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Green Light

Encore Theater Single · June 25, 1946 · 29 min · 4,046 words

The transcript of “Green Light”, an episode of Encore Theater Single first broadcast June 25, 1946. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). All Mixed Up plays Encore Theater Single free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Shenley Laboratories, producer of Penisyl and Shenley and Shenley Pharmaceuticals, presents the Encore Theatre. The Encore Theatre play tonight, Green Light, our star is Robert Young. Tonight, Shenley Laboratories presents another in 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 cold, impersonal research or pages of statistics, but a warm human story told in

living terms, whether it's the life of one of medicines and mortals or the simple everyday a record of service rendered by your own position. Starring Robert Young is Dr. Newell Page, and with Pedro de Cordoba as Dean Harcourt.

The story of a doctor. Newell Page, surgeon, bay tree hospital, and of a girl. Phyllis Dexter, I hated Dr. Page. I thought I would always hate him. The story too of a nurse. Francis Ogilvy, staff, bay tree hospital.

I love Dr. Page. I thought I would always love him. The story of a woman of great faith and courage. My mother and Mrs. John Dexter. And of a great religious man, Dean Harcourt of Trinity Cathedral.

Men's progress in life is not steadily armored. Sometimes he is stuck 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 to 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 growing up. For it is as inevitable as time that man progresses to a better future. If not for himself, then through his suffering for his fellow men. When Many as land is, the signal changes, and the green light frees him to resume his inexorable

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