October 20, 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 (00:05):
Auto Light and it's ninety eight thousand dealers. Bring you,
mister Robert Cummings, into Night's presentation of suspense. Tonight Auto
Light presents a story based on fact, the dramatization of
one man's deadly way of earning his living. All he
(00:25):
needed was the morning newspaper, a telephone, and a gun.
It's called wantad Our Star. Mister Robert Cummings, Good evening,
This is Harlow Wilcox. You and I mean every one
of you, have the opportunity of a lifetime. The Auto
LIGHTE Family offers one hundred thousand dollars to be distributed
(00:50):
by you to your church, hospital, favorite local or national charity,
Heart or cancer fund, March of Dimes, any recognized charity.
And it's so easy to participate. Just visit the showroom
of any DeSoto, Hudson, Plymouth, Studebaker, Dodge, Willis, Nash, Packard,
Kaiser or Chrysler dealer, ask him for a registration form,
(01:11):
print your name and address and have him sign it.
Now Here is missus Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, who is famous
for her work with charities. She, like thousands of others,
wants to know more about the amazing Autolite Family Charity Fund.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
This one hundred thousand dollars Autolite Family offer for charity
sounds like a most extraordinary opportunity for all Americans to
help their favorite charities.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Can anyone register.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Anyone in America?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Missus Whitney.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Missus Whitney will be back later to hear more about
this great drawing. Remember visit your Autolite Family car dealer
and sign up tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
And now Autolite Presents transcribed want Ad starring mister Robert Cummings,
Hoping once again to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
I see a guy in my line works alone, more
or less, at least he should. But when I first
got into town, I met a little lady, and after
we'd known each other a couple of months, we got married.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Matter of fact, it worked out pretty well.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Every morning she gets up ahead of me, pixs of
some eggs and coffee. It's pretty nice, huh. But the
little lady's name is Wilma.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Baby Baby.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Through were the funnies?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Do you have to work today?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Afraid? So? Oh?
Speaker 7 (02:48):
I was hoping we could spend a quiet day together here,
you know, sort of lie around, look at the paper
and everything.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Maybe you know I'd like that, but I have to
do other things.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Leave me all alone to spend the day by myself.
I've got a new dress, I could wear it.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Bye die, they get busy.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Oh you're just never paying attention. Well, all right, baby, I.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Think I'll go window shopping. I'll see you later.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Yeah, bye bye bye.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
That's section three, ages ten to seventeen.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Uh, okay bye.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Two eight.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Nine.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Hey Hello, I'm calling about an advertisement in this morning's paper.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Do I have the right number? Yes, yes I am.
What kind of code is it? Well?
Speaker 6 (04:13):
That sounds like something I might be interested in seeing.
Let me get that down, all right? Fourteen twenty five?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
What Jan? How do you spell that? Jan? Doda? Yeah?
In about an hour? Thank you? One for the money,
(04:43):
two for the.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Show, three to make ready, four to go, five to
make sure, and.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Six to blow if I have to.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
How many women can go out and pluck down the
kind of money it takes a walk out of a
store with a mink coat.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Huh, not many? For I do not any.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
That means where there's a mink you can bet there's
a boyfriend or a husband around.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
To pay for it.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Yeah, and you can bet when the coat's gotta go.
He's already gone. The lady's got to eat, get it.
She's all alone and she wants to sell her coat.
(05:56):
Oh how do you do? Yes, I'm mister Vernon. I
called at your advertisement in the paper this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Oh yes, mister Vernon.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
You haven't sold it yet?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Well no I haven't. It's good now.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
I don't want to do business with any dealer. I
just don't want to be bothered with any dealers. Half
a dozen have called me already. I hope you're not
a dealer, mister Vernon.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Do I look like a dealer?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Well?
Speaker 8 (06:21):
I can't tell anymore. They're very clever people. I just
want to sell the coat outright to somebody, not on
any contingency bas is there anything like that.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Just sell it out right, you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Yes, I know what you mean, but I'll have to
see it before I can make an offer.
Speaker 8 (06:37):
Well, all right, come in. Well i'm missus Phelps.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Oh how do you do? You have a very very
nice home here, missus Phelps?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Have you lived here long?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Two years? Would you like to step in here? Please?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yes? Sure?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Oh dear, I've been plagued to this with all kinds
of dealers.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
I don't know how, but some of them found my
address without even calling the number I put in the
paper like that. Oh they sure do, let me tell you,
they certainly do. Well, there it is.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Yes, that's very very nice, very very nice. It's silver mink. Yes,
Oh say, could I ask you to put it on
for me?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Missus Phelps? It helped me. They see you're about my
wife's side.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
Oh sure, well you can see it's kept very full.
Sleeves are very full too. See see bat wings sleeves
and cops too. Makes the coat very luxurious.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yes, a lot of coat there, just a lot of coat,
missus Phelps.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well, I love it. I just love it.
Speaker 8 (07:48):
My husband bought it for me a year ago, and
I hate to have to sell it, but.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Well I need the money. You can see that it's
hardly worn at all.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
See here, look at the it's all intact. I don't
think I wore this coat more than a dozen times.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
How much did it cost your retail, missus Phelps.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
Well, mister Phelps paid four five hundred dollars for it.
These are the insurance papers. Now you can see what
they insured it for. Now, I tell you, right now,
a friend has already offered me twenty eight hundred dollars
for it. I wouldn't think of selling it for any
way near that. I'd rather keep it.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Would you think of selling it for thirty four?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Thirty four?
Speaker 8 (08:34):
Yeah, well that's still pretty cheap.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I don't have to tell you that.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
If the coat's a year old, six hundred dollars appreciation,
that's not bad. I could possibly get the same coat
for thirty eight. I doubt if you'll get a better
offer than thirty four, missus Phelps, I'm willing to pay
for it right now.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Well, I'll have to talk to my husband first.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Is he here now?
Speaker 8 (08:59):
Well, he's not home right now, but he'll be here
any minute. Could you come back this afternoon or maybe
you could.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
I came to buy the coat now I'm leaving town
this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I thought you were ready to sell.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Well, I.
Speaker 8 (09:16):
All right, mister Vernon, I'll take your offer good. But
I don't know you at all. You understand you'd have
to give me a certified check, or I'd have to
keep the coat until your check cleared the bank.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Well paid cash. I brought the cash with me. Oh,
anything wrong with that.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Oh no, no, mister Vernon, I just didn't expect to
sell it so quickly. I still have the box that
came in. It's a perfectly lovely box. I'll give you
that for nothing.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yes, I would like the box.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
You know, mister Vernon, you are getting a bargain, a
real bargain, in this coat. I tell him my husband
and I loved almost two years before we found a
mink that well just suited you know what I mean.
Now you can buy any fur coat of mink or
a say well, I don't care what it is. Thirty
days later you hate the sight of it, But this
one your wife will never get tired of.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Look isn't this a pretty box?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Yes? Yes, this.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
Now you tell your wife to be sure and keep
it in a first storage vault during the warm months.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
You have to take care of mink. Now, that's all
there is to us.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
I know, something like this you really got to take
care of.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
Oh my, I'm glad you came in the morning. I
want to take the money to the bank right away.
I'd hate to have to keep that much money around
the house.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
I figured you would missus phelps, so I won't bother
giving you the money. What Well, then you won't have
to make a trip to the bank or worry about
the money around the house.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Oh you mean you want to give me a personal check.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I want to give you nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
You you did come here to buy this coat? Don't
you want it?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yeah? I want a lady, a thief. I sure, I
don't scream, don't open your mouth.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Oh, don't hurt me, Please, don't hurt me.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Over there, go on?
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Oh worth four thousand dollars, one year old?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Real, goodbye. You should have seen your face when I
told you i'd give you thirty four hundred bucks for it.
I'm a thief. Anybody could buy that code brand new
for twenty five hundred bucks. I'll bring you about a thousand.
It shapes in right now.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
I'm a thief with a gun in my hand, taking
what I want. If you figure out what you'd be
if you were counting my thirty four hundred. Oh you're
quite a cute kidder, missus phelps. But then I'm used
to people like you.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Get in there.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I just don't take my coat, please.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
It's the only thing I have that's worth anything.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Well, that's how simple it works.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I've been in the business for a little while now,
and I know a few things about it. Of course,
you got to watch your step and be ready for
anything that happens like today.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
Oh Liz, Liz, I've been trying.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Oh who are you? Oh? Hi, who are you? Well?
I'm Frank Pholps. Who'd you say you were? I didn't
say besides you wouldn't know me anyhow. Where's Liz?
Speaker 9 (12:37):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (12:38):
That's Liz it is that's Liz coat my gun?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Why you.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
What have you done to her?
Speaker 9 (12:46):
Like?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
What's been going on here? On your head? Brother? You
won't get hurt. She's okay.
Speaker 9 (12:50):
No cheap crook's going to come into my house and
pull of stunt like this.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I'll show you.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Get down, down down, stay down. Well, well, you people
certainly have something to talk about over dinner, and I
want you, yeah, something you can talk about all right.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Now.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
When the hard part's done, and it isn't usually as
hard as it was today, the next parts get hold
of a fence. Who can use the mink coat? Pretty easy?
I use Waller myself. He takes the pain out of everything.
I don't go to him, just a little old phone
call and he comes to me.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
Sorry, huh you blue at this time. Boy, I don't
want this thing. It's too hot.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Keep it. What's the matter, you're getting touchy, getting anything?
Speaker 9 (14:01):
I just don't want to do business with you anymore, No, sir, hey,
do not wait wait a minute. Get your hands off
of me. Boy, Get your hands off of me. A
smash makes your big time, eh?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Is that it?
Speaker 9 (14:15):
A gun whip turns into class A stuff? Hands off
of me, boy, the last time I'll ask.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
No sense, and that's arguable.
Speaker 9 (14:26):
I'm gonna try very hard, but I don't think I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Like you anymore.
Speaker 9 (14:32):
You're a killer, now, huh. That guy Phelps died this afternoon.
It's in all the papers. Well, he shouldn't have run
at me. Is that what you're gonna tell the cops
when they drag you out us somewhere by the scruff.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Of the neck. No CoP's gonna do that to me.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
They always grind off little punks like you.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Boy.
Speaker 9 (14:55):
You kill the guy, you beat them to death, You
stole his wife's mean could There isn't any place they
won't look for you, boy, and they know where to
look for your kind. They won't stop till they find you.
You're gone, boy, just playing only you don't know it yet, So.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Aud the light is bringing you.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Mister Robert Cummings in won't add tonight's presentation in radio's
outstanding theater of thrills suspense.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Hey you are Mac. You're Hudson Dealers.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Thanks Cabby, and here thank you, Yes sir, what can
I do for you? Well, I'm Harlow Wilcox. I'd like
to get some information on the new Hudson. Tonight, we
are privileged to salute Hudson on suspense as a distinguished
member of the Auto Light family.
Speaker 10 (16:16):
And you're saluting a great car, or i should say cars.
Here's one of our three models, the new Hudson Hornet,
only sixty inches high with that famous step down design
for the road huggingest ride you ever had. And it
has the new instant action engine with superinduction.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
And what model is this.
Speaker 10 (16:35):
That's the fifty four Hudson Wasp, more power, new styling
and a new lower price.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
And here's that new Hudson Jet.
Speaker 10 (16:43):
Eh, yes, sir, a new kind of car, compact, economical
and really low priced. And of course all these Hudsons
are equipped with quality Auto Light products.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Well, thanks for your cooperation. Auto Light is proud of
its long association with the Hudson Motor Car Company and
Hudson Dealers Everywhere.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
And now Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage.
Mister Robert Cummings in Elliott Lewis's production of Want Ad,
a story based on fact and well calculated to keep
you in suspense.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
I know maybe a half a dozen fences in town.
Only tried two of them after Waller. Those fellows are
kind of chicken about some things. They get at action
with a piece of merchandise and they all get scared.
Of course, they're all afraid of.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Something or other.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Are you thinking, hun, that what you're doing?
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Thinking?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
A man didn't he want to come?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Such a pretty pretty cold.
Speaker 11 (18:02):
Oh baby, I wish we had a fireplace.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I wish we had a.
Speaker 11 (18:07):
Big, big fireplace, and then we could sit in front
of a fire on a rainy night like this and everything.
That'd be nice when a baby sure would could drink
hot coffee, maybe listen to music, make fudge.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Huh uh huh.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Do you like my new thing?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Why this.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Pretty?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Oh? Yeah? Like a million, like a whole million bucks.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I liked it so I bought it just like that.
You hardly looked.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
I'll have to leave time. I have to get out
of here. I have to go where they can't find me.
Oh baby, Oh no, what's the matter. Did I say something?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
You're gonna leave me?
Speaker 8 (18:55):
You're going away?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Oh no, look kid, look, I have to go. Don't
understand putting. I have to leave time. If I don't get.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
They won't get you here. Just stay here with me.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I have to go. I have to go.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Take me with you.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Let me go with you.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
We can have some real nice time some other places,
the same as we did here.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Yeah, sure, I'll take care.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Oh baby, I'll take care. Oh baby, is so good
to men.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
But I haven't got time for that. We gotta get busy.
They have to get a car first.
Speaker 11 (19:36):
Oh we haven't got any money.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Look how did I get that coat? How do I
get all those coats? Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
But Ralph, you can't do that anymore. That man who
was here so they're looking for you can't do that anymore.
They'll be waiting for you.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
He says. I can't. I say I can. Don't.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
You see how I use my head? Baby, they're waiting
for me. Okay, they're waiting for a guy with a
first coat on his mind. But baby, I'm now a
guy with a car on his mind.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Get it, baby, he's so smart. Gee, you're so smart.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Well, i'll sir.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
With the little Wilmore wigging around in my arms. I
began to go for the new idea with my son.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
It was pretty good.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Next day when the papers came out, I went right
to work. Hey, baby, this is the one. Hey, this
is the one.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Which one is the one?
Speaker 6 (20:35):
This one for sale like new late modecan invertible private party.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I just called, Oh, well, what was my with the other's?
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Baby? I told you? A man answered.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
On the other calls, this time it was a woman
who answered, oh, it's.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
The same thing. A woman trying to sell a car
a coach. He's alone, no one around makes it safe.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Oh I see. Do you like a new hat.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Fine, it's a knockout, baby, knockout.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I wear it in the car. What kind of car
do you say?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
It is? Convertible, big new convertible.
Speaker 11 (21:07):
Oh will looks well going down the highway in a
big convertible.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Then we can put.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
The top down, Yeah, we sure can. I told her
we'd be right over to look at the car. You're
coming with me? Yeah, it'll look better if you come
with me.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
There won't be any trouble. I mean, the police are
looking for you, aren't they.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Baby, You let me worry about the police. There won't
be any trouble at all. Just keep your new hat
on it.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Come with me, baby, all right, I'll dress all up.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
It took her a little while, but I finally got
her over there.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
It was a very nice looking house, just to kind
of a place where they need a convertible to show
off a little bit.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
My meet Wilma thought it was a very nice place too. Hey, baby,
m the gum, Oh juicy food? You want some take
out the gum? Baby? Oh? And I better do the talking.
You know, I've been this kind of thing for a
long time now.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah, well you know best do I look all right?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yes? Well?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Hello?
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Oh hello, I'm the man about the car. Oh, yes,
I'm mister Watson. This is missus Watson.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Oh, will come in please.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Well, we'd like to see the car if we could
worry in kind of a hurry.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Well, the car is in the garage in the back.
It's just easier to come through the house.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Well, all right, this way. There's something funny about this.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
What she had a car for sale, she'd have to
sit on the driveway or out front, not hitting the garage.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
The rain last night. I thought it best to keep
it in the garage. I wanted it to look nice
to show today. A silly come on, But you too
are newly married?
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Oh no, we yeah, we we've been married for some
time now.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
You just look like newlywed somehow.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
This hello?
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Oh hello, this is my husband, mister and missus Watson.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Oh hello, mister Watson.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
How do you do?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
I'm sure you seem familiar with mister Watson. Have you lived
here long?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
No?
Speaker 6 (23:18):
No, we're just passing through as a matter of fact.
Where he's staying at the Alpine Hotel. How long did
you say you've been in town?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
A week? How do you doing for a living?
Speaker 6 (23:29):
I'm an electrician. Where did you say you were from Cleveland?
What part Shaker Heights?
Speaker 5 (23:36):
This must be quite different than Shaker Heights, Missus Watson.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Oh it is it is, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Do you think of the car? Uh? Well, I haven't
really had a chance to look at it yet. Oh
there's shares. Take a look.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Yeah, that's pretty nice car. All right, what are you
asking for it? Blue Book's playing thirty two for this
model right now? Thirty eight on a lot, we'll compromise
thirty five.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Well that sounds pretty good. A little steep, though, How
about thirty four?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Can you get someone to carry the papers?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Oh? I can pay for it myself. You're brought cash? Oh?
Speaker 6 (24:15):
No, but I can go over the bank and get
it if you'll give me an hour.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
No cash.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
You didn't expect me to walk in here with thirty
four hundred on me, did you?
Speaker 4 (24:25):
After all? I don't know your people from Adam.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
No offense, But man, it'd be crazy to carry that
much money around strangers.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
What bank? Huh?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
He asked you. What bank you'd go to to get
the money?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Oh? Why, just any bank.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I'll draw a draft on myself on my Cleveland account.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
You say you're an electrician, mister Watson?
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Yes, is your name really Watson? Why don't you usually
look for fur coats?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Why?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
What's your real name?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Your real name?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Babe?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Shut up? Let her talk. Say I came over here
buy a car? What is this? Where's the car? Buy it?
I'd like to try it out first, Maybe they shut up. Well,
you please shut up. I have some identification. Identification maybe
when you shut up, just shut up.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It's the matter with your wife.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
We thought you might be needing a car, I said,
we thought you might be needing a car to take
a trip in.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I don't know what you're talking about. You know a
man named Phelps?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Frank Phelps fourteen twenty five West Jandotas Street.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Uh, Well, I told you I knew here. I don't
know any talent at all. I don't know any Frank Phelps.
Frank Phelps was killed yesterday. A man went in his house,
stole a mink coat from his wife, then used his
gun on Frank Phelps when he came home unexpectedly.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
He beat him to death. Once he stood there and
beat him to death. Why I don't know any Frank Phelps?
Speaker 4 (25:57):
I think you do. No, I don't know. I tell
you I don't do.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Hi, baby, No, honesty doesn't neither do I.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Missus Watson, Yes, you know we're police officers, don't you.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Yes, I'm going to ask you one question.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Yes, why are you wearing Missus phelps mink coat?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Well?
Speaker 11 (26:22):
I didn't think you'd mind.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
You're never pay any attention to the things I wear.
Speaker 11 (26:28):
Just never pay any attention at all.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Oh baby, baby, huh.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Let's go.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
We win, and let me tell you this in case
you want to think something over later.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Always work alone.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Always, that's one little rule I'm sticking to from now, Yes, sir,
And the next time it'll be different. But they don't
make any difference either, because there isn't going to be
any next time.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
For me.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Suspense presented by Auto Light to Night Star mister Robert Cummings.
Here is missus Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney again to hear more
about the one hundred thousand dollars Auto Light Family Charity drawing.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Harlowe. We leave the registration form with a dealer, and
is that all we have to do?
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Yes, that's all there is to it.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
You don't buy anything, write any sentences, solve any puzzles,
rent your name and address, and you may be one
of the twenty five selected.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
And then those selected at the drawing in June may
name the local or national charity to share this fund.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yes, they may name the church, hospital, national or local
charity that they wish to get a share of this
huge one hundred thousand dollars total from Autolite.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Everyone should consider it a privilege to participate in this
great offer. It may mean thousands of dollars to your
favorite charity and I am honored to help announce this
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Speaker 1 (28:29):
Thank you, Missus Whitney Friends. Go to any DeSoto, Hudson, Plymouth, Studebaker, Dodge, Willis, Nash, Packard,
Kaiser or Chrysler Dealer. Help your church, your hospital, your charity,
your community.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Sign up tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Next week, a lady with a big voice and lots
of good humor meets a man with a soft voice
and a very sharp knife. It's called Never Follow a
banjo act. Our star miss ethel Merman. That's next week
on Suspense. Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliott Lewis,
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with music composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Loud Gluskin.
Want Ad was written for suspense by E Jack Newman.
Featured the Knight's cast were Mary Jane Croft, Virginia, Greg
Paula Winslow, Larry.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Thor and Charles Calbert.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Robert Cummings will soon be seen starring in Alfred Hitchcock's
nyle M for murder a Warner Brothers Color three D.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
And remember next week miss ethel Merman in Never Follow
a Banjoe Act.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
This is the CBS Radio Network.
Auto Light and it's ninety eight thousand dealers. Bring you,
mister Robert Cummings, into Night's presentation of suspense. Tonight Auto
Light presents a story based on fact, the dramatization of
one man's deadly way of earning his living. All he
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needed was the morning newspaper, a telephone, and a gun.
It's called wantad Our Star. Mister Robert Cummings, Good evening,
This is Harlow Wilcox. You and I mean every one
of you, have the opportunity of a lifetime. The Auto
LIGHTE Family offers one hundred thousand dollars to be distributed
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by you to your church, hospital, favorite local or national charity,
Heart or cancer fund, March of Dimes, any recognized charity.
And it's so easy to participate. Just visit the showroom
of any DeSoto, Hudson, Plymouth, Studebaker, Dodge, Willis, Nash, Packard,
Kaiser or Chrysler dealer, ask him for a registration form,
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print your name and address and have him sign it.
Now Here is missus Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, who is famous
for her work with charities. She, like thousands of others,
wants to know more about the amazing Autolite Family Charity Fund.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
This one hundred thousand dollars Autolite Family offer for charity
sounds like a most extraordinary opportunity for all Americans to
help their favorite charities.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Can anyone register.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Anyone in America?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Missus Whitney.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Missus Whitney will be back later to hear more about
this great drawing. Remember visit your Autolite Family car dealer
and sign up tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
And now Autolite Presents transcribed want Ad starring mister Robert Cummings,
Hoping once again to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
I see a guy in my line works alone, more
or less, at least he should. But when I first
got into town, I met a little lady, and after
we'd known each other a couple of months, we got married.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Matter of fact, it worked out pretty well.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Every morning she gets up ahead of me, pixs of
some eggs and coffee. It's pretty nice, huh. But the
little lady's name is Wilma.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Baby Baby.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Through were the funnies?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Do you have to work today?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Afraid? So? Oh?
Speaker 7 (02:48):
I was hoping we could spend a quiet day together here,
you know, sort of lie around, look at the paper
and everything.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Maybe you know I'd like that, but I have to
do other things.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Leave me all alone to spend the day by myself.
I've got a new dress, I could wear it.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Bye die, they get busy.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Oh you're just never paying attention. Well, all right, baby, I.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Think I'll go window shopping. I'll see you later.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Yeah, bye bye bye.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
That's section three, ages ten to seventeen.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Uh, okay bye.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Two eight.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Nine.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Hey Hello, I'm calling about an advertisement in this morning's paper.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Do I have the right number? Yes, yes I am.
What kind of code is it? Well?
Speaker 6 (04:13):
That sounds like something I might be interested in seeing.
Let me get that down, all right? Fourteen twenty five?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
What Jan? How do you spell that? Jan? Doda? Yeah?
In about an hour? Thank you? One for the money,
(04:43):
two for the.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Show, three to make ready, four to go, five to
make sure, and.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Six to blow if I have to.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
How many women can go out and pluck down the
kind of money it takes a walk out of a
store with a mink coat.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Huh, not many? For I do not any.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
That means where there's a mink you can bet there's
a boyfriend or a husband around.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
To pay for it.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Yeah, and you can bet when the coat's gotta go.
He's already gone. The lady's got to eat, get it.
She's all alone and she wants to sell her coat.
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Oh how do you do? Yes, I'm mister Vernon. I
called at your advertisement in the paper this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Oh yes, mister Vernon.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
You haven't sold it yet?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Well no I haven't. It's good now.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
I don't want to do business with any dealer. I
just don't want to be bothered with any dealers. Half
a dozen have called me already. I hope you're not
a dealer, mister Vernon.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Do I look like a dealer?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Well?
Speaker 8 (06:21):
I can't tell anymore. They're very clever people. I just
want to sell the coat outright to somebody, not on
any contingency bas is there anything like that.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Just sell it out right, you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Yes, I know what you mean, but I'll have to
see it before I can make an offer.
Speaker 8 (06:37):
Well, all right, come in. Well i'm missus Phelps.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Oh how do you do? You have a very very
nice home here, missus Phelps?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Have you lived here long?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Two years? Would you like to step in here? Please?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yes? Sure?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Oh dear, I've been plagued to this with all kinds
of dealers.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
I don't know how, but some of them found my
address without even calling the number I put in the
paper like that. Oh they sure do, let me tell you,
they certainly do. Well, there it is.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Yes, that's very very nice, very very nice. It's silver mink. Yes,
Oh say, could I ask you to put it on
for me?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Missus Phelps? It helped me. They see you're about my
wife's side.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
Oh sure, well you can see it's kept very full.
Sleeves are very full too. See see bat wings sleeves
and cops too. Makes the coat very luxurious.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yes, a lot of coat there, just a lot of coat,
missus Phelps.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well, I love it. I just love it.
Speaker 8 (07:48):
My husband bought it for me a year ago, and
I hate to have to sell it, but.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Well I need the money. You can see that it's
hardly worn at all.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
See here, look at the it's all intact. I don't
think I wore this coat more than a dozen times.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
How much did it cost your retail, missus Phelps.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
Well, mister Phelps paid four five hundred dollars for it.
These are the insurance papers. Now you can see what
they insured it for. Now, I tell you, right now,
a friend has already offered me twenty eight hundred dollars
for it. I wouldn't think of selling it for any
way near that. I'd rather keep it.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Would you think of selling it for thirty four?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Thirty four?
Speaker 8 (08:34):
Yeah, well that's still pretty cheap.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I don't have to tell you that.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
If the coat's a year old, six hundred dollars appreciation,
that's not bad. I could possibly get the same coat
for thirty eight. I doubt if you'll get a better
offer than thirty four, missus Phelps, I'm willing to pay
for it right now.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Well, I'll have to talk to my husband first.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Is he here now?
Speaker 8 (08:59):
Well, he's not home right now, but he'll be here
any minute. Could you come back this afternoon or maybe
you could.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
I came to buy the coat now I'm leaving town
this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I thought you were ready to sell.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Well, I.
Speaker 8 (09:16):
All right, mister Vernon, I'll take your offer good. But
I don't know you at all. You understand you'd have
to give me a certified check, or I'd have to
keep the coat until your check cleared the bank.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Well paid cash. I brought the cash with me. Oh,
anything wrong with that.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Oh no, no, mister Vernon, I just didn't expect to
sell it so quickly. I still have the box that
came in. It's a perfectly lovely box. I'll give you
that for nothing.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yes, I would like the box.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
You know, mister Vernon, you are getting a bargain, a
real bargain, in this coat. I tell him my husband
and I loved almost two years before we found a
mink that well just suited you know what I mean.
Now you can buy any fur coat of mink or
a say well, I don't care what it is. Thirty
days later you hate the sight of it, But this
one your wife will never get tired of.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Look isn't this a pretty box?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Yes? Yes, this.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
Now you tell your wife to be sure and keep
it in a first storage vault during the warm months.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
You have to take care of mink. Now, that's all
there is to us.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
I know, something like this you really got to take
care of.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
Oh my, I'm glad you came in the morning. I
want to take the money to the bank right away.
I'd hate to have to keep that much money around
the house.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
I figured you would missus phelps, so I won't bother
giving you the money. What Well, then you won't have
to make a trip to the bank or worry about
the money around the house.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Oh you mean you want to give me a personal check.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I want to give you nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
You you did come here to buy this coat? Don't
you want it?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yeah? I want a lady, a thief. I sure, I
don't scream, don't open your mouth.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Oh, don't hurt me, Please, don't hurt me.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Over there, go on?
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Oh worth four thousand dollars, one year old?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Real, goodbye. You should have seen your face when I
told you i'd give you thirty four hundred bucks for it.
I'm a thief. Anybody could buy that code brand new
for twenty five hundred bucks. I'll bring you about a thousand.
It shapes in right now.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
I'm a thief with a gun in my hand, taking
what I want. If you figure out what you'd be
if you were counting my thirty four hundred. Oh you're
quite a cute kidder, missus phelps. But then I'm used
to people like you.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Get in there.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I just don't take my coat, please.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
It's the only thing I have that's worth anything.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Well, that's how simple it works.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I've been in the business for a little while now,
and I know a few things about it. Of course,
you got to watch your step and be ready for
anything that happens like today.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
Oh Liz, Liz, I've been trying.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Oh who are you? Oh? Hi, who are you? Well?
I'm Frank Pholps. Who'd you say you were? I didn't
say besides you wouldn't know me anyhow. Where's Liz?
Speaker 9 (12:37):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (12:38):
That's Liz it is that's Liz coat my gun?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Why you.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
What have you done to her?
Speaker 9 (12:46):
Like?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
What's been going on here? On your head? Brother? You
won't get hurt. She's okay.
Speaker 9 (12:50):
No cheap crook's going to come into my house and
pull of stunt like this.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I'll show you.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Get down, down down, stay down. Well, well, you people
certainly have something to talk about over dinner, and I
want you, yeah, something you can talk about all right.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Now.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
When the hard part's done, and it isn't usually as
hard as it was today, the next parts get hold
of a fence. Who can use the mink coat? Pretty easy?
I use Waller myself. He takes the pain out of everything.
I don't go to him, just a little old phone
call and he comes to me.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
Sorry, huh you blue at this time. Boy, I don't
want this thing. It's too hot.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Keep it. What's the matter, you're getting touchy, getting anything?
Speaker 9 (14:01):
I just don't want to do business with you anymore, No, sir, hey,
do not wait wait a minute. Get your hands off
of me. Boy, Get your hands off of me. A
smash makes your big time, eh?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Is that it?
Speaker 9 (14:15):
A gun whip turns into class A stuff? Hands off
of me, boy, the last time I'll ask.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
No sense, and that's arguable.
Speaker 9 (14:26):
I'm gonna try very hard, but I don't think I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Like you anymore.
Speaker 9 (14:32):
You're a killer, now, huh. That guy Phelps died this afternoon.
It's in all the papers. Well, he shouldn't have run
at me. Is that what you're gonna tell the cops
when they drag you out us somewhere by the scruff.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Of the neck. No CoP's gonna do that to me.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
They always grind off little punks like you.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Boy.
Speaker 9 (14:55):
You kill the guy, you beat them to death, You
stole his wife's mean could There isn't any place they
won't look for you, boy, and they know where to
look for your kind. They won't stop till they find you.
You're gone, boy, just playing only you don't know it yet, So.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Aud the light is bringing you.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Mister Robert Cummings in won't add tonight's presentation in radio's
outstanding theater of thrills suspense.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Hey you are Mac. You're Hudson Dealers.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Thanks Cabby, and here thank you, Yes sir, what can
I do for you? Well, I'm Harlow Wilcox. I'd like
to get some information on the new Hudson. Tonight, we
are privileged to salute Hudson on suspense as a distinguished
member of the Auto Light family.
Speaker 10 (16:16):
And you're saluting a great car, or i should say cars.
Here's one of our three models, the new Hudson Hornet,
only sixty inches high with that famous step down design
for the road huggingest ride you ever had. And it
has the new instant action engine with superinduction.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
And what model is this.
Speaker 10 (16:35):
That's the fifty four Hudson Wasp, more power, new styling
and a new lower price.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
And here's that new Hudson Jet.
Speaker 10 (16:43):
Eh, yes, sir, a new kind of car, compact, economical
and really low priced. And of course all these Hudsons
are equipped with quality Auto Light products.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Well, thanks for your cooperation. Auto Light is proud of
its long association with the Hudson Motor Car Company and
Hudson Dealers Everywhere.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
And now Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage.
Mister Robert Cummings in Elliott Lewis's production of Want Ad,
a story based on fact and well calculated to keep
you in suspense.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
I know maybe a half a dozen fences in town.
Only tried two of them after Waller. Those fellows are
kind of chicken about some things. They get at action
with a piece of merchandise and they all get scared.
Of course, they're all afraid of.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Something or other.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Are you thinking, hun, that what you're doing?
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Thinking?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
A man didn't he want to come?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Such a pretty pretty cold.
Speaker 11 (18:02):
Oh baby, I wish we had a fireplace.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I wish we had a.
Speaker 11 (18:07):
Big, big fireplace, and then we could sit in front
of a fire on a rainy night like this and everything.
That'd be nice when a baby sure would could drink
hot coffee, maybe listen to music, make fudge.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Huh uh huh.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Do you like my new thing?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Why this.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Pretty?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Oh? Yeah? Like a million, like a whole million bucks.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I liked it so I bought it just like that.
You hardly looked.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
I'll have to leave time. I have to get out
of here. I have to go where they can't find me.
Oh baby, Oh no, what's the matter. Did I say something?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
You're gonna leave me?
Speaker 8 (18:55):
You're going away?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Oh no, look kid, look, I have to go. Don't
understand putting. I have to leave time. If I don't get.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
They won't get you here. Just stay here with me.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I have to go. I have to go.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Take me with you.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Let me go with you.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
We can have some real nice time some other places,
the same as we did here.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Yeah, sure, I'll take care.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Oh baby, I'll take care. Oh baby, is so good
to men.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
But I haven't got time for that. We gotta get busy.
They have to get a car first.
Speaker 11 (19:36):
Oh we haven't got any money.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Look how did I get that coat? How do I
get all those coats? Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
But Ralph, you can't do that anymore. That man who
was here so they're looking for you can't do that anymore.
They'll be waiting for you.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
He says. I can't. I say I can. Don't.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
You see how I use my head? Baby, they're waiting
for me. Okay, they're waiting for a guy with a
first coat on his mind. But baby, I'm now a
guy with a car on his mind.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Get it, baby, he's so smart. Gee, you're so smart.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Well, i'll sir.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
With the little Wilmore wigging around in my arms. I
began to go for the new idea with my son.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
It was pretty good.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Next day when the papers came out, I went right
to work. Hey, baby, this is the one. Hey, this
is the one.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Which one is the one?
Speaker 6 (20:35):
This one for sale like new late modecan invertible private party.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I just called, Oh, well, what was my with the other's?
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Baby? I told you? A man answered.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
On the other calls, this time it was a woman
who answered, oh, it's.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
The same thing. A woman trying to sell a car
a coach. He's alone, no one around makes it safe.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Oh I see. Do you like a new hat.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Fine, it's a knockout, baby, knockout.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I wear it in the car. What kind of car
do you say?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
It is? Convertible, big new convertible.
Speaker 11 (21:07):
Oh will looks well going down the highway in a
big convertible.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Then we can put.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
The top down, Yeah, we sure can. I told her
we'd be right over to look at the car. You're
coming with me? Yeah, it'll look better if you come
with me.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
There won't be any trouble. I mean, the police are
looking for you, aren't they.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Baby, You let me worry about the police. There won't
be any trouble at all. Just keep your new hat
on it.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Come with me, baby, all right, I'll dress all up.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
It took her a little while, but I finally got
her over there.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
It was a very nice looking house, just to kind
of a place where they need a convertible to show
off a little bit.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
My meet Wilma thought it was a very nice place too. Hey, baby,
m the gum, Oh juicy food? You want some take
out the gum? Baby? Oh? And I better do the talking.
You know, I've been this kind of thing for a
long time now.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah, well you know best do I look all right?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yes? Well?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Hello?
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Oh hello, I'm the man about the car. Oh, yes,
I'm mister Watson. This is missus Watson.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Oh, will come in please.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Well, we'd like to see the car if we could
worry in kind of a hurry.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Well, the car is in the garage in the back.
It's just easier to come through the house.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Well, all right, this way. There's something funny about this.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
What she had a car for sale, she'd have to
sit on the driveway or out front, not hitting the garage.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
The rain last night. I thought it best to keep
it in the garage. I wanted it to look nice
to show today. A silly come on, But you too
are newly married?
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Oh no, we yeah, we we've been married for some
time now.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
You just look like newlywed somehow.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
This hello?
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Oh hello, this is my husband, mister and missus Watson.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Oh hello, mister Watson.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
How do you do?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
I'm sure you seem familiar with mister Watson. Have you lived
here long?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
No?
Speaker 6 (23:18):
No, we're just passing through as a matter of fact.
Where he's staying at the Alpine Hotel. How long did
you say you've been in town?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
A week? How do you doing for a living?
Speaker 6 (23:29):
I'm an electrician. Where did you say you were from Cleveland?
What part Shaker Heights?
Speaker 5 (23:36):
This must be quite different than Shaker Heights, Missus Watson.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Oh it is it is, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Do you think of the car? Uh? Well, I haven't
really had a chance to look at it yet. Oh
there's shares. Take a look.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Yeah, that's pretty nice car. All right, what are you
asking for it? Blue Book's playing thirty two for this
model right now? Thirty eight on a lot, we'll compromise
thirty five.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Well that sounds pretty good. A little steep, though, How
about thirty four?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Can you get someone to carry the papers?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Oh? I can pay for it myself. You're brought cash? Oh?
Speaker 6 (24:15):
No, but I can go over the bank and get
it if you'll give me an hour.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
No cash.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
You didn't expect me to walk in here with thirty
four hundred on me, did you?
Speaker 4 (24:25):
After all? I don't know your people from Adam.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
No offense, But man, it'd be crazy to carry that
much money around strangers.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
What bank? Huh?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
He asked you. What bank you'd go to to get
the money?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Oh? Why, just any bank.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I'll draw a draft on myself on my Cleveland account.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
You say you're an electrician, mister Watson?
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Yes, is your name really Watson? Why don't you usually
look for fur coats?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Why?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
What's your real name?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Your real name?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Babe?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Shut up? Let her talk. Say I came over here
buy a car? What is this? Where's the car? Buy it?
I'd like to try it out first, Maybe they shut up. Well,
you please shut up. I have some identification. Identification maybe
when you shut up, just shut up.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It's the matter with your wife.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
We thought you might be needing a car, I said,
we thought you might be needing a car to take
a trip in.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I don't know what you're talking about. You know a
man named Phelps?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Frank Phelps fourteen twenty five West Jandotas Street.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Uh, Well, I told you I knew here. I don't
know any talent at all. I don't know any Frank Phelps.
Frank Phelps was killed yesterday. A man went in his house,
stole a mink coat from his wife, then used his
gun on Frank Phelps when he came home unexpectedly.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
He beat him to death. Once he stood there and
beat him to death. Why I don't know any Frank Phelps?
Speaker 4 (25:57):
I think you do. No, I don't know. I tell
you I don't do.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Hi, baby, No, honesty doesn't neither do I.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Missus Watson, Yes, you know we're police officers, don't you.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Yes, I'm going to ask you one question.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Yes, why are you wearing Missus phelps mink coat?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Well?
Speaker 11 (26:22):
I didn't think you'd mind.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
You're never pay any attention to the things I wear.
Speaker 11 (26:28):
Just never pay any attention at all.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Oh baby, baby, huh.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Let's go.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
We win, and let me tell you this in case
you want to think something over later.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Always work alone.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Always, that's one little rule I'm sticking to from now, Yes, sir,
And the next time it'll be different. But they don't
make any difference either, because there isn't going to be
any next time.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
For me.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Suspense presented by Auto Light to Night Star mister Robert Cummings.
Here is missus Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney again to hear more
about the one hundred thousand dollars Auto Light Family Charity drawing.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Harlowe. We leave the registration form with a dealer, and
is that all we have to do?
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Yes, that's all there is to it.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
You don't buy anything, write any sentences, solve any puzzles,
rent your name and address, and you may be one
of the twenty five selected.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
And then those selected at the drawing in June may
name the local or national charity to share this fund.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yes, they may name the church, hospital, national or local
charity that they wish to get a share of this
huge one hundred thousand dollars total from Autolite.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Everyone should consider it a privilege to participate in this
great offer. It may mean thousands of dollars to your
favorite charity and I am honored to help announce this
generous offer.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
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Speaker 5 (28:50):
Next week, a lady with a big voice and lots
of good humor meets a man with a soft voice
and a very sharp knife. It's called Never Follow a
banjo act. Our star miss ethel Merman. That's next week
on Suspense. Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliott Lewis,
(29:13):
with music composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Loud Gluskin.
Want Ad was written for suspense by E Jack Newman.
Featured the Knight's cast were Mary Jane Croft, Virginia, Greg
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Speaker 1 (29:27):
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And remember next week miss ethel Merman in Never Follow
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