do bear in all this whether you agree or not. Please. Well, I can at least go up with you and and see what may be done. Thank you, please. Thank you. I'll I'll take the candelabra. Follow me. Take care, Basil. Don't stumble. There. Whatever Harry may have been, he was my friend. But I cannot help but say, the world is well rid of him. As it will be of me. I'll not deny it. Now,
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where is the portrait? Oh, you don't want to see that? Dorian, if you wish me to help you get rid of Harry's body,
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then you'll have to let me see the portrait. It's that or nothing. Very well. It's there in the corner. Here. Take the candelabra. Oh, thank you.
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You see? Oh. But this is horrible. It's hideous. I never painted this. No. I did. No. It can't be. The room is dead. Mildew is gone into the campus. That would account for the the green splotches on the cheeks. The paints I used had some mineral poison in them.
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Hence, the cancerous growths on the nose,
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the forehead.
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Oh, heaven help me. This is the face of a of a monster. Yes, baby. The face of a monster. If this is the face of my soul. If this if this is what you are, truly a It is. I am. And I have nothing to do with you. Oh, you're not human. And you're a devil. A fiend. Oh, let me out of here. Wait. You said you'd help. I must get out of here. I must leave this hellhole you call a hollow. Basil. No. Come back. Help me, Basil. You must help me. Help me. Someone help me. Help me. Yes. Come. What now, Parker? You have visitors, Who? A miss Catherine Wilson from British Charities. Oh, yes.
Yes. So so who? And, Parker? Hello? You conveyed my order to the other servants? About the attic. Oh, yes. No one will enter the attic, sir, without your permission, not even you. Not even I, sir. Tell miss Wilson then. You come this way, miss Wilson. Miss Catherine Wilson. Good of you to come, miss Wilson. Won't you sit down? Thank you, mister Grey.
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May I say it's good of you to wish to contribute so handsome a sum to our charity.
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Yes. Tell tell tell me about your charity. How how will the money I give you be spent? Oh, in many ways.
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To help poor children, orphans, widows in need of assistance, young people Young? People? Well, yes. Young men, young women, many of whom need help in all sorts of ways. Why do you look at me like that? What?
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What did you say your name is?
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Catherine. We'll while you are. You you look
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you look very much like a young woman. I I was engaged to Mary once. It's strange. You you didn't look like her when you came in, but now you you seem to be changing before my very eyes.
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I no, mister Grey. I am me.
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No. No. You're not. You you're Cybill Vane. Mister Gregg. You're Cybill. Only you can't be because you're dead. Dead. You are dead. Aren't you, please, mister Gregg? Take your hands off me. What What's come out of you first? You're you're not dead. You are here. It it is you. Oh, Cyril. Cyril, my darling. I'm dead. No. Don't pull away. Let me hold you embrace you, love you as I once. Oh, oh, good lord. Oh, what am I doing? You're you're not Cybill Vane. Mister Graham,
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I'm afraid you're ill. Not yourself. I shall come back some other day. No. Good day, mister Graham.
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What happened to me? What is happening to me? Sir, are you alright? The young lady said she thought you were ill. I I confess. I I I don't feel altogether well. Brandy, sir? Yes. Please, Harry. Beg pardon, sir. Why why I think you called me Harry. Oh, how could I possibly have called you Harry? Harry's dead. Sir, Henry dead, sir. What? What? Sir, you are ill. No. No. No. No. Don't try to get upset. Right there, I'll fetch the brand new. Yes. Yes. Do that. You'll forgive my saying so, sir. But to the judge from sir Henry's high spirits when you returned from the opera last night, he has many years yet to live. In hell.
Sir, you're saying the strangest thing. Here. Here. Thank you. Oh, thank you, Harry. Sir, it's Parker, your man servant. The best servant a man ever had. A devoted man. More friend than servant. Better friend than any of them. Better friend than you are, Harry. You swine, sir. Get out, Harry. Damn you. Get out. Mister Dorrance. What? What, Parker? Sir, I'm going to fetch the doctor. Doctor. Don't doctor can help me, Parker, for me mister Dufus, sir. I I shall fetch him at once.
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Who's there?
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Early, Parkers. It's 11:00. I thought I'd just look in on you before tiring. How do you feel, sir? Not well. I can't sleep. The powders the doctor prescribed, they they don't help. They've made me worse. If anything, filled my head with all sorts of fearful thoughts, Parker, nightmarish thoughts of death, decay. What have I done? Oh, what have I done? No, mister Dorry. And don't take Sir, if you could see yourself in the glass. But never mind now. Here, let me pull the quilt up around your shoulders and then you'll sleep. One thing, Who was that at the front door earlier tonight? Oh, well, nothing important to her. It was a message from mister Horwad's housekeeper, sir.
Basil's housekeeper? Why would she send a message? Well, she thought you'd want to know since you were one of his closest friends. Where? Well, I'm sorry to tell you his death, sir. How? He took his own life, sir. Oh, sir. Sir, I shouldn't have told you. Oh, no. I'll fetch the doctor. Doctor. No. No. Yeah. You need help. Yes. Yes. And you can help me, partner. Anything, sir. Anything. Help me. Help me to the attic. I think I feel too weak to go alone, nor do I dare go alone. And there is something I must do. Help me, good friend. Please help me. Careful. Careful. Let me get an arm around you. The camera, can you manage easily?
Let us go then. Here we are, sir. What is it you wish to do? I shall I shall need a knife. I'll go down and fix it. No. No need. No need. Shine that candle over there. It's wish to talk to him. It looks like a body. A dead body. It is. It is sir Henry's body. Henry? I murdered him last night with a knife. It is in his back. Take it out and bring it to me. Oh, you said you would help me. Yes. Yes. And I shall
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Well, a knife, sir.
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And now the portrait. Storwarts painting of you. The one we brought up here months ago. It is still there in the corner amidst the shadows. I must destroy it. Oh, no, sir. Bring the candle. Sir, I don't know what this is all about, sir Hendren. Murder and destroy your pocket. One of the most beautiful paintings that ever oh, no. Yes. Now you see why it must be destroyed fires of the pit. Suffer, suffer, torture and torment the devil can heap upon you for the purification of your soul. Mister Donnie, mister Donnie, mister Donnie, the portrait.
Look at the portrait. Changing. Heaven protect us. It's changing before my very eyesight. My hideous monster is becoming young and handsome and and beautiful. It's you, sir. You but mister Hallward painted you. Yeah. Let me hold you up so you can look for oh, oh, you have a copy. Yes. With that scampers, loads and I have become what I really am, the true picture of of Dorian Gray.
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And so died Dorian Gray, turning physically into the hideous and loathsome fame which was his soul as the portrait became once again the handsome youth he once had been. As I read the picture of Dorian Gray, I couldn't help but wonder if our modern penchant for doing your own thing might not be leading some of us, at least, to the same end as poor Dorian. I don't know. What do you think? I'll be back shortly.
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Who knows how to help you solve your shopping problems? Your Better Business Bureau
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I saw this perfectly darling mirror in the showroom, so I bought it. But when the truck came, they delivered this thing I never saw before. Now what am I going to do?
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I'll tell you what to do, madam.
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Then who are you? I'm the man from the Better Business Bureau. Now the first thing to do is to call the store manager and tell him what happened. But in the future, when your merchandise is delivered, you should examine the item before the delivery truck leaves. And if it's to be delivered from a warehouse, have a clear understanding with the dealer that unless it is the same as the sample shown to you, you will not accept it or pay for it. Oh, thank you. Just part of my job, madam, to help people with their shopping problems. Oscar Wilde poured into the picture of Dorian Gray all his brilliant wit and all his wisdom too.
The wisdom of experience for Wilde lived life to the hilt and paid for it as must we all. Our cast included Nick Pryor, Norman Rose, and Roger de Koven. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
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Now approve you of our next tale. Unmute that belt, pale face, or I'll use it to make your other end red. Better get on your voice. Dexter, my mom. I love
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you. I love you too, Billy boy. And I also could kill your uncle Ralph for this stupid birthday present.
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Gun.
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What place may they have in our life or anyone? What does the back doorbell always ring when you're at the front? Coming. Alright. Alright. What's so important? Yes?
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Hello, wife. Long time no see.
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Who are you? What do you
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Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser. This is EG Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theatre for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant dreams.
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Tonight's mystery theater has been brought to you by AM and A's downtown in five suburban stores and by the nine twenty two hour McDonald's. One of which is the McDonald's with a fountain at 4987 Transit Road between Sheridan and Maitland.
[00:59:46] Unknown:
And now WBEN Buffalo broadcasting at 930 kilohertz begins another day of service to the Niagara Frontier. Our studio to transmitter link, WEF ninety, operates at 949 megahertz.
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