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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Presenting The Christmas Eve Ghosts, another in a series of
radio plays based on stories featured in the American weekly
The Magazine, which it distributed with all hursts to Sunday
newspapers from.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Coast to coast.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
The Christmas Eve ghost was produced in the New York
studios of the General Broadcasting Company. Men of the sea
are superstitious, even more.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
So than landsmen.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
The sky, the swell of the ocean's surface, birds wheeling
and screaming around the ship. All these apparently innocent details
have certain ominous interpretations for your sailorman. So it's not
surprising that there should be wild tales of haunted ships
and shipwrecked which live fathoms zep or beats on a
sandy shores off the.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
New England coast in the middle of the last century.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
No sturdier, smarter, five masted schooner ever sailed the seas
than the ruth Eye brown he skipper, a huge Browne
seaman named Cobb, as good as captain as ever ordered
a four attack heap down had one upstanding characteristic. He
was deeply religious, too religious to suit his men. He
always cared a parson on board ship. The whole services
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one blustery Christmas eve, the skipper was sitting in his cabin,
reading aloud to himself.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
And they were in the same country, shepherds of biding
in the fields, keeping watch over.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Their flock by night.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
And lo, the Angel of the Lord came upon them,
and the glory of the Lord shone round about them,
and they were sore afraid. Cone Please come in, mister Wiliburn,
come in. I was just reading a bit of the
scriptures happen, sat down, made and listen, set down and
(01:48):
reading from the second chapter Luke, where the Angel appeared
to the shepherd, and the Angel said into them, fear
not for the whole I bring you good tidings of
great joy, which shall be to all people, for unto
you is born on this day in the city of David.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
A savior happened.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
And suddenly there was with the Angel and multitude of
the heavenly Host, praising God and saying glory to God
in the highest and on earth peace good will toward men.
That's what the Good Book says, mate. And suddenly there
was with the Angel of multitude of the heavenly Host.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You know what that means.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
That means there was a flock of spirits appeared.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Do you believe in spirits? Don't you a bottle kind?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I does?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Cappa? Damn it? Make don't be profane, I mean ghosts.
I must take captain. Do you hear tell of ghost appearing?
Haven't you? I cappen, I've heard tell them.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I've never seen them, never neither, but the good book
tells us they do appear. Wonder if a parson.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Has ever seen them met?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Just run, give the parson my compliment and ask me
to be good enough to step here a minute.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I'll let you, please, Captain.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I was sent here with the partons compliment and to ask.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
If you'll be so good as the step there's.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Cabin ooh went for I'm a Parsons in a bad way.
Certainly sick shot shot will win at.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Your hot your fleeza.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Last night, while he was.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Ashore, some tipped the oysterman let him have one while
he was holding the services in the back room of
a jolly car. Why didn't somebody tell me all the
parson would here? Tell him a captain didn't want to
touch it.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Some of the men got him aboard into his bunk.
But he's in a bad way.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
You see I, sir, with a turn for the worst,
just to foul back one. Why didn't you tell me
when you first came in. I tried, your, captain, But
don't stand there spouting like a humpback whale.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Get me my jacket off.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
You on the hook, I said.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Carson's in a bad way. He for devil.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Having only one eye and a paved leg was bad
enough without.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Getting shot your jacket. Cap All right, come along, mister WILLOUGHBD.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
We'll have a look at the Parsons.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Thank you sir for coming.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
That's all right, Tarson, No, no, no, no, don't you try
to get.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Up now I'm back and rest.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I'm pretty weak, mate, captain, and turn the lantern to
the way a little lights right in his face. I
U better fastn't.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Much, nankee, captain. Sorry, sorry to be so much trouble.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
No trouble man, no trouble at all. It won't be
for long, of course, not when you will be up
in about deck in short order.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Will fardon me for contredicting, captain, But I'll.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Never pace the deck again, be in six major morbid, Parson.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I'll stop thinking that way.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
My time's come, Captain. I know that soons. The bullet
hit me, funny hat. It was how we never know
how the hand will come.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I always hope to die in my home port.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
But it's to be a seam or stop talking like that.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Man, It's true, Captain, I'm dying.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
My race is wrung. That you were muse heavenly music.
Well here in this.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Cabin do you hear, mister Williband?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Oh? Are you sure you heard music? Parson? I heard it.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
I hear it still listen.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Can't you hear it too?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Would you like me to read a bit of scripture?
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Persons, they're coming to take me home.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
God sent his angels for me. Seven Captain, Now.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You lie back and rest, Parson.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Laugh me. Don't believe me. You think I'm delirious.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
I'm not. I see the angels and hear their.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Music as Parson.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Yes, if you say you do, you do the Good
Book save God sends his angels, doesn't.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Years Parson to doe? Now what did I tell you,
mister Willibrand? I was just sending, mister Williban here for you, Parson,
when you come for me.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I've just been reading about that in the Good Book.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
It's true. It's Gospels.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
It does return.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
I know that I shall return to as part I
die strong in the faith that I will be allowed
to return, and then I shall not only preach to
men's souls, but I shall.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Heal their bodies. Morol, don't bother met.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
My lantern of life is growing weaker to Captain.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
What is it posson?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
I always preach the truth that your help.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
You believe what I've told you.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Coature, I have come.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
No lie back now, don't lean on your rble like that.
I must.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
I must make you believe what I'm about to say.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
I know that I shall attend the same night. It's
very hard to preach to men and heal their bodies.
Remember this, Captain, I shall come back to preach, and
you are bodies.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I shall.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
A week later, the Ruthi Brown caught fire from the
galley stove while everybody was ashore, and she burned to
the water's edge. The whole town was interested in the
dying prediction of the saintly old Parton. Some believed it
would come true, others scoffed at it, but everyone impatiently
waited for the next Christmas Eve, the first anniversary of
the Partian's death. One of the most ardent believers in
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the prophecy was little Davy, the crippled son of Captain Cobb.
He constantly talked to the Parsian's return and hoped that
he might be relieved of his crutches, although he never
expressed his.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Opinion of the whole matter.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Captain Cobb took his little son down to the wreck
of the Ruthsiah Brown on the appointed knight.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
He said he'd come back, didn't he?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Father?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Right? Son? Did he say what time? The hour of
his death?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
He said, baby, And that was a date bill and
it will come.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
Movie, he said, So, Davy, I think he will years
that will be.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Able to see him.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Maybe, well the cabin he died his father, ah see
the broken charred we live. Yes, Uh, his cabin was
just after that.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
I'm going up there.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Maybe he won't come back for sure if I.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Do it, even Captain Copper, even unless it will have
brand like the night Light the Nights, the night wants
to start together.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I see light. You played a partl come back, don't
you mm? He said he would.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
He said lots of things the parson did, but.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I won't believe him.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Well, then, what are you here? For just to see
all the folks get fool come discuff Huh, I wouldn't
say that, just come to look on us fell.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Mind and night he died, Captain, How.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
You've been reading about the spirits coming down from heaven
and how he heard him coming after him and all
that eerie music he was raving about and you never
heard a note of it?
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Did Wait?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
No, mate, we didn't. He was the only one of.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Four who heard or saw anything. Right.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Well, then, Captain, how will we ever know if he
comes back?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Wish I knew, major, wish, I knew. M eight bells, captain,
eight bells. Mate, it comes to folks, they expect miracles
to something in the pass.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
And said he'd come back, said he'd come back to.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Preach and heal this very hour.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Mate, But do you think you'll come back?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Tappin the person was a.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Very honest man made captain, mister Willibrand. Or he meant,
well enough, Captain, but it's coming back now here.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
I am, just as I said, Captain. Mister Willibrand listened
to me.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Was so certain he'd return.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yes, Captain, I promise to return, and here I am.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
They say, diamond have peculiar visions, Captain.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I'm mister Willibrand, don't.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
You hear me? I'm back with you. I've got so
much to carry you.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
That's why I hope I go sudden like when it
comes my turn.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Don't fear death, mister Willibrand, death is pea, death is beautiful.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Oh, if you could only hear.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Me, Parson easiest, Captain, I've died easy.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
He ain't having an easy time getting back, though.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I wonder if he will come tonight time.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I'm here, Captain, I'm here. Can't you see me?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I can see you.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Don't you hear?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
The music winds getting round to the north your whole night? Tonight,
Captain might pour a storm form on him.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
I haven't much longer to day with your, Captain. I
promised you I'll get back.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I want to know I've kept my promise.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Oh there's only one way left now to make you believe.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Well.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I guess the posts failed to Captain.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Might as well get back to work warm.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I guess sure, right mate, I guess you're right. Well, Davy.
Let me here. Just a few minutes ago we went
to ask for the wheeler.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
Oh, somebody's coming along at that now, God him, you must.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Be nobody else up.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
There can't be Captain.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
David be on his crutches.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
He is Davie and he ain't got his clutches. Captain
you mean, I don't know what I mean. Day he
came home, where's the clutches?
Speaker 6 (12:27):
And I imagine things so easily I shouldn't have brought him.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Careful, Davy, I'll come get your son.
Speaker 8 (12:38):
You don't have to father, see.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
My crutches again.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
I can walk well, I'll be baby Ta. Byfore the gold.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Did the old Parsons keep his promise and reappear fool.
Details of the story of the strange old character, as
well as many other supernatural visitations, will be found under
the title The Haunted Shipwrecked off the coast of Maine.
The next the Sunday's issue of The American Weekly, the
magazine which he distributed with all Hirst the Sunday newspapers
from coast to coast, and now on behalf of the
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American Weekly, and all members of the Hurst Organization. I
wish to extend to you and your family our very
best wishes for a very merry Christmas. This is Wentworth
announcing full details of the other stories appearing in next
Sunday's issue of The American Weekly magazine will now be
given to you by your own announcer and presenting The
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Broken Coin, another in the series of radio plays based
on stories featured in The American Weekly, the magazine which
had distributed at all first a Sunday newspapers from coast
to coast. The Broken Coine was produced in the New
York studios of the General Broadcasting Company. That section of Palace,
known as momat and once famous for its night life.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
And gaiety, is plunged in gloomed.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
The playground of the world, as Parisian proudly called, it
has become as lively as a burial ground. One quiet
evening recently at the Chan Noir, one of the Moorial
famed of night restaurants in the Rue Fagal Chosette Tordier,
one of the ladies of the evening to be found
there is sitting alone at the table, idly turning a
wine glass between her fingers as she meditates under the
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spell of the music of the cafe violinists. Mademoseuell Sigeu,
Mademoiselle suzee eyes.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
What is it?
Speaker 9 (15:54):
Oh? What can I do for you? Mon Cherie. I'm
Marie taque, is it not?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
This em here?
Speaker 9 (16:00):
And Madame the first said, you tell me what I'm
supposed to do.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
She said, I'd tell you, yes, how well she knows
where to send you. Nobody in the roup of Guel
has been untended as long as I have.
Speaker 9 (16:14):
Well, what do you want to know, Marcherie, I.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Don't know, Mademoiselle.
Speaker 9 (16:17):
All the madame said was to see you very well.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
I'll start at the beginning. We try to get as
much money out of the patrons as they have.
Speaker 8 (16:25):
The more you can wheedle, the more money you make.
Speaker 9 (16:27):
Is that clear?
Speaker 8 (16:28):
Yes, mademoiselle say, as soon as the patron arrives, you're
to rush to him and overwhelm him with attentions and
dazzle him.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
With your charms and your perfume. You understand, I think
I do. In preparing for your reasoning's.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
Work, Marie, see to it that you use a heavy,
sensuous perfume. The patron will be sure to breathe its
fragrance as you bend.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Over his shoulder.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
I understand.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Then, when you're seated with him, you have a sudden
thirst and hunger. Let your stuck in trade marcherie your
professional appetite. But if I have to eat and drink
is a patron, what shall I do when another comes in?
Speaker 9 (17:00):
That is where the skill comes in. You only pick
at the food.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
An eagle eyed waiter will see to it that it
doesn't stay on the table long.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Good.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
What about the drink?
Speaker 8 (17:09):
Let the patron drink most of the bottle, But let
him think that you've helped considerably.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
Let suppose he notices that I haven't. Hm.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
You distract his attention by being very demonstrative. You kiss
him and put your arms around his neck. As you do,
the waiter will substitute another bottle.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
Which has been diluted. Then suppose the patron is uses
to buy more than one bottle.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
For that type of patron, we have a special technique.
Speaker 9 (17:33):
You see this vile?
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Yes, what's the A powder which will make him forget
for a while.
Speaker 9 (17:42):
You'll poison a sleeping potion.
Speaker 8 (17:45):
Of course, if a little too much is dropped into
his glass, the sleep will be a little longer an
intended Oh h oh h, don't be shocked, Maddy. It's
a common thing here in the match.
Speaker 9 (17:56):
But supposing his glasses get mixed, suppose uh.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
It would only put you to sleep, MARCHERI with me,
it would be different. My heart would never send.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
It one glass and.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Two phoiniques.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Oh do that?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Have you ever administered a special treatment?
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (18:19):
Yes, a few times. Oh I never could do that.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
You won't have to sherry, So that will take care
of that boil. Well, I'm supposed to do that is
to get patrons to buy food and drinks as far
as the cafe is concerned. But there's a pretty money
to be gained for yourself in other ways. How tell
the patron of sad story? You have an aged mother
to support, a ring, you wish to get out of
a pawn shop because of sentimental reason, or you have
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an overdue lent bill to be paid.
Speaker 9 (18:47):
Will they give me money?
Speaker 8 (18:48):
If I do try it, you'll get twice as much
as you askful.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Maybe I can do that. I'll try to. Then you're
a pretty little thing.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Hold of you eighteen eighteen, just the age I was
when I left the convent. Were you in a convent too, Yes,
I was into a convent when I was a young girl.
My father used to come and see me on holidays.
You see, my mother died when I was smaller. Then
when I was about eighteen. Fathers visit suddenly stopped the
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move he died. I thought, the mother superior, thought, I
remember one evening.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Justice.
Speaker 9 (19:31):
That's the best one.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Who's that?
Speaker 8 (19:44):
Yes, the mother?
Speaker 6 (19:46):
I have something to say for you coming here?
Speaker 10 (19:49):
Yes, mother?
Speaker 9 (19:56):
Who that your father?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Has he been in touch with you?
Speaker 9 (19:59):
Hes?
Speaker 8 (19:59):
He no, Mother, He hasn't been in touch with us either.
He used to come on all the holidays. It's strange
that his visitors stopped so suddenly. Is it not too served?
He may be ill?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Mother.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
In that case, I think he would have notified.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Us in some way. But have Perhaps he went away
on a business trip perhaps, but I think him. You
must be brave, my child. I think he has passed on.
Oh oh no, no, bless my child. I know it
is a shock to you.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
There's no other way to look at it. Now.
Speaker 8 (20:32):
The funds your father left your education are nearly depleted.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
Have you any other relatives.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
To whom you can turn for a business?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
You know?
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Ill, mother?
Speaker 9 (20:42):
If if father has passed on it, I'm a lot.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
In the world.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
There are two ways open to you and to the
convent as a sister, or take what money is left
and to seek.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Your fortune in the world.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
I should give you a little time to think it over,
but you may go into this.
Speaker 9 (20:59):
But now thet he will him most.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
You took the money, of course, yes, the mother's opinionor
gave me what was left, and if he was prinking,
my father had left in her care.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Among them was the hopper coin of sinning.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
My father took the first money here and after he
was married, and broke it into two pieces.
Speaker 9 (21:34):
One party gave to my mother, the other he kept
himself for good luck.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
This was her house for the coin, and you've kept
it ever sin has it brought you luck?
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Not the luck I hoped for.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
You.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
See, I've never given up looking for my father, but
I've never found him. Of course, since I've become what
I am, I've decided that it's no use.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
I'd never find him in a place like this.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
That's well enough of my troubles.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
You've got enough that mad him the flour see us
gabbling like this for to there. You've had a lot
of startle in your life, haven't you. I look pretty old,
don't I? If you've had a great deal of trouble.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
People who suffer a great deal do look older.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
You know, huh?
Speaker 9 (22:21):
You're a dear to be so detectable. You don't have
to be here, you true get busy, Mary.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
I sent you over here to get the pointed enough
to sit and chapel night, move on.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Yes, oh it's my fault. I kept first.
Speaker 8 (22:34):
You should not better to that, but I haven't time
to sold Now.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
See that elderly.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Gentleman's that table over there?
Speaker 9 (22:41):
Uh you want me to go to work on him?
Speaker 10 (22:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (22:45):
One of the waiter tells me he has a large
raw of money with him. If we don't get it,
somebody else will hurry now.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Alright, most warm with you than sir.
Speaker 9 (22:59):
You. You look lonely over here by yourself? Wouldn't you
like a little company?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
By all means?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Sit down?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Won't show? Wait up?
Speaker 9 (23:09):
You look tired?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Are you a little?
Speaker 10 (23:13):
But that is because I've been sick with jungle fever. Hm.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I've been away.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
From parish for a number of years with it champaign,
Wait up, wi it? Yes, it's been a long time.
Speaker 10 (23:27):
Have you ever searched for someone and not found them?
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Why?
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Why?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (23:33):
Yes I have?
Speaker 10 (23:35):
Then you know how I feel discouraged, disappointed?
Speaker 9 (23:39):
I know, tell me about it.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
You see, when I went away, I didn't have a
chance to let anyone know where I was going.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
The opportunity to.
Speaker 10 (23:49):
Make a fortune in mining gold came to.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Me so suturday.
Speaker 10 (23:53):
Then, when I was able to get in touch with
friends and relations, it was too late.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
That was to bed.
Speaker 9 (24:01):
Your family might have been sprentic.
Speaker 10 (24:03):
I had only a daughter. I don't know what became
of her. Perhaps she's married and has children of her own.
Ray now, perhaps maybe she went in for a career
of some kind. You know, I like to think of
her as being famous, even though I shall probably never
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meet her.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Face to face.
Speaker 10 (24:25):
Well, it's quite possible she might be famous, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Of course?
Speaker 8 (24:30):
Of course, I'm sure it's what your dreamer to be.
Speaker 10 (24:34):
I don't suppose I ever know her. If we did meet,
it's been so many years.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
I'm sure she'd recognize your monsieur.
Speaker 10 (24:41):
I hardly think so.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
The fever is changing my appearance of great deal. There's
only one way we could ever recognize each other.
Speaker 9 (24:50):
What does that make it a birthmark of some kind?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
No? They are half of calling odd, isn't it. Well,
my daughter, there's the other house.
Speaker 8 (25:07):
Excuse me, Madame Lettair wish is to speak to you
ask it with the gentleman while you're gone.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
Yes, I must, I must see, madam.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Excuse what's got into you, Totte? He's done nothing but
talk talk talk.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
Yes, yes, let him now.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
The gentleman evidently.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Isn't going in for drinking.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
You see me, we'll have to put him the fleet
some other way.
Speaker 9 (25:30):
The potters. Oh no, no, that why you'll.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
Never have to just way before about the powders.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
What's the matter, but I, oh nothing, madam? Very well,
then you'll do.
Speaker 9 (25:41):
As I say. Give the gentleman the pother who.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
Means that's already been taken care of them.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
See the way he's taking.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
The champagne glasses on the table, even though the one
in front of him contains.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
The slumber potion. A generous one.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
By the way.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Oh no, no, what's.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
Wrong with you tonight, sette? If you're a gentleman has
a weak heart like you, and I reclame, and because
that's the table work. But I secondly, get his wallet.
Be sure you'll get his money before he leaves here. Understand.
I'll be waiting for you in my room.
Speaker 9 (26:20):
Oh you're back to that, Yes, I'm back. You can
meet us marries, of course, one.
Speaker 10 (26:26):
Here, well, mademoiselle, suse shall we bring a close weak monsieur?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Why are you changing the glass?
Speaker 9 (26:38):
This one is full? Are you you want to have it?
Speaker 6 (26:40):
No?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
No, here you'll keep it.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
So please please please change with me, monsieur.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
Why are you so insistent?
Speaker 9 (26:46):
I told you this one is poor?
Speaker 10 (26:49):
Well, I'll drink this one, thank you?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Yeah, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Suck?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
That's mine?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
You're drinking?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yes, and now my own.
Speaker 9 (27:00):
Now you will go with your speak for your life.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
You don't understand nothing, your.
Speaker 8 (27:04):
Money if you don't go now, Hello, madame.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
If I was a room, you'll never go out alive.
This is a wicked place. But you're you're in great danger.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Why you should you warn me like this?
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Because you because you're.
Speaker 9 (27:14):
An old man. You're top it enough. You don't desire
to direct this. Now go go quickly, do you hear me?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Go go with wfe will?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
But what about you?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (27:22):
I should be all right?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
No? Here's you? Please?
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Thank god? Why?
Speaker 9 (27:33):
Why?
Speaker 8 (27:33):
What's the matter?
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Why you stare?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (27:39):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Are you ill?
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Madam?
Speaker 8 (27:50):
You think me?
Speaker 9 (27:54):
You must go over?
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Think I've found him.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
I found him.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
The radio drama which you have just heard was inspired
by an exclusive story appearing the next Sunday's issue of
the American Weekly magazine.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
You will find it under.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
The title Dismal Deserted Resources of Gay Parry Nightlife. This
is but one of the many interesting true life stories
and articles appearing the next Sunday's issue of the American Weekly.
The magazine which is distributed is all Hurst Sunday newspapers
from coast to coast. This is wentworth announcing and wishing
you in behalf of the American Weekly and the entire
Hearst organization the very happiest.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Of all New Year's.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Full details concerning the many stories and articles to be
found the next Sunday's American Weekly will now be given
to you by your own announcers.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
That's a.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Sting as as
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Not a not a not
Presenting The Christmas Eve Ghosts, another in a series of
radio plays based on stories featured in the American weekly
The Magazine, which it distributed with all hursts to Sunday
newspapers from.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Coast to coast.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
The Christmas Eve ghost was produced in the New York
studios of the General Broadcasting Company. Men of the sea
are superstitious, even more.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
So than landsmen.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
The sky, the swell of the ocean's surface, birds wheeling
and screaming around the ship. All these apparently innocent details
have certain ominous interpretations for your sailorman. So it's not
surprising that there should be wild tales of haunted ships
and shipwrecked which live fathoms zep or beats on a
sandy shores off the.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
New England coast in the middle of the last century.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
No sturdier, smarter, five masted schooner ever sailed the seas
than the ruth Eye brown he skipper, a huge Browne
seaman named Cobb, as good as captain as ever ordered
a four attack heap down had one upstanding characteristic. He
was deeply religious, too religious to suit his men. He
always cared a parson on board ship. The whole services
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one blustery Christmas eve, the skipper was sitting in his cabin,
reading aloud to himself.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
And they were in the same country, shepherds of biding
in the fields, keeping watch over.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Their flock by night.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
And lo, the Angel of the Lord came upon them,
and the glory of the Lord shone round about them,
and they were sore afraid. Cone Please come in, mister Wiliburn,
come in. I was just reading a bit of the
scriptures happen, sat down, made and listen, set down and
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reading from the second chapter Luke, where the Angel appeared
to the shepherd, and the Angel said into them, fear
not for the whole I bring you good tidings of
great joy, which shall be to all people, for unto
you is born on this day in the city of David.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
A savior happened.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
And suddenly there was with the Angel and multitude of
the heavenly Host, praising God and saying glory to God
in the highest and on earth peace good will toward men.
That's what the Good Book says, mate. And suddenly there
was with the Angel of multitude of the heavenly Host.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You know what that means.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
That means there was a flock of spirits appeared.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Do you believe in spirits? Don't you a bottle kind?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I does?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Cappa? Damn it? Make don't be profane, I mean ghosts.
I must take captain. Do you hear tell of ghost appearing?
Haven't you? I cappen, I've heard tell them.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I've never seen them, never neither, but the good book
tells us they do appear. Wonder if a parson.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Has ever seen them met?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Just run, give the parson my compliment and ask me
to be good enough to step here a minute.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I'll let you, please, Captain.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I was sent here with the partons compliment and to ask.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
If you'll be so good as the step there's.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Cabin ooh went for I'm a Parsons in a bad way.
Certainly sick shot shot will win at.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Your hot your fleeza.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Last night, while he was.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Ashore, some tipped the oysterman let him have one while
he was holding the services in the back room of
a jolly car. Why didn't somebody tell me all the
parson would here? Tell him a captain didn't want to
touch it.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Some of the men got him aboard into his bunk.
But he's in a bad way.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
You see I, sir, with a turn for the worst,
just to foul back one. Why didn't you tell me
when you first came in. I tried, your, captain, But
don't stand there spouting like a humpback whale.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Get me my jacket off.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
You on the hook, I said.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Carson's in a bad way. He for devil.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Having only one eye and a paved leg was bad
enough without.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Getting shot your jacket. Cap All right, come along, mister WILLOUGHBD.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
We'll have a look at the Parsons.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Thank you sir for coming.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
That's all right, Tarson, No, no, no, no, don't you try
to get.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Up now I'm back and rest.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I'm pretty weak, mate, captain, and turn the lantern to
the way a little lights right in his face. I
U better fastn't.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Much, nankee, captain. Sorry, sorry to be so much trouble.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
No trouble man, no trouble at all. It won't be
for long, of course, not when you will be up
in about deck in short order.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Will fardon me for contredicting, captain, But I'll.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Never pace the deck again, be in six major morbid, Parson.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I'll stop thinking that way.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
My time's come, Captain. I know that soons. The bullet
hit me, funny hat. It was how we never know
how the hand will come.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I always hope to die in my home port.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
But it's to be a seam or stop talking like that.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Man, It's true, Captain, I'm dying.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
My race is wrung. That you were muse heavenly music.
Well here in this.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Cabin do you hear, mister Williband?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Oh? Are you sure you heard music? Parson? I heard it.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
I hear it still listen.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Can't you hear it too?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Would you like me to read a bit of scripture?
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Persons, they're coming to take me home.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
God sent his angels for me. Seven Captain, Now.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You lie back and rest, Parson.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Laugh me. Don't believe me. You think I'm delirious.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
I'm not. I see the angels and hear their.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Music as Parson.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Yes, if you say you do, you do the Good
Book save God sends his angels, doesn't.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Years Parson to doe? Now what did I tell you,
mister Willibrand? I was just sending, mister Williban here for you, Parson,
when you come for me.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I've just been reading about that in the Good Book.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
It's true. It's Gospels.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
It does return.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
I know that I shall return to as part I
die strong in the faith that I will be allowed
to return, and then I shall not only preach to
men's souls, but I shall.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Heal their bodies. Morol, don't bother met.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
My lantern of life is growing weaker to Captain.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
What is it posson?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
I always preach the truth that your help.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
You believe what I've told you.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Coature, I have come.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
No lie back now, don't lean on your rble like that.
I must.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
I must make you believe what I'm about to say.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
I know that I shall attend the same night. It's
very hard to preach to men and heal their bodies.
Remember this, Captain, I shall come back to preach, and
you are bodies.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I shall.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
A week later, the Ruthi Brown caught fire from the
galley stove while everybody was ashore, and she burned to
the water's edge. The whole town was interested in the
dying prediction of the saintly old Parton. Some believed it
would come true, others scoffed at it, but everyone impatiently
waited for the next Christmas Eve, the first anniversary of
the Partian's death. One of the most ardent believers in
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the prophecy was little Davy, the crippled son of Captain Cobb.
He constantly talked to the Parsian's return and hoped that
he might be relieved of his crutches, although he never
expressed his.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Opinion of the whole matter.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Captain Cobb took his little son down to the wreck
of the Ruthsiah Brown on the appointed knight.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
He said he'd come back, didn't he?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Father?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Right? Son? Did he say what time? The hour of
his death?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
He said, baby, And that was a date bill and
it will come.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
Movie, he said, So, Davy, I think he will years
that will be.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Able to see him.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Maybe, well the cabin he died his father, ah see
the broken charred we live. Yes, Uh, his cabin was
just after that.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
I'm going up there.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Maybe he won't come back for sure if I.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Do it, even Captain Copper, even unless it will have
brand like the night Light the Nights, the night wants
to start together.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I see light. You played a partl come back, don't
you mm? He said he would.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
He said lots of things the parson did, but.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I won't believe him.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Well, then, what are you here? For just to see
all the folks get fool come discuff Huh, I wouldn't
say that, just come to look on us fell.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Mind and night he died, Captain, How.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
You've been reading about the spirits coming down from heaven
and how he heard him coming after him and all
that eerie music he was raving about and you never
heard a note of it?
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Did Wait?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
No, mate, we didn't. He was the only one of.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Four who heard or saw anything. Right.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Well, then, Captain, how will we ever know if he
comes back?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Wish I knew, major, wish, I knew. M eight bells, captain,
eight bells. Mate, it comes to folks, they expect miracles
to something in the pass.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
And said he'd come back, said he'd come back to.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Preach and heal this very hour.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Mate, But do you think you'll come back?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Tappin the person was a.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Very honest man made captain, mister Willibrand. Or he meant,
well enough, Captain, but it's coming back now here.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
I am, just as I said, Captain. Mister Willibrand listened
to me.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Was so certain he'd return.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yes, Captain, I promise to return, and here I am.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
They say, diamond have peculiar visions, Captain.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I'm mister Willibrand, don't.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
You hear me? I'm back with you. I've got so
much to carry you.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
That's why I hope I go sudden like when it
comes my turn.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Don't fear death, mister Willibrand, death is pea, death is beautiful.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Oh, if you could only hear.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Me, Parson easiest, Captain, I've died easy.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
He ain't having an easy time getting back, though.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I wonder if he will come tonight time.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I'm here, Captain, I'm here. Can't you see me?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I can see you.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Don't you hear?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
The music winds getting round to the north your whole night? Tonight,
Captain might pour a storm form on him.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
I haven't much longer to day with your, Captain. I
promised you I'll get back.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I want to know I've kept my promise.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Oh there's only one way left now to make you believe.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Well.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I guess the posts failed to Captain.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Might as well get back to work warm.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I guess sure, right mate, I guess you're right. Well, Davy.
Let me here. Just a few minutes ago we went
to ask for the wheeler.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
Oh, somebody's coming along at that now, God him, you must.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Be nobody else up.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
There can't be Captain.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
David be on his crutches.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
He is Davie and he ain't got his clutches. Captain
you mean, I don't know what I mean. Day he
came home, where's the clutches?
Speaker 6 (12:27):
And I imagine things so easily I shouldn't have brought him.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Careful, Davy, I'll come get your son.
Speaker 8 (12:38):
You don't have to father, see.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
My crutches again.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
I can walk well, I'll be baby Ta. Byfore the gold.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Did the old Parsons keep his promise and reappear fool.
Details of the story of the strange old character, as
well as many other supernatural visitations, will be found under
the title The Haunted Shipwrecked off the coast of Maine.
The next the Sunday's issue of The American Weekly, the
magazine which he distributed with all Hirst the Sunday newspapers
from coast to coast, and now on behalf of the
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American Weekly, and all members of the Hurst Organization. I
wish to extend to you and your family our very
best wishes for a very merry Christmas. This is Wentworth
announcing full details of the other stories appearing in next
Sunday's issue of The American Weekly magazine will now be
given to you by your own announcer and presenting The
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Broken Coin, another in the series of radio plays based
on stories featured in The American Weekly, the magazine which
had distributed at all first a Sunday newspapers from coast
to coast. The Broken Coine was produced in the New
York studios of the General Broadcasting Company. That section of Palace,
known as momat and once famous for its night life.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
And gaiety, is plunged in gloomed.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
The playground of the world, as Parisian proudly called, it
has become as lively as a burial ground. One quiet
evening recently at the Chan Noir, one of the Moorial
famed of night restaurants in the Rue Fagal Chosette Tordier,
one of the ladies of the evening to be found
there is sitting alone at the table, idly turning a
wine glass between her fingers as she meditates under the
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spell of the music of the cafe violinists. Mademoseuell Sigeu,
Mademoiselle suzee eyes.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
What is it?
Speaker 9 (15:54):
Oh? What can I do for you? Mon Cherie. I'm
Marie taque, is it not?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
This em here?
Speaker 9 (16:00):
And Madame the first said, you tell me what I'm
supposed to do.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
She said, I'd tell you, yes, how well she knows
where to send you. Nobody in the roup of Guel
has been untended as long as I have.
Speaker 9 (16:14):
Well, what do you want to know, Marcherie, I.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Don't know, Mademoiselle.
Speaker 9 (16:17):
All the madame said was to see you very well.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
I'll start at the beginning. We try to get as
much money out of the patrons as they have.
Speaker 8 (16:25):
The more you can wheedle, the more money you make.
Speaker 9 (16:27):
Is that clear?
Speaker 8 (16:28):
Yes, mademoiselle say, as soon as the patron arrives, you're
to rush to him and overwhelm him with attentions and
dazzle him.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
With your charms and your perfume. You understand, I think
I do. In preparing for your reasoning's.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
Work, Marie, see to it that you use a heavy,
sensuous perfume. The patron will be sure to breathe its
fragrance as you bend.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Over his shoulder.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
I understand.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Then, when you're seated with him, you have a sudden
thirst and hunger. Let your stuck in trade marcherie your
professional appetite. But if I have to eat and drink
is a patron, what shall I do when another comes in?
Speaker 9 (17:00):
That is where the skill comes in. You only pick
at the food.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
An eagle eyed waiter will see to it that it
doesn't stay on the table long.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Good.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
What about the drink?
Speaker 8 (17:09):
Let the patron drink most of the bottle, But let
him think that you've helped considerably.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
Let suppose he notices that I haven't. Hm.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
You distract his attention by being very demonstrative. You kiss
him and put your arms around his neck. As you do,
the waiter will substitute another bottle.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
Which has been diluted. Then suppose the patron is uses
to buy more than one bottle.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
For that type of patron, we have a special technique.
Speaker 9 (17:33):
You see this vile?
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Yes, what's the A powder which will make him forget
for a while.
Speaker 9 (17:42):
You'll poison a sleeping potion.
Speaker 8 (17:45):
Of course, if a little too much is dropped into
his glass, the sleep will be a little longer an
intended Oh h oh h, don't be shocked, Maddy. It's
a common thing here in the match.
Speaker 9 (17:56):
But supposing his glasses get mixed, suppose uh.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
It would only put you to sleep, MARCHERI with me,
it would be different. My heart would never send.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
It one glass and.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Two phoiniques.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Oh do that?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Have you ever administered a special treatment?
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (18:19):
Yes, a few times. Oh I never could do that.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
You won't have to sherry, So that will take care
of that boil. Well, I'm supposed to do that is
to get patrons to buy food and drinks as far
as the cafe is concerned. But there's a pretty money
to be gained for yourself in other ways. How tell
the patron of sad story? You have an aged mother
to support, a ring, you wish to get out of
a pawn shop because of sentimental reason, or you have
(18:45):
an overdue lent bill to be paid.
Speaker 9 (18:47):
Will they give me money?
Speaker 8 (18:48):
If I do try it, you'll get twice as much
as you askful.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Maybe I can do that. I'll try to. Then you're
a pretty little thing.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Hold of you eighteen eighteen, just the age I was
when I left the convent. Were you in a convent too, Yes,
I was into a convent when I was a young girl.
My father used to come and see me on holidays.
You see, my mother died when I was smaller. Then
when I was about eighteen. Fathers visit suddenly stopped the
(19:23):
move he died. I thought, the mother superior, thought, I
remember one evening.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Justice.
Speaker 9 (19:31):
That's the best one.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Who's that?
Speaker 8 (19:44):
Yes, the mother?
Speaker 6 (19:46):
I have something to say for you coming here?
Speaker 10 (19:49):
Yes, mother?
Speaker 9 (19:56):
Who that your father?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Has he been in touch with you?
Speaker 9 (19:59):
Hes?
Speaker 8 (19:59):
He no, Mother, He hasn't been in touch with us either.
He used to come on all the holidays. It's strange
that his visitors stopped so suddenly. Is it not too served?
He may be ill?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Mother.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
In that case, I think he would have notified.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Us in some way. But have Perhaps he went away
on a business trip perhaps, but I think him. You
must be brave, my child. I think he has passed on.
Oh oh no, no, bless my child. I know it
is a shock to you.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
There's no other way to look at it. Now.
Speaker 8 (20:32):
The funds your father left your education are nearly depleted.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
Have you any other relatives.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
To whom you can turn for a business?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
You know?
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Ill, mother?
Speaker 9 (20:42):
If if father has passed on it, I'm a lot.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
In the world.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
There are two ways open to you and to the
convent as a sister, or take what money is left
and to seek.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Your fortune in the world.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
I should give you a little time to think it over,
but you may go into this.
Speaker 9 (20:59):
But now thet he will him most.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
You took the money, of course, yes, the mother's opinionor
gave me what was left, and if he was prinking,
my father had left in her care.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Among them was the hopper coin of sinning.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
My father took the first money here and after he
was married, and broke it into two pieces.
Speaker 9 (21:34):
One party gave to my mother, the other he kept
himself for good luck.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
This was her house for the coin, and you've kept
it ever sin has it brought you luck?
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Not the luck I hoped for.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
You.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
See, I've never given up looking for my father, but
I've never found him. Of course, since I've become what
I am, I've decided that it's no use.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
I'd never find him in a place like this.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
That's well enough of my troubles.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
You've got enough that mad him the flour see us
gabbling like this for to there. You've had a lot
of startle in your life, haven't you. I look pretty old,
don't I? If you've had a great deal of trouble.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
People who suffer a great deal do look older.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
You know, huh?
Speaker 9 (22:21):
You're a dear to be so detectable. You don't have
to be here, you true get busy, Mary.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
I sent you over here to get the pointed enough
to sit and chapel night, move on.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Yes, oh it's my fault. I kept first.
Speaker 8 (22:34):
You should not better to that, but I haven't time
to sold Now.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
See that elderly.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Gentleman's that table over there?
Speaker 9 (22:41):
Uh you want me to go to work on him?
Speaker 10 (22:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (22:45):
One of the waiter tells me he has a large
raw of money with him. If we don't get it,
somebody else will hurry now.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Alright, most warm with you than sir.
Speaker 9 (22:59):
You. You look lonely over here by yourself? Wouldn't you
like a little company?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
By all means?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Sit down?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Won't show? Wait up?
Speaker 9 (23:09):
You look tired?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Are you a little?
Speaker 10 (23:13):
But that is because I've been sick with jungle fever. Hm.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I've been away.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
From parish for a number of years with it champaign,
Wait up, wi it? Yes, it's been a long time.
Speaker 10 (23:27):
Have you ever searched for someone and not found them?
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Why?
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Why?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (23:33):
Yes I have?
Speaker 10 (23:35):
Then you know how I feel discouraged, disappointed?
Speaker 9 (23:39):
I know, tell me about it.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
You see, when I went away, I didn't have a
chance to let anyone know where I was going.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
The opportunity to.
Speaker 10 (23:49):
Make a fortune in mining gold came to.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Me so suturday.
Speaker 10 (23:53):
Then, when I was able to get in touch with
friends and relations, it was too late.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
That was to bed.
Speaker 9 (24:01):
Your family might have been sprentic.
Speaker 10 (24:03):
I had only a daughter. I don't know what became
of her. Perhaps she's married and has children of her own.
Ray now, perhaps maybe she went in for a career
of some kind. You know, I like to think of
her as being famous, even though I shall probably never
(24:23):
meet her.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Face to face.
Speaker 10 (24:25):
Well, it's quite possible she might be famous, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Of course?
Speaker 8 (24:30):
Of course, I'm sure it's what your dreamer to be.
Speaker 10 (24:34):
I don't suppose I ever know her. If we did meet,
it's been so many years.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
I'm sure she'd recognize your monsieur.
Speaker 10 (24:41):
I hardly think so.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
The fever is changing my appearance of great deal. There's
only one way we could ever recognize each other.
Speaker 9 (24:50):
What does that make it a birthmark of some kind?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
No? They are half of calling odd, isn't it. Well,
my daughter, there's the other house.
Speaker 8 (25:07):
Excuse me, Madame Lettair wish is to speak to you
ask it with the gentleman while you're gone.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
Yes, I must, I must see, madam.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Excuse what's got into you, Totte? He's done nothing but
talk talk talk.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
Yes, yes, let him now.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
The gentleman evidently.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Isn't going in for drinking.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
You see me, we'll have to put him the fleet
some other way.
Speaker 9 (25:30):
The potters. Oh no, no, that why you'll.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
Never have to just way before about the powders.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
What's the matter, but I, oh nothing, madam? Very well,
then you'll do.
Speaker 9 (25:41):
As I say. Give the gentleman the pother who.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
Means that's already been taken care of them.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
See the way he's taking.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
The champagne glasses on the table, even though the one
in front of him contains.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
The slumber potion. A generous one.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
By the way.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Oh no, no, what's.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
Wrong with you tonight, sette? If you're a gentleman has
a weak heart like you, and I reclame, and because
that's the table work. But I secondly, get his wallet.
Be sure you'll get his money before he leaves here. Understand.
I'll be waiting for you in my room.
Speaker 9 (26:20):
Oh you're back to that, Yes, I'm back. You can
meet us marries, of course, one.
Speaker 10 (26:26):
Here, well, mademoiselle, suse shall we bring a close weak monsieur?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Why are you changing the glass?
Speaker 9 (26:38):
This one is full? Are you you want to have it?
Speaker 6 (26:40):
No?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
No, here you'll keep it.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
So please please please change with me, monsieur.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
Why are you so insistent?
Speaker 9 (26:46):
I told you this one is poor?
Speaker 10 (26:49):
Well, I'll drink this one, thank you?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Yeah, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Suck?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
That's mine?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
You're drinking?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yes, and now my own.
Speaker 9 (27:00):
Now you will go with your speak for your life.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
You don't understand nothing, your.
Speaker 8 (27:04):
Money if you don't go now, Hello, madame.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
If I was a room, you'll never go out alive.
This is a wicked place. But you're you're in great danger.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Why you should you warn me like this?
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Because you because you're.
Speaker 9 (27:14):
An old man. You're top it enough. You don't desire
to direct this. Now go go quickly, do you hear me?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Go go with wfe will?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
But what about you?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (27:22):
I should be all right?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
No? Here's you? Please?
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Thank god? Why?
Speaker 9 (27:33):
Why?
Speaker 8 (27:33):
What's the matter?
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Why you stare?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (27:39):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Are you ill?
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Madam?
Speaker 8 (27:50):
You think me?
Speaker 9 (27:54):
You must go over?
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Think I've found him.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
I found him.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
The radio drama which you have just heard was inspired
by an exclusive story appearing the next Sunday's issue of
the American Weekly magazine.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
You will find it under.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
The title Dismal Deserted Resources of Gay Parry Nightlife. This
is but one of the many interesting true life stories
and articles appearing the next Sunday's issue of the American Weekly.
The magazine which is distributed is all Hurst Sunday newspapers
from coast to coast. This is wentworth announcing and wishing
you in behalf of the American Weekly and the entire
Hearst organization the very happiest.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Of all New Year's.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Full details concerning the many stories and articles to be
found the next Sunday's American Weekly will now be given
to you by your own announcers.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
That's a.
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Sting as as
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Not a not a not
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