August 9, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In just a moment suspense with Martha Scott. O.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hey, it's time for the Auto Light radio show. Man,
better wake your dad up.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I know darn well he won't want to miss it, right, Hey, dad,
this will get him Dad? Who makes the stayful batteries?
All and who makes spark plugs and complete ignition systems
for your car?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
All right?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
And what radio show did the auto White people put
on over CBS every Thursday night?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hey, it's time for suspense. Switch on the radio, Billy,
the radio's on, deer, just be quiet and listen.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Suspense.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Auto Light and at sixty thousand dealers in service stations
bring you radio's outstanding theater of thrills, starring tonight Miss
Martha Scott in Anton Leader's production of Crisis a tail
Well calculated to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Missus Norcus, missus norcis.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
It's the doctor, missus norks.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Oh oh coming, I'm sorry, doctor, I fell asleep.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
I told you not to. I warned you.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I couldn't help it.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Let me see the baby.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Huh? How is he? Is he better?
Speaker 7 (02:26):
Well?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Pneumonia's tricky.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And six n long. It's been one hundred and sixty.
If he'd only moves it only cry. Oh doctor, you've
got to do so.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Hold yourself, fasten that cheet down. It's important that you
don't let any of that steam escape.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
All right, It's just that I'm so tired. Wait. Will
the nurse be here?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
But you said that, I've tried everywhere.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
It's the worst epidemic since nineteen eighteen. The hospitals are fool.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
But I can't go on without a nurse.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Well, isn't there someone who can help you?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Some neighbor? There's no one.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
What about your husband? When's he do.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Back two or three days?
Speaker 7 (03:04):
Maybe you better send for him.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You you don't mean the baby.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
Well, you can't keep this up.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
You need help. Oh, I didn't want to worry Paul.
This business trip's so important to him. Besides, I expected
to get a nurse. Why he doesn't even know the
baby's sick.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
You'll have to do it alone. Then, how's the sofa
holding out? Good?
Speaker 8 (03:22):
Now, don't neglect the steam for an instant, Keep up
the warm alcohol sponge bath. Don't leave his side. I'll
try to get back in the morning. And don't sleep.
No matter how tired you get, no matter how you
scream for it, you must not sleep here here, take
these pills. They'll help you.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Thank you, doctor. Doctor is a little Kurt going.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
To make it well that you'll know one way or
the other before morning.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
Oh, crack that temperature tonight and he'll pull through.
Speaker 9 (03:54):
It's the crisis, poor baby, little thin legs.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Kick the covers, Darling, kick them. That's what legs do
for you. Don't want to give up now, Kurt, you're
just beginning. You haven't seen half thereas you've never thrown
a snowball, or hit a home run or gone fishing
with your te Oh, Kurt, Kurt, you should be in
a hospital, not an all made croup tent with a
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kettle of steam under your bed, in a hospital with
nurses and white starched uniforms, nurses who are awake, whose
hearts don't break when they look at you. I mustn't
think about it. Steam kettle under the bed, steam to breathe,
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another kettle on the stove. Sponge baths every few minutes,
every few minutes, temperature hundreds, temperature one hundred and six,
temperature one hundred and six. How many times I took it,
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I don't know. Nothing in the room seemed real and tangible, anymore,
nothing but the steam steam. I watched it hypnotized. Now
it was an eraser on a blackboard, removing today's problems.
Now it was a windshield wiper, pushing aside the rain
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so I could see ahead of me. The vision slowly cleared,
and then I saw it a light no six nights,
bright flames. Birthday candles. Six birthday candles on top of
a white cake. Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you.
Speaker 10 (05:53):
Happy birthday, little girl, Happy.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Birthday to you.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Six years old.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You're a big boy now, son, I want my.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Presence, Oh mercenary. Little creature, isn't your Paul?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Okay, here it is.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
All wont don't you dare touch it?
Speaker 10 (06:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
No, look here, Kurt, please Paul. It's his birthday, all right?
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Go ahead and rab it?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Well, Kurt, don't you like it? No white curtain? Nor Chris?
How can you say such a thing after your daddy
bought you a wonderful fire engine? Why didn't you get
me one with one sheet?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
What's wrong with two seats?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
It's got two sheets. You gotta let your mother could
ride with you. But don't you want to share your
fun with your little friends? I don't like nobody to
have fun but me, Kurt.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
You'll come back here.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Let him go, Paul, But just a little boy. You'll
get over it.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Well, I hope so.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Oh. There were more birthdays, but as Kurt grew, a
mounting fear began to grow and meet too. He looked
like a choir boy, but there was something else hiding
back of those innocent eyes. At eight, he forged his
report card. At ten, he stole some things from the
dying store. But the time he showed promise of being
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taller than his father. His personality, in spite of everything
we tried to do, was really beginning to frighten us.
You wanted to see me, father.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Ah, yes I did. Your mother and I are very
concerned about you.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Again. Why weren't you in school all week? It bores me?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Where were you? What have you been doing?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Thinking? Just thinking? What about Kurt? What is it you
think about? Is there something bothering you? Yes? Or what
is it?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Son?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
School? I hate it? But you like to read? That's different.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
I read what I like.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I don't like to be told what to do.
Speaker 10 (07:57):
But don't you understand everybody has to be guided and
told what to do?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Sure? I understand, but I don't have to like it,
and I don't like it, Kurt. I'm surprised at you.
Is that all?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Father, Yes, Yes, that's that's all.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I'm disappointed. I thought you were going to beat me.
Why you insta? Yes? Please? Is that one at the door?
What mister Johnson Kurt home? Well? Yes he is? Hello, Paul?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Oh? Fred? Well what is it this time?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Are you going to tell him, Kurt? Or do you
want me to? I don't mind.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
I stole a watch from Evans's jewelry store, a swell
wrist watch.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
A watch, oh, Kurt. We were going to buy you
one for your birthday. You didn't have to steal it.
It was more fun stealing, lots more fun.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
This time, I'll have to take him to juvenile court,
missus Norcott.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
No, Fred, Fred, let let me bring him down. You
go on, I want to.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Talk to him. Paul's face was gray with hurt, his
cheeks sagged, and his eyes were bleak as he turned
to Kurt.
Speaker 10 (09:10):
I didn't want it this way, son, but maybe it's
the only solution. Maybe it'll help straighten me out.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
You're not going to put me in a reform.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
School, Kurturt.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Paul was savage as he ran up the stairs after him.
Kurt slammed the bedroom door in his face, and Paul
flung it open.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
You've had this coming to you for a long time.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Oh no, you don't keep away from me, Curt. Wild
lust was on Kurt's face and the gun was in
his hand, his father's revolver. I knew he'd do it
even before it happened, Kurt. Paul went to limp as
he turned to me with a look of short surprise.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Mary, Paul.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Spence Autolfe is bringing you, Miss Martha Scott in radio's
outstanding theater of thrills Suspense.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Who that didn't wake you up?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Dad?
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Well wake me up.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
I wasn't asleep a while ago. I was just fooling you,
fool and hut. Then tell me what I said just
before suspense turning. Yeah, you asked me who made the
stayfoil battery? Naturally, I said auto light. And when those
autolite people named it the stayfoil battery, they weren't talking
through their hands either. Why that battery needs water only
three times a year? Again, that billy only three times
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a year?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Coll What's more, It's fine, dear, but don't you think
you ought to let mister Martin give the commercial.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Yes, folks, what app says is true. Auto light stayfold
batteries need water only three times a year in normal
car use. This means less trouble and care for you.
For Autolite's greater liquid reserve practically eliminates one of the
major cause of battery failure. Car owners everywhere tell us
the Auto Light Stayfule is the greatest battery ever built.
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So friends, visit your neighborhood Autolite dealer and get an
Auto Light Stayful battery.
Speaker 12 (11:10):
For your car.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Enjoy the advantages of extra plates and fiberglass insulation.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
It means so.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Much to long battery life. And remember, auto light stayfol
batteries need water only three times a year in normal
car use, No doubt about it. Money can't buy a
better battery for your car than auto Light.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
And now Autolite brings back to our Hollywood sound stage.
Miss Martha Scott is merry in crisis, a tail well
calculated to keep you in suspend.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
The visions continue to rise out of the steam clip dods.
I found myself sitting beside Paul's bed. He was out
of danger. Accidental shooting while cleaning a gun. That's what
Paul told the doctor. I wanted to tell the truth
that I wouldn't hurt him any further. No, Kurt didn't
go to the reform school. We hushed that up to lies,
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lies suffocating us. We shrank, Paul and I crawled into
our shells, confused, disillusioned, afraid of our only son. But
Kurt grew, and so did his misdemeanors, until he was
a handsome giant with the face of a Viking saint
and no soul at all. The incident with Elaine McGregor
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proved that I was transplanting geraniums on the other side
of the hedge. I didn't mean to eavesdrop. What's going
to happen to us?
Speaker 6 (12:51):
I wouldn't know.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Doesn't it make any difference to you? Should it? It's
easy for you, wasn't it. What did you expect? Nothing? Really,
you're in a class by yourself, Kurt. You've got the
heart of the tapeworm, but you're not going to eat
into me. Very pretty speech.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
I didn't know you were so valuable, But uh, what
does it mean?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
It means I'm lucky. I can walk out of your life.
You can't. You've gotta live with yourself. You're rotten, Kurt,
rotten all the way through. You warp everything you touch,
You destroy all the decent things around you. Decent. I
despise you. I thought you loved me madly. You can't
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love a snake, you can only be charmed by it.
Speaker 12 (13:39):
Goodbye, darling, mother, you can come out from behind there, Kurt.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
How could you?
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Mother?
Speaker 12 (13:48):
I knew you were there all the time.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I didn't mean that, I mean the way you treated Elane. Oh, Kurt,
maybe marriage would be good for you. Come mother first.
Speaker 12 (13:58):
You want me to get a job, any job.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You wouldn't want me to get married at my age,
would you. I'm just a child, No, Kurt, not you.
You've never been a child. Everything he did seem to
be aimed at hurting someone, and always it pleased him.
And then one day, as suddenly as you turn over
a page, Kurt was different. He slammed the front door
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and he was whistling. He was gayer than I'd ever
seen him. Hi, Well, what are you so gay about?
Speaker 12 (14:32):
The proverbial leave has been turned, and you see before
you're a hard working.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Young man, Kurt. You've got a job that's right, mother,
a job at the lumber yard.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Don't be silly.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I'm a banker. A banker, what bank? First National?
Speaker 7 (14:46):
Mister Cox was very nice about the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Your father's bank. Then Paul got you the job.
Speaker 12 (14:52):
You talked like the old man owns the place, he's
just a teller.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Then how did you get the job? I talked to
mister Cox, Curt, what did you tell mister Coxon?
Speaker 12 (15:03):
You should have been their mother? I melted the old
boy's heart. He swallowed the whole thing, swallowed.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
What what did you tell mister Cox?
Speaker 12 (15:11):
Don't get melodramatic, mother. I merely told him that I
had to go to work because we needed the money.
But I liked the idea of working in a bank,
you know, like father likes that.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Oh needed the money? Oh, Kurt, you didn't. You didn't
humiliate your father that way, but you wanted me to
get a job. Kurt. Ever since you've been old enough
to think you've been bad, you caused your father nothing
but heartache. You're aging and draining all the joy out
of his life. And now this this crowning humiliation. But
I'm warning you, Curt, if you cause your father any
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more sorrow. If you hurt him just once more, ah.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
I'll kill me robo mother. Now, now let's have the
second act.
Speaker 13 (15:53):
You two feet first time I ever slept him, But
I knew then there would never be any peace for us,
that he would go on and on until there was
nothing left, no honor, no decency, nothing.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
But even I didn't suspect the depth of his malignancy
until Paul was coming up the walk alone. His step
was slow, his back was stooped, and his face was
lined and tortured. I opened the door for him, Paul, Paul,
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what's wrong? I've been fired fire after twenty two years.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
There was a shortage this morning. A thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
A thousand. Oh, surely they don't think you took it.
You've handled millions of dollars down there and never touched
a penny of it. How could Kurt took it? Didn't they? Yes,
and you took the blame.
Speaker 10 (16:56):
Not exactly. It's very clever, devilously clever. He worked hard,
he did his work well. I thought I tried to
kid myself anyway that he was outgrowing his badness. It
was all part of a warped scheme. He won the
respect of everyone in the bank and very simply stole
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the money and planted the evidence. It led straight to me,
why didn't.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
You tell mister Cox what we've been through, what a
bad boy he is. There are records at juvenile Hall.
We could prove it.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
You know what mister Cox said to me. He said
he wouldn't prosecute because of my wonderful son. My wonderful
son I never had a son. I couldn't look at him, Mary.
When I walked out of the bank, Garvey and cage
One didn't even say goodbye or good luck, or too
bad or anything. He just got suddenly too busy to
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look up. He forgot all about the months we lay
in the mud together at Taro and the Navy crosses.
We won him the same day. Garby was too busy
to look up. I couldn't tell him the truth. I'm
not strong like you, Mary, I can't take it any more.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
He was looking at me, but he didn't see me.
His eyes were covered with a film of tears, and
he turned and staggered out of the house. He walked
like he was drunk. Yes, that's what he was, drunk
with despair. He got in the car. I wanted to
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go to him, to hold him in my arms, but
I couldn't. I was a frozener. Carl lurched away from
the curb, skidded around the corner. It was like a
mad man. I wasn't surprised when they called me from
the hospital reckless driving. They said accidental death, but I
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called it something else. I called it murder. At that moment,
I died too. Oh. I went through the motions of
living the cemetery and after I kept on, not counting
the day's coming or going, And one day I realized
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Kurt was twenty five, a man, a handsome, ruthless man.
We lived in the same house, but we had nothing
to do with each other until one November afternoon. I
was in the kitchen making an apple pie. It had
always been Paul's favorite. Suddenly the room was throbbing with
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Paul's presence. Paul. I dropped the knife on the floor
and ran up the stairs into my bedroom, mine and Paul's.
I was wild, out of my mind. I turned about
the room everywhere, searching. I needed him terribly. I could
feel his preser, yet it wasn't enough. It had to
be something tangible, something I could touch. And then I
remembered the navy cross and the purple heart. They were his,
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they were part of him. I pulled out the shirt
drawer and threw his shirts on the bed. The purple
heart was there, and it satin line box, but the
Navy cross was gone. Oh, Paul, Paul. The room was dark.
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I lay there for quite a while. I had no
reason to get up. Kurt was home. I tidied the
bed and spread it up, ran a comb through my hair.
I walked along the hallway to his room.
Speaker 12 (20:58):
Yeah, you want something.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
I'm in a hurry.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yes, I do want something. Your father's navy cross. Where
is it? Oh that?
Speaker 12 (21:07):
I was holding three aces when I ran into a strait.
Jack Carnes said he'd take the cross and.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
Liew of five bucks. How do you like a.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Guy like that?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I looked at Kurt for a long time. Then I
walked away. It didn't matter. Nothing mattered, not that day
or any other day, not even later. When the policeman
came to the door.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I have a warrant for the arrest of Kurt Norquist.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
On what charge?
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Murder?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
It was a colorful trial, murder in the first degree.
The front pages were blushed with it. Little shop girls
hurried to buy the evening editions with the sordid testimony
to read on their way home from work. I went
to the truck every day and listened with this strange
sense of unreality. Sure I killed him. All I could
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think was that flashing, handsome young man up there admitting
to murder and worse is my son? No? I didn't
hate him.
Speaker 12 (22:16):
I didn't even know him very well.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
And why don't I feel anything?
Speaker 7 (22:20):
I just wanted to see what it was like, that's all.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Why don't I shudder with disgrace? Why don't I crawl
off into a corner and die?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
What for? He's dead, isn't The trial went on for days,
and Kurt was unmoved, insolent, triumphant, almost even as his
wretched soul made ready for that lethal chamber. He was
untouched in there, madam, five minutes, thank you well? Hello mother, mother?
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Oh yes I am your mother.
Speaker 12 (22:55):
Huh oh you brought me some cigarettes? Thanks well. I
wonder what it's going to be like? What you know
that last mile? I'm a queer guy, all right. I
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don't feel sorry about anything. As a matter of fact,
I don't feel anything at all, never did, except that
maybe this is a good smoke.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Now. I looked deeply into his face, beyond the pale
blue eyes, into the black soul. I gave him life,
but I couldn't give him honor.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Yet.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Hailed smoke came out of his mouth and nose and
spun around him, enveloping his face, framing it in a
circle of fog. Then he smiled, not the smile of
a murderer, more the slow, wistful smile of a small boy.
And abruptly his face was changed. I've been here before.
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I watched the smoke rings as they billowed upward. I
couldn't take my eyes off them. And each smoke ring.
Speaker 14 (24:12):
Was a face, Kurt's face, and the faces kept changing,
getting smaller and small, as eyes were round full of wonder, changing,
and slowly the vision faded. They all converged into one face,
and Kurt was.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
A baby again, in a crouped hant, fighting for the
right to live a useless life. I've seen ahead, That's
what it was. I know what's in store for him,
and it's all bad steam, not much left sap. In
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a moment, there won't be any let him go. He'll
turn up bad, no good, not worth my tees. It
won't be wrong. Let him go, steam, it's gone. I
won't get the kettle. It isn't wrong. Let him go.
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Oh no, look, wait, don't go. Don't take him on, Please,
don't take him. He's just a little baby. He doesn't
know steam. I'm just take his temperature. Oh I'm afraid.
Crisis temperature one hundred and serious, one hundred and seven.
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Oh no, no, he's gone, he's gone. He's dead. Curt alive,
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Hold on, baby, hold on, got my ways. I held
a thermometer to the light, I raced a both, and
then I looked the mercury stood one hundred and six,
one hundred and five, one hundred and three. You're going
to get well, curd. Tap it to one hundred and one,
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grow strong and handsome. Temperature one hundred and good, Curd,
You're going to be good.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Thanks God, Thank you Martha Scott for a splendid performance.
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Miss Scott will be back in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Billy, would you mind getting me a glass of water?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Dear your own stall a stateful battery man, Billy, sure,
then you'd only need to take a drink three times
a year.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Oh, you men. Can't you talk about anything but that
auto light battery.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Now, look, honey, if you wanted to go downtown tomorrow
morning in the car wouldn't start.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
You'd be pretty mad, wouldn't you.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Why?
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Of course I'd be mad, sure so would anybody.
Speaker 11 (27:44):
That's one reason why we have a stayfoil battery in
our car.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
And listen to this.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yes, friends, auto LIGHTE stainfoil batteries are designed to save
you trouble and care by practically eliminating one of the
major causes of battery failure lack of water. You see
auto LIGHTE stayfoil batteries water only three times a year
in normal car use. And remember, when it comes to
automotive electrical parts, auto light means batteries, stay full batteries.
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Auto light means spark plug, ignition engineered spark plugs. Auto
light means ignition system, the lifeline of your car.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
And now here again is miss Martha Scott.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
It's been a real pleasure to appear on Suspense tonight.
You know I never miss hearing the program whenever possible,
and I'm going to make a special effort to be
at my radio next Thursday night when Van Heflin stars
in a story called Song of the Heart, a gripping
study in suspense.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Miss Martha Scott is currently appearing in the RKAO productions
So Well Remembered. Tonight's suspense play was written by Gwen
and John Bagne, with music composed by Lucian Marwick and
conducted by lud Gluskin. The entire production was under the
direction of Antonym Leader. Next Where's the same time? You
will hear Van Hesslin in the Song of the Heart.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
This is the Auto Light Suspense Show. Drive carefully save
a life. It may be your own. Good night. Switch
to auto light.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
In just a moment suspense with Martha Scott. O.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hey, it's time for the Auto Light radio show. Man,
better wake your dad up.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I know darn well he won't want to miss it, right, Hey, dad,
this will get him Dad? Who makes the stayful batteries?
All and who makes spark plugs and complete ignition systems
for your car?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
All right?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
And what radio show did the auto White people put
on over CBS every Thursday night?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hey, it's time for suspense. Switch on the radio, Billy,
the radio's on, deer, just be quiet and listen.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Suspense.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Auto Light and at sixty thousand dealers in service stations
bring you radio's outstanding theater of thrills, starring tonight Miss
Martha Scott in Anton Leader's production of Crisis a tail
Well calculated to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Missus Norcus, missus norcis.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
It's the doctor, missus norks.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Oh oh coming, I'm sorry, doctor, I fell asleep.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
I told you not to. I warned you.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I couldn't help it.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Let me see the baby.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Huh? How is he? Is he better?
Speaker 7 (02:26):
Well?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Pneumonia's tricky.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And six n long. It's been one hundred and sixty.
If he'd only moves it only cry. Oh doctor, you've
got to do so.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Hold yourself, fasten that cheet down. It's important that you
don't let any of that steam escape.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
All right, It's just that I'm so tired. Wait. Will
the nurse be here?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
But you said that, I've tried everywhere.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
It's the worst epidemic since nineteen eighteen. The hospitals are fool.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
But I can't go on without a nurse.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Well, isn't there someone who can help you?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Some neighbor? There's no one.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
What about your husband? When's he do.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Back two or three days?
Speaker 7 (03:04):
Maybe you better send for him.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You you don't mean the baby.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
Well, you can't keep this up.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
You need help. Oh, I didn't want to worry Paul.
This business trip's so important to him. Besides, I expected
to get a nurse. Why he doesn't even know the
baby's sick.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
You'll have to do it alone. Then, how's the sofa
holding out? Good?
Speaker 8 (03:22):
Now, don't neglect the steam for an instant, Keep up
the warm alcohol sponge bath. Don't leave his side. I'll
try to get back in the morning. And don't sleep.
No matter how tired you get, no matter how you
scream for it, you must not sleep here here, take
these pills. They'll help you.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Thank you, doctor. Doctor is a little Kurt going.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
To make it well that you'll know one way or
the other before morning.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
Oh, crack that temperature tonight and he'll pull through.
Speaker 9 (03:54):
It's the crisis, poor baby, little thin legs.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Kick the covers, Darling, kick them. That's what legs do
for you. Don't want to give up now, Kurt, you're
just beginning. You haven't seen half thereas you've never thrown
a snowball, or hit a home run or gone fishing
with your te Oh, Kurt, Kurt, you should be in
a hospital, not an all made croup tent with a
(04:28):
kettle of steam under your bed, in a hospital with
nurses and white starched uniforms, nurses who are awake, whose
hearts don't break when they look at you. I mustn't
think about it. Steam kettle under the bed, steam to breathe,
(04:49):
another kettle on the stove. Sponge baths every few minutes,
every few minutes, temperature hundreds, temperature one hundred and six,
temperature one hundred and six. How many times I took it,
(05:11):
I don't know. Nothing in the room seemed real and tangible, anymore,
nothing but the steam steam. I watched it hypnotized. Now
it was an eraser on a blackboard, removing today's problems.
Now it was a windshield wiper, pushing aside the rain
(05:33):
so I could see ahead of me. The vision slowly cleared,
and then I saw it a light no six nights,
bright flames. Birthday candles. Six birthday candles on top of
a white cake. Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you.
Speaker 10 (05:53):
Happy birthday, little girl, Happy.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Birthday to you.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Six years old.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You're a big boy now, son, I want my.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Presence, Oh mercenary. Little creature, isn't your Paul?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Okay, here it is.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
All wont don't you dare touch it?
Speaker 10 (06:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
No, look here, Kurt, please Paul. It's his birthday, all right?
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Go ahead and rab it?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Well, Kurt, don't you like it? No white curtain? Nor Chris?
How can you say such a thing after your daddy
bought you a wonderful fire engine? Why didn't you get
me one with one sheet?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
What's wrong with two seats?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
It's got two sheets. You gotta let your mother could
ride with you. But don't you want to share your
fun with your little friends? I don't like nobody to
have fun but me, Kurt.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
You'll come back here.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Let him go, Paul, But just a little boy. You'll
get over it.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Well, I hope so.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Oh. There were more birthdays, but as Kurt grew, a
mounting fear began to grow and meet too. He looked
like a choir boy, but there was something else hiding
back of those innocent eyes. At eight, he forged his
report card. At ten, he stole some things from the
dying store. But the time he showed promise of being
(07:20):
taller than his father. His personality, in spite of everything
we tried to do, was really beginning to frighten us.
You wanted to see me, father.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Ah, yes I did. Your mother and I are very
concerned about you.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Again. Why weren't you in school all week? It bores me?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Where were you? What have you been doing?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Thinking? Just thinking? What about Kurt? What is it you
think about? Is there something bothering you? Yes? Or what
is it?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Son?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
School? I hate it? But you like to read? That's different.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
I read what I like.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I don't like to be told what to do.
Speaker 10 (07:57):
But don't you understand everybody has to be guided and
told what to do?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Sure? I understand, but I don't have to like it,
and I don't like it, Kurt. I'm surprised at you.
Is that all?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Father, Yes, Yes, that's that's all.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I'm disappointed. I thought you were going to beat me.
Why you insta? Yes? Please? Is that one at the door?
What mister Johnson Kurt home? Well? Yes he is? Hello, Paul?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Oh? Fred? Well what is it this time?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Are you going to tell him, Kurt? Or do you
want me to? I don't mind.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
I stole a watch from Evans's jewelry store, a swell
wrist watch.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
A watch, oh, Kurt. We were going to buy you
one for your birthday. You didn't have to steal it.
It was more fun stealing, lots more fun.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
This time, I'll have to take him to juvenile court,
missus Norcott.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
No, Fred, Fred, let let me bring him down. You
go on, I want to.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Talk to him. Paul's face was gray with hurt, his
cheeks sagged, and his eyes were bleak as he turned
to Kurt.
Speaker 10 (09:10):
I didn't want it this way, son, but maybe it's
the only solution. Maybe it'll help straighten me out.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
You're not going to put me in a reform.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
School, Kurturt.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Paul was savage as he ran up the stairs after him.
Kurt slammed the bedroom door in his face, and Paul
flung it open.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
You've had this coming to you for a long time.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Oh no, you don't keep away from me, Curt. Wild
lust was on Kurt's face and the gun was in
his hand, his father's revolver. I knew he'd do it
even before it happened, Kurt. Paul went to limp as
he turned to me with a look of short surprise.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Mary, Paul.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Spence Autolfe is bringing you, Miss Martha Scott in radio's
outstanding theater of thrills Suspense.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Who that didn't wake you up?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Dad?
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Well wake me up.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
I wasn't asleep a while ago. I was just fooling you,
fool and hut. Then tell me what I said just
before suspense turning. Yeah, you asked me who made the
stayfoil battery? Naturally, I said auto light. And when those
autolite people named it the stayfoil battery, they weren't talking
through their hands either. Why that battery needs water only
three times a year? Again, that billy only three times
(10:39):
a year?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Coll What's more, It's fine, dear, but don't you think
you ought to let mister Martin give the commercial.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
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batteries need water only three times a year in normal
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For Autolite's greater liquid reserve practically eliminates one of the
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(11:06):
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Speaker 12 (11:10):
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Speaker 1 (11:12):
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Speaker 7 (11:15):
It means so.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Much to long battery life. And remember, auto light stayfol
batteries need water only three times a year in normal
car use, No doubt about it. Money can't buy a
better battery for your car than auto Light.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
And now Autolite brings back to our Hollywood sound stage.
Miss Martha Scott is merry in crisis, a tail well
calculated to keep you in suspend.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
The visions continue to rise out of the steam clip dods.
I found myself sitting beside Paul's bed. He was out
of danger. Accidental shooting while cleaning a gun. That's what
Paul told the doctor. I wanted to tell the truth
that I wouldn't hurt him any further. No, Kurt didn't
go to the reform school. We hushed that up to lies,
(12:20):
lies suffocating us. We shrank, Paul and I crawled into
our shells, confused, disillusioned, afraid of our only son. But
Kurt grew, and so did his misdemeanors, until he was
a handsome giant with the face of a Viking saint
and no soul at all. The incident with Elaine McGregor
(12:42):
proved that I was transplanting geraniums on the other side
of the hedge. I didn't mean to eavesdrop. What's going
to happen to us?
Speaker 6 (12:51):
I wouldn't know.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Doesn't it make any difference to you? Should it? It's
easy for you, wasn't it. What did you expect? Nothing? Really,
you're in a class by yourself, Kurt. You've got the
heart of the tapeworm, but you're not going to eat
into me. Very pretty speech.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
I didn't know you were so valuable, But uh, what
does it mean?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
It means I'm lucky. I can walk out of your life.
You can't. You've gotta live with yourself. You're rotten, Kurt,
rotten all the way through. You warp everything you touch,
You destroy all the decent things around you. Decent. I
despise you. I thought you loved me madly. You can't
(13:36):
love a snake, you can only be charmed by it.
Speaker 12 (13:39):
Goodbye, darling, mother, you can come out from behind there, Kurt.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
How could you?
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Mother?
Speaker 12 (13:48):
I knew you were there all the time.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I didn't mean that, I mean the way you treated Elane. Oh, Kurt,
maybe marriage would be good for you. Come mother first.
Speaker 12 (13:58):
You want me to get a job, any job.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You wouldn't want me to get married at my age,
would you. I'm just a child, No, Kurt, not you.
You've never been a child. Everything he did seem to
be aimed at hurting someone, and always it pleased him.
And then one day, as suddenly as you turn over
a page, Kurt was different. He slammed the front door
(14:24):
and he was whistling. He was gayer than I'd ever
seen him. Hi, Well, what are you so gay about?
Speaker 12 (14:32):
The proverbial leave has been turned, and you see before
you're a hard working.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Young man, Kurt. You've got a job that's right, mother,
a job at the lumber yard.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Don't be silly.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I'm a banker. A banker, what bank? First National?
Speaker 7 (14:46):
Mister Cox was very nice about the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Your father's bank. Then Paul got you the job.
Speaker 12 (14:52):
You talked like the old man owns the place, he's
just a teller.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Then how did you get the job? I talked to
mister Cox, Curt, what did you tell mister Coxon?
Speaker 12 (15:03):
You should have been their mother? I melted the old
boy's heart. He swallowed the whole thing, swallowed.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
What what did you tell mister Cox?
Speaker 12 (15:11):
Don't get melodramatic, mother. I merely told him that I
had to go to work because we needed the money.
But I liked the idea of working in a bank,
you know, like father likes that.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Oh needed the money? Oh, Kurt, you didn't. You didn't
humiliate your father that way, but you wanted me to
get a job. Kurt. Ever since you've been old enough
to think you've been bad, you caused your father nothing
but heartache. You're aging and draining all the joy out
of his life. And now this this crowning humiliation. But
I'm warning you, Curt, if you cause your father any
(15:44):
more sorrow. If you hurt him just once more, ah.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
I'll kill me robo mother. Now, now let's have the
second act.
Speaker 13 (15:53):
You two feet first time I ever slept him, But
I knew then there would never be any peace for us,
that he would go on and on until there was
nothing left, no honor, no decency, nothing.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
But even I didn't suspect the depth of his malignancy
until Paul was coming up the walk alone. His step
was slow, his back was stooped, and his face was
lined and tortured. I opened the door for him, Paul, Paul,
(16:32):
what's wrong? I've been fired fire after twenty two years.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
There was a shortage this morning. A thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
A thousand. Oh, surely they don't think you took it.
You've handled millions of dollars down there and never touched
a penny of it. How could Kurt took it? Didn't they? Yes,
and you took the blame.
Speaker 10 (16:56):
Not exactly. It's very clever, devilously clever. He worked hard,
he did his work well. I thought I tried to
kid myself anyway that he was outgrowing his badness. It
was all part of a warped scheme. He won the
respect of everyone in the bank and very simply stole
(17:18):
the money and planted the evidence. It led straight to me,
why didn't.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
You tell mister Cox what we've been through, what a
bad boy he is. There are records at juvenile Hall.
We could prove it.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
You know what mister Cox said to me. He said
he wouldn't prosecute because of my wonderful son. My wonderful
son I never had a son. I couldn't look at him, Mary.
When I walked out of the bank, Garvey and cage
One didn't even say goodbye or good luck, or too
bad or anything. He just got suddenly too busy to
(17:50):
look up. He forgot all about the months we lay
in the mud together at Taro and the Navy crosses.
We won him the same day. Garby was too busy
to look up. I couldn't tell him the truth. I'm
not strong like you, Mary, I can't take it any more.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
He was looking at me, but he didn't see me.
His eyes were covered with a film of tears, and
he turned and staggered out of the house. He walked
like he was drunk. Yes, that's what he was, drunk
with despair. He got in the car. I wanted to
(18:36):
go to him, to hold him in my arms, but
I couldn't. I was a frozener. Carl lurched away from
the curb, skidded around the corner. It was like a
mad man. I wasn't surprised when they called me from
the hospital reckless driving. They said accidental death, but I
(19:01):
called it something else. I called it murder. At that moment,
I died too. Oh. I went through the motions of
living the cemetery and after I kept on, not counting
the day's coming or going, And one day I realized
(19:25):
Kurt was twenty five, a man, a handsome, ruthless man.
We lived in the same house, but we had nothing
to do with each other until one November afternoon. I
was in the kitchen making an apple pie. It had
always been Paul's favorite. Suddenly the room was throbbing with
(19:46):
Paul's presence. Paul. I dropped the knife on the floor
and ran up the stairs into my bedroom, mine and Paul's.
I was wild, out of my mind. I turned about
the room everywhere, searching. I needed him terribly. I could
feel his preser, yet it wasn't enough. It had to
be something tangible, something I could touch. And then I
remembered the navy cross and the purple heart. They were his,
(20:08):
they were part of him. I pulled out the shirt
drawer and threw his shirts on the bed. The purple
heart was there, and it satin line box, but the
Navy cross was gone. Oh, Paul, Paul. The room was dark.
(20:39):
I lay there for quite a while. I had no
reason to get up. Kurt was home. I tidied the
bed and spread it up, ran a comb through my hair.
I walked along the hallway to his room.
Speaker 12 (20:58):
Yeah, you want something.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
I'm in a hurry.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yes, I do want something. Your father's navy cross. Where
is it? Oh that?
Speaker 12 (21:07):
I was holding three aces when I ran into a strait.
Jack Carnes said he'd take the cross and.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
Liew of five bucks. How do you like a.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Guy like that?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I looked at Kurt for a long time. Then I
walked away. It didn't matter. Nothing mattered, not that day
or any other day, not even later. When the policeman
came to the door.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I have a warrant for the arrest of Kurt Norquist.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
On what charge?
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Murder?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
It was a colorful trial, murder in the first degree.
The front pages were blushed with it. Little shop girls
hurried to buy the evening editions with the sordid testimony
to read on their way home from work. I went
to the truck every day and listened with this strange
sense of unreality. Sure I killed him. All I could
(22:08):
think was that flashing, handsome young man up there admitting
to murder and worse is my son? No? I didn't
hate him.
Speaker 12 (22:16):
I didn't even know him very well.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
And why don't I feel anything?
Speaker 7 (22:20):
I just wanted to see what it was like, that's all.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Why don't I shudder with disgrace? Why don't I crawl
off into a corner and die?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
What for? He's dead, isn't The trial went on for days,
and Kurt was unmoved, insolent, triumphant, almost even as his
wretched soul made ready for that lethal chamber. He was
untouched in there, madam, five minutes, thank you well? Hello mother, mother?
(22:52):
Oh yes I am your mother.
Speaker 12 (22:55):
Huh oh you brought me some cigarettes? Thanks well. I
wonder what it's going to be like? What you know
that last mile? I'm a queer guy, all right. I
(23:17):
don't feel sorry about anything. As a matter of fact,
I don't feel anything at all, never did, except that
maybe this is a good smoke.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Now. I looked deeply into his face, beyond the pale
blue eyes, into the black soul. I gave him life,
but I couldn't give him honor.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Yet.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Hailed smoke came out of his mouth and nose and
spun around him, enveloping his face, framing it in a
circle of fog. Then he smiled, not the smile of
a murderer, more the slow, wistful smile of a small boy.
And abruptly his face was changed. I've been here before.
(24:06):
I watched the smoke rings as they billowed upward. I
couldn't take my eyes off them. And each smoke ring.
Speaker 14 (24:12):
Was a face, Kurt's face, and the faces kept changing,
getting smaller and small, as eyes were round full of wonder, changing,
and slowly the vision faded. They all converged into one face,
and Kurt was.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
A baby again, in a crouped hant, fighting for the
right to live a useless life. I've seen ahead, That's
what it was. I know what's in store for him,
and it's all bad steam, not much left sap. In
(24:59):
a moment, there won't be any let him go. He'll
turn up bad, no good, not worth my tees. It
won't be wrong. Let him go, steam, it's gone. I
won't get the kettle. It isn't wrong. Let him go.
(25:27):
Oh no, look, wait, don't go. Don't take him on, Please,
don't take him. He's just a little baby. He doesn't
know steam. I'm just take his temperature. Oh I'm afraid.
Crisis temperature one hundred and serious, one hundred and seven.
(25:57):
Oh no, no, he's gone, he's gone. He's dead. Curt alive,
(26:25):
Hold on, baby, hold on, got my ways. I held
a thermometer to the light, I raced a both, and
then I looked the mercury stood one hundred and six,
one hundred and five, one hundred and three. You're going
to get well, curd. Tap it to one hundred and one,
(26:46):
grow strong and handsome. Temperature one hundred and good, Curd,
You're going to be good.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Thanks God, Thank you Martha Scott for a splendid performance.
(27:20):
Miss Scott will be back in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Billy, would you mind getting me a glass of water?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Dear your own stall a stateful battery man, Billy, sure,
then you'd only need to take a drink three times
a year.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Oh, you men. Can't you talk about anything but that
auto light battery.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Now, look, honey, if you wanted to go downtown tomorrow
morning in the car wouldn't start.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
You'd be pretty mad, wouldn't you.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Why?
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Of course I'd be mad, sure so would anybody.
Speaker 11 (27:44):
That's one reason why we have a stayfoil battery in
our car.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
And listen to this.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yes, friends, auto LIGHTE stainfoil batteries are designed to save
you trouble and care by practically eliminating one of the
major causes of battery failure lack of water. You see
auto LIGHTE stayfoil batteries water only three times a year
in normal car use. And remember, when it comes to
automotive electrical parts, auto light means batteries, stay full batteries.
(28:11):
Auto light means spark plug, ignition engineered spark plugs. Auto
light means ignition system, the lifeline of your car.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
And now here again is miss Martha Scott.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
It's been a real pleasure to appear on Suspense tonight.
You know I never miss hearing the program whenever possible,
and I'm going to make a special effort to be
at my radio next Thursday night when Van Heflin stars
in a story called Song of the Heart, a gripping
study in suspense.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Miss Martha Scott is currently appearing in the RKAO productions
So Well Remembered. Tonight's suspense play was written by Gwen
and John Bagne, with music composed by Lucian Marwick and
conducted by lud Gluskin. The entire production was under the
direction of Antonym Leader. Next Where's the same time? You
will hear Van Hesslin in the Song of the Heart.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
This is the Auto Light Suspense Show. Drive carefully save
a life. It may be your own. Good night. Switch
to auto light.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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