November 4, 2024 • 53 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
From the Spain of legend.
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Mistala is here, Mistala the like natural rose wine created
in Spain to capture a legendary flavor. Mistala important rose
born of fines that once bore the wines.
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Of a fabulous era.
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Salut A moor icitus via Timpo Caracastalos America Mistala.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Come here.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Welcome.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I'm e g. Marshall.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
All right this way, folks, Harry, Harry, her Ray, step
ray up, Yes, Welcome this night to a carnival, to
the razzle, dazzled clash of color and sound, hiding hate.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
And evil and murder.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Right this way the freak show Right as a gentleman
see nic cheous mistakes, step right up. It's opening night
at Prince's Carnival outside Saint Louis. But no fortune teller
sees in cards or crystal ball the dark events that
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will happen here.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I loath everything you are.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
The sight of you sickens me. I'll oile know what
beat me like me? Yes, try it. Every man in
the carnie knows you're here, knows what you are. Giant
strong man, grips, barkers, They're all standing by.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
If I call, they'll tear you apart.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Oh give me reason to call.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I'd love it.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Go on hit.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Our suspense drama Tattooed for Murder was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Nancy Moore and stars Terry Keene
and Stefan Schnabel. It is sponsored in part by anhuzer
Bush Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser and Buick Mover Division. I'll
be back shortly with Act one. There's nothing wrong with
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drinking Budweiser. Sip by sip, is there?
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Well?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
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participating true value hardware stores.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I promised you, Mannival.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I'll keep that promise, but be warned that I do
not promise a spun sugar candy time on the contrary. First,
we must go back three years that summer Saint Louis
papers carried a story that was milked for.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
All it was worth, and it was worth a great deal.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Headlines Otto Kramer's daughter, missay Eris disappears.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Erica Kramer not bound.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
I'll play suspected.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That was three years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Today, a mansion outside the city has a bronze plaque
fixed to iron gates. Otto Kramer, no admittance. Due perhaps
to the disappearance of a daughter of this house, no
one is welcomed beyond its gates. Inside alone on this
fateful morning, another daughter, Katherine, aged sixteen, a few minutes ago,
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said goodbye to her father as he left for his bank.
She now starts upstairs to clean. In spite of his wealth,
Kramer keeps no servants, obeying his own dictate no admittance. Suddenly,
Catherine is startled by a frightening sound.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Only the doorbell, but no one.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Comes here unless her father is present, and seldom then
would Papa want her to answer. Catherine thinks not is certain.
Not The ringing persists, but suddenly the sound no longer
seems frightening. Instead, a merry summons the world at her door.
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She flies down the stairs, but as her hand touches
turns the doorknob, hope vanishes.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
No one has fun to see her, No one ever will.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Papa forbids it.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Papa's word is law, is iron got dream?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Don't you know me?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Kate?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
I can't believe it. I thought you I thought you
were dead. No, no, I'm real, I'm hearing back and
I'm certainly not dead.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I dreamed.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Is this a thousand times? Sorry by a little Kate?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Dream again?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
But coming Barry. I don't want to be seen. Does
that mean you'll go away again? Oh, Erica, don't, please don't.
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
In a minute.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Birthday.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I have to look at this house, that this prison
I broke out of. Nothing's changed, cold and ugly. No,
I don't want to look at it. Let me look
at my little crater. Eric. Where have you been? You
were so pretty? Now you're sweet? Sweet? Doesn't matter about me?
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Tell me, tell me where you've been? Only three year
matter more than anything. Oh, do Papa ever let you
out of this house?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Well?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Sometimes he takes me driving, sometimes to church, Papa in church,
and the rest of the time. What do you do?
Have you forgotten what it's like here? O, Kate?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
How could I?
Speaker 5 (08:32):
But then there were two of us we could at
least talk to each other. Who do you talk to now?
No one, no tutor anymore, not since I was sixteen,
Not one single friend, no fun at all. Never mind,
I know the answer. Papa's made you into this, this
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pitiful little mouse. Please don't talk about me anymore. Tell
me where you went? I guess. Oh, but we did guess,
Papa and I and the police, oh and the smartest
private detective and all Saint Louis, all that money squandered
for nothing? Where were you?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:13):
I want to tell me? All right, little one, hang
on tight. I was in the last place on earth
Papa would dream a daughter of his could be. Where
in a carnival you're teasing? It's a telly. It's a beautiful,
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wonderful joke. But the joke's on Papa. A Cramer daughter,
part of a Cannie Remember the summer I disappeared the
carnival two miles away. Remember how we could hear the
music sometimes? Yes, I do remember you. He said it
was a merry go round. One afternoon, I sneaked off
to see it. I couldn't tell you, honey, I was
nineteen and grown, but you were only thirteen. It would
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have scared you. Papa would know what. He would sense it,
and he'd pry the story out of No. Yes, baby,
all right, maybe then, but not now, not anymore. So.
After I saw everything at the carny Oldest Brass, I
went to see the owner, Jodi Prince. I told him
about this concentration camp. I said, I wanted to be
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in this carnival. He liked my looks. He said he
could use me in one of his shows, and me
he signed me on the next week, when Prince's Carnival
left Saint Louis, I left with it, out of this
house of death, into a carnival that was life. My sister,
in a carnival, What are you doing a fish like that?
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You'll know soon enough. Now come on, let's pack your bag.
I'm taking you with me, and you'll never come back
to this jail. Again, taking you'd never come me? Why
else would I be here? Take this chance?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Baby?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Did you think I'd forgotten you? But you never wrote you?
You never follow You must have known I didn't dare
Papa would have all mail forward into the bank, have
the phone tapped? Or what friends? Did we have to
send a message by? I had to wait till the
Carnie came back to Saint Louis. But all these years
I have planned for this day, the day Papa would
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lose you too.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
So come on, let's pack your bag.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
I can't go.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
I can't do that, Kate. Please don't be afraid. You'll
be as safe in the Carneie's eyes. Then he won't
look for you there anymore than he looked for me. Anyway,
you will stay out of sight until we leave town.
You don't understand. I have to take care of Papa.
He's getting old. He has a very bad heart condition hate.
You have given him sixteen years of your life, and
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what has he given you. He's locked you in this prison,
made you a servant, beat you. He hasn't beaten me
once since you went away. I don't believe that it's true.
Never then, you never crossed him I did, Mama did,
and we both paid for it. Kate, Mama died of it,
ran away from it, and you're so beaten down. He
doesn't even need to use that walking stick. Papa and
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I get along, maybe not like other people, but we've
made a life, the only life I know. Why did
you have to come and bring another? Go away so
I can forget you? Ever? Say?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
All right?
Speaker 5 (12:22):
See this is too sudden, this is too new. Papa
owns you, owns every thought. You need time for thoughts
of your own. Nika, I'll go away until tomorrow to
go in tonight think about the carney with me. I
will go everywhere, see everything. It's like Merry go around music, Honey,
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think of it like that, Uh Mary go round? And
you won't tell Papa I was here. Oh no, Katie, promise,
nothing in the whole world could make me tell him.
Tomorrow morning I'll come again, and by then you'll change
your mind.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Tomorrow, my little.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Sister and I will go back to the carnie together. Papa,
What would would you like some more meat? Wasn't the
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roast the way you like it? Papa? Will you have
anything else at all?
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Nope?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Then if it's all right with you, or I'll do
the dishes.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Excuse me, heyd on, you have not my permission to leave? Yes, yes, sir,
you will answer a question, Cathleen, and you will answer
with care.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Not.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
This's wrong with you tonight. Nothing's wrong, Papa, Nothing is wrong.
Let's see. What do you think I have to can
fool your father?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Please, I'm not trying to fool you.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
There's a difference here. Something has happened. Now you will
inform me what it.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Is, what could possibly happen?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
That is what I intend to learn. Did you leave
this house? No, sir, someone was here.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
No, sir, you're lying.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
No, no, no?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Then why did your hands tremble when you pass my food?
Why is your faith flushed like an apple? Why?
Speaker 5 (14:46):
It's just well, I just I just don't feel very well.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
All day I all day.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
You hide something tonight, you lie. I will have the
truth between one way or another. I will have it.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Right. I did tell you a lie, Papa. I went
out out where my child to the grocery store.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
And how did you go to the grocery store? Uh?
Speaker 5 (15:24):
The bus? The bus?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
And what did you want at the store?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
I to buy to buy apples?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I do not see any apples.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Oh, but they didn't have any pity.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Since you so much wanted apples that you left the house.
You're not allowed to leave. But we are very fond
of apples, are we not, Katrine?
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Yes, Papa?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Why can't you look at me?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Katrine?
Speaker 5 (15:55):
I am papa?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Ah? Yes? Now are you?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Why do you stammer? Hunh, little one? Your pleasant outing
today has has made you nervous? Yes?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Answer me?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Answer what ails you?
Speaker 5 (16:13):
I told you I don't feel good.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Your health is poor. I had forgotten you don't forgive
me my lapse of memory. Uh uh.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
I'll go up and not lie down if you don't
need me anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
No, no, no, I cannot spare you. There's something I
want you to get for me, my walking stick.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
But it's thereby your chair, pop.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yes, yes, who it is? Yes? But it is my
rim that you hand it to me. I walk around
the table, think it up, place it in my hand.
Gonna put great store by obedience. You know that? Do
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you not cut through? Y?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Sir, y you stick h second thought, you will hold
it yourself and we will observe it. The gold carving
on the top. Describe itly?
Speaker 5 (17:26):
It it it's a crown, a.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Crown signifying authority. My walking stick once belonged to the
Emperor Napoleon. His hand held it. Now you soon mine
One more question, child? Why do I always carry it?
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I don't know, as the symbol of my authority, and
when that authority is questioned, is in doubt? The walking
stick of Napoleon removes that doubt. Follow me, yes, sir,
and ask Your sister's disobedience in the past compelled me
to use it. But not only you never, and I
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trust I never will show me a test you I
I don't.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
I don't know what you mean, Papa.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I think you do. Who was here today, my little country?
Speaker 5 (18:29):
No one, Papa, No one was here only me all
day except when I went for the abbos.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
No one al right, hand me the sick Thank you,
uh fine instrument for changing your lives to truth. Soon
it will persuade you to talk and not about.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Who was here.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Now as you are fain.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Who was here with my little girl Eric every cost.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
One hour later, Otto Kramer stalks down the thronging chaos
of the carnival midway. Hury mounts to the bursting point
because again and again he asks the same question where
is Rika Kramer and receives the same answer, never heard
of no Erica Kramer. Mister Carnie personnel banded together to
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protect one of their own step right this way, right
what way? Where in this pig sty is his daughter?
We'll find out when I returned shortly with that two.
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spirit of honesty and integrity, a free spirit, A spirit
that demands products which fill your utilitarian needs while satisfying
your good taste and your.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Desire for economy.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
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Speaker 5 (20:23):
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Speaker 3 (20:26):
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there's an exciting new attitude at you take advantage of
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Speaker 1 (21:00):
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Speaker 7 (21:02):
Trolley car under the largest collection of Tiffany lamps in America,
a relax and an antique barber's chair, and sip something cool.
Of course, it's the Old Spaghetti Warehouse, Dallas's fun restaurant
where you can enjoy the million dollar atmosphere at two
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sixty nine. The Old Spaghetti Warehouse for dinner or lunch.
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It's the best restaurant buy in Dallas and now part
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block east of the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Otto Kramer glares with revulsion at the freak tent, Barker
ballying the treasures within.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Wait the more what a five cents two bits one
buck amda.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Framer looks above the valley stand at the garish canvases,
picturing the freaks, larger than.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Light, more terrible than life.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
His eyes rivet on the painting of a nearly naked woman,
her body ornamented with hearts, flags, stars, flowers, sunsets, peacocks, snakes,
then lips locked white. He buys a ticket and enters
the tent. On the fifth platform stands the tattooed princess,
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her body debauched by the colored needle, her beautiful face unmarred,
smiling at her admirers. Framer holts by the first platform stars,
And when he has seen enough of his daughter's depravity,
he turns and quits the tent Erica Princess. He's coming.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
I'm ready. Stay back of my wagon, Jody, stay out
of sight.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I ought to be in here with you. Your father's
got a heavy walking stake.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Of course he has, he always has it. Go on, Jody,
I'm not afraid of him anymore. I can take care
of Papa all right.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Holler if you need me, sweetheart.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
I will go on. Oh hurry, Papa, hurray, hurry, hurry,
show about to begin. Oh, and how I'll relish it.
I let the midget tell you where my living wagon
is if I hadn't no one in the car, and
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he would give me away.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
You think I didn't see you in the freaked.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Top and the look on your face when you saw
my body. Now it's covered with a cape to spare you, Papa. Oh, no,
to play a game, and my game will outsmart yours.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Papa.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Hurry up, the stakes are high. Oh hurry, damn you.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Great things.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Papa a freak.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
My daughter a freak.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Would you care to come in? Or would a carnival
living wagon contaminate the distinguished Auto Cramer?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I will come.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
The Princess Frederica is highly.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Anna, Princess p the Rica.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Aren't you pleased? I didn't use the name U case.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I am revolted by everything you are. Oh dear, I'm
so sorry.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
I'm so sorry. You beat poor little Kate till she
told you where I was.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
That is a Katrine tells me everything. She is my good,
obedient daughter, not like you. Kathrine has no sister.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Her sister is dead dead.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Oh no, old man, you're wrong, you who think you're
never wrong. Katrine's sister is wonderfully alive, making up for
the years I might as well have been dead nineteen
years you kept me buried a lie.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I came here to take you back where you belong.
But you belong why you are with the dregs of humanity.
I wouldn't have this, this thing you are now launting
the corruption of your body for anyone to.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
See you well, how well you put it.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Would you care to have a private viewing? Oh of
course you would, very well, mister Kramer. I removed my
cake freak to too freak? Can you think of a
better way to disguise the scars my father put on
my body. A snake arose the stars and stripes cover
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stripes you gave me. Yes, I read the description you
supplied the newspapers of your missing daughter. Scars on back
from automobile accident. What accident? Oh God, how I wanted
to write to the editor. Dear sir, you cheat my distingue.
You underrate his powers. The scars on Erika Kramer's back
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are from his loving hair. Papa, Why can't you stop
staring at me? Hearts and twine, garlands of flowers? Stupid smirking,
How strange you find them?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Beautiful? Oh?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
They're a loads of mile'll Oh you're what?
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Beat me?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Break me?
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Yes, I wouldn't raise that walking stick if I were you.
Everyone in the car and he knows you're here, knows
what you are, and they are standing by. If I call,
they'll tear you apart. Go on, hit, give me reason
to call. They'll come. Every man on the lot. They
glue the giant herm and the strong man that grips
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the concessionaires and the man I'm going to marry.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
What kind of man would marry a freak lie with
a woman covered with cottools. Only another freak.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Jody Prince owns this carnival, and he's like his name.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
He's a prince.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Now get the hell out of here before I have
him throw you out.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
All with pleasure, I go. The sound and sight of
you sickens me. You you you freak.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
My body's tattooed, but your soul is you're the freak charm.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
You stay away from my Caprie.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
That's one order I'll take from you, old man. This morning,
I thought my sister was worth saving.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
While she's not.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
She went crying to you about me, take lost. She's
all yours, Take her and welcome and doubt. Ah you
think that's all, Papa? Huh? You think I'm through with you?
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That was only a teaser. The best is yet to
come back. Jody.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Are you out there right here?
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Honey? I just wanted the old man of his size.
If I've let him face to face, I.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Might kill him. Did you hear it all every word?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Did he throw him out? And I was right here
with the door beautiful.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (28:13):
It took me twenty two years to win, but I
have one, Jody.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
I have one.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Yes, but there's something I don't understand. He said you
were through with Kate.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
I lied.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
I had to. I had to make him think I
wouldn't try to see her again. If he thought i'd
be back, he'd have Kate guarded and I couldn't get
to her tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
A baby, He's no dummy. He probably knows you lied,
and why anyhow, he won't take a chance. He'll be guarded,
all right, kind on it.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Then I'll get to her another way. Oh, I've got
it all figured. I'm in love with my father's daughter,
so nothing can stop me. Now, Good morning, Papa. Your
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secretary is taking her coffee break, so I just walked in.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I hope you don't mind.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Oh do you come here and shame mel that door?
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Out of respect for your lofty position in the bank,
I wore a high neck and long sleeves, but I
will shame you unless you give me Kate.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Are you out of your wits?
Speaker 5 (29:25):
I tried to phone her. You've cut the wires.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Uh, telephone is merely out of order. Very unfortunately.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
I went to the house. You've hired a thug to
keep me out of a friend.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
A house guest, a jailer guarding the gate. You will
protect Cathriine from undesirable associations or she suffered that indignity yesterday.
It will not happen again.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Unless you give me Kate. I will drag your name
through the law courts. Indeed, all of Saint Louis will
know what you are.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
You think I won't, I dare say your folly would
go to that extreme? He yes, But what judge or
jewelry would take a word or that cheap carnival tramp
your word against Otto Kramer's. Who would believe a freak
whose body is a monstrosity? Oh?
Speaker 5 (30:13):
They never believe me when I show them what the
pious Otto Kramer did to that body?
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Leave this office?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
What will you belong?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Freak?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Tent okay presses in case the giant? Can we do
it risky, but we can pull it on No in
broad daylight, when you're afraid you're old man, Well, we
ain't kid out of town or at least hide her somewhere.
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It's now or never. How do we do it? One
of your house wasn't in the country. We couldn't sure
the place is locked and bod But what we do
is get a rope ladder up to Katrine's windows.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
So what about the god?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
How do we get through the Cake? I'll take care
of him. He's a sick inch. You'll stand assigned. When
I wrap with our friend, I'll be a drunk looking
for shying of booze that cure a hangover. Oh dirty
your son. It'll be a great act. I'll be falling
down drunk. See I get close to the guy, he's
off gone m O. I knock him out. You go
up the lane of persuade Kate to come down? It?
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Can I persuade him?
Speaker 3 (31:21):
For sure? You can? You hold all the cord, sweet heart,
that plan you've worked out for her? So I want
to come on, let's go.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Will come after me? You'll bring me back. You'll come,
all right, but not bring you back.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
I promise that.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
But how can you say that? You know he would
because I've got a plan to stop and margarets to him.
I folded him when I joined the Carnie, and I.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Can again on him.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Last night when I tried to lie, he knew he
always know him.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Last night? What did he do to you?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Cake?
Speaker 5 (31:54):
I don't want to talk about it. We have to
now listen to you. He has started and he can
stop the least thing you do to displeat him. He'll
use that stick and nothing will please him except pain yours.
That's what you say to him. Don't, Papa, don't and
it won't any good, Katie. Can't you see you don't
dare stay here anymore?
Speaker 4 (32:14):
I don't stay go.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
When you went to the carnivor, he didn't know where
you were. He couldn't bring you back with me. No,
and he will be little sister. Please trust me. I
tell you my plan will work, but we need all
day to get ready and stop crying.
Speaker 9 (32:32):
Listen to the plan, then get awad intusing the star
and just honor.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Won't step my way?
Speaker 8 (32:51):
Please your eyes the ranch, I love everybody, I wor
relasion were hats and flat as.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
You snake ship be caught, sons and stops. Gregary, God
that's tattooed.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Princey horrid up?
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Is fired up?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
What has the princess turns and the glory of money?
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Time? Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Who is this handsome gentleman who honored our little show tonight,
mister Athel Kramer, isn't it why, ladies and gentlemen, I
do believe the foremost banker of Saint Louis is an
admirer of the tattooed princes?
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Well, lead al on, are you lovely? People?
Speaker 6 (33:41):
Come back to see me later?
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Right now, dear, mister.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Cramer wants to talk privately to his princess. And bankers
always get their moneys, were right, Afro.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Said, let news you need a minute?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Rangel company? All right, Chip Gamney red way right.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
This way, Good evening, Papa. How generous of you to
patronize the freak show a second home?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Where is Kathrine?
Speaker 5 (34:09):
And how clever of you to know that she's with me?
Speaker 4 (34:11):
What have you done with her?
Speaker 5 (34:13):
I've taken her out of Bundy?
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Answer me, I answered, I'll.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Ruin you for this.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
I'll have this carnival brafted off the map.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
Just how do you propose to do that, mister crank?
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I show me a carnival that isn't breaking the law,
underage performers, harboring criminals, white slavery and mount kidnapping.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
Patrian left of her own free will.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
She is sixteen out of age. That is kidnapping.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Oh, dear dear, I never thought of that, So why
haven't you called the police?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Why don't you amiliate her? Made this wildness public? Now
I call them after I take her away from here tonight.
How are you you think you can keep her from me?
Speaker 5 (34:58):
I have no intention of keeping her from you. You
can see her at midnight after the last.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
She'll see her.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Man, you'll see her when I say you can see
her midnight, four hours from now, right here in this tent.
Don't try to find her. She's hidden, and protect it
until then. I recommend the House of Horrors. You'll feel
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right at home.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Earlier this night, when Otto Kramer found his house empty,
he stood murmuring Catherine's name over and over. Can it
be that, in his twisted way he.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Does love this daughter?
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Nevertheless, his fingers tightened on the walking stick. When he
left for the carnival, he did not trouble to lock
the door, and what was valuable in his house already
had been stolen. No, anyone who disobeys out of Kramer
must be punished. Will witness someone's punishment. When I returned
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shortly with Act.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Three, I want that sinus medicine headache tablet. No sinus medicine.
Sinus tablets helps the headache on depression.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
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a sinus headache is something else, And sometimes your whole
face can seem to throb with pain. You want relief,
take sign off tablets sin eoff the sinus medicine that
gives you a full dose of pure aspirin plus a
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Speaker 1 (37:06):
In the bright red box.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Midnight in Madrid, we walked down the ancient street of
the Knifemaker's Klie de Coucilleros.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
We opened the.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Carved wooden doors of boutine. Here friends have gathered for
two hundred and fifty years to die and talk and
taste the beauty of Spanish winds out.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Now in another.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Age, Mistala is here.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Mistala, the light natural rose wine created in Spain to
capture a legendary flavor Mistala important rose, born of fines
that once bore the wines of a fabulous sa Mistala
tasty whip. Talk will be good and soul with memories.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
I st a la ms dalla Spanish rose. No midnight.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
The carnival toys are silent, closed down.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
The midway is emptying.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Of customers departing with bright balloons and cheap prizes won
in games of chance. But one customer most surely does
not depart, and another game of chance is about to begin.
Otto Kramer paces the dimly lighted freak tint the walking
stick ripped in his hand in Erica's living wagon. His
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two daughters are no less tense than their father. Both
wear long satin capes, winking with sequins, Erica's purple, Catherine's red.
You two beautiful dollars ready?
Speaker 5 (39:06):
Oh Jody, will it work?
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Easy? Princes, easy, it'll work.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
It can't. Oh I never should have come.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
I quit it, both of you.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
If Papa takes Kate back, it'll be worse than it
was before when you cut it down, all those promises
I made her.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
What was I thinking of?
Speaker 5 (39:22):
You know?
Speaker 3 (39:22):
I never saw you like this before. My girl hasn't
never ten people ain't scared of nothing.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
That's when I take chances for myself.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
This is for Kate.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Maybe I'll hurt her instead of.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Help, and maybe you'll give her the world by the tail.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
Erica, why didn't you ask the fortune?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Tell her if we should do this all for page sake?
Karl and I can't even predict that the sun will rise.
Speaker 5 (39:41):
We can't predict, Papa. I wish I hadn't come now.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
You won't say that. When it's all over, honeybe he's.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
Beending the wheel of fortune? Will it stop on Kate's number?
The odds are terrible against her, John.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
I'll give you big gods one gets you twenty the
wheel spins her number.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
It won't.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
I know it wrong, No, damn it. We spent all
day getting ready for this caper. Here it is time
of the big performance. You're both a mess, all right.
You wanna call it up, but you're all man win
hands down.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
So what you want? No?
Speaker 3 (40:11):
No, never.
Speaker 5 (40:13):
Just the sound of the words makes me sick. Thank
you for saying them. Put my head back together, all right, Kate,
I promise you all over again. Papa won't want you anymore.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
He won't take you back.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
I believe it.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
I will.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
I have to.
Speaker 5 (40:32):
No, can we please just get.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
It over with?
Speaker 3 (40:34):
That's more like it? All right, you all said, Kate,
remember everything you're supposed to do and say now every.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
Single thing we rehearsed.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
If I can just go through a sis, my money's
on you.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Kid.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
You're your sister's sister.
Speaker 5 (40:49):
I hope I can remember the part about the rings.
I like that part.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Let's just run over a couple of things, Princess. When
you go into that tent alone, you keep the old
man standing right with the address. Don't let him to me.
I know, I know if he moves torn to step
in between. If you have to, I don't worry. Take
waits about two minutes that makes a entrance.
Speaker 5 (41:09):
It'll be the longest two minutes in the world.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
That's why you wait till I say when I don't
want you jumping the gun. And remember you're the one
that stays close to the entrance. I real and all
the time. I'll be right outside, ready or not, Papa,
here we come. Hurry, hurry, hurry, show about the beginning.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Hey had water show?
Speaker 5 (41:38):
So sorry I kept you waiting, Papa where is cut
tree you'll belong?
Speaker 3 (41:43):
What new trick is this?
Speaker 4 (41:44):
Now?
Speaker 5 (41:45):
Such a suspicious mind, Papa.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
Now you kept me here cooling my heels while you
had a spirited away.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
But it will do you no good.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
You will be arrested for kidnapping and forced by the
police to tell me what Catherine.
Speaker 5 (41:59):
Is simmered on, Papa, None of that will be necessary.
Kate is just primping a little. She wants to be
pretty for you.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Hello, Papa, cafene.
Speaker 6 (42:11):
You will come home with me this minute and cape
off that cape.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
It's such a pretty cape, Papa, red satin and secret.
Speaker 6 (42:20):
You are your sister's cheap finery. Take it off at once.
Speaker 5 (42:24):
Dear Papa, you sound like a customer at a burlesque show.
But I warn you, if Kate takes off the cape,
you may not like what you see. She's wearing what
I wear in my act. But she straight oh catrine,
you want not you don't believe it, Papa, Then I'll.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
Have to show you.
Speaker 5 (42:45):
I'll spread my cape at wings wings for flying free
as a bird, and you can see if I'm as
pretty as Erica.
Speaker 4 (42:55):
There, ah, my god, take a good look.
Speaker 5 (43:01):
Papa got three yes, yes, Katrine tattooed like me tattooed
all Oh, tattooed daughter, what a proud fuck the roses
and sunsets, pree, the bags and the heart fund that cane.
Speaker 6 (43:21):
Break her too fully, Get out, Get out.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
To my wagon. I'll finish with Papa.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
I'm sorry, you don't mind it.
Speaker 5 (43:28):
Go with Cake, Oh, down the cane.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
You won't break me into either.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
Kate and I have broken you got tree, got three
Katrine tattooed Katrine as repulsive as you find me? Can
you ever bear to look at her again? Since you
don't want her anymore, then she can live with me.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
So that is your game. I see now, I see.
Speaker 5 (44:01):
Want her no, So go home to your empty house
and I wish you joy and I do.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
Not want her, but I will have her what I
will have my daughter.
Speaker 5 (44:17):
You you'll take her back the way she is now.
Speaker 3 (44:20):
I will take her and the rest of her life
she will be locked away. She's a freak, and freaks
should be hidden from the world.
Speaker 4 (44:31):
You can't. You can't freak.
Speaker 6 (44:34):
What you have made of your sister, made ugly? What
was beautiful? I hope that you're satis that your come.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
Mothers medicten pocket.
Speaker 5 (44:53):
Your heart't said you had a heart condition?
Speaker 4 (44:58):
Pocket pocket.
Speaker 5 (45:01):
Oh it's a bad attack, isn't it? A Papa, that's
very bad. Good, not ashamed because I shouldn't quite understand
what you were saying. And before you fell down in
the sawdust like that, I think you were saying, you
hope I'm satisfied. Oh, Papa, Papa, I'm satisfied. I'm very satisfied.
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Medicine in your pigeon. You have to take that to live,
don't you. Johnny outside, I'm coming out.
Speaker 4 (45:40):
You stay there.
Speaker 5 (45:43):
Oh, and Papa, you stay there as if you could
do anything else. I'll be back. Don't you worry. I'll
be back.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
You're all right, Princess?
Speaker 5 (45:57):
Oh yes, yes, Judy, you go back to Kate, you
go back.
Speaker 3 (46:04):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 5 (46:06):
Nothing's the matter. I'm saying goodbye to Papa.
Speaker 4 (46:08):
That's all.
Speaker 5 (46:09):
Go on, Jody, Katie needs you.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (46:12):
I don't like the way you sound.
Speaker 5 (46:14):
You think that is it easy? The hardest thing I
ever did in my life. But I have to do
it alone. Now where you go?
Speaker 3 (46:21):
All right? All right?
Speaker 5 (46:23):
No?
Speaker 6 (46:23):
Go?
Speaker 5 (46:26):
Can I do it?
Speaker 4 (46:29):
Can I? Papa? Er medicine?
Speaker 3 (46:38):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (46:39):
I understand you needed to live. Oh, yes, Papa, I
understand that too, But I don't know that do I.
Nobody ever told me, Papa, did you ever let Kate
and me live? Did you ever give us what we needed? Now?
Speaker 4 (46:59):
Hear this?
Speaker 5 (47:01):
If you still have time to wonder, how I can
do what I will do? I learned it from you, Papa.
How could I possibly live with viciousness and evil and
hate for nineteen years and not have some of it
come off on nothing? Hurry, hurry, hurry, Yes, I'll hurry
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and tell Katie you're letting her stand out with your blessing.
It is your blessing because you have to die so
Kate can live.
Speaker 4 (47:30):
Goodbye, Papa, goodbye, Papa.
Speaker 5 (47:42):
Tell me again, say it again. Papa doesn't want me,
He doesn't want you, won't take me away. He won't
take you away now? Or is it he doesn't want
me all that too? He doesn't want you, And you're
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sure he's gone? Yes, he is gone, Poor Papa. He
didn't like my sunsets and flags and roses and harm
or truth or decency or kindness. Ka, what's the matter
with you? You don't sound a bit happy? I am?
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I am, of course I am little Kate. It's just
that I don't like sunsets and flags and roses either,
Not on you. Come on, let's wash all those pictures off.
Oh what if Papa had come close to me? What
if he'd seen they were only painted on? How could
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he kate? All his life Papa never saw anything but
evil and ugliness. Come on, Katie, soap, water, rubrush, and
my little sister is good?
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Is new by now?
Speaker 3 (49:10):
You know it is not my custom to point a moral,
but allow me just as once.
Speaker 4 (49:17):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (49:19):
The moral is this Eric has spoke of profound truths.
You cannot live with viciousness and evil and hate and
not have some of it come off on you.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
I'll be back shortly. There is a fresh new spirit
sweeping the land, a free spirit.
Speaker 3 (49:40):
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service message at this station and the advertising consul. My friends,
you allowed me to draw a moral from our experience tonight,
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a rather depressing moral, I'm afraid. So let's look at
the other side of the coin, the bright side. If
you live with the good, the true, and the beautiful,
some of.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
That will come off on you too.
Speaker 3 (51:08):
Our cast included Terry Keane, Stephen Schnabel, Rosemary Rice, and
Ralph Bell. The entire production was under the direction of
Hymen Brown and now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 6 (51:24):
Not there for God, Saket Charles. Why not?
Speaker 3 (51:29):
That's the halted villa, Hugh superstitious about that.
Speaker 6 (51:33):
Place anyway, it's boarded up it's been for years.
Speaker 3 (51:37):
Or there's the house now and maybe we can find
some shelter.
Speaker 5 (51:44):
Statue nearest the lust would like to eat it.
Speaker 4 (51:46):
I can't look right as Bolton spiel.
Speaker 3 (51:50):
It's gone.
Speaker 4 (51:52):
Melton has never been.
Speaker 6 (51:54):
I could swear I saw that thing jump and run
into the house.
Speaker 3 (51:58):
Oh villains, maybe it's not fire.
Speaker 4 (52:02):
Don't be silly.
Speaker 3 (52:02):
And it's lampling.
Speaker 4 (52:05):
The door is.
Speaker 3 (52:06):
Open where it comes there, Ah Jesus, no night to
be abroad.
Speaker 6 (52:11):
Welcome to vie that it is wor the House.
Speaker 3 (52:16):
Of Despair Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by
sign Off the Sinus Medicines. This is E. G. Marshall
inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for another
adventure in the macabre.
Speaker 1 (52:30):
Until next time, Pleasant dreams. B. F.
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Speaker 1 (00:57):
Come here.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Welcome.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I'm e g. Marshall.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
All right this way, folks, Harry, Harry, her Ray, step
ray up, Yes, Welcome this night to a carnival, to
the razzle, dazzled clash of color and sound, hiding hate.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
And evil and murder.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Right this way the freak show Right as a gentleman
see nic cheous mistakes, step right up. It's opening night
at Prince's Carnival outside Saint Louis. But no fortune teller
sees in cards or crystal ball the dark events that
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will happen here.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I loath everything you are.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
The sight of you sickens me. I'll oile know what
beat me like me? Yes, try it. Every man in
the carnie knows you're here, knows what you are. Giant
strong man, grips, barkers, They're all standing by.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
If I call, they'll tear you apart.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Oh give me reason to call.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I'd love it.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Go on hit.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Our suspense drama Tattooed for Murder was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Nancy Moore and stars Terry Keene
and Stefan Schnabel. It is sponsored in part by anhuzer
Bush Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser and Buick Mover Division. I'll
be back shortly with Act one. There's nothing wrong with
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drinking Budweiser. Sip by sip, is there?
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Well?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
The brewers of Budweiser think there's a better way. Zipping's
fine if you're drinking wine, but Bud is the king
of a hearty drink. Well, rinse a ten or twelve
ounce glass with cold water, then open a can or
bottle of bud and pour it right down the middle
so it kicks up a good head of font. Now
take a big drink and then swallow big no SIPs.
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That's how it should be done. More taste, more beer
drinking enjoyment. Thanks to exclusive beechwood aging, Budweiser has a
smoothness that lets it go down especially easy. Sure is
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you said it all Anheuser Bush Saint Louis. When you
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Speaker 1 (04:58):
I promised you, Mannival.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I'll keep that promise, but be warned that I do
not promise a spun sugar candy time on the contrary. First,
we must go back three years that summer Saint Louis
papers carried a story that was milked for.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
All it was worth, and it was worth a great deal.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Headlines Otto Kramer's daughter, missay Eris disappears.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Erica Kramer not bound.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
I'll play suspected.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That was three years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Today, a mansion outside the city has a bronze plaque
fixed to iron gates. Otto Kramer, no admittance. Due perhaps
to the disappearance of a daughter of this house, no
one is welcomed beyond its gates. Inside alone on this
fateful morning, another daughter, Katherine, aged sixteen, a few minutes ago,
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said goodbye to her father as he left for his bank.
She now starts upstairs to clean. In spite of his wealth,
Kramer keeps no servants, obeying his own dictate no admittance. Suddenly,
Catherine is startled by a frightening sound.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Only the doorbell, but no one.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Comes here unless her father is present, and seldom then
would Papa want her to answer. Catherine thinks not is certain.
Not The ringing persists, but suddenly the sound no longer
seems frightening. Instead, a merry summons the world at her door.
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She flies down the stairs, but as her hand touches
turns the doorknob, hope vanishes.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
No one has fun to see her, No one ever will.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Papa forbids it.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Papa's word is law, is iron got dream?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Don't you know me?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Kate?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
I can't believe it. I thought you I thought you
were dead. No, no, I'm real, I'm hearing back and
I'm certainly not dead.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I dreamed.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Is this a thousand times? Sorry by a little Kate?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Dream again?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
But coming Barry. I don't want to be seen. Does
that mean you'll go away again? Oh, Erica, don't, please don't.
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
In a minute.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Birthday.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I have to look at this house, that this prison
I broke out of. Nothing's changed, cold and ugly. No,
I don't want to look at it. Let me look
at my little crater. Eric. Where have you been? You
were so pretty? Now you're sweet? Sweet? Doesn't matter about me?
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Tell me, tell me where you've been? Only three year
matter more than anything. Oh, do Papa ever let you
out of this house?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Well?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Sometimes he takes me driving, sometimes to church, Papa in church,
and the rest of the time. What do you do?
Have you forgotten what it's like here? O, Kate?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
How could I?
Speaker 5 (08:32):
But then there were two of us we could at
least talk to each other. Who do you talk to now?
No one, no tutor anymore, not since I was sixteen,
Not one single friend, no fun at all. Never mind,
I know the answer. Papa's made you into this, this
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pitiful little mouse. Please don't talk about me anymore. Tell
me where you went? I guess. Oh, but we did guess,
Papa and I and the police, oh and the smartest
private detective and all Saint Louis, all that money squandered
for nothing? Where were you?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:13):
I want to tell me? All right, little one, hang
on tight. I was in the last place on earth
Papa would dream a daughter of his could be. Where
in a carnival you're teasing? It's a telly. It's a beautiful,
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wonderful joke. But the joke's on Papa. A Cramer daughter,
part of a Cannie Remember the summer I disappeared the
carnival two miles away. Remember how we could hear the
music sometimes? Yes, I do remember you. He said it
was a merry go round. One afternoon, I sneaked off
to see it. I couldn't tell you, honey, I was
nineteen and grown, but you were only thirteen. It would
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have scared you. Papa would know what. He would sense it,
and he'd pry the story out of No. Yes, baby,
all right, maybe then, but not now, not anymore. So.
After I saw everything at the carny Oldest Brass, I
went to see the owner, Jodi Prince. I told him
about this concentration camp. I said, I wanted to be
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in this carnival. He liked my looks. He said he
could use me in one of his shows, and me
he signed me on the next week, when Prince's Carnival
left Saint Louis, I left with it, out of this
house of death, into a carnival that was life. My sister,
in a carnival, What are you doing a fish like that?
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You'll know soon enough. Now come on, let's pack your bag.
I'm taking you with me, and you'll never come back
to this jail. Again, taking you'd never come me? Why
else would I be here? Take this chance?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Baby?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Did you think I'd forgotten you? But you never wrote you?
You never follow You must have known I didn't dare
Papa would have all mail forward into the bank, have
the phone tapped? Or what friends? Did we have to
send a message by? I had to wait till the
Carnie came back to Saint Louis. But all these years
I have planned for this day, the day Papa would
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lose you too.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
So come on, let's pack your bag.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
I can't go.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
I can't do that, Kate. Please don't be afraid. You'll
be as safe in the Carneie's eyes. Then he won't
look for you there anymore than he looked for me. Anyway,
you will stay out of sight until we leave town.
You don't understand. I have to take care of Papa.
He's getting old. He has a very bad heart condition hate.
You have given him sixteen years of your life, and
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what has he given you. He's locked you in this prison,
made you a servant, beat you. He hasn't beaten me
once since you went away. I don't believe that it's true.
Never then, you never crossed him I did, Mama did,
and we both paid for it. Kate, Mama died of it,
ran away from it, and you're so beaten down. He
doesn't even need to use that walking stick. Papa and
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I get along, maybe not like other people, but we've
made a life, the only life I know. Why did
you have to come and bring another? Go away so
I can forget you? Ever? Say?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
All right?
Speaker 5 (12:22):
See this is too sudden, this is too new. Papa
owns you, owns every thought. You need time for thoughts
of your own. Nika, I'll go away until tomorrow to
go in tonight think about the carney with me. I
will go everywhere, see everything. It's like Merry go around music, Honey,
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think of it like that, Uh Mary go round? And
you won't tell Papa I was here. Oh no, Katie, promise,
nothing in the whole world could make me tell him.
Tomorrow morning I'll come again, and by then you'll change
your mind.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Tomorrow, my little.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Sister and I will go back to the carnie together. Papa,
What would would you like some more meat? Wasn't the
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roast the way you like it? Papa? Will you have
anything else at all?
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Nope?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Then if it's all right with you, or I'll do
the dishes.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Excuse me, heyd on, you have not my permission to leave? Yes, yes, sir,
you will answer a question, Cathleen, and you will answer
with care.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Not.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
This's wrong with you tonight. Nothing's wrong, Papa, Nothing is wrong.
Let's see. What do you think I have to can
fool your father?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Please, I'm not trying to fool you.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
There's a difference here. Something has happened. Now you will
inform me what it.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Is, what could possibly happen?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
That is what I intend to learn. Did you leave
this house? No, sir, someone was here.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
No, sir, you're lying.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
No, no, no?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Then why did your hands tremble when you pass my food?
Why is your faith flushed like an apple? Why?
Speaker 5 (14:46):
It's just well, I just I just don't feel very well.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
All day I all day.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
You hide something tonight, you lie. I will have the
truth between one way or another. I will have it.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Right. I did tell you a lie, Papa. I went
out out where my child to the grocery store.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
And how did you go to the grocery store? Uh?
Speaker 5 (15:24):
The bus? The bus?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
And what did you want at the store?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
I to buy to buy apples?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I do not see any apples.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Oh, but they didn't have any pity.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Since you so much wanted apples that you left the house.
You're not allowed to leave. But we are very fond
of apples, are we not, Katrine?
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Yes, Papa?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Why can't you look at me?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Katrine?
Speaker 5 (15:55):
I am papa?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Ah? Yes? Now are you?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Why do you stammer? Hunh, little one? Your pleasant outing
today has has made you nervous? Yes?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Answer me?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Answer what ails you?
Speaker 5 (16:13):
I told you I don't feel good.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Your health is poor. I had forgotten you don't forgive
me my lapse of memory. Uh uh.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
I'll go up and not lie down if you don't
need me anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
No, no, no, I cannot spare you. There's something I
want you to get for me, my walking stick.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
But it's thereby your chair, pop.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yes, yes, who it is? Yes? But it is my
rim that you hand it to me. I walk around
the table, think it up, place it in my hand.
Gonna put great store by obedience. You know that? Do
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you not cut through? Y?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Sir, y you stick h second thought, you will hold
it yourself and we will observe it. The gold carving
on the top. Describe itly?
Speaker 5 (17:26):
It it it's a crown, a.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Crown signifying authority. My walking stick once belonged to the
Emperor Napoleon. His hand held it. Now you soon mine
One more question, child? Why do I always carry it?
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I don't know, as the symbol of my authority, and
when that authority is questioned, is in doubt? The walking
stick of Napoleon removes that doubt. Follow me, yes, sir,
and ask Your sister's disobedience in the past compelled me
to use it. But not only you never, and I
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trust I never will show me a test you I
I don't.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
I don't know what you mean, Papa.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I think you do. Who was here today, my little country?
Speaker 5 (18:29):
No one, Papa, No one was here only me all
day except when I went for the abbos.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
No one al right, hand me the sick Thank you,
uh fine instrument for changing your lives to truth. Soon
it will persuade you to talk and not about.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Who was here.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Now as you are fain.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Who was here with my little girl Eric every cost.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
One hour later, Otto Kramer stalks down the thronging chaos
of the carnival midway. Hury mounts to the bursting point
because again and again he asks the same question where
is Rika Kramer and receives the same answer, never heard
of no Erica Kramer. Mister Carnie personnel banded together to
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protect one of their own step right this way, right
what way? Where in this pig sty is his daughter?
We'll find out when I returned shortly with that two.
(20:06):
There is a fresh new spirit squeaking the land, a
spirit of honesty and integrity, a free spirit, A spirit
that demands products which fill your utilitarian needs while satisfying
your good taste and your.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Desire for economy.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
We at Buwick have felt the spirit and.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Are dedicated to your sense of freedom.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Our crisply designs, solidly built nineteen seventy five Uicks will
bring joy even to the most demanding of free spirits.
The nineteen seventy five Bwick Electric Let's Save It riverea
Century Skylark Apollo and the gutsy New Buick Skyhawk are
dedicated to the free spirit in just about everywhere. Hey,
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there's an exciting new attitude at you take advantage of
it at your local Buick dealer.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
You're dying in a real city of Dallas.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Trolley car under the largest collection of Tiffany lamps in America,
a relax and an antique barber's chair, and sip something cool.
Of course, it's the Old Spaghetti Warehouse, Dallas's fun restaurant
where you can enjoy the million dollar atmosphere at two
dollars prices with special luncheon prices from just a dollar
sixty nine. The Old Spaghetti Warehouse for dinner or lunch.
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It's the best restaurant buy in Dallas and now part
free at our lot at Lamar and Monger, just one
block east of the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Otto Kramer glares with revulsion at the freak tent, Barker
ballying the treasures within.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Wait the more what a five cents two bits one
buck amda.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Framer looks above the valley stand at the garish canvases,
picturing the freaks, larger than.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Light, more terrible than life.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
His eyes rivet on the painting of a nearly naked woman,
her body ornamented with hearts, flags, stars, flowers, sunsets, peacocks, snakes,
then lips locked white. He buys a ticket and enters
the tent. On the fifth platform stands the tattooed princess,
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her body debauched by the colored needle, her beautiful face unmarred,
smiling at her admirers. Framer holts by the first platform stars,
And when he has seen enough of his daughter's depravity,
he turns and quits the tent Erica Princess. He's coming.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
I'm ready. Stay back of my wagon, Jody, stay out
of sight.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I ought to be in here with you. Your father's
got a heavy walking stake.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Of course he has, he always has it. Go on, Jody,
I'm not afraid of him anymore. I can take care
of Papa all right.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Holler if you need me, sweetheart.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
I will go on. Oh hurry, Papa, hurray, hurry, hurry,
show about to begin. Oh, and how I'll relish it.
I let the midget tell you where my living wagon
is if I hadn't no one in the car, and
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he would give me away.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
You think I didn't see you in the freaked.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Top and the look on your face when you saw
my body. Now it's covered with a cape to spare you, Papa. Oh, no,
to play a game, and my game will outsmart yours.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Papa.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Hurry up, the stakes are high. Oh hurry, damn you.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Great things.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Papa a freak.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
My daughter a freak.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Would you care to come in? Or would a carnival
living wagon contaminate the distinguished Auto Cramer?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I will come.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
The Princess Frederica is highly.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Anna, Princess p the Rica.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Aren't you pleased? I didn't use the name U case.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I am revolted by everything you are. Oh dear, I'm
so sorry.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
I'm so sorry. You beat poor little Kate till she
told you where I was.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
That is a Katrine tells me everything. She is my good,
obedient daughter, not like you. Kathrine has no sister.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Her sister is dead dead.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Oh no, old man, you're wrong, you who think you're
never wrong. Katrine's sister is wonderfully alive, making up for
the years I might as well have been dead nineteen
years you kept me buried a lie.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I came here to take you back where you belong.
But you belong why you are with the dregs of humanity.
I wouldn't have this, this thing you are now launting
the corruption of your body for anyone to.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
See you well, how well you put it.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Would you care to have a private viewing? Oh of
course you would, very well, mister Kramer. I removed my
cake freak to too freak? Can you think of a
better way to disguise the scars my father put on
my body. A snake arose the stars and stripes cover
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stripes you gave me. Yes, I read the description you
supplied the newspapers of your missing daughter. Scars on back
from automobile accident. What accident? Oh God, how I wanted
to write to the editor. Dear sir, you cheat my distingue.
You underrate his powers. The scars on Erika Kramer's back
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are from his loving hair. Papa, Why can't you stop
staring at me? Hearts and twine, garlands of flowers? Stupid smirking,
How strange you find them?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Beautiful? Oh?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
They're a loads of mile'll Oh you're what?
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Beat me?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Break me?
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Yes, I wouldn't raise that walking stick if I were you.
Everyone in the car and he knows you're here, knows
what you are, and they are standing by. If I call,
they'll tear you apart. Go on, hit, give me reason
to call. They'll come. Every man on the lot. They
glue the giant herm and the strong man that grips
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the concessionaires and the man I'm going to marry.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
What kind of man would marry a freak lie with
a woman covered with cottools. Only another freak.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Jody Prince owns this carnival, and he's like his name.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
He's a prince.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Now get the hell out of here before I have
him throw you out.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
All with pleasure, I go. The sound and sight of
you sickens me. You you you freak.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
My body's tattooed, but your soul is you're the freak charm.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
You stay away from my Caprie.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
That's one order I'll take from you, old man. This morning,
I thought my sister was worth saving.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
While she's not.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
She went crying to you about me, take lost. She's
all yours, Take her and welcome and doubt. Ah you
think that's all, Papa? Huh? You think I'm through with you?
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That was only a teaser. The best is yet to
come back. Jody.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Are you out there right here?
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Honey? I just wanted the old man of his size.
If I've let him face to face, I.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Might kill him. Did you hear it all every word?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Did he throw him out? And I was right here
with the door beautiful.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (28:13):
It took me twenty two years to win, but I
have one, Jody.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
I have one.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Yes, but there's something I don't understand. He said you
were through with Kate.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
I lied.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
I had to. I had to make him think I
wouldn't try to see her again. If he thought i'd
be back, he'd have Kate guarded and I couldn't get
to her tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
A baby, He's no dummy. He probably knows you lied,
and why anyhow, he won't take a chance. He'll be guarded,
all right, kind on it.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Then I'll get to her another way. Oh, I've got
it all figured. I'm in love with my father's daughter,
so nothing can stop me. Now, Good morning, Papa. Your
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secretary is taking her coffee break, so I just walked in.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I hope you don't mind.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Oh do you come here and shame mel that door?
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Out of respect for your lofty position in the bank,
I wore a high neck and long sleeves, but I
will shame you unless you give me Kate.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Are you out of your wits?
Speaker 5 (29:25):
I tried to phone her. You've cut the wires.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Uh, telephone is merely out of order. Very unfortunately.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
I went to the house. You've hired a thug to
keep me out of a friend.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
A house guest, a jailer guarding the gate. You will
protect Cathriine from undesirable associations or she suffered that indignity yesterday.
It will not happen again.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Unless you give me Kate. I will drag your name
through the law courts. Indeed, all of Saint Louis will
know what you are.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
You think I won't, I dare say your folly would
go to that extreme? He yes, But what judge or
jewelry would take a word or that cheap carnival tramp
your word against Otto Kramer's. Who would believe a freak
whose body is a monstrosity? Oh?
Speaker 5 (30:13):
They never believe me when I show them what the
pious Otto Kramer did to that body?
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Leave this office?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
What will you belong?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Freak?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Tent okay presses in case the giant? Can we do
it risky, but we can pull it on No in
broad daylight, when you're afraid you're old man, Well, we
ain't kid out of town or at least hide her somewhere.
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It's now or never. How do we do it? One
of your house wasn't in the country. We couldn't sure
the place is locked and bod But what we do
is get a rope ladder up to Katrine's windows.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
So what about the god?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
How do we get through the Cake? I'll take care
of him. He's a sick inch. You'll stand assigned. When
I wrap with our friend, I'll be a drunk looking
for shying of booze that cure a hangover. Oh dirty
your son. It'll be a great act. I'll be falling
down drunk. See I get close to the guy, he's
off gone m O. I knock him out. You go
up the lane of persuade Kate to come down? It?
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Can I persuade him?
Speaker 3 (31:21):
For sure? You can? You hold all the cord, sweet heart,
that plan you've worked out for her? So I want
to come on, let's go.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Will come after me? You'll bring me back. You'll come,
all right, but not bring you back.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
I promise that.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
But how can you say that? You know he would
because I've got a plan to stop and margarets to him.
I folded him when I joined the Carnie, and I.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Can again on him.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Last night when I tried to lie, he knew he
always know him.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Last night? What did he do to you?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Cake?
Speaker 5 (31:54):
I don't want to talk about it. We have to
now listen to you. He has started and he can
stop the least thing you do to displeat him. He'll
use that stick and nothing will please him except pain yours.
That's what you say to him. Don't, Papa, don't and
it won't any good, Katie. Can't you see you don't
dare stay here anymore?
Speaker 4 (32:14):
I don't stay go.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
When you went to the carnivor, he didn't know where
you were. He couldn't bring you back with me. No,
and he will be little sister. Please trust me. I
tell you my plan will work, but we need all
day to get ready and stop crying.
Speaker 9 (32:32):
Listen to the plan, then get awad intusing the star
and just honor.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Won't step my way?
Speaker 8 (32:51):
Please your eyes the ranch, I love everybody, I wor
relasion were hats and flat as.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
You snake ship be caught, sons and stops. Gregary, God
that's tattooed.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Princey horrid up?
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Is fired up?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
What has the princess turns and the glory of money?
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Time? Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Who is this handsome gentleman who honored our little show tonight,
mister Athel Kramer, isn't it why, ladies and gentlemen, I
do believe the foremost banker of Saint Louis is an
admirer of the tattooed princes?
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Well, lead al on, are you lovely? People?
Speaker 6 (33:41):
Come back to see me later?
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Right now, dear, mister.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Cramer wants to talk privately to his princess. And bankers
always get their moneys, were right, Afro.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Said, let news you need a minute?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Rangel company? All right, Chip Gamney red way right.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
This way, Good evening, Papa. How generous of you to
patronize the freak show a second home?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Where is Kathrine?
Speaker 5 (34:09):
And how clever of you to know that she's with me?
Speaker 4 (34:11):
What have you done with her?
Speaker 5 (34:13):
I've taken her out of Bundy?
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Answer me, I answered, I'll.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Ruin you for this.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
I'll have this carnival brafted off the map.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
Just how do you propose to do that, mister crank?
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I show me a carnival that isn't breaking the law,
underage performers, harboring criminals, white slavery and mount kidnapping.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
Patrian left of her own free will.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
She is sixteen out of age. That is kidnapping.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Oh, dear dear, I never thought of that, So why
haven't you called the police?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Why don't you amiliate her? Made this wildness public? Now
I call them after I take her away from here tonight.
How are you you think you can keep her from me?
Speaker 5 (34:58):
I have no intention of keeping her from you. You
can see her at midnight after the last.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
She'll see her.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Man, you'll see her when I say you can see
her midnight, four hours from now, right here in this tent.
Don't try to find her. She's hidden, and protect it
until then. I recommend the House of Horrors. You'll feel
(35:26):
right at home.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Earlier this night, when Otto Kramer found his house empty,
he stood murmuring Catherine's name over and over. Can it
be that, in his twisted way he.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Does love this daughter?
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Nevertheless, his fingers tightened on the walking stick. When he
left for the carnival, he did not trouble to lock
the door, and what was valuable in his house already
had been stolen. No, anyone who disobeys out of Kramer
must be punished. Will witness someone's punishment. When I returned
(36:08):
shortly with Act.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Three, I want that sinus medicine headache tablet. No sinus medicine.
Sinus tablets helps the headache on depression.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
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a sinus headache is something else, And sometimes your whole
face can seem to throb with pain. You want relief,
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Speaker 1 (37:06):
In the bright red box.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Midnight in Madrid, we walked down the ancient street of
the Knifemaker's Klie de Coucilleros.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
We opened the.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Carved wooden doors of boutine. Here friends have gathered for
two hundred and fifty years to die and talk and
taste the beauty of Spanish winds out.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Now in another.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Age, Mistala is here.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Mistala, the light natural rose wine created in Spain to
capture a legendary flavor Mistala important rose, born of fines
that once bore the wines of a fabulous sa Mistala
tasty whip. Talk will be good and soul with memories.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
I st a la ms dalla Spanish rose. No midnight.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
The carnival toys are silent, closed down.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
The midway is emptying.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Of customers departing with bright balloons and cheap prizes won
in games of chance. But one customer most surely does
not depart, and another game of chance is about to begin.
Otto Kramer paces the dimly lighted freak tint the walking
stick ripped in his hand in Erica's living wagon. His
(38:53):
two daughters are no less tense than their father. Both
wear long satin capes, winking with sequins, Erica's purple, Catherine's red.
You two beautiful dollars ready?
Speaker 5 (39:06):
Oh Jody, will it work?
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Easy? Princes, easy, it'll work.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
It can't. Oh I never should have come.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
I quit it, both of you.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
If Papa takes Kate back, it'll be worse than it
was before when you cut it down, all those promises
I made her.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
What was I thinking of?
Speaker 5 (39:22):
You know?
Speaker 3 (39:22):
I never saw you like this before. My girl hasn't
never ten people ain't scared of nothing.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
That's when I take chances for myself.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
This is for Kate.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Maybe I'll hurt her instead of.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Help, and maybe you'll give her the world by the tail.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
Erica, why didn't you ask the fortune?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Tell her if we should do this all for page sake?
Karl and I can't even predict that the sun will rise.
Speaker 5 (39:41):
We can't predict, Papa. I wish I hadn't come now.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
You won't say that. When it's all over, honeybe he's.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
Beending the wheel of fortune? Will it stop on Kate's number?
The odds are terrible against her, John.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
I'll give you big gods one gets you twenty the
wheel spins her number.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
It won't.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
I know it wrong, No, damn it. We spent all
day getting ready for this caper. Here it is time
of the big performance. You're both a mess, all right.
You wanna call it up, but you're all man win
hands down.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
So what you want? No?
Speaker 3 (40:11):
No, never.
Speaker 5 (40:13):
Just the sound of the words makes me sick. Thank
you for saying them. Put my head back together, all right, Kate,
I promise you all over again. Papa won't want you anymore.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
He won't take you back.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
I believe it.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
I will.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
I have to.
Speaker 5 (40:32):
No, can we please just get.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
It over with?
Speaker 3 (40:34):
That's more like it? All right, you all said, Kate,
remember everything you're supposed to do and say now every.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
Single thing we rehearsed.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
If I can just go through a sis, my money's
on you.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Kid.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
You're your sister's sister.
Speaker 5 (40:49):
I hope I can remember the part about the rings.
I like that part.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Let's just run over a couple of things, Princess. When
you go into that tent alone, you keep the old
man standing right with the address. Don't let him to me.
I know, I know if he moves torn to step
in between. If you have to, I don't worry. Take
waits about two minutes that makes a entrance.
Speaker 5 (41:09):
It'll be the longest two minutes in the world.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
That's why you wait till I say when I don't
want you jumping the gun. And remember you're the one
that stays close to the entrance. I real and all
the time. I'll be right outside, ready or not, Papa,
here we come. Hurry, hurry, hurry, show about the beginning.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Hey had water show?
Speaker 5 (41:38):
So sorry I kept you waiting, Papa where is cut
tree you'll belong?
Speaker 3 (41:43):
What new trick is this?
Speaker 4 (41:44):
Now?
Speaker 5 (41:45):
Such a suspicious mind, Papa.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
Now you kept me here cooling my heels while you
had a spirited away.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
But it will do you no good.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
You will be arrested for kidnapping and forced by the
police to tell me what Catherine.
Speaker 5 (41:59):
Is simmered on, Papa, None of that will be necessary.
Kate is just primping a little. She wants to be
pretty for you.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Hello, Papa, cafene.
Speaker 6 (42:11):
You will come home with me this minute and cape
off that cape.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
It's such a pretty cape, Papa, red satin and secret.
Speaker 6 (42:20):
You are your sister's cheap finery. Take it off at once.
Speaker 5 (42:24):
Dear Papa, you sound like a customer at a burlesque show.
But I warn you, if Kate takes off the cape,
you may not like what you see. She's wearing what
I wear in my act. But she straight oh catrine,
you want not you don't believe it, Papa, Then I'll.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
Have to show you.
Speaker 5 (42:45):
I'll spread my cape at wings wings for flying free
as a bird, and you can see if I'm as
pretty as Erica.
Speaker 4 (42:55):
There, ah, my god, take a good look.
Speaker 5 (43:01):
Papa got three yes, yes, Katrine tattooed like me tattooed
all Oh, tattooed daughter, what a proud fuck the roses
and sunsets, pree, the bags and the heart fund that cane.
Speaker 6 (43:21):
Break her too fully, Get out, Get out.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
To my wagon. I'll finish with Papa.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
I'm sorry, you don't mind it.
Speaker 5 (43:28):
Go with Cake, Oh, down the cane.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
You won't break me into either.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
Kate and I have broken you got tree, got three
Katrine tattooed Katrine as repulsive as you find me? Can
you ever bear to look at her again? Since you
don't want her anymore, then she can live with me.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
So that is your game. I see now, I see.
Speaker 5 (44:01):
Want her no, So go home to your empty house
and I wish you joy and I do.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
Not want her, but I will have her what I
will have my daughter.
Speaker 5 (44:17):
You you'll take her back the way she is now.
Speaker 3 (44:20):
I will take her and the rest of her life
she will be locked away. She's a freak, and freaks
should be hidden from the world.
Speaker 4 (44:31):
You can't. You can't freak.
Speaker 6 (44:34):
What you have made of your sister, made ugly? What
was beautiful? I hope that you're satis that your come.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
Mothers medicten pocket.
Speaker 5 (44:53):
Your heart't said you had a heart condition?
Speaker 4 (44:58):
Pocket pocket.
Speaker 5 (45:01):
Oh it's a bad attack, isn't it? A Papa, that's
very bad. Good, not ashamed because I shouldn't quite understand
what you were saying. And before you fell down in
the sawdust like that, I think you were saying, you
hope I'm satisfied. Oh, Papa, Papa, I'm satisfied. I'm very satisfied.
(45:29):
Medicine in your pigeon. You have to take that to live,
don't you. Johnny outside, I'm coming out.
Speaker 4 (45:40):
You stay there.
Speaker 5 (45:43):
Oh, and Papa, you stay there as if you could
do anything else. I'll be back. Don't you worry. I'll
be back.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
You're all right, Princess?
Speaker 5 (45:57):
Oh yes, yes, Judy, you go back to Kate, you
go back.
Speaker 3 (46:04):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 5 (46:06):
Nothing's the matter. I'm saying goodbye to Papa.
Speaker 4 (46:08):
That's all.
Speaker 5 (46:09):
Go on, Jody, Katie needs you.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (46:12):
I don't like the way you sound.
Speaker 5 (46:14):
You think that is it easy? The hardest thing I
ever did in my life. But I have to do
it alone. Now where you go?
Speaker 3 (46:21):
All right? All right?
Speaker 5 (46:23):
No?
Speaker 6 (46:23):
Go?
Speaker 5 (46:26):
Can I do it?
Speaker 4 (46:29):
Can I? Papa? Er medicine?
Speaker 3 (46:38):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (46:39):
I understand you needed to live. Oh, yes, Papa, I
understand that too, But I don't know that do I.
Nobody ever told me, Papa, did you ever let Kate
and me live? Did you ever give us what we needed? Now?
Speaker 4 (46:59):
Hear this?
Speaker 5 (47:01):
If you still have time to wonder, how I can
do what I will do? I learned it from you, Papa.
How could I possibly live with viciousness and evil and
hate for nineteen years and not have some of it
come off on nothing? Hurry, hurry, hurry, Yes, I'll hurry
(47:21):
and tell Katie you're letting her stand out with your blessing.
It is your blessing because you have to die so
Kate can live.
Speaker 4 (47:30):
Goodbye, Papa, goodbye, Papa.
Speaker 5 (47:42):
Tell me again, say it again. Papa doesn't want me,
He doesn't want you, won't take me away. He won't
take you away now? Or is it he doesn't want
me all that too? He doesn't want you, And you're
(48:05):
sure he's gone? Yes, he is gone, Poor Papa. He
didn't like my sunsets and flags and roses and harm
or truth or decency or kindness. Ka, what's the matter
with you? You don't sound a bit happy? I am?
(48:26):
I am, of course I am little Kate. It's just
that I don't like sunsets and flags and roses either,
Not on you. Come on, let's wash all those pictures off.
Oh what if Papa had come close to me? What
if he'd seen they were only painted on? How could
(48:47):
he kate? All his life Papa never saw anything but
evil and ugliness. Come on, Katie, soap, water, rubrush, and
my little sister is good?
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Is new by now?
Speaker 3 (49:10):
You know it is not my custom to point a moral,
but allow me just as once.
Speaker 4 (49:17):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (49:19):
The moral is this Eric has spoke of profound truths.
You cannot live with viciousness and evil and hate and
not have some of it come off on you.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
I'll be back shortly. There is a fresh new spirit
sweeping the land, a free spirit.
Speaker 3 (49:40):
That demands good products, products that satisfy your sense of
good taste and desire for economy, but above all, products
that perform. Buick has been touched by this spirit, and
this year, our crispy design, solidly built Buicks will bring
joy even to the most demanding of free spirits. The
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just about every.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Stanley Myron handle them did you know you.
Speaker 3 (50:08):
Can have a college grant's career without four years of college.
All you need is a year or two of technical
education to work and feels like engineering, health service, automotive design,
and forestreet. The facts are in a free booklet called
twenty five Technical Careers and two Years or Less Just
Right Careers, Washington, d C. Two two two a public
(50:31):
service message at this station and the advertising consul. My friends,
you allowed me to draw a moral from our experience tonight,
(50:52):
a rather depressing moral, I'm afraid. So let's look at
the other side of the coin, the bright side. If
you live with the good, the true, and the beautiful,
some of.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
That will come off on you too.
Speaker 3 (51:08):
Our cast included Terry Keane, Stephen Schnabel, Rosemary Rice, and
Ralph Bell. The entire production was under the direction of
Hymen Brown and now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 6 (51:24):
Not there for God, Saket Charles. Why not?
Speaker 3 (51:29):
That's the halted villa, Hugh superstitious about that.
Speaker 6 (51:33):
Place anyway, it's boarded up it's been for years.
Speaker 3 (51:37):
Or there's the house now and maybe we can find
some shelter.
Speaker 5 (51:44):
Statue nearest the lust would like to eat it.
Speaker 4 (51:46):
I can't look right as Bolton spiel.
Speaker 3 (51:50):
It's gone.
Speaker 4 (51:52):
Melton has never been.
Speaker 6 (51:54):
I could swear I saw that thing jump and run
into the house.
Speaker 3 (51:58):
Oh villains, maybe it's not fire.
Speaker 4 (52:02):
Don't be silly.
Speaker 3 (52:02):
And it's lampling.
Speaker 4 (52:05):
The door is.
Speaker 3 (52:06):
Open where it comes there, Ah Jesus, no night to
be abroad.
Speaker 6 (52:11):
Welcome to vie that it is wor the House.
Speaker 3 (52:16):
Of Despair Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by
sign Off the Sinus Medicines. This is E. G. Marshall
inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for another
adventure in the macabre.
Speaker 1 (52:30):
Until next time, Pleasant dreams. B. F.
Speaker 3 (53:16):
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