September 5, 2025 • 44 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a noteworthy attempt to revive in American radio dramas like Inner Sanctum (1941-1952) and Suspense (1942-1962). Radio dramas were widely considered "dead" 12 years prior to this series. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, or simply Mystery Theater, was created by Inner Sanctum creator Himan Brown and ran on CBS from 1974-1982. The show, much like older radio dramas, was introduced by a host (E.G. Marshall in this program), who steers us through the creaking door to start the episode. Many voices from the golden age of radio were featured, including Richard Widmark, Bret Morrison, Agnes Moorehead and many more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Es Radio Mystery Theater presents.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Come in.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Welcome. I'm E. G. Marshall.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Remember when you believed that the kits of a.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Princess turned a frog into a prince.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
That was long ago.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
When you believed in magic. You grew older, and you harbored.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Perhaps a belief in luck and that luck could be manipulated.
Later you amended this to read chance. Then you began
to speak of problem solving, and the belief in magic
was relegated to the past. But even as a magnetic
pool of childhood resists all our efforts to grow up,
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so us.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The secret desire to believe that the.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Lovely princess will transform the ugly frog into a handsome prince.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
With a kiss.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
I can know what I want to know.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
I can know what I want to know.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I can feel what I want to feel.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
I can feel what I want to feel.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I can be what I want to be.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
I can be what I want to be.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
It's happening.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Our mystery drama, The Major, was written especially for the
Mystery Theater by Else the Heeric and stars Fred Gwynn.
I'll be back shortly with that one. The title of
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our story is The majis a magis is a magician,
an enchanter, a conjurer, one.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Who practices the black art with.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
All its fascination. It's a lower magic has always been
looked upon with suspicion, mistrusted as much as it was revered.
Our drama starts in the kitchen of an old house
belonging to one Adrian Storm. Adrian Storm is a magius, Elie.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
You spend all together too much time with him.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
I get my.
Speaker 8 (02:45):
Work done, mother.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
Well what do you two do up there in his room?
Speaker 8 (02:49):
Talk?
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Just talk?
Speaker 7 (02:52):
What's talk?
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Hm?
Speaker 9 (02:55):
Is he uh going to keep that big mirror in
his room?
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Point not?
Speaker 8 (03:00):
It's his?
Speaker 7 (03:01):
But what did he do? Look at himself all the time?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Mother?
Speaker 7 (03:06):
I don't know what he does. Listen, Ellie. There are men.
Speaker 9 (03:13):
Well I shouldn't have to tell you this, but I
guess I do. There are men who take to servant.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Girls like yourself. Brother. You are a servant girl.
Speaker 9 (03:26):
You are the maid in this house and I'm the crook.
He's the master here and we are the servants. And
don't you ever.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Forget it, Adrian doesn't think of me that way.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
You call him Adrian? He asked me to When did
he ask you to?
Speaker 8 (03:41):
Uh, the day I took the mirror up to his room.
Speaker 9 (03:43):
For a whole month, you've been calling him by his
first name.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
He's so sweet to me.
Speaker 9 (03:48):
That day he felt awful that I had to carry
that big mirror.
Speaker 8 (03:52):
Up stairs all by myself.
Speaker 9 (03:54):
I said, I'd help you now, if you would have waited,
Larry would have done it. For that matter, what why
didn't mister Storm.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Do it himself?
Speaker 9 (04:01):
If he was so concerned about you doing it?
Speaker 8 (04:04):
I wanted to do it.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
He appreciated it.
Speaker 10 (04:08):
He kissed my hand, kissed my hands.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
There's one and the other.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
He was crying, Ellie, Eh, Ellie.
Speaker 9 (04:22):
There's those people who come to see him, the ones
that come here at night.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Who are they? I don't know why you You've met them,
haven't you?
Speaker 8 (04:32):
It's not really I just set up the room for it.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
But what do you mean by set up?
Speaker 11 (04:36):
Draw the curtains, light the candles, put the records out,
and the the set stuff like that.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
What else?
Speaker 6 (04:43):
That's all that I mean?
Speaker 7 (04:45):
But doesn't he ever ask you to uh to stay?
Speaker 8 (04:48):
He always does, but he doesn't ever insist.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
And you never have no, and.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
You never will.
Speaker 9 (04:56):
I Ellie promised me you never will.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
But I can't promise.
Speaker 12 (05:03):
Mother.
Speaker 9 (05:04):
Those people are coming here again tonight, aren't they? Yes,
mister he only they could be witches, those people.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
I don't think so much.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
That, missus Storm.
Speaker 12 (05:18):
Don't go.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
I have well Larry, Larry McCabe is coming up the path.
I can see him a right. Oh wait, wait and
say hello to Larry.
Speaker 12 (05:26):
I have to see what he wants. I is that you, Larry? Well,
come on.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
In, I can.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
On earth.
Speaker 9 (05:36):
Oh oh well, unsteady, you can hear the cattle?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Oh here?
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Uh? Set the groceries down over there or nowhere?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Right?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (05:47):
Oh? Wait?
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Where did you find a fete under the head es?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
I know you don't like to have my side.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Mister Storm would have a fit.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
It's awful hard to keep the tomcat indoors all the
times until it goes against nature.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
You uh uh?
Speaker 7 (06:00):
You want me to unpack the grocery for you if
you've got the time?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Is uh Dellie or uh?
Speaker 7 (06:06):
He's upstairs with him?
Speaker 9 (06:09):
Oh h How are you doing at the supermarket, Larry?
Speaker 7 (06:13):
The treating you're okay?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Oh yeah, uh pretty good?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Actually, see I may not be making deliveries much longer.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I'll be working at a checkout counter. I think, Oh.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
That that's marvelous.
Speaker 9 (06:23):
Larry, l Larry, would you do me a favor?
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Ask Ellie out again? I I I I'll tell her.
I'll tell her about your promotions.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Really you you think she would?
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Well, she's got to.
Speaker 9 (06:35):
She's got to see what a really wonderful person you are,
not like well, not like some people I know, not
so far from where?
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Where's standing, Adrian?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
You wanted something close?
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Close the door a bit, Kelly, come over here. I
have a little present for you.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
H What is it?
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Something very simple?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Why?
Speaker 6 (07:08):
It's a watch?
Speaker 8 (07:10):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I don't think that I should the cheap watch, my dear,
of no importance.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
It's yah.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
It's what you do with the watch that's important. Do
you know what you do with the watch?
Speaker 8 (07:25):
Tell the time? Is that what you mean?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Yes, that's all you can think of to do with
a watch.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
I I don't know, alright, no.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
No, no, no, no, yeah now then it's all right.
I am going to show you what to do with
the watch. Now let's look at it together. You see, mm,
see what a nice clean white face it has in
the black numbers and the precise little black hands, the
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long one and the short one. Mm. You see them.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Now, I want you to look at the minute hand,
a long one. Look closely.
Speaker 13 (08:11):
Are you looking closely?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Yes, now, without taking your eyes from it, repeat after me.
My name is Ellie Long.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
My name is Ellie Long.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Keep looking at the minute hand, don't look up, don't
look away.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Now say my.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Name is Ellie Long, and I am here right now.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Go on.
Speaker 10 (08:44):
Hey, my name is Ellie Long, and I'm here right.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Now here, right now here.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Right now.
Speaker 11 (09:00):
Oh again, my name is Ellie Long, and I am
here right now.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Again and again and again.
Speaker 11 (09:11):
My name is Ellie Long, and I am here right now.
My name is Ellie Long.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Don't look up.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
Ah, I'm I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
It's all right.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Idea, you'll you'll soon get.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
The hang of it, you like, Oh of course?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Uh? Don't you want to know the purpose of this exercise?
Oh yes, Uh, it's a little trick I got from
a good chief. George believed in self awareness, in going
through life fully awake, not with the self submerged the
way most people do. He believed in being alive, fully
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and completely alive.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Oh so do I? So do I?
Speaker 5 (09:58):
And do you think you are fully alive?
Speaker 8 (10:01):
I know I'm not.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Should I see who's at the door?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Probably?
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Oh mother, Larry?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Hy uh? Your your mother asked me to bring.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
The cat up.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Uh my fisto?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Is that my Mephisto?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I found him outside in the back yard under the head.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Oh well, I'll bring him in there.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
I'll take him.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Thanks very much, young man. Oh bad my fisto.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Bad bad cat.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Ellie, your mother said, uh h, I was talking to
your mother.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
And she thank you Larry for the cat.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Uh yet at the store, I I think they're gonna
promote me.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
That's and I wondered, what would you be right now?
Speaker 14 (10:43):
Larry?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You know, would you consider the poossibility.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Of door plays?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
There's a draft coming through?
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Oh I'm sorry, Larry.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Really, who's the young man?
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Oh that's just Larry. He delivers the groceries.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Oh well, then we don't have to think any more
about him. Tell me, will you be here tonight.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
For the h when the people you mean when they yes,
that is what I mean?
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Will you join us?
Speaker 9 (11:10):
W Well, I'll let everybody in and I'll i'll get
everything ready up here.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
That's what you want me to do, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
You won't stay at her little convocation?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Mm I?
Speaker 7 (11:20):
I you find it very interesting, my mother says.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Yeah, your mother says what.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
She says, you're all witches?
Speaker 8 (11:31):
What a coven of witches?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Witches?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Well, witches, you're not.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Your mother is a simple minded peasant mind.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Dear w she only said you might her.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
You think we're interested in spells and incantations. Oh no,
my dear, no, no, no no, we are delving into
the mysteries of times space. Yes, we are secret power.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Over them both.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
But first time first my idea, we must have power
over ourselves. Mm you remember.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Several will?
Speaker 11 (12:17):
I am Ellie long and I am here right now?
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Is that it?
Speaker 5 (12:26):
That's at the beginning, You're barely started.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Would you like to see how far you.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Can advance right here by the power of your concentration,
by the.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Power of your will?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Would you like to see what I can do by
my concentration.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
By my will?
Speaker 7 (12:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Would you write it?
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Alright?
Speaker 9 (12:59):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
That comes here?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
To do?
Speaker 5 (13:03):
What that's now?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Look out there?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
What do you see?
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Nothing?
Speaker 9 (13:12):
Do?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Come?
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Come?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Come?
Speaker 15 (13:14):
You must see something?
Speaker 7 (13:16):
Why you going down the path?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Harry young man?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Who goes back?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
My cat?
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Now? Would you like to see Larry jump two feet
up in the air and scream out louder though in
with and pain. Mm would you like to see that? Then? Uh?
Be quiet, be quiet, quiet, quiet, and focus on my
will and that young man let me checked under. When
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he reaches the end of the privilegedge just then you
will spring two feet in your air and scream. Watch
h uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
What's closely?
Speaker 15 (14:07):
Now?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Well?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Well, what do you think of that? You see what
I mean about magic?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Who would not thrill to possess such power?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Well?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Not I for one, For I am no.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Longer young and believing.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I'm sorry to say, I have long since turned skeptical,
not to say cynical.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I think I may be missing a lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
I should be back shortly with that too.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Missus Long is the cook at the home of Adrian Storm.
Her daughter Ellie is the maid of all work. As
potential suitor for Ellie, missus Long favors Larry, delivery boy
for the local market. She lives in fear of her employer,
more particularly in fear.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Of his influence over her daughter.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Strange people gather periodically at the Storm rather than they
are expected. This very evening, as our first act ended,
Ellie stood by the window of Adrian Storm's bedroom.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
What do you see what.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Just Larry going down the path?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Uh Larry?
Speaker 5 (15:37):
And would you like to see Larry jump two feet
in the air and scream out loud as though in pain.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Let me focus my.
Speaker 15 (15:46):
Will, let me reject onto him.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
When he reaches the end of the privilegeage, he will
spring to feet in the air and scream.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
U watch this watch closely now.
Speaker 14 (16:18):
Sorry, glory, if I haven't said any all right?
Speaker 12 (16:22):
Or coming up? For goodness sake, come on?
Speaker 7 (16:26):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (16:28):
I don't know exactly.
Speaker 9 (16:31):
I was finishing up the dishes, and I saw you
going down the path, and all of a sudden.
Speaker 12 (16:35):
You jump up into the air and.
Speaker 14 (16:36):
You learn how to yellow?
Speaker 7 (16:37):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I think I must have seen a snake shut?
Speaker 9 (16:41):
So I did anything happen when when you took missist
up to mister Storm's room.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
No, I just knocked on the door and Nellie opened
it and I gave her the cat.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
And mister Storm said saying that I tried to ask
Kelly for a day, so she didn't want to stop me. Right.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
Then, did you get a good look, mister Storm when
you took.
Speaker 12 (17:01):
The cat up?
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Well, I saw him.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
He was uh standing in front of that big mirror.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Sat mirror. He stands in front of it all the time,
worse than any woman. He kisses himself practically.
Speaker 9 (17:13):
Mother, Oh, Ellie, you shouldn't say such things about Adrian.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Hello, Ellie, I came down to get a chair.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
He wants it.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Well, aren't you going to say hello to Larry?
Speaker 7 (17:22):
I've take hell long to him before, but it.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
Wouldn't hurt you to say it's our height, missus long.
Do you know what happened to Larry just now while
you were passing the time of day with mister Adrian's storm?
Speaker 7 (17:34):
I know you know. Did you see him? Did you
hear him?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
There? Uh?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
There there's a snake out there under the hedge.
Speaker 8 (17:43):
There are no snakes out there.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Well, I'm almost positive there are.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
No snakes out there, mother.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
I wanna take one of these pitching chairs.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Well, I'm sure I saw a snake.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
I'll take this one.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
I'll prove it to you.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I'm gonna go out there right now and find it,
and when I find it, I'll kill it.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
And i'll bring it back here.
Speaker 12 (18:00):
You can see for.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Yourself there are no snakes out there.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
There could be no there could be one.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
There are no snakes out there.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Then what made Larry jump like that and scream like that?
Speaker 6 (18:16):
It was Adrian. Adrian did it by.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
The force and power of his will.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
He concentrated will.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
Are you losing your mind? Howes that madam hypnotized you?
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Is it alright if I.
Speaker 9 (18:31):
Take a chair anything to take out of Adrian says he.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Needs with it. He's got plenty of chairs in his room.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
He wants a straight hit air.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
Go ahead, take it. It's his chair.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Mother. Yes, baby, it's Ellie my real name.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Well, of course, is why I thought maybe it was
really Eleanora's.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
Elfreda or Ellie.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
It's Ellie. That's what you were christened.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Well, alright, I'll take the chair up.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
You want some hook?
Speaker 9 (19:04):
No if you mean to.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
Carry Elie baby?
Speaker 12 (19:07):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Are you sure you're all right? Of course, I'm all right.
Speaker 9 (19:12):
I I just thought I'm all right and I'm going.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
To be better, much better.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Wait and see m.
Speaker 16 (19:30):
Hm doctor Arnold here?
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Oh h doctor poor Arnold?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Is this doctor?
Speaker 16 (19:40):
This is Arnold?
Speaker 9 (19:41):
Oh doctor Arnold. I don't know if you remember me.
I misais long that the cook at mister Storm's eyes?
Speaker 16 (19:47):
Oh yeah, Oliad, I think I've had the blizzer eating
you were cooking once or twice, So will what can
I do for you?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Miss it all?
Speaker 8 (19:55):
Well, it's it's not me, it it's my daughter.
Speaker 16 (19:58):
You're a daughter, yes, oh me?
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Maybe you don't.
Speaker 9 (20:00):
Remember her, t Ellie, she's the maid here she waits
on table.
Speaker 16 (20:04):
Oh, yes, I I think I do remember.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Well, I I'm I'm worried about her.
Speaker 16 (20:08):
Well, what seems to be the trouble, missus Long?
Speaker 9 (20:11):
Well, she's been acting so strangely wing in what way? Well,
probably I shouldn't be talking to you about this where
I couldn't leave no, uh right, Ellie spends a lot
of time with mister storm doctor.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Ah.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Well, you see, I don't like that to start off with,
but there really wasn't much.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
I could do about it.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
But well, lately it's been getting worse.
Speaker 16 (20:36):
Wor shit words in what way?
Speaker 7 (20:38):
Well, it started about the time she took a big
mirror up to his room. When was that about a
month ago?
Speaker 16 (20:46):
You said? Is it a month ago?
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (20:49):
So he keeps this this mirror in his room, ain't he,
missus long?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Uh?
Speaker 16 (20:53):
I have a waiting room full of pasi er Uh.
I'm so sorry, No, no, not at all.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Uh.
Speaker 16 (20:58):
And I'm gonna be jammed up here for the rest
of the day. Why don't I come to the house
before dinner. Let's say about uh five, Oh, if we
can have a talk, would that be chet sack?
Speaker 9 (21:08):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Oh, that would be wonderful, doctor or not?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
M Oh you all right, my dear?
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Uh, it might help you with a chair?
Speaker 7 (21:20):
No, it's all right, I can do it. Uh.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Bring it right inside. That's it.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Uh, it's not so very big.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Where do you want it?
Speaker 9 (21:29):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Right in front of the mirror about yeah, just.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
A chair out of the kitchen.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
I know, not very comfortable, So I know that too.
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Do you have all these nice upholstered chairs.
Speaker 9 (21:44):
I I I don't see why he wanted this.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
One One day you'll understand one day soon.
Speaker 8 (21:51):
What are you gonna do with it?
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Kicking it like this?
Speaker 7 (21:56):
That's all?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Not quite Uh where there's I'm a fish too.
Speaker 11 (22:01):
Under the bed, I think, Uh, will you at your
employe for tail was sticking out?
Speaker 12 (22:06):
But I, oh think.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
I've got everything.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Uh bring him to him?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Alright, pretty boy?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Uh, handsome boy?
Speaker 8 (22:19):
Do you want anything else?
Speaker 7 (22:21):
No?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
I think I have everything.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Maybe i'd better go, mother, would yes?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Stay 'e 'em?
Speaker 14 (22:29):
Well?
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Hm, have you been doing your exercise?
Speaker 10 (22:33):
My name is Ellie Long and I am here right now.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
My name is.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Adrian.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yes, my just.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
I ask my mother? Is my name really Ellie? And
do you think yes?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Pretty name?
Speaker 6 (22:54):
You think so?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
You don't care for me? Well, huh, then I just
will give you another name.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Would you do that?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Why not?
Speaker 8 (23:04):
What name did you have in mind for me?
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Claimer? Yeah, you like it?
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Slamer?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
That's strength?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Don't you think that?
Speaker 8 (23:20):
Slamer?
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Kid?
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Uh, I have something I wanna do?
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Can I help you?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Come over here? Stand next to me, uh, a little
in the back of basically yes, yes, just there now,
Please don't move, Please don't interrupt, Just stand there and watch.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Watch what what are you about to take place?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Anyway?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
What I expect to take place? Hm? I've been working
on this for a month now.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
Does it?
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Does it have something to do with a mirror?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Clever girl?
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Since I'm sitting directly in front of the mirror, you
might assume.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
That it has to do with a mirror.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Incidentally, I can tell you now I wanted a straight chair.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
Yes, I I wonder.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
I have been practicing this exercise for a month now,
using one of those arm chairs. I have concluded they're
too comfortable. My concentration waivers, my mind goes to other things.
But in this straight back chair, it's still about the stove.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Quiet, don't don't understand?
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Yes, fix your eyes on the reflection in the mirror. Ready,
I can feel all I want to feel. I can
know all I want to know. I can do all
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I want to do. I can be all I want
to be.
Speaker 15 (25:26):
It can take an.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
I can feel all I want to see. I can
know all I want to know. I can do all
I want to do. I can be all I want
to be. Him in charge, I'm in command. I am
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a master myself.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I am in charge.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I am.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
If it happened, lou look.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Mirror what you see?
Speaker 8 (26:20):
Rush?
Speaker 12 (26:21):
Hush?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
What do not?
Speaker 15 (26:25):
You do not see my reflection?
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Is that not? So?
Speaker 15 (26:30):
You do not see my reflection because.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
It is not there. It has disappeared.
Speaker 15 (26:39):
My reflection, disp.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Why would a man spend time and energy.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
To dissipate his own reflection in a mirror?
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Why would he go to such lengths.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
To procure the right mirror, the right chair, placed the
chair before the mirror, and in effect try to exercise
his own image. Why this particular man tried to do
this particular thing.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
We shall learn when I bring you at three.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
That's the few moments.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Earlier in our story, Ellie watched Adrian as he worked
his magic on the innocent person of Larry, the delivery boy,
seemingly forcing the boy to leap into the air and scream.
Ellie's insistent that only the power of Adrian's will had
caused Larry to leap and scream, sent her mother to
the phone to call doctor Arnold, who promised to visit
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the house at five o'clock.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
It is now evening of the same day.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Do you make a saladressing with you? You're off the
goover saladessing, Ellie, you're right?
Speaker 9 (27:58):
Huh, Hey, you look pale and you're you're acting sophicitive.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
I'm all right, your hands are shaking.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
No they're not, Ellie.
Speaker 9 (28:09):
I might as well tell you I called doctor Arnold.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Who is doctor Arnold?
Speaker 7 (28:14):
If the storm's doctor, what did you do that for?
Speaker 8 (28:17):
Adrian's all right, it's not him.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
I'm worried about it's you. Oh, say's the doctor?
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Now?
Speaker 8 (28:23):
I don't wanna see him, but I want you to.
Speaker 12 (28:25):
Oh, I'm not going to there's nothing.
Speaker 10 (28:27):
Wrong with me and anyway, Adrian wants me upstairs.
Speaker 7 (28:30):
He told me to come back when I was through
helping him. Ellie, please stay and see him.
Speaker 12 (28:34):
I don't wanna see any doctors. Oh, Lord, Lord, help
me to do the right Helen, help.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
Me to know what the right to miss it? Certainly don't.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Missus long?
Speaker 12 (28:45):
Oh yeah, yes.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
And and your doctor, Arnold, Oh come and clean.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Oh thank you that I'm not sure taking you away
from your kitchen.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Yeah, that's all right. Oh, come in here and I'm
sit down doctor, all right, it'll be just you and me.
Speaker 9 (29:00):
I'm afraid Ellie's with him.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Mister Storm.
Speaker 9 (29:04):
Well it's hard for me even to say his name.
I know he's your patient and he's your friend, and
I don't.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Like to say harsh things about him. But you see,
it's got to a point.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Where now, now I suppose you tell me just what seems.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
To be the trouble.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
Well, well, you see, I've been working here for about
a year. Ellie works worked here to general.
Speaker 9 (29:26):
Housework, and from the day we came here, I could
see that mister Storm had his eye on Ellie.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
In what way?
Speaker 9 (29:33):
Oh well, I don't mean anything immoral, but in a
way that could lead to something in the especially because
she started to what to like him a lot and
to spend a lot of time with him. She says,
they just sit in his room and talk.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Now, it's possible that's all they do.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
Ellie's not want to lie, but well, there are.
Speaker 9 (29:54):
These people that started coming to the house nights.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Now.
Speaker 9 (29:59):
They may be perfectly respectable.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
I wouldn't know that.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
But on the other hand, well, you want to know
what I think. I I think they're witches.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Oh, missus Long, I hardly think so.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Oh, something weird goes on in that room while they're here,
moans and groans.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
And something that sounds like, well, not like him, but
it's more like like chance or.
Speaker 7 (30:24):
Not music, So just just voices chanting.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Well that sounds harmless enough, Well maybe it is.
Speaker 7 (30:31):
I'm not saying it is.
Speaker 9 (30:32):
And you see, about a month ago, mister Storm had
Ellie take a big mirror up to his room. Well,
sometimes when his door was open, I used to see
him in front of the mirror, just looking at himself.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
Sometimes I go past his door again and an hour.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
Later and there he'd be still looking at himself.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
In the mirror.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
House Missus Long, I've known mister Storm for a good
many years.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
And while I'm moderately fond of him, I must tell
you that I've always known he was the most nicessistic
of men.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
There's not in a draft you great, but one which
may be forgiven.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I think.
Speaker 16 (31:13):
That do go on?
Speaker 9 (31:14):
Well, See I I I worried a lot about Ellie being.
Speaker 7 (31:18):
So so close to mister Storm.
Speaker 9 (31:20):
I wanted to go out more with Larry McKay. He's
our delivery boy from the supermarket. Oh oh, and I
have to tell you what happened this morning.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
And see, Larry brought some groceries and when he reached
the edge of the privet hedge, he he jumped up.
Speaker 9 (31:36):
In the air and he let out such a yolly
you'd you'd think something you'd bitten him? Was?
Speaker 7 (31:40):
He said he'd seen a snake. Oh, not that the
snake had bitten him, just just that he'd seen it.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Well, I think seeing a snake unexpectedly.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Would make me jump up in the air and yell
yes and and.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
And I believed him kind of.
Speaker 9 (31:53):
But do you know what Ellie said, mm, she said
that it happened because mister Storm I'd made it happen.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Really well, just How did he make it happen?
Speaker 7 (32:06):
Made by the force of his concentrated will oh, missus long?
Speaker 4 (32:14):
I think she was just teasing you, you know, of uh,
putting you.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
On the weird.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
That's what he said.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Even in this afternoon.
Speaker 9 (32:23):
She took a chair up to him, and an ordinary chair,
one from the kitchen. Heavens knows what he wanted it for.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
She is with him right now up in his room.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
You saw it this afternoon, didn't you?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Ready?
Speaker 6 (32:41):
I I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
You saw my.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Reflection begin to fade around the edges, as though it
were wasting away coming up?
Speaker 4 (32:48):
You saw that, bye?
Speaker 8 (32:51):
I thought something.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
You saw my reflection start to distinctreate, That is what
you saw, Mi.
Speaker 15 (33:01):
By I don't like to why not?
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Why not? I haven't see it. It's a supreme achievement.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
The crowning glory for my life, the great triumph of
my career. Have you ever even heard of a man
who could make his own affection disappear?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Have you no?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (33:25):
Well then, but why do you wanna do it?
Speaker 8 (33:29):
Adrian?
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Why? I'll tell you why. Because it can't be done.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
That's why.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I am a major's.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
I dabbled into black arts.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Didn't you know.
Speaker 8 (33:49):
I wasn't sure.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Well, No, now.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Gone now to work, to work. Uh, First I sort
of seek myself in this most uncomfortable ta directly in
front of the mirror. Then you will hand me my
cat and the pisto. Here, lie down the pisto and
be quiet. That's my good boy and my pretty boy.
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Now Ellie, he will stand beside me little in back
of me. Please as before as you now, keep your
eyes fixed on the mirror as I shall.
Speaker 15 (34:35):
Yea and the pisto too.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
We three will watch while I remove by my own powers,
my own image from the mirror. I can feel all
I want to feel. I can know, Oh I want
(35:06):
to know.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I can be.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
What I don't want to be.
Speaker 15 (35:17):
Oh agent, I am mistuh race fiends, I am leaving trains.
It's beginning to go tell this.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
Faint.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Uh.
Speaker 13 (35:42):
The edges are all blurry, little morsels are beginning to
fall away. The ears crumbled, My shoulders break up in degenerate.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
The feast turns.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Pale.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Cat's waiting see turned gent.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
See how it you lose?
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Okay, don't fainter.
Speaker 15 (36:15):
It goes.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
It is dissolving, it is vanishing.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Soon, all because.
Speaker 12 (36:29):
The parent.
Speaker 7 (36:32):
I show a man with no reflection in the mirror,
not at alone.
Speaker 12 (36:41):
Soon sure, mother, help baby.
Speaker 7 (36:56):
Maybe what happened there.
Speaker 12 (36:58):
There where there is.
Speaker 11 (37:05):
Not mad in there is room.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
No no, Now, try to calm Ellie.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
I try to tell us what happened, Doctor Ellie.
Speaker 14 (37:14):
He's sitting in front of the mirror, and it's care
I brought him.
Speaker 7 (37:19):
He got the cat in his laugh.
Speaker 12 (37:20):
I couldn't stand it.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
He couldn't stand.
Speaker 7 (37:26):
You're about to.
Speaker 14 (37:27):
Look in the mirror to why watch what he said?
Speaker 7 (37:31):
He was going to make it happen. Nobody has ever
done him before, like what happened?
Speaker 14 (37:37):
Make his reflection since the there.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Is his reflection in the mirror.
Speaker 14 (37:43):
Nobody look ever, Kennedy says, And.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
No one ever will, my DearS, And he had.
Speaker 14 (37:52):
Just gonna all blurry in the mirror.
Speaker 9 (37:56):
And then it was just some little excutus of him,
so you don't foll off.
Speaker 14 (38:01):
He was losing part of himself.
Speaker 9 (38:05):
It was horrible.
Speaker 14 (38:06):
I could send.
Speaker 12 (38:09):
You don't believe me.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
But I do.
Speaker 8 (38:12):
He does, and how he does.
Speaker 14 (38:16):
He's disappearing in the mirror.
Speaker 12 (38:20):
To get out. I can't did it anymore.
Speaker 7 (38:24):
Just don't forget something's happening, doctor.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Her I think we'd better go in there.
Speaker 7 (38:33):
Ellie, come on, how you're right room?
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Doctor Yash.
Speaker 7 (38:43):
He didn't look up or anything when we came in.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
He's dead, Missus, long dead. He must have died to
no more than a minute ago.
Speaker 6 (38:57):
How But what killed him?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
I didn't expect it so soon, man.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
I thought he had at least a year, maybe more.
Speaker 7 (39:07):
What are you talking about? Doctor?
Speaker 1 (39:10):
And mister Storm suffered from a terminal disease.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
Well, it was little to.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Be done for except relieve his pain. But uh, I
told him a month ago he could expect to live
at least another year.
Speaker 7 (39:22):
You told him a month ago?
Speaker 4 (39:25):
Yeah, that was when he asked for the mirror.
Speaker 7 (39:29):
Yes, there's got to be a connection.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
I don't like to jump to conclusions, but I think
it very likely that what we have here is a
case of.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Suicide.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
Is that possible?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
I suppose?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
I suppose a man could will his own death.
Speaker 9 (39:51):
What's the matter with Adrian?
Speaker 7 (39:54):
He's dead, Elie? Oh he's dead.
Speaker 8 (40:00):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (40:02):
See, his reflection is all gone from the mirror.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
That's what I was afraid of.
Speaker 9 (40:11):
That it would disappear altogether and he would be dead.
Speaker 8 (40:17):
But he wouldn't miss him.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
Oh, Ellie, the mirror.
Speaker 7 (40:21):
All blank, I can see myself, the mother and he
who daughter. No Atrian, there's.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Treat is gone, Ellie, you can see Adrian, Adrian's body
in the mirror.
Speaker 8 (40:42):
No, there's just a chair.
Speaker 7 (40:46):
Mother, you see the chair?
Speaker 6 (40:48):
I don't, of course, but no atriance.
Speaker 7 (40:54):
He treat is can I don't know. Business is what
happened in this though it will word the catch. We
just all knew that Adrian was dying. He couldn't stand
it either. He wasn't wear in his house and he
did we find him? No, No, I think he's right here,
right here in this roll, Billy, ly, don't worry about
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the car. You have to find him out now. So
wait where are you?
Speaker 8 (41:19):
Missus j good cat.
Speaker 7 (41:21):
And you boy, he's here.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
It's the best to leave her alone for the time being.
Speaker 6 (41:26):
Missus law, I supposed to a doctor.
Speaker 12 (41:29):
I found him, found belly.
Speaker 7 (41:32):
He was behind the mirror. Fine, darling, do just see
what's happened.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Don't you see what happened?
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Billy?
Speaker 12 (41:40):
Why this this?
Speaker 9 (41:42):
So we're sitting in Adrian's lap and the sif so
knew what was happening. That Adrian's reflection was flipping away.
He jumped off Adrian's lap and went into the mirror
and took Adrian's player.
Speaker 8 (42:03):
And now Adrian song in the Fisco. In Adrian will
live on in the Fisco wherever I.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
I have to call the police.
Speaker 11 (42:17):
Missus long, of course you'll do, dearly pistol, beautiful cat.
Speaker 8 (42:27):
You mind now, I'll never leave you.
Speaker 6 (42:31):
You will never leave me, Leave you Adrians.
Speaker 14 (42:38):
Mm.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Did Adrian Storm commit suicide?
Speaker 4 (42:48):
That is what we must stop?
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Cut out?
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Did he bring about his own demise? Did he will
himself dead? And if he did, it's this magic?
Speaker 4 (43:00):
Was Adrian Storm a true majors?
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Or is what we witnessed merely the proof of a
man's destructive power when that power is turned inward upon himself.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
I shall be back shortly.
Speaker 7 (43:22):
We are not consulted.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Heaven knows in the matter of our conception. We come
into this uncertain world under protest, and we object strenuously
to large portions.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Of the life thus thrust upon us.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Should we regredge any man the privilege of determining the
moment and the manner of departing it, It's something to
think about. Our cast included Fred Gwynn, Jadda Rowland, Carroll
Tytel and Russell Horton.
Speaker 5 (43:52):
The entire production was under the direction.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Of Hymond Brown.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
This is E. G.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Miss Street Theater
for another adventure in the macabre.
Speaker 4 (44:04):
Until next time, pleasant dreams.
Es Radio Mystery Theater presents.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Come in.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Welcome. I'm E. G. Marshall.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Remember when you believed that the kits of a.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Princess turned a frog into a prince.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
That was long ago.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
When you believed in magic. You grew older, and you harbored.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Perhaps a belief in luck and that luck could be manipulated.
Later you amended this to read chance. Then you began
to speak of problem solving, and the belief in magic
was relegated to the past. But even as a magnetic
pool of childhood resists all our efforts to grow up,
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so us.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The secret desire to believe that the.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Lovely princess will transform the ugly frog into a handsome prince.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
With a kiss.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
I can know what I want to know.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
I can know what I want to know.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I can feel what I want to feel.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
I can feel what I want to feel.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I can be what I want to be.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
I can be what I want to be.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
It's happening.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Our mystery drama, The Major, was written especially for the
Mystery Theater by Else the Heeric and stars Fred Gwynn.
I'll be back shortly with that one. The title of
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our story is The majis a magis is a magician,
an enchanter, a conjurer, one.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Who practices the black art with.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
All its fascination. It's a lower magic has always been
looked upon with suspicion, mistrusted as much as it was revered.
Our drama starts in the kitchen of an old house
belonging to one Adrian Storm. Adrian Storm is a magius, Elie.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
You spend all together too much time with him.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
I get my.
Speaker 8 (02:45):
Work done, mother.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
Well what do you two do up there in his room?
Speaker 8 (02:49):
Talk?
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Just talk?
Speaker 7 (02:52):
What's talk?
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Hm?
Speaker 9 (02:55):
Is he uh going to keep that big mirror in
his room?
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Point not?
Speaker 8 (03:00):
It's his?
Speaker 7 (03:01):
But what did he do? Look at himself all the time?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Mother?
Speaker 7 (03:06):
I don't know what he does. Listen, Ellie. There are men.
Speaker 9 (03:13):
Well I shouldn't have to tell you this, but I
guess I do. There are men who take to servant.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Girls like yourself. Brother. You are a servant girl.
Speaker 9 (03:26):
You are the maid in this house and I'm the crook.
He's the master here and we are the servants. And
don't you ever.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Forget it, Adrian doesn't think of me that way.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
You call him Adrian? He asked me to When did
he ask you to?
Speaker 8 (03:41):
Uh, the day I took the mirror up to his room.
Speaker 9 (03:43):
For a whole month, you've been calling him by his
first name.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
He's so sweet to me.
Speaker 9 (03:48):
That day he felt awful that I had to carry
that big mirror.
Speaker 8 (03:52):
Up stairs all by myself.
Speaker 9 (03:54):
I said, I'd help you now, if you would have waited,
Larry would have done it. For that matter, what why
didn't mister Storm.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Do it himself?
Speaker 9 (04:01):
If he was so concerned about you doing it?
Speaker 8 (04:04):
I wanted to do it.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
He appreciated it.
Speaker 10 (04:08):
He kissed my hand, kissed my hands.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
There's one and the other.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
He was crying, Ellie, Eh, Ellie.
Speaker 9 (04:22):
There's those people who come to see him, the ones
that come here at night.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Who are they? I don't know why you You've met them,
haven't you?
Speaker 8 (04:32):
It's not really I just set up the room for it.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
But what do you mean by set up?
Speaker 11 (04:36):
Draw the curtains, light the candles, put the records out,
and the the set stuff like that.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
What else?
Speaker 6 (04:43):
That's all that I mean?
Speaker 7 (04:45):
But doesn't he ever ask you to uh to stay?
Speaker 8 (04:48):
He always does, but he doesn't ever insist.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
And you never have no, and.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
You never will.
Speaker 9 (04:56):
I Ellie promised me you never will.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
But I can't promise.
Speaker 12 (05:03):
Mother.
Speaker 9 (05:04):
Those people are coming here again tonight, aren't they? Yes,
mister he only they could be witches, those people.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
I don't think so much.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
That, missus Storm.
Speaker 12 (05:18):
Don't go.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
I have well Larry, Larry McCabe is coming up the path.
I can see him a right. Oh wait, wait and
say hello to Larry.
Speaker 12 (05:26):
I have to see what he wants. I is that you, Larry? Well,
come on.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
In, I can.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
On earth.
Speaker 9 (05:36):
Oh oh well, unsteady, you can hear the cattle?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Oh here?
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Uh? Set the groceries down over there or nowhere?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Right?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (05:47):
Oh? Wait?
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Where did you find a fete under the head es?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
I know you don't like to have my side.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Mister Storm would have a fit.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
It's awful hard to keep the tomcat indoors all the
times until it goes against nature.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
You uh uh?
Speaker 7 (06:00):
You want me to unpack the grocery for you if
you've got the time?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Is uh Dellie or uh?
Speaker 7 (06:06):
He's upstairs with him?
Speaker 9 (06:09):
Oh h How are you doing at the supermarket, Larry?
Speaker 7 (06:13):
The treating you're okay?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Oh yeah, uh pretty good?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Actually, see I may not be making deliveries much longer.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I'll be working at a checkout counter. I think, Oh.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
That that's marvelous.
Speaker 9 (06:23):
Larry, l Larry, would you do me a favor?
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Ask Ellie out again? I I I I'll tell her.
I'll tell her about your promotions.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Really you you think she would?
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Well, she's got to.
Speaker 9 (06:35):
She's got to see what a really wonderful person you are,
not like well, not like some people I know, not
so far from where?
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Where's standing, Adrian?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
You wanted something close?
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Close the door a bit, Kelly, come over here. I
have a little present for you.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
H What is it?
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Something very simple?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Why?
Speaker 6 (07:08):
It's a watch?
Speaker 8 (07:10):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I don't think that I should the cheap watch, my dear,
of no importance.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
It's yah.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
It's what you do with the watch that's important. Do
you know what you do with the watch?
Speaker 8 (07:25):
Tell the time? Is that what you mean?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Yes, that's all you can think of to do with
a watch.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
I I don't know, alright, no.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
No, no, no, no, yeah now then it's all right.
I am going to show you what to do with
the watch. Now let's look at it together. You see, mm,
see what a nice clean white face it has in
the black numbers and the precise little black hands, the
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long one and the short one. Mm. You see them.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Now, I want you to look at the minute hand,
a long one. Look closely.
Speaker 13 (08:11):
Are you looking closely?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Yes, now, without taking your eyes from it, repeat after me.
My name is Ellie Long.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
My name is Ellie Long.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Keep looking at the minute hand, don't look up, don't
look away.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Now say my.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Name is Ellie Long, and I am here right now.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Go on.
Speaker 10 (08:44):
Hey, my name is Ellie Long, and I'm here right.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Now here, right now here.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Right now.
Speaker 11 (09:00):
Oh again, my name is Ellie Long, and I am
here right now.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Again and again and again.
Speaker 11 (09:11):
My name is Ellie Long, and I am here right now.
My name is Ellie Long.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Don't look up.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
Ah, I'm I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
It's all right.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Idea, you'll you'll soon get.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
The hang of it, you like, Oh of course?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Uh? Don't you want to know the purpose of this exercise?
Oh yes, Uh, it's a little trick I got from
a good chief. George believed in self awareness, in going
through life fully awake, not with the self submerged the
way most people do. He believed in being alive, fully
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and completely alive.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Oh so do I? So do I?
Speaker 5 (09:58):
And do you think you are fully alive?
Speaker 8 (10:01):
I know I'm not.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Should I see who's at the door?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Probably?
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Oh mother, Larry?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Hy uh? Your your mother asked me to bring.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
The cat up.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Uh my fisto?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Is that my Mephisto?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I found him outside in the back yard under the head.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Oh well, I'll bring him in there.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
I'll take him.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Thanks very much, young man. Oh bad my fisto.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Bad bad cat.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Ellie, your mother said, uh h, I was talking to
your mother.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
And she thank you Larry for the cat.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Uh yet at the store, I I think they're gonna
promote me.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
That's and I wondered, what would you be right now?
Speaker 14 (10:43):
Larry?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You know, would you consider the poossibility.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Of door plays?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
There's a draft coming through?
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Oh I'm sorry, Larry.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Really, who's the young man?
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Oh that's just Larry. He delivers the groceries.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Oh well, then we don't have to think any more
about him. Tell me, will you be here tonight.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
For the h when the people you mean when they yes,
that is what I mean?
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Will you join us?
Speaker 9 (11:10):
W Well, I'll let everybody in and I'll i'll get
everything ready up here.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
That's what you want me to do, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
You won't stay at her little convocation?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Mm I?
Speaker 7 (11:20):
I you find it very interesting, my mother says.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Yeah, your mother says what.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
She says, you're all witches?
Speaker 8 (11:31):
What a coven of witches?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Witches?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Well, witches, you're not.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Your mother is a simple minded peasant mind.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Dear w she only said you might her.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
You think we're interested in spells and incantations. Oh no,
my dear, no, no, no no, we are delving into
the mysteries of times space. Yes, we are secret power.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Over them both.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
But first time first my idea, we must have power
over ourselves. Mm you remember.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Several will?
Speaker 11 (12:17):
I am Ellie long and I am here right now?
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Is that it?
Speaker 5 (12:26):
That's at the beginning, You're barely started.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Would you like to see how far you.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Can advance right here by the power of your concentration,
by the.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Power of your will?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Would you like to see what I can do by
my concentration.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
By my will?
Speaker 7 (12:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Would you write it?
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Alright?
Speaker 9 (12:59):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
That comes here?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
To do?
Speaker 5 (13:03):
What that's now?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Look out there?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
What do you see?
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Nothing?
Speaker 9 (13:12):
Do?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Come?
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Come?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Come?
Speaker 15 (13:14):
You must see something?
Speaker 7 (13:16):
Why you going down the path?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Harry young man?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Who goes back?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
My cat?
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Now? Would you like to see Larry jump two feet
up in the air and scream out louder though in
with and pain. Mm would you like to see that? Then? Uh?
Be quiet, be quiet, quiet, quiet, and focus on my
will and that young man let me checked under. When
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he reaches the end of the privilegedge just then you
will spring two feet in your air and scream. Watch
h uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
What's closely?
Speaker 15 (14:07):
Now?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Well?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Well, what do you think of that? You see what
I mean about magic?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Who would not thrill to possess such power?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Well?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Not I for one, For I am no.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Longer young and believing.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I'm sorry to say, I have long since turned skeptical,
not to say cynical.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I think I may be missing a lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
I should be back shortly with that too.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Missus Long is the cook at the home of Adrian Storm.
Her daughter Ellie is the maid of all work. As
potential suitor for Ellie, missus Long favors Larry, delivery boy
for the local market. She lives in fear of her employer,
more particularly in fear.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Of his influence over her daughter.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Strange people gather periodically at the Storm rather than they
are expected. This very evening, as our first act ended,
Ellie stood by the window of Adrian Storm's bedroom.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
What do you see what.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Just Larry going down the path?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Uh Larry?
Speaker 5 (15:37):
And would you like to see Larry jump two feet
in the air and scream out loud as though in pain.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Let me focus my.
Speaker 15 (15:46):
Will, let me reject onto him.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
When he reaches the end of the privilegeage, he will
spring to feet in the air and scream.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
U watch this watch closely now.
Speaker 14 (16:18):
Sorry, glory, if I haven't said any all right?
Speaker 12 (16:22):
Or coming up? For goodness sake, come on?
Speaker 7 (16:26):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (16:28):
I don't know exactly.
Speaker 9 (16:31):
I was finishing up the dishes, and I saw you
going down the path, and all of a sudden.
Speaker 12 (16:35):
You jump up into the air and.
Speaker 14 (16:36):
You learn how to yellow?
Speaker 7 (16:37):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I think I must have seen a snake shut?
Speaker 9 (16:41):
So I did anything happen when when you took missist
up to mister Storm's room.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
No, I just knocked on the door and Nellie opened
it and I gave her the cat.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
And mister Storm said saying that I tried to ask
Kelly for a day, so she didn't want to stop me. Right.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
Then, did you get a good look, mister Storm when
you took.
Speaker 12 (17:01):
The cat up?
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Well, I saw him.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
He was uh standing in front of that big mirror.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Sat mirror. He stands in front of it all the time,
worse than any woman. He kisses himself practically.
Speaker 9 (17:13):
Mother, Oh, Ellie, you shouldn't say such things about Adrian.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Hello, Ellie, I came down to get a chair.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
He wants it.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Well, aren't you going to say hello to Larry?
Speaker 7 (17:22):
I've take hell long to him before, but it.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
Wouldn't hurt you to say it's our height, missus long.
Do you know what happened to Larry just now while
you were passing the time of day with mister Adrian's storm?
Speaker 7 (17:34):
I know you know. Did you see him? Did you
hear him?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
There? Uh?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
There there's a snake out there under the hedge.
Speaker 8 (17:43):
There are no snakes out there.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Well, I'm almost positive there are.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
No snakes out there, mother.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
I wanna take one of these pitching chairs.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Well, I'm sure I saw a snake.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
I'll take this one.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
I'll prove it to you.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I'm gonna go out there right now and find it,
and when I find it, I'll kill it.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
And i'll bring it back here.
Speaker 12 (18:00):
You can see for.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Yourself there are no snakes out there.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
There could be no there could be one.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
There are no snakes out there.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Then what made Larry jump like that and scream like that?
Speaker 6 (18:16):
It was Adrian. Adrian did it by.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
The force and power of his will.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
He concentrated will.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
Are you losing your mind? Howes that madam hypnotized you?
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Is it alright if I.
Speaker 9 (18:31):
Take a chair anything to take out of Adrian says he.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Needs with it. He's got plenty of chairs in his room.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
He wants a straight hit air.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
Go ahead, take it. It's his chair.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Mother. Yes, baby, it's Ellie my real name.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Well, of course, is why I thought maybe it was
really Eleanora's.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
Elfreda or Ellie.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
It's Ellie. That's what you were christened.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Well, alright, I'll take the chair up.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
You want some hook?
Speaker 9 (19:04):
No if you mean to.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
Carry Elie baby?
Speaker 12 (19:07):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Are you sure you're all right? Of course, I'm all right.
Speaker 9 (19:12):
I I just thought I'm all right and I'm going.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
To be better, much better.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Wait and see m.
Speaker 16 (19:30):
Hm doctor Arnold here?
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Oh h doctor poor Arnold?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Is this doctor?
Speaker 16 (19:40):
This is Arnold?
Speaker 9 (19:41):
Oh doctor Arnold. I don't know if you remember me.
I misais long that the cook at mister Storm's eyes?
Speaker 16 (19:47):
Oh yeah, Oliad, I think I've had the blizzer eating
you were cooking once or twice, So will what can
I do for you?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Miss it all?
Speaker 8 (19:55):
Well, it's it's not me, it it's my daughter.
Speaker 16 (19:58):
You're a daughter, yes, oh me?
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Maybe you don't.
Speaker 9 (20:00):
Remember her, t Ellie, she's the maid here she waits
on table.
Speaker 16 (20:04):
Oh, yes, I I think I do remember.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Well, I I'm I'm worried about her.
Speaker 16 (20:08):
Well, what seems to be the trouble, missus Long?
Speaker 9 (20:11):
Well, she's been acting so strangely wing in what way? Well,
probably I shouldn't be talking to you about this where
I couldn't leave no, uh right, Ellie spends a lot
of time with mister storm doctor.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Ah.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Well, you see, I don't like that to start off with,
but there really wasn't much.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
I could do about it.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
But well, lately it's been getting worse.
Speaker 16 (20:36):
Wor shit words in what way?
Speaker 7 (20:38):
Well, it started about the time she took a big
mirror up to his room. When was that about a
month ago?
Speaker 16 (20:46):
You said? Is it a month ago?
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (20:49):
So he keeps this this mirror in his room, ain't he,
missus long?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Uh?
Speaker 16 (20:53):
I have a waiting room full of pasi er Uh.
I'm so sorry, No, no, not at all.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Uh.
Speaker 16 (20:58):
And I'm gonna be jammed up here for the rest
of the day. Why don't I come to the house
before dinner. Let's say about uh five, Oh, if we
can have a talk, would that be chet sack?
Speaker 9 (21:08):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Oh, that would be wonderful, doctor or not?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
M Oh you all right, my dear?
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Uh, it might help you with a chair?
Speaker 7 (21:20):
No, it's all right, I can do it. Uh.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Bring it right inside. That's it.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Uh, it's not so very big.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Where do you want it?
Speaker 9 (21:29):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Right in front of the mirror about yeah, just.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
A chair out of the kitchen.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
I know, not very comfortable, So I know that too.
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Do you have all these nice upholstered chairs.
Speaker 9 (21:44):
I I I don't see why he wanted this.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
One One day you'll understand one day soon.
Speaker 8 (21:51):
What are you gonna do with it?
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Kicking it like this?
Speaker 7 (21:56):
That's all?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Not quite Uh where there's I'm a fish too.
Speaker 11 (22:01):
Under the bed, I think, Uh, will you at your
employe for tail was sticking out?
Speaker 12 (22:06):
But I, oh think.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
I've got everything.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Uh bring him to him?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Alright, pretty boy?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Uh, handsome boy?
Speaker 8 (22:19):
Do you want anything else?
Speaker 7 (22:21):
No?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
I think I have everything.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Maybe i'd better go, mother, would yes?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Stay 'e 'em?
Speaker 14 (22:29):
Well?
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Hm, have you been doing your exercise?
Speaker 10 (22:33):
My name is Ellie Long and I am here right now.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
My name is.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Adrian.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yes, my just.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
I ask my mother? Is my name really Ellie? And
do you think yes?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Pretty name?
Speaker 6 (22:54):
You think so?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
You don't care for me? Well, huh, then I just
will give you another name.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Would you do that?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Why not?
Speaker 8 (23:04):
What name did you have in mind for me?
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Claimer? Yeah, you like it?
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Slamer?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
That's strength?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Don't you think that?
Speaker 8 (23:20):
Slamer?
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Kid?
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Uh, I have something I wanna do?
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Can I help you?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Come over here? Stand next to me, uh, a little
in the back of basically yes, yes, just there now,
Please don't move, Please don't interrupt, Just stand there and watch.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Watch what what are you about to take place?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Anyway?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
What I expect to take place? Hm? I've been working
on this for a month now.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
Does it?
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Does it have something to do with a mirror?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Clever girl?
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Since I'm sitting directly in front of the mirror, you
might assume.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
That it has to do with a mirror.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Incidentally, I can tell you now I wanted a straight chair.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
Yes, I I wonder.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
I have been practicing this exercise for a month now,
using one of those arm chairs. I have concluded they're
too comfortable. My concentration waivers, my mind goes to other things.
But in this straight back chair, it's still about the stove.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Quiet, don't don't understand?
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Yes, fix your eyes on the reflection in the mirror. Ready,
I can feel all I want to feel. I can
know all I want to know. I can do all
(25:14):
I want to do. I can be all I want
to be.
Speaker 15 (25:26):
It can take an.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
I can feel all I want to see. I can
know all I want to know. I can do all
I want to do. I can be all I want
to be. Him in charge, I'm in command. I am
(26:02):
a master myself.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I am in charge.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I am.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
If it happened, lou look.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Mirror what you see?
Speaker 8 (26:20):
Rush?
Speaker 12 (26:21):
Hush?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
What do not?
Speaker 15 (26:25):
You do not see my reflection?
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Is that not? So?
Speaker 15 (26:30):
You do not see my reflection because.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
It is not there. It has disappeared.
Speaker 15 (26:39):
My reflection, disp.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Why would a man spend time and energy.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
To dissipate his own reflection in a mirror?
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Why would he go to such lengths.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
To procure the right mirror, the right chair, placed the
chair before the mirror, and in effect try to exercise
his own image. Why this particular man tried to do
this particular thing.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
We shall learn when I bring you at three.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
That's the few moments.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Earlier in our story, Ellie watched Adrian as he worked
his magic on the innocent person of Larry, the delivery boy,
seemingly forcing the boy to leap into the air and scream.
Ellie's insistent that only the power of Adrian's will had
caused Larry to leap and scream, sent her mother to
the phone to call doctor Arnold, who promised to visit
(27:45):
the house at five o'clock.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
It is now evening of the same day.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Do you make a saladressing with you? You're off the
goover saladessing, Ellie, you're right?
Speaker 9 (27:58):
Huh, Hey, you look pale and you're you're acting sophicitive.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
I'm all right, your hands are shaking.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
No they're not, Ellie.
Speaker 9 (28:09):
I might as well tell you I called doctor Arnold.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Who is doctor Arnold?
Speaker 7 (28:14):
If the storm's doctor, what did you do that for?
Speaker 8 (28:17):
Adrian's all right, it's not him.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
I'm worried about it's you. Oh, say's the doctor?
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Now?
Speaker 8 (28:23):
I don't wanna see him, but I want you to.
Speaker 12 (28:25):
Oh, I'm not going to there's nothing.
Speaker 10 (28:27):
Wrong with me and anyway, Adrian wants me upstairs.
Speaker 7 (28:30):
He told me to come back when I was through
helping him. Ellie, please stay and see him.
Speaker 12 (28:34):
I don't wanna see any doctors. Oh, Lord, Lord, help
me to do the right Helen, help.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
Me to know what the right to miss it? Certainly don't.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Missus long?
Speaker 12 (28:45):
Oh yeah, yes.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
And and your doctor, Arnold, Oh come and clean.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Oh thank you that I'm not sure taking you away
from your kitchen.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Yeah, that's all right. Oh, come in here and I'm
sit down doctor, all right, it'll be just you and me.
Speaker 9 (29:00):
I'm afraid Ellie's with him.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Mister Storm.
Speaker 9 (29:04):
Well it's hard for me even to say his name.
I know he's your patient and he's your friend, and
I don't.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Like to say harsh things about him. But you see,
it's got to a point.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Where now, now I suppose you tell me just what seems.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
To be the trouble.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
Well, well, you see, I've been working here for about
a year. Ellie works worked here to general.
Speaker 9 (29:26):
Housework, and from the day we came here, I could
see that mister Storm had his eye on Ellie.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
In what way?
Speaker 9 (29:33):
Oh well, I don't mean anything immoral, but in a
way that could lead to something in the especially because
she started to what to like him a lot and
to spend a lot of time with him. She says,
they just sit in his room and talk.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Now, it's possible that's all they do.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
Ellie's not want to lie, but well, there are.
Speaker 9 (29:54):
These people that started coming to the house nights.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Now.
Speaker 9 (29:59):
They may be perfectly respectable.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
I wouldn't know that.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
But on the other hand, well, you want to know
what I think. I I think they're witches.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Oh, missus Long, I hardly think so.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Oh, something weird goes on in that room while they're here,
moans and groans.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
And something that sounds like, well, not like him, but
it's more like like chance or.
Speaker 7 (30:24):
Not music, So just just voices chanting.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Well that sounds harmless enough, Well maybe it is.
Speaker 7 (30:31):
I'm not saying it is.
Speaker 9 (30:32):
And you see, about a month ago, mister Storm had
Ellie take a big mirror up to his room. Well,
sometimes when his door was open, I used to see
him in front of the mirror, just looking at himself.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
Sometimes I go past his door again and an hour.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
Later and there he'd be still looking at himself.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
In the mirror.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
House Missus Long, I've known mister Storm for a good
many years.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
And while I'm moderately fond of him, I must tell
you that I've always known he was the most nicessistic
of men.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
There's not in a draft you great, but one which
may be forgiven.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I think.
Speaker 16 (31:13):
That do go on?
Speaker 9 (31:14):
Well, See I I I worried a lot about Ellie being.
Speaker 7 (31:18):
So so close to mister Storm.
Speaker 9 (31:20):
I wanted to go out more with Larry McKay. He's
our delivery boy from the supermarket. Oh oh, and I
have to tell you what happened this morning.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
And see, Larry brought some groceries and when he reached
the edge of the privet hedge, he he jumped up.
Speaker 9 (31:36):
In the air and he let out such a yolly
you'd you'd think something you'd bitten him? Was?
Speaker 7 (31:40):
He said he'd seen a snake. Oh, not that the
snake had bitten him, just just that he'd seen it.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Well, I think seeing a snake unexpectedly.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Would make me jump up in the air and yell
yes and and.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
And I believed him kind of.
Speaker 9 (31:53):
But do you know what Ellie said, mm, she said
that it happened because mister Storm I'd made it happen.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Really well, just How did he make it happen?
Speaker 7 (32:06):
Made by the force of his concentrated will oh, missus long?
Speaker 4 (32:14):
I think she was just teasing you, you know, of uh,
putting you.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
On the weird.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
That's what he said.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Even in this afternoon.
Speaker 9 (32:23):
She took a chair up to him, and an ordinary chair,
one from the kitchen. Heavens knows what he wanted it for.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
She is with him right now up in his room.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
You saw it this afternoon, didn't you?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Ready?
Speaker 6 (32:41):
I I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
You saw my.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Reflection begin to fade around the edges, as though it
were wasting away coming up?
Speaker 4 (32:48):
You saw that, bye?
Speaker 8 (32:51):
I thought something.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
You saw my reflection start to distinctreate, That is what
you saw, Mi.
Speaker 15 (33:01):
By I don't like to why not?
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Why not? I haven't see it. It's a supreme achievement.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
The crowning glory for my life, the great triumph of
my career. Have you ever even heard of a man
who could make his own affection disappear?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Have you no?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (33:25):
Well then, but why do you wanna do it?
Speaker 8 (33:29):
Adrian?
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Why? I'll tell you why. Because it can't be done.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
That's why.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I am a major's.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
I dabbled into black arts.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Didn't you know.
Speaker 8 (33:49):
I wasn't sure.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Well, No, now.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Gone now to work, to work. Uh, First I sort
of seek myself in this most uncomfortable ta directly in
front of the mirror. Then you will hand me my
cat and the pisto. Here, lie down the pisto and
be quiet. That's my good boy and my pretty boy.
(34:19):
Now Ellie, he will stand beside me little in back
of me. Please as before as you now, keep your
eyes fixed on the mirror as I shall.
Speaker 15 (34:35):
Yea and the pisto too.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
We three will watch while I remove by my own powers,
my own image from the mirror. I can feel all
I want to feel. I can know, Oh I want
(35:06):
to know.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I can be.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
What I don't want to be.
Speaker 15 (35:17):
Oh agent, I am mistuh race fiends, I am leaving trains.
It's beginning to go tell this.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
Faint.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Uh.
Speaker 13 (35:42):
The edges are all blurry, little morsels are beginning to
fall away. The ears crumbled, My shoulders break up in degenerate.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
The feast turns.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Pale.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Cat's waiting see turned gent.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
See how it you lose?
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Okay, don't fainter.
Speaker 15 (36:15):
It goes.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
It is dissolving, it is vanishing.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Soon, all because.
Speaker 12 (36:29):
The parent.
Speaker 7 (36:32):
I show a man with no reflection in the mirror,
not at alone.
Speaker 12 (36:41):
Soon sure, mother, help baby.
Speaker 7 (36:56):
Maybe what happened there.
Speaker 12 (36:58):
There where there is.
Speaker 11 (37:05):
Not mad in there is room.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
No no, Now, try to calm Ellie.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
I try to tell us what happened, Doctor Ellie.
Speaker 14 (37:14):
He's sitting in front of the mirror, and it's care
I brought him.
Speaker 7 (37:19):
He got the cat in his laugh.
Speaker 12 (37:20):
I couldn't stand it.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
He couldn't stand.
Speaker 7 (37:26):
You're about to.
Speaker 14 (37:27):
Look in the mirror to why watch what he said?
Speaker 7 (37:31):
He was going to make it happen. Nobody has ever
done him before, like what happened?
Speaker 14 (37:37):
Make his reflection since the there.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Is his reflection in the mirror.
Speaker 14 (37:43):
Nobody look ever, Kennedy says, And.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
No one ever will, my DearS, And he had.
Speaker 14 (37:52):
Just gonna all blurry in the mirror.
Speaker 9 (37:56):
And then it was just some little excutus of him,
so you don't foll off.
Speaker 14 (38:01):
He was losing part of himself.
Speaker 9 (38:05):
It was horrible.
Speaker 14 (38:06):
I could send.
Speaker 12 (38:09):
You don't believe me.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
But I do.
Speaker 8 (38:12):
He does, and how he does.
Speaker 14 (38:16):
He's disappearing in the mirror.
Speaker 12 (38:20):
To get out. I can't did it anymore.
Speaker 7 (38:24):
Just don't forget something's happening, doctor.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Her I think we'd better go in there.
Speaker 7 (38:33):
Ellie, come on, how you're right room?
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Doctor Yash.
Speaker 7 (38:43):
He didn't look up or anything when we came in.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
He's dead, Missus, long dead. He must have died to
no more than a minute ago.
Speaker 6 (38:57):
How But what killed him?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
I didn't expect it so soon, man.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
I thought he had at least a year, maybe more.
Speaker 7 (39:07):
What are you talking about? Doctor?
Speaker 1 (39:10):
And mister Storm suffered from a terminal disease.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
Well, it was little to.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Be done for except relieve his pain. But uh, I
told him a month ago he could expect to live
at least another year.
Speaker 7 (39:22):
You told him a month ago?
Speaker 4 (39:25):
Yeah, that was when he asked for the mirror.
Speaker 7 (39:29):
Yes, there's got to be a connection.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
I don't like to jump to conclusions, but I think
it very likely that what we have here is a
case of.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Suicide.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
Is that possible?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
I suppose?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
I suppose a man could will his own death.
Speaker 9 (39:51):
What's the matter with Adrian?
Speaker 7 (39:54):
He's dead, Elie? Oh he's dead.
Speaker 8 (40:00):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (40:02):
See, his reflection is all gone from the mirror.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
That's what I was afraid of.
Speaker 9 (40:11):
That it would disappear altogether and he would be dead.
Speaker 8 (40:17):
But he wouldn't miss him.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
Oh, Ellie, the mirror.
Speaker 7 (40:21):
All blank, I can see myself, the mother and he
who daughter. No Atrian, there's.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Treat is gone, Ellie, you can see Adrian, Adrian's body
in the mirror.
Speaker 8 (40:42):
No, there's just a chair.
Speaker 7 (40:46):
Mother, you see the chair?
Speaker 6 (40:48):
I don't, of course, but no atriance.
Speaker 7 (40:54):
He treat is can I don't know. Business is what
happened in this though it will word the catch. We
just all knew that Adrian was dying. He couldn't stand
it either. He wasn't wear in his house and he
did we find him? No, No, I think he's right here,
right here in this roll, Billy, ly, don't worry about
(41:15):
the car. You have to find him out now. So
wait where are you?
Speaker 8 (41:19):
Missus j good cat.
Speaker 7 (41:21):
And you boy, he's here.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
It's the best to leave her alone for the time being.
Speaker 6 (41:26):
Missus law, I supposed to a doctor.
Speaker 12 (41:29):
I found him, found belly.
Speaker 7 (41:32):
He was behind the mirror. Fine, darling, do just see
what's happened.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Don't you see what happened?
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Billy?
Speaker 12 (41:40):
Why this this?
Speaker 9 (41:42):
So we're sitting in Adrian's lap and the sif so
knew what was happening. That Adrian's reflection was flipping away.
He jumped off Adrian's lap and went into the mirror
and took Adrian's player.
Speaker 8 (42:03):
And now Adrian song in the Fisco. In Adrian will
live on in the Fisco wherever I.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
I have to call the police.
Speaker 11 (42:17):
Missus long, of course you'll do, dearly pistol, beautiful cat.
Speaker 8 (42:27):
You mind now, I'll never leave you.
Speaker 6 (42:31):
You will never leave me, Leave you Adrians.
Speaker 14 (42:38):
Mm.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Did Adrian Storm commit suicide?
Speaker 4 (42:48):
That is what we must stop?
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Cut out?
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Did he bring about his own demise? Did he will
himself dead? And if he did, it's this magic?
Speaker 4 (43:00):
Was Adrian Storm a true majors?
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Or is what we witnessed merely the proof of a
man's destructive power when that power is turned inward upon himself.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
I shall be back shortly.
Speaker 7 (43:22):
We are not consulted.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Heaven knows in the matter of our conception. We come
into this uncertain world under protest, and we object strenuously
to large portions.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Of the life thus thrust upon us.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Should we regredge any man the privilege of determining the
moment and the manner of departing it, It's something to
think about. Our cast included Fred Gwynn, Jadda Rowland, Carroll
Tytel and Russell Horton.
Speaker 5 (43:52):
The entire production was under the direction.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Of Hymond Brown.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
This is E. G.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Miss Street Theater
for another adventure in the macabre.
Speaker 4 (44:04):
Until next time, pleasant dreams.
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