August 3, 2025 • 44 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater - The Stuff of Dreams
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Come in or welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall. We have
a little diversion for you that may both relax and
intrigue you. It deals with the subject of dreams. A
great deal too much, I think is said these days
about facing reality. It is considered a great virtue to
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face reality, while to spend time dreaming fantasizing we call
it now, is thought to be shameful, if not downright sinful. Personally,
I would not care to live if I could not dream?
Would you?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I saw you coming out of her room?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Did you now did you realize you stand for it? Oh?
What are you proposed to do about it?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I don't know, but I'll do something like what I'll
tell you who you really are?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Come off, and I start talking nonsense. You don't really
know who I am. Our mystery drama, The Stuff of Dreams,
was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Elspeth Eric
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and stars Briana Raeburn. It is sponsored in part by
Buick Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with Act one.
Back to the subject of dreaming, which is what our
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story concerns itself with, not the dreaming we do at night,
which is somehow considered respectable because we think we do
not control it. Now, this story is about the dreaming
we do while we are wide awake.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
You sure you got.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
The right address?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I believe so.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
One eleven.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That's right, Missus Tipton, that's right. Well, she ain't gonna
come to the door.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Oh, she never does. Nobody ever does.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Well, somebody will today, you'll.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Think so, huh, Well you're wrong. You'll find out. I
lived at one thirteen all my life, worn there. I
was here when she moved in twenty years ago. Moved in.
It never came out if it weren't for Missus Hutchins.
The cleaning lady comes once a week. Think she was dead,
But Missus Hutchins has her own key. Missus Tipton, don't
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let her in. You can stand there for a hundred years.
She'll never come to the door.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I really don't think it's any of your business.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Well, I'm just telling you what I know.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I happen to be answering an advertisement. See there it is.
I cut it out of the morning paper. It's about
a job.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Something happened to missus Hutchins, the cleaning lady, Well, she
was here yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It's not an advertisement for a cleaning woman.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
What's it for?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Doesn't say exactly, but there's no mistake about the address
or the name. Missus Hilda Tipton, one eleven West. That's her,
all right.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So see, you're the first person I've ever seen ringing
that bell in twenty years. Must be something up inside there.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well I really wouldn't know.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Oh wait till I tell my sister. Will she get
a kick out of this? Oh? Hey, you mind if
I stand here till she opens the door? That is,
if she ever does open the door, which still remains
in a doubt.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I do mind. I want this job. The money's very
good and won't help my chances if she sees you
standing there gawking at her.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Why I'm not gawking. I got every right. I could
be here just walking my dog, That's all I do
it every day, three times a day. Tricksy and I
always stop in front of one eleven for a couple
of minutes. Don't we got a right? Well, just the
same if you wouldn't, Okay, okay, Trixy is all finished anyway,
Come on, tricks we go home. We ain't wanted here,
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that's plain.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
We can watch from our porch anyway, can't we, old girl,
He's sure we can't.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Oh, oh that sounds sons so bright. Come in side,
Come in for goodness. Takes you say three o'clock, isn't you?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I mean that's what I understood on the.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Phone, and you said, go on into the drawing, go ahead.
It takes me a little time.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
At first I thought that maybe you weren't home and
I'd made a mistake or something.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Oh what a beautiful rue, Oh, perfectly beautiful.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I was on the phone when you rang the bell.
Takes me a while to get around. Ho this weight
I have to carry. I have a glandular condition.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
For I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
You're gone sit down? No, no, not there, that's a
priceless antique. All right, Well where shall any place? Huh?
I'm gonna lie down on the couch myself. You don't mind,
I don't mind her.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I'll just stand if.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
You want to see. I have a heart condition, and
my weight problem makes it worse.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Is so I have to be careful.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
No, you you came about the position? Yes? Oh what
what what's your name? You told me on the phone,
but I've forgotten. I talked to a lot of girls.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
My name is may Cook.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
May Cook. Yes, that's not a very imaginative name.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well it's and it's the only one I've got.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
You could change it to maybe something like that.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Well I don't really want.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Oh, it doesn't matter what you call yourself. I myself
changed my name from Hilda to Hildegard, but didn't seem
to make much difference, because I never see anybody, or
correspond with anybody, or have anything to do with anybody really,
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not ever, not anybody, not since my husband divorced me
and took my son away from me. Oh I am sorry,
not at all. He gave me plenty of money, and
I bought this house and furnished it. And even so
to leave you alone like that, Oh, I never think
about it. Oh, them had got in the way, gotten
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away in a way of what my kind of life,
missus tips.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
It's really hard to see where I'd fit in. I'm
a trained social worker. That's how I make my living.
At least that was how I made my living. I
was discharged six months ago. They were cutting down and well,
I haven't been able to find anything in my field,
and I'm running short of money, so I'm willing to
take almost any kind of job if it's respectable.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I'm not going to ask you to do anything you
wouldn't ordinarily do.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
If you need a secretary something like that, I think
I could manage that maybe, or be a companion.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
No waner a secretary or a companion. Why would I?
I never do anything, and I prefer being alone.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, what is it that you do want?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I want somebody to live for me, to.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Live for you precisely? Well, I really don't know what
that means, missus Tipton. I never heard of anybody living
for somebody else.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I don't pretend that my life in this house is living.
It's not what most people would call living, So what
do they know? Nothing? Actually, my life here is infinitely
superior to what they would call living.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Well, what precisely do you do, missus Tipton? I dream,
just dream, that's all.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
What do you mean? That's all? Oh, it's easy to
see you don't know much about dreaming.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Well, you mean daydreaming. I know about that. I daydream
sometimes everybody does once and know why?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
But how many make it a life's work or not many?
I guess hardly anybody would be my guess well, people
don't have the time.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
They can't afford it. I know I certainly can't how
but I do have the time and I can afford it.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
But it sounds strange, have cause it sounds strange. No
one has the sensitive or the imagination to withdraw completely
into the life of fantasy, a life people with the
oddest treachers, doing the oddest things in the oddest way,
saying incredible things, producing incredible sensations. You make it sound fascinating,
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But I'm a very ordinary person. Really, I don't think
I could do anything like that. Of course you couldn't,
and that wouldn't be what I'd require of you.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Well, I think we really ought to discuss that. You
said you wanted me to live for you.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I want you out in the world what people call
the real world, living what they call a real life.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
That's all.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
That's all. You're a social worker. You must have.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Got around a lot. Well some do you have a lover.
There's a man I'm interested in. We're not what you said.
I'm just interested in him.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
N But you're a proper little thing, aren't you. Well,
never mind, I'd want you to go on dating. Whatever
you've been doing. With this man and whatever else you
do with your time, and that's all, and report back
to me once a week tell me what you've done.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I can't believe that that's all i'd have to do.
You'd pay me for doing that.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Three hundred dollars a week.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
That's a great deal of money for just just living
and telling you about it. I just can't see why
you want to pay me for doing just that.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
If you insist on an explanation, I'd like to understand.
If I can.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Very well, you see, I'd be better at the job,
I think if I if I understood it.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
You see, I'm thoroughly convinced that I've created the perfect
life for myself. I live surrounded by beauty. The charm
is a beautiful house. All the senses are satisfied here. Hm.
This smell of perfume in this room, Yes, it's lovely.
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I have it changed once a month. You see those draperies,
pure silk from Thailand, one hundred dollars a yard. Oh,
and they are due to be changed shortly.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
When you change them, do you just throw the others away? Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
You'd like to have them, wouldn't you. Well, perhaps, if
you're a very good girl is so lovely. Everything in
this house is lovely except me. Oh this is nobody
weighing close to three hundred pounds could be considered lovely.
But it doesn't matter, because I have my dreams, and
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in my dreams, I weigh exactly one hundred and ten
and my hair grows to my waist and there's a
light oburn and color, and my feet are small and narrow,
and my eyes are clear and bright, and my fingers
are long and tapering. Ha ha, never mind. The point
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is that in my dreams, I am the loveliest thing
on earth, and the loveliest things happen to me.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
And why do you?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
That's been my life for twenty years, and I've adored
every second of it. But now, well, I I'm starting
to grow older. It's sad, but I well, I I'm
growing older, and it's it's harder than it used to
be to the dream my beautiful dreams.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Everybody grows older, missus Tipton.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Eventually, I don't intend to, no, No, I mean to
go on living in my dreams until the very end,
if there ever is an end.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
But there has to be, doesn't there. I mean for everybody,
not for me. But I still don't see what you
want me to do. I mean, I don't see what
possible help I could be to you.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I need food for my dreams. Food. They're starting to
grow stale, my dreams repetitious. I've dreamed each one of
them a million times. I need new ones.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Can't you just make them up?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I need some contact with life as it's lived by others.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Sometimes lately have I've had the sensation that I was
I was melting into my dreams, that I was vanishing
into them, that I was becoming nothing but my dreams.
But what I need now is to build a little
bridge between me and the outside world. And since I
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clearly can't do this myself, I must have someone do
it for me.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That's what you want me to do, build a bridge
for you. You think you can, I can try. I'd
like to try.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Hello Eddie, Hell, hello, miss Cook?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
How should I be?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I know it must be hard for you.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I've done time before.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I feel so bad. It's my fault, really that you're here, so.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
You turn me in. You did your duty, you were
a good citizen, yes, But so you feel bad? Eddie?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
You know I take a special interest in you.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Oh yes, I know that you haven't had an easy life?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You know anybody who's had what you'd call an easy life?
I don't miss Cook?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Do you have to call me miss Cook? I thought
we were getting to be friends.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Well, you know something, I forgot your first name.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
It's may May.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I'll call you a Mazie.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Okay, well, okay, at least it's better than Maybell.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Maybell? What kind of a name is that?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
A woman I interviewed about a job yesterday she thought
I should change my name to Maybell. Needless to say,
I declined, although I must admit if she'd insisted, I'd
have done it. The job pays so.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Well, wait, well you got a new job.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Oh it's very strange. I don't know how it's going
to work out.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
A Waitmt's say it's legal, isn't it? It's perfectly legal? Okay,
So what's the job?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
What is it pay? You're not going to believe three
hundred dollars a week?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You a kid.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I'm not kidding this woman. I don't know if she's
crazy or what she lives in this beautiful house, all
this beautiful furniture, rugs, pictures. She never has any company.
She never goes out.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Why not, she doesn't want to.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Twenty years ago her husband divorced her and he got
custody of the little boy. So she bought this gorgeous
house and she lives.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
There doing want dreaming. She sleeps all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Oh, I think she means daydreaming making up things.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Well, so what does she need you for to help
her make up things?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Well, she wants me to live for her.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
How are you supposed to do that?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
She says that all I have to do is live
my normal life and once a week come and tell
her about it.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
What's to tell?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
But she thinks if she has some sort of contact
with the outside world, she thinks that would help her
with her dreams.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Oh, that's what she needs to help with her dreams.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
And I get three hundred dollars a week. Isn't it crazy? Well,
isn't it? Say something?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
No, I'm thinking. What about I come up for parole
next week. I think it'll go through. They practically promised me.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Now, what are you going to do when you get out?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Well, I told him I had a dish washing job,
and I do.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
We're going to live.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah, there was some flophouse. I guess well, you'll get
a better job.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I have great faith in you, Eddie, And if there's
anything I can do to help, you know you can
count on me.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
May see, there's one thing you could do to help.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Well, what's that.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
When I get out of here? Let me move in
with him?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Idiot.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
It's just for a little while, so I get back
of my I don't mean check up together. I mean
just let me sleep on the couch or the floor.
Than anything. Well, it means everything to me.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Well for a while, maybe, okay, you can stay with
me for a little while.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Dear sweet Mother Nature, at whose shrine we all pretend
to worship, and whose victims we constantly violate. What oddities
she does create, perhaps to revenge herself on us for
our misdeeds, perhaps to punish us for our hypocrisy, perhaps
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to show her contempt for our stupidity. Whatever her reasons,
it is an undeniable fact that here and there are
specimens of her handiwork that shock, terrify, and appall. I'll
be back shortly with that too. Our tender little heroine,
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Miss may Cook has secured a position with missus Hilda Tipton,
wealthy recluse. In return for a handsome salary, Miss Cook
has only to lead her ordinary life and report weekly
to her employer. It's mundane contents to be, in Missus
Tipton's words, her bridge to the outside world. For Missus
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Tipton spends all her time dreaming, just dreaming, while in
another part of town altogether is a man called Eddie
who spends his time in prison, also dreaming, dreaming of
the day of his parole. Got the job, fatures sure
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to give you your own key. I know she doesn't
like answering the door. Missus Hutchins has her own key.
She lets herself in, So why though she give you
your own key? You're getting to be a snooty she is.
Come on, tricksy, Let's not hang around where we're not wanted.
We can always watch from the porch.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Oh, come on in me.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
How are you looks like ray? Terriblely?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Go on in, take your coat off, go on in.
I hope to goodness you've got something to tell me,
something with a little spice to it. I don't mind
telling you. What you'll tell me about the world out
there makes me glad. I don't live in it. Oh
move that pillow, will you?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Which one on the couch?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
The gold when I needed for my back?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
That's it? Oh go ahead. Well, at the beginning of
the week wasn't so very exciting. I bought some clothes.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
What kind of clothes?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Well, a couple of shirt waist dresses and shirt waist dresses.
Oh they're very nice, nice. I paid quite a lot
of money for them.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Didn't you buy anything? You know, sexy, noble? Nothing long
and filmy and you know, revealing.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I've never worn that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Didn't you tell me you were in love with some man?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yes, that's true. I am.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
You wear shirt boist dresses when you're with him? Along
with him?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I mean, well, he he hasn't been in town lately,
has been away.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Away where well, and I want to tell me, okay,
when's he coming back? Well, he is back. He came
back last night. Oh good. So what did you do
last night, the two of you?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Well, we went out for dinner, seeing it was his
first night home.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
What did you eat?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
He had steak, I had fish. We both had salad
and ice cream.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Oh, my lord, even the food you eat is dull.
Don't you ever eat anything interesting.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
We used to go to a Chinese restaurant sometimes.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
I bet you ain't chop suey. Yes. So after that
splendid repast of steak and fish and ice cream, then
what did you do?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Uh? Well, we went to a movie?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
What movie?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
The one in the neighborhood. Forget the name of it,
Oh may you could make up a name.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Why would I do that?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
You know I never go out of this house. I
don't know one movie from another. So if you made
up the name of a movie, I wouldn't know the difference.
Why should I Because you're lying. You never went to
any movie, not last night, not after your lover has
been away out of town, whatever. No, I want the truth,
young lady. I want the whole truth. You've been coming here.
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What is it three weeks now and you you haven't
said one word that was interesting there as I can tell,
nothing happens out there in the world, nothing, nothing whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
It's true, nothing much does happen to me, missus Tipton.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
I don't believe that. I don't believe that for an
instant I couldn't have been so wrong about you. I
never said that I was interesting or anything like that.
I know that there was something about you. I heard
it in your voice over the telephone, so so sweet,
so mild, so eager to please. And then when I
met you, I I could see it in your face.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I don't know what you could see.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I'm just hunger, yearning. You wanted my draperies, didn't you go?
But only if you were going to throw them out,
if you take secondhand things, if they were fancy expensive.
And then there was your manner, the way you smiled
and agreed with everything I said, Even if I was rude,
I knew you must have another side to you. What
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I saw couldn't be the whole of may Cook. There
must be another part of her that was there was
jealous and spiteful and anger.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I'm not any guilty.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Guilty of being spiteful and jealous and greedy, No, missus Gipson, Yes,
miss Cook. Now suppose you tell me about this lover
of yours. Tell me all about him. What's his name?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
That'll do for a start, Eddie Eddy?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
What he said, he's been out of town.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
He's been in jail, in jail, in jail.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
That's wonderful. In jail for what?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
What did he do when he broke into somebody's apartment
to your apartment.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
No, no, then how'd you get to know him?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
It was the apartment of a friend of mine. So
when she had to go to court to identify him,
I went with her. She was frightened, so I went.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Now, hold on, hum, I remember enough for the world
to know that when a person says it happened to
a friend, it didn't. It happened to that very person.
So this eddie didn't break into the apartment of a
friend of yours, Diddy, he broke into your apartment, and
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that's how you met him, Am I right? Isn't that
what happened? Yes, of course, of course. Now how did he.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Get in through the kitchen window?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
And you heard him moving around?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
How did he steal? Well?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I didn't have very much. He took my mother's engagement
ring in her wedding ring. I had a little cash,
about twenty dollars.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
He took that. And what else?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Oh, that's about all.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I don't want to hear about about all. I want
to hear all what else did he take?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Nothing else?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
He took you didn't he I don't know what you mean.
I mean, he took you by force? Against your will,
I mean ripe for your nunny. He Rachel did know
he didn't. Why don't you admit if, Missus Tipton, I
can't admit to something.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
That never happened.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
You make me sick. Well, if that's so, perhaps I'd
better not work for you any long and give up
all that money you need it. You know you doing
not that much. Look, I want you to do one
more thing for me than we can call it quits.
I want you to bring this Eddie person here to
my house. I want to meet him.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I don't know if he'd want to come, Missus.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Tiptan, you bring him tomorrow night. I'll expect you both
for dinner. I've had enough conversation for today. You can
go now, h Your money's on the little table by
the front door.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Thank you, Missus Tipton.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Three one hundred dollar bills Crispy new ones. Thank you,
missus tip for once. I got my money's worth, and
I mean to get much more, much much more.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
That's all you told her that I spent part of
a year in a Salamma.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Well, there wasn't anything else to tell.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I'll ad just doesn't add up?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Oh what doesn't add up?
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Biddy.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I'll at this old bag would want to make me die? Dillarcare,
howm nutty she is, how lonelier, how old? Anything that's
not enough of a reason, There's gotta be something else. Yeah,
I know what these biddies have on their minds all
the time. They got it in their minds. Didn't she
ask anything about that? About what you and me about sex? Dummy?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
She didn't ask me.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
She told me told you what.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
That you raped me.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I knew it. There had to be something, But of.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Course I said you didn't.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Then what?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Then nothing? She got disgusted with me because I wouldn't
say that you, because I wouldn't say something happened that
never happened. And so I said that maybe if that
was the way she felt about me, maybe I better
not work for her anymore. You said that she didn't
seem to care whether I quit or not. There was
just one more thing she wanted me to do, and
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that was to bring you to her house tomorrow night
for dinner.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
And you said you would, well, I said, I'd ask you.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
You don't have to go?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
What do you mean I don't have to go?
Speaker 2 (28:02):
She's pretty weird.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I want to go, but Eddie, I.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Really believe missus Tipton wants to think you raped me.
I mean, I don't think she believed me at all
when I said you didn't.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Well, we can set it straight, can't we.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Well, I don't think she wants to be set straight.
It was a nice job while it lasted.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Oh it isn't over yet.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Oh, yes it is.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I made up my mind after tomorrow night, I'm never
going near that house again.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I are perfectly right. Yeah, you're not cut.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Out for that job, and I'm glad you feel that way.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah, but me, I was tail a maid for that job.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
You you mean you would go to work for her?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Well why not? You said it was legal, didn't she?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yes, it's legal.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
But I can tell my parole officer I'm working for
a rich lady who is a slightly eccentric. It'll sound great,
Oh Eddie, I don't. Oh yeah, but I do know. Look,
you made hash out of that chock. It's what I
won't believe me. I'll make it into the best paying
job in the world.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
You just want the money, is that? It not that
I blame you. I wanted it too, but you see,
it isn't worth it. Look, here's the three hundred dollars
that I got paid today. You take it. I really
don't want it, and you need it, so you take it.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Yeah, and I get some money I care about.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Look here three one hundred dollar bills.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Hand, I'm all here, give me a match? What for about?
Never mind? I got I got in someplace.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
What do you want a match for?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I got it?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Hey, Oh you can't. Oh, don't do that.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
That's three hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Don't they burn pretty?
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Though?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Well? Some people have money to burn, I guess not me,
and nobody I know either. And even if we did have,
I don't think we'd go ahead and actually do it.
I mean we'd somehow think of something else, anything else
to do with it beside burnett. I mean to say,
one hundred dollars bills are legal tender, not legal tender.
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We'll be back shortly with X three. It is the
next night now, and May is bringing Eddie to have
dinner with missus Tipton? Or is it the other way round?
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Is Eddie bringing May to the house of a woman
he has never met for a Contrary to May's expectations,
Eddie jumped at the chance to meet May's employer, more correctly,
her former employer, for May fully intends to resign and
Eddie fully in tends to take her place. It is
seven o'clock and May and Eddie are arriving at number
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one eleven. Okay, keep the change. Well, well, well, don't
pay any attention to it.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
He lives next door.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Well I didn't expect to see you not tonight.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Remember, Eddie, this is the last time I'm going to
come to this house.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I got cham and with him man alongside you too.
Missus Dipton must be loosening.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Up a bit, am I right, just ignore him.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
For twenty years it was just missus Hutchins went through
that door. Then the young lady makes an appearance. Now,
lo and behold a young gentleman. Why don't you just
go on home?
Speaker 2 (31:45):
I live next door.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
We'll go there, Okay, come along, Tripsy. We'll sit on
the front porch and watch what happens.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
So you have been waiting coming.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Oh that was the most delicious meal life I've ever
been privileged to enjoy, Missus Tippins.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Better than prison food. Eddie.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Oh I haven't always eaten prison food.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I'll just bet you haven't. Oh, May fetch Eddie another
helping the burnt almond moose.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yes, Missus Tipton, Eddie, h.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
You remind me of somebody I can't think.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Who are your husband? Perhaps Evans?
Speaker 3 (32:34):
No, my husband was a stick. Your son well, considering
I haven't seen my son since he was five years old.
Now now you're more like like someone I've dreamed about
her dessert, Eddie. When you finished, maybe you'd like to
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see the rest of the house. Eddie. You've seen the
first floor. Maybe you'd like to see the second floor.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Be a privilege.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
My bedroom, I think is my masterpiece. It's it's in
shades of days at the moment, from ivory through parchment
to a crew. O. I may change it.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Let me look at it first, Oh I will, I will.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I've never seen your bedroom, Missus Tipton.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
No you haven't, have you and I once promised to
show it to you, didn't I? Yes, Well, then we'll
all look at it together. Eddie finished, your moose all finished?
I really should have an elevator installed. These he stares,
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getting a bit too much for me. Come Vulla Auntley.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Oh oh, how perfectly, how perfectly.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Ex Chris Orry nice. I commend your taste Missus Tipton,
you really like it, I really do. But but you
said you were going to change it.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Oh. I change everything regularly. I get tired after a while.
I need new things, new colors.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
New textures, new sensations, most of all, new sensations. I
have some thoughts on how you could redecorate this room.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Oh have you indeed?
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Oh, I wouldn't change a thing.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Who asked you?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Oh, it's just an opinion.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I'm interested in Eddie's opinion, not yours. Well, why don't
you go downstairs and clean the table?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Yeah, why don't you? And I washed the dishes.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
I say to stay here. I wasn't hired to clear
the table and wash the dishes.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Nevertheless, just this once, this one time, not this one time,
not anytime.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I may step outside with me for a minute, hunhut
side where it's just outside in the hall. But for well,
for a little conversation, that's all I could. Come on,
come on, come on after you, right, just for a
few minutes. Now, Look, I want five minutes alone with
Missus Tipton.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
You really want to work for her, you want to
do her living for her?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
I really want to Eddie.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
You don't know what she's like, Oh, I.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Know exactly what she's like. She's another one of those women.
I've known them all my life. What women women like you?
She's nothing like me, not outside, but inside You're alike.
You're the kind of likes criminals. You like everything about them.
If I wasn't a criminal, you wouldn't like me.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I wanted to help you, to understand you, to help
you to understand yourself.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
I understand myself perfectly. I understand myself backwards, forward, sideways.
I'm bad, Macie.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Bad, bad, bad, not really.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Really really, she understands of that fact, blob and air.
I'm what she's been dreaming about all these ears, lust
and lasciviousness and uncontrolled passion, dreaming of a life where
anything goes in the world belongs to the clever and
the strong.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I've never lived that way. I've never dreamed about those things.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Oh, yes you have, baby. You haven't got the gumption
to do anything for yourself, So you'll find somebody like
me and pretend you want to change me. But you
you want to rehabilitate me. Isn't that what you call it? Well,
I can't be rehabilitated, baby, I don't want to be,
And that fat lady in there doesn't want me rehabilitated.
She wants me just the way I am. So now
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you'll excuse me, Eddie, Ah, Missus Tipton, Well you've turned
off all the lights.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
The moonlight comes through the windows.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Well, our romantic moonlight streaming through parchments, silk. And where
are you, missus Tipton here, Eddie? Well, now would you
buy any chance be in the big canopy bed, Missus Tipton,
the big bed, draped in ivory net, silk net. But
I can scarcely see you. You can hear my voice,
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so I can Hilda call me?
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Hear the god?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
You said? I reminded you of someone.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Someone I've known intimately.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Well, suppose I light a match and you take a
look at my face. I think who it is I
remind you of? You're ready?
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Oh? Yes, why I know you? I know you you?
Is it possible?
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Is what possible? Did you.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Him?
Speaker 2 (37:44):
The arch fiend?
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Like another match?
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Look carefully at my face. Hold to god, this is impossible.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
You're here here with me.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
You are going to what You're going to force yourself
on me, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (38:07):
That's what I've dreamed of light, another match, my beloved,
your majesty, your setenant, majesty, I am your servant yours.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
You see.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
What is that? Rude is growing? Rad has fired?
Speaker 2 (38:27):
That is fire?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Quiet rick see, Oh, Missus Hutchins, Missus Hutchins, I'm in
a hurry. Terrible thing about the fire. Terrible flat, beautiful
house though I've never been in, of course. Have they
been questioning you, the police and the fire people. Yes,
well they'll get around to me later. Me and my sister,
no doubt, we were the ones who called the fire department.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
You know, didn't they they tell you no?
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Oh, yes, my sister and I heard this sort of
explosion and then we saw smoke coming out of one
of the upstairs rooms, Missus Tipton's Dorge's bedroom. Is that
what room it was?
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Then she must have started herself.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
I wouldn't know about that.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Well, nobody got out, I understand, nobody.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Where was Missus Tipton.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
At the time in her bed? They found her there, Yes,
and the young girl, miss Cooked I believe her name.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Was outside the door.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
The door to the bedroom.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Yes, and the door was locked.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Why the poor girl must have been trying to get
in to save missus Tipton.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
It looks that way.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
But where was the man?
Speaker 3 (40:02):
What man?
Speaker 1 (40:03):
The man who came to the house with the young lady?
Speaker 2 (40:06):
There was no man.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Of course there was a man. He drove up about
dinner time with a young lady and they went into
the house together. Now he never came out, because my
sister and I watched the house back and front from
that moment. Huh, we were so surprised to see a
man going in.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
No man was found in the house.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Well, wait till they get the questioning me. I'll tell
them about the man that went in and never came out.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
He'll only be making a fool of yourself.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Well, it must have been the man that set the fire.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
The fire started in the bedroom, and the door to
the bedroom was locked, and nobody of any man was found.
So there, now I've got to be getting on hold.
You can tell your fanciful tale of the police if
you want to.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
How did it happen? How did the fire start?
Speaker 2 (40:59):
It was?
Speaker 3 (41:00):
What's the work of the devil? If you asked me, yes,
sly ways the devil has there is sly ways, And
all their pretty dreams went up in smoke, which I
am given to understand is not an uncommon fate for
dreams that are too remote from reality, and in particular
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dreams of violence.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
These especially are doomed to end in smoke and fire
and death. So dream away, my friends, as I shall
continue to do, but be careful what your dreams are
made of. I'll be back shortly. Our revels now are ended.
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These are actors. As I foretold you. We're all spirits
and are melted into air, into thin air, and this
insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind. We are
such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little
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life is rounded with a sleep. As so often happens,
the final word is given to the one who says
it best. Master William Shakespeare born fifteen sixty four died
sixteen sixteen. Our cast included Marion Soelda's Briana Raeburn, Jack Grimes,
and Dan Harko. The entire production was under the direction
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of Hymen Brown and now a preview of our next tale,
Sleeping Hill.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Any mild I could give you one? No, thank you?
Speaker 2 (42:53):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
No, no, no, It's just a telephone strange this heart.
Shall I answer?
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (43:00):
Please do? Hello? Oh for just a minute. The operator says,
mister Boehmer is on the wire. It's an emergency. Will
you take the call?
Speaker 2 (43:10):
An emergency?
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Will of course? All operator? Yes, you may put the
call through here you are, hello, mister Bohmer.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
What but what you say? Who are you? No?
Speaker 3 (43:26):
I won't listen, Miss Radlover? What is it? Are you ill?
Speaker 2 (43:31):
You so pale? It was not mister Bohmer, not mister Boehmer.
Who was I don't know?
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Someone who said, some who said they would kill me.
This is E. G. Marshall inviting you to return to
our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until
next time, pleasant dreams, Kay,
Come in or welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall. We have
a little diversion for you that may both relax and
intrigue you. It deals with the subject of dreams. A
great deal too much, I think is said these days
about facing reality. It is considered a great virtue to
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face reality, while to spend time dreaming fantasizing we call
it now, is thought to be shameful, if not downright sinful. Personally,
I would not care to live if I could not dream?
Would you?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I saw you coming out of her room?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Did you now did you realize you stand for it? Oh?
What are you proposed to do about it?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I don't know, but I'll do something like what I'll
tell you who you really are?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Come off, and I start talking nonsense. You don't really
know who I am. Our mystery drama, The Stuff of Dreams,
was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Elspeth Eric
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and stars Briana Raeburn. It is sponsored in part by
Buick Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with Act one.
Back to the subject of dreaming, which is what our
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story concerns itself with, not the dreaming we do at night,
which is somehow considered respectable because we think we do
not control it. Now, this story is about the dreaming
we do while we are wide awake.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
You sure you got.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
The right address?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I believe so.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
One eleven.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That's right, Missus Tipton, that's right. Well, she ain't gonna
come to the door.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Oh, she never does. Nobody ever does.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Well, somebody will today, you'll.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Think so, huh, Well you're wrong. You'll find out. I
lived at one thirteen all my life, worn there. I
was here when she moved in twenty years ago. Moved in.
It never came out if it weren't for Missus Hutchins.
The cleaning lady comes once a week. Think she was dead,
But Missus Hutchins has her own key. Missus Tipton, don't
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let her in. You can stand there for a hundred years.
She'll never come to the door.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I really don't think it's any of your business.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Well, I'm just telling you what I know.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I happen to be answering an advertisement. See there it is.
I cut it out of the morning paper. It's about
a job.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Something happened to missus Hutchins, the cleaning lady, Well, she
was here yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It's not an advertisement for a cleaning woman.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
What's it for?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Doesn't say exactly, but there's no mistake about the address
or the name. Missus Hilda Tipton, one eleven West. That's her,
all right.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So see, you're the first person I've ever seen ringing
that bell in twenty years. Must be something up inside there.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well I really wouldn't know.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Oh wait till I tell my sister. Will she get
a kick out of this? Oh? Hey, you mind if
I stand here till she opens the door? That is,
if she ever does open the door, which still remains
in a doubt.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I do mind. I want this job. The money's very
good and won't help my chances if she sees you
standing there gawking at her.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Why I'm not gawking. I got every right. I could
be here just walking my dog, That's all I do
it every day, three times a day. Tricksy and I
always stop in front of one eleven for a couple
of minutes. Don't we got a right? Well, just the
same if you wouldn't, Okay, okay, Trixy is all finished anyway,
Come on, tricks we go home. We ain't wanted here,
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that's plain.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
We can watch from our porch anyway, can't we, old girl,
He's sure we can't.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Oh, oh that sounds sons so bright. Come in side,
Come in for goodness. Takes you say three o'clock, isn't you?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I mean that's what I understood on the.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Phone, and you said, go on into the drawing, go ahead.
It takes me a little time.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
At first I thought that maybe you weren't home and
I'd made a mistake or something.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Oh what a beautiful rue, Oh, perfectly beautiful.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I was on the phone when you rang the bell.
Takes me a while to get around. Ho this weight
I have to carry. I have a glandular condition.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
For I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
You're gone sit down? No, no, not there, that's a
priceless antique. All right, Well where shall any place? Huh?
I'm gonna lie down on the couch myself. You don't mind,
I don't mind her.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I'll just stand if.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
You want to see. I have a heart condition, and
my weight problem makes it worse.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Is so I have to be careful.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
No, you you came about the position? Yes? Oh what
what what's your name? You told me on the phone,
but I've forgotten. I talked to a lot of girls.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
My name is may Cook.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
May Cook. Yes, that's not a very imaginative name.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well it's and it's the only one I've got.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
You could change it to maybe something like that.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Well I don't really want.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Oh, it doesn't matter what you call yourself. I myself
changed my name from Hilda to Hildegard, but didn't seem
to make much difference, because I never see anybody, or
correspond with anybody, or have anything to do with anybody really,
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not ever, not anybody, not since my husband divorced me
and took my son away from me. Oh I am sorry,
not at all. He gave me plenty of money, and
I bought this house and furnished it. And even so
to leave you alone like that, Oh, I never think
about it. Oh, them had got in the way, gotten
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away in a way of what my kind of life,
missus tips.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
It's really hard to see where I'd fit in. I'm
a trained social worker. That's how I make my living.
At least that was how I made my living. I
was discharged six months ago. They were cutting down and well,
I haven't been able to find anything in my field,
and I'm running short of money, so I'm willing to
take almost any kind of job if it's respectable.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I'm not going to ask you to do anything you
wouldn't ordinarily do.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
If you need a secretary something like that, I think
I could manage that maybe, or be a companion.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
No waner a secretary or a companion. Why would I?
I never do anything, and I prefer being alone.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, what is it that you do want?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I want somebody to live for me, to.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Live for you precisely? Well, I really don't know what
that means, missus Tipton. I never heard of anybody living
for somebody else.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I don't pretend that my life in this house is living.
It's not what most people would call living, So what
do they know? Nothing? Actually, my life here is infinitely
superior to what they would call living.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Well, what precisely do you do, missus Tipton? I dream,
just dream, that's all.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
What do you mean? That's all? Oh, it's easy to
see you don't know much about dreaming.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Well, you mean daydreaming. I know about that. I daydream
sometimes everybody does once and know why?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
But how many make it a life's work or not many?
I guess hardly anybody would be my guess well, people
don't have the time.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
They can't afford it. I know I certainly can't how
but I do have the time and I can afford it.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
But it sounds strange, have cause it sounds strange. No
one has the sensitive or the imagination to withdraw completely
into the life of fantasy, a life people with the
oddest treachers, doing the oddest things in the oddest way,
saying incredible things, producing incredible sensations. You make it sound fascinating,
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But I'm a very ordinary person. Really, I don't think
I could do anything like that. Of course you couldn't,
and that wouldn't be what I'd require of you.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Well, I think we really ought to discuss that. You
said you wanted me to live for you.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I want you out in the world what people call
the real world, living what they call a real life.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
That's all.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
That's all. You're a social worker. You must have.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Got around a lot. Well some do you have a lover.
There's a man I'm interested in. We're not what you said.
I'm just interested in him.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
N But you're a proper little thing, aren't you. Well,
never mind, I'd want you to go on dating. Whatever
you've been doing. With this man and whatever else you
do with your time, and that's all, and report back
to me once a week tell me what you've done.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I can't believe that that's all i'd have to do.
You'd pay me for doing that.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Three hundred dollars a week.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
That's a great deal of money for just just living
and telling you about it. I just can't see why
you want to pay me for doing just that.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
If you insist on an explanation, I'd like to understand.
If I can.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Very well, you see, I'd be better at the job,
I think if I if I understood it.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
You see, I'm thoroughly convinced that I've created the perfect
life for myself. I live surrounded by beauty. The charm
is a beautiful house. All the senses are satisfied here. Hm.
This smell of perfume in this room, Yes, it's lovely.
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I have it changed once a month. You see those draperies,
pure silk from Thailand, one hundred dollars a yard. Oh,
and they are due to be changed shortly.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
When you change them, do you just throw the others away? Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
You'd like to have them, wouldn't you. Well, perhaps, if
you're a very good girl is so lovely. Everything in
this house is lovely except me. Oh this is nobody
weighing close to three hundred pounds could be considered lovely.
But it doesn't matter, because I have my dreams, and
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in my dreams, I weigh exactly one hundred and ten
and my hair grows to my waist and there's a
light oburn and color, and my feet are small and narrow,
and my eyes are clear and bright, and my fingers
are long and tapering. Ha ha, never mind. The point
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is that in my dreams, I am the loveliest thing
on earth, and the loveliest things happen to me.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
And why do you?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
That's been my life for twenty years, and I've adored
every second of it. But now, well, I I'm starting
to grow older. It's sad, but I well, I I'm
growing older, and it's it's harder than it used to
be to the dream my beautiful dreams.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Everybody grows older, missus Tipton.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Eventually, I don't intend to, no, No, I mean to
go on living in my dreams until the very end,
if there ever is an end.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
But there has to be, doesn't there. I mean for everybody,
not for me. But I still don't see what you
want me to do. I mean, I don't see what
possible help I could be to you.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I need food for my dreams. Food. They're starting to
grow stale, my dreams repetitious. I've dreamed each one of
them a million times. I need new ones.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Can't you just make them up?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I need some contact with life as it's lived by others.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Sometimes lately have I've had the sensation that I was
I was melting into my dreams, that I was vanishing
into them, that I was becoming nothing but my dreams.
But what I need now is to build a little
bridge between me and the outside world. And since I
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clearly can't do this myself, I must have someone do
it for me.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That's what you want me to do, build a bridge
for you. You think you can, I can try. I'd
like to try.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Hello Eddie, Hell, hello, miss Cook?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
How should I be?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I know it must be hard for you.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I've done time before.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I feel so bad. It's my fault, really that you're here, so.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
You turn me in. You did your duty, you were
a good citizen, yes, But so you feel bad? Eddie?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
You know I take a special interest in you.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Oh yes, I know that you haven't had an easy life?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You know anybody who's had what you'd call an easy life?
I don't miss Cook?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Do you have to call me miss Cook? I thought
we were getting to be friends.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Well, you know something, I forgot your first name.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
It's may May.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I'll call you a Mazie.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Okay, well, okay, at least it's better than Maybell.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Maybell? What kind of a name is that?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
A woman I interviewed about a job yesterday she thought
I should change my name to Maybell. Needless to say,
I declined, although I must admit if she'd insisted, I'd
have done it. The job pays so.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Well, wait, well you got a new job.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Oh it's very strange. I don't know how it's going
to work out.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
A Waitmt's say it's legal, isn't it? It's perfectly legal? Okay,
So what's the job?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
What is it pay? You're not going to believe three
hundred dollars a week?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You a kid.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I'm not kidding this woman. I don't know if she's
crazy or what she lives in this beautiful house, all
this beautiful furniture, rugs, pictures. She never has any company.
She never goes out.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Why not, she doesn't want to.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Twenty years ago her husband divorced her and he got
custody of the little boy. So she bought this gorgeous
house and she lives.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
There doing want dreaming. She sleeps all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Oh, I think she means daydreaming making up things.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Well, so what does she need you for to help
her make up things?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Well, she wants me to live for her.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
How are you supposed to do that?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
She says that all I have to do is live
my normal life and once a week come and tell
her about it.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
What's to tell?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
But she thinks if she has some sort of contact
with the outside world, she thinks that would help her
with her dreams.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Oh, that's what she needs to help with her dreams.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
And I get three hundred dollars a week. Isn't it crazy? Well,
isn't it? Say something?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
No, I'm thinking. What about I come up for parole
next week. I think it'll go through. They practically promised me.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Now, what are you going to do when you get out?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Well, I told him I had a dish washing job,
and I do.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
We're going to live.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah, there was some flophouse. I guess well, you'll get
a better job.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I have great faith in you, Eddie, And if there's
anything I can do to help, you know you can
count on me.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
May see, there's one thing you could do to help.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Well, what's that.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
When I get out of here? Let me move in
with him?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Idiot.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
It's just for a little while, so I get back
of my I don't mean check up together. I mean
just let me sleep on the couch or the floor.
Than anything. Well, it means everything to me.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Well for a while, maybe, okay, you can stay with
me for a little while.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Dear sweet Mother Nature, at whose shrine we all pretend
to worship, and whose victims we constantly violate. What oddities
she does create, perhaps to revenge herself on us for
our misdeeds, perhaps to punish us for our hypocrisy, perhaps
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to show her contempt for our stupidity. Whatever her reasons,
it is an undeniable fact that here and there are
specimens of her handiwork that shock, terrify, and appall. I'll
be back shortly with that too. Our tender little heroine,
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Miss may Cook has secured a position with missus Hilda Tipton,
wealthy recluse. In return for a handsome salary, Miss Cook
has only to lead her ordinary life and report weekly
to her employer. It's mundane contents to be, in Missus
Tipton's words, her bridge to the outside world. For Missus
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Tipton spends all her time dreaming, just dreaming, while in
another part of town altogether is a man called Eddie
who spends his time in prison, also dreaming, dreaming of
the day of his parole. Got the job, fatures sure
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to give you your own key. I know she doesn't
like answering the door. Missus Hutchins has her own key.
She lets herself in, So why though she give you
your own key? You're getting to be a snooty she is.
Come on, tricksy, Let's not hang around where we're not wanted.
We can always watch from the porch.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Oh, come on in me.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
How are you looks like ray? Terriblely?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Go on in, take your coat off, go on in.
I hope to goodness you've got something to tell me,
something with a little spice to it. I don't mind
telling you. What you'll tell me about the world out
there makes me glad. I don't live in it. Oh
move that pillow, will you?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Which one on the couch?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
The gold when I needed for my back?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
That's it? Oh go ahead. Well, at the beginning of
the week wasn't so very exciting. I bought some clothes.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
What kind of clothes?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Well, a couple of shirt waist dresses and shirt waist dresses.
Oh they're very nice, nice. I paid quite a lot
of money for them.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Didn't you buy anything? You know, sexy, noble? Nothing long
and filmy and you know, revealing.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I've never worn that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Didn't you tell me you were in love with some man?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yes, that's true. I am.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
You wear shirt boist dresses when you're with him? Along
with him?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I mean, well, he he hasn't been in town lately,
has been away.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Away where well, and I want to tell me, okay,
when's he coming back? Well, he is back. He came
back last night. Oh good. So what did you do
last night, the two of you?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Well, we went out for dinner, seeing it was his
first night home.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
What did you eat?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
He had steak, I had fish. We both had salad
and ice cream.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Oh, my lord, even the food you eat is dull.
Don't you ever eat anything interesting.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
We used to go to a Chinese restaurant sometimes.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
I bet you ain't chop suey. Yes. So after that
splendid repast of steak and fish and ice cream, then
what did you do?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Uh? Well, we went to a movie?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
What movie?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
The one in the neighborhood. Forget the name of it,
Oh may you could make up a name.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Why would I do that?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
You know I never go out of this house. I
don't know one movie from another. So if you made
up the name of a movie, I wouldn't know the difference.
Why should I Because you're lying. You never went to
any movie, not last night, not after your lover has
been away out of town, whatever. No, I want the truth,
young lady. I want the whole truth. You've been coming here.
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What is it three weeks now and you you haven't
said one word that was interesting there as I can tell,
nothing happens out there in the world, nothing, nothing whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
It's true, nothing much does happen to me, missus Tipton.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
I don't believe that. I don't believe that for an
instant I couldn't have been so wrong about you. I
never said that I was interesting or anything like that.
I know that there was something about you. I heard
it in your voice over the telephone, so so sweet,
so mild, so eager to please. And then when I
met you, I I could see it in your face.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I don't know what you could see.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I'm just hunger, yearning. You wanted my draperies, didn't you go?
But only if you were going to throw them out,
if you take secondhand things, if they were fancy expensive.
And then there was your manner, the way you smiled
and agreed with everything I said, Even if I was rude,
I knew you must have another side to you. What
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I saw couldn't be the whole of may Cook. There
must be another part of her that was there was
jealous and spiteful and anger.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I'm not any guilty.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Guilty of being spiteful and jealous and greedy, No, missus Gipson, Yes,
miss Cook. Now suppose you tell me about this lover
of yours. Tell me all about him. What's his name?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
That'll do for a start, Eddie Eddy?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
What he said, he's been out of town.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
He's been in jail, in jail, in jail.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
That's wonderful. In jail for what?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
What did he do when he broke into somebody's apartment
to your apartment.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
No, no, then how'd you get to know him?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
It was the apartment of a friend of mine. So
when she had to go to court to identify him,
I went with her. She was frightened, so I went.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Now, hold on, hum, I remember enough for the world
to know that when a person says it happened to
a friend, it didn't. It happened to that very person.
So this eddie didn't break into the apartment of a
friend of yours, Diddy, he broke into your apartment, and
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that's how you met him, Am I right? Isn't that
what happened? Yes, of course, of course. Now how did he.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Get in through the kitchen window?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
And you heard him moving around?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
How did he steal? Well?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I didn't have very much. He took my mother's engagement
ring in her wedding ring. I had a little cash,
about twenty dollars.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
He took that. And what else?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Oh, that's about all.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I don't want to hear about about all. I want
to hear all what else did he take?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Nothing else?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
He took you didn't he I don't know what you mean.
I mean, he took you by force? Against your will,
I mean ripe for your nunny. He Rachel did know
he didn't. Why don't you admit if, Missus Tipton, I
can't admit to something.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
That never happened.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
You make me sick. Well, if that's so, perhaps I'd
better not work for you any long and give up
all that money you need it. You know you doing
not that much. Look, I want you to do one
more thing for me than we can call it quits.
I want you to bring this Eddie person here to
my house. I want to meet him.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I don't know if he'd want to come, Missus.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Tiptan, you bring him tomorrow night. I'll expect you both
for dinner. I've had enough conversation for today. You can
go now, h Your money's on the little table by
the front door.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Thank you, Missus Tipton.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Three one hundred dollar bills Crispy new ones. Thank you,
missus tip for once. I got my money's worth, and
I mean to get much more, much much more.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
That's all you told her that I spent part of
a year in a Salamma.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Well, there wasn't anything else to tell.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I'll ad just doesn't add up?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Oh what doesn't add up?
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Biddy.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I'll at this old bag would want to make me die? Dillarcare,
howm nutty she is, how lonelier, how old? Anything that's
not enough of a reason, There's gotta be something else. Yeah,
I know what these biddies have on their minds all
the time. They got it in their minds. Didn't she
ask anything about that? About what you and me about sex? Dummy?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
She didn't ask me.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
She told me told you what.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
That you raped me.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I knew it. There had to be something, But of.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Course I said you didn't.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Then what?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Then nothing? She got disgusted with me because I wouldn't
say that you, because I wouldn't say something happened that
never happened. And so I said that maybe if that
was the way she felt about me, maybe I better
not work for her anymore. You said that she didn't
seem to care whether I quit or not. There was
just one more thing she wanted me to do, and
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that was to bring you to her house tomorrow night
for dinner.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
And you said you would, well, I said, I'd ask you.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
You don't have to go?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
What do you mean I don't have to go?
Speaker 2 (28:02):
She's pretty weird.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I want to go, but Eddie, I.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Really believe missus Tipton wants to think you raped me.
I mean, I don't think she believed me at all
when I said you didn't.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Well, we can set it straight, can't we.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Well, I don't think she wants to be set straight.
It was a nice job while it lasted.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Oh it isn't over yet.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Oh, yes it is.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I made up my mind after tomorrow night, I'm never
going near that house again.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I are perfectly right. Yeah, you're not cut.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Out for that job, and I'm glad you feel that way.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah, but me, I was tail a maid for that job.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
You you mean you would go to work for her?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Well why not? You said it was legal, didn't she?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yes, it's legal.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
But I can tell my parole officer I'm working for
a rich lady who is a slightly eccentric. It'll sound great,
Oh Eddie, I don't. Oh yeah, but I do know. Look,
you made hash out of that chock. It's what I
won't believe me. I'll make it into the best paying
job in the world.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
You just want the money, is that? It not that
I blame you. I wanted it too, but you see,
it isn't worth it. Look, here's the three hundred dollars
that I got paid today. You take it. I really
don't want it, and you need it, so you take it.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Yeah, and I get some money I care about.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Look here three one hundred dollar bills.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Hand, I'm all here, give me a match? What for about?
Never mind? I got I got in someplace.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
What do you want a match for?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I got it?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Hey, Oh you can't. Oh, don't do that.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
That's three hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Don't they burn pretty?
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Though?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Well? Some people have money to burn, I guess not me,
and nobody I know either. And even if we did have,
I don't think we'd go ahead and actually do it.
I mean we'd somehow think of something else, anything else
to do with it beside burnett. I mean to say,
one hundred dollars bills are legal tender, not legal tender.
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We'll be back shortly with X three. It is the
next night now, and May is bringing Eddie to have
dinner with missus Tipton? Or is it the other way round?
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Is Eddie bringing May to the house of a woman
he has never met for a Contrary to May's expectations,
Eddie jumped at the chance to meet May's employer, more correctly,
her former employer, for May fully intends to resign and
Eddie fully in tends to take her place. It is
seven o'clock and May and Eddie are arriving at number
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one eleven. Okay, keep the change. Well, well, well, don't
pay any attention to it.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
He lives next door.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Well I didn't expect to see you not tonight.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Remember, Eddie, this is the last time I'm going to
come to this house.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I got cham and with him man alongside you too.
Missus Dipton must be loosening.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Up a bit, am I right, just ignore him.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
For twenty years it was just missus Hutchins went through
that door. Then the young lady makes an appearance. Now,
lo and behold a young gentleman. Why don't you just
go on home?
Speaker 2 (31:45):
I live next door.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
We'll go there, Okay, come along, Tripsy. We'll sit on
the front porch and watch what happens.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
So you have been waiting coming.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Oh that was the most delicious meal life I've ever
been privileged to enjoy, Missus Tippins.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Better than prison food. Eddie.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Oh I haven't always eaten prison food.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I'll just bet you haven't. Oh, May fetch Eddie another
helping the burnt almond moose.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yes, Missus Tipton, Eddie, h.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
You remind me of somebody I can't think.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Who are your husband? Perhaps Evans?
Speaker 3 (32:34):
No, my husband was a stick. Your son well, considering
I haven't seen my son since he was five years old.
Now now you're more like like someone I've dreamed about
her dessert, Eddie. When you finished, maybe you'd like to
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see the rest of the house. Eddie. You've seen the
first floor. Maybe you'd like to see the second floor.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Be a privilege.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
My bedroom, I think is my masterpiece. It's it's in
shades of days at the moment, from ivory through parchment
to a crew. O. I may change it.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Let me look at it first, Oh I will, I will.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I've never seen your bedroom, Missus Tipton.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
No you haven't, have you and I once promised to
show it to you, didn't I? Yes, Well, then we'll
all look at it together. Eddie finished, your moose all finished?
I really should have an elevator installed. These he stares,
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getting a bit too much for me. Come Vulla Auntley.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Oh oh, how perfectly, how perfectly.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Ex Chris Orry nice. I commend your taste Missus Tipton,
you really like it, I really do. But but you
said you were going to change it.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Oh. I change everything regularly. I get tired after a while.
I need new things, new colors.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
New textures, new sensations, most of all, new sensations. I
have some thoughts on how you could redecorate this room.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Oh have you indeed?
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Oh, I wouldn't change a thing.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Who asked you?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Oh, it's just an opinion.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I'm interested in Eddie's opinion, not yours. Well, why don't
you go downstairs and clean the table?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Yeah, why don't you? And I washed the dishes.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
I say to stay here. I wasn't hired to clear
the table and wash the dishes.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Nevertheless, just this once, this one time, not this one time,
not anytime.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I may step outside with me for a minute, hunhut
side where it's just outside in the hall. But for well,
for a little conversation, that's all I could. Come on,
come on, come on after you, right, just for a
few minutes. Now, Look, I want five minutes alone with
Missus Tipton.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
You really want to work for her, you want to
do her living for her?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
I really want to Eddie.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
You don't know what she's like, Oh, I.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Know exactly what she's like. She's another one of those women.
I've known them all my life. What women women like you?
She's nothing like me, not outside, but inside You're alike.
You're the kind of likes criminals. You like everything about them.
If I wasn't a criminal, you wouldn't like me.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I wanted to help you, to understand you, to help
you to understand yourself.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
I understand myself perfectly. I understand myself backwards, forward, sideways.
I'm bad, Macie.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Bad, bad, bad, not really.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Really really, she understands of that fact, blob and air.
I'm what she's been dreaming about all these ears, lust
and lasciviousness and uncontrolled passion, dreaming of a life where
anything goes in the world belongs to the clever and
the strong.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I've never lived that way. I've never dreamed about those things.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Oh, yes you have, baby. You haven't got the gumption
to do anything for yourself, So you'll find somebody like
me and pretend you want to change me. But you
you want to rehabilitate me. Isn't that what you call it? Well,
I can't be rehabilitated, baby, I don't want to be,
And that fat lady in there doesn't want me rehabilitated.
She wants me just the way I am. So now
(36:22):
you'll excuse me, Eddie, Ah, Missus Tipton, Well you've turned
off all the lights.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
The moonlight comes through the windows.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Well, our romantic moonlight streaming through parchments, silk. And where
are you, missus Tipton here, Eddie? Well, now would you
buy any chance be in the big canopy bed, Missus Tipton,
the big bed, draped in ivory net, silk net. But
I can scarcely see you. You can hear my voice,
(37:02):
so I can Hilda call me?
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Hear the god?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
You said? I reminded you of someone.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Someone I've known intimately.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Well, suppose I light a match and you take a
look at my face. I think who it is I
remind you of? You're ready?
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Oh? Yes, why I know you? I know you you?
Is it possible?
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Is what possible? Did you.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Him?
Speaker 2 (37:44):
The arch fiend?
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Like another match?
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Look carefully at my face. Hold to god, this is impossible.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
You're here here with me.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
You are going to what You're going to force yourself
on me, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (38:07):
That's what I've dreamed of light, another match, my beloved,
your majesty, your setenant, majesty, I am your servant yours.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
You see.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
What is that? Rude is growing? Rad has fired?
Speaker 2 (38:27):
That is fire?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Quiet rick see, Oh, Missus Hutchins, Missus Hutchins, I'm in
a hurry. Terrible thing about the fire. Terrible flat, beautiful
house though I've never been in, of course. Have they
been questioning you, the police and the fire people. Yes,
well they'll get around to me later. Me and my sister,
no doubt, we were the ones who called the fire department.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
You know, didn't they they tell you no?
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Oh, yes, my sister and I heard this sort of
explosion and then we saw smoke coming out of one
of the upstairs rooms, Missus Tipton's Dorge's bedroom. Is that
what room it was?
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Then she must have started herself.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
I wouldn't know about that.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Well, nobody got out, I understand, nobody.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Where was Missus Tipton.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
At the time in her bed? They found her there, Yes,
and the young girl, miss Cooked I believe her name.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Was outside the door.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
The door to the bedroom.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Yes, and the door was locked.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Why the poor girl must have been trying to get
in to save missus Tipton.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
It looks that way.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
But where was the man?
Speaker 3 (40:02):
What man?
Speaker 1 (40:03):
The man who came to the house with the young lady?
Speaker 2 (40:06):
There was no man.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Of course there was a man. He drove up about
dinner time with a young lady and they went into
the house together. Now he never came out, because my
sister and I watched the house back and front from
that moment. Huh, we were so surprised to see a
man going in.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
No man was found in the house.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Well, wait till they get the questioning me. I'll tell
them about the man that went in and never came out.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
He'll only be making a fool of yourself.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Well, it must have been the man that set the fire.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
The fire started in the bedroom, and the door to
the bedroom was locked, and nobody of any man was found.
So there, now I've got to be getting on hold.
You can tell your fanciful tale of the police if
you want to.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
How did it happen? How did the fire start?
Speaker 2 (40:59):
It was?
Speaker 3 (41:00):
What's the work of the devil? If you asked me, yes,
sly ways the devil has there is sly ways, And
all their pretty dreams went up in smoke, which I
am given to understand is not an uncommon fate for
dreams that are too remote from reality, and in particular
(41:24):
dreams of violence.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
These especially are doomed to end in smoke and fire
and death. So dream away, my friends, as I shall
continue to do, but be careful what your dreams are
made of. I'll be back shortly. Our revels now are ended.
(41:56):
These are actors. As I foretold you. We're all spirits
and are melted into air, into thin air, and this
insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind. We are
such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little
(42:17):
life is rounded with a sleep. As so often happens,
the final word is given to the one who says
it best. Master William Shakespeare born fifteen sixty four died
sixteen sixteen. Our cast included Marion Soelda's Briana Raeburn, Jack Grimes,
and Dan Harko. The entire production was under the direction
(42:41):
of Hymen Brown and now a preview of our next tale,
Sleeping Hill.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Any mild I could give you one? No, thank you?
Speaker 2 (42:53):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
No, no, no, It's just a telephone strange this heart.
Shall I answer?
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (43:00):
Please do? Hello? Oh for just a minute. The operator says,
mister Boehmer is on the wire. It's an emergency. Will
you take the call?
Speaker 2 (43:10):
An emergency?
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Will of course? All operator? Yes, you may put the
call through here you are, hello, mister Bohmer.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
What but what you say? Who are you? No?
Speaker 3 (43:26):
I won't listen, Miss Radlover? What is it? Are you ill?
Speaker 2 (43:31):
You so pale? It was not mister Bohmer, not mister Boehmer.
Who was I don't know?
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Someone who said, some who said they would kill me.
This is E. G. Marshall inviting you to return to
our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until
next time, pleasant dreams, Kay,
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