October 2, 2025 • 29 mins
Suspense was one of the most popular and successful radio series during it's run of over 900 episodes, spanning 1940-1962. Guest stars included Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Marlene Dietrich and Humphrey Bogart. The plots were mostly engaging crime dramas, science fiction and some horror - usually with a surprise ending.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Auto Light and it's ninety eight thousand dealers. Bring you,
Miss Agnes Moorehead In tonight's presentation.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Of Suspense, Tonight Auto Light salutes the American Automobile Association
and its traffic safety programs as we present a dramatic
report called the Empty Chair. I'll star the first Lady
(00:31):
of Suspense, Miss Agnes Mooreheads.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for the worldwide Auto Light family.
Since nineteen twenty two, the American Automobile Association, with the
cooperation of two hundred and seventy six affiliated clubs, has
been active in helping schools develop educational programs designed to
protect children on their way to and from school to
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make them careful drivers upon graduation. Traffic safety is, as
you know, everyone's business, so our story tonight will dramatize
how we all can help ourselves and our children by
driving carefully and by cooperating with traffic safety instructions. Later
in the program, we will hear from mister Royce G. Martin,
(01:22):
Chairman of the Board and President of the Electric Auto
Light Company, and mister Ralph Thomas, President of the American
Automobile Association.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
And now Auto Life prevents transcribed the Empty Chair starring
Miss Agnes moorehead hoping once again to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Now we all settled down, a good.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Miss Barbara Warner. You may call me Miss Barbara or Miss.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Warner, either one, which gives you, young ladies and gentlemen,
at least two choices when you wish to attract my attention,
so that there'll be no need to yell out, hey teacher,
besides ten B three, ten B three and your homeroom
high school at last. And today's the first day, young
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ladies and gentlemen, truly, and today's the day it really starts.
So now let's get to know each other, shall we.
All of you will get up and go to the back.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Of the room. Please.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I have your study cards here, and I've arranged them alphabetically.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
We'll start with the first row and the first.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Seat, and as I call your names, you'll be seated
Sidney Aronson, Mary Avante right in back of Sydney. Yes,
that's right, George Darley, just a minute, George, leave an
empty seat Jessica Bromley, and then skip one and then
you George an empty seat for David Cooper.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
For now, how'd you like that, Ms.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Warner, Bobby, what nothing.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I didn't say anything. Don't worry about the thing, Miss Warner.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Home and how'd you like your ride?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Well, I'm glad it's over.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
And I was just getting a compliment ready for you.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Oh you were I've never had.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
A teacher in my car before, and I wanted to
see how one of them would react to going sixty
five miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Nearly seventy, Bobby, and in a residential section too, just
for the.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Last six blocks, Miss Warner. I was gonna say how
I was surprised you didn't scream at me or get hysterical.
I was gonna say, I'm glad, since you're that kind
of person, I'm glad you're gonna board with my mother
and me.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Now you're sorry about the whole thing. No, No, I
didn't mean that.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
I'm a good driver, Miss Warner.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Yes, I'm sure you are.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
And this is a good car.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yes, it's beautiful, you mean it? Yes, of course I do, Bobby.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But what about school, the traffic classes and the sessions
on safety?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
What about them?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Didn't they impress you? Most of the boys and girls
learned to drive through school classes, didn't you, Yes, ma'am.
And reaction times you were taught about those, and how
no one's reaction time is really fast enough to cope
with an emergency at high speed.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
You drive as if you'd forgotten all about that as
soon as.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
You walked out of class, and you sound like lby
miss Warner, bless my mother.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Well, what are you two out here for?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Come on in, I got teammade.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Oh I'm so glad you hear, Miss.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Warner, I wasn't here wing you to ride.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Missus Morrison, mother of Bobby, a woman in her forties
perhaps or younger, in a plain cotton house dress that
hung loosely about her, and her hands were almost delicate
and quite thin and worn, and her fingers quickly nervously
pushed strands of graying hair tied against her temples, and
on her face the trace and not yet deep of
lines of strain.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Don't let miss Warner carry your bag yourself, Bobby, you take.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It, take it to her room, susy, And then her
touch on my arm, and missus Morrison led me into
her house, into her home, and showed me the living room, neat,
staringly furnished, and said that I was welcome to use
it any.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Evening for my guests. If I just let her know beforehand,
she would arrange to go to a movie or call
on a neighbor. Just let her know beforehand. And the
kitchen and where.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
She kept the toaster, and the coffee.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Canister, and the sugar and the other things I'd.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Need for breakfast or a snack whenever I please.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
She didn't mind a bit. And then my room.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I had Bobby fixed up the little radio on your bedtable.
I started right nice, A pleasant room, a summer blankets
neatly folded at the foot of the bed, a window
open to a small wire sent vegetable garden, a desk,
a chair, a pleasant room unpacked. Now and change and
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lie down and rest. Listen to the radio.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Windows way off me, w Minia lorn just way off me.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And waken them this summer evening, and it's something more harsh.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
I'm feed up, fed up. Do I reach some wise again.
Listen to me, Bobby, listening.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
To your want Bobby, She'll hear you, Miss Warner.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Will let here you're hearing, Miss Warner. You're listening real good,
Hey Warner, wake up, wake up and get an airport.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
All right, we'll do that, Bobby.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
We will let Miss Warner listen so you won't have
to yell at her, Miss.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Warner, Miss Warner, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
When you come out, please, I want.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
You to, would you please?
Speaker 10 (07:06):
Yes, mister Martin, good evening, Bobby, you flip or something? Moss.
Speaker 8 (07:18):
My son was yelling and screaming at his mother and
then at you, and he said he didn't care if
you heard. Go on, Bobby, tell me and tell Miss
Warner how set up you are with your mother?
Speaker 7 (07:30):
I told Jen, told Jama, just lay off me.
Speaker 8 (07:34):
You had experience, haven't you, Miss Warner. With boys like
Bobby and the others he runs around with, they must
confide in you and tell you their things that they
won't tell their mothers, that their mothers can't possibly understand
or know or share.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
You're younger and more experience, and they must.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Bobby, you're getting a blow by a bonmous Warner. You
stick with ma on me and you'll get it every night,
all the night.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Where are you going tonight, Bobby?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Who you be with tonight?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Bobby?
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Where'll I find you if I need you?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Bobby?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
If you need me, Bobby, Look, I'm seventeen and there's
a joint that's got a jukebox in it, and girls
with pockets full of dimes.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
And me, I got a car.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
I got a.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Car, hot, real hot.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
You're on a high school teacher here, mare. You put
your heads together and maybe it'll come out from mathematical
where your baby boy is nice.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
All right, I'm I'm sorry, Miss Warner, forgive it.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Please don't mention it. He's no.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
I want to tell you about my boy. He's had
no father since he was eight. When he was thirteen,
Bobby got some work around the garage after school.
Speaker 11 (08:54):
It helped it.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
It helped out a lot, and I.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Was glad to see it.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
He loved working around motors. And well you saw that
Carrie building. A boy's seventeen to have built such a.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Car, Missus Morrison.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yes, have Bobby ever told you about mister Douglas.
Speaker 8 (09:11):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
He's a teacher at our school, emmanual arts teacher. Oh no,
he takes special interest in.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Boys like Bobby.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
He's also our driver education teacher, we call him. He
works with the boys and girls, and the local automobile
club helps him.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Sometimes.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
I just think my son is wild, that's all.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
That's just what I'm telling you.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Mister Douglas teaches safety and sanity and driving. He tries
to tell the young Kith Morrison.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Hey, missus Morrison.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Oh, oh, hello, David, come in, Oh David, This is
missus Warner. She teaches at the high school where you're
going to go this year, Miss Warner.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
This is David Cooper, a neighbor boy, Phimus Warder. Hello, David.
I'm glad to know you, me too.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
Where's Bobby, Missus Morrison?
Speaker 8 (09:58):
He's not here, David.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
Oh on the garage, huh, working on that super neat
job of his all.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Bet, I don't think.
Speaker 9 (10:04):
So where do you go, missus Morrison?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (10:07):
He promised me. He promised me for sure this time.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Promise you what, David?
Speaker 9 (10:13):
He said, next time he was in a race, I
could ride with him. And I know there's one tonight
he welshes out on me. But well he's the best,
Missus Morrison, real absolute best. Well he's got all those
other nights.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I asked how old you were thirteen?
Speaker 4 (10:31):
What's that got to do with it?
Speaker 9 (10:33):
Bobby promised me, he said, I was old enough now
for me to break me in. Well, good night, Missus Morrison.
Miss Warner, David's our neighbor boy.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Not many years ago. I used to babysit for his mother,
read to him he and Bobby, could I I fix
you something to eat? Miss Warner?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
And here this picture was taken at Lake Louise too.
You can hardly tell I'm the one in the middle
of Can you the way Miss breeber Im dressed up there?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
It must have been very extensive and RESTful.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I got a lot of reading down, and I've been
promising myself to get Oh, sit still, Missus Morrison, I'll
get it.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Good evening, good evening. Does this young man belong here? Yes?
He does. Officers, please come in? Who is it now?
Speaker 7 (11:40):
Don't get excited, mom Oh, I said, don't get excited.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Are you, Missus Morrison?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm off as a cleaver. The only
reason your son Li isn't in juvenal cork right now
is because, as far as I know, it's the first
time he's pull to pick like he did tonight.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
But what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
In his car him.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And another one speeding down Presbury Street, your son headed
north and the other one south had taught each other
front wheels on the flight dividing line to see who'll
give way going over seventy miles an hour, Bobby, who
the other kid was? I don't know, man, I can
only catch one of them him. Auto Light is bringing
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you miss Agnes moorehead in the empty chair Tonight's presentation
in radio's outstanding theater of thrills Suspense. We'll continue with
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suspense in a moment. Now Here is mister Royce G. Martin,
Chairman of the Board and President of the Electric Auto
Light Company, to introduce a special guest tonight worldwide. Auto
Light Family is privilege to salute the American Automobile Association
and its traffic safety program to tell us how this
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practical safety program is helping to reduce traffic accidents by
teaching future drivers how to be careful drivers. Here is
a president of the American Automobile Association, mister Ralph Thomas.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Thank you, mister Martin.
Speaker 12 (13:32):
We're the American Automobile Association. I'm grateful for the entry
shown in our work by the Audelaye family is evidenced
by this program tonight. The problem presented in this dramatization
is unfortunately a very real one and a very common one. However,
cooperating with school and community authorities, we are engaged in
stimulating and aiding an active educational program to teach our
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young drivers and pedestrians safety first. This year alone, three
A materials and services are being widely used in grammar
and high school class instruction. Indeed will help over twelve
million students. This, of course is important to all of us.
If you have a son or a daughter in school,
ask about this program instead. A good example of yourself
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by practicing safety behind the vehel if you are a student,
take an active party in class, and when you are
behind the wheel, be the best amongst the young drivers.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Be a sportsmanlike driver.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Thank you, mister Thomas. And as an eight year old
boy said when he was asked what safety man, safety
is thinking not to get hurt or too hurt. There's
a definition we should all remember.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And now Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood downstage.
Miss Agnes moorehead in Elliot Lewis's production of The Empty Chair,
a dramatic report well calculated to keep you in hush.
Speaker 11 (15:07):
I'm Friday night in a quiet room and a window
that opens onto the.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Silences of a town already asleep.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Friday night and an end of summer that weekend before
school's opening, and the last book.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
You've promised yourself to read before summer's closed. And read now.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
To the undercurrent of voices from another room, Missus Morrison's.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
I want to do my bet.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
I try to do my best, if you know me.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
The night's stillness and missus Morrison searched through it for
the words to speak to her seventeen year old son.
Saturday morning, and Missus Morrison has made breakfast and over.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Will you try and do something about my boy? Miss Warner,
maybe you could do something.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Please and dress then and go to the school. Try
to save a boy. Do come on in?
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Oh hello, miss Warner.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I don't want to interrupt, mister Douglas. I, oh you're not.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I'm just getting everything ready for when school opens Monday.
What are you doing here today? Anxious to get back
in honor?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I don't know, I think so, mister Douglas. Yes, do
you know a boy named Bobby Morrison?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Yes, what about Bobby? I'm boarding with him and his mother.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I heard the police picked him up racing last night.
Some of the boys came in and told me about it.
I'm sorry to his.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Mother is very troubled. She asked me to help.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Bobby's very bright, a real bright, intelligent boy and.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Sensitive.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
You were going to say something else, mister Douglas, about Bobby.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
He's a boy without a father when he was eight.
Bobby's a boy who's looking.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
For something and he finds it in speed and in danger,
in ways that could kill him.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
We try this, Warner, We try real hard.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
We cooperate with the auto clubs.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You know about the classes. I given driver instructions. Mister,
I tell the kids, you kids drive like that. I say,
one out of a thousand of you'll be a corpse
before the year's out, one out of forty five hurt, crippled.
We tell them why traffic laws are made for the
protection and survival of the community. By actual demonstration. We
show them what a tremendous force they're handling when they're
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behind the wheel of an automobile. We go out and
demonstrate the different conditions, the distances it takes to stop
a car on a dry and slippery pavements from different speeds. Together,
we study accident reports and actual photographs of what happens
when you're arrogant or careless with a car smashed, cars
from head on collisions, smashed people. We give them visual
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and muscular coordination tests so they'll understand what speed and
hundreds of horsepower can do to them and how to
face emergencies behind the wheel. We try to make sportsmanlike
drivers out of them, Miss Warner, Yes, boys like Bobby,
whatever their reasons, they won't listen. Nights they gather and
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go out to the Hub and they're souped up cars
and they dance to the jukebox and they won't listen.
The hub place out on State Highway fifty two, south
side of the bridge, used to be a kind of
general store, the Fountain Hamburgers. The kids picked it up,
had Charlie Phillips, the owner, put in a juke box
and a big neon sign. They gather their nights for races.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Will you take me down, mister Douglas.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I want to see for myself tonight around nine Missus
Morrison's on Benton eight five three.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Will you call for me? Why? Of course, thank you.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
And later, when I got back to the house, Missus
Morrison said Bobby hadn't been home all day, but it
wasn't unusual. She said he'd show up for dinner, but
he didn't, and missus Morrison picked at her food and
got up on the table too often, and walked around
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and made excuses which could cover Bobby's not being there.
A double feature Bobby had to see twice a friend
had him to dinner, and Bobby forgot to call the
ordinary excuses we all make to hold back the fruit
for a while. And after dinner dishes, and her trying
to chat brightly but somehow sentences trailing off and not
being finished, and glances through the window onto the ninth Street,
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and the head popped to the sound of every passing automobile,
And when the doorbell rang.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
They're hurrying from news of her son. Oh, and the disappointment.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Please come in, mister.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Douglas, thank you, oh, miss Warner, and mister Douglas is here.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
And the ride down State Highway fifty two start through
good countryside of Sycamore and Birch.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Across the wooden bridge, and the intrusion.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Now upon the time of evening quiet of a thing,
a wheel, an enormous wheel of red neon, a wheel
who's each spoke displaced the tube of sky when it lits,
one spoke after another, and When the huge and clever
wheel was finally complete, a thing happened.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
The word hub announced itself as a fit. Second, when
the center of the wheel appeared, this.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Is the place.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Let's go inside.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
You and your friends can have this book right here,
mister Douglas, thanks jolly, Oh, don't go away. I want
you to meet a friend of mine, Miss Warner.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Charlie Phillips. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
The hub belongs to Charlie, that's ma'am.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Are things Charley?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Last night? That kid over there, you see him? That
one did a music by who knows what his name is?
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Matt Gardon? All right, he was in my homeroom last year.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
He should have made him write up two hundred times.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Don't play with matches. He would like to set quiet
the place last night?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Why that boy's.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
Barely fifteen years old?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
What's doing out here five miles outside of town this
late at night?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Listen, he's got a parallel tool and ask that question.
I'm me, Oh, why aren't you just telling him to
go home? Charlie? Why don't you keep him out of there?
For the same reason you're teaching school to eat to
make a living?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Once this was a.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Nice right there's David David Paper David David.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Oh hello, miss Horner.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
What are you doing here? David David. I'm talking to you.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I know you are.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
How did you get out here?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I hitched mister Douglas and I are going to take
you home.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
I'm sorry, Miss Horner, but I ah. Hi, Bobby?
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Ready?
Speaker 12 (22:02):
Kid?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
What is this? Bobby?
Speaker 6 (22:05):
School opens Monday?
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Then you ask questions and ask for hands Saturday night.
Don't belong to you, Miss Warner.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
Come on, kid, please, miss Morning, let me go.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
What's the trouble.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Look, you'd better stay out of this. Mister Douglas.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
David is going someplace with Bobby. I want to know
where where Bobby?
Speaker 7 (22:22):
All right, outside is my car, and outside is two
other cars, and the boys in them are impatient. That's
how we tell each other.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
We are impatient. You're going to race by.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Yeah, and down the road a few yards is a bridge.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
You get the picture. Oh crazy, what's he going to do?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Tell her? The three of them will line up abreast
on the road. Then they'll race to the bridge and
over us.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
But there's only room for two cars across that bridge.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
That's right, one of us will have to drop back.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Come on, Davey, Oh you stay here, David, listen, you
can get killed.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Let go on me I would.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
If I were you, mister Douglas, and really let him gotter.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Douglas say hello, what do you want to tell me?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
These kids?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Then he's turning the wolf pack.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Don't get yourself into any talk.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
What these boys were did?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Listen this Warner last month, an older brother must have
been a man about thirty, very hasty fellow.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
With muscles on his forearm.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
This fella came in here and tried to pull his
kid brother out of here. He landed in the hospital.
Cut the sixteen kids here, miss Warner.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
That's what Bobby is going to do.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
That that raised over the bridge with David pull the.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Way they handle those cars, you don't know?
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Come on, Davy, you're coming well sure?
Speaker 3 (24:33):
And Mary Wheeler you start the last row. Mary, will
you please take the seat down front? Then Judy Wilton,
then John Young the third seat, and Martin Young your.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Brothers, don't you? I can tell?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
And next to the last argus at and George Zimmerman.
There now, young ladies and gentlemen, here we are ten
b three at Alexander Hamilton High School. Oh, come right, in, Bobby,
and so class. This is the first day of our
new school year, and this is where we'll meet to
start each day and to end it. The young gentleman
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who just came in to visit as a senior and
his name is Bobby Morrison. He asks you to talk
to you and I said he could. All right, Bobby,
thank you.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
I guess first of all, I want to apologize to you,
all of you Ms Warner and well all of you
because of that empty chair.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
It's my fault. I guess you know about it.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
I guess you've heard, but I want to tell you
how sorry I am.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
It was my fault.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
Soon you will be taking those driver training courses and
that way you're going to learn what safety means. That
it means respecting the lives of others. Now, that's something
I didn't do, and that's why you've got that empty
chair instead of David Cooper. But David's going to be
all right. I've been spending a lot of time at
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the hospital and today they told me that that's about all,
Miss Warner, and thank you for letting.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Me say it. Thank you, Bobby.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
That's why we'll save David's seat for him.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
He's coming back.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I want to wish you all a fine, productive and
safe school here and if there's anything you want to
talk to me about, I'll always be here.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
You may go to your first time.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Suspense presented by Auto Light to Night Star, Miss thank
Miss Moorehead will return in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Goodnight. The worldwide Auto Life family has been privileged to
salute the American Automobile Association and its traffic safety program.
In fact, everyone who helps bring traffic safety and driver
training programs to boys and girls in their school classrooms.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Throughout the world.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
You too, can aid in promoting safety by driving carefully
at all times and by making sure that schools in
your community are teaching traffic safety in their classrooms. Full
information on programs available can be secured from your local
automobile club affiliated with the American Automobile Association or from
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the American Automobile Association Washington, DC. And now I'd like
to present Agnes more Head than our producer, Director Elliot
Lewis Saku Harlow.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Agnes, I'm happy to inform you that you have been
voted Auto Life Golden.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
Mike Award for the best Female Performance of the Year
on Suspense.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Congratulations and here.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
This is for you. Oh, thank you, Elliott.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
As you know, Suspense has always been my favorite radio show,
so receiving this award is a double honor.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Thank you very very much.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Next week a story based on fact as we recreate
the excitement and violence of a fire in an oil field.
The story is called hell Fire, Our star, mister John Hodiac.
That's next week on Suspense. Suspense is transcribed and directed
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by Elliott Lewis, with music composed by Rennie Garagenk and
conducted by lud Gluskin. The Empty Chair was written for
Suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. In tonight's story,
Sam Edwards was heard as Bobby.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Featured in the.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Cast were Michael Chapin, Paula Winslow, Joseph Kerns, and Herb Butterfield.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Agus Warhead will soon be seen in the Magnificent Obsession.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
And remember next week, mister John Hoodiac in hell Fire.
And now this is.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Harlow Wilcox saying good night for the Autolite family with
this reminder, you're always right to be careful. This is
the CBS Radio Network
Auto Light and it's ninety eight thousand dealers. Bring you,
Miss Agnes Moorehead In tonight's presentation.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Of Suspense, Tonight Auto Light salutes the American Automobile Association
and its traffic safety programs as we present a dramatic
report called the Empty Chair. I'll star the first Lady
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of Suspense, Miss Agnes Mooreheads.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for the worldwide Auto Light family.
Since nineteen twenty two, the American Automobile Association, with the
cooperation of two hundred and seventy six affiliated clubs, has
been active in helping schools develop educational programs designed to
protect children on their way to and from school to
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make them careful drivers upon graduation. Traffic safety is, as
you know, everyone's business, so our story tonight will dramatize
how we all can help ourselves and our children by
driving carefully and by cooperating with traffic safety instructions. Later
in the program, we will hear from mister Royce G. Martin,
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Chairman of the Board and President of the Electric Auto
Light Company, and mister Ralph Thomas, President of the American
Automobile Association.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
And now Auto Life prevents transcribed the Empty Chair starring
Miss Agnes moorehead hoping once again to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Now we all settled down, a good.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Miss Barbara Warner. You may call me Miss Barbara or Miss.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Warner, either one, which gives you, young ladies and gentlemen,
at least two choices when you wish to attract my attention,
so that there'll be no need to yell out, hey teacher,
besides ten B three, ten B three and your homeroom
high school at last. And today's the first day, young
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ladies and gentlemen, truly, and today's the day it really starts.
So now let's get to know each other, shall we.
All of you will get up and go to the back.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Of the room. Please.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I have your study cards here, and I've arranged them alphabetically.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
We'll start with the first row and the first.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Seat, and as I call your names, you'll be seated
Sidney Aronson, Mary Avante right in back of Sydney. Yes,
that's right, George Darley, just a minute, George, leave an
empty seat Jessica Bromley, and then skip one and then
you George an empty seat for David Cooper.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
For now, how'd you like that, Ms.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Warner, Bobby, what nothing.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I didn't say anything. Don't worry about the thing, Miss Warner.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Home and how'd you like your ride?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Well, I'm glad it's over.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
And I was just getting a compliment ready for you.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Oh you were I've never had.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
A teacher in my car before, and I wanted to
see how one of them would react to going sixty
five miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Nearly seventy, Bobby, and in a residential section too, just
for the.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Last six blocks, Miss Warner. I was gonna say how
I was surprised you didn't scream at me or get hysterical.
I was gonna say, I'm glad, since you're that kind
of person, I'm glad you're gonna board with my mother
and me.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Now you're sorry about the whole thing. No, No, I
didn't mean that.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
I'm a good driver, Miss Warner.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Yes, I'm sure you are.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
And this is a good car.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yes, it's beautiful, you mean it? Yes, of course I do, Bobby.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But what about school, the traffic classes and the sessions
on safety?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
What about them?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Didn't they impress you? Most of the boys and girls
learned to drive through school classes, didn't you, Yes, ma'am.
And reaction times you were taught about those, and how
no one's reaction time is really fast enough to cope
with an emergency at high speed.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
You drive as if you'd forgotten all about that as
soon as.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
You walked out of class, and you sound like lby
miss Warner, bless my mother.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Well, what are you two out here for?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Come on in, I got teammade.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Oh I'm so glad you hear, Miss.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Warner, I wasn't here wing you to ride.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Missus Morrison, mother of Bobby, a woman in her forties
perhaps or younger, in a plain cotton house dress that
hung loosely about her, and her hands were almost delicate
and quite thin and worn, and her fingers quickly nervously
pushed strands of graying hair tied against her temples, and
on her face the trace and not yet deep of
lines of strain.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Don't let miss Warner carry your bag yourself, Bobby, you take.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It, take it to her room, susy, And then her
touch on my arm, and missus Morrison led me into
her house, into her home, and showed me the living room, neat,
staringly furnished, and said that I was welcome to use
it any.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Evening for my guests. If I just let her know beforehand,
she would arrange to go to a movie or call
on a neighbor. Just let her know beforehand. And the
kitchen and where.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
She kept the toaster, and the coffee.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Canister, and the sugar and the other things I'd.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Need for breakfast or a snack whenever I please.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
She didn't mind a bit. And then my room.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I had Bobby fixed up the little radio on your bedtable.
I started right nice, A pleasant room, a summer blankets
neatly folded at the foot of the bed, a window
open to a small wire sent vegetable garden, a desk,
a chair, a pleasant room unpacked. Now and change and
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lie down and rest. Listen to the radio.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Windows way off me, w Minia lorn just way off me.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And waken them this summer evening, and it's something more harsh.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
I'm feed up, fed up. Do I reach some wise again.
Listen to me, Bobby, listening.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
To your want Bobby, She'll hear you, Miss Warner.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Will let here you're hearing, Miss Warner. You're listening real good,
Hey Warner, wake up, wake up and get an airport.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
All right, we'll do that, Bobby.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
We will let Miss Warner listen so you won't have
to yell at her, Miss.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Warner, Miss Warner, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
When you come out, please, I want.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
You to, would you please?
Speaker 10 (07:06):
Yes, mister Martin, good evening, Bobby, you flip or something? Moss.
Speaker 8 (07:18):
My son was yelling and screaming at his mother and
then at you, and he said he didn't care if
you heard. Go on, Bobby, tell me and tell Miss
Warner how set up you are with your mother?
Speaker 7 (07:30):
I told Jen, told Jama, just lay off me.
Speaker 8 (07:34):
You had experience, haven't you, Miss Warner. With boys like
Bobby and the others he runs around with, they must
confide in you and tell you their things that they
won't tell their mothers, that their mothers can't possibly understand
or know or share.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
You're younger and more experience, and they must.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Bobby, you're getting a blow by a bonmous Warner. You
stick with ma on me and you'll get it every night,
all the night.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Where are you going tonight, Bobby?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Who you be with tonight?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Bobby?
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Where'll I find you if I need you?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Bobby?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
If you need me, Bobby, Look, I'm seventeen and there's
a joint that's got a jukebox in it, and girls
with pockets full of dimes.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
And me, I got a car.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
I got a.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Car, hot, real hot.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
You're on a high school teacher here, mare. You put
your heads together and maybe it'll come out from mathematical
where your baby boy is nice.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
All right, I'm I'm sorry, Miss Warner, forgive it.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Please don't mention it. He's no.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
I want to tell you about my boy. He's had
no father since he was eight. When he was thirteen,
Bobby got some work around the garage after school.
Speaker 11 (08:54):
It helped it.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
It helped out a lot, and I.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Was glad to see it.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
He loved working around motors. And well you saw that
Carrie building. A boy's seventeen to have built such a.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Car, Missus Morrison.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yes, have Bobby ever told you about mister Douglas.
Speaker 8 (09:11):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
He's a teacher at our school, emmanual arts teacher. Oh no,
he takes special interest in.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Boys like Bobby.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
He's also our driver education teacher, we call him. He
works with the boys and girls, and the local automobile
club helps him.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Sometimes.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
I just think my son is wild, that's all.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
That's just what I'm telling you.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Mister Douglas teaches safety and sanity and driving. He tries
to tell the young Kith Morrison.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Hey, missus Morrison.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Oh, oh, hello, David, come in, Oh David, This is
missus Warner. She teaches at the high school where you're
going to go this year, Miss Warner.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
This is David Cooper, a neighbor boy, Phimus Warder. Hello, David.
I'm glad to know you, me too.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
Where's Bobby, Missus Morrison?
Speaker 8 (09:58):
He's not here, David.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
Oh on the garage, huh, working on that super neat
job of his all.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Bet, I don't think.
Speaker 9 (10:04):
So where do you go, missus Morrison?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (10:07):
He promised me. He promised me for sure this time.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Promise you what, David?
Speaker 9 (10:13):
He said, next time he was in a race, I
could ride with him. And I know there's one tonight
he welshes out on me. But well he's the best,
Missus Morrison, real absolute best. Well he's got all those
other nights.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I asked how old you were thirteen?
Speaker 4 (10:31):
What's that got to do with it?
Speaker 9 (10:33):
Bobby promised me, he said, I was old enough now
for me to break me in. Well, good night, Missus Morrison.
Miss Warner, David's our neighbor boy.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Not many years ago. I used to babysit for his mother,
read to him he and Bobby, could I I fix
you something to eat? Miss Warner?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
And here this picture was taken at Lake Louise too.
You can hardly tell I'm the one in the middle
of Can you the way Miss breeber Im dressed up there?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
It must have been very extensive and RESTful.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I got a lot of reading down, and I've been
promising myself to get Oh, sit still, Missus Morrison, I'll
get it.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Good evening, good evening. Does this young man belong here? Yes?
He does. Officers, please come in? Who is it now?
Speaker 7 (11:40):
Don't get excited, mom Oh, I said, don't get excited.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Are you, Missus Morrison?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm off as a cleaver. The only
reason your son Li isn't in juvenal cork right now
is because, as far as I know, it's the first
time he's pull to pick like he did tonight.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
But what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
In his car him.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And another one speeding down Presbury Street, your son headed
north and the other one south had taught each other
front wheels on the flight dividing line to see who'll
give way going over seventy miles an hour, Bobby, who
the other kid was? I don't know, man, I can
only catch one of them him. Auto Light is bringing
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you miss Agnes moorehead in the empty chair Tonight's presentation
in radio's outstanding theater of thrills Suspense. We'll continue with
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suspense in a moment. Now Here is mister Royce G. Martin,
Chairman of the Board and President of the Electric Auto
Light Company, to introduce a special guest tonight worldwide. Auto
Light Family is privilege to salute the American Automobile Association
and its traffic safety program to tell us how this
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practical safety program is helping to reduce traffic accidents by
teaching future drivers how to be careful drivers. Here is
a president of the American Automobile Association, mister Ralph Thomas.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Thank you, mister Martin.
Speaker 12 (13:32):
We're the American Automobile Association. I'm grateful for the entry
shown in our work by the Audelaye family is evidenced
by this program tonight. The problem presented in this dramatization
is unfortunately a very real one and a very common one. However,
cooperating with school and community authorities, we are engaged in
stimulating and aiding an active educational program to teach our
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young drivers and pedestrians safety first. This year alone, three
A materials and services are being widely used in grammar
and high school class instruction. Indeed will help over twelve
million students. This, of course is important to all of us.
If you have a son or a daughter in school,
ask about this program instead. A good example of yourself
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by practicing safety behind the vehel if you are a student,
take an active party in class, and when you are
behind the wheel, be the best amongst the young drivers.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Be a sportsmanlike driver.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Thank you, mister Thomas. And as an eight year old
boy said when he was asked what safety man, safety
is thinking not to get hurt or too hurt. There's
a definition we should all remember.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And now Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood downstage.
Miss Agnes moorehead in Elliot Lewis's production of The Empty Chair,
a dramatic report well calculated to keep you in hush.
Speaker 11 (15:07):
I'm Friday night in a quiet room and a window
that opens onto the.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Silences of a town already asleep.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Friday night and an end of summer that weekend before
school's opening, and the last book.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
You've promised yourself to read before summer's closed. And read now.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
To the undercurrent of voices from another room, Missus Morrison's.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
I want to do my bet.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
I try to do my best, if you know me.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
The night's stillness and missus Morrison searched through it for
the words to speak to her seventeen year old son.
Saturday morning, and Missus Morrison has made breakfast and over.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Will you try and do something about my boy? Miss Warner,
maybe you could do something.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Please and dress then and go to the school. Try
to save a boy. Do come on in?
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Oh hello, miss Warner.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I don't want to interrupt, mister Douglas. I, oh you're not.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I'm just getting everything ready for when school opens Monday.
What are you doing here today? Anxious to get back
in honor?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I don't know, I think so, mister Douglas. Yes, do
you know a boy named Bobby Morrison?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Yes, what about Bobby? I'm boarding with him and his mother.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I heard the police picked him up racing last night.
Some of the boys came in and told me about it.
I'm sorry to his.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Mother is very troubled. She asked me to help.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Bobby's very bright, a real bright, intelligent boy and.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Sensitive.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
You were going to say something else, mister Douglas, about Bobby.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
He's a boy without a father when he was eight.
Bobby's a boy who's looking.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
For something and he finds it in speed and in danger,
in ways that could kill him.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
We try this, Warner, We try real hard.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
We cooperate with the auto clubs.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You know about the classes. I given driver instructions. Mister,
I tell the kids, you kids drive like that. I say,
one out of a thousand of you'll be a corpse
before the year's out, one out of forty five hurt, crippled.
We tell them why traffic laws are made for the
protection and survival of the community. By actual demonstration. We
show them what a tremendous force they're handling when they're
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behind the wheel of an automobile. We go out and
demonstrate the different conditions, the distances it takes to stop
a car on a dry and slippery pavements from different speeds. Together,
we study accident reports and actual photographs of what happens
when you're arrogant or careless with a car smashed, cars
from head on collisions, smashed people. We give them visual
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and muscular coordination tests so they'll understand what speed and
hundreds of horsepower can do to them and how to
face emergencies behind the wheel. We try to make sportsmanlike
drivers out of them, Miss Warner, Yes, boys like Bobby,
whatever their reasons, they won't listen. Nights they gather and
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go out to the Hub and they're souped up cars
and they dance to the jukebox and they won't listen.
The hub place out on State Highway fifty two, south
side of the bridge, used to be a kind of
general store, the Fountain Hamburgers. The kids picked it up,
had Charlie Phillips, the owner, put in a juke box
and a big neon sign. They gather their nights for races.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Will you take me down, mister Douglas.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I want to see for myself tonight around nine Missus
Morrison's on Benton eight five three.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Will you call for me? Why? Of course, thank you.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
And later, when I got back to the house, Missus
Morrison said Bobby hadn't been home all day, but it
wasn't unusual. She said he'd show up for dinner, but
he didn't, and missus Morrison picked at her food and
got up on the table too often, and walked around
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and made excuses which could cover Bobby's not being there.
A double feature Bobby had to see twice a friend
had him to dinner, and Bobby forgot to call the
ordinary excuses we all make to hold back the fruit
for a while. And after dinner dishes, and her trying
to chat brightly but somehow sentences trailing off and not
being finished, and glances through the window onto the ninth Street,
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and the head popped to the sound of every passing automobile,
And when the doorbell rang.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
They're hurrying from news of her son. Oh, and the disappointment.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Please come in, mister.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Douglas, thank you, oh, miss Warner, and mister Douglas is here.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
And the ride down State Highway fifty two start through
good countryside of Sycamore and Birch.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Across the wooden bridge, and the intrusion.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Now upon the time of evening quiet of a thing,
a wheel, an enormous wheel of red neon, a wheel
who's each spoke displaced the tube of sky when it lits,
one spoke after another, and When the huge and clever
wheel was finally complete, a thing happened.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
The word hub announced itself as a fit. Second, when
the center of the wheel appeared, this.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Is the place.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Let's go inside.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
You and your friends can have this book right here,
mister Douglas, thanks jolly, Oh, don't go away. I want
you to meet a friend of mine, Miss Warner.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Charlie Phillips. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
The hub belongs to Charlie, that's ma'am.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Are things Charley?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Last night? That kid over there, you see him? That
one did a music by who knows what his name is?
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Matt Gardon? All right, he was in my homeroom last year.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
He should have made him write up two hundred times.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Don't play with matches. He would like to set quiet
the place last night?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Why that boy's.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
Barely fifteen years old?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
What's doing out here five miles outside of town this
late at night?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Listen, he's got a parallel tool and ask that question.
I'm me, Oh, why aren't you just telling him to
go home? Charlie? Why don't you keep him out of there?
For the same reason you're teaching school to eat to
make a living?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Once this was a.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Nice right there's David David Paper David David.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Oh hello, miss Horner.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
What are you doing here? David David. I'm talking to you.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I know you are.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
How did you get out here?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I hitched mister Douglas and I are going to take
you home.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
I'm sorry, Miss Horner, but I ah. Hi, Bobby?
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Ready?
Speaker 12 (22:02):
Kid?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
What is this? Bobby?
Speaker 6 (22:05):
School opens Monday?
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Then you ask questions and ask for hands Saturday night.
Don't belong to you, Miss Warner.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
Come on, kid, please, miss Morning, let me go.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
What's the trouble.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Look, you'd better stay out of this. Mister Douglas.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
David is going someplace with Bobby. I want to know
where where Bobby?
Speaker 7 (22:22):
All right, outside is my car, and outside is two
other cars, and the boys in them are impatient. That's
how we tell each other.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
We are impatient. You're going to race by.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Yeah, and down the road a few yards is a bridge.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
You get the picture. Oh crazy, what's he going to do?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Tell her? The three of them will line up abreast
on the road. Then they'll race to the bridge and
over us.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
But there's only room for two cars across that bridge.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
That's right, one of us will have to drop back.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Come on, Davey, Oh you stay here, David, listen, you
can get killed.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Let go on me I would.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
If I were you, mister Douglas, and really let him gotter.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Douglas say hello, what do you want to tell me?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
These kids?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Then he's turning the wolf pack.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Don't get yourself into any talk.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
What these boys were did?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Listen this Warner last month, an older brother must have
been a man about thirty, very hasty fellow.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
With muscles on his forearm.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
This fella came in here and tried to pull his
kid brother out of here. He landed in the hospital.
Cut the sixteen kids here, miss Warner.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
That's what Bobby is going to do.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
That that raised over the bridge with David pull the.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Way they handle those cars, you don't know?
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Come on, Davy, you're coming well sure?
Speaker 3 (24:33):
And Mary Wheeler you start the last row. Mary, will
you please take the seat down front? Then Judy Wilton,
then John Young the third seat, and Martin Young your.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Brothers, don't you? I can tell?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
And next to the last argus at and George Zimmerman.
There now, young ladies and gentlemen, here we are ten
b three at Alexander Hamilton High School. Oh, come right, in, Bobby,
and so class. This is the first day of our
new school year, and this is where we'll meet to
start each day and to end it. The young gentleman
(25:09):
who just came in to visit as a senior and
his name is Bobby Morrison. He asks you to talk
to you and I said he could. All right, Bobby,
thank you.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
I guess first of all, I want to apologize to you,
all of you Ms Warner and well all of you
because of that empty chair.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
It's my fault. I guess you know about it.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
I guess you've heard, but I want to tell you
how sorry I am.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
It was my fault.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
Soon you will be taking those driver training courses and
that way you're going to learn what safety means. That
it means respecting the lives of others. Now, that's something
I didn't do, and that's why you've got that empty
chair instead of David Cooper. But David's going to be
all right. I've been spending a lot of time at
(26:05):
the hospital and today they told me that that's about all,
Miss Warner, and thank you for letting.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Me say it. Thank you, Bobby.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
That's why we'll save David's seat for him.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
He's coming back.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I want to wish you all a fine, productive and
safe school here and if there's anything you want to
talk to me about, I'll always be here.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
You may go to your first time.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Suspense presented by Auto Light to Night Star, Miss thank
Miss Moorehead will return in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Goodnight. The worldwide Auto Life family has been privileged to
salute the American Automobile Association and its traffic safety program.
In fact, everyone who helps bring traffic safety and driver
training programs to boys and girls in their school classrooms.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Throughout the world.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
You too, can aid in promoting safety by driving carefully
at all times and by making sure that schools in
your community are teaching traffic safety in their classrooms. Full
information on programs available can be secured from your local
automobile club affiliated with the American Automobile Association or from
(27:38):
the American Automobile Association Washington, DC. And now I'd like
to present Agnes more Head than our producer, Director Elliot
Lewis Saku Harlow.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Agnes, I'm happy to inform you that you have been
voted Auto Life Golden.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
Mike Award for the best Female Performance of the Year
on Suspense.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Congratulations and here.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
This is for you. Oh, thank you, Elliott.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
As you know, Suspense has always been my favorite radio show,
so receiving this award is a double honor.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Thank you very very much.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Next week a story based on fact as we recreate
the excitement and violence of a fire in an oil field.
The story is called hell Fire, Our star, mister John Hodiac.
That's next week on Suspense. Suspense is transcribed and directed
(28:42):
by Elliott Lewis, with music composed by Rennie Garagenk and
conducted by lud Gluskin. The Empty Chair was written for
Suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. In tonight's story,
Sam Edwards was heard as Bobby.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Featured in the.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Cast were Michael Chapin, Paula Winslow, Joseph Kerns, and Herb Butterfield.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Agus Warhead will soon be seen in the Magnificent Obsession.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
And remember next week, mister John Hoodiac in hell Fire.
And now this is.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Harlow Wilcox saying good night for the Autolite family with
this reminder, you're always right to be careful. This is
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