August 9, 2025 • 45 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents. Come in Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm a g.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Marshall, Work said, the great physician. Work is the open
sesame to every portal, the great equalizer in the world,
the true Philosopher's Stone, which transmutes all the base metal
of humanity into gold. Yes, work is the true magic
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that turns the trick. And while most of us pay
lip service to that belief, so many of us spend
so much time looking for an easier, more pleasant magic,
which is why we have stories like the one you're
about to hear.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Hello said you.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Uh yes, h m mister Poole. What seems to be
the trouble.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's a's trying to county.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Now, why should anyone want to kid you don't?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Oh oh yeah, you're the stone. Uh well, there's nothing
to worry about.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Everything to any about you don't.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Better get over here, but I'll lose my job.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
You better come try to kine.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Mister poole. Mister Poole. Our mystery drama, The Philosopher's Stone
was written especially for.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
The Mystery Theory by Sam Dan and.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Stars Russell Horton, is sponsored in part by Contact The
Twelve Hour Cold capsule. I'll be that shortly with at one.
What a beautiful word is faith? What a heartwarming concept,
(02:13):
What a glorious way of life? And yet faith is
not only for dreamers and idealists. No matter how cold
or cruel or practical you may find the.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
World, it is still fueled and fired by faith.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
We must have faith that all of us will keep
our agreements and perform our beauties. Faith that the person
who is driving knows enough to keep in his or
her own faith. Let us meet a man who has
put faith.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
On a practical, everyday basis.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
He is Harry Lawson, Assistant manager of the Valley Federal Banks.
Are you're waiting to see me? I here the passion
who names many broth determs, an once you needed, but
I don't need much? Well, no, I'm the one you
want to see, so once you.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Do, play, thank you. My name is Pool less to
pool each odlish name.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yes, yes, So how much money do you need?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Man?
Speaker 6 (03:16):
How much money does any man really need?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:18):
But I suppose you require a specific isn't it a
city stopic ant? One dollars? One hundred dollars? Is that
too much?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Actually it may be too little.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
But I really don't need more at this time.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
So, well, do you have a job or a source
of income?
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Reallly, if I had either, I shouldn't be here for
a loan.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
By Are you saying that you're unemployed? No? Oh, well
where do you work at home? On my own pursuits? Well,
can you put up any collateral? What nature? Well youre's
something that is worth one hundred dollars?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Are you saying I have to have a hundred dollars
before I can borrow a hundred dollars?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I'm sorry, but I didn't write the rules, you know,
without collateral or some color. Oh, but I do have collaterals? Oh, well,
in what form? What does it work?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
But I suppose you could say it's all the west
in the world?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Or what is it?
Speaker 6 (04:24):
If I had it here in my pocket? I carry
it with me all times?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, she but what is it?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Gris?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
What does it appear to be? Well, it looks like
a marble, because actually it's it's made of age.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, well that's what I said. It looks like a marble,
you know, the kind of thing kids play marbles with.
I mean, is this your collateral? This is worth one
hundred dollars? But first I.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Tell you what it is, then you can tell me
what it rass. This happens to be the Philosopher's Stone. No, Shirley,
you've heard of the Philosopher's Stone.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Well, yes, I think so. It was the most widely
sought secret of the ancient and medieval words.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
It could turn base metals into color.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
All right, ready here on my desk, my nameplate a
base metal, turn it to gold, and your problem is solve.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Oh, I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
But you say that thing is the Philosopher's stone. Pease, Olin,
why don't you use it? I don't know how Ollen,
How can you be sure is what you claim?
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Do you think I'm mad?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Sir? I really don't know how I could possibly approve
this loan.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
I do need the money very badly.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well tell me how can you be sure that it's
the philosopher whole?
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Sometimes I look into it, I see these cloudy blue
and gray colors become bit misty and dissolved and turn
into two forms and.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Shapes, or what kind of forms and shapes?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Who could you say?
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Maybe you can see them too. It's going to hold
it up to the light. Yeah, do you see anything?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Oh? I don't don't know. I'm not sure.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Do you see the smoke and esteem? Do you see
stone walls of the old alchemist laboratory? Can do you?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I don't know, but I know.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
I know this is the Philosopher's stone?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
But how to use it?
Speaker 6 (06:32):
And sorry I took up your time, sir, mister Poole.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Hmmm uh, I'm gonna make an exception in your case.
I'll lend you one hundred dollars. I am going to
take a chance on you, but.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
You are not taking any chance at all. Here's the stone.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I wouldn't know how to use it either. Here philos
but I insisted.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
To accept this is collateral.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Well oh all right, all right, now this is a
thirty day No, don't believe the line around in your
desk drawer.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
You have could do weigh in your deepest, most secure vault.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
It'll be safe enough here, mister pool.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
No, there's blood in mid stone. Look look at it closely.
Sometime there are those who would kill for it.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Now, just sign the form and I'll give you one
hundred dollars, and in thirty days, when you repay the money,
you may redeem the stone. But god it, please believe
me got the stone with your life. Oh yes, missus Jefferies,
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please come in.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
First.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Here's your blue tie. Oh thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I borrowed it and you're thanking me for bringing it
back its figures.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
But I told you, missus Jeffrey, if you see something
around here that you need and I'm not using it,
or just just feel free.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Uh. The the mister needed a blue tie to go
with his blue suit. He had to see about a
job this morning.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Oh I hope you got it.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, he got.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
It this morning. They lost it this afternoon. That's far
for the course.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Oh let's see what else? Oh yeah, yeah, Uh, Jason
had to have a pen for school, so we come
up here and took on to yours. But he he
lost it someplace, so it's gone.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Oh well that's all right.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
No, no, it ain't all right, but let's leave it.
Go getting done the business? It uh so ready the tenth.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Of the month, Yes, I know?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Uh so, Uh where's the rent?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Well?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Can you wait till Friday? Payday?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (08:46):
Up to your old tricks?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Huh what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Well, you know what I mean. You've been lending people
money again out of your own pocket, and that's why
you're short.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
What are you gonna do when I know a person
really needs the money and can't qualify for a loan.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I thought you was gonna cut that out. You're gonna
lose your job. I mean that that brother of yours,
he's gonna put up with just so much.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And then yeah, yeah, yeah, I know a.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Person walks in, you gotta ask for what's that thing again?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Collateral?
Speaker 5 (09:19):
You know that's the way it's got to be.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Understand, starting tomorrow, you ask for that old collateral.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Well, actually I started today.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah, maybe we got an age of miracles coming up.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
You should see what I accepted for collateral on one
loan today. What us missus, Jeffries, I want you to
look at this and tell me what you think it is.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It's a marble, like the kind Jason place.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But hold it up to the light now, look look,
look closely. Yeah, tell me tell me what you see.
What's to think? Look closely?
Speaker 5 (09:58):
I still don't see nothing.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Well, what are the colors?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Blue and gray?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Do they look like like clouds and they could be clouds?
Do they seem to be moving? No, you don't see
any forms or any shapes.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
It's just an ordinary marble here.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Thank you, Missus Jeffery for what.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
See if you can swing their rent by the end
of the week, cant.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh yeah, I'll definitely try it.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, good night. Oh h how you doing with that,
missus Roselawn? Oh whoa, I know you didn't do nothing.
I thought we decided you was going to ask her
out to dinner.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
You know, we compromise on lunch, remember so well, I'm
working up to it. I don't know if I'm gonna
live that long. Oh, Missus Jeffrey, she she's really she's
really very beautiful. I can't imagine why she would want to.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Go with me.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Yeah, why do I even bother?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Well, good morning, miss Roselan.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Oh, good morning, mister Lawson.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yes, I understand my brother Dennis Lawson wants to see me, right, Yeah,
well i'd better go in and see him.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Then, yes, mister Lawson.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yes, well it's it's a very pretty morning, wouldn't you say,
Miss Roseland.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
I would say, so orry?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Are you coming here?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Oh? Please excuse me, miss Roselan, Yes, Dennis and off, Yeah, yes, certainly,
if you spend more time on banking business I merely
pauses half the downs. I promised, Papa, I promised you'd
always have a job in the bank before making it
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hard for me, difficult, impossible. Here, for instance, this do
you recognize it? Jadget's a personal loan for one hundred
dollars if ever has no job, no visible means of support,
and you give it to him on his signature. No, no, no, no,
Actually there is collateral where what I'm the bottom line? Thirteen?
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He reread what it says colateral of one philosopher's stone.
What is this? Well, you've you've heard of the philosopher's stone.
You know, the device by which the medieval alchemist could
turn base metals into gold. I've got a very busy
morning heaven. But here, look, look this is it. This
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is what the Philosopher's stone. I don't know how to
handle this anymore. I swore to Papa on his deathbed,
and before she died, Mama made me swear to you'd
always have the job the desk out of the main
lobby where everyone could see it, with the name plate
Harry Lawson, Assistant Vice President. I'm sorry you get so upset.
(12:58):
To upset? Who's upset? I go home, and I yell
at my wife, I smacked the kids, I kicked the dog,
but upset. And now you promised Mom and Papa you'd
give me a job. But I never promised i'd stay here.
You know I could leave and go were and do what? Now,
listen heavy the very next time someone applies for the loan,
I don't care if it's for fifteen cents, you bring
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it in here, do you understand? Yeah? Sure, God, yes, Oh,
I have a call.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Here for mister Harry Lawson. It's from a mister Lester Pool.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
Switch you to his desk.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
If mister Poole says he can't wait, it's a.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Matter of life and death, I can imagine it's for you.
Speaker 9 (13:38):
Oh, yes, one moment, mister Lawson. Hello, he said you,
mister Harry laws Yes, yes, you.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Speaking of a few words to show that I may
be sure.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Well, what seems to be the trouble, mister Pool?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yes, yes, I suppose that you Listen.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
You kidding me?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Who tried to kill you?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I don't know?
Speaker 8 (14:03):
They Well why.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Should anyone want to kill you? Mister Pool? Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Oh, they tracked me down that they're after me, But why.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Should anyone be after you.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Oh the stone, You for the stone?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Oh? Oh yes, it's safe. Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Eve the janitor hadn't heard and called the police would
have been murdered.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Oh well, I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Oh you must come over here, You must come over
here at once.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
But I I have to be at my desk, mister Poole.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Oh you don't perceive me. Please, You've got to come over.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Here, mister Pool. Mister Poole has uh Dennis, look, look, Dennis,
something has come up. I uh, I'm wondering. Do you
suppose I could take the morning off? You want the
morning off? Yeah? Well it does have to do with
bank business. Yeah, of course, go right ahead, take the morning,
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take the afternoon, take as much time as you need,
and don't worry. We'll manage to struggle along here somehow,
without you, a wager, they will. So here we have
Harry Lawson, not a very efficient or effective person. But
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can we be sure of that? So far all we
have seen is the surface? Is there something underneath? Is
there more here than meets the eye? Obviously, but for
that you must wait for act too. Everyone agrees the
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expected always happenings, this being so, why do we marvel
at it? Why are we always taken by surprise? We
read a book, see a film, witness a play, and
in many of them we encounter surprises that we reject
as completely far fetched. But why think of some of
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the events that take place almost every day in the
so called real life. What writer of fiction would dare
to use them? Oh it's me, Harry Lawson.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
Oh I mean it.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
I mean why you followed?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Why should they want to follow? Why are you?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Oh? I don't think so, you shall.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
What's happened here?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Look at this place? All the furniture is not during
I told you they came after me. Who they want?
Trench coach? And no it must have been stocking masks
around their heads? How many were there too? But big
husky fellows. What did they do?
Speaker 7 (17:15):
What they did the last time?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Oh, it's happened before. They keep tacking me down. They
want the stone. You do have the stone here? Oh no, no,
you didn't bring it with you. Oh, but you just
have to go right back to the bank as soon
as possible. That's why I gave it to you as collateral.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
So that it would be safe. Oh, how fortunate these
fellows thoroughly ransacked the place so you can see.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Oh, what can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (17:47):
This money you lent me, I shall be able to
repay it in thirty days, I hope, at which time
I shall reclaim my property of God.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Oh, yeah, you're entitled to it.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
But you've been quite kind, trusted me, you had faith
in me.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I'm really not very smart. Oh, but you are. You are,
Thank you. But you don't have to flatter me.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
But you may be very smart without being aware of it.
Tell me something. The president of the bank, mister Dennis Lawson,
he's your brother. Yes, I thought so. He looked too
young to be a father. It explains a great deal.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Well, just what does it explore?
Speaker 6 (18:30):
While I was waiting at the lobby to see you,
I had a chance to observe the situation in the bank.
I saw mister Dennis Lawson. It came out of the
office marked president. I saw him glance in your direction.
I saw him shake his head sadly. Told me everything.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh, Dennis and I despite certain, Well, well, we we're
quite fond of each other.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I really m here.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
We have two brothers. When it's tall going to and
commanding personality and dominating presence and the other leave when if
you'll forgive my saying so, it's light shy the retiring timid.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Suppose it's how we were born.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
And also how you were raised.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
You were completely overwhelmed by Dennis.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Why aren't you?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I was sickly, and Dennis always looked out for me
and took care.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Of me and did your thinking for you.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
No, No, that isn't true.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
If you say so.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Look, I came here in the middle of a busy
day to see what it was you wanted.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
I wanted to tell you I was greatful and a
tangeible token of that gratitude. I want to tell you
that you are free to use the stone while it
remains in your position.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Well, thank you. No, if you'll excuse me, you don't
dismiss me so quickly. Let the stone help you how
I'll tell you how.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
To use it.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I thought you said that you didn't know how to
use it.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Oh, it doesn't work for me, But who's to say
it wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Work for you.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
That your business is lending money, but your problem is
determining whether the loan is good investment.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
True.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Just now, the next time that you are asked for
a loan, listen carefully to the proposition and look at
the stone.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yes, and then what But that's all? But what's supposed
to happen?
Speaker 6 (20:35):
The stone must tell you.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
What will it tell me? Will it will give you
some sort of a sign? On the other hand, it
may not give you any sign at all. I see.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
You still think I'm mad? Would you feel any better
if I told you I was completely sane? Remember, sanity
is a kind of madness too. I remember you look
at the stone. Do you promise all right?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I will and got it with your life?
Speaker 7 (21:16):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Are you the janitor? Now I'm a king of England?
Speaker 5 (21:19):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Well, I'd like to ask you about mister Lester Poole.
Uh yeah, thelimey. But yes, I believe he is in
English and he's also a loom. I understand that two
men broke into his apartment. Who says so? And I
understand that you had to call the police.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
You were a friend of is eh? I suppose?
Speaker 10 (21:41):
So listen, he's one of them guys that thinks somebody's
after him, you see what I mean? So it's real
to him. He sees him in the apartment and he
fights with him. I mean, it gets rough. He even
breaks up the furniture.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
But it's all.
Speaker 10 (21:54):
Upstairs up there in his mind.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Are you sure? Can I go through this month?
Speaker 10 (22:00):
Twenty a month with the cops?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
You see we get up there.
Speaker 10 (22:03):
The trench coat guys are always gone.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
He he doesn't work.
Speaker 10 (22:09):
Him, man, it pokes around with his books all day.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Well, how does he live?
Speaker 10 (22:14):
He's a remittance man.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
You know what that is? I think so that's what
he told me.
Speaker 10 (22:20):
He's like the black sheep of this big time family
in England. They send him money to stay away. Every
month he gets a letter with money. Hey, I know,
I hold it up to the light. I can see
the check inside.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
And all these attacks that these men and the trench
coats were after him, it's all part of his imagination.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
We're canda tell you. He's a nut, nice but at
first class fruit.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
You wish to buy a house and one hundred acres
where I'm ready to throw it. Well, that's sway out
in the northwest, Isn't it all right?
Speaker 10 (23:00):
Like it to be further, but I can't find anything else.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
So that's desolate country up there, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
I like it?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yes, you know I see that this house is oh
it's badly neither repair. I don't mind.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
I can do plumbing, carpentry, roofing, electrical work as well.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
How much of a mortgage do you want from us?
Thirty thousand dollars? Well, mister Crumbell, would you excuse me
a moment please? I have to see someone well at now,
miss Roselaw. Mister Lawson is my brother Dennison.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Oh no he's not.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Oh well, will he be back soon?
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Who knows here?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
He had to go to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Oh, then he won't be back today or tomorrow either,
And then who's in charge?
Speaker 7 (23:52):
You are, mister Lawson?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Oh? Yes, yes, I suppose I am, mister Roselawn. It's
a lovely afternoon. Wouldn't you say something?
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (24:03):
I would say so.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yes, Well, you let me know if something has to
be done. Oh, mister crumb I've been uh looking over
this application of yours, and I'm still still looking over it.
I sometimes use one of those things too, one of
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which things I call it a worry stone. You you
hold it.
Speaker 10 (24:30):
In your hand, and but that looks more like a marvel.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (24:34):
Yes, yes, does I noticed you just keep looking at it?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
You hear that here?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Why mister crom listens.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
To why that boy? And do you mean you don't
hear anything you know?
Speaker 10 (24:51):
Sir, I don't hear anything you you, okay, mister Lawson.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Mister yes, yes, yes, yes. As I said, I I
have been looking over your application. Now. You you want
a fairly large sum of money to buy a piece
of property that's well, that's practically a wreck, and the
acreage is well, let me put it this way, it's
probably the only place in the entire United States where
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land values haven't gone up. Therefore, it's okay, okay.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
I've been turned down everywhere. I understand. I guess it's.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Crazy maybe, but I shall not turn you down, mister Kruck.
You you won't, no, sir. I admire your spirit. Hey,
that's great. You mean you're going to give me a
more gift, So I am. I'm going to recommend it
very strongly.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
I have an opportunity to buy a publishing house, says.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Well, have you any experience as a publisher, But I've
had considerable experience as a person who reads. Well, what
makes you think you'd be successful. I'd publish only books
that have literary merit and that are in good taste. Well,
mister Burnside. You know why I appreciate your ambitions and approve. Well,
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we are bankers. Now you're asking for forty thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
It's not really very much considering what I can buy
for it.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
How can you secure the loan?
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Wh I have stocked a thousand shares of Western American?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Well, what was it selling for this morning? It's been
trading at about twenty dollars a share. I believe twenty
dollars for a thousand shares. That's twenty thousand, and you
want to borrow forty, sir.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Western Americans a very solid stock. Yes, it's grossly undervaluable.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Yeah, I'm sure one day it'll surely sell for one hundred. Well,
that is what many people say. However, when will that
day arrive? I mean, if ever, I.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Suppose I can guess your answer, mister Lawson.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
MM, that's a very pretty little marble. Mm.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
When you keep looking at it and looking at it?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Did do you think you see something.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
In that style?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Mister Lawson?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Do I see something in it? Where's that coming from?
I beg your pardon, mister Lawson.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
That sounds well, I'm afraid I don't understand. I suppose
there's no point to wasting any more of your time.
I saw what did you say?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
That was a dream? I know in my heart I
could make a go, but that I have no way
of proving it to anyone, sir. That's the end of it. No, no, no,
I I wouldn't say so, mister Burnside. I I am
going to approve your lord. You'll you'll give me the
money I know, and I'll approve the loan. That's all
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I can promise you. Good morning, mister Row's lawn. It's
a beautiful morning. Wouldn't you say so?
Speaker 11 (28:10):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (28:10):
Yes, I would say so.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Isn't my brother back from Chicago?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (28:15):
He would be delayed. He's in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Oh, they don't know if it's just strain or a
nervous breakdown.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
But you have to be there for at least a
few weeks or lot.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Better go and see.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Him a house there.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
You're in charge of the bank, that's right. You will
have to approve all loan applications.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
But my brother said that, I know brother isn't here. Well,
shouldn't I wait for him to come back?
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Well, we don't know when that will be.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Ah, I'll have to think about it and it's really
something to think about. You've heard some of the loan
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applications without being too technical. If you were a banker,
would you approve because basically that's what banking is all about,
the banker's ability to judge the character of his borrower.
And in a larger sense, isn't judgment of character what
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all life is about. If you don't know the answer,
you may find it in Act three. By the early
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years of the twentieth century, trust had become an ugly word.
It referred in the popular mind to the mammoth monopolies
that were builking the public out of billions of dollars
every year. They were called trusts because originally they had
been set up as trust companies, presumably because they were
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supposed to inspire public confidence and trust. But trust, no
matter how it may be abused, is still the basic
pillar that upholds our social order. Without it, civilized life
would be impossible.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Mister Wawnton, Oh, yes, missus, Jeff, are you okay?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Yeah? Yeah, I'm all right.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Well I come up to find out because I didn't
hear you leaving.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
For work this morning.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
Oh something wrong?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Well, I've been putting it off, you see missus Jeffries,
my brother's away.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Yeah I heard.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
So this is your chance, wat chance to run a
bank the way you think it ought to be run.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Oh, Missus Jeffries, I mean it was all just shooting
the breeze compensation.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
You didn't mean what you said.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
You know, we say a great anything, So you've got
no business saying what you don't mean.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
You're the one who said banks should give people the
opportunity to become something better, a bank should bet on
a person's integrity.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
You did say that, yes, did you mean it?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Well? I did at the time, but now I am
not so sure. Why we're so sure then because I
had no opportunity, I mean, I had no authority to
put those ideas into actual practice. So now, with brother
Dennis out of the way, you do Yes, I'm afraid.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
It's always good to be a little bit afraid. Meanwhile,
you better go to work.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I suppose there's no way out of it.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Still scared of brother Dennis. H Yes, you want to
be scared of him for the rest of your life?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
No good?
Speaker 2 (31:51):
How are we doing with that?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Missus Roselawn?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Oh I haven't asked her.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I think die if she turned me down.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Look, you won't die and it'll be her loss. Just
look her in the eye and say, let's go out
to dinner.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Maybe lunch, just do something. Good morning, missus Roselawn, Oh
good morning? Any word when my brother will be coming back.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
You still have to decide one way or the other
on those several loan applications.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Huh. I know. I decided that I will approve yes.
And now, missus Roselawn, why don't.
Speaker 7 (32:40):
We say yes, mister Lawson.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Why don't we have those applications on my desk for
my signature soon as possible? Yes, mister Lawson, come in here, Dennis,
you're back closed the door while you feel Dennis, sit down, Harry,
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Why you look a little bit drawn?
Speaker 5 (33:08):
You peak it?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
I should have stayed in Chicago. I was having a nice, quiet,
little breakdown. I was even enjoying it. But I realized
that you were here running things while we're still in business, Dennis,
for how much longer? Look at these? No? No, I
must become My pulse must not race, my heart must
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not pound, Harry, dear little brother, why did you approve
a mortgage that's three times what the house is worth
on the open market? Tell the man who wanted to
borrow the money deserve to have. You won't answer that question,
all right, Ton. For the next a man wants to
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borrow forty thousand dollars to go into a highly speculative venture. Yeah,
so I think he has the ability to succeed. But
you cannot secured a forty thousand dollars loan with twenty
thousand dollars with a sock. But it's a good stock.
It can go on and it can also go down. No, no, hey,
I will be quiet, Herry.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
What have you done to me?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I'm sorry, Dennis. I thought what I did was right,
but you don't know what's right. That is what you
have been telling me all of my life.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Mister.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (34:32):
Have you seen the morning paper?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
What's it?
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (34:35):
Look sir, the news is out.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Finally they're going to build the new international airport off
Resolute Road in.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
The north with Where does it say that? Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:44):
It's the headline Revenue road. Isn't that where the gentlemen
followed money to buy that house.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
I believe you approved that.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Loan, mister Lawson, Harry, you know what that man's property
you'll be worth now? And now you must be calm, Dennis. Well,
I'm starting to feel better.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
Mister Lawton goes it. Oh one moment, mister Knight. It's
your broker, mister Lorder.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
All right, Hey, hello Tom? What a am? I? Sorry?
I didn't buy it when you told me to buy what.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
They did?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Oh, and you say it's still a bargain at forty
I'll call you back, Dennis, Dennis, what's wrong wrong? Did
that stock the fellow used to pledge the loan in
this old Western American? They just powl loyal that the
stock's going wild? Harry, how did you do it?
Speaker 3 (35:46):
What do you know?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Tell me? I told you it's the stone. It's the philosopher's.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Alone, no joke. So it's true.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
I should have known better.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Why did I even bother to ask? I'll tell you
in your own quiet way. All these years you read,
you study, you observed, and didn't everybody know we had
to build another airport? Where else could it go except
in the Northwest along Resolute Road and Western American the
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most soundly managed company in the world. Everybody knew how
undervalued the stock was. Oh, Harry, you're a genius. For Dennis,
go out there, run the place now for what purpose
do you wish to make this law?
Speaker 4 (36:37):
I want to buy out my partner.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
I see he's older than I am, but that doesn't
mean he's smarter, does it? Would you excuse me for
a moment?
Speaker 4 (36:48):
Where's that? Is something wrong?
Speaker 10 (36:53):
Josh?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Could you come back in an hour or so? No,
just come back later, Missus Jeffries, Missus Jeffries, all.
Speaker 5 (37:07):
Right, all right, I'm coming. You don't have to keep
yelling like that.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Come in here. So what's the problem, Missus Jeffries, is
that you know that marble? I showed you this is
the blue and gray marble zone. So where is it?
I take it to work with me every morning? Why
do you take a marble to work with you every morning?
But this morning I forgot? I remember now it was
right right here where I always keep it on the dresser.
I need that marble NASA in all my life since
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you've been living here, did I ever see you get excited?
I have to have that marble? No? It was put
up as collateral for a loan which will be repaid
on the first and then the borrow will claim it.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Oh, you ain't running a bank, It's I'm not house.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Please have you seen that stone.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Now that you mention, and I give it to Jason.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
You he gave it to Jameson Well, he was.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Going to play in a marbles tournament and I thought
it would.
Speaker 5 (37:59):
Be a winner. But I was wrong. It was a loser.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
A loser. He lost it to.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Whom I don't know, he don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
There were kids there from all over the city. Thissus, Jeffrey,
all right, all right.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
No problem, I'll get it back for you.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
You've got to j yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Yeah, you just sit here, don't do nothing, don't go nowhere,
Just sit here.
Speaker 5 (38:29):
See about now?
Speaker 7 (38:31):
How long did it take?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Were you able to?
Speaker 5 (38:35):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Here? It is? I'm you sure? This is sure. I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Jason told me what the kid looked like and I
found him.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
I don't know, but look at it.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
See gray and blue.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
It does look very much in the But you could
have bought one.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Mister loss, and would I do a thing like that.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
It had better be the right one. That's all I
have to say. Good morning, mister Lawson, Oh, mister Pool,
good morning. Is a thirty days set up. I have
here your hundred dollars, oh, thank you.
Speaker 6 (39:16):
And you have my collateral.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yes, indeed I do. And here it is, ah but
a beautiful little stone, and never ceased to marvel at
the beautiful blend of colors, and truly one of a kind,
wouldn't you agree? Truly? Tell me, mister Lawson, have you
used the stone? Yes? And with good results, with spectacular results.
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Everything I touched with a turned the gold. I'm figuratively
speaking good good.
Speaker 6 (39:52):
Then you you don't need it anymore.
Speaker 8 (39:55):
It's done its job.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Actually, there's a reason it's called the philosopher stone. Did
you ever stop to think?
Speaker 6 (40:02):
Why?
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Whoa?
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Now?
Speaker 6 (40:04):
If it turns gross into gold, shouldn't it be called
the magician stone or the sorcerer's stone? But you see,
there's no sorcery or magic involved. It's done with knowledge.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Knowledge. It can only be used by a man who's
great knowledge to begin with, and what it does is
to encourage him to marshal all of his knowledge and
to bring it to bear on a single problem. Oh well,
it was a pleasure doing business with you, sir, And
see you no longer need my Philosopher's Stone.
Speaker 6 (40:39):
I should take it with me, good day, mister Lawson.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Mister Lawson, yes, you.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
Seem to be staring at something or is it someone?
Speaker 1 (40:51):
I wonder if she would actually oh it, excuse me,
mister Pool, gladly, mister Lawson, but lovely morning, Miss Roselong.
Speaker 7 (41:04):
Don't you think though, yes, I think so.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Well, forget it, We've already been through all that nonsense
one hundred times. Let's have lunch. Oh, I'm sorry, you're what.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Oh, you.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
Can't easy.
Speaker 11 (41:23):
I don't eat lunch, but I do eat dinner, of course,
and they did, and I'm sure they had many dinners
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from that point on, and then they included breakfasts. A
question you really want to ask me and I can tell,
is did missus Jeffries actually recover the stone or did
she simply buy another that resembled it. I don't know
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even if I could ask her, would I believe her.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
I'll be back shortly. The Philosopher's Stone, it has come
to symbolize the ready answer, the instant solution, the immediate fulfillment.
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It has always been, and probably shall always be, mankind's
most urgent quest. When I say mankind, I don't say
it with a cosmic capital letter. I mean most of us.
How many of us keep looking for the gimmick of
a password, the open sesame that enables us to enjoy
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the sweet as the goal without enduring the sweat of
the journey. Our cast included Russell Horton, Earl Hammond, ray
Oens and Bryana Rayburn. The entire production was under the
direction of Hymon Brown. And now a preview of our
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next tale.
Speaker 4 (43:23):
You have the diction of a man who's been the college.
Speaker 10 (43:26):
I have a master's degree in economics from Harvard University, and.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
You settle for a job as a handyman chauffeur.
Speaker 10 (43:33):
One must begin somewhere. You don't sound like an American.
Were you born here? No, sir, Now that I listen,
that's an unusual accent. Yes, sir, why'd you turn here?
Speaker 1 (43:48):
Smith? Smith?
Speaker 10 (43:50):
I'm talking to you. This is not the way to
Wall Street. Why are we stopping? Move over, young woman?
Who do you think you are?
Speaker 1 (44:02):
Who else? She says? I? Look, that's a gun.
Speaker 4 (44:07):
Yes, I shall.
Speaker 7 (44:09):
Hold a gun, but it shall be hidden by my purse.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
If you give me any trouble, I can file through
the purse and kill you.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
This is E. G. Marshall inviting you to return to
our Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until
next time, Pleasant Dream. CBS News follows on WBBM Chicago,
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It's Northwest, better of savings time.
Speaker 5 (44:58):
We've got more time.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
To inviting you to return to our mystery theater for
another adventure in the macabre.
Speaker 4 (45:10):
Until next time, Lead
Speaker 6 (45:13):
Him, Claire, you really will marry me
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents. Come in Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm a g.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Marshall, Work said, the great physician. Work is the open
sesame to every portal, the great equalizer in the world,
the true Philosopher's Stone, which transmutes all the base metal
of humanity into gold. Yes, work is the true magic
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that turns the trick. And while most of us pay
lip service to that belief, so many of us spend
so much time looking for an easier, more pleasant magic,
which is why we have stories like the one you're
about to hear.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Hello said you.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Uh yes, h m mister Poole. What seems to be
the trouble.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's a's trying to county.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Now, why should anyone want to kid you don't?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Oh oh yeah, you're the stone. Uh well, there's nothing
to worry about.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Everything to any about you don't.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Better get over here, but I'll lose my job.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
You better come try to kine.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Mister poole. Mister Poole. Our mystery drama, The Philosopher's Stone
was written especially for.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
The Mystery Theory by Sam Dan and.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Stars Russell Horton, is sponsored in part by Contact The
Twelve Hour Cold capsule. I'll be that shortly with at one.
What a beautiful word is faith? What a heartwarming concept,
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What a glorious way of life? And yet faith is
not only for dreamers and idealists. No matter how cold
or cruel or practical you may find the.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
World, it is still fueled and fired by faith.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
We must have faith that all of us will keep
our agreements and perform our beauties. Faith that the person
who is driving knows enough to keep in his or
her own faith. Let us meet a man who has
put faith.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
On a practical, everyday basis.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
He is Harry Lawson, Assistant manager of the Valley Federal Banks.
Are you're waiting to see me? I here the passion
who names many broth determs, an once you needed, but
I don't need much? Well, no, I'm the one you
want to see, so once you.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Do, play, thank you. My name is Pool less to
pool each odlish name.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yes, yes, So how much money do you need?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Man?
Speaker 6 (03:16):
How much money does any man really need?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:18):
But I suppose you require a specific isn't it a
city stopic ant? One dollars? One hundred dollars? Is that
too much?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Actually it may be too little.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
But I really don't need more at this time.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
So, well, do you have a job or a source
of income?
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Reallly, if I had either, I shouldn't be here for
a loan.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
By Are you saying that you're unemployed? No? Oh, well
where do you work at home? On my own pursuits? Well,
can you put up any collateral? What nature? Well youre's
something that is worth one hundred dollars?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Are you saying I have to have a hundred dollars
before I can borrow a hundred dollars?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I'm sorry, but I didn't write the rules, you know,
without collateral or some color. Oh, but I do have collaterals? Oh, well,
in what form? What does it work?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
But I suppose you could say it's all the west
in the world?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Or what is it?
Speaker 6 (04:24):
If I had it here in my pocket? I carry
it with me all times?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, she but what is it?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Gris?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
What does it appear to be? Well, it looks like
a marble, because actually it's it's made of age.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, well that's what I said. It looks like a marble,
you know, the kind of thing kids play marbles with.
I mean, is this your collateral? This is worth one
hundred dollars? But first I.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Tell you what it is, then you can tell me
what it rass. This happens to be the Philosopher's Stone. No, Shirley,
you've heard of the Philosopher's Stone.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Well, yes, I think so. It was the most widely
sought secret of the ancient and medieval words.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
It could turn base metals into color.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
All right, ready here on my desk, my nameplate a
base metal, turn it to gold, and your problem is solve.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Oh, I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
But you say that thing is the Philosopher's stone. Pease, Olin,
why don't you use it? I don't know how Ollen,
How can you be sure is what you claim?
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Do you think I'm mad?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Sir? I really don't know how I could possibly approve
this loan.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
I do need the money very badly.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well tell me how can you be sure that it's
the philosopher whole?
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Sometimes I look into it, I see these cloudy blue
and gray colors become bit misty and dissolved and turn
into two forms and.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Shapes, or what kind of forms and shapes?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Who could you say?
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Maybe you can see them too. It's going to hold
it up to the light. Yeah, do you see anything?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Oh? I don't don't know. I'm not sure.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Do you see the smoke and esteem? Do you see
stone walls of the old alchemist laboratory? Can do you?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I don't know, but I know.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
I know this is the Philosopher's stone?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
But how to use it?
Speaker 6 (06:32):
And sorry I took up your time, sir, mister Poole.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Hmmm uh, I'm gonna make an exception in your case.
I'll lend you one hundred dollars. I am going to
take a chance on you, but.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
You are not taking any chance at all. Here's the stone.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I wouldn't know how to use it either. Here philos
but I insisted.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
To accept this is collateral.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Well oh all right, all right, now this is a
thirty day No, don't believe the line around in your
desk drawer.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
You have could do weigh in your deepest, most secure vault.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
It'll be safe enough here, mister pool.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
No, there's blood in mid stone. Look look at it closely.
Sometime there are those who would kill for it.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Now, just sign the form and I'll give you one
hundred dollars, and in thirty days, when you repay the money,
you may redeem the stone. But god it, please believe
me got the stone with your life. Oh yes, missus Jefferies,
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please come in.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
First.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Here's your blue tie. Oh thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I borrowed it and you're thanking me for bringing it
back its figures.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
But I told you, missus Jeffrey, if you see something
around here that you need and I'm not using it,
or just just feel free.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Uh. The the mister needed a blue tie to go
with his blue suit. He had to see about a
job this morning.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Oh I hope you got it.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, he got.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
It this morning. They lost it this afternoon. That's far
for the course.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Oh let's see what else? Oh yeah, yeah, Uh, Jason
had to have a pen for school, so we come
up here and took on to yours. But he he
lost it someplace, so it's gone.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Oh well that's all right.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
No, no, it ain't all right, but let's leave it.
Go getting done the business? It uh so ready the tenth.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Of the month, Yes, I know?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Uh so, Uh where's the rent?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Well?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Can you wait till Friday? Payday?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (08:46):
Up to your old tricks?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Huh what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Well, you know what I mean. You've been lending people
money again out of your own pocket, and that's why
you're short.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
What are you gonna do when I know a person
really needs the money and can't qualify for a loan.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I thought you was gonna cut that out. You're gonna
lose your job. I mean that that brother of yours,
he's gonna put up with just so much.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And then yeah, yeah, yeah, I know a.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Person walks in, you gotta ask for what's that thing again?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Collateral?
Speaker 5 (09:19):
You know that's the way it's got to be.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Understand, starting tomorrow, you ask for that old collateral.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Well, actually I started today.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah, maybe we got an age of miracles coming up.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
You should see what I accepted for collateral on one
loan today. What us missus, Jeffries, I want you to
look at this and tell me what you think it is.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It's a marble, like the kind Jason place.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But hold it up to the light now, look look,
look closely. Yeah, tell me tell me what you see.
What's to think? Look closely?
Speaker 5 (09:58):
I still don't see nothing.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Well, what are the colors?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Blue and gray?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Do they look like like clouds and they could be clouds?
Do they seem to be moving? No, you don't see
any forms or any shapes.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
It's just an ordinary marble here.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Thank you, Missus Jeffery for what.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
See if you can swing their rent by the end
of the week, cant.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh yeah, I'll definitely try it.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, good night. Oh h how you doing with that,
missus Roselawn? Oh whoa, I know you didn't do nothing.
I thought we decided you was going to ask her
out to dinner.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
You know, we compromise on lunch, remember so well, I'm
working up to it. I don't know if I'm gonna
live that long. Oh, Missus Jeffrey, she she's really she's
really very beautiful. I can't imagine why she would want to.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Go with me.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Yeah, why do I even bother?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Well, good morning, miss Roselan.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Oh, good morning, mister Lawson.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yes, I understand my brother Dennis Lawson wants to see me, right, Yeah,
well i'd better go in and see him.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Then, yes, mister Lawson.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yes, well it's it's a very pretty morning, wouldn't you say,
Miss Roseland.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
I would say, so orry?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Are you coming here?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Oh? Please excuse me, miss Roselan, Yes, Dennis and off, Yeah, yes, certainly,
if you spend more time on banking business I merely
pauses half the downs. I promised, Papa, I promised you'd
always have a job in the bank before making it
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hard for me, difficult, impossible. Here, for instance, this do
you recognize it? Jadget's a personal loan for one hundred
dollars if ever has no job, no visible means of support,
and you give it to him on his signature. No, no, no, no,
Actually there is collateral where what I'm the bottom line? Thirteen?
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He reread what it says colateral of one philosopher's stone.
What is this? Well, you've you've heard of the philosopher's stone.
You know, the device by which the medieval alchemist could
turn base metals into gold. I've got a very busy
morning heaven. But here, look, look this is it. This
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is what the Philosopher's stone. I don't know how to
handle this anymore. I swore to Papa on his deathbed,
and before she died, Mama made me swear to you'd
always have the job the desk out of the main
lobby where everyone could see it, with the name plate
Harry Lawson, Assistant Vice President. I'm sorry you get so upset.
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To upset? Who's upset? I go home, and I yell
at my wife, I smacked the kids, I kicked the dog,
but upset. And now you promised Mom and Papa you'd
give me a job. But I never promised i'd stay here.
You know I could leave and go were and do what? Now,
listen heavy the very next time someone applies for the loan,
I don't care if it's for fifteen cents, you bring
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it in here, do you understand? Yeah? Sure, God, yes, Oh,
I have a call.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Here for mister Harry Lawson. It's from a mister Lester Pool.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
Switch you to his desk.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
If mister Poole says he can't wait, it's a.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Matter of life and death, I can imagine it's for you.
Speaker 9 (13:38):
Oh, yes, one moment, mister Lawson. Hello, he said you,
mister Harry laws Yes, yes, you.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Speaking of a few words to show that I may
be sure.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Well, what seems to be the trouble, mister Pool?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yes, yes, I suppose that you Listen.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
You kidding me?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Who tried to kill you?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I don't know?
Speaker 8 (14:03):
They Well why.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Should anyone want to kill you? Mister Pool? Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Oh, they tracked me down that they're after me, But why.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Should anyone be after you.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Oh the stone, You for the stone?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Oh? Oh yes, it's safe. Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Eve the janitor hadn't heard and called the police would
have been murdered.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Oh well, I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Oh you must come over here, You must come over
here at once.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
But I I have to be at my desk, mister Poole.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Oh you don't perceive me. Please, You've got to come over.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Here, mister Pool. Mister Poole has uh Dennis, look, look, Dennis,
something has come up. I uh, I'm wondering. Do you
suppose I could take the morning off? You want the
morning off? Yeah? Well it does have to do with
bank business. Yeah, of course, go right ahead, take the morning,
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take the afternoon, take as much time as you need,
and don't worry. We'll manage to struggle along here somehow,
without you, a wager, they will. So here we have
Harry Lawson, not a very efficient or effective person. But
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can we be sure of that? So far all we
have seen is the surface? Is there something underneath? Is
there more here than meets the eye? Obviously, but for
that you must wait for act too. Everyone agrees the
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expected always happenings, this being so, why do we marvel
at it? Why are we always taken by surprise? We
read a book, see a film, witness a play, and
in many of them we encounter surprises that we reject
as completely far fetched. But why think of some of
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the events that take place almost every day in the
so called real life. What writer of fiction would dare
to use them? Oh it's me, Harry Lawson.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
Oh I mean it.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
I mean why you followed?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Why should they want to follow? Why are you?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Oh? I don't think so, you shall.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
What's happened here?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Look at this place? All the furniture is not during
I told you they came after me. Who they want?
Trench coach? And no it must have been stocking masks
around their heads? How many were there too? But big
husky fellows. What did they do?
Speaker 7 (17:15):
What they did the last time?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Oh, it's happened before. They keep tacking me down. They
want the stone. You do have the stone here? Oh no, no,
you didn't bring it with you. Oh, but you just
have to go right back to the bank as soon
as possible. That's why I gave it to you as collateral.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
So that it would be safe. Oh, how fortunate these
fellows thoroughly ransacked the place so you can see.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Oh, what can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (17:47):
This money you lent me, I shall be able to
repay it in thirty days, I hope, at which time
I shall reclaim my property of God.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Oh, yeah, you're entitled to it.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
But you've been quite kind, trusted me, you had faith
in me.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I'm really not very smart. Oh, but you are. You are,
Thank you. But you don't have to flatter me.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
But you may be very smart without being aware of it.
Tell me something. The president of the bank, mister Dennis Lawson,
he's your brother. Yes, I thought so. He looked too
young to be a father. It explains a great deal.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Well, just what does it explore?
Speaker 6 (18:30):
While I was waiting at the lobby to see you,
I had a chance to observe the situation in the bank.
I saw mister Dennis Lawson. It came out of the
office marked president. I saw him glance in your direction.
I saw him shake his head sadly. Told me everything.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh, Dennis and I despite certain, Well, well, we we're
quite fond of each other.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I really m here.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
We have two brothers. When it's tall going to and
commanding personality and dominating presence and the other leave when if
you'll forgive my saying so, it's light shy the retiring timid.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Suppose it's how we were born.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
And also how you were raised.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
You were completely overwhelmed by Dennis.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Why aren't you?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I was sickly, and Dennis always looked out for me
and took care.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Of me and did your thinking for you.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
No, No, that isn't true.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
If you say so.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Look, I came here in the middle of a busy
day to see what it was you wanted.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
I wanted to tell you I was greatful and a
tangeible token of that gratitude. I want to tell you
that you are free to use the stone while it
remains in your position.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Well, thank you. No, if you'll excuse me, you don't
dismiss me so quickly. Let the stone help you how
I'll tell you how.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
To use it.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I thought you said that you didn't know how to
use it.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Oh, it doesn't work for me, But who's to say
it wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Work for you.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
That your business is lending money, but your problem is
determining whether the loan is good investment.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
True.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Just now, the next time that you are asked for
a loan, listen carefully to the proposition and look at
the stone.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yes, and then what But that's all? But what's supposed
to happen?
Speaker 6 (20:35):
The stone must tell you.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
What will it tell me? Will it will give you
some sort of a sign? On the other hand, it
may not give you any sign at all. I see.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
You still think I'm mad? Would you feel any better
if I told you I was completely sane? Remember, sanity
is a kind of madness too. I remember you look
at the stone. Do you promise all right?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I will and got it with your life?
Speaker 7 (21:16):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Are you the janitor? Now I'm a king of England?
Speaker 5 (21:19):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Well, I'd like to ask you about mister Lester Poole.
Uh yeah, thelimey. But yes, I believe he is in
English and he's also a loom. I understand that two
men broke into his apartment. Who says so? And I
understand that you had to call the police.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
You were a friend of is eh? I suppose?
Speaker 10 (21:41):
So listen, he's one of them guys that thinks somebody's
after him, you see what I mean? So it's real
to him. He sees him in the apartment and he
fights with him. I mean, it gets rough. He even
breaks up the furniture.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
But it's all.
Speaker 10 (21:54):
Upstairs up there in his mind.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Are you sure? Can I go through this month?
Speaker 10 (22:00):
Twenty a month with the cops?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
You see we get up there.
Speaker 10 (22:03):
The trench coat guys are always gone.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
He he doesn't work.
Speaker 10 (22:09):
Him, man, it pokes around with his books all day.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Well, how does he live?
Speaker 10 (22:14):
He's a remittance man.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
You know what that is? I think so that's what
he told me.
Speaker 10 (22:20):
He's like the black sheep of this big time family
in England. They send him money to stay away. Every
month he gets a letter with money. Hey, I know,
I hold it up to the light. I can see
the check inside.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
And all these attacks that these men and the trench
coats were after him, it's all part of his imagination.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
We're canda tell you. He's a nut, nice but at
first class fruit.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
You wish to buy a house and one hundred acres
where I'm ready to throw it. Well, that's sway out
in the northwest, Isn't it all right?
Speaker 10 (23:00):
Like it to be further, but I can't find anything else.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
So that's desolate country up there, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
I like it?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yes, you know I see that this house is oh
it's badly neither repair. I don't mind.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
I can do plumbing, carpentry, roofing, electrical work as well.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
How much of a mortgage do you want from us?
Thirty thousand dollars? Well, mister Crumbell, would you excuse me
a moment please? I have to see someone well at now,
miss Roselaw. Mister Lawson is my brother Dennison.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Oh no he's not.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Oh well, will he be back soon?
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Who knows here?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
He had to go to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Oh, then he won't be back today or tomorrow either,
And then who's in charge?
Speaker 7 (23:52):
You are, mister Lawson?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Oh? Yes, yes, I suppose I am, mister Roselawn. It's
a lovely afternoon. Wouldn't you say something?
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (24:03):
I would say so.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yes, Well, you let me know if something has to
be done. Oh, mister crumb I've been uh looking over
this application of yours, and I'm still still looking over it.
I sometimes use one of those things too, one of
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which things I call it a worry stone. You you
hold it.
Speaker 10 (24:30):
In your hand, and but that looks more like a marvel.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (24:34):
Yes, yes, does I noticed you just keep looking at it?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
You hear that here?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Why mister crom listens.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
To why that boy? And do you mean you don't
hear anything you know?
Speaker 10 (24:51):
Sir, I don't hear anything you you, okay, mister Lawson.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Mister yes, yes, yes, yes. As I said, I I
have been looking over your application. Now. You you want
a fairly large sum of money to buy a piece
of property that's well, that's practically a wreck, and the
acreage is well, let me put it this way, it's
probably the only place in the entire United States where
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land values haven't gone up. Therefore, it's okay, okay.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
I've been turned down everywhere. I understand. I guess it's.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Crazy maybe, but I shall not turn you down, mister Kruck.
You you won't, no, sir. I admire your spirit. Hey,
that's great. You mean you're going to give me a
more gift, So I am. I'm going to recommend it
very strongly.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
I have an opportunity to buy a publishing house, says.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Well, have you any experience as a publisher, But I've
had considerable experience as a person who reads. Well, what
makes you think you'd be successful. I'd publish only books
that have literary merit and that are in good taste. Well,
mister Burnside. You know why I appreciate your ambitions and approve. Well,
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we are bankers. Now you're asking for forty thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
It's not really very much considering what I can buy
for it.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
How can you secure the loan?
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Wh I have stocked a thousand shares of Western American?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Well, what was it selling for this morning? It's been
trading at about twenty dollars a share. I believe twenty
dollars for a thousand shares. That's twenty thousand, and you
want to borrow forty, sir.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Western Americans a very solid stock. Yes, it's grossly undervaluable.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Yeah, I'm sure one day it'll surely sell for one hundred. Well,
that is what many people say. However, when will that
day arrive? I mean, if ever, I.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Suppose I can guess your answer, mister Lawson.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
MM, that's a very pretty little marble. Mm.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
When you keep looking at it and looking at it?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Did do you think you see something.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
In that style?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Mister Lawson?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Do I see something in it? Where's that coming from?
I beg your pardon, mister Lawson.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
That sounds well, I'm afraid I don't understand. I suppose
there's no point to wasting any more of your time.
I saw what did you say?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
That was a dream? I know in my heart I
could make a go, but that I have no way
of proving it to anyone, sir. That's the end of it. No, no, no,
I I wouldn't say so, mister Burnside. I I am
going to approve your lord. You'll you'll give me the
money I know, and I'll approve the loan. That's all
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I can promise you. Good morning, mister Row's lawn. It's
a beautiful morning. Wouldn't you say so?
Speaker 11 (28:10):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (28:10):
Yes, I would say so.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Isn't my brother back from Chicago?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (28:15):
He would be delayed. He's in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Oh, they don't know if it's just strain or a
nervous breakdown.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
But you have to be there for at least a
few weeks or lot.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Better go and see.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Him a house there.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
You're in charge of the bank, that's right. You will
have to approve all loan applications.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
But my brother said that, I know brother isn't here. Well,
shouldn't I wait for him to come back?
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Well, we don't know when that will be.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Ah, I'll have to think about it and it's really
something to think about. You've heard some of the loan
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applications without being too technical. If you were a banker,
would you approve because basically that's what banking is all about,
the banker's ability to judge the character of his borrower.
And in a larger sense, isn't judgment of character what
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all life is about. If you don't know the answer,
you may find it in Act three. By the early
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years of the twentieth century, trust had become an ugly word.
It referred in the popular mind to the mammoth monopolies
that were builking the public out of billions of dollars
every year. They were called trusts because originally they had
been set up as trust companies, presumably because they were
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supposed to inspire public confidence and trust. But trust, no
matter how it may be abused, is still the basic
pillar that upholds our social order. Without it, civilized life
would be impossible.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Mister Wawnton, Oh, yes, missus, Jeff, are you okay?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Yeah? Yeah, I'm all right.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Well I come up to find out because I didn't
hear you leaving.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
For work this morning.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
Oh something wrong?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Well, I've been putting it off, you see missus Jeffries,
my brother's away.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Yeah I heard.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
So this is your chance, wat chance to run a
bank the way you think it ought to be run.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Oh, Missus Jeffries, I mean it was all just shooting
the breeze compensation.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
You didn't mean what you said.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
You know, we say a great anything, So you've got
no business saying what you don't mean.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
You're the one who said banks should give people the
opportunity to become something better, a bank should bet on
a person's integrity.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
You did say that, yes, did you mean it?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Well? I did at the time, but now I am
not so sure. Why we're so sure then because I
had no opportunity, I mean, I had no authority to
put those ideas into actual practice. So now, with brother
Dennis out of the way, you do Yes, I'm afraid.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
It's always good to be a little bit afraid. Meanwhile,
you better go to work.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I suppose there's no way out of it.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Still scared of brother Dennis. H Yes, you want to
be scared of him for the rest of your life?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
No good?
Speaker 2 (31:51):
How are we doing with that?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Missus Roselawn?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Oh I haven't asked her.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I think die if she turned me down.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Look, you won't die and it'll be her loss. Just
look her in the eye and say, let's go out
to dinner.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Maybe lunch, just do something. Good morning, missus Roselawn, Oh
good morning? Any word when my brother will be coming back.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
You still have to decide one way or the other
on those several loan applications.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Huh. I know. I decided that I will approve yes.
And now, missus Roselawn, why don't.
Speaker 7 (32:40):
We say yes, mister Lawson.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Why don't we have those applications on my desk for
my signature soon as possible? Yes, mister Lawson, come in here, Dennis,
you're back closed the door while you feel Dennis, sit down, Harry,
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Why you look a little bit drawn?
Speaker 5 (33:08):
You peak it?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
I should have stayed in Chicago. I was having a nice, quiet,
little breakdown. I was even enjoying it. But I realized
that you were here running things while we're still in business, Dennis,
for how much longer? Look at these? No? No, I
must become My pulse must not race, my heart must
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not pound, Harry, dear little brother, why did you approve
a mortgage that's three times what the house is worth
on the open market? Tell the man who wanted to
borrow the money deserve to have. You won't answer that question,
all right, Ton. For the next a man wants to
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borrow forty thousand dollars to go into a highly speculative venture. Yeah,
so I think he has the ability to succeed. But
you cannot secured a forty thousand dollars loan with twenty
thousand dollars with a sock. But it's a good stock.
It can go on and it can also go down. No, no, hey,
I will be quiet, Herry.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
What have you done to me?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I'm sorry, Dennis. I thought what I did was right,
but you don't know what's right. That is what you
have been telling me all of my life.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Mister.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (34:32):
Have you seen the morning paper?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
What's it?
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (34:35):
Look sir, the news is out.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Finally they're going to build the new international airport off
Resolute Road in.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
The north with Where does it say that? Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:44):
It's the headline Revenue road. Isn't that where the gentlemen
followed money to buy that house.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
I believe you approved that.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Loan, mister Lawson, Harry, you know what that man's property
you'll be worth now? And now you must be calm, Dennis. Well,
I'm starting to feel better.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
Mister Lawton goes it. Oh one moment, mister Knight. It's
your broker, mister Lorder.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
All right, Hey, hello Tom? What a am? I? Sorry?
I didn't buy it when you told me to buy what.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
They did?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Oh, and you say it's still a bargain at forty
I'll call you back, Dennis, Dennis, what's wrong wrong? Did
that stock the fellow used to pledge the loan in
this old Western American? They just powl loyal that the
stock's going wild? Harry, how did you do it?
Speaker 3 (35:46):
What do you know?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Tell me? I told you it's the stone. It's the philosopher's.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Alone, no joke. So it's true.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
I should have known better.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Why did I even bother to ask? I'll tell you
in your own quiet way. All these years you read,
you study, you observed, and didn't everybody know we had
to build another airport? Where else could it go except
in the Northwest along Resolute Road and Western American the
(36:18):
most soundly managed company in the world. Everybody knew how
undervalued the stock was. Oh, Harry, you're a genius. For Dennis,
go out there, run the place now for what purpose
do you wish to make this law?
Speaker 4 (36:37):
I want to buy out my partner.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
I see he's older than I am, but that doesn't
mean he's smarter, does it? Would you excuse me for
a moment?
Speaker 4 (36:48):
Where's that? Is something wrong?
Speaker 10 (36:53):
Josh?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Could you come back in an hour or so? No,
just come back later, Missus Jeffries, Missus Jeffries, all.
Speaker 5 (37:07):
Right, all right, I'm coming. You don't have to keep
yelling like that.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Come in here. So what's the problem, Missus Jeffries, is
that you know that marble? I showed you this is
the blue and gray marble zone. So where is it?
I take it to work with me every morning? Why
do you take a marble to work with you every morning?
But this morning I forgot? I remember now it was
right right here where I always keep it on the dresser.
I need that marble NASA in all my life since
(37:32):
you've been living here, did I ever see you get excited?
I have to have that marble? No? It was put
up as collateral for a loan which will be repaid
on the first and then the borrow will claim it.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Oh, you ain't running a bank, It's I'm not house.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Please have you seen that stone.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Now that you mention, and I give it to Jason.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
You he gave it to Jameson Well, he was.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Going to play in a marbles tournament and I thought
it would.
Speaker 5 (37:59):
Be a winner. But I was wrong. It was a loser.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
A loser. He lost it to.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Whom I don't know, he don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
There were kids there from all over the city. Thissus, Jeffrey,
all right, all right.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
No problem, I'll get it back for you.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
You've got to j yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Yeah, you just sit here, don't do nothing, don't go nowhere,
Just sit here.
Speaker 5 (38:29):
See about now?
Speaker 7 (38:31):
How long did it take?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Were you able to?
Speaker 5 (38:35):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Here? It is? I'm you sure? This is sure. I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Jason told me what the kid looked like and I
found him.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
I don't know, but look at it.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
See gray and blue.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
It does look very much in the But you could
have bought one.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Mister loss, and would I do a thing like that.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
It had better be the right one. That's all I
have to say. Good morning, mister Lawson, Oh, mister Pool,
good morning. Is a thirty days set up. I have
here your hundred dollars, oh, thank you.
Speaker 6 (39:16):
And you have my collateral.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yes, indeed I do. And here it is, ah but
a beautiful little stone, and never ceased to marvel at
the beautiful blend of colors, and truly one of a kind,
wouldn't you agree? Truly? Tell me, mister Lawson, have you
used the stone? Yes? And with good results, with spectacular results.
(39:45):
Everything I touched with a turned the gold. I'm figuratively
speaking good good.
Speaker 6 (39:52):
Then you you don't need it anymore.
Speaker 8 (39:55):
It's done its job.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Actually, there's a reason it's called the philosopher stone. Did
you ever stop to think?
Speaker 6 (40:02):
Why?
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Whoa?
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Now?
Speaker 6 (40:04):
If it turns gross into gold, shouldn't it be called
the magician stone or the sorcerer's stone? But you see,
there's no sorcery or magic involved. It's done with knowledge.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Knowledge. It can only be used by a man who's
great knowledge to begin with, and what it does is
to encourage him to marshal all of his knowledge and
to bring it to bear on a single problem. Oh well,
it was a pleasure doing business with you, sir, And
see you no longer need my Philosopher's Stone.
Speaker 6 (40:39):
I should take it with me, good day, mister Lawson.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Mister Lawson, yes, you.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
Seem to be staring at something or is it someone?
Speaker 1 (40:51):
I wonder if she would actually oh it, excuse me,
mister Pool, gladly, mister Lawson, but lovely morning, Miss Roselong.
Speaker 7 (41:04):
Don't you think though, yes, I think so.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Well, forget it, We've already been through all that nonsense
one hundred times. Let's have lunch. Oh, I'm sorry, you're what.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Oh, you.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
Can't easy.
Speaker 11 (41:23):
I don't eat lunch, but I do eat dinner, of course,
and they did, and I'm sure they had many dinners
(41:47):
from that point on, and then they included breakfasts. A
question you really want to ask me and I can tell,
is did missus Jeffries actually recover the stone or did
she simply buy another that resembled it. I don't know
(42:07):
even if I could ask her, would I believe her.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
I'll be back shortly. The Philosopher's Stone, it has come
to symbolize the ready answer, the instant solution, the immediate fulfillment.
(42:38):
It has always been, and probably shall always be, mankind's
most urgent quest. When I say mankind, I don't say
it with a cosmic capital letter. I mean most of us.
How many of us keep looking for the gimmick of
a password, the open sesame that enables us to enjoy
(43:00):
the sweet as the goal without enduring the sweat of
the journey. Our cast included Russell Horton, Earl Hammond, ray
Oens and Bryana Rayburn. The entire production was under the
direction of Hymon Brown. And now a preview of our
(43:22):
next tale.
Speaker 4 (43:23):
You have the diction of a man who's been the college.
Speaker 10 (43:26):
I have a master's degree in economics from Harvard University, and.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
You settle for a job as a handyman chauffeur.
Speaker 10 (43:33):
One must begin somewhere. You don't sound like an American.
Were you born here? No, sir, Now that I listen,
that's an unusual accent. Yes, sir, why'd you turn here?
Speaker 1 (43:48):
Smith? Smith?
Speaker 10 (43:50):
I'm talking to you. This is not the way to
Wall Street. Why are we stopping? Move over, young woman?
Who do you think you are?
Speaker 1 (44:02):
Who else? She says? I? Look, that's a gun.
Speaker 4 (44:07):
Yes, I shall.
Speaker 7 (44:09):
Hold a gun, but it shall be hidden by my purse.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
If you give me any trouble, I can file through
the purse and kill you.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
This is E. G. Marshall inviting you to return to
our Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until
next time, Pleasant Dream. CBS News follows on WBBM Chicago,
(44:55):
It's Northwest, better of savings time.
Speaker 5 (44:58):
We've got more time.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
To inviting you to return to our mystery theater for
another adventure in the macabre.
Speaker 4 (45:10):
Until next time, Lead
Speaker 6 (45:13):
Him, Claire, you really will marry me
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