July 30, 2025 • 29 mins
Please enjoy Summer Night a great episode of the legendary Suspense - Old Time Radio show OTR - a Old Time Radio OTR classic.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In just a moment Suspense with Idle Lapino.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Sure, what a night he had to scorch. Your dad
so lucky.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
We thought of coming to the firehouse, and we had
to sit around at that hen party.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Your mother's giving a Hello mane Hello.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I say, you fellas want to put out a fire tonight.
All you've got to do is turn those is on
and squirt them anywhere. Yep, it's a hundred and eighties.
We're all sitting here listening to the radio.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Dad, I wonder if they're listening to the Auto Light show.
What are you hearing?
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Mine?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
We're just switching to Auto Light.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Besides, we like their batteries, spark plugs and ignition systems
around here. Everyone does, and everyone likes their show Suspense.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Oh here's the show.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Suspend Auto Light, and it's sixty thousand dealers in self.
The stations bring you radios.
Speaker 6 (00:59):
Outstanding theater of thrills, starring Tonight Miss Idolopino in a
tale well calculated to keep you.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
In today everybody switching to Auto Light and Tonight Auto
Light takes pleasure in presenting.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
An done leader's production of Ray Bradbury's remarkable story Summer
Night starring miss Ida Lupino.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Is the line still busy? I just don't see how
it's still.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
It isn't the line, Miss McCauley, it's the circus. I've
been simply swamped all afternoon. I haven't been able to
get a call through to the police station.
Speaker 8 (01:53):
For over an hour, and the Mayor's office.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Has been bus yet. I Knowah, I'm sorry to trouble you,
but it's terribly important.
Speaker 8 (01:58):
Well, if you want to hang on I Miss McCauley,
I'll try again in a minute.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
All right.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
It's been this way ever since the news got out
about finding Pool Lavinia.
Speaker 9 (02:06):
You heard about it, I suppose, yes.
Speaker 8 (02:08):
Oh, just a minute, Ms McAuley, I got another call. Yeah,
this is the operator.
Speaker 9 (02:14):
No, I'm sorry that line is so busy.
Speaker 8 (02:17):
Yes, I'll call you just as soon as I can give.
Speaker 9 (02:19):
You a connection.
Speaker 8 (02:21):
Oh, I'm sorry, Miss McCauley, but you see what I mean.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Oh, oh, Miss Welsh.
Speaker 8 (02:26):
By the way, last week when I found that other.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
Full girl, But this time the whole town is on
his ear and I can't say that I blame them
up with a maniac loose and nobody.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Knowing who I meant to ask you missus Welsh. Are
they sure of that lavinia? I mean that it was
the same thing as the web girl last week? Why?
Speaker 9 (02:42):
Yes, why I thought you knew.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I just knew she'd been found.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
Oh goodness, yes, there was never any doubt about it.
Speaker 9 (02:50):
Whoever it was, he used a knife, just like on
the other girl.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
And then there was that same crazy cross in a forage,
you know, made with orange lipstick. That's why they're calling him,
you know, the lips the killer.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Oh yes, as I thought it must be bad, but
I wasn't sure. I didn't know.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Oh yes, they're looking all over the state forms by now,
but of course they don't have much to go on.
Speaker 8 (03:10):
And the chances are that he's right here in this
town anymore.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (03:14):
I'll try to get your call for you now, Mis mccaully.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
I'm sorry, Miss McCauley. That circuit is still busy.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I didn't cat.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Well, why don't I call you back when I get through.
It shouldn't be very long.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
All right, but please try to hurry it. It's really important,
terribly important. While I was waiting for the call, went
to the front door to start locking up. It was
coming on evening, a warm summer evening. Ordinarily, up and
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down the street, the windows would be open, all but mine,
and you'd hear the sound of a piano or a
radio drifting out onto the still summer air, and people
would be sitting swings and hamlets on their front porches,
enjoying the coolness at the end of the day. But
not on this day, not this evening. I locked my
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door too. I went around the big, gloomy old house,
checking all the windows, just like the others. Not that
I needed too. Really, they'd been locked ever since father
died and he went away all in that one terrible
week nearly four years ago. Yes, they've been locked, and
I haven't left the house more than a half a
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dozen times, and nobody, nobody had come here. Why should they.
I didn't want to see them, not they me. I
was the town's queer one. But all that was going
to be different now. From now on, everything was going
to be very, very different. Yes, your party.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Now, Miss McAuley, go ahead, Hello, Oh Helen, is that you?
Speaker 9 (05:05):
Yes? Who's this?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
It's an Anna McCauley.
Speaker 9 (05:09):
Why am I What a surprise?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
How have you been Helen?
Speaker 9 (05:13):
Oh? Just fine, you know, there's nothing else the matter
with me. But how are you?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Oh, I'm well, you know I've been living rather quietly
these last few years.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
Yes, I I know.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I mean I've heard it's been a long time, heasant
is Helen? Why?
Speaker 9 (05:28):
Yes, I haven't heard your voice for well, how long
has it been?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Nearly four years? Has it three years and eleven months
this week? To be exact, that long?
Speaker 9 (05:39):
Has it? Well, it doesn't seem possible.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
And we were such good friends.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Helen, Helen, I hope you don't. I mean, those last
few times you call and I didn't answer, Oh, darling,
of course not.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
I knew how you must be suffering your father passing
on so suddenly that way, and you'd always been so close.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
I wouldn't have even bothered you at such a time.
Only that we've been such good friends.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
I thought maybe I could help.
Speaker 9 (06:01):
And then of course I heard later anyway.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
That well that is I Yes, I suppose you must
have heard some rather strange things about me, Helen.
Speaker 9 (06:09):
Oh, not strange, dear, No, But we all knew you
wanted to be alone in your grief, and we respected
that feeling natural.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I know, but sometimes I've been afraid people didn't quite
understand though.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
Of course they did. Well, Darling, now that you're back
in the world again, so to speak, you must come
over and see me.
Speaker 8 (06:27):
I'm staying with my mother now, but.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
You know that anywhere, Yes, Helen, Yes, dear.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Helen, it wasn't just an accident. My calling in this way, well,
I should hope. Now I want to ask you a favor,
a tremendous favor.
Speaker 9 (06:39):
Why, of course, Darling, anything.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
I want you to come over here to the house,
I should say I would.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
I'll try to make it Friday or early next week
of the latest justice.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
No, I don't mean just sometime, Helen, I mean no,
right now, write this minute now.
Speaker 9 (06:55):
Yes, but Darling, I don't see how I can.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I'm I don't know what mother's pat Helen, Helen. You
know I wouldn't ask if it wasn't serious.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Serious?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
What you please? Please say you'll come? Well, I'll try.
Don't just try, Helen. Come, You've got to come.
Speaker 9 (07:13):
Oh, Darling, what is this? What can be so serious?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Maybe I'm being silly, but I think it's more than serious, Helen.
I think it may be a matter of life and.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Death or suspense.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Auto light is bringing you Miss Idolopino In summer night
Audo Light's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, suspense,
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Speaker 10 (08:00):
Sure get a kick out of this and you're Outworkly
we'll leave home because she's got the house full of
women in so far they're on anything but women in
Tonight's Auto Light Show.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Whoever, if she's listening, we'll certainly hear about it when
we get home from the firehouse.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Oh, say, Mike, what's over on that workbench?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
But over there, Oh, them's old batteries. We're replacing them
with new waterlighte stainfoles.
Speaker 10 (08:19):
When spark plugs, that's that's stutters when you battery put putters.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
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Speaker 1 (08:24):
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Speaker 3 (08:35):
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Speaker 1 (08:49):
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Speaker 3 (09:03):
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Speaker 10 (09:05):
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Speaker 3 (09:40):
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Speaker 6 (09:45):
Miss idel Apino as ana in summer night, a tail
well calculated to keep you in suspend.
Speaker 11 (09:54):
Now a matter of life and death.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I told her. I knew Helen would come to see
me after that. It would be strange seeing her again,
not that we'd ever quanelled. She never even suspected of course,
But after that day, when he went away with her,
I'd simply put her out of my life and never
thought of her again. I would, to be strictly truthful,
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I'd thought of her a great deal. It's in a
rather different way than I had before, when she'd been
my best friends. And now she was coming to my
house again after all these years. It should be interesting,
quite like a surprise party for both of us. Anna Dog, Helen, Helen, Oh,
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it's so nice to see. It's good to see you again, Helen.
Speaker 12 (11:04):
Why you haven't changed a bit? You don't look a
gay older. Now tell me all about it. I can't
stay but a few minutes. Ted Barton drove me I'll
be you remember it, and he's.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Got to be back before seven.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
But never mind that, now, Darling, What.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Is the matter, Helen. I'm frightened, frightened of what. I'm afraid.
I'm going to be killed, going to kill this tonight.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
But don't see.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I used to know Pulavinia. I used to know her
quite well. And the other girl I didn't know her,
but it happened to her right near here in the
little woods. Just be on the track, Anna, please, dear,
what on earth makes you think anything like that could
happen to you. You're perfectly safe if you don't go
out lock the door. No, I'm not. I'm all alone
here to Helen. And there's been someone prolling at night.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Ahmeh.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Last night he tried to get in. Are you sure?
I heard him trying the doors, the windows? What did
you call the pro I was afraid to, oh, Helen.
I didn't know who to turn to.
Speaker 10 (11:56):
But you.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Everyone thinks I'm anyway Anna, dear, that's ridiculous. Well we'll
call them one. No, it'll be all right out of
the night. I know it will. Please. I just want
you to stay with me tonight. Stay, please, Helen, just
this one night. I can't ask anyone else. I don't
have any friends anymore, but Darling, I don't even have
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any nightclubs. Oh, I'd already thought of that, Helen. I
have everything you need for tonight.
Speaker 12 (12:24):
I don't have anything for the morning, No days cream.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
Not even if I worry about that.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Now, maybe neither of us will even be here by morning.
So she said she'd stay, went out and told Ted Barton.
Ted Barton, it was typical of Helen. Only two weeks
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back from Cleveland, and already she had the county's most
eligible bachelor squiring her around in his car. But that
was going to be different too. I fixed a little
supper for both of us, and then we tried all
the doors and windows, and then there was nothing to
do but sit and talk to her until it was
time to go to bed. Anna, no more. Thanks. You
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afraid it. We'll give you awake, Helen, I'm afraid I
won't need coffee to keep me awake. Anna? Is it true?
I mean what they say about these murders? Is what true?
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Well?
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I mean you've been out in the world, Helen, more
than I have lately. You should know more than I.
All I meant was, well, you seem so frightened.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I thought you might have heard something something Stashal Is.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
It true about the lipstick? Why not? Oh, it sounds
so crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I thought it might be just something the newspaper's made up.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
There was a cross on there for it's in lipstick
orange lipstick. Anna, you do know something. Don't be ridiculous, Helen.
How could I but lipstick?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Anna?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Do you suppose perhaps it isn't a.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Man at all, it's a woman.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Sorry, did did I do that? I know? Well, come on, Helen,
it's time to go to bed. Oh yes, I suppose
we might as well own mind sleeping in the same
room with me.
Speaker 9 (14:08):
Do you?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Why?
Speaker 12 (14:09):
Of course not, dear, Oh shouldn't you leave on a
light down there?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
No, it didn't do any good last night. Oh, I
must say, I don't blame you for being a little
frightened staying here all alone rather a gloomy old place,
isn't it. Oh, I don't think so. It's always been
like this. It's the way father liked it. What about
your mother? I hated my mother. Oh, well it's true.
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Why not say it's not your wrong mom? What does
that matter? Everyone has to have someone to hate, Helen,
and not to kill them sometimes.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Oh and I don't think that's true.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
How can you say that every Well, this is our room.
Speaker 12 (14:47):
Why it's it's what it's sharing.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
It's so I mean, it's so different from the rest
of the house. This this was to be my bridal
room married Darling.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I didn't know you'd ever for it was a long
time ago. What's the news of Charles? Charles?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
But it just isn't any you knew we were separated.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Didn't you. Yes, what was the trouble, Helen?
Speaker 9 (15:15):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 12 (15:16):
After the first year, he simply became impossible, that's all.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
You will remember it. As a child, he was sometimes wild, strange.
Oh yes, yes, he and I were always the queer one.
Why whatever do you mean, strange? Different, little apart from
all of you, somehow not quite right.
Speaker 12 (15:34):
I think they say about me now, Oh Anna, you're
imagining that.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
No one ever said such a thing though, of course not.
What about Charles? Nothing? He just left, that's all.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I haven't even heard from him in six months.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Are you sure it was all his fault, Helen? Perhaps
if he married someone else? Oh you know, there was
never anyone else for Charles. That's the funny part of it.
Of course he liked other girls.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
He liked you.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yes, why you said me lucky.
Speaker 12 (16:03):
He didn't marry you. I don't know what happened towards
the end, just went from bad to worse. It got
so I hated the very sight of him.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
I told you everyone had to have someone to hate.
I didn't really mean. Are you sure, Helen, haven't you
ever hated anyone?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Perhaps it's a little girl. I thought I do hated me,
didn't you? Why?
Speaker 13 (16:23):
Darling?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
And I know I ever, there were sometimes when I
hated you too. Oh, I don't believe that children can't
really be when an ugly little girl like me sees
a pretty little girl like you getting everything she wants
all through her life, well, not exactly everything, but always
twist the teachers around your finger. Later it was the
same with the boys. Finally, Charles, just because you were pretty.
Speaker 12 (16:46):
Oh maybe I was a little prettier than you, dear,
but you were always a clever one.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Is Yes, I was a clever one. I suppose we
really should go to bed. Why Anna, look at this.
I didn't know you used. I don't. It's just one
of the young cousin of mine lived here several months ago.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Oh that's funny.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Do you know what color it is?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Anna?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
What color is it? Helen?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
It's orange?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
No, Helen wasn't very clever. It amused me to watch
her trying to think putting tool and tool together and
not being able to because she was afraid of her
own conclusions, because she was essentially a hypocrite like everyone else.
If she hadn't been, it might have saved her life.
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It was some time in the middle of the night.
I don't know exactly what time, because it didn't matter
that Helen was sleeping as soundly as a silly child
when I went over to the side of her bed
and began shaking Helen, Helen, we can't how what is this?
Don't make a sound, Hannah? What's that? He's in the
house downstairs? I don't know whoever it was last night
he's gotten in somehow are you sure I heard him
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listening to the last ten minutes? Oh?
Speaker 12 (18:12):
Emma?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
What are we going to do to get out of
the house before he starts upstairs? But how can we
heal here? As weell be called? We'll go down the
backstairs and out through the kitchen. We can go through
the bat over the tracks to Judge Brown's house. It's
not far, but we've got to hurry, Hon, I'm frightened.
What if he won't if we're careful, and if we
hurry the door between the kitchen in the front of
the house is lost. Why are you sure he isn't
in the kid up front?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Ey, Tad?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Do I heard him? Not get up with them? We've
got to go right now, all right? For my hand? Yes,
while I am not at the door of the backstairs.
Adjust to the right. After we get out in the hall, Anne,
come along, hold onto my hand and try not to
make any lay here the stairs.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Just follow me.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
He's all right, what that's the last time? Yes, I
got it him in the kitchen. Now can you see anything? No,
it's too dark. I can right there where you are
and where are you feel There's something I want to
get before we leave. What are you doing? I got it? Now?
The life here to take my hand again? All right?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I wish this way.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
I don't think I can for a minute to come along, Helen.
It's a little while. It'll all be over as we
had it down the path. I kept thinking of her
there behind me, so frightened now I had to keep
myself for laughing out loud. It was really funny. She'd
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always been so confident before at school and later at
the parties we used to go to. She'd been the
confident one, and I had been frightened while she slowly
poisoned my life, while she quietly and demilately stole everything
I'd never wanted, even Charles. But it was different now.
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That must be the two o'clock Local and they had
a side of town. Here's which way now straight ahead,
that's the grove of trees. Hannah isn't here somewhere that
they found? That girl is? Bye? Anna? I can't, I
can't go through the Helen, come along. Don't be silly.
Do we have to what we do? An? What was that?
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Didn't you hear it? No? I would posit if I
heard something? Now, who's imagining things? Let's no, we're going
to stop here?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Stop Bye?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Why can't you guess? Even now? Helen?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Oh Anna?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
No yah, she didn't make a song. I think she'd
fainted even before I struck. She died without even realizing
why I did it. I made the cross on the
forehead for the orange lipstick, and seemed such a silly
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thing as I was doing it, but of course I
had to. And then I I dragged the body of
the path and started home at the really road tracks,
I turned themself a few yards to where they crossed
the river, and passed the knife and the lipstick over
the bridge and watched them disappear into the muddy stream below.
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Thought that it was really necessary. No one would ever
think of questioning me.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
They would, all, of.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Course assume that the lipstick killer had struck again. And
then suddenly my heart was in my moss. From the
path ahead of me, cousin sharply across me the night
was a shadow, the shadow of a man.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Can I help you? I didn't mean to frighten you.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
I just thought you must be in some kind of
trouble to the other.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Oh Anna, Anna McCauley.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Charles, Oh, Charles, you did frighten me.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Tell you insist in running around down at two am
and your night, Charles Jols.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
This really too much of a coincidence. I didn't know
you were anywhere near Boom Center.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Theoretically, I'm not just passing through a business trip, mister
two am local. So I thought i'd kill the time
waiting for the milk train by looking at the old
berg over again.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
What's your alibi?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
R Oh, Well, that's what I meant about a coincidence.
I was looking for Helen.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
For Helen.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
I wonder your surprise, Charles. It's really very simple. First
they were these, Well what the newspapers have been calling
the lipstick murders. I suppose you've heard about it.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I've read something about it.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Well, I suppose I was silly but I got terribly
nervous living alone in that big house. I asked Helen
to stay with me, and then in the middle of
the night she got frightened and said she could staying
up a middlee and rushed out to Judge Brown's house.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
How typical of hell?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Yeah, well, then I've tried to thought about it. I
got worried about room, went to look for her. But
I guess you must have gotten there all right. I
didn't find her anywhere.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
You're not alone in that big house, now, are you anna?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Well?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Yes, I thought you knew Charles my father died. Oh
I'd forgotten. Well, silly to be standing here, isn't it.
You've got to wait for train. Why don't you come
back to the house with me. I'll fix you some
coffee or something. Wouldn't that be nicer?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yes, that would be nice.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
That would be very nice. My good hardly believe my
good luck. Charles of old people. And it was as
though he come back to me, almost as though he
had home and come back to me just at the
right moment, so very well, taking coffee in the kitchen,
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talking over old times. Oh dear, where is that opener
should be evaporated no time.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
If I can't find it, Oh, yeah, I'll open it
with my knife, just make a couple of holes in it.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Nah.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Isn't that a rather dangerous weapon to carry around just
to make holes in tin cans? Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
It has other uses?
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Yeah, there we are.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Uh that tastes good.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
M Charles. I was terribly sorry to hear about you
and Helen.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Me and Helen.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
But you separated?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I mean, is that what you call it?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Well, she said that you'd left her.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Helen always had a quaint way of putting things.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Didn't you You don't still love her?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Do you love her?
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Hm?
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Didn't she tell you where i'd been?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
I know it's exactly. I've been in a hall man
a rest home as they call it.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Cause Helen will put me there.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Put you there.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
I'm afraid. Committed is the word.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
See. Helen thought I was crazy. Oh, Charles, I.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Only got out a couple of weeks ago. I imagine
they're still looking for me.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
You escaped. I had to, Oh, Charles, how dreadful for you.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
As a matter of fact, I've been looking for Helen.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
It was something I wanted to give her.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
But couldn't you find No? I thought I had a
couple of times, but it wasn't Helen. After all, what
was it you wanted to give her?
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Charles? This lipstick?
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Yes, a frightful color, isn't it orange?
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Are you sure you're not Helen? I heard the doctors
talking a little while ago. They say, I will live
through night, but I don't care. Oh, it's been such
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a glorious day happy. Since I can remember, people have
been calling on me whom I hadn't seen. Begins, I say,
I saved the town. I must have screamed, I don't remember.
So they caught toward Charles, and for the first time
in my life, I'm a really important person. I wonder
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when they'll find Helen.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Thank you Ida Lupino for a splendid performance on.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
So spend.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
In just a moment, we will again hear from its
idea Lupino.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Gee, what show? I was sweating and it wasn't from
the heat either. Got a show, cle that's what she got?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
A fire on the way, So where's the farm?
Speaker 13 (27:07):
Right away?
Speaker 3 (27:13):
They were out of hearing seven.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Seconds, almost before they stepped on this charterer.
Speaker 10 (27:17):
I sure wasn't going about those auto light stainful batteries,
was he? Then no shirt, talk about pistol packing action,
switch to auto light, stainfuls and boy you got.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
When your sparks, that's that's daughter.
Speaker 13 (27:29):
Not on to drive fu, but butter.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
To auto light.
Speaker 13 (27:36):
When starters just the grinder. Why it's a battery reminder,
Switch to auto light. Let you keep your auto right.
Just switch to auto lights A U T O L
I T you switch to auto light or spark blug
life and action for a battery whose attraction is ignition
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status action which to honor life?
Speaker 3 (28:06):
And now here again is miss Ida Lupino.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
It's always a great pleasure to appear on suspense, and
as a listener, I'm looking forward to some outstanding programs
on this new suspense series with stars like Charles Lawton,
Agnes Moorehead Van Johnson, Madeline Carroll, and Nan Southern. And
next week I'll be tuned in to hear Doctor Fairbanks
Junior in a gripping suspense story entitled Deep into Darkness.
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I know you'll want to hear it too.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
On Suspense.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Ida Lupino may soon be seen in del Leaf Stanek's
twentieth century post production roadhouse. Tonight's suspense play was written
by Robert l. Richards from an original story by Ray Bradbury.
The music was composed by Lucian Marlick.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I'm conducted by Lud Bluskin.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
The entire production was under the direction of Anton M.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Leader.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Douglas Fairbanks Junior
in Deep Into Darkness THISSS CBS, Columbia Broadcasting System
Speaker 4 (29:14):
M
In just a moment Suspense with Idle Lapino.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Sure, what a night he had to scorch. Your dad
so lucky.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
We thought of coming to the firehouse, and we had
to sit around at that hen party.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Your mother's giving a Hello mane Hello.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I say, you fellas want to put out a fire tonight.
All you've got to do is turn those is on
and squirt them anywhere. Yep, it's a hundred and eighties.
We're all sitting here listening to the radio.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Dad, I wonder if they're listening to the Auto Light show.
What are you hearing?
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Mine?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
We're just switching to Auto Light.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Besides, we like their batteries, spark plugs and ignition systems
around here. Everyone does, and everyone likes their show Suspense.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Oh here's the show.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Suspend Auto Light, and it's sixty thousand dealers in self.
The stations bring you radios.
Speaker 6 (00:59):
Outstanding theater of thrills, starring Tonight Miss Idolopino in a
tale well calculated to keep you.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
In today everybody switching to Auto Light and Tonight Auto
Light takes pleasure in presenting.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
An done leader's production of Ray Bradbury's remarkable story Summer
Night starring miss Ida Lupino.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Is the line still busy? I just don't see how
it's still.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
It isn't the line, Miss McCauley, it's the circus. I've
been simply swamped all afternoon. I haven't been able to
get a call through to the police station.
Speaker 8 (01:53):
For over an hour, and the Mayor's office.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Has been bus yet. I Knowah, I'm sorry to trouble you,
but it's terribly important.
Speaker 8 (01:58):
Well, if you want to hang on I Miss McCauley,
I'll try again in a minute.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
All right.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
It's been this way ever since the news got out
about finding Pool Lavinia.
Speaker 9 (02:06):
You heard about it, I suppose, yes.
Speaker 8 (02:08):
Oh, just a minute, Ms McAuley, I got another call. Yeah,
this is the operator.
Speaker 9 (02:14):
No, I'm sorry that line is so busy.
Speaker 8 (02:17):
Yes, I'll call you just as soon as I can give.
Speaker 9 (02:19):
You a connection.
Speaker 8 (02:21):
Oh, I'm sorry, Miss McCauley, but you see what I mean.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Oh, oh, Miss Welsh.
Speaker 8 (02:26):
By the way, last week when I found that other.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
Full girl, But this time the whole town is on
his ear and I can't say that I blame them
up with a maniac loose and nobody.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Knowing who I meant to ask you missus Welsh. Are
they sure of that lavinia? I mean that it was
the same thing as the web girl last week? Why?
Speaker 9 (02:42):
Yes, why I thought you knew.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I just knew she'd been found.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
Oh goodness, yes, there was never any doubt about it.
Speaker 9 (02:50):
Whoever it was, he used a knife, just like on
the other girl.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
And then there was that same crazy cross in a forage,
you know, made with orange lipstick. That's why they're calling him,
you know, the lips the killer.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Oh yes, as I thought it must be bad, but
I wasn't sure. I didn't know.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Oh yes, they're looking all over the state forms by now,
but of course they don't have much to go on.
Speaker 8 (03:10):
And the chances are that he's right here in this
town anymore.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (03:14):
I'll try to get your call for you now, Mis mccaully.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
I'm sorry, Miss McCauley. That circuit is still busy.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I didn't cat.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Well, why don't I call you back when I get through.
It shouldn't be very long.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
All right, but please try to hurry it. It's really important,
terribly important. While I was waiting for the call, went
to the front door to start locking up. It was
coming on evening, a warm summer evening. Ordinarily, up and
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down the street, the windows would be open, all but mine,
and you'd hear the sound of a piano or a
radio drifting out onto the still summer air, and people
would be sitting swings and hamlets on their front porches,
enjoying the coolness at the end of the day. But
not on this day, not this evening. I locked my
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door too. I went around the big, gloomy old house,
checking all the windows, just like the others. Not that
I needed too. Really, they'd been locked ever since father
died and he went away all in that one terrible
week nearly four years ago. Yes, they've been locked, and
I haven't left the house more than a half a
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dozen times, and nobody, nobody had come here. Why should they.
I didn't want to see them, not they me. I
was the town's queer one. But all that was going
to be different now. From now on, everything was going
to be very, very different. Yes, your party.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Now, Miss McAuley, go ahead, Hello, Oh Helen, is that you?
Speaker 9 (05:05):
Yes? Who's this?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
It's an Anna McCauley.
Speaker 9 (05:09):
Why am I What a surprise?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
How have you been Helen?
Speaker 9 (05:13):
Oh? Just fine, you know, there's nothing else the matter
with me. But how are you?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Oh, I'm well, you know I've been living rather quietly
these last few years.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
Yes, I I know.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I mean I've heard it's been a long time, heasant
is Helen? Why?
Speaker 9 (05:28):
Yes, I haven't heard your voice for well, how long
has it been?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Nearly four years? Has it three years and eleven months
this week? To be exact, that long?
Speaker 9 (05:39):
Has it? Well, it doesn't seem possible.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
And we were such good friends.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Helen, Helen, I hope you don't. I mean, those last
few times you call and I didn't answer, Oh, darling,
of course not.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
I knew how you must be suffering your father passing
on so suddenly that way, and you'd always been so close.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
I wouldn't have even bothered you at such a time.
Only that we've been such good friends.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
I thought maybe I could help.
Speaker 9 (06:01):
And then of course I heard later anyway.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
That well that is I Yes, I suppose you must
have heard some rather strange things about me, Helen.
Speaker 9 (06:09):
Oh, not strange, dear, No, But we all knew you
wanted to be alone in your grief, and we respected
that feeling natural.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I know, but sometimes I've been afraid people didn't quite
understand though.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
Of course they did. Well, Darling, now that you're back
in the world again, so to speak, you must come
over and see me.
Speaker 8 (06:27):
I'm staying with my mother now, but.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
You know that anywhere, Yes, Helen, Yes, dear.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Helen, it wasn't just an accident. My calling in this way, well,
I should hope. Now I want to ask you a favor,
a tremendous favor.
Speaker 9 (06:39):
Why, of course, Darling, anything.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
I want you to come over here to the house,
I should say I would.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
I'll try to make it Friday or early next week
of the latest justice.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
No, I don't mean just sometime, Helen, I mean no,
right now, write this minute now.
Speaker 9 (06:55):
Yes, but Darling, I don't see how I can.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I'm I don't know what mother's pat Helen, Helen. You
know I wouldn't ask if it wasn't serious.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Serious?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
What you please? Please say you'll come? Well, I'll try.
Don't just try, Helen. Come, You've got to come.
Speaker 9 (07:13):
Oh, Darling, what is this? What can be so serious?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Maybe I'm being silly, but I think it's more than serious, Helen.
I think it may be a matter of life and.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Death or suspense.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Auto light is bringing you Miss Idolopino In summer night
Audo Light's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, suspense,
you know, dead, I'm mam ma.
Speaker 10 (08:00):
Sure get a kick out of this and you're Outworkly
we'll leave home because she's got the house full of
women in so far they're on anything but women in
Tonight's Auto Light Show.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Whoever, if she's listening, we'll certainly hear about it when
we get home from the firehouse.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Oh, say, Mike, what's over on that workbench?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
But over there, Oh, them's old batteries. We're replacing them
with new waterlighte stainfoles.
Speaker 10 (08:19):
When spark plugs, that's that's stutters when you battery put putters.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Switch and aural light.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Amke, No, No, We've been using allal life for over
ten years now, you know. And you got to get
out of here in seven seconds after the alarm sounds.
You've got to have the surest, safest batteries there are.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
When we gotta go, we go.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yes, the new autolite stapole battery is a great battery
needs water only three times a year in normal car use.
This greater liquid reserve practically eliminates one of the major.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Causes of battery failure.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Car owners tell us it's the greatest battery ever built,
The greatest battery ever built. Money cannot buy a better
battery for your car. That's real battery. No how water
goes into an autolite stafhole, it's like going into a cannel.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
But drinks are few and far between.
Speaker 10 (09:05):
Yeah, and even a knight's as hot as this. You
don't find the autolite staphole at an old Locan bucket.
So friends, see your friendly neighborhood auto light battery dealer
and order the new autolite stafole battery for your car.
It needs water only three times a year in normal
car use. Remember, folks, auto light beats battery, stay pole battery,
auto light beat, spot plug, ignition engineer, spot plug, auto
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light beat madition, a lifeline on your car.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Miss idel Apino as ana in summer night, a tail
well calculated to keep you in suspend.
Speaker 11 (09:54):
Now a matter of life and death.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I told her. I knew Helen would come to see
me after that. It would be strange seeing her again,
not that we'd ever quanelled. She never even suspected of course,
But after that day, when he went away with her,
I'd simply put her out of my life and never
thought of her again. I would, to be strictly truthful,
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I'd thought of her a great deal. It's in a
rather different way than I had before, when she'd been
my best friends. And now she was coming to my
house again after all these years. It should be interesting,
quite like a surprise party for both of us. Anna Dog, Helen, Helen, Oh,
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it's so nice to see. It's good to see you again, Helen.
Speaker 12 (11:04):
Why you haven't changed a bit? You don't look a
gay older. Now tell me all about it. I can't
stay but a few minutes. Ted Barton drove me I'll
be you remember it, and he's.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Got to be back before seven.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
But never mind that, now, Darling, What.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Is the matter, Helen. I'm frightened, frightened of what. I'm afraid.
I'm going to be killed, going to kill this tonight.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
But don't see.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I used to know Pulavinia. I used to know her
quite well. And the other girl I didn't know her,
but it happened to her right near here in the
little woods. Just be on the track, Anna, please, dear,
what on earth makes you think anything like that could
happen to you. You're perfectly safe if you don't go
out lock the door. No, I'm not. I'm all alone
here to Helen. And there's been someone prolling at night.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Ahmeh.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Last night he tried to get in. Are you sure?
I heard him trying the doors, the windows? What did
you call the pro I was afraid to, oh, Helen.
I didn't know who to turn to.
Speaker 10 (11:56):
But you.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Everyone thinks I'm anyway Anna, dear, that's ridiculous. Well we'll
call them one. No, it'll be all right out of
the night. I know it will. Please. I just want
you to stay with me tonight. Stay, please, Helen, just
this one night. I can't ask anyone else. I don't
have any friends anymore, but Darling, I don't even have
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any nightclubs. Oh, I'd already thought of that, Helen. I
have everything you need for tonight.
Speaker 12 (12:24):
I don't have anything for the morning, No days cream.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
Not even if I worry about that.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Now, maybe neither of us will even be here by morning.
So she said she'd stay, went out and told Ted Barton.
Ted Barton, it was typical of Helen. Only two weeks
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back from Cleveland, and already she had the county's most
eligible bachelor squiring her around in his car. But that
was going to be different too. I fixed a little
supper for both of us, and then we tried all
the doors and windows, and then there was nothing to
do but sit and talk to her until it was
time to go to bed. Anna, no more. Thanks. You
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afraid it. We'll give you awake, Helen, I'm afraid I
won't need coffee to keep me awake. Anna? Is it true?
I mean what they say about these murders? Is what true?
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Well?
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I mean you've been out in the world, Helen, more
than I have lately. You should know more than I.
All I meant was, well, you seem so frightened.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I thought you might have heard something something Stashal Is.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
It true about the lipstick? Why not? Oh, it sounds
so crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I thought it might be just something the newspaper's made up.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
There was a cross on there for it's in lipstick
orange lipstick. Anna, you do know something. Don't be ridiculous, Helen.
How could I but lipstick?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Anna?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Do you suppose perhaps it isn't a.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Man at all, it's a woman.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Sorry, did did I do that? I know? Well, come on, Helen,
it's time to go to bed. Oh yes, I suppose
we might as well own mind sleeping in the same
room with me.
Speaker 9 (14:08):
Do you?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Why?
Speaker 12 (14:09):
Of course not, dear, Oh shouldn't you leave on a
light down there?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
No, it didn't do any good last night. Oh, I
must say, I don't blame you for being a little
frightened staying here all alone rather a gloomy old place,
isn't it. Oh, I don't think so. It's always been
like this. It's the way father liked it. What about
your mother? I hated my mother. Oh, well it's true.
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Why not say it's not your wrong mom? What does
that matter? Everyone has to have someone to hate, Helen,
and not to kill them sometimes.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Oh and I don't think that's true.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
How can you say that every Well, this is our room.
Speaker 12 (14:47):
Why it's it's what it's sharing.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
It's so I mean, it's so different from the rest
of the house. This this was to be my bridal
room married Darling.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I didn't know you'd ever for it was a long
time ago. What's the news of Charles? Charles?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
But it just isn't any you knew we were separated.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Didn't you. Yes, what was the trouble, Helen?
Speaker 9 (15:15):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 12 (15:16):
After the first year, he simply became impossible, that's all.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
You will remember it. As a child, he was sometimes wild, strange.
Oh yes, yes, he and I were always the queer one.
Why whatever do you mean, strange? Different, little apart from
all of you, somehow not quite right.
Speaker 12 (15:34):
I think they say about me now, Oh Anna, you're
imagining that.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
No one ever said such a thing though, of course not.
What about Charles? Nothing? He just left, that's all.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I haven't even heard from him in six months.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Are you sure it was all his fault, Helen? Perhaps
if he married someone else? Oh you know, there was
never anyone else for Charles. That's the funny part of it.
Of course he liked other girls.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
He liked you.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yes, why you said me lucky.
Speaker 12 (16:03):
He didn't marry you. I don't know what happened towards
the end, just went from bad to worse. It got
so I hated the very sight of him.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
I told you everyone had to have someone to hate.
I didn't really mean. Are you sure, Helen, haven't you
ever hated anyone?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Perhaps it's a little girl. I thought I do hated me,
didn't you? Why?
Speaker 13 (16:23):
Darling?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
And I know I ever, there were sometimes when I
hated you too. Oh, I don't believe that children can't
really be when an ugly little girl like me sees
a pretty little girl like you getting everything she wants
all through her life, well, not exactly everything, but always
twist the teachers around your finger. Later it was the
same with the boys. Finally, Charles, just because you were pretty.
Speaker 12 (16:46):
Oh maybe I was a little prettier than you, dear,
but you were always a clever one.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Is Yes, I was a clever one. I suppose we
really should go to bed. Why Anna, look at this.
I didn't know you used. I don't. It's just one
of the young cousin of mine lived here several months ago.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Oh that's funny.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Do you know what color it is?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Anna?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
What color is it? Helen?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
It's orange?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
No, Helen wasn't very clever. It amused me to watch
her trying to think putting tool and tool together and
not being able to because she was afraid of her
own conclusions, because she was essentially a hypocrite like everyone else.
If she hadn't been, it might have saved her life.
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It was some time in the middle of the night.
I don't know exactly what time, because it didn't matter
that Helen was sleeping as soundly as a silly child
when I went over to the side of her bed
and began shaking Helen, Helen, we can't how what is this?
Don't make a sound, Hannah? What's that? He's in the
house downstairs? I don't know whoever it was last night
he's gotten in somehow are you sure I heard him
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listening to the last ten minutes? Oh?
Speaker 12 (18:12):
Emma?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
What are we going to do to get out of
the house before he starts upstairs? But how can we
heal here? As weell be called? We'll go down the
backstairs and out through the kitchen. We can go through
the bat over the tracks to Judge Brown's house. It's
not far, but we've got to hurry, Hon, I'm frightened.
What if he won't if we're careful, and if we
hurry the door between the kitchen in the front of
the house is lost. Why are you sure he isn't
in the kid up front?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Ey, Tad?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Do I heard him? Not get up with them? We've
got to go right now, all right? For my hand? Yes,
while I am not at the door of the backstairs.
Adjust to the right. After we get out in the hall, Anne,
come along, hold onto my hand and try not to
make any lay here the stairs.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Just follow me.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
He's all right, what that's the last time? Yes, I
got it him in the kitchen. Now can you see anything? No,
it's too dark. I can right there where you are
and where are you feel There's something I want to
get before we leave. What are you doing? I got it? Now?
The life here to take my hand again? All right?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I wish this way.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
I don't think I can for a minute to come along, Helen.
It's a little while. It'll all be over as we
had it down the path. I kept thinking of her
there behind me, so frightened now I had to keep
myself for laughing out loud. It was really funny. She'd
(19:39):
always been so confident before at school and later at
the parties we used to go to. She'd been the
confident one, and I had been frightened while she slowly
poisoned my life, while she quietly and demilately stole everything
I'd never wanted, even Charles. But it was different now.
(20:00):
That must be the two o'clock Local and they had
a side of town. Here's which way now straight ahead,
that's the grove of trees. Hannah isn't here somewhere that
they found? That girl is? Bye? Anna? I can't, I
can't go through the Helen, come along. Don't be silly.
Do we have to what we do? An? What was that?
(20:25):
Didn't you hear it? No? I would posit if I
heard something? Now, who's imagining things? Let's no, we're going
to stop here?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Stop Bye?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Why can't you guess? Even now? Helen?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Oh Anna?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
No yah, she didn't make a song. I think she'd
fainted even before I struck. She died without even realizing
why I did it. I made the cross on the
forehead for the orange lipstick, and seemed such a silly
(21:10):
thing as I was doing it, but of course I
had to. And then I I dragged the body of
the path and started home at the really road tracks,
I turned themself a few yards to where they crossed
the river, and passed the knife and the lipstick over
the bridge and watched them disappear into the muddy stream below.
(21:31):
Thought that it was really necessary. No one would ever
think of questioning me.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
They would, all, of.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Course assume that the lipstick killer had struck again. And
then suddenly my heart was in my moss. From the
path ahead of me, cousin sharply across me the night
was a shadow, the shadow of a man.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Can I help you? I didn't mean to frighten you.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
I just thought you must be in some kind of
trouble to the other.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Oh Anna, Anna McCauley.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Charles, Oh, Charles, you did frighten me.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Tell you insist in running around down at two am
and your night, Charles Jols.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
This really too much of a coincidence. I didn't know
you were anywhere near Boom Center.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Theoretically, I'm not just passing through a business trip, mister
two am local. So I thought i'd kill the time
waiting for the milk train by looking at the old
berg over again.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
What's your alibi?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
R Oh, Well, that's what I meant about a coincidence.
I was looking for Helen.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
For Helen.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
I wonder your surprise, Charles. It's really very simple. First
they were these, Well what the newspapers have been calling
the lipstick murders. I suppose you've heard about it.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I've read something about it.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Well, I suppose I was silly but I got terribly
nervous living alone in that big house. I asked Helen
to stay with me, and then in the middle of
the night she got frightened and said she could staying
up a middlee and rushed out to Judge Brown's house.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
How typical of hell?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Yeah, well, then I've tried to thought about it. I
got worried about room, went to look for her. But
I guess you must have gotten there all right. I
didn't find her anywhere.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
You're not alone in that big house, now, are you anna?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Well?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Yes, I thought you knew Charles my father died. Oh
I'd forgotten. Well, silly to be standing here, isn't it.
You've got to wait for train. Why don't you come
back to the house with me. I'll fix you some
coffee or something. Wouldn't that be nicer?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yes, that would be nice.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
That would be very nice. My good hardly believe my
good luck. Charles of old people. And it was as
though he come back to me, almost as though he
had home and come back to me just at the
right moment, so very well, taking coffee in the kitchen,
(23:57):
talking over old times. Oh dear, where is that opener
should be evaporated no time.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
If I can't find it, Oh, yeah, I'll open it
with my knife, just make a couple of holes in it.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Nah.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Isn't that a rather dangerous weapon to carry around just
to make holes in tin cans? Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
It has other uses?
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Yeah, there we are.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Uh that tastes good.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
M Charles. I was terribly sorry to hear about you
and Helen.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Me and Helen.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
But you separated?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I mean, is that what you call it?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Well, she said that you'd left her.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Helen always had a quaint way of putting things.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Didn't you You don't still love her?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Do you love her?
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Hm?
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Didn't she tell you where i'd been?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
I know it's exactly. I've been in a hall man
a rest home as they call it.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Cause Helen will put me there.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Put you there.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
I'm afraid. Committed is the word.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
See. Helen thought I was crazy. Oh, Charles, I.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Only got out a couple of weeks ago. I imagine
they're still looking for me.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
You escaped. I had to, Oh, Charles, how dreadful for you.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
As a matter of fact, I've been looking for Helen.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
It was something I wanted to give her.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
But couldn't you find No? I thought I had a
couple of times, but it wasn't Helen. After all, what
was it you wanted to give her?
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Charles? This lipstick?
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Yes, a frightful color, isn't it orange?
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Are you sure you're not Helen? I heard the doctors
talking a little while ago. They say, I will live
through night, but I don't care. Oh, it's been such
(26:04):
a glorious day happy. Since I can remember, people have
been calling on me whom I hadn't seen. Begins, I say,
I saved the town. I must have screamed, I don't remember.
So they caught toward Charles, and for the first time
in my life, I'm a really important person. I wonder
(26:32):
when they'll find Helen.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Thank you Ida Lupino for a splendid performance on.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
So spend.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
In just a moment, we will again hear from its
idea Lupino.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Gee, what show? I was sweating and it wasn't from
the heat either. Got a show, cle that's what she got?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
A fire on the way, So where's the farm?
Speaker 13 (27:07):
Right away?
Speaker 3 (27:13):
They were out of hearing seven.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Seconds, almost before they stepped on this charterer.
Speaker 10 (27:17):
I sure wasn't going about those auto light stainful batteries,
was he? Then no shirt, talk about pistol packing action,
switch to auto light, stainfuls and boy you got.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
When your sparks, that's that's daughter.
Speaker 13 (27:29):
Not on to drive fu, but butter.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
To auto light.
Speaker 13 (27:36):
When starters just the grinder. Why it's a battery reminder,
Switch to auto light. Let you keep your auto right.
Just switch to auto lights A U T O L
I T you switch to auto light or spark blug
life and action for a battery whose attraction is ignition
(27:59):
status action which to honor life?
Speaker 3 (28:06):
And now here again is miss Ida Lupino.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
It's always a great pleasure to appear on suspense, and
as a listener, I'm looking forward to some outstanding programs
on this new suspense series with stars like Charles Lawton,
Agnes Moorehead Van Johnson, Madeline Carroll, and Nan Southern. And
next week I'll be tuned in to hear Doctor Fairbanks
Junior in a gripping suspense story entitled Deep into Darkness.
(28:29):
I know you'll want to hear it too.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
On Suspense.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Ida Lupino may soon be seen in del Leaf Stanek's
twentieth century post production roadhouse. Tonight's suspense play was written
by Robert l. Richards from an original story by Ray Bradbury.
The music was composed by Lucian Marlick.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I'm conducted by Lud Bluskin.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
The entire production was under the direction of Anton M.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Leader.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Douglas Fairbanks Junior
in Deep Into Darkness THISSS CBS, Columbia Broadcasting System
Speaker 4 (29:14):
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