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Nurse Edith Cavell

Encore Theater Single · August 20, 1946 · 29 min · 4,093 words

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Shenley Laboratories, producer of Penisillum Shenley and Shenley Pharmaceuticals, presents the Yankore Theatre. Yankore Theatre Play Tonight, Nurse Edith Cavill. Our star is Ida Lupino. Tonight, Shenley Laboratories presents another in a 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 courage. By these programs, Shenley Laboratories would remind you that medical science and progress is not cold in personal 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 everyday record of service rendered by your own position. And now, nurse Edith Cavill, starring Ida Lupino in the title row. It was morning when the German columns marched into Brussels that unforgettable August of 1914.

They got no welcome. The stores and windows were shuttered by command of the Bergamista. Behind drawn curtains the people waited the order of the conqueror. The ordinances will be published for everyone to read. Some of our people are very poor and can't read.

Your people need a lesson. They need discipline. We are a free people. We don't respond very readily to discipline. I don't like your tone. I am sorry. You must change it. You have a great influence in this city.

Show a spirit of cooperation and acceptance of the new regime and the people will follow you. How little you understand them. The moment I do that, my influences, you call it would disappear. They would pass me by in the streets as they do you here, Captain, without seeming to realize that I existed.

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