WEBVTT 00:00:17.690 --> 00:00:24.510 Come in. Welcome. I'm E .G. Marshall. Welcome 00:00:24.510 --> 00:00:28.370 to a world we all inhabit too little. The world 00:00:28.370 --> 00:00:33.280 of imagination. Our own. yours and mine. Have 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:35.719 you ever wondered what it's like to be a ghost? 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:39.259 Well, one of this earth's greatest writers did, 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:43.460 Oscar Wilde, and having let his imagination play 00:00:43.460 --> 00:00:46.659 with the idea, he set down his findings in a 00:00:46.659 --> 00:00:49.140 ghost story that ranks with the world's finest, 00:00:49.780 --> 00:00:53.939 the classic tale of the Canterville ghost. And 00:00:53.939 --> 00:00:56.340 if by chance you should think that a ghost's 00:00:56.340 --> 00:00:59.409 life is all wine and roses, Why, then, listen 00:00:59.409 --> 00:01:02.570 to what went on one night at Canterville Castle. 00:01:35.689 --> 00:01:39.269 Our mystery drama, The Canterville Ghost, was 00:01:39.269 --> 00:01:42.109 especially adapted from the Oscar Wilde classic 00:01:42.109 --> 00:01:45.629 for the Mystery Theatre by George Lother and 00:01:45.629 --> 00:01:49.909 stars Arnold Moss. I'll be back shortly with 00:01:49.909 --> 00:02:04.549 Act One. Our story takes place in Canterville 00:02:04.549 --> 00:02:08.409 Castle. ancestral home of the Decanterville family 00:02:08.409 --> 00:02:11.870 since the fifteenth century. You immediately 00:02:11.870 --> 00:02:14.870 assume, I have no doubt, that the castle is in 00:02:14.870 --> 00:02:19.250 England. Well, it isn't. It was, but it isn't 00:02:19.250 --> 00:02:23.030 anymore. For you see, that well -known multimillionaire 00:02:23.030 --> 00:02:26.610 Hiram Otis had it dismantled, stone by stone, 00:02:27.009 --> 00:02:30.550 transported to the United States, and re -erected, 00:02:30.610 --> 00:02:33.610 stone by stone, on his own estate in the Midwest. 00:02:34.250 --> 00:02:37.990 So it is that one fine afternoon we find him 00:02:37.990 --> 00:02:41.150 Hiram and his wife Martha and his lovely daughter, 00:02:41.150 --> 00:02:44.409 Virginia and Jeffrey de Canterville her fiance 00:02:44.409 --> 00:02:47.889 in the newly restored library of the newly erected 00:02:47.889 --> 00:02:51.050 castle of the Canterville's. well, mr. Otis I 00:02:51.050 --> 00:02:53.469 hope you're satisfied with the job. I've done 00:02:53.469 --> 00:02:56.169 Canterville castle re -erected lock stock and 00:02:56.169 --> 00:02:59.409 barrel even to the ancestral gardens were surrounded 00:02:59.409 --> 00:03:02.150 well castles Okay, but I don't know about the 00:03:02.150 --> 00:03:05.270 gardens The guy I hired to be the general manager 00:03:05.270 --> 00:03:07.629 when we opened the place as a tourist resort 00:03:07.629 --> 00:03:10.229 says the pool ought to be where you put the pine 00:03:10.229 --> 00:03:12.810 woods. But daddy, that's the exact area where 00:03:12.810 --> 00:03:15.710 the pine woods were in England. Well, Ginny dear, 00:03:15.949 --> 00:03:18.090 tourists won't know that. But that was part of 00:03:18.090 --> 00:03:20.349 the deal when daddy bought the castle from Jeff 00:03:20.349 --> 00:03:23.090 and hired him to re -erect it here. That nothing 00:03:23.090 --> 00:03:25.629 would be changed. Now business is business. If 00:03:25.629 --> 00:03:27.689 it'll be more convenient for tourists to have 00:03:27.689 --> 00:03:31.629 the pool where the pine woods are... Now what's 00:03:31.629 --> 00:03:34.139 this? You know what that is, Mr. Otis? It's the 00:03:34.139 --> 00:03:36.900 blood stain. That's the spot in front of the 00:03:36.900 --> 00:03:39.180 fireplace where Sir Simon de Canterville stabbed 00:03:39.180 --> 00:03:42.840 his wife to death way back in 1601. I told you 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:45.900 I wanted it removed. And I told you it can't 00:03:45.900 --> 00:03:49.099 be removed. You got any Otis bathroom cleanser 00:03:49.099 --> 00:03:52.460 around, Jeff? Yes. Yes, of course, in the cleaning 00:03:52.460 --> 00:03:54.879 closets. You told me to stock it. Get a can of 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:57.879 it. But Mr. Otis really... Otis bathroom cleanser 00:03:57.879 --> 00:04:00.650 is guaranteed to get rid of any stain. And it'll 00:04:00.650 --> 00:04:02.770 get rid of this one. Go on, give me a can of 00:04:02.770 --> 00:04:07.810 it. Good heavens, that vase. Oh dear, it fell 00:04:07.810 --> 00:04:10.370 off the mantelpiece. No, it didn't fall off, 00:04:10.449 --> 00:04:13.009 Mrs. Otis. It was knocked off, I'd say, by Sir 00:04:13.009 --> 00:04:15.949 Simon de Canterville. The ghost? Yes. I'm afraid 00:04:15.949 --> 00:04:18.490 he doesn't like the idea of removing that blood 00:04:18.490 --> 00:04:22.750 stain. However, I'll get the cleanser. Him and 00:04:22.750 --> 00:04:25.509 his ghost. What do you think I was born yesterday? 00:04:25.889 --> 00:04:29.350 Jeff wouldn't lie to you, daddy. And if he says 00:04:29.350 --> 00:04:32.089 the castle's haunted... Now look, Ginny, just 00:04:32.089 --> 00:04:34.490 because this fortune hunter fiancé of yours, 00:04:34.509 --> 00:04:37.209 Lord Jeffrey Canterville, believes in ghosts, 00:04:37.709 --> 00:04:39.870 doesn't mean I have to. Daddy, if you call Jeff 00:04:39.870 --> 00:04:42.310 a fortune hunter once more, just once more... 00:04:42.310 --> 00:04:46.910 Okay, okay, honey. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. All 00:04:46.910 --> 00:04:49.910 I want is your happiness, sweetie. And if he'll 00:04:49.910 --> 00:04:53.350 make you happy, fine, fine. Here we are, Mr. 00:04:53.589 --> 00:04:57.209 Otis, a fresh can of Otis Bathroom Cleanser. 00:04:57.329 --> 00:05:02.100 Now let me have it. Now watch I spray it on the 00:05:02.100 --> 00:05:07.839 bloodstain You bring a cloth to wipe it off with 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:11.579 oh no, I'm sorry never mind use my handkerchief 00:05:11.579 --> 00:05:16.339 now one wipe so Where's your bloodstain now? 00:05:16.339 --> 00:05:20.779 Oh Hiram? It's gone What else a notice guarantee 00:05:20.779 --> 00:05:24.279 is an oldest guarantee it will come back not 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:29.939 after an oldest cleanser treatment it won't What 00:05:29.939 --> 00:05:34.660 was that? Oh, what is it? It's the ghost again, 00:05:34.779 --> 00:05:38.100 Mrs. Otis. No, it was the wind or something. 00:05:38.540 --> 00:05:40.920 But there isn't any wind. Well, there was something 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:44.199 else, but not a ghost. I just plain don't believe 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:47.180 in ghosts, and that's the end of that. Well, 00:05:47.220 --> 00:05:50.759 if you ask me, Mr. Otis, it's only the beginning. 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:59.949 Eleanor! Eleanor! Blast a woman, where is she? 00:06:00.209 --> 00:06:03.990 Here, Simon, dear. Here I am. Get the paint bucket. 00:06:04.029 --> 00:06:07.810 We have to repaint the stain. Again? I promise 00:06:07.810 --> 00:06:11.589 you, however often Mr. Hiram Otis erases my blood 00:06:11.589 --> 00:06:16.209 stain. My blood stain, dear. Oh, all right, all 00:06:16.209 --> 00:06:18.569 right. Yours. But you wouldn't have had it if 00:06:18.569 --> 00:06:23.319 it hadn't been for me. You... Do forgive me. 00:06:23.459 --> 00:06:26.860 Oh, my dear, I have forgiven you at least once 00:06:26.860 --> 00:06:29.959 every hundred years since it happened. I should 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:32.660 not be here otherwise. And the least I can do 00:06:32.660 --> 00:06:35.300 is to see that your stay here remains peaceful 00:06:35.300 --> 00:06:39.579 by giving that barbarous American his comeuppance. 00:06:39.899 --> 00:06:43.740 Fear not, my dearest love. It is Sir Simon de 00:06:43.740 --> 00:06:47.980 Canterville, me, against Mr. Hyrum Otis, him. 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:50.660 But I truly believe there's little doubt as to 00:06:50.660 --> 00:07:02.040 the outcome of the battle. A blue blood stain? 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:04.899 What do you mean? a blue blood stain. Just what 00:07:04.899 --> 00:07:08.040 I say Mr. Otis. The stains reappeared and this 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:11.279 time it's blue daddy. Now look I don't know what 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:14.199 you two are up to. Up to? For your information 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:16.800 the boss painter who's redecorating the upstairs 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:19.300 bedrooms complained that somebody's stealing 00:07:19.300 --> 00:07:21.680 his paints. And you think that we, that Jeff 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:24.259 and I would... Who else? But why would you think 00:07:24.259 --> 00:07:28.620 that? Because the way I see it... Yes? How do 00:07:28.620 --> 00:07:33.720 you see it? Well I don't know how I see it. All 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:37.040 I know is it doesn't make sense And we better 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:39.480 start making some sense around here because we 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:42.819 open in a week now get rid of that stain once 00:07:42.819 --> 00:07:53.259 and for all Get rid of it Do you realize that 00:07:53.259 --> 00:07:56.259 I have repainted that blood stain by the fireplace 00:07:56.259 --> 00:07:59.839 Four separate times and each time that meddling 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:03.129 American has had it removed I should think you'd 00:08:03.129 --> 00:08:05.709 want to forget it. After all, it's a reminder 00:08:05.709 --> 00:08:08.430 of why you are doomed to haunt Canterville Castle. 00:08:09.290 --> 00:08:13.670 Oh, dear, and I with you. But you are not. You 00:08:13.670 --> 00:08:17.470 can leave any time you wish, Eleanor. Oh, Simon, 00:08:18.009 --> 00:08:23.410 not without you. Oh, my dear, was there a man 00:08:23.410 --> 00:08:29.310 so loved by woman as I by you? Or I by you. And 00:08:29.310 --> 00:08:34.779 yes. I killed you. Because you loved me. However 00:08:34.779 --> 00:08:37.600 you put it, I condemned us both to eternal misery. 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:43.500 Well, it shall be misery in peace. For nearly 00:08:43.500 --> 00:08:46.940 400 years I've haunted Canterville Castle without 00:08:46.940 --> 00:08:50.700 hindrance. Yet what that vile upstart has put 00:08:50.700 --> 00:08:54.500 us through in the past three years. tearing down 00:08:54.500 --> 00:08:57.419 the castle around our heads building it up again 00:08:57.419 --> 00:09:04.519 around our heads and oh the noise the noise and 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:08.019 now he means to turn it my castle into what they 00:09:08.019 --> 00:09:13.240 call a tourist attraction never my dearest what 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:16.279 can you do that beastly american must be driven 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:22.159 out and his family with him i know Let me see 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:26.379 what I have in the way of grizzly costumes. Ah, 00:09:26.419 --> 00:09:30.440 yes, yes, yes. I think this should do the trick 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:34.940 quite neatly. Which is it? Gaunt Gibian, the 00:09:34.940 --> 00:09:39.860 bloodsucker of Bexley Moore. Oh, that's smashing. 00:09:46.019 --> 00:09:50.320 Jeff, I won't let you get married till you get 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:53.759 a job. But Daddy, Jeff doesn't need a job. He 00:09:53.759 --> 00:09:55.879 has all the money you paid him for Canterville 00:09:55.879 --> 00:10:00.100 Castle. Have you? Have you, Jeff? You know I 00:10:00.100 --> 00:10:03.159 haven't, Mr. Otis. But obviously Ginny doesn't. 00:10:03.179 --> 00:10:05.919 You didn't tell her. Tell her what, Otis? Yes, 00:10:05.980 --> 00:10:10.840 what? Now, tell her. Ginny, I'm afraid that just 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:13.620 about every cent your father paid for Canterville... 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:16.600 went to pay off back taxes, liens, mortgages, 00:10:16.820 --> 00:10:18.580 interest payments, and the Lord only knows what. 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:21.059 Oh, Jeff. Well, don't you see, that's why I sold 00:10:21.059 --> 00:10:24.220 Canterville in the first place. I had to. I couldn't 00:10:24.220 --> 00:10:27.360 keep it up anymore. I had no choice. It was sell 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:30.559 or lose everything. So, you see, he's broke. 00:10:31.299 --> 00:10:33.759 Flat busted. Now, just a moment. I have the promise 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:36.700 of a job, Mr. Otis, a top flight architectural 00:10:36.700 --> 00:10:39.659 firm in New York. The promise of a job? Now, 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:42.860 look, Jeff, there'll be no marriage until... 00:10:43.850 --> 00:10:47.990 What's that? I don't know. I'm afraid I do. It's 00:10:47.990 --> 00:10:52.710 the Caterville ghost. The ghost? Come on, Jeff. 00:10:52.990 --> 00:10:56.289 Come on now. Aren't these tricks of yours getting 00:10:56.289 --> 00:10:58.769 just a little childish? Now, Mr. Otis, believe 00:10:58.769 --> 00:11:01.309 me, this is no act. It's the real thing. Whenever 00:11:01.309 --> 00:11:03.370 the ghost moans like this, it means he's going 00:11:03.370 --> 00:11:05.809 to put in an appearance. And I've seen some of 00:11:05.809 --> 00:11:08.909 those appearances. Now, Mrs. Otis, Ginny, you'd, 00:11:08.909 --> 00:11:10.879 uh... You'd better come with me. Oh, where to? 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:13.279 Well, anywhere but here. I'm not afraid of the 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:15.419 ghost myself. He's never done me any harm, but 00:11:15.419 --> 00:11:18.740 his appearance can be positively ghastly. And 00:11:18.740 --> 00:11:21.899 you'd better not see it, either of you. No, I'm 00:11:21.899 --> 00:11:25.460 staying here. What? I've been hoping to see him, 00:11:25.740 --> 00:11:29.879 Jeff. Hoping to see the ghost? Yes, Mother. Oh, 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:32.240 somehow I have a feeling I won't be afraid of 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:36.279 him. Don't ask me why. I can't explain the feeling. 00:11:36.750 --> 00:11:42.009 I just know I won't be. Of course you won't. 00:11:42.309 --> 00:11:45.029 Jeff lets you in on his little gag. But I suppose 00:11:45.029 --> 00:11:48.690 I'm to be scared to death, huh? But daddy, there 00:11:48.690 --> 00:11:54.590 is a ghost. You've got to believe it. Look! Oh, 00:11:54.669 --> 00:12:01.710 my heaven! Blood! I must have blood! It's got 00:12:01.710 --> 00:12:04.470 to be kidding. When I say blood, I do not mean 00:12:04.470 --> 00:12:08.730 a drop or two. I mean gallons. For am I not Gaunt 00:12:08.730 --> 00:12:14.070 Gibian, the blood sucker of Bexley Moore? Blood! 00:12:15.269 --> 00:12:19.389 Blood my foot! What you need is some oil for 00:12:19.389 --> 00:12:22.230 those rusty chains. And I just happen to have 00:12:22.230 --> 00:12:25.210 a can of Otis all purpose here in this desk drawer. 00:12:26.169 --> 00:12:30.909 Trains? Thou name? Crumble in abject fear before 00:12:30.909 --> 00:12:37.549 me. Ah, here's that can of Otis oil. Oh! Oh, 00:12:37.710 --> 00:12:40.090 knock off the screaming. You got nothing to scream 00:12:40.090 --> 00:12:42.830 about, because believe me, this oil will do the 00:12:42.830 --> 00:12:46.190 trick for those chains of yours. Leave off! I'm 00:12:46.190 --> 00:12:49.169 ruining my chain. Daddy, stop it. Leave him alone. 00:12:49.370 --> 00:12:51.549 Another squirt right here. Oh, Daddy, stop it. 00:12:51.629 --> 00:12:54.230 Give me that can. Here now. Leave him alone. 00:12:54.710 --> 00:12:59.710 Can't you see how... No, no, look, Jimmy, any 00:12:59.710 --> 00:13:01.730 guy tries to pull a gag on me like that. This 00:13:01.730 --> 00:13:05.669 is no gag, no trick. This is misery. Oh, look 00:13:05.669 --> 00:13:10.269 at his face. Look into his eyes. He's in agony. 00:13:10.570 --> 00:13:13.769 I've never felt so sorry for anyone in my life. 00:13:13.909 --> 00:13:21.350 You, you feel sorry for me? Oh, yes. Oh, yes. 00:13:22.190 --> 00:13:27.480 No one has felt sorry for me in over... 370 years. 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:37.120 I do. Well, you... You frightened me. Oh, no, 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:42.240 you can't be. You couldn't be. No, no. Not the 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:49.000 golden girl. Oh, come on, you two. Stop it. Nice 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:52.259 little act, but just a little creaky in spots. 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:58.940 You clod! You lout! Is it thus you taunt a noble 00:13:58.940 --> 00:14:03.419 lord of Cantabelle? Hear me, then. I sought but 00:14:03.419 --> 00:14:06.500 to warn you hence by harrowing up your soul. 00:14:07.139 --> 00:14:10.460 But there's another way to be rid of you. Death! 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:15.899 No, I... No, no, no! Please, no, please, I beg 00:14:15.899 --> 00:14:22.919 you, don't kill him! Don't, don't! For thy own 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:27.519 sake then, child. Be warned and get thee hence. 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:33.620 I am Simon of Canthal, an easy wrought into murderous 00:14:33.620 --> 00:14:42.220 rage. So be gone. Be gone, be gone. Do you believe 00:14:42.220 --> 00:14:48.299 now that he's a real ghost? I sure do. I guess 00:14:48.299 --> 00:14:50.419 we'd better do what he wants us to do, Otis. 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:54.559 Let's leave the castle. Oh, no. Are you saying 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:58.870 that? You bet I am. I paid a fortune for this 00:14:58.870 --> 00:15:02.129 joint. I'd rather die than see that money go 00:15:02.129 --> 00:15:05.870 down the drain. Oh no, I'll tear this damn castle 00:15:05.870 --> 00:15:09.629 down again, stone by stone, before he gets the 00:15:09.629 --> 00:15:12.509 satisfaction of seeing me run. You hear that? 00:15:23.820 --> 00:15:26.840 It certainly appears that for once, for the first 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:29.879 time in nearly four hundred years, the ghost 00:15:29.879 --> 00:15:32.919 of Sir Simon de Canterville has met his match. 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:36.799 What happens, you may ask, when ancient English 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:41.039 ghost meets eyeball to eyeball with modern American 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:44.720 business tycoon? We'll learn more when I return 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:59.830 shortly with Act Two. Now really, you know sir 00:15:59.830 --> 00:16:02.529 Simon de Canterville or rather I should say the 00:16:02.529 --> 00:16:05.490 ghost of sir Simon de Canterville Can't be blamed 00:16:05.490 --> 00:16:08.669 for threatening to kill high remotus after all 00:16:08.669 --> 00:16:12.730 it is his castle or it was and well How would 00:16:12.730 --> 00:16:14.990 you feel if you'd lived somewhere for nearly 00:16:14.990 --> 00:16:18.149 400 years? Only to have someone you'd never seen 00:16:18.149 --> 00:16:20.830 before threatened to tear the place down stone 00:16:20.830 --> 00:16:24.509 by stone No, you really can't blame him for being 00:16:24.509 --> 00:16:30.210 in a towering rage I shall rend him limb from 00:16:30.210 --> 00:16:33.690 limb. Oh, Simon, perhaps we ought to leave the 00:16:33.690 --> 00:16:36.429 Americans in peace. Oh, no, no. Oh, darling, 00:16:36.549 --> 00:16:41.250 please. I say no. No, Simon, please. Don't make 00:16:41.250 --> 00:16:46.710 me speak severely to you. Severely? Well, truthfully, 00:16:47.210 --> 00:16:49.590 it's quite possible you've lost your ability 00:16:49.590 --> 00:16:55.009 to frighten people. Lost my ability to frighten 00:16:55.009 --> 00:16:58.529 people? Yes, dear. You are but a ghost of your 00:16:58.529 --> 00:17:01.929 former self. Just what do you mean? Well, I very 00:17:01.929 --> 00:17:05.170 much fear that you're growing stale. And in the 00:17:05.170 --> 00:17:09.309 parlance of the day, why, you simply can't hack 00:17:09.309 --> 00:17:14.230 it anymore. Hack it? Not able to hack it? Me? 00:17:14.430 --> 00:17:17.730 Oh, Simon, come now. Were you not reduced to 00:17:17.730 --> 00:17:21.109 using brute force? You, who through all these 00:17:21.109 --> 00:17:24.210 centuries have prided yourself on the artistry 00:17:24.210 --> 00:17:30.059 of your hideous, You failed to frighten a mere 00:17:30.059 --> 00:17:35.299 mortal. And Simon, an American at that. Well, 00:17:35.299 --> 00:17:38.920 he's a clod. Altogether too stupid to have even 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:44.519 a semblance of nerves. Is that thunder? I think 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:50.559 so. It just occurs to me. I've always been at 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:54.920 my best during a thunderstorm. True enough and 00:17:54.920 --> 00:17:57.700 tonight to judge from that sky out there will 00:17:57.700 --> 00:18:03.460 be a nice of Elemental fury a perfect background 00:18:03.460 --> 00:18:06.660 for haunting I shall outdo myself this night. 00:18:06.660 --> 00:18:12.599 I shall employ a disguise so Horrible so fiendish 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:16.420 something guaranteed to drive the churl out of 00:18:16.420 --> 00:18:20.720 his skull Yes, yes, yes, that is the question 00:18:20.720 --> 00:18:24.950 what what what what shall it be? I have every 00:18:24.950 --> 00:18:27.789 confidence that you, my sweet, my sweet, will 00:18:27.789 --> 00:18:30.930 create a costume that every ghost in England, 00:18:31.130 --> 00:18:34.529 in the world, would give his winding sheet to 00:18:34.529 --> 00:18:37.890 possess. Oh, you are too kind, all together too 00:18:37.890 --> 00:18:44.730 kind. But let me think, let... Aha! Oh! You have 00:18:44.730 --> 00:18:48.029 it? Yes, yes. You, my darling, have given me 00:18:48.029 --> 00:18:51.970 a thought. Winding sheets. That's... That is 00:18:51.970 --> 00:18:54.890 the ticket. A winding ship? Of course. I have 00:18:54.890 --> 00:18:58.210 an excellent one, very old, very moldy. The one 00:18:58.210 --> 00:19:01.529 with the frilled cuffs and neck. But of course, 00:19:01.549 --> 00:19:04.910 of course, do go on. I will wear that and take 00:19:04.910 --> 00:19:09.089 with me my rusty dagger. I shall approach the 00:19:09.089 --> 00:19:12.089 room moaning and groaning in a most gruesome 00:19:12.089 --> 00:19:14.829 fashion. When I enter it, I shall stand over 00:19:14.829 --> 00:19:17.950 them in the form of a green, icy, cold corpse 00:19:17.950 --> 00:19:21.599 till they're all but dead. paralyzed with fear 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:24.980 and then and then I shall cast off the winding 00:19:24.980 --> 00:19:29.099 sheet and crawl around the room with white bleached 00:19:29.099 --> 00:19:35.920 bones and one rolling eyeball oh Simon dear you 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:40.640 have outdone yourself I dare say even you will 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:45.039 agree I can still cut the mustard my dear oh 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:52.329 you can you The American's daughter? She must 00:19:52.329 --> 00:19:57.589 go in peace, I touch her knot. Why so? Because... 00:19:57.589 --> 00:19:59.450 Well, my dear, you will scarcely believe this, 00:19:59.549 --> 00:20:02.769 but not only did I fail to frighten her, but 00:20:02.769 --> 00:20:07.630 she said... Well, she said she felt sorry for 00:20:07.630 --> 00:20:12.549 me. She said that? Yes, yes. And she looked at 00:20:12.549 --> 00:20:15.380 me when she said it with eyes... Well, Eleanor 00:20:15.380 --> 00:20:20.200 her eyes were filled with sympathy and pity and 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:31.279 yes Love Oh Simon Could she be? The golden girl 00:20:31.279 --> 00:20:37.319 I should like to think so I Fear not my love. 00:20:37.319 --> 00:20:45.500 It's too much to ask But I must to work. The 00:20:45.500 --> 00:20:48.500 night approaches and the storm. I promise you, 00:20:48.500 --> 00:20:52.259 oh, I promise you, that within a few short hours 00:20:52.259 --> 00:20:57.279 I shall reduce the cold -blooded Hyrum Otus to 00:20:57.279 --> 00:21:05.660 a mindless mess. Why have you brought me here, 00:21:05.940 --> 00:21:08.539 Jeff? I've never seen this part of the castle 00:21:08.539 --> 00:21:10.640 before. It's a hidden passage, where it once 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:13.079 was. As to why I brought you here, well, it seems 00:21:13.079 --> 00:21:14.819 to me every time I want to be alone with you, 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:18.180 your father shows up, or your mother, and... 00:21:18.180 --> 00:21:23.200 Oh, Ginny, I do want to talk to you. Yes? Ginny, 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:27.420 marry me. But, Jeff, dear, I'm going to. You 00:21:27.420 --> 00:21:29.940 know that. No, I mean now. Tonight. Tonight? 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:32.779 Yes, let's get in my car, drive to town, find 00:21:32.779 --> 00:21:34.700 a justice of the peace, and get married. But, 00:21:34.859 --> 00:21:37.319 darling, we don't have a license. Oh, we'll get 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:39.779 one. How? I don't know, but we will. I'll... 00:21:39.819 --> 00:21:42.099 I'll manage it somehow. Yes, this is the United 00:21:42.099 --> 00:21:45.000 States, not England. Things are done differently 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:48.559 here. And anyway, there's no sense discussing 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:53.140 it because I just can't go against my father's 00:21:53.140 --> 00:21:55.359 wishes. Oh, you don't have to be afraid of him. 00:21:55.599 --> 00:21:58.500 Afraid? Darling, I'm not afraid of him. I love 00:21:58.500 --> 00:22:02.440 him. I know what you think, that he's hard and 00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:04.680 domineering and ruthless and a lot of other things 00:22:04.680 --> 00:22:08.609 that you know. Inside, he's not that way at all. 00:22:08.930 --> 00:22:11.509 Perhaps not. Unfortunately, I only know him from 00:22:11.509 --> 00:22:13.670 the outside. But as time goes by, you'll learn 00:22:13.670 --> 00:22:16.069 to know him better. And you'll see. Ginny, you're 00:22:16.069 --> 00:22:19.029 not a child. You're a woman. I need you, Ginny. 00:22:19.130 --> 00:22:22.529 I want you. Jeff, please. Please, darling. Jeff, 00:22:22.529 --> 00:22:31.849 no. Ginny. Ginny, please. Jeff. Oh, no, not tonight. 00:22:31.849 --> 00:22:34.309 Not now. And when I say blood, I don't mean a 00:22:34.309 --> 00:22:38.250 drop or two of blood. I mean gallons of blood. 00:22:38.890 --> 00:22:43.490 It's him. It's the ghost. Who else? To drive 00:22:43.490 --> 00:22:49.650 that shirl Hiram Otis out of his mind. Oh, misery. 00:22:50.490 --> 00:22:56.170 Oh, agony. He went right by us. He never saw 00:22:56.170 --> 00:22:57.670 us. Yes, I know. Now let's follow him and see 00:22:57.670 --> 00:23:02.220 what he's up to. It is horror! Hark ye to the 00:23:02.220 --> 00:23:08.680 horrifying moans of the Vampire Monk! My parents' 00:23:08.920 --> 00:23:12.640 bedroom! He's gone in there! Hark ye to the horrifying 00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:18.599 moans of the Vampire Monk, or the bloodless Benedictine! 00:23:20.059 --> 00:23:24.940 Who's there? The Vampire Monk. See, I bend over 00:23:24.940 --> 00:23:30.230 you, a green, icy corpse. Watch as I crawl around 00:23:30.230 --> 00:23:34.930 the room with white bleached bones and one rolling 00:23:34.930 --> 00:23:40.390 eyeball. What are you doing on the floor? Huh? 00:23:41.049 --> 00:23:44.849 Oh, why you're the ghost, aren't you? Please 00:23:44.849 --> 00:23:48.710 now, could you be just a bit more quiet? My husband 00:23:48.710 --> 00:23:51.549 has had a very tiring day and he needs a sleep. 00:23:51.829 --> 00:23:53.890 And you're certainly going to wake him up sooner 00:23:53.890 --> 00:23:56.309 or later with all that moaning and groaning. 00:23:56.589 --> 00:24:00.599 I am a ghost. I'm haunting you. All right, all 00:24:00.599 --> 00:24:03.279 right, all right, but please do it quietly. Why 00:24:03.279 --> 00:24:05.380 would you? If you ride and ridicule me, would 00:24:05.380 --> 00:24:07.099 you? Oh, but please, you must understand. Pay 00:24:07.099 --> 00:24:10.220 for it. I, woman, pay with my heart's blood. 00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:13.539 You've seen your daughter for the last time on 00:24:13.539 --> 00:24:18.539 this earth. For the last time! Jack, Jack, he 00:24:18.539 --> 00:24:20.960 means me! No, darling, he can't. If he didn't 00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:24.319 see us following him... I have seen you. I saw 00:24:24.319 --> 00:24:26.720 you there in the secret passage, but was too 00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:28.960 busy with other matters to be bothered with you. 00:24:29.099 --> 00:24:31.859 I saw you following me. From the back of my head, 00:24:31.859 --> 00:24:36.240 I saw you. Stand aside, Jeffrey de Canterville. 00:24:36.859 --> 00:24:41.160 I take your beloved with me into the next world. 00:24:41.180 --> 00:24:45.599 Oh, no, you don't. I warn you! You're a Canterville, 00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:49.119 and I would do you no harm. But stand in my way, 00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:51.740 and I will place on you as I already have on 00:24:51.740 --> 00:24:57.539 them. The cantable curse. No. Oh, no. Oh, yes. 00:24:58.500 --> 00:25:05.799 Stand aside, I say. Stand aside. Wait. Yes? If 00:25:05.799 --> 00:25:08.880 you wish to take me into the next world, all 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:11.740 right, go ahead. But leave Jeffrey alone. Leave 00:25:11.740 --> 00:25:16.759 my parents alone. Don't harm them. You would 00:25:16.759 --> 00:25:21.960 give your life for them? If I must? Ginny, no. 00:25:22.829 --> 00:25:30.710 Jenny! Jenny! Jeffrey! She's gone, vanished! 00:25:31.529 --> 00:25:34.869 Yes. What does it mean? Oh, good Lord, what does 00:25:34.869 --> 00:25:39.369 it mean? What? Well, what does what mean? What's 00:25:39.369 --> 00:25:42.029 going on here? Oh, Hiram, that ghost! He's taken 00:25:42.029 --> 00:25:44.769 Jenny! He's taken her with him into the next 00:25:44.769 --> 00:25:48.789 world! Oh, come on now! It's the truth! In heaven's 00:25:48.789 --> 00:25:51.180 name, this road is wake up to the truth! The 00:25:51.180 --> 00:25:53.279 ghost of Simon de Canterville has taken Jenny 00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:55.880 out of this world and into his own. And you'll 00:25:55.880 --> 00:26:00.000 never see her again. And I'll... And I'll never 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:03.680 see her again. What the devil are you talking 00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:07.400 about? It's... It's the curse of the Cantervilles. 00:26:08.220 --> 00:26:11.940 The ghost placed the curse on you tonight. Oh. 00:26:12.920 --> 00:26:17.640 What lies ahead for you, Mr. Otis. Yeah? What 00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:20.529 does lie ahead for me? I can't even begin to 00:26:20.529 --> 00:26:25.130 tell you, and even though I could, I wouldn't 00:26:25.130 --> 00:26:36.910 dare. Strange sort of ghost, Sir Simon de Canterville. 00:26:37.490 --> 00:26:41.769 At one moment, he's almost gentle, tender, and 00:26:41.769 --> 00:26:45.930 the next, in a towering rage. He acts almost 00:26:45.930 --> 00:26:49.190 like us humans, doesn't he? And like us humans, 00:26:49.529 --> 00:26:52.210 he may have jumped from the frying pan into the 00:26:52.210 --> 00:26:56.289 fire in abducting Virginia Otis. We'll find out 00:26:56.289 --> 00:27:11.190 shortly when I return with Act 3. I take you 00:27:11.190 --> 00:27:14.529 now down a short flight of wide stone steps, 00:27:15.089 --> 00:27:18.089 somewhere in the nether regions. of Canterville 00:27:18.089 --> 00:27:22.630 Castle, steps stained by centuries of dampness. 00:27:23.369 --> 00:27:26.170 It is a place where rats and beetles might scuttle 00:27:26.170 --> 00:27:29.890 about, in and among the bleached bones of a skeleton 00:27:29.890 --> 00:27:34.049 which lies on the stone floor. Poor skeleton, 00:27:35.009 --> 00:27:38.089 one of its hands, manacled, claws towards the 00:27:38.089 --> 00:27:44.829 remains of a bowl which once held food. A door 00:27:44.829 --> 00:27:48.500 opens. A light appears on the steps, and Sir 00:27:48.500 --> 00:27:51.180 Simon de Canterville sweeps down the steps, dragging 00:27:51.180 --> 00:27:54.019 Virginia Otis after him. He flings her to the 00:27:54.019 --> 00:27:59.019 floor. Here lie my bones. Here soon shall lie 00:27:59.019 --> 00:28:02.339 yours. He whips a dagger from a case at his side, 00:28:02.500 --> 00:28:05.180 stoops, grabs her by the hair, and holding her 00:28:05.180 --> 00:28:07.960 head back, makes as if to plunge the blade into 00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:11.440 her throat. But he stops short. How can you look 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:16.920 at me like that? Are you not afraid? No. You 00:28:16.920 --> 00:28:22.200 face death, yet you're not afraid. Do I face 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:27.500 death? Will you kill me? What is to prevent me? 00:28:28.420 --> 00:28:31.660 You killed once out of passion and have suffered 00:28:31.660 --> 00:28:35.099 nearly four centuries for it. Would you dare 00:28:35.099 --> 00:28:41.619 again? I would, I, I would. Well then, if I'm 00:28:41.619 --> 00:28:45.069 to die, I suppose I shall. Being afraid wouldn't 00:28:45.069 --> 00:28:51.170 help matters. But really I'm not afraid. At least 00:28:51.170 --> 00:28:59.029 not of you. Eleanor was right. Eleanor? My wife. 00:28:59.410 --> 00:29:02.430 She says I don't seem to frighten anyone anymore 00:29:02.430 --> 00:29:07.890 that I can't hack it anymore. Why do you want 00:29:07.890 --> 00:29:12.819 to? I'm a ghost. It's my only reason for existing. 00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:15.279 It's not a very good reason if you ask me. It's 00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:18.539 no reason at all if it comes to that it's simply 00:29:18.539 --> 00:29:22.720 part of the punishment I must bear for murdering 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:26.559 my wife. The Lady Eleanor? Yes. Why did you murder 00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:32.119 her? Jealousy? Unreasoning jealousy. I thought 00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:34.960 her in love with another man. I found out later 00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:38.099 how wrong I'd been. But it was too late then. 00:29:39.119 --> 00:29:42.039 I assure you my remorse was so great I hardly 00:29:42.039 --> 00:29:44.480 struggled at all when her brothers chained me 00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:50.180 in this dungeon and starved me to death. And 00:29:50.180 --> 00:29:57.380 that? That's your skeleton? Yes. Poor skeleton. 00:29:58.680 --> 00:30:03.460 Poor ghost. You must be very tired. There's only 00:30:03.460 --> 00:30:06.420 a man who has not slept for nearly 400 years 00:30:06.420 --> 00:30:10.339 can be. But there'll be no rest for me never 00:30:10.339 --> 00:30:14.000 any rest until the legend of Canterville Castle 00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:16.799 is fulfilled But I didn't know there was a legend 00:30:16.799 --> 00:30:20.339 Jeff never told me. Oh, yes. Yes And when it 00:30:20.339 --> 00:30:24.559 is fulfilled then Well, then I shall sleep at 00:30:24.559 --> 00:30:28.339 last In the little garden far beyond the pine 00:30:28.339 --> 00:30:32.400 woods. What garden do you mean? The garden where 00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:36.240 the grass grows long and deep Where the hemlock 00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:38.839 flowers are like great white stars and the nightingale 00:30:38.839 --> 00:30:42.920 sings all night long All night long he sings 00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:48.799 and the cold Crystal moon looks down And the 00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:53.039 ewe tree spreads its giant arms over the sleepers 00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:57.339 the sleepers Do you mean the Garden of Death? 00:30:59.059 --> 00:31:07.460 Yes death Would you help me if you could? If 00:31:07.460 --> 00:31:10.940 you could make the legend come true, would you? 00:31:11.579 --> 00:31:19.660 Yes. What is the legend? It is this. When a golden 00:31:19.660 --> 00:31:23.839 girl can win prayer from beyond the gates of 00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:30.039 sin. When the barren almond bears and the girl 00:31:30.039 --> 00:31:34.700 gives away her tears. Then shall all the house 00:31:34.700 --> 00:31:43.579 be still and peace come to Canterville What does 00:31:43.579 --> 00:31:48.200 it mean it means? That you must weep with me 00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:52.960 for my sins Because I have no tears and pray 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:56.539 with me for my soul because I have no faith and 00:31:56.539 --> 00:32:02.359 then And then if you have always been sweet and 00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:07.319 good and gentle that withered almond tree you 00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:09.839 have perhaps seen outside the library window 00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:13.500 the barren almond tree yes that tree will bloom 00:32:13.500 --> 00:32:21.240 again to show to show yes to show that the angel 00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:28.240 of death has had mercy on me i should like to 00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:34.599 do that for you i know But you may fail Yes, 00:32:35.420 --> 00:32:39.019 and if you fail The torches of the damned will 00:32:39.019 --> 00:32:42.259 be yours through all eternity You must dare to 00:32:42.259 --> 00:32:45.859 go beyond the gates of sin. You will see fearful 00:32:45.859 --> 00:32:51.440 shapes hear wicked voices If you are a golden 00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:55.099 girl of the legend you will not be harmed but 00:32:55.099 --> 00:33:03.910 if you're not the golden I Tremble for you What 00:33:03.910 --> 00:33:09.890 is your answer I Will do it think think be sure 00:33:09.890 --> 00:33:20.930 all do be sure I am sure Then turn turn and behold 00:33:20.930 --> 00:33:35.759 the gates of sin The shrieks, the laughter. Worse 00:33:35.759 --> 00:33:40.559 lies beyond the gates, far worse. Ah, you are 00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:44.400 afraid, you are afraid, and I am doomed. No! 00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:48.240 You will go, for me, you will go beyond the gates 00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:52.039 of sin. For you, for any other soul. Then give 00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:56.500 me your hand. Let me kiss you. Your fingers are 00:33:56.500 --> 00:34:01.200 cold as ice. Oh, but your lips burn like fire. 00:34:01.230 --> 00:34:06.269 Soon perhaps my lips too shall be cold, if you 00:34:06.269 --> 00:34:12.210 are the golden girl. I pray God you are, for 00:34:12.210 --> 00:34:18.409 your sake more than mine. You must release my 00:34:18.409 --> 00:34:23.090 hand now, if I'm to go beyond the gates. Yes, 00:34:23.170 --> 00:34:35.230 yes I know, only... Let go. Oh, Virginia! Come 00:34:35.230 --> 00:34:49.170 back! Come back! Mr. Otis, there's nothing that 00:34:49.170 --> 00:34:53.230 can be done. Virginia's gone. Forever. Harold, 00:34:53.590 --> 00:34:56.449 it's all your fault. If we hadn't ridiculed the 00:34:56.449 --> 00:34:59.690 ghost, if we had just taken him seriously, all 00:34:59.690 --> 00:35:03.969 this would have been avoided. You've got to admit 00:35:03.969 --> 00:35:07.829 you're right, Martha. But that doesn't help matters. 00:35:09.110 --> 00:35:13.630 All I want now is to get Ginny back. Safe and 00:35:13.630 --> 00:35:25.650 sound. The girl. Where is she? She's gone. Gone. 00:35:26.570 --> 00:35:29.980 I've been a fool. I... Thought she might be the 00:35:29.980 --> 00:35:32.699 golden girl the girl of the legend and I let 00:35:32.699 --> 00:35:39.980 her go Beyond the gates of sin. Oh No If that 00:35:39.980 --> 00:35:44.699 be so I Am done with you Simon. No, no, no, not 00:35:44.699 --> 00:35:48.340 you Don't touch me. Don't touch me. You're revolting 00:35:48.340 --> 00:35:51.360 enough to be human I tried to stop her at the 00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:54.900 last moment. I tried but it was too late too 00:35:54.900 --> 00:36:04.480 late Too late. Simon? The nightingale. Eleanor, 00:36:05.539 --> 00:36:09.340 the nightingale. It sings. It sings in the Garden 00:36:09.340 --> 00:36:13.800 of Death. It sings. Tell the girl, Virginia, 00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:18.659 oh, she succeeded. She must have. Simon, Simon, 00:36:19.019 --> 00:36:26.659 look. Virginia? Sir Simon? You've returned. From 00:36:26.659 --> 00:36:29.659 beyond the gates of sin you've returned. Did 00:36:29.659 --> 00:36:33.400 you think I wouldn't? Yes. Yes, I I thought that 00:36:33.400 --> 00:36:36.659 I knew I would I'd not have gone past those gates 00:36:36.659 --> 00:36:41.599 if I hadn't felt sure then You are the golden 00:36:41.599 --> 00:36:46.460 girl of the legend. You are the golden girl Are 00:36:46.460 --> 00:36:52.179 you? Saved now. Oh, yes child. Yes. I'm saved 00:36:52.179 --> 00:36:56.469 after all these centuries released And you're 00:36:56.469 --> 00:37:00.309 the one who did it. Eleanor, she is the one. 00:37:01.070 --> 00:37:06.409 What can I do to thank her? What? What, oh Simon? 00:37:07.050 --> 00:37:10.909 Restore her to her own world? What else, dear? 00:37:18.969 --> 00:37:24.269 My watch has stopped. What time is it? It's nearly 00:37:24.269 --> 00:37:30.070 three in the morning. Three in the morning. I've 00:37:30.070 --> 00:37:34.590 got a nine o 'clock committee breakfast. I oh 00:37:34.590 --> 00:37:39.010 What am I saying? Business business it becomes 00:37:39.010 --> 00:37:42.369 a habit my little girl is gone, but my first 00:37:42.369 --> 00:37:46.510 thought is it oh God in your heaven what kind 00:37:46.510 --> 00:37:51.070 of a man am I oh? Hyrum you're a good man. You 00:37:51.070 --> 00:37:58.250 just lost yourself and making a living Lost myself 00:37:58.250 --> 00:38:04.070 in making a living. We spend too much of our 00:38:04.070 --> 00:38:08.989 lives making a living. We should spend more of 00:38:08.989 --> 00:38:16.610 it living. I guess your ghost knows that, Jeff. 00:38:16.829 --> 00:38:20.610 I don't know whether he does or not. I do. What 00:38:20.610 --> 00:38:25.349 was that? I thought I heard... It sounded like 00:38:25.349 --> 00:38:27.269 Ginny's voice. Yes, I thought I heard it, too. 00:38:27.429 --> 00:38:31.929 You did, Jeff. I'm back. I'm here. Ginny! Oh, 00:38:31.929 --> 00:38:35.789 my God. Ginny! Oh, it's Ginny! Oh, my baby! My 00:38:35.789 --> 00:38:41.449 baby! No, no, no. Don't ask me that ever again. 00:38:41.449 --> 00:38:44.510 Yes, but Ginny! Daddy, I love you, but don't... 00:38:44.510 --> 00:38:48.230 Please don't, not ever. Try to tell me what to 00:38:48.230 --> 00:38:53.010 do with my life, my soul again. Let me do what 00:38:53.010 --> 00:38:56.900 I want to do. What God put me into the world 00:38:56.900 --> 00:39:03.820 to do you You sound strange. No, no not strange 00:39:03.820 --> 00:39:11.519 truthful I've seen what What lies beyond? Beyond 00:39:11.519 --> 00:39:16.760 this world beyond us and don't we? We here on 00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:20.460 this earth. We think that we're the end of everything 00:39:20.460 --> 00:39:29.809 and we're really only the beginning And you too, 00:39:29.989 --> 00:39:34.190 Jeff. There's so much out there that we don't 00:39:34.190 --> 00:39:42.309 understand. So much. Ginny, what did you see? 00:39:43.949 --> 00:39:47.929 What's that? Not a bird at this hour of the morning. 00:39:48.369 --> 00:39:53.130 It's a nightingale, Mother. Come. Come to the 00:39:53.130 --> 00:39:57.190 window. I'm sure we'll see what I expect to see. 00:39:57.610 --> 00:40:08.960 Yes. At what, Ginny? At what? The storm is over 00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:15.039 now, and the moon, a great white moon, sheds 00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:19.960 its light over the gardens. Look! The almond 00:40:19.960 --> 00:40:26.179 tree. The barren almond tree. Why, I... It's 00:40:26.179 --> 00:40:29.280 blossomed. I can see the flowers in the moonlight. 00:40:30.099 --> 00:40:34.760 And that tree! It's part of the legend for centuries. 00:40:34.760 --> 00:40:37.460 It hasn't bloomed and and legend said it never 00:40:37.460 --> 00:40:42.659 would until Until peace came to Canterville and 00:40:42.659 --> 00:40:50.739 peace has come Far away Beyond the pine wood 00:40:50.739 --> 00:40:55.280 There was a little garden There the grass grows 00:40:55.280 --> 00:40:58.559 long and deep there the hemlock flowers are like 00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:02.719 great white stars And the nightingale sings all 00:41:02.719 --> 00:41:07.639 night long. All night long he sings. And the 00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:12.179 cold, crystal moon looks down. And the yew tree 00:41:12.179 --> 00:41:20.719 spreads its giant arms over the sleepers. Jeffrey? 00:41:21.980 --> 00:41:27.500 Yes, Ginny? He's at peace, Jeffrey. The Cantivelle 00:41:27.500 --> 00:41:39.550 ghost. is finally at peace. This story, this 00:41:39.550 --> 00:41:43.090 beautiful story, we owe to a man named Oscar 00:41:43.090 --> 00:41:47.010 Wilde. Perhaps some of you know the tragic details 00:41:47.010 --> 00:41:50.809 of the last years of his life. Well, no matter. 00:41:51.550 --> 00:41:55.449 What's important is what he wrote almost a hundred 00:41:55.449 --> 00:41:58.519 years ago. Wrote what entertained you in this 00:41:58.519 --> 00:42:02.039 past hour and perhaps enlightened you too. It 00:42:02.039 --> 00:42:06.840 is better to live than to make a living I'll 00:42:06.840 --> 00:42:18.300 be back shortly Oscar Wilde is buried in Père 00:42:18.300 --> 00:42:23.000 Lachaise Cemetery just outside Paris. I visited 00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:27.090 his tomb a tomb over which a sad angel with drooping 00:42:27.090 --> 00:42:32.329 wings weeps. And, yes, I bowed my head, not so 00:42:32.329 --> 00:42:35.190 much in homage to the man as to the spirit within 00:42:35.190 --> 00:42:40.230 him, the spirit within all of us, our own private, 00:42:40.670 --> 00:42:53.300 very private, Canterville ghost. The entire production 00:42:53.300 --> 00:42:56.619 was under the direction of Hyman Brown. This 00:42:56.619 --> 00:42:59.219 is E .G. Marshall inviting you to return to our 00:42:59.219 --> 00:43:02.320 Mystery Theater for another adventure in the 00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:34.210 macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams. 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