October 15, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Auto Light and it's ninety eight thousand dealers present.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Suspense Tonight, Autolite presents a special program for this holiday season,
the unusual dramatization of Twas the Night Before Christmas, starring
Miss Greer Garson, who appears by arrangement with MGM producers
of the new color picture Knights of the Round Table
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in CinemaScope starring Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner and Melferrer. Good Evening,
This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for auto Light Tonight. As
a special Christmas presentation from the worldwide Auto Light family.
We bring you Miss Greer Garson in a story about
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a certain little girl on a certain Christmas Eve and
now auto lighte Sense transcribed towards the night before Christmas,
hoping once again to keep you in.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
So spend.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Kathy, Kaby Honey, come on, wake up, Wake up, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
It's the day before Christmas. Oh not so much, Miss.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Buff it's light out already. You said you were going
to wake me really early today.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
So we could go to the airport and meet them.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Come on up, you get let's get your dressed, Buffy.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
They're going to be waiting for me, and you didn't
wake me. I know what's You're home already, Kethy, Mommy, Daddy?
Where are you?
Speaker 7 (02:06):
Daddy?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Mommy, Buffy? They're not in their bedroom.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
Where are they, Cathy?
Speaker 8 (02:15):
I know, I'll bet they're in the kitchen already having
the coffee.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Mommy, this buff they're not home, I know, Honey.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
The o'clock in the kitchen set eight thirty.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Cathy, here, put this on here. You told me you
wanted to wear this dress today, says.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Why I ironed it for you?
Speaker 9 (02:37):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Do you? Why aren't they here?
Speaker 10 (02:39):
Oh, they'd be here.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
But when I talked to mommy on the telephone yesterday,
she said she would be here at six this morning,
and I promised her i'd meet her at the airport
her and dad, and Daddy said he had a surprise
he was bringing for me all the way from Paris.
It's say thirty, Buffy, let's go out to the airport now.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
But there's so many things to do.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
First, you've got to get your breakfast, and we have
to finish decorating the tree, and oh, there's so many things.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I want you to help me.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Think and wait, Buffy, Harry, I promised to meet.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Them, No, dear, why not? Buff?
Speaker 11 (03:13):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I think we'll wait for them here, Puffy. Yeah, you
remember what you promised your mommy and dad.
Speaker 10 (03:20):
Did you do everything I.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Ask you while they were away? Yes, then we wait
for them here.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
All right, Buffy.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
It's noon, Buffy, I know.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Don't you think they might have called and told us
they'd be late.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I'll go and make our lunch. You must be very hungry, No,
I'm not. Oh you didn't eat your breakfast.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Cathy, miss buff, I'm not hungry. Look.
Speaker 10 (04:05):
Oh look it's snowing, honey. We'll have a nice warm lunch,
and then we'll go out for a long walk. You should,
of course, I'll tell you what, Cathy. We'll take our
walk first, we'll see the shops, we'll visit. We'll go
and see Johnny and your aunt and uncle. Maybe, if
it snows hard enough, we can all build a snowman.
Wouldn't you like that?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Yes, that would be fun.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
We'll go get your coat and heavy goloshes to you,
all right, and.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
When we come back, mommy and daddy'll be home.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Well, you go and get your things now.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Oh, I'll get it.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I'll get it, Buffy, Mommy, Oh.
Speaker 12 (04:37):
Who's this?
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Daddy?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Some all from a newspaper. I see it's a man, boff,
He says, he wants to talk to an older person here.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Hello, Yes, this is the half of residence. I'm the housekeeper.
I well, just a moment, please, Kevy. Someone wants to
talk to me. Honey, will you go get your things?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
No? Who are you talking to?
Speaker 10 (05:06):
But never mind? You go and get your things.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
No, I won't.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Hello, I see, yes, yes I saw the papers. Yes,
yes that was the daughter, Yes, the only child. No
she doesn't No, no, no, I wish you wouldn't. Please,
don't hear?
Speaker 13 (05:32):
No?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Who was it?
Speaker 10 (05:36):
It was just a man, honey, who was.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
From the newspapers? Why what did he want?
Speaker 10 (05:41):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
He asked about me, didn't he Why?
Speaker 10 (05:45):
Honestly, honey, it was nothing.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
It was about mommy and daddy.
Speaker 10 (05:49):
Or wasn't anything important?
Speaker 14 (05:51):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (05:51):
Do you?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Look at that snow coming down, Kathy, get your things, dear,
go on. Don't they seem beautifully Cathy?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Very loudly?
Speaker 10 (06:30):
The streets and all the decorations are the singers very uply?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Honey, you give this to the man. Oh, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 11 (06:47):
Miss.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Let's go home now, a little guy, don't you remember
we were going visiting to you.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Mommy and Daddy are probably home right now, waiting for
me and wondering why.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
And we build a snowman together, Like I said, come on, honey,
I remember when I was a little girl, How excited
I get all the wonderful things to see, the sights
and the smells and the sounds, pretty shop windows and
the snows. To be a little girl at Christmas time,
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to be young at Christmas time and happy it.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
What's the matter about this?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Okaty body, let me hold you, Oh, Katy, darling, fancy
you're crying.
Speaker 10 (07:42):
I'm just say.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Why.
Speaker 14 (07:45):
Look there Santa Claus watching us. Let's hello him. You
were crying, Hello Santa.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 15 (07:53):
Oh, Merry Christmas, little girl, Merry Christmas. Ah, you're a
pretty little girl. What's your name, Kathy? Oh, that's a
nice name for a nice little girl like you. Thank you,
And I can tell you when a good little girl.
I saw the way your mommy was holding you, Jess.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Miss buff My mommy's away, daddy too. We're taking a
walk to make them come home.
Speaker 11 (08:15):
And where are they?
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 16 (08:51):
Chaffy, Chaffy, come in, Darling, and Miss Buff, how are
you come in?
Speaker 11 (08:55):
Come in, mother, mother?
Speaker 10 (08:57):
Guess who's here?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Why Cassie and Miss Buff?
Speaker 10 (09:02):
Hello, Hello, missus Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Take your things off. You've got a big fire in
the living room. And wait till you see our Christmas tree. Cathy.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
I'm sure it's very beautiful.
Speaker 16 (09:12):
I'll bet Kathy came to say her cousin Johnny didn't.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Yes, I did, Uncle. I would like to see him
very much.
Speaker 15 (09:18):
And do you know what that boy of mine did,
Miss Buff.
Speaker 11 (09:21):
No, he found the train. Oh he did.
Speaker 16 (09:23):
After I took so much trouble to hide them out
in the garage, he found them, so of course.
Speaker 9 (09:28):
I had to set them up for him.
Speaker 16 (09:29):
Well, it's the day before Christmas. He's in his room now, Kathy.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Yes, I would like to play with the train, of
cause you would. Johnny. I can't come on, Dahny, I'm busy.
Cathy's here. He's goanna blame my trains, Kathy. You want
to see I got them all hitched up.
Speaker 10 (09:49):
Now, go on, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
All right.
Speaker 16 (09:56):
I've been on the phone since seven this morning, Miss Buff,
and just isn't any word at all about the plane.
Speaker 10 (10:04):
A man from the newspaper called the house. I told
him to stay away. Did the child know? I think
she does?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
What did you tell her nothing? How do you tell
a child let it go?
Speaker 11 (10:19):
What I can't understand is why no word at all.
Speaker 16 (10:22):
The plane took off from Paris on time, and there
was radio contact over island from what I could find out,
But since then nothing.
Speaker 10 (10:31):
You better tell her, John, tell me what? Well?
Speaker 11 (10:34):
There was a storm over the ocean, pretty bad storm,
they said.
Speaker 10 (10:43):
His fuck, yes, Darling, I'll.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Just figure it out something. It's about mommy and daddy.
They're not coming home. They're not ever coming home.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Autolite is bringing you, Miss Greer Garson with and Whitfield
as Kathy in Twas the Night before Christmas. Tonight's production
in Radio's outstanding Theater of Thrills sALS spends.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
This is Harlow Wilcox again with a message from mister
Royce G. Martin, Resident and Chairman of the Electric Autolite Company.
It is presented in the name of the Autolite Family,
which includes some thirty thousand Autolite men and women and
their families, eighteen thousand people who have invested a portion
of their savings in Autolite, as well as ninety eight
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thousand dealers and the greatest names in the industry who
use Autolite products as original equipment. This is the message
from mister Martin. In our America, we are especially blessed
this Christmas with a free country. We are surrounded with
freedom loving people who appreciate the word Christmas. We are
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grateful for what this day means to all of us
and for what it meant to our great forefathers. We
will never forget the one whose holy birthday we are
about to celebrate. We thank him for the word freedom
and the happiness that he has given us. We of
the Autolite family wish you and yours a very merry
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Christmas and a new year filled with health and happiness.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
And now Autolite brings back to our Hollywood sound stage,
Miss Greer Garson in Elliot Lewis's production of Twas the
Night Before Christmas, A tale well calculated to keep you win.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Souls spin.
Speaker 10 (13:24):
Oh, it's going to be good to get inside of
the housecare look at you. You look almost like the
snowman you and Johnny built. Let me brush you off
a be before we go inside.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
There's a man there, won't you say? Nonni right there
standing by the door.
Speaker 12 (13:41):
Man, Hello, laving miss, Hello, little girl?
Speaker 10 (13:46):
Is this your house? Yes?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
I live here?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Who are you?
Speaker 10 (13:49):
What do you want?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (13:50):
Then you'd be the Harper's little girl, wouldn't you?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yes, I asked you.
Speaker 10 (13:54):
Who are you?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
No?
Speaker 12 (13:55):
I don't worry about it, man, I just want to
take a picture of the little girl. You want your
you're taking a little girl, Rocky.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You're the reporter I talked to this morning, aren't you?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
And we'll want one of you too.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Man, here, get in a huse, Kathy, don't stand there?
Speaker 10 (14:09):
Do you get in a huse? Are be it in
a moment?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
It's Christmas Eve, mister reporter?
Speaker 10 (14:17):
Did you know?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Ow?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Look, ma'am it's Christmas Eve?
Speaker 10 (14:21):
Where's your heart?
Speaker 13 (14:22):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (14:22):
Look, you've got to understand I talked to you on
the phone. It was almost ten hours ago, before noon.
It's nighttime already. There still isn't any word about the plane.
I represent a newspaper.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Man.
Speaker 10 (14:33):
We've got to assume.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Well, you know, I don't want.
Speaker 11 (14:36):
To say it any more than you do. Just go
away on now.
Speaker 9 (14:40):
Really, I've got it.
Speaker 11 (14:41):
Were you?
Speaker 10 (14:42):
Were you ever.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Lonely on Christmas Eve? Alone in a house?
Speaker 11 (14:46):
That's it.
Speaker 10 (14:48):
Well, outside other people were singing. Well there was warmth
and love and joy.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
But outside.
Speaker 10 (14:56):
I'm just trying to Christmas Eve. The snow is falling
Christmas Eve, and the child is.
Speaker 11 (15:05):
It is grieving.
Speaker 12 (15:07):
Yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 10 (15:10):
Good night, Kathy.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
I'm in the living room, Buffy.
Speaker 13 (15:22):
I just had a wonderful thought. Let's have a secret. What, Buffy,
let's not wait till tomorrow. What do you mean we
go to our tree and open some of our presents. Now,
maybe just one, but she was the one with the
most beautiful wrapping. You can open it and you can
play with it. Now, will I go and fix something
for you to eat?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
I'm not hungry, Bluff, honestly, I'm more just.
Speaker 10 (15:46):
Some milk and cookies.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Honey, you have legal Well, well let's choose.
Speaker 10 (15:51):
Go ahead, pick one, all right?
Speaker 13 (15:56):
That one?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
M h it's it's from mister Anderson next door.
Speaker 10 (16:01):
Open it?
Speaker 5 (16:03):
You open it, Puffy?
Speaker 11 (16:07):
Oh, look.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Very nice.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
A carousel. Well, I wind it for you.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
And we'll put it down here. Yeah, you watch it.
When it runs down, you can wind it up again.
I'm going into the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Cathy, here's your Cathy. Cathy, Honey, where are you Cathy.
Your milk and cookies are on the table. Cathy, are
you in your room?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Cathy?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Cathy, Cavy, Honey.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Kaby.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Casey?
Speaker 10 (17:25):
Wait, missus Buff.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Mister Anderson is kefy here?
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Well?
Speaker 7 (17:29):
I know he?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Would you mind asking, Missus Anderson? Cathy's here? Maybe she
came in through the back way?
Speaker 15 (17:35):
Well, Missus Anderson and I have been sitting in the
living room for the last hour.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
But what's the matter?
Speaker 10 (17:39):
Miss Buff?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Kathy ran out of the house.
Speaker 10 (17:41):
Poor child. I can imagine how she must know she
might have come over here next door.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
She just ran out of the house.
Speaker 15 (17:46):
I don't know where she child like that, and what's
happened to her today?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Wait, I'll get my coat and spuff.
Speaker 10 (17:52):
I'll come with you.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Paul, Paul want to be ride?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Miss Poll Paul? Listen, I'm miss Anderson.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Want a ride.
Speaker 10 (18:10):
You can go all the way down the hill for
three blocks.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
They've got roped off to Paul. Have you seen Kathy?
Speaker 10 (18:15):
Sure? Where does she?
Speaker 11 (18:17):
I don't know where is she?
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Paul?
Speaker 10 (18:18):
Where did you go?
Speaker 13 (18:19):
Am?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I supposed to know where she went? But you saw her,
didn't you?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
She was running down the block? I yelled her to
come on over but she kept running which way?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Paul?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Down there?
Speaker 5 (18:29):
I guess where the stores are?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
We?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Sure. Merry Christmas, Miss Randerson, Merry Christmasmas.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
Buff.
Speaker 17 (18:37):
Hey, what.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
She hasn't been in my store?
Speaker 10 (18:48):
Miss Buff?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
And I'm the only one on the block.
Speaker 10 (18:50):
Was opened last minute?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Christmas Rusher?
Speaker 10 (18:52):
No, thank you, mister bux s Now that kid?
Speaker 5 (18:55):
And what happened to that plane today?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I'm sure let the police know she was missing.
Speaker 15 (18:59):
I think he's right, Miss Buff.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
Call them, please call them. Oh, use this phone, mister Anderson.
Speaker 15 (19:05):
Thank you, Hello operator, give me the police. Oh, hello, police,
I want to report a little girl who's missing, Kathy Harper. Well,
she's got blonde hair and blue eyes. And wait a second,
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I'll find out you're just go in the house, miss Buff.
I'm sure they'll find her.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
It's ten o'clock. They've been looking for three hours.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
Oh, they have ways they'll find it.
Speaker 10 (19:52):
We waited in that station house. All the policemen who
phoned in, none of them were you.
Speaker 15 (19:58):
Just go in the house now, I'll send missus Anderson.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
No, no, really, i'd rather you wouldn't. Well, good night,
mister Anderson, and thank you.
Speaker 18 (20:33):
Yes, I'm patrol and read ma'am, be found Kathy, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
You gotta come with me, ma'am. Yeah, there she is,
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ma'am in the second pill.
Speaker 10 (21:32):
Oh, cas it signed Christmas Eve.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Chuck. Should have been the first place we should have looked.
Speaker 10 (21:48):
For that kid, Kathy, Let's go home. No, Dottie, all
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right there, we are all talk to him.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
It's almost Christmas, isn't it. Yes, Darnie, you're going to
read to me?
Speaker 10 (22:47):
Of course, you just.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Lie there, Buffy, Yes, darling, nothing, just read to me.
Speaker 10 (23:04):
It was the night before Christmas, when all through the
house not a creature was staring, not even the last.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in
hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there. The children
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were nestled, all snug in their while visions of sugar
plums danced in her head, and my mind her kerch
went iron my cap. I had just settled down for
a long winter's nap when out on the law and
there arose such a clatter.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.
Waited the window.
Speaker 10 (23:49):
I flew like a flash, tore open the shutters, and
threw open the sash. The moon on the breast of
the new fallen snow gave a luster of mid day
to our chipped below. When what to my wondering eyes
should appear but a miniature slag and ate tiny reindeer
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with a little old driver, so lively and quick and
you in a moment, it must be sat Nick, more
rapid than eagles his courses. They came, and he whistled
and shouted and called him by name.
Speaker 19 (24:26):
Now Dasher, now answer now, Branson and Vixen uncomet on Cupid,
on Dunder and Blitzen to the tops of the porch,
to the top of the wall.
Speaker 10 (24:38):
Now dash away, dashuway, dash away up.
Speaker 8 (24:46):
Bobby, hot, Mommy, Merry Christmas, Cathy.
Speaker 11 (25:01):
Hey, hey, it's Christmas. We don't cry on Christmas.
Speaker 10 (25:06):
Babe.
Speaker 11 (25:09):
Hey, how about a big hug for me?
Speaker 10 (25:15):
We have missus buff.
Speaker 11 (25:17):
I was in bed.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
She was reading to me, and beds the place for you.
Speaker 10 (25:21):
Come on, carry Bob.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
It's money.
Speaker 11 (25:26):
It's sad, I know, Darling, I know, Hello, Buffy, Merry Christmas,
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Buff.
Speaker 11 (25:33):
We had to make an emergency landing in Newfouland. Small
field communications were shot that storm.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
Yes, yes, let's not talk about it. Anymore.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Now, Buffy was reading me a wonderful thing about like
before Christmas.
Speaker 11 (25:46):
Here, I'll put you in bed, Kathy, Yeah, hey, read
it to us, Buffy, to all of us.
Speaker 10 (25:58):
Oh that's my.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Ray.
Speaker 11 (26:04):
It puffy.
Speaker 17 (26:06):
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly when
they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky.
Speaker 10 (26:13):
So up to the house, top the courses they flew
with a sleigh full of toys, and Saint Nicholas too.
And then on a twinkle, I heard on the roof.
Speaker 17 (26:23):
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof, and I
draw in my head and was turning around down the chimney.
Speaker 10 (26:31):
Saint Nicholas came with a barn. He was dressed all
in fur from his head to his foot, and his
clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
Speaker 17 (26:40):
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back
and looked like a peddler just opening his back. His eyes,
how they twinkled, His dimples, how merry, his cheeks were
like roses, his nose like a cherry.
Speaker 10 (26:54):
His droll little.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Mouth was drawn up like a bow, and.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
The beard on his chin was as white as the
the stump of a pipe.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
He held tight in his teeth, and the smoke it
encircled his head like a wreath.
Speaker 13 (27:07):
He had a broad face and a little round belly
that shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.
Speaker 14 (27:14):
He was chubby and plump, a red, jolly old elphant.
I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
A wink at his eye and a twitch of his
head soon gave me to know.
Speaker 10 (27:24):
I had nothing to dread.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
He spoke not a word, that went straight to his
work and filled all the stockings. Then turned with a jerk,
and laying his finger aside of his nose, and giving
a nod up the chimney.
Speaker 10 (27:41):
He rose.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team, gave a whistle, and.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Away they all flew like the dull whistle.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
When I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight,
Happy Christmas to all.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
And to all goodness, ladies and gentlemen. You have just
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heard miss Greer Garson in a dramatization of It was
the Night before Christmas tonight's production in Auto Lights Suspense.
Miss Garson will return in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Next week on Suspense, our star will be mister James Mason,
who has Lord Essex's plots to capture Elizabeth's throne.
Speaker 10 (28:44):
It's called The Queen's Ring.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliott Lewis, with music
composed Volution Marwick and conducted by Lud Gluskin. Chorus was
under the direction of Roger Wagner. Twas The Night Before
Christmas was written for suspense by more Fine and David Friedkin.
In Tonight's story, Anne Whitfield was heard as Kathy. Featured
in the cast were Harry bartel Irene, Tedroll, Mary Lansing,
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Charles Calvert, Howard mcneer, Herb Butterfield, Johnny mcgoverern Sidney Miller,
Joseph Kerns, and John Ramsey Hill.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
And here once again is our lovely star, Miss Garson Hallow.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Thank you very much, and thank you Anne Whitfield. What
I have these few moments. May I join the Autolite
family in sending holiday greetings to our friends everywhere.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Merry Christmas, Hallow, Merry Christmas, Grare, Merry Christmas to all,
and to all a good night.
Speaker 9 (29:37):
This is the CBS Radio Network
Speaker 10 (29:47):
Now
Auto Light and it's ninety eight thousand dealers present.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Suspense Tonight, Autolite presents a special program for this holiday season,
the unusual dramatization of Twas the Night Before Christmas, starring
Miss Greer Garson, who appears by arrangement with MGM producers
of the new color picture Knights of the Round Table
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in CinemaScope starring Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner and Melferrer. Good Evening,
This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for auto Light Tonight. As
a special Christmas presentation from the worldwide Auto Light family.
We bring you Miss Greer Garson in a story about
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a certain little girl on a certain Christmas Eve and
now auto lighte Sense transcribed towards the night before Christmas,
hoping once again to keep you in.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
So spend.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Kathy, Kaby Honey, come on, wake up, Wake up, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
It's the day before Christmas. Oh not so much, Miss.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Buff it's light out already. You said you were going
to wake me really early today.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
So we could go to the airport and meet them.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Come on up, you get let's get your dressed, Buffy.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
They're going to be waiting for me, and you didn't
wake me. I know what's You're home already, Kethy, Mommy, Daddy?
Where are you?
Speaker 7 (02:06):
Daddy?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Mommy, Buffy? They're not in their bedroom.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
Where are they, Cathy?
Speaker 8 (02:15):
I know, I'll bet they're in the kitchen already having
the coffee.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Mommy, this buff they're not home, I know, Honey.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
The o'clock in the kitchen set eight thirty.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Cathy, here, put this on here. You told me you
wanted to wear this dress today, says.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Why I ironed it for you?
Speaker 9 (02:37):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Do you? Why aren't they here?
Speaker 10 (02:39):
Oh, they'd be here.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
But when I talked to mommy on the telephone yesterday,
she said she would be here at six this morning,
and I promised her i'd meet her at the airport
her and dad, and Daddy said he had a surprise
he was bringing for me all the way from Paris.
It's say thirty, Buffy, let's go out to the airport now.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
But there's so many things to do.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
First, you've got to get your breakfast, and we have
to finish decorating the tree, and oh, there's so many things.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I want you to help me.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Think and wait, Buffy, Harry, I promised to meet.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Them, No, dear, why not? Buff?
Speaker 11 (03:13):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I think we'll wait for them here, Puffy. Yeah, you
remember what you promised your mommy and dad.
Speaker 10 (03:20):
Did you do everything I.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Ask you while they were away? Yes, then we wait
for them here.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
All right, Buffy.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
It's noon, Buffy, I know.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Don't you think they might have called and told us
they'd be late.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I'll go and make our lunch. You must be very hungry, No,
I'm not. Oh you didn't eat your breakfast.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Cathy, miss buff, I'm not hungry. Look.
Speaker 10 (04:05):
Oh look it's snowing, honey. We'll have a nice warm lunch,
and then we'll go out for a long walk. You should,
of course, I'll tell you what, Cathy. We'll take our
walk first, we'll see the shops, we'll visit. We'll go
and see Johnny and your aunt and uncle. Maybe, if
it snows hard enough, we can all build a snowman.
Wouldn't you like that?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Yes, that would be fun.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
We'll go get your coat and heavy goloshes to you,
all right, and.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
When we come back, mommy and daddy'll be home.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Well, you go and get your things now.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Oh, I'll get it.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I'll get it, Buffy, Mommy, Oh.
Speaker 12 (04:37):
Who's this?
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Daddy?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Some all from a newspaper. I see it's a man, boff,
He says, he wants to talk to an older person here.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Hello, Yes, this is the half of residence. I'm the housekeeper.
I well, just a moment, please, Kevy. Someone wants to
talk to me. Honey, will you go get your things?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
No? Who are you talking to?
Speaker 10 (05:06):
But never mind? You go and get your things.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
No, I won't.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Hello, I see, yes, yes I saw the papers. Yes,
yes that was the daughter, Yes, the only child. No
she doesn't No, no, no, I wish you wouldn't. Please,
don't hear?
Speaker 13 (05:32):
No?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Who was it?
Speaker 10 (05:36):
It was just a man, honey, who was.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
From the newspapers? Why what did he want?
Speaker 10 (05:41):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
He asked about me, didn't he Why?
Speaker 10 (05:45):
Honestly, honey, it was nothing.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
It was about mommy and daddy.
Speaker 10 (05:49):
Or wasn't anything important?
Speaker 14 (05:51):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (05:51):
Do you?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Look at that snow coming down, Kathy, get your things, dear,
go on. Don't they seem beautifully Cathy?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Very loudly?
Speaker 10 (06:30):
The streets and all the decorations are the singers very uply?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Honey, you give this to the man. Oh, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 11 (06:47):
Miss.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Let's go home now, a little guy, don't you remember
we were going visiting to you.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Mommy and Daddy are probably home right now, waiting for
me and wondering why.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
And we build a snowman together, Like I said, come on, honey,
I remember when I was a little girl, How excited
I get all the wonderful things to see, the sights
and the smells and the sounds, pretty shop windows and
the snows. To be a little girl at Christmas time,
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to be young at Christmas time and happy it.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
What's the matter about this?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Okaty body, let me hold you, Oh, Katy, darling, fancy
you're crying.
Speaker 10 (07:42):
I'm just say.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Why.
Speaker 14 (07:45):
Look there Santa Claus watching us. Let's hello him. You
were crying, Hello Santa.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 15 (07:53):
Oh, Merry Christmas, little girl, Merry Christmas. Ah, you're a
pretty little girl. What's your name, Kathy? Oh, that's a
nice name for a nice little girl like you. Thank you,
And I can tell you when a good little girl.
I saw the way your mommy was holding you, Jess.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Miss buff My mommy's away, daddy too. We're taking a
walk to make them come home.
Speaker 11 (08:15):
And where are they?
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 16 (08:51):
Chaffy, Chaffy, come in, Darling, and Miss Buff, how are
you come in?
Speaker 11 (08:55):
Come in, mother, mother?
Speaker 10 (08:57):
Guess who's here?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Why Cassie and Miss Buff?
Speaker 10 (09:02):
Hello, Hello, missus Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Take your things off. You've got a big fire in
the living room. And wait till you see our Christmas tree. Cathy.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
I'm sure it's very beautiful.
Speaker 16 (09:12):
I'll bet Kathy came to say her cousin Johnny didn't.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Yes, I did, Uncle. I would like to see him
very much.
Speaker 15 (09:18):
And do you know what that boy of mine did,
Miss Buff.
Speaker 11 (09:21):
No, he found the train. Oh he did.
Speaker 16 (09:23):
After I took so much trouble to hide them out
in the garage, he found them, so of course.
Speaker 9 (09:28):
I had to set them up for him.
Speaker 16 (09:29):
Well, it's the day before Christmas. He's in his room now, Kathy.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Yes, I would like to play with the train, of
cause you would. Johnny. I can't come on, Dahny, I'm busy.
Cathy's here. He's goanna blame my trains, Kathy. You want
to see I got them all hitched up.
Speaker 10 (09:49):
Now, go on, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
All right.
Speaker 16 (09:56):
I've been on the phone since seven this morning, Miss Buff,
and just isn't any word at all about the plane.
Speaker 10 (10:04):
A man from the newspaper called the house. I told
him to stay away. Did the child know? I think
she does?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
What did you tell her nothing? How do you tell
a child let it go?
Speaker 11 (10:19):
What I can't understand is why no word at all.
Speaker 16 (10:22):
The plane took off from Paris on time, and there
was radio contact over island from what I could find out,
But since then nothing.
Speaker 10 (10:31):
You better tell her, John, tell me what? Well?
Speaker 11 (10:34):
There was a storm over the ocean, pretty bad storm,
they said.
Speaker 10 (10:43):
His fuck, yes, Darling, I'll.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Just figure it out something. It's about mommy and daddy.
They're not coming home. They're not ever coming home.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Autolite is bringing you, Miss Greer Garson with and Whitfield
as Kathy in Twas the Night before Christmas. Tonight's production
in Radio's outstanding Theater of Thrills sALS spends.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
This is Harlow Wilcox again with a message from mister
Royce G. Martin, Resident and Chairman of the Electric Autolite Company.
It is presented in the name of the Autolite Family,
which includes some thirty thousand Autolite men and women and
their families, eighteen thousand people who have invested a portion
of their savings in Autolite, as well as ninety eight
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thousand dealers and the greatest names in the industry who
use Autolite products as original equipment. This is the message
from mister Martin. In our America, we are especially blessed
this Christmas with a free country. We are surrounded with
freedom loving people who appreciate the word Christmas. We are
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grateful for what this day means to all of us
and for what it meant to our great forefathers. We
will never forget the one whose holy birthday we are
about to celebrate. We thank him for the word freedom
and the happiness that he has given us. We of
the Autolite family wish you and yours a very merry
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Christmas and a new year filled with health and happiness.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
And now Autolite brings back to our Hollywood sound stage,
Miss Greer Garson in Elliot Lewis's production of Twas the
Night Before Christmas, A tale well calculated to keep you win.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Souls spin.
Speaker 10 (13:24):
Oh, it's going to be good to get inside of
the housecare look at you. You look almost like the
snowman you and Johnny built. Let me brush you off
a be before we go inside.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
There's a man there, won't you say? Nonni right there
standing by the door.
Speaker 12 (13:41):
Man, Hello, laving miss, Hello, little girl?
Speaker 10 (13:46):
Is this your house? Yes?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
I live here?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Who are you?
Speaker 10 (13:49):
What do you want?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (13:50):
Then you'd be the Harper's little girl, wouldn't you?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yes, I asked you.
Speaker 10 (13:54):
Who are you?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
No?
Speaker 12 (13:55):
I don't worry about it, man, I just want to
take a picture of the little girl. You want your
you're taking a little girl, Rocky.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You're the reporter I talked to this morning, aren't you?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
And we'll want one of you too.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Man, here, get in a huse, Kathy, don't stand there?
Speaker 10 (14:09):
Do you get in a huse? Are be it in
a moment?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
It's Christmas Eve, mister reporter?
Speaker 10 (14:17):
Did you know?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Ow?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Look, ma'am it's Christmas Eve?
Speaker 10 (14:21):
Where's your heart?
Speaker 13 (14:22):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (14:22):
Look, you've got to understand I talked to you on
the phone. It was almost ten hours ago, before noon.
It's nighttime already. There still isn't any word about the plane.
I represent a newspaper.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Man.
Speaker 10 (14:33):
We've got to assume.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Well, you know, I don't want.
Speaker 11 (14:36):
To say it any more than you do. Just go
away on now.
Speaker 9 (14:40):
Really, I've got it.
Speaker 11 (14:41):
Were you?
Speaker 10 (14:42):
Were you ever.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Lonely on Christmas Eve? Alone in a house?
Speaker 11 (14:46):
That's it.
Speaker 10 (14:48):
Well, outside other people were singing. Well there was warmth
and love and joy.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
But outside.
Speaker 10 (14:56):
I'm just trying to Christmas Eve. The snow is falling
Christmas Eve, and the child is.
Speaker 11 (15:05):
It is grieving.
Speaker 12 (15:07):
Yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 10 (15:10):
Good night, Kathy.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
I'm in the living room, Buffy.
Speaker 13 (15:22):
I just had a wonderful thought. Let's have a secret. What, Buffy,
let's not wait till tomorrow. What do you mean we
go to our tree and open some of our presents. Now,
maybe just one, but she was the one with the
most beautiful wrapping. You can open it and you can
play with it. Now, will I go and fix something
for you to eat?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
I'm not hungry, Bluff, honestly, I'm more just.
Speaker 10 (15:46):
Some milk and cookies.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Honey, you have legal Well, well let's choose.
Speaker 10 (15:51):
Go ahead, pick one, all right?
Speaker 13 (15:56):
That one?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
M h it's it's from mister Anderson next door.
Speaker 10 (16:01):
Open it?
Speaker 5 (16:03):
You open it, Puffy?
Speaker 11 (16:07):
Oh, look.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Very nice.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
A carousel. Well, I wind it for you.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
And we'll put it down here. Yeah, you watch it.
When it runs down, you can wind it up again.
I'm going into the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Cathy, here's your Cathy. Cathy, Honey, where are you Cathy.
Your milk and cookies are on the table. Cathy, are
you in your room?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Cathy?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Cathy, Cavy, Honey.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Kaby.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Casey?
Speaker 10 (17:25):
Wait, missus Buff.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Mister Anderson is kefy here?
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Well?
Speaker 7 (17:29):
I know he?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Would you mind asking, Missus Anderson? Cathy's here? Maybe she
came in through the back way?
Speaker 15 (17:35):
Well, Missus Anderson and I have been sitting in the
living room for the last hour.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
But what's the matter?
Speaker 10 (17:39):
Miss Buff?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Kathy ran out of the house.
Speaker 10 (17:41):
Poor child. I can imagine how she must know she
might have come over here next door.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
She just ran out of the house.
Speaker 15 (17:46):
I don't know where she child like that, and what's
happened to her today?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Wait, I'll get my coat and spuff.
Speaker 10 (17:52):
I'll come with you.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Paul, Paul want to be ride?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Miss Poll Paul? Listen, I'm miss Anderson.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Want a ride.
Speaker 10 (18:10):
You can go all the way down the hill for
three blocks.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
They've got roped off to Paul. Have you seen Kathy?
Speaker 10 (18:15):
Sure? Where does she?
Speaker 11 (18:17):
I don't know where is she?
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Paul?
Speaker 10 (18:18):
Where did you go?
Speaker 13 (18:19):
Am?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I supposed to know where she went? But you saw her,
didn't you?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
She was running down the block? I yelled her to
come on over but she kept running which way?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Paul?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Down there?
Speaker 5 (18:29):
I guess where the stores are?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
We?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Sure. Merry Christmas, Miss Randerson, Merry Christmasmas.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
Buff.
Speaker 17 (18:37):
Hey, what.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
She hasn't been in my store?
Speaker 10 (18:48):
Miss Buff?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
And I'm the only one on the block.
Speaker 10 (18:50):
Was opened last minute?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Christmas Rusher?
Speaker 10 (18:52):
No, thank you, mister bux s Now that kid?
Speaker 5 (18:55):
And what happened to that plane today?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I'm sure let the police know she was missing.
Speaker 15 (18:59):
I think he's right, Miss Buff.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
Call them, please call them. Oh, use this phone, mister Anderson.
Speaker 15 (19:05):
Thank you, Hello operator, give me the police. Oh, hello, police,
I want to report a little girl who's missing, Kathy Harper. Well,
she's got blonde hair and blue eyes. And wait a second,
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I'll find out you're just go in the house, miss Buff.
I'm sure they'll find her.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
It's ten o'clock. They've been looking for three hours.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
Oh, they have ways they'll find it.
Speaker 10 (19:52):
We waited in that station house. All the policemen who
phoned in, none of them were you.
Speaker 15 (19:58):
Just go in the house now, I'll send missus Anderson.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
No, no, really, i'd rather you wouldn't. Well, good night,
mister Anderson, and thank you.
Speaker 18 (20:33):
Yes, I'm patrol and read ma'am, be found Kathy, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
You gotta come with me, ma'am. Yeah, there she is,
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ma'am in the second pill.
Speaker 10 (21:32):
Oh, cas it signed Christmas Eve.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Chuck. Should have been the first place we should have looked.
Speaker 10 (21:48):
For that kid, Kathy, Let's go home. No, Dottie, all
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right there, we are all talk to him.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
It's almost Christmas, isn't it. Yes, Darnie, you're going to
read to me?
Speaker 10 (22:47):
Of course, you just.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Lie there, Buffy, Yes, darling, nothing, just read to me.
Speaker 10 (23:04):
It was the night before Christmas, when all through the
house not a creature was staring, not even the last.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in
hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there. The children
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were nestled, all snug in their while visions of sugar
plums danced in her head, and my mind her kerch
went iron my cap. I had just settled down for
a long winter's nap when out on the law and
there arose such a clatter.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.
Waited the window.
Speaker 10 (23:49):
I flew like a flash, tore open the shutters, and
threw open the sash. The moon on the breast of
the new fallen snow gave a luster of mid day
to our chipped below. When what to my wondering eyes
should appear but a miniature slag and ate tiny reindeer
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with a little old driver, so lively and quick and
you in a moment, it must be sat Nick, more
rapid than eagles his courses. They came, and he whistled
and shouted and called him by name.
Speaker 19 (24:26):
Now Dasher, now answer now, Branson and Vixen uncomet on Cupid,
on Dunder and Blitzen to the tops of the porch,
to the top of the wall.
Speaker 10 (24:38):
Now dash away, dashuway, dash away up.
Speaker 8 (24:46):
Bobby, hot, Mommy, Merry Christmas, Cathy.
Speaker 11 (25:01):
Hey, hey, it's Christmas. We don't cry on Christmas.
Speaker 10 (25:06):
Babe.
Speaker 11 (25:09):
Hey, how about a big hug for me?
Speaker 10 (25:15):
We have missus buff.
Speaker 11 (25:17):
I was in bed.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
She was reading to me, and beds the place for you.
Speaker 10 (25:21):
Come on, carry Bob.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
It's money.
Speaker 11 (25:26):
It's sad, I know, Darling, I know, Hello, Buffy, Merry Christmas,
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Buff.
Speaker 11 (25:33):
We had to make an emergency landing in Newfouland. Small
field communications were shot that storm.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
Yes, yes, let's not talk about it. Anymore.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Now, Buffy was reading me a wonderful thing about like
before Christmas.
Speaker 11 (25:46):
Here, I'll put you in bed, Kathy, Yeah, hey, read
it to us, Buffy, to all of us.
Speaker 10 (25:58):
Oh that's my.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Ray.
Speaker 11 (26:04):
It puffy.
Speaker 17 (26:06):
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly when
they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky.
Speaker 10 (26:13):
So up to the house, top the courses they flew
with a sleigh full of toys, and Saint Nicholas too.
And then on a twinkle, I heard on the roof.
Speaker 17 (26:23):
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof, and I
draw in my head and was turning around down the chimney.
Speaker 10 (26:31):
Saint Nicholas came with a barn. He was dressed all
in fur from his head to his foot, and his
clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
Speaker 17 (26:40):
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back
and looked like a peddler just opening his back. His eyes,
how they twinkled, His dimples, how merry, his cheeks were
like roses, his nose like a cherry.
Speaker 10 (26:54):
His droll little.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Mouth was drawn up like a bow, and.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
The beard on his chin was as white as the
the stump of a pipe.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
He held tight in his teeth, and the smoke it
encircled his head like a wreath.
Speaker 13 (27:07):
He had a broad face and a little round belly
that shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.
Speaker 14 (27:14):
He was chubby and plump, a red, jolly old elphant.
I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
A wink at his eye and a twitch of his
head soon gave me to know.
Speaker 10 (27:24):
I had nothing to dread.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
He spoke not a word, that went straight to his
work and filled all the stockings. Then turned with a jerk,
and laying his finger aside of his nose, and giving
a nod up the chimney.
Speaker 10 (27:41):
He rose.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team, gave a whistle, and.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Away they all flew like the dull whistle.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
When I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight,
Happy Christmas to all.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
And to all goodness, ladies and gentlemen. You have just
(28:26):
heard miss Greer Garson in a dramatization of It was
the Night before Christmas tonight's production in Auto Lights Suspense.
Miss Garson will return in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Next week on Suspense, our star will be mister James Mason,
who has Lord Essex's plots to capture Elizabeth's throne.
Speaker 10 (28:44):
It's called The Queen's Ring.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliott Lewis, with music
composed Volution Marwick and conducted by Lud Gluskin. Chorus was
under the direction of Roger Wagner. Twas The Night Before
Christmas was written for suspense by more Fine and David Friedkin.
In Tonight's story, Anne Whitfield was heard as Kathy. Featured
in the cast were Harry bartel Irene, Tedroll, Mary Lansing,
(29:09):
Charles Calvert, Howard mcneer, Herb Butterfield, Johnny mcgoverern Sidney Miller,
Joseph Kerns, and John Ramsey Hill.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
And here once again is our lovely star, Miss Garson Hallow.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Thank you very much, and thank you Anne Whitfield. What
I have these few moments. May I join the Autolite
family in sending holiday greetings to our friends everywhere.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Merry Christmas, Hallow, Merry Christmas, Grare, Merry Christmas to all,
and to all a good night.
Speaker 9 (29:37):
This is the CBS Radio Network
Speaker 10 (29:47):
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