Encore Theater - Green Light

The Shenry Laboratories, producer of Penicil, and Shenley and Shenley Pharmaceuticals presents The Yon Core theare Yon Core Theater play Tonight green Light. Our star is Robert Young. Tonight, Shenley Laboratories presents another and a new series of great dramatic programs.

Some of our stories are fact.

The struggles and accomplishments of great men of medicine. Others are fiction stories of devotion to an ideal individual, heroism, or great courage. By these programs, Shenley Laboratories would remind you that medical science and progress is not cole impersonal research or pages of statistics, but a warm human story told in living terms, whether it's the life of one of medicine's immortals or the simple everyday record of service

I hated doctor Paige. I thought I would always hate him.

The story too, of.

A nurse, Miss Ogilvy, staff Beatree Hospital. I love doctor Page. I thought I would always love him.

The story of a woman of great faith and courage.

My mother, Missus John Dexter.

And of a great religious man, Dean Harcourt of Trinity Cathedral.

Man's progress in life is not steadily onward. Sometimes he is stopped by something that is bigger and stronger than he, something he cannot understand and over which he has no control. That's something I like to think of as a red light flashing a halt the forward surge of his life. And I like to believe there's a power which controls that life, which knows in its infinite wisdom that sometimes man must stop to learn through suffering before going on.

Turn it off now, Doctor Page.

What would religion be without music?

There was religion long before there was music.

I'm sorry. The usual greeting for the doctor is and how is the little lady this morning.

And I suppose the usual answer is terrible, doctor, But.

Since we both are unusual people, I'd say your pulse shows marvelous repose for a patient facing surgery.

You can thank Dean Harcourt for that.

I do, just as I'm thankful for anything that gives a patient courage and confidence.

A shorter word for courage and confidence is faith.

Whatever it is, you'll need every bit of it. Now.

More dead news.

Oh, nothing really serious except that, well, it's not easy to prepare one's self mentally for an operation. Sometimes a postponement can cause a harmful reaction. What I'm trying to.

Say is you're trying to tell me my operation has been postponed.

Yes, Doctor Ndicott has been detained in Milwaukee. He'll be here as soon as he can.

Milwauk is a beautiful city. It's always seemed full of music to me. Years ago. We used to go there to hear the community singing.

You make it work, don't you? No?

I simply let it work.

How simple things would be if we all had your faith. I'll let you know about the operation as soon as I possibly can.

I know you will.

Any word, doctor, Ndicott yet, miss.

Ogilvie, No, doctor, they can't seem to locate him.

You're a missus Dexter's X raise now, thanks, good lord, look at that. She can't hold out much longer.

We've got to do something. We'll have to wait for Endicotte, she says, patient.

We can't postpone this operation any longer.

Her life has at stake. Now our phone surgery? Are you crazy? Not?

Unless these X rays are surgery surgery this, doctor Page, you can't do that. You will operate on missus Dexter immediately, Clay, miss Ogiley.

Yes, doctor Page, Doctor Page, Yes, Doctor Indicott, thank you doctor. If you will.

Assist me, I can take over now, yes, sir, the horss Ogilvy, doctor Page, make a tie please.

She's bleeding badly quick. Well, I'm afraid that's that I did everything I could.

She shouldn't have died, and you will you were doing perfect work. If then the cot had been less upside would rather than not talk.

About it, exactly what happened. And I'm going to tell everybody the truth.

Don't you think it's doctor Ndicott's privileged to make his own statement? First come in Hello, doctor Ndicott. Oh, uh, no, glad you came in.

I've been wanting to talk to you. I I sit down.

Nasty business is Dexter death. I have been trying to convince the Board of Directors that her death was an unavoidable accident. It was unavoidable, wasn't.

It, No, Sir, for some reason, you cut the pedicle too short for safe legation. I couldn't make the tie, and the hemorrhage resulted. It should never have happened.

The problem now, I probably shouldn't have stepped in on the operation, realizing the terrific strain I've been under.

We all love missus Dexter.

I felt that her life was my personal responsibility, but all planes have been grounded on account of weather. I've moved heaven and Earth to get here in time. I haven't slept in two days.

Too tired, I'm sorry, sir.

A split second woman dies and the whole career dies with her. A split second is against the forty years I've given to medicine. I can't be judged on one operation at of thousands, mule.

I can't you? Hello, John? What time is it? What time for you to pull yourself together?

Get down to the hospital and tell Endercott on the board where to head in.

I can't do that. Why not?

What do you want me to do? Stand up before the board and say, dear, dear, kind gentlemen. It doesn't matter to me that doctor Endicott taught me everything I know about surgery. Doesn't matter that doctor Endicott is one of the finest surgeons in the country. It doesn't matter how many lives he's saved, how much pain he's eased, how much comfort he's brought. No, none of that's important.

Just me.

I'm the only one who's important, big important, doctor Page. I know it's tough, but you've got to protect yourself.

A split second, a woman dies and a career dies with her.

That isn't right either. Dendicot's a human being too, He's not infallible.

That's no concern of yours. If you resign, you admit that you were responsible for Missus Dexter's death, exactly well, that clears endic it completely right. Confound that you sound as if you were going to resign.

I have already, Dean Harcourt.

I'm Francis Ogilvy. I was the nurse on I was Missus Dexter's nurse, and.

She she always listened to your broadcast and I I.

Had to talk to.

You.

See, I know what happened in that operating room, and doctor Page won't defend himself because of professional ethics and that. I wanted to speak up, but I thought I should talk to someone first.

No man makes sacrifices with that reason. Whatever that reason may be, it's in itself compensation for his suffering.

But why should doctor Page sacrifice himself for indicot for the moment.

That's doctor Page's problem, not yours. He must have had good reasons, otherwise he wouldn't do it. There's nothing you can do except respect that reason.

I see I've taken a lot of your time. Is there something I can.

Do to repay you?

Yes, Phyllis Dexter is waiting to see me. She's pretty upset about her mother's death before I talked to her. I want you to take her to the little ante room where you were taken. Ask her whatever question that you wish, then come back to me and tell me what she says.

Just throw your coat anywhere, Phyllis. Sorry, the apartment's a little messy, It's.

Not messy at all.

I feel much better after talking to you, and it was very kind of you to invite me over.

Not at all.

I got some coffee on Will you answer the door please?

Sure?

Oh I'm sorry. I thought this was miss Ogleby's apartment.

It is.

Come in?

Who shall I tell her he's calling?

No, hello, Francis.

Oh come in man? Can I check your code?

Oh? Thanks? I can only stay a moment.

Perhaps i'd better go now.

I had no idea you were expecting visitor. I wasn't. He's the last person in the world I ever expected to see here.

What As a matter of fact, I didn't expect to be here myself. I was out walking in the rain when suddenly, to my surprise, I found myself in front of your house.

Uh, Miss Dexter, Mister Phillis Dexter just returned from England today, Phillips Dexter. Miss Ogleby sort of kidnapped me away from myself.

I wish you could do as much for me. That is I er well, I have got to run along as appointment.

Miss Dexter. May I introduce mister Walker. If you're as nice as Miss Ogilby, you'll be well worth knowing.

Well, thank you. Sit down, well just for a moment. I really can't stay. Did you uh enjoy London?

Yes?

Very much? Why are you staring at me?

Well, I'm sorry.

You remind me so much of someone really, yes, someone very lovely.

I never expected to meet anyone like that. Again.

Time decides so many things, doesn't it. A split second of time, something happens, two people meet accidentally, a knife slips, someone takes the wrong turn, anything, and without warning, a future has been created.

Evidently you're a fatalist.

Hardly, I I only know that things happen sometimes, it seems with deliberate cruelty. Don't let anything happen to you will hurt you. Well, I've got to go on.

How good night, good night.

What a strange man. He's a great guy. He's one of a kind. Least, he's the only one I've ever seen. Do you think he'll call again?

Honey? There's no way of telling what he'll do ever, As Dean Harcourt would say, the signals have changed. The lights are against him right now, but he'll get the green light again. He can't miss.

Ladies and gentlemen. In a moment, we will return to our play Green light starring Robert Young. But first a message of hope for those in the world of pain, the inspiring promise of greater healing. Because today in the supply room of eighty three hundred and eighty three American hospitals you will find Dennis. Yet only three years ago, the wonder drug was almost a medical rarity. The firms who devoted themselves to increasing the supplies of penicillin available

Dean Harcourt, I came here to argue with you about your concept of everlasting life.

Paul right, please sit down.

I want to know how you can justify needless death, greed in the destruction of a career. I want to know how you can reconcile such waste with your irresistible onward drive. Why on the doctor Page who operated on missus dexter.

I see you have a fine religion, Doctor Page, I have none, so far as I know. Religion has many definitions, at least in my dictionary, such as loyalty, devotion, or perhaps.

But my dictionary defines it as a kind of opiate used by people with hurt sensibilities to dull them into drowsiness. A man needs more than that in his life, something he can get his hands on, something for which.

To live, or else, something for which to die. I can't even think of anything to die for. Yes, come in, Hello Phyllis.

Hello Dean Harcourt. Hello, mister, I had no idea you knew Dean Harcourt.

I didn't until a short while ago.

Then you must be in some trouble.

Is that why you're here?

Dean Harcourt was my mother's friend. He's mine too. I hope we'd meet again.

I I wanted to ask you to explain some of the strange things you said last night.

I'm always saying strange things that I can't explain myself. IW fe'll excuse me. Well, I had no idea you too knew each other.

I'd met mister Walker last night.

Mister Splendid, you too should make excellent friends.

I'm afraid mister Walker doesn't agree with you.

That's not it. Miss Dexter might have made very good friends. But we met a little too. Lady, my goodness, sits lunch time already. You must be frightfully hungry. Phillis I beg your pardon? I said you must be hungry. I'm not sorry. I can't offer you any lunch. You eat, don't you me? Oh? Sure, sure? I eat off. When I was a young man, I was always taking a young lady to luncheon, particularly if I've had some sort of misunderstanding in fact, I was known as a hungry

Yes, Alaska, goodbye.

See you Friday about it? Goodbye.

You're a strange man.

Why do you say that one.

Moment you're so friendly in the next two. Why did you say we.

Met too late?

Let's set up on this bench moment all right? Last night, when I met you, it was like, well, it was almost like the beginning of a world for me. I don't know how to explain it very well. Except for a moment. It was like the dawn coming up after a long, dark night. It was as though in finding you, I'd found an answer to everything, to every heart ache,

You've thought all that, Yes, you know what I thought. I thought in some strange way, in one look with one smile. This man has put his hand upon my heart.

And made it his.

And I thought this is the beginning of many things.

It was the beginning, but it was also the end, the ending.

Why because your name is Phyllis dexter mine is Newell page, Doctor Newell page.

New page page.

Yes, that's why I didn't want to see you again, at least not until I could find some way of telling you.

You you have no reason for hating me.

No reason you killed my mother?

No, well then who did?

You might at least have been mad enough to.

Accept the blame.

You don't understand it was not.

I think I do understand.

Goodbye, doctor Paige.

I can't understand why he isn't here.

No, he's He's usually very prompt.

Well he'll be along. Did you too have a nice luncheon the other day.

Phyllis, we didn't go to lunch?

Why not?

What happened?

Nothing?

I'm not telling the truth.

You lied to me, you introduced doctor page of mister Walker.

I see why, because I saw no reason to upset you or him. I do anything I could to make things easier for him.

Why should he have things made easier for him? Don't say it don't say it. I'm sick of philosophies and sermons and terribles. I'm a human being. I have a right to hate or love.

Delis. What did Page do to you?

He killed my mother.

There's something else, something within you that's been killed.

He lied to me.

You love him?

I don't.

I despise he didn't even have the decency to take the blame himself.

Did he name another doctor?

Oh?

No, how could he?

That's right, how could he? He's too decent, too honest to break the rules he plays by.

Why do you say that?

No, no, I'll play according to Page's rules.

Now.

He didn't have to listen to sermons to become good. He was born that way. He'll always be that way, no matter what happens to him.

I don't understand you will eventually, you see, my dear. Until you have faith, you don't really love Francis. Yes, I've learned much from you to day. Thank you?

Will you excuse me from dinner?

Please?

Where are you going?

Define? I'll answer the door. Telegram, Harcourt, find your piss, Thank you, it's for you? Oh what what is it?

I'm afraid you'll have to go a long way phyllis. He's in Montana, Montana. The wires from a doctor Lane. He says, you will ask him to wire and explain that he couldn't come to dinner. And he says he's very ill. He deliberately let a wood tick bite him so that he could infect himself with spotted fever.

Spotted fever.

He wants to be used as a human guinea pig to test the vaccine.

Oh no, come on, We've got to get doctor Endicott in a hurry, Doctor Endicott. Doctor Page is with John.

Lane on Boone Mountain. Yes, I won't have him that pest hole. He'll die like all the rest.

He may be dying now. He's down with spotted fever. He gave it to himself to test a vaccine.

My fault. If he dies, my fault. He mustn't die. I won't let him. We'll trot her a plane. Get out there right away. That's my temperature. It was one hundred and two point nine an hour ago. How do you feel? Not bad? Kind of groggy? Pain in the lower quadron of the abdomen.

Make a note of it. I want to see how long it lasts.

Why did you ever do such a full thing, deliberately infecting yourself, risking your life.

If I die, I don't particularly care, and you will have learned something.

There seems to be a congestion of developing in the lungs. How about taking a blood count. I'd like to see if I'm losing any resistance.

Hello, doctor Lane, how is he?

Is he conscious?

Yes, but he's thinking. We'll go right in. Not humus dexter. We don't want to upset it. Hello Noul.

Hello doctor Hendicott. Francis, we can use you. John's getting sick of keeping my chart. We aren't going to let you die. You won't have anything to say about it if that vaccine doesn't work. At the present, I share the same place in society with the guinea pig. Yeah, guess make that blood count. Watch my temperature closely. I am I'm becoming stuporous.

He's unconscious.

No, not yet, Keep your nerve, Francis, you're an old hand this sort of thing.

Yes, Doctor Page.

What's my temperature?

One hundred and four point one?

Heart action weakening?

John, better not talk. You will take another blood count. Temperature one hundred and four point one should break before it reaches one hundred and five.

Can't take one hundred five, Francis.

If he dies, I will have killed him, just as I killed Missus Dexter.

What did you say, doctor Ndicott.

I was to blame Phyllis.

I was at fault, and I never should have let him take the blame. He's got to live, if there's any justice at all, he's got to live.

Now. You know what you needed to know, Phyllis. No, I haven't really needed to know anything since the moment when I knew I loved here.

His temperatures up to one hundred and four point two.

I'll go write in.

Temperature last four reading steady one hundred four point two.

Doctor Endicott, can't you do something? We can't just sit here let him die.

There's nothing we can do for him now except pray.

Francis Phyllis not to rendic.

His temperature.

Look at his temperature.

One hundred and three point one.

It's licked, Fellas, it's licked.

He's gonna live.

He's gonna be all.

Right, Doctor Ndigott. There's a place for you out here.

No, you, fellas have already done the most important work on spoted for you.

You won't need me here.

But the people will need great doctors to help them through their birth, doctors who haven't forgotten their oath to their fellow men. To share my substance with him and to relieve his necessities when required.

I guess I lost sight of what being a doctor means for a while, Noul, But.

I think I've got the green light now myself.

You've been listening to Dean Harcourt too, Yes, I've been listening, and I'm going to stay out of here.

You.

A letter just came from Baytree.

Yes, yes, I wrote them explaining everything. Holy smoke, they've appointed me chief surgeon at bay Tree.

Oh, I'm so proud of.

You, Oh, Phyllis, Phyllis, How rich I am? How fortunate, how lucky, how happy? Are grateful? There aren't enough adjectives to say it.

I don't like to interrupt Love's young dream, but it's time for Dean Harcourt.

Oh, the depths of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God, How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding? For who has known the mind of the law, or who hath been his counselor, or who hath first given to him? And it shall be recompensed. Unto him again, thought of him, and through him, and in him out all things to him be glory forever.

Amen In in a moment, we'll bring back our star Robert Young, Ladies and gentlemen, Shenley Laboratories, maker of penicillin. Shanley would like to remind you that the American standard of health is higher than that of any other country.

In the world.

We feel sure you will agree that the man who has done most to make the situation true is the American doctor. Shenry Laboratory's pledges to do all within our power to aid America's positions and their work of maintaining America's high standards of health. And now, ladies and gentlemen, mister Robert.

Young, Ladies and gentlemen, to sum up the spirit of this Shanley Laboratories program. This beautiful and simple prayer of the physician, written centuries ago by Mamianides, seems to me to be apt and fitting. The eternal Providence has appointed me to watch over the life and death of all thy creatures. May I always see in the patient a fellow creature in pain. Grant me strength and opportunity always to extend the domain of my craft. This is the

Good Night Dream Light by Lloyd S.

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It was a Gene Holloway adaptation. Robert Young will soon.

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