Citadel

Great Scenes from Great Plays with your host Walter Hamden and starring tonight Mr. Walter Pigeon in The Citadel. On behalf of the families of the Protestant Episcopal Church in your own community and the Episcopal Actors Guild, we welcome you to another half hour of great scenes from great plays transcribed by famous artists of stage, screen and radio.

Now I present your host, the distinguished actor-manager, Mr. Walter Hamden. Thank you and good evening. Tonight it is our privilege to present a famous story that has touched the hearts of audiences everywhere. It is A.J.

Cronin's The Citadel. The story about a doctor, by a doctor. The story of a man whose ideals came into bitter conflict with his ambition and whose love for his wife restored those ideals. And here to play that man, Dr. Andrew Manson, is Mr. Walter Pigeon.

It is the early part of the century, and fresh from his internship, the ink on his parchment only newly dry, Dr. Andrew Manson comes to his first practice.

Going his brand-new rounds in the smog and squalor of a Welsh mining town, his young, eager, and resolved to do good, but his handicaps are three, this called doubt. Tell me now, has she been like this long?

Hi Doctor, three, four days now. And always with this fever? I, she's had the fever. But you say it started with a chill? I, there was that chill the first? I see. Well, come to my office in half an hour, say I'll prepare something, some medicine.

I'll prepare something. First, the doubt of self. The text books and the professors said nothing of that, nor of this ignorance. Doctor, sir, will you renew my medicine? What's in it, ma'am, and what's it for?