September 17, 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 (00:02):
Auto light and it's ninety eight thousand dealers bring you,
mister Frank Lovejoy. In Tonight's presentation.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Of suspense, Tonight auto Light presents a tale a bottle
man who felt he was bigger and more important than
anything else in the world and lost his life trying
to prove it. The story is called the Storm Our Star,
mister Frank Lovejoy.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Well, Harlo March is here in like a lion, you know.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
And I know the line happ it's you're always right
with auto light.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
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Speaker 5 (01:03):
Do, Ilo?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Why have?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
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Speaker 2 (01:45):
And now auto Light presents Transcribed the Storm, starring mister
Frank Lovejoy, hoping once again to keep you in suspense.
(02:06):
No one really knows how it begins. The birth is invisible,
attended only by sea birds that drive gracefully over the
warm Caribbean sea. In the cool upper air. A gull hovers,
then dips low toward a single unwary shrimp. Suddenly the
bird falters, its wings beat awkwardly against the sudden turbulence
at the edge of a great unseen tower of strange,
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warm air three hundred miles around the cool outer wind circles,
then sweeps in. This is the meeting place, three hundred
miles of wind circle of tower of weak warm air.
Conditions favorable, and the thing is poorn.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Sure I know there was a storm coming. I could
see it and joiss up. The last year and a
half she changed. Why women, most of them don't know
when they're well off. After all we've been through getting
to be the top dance team in the country. You
think she tried to relax and enjoy it. We were
big now, two thousand a week and a percentage, nothing
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but the best places booked when and where we liked.
We just finished in Miami. We're going to lie around
for a month. When the weather turned funny, nothing really noticeable,
just something in the air. That's when I got the
phone call from Al Morgan. Mister Larry Weston, this is him.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
This is a long distance operator, Sir, we have a
call from Seabeach.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
Go ahead, seas, Hello, Larry.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Yeah, who is this Al?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Al Morgan?
Speaker 8 (03:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Sure, long time those seas?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
H Oh joy o?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
God, how's that new hotel of you? Ah?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Nice business, Larry, Al got a nice business for a
new place.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
Look, I know I should go through your radio. Norm Na.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
No, no skipped him. What's on your mind?
Speaker 7 (03:58):
It's the tag end of the season here at Sea Beach.
But we still got a good crowd, variety, says you.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
And Joyce got a month between dates, and well, look
we're not exactly hired up for work.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Oh I know, Larry, It's just that I'd like to
keep this crowd. You'd hold him here.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You enjoys a real sock finish on the season, just
for a week, Larry, for an old friend.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Well, we don't work for peanuts anymore. Al it had
to be three.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Wow, that's pretty steep, but I guess I can make it.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Why are the deal of my agent? How's the weather there?
Speaker 7 (04:34):
Weather all great? Best on the golf coast?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Kind of funny here in Miami. It's something in the air.
Speaker 7 (04:40):
Well, that's Miami. When can you start today?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yeah? Yeah, I guess so we'll drive now.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
I sure appreciate this, Larry.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Honest, some long IL just tell you a crowd.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
We're on the way.
Speaker 9 (04:54):
Thanks, man, I said, thanks for including me in.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
That's supposed to be some kind of a crack joint.
Speaker 9 (05:02):
There was a time when you used to at least
ask me about a date.
Speaker 7 (05:05):
Now I'm just.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Part of the act.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Luck, will you get off my back? How long it's now?
Place at c B child knewest when? But you want
to do a favor for an old friend.
Speaker 9 (05:14):
Sure, I can do a favor for an old friend
and without jacking the price of thousands?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Got it on William's business. We're big business now. That's
why Al wants is and that's why he'll pay us
three thousand dollars. That's so hard to take.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
Sure, it's fine, but we're all business now. Everything's happened
so fast for us. We've lost being man and wife.
I like being man and wife, Larry, not just a
dance partner.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Look, it's the air in Miami. That's what's bothering you.
Come on, let's pack.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
High over Miami. Clouds gather and move far to the south.
The great cone of wind spins strongly, now feeling adolescent strength.
It starts moving across the sea. It feels for direction
and curves northward. The ocean is patterned with great, heaping
swells racing before it. On the Gulf coast beaches, the
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tide still rises normally. Then a wave larger than usual
crashes unevenly across the sand.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
The sea beach was like quite a layout, a lot
of money, a lot of class.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Mm hmm, sure.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Does oh, come on, snap out of it?
Speaker 5 (06:31):
What is.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Hey? There's our's hotel. Look at that sign the west
as big as you can.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Make sure we're deep.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Look, don't start anything. We're here for a week. And
the weather is nice. Try to get along with you.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Hurry going, Hey, y out I place you got all
right on the beach, nothing but the best.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Ah, how are your joyce?
Speaker 7 (07:01):
It's been a long time.
Speaker 9 (07:02):
It's really good to see you.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Come on.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You got one of the best sweets in the place.
Hey boy, get these bags into two pisteen win.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
It looks like.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
A real nice place now strictly resort. Larry entertainment in
the weather. I got my entertainment and.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
The weather stays just right by.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Hey.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Hey, that's some serve.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah yeah, I started yesterday. Paper says big storm down
in the gulf somewhere.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
They think it's moving this way.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Scared off some of the guests, but when I got
up that Western sign, it stopped.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
The Checkout's cold, I sn't wear storm paid?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah yeah, I said, Ah, nothing to worry about. Throw
not a cloud in the sky is there? If you
please the papers you can die for worry.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
If you please.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Oh oh yeahday, what can I do?
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Boy?
Speaker 10 (07:47):
It is the food, monsieur.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Please, I am speaking mister and missus western monsieur.
Speaker 10 (07:55):
The dancing westerns Oh and honor. I have never seen
you perform, but everyone knows you are magnificent.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
That's an awfully nice dogma.
Speaker 10 (08:06):
Dam I am sorry, collected, but with me at the moment,
they will meet you little.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I hope something about the food, Pday.
Speaker 10 (08:14):
Oh this special diet for my dogs, monsieur, I am
afraid I lose the cooperation of the kitchen again.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Ah, take care of it, oh mercy.
Speaker 10 (08:23):
And now, oh well until this evening.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Cute.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
You should see those dogs work before of them really
put on a show a dog act.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Sure they're good.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Oh wait a minute, now that just doesn't go. What
do you mean? Well, I mean al didn't tell me
he was running a circus, that's all.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Look, Larry P Day's got a good actor. He wouldn't
be here.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
That's swell.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
We don't work with doggs, Marry. It's simple, Joyce. If
alcohold his card with the dog Act Pine, he doesn't
need us.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
But he's got a contractor what can I do?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
And he got a point of what the bag back
in the car out? Come on, Joyce.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
No wait, wait wait, I've already got your name about there. Okay, Larry,
I'll buy up today's contract.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Fine, fine, now you understand, don't you know?
Speaker 8 (09:13):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
A dog a, yeah, yeah, sure, I understand.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Swell swell, then we better get our shoves unthing. You
go ahead, Okay, look else.
Speaker 9 (09:28):
That was Larry talking, not me.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Yeah, I know changed, hasn't. Yeah, we're a big team now.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
I guess that's it.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Got to prove it all the time.
Speaker 9 (09:40):
I don't know exactly what to do.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
He's really a nice guy, Joyce.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
It'llwhere off, thanks, I don't.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
You're right.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Over the Gulf Coast shore. The sun shines warm on
the slow, continuous beat of the heavy storm surf. The
sky remains clear until late afternoon, then a slight yellowish haze.
The first land warning creeps into the darkening blue. The
barometer is measured, and from Florida to Texas, red and
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black hurricane flags unfold in an oddly soft breeze. Precautionary,
nothing definite yet. The sunset is brilliant red, and later
there is a halo around the moon.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Thank you very much, but that was our last encore
of fred Ah. Regardless of what the newspapers and radios
have been saying about the weather, we'll be here tomorrow
night with a very special perform like sure You're a
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little sloppy. The night, honey sands some we hurt?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Oh well you too, You are great and look around,
not an empty seat in the place.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Sense, yeah, yeah, it was a good crowd. Only choice
was yeah, what's the wheeled open?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
The stom who knows?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
The hurricane flags are up? But none of the nadies
around here are getting excited. A few places boarded up,
and nobody's leaving business as usual.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
You know it might be fun, what but to see
if we can hold the crowd here in a hurricane.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
You're kidding against the hurricane.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
H I bet we could.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
It'd be a good act, Larry.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
But I hope you don't get the chance.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Mister mister weight, and I do hope you don't think
I'm forward, but I did so admire you and your
wife out there on the floor.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
I've seen a lot of dancing, but honestly, thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I know you dance for a living, but could you
would you please show me backstairs?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Well I have to ask my wife, Well.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
Please, miss West, and I'll die happy.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Well there is much for a girl of Larry's really quick.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Have a drink, Joyce, No, I don't think so, thinks
I know he was kidding, but for a minute, I
thought Larry meant that about the hurricane towns.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
A lawyer pole racing clouds rushed tirelessly by more rain,
more dusts of wind. The clouds grow heavier, and the
haze filled sky.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Oh, come on, Joyce, come on to get up. All right, Larry,
all right, I'll stop it, stop it stop. Look it's
four pm already, at eight o'clock we have an appointment
downstairs doing a show. The rehearsals for your benefit. What's
the matter with you?
Speaker 9 (12:54):
The fund's gone out of it, Larry.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Look we've got to tough this out.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Here it comes again.
Speaker 9 (12:59):
Let's I've got to say it, Larry, I've got to
tell you what I.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Feel about the dog.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Not the dog act.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
It's you.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
It's all you.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You say we us, but you really mean you.
Speaker 9 (13:12):
I used to feel close when we danced.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
But there's such a big, important showstopper all by yourself.
Speaker 9 (13:19):
There's no role for me anymore.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
If your all throw will continue with the rehears's, Larry,
listen to me.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
I love you, but I don't know you anymore. Or
you push people around.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
Nothing means anything to you. Nothing is important except except
that big sign the.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Western well sure, it's important whether it turns bad. People
get scared out, puts that sign up and they stay.
I can't it choice canopy for you don't.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
Really need your life anymore, do you, Larry?
Speaker 7 (13:50):
All you need is someone to dance with. That's what
you really feel.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
Isn't this all right?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I took you.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I can take anybody that dumb little block last night.
As soon as we got out on the floor, I know.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Joyce, where do you think you're going?
Speaker 11 (14:06):
I don't know, yeah, Larry, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
I just heard it on the radio.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
They think the center of this storm may hit somewhere
near Sea Beach.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Oh yeah, it could.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
Be one hundred miles either way. Some of the guests
are kind of nervous. Hey, could you and Joyce come
down and help me keep their minds off it?
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Out?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
What's a little hurricane? Is that blonde IDEs with last night? Around?
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, I saw her in the bar.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Haven't meet me on the floor.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
The sky filling haze thickens, The barometer drops suddenly and
it can almost be felt. Then sea Word on the
edge of the horizon, low gray curve appears. It climbs, slowly,
grows darker, then stands there, congealing its power into an
ugly bluish black mass. Then steadied and deliberate, the great
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wind monster moves towards the land auto light is bringing you,
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mister Frank Lovejoy with Joan Banks in the Storm Tonight's
presentation in Radio's outstanding Theater of Rills Suspense.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Say a half.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
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Speaker 2 (17:02):
Now auto light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, mister
Frank Lovejoy in Elliott Lewis's production of The Storm, a
tail well calculated to keep you in suspense. The sky darkens,
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lowering ominously, and from horizon to shore the sea boils
white with rage. The rain is continuous, now falling harder
and harder. Then from the approaching edge of fury, the
first clicking fingers gouged through the rain and touch land.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Where Larry, Hi?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
What'd you say? Your name was? Honey?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Very un high?
Speaker 8 (17:58):
She wants to see alone.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I couldn't round up much of an orchestra.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
It so cana pianness enough.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Where's Joyce?
Speaker 4 (18:05):
She's around, Look, Betty La.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
I'll go find her.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
What was the biggest fill in my life to dance
with you last night?
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Mist The wind?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Oh it's really storming, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Scared mine?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
No?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
I've been through storm before.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Come on, you know you danced pretty good last night.
How would you like to entertain the folks?
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Huh?
Speaker 8 (18:26):
You and me in front of those two?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
For sure? Sure you like her dance?
Speaker 7 (18:32):
That scared me.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I just couldn't by Sure you can, come on, I'll
make you look great.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
The first winds churn up the beaches, whirl in lamp,
shut her against walls and flying past trees grown the
lighter branches crack and fly off.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I bore it.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Rattles on a flimsy wooden shock terrors loose and hurtles
through the air.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Loosening up money. They're all latch relax, there's nothing to it,
and spin towards the window.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
I think, spin, honey, spin, Hey, sorry what had you?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Oh no, I was crazy all window just shout out.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
The glass hit her all over. I think she over
short to the lobby or the bar.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Everything's going to be all right now.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
She's not going to the r I know, I know,
I'll get some of the voice over.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Come on, I'll listen to people.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Quiet of the cops form either warning everybody.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
The storm shifted its headed straight for c B flat Joy.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
I'm not sure one of the bellboys are earlier.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Since you look pretty upset, I know.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Yeah, we had an argument.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Where is she?
Speaker 11 (19:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
We checked all over, Joy, like Larry, we looked every place.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
You mean you let her go home?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
If she took the car the coup from the severn
to get her.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
Off the string.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
He didn't take the car.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
I got the keys of my buck.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
I would not wait.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Larry hurry, you can't go out there, and I got
frank choice.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Yay when they can't see well where.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
That's ah, we can get some n.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
The preliminary winds passed a pause, and then bruising, tearing, pointing.
The thing steps to the land. The sea drags up
with it, roaring and twisted, foaming agony, and folds like
cannon shot on all it can reach. The rain no
longer falls, but hammers sideways with a force of bullets.
The palm trees banded almost sweep the ground more stubborn
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fronts of her resistance, then suddenly wrenched from the roots.
The works of man tumbled shudder, and the mighty man himself,
caught in the open, is forced to return.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
To all fours.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
Joyce Joy joys, fries, Hey, Joy, I can't row, then
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sat up.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
I'll wreach me your hand. Hey, that's it, kay? Oh
they are.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Oh it must be crazy, mister.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
How'd you get out there?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I'm looking for my wife, so you can't find her.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Now you're lucky you're still alive.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
He's out there and I've got the frame.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Listen, I'm trying to help you. Somebody's taking her tay
girl heard someplace too.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
She's gonna be all right.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Now, come back inside.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
No, don't unders only.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
One thing I understand.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Listen, I said, hurry, can't.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
It cuts everything aside and to me, I've got to
find my wife. Gotta way tell a calm sets in,
calm at a hurricane eye.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
You can get to the polay station, then tell.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
Nowhere to find your wife.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
One hour two the wind screams of the ninety one hundred,
one hundred and thirty miles an hour. The light grows
black fingered with a weird electric glue. Rooftops flash in
the streets, broken power lines fit ten thousand bulls, electrocutions.
Man sits in his trembling shelter, totters on the edge
of security with hollow fear in his eyes. Then suddenly,
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without warning, the calm, a weird, uneasy silence, surrounded by
the force of hell. The middle of the block.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
There, that's the police station.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
How long is the comline? Hard to tell? Our fifteen
minutes coming on?
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Boy?
Speaker 7 (23:21):
Oh wait, hey, you.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
But easy first daid. Now listen, I gotta find my wife.
What's the name Western Joyce?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Western missus Joyce, Weston Missus Joyce, Weston, Missus Weston.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Joy Buddy, Joyce, it's Larry joy What about the fire
station could be with courses hit up there?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Where is it?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Next block over Jackson Street? Hey, buddy, you better stay here.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
My name is Weston.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Joyce was andured.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
You'll have to look at yourself. Joyce Joyce. Monsieur, monsieur,
mister b day.
Speaker 10 (24:15):
My dogs, monsieur, have you seen my dogs?
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Look?
Speaker 4 (24:18):
I'm trying to find Joyce, my wife. But my dogs
they walk away.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
I went out to Will you listen to me?
Speaker 7 (24:24):
My dogs?
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Joyce? You are right?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Come on wait, I've got to keep come on all.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
Right, Wait a minute. The storm isn't over. This is
just a I know.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Why did you run out? Teach me a lesson.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
With a pretty small time?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Joyce? You let me in a pretty Where are we
going back to the hotel?
Speaker 5 (24:51):
They're waiting for him when you're crazy?
Speaker 7 (24:54):
And I was crazy to kid myself that you actually
came looking for me.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Well, Joyce, I'm not going to bag I don't.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
Oh, you're so big, the Hurricane Stopper, Larry Weston, And
you believe it, don't you?
Speaker 7 (25:06):
You really believe it.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
I don't get me.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Sorry, they're waiting for us at the hotel.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Not Larry, They're waiting for you, the hurricane Stopper.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
John.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
I'm going back to the playoff station.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
You don't mean it, but I'm the Okay, That's how
I didn't get it.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
A chance, your small time I made you.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
I'm not all life. Why, honey, BIG's the hurricane. I'm big.
I'm bigg.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
The second, when Struck, completing the infinite Anger, then passed
on over the lowlands to the hills, finally tearing it
shrieking self apart, the sun shines once more, unequipped and
torn Earth. It is over those who.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Live through it.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
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No one really knows how it begins. The birth is invisible,
attended only by sea birds that drive gracefully over the
warm Caribbean sea. In the cool upper air. A gull hovers,
then dips low toward a single unwary shrimp. Suddenly the
bird falters, its wings beat awkwardly against the sudden turbulence
at the edge of a great unseen tower of strange,
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warm air three hundred miles around the cool outer wind circles,
then sweeps in. This is the meeting place, three hundred
miles of wind circle of tower of weak warm air.
Conditions favorable, and the thing is poorn.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Sure I know there was a storm coming. I could
see it and joiss up. The last year and a
half she changed. Why women, most of them don't know
when they're well off. After all we've been through getting
to be the top dance team in the country. You
think she tried to relax and enjoy it. We were
big now, two thousand a week and a percentage, nothing
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but the best places booked when and where we liked.
We just finished in Miami. We're going to lie around
for a month. When the weather turned funny, nothing really noticeable,
just something in the air. That's when I got the
phone call from Al Morgan. Mister Larry Weston, this is him.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
This is a long distance operator, Sir, we have a
call from Seabeach.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
Go ahead, seas, Hello, Larry.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Yeah, who is this Al?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Al Morgan?
Speaker 8 (03:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Sure, long time those seas?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
H Oh joy o?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
God, how's that new hotel of you? Ah?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Nice business, Larry, Al got a nice business for a
new place.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
Look, I know I should go through your radio. Norm Na.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
No, no skipped him. What's on your mind?
Speaker 7 (03:58):
It's the tag end of the season here at Sea Beach.
But we still got a good crowd, variety, says you.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
And Joyce got a month between dates, and well, look
we're not exactly hired up for work.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Oh I know, Larry, It's just that I'd like to
keep this crowd. You'd hold him here.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You enjoys a real sock finish on the season, just
for a week, Larry, for an old friend.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Well, we don't work for peanuts anymore. Al it had
to be three.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Wow, that's pretty steep, but I guess I can make it.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Why are the deal of my agent? How's the weather there?
Speaker 7 (04:34):
Weather all great? Best on the golf coast?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Kind of funny here in Miami. It's something in the air.
Speaker 7 (04:40):
Well, that's Miami. When can you start today?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yeah? Yeah, I guess so we'll drive now.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
I sure appreciate this, Larry.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Honest, some long IL just tell you a crowd.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
We're on the way.
Speaker 9 (04:54):
Thanks, man, I said, thanks for including me in.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
That's supposed to be some kind of a crack joint.
Speaker 9 (05:02):
There was a time when you used to at least
ask me about a date.
Speaker 7 (05:05):
Now I'm just.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Part of the act.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Luck, will you get off my back? How long it's now?
Place at c B child knewest when? But you want
to do a favor for an old friend.
Speaker 9 (05:14):
Sure, I can do a favor for an old friend
and without jacking the price of thousands?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Got it on William's business. We're big business now. That's
why Al wants is and that's why he'll pay us
three thousand dollars. That's so hard to take.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
Sure, it's fine, but we're all business now. Everything's happened
so fast for us. We've lost being man and wife.
I like being man and wife, Larry, not just a
dance partner.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Look, it's the air in Miami. That's what's bothering you.
Come on, let's pack.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
High over Miami. Clouds gather and move far to the south.
The great cone of wind spins strongly, now feeling adolescent strength.
It starts moving across the sea. It feels for direction
and curves northward. The ocean is patterned with great, heaping
swells racing before it. On the Gulf coast beaches, the
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tide still rises normally. Then a wave larger than usual
crashes unevenly across the sand.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
The sea beach was like quite a layout, a lot
of money, a lot of class.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Mm hmm, sure.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Does oh, come on, snap out of it?
Speaker 5 (06:31):
What is.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Hey? There's our's hotel. Look at that sign the west
as big as you can.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Make sure we're deep.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Look, don't start anything. We're here for a week. And
the weather is nice. Try to get along with you.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Hurry going, Hey, y out I place you got all
right on the beach, nothing but the best.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Ah, how are your joyce?
Speaker 7 (07:01):
It's been a long time.
Speaker 9 (07:02):
It's really good to see you.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Come on.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You got one of the best sweets in the place.
Hey boy, get these bags into two pisteen win.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
It looks like.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
A real nice place now strictly resort. Larry entertainment in
the weather. I got my entertainment and.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
The weather stays just right by.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Hey.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Hey, that's some serve.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah yeah, I started yesterday. Paper says big storm down
in the gulf somewhere.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
They think it's moving this way.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Scared off some of the guests, but when I got
up that Western sign, it stopped.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
The Checkout's cold, I sn't wear storm paid?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah yeah, I said, Ah, nothing to worry about. Throw
not a cloud in the sky is there? If you
please the papers you can die for worry.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
If you please.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Oh oh yeahday, what can I do?
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Boy?
Speaker 10 (07:47):
It is the food, monsieur.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Please, I am speaking mister and missus western monsieur.
Speaker 10 (07:55):
The dancing westerns Oh and honor. I have never seen
you perform, but everyone knows you are magnificent.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
That's an awfully nice dogma.
Speaker 10 (08:06):
Dam I am sorry, collected, but with me at the moment,
they will meet you little.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I hope something about the food, Pday.
Speaker 10 (08:14):
Oh this special diet for my dogs, monsieur, I am
afraid I lose the cooperation of the kitchen again.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Ah, take care of it, oh mercy.
Speaker 10 (08:23):
And now, oh well until this evening.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Cute.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
You should see those dogs work before of them really
put on a show a dog act.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Sure they're good.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Oh wait a minute, now that just doesn't go. What
do you mean? Well, I mean al didn't tell me
he was running a circus, that's all.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Look, Larry P Day's got a good actor. He wouldn't
be here.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
That's swell.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
We don't work with doggs, Marry. It's simple, Joyce. If
alcohold his card with the dog Act Pine, he doesn't
need us.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
But he's got a contractor what can I do?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
And he got a point of what the bag back
in the car out? Come on, Joyce.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
No wait, wait wait, I've already got your name about there. Okay, Larry,
I'll buy up today's contract.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Fine, fine, now you understand, don't you know?
Speaker 8 (09:13):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
A dog a, yeah, yeah, sure, I understand.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Swell swell, then we better get our shoves unthing. You
go ahead, Okay, look else.
Speaker 9 (09:28):
That was Larry talking, not me.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Yeah, I know changed, hasn't. Yeah, we're a big team now.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
I guess that's it.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Got to prove it all the time.
Speaker 9 (09:40):
I don't know exactly what to do.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
He's really a nice guy, Joyce.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
It'llwhere off, thanks, I don't.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
You're right.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Over the Gulf Coast shore. The sun shines warm on
the slow, continuous beat of the heavy storm surf. The
sky remains clear until late afternoon, then a slight yellowish haze.
The first land warning creeps into the darkening blue. The
barometer is measured, and from Florida to Texas, red and
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black hurricane flags unfold in an oddly soft breeze. Precautionary,
nothing definite yet. The sunset is brilliant red, and later
there is a halo around the moon.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Thank you very much, but that was our last encore
of fred Ah. Regardless of what the newspapers and radios
have been saying about the weather, we'll be here tomorrow
night with a very special perform like sure You're a
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little sloppy. The night, honey sands some we hurt?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Oh well you too, You are great and look around,
not an empty seat in the place.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Sense, yeah, yeah, it was a good crowd. Only choice
was yeah, what's the wheeled open?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
The stom who knows?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
The hurricane flags are up? But none of the nadies
around here are getting excited. A few places boarded up,
and nobody's leaving business as usual.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
You know it might be fun, what but to see
if we can hold the crowd here in a hurricane.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
You're kidding against the hurricane.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
H I bet we could.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
It'd be a good act, Larry.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
But I hope you don't get the chance.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Mister mister weight, and I do hope you don't think
I'm forward, but I did so admire you and your
wife out there on the floor.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
I've seen a lot of dancing, but honestly, thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I know you dance for a living, but could you
would you please show me backstairs?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Well I have to ask my wife, Well.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
Please, miss West, and I'll die happy.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Well there is much for a girl of Larry's really quick.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Have a drink, Joyce, No, I don't think so, thinks
I know he was kidding, but for a minute, I
thought Larry meant that about the hurricane towns.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
A lawyer pole racing clouds rushed tirelessly by more rain,
more dusts of wind. The clouds grow heavier, and the
haze filled sky.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Oh, come on, Joyce, come on to get up. All right, Larry,
all right, I'll stop it, stop it stop. Look it's
four pm already, at eight o'clock we have an appointment
downstairs doing a show. The rehearsals for your benefit. What's
the matter with you?
Speaker 9 (12:54):
The fund's gone out of it, Larry.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Look we've got to tough this out.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Here it comes again.
Speaker 9 (12:59):
Let's I've got to say it, Larry, I've got to
tell you what I.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Feel about the dog.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Not the dog act.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
It's you.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
It's all you.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You say we us, but you really mean you.
Speaker 9 (13:12):
I used to feel close when we danced.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
But there's such a big, important showstopper all by yourself.
Speaker 9 (13:19):
There's no role for me anymore.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
If your all throw will continue with the rehears's, Larry,
listen to me.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
I love you, but I don't know you anymore. Or
you push people around.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
Nothing means anything to you. Nothing is important except except
that big sign the.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Western well sure, it's important whether it turns bad. People
get scared out, puts that sign up and they stay.
I can't it choice canopy for you don't.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
Really need your life anymore, do you, Larry?
Speaker 7 (13:50):
All you need is someone to dance with. That's what
you really feel.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
Isn't this all right?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I took you.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I can take anybody that dumb little block last night.
As soon as we got out on the floor, I know.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Joyce, where do you think you're going?
Speaker 11 (14:06):
I don't know, yeah, Larry, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
I just heard it on the radio.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
They think the center of this storm may hit somewhere
near Sea Beach.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Oh yeah, it could.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
Be one hundred miles either way. Some of the guests
are kind of nervous. Hey, could you and Joyce come
down and help me keep their minds off it?
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Out?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
What's a little hurricane? Is that blonde IDEs with last night? Around?
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, I saw her in the bar.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Haven't meet me on the floor.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
The sky filling haze thickens, The barometer drops suddenly and
it can almost be felt. Then sea Word on the
edge of the horizon, low gray curve appears. It climbs, slowly,
grows darker, then stands there, congealing its power into an
ugly bluish black mass. Then steadied and deliberate, the great
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wind monster moves towards the land auto light is bringing you,
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Now auto light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, mister
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tail well calculated to keep you in suspense. The sky darkens,
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lowering ominously, and from horizon to shore the sea boils
white with rage. The rain is continuous, now falling harder
and harder. Then from the approaching edge of fury, the
first clicking fingers gouged through the rain and touch land.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Where Larry, Hi?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
What'd you say? Your name was? Honey?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Very un high?
Speaker 8 (17:58):
She wants to see alone.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I couldn't round up much of an orchestra.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
It so cana pianness enough.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Where's Joyce?
Speaker 4 (18:05):
She's around, Look, Betty La.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
I'll go find her.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
What was the biggest fill in my life to dance
with you last night?
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Mist The wind?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Oh it's really storming, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Scared mine?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
No?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
I've been through storm before.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Come on, you know you danced pretty good last night.
How would you like to entertain the folks?
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Huh?
Speaker 8 (18:26):
You and me in front of those two?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
For sure? Sure you like her dance?
Speaker 7 (18:32):
That scared me.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I just couldn't by Sure you can, come on, I'll
make you look great.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
The first winds churn up the beaches, whirl in lamp,
shut her against walls and flying past trees grown the
lighter branches crack and fly off.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I bore it.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Rattles on a flimsy wooden shock terrors loose and hurtles
through the air.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Loosening up money. They're all latch relax, there's nothing to it,
and spin towards the window.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
I think, spin, honey, spin, Hey, sorry what had you?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Oh no, I was crazy all window just shout out.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
The glass hit her all over. I think she over
short to the lobby or the bar.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Everything's going to be all right now.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
She's not going to the r I know, I know,
I'll get some of the voice over.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Come on, I'll listen to people.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Quiet of the cops form either warning everybody.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
The storm shifted its headed straight for c B flat Joy.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
I'm not sure one of the bellboys are earlier.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Since you look pretty upset, I know.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Yeah, we had an argument.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Where is she?
Speaker 11 (19:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
We checked all over, Joy, like Larry, we looked every place.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
You mean you let her go home?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
If she took the car the coup from the severn
to get her.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
Off the string.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
He didn't take the car.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
I got the keys of my buck.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
I would not wait.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Larry hurry, you can't go out there, and I got
frank choice.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Yay when they can't see well where.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
That's ah, we can get some n.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
The preliminary winds passed a pause, and then bruising, tearing, pointing.
The thing steps to the land. The sea drags up
with it, roaring and twisted, foaming agony, and folds like
cannon shot on all it can reach. The rain no
longer falls, but hammers sideways with a force of bullets.
The palm trees banded almost sweep the ground more stubborn
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fronts of her resistance, then suddenly wrenched from the roots.
The works of man tumbled shudder, and the mighty man himself,
caught in the open, is forced to return.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
To all fours.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
Joyce Joy joys, fries, Hey, Joy, I can't row, then
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sat up.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
I'll wreach me your hand. Hey, that's it, kay? Oh
they are.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Oh it must be crazy, mister.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
How'd you get out there?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I'm looking for my wife, so you can't find her.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Now you're lucky you're still alive.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
He's out there and I've got the frame.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Listen, I'm trying to help you. Somebody's taking her tay
girl heard someplace too.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
She's gonna be all right.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Now, come back inside.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
No, don't unders only.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
One thing I understand.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Listen, I said, hurry, can't.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
It cuts everything aside and to me, I've got to
find my wife. Gotta way tell a calm sets in,
calm at a hurricane eye.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
You can get to the polay station, then tell.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
Nowhere to find your wife.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
One hour two the wind screams of the ninety one hundred,
one hundred and thirty miles an hour. The light grows
black fingered with a weird electric glue. Rooftops flash in
the streets, broken power lines fit ten thousand bulls, electrocutions.
Man sits in his trembling shelter, totters on the edge
of security with hollow fear in his eyes. Then suddenly,
(22:45):
without warning, the calm, a weird, uneasy silence, surrounded by
the force of hell. The middle of the block.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
There, that's the police station.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
How long is the comline? Hard to tell? Our fifteen
minutes coming on?
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Boy?
Speaker 7 (23:21):
Oh wait, hey, you.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
But easy first daid. Now listen, I gotta find my wife.
What's the name Western Joyce?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Western missus Joyce, Weston Missus Joyce, Weston, Missus Weston.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Joy Buddy, Joyce, it's Larry joy What about the fire
station could be with courses hit up there?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Where is it?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Next block over Jackson Street? Hey, buddy, you better stay here.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
My name is Weston.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Joyce was andured.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
You'll have to look at yourself. Joyce Joyce. Monsieur, monsieur,
mister b day.
Speaker 10 (24:15):
My dogs, monsieur, have you seen my dogs?
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Look?
Speaker 4 (24:18):
I'm trying to find Joyce, my wife. But my dogs
they walk away.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
I went out to Will you listen to me?
Speaker 7 (24:24):
My dogs?
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Joyce? You are right?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Come on wait, I've got to keep come on all.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
Right, Wait a minute. The storm isn't over. This is
just a I know.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Why did you run out? Teach me a lesson.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
With a pretty small time?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Joyce? You let me in a pretty Where are we
going back to the hotel?
Speaker 5 (24:51):
They're waiting for him when you're crazy?
Speaker 7 (24:54):
And I was crazy to kid myself that you actually
came looking for me.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Well, Joyce, I'm not going to bag I don't.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
Oh, you're so big, the Hurricane Stopper, Larry Weston, And
you believe it, don't you?
Speaker 7 (25:06):
You really believe it.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
I don't get me.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Sorry, they're waiting for us at the hotel.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Not Larry, They're waiting for you, the hurricane Stopper.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
John.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
I'm going back to the playoff station.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
You don't mean it, but I'm the Okay, That's how
I didn't get it.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
A chance, your small time I made you.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
I'm not all life. Why, honey, BIG's the hurricane. I'm big.
I'm bigg.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
The second, when Struck, completing the infinite Anger, then passed
on over the lowlands to the hills, finally tearing it
shrieking self apart, the sun shines once more, unequipped and
torn Earth. It is over those who.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Live through it.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
Stir humbly.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Suspense presented by auto Light, the Light starvest for Frank Lovejoy.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
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master of suspense, an adaptation of the nineteenth century born
murder case called The Dead Alive. The author Wilkie Collins
our star mister Herbert Marshall. That's Next Week on Suspense.
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Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music
composed by Lucian Morowick and conducted by lud Gluskin. Portions
of the program were transcribed. The Storm was written for
suspense by Richard Chandley Intonight's story. Joan Banks was heard
as Joyce. Featured in the cast were Sharon Douglas, Joseph Kerns,
Ralph Sadan, Jerry Hausner, and Jim Knusser. Your narrator Larry Thorpe.
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