November 13, 2024 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Come in. Welcome, I'm e. G.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Come in through the mysterious door which hides the secrets
and sometimes horrors we dare not even think about, but
which are nevertheless brought to the forefront of our imagination
by the tale you're about to hear. A door, A
simple door shuts us out or lets us into a room.
(00:34):
But such a room, as we are to visit now,
is one. Perhaps we'd be better off avoiding. At least
Stephanie Miller would have been better off if she had
never set foot in it again, or would she? Maybe
that was her destiny, And who can question what the
fates have agreed?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Missus Lannie, would you mind awfully if I just sat
here in the room a moment alone.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Of course, I'll go down and make some tea. Please
don't bother, it's no botherers all.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You're very kind.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Sit here and.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Take your time, come.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Down when you're ready.
Speaker 7 (01:12):
My dear, dear.
Speaker 8 (01:13):
Room, you look so different. I really don't like your
yellow wallpapers.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
And there's no rug.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Your floor must be cold.
Speaker 8 (01:27):
Oh it's just like.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Cold time talking to my old room talking. I don't
understand why missus Lanning doesn't like cheese.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Our mystery drama Stephanie's Room, was written especially for the
Mystery Theater by Bob Dura and stars Mercedes McCambridge. 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. Our story begins in a
(02:21):
modern tracked home in a Los Angeles suburb. Stephanie and
Tom Miller are an average couple. Tom's on his way
up in his advertising career, and for both of them
it means some sacrifices. I may be a little late tonight,
steph I have some things to clear up on.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
The Rogers account.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Well that's okay.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Now, Look, Honey, before you get upset, I got to
tell you sometime.
Speaker 9 (02:44):
Oh Tom, does this.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Mean another move?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
It's my best chance yet. It's New York City, the
home office. I'll go in as ad director, a vice
presidency in two years, no more than three.
Speaker 9 (02:56):
Look, it's the start.
Speaker 10 (02:57):
Of a whole new life.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Tom.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
We came the Los Angeles chasing Rainbows and vice presidency,
and before that it was Chicago. Honestly, we've had three
different homes in five years.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
This will be the last I promise.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well, your career is important, but I'm so tired of.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Living out of a bar.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I know, I know. We'll live anywhere you want, maybe
even your old hometown if you like.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
It wasn't in.
Speaker 9 (03:22):
The suburb in Prestwood.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yes, all right now, Steph, I swear to you, if
anything does go sour on this deal, I won't move again.
I'll take my chances in New York and we'll stay
all right, tom.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
It would be nice to see the old house again. Hi.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
You know, Steph, looking down on New York like this,
I feel it's over on top of the world.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
But let's get settled soon.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
Come.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh sure, sure will house?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Not every weekend. I don't like this hotel room anymore
than you do.
Speaker 9 (03:58):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I thought I might take her up to Chrestwood tomorrow.
It's only thirty five minutes by Training Shore. Why don't
you well, I mean, I'd like to see it, you know,
see what's changed since I was a child, and see
the old How I wonder who's living there now?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Oh, maybe they'll letgend and show you.
Speaker 11 (04:14):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (04:14):
Oh, I couldn't ask that.
Speaker 9 (04:16):
I'll just stroll around what.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
You could at least ask, after all, you did live there.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yes, good morning.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I'm not selling anything, really, Oh what is it you want?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Well, I know this.
Speaker 9 (04:42):
May sound foolish.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
My name is Stephanie Miller, and I grew up in
this house until I was fourteen, and I wanted to
see it again, you know, to see if it had
changed and who was living here now.
Speaker 12 (04:55):
Oh, well, my husband isn't home at the moment, I said.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Well, that's all right.
Speaker 9 (04:59):
I am standed preposterous for me to ask.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
It's okay, I'll just look around outside if.
Speaker 9 (05:05):
You don't mind.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
No, I don't mind that. How long has it been
since you've seen the house?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Oh it's fifteen years.
Speaker 9 (05:13):
See we've been living in Los.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Angeles, and my husband's firm transferred him here to New York,
so that when I was this close, I just couldn't
resist coming back.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Stephanie Miller.
Speaker 12 (05:24):
You said, yeah, or come in, missus Miller. I don't
see the hom I'm missus Landing.
Speaker 9 (05:30):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I'm actining it changed a lot since you lived here.
Speaker 13 (05:35):
No, no, not that much really.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh, your furniture is different, of course, But I remember
this room so well.
Speaker 9 (05:45):
Oh I love that table.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
It was my mother and the fireplace.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
I used to sit in my pajamas on cold winter
nights and watch the pictures and the embers. I saw
tigers fighting, and flowers and monkeys and horses, and you too.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Oh I love the fireplace.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Hey, I wonder what is it?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Well, it really couldn't still be here.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
But what are you looking for?
Speaker 5 (06:11):
There was a penny.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I put it up in a crack in the chimney
when I was ten years old for good luck, you know.
Speaker 9 (06:17):
And I think I can just about reach this.
Speaker 13 (06:20):
Ha.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yes, I can hardly believe it.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Is still here. Look isn't that amazed? Gollies?
Speaker 9 (06:32):
Well do you like the house, Miss Landing?
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I do, except for what oh nothing really? Now, come on,
you want to see the kitchen mikake?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Oh charming, missus Lanning, thank you. Yeah, of course we
didn't have the breakfast notes. My mother had a big
oak table right here in the middle of the floor.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
I like room to move around.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
Everything happened at that old old table.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Mom and Daddy sit there every night and they talk
and I can almost see my mother making her Christmas troodle. Now,
all those family conferences, I was always.
Speaker 8 (07:12):
Included in the minor decisions.
Speaker 12 (07:15):
Oh you were an only child, then yes, Gee, may I.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
May I see upstairs?
Speaker 9 (07:24):
I'd love to see my old room.
Speaker 14 (07:26):
Oh yes, if you like.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Mister Lanning and I use the front sad.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Her mine was the small one facing the back. That's
how guest room.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
We don't use it at all.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
You're sure you don't mind if I look?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Of course not.
Speaker 12 (07:42):
We don't have any children to bring grandchildren visiting, and
we never have overnight company.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
But it's still the guest room.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
Oh it's very pretty.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I was good to use it for a sewing room.
But what that's nothing?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Is it the same thing you hesitated about downstairs?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Well?
Speaker 12 (08:09):
Yes, I've never been able to use this room.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Why why I feel as though.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
As though I'm not wanted, I'm not welcome in this room.
Speaker 8 (08:21):
But this is your house.
Speaker 9 (08:24):
Why wouldn't you be welcome.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I'm not sure any house is ours. We live in them,
use them, but there are some things we can't ever own.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I love this room.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I even used to talk to it, really, And mother
had white curtains with little bluebells all over them, and
anna bedspread to match, and my dresser was over here,
right next to the window.
Speaker 9 (08:56):
And then I had a little white care.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Do you feel it here?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
What with strangeness in here? Though we didn't belong here?
Missus Lanning, would you mind awfully if I just sat
here alone for a moment to remember?
Speaker 8 (09:18):
Of course not.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I'll go down and make some tea.
Speaker 12 (09:21):
Oh, it's no bother, tall, I'm enjoying the company.
Speaker 9 (09:25):
You're very kind to take your.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Time, come down when you're ready.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You do look different. I really don't like that yellow wallpaper.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
And there's no rug.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Your floor must be cold.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Yes, it's just like old time talking and room talking.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I don't understandingly missus Lanning doesn't like you.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Why so quiet, heaven?
Speaker 12 (10:16):
I wasn't going to tell you about what happened today,
but I must. A woman who used to live here
as a girl came to the house today and she wanted.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
To see it again.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
And you let her in.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Now will?
Speaker 7 (10:29):
She was a sweet young Wait a minute, she asked
to see the house with a story about having lived here.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yes, but don't you know what she wants?
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Oh, she used that story to get into the house.
She looks around and makes note of anything valuable, And
next time we're away foot she and her accomplice rip
us off.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Oh, now will she wasn't anything like that?
Speaker 7 (11:00):
Oh, yes, so naive, Helen.
Speaker 12 (11:01):
No, she remembered a penny she'd put in the fireplace chimney,
and she reached him and pulled it right.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Oh sure, sure, she had it in the hand all
the time. It was a trick.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Well, she knew her room, the one I can't stand.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Uh, that's the very room.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Yes, and she.
Speaker 9 (11:20):
Described just how it looked when she was a child.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
I'm crying with pleen, so no, wait, will now.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Listen to me.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
After she left, I went.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Up to that room. Something strange happened there.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Oh hell, I mean it.
Speaker 12 (11:37):
There's a totally different field to that room. I don't
know what it is, but it's as though the room.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
For a life.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Is that you steph come you home already?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah, we finished up early on that field ship, New Jersey.
Speaker 15 (12:01):
How was Prestwood, I'll.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Take it you webt Yes, I went, Oh, you.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Don't sound enthused. Who's living there now?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Well there's a retired couple.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
I only met the woman. She was very nice.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Oh stuff, what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Were you?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Were you disappointed?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
No, not disappointed that I was puzzled about what. Well,
I went up to my old room, and I sat
there for a while, and I had the oddest feeling
that the room remembered me, that it didn't want me
to leave.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Help me. Rooms really can't remember.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
And then then all the way home on the train,
I kept thinking, knowing, really did I have to go
back there again?
Speaker 7 (12:57):
I'll be back to Wyn all right, Well, I'll be here. Well,
don't look so down in the dumps. This isn't the
first fishing trip I've been.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
On, now, Will, I didn't say anything.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Oh, no, his retirements boring and as you don't expect
me to sit in a rocking chair for the rest
of my life.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
No, I don't.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
If only we've had eh, No, I promise I never
say that again.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
But you think it, and I feel it. But we've
stuck together, Will, even without children.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
There must be something for us.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
We'll I'll be back tomorrow around six.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Uh huh, I'll have dinner ready.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
And listen, Helen, if that woman comes around here again,
don't let her in. Call the police.
Speaker 12 (13:53):
All right, whatever you say, Oh, good luck, bring home
a trout dinner.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
If only we'd had, If only we'd had, our whole.
Speaker 9 (14:09):
Lives have been nothing.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
But if only.
Speaker 12 (14:15):
Only I could make will believe me about the room.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I know there's something different there.
Speaker 12 (14:22):
Something happened when that girl came back here.
Speaker 16 (14:30):
Death is room.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
How many happy hours did she have here?
Speaker 7 (14:37):
How many tears?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
How many hopes?
Speaker 17 (14:42):
Like Oh up, sparkerpry for twenty black birds baked in
a bye when the fire.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Was over, and birth impassing no sadly teach to step
people looking.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Backward, turn backward, Oh time in my flight, make me
a child again, just for tonight. The poet's words strike
a note in all of us wish for a touch
of childhood again, when the world gets weary and our
own hopes aren't quite as bright as they were once.
Childhood looks awfully good. But be where all of you
(15:31):
would turn backward. You'll see what I mean when I
return shortly with that two. Another poet and novelist, Thomas Wolfe,
told us, you can't go home again. Nothing stays the same,
(15:56):
and the old familiar things just aren't as we remember them.
And how often they proved to be so disappointing. But
for Stephanie Miller, going home again, rather to the house
than which she had once lived, was proving to be
a compelling experience.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Ah, hello, hello, this is learning.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
This is Stephanie Miller.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
Oh, hello hello.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
I really hate to.
Speaker 9 (16:26):
Impose, but I wondered if I could come out just
one more time to see my old room.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Well no, my husband, Well I don't.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Want to intrude, just you know, anytime that's convenient.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Well, then why don't you come today.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
My husband's away on a fishing dript.
Speaker 16 (16:42):
Yes, come today, Come in, missus Miller.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I'm really glad to see you.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Thank you, and please call me Stephanie.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
All right, come on in the kitchen. I have coffee and.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Through.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
It's only from the supermarket.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
But you told me how your mother used to massage,
you know, at Christmas time.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
Always at Christmas time.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Oh, very thoughtful of you, missus Lenning.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
I'll slide into the nook there and we'll have our coffee.
You can stay as long as you like. You know,
I didn't think I was going to see you again.
My husband did though. He thought you were a con artist.
Speaker 14 (17:26):
So oh, he thought you made.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Up the story about living in the house, just getting
in to see if we had anything valuable to steal.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Oh she didn't really.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
But I know differently, I know you lived here in
that room.
Speaker 16 (17:43):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 13 (17:44):
Could we go up now?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Of course, bring your coffee along.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I feel so peaceful in this room. Really, it's as
though i'd never been away.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
My husband won't.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Believe there's a change in the room.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
Do you know that I was never afraid of the
dark in this room.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Mama would put the lights out and then I'd begin
to see the shadows start to form, and they were
always friendly shadows.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
Listen, do you hear anythings to Fanny?
Speaker 14 (18:24):
Hear anything?
Speaker 9 (18:25):
Yeah, a sort of song and it comes and goes.
I heard it the other day.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
When I was here, Stephanie, you were happy here, weren't you?
Speaker 7 (18:39):
Oh? Yes?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
And then this room was a happy room.
Speaker 16 (18:44):
You know.
Speaker 14 (18:44):
I think I think that the room is glad to
see you.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Well. I suppose if we love a house or a room,
it just naturally has love in it.
Speaker 12 (18:54):
And responds, Stephanie, it responds. That's why I want you
to come and visit anytime you want. You love this room,
and your presence it changes things.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
That's kind of you, missus Lanning. But I guess this
will be the last time for a while.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
At least.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Tom and I have so much to do, you know,
finding our own place and getting settled.
Speaker 9 (19:20):
But I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
After I'm settled, I'll drop out maybe once a month
or so to visit.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Oh, I hope it's sooner.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Will breakfast ready be right there?
Speaker 7 (19:41):
What I'll be done? When did she do that? Say Helen?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
When did you.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Change the drapes in the guest room?
Speaker 14 (19:55):
Well?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Do you changed the drapes in the guest room?
Speaker 7 (19:59):
Didn't you?
Speaker 8 (20:00):
No? They're the ones we've always had.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
It looks different.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Well, I admit I'm not as observing it.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
It was like me to be.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Maybe they were gray, all a gray.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
It looks like to me, will they're a shark crews.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Wow, maybe they faded from the sun. But it's not
a big issue. Forget I mentioned it.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
After breakfast, I'm going to march you upstairs.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
And show you the difference between gray and shark cruise.
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Well, they look faded to me.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Maybe they were shark crewise. Eh, it's coming to think
of that. Wallpaper looks different too. I wanted more of
a gold count than yes, But that could I say too?
Speaker 15 (21:01):
I know you never liked this room.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
What's the difference? We never use it? Anyway, closed door,
and let's forget it.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Yes, why don't we do that?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Let's not worry about it. I'm so glad you came, Stephanie.
Do you remember what color the drapes and walls were
in the guest room.
Speaker 9 (21:27):
When you were here last year? So I'm afraid I do,
and I'm afraid that I didn't.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
Well, I mean, it just isn't my style.
Speaker 13 (21:34):
What were they Well, the drape.
Speaker 9 (21:36):
There's chartreuse, and the walls are sort of gold. Good,
that's what I wanted to know.
Speaker 14 (21:44):
Come with me to the room.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Why what is the difference?
Speaker 8 (21:47):
You learning?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
I think you're in for a surprise after you see
the room.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Oh this is so you'll see, Oh, missus learning, Where did.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
You ever find them? I didn't, But I are my
drains white with bluebells.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
They're exactly like the.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Ones brother had made up for me.
Speaker 16 (22:11):
But they weren't like that.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
You must have searched for days to get them so exactly,
but I didn't.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I don't know what the joy did get.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
These drapes for me? Because I told you mother had
white drapes with.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
A pattern of little blue bells.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I thought, oh, missus laming, you are a beautiful person.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Stephanie.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
What color was the wall caper in here?
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Do you remember? Pale blue? Yes?
Speaker 9 (22:39):
To pick up the color of the blue belt, pale blue.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
That would be right, I guess, because these walls are
a stingy gray.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Weren't they gold? Last week?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
They were?
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Stephany, the next time you come, I promise you they be.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Are you ready to turn in, Honey?
Speaker 9 (23:09):
No, Tom, No, I just want to read a little
bit longer.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Have things are okay?
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Aren't they okay?
Speaker 17 (23:18):
Well?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I mean about to move to New York?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
You're you're not too unhappy?
Speaker 8 (23:22):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Tom, I'm not unhappy at all. I feel there's no
life come home.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I know we've had trouble finding the right house, but
I have a feeling this weekend.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
No, we'll find it, y'all.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Well, I've been thinking.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
About those visits you've made out to Crestwood.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Would you want to live there in my old house?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Oh? No, never?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
But just seems so drawn to it.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Well, I mean it's a nice place to visit, but
I wouldn't want to live there.
Speaker 15 (23:47):
No.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Well, missus Lanning was sweet to put up the drapes
like I had as a child, and now she even
wants to change the wallpaper. But I don't want that, Tom,
I want our own place, brand new for.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
Us alone and the kids. And the kids. I can
hardly wait till neither can I.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Okay, i'll see you for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
I wouldn't miss it.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Good night, honey.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
Oh where was I here?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
We are?
Speaker 8 (24:19):
Roger leaned across the table. Oh, nois please come with me.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
I can't.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
I won't to read it anymore.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
I'm going to go to bed.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
What what's that? Yes, i'll come back.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
I'll come of course, don't worry.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I'll be there.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
You know, I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Huh, what are you talking about?
Speaker 17 (24:58):
Talking?
Speaker 16 (24:59):
Have been talking?
Speaker 9 (25:00):
I was reading for supper.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I heard you talking in here.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
No I wasn't.
Speaker 9 (25:03):
I mean maybe I was reading out loud and you
didn't know it.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Why don't you come to bed?
Speaker 9 (25:08):
Well I will in a minute or.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Two, okay, but I think maybe you've read enough. You're
starting to dream out loud.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
Well, I'll be there in a minute. Yes, yes, I
hear you, and I'll come back.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
I'll come back.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Hello, missus Lanning Stephanie.
Speaker 9 (25:50):
You said that I could come to visit whenever I want.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Oh, of course, come in.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
I hope I'm not bothering you.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
I mean coming all the time.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Like I do.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Oh no, I like your visit.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
I brought something with me today.
Speaker 14 (26:03):
Look.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
Why what a beautiful dog.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I was unpacking one of the barrels and I found her.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
I always loved Miranda.
Speaker 9 (26:12):
That's her name, Miranda.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I've known her for such a long time, and she's
so beautiful.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Why don't we put Miranda in your room? That's where
she belongs.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Is so good up in my room. And she looked
so nice in there.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Just the way she always did.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
I always kept Miranda on a.
Speaker 13 (26:37):
Bed like that, Siphony.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Could you could you call me mother?
Speaker 15 (26:45):
Mama?
Speaker 16 (26:46):
Yes, Mama.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I always tall and young. She had brown hair, such
blue eyes. I have blue eyes, and such a smile.
Mamma was after all the time.
Speaker 13 (27:01):
I could be happy if own mama have brown hair.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Stephanie, look at my hair.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Look at my Mamma loves to sing too.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
She taught me many songs.
Speaker 16 (27:13):
My hair is brown.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
When we are together in this room, it's any color
I want it to be.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
This's my room.
Speaker 13 (27:20):
Yes, it's your room.
Speaker 9 (27:22):
It's always been your room.
Speaker 12 (27:24):
Your room with the drapes of bluebells, the blue wall
paper and now, Miranda, it's your room because it wants you,
it remembers you, and for the first time in my life,
I feel I belong somewhere here in this room with you.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Sing to me, Mamma, Yes, yes, I will.
Speaker 14 (27:54):
Long and ridges holding down, holding down, falling down, land,
the bridges falling down.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
God, My.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Lately two women caught in the spell of a room
or the spell of love. A woman who never had
a daughter, a girl whose mother was taken from her
at an early age. They both found something in this room,
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but the relationship goes far beyond their mortal feelings, and
far beyond anything you might imagine. You'll see what I
mean when I returned shortly with Act three. Let's return
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now to Stephanie Miller, who paid an innocent visit to
the house of her childhood and now feels strangely drawn
to her old room. Right now, however, she's in the
New York hotel where she and her husband Tom are
staying until they can find a house of their own,
and at the moment they're not seeing eye to eye
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on the forthcoming obligation stuff. We have to go. Wow,
it's company politics, mister Eames expects oh.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Mister Ames, mister Eames.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
It's always what mister Ames says.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Well, look he's my boss.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
Well I'm fed up with company parties.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
But it's part of the sacrifice and there'll be lots
more when I get to be vice president.
Speaker 8 (29:35):
Right, all right, Tom, it's important to your career.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I know that stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Look, you always enjoyed parties and entertain Just dread.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
A big dinner party having to talk.
Speaker 9 (29:48):
To all those people.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
It never bothered you before.
Speaker 9 (29:51):
All right, Tom, I said I'd go to the party.
I'm just saying I'm not going to enjoy now.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Look, go out and buy yourself the best dress you
can find. Maybe that'll make you feel different.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Why, Stephany, what is the pride?
Speaker 5 (30:09):
I hope you don't mind my coming without calling again?
Speaker 4 (30:12):
No, of course, not come in.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Okay, because I have something to show you.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Oh, looks like a dress. Pop.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Yeah, it's just my new dress. It's for the party.
Come on, come on up to my room.
Speaker 9 (30:23):
I can't wait to show it to you.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
I haven't been to a party in such a long time.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
I hope you like my new dress. I picked it
out all by myself.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Oh, Stephany, de, Yeah, it's my first formal he's excited.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Imagine me a formal triathon.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
Let me see, okay, I will.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
There were two of them in the stores, and I
like them both, but I had a hard time choosing
between them.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
You think I picked rife one, of course you did.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
Nothing could be prettier than this.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
You really like this?
Speaker 7 (31:02):
I do?
Speaker 12 (31:03):
Look.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
I like the way it's worlds watch see.
Speaker 16 (31:08):
There.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
I hope my date likes this. His name is Tom,
and is he groovy?
Speaker 4 (31:11):
He'll be the proudest boys.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Oh that Virginia will be so jealous because their mother
is making her dress and her old date doesn't even
have a car.
Speaker 14 (31:20):
Now, you shouldn't act that way with a friend.
Speaker 9 (31:22):
Your things like that.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
No, really, I like Virginia, okay, but I'm glad that
I've got a new storeboard dress and a date with
a car.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Hey, I gotta get out of this thing and run
where you are too.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Now see, there's this new record I gotta get, and
I promise Virginia I bring it over.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
So, uh, would you be an angel to hang yourself
for me?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yes?
Speaker 15 (31:41):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
Oh no, wait a minute, we're back in the box.
Speaker 9 (31:43):
I gotta take it with me.
Speaker 16 (31:44):
Well, whatever you say, I'm so glad you like to dress.
Speaker 12 (31:49):
It's lovely, Stephanie, and I appreciate your coming so far
to show it to me.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
Who is fun to share things with people we like.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
I really dread going to that parties will.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
In that dress, You'll be the head of the evening
and that'll make you feel different.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Samond step we're late already.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
I'm ready.
Speaker 9 (32:14):
I just have to straighten his bell.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Oh do you want help? No?
Speaker 16 (32:18):
Yeah, that does it?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
How do you like it?
Speaker 12 (32:21):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (32:22):
It's it's pretty, just pretty.
Speaker 8 (32:27):
Well.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
The style is a little young for you, isn't it.
Speaker 9 (32:32):
Well, you mean young for me? You sound as though
I was over forty.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Well, look, I don't know anything about women's styles.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
It's pretty, it is.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Well, you don't like my dress, I'm not going to
go to the party, honey.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I like it.
Speaker 12 (32:43):
I like.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I don't believe you're just saying that, So please, what's
the matter.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
We've got to get going, mister Ames hates ready?
Speaker 7 (32:49):
What to be like?
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Oh, mister Rames, mister rains Yon.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Mister ring Dephney, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 8 (32:56):
What?
Speaker 3 (32:57):
What did I say?
Speaker 8 (32:59):
What?
Speaker 1 (32:59):
You're acting like a twelve year old brat?
Speaker 12 (33:02):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (33:04):
First, I'm too old for the dress. Now, I'm a
twelve year old brat.
Speaker 9 (33:08):
Tom. Have you been drinking?
Speaker 8 (33:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Should I act the same of you said?
Speaker 1 (33:11):
You know I don't drink, Steph. Were you out to
the Crestwood place again?
Speaker 9 (33:17):
Yes, I wanted to show me just planning my dress.
Speaker 12 (33:21):
Why what do you mean why?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Because every time you've come back from there, you've acted strangely.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
I mean, what goes on up there.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
In that hid?
Speaker 9 (33:29):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Nothing when we just have tea and talk.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Well, look, I don't want you going there anymore. Besides,
you're going to be too busy entertaining when we get
our own place.
Speaker 11 (33:38):
Now, come on, we've got to go, missus Miller, I
have pleasure to meet you at last.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
How do you do mister A.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
We're very fond of Tom in Connecticut paper with it's
only a month from already I can tell he's executive material.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
All that's nice of you to talk nonsense.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
You're on your way up, and I can tell after
meeting Missus Miller, you have the last and most.
Speaker 15 (34:08):
Important I said, charming wife and host.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Oh, I wouldn't be where I am with out hers.
Speaker 9 (34:14):
Come on, now, gentlemen, you're gonna.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Turn my little old head.
Speaker 7 (34:18):
Well, go on, enjoy yourself, dance.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I'll chat with you later.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Well, ste all right, so what are you thinking of Rain?
Speaker 8 (34:32):
Really?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
He's very nice.
Speaker 8 (34:33):
He's courseful.
Speaker 9 (34:35):
I can see that.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Yes, he knows what he wants.
Speaker 8 (34:37):
Huh, and he seems to want you.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I'm great.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
It's my big break, Tom.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Maybe New York was the right thing.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Why No, it was, Steph. Have you been on a
diet or something.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
He's on a diet? Me.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Yeah, it seems so much lighter and smaller.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
I can feel it, though I haven't been on any
diet and I'm not losing any weight. You just haven't
fenced with me lately, how would you know?
Speaker 11 (35:09):
Sorry to cut in, Tom, and the evening's almost over,
and I haven't had the.
Speaker 15 (35:13):
Pleasure with seven old of course, of course the last
stand seventy I bet chawn, mister James, I think a lot.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
Of Tom Stevenis.
Speaker 15 (35:26):
I'm delighted to have him with a firm. Well.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
I know he's happy there, mister Eames. Really he's finally
found well fulfillment in his career with you.
Speaker 15 (35:36):
That's nice to know.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
I had my eye on it, and I know he's
going places to coin a cliche.
Speaker 7 (35:48):
And with you by his side, you can't miss you
see seven.
Speaker 15 (35:52):
Eight, man in Tom's position has to have a wife
who can meet people entertained on the spur of the moment.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
You might have to have twelve guests.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
For dinner without notice and knock back. Nine.
Speaker 15 (36:04):
Tom will be traveling a lot out of town for
weeks at a time.
Speaker 8 (36:08):
What do you say today, Well.
Speaker 15 (36:10):
When a man as bright as Tom wants to get ahead,
take sacrifice, sacrifice of home.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Man, Why, I'm afraid my wives have put.
Speaker 15 (36:21):
Up with it and the rest is all you Look
where I am at the top.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Entertaining lots of people, being without Tom for weeks. That's
what this job means, doesn't it.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
I've read so, Stephanie.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
But I know you're up to it.
Speaker 17 (36:39):
No, I'm not up to it.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I don't want to be alone, Oh Tom, Tom, I
don't want to have to.
Speaker 8 (36:46):
Leave again, Stephanie.
Speaker 13 (36:49):
Well, what is it there?
Speaker 3 (36:50):
I want to be where I be long, where I'm
warm and safe.
Speaker 5 (36:54):
I've got to be there forever. I'll be there here.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
I'm calling back, definitely. Where are you going?
Speaker 5 (37:02):
I'm going home. I'm going home.
Speaker 7 (37:19):
I was mad at Helen.
Speaker 16 (37:20):
Oh nothing, Why and quiet as usual. It's the rain.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
I suppose I always feel the pressed when it rains.
Speaker 7 (37:30):
Ellen, I've been meaning to ask you if.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
You can dyeing your hair. I'm dying my hair whatever for.
Speaker 7 (37:43):
Looks dark than usual. He being grave for years and
suddenly there's a round street in it.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Oh your imagining things?
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Well time, I'm the same, plain Jane of O with them.
Somehow it looks different, I really think so.
Speaker 7 (38:02):
Well, maybe it is my illagination.
Speaker 16 (38:05):
Oh, I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Hello, is this Missus Lanning. Yes, Missus Lanning is Tom Miller,
Stephanie's husband.
Speaker 16 (38:17):
Oh yeah there.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Oh no, Well, she ran up from a party we
were attending, said she was going home. But she's not
at our hotel and no one's seen her.
Speaker 11 (38:27):
Oh dear, if she does show up there, Missus Lanning,
would you call me right away up the Imperial Hotel.
Speaker 7 (38:33):
In the city.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
What makes you think she'll come here. She's very fond
of you and the house.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
I don't know what got into her, but she was apparently.
Speaker 7 (38:40):
Upset when she left the party.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
But it's such a night, it's pouring rain.
Speaker 9 (38:44):
I expect she'll.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Turn up at the hotel.
Speaker 9 (38:46):
I hope so.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
But please let me know if she comes to you.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Oh, yes, I will at the Imperial. Good night, mister Miller.
Speaker 7 (38:54):
But the devil was no a lot of a.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
Stephanie's husband by he thought she might be here. He
can't find her.
Speaker 7 (39:02):
You've been letting me that woman in here alone.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
I've grown fond of her will and it is her room.
Speaker 7 (39:09):
Why you mean now, I'm putting a stop to it.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
But how did you get in here? To the back door?
Speaker 5 (39:21):
I always come in the back door.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
Well, you'll j up to my room though, I'm go
into my room.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
I don't do very well.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
Good night?
Speaker 4 (39:31):
What's the matter with we're life?
Speaker 5 (39:32):
Morning?
Speaker 9 (39:32):
You stay right here? You stay here and.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Don't say anything or do anything.
Speaker 14 (39:37):
And I mean that.
Speaker 9 (39:45):
I don't want to go to Chicago.
Speaker 15 (39:48):
I want to stay here.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
You don't have to go, Stephanie.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
You can stay here with me.
Speaker 9 (39:54):
They say I have to go and look without the
week not anymore. You can stay here.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
I yes, Miranda.
Speaker 12 (40:04):
Do you hear that?
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Oh Miranda, you bad dog. Your face is all dirty again.
I have to give you another back. You're naughty girl.
Lady there rest now, Yes, it's time to rest, Miranda.
Speaker 8 (40:22):
Goodbye, save you mean tree tom.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
What's going over that?
Speaker 16 (40:31):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (40:31):
My will, don't open that door?
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Raise, oh will?
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Oh, thank god you heaven, you're learning.
Speaker 11 (40:49):
Thanks for calling me.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I got a cab up from the city. I've been
watching for you. I don't know what's going on where Stephane.
Speaker 7 (40:56):
Come on, hush, dear.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Time to put Miranda the bed.
Speaker 14 (41:07):
You've had a busy day, and tomorrow mother's.
Speaker 4 (41:11):
Going to put up new curtain, white with little bluebills. Everything.
Speaker 14 (41:17):
Goodbye to the pink funny rabbit.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
There's my big.
Speaker 7 (41:24):
Stephen, it's Stefanite.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Open it and what is going on in there?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
I'm going to find out.
Speaker 13 (41:37):
On the Tree's not possible, Stephanie.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
I'll admit that Stephanie's room was a bit unusual.
Speaker 7 (42:20):
But think about your.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Old room, in the old house you grew up in.
Maybe it's waiting for you to return someday, maybe even hoping.
So if you should get the chance, why not go
back and say hello if you dare. In any case,
I'll be back shortly. Ah to be young again. We
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all search for that fountain of youth, and so often
we don't. It's with us all the time. You're only
as old or as young as you feel those years
don't matter. It's how you think that counts. I hope
you'll keep thinking of us and join us again. Our
cast included Mercedes's McCambridge, William Redfield, Mary Jane Higbee and
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Robert Dryden. The entire production was under the direction of
Timon Brown and now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 10 (43:30):
She was a priestess in the temple of Apollo at
Delphi and she fell in love with me.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
Hey, pop, pap yet you know the sun's getting the
high on here.
Speaker 10 (43:39):
Maybe you ought to get in anyhow, you swallow a
few grains and you go into a deep trance and
when you come to or wake up, it's.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Hundreds of years later. Oh, lave on no, Now, make
plans to break out Archie quickly before they come for you.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
Go get your goal, get the go Nowhere will I hide?
Speaker 10 (44:02):
You can hide anywhere, a secluded spot of a cave,
the forest, a desert.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Yeah great, and well I do for Chow.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
I'm trying to explain this Orgie.
Speaker 10 (44:12):
You don't eat, you don't drink, You're oblivious to cold,
to heat, to rain, to snow.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
And in several hundred years you come alive again.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division.
This is EG Marshall inviting you to return to our
Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time,
pleasant dreams.
Come in. Welcome, I'm e. G.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Come in through the mysterious door which hides the secrets
and sometimes horrors we dare not even think about, but
which are nevertheless brought to the forefront of our imagination
by the tale you're about to hear. A door, A
simple door shuts us out or lets us into a room.
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But such a room, as we are to visit now,
is one. Perhaps we'd be better off avoiding. At least
Stephanie Miller would have been better off if she had
never set foot in it again, or would she? Maybe
that was her destiny, And who can question what the
fates have agreed?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Missus Lannie, would you mind awfully if I just sat
here in the room a moment alone.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Of course, I'll go down and make some tea. Please
don't bother, it's no botherers all.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You're very kind.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Sit here and.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Take your time, come.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Down when you're ready.
Speaker 7 (01:12):
My dear, dear.
Speaker 8 (01:13):
Room, you look so different. I really don't like your
yellow wallpapers.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
And there's no rug.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Your floor must be cold.
Speaker 8 (01:27):
Oh it's just like.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Cold time talking to my old room talking. I don't
understand why missus Lanning doesn't like cheese.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Our mystery drama Stephanie's Room, was written especially for the
Mystery Theater by Bob Dura and stars Mercedes McCambridge. 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. Our story begins in a
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modern tracked home in a Los Angeles suburb. Stephanie and
Tom Miller are an average couple. Tom's on his way
up in his advertising career, and for both of them
it means some sacrifices. I may be a little late tonight,
steph I have some things to clear up on.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
The Rogers account.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Well that's okay.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Now, Look, Honey, before you get upset, I got to
tell you sometime.
Speaker 9 (02:44):
Oh Tom, does this.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Mean another move?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
It's my best chance yet. It's New York City, the
home office. I'll go in as ad director, a vice
presidency in two years, no more than three.
Speaker 9 (02:56):
Look, it's the start.
Speaker 10 (02:57):
Of a whole new life.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Tom.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
We came the Los Angeles chasing Rainbows and vice presidency,
and before that it was Chicago. Honestly, we've had three
different homes in five years.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
This will be the last I promise.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well, your career is important, but I'm so tired of.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Living out of a bar.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I know, I know. We'll live anywhere you want, maybe
even your old hometown if you like.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
It wasn't in.
Speaker 9 (03:22):
The suburb in Prestwood.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yes, all right now, Steph, I swear to you, if
anything does go sour on this deal, I won't move again.
I'll take my chances in New York and we'll stay
all right, tom.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
It would be nice to see the old house again. Hi.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
You know, Steph, looking down on New York like this,
I feel it's over on top of the world.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
But let's get settled soon.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
Come.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh sure, sure will house?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Not every weekend. I don't like this hotel room anymore
than you do.
Speaker 9 (03:58):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I thought I might take her up to Chrestwood tomorrow.
It's only thirty five minutes by Training Shore. Why don't
you well, I mean, I'd like to see it, you know,
see what's changed since I was a child, and see
the old How I wonder who's living there now?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Oh, maybe they'll letgend and show you.
Speaker 11 (04:14):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (04:14):
Oh, I couldn't ask that.
Speaker 9 (04:16):
I'll just stroll around what.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
You could at least ask, after all, you did live there.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yes, good morning.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I'm not selling anything, really, Oh what is it you want?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Well, I know this.
Speaker 9 (04:42):
May sound foolish.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
My name is Stephanie Miller, and I grew up in
this house until I was fourteen, and I wanted to
see it again, you know, to see if it had
changed and who was living here now.
Speaker 12 (04:55):
Oh, well, my husband isn't home at the moment, I said.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Well, that's all right.
Speaker 9 (04:59):
I am standed preposterous for me to ask.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
It's okay, I'll just look around outside if.
Speaker 9 (05:05):
You don't mind.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
No, I don't mind that. How long has it been
since you've seen the house?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Oh it's fifteen years.
Speaker 9 (05:13):
See we've been living in Los.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Angeles, and my husband's firm transferred him here to New York,
so that when I was this close, I just couldn't
resist coming back.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Stephanie Miller.
Speaker 12 (05:24):
You said, yeah, or come in, missus Miller. I don't
see the hom I'm missus Landing.
Speaker 9 (05:30):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I'm actining it changed a lot since you lived here.
Speaker 13 (05:35):
No, no, not that much really.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh, your furniture is different, of course, But I remember
this room so well.
Speaker 9 (05:45):
Oh I love that table.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
It was my mother and the fireplace.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
I used to sit in my pajamas on cold winter
nights and watch the pictures and the embers. I saw
tigers fighting, and flowers and monkeys and horses, and you too.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Oh I love the fireplace.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Hey, I wonder what is it?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Well, it really couldn't still be here.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
But what are you looking for?
Speaker 5 (06:11):
There was a penny.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I put it up in a crack in the chimney
when I was ten years old for good luck, you know.
Speaker 9 (06:17):
And I think I can just about reach this.
Speaker 13 (06:20):
Ha.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yes, I can hardly believe it.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Is still here. Look isn't that amazed? Gollies?
Speaker 9 (06:32):
Well do you like the house, Miss Landing?
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I do, except for what oh nothing really? Now, come on,
you want to see the kitchen mikake?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Oh charming, missus Lanning, thank you. Yeah, of course we
didn't have the breakfast notes. My mother had a big
oak table right here in the middle of the floor.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
I like room to move around.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
Everything happened at that old old table.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Mom and Daddy sit there every night and they talk
and I can almost see my mother making her Christmas troodle. Now,
all those family conferences, I was always.
Speaker 8 (07:12):
Included in the minor decisions.
Speaker 12 (07:15):
Oh you were an only child, then yes, Gee, may I.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
May I see upstairs?
Speaker 9 (07:24):
I'd love to see my old room.
Speaker 14 (07:26):
Oh yes, if you like.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Mister Lanning and I use the front sad.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Her mine was the small one facing the back. That's
how guest room.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
We don't use it at all.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
You're sure you don't mind if I look?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Of course not.
Speaker 12 (07:42):
We don't have any children to bring grandchildren visiting, and
we never have overnight company.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
But it's still the guest room.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
Oh it's very pretty.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I was good to use it for a sewing room.
But what that's nothing?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Is it the same thing you hesitated about downstairs?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Well?
Speaker 12 (08:09):
Yes, I've never been able to use this room.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Why why I feel as though.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
As though I'm not wanted, I'm not welcome in this room.
Speaker 8 (08:21):
But this is your house.
Speaker 9 (08:24):
Why wouldn't you be welcome.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I'm not sure any house is ours. We live in them,
use them, but there are some things we can't ever own.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I love this room.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I even used to talk to it, really, And mother
had white curtains with little bluebells all over them, and
anna bedspread to match, and my dresser was over here,
right next to the window.
Speaker 9 (08:56):
And then I had a little white care.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Do you feel it here?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
What with strangeness in here? Though we didn't belong here?
Missus Lanning, would you mind awfully if I just sat
here alone for a moment to remember?
Speaker 8 (09:18):
Of course not.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I'll go down and make some tea.
Speaker 12 (09:21):
Oh, it's no bother, tall, I'm enjoying the company.
Speaker 9 (09:25):
You're very kind to take your.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Time, come down when you're ready.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You do look different. I really don't like that yellow wallpaper.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
And there's no rug.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Your floor must be cold.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Yes, it's just like old time talking and room talking.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I don't understandingly missus Lanning doesn't like you.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Why so quiet, heaven?
Speaker 12 (10:16):
I wasn't going to tell you about what happened today,
but I must. A woman who used to live here
as a girl came to the house today and she wanted.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
To see it again.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
And you let her in.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Now will?
Speaker 7 (10:29):
She was a sweet young Wait a minute, she asked
to see the house with a story about having lived here.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yes, but don't you know what she wants?
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Oh, she used that story to get into the house.
She looks around and makes note of anything valuable, And
next time we're away foot she and her accomplice rip
us off.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Oh, now will she wasn't anything like that?
Speaker 7 (11:00):
Oh, yes, so naive, Helen.
Speaker 12 (11:01):
No, she remembered a penny she'd put in the fireplace chimney,
and she reached him and pulled it right.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Oh sure, sure, she had it in the hand all
the time. It was a trick.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Well, she knew her room, the one I can't stand.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Uh, that's the very room.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Yes, and she.
Speaker 9 (11:20):
Described just how it looked when she was a child.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
I'm crying with pleen, so no, wait, will now.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Listen to me.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
After she left, I went.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Up to that room. Something strange happened there.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Oh hell, I mean it.
Speaker 12 (11:37):
There's a totally different field to that room. I don't
know what it is, but it's as though the room.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
For a life.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Is that you steph come you home already?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah, we finished up early on that field ship, New Jersey.
Speaker 15 (12:01):
How was Prestwood, I'll.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Take it you webt Yes, I went, Oh, you.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Don't sound enthused. Who's living there now?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Well there's a retired couple.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
I only met the woman. She was very nice.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Oh stuff, what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Were you?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Were you disappointed?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
No, not disappointed that I was puzzled about what. Well,
I went up to my old room, and I sat
there for a while, and I had the oddest feeling
that the room remembered me, that it didn't want me
to leave.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Help me. Rooms really can't remember.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
And then then all the way home on the train,
I kept thinking, knowing, really did I have to go
back there again?
Speaker 7 (12:57):
I'll be back to Wyn all right, Well, I'll be here. Well,
don't look so down in the dumps. This isn't the
first fishing trip I've been.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
On, now, Will, I didn't say anything.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Oh, no, his retirements boring and as you don't expect
me to sit in a rocking chair for the rest
of my life.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
No, I don't.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
If only we've had eh, No, I promise I never
say that again.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
But you think it, and I feel it. But we've
stuck together, Will, even without children.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
There must be something for us.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
We'll I'll be back tomorrow around six.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Uh huh, I'll have dinner ready.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
And listen, Helen, if that woman comes around here again,
don't let her in. Call the police.
Speaker 12 (13:53):
All right, whatever you say, Oh, good luck, bring home
a trout dinner.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
If only we'd had, If only we'd had, our whole.
Speaker 9 (14:09):
Lives have been nothing.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
But if only.
Speaker 12 (14:15):
Only I could make will believe me about the room.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I know there's something different there.
Speaker 12 (14:22):
Something happened when that girl came back here.
Speaker 16 (14:30):
Death is room.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
How many happy hours did she have here?
Speaker 7 (14:37):
How many tears?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
How many hopes?
Speaker 17 (14:42):
Like Oh up, sparkerpry for twenty black birds baked in
a bye when the fire.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Was over, and birth impassing no sadly teach to step
people looking.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Backward, turn backward, Oh time in my flight, make me
a child again, just for tonight. The poet's words strike
a note in all of us wish for a touch
of childhood again, when the world gets weary and our
own hopes aren't quite as bright as they were once.
Childhood looks awfully good. But be where all of you
(15:31):
would turn backward. You'll see what I mean when I
return shortly with that two. Another poet and novelist, Thomas Wolfe,
told us, you can't go home again. Nothing stays the same,
(15:56):
and the old familiar things just aren't as we remember them.
And how often they proved to be so disappointing. But
for Stephanie Miller, going home again, rather to the house
than which she had once lived, was proving to be
a compelling experience.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Ah, hello, hello, this is learning.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
This is Stephanie Miller.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
Oh, hello hello.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
I really hate to.
Speaker 9 (16:26):
Impose, but I wondered if I could come out just
one more time to see my old room.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Well no, my husband, Well I don't.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Want to intrude, just you know, anytime that's convenient.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Well, then why don't you come today.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
My husband's away on a fishing dript.
Speaker 16 (16:42):
Yes, come today, Come in, missus Miller.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I'm really glad to see you.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Thank you, and please call me Stephanie.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
All right, come on in the kitchen. I have coffee and.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Through.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
It's only from the supermarket.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
But you told me how your mother used to massage,
you know, at Christmas time.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
Always at Christmas time.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Oh, very thoughtful of you, missus Lenning.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
I'll slide into the nook there and we'll have our coffee.
You can stay as long as you like. You know,
I didn't think I was going to see you again.
My husband did though. He thought you were a con artist.
Speaker 14 (17:26):
So oh, he thought you made.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Up the story about living in the house, just getting
in to see if we had anything valuable to steal.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Oh she didn't really.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
But I know differently, I know you lived here in
that room.
Speaker 16 (17:43):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 13 (17:44):
Could we go up now?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Of course, bring your coffee along.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I feel so peaceful in this room. Really, it's as
though i'd never been away.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
My husband won't.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Believe there's a change in the room.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
Do you know that I was never afraid of the
dark in this room.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Mama would put the lights out and then I'd begin
to see the shadows start to form, and they were
always friendly shadows.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
Listen, do you hear anythings to Fanny?
Speaker 14 (18:24):
Hear anything?
Speaker 9 (18:25):
Yeah, a sort of song and it comes and goes.
I heard it the other day.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
When I was here, Stephanie, you were happy here, weren't you?
Speaker 7 (18:39):
Oh? Yes?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
And then this room was a happy room.
Speaker 16 (18:44):
You know.
Speaker 14 (18:44):
I think I think that the room is glad to
see you.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Well. I suppose if we love a house or a room,
it just naturally has love in it.
Speaker 12 (18:54):
And responds, Stephanie, it responds. That's why I want you
to come and visit anytime you want. You love this room,
and your presence it changes things.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
That's kind of you, missus Lanning. But I guess this
will be the last time for a while.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
At least.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Tom and I have so much to do, you know,
finding our own place and getting settled.
Speaker 9 (19:20):
But I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
After I'm settled, I'll drop out maybe once a month
or so to visit.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Oh, I hope it's sooner.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Will breakfast ready be right there?
Speaker 7 (19:41):
What I'll be done? When did she do that? Say Helen?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
When did you.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Change the drapes in the guest room?
Speaker 14 (19:55):
Well?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Do you changed the drapes in the guest room?
Speaker 7 (19:59):
Didn't you?
Speaker 8 (20:00):
No? They're the ones we've always had.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
It looks different.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Well, I admit I'm not as observing it.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
It was like me to be.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Maybe they were gray, all a gray.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
It looks like to me, will they're a shark crews.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Wow, maybe they faded from the sun. But it's not
a big issue. Forget I mentioned it.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
After breakfast, I'm going to march you upstairs.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
And show you the difference between gray and shark cruise.
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Well, they look faded to me.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Maybe they were shark crewise. Eh, it's coming to think
of that. Wallpaper looks different too. I wanted more of
a gold count than yes, But that could I say too?
Speaker 15 (21:01):
I know you never liked this room.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
What's the difference? We never use it? Anyway, closed door,
and let's forget it.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Yes, why don't we do that?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Let's not worry about it. I'm so glad you came, Stephanie.
Do you remember what color the drapes and walls were
in the guest room.
Speaker 9 (21:27):
When you were here last year? So I'm afraid I do,
and I'm afraid that I didn't.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
Well, I mean, it just isn't my style.
Speaker 13 (21:34):
What were they Well, the drape.
Speaker 9 (21:36):
There's chartreuse, and the walls are sort of gold. Good,
that's what I wanted to know.
Speaker 14 (21:44):
Come with me to the room.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Why what is the difference?
Speaker 8 (21:47):
You learning?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
I think you're in for a surprise after you see
the room.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Oh this is so you'll see, Oh, missus learning, Where did.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
You ever find them? I didn't, But I are my
drains white with bluebells.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
They're exactly like the.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Ones brother had made up for me.
Speaker 16 (22:11):
But they weren't like that.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
You must have searched for days to get them so exactly,
but I didn't.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I don't know what the joy did get.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
These drapes for me? Because I told you mother had
white drapes with.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
A pattern of little blue bells.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I thought, oh, missus laming, you are a beautiful person.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Stephanie.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
What color was the wall caper in here?
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Do you remember? Pale blue? Yes?
Speaker 9 (22:39):
To pick up the color of the blue belt, pale blue.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
That would be right, I guess, because these walls are
a stingy gray.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Weren't they gold? Last week?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
They were?
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Stephany, the next time you come, I promise you they be.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Are you ready to turn in, Honey?
Speaker 9 (23:09):
No, Tom, No, I just want to read a little
bit longer.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Have things are okay?
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Aren't they okay?
Speaker 17 (23:18):
Well?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I mean about to move to New York?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
You're you're not too unhappy?
Speaker 8 (23:22):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Tom, I'm not unhappy at all. I feel there's no
life come home.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I know we've had trouble finding the right house, but
I have a feeling this weekend.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
No, we'll find it, y'all.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Well, I've been thinking.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
About those visits you've made out to Crestwood.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Would you want to live there in my old house?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Oh? No, never?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
But just seems so drawn to it.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Well, I mean it's a nice place to visit, but
I wouldn't want to live there.
Speaker 15 (23:47):
No.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Well, missus Lanning was sweet to put up the drapes
like I had as a child, and now she even
wants to change the wallpaper. But I don't want that, Tom,
I want our own place, brand new for.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
Us alone and the kids. And the kids. I can
hardly wait till neither can I.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Okay, i'll see you for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
I wouldn't miss it.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Good night, honey.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
Oh where was I here?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
We are?
Speaker 8 (24:19):
Roger leaned across the table. Oh, nois please come with me.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
I can't.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
I won't to read it anymore.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
I'm going to go to bed.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
What what's that? Yes, i'll come back.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
I'll come of course, don't worry.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I'll be there.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
You know, I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Huh, what are you talking about?
Speaker 17 (24:58):
Talking?
Speaker 16 (24:59):
Have been talking?
Speaker 9 (25:00):
I was reading for supper.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I heard you talking in here.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
No I wasn't.
Speaker 9 (25:03):
I mean maybe I was reading out loud and you
didn't know it.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Why don't you come to bed?
Speaker 9 (25:08):
Well I will in a minute or.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Two, okay, but I think maybe you've read enough. You're
starting to dream out loud.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
Well, I'll be there in a minute. Yes, yes, I
hear you, and I'll come back.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
I'll come back.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Hello, missus Lanning Stephanie.
Speaker 9 (25:50):
You said that I could come to visit whenever I want.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Oh, of course, come in.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
I hope I'm not bothering you.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
I mean coming all the time.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Like I do.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Oh no, I like your visit.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
I brought something with me today.
Speaker 14 (26:03):
Look.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
Why what a beautiful dog.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I was unpacking one of the barrels and I found her.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
I always loved Miranda.
Speaker 9 (26:12):
That's her name, Miranda.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I've known her for such a long time, and she's
so beautiful.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Why don't we put Miranda in your room? That's where
she belongs.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Is so good up in my room. And she looked
so nice in there.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Just the way she always did.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
I always kept Miranda on a.
Speaker 13 (26:37):
Bed like that, Siphony.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Could you could you call me mother?
Speaker 15 (26:45):
Mama?
Speaker 16 (26:46):
Yes, Mama.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I always tall and young. She had brown hair, such
blue eyes. I have blue eyes, and such a smile.
Mamma was after all the time.
Speaker 13 (27:01):
I could be happy if own mama have brown hair.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Stephanie, look at my hair.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Look at my Mamma loves to sing too.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
She taught me many songs.
Speaker 16 (27:13):
My hair is brown.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
When we are together in this room, it's any color
I want it to be.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
This's my room.
Speaker 13 (27:20):
Yes, it's your room.
Speaker 9 (27:22):
It's always been your room.
Speaker 12 (27:24):
Your room with the drapes of bluebells, the blue wall
paper and now, Miranda, it's your room because it wants you,
it remembers you, and for the first time in my life,
I feel I belong somewhere here in this room with you.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Sing to me, Mamma, Yes, yes, I will.
Speaker 14 (27:54):
Long and ridges holding down, holding down, falling down, land,
the bridges falling down.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
God, My.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Lately two women caught in the spell of a room
or the spell of love. A woman who never had
a daughter, a girl whose mother was taken from her
at an early age. They both found something in this room,
(28:31):
but the relationship goes far beyond their mortal feelings, and
far beyond anything you might imagine. You'll see what I
mean when I returned shortly with Act three. Let's return
(28:55):
now to Stephanie Miller, who paid an innocent visit to
the house of her childhood and now feels strangely drawn
to her old room. Right now, however, she's in the
New York hotel where she and her husband Tom are
staying until they can find a house of their own,
and at the moment they're not seeing eye to eye
(29:15):
on the forthcoming obligation stuff. We have to go. Wow,
it's company politics, mister Eames expects oh.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Mister Ames, mister Eames.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
It's always what mister Ames says.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Well, look he's my boss.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
Well I'm fed up with company parties.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
But it's part of the sacrifice and there'll be lots
more when I get to be vice president.
Speaker 8 (29:35):
Right, all right, Tom, it's important to your career.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I know that stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Look, you always enjoyed parties and entertain Just dread.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
A big dinner party having to talk.
Speaker 9 (29:48):
To all those people.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
It never bothered you before.
Speaker 9 (29:51):
All right, Tom, I said I'd go to the party.
I'm just saying I'm not going to enjoy now.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Look, go out and buy yourself the best dress you
can find. Maybe that'll make you feel different.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Why, Stephany, what is the pride?
Speaker 5 (30:09):
I hope you don't mind my coming without calling again?
Speaker 4 (30:12):
No, of course, not come in.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Okay, because I have something to show you.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Oh, looks like a dress. Pop.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Yeah, it's just my new dress. It's for the party.
Come on, come on up to my room.
Speaker 9 (30:23):
I can't wait to show it to you.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
I haven't been to a party in such a long time.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
I hope you like my new dress. I picked it
out all by myself.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Oh, Stephany, de, Yeah, it's my first formal he's excited.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Imagine me a formal triathon.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
Let me see, okay, I will.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
There were two of them in the stores, and I
like them both, but I had a hard time choosing
between them.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
You think I picked rife one, of course you did.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
Nothing could be prettier than this.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
You really like this?
Speaker 7 (31:02):
I do?
Speaker 12 (31:03):
Look.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
I like the way it's worlds watch see.
Speaker 16 (31:08):
There.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
I hope my date likes this. His name is Tom,
and is he groovy?
Speaker 4 (31:11):
He'll be the proudest boys.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Oh that Virginia will be so jealous because their mother
is making her dress and her old date doesn't even
have a car.
Speaker 14 (31:20):
Now, you shouldn't act that way with a friend.
Speaker 9 (31:22):
Your things like that.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
No, really, I like Virginia, okay, but I'm glad that
I've got a new storeboard dress and a date with
a car.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Hey, I gotta get out of this thing and run
where you are too.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Now see, there's this new record I gotta get, and
I promise Virginia I bring it over.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
So, uh, would you be an angel to hang yourself
for me?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yes?
Speaker 15 (31:41):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
Oh no, wait a minute, we're back in the box.
Speaker 9 (31:43):
I gotta take it with me.
Speaker 16 (31:44):
Well, whatever you say, I'm so glad you like to dress.
Speaker 12 (31:49):
It's lovely, Stephanie, and I appreciate your coming so far
to show it to me.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
Who is fun to share things with people we like.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
I really dread going to that parties will.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
In that dress, You'll be the head of the evening
and that'll make you feel different.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Samond step we're late already.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
I'm ready.
Speaker 9 (32:14):
I just have to straighten his bell.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Oh do you want help? No?
Speaker 16 (32:18):
Yeah, that does it?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
How do you like it?
Speaker 12 (32:21):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (32:22):
It's it's pretty, just pretty.
Speaker 8 (32:27):
Well.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
The style is a little young for you, isn't it.
Speaker 9 (32:32):
Well, you mean young for me? You sound as though
I was over forty.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Well, look, I don't know anything about women's styles.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
It's pretty, it is.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Well, you don't like my dress, I'm not going to
go to the party, honey.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I like it.
Speaker 12 (32:43):
I like.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I don't believe you're just saying that, So please, what's
the matter.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
We've got to get going, mister Ames hates ready?
Speaker 7 (32:49):
What to be like?
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Oh, mister Rames, mister rains Yon.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Mister ring Dephney, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 8 (32:56):
What?
Speaker 3 (32:57):
What did I say?
Speaker 8 (32:59):
What?
Speaker 1 (32:59):
You're acting like a twelve year old brat?
Speaker 12 (33:02):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (33:04):
First, I'm too old for the dress. Now, I'm a
twelve year old brat.
Speaker 9 (33:08):
Tom. Have you been drinking?
Speaker 8 (33:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Should I act the same of you said?
Speaker 1 (33:11):
You know I don't drink, Steph. Were you out to
the Crestwood place again?
Speaker 9 (33:17):
Yes, I wanted to show me just planning my dress.
Speaker 12 (33:21):
Why what do you mean why?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Because every time you've come back from there, you've acted strangely.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
I mean, what goes on up there.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
In that hid?
Speaker 9 (33:29):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Nothing when we just have tea and talk.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Well, look, I don't want you going there anymore. Besides,
you're going to be too busy entertaining when we get
our own place.
Speaker 11 (33:38):
Now, come on, we've got to go, missus Miller, I
have pleasure to meet you at last.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
How do you do mister A.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
We're very fond of Tom in Connecticut paper with it's
only a month from already I can tell he's executive material.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
All that's nice of you to talk nonsense.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
You're on your way up, and I can tell after
meeting Missus Miller, you have the last and most.
Speaker 15 (34:08):
Important I said, charming wife and host.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Oh, I wouldn't be where I am with out hers.
Speaker 9 (34:14):
Come on, now, gentlemen, you're gonna.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Turn my little old head.
Speaker 7 (34:18):
Well, go on, enjoy yourself, dance.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I'll chat with you later.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Well, ste all right, so what are you thinking of Rain?
Speaker 8 (34:32):
Really?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
He's very nice.
Speaker 8 (34:33):
He's courseful.
Speaker 9 (34:35):
I can see that.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Yes, he knows what he wants.
Speaker 8 (34:37):
Huh, and he seems to want you.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I'm great.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
It's my big break, Tom.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Maybe New York was the right thing.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Why No, it was, Steph. Have you been on a
diet or something.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
He's on a diet? Me.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Yeah, it seems so much lighter and smaller.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
I can feel it, though I haven't been on any
diet and I'm not losing any weight. You just haven't
fenced with me lately, how would you know?
Speaker 11 (35:09):
Sorry to cut in, Tom, and the evening's almost over,
and I haven't had the.
Speaker 15 (35:13):
Pleasure with seven old of course, of course the last
stand seventy I bet chawn, mister James, I think a lot.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
Of Tom Stevenis.
Speaker 15 (35:26):
I'm delighted to have him with a firm. Well.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
I know he's happy there, mister Eames. Really he's finally
found well fulfillment in his career with you.
Speaker 15 (35:36):
That's nice to know.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
I had my eye on it, and I know he's
going places to coin a cliche.
Speaker 7 (35:48):
And with you by his side, you can't miss you
see seven.
Speaker 15 (35:52):
Eight, man in Tom's position has to have a wife
who can meet people entertained on the spur of the moment.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
You might have to have twelve guests.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
For dinner without notice and knock back. Nine.
Speaker 15 (36:04):
Tom will be traveling a lot out of town for
weeks at a time.
Speaker 8 (36:08):
What do you say today, Well.
Speaker 15 (36:10):
When a man as bright as Tom wants to get ahead,
take sacrifice, sacrifice of home.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Man, Why, I'm afraid my wives have put.
Speaker 15 (36:21):
Up with it and the rest is all you Look
where I am at the top.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Entertaining lots of people, being without Tom for weeks. That's
what this job means, doesn't it.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
I've read so, Stephanie.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
But I know you're up to it.
Speaker 17 (36:39):
No, I'm not up to it.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I don't want to be alone, Oh Tom, Tom, I
don't want to have to.
Speaker 8 (36:46):
Leave again, Stephanie.
Speaker 13 (36:49):
Well, what is it there?
Speaker 3 (36:50):
I want to be where I be long, where I'm
warm and safe.
Speaker 5 (36:54):
I've got to be there forever. I'll be there here.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
I'm calling back, definitely. Where are you going?
Speaker 5 (37:02):
I'm going home. I'm going home.
Speaker 7 (37:19):
I was mad at Helen.
Speaker 16 (37:20):
Oh nothing, Why and quiet as usual. It's the rain.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
I suppose I always feel the pressed when it rains.
Speaker 7 (37:30):
Ellen, I've been meaning to ask you if.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
You can dyeing your hair. I'm dying my hair whatever for.
Speaker 7 (37:43):
Looks dark than usual. He being grave for years and
suddenly there's a round street in it.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Oh your imagining things?
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Well time, I'm the same, plain Jane of O with them.
Somehow it looks different, I really think so.
Speaker 7 (38:02):
Well, maybe it is my illagination.
Speaker 16 (38:05):
Oh, I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Hello, is this Missus Lanning. Yes, Missus Lanning is Tom Miller,
Stephanie's husband.
Speaker 16 (38:17):
Oh yeah there.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Oh no, Well, she ran up from a party we
were attending, said she was going home. But she's not
at our hotel and no one's seen her.
Speaker 11 (38:27):
Oh dear, if she does show up there, Missus Lanning,
would you call me right away up the Imperial Hotel.
Speaker 7 (38:33):
In the city.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
What makes you think she'll come here. She's very fond
of you and the house.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
I don't know what got into her, but she was apparently.
Speaker 7 (38:40):
Upset when she left the party.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
But it's such a night, it's pouring rain.
Speaker 9 (38:44):
I expect she'll.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Turn up at the hotel.
Speaker 9 (38:46):
I hope so.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
But please let me know if she comes to you.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Oh, yes, I will at the Imperial. Good night, mister Miller.
Speaker 7 (38:54):
But the devil was no a lot of a.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
Stephanie's husband by he thought she might be here. He
can't find her.
Speaker 7 (39:02):
You've been letting me that woman in here alone.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
I've grown fond of her will and it is her room.
Speaker 7 (39:09):
Why you mean now, I'm putting a stop to it.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
But how did you get in here? To the back door?
Speaker 5 (39:21):
I always come in the back door.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
Well, you'll j up to my room though, I'm go
into my room.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
I don't do very well.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
Good night?
Speaker 4 (39:31):
What's the matter with we're life?
Speaker 5 (39:32):
Morning?
Speaker 9 (39:32):
You stay right here? You stay here and.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Don't say anything or do anything.
Speaker 14 (39:37):
And I mean that.
Speaker 9 (39:45):
I don't want to go to Chicago.
Speaker 15 (39:48):
I want to stay here.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
You don't have to go, Stephanie.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
You can stay here with me.
Speaker 9 (39:54):
They say I have to go and look without the
week not anymore. You can stay here.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
I yes, Miranda.
Speaker 12 (40:04):
Do you hear that?
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Oh Miranda, you bad dog. Your face is all dirty again.
I have to give you another back. You're naughty girl.
Lady there rest now, Yes, it's time to rest, Miranda.
Speaker 8 (40:22):
Goodbye, save you mean tree tom.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
What's going over that?
Speaker 16 (40:31):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (40:31):
My will, don't open that door?
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Raise, oh will?
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Oh, thank god you heaven, you're learning.
Speaker 11 (40:49):
Thanks for calling me.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I got a cab up from the city. I've been
watching for you. I don't know what's going on where Stephane.
Speaker 7 (40:56):
Come on, hush, dear.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Time to put Miranda the bed.
Speaker 14 (41:07):
You've had a busy day, and tomorrow mother's.
Speaker 4 (41:11):
Going to put up new curtain, white with little bluebills. Everything.
Speaker 14 (41:17):
Goodbye to the pink funny rabbit.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
There's my big.
Speaker 7 (41:24):
Stephen, it's Stefanite.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Open it and what is going on in there?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
I'm going to find out.
Speaker 13 (41:37):
On the Tree's not possible, Stephanie.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
I'll admit that Stephanie's room was a bit unusual.
Speaker 7 (42:20):
But think about your.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Old room, in the old house you grew up in.
Maybe it's waiting for you to return someday, maybe even hoping.
So if you should get the chance, why not go
back and say hello if you dare. In any case,
I'll be back shortly. Ah to be young again. We
(42:55):
all search for that fountain of youth, and so often
we don't. It's with us all the time. You're only
as old or as young as you feel those years
don't matter. It's how you think that counts. I hope
you'll keep thinking of us and join us again. Our
cast included Mercedes's McCambridge, William Redfield, Mary Jane Higbee and
(43:18):
Robert Dryden. The entire production was under the direction of
Timon Brown and now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 10 (43:30):
She was a priestess in the temple of Apollo at
Delphi and she fell in love with me.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
Hey, pop, pap yet you know the sun's getting the
high on here.
Speaker 10 (43:39):
Maybe you ought to get in anyhow, you swallow a
few grains and you go into a deep trance and
when you come to or wake up, it's.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Hundreds of years later. Oh, lave on no, Now, make
plans to break out Archie quickly before they come for you.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
Go get your goal, get the go Nowhere will I hide?
Speaker 10 (44:02):
You can hide anywhere, a secluded spot of a cave,
the forest, a desert.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Yeah great, and well I do for Chow.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
I'm trying to explain this Orgie.
Speaker 10 (44:12):
You don't eat, you don't drink, You're oblivious to cold,
to heat, to rain, to snow.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
And in several hundred years you come alive again.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division.
This is EG Marshall inviting you to return to our
Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time,
pleasant dreams.
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