Royal53-11-0105The Sire De Maletroits Door

The National Broadcasting Company presents Transcribe Sir Lawrence Olivier, your host, in Theatre Royal. This is Lawrence Olivier. I shall quite shortly, as you know, be appearing each week in various roles in this series. But until then, it is my pleasure to present to you some of my own good friends from the theatre.

I guess this week is an actor who will be familiar to you through films such as Goodbye Mr. Chips, the Citadel, the Count of Monte Cristo, the Ghost Goes West, the Winslow Boy, the Magic Box, and many more. His name, needless to say, is Robert Donat. He has chosen a story by Robert

Louis Stevenson, and it gives me particular pleasure to tell you that you will hear with him in this play an actress who it was my own good fortune to have with me in the role of Catherine in my film of Shakespeare's Henry V. I should perhaps remind you that while we all know her as Renee Ashison, she is also Mrs. Robert Donat. Here then is Robert Donat

in the role of Denny de Boulier, with Renee Ashison as Blanche de Maltoire, and Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Sierra de Maltoire's Dawn. It happened in 1429. France was still under arms, for Burgundy had not yet captured our Joan of Arc and the English had not yet burned her. I was a younger man, more

headstrong, and I fought for France. It was September and I had written into Chateau Londau and received conduct, and I had been to dine with a friend. It's been like old time seeing you again, Dennis. Well, I couldn't pass only of the town and not look in on an old friend. And you really must go.