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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the smell of
guns smoke. John will Spoke, starring William Conrad, The story
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of the violence that moved west with young America, and
the story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chancey job, and it makes a man watchful,
but a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Cook.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
All right, I'll get out of here, go on home,
go home and sleep it off.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Too early for that, miss kitty.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
The sun hasn't gone down yet, and.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
It's not likely to for a spell. It just came up. No, yes, now,
go on home.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
I hate to go home when the sun's up. It's
too bright. Things don't look good in the brighter day,
Miss kitty. You can see him too clear.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Yeah, I know. With a load of whiskey you took on,
your eyes won't be open long enough to see much.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Go on home, hook, please, miss kitty. Them chairs they
cost much.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Don't worry about the chairs. Just go home.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Sometimes I gotta throw things or or hit something. I
just gotta, I know, Come.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
On, I'll walk you to the door.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
She was awful pretty, miss kitty.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah she was huh everything I buy.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Maybe if she hadn't been so pretty, I'd be making
out better now.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
You think that, I think this. You got to quit
thinking of what's past and gone and look on yourself
and the way things are now.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
I don't much wanna do that.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Oh, I don't blame 'em.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
You have a pleasant sight. Trouble is, you're the only
one who can make things better for yourself, the only
one who can grab hold of those bootstraps of yours
and put yourself up even with the world again.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Yeah, let's have a little drink on that.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Get out now, miss kitty.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
I oh, I like to see a man happy at
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his work. What do you do? Do you?
Speaker 8 (03:28):
What gives you the idems all fired happy about sweeping out?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Well? That humming for one thing? Well, of course I'm
calling it humming until I know better.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
You don't have to make light of my humming.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
Dull, I don't make light of it. It could be
mighty serious.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Serious.
Speaker 8 (03:42):
I knew a fellow once sounded just like you. You
had a bad case of katar. You ever get a
notion to give up being a friendly backwoodsy doctor, you
can make quiet name for yourself.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Well that you're talking.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Oh no, no, noes, I couldn't better leave you. Oh yes,
that's true. You keep me kind of stirred up.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Needs that too, to keep all his juices flowing properly,
And you and your juice Shore flowed out a bit
on the wrong side this morning, I'd say. But the
last time I got a bit was yesterday morning. I
sat the night by old man Hatch. He near played
out any dog, Yes, he said, I can't last much longer.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
And he's near ninety. That's coming right close to living forever.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
Awful close, jester, if you got no feeling for living anymore,
and he's got none, you know the thing that set
me off was Hook mad There. I found Hook on
the way back to town from the Hatch place you
found him at. It is sprawled drunk and passed out
in his own cornfield, his horse standing over him. He
just bound to drink all they make any If he
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wasn't so young and strong, he wouldn't have lasted this long.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Wood devil near years since we buried Sarah.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
From the looks of that house, you'd think a woman
never set.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Foot in it.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Now there's a hot he dude.
Speaker 8 (04:56):
Old man hats trying his best to die at ninety
and young hook math. They're trying for the same thing,
a good sixty years younger. Yeah, I tell you this, ester,
they're both apt to make it the rate they're gone.
Speaker 9 (05:07):
Excuse me, gentlemen, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 10 (05:10):
The stage driver said I should go to the Long Branch.
Speaker 9 (05:13):
Could you point it out to me?
Speaker 8 (05:15):
Yes, ma'am, it's just yonder down the street, right there,
if you'll excuse my pointing.
Speaker 9 (05:20):
Oh, yes, I see it.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Now we'll much obliged, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
The stage driver tell you it was a saloon.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
Yes, yes he did, Thanks kindly.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
What do you reckon she wants at the Long Branch?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Maybe she drinks? You sure can't tell by looking.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
You can tell one thing by looking, duc that there
was one homely lady.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You know, I can't remember seeing you take a drink
this early in the morning. Kitty.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
This isn't today, Matt, this is still late yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Oh how's that?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Well?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
You might say I was sitting up with a sick
friend Hook Mather spent the night at the bar again.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Why didn't you let Sam take care of it?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Last time? I did that across me two tables and
five chairs. I settled for two chairs, and I kept
him from busting until just after dawn.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
You shouldn't try to handle Hook alone, Kitty. Uh, next
time he comes in to make a night of it,
you send over for me and you'll sit up with it.
I won't mother him. I'll tell you that I've.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Been called a lot of things in my time, Matt,
but Mother's hardly ever been one.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I'll see you sure drop.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
In on old mother Russell anytime, Miss Kitty.
Speaker 10 (06:57):
Yeah, the stage driver said I should talk to you.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It did.
Speaker 9 (07:01):
He said you were the most understanding woman in Dodge City.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Oh, the things that are happening to my reputation.
Speaker 10 (07:09):
I'm afraid I don't understand, and that's what's wrong.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Neither do I.
Speaker 9 (07:13):
I don't wanna bother you. I guess you're busy.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Oh I'm not busy, honey, I'm dead on my feet.
Speaker 9 (07:20):
Oh I'm sorry, I really am.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
You just got in on the stage just minutes ago. Really,
what's your name?
Speaker 9 (07:30):
Irma Crown? Miss irma crown.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Well, miss sir mcclown, why don't you have supper with
me this evening? Huh oh, my goodness, And I'm supposed
to be understanding about it. We'll both stand a better
chance at supper time.
Speaker 9 (07:44):
All right, what, yes, yes, all right, good, I declare
my goodness. I don't know what I expected, but well,
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everything's so different out here.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Dodge City isn't something anyone expects. It just happens sooner
or lady, you get.
Speaker 9 (08:14):
Used to I guess if you're from Harrisburg, you're not
really ready to expect anything except Harrisburg. What's this place called?
Deal Monica's sounds so fancy del Monica's, but.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
It tastes a plain. You must have had a reason
for coming to Dodger moo oh, yes, indeed to get married.
Well that's wonderful.
Speaker 9 (08:38):
Well, I hope it is. That's why I came.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Well, if you're marrying someone from here, maybe I know him.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
I suppose it'll be someone from here.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
How's that?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Well?
Speaker 9 (08:49):
I cut the clipping out of the newspaper back home.
I got so many things in my purse here. Some
reporter from the east came out west and wrote back
about the crime need for women on the frontier, how
men long for home and families and with no women's
in here somewhere. Well, since you know the gist of
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the story, it is true, isn't it, Miss Kitty.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
There are lots more men than women out here. That's true.
Speaker 9 (09:22):
I'm glad to hear that firsthand. You might say, Well,
when I read it, I showed it to Mama, and
we both agreed I should come out and do my part.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
You came as a sort of a patriotic.
Speaker 9 (09:35):
Gesture, Mama said, We crowned women never shirked our duty
to country. Yet why in the war, when they brought
the wounded to the courthouse, Mama and me saw to them.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
You ever been married?
Speaker 9 (09:45):
No?
Speaker 10 (09:45):
What does that matter?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
No, no, of course not. I was just wondering, you
mean about my age.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
I'm not young anymore.
Speaker 10 (09:55):
But I thought, if the need was so great, maybe
it wouldn't matter out here.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
What did you tell the stage driver that he sent you.
Speaker 9 (10:05):
To me, that I'd run out of money?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Oh? He said.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
You had girls at.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
The Long Branch, sort of hostesses, the way he described them,
to greet the men and talk to them and make
them feel at home.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
And that's what he said, was it?
Speaker 9 (10:19):
You do use girls?
Speaker 11 (10:21):
Don't you?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Why use girls?
Speaker 9 (10:23):
He was a very pleasant man. He was so considerate too.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I'll bet you're a good cook.
Speaker 9 (10:30):
Well I am. I know pride's not be coming to
a woman, but I am prideful about.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
My way with food, And yes, so too, don't you?
Speaker 9 (10:41):
Since I was born seems like well, this traveling suit
and the hat, every stitch is mine. And I'm clean,
miss Kitty, about my person and my surroundings. I keep
everything just like a parlor. But I wouldn't think these
things are what you'd look.
Speaker 12 (10:56):
For in a hostess.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
They aren't her, Ma, and I don't understand. I guess
I'm saying a woman how to do what she's best
fitted for. The girls the long branch well up, that's
just saying they're not much for cooking and sewing and
redding them.
Speaker 9 (11:14):
But they meet men, don't they?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
They meet men.
Speaker 10 (11:21):
Well, it's not just my age you're holding against me, is.
Speaker 12 (11:24):
It, miss Kitty.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I'm not holding your age against you.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
M don't fear for hurting my feelings. I live with
it all the time. Mama says I'm playing. It pleases
her to say it that way, But I know I'm
a very homely woman.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
You got a place to stay on.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
M I told you I've got no money.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Well, Mars smile is used to that. She's got a
boarding house, nice one, and no one who can sew
and cook and clean up is gonna be without money
very long. In this time, I'll take you over to Mars.
Speaker 13 (11:56):
Mm.
Speaker 9 (11:57):
I'm much obliged to you, Ierma.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Being homely as one thing, but thinking you are for
a woman that's unforgivable.
Speaker 9 (12:29):
Oh and look at that, My goodness, Marshal, you gave
me a fright.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
What on earth you're going to that stove?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Em Well, all I meant.
Speaker 10 (12:40):
To do was set the apple dumplings down on it
and go on my way.
Speaker 9 (12:43):
But when I saw the shape, it was.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
No matter where that something broken.
Speaker 9 (12:46):
It seems to work all right, but it's as dirty
as stove as I ever laid us on.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Oh yeah, I guess.
Speaker 9 (12:52):
It is takelywater to do any real good, and the
best part of a day going at it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
It seems to me you've got enough work without looking
for more.
Speaker 10 (13:01):
Folks have been awful kind to me, Marshall, more than
I deserve.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
When you make apple dumplings like that.
Speaker 10 (13:10):
There's three for you and Chester and Doc if he
comes by.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Well, uh, I'll try to remember who they're for.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
I made them up to sell to dal Monico's and
just tuck those extras in for you gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Well, that's real nice of her. You know you're the
most talked about Lady and Dodge these.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
Days for my cooking, my sewing.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Well that's not an insult, you know, Oh, I.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
Know, and I'm grateful, I truly am. Well, i'll say
good day to you, Marshall. You'll remember me to Chester
and to die.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I'll be glad to wear mine. Uh many, thanks for.
Speaker 9 (13:44):
The dumplins my place.
Speaker 13 (13:46):
Your Marshall, stop it, leave him alone place.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Finish him off. All right, that's enough.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I'm sitting to him, Marshall.
Speaker 11 (14:07):
Just sit at the second I use your head play.
How about how about him using his just once in
a while.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Look after hook, Kenny.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I can see him here. He's half dead, all.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Right, Clay? What started him? You sure? Sure him? He
fell on me.
Speaker 11 (14:23):
Every time he went past my chair, he fell right
on top of me. I got tired of shoving him off.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
And I can't blame you for that. But you got
no right to start flailing away at him the way
he is now. He's too drunk to stand up and
see kid.
Speaker 11 (14:36):
He shouldn't have him around and muttering and crying around
gives me the willie.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
He's awful, hurt.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Better got him up to the docks. Give me a hand,
Clay when him all right?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
But don't get the idea.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I'm sorry I took him on. Somebody had to. I
won't talk about that later. Come on, he had dead weight, sure, Marcia,
poor mister Hook.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
You're carrying him to docs.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (15:15):
Well, I'll just go along with you. It might be
I could bend a hand.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Well, I'll tell her this. It opened your eyes. But
that woman's down out there at Hook's place.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
I didn't know she'd gone out there, and.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
I've been there a good couple of weeks now, hasn't she?
What's all of that man? And there's no doubt in
my mind he owes his life to irma. Oh he
was a mess when you hauled him up to my place.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Man, Yeah, I know, well.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I should don't know who'd have cared for him the
way she is. He's gonna be.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
All right down he's as good as well, now, kiddie.
And it's not just what she's done for he is. Oh,
Sarah never kept his house nicer.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I'll bet she's been spoon feeding him that good cooking
in hers too.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Why do you think Doc's made so many calls out there?
Speaker 8 (16:12):
I'm not one to deny it.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, she's a good woman, one of the best men.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I just hope she doesn't get hurt by it.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Hook's grateful enough to answer you that.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
What's gonna hurt her? Kitty?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Oh, she has her heart set on something more than gratitude.
Let it hurt her bad.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I guess he'll pay her, all right, pay her?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
What's so insulting about that?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
If a woman's got Marrin on her mind, there's just
one thing worse than a man's gratitude, and that's his money.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Kitty, Irma Crown's not the merry and kind, yo, sure not.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
She's just one of those good souls bound to look
out for the four.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Yeah. I suppose you tell her that she and Hook
just came in.
Speaker 9 (16:54):
Well, if Chester were here, it'd be most everyone we
want to see, wouldn't it Hook.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, I guess so I'll just sit on her many.
Speaker 8 (17:02):
Maybe here, I'll draw up another.
Speaker 9 (17:04):
We're not stay anything, so we've got to stop by
mass Molly's.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
And can I tell them what you might as well?
Speaker 9 (17:10):
We were being married hooking me?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Well congratulations, Yes, indeed, a hearty congratulations.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
You look wonderful, Irma. I know you must be happy.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
You know better than anyone, kitty. Remember what you said,
A woman should do what she's best fitted for.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I remember who I am.
Speaker 9 (17:30):
I truly am.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I wish every happiness.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, good luck to you. Well, we better move along, Irma.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
I should say, we had so much to do, and
we're marrying on our way out of town.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
You come and see us now, right soon?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Right go by? Don't you sure call the turn on
that kiddy?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Any woman could have called it.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Hey, wait a minute, not so quick.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Yeah, you were right about herma, but you were wrong
about a hook.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Well, what I said still goes. I just hope she
doesn't get hurt.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Don't you think it is all right to do?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I dropping on a hooking hermot It was your right?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Tea?
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Oh, I know that was back up the piece. Now
now I get in here. I kindly wonder about it
being so soon after.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
The wedding all three weeks. That's not so soon.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Well maybe not only.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Look, if you don't want some coffee and a piece
of pie, you can stay right here or right on
under the dodge.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Well you you right, chr.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
She'll have pie, she'll have something fresh back.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
I'm sure that I'll just keep you coming in and going.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
That's mighty obliging a us, Yes it is.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Ain't nobody stirring around outside trying.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
If houcks likely out in the field.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
I don't smell no big goods. You don't.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
You just stay out here and sniff if he.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Once no, I'm coming, I'm coming.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
There?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Am I huck anybody home?
Speaker 14 (19:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I take a look out back on? Did Chester?
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Arem?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I arem? I Marshall Dylon.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Don't care here quick?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Huh? If you don't, this is terrible. Uck. He's dead
just as dead.
Speaker 15 (19:48):
Yeah, he's been dead. Chester, Come on, arema?
Speaker 10 (20:02):
I heard you, Marshall, but I couldn't make you hear me.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
We're all bruising.
Speaker 11 (20:09):
Beat her her m.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
What happened here?
Speaker 12 (20:11):
What happened to be? Marshall?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Who does it?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Cook?
Speaker 9 (20:14):
And me?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
We did it together? Chester got a cold cloth? Yes,
you mean he beat you and I killed him?
Speaker 12 (20:25):
Marshall.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
There was no accident.
Speaker 9 (20:29):
I meant to kill him, Holly.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
He abused you this way. You uh, you hurt bad.
Speaker 12 (20:38):
You know I'm dying, but it's alright. I don't mind
the dying.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Here like Chester. That's so feel something better.
Speaker 12 (20:49):
Em Mm it's cold cold, yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Did uh? Did he just beat you without any reason?
Speaker 12 (20:59):
M Her cadderis and he used it all the time.
She was pretty, Sarah was You're ugly? He said, ugly
and old. You tell, Kitty Marshall. It wasn't the beatings.
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It was hearing that word over and over, ugly, ugly.
That's why I killed him, cause that word was killing me.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Rema, Rema, she goney. She's gone.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Ok her Now.
Speaker 14 (21:50):
She looks peaceful, and she looks almost almost pretty, Yes,
she almost pretty.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
M I wish she knew. I wish to the devil
she knew.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Gun Smoke, produced and directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald,
stars William Conrad as Matt Dylan Us Marshall. The story
was specially written for Gun Smoke by Kathleen Hight, with
editorial supervision by John Meston. Featured in the cast were
Virginia Gregg and Vic Perrin. Harley Bear is Chester, Word
mcneer is doc, and Georgia Ellis is kidding. This is
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George Walsh inviting you to join us again next week.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
On guns.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
Guns.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Smoke has come.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
To you through the worldwide facilities of the United States
Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
Speaker 12 (24:04):
INT
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the smell of
guns smoke. John will Spoke, starring William Conrad, The story
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of the violence that moved west with young America, and
the story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chancey job, and it makes a man watchful,
but a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Cook.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
All right, I'll get out of here, go on home,
go home and sleep it off.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Too early for that, miss kitty.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
The sun hasn't gone down yet, and.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
It's not likely to for a spell. It just came up. No, yes, now,
go on home.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
I hate to go home when the sun's up. It's
too bright. Things don't look good in the brighter day,
Miss kitty. You can see him too clear.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Yeah, I know. With a load of whiskey you took on,
your eyes won't be open long enough to see much.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Go on home, hook, please, miss kitty. Them chairs they
cost much.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Don't worry about the chairs. Just go home.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Sometimes I gotta throw things or or hit something. I
just gotta, I know, Come.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
On, I'll walk you to the door.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
She was awful pretty, miss kitty.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah she was huh everything I buy.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Maybe if she hadn't been so pretty, I'd be making
out better now.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
You think that, I think this. You got to quit
thinking of what's past and gone and look on yourself
and the way things are now.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
I don't much wanna do that.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Oh, I don't blame 'em.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
You have a pleasant sight. Trouble is, you're the only
one who can make things better for yourself, the only
one who can grab hold of those bootstraps of yours
and put yourself up even with the world again.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Yeah, let's have a little drink on that.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Get out now, miss kitty.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
I oh, I like to see a man happy at
(03:25):
his work. What do you do? Do you?
Speaker 8 (03:28):
What gives you the idems all fired happy about sweeping out?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Well? That humming for one thing? Well, of course I'm
calling it humming until I know better.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
You don't have to make light of my humming.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
Dull, I don't make light of it. It could be
mighty serious.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Serious.
Speaker 8 (03:42):
I knew a fellow once sounded just like you. You
had a bad case of katar. You ever get a
notion to give up being a friendly backwoodsy doctor, you
can make quiet name for yourself.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Well that you're talking.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Oh no, no, noes, I couldn't better leave you. Oh yes,
that's true. You keep me kind of stirred up.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Needs that too, to keep all his juices flowing properly,
And you and your juice Shore flowed out a bit
on the wrong side this morning, I'd say. But the
last time I got a bit was yesterday morning. I
sat the night by old man Hatch. He near played
out any dog, Yes, he said, I can't last much longer.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
And he's near ninety. That's coming right close to living forever.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
Awful close, jester, if you got no feeling for living anymore,
and he's got none, you know the thing that set
me off was Hook mad There. I found Hook on
the way back to town from the Hatch place you
found him at. It is sprawled drunk and passed out
in his own cornfield, his horse standing over him. He
just bound to drink all they make any If he
(04:44):
wasn't so young and strong, he wouldn't have lasted this long.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Wood devil near years since we buried Sarah.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
From the looks of that house, you'd think a woman
never set.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Foot in it.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Now there's a hot he dude.
Speaker 8 (04:56):
Old man hats trying his best to die at ninety
and young hook math. They're trying for the same thing,
a good sixty years younger. Yeah, I tell you this, ester,
they're both apt to make it the rate they're gone.
Speaker 9 (05:07):
Excuse me, gentlemen, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 10 (05:10):
The stage driver said I should go to the Long Branch.
Speaker 9 (05:13):
Could you point it out to me?
Speaker 8 (05:15):
Yes, ma'am, it's just yonder down the street, right there,
if you'll excuse my pointing.
Speaker 9 (05:20):
Oh, yes, I see it.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Now we'll much obliged, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
The stage driver tell you it was a saloon.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
Yes, yes he did, Thanks kindly.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
What do you reckon she wants at the Long Branch?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Maybe she drinks? You sure can't tell by looking.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
You can tell one thing by looking, duc that there
was one homely lady.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You know, I can't remember seeing you take a drink
this early in the morning. Kitty.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
This isn't today, Matt, this is still late yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Oh how's that?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Well?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
You might say I was sitting up with a sick
friend Hook Mather spent the night at the bar again.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Why didn't you let Sam take care of it?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Last time? I did that across me two tables and
five chairs. I settled for two chairs, and I kept
him from busting until just after dawn.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
You shouldn't try to handle Hook alone, Kitty. Uh, next
time he comes in to make a night of it,
you send over for me and you'll sit up with it.
I won't mother him. I'll tell you that I've.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Been called a lot of things in my time, Matt,
but Mother's hardly ever been one.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I'll see you sure drop.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
In on old mother Russell anytime, Miss Kitty.
Speaker 10 (06:57):
Yeah, the stage driver said I should talk to you.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It did.
Speaker 9 (07:01):
He said you were the most understanding woman in Dodge City.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Oh, the things that are happening to my reputation.
Speaker 10 (07:09):
I'm afraid I don't understand, and that's what's wrong.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Neither do I.
Speaker 9 (07:13):
I don't wanna bother you. I guess you're busy.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Oh I'm not busy, honey, I'm dead on my feet.
Speaker 9 (07:20):
Oh I'm sorry, I really am.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
You just got in on the stage just minutes ago. Really,
what's your name?
Speaker 9 (07:30):
Irma Crown? Miss irma crown.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Well, miss sir mcclown, why don't you have supper with
me this evening? Huh oh, my goodness, And I'm supposed
to be understanding about it. We'll both stand a better
chance at supper time.
Speaker 9 (07:44):
All right, what, yes, yes, all right, good, I declare
my goodness. I don't know what I expected, but well,
(08:07):
everything's so different out here.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Dodge City isn't something anyone expects. It just happens sooner
or lady, you get.
Speaker 9 (08:14):
Used to I guess if you're from Harrisburg, you're not
really ready to expect anything except Harrisburg. What's this place called?
Deal Monica's sounds so fancy del Monica's, but.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
It tastes a plain. You must have had a reason
for coming to Dodger moo oh, yes, indeed to get married.
Well that's wonderful.
Speaker 9 (08:38):
Well, I hope it is. That's why I came.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Well, if you're marrying someone from here, maybe I know him.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
I suppose it'll be someone from here.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
How's that?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Well?
Speaker 9 (08:49):
I cut the clipping out of the newspaper back home.
I got so many things in my purse here. Some
reporter from the east came out west and wrote back
about the crime need for women on the frontier, how
men long for home and families and with no women's
in here somewhere. Well, since you know the gist of
(09:12):
the story, it is true, isn't it, Miss Kitty.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
There are lots more men than women out here. That's true.
Speaker 9 (09:22):
I'm glad to hear that firsthand. You might say, Well,
when I read it, I showed it to Mama, and
we both agreed I should come out and do my part.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
You came as a sort of a patriotic.
Speaker 9 (09:35):
Gesture, Mama said, We crowned women never shirked our duty
to country. Yet why in the war, when they brought
the wounded to the courthouse, Mama and me saw to them.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
You ever been married?
Speaker 9 (09:45):
No?
Speaker 10 (09:45):
What does that matter?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
No, no, of course not. I was just wondering, you
mean about my age.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
I'm not young anymore.
Speaker 10 (09:55):
But I thought, if the need was so great, maybe
it wouldn't matter out here.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
What did you tell the stage driver that he sent you.
Speaker 9 (10:05):
To me, that I'd run out of money?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Oh? He said.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
You had girls at.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
The Long Branch, sort of hostesses, the way he described them,
to greet the men and talk to them and make
them feel at home.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
And that's what he said, was it?
Speaker 9 (10:19):
You do use girls?
Speaker 11 (10:21):
Don't you?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Why use girls?
Speaker 9 (10:23):
He was a very pleasant man. He was so considerate too.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I'll bet you're a good cook.
Speaker 9 (10:30):
Well I am. I know pride's not be coming to
a woman, but I am prideful about.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
My way with food, And yes, so too, don't you?
Speaker 9 (10:41):
Since I was born seems like well, this traveling suit
and the hat, every stitch is mine. And I'm clean,
miss Kitty, about my person and my surroundings. I keep
everything just like a parlor. But I wouldn't think these
things are what you'd look.
Speaker 12 (10:56):
For in a hostess.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
They aren't her, Ma, and I don't understand. I guess
I'm saying a woman how to do what she's best
fitted for. The girls the long branch well up, that's
just saying they're not much for cooking and sewing and
redding them.
Speaker 9 (11:14):
But they meet men, don't they?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
They meet men.
Speaker 10 (11:21):
Well, it's not just my age you're holding against me, is.
Speaker 12 (11:24):
It, miss Kitty.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I'm not holding your age against you.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
M don't fear for hurting my feelings. I live with
it all the time. Mama says I'm playing. It pleases
her to say it that way, But I know I'm
a very homely woman.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
You got a place to stay on.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
M I told you I've got no money.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Well, Mars smile is used to that. She's got a
boarding house, nice one, and no one who can sew
and cook and clean up is gonna be without money
very long. In this time, I'll take you over to Mars.
Speaker 13 (11:56):
Mm.
Speaker 9 (11:57):
I'm much obliged to you, Ierma.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Being homely as one thing, but thinking you are for
a woman that's unforgivable.
Speaker 9 (12:29):
Oh and look at that, My goodness, Marshal, you gave
me a fright.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
What on earth you're going to that stove?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Em Well, all I meant.
Speaker 10 (12:40):
To do was set the apple dumplings down on it
and go on my way.
Speaker 9 (12:43):
But when I saw the shape, it was.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
No matter where that something broken.
Speaker 9 (12:46):
It seems to work all right, but it's as dirty
as stove as I ever laid us on.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Oh yeah, I guess.
Speaker 9 (12:52):
It is takelywater to do any real good, and the
best part of a day going at it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
It seems to me you've got enough work without looking
for more.
Speaker 10 (13:01):
Folks have been awful kind to me, Marshall, more than
I deserve.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
When you make apple dumplings like that.
Speaker 10 (13:10):
There's three for you and Chester and Doc if he
comes by.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Well, uh, I'll try to remember who they're for.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
I made them up to sell to dal Monico's and
just tuck those extras in for you gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Well, that's real nice of her. You know you're the
most talked about Lady and Dodge these.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
Days for my cooking, my sewing.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Well that's not an insult, you know, Oh, I.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
Know, and I'm grateful, I truly am. Well, i'll say
good day to you, Marshall. You'll remember me to Chester
and to die.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I'll be glad to wear mine. Uh many, thanks for.
Speaker 9 (13:44):
The dumplins my place.
Speaker 13 (13:46):
Your Marshall, stop it, leave him alone place.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Finish him off. All right, that's enough.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I'm sitting to him, Marshall.
Speaker 11 (14:07):
Just sit at the second I use your head play.
How about how about him using his just once in
a while.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Look after hook, Kenny.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I can see him here. He's half dead, all.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Right, Clay? What started him? You sure? Sure him? He
fell on me.
Speaker 11 (14:23):
Every time he went past my chair, he fell right
on top of me. I got tired of shoving him off.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
And I can't blame you for that. But you got
no right to start flailing away at him the way
he is now. He's too drunk to stand up and
see kid.
Speaker 11 (14:36):
He shouldn't have him around and muttering and crying around
gives me the willie.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
He's awful, hurt.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Better got him up to the docks. Give me a hand,
Clay when him all right?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
But don't get the idea.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I'm sorry I took him on. Somebody had to. I
won't talk about that later. Come on, he had dead weight, sure, Marcia,
poor mister Hook.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
You're carrying him to docs.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (15:15):
Well, I'll just go along with you. It might be
I could bend a hand.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Well, I'll tell her this. It opened your eyes. But
that woman's down out there at Hook's place.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
I didn't know she'd gone out there, and.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
I've been there a good couple of weeks now, hasn't she?
What's all of that man? And there's no doubt in
my mind he owes his life to irma. Oh he
was a mess when you hauled him up to my place.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Man, Yeah, I know, well.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I should don't know who'd have cared for him the
way she is. He's gonna be.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
All right down he's as good as well, now, kiddie.
And it's not just what she's done for he is. Oh,
Sarah never kept his house nicer.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I'll bet she's been spoon feeding him that good cooking
in hers too.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Why do you think Doc's made so many calls out there?
Speaker 8 (16:12):
I'm not one to deny it.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, she's a good woman, one of the best men.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I just hope she doesn't get hurt by it.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Hook's grateful enough to answer you that.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
What's gonna hurt her? Kitty?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Oh, she has her heart set on something more than gratitude.
Let it hurt her bad.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I guess he'll pay her, all right, pay her?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
What's so insulting about that?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
If a woman's got Marrin on her mind, there's just
one thing worse than a man's gratitude, and that's his money.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Kitty, Irma Crown's not the merry and kind, yo, sure not.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
She's just one of those good souls bound to look
out for the four.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Yeah. I suppose you tell her that she and Hook
just came in.
Speaker 9 (16:54):
Well, if Chester were here, it'd be most everyone we
want to see, wouldn't it Hook.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, I guess so I'll just sit on her many.
Speaker 8 (17:02):
Maybe here, I'll draw up another.
Speaker 9 (17:04):
We're not stay anything, so we've got to stop by
mass Molly's.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
And can I tell them what you might as well?
Speaker 9 (17:10):
We were being married hooking me?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Well congratulations, Yes, indeed, a hearty congratulations.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
You look wonderful, Irma. I know you must be happy.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
You know better than anyone, kitty. Remember what you said,
A woman should do what she's best fitted for.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I remember who I am.
Speaker 9 (17:30):
I truly am.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I wish every happiness.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, good luck to you. Well, we better move along, Irma.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
I should say, we had so much to do, and
we're marrying on our way out of town.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
You come and see us now, right soon?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Right go by? Don't you sure call the turn on
that kiddy?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Any woman could have called it.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Hey, wait a minute, not so quick.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Yeah, you were right about herma, but you were wrong
about a hook.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Well, what I said still goes. I just hope she
doesn't get hurt.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Don't you think it is all right to do?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I dropping on a hooking hermot It was your right?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Tea?
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Oh, I know that was back up the piece. Now
now I get in here. I kindly wonder about it
being so soon after.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
The wedding all three weeks. That's not so soon.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Well maybe not only.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Look, if you don't want some coffee and a piece
of pie, you can stay right here or right on
under the dodge.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Well you you right, chr.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
She'll have pie, she'll have something fresh back.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
I'm sure that I'll just keep you coming in and going.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
That's mighty obliging a us, Yes it is.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Ain't nobody stirring around outside trying.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
If houcks likely out in the field.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
I don't smell no big goods. You don't.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
You just stay out here and sniff if he.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Once no, I'm coming, I'm coming.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
There?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Am I huck anybody home?
Speaker 14 (19:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I take a look out back on? Did Chester?
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Arem?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I arem? I Marshall Dylon.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Don't care here quick?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Huh? If you don't, this is terrible. Uck. He's dead
just as dead.
Speaker 15 (19:48):
Yeah, he's been dead. Chester, Come on, arema?
Speaker 10 (20:02):
I heard you, Marshall, but I couldn't make you hear me.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
We're all bruising.
Speaker 11 (20:09):
Beat her her m.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
What happened here?
Speaker 12 (20:11):
What happened to be? Marshall?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Who does it?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Cook?
Speaker 9 (20:14):
And me?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
We did it together? Chester got a cold cloth? Yes,
you mean he beat you and I killed him?
Speaker 12 (20:25):
Marshall.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
There was no accident.
Speaker 9 (20:29):
I meant to kill him, Holly.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
He abused you this way. You uh, you hurt bad.
Speaker 12 (20:38):
You know I'm dying, but it's alright. I don't mind
the dying.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Here like Chester. That's so feel something better.
Speaker 12 (20:49):
Em Mm it's cold cold, yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Did uh? Did he just beat you without any reason?
Speaker 12 (20:59):
M Her cadderis and he used it all the time.
She was pretty, Sarah was You're ugly? He said, ugly
and old. You tell, Kitty Marshall. It wasn't the beatings.
(21:20):
It was hearing that word over and over, ugly, ugly.
That's why I killed him, cause that word was killing me.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Rema, Rema, she goney. She's gone.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Ok her Now.
Speaker 14 (21:50):
She looks peaceful, and she looks almost almost pretty, Yes,
she almost pretty.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
M I wish she knew. I wish to the devil
she knew.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Gun Smoke, produced and directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald,
stars William Conrad as Matt Dylan Us Marshall. The story
was specially written for Gun Smoke by Kathleen Hight, with
editorial supervision by John Meston. Featured in the cast were
Virginia Gregg and Vic Perrin. Harley Bear is Chester, Word
mcneer is doc, and Georgia Ellis is kidding. This is
(23:04):
George Walsh inviting you to join us again next week.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
On guns.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
Guns.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Smoke has come.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
To you through the worldwide facilities of the United States
Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
Speaker 12 (24:04):
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