Studio One (1948–1958): Season 1, Episode 3 - The Medium - full transcript

CBS Television
presents "Studio One,"

starring Marie Powers

in Gian Carlo
Menotti's "The Medium"

and featuring Lois
Hunt and Leo Coleman.

This evening, CBS
brings you the third

in its new series of
dramatic programs

fashioned after the famous
radio series of the same name,

"Studio One."

Tonight we feel privileged

to bring you the Broadway
and European success

now playing at the City Center,



Gian Carlo Menotti's
"The Medium,"

with the CBS Concert Orchestra,

directed by Alfredo Antonini
and starring Marie Powers.

♪ Where, oh, where is my new
golden spindle and thread? ♪

♪ If I don't bring them home ♪

♪ The king will strike me dead ♪

♪ The swath so we
can spin on the loom ♪

♪ Where, oh, where is
my spindle and thread? ♪

♪ Oh, Toby, foolish boy ♪

♪ Baba will soon be home ♪

♪ And nothing,
nothing is ready ♪

♪ And besides, she'll also
beat you if you touch her things ♪

♪ Queen, fair queen ♪

♪ If you give me the
crown on your head ♪



♪ I'll tell you where
I have seen ♪

♪ Your golden
spindle and thread ♪

♪ A swath that we can loom ♪

♪ Oh, Toby, how
handsome you are ♪

♪ Behold, the king of Babylon ♪

♪ On his throne ♪

♪ I shall be your servant ♪

♪ I shall be your princess ♪

♪ I shall be your
foreign bride ♪

♪ Come from distant seven seas ♪

♪ How do you do, my master ♪

♪ How do you do, my king? ♪

♪ How do you do, my heart? ♪

♪ Oh, Toby ♪

♪ If you only could see ♪

♪ Be careful... Baba's coming ♪

♪ How many times I've told
you not to touch my things? ♪

♪ Look at you ♪

♪ Dressed with silk and
bangles like a woman ♪

♪ Fancying yourself
a king or something ♪

♪ You're dreaming ♪

♪ You feeble-minded gypsy ♪

♪ I told you not to
touch my things ♪

♪ Is anything ready? ♪

Hmm.

♪ Of course not ♪

♪ And the people will
be here at any minute ♪

♪ If anything goes
wrong tonight ♪

♪ I'll make you pay for it ♪

♪ What do you think
I'm paying you for? ♪

♪ You good-for-nothing ♪

♪ Stop, Baba! ♪

♪ Don't! ♪

♪ Where have you
been all night? ♪

♪ Where have I been? ♪

Ha ha!

Money, my dear, money.

♪ Look ♪

♪ Don't worry, my sweet ♪

♪ You have a very
clever mother ♪

♪ Where did you get it? ♪

♪ Well, I sat on Mrs.
Campy's steps all night ♪

♪ She got so scared
of seeing me there ♪

♪ She paid every
cent she owed me ♪

♪ But why? ♪

♪ Business can be so cruel ♪

♪ She owed me the
money, didn't she? ♪

Get ready. Hurry.

Good evening, Madame Flora.

Good evening.

Come in. Come in.

♪ Good evening ♪

♪ Good evening ♪

♪ Are you Mrs. Nolan? ♪

♪ Yes ♪

♪ This is Mr. And
Mrs. Gobineau ♪

- ♪ How do you do? ♪
- ♪ How do you do? ♪

♪ How do you do? ♪

♪ Let us wait a few
minutes for latecomers ♪

♪ Sit down ♪

♪ Is this the first time that
you've come to Madame Flora? ♪

♪ Yes ♪

♪ You'll see she's
quite wonderful ♪

♪ Is there some dear departed
you'd like to speak to? ♪

♪ Yes ♪

♪ My daughter, Goodly ♪

♪ Oh ♪

♪ When did she die? ♪

♪ Last year ♪

♪ She was only 16 ♪

♪ Do you really think I
can hear her voice? ♪

♪ Oh, yes ♪

♪ You may even see her ♪

♪ Oh, no ♪

♪ I couldn't bear that ♪

♪ Don't be so nervous ♪

♪ It is all very simple ♪

♪ Have you known
Madame Flora a long time? ♪

♪ Oh, yes ♪

♪ We've been coming here
every week for almost two years ♪

♪ We come to communicate
with our little son ♪

♪ And does he speak to you? ♪

♪ Oh, no ♪

♪ He couldn't speak ♪

♪ He was only a
baby when he died ♪

♪ But we hear him laugh ♪

♪ He sounds so happy ♪

♪ When did he die? ♪

♪ It happened long ago ♪

♪ We were still
young, very young ♪

♪ We had a house in France ♪

♪ With a garden full
of lilacs and mimosa ♪

♪ The garden had a fountain ♪

♪ A silly little fountain,
no more deep than that ♪

♪ It was just his birthday ♪

♪ Two years old ♪

♪ We had given
him a little boat ♪

♪ A lovely little sailboat ♪

♪ I still don't know
how it happened ♪

♪ He was playing
by the fountain ♪

♪ I was not far away ♪

♪ Cutting some
lilacs for the house ♪

♪ I never heard a sound ♪

♪ But I knew ♪

♪ But I knew ♪

♪ There, there ♪

♪ Don't cry ♪

♪ You know that
he is happier now ♪

♪ Than if he had lived ♪

♪ It's time to begin ♪

♪ Close the door ♪

♪ You must be very silent ♪

♪ The hands must touch ♪

♪ Ohh ♪

♪ Oh ♪

♪ Mother, Mother ♪

♪ Are you there? ♪

♪ Mother, Mother ♪

♪ Are you there? ♪

♪ Mother, Mother... ♪

♪ Mrs. Nolan, it must
be your daughter ♪

♪ Oh! Oh! ♪

♪ Are you there? ♪

Speak to her.

Speak to her.

♪ Are you there? ♪

Can't you see?

She's looking for you.

♪ Don't be afraid ♪

♪ Don't be afraid! ♪

I... I can't.

♪ Come, come ♪

♪ You must not
behave like that ♪

Ask her something.

♪ Goodly, is it you? ♪

♪ Yes ♪

Go on.

♪ Goodly, is it evil
what I'm doing? ♪

♪ No ♪

♪ You must not be so afraid ♪

♪ Ask her something else ♪

♪ Goodly, Goodly,
are you happy? ♪

♪ Yes, Mother, I am happy ♪

♪ Goodly, Goodly, are
you near your father? ♪

♪ Yes, Mother, I can see him ♪

♪ Goodly, Goodly,
why did you leave me? ♪

♪ Mother ♪

♪ Mother ♪

♪ Why are you so unhappy? ♪

♪ I... ♪

♪ I am very much alone ♪

♪ Mommy, Mommy, dear ♪

♪ You must not cry for me ♪

♪ I'm still with you ♪

♪ What is death but
a sweeter change? ♪

♪ There's no parting ♪

♪ There's no end ♪

♪ Mommy, Mommy, dear ♪

♪ Your sorrow is like the wind ♪

♪ That keeps me away ♪

♪ Yet here tonight
the roots are sweet ♪

♪ But the tears
of those we love ♪

♪ Are heavy and deeper rain ♪

♪ Mommy, my darling,
when you go home ♪

♪ Go to my room and
burn my old glass ♪

♪ Burn all my schoolbooks,
give away my dresses ♪

♪ Give away my necklace ♪

♪ Burn, burn ♪

♪ Give away, give away ♪

♪ And promise me
never to cry again ♪

♪ Mommy, Mommy, dear ♪

♪ Oh, let me sleep in peace ♪

♪ My night is long ♪

♪ Forget ♪

♪ Forget my grave ♪

♪ Let the silent grass ♪

♪ Clothe my bones ♪

♪ Burn my old shoes ♪

♪ Give away my bracelet ♪

♪ Burn, burn ♪

♪ Give away, give away ♪

♪ Keep for yourself
only the little gold locket ♪

♪ The gold locket? ♪

♪ Which locket? ♪

♪ I have no locket ♪

♪ Mother, Mother ♪

♪ Are you here? ♪

♪ I don't understand ♪

♪ Goodly, Goodly ♪

♪ Don't go away ♪

♪ Goodly! Stop her! ♪

♪ Goodly! ♪

Send my son to me.

Please, send my son to me.

Please, send my son to me.

Is that you, Mickey?

Hello, Mickey.

Hello, darling!

Oh, my darling, you
sound so near tonight!

Yes! So near.

I can almost feel him!

Oh, he's going away now.

Good night, my sweet.

Kiss me.

We'll be back soon.

♪ Oh! ♪

♪ What's it? Who is it? ♪

♪ Who is there? ♪

Who touched me?

What do you mean?

I said, Who touched me?

- ♪ I don't know ♪
- ♪ I don't know ♪

♪ I don't know ♪

♪ But why be afraid? ♪

♪ You know, it's often
happened before ♪

♪ No, no, you don't understand ♪

♪ A hand touched
me in the dark ♪

♪ Oh, yes ♪

♪ That has often
happened to me ♪

♪ Me too ♪

♪ I always feel his
hand on my hair ♪

♪ It couldn't be ♪

♪ I can't understand ♪

You're not afraid, are you?

♪ Go home ♪

♪ Leave me alone ♪

♪ Can't you see I'm
not feeling well? ♪

♪ Go home ♪

♪ Leave me alone ♪

♪ Get out! ♪

♪ Get out! ♪

♪ But why be afraid? ♪

♪ But why be afraid? ♪

♪ Afraid of our dead ♪

♪ But why be afraid? ♪

♪ Afraid ♪

♪ Afraid of our dead ♪

♪ Afraid of our dead ♪

♪ Why be afraid of our dead? ♪

♪ Why be afraid? ♪

♪ Why be afraid of our dead? ♪

Baba, what has happened?

Get me something to drink.

♪ Monica ♪

♪ Yes ♪

♪ We must never do this again ♪

♪ But what has happened? ♪

♪ Monica ♪

♪ Yes? ♪

♪ We must give them
their money back ♪

- ♪ But why? ♪
- ♪ Why? ♪

♪ Didn't you see? ♪

♪ While I was still
pretending to be in a trace ♪

♪ All of a sudden, in the dark ♪

♪ I felt on my throat a hand ♪

♪ A cold, cold hand ♪

♪ It was the hand of a man ♪

♪ Oh, Monica, I'm afraid ♪

♪ Baba, Baba, you're
imagining things ♪

♪ You've been drinking again ♪

♪ What else could it be? ♪

♪ No, no, no ♪

♪ It was real ♪

♪ I felt on my
skin every finger ♪

♪ See, like this ♪

♪ Oh, Monica ♪

♪ Oh, Monica, I'm afraid ♪

♪ Oh, yes, I'm afraid ♪

♪ Where is Toby? ♪

♪ Here! ♪

♪ I know! ♪

♪ I now know you did it ♪

♪ Yes, you... you did it ♪

♪ Baba, Baba, leave him alone ♪

♪ I can read it in your eyes ♪

♪ The way he grins at me ♪

♪ He knows, he knows ♪

♪ He did it to frighten me ♪

♪ Isn't it true? ♪

- ♪ Nonsense ♪
- ♪ It was you that pushed me ♪

♪ It was you ♪

♪ It was you ♪

♪ He's just a helpless thing ♪

♪ Oh, oh, oh, a helpless thing ♪

♪ Just because he cannot
speak, we took him for a half-wit ♪

♪ But he knows a great deal ♪

♪ He knows much
more than we think ♪

♪ There is something
uncanny about him ♪

♪ He sees things we don't see ♪

♪ Get up! ♪

♪ Get up! ♪

♪ Get up! ♪

♪ I tell you, don't trust him ♪

♪ I warn you ♪

♪ Don't believe him ♪

♪ You ♪

♪ Begone ♪

Oh, Baba.

Oh, Baba.

♪ The sun has fallen
and it lies in blood ♪

♪ The moon is weaving
bandages of gold ♪

♪ O, black swan ♪

♪ Where, oh, where
has my love gone? ♪

♪ Torn and tattered
is my bridal gown ♪

♪ And my lamp is lost ♪

♪ And my lamp is lost ♪

♪ Silver needles
and silver thread ♪

♪ The stars make a
shroud for the dying sun ♪

♪ O, black swan ♪

♪ Where, oh, where
has my love gone? ♪

♪ I had given him a kiss
of fire and a golden ring ♪

♪ And a golden ring ♪

♪ Don't you hear
your lover moan? ♪

♪ Eyes of glass
and feet of stone ♪

♪ Shells for teeth and
weeds for tongue ♪

♪ Deep, deep down
in the river's bed ♪

♪ He's looking for the ring ♪

♪ Eyes wide open ♪

♪ Never asleep ♪

♪ He's looking for the ring ♪

♪ Looking for the ring ♪

♪ The spools unravel
and the needles break ♪

♪ The sun is buried
and the stars weep ♪

♪ O, black wave ♪

♪ O, black wave ♪

♪ Take me away with you ♪

♪ I will share with
you my golden hair ♪

♪ And my bridal crown ♪

♪ And my bridal crown ♪

♪ Oh ♪

♪ Take me down with you ♪

♪ Take me down to
my wandering love ♪

♪ With my child unborn ♪

♪ With my child unborn ♪ ♪

♪ Mother, Mother ♪

- ♪ Are you here? ♪
- Listen.

Listen.

♪ Mother, Mother ♪

What is it, Baba?

♪ Are you there? ♪

♪ Mother... ♪

♪ Can't you hear? ♪

No.

♪ Again you're
imagining things ♪

♪ No, no, I'm sure ♪

♪ I heard the voice like yours ♪

♪ Someone must
be hiding back there ♪

♪ Toby, go back
and see if it's real ♪

♪ Baba, don't be foolish ♪

- ♪ There's nobody there ♪
- ♪ Go on, go on ♪

♪ Hurry ♪

♪ Baba, I've never
seen you like this ♪

♪ We are not alone ♪

♪ We are not alone ♪

♪ He's coming ♪

♪ He's coming back! ♪

Did you see anything?

♪ I told you ♪

♪ I told you there's
nobody there ♪

♪ You're lying ♪

♪ You don't want to tell me ♪

♪ Go on! ♪

Baba, stop it!

♪ Oh, God ♪

♪ What is happening to me? ♪

♪ What is this darkness? ♪

♪ Kneel down ♪

♪ Kneel down ♪

♪ And pray God ♪

♪ To save our souls ♪

♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪

♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪

♪ The sun is weaving
bandages of gold ♪

♪ O, black wave ♪

♪ O, black wave ♪

♪ Take me down with you ♪

♪ Take me down with you ♪

You have just seen Act I

of Gian Carlo Menotti's
modern opera "The Medium,"

starring Marie Powers

and featuring Lois
Hunt and Leo Coleman.

"The Medium" is a
"Studio One" production.

We pause now for
station identification.

This is CBS, the Columbia
Broadcasting System.

This is WCBS-TV New
York, channel 2 on your dial.

We return you now to CBS
Television's "Studio One,"

produced by Worthington Miner
and directed by Paul Nickell.

We continue you now with Act Il

of Gian Carlo
Menotti's "The Medium,"

starring Marie Powers.

Oh, Toby!

♪ Bravo! ♪

♪ And after the theater,
supper and dance ♪

♪ Music ♪

♪ Oom pah-pah, oom pah-pah ♪

♪ Up in the sky ♪

♪ Someone is playing a
trombone and a guitar ♪

♪ Red is your tie ♪

♪ And in your velveteen
coat, you hide a scarf ♪

♪ Monica, Monica,
dance the waltz ♪

♪ Monica, Monica,
dance the waltz ♪

♪ Follow me, moon and sun ♪

♪ Keep time with me...
One, two, three, one ♪

♪ If you're not shy ♪

♪ Pin up my hair with your
scarf and buckle my shoe ♪

♪ And when you fly, please
hold on tight for my waist ♪

♪ I'm flying with you ♪

♪ Oh ♪

♪ Monica, Monica,
dance the waltz ♪

♪ Monica, Monica,
dance the waltz ♪

♪ Follow me, moon and sun ♪

♪ Follow me ♪

♪ Follow, follow me ♪

♪ Follow me ♪

♪ Follow, follow me ♪

♪ What is the matter, Toby? ♪

♪ What is it you
want to tell me? ♪

♪ Kneel down before me ♪

♪ And now tell me ♪

♪ Monica, Monica,
can't you see ♪

♪ That my heart is
bleeding, bleeding for you? ♪

♪ I loved you,
Monica, all my life ♪

♪ With all my breath,
with all my blood ♪

♪ You haunt the
mirror of my sleep ♪

♪ You are my night ♪

♪ You are my light and
the jailer of my day ♪

♪ How dare you, scoundrel,
talk to me like that! ♪

♪ Don't you know who I am? ♪

♪ I am the queen of Aroundel ♪

♪ I shall have
you put in chains ♪

♪ You are my princess ♪

♪ You are my queen ♪

♪ And I'm only Toby,
one of your slaves ♪

♪ And still I love you
and always loved you ♪

♪ With all my breath,
with all my blood ♪

♪ I love your laughter ♪

♪ I love your hair ♪

♪ I love your deep
and nocturnal eyes ♪

♪ I love your soft hands,
so white and winged ♪

♪ I love the slender
branch of your throat ♪

♪ Toby ♪

♪ Don't speak to me like that ♪

♪ You make my head swim ♪

♪ Monica, Monica, fold
me in your satin gown ♪

♪ Monica, Monica,
give me your mouth ♪

♪ Monica, Monica,
fall in my arms ♪

♪ Why, Toby ♪

♪ You're not crying, are you? ♪

♪ Toby ♪

♪ I want you to
know that you have ♪

♪ The most beautiful voice ♪

♪ In the world ♪

♪ Where is Monica? ♪

♪ Toby, what are you doing? ♪

♪ Come here, Toby ♪

♪ I want to talk to you ♪

♪ Come! ♪

♪ Come near me ♪

♪ What are you afraid of? ♪

♪ Come, come ♪

♪ Nearer ♪

♪ Please, boy ♪

♪ Toby ♪

♪ You know that I love you ♪

♪ As if you were my own son ♪

♪ I'm often harsh with you ♪

♪ That's true ♪

♪ Dear, dear ♪

♪ If it hadn't been for me,
where would you be now? ♪

♪ I found you only
a starving gypsy ♪

♪ Alone in the
streets of Budapest ♪

♪ Without a tongue
to speak your hunger ♪

♪ If I hadn't taken
you with me ♪

♪ Clothed and cared for
you, poor little half-wit ♪

♪ And now listen ♪

♪ Now we must be good friends ♪

♪ I'll never punish you ♪

♪ Never, never again ♪

♪ And I will buy you a
new shirt of bright red silk ♪

♪ I suppose it's time ♪

♪ But first you must tell me ♪

♪ Were you the one
who touched my throat? ♪

♪ You know... At the
seance a few days ago ♪

♪ Don't be afraid
of telling me ♪

♪ I won't punish you ♪

♪ I just want to know ♪

♪ That is all ♪

♪ Just tell me ♪

♪ Yes or no ♪

♪ Come ♪

♪ Don't be afraid ♪

♪ Yes or no? ♪

♪ I know anyway ♪

♪ But show me how you did it ♪

♪ Come on ♪

♪ Wake up ♪

♪ Wake up, I say ♪

♪ Damn you! ♪

♪ You see? ♪

♪ You make me angry ♪

♪ And I want to be your friend ♪

♪ Tell me, my sweet,
my own little Toby ♪

♪ Did you touch me that night? ♪

♪ You like that puppetry
set, don't you? ♪

♪ Would you like to have it? ♪

♪ Also the necklace of beads ♪

♪ All you have to
make is one little sign ♪

♪ And they will be yours ♪

♪ Yes, it was you
who touched me ♪

Wasn't it?

♪ Perhaps it was not ♪

♪ But what? ♪

♪ Perhaps it was something
else, something I couldn't see ♪

♪ But you know ♪

♪ You saw it ♪

♪ I can read it in your eyes ♪

♪ Come on ♪

♪ Say yes or... ♪

♪ Stop staring at
me, stupid boy! ♪

♪ Do you see? ♪

♪ You've made me angry again ♪

You love Monica, don't you?

How would you like to marry her?

Yes! You could. You could.

♪ But first you must help me ♪

Did you have anything to do
with that presence that night?

Did you see anything?

Boy! Wake up!

Oh!

You don't want that.

You were trying to strike at me!

I'll show you you
can't do this with me!

I'll make you talk!

♪ My unfaithful Toby ♪

♪ You cannot get away from me ♪

♪ I'll make you sit
up and talk again ♪

♪ I'll make you talk loud ♪

♪ How do like that? ♪

♪ How do like that? ♪

♪ How do like that? ♪

♪ How do like that? ♪

♪ How do like that? ♪

♪ How do like that? ♪

Oh.

Oh, Baba, what
did you do to him?

- ♪ Good evening, Madame Flora ♪
- ♪ Good evening, Madame Flora ♪

♪ Good evening ♪

♪ What do you want? ♪

♪ Isn't this the night
of the seance? ♪

Ha!

♪ The seance ♪

♪ Yes, yes ♪

♪ I'm glad you came ♪

♪ I've something to tell you ♪

♪ Come in ♪

♪ There will be
no more seances ♪

♪ There is your money ♪

♪ No more seances? ♪

♪ What do you mean? ♪

♪ Listen to me ♪

♪ There never was a seance ♪

♪ I cheated you! ♪

♪ Do you understand? ♪

♪ Cheated you, cheated you ♪

♪ How could it be? ♪

♪ It isn't true ♪

♪ You must not say so ♪

- ♪ I heard and saw my daughter ♪
- ♪ And little Mickey laughing ♪

♪ Laughing, touching my hair ♪

♪ Nothing but a fraud ♪

♪ I can prove it to you ♪

Look here!

♪ The lights ♪

♪ Those wires to
make the table move ♪

♪ The hidden microphone ♪

♪ Oh, no! I saw my daughter ♪

- ♪ I saw her ♪
- Ha!

♪ Your daughter ♪

♪ Here she is ♪

♪ Cheap white cloth ♪

♪ Nothing else ♪

♪ But I saw her ♪

♪ Monica, Monica ♪

♪ Let her hear your voice ♪

♪ Show her ♪

♪ Mother, Mother ♪

♪ Are you here? ♪

♪ Mother, Mother ♪

- ♪ Are you here? ♪
- ♪ No, no ♪

♪ Please! It's not
the same voice ♪

♪ And do the little
boy laughing ♪

♪ No, no ♪

You know that isn't the same!

♪ But the little boy! ♪

♪ What proof do you want? ♪

♪ Not to know my
own daughter's voice ♪

♪ Could that be? ♪

♪ Could that be? ♪

♪ Not to know little
Mickey's laugh ♪

♪ Could that be? ♪

♪ Could that be? ♪

♪ No, no, no ♪

♪ But it wasn't false ♪

♪ Can't you see what was true? ♪

♪ I'd even found my little
locket she talked about ♪

- ♪ Did you? ♪
- ♪ Did you? ♪

♪ The locket? ♪

♪ Everybody has
some old locket ♪

♪ It's an old trick ♪

♪ I use them on every mother ♪

♪ It might well be ♪

♪ You thought you were
cheating all this time ♪

♪ But you were not ♪

♪ You were not ♪

♪ Surely not ♪

♪ You won't let us down ♪

♪ What would we do
without your guidance? ♪

♪ Please let us have our
seance, Madame Flora ♪

♪ Let us just have it once
more, Madame Flora ♪

♪ This is the only door we
have in our lives, Madame Flora ♪

♪ Our little dead are waiting
for us, Madame Flora ♪

♪ You wouldn't take
us away from them ♪

♪ Would you, Madame Flora? ♪

♪ Please let us have our
seance, Madame Flora ♪

♪ Let us just have
it once more ♪

♪ Once more, just once
more, Madame Flora ♪

♪ Get out of here!
Get out! Get out! ♪

♪ Get out of here! Get out! ♪

♪ Get out of here! ♪

♪ Get out! ♪

♪ Out! ♪

♪ Out! ♪

♪ Gone ♪

♪ Gone ♪

♪ And you, you fool, get
out and never come back ♪

♪ Don't say that ♪

♪ Toby's so helpless ♪

♪ Yet he must go ♪

♪ No, Baba ♪

♪ You cannot send him away ♪

♪ He can't take
care of himself ♪

♪ He's hardly but a child ♪

♪ Maybe, but still
he must go away ♪

♪ I cannot be perceived
in such a way ♪

♪ Then let me go
and take care of him ♪

♪ You'll do
nothing of the sort ♪

♪ Yes, Baba, if he
must go, I must go ♪

♪ You'll do
nothing of the sort ♪

♪ Baba! Baba! ♪

♪ How can you be so cruel? ♪

♪ Goodbye ♪

♪ No... Wait ♪

♪ He could take
care of himself ♪

♪ He surely might
impress me and stay ♪

♪ It would never work ♪

♪ It would never work ♪

♪ Then he must go ♪

♪ Then he must go ♪

♪ Before it is too late ♪

♪ Get out! Get out! ♪

Toby!

♪ Don't stand
there like a fool ♪

♪ Go into your room ♪

♪ Leave him alone ♪

♪ He'll take care of himself ♪

♪ Mother, Mother ♪

- ♪ Are you... ♪
- Who's there?!

Is it you, Monica?

♪ Mother, Mother ♪

♪ Are you there? ♪

♪ Mother, Mother... ♪

Stop it!

♪ Afraid ♪

♪ Am I afraid? ♪

♪ Madame Flora afraid? ♪

♪ Can it be that I'm afraid? ♪

♪ In my younger days ♪

♪ I have seen many
terrible things ♪

♪ Women screaming
as they were murdered ♪

♪ And men's hands
dripping with blood ♪

♪ And men hunted by knives ♪

♪ And little
grotesque children ♪

♪ Drained white by the
voraciousness of death ♪

♪ And loathsome old
men insane with vice ♪

♪ And young men with maggots ♪

♪ Crawling on their
flesh like hungry lizards ♪

♪ This I've seen and more ♪

♪ And never been afraid ♪

♪ Oh, God ♪

♪ Forgive my sins ♪

♪ I'm sick and old ♪

♪ Forgive my sins ♪

♪ And give me peace ♪

♪ One wind takes my hand ♪

♪ One stands by my side ♪

♪ No! No! ♪

♪ It cannot be the dead ♪

♪ The dead ♪

♪ The dead ♪

♪ The dead never come back ♪

♪ I see now in the dusk ♪

♪ With no eyes to dream ♪

♪ It's no time to dream ♪

♪ To dream is to hide ♪

♪ Gone! ♪

♪ This fear ♪

♪ But nothing ♪

♪ Nothing ♪

♪ O, black swan ♪

♪ Where ♪

♪ Where has my lover gone? ♪

Who's there?!

♪ O, black swan ♪

♪ O, black swan ♪

♪ Where... ♪

♪ Nothing ♪

♪ But then, if there is
nothing to be afraid of ♪

♪ Why am I afraid
of this nothingness? ♪

Just forget about it.

Laugh at it. Yes, laugh.

♪ Oh, God ♪

♪ Forgive my sins ♪

♪ I'm sick and old ♪

♪ Forgive my sins ♪

♪ I'm sick ♪

♪ And old ♪

♪ Who's there? ♪

♪ Who's there? ♪

♪ Answer me ♪

♪ Monica! ♪

♪ Monica, is it you? ♪

♪ Who is it, then? ♪

♪ You must answer me ♪

♪ Who is it? ♪

♪ Who is it? ♪

♪ Speak up ♪

♪ Answer! ♪

♪ Answer! ♪

♪ Answer! ♪

♪ Answer me! ♪

♪ Answer me! Who's
there?! Who's there?! ♪

♪ I've killed the ghost ♪

♪ I've killed the ghost ♪

♪ I've killed the ghost ♪

Baba? Baba?

Baba!

Please! Let me in!

Baba!

Oh, Baba! Please let me in!

Help!

Help!

Help!

Help!

Help!

Was it you?

Was it you?

On Sunday, December 26th,

"Studio One" will
again be with you

to present another
distinguished cast

in a new and tender love
story entitled "Not So Long Ago,"

written by Joseph Liss

and prepared and adapted
for CBS by Worthington Miner.

"Not So Long Ago" is
the story of a girl's struggle

with a deep and genuine
affection for two men.

"Not So Long Ago"
will star Katherine Bard

in the part of Karen Timpler

and will introduce to television
Karl Weber and Jerry Thorn

in the parts of the two men.

Don't forget to be with us
Sunday, December 26th.

That's the day after
Christmas at 7:30,

when "Studio One" will present
this new and tender story.

"Studio One" is produced
by Worthington Miner.

This is CBS, the Columbia
Broadcasting System.