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Speaker 1 (00:26):
Author's Playhouse presenting Corey Ford's story of a man who
couldn't help being a hero, He Woke Up Famous. The
National Broadcasting Company takes pleasure in presenting the second in
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a series of Author's Playhouse radio adaptations of the best
in the field of short stories, selections from the works
of contemporary writers as well as the acknowledged masters of
the past. The nine dramas in this series have been
chosen as outstanding from the weekly Author's Playhouse productions heard
regularly over the National Broadcasting Company. You past three years
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and now Author's Playhouse presents Corey Ford's He Woke Up Famous.
Each winter, Missus Huntington Beebe goes to Miami Beach, and
as a rule, she lingers on until the last dog
is hung. Right now, it's spring nineteen forty two, and
at the moment, Missus Boebe and her secretary Lynn Horner
(01:35):
are in the upstairs sitting room playing Jin Rummy. The
way Missus Phoebe plays cards could be called casual. That is,
she has a hard time keeping her mind on any
one thing. Miss Harner, on the other hand, well, Miss
Horner is a very good secretary.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh you're playing missus phoebe.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Ah, Yes, yes, that's a lovely.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Toune, isn't it. Yes, missus Baby, you're tired, aren't you?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Miss Horner, it is getting laid Oh I'm not a
bit tired.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well, he'll go to bed when we finish this game.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
No, that should give you some idea of how missus
Boebe plays Jen Rummy. It's easy to see that she
lives in an untroubled and irresponsible world. Suddenly, however, the
music on the radio stops and announcer cuts in.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
There is a.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Special announcement a small tankers than torpedo up ESI's part.
The residents along the coast has to be on the
lookout for survivors.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Oh, yes, she's point by by miss Horner that it's
right here.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yes, missus baby, Oh dear me, I please turn off
the radio.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
Why, yes, of course, yes, I heard it.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I know I heard it. I beg your pardon. I'm
positive now that was what I heard.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yes, it's hard like well, it sounded like like boom,
that's what it sounded like. And it was let me see,
it was right off there, right off, is she's point?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yes, missus Boby, your deal I think Oh, they'll be
drifting in almost any minute. Now, Miss Horner, this is
our call to action.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yes, missus Boebe, bring some blankets to the flags like and.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Hurry, yes, missus Boby.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And the bottle of brandy, Miss Horner, brandy if it's
a long swim, you know, a long swim, and they'll
be sucking.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
We yes, missus Baby, Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Mercy, it's dark. Yeah, it turned down the light, Miss Horner.
No no, no, wait, you don't suppose that submarine, know,
missus Boby. No, no, I don't think so either. Well,
turned on the flashlight.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
Miss Horner.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
There, no, no, no, no, I don't hold it's like that.
It would have to get.
Speaker 9 (04:07):
Closer to the water, so we can scoop the light
right along the edge of the.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
One. Now, oh, missus Boeby, look at him.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Oh mamma, oh hit something.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Like, oh, don't try to talk here, put your arm
over my shoulders.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Romy Oh you're all.
Speaker 10 (04:31):
Wet, Hi, I can't. Oh, of course it's a wonder.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You can do it sooner after what he's been through. Now,
now the brandy, miss hornor the brandy, yes, missus Boebe,
but go easy with it. Nonsense. Mss Horner's exactly what
he needs, and plenty of it.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Oh, oh, oh, poor day.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Huh, must have drowned, must have drowned.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Life till now you're all.
Speaker 10 (05:26):
Right, mermaid? I guess I drowned, all right? Sleep and
the teas.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Oh, what's the matter?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Oh if it's your head, I wonder what do you
mean my head? No, it can't be mine. Never felt
like this in my life. Oh poor Oh, feels like
the world's worst hangover.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I wouldn't be surprised if it is a hangover. A hangover?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Why what did people start getting hangovers from seawater?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
It was a brandy brandy, Yes, you swallowed practically a
quard of it.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I kept telling you you'd had enough, but she kept
pouring it into you.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
She missus beebe?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
And when was this after you staggered.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Out of the water last night?
Speaker 5 (06:16):
But you told her I've had enough. You're smart as
well as beautiful. Oh who who is missus beebe?
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
How about little black coffee?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Now?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Oh, sister, you're wonderful.
Speaker 10 (06:30):
There you are, Gosh, but you're efficient.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Oh, nursey, nursey, does it taste good? It's wonderful? Your
saving my life confidentially. Somebody emptied a pillow in my stomach?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Do you want some more coffee?
Speaker 8 (06:47):
I sure do, say.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
If I'm not too curious. Who are you?
Speaker 10 (06:54):
Lynn Horner?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I worked for Missus Boebe.
Speaker 10 (06:56):
Oh now she's in again. All right, let's face it.
Who is Missus Bbe?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Missus Huntington Bby? This is her house. You're wearing her
late husband's pajamas.
Speaker 10 (07:06):
Yes, so I am, if you can call it wearing them.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I guess he was smaller than you.
Speaker 10 (07:14):
I know he was, or you wouldn't have let her
pick out such colors.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
You mean, Missus Beebe?
Speaker 5 (07:19):
I was trying to saying it. It feels like I'm
talking baby talk when I even think the words Missus Bbe.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You're coming around all right, aren't you? What do you
mean by that bad hangover? Coffee's fixing it, isn't it?
Speaker 10 (07:33):
Well?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Maybe so, but I'm going to need an awful lot
of nursing.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yet I'm a secretary, not a nurse.
Speaker 10 (07:39):
That may be, but you're sure a nurse.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Nice. What did you say your name was? Lynn?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Was that it Lynn Horner?
Speaker 10 (07:47):
That's what I thought, Lynn, pretty, which is what it
should be for you. Now look one thing more?
Speaker 8 (07:56):
Who am I you?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You mean you don't know?
Speaker 10 (08:00):
It's very funny. You should ask me that.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
You know.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
When I was first coming out of it.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
You know, when I thought I was drowned, you were
a mermaid?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yes, I remember here.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
That's funny, isn't it me thinking you were a mermaid.
I mean, well, after all, you're wearing slacks, and wasn't
that silly? Was? Maybe not well? Anyhow? When I was
coming to I thought for sure I was myself, but
drown'd you understand? But now now I haven't the faintest idea.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Well, maybe you prefer to read it for yourself.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Read it?
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Here are papers.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
I'm in the papers? Now, well what for you ought
to know? Here?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
You look at them while I go tell missus Beebe
you're awaken.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
No, no, don't go. I'm not going to like missus Phebe.
Stay here with me, just the two of us. No,
missus Bob, please, just another cup of coffee.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
But I promised her i'd let her know the instant
you were awake.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Now excuse me, but my dear lady, I'm not awake
properly speaking, really, I must I can't read in this condition.
I'll tell you what you read the papers to me?
That's the answer.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I've got to go, I promised. Besides, it's my job.
Speaker 10 (09:03):
What's your job when a human life is at stake?
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Now, stop it?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
But you can't ignore a plea like that, can you? Oh?
Speaker 10 (09:10):
Can you look?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I will be going a minute. I know Missus Biby'll
want to come right up. I'll come back with her.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Oh my head.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Oh you're all right. Oh I'm so happy, so unutteredly happy.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
That's nice.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I'm missus Phoebe, Missus Huntington Bby.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Yes, I can imagine. I mean, so you're well, Missus Phoebe.
I certainly want to thank you, thank me.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Oh no, I'm the one who should be thanking you.
Oh it isn't everyone who gets a chance to editain.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
A hero a hero?
Speaker 10 (09:54):
Lynn Missus Horner tell her I don't feel.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Like a hero this morning, not even after the brandy No,
not even But on earth are you two talking about?
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Honestly, now, Missus Boeby, I don't see anything at all
heroic about now.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You mustn't be so much, but I am not.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Because we've been waiting simply hours and hours to hear
the whole thing from your own lips.
Speaker 10 (10:13):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
We are the gentlemen of the press who came out
to ask you a few questions, Miss Horner.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
When you open the door, let the mean Miss Horner.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
Yes, missus bby.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Very gentlemen. There he is. Now, I'll be easy with
him and don't take it.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Phil Webster.
Speaker 11 (10:34):
But but really, did you have any warning?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Any warning?
Speaker 7 (10:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
How fast did you say?
Speaker 10 (10:39):
Was it a direct hit?
Speaker 5 (10:40):
I guess it must have been. You see, the first
thing I knew was the loud explosion?
Speaker 12 (10:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (10:45):
When did you first hear anything?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
How about the other members of the crew?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Crew? Is that what you said?
Speaker 8 (10:50):
Crew?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
CU crew?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Sure?
Speaker 10 (10:51):
I did anybody else get off the tanker before she
went down? The tanker? The tanker, the tanker. Yes, hey,
now wait a minut.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Now I know what you all.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Looks.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
No more flash bolts now, boys.
Speaker 10 (11:06):
Okay, Bud, okay, we got a pretty good idea how
you feel. But but listen, there's been an awful mistake.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Oh you poor boy, I'm sure there's been no mistake.
Speaker 12 (11:17):
You're the only one out.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Of the whole crew who says, but I'm trying to
tell you a terrible, terrible shock.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
To you that's what it is.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
You mustn't say another word out how you're too upset.
There's plenty of time later, and I'm sure these gentlemen
will excuse you for how you get a little.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
And if you're any further details they need, I'll be
glad to supply coming. Come along downstairs, right this way, Yes,
that is horner. I think you might stay here in
case mister Webster wants anything.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
All right, gentlemen this way.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Huh they gone, yes, mister Webster, Thank goodness. Hey, don't
give me the same tone you're used for that baby dolla.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
I don't like that.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Yes, mister Webster. Stuff No, mister Webster.
Speaker 10 (12:06):
No, my name's Bill and you North.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
You're going to stay here, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Well you heard missus Bob tell me to mister Webster.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Ah ah ah, well, building that's better. I oh, what
is it?
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Head?
Speaker 5 (12:23):
It hurts, hurts awful. Put your hand on it like
you did before that did something for it like that?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Hmm, Well I I can't stand here indefinitely with one
hand on your head.
Speaker 10 (12:41):
Sit down, man, here, it's all right.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
I can move, you know. Oh there it goes again.
Now put the hand bag. That's right.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
How long is this to go on?
Speaker 11 (12:59):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Long time. I am just beginning to be able to
see you now, hm, remarkable. I've got to see what
I'm looking at, do it? I? Before I'm fit to leave?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I mean, oh, I expect you do.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
So.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I've got to see something worthwhile to look at it.
You see that, don't you?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Oh? Yes, I can see that? And uh quite a
bit more.
Speaker 10 (13:20):
Well, is it my fault that mister Bhebe's pajamas are
so skimpy?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
That's not what I meant? And you know it.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Gosh, you're beautiful, mister Webster. You've no idea you're beautiful.
Speaker 11 (13:35):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
By the way, mister Webster, would you be interested in
looking over this fresh patch of papers that arrived a
little while ago with the newspaper men?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
In fact, not specially interested? Uh?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Please have pictures with the stories?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Read me what it says?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Well?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Uh, now, this one says heroic tanker survivor finds haven
in socialized home.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Isn't that thrilling?
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Do you find it thrilling?
Speaker 11 (14:01):
Well?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Oh, oh, here here's another one. Look, wealthy samaritan applies
first aid and see rescue.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Oh what are those pictures?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Well?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Uh, there there's Missus Boebe's private beach with an arrow
pointing to a spot where prominent matrons found torpedo victims.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
And that's Missus Boebe in our auxiliary nurs's uniform.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
And this is a picture of you?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
It is?
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Is that me? Yes?
Speaker 10 (14:30):
When did they get there early this morning?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Before you woke up? They propped you up in bed
for it?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
My don't I look indifferent?
Speaker 8 (14:38):
You were?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
And the story? How's this story? Did it read all? Right?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Read like the wildest fiction? M does it?
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Is it thrilling enough to satisfy you?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Well, it's almost too thrilling, almost more than I can bear.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Yeah, I know how you feel.
Speaker 10 (14:54):
Sometimes I can hardly believe it myself.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
And h what do you do when one of those
moments hits you? I?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
That is? I? Well, I just look at you.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Oh oh I see, Yes, I think I do.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
See. I wonder if you do?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Is there anything else you want right now?
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Do you want to go?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well, if there's nothing you need, but why I have
quite a lot of work to be done.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
Well aren't you interested in my story?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yes, very much.
Speaker 10 (15:28):
Well, then sit right down and I'll tell it you.
It'll fascinate you call you.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
I hope it'll keep you so installed that you'll forget
all that work that's piled up.
Speaker 10 (15:36):
It will huh yeah, sit down, sir, when I think of.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
What a narrow escape I have have.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Have you been a sailor for long?
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Huh oh? Oh yes, yes, years and years I shipped
away to see when I was just a little top
borne old China, Spain. Why.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Oh, nothing, just that I had the impression that people
who worked on oils had dirty fingernails.
Speaker 10 (16:01):
Oh, but we were carrying refined on It was a
very refined tanker.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
I see they how about a cigarette? Sure? Here? What's
the matter, limb?
Speaker 11 (16:21):
The matter?
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Nothing's the matter?
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Oh? Come now, I I don't know what you mean
the way you? How am I acting strange?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Like you?
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Like? I? What looked?
Speaker 10 (16:35):
Limb?
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Don't you like me? Why?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I'm very fond of you?
Speaker 10 (16:42):
Oh gosh, is it as bad as all that?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
What's the matter with me?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Now, listen, there's nothing the matter with you. I guess
if anything's the matter, it's with me with you?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Well? I I guess I'm pretty narrow minded about some.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Things, But I don't understand well, if I.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Ever find out, for instance, that a person.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Is a fake, well, then a person is a fake.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Oh, mister Webster, mister Webster, you're busy because the newsreel
men are here, and I promised to let them have
just a few minutes of your time.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Oh that's so nice of you, mister Webster. Don't take
a minute. He come right in and set up things.
I'll see you later, mister Webster. After the newsreel man,
get your men.
Speaker 12 (17:29):
Wait then, wait a minute, Flynn, Hello, Bill, you listen
to me?
Speaker 10 (17:49):
Or have you been keeping yourself?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I wanted to Tonker just landed at Miami. They announced it.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
On the radio, but I thought it.
Speaker 10 (17:55):
It was torpedoed, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Oh they managed to patch it up somehow. They limped
into port an hour ago.
Speaker 10 (18:00):
I see that's swell, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
The whole crew was safe, all of them. Yes, all
of them.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
That's swell too.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Nobody missing, the radio.
Speaker 10 (18:14):
Said, nobody missing it all?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Bill?
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Yes, Lyn, I was.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Right, wasn't I the hunch I had?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
You were right?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Oh, Bill?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I never saw that tanker in my life. I was
out standing, all alone in my little sloop and on
the auxiliary morning and I fell asleep. The next thing
I knew, I crashed into a rock or something. They
both sank and I had to swim ashore. That part
wasn't a fake, and I wasn't faking when I hit
that beach.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
I was really all in.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
But that doesn't count, does.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
It, Bill? Why did you do it? Well?
Speaker 10 (18:52):
Most of it I didn't do, if you remember.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
In fact, missus Beebe personally accounted for about ninety percent
of it herself.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
But you let them go on building up a story.
And the whole thing was out and fake.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
All of fake except one thing.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
What was that? This part was no fake? Lynn. You
were the most beautiful thing I ever saw when I
woke up this morning, and every time after that when
I looked at you, I wanted you to like me.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I'm sorry, Bill, but I hate a fake worse than
anything in the whole world.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
Mister Webster, mister West's got the most wonderful surprise for you.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Oh it's tremendous. You'll never guess what is it now?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
I've just been talking to the captain, the captain what
captain captain of your tankers?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Is he the tanker? Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
If he called me on the phone just now. He'd
read about you in the papers, and he was so
excited he could hardly talk.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
I can understand that.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
He just couldn't believe it.
Speaker 10 (19:39):
He said, that's just how he feel, all right.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
So you know what I did, what I.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Invited him to come right out and see for himself.
Speaker 10 (19:47):
Gee, that's wonderful of you, Missus boeb When is he coming?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
He's on his way right now.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
Missus Phoebe, how long ago did you talk to the captain?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Oh but ten minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
You should be here any minute now.
Speaker 10 (19:58):
Well, at least I won't have long to wait, will
I know?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
There was just one little thing that my delay in
said he had to stop and pick up some navy
authorities because he said they'd.
Speaker 10 (20:07):
Like to meet you too, the navy.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Now, yes, isn't it exciting? I just can't sit still.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I'm going to run down and be there to meet
them when they arrived.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
But I'll bring them right up the ships at the
moment they arrive. That's a promise.
Speaker 10 (20:21):
And I know you're a woman of your word, Missus Phoebe,
And don't.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
You be a patient.
Speaker 10 (20:25):
I won't keep you away, you see, Lynn, Let that
be a lesson to you.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
That's what happens to fate.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Still, you've got to get out of here. Yeah, they'll
be here any minute. You've got to hurry.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
Well, why do you want me to go?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Don't you understand?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Bill?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I'll make all sorts of trouble for you if they
catch you.
Speaker 10 (20:40):
I deserve it, don't I.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Oh, don't be silly. Hurry.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
I thought you said you hated a faith, But I do.
That is, of course I do, and we worked it
all out. I am a faith.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Will you stop talking and do something. I'll get you
a dressing gown out of the closet.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
If I'm Okaken, you hate them?
Speaker 10 (20:56):
Why are you so afraid something will happen to me?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Oh, there isn't any time to work now here. Here's
a dressing gown, now put it on.
Speaker 10 (21:03):
That was mister Beebe's too, I can see.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Never mind, just put it on.
Speaker 12 (21:06):
You know what I think?
Speaker 10 (21:08):
I think it's because you're in love with me, isn't
that it?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
There's a trellis outside this window. Now you can climb
down there.
Speaker 10 (21:12):
Oh gosh, what a dressing guy.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
You can get through the garden without anyone seeing. You
do love me?
Speaker 10 (21:17):
Don't you don't you want to shut up?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Get out that window and climb down that Trella's number one?
Speaker 12 (21:22):
Isn't it?
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Because you love me, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
And you got your foot on it?
Speaker 10 (21:25):
Yeah, I'm all said, you can.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Climb right on down.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Hurry Bill, hurry up and get going. They'll be here
any minute.
Speaker 10 (21:31):
I won't move a step till you tell me.
Speaker 11 (21:32):
That you love me.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Bill, they're here, there's a front door.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
Well then why don't you say it?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Oh jeez, Billa, isn't time.
Speaker 12 (21:38):
He doesn't take wrong?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Just say, climb down that troll. I can get off
this minute.
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Well I know it's true. Anyhow, all right, here I go.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
But you wait for me.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
I'll be sill.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Bill. This is a captain, and this is a gentleman
from the name. What on earth is wrongb he's outside outside?
What are you talking about? Well, he's hurt. Oh let
me Bob.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Now these gentlemen him from the young lady.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
He Hell, he's outside. Oh he's said. I know it,
Miss Horner. I come make heads the tails of what
you're saying.
Speaker 12 (22:18):
Now you try to compose.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Trellis broken his sail. He's outside and he's hurt.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
You mean he was climbing out of the window.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Miss Yes, that doesn't make sensefaun.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
We better go down to the garden, missus boebe.
Speaker 10 (22:30):
The young man may be hurt.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Very well this way gentlemen end up, Miss Horn him
bring the brandy please?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
There he is, Oh Bill, no, no, no, how'll I
don't understand what's he doing there among the petunias? He
fell but trails? Oh let me go. No no, Miss Horne,
and I control yourself.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Leave this to me.
Speaker 11 (23:02):
You stay right here, let me see him clearly, Captain,
excuse me a moment.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Captain. You got to understand this.
Speaker 10 (23:08):
That is him, That is him, Kattan.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
He didn't need it.
Speaker 11 (23:12):
I knew as soon as I see the papers. I
say to myself, that is him.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
But he wasn't trying to take any credit for anything.
We are sailing his little thought, and it is truly.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Him, the man who are sailing the different boat.
Speaker 11 (23:23):
That is our hero.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
But he was.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
What did you say here?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
You got?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
That is it?
Speaker 11 (23:29):
The word for him is hero? Tell her about it, Captain.
He seems to be interested.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Yes I am.
Speaker 11 (23:36):
He's coving around nicely, missed.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
No bones broken, as far as I can say, maybe
all right in a minute, That is, if.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Miss isn't too liberal with the brandy.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 11 (23:49):
Tell her about the young man captain, that he is
the hero who saved our lives. They are lying there helpless.
The stop marine has torpedo. Does they are hit? They
cannot move the some marine is going to shell us.
Give the post again. I see the periscope sticking up
out of the water.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
It is good bye, goodbye.
Speaker 11 (24:08):
You understand the submarine will surface and kill all ship
with shell from a deck on. It will not waste
another torpedo.
Speaker 10 (24:14):
And we are all ready helpless.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Oh, I see, well they are lost.
Speaker 12 (24:19):
It is all oh.
Speaker 11 (24:21):
And then then I see the little boat. He's heading
right for the periscope. He has no part of the danger,
none whatever. He's risking his knife for us.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
There.
Speaker 11 (24:30):
I hold my breath for him.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
What happened?
Speaker 11 (24:32):
Then it will both dry ahead. He's smacked in the
periscope on the submarine like that, they are saying.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
But I don't see how the.
Speaker 11 (24:40):
Lord the periscope the submarine cannot see. It goes to
them from there, perhaps even at scene, but probably not.
But it is fright. It does not know what hit it,
So it's submergers and go to be from there we
are saved. And oh God, that is what worries me.
I do not see the man in the little boat again.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
The little boat is god famished? Song?
Speaker 11 (25:03):
Can the man? I do not see, I said, don't
know what happened to him until I see today's papers
in Miami.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Oh, captain, all right.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
We'll get him back up to bed. He'll be all right.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
You better go easy with that brandy, Missus Phebe.
Speaker 10 (25:17):
I believe he's head enough.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Oh poor boy, Oh you are saint.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
Perhaps you want to have a little of this brandy yourself.
Oh oh, here there's a girl this time I am dead?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Why still?
Speaker 8 (25:56):
Now, you're all right?
Speaker 5 (25:58):
She's a nursey girl.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
All right, Bill, just be quiet.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
She knows me. It's len all right, still, stop being silly, Lyn?
What is it?
Speaker 10 (26:10):
I got that hangover again?
Speaker 5 (26:12):
I know missus Phoebe and her brandy.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
She thought you needed it.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
That's all right, as far as it goes trouble as
it goes too far.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Li Still, now, you'll be all right.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Put your hand on my head. Uh hey, limb, Yeah,
we'll let black coffee.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Happen again any minute. Not, darling, what did you say, uh, now,
looks Neale. I've gotta go. I promise this is bed.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
I let her know the instance you were well Hello,
not yet, let you go on my hands, Bil, I
gotta go.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
Oh no, you don't. I'm holding onto your hand until.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
The reporters are waiting downstairs to see let.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Him wait, you're not doing yet. Come here, No, now, listen, Bill,
I promise not till you tell me.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
You're off.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Strong for the things you've been through, you have just
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heard he woke up Famous a short story by Corey Ford,
adapted especially for Author's Playhouse by Carlile Stephens and directed
by mister Albert Cruse. Mister Michael Romano was featured in
the role of Bill Webster. Miss Mary lou Neumeyer played
the part of Lynn Horner, and Miss Muriel Bremner was
heard as Missus Huntington BB. Others in the cast were
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mister Robert Direnforth, mister Ray Suber, and mister George Caesar.
The original musical score was written and conducted by doctor
Roy Shield. This has been the second in a new
nine week series of Author's Playhouse productions radio adaptations of
the best in.
Speaker 10 (28:12):
The field of short stories.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Selections from the works of contemporary writers as well as
the acknowledged masters of the past. These nine dramas represent
outstanding productions presented on the weekly Author's Playhouse series, heard
regularly over NBC during the past three years. Next week
Author's Playhouse will bring you the late Stephen Vincent Fannet's story,
Doc Melhorne and the Pearly Gates. This is the National
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broadcasting Company
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Oh BO
Author's Playhouse presenting Corey Ford's story of a man who
couldn't help being a hero, He Woke Up Famous. The
National Broadcasting Company takes pleasure in presenting the second in
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a series of Author's Playhouse radio adaptations of the best
in the field of short stories, selections from the works
of contemporary writers as well as the acknowledged masters of
the past. The nine dramas in this series have been
chosen as outstanding from the weekly Author's Playhouse productions heard
regularly over the National Broadcasting Company. You past three years
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and now Author's Playhouse presents Corey Ford's He Woke Up Famous.
Each winter, Missus Huntington Beebe goes to Miami Beach, and
as a rule, she lingers on until the last dog
is hung. Right now, it's spring nineteen forty two, and
at the moment, Missus Boebe and her secretary Lynn Horner
(01:35):
are in the upstairs sitting room playing Jin Rummy. The
way Missus Phoebe plays cards could be called casual. That is,
she has a hard time keeping her mind on any
one thing. Miss Harner, on the other hand, well, Miss
Horner is a very good secretary.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh you're playing missus phoebe.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Ah, Yes, yes, that's a lovely.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Toune, isn't it. Yes, missus Baby, you're tired, aren't you?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Miss Horner, it is getting laid Oh I'm not a
bit tired.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well, he'll go to bed when we finish this game.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
No, that should give you some idea of how missus
Boebe plays Jen Rummy. It's easy to see that she
lives in an untroubled and irresponsible world. Suddenly, however, the
music on the radio stops and announcer cuts in.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
There is a.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Special announcement a small tankers than torpedo up ESI's part.
The residents along the coast has to be on the
lookout for survivors.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Oh, yes, she's point by by miss Horner that it's
right here.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yes, missus baby, Oh dear me, I please turn off
the radio.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
Why, yes, of course, yes, I heard it.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I know I heard it. I beg your pardon. I'm
positive now that was what I heard.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yes, it's hard like well, it sounded like like boom,
that's what it sounded like. And it was let me see,
it was right off there, right off, is she's point?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yes, missus Boby, your deal I think Oh, they'll be
drifting in almost any minute. Now, Miss Horner, this is
our call to action.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yes, missus Boebe, bring some blankets to the flags like and.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Hurry, yes, missus Boby.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And the bottle of brandy, Miss Horner, brandy if it's
a long swim, you know, a long swim, and they'll
be sucking.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
We yes, missus Baby, Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Mercy, it's dark. Yeah, it turned down the light, Miss Horner.
No no, no, wait, you don't suppose that submarine, know,
missus Boby. No, no, I don't think so either. Well,
turned on the flashlight.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
Miss Horner.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
There, no, no, no, no, I don't hold it's like that.
It would have to get.
Speaker 9 (04:07):
Closer to the water, so we can scoop the light
right along the edge of the.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
One. Now, oh, missus Boeby, look at him.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Oh mamma, oh hit something.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Like, oh, don't try to talk here, put your arm
over my shoulders.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Romy Oh you're all.
Speaker 10 (04:31):
Wet, Hi, I can't. Oh, of course it's a wonder.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You can do it sooner after what he's been through. Now,
now the brandy, miss hornor the brandy, yes, missus Boebe,
but go easy with it. Nonsense. Mss Horner's exactly what
he needs, and plenty of it.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Oh, oh, oh, poor day.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Huh, must have drowned, must have drowned.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Life till now you're all.
Speaker 10 (05:26):
Right, mermaid? I guess I drowned, all right? Sleep and
the teas.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Oh, what's the matter?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Oh if it's your head, I wonder what do you
mean my head? No, it can't be mine. Never felt
like this in my life. Oh poor Oh, feels like
the world's worst hangover.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I wouldn't be surprised if it is a hangover. A hangover?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Why what did people start getting hangovers from seawater?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
It was a brandy brandy, Yes, you swallowed practically a
quard of it.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I kept telling you you'd had enough, but she kept
pouring it into you.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
She missus beebe?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
And when was this after you staggered.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Out of the water last night?
Speaker 5 (06:16):
But you told her I've had enough. You're smart as
well as beautiful. Oh who who is missus beebe?
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
How about little black coffee?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Now?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Oh, sister, you're wonderful.
Speaker 10 (06:30):
There you are, Gosh, but you're efficient.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Oh, nursey, nursey, does it taste good? It's wonderful? Your
saving my life confidentially. Somebody emptied a pillow in my stomach?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Do you want some more coffee?
Speaker 8 (06:47):
I sure do, say.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
If I'm not too curious. Who are you?
Speaker 10 (06:54):
Lynn Horner?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I worked for Missus Boebe.
Speaker 10 (06:56):
Oh now she's in again. All right, let's face it.
Who is Missus Bbe?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Missus Huntington Bby? This is her house. You're wearing her
late husband's pajamas.
Speaker 10 (07:06):
Yes, so I am, if you can call it wearing them.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I guess he was smaller than you.
Speaker 10 (07:14):
I know he was, or you wouldn't have let her
pick out such colors.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
You mean, Missus Beebe?
Speaker 5 (07:19):
I was trying to saying it. It feels like I'm
talking baby talk when I even think the words Missus Bbe.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You're coming around all right, aren't you? What do you
mean by that bad hangover? Coffee's fixing it, isn't it?
Speaker 10 (07:33):
Well?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Maybe so, but I'm going to need an awful lot
of nursing.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yet I'm a secretary, not a nurse.
Speaker 10 (07:39):
That may be, but you're sure a nurse.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Nice. What did you say your name was? Lynn?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Was that it Lynn Horner?
Speaker 10 (07:47):
That's what I thought, Lynn, pretty, which is what it
should be for you. Now look one thing more?
Speaker 8 (07:56):
Who am I you?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You mean you don't know?
Speaker 10 (08:00):
It's very funny. You should ask me that.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
You know.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
When I was first coming out of it.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
You know, when I thought I was drowned, you were
a mermaid?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yes, I remember here.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
That's funny, isn't it me thinking you were a mermaid.
I mean, well, after all, you're wearing slacks, and wasn't
that silly? Was? Maybe not well? Anyhow? When I was
coming to I thought for sure I was myself, but
drown'd you understand? But now now I haven't the faintest idea.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Well, maybe you prefer to read it for yourself.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Read it?
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Here are papers.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
I'm in the papers? Now, well what for you ought
to know? Here?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
You look at them while I go tell missus Beebe
you're awaken.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
No, no, don't go. I'm not going to like missus Phebe.
Stay here with me, just the two of us. No,
missus Bob, please, just another cup of coffee.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
But I promised her i'd let her know the instant
you were awake.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Now excuse me, but my dear lady, I'm not awake
properly speaking, really, I must I can't read in this condition.
I'll tell you what you read the papers to me?
That's the answer.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I've got to go, I promised. Besides, it's my job.
Speaker 10 (09:03):
What's your job when a human life is at stake?
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Now, stop it?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
But you can't ignore a plea like that, can you? Oh?
Speaker 10 (09:10):
Can you look?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I will be going a minute. I know Missus Biby'll
want to come right up. I'll come back with her.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Oh my head.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Oh you're all right. Oh I'm so happy, so unutteredly happy.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
That's nice.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I'm missus Phoebe, Missus Huntington Bby.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Yes, I can imagine. I mean, so you're well, Missus Phoebe.
I certainly want to thank you, thank me.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Oh no, I'm the one who should be thanking you.
Oh it isn't everyone who gets a chance to editain.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
A hero a hero?
Speaker 10 (09:54):
Lynn Missus Horner tell her I don't feel.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Like a hero this morning, not even after the brandy No,
not even But on earth are you two talking about?
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Honestly, now, Missus Boeby, I don't see anything at all
heroic about now.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You mustn't be so much, but I am not.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Because we've been waiting simply hours and hours to hear
the whole thing from your own lips.
Speaker 10 (10:13):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
We are the gentlemen of the press who came out
to ask you a few questions, Miss Horner.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
When you open the door, let the mean Miss Horner.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
Yes, missus bby.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Very gentlemen. There he is. Now, I'll be easy with
him and don't take it.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Phil Webster.
Speaker 11 (10:34):
But but really, did you have any warning?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Any warning?
Speaker 7 (10:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
How fast did you say?
Speaker 10 (10:39):
Was it a direct hit?
Speaker 5 (10:40):
I guess it must have been. You see, the first
thing I knew was the loud explosion?
Speaker 12 (10:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (10:45):
When did you first hear anything?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
How about the other members of the crew?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Crew? Is that what you said?
Speaker 8 (10:50):
Crew?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
CU crew?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Sure?
Speaker 10 (10:51):
I did anybody else get off the tanker before she
went down? The tanker? The tanker, the tanker. Yes, hey,
now wait a minut.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Now I know what you all.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Looks.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
No more flash bolts now, boys.
Speaker 10 (11:06):
Okay, Bud, okay, we got a pretty good idea how
you feel. But but listen, there's been an awful mistake.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Oh you poor boy, I'm sure there's been no mistake.
Speaker 12 (11:17):
You're the only one out.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Of the whole crew who says, but I'm trying to
tell you a terrible, terrible shock.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
To you that's what it is.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
You mustn't say another word out how you're too upset.
There's plenty of time later, and I'm sure these gentlemen
will excuse you for how you get a little.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
And if you're any further details they need, I'll be
glad to supply coming. Come along downstairs, right this way, Yes,
that is horner. I think you might stay here in
case mister Webster wants anything.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
All right, gentlemen this way.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Huh they gone, yes, mister Webster, Thank goodness. Hey, don't
give me the same tone you're used for that baby dolla.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
I don't like that.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Yes, mister Webster. Stuff No, mister Webster.
Speaker 10 (12:06):
No, my name's Bill and you North.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
You're going to stay here, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Well you heard missus Bob tell me to mister Webster.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Ah ah ah, well, building that's better. I oh, what
is it?
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Head?
Speaker 5 (12:23):
It hurts, hurts awful. Put your hand on it like
you did before that did something for it like that?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Hmm, Well I I can't stand here indefinitely with one
hand on your head.
Speaker 10 (12:41):
Sit down, man, here, it's all right.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
I can move, you know. Oh there it goes again.
Now put the hand bag. That's right.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
How long is this to go on?
Speaker 11 (12:59):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Long time. I am just beginning to be able to
see you now, hm, remarkable. I've got to see what
I'm looking at, do it? I? Before I'm fit to leave?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I mean, oh, I expect you do.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
So.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I've got to see something worthwhile to look at it.
You see that, don't you?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Oh? Yes, I can see that? And uh quite a
bit more.
Speaker 10 (13:20):
Well, is it my fault that mister Bhebe's pajamas are
so skimpy?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
That's not what I meant? And you know it.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Gosh, you're beautiful, mister Webster. You've no idea you're beautiful.
Speaker 11 (13:35):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
By the way, mister Webster, would you be interested in
looking over this fresh patch of papers that arrived a
little while ago with the newspaper men?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
In fact, not specially interested? Uh?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Please have pictures with the stories?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Read me what it says?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Well?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Uh, now, this one says heroic tanker survivor finds haven
in socialized home.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Isn't that thrilling?
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Do you find it thrilling?
Speaker 11 (14:01):
Well?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Oh, oh, here here's another one. Look, wealthy samaritan applies
first aid and see rescue.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Oh what are those pictures?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Well?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Uh, there there's Missus Boebe's private beach with an arrow
pointing to a spot where prominent matrons found torpedo victims.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
And that's Missus Boebe in our auxiliary nurs's uniform.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
And this is a picture of you?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
It is?
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Is that me? Yes?
Speaker 10 (14:30):
When did they get there early this morning?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Before you woke up? They propped you up in bed
for it?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
My don't I look indifferent?
Speaker 8 (14:38):
You were?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
And the story? How's this story? Did it read all? Right?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Read like the wildest fiction? M does it?
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Is it thrilling enough to satisfy you?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Well, it's almost too thrilling, almost more than I can bear.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Yeah, I know how you feel.
Speaker 10 (14:54):
Sometimes I can hardly believe it myself.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
And h what do you do when one of those
moments hits you? I?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
That is? I? Well, I just look at you.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Oh oh I see, Yes, I think I do.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
See. I wonder if you do?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Is there anything else you want right now?
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Do you want to go?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well, if there's nothing you need, but why I have
quite a lot of work to be done.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
Well aren't you interested in my story?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yes, very much.
Speaker 10 (15:28):
Well, then sit right down and I'll tell it you.
It'll fascinate you call you.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
I hope it'll keep you so installed that you'll forget
all that work that's piled up.
Speaker 10 (15:36):
It will huh yeah, sit down, sir, when I think of.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
What a narrow escape I have have.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Have you been a sailor for long?
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Huh oh? Oh yes, yes, years and years I shipped
away to see when I was just a little top
borne old China, Spain. Why.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Oh, nothing, just that I had the impression that people
who worked on oils had dirty fingernails.
Speaker 10 (16:01):
Oh, but we were carrying refined on It was a
very refined tanker.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
I see they how about a cigarette? Sure? Here? What's
the matter, limb?
Speaker 11 (16:21):
The matter?
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Nothing's the matter?
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Oh? Come now, I I don't know what you mean
the way you? How am I acting strange?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Like you?
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Like? I? What looked?
Speaker 10 (16:35):
Limb?
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Don't you like me? Why?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I'm very fond of you?
Speaker 10 (16:42):
Oh gosh, is it as bad as all that?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
What's the matter with me?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Now, listen, there's nothing the matter with you. I guess
if anything's the matter, it's with me with you?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Well? I I guess I'm pretty narrow minded about some.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Things, But I don't understand well, if I.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Ever find out, for instance, that a person.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Is a fake, well, then a person is a fake.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Oh, mister Webster, mister Webster, you're busy because the newsreel
men are here, and I promised to let them have
just a few minutes of your time.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Oh that's so nice of you, mister Webster. Don't take
a minute. He come right in and set up things.
I'll see you later, mister Webster. After the newsreel man,
get your men.
Speaker 12 (17:29):
Wait then, wait a minute, Flynn, Hello, Bill, you listen
to me?
Speaker 10 (17:49):
Or have you been keeping yourself?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I wanted to Tonker just landed at Miami. They announced it.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
On the radio, but I thought it.
Speaker 10 (17:55):
It was torpedoed, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Oh they managed to patch it up somehow. They limped
into port an hour ago.
Speaker 10 (18:00):
I see that's swell, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
The whole crew was safe, all of them. Yes, all
of them.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
That's swell too.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Nobody missing, the radio.
Speaker 10 (18:14):
Said, nobody missing it all?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Bill?
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Yes, Lyn, I was.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Right, wasn't I the hunch I had?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
You were right?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Oh, Bill?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I never saw that tanker in my life. I was
out standing, all alone in my little sloop and on
the auxiliary morning and I fell asleep. The next thing
I knew, I crashed into a rock or something. They
both sank and I had to swim ashore. That part
wasn't a fake, and I wasn't faking when I hit
that beach.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
I was really all in.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
But that doesn't count, does.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
It, Bill? Why did you do it? Well?
Speaker 10 (18:52):
Most of it I didn't do, if you remember.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
In fact, missus Beebe personally accounted for about ninety percent
of it herself.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
But you let them go on building up a story.
And the whole thing was out and fake.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
All of fake except one thing.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
What was that? This part was no fake? Lynn. You
were the most beautiful thing I ever saw when I
woke up this morning, and every time after that when
I looked at you, I wanted you to like me.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I'm sorry, Bill, but I hate a fake worse than
anything in the whole world.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
Mister Webster, mister West's got the most wonderful surprise for you.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Oh it's tremendous. You'll never guess what is it now?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
I've just been talking to the captain, the captain what
captain captain of your tankers?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Is he the tanker? Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
If he called me on the phone just now. He'd
read about you in the papers, and he was so
excited he could hardly talk.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
I can understand that.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
He just couldn't believe it.
Speaker 10 (19:39):
He said, that's just how he feel, all right.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
So you know what I did, what I.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Invited him to come right out and see for himself.
Speaker 10 (19:47):
Gee, that's wonderful of you, Missus boeb When is he coming?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
He's on his way right now.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
Missus Phoebe, how long ago did you talk to the captain?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Oh but ten minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
You should be here any minute now.
Speaker 10 (19:58):
Well, at least I won't have long to wait, will
I know?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
There was just one little thing that my delay in
said he had to stop and pick up some navy
authorities because he said they'd.
Speaker 10 (20:07):
Like to meet you too, the navy.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Now, yes, isn't it exciting? I just can't sit still.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I'm going to run down and be there to meet
them when they arrived.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
But I'll bring them right up the ships at the
moment they arrive. That's a promise.
Speaker 10 (20:21):
And I know you're a woman of your word, Missus Phoebe,
And don't.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
You be a patient.
Speaker 10 (20:25):
I won't keep you away, you see, Lynn, Let that
be a lesson to you.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
That's what happens to fate.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Still, you've got to get out of here. Yeah, they'll
be here any minute. You've got to hurry.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
Well, why do you want me to go?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Don't you understand?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Bill?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I'll make all sorts of trouble for you if they
catch you.
Speaker 10 (20:40):
I deserve it, don't I.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Oh, don't be silly. Hurry.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
I thought you said you hated a faith, But I do.
That is, of course I do, and we worked it
all out. I am a faith.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Will you stop talking and do something. I'll get you
a dressing gown out of the closet.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
If I'm Okaken, you hate them?
Speaker 10 (20:56):
Why are you so afraid something will happen to me?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Oh, there isn't any time to work now here. Here's
a dressing gown, now put it on.
Speaker 10 (21:03):
That was mister Beebe's too, I can see.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Never mind, just put it on.
Speaker 12 (21:06):
You know what I think?
Speaker 10 (21:08):
I think it's because you're in love with me, isn't
that it?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
There's a trellis outside this window. Now you can climb
down there.
Speaker 10 (21:12):
Oh gosh, what a dressing guy.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
You can get through the garden without anyone seeing. You
do love me?
Speaker 10 (21:17):
Don't you don't you want to shut up?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Get out that window and climb down that Trella's number one?
Speaker 12 (21:22):
Isn't it?
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Because you love me, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
And you got your foot on it?
Speaker 10 (21:25):
Yeah, I'm all said, you can.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Climb right on down.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Hurry Bill, hurry up and get going. They'll be here
any minute.
Speaker 10 (21:31):
I won't move a step till you tell me.
Speaker 11 (21:32):
That you love me.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Bill, they're here, there's a front door.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
Well then why don't you say it?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Oh jeez, Billa, isn't time.
Speaker 12 (21:38):
He doesn't take wrong?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Just say, climb down that troll. I can get off
this minute.
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Well I know it's true. Anyhow, all right, here I go.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
But you wait for me.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
I'll be sill.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Bill. This is a captain, and this is a gentleman
from the name. What on earth is wrongb he's outside outside?
What are you talking about? Well, he's hurt. Oh let
me Bob.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Now these gentlemen him from the young lady.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
He Hell, he's outside. Oh he's said. I know it,
Miss Horner. I come make heads the tails of what
you're saying.
Speaker 12 (22:18):
Now you try to compose.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Trellis broken his sail. He's outside and he's hurt.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
You mean he was climbing out of the window.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Miss Yes, that doesn't make sensefaun.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
We better go down to the garden, missus boebe.
Speaker 10 (22:30):
The young man may be hurt.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Very well this way gentlemen end up, Miss Horn him
bring the brandy please?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
There he is, Oh Bill, no, no, no, how'll I
don't understand what's he doing there among the petunias? He
fell but trails? Oh let me go. No no, Miss Horne,
and I control yourself.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Leave this to me.
Speaker 11 (23:02):
You stay right here, let me see him clearly, Captain,
excuse me a moment.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Captain. You got to understand this.
Speaker 10 (23:08):
That is him, That is him, Kattan.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
He didn't need it.
Speaker 11 (23:12):
I knew as soon as I see the papers. I
say to myself, that is him.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
But he wasn't trying to take any credit for anything.
We are sailing his little thought, and it is truly.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Him, the man who are sailing the different boat.
Speaker 11 (23:23):
That is our hero.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
But he was.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
What did you say here?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
You got?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
That is it?
Speaker 11 (23:29):
The word for him is hero? Tell her about it, Captain.
He seems to be interested.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Yes I am.
Speaker 11 (23:36):
He's coving around nicely, missed.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
No bones broken, as far as I can say, maybe
all right in a minute, That is, if.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Miss isn't too liberal with the brandy.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 11 (23:49):
Tell her about the young man captain, that he is
the hero who saved our lives. They are lying there helpless.
The stop marine has torpedo. Does they are hit? They
cannot move the some marine is going to shell us.
Give the post again. I see the periscope sticking up
out of the water.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
It is good bye, goodbye.
Speaker 11 (24:08):
You understand the submarine will surface and kill all ship
with shell from a deck on. It will not waste
another torpedo.
Speaker 10 (24:14):
And we are all ready helpless.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Oh, I see, well they are lost.
Speaker 12 (24:19):
It is all oh.
Speaker 11 (24:21):
And then then I see the little boat. He's heading
right for the periscope. He has no part of the danger,
none whatever. He's risking his knife for us.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
There.
Speaker 11 (24:30):
I hold my breath for him.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
What happened?
Speaker 11 (24:32):
Then it will both dry ahead. He's smacked in the
periscope on the submarine like that, they are saying.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
But I don't see how the.
Speaker 11 (24:40):
Lord the periscope the submarine cannot see. It goes to
them from there, perhaps even at scene, but probably not.
But it is fright. It does not know what hit it,
So it's submergers and go to be from there we
are saved. And oh God, that is what worries me.
I do not see the man in the little boat again.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
The little boat is god famished? Song?
Speaker 11 (25:03):
Can the man? I do not see, I said, don't
know what happened to him until I see today's papers
in Miami.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Oh, captain, all right.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
We'll get him back up to bed. He'll be all right.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
You better go easy with that brandy, Missus Phebe.
Speaker 10 (25:17):
I believe he's head enough.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Oh poor boy, Oh you are saint.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
Perhaps you want to have a little of this brandy yourself.
Oh oh, here there's a girl this time I am dead?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Why still?
Speaker 8 (25:56):
Now, you're all right?
Speaker 5 (25:58):
She's a nursey girl.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
All right, Bill, just be quiet.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
She knows me. It's len all right, still, stop being silly, Lyn?
What is it?
Speaker 10 (26:10):
I got that hangover again?
Speaker 5 (26:12):
I know missus Phoebe and her brandy.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
She thought you needed it.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
That's all right, as far as it goes trouble as
it goes too far.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Li Still, now, you'll be all right.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Put your hand on my head. Uh hey, limb, Yeah,
we'll let black coffee.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Happen again any minute. Not, darling, what did you say, uh, now,
looks Neale. I've gotta go. I promise this is bed.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
I let her know the instance you were well Hello,
not yet, let you go on my hands, Bil, I
gotta go.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
Oh no, you don't. I'm holding onto your hand until.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
The reporters are waiting downstairs to see let.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Him wait, you're not doing yet. Come here, No, now, listen, Bill,
I promise not till you tell me.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
You're off.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Strong for the things you've been through, you have just
(27:33):
heard he woke up Famous a short story by Corey Ford,
adapted especially for Author's Playhouse by Carlile Stephens and directed
by mister Albert Cruse. Mister Michael Romano was featured in
the role of Bill Webster. Miss Mary lou Neumeyer played
the part of Lynn Horner, and Miss Muriel Bremner was
heard as Missus Huntington BB. Others in the cast were
(27:56):
mister Robert Direnforth, mister Ray Suber, and mister George Caesar.
The original musical score was written and conducted by doctor
Roy Shield. This has been the second in a new
nine week series of Author's Playhouse productions radio adaptations of
the best in.
Speaker 10 (28:12):
The field of short stories.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Selections from the works of contemporary writers as well as
the acknowledged masters of the past. These nine dramas represent
outstanding productions presented on the weekly Author's Playhouse series, heard
regularly over NBC during the past three years. Next week
Author's Playhouse will bring you the late Stephen Vincent Fannet's story,
Doc Melhorne and the Pearly Gates. This is the National
(28:56):
broadcasting Company
Speaker 5 (29:00):
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