November 8, 2024 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Welcome. I'm E. G. Marshall, the keeper of the Establishments,
where we offer you a full line of spine tingling items,
the chivalry best in murder, suspense, terror, and right now
you can sample our latest offering, which has to do
with a return from well, let us say a return
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from the beyond. They say that successful people are those
who refuse to take no for an answer. They cannot
be swayed by reason, They cannot be convinced by the facts,
They cannot be moved my logic. They simply will not
listen to anyone who says no, not even to the
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Angel of death himself.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Fine, I don't want to die.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Rest, Darling, Rest, don't be Rachel. Does I have to die? Please?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Please?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Darling's so afraid to.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Sh No, don't be afraid, Sterling. Even even if you die,
I can bring you back.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Bie, What are you saying.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'm saying I'll bring you back from the dead, Darling.
Believe me, I'll bring you back from the dead.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Our mystery drama is The Lady Dead, was written as
especially for the mystery theater by Sam Dan and stars
Larry Haynes and Joan Loring. It is sponsored in part
by contact the twelve hour cold Capsule and Anheuser Busch
Incorporated brewers of butwise, I'll be back shortly with that one.
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I have absolutely no scientific proof, but it does seem
to me that, in a general way, a great many
people have names that appear to harmonize with their personalities.
Do we therefore unconsciously strive to maintain the image that
our names evoke? I presented this thought merely to introduce
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you to a gentleman named Barney Kruger. I'm sure Barney
Krueger creates an image of mind, and I'm willing to
wager is the picture of a down earth, practical, two
fisted guy. And you're absolutely right. Barney Krueger is thirty
two years old and a self made millionaire. He made
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his money.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
By sharp, shrewd thinking, by.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Taking nothing for granted, by digging, probing, investigating.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Well. I don't give a rap about the report, Carlson.
I want to verify those assets. I want to check
bank statements, investigate every officer of that corporation, and start
with the day was born. You know how we do
things around here. Get on a plane for Chicago, Carson,
and start digging. I want to get some things. Turn
around me. He's going to do it yourself. Just over
the way, and yes, winter, your mother's here. Oh, oh, yes,
(03:51):
my mother. Well I guess I guess the time has come. Sure,
were in, Yes, sir, thank you? Winners? Hi a mom? Hello,
get you a drink?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
No, thank you? Well this is a happy surprise surprise.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Well, I thought you'd be in Europe at.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Least another week, and so when you just called me
just before.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Oh, yes, yes, yes, I did come back ahead of scheduled,
didn't I, Barney, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
But something seems different different.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
What do you mean difference?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Oh, I don't know. The apartment just seems different. Did
you have anything done? There's a definite air of difference
about the play?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Oh good at that?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Well, I'm not sure, but I rather like it. I
don't know what it is, but I like it. Now.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Tell me, dear, how was Europe?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Oh you know Europe?
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Oh, honestly, Barney, I'm sure you've lost count of the
number of times you've been to Europe in the past
ten years.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Oh no, no, no, I haven't, Mom, I've gone exactly
eighty five times. You can check my secretary. She has
all right, Oh, what's the difference?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Or you know about your covers, airport, hotels, restaurants, offices,
a few minds, a few mills. Mom, you never get
to do anything in Europe.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
I mean, you don't get to do anything European. Now look,
next time, try something.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Different, Mom, I did do something different. Don't tell me.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I'll bet you bought a department store instead of a
steel fact.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Well, not exactly. Now, I got married married, that's right.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Well, congratulations, dear. Now not where is she?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Well, she's right here.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
What can I see?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
You? Course you can see her. It's just that I
wanted to break the news to you. I'm so happy.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I can hardly believe it myself.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Now, how long do you know?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
There? Let's see what's today? Thursday? Huh? Well it's exactly
a week?
Speaker 5 (05:49):
A week?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yes, and what a week? Mother?
Speaker 5 (05:53):
And who is she?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Rachel? Rachel?
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Well that's a that's a lovely name. Rachel.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Who Rachel? Love? I don't know?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
You don't know her?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Last? Well I do, I do, I did, but but
I don't seem to remember.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Mother.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Well, what's the difference. She's Rachel, She's Rachel Krueger.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Now, how did you meet her?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well, it's like a dream, Mama, It's just.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Like a dream, I know.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
But you had to meet somewhere.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yes, well I ran her down you well, you know, mother,
in England, they drive on the wrong side of the road.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
You mean you drove on the wrong side of the road.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well, I don't have any trouble with it while I'm
driving straight ahead. Mother, It's when you come to a
turn and you have a tendency to swing over to
the right. And so we had a little collision.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Money.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, no one was hurt or even scratched. Mother. Well,
that was how we met, and so I took her
to a garage to get a car fist and send
to dinner. Wow, we were winning and it just happened. Mother,
We just fell in love. You don't believe it.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Oh, I believe it.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yes me. We both knew it. And there just didn't
seem to be any question about our getting married. I
would have asked you to fly over, mother, but time
suddenly seemed so precious. We didn't have a minute to waste.
H I can't tell you I'll happy.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I don't even try.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
It's uh uh, just what Well.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
It's just this is so unlike you.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
The fact is you don't even know this girl.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I know her, but you don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Her parents, her background.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
You don't know anything about her.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I know everything.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Well, for instance, where was she going when your two
cars collided?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Uh? And have arrested her?
Speaker 8 (07:42):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (07:42):
Huh that's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Well, I know everything I want to know.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
I certainly not. The way you do business.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Isn't business, mom, this is love.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I never thought I hear you talk like this.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Well, the same rules don't apply in love. For all
you've got to go on is your hurt. And I
can't trust that once you're in trouble. I guess well, partie.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Look, I am all for it, and I'm all for Rachel.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
And when can I finally see her?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Right now? You're happy dinner with it?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
But I want to know everything about you, Rachel.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
It is impossible to know everything about anyone, even oneself.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Are you English?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
No?
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Well, where were you raised?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
It was a very unhappy time.
Speaker 10 (08:34):
I never think about it.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Oh, I'm sorry. Are your parents lives? I have none?
Speaker 10 (08:42):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Well, what happened they were killed? Was it an accident?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
No?
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Oh, please forgive me.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I'm not trying to pry, and I'm just curious, and
it's a natural curiosity.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Oh what a perfectly magnificent ring.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I had to buy it hurried.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I think it's much too large.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Angel, that is a diamond.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I wear it because it makes Funny happy.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
I don't think I have ever seen him so happy
in his life.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
It's so easy to make Bunny happy. A pity he
had to wait so long.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
Well, my dear, I think you're worth to wait now
time I was homeward bow.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Oh well, mother, must you go? It's so early.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Oh, but when you're a gift of a newly wed couple,
that's when you're welcome.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Wears out early.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Rachel, dear, I'm so happy for you.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Thank you call me mother, mother, mister.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Why don't you two girls get together, go shopping, have
lunch and things.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Oh, don't worry, Bartie, we'll arrange for all that.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
I'll call you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Rachel.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Goodbye, Mother.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Well I see you to the door.
Speaker 9 (09:57):
Well what do you think, oh, Bartie, Bartie, she is
just wonderful.
Speaker 11 (10:11):
Yet are you sleep? I it's nothing, I don't know, No,
it is something, Oh, Barnie, I didn't know people could.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Be so happy, there's nothing to it. Just fall in love.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Funny, now that I know what love is. I want
to live, Rachel?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
What are you saying?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I want to live?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Of course you're going to live. I mean, why shouldn't you.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
You're so strong, You're so sure of yourself. You fear nothing,
no one, Oh darling, don't let anything happen to me.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
But what do you say to me?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Oh me, yes, if it's.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
The very last time, darling?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
What are you saying?
Speaker 8 (10:56):
Life is so beautiful?
Speaker 5 (10:59):
I just want to live for you will if you
will believe me?
Speaker 10 (11:03):
Yes, my god, I believe you.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Rachel. Hmm, won't you tell me what you're talking about?
Speaker 10 (11:15):
I don't know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I'm just frightened up.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
What what?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
When you want something so badly, you become scared.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
But you don't have to be scared of anything.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I never really wanted to live until.
Speaker 10 (11:32):
I met you.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well, why how could anybody not want to live? Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
There are times when life can be a terrible thing.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no no, And why not?
I'm going to have any more of that kind of talk.
Speaker 10 (11:49):
Promise, yes, oh, Bunny, I promise, Barnie.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
What is the poll, Would you like something to eat
or drink?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
No? No, it didn't come here for.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
That, of course not.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
But every mother has to ask that question.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
It's part of the franchise.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Mom, I'm worried. Why, Well, it has to do with
the Rachel. How did you know? I'm worried too, Oh,
why are you worried?
Speaker 5 (12:29):
It's something in her eyes?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
What?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yes, I see something in her eyes too. Mather's something,
something that's scarcely and I don't know what it is either.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
I think it's a look of feet.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
What can she be afraid of?
Speaker 4 (12:43):
We don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Actually, we don't know anything about Rachel.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
We love her, but we know nothing about her.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Mom, Rachel is afraid of dying?
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Is she ill?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Oh? The best doctors in the country can find nothing
wrong with it. I know what it is. What do
you say, Barney, You've heard of people who died of grief.
Of course, Well, why can't people also die of happiness?
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Fine?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Mom, Rachel is dying something, Jim Barney.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Don't say that.
Speaker 9 (13:18):
I'd better answer that.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Hello, Oh, Rachel, dear, how are you there?
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Yes, yes, dear, I'll put him on.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Rachel Barney, please come home quick.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Quickly, Funny, darling, why didn't you call it doctor that
well him this minute?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
No, no, please just hold me, but Rachel, don't leave me.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Don't leave me for anything, Rachel. You need to be
I have read everything.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I need, everything I want right here, right now, we'll die.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I want to live so bad, but what it will.
Don't let me go.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Don't let me call there Bonny to that take Please please, Rachel,
don't talk like that.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
If I let go, bring me back. You're so strong,
you can do anything.
Speaker 10 (14:15):
You can do anything, Rachel, You'll bring me back.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Well, you're different from other people, Barnie, You're wonderful. I know,
I know there are things you can do.
Speaker 10 (14:31):
Oh, Barney, promise, Why I promise, and I'll help.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I'll try as hard as I can to help.
Speaker 11 (14:44):
And the two, we two together, we can we can
do it.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
We can bring.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Nith that.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
H m hmm, Rachel, Rachel. Your mother is here, sir.
I'll see her later. Dr Mallie, send doctor Malray away.
Speaker 12 (15:18):
He offered to make the arrangements, Sir, arrangements for the funeral.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I'll make the arrangements myself, that's all wit is, Yes, sir,
Oh Winters, Yes, sir, what are we having for dinner? Oh?
Speaker 12 (15:33):
I didn't think I can prepare some sandwiches.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Oh no, no, no, missus Kruger doesn't like sandwiches. Do
we have any land chops? Yes, well, I'll have mine
rare as usual, and missus Kruger likes hers medium. Oh no, sir,
your mother likes hers well done. I'm not talking about
my mother. I'm talking about my wife. Your wife, as
you know, is there's an exact science to making chops
medium if she likes them exactly between rare and well done.
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Missus Krugler is yes, what is it? Miss Scrugler is what? Yeh? Nothing, sir,
nothing at all.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
There may be an exact science to broiling lamb chops,
but you must admit there's a fine art to being
a rich man's butler. And so Winter's departs to instruct
the crook to prepare a very special dinner, a dinner
for two people, one of whom is alive, the other dead.
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And we'll be back after dessert when I return with
that two. Death is always the final answer, and death
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always has the last word. But not for Barney Krueger.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Rachel is dead.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
There is absolutely no question about that, but evidently Barney
Krueger will not accept it. Before you dismiss Barney Krueger
as a psychotic or a kook, remember this is the
same Barney Krueger, whose reputation for hard headed practicality is
respected throughout the business community.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
The missus Krueger is my side.
Speaker 12 (17:36):
Don't know what to say, Missus Kruger. He he ordered
dinner for himself and for.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Her.
Speaker 12 (17:50):
What are you saying, missus Krueger. I'm very much aware
of what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Surely he knows, yes.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Ma'am, he knows.
Speaker 12 (18:01):
But still he ordered. Oh, I'm not sure of what
to do. I was wondering if you.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Had a suggestion.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Yes, Winter serve the dinner, Barney, come in, mother said, don.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Have you had anything to eat?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yes? Yes, fine, everything's fine.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Winter's uh, Winter's told.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Do you want to look at Rachel mother, She's even
more beautiful.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Than yes, Barney.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Now we have to make certain arrangements.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
You know that, don't you know?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
She came into my life so suddenly, mother, and so
suddenly she left it. Barney, I can't believe that. I
won't believe it, Barney the ring. No, No, I won't
believe it.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
You you really don't intend to bury her.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
With a ring?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Bury her?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Yes, Barney, we have to make arrangements.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
We won't do any such thing, will bury her ourselves.
No one must ever touch her, mother, except the people
who love her. Will you help me, the two of us,
we'll see Rachel to her great Barney.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Now, you really shouldn't bury her with a ring?
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Because the ring is worth, that diamond is worth.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I know Rachel said it herself, it's worth Queen's rest.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
They sounds rather hard and unfeeling. But what can that
ring mean to her? Now?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Everything mother, I do? It means it means that I
believe she's still my wife, Yes, of course, and it
means I haven't given up hope, hope of so strong
as she wears that ring, I can we you can
what we can bring her.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Back, bring her back? Y just want to bring her back, Barney.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
The age of miracles is Oh no, no, it has
It's still here, Barney.
Speaker 13 (20:11):
You want to see a miracle you want to see Barney?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
No, no, no, Mom might mean that commana where just
look look in that mirror? Why do you want to
look in the mirror so you can see a miracle.
I don't you You are the miracle. Mother. What did
it say about you in the Sunday paper?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Mom, I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I remember. I memorized it. I was so proud of it.
Missus Elwood Kruger, the acknowledged social leader of the city,
sunningly attractive, impeccably groomed, was hostess at the reception for.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
The Senate Barney Darling.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Look, I don't you don't want mother. You don't remember.
You don't remember how it was when I was a
little kid. You don't remember that my father was a
hopeless drug fig. How you wash dishes and an all
night hash joint so you could support the three of us.
And when he died in a parody wards, you were
thankful because it meant one less mouth to fee. Looked
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at Juma every day. You were ready to drop dead
from exhaustion. And I said, I'm going to make a
great lady out of my mother. And when I was
five years old, I started selling paper.
Speaker 13 (21:15):
Bernie, this is not what it is.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
It is, Mom, it is what we're talking about. Who
were you, Ma? What were you? You were a poor
girl with no education, no training. Look at what I made.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Possible, I realized, Bertie, I just stuck.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
In a mirror. Look at you now, stunning socially prominent,
Missus Elwood Krueger. You eat lunch with senators, You've had
dinner at the White House. Now look in the mirror
and tell me what you see.
Speaker 12 (21:44):
A miracle, Willers, Yes, sir, it's very cold in here,
but mister Krueger, the sermonstad is way up.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Well. Missus Kruger is feeling chilled. Missus Krueger. Yes, and
bring her some of that brandy I brought back from Paris.
Speaker 12 (22:03):
Yes, sir, May may I say something what I will?
Speaker 1 (22:09):
There's no other.
Speaker 12 (22:10):
Way to say it than to say it, sir. Missus
Krueger isn't here.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I'm aware of that witness you buried the funerals this afternoon. Yes,
then then you have to admit what what do I
have to admit? Do you have to admit? You have
to admit she's dead? Yes, yes, Winters, she's dead for
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now for now? Yes? Now what is I'd like to
ask you something? Yes, sir, I need a man to
work for me without asking a lot of questions or
believes in what I tell him. A man who's with me.
Do you follow this? Yes, sir too. Now that man's
been you winners, Yes, sir. My question is that man
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still you? Yes, sir, that man is still me. Well,
you have to believe with me, with us, understand.
Speaker 12 (23:13):
I think so, sir. Bring Missus Kruger Brandy, Yes, sir,
thank you. Uh will Missus Kruger wants anything else?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I don't think so, yes, sir, Thanks again, Rachel Rachel.
I want to help you and trying. I'm trying as
hard as I can, Rachel Rachel.
Speaker 14 (23:51):
I'm very much concerned, mister Krueger. Mister Kruger, oh about
what cost the amount of our investment. We're dipping very
deeply into reserve capital.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
That's what reserve capitol's for, isn't it. That's why we're
getting on a plane Chicago to see.
Speaker 14 (24:10):
If you yes, yes, go on.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
So we're going to Chicago and talk. No.
Speaker 14 (24:20):
Oh, I guess I'm hearing things when I have all
the information you need about Henley Henley?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
What what do you mean Henley? How did you know
about Henley? How do I know?
Speaker 14 (24:30):
And mister Krueger, that's why we're going to Chicago to
acquire Jason Henley and Company.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Oh yes, Henry Rachel, Rachel, where are you? Mister Kruger?
Who are you looking for? I'll think you later. But
our plane leads for Chicago. Here not you can't have
gone far, mister Krueger. We have to get on that plane.
You don't get on the plane.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
You go.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
But you're the one that has to examine the ass.
Why did you do it? Carlton? But you have to
make a decision. By tonight. You make the decision. You
go there and you'll make it, mister Kruger. Mister Kruger,
where are you going? Mister Kruger? What happened you?
Speaker 5 (25:17):
You look exhaustion?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, I guess, I guess. I am with this. I
thought I heard the I saw, I saw it. I
ran with as I ran, I ran around for hours, trying, trying,
just try. I know why. It's because it's because this
would have been our anniversary, at first anniversary, Yes.
Speaker 12 (25:41):
Sir, I know that, Sir. I took the liberty of
opening this bottle of champagne, and I brought two glasses.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Oh thank you? When is thank you? Good night? Sir? Yes,
I thought I thought I did it, Rach, I thought
I did it today. I thought I brought you back.
I thought I hurt you, But I'll keep trying. I'll
keep trying. I'll never stop trying. Rachel, follow Rachel, Rachel.
Speaker 15 (26:15):
I can see it so clearly that day, that crazy
day I ran into you, and he was so frightened
at first, he was so scared, and it was all
I could do to get you to tell me your.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Name, Like I kept asking, what's your name? What's your name?
Speaker 8 (26:32):
And you just kept staring at me and your eyes
it was so big, And finally.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
You said, my name is Rachel.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Rachel. That's very pretty name.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
What's yours?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Barnie, Barnie.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
I like the sound of that.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I'm sorry about the car, Oh, I don't mind.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I never liked this car.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Anyhow well, I'll tell you what I'll do, Rachel. I'll
have it next No, no, no, no, I won't have it,
pixt I'll buy you a new one.
Speaker 10 (27:05):
Are you that rich?
Speaker 8 (27:06):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I'm fabulously wealthy. But don't hold it against me.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
You know you really, you really are a very nice person.
I'dn't tell I learned how to recognize good people. It
was very important for me to know that at one time.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Rachel, do you want to hear something crazy.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Nothing is really crazy when you think about it for
a while.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
No, no, no, this is the wildest thing you'll ever hear.
What is it here? I am an American driving through
a place called Henley, just outside of London. I hit
a car some girl is driving and we stopped to talk,
and ten minutes later I find out I'm in love
with this girl. All I know about her is a name,
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a name, Rachel. Now go ahead, tell me I'm not crazy.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Hmm, perhaps we're both crazy. All I know about you
is your name, Barney, And I love you, Rachel.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
Rachel, you're here, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
It's you. It's really you. It's not my imagination.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
Put your arms around me.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
And then the ring. You're wedding ring. You're wearing the ring.
You couldn't be wearing the ring if it weren't really you. Rachel.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Oh, Barney, you did it.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
You brought me that. Yes, Yes, you're back. You're back.
That's all I have to know. You're back.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
It all shows what can happen when you're in the
habit of saying no, But is she back?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Is it possible?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
You remember the story of Orpheus. He went to the
land of the fed to reclaim his lost bride. He
almost succeeded too. However, there was a little detail he
forgot about. I won't forget to return shortly with Act three.
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It's part of the culture of our country. We raised
the kids on slogans like never say die, don't give
up the ship, and when threatened with annihilation by a
numerically superior enemy, didn't an American general earn immortality by
simply answering nuts. Barney Krueger took it all seriously. He
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believed he could attain any goal he set out to reach.
He's even brought his wife back from the dead.
Speaker 10 (30:04):
Barnie, I knew you would do it for me.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I knew you would.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Do it, Oh, Rachel, I can hardly believe it.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Everything in the room, it's exactly the.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Same way, exactly.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
Yes, Yes, I didn't touch anything.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Nobody touched anything. Everything is here, you see, just as
I left. Yes, you're closed all your things, even the
book you were reading talking. Look, look it's still open
at the same page.
Speaker 10 (30:26):
That's why I could come back, Barney, because everything that
me is here.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Oh, you were never gone, Rachel.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Never keep me here, Barney, keep me here so.
Speaker 8 (30:36):
Well I will write. I just wish I knew how,
but you know how?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
You know?
Speaker 12 (30:43):
Excuse me, sir, I thought I thought I had heard
you talking.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
With us when the wedness looks now, missus Krouker, See there,
it's with us. You always like with us, isn't it
just great with us? She's back?
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Yes, Barnie, Well what's the sensation of surprise?
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I hope you're hungry?
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Of course I am am.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I late for lunch. Oh you'll remember this lunch as
long as you live.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
I see the table set for three.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Who is your guest?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
No guest, Mom, It's all family.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Family.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Mom. I had a problem.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Oh are you asking you?
Speaker 5 (31:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yes? Yes, Well, well I didn't realize how complicated a
thing like this would be. You see, after all, linglely,
she is dead and and what and there was a
death certificate of burial and well how can I.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Count for the Barnie?
Speaker 4 (31:48):
What are you trying to say?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Mom? How do I re introduced to her into the world?
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Barnie?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Are you all right? Mom? She's back?
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Who do you think, Rachel Barney?
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I did it, Mom, I did it. I made the miracle.
I made it happen. Wait, wait, just wait, you'll see,
you'll see, you'll see with your own eyes. No, wait now, Barney, Wait, wait,
wait Mama, wait Rachel, Rachel. Mother is here. It's time
for lunch. Well, mother, mom, come on now. I know
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it's a shock, but here.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
She is here.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Who is Rachel?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Or? Can't you say anything, Barnie? You mean you can
just stand there and not do anything?
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Mother, Bernie, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
What a normal person would would would put her arms
around Barney. Please, mother, you claim you don't see Rachel. Barney.
Just a minute, when Winners Winn's I'm in here, Barnie,
let me cool Winters. How many people are here in
this room?
Speaker 12 (33:07):
How many? How many people say?
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Yes? You heard me as you, my mother, myself, and
and my wife.
Speaker 12 (33:16):
Ah, yes, sir, yes Winters.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
That'll be all Winters, Yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Well, that man worships shoe Barney.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
He'd laid down his life for you, He'd swear on
a bike.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
What do you say now?
Speaker 4 (33:32):
I say that Winters is wrong to help you perpetuate this,
this fantasy?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
What it is?
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Barney?
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Please let me canker a doctor natural. But you say
you don't see Rachel. I didn't ask you that I
asked you if you see Rachel Barney. I don't see Rachel.
I believe you well, you don't. You don't see any
woman as a part of my life. Brother. And that's
the funny thing, Ma, now that I look back on it,
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you never really wanted me to get married. Oh sure, sure,
you always said so, and you encourage me to meet
this one or that one or the other one. But
that was just the paint on the top, Mom. Somehow
or other, you'd always top me off at the last minute. Now, Barnie,
why would you wanted me off for yourself? Barnie, top
has been said twenty five years. You never went out
with another.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Guy, one boy, Barney.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Even today, hundreds of men, guys who are really up
there too, they all go for you. Mother. How come
you never even look at it? It was you wanted
me all to yourself, and you still want it that way.
That's why you don't say, right, she is not Rachel, Rachel,
Say hello, mother, Hello mother, she's not here. Huh? Who
just spoke? Who's standing right next to me?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Barney?
Speaker 13 (34:45):
What do you want me to say?
Speaker 4 (34:48):
It isn't as if you were a little boy and
we can play little games together.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
I'm not you're a little boy anymore, madam. And I'm
on my own and there's another woman in my life.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Barnie.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Please, I want you to face reality.
Speaker 13 (35:02):
She's not throwing you out, she's not taking your place.
She's what, she's what another part of me needs.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Now, Please, Mom, just take her in your arms, huh
and tell her she's welcome. She's your daughter. What do
you want to cross him? This is the first time
you've been to the office, and that's all I've had
to make a lot of judgment. Well, let's what you
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get paid for it.
Speaker 14 (35:36):
But if I'm wrong, we can go.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Brow Come on now, lay everything on the table and
I'll streightpen it out. Oh the Midwest, the Midwest metro. Well,
I'll tell you what I've decided. I've been juggling all
the facts and now that I think about it, yes,
now that I now that I think about it. Just
a minute.
Speaker 14 (35:55):
Now the option expires this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
We really have to move quickly, just just a minute. Please,
Oh hello, I'm yes, I miss you too.
Speaker 8 (36:12):
I need you to keep me here.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Don't stay away from.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Me, Bonny, No, I won't.
Speaker 9 (36:18):
I need all of your face.
Speaker 8 (36:19):
All of your strengths all of your will, Darling.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
You've got it.
Speaker 8 (36:23):
I need you, told me, Barnie old, yes, yes, yes, hurry.
Speaker 13 (36:29):
Back to me, hur before I slip away again.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
No, no, don't don't do that. I'll be right there.
Speaker 10 (36:35):
Hurry by.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Sorry, I'll see you across where you're going. I have
an important day, mister Kruger. We are going broke. Can't
you understand? I need half a million dollars to cover
an option this afternoon. We don't have it. Don't bother
me with details. And unless you raise another five hundred
thousand by Wednesday morning, all right, I'll raise it, but
I don't really when you can raise it, just leave
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it to me.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Please.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Now I'm going home and I don't want anybody to
disturb me.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Barney, do you ever get tired of me? After the
life you led before?
Speaker 1 (37:11):
What kind of life did I leave before?
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Will you win everywhere?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Well? We go everywhere, the two of us, even if
we never leave the house. We sit here together, and.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Oh, Barney, I hope I'm enough for you.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
No, no, no, no, we don't need that kind of dog.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Because I'll have to be enough for you. I'll need
you with me all the time.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Tell my son.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
I wish to see him with this.
Speaker 12 (37:37):
I am sorry, ma'am, but he refuses to see any one.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
Don't you take that tone with me.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
I'm his mother.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
I said I was sorry, ma'am. I'll have to ask
you to leave.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
You will have to throw.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Me out when, oh, that'll be all one.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
This is Bonnie.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
I must talk to you.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
What's there to talk about, Bonnie?
Speaker 4 (37:57):
This newspaper.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Read it. I don't care about it.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
Just read it.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Incredible collapse of the Kruger enterprises. The disappearance of Bernie
Kruger from the command post is the possible cause. You see,
you're broke.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
You don't have money to throw around anymore.
Speaker 7 (38:20):
You know if you had that ring right now, that
ring you could hold off some creditors, buy some time.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Don't let me alone.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
The world will let you alone.
Speaker 13 (38:30):
Now you won't be able to keep this house.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Mother. I don't want to hear anymore.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
Don't you say that you don't care?
Speaker 4 (38:35):
This is a conceit of yours, but it takes money
to maintain.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
But I think you've said enough. Do you want to
say helone to Rachel's before you leave? Bonnie?
Speaker 4 (38:46):
There is no Rachel. You and I saw her place
in her grave. Rachel is dead.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Oh, Rachel's Bernie. Please let it be over.
Speaker 13 (38:58):
Whatever it is, was that rage?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Throw you like a piece.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Let it be over. Come back into the world, Come
back where you belong.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Along with Rachel. Goodbye mother.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
Oh you're like your father.
Speaker 7 (39:14):
He was a man who was intoxicated by liquor and
it destroyed him.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
And you're You're intoxicated by Rachel, by a dead Rachel,
and she will destroy you too.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
I won't hear anymore. Money.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
Hold me, can't be broke, I can't behold me.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Fun You're not crazy.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
I must be going crazy.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
Hold me, honey, ex gives me, hold you, hold me?
Speaker 1 (39:43):
But Rachel, what Barney?
Speaker 5 (39:45):
Hold me?
Speaker 3 (39:47):
I need all of you to hold me, put your
arms around me.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
But Rachel, you're I'm what, bunny, You're dead? What did
you say? You're dead?
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (40:07):
Yes, no, undead?
Speaker 1 (40:13):
What if you're dead? One? Why do I see you
so clearly?
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Because all of your strength hasn't left me yet?
Speaker 2 (40:25):
It's going and.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Soon I want Rachel. Rachel, are you here?
Speaker 3 (40:33):
No, Monnie, you couldn't keep me here. You weren't strong enough.
You don't want me sadly.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Enough Rachel, if you're becoming dimn Rachel.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
No longer your wife here hearing no take your no, no, no,
no no.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
I don't want that. I don't want it. You didn't
believe me, Rachel.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Don't go, I don't go.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
I believe Rachel. I don't believe.
Speaker 5 (41:05):
Good fine money, good bye.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Rachel, Rachel, Farnie, good father. She was here.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
She was here.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
She's been here in this.
Speaker 6 (41:16):
Room all the time.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
Yeah, now, have winters get you something?
Speaker 1 (41:20):
No, she was here. You know, you know she was here.
Speaker 4 (41:23):
It's time let leave face certain facts.
Speaker 13 (41:28):
Now you know that.
Speaker 5 (41:29):
Rachel has.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Barnie.
Speaker 5 (41:35):
H Look.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
What what's head line on the floor? Mother? Mother? It's
the rain mm.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
And there it was, leaning on the floor, a huge
diamond ring, the gift of Barney to Rachel, the ring
that was buried with her when she died. And you
can believe that she returned to the grave and left
the ring to release him from their marriage row. You
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can believe that. But if you are one of those
practical two plus two must equal four people, we have
another alternative. I'll be back shortly. Did Rachel come back
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from the dead and leave the ring? An explanation that
might satisfy. Some of the more literal minded among us
is that, realizing how strapped he was becoming financially, Barney
may have paid a visit to the grave and removed
it himself.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
After all, it was his reign.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
It goes to prove that we have a denuman to
satisfy every taste. Our cast included Larry Haynes, Joan Loring
and Potoniac and Leon Johnny. The entire production was under
the direction of Hyman Brown. And now a preview of
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our next tale. Well, it's our thinking that's wrong.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
That's what Mildred said.
Speaker 4 (43:34):
So when she had a pain she changed her thinking.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
Sounds so simple for her. It was Matthew, I want
your permission to do an autopsy on your dead wife.
An autopsy? Yeah, I want to have her body exhumed
and do an autopsy. Well, will they let you do
that with your permission?
Speaker 2 (43:57):
I think I can get her father's what excuse do
you give, oh, that there's.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
A possibility she was so maybe ill, maybe incapacitated before
the truck hitter, something like that. Do I have your permission? Letter?
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Well, I'm hester should I say yes?
Speaker 4 (44:15):
Well I think you should, But look at it this way,
it'll be the first autops they ever performed on a
known witch radio.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division.
This is d G. Marshall inviting you to return to
our Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until
next time, pleasant dreams.
I mean.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Welcome. I'm E. G. Marshall, the keeper of the Establishments,
where we offer you a full line of spine tingling items,
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you can sample our latest offering, which has to do
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from the beyond. They say that successful people are those
who refuse to take no for an answer. They cannot
be swayed by reason, They cannot be convinced by the facts,
They cannot be moved my logic. They simply will not
listen to anyone who says no, not even to the
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Angel of death himself.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Fine, I don't want to die.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Rest, Darling, Rest, don't be Rachel. Does I have to die? Please?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Please?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Darling's so afraid to.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Sh No, don't be afraid, Sterling. Even even if you die,
I can bring you back.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Bie, What are you saying.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'm saying I'll bring you back from the dead, Darling.
Believe me, I'll bring you back from the dead.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Our mystery drama is The Lady Dead, was written as
especially for the mystery theater by Sam Dan and stars
Larry Haynes and Joan Loring. It is sponsored in part
by contact the twelve hour cold Capsule and Anheuser Busch
Incorporated brewers of butwise, I'll be back shortly with that one.
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I have absolutely no scientific proof, but it does seem
to me that, in a general way, a great many
people have names that appear to harmonize with their personalities.
Do we therefore unconsciously strive to maintain the image that
our names evoke? I presented this thought merely to introduce
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you to a gentleman named Barney Kruger. I'm sure Barney
Krueger creates an image of mind, and I'm willing to
wager is the picture of a down earth, practical, two
fisted guy. And you're absolutely right. Barney Krueger is thirty
two years old and a self made millionaire. He made
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his money.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
By sharp, shrewd thinking, by.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Taking nothing for granted, by digging, probing, investigating.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Well. I don't give a rap about the report, Carlson.
I want to verify those assets. I want to check
bank statements, investigate every officer of that corporation, and start
with the day was born. You know how we do
things around here. Get on a plane for Chicago, Carson,
and start digging. I want to get some things. Turn
around me. He's going to do it yourself. Just over
the way, and yes, winter, your mother's here. Oh, oh, yes,
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my mother. Well I guess I guess the time has come. Sure,
were in, Yes, sir, thank you? Winners? Hi a mom? Hello,
get you a drink?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
No, thank you? Well this is a happy surprise surprise.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Well, I thought you'd be in Europe at.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Least another week, and so when you just called me
just before.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Oh, yes, yes, yes, I did come back ahead of scheduled,
didn't I, Barney, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
But something seems different different.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
What do you mean difference?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Oh, I don't know. The apartment just seems different. Did
you have anything done? There's a definite air of difference
about the play?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Oh good at that?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Well, I'm not sure, but I rather like it. I
don't know what it is, but I like it. Now.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Tell me, dear, how was Europe?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Oh you know Europe?
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Oh, honestly, Barney, I'm sure you've lost count of the
number of times you've been to Europe in the past
ten years.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Oh no, no, no, I haven't, Mom, I've gone exactly
eighty five times. You can check my secretary. She has
all right, Oh, what's the difference?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Or you know about your covers, airport, hotels, restaurants, offices,
a few minds, a few mills. Mom, you never get
to do anything in Europe.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
I mean, you don't get to do anything European. Now look,
next time, try something.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Different, Mom, I did do something different. Don't tell me.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I'll bet you bought a department store instead of a
steel fact.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Well, not exactly. Now, I got married married, that's right.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Well, congratulations, dear. Now not where is she?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Well, she's right here.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
What can I see?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
You? Course you can see her. It's just that I
wanted to break the news to you. I'm so happy.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I can hardly believe it myself.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Now, how long do you know?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
There? Let's see what's today? Thursday? Huh? Well it's exactly
a week?
Speaker 5 (05:49):
A week?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yes, and what a week? Mother?
Speaker 5 (05:53):
And who is she?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Rachel? Rachel?
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Well that's a that's a lovely name. Rachel.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Who Rachel? Love? I don't know?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
You don't know her?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Last? Well I do, I do, I did, but but
I don't seem to remember.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Mother.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Well, what's the difference. She's Rachel, She's Rachel Krueger.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Now, how did you meet her?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well, it's like a dream, Mama, It's just.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Like a dream, I know.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
But you had to meet somewhere.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yes, well I ran her down you well, you know, mother,
in England, they drive on the wrong side of the road.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
You mean you drove on the wrong side of the road.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well, I don't have any trouble with it while I'm
driving straight ahead. Mother, It's when you come to a
turn and you have a tendency to swing over to
the right. And so we had a little collision.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Money.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, no one was hurt or even scratched. Mother. Well,
that was how we met, and so I took her
to a garage to get a car fist and send
to dinner. Wow, we were winning and it just happened. Mother,
We just fell in love. You don't believe it.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Oh, I believe it.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yes me. We both knew it. And there just didn't
seem to be any question about our getting married. I
would have asked you to fly over, mother, but time
suddenly seemed so precious. We didn't have a minute to waste.
H I can't tell you I'll happy.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I don't even try.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
It's uh uh, just what Well.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
It's just this is so unlike you.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
The fact is you don't even know this girl.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I know her, but you don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Her parents, her background.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
You don't know anything about her.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I know everything.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Well, for instance, where was she going when your two
cars collided?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Uh? And have arrested her?
Speaker 8 (07:42):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (07:42):
Huh that's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Well, I know everything I want to know.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
I certainly not. The way you do business.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Isn't business, mom, this is love.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I never thought I hear you talk like this.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Well, the same rules don't apply in love. For all
you've got to go on is your hurt. And I
can't trust that once you're in trouble. I guess well, partie.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Look, I am all for it, and I'm all for Rachel.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
And when can I finally see her?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Right now? You're happy dinner with it?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
But I want to know everything about you, Rachel.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
It is impossible to know everything about anyone, even oneself.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Are you English?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
No?
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Well, where were you raised?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
It was a very unhappy time.
Speaker 10 (08:34):
I never think about it.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Oh, I'm sorry. Are your parents lives? I have none?
Speaker 10 (08:42):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Well, what happened they were killed? Was it an accident?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
No?
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Oh, please forgive me.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I'm not trying to pry, and I'm just curious, and
it's a natural curiosity.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Oh what a perfectly magnificent ring.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I had to buy it hurried.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I think it's much too large.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Angel, that is a diamond.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I wear it because it makes Funny happy.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
I don't think I have ever seen him so happy
in his life.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
It's so easy to make Bunny happy. A pity he
had to wait so long.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
Well, my dear, I think you're worth to wait now
time I was homeward bow.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Oh well, mother, must you go? It's so early.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Oh, but when you're a gift of a newly wed couple,
that's when you're welcome.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Wears out early.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Rachel, dear, I'm so happy for you.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Thank you call me mother, mother, mister.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Why don't you two girls get together, go shopping, have
lunch and things.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Oh, don't worry, Bartie, we'll arrange for all that.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
I'll call you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Rachel.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Goodbye, Mother.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Well I see you to the door.
Speaker 9 (09:57):
Well what do you think, oh, Bartie, Bartie, she is
just wonderful.
Speaker 11 (10:11):
Yet are you sleep? I it's nothing, I don't know, No,
it is something, Oh, Barnie, I didn't know people could.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Be so happy, there's nothing to it. Just fall in love.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Funny, now that I know what love is. I want
to live, Rachel?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
What are you saying?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I want to live?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Of course you're going to live. I mean, why shouldn't you.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
You're so strong, You're so sure of yourself. You fear nothing,
no one, Oh darling, don't let anything happen to me.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
But what do you say to me?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Oh me, yes, if it's.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
The very last time, darling?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
What are you saying?
Speaker 8 (10:56):
Life is so beautiful?
Speaker 5 (10:59):
I just want to live for you will if you
will believe me?
Speaker 10 (11:03):
Yes, my god, I believe you.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Rachel. Hmm, won't you tell me what you're talking about?
Speaker 10 (11:15):
I don't know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I'm just frightened up.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
What what?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
When you want something so badly, you become scared.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
But you don't have to be scared of anything.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I never really wanted to live until.
Speaker 10 (11:32):
I met you.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well, why how could anybody not want to live? Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
There are times when life can be a terrible thing.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no no, And why not?
I'm going to have any more of that kind of talk.
Speaker 10 (11:49):
Promise, yes, oh, Bunny, I promise, Barnie.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
What is the poll, Would you like something to eat
or drink?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
No? No, it didn't come here for.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
That, of course not.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
But every mother has to ask that question.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
It's part of the franchise.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Mom, I'm worried. Why, Well, it has to do with
the Rachel. How did you know? I'm worried too, Oh,
why are you worried?
Speaker 5 (12:29):
It's something in her eyes?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
What?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yes, I see something in her eyes too. Mather's something,
something that's scarcely and I don't know what it is either.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
I think it's a look of feet.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
What can she be afraid of?
Speaker 4 (12:43):
We don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Actually, we don't know anything about Rachel.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
We love her, but we know nothing about her.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Mom, Rachel is afraid of dying?
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Is she ill?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Oh? The best doctors in the country can find nothing
wrong with it. I know what it is. What do
you say, Barney, You've heard of people who died of grief.
Of course, Well, why can't people also die of happiness?
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Fine?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Mom, Rachel is dying something, Jim Barney.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Don't say that.
Speaker 9 (13:18):
I'd better answer that.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Hello, Oh, Rachel, dear, how are you there?
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Yes, yes, dear, I'll put him on.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Rachel Barney, please come home quick.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Quickly, Funny, darling, why didn't you call it doctor that
well him this minute?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
No, no, please just hold me, but Rachel, don't leave me.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Don't leave me for anything, Rachel. You need to be
I have read everything.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I need, everything I want right here, right now, we'll die.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I want to live so bad, but what it will.
Don't let me go.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Don't let me call there Bonny to that take Please please, Rachel,
don't talk like that.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
If I let go, bring me back. You're so strong,
you can do anything.
Speaker 10 (14:15):
You can do anything, Rachel, You'll bring me back.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Well, you're different from other people, Barnie, You're wonderful. I know,
I know there are things you can do.
Speaker 10 (14:31):
Oh, Barney, promise, Why I promise, and I'll help.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I'll try as hard as I can to help.
Speaker 11 (14:44):
And the two, we two together, we can we can
do it.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
We can bring.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Nith that.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
H m hmm, Rachel, Rachel. Your mother is here, sir.
I'll see her later. Dr Mallie, send doctor Malray away.
Speaker 12 (15:18):
He offered to make the arrangements, Sir, arrangements for the funeral.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I'll make the arrangements myself, that's all wit is, Yes, sir,
Oh Winters, Yes, sir, what are we having for dinner? Oh?
Speaker 12 (15:33):
I didn't think I can prepare some sandwiches.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Oh no, no, no, missus Kruger doesn't like sandwiches. Do
we have any land chops? Yes, well, I'll have mine
rare as usual, and missus Kruger likes hers medium. Oh no, sir,
your mother likes hers well done. I'm not talking about
my mother. I'm talking about my wife. Your wife, as
you know, is there's an exact science to making chops
medium if she likes them exactly between rare and well done.
(16:00):
Missus Krugler is yes, what is it? Miss Scrugler is what? Yeh? Nothing, sir,
nothing at all.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
There may be an exact science to broiling lamb chops,
but you must admit there's a fine art to being
a rich man's butler. And so Winter's departs to instruct
the crook to prepare a very special dinner, a dinner
for two people, one of whom is alive, the other dead.
(16:43):
And we'll be back after dessert when I return with
that two. Death is always the final answer, and death
(17:04):
always has the last word. But not for Barney Krueger.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Rachel is dead.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
There is absolutely no question about that, but evidently Barney
Krueger will not accept it. Before you dismiss Barney Krueger
as a psychotic or a kook, remember this is the
same Barney Krueger, whose reputation for hard headed practicality is
respected throughout the business community.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
The missus Krueger is my side.
Speaker 12 (17:36):
Don't know what to say, Missus Kruger. He he ordered
dinner for himself and for.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Her.
Speaker 12 (17:50):
What are you saying, missus Krueger. I'm very much aware
of what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Surely he knows, yes.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Ma'am, he knows.
Speaker 12 (18:01):
But still he ordered. Oh, I'm not sure of what
to do. I was wondering if you.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Had a suggestion.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Yes, Winter serve the dinner, Barney, come in, mother said, don.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Have you had anything to eat?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yes? Yes, fine, everything's fine.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Winter's uh, Winter's told.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Do you want to look at Rachel mother, She's even
more beautiful.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Than yes, Barney.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Now we have to make certain arrangements.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
You know that, don't you know?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
She came into my life so suddenly, mother, and so
suddenly she left it. Barney, I can't believe that. I
won't believe it, Barney the ring. No, No, I won't
believe it.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
You you really don't intend to bury her.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
With a ring?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Bury her?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Yes, Barney, we have to make arrangements.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
We won't do any such thing, will bury her ourselves.
No one must ever touch her, mother, except the people
who love her. Will you help me, the two of us,
we'll see Rachel to her great Barney.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Now, you really shouldn't bury her with a ring?
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Because the ring is worth, that diamond is worth.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I know Rachel said it herself, it's worth Queen's rest.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
They sounds rather hard and unfeeling. But what can that
ring mean to her? Now?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Everything mother, I do? It means it means that I
believe she's still my wife, Yes, of course, and it
means I haven't given up hope, hope of so strong
as she wears that ring, I can we you can
what we can bring her.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Back, bring her back? Y just want to bring her back, Barney.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
The age of miracles is Oh no, no, it has
It's still here, Barney.
Speaker 13 (20:11):
You want to see a miracle you want to see Barney?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
No, no, no, Mom might mean that commana where just
look look in that mirror? Why do you want to
look in the mirror so you can see a miracle.
I don't you You are the miracle. Mother. What did
it say about you in the Sunday paper?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Mom, I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I remember. I memorized it. I was so proud of it.
Missus Elwood Kruger, the acknowledged social leader of the city,
sunningly attractive, impeccably groomed, was hostess at the reception for.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
The Senate Barney Darling.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Look, I don't you don't want mother. You don't remember.
You don't remember how it was when I was a
little kid. You don't remember that my father was a
hopeless drug fig. How you wash dishes and an all
night hash joint so you could support the three of us.
And when he died in a parody wards, you were
thankful because it meant one less mouth to fee. Looked
(21:05):
at Juma every day. You were ready to drop dead
from exhaustion. And I said, I'm going to make a
great lady out of my mother. And when I was
five years old, I started selling paper.
Speaker 13 (21:15):
Bernie, this is not what it is.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
It is, Mom, it is what we're talking about. Who
were you, Ma? What were you? You were a poor
girl with no education, no training. Look at what I made.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Possible, I realized, Bertie, I just stuck.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
In a mirror. Look at you now, stunning socially prominent,
Missus Elwood Krueger. You eat lunch with senators, You've had
dinner at the White House. Now look in the mirror
and tell me what you see.
Speaker 12 (21:44):
A miracle, Willers, Yes, sir, it's very cold in here,
but mister Krueger, the sermonstad is way up.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Well. Missus Kruger is feeling chilled. Missus Krueger. Yes, and
bring her some of that brandy I brought back from Paris.
Speaker 12 (22:03):
Yes, sir, May may I say something what I will?
Speaker 1 (22:09):
There's no other.
Speaker 12 (22:10):
Way to say it than to say it, sir. Missus
Krueger isn't here.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I'm aware of that witness you buried the funerals this afternoon. Yes,
then then you have to admit what what do I
have to admit? Do you have to admit? You have
to admit she's dead? Yes, yes, Winters, she's dead for
(22:42):
now for now? Yes? Now what is I'd like to
ask you something? Yes, sir, I need a man to
work for me without asking a lot of questions or
believes in what I tell him. A man who's with me.
Do you follow this? Yes, sir too. Now that man's
been you winners, Yes, sir. My question is that man
(23:04):
still you? Yes, sir, that man is still me. Well,
you have to believe with me, with us, understand.
Speaker 12 (23:13):
I think so, sir. Bring Missus Kruger Brandy, Yes, sir,
thank you. Uh will Missus Kruger wants anything else?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I don't think so, yes, sir, Thanks again, Rachel Rachel.
I want to help you and trying. I'm trying as
hard as I can, Rachel Rachel.
Speaker 14 (23:51):
I'm very much concerned, mister Krueger. Mister Kruger, oh about
what cost the amount of our investment. We're dipping very
deeply into reserve capital.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
That's what reserve capitol's for, isn't it. That's why we're
getting on a plane Chicago to see.
Speaker 14 (24:10):
If you yes, yes, go on.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
So we're going to Chicago and talk. No.
Speaker 14 (24:20):
Oh, I guess I'm hearing things when I have all
the information you need about Henley Henley?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
What what do you mean Henley? How did you know
about Henley? How do I know?
Speaker 14 (24:30):
And mister Krueger, that's why we're going to Chicago to
acquire Jason Henley and Company.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Oh yes, Henry Rachel, Rachel, where are you? Mister Kruger?
Who are you looking for? I'll think you later. But
our plane leads for Chicago. Here not you can't have
gone far, mister Krueger. We have to get on that plane.
You don't get on the plane.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
You go.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
But you're the one that has to examine the ass.
Why did you do it? Carlton? But you have to
make a decision. By tonight. You make the decision. You
go there and you'll make it, mister Kruger. Mister Kruger,
where are you going? Mister Kruger? What happened you?
Speaker 5 (25:17):
You look exhaustion?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, I guess, I guess. I am with this. I
thought I heard the I saw, I saw it. I
ran with as I ran, I ran around for hours, trying, trying,
just try. I know why. It's because it's because this
would have been our anniversary, at first anniversary, Yes.
Speaker 12 (25:41):
Sir, I know that, Sir. I took the liberty of
opening this bottle of champagne, and I brought two glasses.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Oh thank you? When is thank you? Good night? Sir? Yes,
I thought I thought I did it, Rach, I thought
I did it today. I thought I brought you back.
I thought I hurt you, But I'll keep trying. I'll
keep trying. I'll never stop trying. Rachel, follow Rachel, Rachel.
Speaker 15 (26:15):
I can see it so clearly that day, that crazy
day I ran into you, and he was so frightened
at first, he was so scared, and it was all
I could do to get you to tell me your.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Name, Like I kept asking, what's your name? What's your name?
Speaker 8 (26:32):
And you just kept staring at me and your eyes
it was so big, And finally.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
You said, my name is Rachel.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Rachel. That's very pretty name.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
What's yours?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Barnie, Barnie.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
I like the sound of that.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I'm sorry about the car, Oh, I don't mind.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I never liked this car.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Anyhow well, I'll tell you what I'll do, Rachel. I'll
have it next No, no, no, no, I won't have it,
pixt I'll buy you a new one.
Speaker 10 (27:05):
Are you that rich?
Speaker 8 (27:06):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I'm fabulously wealthy. But don't hold it against me.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
You know you really, you really are a very nice person.
I'dn't tell I learned how to recognize good people. It
was very important for me to know that at one time.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Rachel, do you want to hear something crazy.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Nothing is really crazy when you think about it for
a while.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
No, no, no, this is the wildest thing you'll ever hear.
What is it here? I am an American driving through
a place called Henley, just outside of London. I hit
a car some girl is driving and we stopped to talk,
and ten minutes later I find out I'm in love
with this girl. All I know about her is a name,
(27:55):
a name, Rachel. Now go ahead, tell me I'm not crazy.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Hmm, perhaps we're both crazy. All I know about you
is your name, Barney, And I love you, Rachel.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
Rachel, you're here, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
It's you. It's really you. It's not my imagination.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
Put your arms around me.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
And then the ring. You're wedding ring. You're wearing the ring.
You couldn't be wearing the ring if it weren't really you. Rachel.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Oh, Barney, you did it.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
You brought me that. Yes, Yes, you're back. You're back.
That's all I have to know. You're back.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
It all shows what can happen when you're in the
habit of saying no, But is she back?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Is it possible?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
You remember the story of Orpheus. He went to the
land of the fed to reclaim his lost bride. He
almost succeeded too. However, there was a little detail he
forgot about. I won't forget to return shortly with Act three.
(29:30):
It's part of the culture of our country. We raised
the kids on slogans like never say die, don't give
up the ship, and when threatened with annihilation by a
numerically superior enemy, didn't an American general earn immortality by
simply answering nuts. Barney Krueger took it all seriously. He
(29:55):
believed he could attain any goal he set out to reach.
He's even brought his wife back from the dead.
Speaker 10 (30:04):
Barnie, I knew you would do it for me.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I knew you would.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Do it, Oh, Rachel, I can hardly believe it.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Everything in the room, it's exactly the.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Same way, exactly.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
Yes, Yes, I didn't touch anything.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Nobody touched anything. Everything is here, you see, just as
I left. Yes, you're closed all your things, even the
book you were reading talking. Look, look it's still open
at the same page.
Speaker 10 (30:26):
That's why I could come back, Barney, because everything that
me is here.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Oh, you were never gone, Rachel.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Never keep me here, Barney, keep me here so.
Speaker 8 (30:36):
Well I will write. I just wish I knew how,
but you know how?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
You know?
Speaker 12 (30:43):
Excuse me, sir, I thought I thought I had heard
you talking.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
With us when the wedness looks now, missus Krouker, See there,
it's with us. You always like with us, isn't it
just great with us? She's back?
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Yes, Barnie, Well what's the sensation of surprise?
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I hope you're hungry?
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Of course I am am.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I late for lunch. Oh you'll remember this lunch as
long as you live.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
I see the table set for three.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Who is your guest?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
No guest, Mom, It's all family.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Family.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Mom. I had a problem.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Oh are you asking you?
Speaker 5 (31:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yes? Yes, Well, well I didn't realize how complicated a
thing like this would be. You see, after all, linglely,
she is dead and and what and there was a
death certificate of burial and well how can I.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Count for the Barnie?
Speaker 4 (31:48):
What are you trying to say?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Mom? How do I re introduced to her into the world?
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Barnie?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Are you all right? Mom? She's back?
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Who do you think, Rachel Barney?
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I did it, Mom, I did it. I made the miracle.
I made it happen. Wait, wait, just wait, you'll see,
you'll see, you'll see with your own eyes. No, wait now, Barney, Wait, wait,
wait Mama, wait Rachel, Rachel. Mother is here. It's time
for lunch. Well, mother, mom, come on now. I know
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it's a shock, but here.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
She is here.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Who is Rachel?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Or? Can't you say anything, Barnie? You mean you can
just stand there and not do anything?
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Mother, Bernie, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
What a normal person would would would put her arms
around Barney. Please, mother, you claim you don't see Rachel. Barney.
Just a minute, when Winners Winn's I'm in here, Barnie,
let me cool Winters. How many people are here in
this room?
Speaker 12 (33:07):
How many? How many people say?
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Yes? You heard me as you, my mother, myself, and
and my wife.
Speaker 12 (33:16):
Ah, yes, sir, yes Winters.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
That'll be all Winters, Yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Well, that man worships shoe Barney.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
He'd laid down his life for you, He'd swear on
a bike.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
What do you say now?
Speaker 4 (33:32):
I say that Winters is wrong to help you perpetuate this,
this fantasy?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
What it is?
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Barney?
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Please let me canker a doctor natural. But you say
you don't see Rachel. I didn't ask you that I
asked you if you see Rachel Barney. I don't see Rachel.
I believe you well, you don't. You don't see any
woman as a part of my life. Brother. And that's
the funny thing, Ma, now that I look back on it,
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you never really wanted me to get married. Oh sure, sure,
you always said so, and you encourage me to meet
this one or that one or the other one. But
that was just the paint on the top, Mom. Somehow
or other, you'd always top me off at the last minute. Now, Barnie,
why would you wanted me off for yourself? Barnie, top
has been said twenty five years. You never went out
with another.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Guy, one boy, Barney.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Even today, hundreds of men, guys who are really up
there too, they all go for you. Mother. How come
you never even look at it? It was you wanted
me all to yourself, and you still want it that way.
That's why you don't say, right, she is not Rachel, Rachel,
Say hello, mother, Hello mother, she's not here. Huh? Who
just spoke? Who's standing right next to me?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Barney?
Speaker 13 (34:45):
What do you want me to say?
Speaker 4 (34:48):
It isn't as if you were a little boy and
we can play little games together.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
I'm not you're a little boy anymore, madam. And I'm
on my own and there's another woman in my life.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Barnie.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Please, I want you to face reality.
Speaker 13 (35:02):
She's not throwing you out, she's not taking your place.
She's what, she's what another part of me needs.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Now, Please, Mom, just take her in your arms, huh
and tell her she's welcome. She's your daughter. What do
you want to cross him? This is the first time
you've been to the office, and that's all I've had
to make a lot of judgment. Well, let's what you
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get paid for it.
Speaker 14 (35:36):
But if I'm wrong, we can go.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Brow Come on now, lay everything on the table and
I'll streightpen it out. Oh the Midwest, the Midwest metro. Well,
I'll tell you what I've decided. I've been juggling all
the facts and now that I think about it, yes,
now that I now that I think about it. Just
a minute.
Speaker 14 (35:55):
Now the option expires this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
We really have to move quickly, just just a minute. Please,
Oh hello, I'm yes, I miss you too.
Speaker 8 (36:12):
I need you to keep me here.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Don't stay away from.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Me, Bonny, No, I won't.
Speaker 9 (36:18):
I need all of your face.
Speaker 8 (36:19):
All of your strengths all of your will, Darling.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
You've got it.
Speaker 8 (36:23):
I need you, told me, Barnie old, yes, yes, yes, hurry.
Speaker 13 (36:29):
Back to me, hur before I slip away again.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
No, no, don't don't do that. I'll be right there.
Speaker 10 (36:35):
Hurry by.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Sorry, I'll see you across where you're going. I have
an important day, mister Kruger. We are going broke. Can't
you understand? I need half a million dollars to cover
an option this afternoon. We don't have it. Don't bother
me with details. And unless you raise another five hundred
thousand by Wednesday morning, all right, I'll raise it, but
I don't really when you can raise it, just leave
(36:57):
it to me.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Please.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Now I'm going home and I don't want anybody to
disturb me.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Barney, do you ever get tired of me? After the
life you led before?
Speaker 1 (37:11):
What kind of life did I leave before?
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Will you win everywhere?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Well? We go everywhere, the two of us, even if
we never leave the house. We sit here together, and.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Oh, Barney, I hope I'm enough for you.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
No, no, no, no, we don't need that kind of dog.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Because I'll have to be enough for you. I'll need
you with me all the time.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Tell my son.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
I wish to see him with this.
Speaker 12 (37:37):
I am sorry, ma'am, but he refuses to see any one.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
Don't you take that tone with me.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
I'm his mother.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
I said I was sorry, ma'am. I'll have to ask
you to leave.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
You will have to throw.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Me out when, oh, that'll be all one.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
This is Bonnie.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
I must talk to you.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
What's there to talk about, Bonnie?
Speaker 4 (37:57):
This newspaper.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Read it. I don't care about it.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
Just read it.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Incredible collapse of the Kruger enterprises. The disappearance of Bernie
Kruger from the command post is the possible cause. You see,
you're broke.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
You don't have money to throw around anymore.
Speaker 7 (38:20):
You know if you had that ring right now, that
ring you could hold off some creditors, buy some time.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Don't let me alone.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
The world will let you alone.
Speaker 13 (38:30):
Now you won't be able to keep this house.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Mother. I don't want to hear anymore.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
Don't you say that you don't care?
Speaker 4 (38:35):
This is a conceit of yours, but it takes money
to maintain.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
But I think you've said enough. Do you want to
say helone to Rachel's before you leave? Bonnie?
Speaker 4 (38:46):
There is no Rachel. You and I saw her place
in her grave. Rachel is dead.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Oh, Rachel's Bernie. Please let it be over.
Speaker 13 (38:58):
Whatever it is, was that rage?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Throw you like a piece.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Let it be over. Come back into the world, Come
back where you belong.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Along with Rachel. Goodbye mother.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
Oh you're like your father.
Speaker 7 (39:14):
He was a man who was intoxicated by liquor and
it destroyed him.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
And you're You're intoxicated by Rachel, by a dead Rachel,
and she will destroy you too.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
I won't hear anymore. Money.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
Hold me, can't be broke, I can't behold me.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Fun You're not crazy.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
I must be going crazy.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
Hold me, honey, ex gives me, hold you, hold me?
Speaker 1 (39:43):
But Rachel, what Barney?
Speaker 5 (39:45):
Hold me?
Speaker 3 (39:47):
I need all of you to hold me, put your
arms around me.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
But Rachel, you're I'm what, bunny, You're dead? What did
you say? You're dead?
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (40:07):
Yes, no, undead?
Speaker 1 (40:13):
What if you're dead? One? Why do I see you
so clearly?
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Because all of your strength hasn't left me yet?
Speaker 2 (40:25):
It's going and.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Soon I want Rachel. Rachel, are you here?
Speaker 3 (40:33):
No, Monnie, you couldn't keep me here. You weren't strong enough.
You don't want me sadly.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Enough Rachel, if you're becoming dimn Rachel.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
No longer your wife here hearing no take your no, no, no,
no no.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
I don't want that. I don't want it. You didn't
believe me, Rachel.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Don't go, I don't go.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
I believe Rachel. I don't believe.
Speaker 5 (41:05):
Good fine money, good bye.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Rachel, Rachel, Farnie, good father. She was here.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
She was here.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
She's been here in this.
Speaker 6 (41:16):
Room all the time.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
Yeah, now, have winters get you something?
Speaker 1 (41:20):
No, she was here. You know, you know she was here.
Speaker 4 (41:23):
It's time let leave face certain facts.
Speaker 13 (41:28):
Now you know that.
Speaker 5 (41:29):
Rachel has.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Barnie.
Speaker 5 (41:35):
H Look.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
What what's head line on the floor? Mother? Mother? It's
the rain mm.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
And there it was, leaning on the floor, a huge
diamond ring, the gift of Barney to Rachel, the ring
that was buried with her when she died. And you
can believe that she returned to the grave and left
the ring to release him from their marriage row. You
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can believe that. But if you are one of those
practical two plus two must equal four people, we have
another alternative. I'll be back shortly. Did Rachel come back
(42:44):
from the dead and leave the ring? An explanation that
might satisfy. Some of the more literal minded among us
is that, realizing how strapped he was becoming financially, Barney
may have paid a visit to the grave and removed
it himself.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
After all, it was his reign.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
It goes to prove that we have a denuman to
satisfy every taste. Our cast included Larry Haynes, Joan Loring
and Potoniac and Leon Johnny. The entire production was under
the direction of Hyman Brown. And now a preview of
(43:29):
our next tale. Well, it's our thinking that's wrong.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
That's what Mildred said.
Speaker 4 (43:34):
So when she had a pain she changed her thinking.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
Sounds so simple for her. It was Matthew, I want
your permission to do an autopsy on your dead wife.
An autopsy? Yeah, I want to have her body exhumed
and do an autopsy. Well, will they let you do
that with your permission?
Speaker 2 (43:57):
I think I can get her father's what excuse do
you give, oh, that there's.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
A possibility she was so maybe ill, maybe incapacitated before
the truck hitter, something like that. Do I have your permission? Letter?
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Well, I'm hester should I say yes?
Speaker 4 (44:15):
Well I think you should, But look at it this way,
it'll be the first autops they ever performed on a
known witch radio.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
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This is d G. Marshall inviting you to return to
our Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until
next time, pleasant dreams.
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