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Speaker 1 (00:01):
They don for escape. Monday morning at nine o'clock on
This is New York.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
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new contest. Get the contest you want to enter, So
get the details this Monday on This is New York
with Bill Leonards.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
But I'm now eight o'clock.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
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Speaker 5 (00:33):
Tired of the everyday grimes, have a dream of a
life of romantic adventure. Who want to get away from
it all?
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Speaker 4 (00:54):
Escape Design to free you from the four walls of today.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
For a half hour of adventure.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
You are stranded with a carnival the side of the
iron curtains one.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Out of nowhere.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
A fortune is within your grass, riding a number on
a roulette wheel hundreds of feet high? Why is your
shoulder laughing at you? A killer clown from whom there
is no escape?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Listen now as Escape brings you David Creek an important
fine story carnival in Vienna.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
In the old the role of tenements.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Used to be called the shutting off.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Then there was a war and it was called rubble,
and it was cleaned up, and it was just an
empty space. In the older part of Vienna. That's where
the carnival set up Fitch and windstands, wheels, the midway
act of the high wire for a valley rides, palm
readers and the biggest ferris wheel this side of the Rhine,
twenty carriages and a four minute ride, and myself front
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gate Superintendent John Ashcroft Allison, the nice founding name, John
Ashcroft Allison. The help calls me hair, which is mister.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
That's the way it is.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
And there's Lily who works at Gap whenever it's needed.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
He's got red hair.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
We get along.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Five.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
Wait, Hannah us African.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
You pass a shiny thing and.
Speaker 8 (03:11):
You are anything to stop and broken.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Looks at your hair.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
One of the good boys. And now it's the American
money maroon shir think joke, can't he? And liar what
you mean?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Liar?
Speaker 8 (03:37):
You are vain, you are powdering, have nothing to be
powder of.
Speaker 9 (03:40):
You are hate me?
Speaker 5 (03:41):
You are you are?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
You mean?
Speaker 7 (03:45):
One who from another? Tell you what you when you
cleanse your hair.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
One of these days back to the stay. You'll never
go to this thing. You cannot, I know, Joey tell
you last nice and I did not want to. Oh,
I bet you didn't oh, I did not want to hear.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Joey told me you were a thought in a Statehold
your joy.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
You were a carnival as a man. Who is who
is handwriting? He least like that here?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
And once the guy wrote down and claimed for me
to analyze, and I say, the signature in ford you
for three months all over the place football.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
They almost caught up with me.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
One day. I would have told you.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
He didn't.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
I didn't do anything.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
And he told me, and he told me how you
fled from your country to yours?
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Has you met me?
Speaker 7 (04:40):
And how you been traveling from Kinnival to conten.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Come on, just what that's really one of these days
I'm going to get my hands on.
Speaker 10 (04:52):
Enough joe that's true talking about.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Probably a clown. Why don't you do something about a clown?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Why should I do something about him?
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I like him hundreds by the way he laught, but
a wooden, cloudy, wooden clown and mechanism.
Speaker 9 (05:18):
Listen to him, listen to handle.
Speaker 11 (05:23):
It's a purely mechanical love compared to cut them us
into my hall.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Of mir quite of the upset he annoy if he
makes this, Come on, I wouldn't.
Speaker 11 (05:34):
Lie a commander but as easy hair, I as if
you know your name and love that show and knows
your stop and bring like a peacock and love that.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
I just want to tell you something. Cut my advice,
change the record in that hunt and a clown.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Yeah, but what do you want to if.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
You were up on your shoulder laughing?
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Huh hands all right, it's not fatty laughing at you.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Let's forget it.
Speaker 10 (06:12):
I oh, why.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Heaven, I want to be of the I though I
love you said I love you. Watch you the phone.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
In a safety apartment. What's the man?
Speaker 9 (06:42):
Hu?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Yeah, wah, where are you going?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Just wait?
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Without being very pick and.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Dark, Joey, I want to be let's take a look.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
See that's also important.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
How about here, Joey tack of the trailer?
Speaker 10 (07:09):
What for that?
Speaker 8 (07:14):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Julia?
Speaker 10 (07:16):
What's not you?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Then? Friends?
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Haven't we jumped into each other in a silver bar?
Speaker 9 (07:21):
And Buddy's right off?
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Jo Beside the fact you're a lush you're a good boy,
good friends, good shield.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
For any conny in the world.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Right, Oh, I don't mind it.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Took a drink and spilled a lily about me. One
way or another.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
She had to find out, Well, what's this all about
heist of the wallet just now, Huh. I'm a guy,
touristly tourists, huh.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
He was with a blonde from Maxis. He had to
be a.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Tourist the way he was dressed, green short and a
feather in his hat.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Give me the wallet, ju I'm taking no one talk
to me like that, Ji coas I'm telling you.
Speaker 9 (08:02):
Come on, Jo.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Will take a lot of that.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Joey, here, Joey and you shake sure, let's see you're
right all right?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Oh my walk the mad.
Speaker 10 (08:31):
Card?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Where's a toe?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
You a ready enough?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Wait a minute?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
You know what, Joey, you'll never know.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Five half some friend of mine.
Speaker 10 (08:52):
What then I'll catch up to you. We'll catch up
to you.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I didn't look at him anymore, not at Joey. That
John Ashcroft Allison looking out at me from the aluminum
side of the trailer.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And I'm amount of a ten dollar high.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
And he winked back at me, and his lips shaped
the words I was saying, ninety three thousand dollars letter
of credit in mister Paul Max Wallace, complete with identification cards.
So I looked around for the green short A man
with a feather in his hat with a blonde from
Max and the way it happened, and I pumped into
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them coming out of all a mirror. I trailed them
over to the ferry's wheel, watched mister Max flatdowns and
change a couple of tickets. Waited until they get into
a carriage in a wheel and started. Then I walked
over at heperism.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
A got organ high push this six wheels back?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Hey, how about you and the male Malen I never
got to see although she works right over there.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
We only get the waves then and we are both off.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
Her boyfriend comes and takes her away.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
And once you go over and talk to us, sure,
go ahead, I'll take over the wheeling.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I would certainly like to see money.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Go on, get it? They get carrotside of the river,
twenty carriages in a formative rise. Mister Paul mack from
bought the mad and the green one for the blonde,
enjoying to keep him in the carriage like get it twenty.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Three thousand dollars alp with a trick a twenty.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
To one shot goop a handful of sand and gravel
off the g into the oil intake.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Not a handful.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Four minutes with fourteen.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Times around, make trims a big sip.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Eleven we could sweet in the world, try and gap
it become a green.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
But I got my handful, Pa.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Maybe it wouldn't work.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Maybe I needed another killing me.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Maybe I.
Speaker 12 (11:36):
Haven't gon by carry green parent with a wad like
in the neck, and they bore my water and.
Speaker 9 (11:47):
A call.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
And I closed my eye. When I opened them, the
wheel it stopped spinning. Carriage at the top was green,
and I knew there wasn't a chance of that wheel
coming down for a long long time, and there wasn't
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a ladder that high that could get them down. Twenty
three thousand dollars on a twenty to one.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Shirt, I just hit.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
You are listening to Carnival in Vienna the night's presentation
of Escape. Edgar Bergen fans will be doubly delighted with
the New Edgar Bergan Show with Charlie McCarthy, Remember Sunday
nights on most of these sacans the New Edgar Bergen
Show with Charlie McCarthy. And now back to Escape and
the second act of Carnival in Vienna.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Carnival and the big wheel not spinning anymore against the
Vienna sky and for a little while the small riot
of Carnie wound down, no attraction at it to early
afternoon with a Danube close, and all the kids took
to it, climbed the girders and hung from them like skinny.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Rag dolls and kicked their feet in.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
The watter's face was going crazy trying to fix the
Ferrett wheels, and a small detail of Russian soldiers stok
to it too, grinning up at the merchandise display of
black cotton stockings, Boedian petticoats, and at a very very
very top, oh very a gent from Boston mat with
his arms wrapped around up blonde from everywhere. I told,
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out of the handle, it's the best way he could.
I'd round up some refugees to give my hands, and
I walked away from it, away half the gas last
the shooting gallery.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Ask him at the closing.
Speaker 10 (14:08):
The face.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Asked where the cornie started to die and got to
be mud and litter and broken straw, where the.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Trailers were mine bright and shiners.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
And the wreck because there was a displaced straw line.
Very handy with a dust cloth and needed the work
and the job class in penmanship, uh gentle, the writing
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hands scroll circles and plants, and then Johnnie Allison into
Paul mc gm from Boston, mass Oh, Max, Oh, what.
Speaker 13 (15:13):
You're doing, Johnny boy?
Speaker 9 (15:18):
What you're doing?
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Johnny boy, the pobber snaps over the cup of Joey
drink yourself.
Speaker 13 (15:25):
Did huh huh? No, huh huh.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Maybe you don't understand because you're fussed up.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
You're not wanted, Joey.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
Oh no, that hurt.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
So that's when you say it to an old friend.
Speaker 13 (15:40):
But you could buy back my affection. I like you, Johnny, Honey,
I don't want not to like you.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Lush be the lush.
Speaker 13 (15:47):
Don't talk like that, Johnny. You made a noise like
twenty three thousand dollars when I you laugh. I don't
know the angle, but I won't end half.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Johnny appeally you have dreamed about them bother. That's her
picture of Mindy.
Speaker 13 (16:03):
What was you doing when I come in? Johnny written
a letter?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Practice you maybe get no feelings.
Speaker 13 (16:10):
Digits just says you let me see Johnny way.
Speaker 9 (16:14):
You didn't even let me spee.
Speaker 13 (16:17):
But I got something I wanted you to see, Johnny.
I brung it just to show you.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Oh h Joey Joey, You're really our fight, don't you.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Huh.
Speaker 13 (16:30):
No, all this shr gun does, Johnny, all it does
in the world is to make you and me, buddy.
I squeeze it on it just a little bit, and
all it says you hear it, Johnny, All it says
is buddy, buddy, buddy, like it was Mama dog. You
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say half me, Johnny, say half a twenty three grand
I don't squeeze them all.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
I give it me, Joey, give me the gun, and
then you can go hip shops.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Final, gim me, Joey, you can squeeze the shop.
Speaker 13 (17:03):
Just sit right down on the floor, Johnny, so it'll
go off right between your eyes.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Give me, Joey, I'll drop it. I'll throw it away, Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Give me.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Nobody exclese you for a sucker, Johnny, boy.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
You helped me up and I Johnny.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Got to be drinker.
Speaker 10 (17:32):
This just like this.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Uh, he was as dead as I could make him.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I picked him up and carried him to my car,
propped your body in the front seat next to me.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Whoever may have seen it figured the only thing to figure.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Joey was stoned again. Johnny Allison was nursing him like
he'd done a thousand and two times. It took a
few minutes to drive out of the edge of the
Russian zone, plong it to a square block of rubble,
behind it to an alley. I opened a bottle of
schnop I'd remember to bring along, then sed out my
mouth with it and poured the red down Joey's thross.
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I slid the bottle into his coat pocket, sneezed them
out of the car. What was in the alley with
some garbage cans straped clean, some bony dogs who just stared.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
And unknown name rush.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
In the trailer. By half past one I could forge
the signature of mister Paul Mac with the pen between
my teeth, eight letters, straight up and down, with a
couple of curls in between. By two, when I was
in the Vienna.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
State National Tank, and it'll stuck.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
To as the noon, sir, What can we do for
you this after noon?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Give you your business with me this afternoon? My hair, here,
my letter of credit, my identification card. I am Paul Mac.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Thousand messages. Of course, well my name, let's.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Give it of course of course all nine something nothing,
nothing but nothing. Everything is a popular the only year
only one?
Speaker 9 (19:14):
Can you telephone yesterday to informed that she would.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Not come here until ten tomorrow morning?
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Oh you mean being you telephone yesterday?
Speaker 9 (19:22):
It was after noon.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Surely you're doing member, surely I do remember my nare
something came up to think my plan?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
So I'm here now.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
This afternoon didn't make a difference.
Speaker 9 (19:31):
So no, no, no, surely no.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Except told you that it gets a short no to
gather the money five thousand and fifty dollars but not
twenty three thousand thousands. My here, that's the notation I
had here. I'll show you here that your telephone yesterday
that you would come tomorrow, that is a five thousand
or your.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Groups somebody made a mistake.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
A look, I've got ideal.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
I need every cent left on my letter of credit
twenty three thousand scholars with all American make a choice.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Of course, appros from did you sign this spape for me?
So that I may compare signature the formality only.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I want to.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Thank you m.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Hm, sang it, and now only moments long that I
must corroborate the machine. That's the formatic.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Oh sure, ah wait.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
M hm what m h m h m hmm, it's
all that it should be missed from that.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Your money's in this pass. Can you see thousand dollars?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Thank you?
Speaker 10 (20:49):
Nay?
Speaker 9 (20:49):
Not a thing to sign the receipt?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Oh yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
H m hm.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
That's sure. You understand how much the necessity of caution.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
However, there's the.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Thing if you don't mind it.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
I'm in a hurry.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
What's dating here?
Speaker 9 (21:08):
How does it feel?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
How does and then see when you can get into
a band ask for tens of thousands of dollars and
get it.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
M h good, feels good, wonderful.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
It's Johnny, baby.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
How up.
Speaker 13 (21:56):
There you see.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Coming?
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Oh baby, baby?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
An hour and I missed to.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Time of fool uh huh over.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
N the excitement diseasing.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Stop in a minute, the very sup of it.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Screaming and screaming at your home? How is your man
home to keep from? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Yeah, funny Lily were leaving?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Yeah yeah, what do you want?
Speaker 9 (22:31):
Lily?
Speaker 10 (22:32):
One of the.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Greens, Paris Rome, London. Dream one over me baby, Johnny
Allison makes it come true? And I grab a coat, Lily,
and this minute it's all you liveing need where it's going?
I told you whatever ride you want whatever bubble to
lay against your neck, to your fingers and your toes.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
The money you have saved is front Gate, Superintendent of
the Chief Side Peace Connivent.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
With twenty three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
What are you talking about it?
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Like I always said I were twenty three thousand dollars worth.
Now come on cover it with a coat.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
You get such money, Johnny?
Speaker 5 (23:09):
What difference? It's green? It makes a pretty sound, and
rub together, make it whisper and advise. Mink for you
and silk for me. Like I saw once in a
shopping room.
Speaker 9 (23:19):
That's a baby.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
First stop room, sir.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Johnny can look good, so Johnny.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Can look swell?
Speaker 9 (23:25):
So Johnny, can you stole it?
Speaker 5 (23:28):
I promoted this baby.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
You stole it from the American who screamed from the
top of the fair.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
See me, baby me, Johnny Alison, come on, get out.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I want no part of you me.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
You're talking to Lily, the man with the promises, the
man with the dreams.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
So don't tell me to dream men men of nothing deep.
Speaker 9 (23:50):
Who not Lily?
Speaker 12 (23:53):
Not?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I love baby?
Speaker 8 (23:55):
Not with you homis men three men You'll feed men
of angers and he makes them from morning.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Anything else you need to say.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
You had Joey and less drunk down with yourselves, down
with your stupidity, Turn with yours, joe joe jo it's Johnny.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Anything, who is Joey.
Speaker 9 (24:29):
Joey Joey. No Joy, shouldn't call me that.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Joy, you shudden?
Speaker 10 (24:49):
H uh.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
I stood over for a long time, for all the
time that we needed her, fingers done, clenched and trail
along the floor for the life to go out of her,
and then get out, walk to run.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
To the midway crowd in the ferris wheel. Moving now
midway in.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
The Palace of Fund, I'm back aged into the world
through the Hall of Mirrors, and I was on my
way answer the cloud laugh. At this time I didn't
care Johnny Allison on his way with twenty three grand
to take him wherever he wanted to go. All of Mirrors,
I know it like a boy like I knew the backup.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
Back in my hands, turn at the corner.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Way. Sometimes a guy forgets.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Palace of Fun, Hall of Mirrors. They had time to
get it and kept fun trying to get out. Whoever
I went, Johnny Allison came right back at me. I
wasn't Johnny Allison me trying to beat attention.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Gage, I didn't see myself. I wouldn't be there when.
Speaker 10 (26:18):
I would I I couldn't get along too many, too.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Many with me.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
He didn't look up her anymore.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
It didn't look like anybody I who.
Speaker 9 (26:32):
Yeah, like me? But you.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
The way she said?
Speaker 13 (26:56):
He said, oh, yes, yeah, he is there on the floor.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Mh.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
To kill a girl, turn to hide in the hall
of mirrors.
Speaker 9 (27:04):
Such stupidity, perhaps not, for here a man can laugh
and say.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
That Johnny laves the Jans.
Speaker 9 (27:15):
And here a man can observe himself.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
In a thousand mirrors.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
From every anger. That is, if a man can.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
Stand looking at himself.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Come, come, h.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
M hm.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Escape has brought you Carnival in Vienna, a story written
and directed by David Friakan and Morton Line. Featured in
the cast were Jack Moyles, William Bias, Jack Krusian, and
Hans Conried. Also heard were Barney Phillips, Robert Boone and
George Baroni. You're announcer George Walls. The special music for
Escape is composed and conducted by Leif Stephens.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Next week, you.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Are flying a plane high above the island of Masabuera
three hundred miles of the coast of Chiles.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Beside you a beautiful.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Woman, and only she knows.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
It's the last stop, the last time around, a death
trap from which there is no escape.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
So listen next week when Escape brings you Tony Barrett's
story There was a crooked man.
They don for escape. Monday morning at nine o'clock on
This is New York.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Let Bill Leonard tell you the details about his exciting
new contest. Get the contest you want to enter, So
get the details this Monday on This is New York
with Bill Leonards.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
But I'm now eight o'clock.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Somebody CBSAM and FM New York.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
Tired of the everyday grimes, have a dream of a
life of romantic adventure. Who want to get away from
it all?
Speaker 6 (00:46):
We offer you Escape.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Escape Design to free you from the four walls of today.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
For a half hour of adventure.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
You are stranded with a carnival the side of the
iron curtains one.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Out of nowhere.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
A fortune is within your grass, riding a number on
a roulette wheel hundreds of feet high? Why is your
shoulder laughing at you? A killer clown from whom there
is no escape?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Listen now as Escape brings you David Creek an important
fine story carnival in Vienna.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
In the old the role of tenements.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Used to be called the shutting off.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Then there was a war and it was called rubble,
and it was cleaned up, and it was just an
empty space. In the older part of Vienna. That's where
the carnival set up Fitch and windstands, wheels, the midway
act of the high wire for a valley rides, palm
readers and the biggest ferris wheel this side of the Rhine,
twenty carriages and a four minute ride, and myself front
(02:26):
gate Superintendent John Ashcroft Allison, the nice founding name, John
Ashcroft Allison. The help calls me hair, which is mister.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
That's the way it is.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
And there's Lily who works at Gap whenever it's needed.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
He's got red hair.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
We get along.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Five.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
Wait, Hannah us African.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
You pass a shiny thing and.
Speaker 8 (03:11):
You are anything to stop and broken.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Looks at your hair.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
One of the good boys. And now it's the American
money maroon shir think joke, can't he? And liar what
you mean?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Liar?
Speaker 8 (03:37):
You are vain, you are powdering, have nothing to be
powder of.
Speaker 9 (03:40):
You are hate me?
Speaker 5 (03:41):
You are you are?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
You mean?
Speaker 7 (03:45):
One who from another? Tell you what you when you
cleanse your hair.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
One of these days back to the stay. You'll never
go to this thing. You cannot, I know, Joey tell
you last nice and I did not want to. Oh,
I bet you didn't oh, I did not want to hear.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Joey told me you were a thought in a Statehold
your joy.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
You were a carnival as a man. Who is who
is handwriting? He least like that here?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
And once the guy wrote down and claimed for me
to analyze, and I say, the signature in ford you
for three months all over the place football.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
They almost caught up with me.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
One day. I would have told you.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
He didn't.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
I didn't do anything.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
And he told me, and he told me how you
fled from your country to yours?
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Has you met me?
Speaker 7 (04:40):
And how you been traveling from Kinnival to conten.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Come on, just what that's really one of these days
I'm going to get my hands on.
Speaker 10 (04:52):
Enough joe that's true talking about.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Probably a clown. Why don't you do something about a clown?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Why should I do something about him?
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I like him hundreds by the way he laught, but
a wooden, cloudy, wooden clown and mechanism.
Speaker 9 (05:18):
Listen to him, listen to handle.
Speaker 11 (05:23):
It's a purely mechanical love compared to cut them us
into my hall.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Of mir quite of the upset he annoy if he
makes this, Come on, I wouldn't.
Speaker 11 (05:34):
Lie a commander but as easy hair, I as if
you know your name and love that show and knows
your stop and bring like a peacock and love that.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
I just want to tell you something. Cut my advice,
change the record in that hunt and a clown.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Yeah, but what do you want to if.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
You were up on your shoulder laughing?
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Huh hands all right, it's not fatty laughing at you.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Let's forget it.
Speaker 10 (06:12):
I oh, why.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Heaven, I want to be of the I though I
love you said I love you. Watch you the phone.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
In a safety apartment. What's the man?
Speaker 9 (06:42):
Hu?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Yeah, wah, where are you going?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Just wait?
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Without being very pick and.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Dark, Joey, I want to be let's take a look.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
See that's also important.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
How about here, Joey tack of the trailer?
Speaker 10 (07:09):
What for that?
Speaker 8 (07:14):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Julia?
Speaker 10 (07:16):
What's not you?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Then? Friends?
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Haven't we jumped into each other in a silver bar?
Speaker 9 (07:21):
And Buddy's right off?
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Jo Beside the fact you're a lush you're a good boy,
good friends, good shield.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
For any conny in the world.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Right, Oh, I don't mind it.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Took a drink and spilled a lily about me. One
way or another.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
She had to find out, Well, what's this all about
heist of the wallet just now, Huh. I'm a guy,
touristly tourists, huh.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
He was with a blonde from Maxis. He had to
be a.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Tourist the way he was dressed, green short and a
feather in his hat.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Give me the wallet, ju I'm taking no one talk
to me like that, Ji coas I'm telling you.
Speaker 9 (08:02):
Come on, Jo.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Will take a lot of that.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Joey, here, Joey and you shake sure, let's see you're
right all right?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Oh my walk the mad.
Speaker 10 (08:31):
Card?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Where's a toe?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
You a ready enough?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Wait a minute?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
You know what, Joey, you'll never know.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Five half some friend of mine.
Speaker 10 (08:52):
What then I'll catch up to you. We'll catch up
to you.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I didn't look at him anymore, not at Joey. That
John Ashcroft Allison looking out at me from the aluminum
side of the trailer.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And I'm amount of a ten dollar high.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
And he winked back at me, and his lips shaped
the words I was saying, ninety three thousand dollars letter
of credit in mister Paul Max Wallace, complete with identification cards.
So I looked around for the green short A man
with a feather in his hat with a blonde from
Max and the way it happened, and I pumped into
(09:35):
them coming out of all a mirror. I trailed them
over to the ferry's wheel, watched mister Max flatdowns and
change a couple of tickets. Waited until they get into
a carriage in a wheel and started. Then I walked
over at heperism.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
A got organ high push this six wheels back?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Hey, how about you and the male Malen I never
got to see although she works right over there.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
We only get the waves then and we are both off.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
Her boyfriend comes and takes her away.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
And once you go over and talk to us, sure,
go ahead, I'll take over the wheeling.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I would certainly like to see money.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Go on, get it? They get carrotside of the river,
twenty carriages in a formative rise. Mister Paul mack from
bought the mad and the green one for the blonde,
enjoying to keep him in the carriage like get it twenty.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Three thousand dollars alp with a trick a twenty.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
To one shot goop a handful of sand and gravel
off the g into the oil intake.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Not a handful.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Four minutes with fourteen.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Times around, make trims a big sip.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Eleven we could sweet in the world, try and gap
it become a green.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
But I got my handful, Pa.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Maybe it wouldn't work.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Maybe I needed another killing me.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Maybe I.
Speaker 12 (11:36):
Haven't gon by carry green parent with a wad like
in the neck, and they bore my water and.
Speaker 9 (11:47):
A call.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
And I closed my eye. When I opened them, the
wheel it stopped spinning. Carriage at the top was green,
and I knew there wasn't a chance of that wheel
coming down for a long long time, and there wasn't
(12:12):
a ladder that high that could get them down. Twenty
three thousand dollars on a twenty to one.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Shirt, I just hit.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
You are listening to Carnival in Vienna the night's presentation
of Escape. Edgar Bergen fans will be doubly delighted with
the New Edgar Bergan Show with Charlie McCarthy, Remember Sunday
nights on most of these sacans the New Edgar Bergen
Show with Charlie McCarthy. And now back to Escape and
the second act of Carnival in Vienna.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Carnival and the big wheel not spinning anymore against the
Vienna sky and for a little while the small riot
of Carnie wound down, no attraction at it to early
afternoon with a Danube close, and all the kids took
to it, climbed the girders and hung from them like skinny.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Rag dolls and kicked their feet in.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
The watter's face was going crazy trying to fix the
Ferrett wheels, and a small detail of Russian soldiers stok
to it too, grinning up at the merchandise display of
black cotton stockings, Boedian petticoats, and at a very very
very top, oh very a gent from Boston mat with
his arms wrapped around up blonde from everywhere. I told,
(13:52):
out of the handle, it's the best way he could.
I'd round up some refugees to give my hands, and
I walked away from it, away half the gas last
the shooting gallery.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Ask him at the closing.
Speaker 10 (14:08):
The face.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Asked where the cornie started to die and got to
be mud and litter and broken straw, where the.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Trailers were mine bright and shiners.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
And the wreck because there was a displaced straw line.
Very handy with a dust cloth and needed the work
and the job class in penmanship, uh gentle, the writing
(14:39):
hands scroll circles and plants, and then Johnnie Allison into
Paul mc gm from Boston, mass Oh, Max, Oh, what.
Speaker 13 (15:13):
You're doing, Johnny boy?
Speaker 9 (15:18):
What you're doing?
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Johnny boy, the pobber snaps over the cup of Joey
drink yourself.
Speaker 13 (15:25):
Did huh huh? No, huh huh.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Maybe you don't understand because you're fussed up.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
You're not wanted, Joey.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
Oh no, that hurt.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
So that's when you say it to an old friend.
Speaker 13 (15:40):
But you could buy back my affection. I like you, Johnny, Honey,
I don't want not to like you.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Lush be the lush.
Speaker 13 (15:47):
Don't talk like that, Johnny. You made a noise like
twenty three thousand dollars when I you laugh. I don't
know the angle, but I won't end half.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Johnny appeally you have dreamed about them bother. That's her
picture of Mindy.
Speaker 13 (16:03):
What was you doing when I come in? Johnny written
a letter?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Practice you maybe get no feelings.
Speaker 13 (16:10):
Digits just says you let me see Johnny way.
Speaker 9 (16:14):
You didn't even let me spee.
Speaker 13 (16:17):
But I got something I wanted you to see, Johnny.
I brung it just to show you.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Oh h Joey Joey, You're really our fight, don't you.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Huh.
Speaker 13 (16:30):
No, all this shr gun does, Johnny, all it does
in the world is to make you and me, buddy.
I squeeze it on it just a little bit, and
all it says you hear it, Johnny, All it says
is buddy, buddy, buddy, like it was Mama dog. You
(16:50):
say half me, Johnny, say half a twenty three grand
I don't squeeze them all.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
I give it me, Joey, give me the gun, and
then you can go hip shops.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Final, gim me, Joey, you can squeeze the shop.
Speaker 13 (17:03):
Just sit right down on the floor, Johnny, so it'll
go off right between your eyes.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Give me, Joey, I'll drop it. I'll throw it away, Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Give me.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Nobody exclese you for a sucker, Johnny, boy.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
You helped me up and I Johnny.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Got to be drinker.
Speaker 10 (17:32):
This just like this.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Uh, he was as dead as I could make him.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I picked him up and carried him to my car,
propped your body in the front seat next to me.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Whoever may have seen it figured the only thing to figure.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Joey was stoned again. Johnny Allison was nursing him like
he'd done a thousand and two times. It took a
few minutes to drive out of the edge of the
Russian zone, plong it to a square block of rubble,
behind it to an alley. I opened a bottle of
schnop I'd remember to bring along, then sed out my
mouth with it and poured the red down Joey's thross.
(18:17):
I slid the bottle into his coat pocket, sneezed them
out of the car. What was in the alley with
some garbage cans straped clean, some bony dogs who just stared.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
And unknown name rush.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
In the trailer. By half past one I could forge
the signature of mister Paul Mac with the pen between
my teeth, eight letters, straight up and down, with a
couple of curls in between. By two, when I was
in the Vienna.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
State National Tank, and it'll stuck.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
To as the noon, sir, What can we do for
you this after noon?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Give you your business with me this afternoon? My hair, here,
my letter of credit, my identification card. I am Paul Mac.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Thousand messages. Of course, well my name, let's.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Give it of course of course all nine something nothing,
nothing but nothing. Everything is a popular the only year
only one?
Speaker 9 (19:14):
Can you telephone yesterday to informed that she would.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Not come here until ten tomorrow morning?
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Oh you mean being you telephone yesterday?
Speaker 9 (19:22):
It was after noon.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Surely you're doing member, surely I do remember my nare
something came up to think my plan?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
So I'm here now.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
This afternoon didn't make a difference.
Speaker 9 (19:31):
So no, no, no, surely no.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Except told you that it gets a short no to
gather the money five thousand and fifty dollars but not
twenty three thousand thousands. My here, that's the notation I
had here. I'll show you here that your telephone yesterday
that you would come tomorrow, that is a five thousand
or your.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Groups somebody made a mistake.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
A look, I've got ideal.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
I need every cent left on my letter of credit
twenty three thousand scholars with all American make a choice.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Of course, appros from did you sign this spape for me?
So that I may compare signature the formality only.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I want to.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Thank you m.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Hm, sang it, and now only moments long that I
must corroborate the machine. That's the formatic.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Oh sure, ah wait.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
M hm what m h m h m hmm, it's
all that it should be missed from that.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Your money's in this pass. Can you see thousand dollars?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Thank you?
Speaker 10 (20:49):
Nay?
Speaker 9 (20:49):
Not a thing to sign the receipt?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Oh yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
H m hm.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
That's sure. You understand how much the necessity of caution.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
However, there's the.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Thing if you don't mind it.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
I'm in a hurry.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
What's dating here?
Speaker 9 (21:08):
How does it feel?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
How does and then see when you can get into
a band ask for tens of thousands of dollars and
get it.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
M h good, feels good, wonderful.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
It's Johnny, baby.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
How up.
Speaker 13 (21:56):
There you see.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Coming?
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Oh baby, baby?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
An hour and I missed to.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Time of fool uh huh over.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
N the excitement diseasing.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Stop in a minute, the very sup of it.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Screaming and screaming at your home? How is your man
home to keep from? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Yeah, funny Lily were leaving?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Yeah yeah, what do you want?
Speaker 9 (22:31):
Lily?
Speaker 10 (22:32):
One of the.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Greens, Paris Rome, London. Dream one over me baby, Johnny
Allison makes it come true? And I grab a coat, Lily,
and this minute it's all you liveing need where it's going?
I told you whatever ride you want whatever bubble to
lay against your neck, to your fingers and your toes.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
The money you have saved is front Gate, Superintendent of
the Chief Side Peace Connivent.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
With twenty three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
What are you talking about it?
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Like I always said I were twenty three thousand dollars worth.
Now come on cover it with a coat.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
You get such money, Johnny?
Speaker 5 (23:09):
What difference? It's green? It makes a pretty sound, and
rub together, make it whisper and advise. Mink for you
and silk for me. Like I saw once in a
shopping room.
Speaker 9 (23:19):
That's a baby.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
First stop room, sir.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Johnny can look good, so Johnny.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Can look swell?
Speaker 9 (23:25):
So Johnny, can you stole it?
Speaker 5 (23:28):
I promoted this baby.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
You stole it from the American who screamed from the
top of the fair.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
See me, baby me, Johnny Alison, come on, get out.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I want no part of you me.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
You're talking to Lily, the man with the promises, the
man with the dreams.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
So don't tell me to dream men men of nothing deep.
Speaker 9 (23:50):
Who not Lily?
Speaker 12 (23:53):
Not?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I love baby?
Speaker 8 (23:55):
Not with you homis men three men You'll feed men
of angers and he makes them from morning.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Anything else you need to say.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
You had Joey and less drunk down with yourselves, down
with your stupidity, Turn with yours, joe joe jo it's Johnny.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Anything, who is Joey.
Speaker 9 (24:29):
Joey Joey. No Joy, shouldn't call me that.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Joy, you shudden?
Speaker 10 (24:49):
H uh.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
I stood over for a long time, for all the
time that we needed her, fingers done, clenched and trail
along the floor for the life to go out of her,
and then get out, walk to run.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
To the midway crowd in the ferris wheel. Moving now
midway in.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
The Palace of Fund, I'm back aged into the world
through the Hall of Mirrors, and I was on my
way answer the cloud laugh. At this time I didn't
care Johnny Allison on his way with twenty three grand
to take him wherever he wanted to go. All of Mirrors,
I know it like a boy like I knew the backup.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
Back in my hands, turn at the corner.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Way. Sometimes a guy forgets.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Palace of Fun, Hall of Mirrors. They had time to
get it and kept fun trying to get out. Whoever
I went, Johnny Allison came right back at me. I
wasn't Johnny Allison me trying to beat attention.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Gage, I didn't see myself. I wouldn't be there when.
Speaker 10 (26:18):
I would I I couldn't get along too many, too.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Many with me.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
He didn't look up her anymore.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
It didn't look like anybody I who.
Speaker 9 (26:32):
Yeah, like me? But you.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
The way she said?
Speaker 13 (26:56):
He said, oh, yes, yeah, he is there on the floor.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Mh.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
To kill a girl, turn to hide in the hall
of mirrors.
Speaker 9 (27:04):
Such stupidity, perhaps not, for here a man can laugh
and say.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
That Johnny laves the Jans.
Speaker 9 (27:15):
And here a man can observe himself.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
In a thousand mirrors.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
From every anger. That is, if a man can.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
Stand looking at himself.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Come, come, h.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
M hm.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Escape has brought you Carnival in Vienna, a story written
and directed by David Friakan and Morton Line. Featured in
the cast were Jack Moyles, William Bias, Jack Krusian, and
Hans Conried. Also heard were Barney Phillips, Robert Boone and
George Baroni. You're announcer George Walls. The special music for
Escape is composed and conducted by Leif Stephens.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Next week, you.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Are flying a plane high above the island of Masabuera
three hundred miles of the coast of Chiles.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Beside you a beautiful.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Woman, and only she knows.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
It's the last stop, the last time around, a death
trap from which there is no escape.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
So listen next week when Escape brings you Tony Barrett's
story There was a crooked man.
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