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Dark Victory

Encore Theater Single · July 30, 1946 · 29 min · 4,072 words

The transcript of “Dark Victory”, an episode of Encore Theater Single first broadcast July 30, 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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The Sennley Laboratories, producer of Penicillin, Shenley, and Shenley Pharmaceuticals, presents the Encore Theatre. The Encore Theatre play tonight, Dark Victory. Our stars are French O'Tone and Susan Peters. 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. of devotion to an ideal, individual heroism or great courage. By these programs, Shanley 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 medicines and mortals or the everyday record of service rendered by your own physician. victory, starring Susan Peters as Judith Truhern and Frank Chilton as Dr. Fred Steele.

It's a process, I'm sorry, but I've closed my office for good. I've built a little laboratory on my farm up in Vermont and I've been waiting nine years to get started on my research. Don't tell me you've been bitten by the bug for scientific research.

Something like that. On what? Cells. Brain cells. Tell me, why do healthy cells suddenly go berserk and grow wild? Do you know? Neither does anyone. We call them tumors, guiomas, cysts, cancers. We operate and cure with a knife.

But one of these days, someone's going to find a serum that'll be to these growths what anti-toxin is to diphtheria. Can't you put off leaving and see this girl? She's desperately ill. I've been watching her like a hawk and she's losing ground each day.

Count found that you're always talking about the obligation of doctors to humanity. But there's humanity waiting for you in the reception room. Alright, I'll have a look at the girl, but I warn you, I'm taking that train.

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