September 22, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Direct from the grand ball room of New York's World
Office Storia Hotel. Autolite and It's ninety eight thousand dealers
bring you, mister Van Johnson. In tonight's presentation of Suspense. Tonight,
Autolite recreates the story of the first international Automobile Race.
(00:29):
The story is based on fact and is called around
the World Our Star, Mister Van Johnson. This is Harlow
Wilcox speaking for Autolite with greetings from the Great Easter
Parade of Star's Automobile Show in the Waldorficetoria Hotel in
New York City. On display are forty new car models
(00:52):
in exciting colors. They were produced by leading car manufacturer
members of the Autolite family. Here U two our spectacular
action displays working models of a Navy torpedo and aircraft carrier,
along with other interesting exhibits provided by our Armed Forces,
plus special cars styled by leading American and European designers.
(01:15):
Record breaking crowds of enthusiastic visitors have seen the show
since Saturday's opening and before it closes Thursday. Many more
are expected to see this spring spectacle and now as
a special treat for our visitors, here at the Eastern
Parade of Star's Auto Show.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
And You at Home.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Autolite has brought our cast and our star Van Johnson
to the stage of the Waldorf's Grand Ballroom for the
true and exciting story of the one and only auto
race around the World. This famous race took place in
nineteen eight, just three years before Autolite developed the first
two unit sixfold electrical system used as original equipment. But
(01:53):
now let's listen.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Van Johnson is appearing by arrangement with MGM producers of
the technical a musicals Small Town Girl starring Jane Powell
and Farley Granger and now transcribed Auto Light Presents Around
the World starring mister Van Johnson, hoping once again to
keep you in suspend.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
My name is George Miller.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
These are my opponents, Monsieur Bossier de Saint Cheffrey on Chante.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
I am driving the DdO.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
My crew is also Fred Vivle's bort.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Lieutenant Hans van Coppen driving a protests a German car.
As are my technicians.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
German Senor Anthony Scaffolio, Comista Italian with my crew a
driver of a the Zustatmobile. The gentlemen, you have met,
and a couple of others who will you meet presently
who are.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Riding with me.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
All of us are going to have a race.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
In automobiles around the world, New York to Paris by
way of Siberia. It's nineteen hundred and eight's birthday, a
bright and sunshiny day, Times Square, New York, ten am.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I'm the driver of.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
A four cylinder sixty horse power car taken from stock,
the Thomas Flyer. However, this thing comes out, and I'm
not offering any excuses, but an all fans, you should
know that the other cars have been built especially for
this race, but the Thomas Flyer, anybody can go and
buy one off the floor. The members of my crew
are Montague Roberts, who knows about maps and motors, and
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mister Colby.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Corresponding for the Combined Youth Services.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
How do you doing, hello, Engleman?
Speaker 7 (03:35):
Are you ready.
Speaker 8 (03:39):
All right? Kendu Man.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Monag beer, Yes, Joey, how far sto Buffalo?
Speaker 9 (04:02):
It only took me miles of forty third week of
Timesquare Joyce and running second.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
The Dione is still ahead of us.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I didn't have how we'll.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Make an observation gentlemen.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
About the rain again, mister.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Colby, yes, it pause.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
As long as we're going around the world together, I
don't think we should immediately exhort whatever food of conversation
we haven't scored for each other.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I think the things at hand are the elements.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
For instance, please talk to is about the rain, mister Corby.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Our prediction, because of rain one day, an alert.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Automobile manufacturer will produce a pop attached to the body,
which can be lowered or raised, and a soul can
set in comfort and not be drinked.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Like now, mark my word Montague.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yes, Joey, how far the buffalo?
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Any observations about the mud, mister Corby, Obi can't.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
Hear you, George.
Speaker 9 (05:01):
It slid down on the floor and back and pulled
his raincoat over him, and.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
The rug and the French car are stuck in her mud.
Speaker 9 (05:07):
Give the gun, George, Oh George, we could have passed
hand to just leave them sitting here, Hi, monsieur, all
of a sudden, no roads, only mouth.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Or we'll give you a hand. They are really in
there deep.
Speaker 10 (05:26):
Your American moneys have a peculiar discuss college.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
My men have enough to screen.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
There's some wooden planks in the back of my car.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
You can lift the back end up and slip them
under money. Sure many will tell you a man what
to do.
Speaker 9 (05:38):
Hello, hoy verry, be careful of mister Koby's not the
floor thinking.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
About the yellow or how do you like it?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Monsieur, tell us throw a rain a month.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It is haupping me.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Soon it will be Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Tell me buffalo. If you say nice places you can get.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
A hot kneed never been there, but I'm sure you
shart ja it says.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Mister Koby is saying a while back that someone's gonna
to talk.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You can put up on a brain.
Speaker 10 (06:02):
We frinch have already uploaded this proposed invagers Dan one woman,
the invasion of which there is no absoluton cogne.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I played room as year.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Thank you, monsieur.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
A toast A toasts.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Two our men who are sidy enough to join us
around the world by way of Siberia.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I'll drink to that.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Here's the bottle, gold.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Down to it, miss it to to your gallant indership
for the help.
Speaker 9 (06:32):
Okay, George fixed them up.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Crying only thanks in the world blah blah and you.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
H I spellow the boys.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Got what I'm apprencious too. Oh no, you're standing out
here in the mud. Oh stuck, I know it, I
know it. What have you got that bottle?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Jeorge Connac.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Three hours later the rain stopped, then a rainbow came.
His name was Pat Kimball, and he was driving a
team of horses. He helped us out of the mud. Then
he led the way for us into Buffalo, still behind
the French car. After Buffalo, Toledo, then Chicago, and we
were a day ahead of everybody, Omaha, Chiam, Ogden and
we were four days ahead of the other cars. Down embankments,
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across desert, forging rivers, over flats and over hills.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Then sixty miles outside of Ogden.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
The tumble leeds.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
What about the mister Koby, I'm no mechanic, you know
what about the tumbleweeds?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Mister Kobe riding over them the way you'll do.
Speaker 9 (07:47):
We've already discussed that, mister Kobe, when you were asleep,
or mister Kobe, here spondor girl, you're a correspondent for
a whole syndicate of newspapers.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Aren't you supposed to take notes of something?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
How can you do that? When you sleep so much.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
A good question, Well, how can you do it? I
am a journalist, Saul, my dear mister Miller. When a
journalist has seen one tumbleweed, he can close his eyes
and imagine a vastness of tumbleweeds, hundreds of square miles
of tumbleweeds, such as we are now negotiating.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Wake me at the next time. I'm afraid, man, And
why not, mister Milla.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
We are quite right about the tumbleweeds. Riding over them.
They're liable to foul the transmission, and that's.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Why you will be able to sleep.
Speaker 9 (08:25):
Mister Kobe, We're gonna ride on the railroad ties really?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Really? Besides, how do you think we're going to cross
that river up ahead?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Why?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
What out here we go?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
How do you like riding a railroad? Ties with Kobe?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Live?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Wor right?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
What?
Speaker 7 (08:49):
I haven't driven to Cheyenne.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Let's chase the place and not let a trestle off
my head.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
I know you're getting all of it. I have a
side of the tresh and if we go ol rid
of that river.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I wanted to be my poor how anybody else, mister Miller?
Have you ever driven over a sail rose press? Lucy Paul.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
No, God, I'm so worried.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Mister Coley.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
George, Yeah, I'm hear it a fright how feign back
of this.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Is as here as I can touch.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
It's getting close to Hurry up, George, What does that
plane expect me to do? Drive into the river? Our
farn arm? Mister Colby, mister Holeby.
Speaker 9 (09:26):
F on the floor again, George, can't go clad, Lilly,
I'm the yellow.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Side in a few seconds.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Hold, wow, what hold?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I'm like.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
You can drive now, Money.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Wait a minute, all right, move over with this.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
Yeah, don't look at me like that, George.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I just get out and see. I'll get under the car.
Many come here. What do you see?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
I don't see any clutch shaft. That's one thing I see.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Oh cracked right off? Where are we?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Money?
Speaker 9 (10:26):
Under a Thomas flyer in the middle of the desert.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Mind if I ask you another question, Money, go right ahead.
How far from a town, a good sized town, one
that would have a blacksmith?
Speaker 9 (10:35):
About thirty miles that way.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Well, let's get out from under here.
Speaker 9 (10:39):
Oh over there in the sand, George. The other part
of the clutch shaft.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Uh, We've got to get the part to a blacksmith.
Speaker 9 (10:45):
There's no two ways about it. Somebody is going to
have to walk thirty miles.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Somebody who's had a lot of rest, mister Colby. Mister
Colby returned sixteen hours later. The blacksmith returned them in
a wagon. Mister Colby was sleeping in back of it.
The clutch shaft was repaired and the Thomas Flyer and
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the three of us were ready to go again.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
So we went.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
We arrived in San Francisco twelve days ahead of the
other contestants.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
They gave us a cup and we left for Seattle.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
When we arrived there, they gave us a cup, and
according to the pre arranged route, we loaded the Thomas
Flyer and bought a steamer and sailed for Valdes, Alaska.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
It was very cold in Valdez. My word, it's cold.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Many people in Valdez had never seen an automobile before,
and as a.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Token for our achievement, they gave us a cup.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
They showed us a smaller cup which they were saving
for the Frenchmen who were ten days behind.
Speaker 11 (11:49):
On April eighth, when the snow drifts were piled from
three to twelve feet high, we left Valdes for the
Yukon and the Bearing straits, which were frozen over this
time of year, so we could drive straight to Asian.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
We were thankful for the foresight of bringing chains along
a new innovation, and thankful too for the efficiency of
the motor of the Thomas Flyer at twenty degrees below zero.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Headway was very slow. Three days of it and we
only covered twenty two.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Miles andres What did you say this to Kobe Andras
when you've seen one of them?
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yes, we know, mister Kobe.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
It is please, isn't it, George?
Speaker 9 (12:32):
Yes, if anything went wrong, I don't think about it.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Talk about something else.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
The German car was an Omaha when we got to Seeattle.
I know the Italians in Salt Lake City. I know
the French these months, we.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Know all about that money.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
You say something that to Kobe. I was just going
to but it was flat.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Get out of the car quickly, and I know I
asked one.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
You all right? Money? Yup, mister Koby.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Look at the car. It's covered.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Let's start digging.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
Voice can't get caught here.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
All our equipment's covered. The shovel.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Improvise, mister Kobe, use your hands.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Oh, hi, hi, following snow shoes.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Wonder what he wants?
Speaker 12 (13:31):
Hey, howdy hoiey, Hello you the fellow's driving automobile around
the world. Let's right, where's your automobile?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
One of the snow We had a little snowslide.
Speaker 12 (13:43):
Hey have him around here all the time. Well, I'm
glad it caught you fellows.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Oh we are too, We could use them.
Speaker 12 (13:48):
He sent me out from Valdez to find you. Got
shothing to tell you.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Tell us you fellas.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Are gone the wrong way, wrong way.
Speaker 12 (13:56):
Roads of this race have been changed. You don't go
fu lash. It can't be done anyhow, Barren streech, don't
freeze over?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
What here and there? It turned to mush.
Speaker 12 (14:03):
But they don't freeze over, never have.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Then what are we supposed to do? Go back to seat?
Let's all I know.
Speaker 12 (14:09):
Automobile and nalashka. That don't make no sense. Tall, Well,
come on, I'll give you a hand dig yalp I.
I hope this little side trip didn't lose you boys
a race.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Auto Light is bringing you, mister Van Johnson around the world.
Tonight's presentation and radio's outstanding. Theeather of thrills suspense.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
This is Harlow Wilcox speaking again for Autowhite and the
colorful Easter Parade of Stars Automobile Show. In the grand
ball room of New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Here are
forty exciting car models produced by manufacturer members of the
Autolite Family. In the balcony overlooking the ballroom is a
thirty eight piece band of the Women's Army Corps.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
In romes.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Surrounding the ballroom are special action displays dramatizing the latest
engineering advancements of the automotive industry, as well as special
exhibits featuring outstanding accomplishments of armed forces. Autolite is proud
to be a part of the great automotive industry and
to have contributed to the development of today's fine cars.
(15:36):
Autolite serves the greatest names in the industry. Tonight, in
the climax to the second annual Autolite Family Salute Program,
Autolite is privileged to salute distinguished members of the Autolite
Family whose cars are on display at the Easter Parade
of Stars Automobile Show, and to salute their dealers throughout
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the world for our many years of close association.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
And now Auto Light brings back to our soundstage mister
Van Johnson and Elliott Lewis's production of Around the World,
a story based on fact and well calculated to keep
you in suspense.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
This is George Miller again.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
I'd like for you to hear a few comments from
my opponents in Around the World Automobile Race. Senor Anthony Scaffolio,
I wish you to tell you how much I enjoyed
the trip by boat from Seattle to Yokohama. The fact
that we come in the twelve days behind Americans to
Seattle was due to an oversight by navigator, Thank you, Senor, now.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Lieutenant Hans van Coppen.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
This is not by servers that we arrived six days
behind the Americans to seat. However, we are happy to
be in Jokohama.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Monsieur Bossier de san chaffree, What does it matter that
the Americans waited a week for us?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
The wine and the boat to Yokohama was deplorable.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
We arrived in Yokohama on May tenth, nineteen eight. All
the cars were unloaded by sampan. Since there were no docks.
All the contestants rested saw the sights and learned to
eat with two pieces.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Of wood, which are called chopsticks.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
During the short time we were there, the student among us,
mister Colby of the newspaper syndicate, learned a few Japanese words.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Beru is beer, obasan is woman, kawaiie is pretty face,
ganki dess is I am happy?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Our stay in Japan was pleasant.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
All of us drove to Kolbe and were loaded onto
a boat, and we sailed for Vladivastok, arriving there May seventeen.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
The race to Paris was resumed, except for.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
The Italian car, whose crew like the ocean void so
much that they were last seen sailing for the Mediterranean.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
From Vladivastok to Harvin, a refueling point.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
We arrived ahead of the Germans, but the French leader
by half an hour.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Hello Miller, Hello almosieur, Well you bid us?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Your race is yet to be one.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Have you with you a moment ago?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I saw your car, so I thought to wait.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
To be Yeah, well I do, and to save you sometime.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Oh, there is no more gas to be at that
the fulling station.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
What do you mean no more gas? My American speech
is not at the best.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I do not know how else to say it. Let
me sink how ed can I say it?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Should I have it? I have bought all of it,
all of the catheline, in order to cross the business
of Siberia.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
So there is no more guide.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
At you and know my bra I must say that
was rather unspotted.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Many go ask the man if he has any more gas?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Right, you have no idea what I shall do when
we finally get to Paris.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
What are you gonna do, mister Colby?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I shall lodge a protest with the rules committee if
I get him anyhow, I don't think I like Siberia
very much.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Well, you're going to see a lot of it, mister Colby.
It's the biggest country.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
What about it? Money? No gas? It was Manty, in
his charming way, who got the gas.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
There was an army outpost in Harban, the Army of
his Imperial.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Majesty, the sorrow of all the Russia's.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Manty introduced himself and his charm at the Officers Club,
and in a little while introduced a variation on the
game of poker known as spit in the Ocean, American
money against the Sara's gasoline. Manty won proposed maneuvers of
the Harban outpost of the Army of His Imperial Majesty,
the sorrow of all what was delayed for some time?
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We headed into the wilderness of Siberia.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
How far of the lake Money?
Speaker 9 (20:07):
I figure Lake by Car is about fifty miles away.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
If we missed the boat that crosses it will lose today.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
And we're well aware of that fact, mister Colby.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Don't worry about it will be there tomorrow morning, for sure.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Must the French get there first or the Germans.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Haven't seen the Germans, but we passed the French.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I'd like to remind you that we should not cross on.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
What's out up a head choices people on in such
a local they're known as Tartars.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
If want the line, George, you better slow down.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Tartars are direct descendants of Jenga's Khan.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
History tells us that Jengis Khan put two million people
to the sword.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
The hobby of these people is beheading strangers.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
They're on to the teeth.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
George, Let's go out and talk to them.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Hi, there.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
You try it Money.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Hello, mister Kolby, have you ever had occasion to learn
Tartar talk?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Mister Colby. Here he comes, George.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
He must be seven feet tall.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Hello, Chief, were you're just riding through. We're on our
way to St. Petersburg. You talk to him? Money? What
do I say?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Something charming?
Speaker 9 (21:20):
Nice country you have here, Chief, George.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I like the horn, Chief.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Money, give him the horn?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Sure, sure, He'll only be a minute.
Speaker 13 (21:38):
Chief, carry up money here, Chief, Wait a minute, Chief,
that's the wheel, we need the wheel flow the horn.
Speaker 14 (21:49):
Chief here, isn't that nice?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Our crossing of the rest of the Siberian wastes was
remarkable only in mister Colby's.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Remarking that we hadn't seen the French car for a
long time. As a matter of fact, we never saw
the French again.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
We lost only a few minutes at Omsk when we
had to stop to let the Trans Siberian.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Railroad train go by.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Just before we were furried across the Balgo River, we
passed Lieutenant Koppan and the crew of the Protos automobile.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
We were now in the lead.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
We arrived in Saint Petersburg on Thursday, July twenty three.
We were the first to arrive and there were festivities.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
In our honor.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
What a reception my word.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
In the name of His Imperial Highness. Start of all
the Russias, I.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Welcome you to Saint Petersburg.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
We're very glad we've didn't full of recognition of your
remarkable achievements. Is divorced to cross the motherland by automobile.
I have been commanded by His Pedial Majesty, Sire of
all the Russias, to present a token of our admiration.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Bar he's the cop here.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Take in the name of the Thomas Flyer Corporation of Detroit, Michigan.
I am proud and happy to accept the cup, mister Colby.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yes, mister Miller, put.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
This cup with the cups, and now it toasts.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Bar he's the glasses here, gentlemen, take bud. He's de
vatka to his Imperial Majesty. It's sired of all the
Russias to Terry Roosevelt, President of the United States of America.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
George over there the product Lieutenant from Copper but Germans.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Thank his Imperial Majesty for us. We've got to go
first a.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Toast buddies to her Imperial Majesty at Sarina at.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
All the Russias to the rough riders we're on a
race here.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
You know, we've got a buddy's to Saint Petersburg, a
jewel in the crown of his see Peter, majesty.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
It's sad I've all did rushes.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
We've really got to go. Didn't go to Detroit, Michigan.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Now now let teddy music at the festival and dancing buddies.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Sixteen hours, sixteen precious hours. We couldn't get away. We
tried to, but we couldn't. Finally, at six o'clock in
the morning we left Seeing Petersburg.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
From there to Berlin, where we were told that the
Protost car was a happy day ahead of us.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
That was on July twenty fourth. We refueled and went on.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
The roads were better and we made good time hand
of a Dusseldorf Cologne, across Luxembourg and into France, very
good time, but still trailing the Germans in the Protost car.
Then into Rheims, still behind the Germans. And the next day,
in the morning of July thirty, we were outside of Paris.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Just outside of Paris, George, fuck the Prodest Yeah, hurry,
what do you think I'm trying to do, mister boy, George,
We're gaining mister.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Colby, throw Avery hang out of the car.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I was about to suggest that we'll do it.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Yeah, we're game, and George, we're game.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
In fucked too the cops two. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
Hey, Van Coppen, what capture? Where have you been yet?
Speaker 13 (25:13):
You don't have.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I can't hear you, Van Coppan, there's a finish line, George,
all those people, my love.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
We did it, George.
Speaker 8 (25:35):
We did it.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
We really did, didn't we, gentlemen, We really did.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
We won. We came in first.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
We broke from New York to Paris, almost fourteen thousand
miles on the Thomas Flyer automobile. Our total running time
was eighty eight days. We arrived one hundred and two.
We averaged one hundred and fifty two miles a day
over all kinds of country and every sort of climate.
We climbed mountains, forded streams, drove through mud, and traverse
sandy deserts. We won the New York Times fifty thousand
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dollars first prize, and we had our pictures in every
paper in the world.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
But mostly it was a tribute to our automobile.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
We proved something and American stock car circle the Globe
and We're not anybody special.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Anybody can do it.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Suspends presented by Auto Life Tonight's star, mister Van Johnson.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Autolite and the worldwide
Autolite Family. Tonight, as the crowning achievement of the second
annual Autolite Family Salute Program, we have brought you a
special broadcast direct from the Easter Parade of Stars Automobile
Show at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
New York City.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Tomorrow night, the Auto Light Family will join in a
reception and supper party honoring all women's branches of our
Armed Services, also Irene Dunn, Rosalind Russell, Van Johnson and
Robert Merrill. It's for the benefit of our Armed Services
emergency relief funds.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
The Easter Parade of.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Stars Automobile Show, with its many new car models produced
by manufacturer members of the Autolite Family, will be open
all day Wednesday and Thursday. Admission is free.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Next week.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
The story about a man who dreamed of someday having
all the money he would ever need, and one day
found a way to make his dream come true. It's
called the Great Train Robbery. Our star, mister Fred mc murray,
that's next week on Suspense. Truspence was transcribed and directed
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by Elliott Lewis, with music composed by Lucian Morrivick and
conducted by lud Pluskin around the world. It was written
for suspense by Marton Fine and David Friedkin and was
based on fact. Featured in the cast were Alan Hewitt,
Ted Osborne, Clarry Haynes, Steve Roberts, Danny Arko.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
And Cameron Andrews.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
And remember next week, mister Fred mc murray in the
Great Train Robbery.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
This is the CBS radioa
Direct from the grand ball room of New York's World
Office Storia Hotel. Autolite and It's ninety eight thousand dealers
bring you, mister Van Johnson. In tonight's presentation of Suspense. Tonight,
Autolite recreates the story of the first international Automobile Race.
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The story is based on fact and is called around
the World Our Star, Mister Van Johnson. This is Harlow
Wilcox speaking for Autolite with greetings from the Great Easter
Parade of Star's Automobile Show in the Waldorficetoria Hotel in
New York City. On display are forty new car models
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in exciting colors. They were produced by leading car manufacturer
members of the Autolite family. Here U two our spectacular
action displays working models of a Navy torpedo and aircraft carrier,
along with other interesting exhibits provided by our Armed Forces,
plus special cars styled by leading American and European designers.
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Record breaking crowds of enthusiastic visitors have seen the show
since Saturday's opening and before it closes Thursday. Many more
are expected to see this spring spectacle and now as
a special treat for our visitors, here at the Eastern
Parade of Star's Auto Show.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
And You at Home.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Autolite has brought our cast and our star Van Johnson
to the stage of the Waldorf's Grand Ballroom for the
true and exciting story of the one and only auto
race around the World. This famous race took place in
nineteen eight, just three years before Autolite developed the first
two unit sixfold electrical system used as original equipment. But
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now let's listen.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Van Johnson is appearing by arrangement with MGM producers of
the technical a musicals Small Town Girl starring Jane Powell
and Farley Granger and now transcribed Auto Light Presents Around
the World starring mister Van Johnson, hoping once again to
keep you in suspend.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
My name is George Miller.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
These are my opponents, Monsieur Bossier de Saint Cheffrey on Chante.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
I am driving the DdO.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
My crew is also Fred Vivle's bort.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Lieutenant Hans van Coppen driving a protests a German car.
As are my technicians.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
German Senor Anthony Scaffolio, Comista Italian with my crew a
driver of a the Zustatmobile. The gentlemen, you have met,
and a couple of others who will you meet presently
who are.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Riding with me.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
All of us are going to have a race.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
In automobiles around the world, New York to Paris by
way of Siberia. It's nineteen hundred and eight's birthday, a
bright and sunshiny day, Times Square, New York, ten am.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I'm the driver of.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
A four cylinder sixty horse power car taken from stock,
the Thomas Flyer. However, this thing comes out, and I'm
not offering any excuses, but an all fans, you should
know that the other cars have been built especially for
this race, but the Thomas Flyer, anybody can go and
buy one off the floor. The members of my crew
are Montague Roberts, who knows about maps and motors, and
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mister Colby.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Corresponding for the Combined Youth Services.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
How do you doing, hello, Engleman?
Speaker 7 (03:35):
Are you ready.
Speaker 8 (03:39):
All right? Kendu Man.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Monag beer, Yes, Joey, how far sto Buffalo?
Speaker 9 (04:02):
It only took me miles of forty third week of
Timesquare Joyce and running second.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
The Dione is still ahead of us.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I didn't have how we'll.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Make an observation gentlemen.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
About the rain again, mister.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Colby, yes, it pause.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
As long as we're going around the world together, I
don't think we should immediately exhort whatever food of conversation
we haven't scored for each other.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I think the things at hand are the elements.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
For instance, please talk to is about the rain, mister Corby.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Our prediction, because of rain one day, an alert.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Automobile manufacturer will produce a pop attached to the body,
which can be lowered or raised, and a soul can
set in comfort and not be drinked.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Like now, mark my word Montague.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yes, Joey, how far the buffalo?
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Any observations about the mud, mister Corby, Obi can't.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
Hear you, George.
Speaker 9 (05:01):
It slid down on the floor and back and pulled
his raincoat over him, and.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
The rug and the French car are stuck in her mud.
Speaker 9 (05:07):
Give the gun, George, Oh George, we could have passed
hand to just leave them sitting here, Hi, monsieur, all
of a sudden, no roads, only mouth.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Or we'll give you a hand. They are really in
there deep.
Speaker 10 (05:26):
Your American moneys have a peculiar discuss college.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
My men have enough to screen.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
There's some wooden planks in the back of my car.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
You can lift the back end up and slip them
under money. Sure many will tell you a man what
to do.
Speaker 9 (05:38):
Hello, hoy verry, be careful of mister Koby's not the
floor thinking.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
About the yellow or how do you like it?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Monsieur, tell us throw a rain a month.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It is haupping me.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Soon it will be Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Tell me buffalo. If you say nice places you can get.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
A hot kneed never been there, but I'm sure you
shart ja it says.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Mister Koby is saying a while back that someone's gonna
to talk.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You can put up on a brain.
Speaker 10 (06:02):
We frinch have already uploaded this proposed invagers Dan one woman,
the invasion of which there is no absoluton cogne.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I played room as year.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Thank you, monsieur.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
A toast A toasts.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Two our men who are sidy enough to join us
around the world by way of Siberia.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I'll drink to that.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Here's the bottle, gold.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Down to it, miss it to to your gallant indership
for the help.
Speaker 9 (06:32):
Okay, George fixed them up.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Crying only thanks in the world blah blah and you.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
H I spellow the boys.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Got what I'm apprencious too. Oh no, you're standing out
here in the mud. Oh stuck, I know it, I
know it. What have you got that bottle?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Jeorge Connac.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Three hours later the rain stopped, then a rainbow came.
His name was Pat Kimball, and he was driving a
team of horses. He helped us out of the mud. Then
he led the way for us into Buffalo, still behind
the French car. After Buffalo, Toledo, then Chicago, and we
were a day ahead of everybody, Omaha, Chiam, Ogden and
we were four days ahead of the other cars. Down embankments,
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across desert, forging rivers, over flats and over hills.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Then sixty miles outside of Ogden.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
The tumble leeds.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
What about the mister Koby, I'm no mechanic, you know
what about the tumbleweeds?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Mister Kobe riding over them the way you'll do.
Speaker 9 (07:47):
We've already discussed that, mister Kobe, when you were asleep,
or mister Kobe, here spondor girl, you're a correspondent for
a whole syndicate of newspapers.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Aren't you supposed to take notes of something?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
How can you do that? When you sleep so much.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
A good question, Well, how can you do it? I
am a journalist, Saul, my dear mister Miller. When a
journalist has seen one tumbleweed, he can close his eyes
and imagine a vastness of tumbleweeds, hundreds of square miles
of tumbleweeds, such as we are now negotiating.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Wake me at the next time. I'm afraid, man, And
why not, mister Milla.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
We are quite right about the tumbleweeds. Riding over them.
They're liable to foul the transmission, and that's.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Why you will be able to sleep.
Speaker 9 (08:25):
Mister Kobe, We're gonna ride on the railroad ties really?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Really? Besides, how do you think we're going to cross
that river up ahead?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Why?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
What out here we go?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
How do you like riding a railroad? Ties with Kobe?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Live?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Wor right?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
What?
Speaker 7 (08:49):
I haven't driven to Cheyenne.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Let's chase the place and not let a trestle off
my head.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
I know you're getting all of it. I have a
side of the tresh and if we go ol rid
of that river.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I wanted to be my poor how anybody else, mister Miller?
Have you ever driven over a sail rose press? Lucy Paul.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
No, God, I'm so worried.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Mister Coley.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
George, Yeah, I'm hear it a fright how feign back
of this.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Is as here as I can touch.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
It's getting close to Hurry up, George, What does that
plane expect me to do? Drive into the river? Our
farn arm? Mister Colby, mister Holeby.
Speaker 9 (09:26):
F on the floor again, George, can't go clad, Lilly,
I'm the yellow.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Side in a few seconds.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Hold, wow, what hold?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I'm like.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
You can drive now, Money.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Wait a minute, all right, move over with this.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
Yeah, don't look at me like that, George.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I just get out and see. I'll get under the car.
Many come here. What do you see?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
I don't see any clutch shaft. That's one thing I see.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Oh cracked right off? Where are we?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Money?
Speaker 9 (10:26):
Under a Thomas flyer in the middle of the desert.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Mind if I ask you another question, Money, go right ahead.
How far from a town, a good sized town, one
that would have a blacksmith?
Speaker 9 (10:35):
About thirty miles that way.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Well, let's get out from under here.
Speaker 9 (10:39):
Oh over there in the sand, George. The other part
of the clutch shaft.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Uh, We've got to get the part to a blacksmith.
Speaker 9 (10:45):
There's no two ways about it. Somebody is going to
have to walk thirty miles.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Somebody who's had a lot of rest, mister Colby. Mister
Colby returned sixteen hours later. The blacksmith returned them in
a wagon. Mister Colby was sleeping in back of it.
The clutch shaft was repaired and the Thomas Flyer and
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the three of us were ready to go again.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
So we went.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
We arrived in San Francisco twelve days ahead of the
other contestants.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
They gave us a cup and we left for Seattle.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
When we arrived there, they gave us a cup, and
according to the pre arranged route, we loaded the Thomas
Flyer and bought a steamer and sailed for Valdes, Alaska.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
It was very cold in Valdez. My word, it's cold.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Many people in Valdez had never seen an automobile before,
and as a.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Token for our achievement, they gave us a cup.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
They showed us a smaller cup which they were saving
for the Frenchmen who were ten days behind.
Speaker 11 (11:49):
On April eighth, when the snow drifts were piled from
three to twelve feet high, we left Valdes for the
Yukon and the Bearing straits, which were frozen over this
time of year, so we could drive straight to Asian.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
We were thankful for the foresight of bringing chains along
a new innovation, and thankful too for the efficiency of
the motor of the Thomas Flyer at twenty degrees below zero.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Headway was very slow. Three days of it and we
only covered twenty two.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Miles andres What did you say this to Kobe Andras
when you've seen one of them?
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yes, we know, mister Kobe.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
It is please, isn't it, George?
Speaker 9 (12:32):
Yes, if anything went wrong, I don't think about it.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Talk about something else.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
The German car was an Omaha when we got to Seeattle.
I know the Italians in Salt Lake City. I know
the French these months, we.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Know all about that money.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
You say something that to Kobe. I was just going
to but it was flat.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Get out of the car quickly, and I know I
asked one.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
You all right? Money? Yup, mister Koby.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Look at the car. It's covered.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Let's start digging.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
Voice can't get caught here.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
All our equipment's covered. The shovel.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Improvise, mister Kobe, use your hands.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Oh, hi, hi, following snow shoes.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Wonder what he wants?
Speaker 12 (13:31):
Hey, howdy hoiey, Hello you the fellow's driving automobile around
the world. Let's right, where's your automobile?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
One of the snow We had a little snowslide.
Speaker 12 (13:43):
Hey have him around here all the time. Well, I'm
glad it caught you fellows.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Oh we are too, We could use them.
Speaker 12 (13:48):
He sent me out from Valdez to find you. Got
shothing to tell you.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Tell us you fellas.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Are gone the wrong way, wrong way.
Speaker 12 (13:56):
Roads of this race have been changed. You don't go
fu lash. It can't be done anyhow, Barren streech, don't
freeze over?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
What here and there? It turned to mush.
Speaker 12 (14:03):
But they don't freeze over, never have.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Then what are we supposed to do? Go back to seat?
Let's all I know.
Speaker 12 (14:09):
Automobile and nalashka. That don't make no sense. Tall, Well,
come on, I'll give you a hand dig yalp I.
I hope this little side trip didn't lose you boys
a race.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Auto Light is bringing you, mister Van Johnson around the world.
Tonight's presentation and radio's outstanding. Theeather of thrills suspense.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
This is Harlow Wilcox speaking again for Autowhite and the
colorful Easter Parade of Stars Automobile Show. In the grand
ball room of New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Here are
forty exciting car models produced by manufacturer members of the
Autolite Family. In the balcony overlooking the ballroom is a
thirty eight piece band of the Women's Army Corps.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
In romes.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Surrounding the ballroom are special action displays dramatizing the latest
engineering advancements of the automotive industry, as well as special
exhibits featuring outstanding accomplishments of armed forces. Autolite is proud
to be a part of the great automotive industry and
to have contributed to the development of today's fine cars.
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Autolite serves the greatest names in the industry. Tonight, in
the climax to the second annual Autolite Family Salute Program,
Autolite is privileged to salute distinguished members of the Autolite
Family whose cars are on display at the Easter Parade
of Stars Automobile Show, and to salute their dealers throughout
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the world for our many years of close association.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
And now Auto Light brings back to our soundstage mister
Van Johnson and Elliott Lewis's production of Around the World,
a story based on fact and well calculated to keep
you in suspense.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
This is George Miller again.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
I'd like for you to hear a few comments from
my opponents in Around the World Automobile Race. Senor Anthony Scaffolio,
I wish you to tell you how much I enjoyed
the trip by boat from Seattle to Yokohama. The fact
that we come in the twelve days behind Americans to
Seattle was due to an oversight by navigator, Thank you, Senor, now.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Lieutenant Hans van Coppen.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
This is not by servers that we arrived six days
behind the Americans to seat. However, we are happy to
be in Jokohama.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Monsieur Bossier de san chaffree, What does it matter that
the Americans waited a week for us?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
The wine and the boat to Yokohama was deplorable.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
We arrived in Yokohama on May tenth, nineteen eight. All
the cars were unloaded by sampan. Since there were no docks.
All the contestants rested saw the sights and learned to
eat with two pieces.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Of wood, which are called chopsticks.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
During the short time we were there, the student among us,
mister Colby of the newspaper syndicate, learned a few Japanese words.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Beru is beer, obasan is woman, kawaiie is pretty face,
ganki dess is I am happy?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Our stay in Japan was pleasant.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
All of us drove to Kolbe and were loaded onto
a boat, and we sailed for Vladivastok, arriving there May seventeen.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
The race to Paris was resumed, except for.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
The Italian car, whose crew like the ocean void so
much that they were last seen sailing for the Mediterranean.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
From Vladivastok to Harvin, a refueling point.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
We arrived ahead of the Germans, but the French leader
by half an hour.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Hello Miller, Hello almosieur, Well you bid us?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Your race is yet to be one.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Have you with you a moment ago?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I saw your car, so I thought to wait.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
To be Yeah, well I do, and to save you sometime.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Oh, there is no more gas to be at that
the fulling station.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
What do you mean no more gas? My American speech
is not at the best.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I do not know how else to say it. Let
me sink how ed can I say it?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Should I have it? I have bought all of it,
all of the catheline, in order to cross the business
of Siberia.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
So there is no more guide.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
At you and know my bra I must say that
was rather unspotted.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Many go ask the man if he has any more gas?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Right, you have no idea what I shall do when
we finally get to Paris.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
What are you gonna do, mister Colby?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I shall lodge a protest with the rules committee if
I get him anyhow, I don't think I like Siberia
very much.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Well, you're going to see a lot of it, mister Colby.
It's the biggest country.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
What about it? Money? No gas? It was Manty, in
his charming way, who got the gas.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
There was an army outpost in Harban, the Army of
his Imperial.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Majesty, the sorrow of all the Russia's.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Manty introduced himself and his charm at the Officers Club,
and in a little while introduced a variation on the
game of poker known as spit in the Ocean, American
money against the Sara's gasoline. Manty won proposed maneuvers of
the Harban outpost of the Army of His Imperial Majesty,
the sorrow of all what was delayed for some time?
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We headed into the wilderness of Siberia.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
How far of the lake Money?
Speaker 9 (20:07):
I figure Lake by Car is about fifty miles away.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
If we missed the boat that crosses it will lose today.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
And we're well aware of that fact, mister Colby.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Don't worry about it will be there tomorrow morning, for sure.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Must the French get there first or the Germans.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Haven't seen the Germans, but we passed the French.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I'd like to remind you that we should not cross on.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
What's out up a head choices people on in such
a local they're known as Tartars.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
If want the line, George, you better slow down.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Tartars are direct descendants of Jenga's Khan.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
History tells us that Jengis Khan put two million people
to the sword.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
The hobby of these people is beheading strangers.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
They're on to the teeth.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
George, Let's go out and talk to them.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Hi, there.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
You try it Money.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Hello, mister Kolby, have you ever had occasion to learn
Tartar talk?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Mister Colby. Here he comes, George.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
He must be seven feet tall.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Hello, Chief, were you're just riding through. We're on our
way to St. Petersburg. You talk to him? Money? What
do I say?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Something charming?
Speaker 9 (21:20):
Nice country you have here, Chief, George.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I like the horn, Chief.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Money, give him the horn?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Sure, sure, He'll only be a minute.
Speaker 13 (21:38):
Chief, carry up money here, Chief, Wait a minute, Chief,
that's the wheel, we need the wheel flow the horn.
Speaker 14 (21:49):
Chief here, isn't that nice?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Our crossing of the rest of the Siberian wastes was
remarkable only in mister Colby's.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Remarking that we hadn't seen the French car for a
long time. As a matter of fact, we never saw
the French again.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
We lost only a few minutes at Omsk when we
had to stop to let the Trans Siberian.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Railroad train go by.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Just before we were furried across the Balgo River, we
passed Lieutenant Koppan and the crew of the Protos automobile.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
We were now in the lead.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
We arrived in Saint Petersburg on Thursday, July twenty three.
We were the first to arrive and there were festivities.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
In our honor.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
What a reception my word.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
In the name of His Imperial Highness. Start of all
the Russias, I.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Welcome you to Saint Petersburg.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
We're very glad we've didn't full of recognition of your
remarkable achievements. Is divorced to cross the motherland by automobile.
I have been commanded by His Pedial Majesty, Sire of
all the Russias, to present a token of our admiration.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Bar he's the cop here.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Take in the name of the Thomas Flyer Corporation of Detroit, Michigan.
I am proud and happy to accept the cup, mister Colby.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yes, mister Miller, put.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
This cup with the cups, and now it toasts.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Bar he's the glasses here, gentlemen, take bud. He's de
vatka to his Imperial Majesty. It's sired of all the
Russias to Terry Roosevelt, President of the United States of America.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
George over there the product Lieutenant from Copper but Germans.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Thank his Imperial Majesty for us. We've got to go
first a.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Toast buddies to her Imperial Majesty at Sarina at.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
All the Russias to the rough riders we're on a
race here.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
You know, we've got a buddy's to Saint Petersburg, a
jewel in the crown of his see Peter, majesty.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
It's sad I've all did rushes.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
We've really got to go. Didn't go to Detroit, Michigan.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Now now let teddy music at the festival and dancing buddies.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Sixteen hours, sixteen precious hours. We couldn't get away. We
tried to, but we couldn't. Finally, at six o'clock in
the morning we left Seeing Petersburg.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
From there to Berlin, where we were told that the
Protost car was a happy day ahead of us.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
That was on July twenty fourth. We refueled and went on.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
The roads were better and we made good time hand
of a Dusseldorf Cologne, across Luxembourg and into France, very
good time, but still trailing the Germans in the Protost car.
Then into Rheims, still behind the Germans. And the next day,
in the morning of July thirty, we were outside of Paris.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Just outside of Paris, George, fuck the Prodest Yeah, hurry,
what do you think I'm trying to do, mister boy, George,
We're gaining mister.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Colby, throw Avery hang out of the car.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I was about to suggest that we'll do it.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Yeah, we're game, and George, we're game.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
In fucked too the cops two. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
Hey, Van Coppen, what capture? Where have you been yet?
Speaker 13 (25:13):
You don't have.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I can't hear you, Van Coppan, there's a finish line, George,
all those people, my love.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
We did it, George.
Speaker 8 (25:35):
We did it.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
We really did, didn't we, gentlemen, We really did.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
We won. We came in first.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
We broke from New York to Paris, almost fourteen thousand
miles on the Thomas Flyer automobile. Our total running time
was eighty eight days. We arrived one hundred and two.
We averaged one hundred and fifty two miles a day
over all kinds of country and every sort of climate.
We climbed mountains, forded streams, drove through mud, and traverse
sandy deserts. We won the New York Times fifty thousand
(26:15):
dollars first prize, and we had our pictures in every
paper in the world.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
But mostly it was a tribute to our automobile.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
We proved something and American stock car circle the Globe
and We're not anybody special.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Anybody can do it.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Suspends presented by Auto Life Tonight's star, mister Van Johnson.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Autolite and the worldwide
Autolite Family. Tonight, as the crowning achievement of the second
annual Autolite Family Salute Program, we have brought you a
special broadcast direct from the Easter Parade of Stars Automobile
Show at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
New York City.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Tomorrow night, the Auto Light Family will join in a
reception and supper party honoring all women's branches of our
Armed Services, also Irene Dunn, Rosalind Russell, Van Johnson and
Robert Merrill. It's for the benefit of our Armed Services
emergency relief funds.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
The Easter Parade of.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Stars Automobile Show, with its many new car models produced
by manufacturer members of the Autolite Family, will be open
all day Wednesday and Thursday. Admission is free.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Next week.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
The story about a man who dreamed of someday having
all the money he would ever need, and one day
found a way to make his dream come true. It's
called the Great Train Robbery. Our star, mister Fred mc murray,
that's next week on Suspense. Truspence was transcribed and directed
(28:22):
by Elliott Lewis, with music composed by Lucian Morrivick and
conducted by lud Pluskin around the world. It was written
for suspense by Marton Fine and David Friedkin and was
based on fact. Featured in the cast were Alan Hewitt,
Ted Osborne, Clarry Haynes, Steve Roberts, Danny Arko.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
And Cameron Andrews.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
And remember next week, mister Fred mc murray in the
Great Train Robbery.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
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