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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Come in welcome. I'm e. G.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Marshall, engineer of this runaway Express through the mysterious terrain
of the imagination. Our fancies are only memories which are
divorced from the discipline of space and time, according.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
To the poet.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
And what does that mean? It means in a sense
that we are free, free to reconstruct the past in
any way that suits our purpose, and.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
So many of us do it. But you can't cure me.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
I wish you would give me a suitable alternative.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
It's murder.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
No, it would be an accident.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
What do you made an accident?

Speaker 3 (01:09):
This automatic, this dazzling Luga automatic.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
You were examinings you see, then you didn't know it
was loaded. Our mystery drama, The Memory Killers was written
especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars

(01:38):
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Speaker 1 (01:47):
I'll be back shortly with that one.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Now. People's Year end double issue is here with the
twenty five most intriguing people of the year from Many
four to Dolly Party for Woody to Share, Paddy Hurst
and Joey Brown because They're all here in this special double.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Issue of people.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
The winners and losers of seventy five People to Watch
four in seventy six, Jacqueline Streis and Katherine have Burn
and Hartrey Too, Dori Day and Rudolph Muriyev lost, a
swat of Olympic hopefuls, and a line of first lady's
in waiting. It's the biggest, most exciting issue of people
ever take up a hobby to day, Henry Clay Courtland

(02:28):
is what they mean when they say distinguished looking.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Henry Clay is tall, no longer young, but middle age.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Which ravages so many of us, has only enhanced him.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
The few strands of gray served to make the rest
of his hair seem thicker.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
The very few lines in his face lend him a
kind of attractive maturity. His deep, pleasant voice, his kindly
manner are.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Great assets to his company.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Which deals in that arcane area known as public relations
and marketing strategy. Well, Henry Clay is sitting in his office,
and he is displaying a side of him that his
clients very rarely get to see.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Tell me why I'm being pessimistic, John.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
I didn't say you were being pessimistic. I said you
were being unduly pessimist.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
I think I'm the only one around here. It's basically reality, Henry.
We have this new account, what newer to the Dutchmen.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
They're not Dutch, they're Journey's the difference. It's a foot
and we don't have them as an account.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Not yet.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
They want you to come over and sign a contract.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Don't they know direct the letter? You'll say, did read
the letter?

Speaker 2 (03:37):
They want me to come over and sell them on
the idea of letting us handle our American marketing strategy
and thing.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Henry. Once you get there, once you get a clear
shot of the.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Clients in the bag, we're going to have to make
a major effort to these peth Henry.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
When you're leaving Communich, I have to remind you, George,
these are not the best of time to work.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
The million bucks clear the very first year, and from
there the sky is the limit. Wow, you've gotta go
for it. The long bomb, the big play, we're rolling
the dice partner and now three years ago were sitting
pretty and a scandal.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Hits Continental Engines and poof, they're out of it.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Tell Us and wire and cable collapses. Everybody else starts
pulling in their horns. That's why we need those Belgians,
German whatever. And the Naias felt is that how you
say it? Noius New World, that's close enough. They got
products that don't quit. They got everything from sports cost
to diaperness. I'm not sure I want to go back
to Germany back when were you over there during the war?

(04:36):
The war for crying out loud, Henry, that's one hundred
years ago. We get it.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
You're right, I have to bring this up.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
They're a logical client for us. We're a logical agency
for them.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
We know it, they know it. We need each other.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
So so I'm going I'll leave tonight.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
That's my man.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
I really didn't understand my reluctance. Noiusvelt was made to order.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
For us, and actually they had sought us out and
we needed.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Them, And so.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Why was I jumping up and down with joy at
the opportunity? While the truth is I am not by
nature a man who jumps up and down with joy.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
But I could have shown a little more enthusiasm.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
I asked the question, but I have no idea the answer.
I think I really don't know myself very well. I'm
fifty four years old, and it seems that I learned
more about myself every day.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
Won't you sit down?

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Mister cousin, Thank you Ravolka he and chairman is Claus.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Oh, thank you again? What they your facts are incorrect? Oh?

Speaker 2 (05:55):
I am not far Volka, I am from Volker.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
Does an unmarried woman always move you to sorrow?

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Mister Coulipland in any event, we should defend with fraul.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
For I'm hair and mister I should like you to
call me Malena.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Malena, that's a very pretty name, and.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
I shall call you Henry.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
I have street daughters for my brother to be completely.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
At your service until he arrives.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Your brother is Dietrish Walker, who is listed as president
of the world.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
And uh, you are the vice president. M Worker. I
didn't know that stood for marleaa.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
Is this your first visit to journy?

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well, no, I see, or may I ask.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
What it is that you see?

Speaker 4 (06:41):
That is the sort of answer given by people who
were here during the war.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
What so much has happened since it's it's been so
Vanda though, I think it's all been forgotten.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
You ought to be our guest for dinner?

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Oh I don't want to inconvenience anyone at all. I've
heard so much about you, about me. Yes, we had
you investigated quite thoroughly.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
That is, we analyzed the work you did for other
companies in America. We're very much impressed, Thank you, and
I'm very much impressed.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
It was then I noticed her for the first time
that has really noticed her.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
I had been aware of the fact that she was
about forty, very attractive.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Charming, but now there seemed to be something personal in it,
something directed at me, something womanly. When I walked in there,
I've been somewhat surprised to discover that.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
The executive I was to report too was a lady.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
And now I sat there and faced the fact that
I could very well have fallen in.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Love with her.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
What big strategy do you think will be effective in
marketing automobiles in your country?

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Our questions were the questions I was fully prepared to answer,
and so I I could answer them without drinking.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
In a real sense, we think America is joining the
rest of the world when it comes to side an
economy of operation.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Is it possible that you can walk into a room,
confront a woman and fall in love at sight?

Speaker 4 (08:15):
But there is still a mystique about the American made automobile.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Of course it's possible. Didn't it happen so many years
ago with Caravan. Uh, it's been ten years since I
lost Caravan.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
I'm lonely. I have been from the very moment I
lost her. Oh goodness, it's lunch time.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
I hope you have no plans. Yes, I have plans.
I have plans to take you into my arms.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
We have a dining room for all our executives. This
will be expended opportunity for you to meet everyone.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
I've already met the most important person in the world.
They say it can happen this way suddenly, without warning.
I'm in love and with a girl I don't even know.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
You can see the entire city from here.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
Of course it's been considerably rebuilt.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yes, that's right. You said you had been here, Daven.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Moore bringing Munich.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Well I was over Munich. Oh you were a fire
I was flight crew.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
I remember I was just a child.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
We would hear the sirens and there would be the
desperate surge.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
To the shelters.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
It was well, we were over London and Rotterdam and
other places.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
So why complain, why should we talk about wars.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
It's another world.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
Today, a better one. Yes, I come fromented you on
your German, and everyone here is amazed that you speak
it so well.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Where did you learn in college?

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Ah?

Speaker 4 (09:57):
But you have an ease, a kind of flow that
can't be picked up through formal study. You acquire it
through a conversation.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
When you were a prisoner, how did you know you
were a flyer?

Speaker 3 (10:12):
So I could assume you were shut down?

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Well, not all flyers were shut down.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
I could be wrong, but I also recognized that your
German is.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Well, it's dated, dated.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
Well, it's the same with English, style and pronunciation and
idiomatic things change. I couldn't you tell immediately if someone
was losing the kind of English spoken thirty or fourteen
years ago?

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Well, the somebody said hubba hubbah. I guess I would.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
I remember that I was a little girl and this
big American soldier gave me a stick of chewing gum
and he said hubba hubba.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
I could never find out what it meant.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
When either could I?

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Oh, you were a prison yes where or somewhere around
the Baltic Uh And I had to serve as interpreter.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
MM, well, if you're finished for your coffee, I should
like to have you meet some of our local marketing people.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
She had won me over completely in just the way
Carolyn did, And yet she was unlike Carolyn.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
She was blonde and bright, while Carolyn was dark and subdued.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
But in each there was a sweetness and a perception
and a way of making me feel comfortable. And once
again I was answering the questions automatically from the top
of my head while my mind was completely absorbed with her.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
What is considered a viable cost of a thousand in
American print media?

Speaker 1 (11:53):
And now the problem, how do I go about this?

Speaker 4 (11:58):
I see you on here as a rather interest to reaction.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Is idea to expand our.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Appeal in every age group?

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Can I be accused of making you play for her
to when sure landing the account?

Speaker 4 (12:09):
Is it true that emphasis on quality alone is not enough?

Speaker 1 (12:13):
I know what I have to do.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
I have to get her along away from all these
people and just tell her I love her, because until
I do, I'll love her.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Know a moment's peace.

Speaker 4 (12:32):
We had a message while we were out at bunch.
My brother Beatrice has been detained, but he'll be here
as soon as he can. He's anxious to meet you.
So is there anything you'd like to talk with me about?
Anything else I can tell.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
You about the corporation?

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Not really.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
We are a large and complicated film and you've been
exposed to a great deal, more than enough for one day.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
There is something I I'd like to tell her?

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Yes, what als I think about it?

Speaker 2 (13:02):
I don't know how this is going to sound, and
I'm not even sure this.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Is the time to say it. One of the basic
principles of New.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
World is absolute frankness.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Ah, that's good.

Speaker 4 (13:14):
Everyone is encouraged to speak his mind.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
And then I shall speak mine, Marley, and I love you.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
Maybe I shouldn't have said it.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
No, I'm glad you did, because it gives me the
courage to say something too.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
I I also love you, Henry.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
And that's how it can happen one day, without any
warning whatsoever, in a strange country a woman he doesn't
even know. I love you is generally what people say
at the end of a story, But in ours, why
does this declaration of love occur at the beginning?

Speaker 5 (14:06):
Well, you know what they say about.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
The course of true love. I shall return with that too.
In just a few moments. Can we say that the
person we fall in.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Love with is the.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
One we happen to meet at a time when we
happen to be most vulnerable?

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Is all love love at first sight?

Speaker 2 (14:39):
And do we merely delay announcing it because we pretend
we are getting to know the loved one better? These
are personal matters of taste and temperament.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
All we know for.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Sure is that Henry Cortland and by Lena Vulkar have fallen.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
In love within ours after their meeting. What are we
going to do, malne do yes? And what are we
going to say to whom? To everyone? For instance, if
your brother woulda walk in here right now, I.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
Would say to me in Geetish Henry and I have
fallen in love.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
But I've only just arrived in this country this morning.
We have known each other three hours. How could we
explain it? That's the wonderful thing about love. You're not
required to explain it.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Were you? Were you ever in love before?

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Once? Whop? Yes? Once?

Speaker 4 (15:34):
Huh see yere so much the same.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
I don't know how to account for it.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
I don't die there.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
I I didn't wanna come here.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
Why because of the war? Yes, did something bad happen
to you?

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yes? What I can't tell do?

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Because I don't know you well enough. Did you hear
what I just said? I can tell you why I
love here, but I can't if anybody heard us. They
were really and they were crazy, But it was because
of fool. You did not wish to return to Gym.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yes, and then I realized I was practically a blone
in my thinking.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
No one remembered the war seriously anymore.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
A new generation had grown up in my country. And
in my and a minute my plane.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Touched down at the airport, I saw how different it was.
It was no longer the great dry place I remembered,
filled with silent, brooding people. It's become a country just
like my own, tall buildings, bustling crowds.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
And I even fell in.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Love love love you fell in love with fool teacher.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
Business of courts them from the United States.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
I finally we made I'm sure we would be able
to do business. I was someone talking about love. It
happens to be my favorite pastime.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Uh, past time is right.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
Dolo Dietrich has been married four times.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
They starting to call him the blue Beard in German.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Industry, typical journalistic license. All my wives received the most
generous settlements. I never killed any of them.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
Did I ever kill anyone?

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Did I ever kill anyone? I had heard those words before,
pronounced exactly that way back in the stalage by the
SS Intelligence Major.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
His name was I don't remember his name.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
I was always too tired when he spoke to me,
too tired, and everything hurt too much. Let me look
at this man's face again, but he listened to his voice.
Let me concentrate.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
What are you saying, Marlena, I'm saying me in love?
Who is and MEY and I? We are in love?

Speaker 4 (18:12):
But he's just we both know everything you're going to say.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
We know how it sounds.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
It sounds marveled. Uh huh.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
Then you don't think we're crazy.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
Henry, Marlena, What has happened to the two of you?

Speaker 2 (18:27):
That sudden spontaneous recognition of love. One sees a face
and instantly one is overwhelmed. I've been seeking this all
my life.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
I've never found it. Boka Major Boca was that his name?
Is this his face?

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (18:55):
It must be. It has to be the way he
just said, Did I ever kill anyone? Did I ever
kill anyone?

Speaker 3 (19:08):
Did I ever kill anyone? Lieutenant Cortland, I never killed anyone.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
I never have to kill anyone.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
My prisoners kidded themselves through stupidity.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
What do you want me to have?

Speaker 3 (19:25):
A German officer in this camp is an American agent?

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Who you know him? Who are I don't know what
you're talking about. I just have to get some sleep.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
Guy knows his name, and you can sleep. Plenty of
time for sleep, Americans. I if he doesn't get sleep,
you're killing me.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
No, No, you are only kidding yourself.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
Hasn't this been a wonderful dinner?

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Thank you? I never knew when I made the reservation
this morning that it would be a dinner to celebrate
my sister's engagement. And now where shall we go?

Speaker 3 (20:18):
What do you say, Danny?

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Oh, unless you're tired timing and you got to get
to sleep. Well, sleep, there's plenty of time for sleep.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Plenty of time for sleep. That was the way he
said it. He had to be that major, He had
to be those scars just above his right eye. Oh
he's the one. How could I ever begin?

Speaker 3 (20:53):
Plenty of time for sleep?

Speaker 4 (20:55):
Well, there is such a thing as check bag that
is an old wife's day. And since when did those
old wives by inject a man needs to dress?

Speaker 1 (21:04):
Listen to the way she talks.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
Now that you're hooked their attention to it, Henry, it's
still not too late to break the engagement.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Who said that you are?

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Indeed you fell in love with her because she appears
to be glamorous, beautiful, mysterious. But once she has got
Europe he shows her essential nature.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
She becomes a house frau.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
If you think an American housewife is something, wait till
you experience a German house fraul.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
And who should know better than you?

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Maybe not right?

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Besides, I must be getting older. Time was when I
could party all night and still be at the office
bright and early.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
We must all be at the office, bright and early,
and here Henry tell us how to sell New World
in America.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Uh uh allah, Henry, George, you know what time it
is here?

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Well, I can't help it. I have to know how
things are going, George.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
I've got to get some rest.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Look, I'm nervous about rot.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
Everybody knows we're pitching this account in New World, and
if we don't get.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
It, it's gonna look like like we I understand what
you did was tell everyone we had the account.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
Well, and so now we can't afford to lose it.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
I okay, So I was hasty.

Speaker 6 (22:32):
I made a mistake, Henry.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
We must have that account. We gotta have it, all right,
all right, goodbye, Ah. We must have that account, we must.

Speaker 7 (22:51):
I was dreaming before that phone rang? What was I
dreaming about it? Or was I dreaming? Am I living
through it?

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Again? And we there again, back there, in that damn
stinking cellar in the stalog And we back there, Frank
and I.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Back there.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
Let me give you the the water.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
I I can't fright, I can't. They don't hurt us,
happen anything, hide this week, to get it, bead it.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
Nothing matter anyhow.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
I'm as good at dead, but a fright by it
was dead y me.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Put my jacket over here.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Oh we freeze to dad, try to sleep, fright, I'd
be wrestled up to I C, I C I can't sleep.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
And they took busted up inside I. I didn't tell
him anything. I took everything, but I didn't know my mouth.
If I can't, Frank, and don't try to talk, I said,
That's about all I can do now. There's only something
I could do for you can't. There is live Get

(24:14):
get that, that says Major. I'm like, oh, what's his name?
Full cut? Full cut? Whoever? Why not go? I can
get him for what he did, not just to me,
but to everybody. That's right. If worst kind there is
never get his own man's dirty. Get him for me.

(24:36):
I will. I swear to me, so you don't do it.
I swear, I.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
Say, I swear I killed that.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
That says Major. I swear I'll kill that Major. Yeah.
If I can't, I can't. And so you see the
entire campaign is coordinated. You stress the same basic theme

(25:07):
in all the media. It's fantastic Henry.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
All my life.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
I was afraid of bringing men, and look at me.
I just fell in love with one.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
Now about some details, Ah, he teased a genius of details.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Oh that's what life is all about. You.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
He was talking to me. I must have been answering
him because what he wanted to know was stuff I
could discuss in my sleep. And someone else was talking
to me too, someone else, a very dirty, blooded man
who was lying on a filthy floor.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
In a prison camp. Kill him, Mary, kill him, you
swore you killed him?

Speaker 1 (25:56):
How can I kill him? Shoot him? Staid strangely does
it matter? Kill him?

Speaker 3 (26:03):
But but the war is over?

Speaker 6 (26:06):
So what.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
How could I explain a thing like that?

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Tell everybody what happened?

Speaker 1 (26:12):
But it's another world now. Nobody remembers, nobody cares you swore.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
You kill him. I'm not even sure he's the one.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
He's the one.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Kill him?

Speaker 1 (26:22):
No, I I I can't, And you've got to kill
him for me. You're asking me to throw away my life.
I'm asking you to keep your promise? What promise?

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Something I said when I was black and blow and
freezing and starving and half crazy.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
Him it doesn't matter anymore.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
It doesn't make any difference anymore. You kill him. I'm
sure sure you can say kill him?

Speaker 1 (26:44):
What if you've got to lose?

Speaker 2 (26:45):
You're dead. He killed me. I can't help that.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
I have no choice, but I do. I'm sorry, Frank.
I'm not a hero.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
I'm just an average, everyday person. I I can't do
what these fellows do in books and pictures. I take
the world as I find it.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
I live in the world as it is.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Is that supposed to be living? You're dead? Are you
better off?

Speaker 2 (27:13):
I'm beginning to wonder when they got to work on
you did you tell?

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Is that why you're still alive?

Speaker 2 (27:25):
I cannot see a single flaw in this presentation, and
we are to award the account to mister Cortlin's n
you mean your future husband isn't entitled to special consideration?

Speaker 4 (27:37):
Only how you ain Didney Hollis?

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Isn't she the most remarkable woman you have ever met?
Henry and.

Speaker 4 (27:47):
Darning a man's in.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
A daze, no wonder, Look what's happened to him in
a single day? He lands a major account and a wife.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
And what would you do? Confront Deepish and have it out?

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Sure you were sitting there in your comfortable chair. But
Henry has a great deal to lose. But you say,
we listen to these tales because we want heroes. Heroes
were not afraid the way we are. Well, we still
have a third act. We may come across say.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Hero Yet they say heroes are born, not made, And
this seems to be true from Henry clay Courtland's viewpoint.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Oh, Henry looks like a hero. He appears to be
the kind of person who can certainly take care of himself.
But he has a chance for heroics, and evidently he
has choken and to turn it.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Down, something no true born hero would ever think of doing. Hello, darling,
how are you this morning?

Speaker 4 (29:13):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Oh wonderful? Do you still love me? Do I still
love you?

Speaker 2 (29:19):
Well?

Speaker 1 (29:19):
All I know you're not a person of uh pe
curial temperament.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
You may fall violently in love with one day and
justifiably out of love on the next.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Well, I might say the same about you. Well, I
still love you today as much as yesterday. No, no,
I love you twice as much. And it was true,
we love each other even more.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
I put everything else out of my mind, the past,
the present, camp Frank the Major. I lived a new
life in a new world, and there was nothing I
could do about what may or may not have been
a lifetime ago.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
I decided to walk to the office.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
It was such a glorious day, the kind of day
lovers are entitled to. And I didn't see the speeding
automobile but seemed to.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Be bearing down on me. If wide away down to
who happened to be passing at the.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
Same time, didn't custom medn't killed.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Hey, what's where you're going? You haway?

Speaker 1 (30:20):
The boy who pushed me to safety smile at me.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
I had shout my anger at the driver in English,
and I looked at his face closely.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
I owed the boy in my life, and his face
became familiar, but it seemed older. It was oh, good lord,
it was Frank. Frank. Am I going crazy? I've got
to kill him any I ey him?

Speaker 4 (30:49):
Or you?

Speaker 3 (30:50):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Horror? The driver tried to run you down.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
It was just some not you see, and when you
recognized him, and that's why he has to kill.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
You or your parking r bond. He's afraid of you
and me? Why should he be afraid of me? What
can I do to him? He'll him?

Speaker 2 (31:08):
But how can he be sure? I'm the one.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
We can't take the chance. So he's trying to buy
you off in your place and have I first. He's
giving you his sister. He doesn't give me me anyone.
She'll never marry you if he said no, she loves me.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
A second, he's giving you.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
This fantastic account everything to shut you up. All right,
suppose it's true, But why should he want to kill me?
Because he's afraid? You keep looking at him when he
talks to him. You can't help yourself you keep looking
at him in a certain way. He thinks you're playing
cat and mouse with him. She's afrayed, so he knows

(31:48):
he has to kill you. I don't believe it. He's
the one to believe it. He's got no choice. Kill
him before he kills you.

Speaker 5 (32:00):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (32:03):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
Isn't it beautiful around here?

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Yes? Starting it reminds me of the mountains back home. Henry.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yes, had you ever met my brother before Dietrich?

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Or what do you ask?

Speaker 4 (32:22):
Well, it could be my imagination, what could be your imagination?
W whenever, whenever we've all been together, it seems to
me that you've been staring at Ditrich.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Oh, I wasn't aware that I was sparing.

Speaker 4 (32:38):
But you really didn't ever meet Dietrich, did you? I?

Speaker 1 (32:42):
Uh, I don't know where I could have. Has he
ever been to America? No, Well, I've only been here
during the war.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (32:50):
What uh?

Speaker 1 (32:52):
What was Ditrich doing during the war? He was in
written present?

Speaker 3 (32:57):
Yes, he had been sentenced to death or.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Why he was a member of the underground the resistance?
What many people are not aware of it.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
But we've had an anti Nazi underground here too.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
Well, you say he was sentenced to death, Uh, how
did he get out?

Speaker 4 (33:21):
They really didn't know what they wanted to do with him,
and they thought maybe they could get more information out
of him by keeping him alive, and finally his friends
helped him escape. Oh so, I don't really think you
ever might.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
Have seen him before.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
I suppose not.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
Perhaps someone who looked like him. Perhaps those were such
bad days, bad days for all of us.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
Why are we even talking about him? We should be
talking about us.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
I I've asked all of you to attend this meeting
to become acquainted with mister Henry Clay Courtland of the
United States, and mister Cortland is not only joining our
official family, but he would also be a member of
my person No, it was not my imagination.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
He's looking at me. He's looking at my face as
if he's trying to read something, tell me something.

Speaker 5 (34:30):
But what what?

Speaker 1 (34:33):
He's trying to make a deal with you, Henry. But
don't trust him. Don't trust him. He wants you off
guard so he can kill you. Let them alone. All
these people are looking at me. Some other people are
looking at you, too, Henry. Guys from the camp, guys.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
From your book, look at us, Henry, shut up a
man's asking me a question.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Your turner bob him already, and Harry, look at us.
We're all here, and we're all dead, and we're all
asking you one question. When now you're gonna kill him?
How can I be sure? I don't want to be sure.
You want the girl, the money? How can I kill him?

Speaker 2 (35:15):
If I'm not sure?

Speaker 1 (35:17):
We're sure, each one of us, and you've got to
kill him. You have to kill him, Henry. You know that,
don't you? Yes? I know when when tonight, tonight you

(35:38):
hurt me? I said, tonight, marvelous.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
This is what they call accent. We ask Henry play
Cortland when we can have his overall plan of action,
and he says, don.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
Hello, Henry, ddre here. How are you coming on the plane?
Oh am?

Speaker 2 (36:09):
I coming here?

Speaker 1 (36:10):
Fine? Why don't I send.

Speaker 7 (36:12):
The limousine over for you and you can work here
at my house?

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Your house, it's more spaces comfortable, and you and I
can check why not your glass is empty?

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Henry, I've had enough? Thanks?

Speaker 2 (36:33):
How do you want to do this?

Speaker 1 (36:35):
I just sketch out some notes and then have them headbine.
On chance, I didn't mean that.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
I meant the other thing.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
What other things, you know, Lieutenant Cortland. So it's true
you were this major foregun. I'd forgotten, and you were
Lieutenant Courtland. I had forgotten too. Your sister said, yes,

(37:11):
I know.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
I had to tell her something. After all, if she
wanted to believe her brother was an underground hero.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
She was half right, My sister was.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
And that's because I told her a half truth.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
I had been in the underground is that song? Oh yes?

Speaker 3 (37:33):
And they called me and they worked on me.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
You know how well they could do that? Oh yes?

Speaker 2 (37:43):
And so after a while I decided.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
To join them. Well that's all that matters. You became
one of them. You were one of them.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
No human being can hold out again and clever and
controlled torture.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
I didn't know. You did not You talked. I never talked.
You told us how to uncover the agent. How could I?
I didn't know, But you told us who among your
comrades could tell us?

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Frank Watkins.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
I never Oh, yes, you didn't know. But at the
end you screamed and shouted his name.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
I actually didn't matter, because you see, he was already
dead and of no use to us.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
And now and now.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
There's only this way out.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
I will have to kill you, not if I can
kill you first.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Ah, but I have the opportunity while you don't. My
lugo automatic and intricate and sophisticated weapons. In all the
years I have owned this gun, it has never taken alive.
But days the first time for everything, you're going to

(39:16):
kill me.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Oh yes, it's murdered. How are you proposed to get
away with him? It will not be murdered? What will
it be?

Speaker 3 (39:28):
An accident?

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Two old soldiers get together over a glass of wine.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
We talk about weapons. You ask to see my lure.
You examined it.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
Unfortunately, days around.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
In the chamber, neat, very neat.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
I'm sorry it has to be this way, but you
would tolerate no other ending.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
I don't intend to sit here that you kill me.
I am afraid there's nothing you can do.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
Oh yeah, drop it.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Come on, you are a dead man.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
I'm back out, And have you killed anywhere in this country?
All I up to is.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
That I guess you really, that's the last word asked?

Speaker 4 (40:21):
Oh was that shot Dietrich?

Speaker 1 (40:27):
What happened to Ditchrich? And when darling? Darling? He wanted
to show me how the local automatic pistol works, and
he didn't know there was a live round in it.

(40:51):
How much did.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
Marlena hear before she came into the room. What did
she know before she came into the room. Who knows
what takes place.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
In the heart and mind of another. All we know
is the outside of what we see.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
And what we saw was that Henry and Morlena fell
in love. What I can tell you is that they
got married, and as far as I know, they are
still quite happy. And you'll be happy if you wait.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
To hear what I tend you when I return shortly.
Who were Deepish Folker and Henry Clay Courtland.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
There were two people out of millions whose lives and
fates were formed by forces beyond their control. At one
time a man could choose to die for his beliefs,
but no more.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
There are ways to make all.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Of us see another light, a different light.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
But here we have the same life seven times each week,
and you are invited to bask in the glow. Our
cast included Ralph Bell, Patricia Wheel, Robert Dryden and Nat Pohlan.
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.

(42:25):
I shall be back shortly. In an effort to interpret
ourselves to ourselves. I offer you the words of a
Roman poet.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Named Catalus, who lived two thousand years ago. I hate
and I love. Why I do so, I do not know,
but I feel it, and I am in torment.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
Perhaps when we comprehend a little better our own torment,
we will better understand the torment of others, and in consequence.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
Be a little kinder to one another. Is that not possible?
I'll leave it up to you.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
Our cast included Christopher to Borie, Terry Keane, Russell Horton
and John be. The entire production was under the direction
of Hymon Brown.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
This is E. G.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre.

Speaker 6 (43:22):
Until next time, pleasant dreams. I can't wait to meet
your daughter, sir, well, I'll call her Evie.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
Come here.

Speaker 4 (43:46):
Would you better be good?

Speaker 6 (43:48):
She's got a lot of spot What is it do
you likely to meet a nice young man? Oh?

Speaker 4 (43:53):
No, my hair looks dirty, daddy?

Speaker 6 (43:55):
How would you do this to me?

Speaker 4 (43:57):
I want to do.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
I'm afraid her cream rins makes her hair a little greasy?

Speaker 8 (44:01):
May I suggest agree?

Speaker 2 (44:02):
Of course you'd agree.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
All you have to do is look at her.

Speaker 8 (44:04):
No, a Greek cream rints and conditioner, it helps stop
the greasy really sure? After I shampoo, I use a
Greek cream rents and conditioner and.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
It helps stop the greases. Right, it sounds like I
would like agree too.

Speaker 8 (44:15):
Yeah, a Greek cream rints and conditioner is ninety nine
percent oil free.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
Evie, stop crying.

Speaker 6 (44:20):
I'll they'll get some agreed, and after you use it,
I'll drive you to the movies.

Speaker 8 (44:23):
Okay ee, No, why not.

Speaker 6 (44:25):
Because you got a creepy car it's a brown station.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
Some conditioners contain oils that can cause the greasies. But
a Gree cream rints and conditioner is ninety nine percent
oil free. And try a grease shampoo.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
It helps stop the greases too.

Speaker 8 (44:39):
I'm glad you decided to come to the movie.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
Your hair looks great.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
Thank you, and I love your station wagon. Was our story,
one of deep remorse, inexorable fate.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
I leave you only with another quote from omark Iam
the moving finger wrights and having writ moves on. Nor
all the piety, nor wit shall lure it back to
cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out
a word of it. Our cast included Jack Grimes, Blika Gray,

(45:25):
Court Benson and Russell Horton. The entire production was under
the direction of Hymon Brown, Missus E. G. Marshall, inviting
you to return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure
in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant,
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