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The Love Light 1 When great storms rage at sea, far off coasts are lashed by cruel waves, tempest born. Like sullen legions they come - to batter frail craft in peaceful waters ---
2 ---and Life is like the Sea.
3 From vast upheavals born of lust for world dominion, come waves of misery, surging on to buffet helpless lives
on distant shores.
4 Caressing the rock-girded coast of Italy are the waters of the calm
Mediterranean.
5 Flashing blue in the sunlight,
its plumed waves curl
about the feet of a little
fishing village.
6 A simple folk these -- happy children of impulse -- dwelling amid picturesque squalor.
7 A rising young profiteer -
Tony.
8 Apart from the village
lives one whose
love dreams are borne upon the wings of song.
Giovanni.
9 His melody of love sounds an echo in the hearts of Maria
and Pietro.
10 It is of the girl Angela he sings and his songs are sad, for he knows that he loves in vain.
11 Sympathy.
12 The good Father Lorenzo,
guide, friend and
comforter of his
tiny flock.
13 Far beyond the horizon clouds are gathering - sullen, sinister, menacing.
14 But the spirit of youth
holds sway in the Carlotti home.
15 - where lives Angela Carlotti and her two brothers.
(Angela, translated, means angel. But, as her brothers say - 'What's in a name?')
16 The elder brother Antonio
looked with favor on
the courtship of Giovanni.
17 "I tell you, Giovanni, if you marry Angela
you take one fine
cook."
18 The joy and bane of Angela's existence is her younger brother
Mario.
19 "When you marry Angela,
we'll tell you our
system how to make her work - like ten devils!"
20 "We flatter the poor little
sardine --"
21 "Antonio, where is the
gentle Angela?"
22 "You shriveled herring,
you struck me!"
23 "Sure, Giovanni, you stay
for dinner. Angela, she's crazy for it!"
24 "You're going to give me a piece of that chicken
aren't you dear?"
25 "You know that chicken is only for Father Lorenzo!"
26 Then, Madonna mia...
the wine began to take effect!
27 "Don't let him bless
the macaronies.
They'll get cold!"
28 "Please, Father Lorenzo, a very long blessing
on this happy home!"
29 Stewed chicken.
30 And then the storm broke A tidal wave of war engulfed humanity, sweeping to destruction the splendid manhood
of the world.
31 To part is to die a little.
32 Silent months have passed with no word from the soldier brother, Antonio. But life still exacted its duties and youth danced
its vibrant way.
33 "No brother makes his sister a present - for nothing!"
34 "Soldiers are leaving today--"
35 "You are such a little boy. Please to wait for another year."
36 "The courier has just
brought word of
the death of another brave village boy."
37 "Angela's brother,
Antonio ...
killed!"
38 "When I think, it may
be a long time
before I'll be digging out your ears again."
39 "Pig! You said it was yesterday that you
washed!"
40 "You, who love Angela,
must be the one
to comfort her in her
sorrow."
41 "Goodbye, kids!
See you in the spring!"
42 "Remember what you promised about your
underclothes."
43 "Goodbye, my little
sardine..."
44 "Antonio!"
45 "Mario must not go!...... They will kill him too!"
46 The harsh roll of far off battle drums summons Giovanni.
47 "... Send Mario and Giovanni home without too many wounds, to Thine obedient servant, Angela Carlotti."
48 WOMAN'S PART IN WAR No martial music hers, No joys of battle won;
But waiting, dreading,-- Her frail shoulders bent to carry on
man's unfinished tasks;
Silent, patient toiler -- anguish torn,-- Who shall say that she is not
the bravest soldier of them all?
49 Angela has taken Giovanni's
place as keeper of the
lighthouse. Returning home after the night watch.....
50 "You speak so funny my
language. Where do you come from, eh?"
51 "I - am an American!"
52 "Never before have I met the breed... it is very nice."
53 "Why, Mr. American, are you so afraid?"
54 "Because..."
55 "... I am a deserter!"
56 "You have, perhaps, a good excuse for this deserting?"
57 "We were having a wild shore-leave at Genoa, when our ship pulled out and left us. As our only chance we hired a tug to catch her; then we ran into this storm --"
58 --and Angela, believing Joseph, the American, hid him in her home until he could return in safety to his ship.
59 "Would he like me better
if I were romantic?"
60 Or would he prefer
one of those
kittenish girls?
61 "No, I shall be cold
and haughty like
the ladies of Rome!"
62 "Yes -- I shall
refuse him!"
63 "I--I was just polishing
the pan."
64 "I though I heard
voices - - Are you alone?"
65 "I must get away from here.
Every hour I stay
makes it more dangerous!"
66 "Mario! He's only my little baby brother."
67 Then, as Joseph lingered,
Angela knew that
the love which sleeps in every woman's heart, had at last awakened.
68 "You will perhaps--
miss me?"
69 "In our country it is the pleasant custom to believe that a kiss will cure any pain!"
70 "Father Lorenzo would never allow this!"
71 "But then, you don't know
Father Lorenzo!"
72 One by one the broken men of the village returned. Came Pietro, once so strong
and brave...
73 "This stranger that you wish to marry in secret. Are you sure, my child,
that you love him?"
74 "It must be love, Father Lorenzo. I suffer so much the sweet pain of
happiness."
75 After their secret marriage.
76 "Don't forget, Angela,
our love signal -- at midnight!"
77 And at midnight, Angela flashed her "I love you" message across the waters to the waiting Joseph.
78 "I..."
79 "...love..."
80 "...you."
81 Angela's code of love carries a message of destruction in Joseph's code of war.
82 Fearing that her continued absence from the village might arouse suspicion, Angela called upon Maria and Pietro the following
afternoon.
83 "On an enemy's knife ... Italian blood!"
84 "'Gott Mitt Uns!'
That, Angela,
is their blasphemous
prayer."
85 "A boat ... bringing home
wounded soldiers,
was sunk by an enemy submarine last night ...
at midnight!"
86 Joseph had chosen this night to carry out his plans
of escape.
87 "Chocolate will be all I dare carry. I can live on that for several days."
88 "Tony is the only one who has any. If I ask for more than the ration
it would make him
suspicious. But I know where he hides it!"
89 "A thief in this village
means a stranger!"
90 "A stranger is an enemy!
Perhaps -- a spy!"
91 "Let the dog follow
the scent!"
92 "Gott---"
93 "Gott.. Mitt Uns!"
94 "You ... a German!"
95 "Angela, I am an enemy
of your country,
but not a traitor to you."
96 "You can't hate me, Angela, for serving my own country. It is every man's duty."
97 "Why do you leave your work at the lighthouse and come to the village -- like a thief?"
98 "You sheep, do you think I steal chocolate for my own greedy self?"
99 "I had nothing to send my little brother Mario."
100 "It's a lie! She knows that
Mario is dead!"
101 "You devil! Father Lorenzo
was to tell her!"
102 "Mario was on the boat that was sunk last night."
103 "I've not long to live, Angela, forgive me--- the fever of this war has turned us into beasts."
104 "The boat!"
105 "The lighthouse!"
106 "My love signal
to Josepho!"
107 "I have lied to you!
Betrayed you! I
have been hiding and protecting an enemy of our country...
a spy!"
108 "Angela, are you telling us
the truth?"
109 "Swear to me, Pietro, that you will not
kill him!"
110 "My little brother Mario -- you've killed him! You used my love signals to send him to his death!"
111 To Angela a child was born and they named it Dolora --which means sorrow.
112 For months Angela's mind lay sleeping, -- stunned by successive shocks of sorrow --- innocent victim of a far off conflict.
113 "Have I - still - a little baby?"
114 Maria, now a widow, had lost her little son, And they had laid Angela's girl baby upon her sorrowing
mother breast.
115 "Don't take her away from me! Tell Angela that her child is dead! She's crazy! She'll never
know!"
116 The miracle of babyhood kept Angela's faith serene -- and her hands busy.
117 To Angela's tortured brain, there was healing in her baby's fingers.
118 Unceasing wonder that so much joy should be given to one so humble.
119 Caught in the swirl of war's hysteria, driven to distraction by loss of husband and child, Maria conceives a cruel scheme.
120 "Little mother! I think we've both a right to puff out our feathers!"
121 "Angela still insane! You may keep the child until we have seen poor Angela."
122 Distraught -- Angela came to the convent, seeking her baby there.
123 "I know, sister Lucia, you think I'm crazy.
But I'm not!"
124 The sister is convinced that Angela is unfit to care for the child.
125 In this little village, not even the echoes of the battlefield.. yet how War crucifies the innocent and the helpless.
126 "Giovanni!"
127 "At first ... Oh, God ...
I prayed to die!"
128 "Then ... I rushed to see the flowers and the trees ... and I struck against things -- like a drunken man!"
129 "Oh, my poor Giovanni,
you will see them
again ... through my eyes ..."
130 "Feel the sunset, Giovanni.
It is warm and golden."
131 "Your hair was golden in the sunlight, Angela."
132 "See, Giovanni, the birds are singing to make our hearts glad."
133 "Do you remember
how I always
thought you sang like the lark!"
134 "And Mario said my voice was like a pip-squeak!"
135 "You see, we are going to be happy, aren't we,
Giovanni?"
136 Empty months dragged by -- Angela's mother-heart ached with longing for the baby they had hidden from her in the home of Maria.
137 "He's blind - but Angela's
teached him to see with his finger tips!"
138 "Hey, there, you little magpies! I can see you talking about me!"
139 An outcast from the villa- gers, Angela devoted her life to the mothering of Giovanni. One morning, coming from her hopeless pilgrimage to the convent where she believed her child was harbored ...
140 "Oh, the baby!"
141 "Poor Pietro's son!"
142 "I have..."
143 "I had a little baby -
a - little girl!"
144 Then through the Shadows of the past came stark remembrance---Maria's child
had died.
145 "Oh, Giovanni, I saw
my own baby --
and I didn't know her."
146 That afternoon, Maria, terror-stricken, sought
advice from Tony.
147 "She will remember that my baby died.
And then ..."
148 "We are just sailing for
Genoa. Why not
run away from Angela?"
149 "Tony, I'll go with you
to Genoa!"
150 "Marry with me, and
they'll let you
bring the baby home."
151 "You are one crazy fool to sail into this storm!"
152 "I know, Beppo, but adventure is life!"
153 During the dark hours the storm whips itself
to fury.
154 Angela's light - the
one guardian of the
rocky shore - is failing.
155 "The main stays have
been broken. And
the wind is driving us
toward the rocks."
156 "I'm afraid, Beppo,
we cannot fix the light."
157 "It's no use - the light
is dead!"
158 "I told Tony he was crazy to sail into this storm. And to take Maria with him!"
159 "My God, Beppo, it's my baby!"
160 "God ... please, please tell me what to do to save my baby!"
161 Angela's home becomes a beacon light to save her child.
162 "They are close to the shore!
We can reach them!"
163
A sullen dawn watched their
efforts at rescue.
164 After Angela's marriage to Giovanni they sought the harbour of his home.
165 "My two little children--"
166 "Googuggeegappapanaaa..."
167 "Why! She's saying - 'papa'!"
168 "Oh, no, she's saying - 'mama'!"
169 "Blop!" [inverted text]
170 "There! It is papa!"
THE END
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