He recalled offering a devoutly-felt Faustian prayer toward he altar and a hanging Jesus crucifix - he promised to dedicate his celibate life to goodness, humility, and the industrious production of much-loved works of music, if only God would make him a successful, great and famous composer:(voice-over) Lord, make me a great composer! Let me celebrate your glory through music - and be celebrated myself! Make me famous through the world, dear God! Make me immortal! After I die, let people speak my name forever with love for what I wrote! In return, I will give you my chastity, my industry, my deepest humility every hour of my life.At the movies one night, Ivan Moffat""s production ofNow and Forever, he happens to sit next to a fellow assembly line co-worker from his same social class - a frumpy, dowdy, plain-looking Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters), who disguises her pleasure in seeing him: "Small world.One man o stand alone against an Empire").The Egyptian astrologers saw "an evil star" and worried that there was a Hebrew prophecy of a deliverer, not in foreign lands, but within Egypt""s borders and in "the heart of Egypt," who was amongst "the Hebrew slaves in the land of Goshen.He tells his banker, his oldest and closest friend Tubby Pearson (Harlan Briggs), that his life is about to change: "I""m out to make a new life for myself.