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Tonight and every Tuesday night, Colgate Toothpowder brings you the theater of romance.
Featuring each week your favorite stars and favorite stories and plays, especially adapted for radio.
And here is your host to tell you about tonight's presentation, Rendezvous at Meyerling,
starring Geraldine Fitzgerald with Carl Swenson.
Good evening. There are many stories and many legends about the romance of Marie Becerra and Crown Prince Rudolph.
The actual historic facts have been set down for all to read.
But the events leading up to those happenings have been cloaked in legend.
Here then is one of them, Rendezvous at Meyerling.
It starts at one of Vienna's mask balls.
Marie Becerra was there with her parents and early in the evening she stepped out on the balcony.
And there...
What is such a pretty young lady doing all by herself out here on the balcony?
Oh, I beg your pardon. I didn't know anyone was out here. I was waiting for my partner.
Oh, don't go.
Well, I can't stay out here. After all, I don't know you.
Well, I don't know you. I'm willing to take a chance.
After all, this is a masked ball. A great many strangers will get acquainted tonight on the pretext of pretending they're talking to an old friend.
I... I don't know you. Do I?
No, not yet.
Isn't it strange? I feel as though I do.
Isn't it strange?
So do I. Will you dance?
Oh, yes. I'd love to.
There is something about the way you fit into my arms that is just about perfect.
Thank you, but...
What?
I really should leave you. I have a partner.
Oh, do you think that he may come looking for you?
Oh, definitely. He's a very conscientious young man.
Do you know what I do about conscientious people?
What?
Run away from them. Come on.
Look at you. You're so beautiful.
Look at that moon. It's a wonderful night, isn't it?
I ordered it especially for you. I called in Alphonse just before I left for the ball.
Alphonse is my man.
Alphonse, I said I want a very special moon tonight because I am going to meet a very lovely young lady.
You may be disappointed when I take off my mask.
No.
You take my arm.
Let's walk along the Danube and pretend that we've walked through the night.
For the past three months.
Why three months?
Because with a three-month acquaintance behind us, you couldn't possibly be offended if I kissed you.
I am going to kiss you, you know.
You're... you're very sure of yourself, aren't you?
I am tonight.
I don't know why.
I only know tonight that we have to meet.
And that I had to kiss you.
Darling.
I've waited a long time for you and for that kiss.
I've waited a very long time.
Take off the mask.
Take off yours.
Hello, my darling.
Hello.
Hello, my darling.
Here we are.
Look, it's almost daylight.
This has been the most beautiful evening of my life.
Yes, I'm sorry it's over.
Come, I'll take you to the door.
When will I see you again?
I don't know.
As soon as possible.
Isn't it funny?
I don't know who you are or anything about you.
I don't even know your name.
I only know that there's always been a loneliness inside of me and...
and now it's gone.
Oh, you're so sweet.
You're so very sweet.
Does it matter that you don't know my name or who I am?
No.
All that matters is that at last I've met you.
Good night, darling.
Good night.
Well, Marie, where have you been?
Your father and I were nearly frantic.
Who did you leave the ball with?
Oh, Mama, you'd never understand.
You and I will speak further about this tonight.
Go to your bed.
I suppose you've forgotten that you're to be presented to the Empress this afternoon.
I had forgotten.
I'd forgotten everything in the world.
Your Majesty, the Baroness Viceroy and her daughter.
Baroness Marie Viceroy.
Your Majesty.
Your daughter is very lovely, Baroness Viceroy.
Your Majesty is most gracious.
Oh, Rudolf, come and meet the Baroness Viceroy and her daughter Marie.
This is my son, Crown Prince Rudolf.
Baroness Viceroy.
And the Baroness Marie Viceroy.
Baroness.
It's indeed a pleasure to meet you both.
Isn't Stephanie coming to the reception, Rudolf?
Uh, no, Mother, she isn't feeling very well today.
Rudolf's wife is not as strong as our Austrian girls.
Won't you introduce Marie to some of the others, Rudolf,
while I have a chat with her mother?
I should be delighted.
Will you take my arm, Baroness?
With...
...a pleasure, Your Highness.
Come in the library a moment, I must talk to you.
You're sorry you came, aren't you?
If you hadn't come last night,
it might have remained something very beautiful, don't you?
Last night is something very beautiful to me and always will be.
Ah, darling.
You see, I could have told you who I was,
but I was afraid you'd run away.
Are you in love with Stephanie?
No, I'm in love with you.
I've never been in love in my life until now.
Marie, what are we to do?
What can we do?
Well, there are two things,
either see each other or not see each other.
The wise thing is not exactly the happy thing, is it?
Now, Marie, don't turn away from me.
Look at me.
We had to meet.
We belong together.
Marie, please...
Oh, please, don't put your arms around me.
You're a prince and married.
You can never belong to me.
What kind of a marriage is it?
Because the heads of two governments
think a marriage is political.
Does that make it good and right and fine?
A marriage is only good when it's between two people
who want to live together
because they cannot bear to live apart from one another.
Oh, Marie, if I could marry you,
that would be a marriage like there never was,
this side of heaven or hell.
Don't, don't say those things.
Let's not talk of what might have been or should have been.
Marie, the hours we live run out swiftly.
We're already late.
Let's take the hours that we still have
and whatever measure of happiness life will give us.
And how will it end?
I don't know.
But if it matters how it ends,
then you must go now, Marie.
I won't follow you.
I won't ever try to see you again.
I'll respect your judgment.
Well, Marie?
Oh, my darling, my darling,
I cannot say I will not see you again.
Doesn't matter how it ends if I can be with you.
I don't know whether it's wrong or right or good or bad.
I only know I love you and I must see you
or I will die.
Marie.
Let's take the hours and live them as they come
without question, without regrets until the end.
If sorrow comes, when sorrow comes...
When sorrow comes, we'll meet it together.
No, don't cry.
Please don't cry, Marie.
I think a love like ours, Rudolph,
is always set to tears.
No.
This hour will be gay.
From the beginning it'll be gay.
From the beginning until the ending.
In just a moment, we'll bring you the second act
of rendezvous at Meyerling.
But first...
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Romance is the fragrance of the flower of love.
If that flower is within your grasp,
don't let its perfume vanish.
Don't let a little breath of trouble blow it away.
No, I hope you won't let unpleasing breath
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And now the second act of rendezvous at Meyerling,
starring Geraldine Fitzgerald.
I suppose you've heard about
Crown Prince Rudolph and that girl,
that Baroness Vachera.
I should say I have.
Everyone in Austria has heard about them shameless pair.
I saw them myself last night, dancing at Ogarten.
I love to dance with you.
You winks when you dance.
It's because I'm dancing with you.
Everybody's looking at us.
Oh, no.
There are no people here.
No?
We're dancing across the star.
There isn't another human being in sight.
And that orchestra is an astral orchestra
of one thousand violins.
Let's dance forever.
Oh, yes.
Let's dance forever.
I'm telling you, I saw them with my own eyes
outside the city, arm in arm.
Ask me for something.
Some present that would make you happy.
I'd like to give you the world.
You have given me the world.
There's nothing that would make you more happy.
Yes, there is.
But you couldn't give it to me, Rudolph.
But tell me.
I'd like a house.
Somewhere out here beside the Danube,
that you would be the heart of.
A friendly house.
Where we could invite the people we love
to come and laugh with us.
That would stretch its walls and make room for
two or three little boys
who'd look like you
and scowl like you.
And smile that same quick smile
that makes my heart turn over.
Oh, Rudolph.
Rudolph.
My dear.
You see, I told you, you couldn't give it to me.
No, I can't.
The world has no place in it for you and me.
See, the world has locked its doors
and said its words against us.
We're homeless and kinless.
You are my world.
You are my life.
My love and my happiness.
You're my tears and my anger.
You're my joy and my heartbreak.
I'll never give you up, Mary.
Even though I'd die for it, I'll never give you up.
Oh, Rudolph.
Even though I'd die for it, I'll never give you up.
Mary, you're never to see
Crown Prince Rudolph again.
You're behaving shamelessly,
sneaking out at all hours,
telling me you're going to meet some friend
in the afternoon and meeting that man.
Constantly lying, deceiving.
For a year this has been going on,
in spite of everything I've said.
I'm ashamed to have to acknowledge you as my daughter.
Oh, Mother, please.
Please listen to me.
Try to understand.
I shall never understand.
Nor do I want to understand.
What is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong.
There is no compromise that can be made with honor.
Rudolph is married, and he is the future ruler of Austria.
I love him.
You have no right to love him.
Do you think you can say you must not love,
and that that will make a difference?
We didn't choose to fall in love.
We didn't plan it.
It just happened.
The moment I looked at him, it was like coming home.
I know he's married.
I know he's the future emperor,
but knowing it doesn't make any difference,
because we belong together.
Together we are somehow complete and content,
and apart neither of us have anything.
If that were not true of him too,
then I would do as you ask.
You're a wicked, shameless girl.
You shall not.
You cannot make me ashamed of my love.
It is my pride. It is my honor.
It is my life.
Mary, you are never to see the crown prince again.
This disgraceful affair is going to end right now and forever.
Rudolph, there's no use in any further discussion.
I forbid you to see this woman again.
Father, you don't understand.
You'll never understand.
No, I don't understand.
What kind of a man are you?
What kind of a prince?
You have no right to sell you the Habsburg name.
You're disgracing your country and the throne that you'll inherit.
I order you to put this woman from your life.
You're a prince of the House of Habsburg.
Your dignity and honor is the dignity and honor of the entire lineage.
And if I refuse to do as you ask?
Then I will take matters into my own hands
and see that she's sent where you'll never see her again.
Well, Rudolph,
very well, Father.
I'll do as you ask.
I'll meet her just once more and tell her.
And then you'll have nothing to fear from me again.
I...
I don't mean to be unfeeling, Rudolph.
I know what it is to love.
But love must be put aside if it is at odds with honor.
When... when will you tell her?
I was going for a day's hunting at Meiling. I'll take her with me.
You surely cannot deny me the right to tell her in my own way.
You'll give me a word that this will be your last rendezvous?
Yes.
Our meeting at Meiling will be our last rendezvous.
Rudolph, come out on the balcony.
Look, the stars are fading.
You know, it's a strange feeling to look at the stars on the moon and know that...
that you'll never see them again.
You suddenly feel that you should look for a long time,
that you should look long and hard at everything.
No, you don't have to die, Marie.
I'll leave you behind if you like.
You're young, you're lovely, you've much to live for.
I have nothing to live for in a world that you have left.
Come, sit beside the fire with me for a little while.
If you like.
Let me put my arm around you.
Tell me, if we had that house that you wanted,
what would it be like?
Well, every morning I would have gotten up early and fixed your breakfast.
And then we would have had it in front of the fire.
And then I would have walked with you to get the carriage and ridden the ways with you.
Then walked home.
Where would I be going?
To work.
Oh, I see.
And then I would have cleaned the house and dusted and made everything right for you to come home to.
And in the afternoon, the boys and I would have had a frolic outside.
And after that I'd get them all scrubbed and clean and ready for their father.
And then you'd come home.
And we'd have dinner and tuck the children in bed.
And then we'd sit like this, night after night.
Growing old and growing old together.
I'd have liked that house.
I wish this world had a house for us, Marie.
I know.
Are you sorry that we fell in love?
Have you any regrets?
Regrets, not one.
I've had a year of more happiness than most people have in a lifetime.
We've completed our lifetime in this year, Marie.
I know. But it's been beautiful.
Maybe the beauty hurt a little now and then when people glowed in on it.
But even the pain was beautiful.
Oh, Rudolf.
The only thing that frightens me, the only thing that makes me sorry to go is that...
we're facing the unknown now.
I may never feel your arms or your lips again.
I may never find you again.
Oh, you'll find me.
It'll only be a step. We'll cross the threshold together.
And then we'll find peace.
You see, there's no peace on earth but us, my darling.
There never would be.
I know.
An old day. I've been praying that we will find it now.
Look, my darling, it's almost dawn.
Do you remember the first night we met, the first time we saw the dawn together?
Now it's the last time in this world.
We've used up the hours, Marie.
Now it's the last hour.
Almost the last moment.
Here, let me carry you.
Kiss me good night, Rudolf.
Oh, my darling.
Good night, my darling.
Sweet dreams. God be with you.
Until we meet again.
Rudolf, there's a line. Do you remember it?
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
But we shall meet again when it be morrow.
We shall meet again.
Look, the sun's coming up.
Yes.
We shall be free before it fully rises.
We promised it would be our last rendezvous.
We've kept our word.
Close your eyes, my darling.
Close your eyes.
We shall meet again when it be morrow.
And so they kept the last rendezvous at Meiling.
And the world that had denied them the right to love,
talked about them and wondered about them,
and finally wept and left them at peace.
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When a man meets her, his heart begins to race.
But it slows down fast, for the facts reveal that lovely Lucille
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Next week it's our pleasure to bring you the gifted star of radio,
stage and screen, Miss Ruth Chatterton, in No Time for Comedy.
A romantic story which is the light amusing tale of a brilliant actress
who finds that her husband doesn't like criticism,
even when it will help his career.
Until next Tuesday night when Colgate tooth powder's
theater of romance will bring you Ruth Chatterton in No Time for Comedy,
this is your host saying good night and wishing you love, happiness and romance.
In tonight's play, Miss Geraldine Fitzgerald starred in the role of Marie.
Rudolph was played by Carl Swenson.
Rendezvous at Meyerling was written especially for this program by Jean Holloway.
The music was composed and conducted by Ben Ludlow
and the entire production was under the direction of Mark Slob.
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