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00:00:09Since the beginning, man has looked into the awesome reaches of infinity and asked the
00:00:14eternal questions. What is time? And what is space? What is life? And what is death?
00:00:32Through a hundred civilizations, philosophers and scientists have come with answers, but
00:00:37the bewilderment remains, for each human soul must find the secret in its own faith. The
00:00:44tender and haunting legend of the portrait of Jenny is based on the two ingredients of
00:00:49faith, truth and hope. There is such a portrait that hung in the Metropolitan Museum in New
00:00:56York. And there was such a girl named Jenny who sat for it. So much is true. For the rest,
00:01:05science tells us that nothing ever dies, but only changes. That time itself does not pass,
00:01:12but curves around us. And that the past and the future are together at our side forever.
00:01:21Out of the shadows of knowledge, and out of a painting that hung on a museum wall, comes
00:01:25our story, the truth of which lies not on our screen, but in your heart.
00:01:42And now, portrait of Jenny. New York is a cold place in the winter. It was no warmer in the
00:01:53winter
00:01:53of 34. Yet there is a type of suffering for the artists, which is worse than anything a winter
00:02:00or poverty can do. It is more like a winter of the mind, a dreadful feeling of the world's
00:02:08indifference. My courage had all run out.
00:02:24Yes, sir. What can I do for you? Well, you can buy one of my pictures, perhaps. Yes, but of
00:02:30course,
00:02:31we buy very, very little. Almost nothing. Times being what they are. However, let me see what you have.
00:02:45Hmm. Landscapes. Mostly. Yeah. Too bad. These are some things I did up at Cape Cod. That's the fisheries
00:02:53at North Truro. Mm-hmm. Landscapes. Here are some sketches of the city. That's the bridge. Yes. It's a good
00:03:06bridge, but I just don't happen to like bridges. They come in every day, well, it doesn't. Oh, Spiddy. You
00:03:13startled me. This is my partner, Miss Spiddy. I don't believe I caught your name.
00:03:18Hmm. I didn't say it. My name is Ebon Adams. What are you so defensive about? I'm not. I'm Ebon
00:03:26Adams. Perhaps it would be better if you weren't. You might eat more. Don't be in such a hurry. Let's
00:03:32see what you've got here.
00:03:34There's nothing there that will interest you. Are you pardoned? You're probably right. I'd like to see what interests you.
00:03:40Sit down, Adams.
00:03:43You may not sell anything, but at least you'll rest. I'd advise you to sit.
00:03:52You paint a nice flower. Thank you.
00:03:56Do you ever read Robert Browning? Long time ago.
00:03:59Do you remember his poem about Andrea del Sato, the perfect painter?
00:04:04Proportion, anatomy, color. He had everything and nothing.
00:04:09He painted a perfect hand, while Raphael drew a formless claw.
00:04:16But Raphael loved his work.
00:04:19Poor Andy del Sato.
00:04:21I think I get your point.
00:04:23There isn't a drop of love in any of these.
00:04:25Oh, really, Miss Spiddy.
00:04:27Don't be soft, Matthews. I'm an old maid, and nobody knows more about love than an old maid.
00:04:33What's the matter with you, Adams?
00:04:35We'll have to learn to care deeply for something. We'll take the flower.
00:04:40Huh?
00:04:41I happen to have a weakness for flowers. He doesn't do them too badly.
00:04:46Give you $12.50 for it. There's any argument. There's no sale.
00:04:49There's no argument.
00:04:51You pay him, Mr. Matthew.
00:04:52I haven't had your change of a dollar.
00:04:55I haven't got a dime.
00:04:57He'll owe us 50 cents.
00:05:00If you want more flowers, I've got a carload of them than home.
00:05:03I was afraid of that. Good day.
00:05:08Thank you very much.
00:05:10Good day, Miss Spiddy.
00:05:12I don't think you really wanted the picture.
00:05:14If I hadn't wanted it, I wouldn't have taken it.
00:05:17You have beautiful eyes.
00:05:19Goodbye.
00:05:22Oh, dear. I'm afraid that picture isn't worth more than a couple of dollars.
00:05:27No, but Adams is.
00:05:29Yes, but we're supposed to be in the business for profit, Miss Spiddy.
00:05:33I thought.
00:05:35I bought this for myself.
00:05:37Oh, it's wonderful what a little compliment can do.
00:05:42My first in 20 years, Mr. Matthews.
00:05:47At last, I had a little money in my pocket.
00:05:50But I think I was a little lightheaded from not having had enough to eat.
00:05:55Suddenly, I had the awareness of something extraordinary.
00:05:59The city sounds were muted and far away.
00:06:02They seemed to come from another time,
00:06:06like the sound of summer in a meadow long ago.
00:06:14It belongs to me.
00:06:22Isn't anybody here with you?
00:06:24No.
00:06:25Why should there be?
00:06:27It's getting pretty dark.
00:06:28Why don't you go home?
00:06:30Well, I don't have to go home yet.
00:06:31Nobody's ready for me.
00:06:34Anyway, you're with me.
00:06:38I'm Jenny.
00:06:40Jenny?
00:06:40Jenny what?
00:06:41Jenny Appleton.
00:06:43Father, mother, actresses, and actresses.
00:06:45They're working down at Hammerstein's Victoria.
00:06:47They do juggling on a rope.
00:06:48Did you say Hammerstein's?
00:06:50Uh-huh.
00:06:50Why?
00:06:51Because it was torn down years ago when I was a boy.
00:06:55You must be thinking of some other place
00:06:56because I was there yesterday.
00:06:58Well, now, really, I can...
00:06:59Now, let me see your pictures, mister.
00:07:01Adams.
00:07:03How do you know they are pictures?
00:07:04Oh, I just know.
00:07:11Those are awful little windows for such a big church.
00:07:13They have to be little.
00:07:14There's so much wind in Cape Cod.
00:07:16I don't like it.
00:07:17It scares me.
00:07:18The wind?
00:07:19No, the black water.
00:07:22There should be a lighthouse out there in the ocean.
00:07:26Yes, there should be.
00:07:27How did you know?
00:07:28I don't exactly remember.
00:07:30Someday I'll show it to you.
00:07:32Out there on the rocks.
00:07:33The land's in light.
00:07:34But you said you didn't remember.
00:07:37I don't.
00:07:37I just know.
00:07:41I wish I liked your pictures, but I don't.
00:07:45That's what everybody says.
00:07:46That's why I can't sell them.
00:07:49Maybe you shouldn't paint places.
00:07:51Why don't you paint people instead?
00:07:53Cecily Brown's home is full of pictures of people.
00:07:55Who's Cecily Brown?
00:07:57She's my best friend.
00:07:58I go to school every day now, but only in the mornings.
00:08:01What do you learn?
00:08:02Well, yesterday we learned about the Kaiser.
00:08:04He's the king of Germany.
00:08:05He was a long time ago.
00:08:08You're wrong.
00:08:09Cecily Brown's father's in Germany now, and he sees him all the time.
00:08:11But he was...
00:08:12He says that Kaiser rides around on a white horse, and he likes to fight.
00:08:16I can fight, too.
00:08:17I can fight Cecily.
00:08:18She's bigger, but I'm stronger.
00:08:20I can fight her good.
00:08:21I thought you said Cecily Brown was your best friend.
00:08:24She is.
00:08:26It's fun to have somebody to play with.
00:08:28Don't you have anybody to play with?
00:08:31No.
00:08:34Well, I'm afraid I have to go now.
00:08:37Well, it's a little lonesome here all by myself.
00:08:39So I'll walk a ways with you if you don't mind.
00:08:43I know a song.
00:08:44Would you like to hear it?
00:08:45I'd love to.
00:08:46Where I come from
00:08:58Nobody knows
00:09:05And where I am going
00:09:14Everything knows
00:09:16Everything knows
00:09:18The wind blows
00:09:22The sea flows
00:09:26Nobody knows
00:09:33And where I am going
00:09:44Nobody knows
00:09:47And where I am going
00:10:01Wishing gang
00:10:02I'll tell you what I wish most
00:10:03What do you wish?
00:10:05Well, first you have to close your eyes
00:10:06And turn around three times
00:10:09I wish that you would wait for me to grow up
00:10:11So that we could always be together
00:10:17But you won't, I guess
00:10:20Well, I can't talk to you anymore
00:10:23Goodbye
00:10:37I'll get your parcel
00:10:39Oh, thank you
00:10:44Funny kind of a kid
00:10:48Jenny
00:11:06Is that you, Mr. Adams?
00:11:08Yes, Mrs. Jeex
00:11:10You always come in so extremely quiet
00:11:12I can hardly hear you, Mr. Adams
00:11:13So thoughtful of my other tenants
00:11:15I didn't want to disturb anybody
00:11:16Of course not
00:11:17A fine gentleman like you
00:11:19Would five dollars do for a while?
00:11:21It won't do, but I'll take it
00:11:22I hope I'll have some more for you soon
00:11:23You'd better see that you do
00:11:25I don't suppose you'd be interested
00:11:26In another one of my sketches
00:11:27Until I...
00:11:28Oh, no, my bathroom's full of now
00:11:29Where would I put another one?
00:11:30In my parlor?
00:11:31No, I wouldn't expect anything like that
00:11:37You certainly have a way, Mrs. Jeex
00:11:39Play with him like a cat with a mouse
00:11:41And then you pounce
00:11:42But he is attractive, isn't he?
00:11:43And a gentleman besides
00:11:45That's what makes it so hard to throw him out
00:11:47Oh, but he's an ornament to your face
00:11:49In your house, Mrs. Jeex
00:11:50I just can't understand
00:11:51A man fiddling away his time
00:11:53Just painting things
00:11:54Of course, he did shovel some snow
00:11:57To pay part of last month's rent
00:12:00Painting things?
00:12:01Women?
00:12:03Women in the...
00:12:04Mrs. Bunce, we agreed that he was a gentleman
00:12:06A gentleman just don't paint women in the...
00:12:09No, of course not
00:12:18Is he the man in the...
00:12:25있다
00:12:26A husband
00:12:28He died
00:12:38To buy a discount
00:12:39A woman
00:12:47Somehow the tune the little girl sang stayed in my mind, and I thought of the last thing
00:12:53she'd said to me about waiting for her to grow up.
00:12:56But people can't wait for other people to grow up.
00:13:00There was something different about that child.
00:13:03I wondered if my pencil could catch it.
00:13:19Hiya, Mac.
00:13:20Morning, Gus.
00:13:22Morning, is it?
00:13:23You've slept it all the way.
00:13:24It stung forever, and a grand morning it was, too.
00:13:27I worked pretty late last night.
00:13:29I didn't get to sleep until dawn.
00:13:31Had your breakfast yet?
00:13:32Well, no.
00:13:34Now it's about having some lunch with me.
00:13:36No, no.
00:13:36I'm not going to eat on you, Gus.
00:13:37You have to work too hard for your money.
00:13:39Wait a minute.
00:13:40I've got some money of my own.
00:13:41No care.
00:13:42I sold a picture yesterday.
00:13:43Twelve dollars and a half.
00:13:44Well, what do you know?
00:13:45Today you're having lunch on me.
00:13:47It's a great pleasure, Mac.
00:13:49Just come along a minute while I fix up the hack, and we'll soon be on our way.
00:13:53You know, Gus, I can't get you at all.
00:13:55Why should you care if I eat?
00:13:57Well, maybe I don't like to see people go hungry.
00:14:00Let me put it this way, Mac.
00:14:02I got a lot of respect for a guy that's doing what he's got to do, even if maybe it's
00:14:06killing him.
00:14:07Now, you want to paint pictures, so you're going right ahead doing it no matter.
00:14:12I like that, Mac.
00:14:13You know, most of the time a fella's got the idea that there's nothing much to life, except getting through
00:14:18it as easy and as comfortable as he can.
00:14:21Making a quarter here, a dollar there.
00:14:24Eating, sleeping, and dying.
00:14:27And then a fella like you comes along who's not thinking too much about them things.
00:14:31He'll start you wondering.
00:14:34Wondering if maybe you're not missing something.
00:14:38Hop in.
00:14:39I'd like to recommend my friend Moore and his corned beef and cabbage.
00:14:44It's almost like home.
00:14:45You couldn't pay me to eat anywhere else.
00:14:48Oh, sorry, Mac.
00:14:49Oh, it's all right.
00:14:50Oh, well.
00:14:53Well, taking to wearing scarves?
00:14:57That isn't mine. I found it.
00:14:59Belongs to a little girl I met in the park.
00:15:01Yeah, pretty big scarf for a little girl.
00:15:03Funny kid.
00:15:04She said her parents were acrobats at Hammerstein's Victoria.
00:15:07Yeah, Hammerstein's was torn down years ago.
00:15:09Of course it was.
00:15:10But she said she was there yesterday.
00:15:12Yeah, that's kids for you.
00:15:14Always dreaming up something.
00:15:16Well, what do you know?
00:15:17Sarah Bernhardt's coming to America for a farewell tour.
00:15:20Sarah Bernhardt, have you gone crazy?
00:15:22Well, that's what it says here.
00:15:24Sarah Bernhardt, distinguished French tragedian, arrives next month.
00:15:30Let me see.
00:15:31Well, that is what it says.
00:15:35Say, this paper's dated 1910.
00:15:381910?
00:15:38Where'd you pick up an old paper like that?
00:15:40The little girl in the park had it.
00:15:42Her scarf was wrapped in her.
00:15:44Gus.
00:15:46Read that.
00:15:47Read that ad.
00:15:49Hammerstein's Victoria.
00:15:50Eva Tangway, the American Comedienne.
00:15:53Will Rogers, expert lariat thrower.
00:15:55The Appletons, Novelty High Wire Act.
00:15:57Well, what about it?
00:15:58It's just what she said.
00:15:59I don't get you.
00:16:00She said her name was Jenny Appleton.
00:16:03So?
00:16:04Now that I think of it, she wasn't dressed the way the kids are now.
00:16:09Oh, look, Mac, you're not trying to believe this kid, are you?
00:16:13Of course not.
00:16:14Okay, okay, eat your lunch.
00:16:15As my mother used to say, if you got too little in your stomach, you got too much in your
00:16:19head.
00:16:22I see.
00:16:23You think I'm imagining things.
00:16:26Oh, no, Gus.
00:16:27She was real enough, all right.
00:16:29I saw her.
00:16:31What's more I could draw her for you?
00:16:33Hi, Gus.
00:16:33Hi, Mac.
00:16:34How are things?
00:16:35My friend Mac.
00:16:36Mac here's the owner of the joint.
00:16:37Hello, Mr. Moore.
00:16:39Everything all right, sir?
00:16:40Couldn't be better.
00:16:41I'm glad to hear you say it.
00:16:42And you, Gus?
00:16:43Everything all right?
00:16:44Sure, sure, I guess so.
00:16:46What do you mean, I guess so?
00:16:47Anything wrong?
00:16:49No, no, I guess not.
00:16:51Is the food all right?
00:16:52Sure, sure.
00:16:54And what's great for you?
00:16:56Well, I kind of hate to say this, Mac.
00:16:57You're not the sort of man I like to hurt.
00:17:00But if you don't see me around for a while, don't be surprised.
00:17:04I thought I might start eating down at Nick's for a change.
00:17:07Nick's?
00:17:07Yeah.
00:17:09Nick's?
00:17:09And what's wrong with Nick's?
00:17:11Oh, nothing the matter with Nick's.
00:17:14I suppose, if you like that type of place.
00:17:18So you're going to start eating down at Nick's?
00:17:22It's a nice day we're having.
00:17:24A beautiful day.
00:17:25It is, and more.
00:17:27So you're going to start eating down at Nick's, eh?
00:17:30Yeah, I thought I might.
00:17:33All right.
00:17:34It's all kind of people to make a world.
00:17:36All kinds.
00:17:37And some of them hasn't a trace of friendship or loyalty.
00:17:41Well, a fella likes a change once in a while.
00:17:45A change from what?
00:17:47Well, it's this room, the joint.
00:17:49It's dark in here, Mac.
00:17:51Dark.
00:17:52Dark.
00:17:53You ought to brighten it up.
00:17:54Brighten up the joint, Mac.
00:17:56What would you want me to do?
00:17:58Oh, well, I don't know, Mac.
00:17:59I hadn't got that far.
00:18:01Suppose I could hang these three pictures here and there.
00:18:06You know, it's a crying shame you couldn't have a whole scene painted right on the wall.
00:18:12Of course, I know that can't be done, but...
00:18:14Why can't it be done?
00:18:16Didn't he ever hear tell the mureals?
00:18:19Mureals, eh?
00:18:20Pictures painted onto a wall.
00:18:23Is that right, Mac?
00:18:23Is it possible to paint a picture right on the wall?
00:18:25Of course it's possible.
00:18:26It's done all the time.
00:18:28See, you dumb ox.
00:18:30As a matter of fact, this wall would lend itself to a mural very nicely.
00:18:34Well, look, what are we thinking of?
00:18:36Here we got one of the grandest artists in the whole world sitting right at the table.
00:18:40And why don't we ask him to do something?
00:18:41You could squeeze it in, Mac.
00:18:43You could squeeze it in between all your other commissions.
00:18:47Well, I don't know.
00:18:49You could drop in here now, say around noontime or suppertime.
00:18:53It won't cost you a cent.
00:18:55Aye.
00:18:57Excuse me a minute.
00:18:58I've got to post this.
00:19:03Lost him.
00:19:04Had him and I lost him.
00:19:05Let it go, Gossam.
00:19:06Don't say any more about him.
00:19:15Up the rebels.
00:19:16Up the rebels.
00:19:18Three beers, Mac.
00:19:19Come on.
00:19:20Mac, did you ever see Mick Collins?
00:19:21I never did and I've often regretted it.
00:19:23Here's what you should do, Mac.
00:19:25Right over the barn here.
00:19:27A painting of Michael Collins.
00:19:29Mick Collins himself and he leading his men in a battle against the might of England.
00:19:34Just a minute, Gossam.
00:19:35Why, a man alive would be the greatest thing that ever hit this town.
00:19:38Whois' Alhambra would be the rallying place for every Irish patriot they come to.
00:19:42Why, man, you wouldn't have standing room at the bar.
00:19:45And it wouldn't cost you a cent.
00:19:46Hmm.
00:19:47It's so much kind of interesting.
00:19:48Now, here's how I see it.
00:19:50Or should I say how my friend Mac here sees it.
00:19:53It's early dawn on a small hill in Ireland.
00:19:56And there.
00:19:57There on a carpet of shamrock.
00:20:00Under an old elm stands Mick Collins.
00:20:03Leaning on his gun waiting for a zero hour.
00:20:05And all the Murphy's and Flanagan's and O'Shea's are waiting with him.
00:20:08In a brief moment, Mick himself will lead him in a battle and lead him to victory.
00:20:13Up the rebels!
00:20:14Up the rebels!
00:20:15You've got to paint it, Mr. Arden.
00:20:17You've got to do it like it.
00:20:19Up the rebels!
00:20:20Up the rebels!
00:20:21Up the rebels!
00:20:31What's this?
00:20:32A sketch of a little girl I saw in the park.
00:20:34It's very good, isn't it, Miss Finney?
00:20:38Yes, I think you have something there, Adams.
00:20:41Do you know why I like it?
00:20:42Why?
00:20:42There's a quality about the girl that reminds me of long ago.
00:20:46And there ought to be something timeless about a woman.
00:20:50Something eternal.
00:20:51You can see it in all the great portraits of the past.
00:20:54They make you feel you could meet those women anywhere and be inspired by them.
00:20:58Well then, Mr. Adams.
00:21:00I'll tell you what I'll do.
00:21:01I'll take that sketch.
00:21:02I'll give you $25 for it.
00:21:05And I don't care what Miss Finney says.
00:21:07I'm not going to say anything.
00:21:09Now, Adams, you can stop feeling sorry for yourself.
00:21:12Oh, no.
00:21:12Things are looking up.
00:21:13Getting three meals a day for painting a mural.
00:21:15And now, $25.
00:21:18For a sketch.
00:21:20A sketch.
00:21:21Well, thank you.
00:21:24Where are you going now?
00:21:26Nowhere.
00:21:27Anywhere.
00:21:28Where I come from, nobody knows.
00:21:30And where I'm going, anything goes.
00:21:33What's that?
00:21:34Oh, it's a song that little girl sang in the park.
00:21:36Well, if you don't know where you're coming or going,
00:21:38perhaps you'd like a cup of tea.
00:21:40Well, I don't care if I do.
00:21:41Come along.
00:21:45See you later, Mr. Matthews.
00:21:46Oh, yes, as you say, Miss Finney.
00:21:52You know, I haven't been to ice skating since I was a kid in Maine.
00:21:55Who brought up his name?
00:21:56South Paris, Maine.
00:21:58Pretty swanky here.
00:22:00It was a nice little town.
00:22:01Rivers, lakes, mountains.
00:22:04My father ran the general store until he died.
00:22:07My mother died a couple of years later.
00:22:09And I worked myself through three years of college.
00:22:11And then...
00:22:14Fascinating, isn't it?
00:22:15I think it's interesting.
00:22:16I want to ask you advice about something.
00:22:18I don't feel sorry for myself the way you said.
00:22:21I'm facing a very practical problem.
00:22:23Oh, that is something.
00:22:24An artist facing practical problems.
00:22:26Oh, not the kind you think.
00:22:27I don't mind being hungry.
00:22:28I don't even care about having to dodge the landlady.
00:22:32But, well, I know every artist who ever amounted to anything
00:22:34went through a lot more than I have.
00:22:37But they knew they had something.
00:22:39Take a lot of beating when you know that.
00:22:41But who do I think I am?
00:22:42Why should I believe that of all the thousands of struggling artists,
00:22:47I'm one who has something worth saying?
00:22:51Oh, relax, Adams.
00:22:53Come and sit down.
00:22:54It irritates me when you go on like that.
00:22:57You know, something about you appeals to me.
00:23:00I can't imagine what.
00:23:01I think you're like the beau I wanted when I was young.
00:23:06When I was doubting myself.
00:23:08Not you too?
00:23:09Even me.
00:23:10Look what it's brought me.
00:23:11Just a frustrated old maid lecturing a frustrated young artist.
00:23:16Miss Penny, what shall I do?
00:23:19I think the sketch shows you what you can do.
00:23:22All you need is a little inspiration.
00:23:24Any inspiration.
00:23:24That little girl in the park.
00:23:28Well, I guess that does it.
00:23:30How's about you and me taking a twirl on the ice?
00:23:32Oh, go along with you.
00:23:35Thanks, Miss Penny.
00:24:05Hello, Mr. Adams.
00:24:13Hello, Jenny.
00:24:15Is this fun?
00:24:17I can't believe it's you.
00:24:18Why not?
00:24:19Well, you've grown so much taller.
00:24:21Well, maybe you didn't see me so good before.
00:24:23No, I'm sure you've grown.
00:24:25Of course I have.
00:24:26I'm hurrying.
00:24:28Don't you remember our wish?
00:24:30Sure I do.
00:24:31Let's skate.
00:24:34Let's go a little faster.
00:24:51You're feeling so funny.
00:24:54I feel so funny, too.
00:24:58Oh, by the way, I have something here of yours.
00:25:01Oh, but a pretty scarf.
00:25:02It's in the parcel on the bench.
00:25:03You said it was yours.
00:25:05Did I?
00:25:07Well, if I said so, it must be true.
00:25:09I'll tell you what.
00:25:10Why don't you keep it for me until I grow up?
00:25:12Then I'll have one more reason to grow up fast.
00:25:14All right.
00:25:15I owe you a favor anyway.
00:25:17You do?
00:25:18Why?
00:25:18I did a little sketch of you the other day and I sold it.
00:25:21Oh, I'm glad.
00:25:22The man who bought it told me how to paint portraits.
00:25:24What do you think of that?
00:25:25Well, who would you paint, Mr. Adams?
00:25:28I don't know.
00:25:29I haven't decided yet.
00:25:32Maybe.
00:25:34Will you let it be me?
00:25:36Who else?
00:25:38Whee!
00:25:39I'm going to have my picture painted.
00:25:41Won't Emily be mad?
00:25:42Emily?
00:25:43Emily's my best friend.
00:25:44She had her picture painted by Mr. Framkis and I said you were going to do mine.
00:25:48How did you know that?
00:25:50Well, I wished it and then I closed my eyes and turned around three times.
00:25:53But Emily still said you wouldn't paint me and so I slapped her.
00:25:56Emily, I thought it was Cecily you always fought with.
00:26:00Cecily?
00:26:02Oh, you don't mean Cecily Brown, do you?
00:26:05Well, she moved away to Boston three years ago.
00:26:07I thought I told you.
00:26:08No, you didn't.
00:26:10That's funny.
00:26:12Well, doesn't matter.
00:26:13Come on, let's skate.
00:26:18Well, I'll have to be going pretty soon.
00:26:20Oh, don't go.
00:26:21How would you like some hot chocolate?
00:26:23Oh, I love hot chocolate.
00:26:24Get it right over there.
00:26:27Oh, how wonderful.
00:26:29You're welcome.
00:26:31Oh, Jenny.
00:26:32Where do you live?
00:26:33I'd like to come and see you.
00:26:35Well, I...
00:26:36I don't think there's any place you can come and see me yet.
00:26:39Huh? Why?
00:26:41Oh, it's just the way it is.
00:26:43When will you start my portrait?
00:26:46Well, whenever you're...
00:26:47Whenever your parents will let you.
00:26:49Where are they now?
00:26:50At Hammerstein's.
00:26:52Well, they're still at Hammerstein's, huh?
00:26:53And they've got wonderful new tricks.
00:26:55Way up on a high wire.
00:26:57Sometimes it scares me to watch them.
00:27:00Of course, that's silly.
00:27:01That's why they're so famous.
00:27:02They scare everybody.
00:27:03Yeah.
00:27:05I'd like to see them.
00:27:07Then I could ask that permission.
00:27:09You to come and sit for me.
00:27:11Why don't you take me down to Hammerstein's to see them?
00:27:14Oh, yes.
00:27:14Do, let's go.
00:27:15I can get us in free.
00:27:17Could you go to the matinee Saturday?
00:27:19I think so.
00:27:20Where will we meet?
00:27:22Well, let's meet...
00:27:23Let's meet here in the park.
00:27:25At that bench where we met before.
00:27:27I'll be there at 2 o'clock.
00:27:29At least I'll try.
00:27:35That was wonderful chocolate.
00:27:39Well, I really must go now.
00:27:41Must you?
00:27:43I hate it to stop.
00:27:45Because when will we ever have it again?
00:27:49Well, goodbye.
00:27:50Goodbye.
00:28:07Looking for someone out of us?
00:28:09I was just watching the little girl I was talking to you about.
00:28:24I know now that Spinney didn't see Jenny.
00:28:27But all I knew then was that she kept a watchful eye on me
00:28:30as though I were a patient that needed watching.
00:28:33I was happy when I realized it was Saturday
00:28:36and I could scarcely wait to find out
00:28:37what Jenny was going to present to me
00:28:40as Hammerstein's.
00:28:44But alas, there was no sign of Jenny.
00:28:46Apparently, she had forgotten.
00:28:48On impulse, I decided to find out for myself
00:28:51what I could about Jenny's parents.
00:28:53Well, I had a bet with a friend of mine.
00:28:55I wonder if you can help me.
00:28:57You remember the old Hammerstein Theater?
00:28:59Do I remember it?
00:29:00What?
00:29:01You came to the right party to ask about Hammerstein's.
00:29:03I claimed it used to be right around here somewhere
00:29:05and my friend thinks...
00:29:06Your friend loses.
00:29:07Hammerstein's used to stand right there
00:29:09where the Rialto is now.
00:29:10Yes, sir.
00:29:11I just want to ask you one more question.
00:29:13Do you remember the Appletons?
00:29:15The Appletons?
00:29:15They used to have an act.
00:29:17Trapeze.
00:29:18Trapeze.
00:29:18Seems to me...
00:29:19Look.
00:29:20You go over the Rialto and ask old Pete.
00:29:23He's a doorman or something.
00:29:24He used to play Hammerstein's.
00:29:26Pretty good song and dance man in his day.
00:29:28He might know.
00:29:29Thanks a lot.
00:29:31Appleton.
00:29:34Appleton.
00:29:35Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:29:36There were the four Appletons.
00:29:39That was in 1902.
00:29:42They were clowns.
00:29:43They were very good too, like from Vienna.
00:29:46This was a high wire act.
00:29:47Husband and wife, 1910.
00:29:50Then there was Mike and Pat Appleton, Irishers.
00:29:55They did some songs and pitter-pattering.
00:29:58That was 1904 or 1905, maybe.
00:30:04Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:30:061910.
00:30:08Please, let me do it my way.
00:30:12I have to go backwards and then start from the beginning, you see.
00:30:17Otherwise, I will not remember and I don't like not to remember.
00:30:20Then I think I'm getting a little old, you see.
00:30:27I'm sorry to put you into all this trouble.
00:30:29No trouble at all.
00:30:30I have a very good memory, huh?
00:30:32It's only sometimes that I don't remember things very well.
00:30:36She...
00:30:38Clara, we know.
00:30:39Clara who?
00:30:41Clara Morgan.
00:30:42She was with a wardrobe at Hammerstein's.
00:30:45Everybody went to her with his troubles.
00:30:49Those colored people, very wise people.
00:30:52Well, they know what trouble is.
00:30:55You know how I can find her?
00:30:57Sure, I know where you can find her.
00:31:00Well, where does she live?
00:31:01Live?
00:31:02Live?
00:31:03Oh, 332 East,
00:31:07135th Street.
00:31:08Thank you very much.
00:31:10Good memory, no?
00:31:11Just one.
00:31:12Bye.
00:31:13Oh, thank you.
00:31:14Thank you so much.
00:31:20They were all wonderful acts.
00:31:23For me, they had more glamour than anything you see today.
00:31:27You sort of felt as though you knew all the artists personally.
00:31:32Ah, here it is.
00:31:34These are the Appletons.
00:31:36Mary and Frank Appleton.
00:31:46This little girl.
00:31:49That's their daughter, Jenny.
00:31:51Their daughter?
00:31:52Yes.
00:31:54Isn't it possible that this child is their granddaughter?
00:31:59Oh, no.
00:32:00I knew Jenny when this picture was taken.
00:32:03She was a darling little girl with big, sad eyes.
00:32:07She used to come backstage and sit on my lap.
00:32:10I used to give her rock candy.
00:32:13Do you know where she is now?
00:32:15No.
00:32:16I lost track of her after her parents were killed that night on the trapeze.
00:32:20That was many years ago.
00:32:22The wire broke.
00:32:23Jenny was in the theater looking when it happened.
00:32:27Are you sure you don't remember what happened to her?
00:32:30Well, it seems as if I remember some talk about her aunt wanting to put her in a convent.
00:32:36Jenny wasn't a Catholic, but her aunt said a convent was the best place for a girl to be.
00:32:43Thank you very much, Mrs. Morgan.
00:32:45I appreciate your giving me your time.
00:32:49Thank you, Mr. Adams.
00:32:51It isn't often I have a chance to share my memories.
00:32:54I do hope you'll find Jenny.
00:32:56She was a dear little girl.
00:32:58I hope so, too.
00:32:59Thank you again.
00:33:04That night, everything seemed like a dream to me.
00:33:07The towers of the city, the myriad lights.
00:33:10But now I knew that Jenny was not just an imaginative child.
00:33:15Not just a child denying time and reason.
00:33:20Instinctively, I found myself approaching the bench in the park.
00:33:23Jenny's bench.
00:33:25And as I did, I was conscious of an unaccustomed atmosphere.
00:33:32As though time were melting with the snow.
00:33:37Were the sobs that I heard part of the illusion?
00:33:46Jenny, what's the matter with you?
00:33:50What are you crying about?
00:33:52Father and mother.
00:33:53Father?
00:33:55Something's happened.
00:33:56They've had an accident.
00:33:57I knew it would happen.
00:33:58The wire broke.
00:33:59I knew it would happen.
00:34:01I was always scared it would happen.
00:34:03And tonight.
00:34:04Tonight?
00:34:07Oh, Jenny, I know how you feel.
00:34:09I know how much it hurts.
00:34:10But, you see, it isn't hurting them.
00:34:13Please try to think of it that way.
00:34:15But they're dead.
00:34:17We all die sometimes.
00:34:19I loved them.
00:34:20They loved me.
00:34:21Then you mustn't be too unhappy.
00:34:23They wouldn't want you to be, would they?
00:34:25Would they?
00:34:26No.
00:34:27No.
00:34:28They told me once they, they said if anything happened to them, I mustn't be unhappy.
00:34:35Because they were doing what they wanted to do.
00:34:38And, and if they, if anything happened, it would happen to them both at the same time, the way they
00:34:48wanted.
00:34:49Do you see?
00:34:51Yes.
00:34:53So I, I shouldn't cry, I shouldn't.
00:34:56They wouldn't like it.
00:34:58They died the way they wanted.
00:34:59That's right.
00:35:01So I, I guess I'm only crying for myself.
00:35:06Because they're gone and because I'm lonely.
00:35:09No, no, no, don't, Jenny.
00:35:10But maybe I won't always be lonely.
00:35:14I don't know why.
00:35:16But I don't think I will be lonely very long.
00:35:19Because I, I'm hurrying, I'm hurrying fast now.
00:35:23My aunt is sending me to a convent and...
00:35:25Convent?
00:35:27You want to go?
00:35:29Of course I do.
00:35:30After that I'll be grown up, don't you understand?
00:35:33No, Jenny, I, I don't understand.
00:35:36I wish I did, but I don't understand any of it.
00:35:38But each time I see you, you've, you've changed.
00:35:40You're older.
00:35:42You talk about things that happened, well, that happened long ago.
00:35:46Did they?
00:35:48Sometimes I kind of think that too.
00:35:52But maybe that's because I have to find something.
00:35:55But, find what?
00:35:58I'm not sure.
00:36:01But I think I'll know someday.
00:36:04I think I'll know when I find it.
00:36:07Do you know what?
00:36:09I think you'll know too.
00:36:11I hope so.
00:36:14You'll wait for me, won't you?
00:36:15You'll give me a little more time.
00:36:17All right, Jenny.
00:36:21Listen.
00:36:24It's the stars.
00:36:26Can't you hear them?
00:36:31Listen to the stars coming out.
00:36:34Listen to the stars coming out.
00:36:55Cold, cold months followed each other that year.
00:36:59From the mystery which surrounded Jenny, my thoughts turned themselves away.
00:37:04It was not in my hands.
00:37:06Nothing was in my hands.
00:37:08Any more than I could bring the spring nearer before its time.
00:37:12Or keep the winter from clinging to the earth with a bitter grip.
00:37:18Skipper!
00:37:20Skipper!
00:37:26Skipper!
00:37:28You bad boy.
00:37:30Hello, Adams.
00:37:30Hello, Mr. Matthews.
00:37:31He always runs away when we get near the park.
00:37:34Thank you very much for catching him.
00:37:36I didn't catch him, he just ran right up to me.
00:37:38Oh, that's a great compliment from Skipper.
00:37:40He doesn't usually take to strangers unless he thinks they're in trouble.
00:37:45Trouble?
00:37:48What kind of trouble could he have sensed about me?
00:37:51I suppose most artists go through something of the sort.
00:37:54Sooner or later, it's not enough for them just to live and paint and have enough.
00:37:59Or nearly enough to eat.
00:38:01No.
00:38:02Sooner or later, they want recognition.
00:38:05They want to sell their work.
00:38:07Good men, even great men, have failed to do that.
00:38:11But I...
00:38:13I don't think that's all that's bothering you.
00:38:16Mr. Matthews was right.
00:38:18There was something else.
00:38:20My memory was beginning to play tricks on me.
00:38:23I was seized by memories so urgent that they were more real to me than what was before me.
00:38:36Everything reminded me of Jenny.
00:38:47Where I come from, nobody knows.
00:38:49And where I'm going, everyone goes.
00:38:54Finally, spring broke through.
00:38:56I tried to work, but mostly I was content to do nothing.
00:39:00I knew in my heart that I would never be anything until and unless Jenny returned.
00:39:08I needed to tell someone.
00:39:10And who was there to tell but Spinny?
00:39:13Maybe I will paint only one important painting in my life, but that much I know I can do.
00:39:19The portrait of Jenny?
00:39:20Yes.
00:39:21It's the first thing and only thing I've ever been sure of in my life.
00:39:25You couldn't do it without her.
00:39:26Of course not.
00:39:27I suppose she doesn't make another appearance.
00:39:31Then...
00:39:31I can't even think of that.
00:39:33I didn't realize how much you needed her.
00:39:36It took you a long time to find something to bring your talent to life.
00:39:40You couldn't find it, so...
00:39:41So you think I created her because I needed her for...
00:39:45An inspiration, perhaps.
00:39:47Maybe you really saw her, maybe you didn't.
00:39:50What's the difference?
00:39:51As you grow older, you'll learn to believe in lots of things you can't see.
00:39:57Better get that canvas ready for her.
00:40:05Come in.
00:40:06Come in.
00:40:09Hiya, Mac.
00:40:10Gus.
00:40:11It's a grand day outside.
00:40:12For New York.
00:40:13What are you doing in here?
00:40:14Preparing a canvas for a portrait.
00:40:17You don't tell me.
00:40:18So that's the way you do it.
00:40:20That's the way you do it.
00:40:28Speaking of paintings...
00:40:31I...
00:40:32I dropped into Moore's yesterday.
00:40:34I know.
00:40:36He's upset because I haven't finished the job.
00:40:39After all, you made a deal, Mac.
00:40:41I let him down, huh?
00:40:43Well, Mick Collins is a little upset too, Mac.
00:40:45Waiting to lead his men into battle and having only half a leg to stand on.
00:40:49You tell Moore I'll be in soon.
00:40:53I'll finish it somehow.
00:40:56Sure.
00:40:56Sure.
00:40:57Sure.
00:40:59Gus, don't think I'm ungrateful.
00:41:02It's all right, Mac.
00:41:03As my mother used to say,
00:41:05if there's stardust in your head, sure there's a jumble in your soul.
00:41:32It was a grand idea.
00:41:34A grand idea.
00:41:35Quiet, everybody.
00:41:36Quiet.
00:41:36The unveiling's about to take place.
00:41:38how wonderful to stand there is.
00:41:43How wonderful to stand there is,
00:41:44There's a land to lead us all.
00:41:46Says the Champagne Pock.
00:41:47Tis Mick Collins, brave and tall.
00:41:50Says the Champagne Pock.
00:41:52And will Ireland then be free?
00:41:54Says the Champagne Pock.
00:41:56Yes, Ireland shall be free.
00:41:59And let the center to the sea.
00:42:02Then hurrah for liberty!
00:42:04Says the Champagne Pock.
00:42:06And for all for liberty, since the shanty man's war
00:42:11Hooray for Eben Adams!
00:42:15Hooray for Eben Adams. Hooray.
00:42:18The cheers were hollow in my ears, for I knew the mural was worthless.
00:42:23I knew in my heart that I was worthless.
00:42:27Suddenly I felt fear.
00:42:30The world seemed curiously empty and silent.
00:42:34One note would bring it all to life, one note would make an instrument of it.
00:42:40But apparently that note was not to be played.
00:42:43The world of my art was to remain an empty box.
00:43:01Jenny!
00:43:04Eben!
00:43:06No.
00:43:08It isn't true.
00:43:11It can't be you.
00:43:12Oh, yes, yes, yes it is.
00:43:14See?
00:43:16I tried to get here sooner, but I couldn't.
00:43:19You're beautiful and grown sour.
00:43:22Well, of course I have. I'm hurt.
00:43:24Well, I'm in my first year of college at the Congress.
00:43:26Wonderful dress.
00:43:28Do you like it? It's our Sunday dress.
00:43:30Oh, look, you can see the bridge from here.
00:43:43Eben, I've thought of you so much. It could fill an eternity.
00:43:48What did you think?
00:43:50About how wonderful it all is.
00:43:52And how I've searched, searched.
00:43:56And now, how we'll be together always.
00:44:01I'm almost sure.
00:44:03Do you know what Emily wants to know?
00:44:05What?
00:44:06When you're going to marry me.
00:44:08Don't laugh at me, Evan.
00:44:10I know I'm not old enough yet, but I will be soon.
00:44:15What's that?
00:44:17That's a sketch of Radio City.
00:44:19Radio City?
00:44:21I've never heard of it.
00:44:22Well, it hasn't been built very long.
00:44:25You like it?
00:44:27Mm-hmm.
00:44:34That's strange.
00:44:35What's the matter, Jenny?
00:44:38That's Land's End Light.
00:44:40That's right.
00:44:41Land's End Light.
00:44:43How do you know? Have you ever been there?
00:44:48I don't know.
00:44:51I think...
00:44:52It's an old deserted lighthouse up on Cape Cod.
00:44:55I did that sketch several years ago.
00:44:59It makes me unhappy.
00:45:03Well, in that case, we'll just put it aside.
00:45:08Look, Jenny, the canvas.
00:45:11The canvas?
00:45:13The canvas for your portrait.
00:45:15Your portrait.
00:45:16The one we planned.
00:45:19Oh, Evan, you're going to do it.
00:45:21I was so sure you'd be here one day.
00:45:22I haven't been able to do anything else.
00:45:23Sit over here.
00:45:24Where?
00:45:25Please.
00:45:26Right there where I've dreamed you'd sit.
00:45:28The girls will be so jealous when I tell them.
00:45:30Turn your head the other way.
00:45:31Some of my friends are taking the veil next Sunday.
00:45:33There.
00:45:33It'll be lovely to watch.
00:45:34Will you come and see it with me?
00:45:35I'd love to, Jenny.
00:45:36Now, please, hold still.
00:45:37Turn your head.
00:45:38There.
00:45:38A few of my classmates will be leaving then, too.
00:45:40I hate to have them go.
00:45:42Jenny, your hand.
00:45:45Turn your head.
00:45:48Over there.
00:45:49Hold that.
00:45:52Eben, promise you won't forget me.
00:46:15Hello.
00:46:20Hello.
00:46:23Hello, Evan.
00:46:35Hello, Jenny.
00:46:36Hello, Jenny.
00:46:37I was afraid, afraid you might not be here.
00:46:41I told you I'd be here.
00:46:43We'd better hurry if we want to see the ceremony.
00:47:38See, those with the candles are the ones who are taking the veil.
00:47:41Our teachers are in back of them.
00:47:43The first one is old Sister Mary Margaret.
00:47:46She teaches history.
00:47:48And next to her is Sister Mary Euphemia, who teaches science.
00:47:55And over there near the entrance is my favorite, Sister Mary of Mercy.
00:48:04I'm so glad you're waiting for me, Heaven.
00:48:12And now she's here.
00:48:15I'm so glad you're waiting for me.
00:48:18I'm so glad you're here.
00:48:23I'm so glad you're here.
00:48:28I'm so glad you're here.
00:48:33I'm so glad you're here.
00:48:36I would understand.
00:48:53How beautiful the world is, Evan.
00:48:56The sun goes down in the same lovely sky,
00:48:59just as it did yesterday and will tomorrow.
00:49:02When is tomorrow, Jenny?
00:49:04Does it matter?
00:49:06It's always.
00:49:08This was tomorrow once.
00:49:11Where I come from, nobody knows.
00:49:13And where I'm going, everything goes.
00:49:15I've heard that somewhere.
00:49:17Of course you have. You sang it to me that first day in the park.
00:49:20Did I? I'd forgotten.
00:49:21The wind blows, the sea flows.
00:49:26God knows.
00:49:28I think he knows, Evan.
00:49:41So this is where the master works.
00:49:43Well, there's much of a place.
00:49:45It's over here, Spenny.
00:49:47Yeah.
00:49:52Of course it isn't finished yet.
00:49:54Don't be coy. Let's see it.
00:49:58Well.
00:50:06What do you think?
00:50:07We...
00:50:10We...
00:50:11Well, Adams, you found what you were looking for.
00:50:24You like it?
00:50:26Adams, I've been selling pictures for many years.
00:50:29And in my business, it's always a dream that someday you'll come across,
00:50:33shall we say, a great picture.
00:50:37This is, I feel now, a sort of fulfillment of my...
00:50:40Oh.
00:50:41He means he likes it.
00:50:43Oh, glad.
00:50:45Do you remember my saying the order is something eternal about a woman?
00:50:49Something not of the present nor of the past?
00:50:51Well, here, you caught it.
00:50:53It's the face of that same little girl.
00:50:56Yet what you've seen in that face is without age or time.
00:51:01Well, it hasn't finished.
00:51:02It really isn't, I've...
00:51:03Take it easy, Adams.
00:51:04It's a great picture.
00:51:10Carried forward on a wave of exultation, I worked eagerly to complete the portrait.
00:51:15The face framed in its dark hair, the brown eyes tenderly dreaming.
00:51:20I began to realize that I was caught by an enchantment beyond time and change.
00:51:26I knew at last that love is endless and today's little happiness only part of it.
00:51:44I knew I'd find you here.
00:51:46I've looked for you here so often.
00:51:49I had to see you tonight.
00:51:50You know, I've just graduated from college and...
00:51:53Wonderful.
00:51:55Now we can be together always.
00:51:59Well, I...
00:52:00I'm afraid we'll have to wait a little longer.
00:52:02You see, my aunt is ill and she wants me to go away with her for this summer.
00:52:09When do you have to go?
00:52:11Tomorrow.
00:52:11Tomorrow.
00:52:12I couldn't go without saying goodbye.
00:52:14Goodbye.
00:52:15Oh, it'll only be for a few months.
00:52:17Anyway, we...
00:52:18We have until the morning and...
00:52:20I think a little more.
00:52:22Jenny, I...
00:52:24Be...
00:52:25Lost without you.
00:52:27No, no, don't say that ever.
00:52:29Can't both of us be lost.
00:52:35Look at the moonlight on the water.
00:52:38It makes a pathway across the river.
00:52:42The Jersey hills are over there, aren't they?
00:52:45In the distance.
00:52:46You say it sadly, I've been...
00:52:48Aren't you happy?
00:52:49I've been thinking.
00:52:51No matter how far away that kind of distance is,
00:52:54it can be reached.
00:52:56Over there, beyond the hills, one can drive to...
00:53:00North among the pines, eastward to the sea.
00:53:03It's...
00:53:04It's the only kind of distance I ever knew anything about before.
00:53:08But now I...
00:53:09I feel it's another kind of distance, a...
00:53:12A cruel distance, a...
00:53:14Distance of yesterday and tomorrow, and it frightens me.
00:53:21It frightens me that there's no way to bridge it.
00:53:23There is.
00:53:25At this moment, I know there is.
00:53:29I want it to be forever.
00:53:32It will be.
00:53:34Have faith.
00:53:45How still it is.
00:53:47Listen.
00:53:50The whole city's sleeping.
00:53:54No one left in the world but us.
00:53:57No one but us.
00:53:59Oh, heaven.
00:54:11Life's beginning again.
00:54:14Look, the little boat put its lights out.
00:54:17The night's over, it's tomorrow.
00:54:19Jenny, I'm not going to think of the summer of the future at all.
00:54:22I leave that to you.
00:54:24Why we met, how it came about, I don't know.
00:54:27I know we were meant for each other.
00:54:29The strands of our lives are woven together,
00:54:31and neither the world nor time can tear them apart.
00:54:35Oh, Eben, I wish you'd finished my portrait.
00:54:45Eben, Eben, do you think people can know what lies ahead?
00:54:54I mean, what's going to happen to them?
00:54:58You know how you feel sad about things sometimes?
00:55:02About things that have never happened.
00:55:07Perhaps they're the things that are going to happen to us.
00:55:12Perhaps we know it, and we're just afraid to admit it to ourselves.
00:55:18Well, I guess that's silly.
00:55:22I guess it's just my funny mind.
00:55:35Jenny, I...
00:55:40Jenny.
00:55:42Jenny, Jenny.
00:55:44Hello, Eben.
00:55:45Hello.
00:55:47Where are we?
00:55:48Together.
00:55:51Poor darling.
00:55:52You must be worn out, I'm sorry.
00:55:54I fell asleep.
00:55:56Come here.
00:56:02It's finished.
00:56:05Oh, Eben.
00:56:09Is it really of me?
00:56:11It's you.
00:56:13A portrait of Jenny.
00:56:16Oh, I...
00:56:17I think it's a fine painting.
00:56:19Do you?
00:56:22I think it will make you famous.
00:56:25I think someday it will hang in a museum and...
00:56:29people will come from all over the world to see it.
00:56:32If they do it, it won't be my work they'll come to see.
00:56:38It'll be you.
00:56:40Thank you, Eben.
00:56:42And now you must sign it.
00:56:55Eben.
00:56:56I don't see.
00:56:59Eben.
00:57:01I want always just to sit and watch you paint.
00:57:03Now that I've found the perfect model, I'll paint her again and again.
00:57:06No, I didn't mean that.
00:57:08I mean I want you to paint all the beautiful things in the world.
00:57:12You're the most beautiful thing in the world.
00:57:16But, Eben.
00:57:18These pictures of yours.
00:57:20Of the sea.
00:57:22And land's end life.
00:57:24Each time I see them, my...
00:57:26My heart seems to stop.
00:57:28Curious.
00:57:29Tell us suppose it is a forlorn sort of place.
00:57:32Well, don't let's talk about it anymore.
00:57:35Tell me about Paris.
00:57:37Did you study there?
00:57:38Yes, indeed.
00:57:40Oh, Eben, I wish we could be there together.
00:57:42It would be such fun.
00:57:44We'll do it, Johnny.
00:57:45I'll take you to the Luxembourg.
00:57:47And to the fair at Fontainebleau.
00:57:49Oh, yes, Eben, yes.
00:57:51We'll go out to the forest of Saint-Cloud.
00:57:53In the spring, and drink new wine under the trees.
00:57:56Oh, Eben, I feel as though we were there already.
00:57:58As though we've been spending our whole lives together.
00:58:03Oh, Jenny.
00:58:06What is it that makes a man and a woman know that...
00:58:09All the other men and women in the world, they belong to each other?
00:58:14And is it just chance they're being alive in the world at the same time?
00:58:19Do you think it's possible that...
00:58:22There might have been others in other times whom we might have loved?
00:58:25Might have loved us.
00:58:28No, no, no others.
00:58:29Among all the people who lived from world's end to world's end...
00:58:32There's just one you must love.
00:58:34One you must seek until you find him.
00:58:38You, Eben.
00:58:39You, my darling.
00:58:45I must go, Evan.
00:58:46Please don't go, Jenny.
00:58:47I don't want to, but we'll meet again when summer ends.
00:58:52Are you sure, Jenny?
00:58:54I don't know quite where.
00:58:57The wind blows.
00:58:59The sea flows.
00:59:02Oh, Evan, I want to be sure.
00:59:04Tell me you're sure.
00:59:05I'm sure, Jenny.
00:59:08I'll get my things.
00:59:17Oh, Evan, what a lovely scarf.
00:59:19Sure is, Jenny.
00:59:20A present for me?
00:59:22I thought you'd like it.
00:59:23I've been saving it for a long time.
00:59:25Ever since we first met in the park.
00:59:38Jenny.
00:59:50Chip.
01:00:14In the afternoons, the sun slanted lower over the city.
01:00:18And sometimes at evening, a wedge of wild duck wavered southward against the Manhattan sky.
01:00:25Summer turned away into fall.
01:00:28But Jenny did not return.
01:00:30I felt a dreadful loneliness.
01:00:34Where was she?
01:00:37A very Waldейwрь.
01:00:41There was a house of my princess
01:00:45The beach was my son
01:00:45Yonder, to last
01:00:53I remember my lover
01:00:58And the kiss of no other
01:01:00No other love
01:01:08Yonder, yonder
01:01:11Was so long ago
01:01:17Was so long ago
01:01:30Well, I suppose I ought to be minding my own business, but...
01:01:33You're carrying quite a load, Mac, all by yourself
01:01:36Gus, you don't understand, and...
01:01:39Mac, supposing... Now, remember, I'm only supposing, but...
01:01:41Supposing what, Gus?
01:01:43Supposing she didn't ever come back
01:01:46She's got to
01:01:48Can't beat it out
01:01:49Yeah, but if something happened to her
01:01:52Don't you have to go on living, pal?
01:01:54Don't you?
01:01:56You've never believed the whole thing, have you, Gus, about Jenny?
01:01:59Well, now, don't be putting words in my mouth
01:02:02Doesn't matter
01:02:02Doesn't matter whether you believe
01:02:04It doesn't matter whether anybody believes, because...
01:02:07I know
01:02:08Sure you do, sure
01:02:11But weren't you telling me she goes to a convent?
01:02:15She's not there anymore, she graduated
01:02:17Oh
01:02:18Yeah, but the sisters are great ones for keeping in touch
01:02:22Yes, she liked the sisters
01:02:23There was one who was a favorite
01:02:25Why don't you ask her?
01:02:27Jenny said she felt closer to the truth
01:02:30Look, Mac, I'll drive you out first thing in the morning
01:02:32If you promise to get a good night's sleep
01:02:34You'll have to let me owe you for the ride, Gus
01:02:36Your money don't signify, Mac
01:02:38As my mother used to say, if you've got friendship in your heart, sure you don't...
01:02:43What was it my mother used to say?
01:02:51I don't know what I expected to find at the convent
01:02:55I knew only that it was there that Jenny had found some inner truth
01:02:59It was there that she had said to me, I think he knows, Eben
01:03:05For the first time since I had last seen Jenny, I had a feeling of not being alone
01:03:09A feeling that the world and Jenny and I were one
01:03:14What if for a while we had lost our way?
01:03:17Yesterday rose again ahead of us
01:03:20We had found beauty together
01:03:23And we could never lose it
01:03:26Good afternoon
01:03:27Good afternoon
01:03:29What was it you wished to see me about?
01:03:31Well, I wanted to ask you about a girl who graduated from here
01:03:36I thought possibly you might have some information as to where she is
01:03:39I might
01:03:40We often keep in touch with the girls after they leave
01:03:44What was her name?
01:03:46Jenny Appleton
01:03:49Jenny Appleton?
01:03:51Yes
01:03:52You remember her, don't you?
01:03:55Yes
01:03:56Yes, I remember Jenny very well
01:04:00Even though she was not of our faith, Jenny was one of my favorite pupils
01:04:04A lovely girl
01:04:06With a strange spiritual beauty
01:04:10And a gentle kind of sadness that always troubled me
01:04:14I think that describes her perfectly
01:04:16Have you any idea where she is?
01:04:18Why, Jenny died
01:04:22When?
01:04:24Years ago
01:04:28Oh, I'm afraid I've shocked you
01:04:31Well, no
01:04:34We obviously aren't speaking with the same person
01:04:36Did you know her family?
01:04:38No, I just know they were killed in an accident
01:04:41A wire rope?
01:04:42They were trapeze performers?
01:04:44Yes
01:04:45Well, I'm afraid it must be the same Jenny Appleton
01:04:47Her aunt brought her to us shortly after her parents' death
01:04:51She stayed with us until she graduated
01:04:53Then her aunt came and took her up to New England for the summer
01:04:57We corresponded a great deal
01:05:02Would you care to have me read you one of her letters?
01:05:04Please
01:05:10Won't you sit down?
01:05:17I was so touched by her letters that I saved them
01:05:19It's the last one she ever wrote to me
01:05:23My dear sister Mary of Mercy
01:05:25We are returning very soon
01:05:27The summer has been a very long and lonely one
01:05:30How I want to see you again
01:05:32And sit and talk to you about all that has been worrying me
01:05:35I know you tried to teach me how beautiful the world is
01:05:39And how it keeps on being beautiful every day
01:05:43No matter what happens to us
01:05:45But sometimes I have the dreadful feeling
01:05:48That this beauty will never be complete for me
01:05:52That I will never find someone to love
01:05:55Who will love me
01:05:57It's a thought that terrifies me dear sister
01:06:00And I need your comfort and your wisdom to help me
01:06:04Your loving Jenny
01:06:10That was the year the terrible tidal wave hit the New England coast
01:06:15October 5th
01:06:16I remember it well
01:06:19I always offer my communion for Jenny on that day
01:06:24I afterwards learned that Jenny was in the habit of sailing out every day alone
01:06:28To a little cove near an abandoned lighthouse
01:06:32Lens and light
01:06:33During one of those trips the waves struck
01:06:36That was the last anyone ever saw a fella
01:06:40Lens and light
01:06:40That's where I'll find her
01:06:42But Jenny is dead, Mr. Adams
01:06:44You must accept that fact
01:06:46How does it make me think
01:06:48I won't accept it
01:06:48Don't tell me she's dead
01:06:50I held her in my arms three months ago, not ten years ago
01:06:53I love her, I want her back
01:06:54What vision has been about to save you, I can't say
01:06:58But don't doubt the ways of Providence
01:07:00You must have faith
01:07:02We know so little
01:07:03So very little
01:07:05I don't mean to be abrupt and I'm grateful for your kindness
01:07:08When did you say that wave struck the coast?
01:07:11October 5th
01:07:12And today is?
01:07:13October 1st
01:07:14That leaves me four days
01:07:16But Mr. Adams, that October 5th was many years ago
01:07:19Are you so sure?
01:07:21You say we know so little
01:07:24You say Jenny's parents were killed
01:07:26I found her sobbing on a bench the night it happened
01:07:29You say she was a student, dear
01:07:30I visited her here
01:07:32You say she went to New England with her aunt
01:07:34I was with her just before she left
01:07:37Then how can you say it all happened many years ago?
01:07:41Yes
01:07:43Yes
01:07:43We know so little
01:07:46And yet now
01:07:48I know a little more
01:07:50I know now the pattern of Jenny's life
01:07:53But I also know
01:07:55That I am part of it
01:07:57She herself said that strands of our lives were woven together
01:08:01And that neither time nor the world could break them
01:08:03This I have faith in
01:08:06Thank you, mother
01:08:07I must hurry now
01:08:08Thank you for your kindness
01:08:34Where are you keeping yourself?
01:08:35What's wrong, Adams?
01:08:36I'm going away, Spinney
01:08:37I don't know for how long
01:08:39Here's my portrait of Jenny
01:08:40Will you store it for me until I come back?
01:08:42Of course
01:08:43Where are you going?
01:08:44I think I know where she's going to be
01:08:45I've got to be there waiting for her
01:08:47Little place up on Cape Cod called Land's End
01:08:52Well, Adam
01:08:54Where have you been?
01:08:55I've got a lot of commissions for you
01:08:56In that case, perhaps you'll advance me a hundred dollars
01:08:59Ah, well
01:09:00Give him the hundred dollars, Mr. Matthew
01:09:02Yes
01:09:04What's the matter, Adam?
01:09:05Is there something wrong?
01:09:06Never mind
01:09:07I'll just pay you, Mr. Matthew
01:09:08As you say, Miss Spinney
01:09:11Thank you
01:09:11Thank you, Spinney
01:09:12Thanks for everything
01:09:13Bye, Mr. Athios
01:09:14Goodbye, my boy
01:09:15Have a good rest
01:09:16We'll do big things together later
01:09:19Paid me a little church while you're there
01:09:21A little white church with a big steeple
01:09:24Don't get yourself drowned in the sea
01:09:26What makes you say that?
01:09:28Oh, men do such foolish things
01:09:30I'm afraid of the ocean
01:09:32You're tough
01:09:33Sea wouldn't get you
01:09:35Tough ones drown too, you know
01:09:38Bye
01:10:06Any warning of the storm yet?
01:10:08What storm is that?
01:10:09The hurricane that's coming up
01:10:10Heh
01:10:11No hurricane coming up around here, young fella
01:10:14Fair weather
01:10:16That's what it says
01:10:18Right there
01:10:19Yeah
01:10:19How far in advance would the barometer show up when we're coming up?
01:10:22Far enough
01:10:24Didn't show far enough when we heard that hurricane back in the 20s
01:10:27I've heard about that hurricane
01:10:29Happened just about this time of year, didn't it?
01:10:31Yeah
01:10:33By golly
01:10:35Come to think of it
01:10:36It was
01:10:37October 5th
01:10:39I remember
01:10:41Because October 4th is my birthday
01:10:45Today
01:10:45I'd like to get out to Land's End Light
01:10:47You know where I can charter a boat
01:10:50Land's End Light
01:10:53Can't think of any reason
01:10:55Why anybody would want to go out there?
01:10:57Never mind my reasons
01:10:58Do you know someone with a boat?
01:11:00My pa's got a trim little boat
01:11:02That's fine
01:11:03Would you mind taking me to your pa?
01:11:06No
01:11:06Come to think about it
01:11:08I don't think Ma would like him to rent a boat
01:11:10Well, I reckon you'd better go down to Sea Eek
01:11:13I've heard tell how he rents his boat sometimes
01:11:15Well, I find Eek
01:11:18Oh, it ain't hard to find Eek
01:11:19He's always sitting in the same place
01:11:21Where's that?
01:11:22Well, I'll tell you now
01:11:23You go down to the jetty
01:11:25And ask for an old card your name
01:11:32It's mighty nice of you to rent me a boat
01:11:34You could go and buy a new one
01:11:36For what you'll pay in me
01:11:38But what I don't see is
01:11:40How you figure to get her out tomorrow
01:11:42And all this muck
01:11:45Ain't a breath of wind stirring
01:11:49There'll be wind, all right
01:11:51Plenty of it
01:11:52Maybe
01:11:54Never been too sure about them things
01:11:56Not since that hurricane we had back in the twenties
01:12:00What about the wave?
01:12:02I heard something about a great wave
01:12:09Great wave
01:12:11Hey, uh
01:12:12There was a wave, all right
01:12:14Sometimes I think I never seen it
01:12:16But I just
01:12:17Read about it
01:12:18Like something in the scriptures
01:12:21It come up out of the sea
01:12:23Like a mountain
01:12:25Coming
01:12:26Coming toward the land
01:12:28Like the day of judgment
01:12:30You didn't happen to know a girl
01:12:32A visitor
01:12:33Who was caught by the wave
01:12:35Her name was Jenny Appleton
01:12:37You know what's queer you should ask me that
01:12:40I used to rent her my boat
01:12:42I should never forget it
01:12:43Till the day I die
01:12:45Did you know her?
01:12:47Yes, I knew her
01:12:49Pretty little thing, wasn't she?
01:12:51Such big sad eyes she had
01:12:54Big sad eyes
01:12:56Something about her
01:12:57That seemed to come from far away
01:12:59What happened exactly?
01:13:01Where was she
01:13:02When the wave struck?
01:13:03Well
01:13:04She reached land's end point
01:13:05That much is certain
01:13:07But I found the bow of my boat
01:13:09Tied to the wharf there
01:13:10Well anyway
01:13:10What was left of it?
01:13:12Let me ask you something
01:13:14If she had made the lighthouse
01:13:15She might have been saved
01:13:17Isn't that so?
01:13:19Yeah
01:13:19But she didn't make it
01:13:22No, I know
01:13:23It was a pretty tough climb up them rocks
01:13:26And all that wind
01:13:29Especially for a female
01:13:31I suppose it would
01:13:32Alone
01:14:04That was not so gay
01:14:04The night
01:14:05The night
01:14:05The night
01:14:08The night
01:14:08The day
01:14:09And the night
01:14:09That's so dear
01:14:09The night
01:14:10That was a bien
01:14:11Oh no
01:14:12The night
01:14:22The night
01:14:23That's great
01:17:10Jenny!
01:17:19Jenny!
01:17:29Jenny!
01:17:30Jenny!
01:17:48Jenny!
01:17:49Jenny!
01:17:49Jenny!
01:18:04Jenny!
01:18:29Jenny!
01:18:34Jenny!
01:18:35Jenny!
01:18:40Jenny!
01:18:42Jenny!
01:18:46Jenny!
01:18:58Jenny!
01:18:59Jenny!
01:19:01Jenny!
01:19:02I was afraid I wouldn't find you.
01:19:05I'll never let you go again, never.
01:19:07It's been so long, Heaven.
01:19:08Let me look at you.
01:19:10The wave is coming.
01:19:11It's all right.
01:19:12Whatever happens.
01:19:13Whatever happens, it's you.
01:19:14I want you.
01:19:14And I just start your dreams out of you.
01:19:16Heaven!
01:19:16Please believe me.
01:19:17The wave will strike again soon.
01:19:19We can have a whole lifetime together.
01:19:20We have all eternity together, Heaven.
01:19:23Can't you see?
01:19:24We were lonely, unloved.
01:19:26Time made an error.
01:19:28But you waited for me.
01:19:30And so we found our love.
01:19:31And now we must lose it?
01:19:32No, no, Heaven.
01:19:33Now we're just beginning.
01:19:34There is no life, my darling, until you are loved.
01:19:37Then you're loved.
01:19:38And then there is no death.
01:19:43Switch to the lighthouse fast.
01:19:45But you're finding nothing, Heaven.
01:19:47Nothing.
01:20:12Jackie.
01:20:13Please, Heaven, go without me.
01:20:15No.
01:20:16There's nothing in life.
01:20:17Nothing at all without you.
01:20:18You must live on, Heaven.
01:20:20But with Dave.
01:20:28Dave, come.
01:20:29Goodbye, my darling.
01:20:33Dave!
01:20:37Debbie!
01:21:03There, young fellow.
01:21:05The shave will make you feel better.
01:21:07Morning, Captain Garth.
01:21:09Morning.
01:21:10Spinny.
01:21:11Hello, Adams.
01:21:12What are you doing here?
01:21:14Well, frankly, I was worried about you.
01:21:16I thought I'd come up and see how you were doing.
01:21:18Captain Garth kindly let me visit you.
01:21:20So you see, we're both his guests.
01:21:22Nice of you, thanks.
01:21:23Oh, ain't nothing.
01:21:25But let me tell you, young fellow.
01:21:27It's a mighty lucky thing you told Eek where you was aiming to sail for.
01:21:32But ain't likely we'd ever have been able to find you at all.
01:21:35No, sir, above.
01:21:37Did they find anyone else?
01:21:38There weren't nobody else darn fool enough to keep a boat out in that blow.
01:21:43But, but her boat.
01:21:45What's she saying?
01:21:46She, she had a boat.
01:21:48I don't rightly know what you're talking about, young fellow.
01:21:51But there weren't no other boat at all without some any place around these parts that day.
01:21:56And you can bet your boots on that.
01:22:00Can't figure out why Eek ever rented Emmer's boat.
01:22:07You saw Jenny again, didn't you, Adam?
01:22:12It's awful.
01:22:16I tried to hold on to her.
01:22:19The wave.
01:22:21Take it easy.
01:22:23At least you saw her again.
01:22:29Yes.
01:22:30I'm glad you at least believe.
01:22:35about Jenny.
01:22:38Yes, Adam.
01:22:44You, you do, don't you?
01:22:46You believe it.
01:22:47That's all that matters.
01:22:51Here.
01:22:54Here.
01:22:58What?
01:23:06Where'd you get that scarf?
01:23:08This.
01:23:09It was near you when they found you on the beach.
01:23:17Yes, Benny.
01:23:19I saw Jenny again.
01:23:23You mean this is Jenny?
01:23:30It's all right.
01:23:33I haven't lost it.
01:23:38Everything's all right now.
01:24:03portrait of jenny isn't she beautiful i wonder if she was real oh she must
01:24:10have been what does it matter she was real to him or she couldn't look so alive how very wise
01:24:16you are
01:24:26oh heaven is it really of me i think someday it will hang in the museum and people will come
01:24:32from
01:24:32all over the world to see it
01:24:37so
01:24:44THE END
01:25:18THE END
01:25:48THE END
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