November 2, 2024 • 40 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Welcome, I me e g.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Marshall, your companion on these journeys we take to the
outer boundaries of the unknown. Perhaps the greatest unknown of
all is not what exists out there in the nether
regions of distant space, but that which beats constantly inside
each of us, the human heart.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
The human heart.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
It's both a tangible physical organ and also a mysterious,
incomprehensible force. Yes, it's the brain that weighs, essays, analyzes,
but in the end it is the heart but decides,
And each of us may be surprised by the decision of.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
His heart, because the heart has its own reasons.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Ah our mystery drama, I Must Kill Edna was written
especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and Stars Elliott.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Read.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
We are commanded by laws both human and divine, to
tell the truth. But what is truth If sages, philosophers,
and saints have disagreed?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
What hope is there for us, ordinary modest folk.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
The ancient Romans actually exempted certain areas of human behavior
from the truth. For instance, you didn't have to tell
the truth about love, and the famous saying of the
times was the gods laugh at the lies of lovers
and talking about love, we now arrive at that delicate
balance of falsehood and truths from which is drawn or
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all of love's.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Nourishment and sustenance.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
And to a consideration of Chester Masefield, a lover par excellence.
When Chester said to Edna Morrissey, I love you, darling,
he was telling the truth as he saw it and
felt it and wished it on that particular day.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
But let the story tell itself. You must listen to
me at night.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Die, yes, darling, my darling, my darling had nuts.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
No, don't tell me to stop me?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Why?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Why should I be sent? Why should I be sensible?
Why be prejudiced against me? Who else in this mad
world is sensible?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
To please be serious, my darling.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Ah, you live in a universe filled with fools and madments. Yes, no,
you must permit me, my saf a.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Marriage between you and me. It's impossible. Why we didn't
feel Why I'm old?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
This match was arranged in heaven. I need an old
a woman. You need a younger man.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
I don't need a man who will.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
How you know you never had one? I had to
say that?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
And why it isn't true?
Speaker 6 (03:13):
I've been married.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
To whom to had dried up decrepit, daughter, eve Awa.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
He was a soul of goodness, the spirit of generosity.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I'll give him all that, but he wasn't much good
for a woman.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Certain things are are more important than the fleeting physical attraction, Edna.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
You can say what you like, and you can like
what you say, but it's a life. We human beings
were made for one thing and one thing only, and
that's love.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Ugh.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Everything else merely fills the rest of the time.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Jes can't you ever be serious. I'm always serious.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I'm tending to the serious business of life, which is love.
You're the frivolous one whitering away your time with all
sorts of ridiculous projects.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh, I believe you call them good work.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Surely even you must be aware that there are people
who are staying.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But I'm wise to you, darling, I know why you
engage in these prenetic philanthropies who you're only trying to
whitewash Your father.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
My father is kind, little good.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
To you, to you alone in all the world.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
But he sweated and swindled and stole his fortune from
the poor, from the helpless.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You know that's just careful careful.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Don't say why.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
But that was a long time ago, and nobody cares.
No one remembers. You don't have to give it back.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Just do what am I going to do with you?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Marry me?
Speaker 6 (04:43):
But it seemed me doesn't make say.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Darling, please stop objecting so much.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Come here, you see, my darling, Nothing but nothing could
ever be more important than this.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Do you agree? I?
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Let's try it again, And so we were married. Edna,
of course, was deliriously happy, and I, well, I was
happy too.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It was an exciting, a heavy experience for each of us.
For Edna, it was an introduction to love. For me,
it was an introduction to wealth.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
There are, after all, very few men in our society
whose wives are millionaires. And I had joined this extremely
select group. And I tell you there's nothing like it. However,
there was the matter of some of her charities. But
if we could have everything we want here on earth,
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there'd be no point in going to heaven after we die.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
What they are.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
And this, my darling, is our newest building here on
animal farms.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I see it's a serpentarium. Oh h what a serpentarium?
Speaker 6 (06:15):
A house of snakes?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
How how fascinating.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Yes, poor and maligned and misunderstood creatures.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Come.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Would you like to see them? Well? I, oh, they're
They're all secure behind grass.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
In that case, sir, These these are called pit vipers.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
That's because they have that indentation between the eye and
the nose.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Fascinating.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
These are all rattlesnakes and copperheads.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Charming creatures.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
They are lovely, graceful, elegant, and yet mankind will soon
exterminate them completely.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Not darling. Is that bad?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
My dear?
Speaker 6 (07:00):
You're such a barbarian.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
I love them. They're beautiful, cool, and pleasant to the touch.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
My dear, you don't touch them.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
I've been told that they won't harm you with it.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Yes, if there is neither hate nor fear in your heart?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Mm? Is it all right if uh I never touch them?
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Oh? She has to die.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
I know you're laughing at me.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I'm doing no such thing. I believe everything you are
telling me.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Mm.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
You lie so beautifully.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
You think I'm a not And all these activities of mine,
Oh I I approve of them completely.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
They or use to No.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
As a matter of fact, I didn't marry you in
the hope of changing you.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Why don't you drive to town.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Today, have lunch at your club, do something you like,
and you will come back refreshed.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Are you sure you can spare me?
Speaker 7 (08:00):
No, but I'll get through the day somehow, Yester, Yester Maysty,
it's pray.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I thought you'd given up the club for good. I've
been in the country these past few months and joined
me for lunch. Of course, I understand. Congratulations are in order.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Thank you here.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
She's a lovely woman. Thank you again.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And money doesn't hurt either. That is a low blow.
There are no low blows among old friends, only bitter crews.
She's fifty and in what we could consider the soft
September of her beauty. I'm forty and I decided to
retire from one from love.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
From love precisely, well.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
How does one retire? Ever since I found out that
we were boys and they were girls, love has been
my occupation, with my preoccupation, my profession. Other men would
say I'm a doctor, I'm a lawyer, a banker, but
I would say I'm a lover.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I suppose you were there. Now I realize that love
simply does not exist.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
It's a snare, a delusion, a swindle. This from you
Chester a lover. The oasis of love is merely a mirage.
I will no longer pursue it. But it was always
a lie, a lovely lie. Well, since love doesn't exist,
I've decided to suffer for happiness. You sounded if the
two were mutually exclusive.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Perhaps they are.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Oh my goodness, I had forgotten all about you the burning.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Could you be in the dining room? And I said, well,
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (09:38):
If I should really interrupt me to tether when he's
a scatting importance in me.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Have you had your lunch?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Well, an aspiring young actor should never turn down a meal,
even if you had lunch. Eat again? Right, you may
be out of luck tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
He's too kind.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yes, I know, yes, there this is sue Ellen Grackenbush.
Mister Masefield, Suellen, Hello, Suellen, Are you.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
A theatrical producer?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
To m No, he can't do you any good at all.
Turn it off, Suellen.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Oh, isn't he.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Her father saved my life before she was born A
couple of wars ago. Now this one wants to be
an actress, so he sends her to see me. Uh,
for old time's sake, can I do something.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Well, he did save your life.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Still he's too much to ask in return. But you
are a famous producer friend.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Oh what am I going to do with you? Sue Ellen?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
She's a lovely child, but she can't act for beans.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
I'm not a child and twenty three?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
But sordered lunch? Now?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
What was you like, Suellen?
Speaker 9 (10:45):
Well?
Speaker 6 (10:47):
What what is this? Beef? Boie?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Deep?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
None? Did I pronounce that right? I took a year
to French in high school.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
She looked up from the menu as she spoke, and
her eyes met mine, and the very words I had
spoken but a few moments before exploded in my brain,
that sudden stabbing shock of recognition when the heart is
fatally but oh so sweetly wounded by a woman's glance.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Is this how it happens?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Have I been stabbed finally and at length, and for
the first time in my life by by a provincial
schoolgirl struggling with French words on a menu.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
And uh uh latinite onion a vexatan and fromage and
at the la Ooh.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
He isn't eric and apartan. I mean it's like the
movie is it yours? Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (11:58):
That time it's free?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
You must be a very wealthy person, mister Mayfield.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Chester Chester.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
We have some folks in tabot corners who are way off.
You know that.
Speaker 10 (12:14):
No one who's actually wealthy.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, I fix you a drink.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Oh you don't have to fix my drink.
Speaker 10 (12:19):
Just open a bottle of pop.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Where here we are?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yes, here we are.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Isn't it just like a book A single girl from
the country.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
In this luxurious millionaire's apartment. It's like a movie I
saw at the Ritz.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Where they had this.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yes, please shut up.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Who's to me?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I have something to tell you. I love you, mister
me Field, Chester, Yester.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I fell in love with you the only way people
can really fall in love at first sight swelling.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Please now say something.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Why I I don't know what to say. Look at me.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
They'd never believe that.
Speaker 11 (13:12):
I come.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
You allen it a lot the way, But is it?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I know it's crazy. I'm twice your age. I don't
say it's impossible.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Oh it is what?
Speaker 6 (13:30):
I just don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Whay here you can?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Well?
Speaker 6 (13:34):
You see I I'm in love with you.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Oh am, I late for dinner, No dear, as master
of this house.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Then then miss Lake your pleasure.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Oh I'm starved. Say, uh, did I see Halliwell's car
on the road.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Yes, I'm soill you did.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
What was he doing here?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
I wanted to sign over some property to you, now, darling,
not very much, just an income so that you don't
have to ask me for money.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
I think it must be.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Embarrassing for a man, Oh, darling, I I don't think
it's right for you to tell me.
Speaker 10 (14:20):
Did anything interesting happen to you in town?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
No? It was a rather dull, boring, prosaic day, after all,
I wasn't with you.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Sure this may sound like the worst kind of male chauvinism,
but could a man ask for a better deal, a
young girl for excitement and romance, a mature woman for
stability and financial independence. Sounds great, looks good, but the
problem with the structure of this kind is that the
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foundations rest on quicksand something.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Will have to give. For some people, life is a quest,
a pursuit of a goal.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
There are those dedicated souls who search for the great
truths of science of medicine, noble spirits who strive to
make the world better for their having been.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Here for years.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Chester Maysfield has also been a seeker, but his aim
has been far more modest. He has been looking for love,
for someone he could adore with his heart and soul. Well,
but we all and Chester finally found her, and as
you can imagine, Chester is deliriously happy. However, there are
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lucid moments when Chester is reminded of the fact that
he is a married man. But you could get take
its check to honey, Sellen.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
That isn't the point.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Oh, it's such a good showing all and the acting
if it's just novelous.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
See if I don't.
Speaker 10 (16:07):
Get to see good acting, how am I ever gonna
learn how to.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Be an actor?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Joellen? I I can't take you to the theater.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
It's a heavy sake. Who I'm not?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I I just couldn't afford to take the risk.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
I know what, Take me to Larichios for supper.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Oh I I'll do better than that.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
I'll have Lrichio's send supper here. What a specially catered supper.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Oh, but that isn't the same thing. You don't go
to l Ricchios just to eat.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
You go there to be seen and talked about and
photographed by ook by the media.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And that's exactly why I can't take you.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
But I have to be seen. I want to get
my name in the papers. I need publicity.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
That's how I can get an acting Jack Darling out.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Oh, I mean, you know it. I just got to
be a drag sitting around here all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I love you, Sue Ellen, Please believe I love you well.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
I maybe believe it if if what if you divorced her?
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Magge me.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I wanna do that, sir. Well, and you don't know
how much I wanna do that.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
It's stopping you.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
If I left Edna, I I wouldn't have a nickel.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Oh oh it ha money, yes, well, what are you
gonna do? Chester to Honey?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I don't know, I but but I know this. I
simply can't do without you.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
I'm no chest, honey, I know.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Do you think it's something.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Warner?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Mister Maysfield, har good morning. I at her. Have you
seen missus Masefield?
Speaker 12 (17:49):
H yes, sir, you're over the s sir, sir it's
a you know, wh where snake ha yes, uh, thank you, yes, sir,
sure goes to them snakes. I mean I've been working
for that woman one yeah, it must be twenty years now.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I never seen nothing like this. What do you mean Arnold.
Speaker 12 (18:06):
H I guess she found what she's been eating to
support her all her life. True underdog gen one loser,
somebody nobody loves. That's a snake hands down.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Well, as you know, my my wife has a most
tender hearted woman. Oh uh, she's seen I bless her.
But what's that? And I think you should talk to
her about what? Well? And after I put this, h
here's a big rattler. Uh. I mean, uh, well, they
do come large, some of 'em, but he's just overgrown.
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Well what about him?
Speaker 12 (18:41):
They ain't getting bit by a rattler, no picnic, but uh,
they don't necessarily have to be fatal.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
He uh, you followed her. I can't say that I
do well.
Speaker 12 (18:51):
On the other hand, his ugly clitter has got fins
at least twice the normal man.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
You know, once you out of them, and uh, but
what do they have to do? But she's taking a
fancy to this environment.
Speaker 12 (19:02):
She says to me, Oh, while he's so beautiful, if
only I could pet him so well, he's.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Maybe better talk to her. Maybe I'd better, eh, After all,
she the only woman that my dollar just to.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
I didn't hear you come in?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Here.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
I don't tells me you spend almost all your time
in this place.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
I simply can't take my eyes away from Nizhinski.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Nizhinski.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I named him Nizhinski after that famous I should say,
immortal dancer, I know, the one who mean not. Yes,
it's my name for him, because his movement said like
a dolly.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Would you agree? Oh ruh, Yes, I've.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Made Nizhinsky the star of the serpentarium. He has this
huge cage all to himself. I notice your addressed for time.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Are you going to the city today?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Their Oh that'll be the third time this week.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Well, oh no, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
I shouldn't have said that the unded us if I
were counting.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Oh, some people at the club want my advice on
a venture.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I have the right to tell you to stay at
my side all day. You should have a rich, productive
life of your own.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Darling, I owe these men a favor. No, you just
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Is it a promising venture?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Uh w well, I it could be if you need
any money. Let me know, Darling. You shouldn't be so
good to me.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (20:43):
I love you?
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Come in you're well then, darling.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Ah, I here.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Chester well, of course, Chester. Oh that's a stunning out
that you didn't have to get all dressed up for me.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
I I I couldn't very well call you at your
Oh now could I? I?
Speaker 6 (21:14):
I mean what could I see it?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Why would you call me?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Well?
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Uh to tell you that I I couldn't see you tonight?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
What do you mean you couldn't see me? Hey? They
do you surman himself? Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Perry Wilson, Uh, I would I would like you to
meet mister Chester Maysfield.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Oh, hey there sir, how do you do?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (21:33):
Perry Wilson is the son of Angus Wilson.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Uh, who's my my dad?
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Garis close to spend back home in Talbot Corners. Well, Uh,
Perry and his mother and dad are here in town.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
And uh they want me to have dinner with him.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
At the hotels like old times at home matt RYE Perry.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Oh yeah, and uh, well why afterwards we're gonna play
bred that's.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Right, but you can't be my partner.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Perry get so mad and I forget which is trump?
It's really only a game, and you make such an
issue about it.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Why, I don't know where you get that flighty. That's
from suell and you. You know your folks are such
serious people.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
W well, there shall we be going a mother and dad?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Do you well?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
They like to be problem Yes, I now, well, I
uh a paint.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Would you call your mother and dad and and say
where round the way?
Speaker 11 (22:26):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Oh yeah, sure, sure of course. It's a good Thank
you so well.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
And I couldn't help this, Chester, Honey.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I must see you tonight. I'll wait for you here.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
But Honey, I don't know who's darling sweetie. It's it's
gonna be late, and I'm gonna be tired. And that's
set because the Wilson's always gives.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Me a pain, especially Terry.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
We're so conceived.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
But darling Knight, we can be together tomorrow night tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
Why that's only just a few hours away.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Well, I love you and I love you too, Chester.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Well, well, well, if it isn't dante a house, Beatrice,
cut it out.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Mind.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
If I sit here, you're a member of the club.
What are you doing dining alone?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Let's not smirk on your face? So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
These May and December romances always inspires smirks, leers, winks.
What are you talking about, miss Sue Ellen Quackenbush.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I understand you see quite a bit of her.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I'm interested in her career, a fatherly interest.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
No, down, she's a talented young lady.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yes, as her talent seems to be in getting men
interested in furthering her career. Chester, you're talking to me?
See here, Fred I resent down drop it and I
thought we were friends. But if you want to fill
the time with trivia, let's talk about the weather the Chester.
I remember what it's like to be forty, the age
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of anxiety.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
For what it's that this is. I don't know what
I'm gonna do about her.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Mm She's a tough little cookie.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I'll see here.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Okay, let's start trivia Chester here. Oh, people are beginning
to talk. I'm not interested in other people's hypocritical notions
of morality.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I don't care if they disapproved.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Oh they won't disapprove. What they would do is worse. Yeah,
they're alive. You're starting to become a ludicrous figure.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Why No, I don't know. You can't afford that, not you, Chester,
Thanks for rent. Thanks, that's what friends are for.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
No before, Darling chest Her, I thought you were changing town.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Uh a change in plan?
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Oh what happened, but didn't turn much for television.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
No, no, leave it on.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I just became bored with the city and decided to
come home. Tell me about your day.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Oh you would only laugh at me.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Tell me about yours.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Oh you don only laugh at me.
Speaker 11 (25:07):
Well, I spent the day being hypnotized them all by
whom I can just watch him for hours before.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
What are you watching now?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
The television was on just twelve I was reading.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
I think it's one of those celebrity programs.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Oh it's it's at Maricchio's restaurant.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Have you been there?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
That's an old lamp boy.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Everybody. Welcome to Lrichio's, where you meet the stars of
yesterday today if you like. And let's see who's here
tonight all. Who is this death taking little beauty?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Right?
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Isn't in New York doing a career in.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
The theater from Talbot Corners, Iowa? There's su Ellen quen him.
Speaker 10 (25:55):
So I think I'm going to be right here.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
You're in the middle of all these talented, beautiful.
Speaker 10 (26:05):
Or well yorke I I need so many of you,
think you say, what is it?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Are you? And uh Perry will Fill and I to
your and I and I well, let me that.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Well, tell me what's bothering you?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Nothing, no, dah, I'm afraid something very much the matter.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Just sit down, I'll get.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
You some water. A killer, A killer.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
They say, there's no fool like an old fool. But still,
Chester Macefield isn't that old, So how could he be
that foolish? The answer probably lies in the fact that
a fool in love is ageless and therefore hopeless. M
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Chester Maysfield is speeding into the city with blood in
his eye and a thirty two caliber pistol in his pocket.
Chester Masefield, a man of the world, has been betrayed
by a woman, a slip of a girl barely out
of her teens. But she has wounded him, not just
in his heart, which after all, can recover, but in
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his vanity, which can never be the same. Chester.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
You lied to me, so Elena, you lied to me.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Not Chester, Honey, I don't have the vaguest notion what
you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
I'm so thrilled and I feel so humble to be
in the midst of all these talented people.
Speaker 10 (27:46):
Oh fah, yes, that well, honey, just what do you
think you can do by it.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I can kill you, just a put that.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Gun away back home. Everybody has a gun and may
of all kinds accident.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Why why?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Because you lied to me?
Speaker 8 (28:05):
And who says I can't lie to you? What am
I supposed to do while you're at home making love
to your wife? How am I supposed to feel? What
am I supposed to think? You want everything in your way?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Well?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
And I love you.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
I'm fine, I love you too. There maybe love isn't enough.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
What do you want?
Speaker 5 (28:21):
You take that tone out of your voice.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
Don't you make it sounded if I want something unreasonable,
I want what I have a right to want. A
man I can be seen with, a man I can
do with all the time. I don't want a man
who's ashamed of me. But don't take me great?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
What you know I have a wife?
Speaker 9 (28:39):
Say between?
Speaker 6 (28:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
It's your problem?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Wait for me?
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Why what is going to happen?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I don't know what I'll think of something? Please?
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Well, all right, all right, but I don't want to
wait forever.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
I had the gun in my pocket, I'd rushed out
of my house, filled with an insane rage to kill.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
The moment I saw her, heard her voice touched her hand.
I knew I couldn't. I knew I couldn't kill her.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
And yet if I wanted Suellen, I would have to
kill Edna because and it sounds so mercenary and mundane,
but without Edna's money, I knew that I could never
have Suellen.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
But kill how do you kill? Murder?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Ending the life of another human being? Forever, I couldn't
murder Edna. I couldn't, I wouldn't. And yet as long
as Edna lived, I would be forced to do without Suellen.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
And for me, that would be worse than Edna.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
Ah, good morning, dying.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I suppose it's true.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
That's true what Arnold tells me, that you spend so
much of your time here in the second time.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Oh, I'm just fascinated by Nashinski. I think we're beginning
to communicate, you are I think.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
What he's trying to tell me is please don't be afraid.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
I mean you no harm. Let us be friends. He
says that, Well, no, he doesn't say that in so
many words.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
It's the thought that he's trying to communicate.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I see, and he is succeeding.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
You see, how can you tell because each day I
become less and less afraid.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Uh. And one day I know, I just know, I
walk in here.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
At Nashinsky and I will look at each other and smile,
and all.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
The fear will be gone from my heart and I'll
be able to say to Nazhinski, come.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Old friend, why don't we go walking together?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
You mean you'll actually let him out of his cage.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
His prison?
Speaker 6 (31:05):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (31:07):
He is being shut up there because of the evil
that's in my heart, not in his.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Well.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
It'll be the greatest challenge of my life.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
The test of how I really feel, and I hope
to be ready for it.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Do you when?
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Why do you ask?
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Well?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
So that I will be able to lock you up
in your room until the foolishness passes.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
I don't really know when.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
He could happen to me tomorrow or next week, or
next month, next year or never.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Oh, I shouldn't have said a word.
Speaker 9 (31:42):
To you about it, darling. I I'm your husband, and
I love you, and I love you. But two people
can never completely become one.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
There's always a tiny.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
Secret place in the heart. But yeah, that's my chiny
secret place. Hell, oh it's you?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Is that the chump?
Speaker 5 (32:21):
Who are you.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I'm at home.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Oh you're at home.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
That's nice. What have you got to say to me?
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Hang up Onny, I just wanted to tell you things
will be looking up very soon.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
That's what you said last night, I know, and the
night before.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
You and I will be married very soon, Darling.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
How do you asked you for a divorce?
Speaker 1 (32:48):
No? But but what I've got something better plan?
Speaker 5 (32:54):
What could be better?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Just be patient?
Speaker 5 (32:56):
How long am I supposed to be patient?
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Just a little? All longer?
Speaker 6 (33:01):
And what do I do in the meanwhile?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Hit around all alone every night?
Speaker 6 (33:09):
Pity you?
Speaker 1 (33:10):
So Ellen? I love you, I need you. Soon I'll
be able to give you everything your heart has ever desired.
Tell me you love me, Honey.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
You know I love you. I have to know that.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
I have to be sure of that. And now I
see what I have to do. Goodbye, Darling. I'll be
with you soon, very soon, and I'll be free.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
He whom Well let's see, baby, where will we? Darling?
Would you mind terribly if I went into the city
this evening?
Speaker 6 (33:52):
Of course not, dear.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
It's the same people at the club, you know, the
ones I told you about. Oh yeah, for some reason,
I can't imagine why they seem to think I have
a knowledge of land values.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Well, Chester, you are a very capable posel.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Well, this thing may run late, so don't wait up
for me.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
I will I always feel well incomplete, unless you're in
the house with me.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
I'll always remember how she looked. She was almost pretty
when she had that shy smile on her face. But
would it be murder if all I did was help
her to kill herself? She had this insane affinity for
a lethally poisonous snake. Sooner or later she would release
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him from his cage in the mad delusion.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
That he was her dear friend. Would it be murder? No,
it isn't murder.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Look at him, this enormous monster coiled in his cage sleeping.
It's see me enter this house of crawling, murderous creatures.
Here on the side is the latch. All I need
to do is turn it to open and just slide
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the glass a few inches.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
To the side.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
And when he wakes up, oh no, don't wake up
just yet, give me my chance to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Sleep soundly and when morning comes you'll notice the opening
and you'll slither out.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
And when she walks in here, you'll greet her the
way a poisonous snake usually greets people. Good night, vision.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Ski and mounting.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Maybe I'm better leave?
Speaker 6 (36:01):
Why I shoot? Well?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Maybe m man, you know the chump.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
The chump never shows up unless he calls thirst and
you need something.
Speaker 8 (36:11):
Mm I'm getting sick and tired of mister chest your
nasty uh uh?
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Well, you know, darling, let's not be hasty. You know
you don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Yes, well, because he's came old and lame and.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
What's a cause you have a cheek. I have wonderful news.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
So well on what is not chest your darling?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Let me explain lain what uh look? Why? Uh uh uh?
Why don't I just get out of here and leave
you to say where you are? I don't see how
you can stop. I said, say where you are? Hood
I listen, please please be careful with hey where you are?
Speaker 6 (36:52):
And shump just your angel.
Speaker 5 (36:54):
You don't need that gun.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
I can explain what when did.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
You come here with a gun?
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Why?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
What made me bring the gun?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
I must have known deep down inside that I would
have to use it.
Speaker 10 (37:09):
You don't talk that way.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
I'm gonna kid you and him also and the lovesters.
What do we ever doing to you? And what did
you do to me? Your group? We're having fun. You're
gonna kill us for that birthday?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (37:21):
No, man, don't kill him.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
What I don't want to die.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
He will never laugh at me again, never, Edna, I
have to say, Edna. Maybe maybe he's still asleep. Maybe
he's still in his cage.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
I'll just slide the glass closed again and lock the.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
He's out.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
I'll have to kill him. Huh no, no, empty, keep
away from me, kick away.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
I can't move.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Why can't I move?
Speaker 6 (38:12):
Keep awake?
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (38:23):
I'm sorry, miss Ms Maysfield, Thank you n much. Uh.
Speaker 12 (38:27):
I don't understand what you were doing inside here. Latch
of the case was open up. Yes, why did he
let Najinsky out? It's my fault you'd fall well, why'd
you say that?
Speaker 5 (38:39):
I must have given him the idea. Maybe he wanted
to just show me that he would do it first.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
He wasn't becoming interested in animals toward the end.
Speaker 6 (38:50):
He had become a much more gentle person.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Wasn't.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
But the Dinski shouldn't have been able to kill him.
Speaker 5 (38:57):
How could he miss with those lethal facts.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Ms. Maysfield.
Speaker 12 (39:01):
Well, I gotta make a confession. When I heard you
talk one day, you know, Pet Mjinsky, you scared me
so much. And when I had the retsnak in here
and remove his poison sacks didn't.
Speaker 6 (39:16):
Why did mister Masefield die?
Speaker 3 (39:18):
M I guess that something will never know, but we
know Chester Masefield died because in so many cases fear
fear itself is more than enough, especially when it's aided
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by a guilty conscience.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
As William F. Cody, better known as Buffalo.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Bill, used to say, if a man is scared enough
of a gun, you can kill him with a blank.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Cartridge ast included Elliott.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Reid, Joan Loring, Leon, Janny E. V. Justter, and Earl Hammond.
The entire production was under the direction of Hymon Brown.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Radio.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Derrick Motor Division.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
This is EG Marshall inviting you to return to our
Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre until next time.
Speaker 13 (40:15):
Pleasant preceding program was furnished by the Columbia Broadcasting System
This is WR New York and RKO General Station.
Speaker 12 (40:33):
The preceding episode of the CBS Mystery Theater was originally
it in nineteen seventy four, and it was.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Recorded off the year by Gary C. Du Dash of
Am Treasure's Babylon, New York.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
In turn, I have taken the
Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Welcome, I me e g.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Marshall, your companion on these journeys we take to the
outer boundaries of the unknown. Perhaps the greatest unknown of
all is not what exists out there in the nether
regions of distant space, but that which beats constantly inside
each of us, the human heart.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
The human heart.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
It's both a tangible physical organ and also a mysterious,
incomprehensible force. Yes, it's the brain that weighs, essays, analyzes,
but in the end it is the heart but decides,
And each of us may be surprised by the decision of.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
His heart, because the heart has its own reasons.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Ah our mystery drama, I Must Kill Edna was written
especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and Stars Elliott.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Read.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
We are commanded by laws both human and divine, to
tell the truth. But what is truth If sages, philosophers,
and saints have disagreed?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
What hope is there for us, ordinary modest folk.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
The ancient Romans actually exempted certain areas of human behavior
from the truth. For instance, you didn't have to tell
the truth about love, and the famous saying of the
times was the gods laugh at the lies of lovers
and talking about love, we now arrive at that delicate
balance of falsehood and truths from which is drawn or
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all of love's.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Nourishment and sustenance.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
And to a consideration of Chester Masefield, a lover par excellence.
When Chester said to Edna Morrissey, I love you, darling,
he was telling the truth as he saw it and
felt it and wished it on that particular day.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
But let the story tell itself. You must listen to
me at night.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Die, yes, darling, my darling, my darling had nuts.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
No, don't tell me to stop me?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Why?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Why should I be sent? Why should I be sensible?
Why be prejudiced against me? Who else in this mad
world is sensible?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
To please be serious, my darling.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Ah, you live in a universe filled with fools and madments. Yes, no,
you must permit me, my saf a.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Marriage between you and me. It's impossible. Why we didn't
feel Why I'm old?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
This match was arranged in heaven. I need an old
a woman. You need a younger man.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
I don't need a man who will.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
How you know you never had one? I had to
say that?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
And why it isn't true?
Speaker 6 (03:13):
I've been married.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
To whom to had dried up decrepit, daughter, eve Awa.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
He was a soul of goodness, the spirit of generosity.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I'll give him all that, but he wasn't much good
for a woman.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Certain things are are more important than the fleeting physical attraction, Edna.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
You can say what you like, and you can like
what you say, but it's a life. We human beings
were made for one thing and one thing only, and
that's love.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Ugh.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Everything else merely fills the rest of the time.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Jes can't you ever be serious. I'm always serious.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I'm tending to the serious business of life, which is love.
You're the frivolous one whitering away your time with all
sorts of ridiculous projects.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh, I believe you call them good work.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Surely even you must be aware that there are people
who are staying.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But I'm wise to you, darling, I know why you
engage in these prenetic philanthropies who you're only trying to
whitewash Your father.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
My father is kind, little good.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
To you, to you alone in all the world.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
But he sweated and swindled and stole his fortune from
the poor, from the helpless.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You know that's just careful careful.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Don't say why.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
But that was a long time ago, and nobody cares.
No one remembers. You don't have to give it back.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Just do what am I going to do with you?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Marry me?
Speaker 6 (04:43):
But it seemed me doesn't make say.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Darling, please stop objecting so much.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Come here, you see, my darling, Nothing but nothing could
ever be more important than this.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Do you agree? I?
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Let's try it again, And so we were married. Edna,
of course, was deliriously happy, and I, well, I was
happy too.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It was an exciting, a heavy experience for each of us.
For Edna, it was an introduction to love. For me,
it was an introduction to wealth.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
There are, after all, very few men in our society
whose wives are millionaires. And I had joined this extremely
select group. And I tell you there's nothing like it. However,
there was the matter of some of her charities. But
if we could have everything we want here on earth,
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there'd be no point in going to heaven after we die.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
What they are.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
And this, my darling, is our newest building here on
animal farms.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I see it's a serpentarium. Oh h what a serpentarium?
Speaker 6 (06:15):
A house of snakes?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
How how fascinating.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Yes, poor and maligned and misunderstood creatures.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Come.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Would you like to see them? Well? I, oh, they're
They're all secure behind grass.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
In that case, sir, These these are called pit vipers.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
That's because they have that indentation between the eye and
the nose.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Fascinating.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
These are all rattlesnakes and copperheads.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Charming creatures.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
They are lovely, graceful, elegant, and yet mankind will soon
exterminate them completely.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Not darling. Is that bad?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
My dear?
Speaker 6 (07:00):
You're such a barbarian.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
I love them. They're beautiful, cool, and pleasant to the touch.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
My dear, you don't touch them.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
I've been told that they won't harm you with it.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Yes, if there is neither hate nor fear in your heart?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Mm? Is it all right if uh I never touch them?
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Oh? She has to die.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
I know you're laughing at me.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I'm doing no such thing. I believe everything you are
telling me.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Mm.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
You lie so beautifully.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
You think I'm a not And all these activities of mine,
Oh I I approve of them completely.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
They or use to No.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
As a matter of fact, I didn't marry you in
the hope of changing you.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Why don't you drive to town.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Today, have lunch at your club, do something you like,
and you will come back refreshed.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Are you sure you can spare me?
Speaker 7 (08:00):
No, but I'll get through the day somehow, Yester, Yester Maysty,
it's pray.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I thought you'd given up the club for good. I've
been in the country these past few months and joined
me for lunch. Of course, I understand. Congratulations are in order.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Thank you here.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
She's a lovely woman. Thank you again.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And money doesn't hurt either. That is a low blow.
There are no low blows among old friends, only bitter crews.
She's fifty and in what we could consider the soft
September of her beauty. I'm forty and I decided to
retire from one from love.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
From love precisely, well.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
How does one retire? Ever since I found out that
we were boys and they were girls, love has been
my occupation, with my preoccupation, my profession. Other men would
say I'm a doctor, I'm a lawyer, a banker, but
I would say I'm a lover.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I suppose you were there. Now I realize that love
simply does not exist.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
It's a snare, a delusion, a swindle. This from you
Chester a lover. The oasis of love is merely a mirage.
I will no longer pursue it. But it was always
a lie, a lovely lie. Well, since love doesn't exist,
I've decided to suffer for happiness. You sounded if the
two were mutually exclusive.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Perhaps they are.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Oh my goodness, I had forgotten all about you the burning.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Could you be in the dining room? And I said, well,
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (09:38):
If I should really interrupt me to tether when he's
a scatting importance in me.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Have you had your lunch?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Well, an aspiring young actor should never turn down a meal,
even if you had lunch. Eat again? Right, you may
be out of luck tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
He's too kind.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yes, I know, yes, there this is sue Ellen Grackenbush.
Mister Masefield, Suellen, Hello, Suellen, Are you.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
A theatrical producer?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
To m No, he can't do you any good at all.
Turn it off, Suellen.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Oh, isn't he.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Her father saved my life before she was born A
couple of wars ago. Now this one wants to be
an actress, so he sends her to see me. Uh,
for old time's sake, can I do something.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Well, he did save your life.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Still he's too much to ask in return. But you
are a famous producer friend.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Oh what am I going to do with you? Sue Ellen?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
She's a lovely child, but she can't act for beans.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
I'm not a child and twenty three?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
But sordered lunch? Now?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
What was you like, Suellen?
Speaker 9 (10:45):
Well?
Speaker 6 (10:47):
What what is this? Beef? Boie?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Deep?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
None? Did I pronounce that right? I took a year
to French in high school.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
She looked up from the menu as she spoke, and
her eyes met mine, and the very words I had
spoken but a few moments before exploded in my brain,
that sudden stabbing shock of recognition when the heart is
fatally but oh so sweetly wounded by a woman's glance.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Is this how it happens?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Have I been stabbed finally and at length, and for
the first time in my life by by a provincial
schoolgirl struggling with French words on a menu.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
And uh uh latinite onion a vexatan and fromage and
at the la Ooh.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
He isn't eric and apartan. I mean it's like the
movie is it yours? Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (11:58):
That time it's free?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
You must be a very wealthy person, mister Mayfield.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Chester Chester.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
We have some folks in tabot corners who are way off.
You know that.
Speaker 10 (12:14):
No one who's actually wealthy.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, I fix you a drink.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Oh you don't have to fix my drink.
Speaker 10 (12:19):
Just open a bottle of pop.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Where here we are?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yes, here we are.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Isn't it just like a book A single girl from
the country.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
In this luxurious millionaire's apartment. It's like a movie I
saw at the Ritz.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Where they had this.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yes, please shut up.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Who's to me?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I have something to tell you. I love you, mister
me Field, Chester, Yester.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I fell in love with you the only way people
can really fall in love at first sight swelling.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Please now say something.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Why I I don't know what to say. Look at me.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
They'd never believe that.
Speaker 11 (13:12):
I come.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
You allen it a lot the way, But is it?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I know it's crazy. I'm twice your age. I don't
say it's impossible.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Oh it is what?
Speaker 6 (13:30):
I just don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Whay here you can?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Well?
Speaker 6 (13:34):
You see I I'm in love with you.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Oh am, I late for dinner, No dear, as master
of this house.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Then then miss Lake your pleasure.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Oh I'm starved. Say, uh, did I see Halliwell's car
on the road.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Yes, I'm soill you did.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
What was he doing here?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
I wanted to sign over some property to you, now, darling,
not very much, just an income so that you don't
have to ask me for money.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
I think it must be.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Embarrassing for a man, Oh, darling, I I don't think
it's right for you to tell me.
Speaker 10 (14:20):
Did anything interesting happen to you in town?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
No? It was a rather dull, boring, prosaic day, after all,
I wasn't with you.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Sure this may sound like the worst kind of male chauvinism,
but could a man ask for a better deal, a
young girl for excitement and romance, a mature woman for
stability and financial independence. Sounds great, looks good, but the
problem with the structure of this kind is that the
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foundations rest on quicksand something.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Will have to give. For some people, life is a quest,
a pursuit of a goal.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
There are those dedicated souls who search for the great
truths of science of medicine, noble spirits who strive to
make the world better for their having been.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Here for years.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Chester Maysfield has also been a seeker, but his aim
has been far more modest. He has been looking for love,
for someone he could adore with his heart and soul. Well,
but we all and Chester finally found her, and as
you can imagine, Chester is deliriously happy. However, there are
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lucid moments when Chester is reminded of the fact that
he is a married man. But you could get take
its check to honey, Sellen.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
That isn't the point.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Oh, it's such a good showing all and the acting
if it's just novelous.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
See if I don't.
Speaker 10 (16:07):
Get to see good acting, how am I ever gonna
learn how to.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Be an actor?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Joellen? I I can't take you to the theater.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
It's a heavy sake. Who I'm not?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I I just couldn't afford to take the risk.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
I know what, Take me to Larichios for supper.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Oh I I'll do better than that.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
I'll have Lrichio's send supper here. What a specially catered supper.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Oh, but that isn't the same thing. You don't go
to l Ricchios just to eat.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
You go there to be seen and talked about and
photographed by ook by the media.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And that's exactly why I can't take you.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
But I have to be seen. I want to get
my name in the papers. I need publicity.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
That's how I can get an acting Jack Darling out.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Oh, I mean, you know it. I just got to
be a drag sitting around here all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I love you, Sue Ellen, Please believe I love you well.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
I maybe believe it if if what if you divorced her?
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Magge me.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I wanna do that, sir. Well, and you don't know
how much I wanna do that.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
It's stopping you.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
If I left Edna, I I wouldn't have a nickel.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Oh oh it ha money, yes, well, what are you
gonna do? Chester to Honey?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I don't know, I but but I know this. I
simply can't do without you.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
I'm no chest, honey, I know.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Do you think it's something.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Warner?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Mister Maysfield, har good morning. I at her. Have you
seen missus Masefield?
Speaker 12 (17:49):
H yes, sir, you're over the s sir, sir it's
a you know, wh where snake ha yes, uh, thank you, yes, sir,
sure goes to them snakes. I mean I've been working
for that woman one yeah, it must be twenty years now.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I never seen nothing like this. What do you mean Arnold.
Speaker 12 (18:06):
H I guess she found what she's been eating to
support her all her life. True underdog gen one loser,
somebody nobody loves. That's a snake hands down.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Well, as you know, my my wife has a most
tender hearted woman. Oh uh, she's seen I bless her.
But what's that? And I think you should talk to
her about what? Well? And after I put this, h
here's a big rattler. Uh. I mean, uh, well, they
do come large, some of 'em, but he's just overgrown.
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Well what about him?
Speaker 12 (18:41):
They ain't getting bit by a rattler, no picnic, but uh,
they don't necessarily have to be fatal.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
He uh, you followed her. I can't say that I
do well.
Speaker 12 (18:51):
On the other hand, his ugly clitter has got fins
at least twice the normal man.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
You know, once you out of them, and uh, but
what do they have to do? But she's taking a
fancy to this environment.
Speaker 12 (19:02):
She says to me, Oh, while he's so beautiful, if
only I could pet him so well, he's.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Maybe better talk to her. Maybe I'd better, eh, After all,
she the only woman that my dollar just to.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
I didn't hear you come in?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Here.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
I don't tells me you spend almost all your time
in this place.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
I simply can't take my eyes away from Nizhinski.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Nizhinski.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I named him Nizhinski after that famous I should say,
immortal dancer, I know, the one who mean not. Yes,
it's my name for him, because his movement said like
a dolly.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Would you agree? Oh ruh, Yes, I've.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Made Nizhinsky the star of the serpentarium. He has this
huge cage all to himself. I notice your addressed for time.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Are you going to the city today?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Their Oh that'll be the third time this week.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Well, oh no, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
I shouldn't have said that the unded us if I
were counting.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Oh, some people at the club want my advice on
a venture.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I have the right to tell you to stay at
my side all day. You should have a rich, productive
life of your own.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Darling, I owe these men a favor. No, you just
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Is it a promising venture?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Uh w well, I it could be if you need
any money. Let me know, Darling. You shouldn't be so
good to me.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (20:43):
I love you?
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Come in you're well then, darling.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Ah, I here.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Chester well, of course, Chester. Oh that's a stunning out
that you didn't have to get all dressed up for me.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
I I I couldn't very well call you at your
Oh now could I? I?
Speaker 6 (21:14):
I mean what could I see it?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Why would you call me?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Well?
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Uh to tell you that I I couldn't see you tonight?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
What do you mean you couldn't see me? Hey? They
do you surman himself? Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Perry Wilson, Uh, I would I would like you to
meet mister Chester Maysfield.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Oh, hey there sir, how do you do?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (21:33):
Perry Wilson is the son of Angus Wilson.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Uh, who's my my dad?
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Garis close to spend back home in Talbot Corners. Well, Uh,
Perry and his mother and dad are here in town.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
And uh they want me to have dinner with him.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
At the hotels like old times at home matt RYE Perry.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Oh yeah, and uh, well why afterwards we're gonna play
bred that's.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Right, but you can't be my partner.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Perry get so mad and I forget which is trump?
It's really only a game, and you make such an
issue about it.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Why, I don't know where you get that flighty. That's
from suell and you. You know your folks are such
serious people.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
W well, there shall we be going a mother and dad?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Do you well?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
They like to be problem Yes, I now, well, I
uh a paint.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Would you call your mother and dad and and say
where round the way?
Speaker 11 (22:26):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Oh yeah, sure, sure of course. It's a good Thank
you so well.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
And I couldn't help this, Chester, Honey.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I must see you tonight. I'll wait for you here.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
But Honey, I don't know who's darling sweetie. It's it's
gonna be late, and I'm gonna be tired. And that's
set because the Wilson's always gives.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Me a pain, especially Terry.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
We're so conceived.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
But darling Knight, we can be together tomorrow night tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
Why that's only just a few hours away.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Well, I love you and I love you too, Chester.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Well, well, well, if it isn't dante a house, Beatrice,
cut it out.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Mind.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
If I sit here, you're a member of the club.
What are you doing dining alone?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Let's not smirk on your face? So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
These May and December romances always inspires smirks, leers, winks.
What are you talking about, miss Sue Ellen Quackenbush.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I understand you see quite a bit of her.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I'm interested in her career, a fatherly interest.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
No, down, she's a talented young lady.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yes, as her talent seems to be in getting men
interested in furthering her career. Chester, you're talking to me?
See here, Fred I resent down drop it and I
thought we were friends. But if you want to fill
the time with trivia, let's talk about the weather the Chester.
I remember what it's like to be forty, the age
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of anxiety.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
For what it's that this is. I don't know what
I'm gonna do about her.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Mm She's a tough little cookie.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I'll see here.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Okay, let's start trivia Chester here. Oh, people are beginning
to talk. I'm not interested in other people's hypocritical notions
of morality.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I don't care if they disapproved.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Oh they won't disapprove. What they would do is worse. Yeah,
they're alive. You're starting to become a ludicrous figure.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Why No, I don't know. You can't afford that, not you, Chester,
Thanks for rent. Thanks, that's what friends are for.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
No before, Darling chest Her, I thought you were changing town.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Uh a change in plan?
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Oh what happened, but didn't turn much for television.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
No, no, leave it on.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I just became bored with the city and decided to
come home. Tell me about your day.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Oh you would only laugh at me.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Tell me about yours.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Oh you don only laugh at me.
Speaker 11 (25:07):
Well, I spent the day being hypnotized them all by
whom I can just watch him for hours before.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
What are you watching now?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
The television was on just twelve I was reading.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
I think it's one of those celebrity programs.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Oh it's it's at Maricchio's restaurant.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Have you been there?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
That's an old lamp boy.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Everybody. Welcome to Lrichio's, where you meet the stars of
yesterday today if you like. And let's see who's here
tonight all. Who is this death taking little beauty?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Right?
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Isn't in New York doing a career in.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
The theater from Talbot Corners, Iowa? There's su Ellen quen him.
Speaker 10 (25:55):
So I think I'm going to be right here.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
You're in the middle of all these talented, beautiful.
Speaker 10 (26:05):
Or well yorke I I need so many of you,
think you say, what is it?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Are you? And uh Perry will Fill and I to
your and I and I well, let me that.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Well, tell me what's bothering you?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Nothing, no, dah, I'm afraid something very much the matter.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Just sit down, I'll get.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
You some water. A killer, A killer.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
They say, there's no fool like an old fool. But still,
Chester Macefield isn't that old, So how could he be
that foolish? The answer probably lies in the fact that
a fool in love is ageless and therefore hopeless. M
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Chester Maysfield is speeding into the city with blood in
his eye and a thirty two caliber pistol in his pocket.
Chester Masefield, a man of the world, has been betrayed
by a woman, a slip of a girl barely out
of her teens. But she has wounded him, not just
in his heart, which after all, can recover, but in
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his vanity, which can never be the same. Chester.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
You lied to me, so Elena, you lied to me.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Not Chester, Honey, I don't have the vaguest notion what
you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
I'm so thrilled and I feel so humble to be
in the midst of all these talented people.
Speaker 10 (27:46):
Oh fah, yes, that well, honey, just what do you
think you can do by it.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I can kill you, just a put that.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Gun away back home. Everybody has a gun and may
of all kinds accident.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Why why?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Because you lied to me?
Speaker 8 (28:05):
And who says I can't lie to you? What am
I supposed to do while you're at home making love
to your wife? How am I supposed to feel? What
am I supposed to think? You want everything in your way?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Well?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
And I love you.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
I'm fine, I love you too. There maybe love isn't enough.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
What do you want?
Speaker 5 (28:21):
You take that tone out of your voice.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
Don't you make it sounded if I want something unreasonable,
I want what I have a right to want. A
man I can be seen with, a man I can
do with all the time. I don't want a man
who's ashamed of me. But don't take me great?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
What you know I have a wife?
Speaker 9 (28:39):
Say between?
Speaker 6 (28:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
It's your problem?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Wait for me?
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Why what is going to happen?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I don't know what I'll think of something? Please?
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Well, all right, all right, but I don't want to
wait forever.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
I had the gun in my pocket, I'd rushed out
of my house, filled with an insane rage to kill.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
The moment I saw her, heard her voice touched her hand.
I knew I couldn't. I knew I couldn't kill her.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
And yet if I wanted Suellen, I would have to
kill Edna because and it sounds so mercenary and mundane,
but without Edna's money, I knew that I could never
have Suellen.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
But kill how do you kill? Murder?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Ending the life of another human being? Forever, I couldn't
murder Edna. I couldn't, I wouldn't. And yet as long
as Edna lived, I would be forced to do without Suellen.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
And for me, that would be worse than Edna.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
Ah, good morning, dying.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I suppose it's true.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
That's true what Arnold tells me, that you spend so
much of your time here in the second time.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Oh, I'm just fascinated by Nashinski. I think we're beginning
to communicate, you are I think.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
What he's trying to tell me is please don't be afraid.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
I mean you no harm. Let us be friends. He
says that, Well, no, he doesn't say that in so
many words.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
It's the thought that he's trying to communicate.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I see, and he is succeeding.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
You see, how can you tell because each day I
become less and less afraid.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Uh. And one day I know, I just know, I
walk in here.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
At Nashinsky and I will look at each other and smile,
and all.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
The fear will be gone from my heart and I'll
be able to say to Nazhinski, come.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Old friend, why don't we go walking together?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
You mean you'll actually let him out of his cage.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
His prison?
Speaker 6 (31:05):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (31:07):
He is being shut up there because of the evil
that's in my heart, not in his.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Well.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
It'll be the greatest challenge of my life.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
The test of how I really feel, and I hope
to be ready for it.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Do you when?
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Why do you ask?
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Well?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
So that I will be able to lock you up
in your room until the foolishness passes.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
I don't really know when.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
He could happen to me tomorrow or next week, or
next month, next year or never.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Oh, I shouldn't have said a word.
Speaker 9 (31:42):
To you about it, darling. I I'm your husband, and
I love you, and I love you. But two people
can never completely become one.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
There's always a tiny.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
Secret place in the heart. But yeah, that's my chiny
secret place. Hell, oh it's you?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Is that the chump?
Speaker 5 (32:21):
Who are you.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I'm at home.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Oh you're at home.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
That's nice. What have you got to say to me?
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Hang up Onny, I just wanted to tell you things
will be looking up very soon.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
That's what you said last night, I know, and the
night before.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
You and I will be married very soon, Darling.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
How do you asked you for a divorce?
Speaker 1 (32:48):
No? But but what I've got something better plan?
Speaker 5 (32:54):
What could be better?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Just be patient?
Speaker 5 (32:56):
How long am I supposed to be patient?
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Just a little? All longer?
Speaker 6 (33:01):
And what do I do in the meanwhile?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Hit around all alone every night?
Speaker 6 (33:09):
Pity you?
Speaker 1 (33:10):
So Ellen? I love you, I need you. Soon I'll
be able to give you everything your heart has ever desired.
Tell me you love me, Honey.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
You know I love you. I have to know that.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
I have to be sure of that. And now I
see what I have to do. Goodbye, Darling. I'll be
with you soon, very soon, and I'll be free.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
He whom Well let's see, baby, where will we? Darling?
Would you mind terribly if I went into the city
this evening?
Speaker 6 (33:52):
Of course not, dear.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
It's the same people at the club, you know, the
ones I told you about. Oh yeah, for some reason,
I can't imagine why they seem to think I have
a knowledge of land values.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Well, Chester, you are a very capable posel.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Well, this thing may run late, so don't wait up
for me.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
I will I always feel well incomplete, unless you're in
the house with me.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
I'll always remember how she looked. She was almost pretty
when she had that shy smile on her face. But
would it be murder if all I did was help
her to kill herself? She had this insane affinity for
a lethally poisonous snake. Sooner or later she would release
(34:40):
him from his cage in the mad delusion.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
That he was her dear friend. Would it be murder? No,
it isn't murder.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Look at him, this enormous monster coiled in his cage sleeping.
It's see me enter this house of crawling, murderous creatures.
Here on the side is the latch. All I need
to do is turn it to open and just slide
(35:15):
the glass a few inches.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
To the side.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
And when he wakes up, oh no, don't wake up
just yet, give me my chance to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Sleep soundly and when morning comes you'll notice the opening
and you'll slither out.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
And when she walks in here, you'll greet her the
way a poisonous snake usually greets people. Good night, vision.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Ski and mounting.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Maybe I'm better leave?
Speaker 6 (36:01):
Why I shoot? Well?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Maybe m man, you know the chump.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
The chump never shows up unless he calls thirst and
you need something.
Speaker 8 (36:11):
Mm I'm getting sick and tired of mister chest your
nasty uh uh?
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Well, you know, darling, let's not be hasty. You know
you don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Yes, well, because he's came old and lame and.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
What's a cause you have a cheek. I have wonderful news.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
So well on what is not chest your darling?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Let me explain lain what uh look? Why? Uh uh uh?
Why don't I just get out of here and leave
you to say where you are? I don't see how
you can stop. I said, say where you are? Hood
I listen, please please be careful with hey where you are?
Speaker 6 (36:52):
And shump just your angel.
Speaker 5 (36:54):
You don't need that gun.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
I can explain what when did.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
You come here with a gun?
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Why?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
What made me bring the gun?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
I must have known deep down inside that I would
have to use it.
Speaker 10 (37:09):
You don't talk that way.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
I'm gonna kid you and him also and the lovesters.
What do we ever doing to you? And what did
you do to me? Your group? We're having fun. You're
gonna kill us for that birthday?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (37:21):
No, man, don't kill him.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
What I don't want to die.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
He will never laugh at me again, never, Edna, I
have to say, Edna. Maybe maybe he's still asleep. Maybe
he's still in his cage.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
I'll just slide the glass closed again and lock the.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
He's out.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
I'll have to kill him. Huh no, no, empty, keep
away from me, kick away.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
I can't move.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Why can't I move?
Speaker 6 (38:12):
Keep awake?
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (38:23):
I'm sorry, miss Ms Maysfield, Thank you n much. Uh.
Speaker 12 (38:27):
I don't understand what you were doing inside here. Latch
of the case was open up. Yes, why did he
let Najinsky out? It's my fault you'd fall well, why'd
you say that?
Speaker 5 (38:39):
I must have given him the idea. Maybe he wanted
to just show me that he would do it first.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
He wasn't becoming interested in animals toward the end.
Speaker 6 (38:50):
He had become a much more gentle person.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Wasn't.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
But the Dinski shouldn't have been able to kill him.
Speaker 5 (38:57):
How could he miss with those lethal facts.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Ms. Maysfield.
Speaker 12 (39:01):
Well, I gotta make a confession. When I heard you
talk one day, you know, Pet Mjinsky, you scared me
so much. And when I had the retsnak in here
and remove his poison sacks didn't.
Speaker 6 (39:16):
Why did mister Masefield die?
Speaker 3 (39:18):
M I guess that something will never know, but we
know Chester Masefield died because in so many cases fear
fear itself is more than enough, especially when it's aided
(39:39):
by a guilty conscience.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
As William F. Cody, better known as Buffalo.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Bill, used to say, if a man is scared enough
of a gun, you can kill him with a blank.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Cartridge ast included Elliott.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Reid, Joan Loring, Leon, Janny E. V. Justter, and Earl Hammond.
The entire production was under the direction of Hymon Brown.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Radio.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Derrick Motor Division.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
This is EG Marshall inviting you to return to our
Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre until next time.
Speaker 13 (40:15):
Pleasant preceding program was furnished by the Columbia Broadcasting System
This is WR New York and RKO General Station.
Speaker 12 (40:33):
The preceding episode of the CBS Mystery Theater was originally
it in nineteen seventy four, and it was.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Recorded off the year by Gary C. Du Dash of
Am Treasure's Babylon, New York.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
In turn, I have taken the
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