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Good evening.
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Tonight's narrative
is about a private eye.
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A very private eye.
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A glass eye
is a very interesting object.
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For one thing,
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I've always thought
a glass eye would be better
than the real article.
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It never gets bloodshot.
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And being made of glass,
it will certainly be easier
to see through.
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This evening,
due to one of those
delightful coincidences,
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our story happens to be
about a glass eye.
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It is entitled,
"The Glass Eye."
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You see, everything fits in.
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What appalls me is
that cousin Julia had no one
to leave her things to.
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No one except us, that is.
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Did she ever let you know
how lonely she was?
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Nobody in the family
ever knew much about Julia.
She was impossible to know.
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She never talked
about herself.
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Well, I simply
don't understand
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how she could possibly
have stood it,
living here so alone.
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I wonder what went on
in her mind.
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Do you suppose
she ever stood here,
staring at these ships,
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and dreaming
that she one day might sail
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right out of
this drab little room?
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Once she very nearly did.
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Just once.
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Let me show you
something, Dorothy.
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Oh, how horrible. What is it?
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An eye.
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A glass eye.
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What a strange thing to keep.
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Stranger than you think.
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If ever a life was symbolized
by any one single object,
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Julia's was, and by this.
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This glass eye.
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How do you mean?
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I only got to know about it
long after it happened.
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Julia was still
in her 30s then.
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Many years ago.
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(ALARM RINGING)
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The loneliness,
the desolation of her life
were beyond belief
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for she herself
was unaware
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of just how lonely
and desolate it really was.
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I imagine that long ago,
she had found a way to escape
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into a world
where emotion and feeling
never intrude.
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In her own way, I suppose,
she was happy.
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She'd, well, adjusted to it.
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Every morning she made tea
on the single flame.
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Then she would dress,
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go to work as a clerk for
an old-fashioned solicitor,
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a man named Maufry,
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who wrote to his clients
by hand,
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making copies by the old
moist-paper method.
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And each day,
like clockwork,
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she lunched cheaply
at a teashop
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where she read steadily
from the volumes
of theTauchnitz edition
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of the best English authors.
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She had worked her way
down to the L's.
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Did she look
at those two young people
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and wonder why
life had passed her by?
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I wish I knew.
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In the evenings,
she cooked a simple meal.
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Fried some ham perhaps,
or a chop
and boiled vegetables,
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all on the same single flame,
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a complicated conjuring trick
involving much juggling
of pots and pans.
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She had nothing to anticipate
but retiring early,
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seldom later than 10:00
or 10:30.
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(MAN LAUGHING)
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(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
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Did she hope
that the young man
in the flat above
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might come home one night
and, by mistake,
enter the wrong room?
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Did she ever dream
of a life with a husband,
a home and children?
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How could Julia,
whose life had been
so loveless,
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possibly have known
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that when love did come,
it might lead
to something dangerous
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and horrifying?
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Yet, there is
one small twist in it.
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One odd
and unaccountable thing.
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(BAND PLAYING)
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Late one summer,
as she was accustomed to do
every Saturday afternoon,
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Julia took the small son
of a neighbor
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to the Old Music Hall
in Fulham.
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She worshipped the boy,
lavishing all her love on him,
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looking forward
to the one day a week
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when her neighbor
entrusted the child
to her devoted care.
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She fed him lunch
on those days.
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She bought him toys
and books.
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And the only reward
he ever gave her was a smile.
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Still, it was enough
for Julia.
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Enough
until this summer afternoon.
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The day she first saw
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Max Collodi.
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HOST: Ladies and gentlemen,
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the management
of the Music Hall
takes pride in presenting
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the high spot
of this week's program,
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the great Max Collodi,
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gentleman ventriloquist,
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and his amazing
dummy, George.
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(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
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Well, George,
here we are back in Fulham
once again.
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What do you think
about Fulham?
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I can't say.
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You can't say? Why not?
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I haven't been around.
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No money?
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That's right.
I'm a little short
this week.
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(LAUGHING)
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(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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You forgot my lemonade.
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(SHUSHING)
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Now, George,
before we go ahead
with our act,
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I want to ask you a question.
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Did you give fresh water
to the goldfish this morning?
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Goldfish?
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Yes, goldfish.
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Fresh water?
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Yes.
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Did you give fresh water
to the goldfish this morning?
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What for?
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They haven't finished
the water
I gave them yesterday.
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(LAUGHING)
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I'm thirsty.
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(SHUSHING)
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I'll tell Mommy
you were mean to me.
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Please, Allan, dear,
just as soon as
this act is over.
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MAX: George,
do you like going to school?
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I like Sunday school best.
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I'm glad to hear that.
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Tell me,
why do you prefer it?
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'Cause I only have to go
once a week.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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Do you suppose
he could be Italian?
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I'm thirsty.
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Oh, please, Allan,
in a moment, dear.
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That name, Max Collodi.
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Do you suppose
that could be Italian?
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I said, "I'm thirsty!"
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GEORGE: Why not?
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MAX: What key is best
for unlocking the tongue?
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Here, Allan, dear.
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You buy yourself
some lemonade
or whatever you want.
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I'll be right back.
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You're not going
to leave me, are you?
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Mommy says
I'm never to be left alone.
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No, dear, I'll be right there,
at the other side
of the lobby.
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Excuse me.
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I want a ticket for tonight.
Just one.
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Thank you.
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Where are we going now?
Let's go back inside.
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No, dear.
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No, I have to go
straight home.
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I have a great deal to do
this evening.
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Such a great deal,
really, to do.
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MAX: But he didn't leave you
any money, did he?
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No. I am the executor
of his estate.
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And he left me 500 quid
for a memorial stone.
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And this is it.
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George, I refuse
to work with you tonight
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unless you answer
a very personal question.
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You refuse to work with me?
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Now that's a bit of news.
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Where would you be
without me?
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Please, George.
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All right,
ask whatever you like.
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George, have you ever met
a girl you cared for?
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(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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Have I ever met a girl
I cared for?
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Yes.
It was love at first sight.
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Wonderful, George. Wonderful.
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Are you going to marry her?
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No.
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No? But I thought
that you...
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Yes?
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I thought you said
it was love at first sight.
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I took a second look.
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(BAND PLAYING)
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JIM: And so all
in a summer's day and night
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a warmth came to Julia
she had never known before.
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She did not know
exactly what it was
she felt for Max Collodi.
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Certainly if she had known,
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she could never have
confessed it to herself,
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not that first night anyway.
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She couldn't get his image
out of her mind.
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Max Collodi, a wonderful name
she thought,
a name full of poetry.
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Max Collodi.
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Mrs. Max Collodi.
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Madame Collodi.
Or was it to be
Signora Collodi?
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Suppose she was
Signora Collodi?
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She was lying
in the upper room
of their villa in Italy
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on the outskirts of Rome.
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Max had bean appearing
at the theater.
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(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
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It was his footsteps
she heard now.
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He would come in.
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He would come close to her.
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She would hold him.
She would comfort him.
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She would send him to sleep.
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Max.
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That was the beginning
of Julia's romance
with Max Collodi.
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And this was the end of it.
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Let me show you
something, Dorothy.
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This,
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she managed to steal it
from one of
the theaters in London
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where he appeared
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and these programs.
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From the Hippodrome
at Stratham,
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Pavilion at Finsbury.
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Every night
she traveled across London
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to pay her half crown
to sit in the balconies
wherever he appeared.
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How pitiful.
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Was it really, Dorothy?
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Or was it better
to have these programs
to look at every night
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before she went to bed
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and every morning
before she set off to work?
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No, it wasn't pitiful.
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It was frightening.
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Because, you see,
Julia had made a resolution.
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A resolution?
Yes.
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She resolved
to meet Max Collodi.
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He had to love her
as she loved him,
no matter what.
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No matter
what she had to do.
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Julia wrote Max Collodi
a letter.
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I'm not able to quote it.
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I don't know what was in it.
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I do know that somewhere
in the course of it,
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she asked
if she might meet him.
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She'd given her employer
her notice.
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She had read that
the Great Collodi was going
on tour of the provinces.
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She had a small capital
accumulated through
many years of saving.
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And she proposed
living on this
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while she followed Collodi
about the country.
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So, for a while at least,
possibly forever,
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who could know,
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it was goodbye
to the alarm clock,
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the narrow bed,
the lonely meals,
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the faded wallpaper.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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Collodi had replied
to her very first letter,
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saying he was grateful
for her praises,
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but that
he never gave interviews.
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Nevertheless,
Julia went on writing
and he went on replying.
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Finally, he asked her
to send him a photograph,
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and Julia,
with great trepidation,
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sent him a blurred snapshot
taken long ago
when she was 23.
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As she grew more persistent
in her letters,
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he grew more benevolent.
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He began to hint
a meeting might be possible.
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Finally, in Blackpool,
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it happened.
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(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
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Yes?
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MAN: A letter for you, ma'am.
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Come in.
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Are you Miss Julia Lester?
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Yes.
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He sent this letter by hand.
256
00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:17,310
He give it to me
just 10 minutes ago
backstage.
257
00:15:17,350 --> 00:15:19,280
"Take it to the lady,"
he said, ma'am.
258
00:15:19,310 --> 00:15:21,920
Max. Max Collodi.
259
00:15:21,950 --> 00:15:23,050
Yes, ma'am.
260
00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:23,850
Oh!
261
00:15:26,050 --> 00:15:27,660
(CLEARING THROAT)
262
00:15:27,690 --> 00:15:28,590
Oh.
263
00:15:30,790 --> 00:15:32,590
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
264
00:15:32,630 --> 00:15:34,060
Thank you, ma'am.
265
00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:37,570
(DOOR CLOSING)
266
00:15:38,670 --> 00:15:40,370
"My dear Miss Lester,
267
00:15:41,540 --> 00:15:43,440
"like all of us
in show business,
268
00:15:43,470 --> 00:15:47,840
"I, too, have a certain amount
of the theatrical
within my makeup.
269
00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:52,510
"Therefore, you must forgive
my exacting certain conditions
for this, our first meeting."
270
00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:55,520
Our first meeting.
271
00:15:57,090 --> 00:15:57,850
Oh.
272
00:16:01,690 --> 00:16:05,630
"This first time
you are only to stay
five minutes.
273
00:16:05,660 --> 00:16:08,860
"Later, perhaps,
if you still wish
to go on seeing me,
274
00:16:08,900 --> 00:16:11,900
"we might arrange
longer appointments.
275
00:16:11,930 --> 00:16:14,570
"If you do not mind
being received
with no other chaperone
276
00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:16,770
"than my dummy, George,
277
00:16:16,810 --> 00:16:19,310
"then, dear lady,
come to the Seabank Hotel
278
00:16:19,340 --> 00:16:21,310
"on Mortimer Street
at 10:00 tonight
279
00:16:21,340 --> 00:16:24,050
"after my performance
at the Winter Garden Theater.
280
00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:26,550
"Respectfully, Max Collodi."
281
00:16:27,950 --> 00:16:28,720
Oh.
282
00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:30,890
Imagine.
283
00:16:32,090 --> 00:16:34,120
Imagine him writing,
284
00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:36,660
"If you still wish
to go on seeing me."
285
00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:43,670
Oh, perhaps he may not notice
how much I've changed
since the snapshot.
286
00:16:44,730 --> 00:16:46,300
Let me see, I...
287
00:16:46,330 --> 00:16:48,500
How did I do my hair?
I had it...
288
00:16:53,610 --> 00:16:56,640
What I'm trying to do
is to look as I once did
in a snapshot.
289
00:17:02,250 --> 00:17:03,250
What do you think?
290
00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:04,650
Most becoming.
291
00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:09,720
Women of my age
must be more discriminating.
292
00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:10,890
I suppose so.
293
00:17:14,530 --> 00:17:16,730
What time is it?
294
00:17:16,770 --> 00:17:19,230
Past closing time,
madam. 6:30.
295
00:17:19,270 --> 00:17:21,470
Oh, I'm so sorry.
296
00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:23,170
I'll take this one,
the one I've got on.
297
00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:24,540
Very well,
I'll have it wrapped.
298
00:17:24,570 --> 00:17:26,570
Oh, no, no,
that's all right,
I'll wear it.
299
00:17:26,610 --> 00:17:28,380
I'm in a hurry, you see.
300
00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:31,550
Thank you, madam.
301
00:17:42,190 --> 00:17:44,060
JIM: You would not want me
to go into details
302
00:17:44,090 --> 00:17:47,700
about the hour and a half
Julia spent that night
before the mirror.
303
00:17:47,730 --> 00:17:49,860
Nor will I say anything
about the agony
she must have undergone
304
00:17:49,900 --> 00:17:52,630
before she could
make up her mind what to wear.
305
00:17:55,870 --> 00:17:57,240
But it was 9:30,
306
00:17:58,270 --> 00:17:59,840
and no turning back.
307
00:18:08,250 --> 00:18:09,850
Mr. Max Collodi's room?
308
00:18:14,860 --> 00:18:16,390
He expecting you?
Yes.
309
00:18:17,360 --> 00:18:18,730
Number seven.
310
00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:20,130
Number seven?
311
00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:22,200
First floor.
Down that corridor.
312
00:18:46,250 --> 00:18:47,590
Oh, help me.
313
00:18:52,130 --> 00:18:53,430
MAX: Come in.
314
00:19:00,340 --> 00:19:02,140
Mr. Collodi?
315
00:19:02,170 --> 00:19:04,140
Max Collodi, at your service.
316
00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:08,440
I... I'm most grateful to you
317
00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:10,410
that you would consent
to see me.
318
00:19:10,450 --> 00:19:12,450
And I am most flattered,
dear lady.
319
00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:16,550
Adulation is something
one savors all too seldom
at close quarters.
320
00:19:16,580 --> 00:19:18,350
Oh, forgive the darkness,
321
00:19:18,390 --> 00:19:20,720
but I have an aversion
to strong light.
322
00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:22,620
I suppose, because
in my professional life,
323
00:19:22,660 --> 00:19:25,160
I'm constantly exposed
to the glare of the footlights.
324
00:19:26,030 --> 00:19:27,230
You are...
325
00:19:29,330 --> 00:19:30,900
May I say something?
326
00:19:30,930 --> 00:19:32,630
But of course.
327
00:19:32,670 --> 00:19:35,040
You're just
as I knew you would be.
328
00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:37,040
So, so handsome.
329
00:19:37,070 --> 00:19:39,140
Thank you.
330
00:19:39,170 --> 00:19:43,080
There was a woman,
I remember.
She sat just behind me
331
00:19:43,110 --> 00:19:45,650
during your performance
at the Old Palace at Fulham.
332
00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:48,150
That was when I first saw you.
333
00:19:48,180 --> 00:19:51,250
She said, "He's
too handsome for my liking."
334
00:19:51,290 --> 00:19:53,390
Of course,
I was furious with her.
335
00:19:57,630 --> 00:20:00,360
You're not disappointed
in my appearance?
336
00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,500
Your devotion
touches me more deeply
337
00:20:02,530 --> 00:20:04,230
than anything
in my whole life.
338
00:20:04,270 --> 00:20:06,400
You are most beautiful.
339
00:20:06,430 --> 00:20:07,800
Please sit down.
340
00:20:11,810 --> 00:20:16,140
I thought the snap I sent you
was taken a while back.
341
00:20:16,180 --> 00:20:19,450
You have mellowed with time.
Some people do not.
342
00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,720
I'm so grateful to you
for letting me come.
343
00:20:25,290 --> 00:20:27,390
Oh, I've said that before,
haven't I?
344
00:20:29,020 --> 00:20:30,390
Actually, I'm...
345
00:20:31,390 --> 00:20:33,900
Well, tense, I suppose.
346
00:20:33,930 --> 00:20:35,860
You know, I've seen every one
of your performances
347
00:20:35,900 --> 00:20:38,230
since that first one
a year ago.
348
00:20:38,270 --> 00:20:40,800
It is I who am grateful
to you, dear lady.
349
00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:42,670
My life,
I regret to tell you,
350
00:20:42,700 --> 00:20:44,670
has been an unbelievably
lonely one.
351
00:20:44,710 --> 00:20:46,010
Oh.
352
00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,880
Of course,
you wouldn't know
how that is.
353
00:20:48,910 --> 00:20:50,950
Oh, forgive me.
Did I say something to...
354
00:20:50,980 --> 00:20:52,750
No, no.
355
00:20:52,780 --> 00:20:56,320
I was just thinking
how lonely your life
must be after all.
356
00:20:56,350 --> 00:21:00,290
We, in the audience,
never think of an artist
as being lonely.
357
00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:02,560
I suppose
we only think about ourselves.
358
00:21:06,700 --> 00:21:09,100
I do want to come back again.
359
00:21:09,130 --> 00:21:10,930
And my time, I see,
is almost up.
360
00:21:15,770 --> 00:21:16,870
Mr. Collodi,
361
00:21:18,310 --> 00:21:20,380
I don't quite know
how to say this.
362
00:21:21,340 --> 00:21:24,210
But ever since
I first saw you,
363
00:21:24,250 --> 00:21:27,220
I've had the greatest urge
to touch you.
364
00:21:29,150 --> 00:21:31,390
Oh, Max!
365
00:21:32,090 --> 00:21:32,920
Max!
366
00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:35,260
GEORGE: Madame.
367
00:21:39,660 --> 00:21:41,860
Oh, Max. Max? Please.
368
00:21:41,900 --> 00:21:42,800
(SOBBING)
369
00:21:49,770 --> 00:21:51,510
You are Max Collodi?
370
00:21:52,610 --> 00:21:54,210
(EXCLAIMS)
371
00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:56,580
Get out of here.
Get out of here!
Get out of here!
372
00:21:56,610 --> 00:21:59,880
Get out. Get out. Get out.
Get out of here! Leave me!
373
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,840
JIM: In her desperation,
without knowing it,
374
00:22:53,870 --> 00:22:55,440
she picked up the eye.
375
00:22:59,010 --> 00:23:01,640
And that's the story
of Julia and Max Collodi.
376
00:23:04,750 --> 00:23:08,620
And this is all she had
to remember of her one love,
377
00:23:08,650 --> 00:23:10,590
of her one chance to,
as you say,
378
00:23:10,620 --> 00:23:12,950
sail out of this room forever.
379
00:23:13,050 --> 00:23:15,290
Oh, Jim, how terrible for her.
380
00:23:18,330 --> 00:23:20,230
But what about Max Collodi?
381
00:23:21,100 --> 00:23:22,800
Yes, what happened to him?
382
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:31,070
He made no more appearances.
383
00:23:31,110 --> 00:23:34,210
There were no more notices
about him in Stage Magazine.
384
00:23:36,850 --> 00:23:38,250
But I have heard
385
00:23:39,750 --> 00:23:43,750
of a small traveling circus
somewhere in the provinces
386
00:23:43,790 --> 00:23:46,220
which has a strange clown
in its company.
387
00:23:47,460 --> 00:23:50,360
He has a beautiful voice.
388
00:23:50,390 --> 00:23:52,130
And the children
love to watch him,
it is said,
389
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:53,730
because he is so very sad
390
00:23:54,430 --> 00:23:56,200
and yet so very funny.
391
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,380
That was a heart-warming
little story, wasn't it?
392
00:24:10,410 --> 00:24:13,380
Obviously, heaven does protect
the working girl.
393
00:24:14,380 --> 00:24:16,050
Now I have a confession.
394
00:24:17,620 --> 00:24:20,920
This is not a glass eye.
395
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,060
We were unable to find one,
but we got
the next best thing.
396
00:24:24,060 --> 00:24:25,790
I hope you don't mind.
397
00:24:26,260 --> 00:24:27,300
Good night.
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