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ANOTHER ANGLE ROBERTS AND LORRE
FEATURING WILSON
Roberts: To sell newspapers, Old Boy.
Wilson: So you resurrect Anastasia. Why not the little boy, the
little Czarevitch? Why not the direct male heir?
Roberts: My dear Wilson, the Czarevitch Alexis was already at
the age of 12 an incurable hemophiliac.
Lorre: He was a bleeder.
Wilson: ...The slightest cut...
Lorre: Hemophiliacs do not survive beatings, shootings, stab-
bings.
Wilson: (Dripping irony) You’re a delightful little man... But
why, Roberts, resurrect Anastasia?
Roberts: Because she was young and pretty. She was only 17 the
night of the murders.
Lorre: Death at such an early age is romantic.
Wilson: Romantic?
Roberts: Quite romantic...Quite.
Lorre: ...and her story sells newspapers.
Wilson: Quite.

MEDIUM LUDWIG, OLGA, KATHARINE

LUDWIG makes an entrance escorting OLGA. KATHA-
RINE is two steps behind.
Ludwig: My dear friends. Gentlemen of the Press. My only an-
nouncement at this, our monthly official reception in exile,
is that we are near, very near, to finding and presenting my
niece, the Grand Duchess Anastasia, heiress to all of Russia.
Wilson: Quite.

MEDIUM WILSON FEATURING MALENKOV

Over WILSON’S shoulder, NKVD AGENT, MALEN-
KOV, discovered standing in the doorway, toasts LUD-
WIG’S announcement with a glass of blood-red wine.

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