April 25, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage. Attley Lewis Elliott Lewis,
two of the most distinguished names in radio, appearing each
week in their own theater, starring in a repertory of
(00:29):
French broad stories of their own and your, choosing radio's
foremost players and Radio's foremost players. Drama, comedy, adventurer, mystery, melodrama,
Ladies and gentlemen, Mister Elliott.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Lewis, good evening, May I present my wife, Kathy, Good.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Evening, and may I introduce our guests this evening, Bob Sweeney.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Bob is the comedian and writer of comedy. The most
of you listening, but tonight it's done something a little
bit different, and we thought it would be nice if
he told you about it himself.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
A few months ago I got interested in the work
done by policewomen on the forces of our cities, and
they were kind enough to allow me to spend some
time with them on their tours. I put together some
of what I saw during those weeks an not a
script called A Fifth of Tears.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
That's it, which you're going to tell us tonight.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
With you Cathy playing the policewoman and Elliott playing a
skid Row bartender.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So tonight a fifth of Tears, written and narrated by
Bob Sweeney.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Tonight, it's the night Watch out of Georgia Street, five
thirty in the evenings were one in the morning. We
patrol areas of high frequency in the heart of our city, parks,
bowling alleys, depots, penny arcades, cheap movie houses, skid row
burlesque strippers and gin joints, and any other places the
men and women of our city choose to commit their
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acts of violence upon themselves and their children. Right now,
it's roll called at Georgia Street. It's four forty five pm.
The end of the day for some, the beginning for others.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Now Here are the missings.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
You're late, Martin, sim consideriously all right, you ready, ladies.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
Five juvenile escape, Donald Brown, male Caucasian escape from Whittier,
sixty seven inches, bright red hair, shaved off, blue eyes,
has small mole left cheek, scar on back of neck,
scar on lower lip, tattoo between second and third fingers
right hand war.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Regulation blues missing juvenile Dave Bushy.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
Slate, male Caucasian, fifteen and a half years, five feet
six or eight last scene September seventh, nineteen fifty two,
getting a truck ride on fast freight headed toward Los Angeles.
That's from Salem, Oregon. That's it for the night. Any questions, Martin?
May I see in my office piece? Thank you ladies?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
What's it all about? Frankly? Why did you put that
pull that chair up to the death right.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
Now?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Huh?
Speaker 9 (03:32):
Figure at?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Yes? Thanks?
Speaker 9 (03:33):
Here?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Thanks? What kind of a b girl do you think
you'd make? So that's it? You need another life? Here? Thanks?
Where do I do this? Main Street north of fourth?
Just once?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Why couldn't it be the Coconut Grove or Cyros They're
too respectable.
Speaker 10 (03:59):
Yeah, that's the matter.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Don't you like ours?
Speaker 10 (04:02):
Kid Row?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Not even the people who live off it like it.
Speaker 11 (04:05):
It's a growth.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Think of the tips you'll make.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Lieutenant Dogburn from Central Vice called and said they wanted
the policewoman who was young, attractive, good figured, sharp and
quick with the answers, and.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I won the beauty contest. You're a blushing.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Tonight promises to be interesting.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
It won't be the routine patrol of clamorous streets and
bag laid Allis calls for the bee Wagon shake down.
Cards in Persian Square station calls, more license numbers for
the hot sheet and curfew warnings that the little boys
who should have been home but stayed to see Hoppy
once more.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Tonight it's a be girl assignment. Tonight.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
We meet Lieutenant Osburn in the parking lot Spring Street.
Now we're in car fifteen JW J for juvenile W
for women. No sirah hm no insignia MM.
Speaker 12 (05:04):
Better go down six to Spring, will make better time
with the lights. That signal was out of order back there,
I'll get it. What was the corner Olympic and Flower.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Fifteen JW reporting a VO signal at Olympic and Flower
KMA three six seven.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Fifteen JW. Roger.
Speaker 12 (05:28):
What are they got to you doing tonight?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Laura, I am a b girl. Om fancy these things
always scare.
Speaker 11 (05:35):
Me me too.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
You talk about scared.
Speaker 12 (05:39):
Lopez and I got a call to an apartment in
East Los Angeles, one of those mixtures of cooking, odors
and carpeting that screams I've never been cleaned, and you
believe it.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Oh, that sounds familiar. The woman was a metal case
beating up her children.
Speaker 12 (05:54):
Lopez took the kids down of the car and was
going to put in a car for a male officer. No,
sooner Lopez got down the steps, the woman let go
with one of those Ocean Park kupie dollars and then
after me with a knife.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Oh what happened the dollar?
Speaker 8 (06:06):
Mister?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
And I got the knife before she got to me. Wow,
musta been quite an experience putting it, mind y. Yes, Uh,
that's the kid that get you though.
Speaker 10 (06:18):
There's Gerdy begging again.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Ahoul, we stop and see her. Oh, if we have time,
it's five forty five, I'm due now. She must have
just got out. I think this is your block, right,
fifteen JW. Go to your station fifteen j W.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Roger, Well there, y'are thanks the ride, because take care
of yourself, Lieutenant augmn.
Speaker 11 (07:03):
How do you do, missus Martin? Get in? Missus Martin?
Do you know Sergeant Bergman?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I know Sergeant Bergman. He worked with my husband. How
have you been, Fred fine?
Speaker 11 (07:13):
Law yourself?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Just fine?
Speaker 11 (07:15):
How's little Bill wonderful? Alright, missus Martin? Uh, how much
do you know?
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Just what Sergeant Franklin told me? I'm to be a
big girl.
Speaker 11 (07:22):
That's right. And here's the rest of the story. It's
a place called the Three Jacks Club. We suspect them
a violation of Section sixty one of the ABC Act.
Have you worked bars before?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
No, sir, I haven't.
Speaker 11 (07:33):
A violation of sixty one is waitresses encouraging patrons to
purchase drinks. I see there's Three Jacks Is on Main
Street between fifth and sixth. It's nothing more than a
beer joint with nixed drinks, pinball machines, a jukebox, barstools, booths,
and they serve food behind a petition at the end
of the bar.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Why am I supposed to find out what.
Speaker 11 (07:51):
We haven't been able to find out? We wanna pull
a raid, but we can't get the evidence. Every time
we send a plain clothes officer and as a decoy
he spotted you got a break today. They ran an
ad in this morning's paper for a cocktail waitress.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I see.
Speaker 11 (08:04):
Now use some uh a phony name. Take this act
with you and see if you can get the job.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
I do my best.
Speaker 11 (08:10):
I'm sure you will. Missus Martin Bergmann. Tell missus Martin
about Felix uh. Felix is the night manager in one
of the bartenders. Each bartender hires his own girls for
his own shift for your purposes.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
He's the boss Felix.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
Yeah, and watch him.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
He knows more about running a string of bees than
anybody on main street.
Speaker 11 (08:26):
You'll have to be on your toes, missus Martin. Our
whole action is geared to the evidence you can supply
us between now and nine o'clock this evening. Uh, don't
forget the girl, Lieutenant. Oh, yes, one other thing. There
may be a juvenile angle. One of the girls on
Felix shift looks like she could be sixteen or so
or so, and she's one of those who looks like
she's her older sisters.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
I'll look for he won't be able to miss her.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
What's the procedure of the tent.
Speaker 11 (08:49):
You apply for the job at six o'clock. If you
don't get the job, report back to me in this
parking lot not later than six thirty. If you don't report,
we'll assume you have the job. In that case, Sergeant
Bergman will contact you at nine o'clock. If you have
sufficient evidence for us to stage a raid, give 'em
the nod and we'll do the rest. Any question, No, no, sir,
(09:10):
it's clear. You better leave your gun, your badge, ID
and shoulder purse with me. If you get the job,
then they go through your things while you're on duty.
Uh take off your hat and put on these earrings
and uh little more make up.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Right.
Speaker 11 (09:23):
Uh, here's a cheap person for you to carry.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
There. Here's my gun.
Speaker 11 (09:33):
I'll hold it for you and the shells.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
You all set, All set.
Speaker 11 (09:41):
I have five fifty one and thirty seconds.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Now I have five fifty one and forty seconds.
Speaker 11 (09:53):
Now we're only five off. That's close enough. Good luck
and be careful. This is it.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
No gun, no badge, no identification, just you, five years training,
your wits, steerings and a borrowed purse. Your name is
Laura Martin, but not tonight. You have to pick a name,
something with L and something with M. In case you
have to write it out. You'll at least start with
the write letters. A name won't come to you. There's
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that feeling again in the pit of your stomach, hollow
and empty, like you haven't eaten for a week. Laverne Loretta,
Lena Libby, Lisa, Lola, Lola now m Murphy, Mullen, Mitchell,
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Mitchell H. Mason, Mason, Lola Mason. This is the place
it must be. But sident says three jacks club.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Well here goes.
Speaker 9 (11:26):
Pardon me? Huh?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Are you Felix?
Speaker 9 (11:30):
Who wants or no?
Speaker 5 (11:31):
I understand you have a job open?
Speaker 9 (11:33):
What kind of job?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Cottail waitress?
Speaker 9 (11:36):
How do you find out?
Speaker 10 (11:37):
Straight?
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Burver croak chaser and a double Scotch over rock?
Speaker 9 (11:40):
You roude? I'm busy row straight burbon.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Coak chaser, a double Scotch over lot. I started adding
the paper.
Speaker 9 (11:46):
You ever work in a bar before?
Speaker 10 (11:48):
No?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
But I catch on fast?
Speaker 11 (11:51):
You do?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Huh?
Speaker 9 (11:53):
You wanna work days and nights?
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Nice?
Speaker 13 (11:55):
Why?
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Well, well, I go to school.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
My girlfriend's getting a night job. We thought would work
out better for the apartment.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
We have.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Stand back from the bar. Mm hm, I'm butting your
coatd What school you're going to?
Speaker 5 (12:14):
USC?
Speaker 9 (12:16):
It's a pretty nice school you got there?
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Do I get the job?
Speaker 9 (12:20):
Can you start tonight?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Sure?
Speaker 9 (12:23):
You've got it.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
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Speaker 6 (13:29):
Now, you're a big girl in the Three Jacks club
because the Three Jacks is suspected a violation of sixty
one of the ABC act waitresses encouraging patrons to purchase drinks.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
There's something else.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
One waitress is suspected of being sixteen years old at
juvenile Every vice officer who's decoyed the joint has failed.
Is something wrong? Now it's up to a policewoman. It's
in your lap from now until nine o'clock.
Speaker 11 (13:55):
It's up to you, and you know it, Lawler.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
You get forty five dollars a week. You work from
six until two in the morning, keep your tips. You
start out as a bar.
Speaker 9 (14:05):
GERL what school you say you're going to usc and
you work just behind the bar cause you're on a
roopes alright, I get this.
Speaker 11 (14:16):
It's important.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
You serve nothing but beer, No mixed drinks, just beer.
Where'd you say you're from?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Hide and say.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
If some guy wants to mix drink, you get it
from me. There, Ralph a eye got it. Here's the beer,
These are the glasses. Here's where you put the money,
all of it.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Hunderstand.
Speaker 9 (14:41):
Where are you from Ohio?
Speaker 11 (14:43):
There?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
You serve beer, no mixed drinks, just beer. You serve
the guys who set up to the bar, and you
throw beer orders for the girls who'll work in the booths.
So far this adds up to nothing.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
There are three other girls on your shift, Rosita, Billy,
and Ruth. Ruth looks like the one who might be sixteen.
The makeup is just a little too heavy, she laughs
just a little too much for a girl who's hide
would be so old.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
And she does look like an older sister. So you
serve beer and.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Everything goes along just like that until one of the
customers takes a fancy to you, and Felix notices it.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
What do you have very of beer?
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Eastern and local local thirty five?
Speaker 13 (15:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (15:42):
Uh here, keep your check, thanks boy.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
That fust Golfer is a really good one.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
It looks like you enjoyed it.
Speaker 9 (15:56):
You're a new one, aren't you?
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Yeah? I started to night you know?
Speaker 10 (16:02):
Uh what are you drinking?
Speaker 13 (16:04):
Sorry, Ruthie, I am talking to the new one.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Okay, okay, cay, can it get me into trouble?
Speaker 13 (16:10):
Listen in this joint, everybody's fair game, and right now
you got me.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
I'm touched.
Speaker 13 (16:17):
I'm safe. You don't know so much of these other dames,
and I might go home with a few books.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
What is that?
Speaker 9 (16:25):
Then? Listen?
Speaker 13 (16:27):
When Felix gets finished with you, you'll be able to
smile and sell her ride out of the guy's teeth,
and he'll love every painful minute of it.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Why you come in here?
Speaker 7 (16:37):
Mm?
Speaker 13 (16:39):
Have you ever lived in.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
The schedule room?
Speaker 8 (16:42):
No?
Speaker 13 (16:43):
Some rots have better shorder. Eh, why don't you climb
all over the bar and sit next to me. I'll
buy a drink, I don't say.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Take these drinks over the roseate and a guy in
a corner.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Okay, Hey that new one?
Speaker 9 (16:59):
Pretty cute, Philick.
Speaker 13 (17:00):
My girls are the best, alright, alright, good night?
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Well God, she'll be bang, Felix. Give me a bourbon
with a coke chaser and a boiler maker.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
How is that one? Over there.
Speaker 10 (17:12):
It's a stiffy.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Make this a nightcap and send him. He's on his
way bourbon coke and a boiler.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Maker, right whel was he?
Speaker 10 (17:19):
How you doing, honey?
Speaker 9 (17:21):
Oh? What talk to you, Lola? About what that guy
you had at the buy here?
Speaker 5 (17:26):
What about him?
Speaker 11 (17:27):
He liked you?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Oh so, so you gotta like him a little. I
was watching you. You weren't friendly enough, but you told
me that's what I told you before. Listen to what
I'm telling you now. You're a good looking dame, and
guys like to talk to dames like you. That's why
I hide you. The guy wants you to.
Speaker 9 (17:47):
Sit with him. Sit with him?
Speaker 5 (17:49):
What about waiting on the customers?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Look, if you get a guy and he's right, take
'em over to one of those booths.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
The other girls will wait on you.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Oh yeah, I'm still in a week.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
I'll up you hare the fifty five. You'll be making
at least sixty dollars on tips. But don't be afraid
to be friendly. You're friendly. They start springing for champagne,
and I get sixteen dollars a bottle for champagne domestic.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
This is all a little new to me.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
Good catch on.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Ruthie's been with me less than three months. She's making
over a hundred and fifty bucks. She's only a kid,
is sure. It isn't how old you are, it's how
smart you are. You got this stuff. Just warm up.
Speaker 9 (18:31):
You wanna graduate, don't you? Sure?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Then keep on your toes. You'll have a nice pencil box. Alright,
There's only one thing you gotta remember. Never ask a
guy for a drink. Make him ask you. Why cause
the cops don't like it. Don't let it bother you.
Though I got every vice cop pegged. Anytime one of
'em comes in here, I'll give you the high sign.
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You stay away from him like he was poisoned. Right, Uh,
come into my office. I wanna show you something. Gonna
show you how to drink. What you mean, I don't
think my girl stays so but drink until two in
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the morning.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I'm gonna show you. When you're with a guy and
he's springing for drinks, let him more to what he wants.
But you you always order a straight shot of whiskey
with a coke chaser. Why, I'm gonna show you. You
take the coke chaser in the hand, that's nearest to
the guy. Cut your hand around the glass so he
can't see how much is in it. Then drink some coke,
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but hold in your mouth. Then take the shot of
whiskey and hold out in your mouth. Then go for
some more coke, but don't drink any Let the stuff
in your mouth slip back into the coke glass. That's
how you drink all night, but you don't drink, and
the sucker pays a buck and a half a shot.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
I understand.
Speaker 9 (20:00):
Try it, practice with this coke.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Alright, that's it.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Now take a sip of coke, hold it, now kill
the shot. Hold it, h Now go for some more coke,
but let it all slip in the glass. There, how's
that lousy? I get the bubbles?
Speaker 13 (20:30):
You may?
Speaker 9 (20:31):
You get all the smart guy? You tip your med. Sorry,
try it again.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
So you try it again and again and again and
again until you get it so smooth. It's like syrup
running into the glass. And Felix is proud of you
cause you're a good looking dame. And you catch on fast.
You been on the job two hours and forty five minutes.
It's eight forty five. You've been promoted from bar girl
to full fledged b girl. The department likes such girls.
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To move ahead. Sergeant Franklin will be proud of it.
There's one more angle to cover. A talk with Ruthie
before Central Vice moves in for the raid. Rosita says
she's in the ladies room.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Hi, RUTHI, Hi, honey? Can I borrow you?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Look sick?
Speaker 11 (21:25):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Any one of those paper tiwls?
Speaker 10 (21:28):
Will you?
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Here?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
You are?
Speaker 11 (21:30):
Thanks?
Speaker 8 (21:32):
I'll put on some fresh makeup. What color do you want?
I have a choice, honey, I have 'em for every mood.
Give me one for a gal who's got the first
day jitters.
Speaker 11 (21:41):
Mm.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Here you are? Try this? Thanks?
Speaker 10 (21:45):
When you get onto this job, it's a snap.
Speaker 12 (21:47):
Mm.
Speaker 10 (21:48):
You've been at it about three months?
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Do you use miss gare?
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Oh, honey, try it really gives your lid's character.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Where you from?
Speaker 10 (21:59):
Ohio? Canton?
Speaker 5 (22:00):
I have a Toledo?
Speaker 10 (22:01):
No kidding?
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Now?
Speaker 10 (22:02):
Do you have an old boy named Fred Tarantina?
Speaker 12 (22:04):
There?
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (22:05):
I don't think so.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
That's funny. He was a bell boy in a hotel there.
I met him once.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Why'd you leave the hotel?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
No?
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Kenn h my old man or my mother split up?
How do you like these dough eyes very becoming.
Speaker 10 (22:21):
I think they're kind of glamorous.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
They split up and I went to live with my
father and he marries a dame four years older than me,
and I couldn't stand being bossed by a chicky step mother,
so I got on a bus and came to Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Does your mother know?
Speaker 10 (22:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
I'm using a.
Speaker 10 (22:38):
Phony name anyway, like your earring sex.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
How is it working for Felix?
Speaker 10 (22:44):
Oh, it's alright. You make good money. He keeps his
hands off you.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
It's all kind of new to me.
Speaker 10 (22:49):
Let me give you a tip.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
Stay away from the young guys. They're either slumming or
they're broke. Spend your time with the old guys and
the service men. They're lonely and they're loaded personally.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
I like the old guys.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
I'd sell them pretty repulsive.
Speaker 10 (23:04):
Why I don't mean the whinos, I mean the baldies.
I like these dough wis on me?
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Don't you nice?
Speaker 10 (23:11):
You just gotta use mess Gara, Honey, your eyes got
no character?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
How old are you?
Speaker 10 (23:16):
Ruthy guess you'll never guess.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
You must be at least twenty two.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
See I told you sixteen three months ago. No, yeah,
and for heaven's sake, keep it under your hat. Why
Felix knows, but the cops don't, and.
Speaker 10 (23:33):
They're in here every night. They are sure this ain't
exactly on the up and up, you know.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Oh, come on, let's go.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
I'll see you'd better go. Three minutes tonight. Your contact
from Central Ice will be here any minute. Already the
evidence is complete. The Three Jacks is employing waitresses to
encourage people froms to purchase drinks. A juvenile is employed,
(24:03):
a run away from Cantin o'hire who has the world
by the tail. Just a matter of minutes now until
the button's put on this then the crime reports and
home to your little boy.
Speaker 9 (24:13):
Yes, go get yourself some neat eat.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, I'm not hungry. It's almost nine o'clock. You've been
on three hours. You have to eat something, act all
night without eating exact no, you got first night hit
is now, go eat eat something.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
Go on, go eat.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Food is the furthest thing from your mind at this moment.
But until you make your contact. You're the new girl
who is hired tonight, and I Felix says, eat you eat,
So you go behind the petitionion, which cuts off your
view of the main street entrance.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
It's a question of your eating.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
A piece of pie a cup of coffee.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Quick, please, eating a piece of pie and a cup
of coffee, faster than you've ever eaten a piece of
pie and a cup of coffee in your life.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Nine oh one.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
A few fast bites and a couple of gulps, and
back you go, hoping you haven't missed.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
That's your contact.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
I need to see that guy going out the door
as Jean.
Speaker 10 (25:04):
That's one of the cops.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
I was telling you about money. Where are you going?
Speaker 9 (25:08):
Hey, Lola?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Were you looking for me? Sergeant Laura?
Speaker 8 (25:11):
I know?
Speaker 11 (25:12):
Did you get the evidence?
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Yes, sir, violation of sixty one and the girls of juvenile.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
Nice work, Get your hat and coat.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
A Fifth of Tears starring Kathy and Elliott Lewis. In
a moment, mister and missus Lewis will tell you about
next week's play. Tomorrow night, you will want to hear
John Lund as yours truly, Johnny Dollar taking on an
insurance investigation he calls the Underwood Matter. The question of
interest to yours truly is whether a certain policyholder was killed,
died a suicide, or or had an accident. See if
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you can beat Johnny Dollar to the punch Tomorrow night
on CBS Radio. Also Tomorrow night on most of these stations,
try your wits against those of mister Keen, Tracer of
Lost Persons investigating the case of murder and the Haunted Farm.
And now Kathy and Elliott Lewis.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Our thanks to Bob Sweeney for the script and the narrative.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
To Policewomen Irene Tedrow and Charlotte Lawrence.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Police officers Byron Kin and High.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Avavak, juvenile offender Barbara Whiting, and lonely patron Joseph Granby.
Speaker 9 (26:36):
Next week a very unusual story about daydreaming.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
It is titled Call Me a Cab, its author Shirley Gordon.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
And its premise the quick, fanciful dreams of two strangers
sharing a rainy afternoon.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
So until next week, Thank you for listening, and good night.
Speaker 9 (26:51):
Good night.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Music for tonight's story was composed by Fred Steiner and
conducted by lud Gluskin. The Kathy and Elliott theme is
by Ray Noble. Kathy and Elliott Lewis on Stage is
transcribed and directed by mister Lewis. George wallsh speaking what
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for campeon Elligott Lewis on stage, and remember Friday night,
there's music in the air on the CBS Radio network.
Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage. Attley Lewis Elliott Lewis,
two of the most distinguished names in radio, appearing each
week in their own theater, starring in a repertory of
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French broad stories of their own and your, choosing radio's
foremost players and Radio's foremost players. Drama, comedy, adventurer, mystery, melodrama,
Ladies and gentlemen, Mister Elliott.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Lewis, good evening, May I present my wife, Kathy, Good.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Evening, and may I introduce our guests this evening, Bob Sweeney.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Bob is the comedian and writer of comedy. The most
of you listening, but tonight it's done something a little
bit different, and we thought it would be nice if
he told you about it himself.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
A few months ago I got interested in the work
done by policewomen on the forces of our cities, and
they were kind enough to allow me to spend some
time with them on their tours. I put together some
of what I saw during those weeks an not a
script called A Fifth of Tears.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
That's it, which you're going to tell us tonight.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
With you Cathy playing the policewoman and Elliott playing a
skid Row bartender.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So tonight a fifth of Tears, written and narrated by
Bob Sweeney.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Tonight, it's the night Watch out of Georgia Street, five
thirty in the evenings were one in the morning. We
patrol areas of high frequency in the heart of our city, parks,
bowling alleys, depots, penny arcades, cheap movie houses, skid row
burlesque strippers and gin joints, and any other places the
men and women of our city choose to commit their
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acts of violence upon themselves and their children. Right now,
it's roll called at Georgia Street. It's four forty five pm.
The end of the day for some, the beginning for others.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Now Here are the missings.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
You're late, Martin, sim consideriously all right, you ready, ladies.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
Five juvenile escape, Donald Brown, male Caucasian escape from Whittier,
sixty seven inches, bright red hair, shaved off, blue eyes,
has small mole left cheek, scar on back of neck,
scar on lower lip, tattoo between second and third fingers
right hand war.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Regulation blues missing juvenile Dave Bushy.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
Slate, male Caucasian, fifteen and a half years, five feet
six or eight last scene September seventh, nineteen fifty two,
getting a truck ride on fast freight headed toward Los Angeles.
That's from Salem, Oregon. That's it for the night. Any questions, Martin?
May I see in my office piece? Thank you ladies?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
What's it all about? Frankly? Why did you put that
pull that chair up to the death right.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
Now?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Huh?
Speaker 9 (03:32):
Figure at?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Yes? Thanks?
Speaker 9 (03:33):
Here?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Thanks? What kind of a b girl do you think
you'd make? So that's it? You need another life? Here? Thanks?
Where do I do this? Main Street north of fourth?
Just once?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Why couldn't it be the Coconut Grove or Cyros They're
too respectable.
Speaker 10 (03:59):
Yeah, that's the matter.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Don't you like ours?
Speaker 10 (04:02):
Kid Row?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Not even the people who live off it like it.
Speaker 11 (04:05):
It's a growth.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Think of the tips you'll make.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Lieutenant Dogburn from Central Vice called and said they wanted
the policewoman who was young, attractive, good figured, sharp and
quick with the answers, and.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I won the beauty contest. You're a blushing.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Tonight promises to be interesting.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
It won't be the routine patrol of clamorous streets and
bag laid Allis calls for the bee Wagon shake down.
Cards in Persian Square station calls, more license numbers for
the hot sheet and curfew warnings that the little boys
who should have been home but stayed to see Hoppy
once more.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Tonight it's a be girl assignment. Tonight.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
We meet Lieutenant Osburn in the parking lot Spring Street.
Now we're in car fifteen JW J for juvenile W
for women. No sirah hm no insignia MM.
Speaker 12 (05:04):
Better go down six to Spring, will make better time
with the lights. That signal was out of order back there,
I'll get it. What was the corner Olympic and Flower.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Fifteen JW reporting a VO signal at Olympic and Flower
KMA three six seven.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Fifteen JW. Roger.
Speaker 12 (05:28):
What are they got to you doing tonight?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Laura, I am a b girl. Om fancy these things
always scare.
Speaker 11 (05:35):
Me me too.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
You talk about scared.
Speaker 12 (05:39):
Lopez and I got a call to an apartment in
East Los Angeles, one of those mixtures of cooking, odors
and carpeting that screams I've never been cleaned, and you
believe it.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Oh, that sounds familiar. The woman was a metal case
beating up her children.
Speaker 12 (05:54):
Lopez took the kids down of the car and was
going to put in a car for a male officer. No,
sooner Lopez got down the steps, the woman let go
with one of those Ocean Park kupie dollars and then
after me with a knife.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Oh what happened the dollar?
Speaker 8 (06:06):
Mister?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
And I got the knife before she got to me. Wow,
musta been quite an experience putting it, mind y. Yes, Uh,
that's the kid that get you though.
Speaker 10 (06:18):
There's Gerdy begging again.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Ahoul, we stop and see her. Oh, if we have time,
it's five forty five, I'm due now. She must have
just got out. I think this is your block, right,
fifteen JW. Go to your station fifteen j W.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Roger, Well there, y'are thanks the ride, because take care
of yourself, Lieutenant augmn.
Speaker 11 (07:03):
How do you do, missus Martin? Get in? Missus Martin?
Do you know Sergeant Bergman?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I know Sergeant Bergman. He worked with my husband. How
have you been, Fred fine?
Speaker 11 (07:13):
Law yourself?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Just fine?
Speaker 11 (07:15):
How's little Bill wonderful? Alright, missus Martin? Uh, how much
do you know?
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Just what Sergeant Franklin told me? I'm to be a
big girl.
Speaker 11 (07:22):
That's right. And here's the rest of the story. It's
a place called the Three Jacks Club. We suspect them
a violation of Section sixty one of the ABC Act.
Have you worked bars before?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
No, sir, I haven't.
Speaker 11 (07:33):
A violation of sixty one is waitresses encouraging patrons to
purchase drinks. I see there's Three Jacks Is on Main
Street between fifth and sixth. It's nothing more than a
beer joint with nixed drinks, pinball machines, a jukebox, barstools, booths,
and they serve food behind a petition at the end
of the bar.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Why am I supposed to find out what.
Speaker 11 (07:51):
We haven't been able to find out? We wanna pull
a raid, but we can't get the evidence. Every time
we send a plain clothes officer and as a decoy
he spotted you got a break today. They ran an
ad in this morning's paper for a cocktail waitress.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I see.
Speaker 11 (08:04):
Now use some uh a phony name. Take this act
with you and see if you can get the job.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
I do my best.
Speaker 11 (08:10):
I'm sure you will. Missus Martin Bergmann. Tell missus Martin
about Felix uh. Felix is the night manager in one
of the bartenders. Each bartender hires his own girls for
his own shift for your purposes.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
He's the boss Felix.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
Yeah, and watch him.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
He knows more about running a string of bees than
anybody on main street.
Speaker 11 (08:26):
You'll have to be on your toes, missus Martin. Our
whole action is geared to the evidence you can supply
us between now and nine o'clock this evening. Uh, don't
forget the girl, Lieutenant. Oh, yes, one other thing. There
may be a juvenile angle. One of the girls on
Felix shift looks like she could be sixteen or so
or so, and she's one of those who looks like
she's her older sisters.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
I'll look for he won't be able to miss her.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
What's the procedure of the tent.
Speaker 11 (08:49):
You apply for the job at six o'clock. If you
don't get the job, report back to me in this
parking lot not later than six thirty. If you don't report,
we'll assume you have the job. In that case, Sergeant
Bergman will contact you at nine o'clock. If you have
sufficient evidence for us to stage a raid, give 'em
the nod and we'll do the rest. Any question, No, no, sir,
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it's clear. You better leave your gun, your badge, ID
and shoulder purse with me. If you get the job,
then they go through your things while you're on duty.
Uh take off your hat and put on these earrings
and uh little more make up.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Right.
Speaker 11 (09:23):
Uh, here's a cheap person for you to carry.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
There. Here's my gun.
Speaker 11 (09:33):
I'll hold it for you and the shells.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
You all set, All set.
Speaker 11 (09:41):
I have five fifty one and thirty seconds.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Now I have five fifty one and forty seconds.
Speaker 11 (09:53):
Now we're only five off. That's close enough. Good luck
and be careful. This is it.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
No gun, no badge, no identification, just you, five years training,
your wits, steerings and a borrowed purse. Your name is
Laura Martin, but not tonight. You have to pick a name,
something with L and something with M. In case you
have to write it out. You'll at least start with
the write letters. A name won't come to you. There's
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that feeling again in the pit of your stomach, hollow
and empty, like you haven't eaten for a week. Laverne Loretta,
Lena Libby, Lisa, Lola, Lola now m Murphy, Mullen, Mitchell,
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Mitchell H. Mason, Mason, Lola Mason. This is the place
it must be. But sident says three jacks club.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Well here goes.
Speaker 9 (11:26):
Pardon me? Huh?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Are you Felix?
Speaker 9 (11:30):
Who wants or no?
Speaker 5 (11:31):
I understand you have a job open?
Speaker 9 (11:33):
What kind of job?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Cottail waitress?
Speaker 9 (11:36):
How do you find out?
Speaker 10 (11:37):
Straight?
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Burver croak chaser and a double Scotch over rock?
Speaker 9 (11:40):
You roude? I'm busy row straight burbon.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Coak chaser, a double Scotch over lot. I started adding
the paper.
Speaker 9 (11:46):
You ever work in a bar before?
Speaker 10 (11:48):
No?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
But I catch on fast?
Speaker 11 (11:51):
You do?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Huh?
Speaker 9 (11:53):
You wanna work days and nights?
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Nice?
Speaker 13 (11:55):
Why?
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Well, well, I go to school.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
My girlfriend's getting a night job. We thought would work
out better for the apartment.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
We have.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Stand back from the bar. Mm hm, I'm butting your
coatd What school you're going to?
Speaker 5 (12:14):
USC?
Speaker 9 (12:16):
It's a pretty nice school you got there?
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Do I get the job?
Speaker 9 (12:20):
Can you start tonight?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Sure?
Speaker 9 (12:23):
You've got it.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
You are listening to Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage
to Night's play a fifth of Tears. This Saturday, CBS
Radio's Gangbusters begins, a four week series on police activities
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Men and local authorities had to work together the hunt
was hard and a man hunt against one of the
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America's most exciting man hunts.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Now, you're a big girl in the Three Jacks club
because the Three Jacks is suspected a violation of sixty
one of the ABC act waitresses encouraging patrons to purchase drinks.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
There's something else.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
One waitress is suspected of being sixteen years old at
juvenile Every vice officer who's decoyed the joint has failed.
Is something wrong? Now it's up to a policewoman. It's
in your lap from now until nine o'clock.
Speaker 11 (13:55):
It's up to you, and you know it, Lawler.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
You get forty five dollars a week. You work from
six until two in the morning, keep your tips. You
start out as a bar.
Speaker 9 (14:05):
GERL what school you say you're going to usc and
you work just behind the bar cause you're on a
roopes alright, I get this.
Speaker 11 (14:16):
It's important.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
You serve nothing but beer, No mixed drinks, just beer.
Where'd you say you're from?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Hide and say.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
If some guy wants to mix drink, you get it
from me. There, Ralph a eye got it. Here's the beer,
These are the glasses. Here's where you put the money,
all of it.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Hunderstand.
Speaker 9 (14:41):
Where are you from Ohio?
Speaker 11 (14:43):
There?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
You serve beer, no mixed drinks, just beer. You serve
the guys who set up to the bar, and you
throw beer orders for the girls who'll work in the booths.
So far this adds up to nothing.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
There are three other girls on your shift, Rosita, Billy,
and Ruth. Ruth looks like the one who might be sixteen.
The makeup is just a little too heavy, she laughs
just a little too much for a girl who's hide
would be so old.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
And she does look like an older sister. So you
serve beer and.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Everything goes along just like that until one of the
customers takes a fancy to you, and Felix notices it.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
What do you have very of beer?
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Eastern and local local thirty five?
Speaker 13 (15:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (15:42):
Uh here, keep your check, thanks boy.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
That fust Golfer is a really good one.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
It looks like you enjoyed it.
Speaker 9 (15:56):
You're a new one, aren't you?
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Yeah? I started to night you know?
Speaker 10 (16:02):
Uh what are you drinking?
Speaker 13 (16:04):
Sorry, Ruthie, I am talking to the new one.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Okay, okay, cay, can it get me into trouble?
Speaker 13 (16:10):
Listen in this joint, everybody's fair game, and right now
you got me.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
I'm touched.
Speaker 13 (16:17):
I'm safe. You don't know so much of these other dames,
and I might go home with a few books.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
What is that?
Speaker 9 (16:25):
Then? Listen?
Speaker 13 (16:27):
When Felix gets finished with you, you'll be able to
smile and sell her ride out of the guy's teeth,
and he'll love every painful minute of it.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Why you come in here?
Speaker 7 (16:37):
Mm?
Speaker 13 (16:39):
Have you ever lived in.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
The schedule room?
Speaker 8 (16:42):
No?
Speaker 13 (16:43):
Some rots have better shorder. Eh, why don't you climb
all over the bar and sit next to me. I'll
buy a drink, I don't say.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Take these drinks over the roseate and a guy in
a corner.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Okay, Hey that new one?
Speaker 9 (16:59):
Pretty cute, Philick.
Speaker 13 (17:00):
My girls are the best, alright, alright, good night?
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Well God, she'll be bang, Felix. Give me a bourbon
with a coke chaser and a boiler maker.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
How is that one? Over there.
Speaker 10 (17:12):
It's a stiffy.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Make this a nightcap and send him. He's on his
way bourbon coke and a boiler.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Maker, right whel was he?
Speaker 10 (17:19):
How you doing, honey?
Speaker 9 (17:21):
Oh? What talk to you, Lola? About what that guy
you had at the buy here?
Speaker 5 (17:26):
What about him?
Speaker 11 (17:27):
He liked you?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Oh so, so you gotta like him a little. I
was watching you. You weren't friendly enough, but you told
me that's what I told you before. Listen to what
I'm telling you now. You're a good looking dame, and
guys like to talk to dames like you. That's why
I hide you. The guy wants you to.
Speaker 9 (17:47):
Sit with him. Sit with him?
Speaker 5 (17:49):
What about waiting on the customers?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Look, if you get a guy and he's right, take
'em over to one of those booths.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
The other girls will wait on you.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Oh yeah, I'm still in a week.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
I'll up you hare the fifty five. You'll be making
at least sixty dollars on tips. But don't be afraid
to be friendly. You're friendly. They start springing for champagne,
and I get sixteen dollars a bottle for champagne domestic.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
This is all a little new to me.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
Good catch on.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Ruthie's been with me less than three months. She's making
over a hundred and fifty bucks. She's only a kid,
is sure. It isn't how old you are, it's how
smart you are. You got this stuff. Just warm up.
Speaker 9 (18:31):
You wanna graduate, don't you? Sure?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Then keep on your toes. You'll have a nice pencil box. Alright,
There's only one thing you gotta remember. Never ask a
guy for a drink. Make him ask you. Why cause
the cops don't like it. Don't let it bother you.
Though I got every vice cop pegged. Anytime one of
'em comes in here, I'll give you the high sign.
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You stay away from him like he was poisoned. Right, Uh,
come into my office. I wanna show you something. Gonna
show you how to drink. What you mean, I don't
think my girl stays so but drink until two in
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the morning.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I'm gonna show you. When you're with a guy and
he's springing for drinks, let him more to what he wants.
But you you always order a straight shot of whiskey
with a coke chaser. Why, I'm gonna show you. You
take the coke chaser in the hand, that's nearest to
the guy. Cut your hand around the glass so he
can't see how much is in it. Then drink some coke,
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but hold in your mouth. Then take the shot of
whiskey and hold out in your mouth. Then go for
some more coke, but don't drink any Let the stuff
in your mouth slip back into the coke glass. That's
how you drink all night, but you don't drink, and
the sucker pays a buck and a half a shot.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
I understand.
Speaker 9 (20:00):
Try it, practice with this coke.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Alright, that's it.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Now take a sip of coke, hold it, now kill
the shot. Hold it, h Now go for some more coke,
but let it all slip in the glass. There, how's
that lousy? I get the bubbles?
Speaker 13 (20:30):
You may?
Speaker 9 (20:31):
You get all the smart guy? You tip your med. Sorry,
try it again.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
So you try it again and again and again and
again until you get it so smooth. It's like syrup
running into the glass. And Felix is proud of you
cause you're a good looking dame. And you catch on fast.
You been on the job two hours and forty five minutes.
It's eight forty five. You've been promoted from bar girl
to full fledged b girl. The department likes such girls.
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To move ahead. Sergeant Franklin will be proud of it.
There's one more angle to cover. A talk with Ruthie
before Central Vice moves in for the raid. Rosita says
she's in the ladies room.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Hi, RUTHI, Hi, honey? Can I borrow you?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Look sick?
Speaker 11 (21:25):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Any one of those paper tiwls?
Speaker 10 (21:28):
Will you?
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Here?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
You are?
Speaker 11 (21:30):
Thanks?
Speaker 8 (21:32):
I'll put on some fresh makeup. What color do you want?
I have a choice, honey, I have 'em for every mood.
Give me one for a gal who's got the first
day jitters.
Speaker 11 (21:41):
Mm.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Here you are? Try this? Thanks?
Speaker 10 (21:45):
When you get onto this job, it's a snap.
Speaker 12 (21:47):
Mm.
Speaker 10 (21:48):
You've been at it about three months?
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Do you use miss gare?
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Oh, honey, try it really gives your lid's character.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Where you from?
Speaker 10 (21:59):
Ohio? Canton?
Speaker 5 (22:00):
I have a Toledo?
Speaker 10 (22:01):
No kidding?
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Now?
Speaker 10 (22:02):
Do you have an old boy named Fred Tarantina?
Speaker 12 (22:04):
There?
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (22:05):
I don't think so.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
That's funny. He was a bell boy in a hotel there.
I met him once.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Why'd you leave the hotel?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
No?
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Kenn h my old man or my mother split up?
How do you like these dough eyes very becoming.
Speaker 10 (22:21):
I think they're kind of glamorous.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
They split up and I went to live with my
father and he marries a dame four years older than me,
and I couldn't stand being bossed by a chicky step mother,
so I got on a bus and came to Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Does your mother know?
Speaker 10 (22:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
I'm using a.
Speaker 10 (22:38):
Phony name anyway, like your earring sex.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
How is it working for Felix?
Speaker 10 (22:44):
Oh, it's alright. You make good money. He keeps his
hands off you.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
It's all kind of new to me.
Speaker 10 (22:49):
Let me give you a tip.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
Stay away from the young guys. They're either slumming or
they're broke. Spend your time with the old guys and
the service men. They're lonely and they're loaded personally.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
I like the old guys.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
I'd sell them pretty repulsive.
Speaker 10 (23:04):
Why I don't mean the whinos, I mean the baldies.
I like these dough wis on me?
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Don't you nice?
Speaker 10 (23:11):
You just gotta use mess Gara, Honey, your eyes got
no character?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
How old are you?
Speaker 10 (23:16):
Ruthy guess you'll never guess.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
You must be at least twenty two.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
See I told you sixteen three months ago. No, yeah,
and for heaven's sake, keep it under your hat. Why
Felix knows, but the cops don't, and.
Speaker 10 (23:33):
They're in here every night. They are sure this ain't
exactly on the up and up, you know.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Oh, come on, let's go.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
I'll see you'd better go. Three minutes tonight. Your contact
from Central Ice will be here any minute. Already the
evidence is complete. The Three Jacks is employing waitresses to
encourage people froms to purchase drinks. A juvenile is employed,
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a run away from Cantin o'hire who has the world
by the tail. Just a matter of minutes now until
the button's put on this then the crime reports and
home to your little boy.
Speaker 9 (24:13):
Yes, go get yourself some neat eat.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, I'm not hungry. It's almost nine o'clock. You've been
on three hours. You have to eat something, act all
night without eating exact no, you got first night hit
is now, go eat eat something.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
Go on, go eat.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Food is the furthest thing from your mind at this moment.
But until you make your contact. You're the new girl
who is hired tonight, and I Felix says, eat you eat,
So you go behind the petitionion, which cuts off your
view of the main street entrance.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
It's a question of your eating.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
A piece of pie a cup of coffee.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Quick, please, eating a piece of pie and a cup
of coffee, faster than you've ever eaten a piece of
pie and a cup of coffee in your life.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Nine oh one.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
A few fast bites and a couple of gulps, and
back you go, hoping you haven't missed.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
That's your contact.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
I need to see that guy going out the door
as Jean.
Speaker 10 (25:04):
That's one of the cops.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
I was telling you about money. Where are you going?
Speaker 9 (25:08):
Hey, Lola?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Were you looking for me? Sergeant Laura?
Speaker 8 (25:11):
I know?
Speaker 11 (25:12):
Did you get the evidence?
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Yes, sir, violation of sixty one and the girls of juvenile.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
Nice work, Get your hat and coat.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
A Fifth of Tears starring Kathy and Elliott Lewis. In
a moment, mister and missus Lewis will tell you about
next week's play. Tomorrow night, you will want to hear
John Lund as yours truly, Johnny Dollar taking on an
insurance investigation he calls the Underwood Matter. The question of
interest to yours truly is whether a certain policyholder was killed,
died a suicide, or or had an accident. See if
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you can beat Johnny Dollar to the punch Tomorrow night
on CBS Radio. Also Tomorrow night on most of these stations,
try your wits against those of mister Keen, Tracer of
Lost Persons investigating the case of murder and the Haunted Farm.
And now Kathy and Elliott Lewis.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Our thanks to Bob Sweeney for the script and the narrative.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
To Policewomen Irene Tedrow and Charlotte Lawrence.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Police officers Byron Kin and High.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Avavak, juvenile offender Barbara Whiting, and lonely patron Joseph Granby.
Speaker 9 (26:36):
Next week a very unusual story about daydreaming.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
It is titled Call Me a Cab, its author Shirley Gordon.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
And its premise the quick, fanciful dreams of two strangers
sharing a rainy afternoon.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
So until next week, Thank you for listening, and good night.
Speaker 9 (26:51):
Good night.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Music for tonight's story was composed by Fred Steiner and
conducted by lud Gluskin. The Kathy and Elliott theme is
by Ray Noble. Kathy and Elliott Lewis on Stage is
transcribed and directed by mister Lewis. George wallsh speaking what
does the future hold for me? That's a question we
all ask ourselves at one time or another. While the
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there's music in the air on the CBS Radio network.
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