August 12, 2025 • 29 mins
The Whistler was a suspenseful mystery anthology that ran from 1942-1955. A character known only as the Whistler was the host and narrator of the tales, which focused on crime and fate and had a suspenseful and eerie tone, always ending with a twist. The Whistler was later adapted to television.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And now stay tuned for the program that has been
rated tops in popularity for a longer period of time
than any other West Coast program in radio history, The
Signal Oil Program, the Whistler Signal, the famous Go Farther Gasoline.
(00:28):
Invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story
by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things. For
I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden
in the hearts of men and women who have stepped
into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of
which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's Strange Story.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Quiet Sunday.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
This was going to be a quiet Sunday for Henry Parker, peaceful, calm, RESTful,
away from the work and tegium of the office, Just
the kind of sunday Henry always looked forward to during
the other hectic days of the week. And more than that,
it was a special Sunday for Henry's wife, Ruth, was
vacationing at their lodge at Lake Arrowhead and wouldn't be home.
(01:57):
That was the best part, and it was nice too
to remember that tonight he had a date with Daphne.
Daphne was tall and lovely, and Daphney seemed to understand
that Henry liked to spend a nice, quiet evening. He
was contemplating all this when the doorbell rang.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Oh never failed minute. I get settled with a Sunday paper.
That bird Adam's going to borrow the lawnmower again? Out why,
Daphne surprised. Daphne, What in the world are you doing here?
What all the neighbors think?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I had to see you, Henry, I was all alone.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Come in quickly, Daphne, darling, you know you shouldn't come here.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Why are you so frightened? Henry? Your wife won't be
back for a week.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Her friends are always dropping in. You know that. Why
Why couldn't have waited until tonight?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I had to talk to you. I couldn't wait till then.
It is something wrong depends on you, Henry. Do you
love me?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
No, don't be silly, dear. You know I do.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Well, I'm not so sure. I'm very tired of the situation.
The only time I get to see you is when
you can get away from your wife.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I tried to explain about it.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I want you all to myself, and if it can't
be that way, I don't want you to talk. That's
why I came. I'm sick of meeting you in back
alleys and dining with you and out of the way
places where no one will see us. If you really
loved me, you wouldn't treat me this way.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I know, I know it's not very fair, of course
it is. Well, can't we can't we talk about it tonight? Yeah? Yeah,
that's it. We'll have a nice quiet dinner at the willow.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Henry, there isn't going to be it tonight. You've got
to make a decision.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
What was that the garage door? Someone's up there?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Could it be?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Couldn't be Ruth? Then I'll stay, definitely, Daphne. We can't
take a chance. You better go.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
I'm staying, Henry.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It's one of her friends. You'll start a lot of talk.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I want an answer, Henry, make up your mind.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
They're coming. Listen, Listen, it's you, Daphne. Believe me. I
promise you. I'll free myself from Ruth some way. But
you've got to give me time now. Please go all right, Henry, No, No,
not the front door here? You you better go down
the cellar the store. Here. You can wait down there
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at the foot of the stairs until they go. I'll
call you.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Remember what I said, Henry.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yes, dear, of course, Henry. Where are you, Ruth?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Henry?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
There you are, Henry, Ruth, what are you doing here?
Speaker 7 (04:51):
You know very well what I'm doing here. I wrote
you a letter two days ago asking.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You to join me at the log but I wired you, Ruth.
I told you I couldn't take the weekend off. I'm
way behind at the office.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
Do you think I feel up there all by myself? Oh? No, Emily, Edith,
all of them up there with their husbands, and I'm alone.
They all want to know where you are. Oh, I
feel like a fool. Well, Henry Parker, You're going back
to Lake Arrowhead with me this very afternoon.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
I'd had enough of.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Your excuses, but I can, don't you see?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
I just so little of you, Henry.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
I ask only what a wife expects, no more. You've
got to go back to the lake with me today.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Why may I ask, Henry?
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Today is our tenth anniversary. I told everyone you'd be
there tonight.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I'll think it's strange if you want I'm sick of
this pretense, Ruth, I'm fed up with all your friends. Furthermore,
I don't care what they think. Why don't you tell them, Ruth?
Why why don't you tell them I want a divorce.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
You're not going to humiliate me. They're all coming over
tonight and you're going to be there. I won't be
a laughing.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Stock, Henry, like, very clever, very clear.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
No one knows I'm here in town. I think I'm
still at the lodge. They they all went on a
picnic to Big Bear to day. I told them I
had a headache.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Oh, Henry.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
They they won't be back till tonight. And when they arrive,
I want.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
You to be there. That's right of you, my dear.
Why did you do all that?
Speaker 7 (06:25):
I die if they knew. I had to drive into
town and beg you to come back with me.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Oh what about the neighbors here?
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Oh why? I took all the back roads, and when
I reached our street, I came up the alley and
drove into the garage. Oh, Henry, please understand this means
everything to me.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I couldn't face you when you're pride.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Please, Henrie, it's only four o'clock.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
We can drive down three hours.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
There's plenty of time.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
I told everyone to drop in from nine eyes.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
But you don't understand, Ruth. I'm not going. I don't
care what your friends think. Don't you see.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
You're coming with me, Henry. That's authorous to it. Where
are you going down on the stunt to get your
other night bags? Wait a minute, Oh, don't aunt you
with me? Get your razor and things from the ballroom.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
All right, Ruth, all right, you win. I'll go down
and get the suit. Can't I stay away from my door, Henry? God,
I told you not to open that door. You you
over bearing, stupid. You don't I've had all of your
intended Ruth, Ruth.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
Daphne, Daphne, you better get some water here, let me.
But what's the matter, Daphne, Daphne, Why what's the matter.
Don't don't you see we'd better she don't, don't you think?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Just let us stay there? Dear, there's no point in
moving her.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Now you mean she?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
You mean she's Henry Ruthstead.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Now here's the exciting news. So many of you have
been waiting for prize winners in Signals Big ten thousand
dollars contest, which ended June fifteenth Grand prize, the Buick
Super Rivieria goes to missus H. C. Ford one oh
nine fifty Ocean Park Avenue, Los Angeles and will be
delivered from the showroom of Wesson Buy Company on Western Avenue,
(08:45):
Los Angeles. Second prize APEX three piece automatic laundry washer,
dryer and ironer goes to missus Helen M. Ryan twenty
one eighteen Whipple Avenue, Redwood City, California. Third prize Deluxe
Refrigerator goes to Dorothy Finkbeiner nine sixty five North Church Street, Salem.
(09:07):
Fourth prize Frigidaire home freezer goes to Donald Warner eighteen
twenty one North one hundred third Street, Seattle. Fifth prize
Packard Bell sixteen inch television console goes to ellen Burgoys Vista, California.
Sixth and seventh prizes Packard Bell sixteen inch table model
(09:27):
television sets go to Don H. Brooks thirteen oh one
Southeast nineteenth Avenue, Portland and to Chet Newton sixty two
oh five South third Avenue, Phoenix. Eighth prize Packard Bell
twelve and one half inch television console goes to missus
Fern Barclay thirty five twenty ninth Street, San Diego. That's
(09:51):
all the name's time will permit now, but I'll be
back later with more prize winners.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
So Ruth is lying dead at the foot of the
cellar stairs, and the quiet part of the Sunday is over,
isn't it, Henry? Just like that, her unexpected arrival home,
her irritating insistence that you go back to Lake Arrowhead
with her, the argument the cellar stairs, a flash of
blinding rage, and it was over. Death is a strange,
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terrifying thing, isn't it, Henry. You've never even been close
to it before. All you can do is stand there
at the foot of the stairs and look dumbly at Daphne,
too stunned even to think.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Daphne, I didn't mean it. It was an accident. You
saw it all, didn't you. There was nothing she slipped,
Stop at, Henry. But you saw it, and you can
tell them how it happened.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Stop it. I'm not going to tell them anything.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
What do you mean, We've got.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
To get it. You pushed her, you know it.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
You mean you're gonna tell them, Daphnely, you can't. They'll wait.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Listen to me. There's a way to get out of
this gracefully.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Get hold of yourself.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
I could hear her through the door. What did you
say about sneaking away from the lake.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Well, it was our anniversary and she wanted me to
be there. Her friends were away to Big Bear. They
think she's still there at the lot.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
No one knows she came down here. She wasn't seen.
No Henry supposing she fell down the stairs at the
lodge instead of here while you were spending a quiet
sunday in town.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Hi, I don't know how she knows.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Justin then, let me think there's a long staircase up there. Yes,
I remember it. One of her friends came back from
Big Bear at nine o'clock and found her at the
foot of the stairs. When everyone knows you're here in
town spending a quiet sunday.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
But how could we get her up there? Well, we've
got to try.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
It's the only way. I'll take her car up to
the lodge. It's got to be found there. I can
get to air ahead without being seen. I know that.
Then I'll come back with you. Yes, what about Ruth,
Well you've got to take her up in the luggage.
Can partner of your car? Oh, there's one thing more.
Somebody's got to know you've been in town all day.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yes, yes, an alibi.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Where could you be for the next few hours?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I don't know, Daphne, How can I a movie?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
What about a movie? That's it? Pick one you've seen?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah? Yeah, And there's Charlie Hotcastle. He he goes to
a meeting before church every Sunday. I'll pick him up.
Tell him I'm going to the movie.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Yes, good by, take it. Go in and sneak out
the side entrance. It'll be dark when we get to
the lake. I'll meet you at the turn off just
below the lodge. Off my horn twice.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Understand, yes, I understand.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Well, we haven't much time. Go on, we've got to
get her up to the car. Get the blanket over there,
we're wrap in there.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Hurry here you are, just throw over there? Ready, all right,
go right up the steps.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (13:06):
I don't know. Something crashed to the window.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Back on on the stairs. Hurry, get down, I don't know. Wait, oh,
there it is baseball. Those kids next door playing baseball
and vacant lot.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Go out and give it to them before they try
to come down.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Crawl down and get it ready.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Gee, I can't see down here?
Speaker 10 (13:29):
What if old sunur Puss Parker is Oh hello, mister Parker, Hell, gee,
gee whiz.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
We're sorry about the window. That's all right. Ready here here,
let me hand the ball to you.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
You can't reach it, mister Parker. I'll come around and get.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
No, no, no, stay right there.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
I'll here see you can't reach up that far.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I'll be down the safe heay right there, I said,
she where is no Ah, Let me throw it up
to you.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Look out, mister Parker, you'll hit the other window.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Here you are, get out of here, go on.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
I was close lucky too. He's another one who can
swear you were here today. Let's get her into the car.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Just a quiet Sunday afternoon, Henry. Nothing to mar It's
peaceful stillness, except the small matter of getting the body
of your wife Ruth up to Lake Arrowhead, leaving it
at the foot of the stairs at your lodge, parking
your car where she always leaves it, and returning with
Daphne to Los Angeles or without being seen. Oh yes,
there's the matter too, of mister Charles Hardcastle and the
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hold of you.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Wait a minute, maybe Hartcastle's lift on shaking like a leash. Helloa, Charlie.
H this is Henry Parker. Charlie. Oh fine, well I
was going to a shorter night and I wondered if
you'd like to join me. Oh you're going to church?
(15:12):
Oh yeah, yes, of course, I forgot. Well i'll drop
you off. Huh. It's right near the theater. Go ahead,
good yeah, pick you up in a few minutes. Huh.
Oh forget it, Charlie, glad to do it. Good Bye,
I'll set Charlie, will swear to the high heavens I
stayed in town.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
What time is it?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Five o'clock?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
All right, you've only got an hour to spare. You'll
take three hours to drive up there. Remember, I'll be
waiting for you to turn off, all right.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Danny at the turnoff. There's no turning back now, is there, Henry.
The body is right behind you now on the luggage
compartment of the car. As you drive slowly down the
street to pick up Charlie, hardcare. You're beginning to settle
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down a little, aren't you. The terrible shock that gripped
you at first is beginning to wear off, and you're
thinking more clearly. Some of Daphney's quick cool courage was
there for you to borrow, and you need it most
when the panic made your knees weak, being blindly away
to hide somewhere. At ten past five, you stop by
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for Charlie and nonchalantly begin to build your alibi as
the two of you drive toward the church.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Oh don't be silly, Charlie. No trouble at all driving
around this way. Well, nothing else to do, you know,
just taking any show.
Speaker 11 (16:35):
You kind of surprise me, Henry calling up that way. Oh,
you have been a coups agence we've been on together.
By the way, where's Ruth.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Oh she's up at the lake for a little rest.
Speaker 11 (16:44):
I envy you that lodge. I'd like to get away
sometime myself.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Well, i'll tell you what, Charlie. As soon as Ruth
gets back. Why don't you and Sadie go up to
the lake. Huh, you're welcome to use.
Speaker 11 (16:52):
Our lobs, Henry, I'm sure say you'll be thrilled to pieces.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
You've no idea. What a great help you've viendomed me?
Why many times?
Speaker 11 (17:00):
Oh you better pull over? You got a flat I'm afraid.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Oh no, it can't be. It can pull over. I'll
drive you past the church first, No reason you should
be late.
Speaker 11 (17:09):
Yeah, don't be silly, Henry. You don't want to ruin
a perfectly good tire.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Let me have a look at Cathing's okay, you're lucky. Now, look, Charlie,
it's only a few blocks to the church. You better
run along. I'll fix it.
Speaker 11 (17:26):
Hey, you're talking to the best little old tire changer
in the business.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Come on, boy, where.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Are the two?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Go ahead? Please, Charlie, Hey, what's the matter with you
and Ray? I just don't want you to be late.
You'll only take a minute. Besides, there's a signal service
station in the next fly. I wouldn't think of it.
I'll get the keys out of the dash.
Speaker 11 (17:42):
Children in the luggage compartment, aren't they we'll have her
fixed for you.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Wait, wait, Charlie, I'll get the keys. I already got them.
Give them for me.
Speaker 11 (17:49):
Hey, take it easy, I don't mind it a bit.
I'll get the spare out of the luggage compartment.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Me do it.
Speaker 11 (17:54):
I tell you something eating you, Henry like, I'd rather
do it my.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
You sure are nervous, right, don't you see? Charlie? Hi,
I just do want to see You'll get all messed
up and dirty before church. Now, look, why don't you
go up the street and have the traffic swing around me? Huh,
street's awfully narrow.
Speaker 11 (18:13):
Here, okay, Henry, you say so, here the key.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
It's worse than ever, now, Henry, worse even than the
moment when you look down at ruthe lying still at
the foot of the cellar stairs. One more second and
Charlie would have opened the luggage compartment, look curiously at
the blanket rap, shapeless bundle. For a moment, it would
have been all over. But you can't waste time thinking
about that. Now your hands won't work. You fumble clumsily
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with a jack with the lug nuts on the wheel,
glanced nervously at Charlie down the corner directing traffic. A
thousand years later, the tire has changed and you're frantically
trying to get the old wheel back in the luggage compartment.
Speaker 11 (18:59):
When here, let me give you a hand with that, Hendry.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
No, I can get it. I'll get it. A wait,
wait a minute, there all set. Yeah, yeah, you you
can go ahead and get in. Oh you left the
jack out, Let me put it in the lens.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Come popment for you.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Know what. It's all locked up.
Speaker 11 (19:16):
H I'll throw it in the back seat, all right, Henry,
better get in.
Speaker 12 (19:25):
Yeah, I got the keys right here to break.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Yeah, I'm sorry I got so jumpy.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
A flat tire always throws me.
Speaker 11 (19:49):
Well, I don't think I was much of a help
standing way out there. Sure I got your clothes and
mussed up.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Yeah, yeah, you've seen. Never would have done to have
you show up at church this way. Gosh, gosh it.
It's too bad you can't go to the show with me.
Speaker 11 (20:02):
You know, Henry, I was thinking maybe I won't go
to church after all. I wouldn't mind seeing a movie tonight.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I actually I don't want to talk to you out
of going at church. And I don't get me wrong, Okay,
it was just a thought. Yeah, yeah, I'll let you
off right at the door.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
But playing at the show tonight.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Or some second rate picture. I'll give you a report
on it and you can take it in tomorrow night
if it's any good. I hate to think I keep
you out at church.
Speaker 11 (20:26):
All right, Henry, don't worry. I'm going to church.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Love Please how many or could you tell me if
the main feature is on? Please talk good good? I
always hate to come in drink the middle of a picture.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
How many please?
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Just one?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Fifty five?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Oh, I'm sorry, I don't have any change. Can you
break a twenty?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
I've done it before. Let me try.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I'm awfully sorry. Here you are.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Two, three four five? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Awfully hot tonight, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
You can say that again?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Too warm to suit me? Earthquake, whether that's what I
call it? Of course?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Good night? Miss What a character. I'll see him on
my plate.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
That's right, Henry, they'll remember you now. A minute later,
you're lost in the comfortable blackness of the theater at
an aisle seat near the side exit. You sit there
long enough to make certain it's one you've seen, and
then you slip out and hurry back to your car.
It's six o'clock now, Henry, just three hours left to
make it.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
The traffic is coming the other way now, back into
Los Angeles, fifty fifty five sixty miles an hour, and
always you're careful to watch the rear view mirror. It
would never do to be picked.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Up for speeding, would it?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Eight thirty? Mate? Wonderful time. Here's the turn off ahead.
Daphne she's here.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Oh you made it, Darling's everything all right?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah? I think so? Did anyone see you?
Speaker 5 (23:00):
You better go ahead, I'll folly.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Have you been up to the lodge?
Speaker 5 (23:03):
No, alright, go on ahead. We hadn't time to talk.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
That's me. There's a lotch.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Where'd she usually leave the car?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Over there?
Speaker 6 (23:37):
The side?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Better put it over there.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Now we'll take her in first.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
You got the keys right here? All right?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Oh yeah, I'll bring it u that you can part from.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
The lodge is pitch dark, Darling, we made it in time.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Now for more prize winners in Signals Big ten thousand
dollars Contest ninth and ten prizes, Packard Bell twelve and
one half inch table model television sets go to W. M.
Johnstone three eighteen twenty first Street, Oakland, and to Philip
Cutts twenty five forty eight South Bronson, Los Angeles. Eleventh
and twelfth prizes O'Keefe and merrit Gas Ranges go to
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Ben E. Lang twelve thirty eight North Crescent Heights Boulevard,
Los Angeles and to missus Kurita c Weebe forty O
two North Alaska, Portland. Thirteenth prize Frigida Electric Range goes
to fd Lafoon thirty six, twenty one RIVERA Drive, Pacific Beach, California.
Prizes fourteen through twenty three ten solid gold Helbros. Wristwatches
(24:47):
go to Lauren H. Brinton, Los Angeles, W. F. Huff Seattle,
Leo J. Kurzick, Long Beach, AD P. Kilmer, Quittier, Missus
Harry W. Coochman, Angelus Julius S. Rosco, Sacramento, Missus Maurica
Osborne Dunlap, California, Clarence W. Todd Portland, Missus Sarah L. Trogan, Portland,
(25:11):
and Elizabeth E. Washburn, San Diego. In addition to the
night's twenty three top awards, one hundred seventy seven other
persons won valuable prizes and will be notified personally within
the next few days. A list of all two hundred
winners will be posted at signal service stations.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
So you made it, Henry.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
The lodge is in complete darkness, and you're sure there'll
be plenty of time for you and Daphne to arrange roofs.
Accidental fall at the foot of the steep staircase, leave quietly,
lock the door, and sneak back down the dark road
to the highway before any of your wife's friends arrive.
It's simple, isn't it. You're sure your alibi will hold.
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You're certain you're safe now, and strangely, the horror that
gripped you when you first look down at Ruth's body
is gone. The two of you remove the blanket, carry
her up the stairs to the front door of the lodge.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Where's the key? Got it right here? Just a minute? Oh,
where's the don keyhole? Let it get a match?
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Here you are?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Oh, oh good, I'll go first. Easy now, I'm not past.
Follow me, I know my way in the dark.
Speaker 10 (26:55):
Where the stairs over the way? Henry turn on the lights.
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Speaker 3 (01:17):
Quiet Sunday.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
This was going to be a quiet Sunday for Henry Parker, peaceful, calm, RESTful,
away from the work and tegium of the office, Just
the kind of sunday Henry always looked forward to during
the other hectic days of the week. And more than that,
it was a special Sunday for Henry's wife, Ruth, was
vacationing at their lodge at Lake Arrowhead and wouldn't be home.
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That was the best part, and it was nice too
to remember that tonight he had a date with Daphne.
Daphne was tall and lovely, and Daphney seemed to understand
that Henry liked to spend a nice, quiet evening. He
was contemplating all this when the doorbell rang.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Oh never failed minute. I get settled with a Sunday paper.
That bird Adam's going to borrow the lawnmower again? Out why,
Daphne surprised. Daphne, What in the world are you doing here?
What all the neighbors think?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I had to see you, Henry, I was all alone.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Come in quickly, Daphne, darling, you know you shouldn't come here.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Why are you so frightened? Henry? Your wife won't be
back for a week.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Her friends are always dropping in. You know that. Why
Why couldn't have waited until tonight?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I had to talk to you. I couldn't wait till then.
It is something wrong depends on you, Henry. Do you
love me?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
No, don't be silly, dear. You know I do.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Well, I'm not so sure. I'm very tired of the situation.
The only time I get to see you is when
you can get away from your wife.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I tried to explain about it.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I want you all to myself, and if it can't
be that way, I don't want you to talk. That's
why I came. I'm sick of meeting you in back
alleys and dining with you and out of the way
places where no one will see us. If you really
loved me, you wouldn't treat me this way.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I know, I know it's not very fair, of course
it is. Well, can't we can't we talk about it tonight? Yeah? Yeah,
that's it. We'll have a nice quiet dinner at the willow.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Henry, there isn't going to be it tonight. You've got
to make a decision.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
What was that the garage door? Someone's up there?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Could it be?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Couldn't be Ruth? Then I'll stay, definitely, Daphne. We can't
take a chance. You better go.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
I'm staying, Henry.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It's one of her friends. You'll start a lot of talk.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I want an answer, Henry, make up your mind.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
They're coming. Listen, Listen, it's you, Daphne. Believe me. I
promise you. I'll free myself from Ruth some way. But
you've got to give me time now. Please go all right, Henry, No, No,
not the front door here? You you better go down
the cellar the store. Here. You can wait down there
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at the foot of the stairs until they go. I'll
call you.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Remember what I said, Henry.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yes, dear, of course, Henry. Where are you, Ruth?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Henry?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
There you are, Henry, Ruth, what are you doing here?
Speaker 7 (04:51):
You know very well what I'm doing here. I wrote
you a letter two days ago asking.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You to join me at the log but I wired you, Ruth.
I told you I couldn't take the weekend off. I'm
way behind at the office.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
Do you think I feel up there all by myself? Oh? No, Emily, Edith,
all of them up there with their husbands, and I'm alone.
They all want to know where you are. Oh, I
feel like a fool. Well, Henry Parker, You're going back
to Lake Arrowhead with me this very afternoon.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
I'd had enough of.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Your excuses, but I can, don't you see?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
I just so little of you, Henry.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
I ask only what a wife expects, no more. You've
got to go back to the lake with me today.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Why may I ask, Henry?
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Today is our tenth anniversary. I told everyone you'd be
there tonight.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I'll think it's strange if you want I'm sick of
this pretense, Ruth, I'm fed up with all your friends. Furthermore,
I don't care what they think. Why don't you tell them, Ruth?
Why why don't you tell them I want a divorce.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
You're not going to humiliate me. They're all coming over
tonight and you're going to be there. I won't be
a laughing.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Stock, Henry, like, very clever, very clear.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
No one knows I'm here in town. I think I'm
still at the lodge. They they all went on a
picnic to Big Bear to day. I told them I
had a headache.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Oh, Henry.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
They they won't be back till tonight. And when they arrive,
I want.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
You to be there. That's right of you, my dear.
Why did you do all that?
Speaker 7 (06:25):
I die if they knew. I had to drive into
town and beg you to come back with me.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Oh what about the neighbors here?
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Oh why? I took all the back roads, and when
I reached our street, I came up the alley and
drove into the garage. Oh, Henry, please understand this means
everything to me.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I couldn't face you when you're pride.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Please, Henrie, it's only four o'clock.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
We can drive down three hours.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
There's plenty of time.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
I told everyone to drop in from nine eyes.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
But you don't understand, Ruth. I'm not going. I don't
care what your friends think. Don't you see.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
You're coming with me, Henry. That's authorous to it. Where
are you going down on the stunt to get your
other night bags? Wait a minute, Oh, don't aunt you
with me? Get your razor and things from the ballroom.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
All right, Ruth, all right, you win. I'll go down
and get the suit. Can't I stay away from my door, Henry? God,
I told you not to open that door. You you
over bearing, stupid. You don't I've had all of your
intended Ruth, Ruth.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
Daphne, Daphne, you better get some water here, let me.
But what's the matter, Daphne, Daphne, Why what's the matter.
Don't don't you see we'd better she don't, don't you think?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Just let us stay there? Dear, there's no point in
moving her.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Now you mean she?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
You mean she's Henry Ruthstead.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
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Speaker 2 (10:15):
So Ruth is lying dead at the foot of the
cellar stairs, and the quiet part of the Sunday is over,
isn't it, Henry? Just like that, her unexpected arrival home,
her irritating insistence that you go back to Lake Arrowhead
with her, the argument the cellar stairs, a flash of
blinding rage, and it was over. Death is a strange,
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terrifying thing, isn't it, Henry. You've never even been close
to it before. All you can do is stand there
at the foot of the stairs and look dumbly at Daphne,
too stunned even to think.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Daphne, I didn't mean it. It was an accident. You
saw it all, didn't you. There was nothing she slipped,
Stop at, Henry. But you saw it, and you can
tell them how it happened.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Stop it. I'm not going to tell them anything.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
What do you mean, We've got.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
To get it. You pushed her, you know it.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
You mean you're gonna tell them, Daphnely, you can't. They'll wait.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Listen to me. There's a way to get out of
this gracefully.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Get hold of yourself.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
I could hear her through the door. What did you
say about sneaking away from the lake.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Well, it was our anniversary and she wanted me to
be there. Her friends were away to Big Bear. They
think she's still there at the lot.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
No one knows she came down here. She wasn't seen.
No Henry supposing she fell down the stairs at the
lodge instead of here while you were spending a quiet
sunday in town.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Hi, I don't know how she knows.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Justin then, let me think there's a long staircase up there. Yes,
I remember it. One of her friends came back from
Big Bear at nine o'clock and found her at the
foot of the stairs. When everyone knows you're here in
town spending a quiet sunday.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
But how could we get her up there? Well, we've
got to try.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
It's the only way. I'll take her car up to
the lodge. It's got to be found there. I can
get to air ahead without being seen. I know that.
Then I'll come back with you. Yes, what about Ruth,
Well you've got to take her up in the luggage.
Can partner of your car? Oh, there's one thing more.
Somebody's got to know you've been in town all day.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yes, yes, an alibi.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Where could you be for the next few hours?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I don't know, Daphne, How can I a movie?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
What about a movie? That's it? Pick one you've seen?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah? Yeah, And there's Charlie Hotcastle. He he goes to
a meeting before church every Sunday. I'll pick him up.
Tell him I'm going to the movie.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Yes, good by, take it. Go in and sneak out
the side entrance. It'll be dark when we get to
the lake. I'll meet you at the turn off just
below the lodge. Off my horn twice.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Understand, yes, I understand.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Well, we haven't much time. Go on, we've got to
get her up to the car. Get the blanket over there,
we're wrap in there.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Hurry here you are, just throw over there? Ready, all right,
go right up the steps.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (13:06):
I don't know. Something crashed to the window.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Back on on the stairs. Hurry, get down, I don't know. Wait, oh,
there it is baseball. Those kids next door playing baseball
and vacant lot.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Go out and give it to them before they try
to come down.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Crawl down and get it ready.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Gee, I can't see down here?
Speaker 10 (13:29):
What if old sunur Puss Parker is Oh hello, mister Parker, Hell, gee,
gee whiz.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
We're sorry about the window. That's all right. Ready here here,
let me hand the ball to you.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
You can't reach it, mister Parker. I'll come around and get.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
No, no, no, stay right there.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
I'll here see you can't reach up that far.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I'll be down the safe heay right there, I said,
she where is no Ah, Let me throw it up
to you.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Look out, mister Parker, you'll hit the other window.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Here you are, get out of here, go on.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
I was close lucky too. He's another one who can
swear you were here today. Let's get her into the car.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Just a quiet Sunday afternoon, Henry. Nothing to mar It's
peaceful stillness, except the small matter of getting the body
of your wife Ruth up to Lake Arrowhead, leaving it
at the foot of the stairs at your lodge, parking
your car where she always leaves it, and returning with
Daphne to Los Angeles or without being seen. Oh yes,
there's the matter too, of mister Charles Hardcastle and the
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hold of you.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Wait a minute, maybe Hartcastle's lift on shaking like a leash. Helloa, Charlie.
H this is Henry Parker. Charlie. Oh fine, well I
was going to a shorter night and I wondered if
you'd like to join me. Oh you're going to church?
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Oh yeah, yes, of course, I forgot. Well i'll drop
you off. Huh. It's right near the theater. Go ahead,
good yeah, pick you up in a few minutes. Huh.
Oh forget it, Charlie, glad to do it. Good Bye,
I'll set Charlie, will swear to the high heavens I
stayed in town.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
What time is it?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Five o'clock?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
All right, you've only got an hour to spare. You'll
take three hours to drive up there. Remember, I'll be
waiting for you to turn off, all right.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Danny at the turnoff. There's no turning back now, is there, Henry.
The body is right behind you now on the luggage
compartment of the car. As you drive slowly down the
street to pick up Charlie, hardcare. You're beginning to settle
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down a little, aren't you. The terrible shock that gripped
you at first is beginning to wear off, and you're
thinking more clearly. Some of Daphney's quick cool courage was
there for you to borrow, and you need it most
when the panic made your knees weak, being blindly away
to hide somewhere. At ten past five, you stop by
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for Charlie and nonchalantly begin to build your alibi as
the two of you drive toward the church.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Oh don't be silly, Charlie. No trouble at all driving
around this way. Well, nothing else to do, you know,
just taking any show.
Speaker 11 (16:35):
You kind of surprise me, Henry calling up that way. Oh,
you have been a coups agence we've been on together.
By the way, where's Ruth.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Oh she's up at the lake for a little rest.
Speaker 11 (16:44):
I envy you that lodge. I'd like to get away
sometime myself.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Well, i'll tell you what, Charlie. As soon as Ruth
gets back. Why don't you and Sadie go up to
the lake. Huh, you're welcome to use.
Speaker 11 (16:52):
Our lobs, Henry, I'm sure say you'll be thrilled to pieces.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
You've no idea. What a great help you've viendomed me?
Why many times?
Speaker 11 (17:00):
Oh you better pull over? You got a flat I'm afraid.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Oh no, it can't be. It can pull over. I'll
drive you past the church first, No reason you should
be late.
Speaker 11 (17:09):
Yeah, don't be silly, Henry. You don't want to ruin
a perfectly good tire.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Let me have a look at Cathing's okay, you're lucky. Now, look, Charlie,
it's only a few blocks to the church. You better
run along. I'll fix it.
Speaker 11 (17:26):
Hey, you're talking to the best little old tire changer
in the business.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Come on, boy, where.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Are the two?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Go ahead? Please, Charlie, Hey, what's the matter with you
and Ray? I just don't want you to be late.
You'll only take a minute. Besides, there's a signal service
station in the next fly. I wouldn't think of it.
I'll get the keys out of the dash.
Speaker 11 (17:42):
Children in the luggage compartment, aren't they we'll have her
fixed for you.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Wait, wait, Charlie, I'll get the keys. I already got them.
Give them for me.
Speaker 11 (17:49):
Hey, take it easy, I don't mind it a bit.
I'll get the spare out of the luggage compartment.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Me do it.
Speaker 11 (17:54):
I tell you something eating you, Henry like, I'd rather
do it my.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
You sure are nervous, right, don't you see? Charlie? Hi,
I just do want to see You'll get all messed
up and dirty before church. Now, look, why don't you
go up the street and have the traffic swing around me? Huh,
street's awfully narrow.
Speaker 11 (18:13):
Here, okay, Henry, you say so, here the key.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
It's worse than ever, now, Henry, worse even than the
moment when you look down at ruthe lying still at
the foot of the cellar stairs. One more second and
Charlie would have opened the luggage compartment, look curiously at
the blanket rap, shapeless bundle. For a moment, it would
have been all over. But you can't waste time thinking
about that. Now your hands won't work. You fumble clumsily
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with a jack with the lug nuts on the wheel,
glanced nervously at Charlie down the corner directing traffic. A
thousand years later, the tire has changed and you're frantically
trying to get the old wheel back in the luggage compartment.
Speaker 11 (18:59):
When here, let me give you a hand with that, Hendry.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
No, I can get it. I'll get it. A wait,
wait a minute, there all set. Yeah, yeah, you you
can go ahead and get in. Oh you left the
jack out, Let me put it in the lens.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Come popment for you.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Know what. It's all locked up.
Speaker 11 (19:16):
H I'll throw it in the back seat, all right, Henry,
better get in.
Speaker 12 (19:25):
Yeah, I got the keys right here to break.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Yeah, I'm sorry I got so jumpy.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
A flat tire always throws me.
Speaker 11 (19:49):
Well, I don't think I was much of a help
standing way out there. Sure I got your clothes and
mussed up.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Yeah, yeah, you've seen. Never would have done to have
you show up at church this way. Gosh, gosh it.
It's too bad you can't go to the show with me.
Speaker 11 (20:02):
You know, Henry, I was thinking maybe I won't go
to church after all. I wouldn't mind seeing a movie tonight.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I actually I don't want to talk to you out
of going at church. And I don't get me wrong, Okay,
it was just a thought. Yeah, yeah, I'll let you
off right at the door.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
But playing at the show tonight.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Or some second rate picture. I'll give you a report
on it and you can take it in tomorrow night
if it's any good. I hate to think I keep
you out at church.
Speaker 11 (20:26):
All right, Henry, don't worry. I'm going to church.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Love Please how many or could you tell me if
the main feature is on? Please talk good good? I
always hate to come in drink the middle of a picture.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
How many please?
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Just one?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Fifty five?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Oh, I'm sorry, I don't have any change. Can you
break a twenty?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
I've done it before. Let me try.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I'm awfully sorry. Here you are.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Two, three four five? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Awfully hot tonight, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
You can say that again?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Too warm to suit me? Earthquake, whether that's what I
call it? Of course?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Good night? Miss What a character. I'll see him on
my plate.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
That's right, Henry, they'll remember you now. A minute later,
you're lost in the comfortable blackness of the theater at
an aisle seat near the side exit. You sit there
long enough to make certain it's one you've seen, and
then you slip out and hurry back to your car.
It's six o'clock now, Henry, just three hours left to
make it.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
The traffic is coming the other way now, back into
Los Angeles, fifty fifty five sixty miles an hour, and
always you're careful to watch the rear view mirror. It
would never do to be picked.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Up for speeding, would it?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Eight thirty? Mate? Wonderful time. Here's the turn off ahead.
Daphne she's here.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Oh you made it, Darling's everything all right?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah? I think so? Did anyone see you?
Speaker 5 (23:00):
You better go ahead, I'll folly.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Have you been up to the lodge?
Speaker 5 (23:03):
No, alright, go on ahead. We hadn't time to talk.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
That's me. There's a lotch.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Where'd she usually leave the car?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Over there?
Speaker 6 (23:37):
The side?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Better put it over there.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Now we'll take her in first.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
You got the keys right here? All right?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Oh yeah, I'll bring it u that you can part from.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
The lodge is pitch dark, Darling, we made it in time.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
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go to Lauren H. Brinton, Los Angeles, W. F. Huff Seattle,
Leo J. Kurzick, Long Beach, AD P. Kilmer, Quittier, Missus
Harry W. Coochman, Angelus Julius S. Rosco, Sacramento, Missus Maurica
Osborne Dunlap, California, Clarence W. Todd Portland, Missus Sarah L. Trogan, Portland,
(25:11):
and Elizabeth E. Washburn, San Diego. In addition to the
night's twenty three top awards, one hundred seventy seven other
persons won valuable prizes and will be notified personally within
the next few days. A list of all two hundred
winners will be posted at signal service stations.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
So you made it, Henry.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
The lodge is in complete darkness, and you're sure there'll
be plenty of time for you and Daphne to arrange roofs.
Accidental fall at the foot of the steep staircase, leave quietly,
lock the door, and sneak back down the dark road
to the highway before any of your wife's friends arrive.
It's simple, isn't it. You're sure your alibi will hold.
(26:09):
You're certain you're safe now, and strangely, the horror that
gripped you when you first look down at Ruth's body
is gone. The two of you remove the blanket, carry
her up the stairs to the front door of the lodge.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Where's the key? Got it right here? Just a minute? Oh,
where's the don keyhole? Let it get a match?
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Here you are?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Oh, oh good, I'll go first. Easy now, I'm not past.
Follow me, I know my way in the dark.
Speaker 10 (26:55):
Where the stairs over the way? Henry turn on the lights.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil program.
The whistler each Sunday night at the same time, brought
to you by the Signal Oil Company, marketers of Signal
Gasoline and Motor Oil and fine quality automotive accessories. Now
that the winners in Signals ten thousand dollars contest have
been announced, Signal Oil Company wants to take this opportunity
(27:59):
to say congratulations to you who won, and to all
of you who entered so wholeheartedly into the spirit and
fun of the contest are sincere appreciation featured in Tonight's Story,
(28:26):
where Bill Foreman, Don Randolph, Mary, Jane Croft, and Margaret Brayton.
The Whistler was produced and directed by George w Allen,
with music by Wilbur Hatch. Tonight's story Quiet Sunday, by
Bernard Girard and Zane Mann, was first heard on the
Whistler on June tenth, nineteen forty six, was repeated this
(28:47):
evening in response to many requests, and was transmitted to
our troops overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
The Whistler is.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on the.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Whistler are also fictional.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Any similarity of names or resemblances to persons living or
dead is purely coincidental. Remember, at the same time, Next Sunday,
another strange tale by the Whistler Marvin Miller, speaking for
the Signal Oil Company is the CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting
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