October 8, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The National Broadcasting Company presents Radio City Playhouse Attraction fifty
one Blackout, as written and directed by Harry W.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Junkins.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Ladies and Gentlemen, Here is Harry W. Junkins, Good evening tonight.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
We are very happy, indeed to welcome Miss Jan Minor
back to Radio City Thai House after an absence of
almost ten weeks. To our regular listeners, she needs no
introduction to our new listeners. May we say that she
is one of the busiest, most talented, most charming, and
most sought after actresses in New York. She has heard
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regularly over NBC and Laura Lawton, Road of Life and
The Eternal Light, to name only a few. Co starring
with Jan Minor tonight is mister Arnold Moss, who will
shortly be seen in a featured role in the new
Eagle Lion picture Reign of Terror. Mister Moss, too is
a veteran NBC actor, and in between many radio and
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television engagements, he is at the moment working on the
part of Malvolio in Twelfth Night, which will open on
Broadway this fall. Here, then, is Jan Minor as Jane
and Arnold Moss as Johnny in Blackout. Attraction fifty one
on Radio City Playhouse.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Hello, Roger, this is Jane Burremont and he at seven
o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
You out of your mind, Roger.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
Was Johnny with you last night?
Speaker 8 (02:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yes, for a while?
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Why because he isn't home.
Speaker 9 (02:27):
Ye's nice.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
I'm worried, I thought.
Speaker 10 (02:30):
Jane, it was sort of a celebration, you know, Murdoch
being made at a turn everything.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I really, Roger, he didn't take a drink, did he?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yes, honey, I'm afraid he tied one on.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
He promised. He knows what happens when he drinks, he
promised me.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
God, you haven't any idea.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Where he might be. Oh, Jane, go back to bed
and relax.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Johnny will be all right, Roger.
Speaker 11 (02:55):
Hello, Hello.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Jane Bourmont's face is drawn and worried. She looks out
the window, sees nothing, and returns to the center of
the room, where.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
She stands uncertainly.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
At this exact moment, a man turns off Lexington Avenue
on to seventy first Street. For most people, a new
day is just beginning, But for Johnny Burmont, an evening
has just ended. His expensive suit is wet and torn.
One sleeve of his overcoat is missing entirely. His nose
has been bleeding and the blood is caked on his
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shirt front. His face is very dirty, and he's lost
his hat. Oh, Johnny doesn't care about any of this.
Because Johnny is a pathological drinker, a dipsomaniac in the
most literal sense of the word.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Nobody seems to mind this, except his wife. Because Johnny's charming.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
He loves people and everybody. When he's drunk, he thinks
everybody loves him. It never occurs to him that anyone
would be revulsed by his appearance or his smell. He
throws his arm around the dorman, and the dorman doesn't protest.
He's used to Johnny. He's a little nauseated by Johnny's closeness,
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but he's very kind as he helps him into the elevator.
The dorman understands that Johnny is just Johnny, very rugged.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Luckily on my na Hey, take an easy why not?
Speaker 6 (04:45):
The elevator loves you told.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Me so yesterday it did well. Then I kiss it.
We're a Hey, who am I? You're almost in your apartment? Yeah?
I know, but what I hear you have? I just
take that easy, nice oh god, was I in a fight?
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Oh boil, boil, you're a good fellow, Parison. And was
I in the fight. I took Frank murrayck you know
I no, I dot mister. I watched you out your
jumped up and down on his face until I kicked
all his brains out.
Speaker 8 (05:24):
Brain.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
You hadn't got any brain, I said, I kill him.
My absolutely murdered him. That here you have, mister Bemont,
hang onto the wall. W Hey, maybe Missus Pardmont isn't up?
Should I unlock the door? Who's it's Patison, Missus Paramount,
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I got mister Baramont.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Just a minute.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
Who is that?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
That's your wife? Oh she is Christmas again, Jae, mister Barmont,
you sure know how to do it, madame. You have
just won the Nobel prize. Goode, Missus Burman.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Thank you, Patterson. I'll get him in.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Are you're you're sure you can manage, missus Burmer, Yes, Patterson,
I can manage.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Come on in, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I don't think I should.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Your feels fine, Missus Burmer. That's all Patterson.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Come on, honey, say please please sor Patterson sorrow kiss
if your name me missus Bremont.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Just bring the buzzer.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
I'll come right up, Thank you, Patterson.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Give me a kiss.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Jane, just nonsense and come in.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Sure sure this is quite a joint.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
You're not that drunk?
Speaker 11 (06:41):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Because you're trying to be funny? Next you ask me
what city this isn't expect.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Me to lie?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
All right? What? Well?
Speaker 7 (06:46):
I don't think you are funny.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
I think you're disgusting.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Going to the betterment.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Take off those clothes, thank you very much, to stop
playing the fool.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Well you're mad, you're mad, Come on, Jane, give me
a kids want me to beat you up?
Speaker 6 (07:01):
I snapped my fingers. You would fall over. Now when
you please get I'm dressed and get to bed.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I beat up Frank murderer cool boy? Oh boy? Did
I beat him up? I murdered him. I absolutely murdered him.
Jerry cheap stinger jumped up and down his face until
I kicker.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
When you please go to bed?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
You're sure? Sure, honey?
Speaker 8 (07:21):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Bed? Oh?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
I had to get Patterson back up the game into
the bedroom. Then we took off his shirt and his
shoes and covered him with a blanket. Patterson thought it
was amusing. He thinks Johnny's a sport, that he's very
gay and charming. When Patterson left, I wiped the blood
off Johnny's.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Face with a wet wash racket. He was asleep instantly,
and I sat there beside him in the morning.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
What do you do with men like Johnny? He has
a funny little black curl that falls over his foret,
and there's good looks and charms him. Well, anyway, it
was almost five in the afternoon when he woke up.
He showered and shaved, drank six glasses of water, four
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glasses of orange juice, and three cups of coffee.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Then he sent me out for the papers.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
When I came back, I could smell bourbon again.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
It had to have a drink to steady himself. He
sat there reading the paper.
Speaker 9 (08:37):
Then I sat there looking at him.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Aren't you reading the papers? No, don't sit there looking
so holy? Sorry, so I promised I wouldn't. Then I did.
I got drunk, and I'm an alcoholic. Let's drop it.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
I didn't say anything like to not anymore. You just
know he was talking about it anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Well, why don't you quit? I'm just about ready to
always preach.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
I wish i'd had a camera this morning. You were
a grand looking thing when Patterson brought you upstairs.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Mark silt street dirt. Yes, you've fallen in it within
your hair, said gray overcoat, You want it once? And
now there's a sleeve missing.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I buy another coat.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Do you want to buy another wife?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
There are all sorts of women you can hire to
wash your face and clean you up after you've had
a good roll.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
In the bowering.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Oh, Johnny didn't know he was talking about it anymore.
We just can't go on this way. Heaven knows I
lost you. I do, but I just can't stand it anymore,
the way you were this morning.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I can't stand please crying anything.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
I know I've been crying for six years.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
And why don't you stop dress his cars?
Speaker 6 (09:56):
This apartment?
Speaker 7 (09:57):
Maybe if we were poor, it'd be better.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Maybe if you had to work for a living instead
of dabbling in an earty magazine writing stuff?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Is nobody wrong? Or would you lay off whining? Whining?
Always whining?
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Right?
Speaker 6 (10:08):
What about dinner?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
What about it?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Who do you want to eat in or go out somewhere?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I don't think I could stand a domestic emailing.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
When I put on my feathers, or just go straight.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
It's a simple little wife of a cafe drunk.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
If you're so determined to be unpleasant, you can go
to the devil.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
What's like going to the devil? You ought to know?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
You shut up here here read the paper.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Would you mind handing me the whole thing?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Or reach for a turn on a cripple?
Speaker 6 (10:29):
You my hero?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Hey, look, Jane, I'm sorry I was rude. Let's drop it.
Do you get tickets for Liberty?
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Yes? When September the eighth, the Thursday.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
That's good, Jane.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I am sorry, really, really, I am all right. I
feel tough. I just sort of lost my temper. What
is it?
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Murdoch? Frank Murdoch?
Speaker 6 (11:05):
What he was murdered last night?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
What do you say?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
It's here in the paper, so he read? Read There
at the tops.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Eugene Franklin Murdoch, prominent in New York literary circles, was
found in an unconscious condition in an alley on East
fifty second Street earlier this morning. He died. He died
shortly after admission to Midtown Hospital of head injuries, which
resulted in severe hemorrhages. The dead man had been celebrating
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his recent appointment as editor of True Arts magazine. I couldn't.
I couldn't have done it. It's absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
You said, you said, you jumped up and.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Down on his sade and the patterson told me when
I went out to get the papers, he remarked that
you had a pretty big evening, that you told him
you'd beaten something a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
What did I say? It was murder?
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Yes, yes you did, Jane.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I don't fight with people. I never get made.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
You thought was somebody last night? You were covered with
blood and your nose had been bleeding.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
What's ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous, isn't it, Jane, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (12:15):
I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Do you want me to do?
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Can't you remember anything?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Do you expect me to get out of the police
and tell him I think I killed Frank.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Mud Can't you remember, Johnny? Can't you remember anything that happened?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
No? Not much, not much towards the end. I know
I met Larry oathways we joined Frank and Roger. I'd
say maybe Roger would know.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
I didn't even know much when I spoke to him.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
What did you phone him?
Speaker 7 (12:38):
I phoned him this morning?
Speaker 6 (12:38):
It was seven o'clock. I thought maybe you'd been killed
or something.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Or what am I supposed to think when you don't
come home here seven in the morning. Am I just
supposed to go to van as if.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Nothing was in that?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Don't start crying.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
That's all I do now, Johnny is cry.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
I can't help it.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
It's all supposed to be so gay and charming.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
It's phone Roger and see if you know anything.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I can't just ask him if he thinks I killed Frank.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
You make something?
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Help? But please bone all right?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Give me the phone.
Speaker 11 (13:10):
You know his number?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Ah doesn't the answer minute?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Ah? Hello, Roger? Hello Johnny?
Speaker 6 (13:27):
How do you feel anything?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Keep quiet? I'm I'm fine, Roger. How are you.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
To tell?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
What time do you when Murdoch get home?
Speaker 8 (13:36):
Well?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
We the last.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
I left you some joy on fifty second Street.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I bet Murder is dead dead.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
Yes, he sure had a little the last time I
saw him.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Well, I why anything wrong, Johnny? No, no, no, no.
I just thought i'd call Sollo Roger.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
What did he say?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Said that Murdoch and I wound up the party? Un
he left us in some joint on fifty second Street.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
It said he was killed in an all at all fifty.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Seconds Jane, Jane, I couldn't. I couldn't have killed him.
I I never want to fight when I'm drunk. Never.
I never hit anybody. Never you've hit me?
Speaker 12 (14:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Does your hair? John?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Don't you see what this sort of thing does to you? You
don't remember anything? You behave like something out of the stock.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Dane. Do you think I killed him?
Speaker 6 (14:26):
You said so? Is that so?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Twice?
Speaker 6 (14:28):
The Patterson Anthony, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
Frightened?
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Could your phone missing murdoc?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Why? What could I say?
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Maybe she knows more than well? It just imed logical
to phony.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Could you could ask for Frank?
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Maybe she knows?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Somebody can't ask to speak to him when I know
he's dead. I couldn't keep it out of my voice.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Then what do we do?
Speaker 8 (14:46):
All right?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Off phone? No? No, I can't. I can't do it.
I'll call Roger and tell him I should have asked
him the place, the name of that place on fifty
second Street.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
You think you did it, don't you? I can tell
from a look on your face you think you killed him.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Couldn't I couldn't.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Got to find out.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
We'll sit, we'll just sit tight and wait. No, but
we won't. We'll get out of tones. We'll go somewhere.
We'll go someplace where nobody can find. What do you
want me to do? Sit around on the cops come
and drive me up and start of the neck. If
I did do it, they'll find a sleep from my overcoat.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Maybe you can't run away.
Speaker 12 (15:21):
I can't wait for it.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Please don't get panicky. Please, let's think for a minute.
Let's not do anything crazy. If you didn't have anything
to do with it, running away, we'll only make it
look twice as bad. And if you did do it,
they'll find you. You'll never be able to hide from
them forever. So phone Roger and ask him right.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Out in the God go on, phone.
Speaker 8 (15:43):
Him, you ask him.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
I can't wight out if he knows anything about it.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Oh, hello, Roger, this is Johnny again. Jane and I
are having a little discussion. And well, what was the
name of that place that Murdoch and I ended up
in last night?
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Huh, don't you remember where?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Do you know how it is? Roger?
Speaker 8 (16:16):
No, I don't. What do you mean, I've I've seen
the paper you have?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yes, Well, what was the name of the place Silver
Moon Bar on fifty second Street. Roger Frank and I
getting along all right? I mean, did we fight or anything.
If you've seen a paper, you know what I mean.
I'm just trying to make up my mind. I I've
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come to the conclusion that if anybody asked me, I'd
have to say, you weren't getting along all right? Goodbye,
Johnny Roger. Wait, wait right, Roger, what did he say?
He said that? But if anybody asked me to have
to say that Murdoch and I weren't getting along very well. Lord,
we were in the Silver Moon bar on fifty second Street.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Do you want to go down there?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Do you think we should?
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Don't go?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Don't go, don't go, I said, let the ring, don't
think we're not in and go away.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
Listen, Johnny, please ring, but go away, let them ring.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
We can't just pretend we're out every time the.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
Bad they've gone.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I'm gonna catch a plane for Canada, a plane for Montreal.
Every hour I'm going to stay here and have a
murder depended on me that well, if I did do it,
I won't.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Let you leave.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
What can I do?
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Johnny? Please please let me listen?
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Okay, they're coming in, Patterson, anything wrong, What is it?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I have a fond we here from Mazie.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
This came this morning.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
I forgot to bring it up. I thought you weren't
in when you didn't answer the bell.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Just leave it in the hall Fairmont. Johnny, you've got
to face it every time the Fellings. We can't jump
like this. We've got to find out. We've got to
go down to that cafe and find out this.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Oh Jane, if you'll see me through this, I promise
I'll never never ever take a drink again as long
as I live, So help me God.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
We knew then that even if Johnny had done it,
we had to find out the truth. Patterson got the
car out for us, and just as we pulled away
from the front of the apartment, we saw a prince
and car slide into the space we just left. We
stopped for a red light at the corner fifth Avenue, and.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
I look back.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Can't you see anything?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
They're talking to paddles crops, one in uniform, the other
knot go downstairs. He's gonna get lost in heavy traffic.
Speaker 9 (19:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
I couldn't have done it.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
I couldn't be careful don't go too bad. What's the number?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I don't know, we'll have to look for it. The
Silver Moon Bar should be so hard to find with
a name like that.
Speaker 13 (19:29):
They probably got a knee unsigned six feet high.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Now that we're here, I quite know what we're supposed
to do.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
I suppose we could order something.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
You want to drink?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
No, go ahead if you want to.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
What would you mind?
Speaker 12 (20:07):
No?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
But no, no, I'll have coffee, Jane. Jane, I'm finished.
I'll never ever take another. I'm finished. I've quit.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
No you haven't.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Oh, yes, yes, Jane, I promise, I promise. I'm on
the way.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Don't make promises.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
You can't you see this time? I mean it.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Do you recognize any of the waiters?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Yeah, little dark fellow, I'm not sure. I don't even
recognize a place, let alone the waiters.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
But you're sure you were here?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Roger said we were?
Speaker 6 (20:36):
But don't you remember it?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
No?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Couldn't you ask the way?
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Here?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
He comes? All right, folks, will it be the night
you have here?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
I have playing hand sandwich and coffee?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yes, make it too, please do plain ham sandwiches too.
Coffee as up? Jane? Oh waiter, yeah, what is it?
Make do you remember me being in here last night.
It's air right, Mack. You were plastered, no hot feeling. No, no,
what did I do? You sucked that guy you were
with buhs right. I didn't like him neither. It's okay.
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Lots of guys get a little rough. Forget it, Mac.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
We used the characters, Johnny, I'm frightened. True Roger said
you quarreled this. Whites says you socked him. You said
you beat him up.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
You were covered with blood, your nose was bleeding. I'm afraid, Johnny,
I'm afraid at this time.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
What is it is phoning? Look behind you the fellow
that took our orders using the taphone in the corner. Watch,
he's looking at us. He knows we're watching him. Let's
get out of here. He's phoning the cops. I can
tell he's being very cash.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Where are we gonna go? We can't go home now?
Where can we back?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Let me pack? You should have let me go to Canady.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
With no money, no clothes, Johnny. We've got to go
down and face it. We've got to leave here and
go to a police station.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
No, no, I'm going I'm getting up now and I'm
working right out of that door. Are you coming make
some money on the table? Are you coming?
Speaker 6 (21:59):
What do you think? We can't go on riding all night, Johnny,
it's nearly eleven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I'm not going back. I didn't do it. They're not
gonna hang something on me that I didn't do.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
So where we're going with no clothes, hardly any money?
Speaker 12 (22:19):
Now?
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Where are we going to.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Get a hotel room? Somewhere I don't know, somewhere in
a little town.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
How long?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Forever? They'll chase you forever, for as long as you live.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I'll run. I'll run for as long as I live.
And I'm not what's that the tyrant can say anything
to the real window?
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Stupid?
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Look cook, No, I can't to die.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Is no?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Johnny?
Speaker 10 (22:41):
Stop?
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Please stop gop Johnny, please do.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
It's gonna track me off the champ.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
Johnny. You can that's understand.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
You can't go along without facing No.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
I'll help you. I'll help you when you've gotta face Please.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Johnny, look out you kill not please Johnny, so down
not please?
Speaker 12 (23:04):
No, Johnny, I'm gonna turn off the ign.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Where you want to go and what for you?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Doesn't?
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Go ahead? But I'm gonna turn it.
Speaker 12 (23:10):
Off, john go over the edge of the road, Ny
on me the go ahead, kill it all.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Johnny, Johnny, don't be a friend.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I'll help you.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
I love you.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Johnny trying to kill somebody? No, no, I'm not. Let
me have your license. Come on, step on an app
got all night minute here, thanks to take you in
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right now. Got any idea how many people are killed
by guys like you who go crazy on highways? Yeah,
and the speed limits forty five? Remember that? Okay, okay, off, sir?
Speaker 11 (24:12):
Now what.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Oh? I guess what else is there?
Speaker 6 (24:35):
Johnny? There's no use making promises you can't keep.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I tell you I'm through with drinking never, never, ever again.
I'm going to call the police and tell them that
they won't get me from murder. At the most, it'll
be manslaughter. Certainly wasn't meditated. We'll get the best lawyer
in town and fight. We'll we'll we'll fight like that.
And Jane, if you'll stick with me, I swear I'll
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never take a drink again.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
Do you believe me, Jane?
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Do you You've said that so many times before?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
No, no, no, never never liked this. There's never been anything
like this, Jane, do you believe me?
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Yes, Johnny, I think this time, I do believe you.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
No leave the radio off.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
I thought there might be some news.
Speaker 10 (25:32):
Wisely the views of Senator Artur Vandenberg of Michigan, the
principal Republican spokesman on foreign affairs, and now the local news. Tonight,
Donnage is a truck driver walked in at the Central
Park Police station and confessed to the killing of Frank
Murdoch for Life magazine, whose body was found in an
alley off fifty second Street early this morning. Edge Just
stated that Murdoch was lying asleep or drunk in the
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alley and that his truck had passed over him before
he could stop it. Stated that he had not reported
the accident because of his fear.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
That Johnny, please don't h please, john.
Speaker 11 (26:23):
You promise.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
You have just heard Blackout Attraction fifty one on Radio
City Playhouse. Jan Minor was Jane Burmond. Arnold Moss was
her husband Johnny. Other players included Van Ruton, Eugene Francis,
and Larry Blyden. The music was composed and conducted by
doctor Roy Shield. The script was written, directed and produced
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by Harry W.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Junkins. This is Harry Jenson again.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Please join us this Thursday for our final show in.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
The eight by Request series.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Elizabeth Scott in Machine. Next week on Radio City Plighthouse.
Joey Was Different, starring Louis van Ruten and Edith Gresham,
A starring vignette on Juvenile Delinquency. That's next week Attraction
fifty two on Radio City Playhouse.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Good night, everybody, This is Fred Colin speaking. This is NBC,
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the National Broadcasting Company,
The National Broadcasting Company presents Radio City Playhouse Attraction fifty
one Blackout, as written and directed by Harry W.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Junkins.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Ladies and Gentlemen, Here is Harry W. Junkins, Good evening tonight.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
We are very happy, indeed to welcome Miss Jan Minor
back to Radio City Thai House after an absence of
almost ten weeks. To our regular listeners, she needs no
introduction to our new listeners. May we say that she
is one of the busiest, most talented, most charming, and
most sought after actresses in New York. She has heard
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regularly over NBC and Laura Lawton, Road of Life and
The Eternal Light, to name only a few. Co starring
with Jan Minor tonight is mister Arnold Moss, who will
shortly be seen in a featured role in the new
Eagle Lion picture Reign of Terror. Mister Moss, too is
a veteran NBC actor, and in between many radio and
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television engagements, he is at the moment working on the
part of Malvolio in Twelfth Night, which will open on
Broadway this fall. Here, then, is Jan Minor as Jane
and Arnold Moss as Johnny in Blackout. Attraction fifty one
on Radio City Playhouse.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Hello, Roger, this is Jane Burremont and he at seven
o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
You out of your mind, Roger.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
Was Johnny with you last night?
Speaker 8 (02:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yes, for a while?
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Why because he isn't home.
Speaker 9 (02:27):
Ye's nice.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
I'm worried, I thought.
Speaker 10 (02:30):
Jane, it was sort of a celebration, you know, Murdoch
being made at a turn everything.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I really, Roger, he didn't take a drink, did he?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yes, honey, I'm afraid he tied one on.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
He promised. He knows what happens when he drinks, he
promised me.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
God, you haven't any idea.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Where he might be. Oh, Jane, go back to bed
and relax.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Johnny will be all right, Roger.
Speaker 11 (02:55):
Hello, Hello.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Jane Bourmont's face is drawn and worried. She looks out
the window, sees nothing, and returns to the center of
the room, where.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
She stands uncertainly.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
At this exact moment, a man turns off Lexington Avenue
on to seventy first Street. For most people, a new
day is just beginning, But for Johnny Burmont, an evening
has just ended. His expensive suit is wet and torn.
One sleeve of his overcoat is missing entirely. His nose
has been bleeding and the blood is caked on his
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shirt front. His face is very dirty, and he's lost
his hat. Oh, Johnny doesn't care about any of this.
Because Johnny is a pathological drinker, a dipsomaniac in the
most literal sense of the word.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Nobody seems to mind this, except his wife. Because Johnny's charming.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
He loves people and everybody. When he's drunk, he thinks
everybody loves him. It never occurs to him that anyone
would be revulsed by his appearance or his smell. He
throws his arm around the dorman, and the dorman doesn't protest.
He's used to Johnny. He's a little nauseated by Johnny's closeness,
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but he's very kind as he helps him into the elevator.
The dorman understands that Johnny is just Johnny, very rugged.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Luckily on my na Hey, take an easy why not?
Speaker 6 (04:45):
The elevator loves you told.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Me so yesterday it did well. Then I kiss it.
We're a Hey, who am I? You're almost in your apartment? Yeah?
I know, but what I hear you have? I just
take that easy, nice oh god, was I in a fight?
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Oh boil, boil, you're a good fellow, Parison. And was
I in the fight. I took Frank murrayck you know
I no, I dot mister. I watched you out your
jumped up and down on his face until I kicked
all his brains out.
Speaker 8 (05:24):
Brain.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
You hadn't got any brain, I said, I kill him.
My absolutely murdered him. That here you have, mister Bemont,
hang onto the wall. W Hey, maybe Missus Pardmont isn't up?
Should I unlock the door? Who's it's Patison, Missus Paramount,
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I got mister Baramont.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Just a minute.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
Who is that?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
That's your wife? Oh she is Christmas again, Jae, mister Barmont,
you sure know how to do it, madame. You have
just won the Nobel prize. Goode, Missus Burman.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Thank you, Patterson. I'll get him in.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Are you're you're sure you can manage, missus Burmer, Yes, Patterson,
I can manage.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Come on in, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I don't think I should.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Your feels fine, Missus Burmer. That's all Patterson.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Come on, honey, say please please sor Patterson sorrow kiss
if your name me missus Bremont.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Just bring the buzzer.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
I'll come right up, Thank you, Patterson.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Give me a kiss.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Jane, just nonsense and come in.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Sure sure this is quite a joint.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
You're not that drunk?
Speaker 11 (06:41):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Because you're trying to be funny? Next you ask me
what city this isn't expect.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Me to lie?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
All right? What? Well?
Speaker 7 (06:46):
I don't think you are funny.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
I think you're disgusting.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Going to the betterment.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Take off those clothes, thank you very much, to stop
playing the fool.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Well you're mad, you're mad, Come on, Jane, give me
a kids want me to beat you up?
Speaker 6 (07:01):
I snapped my fingers. You would fall over. Now when
you please get I'm dressed and get to bed.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I beat up Frank murderer cool boy? Oh boy? Did
I beat him up? I murdered him. I absolutely murdered him.
Jerry cheap stinger jumped up and down his face until
I kicker.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
When you please go to bed?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
You're sure? Sure, honey?
Speaker 8 (07:21):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Bed? Oh?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
I had to get Patterson back up the game into
the bedroom. Then we took off his shirt and his
shoes and covered him with a blanket. Patterson thought it
was amusing. He thinks Johnny's a sport, that he's very
gay and charming. When Patterson left, I wiped the blood
off Johnny's.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Face with a wet wash racket. He was asleep instantly,
and I sat there beside him in the morning.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
What do you do with men like Johnny? He has
a funny little black curl that falls over his foret,
and there's good looks and charms him. Well, anyway, it
was almost five in the afternoon when he woke up.
He showered and shaved, drank six glasses of water, four
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glasses of orange juice, and three cups of coffee.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Then he sent me out for the papers.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
When I came back, I could smell bourbon again.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
It had to have a drink to steady himself. He
sat there reading the paper.
Speaker 9 (08:37):
Then I sat there looking at him.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Aren't you reading the papers? No, don't sit there looking
so holy? Sorry, so I promised I wouldn't. Then I did.
I got drunk, and I'm an alcoholic. Let's drop it.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
I didn't say anything like to not anymore. You just
know he was talking about it anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Well, why don't you quit? I'm just about ready to
always preach.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
I wish i'd had a camera this morning. You were
a grand looking thing when Patterson brought you upstairs.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Mark silt street dirt. Yes, you've fallen in it within
your hair, said gray overcoat, You want it once? And
now there's a sleeve missing.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I buy another coat.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Do you want to buy another wife?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
There are all sorts of women you can hire to
wash your face and clean you up after you've had
a good roll.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
In the bowering.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Oh, Johnny didn't know he was talking about it anymore.
We just can't go on this way. Heaven knows I
lost you. I do, but I just can't stand it anymore,
the way you were this morning.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I can't stand please crying anything.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
I know I've been crying for six years.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
And why don't you stop dress his cars?
Speaker 6 (09:56):
This apartment?
Speaker 7 (09:57):
Maybe if we were poor, it'd be better.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Maybe if you had to work for a living instead
of dabbling in an earty magazine writing stuff?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Is nobody wrong? Or would you lay off whining? Whining?
Always whining?
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Right?
Speaker 6 (10:08):
What about dinner?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
What about it?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Who do you want to eat in or go out somewhere?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I don't think I could stand a domestic emailing.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
When I put on my feathers, or just go straight.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
It's a simple little wife of a cafe drunk.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
If you're so determined to be unpleasant, you can go
to the devil.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
What's like going to the devil? You ought to know?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
You shut up here here read the paper.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Would you mind handing me the whole thing?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Or reach for a turn on a cripple?
Speaker 6 (10:29):
You my hero?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Hey, look, Jane, I'm sorry I was rude. Let's drop it.
Do you get tickets for Liberty?
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Yes? When September the eighth, the Thursday.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
That's good, Jane.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I am sorry, really, really, I am all right. I
feel tough. I just sort of lost my temper. What
is it?
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Murdoch? Frank Murdoch?
Speaker 6 (11:05):
What he was murdered last night?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
What do you say?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
It's here in the paper, so he read? Read There
at the tops.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Eugene Franklin Murdoch, prominent in New York literary circles, was
found in an unconscious condition in an alley on East
fifty second Street earlier this morning. He died. He died
shortly after admission to Midtown Hospital of head injuries, which
resulted in severe hemorrhages. The dead man had been celebrating
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his recent appointment as editor of True Arts magazine. I couldn't.
I couldn't have done it. It's absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
You said, you said, you jumped up and.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Down on his sade and the patterson told me when
I went out to get the papers, he remarked that
you had a pretty big evening, that you told him
you'd beaten something a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
What did I say? It was murder?
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Yes, yes you did, Jane.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I don't fight with people. I never get made.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
You thought was somebody last night? You were covered with
blood and your nose had been bleeding.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
What's ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous, isn't it, Jane, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (12:15):
I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Do you want me to do?
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Can't you remember anything?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Do you expect me to get out of the police
and tell him I think I killed Frank.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Mud Can't you remember, Johnny? Can't you remember anything that happened?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
No? Not much, not much towards the end. I know
I met Larry oathways we joined Frank and Roger. I'd
say maybe Roger would know.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
I didn't even know much when I spoke to him.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
What did you phone him?
Speaker 7 (12:38):
I phoned him this morning?
Speaker 6 (12:38):
It was seven o'clock. I thought maybe you'd been killed
or something.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Or what am I supposed to think when you don't
come home here seven in the morning. Am I just
supposed to go to van as if.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Nothing was in that?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Don't start crying.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
That's all I do now, Johnny is cry.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
I can't help it.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
It's all supposed to be so gay and charming.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
It's phone Roger and see if you know anything.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I can't just ask him if he thinks I killed Frank.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
You make something?
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Help? But please bone all right?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Give me the phone.
Speaker 11 (13:10):
You know his number?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Ah doesn't the answer minute?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Ah? Hello, Roger? Hello Johnny?
Speaker 6 (13:27):
How do you feel anything?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Keep quiet? I'm I'm fine, Roger. How are you.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
To tell?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
What time do you when Murdoch get home?
Speaker 8 (13:36):
Well?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
We the last.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
I left you some joy on fifty second Street.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I bet Murder is dead dead.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
Yes, he sure had a little the last time I
saw him.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Well, I why anything wrong, Johnny? No, no, no, no.
I just thought i'd call Sollo Roger.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
What did he say?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Said that Murdoch and I wound up the party? Un
he left us in some joint on fifty second Street.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
It said he was killed in an all at all fifty.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Seconds Jane, Jane, I couldn't. I couldn't have killed him.
I I never want to fight when I'm drunk. Never.
I never hit anybody. Never you've hit me?
Speaker 12 (14:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Does your hair? John?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Don't you see what this sort of thing does to you? You
don't remember anything? You behave like something out of the stock.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Dane. Do you think I killed him?
Speaker 6 (14:26):
You said so? Is that so?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Twice?
Speaker 6 (14:28):
The Patterson Anthony, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
Frightened?
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Could your phone missing murdoc?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Why? What could I say?
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Maybe she knows more than well? It just imed logical
to phony.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Could you could ask for Frank?
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Maybe she knows?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Somebody can't ask to speak to him when I know
he's dead. I couldn't keep it out of my voice.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Then what do we do?
Speaker 8 (14:46):
All right?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Off phone? No? No, I can't. I can't do it.
I'll call Roger and tell him I should have asked
him the place, the name of that place on fifty
second Street.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
You think you did it, don't you? I can tell
from a look on your face you think you killed him.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Couldn't I couldn't.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Got to find out.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
We'll sit, we'll just sit tight and wait. No, but
we won't. We'll get out of tones. We'll go somewhere.
We'll go someplace where nobody can find. What do you
want me to do? Sit around on the cops come
and drive me up and start of the neck. If
I did do it, they'll find a sleep from my overcoat.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Maybe you can't run away.
Speaker 12 (15:21):
I can't wait for it.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Please don't get panicky. Please, let's think for a minute.
Let's not do anything crazy. If you didn't have anything
to do with it, running away, we'll only make it
look twice as bad. And if you did do it,
they'll find you. You'll never be able to hide from
them forever. So phone Roger and ask him right.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Out in the God go on, phone.
Speaker 8 (15:43):
Him, you ask him.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
I can't wight out if he knows anything about it.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Oh, hello, Roger, this is Johnny again. Jane and I
are having a little discussion. And well, what was the
name of that place that Murdoch and I ended up
in last night?
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Huh, don't you remember where?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Do you know how it is? Roger?
Speaker 8 (16:16):
No, I don't. What do you mean, I've I've seen
the paper you have?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yes, Well, what was the name of the place Silver
Moon Bar on fifty second Street. Roger Frank and I
getting along all right? I mean, did we fight or anything.
If you've seen a paper, you know what I mean.
I'm just trying to make up my mind. I I've
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come to the conclusion that if anybody asked me, I'd
have to say, you weren't getting along all right? Goodbye,
Johnny Roger. Wait, wait right, Roger, what did he say?
He said that? But if anybody asked me to have
to say that Murdoch and I weren't getting along very well. Lord,
we were in the Silver Moon bar on fifty second Street.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Do you want to go down there?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Do you think we should?
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Don't go?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Don't go, don't go, I said, let the ring, don't
think we're not in and go away.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
Listen, Johnny, please ring, but go away, let them ring.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
We can't just pretend we're out every time the.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
Bad they've gone.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I'm gonna catch a plane for Canada, a plane for Montreal.
Every hour I'm going to stay here and have a
murder depended on me that well, if I did do it,
I won't.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Let you leave.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
What can I do?
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Johnny? Please please let me listen?
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Okay, they're coming in, Patterson, anything wrong, What is it?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I have a fond we here from Mazie.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
This came this morning.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
I forgot to bring it up. I thought you weren't
in when you didn't answer the bell.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Just leave it in the hall Fairmont. Johnny, you've got
to face it every time the Fellings. We can't jump
like this. We've got to find out. We've got to
go down to that cafe and find out this.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Oh Jane, if you'll see me through this, I promise
I'll never never ever take a drink again as long
as I live, So help me God.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
We knew then that even if Johnny had done it,
we had to find out the truth. Patterson got the
car out for us, and just as we pulled away
from the front of the apartment, we saw a prince
and car slide into the space we just left. We
stopped for a red light at the corner fifth Avenue, and.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
I look back.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Can't you see anything?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
They're talking to paddles crops, one in uniform, the other
knot go downstairs. He's gonna get lost in heavy traffic.
Speaker 9 (19:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
I couldn't have done it.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
I couldn't be careful don't go too bad. What's the number?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I don't know, we'll have to look for it. The
Silver Moon Bar should be so hard to find with
a name like that.
Speaker 13 (19:29):
They probably got a knee unsigned six feet high.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Now that we're here, I quite know what we're supposed
to do.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
I suppose we could order something.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
You want to drink?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
No, go ahead if you want to.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
What would you mind?
Speaker 12 (20:07):
No?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
But no, no, I'll have coffee, Jane. Jane, I'm finished.
I'll never ever take another. I'm finished. I've quit.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
No you haven't.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Oh, yes, yes, Jane, I promise, I promise. I'm on
the way.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Don't make promises.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
You can't you see this time? I mean it.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Do you recognize any of the waiters?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Yeah, little dark fellow, I'm not sure. I don't even
recognize a place, let alone the waiters.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
But you're sure you were here?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Roger said we were?
Speaker 6 (20:36):
But don't you remember it?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
No?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Couldn't you ask the way?
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Here?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
He comes? All right, folks, will it be the night
you have here?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
I have playing hand sandwich and coffee?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yes, make it too, please do plain ham sandwiches too.
Coffee as up? Jane? Oh waiter, yeah, what is it?
Make do you remember me being in here last night.
It's air right, Mack. You were plastered, no hot feeling. No, no,
what did I do? You sucked that guy you were
with buhs right. I didn't like him neither. It's okay.
(21:10):
Lots of guys get a little rough. Forget it, Mac.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
We used the characters, Johnny, I'm frightened. True Roger said
you quarreled this. Whites says you socked him. You said
you beat him up.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
You were covered with blood, your nose was bleeding. I'm afraid, Johnny,
I'm afraid at this time.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
What is it is phoning? Look behind you the fellow
that took our orders using the taphone in the corner. Watch,
he's looking at us. He knows we're watching him. Let's
get out of here. He's phoning the cops. I can
tell he's being very cash.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Where are we gonna go? We can't go home now?
Where can we back?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Let me pack? You should have let me go to Canady.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
With no money, no clothes, Johnny. We've got to go
down and face it. We've got to leave here and
go to a police station.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
No, no, I'm going I'm getting up now and I'm
working right out of that door. Are you coming make
some money on the table? Are you coming?
Speaker 6 (21:59):
What do you think? We can't go on riding all night, Johnny,
it's nearly eleven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I'm not going back. I didn't do it. They're not
gonna hang something on me that I didn't do.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
So where we're going with no clothes, hardly any money?
Speaker 12 (22:19):
Now?
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Where are we going to.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Get a hotel room? Somewhere I don't know, somewhere in
a little town.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
How long?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Forever? They'll chase you forever, for as long as you live.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I'll run. I'll run for as long as I live.
And I'm not what's that the tyrant can say anything
to the real window?
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Stupid?
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Look cook, No, I can't to die.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Is no?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Johnny?
Speaker 10 (22:41):
Stop?
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Please stop gop Johnny, please do.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
It's gonna track me off the champ.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
Johnny. You can that's understand.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
You can't go along without facing No.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
I'll help you. I'll help you when you've gotta face Please.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Johnny, look out you kill not please Johnny, so down
not please?
Speaker 12 (23:04):
No, Johnny, I'm gonna turn off the ign.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Where you want to go and what for you?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Doesn't?
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Go ahead? But I'm gonna turn it.
Speaker 12 (23:10):
Off, john go over the edge of the road, Ny
on me the go ahead, kill it all.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Johnny, Johnny, don't be a friend.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I'll help you.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
I love you.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Johnny trying to kill somebody? No, no, I'm not. Let
me have your license. Come on, step on an app
got all night minute here, thanks to take you in
(23:49):
right now. Got any idea how many people are killed
by guys like you who go crazy on highways? Yeah,
and the speed limits forty five? Remember that? Okay, okay, off, sir?
Speaker 11 (24:12):
Now what.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Oh? I guess what else is there?
Speaker 6 (24:35):
Johnny? There's no use making promises you can't keep.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I tell you I'm through with drinking never, never, ever again.
I'm going to call the police and tell them that
they won't get me from murder. At the most, it'll
be manslaughter. Certainly wasn't meditated. We'll get the best lawyer
in town and fight. We'll we'll we'll fight like that.
And Jane, if you'll stick with me, I swear I'll
(25:02):
never take a drink again.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
Do you believe me, Jane?
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Do you You've said that so many times before?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
No, no, no, never never liked this. There's never been anything
like this, Jane, do you believe me?
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Yes, Johnny, I think this time, I do believe you.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
No leave the radio off.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
I thought there might be some news.
Speaker 10 (25:32):
Wisely the views of Senator Artur Vandenberg of Michigan, the
principal Republican spokesman on foreign affairs, and now the local news. Tonight,
Donnage is a truck driver walked in at the Central
Park Police station and confessed to the killing of Frank
Murdoch for Life magazine, whose body was found in an
alley off fifty second Street early this morning. Edge Just
stated that Murdoch was lying asleep or drunk in the
(25:54):
alley and that his truck had passed over him before
he could stop it. Stated that he had not reported
the accident because of his fear.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
That Johnny, please don't h please, john.
Speaker 11 (26:23):
You promise.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
You have just heard Blackout Attraction fifty one on Radio
City Playhouse. Jan Minor was Jane Burmond. Arnold Moss was
her husband Johnny. Other players included Van Ruton, Eugene Francis,
and Larry Blyden. The music was composed and conducted by
doctor Roy Shield. The script was written, directed and produced
(27:10):
by Harry W.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Junkins. This is Harry Jenson again.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Please join us this Thursday for our final show in.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
The eight by Request series.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Elizabeth Scott in Machine. Next week on Radio City Plighthouse.
Joey Was Different, starring Louis van Ruten and Edith Gresham,
A starring vignette on Juvenile Delinquency. That's next week Attraction
fifty two on Radio City Playhouse.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Good night, everybody, This is Fred Colin speaking. This is NBC,
(28:19):
the National Broadcasting Company,
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