$500 TO BE BURIED ALIVE: What One Groom Did In Desperation For Income To Support His Bride

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Speaker 2 (01:30):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
Come in.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Welcome him. E. G. Marshall.

Speaker 6 (01:57):
It was the ancient Greeks, so believe that man's life
is a thread, and it passed through the hands of
three goddesses, who were called the Fates. The thread spun
by Clotho. The design was determined by Lachisis. And then
there was Atropos, who waited with the terrible shears. And

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when she snipped the thread for a good reason, or
a bad reason, or no reason at all, that was
the end forever. And therefore everyone who takes another's life
also takes upon himself the mission of Atropos. And since
in a divine sense, she is the only one who

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is licensed to perform that duty, she may not take
kindly to competition.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Bear it in mind.

Speaker 7 (02:49):
Are you trying to bribe me? Of course I have
never been so insulted.

Speaker 6 (02:55):
You've never been so flattered. How important you've suddenly become
a mere girl like you can now control the destiny
of thousands.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
How much money do you want?

Speaker 8 (03:06):
There isn't enough money in the world.

Speaker 6 (03:09):
There is there is. We'll give you a million dollars.
But take the million, my dear, take it, or we'll
have to kill you. Our mystery drama, The Mission of Atropos,

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was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan
and stars Mason Adams. It is sponsored in part by
sign off the Sinus Medicines and Buick Motor Division. I'll
be back shortly with at one. I swear by Apollo Physician,

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that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment.
This oath and covenant thus begins a celebrated oath of
Hippocrates for thousands of years, the ethical standard and spiritual
guide for practitioners of the medical profession. Luisa Alcott Mandeville

(04:21):
is a young doctor, and the oath is still fresh
and inspiring. A framed copy of it hangs in her office,
where she looks at it from time to time every day.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
I'm looking for doctor Mandeville. I'm doctor Mandeville. You're doctor Mandeville.

Speaker 7 (04:39):
No, I see, that's become my name around here, doctor Mandeville.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Oh, well, who figures a dame? I need that?

Speaker 6 (04:50):
Ladies who are doctors, which you figure they're old.

Speaker 7 (04:54):
Names, you should also figure that all old dames were
once young names.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, that's figures. What's your name?

Speaker 9 (05:03):
Bernie Bernard Allo wishes KREMLINI work reduction plant.

Speaker 8 (05:11):
Why don't you do something about that cough?

Speaker 10 (05:14):
Like?

Speaker 11 (05:14):
What?

Speaker 12 (05:15):
Well?

Speaker 2 (05:15):
You could stop smoking for one thing? You can't. All
it takes is a little woolpower.

Speaker 9 (05:21):
How can I stop when I never smoked? Normal life
caught you that time?

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Very good? Well, that's wrong. I don't know what's wrong.
That's why I come to you.

Speaker 8 (05:33):
I don't like that cough.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
I don't like it either. How long have you had it?
Six weeks? A couple of months? Maybe? Is it painful? Well?
I give a little wave. Wave. It took me a
long time to figure it out.

Speaker 9 (05:51):
Like a wave, like you go to the beach, see
a wave kind of rolls in and builds up higher
and higher and.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
It just breaks and get this wave. Does it hurt?

Speaker 13 (06:06):
No?

Speaker 2 (06:06):
No, it's like.

Speaker 9 (06:07):
Pressure where everywhere, all over all at once. I want
to tell your doc, it's scary. Is it right in
the middle of it?

Speaker 13 (06:18):
Cough?

Speaker 7 (06:19):
The wave? It happened just now? Yeah, take off your
shirt please.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
What's the verdict, doc, I don't know. Well, it's what
I figured. I need more time, be my guest.

Speaker 8 (06:44):
Do you cough like that all the time?

Speaker 2 (06:46):
They do lately?

Speaker 7 (06:48):
I would like to send her to the hospital for observation.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Oh, dice, they can't afford it.

Speaker 7 (06:53):
You could take it out of sick leave, would still
be paid.

Speaker 9 (06:56):
Yeah, but that's just straight pay. I'm not only an
off time and a half overtime, but double time for
Saturdays and Sunday. The way the plan is smoking now,
I can't afford to give that up.

Speaker 7 (07:15):
Thursday, October fifteenth. The patient's name is Bernard Aloysius Cremon,
white male, aged fifty four, married, three children, No serious
prior illnesses.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Complains of some sort of.

Speaker 7 (07:29):
Malaise, persistent dry cough, pulse, blood pressure, heartbeat normal, routine,
ekg X ray, blood test negative.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Come in, doctor Mandeville.

Speaker 14 (07:44):
You haven't had your dinner, Thank you, Missus Drake. Well
now is that wise?

Speaker 2 (07:49):
No?

Speaker 15 (07:49):
I don't think so, Missus Drake.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
I have this work to finish.

Speaker 14 (07:54):
Talking into that tape recorder, doctor Mandeville, do it on
company time.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
I'll be down in a little while. Doctor.

Speaker 14 (08:00):
Did I overhear you say something about Barney Kremon.

Speaker 7 (08:04):
Well, yes, he's my patient at the factory. Was your patient, Jermaine?

Speaker 2 (08:09):
He died? What he died? Barney Kremin?

Speaker 14 (08:16):
He dropped dead this afternoon, right after he come home
from work.

Speaker 7 (08:21):
But that's impossible. On Friday, October sixteenth, Bernard Kremen, a
man who in every respect seemed normal except for the
cough expires suddenly. A post morning performed immediately after at
the hospital reveals absolutely no further information. Pathologists could find

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no tissue damage.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Why did he die and what caused it?

Speaker 8 (08:52):
Doctor Manderville?

Speaker 2 (08:54):
What's that?

Speaker 8 (08:56):
Where the reduction plant? No? No, don't lift them, don't
move them.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Call an ambulance.

Speaker 15 (09:01):
I'll be right there.

Speaker 7 (09:05):
Everybody more way, Please please give him some air?

Speaker 2 (09:11):
Can you hear me? Yeah? How do you feel? I said?

Speaker 6 (09:15):
I said, if we're on a wave, you have any pain,
it's just a wave, you know.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
I go up, I go down? How good to die?
I know that that cough? How long have you had it?
The cough? Bonnie Crimin?

Speaker 15 (09:33):
And I when I try to life?

Speaker 8 (09:36):
Still?

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Please continue the case we forty seven, the case ev
for forty seven.

Speaker 16 (09:47):
I run that out.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
They're not pupposed to use it. What is KSE four
four seven? Don't let me die? Please, don't let me die.
I'm better have to give.

Speaker 12 (09:59):
You a shot.

Speaker 9 (10:00):
It won't hurt casey forty seven.

Speaker 7 (10:03):
Remember Saturday, October seventeenth. Patient's name Jack Edward Caddy, White, male,
aged twenty five, graduate student working his way through school, unmarried,
displayed same signs, described same symptoms as Bernard Kremen, especially

(10:26):
the cough, became delirious, lapsed into cooma en route.

Speaker 8 (10:31):
To hospital and died on arrival.

Speaker 7 (10:34):
Post mortem performed no indication of cause of death. Spoke
of substance called k c V four four seven.

Speaker 17 (10:46):
Check on it, Jesus thou doctor. Well, how's the job coming,
mister Spaulding.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
I wanted to I must.

Speaker 6 (10:58):
Say that the board of directors didn't take kindly to
the idea of a woman doctor for plant physician.

Speaker 8 (11:05):
Mister Spaulding.

Speaker 7 (11:06):
In the past week, two men have died in the
reduction plant.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yes, yes, I was informed. What was the cause of death?

Speaker 7 (11:13):
We're not sure, not sure, mister Spauling. What is KCV
four four seven.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
KCV four four seven. It sounds like so was license plate.

Speaker 7 (11:30):
Mister Spaulding. This plant is filling a government contract.

Speaker 6 (11:34):
I hope you won't talk about that on the outside,
Doctor Mandeville.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
It's stopped secret.

Speaker 7 (11:38):
Our current project is constructing motives for nuclear reactors.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
So, doctor Mandeville, really, I'm sorry, sir. This is germane
the discussion. What sort of discussion are we having?

Speaker 8 (11:49):
As the plant physician?

Speaker 7 (11:50):
I have been issued a list of government prohibited materials.
These are all hazardous substances which cannot be used since
they constitute a danger to health and life. Violations will
result in cancelation of contracts plus possible criminal prosecution.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Doctor, what has all this to do with me?

Speaker 7 (12:10):
KCV four four seven has been used and is being
used in this plant.

Speaker 6 (12:16):
Doctor Mandeville, I can state categorically that is not.

Speaker 8 (12:19):
True, and I say it is, mister Spauling, Do you
have evidence for such a serious charge?

Speaker 18 (12:25):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (12:26):
May I ask what is that evidence?

Speaker 8 (12:28):
The evidence of my own eyes. I paid a visit
to the supply.

Speaker 7 (12:32):
Warehouse and I asked, mister what's his name, Marlowe, I
believe if we had any KCV four four seven, And
he said he wasn't supposed to give out any information
like that. But when I identified myself as the plant doctor,
he said, in that case, it must be okay. You
have cartons of it.

Speaker 6 (12:52):
Well, missus Fauling, the old fool, the labels were supposed
to Well Itames, I'm caught red handed.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
The next move.

Speaker 7 (13:04):
Two men are already dead. There's no way of telling
how many more will die because you have used a
prohibited substance. I shall report this to the authorities.

Speaker 6 (13:13):
Yes, that's one course of action. Another you could forget
about it. Forget about it.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
I could make it worth your while. Are you trying
to bribe me?

Speaker 6 (13:27):
Of course I have never been so insulted, Oh, never
been so flattered. How important you've suddenly become.

Speaker 8 (13:35):
Here.

Speaker 6 (13:35):
You are a fledgling doctor, still in your twenties, and
you hold the fate of a two hundred million.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Dollar project in your delicate hands.

Speaker 8 (13:44):
Do you know what you're saying?

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Listen carefully.

Speaker 6 (13:47):
I'm saying life is short, timing is exact, experience is treacherous,
and judgment is difficult.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
I offer you a million dollars.

Speaker 8 (13:57):
There isn't enough money in the world.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yes, there is. All we have to do is negotiate
and arrive at the price.

Speaker 8 (14:04):
There is nothing you and I have to negotiate it.

Speaker 6 (14:07):
But there is something you should negotiate with yourself. You
have arrived at a crossroad in your life.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
That is not true.

Speaker 6 (14:14):
You can alter the course of your entire existence. I
notice you drive in is Sota Asmara, a very expensive
sports car.

Speaker 7 (14:23):
It's a luxury I afford myself.

Speaker 8 (14:25):
Take a day or two and do what think about it?
I've already thought about it.

Speaker 6 (14:33):
KCV four four seven is an exotic. There's absolutely no
proof it's harmful.

Speaker 8 (14:38):
Then why is it on the prescribed list?

Speaker 2 (14:39):
My dear doctor, you know how vocal these do gooders are.

Speaker 6 (14:44):
Doctor, Even those who are violently opposed to KCV four
four seven admit it can only be lethal to a
very small number of people. One person is enough, and
these would have to be people who who have a
very rare protein allergy.

Speaker 8 (14:58):
In this plot alone, it has already struck down two
people that we know of.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
The toll can rise.

Speaker 6 (15:04):
Higher, doctor, if indeed KCV four four seven is the culprit. Now, look,
we have no real facts, but here is what I'm
willing to do. I'm sorry about those two men. Anonymously quietly,
I'll send money to their families.

Speaker 7 (15:18):
Will you stop using KCV four four seven.

Speaker 6 (15:22):
Doctor, I can't. Unfortunately. You see, it's a drying agent.
It dries various component parts twice as fast as any
other known process.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Therefore, it cuts my fabricating time in half, also my costs.

Speaker 6 (15:37):
That's why I was able to underbid all my competition
for this job.

Speaker 7 (15:42):
Well, I don't think we have anything further to say
to each other, mister, spalling. It's a Saturday afternoon. I
shall spend tomorrow on my analysis and present what I
know to the government on Monday morning.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
You may regret your action, doctor Manifield.

Speaker 7 (15:56):
I'm a doctor to whom life is precious. I am
also a citizen for whom the law must be supreme.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
You are also a phrase maker. Good day, sir.

Speaker 6 (16:05):
Not to mention a pompous little fool, which reminds me
one of our great Americans said, experience runs a hard school,
but fools will learn at no other. I'm afraid doctor,
there may be a very hard lesson awaiting you. Smooth

(16:30):
as satin, sweet as honey. That's how Fred's Spaulding comes on.
But do you suspect an iron fist inside.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
That velvet glove? You could be right.

Speaker 6 (16:44):
Doctor Mandeville has decided to take action on Monday morning,
but that's almost two days away. Two days can be
a lifetime an eternity. I shall return shortly with that too.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Well. Our first act.

Speaker 6 (17:11):
Ended with a young lady doctor who had some damaging
evidence that could destroy the fortunes of a powerful industrialist,
and she was going to present that evidence to the
authorities on a Monday morning I regret to say that
she never did. It is with even greater sorrow that
I must inform you that we shall never see doctor

(17:34):
Luisa all Cut Mandeville again in this life. Why well,
it is Sunday evening and we are in a police station.

Speaker 9 (17:45):
Well, well, well, what are you doing here? Richard Arding Davis?

Speaker 6 (17:48):
Richard Harding Davis. That's your dates, e Lieutenant Carry? How
about Floyd Gibbon Baba?

Speaker 2 (17:53):
They were reporters. They died before punks like you were
even more. I'm sorry you're covering the station house to.

Speaker 6 (18:00):
Yes, sir, Lieutenant Carry, Alfred Alexander Marks Times Union at your.

Speaker 9 (18:05):
Service, Lieutenant Carry. Yeah, okay, let me write it all down.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Victim's name, Yeah, make a car.

Speaker 9 (18:21):
Right, hit the reporting Yeah, bows that.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Nothing.

Speaker 9 (18:26):
You're gonna win the pullet surprise for Dame killed herself
in an auto accident, smashed into the concrete wall of
an underpass. It was herself, totals the car, those foreign
jobs and a soda as Mara.

Speaker 6 (18:39):
You're a kidding and I sat as Mara. I drive
one of those USL I got it fifteen hand.

Speaker 8 (18:46):
She wrecked and is sada.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Hey, let's have the details. She must have been an heiress.

Speaker 9 (18:51):
You'll never guess, so I'll tell you she was a
doctor company doctor with the Spaulding plant, about thirty years old,
name of Louisa outcut Mandeville.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Where that name? She must have been a real hatchet face.

Speaker 9 (19:05):
And I'll try to make Grandpa carry it. I think
you're tough. What what facts you can pick up her
by open personnel with the fact.

Speaker 6 (19:12):
Can you imagine somebody totally? And I sought her as Mara?

Speaker 5 (19:23):
All right?

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Okay?

Speaker 13 (19:29):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (19:30):
Hell is this l Marx?

Speaker 5 (19:32):
Who?

Speaker 19 (19:33):
El Marx?

Speaker 5 (19:34):
Who's the reporter?

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Do you know what time it is?

Speaker 19 (19:37):
Sure, it's twelve o'clock noon.

Speaker 6 (19:39):
Well, it's my day off. So whoever you are, don't
bother me.

Speaker 19 (19:43):
Well it's me Frank, Frank the junkie.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Frank the Junkie.

Speaker 19 (19:47):
Yeah, I own a Junkyard over South Maine.

Speaker 9 (19:49):
Oh hey, hell, are you still looking for Master break
cylinder for the sports car you?

Speaker 18 (19:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (19:55):
Sure, okay, this car exactly like yours. I sada a
Smara got it so totaled a couple of three days ago.
Kill the dame driving the Master cylinder might be worth
looking at.

Speaker 5 (20:06):
What are you saying?

Speaker 2 (20:07):
I'm on my way.

Speaker 6 (20:13):
This is orel do I sat ass mar I remember
I was filling in for the guy who had the
police beed that night. Cop said you must have lost
control and run off the road. I wrote up the story.
She was a doctor, young, too, alone in the world.

Speaker 20 (20:27):
It happens all the time. So you want to take
the Master cylinder out? Look at it? Be my guest,
is it.

Speaker 6 (20:37):
Okayl Yeah, yeah, it's okay.

Speaker 20 (20:42):
Cool figure. You can pick that up at a junkies.
It's gotta be my lucky day or yours?

Speaker 2 (20:48):
What you staring at? Speak of Touby.

Speaker 6 (20:50):
It's part of the brake line, carries the fluid from
the Masters cylinder to the break.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
I know what it does, all right.

Speaker 18 (20:57):
I think fran.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Has been cut, deliberately cut. Why would anybody want to
do that so that all.

Speaker 6 (21:05):
A breakthrough it would spill out, which would mean that
in a little while there'd be no breaks and if
you were going downhill or around a.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Curve, goodbye. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (21:15):
Yeah, but why maybe somebody wanted that young lady doctor
have an accident. What are you building all this end
of the line, lieutenant. You see it's been deliberately sawed
through or cut through.

Speaker 9 (21:33):
Hell, you wouldn't be out to create some news, now,
would you. What are you trying to say, Lieutenant carry
Sunday night? What was the story worth one paragraph buried
somewhere in Monday's paper?

Speaker 2 (21:46):
But now, well, if you could get.

Speaker 9 (21:48):
A whole week out of it, week on a front
page in your byline every day?

Speaker 2 (21:53):
All right? What you're talking about?

Speaker 9 (21:54):
It's a normal natural waver, a hungry young report of
a Bathe is your first deadline? Foul plays suspected in
woman Doctor's Day.

Speaker 6 (22:04):
All I want is to determine if this break line
was deliberately cut, and if it was, this becomes just
as much your business as mine.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
So what do you want me to do?

Speaker 6 (22:14):
Send it to the police lab or the police lab
that's where the miracles happened. That's supposed to be the
last word. Are you going to send it to the
lab or not?

Speaker 2 (22:22):
Okay, we'll send it to the lab.

Speaker 14 (22:30):
I don't know if I should talk to you, mister marks.

Speaker 12 (22:33):
Our Marks.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
I'm with the Times Union. It's a fine paper. I
know it is. I'm a subscriber.

Speaker 14 (22:38):
Couldn't get through the day without Times Union. And why
do you want to know about doctor Mandeville?

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Missus Drake, I'm going to level with you. I think
she was murdered, But she was killed in an accident.
There was no accident. The car was tampered with.

Speaker 8 (22:53):
Boom, who could have done it a thing like that?

Speaker 6 (22:57):
I was hoping you could tell me. Tell you what
about her friends? To start with?

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Well, she didn't have any. She worked all day, came home,
worked half the night, and went to bed. Man.

Speaker 14 (23:08):
No, since she's living here, nobody phone calls, none.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
What did you know about her?

Speaker 16 (23:14):
Well?

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Nothing?

Speaker 6 (23:15):
You mean she didn't talk about herself? Oh she did,
added up to nothing.

Speaker 14 (23:21):
Comes from California Originally folks died when she was born,
raised by milder Leant.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Never played much with other kids.

Speaker 14 (23:28):
She read a lot, went to college and medical school
on scholarships. Never did anything in her whole life and.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Work and study. What about her things, Well, she had her.

Speaker 14 (23:39):
Clothes and a few personal items. Got in touch with
this old aunt of hers on the phone out in California.

Speaker 21 (23:46):
What do you want me to do with the stuff?

Speaker 2 (23:47):
I asked, keep it? The old lady answered, Now I
think she see Nile. Could I look through some of it?

Speaker 6 (23:54):
Well, look, missus, Drake, I'm on her side.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
You know that.

Speaker 14 (23:58):
Well, okay, I don't think you'll find anything. Well, I
told you, mister Marx, it to be just slim picks.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
This tape recorder.

Speaker 14 (24:11):
Oh yeah, the tape recorder. Oh, she came home and
made notes of all her cases.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Let me switch it on.

Speaker 7 (24:20):
The patient's name is Andrea Dettweiler, age forty six, white female, married,
two children, history of ULCs.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah, I see what this is.

Speaker 14 (24:30):
Oh, she's got a whole continent tape here. You could
spend days listening to all that stuff.

Speaker 6 (24:36):
Maybe I better do that. You mind if I borrow
the recorder in all those tapes?

Speaker 14 (24:40):
Well, well, I don't know why I should objected, missus Drake.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Did she seem upset lately? Upset? No, nervous, apprehensive? Out
of sorts?

Speaker 14 (24:51):
Well, I don't know what to say. She was, well, well,
you see last week two of her patients if the
factory died, you.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
Know, no, I didn't. Well, she took it kind of hard,
not that it.

Speaker 8 (25:04):
Was her fault. I guess.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
Tell me someway when.

Speaker 6 (25:07):
She left the house Sunday evening, do you know where
she was going?

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (25:11):
Yes, she told me, matter of fact, she said she
was going to drive all night.

Speaker 6 (25:15):
To get there in the morning, get where Washington? Why
would she be going to Washington?

Speaker 14 (25:21):
Well, I think she said she was gonna see some
government people.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Who I don't know.

Speaker 6 (25:27):
Must have been important if she was going to drive
all night.

Speaker 14 (25:30):
Well, yeah, when she walked out of here, she had
the look of a person who meant business.

Speaker 6 (25:41):
What does the lab report saying, Lieutenant Carrey, like I
suspected everything and nothing?

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Let's have it.

Speaker 9 (25:47):
Well, on the one hand, it could have been sawed
for you see. On the other could have broken doe
to the high impact of the crash. I'm not sure,
but it could have been sowed through. Oh sure, And
then again it didn't happen.

Speaker 6 (25:58):
Look, she was headed for Washington, DC when she got killed.
I spoke to the landlady. All right, all right, what
isn't there anything you want to do about this? About
what a girl gets killed in the car?

Speaker 2 (26:09):
The car was tampered when it's only an assumption, it's
not enough for us, Yeah, well it's enough for me.

Speaker 8 (26:20):
You think there's a story here.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Else, Yes, missus Rogers, I do.

Speaker 6 (26:24):
The brake line was tampered with, but that hasn't been
definitely as deadless. What there are grounds for suspicion. Look,
missus Rogers, a quiet, almost a mousey little doctor, keeps
completely to herself, no other life but her job dies
under circumstances that might be okay, okay, okay, I'm saying
might be suspicious.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Is it worth a shot? You'll have a hunch ofvn't
you out? Yes?

Speaker 11 (26:49):
Ma'n?

Speaker 14 (26:49):
All right, I know what it is to be on
your side of the disk with a strong hunch.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
See what you can run down? Oh? Yes, the Times Union,
your publisher.

Speaker 6 (27:04):
Missus Leticia Rogers is a warm personal friend of mine.
Mister Sparling, I want to talk to you about doctor
Louisa Alcott, man of Belle was sad, very sad, tragic
thing would you know about her? All the surface things?
What it said on her resume? She was very quiet,
kept to herself, very efficient. May I ask why you're interested?

(27:25):
I have an idea she was murdered. What the car crashed?
As I understand it, it could be established that the
car might have been made to crash. Well, that's certainly
a shocking thing to contemplate. I have an idea that
the answer is here, in this factory here.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Why would you say that?

Speaker 6 (27:45):
Because She seemed to have no other interest, no other
activity in life.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Did you know she was headed for Washington when she
was killed? No?

Speaker 6 (27:52):
How did you find that out? The landlady told me
she was headed for Washington. She had told the landlady
she was going to see some government people, and she
seemed quite angry. All of this is news to me.
Did you know that two men died here last week?
I was informed? Yet what did they die? Or that

(28:12):
information would be available at the hospital. Weren't you interested
in finding out? I was, but no one seemed to know.
Would the late doctor Mandeville have known?

Speaker 2 (28:24):
I'm not sure I follow all this, mister Marks.

Speaker 6 (28:28):
A doctor employed in a factory that is working on
a government project leaves home rather angrily one night and
heads for some government bureau in Washington, evidently to report
a violation. Seemed to be drawing long boat, and I
think I'm on target to as a doctor.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
What would she be angry about the death of those
two men?

Speaker 6 (28:49):
Do you intend to print any of these mad speculations
in the newspaper? Must be something wrong in this factory
from the standpoint of health and safety.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Hadn't you better established that as a fact? First? That's
a fact, all right.

Speaker 6 (29:00):
I just don't know where the evidence is, but it exists.
I'll find it.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Mister Mars.

Speaker 6 (29:08):
What I'm about to say is off the record, and
you'll never be able to prove I said it.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
Who would believe you?

Speaker 12 (29:14):
Now?

Speaker 6 (29:15):
Look, I'm at a crucial stage of a top priority project.
I might also add that the security of our country
depends on it.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Not to mention the.

Speaker 6 (29:23):
Jobs of six thousand people in this fair city.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Are you building up to what I think you are? Absolutely?

Speaker 6 (29:30):
Now, I simply cannot afford to have publicity and disruption
and all kinds of inspectors messing about. So how much
do you want to stop being a nuisance? I can't
be bought rhetoric rhetoric. It's so important when you're young.

Speaker 12 (29:47):
I mean it.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
I intend to go full steam ahead.

Speaker 6 (29:52):
That's because you have so little experience in the ways
of the world, mister Mark, speaking of experience, was it
Ben Franklin who said experience keeps a hard school, but
fools will learn at no other. Well, we heard that

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one before, and it was followed by a fatal car crash.
Al Marx has been offered the same deal, mister Spaulding,
was willing to give doctor Louisa Mandeville, and al has
turned it down also, Now, what can we expect another
automobile accident? I shall return shortly with Act three.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Truth, it is said, shall prevail in the end.

Speaker 6 (30:51):
How much better it would be if truth could prevail
in the beginning, could save so much trouble, and it
might be much safer for these those people who are
determined to live with it. Who knows doctor Luis Amandeville
might still be alive today. Certainly life would be simpler
for reporter al Marx if he could get certain people

(31:15):
to believe him. We've got a Lieutenant Carrey, got who
spoiling for what?

Speaker 2 (31:20):
For the whole thing? He tried to bribe me. Oh,
you can't prove it in a court of law. No,
but he did it. He offered me money to lay off.

Speaker 6 (31:29):
It would be your word against his. And whose word
would you take? Lieutenant Carrey. Look, he tried to bribe me.
That means he killed her or had her killed naturally,
wouldn't work on her breaks with his own hand without
You know, I'm telling the truth, and what I say alone,
I know there's no case, but it should be enough
to start.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
You guys are what do you want me to do?
The reverse?

Speaker 6 (31:52):
Usually, the evidence leads you to the killer. This time
the killer has to lead you to the evidence. Well,
I need more. It's done so the evidence is out there.
Now it's your job to find it ow assignment to
do it. I have to have a reason. I just
can't put guys out.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Lieutenant.

Speaker 6 (32:08):
It could be you're afraid to tangle with somebody the
size of spailing.

Speaker 9 (32:12):
Don't try that psychology stuff on me.

Speaker 6 (32:15):
Wait a second, Lieutenant, Gerry, Oh yay, huh okay, I'll
tell them that was your publisher's office. She wants to see.
All right, don't sound good? What doesn't sound good? I
think you're going to get some eating.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
What I mean? You could be stepping on somebody's toes spailing.
What do you think? Then? I'm right? You agree, I'm right, Sure,
you're right. We're all the good it's going to do you.

Speaker 14 (32:54):
Mister Spaulding was rather upset with you this morning.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
Else not as upset as I was with him. He
tried to bribe me.

Speaker 8 (33:01):
I don't believe that.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Let's say you don't want to believe that.

Speaker 14 (33:06):
Well, you are a good reporter, but all you've got
a hunching side through break line not conclusive.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
The lad will not committed.

Speaker 8 (33:16):
The two men who died coincidence.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
Why would she be headed to Washington, d C? To
talk with some government people. What would she have to
talk about if not some violation at the plant?

Speaker 14 (33:26):
How do we know she was angry? How do we
know she was going to the government. How do we
even know she was headed for Washington? Land lady told
me you will her nd lady put it in writing.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
No, No, But Missus Brake, look, I told you everything
I know.

Speaker 6 (33:50):
All I'm asking you to do is let me put
it in writing. You said she went to Washington, d C.

Speaker 14 (33:55):
I said she went to Washington. Didn't have to be DC,
could have been Washington State. Why would she go there,
CAUs she comes from there on the West coast.

Speaker 6 (34:04):
You said she was going to meet some government people.
You said she walked out of here like a person
whome at business.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
I don't remember saying that, all right? How much did
he offer you.

Speaker 6 (34:23):
Now, marks, Yes, Missus Rogers, No, Missus Rogers, I was
unable to get her to give me anything in writing. Well,
she rea gone the story. He must have gotten to her. Yes, yes,
missus Rogers. Yeah, I'll report to.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
The managing editor for another assignment.

Speaker 6 (34:45):
But you and I know spoiling is guilty, and if
you can live with it, I wish your luck.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
What am I hout to do? Get myself fired?

Speaker 9 (35:01):
Listen, kid, I believe that break line was hacked Sword.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
I believe he tried to bribe you. I believe he.

Speaker 9 (35:08):
Got to the landlady. Yeah, lo tight tried to work
on it. I had guys out trying to run down leads. Look,
if he'd had the breaks tampered with, you have had
to do it between Saturday afternoon Sunday night when she
was scheduled to leave, which means it had to be
done in the darkness on Saturday night. I had guys

(35:29):
checking the neighborhood for anything that looks suspicious, and nothing
turned up.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
I don't know what to do. I wish you did, because.

Speaker 9 (35:37):
You have to come up with something, anything, so that
I can justify putting the men out.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Well you got nothing.

Speaker 6 (35:44):
Well you got to have something about that tape recording.
It's miles and miles of tapes. Diagnose his medications, go
through it.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
But that could be a career.

Speaker 9 (35:54):
Who sold me the idea she was killed because she
was acting like a doctor.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Well, on those tapes, she's talking like a doctor.

Speaker 7 (36:07):
Displayed same signs, described same symptoms as Bernard Kremen Ce
tape yesterday's.

Speaker 6 (36:15):
Date, Bernard kremen he had Okay, I remember, go ahead, Louisa.

Speaker 7 (36:21):
Especially the cough. Spoke of substance called KCV four four seven.

Speaker 8 (36:29):
Check it.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
KCV four four seven. KCV four four seven.

Speaker 7 (36:39):
KCV four four seven a rapid drying agent suspected of
having lethal properties. Its use is prohibited attacks certain persons
who have a specific protein allergy.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Not much known. It causes death in six weeks on.

Speaker 8 (37:00):
This sign is a.

Speaker 7 (37:00):
Persistent dry cough and a rising and falling feeling of pressure.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Yes, indeed, we've got him. We've got mister Spawning. Oh yes,
no wonder he was willing to pay off.

Speaker 11 (37:21):
We'll carry It's.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Me, ol Marx.

Speaker 6 (37:23):
Listen, Lieutenant, I want to let you know you are
right about the tapes. What I got here is dynamite,
and I haven't even heard half of it yet. Look,
it will take me the rest of the night to
get all of it. And then I want to meet
you at head Quarries and I'll bring my publisher.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Is that good stuff?

Speaker 6 (37:36):
When you hear it, you'll know why she was killed
and who had the motive.

Speaker 7 (37:45):
Jack Edward Caddy, a graduate student in chemistry, worked formally
for International Solvents. They were cited for using KCV four
four seven. It is reasonable to assume, therefore, that Jack
Caddy may has suspected the use of KCV four four
seven at Spauldings, but once he had caught the illness,

(38:09):
it was too late. He must have known because he
told me he was dying.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
This is dynamite.

Speaker 7 (38:15):
The disease caused by k c V four four seven
is so rare it has.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Not yet been named.

Speaker 7 (38:23):
It has a destructive but invisible effect on the heart
and lungs. Its only symptoms are the dry, hard cough
and the roller coaster ceiling of pressure.

Speaker 8 (38:34):
One of these appear. However, the disease.

Speaker 7 (38:36):
Has already taken hold, and its fatal course is irreversible.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Yep, I guess that's all of its.

Speaker 6 (38:43):
Louisa l Konmenivill, you were a great lady, and you.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Didn't die in vain. I wish i'd met you before.

Speaker 6 (38:51):
Well, I'm going to get my first good night's rest
in over a week and tomorrow morning we cooked the
goose of mister Spaulding.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
I thought I would tell you two people first.

Speaker 22 (39:03):
Yes, we'll go ahead out.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
One of you got.

Speaker 6 (39:06):
Here's what we've got, A prohibited substance called KSEV four
four seven. Spalding uses it to get an unfair manufacturing
advantage over his competition. It kills people who have a
certain protein allergy, and two such people we know about
already died in that plant.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
These are facts.

Speaker 6 (39:23):
It's all here on the tape, her words, her voice,
summing it up. She finds out about it. You'll hear
how she confronts Spauling. He tries the bribe her. She
announces she's going to report him. The next night, she's
dead in a car accident.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
That's at least suspicious. That's what you've got on the tape.
That's what I've got on the tape. Well, we'll print
every word of it. It's enough to make an arrest.
Roll that tape.

Speaker 6 (39:47):
Here goes, well, something's wrong. Maybe I don't have the
cassette on right.

Speaker 8 (39:55):
It seems to be running smoothly.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
You get the right button, push something's wrong, run it
fast forward. See where the voice begins, something's something's wrong. Hell, hell,
are you sure? Listen to me, both of you listen.

Speaker 6 (40:10):
I had it all here on tape, here on this
recorder last night.

Speaker 11 (40:12):
I had it.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
I swear I had it. Well, I'm sure you did.

Speaker 8 (40:16):
But where is it?

Speaker 17 (40:17):
Not?

Speaker 2 (40:17):
Oh? I do Spailing? He got it a race somehow.

Speaker 23 (40:22):
Elle.

Speaker 14 (40:23):
You are becoming paranoid on the subject of Spalding.

Speaker 6 (40:27):
It's true, Ah, mister l mars Our, fine young journalist,
have a seat. Mister Spaulding. I came here to tell
you that, no matter what anyone else believes, I know
you killed Louis Amandebil. Not true, my boy, you had
her killed. Reporters should have respect for the truth. So

(40:47):
that's better. You had someone fix the brakes.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
Correct.

Speaker 6 (40:51):
I'm sure if federal inspector searched your warehouse for KCV
four four seven, they wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Find any of course, not eh.

Speaker 6 (40:59):
Somehow you got the tape a race down the recorder.
I don't know how you did that. I had a
tap put on your telephone when you told Lieutenant Carry
you had all that information on tape. The proper steps
were taken while you were fast asleep.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
We'll get away with it.

Speaker 6 (41:13):
I'll spend the rest of my life if I have to,
but I'll get the good get you. Oh that's nonsense,
and you know it. You know you can't get the
goods on me because they no longer exist.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Nobody gets away with murder.

Speaker 6 (41:24):
Oh that's a slogan. If it makes you feel any better,
believe it. People like me get away with murder all
the time. It's our business. We know how to do it.
You know, a man like me cannot be brought down
by a little man like you or a woman like
doctor Mandeville. I can't be brought down at all. And
you know I'm telling the truth. Well, you're almost.

Speaker 20 (41:45):
Ready to burst into tears, because I've completely demolished everything
you wanted to believe about the law.

Speaker 6 (41:50):
Of compensation, the ultimate triumph of justice.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
None of that's true, now, is it? Well?

Speaker 11 (42:01):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (42:08):
What are you laughing at? What's so funny? How how
long have you had that cough?

Speaker 6 (42:19):
What are you talking about? I shouldn't have laughed. It
isn't funny. Why is it funny? What are you talking about? Maybe,
just maybe I'm talking about justice. Exactly six weeks later,

(42:46):
the headline in The Times Union informed the world that
internationally famous industrialist Charles McNeil Spaulding had died suddenly. The
story was written by reporter Al Marx, who quoted the
doctor as saying that mister Spalding's death was a mystery, perhaps,
but not to al Marks.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
I'll be back shortly.

Speaker 6 (43:21):
We live our lives by the narrowest of tolerances, by
the smallest of gauges. Little accidents, coincidences, chants, encounters, sudden hunches.
Any one of these can change a life or even
decimate the earth. The world is such a volatile, unpredictable,

(43:44):
capricious and giddy place. Can there possibly be a master
plan behind it all? Our cast included Mason Adams, Joan Lovejoy,
Jackson Beck, Joam Shay, and Robert Maxwell. The entire production
was under the direction of Hymen Brown.

Speaker 10 (44:01):
Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored.

Speaker 6 (44:03):
In part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated Brewers of Budweiser.

Speaker 12 (44:07):
Missus E. G.

Speaker 6 (44:08):
Marshall Inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant.

Speaker 21 (44:19):
Dream Lutz Presents Hollywood. The Lutz Radio Theater brings you

(44:54):
Jeanette McDonalds, Brianna Hearn and Gene Raymond in Smiling Through,
Ladies and Gentlemen, Your producer better Cecil B.

Speaker 5 (45:02):
De Mill.

Speaker 21 (45:10):
Greetings from Hollywood, Ladies and gentlemen, the first greetings from
this stage in nineteen forty two. This is an exciting
evening for the Lux Radio Theater because we welcome back
the golden voice of Jeanette MacDonald and she's escorted to
night by Brian Ahern and Jean Raymond.

Speaker 24 (45:27):
All three of.

Speaker 21 (45:27):
Them starred in Metro Goldwyn Mayer's new Technicolor production Smilin Through.
Fortunately we were able to borrow miss mc donald this
week from another MGM picture. I married an angel, so
that gives me something to sing about. But don't be alarmed,
Jeanette MacDonald is going to do the singing. Certain stories
and dramas have a timeless quality, an appeal that reaches

(45:51):
across the years, to all people in all lands. I
suppose a great love story is most likely to do this.
And Smilin Through one of the tenderest love stories to
come out of out of the American theater, and its
title certainly gives us a fitting cue for this new year.

Speaker 24 (46:09):
A poet once.

Speaker 21 (46:10):
Said, without a smile, from partial beauty one what is
man a world without a son? Of course, it was
never quite clear to me why the poet was willing
to settle.

Speaker 13 (46:21):
For partial beauty.

Speaker 21 (46:22):
But then perhaps the ladies couldn't get lux toilet soap
in those days. The science of beauty has been a
slow development that probably began with civilization in Egypt about
eight thousand years ago. But to day it's in full
flower complexion. Secrets that Cleopatra would have sent an army
to take the modern woman can buy for a few
cents at the corner store. So the next time you

(46:45):
are feeling sorry for yourself, just think how much more
fortunate you are than that great queen of Egypt who
had half the world of her feet and couldn't trade
it for a single cake of lux toilet soap. And
remember that it can infection. A luxe complexion puts a
good complexion on anything, So he starts smiling through starring

(47:07):
Jeanette MacDonald as Moon Yeen Claire and as Kathleen, Brian
Ahearn as Sir John Carteret, Jean Raymond as Kenneth Wayne
and as Jeremy Wayne, with Dennis Hoey as Owen. The
Curtain rises for the first act. In eighteen ninety seven,

(47:34):
Paul England joined in a great celebration the Diamond Jubilee,
commemorating the sixtieth.

Speaker 24 (47:40):
Year of Queen Victoria's reign.

Speaker 21 (47:43):
Churches throughout the country health services in the Good Queen's honour.
In one of these, an ancient church in Kent, The
service is just over the vicar. The Reverend Owen Harding
stands in the old churchyard talking quietly with his friend
John Carteret.

Speaker 5 (48:04):
Well, John, everyone came. Must have been like this in
every church in the country.

Speaker 12 (48:09):
Yes, I suppose.

Speaker 5 (48:10):
So When will England see a day like this? Sixty
years our Queen?

Speaker 25 (48:14):
I don't like Anniversariza, and I know I didn't forget John,
most of the others have.

Speaker 5 (48:20):
I saw you putting flowers on her grave just before
the service. They're very beautiful, John, years. They're the kind
she liked.

Speaker 26 (48:26):
Oh well, I miss getting along.

Speaker 5 (48:27):
Home that John. Wait, you're not going to sit in
the garden again tonight, are you?

Speaker 11 (48:31):
Yes? Why not?

Speaker 5 (48:33):
John? Sometimes I wish you'd try to live more in
the present and not just with your memories.

Speaker 26 (48:39):
There are times when I'm sure that she's very close
to me. Well, I believe that whatever anyone else may think,
goodbye and goodbye.

Speaker 5 (48:47):
John moon Ying Claire born eighteen forty five died eighteen
sixty eight, aged twenty three years Perja.

Speaker 26 (49:13):
Moonin moon Ying another year a gun, John, if I
only knew the way to your Moonian.

Speaker 27 (49:23):
I've always near you when you need me, John, every
night in this God and I come to you.

Speaker 13 (49:30):
And I feel Moonin.

Speaker 5 (49:33):
Are you here?

Speaker 28 (49:34):
You know I am here.

Speaker 27 (49:36):
You don't see me, and you don't hear me, but
you feel in your heart that.

Speaker 29 (49:42):
I am here.

Speaker 30 (49:43):
Need be patient, your heart.

Speaker 27 (49:47):
These years have been only a moment. The years we
must still wait will be just as sure.

Speaker 12 (49:55):
The John the Johns, the Johns.

Speaker 26 (50:00):
And why must you come out here? Oh well it's
not your fault, Helen.

Speaker 7 (50:05):
Now said John, I told you and told you no
good will come of all these rulings.

Speaker 12 (50:09):
And imagine, yes, yeses, I know.

Speaker 26 (50:11):
I'm afraid. I'm a hopeless kase. Helen.

Speaker 7 (50:13):
Does Dickers come?

Speaker 11 (50:14):
No?

Speaker 26 (50:14):
I see how I'll see him in the library. Well,
there's your chair and.

Speaker 24 (50:21):
The chessboard's all set up.

Speaker 26 (50:22):
I suppose you've come for your revenge for last night.

Speaker 5 (50:24):
No, John, I won't be able to play tonight. There's
something I want to talk to you about. Yes, there
was a letter from Ireland last week. It's about Moonean's sister.
She and her husband were drowned sailing in Dublin Bay.

Speaker 13 (50:38):
Drowned.

Speaker 12 (50:39):
Oh that's horrible.

Speaker 5 (50:40):
Yes, it leaves the little girl unprovided for. Talking of
putting her into an orphanage is possible, That's what I thought,
so you see? Well, in fact I sent for her.
What John, she's moon Yeane's niece. What would you say
to having her here with you?

Speaker 26 (51:00):
We're a child in this house.

Speaker 5 (51:01):
You could do with a child in this house, John,
give you something to think about beside yourself.

Speaker 26 (51:05):
How they know? And I'll thank you not to preach
at me. Well, that's that no good. If the child
needs any money, of course you can count on me
for any amount.

Speaker 31 (51:14):
Shall I come in now, walk Lan?

Speaker 5 (51:16):
Yes, still, John, this is moon Yean's little niece.

Speaker 12 (51:20):
I see m M.

Speaker 26 (51:23):
Come here child. What's your name, Kathleen?

Speaker 2 (51:27):
What's yours?

Speaker 13 (51:28):
John?

Speaker 26 (51:29):
How do you do?

Speaker 31 (51:30):
How do you do?

Speaker 26 (51:31):
How old are you? Kathleen?

Speaker 31 (51:32):
I are you August?

Speaker 12 (51:33):
Oh?

Speaker 26 (51:34):
You I well, I'm a little older than that. I'm
afraid who brought you from Ireland.

Speaker 28 (51:40):
Kathleen, I came alone uncloan tank for me.

Speaker 5 (51:44):
Ah, yes, quite so, Uncle Owens, if you don't mind, John,
I step over to the church, and now.

Speaker 26 (51:51):
You come back here. Well, h won't you sit down, Kathleen?

Speaker 32 (52:01):
Thank you?

Speaker 26 (52:02):
Can I would you like me to show you some
pretty pictures in a book?

Speaker 31 (52:06):
No, thank you. I think I'll be going.

Speaker 26 (52:09):
Now with Uncle Oen.

Speaker 31 (52:10):
I suppose I'm visiting him all the summer. Then I'm
going home to mommy and daddy to mommy.

Speaker 26 (52:17):
Oh oh yes he is, Kathleen. Perhaps you'll come and
visit me every now and again.

Speaker 31 (52:24):
I don't know. I don't think I like you very much. Oh,
but I might like you better if I get to
know you.

Speaker 26 (52:32):
That's very kind of you. Some people do improve on acquaintance.

Speaker 31 (52:35):
Oh you've got a piano.

Speaker 26 (52:37):
Would you like to learn to play the piano?

Speaker 31 (52:39):
I can play the piano.

Speaker 32 (52:40):
Really, I could show you with.

Speaker 26 (52:42):
You to ask me to nobody's played that piano over
for twenty nine years.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Very well then, won Oh no, no.

Speaker 13 (52:49):
No, I didn't mean it that way.

Speaker 26 (52:51):
Yeah, yeah, come and sit down and play? Oh please
thank you now?

Speaker 14 (52:56):
Me?

Speaker 33 (52:57):
Oh m hm, oh, yes, I know that song.

Speaker 26 (53:07):
If you know the words. Will you sing them for
me too? If it isn't asking too much?

Speaker 31 (53:11):
I know the words?

Speaker 33 (53:13):
Oh the game I'm CAZy dancers.

Speaker 34 (53:27):
Was theever three the cary said the dancer igymore or
abroad lo th hotepos he long to the floor, lessen
left to your lessons of the middle.

Speaker 35 (53:41):
And on again all the very horn nothing dreaming to dreams.

Speaker 34 (54:02):
My redity, all the days of the carrying favor ring
of the pipe of June, or for one of those
ds of the Lord.

Speaker 23 (54:19):
God.

Speaker 16 (54:21):
I lo.

Speaker 35 (54:23):
I call you.

Speaker 28 (54:32):
There you are, Uncle John.

Speaker 25 (54:34):
First time I heard you sing that song you were
five years old, yester night you came to live.

Speaker 5 (54:39):
Here, the night you were going to have nothing to
do with them.

Speaker 26 (54:44):
You have confounded, young woman. Isn't today you're a birthday
or something?

Speaker 28 (54:47):
It is April the second, nineteen fifteen, which makes me
twenty three years to the day. Now, don't tell me
you've forgotten.

Speaker 36 (54:55):
Here's something I found in majual case.

Speaker 28 (54:59):
Uncle John.

Speaker 37 (55:00):
How beautiful.

Speaker 5 (55:01):
Let's see a regne Oh, my John, that's Mooney's read
my aunt mooning.

Speaker 28 (55:08):
Oh, uncle John, you couldn't have given me anything. I'd
rather have had anything in the.

Speaker 25 (55:12):
World it's an old fashioned thing belonged to her great
great grandmother.

Speaker 11 (55:18):
Does it fit here?

Speaker 28 (55:19):
You put it on?

Speaker 26 (55:22):
I'm sure it fits, my dear.

Speaker 28 (55:23):
Don't you want to put it on me?

Speaker 12 (55:24):
No?

Speaker 5 (55:26):
Listen, windows a rattling again, one hundred miles away.

Speaker 25 (55:31):
At least the wind must be from France, as are
probably the guns at Deep Mis.

Speaker 28 (55:36):
Kathleen, your young man's come for you, Ellen, he's not
my young man. Well anyway, he's got on his new
uniform and I don't like his hair.

Speaker 36 (55:44):
Oh, poor Willy, better take a macintosh.

Speaker 26 (55:46):
It's going to rain.

Speaker 28 (55:47):
I won't need it. Hell, Willy, Willy, your hat.

Speaker 5 (55:55):
Doesn't sound too hopeful for that young man.

Speaker 13 (55:58):
There's not willing. It'll be one of the others. I'll
be losing on one of these days. Come on, you
get on with the game.

Speaker 5 (56:04):
You'll move a gun. It was a nice thing you
just did. Come on, move, move, I say it was
a nice thing to give that girl Moon Jean's ring.

Speaker 26 (56:16):
Checkmate.

Speaker 5 (56:17):
Mh really, I'm.

Speaker 28 (56:29):
So right down to my skin and under this tree
is hardly the spoper old man.

Speaker 10 (56:33):
But you see, old girl, If a follow happens to
feel the way.

Speaker 28 (56:36):
I do, the way I feel WILLI is red right.

Speaker 21 (56:39):
But you see if a follow I'm cold a right
if a follow makes up his mind to get married.

Speaker 28 (56:44):
Oh, Willy, we can't stay here. Come on, there's a house.

Speaker 38 (56:47):
I'm going to get.

Speaker 10 (56:48):
House, really, old girl, there's no use banging that knocker.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
This is the old wayn house, you.

Speaker 28 (56:56):
Know, of course, I know it's the old rain house.
I'm wanting the.

Speaker 21 (57:00):
Exercise, But do you know there's nothing a chap in
it for fifty years.

Speaker 28 (57:03):
Look there's the window open, will There'll be two chaps in.
It's in fifty seconds, Willy, you and I? Yes, Willy,
you and I? Come on.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
Tarking here, isn't it now?

Speaker 28 (57:19):
It's like an old bolt, like a match, Willie?

Speaker 6 (57:22):
This is all frightfully illegal, you know, frightfully there are
some candles, Willy.

Speaker 21 (57:28):
Oh good, that ought to make things a bit more cheerful.

Speaker 39 (57:33):
Oh look at this dust.

Speaker 28 (57:34):
It's an inch stick.

Speaker 12 (57:35):
At least, I say.

Speaker 13 (57:37):
It's all rather, you know, isn't it.

Speaker 28 (57:42):
Look look there's the old love. Will you build a fire, Willy,
I don't want to get pneumonia.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
Right, these must be good and dry.

Speaker 28 (57:48):
They should be fifty years since that fire was laid.

Speaker 36 (57:53):
Give me the shivers.

Speaker 40 (57:54):
But this room, oh oh yes, it's a good cleaning,
doesn't it.

Speaker 28 (58:00):
You know, Willie. People just don't go off and leave
a house like this. Why didn't the maid's tidy things
up a bit, put the chair on its legs and
then clear this stuff off the table?

Speaker 13 (58:10):
I wouldn't know.

Speaker 28 (58:11):
Here's a newspaper, the time, June fourteenth, eighteen sixty eight,
and a letter. It's addressed to Jeremy Wayne, a squire.

Speaker 21 (58:21):
You know, all, girl, if a fellow makes up his
mind to tell a girl how.

Speaker 28 (58:24):
He feels Jeremy Wayne, well that must be his porter
on the wall here it is.

Speaker 27 (58:30):
Well, look Jeremy.

Speaker 28 (58:31):
Wayne, me dark and handsome? What fire in those eyes?

Speaker 12 (58:36):
Listen, Cathy.

Speaker 10 (58:37):
I came out this afternoon to tell you something.

Speaker 28 (58:39):
The morning paper, the drink half finished, the riding crop
on the floor. This letter. Look, look, Willie, it's an invitation.
Mister and missus Richard Clare request the pleasure of the
company of Jeremy Wayne, a squire at the wedding of
their daughter Mooney, to Sir John Carteret at Saint Mary's, Kent, Wednesday,

(59:04):
June fourteenth, eighteen sixty eight. Willie something happened here in
this room, something strange and terrible and romantic.

Speaker 5 (59:15):
Oh, bother romance.

Speaker 21 (59:16):
I want to ask you to marry.

Speaker 28 (59:18):
Me, Oh willy, please not again today. They shut the
doors and went away forever, as though the real curse.

Speaker 5 (59:24):
On the house probably meant to come back.

Speaker 28 (59:26):
Oh no, nor the shutters wouldn't be nailed up.

Speaker 36 (59:29):
All right, haven't your way, old girl?

Speaker 5 (59:30):
The place is haunted.

Speaker 28 (59:32):
Second, without a door, sounded like it really somebody's coming.

Speaker 8 (59:38):
Very strange, whoever it did?

Speaker 28 (59:40):
I think?

Speaker 41 (59:41):
We?

Speaker 11 (59:43):
Oh?

Speaker 26 (59:44):
Hello, Uh, how do you do?

Speaker 11 (59:48):
Terrible weather?

Speaker 28 (59:48):
Isn't it frightful?

Speaker 21 (59:50):
Yes? Frightful?

Speaker 11 (59:52):
Yeah, terrible? H pardon made for being inquisitive. But are
you stopping here?

Speaker 42 (01:00:01):
Oh dear, no, no, it was raining very heavily.

Speaker 28 (01:00:05):
We were standing under a tree and lightning struck the
next tree.

Speaker 21 (01:00:09):
It was raining very heavily, so that's why I got
so wet.

Speaker 28 (01:00:14):
So we break in to get out of the stone.

Speaker 6 (01:00:17):
Oh well, I'm glad you were able to start a fire,
and said, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 11 (01:00:24):
Fit you've caught cold. I wish I could offer you
something warm to drink. Excuse me a minute, maybe I
can find something.

Speaker 13 (01:00:31):
Come, we'll go, let's get off this.

Speaker 28 (01:00:33):
Oh no, not just yet.

Speaker 5 (01:00:34):
Who is that salt?

Speaker 13 (01:00:35):
What's he doing here?

Speaker 28 (01:00:36):
I'd like to find out.

Speaker 11 (01:00:37):
I don't like this.

Speaker 26 (01:00:38):
I think we are.

Speaker 28 (01:00:39):
Oh willy, look at that old spin It isn't.

Speaker 8 (01:00:41):
It marvelous, gossie?

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
Listen for all we.

Speaker 28 (01:00:44):
Wonder if it still plays?

Speaker 10 (01:00:45):
All we know he might be some kind of a
maniac or something.

Speaker 28 (01:00:48):
Oh it'll be silly.

Speaker 13 (01:00:49):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
After all?

Speaker 11 (01:00:51):
I found the very thing for you, old port.

Speaker 8 (01:00:54):
Look at that eighteen forty seven forty seven?

Speaker 21 (01:00:58):
The best I could find is well, I suppose we
really ought to introduce ourselves. My name's Ainsley, please to
meet you?

Speaker 13 (01:01:06):
How do you do you?

Speaker 5 (01:01:07):
Were?

Speaker 24 (01:01:08):
You surely aren't going to open.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
That bottle oil?

Speaker 11 (01:01:10):
I'm going to do my best.

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
Well, it's not your property, you know, Cappy?

Speaker 5 (01:01:13):
Are you going to sit here and be a party
to this?

Speaker 28 (01:01:16):
I started doing just that. Oh oh, just a very
little for me, please.

Speaker 11 (01:01:23):
Fellow criminal, won't you join us?

Speaker 21 (01:01:25):
Certainly not?

Speaker 11 (01:01:26):
I'm sorry. Well, how about a toast?

Speaker 28 (01:01:29):
I know one? Here's to your health, your honor, and
the health to all your descendants, great and small.

Speaker 11 (01:01:37):
That's a mighty handsome toast.

Speaker 28 (01:01:39):
It's an Irish toast and the best I know.

Speaker 43 (01:01:42):
May you keep as young and as pretty as you
are until doomsday. I'll never forget the man who wished it.

Speaker 28 (01:01:50):
I've wonder now as I look at you. Have we
never met before?

Speaker 11 (01:01:54):
No, I'm afraid we haven't. I shouldn't have forgotten.

Speaker 28 (01:01:56):
Oh could you be Irish too?

Speaker 11 (01:02:00):
If I saw enough of you?

Speaker 28 (01:02:01):
Oh well, if you're not Irish, you're an American.

Speaker 11 (01:02:04):
Well how did you know that?

Speaker 28 (01:02:05):
By the way you said please to meet you?

Speaker 11 (01:02:07):
Oh well, how should I have said?

Speaker 28 (01:02:09):
Well? If you mean, how do I say it? How'd
you do?

Speaker 11 (01:02:13):
How'd you do? Oh?

Speaker 28 (01:02:16):
Well, let's not worry about it. Tell me what are
you doing in England?

Speaker 11 (01:02:21):
I came over to join up.

Speaker 28 (01:02:22):
It's not your war.

Speaker 11 (01:02:23):
Well I'm Halpinglyish and there scrap's a scrap.

Speaker 18 (01:02:26):
Nah?

Speaker 35 (01:02:27):
I like that.

Speaker 28 (01:02:28):
You know this is scandalous of us, but I don't
think he'd mind. Oh the man in the portrait, the owner,
Jeremy Wayne, isn't your romantic figure? Yeah, glad, I like
that devil. Take your look, don't you You know you
don't look unlike him.

Speaker 11 (01:02:46):
That's my father, your father? Yes, yes, I'm Kenneth Wayne.

Speaker 28 (01:02:53):
Well, this is romance.

Speaker 11 (01:02:56):
You're telling me how about another talks?

Speaker 28 (01:03:02):
Oh no, now you've said quite enough.

Speaker 43 (01:03:04):
Tell me yeah, And what was the name of that
song you were playing just as I came in, drink to.

Speaker 28 (01:03:09):
Me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine.

Speaker 21 (01:03:14):
Go on, finish it by bodies.

Speaker 35 (01:03:21):
The bockle.

Speaker 44 (01:03:35):
Moor by Eble.

Speaker 35 (01:03:49):
What my lie do ooo?

Speaker 3 (01:04:01):
Did not?

Speaker 11 (01:04:12):
I was very lovely?

Speaker 5 (01:04:14):
Thank you?

Speaker 13 (01:04:25):
I don't understand this. When were you in the Wayne house.

Speaker 28 (01:04:28):
One afternoon about a week ago? What's the matter, uncle John?

Speaker 10 (01:04:32):
One?

Speaker 5 (01:04:32):
Go on, John, there's news getting excited about.

Speaker 13 (01:04:35):
What happened there?

Speaker 28 (01:04:36):
Well, nothing except the owner happened to arrive from America.

Speaker 13 (01:04:39):
He's here, Jeremy Wayne.

Speaker 28 (01:04:42):
No, no, uncle John, Jeremy Wayne is dead, dead, But
this was his son. He came over to join up
Kenneth Wayne did.

Speaker 13 (01:04:51):
Why couldn't he be alive and come here?

Speaker 28 (01:04:54):
Uncle John? What is it your face? Why do you
hate him?

Speaker 12 (01:04:57):
So?

Speaker 5 (01:04:57):
John? Listen to letting me alone?

Speaker 13 (01:04:59):
John, get my way?

Speaker 28 (01:05:00):
Oh and what did this Jeremy Wing do?

Speaker 5 (01:05:03):
But in Heaven's name, that's his wish, Kathley, Then I
must after him. You don't You don't know how it
would hurt him? Don't insist, my dear, it's better, so
believe me.

Speaker 28 (01:05:12):
When he's gone out into the garden, he'll take hold.
I'll go bring him back, Uncle John. Won't you please
come inside, dear. It's a heavy jew Uncle John. I'm
sorry if I said anything to hurt you.

Speaker 13 (01:05:27):
Clean This young man, this Wayne, he's in the army.

Speaker 28 (01:05:31):
Hey, yes, he's in kath near here. He's really awfully nice.
We we we had become rather good friends.

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
Friends.

Speaker 28 (01:05:38):
Yes, and I'm sure he's quiet.

Speaker 13 (01:05:40):
You're second me?

Speaker 36 (01:05:42):
When did you meet this man a week ago?

Speaker 28 (01:05:44):
Almo?

Speaker 26 (01:05:45):
Have you seen him since often?

Speaker 45 (01:05:47):
Why?

Speaker 28 (01:05:48):
Quite often?

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
You must promise me never to see him again.

Speaker 28 (01:05:51):
But I can't promise I won't to see him. Why
shouldn't I?

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
Are you in love with him? Are you?

Speaker 13 (01:05:59):
Answer me?

Speaker 28 (01:06:00):
I don't know if I am in love with him? Up,
I don't know. He's not in love with me anyway,
at least he's never said anything. I only know I
can't stare the thought of not seeing him again. Ah,
I'm sorry, Uncle John. I can't help him.

Speaker 16 (01:06:21):
I just can't listen.

Speaker 36 (01:06:22):
Listen, my child, I'm going to tell you something that
you should have known long ago.

Speaker 13 (01:06:27):
No, it ha's been my fault, I suppose, But I'd
hoped I'd never have to tell you.

Speaker 36 (01:06:32):
I'd hoped I'd never have to live it all over again.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
Here, come, come and sit here beside me.

Speaker 36 (01:06:40):
I want to tell you something about a man named Wayne.

Speaker 45 (01:06:51):
After the Reason to miss the House of the Mill
and our Stairs that McDonald, Brian Hearn, and Jean Raymond
will return in Act two.

Speaker 21 (01:07:03):
I've smiling through. Now for a minute, let's listen to
a conversation that took place in the college dormitory the
other day. The girls had just come back from their
Christmas holidays.

Speaker 33 (01:07:13):
Hi, susy, can I comm in?

Speaker 28 (01:07:15):
Came to look at your Christmas lud. Okay, just take
a ticket. The thing's in that dresser draw.

Speaker 30 (01:07:20):
Oh my, all those lovely things, all that peach colored
slips are honey, And just look at this nighty gorgeous.
Even got sachet in them too. It smells the lish.

Speaker 28 (01:07:34):
It smells expensive too.

Speaker 30 (01:07:35):
Christmas present.

Speaker 28 (01:07:36):
No, that's a present I gave myself. I'll buy it
all year round. Look, why boy, it's some cakes of
lux toilet stones. Of course, dopey dear, I'll buy it
half a dozen cakes at a time, and slip a
few in my dresser draw till I want to use them.
Then I put new cakes in.

Speaker 31 (01:07:51):
That Lux soap fragrance makes a wonderful Sashet always said.

Speaker 28 (01:07:54):
You were the smartest girl in the class. Susie, thanks
for tipping me off to that idea. I'm going to
get some extra Luck soap right away and do the same.

Speaker 21 (01:08:02):
Yes, clever women have made a discovery. They find the delicate,
distinctive perfume of Lux toilet soap makes a perfect sachet.
Slip a few wrapped cakes into bureau drawers. You'll love
the dainty fragrance it leaves on your handkerchiefs and nice
silk things. It's a costly fragrance, a blend of thirty
four rare ingredients. But Luck's toilet soap costs you only
a few cents because millions of cakes of this famous

(01:08:24):
toilet soap are sold each year. Nine out of ten
lovely screen stars use Lux toilet soap. You know, because
it's as fine a soap as money can buy. When
next you on wrap a cake, notice how satin smooth,
how white it is. Lux soap is hard milled too.
That makes it last down to the thinnest sliver, so
it's thrifty as well as luxurious. Why not make Hollywoods

(01:08:47):
famous beauty soap. You're a beauty soap too. You'll love
its creamy caressing lather, its delicate, clinging fragrance. Try it.
Put three cakes of lux toilet soap on your shopping
list tomorrow. We pause now for station identification. This is
the Columbia Broadcasting System Act Too of Smiling Through, starring

(01:09:28):
Jeanette MacDonald as Moon Yan Claire and as Kathleen, Brian
Ahan as Sir John Carteret, and Jean Raymond as Kenneth
Wayne and as Jeremy Wayne.

Speaker 24 (01:09:47):
In the old Garden, the full round moon.

Speaker 21 (01:09:50):
Shines down on the shadowy figures of Sir John Carteret
and Kathleen. Slowly, Sir John begins his story, his eyes
bright again as.

Speaker 24 (01:10:00):
They were almost fifty years before.

Speaker 25 (01:10:04):
Almost fifty years, but I can see it as though
it were yesterday, This garden at.

Speaker 36 (01:10:12):
June night, the scent of roses in the air.

Speaker 25 (01:10:15):
Excitement, people coming and going and from the house, the
faint strains of music.

Speaker 36 (01:10:21):
It was the night before our wedding, Moon Ying Claire.

Speaker 26 (01:10:26):
She was very much like you, my dear.

Speaker 13 (01:10:28):
She had the same eyes and the same laugh.

Speaker 25 (01:10:31):
She was laughing at me as we danced together.

Speaker 13 (01:10:34):
Who was something I said?

Speaker 26 (01:10:35):
I can't quite from them more?

Speaker 46 (01:10:36):
What you are, my darling?

Speaker 28 (01:10:40):
You're quite mad?

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
I know?

Speaker 5 (01:10:43):
Have you too got a moment to spare for an
old dread?

Speaker 20 (01:10:45):
Oh?

Speaker 34 (01:10:45):
Well of you beer?

Speaker 13 (01:10:47):
What kind of a best friend are you?

Speaker 11 (01:10:48):
Well?

Speaker 5 (01:10:48):
Let me look at you, moon yin Yan. You don't
deserve this. I am sorry, old man that you die though,
I know, but it's too late now.

Speaker 28 (01:10:55):
Oh and he hasn't said a sensible thing all evening?

Speaker 5 (01:10:57):
Can you blame him?

Speaker 47 (01:10:58):
Well?

Speaker 28 (01:10:58):
To tell you the truth, I haven't been making much
sense myself. I've never been so happy. Miss moonean is
miss my dad?

Speaker 8 (01:11:06):
Oh?

Speaker 28 (01:11:06):
Dear, I forgot excuse me, John, Well, come right back.

Speaker 5 (01:11:10):
Could I have a word?

Speaker 26 (01:11:11):
Oh yes, cors Owen, What is it?

Speaker 5 (01:11:13):
I saw Jeremy Wayne outside the George and Dragons?

Speaker 26 (01:11:15):
Noh yes, why didn't you bring him along?

Speaker 11 (01:11:16):
Well?

Speaker 5 (01:11:17):
He was in pretty bad shape, John, drinking nor of
them was good for him?

Speaker 11 (01:11:20):
Takes it pretty hard, doesn't he, poor devil?

Speaker 26 (01:11:23):
Well, I can't say I blame him either.

Speaker 5 (01:11:24):
You know, Wayne's a wild sort of fellow.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
John.

Speaker 5 (01:11:26):
I'm worried he was making vague sorts of threats against you.

Speaker 12 (01:11:30):
You know what that is?

Speaker 10 (01:11:31):
Owing?

Speaker 26 (01:11:32):
That's that George and Dragon Branday just the same.

Speaker 5 (01:11:34):
I don't like it. Suppose I suppose he could come
here to No.

Speaker 26 (01:11:38):
I don't believe he will.

Speaker 5 (01:11:39):
Now stop worrying.

Speaker 28 (01:11:51):
You mean mister Wayne's here now?

Speaker 12 (01:11:52):
Mary?

Speaker 28 (01:11:52):
Yes, no, but I wouldn't see in miss mooneans not
if I was you.

Speaker 32 (01:11:56):
I don't think he's quite in starkness. I'll talk to John.

Speaker 28 (01:11:59):
No, no, no, you mum, don't tell for John in
the gardens.

Speaker 11 (01:12:07):
Jerry, is that you moaning? Oh?

Speaker 28 (01:12:10):
Jerry, I knew you couldn't let me get married without
coming to wish me.

Speaker 48 (01:12:13):
Joy?

Speaker 28 (01:12:14):
Joy, what's the matter, Jerry?

Speaker 46 (01:12:16):
What is this?

Speaker 5 (01:12:16):
You'll know what it is?

Speaker 28 (01:12:18):
Won't you come into the house. We're expecting you.

Speaker 11 (01:12:20):
Oh no, you're not.

Speaker 28 (01:12:21):
Oh please, Jerry, don't ask luy.

Speaker 12 (01:12:23):
You're really going to marry him tomorrow?

Speaker 44 (01:12:25):
Oh, Jerry dear.

Speaker 28 (01:12:26):
We're not going to go over.

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
All that again, are we?

Speaker 11 (01:12:29):
You look so beautiful of that dress?

Speaker 28 (01:12:31):
Thank you, Jerry, Jerry, Please, Jerry dear, stop please, you're
not going to marry him?

Speaker 13 (01:12:41):
Go on my life.

Speaker 28 (01:12:42):
I have loved you Jerry, it isn't easy for me,
but to have you say things like this. I'm so
fond of you.

Speaker 11 (01:12:48):
Understood between our families that we were to marry. It
was understood by everyone.

Speaker 28 (01:12:52):
Yes, But Jerry, it doesn't mean the end of our friendship.
Nothing could end there.

Speaker 11 (01:12:56):
Tomorrow you'll be in his arms. This man you'll marry.
What right has he to take you from me? Why
is he better than I? What is there in me
that that's wrong?

Speaker 29 (01:13:06):
Nothing?

Speaker 11 (01:13:08):
Drink? I drink because I'm unhappy, and I'm unhappy because
of you?

Speaker 12 (01:13:13):
Hm? Hm.

Speaker 11 (01:13:13):
This other man, he has no faults, He's perfect.

Speaker 5 (01:13:19):
I tell you, he'll not have you.

Speaker 11 (01:13:22):
The man doesn't live. Who can take you from me?
The man will not live who takes you from me?

Speaker 28 (01:13:27):
Jerry, I'm marrying John tomorrow. I'm marrying him because I
love him. I should always love him, because he stands
for everything that's beautiful and fine and true. And even
if he didn't, I should still love him. It's John.
Please go now, Jerry, I'll go kiss me, Munia. No, Jerry, please,

(01:13:48):
your mind your mine?

Speaker 27 (01:13:50):
Jerry, let me go?

Speaker 13 (01:13:51):
Good bye?

Speaker 11 (01:14:00):
What are you bullen here?

Speaker 46 (01:14:03):
John?

Speaker 24 (01:14:04):
Ah good eave me, madam.

Speaker 26 (01:14:06):
If you're not too busy tomorrow afternoon?

Speaker 11 (01:14:08):
How would you like to marry me?

Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
Why?

Speaker 11 (01:14:11):
What's the mada? Dear?

Speaker 13 (01:14:12):
Is something wrong?

Speaker 12 (01:14:13):
No?

Speaker 28 (01:14:14):
Nothing?

Speaker 26 (01:14:14):
Something I've done, something I've said, because if it is,
I didn't mean.

Speaker 28 (01:14:18):
It, John, Dear, hold me close?

Speaker 13 (01:14:21):
Anything about the wedding?

Speaker 48 (01:14:22):
No?

Speaker 21 (01:14:24):
Listen?

Speaker 11 (01:14:24):
Listen to your song?

Speaker 26 (01:14:25):
Would you sing it for me?

Speaker 45 (01:14:26):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (01:14:27):
Please?

Speaker 28 (01:14:27):
Johna I if you don't mind me?

Speaker 13 (01:14:30):
You're not unhappy?

Speaker 11 (01:14:31):
Are you?

Speaker 28 (01:14:32):
How could I possibly be unhappy tonight?

Speaker 12 (01:14:35):
You know?

Speaker 13 (01:14:35):
Sometimes I get a little scared.

Speaker 36 (01:14:38):
How on earth did we two ever happen to get together?

Speaker 28 (01:14:40):
I know, to think that out of all the millions
of people in the world, I'm it's going to be
in this house, just you and I. Oh, darling, everything's fun.
Oh do you like my rings?

Speaker 5 (01:14:51):
The beauty, isn't it?

Speaker 28 (01:14:52):
M It belonged to my great great grandmother.

Speaker 26 (01:14:54):
I say, let's practice show we with this ring?

Speaker 11 (01:14:58):
I the wait?

Speaker 26 (01:15:01):
Now, it was pretty good, wasn't it. That's a better
practice dropping it once or twice.

Speaker 34 (01:15:06):
There's a little brow wood wine in norther.

Speaker 44 (01:15:13):
To a little white co wi the sea. Why is
why a blue.

Speaker 35 (01:15:36):
Calm?

Speaker 44 (01:15:38):
True?

Speaker 34 (01:15:46):
There's a brid long in the wrong. There's still very line, my.

Speaker 44 (01:16:00):
How theyvil.

Speaker 35 (01:16:08):
I not love lot thy? O love you?

Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
A will?

Speaker 5 (01:16:46):
Do you care? Have this man to thy wedded husband
to live together after God's ordinance in the holy state
of matrimony. Who will, though obey him and serve him,
love honor, and keep him in sickness didn't help? And
for seeking all others, keep the only anti him, so
long as you both shall live?

Speaker 19 (01:17:06):
I will.

Speaker 5 (01:17:09):
It's Jerry, Wayne, Jerry, She'll never have you.

Speaker 13 (01:17:12):
I told you I want you.

Speaker 49 (01:17:14):
What does this mean?

Speaker 30 (01:17:15):
Jerry?

Speaker 28 (01:17:15):
Surely you can't mean to make a scene at my wedding.

Speaker 11 (01:17:17):
There'll be no wedding, Monkeyes man, get out here.

Speaker 28 (01:17:20):
Jerry will never have her, never, No Jerry, no doubt.

Speaker 25 (01:17:27):
John, Oh my God, and get a doctor.

Speaker 50 (01:17:36):
Let's way.

Speaker 11 (01:17:46):
Is she all right?

Speaker 5 (01:17:47):
Tell me?

Speaker 51 (01:17:48):
Is she all right?

Speaker 12 (01:17:48):
I'm sorry John that you must do something John.

Speaker 28 (01:17:57):
It hurt John, make it starm.

Speaker 11 (01:18:01):
Yes, we'll make it stump am. I it's nothing, darling.

Speaker 28 (01:18:08):
John, where is the ring?

Speaker 24 (01:18:13):
Put it.

Speaker 52 (01:18:15):
On my finger.

Speaker 35 (01:18:19):
Don't be sad.

Speaker 37 (01:18:22):
I'll be waiting for you.

Speaker 28 (01:18:26):
Oh, don't could never die John, John, where are you?

Speaker 5 (01:18:34):
Oh, darling, don't leave me.

Speaker 53 (01:18:36):
Don't leave me, John, He isn't it a pity.

Speaker 22 (01:18:44):
He isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:57):
For me too?

Speaker 12 (01:18:58):
It was the end.

Speaker 13 (01:19:01):
She lay white and still in my arms.

Speaker 11 (01:19:04):
She was dead.

Speaker 26 (01:19:06):
All that I lived for was gone. I came back
alone to this house, all gay with flowers for her.
I sat alone where I sit now, the whole night through.

Speaker 28 (01:19:18):
Poor Darling, said.

Speaker 2 (01:19:19):
Him many times since.

Speaker 36 (01:19:21):
Whenever I'm in trouble or sorrow, I come here.

Speaker 12 (01:19:24):
It was here that she returned to me.

Speaker 2 (01:19:27):
Year after year.

Speaker 26 (01:19:28):
She had come always when I needed her.

Speaker 12 (01:19:31):
She was here beside me, here in this garden.

Speaker 28 (01:19:36):
I no, dear, I understand, Kathleen.

Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
To night you told me that Jeremy Wayne was dead.

Speaker 36 (01:19:42):
God sorry, I didn't kill it, Uncle John.

Speaker 12 (01:19:46):
The police had given up the search.

Speaker 25 (01:19:47):
I trecked him for years through alfter ports in South America.

Speaker 13 (01:19:50):
For years. I hunted him in my dreams. I killed
him in my dreams. How he's dead?

Speaker 2 (01:19:59):
And son his son?

Speaker 5 (01:20:04):
It was promised me to have nothing more to do
with that man.

Speaker 28 (01:20:07):
You mean it's it never never? Good night, good night.

Speaker 11 (01:20:22):
Thanks for coming to the camp.

Speaker 5 (01:20:23):
It was a grand concert.

Speaker 54 (01:20:25):
Thanks to you.

Speaker 28 (01:20:26):
I was glad to come.

Speaker 21 (01:20:26):
Can I see you home?

Speaker 28 (01:20:27):
No, thanks, I'll be all right.

Speaker 43 (01:20:29):
Good night, good night, Kathleen, Kathleen White, Canada, I can't
talk to No, wait a minute.

Speaker 21 (01:20:38):
We've got to talker.

Speaker 11 (01:20:39):
I've got no more than you told me in your letter,
a lot more.

Speaker 28 (01:20:43):
Walk home with me then I'll try. So you see,
there's really nothing else you can do, is there?

Speaker 6 (01:20:53):
No?

Speaker 11 (01:20:54):
Oh, I guess the whole thing was cock eyed anyway,
me going to.

Speaker 12 (01:20:57):
The front so soon?

Speaker 55 (01:20:59):
Besides?

Speaker 28 (01:21:00):
Hard we know each other, do we?

Speaker 56 (01:21:01):
No?

Speaker 43 (01:21:03):
These poor boy rich girl things usually are busted anyway.

Speaker 28 (01:21:06):
Yes, I I guess we were just is lucky to
have started now when.

Speaker 11 (01:21:10):
Yeah, pretty colche though we really might've got to us.

Speaker 28 (01:21:15):
Yes, yeah, well.

Speaker 11 (01:21:19):
It's s's a nice stole have known.

Speaker 12 (01:21:22):
You, Kathleen.

Speaker 28 (01:21:24):
Good bye, Kenneth, goodbye.

Speaker 11 (01:21:28):
Oh, Kathleen.

Speaker 28 (01:21:29):
We can't do this week, Kenneth. I promise we mustn't
see each other.

Speaker 11 (01:21:33):
I'm going to France soon anyway, It wouldn't.

Speaker 28 (01:21:35):
It be easier than if we didn't.

Speaker 11 (01:21:36):
I don't know that it would.

Speaker 28 (01:21:37):
Oh, we can't just we we aren't children.

Speaker 12 (01:21:40):
Are we? No?

Speaker 11 (01:21:42):
We're not children? And I love you, Kathleen.

Speaker 13 (01:21:47):
I love you.

Speaker 28 (01:21:48):
Oh, Cannis, he's your sandwich darling, like another Kenned Wayne special.

Speaker 11 (01:22:04):
No thanks, I couldn't.

Speaker 28 (01:22:05):
Oh why when I last picnic? You wit?

Speaker 5 (01:22:08):
Six?

Speaker 11 (01:22:08):
Did I?

Speaker 28 (01:22:09):
What's the matter with you? Are you in love with something?

Speaker 45 (01:22:13):
In love?

Speaker 11 (01:22:14):
How would you know how a person in love.

Speaker 28 (01:22:16):
Feels m because I'm in love myself?

Speaker 11 (01:22:19):
How are you, darling, Kathleen, Yes, dear, we're pushing.

Speaker 28 (01:22:26):
Off when tonight tonight?

Speaker 57 (01:22:28):
Oh?

Speaker 28 (01:22:29):
No, oh, Ken? How can they you're not half trained?

Speaker 11 (01:22:32):
I guess they need more men? Oh yes, but so
soon get leave? Youre not dog?

Speaker 28 (01:22:36):
Oh course you will. You'll be home off and then you'll.

Speaker 21 (01:22:42):
Give don't.

Speaker 28 (01:22:44):
I'm sorry?

Speaker 32 (01:22:46):
How how long have you?

Speaker 11 (01:22:48):
Battalion goes to Southampton tonight. We'll be crossing.

Speaker 8 (01:22:51):
Tomorrow night, Kenneth, take me with you tonight, darling?

Speaker 11 (01:22:56):
Oh no, I know, I couldn't. It's only a few hours,
and I leave you and I may not come back, but.

Speaker 28 (01:23:01):
We shall have had those hours. It will help me
to wait, and if it's all we ever have, it
will help me to live. I should have been your wife, Chathleen.

Speaker 11 (01:23:12):
What about your uncle? What do you tell him?

Speaker 28 (01:23:14):
The only thing I can. I'll tell him the truth.

Speaker 11 (01:23:25):
So we decided i'd better come along too. We want
to be married. I hope you understand.

Speaker 25 (01:23:31):
Saying I understand only one thing about a Wayne, Uncle John.
The quality of your breed is not to take his medicine.
That's why your father took the life of one person
and ruined that of another.

Speaker 5 (01:23:41):
He couldn't take his medicine.

Speaker 11 (01:23:43):
I don't think you have any right to put it
like that, sir Ken.

Speaker 28 (01:23:46):
I'm going with you, just as I promer if she
married you, if.

Speaker 25 (01:23:49):
She becomes your wife, and you'll never come back, You'll
have smashed into her life for a few cowardly hours
because I shall.

Speaker 5 (01:23:55):
Never forgive an any part of it.

Speaker 13 (01:23:57):
Cathereen.

Speaker 5 (01:23:58):
If he takes you from me, then he can take
cal That's my last word.

Speaker 28 (01:24:03):
Come, darling, let's get out of here.

Speaker 36 (01:24:13):
Oh what time is it?

Speaker 5 (01:24:15):
Twelve thirty?

Speaker 11 (01:24:17):
Phrase?

Speaker 5 (01:24:17):
She's not coming back, John.

Speaker 13 (01:24:18):
She couldn't do this to me. She couldn't.

Speaker 43 (01:24:21):
Who is that the door?

Speaker 13 (01:24:23):
He's Kathleen, Kathleen.

Speaker 27 (01:24:25):
Yes, I'm here.

Speaker 28 (01:24:27):
You knew i'd come back, didn't you. He wouldn't marry
me because of your plays, And now he may not
come back at all.

Speaker 13 (01:24:35):
If God is just, he never will.

Speaker 28 (01:24:38):
Uncle John. Huh, I never thought you.

Speaker 5 (01:24:41):
Could be so cruel, John. What the devil has got
into you go after her, beg her to forgive you
if she ever can.

Speaker 12 (01:24:47):
And I'm not asking you on advice.

Speaker 5 (01:24:48):
I'm giving it. That boy you wish dead is a
fine chap one of the best.

Speaker 13 (01:24:52):
So you're on his side too.

Speaker 5 (01:24:54):
I'm on Kathleen's side, and I say you're wrong, wicked little.

Speaker 25 (01:24:57):
Maybe all you say, oh In, but at least time
loyal to her, to Mooney, and who pays the price
of your loyalty.

Speaker 5 (01:25:04):
You must think of the living as well as the dead.

Speaker 13 (01:25:06):
That how you Feelow and you and I can't go
on as we am.

Speaker 5 (01:25:10):
You mean that, John and I meant everything so much.
You're willing to sacrifice every decent human sentiment to a
bitter memory that to be forgotten.

Speaker 13 (01:25:18):
Sad enough of him.

Speaker 5 (01:25:19):
It's been a great many years, John, I've said my
last word. Very well.

Speaker 2 (01:25:25):
Goodbye job.

Speaker 53 (01:25:31):
Moon Yon.

Speaker 13 (01:25:36):
Where are you, John?

Speaker 29 (01:25:39):
I can't get through, Dear. Your hate has come between us.
I need you, mon yin.

Speaker 2 (01:25:46):
You must come.

Speaker 33 (01:25:47):
If I could only read you, Dear, if I could.

Speaker 27 (01:25:51):
Only make you understand that the lobby John is reated
long ago.

Speaker 53 (01:25:58):
Come back to her.

Speaker 27 (01:26:01):
If you build a barrier between those who love, it
will stand between your soul and mine for all eternity. Oh, John,
can't you hear me? Unless you drive this hatred alt
of your heart, unless you right this wrong.

Speaker 29 (01:26:23):
You can never come to me, never, never, Yes, why have.

Speaker 13 (01:26:34):
You deserted me?

Speaker 21 (01:26:50):
In just a few moments, mister Demill presents Jeanette McDonald,
Brian Ahearn and Jean Raymonds in Act three.

Speaker 12 (01:26:56):
I've smiling through and now here's Sally with that gay.

Speaker 21 (01:27:00):
I've got something to tell you. Look in her eyes.

Speaker 32 (01:27:02):
You just bet I have. Mister Ruick, Oh, it was
so sweet.

Speaker 21 (01:27:06):
Now wait a minute, selling, let's begin at the beginning.

Speaker 4 (01:27:08):
Well, it was like this.

Speaker 32 (01:27:10):
I was in the bus on my way to the studio,
and I noticed a very attractive young couple sitting just
ahead of me. They were looking at a movie magazine,
and all of a sudden, the girl said.

Speaker 58 (01:27:22):
Oh, Johnny, just look at that picture of Virginia Bruce.
She's a honey all right, lovely hair and look, Johnny,
did you ever see such a gorgeous complexion?

Speaker 13 (01:27:32):
Yes, dear, I'm looking at one right now.

Speaker 22 (01:27:35):
Oh why, Johnny, dear, why sunk you?

Speaker 21 (01:27:40):
That just goes to show you a lovely complexion always
wins well?

Speaker 32 (01:27:43):
I'd be willing to bet you three cakes of Luck soap.
That young lady was a lux girl. She had really
lovely skin, so moove and fresh looking.

Speaker 21 (01:27:52):
Well, then she and Virginia Bruce have something in common,
because Virginia Bruce is one of our very loveliest lux girls. Molly,
why don't you tell the ladies in our audience just
how Virginia Bruce takes care of that smooth complexion of hers.

Speaker 32 (01:28:05):
I like to because active lather facials are a beauty
care every woman should know about.

Speaker 8 (01:28:10):
You.

Speaker 32 (01:28:11):
Just pat Luck soap, screamy active lather gently in, Rinse
with warm water and then a dash of cool.

Speaker 28 (01:28:17):
Pat your face dry with the towels.

Speaker 32 (01:28:20):
Now touch your skins. See if you don't agree with
Virginia Bruce. She says, active lather facials leave skin feeling
smoother and sautest, looking so fresh.

Speaker 21 (01:28:30):
Thank you, Sally. Now, all you ladies who heard that,
won't you try active lather facials with Lucks toilet soap regularly.

Speaker 24 (01:28:38):
For thirty days.

Speaker 21 (01:28:40):
Let this care help you in the flower fresh, appealing
loveliness that men adore. Remember, nine out of ten famous
Hollywood screen stars use Luck's toilet soap. It's the beauty
soap for you. Now, I'll produce him to the mill.
Curtain rises on the third act of Smiling through. Spring

(01:29:09):
has come again, the spring of nineteen nineteen, and once
more there is peace in the world. Unknown to Kathleen,
Kenneth has returned to the old Wayne house. But he's
not the same man who marched away to war. He's
white and drawn, and he walks now with the aid
of crutches. Ohen on hand to meet him, pretends not

(01:29:32):
to notice.

Speaker 5 (01:29:34):
It's good to see you. Bet my boy a captain
too splendid.

Speaker 43 (01:29:38):
Will you do me a favor, Prodrey, look at my
legs and stop pretending you don't see the crutches.

Speaker 5 (01:29:44):
I see them. I see the dearso and your tunic too.
Did they send you down to our hospital?

Speaker 11 (01:29:49):
No, I'm discharged.

Speaker 5 (01:29:50):
Kathleen hasn't heard from you. Been worried, but I suppose
you didn't want to tell her you were wounded.

Speaker 43 (01:29:55):
I came here to clear up the tile on the house,
put it up for sale. I'm I'm leaving for America tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (01:30:01):
But surely you'll be seeing Kathleen.

Speaker 11 (01:30:05):
Do I look like a man who wants to see
a girl.

Speaker 5 (01:30:08):
She's been waiting three years for you, So.

Speaker 11 (01:30:10):
I'm a dirty swine.

Speaker 43 (01:30:11):
Tell her I've gone back to America to marry a
million dollars. Tell her I fell for the girl from Armonda.
Tell her anything.

Speaker 5 (01:30:17):
Why won't you see that?

Speaker 11 (01:30:19):
Because I haven't got there, because I'm shot to pieces,
because I'm still in love with us. You must know
now when you let me alone?

Speaker 5 (01:30:29):
Running alone, Kenneth, Oh, my boy, let me help you up.

Speaker 11 (01:30:40):
Well you see Predri, I see you.

Speaker 53 (01:30:45):
I'm sorry, my boy, Kenneth, Kenneth, Oh.

Speaker 12 (01:30:57):
It is you.

Speaker 28 (01:30:58):
I can't believe it's but it is it is.

Speaker 32 (01:31:02):
Oh, Kenneth, my darling.

Speaker 11 (01:31:04):
Yeah, do you mind if I don't get up? I'm
I'm kind of tired, trip on all.

Speaker 28 (01:31:08):
Oh my darling, of course you're tired. Don't move, Just
just let me put my arms around you. Oh, Kenneth,
I've waited so long. I wish I weren't.

Speaker 23 (01:31:16):
Crying like this.

Speaker 28 (01:31:17):
I can't see you properly, darling? Are you glad to
see me? And said?

Speaker 10 (01:31:22):
So?

Speaker 17 (01:31:22):
You know?

Speaker 11 (01:31:22):
Of course I'm glad to say you're.

Speaker 12 (01:31:24):
Oh.

Speaker 28 (01:31:24):
It's so much to ask you. Why didn't you write?
I thought you were wounded or sick. You are all right,
aren't you?

Speaker 12 (01:31:30):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (01:31:30):
Yes, I am all right.

Speaker 28 (01:31:31):
But then why did you stop writing?

Speaker 11 (01:31:33):
Well, I'm sorry.

Speaker 43 (01:31:34):
I I should have written, of course, but I had
been pretty busy making all my plans and everything.

Speaker 32 (01:31:40):
And what plans?

Speaker 28 (01:31:41):
Kenneth?

Speaker 11 (01:31:41):
Well, I I'm selling this house. But why I'm leaving.
I'm sailing for America in.

Speaker 28 (01:31:48):
A mile, Kenneth, I don't understand you're You're really leaving.

Speaker 11 (01:31:52):
Ten o'clock boat train tonight, lucky to get a passage.

Speaker 28 (01:31:55):
Oh well, then there's no reason why you were dying.
I'll go along with you. I not like it over there,
Oh Ken, What are you saying? I live anywhere in
the world with you?

Speaker 11 (01:32:04):
This is your home? You you you like it here?

Speaker 55 (01:32:05):
Of course I do.

Speaker 11 (01:32:06):
Yeah, that's fine. You see, Yeah, I was right the
night I made you go back to your uncle.

Speaker 24 (01:32:12):
By the way, How how is he?

Speaker 28 (01:32:14):
He hasn't changed about you?

Speaker 43 (01:32:16):
But neither of e hasn't changed. Huh still nursing that
old sorrow of this huh ha, must be great to
be like that. I love one woman.

Speaker 11 (01:32:28):
All your life, Yes, it must be. Well, how's the
an Al's been?

Speaker 21 (01:32:35):
Huh?

Speaker 11 (01:32:36):
Yeah, how's Willie Ainsley, WILLI been all right?

Speaker 53 (01:32:39):
Yes, that's good.

Speaker 11 (01:32:41):
Say Willy might be just the type of that Willie
would love somebody all of his life.

Speaker 28 (01:32:49):
Kenn it's what are you talking like?

Speaker 48 (01:32:50):
This?

Speaker 41 (01:32:50):
Thought?

Speaker 18 (01:32:51):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (01:32:51):
Just rambling along, just reminiscing. We had a lot of
fun together, didn't we.

Speaker 43 (01:32:56):
You remember the day we met right here in this room. Yeah,
it's too bad we had to grow up, isn't it.

Speaker 28 (01:33:03):
What are you saying? What are you trying to do?
What's happened to you? I know you've been to war
and I've been waiting for you because I.

Speaker 46 (01:33:10):
Have loved you.

Speaker 11 (01:33:10):
Oh, Kathleen, let's not. Let's not win of things over it.

Speaker 12 (01:33:16):
It's it's it's over.

Speaker 28 (01:33:18):
I see it's over. Then why did you come back here?
Did you wanna make sure you didn't love me? Well,
I hope you're sure. Now just forget that I love you,
that I've waited for you, that i'd waited for you.

Speaker 11 (01:33:32):
Over with, Kathleen. I I've I've changed, Yes, you certainly have.
Three years and here you y you change? That's all,
of course.

Speaker 28 (01:33:41):
I'm sorry, Kenneth. I I didn't mean to throw myself
at your head. I didn't mean to embarrass you like this.
I've I've really been quite stupid, haven't I taken it
for granted that you'd still be the per Well? This
not much more to say, just the h except good bye,

(01:34:01):
good bye, Kenneth, Kathleen.

Speaker 13 (01:34:12):
Have you seen him, Kenneth, Wayne, have you?

Speaker 28 (01:34:17):
I'm not quite sure. I went to his house. I'd
give anything if I hadn't. He's going back to America,
so he ended today.

Speaker 12 (01:34:26):
Well, perhaps it's for the best.

Speaker 13 (01:34:29):
You will get over it, my.

Speaker 28 (01:34:30):
Dear, You didn't not quite the same, though, is it
you knew somebody loved you. He was sure of it.
At least you had that memory. I had nothing. You
don't understand that, do you. I understand that it's the
little things that hurt most. The way he used to laugh,

(01:34:51):
the fool things he said and did. Oh, it's no use,
I'll always love him. I'm just that sort of a fool.

Speaker 11 (01:34:59):
I've no right.

Speaker 28 (01:35:01):
I've loved him whatever he'd done, however badly he treated me.
Then if he had died, I'd have loved him always
all my life.

Speaker 36 (01:35:11):
But you loved her, Kathleen, Kathleen, my child, listen, he's wounded.

Speaker 5 (01:35:16):
What do you mean he's wounded badly.

Speaker 36 (01:35:18):
Owen was here, he saw him.

Speaker 28 (01:35:20):
Oh why didn't he tell me?

Speaker 13 (01:35:22):
He didn't think it was fair?

Speaker 5 (01:35:24):
He was afraid you'd marry.

Speaker 13 (01:35:25):
Him out of pity.

Speaker 28 (01:35:26):
Oh, then he does love me?

Speaker 16 (01:35:29):
Of course.

Speaker 13 (01:35:29):
His train leaves a ten you know?

Speaker 28 (01:35:31):
Is that clock right? I must stop him, Uncle John,
how badly is he wounded?

Speaker 26 (01:35:37):
Nothing that love and kindness won't make right again? And Kathleen,
I hope I should like it if you could possibly
come back here again and bring him with you.

Speaker 28 (01:35:50):
Oh, uncle John, darling, we'll both take care of him,
won't we?

Speaker 6 (01:36:00):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:36:01):
Uh uh uh, good evening, John?

Speaker 22 (01:36:10):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:36:11):
Coming on you?

Speaker 5 (01:36:13):
Where you sent for me?

Speaker 2 (01:36:14):
John?

Speaker 13 (01:36:15):
Oh? I didn't send for her?

Speaker 5 (01:36:18):
Oh? Oh, well Kathleen told you she did, did she?

Speaker 2 (01:36:22):
Where did she go?

Speaker 13 (01:36:23):
Thought?

Speaker 24 (01:36:23):
You said?

Speaker 5 (01:36:24):
She told you? She she told me to come to
you where. There's Kathleen on her way to the station.
You should be coming home.

Speaker 13 (01:36:34):
They'll be coming home they, yes, yes.

Speaker 12 (01:36:37):
That's what I said. I see.

Speaker 5 (01:36:40):
Well, I'll uh, I'll be pushing along clearful a game?
Oh the book. But now that you are, yeah, uh well, uh,
don't mind ified you forgotten your chest? Huh We've gotten
more than you e than you.

Speaker 36 (01:36:54):
I had white last time. Your first move, John.

Speaker 5 (01:36:59):
I know of some one who would be very glad
of what you've done tonight.

Speaker 13 (01:37:03):
Yes she is glad.

Speaker 12 (01:37:06):
I know.

Speaker 13 (01:37:08):
I feel it in my heart.

Speaker 5 (01:37:12):
My first move, eh, I missair. I I'll start the
same old way you'll move, John, John, Yeah, you sleep.

Speaker 13 (01:37:33):
I'll leave you at the new Lis.

Speaker 5 (01:37:36):
Good old John.

Speaker 13 (01:37:47):
J Dear, Oh, at last you.

Speaker 12 (01:37:51):
Come to me.

Speaker 29 (01:37:52):
No, you would come to me. It's been so new
to you.

Speaker 12 (01:37:57):
I almost made an almost mess of thing.

Speaker 13 (01:37:59):
But I'm afraid I'm getting vide old and you why
you're still you?

Speaker 11 (01:38:03):
And ju as you wear over?

Speaker 19 (01:38:05):
John?

Speaker 27 (01:38:06):
You, Oh no, I it's as wrong as it ever was.

Speaker 46 (01:38:11):
Right the feeble.

Speaker 27 (01:38:13):
You're as straight, as tall as the popular.

Speaker 29 (01:38:16):
You see me like that?

Speaker 27 (01:38:20):
I see you like that, Blue John, that old man
sitting in a chair there.

Speaker 46 (01:38:27):
Do you know me?

Speaker 12 (01:38:28):
What?

Speaker 46 (01:38:30):
Why if you?

Speaker 19 (01:38:32):
John? Is this one they call dying?

Speaker 6 (01:38:37):
Yes?

Speaker 27 (01:38:38):
Isn't it foolish to be afraid of it? Come with you,
meet John, We're together now forever.

Speaker 28 (01:38:48):
Come with me, John.

Speaker 21 (01:39:14):
The banner of love triumphs over the banner of hate
in a performance we'll long remember for three very good reasons.
And here they are Jeanette McDonald, Ryana Hern.

Speaker 12 (01:39:25):
And Jean Raymond.

Speaker 28 (01:39:26):
Thank you, mister Demill. It was a very happy day
for me when you asked us to play Smiling Through.

Speaker 21 (01:39:31):
I'm happier for us, Janette when you are kept it
in confidentially, CB.

Speaker 26 (01:39:34):
All you have to tell me is that Jeanette's going
to sing, and I'll be right on hand.

Speaker 43 (01:39:38):
You know, I never can get her to sing at home.
I have to go to the movie of the Lux
Radio Theater to here my wife sings.

Speaker 28 (01:39:45):
Jean's kidding me, mister Demill. The dog howls when I sing.

Speaker 26 (01:39:48):
At home, probably wants you to make it.

Speaker 12 (01:39:50):
To do it well.

Speaker 28 (01:39:52):
Before we say good night, mister Demill, I'd like to
tell you how very much I enjoy listening to the
Lux Radio Theater every week. And I know if it
stands refined product, because out here in Hollywood they deserve it.
Luck Soap a long time ago, and I'm sure it
deserves its great success.

Speaker 21 (01:40:08):
Luck Soap never loses a friend Jeannette nor makes an enemy.

Speaker 11 (01:40:12):
What do we hear in Lux Radio there next week?

Speaker 21 (01:40:14):
Phebe a drama gene that one can truthfully call epic.
Charles Dickens immortal story a Tale of Two Cities, and
starring in it will be Ronald Coleman's and Edna Best.
Ronald Coleman's magnificent screen acting and a Tale of Two
Cities will never be forgotten, and we consider it an

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honor to present his first radio performance of this play.

Speaker 24 (01:40:41):
So at this microphone next.

Speaker 21 (01:40:42):
Monday night, you'll hear a story that combines action, adventure,
romance and breathtaking suspense.

Speaker 26 (01:40:50):
Well that's a great favorite of mine and I as
you think of everyone, CEB, good night, good night, good night.

Speaker 45 (01:41:02):
Your free male direct hot tonight.

Speaker 21 (01:41:11):
Our sponsors, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, join me
in inviting you to be with us again next Monday night,
when the Lux Radio Theater presents Ronald Coleman and Edna
Best in A Tale of Two Cities.

Speaker 24 (01:41:26):
The necessor Beta mel saying good night to you from
Holly Wood.

Speaker 21 (01:41:40):
Jeanette MacDonald appeared through the courtesy of Metro Golden Mayer
Studios and is now making the picture I Married an Angel,
in which he co starred with Nelson. Eddy Gene Raymond
appeared through the courtesy of RKO and Todd appeared through
the courtesy of twentieth Century Fox Studios and is currently
being seen in their production of Remember the Day. Heard

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in Tonight's play for Fred Mackay, Bernad Felton, Anthony Marsh,
Betty Hill, Eric Snowden and Howard McNair Tunion Next Monday
night to hear Ronald Coleman and Edna Best in a
Tale of Two Cities. Our Lux Radio Theater production of
Smile and Through has come to you with the good

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wishes of the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, the beauty
care that nine out of ten Hollywood stars use to
help keep their complexions beautifully clear and smooth flawless as
every woman wants her skin to be Join us again
next week in the Lutch Radio Theater to enjoy an
hour of dramatic entertainment. This is your announcer, melvil Royd,
bidding you good night on behalf of our guests, our

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cast and the Lux Radio Theater. This is the Columbia
God Pasting System.

Speaker 59 (01:43:00):
Yeah man in a world of behind space.

Speaker 2 (01:43:15):
He lives in the respect the universe. When my adventures
is the ya, this is a he is in the.

Speaker 60 (01:43:26):
Area where a strange forces are brown into playing. When
my attempts to use these forcesiness. He is sometimes destroyed.

Speaker 2 (01:43:38):
This is by Myra.

Speaker 51 (01:43:47):
Okay, okay.

Speaker 61 (01:43:54):
The Baris Network presents in special performance by cow Bra
Tonight's story Final resting Place.

Speaker 15 (01:44:25):
Roger, it doesn't look like the road, Honey, I think
we're lost.

Speaker 60 (01:44:29):
It has to be right, so justice as the feast
back at Cardivill said the lake was on the main highway.

Speaker 59 (01:44:34):
We haven't made it, turning.

Speaker 15 (01:44:36):
It getting done. This road doesn't look well traveled.

Speaker 2 (01:44:39):
I really think we made a.

Speaker 15 (01:44:40):
Wrong turn somewhere.

Speaker 60 (01:44:41):
Missus cat, your husband solemnly promises to deliver his bride
of a few hours safely and surely the honeymoon lodge.

Speaker 2 (01:44:47):
On very lake.

Speaker 59 (01:44:48):
Now, I'll let's hear no more about it.

Speaker 2 (01:44:51):
Head on my shoulders.

Speaker 15 (01:44:53):
That's it, Roger.

Speaker 2 (01:44:56):
You better watch the road.

Speaker 10 (01:44:57):
By pass another car for an hour.

Speaker 2 (01:45:00):
Relax soon.

Speaker 59 (01:45:01):
It's a fine way to start a married life, Lisz.

Speaker 15 (01:45:04):
Yep, here's a sign.

Speaker 2 (01:45:06):
Can you make it out? Yeah, Randolph?

Speaker 15 (01:45:09):
Five miles are we supposed to go this way?

Speaker 12 (01:45:12):
Sure? What I tell you? It's only fifty miles farther.

Speaker 59 (01:45:15):
Randolph is our halfway point.

Speaker 15 (01:45:17):
It's country road. How can they call a lonely trail?
Life is a highway.

Speaker 60 (01:45:22):
You're just a sophisticated city. I'll close your eyes and
listen to the radio. I'll leave there before you know it.

Speaker 15 (01:45:29):
All right, y, I guess I'm getting jumpy head.

Speaker 59 (01:45:33):
On my shoulder.

Speaker 2 (01:45:34):
Red. Not another word? Okay.

Speaker 41 (01:45:40):
We interrupt this program to bring you a special news bulletin.
Authority is of the state's Stylum. I've just issued the
following morning. A dangerous homicidal media escaped custody this morning
and is believed to be in the vicinity of Round
Radish years of age, weighs two hundred pounds, past thick
gray hair, and answer to the name of doctor Vardmore.

Speaker 62 (01:45:58):
We repeat, this man is a dangerous killer.

Speaker 41 (01:46:01):
Those in the vicinity of Randolph our urge to take
extra precautions tonight, since this killer is armed and the
public has warned against walking alone or driving at night
on the quiet.

Speaker 62 (01:46:10):
Roads near Randolph.

Speaker 41 (01:46:12):
Report all suspicious persons to the Comedy Sheriff's Office.

Speaker 19 (01:46:15):
Now we return you.

Speaker 62 (01:46:16):
To Stars of Music.

Speaker 15 (01:46:18):
Roger, did you hear that?

Speaker 11 (01:46:20):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (01:46:20):
But how does it concern us?

Speaker 8 (01:46:22):
Darling?

Speaker 47 (01:46:22):
We are driving down a country road near Randolphpose we
should have.

Speaker 2 (01:46:26):
A car trouble or a black tire or you are
getting jump in.

Speaker 15 (01:46:30):
Let's stopping Randolph for the night to.

Speaker 59 (01:46:32):
Our reservations at Mirry Lake off on night.

Speaker 47 (01:46:36):
They have the strangest feelings. We don't stop at Randolph,
never reach nearly.

Speaker 12 (01:46:52):
Great idea.

Speaker 59 (01:46:52):
Wo what darling stopping here for the night.

Speaker 2 (01:46:55):
Now we can see the carnival.

Speaker 15 (01:46:57):
It's all right. Webbie's people are here.

Speaker 28 (01:46:58):
I can't.

Speaker 15 (01:47:00):
You'd better go back to the hotel before they leave.

Speaker 60 (01:47:02):
You're still afraid, or I'll show you a good time.
You forget all about it.

Speaker 15 (01:47:12):
We've got a man I'm doing over there.

Speaker 9 (01:47:14):
No, ladies and gentlemen, if you entirely sits hotel, feel
one of the great bibles of a whole time. As
you see my feet in a whole excavation six feet
in death.

Speaker 51 (01:47:28):
Brave that you will and beside me.

Speaker 55 (01:47:31):
Here is a casket.

Speaker 51 (01:47:33):
Now, friends, what do you think we are going to do?

Speaker 48 (01:47:37):
Now?

Speaker 51 (01:47:37):
Friends, ladies and gentlemen, have no fear.

Speaker 9 (01:47:40):
Tonight, Hi, Professor Vincent, select someone one of you from
the audience be hypnotized and traced in this casket. Then
I will burry him alive. Of five days.

Speaker 63 (01:47:55):
He ain't gonna wind up.

Speaker 9 (01:47:58):
Care the mod Please five days at one hundred dollars
a day.

Speaker 2 (01:48:03):
Now, what you say?

Speaker 9 (01:48:05):
Who wants to make five hundred dollars? There is absolutely
no danger. A chaff will be sunked so that we
can see your head. You'll get plenty of light in there.
Who will be low to you? Nothing to it at all?

Speaker 51 (01:48:19):
Who will be the first volunteer?

Speaker 53 (01:48:23):
You got it?

Speaker 12 (01:48:23):
Popular?

Speaker 2 (01:48:24):
Another tat? How come now?

Speaker 51 (01:48:26):
Ladies and gentlemen under hypnosis, believe me.

Speaker 64 (01:48:31):
Five days will seem like an hour, the easiest five
hundred dollars you've ever made?

Speaker 51 (01:48:37):
Who will volunteer? How about you, my bumpkin comedian friend
o Y last year I have? But sure, eno, did
you recover? It's hard to tell from looking at you.

Speaker 5 (01:48:53):
You, sir? What is your name?

Speaker 15 (01:48:56):
He's pointing at you.

Speaker 12 (01:48:57):
I don't think i'd be Who are you, sir? Roger Kent?

Speaker 51 (01:49:02):
Roger Kent? Just five hundred dollars interest you?

Speaker 11 (01:49:06):
Well?

Speaker 12 (01:49:07):
Sure?

Speaker 5 (01:49:07):
But the good good?

Speaker 51 (01:49:09):
You'll make a fine subject.

Speaker 12 (01:49:10):
Now wait a minute, and Roger, who is a young
lady with you?

Speaker 2 (01:49:14):
My wife Sue?

Speaker 12 (01:49:16):
Oh, and what do you say, missus tent?

Speaker 15 (01:49:19):
Well? I think it's just a dreadful idea.

Speaker 12 (01:49:22):
No, you better pick someone else.

Speaker 10 (01:49:23):
Professor nonsense.

Speaker 51 (01:49:25):
Do you need the money?

Speaker 65 (01:49:26):
We do need, but not this way.

Speaker 2 (01:49:29):
R It's awful five bucks would pay off the car.
We still have ten days left for our honeymoon.

Speaker 51 (01:49:34):
Sue, well, how about it.

Speaker 15 (01:49:36):
Friends, don't let him tempt you.

Speaker 66 (01:49:38):
I don't like that man.

Speaker 2 (01:49:40):
It's a lot of money for only five days.

Speaker 51 (01:49:42):
We can't wait all nights. What do you say?

Speaker 2 (01:49:45):
I don't know they know, Branch, speak up?

Speaker 5 (01:49:50):
Yes or no?

Speaker 2 (01:49:52):
I hate the turn it.

Speaker 15 (01:49:53):
No, you're not going to be buried in that terrible coffin.
Tell him no?

Speaker 9 (01:50:00):
All right, all right, everyone, Roger and Sue times up.

Speaker 51 (01:50:04):
Tell you what I'll do.

Speaker 13 (01:50:06):
Take it over.

Speaker 9 (01:50:07):
If you decide to go through with it, come back
after a couple of hours when the Carnovalists closed for
the night.

Speaker 51 (01:50:13):
I'll be waiting for you in my trailer.

Speaker 15 (01:50:15):
Oh, Roger, you want you.

Speaker 22 (01:50:18):
I'm afraid of that man.

Speaker 51 (01:50:19):
Don't forget.

Speaker 9 (01:50:21):
I'll wait up for you until you decide one way
or the other.

Speaker 2 (01:50:25):
Roger kent. We'll hold the grave open for you.

Speaker 67 (01:50:41):
Okay, Rocher, listen, Sue, my mind's made up.

Speaker 15 (01:50:54):
It's always up to it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:55):
We need the money.

Speaker 59 (01:50:56):
That's the easiest five hundred bucks I ever heard of.

Speaker 37 (01:50:58):
Darling.

Speaker 2 (01:50:59):
I know then, what's the matter.

Speaker 15 (01:51:01):
Well, in, we shouldn't be out here in the dark
with that madman loose.

Speaker 66 (01:51:06):
And it's definitely type.

Speaker 15 (01:51:11):
Roger, you read my mind. I'm just trying to protect
you and that man.

Speaker 12 (01:51:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 60 (01:51:16):
There's nothing wrong that minute. Sue, you don't like the
verret to live act, isn't that it?

Speaker 15 (01:51:21):
Yes, yes, I get so. It's horrible.

Speaker 68 (01:51:24):
I thought, oh, this must be a strafess sir, that's
certain here it is.

Speaker 15 (01:51:32):
If he answers, there'll be no turning back. It'll be
too late.

Speaker 2 (01:51:36):
I know, no turning back. Professor Vincent, come in, Roger
and Sue, come in.

Speaker 15 (01:51:44):
Did you really think would come?

Speaker 2 (01:51:46):
I was certain you see, there is no other way.

Speaker 59 (01:52:04):
I count three, Roger, you will be asleep.

Speaker 2 (01:52:11):
Sound asleep on your feet.

Speaker 69 (01:52:14):
Then, Roger, you will be placed in the coffin and
lower it into the grave for your five day rest.
Now look deeply into my eyes, deeply in hair, and
look deeply into my eyes. You're going to sleep, Roger,

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to sleep. You can no longer move your arms. They
hang helpless at your style. Sleep, Roger, close your eyes
and sleep.

Speaker 2 (01:52:52):
One.

Speaker 10 (01:52:55):
Two your eyes are closed, And oh you are powerless
to open them.

Speaker 2 (01:53:04):
You are three asleep.

Speaker 51 (01:53:11):
Ladies and gentlemen. We are ready to.

Speaker 12 (01:53:14):
Place Roger Kent's in the caskets.

Speaker 51 (01:53:16):
Whom among you.

Speaker 9 (01:53:17):
And the audience will help me, I will professor, all right,
my friends, step right up here now, yeah, help me
raise the lid of this coffin.

Speaker 10 (01:53:26):
Now give me his feet and we'll put him in
care cavil.

Speaker 70 (01:53:29):
He's a big man.

Speaker 71 (01:53:31):
There, he's in gosh, heavy as a rock, just like
a dead man. Put it now, we're ready to lower
into the grave. You see, the casket is supported over
the open hole by two chains. If you'll flip that switch.

Speaker 2 (01:53:48):
The same time I flip this one, mister Kent will
be gently.

Speaker 72 (01:53:51):
Deposited in his grave. This one, yes, there it goes
glory b just like a real funeral.

Speaker 10 (01:54:03):
Reminds me of the time we buried my grandpappy.

Speaker 2 (01:54:07):
Ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 9 (01:54:09):
In just a few moments, the coffin will lie at
the bottom of the grave. You will then place an
airshaft down to mister Kent's head so that he will
be able to breathe, and all of you will be
able to see him.

Speaker 2 (01:54:20):
At twenty five cents a piece, I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:54:25):
I just don't know.

Speaker 19 (01:54:25):
Friend.

Speaker 51 (01:54:26):
You've done your work. Now when you kind of leave.

Speaker 12 (01:54:27):
Thank you.

Speaker 9 (01:54:28):
You are witnessing the marvel of the age, a human
being being buried alive.

Speaker 2 (01:54:36):
The casket has stopped.

Speaker 9 (01:54:38):
Will another volunteer from the audience help me position the airshaft?

Speaker 62 (01:54:42):
How about me?

Speaker 51 (01:54:43):
Fine, step up here, friend, if you please. You picked
the right one this time. Gunner, Oh, I used to
work at the funeral bar. Handle the step.

Speaker 64 (01:54:52):
Yes, no, now just pick up that end of the
metal shaft, please, easy, done it now, all over the
round opening.

Speaker 18 (01:54:58):
On the casket.

Speaker 69 (01:54:59):
List careful now there, thank you very much, my friend
meats very neat.

Speaker 51 (01:55:05):
Okay, gun there the shovel. The hole must be covered up.

Speaker 42 (01:55:09):
Oh sure, and that is it.

Speaker 9 (01:55:12):
Ladies and gentlemen, you have just seen demonstrated the marvel
of the age, a man buried alive. Now for the
next five days, Roger can't belive there in a deep slumber,
the end of which time we'll dig him up and
pay him five hundred dollars. In the meantime, my friends,

(01:55:33):
you may step up here and view him down the
shaft for a small palm of twenty five cents. One
potter the one fourth parta dollar. Ladies and gentlemen who.

Speaker 12 (01:55:43):
Will be firty with you, don't look what's that to say?

Speaker 51 (01:55:46):
It's honest? I say, what's the matter with you? Starting
money to see him?

Speaker 11 (01:55:49):
Period?

Speaker 48 (01:55:49):
Live?

Speaker 19 (01:55:50):
What either know?

Speaker 51 (01:55:51):
I have to lift with me and pave the canel
to leave her meat to me? That man ain't peried alive,
he's dead.

Speaker 64 (01:56:09):
Hello, professor incident, I got your message first chance I've
had to call you.

Speaker 15 (01:56:14):
Oh, professor, I'm so glad you did. How is Roger?

Speaker 12 (01:56:20):
I keep telling you he's all right? Now you want
to stop this nonsense.

Speaker 47 (01:56:23):
Well, it's been three days since he was buried, and
he just flies there so still almost I could only
talk to him, missus Kent, I called down to him.
Had he never moves or opens his eyes? After all
this time, I know something is wrong. Roger wouldn't let
me worry like this. He'd at least look up and
smile if he could.

Speaker 12 (01:56:45):
How many times must I repeat?

Speaker 51 (01:56:47):
He is hypnotized?

Speaker 62 (01:56:49):
He had roughed this program for a special.

Speaker 15 (01:56:51):
News foot Oh just a moment, Professor the radiarop's.

Speaker 41 (01:56:53):
Office and just confirmed the whereobounts of the homicidal maniac
who escaped from the state of Island three days ago.

Speaker 62 (01:56:59):
The state as killer, who calls himself doctor bart Moore,
is now known to be in the immediate vicinity of Randall.
Everyone is cautioned again walking alone on the streets after dark.

Speaker 41 (01:57:09):
If you plan to attend the carnival, kindly do so
with friends and leave the carnival and the company of others.

Speaker 62 (01:57:14):
Report all suspicious persons.

Speaker 12 (01:57:17):
We return you now to.

Speaker 62 (01:57:18):
Your regular program.

Speaker 28 (01:57:20):
Did you hear that on the radio?

Speaker 15 (01:57:22):
Yes, yes I did, Professor Terby.

Speaker 47 (01:57:25):
If I don't want Roger along down there with this man,
leave dig Roger up tonight.

Speaker 51 (01:57:33):
Missus kimps. We made a bargain, a business proposition.

Speaker 12 (01:57:37):
Kindly stay in your hotel room and rest.

Speaker 26 (01:57:39):
This is the third day.

Speaker 12 (01:57:41):
A day after tomorrow, it will be all over Roger
and for you.

Speaker 2 (01:57:50):
Okay, pardon me, ma'am?

Speaker 12 (01:58:03):
Are you? Missus?

Speaker 15 (01:58:05):
Who are you?

Speaker 59 (01:58:06):
I'm the one helped put your husband in the casket?

Speaker 15 (01:58:08):
Well, why are you talking to me?

Speaker 12 (01:58:10):
I don't know, just the warning.

Speaker 59 (01:58:11):
I guess I think your husband's dead.

Speaker 51 (01:58:13):
Oh, horrible a.

Speaker 46 (01:58:15):
Little man, joy from me.

Speaker 47 (01:58:18):
Oh good boy, I'm so glad to see you, terrible
little man.

Speaker 2 (01:58:25):
Yes, I heard what he said.

Speaker 10 (01:58:27):
Now get hold of yourself and listen to me carefully.

Speaker 2 (01:58:29):
This is the fifth night.

Speaker 10 (01:58:31):
I want you to go to the hotel and wait
until the carnival is over.

Speaker 12 (01:58:34):
The night is the last showing at Randa.

Speaker 51 (01:58:36):
At eleven thirty.

Speaker 2 (01:58:37):
You take a taxi out here to the lot. I'll
meet you.

Speaker 9 (01:58:40):
Roger will be ready, along with the five hundred dollars.

Speaker 15 (01:58:42):
All right, Professor anything you said? Oh thank god, it's
the end.

Speaker 2 (01:58:49):
Yes, my dear, it's all about to end.

Speaker 15 (01:59:04):
Are you going out, miss can Yes, sir, and here's
the key to my room.

Speaker 2 (01:59:08):
Thank you.

Speaker 73 (01:59:09):
I don't think it's wise though, I mean, you're going
out alone. It's after eleven and mighty dark tonight.

Speaker 8 (01:59:15):
The police haven't caught the killer yet.

Speaker 73 (01:59:17):
No funny thing too. Looks like he'll have to leave
a fresh trail, you know, kill somebody, so they'll have
more to go on. Now, why don't you take someone
with you.

Speaker 2 (01:59:26):
I'll be all right.

Speaker 15 (01:59:27):
I'm meeting Professor Vinson at the carnival lot. This is
the night they released my husband.

Speaker 37 (01:59:32):
I say, do you know the professor?

Speaker 12 (01:59:34):
Oh, yes, I do.

Speaker 15 (01:59:35):
Well, he's the one who hypnotized mister Kent.

Speaker 73 (01:59:38):
No, Professor Vincent didn't what professor got sick five days ago?

Speaker 46 (01:59:43):
Got sick?

Speaker 12 (01:59:45):
Well?

Speaker 15 (01:59:45):
Then, who was Professor Vinson at the carnival?

Speaker 19 (01:59:49):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:59:50):
Somebody who took his place. I guess.

Speaker 15 (02:00:05):
Here you are, driver, Thank you.

Speaker 46 (02:00:17):
Forget the bason.

Speaker 15 (02:00:19):
It's so dark. Where are you? That's strange. Sure the
carnival was on his vacant line, but now there's nothing.

Speaker 54 (02:00:31):
You old papers blowing in the wind. Why did I
look at cadly like in sight, those treads around the line.

Speaker 15 (02:00:43):
If the killer were hiding, it pays Roger was there.
It was in that direction. This way, maybe I can
find you.

Speaker 39 (02:00:55):
Figure will be what they do?

Speaker 52 (02:00:56):
They would be ny around here.

Speaker 15 (02:01:00):
Oh where is it?

Speaker 8 (02:01:04):
What?

Speaker 12 (02:01:05):
What's this?

Speaker 15 (02:01:07):
I'm god, they can't do that.

Speaker 27 (02:01:15):
They went away like you're buried rusher under.

Speaker 46 (02:01:20):
I'll get you out.

Speaker 12 (02:01:21):
Oh, I thought I I'll help this, okay.

Speaker 66 (02:01:25):
Yeah, yeah, something is watching me from those trees.

Speaker 21 (02:01:37):
I thought.

Speaker 28 (02:01:39):
I could get out of here.

Speaker 15 (02:01:41):
I'll be back, Roger. There's no night failing station five
blocks away.

Speaker 37 (02:01:45):
Maybe I can make it there and moved again.

Speaker 15 (02:01:49):
There is someone else here, Roger, Roger, is that you?
It's coming after me. Let's do big for Roger.

Speaker 12 (02:02:01):
I don't know what it is.

Speaker 5 (02:02:05):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (02:02:07):
No, missus Kent, calm yourself.

Speaker 12 (02:02:11):
Please?

Speaker 67 (02:02:13):
Who are you?

Speaker 18 (02:02:14):
Don't you know?

Speaker 2 (02:02:15):
I'm Professor Vincent.

Speaker 51 (02:02:16):
I was waiting for you.

Speaker 2 (02:02:17):
Now come with me to my trailer. No you're not
Professor Vincent.

Speaker 69 (02:02:22):
So you guessed who are you? There's nothing to be
alarmed about. You're in safe hands at last. I am Victor,
doctor Victor Vard Moore.

Speaker 2 (02:02:45):
Hmm, I'm gonna sleep. I guess.

Speaker 12 (02:02:52):
Why it's fucky.

Speaker 16 (02:02:54):
Can't remember what happened?

Speaker 2 (02:02:56):
Mhm, sue, where are you?

Speaker 8 (02:03:00):
Dark?

Speaker 68 (02:03:01):
Pitch black, must be night quiet, not a sound. I
can only remember back smells damp like fresher reroof where
am I.

Speaker 2 (02:03:18):
Gotta get up?

Speaker 12 (02:03:19):
Stretch bullock.

Speaker 2 (02:03:22):
Rooms.

Speaker 68 (02:03:23):
Wait a minute, there was this carnival Professor Vincent speaking
as you come back.

Speaker 59 (02:03:33):
I was hipknot just put in a casket barren.

Speaker 2 (02:03:38):
Yeah, yeah, it's clear now.

Speaker 68 (02:03:42):
Times up. Yeah, they're gonna dig me up now. Oh
DT did not expel a little boy, put me in glad.
It's over, okay, Professor, they can bring me up now.
Mm hm, I guess he stepped away from the shaft chaff.
Where's a chef? Let's spoke all my over my head. Yes,

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I can see up. Yeah, that's your thing. A lod
lion coffin lid chap should be. What's going on here?

Speaker 2 (02:04:16):
I'd like to get our professor possible. They went away
and very alive.

Speaker 9 (02:04:24):
Oh, professor, so hell, I'm better alive, Lord.

Speaker 18 (02:04:34):
Hell clean, hell is nobody, don't.

Speaker 51 (02:04:38):
Leave me down here to die? Hard enough.

Speaker 3 (02:04:46):
More hill use.

Speaker 16 (02:04:59):
Uh, I'm gonna die, be here to die. Help nobody
hear me? Hordible proback up there with the becan lot
at your tongue. So I came back. How can you
tell those down here? Oh God, don't let this happen
to me. Please help, Please don't let this. Don't want

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to die.

Speaker 51 (02:05:28):
This is Professor vincign O.

Speaker 70 (02:05:30):
Listen carefully.

Speaker 16 (02:05:32):
We're getting me out of here.

Speaker 12 (02:05:34):
Don't fret.

Speaker 19 (02:05:36):
Your oxygen supply won't last much longer.

Speaker 68 (02:05:38):
OxyS, John, you're buried alive, Roger, I'm not coming back
for you, not going back.

Speaker 16 (02:05:45):
I'm leaving you very there, Professor.

Speaker 2 (02:05:49):
I'll tell you.

Speaker 51 (02:05:54):
I'll kill him. Don't extent yourself any further, but won't
sustain your lungs.

Speaker 9 (02:06:00):
You are hearing my voice in a small short We
receive it and transmit into your head.

Speaker 12 (02:06:05):
I am talking to you from my trailer.

Speaker 51 (02:06:07):
About a block from you.

Speaker 12 (02:06:09):
Sue is with me, Roger. I want you to.

Speaker 51 (02:06:12):
Listen, very very carefully.

Speaker 2 (02:06:15):
Soon there, go ahead, Sue.

Speaker 15 (02:06:18):
Tell him, Oh, Roger, are you all right?

Speaker 13 (02:06:21):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (02:06:22):
What's he doing with you?

Speaker 47 (02:06:23):
Please do as he says, Darling, He's not the real
professor that escape madman from the asylum, doctor Bardmore.

Speaker 15 (02:06:32):
Please, Darling, we have no joint.

Speaker 11 (02:06:34):
Please to me.

Speaker 51 (02:06:36):
One move like that and I will kill you both.

Speaker 9 (02:06:39):
I've gone to a lot of trouble to set up
my final demonstration. I am going to try personality transparents.
We have the required situation, a man buried alive in.

Speaker 69 (02:06:51):
Mortal fear of death, and the woman he loves who
will do anything to save him.

Speaker 19 (02:06:56):
If we do as you say about that, I.

Speaker 9 (02:06:58):
Will release the two of you, and you have just
an op oxygen for just a few.

Speaker 15 (02:07:03):
More minutes, Harry, doctor Baimer, get it over with Roger.

Speaker 69 (02:07:09):
I want you to think about Sue. Sue, you about Roger.
Each imagine he is the other Roger. You are standing
beside me in the trailer. Sue, you are lying down
there in the casket.

Speaker 51 (02:07:26):
Cooperate and I will free you. It's your only way
out of that grave, and.

Speaker 8 (02:07:34):
She and yours you are tarning it their only change.

Speaker 51 (02:07:39):
That's enough.

Speaker 69 (02:07:40):
One more refusal and I'll turn off a short wave
transmitter and leave you in your dark world forever. Now, Roger,
imagine you are Sue standing here. Sue, you concentrate on
being Roger in the casket, think, put everything else out
of your minds I have it. Repeat something you both know,

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say the twenty third psalm.

Speaker 2 (02:08:07):
Here we go. Now start with me.

Speaker 12 (02:08:10):
The Lord is my shepherd.

Speaker 2 (02:08:13):
I shall not want He.

Speaker 59 (02:08:16):
Maketh me to lie down in green patches. He leaveth
me besides two waters.

Speaker 15 (02:08:22):
He restoreth my soul.

Speaker 50 (02:08:25):
Me, even though I walk through the valley of the
shadow of death, I fear no evil.

Speaker 12 (02:08:36):
Heart with me.

Speaker 59 (02:08:37):
By and by staff they comfort me.

Speaker 2 (02:08:42):
Thou preparest a table.

Speaker 61 (02:09:34):
You have just heard by CABRA A special Barise Network
presentation in our cast where John Buey as Professor, Vincent
Mitsy Hennessy as Sue, William Burdier as Roger, built in Radmelovich,
Air Force Sergeant Bob Eddie and Air Force Sergeant Newell

(02:09:56):
Stewart Technical supervision by OHO. This is Air Force sergeant
al of age speaking Macawbre was written and directed by
William Verdere.

Speaker 74 (02:10:23):
Mccabra comes to you each week at this time through
the worldwide facilities of the United States Armed Forces Radio
and Television Service Get This and.

Speaker 18 (02:10:33):
Get It Straight. Crime is a sucker's road, and those
who travel it wind up in the gut at the
prison of the grave. This time inside of two hours,
a lavish mansion seed with suspicion, a sealed cabin filled
with gas, and an artist retreat had a corpse on
the floor, all because one man was too good looking
to be true to anyone.

Speaker 75 (02:10:54):
From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of mystery,
comes his most famous character and crime's most deadly And
as we present the Adventures of Philip Marlowe, now with
Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's

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exciting story, The Lady Killer.

Speaker 18 (02:11:31):
The longer I sat in my office with my feet
up on the desk and thought about it, the more
convinced I became. Paul Niles was unquestionably the handsomest man
I'd ever seen. He had a face that belonged than
a Greek god, only his features were better, more finely chiseled.
They looked as though they'd been molded out of alabaster
from a blueprint by some inspired genius, and the classic

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side view we presented made the great profile show up
like a bowl full of shredded wheat. In fact, the
guy was much too good to be true in more
ways than one, which had been my original impression of
Niles when I'd first met him just two hours ago
at the corner of Sunset and Conga, and at his insistence,
had driven him around the quiet streets of Hollywood in
my car while he tried to hire me. He was

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scared stiff, that was all he would admit to, And
as he talked, I wondered what it would be like
to have a face like that. Must become quite a
problem women cluttering up your life.

Speaker 1 (02:12:25):
You're not listening to me unless you help me. I'm
going to be killed soon, tomorrow, tonight, maybe in the
next ten minutes. I must have protection from what Who's
after here? A girl, her name is Norah Kirby. She's
threatened my life and now she's here in town. She
actually intends to go through with it. If I'm not
where she's staying. I went there to talk to her,

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but she was out. Why is killing you so important
to her? Well, I don't even know for sure. It's
it's something ridiculous.

Speaker 12 (02:12:54):
Nora A.

Speaker 18 (02:12:54):
Kirby obviously doesn't think. So let's have it. Niles. Why
I can't tell you that? I see? Also, I suppose
you don't want to take this to the police where
it belongs, and you can't give me the reason for
that either.

Speaker 1 (02:13:06):
Yes, I came to you because I need private help,
and I'm willing to pay well for it. Now, you
don't have to concern yourself for the reasons. Simply see that,
Nora doesn't get to me now here as a starter.
Here's two hundred dollars for just that.

Speaker 46 (02:13:18):
Keep it.

Speaker 18 (02:13:19):
I only accept money from the people I work for.
You mean you won't help me. I just want to
know where I'm going before I start. Now, Wait, you
don't do it off here? Don't you understand my life's
in danger. I'm scared, not enough to loosen your tongue
any here. This is as far as I go. But
tell me one thing first, just for laughs, what business
are you in? Why? I'm a composer. I write music.

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The Whey you said it. It's either a front or
a hobby. How do you get your dough? I have friends,
wealthy ones do have faith in me, and that's more
than I can say for Marlow. So along, mister Niles,
go on out.

Speaker 1 (02:13:53):
All right, but here at least take my card and
please call if you change your mind. I'm desperate, Marlow.
I'll pay you even more. You'll only get goodbye, mister Niles.
That was the way I'd left it two hours ago
at eight, and I'd spent the time in between trying

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to referee a tug of warre in progress with the
feeling I had that I'd been stuffy on one end
and I undernourished bank account on the other, and was
slowly but surely getting no place. So when the break came,
I grabbed at it. Hello, Malo speaking Milo, this is
Paul Niles again. Oh, I've thought it over.

Speaker 12 (02:14:31):
I'll tell you everything if that's the only way, because
I've got to have help before it's too late.

Speaker 18 (02:14:35):
It's better where I am in my studio thirty eight
ninety three.

Speaker 12 (02:14:37):
I've Benito del.

Speaker 18 (02:14:38):
Saul thirty eight ninety three. That's off call. What a
canyon is?

Speaker 12 (02:14:40):
Yes? Now get over here right away. Where do you want?
Wait a minute, Marlow, there's someone here. Somebody just came in.

Speaker 18 (02:14:46):
Now, why Niles?

Speaker 5 (02:14:47):
Who's there?

Speaker 12 (02:14:48):
Who is it?

Speaker 19 (02:14:50):
Laura?

Speaker 76 (02:14:50):
Then Niles Miles.

Speaker 18 (02:14:58):
When niles phone went dead, I I hung up random
my car and was headed for Kowater Canyon before I
stopped to think of what I'd heard on the telephone
could very easily have been bait for a Patsy routine,
because I had nothing more to go on now than before,
except Niles promised to tell all that I'd got no
further than gunshots. But I was already well on one
easy way to find out, so I cock screwed my
way over the mountains to have Anita Dell's sol and

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followed it to number thirty eight ninety three, which was
a straight up driveway and narrowly into the hill face
that ended on a gravel shelf just big enough for
the red wooden glass studio, a generous helping of imported
jungle for landscaping in a circular parking space. As my
headlights slashed across the tangle of overhanging trees in the center,
they trapped the figure of a woman running. She stopped
crouched and looked back into the glare like a cat

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that's then darted to the darkness again. I caught her
at the corner of the house just a minute, maybe
not so fast on the curve. Let me go until
we've been properly introduced and had a chance to talk
a lot of things over. Norah. Norah, Yeah, nor a
Kirby girl with murder on her mind.

Speaker 52 (02:15:57):
No, No, you got the wrong person. My name is
not Nora.

Speaker 77 (02:15:59):
It Lynn.

Speaker 52 (02:16:00):
I don't know anyone like that.

Speaker 5 (02:16:01):
Lynn.

Speaker 18 (02:16:02):
What Lynn Houghton? Lyn Houghton, mm hmm, okay, Lynn Horton.
What's inside? They got you so panicky? Can hardly stand up?
Is it Paul Niles?

Speaker 52 (02:16:12):
Yes, I gotta get away from here.

Speaker 18 (02:16:16):
And it actually happened? Eh? He was shot? Is he dead?

Speaker 36 (02:16:20):
I don't know?

Speaker 22 (02:16:20):
I think so.

Speaker 52 (02:16:22):
How did you know about it?

Speaker 23 (02:16:24):
How are you?

Speaker 18 (02:16:25):
Name's Marlow? Come on, Lynn Horton, Let's take another look.

Speaker 52 (02:16:29):
No, no, I couldn't bear it.

Speaker 18 (02:16:31):
I can't see him through the window. Means you must
have been inside. No, no, I wouldn't look. Maybe you're
too generator to try to lie. Let's have the key.
Come on, KEIV, that's better. Right after you go on inside? Now,
where is it? Yeah, old Lynn, come over here away

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from him.

Speaker 52 (02:16:58):
I can't believe I can.

Speaker 18 (02:17:00):
What's your connection with him?

Speaker 52 (02:17:03):
I was just a friend. I tried to help him
with his music.

Speaker 18 (02:17:07):
The price on the merchandise you're wearing, you must be
one of those mentioned. What do you mean you got
doughnut shows? We'll skip that. Assuming you didn't kill him,
you must have had some reason for showing up here
at night.

Speaker 19 (02:17:17):
What was it?

Speaker 37 (02:17:18):
Oh?

Speaker 52 (02:17:18):
I only wanted to Did you hear that comes out?

Speaker 18 (02:17:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:17:22):
I get the light.

Speaker 52 (02:17:23):
Yeah, there on the terrace something moved down there.

Speaker 18 (02:17:27):
Going out to see what it is and listen. There's
no such thing as welcome visitor, just now, baby, So
you stay here, understand, and don't budge. I felt my
way out the door down the stone steps started where
we'd seen a movement along the wall at the far
end of the terrace, but there was no sound. Nothing moment,
whoever it made the noise had gotten away clean. So
I headed back to the house and that's when I
heard it. I started after my shin against the first

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rock out and stopped me cold. Instead, I I listened
to her drive away, called myself a few unpleasant names,
and concluded that Lynn Horton or whatever her name was,
had been quite as scared as she acted. After I
limped inside, turned on the light, and reached for the phone,
I stopped at the word Nora above a pretty girl's

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picture on a newspaper clipping sticking out of Paul niles pocket.
He carried a New York date line and said that
Nora Kirby, convicted a man slaughter in a traffic accident,
had been released after serving three years. At the bottom
of the story, scrawled and ink was the message, three
years for something I didn't do, to get something I
couldn't have. It's not fair, Paul.

Speaker 2 (02:18:30):
I'll be seeing you.

Speaker 18 (02:18:31):
We'll signed Nora. I picked up the phone again, and
a few minutes later the technical Lieutenant Matthew's at Homicide
was up to date.

Speaker 12 (02:18:39):
Okay, I'll be right out now.

Speaker 21 (02:18:40):
You say, this girl, Laura Kirby did Itmorrow.

Speaker 18 (02:18:43):
I said, Paul Niles was expecting her to, and it
looks like she did. They looked as another angle though.
The woman who just beat it away from here I
want to call herself Lynn Barkin. Yeah, yeah, that somebody
else that was snooping around outside too.

Speaker 12 (02:18:56):
Who also got away from you?

Speaker 2 (02:18:58):
You're doing real.

Speaker 18 (02:19:00):
Oh no, wait a minute, when do you see this joint?
You'll understand. Besides, I'm in this for curiosity only. Now
my paycheck got murdered. Remember Furthermore, I yo, you never
have matches when I want him? What I said, I'm
looking for some matches. No, there's some hmm, the strangest
matches I have ever seen.

Speaker 2 (02:19:21):
Well, what about them?

Speaker 18 (02:19:22):
I got a velvet cover on him?

Speaker 19 (02:19:24):
So what a velvet book of matches?

Speaker 18 (02:19:27):
Hey, hey, Matthews, do you ever hear the name Negrotto?

Speaker 12 (02:19:31):
Yeah? Sure, able Negrato.

Speaker 49 (02:19:33):
It's a big name in the music publishing business, made
most of his fortunate on records.

Speaker 2 (02:19:37):
What is in Beverly Hills?

Speaker 18 (02:19:39):
You know, I got a dandy hunch. I'm gonna go
have a talk with mister Negratto.

Speaker 78 (02:19:43):
Lieutenant Okay, on one condition, be careful what you say, Marlow,
and keep in touch.

Speaker 18 (02:20:03):
Good evening. You aren't mister Negrotto, No I'm not. I'm
Garrett Horton. Miss Negratto is busy Horton. Yeah, something wrong
with that. No. Oh, it's a more common name than
I suspected. That's all. Will you tell mister Negrotto, I'd
like to see him for a few minutes on an
urgent matter. Name is marlow Perhaps you.

Speaker 50 (02:20:21):
Didn't understand me, mister Negrato and I are in the
middle of a business conference.

Speaker 18 (02:20:24):
We can't be disturbed. No, you can't be de serided. Well, look,
mister Horton. A man was murdered tonight, and one trail
leads from the corps straight to this front door. And
the Negrotto talks to me here now or later at
police headquarters you decide, Well, that's where you feel.

Speaker 12 (02:20:36):
Come in.

Speaker 18 (02:20:37):
You an officer, not exactly, I'm a private detective. I
see well, tell me, tell me. He led the way
through what looked like the outer lobby of the Taj
Mahal and down a silk padded car to dore a
set of cab doors that would have fit any round
house in the country. And we walked in A man

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stepped on a stack of papers and with a pair
of eyes that belong on a shock. It is best
to look a hole from me, Horton introduced us. This
is mister Marlowe, private detective, mister Negrotto. I'm looking for
a girl named Norah Kirby. In connection with the murder
of one Paul Niles tonight. She either committed the murderer
knows who did because she was then saw it.

Speaker 12 (02:21:20):
And what exactly brings you to my house?

Speaker 18 (02:21:22):
Well, I found this book of matches near the door
of the dead man's studio. I think it's yours. It
is gone. Any idea how it got there?

Speaker 49 (02:21:30):
None?

Speaker 18 (02:21:31):
Whatever?

Speaker 49 (02:21:31):
And until you mentioned their names, I'd never heard of
either Nora Kirby or Paul Niles.

Speaker 18 (02:21:36):
How about you, mister Horton. No, I'm afraid not.

Speaker 78 (02:21:38):
Oh, here's my wife now, I'm sure you want to
give her the third degree too. Just a moment, Lynn,
Lynn Darling, I'm in here, please, Lynn, this is mister Marlow.

Speaker 12 (02:21:51):
How do you do.

Speaker 52 (02:21:52):
Mister Marlow, I'm glad to know you.

Speaker 18 (02:21:54):
I'm sure thanks, I'm pleased to meet you.

Speaker 78 (02:21:57):
Missus Negrotto, your brother, and I have been trying to
convince Marvel here that we didn't commit murder tonight, but
he thinks we did because he found this book of
our matches near the corpse.

Speaker 2 (02:22:07):
Can you explain it, my dear?

Speaker 52 (02:22:08):
Why? No, I can't remember the man's.

Speaker 18 (02:22:11):
Name was Niles?

Speaker 11 (02:22:12):
Lynn?

Speaker 18 (02:22:12):
Paul Niles? Mean anything?

Speaker 21 (02:22:14):
No?

Speaker 52 (02:22:15):
Nothing.

Speaker 18 (02:22:15):
How about Nora Kirby.

Speaker 52 (02:22:17):
I don't think i've ever heard the name before.

Speaker 49 (02:22:19):
Well, Marrow, that would seem to take care of the
book of matches.

Speaker 18 (02:22:23):
Not completely. It was found at the house of the
dead man. Remember, we've had hundreds of these made up,
passed him out freely. I uh, I think you've taken
up quite enough of our time with this absurd business marvel.
So now I'll ask you to leave. I'll show you up.
Don't bother. I listen to grotto and listen closely. I've
been taking it easy so far. But somebody in this

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room is absolutely certain how those matches got out there.
I know that for a fact, and I'm a private detective.
Don't forget. So if you suddenly remember something that needs
talking over, it'll be in my office for one hour,
but not one single minute longer. Good night, all.

Speaker 75 (02:23:12):
In just a moment, the second act of Philip Marlowe.
But first, every Sunday afternoon, CBS brings you two outstanding
programs of music. Gems from the great composers played by
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(02:23:35):
both the Sympinet and Coroliers this Sunday afternoon on most
of these same CBS stations. Now, with our star Gerald Moore,
we return to the second act of Philip Marlowe and
Tonight's story, The Lady Killer.

Speaker 18 (02:23:55):
When I started back from my office on Cowinga, I
figured that there was an even chance of the double
talker left in my weight might stack up in the
center of the Negrotto living room floor like so much dynamite, which,
if touched off by the book of matches, could cause
an explosion that would jar loose a few facts about
the lives and loves of the late Paul Niles, facts
that would make finding Nora Kirby and clearly understanding her

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motives something less than impossible. And twenty minutes later, when
I was slouched behind my desk and listening to the
staccato report of a pair of high heels clicking sharply
toward my door, I had a hunch that my theory
of violent detonation was not just wishful thinking. When the
door opened without the formality of the knock that hunch
turned a sure thing because the visitor was the not

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quite lady call Lynn, mister moo, and before she could
speak her peace to phone rang and'm sure thing graduated
the cinch. It was another Negrotto, the one named dabiler Mano.

Speaker 49 (02:24:47):
I suppose it's stupid nothing mean to make this call,
but frankly your visit here has left me curious.

Speaker 18 (02:24:52):
You have a minute, yeah, I think, so hold a while.
We don't need a light win in a second, Missus Negreta.

Speaker 52 (02:24:58):
All right, but what I have to say is important
to make it fast.

Speaker 18 (02:25:01):
Just as fast as I can. I don't think your
husband as much as say to me.

Speaker 52 (02:25:06):
That people you're talking?

Speaker 18 (02:25:07):
Yeah, I do you mind handing me those matches now?
Thanks hello, Sorry to have kept you waiting, mister Negratto.
I never seemed to be able to hang out of matches.

Speaker 2 (02:25:19):
That's hot.

Speaker 21 (02:25:20):
You apparently did all right on that score to night model.

Speaker 18 (02:25:22):
The reason for the call more or less mollow.

Speaker 49 (02:25:26):
You know as well as I do that servants kid,
anyone who's ever been in my home could have left
those matches near the body of that Paul Niles.

Speaker 18 (02:25:33):
It's right, mister Negrotto. Anybody which also includes you, your wife,
your brother in law and others in the family are
still the meat. What's your point? Plaise them in a hurry.

Speaker 49 (02:25:41):
Very well, Mano, I call.

Speaker 19 (02:25:44):
To find out if you're holding anything back from me.

Speaker 49 (02:25:46):
If this murder concerns that Negrotto is beyond the occurrence
of those matches.

Speaker 18 (02:25:50):
I can't say because there is something, because I don't
know anything else.

Speaker 49 (02:25:55):
Uh No, there is bad, yes, Mono, there is uh.
To be honest, I admire that when you handle a situation.
What's your address? I may have worked for you soon.

Speaker 18 (02:26:07):
Tonight, thanks mister Negrato, but I don't think I'll be available,
at least not till I could throw the job I'm on,
which is what handling dynamite while I play with books
of matches. Good night, sir.

Speaker 52 (02:26:21):
What did he want now?

Speaker 18 (02:26:23):
Among other things, an express desire to hire me to
do what I put on you. I suppose he didn't say,
what makes you think that's what he wanted? Addition, missus Negrado,
a rich old husband, a beautiful but bored young wife,
and an unemployed A Donnis always had up the same way. Also,
you were here in my office just about clinches things
not to mention your presence near the corpse, the key

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you used.

Speaker 52 (02:26:44):
And I've heard enough Marlo.

Speaker 38 (02:26:46):
Look, I didn't want to get mixed up with Paul.
I couldn't help myself. I swear I couldn't. He was different, Marlow, handsome,
more charm than I'd never known in anyone.

Speaker 18 (02:26:57):
Yeah, real, lady, killer, I know what do you got?

Speaker 38 (02:27:00):
Just this, I'll pay you any price your name only.
Don't tell Able that I had anything to do with Niles.
He's a jealous man, Marlow, insanely jealous.

Speaker 18 (02:27:09):
If he knew about us, he kill Missus Negrato. I
don't know, Marlow, what do you want right now? Everything
you know about Nora Kirby, but I've.

Speaker 52 (02:27:21):
Never heard of her before to night. No, I'm not,
it's the truth. No, Now, what do you want?

Speaker 18 (02:27:28):
Nothing? Good nights?

Speaker 52 (02:27:32):
You mean you won't say anything? Oh mylloy, I don't
know how to thank you.

Speaker 18 (02:27:37):
Don't try. Also, don't get mixed up about me, baby.
The fact that I won't blackmail you, it doesn't mean
I don't like you. And the door, Missus Negrado, leave
it open on your way out, will you? I'm expecting
another visitor. No, my husband no, just another man. He
ain't a man on a triumphant. I once left some
dynamite with I won't bother explaining that. Goodbye, missus Negrato.

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M mm hm you a great, big, beautiful ah my name,
mister Horton. I've been waiting for you. Why, mister Morrow.

Speaker 12 (02:28:12):
Something I said or didn't.

Speaker 18 (02:28:14):
Say at the house. Not exactly. It's more a matter
of intuition, high explosives, and the fact that both your
brother in law and sister have already paid their respects.
What can I do for you? I'm not at all
sure the first time.

Speaker 50 (02:28:26):
I'm only here because I noticed something very strange about
the way my sister looked at you when you spoke
of the murder of this Paul Niles, when she left
the house shortly after you, that I followed.

Speaker 18 (02:28:35):
Her here, All of which makes the next question, why,
mister Horton.

Speaker 50 (02:28:38):
Because I don't trust her, and more important, every penny
I own is tied up in a business venture of
mine that her husband is backing. She originally met Abel
through me, and if she should in some way be
in trouble, the kind of trouble that her husband wouldn't
put up with, I might suffer for it in the
long run, right along with her.

Speaker 18 (02:28:55):
Ah huh, and by the trouble, mister Horton, you're referring
to something specific. I am, Lynn has had a.

Speaker 50 (02:29:01):
Very uh, well, very mixed up background, wellw so it's
entirely feasible that in some way she's connected with this
Nora you spoke of who killed Paul Niles.

Speaker 18 (02:29:10):
You mean, as an accomplice or even as accessory before
or after the fact. Pretty thoughts about your own system,
which I can't help. I doubt that you have anything
to worry about, mister Horton. However, I will say this
that if Nora Kirby hadn't gotten a Paul Niles sooner
or lady would have had plenty to worry about. You mean,
I mean that now's a great time you had to
go home and sit on your investment. All is well,

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mister Horton for the time being. A moment after Houghton
left the office, I came to the hollow conclusion that
although my little bombshell had exploded on schedule, damages had
been light and a jot loose, neither fact nor fancy
about the late Paul Niles, and much less about the
elusiveness Norah Kirby. So my next move had to be

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a second trip to having either del sall in or
report the detective Lieutenant Matthews, which is what I was
about to do when it came from someplace outside. Long
I ran the length of the carter outside my door
and bellowed down the single fighter stairs to the street.
Wearing the half light of a distant lamp post. I
saw the shadowed figure of a girl slipped behind my

(02:30:13):
cart and tore the store front nearby. I started after
her and stopped at a noise behind me, which was
a full mistake.

Speaker 22 (02:30:27):
Oh, come on, honey, for yourself together.

Speaker 18 (02:30:34):
You're the one who screamed.

Speaker 15 (02:30:36):
Screamed, honey, you have got it.

Speaker 52 (02:30:38):
Dad, listen, this is just silly. Hello, relaxed, Honey. You're
lucky your cop didn't come along first.

Speaker 15 (02:30:45):
Being drunk is one thing, the DTS is something else.

Speaker 55 (02:30:48):
I know last year I was in the same shape
and it took me three months.

Speaker 18 (02:30:52):
Wait a minute, holdly, will you look. I was slugg
and I slipped and Mickey sum honest slugged honest. If
you don't mind giving me a hand, I'll get up.

Speaker 15 (02:31:01):
Ooh honey, help you.

Speaker 62 (02:31:05):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 52 (02:31:06):
I figured you're all wrong.

Speaker 55 (02:31:07):
I never thought you was slug any idea.

Speaker 22 (02:31:09):
Who done it?

Speaker 49 (02:31:10):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (02:31:10):
No, look tell me didn't you see anything before you
found me? I mean, didn't every girl screams here on
a way, nothing at all?

Speaker 15 (02:31:17):
Oh, honey, you must have been out longer and you thought, lady, hey, hey, look.

Speaker 32 (02:31:22):
This this card.

Speaker 46 (02:31:23):
You're on the crud?

Speaker 18 (02:31:24):
Eh?

Speaker 46 (02:31:25):
What's your name?

Speaker 51 (02:31:26):
Honey?

Speaker 18 (02:31:26):
Love mallow?

Speaker 11 (02:31:27):
Why?

Speaker 2 (02:31:28):
I'll tell you why.

Speaker 15 (02:31:29):
I'll tell you more than that. You know who slugged
your honey?

Speaker 79 (02:31:31):
A polite guy, A very polite guy who left this
card you're engraved in all Paul Niles know't it?

Speaker 18 (02:31:37):
I used to? It won't work, sweets. Niles gave me
that card earlier the night must have dropped it just now. Also,
Niles is dead, and that you and what brag of
that card? Darren pencil? Give me that Woody Gray's Motel
ten hundred ten a Boulevard Bongow nine. Sweetheart, I may
have something good here about who slugged you, better than that,
about who killed Niles and where she could be found.

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I love, Here's fire for your trouble, and bless you.
As I piled into my car, I knew that putting
Nile's conversation piece about having just come from Nora's place
when he first met me, together with the address on
the back of his card, was taking a lot for granted,
but I sold myself to playing a long shot was
better than not betting on anything at all, and I
kept driving fast. When I came to a stop away

(02:32:21):
from the place, which was run down, spread out in quiet,
I had a feeling that what I had earmarked long
shot was quickly moving up to even money, And when
I was standing next to the motel Bungalow mark nine,
that feeling became fact because inside, and piled in an
awkward heap on the floor, there was a still fall
of the girl, the newspaper clipping it later with Nora Kirby,
there was another full second before I realized something even

(02:32:42):
more important. On a hot night in August, there wasn't
a single window open, and Nora Kirby was headed close
to a guess heater that was on but showed no flame.
I picked up a stone at my feet, took one
deep breath, and then crashed the pane of glass, unlocked
the window, and got inside over the girl, who I
figured it was taking that hasty way out of a
murder that she no doubt had a very personal reason
to commit. I stopped figuring when I was kneeling next

(02:33:05):
to her. I knew that she was still alive, and
but a man gripping a forty five in his hand,
it just opened the front door.

Speaker 50 (02:33:11):
Don't make another move, Marlow, I'll kill you.

Speaker 18 (02:33:15):
Well, comes a switch brother in law, Garrett Houghton. I
never would have guessed.

Speaker 50 (02:33:20):
You wouldn't have had to try if he kept your
nose clean.

Speaker 18 (02:33:23):
Now from why so she can die as a suicide,
which the police will chalk off is logical, since she's
already wanted for murder that you know doubt committed.

Speaker 50 (02:33:32):
Exactly murder I committed because there isn't anything worse one
can do to a blackmailer.

Speaker 18 (02:33:37):
So that's it, Niles, Lady killer was blackmailing. You're a sister.
You found out and killed him before it could cause
too much trouble, family trouble. It would end up hurting
the good thing you've got with husband Abel Hunh.

Speaker 12 (02:33:48):
No, shut up and get away from it.

Speaker 1 (02:33:50):
We're going outside.

Speaker 18 (02:33:50):
You're kidding, Marlow.

Speaker 12 (02:33:52):
Marlow, I'll shoot you.

Speaker 16 (02:33:53):
If you don't start walking.

Speaker 18 (02:33:54):
You're still kidding, but you can't kill me without killing yourself.
This room is jammed. Well, the gash you turned on
after you brought her in here unconscious, after sapted her
outside of my place because she was on her way
to see me and tell me that you would murdered Niles.
The flash from that gun in your hand port and
will blow us all the bits they said, brother, for you,
it's all and nothing at all. Go on, shoot, go on,

(02:34:15):
try it, try it.

Speaker 46 (02:34:32):
Doctor Gorson, Doctor Gorson, please report to.

Speaker 12 (02:34:37):
You can see miss Kirby now, mister Marlow. She's going
to be all right, but hold her down to a
few minutes.

Speaker 18 (02:34:43):
All right, doctor, just a few minutes. Hello, Norah, it's
been a long time getting together.

Speaker 8 (02:34:49):
Huh yeah, but not through any fall.

Speaker 37 (02:34:51):
In mind, mister Marlow.

Speaker 77 (02:34:52):
I followed you from the moment you left Paul's place,
but I wanted to see you alone, so I kept
waiting for my chance.

Speaker 18 (02:35:00):
Which was canceled out when Horton spotted you after he
left my office. He had learned to run fast, honey.
He had to take time to knock me out, and
still he caught up with him.

Speaker 77 (02:35:08):
So did you I'm very glad to say, even though
you probably weren't trying to save me at.

Speaker 8 (02:35:14):
The time, were you?

Speaker 18 (02:35:16):
Frankly, honey, Until Horton stepped back into that bungalow to
keep me from interfering with things, I figured.

Speaker 2 (02:35:20):
You were it irl.

Speaker 77 (02:35:23):
If Paul hadn't been killed us before I got to him,
at least I had to hit him with something hard.

Speaker 18 (02:35:28):
I had motive, you know, yeah, I read all about it.
Three years in prison for something he didn't do. But
tell me, if Niles framed you and you knew it,
why didn't you go to the police. He couldn't have
been that irresistible, but he was mortal and more.

Speaker 77 (02:35:46):
As a matter of fact, he didn't frame me in
the first place. I had my own idea. You see,
Paul was driving the car when we we had that accident.

Speaker 2 (02:35:53):
Three years ago, not me.

Speaker 18 (02:35:55):
You switch places.

Speaker 77 (02:35:56):
Well, why we already had his license revoked for reckless driving.
They just send him away for ten years at least,
as against my three.

Speaker 52 (02:36:07):
We better not at the time.

Speaker 77 (02:36:08):
I couldn't think of waiting that long for him.

Speaker 18 (02:36:12):
No, hello, Matthews, we checked the story.

Speaker 80 (02:36:16):
It's sure enough, even if it's the kind of thing
we're not supposed to be able to understand.

Speaker 77 (02:36:22):
Paul was strictly a lady killer.

Speaker 18 (02:36:24):
I remember, Yeah, so he was. Well, I guess that
ties everything in.

Speaker 80 (02:36:27):
Huh quite so, I've just finished taking a statement from Horton.
There's one more question. Never made you so sure that
in a room half filled with gas, a gun exploding
would blow everything up?

Speaker 18 (02:36:37):
Oh well, that's simple, I I I you what, well,
I figured you, see, I I thought that, Uh yeah, Well,
good night, miss Kirby, good night, mister Mars. So long, lieutenant,
it's so long, lucky. By the time I got back

(02:37:06):
to the quiet of my apartment on Franklin was a
little better than two in the am. As I sank
into an easy chair without bothering to turn on the lights,
I realized that at the moment, I was tired, tired
of people that troubles, the petty little jealousies, lady killer

(02:37:27):
that makes one man a lady killer in another. Oh well,
I little last cigarette, and I thought about the Mountain
of Trouble, a classic Grecian profile had built for Paul Niles.
I stopped thinking when the flare of the match in
my hands showed in the mirror opposite me the mirror
that also reflected the face of the guy holding the match.

(02:37:48):
It was a long way from being in Adonis. In fact,
he was slightly on the mud fence side, and glad
of it.

Speaker 75 (02:38:19):
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond, Chandler's most
famous character and Crime's most deadly enemy, starred Gerald Moore
and are produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Script is
by Meldon la Robert Mitchell, and Gene Levitt. Featured in
the cast were Gene Bates, Paul Dubov, Ted Von Elks
and Morrison, Don Randolph, and Edmund McDonald.

Speaker 18 (02:38:41):
The special music is by Richard rand.

Speaker 75 (02:38:47):
He shun't be with us again next week, when Philip Marlowe.

Speaker 18 (02:38:50):
Says, it started with a man on trial for his
life and an a one citizen eager to testify. But
there it was interrupted, And it wasn't until I found
a corpse in a bubbling bath, gun play in the woods,
and lots of blackmail that the real ego witness had
a chance to talk.

Speaker 75 (02:39:22):
It will be New Orleans, City of Romance and Drama,
which sends its detectives into action on Gangbusters tonight. The
Superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department himself will narrate
Gangbuster's amazing story, the Case of the Sledgehammer. Side, you'll
also find Basil Rathbone engaged in another of his exciting
exotic mysteries, so be sure to hear them on most

(02:39:42):
of these same CBS stations, Gangbusters and Basil Rathbone's newest
mystery adventure. In fact, stay tuned right now for the
Gangbuster's program. Yes, it follows immediately on most of these
same stations. This is Roy Rowan speaking. There's the cb
as the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Speaker 57 (02:40:15):
The qlide Baty Show the world's greatest wild animal trainer
Clyde Betty with another exciting story from his brilliant career.
This Master of the Big Cats captures ferocious jungle beasts
and trains them to perform under the big Top in

(02:40:36):
the circus, where they're always thrilled, action and danger. Hundreds
of dramatic behind the scenes adventures are all part of
the Clyde Betty story.

Speaker 12 (02:40:48):
Here is the story of Land of the Giants.

Speaker 37 (02:40:57):
Oh God, doesn't that man feel good?

Speaker 12 (02:41:00):
Well, it's probably the only one in Salisbury. Enjoy it
while you can't.

Speaker 34 (02:41:04):
I wish we could take it on our safari with this.

Speaker 12 (02:41:07):
What would we use for electricity?

Speaker 11 (02:41:08):
Fireflies made?

Speaker 37 (02:41:09):
Oh, darling, that's silly.

Speaker 12 (02:41:11):
Oh speaking of flies, is one on your cheek? Brush
it off?

Speaker 49 (02:41:14):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (02:41:15):
Too much trouble, honey, I said, brush.

Speaker 51 (02:41:17):
It off, oh, darling, for what I am about to do?

Speaker 26 (02:41:20):
Forgive me?

Speaker 12 (02:41:21):
Got them?

Speaker 37 (02:41:23):
You struck me?

Speaker 12 (02:41:24):
You turn right. I struck you, and I warn you
I'll do it again if you keep on being careless
about insects.

Speaker 28 (02:41:29):
Well, it's just a little old house fly, uh huh?

Speaker 12 (02:41:32):
Not Taking another look, you see the brownish color, the
modeled markings, the long prevossis yes, notice.

Speaker 37 (02:41:38):
A size, Oh, it is larger than a house fly
like that.

Speaker 12 (02:41:41):
This little beauty, my dear, is Glossina morsitans.

Speaker 37 (02:41:45):
Heaven sounds hot.

Speaker 12 (02:41:46):
It is that fella could have put you to sleep
for a long long time, maybe forever.

Speaker 37 (02:41:51):
Oh shaw, A little old fly couldn't do that.

Speaker 12 (02:41:54):
A little old shatzi fly couldn't.

Speaker 7 (02:41:56):
I thought you've said it was a glossy whatever you
call it, gloss sena morsitans, that's the same thing.

Speaker 37 (02:42:02):
Well, how can I put you to sleep?

Speaker 12 (02:42:03):
They transmit tripanasomes.

Speaker 37 (02:42:05):
Thank you, doctor Kildare they're bugs.

Speaker 12 (02:42:08):
It caused a nasty little disease called sleeping sickness.

Speaker 37 (02:42:11):
Hmmm. And I thought all I had to worry about
were wild beasts and cannibals and things like that.

Speaker 12 (02:42:17):
In Rhodesia, you worry about satsi flies. And don't you
forget that?

Speaker 2 (02:42:21):
Yes, Lord and Master, I don't want to go around.

Speaker 12 (02:42:23):
Slapping your lovely face.

Speaker 37 (02:42:24):
All the time because you love me, Lord and Master.

Speaker 12 (02:42:28):
No turtle dove, because it stings my hands.

Speaker 37 (02:42:31):
Clyde baby, And.

Speaker 57 (02:42:47):
Now back to Clyde Baty's adventure entitled Land of the Giant.

Speaker 21 (02:43:00):
In the moment, mister Beatty, Yes I'm Beatty. I'm Stanley Roberts.
I'm sorry if I disturb you, not at all. I
wish to speak with you about something rather urgent. Well,
then come in, come on in. Uh, this is missus
Batty Harriet, mister Stanley Roberts.

Speaker 37 (02:43:17):
Oh won't you sit down? O? Well, i'll leave your business.

Speaker 21 (02:43:22):
Oh no, don't go, Missus Batty. What I have to
say concerns.

Speaker 24 (02:43:25):
Both of you.

Speaker 37 (02:43:25):
Well, let me fix you a nice drink. It's so
terribly hot.

Speaker 21 (02:43:29):
I are very kind.

Speaker 12 (02:43:30):
We're not quite used to this kind of climb. Can
one ever get used to it?

Speaker 37 (02:43:35):
Here you are, sir, can I fashion you as card?

Speaker 2 (02:43:37):
No?

Speaker 12 (02:43:38):
Thanks to you?

Speaker 11 (02:43:38):
This is fine.

Speaker 21 (02:43:40):
Well, now what can we do for you, mister Robits Well,
knowing what sort of a man you are, mister Betty,
I'll be a very direct if you don't mind for good.
I understand you're about to make a safari into northern Rhodesia.

Speaker 51 (02:43:50):
That's right.

Speaker 12 (02:43:51):
We intend to push off across western Mozambique and into
nyasaland we'll probably come back down the Luangua, may even
push on to Victoria Falls.

Speaker 21 (02:43:59):
Well, may I ask when you're leaving Salisbury.

Speaker 12 (02:44:01):
As soon as I've selected the guide.

Speaker 21 (02:44:03):
I know I'm presuming, mister Baty, but I wish to
be considered for that post.

Speaker 12 (02:44:07):
Are you a professional guide?

Speaker 15 (02:44:08):
No?

Speaker 6 (02:44:09):
I am not.

Speaker 21 (02:44:10):
Well, but believe me, sir, I know every interestize Africa
from Durban to the Tongue Anika.

Speaker 12 (02:44:14):
Well, you see, Robert, Sir, A couple of men I
have hired for other expeditions. They'll be here in Salisbury
next week. I feel they should be considered first for
the job.

Speaker 21 (02:44:23):
But you don't understand I don't wish to be hired.
You'll not have to pay me at all. I'd simply
wish to guide your expedition to Karongar.

Speaker 12 (02:44:30):
Did I say we were going to Coranga?

Speaker 21 (02:44:32):
No, But if you go north across nyassaland Karragar would
be the logical place for your party to reach the
Luangwoi River.

Speaker 12 (02:44:38):
Well, evidently you have a reason for going to Coranga,
mister Robins. Yes, may I ask what it is? Yes?

Speaker 21 (02:44:43):
Of course I hope to find my brother, or at
least a tracer your brother. Yes, some three years ago,
my brother returned from a trip into the Tanganika territory
and almost immediately he came down with a serious siege
of sleeping sickness. Well, I nursed him through it, but
before he was complete to recovered, he disappeared and he
hasn't been heard of since.

Speaker 12 (02:45:03):
You think he's gone back to the Tanganyika territory.

Speaker 2 (02:45:05):
Yes?

Speaker 21 (02:45:05):
Why what things he said? During his convalescence He he
raved about a fortune in gold and diamonds he discovered.

Speaker 12 (02:45:13):
He swore he'd returned to recover it. Did he tell
you where he'd found this fortune? No? Then what makes
you think.

Speaker 21 (02:45:19):
It's Karnga Because he mentioned the Wambasi.

Speaker 12 (02:45:22):
Wambasi I don't think I've heard of that tribe.

Speaker 21 (02:45:25):
But the tribe is obscure, but that they exist, time said.

Speaker 12 (02:45:28):
How can you tell them from the other natives in
the Tanganyika.

Speaker 21 (02:45:31):
Territory, Because, mister petd the Wambasi warriors are seven feet tall.

Speaker 12 (02:45:43):
Robert's declaration that there were natives in the region of
Karanga that were seven feet tall amazed me. I checked
with the authorities in Salisbury and found the Englishman was
speaking the truth. There was a tribe small in numbers,
but extremely savage, who were giants among the native tribes
of South Africa, the one Bassi, only to be found
in the Tanganyika territory near Karaga. A sixth sense told

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me not to retain Roberts to guide our safari, but
his story about locating his lost brother somehow touched me
and I did agree to take Roberts along with us.

Speaker 81 (02:46:17):
Tide tied can't be stopped for a few minutes.

Speaker 12 (02:46:23):
Of course, Honey, Roberts has set a very fast paces
you fast if you ask me, Oh, Roberts, Roberts, hold up,
let's stop a bit.

Speaker 22 (02:46:30):
Oh.

Speaker 21 (02:46:30):
I'm sorry, mister Betty, I'm prefraard. I have set too
steep apace, m that's for sure. After all, the original
purpose of this safari it was pleasure. Oh please forgive me.
It's just my anxiety about my brother. It makes me
want to push on so rapidly.

Speaker 12 (02:46:47):
I have noticed our porters and gun bearers have been
a bit reluctant to continue. What does that mean?

Speaker 21 (02:46:52):
Well, they're frightened. Somehow they've learned to We've set out
for the Wae Bassi country.

Speaker 12 (02:46:55):
Look, Roberts, I agreed to take you along on this safari,
but if there's a chance that our natives won't stick
along with us, I'd rather not take the chance of
being stranded in country like this.

Speaker 21 (02:47:06):
I'm afraid we've gone too far to turn back.

Speaker 12 (02:47:08):
Nonis to bet it? What do you mean?

Speaker 5 (02:47:09):
Listen?

Speaker 21 (02:47:11):
But those native drums, Yes, that's why our betters are upset.
Those are one Betsy drum Way.

Speaker 11 (02:47:17):
I don't like this, rabbits, but.

Speaker 12 (02:47:18):
Let me talk to the natives.

Speaker 21 (02:47:19):
I think I can keep them in light.

Speaker 37 (02:47:21):
Right, those drums they frighten me.

Speaker 12 (02:47:24):
Just a jungle telegraph, you, I.

Speaker 37 (02:47:26):
Know, but somehow they sounds ominous.

Speaker 12 (02:47:28):
Don't worry, Everything'll be all right.

Speaker 2 (02:47:30):
Clyde.

Speaker 37 (02:47:31):
Yes, I'm worried about Stanley Roberts. What do you mean
haven't you noticed the change in him?

Speaker 12 (02:47:36):
Well, he seems to be a bit more eager now
that we've gotten so close to the place where he
thinks his brother may be found.

Speaker 28 (02:47:42):
I don't think his.

Speaker 37 (02:47:43):
Brother is his first concern, Clide, What makes you say that?

Speaker 15 (02:47:46):
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 37 (02:47:47):
Maybe it's just a hunch, but I just don't trust.

Speaker 12 (02:47:50):
I checked on him back in Salisbury. Everything he said
has been verified.

Speaker 37 (02:47:54):
Still I feel there's something wrong with it.

Speaker 12 (02:47:56):
Those drums have disturbed your Harriet. Don't let yourself imagine.

Speaker 37 (02:47:59):
Things the less God, I don't trust him.

Speaker 12 (02:48:01):
Roberts and his brother from a very well known family
in England. They've lived many years here in South Africa.

Speaker 37 (02:48:06):
Yes, but if you ask yourself why, maybe they like
it here. I heard they were sent out here for
their family to get them out.

Speaker 12 (02:48:12):
Of England just because Mama and Papa Roberts didn't want
a couple of wild boys cluttering up their London drawing room.
Doesn't make him criminals, no.

Speaker 37 (02:48:20):
But still I'm worried.

Speaker 81 (02:48:21):
Oh now, Harriet, I'm convinced that Stanley Roberts has some
ulterior purpose beyond locating his missing brother.

Speaker 12 (02:48:27):
Well why do you say that.

Speaker 81 (02:48:28):
Well, I've heard that no love has been lost between them.
They've constantly been at odds with one another. It doesn't
seem reasonable that.

Speaker 37 (02:48:35):
Suddenly Stanley should be so concerned with his brother's welfare.

Speaker 12 (02:48:38):
After all, honey, blood is thicker than water.

Speaker 37 (02:48:40):
Yes, and diamonds and gold have severed many a family tie.

Speaker 12 (02:49:03):
Bady, wake up, fo h Roberts, what's wrong? I naed it.

Speaker 21 (02:49:11):
They've disappeared. What so I've just made the runs that
the campany have gone. They just faded off into the night.

Speaker 12 (02:49:16):
Well that's a fine state of affairs.

Speaker 5 (02:49:18):
Well, I was afraid of this.

Speaker 12 (02:49:20):
And why did you let us get this far into
the region of the one? Bossy?

Speaker 21 (02:49:23):
Well, I've told you I want to find my brother.

Speaker 12 (02:49:24):
Why why do you want to find your brother? I
don't like it.

Speaker 21 (02:49:27):
Told mister Baty, are you accusing me?

Speaker 12 (02:49:29):
I'm not accusing you of anything. I'm simply asking you
a question. But surely you don't think that I've listened. Rabbits.

Speaker 43 (02:49:34):
All I know is that you've gotten my wife and
me in a very serious predicament. Without our porters, there
will be plenty tough to get out of here as guide.

Speaker 12 (02:49:41):
To this afire. You should have foreseen this possibility. I did,
You did, and yet you risked our life.

Speaker 5 (02:49:45):
Well, there was a great deal.

Speaker 21 (02:49:46):
Let's think.

Speaker 12 (02:49:47):
Are you referring to your brother or the golden diamonds?

Speaker 21 (02:49:50):
Well, I guess there's no good carrying on a pretense.
The well being of my brother means very little to me,
certainly not enough to risk my life.

Speaker 12 (02:49:59):
What a sucker I was to fall for your story.

Speaker 21 (02:50:01):
You see, I couldn't have come up with a cash
necessary to finance a safari out here. Your arrival in
Salisbury was very opportune on a smash you or a pope,
so that I'm afraid it would do better little good
in this situation. Hu, it seems if my little plan
is backfired. It appears I'm in as much dangerous you
and your wife.

Speaker 12 (02:50:19):
If I didn't need you to guide us out of here,
i'd break you in two.

Speaker 21 (02:50:23):
Fortunately for me, you do require my knowledge of this country.
We're in the same boat, Betty. You couldn't hope to
get out without me.

Speaker 37 (02:50:30):
What happened?

Speaker 12 (02:50:31):
Your hunch about this character was right, Harriet. He's put
us on a spot. That's the natives.

Speaker 37 (02:50:35):
They've disappeared, disappeared. But why listen the drums, the jungle drums.

Speaker 12 (02:50:42):
Yeah, it's the One Bossi talking to one another.

Speaker 37 (02:50:45):
Closer, much closer than they were.

Speaker 12 (02:50:47):
That's why our natives have left us. They were frightened off.

Speaker 37 (02:50:50):
The One Bossi is such a terrible tribe of savages.

Speaker 12 (02:50:53):
Evidently, as you already know, they're giants, most of them
as tall as seven feet. All the other native tribes
are afraid of them.

Speaker 37 (02:50:58):
Well, just because they're tad, does that mean they're more
savage than other tribes?

Speaker 21 (02:51:02):
Well, I shouldn't count on that, missus Batty. They are
a proud and individual race. Because of their size, they
feel themselves above all othernateds. They'll brooked no mingling with
others in this territory.

Speaker 12 (02:51:12):
Knowing all this, Roberts, how could you have been foolish
enough to bring.

Speaker 5 (02:51:15):
Us out here?

Speaker 12 (02:51:16):
You've forgotten my brother all Come off it, don't start
on that I'm out to save my brother routine again.
But you don't understand. I certainly don't. There must be
an awfully large amount of gold at Steak to make
a guy like you risk his neck.

Speaker 21 (02:51:27):
There is, and it's my brother who's going to save us.
What the sound of those drums, the wan Bassie are
getting more and more excited. It shouldn't be too long
until they pay us a visit, and then let's get
Ali here while they're still tired. There is no time, baby.
The van basier all around us by now.

Speaker 12 (02:51:42):
Well, I must admit for a guy with a character
like yours, you're very calm about all the Oh you
forget that.

Speaker 37 (02:51:47):
And he's British cheinaup boat chappy white tie for dinner or.

Speaker 12 (02:51:51):
That's not see uh oh, the drums have stopped. It's
like the quarterback's given the sick. Take this gun, Harriet,
you'd better draw yours, Roberts, I think the ball game's
about to start.

Speaker 1 (02:52:04):
Whatever you do, baby, don't shoot one of the Look.

Speaker 12 (02:52:06):
Mister, you can wait around for this missing brother of
yours to save you. But before my wife and I
wind up in a cannibal stupod, I'm gonna knock down
a few of those long, tall boys.

Speaker 37 (02:52:14):
Good look, oh, all around the clearing, Oh.

Speaker 12 (02:52:20):
Brother, look at the size of them. For heaven's sake, Baby,
don't fire at them.

Speaker 21 (02:52:25):
It wouldn't do any good than a hundreds of them.

Speaker 37 (02:52:27):
I see what you mean, Oh, Clyde, I've never seen
such tremendous men.

Speaker 2 (02:52:33):
What are we going to do?

Speaker 12 (02:52:35):
Well, my darling, we're already on our knees, so we'd
better start to pray.

Speaker 57 (02:53:03):
And now back to Clyde Bady's adventure.

Speaker 12 (02:53:06):
Land of the Giants. Harriet, Stanley Roberts and I watched
in fascinated amazement as the huge natives moved closer and
closer into the clearing. The light from our campfire glistened
on their giant, muscular bodies. I put my arm around

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Harriet drew.

Speaker 2 (02:53:30):
Her close to me.

Speaker 12 (02:53:32):
Roberts had lost all of his assurance. It's cup, beattie.

Speaker 21 (02:53:36):
Have you ever seen anything like them in your life?

Speaker 37 (02:53:39):
But?

Speaker 12 (02:53:40):
Brother, what a basketball team they make? What I'll skip
it strictly an American type joke.

Speaker 21 (02:53:45):
I'm afraid I've got to send her a bit of
a mess.

Speaker 12 (02:53:49):
I'm afraid you jolly well have old boy.

Speaker 21 (02:53:52):
We're done for baby, We're done for them.

Speaker 12 (02:53:56):
Kill shut up your fool. Maybe we can bluff them
out of there. Oh never no, but they don't torture
us that. In that case, it won't hurt to try.
You stop, stop where you are.

Speaker 52 (02:54:06):
You don't think they could understand.

Speaker 12 (02:54:07):
English, do you guind No, But they can understand the
sound of authority in a voice. Don't come closer. I
will have words with your leader.

Speaker 28 (02:54:16):
They've stopped.

Speaker 37 (02:54:17):
God, they've stopped.

Speaker 12 (02:54:19):
I know my own power. I better keep talking. If
you harm us, many men will come to destroy you.

Speaker 5 (02:54:26):
See.

Speaker 12 (02:54:27):
I put down my weapons. You do the same. Send
out your leader to make talk.

Speaker 37 (02:54:35):
They seem to be discussing what to do.

Speaker 15 (02:54:37):
Don't keep talking.

Speaker 37 (02:54:38):
I keep talking in that same tone of voice. Say
anything anything, Just talk sturned.

Speaker 12 (02:54:43):
Okay, here goes now look here port score and seven
years ago, our father has brought forth on this continent
a new nation, conceive the liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal. Oh, I say,
oh boy, is that a bit of rough your jabbering kit?

Speaker 37 (02:55:05):
Who did he speaking?

Speaker 33 (02:55:06):
George?

Speaker 11 (02:55:07):
George?

Speaker 12 (02:55:07):
It's you?

Speaker 51 (02:55:09):
Oh my god, thank God?

Speaker 11 (02:55:11):
What is this?

Speaker 12 (02:55:11):
He is my brother, George. He is the one passy leader.
Good Heaven.

Speaker 21 (02:55:15):
Stanley, What in the world are you doing here? I
was worried about you. I got mister Batty here to
make up as a fay. We came out to find you.

Speaker 12 (02:55:23):
Oh you might take it a baby, Yes, American. Yes,
and this is my wife. How do you do now?
What is this preposterous story? My dear brother is faddy.

Speaker 21 (02:55:33):
Oh no, believe me, George.

Speaker 51 (02:55:34):
I was worried, wasn't I.

Speaker 21 (02:55:36):
Mister Batty, you tell him, tell.

Speaker 12 (02:55:38):
Him how I came to you. My constituents are a
bit restless.

Speaker 1 (02:55:41):
They can't understand why I haven't given them the order
to cut to the pieces.

Speaker 12 (02:55:45):
Oh, don't worry, missus baby. I'll not let them harm you.
That is not until I determine what you're after.

Speaker 9 (02:55:52):
Bombay seeking here for bumbo wonder biga olga.

Speaker 56 (02:55:59):
Day.

Speaker 12 (02:56:00):
You must forgive me.

Speaker 21 (02:56:01):
The Wambassi are protesting all this palaver.

Speaker 1 (02:56:04):
I'm afraid I'll have to let them take you prisoner
and return you to their village for a council of war.

Speaker 12 (02:56:09):
Wamby nobody.

Speaker 30 (02:56:13):
Cry, I'm frightened.

Speaker 12 (02:56:15):
Don't be honey. Robert's brother can get us out of this,
I hope.

Speaker 44 (02:56:19):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (02:56:29):
Mister, and missus baby, I trust you slept well in
spite of our inadequate accommodation.

Speaker 12 (02:56:34):
This hut isn't exactly a summer resort.

Speaker 1 (02:56:37):
I'm sorry about the rough handling you received last night.
You see, I'm the only white man the Wambassi I've
ever seen. They consider me their leader. I fear you
may have come to endanger me.

Speaker 12 (02:56:48):
Strangely enough, we came out here under the misapprehension that
we were gonna save you, save me. Yes, your brother
was concerned about your welfare. He came his guide on
our safari to find you.

Speaker 2 (02:56:58):
Are very touchy.

Speaker 1 (02:56:59):
It seems i've do you have indeed, but then that's
nothing new for my dear brother.

Speaker 37 (02:57:03):
And you're not interested in getting back to civilization.

Speaker 12 (02:57:05):
Mister Robin, why didn't say that? Missus Matie?

Speaker 81 (02:57:08):
Well, in that case, why don't you just leave the
one bus? It's not that simple, aren't you their leader?
Won't they do anything you say?

Speaker 1 (02:57:13):
I am their leader, and they will do anything I say,
with the few exceptions. What exceptions will allow me to leave?

Speaker 12 (02:57:20):
For one?

Speaker 78 (02:57:21):
And for another?

Speaker 1 (02:57:22):
Allow me to interfere with one of their important tribal customers?

Speaker 18 (02:57:25):
And what is that?

Speaker 12 (02:57:26):
Execute all intruders?

Speaker 2 (02:57:28):
I see you mean you won't.

Speaker 37 (02:57:32):
Be able to stop them from killing hers.

Speaker 12 (02:57:33):
I regret to say that is the case. Well, you
were an intruder? How did you escape?

Speaker 21 (02:57:37):
Because I told you I was the first white man
they'd ever seen. They thought I might have magical powers,
and with a few simple tricks I convinced them.

Speaker 12 (02:57:44):
My head, why couldn't we do the same now?

Speaker 1 (02:57:47):
You see, when the Scouts came to me with the
information that three other whites had entered this territory, I
had to explain that you were evil.

Speaker 12 (02:57:54):
God evil gods? Well, why did you do that to
protect myself?

Speaker 1 (02:57:58):
After all, the only reason the one BOSSI made me
their leader was because to them I was unique.

Speaker 12 (02:58:03):
I couldn't chance you're altering that position, Roberts. There are
names for people like you. This is the doungo.

Speaker 24 (02:58:11):
Baby.

Speaker 12 (02:58:12):
You should know the first law of survival self preservation.
So you're gonna let Harriet, me and your own brother die.
I have no choice.

Speaker 37 (02:58:31):
I've been patting my set for our god. It's getting
on my nerves.

Speaker 12 (02:58:34):
Mind too, darling. But the longer they keep it up,
the longer we have to think it's some way out
of this mess. Oh cut that out, Roberts. This is
bad enough without you going to pieces. But they're torture.
If torture is to death, they will unless we think it.

Speaker 21 (02:58:48):
No, it's no use, it's.

Speaker 12 (02:58:51):
I said, shut up, don't let me again. Don't hit
me again, and keep quiet and let me think.

Speaker 58 (02:58:58):
God, it wouldn't be basically to break out of this
flimsy heart.

Speaker 37 (02:59:02):
Then maybe we could get away in the dark.

Speaker 12 (02:59:03):
I've thought of that, honey, but I'd only do that
as a last resortant. Let It leaves too many advantages
on their side.

Speaker 37 (02:59:08):
But if we get enough of a start before they
discover our escape.

Speaker 19 (02:59:11):
We might make you.

Speaker 12 (02:59:12):
No, No, there must be a better way. Wait a minute,
I think I got an angle. What is it? Tell
me quickly something about this whole setup's been bothering me.

Speaker 37 (02:59:25):
Everything about has been bothering me.

Speaker 12 (02:59:28):
George Roberts made a big point about self preservation being
the first law of the jungle. That's true, but in
his case, I wonder if there isn't another.

Speaker 11 (02:59:37):
A stronger motivation.

Speaker 34 (02:59:38):
I don't follow you, dear.

Speaker 12 (02:59:39):
I'm talking about greed, Harriet, greed.

Speaker 37 (02:59:42):
Olive, and I can see that both the Roberts brothers
have more than their share of that.

Speaker 12 (02:59:45):
Exactly behind all this, there's a little matter of wealth,
gold and diamonds.

Speaker 37 (02:59:49):
Oh, I've forgotten all about this.

Speaker 12 (02:59:51):
Sure, and so would most people in this situation. But
I'd bet my life that George Roberts hasn't.

Speaker 37 (02:59:56):
I agree, But how in the world could that help us?

Speaker 11 (02:59:59):
Darling got a plan.

Speaker 12 (03:00:01):
It's a long shot, a very long shot. I may
be wrong, and if I am, we're sunk. But we've
got to take a check. For hours, the wambassy continued
their frenzied dance while we waited. I carefully went over

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every detail of my plan with Harriet and Stanley Roberts,
who calmed down almost immediately when he realized we might
escape from our apparently hopeless predicament. Eventually we were taken
from the hut and brought to the scene of the
execution ceremony.

Speaker 37 (03:00:44):
Oh, Clyde, I'm so frightened. I think I'm going to scream.

Speaker 12 (03:00:48):
Easy now, honey, easy, it's waiting.

Speaker 37 (03:00:51):
I can't stand anymore.

Speaker 12 (03:00:52):
Honey, You've been wonderful. Now just hold out a few
minutes more.

Speaker 37 (03:00:55):
I don't see George Roberts. What if he doesn't appears.

Speaker 12 (03:00:58):
Over there in the shadows ling his ceremonial robes on him.

Speaker 37 (03:01:01):
Does that mean you're almost ready for It means.

Speaker 12 (03:01:04):
That in a few minutes we'll be on our way
out of here. Here they come, there's according Roberts, to
the place of honor. Now's our time to act. Roberts,
come over here made talking to me. Wonder you any good?
I told you there's nothing I can do for you.

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I think there is this step a little closer. Now,
don't make them over. I'll carve out your liver and
we'll put up that knife. I'll put it right through you.
If you don't do exactly as I says, see that
might fail. See it's sticking out of you if you
don't shut up. Now, that white bladed sword lying on
the sacrificial rock is at the execution weapon. Yes, but

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order one of the one bossy to bring it over
to you.

Speaker 18 (03:01:49):
Do it.

Speaker 12 (03:01:49):
I don't see you it Wanda. See how watch your game?
When you get that sword, order all your subjects to
stand back. Then you're to make a speech. The speech
I'm gonna dictate to you. This's insane. Here comes the
native with a sword. Take it and order him back.
Take it, Order him back, wandle twondle good. Now make

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a speech. Tell a one bossy that a special ceremony
is required to kill the evil one. What Tell them
only you their leader can successfully do the job, and
that it must be done in a special place far
from the village. By no means are they to follow
for to see the death throws are the evil ones?
Is taboo and you got you couldn't get away with it,
and then we'll die, but you'll die first. No, don't

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try anything with that sword or you'll feel his knife. Now, Roberts,
start talking and make it convincing on me. One's like
you are. If we can't class, it's almost daylight. Lets

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it traveled at least ten miles.

Speaker 37 (03:03:06):
When do you think it'll be safe to stop?

Speaker 12 (03:03:08):
I'm fhausted, sorry, darling. We had to push on as
fast as possible. No way of knowing how long the
one bossy would hold still for our gag. Hey, Roberts,
how far are we from Luangwua Bend deliveries just ahead
about a mile. Let's stop and rest a minute, Well, Roberts,
looks like our hoak's working so far. Yes, but now

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what when we get to the river, you're gonna take
us to the place you've hidden the boat boat? What
makes you think I know where to find a boat?
I am psychic, and from the look on your face,
I'd say I'm right too.

Speaker 37 (03:03:41):
Do you see mister Roberts.

Speaker 81 (03:03:42):
My husband has a faculty for reading human nature, and
I think he's done a good job of reading yours.

Speaker 12 (03:03:47):
I don't think you're the type who'd remain with a
tribe of savages when you had a fortune in gold
and dime once. How did you know about that? I
told him those husky one Bossy could do a lot
of digging for you, couldn't they. You must have quite
a treasure piled up by Now when were you planning
to make a break for civilization with it?

Speaker 1 (03:04:04):
As a matter of fact, Beatty, I was about to
leave the One Bossy when you three appeared.

Speaker 12 (03:04:09):
You thought we might make it difficult for you to
sneak off, And worse than that, you thought we might
want to share your treasure.

Speaker 21 (03:04:14):
You're so right, Beatty. My dear brother George would sacrifice
anyone to satisfy his greed, even me, his own brother, Yes,
even his own brother. Missus Batty and I are interested
in only one thing, getting out of Nyasaland you do
have a boat hidden near the river, don't you, Robert, Yes,
well let's go. The condition of our health indicates a

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voyage down the Luanghua River.

Speaker 12 (03:04:36):
Now just a moment, Oh, your treasure. We mustn't forget
your treasure precisely. How big is your boat? Just a
small dugout, not big enough for four passengers and the
treasure hardly? Then the treasure stays. But the treasure stays.
If you want it so badly, you can come back
and get it. But my wife and I are getting.

Speaker 49 (03:04:53):
Out of here.

Speaker 37 (03:04:54):
Self preservation, mister Roberts, self preservation.

Speaker 27 (03:05:10):
Hmmm, doesn't that fan feel good?

Speaker 46 (03:05:13):
Good?

Speaker 12 (03:05:14):
How, darling, I haven't seen George.

Speaker 37 (03:05:17):
Roberts since we've been back in Salisbury. You suppose he's gone.

Speaker 14 (03:05:20):
After his gold and diamond.

Speaker 37 (03:05:22):
Probably you think he'll ever be able to get the
treasure out?

Speaker 12 (03:05:26):
Frankly, I don't care.

Speaker 37 (03:05:27):
And if he manages, he'll have that brother of your
snipping around like a ham dug.

Speaker 12 (03:05:31):
Oooh that's for sure. Two of a kind, yes, two
of a kind that sometimes makes this old world a
miserable place to live in. Oh, honey, there's a fly
in your cheeks brushing off.

Speaker 37 (03:05:42):
Another TETSI fly. Ye, my mistake was in letting you
brush off that first one.

Speaker 12 (03:05:48):
Huh.

Speaker 37 (03:05:48):
Just think I could have slept through this whole adventure.

Speaker 12 (03:06:09):
Clyde will return with a preview of our next story
in just a moment. Here again there is Clyde Baty.
Many of the strangest attractions seen under the Big Top
have been imported from the continent. A few years ago.
Harriet and I have visited Europe during the off season

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and discovered Jacques and Roselle Dumont. But fate stepped in
on our return voyage and the Dumont's act was destined
never to be seen in America. You'll hear the whole
exciting story death in Stateroom B when next we meet.
All stories are based upon incidents in the career of

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the world famous Clyde Betty and the Clyde Betty Circus.
The Clyde Beatty Show was produced by Shirley Thomas. Land
of the Joint was written by Rtie Smith and Frank
Hart Kelsey. All names used were fictional, and any resemblance
to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. This is
a Commodore production.

Speaker 82 (03:07:46):
He is Auntie herself to show us how the old
school solves the teenage problem. In Nigel Niel's tale, Oh Mirror, Mirror,

(03:08:18):
Now there's no call to start, so Judith, it's only
your auntie. There they lie back in the bed. Now,
let me pull the covers round.

Speaker 83 (03:08:28):
You against the draft. Oh oh, and to sip of water.
Your feend's hot, dear here, No, you're wrong, dearest.

Speaker 37 (03:08:37):
It's hot.

Speaker 51 (03:08:38):
It's not normal.

Speaker 12 (03:08:40):
Yes, I know it feels cool.

Speaker 2 (03:08:41):
To you, dear.

Speaker 83 (03:08:43):
Oh, but then never mind, poor little Judy will I'm
going to sit with you for a while there. Why
would fine cane chairs you have in your room than Julie.
I think they are two of the coziest and whole house.
Age doesn't matter with really good articles.

Speaker 8 (03:09:05):
You know that, don't you?

Speaker 83 (03:09:07):
And funding repair sometimes spoil things be grown used to
and fonda. Now I want you to lie quite still
and RESTful.

Speaker 70 (03:09:17):
I'm going to talk to you, dear.

Speaker 83 (03:09:20):
Yes, it's about what happened yesterday afternoon. Won't you tell
me why you did it?

Speaker 2 (03:09:26):
Judo?

Speaker 83 (03:09:28):
You may as well, because I know anyway more than
you do. No, No, don't hide your face like that.
Oh it hurt your anti more than you can tell.
When her little girl won't speak to her. Yesterday I
was arranging her tray and wondering what would please her most.
I had found a bright, clean napkin for her tray,

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and I was cutting bread thin as thin and corner wise, because.

Speaker 55 (03:09:55):
That is how she likes it.

Speaker 82 (03:09:58):
And then then I looked out of the window. Well,
what I saw upset me very much.

Speaker 55 (03:10:05):
It was my little girl running, wasn't it?

Speaker 19 (03:10:07):
Running?

Speaker 55 (03:10:08):
Running, running far down the.

Speaker 83 (03:10:10):
Garden to where the wall joins the big door, and
peeping behind her to see if I watched. But I
was behind the curtains, and she couldn't see me, could she. Well,
then I felt something inside me here, a tight, cold
feeling all around my heart, because of two things. One

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was that she should go so terribly against my wishes.
So many times I have said, since she was quite tiny,
you mustn't go outside the garden, Judah, and you ought
never to run. But there she was, in spite of
all I had said.

Speaker 52 (03:10:48):
And done for her.

Speaker 83 (03:10:49):
It made your Auntie extremely unhappy, Judah. But the second reason,
the second reason was sad.

Speaker 16 (03:10:57):
As still.

Speaker 83 (03:11:00):
I ran out onto the lawn, I was saying to myself,
now she will have to be told everything, and it
may break her heart. Something wicked has made her do this,
and she must know so that she can resist it.
That's what I said to myself as I was running
down the path.

Speaker 70 (03:11:16):
You will have to be told.

Speaker 82 (03:11:19):
You weren't going very fast, were you?

Speaker 2 (03:11:21):
Dear?

Speaker 83 (03:11:22):
You are so young, and I am your old aunt,
and yet I caught up with you among the pear treams.
Now I want you to take another sip of water. There,
are you quite comfortable? You must be very brave, Dear,
give me your hand, Oh, such a frail little hand

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tight in mine. Very brave indeed, Judah, I'll have to
tell you something that will be a very great shock.
I'm going to be as gentle as I can, but
it will still be a shock. Let me see, you
remember that fairy tale from when you were very small,

(03:12:06):
the ugly Dugley. It looked so odd and different that
the other ducks and everybody drove it away. And then
it changed and grew into a beautiful swam.

Speaker 2 (03:12:20):
Do you know what beautiful is?

Speaker 83 (03:12:22):
Judy? You liked that story very much, didn't you.

Speaker 8 (03:12:27):
Now?

Speaker 83 (03:12:27):
Just think, dear, supposing, just supposing that the duckling hadn't
changed at all, supposing it became still uglier. That wouldn't
have made a very happy ending, would it.

Speaker 2 (03:12:42):
Oh?

Speaker 83 (03:12:43):
Hold your Auntie's hand very tightly, my love, and try
to be ever such a brave girl, you see, Judith,
I'm afraid you're that kind of a duckling. Oh there there. Ever,
since you came here as as I need taught with
no mother and daddy, I've known some day I should

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have to tell you that you were, that you were
different from other people. Now your understanding. You're understanding why nobody.

Speaker 84 (03:13:16):
Comes here, why I have to have a high safe
wall round the garden that you can never go outside,
and why you're Auntie takes such care of you every
minute of the day.

Speaker 83 (03:13:31):
I suppose you've often wondered why it was like that,
haven't you? But you've always been so good and done
as Anti pin and Antie loves you so very much.
It would have been the same if your parents had lived.
Your lovely Mamma would have done just what I did.

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We understood each other so well as sisters do. I
knew everything she should have, every single thing that was
best for her. Then then she married your father. She
had no right, she had no right. We we'll not

(03:14:16):
talk about that. It's only what I said before. He
wasn't really for her, not for her, that's it.

Speaker 19 (03:14:23):
He wasn't.

Speaker 83 (03:14:24):
He wasn't good enough, and so they've both gone a
long time, and poor old Auntie's minding this little girl instead,
And the little girl wants to know why she cannot
go out and see the world at last, because he's
grown to fifteen years old. Well, now, just wait a minute. Here,

(03:14:47):
Here is the mirror down from its hook. I can
rest it against the foot of the bed. Carefully, does
it where the frame is loose? Can you see into
what you have erased yourself?

Speaker 16 (03:14:56):
A little?

Speaker 55 (03:14:56):
Dearsy?

Speaker 16 (03:14:57):
There?

Speaker 82 (03:14:58):
See see the precious darling?

Speaker 19 (03:15:03):
See her?

Speaker 83 (03:15:05):
Oh, this is the path that's going to hurt, even
with her Auntie's.

Speaker 70 (03:15:10):
Arm tight around her.

Speaker 83 (03:15:12):
I want you to look at that shape in the
narrow Judy. Such a slender, curvy body, isn't it so
pale and soft? Those swollen little breasts.

Speaker 6 (03:15:22):
Did you think that was right?

Speaker 16 (03:15:24):
Did you?

Speaker 67 (03:15:25):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (03:15:26):
Now look at me, dear, I'm not.

Speaker 55 (03:15:28):
Like that at all.

Speaker 83 (03:15:30):
See how strong and solid I am, straight everywhere and
every line. That's the way people are, Judy, People outside
that little face of yours, Judy, pale nearly like the
bed sheets, except for two peaky cheeks and red lips,
and eyes as blue as as copper.

Speaker 15 (03:15:53):
Rot line are dark brown, and my skin is dark
and tough.

Speaker 51 (03:15:59):
And hair.

Speaker 83 (03:16:01):
Look in the mirror, deer, see that soft, thin, shiny
yellow like fading grass, not thick and black like like
other people's. Oh oh, my little Judy is crying.

Speaker 44 (03:16:20):
Oh what songs?

Speaker 83 (03:16:23):
You just didn't know, did you, how different you were.
I've always kept it from you. That is why there
are no pictures of people in the rooms. I didn't
want you to be hurt. Brown skinned and hard they are,
with strong, black hair, and I'm one of them.

Speaker 8 (03:16:42):
I'm one of them, so I.

Speaker 83 (03:16:46):
Can go out and talk among them, and they don't
know about you, these dark people. Only I think in
my little girl at home. That's different. Now, Judy, do
you know what would have happen? Happened if you're old
Auntie huddn't care for you yesterday and run to stop
you and guide you back into this house? Do you
know what would have happened if you would gone past

(03:17:08):
the pear trees and the green water tank and up
to the big door, if it hadn't been locked but
it always is, and you had opened and walked outside. Oh,
something very horrible, Judy, something very horrible.

Speaker 46 (03:17:23):
You would have seen.

Speaker 83 (03:17:24):
People like me, all like me, Judy, only not smiling.
I'm afraid you would have seen them halt in the
distance and point and murmur to each other in their
dry gray roads, and move softly in the shadows. And
presently as you walked, you would hear tiny shufflings and mutterings,

(03:17:47):
and you would glimpse ahead of a person on the
other side of a wall keeping pace with you, or
a gray hand signaling in a doorway. Then then things
would come quietly through the hot dust. They would be people,
and they would be following you because you were different.

(03:18:10):
Remember how all the animals were unkind to the ugly Dudley.
People can be far crueler, Judy. People can be far crueler.
You might speak to one of them, but your voice
would be tiny with fright. His head would turn away,
with eyes remaining on you, and he would talk loudly

(03:18:33):
and hard, and not to you.

Speaker 6 (03:18:34):
To the others.

Speaker 82 (03:18:36):
You would feel the whisper run through.

Speaker 83 (03:18:38):
Sealing them against you, and teeth and eyes would shine
out from the whole band of them. Then they would
be thrustling, jostling and screaming, and all the roads clattering
with laughter. Look at the eyes, they would shout, Look
at the I see how it cries.

Speaker 55 (03:18:54):
There it is running, running, running, and.

Speaker 83 (03:18:56):
The shouts would become the echo of your own feet
beating along the the names and the stones ringing under them, running,
running until you couldn't run any longer, and behind they
were becoming closing in on you, getting closer and closer,
like one of those dreams Anti calls nightmares. But this
time would be true.

Speaker 51 (03:19:16):
Judy.

Speaker 39 (03:19:17):
Oh, perhaps in your dreams you know it's terrible, Judy. Oh,
it's terrible to be different, terrible, terrible. But your aunties
here did she understands?

Speaker 83 (03:19:33):
And there's a high wall and nothing to be afraid
of that they don't see inside. And when you make
that singing, or sit watching the clouds and wondering, or
tremble at the thunder, there's only Auntie to know that

(03:19:54):
you're doing what no one else does, isn't there? Your
Auntie is your friend who understands. Oh, my, Judy is brave,
and she won't cry any more?

Speaker 44 (03:20:11):
Now, will she.

Speaker 83 (03:20:14):
Just one last look in the mirror at that strange
little face, so that she'll know finally what her auntie meant. Look, Judy,
look look into the mirror. Oh, oh, my poor little girl.
Can't she bear to look?

Speaker 55 (03:20:33):
Can't she?

Speaker 12 (03:20:33):
Then?

Speaker 83 (03:20:34):
Don't hide in the bedclothes. Dear, You're never strange to me,
You know you're never strange to me. Take the mirror away.

Speaker 82 (03:20:43):
Oh wait, wait, wait, wait, I've something for you.

Speaker 83 (03:20:49):
I knew what a horrible shock it would be, and
I got something that might help my little girl to bear.
It there right in her little hand.

Speaker 12 (03:20:59):
You know what it is? Do you know what it
is to you?

Speaker 83 (03:21:02):
It's a bottle of stain, yes, stain, quite harmless, brown stain.

Speaker 2 (03:21:10):
Here.

Speaker 83 (03:21:10):
Look, look, it smells rather sweet, doesn't it smell. Now,
if she wants, she can put a little into her
washing water to darken those hands and those pink and
white cheeks. It may burn a little bit deer, but
when she looks into the mirror, she won't seem so different.

(03:21:33):
After all, she can pretend to be.

Speaker 16 (03:21:36):
Like me, can't she?

Speaker 39 (03:21:39):
And after that we must simply be patient and anti loving,
because we haven't so.

Speaker 55 (03:21:47):
Very long in this world, have we?

Speaker 12 (03:21:52):
No?

Speaker 2 (03:21:53):
Not very long?

Speaker 15 (03:21:57):
No?

Speaker 83 (03:21:59):
No, The little girl stops crying and lies quietly, and
still she shall have a plate of bread and butter
cut just as she likes it, And some secret little treat,
and he will sit with her in this beautiful cozy room,
and we shall give the game of bludo. For I understand,

(03:22:23):
I do, I do, I do understand.

Speaker 55 (03:22:27):
My Judy, and she's.

Speaker 79 (03:22:29):
My very own if she's my very own for always,
poor little Judy and my poor little Judy, my poor
little Judy.

Speaker 8 (03:22:53):
Yeah, what makes the same you have?

Speaker 2 (03:23:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 76 (03:23:00):
Right?

Speaker 15 (03:23:00):
Sah?

Speaker 8 (03:23:01):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (03:23:03):
Who is it?

Speaker 8 (03:23:04):
Oh? No, I didn't know, we knew anybody there?

Speaker 12 (03:23:08):
What's do you.

Speaker 22 (03:23:14):
Want to bite you? We've been in your house three
weeks when the latter came July. It's drysy weather. There's
so much to do in the new house. Carpings and
who worked steady hard, who went to bed before dogs
every day, tired of at the same both tied up a.

Speaker 65 (03:23:33):
Little from there. They're getting up sturdier.

Speaker 22 (03:23:35):
At the moment I was speaking out ever lasting years
and something may be in look dass. I looked down again,
and then that's one's Mared's safe. That wasn't sure then
what I saw there, I don't know what they do
it was. It wasn't good.

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Speaker 22 (03:25:36):
Thanks to this sunny morning, how's go eas savery estume
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Speaker 8 (03:25:44):
Business the day.

Speaker 22 (03:25:45):
The workmen lessons are very fresh and loveness that has
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Speaker 65 (03:25:53):
Stop even wimbled and passed.

Speaker 22 (03:25:55):
They rarely week for proof loving breath In the letter
King Asa, who would that worthy?

Speaker 42 (03:26:08):
Well, there's litter. It's from the Saint Jay Hobart. He
says that the house, this house has no business to
be disposed of.

Speaker 8 (03:26:19):
It says it is.

Speaker 42 (03:26:22):
Andres Andrew's great uncle's will late into people sin John Herbert,
did you remember in the same.

Speaker 22 (03:26:34):
Do you remember, I know.

Speaker 42 (03:26:36):
Hobart that he died in the uncle, but he died
in t Stray, so he made a will. But the
lawyers added about this, but oh, this is not.

Speaker 8 (03:26:44):
The chap from Australia, say, but what is it?

Speaker 2 (03:26:46):
What I know?

Speaker 42 (03:26:46):
I know what the lawyers told me that the women
in the old man made the will, but then went
to the lawyers and destroyed it and the very noses.
But they told me he didn't make another one and
then he died. All he left his bills, so the
house was sold to pay the bill.

Speaker 8 (03:27:00):
Nothing about us unless him anywhere all.

Speaker 76 (03:27:04):
What does it mean?

Speaker 22 (03:27:06):
So's lawyers charge has made a mistake.

Speaker 2 (03:27:09):
You know they can't this chap.

Speaker 42 (03:27:11):
Han's got to make a stand on China or an
imposter ind whoever is he knows the page the better reader,
So that's.

Speaker 40 (03:27:23):
Reader.

Speaker 42 (03:27:24):
I don't know what it means. Well, we're not my
gio CRUs me. Insulting sounds over well, like I said,
or he might be genuine.

Speaker 22 (03:27:32):
That just Roberts says Jeremy for stuff scene as he's boyhood.

Speaker 42 (03:27:38):
He can't make up his mind whether they're insultic so
that we clear us, or to make us feel bad,
preying on our feelings.

Speaker 59 (03:27:43):
But seemingly boy.

Speaker 22 (03:27:45):
Lived my miserable life with no hope owners to a care.
It's my faith, my inheritance, and my passion mine and
no one should cheat know it. Waits sounds sort of
like a fruit nos just dismissing.

Speaker 8 (03:28:06):
I'm not dismissing it, but one.

Speaker 22 (03:28:08):
Means really he doesn't also have told him well maybe.

Speaker 2 (03:28:13):
Well, you never know.

Speaker 8 (03:28:14):
There's a lot goes on in those old family line,
I mean all supposed to them.

Speaker 22 (03:28:18):
Anyway. I think you ought to send this under the lawyers.

Speaker 42 (03:28:20):
In that I mean, well, he's only just moving off
and we're not moving on either.

Speaker 8 (03:28:25):
Thought Phil scrowing above ball.

Speaker 22 (03:28:26):
Was close, Well, I mean let lit the lawyers he
saw who arranged everything lit him right to tea once.
But live men, yes, we live them right through. I
don't think what they saw before. In the first place,
he ought, who has written to them? Instead of trying
to play ourself disturb them. Look, this hasn't got anything
to do with us. You just put it out of

(03:28:47):
your mind and said this is a lawyer. Though I
wouldn't everything all right? My dear husband left the room
after death, went down to the garden and stood on
the lawn and looked out across the water. It was
unlovely house. We wandered a house near the sea. Answer

(03:29:09):
was spread a tree on boating and asked nothing better
than a bit of gardening. When the shore that morning
before that letter came he planted out incarnations. Arthur had
cut the head. It's so happy with the last happy
morning we ever had.

Speaker 56 (03:29:26):
I suppose together. As soon as Arthur.

Speaker 22 (03:29:39):
Said, eyes on the place, I knew you were going
to live there. You came on to rather turn of
the valley. Suddenly just the house, the water and the
trees going up the long slope to the estuary. And
there was a jetty hi and dry that day, for
the tide was ice.

Speaker 15 (03:29:55):
Can you tell me.

Speaker 22 (03:29:56):
You'd written yourself?

Speaker 21 (03:29:58):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (03:29:59):
I thought you would, just getting to pass the leaders
of the lawyers.

Speaker 8 (03:30:02):
Well, I do but I thought I'd like to try
and explain it about myself. Letter right, well, there it
is the sex on the final right.

Speaker 42 (03:30:14):
He's just glat enough. He sounds like like a mini egg.
I just wanted to let him know the case was
in good hands. When I thought, I don't know what,
I thought, would you do for.

Speaker 22 (03:30:27):
Us with a can sand Always he's chummy.

Speaker 2 (03:30:36):
Matter art? What is it is?

Speaker 76 (03:30:38):
Our hours we boarded?

Speaker 42 (03:30:40):
I mean that's what I told the lawyerser. I thought
lawyers would people to be trusted us. I don't know
about the deal was always much before, but at least
I thought in a shutcase like this, I mean, when
there's no doubt this is in the writer, I.

Speaker 8 (03:30:52):
Thought they're on earth side. All they do is harm
and or change of subjects.

Speaker 65 (03:30:56):
The villages aren't much better.

Speaker 42 (03:30:58):
They're close the uh smugglers us what they are got, hob.
I'll tell her that for loving.

Speaker 22 (03:31:06):
I couldn't they know that if he's coming, I don't know.

Speaker 42 (03:31:09):
But I know he's coming here, all right. The way
they look at me, they will be living in that
life house for long.

Speaker 12 (03:31:16):
That's what they look like.

Speaker 15 (03:31:17):
Some time.

Speaker 22 (03:31:18):
I wish we could ever come here at all, right, we.

Speaker 42 (03:31:20):
Bought the hiss ours while I did that boat continue
to pretttgude.

Speaker 8 (03:31:23):
Not a word while I hear I will, I'm not
so that's final.

Speaker 22 (03:31:28):
The two Hobart men arrived in London day after the
the nurse he'd be here, that's same da. So very

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were left with this worry hanging over. Arthur couldn't concentrate
on the garden somehow, I couldn't sum another energy to
get on with the things that need be doing around
our home because we were frightened. In a very short time,
it wouldn't longer be at home. And then two mornings
later we ceased to worry.

Speaker 15 (03:32:13):
I'm just going down to shop store.

Speaker 46 (03:32:16):
Do you need anything.

Speaker 12 (03:32:19):
That is.

Speaker 8 (03:32:24):
That's clear?

Speaker 22 (03:32:25):
Is anything wrong?

Speaker 12 (03:32:28):
What?

Speaker 42 (03:32:29):
What's I don't believe it much, but there's been a
plane crush and rude as in Australia.

Speaker 8 (03:32:38):
So they give the passengers look all eyes, look there.

Speaker 76 (03:32:48):
And sit.

Speaker 65 (03:32:51):
H and I were ashamed of voice. I relieved with
a shamed Later on that day the lawyers came on
the phone.

Speaker 22 (03:33:09):
Yes I know, said Arthur, don't.

Speaker 46 (03:33:11):
Tell me.

Speaker 8 (03:33:13):
That.

Speaker 22 (03:33:14):
Evening I still aboard started to be torn up. The
truck was moved and in front of the sliding pannel
thrown out and hoot, we'll last clothes and papers from
drawers and cabbage. I heard him alsa sard you. It
went on night and days, but neither of us caught antics.

(03:33:37):
How could with that?

Speaker 8 (03:33:39):
For net who it was?

Speaker 76 (03:34:20):
I feel like a new man.

Speaker 8 (03:34:22):
It's the likely day to day.

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Speaker 11 (03:35:34):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 22 (03:35:35):
Ho?

Speaker 70 (03:35:37):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 12 (03:35:38):
Leave us a home?

Speaker 51 (03:35:39):
Go away?

Speaker 22 (03:35:41):
We know it.

Speaker 85 (03:35:41):
You weren't sorry for none of us is our for
we are sorry, So that try it comes half way
across words just as side well, sorry to be thinking, Hobart,
but you've got to stop fighting by rights now and
go away.

Speaker 76 (03:35:57):
Go where you belong.

Speaker 2 (03:36:03):
Please please do.

Speaker 22 (03:36:12):
You think that that's thick in the.

Speaker 42 (03:36:19):
I don't know what ex.

Speaker 22 (03:36:25):
Just going to see him.

Speaker 8 (03:36:26):
We don't belong to the church.

Speaker 76 (03:36:27):
Will we never go to church?

Speaker 22 (03:36:28):
We think we good Christ? So many see as why
did it matter whether we go to church or not?

Speaker 19 (03:36:33):
That's up?

Speaker 22 (03:36:33):
But he's podcast for people.

Speaker 42 (03:36:36):
Yes, I'll finally remember going to see him. And we're
both girls.

Speaker 22 (03:36:41):
You know what he's looking for?

Speaker 8 (03:36:44):
And how about.

Speaker 40 (03:36:48):
The will.

Speaker 8 (03:36:51):
The one that there old man astride.

Speaker 22 (03:36:54):
Here?

Speaker 8 (03:36:55):
We are two grown people, old enough, no better.

Speaker 42 (03:36:58):
How to frighten the room talking about him? Others dead
and I mean no he did, and we're talking about
him as if he's alive in our house and he.

Speaker 22 (03:37:09):
In our life, I mean not alive anymore.

Speaker 70 (03:37:14):
There are no such thing as.

Speaker 8 (03:37:21):
Please, my dearness.

Speaker 65 (03:37:23):
It's all right.

Speaker 8 (03:37:24):
Please, we've got to fight. Please your brid please, please
tell me you'll try, just try not to be two
of those.

Speaker 22 (03:37:32):
Well, we'll fight this together.

Speaker 8 (03:37:33):
It's got the way follow.

Speaker 22 (03:37:42):
At the start we remained that doors as much as
we could, leaving the house to please fiching her back,
cause he might weary and be still. We now seldom
saw the sun. To a sautry weather, the trees became
dark as if they were full of smoke. To distract me.
After would take me boating up river out of sight
of the house.

Speaker 65 (03:38:02):
But we take family giston going to the woods.

Speaker 22 (03:38:05):
Sometimes we go miles and miles away, walking nearly all day.
This lasted for a little while, but I could see
that my husband wasn't happy. He was right, of course,
men should strain his own house. He telephone the.

Speaker 65 (03:38:18):
Vicarage more to please me than any.

Speaker 22 (03:38:20):
Hope that the solution from there might help is either
way it was the same because missus West, the Vicker's wife,
tell that her husband was away for three weeks on
exchange in a north of England parish, and then one
evening I saw he did you herself. I feel that

(03:38:49):
if we've bought for miles and miles, I do it.
If we walked to London and back. Oh, it's lovely
to guards for the day. That it's even nicer to
reach home again and see your high stands.

Speaker 42 (03:39:04):
Red scar lug subs, the ludge.

Speaker 8 (03:39:07):
Those are the sun unders.

Speaker 2 (03:39:11):
In the doorway.

Speaker 22 (03:39:17):
They looked down at our home from the hill office
and the sick of more shoes, and he stroke in
the doorway as my area. Oh he knew him so well.
He was tall and old, and even from that distance
I felt that he was smiling.

Speaker 42 (03:39:40):
Let's get down there to our house.

Speaker 16 (03:40:03):
Change me.

Speaker 22 (03:40:04):
When the men from Australia had a long look at it,
it was raining when the windows of those over the
hidy sceness beneath you. After I was reading, I was
trying to throw some check covers. If somehow my heart
wasn't in my cask at all. I looked towards the
window and there he was, one hand dressed against the

(03:40:28):
pavee with the water and down little rivers the glass.
I saw his cheek and his eyeballs. I saw him
laugh silently. Terrible answer. Then let's close the curtain. Show reason.

Speaker 8 (03:41:05):
Somehow I I did him out there?

Speaker 15 (03:41:08):
Oh well, how much longer.

Speaker 42 (03:41:11):
Oh, my dear, I won't, so I won't. What's good
enough for him, it's good enough for me.

Speaker 8 (03:41:17):
But why don't you? Why don't you go away there
for a while and for a change, until Mary.

Speaker 22 (03:41:21):
Says there is something for you where my places? Looking
for the wheel hasn't.

Speaker 8 (03:41:29):
He seems that he seems concerned with us?

Speaker 42 (03:41:34):
Now, cook, could he do me some harm? Do you
seem how good? He's none of this world? Well, not
fleshened blood? Well that's could he touches?

Speaker 22 (03:41:45):
She wants to come to town.

Speaker 8 (03:41:47):
N It's funny.

Speaker 22 (03:41:49):
I wouldn't mind having a bachelor in the house. I
wouldn't mind at all. Give him it alive.

Speaker 42 (03:42:10):
Why do you there a square without living?

Speaker 8 (03:42:11):
Man?

Speaker 42 (03:42:12):
That's where after living had to deal with it. I
co it's a dirty Truthfully, you.

Speaker 8 (03:42:17):
Can't blame him.

Speaker 22 (03:42:18):
Blame the air crash, but you can't blame him.

Speaker 42 (03:42:22):
I never thought that they'd come a day when when
I tolerate in my home someone.

Speaker 8 (03:42:27):
Something from from a world which isn't us.

Speaker 42 (03:42:31):
I can't enjoy my home anymore, and I won't be
able to until I've had this out. Until it's finished,
I've had this out with him. If I die in
the attempt.

Speaker 22 (03:42:43):
After what stands for us in our doorway, watching to
see who would come out of the woods. It seems
to if Hobart had given up me, he's remained quietly
in the corner of the room, or or arrange the
woods about the property. It's done by the walls and
look out across the history. Far from getting an occasional
glimpse of him, we started to seem quite regularly almost

(03:43:07):
every day. After a while, it seemed as if we
merely had a silent disk living with us. Did you
see Hobart would never face Arthur square in no sort
of satisfaction would he did. It was always distant, distant
between and looking bath, I can see that this was

(03:43:28):
all planned on our ghosts.

Speaker 8 (03:43:31):
Pat.

Speaker 22 (03:43:32):
He was goading Arthur Golding even everywhere, always the fame
queer smile upon his face. It is out no. Somehow,
I think I knew even during those days that he
needed to do more than that. May have been revenge,
I don't know, Pa Siggeon, Hobart brought about a risk

(03:43:56):
between my dear husband and me. I never thought that
something all blurs that it happened. A dead man came
between us started group teaching like his appetite. It was
a device done something wrong, ending.

Speaker 56 (03:44:14):
Suddenly to give me a straw.

Speaker 22 (03:44:19):
What, Dad, We've got a nice lot of logs in dear,
oh my dog in here.

Speaker 76 (03:44:29):
De dinner's ready.

Speaker 22 (03:44:41):
I looked up and hope Art were standing between the
dinner table and me, h, he never comes to close.
Before he was laughing silently, his fold head shining a
fire glow. Class I saw the wife of his eyes.

(03:45:03):
I know evil when I saw it. This was Gaul.

Speaker 56 (03:45:14):
The wind came, the storm was beginnings already I knew.

Speaker 22 (03:45:18):
It would be raining in the Estuans was full time. Hobart,
please sigehon. Hobart came closer to me, and closer still.

Speaker 13 (03:45:25):
Hey, Antha.

Speaker 56 (03:45:34):
Laughed again as silent and differ, and then back to wave.

Speaker 22 (03:45:37):
To the sofa.

Speaker 2 (03:45:38):
And you needn't go.

Speaker 70 (03:45:40):
We've got miss since your Hobard.

Speaker 22 (03:45:42):
I just spread his arms wide. Arthur did bar in
the wrong way out of the room, and Hobart walked
straight through Arthur and the door and disappeared.

Speaker 42 (03:45:51):
Well you shan't, you can't, Famama.

Speaker 22 (03:46:01):
I went to the window and I watched the goose
roll down across the lawns, and Arthur ran after it.
My poor dear tried to battle with it. He threw
punches there if he was fighting the air. Hobart went
on and on down towards the jetty full tide.

Speaker 55 (03:46:16):
The water was high and angry.

Speaker 22 (03:46:24):
Lighting flashed. Hobart shimmered in the lightning through the downpour.
I watched them come face to face. For Hobart's turned suddenly.
I could see him laugh, but began to pass. I
shall never know. I could not move, could not follow
time for me stood still. I was watching up a
play a filmer. I was in a dream. Anything anything

(03:46:46):
he shift reality. Hobart trolled off towards the jetty. Arthur followed,
lightning the white sheet under the water, over which fees
chide and Hobart the forward on Alpa followed and fell

(03:47:09):
where the chicken ended. What remained of the roaring storm
and the racing water into which an idea had gone
like a stone. As the following day did they bring

(03:47:46):
off a home. His poor face was strangely peaceful. Is
he he is satisfied? He did heavy sin? He had
headed out. I suppose I got to on the telephone
to the village. I know I was not left alone long.
This finds your friends wherever you are. Somebody vied Mary,

(03:48:10):
and she came, and it was with her that I
went away to return.

Speaker 8 (03:48:18):
So there is the.

Speaker 22 (03:48:19):
Place for whoever wanted once again to fail. Where I
need the money empty or not empty, I cannot say
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Speaker 40 (03:50:55):
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Speaker 48 (03:51:04):
No.

Speaker 12 (03:51:07):
Crawl.

Speaker 40 (03:51:17):
This mind web story comes from the book edited by
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few weeks, I've been struck with an almost desperate feeling
of empathy with anyone who is or has been imprisoned.
I imagine I know exactly what it's like to be stripped,
naked of whatever freedoms there may be, to be forcibly
placed in a room so isolated that it precludes any
meaningful communication with a so called outside world. It does happen,
of course, and in fact happens quite often. There are

(03:52:39):
various kinds of prisoners and different types of wardens. In
my case, I suppose there should really be some attempt
at formulating a distinction in order that I not be
confused with, oh, say, a prisoner of war. I myself
have tried on one or two occasions to do just that,
but it's awfully hard to be objective. You see in

(03:52:59):
this In this cell, such decidedly unpleasant and even morbid
thoughts come easily, most of the time unbidden, and usually
from reacting over emotionally to my predicament and indulging in
a tasteless bath is self pity. But I cannot be
sure that I'm not lowering myself to rationalizing when I
eventually get hold of myself and contend that I'm not
a prisoner at all, not all the time anyway. In fact,

(03:53:23):
this place is as comfortable as a small room can be.
When I begin to forget things, I stretch out on
the floor, and we establish its length and width at
nine and ten feet respectively. By standing squarely in the
center of the room and raising my hand and arm
over my head, estimate the height at approximately eight feet.
There's a wonderfully soft double bed that waits.

Speaker 18 (03:53:42):
Within one wall.

Speaker 40 (03:53:43):
If you look carefully between the animal patterns on the wallpaper,
you can just make out the almost invisible lines which
mark its place. It really is comfortable, and I sleep
quite well at night, except when I have nightmares. There's
a bookcase that hides one complete walls been thoroughly stocked
by me, who a generous mixture of fact and fiction,

(03:54:06):
so nothing too steep from my purposes. The only flaw
here is the collection of Gideon Fell novels slipped in
by some statistic son of a bitch. I believe they're
called Locked Room Mysteries. I've read none of them. I
never will. Among the others, I have my favorites, but
I'm afraid that they will pale soon. Perhaps I shall
be free by then, But damn it, I'm not a prisoner.

(03:54:28):
I'm a brainchild. It's easy to dream and less than
easy to do something about your dreams. When I tend
toward patulance in irrational moments, I lay the blame for
my condition on my parents, justifiable in some ways, but
not wholly so. As intelligent as I am, I should
have been able to foresee something like this happening. Father

(03:54:52):
was not really an extraordinary person, a professor of ancient
history who had a fondness for dry sharing, leather upholstery
and the Boston Red Sox and w stout enjoyed being alone. Mother,
on the other hand, was a Joiner, president of so
many women's clubs, had often when I was younger, I'd
read in the newspapers something like President visits Brazil and

(03:55:12):
would run through the house crying because she didn't say
goodbye to me. She had a fondness for Cognac blue
satin draperies, the Boston Bruins, and Elery Queen. I have
dreams of fairies and goblins and elves, and visions of
sugar plums in the Big Rock Candy Mountain. My parents
were beautifully matched, and I was their only child. Occasionally

(03:55:35):
they were mistaken for brother and sister, and I often
wondered what I was to be then their distorted mirror.
I'm blonde and brown eyes and barely perceptibly bucktoothed, gently hooked, nosed,
slightly on the heavy side, and though I try to
hide it, painfully pigeontoed. But they were handsome, and I
am not. They were my parents, and I am their son.

(03:55:58):
They caused my being, They old me. They were the ones,
rightly or not, who fed me with knowledge and saw
to it that my potential as a genius was exploited.
And it's very hard to try to undo all that
which has been done Jesus's lonely Special schools, public schools
and public children apparently cannot handle me. Special schools and

(03:56:20):
special tutors with the damdest educational theories were the forces
that drove me headlong out of my early years and
through it all with the binding webs of ecology, astronomy, philosophy, geology,
and mathematics, not to mention theology, atology, biology and oceanography,
freedom of choice, study what I wanted. Even now, I

(03:56:41):
grinned a little, remembering expressions on my teachers' faces when
I saw it pass them so rapidly that my incessant
whys and howes toppled their egos and crushed them. Of course,
I was too young to know that, and they merely
looked humorous to me, dreary, difficult, and frustrating. I must
have tried myself to slip deep a thousand times for

(03:57:01):
the understanding I was unable to achieve in depth because
of my age and lack of experience. And then I
began to think myself ugly and refused to allow mirrors
in the house. Father used to tease me about being
a vampire, and it frightened me, scared me God that
I was scared. God, I'm scared, and I'm lonely. Sometimes

(03:57:26):
I dream of gazelle and lions and tigers and elephants
and Batman and the lone Ranger. Did I tell you
I was a brainchild?

Speaker 18 (03:57:37):
That I am?

Speaker 40 (03:57:37):
You know, I'm sleepy. But it's not time for bed
to come, not now, later at eight o'clock. It's the experiment,
you see, but don't tell anyone. It's a secret. Then
there was a time of crisis. His mother calls it

(03:57:59):
in her book, which was twenty three months on the
Times best seller list. The names were changed, but that
still made me rather famous to those in the know.
The book's supposed to be fiction. I hate her for that. Well,
it became readily apparent that even geniuses of my particular
ILK had their limits of absorption. Father's wobbly little renaissance
man was turning out to be just another bright kid

(03:58:20):
who peaked a few years before anyone else. Mother was
only disappointed, but Father's face was redden and his voice
fairly thundered throughout the house when I was totally unable
to assimilate another iota of material, and he damn near
cried when I began forgetting things. My paintings became static,
my composition stale, and together we pronounced my academic future

(03:58:42):
as bleak as an English More in autumn, I hated
that I really did, and I raged and throw tantrums
and even wept at my helplessness. One of the few
childlife things I ever did enter the government, which shares
the blame, and I cannot forgive them, for they knew
exactly what they were doing the pastards. I never saw

(03:59:04):
the president, or a cabinet member, or even an assistant
to an assistant secretary.

Speaker 48 (03:59:08):
See.

Speaker 40 (03:59:09):
For me, the government was mister Bernard Poliski, as plain
a man you'll never see. He appeared out of nowhere,
and I used to sit at the bottom step in
the hall and fall asleep to the drone of his
monotonous voice. He came once a week, then every night,
talking and listening and arguing for about an hour or so,
and then there'd be nothing left of him when he'd gone,
no feeling, no atmosphere, no odor, no memory of him.

(03:59:32):
It was just as if he had never been. I
doubt seriously that I'd know him if he walked through
the door this moment. Only there is no door or
windows trusted several hidden shafts that bring me food and
air in a nice cream cone or two. However, what
turned out to be the final conversation did finally involve me.
We were introduced, and mister Puliski smiled warmly as he

(03:59:54):
shook my hand. I remember that because it was obviously
recognized my abilities and treated me as an equal. You're
a fine young lad, he said. I grinned so idiotically
I couldn't answer, I believe. I spent the rest of
the evening by mother's chair, clutching her arm and grinning.

Speaker 2 (04:00:12):
Richard.

Speaker 40 (04:00:12):
Father said to me, Richard, this gentleman would like very
much to assist us, rather assist you with your problem.
Your mother and I have done all that we can.
I think you're intelligent enough to realize that without some further,
perhaps even artificial guidance, you'll remain just about where you are. Yes, Father,
I was grinning. Did I say that already? Do you
know what the problem is? That question, naturally was for

(04:00:34):
the consort of the guard. Father loved to show me off.
He was kind of proud. Yes, Father, I said, but
did not move away from mother's side to put it
very very simply, it seems like I'm all stored up,
as if there's no place for anything to go anymore,
partly because I've concentrated on all subjects instead of one.

(04:00:56):
Partly because I'm unable to tap unused areas of my
brain for free their storage and recall, and what portions
are being utilized are overburdened because they cannot strengthen themselves
to handle the load. I'm starting to forget things. It's
kind of like a solution which has so much salt
dissolved in it that eventually the salt begins to reform

(04:01:16):
and precipitate. Yeah, it was all play acting, nothing more.
Father was proud of me and wanted me very much
to be chosen for something he felt that would be
a great honor.

Speaker 18 (04:01:28):
Did he think of me?

Speaker 40 (04:01:31):
I was picked, of course, and so ungrammatically that I
was quite disappointed. Every two weeks I was cuted off
to a dingy office in Boston, where all I got
were pills. Pills. I can hardly believe it. Pills for
crying out a lot. After so many stories and articles
I had read about experimental surgery and serums and objections,

(04:01:52):
all to give you knowledge, and all of them so
tragically resolved pills. When I saw them, I thought they
were aspiring. Mother and Father were terribly excited and so
let down when I was unable to share and their enthusiasm.
But believe me, there's nothing at all exciting about pills
which I took, and they worked. So I climbed from

(04:02:16):
my stagnant plateau and continued to reach greedily for more.
I specialized in nothing and recalled everything, and eventually the
price was paid. The price was me. My parents loved me,
you see, and let me go. I saw the wisdom
in this move, and since they were allowed to come
and see me regularly until I began this experiment and

(04:02:37):
forbade it, there was little of the pain of parting tears,
mostly in effusive promises to write. They drove me all
the way to Princeton, where I was to live and study.
Father was cheerful, as indeed he should have been. His
only son was at the top and still climbing for
the fame no professor could realize. It was a beautiful
day the fall, if I remember correctly, And even though

(04:02:59):
Mother tended to niffl and wipe her eyes once in
a while. She laughed too, and was beautiful, and the father,
saying badly, does he still but gustily. He had never
brought himself to learn more than one line of a song,
and that not always correctly. I knew them all, but
never helped him, you understand. So it was weep no more,

(04:03:20):
old lady, a million times from Connecticut to New Jersey.
And when we were finally alone in the car, in
the shadows of one hundred trees as old as the country,
Mother hugged me, and Father shook my hand. He told
me I was a man. I wanted to cry. I
dreamed of ankles and thighs and breasts and lips and
raggedy ann and made me stove her. When he left,

(04:03:42):
he was still singing, only now, as if he were
going to a funeral, so melodramatic when I can remember it.
But then Father was a great actor. It was nearly
two years before I discovered exactly what the government wanted
with me. Although they had moved me to Princeton, had

(04:04:06):
given me my own cottage and let me go my
own way, not once did they express more than a
passing interest in my various inventions, scientific studies, paintings or
musical compositions. But while I was puzzling their intentions and
swallowing that miserable aspirin varying amounts at staggered times, I
was in an earth bound heaven. For a short time.

(04:04:27):
I experienced great concern over the side effects of those pills,
but soon realized the dangers were minimal if they existed
at all. Meanwhile, I prepared myself physically, embarking upon a
program of rigorous exercise push ups one to buckle my shoe,
walking and jogging to keep limber and nimble, jacky quick
isotonic and isometric interludes to break the routine of my work.

(04:04:49):
I almost wished I had permitted mirrors so that I
could have seen myself grow. But obviously the government was
not treating me as an Anglo Saxon Leonardo for purely
altruistic reasons, and eventually I tired of my being placed
on exhibit, however limited. I began brooding and complaining. I

(04:05:10):
baited every visitor and demanded explanations. When my mother cried
from the moment she saw me on her last visit,
Father kept her away or did I forbid them to come?
I am quite obviously the means, I would say, so,
what the hell are the ends? I became obdurate in

(04:05:31):
my refusal to do anything at all. I allowed myself
to grow slovenly and crude in my daily progress reports. Today,
I developed a self flushing toilet and mastered Kamasutra number
fifty six. I threatened to run away and lo and behold,
but didn't. Mister Bernard PALAISKI pop out of the woodwork
and ask for a moment of my time. Time is

(04:05:53):
a man made fabrication.

Speaker 18 (04:05:55):
I said.

Speaker 40 (04:05:56):
I loved being pompous and obtuse, though pomposity in this
sixteen year olds bound to be ludicrous. I know he
thought so, because he was about to lose his griff
on his anonymity and slap me. Sit down, he ordered.

Speaker 19 (04:06:09):
I did.

Speaker 40 (04:06:10):
The grass was warm in August, and I was spending
most of my time outside in the backyard. Richard. We're
all pretty proud of you, you know. I knew it,
of course, but I had a good, heated feeling in
my cheeks and chests on hearing it. You've proven a
number of things for us, Richard.

Speaker 18 (04:06:28):
I'm ever so.

Speaker 40 (04:06:29):
Glad, I said, as caustically as I could. He ignored
me for more than having merely a photographic memory. Richard,
if you'll pardon the layman's term, you have also developed
the power of reasoning, albeit a limited understanding, but just
kept a remarkably even paced with your memory. The pills
don't work on everyone, you see. This was the first

(04:06:51):
confirmation I'd had that I wasn't alone, but at the
time it was no consolation. In fact, Richard, you're the
only person with extraordinarily high intelligence that has benefited more
than just a little from the experiment. I was grinning,
even though I knew it was in the pure way
of covering my embarrassment. He didn't seem to notice. He

(04:07:13):
rambled along the same vein for several minutes, floundering in
a sea of platitudes and eventually running out of words.
He smiled and stared at me. Okay, I said, okay, so,
so what that's it? Richard? You wanted to know what
was going on, didn't you. You were observed, you were tested,

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and though the pills will continue to increase your memory
and ability to learn, accumulative effects from now on will
be so small as to be practically negligible if you
must have it crudely, Richard, you worked. I worked like
a rat that can run the maze and avoid the shocks,

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and answer the bell and slap the lever. I worked,
worked like a damn new machine. Mister Pulaiski was distressed.
He smiled as he patted me on the shoulder and
touzzled my hair. You see, Richard, he said, because obviously
I didn't. You see, several important people were concerned that

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those pills would make everyone in the country a genius,
must leave no one left for the actual manual labor
so vital to any society's viability. But you and the
others have proved this worry to be without foundation. There
is a limit, Richard, for everyone, even you. Each person
can go just so high and no higher. Do you

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remember that saturated solution you told me about when we
first met. Well, even with the pills, the analogy fits
a little bit frightening, I guess, isn't it. But you
will be allowed to stay here and work if you want. Remember, though,
you'll eventually reach the same problem you had before we
came into the cuture. So you see, some you worked.

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You're a hero, a bona fide hero, and your country
is grateful. I remember screaming Pulaski and even throwing a
well aimed, perfectly unexpected punch to his midsection. I dreamed
of silver bells and cocko shells and Dottie's hell, and

(04:09:24):
wishing wells to be truthful. I behave like a fool.
I even vowed eternal revenge, until I realized how silly
it was. Instead, I continued my work, and this time
an active interest was exhibited toward my projects. I also
consented to live in Princeton with a lovely community. I

(04:09:45):
think it's in New Jersey. And when I grew tired
of remembering it all, I went on a trip across
the country and came back because I have a new experiment. Women,
have you ever sat in a or walked in a forest,
or waited in an ocean with a girl who, at
that particular moment is the most beautiful creature in the world,

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and found you could not keep from commenting stagey on
the gold content of salt water, or the average lifespan
of conifers versus deciduous trees, or the advantages of sod overseed.
Have you ever tried to make friends with another kid
who can't understand a word you're saying and ends up
either laughing at you or beating you up. When you're seventeen,

(04:10:28):
a man, a genius, you are. I am a bore.
You're lonely. You can't be scientific playing a scratch game
of baseball. You can't be wise at a junior PROBM.
Oh hell, But in this cell it has dolls and

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cutouts and comic books and bubblegum and trading cards, trains
and television at a radio and college pennants and model cars,
and the baseball glove, and a football, a record player,
a tape recorder. My favorite record was made especially for me.
It's Dad saying a week no more, old Lady, over
and over and over again. Once in a while, I

(04:11:17):
think I can catch a mom laughing in the background.
The government pays me a pension. I built the room myself.
I'm a genius, you see, and tend to act a
bit weird sometimes the new experiment is what I told them.
I'm trying very hard to remember and forget. But I'm seventeen,

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and that's a very long time. There are no mirrors
that I tell you how Dad tried to kid me
about being a vampire and not scared me. And I
keep telling myself that my hands are awfully rough from
all my work, and that I don't really have any
wrinkles or gray hair. I'm only seventeen. Do you understand

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I'm only seventeen.

Speaker 18 (04:12:02):
I think.

Speaker 55 (04:12:09):
My ownly child, be not sub blind.

Speaker 23 (04:12:15):
See what you hold. There are no words, no use,
no eyes to show them what you need.

Speaker 55 (04:12:33):
Their hands are.

Speaker 86 (04:12:38):
Their faces cold, Their body is closed to.

Speaker 23 (04:12:45):
Freezing their feeling spied.

Speaker 87 (04:12:51):
The morning smart, too smart to feed their ways with breathing.

Speaker 55 (04:13:08):
Their evening told, my only childtreatmen but.

Speaker 23 (04:13:26):
Well the birds that you are told. For some of them,
it is on me.

Speaker 55 (04:13:40):
Easy to survive. Their hands are.

Speaker 23 (04:13:52):
Their faces called.

Speaker 53 (04:13:57):
Their body is.

Speaker 55 (04:13:58):
Clos to free their feeling spies the morning smoke, the
evening to.

Speaker 87 (04:14:20):
Men and wife are feasting the time, the time that
lies behind.

Speaker 23 (04:14:33):
At home in.

Speaker 55 (04:14:34):
Sweetness and de light, drinking the bitter ward. Their hands are.

Speaker 86 (04:14:51):
Their faces cold, their bodies closed to.

Speaker 23 (04:14:58):
Freezing their feeling.

Speaker 55 (04:15:01):
Spine the morning small.

Speaker 11 (04:15:20):
The evening told.

Speaker 18 (04:15:46):
You've heard C. L.

Speaker 40 (04:15:47):
Grant's story Whip No More, Old Lady, taken from the
collection Future Quest, edited by Roger Elwood. This is Michael
Hanson speaking technical production for Mindwebs by Leslie Hilsenhoff. Mind
Webs comes to you from WHA Radio and Madison, a

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service of the University of Wisconsin Extension.

Speaker 56 (04:16:15):
M h.

Speaker 10 (04:16:22):
Comes Hollywood Theater presents mister Caesar Romarow in sitting duck windows.
Thousands of them on all sides of me, and that

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one of them stands a man with a high powered rifle,
slowly carefully bringing into focus in the telescopic site. And
there's nothing I can do. I'm a sitting duck. Welcome

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Speaker 48 (04:17:11):
Take thumbs Tombs for the tummy.

Speaker 10 (04:17:15):
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Speaker 2 (04:17:18):
Tombs for the tummy.

Speaker 10 (04:17:20):
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Speaker 42 (04:17:28):
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Speaker 50 (04:17:43):
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Speaker 10 (04:17:45):
Cents a roll. Now here's the Tom's Hollywood Theater presentation
of Sitting Duck, starring mister Caesar Romero. I can only

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think that three reasons why a guy would sit on
a flag.

Speaker 2 (04:18:15):
Pole for one hundred days.

Speaker 10 (04:18:18):
One he's got a personal beef against the world and
wants to prove a point. Two he's a professional at it,
work at an advertising angle. Or three because his life
depends on it.

Speaker 8 (04:18:41):
Oh honest, dread, this guy sat on that flag pole.

Speaker 10 (04:18:44):
Over seventy jays. Oh what seventy days? He made plenty, Danny,
you can bet flag poles. Just give me half of
what he made, just half. I'd stay up there one
hundred days.

Speaker 12 (04:18:56):
Yeah, sew me up thread.

Speaker 8 (04:18:58):
That's how Kazan he uperates big in this part of town.

Speaker 10 (04:19:01):
So you're speaking to me, buddy, Yeah, yeah, you talk me.

Speaker 48 (04:19:06):
I don't like people who talk big.

Speaker 76 (04:19:08):
What are you wanting?

Speaker 48 (04:19:08):
Oh, I'm was sitting there listening to you kick all night.
I guess you figure you got something coming to you
and so what I would you like a chance to
back your big talk with a little action.

Speaker 8 (04:19:19):
Oh gee, mister Kazan, this is a friend of mine.

Speaker 42 (04:19:21):
Fred Hollis what didn't mean Danny, Danny Riley, mister Kazane,
all right.

Speaker 10 (04:19:26):
Danny, keep out of this. Hey, look, mister, what's your proposition?

Speaker 48 (04:19:30):
All that flag pole stuff? One hundred days?

Speaker 10 (04:19:33):
You say, say you got it, you got a bet?
What are you talking about? What kind of a bet?

Speaker 48 (04:19:40):
Twenty thousand dollars says you don't sit on the stick
for one hundred days?

Speaker 8 (04:19:45):
Fred?

Speaker 10 (04:19:45):
Ck it out of here, Take it easy, take it easy, Lucy. Hey, look,
mister Kazan, I'm I'm sorry, but as much as I'd
like to financially, I don't back in your league.

Speaker 48 (04:19:55):
Oh it can be arranged, yeah, oh well, say a
little little insurance policy to say twenty grand.

Speaker 10 (04:20:03):
Oh yeah yeah? And do I get three guesses who
the beneficiary is?

Speaker 48 (04:20:09):
You need three guesses?

Speaker 10 (04:20:11):
What about the primage.

Speaker 48 (04:20:13):
I'll take care of them. They deductible from your winnings,
of course, if there are any.

Speaker 10 (04:20:19):
Now, let me get this straight, because then if I
sit on a flag pole for one hundred days, I
win twenty thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (04:20:26):
Is that it?

Speaker 48 (04:20:27):
That's it, big cock?

Speaker 10 (04:20:29):
And if I don't, then I win you collect on
the insurance policy.

Speaker 48 (04:20:34):
That's right.

Speaker 10 (04:20:35):
Look, mister Kazan, he don't want to come on. Shut up,
shut up, pluck mister. I may be big cock, but
then maybe you're the big cock. Okay, if this is
on the level.

Speaker 12 (04:20:45):
You just made yourself. I bet.

Speaker 10 (04:20:50):
That was screwy crazy. I should have had my head
examined to let myself get broke into such a deal.
Quart At the time, all I could see was that
big twenty grand and at the end of the line.
A day later found me holding a twenty thousand dollars
insurance policy with the first three months paid in full.
The beneficiary was a miss Amy Smith, a phony of course,

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because Anne gave me the name.

Speaker 48 (04:21:15):
All right, Alice, some friends of mine.

Speaker 10 (04:21:16):
I got the stick already for you.

Speaker 48 (04:21:18):
It's not a bad set up.

Speaker 10 (04:21:19):
You don't waste any time.

Speaker 48 (04:21:20):
Well, I don't believe in wasting time. And we put
you right by the waterfront, you know, where you can
enjoy the ocean breeze.

Speaker 10 (04:21:27):
And maybe catch pneumonia.

Speaker 48 (04:21:29):
Huh, Yeah, it's okay with me.

Speaker 10 (04:21:31):
Look, just suppose I do last up there. Why should
I think you'd pay off? Maybe I better cut my
throat right now and be done with it.

Speaker 48 (04:21:38):
I don't feel that way. Big talk and have a
back down and a bit in my life. I wouldn't
still be in business if I had only remember when
you're ready to quit up there? Well, I hope you
know what to do.

Speaker 43 (04:21:58):
Oh bred call it off.

Speaker 32 (04:22:00):
Please call it an.

Speaker 10 (04:22:00):
Easy baby easy.

Speaker 12 (04:22:03):
Well, how do you like it?

Speaker 10 (04:22:04):
Is it strong enough? Seems to be swaying?

Speaker 48 (04:22:07):
Hay out that I hired it from giving that personal
guarantee that it'll.

Speaker 10 (04:22:10):
Stand in the hurricaneks Now I feel good.

Speaker 48 (04:22:13):
Okay, Hollis, You're clocked in at twelve noon December twentieth,
and if you make it, you can come down and
stretch your legs on the thirtieth of March.

Speaker 10 (04:22:22):
And if I don't, I better just throw myself off
and hope I break my neck.

Speaker 49 (04:22:26):
Is that it?

Speaker 48 (04:22:27):
Well, I'd hate to have any trouble collecting on that policy.

Speaker 10 (04:22:31):
Hey yeah, how about a little advance because then oh.

Speaker 48 (04:22:34):
Yeah, yeah, something for the wife. Sure, give him a
grand niggee.

Speaker 10 (04:22:39):
You can deduct this from my winnings too, Yeah, sure, sure.
It was a professional rig fifty foot high with a
platform on top of the tree by four feet. When
the ocean breeze was a little gusty, it swayed like

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a prawn tree up there. I had a chair to
sit on, a couple of blankets, a picture of Lucy,
and that was it for a hundred days. Danny and
Lucy had spend their days below sending me up food
and cigarettes and magazines and a little swinging Pulley deal

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that was part of the rig. That first day newspaper
got ahold of the story, and after that there was
always a couple of curious people hanging around, walking.

Speaker 18 (04:23:30):
Up at me.

Speaker 10 (04:23:31):
There was a metal ladder attached to the regan. Sometimes
Lucy or Danny'd climb up and talk to me, kind
of keep me.

Speaker 21 (04:23:36):
Company for a while.

Speaker 10 (04:23:38):
I spent the first ten days wishing I'd never been born,
trying to figure out which was colder the days of
the nights.

Speaker 24 (04:23:49):
Yeah, a bag and a barber.

Speaker 10 (04:23:52):
Oh, the stubbles beginning. It's like crazy, Fred, Hey, how's
the money holding out?

Speaker 16 (04:23:58):
Fine?

Speaker 31 (04:23:59):
Fred?

Speaker 2 (04:23:59):
I I moved.

Speaker 5 (04:24:01):
I moved?

Speaker 19 (04:24:02):
But where?

Speaker 11 (04:24:03):
Why?

Speaker 8 (04:24:03):
Over there?

Speaker 2 (04:24:04):
See that building far away behind it? Did one?

Speaker 10 (04:24:06):
But why that's the only place to get a rumor before?

Speaker 2 (04:24:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 42 (04:24:10):
Yeah, which is the window, honey, the third one from
the top on the air.

Speaker 10 (04:24:14):
Can you really see me from there, you darling?

Speaker 15 (04:24:16):
When it isn't foggy.

Speaker 52 (04:24:18):
Oh, Fred, let's run away.

Speaker 10 (04:24:19):
Yeah, that'd be fine, and have Gauzanne's guerrilla's dug in
my heels for the rest of my days. He hadn't, oh,
forget it, because Anne's no fool. He's got a day
in a night watch on me, even if we can't
see him, and sort of the guns as he's bet with.
I'm a pretty important figure, Lucy. You know, I represent
a big investment. Ten days, twenty days, thirty days. Slowly

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they crawled by and joined up in the weeks, weeks
of rain and freezing wind, skirting off the face of
the water, and my beard began to grow and itch.
Forty days, fifty days, but the nights were the loneliest,
straining my eyes looking for a lighted window right from
the top on the end, because Lucy was there keeping

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me company. Sixty days, and my beard was nearly down
to my chest, itching face eighty days, ninety days.

Speaker 51 (04:25:18):
And then suddenly I was laughing because I was gonna make.

Speaker 9 (04:25:21):
It the big talk, was gonna make it funny, friend,
and I.

Speaker 12 (04:25:26):
Was gonna collect them.

Speaker 2 (04:25:31):
And then it happened.

Speaker 10 (04:25:34):
It was on the night of the ninety seventh day,
a little before twelve o'clock. I was just starting to
doze when I heard a cap pull up right below
at the end of the pier. The door opened and
two men got out. Then one of them began shooting.
I found face down on the platform. I was shaken
all over, but after a while, when I calmed down
a bed, I crawled at the edge of the platform

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and I looked over. One guy was bent over a
body given it the chain and sinker treatment. He rolled
the bike over the edge of the pier and he
drove away, but not before I made a mental note
of that license number. The next morning broke nice and clear.

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The sun was out, big and hot. I signal for
Lucy to come up. I had to tell somebody what
I've seen.

Speaker 52 (04:26:21):
Rag, you gotta tell the police.

Speaker 2 (04:26:23):
Are you crazy?

Speaker 10 (04:26:24):
Don't you understand the guy didn't even know I was here.
If I spill to the cops, the newspapers will get
a hold of it, and my pictures will be plastered
on every front page. He'll surely find out about me.

Speaker 76 (04:26:33):
Then you'll find out anyway.

Speaker 30 (04:26:35):
You'll come back and return to the scene of the crime.

Speaker 31 (04:26:37):
He'll see you up here.

Speaker 16 (04:26:38):
You'll know you saw him.

Speaker 15 (04:26:40):
You kill you, but you'll kill you.

Speaker 10 (04:26:46):
Funny thin. It hadn't occurred to me before. And I
sat there, sweating, looking at Lucy crying, and I realized
the course she was ripe. He'd come back for one
reason or another. They always and he's seeing me. I
need know and what could be easier for him? What
could be easier for him than a city duck? In

(04:27:18):
just a moment, I Act two of Sitting Duck, starring
mister Caesar Romero. Ever hear of anyone who travels thousands
of miles before they found real relief from acid indigestion. Well,
missus Margaret Mandelbau, one forty seven Main Street, Quincy, Massachusetts,
did just that.

Speaker 2 (04:27:34):
She says.

Speaker 15 (04:27:35):
Two years ago, my husband had two children.

Speaker 22 (04:27:38):
I came to the United States from Germany.

Speaker 63 (04:27:41):
I had suffered very much from acid indigestion all my
life until I discovered tones here in America. Now their
trouble is relieved so quickly. Did I feel like a
New Telson thanks to towns. I wish everyone would use
those wonderful tones.

Speaker 10 (04:27:57):
Well, friends, millions of people have turned to Tom's, and
no wonder with Tomb's handy in your pocket, a purse
you've got Johnny on the spot. Relief from acid indigestion
and heartburn, blessed fast relief for toms aren't perminity soothing
relaxing in a jiffy, your heart burn and acid indigestion
are gone.

Speaker 76 (04:28:16):
You feel fine.

Speaker 10 (04:28:18):
Easy on the pocketbook too. Tom's are still only ten
cents a roll, three roll package a quarter Tums tombs
for the tummy. Now Act two, I was sitting Duck
starring mister Caesar Romero. There I was stuck up on

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top of a flag pole, facing debt from every direction,
and not able to do a thing about it. I
couldn't come down. I still had three days to go.
If I came down now, because it won't the better,
I'd lose either way. I'd lose because if I stayed
up there, that'd gun crazy killer picked me off, and
if I ran because his boys to do the job.
The odds finally decided me. I figured if I stayed

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there in sat tight, well, maybe the killer hadn't found
out about it, and if he had, maybe he wouldn't
chance picking me off on the broad daylight. Maybe, and
he wouldn't be able to see the try it head
at night I was safe at night, or was that?
I prayed that the next three days would go by fast.

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Late that afternoon, the pier and waterfront was deserted. Danny
was sitting below reading the newspaper. Lucy had gone to
get my supper. I was lying flat on my stomach.
Given the boat sheds and dops a care or one sofa.
They were the places a guy could hide, and I
wasn't taking any chances. I was focusing on a shadow
between two sheds about a block away when I saw him.
That is, I could see about half of them, the

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streak of sunlight cutting across a tanheler pack of coat,
catching a thin stream of cigarette smoke. I whispered down
to Danny as well as.

Speaker 42 (04:29:59):
I coul Danny, Danny, send me up a magazine quick, Yes,
sure you can have this one.

Speaker 10 (04:30:08):
While the swing was hoisted up in the ice, scribble
some words on the piece of paper. I took the magazine,
took the note on the swing, and partly covered it
with an empty cup so it wouldn't fly away. Then
Danny lowered it, read the note and made a sign
that ID he understood. He started walking over where the
guy was standing. I watched him as he nearly passed.

Speaker 19 (04:30:26):
The guy stopped.

Speaker 10 (04:30:28):
He said something to him. They took out a cigarette.
The guy gave Danny a life. They talked a little while,
and then Danny came back.

Speaker 62 (04:30:38):
It's okay, brand, It's only one about Kazan's boy.

Speaker 83 (04:30:43):
He's ticking around and signatures don't come down.

Speaker 10 (04:30:47):
Yeah, only one about Kazan's voice.

Speaker 18 (04:30:50):
But how could I be sure?

Speaker 12 (04:30:51):
Maybe he was the killer, or maybe.

Speaker 10 (04:30:53):
One of the gunzos kazanat bed with, or maybe Kazan
hadn't really bet with anyone. Maybe he was lying. Maybe
he wanted me dead so you could collect twenty thousand
on my policy. Oh no, no, I go crazy thinking
like that. I came at six o'clock the next morning,
the cops carloads of them on an emergency truck.

Speaker 11 (04:31:15):
Dawn was coming up.

Speaker 10 (04:31:16):
Full, but the fog was sticking. There were about fifteen
men down there, and in a while I heard the
sound of an engine pump. They were sending a couple
of divers down after the body. Around eight o'clock, Lucy
and Danny came and I sang them for Lucy to
come up on the ladder.

Speaker 2 (04:31:31):
Can they quit?

Speaker 44 (04:31:31):
At quit?

Speaker 10 (04:31:32):
How they find out who tipped them bread.

Speaker 51 (04:31:35):
I do you, Lucy?

Speaker 55 (04:31:37):
But why oh ready for the best, ahdee.

Speaker 2 (04:31:39):
I couldn't sleep last night.

Speaker 11 (04:31:40):
I was so worried.

Speaker 2 (04:31:41):
Don't you see, honey, Once the cops are on it.

Speaker 37 (04:31:43):
But kid, it doesn't dare commute.

Speaker 10 (04:31:44):
Oh no, Lucy, No, you shouldn't have done it. Why
didn't you listen to me? Now they'll be reporters and photographers.
My pictures will be spread on every front page. If
this guy didn't know about me before, friend, at least
before I stood a chance, I could have kept my
mouth shut and set tight and prayed just two more
days to go.

Speaker 5 (04:32:05):
But now now.

Speaker 10 (04:32:13):
The fog state thick. All that afternoon, photographers came and
started popping flash bugs all over the place, like a
pack of lightning bugs. The divers worked in two ships,
but about four o'clock they found something bloated and covered
with seaweed. About an hour later, a plane clothes man

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named mc gidney came up my ladder.

Speaker 5 (04:32:35):
His name's Rick Sohmer.

Speaker 10 (04:32:37):
The identification was immediate, So come on down, shave that face.

Speaker 2 (04:32:40):
Of yours and start living on.

Speaker 10 (04:32:41):
Oh Lord, Copper, I don't know anything. I didn't see
anything I hear anything. I was asleep, I tell you,
are you look Alice?

Speaker 12 (04:32:47):
This wasn't a gang killing.

Speaker 51 (04:32:49):
It was pulled by one of three of four guys.

Speaker 5 (04:32:51):
There's an alarm on for him right now.

Speaker 10 (04:32:53):
But of course we can be wrong, and if we are,
you're in no position to be holding out. Okay, tell you,
I don't know anything up for.

Speaker 5 (04:33:01):
My advice to use to get off this perch and
start running.

Speaker 51 (04:33:05):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (04:33:07):
Oh that's right, I forgot.

Speaker 5 (04:33:09):
You still got another day to serve up here.

Speaker 26 (04:33:11):
Right you know about that.

Speaker 5 (04:33:13):
There isn't anything we don't know.

Speaker 18 (04:33:15):
Now, come on down, don't be a fool.

Speaker 80 (04:33:16):
Tell us what you saw and you lived to collect.

Speaker 10 (04:33:18):
I don't know what you're talking about. Let me alone
with the weather Bureau, says the fog lift tomorrow, and
if the weather Bureau should be right for a change,
you don't.

Speaker 5 (04:33:28):
Stand the prayer.

Speaker 57 (04:33:32):
Okay, sucker, here, I'll let you borrow these.

Speaker 10 (04:33:37):
Oculars. Yeah, when the fog lifts in the morning, take
a good look around, take a look at.

Speaker 5 (04:33:42):
The skyline and all those buildings.

Speaker 9 (04:33:45):
Maybe you didn't figure on them, maybe they seem too far.

Speaker 5 (04:33:47):
Away to you.

Speaker 10 (04:33:48):
No matter, let me tell you something, how less a
high powered rif will eat some distance like I can't eat,
scream take it over. I'll leave a couple of minute around.
Another thing I should have figured on the buildings.

Speaker 2 (04:34:05):
What better place was there?

Speaker 10 (04:34:07):
A million windows, one hundred rules, and all of them
looking right down on me.

Speaker 51 (04:34:10):
McGivney was so right.

Speaker 10 (04:34:12):
I had another eighteen hours to go, and I didn't
stand a prayer. I wasn't a sitting duck.

Speaker 2 (04:34:18):
I was a dead duck.

Speaker 10 (04:34:21):
But McGivney was wrong about one thing. The five didn't
clear up the next morning. It cleared up that night
at exactly eleven twenty three. I was lying down on
my side with a chair in front of me, propped
there like a shield, when I saw the first winking
lights in the distance. Then as the fog lifted, they
all came out, a million windows, each one of them

(04:34:44):
a place where this guy could pick me off from
in the morning. Then I remembered the monoculars, and the
next thing that occurred to me was Lucy. I put
him to my eyes and I focused on the third
window from the top on the end that there wasn't
any light.

Speaker 2 (04:34:56):
It was out.

Speaker 10 (04:34:57):
I could almost see Lucy sitting in that room dark,
maybe crying her eyes out. Then I did something I
hadn't done in days. I slept and I dreamed a crazy,
crazy dream about this infernal beard I had and Casanne
on the other.

Speaker 51 (04:35:16):
End of a razor.

Speaker 10 (04:35:24):
But when I woke up, it it wasn't a razor
flashing in my eyes. It was the sun's reflection cast
off a window in the distance.

Speaker 18 (04:35:31):
And it was morning.

Speaker 10 (04:35:32):
I smuggled in closer to the chair and nearly bent
myself into a pretzel. It was morning, and I was
trying to make myself as small as possible. The same
two cops mc givney had left was still down there.
I had a piece of paper in my hand, rode
into a little ball. There was a license number written
on it. I called out to one of the cops
standing below. He caught the note and waved back at
me and hurried off.

Speaker 2 (04:35:57):
Seven o'clock, five hours to go.

Speaker 10 (04:36:00):
Oh the killer was probably still asleep, or maybe well. Anyway,
he had plenty of time with a silencer and telescopic sights.
He had five hours to plug away at me.

Speaker 5 (04:36:10):
What a cinch for him.

Speaker 10 (04:36:14):
Danny showed up at seven thirty with my breakfast, but
I wasn't having any. He decided to climb up and
spend a minute with me. Hi, Fred, Say, how's Lucy
taking it?

Speaker 2 (04:36:24):
Danny?

Speaker 6 (04:36:25):
Something awful, Fred, But she'll be glad to know you
gave the license number that might give me.

Speaker 51 (04:36:31):
Probably too late.

Speaker 8 (04:36:32):
Now, look, how about if I.

Speaker 48 (04:36:34):
Bring you a big sheet of steel so you can
hide behind him?

Speaker 12 (04:36:37):
It's no good, Danny.

Speaker 10 (04:36:39):
First place, where would you get a big sheet of steel?
And anyway, drawing a beat on me from the roofs
of one of those buildings is practically a straight down deal.

Speaker 8 (04:36:46):
But you could cover yourself with it.

Speaker 10 (04:36:48):
Oh okay, Danny, if you want to try it, it's
okay with me. Oh swell, swell, don't worry now, I'll
be right back.

Speaker 37 (04:36:55):
You just sit tight.

Speaker 11 (04:36:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (04:36:59):
Eight o'clock went by nine, and I was punched up
so tight the cramped paine started shooting.

Speaker 2 (04:37:05):
Up my legs.

Speaker 51 (04:37:06):
I don't think.

Speaker 10 (04:37:07):
I took the binoculars away from my eyes for a second.

Speaker 16 (04:37:09):
Where could it be?

Speaker 10 (04:37:10):
Where couldn't he be?

Speaker 12 (04:37:12):
Now?

Speaker 10 (04:37:12):
And then I came and a guy opening a window
and thought, sure it was it, But every time it
turned out to be just a guy opening a window.
Nine thirty ten the minute seemed like days?

Speaker 13 (04:37:23):
Where was Danny?

Speaker 10 (04:37:24):
Why didn't he come back? Where was Lucy?

Speaker 11 (04:37:26):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (04:37:27):
No, I was glad you didn't show up that morning.

Speaker 12 (04:37:28):
I didn't want her around.

Speaker 10 (04:37:29):
When the bullet started coming, ten thirty eleven o'clock.

Speaker 51 (04:37:34):
One more hour, one more hour.

Speaker 10 (04:37:36):
I was rolled up into a ball, with my face
pressed hard against the rough slamps of the platform, my
beard rubbing against my eyes, and nose itching and scratching
until I could hardly stand. Where was my giveney? Why
didn't did he get the license number?

Speaker 8 (04:37:48):
Where were the cups?

Speaker 51 (04:37:49):
Where was.

Speaker 2 (04:37:51):
Eleven thirty?

Speaker 51 (04:37:52):
Eleven forty five?

Speaker 10 (04:37:54):
And the second and his second? Throwing your legs, I
can't pull in your gut tucking. I had further be small,
to be small, to be dead, eleven fifty and I
couldn't stand it any longer.

Speaker 51 (04:38:08):
I couldn't stand it.

Speaker 10 (04:38:09):
My legs were paid, my head was bursting in my head,
and my beard was itchy, itchy.

Speaker 51 (04:38:14):
I couldn't take it any longer.

Speaker 11 (04:38:15):
I had to get on my feet.

Speaker 9 (04:38:16):
I had to stretch and kick and scratch, and I did.

Speaker 11 (04:38:19):
I stood up, and I.

Speaker 51 (04:38:20):
Stumped around the platform.

Speaker 5 (04:38:22):
And it was worth that. It was worth anything to
stretch that beard.

Speaker 32 (04:38:26):
Even a fallen.

Speaker 10 (04:38:30):
To miss me.

Speaker 12 (04:38:32):
One got me.

Speaker 10 (04:38:33):
As I grabbed my side and shrank down to the platform.
My right hand came to the binoculars, and without thinking,
I put him to my eyes. I tried to focus
them on the building behind the big building, on the window,
tight one from.

Speaker 12 (04:38:48):
The top, on the end.

Speaker 10 (04:38:51):
Lucy, Lucy, I wish I hadn't because he was a
little his room. The guy was in Lucy's room, still
holding the rifle near the window.

Speaker 9 (04:39:08):
Lucy, you got Lucy?

Speaker 88 (04:39:24):
Well, friend, how do you feel?

Speaker 1 (04:39:28):
For give me?

Speaker 2 (04:39:30):
Where am I?

Speaker 88 (04:39:31):
You're in the hospital. He's been asleep for two days.

Speaker 12 (04:39:35):
I was shot. Yeah, blood at your right leg? Flesh?

Speaker 88 (04:39:39):
Would you've been suffering more from exhaustion?

Speaker 48 (04:39:42):
Exhaustion?

Speaker 45 (04:39:44):
Oh?

Speaker 88 (04:39:45):
This game for you yesterday?

Speaker 2 (04:39:47):
Shall I open it?

Speaker 19 (04:39:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 88 (04:39:49):
Open well an insurance policy because yeah, his end plays
pretty square.

Speaker 10 (04:40:03):
Then it was the other guy who shot me.

Speaker 88 (04:40:05):
Now he never even knew the flag pole was there.

Speaker 10 (04:40:08):
Yeah, forgidn'y. This doll makes sense now, I guess it wouldn't.
Where's Lucy?

Speaker 2 (04:40:15):
Where's Danny?

Speaker 13 (04:40:17):
They're dead.

Speaker 76 (04:40:23):
Dead.

Speaker 88 (04:40:24):
We kept a continuous watch on all the hot shops,
and when a guy came out of one of them,
carrying a high speed German rifle with telescopic sites.

Speaker 2 (04:40:31):
We tailed him.

Speaker 10 (04:40:34):
It was Danny, Danny, yep, but Lucy, they were both
in on it.

Speaker 88 (04:40:44):
They set up shopping her room and waited.

Speaker 12 (04:40:46):
I guess they hoped this.

Speaker 88 (04:40:47):
Other guy had pop you and saved them the trouble.
And at the last minute, when you set up your
stretched well, it was then and never.

Speaker 12 (04:40:55):
At the first shot we broke in.

Speaker 88 (04:40:57):
They started firing, and we fired back.

Speaker 51 (04:41:02):
The guy holding the rifle, I saw him.

Speaker 12 (04:41:06):
It was me, you saw by the window.

Speaker 76 (04:41:09):
Why forgive me?

Speaker 44 (04:41:11):
Why?

Speaker 88 (04:41:13):
Oh, the old old story.

Speaker 2 (04:41:16):
One hundred days is a long time to.

Speaker 12 (04:41:18):
Be away for my girl, Like you'll see, Lucie. Is
there anything I can do for you?

Speaker 2 (04:41:27):
Anything you want? Yeah?

Speaker 10 (04:41:32):
He had forgive me. I guess I want to shave

(04:41:52):
mister Caesar Romero will return in just a moment. Christmas
is in the air, Christmas parties, Christmas shopping, Chris us everywhere.
Now's the time when you especially.

Speaker 18 (04:42:03):
Need your good night's rest. So I'll be sure to
have tombs handy.

Speaker 10 (04:42:06):
You see the fun and excitement, or I have to
bring on sleep destroying acid, intogestion, and hot burn. But
toms instantly start to soothe and set of your stomach,
ease your distress away so you can sleep restfully, and
naturally you'll appreciate Tom's wonderful convenience too. Nothing to mix
a stir, no water, need it, just eat tasty tombs

(04:42:27):
Like candy mints. Toms are still only ten cents a roll.
The big Economy box contains twelve ten cent rolls, costs
only a dollar. It's a fine bargain and fine for
Christmas gifts.

Speaker 11 (04:42:39):
Get tombs, take tombs.

Speaker 12 (04:42:42):
Tombs for the tummy.

Speaker 2 (04:42:43):
Don't get you down, Get tombs, tombs for the tummy.

Speaker 12 (04:42:49):
Always keep that handy little.

Speaker 62 (04:42:50):
Roll around, Eat what you like, don't let heartburn strike
get to.

Speaker 10 (04:42:54):
You and me tumb Thanks Caesar, you practically had a
sitting atop that flag pole with you. Then I'm glad
to be down, and please let me say thanks to
Lillian Bias, Sidney Miller, Sheldon Leonard and Bill Convent.

Speaker 48 (04:43:11):
Thanks again, Caesar.

Speaker 10 (04:43:21):
Caesar Romero can currently be seen in FBI Girl. Tonight's
play was written especially for mister Romero by Muffet Peter
and Frankie Felita, with music composed and conducted by Jeff Alexander.
The entire production is under the direction of Jack John
stall Talon just thirty seconds, we'll meet mister Allan lab
the star next week's drilling play Friends. When that LOGI

(04:43:42):
all in need alactative feeling has you downs, don't increase
your distress by taking upsetting.

Speaker 74 (04:43:47):
Harsh drugs or penal derivatives. Take gentle, dependable nature's remedies,
better known as in our tablets inn. Our tablets are
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thoroughly effective. Join the millions who are enjoying life again
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(04:44:08):
delighted in our tonight tomorrow all right, I'll.

Speaker 10 (04:44:12):
Here transcribed as the star of next week's Toms Hollywood Theater.

Speaker 89 (04:44:15):
Mister Allen lad it's a beautiful night for Christmas Eve.
Great night's thought, quiet, cold snowflakes, dritting down against doing this.
If everything goes rough, I'm going to add us no Christmas. Yeah,
great night for Christmas Eve, but even better for breaking

(04:44:38):
out of prison.

Speaker 10 (04:44:39):
Thanks Allan Lester Gallagher's Christmas Carol is one we won't miss.

Speaker 12 (04:44:51):
On tonight's program.

Speaker 10 (04:44:52):
All characters and the incidents were fictitious. Any similarity to
actual characters or incidences purely coincidental. And now this is
Don Wilson saying good night and reminding you that night
and day at home all the way. Always carry thumbs,
p ums, tombs, all the tummy.

Speaker 9 (04:45:15):
Just for Lance here, Bob Hope next on MBC.

Speaker 4 (04:45:20):
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