March 17, 2025 • 27 mins
Please enjoy Thing In The Window a great episode of the legendary Suspense - - a Old Time Radio OTR classic.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Good night, or will I bring to you, mister Robert
Montgomery in the Thing in the window A suspense way
produced and directed by Anton m Leader not Spain.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
May turn that vacuum.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Cleaner off for a minute, will you and come over here.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I want to show you something right here out this window. Now,
look across the street, directly across the opposite apartment. See
that window about three windows in from the left, with
kind of blue draperies.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
There's something sitting there in a chair.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Someone. He hasn't moved all night. I think you must
be dead dead.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Hello to miss miss Drains.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Take a good look at him and tell me what
you think.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
They're okay, but I don't favor looking AT's no constant,
Miss Drained. It's unlucky. Now, which one did you say?
Speaker 5 (01:12):
I heard one?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Over which to head my clans over.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
There over there where my finger is pointed. I'm afraid
they don't see it yet, Miss Range.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
No, look look the window with the blue draperies. He's
wearing a sort of ray suit.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
The arm. Can't you see the arm hanging down over
the side of the chair.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
No, but you got good eyes, mister Rains.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
If you see it.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I'm not arguing with you.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
What you're gonna do about it?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Miss Drains.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Oh, I don't know. I just began to notice it
last night. I guess I first have.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
To find out it's the man is really dead? Yeah, hello,
I must names. Are you the superintendent of this apartment house?
(02:03):
That's what it says on the door. I've come to
inquire about one of your tenants.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
What is this you want to know?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, I live across the street, and well, I'll be
frank with you.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
So I've been looking out my window across to this
building now for two and a half days, and there
seems to be someone dead in one of the windows.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, which window, But it's on the tenth floor.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I've counted up from the street and ten stories up
there's the window with blue draperies, about three windows in
from the left, facing toward me, that is, and there's
a man sitting there, slumped down in a chair. Just
a minute, I'll get out my chart. Tore up from
the street and ninth saw the lobby camps one.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
We get three apart from stair along the front of
the house. From the front that's side, i'll see windows.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
In from the left that are the nine b forum. No,
it shouldn't be right. Nine B is two ladies, and
you say this is a man?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yes, young or all?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well, I can't tell. The face isn't clearly visible. The
heads slumped forward.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
But he's wearing a gray suit and he's sitting in
a high wing back care.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I'll replace him.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Maybe he doesn't belong in the house. Maybe he was
a visitant, was visiting somebody. As I say, this is
all conjecture. Of course, he may not be dead, but
I've watched him a good deal. I'm home a lot
in the daytime, like profession.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
The stage, you know, doesn't take up too much of
my time. And it looks mighty suspicious. Okay, I'll check it.
Do you mind if I stay around? No shit on,
I'll give my beer ring first to the house phone.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Hello, Miss Landers, Ms Flanders's Miss Ramson souper.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Everything all right up there, Miss Landers?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
All right here?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Okay, Miss Landers, thank you very much, thank you. Well,
that's that. I'll soap on LAMB. Nine as in the country,
nine seas home. I just saw her go out. I'll
go up there a little later and take a look around. Well,
what about this nine A. The people in the country.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Oh, maybe they're an old He could have come back
and had a heart attack up.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
There by himself, or maybe somebody else.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Some other person could have been using the apartment while
they were away.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Hybe.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I'll take a look in anyway, only if I got
the windows straight. Like you said, it ought to be
nine b Oh, the two single ladies, Yeah on me,
it couldn't be them, the real old MA say if
they knew you thought there was a man in that apartment,
the two of them are just a bunch come out
of his skin. Well, I I don't know what to say.
If you're sure it must be that of part Oh, yeah,
(04:28):
that's the place. But you you probably just made a
little mistake. You know how your eyes can play tricks
on you.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
After all, it is quite a white street.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
No, I don't think I made any mistakes speaking.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Oh hello, mister Anson, This is mister Gray. I can
it's Hoda.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Mister Anthony checked up one of the three apartments this morning. No,
dead Boddy's in the whole place, but I can see it.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It's still there.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Ohky, just wait, just tell me why in that same window,
the one you said was ninety Have you gone inside ninety?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
But I asked him if anybody was sick or death,
and they said no. You asked them, why don't you
search the apartment.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
If they break in?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
No, no, just ring the bell and walk in and
do it. Yeah, I've a lot to search more from
the police. These apartments, you know, don't belong to me.
I just take care of the buildings for the company. Well,
then let's call the police.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Not damns.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I didn't see no death body appear.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Then I will. After all, somebody's got to do something.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I still maintain up to these two sisters or as
refined ladies as you could find anywhere.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I class church going ladies. They used to teach school
up here at PS thirteen.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Yeah, yeah, that don't mean if and they get a
dog in then now will you tell me one dog
that put stay for almost a week in a flat
with a dead person. I'm not jelling you nothing, now,
I know this gentleman, mister Ames reported a stiff over here.
And if he says there is one, there is till
it's proved different.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Right for his dream? Well, I keep seeing the thing
day in and day out.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I'm not working at the moment of being home so much.
None of the other neighbors who complained dead thought he
didn't exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Okay, I just wait for these to help the home.
Only get a pass gar and yeah, but we're not
supposed to use it, throwing us for an emergency. This
is an emergency by sometime.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I'm awful sorry this land Is, but there's there's been
some kind of a mixer. These two gentlemen won't look
over your.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Apartment, but why not? For real? I know, jam on,
jam on, cut out the blaver.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Look, lady, a dead body's been reported sitting in one
of your windows. Yeah yeah, this guy is across the
street and he's been seeing it over here for a week.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
So come on, a.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Body, But becau's impossible if my sister live it here
all of.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Them, Yeah, yeah, we know all about it.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Lady.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
I'm not standing here all day, Hanson, give me a pass.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
It won't do no good. They got a chain on
the door from the inside.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
How do you do?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I'm giving Landis. May I ask what this is all about?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Generally, lady, I get a search warrant here and complain
of this gentleman. He says, you got a dead body
in there?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
A dead body?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Why that's perfectly ridiculous. Yeah, isn't it, But it's been reported,
and kindly take that door off the chain and let
us throw.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Of course, But good may I ask, how did this
peeping tomsy into our apartment? I thought, mister Anthel, we
were quite finding.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
He lives across the street on the same level. Oh well, then.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
We shall have to keep our shades down in the future,
although one would think a grown man would have something
better to do. But do come in, make yourselves right
at home.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Is he coming in here too?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
He said, Busyboddy. No, he doesn't have to if you
don't want him.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Well, I most definitely don't.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Okay, mister Raimes, you better stay out side.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
He does want to poke around in our private rooms.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
That it.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Maybe he had some ulterior motive and worming his way in.
Maybe he's come to get the layer of the land
so he can break in some take a robin.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Okay, okay, he's not coming in now. Let's take a
look at your window lane. I guess that's a big idea.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You didn't find it. No, that's the only thing strange
about it is your right side. You ought to get
your grappist.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
There wasn't anything in ninety No, I don't understand it.
How could I have seen it so distinctly?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Its not there? But perhaps it peraps. It isn't in
the window now.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Perhaps they hid it while we were waiting outside that.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Door now where there is one eye, a dead body
and a four road flat. I looked in all the
clothes close. It's under the sofas and the chapel. Perhaps
they they think got it out.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
With some help. What about that fellow answer, he acted
soon diers and subservient.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Baby that I doubt that answer has been running the
house a long time, and he's a family man that
had been taking that awful chance.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I see, but you probably think that you know, it's
so terrible to keep seeing it and seeing it, feeling
that it's slowly.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Decaying in there in secret. I the thing could be
there for weeks.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
It's so high above the street, and it only seems
to be visible from my apartment.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Do you think if you investigated those two women, investigated them. Oh,
I searched that flight.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I mean, if we had about some of the last
couple of weeks that background, perhaps if you have them.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Followed, I what right on the grounds that you're saying
you saw a dead man in the wind. There ain't
no legal car the week day. And don't you think
so much?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Friend? Why?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I know that's the awful part of it for me.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Legally my hands are tied until the actual body is found.
But it will never be found.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Has it's already being destroyed?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Well, then if it's gone, whatever your got to worry about,
you won't have to sit and look at it no more.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
No, I hope it is.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I tell you what's really getting me down. I haven't
slept for nights keeping vigil I'm in a nervous state
and I haven't been miss nervous since years.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Well, whyn't you try for getting it for a while,
Try not to look over into that when they were
go away for a change, given which you could, mister Rings,
If there is a stip over there, well that's my business,
ain't it.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
And if there isn't you mean you think I'm I
Maybe I.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Am not saying nothing, mister Rams, but if I was you,
I'd try catching up on my night's sleep.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Hello, miss Landers, I'm I'm sorry to disturb you at
this time of night, but I really I'm desperate. I
haven't anywhere else to.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
This is miss Blister. Ames Martin Ames, your neighbor, the
one across the street.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Now, please don't take me a past, Miss Landers. I
didn't mean to ignore you.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
It was only because I was so desperate that I
initiated this heart.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Quite all right? Good? No, no, no, no, how please
don't hang up, because it's it's worse now than it
ever was, Miss Landers.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I've been sitting here opposite your.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Apartment, staring into your windows, and I'm only asking you
to help me, Miss Landers, help me, just a little
help you.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's still there, Miss Landers? What is still there? The
dead body in your window?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Dare you?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I'm a police.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I know, I know, I know now it hasn't anything
to do with you. But what you do me?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Just one favor, Miss Landers? Would you go into your
living room and check just once more?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I do not look the kind You're out of your
more I am, Miss Landers.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
That's what I'm trying to find out.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
And anyway, I don't see how you can see it
not I pull the sheet down in there yestay morning.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
If I know they're they're all down still, And how
can you see? I can't at least not the actual body.
It's just a silhouette. I'm not maligning you or your sister,
miss Landers.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
If there's someone dead in there, it's not you who
are doing it.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
But think of me.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
If you could just be here and look over and
see the shadow of those quiet fingers and that shoulder
and that head.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Please stop it stop if it's not here.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Tell me just one thing, Miss Landers. There is a
chair by that window though, isn't there a high backed
wing chair?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
And have you anything on it? Anything piled up?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I mean like curtains or cushions or a deathmakers done?
Then what would you do me one more favor of
miss Landers? Please, as an experiment, would you just go
into the living room and move that chair away from
that window?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
If I joy?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Will you stop testing us?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Would you let us alone?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Fire again?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
If it works what you mean you mean? I can't
tell you, miss Landers, until you move the chair.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
All right. I moved it away from the windows. It's
at the other end of the room and there's nothing
and it's empty.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I see.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Well, thank you very much, missus Landers.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I know what I have to do now. Yes, miss Landers,
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Speaker 6 (14:35):
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Speaker 3 (14:55):
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Speaker 2 (15:11):
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Robert Montgomery has Martin names in Lucile Fletcher's story The
(15:55):
Thing in the Window, The tale well calculated to keep.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
You in self sustaining.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
When you can plainly see a corpse in the window
of an apartment across the street, a corpse that no
one else can see, not even the police you send
to investigate.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
What are you to think? And what are the tenants
of the other apartment? So thing?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Oh, Chris Franders, where is it?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I want to see it at once?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yes, miss Standers, come in. I I do hope you'll
excuse my appearance. I've just passed another sleepless.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Night, so has my sister.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I'm so have I What do you mean by oldest business?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Mister Eames, you'll frighten my poor sister nearly to death.
See these that aren't there when you know they're not.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I know they're not.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I wish they weren't. I wish to haven't. I never
looked out that window. I wish these walls were solid stone,
and your walls too. You're a sick man, mystery, oh am.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I I wish I were.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
But I'm perfectly sane and well. I went to a
psychiatrist yesterday, and guess what he told me. There's nothing
wrong with.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Me, nothing I can't believe.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Next to you, I suppose it's a form of madness
to persist and persist in.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Seeing this dystidious image.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
But not to me, miss Landers, I'd finally come to
an entirely different conclusion.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
And what is not the supernatural?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
The supernatural?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
A ghost?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
What nonsense? Mystery?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yes, yes, I suppose it is nonsense to you, isn't it.
You've been a school teacher.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
You believe in logic, common sense, the things that give
a pretense of solidity to this frail little life of ours.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
But I'm an artist.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I've always had a feeling for the thing beyond the intangible.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
The shadowy, and sometimes out of the shadows, we glimpse
the yawning fangs of the eternal.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
You put things rather oddly, mister, Just exactly what.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Do you mean?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Simply this?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I checked on that building with the real estate agents
yesterday afternoon, after I'd left my psychiatrist, and there was
a murder.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
And the report didn't say, you know how they tried
to hush these things up.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
But it was a man, a young man, the lover
of one of the tenants.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
And Miss tweets her Sweeter.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Oh that's the name of the people who was.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
There for us.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
But they were an elderly couple, mister and missus sweetster.
I never saw a named Miss Tweety.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
She died, She was the daughter.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
She killed herself afterwards by jumping out one of the windows.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
How perfectly awful.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
It's rather a ghastly coincidence, isn't it? Is it out
of our window?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Who knows?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
She must have been a very neurotic person, know this,
Miss sweets her half crazed, almost with love or jealousy.
I checked on the details in an old newspaper.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
She cut his soap, only decapitated.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Him, And it said that when they lifted his body
out of the chair I'd rather not hear.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
I still I believe if there is something, if there
could possibly be something.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Why haven't we seen it too? Why should you? Haven't
you seen it?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Miss Landers?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
No, you're sure never Perhaps in the middle of the night,
getting up and passing that room, seeing that chail outlined
against the window, just in passing.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Perhaps you've never had a glim No, I.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Really must be going.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
No, no, no, please stay and look at it. I
want you to see it out of my window on
the midas in the lane.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
She's felt nervous.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
She I just can't leave her alone so long.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
But then how will I know? Miss Landers? I thought
you came here. Especially, it'll only take a minute. It's
right here in this bedroom. I just had to let
up the Venetian blind.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Miss Landers Flanders.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Hello, sergeant, this is Aimes, marked An Ames. I just
called to let you know that I think you're right
about that good night's sleet. Yes, yes, I'm going away tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
For a long rest. Shutting up my apartment.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yes, I'm all tied.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Up in knots.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I don't know what to think.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Oh oh they did.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yes, I saw the moving gun in front of the house,
but I didn't know it was those.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Sisters couldn't take it yet.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Well, I can't take it much longer than myself.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Woll Marthy, Bravo, bravituro boy, not so loud onnd the
mystery the superintendent, Yeah it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I should think he would not like to you grabbing
this beautiful apartment riding.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
From his nose if I only had a promise to
a friend. But you've got it now, Ronald.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Just as I said, so I have a voice, So
I have, and this beautiful I'm crazy about it.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
You at doubles as if you've been more than nothing
of it. Ronald, I'm glad to do it for such
a distinguished colleague.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
You certainly won't you, And I wish I could do
something in return, Mary.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I really do. I've lost that play I'm doing next season.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
There's a part in.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
It's a pretty small part. That's nice, just the same.
But I'm doing pretty well just now, Ronald, do you
like the place round like it? Look at that living room.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Those gorgeous casement windows. It's like a stage, and what
a place for parties.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I don't know how you found it, martin this housing shortage.
You must have a sweetheart in the real deal. Oh
I man, your call came. I wouldn't trust this to
any one but myself, And if the whole coast are
standing on the stage while I.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Came over, tell me how you're doing now. It's rather
a long story. But let's sit down, sha't we here
in the living room? No?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
No, no, no, no, you take the chair.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I guess they must have left it when they moved out,
well to the frank mandld.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I got this apartment by a ruse. A ruse, what
kind of a ruse? So it was a nasty one,
all right. I frightened the last tenants away. I told
them I saw a dead man sitting here in the window.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
How clever of him, because there was enough, of course,
not I made him up out of whole plot. You see,
I live across the street, directly across in that apartment
with the striped curtain bull.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
They were very scary women. I used to watch them
from my own place, always going to bed early, always pulling.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Down the states to the lights of the g.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Then there was this chair by the window, that very
one that you're.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Sitting in now.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
One night, just sitting there late, I got.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
An amusing thought. There was a kind of shadow across
the chair that night reminded me a little bit of
a corpse.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It came to me that it might be fun to
create a part of a character a corpse.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
It wasn't fair to probably quite some actors.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Need to play Ronald to create a role, Others the
great ones who work out their own dramas. I proceeded
to invent a part for myself. I was the eye witness,
the innocent bystander.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Across the street who saw the corpse in here.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I kept seeing it and seeing it, and finally, by
the power of suggestion, it became real enough to fighten
them away, but humble fastly, not at all proved my
point didn't increase.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And it got to the apartment. Well, really, that was
very kind. I've always hoped we'd be neighbors, Ronald. As
a matter of fact, the whole idea for this thing
came to me on that day.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Last day, when you turned me down for that part
outside of Sardis.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
You remember you said you weren't looking for a place
then did Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Yes, It was then when I first thought how nice
it would be to see you right across the street,
sitting in this window.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I simply had to bring it about. That was the
night I went to work on the thing in the No, no, no,
don't get up. I'm not through, really over. I've been
the gang of the fair that I don't even know
I'm here. They'll wait. People always wait for you.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Don't say I'm not.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I could call them for you, of course, but the
phone has been disilfare, which was the door boy.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
It's been very cold.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
It will matter. Don't you like the apartment?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Aren't you going to take it?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
After all?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
My whole?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I like it very much.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Does Yes, I'm afraid you will have to find your
way out. Yeah, that could keep you quiet, silent soul.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Has became you better than all that renting and goodness
and charmald.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
And now.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I've got the part for you, a part to end
all parts. You play it, of course entirely in the
chair listen to but action, not a line to say
you'll just sit down. You sit in this chair. I
(25:24):
don't window. It will be the greatest performance of your career.
You like to haggle all the fastest rolls for yourself
didn't show well.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
This is the part that's been talked about up and
down this street for weeks.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
You'll play the part of a ghost of a corpse
that never was an hallucination in my brain.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
And who will be your audience? I will I deem significant.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Outloaded hand, who won't take or dear in your precious plaise,
but good enough to put you here?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Who's the better actor?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Now? Goodbye? I'm older. No one will see me go out,
but I'll see you across the street.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Certainly, I think the old thing here, and headn't throw
it out.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
To say yes, yes, I was just going.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I couldn't resist coming up and making one final check,
just for myself. The door seemed to be opening anyway.
The illusions quite vanished. Quite, there's nothing there really mistake.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
That's good, all right, misterandson. Will you ask the moving
men to go in there now and take away the
chair
Speaker 1 (27:02):
S
Good night, or will I bring to you, mister Robert
Montgomery in the Thing in the window A suspense way
produced and directed by Anton m Leader not Spain.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
May turn that vacuum.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Cleaner off for a minute, will you and come over here.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I want to show you something right here out this window. Now,
look across the street, directly across the opposite apartment. See
that window about three windows in from the left, with
kind of blue draperies.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
There's something sitting there in a chair.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Someone. He hasn't moved all night. I think you must
be dead dead.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Hello to miss miss Drains.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Take a good look at him and tell me what
you think.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
They're okay, but I don't favor looking AT's no constant,
Miss Drained. It's unlucky. Now, which one did you say?
Speaker 5 (01:12):
I heard one?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Over which to head my clans over.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
There over there where my finger is pointed. I'm afraid
they don't see it yet, Miss Range.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
No, look look the window with the blue draperies. He's
wearing a sort of ray suit.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
The arm. Can't you see the arm hanging down over
the side of the chair.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
No, but you got good eyes, mister Rains.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
If you see it.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I'm not arguing with you.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
What you're gonna do about it?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Miss Drains.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Oh, I don't know. I just began to notice it
last night. I guess I first have.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
To find out it's the man is really dead? Yeah, hello,
I must names. Are you the superintendent of this apartment house?
(02:03):
That's what it says on the door. I've come to
inquire about one of your tenants.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
What is this you want to know?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, I live across the street, and well, I'll be
frank with you.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
So I've been looking out my window across to this
building now for two and a half days, and there
seems to be someone dead in one of the windows.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, which window, But it's on the tenth floor.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I've counted up from the street and ten stories up
there's the window with blue draperies, about three windows in
from the left, facing toward me, that is, and there's
a man sitting there, slumped down in a chair. Just
a minute, I'll get out my chart. Tore up from
the street and ninth saw the lobby camps one.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
We get three apart from stair along the front of
the house. From the front that's side, i'll see windows.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
In from the left that are the nine b forum. No,
it shouldn't be right. Nine B is two ladies, and
you say this is a man?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yes, young or all?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well, I can't tell. The face isn't clearly visible. The
heads slumped forward.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
But he's wearing a gray suit and he's sitting in
a high wing back care.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I'll replace him.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Maybe he doesn't belong in the house. Maybe he was
a visitant, was visiting somebody. As I say, this is
all conjecture. Of course, he may not be dead, but
I've watched him a good deal. I'm home a lot
in the daytime, like profession.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
The stage, you know, doesn't take up too much of
my time. And it looks mighty suspicious. Okay, I'll check it.
Do you mind if I stay around? No shit on,
I'll give my beer ring first to the house phone.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Hello, Miss Landers, Ms Flanders's Miss Ramson souper.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Everything all right up there, Miss Landers?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
All right here?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Okay, Miss Landers, thank you very much, thank you. Well,
that's that. I'll soap on LAMB. Nine as in the country,
nine seas home. I just saw her go out. I'll
go up there a little later and take a look around. Well,
what about this nine A. The people in the country.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Oh, maybe they're an old He could have come back
and had a heart attack up.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
There by himself, or maybe somebody else.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Some other person could have been using the apartment while
they were away.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Hybe.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I'll take a look in anyway, only if I got
the windows straight. Like you said, it ought to be
nine b Oh, the two single ladies, Yeah on me,
it couldn't be them, the real old MA say if
they knew you thought there was a man in that apartment,
the two of them are just a bunch come out
of his skin. Well, I I don't know what to say.
If you're sure it must be that of part Oh, yeah,
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that's the place. But you you probably just made a
little mistake. You know how your eyes can play tricks
on you.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
After all, it is quite a white street.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
No, I don't think I made any mistakes speaking.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Oh hello, mister Anson, This is mister Gray. I can
it's Hoda.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Mister Anthony checked up one of the three apartments this morning. No,
dead Boddy's in the whole place, but I can see it.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It's still there.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Ohky, just wait, just tell me why in that same window,
the one you said was ninety Have you gone inside ninety?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
But I asked him if anybody was sick or death,
and they said no. You asked them, why don't you
search the apartment.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
If they break in?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
No, no, just ring the bell and walk in and
do it. Yeah, I've a lot to search more from
the police. These apartments, you know, don't belong to me.
I just take care of the buildings for the company. Well,
then let's call the police.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Not damns.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I didn't see no death body appear.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Then I will. After all, somebody's got to do something.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I still maintain up to these two sisters or as
refined ladies as you could find anywhere.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I class church going ladies. They used to teach school
up here at PS thirteen.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Yeah, yeah, that don't mean if and they get a
dog in then now will you tell me one dog
that put stay for almost a week in a flat
with a dead person. I'm not jelling you nothing, now,
I know this gentleman, mister Ames reported a stiff over here.
And if he says there is one, there is till
it's proved different.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Right for his dream? Well, I keep seeing the thing
day in and day out.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I'm not working at the moment of being home so much.
None of the other neighbors who complained dead thought he
didn't exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Okay, I just wait for these to help the home.
Only get a pass gar and yeah, but we're not
supposed to use it, throwing us for an emergency. This
is an emergency by sometime.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I'm awful sorry this land Is, but there's there's been
some kind of a mixer. These two gentlemen won't look
over your.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Apartment, but why not? For real? I know, jam on,
jam on, cut out the blaver.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Look, lady, a dead body's been reported sitting in one
of your windows. Yeah yeah, this guy is across the
street and he's been seeing it over here for a week.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
So come on, a.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Body, But becau's impossible if my sister live it here
all of.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Them, Yeah, yeah, we know all about it.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Lady.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
I'm not standing here all day, Hanson, give me a pass.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
It won't do no good. They got a chain on
the door from the inside.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
How do you do?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I'm giving Landis. May I ask what this is all about?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Generally, lady, I get a search warrant here and complain
of this gentleman. He says, you got a dead body
in there?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
A dead body?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Why that's perfectly ridiculous. Yeah, isn't it, But it's been reported,
and kindly take that door off the chain and let
us throw.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Of course, But good may I ask, how did this
peeping tomsy into our apartment? I thought, mister Anthel, we
were quite finding.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
He lives across the street on the same level. Oh well, then.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
We shall have to keep our shades down in the future,
although one would think a grown man would have something
better to do. But do come in, make yourselves right
at home.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Is he coming in here too?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
He said, Busyboddy. No, he doesn't have to if you
don't want him.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Well, I most definitely don't.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Okay, mister Raimes, you better stay out side.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
He does want to poke around in our private rooms.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
That it.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Maybe he had some ulterior motive and worming his way in.
Maybe he's come to get the layer of the land
so he can break in some take a robin.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Okay, okay, he's not coming in now. Let's take a
look at your window lane. I guess that's a big idea.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You didn't find it. No, that's the only thing strange
about it is your right side. You ought to get
your grappist.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
There wasn't anything in ninety No, I don't understand it.
How could I have seen it so distinctly?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Its not there? But perhaps it peraps. It isn't in
the window now.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Perhaps they hid it while we were waiting outside that.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Door now where there is one eye, a dead body
and a four road flat. I looked in all the
clothes close. It's under the sofas and the chapel. Perhaps
they they think got it out.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
With some help. What about that fellow answer, he acted
soon diers and subservient.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Baby that I doubt that answer has been running the
house a long time, and he's a family man that
had been taking that awful chance.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I see, but you probably think that you know, it's
so terrible to keep seeing it and seeing it, feeling
that it's slowly.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Decaying in there in secret. I the thing could be
there for weeks.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
It's so high above the street, and it only seems
to be visible from my apartment.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Do you think if you investigated those two women, investigated them. Oh,
I searched that flight.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I mean, if we had about some of the last
couple of weeks that background, perhaps if you have them.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Followed, I what right on the grounds that you're saying
you saw a dead man in the wind. There ain't
no legal car the week day. And don't you think
so much?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Friend? Why?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I know that's the awful part of it for me.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Legally my hands are tied until the actual body is found.
But it will never be found.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Has it's already being destroyed?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Well, then if it's gone, whatever your got to worry about,
you won't have to sit and look at it no more.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
No, I hope it is.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I tell you what's really getting me down. I haven't
slept for nights keeping vigil I'm in a nervous state
and I haven't been miss nervous since years.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Well, whyn't you try for getting it for a while,
Try not to look over into that when they were
go away for a change, given which you could, mister Rings,
If there is a stip over there, well that's my business,
ain't it.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
And if there isn't you mean you think I'm I
Maybe I.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Am not saying nothing, mister Rams, but if I was you,
I'd try catching up on my night's sleep.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Hello, miss Landers, I'm I'm sorry to disturb you at
this time of night, but I really I'm desperate. I
haven't anywhere else to.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
This is miss Blister. Ames Martin Ames, your neighbor, the
one across the street.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Now, please don't take me a past, Miss Landers. I
didn't mean to ignore you.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
It was only because I was so desperate that I
initiated this heart.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Quite all right? Good? No, no, no, no, how please
don't hang up, because it's it's worse now than it
ever was, Miss Landers.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I've been sitting here opposite your.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Apartment, staring into your windows, and I'm only asking you
to help me, Miss Landers, help me, just a little
help you.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's still there, Miss Landers? What is still there? The
dead body in your window?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Dare you?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I'm a police.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I know, I know, I know now it hasn't anything
to do with you. But what you do me?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Just one favor, Miss Landers? Would you go into your
living room and check just once more?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I do not look the kind You're out of your
more I am, Miss Landers.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
That's what I'm trying to find out.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
And anyway, I don't see how you can see it
not I pull the sheet down in there yestay morning.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
If I know they're they're all down still, And how
can you see? I can't at least not the actual body.
It's just a silhouette. I'm not maligning you or your sister,
miss Landers.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
If there's someone dead in there, it's not you who
are doing it.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
But think of me.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
If you could just be here and look over and
see the shadow of those quiet fingers and that shoulder
and that head.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Please stop it stop if it's not here.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Tell me just one thing, Miss Landers. There is a
chair by that window though, isn't there a high backed
wing chair?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
And have you anything on it? Anything piled up?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I mean like curtains or cushions or a deathmakers done?
Then what would you do me one more favor of
miss Landers? Please, as an experiment, would you just go
into the living room and move that chair away from
that window?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
If I joy?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Will you stop testing us?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Would you let us alone?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Fire again?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
If it works what you mean you mean? I can't
tell you, miss Landers, until you move the chair.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
All right. I moved it away from the windows. It's
at the other end of the room and there's nothing
and it's empty.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I see.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Well, thank you very much, missus Landers.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I know what I have to do now. Yes, miss Landers,
it's still there? Or suspense auto light is bringing you.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Mister Robert Montgomery is radio's outspending theater of thrills.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Suspend they have one of these stars around here, God
that I haven't got one.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
That's Sea and Me twelve by Cornadians. I got you there.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
I've got fan mail too, at least wise auto light
resistance spark plug has and by.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
A happy coincidence, you just have gle letters right. You
are one for mister Neil Miller of Longlanck, Colorado, who
says in his letter, Dear Harlow, that's me.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
A short time ago I put a set of auto
light resistance spark plugs in my new car, and let
me tell you they more than live up to the.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Peerless punchy power pact Wilcox praise you give them on suspense.
Guys got the patch down, sure hand. The letter goes on.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Since I switched to white gap auto light resist spark plugs,
my car idle smoother, gives better performance at low speeds,
and runs better on lean gas mixtures.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
What's more, I noticed that auto light.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Resist spark plugs cut down spark plug interference with my
own and friends radios.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
What do you think of that? You should be writing
your material while.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
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mister Miller writes about because of its unique built in resistor,
and only auto light offers car and track owners everywhere
the sensational advantages of auto light.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Resistors spark plugs. So switched to wide gaff auto light
resist spark plugs tomorrow. Remember you're right with auto light,
and now auto light brings back to Hollywood soundstage. Mister
Robert Montgomery has Martin names in Lucile Fletcher's story The
(15:55):
Thing in the Window, The tale well calculated to keep.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
You in self sustaining.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
When you can plainly see a corpse in the window
of an apartment across the street, a corpse that no
one else can see, not even the police you send
to investigate.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
What are you to think? And what are the tenants
of the other apartment? So thing?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Oh, Chris Franders, where is it?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I want to see it at once?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yes, miss Standers, come in. I I do hope you'll
excuse my appearance. I've just passed another sleepless.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Night, so has my sister.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I'm so have I What do you mean by oldest business?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Mister Eames, you'll frighten my poor sister nearly to death.
See these that aren't there when you know they're not.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I know they're not.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I wish they weren't. I wish to haven't. I never
looked out that window. I wish these walls were solid stone,
and your walls too. You're a sick man, mystery, oh am.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I I wish I were.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
But I'm perfectly sane and well. I went to a
psychiatrist yesterday, and guess what he told me. There's nothing
wrong with.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Me, nothing I can't believe.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Next to you, I suppose it's a form of madness
to persist and persist in.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Seeing this dystidious image.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
But not to me, miss Landers, I'd finally come to
an entirely different conclusion.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
And what is not the supernatural?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
The supernatural?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
A ghost?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
What nonsense? Mystery?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yes, yes, I suppose it is nonsense to you, isn't it.
You've been a school teacher.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
You believe in logic, common sense, the things that give
a pretense of solidity to this frail little life of ours.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
But I'm an artist.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I've always had a feeling for the thing beyond the intangible.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
The shadowy, and sometimes out of the shadows, we glimpse
the yawning fangs of the eternal.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
You put things rather oddly, mister, Just exactly what.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Do you mean?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Simply this?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I checked on that building with the real estate agents
yesterday afternoon, after I'd left my psychiatrist, and there was
a murder.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
And the report didn't say, you know how they tried
to hush these things up.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
But it was a man, a young man, the lover
of one of the tenants.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
And Miss tweets her Sweeter.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Oh that's the name of the people who was.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
There for us.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
But they were an elderly couple, mister and missus sweetster.
I never saw a named Miss Tweety.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
She died, She was the daughter.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
She killed herself afterwards by jumping out one of the windows.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
How perfectly awful.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
It's rather a ghastly coincidence, isn't it? Is it out
of our window?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Who knows?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
She must have been a very neurotic person, know this,
Miss sweets her half crazed, almost with love or jealousy.
I checked on the details in an old newspaper.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
She cut his soap, only decapitated.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Him, And it said that when they lifted his body
out of the chair I'd rather not hear.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
I still I believe if there is something, if there
could possibly be something.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Why haven't we seen it too? Why should you? Haven't
you seen it?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Miss Landers?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
No, you're sure never Perhaps in the middle of the night,
getting up and passing that room, seeing that chail outlined
against the window, just in passing.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Perhaps you've never had a glim No, I.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Really must be going.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
No, no, no, please stay and look at it. I
want you to see it out of my window on
the midas in the lane.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
She's felt nervous.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
She I just can't leave her alone so long.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
But then how will I know? Miss Landers? I thought
you came here. Especially, it'll only take a minute. It's
right here in this bedroom. I just had to let
up the Venetian blind.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Miss Landers Flanders.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Hello, sergeant, this is Aimes, marked An Ames. I just
called to let you know that I think you're right
about that good night's sleet. Yes, yes, I'm going away tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
For a long rest. Shutting up my apartment.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yes, I'm all tied.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Up in knots.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I don't know what to think.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Oh oh they did.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yes, I saw the moving gun in front of the house,
but I didn't know it was those.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Sisters couldn't take it yet.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Well, I can't take it much longer than myself.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Woll Marthy, Bravo, bravituro boy, not so loud onnd the
mystery the superintendent, Yeah it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I should think he would not like to you grabbing
this beautiful apartment riding.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
From his nose if I only had a promise to
a friend. But you've got it now, Ronald.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Just as I said, so I have a voice, So
I have, and this beautiful I'm crazy about it.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
You at doubles as if you've been more than nothing
of it. Ronald, I'm glad to do it for such
a distinguished colleague.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
You certainly won't you, And I wish I could do
something in return, Mary.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I really do. I've lost that play I'm doing next season.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
There's a part in.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
It's a pretty small part. That's nice, just the same.
But I'm doing pretty well just now, Ronald, do you
like the place round like it? Look at that living room.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Those gorgeous casement windows. It's like a stage, and what
a place for parties.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I don't know how you found it, martin this housing shortage.
You must have a sweetheart in the real deal. Oh
I man, your call came. I wouldn't trust this to
any one but myself, And if the whole coast are
standing on the stage while I.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Came over, tell me how you're doing now. It's rather
a long story. But let's sit down, sha't we here
in the living room? No?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
No, no, no, no, you take the chair.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I guess they must have left it when they moved out,
well to the frank mandld.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I got this apartment by a ruse. A ruse, what
kind of a ruse? So it was a nasty one,
all right. I frightened the last tenants away. I told
them I saw a dead man sitting here in the window.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
How clever of him, because there was enough, of course,
not I made him up out of whole plot. You see,
I live across the street, directly across in that apartment
with the striped curtain bull.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
They were very scary women. I used to watch them
from my own place, always going to bed early, always pulling.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Down the states to the lights of the g.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Then there was this chair by the window, that very
one that you're.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Sitting in now.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
One night, just sitting there late, I got.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
An amusing thought. There was a kind of shadow across
the chair that night reminded me a little bit of
a corpse.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It came to me that it might be fun to
create a part of a character a corpse.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
It wasn't fair to probably quite some actors.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Need to play Ronald to create a role, Others the
great ones who work out their own dramas. I proceeded
to invent a part for myself. I was the eye witness,
the innocent bystander.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Across the street who saw the corpse in here.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I kept seeing it and seeing it, and finally, by
the power of suggestion, it became real enough to fighten
them away, but humble fastly, not at all proved my
point didn't increase.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And it got to the apartment. Well, really, that was
very kind. I've always hoped we'd be neighbors, Ronald. As
a matter of fact, the whole idea for this thing
came to me on that day.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Last day, when you turned me down for that part
outside of Sardis.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
You remember you said you weren't looking for a place
then did Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Yes, It was then when I first thought how nice
it would be to see you right across the street,
sitting in this window.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I simply had to bring it about. That was the
night I went to work on the thing in the No, no, no,
don't get up. I'm not through, really over. I've been
the gang of the fair that I don't even know
I'm here. They'll wait. People always wait for you.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Don't say I'm not.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I could call them for you, of course, but the
phone has been disilfare, which was the door boy.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
It's been very cold.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
It will matter. Don't you like the apartment?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Aren't you going to take it?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
After all?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
My whole?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I like it very much.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Does Yes, I'm afraid you will have to find your
way out. Yeah, that could keep you quiet, silent soul.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Has became you better than all that renting and goodness
and charmald.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
And now.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I've got the part for you, a part to end
all parts. You play it, of course entirely in the
chair listen to but action, not a line to say
you'll just sit down. You sit in this chair. I
(25:24):
don't window. It will be the greatest performance of your career.
You like to haggle all the fastest rolls for yourself
didn't show well.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
This is the part that's been talked about up and
down this street for weeks.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
You'll play the part of a ghost of a corpse
that never was an hallucination in my brain.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
And who will be your audience? I will I deem significant.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Outloaded hand, who won't take or dear in your precious plaise,
but good enough to put you here?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Who's the better actor?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Now? Goodbye? I'm older. No one will see me go out,
but I'll see you across the street.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Certainly, I think the old thing here, and headn't throw
it out.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
To say yes, yes, I was just going.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I couldn't resist coming up and making one final check,
just for myself. The door seemed to be opening anyway.
The illusions quite vanished. Quite, there's nothing there really mistake.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
That's good, all right, misterandson. Will you ask the moving
men to go in there now and take away the
chair
Speaker 1 (27:02):
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