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    qt ABE 1081997 rote SEMINA: DARK VicTORY JOSEF Hiya PAS CtPLiNabranatic Reading FACULTAD DE HUMAN UNIVE IDADES George Brewer, Jr, EGE SIBAD Di FUERTO Riga eopyrtgat Yu BHO Ret LO Time's Course"), 1952 by George Berson Brewe: ion to copy this title for ‘a ‘readin ON BUREAU, Sioux City, Iowa. ‘ Brewer, Jr. Copyright, 1939, Reprinted by pemmission of the authors and the publi: This cutting of \"Dark Victory" is uot to be used by Gramatization, |Tt is published for the sole use of be used in public if the ~eadar recoives remuneration: permission of the Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 6 E New York City. Exclusive permis} WETMORE DECLAMATE |. Dr. Fraderick Steele, a noted young brain specta: New York office And is going back to practice in his hills. On.the dhy he is to leave he is persuaded by ‘One more patient, the beautiful Judith Traherne, who Anjured by & faah from a horse. (, Dr. Stecle, after telling her that he ean promis Bical recovory,"| performs a very delicate ‘operation {For three hota Dr. Steole stays to attend Judt the gréat difference in their lives and their ideale fond of sach other. . } . In the second aot of the play Dr,. Steele comes tol Visit at Judith's luxurtoys hone, j JUDITH: “So youtre off tomorrow?--How can I ever \ STEELE: Dontt let's taik of thanks, Let me say that I'11 come to you half wey ccross the earth, when Judith) T--r menor must have your love, doar, | JUDITH: h,{-I've wanted you to say that ror so thank you for letting me be--young--and alive!=-oh, F earth and all thd good things on it, STEEIE: I'm golng te help you find them, if T can JUDITH: That strange ‘solem: note whenever you at are you keeping from me?--All thoao carefully "A complete surgical recovery"--and "I'll eome to you the earth--whenever you call me." Pred--You have no --Fred, Im asking for the truth~-and I'm entitled to STEELE: Judith, I'd hoped with all my aoul this but it has;-~so we'll face it.--Ae far as surgery can But-there are sore things surgery can't do, JUDITH: ‘Ther that means another operati--? (She No?--You mean that-~wouldn't do any good?--T see,--I! those headaches and that ghastly confusion all over a STHELE: Noy ear, You won't, I promise you tha’ JUDITH! But~-how will it happen? | STEELE: As quietly as goinz to sleep. JUDITH: Godis last small asrey]--1 mistnit Tonge that when I see Himl--Will I have any warning? STEELS: There ill be a moment when you won't be as usual--thet's all, JUDITH: You mean I'11 ro blind? STELE: Juat| for a moment, Thon you'll be perfe again-~bub after & few hours,--you--well, you will go JUDIH: “I sep.--How long have I before the-- the me how long?--Five years?--One year?=-Six wonths?-- Sure #8 Kaa Bull and Bertram Bloch by George Emerson » Je. (Revised), her of the play. east. for actual eaders anc may not y Without written St 9th Street, granted the 3b, is closing his loved Vermont I". Parsons to take as been séricusly "a complete sur- her brain: . and in spite of they become very make his final hank you? hat I care so much ver you call me,-- ong--Dean Goa, ed, I love this about my future, jarded vhrases- half way across ight to pley Cod, it, culdn't’ happen, Zo youtre cured, eads his face)-~ L have to faco eine to thank Him for lable to--to--see, bly all right to sloop, AP==Go on, tell DARK VICTORY---page 2 STEELE: Possibly more. One can't be certain—six--ten months say, After all, time lis only an illusion. We're on an advonture that can't be measured by time--because it 's eternel.--Your bitth wag part of it, Judith; your beality 1s part of it; and your death wlll be part of it. What difference fo e few hours maie?--Cur love--can't be destroyed, JUDITH: You put 4t so eloquentiy--so clearly thought out.---So you ymow this all along! And you're offering to marry me.) (A dry little jeueh, of despair and disillusion) That's very chivalrous of you, Fred, but I couldn't gbt used to thie-sthis thing in six months--I'1l stay here--whers I eah forget, STEELE: You're coming with me to Felsboro es my wife. {UDITH: Oh, I know why you did tt, and, Pred, I want you to know Im terribly, terribly grateful. ; ) STEELE: WayP--I love you, Judith, youtre not seeing things straight. mn bts: (Covering ears) I don't even hoar what you're saying!--Go to Vermont and let ie die my own way.=-If you must think of me, then think of me 28 your patient. Ten years from now you can lopk the oase up in your Tiles:--"Dr¢heme, Jucith--aged twenty-seven--cperation March. fourteenth--patient made trillient recovery--died six| months laters" j STELE: ane it, Judith: JUDITH: Taig isn't going the way you expected! Beautiful Judith Traherne isn't a¢ting up te your sentimental picture $f her.--What do ou think of me now? STEELE: What |I've always thought, I only want. yo faith in yourself that I have in you, \o. JUDITH: Oh, Fredy you're so easy for a woman to gverything I stand for--my set--my triends--my world, |Well, thank God for that world now: My friends will help me forgets=-Six months! 0h God, how dong they seem.~-But--I'11 fi11 them--1'!11 show whoever runs this rotten worla same eles before tive Zoe | don't you go?-- to have the same ad. You despise | pone followed months of fast and.furiols living. As one of the mon }2 her.set said, Hudith had "boon on more and bigger Yinges then anyone in six geen. ne evening, after a particularly tidying day, Judith F000 before the Window in her drawing room alone, S#ill locking out of the window, very quietly she said, "Fred,--1'm leoming." Act Three. ‘Schne: The living room of Di. Steele's house in Felsboro, It 1s evening of the next day, Dr. Steele has just, finished putting a log on the fire. A knock is heard, and Judith enters. 4 TUDITH: Fred,| I've cane. STEELE: Judith--Steady: SUDTPH: Oh, I}m all right, STEELE: Thank) God! 2 JUbitH: I musy talk to you, Fred.--I!ve done what 1 sata I would, Eyerything--to the last empty boast,--I couldn't die Khowing your bigter: ness toward me--T| couldn't have you go on feeling that| vay. forever, STBEIB: Stop it, Judith. Do you think I have found|happiness in this ompty house? I Lote you, Judith.--iim never going te Ipt you go again. JUITE: Then | must never interfere with your Workb

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