September 1, 2024 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
M all right, stands a see that's from the past
(00:25):
starring Jane Wyatt.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I thank your pardon.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Oh yes, is that your newspaper line?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Now the part then?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Why yes it is.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Now look at them all please if you wish.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Of course, here, I'll move over, sit down, thank you?
Oh there you are.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I hope you don't get me forward. I'll only be
a minute.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Oh take as much time as you like.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, when you throw yourself a cigarette, no than sorry,
I can't offer you a Taylor one.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Oh quite all right, thank you out of a job. Yes,
but no, tell me I looked that desperate?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
No I well, I uh noticed you've turned to the
help wanted columns.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yes, but so many things have been there ahead of minute.
I mean they had to set me a w with
that the pencil.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
That you can say that again. I was lucky even
to behind a pencil.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Oh you too, Yeah, Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Well, that's all right, nobody needs to feel sorry for me.
I'll get along.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
You've been to all these places you marked here in
this column, sister, I have been there and been side.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh you didn't get one of me?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
No one, Well, look at the sores on my shoes.
Here look, those are yesterday's wanted. As I'm walking home.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
How long have you been out of work?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Oh, I don't know, about ten weeks. First I had
a lot of dough. I thought I was a wise guy.
I wouldn't have any trouble getting another job.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I was wrong.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I dropped all my money and I've been sleeping here
on his park bench for the past three weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Whenever I can. Today, I'm all right. I got a
chance to make a couple of iron men yesterday, iron
Man books. Doll it.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Oh, you have been around, Tom mull I've.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Been here about two weeks. I came up from Sandral.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
You have people here.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
No, my father and stepmother live in Sandral. I'm twelve.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
My stepmother and I have never been anything more than
therely civil to each other.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
No, I get it. So you've come here for get
a job.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh, I come here to get a job.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
How much money you got? Well, I.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Really don't think that's anyone's said.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Oh, bother, you've got to be formal about it. My
name's Mirk Matthew, Mine Luke John. Oh, I'm serious. My
name is Mirk Matthew. I wasn't named to the two
gentlemen who helped write the Bible.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Well, my name's Mary billing Well.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Miss Billings, I'm mighty please to know you. Now that
we're thoroughly acquainted and completely good friends.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You tell me when you ate last. I'm all right,
you are hungry?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Oh yes, I guess I am.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Join me for a hamburger the onion as you like,
and they cover a coffee.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Is that a date?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Mary? Well, I'm sorry I can't buy you a thirty
five cent blue plate.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I'd love a hamburger mark.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Then it's a deal.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Okay, mister Matthew, it is a deal.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
What another hamburger? Mary? Too?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Is plenty? You shouldn't have made leave that second one.
I'm sure you can't accord it.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Oh, I know where I can make a dollar or
so tomorrow I'll buy some cigarette if you don't think
you're Oh no, thanks.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
No, I don't buy any. I really don't know much.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Say hey, you're a nice girl. No inexpensive.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I really don't know why I'm that you need to
do this for me. I'm not in the habit I know.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I know.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
My Irish mother taught me never to ignore a pretty
young woman who is hungry.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
See you are pretty.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
You know, I thought you were going to be different.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I'm different. I say I'm going to be to Hamburgers,
and I see to Hamburgers, and.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Good one too.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I know they're good. I've been eating them for weeks.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
No, I think I'll answer to that, say, did you
drag that old beating up newspaper in here with you?
Speaker 5 (04:45):
I'm still a pie for a job, even if my
hunger has been temporarily satisfied.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Well, if you can find a job out of that bunch,
you're a better job hunter than I am.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, you haven't tried this one. Someone's looking for a woman.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Sound good?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Listen wanted sonogra If you are an ambitious, talented, and
reasonably attractive young woman who he was the typewriter, the
adding machine, and to write shorthands applying first and to
see mister Gibson Gooden knight after midnight.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Room thirteen thirteen Temple Buildings.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Do you think you can fill a bill? Are you ambitious?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I can use a typewriter?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Are you talented?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I could opera an adding machine?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And are you reasonably attractive?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
You told me you thought I'm for it? Remember beside,
I also know how to write Shortlands.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Then applying for the job by all means, I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Think I will.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
But I didn't like this apply after midnight angle, Yeah,
he's very unusual.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Why at that time of night?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Maybe if they're a night job.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Anyway, I'm going to have a tie atic room. Thirteen
thirteen Temple buildings? Where's the Temple building on.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
The other side of town?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
How far?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Mark? Oh? About ten or twelve miles? Oh? Hey, you
need coffee? Here? Take this half back?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Oh Mark, Well, I'm not going to argue your party.
I'll take it and i'll return the money tomorrow night.
I get a small check for my father tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I'll meet you. Let me see.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I'll meet you here in the park at the same bench,
and i'll let you know how I come out about
the job in the Temple building. Yeah, this is the
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Temple building, all right? What's the quiet? Give me n
nobody around, not even the whole quarter. M is a
strange place. Yeah, here's the building directly you know. See
what is the man's name? Oh yes, Gipsy No, no,
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Goodsonsted here. His company's name is probably here.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But I don't know that name. No you how does
one get up with the thirteenth floor.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
There's a open elevator, but because it's no one operated.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Oh, there's the type you operate yourself.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Just step in, press the button mark thirteen.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
The dollars closed up, widow.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Let I say a little.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Prayer that I get this job. Oh man, yeah, here
we are. No, it must be a night job. It's
this entire floors. When he was office roll at the
roll of desks. If people waiting that time, you bring
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him life. He were goodn't listen a good country?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
May I have you?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Miss?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Yes see, I've come an answer to the avenue pa
ad Oh but here I'm gonna said.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Uh, mister Gibson advertised for a young woman to do
typing in your hands.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Here I've cut out the ah.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
This is it.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
May I see it?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Peace? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I see mister Gibson.
Speaker 8 (08:29):
Fair to tell me he had instead of an advertisement
and the bee.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
But but this isn't time. I'm sorry, young lady. Mister Gibson,
he was only the bees. You'll find his office right
down this aisle.
Speaker 8 (08:38):
The first thirty are.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Left being thirteen sixteen. Thank you. Let's knock on his
door and he'll answer you.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
He'll thanks extreme. These people all seem very modern, mister queen.
Can we look over the see.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Oh, here's the door. Come in please, mister Gibson.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yes, come in, please and close the door.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I don't sit down, young lady, don't just stand there.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Yes, sir, I've come about a job there, the one
you mentioned in your Adnaton kinds.
Speaker 9 (09:18):
I never add for advertising anything but the bee. You
read my advertise put in the bee. I'm sure you
want a.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Stenographer, one who can type, use the adding machine and
take direction.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I'm very ambitious with Gibson, and I feel that I
can learn the work quickly. I'm easily talking.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Good. Good.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Your ad asked for mortically attractive girl. I'll try to
be meet Titiican.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
My dear young lady.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
If your qualifications are as you claim, I feel you
do very nicely.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (09:48):
Take this pencil please in this pad there now? Are
you ready to take a letter? Yes, address with mister Lanning,
fifty No. One Tower Building City. Dear mister Lanning, we
have received your order for the office materials listed on
your invoice. Nice will personally see to it that the
items ordered our assembled box and shipped you immediately.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You are exceedingly thankful for your.
Speaker 9 (10:07):
Order, and we trust you will find our service up
to its use your properners and capitol it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
If we may serve you again.
Speaker 9 (10:13):
In the future, please be assured every attention will be
given to your desires yours very cooly. The act me
Office Supply Company by Donathan gibbsons that that yes, Now
when you talk to that fee.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Use that machine over there you will find paper in
the drawer.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Yes, how old are.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You, young lady?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Two? Your name Mary Billy?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Where were you born?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
In sense? Let's about thirty five months from here?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Are you ready to start work tonight? If you prove satisfaction?
Speaker 9 (10:42):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yes, what sally will you expect?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
That will depend upon the Workshay, you must sew up saying.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
We say, say twenty dollars a week?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Shall we say that to begin with?
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Then if I do more of for twenty dollars worth
of work, I'll ask for a raise.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It's my opinion that employees shoul be paid aclentings a month.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
By true, young lady, quite true? Watch your home address please.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Twenty one melos. I'm only there temporarily. We will see sististication.
Speaker 9 (11:11):
Yes what sign what the lover you gave me? Read
Denise already young lady or quite efficient?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
See happening is neat?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I like it, thank you, sir. I hope I may
have the job.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yes, of course, but one thing is uh Billings. Yes, sir,
we'll close, my dear.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
Yes, shall we say a little too modern too, Marty.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I've talked them quite conservative.
Speaker 9 (11:41):
The neckline and the skirt links and miss sleeves and
my freight, Miss Buildings will be compelled to wear a
tight neck dress, long sleeves and skirt to the ankles
like like.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
The others outside address.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
Yes, exactly, and the rules and lipstick. We don't use
cosmetics for the act many, Miss.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Beelize, very welcome.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
And the short haircut, Bob, I believe it's called. You
will let your hair go out, Missbellize. Meanwhile, you will add.
Speaker 9 (12:10):
A switch to your hair. Yes, if you just step
outside and speak to the young lady at the reception desk,
you'll show your place to work and assign your disease.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I can't thank you enough. I work very hard and
I'll try to be a credit to your company.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I'm sure you will, Miss Delise may I try.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
You have the office before I take over my way
of my office.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Yes, pardon me, it really couts down a little cleaning
and dusting, don't mean a cobb invest everywhere?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
What did the windows look a bit like? So they
haven't been washed in the years? And your crondly change
is a good sight.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Calendar?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yes, look it says April sixteenth. This is January sixteen.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
My dear god, you're mistaken. This is the sixteenth day
of April.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
And the calendar says nineteen twelve.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Right, this is nineteen twelve, but it's.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
This is nineteen forty two, and it's January, not April.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
You, young lady, are you a nineties Well.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Of course i am. This is the sixteenth of January
nineteen forty two.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Certainly you must be jesting.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
No, mister tis, I'm not jesting. It is not nineteen twelve,
it's nineteen forty two. I can't understand what would lead
you to see a thing like that. Yeah, yeah, young lady,
there's newspaper today's now.
Speaker 9 (13:29):
Look at the date on it, April or sixteenth, nineteen twelve.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
There you see, good you day?
Speaker 5 (13:37):
This is today's.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Of course, of course it is. Look at it yourself,
twicing smell it frish paper.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
H Yes, you're right, but those headline.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yes, a terrible disaster the tight planet.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Thank at Sea on her maiden boy as she was.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
An iceberg.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Tragedy that thirty years ago, long before I was born.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
What was that?
Speaker 9 (14:08):
I'm afraid I don't hear very well these days.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
It wasn't important. Should I have to go on my
work now? Yes, if you will, you need your services
very badly. Business is exceptionally Gordon. I admit it's difficult
to find young women with as much ability as you have.
Thank you the spect I'll try to ave up your expectations.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
I feel certainly will miss filings. Is anything you don't understand?
Just ask the young ladies upon this?
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Yeah, thank you, I shall thank you very much to
mister Gibson said to you about the work I'm to
do here.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
With you will use this number twenty seven if I
were there, the one of the roads started in.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
The date and see it, I believe.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
I let you work on the person the monthndvices here
use these in its length. The books were on that
metal table by your death.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yes, how how do you want? The invoices dated.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
May first nineteen twelve, nineteen tween. That's right, thet'll retail
customers the first sir of May. And then did mister
Gibson mention about your cloth?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yes you did, but you put ours. Go to work
now and as you can changing later very well.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
You'll find paper, pencils and erasers in your best twenty
I'll filled.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Out this form for you.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Tell me if it's correct.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
Names Mail Billings, born extanvill aged twenty two.
Speaker 10 (15:41):
See you were born in eighteen ninety then, weren't you twenty?
That would be twenty two years ago, wouldn't it. Your
hours will be from midnight until late am. You may
take time out at four o'clocks for refreshment one hour.
If you have any questions about your work, please don't.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Hesitate to ask me. Miss Yes, mister Gibson in your office, Yes, sir,
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I come in immediately.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yes for me, Yes, I sit down, Miss Billings. The
don will be here soon.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
Miss Billings, I don't have a watch and there are
no clocks in the office, he noticed.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yes, Yes, the Don will soon be here.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
No, two students, I haven't been here long, mister Gibson.
I enjoyed the workout done so far?
Speaker 9 (16:53):
Yes, and miss Johnson reports you give all your attention
to your work, to reports that you're extremely.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Efficient that I've tried to apply myself.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yes, you were just as I expected you would be here.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
What was that, mister Gibson?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I mean I could tell for the work you didn't
hear from me, that you would be quite capable.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I hope you like me well enough to learn you
to keep the job.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I want you to go home now, my dear. You've
done quite enough work for tonight.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
But I just as soon stay my full time.
Speaker 9 (17:24):
No, no, won't pay it over work the first day
and all here, Miss Billings? Is your check my check?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yes? You probably need a little money?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Why, yes?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
But no now now just case to check and get
what you need with the money.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
But this check is made out for eighty dollars.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yes, I believe that was the amount, wasn't it?
Speaker 11 (17:48):
Why?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I don't understand?
Speaker 9 (17:52):
Would you mind going now, Miss Billings? The dawn will
soon be here, and would you mind going now?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I know what you wish, Thank you.
Speaker 12 (18:03):
My dear, and may I wish you every happiness and
Miss Billings every happiness in the world. Good thing now, Mary, I.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Say Mary, wait for me. Oh Mark, I've been waiting
so long. I thought you want to come.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Oh Mary, Oh boy, am I glad to see you.
I can hardly wait all day to hurry here and
tell you the news. Yes, I've got a job, and
a good one, fifty five dollars a week.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Oh Mark, I'm never happy for you.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, I got some swell ideas. I'm I'm gonna tell
you one of them for long. Hey, how about your job?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I got it, Mark, I don't know what to think
about it. Everything was so strange.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, what happened?
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Well, I went to the temple, came and I took
the elevator up to the thirteenth floor. So I took
the and that's the building just at the dawn is
beginning to break.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
That's odd, very Look, Mary, you have to go to
work at midnight. You say, do you mind if I
go along?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I know, I suppose it'll be all right.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Good.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I don't want to get a look at the kind
of a businessman who'd have a nineteen twelve calendar on
his office wall.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
There's some elevator you have pushed the button for yourself.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I guess they think you cut down over there.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
No uprating.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Here we are.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
H Hey, are you sure you pushed the right button?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I'm positive. Look at this pace.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I thought you said this entire floor was an office.
Speaker 13 (20:12):
It was, now it's not for one didn't light sheps,
chunking boxes, barrows and asso.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
But this floor isn't used for anything but storage space.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
There was destinate, lots of and people were.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Over and marry there couldn't have been.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Not lying over there on the floor.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Let's see something glittering over here. Mmmm, it's a lipstick.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Market my lipstick?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
What?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yes, I missed it. J justa got up the building
early this morning. I must acted here while I was
waiting for the elevator.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Then then what you told me? Did it happen?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yes, I'm very certainly, very sim come inside a minute
long for you. I want you to say the check
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the little man named Gibson made out to me.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Yeah, I want to see it.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
There's something else I want you to look at, something
I brought with me new home.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Come in, you said this fellow Gibson had a City
b newspaper on his desk.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yes, dated April sixteenth, nineteen twelve.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Well you might not know it, but the B went
out of business in this town twenty years ago.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
But if the ink was flashed in the paper, any
newspaper Prince City years ago would have been yellow and faded.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, that's true. Or is that the check? Yes?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Here m.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Crazy dollars. Wait a minute, do you notice this, Mary,
the checks made out to Margaret Billing.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah. I noticed that, But I thought mister Gibson had
just made a mistake. Now I think I know the answer.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I do. Say. What are these things in this little box?
Your souvenirs?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yes, more or less? Here it was late handkerchief, Thanks
you lovely. It belonged to my mother. Her name was Margaret.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Oh, I see.
Speaker 13 (22:23):
And this is a portion of the diary she kept
up to a year after I was born sixteen, nineteen twelve.
And here's nineteen twelve.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
What are you looking for, Mary, I'm not sure, Mark.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
February March April. Here April April sixteenth.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Here we are well, Mary, Mark.
Speaker 13 (22:49):
Listen, Here's what my mother wrote her diary in April sixteenth,
nineteen twelve.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Today, the acting officer Fly Company, on the thirteenth floor
of the Temple Building declared bankrupting story. Two employees were
left without work. There were the months pay to each
of us.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
I went to this to gifts of the owner and
asked for at least a portion of the money he
owed me, But he said.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
He was unable to pay a stand.
Speaker 13 (23:15):
He promised, however, to pay me the eighty dollars he
owed me just as soon as possible.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
This was bad when he was born, indeed almost as bad.
Speaker 13 (23:28):
As the news the headlines carried in the day's paper,
the Titanic was sunk at sea on her maiden.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Boy A.
Speaker 11 (23:47):
Fantasty you have heard, Death from the Past, A tale
of dark patter say, starring that popular Hollywood actress Jane Wyatt,
and written.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Especially for her by Scott Bishop. We wish to thank miss.
Speaker 11 (24:02):
Wyatt for her most excellent portrayal tonight of Mary Billings,
and we joined Jane Wyatt in urging you to do
your bit toward the car's nearest to President Roosevelt's heart
on his Diamond Jubilee, give to your local Mile of
Diamonds committee. Don Marris was heard tonight as Mark Matthew
eleanor Nayla Khan was the office manager, and Mule Height
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played mister Gibson. Next Friday night at the same time,
we'll bring you another unusual tale.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Of dark patasy.
Speaker 11 (24:30):
The headless dead Miss Wyatt appeared tonight through the courtesy
of the r k O Studios. Dark Fantasy originates each
Friday night in the studios of w k Y, Oklahoma City,
Tom Paxton speaking. This is the National Broadcasting Company
M all right, stands a see that's from the past
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starring Jane Wyatt.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I thank your pardon.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Oh yes, is that your newspaper line?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Now the part then?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Why yes it is.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Now look at them all please if you wish.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Of course, here, I'll move over, sit down, thank you?
Oh there you are.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I hope you don't get me forward. I'll only be
a minute.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Oh take as much time as you like.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, when you throw yourself a cigarette, no than sorry,
I can't offer you a Taylor one.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Oh quite all right, thank you out of a job. Yes,
but no, tell me I looked that desperate?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
No I well, I uh noticed you've turned to the
help wanted columns.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yes, but so many things have been there ahead of minute.
I mean they had to set me a w with
that the pencil.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
That you can say that again. I was lucky even
to behind a pencil.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Oh you too, Yeah, Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Well, that's all right, nobody needs to feel sorry for me.
I'll get along.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
You've been to all these places you marked here in
this column, sister, I have been there and been side.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh you didn't get one of me?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
No one, Well, look at the sores on my shoes.
Here look, those are yesterday's wanted. As I'm walking home.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
How long have you been out of work?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Oh, I don't know, about ten weeks. First I had
a lot of dough. I thought I was a wise guy.
I wouldn't have any trouble getting another job.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I was wrong.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I dropped all my money and I've been sleeping here
on his park bench for the past three weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Whenever I can. Today, I'm all right. I got a
chance to make a couple of iron men yesterday, iron
Man books. Doll it.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Oh, you have been around, Tom mull I've.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Been here about two weeks. I came up from Sandral.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
You have people here.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
No, my father and stepmother live in Sandral. I'm twelve.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
My stepmother and I have never been anything more than
therely civil to each other.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
No, I get it. So you've come here for get
a job.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh, I come here to get a job.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
How much money you got? Well, I.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Really don't think that's anyone's said.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Oh, bother, you've got to be formal about it. My
name's Mirk Matthew, Mine Luke John. Oh, I'm serious. My
name is Mirk Matthew. I wasn't named to the two
gentlemen who helped write the Bible.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Well, my name's Mary billing Well.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Miss Billings, I'm mighty please to know you. Now that
we're thoroughly acquainted and completely good friends.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You tell me when you ate last. I'm all right,
you are hungry?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Oh yes, I guess I am.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Join me for a hamburger the onion as you like,
and they cover a coffee.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Is that a date?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Mary? Well, I'm sorry I can't buy you a thirty
five cent blue plate.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I'd love a hamburger mark.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Then it's a deal.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Okay, mister Matthew, it is a deal.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
What another hamburger? Mary? Too?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Is plenty? You shouldn't have made leave that second one.
I'm sure you can't accord it.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Oh, I know where I can make a dollar or
so tomorrow I'll buy some cigarette if you don't think
you're Oh no, thanks.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
No, I don't buy any. I really don't know much.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Say hey, you're a nice girl. No inexpensive.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I really don't know why I'm that you need to
do this for me. I'm not in the habit I know.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I know.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
My Irish mother taught me never to ignore a pretty
young woman who is hungry.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
See you are pretty.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
You know, I thought you were going to be different.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I'm different. I say I'm going to be to Hamburgers,
and I see to Hamburgers, and.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Good one too.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I know they're good. I've been eating them for weeks.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
No, I think I'll answer to that, say, did you
drag that old beating up newspaper in here with you?
Speaker 5 (04:45):
I'm still a pie for a job, even if my
hunger has been temporarily satisfied.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Well, if you can find a job out of that bunch,
you're a better job hunter than I am.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, you haven't tried this one. Someone's looking for a woman.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Sound good?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Listen wanted sonogra If you are an ambitious, talented, and
reasonably attractive young woman who he was the typewriter, the
adding machine, and to write shorthands applying first and to
see mister Gibson Gooden knight after midnight.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Room thirteen thirteen Temple Buildings.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Do you think you can fill a bill? Are you ambitious?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I can use a typewriter?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Are you talented?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I could opera an adding machine?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And are you reasonably attractive?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
You told me you thought I'm for it? Remember beside,
I also know how to write Shortlands.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Then applying for the job by all means, I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Think I will.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
But I didn't like this apply after midnight angle, Yeah,
he's very unusual.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Why at that time of night?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Maybe if they're a night job.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Anyway, I'm going to have a tie atic room. Thirteen
thirteen Temple buildings? Where's the Temple building on.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
The other side of town?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
How far?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Mark? Oh? About ten or twelve miles? Oh? Hey, you
need coffee? Here? Take this half back?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Oh Mark, Well, I'm not going to argue your party.
I'll take it and i'll return the money tomorrow night.
I get a small check for my father tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I'll meet you. Let me see.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I'll meet you here in the park at the same bench,
and i'll let you know how I come out about
the job in the Temple building. Yeah, this is the
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Temple building, all right? What's the quiet? Give me n
nobody around, not even the whole quarter. M is a
strange place. Yeah, here's the building directly you know. See
what is the man's name? Oh yes, Gipsy No, no,
(07:03):
Goodsonsted here. His company's name is probably here.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But I don't know that name. No you how does
one get up with the thirteenth floor.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
There's a open elevator, but because it's no one operated.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Oh, there's the type you operate yourself.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Just step in, press the button mark thirteen.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
The dollars closed up, widow.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Let I say a little.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Prayer that I get this job. Oh man, yeah, here
we are. No, it must be a night job. It's
this entire floors. When he was office roll at the
roll of desks. If people waiting that time, you bring
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him life. He were goodn't listen a good country?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
May I have you?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Miss?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Yes see, I've come an answer to the avenue pa
ad Oh but here I'm gonna said.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Uh, mister Gibson advertised for a young woman to do
typing in your hands.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Here I've cut out the ah.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
This is it.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
May I see it?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Peace? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I see mister Gibson.
Speaker 8 (08:29):
Fair to tell me he had instead of an advertisement
and the bee.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
But but this isn't time. I'm sorry, young lady. Mister Gibson,
he was only the bees. You'll find his office right
down this aisle.
Speaker 8 (08:38):
The first thirty are.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Left being thirteen sixteen. Thank you. Let's knock on his
door and he'll answer you.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
He'll thanks extreme. These people all seem very modern, mister queen.
Can we look over the see.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Oh, here's the door. Come in please, mister Gibson.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yes, come in, please and close the door.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I don't sit down, young lady, don't just stand there.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Yes, sir, I've come about a job there, the one
you mentioned in your Adnaton kinds.
Speaker 9 (09:18):
I never add for advertising anything but the bee. You
read my advertise put in the bee. I'm sure you
want a.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Stenographer, one who can type, use the adding machine and
take direction.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I'm very ambitious with Gibson, and I feel that I
can learn the work quickly. I'm easily talking.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Good. Good.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Your ad asked for mortically attractive girl. I'll try to
be meet Titiican.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
My dear young lady.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
If your qualifications are as you claim, I feel you
do very nicely.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (09:48):
Take this pencil please in this pad there now? Are
you ready to take a letter? Yes, address with mister Lanning,
fifty No. One Tower Building City. Dear mister Lanning, we
have received your order for the office materials listed on
your invoice. Nice will personally see to it that the
items ordered our assembled box and shipped you immediately.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You are exceedingly thankful for your.
Speaker 9 (10:07):
Order, and we trust you will find our service up
to its use your properners and capitol it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
If we may serve you again.
Speaker 9 (10:13):
In the future, please be assured every attention will be
given to your desires yours very cooly. The act me
Office Supply Company by Donathan gibbsons that that yes, Now
when you talk to that fee.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Use that machine over there you will find paper in
the drawer.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Yes, how old are.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You, young lady?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Two? Your name Mary Billy?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Where were you born?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
In sense? Let's about thirty five months from here?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Are you ready to start work tonight? If you prove satisfaction?
Speaker 9 (10:42):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yes, what sally will you expect?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
That will depend upon the Workshay, you must sew up saying.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
We say, say twenty dollars a week?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Shall we say that to begin with?
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Then if I do more of for twenty dollars worth
of work, I'll ask for a raise.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It's my opinion that employees shoul be paid aclentings a month.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
By true, young lady, quite true? Watch your home address please.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Twenty one melos. I'm only there temporarily. We will see sististication.
Speaker 9 (11:11):
Yes what sign what the lover you gave me? Read
Denise already young lady or quite efficient?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
See happening is neat?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I like it, thank you, sir. I hope I may
have the job.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yes, of course, but one thing is uh Billings. Yes, sir,
we'll close, my dear.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
Yes, shall we say a little too modern too, Marty.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I've talked them quite conservative.
Speaker 9 (11:41):
The neckline and the skirt links and miss sleeves and
my freight, Miss Buildings will be compelled to wear a
tight neck dress, long sleeves and skirt to the ankles
like like.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
The others outside address.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
Yes, exactly, and the rules and lipstick. We don't use
cosmetics for the act many, Miss.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Beelize, very welcome.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
And the short haircut, Bob, I believe it's called. You
will let your hair go out, Missbellize. Meanwhile, you will add.
Speaker 9 (12:10):
A switch to your hair. Yes, if you just step
outside and speak to the young lady at the reception desk,
you'll show your place to work and assign your disease.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I can't thank you enough. I work very hard and
I'll try to be a credit to your company.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I'm sure you will, Miss Delise may I try.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
You have the office before I take over my way
of my office.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Yes, pardon me, it really couts down a little cleaning
and dusting, don't mean a cobb invest everywhere?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
What did the windows look a bit like? So they
haven't been washed in the years? And your crondly change
is a good sight.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Calendar?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yes, look it says April sixteenth. This is January sixteen.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
My dear god, you're mistaken. This is the sixteenth day
of April.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
And the calendar says nineteen twelve.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Right, this is nineteen twelve, but it's.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
This is nineteen forty two, and it's January, not April.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
You, young lady, are you a nineties Well.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Of course i am. This is the sixteenth of January
nineteen forty two.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Certainly you must be jesting.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
No, mister tis, I'm not jesting. It is not nineteen twelve,
it's nineteen forty two. I can't understand what would lead
you to see a thing like that. Yeah, yeah, young lady,
there's newspaper today's now.
Speaker 9 (13:29):
Look at the date on it, April or sixteenth, nineteen twelve.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
There you see, good you day?
Speaker 5 (13:37):
This is today's.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Of course, of course it is. Look at it yourself,
twicing smell it frish paper.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
H Yes, you're right, but those headline.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yes, a terrible disaster the tight planet.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Thank at Sea on her maiden boy as she was.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
An iceberg.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Tragedy that thirty years ago, long before I was born.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
What was that?
Speaker 9 (14:08):
I'm afraid I don't hear very well these days.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
It wasn't important. Should I have to go on my
work now? Yes, if you will, you need your services
very badly. Business is exceptionally Gordon. I admit it's difficult
to find young women with as much ability as you have.
Thank you the spect I'll try to ave up your expectations.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
I feel certainly will miss filings. Is anything you don't understand?
Just ask the young ladies upon this?
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Yeah, thank you, I shall thank you very much to
mister Gibson said to you about the work I'm to
do here.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
With you will use this number twenty seven if I
were there, the one of the roads started in.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
The date and see it, I believe.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
I let you work on the person the monthndvices here
use these in its length. The books were on that
metal table by your death.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yes, how how do you want? The invoices dated.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
May first nineteen twelve, nineteen tween. That's right, thet'll retail
customers the first sir of May. And then did mister
Gibson mention about your cloth?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yes you did, but you put ours. Go to work
now and as you can changing later very well.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
You'll find paper, pencils and erasers in your best twenty
I'll filled.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Out this form for you.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Tell me if it's correct.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
Names Mail Billings, born extanvill aged twenty two.
Speaker 10 (15:41):
See you were born in eighteen ninety then, weren't you twenty?
That would be twenty two years ago, wouldn't it. Your
hours will be from midnight until late am. You may
take time out at four o'clocks for refreshment one hour.
If you have any questions about your work, please don't.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Hesitate to ask me. Miss Yes, mister Gibson in your office, Yes, sir,
(16:23):
I come in immediately.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yes for me, Yes, I sit down, Miss Billings. The
don will be here soon.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
Miss Billings, I don't have a watch and there are
no clocks in the office, he noticed.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yes, Yes, the Don will soon be here.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
No, two students, I haven't been here long, mister Gibson.
I enjoyed the workout done so far?
Speaker 9 (16:53):
Yes, and miss Johnson reports you give all your attention
to your work, to reports that you're extremely.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Efficient that I've tried to apply myself.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yes, you were just as I expected you would be here.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
What was that, mister Gibson?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I mean I could tell for the work you didn't
hear from me, that you would be quite capable.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I hope you like me well enough to learn you
to keep the job.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I want you to go home now, my dear. You've
done quite enough work for tonight.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
But I just as soon stay my full time.
Speaker 9 (17:24):
No, no, won't pay it over work the first day
and all here, Miss Billings? Is your check my check?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yes? You probably need a little money?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Why, yes?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
But no now now just case to check and get
what you need with the money.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
But this check is made out for eighty dollars.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yes, I believe that was the amount, wasn't it?
Speaker 11 (17:48):
Why?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I don't understand?
Speaker 9 (17:52):
Would you mind going now, Miss Billings? The dawn will
soon be here, and would you mind going now?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I know what you wish, Thank you.
Speaker 12 (18:03):
My dear, and may I wish you every happiness and
Miss Billings every happiness in the world. Good thing now, Mary, I.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Say Mary, wait for me. Oh Mark, I've been waiting
so long. I thought you want to come.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Oh Mary, Oh boy, am I glad to see you.
I can hardly wait all day to hurry here and
tell you the news. Yes, I've got a job, and
a good one, fifty five dollars a week.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Oh Mark, I'm never happy for you.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, I got some swell ideas. I'm I'm gonna tell
you one of them for long. Hey, how about your job?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I got it, Mark, I don't know what to think
about it. Everything was so strange.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, what happened?
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Well, I went to the temple, came and I took
the elevator up to the thirteenth floor. So I took
the and that's the building just at the dawn is
beginning to break.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
That's odd, very Look, Mary, you have to go to
work at midnight. You say, do you mind if I
go along?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I know, I suppose it'll be all right.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Good.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I don't want to get a look at the kind
of a businessman who'd have a nineteen twelve calendar on
his office wall.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
There's some elevator you have pushed the button for yourself.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I guess they think you cut down over there.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
No uprating.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Here we are.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
H Hey, are you sure you pushed the right button?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I'm positive. Look at this pace.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I thought you said this entire floor was an office.
Speaker 13 (20:12):
It was, now it's not for one didn't light sheps,
chunking boxes, barrows and asso.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
But this floor isn't used for anything but storage space.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
There was destinate, lots of and people were.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Over and marry there couldn't have been.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Not lying over there on the floor.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Let's see something glittering over here. Mmmm, it's a lipstick.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Market my lipstick?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
What?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yes, I missed it. J justa got up the building
early this morning. I must acted here while I was
waiting for the elevator.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Then then what you told me? Did it happen?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yes, I'm very certainly, very sim come inside a minute
long for you. I want you to say the check
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the little man named Gibson made out to me.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Yeah, I want to see it.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
There's something else I want you to look at, something
I brought with me new home.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Come in, you said this fellow Gibson had a City
b newspaper on his desk.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yes, dated April sixteenth, nineteen twelve.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Well you might not know it, but the B went
out of business in this town twenty years ago.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
But if the ink was flashed in the paper, any
newspaper Prince City years ago would have been yellow and faded.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, that's true. Or is that the check? Yes?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Here m.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Crazy dollars. Wait a minute, do you notice this, Mary,
the checks made out to Margaret Billing.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah. I noticed that, But I thought mister Gibson had
just made a mistake. Now I think I know the answer.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I do. Say. What are these things in this little box?
Your souvenirs?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yes, more or less? Here it was late handkerchief, Thanks
you lovely. It belonged to my mother. Her name was Margaret.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Oh, I see.
Speaker 13 (22:23):
And this is a portion of the diary she kept
up to a year after I was born sixteen, nineteen twelve.
And here's nineteen twelve.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
What are you looking for, Mary, I'm not sure, Mark.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
February March April. Here April April sixteenth.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Here we are well, Mary, Mark.
Speaker 13 (22:49):
Listen, Here's what my mother wrote her diary in April sixteenth,
nineteen twelve.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Today, the acting officer Fly Company, on the thirteenth floor
of the Temple Building declared bankrupting story. Two employees were
left without work. There were the months pay to each
of us.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
I went to this to gifts of the owner and
asked for at least a portion of the money he
owed me, But he said.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
He was unable to pay a stand.
Speaker 13 (23:15):
He promised, however, to pay me the eighty dollars he
owed me just as soon as possible.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
This was bad when he was born, indeed almost as bad.
Speaker 13 (23:28):
As the news the headlines carried in the day's paper,
the Titanic was sunk at sea on her maiden.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Boy A.
Speaker 11 (23:47):
Fantasty you have heard, Death from the Past, A tale
of dark patter say, starring that popular Hollywood actress Jane Wyatt,
and written.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Especially for her by Scott Bishop. We wish to thank miss.
Speaker 11 (24:02):
Wyatt for her most excellent portrayal tonight of Mary Billings,
and we joined Jane Wyatt in urging you to do
your bit toward the car's nearest to President Roosevelt's heart
on his Diamond Jubilee, give to your local Mile of
Diamonds committee. Don Marris was heard tonight as Mark Matthew
eleanor Nayla Khan was the office manager, and Mule Height
(24:22):
played mister Gibson. Next Friday night at the same time,
we'll bring you another unusual tale.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Of dark patasy.
Speaker 11 (24:30):
The headless dead Miss Wyatt appeared tonight through the courtesy
of the r k O Studios. Dark Fantasy originates each
Friday night in the studios of w k Y, Oklahoma City,
Tom Paxton speaking. This is the National Broadcasting Company
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