WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:18.720 Roma wines presents Suspense. 00:18.720 --> 00:23.600 Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:23.600 --> 00:26.200 Salute your health, Signor. 00:26.200 --> 00:28.400 Roma wines toast the world. 00:28.400 --> 00:33.800 The wine for your table is Roma wine made in California for enjoyment throughout the 00:33.800 --> 00:37.200 world. 00:37.200 --> 00:42.920 This is the man in black, here for the Roma wine company of Fresno, California, to introduce 00:42.920 --> 00:46.560 this weekly half hour of Suspense. 00:46.560 --> 00:52.560 Tonight from Hollywood Roma wines bring you Miss Faye Bainter, Mr. Ralph Morgan and Mr. 00:52.560 --> 01:00.320 Dane Clark in a Suspense play dealing with a mother and a son and a lodger who kept an 01:00.320 --> 01:03.640 appointment with death. 01:03.640 --> 01:08.760 And so, with life ends at midnight and with the performances of Faye Bainter as Mrs. Bates, 01:08.760 --> 01:14.760 of Dane Clark as her son Walter and of Ralph Morgan as Mr. Chalmers, we again hope to keep 01:14.760 --> 01:23.160 you in Suspense. 01:23.160 --> 01:28.560 Walter! 01:28.560 --> 01:32.560 Walter! 01:32.560 --> 01:49.320 Is that you, Walter? 01:49.320 --> 01:50.320 That's right, Mom. 01:50.320 --> 01:51.320 It's your little sonny boy, Waller. 01:51.320 --> 01:53.320 You still remember my whistle, eh? 01:53.320 --> 01:54.320 Oh, yes, I... 01:54.320 --> 01:55.320 But what I... 01:55.320 --> 01:56.320 I didn't... 01:56.320 --> 01:57.320 No. 01:57.320 --> 01:58.320 You never know when I'll turn up, eh, Mom? 01:58.320 --> 01:59.320 What's the matter? 01:59.320 --> 02:00.320 Do we have to stand here in the hall? 02:00.320 --> 02:01.320 Oh, no, no. 02:01.320 --> 02:02.320 Come in. 02:02.320 --> 02:03.320 It's just... 02:03.320 --> 02:04.320 Come in, Walter. 02:04.320 --> 02:09.800 Well, it's the same old crummy joint. 02:09.800 --> 02:11.480 I do my best to keep it clean, Walter. 02:11.480 --> 02:12.480 Yeah, I know. 02:12.480 --> 02:13.480 Regular old mother hubbid. 02:13.480 --> 02:17.960 You'll have to clean up the whole South Side before you get the magoo out of this flea bag. 02:17.960 --> 02:23.680 Oh, boy, am I tired up all night in a stinking day coach full of snoring jerks and squalling 02:23.680 --> 02:25.840 babies. 02:25.840 --> 02:26.840 Babies are the worst. 02:26.840 --> 02:28.040 All they do is ball and slobber. 02:28.040 --> 02:29.400 You left Pittsburgh last night? 02:29.400 --> 02:30.400 One in the morning. 02:30.400 --> 02:31.400 Didn't sleep a wink. 02:31.400 --> 02:32.400 Yeah, look at my color. 02:32.400 --> 02:34.080 But tomorrow is Monday. 02:34.080 --> 02:35.560 You have to be at work in the morning. 02:35.560 --> 02:36.560 Sure, I... 02:36.560 --> 02:37.560 What's the matter? 02:37.560 --> 02:38.560 You're worried? 02:38.560 --> 02:39.560 Oh, no, no. 02:39.560 --> 02:40.560 I just... 02:40.560 --> 02:41.560 Don't just. 02:41.560 --> 02:42.560 Can't a guy come home to see his mother once in six months? 02:42.560 --> 02:44.000 That's a mother for you. 02:44.000 --> 02:45.000 You break your back. 02:45.000 --> 02:46.960 You sit up all night to see your mother for one day and she tells you you have to be at 02:46.960 --> 02:47.960 work in the morning. 02:47.960 --> 02:48.960 How do you like it? 02:48.960 --> 02:49.960 Oh, Walter, I'm sorry. 02:49.960 --> 02:51.120 I didn't miss you so. 02:51.120 --> 02:52.120 I just worried about... 02:52.120 --> 02:53.120 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 02:53.120 --> 02:54.120 I know. 02:54.120 --> 02:55.120 Well, don't worry so much. 02:55.120 --> 02:56.120 It makes me nervous. 02:56.120 --> 02:57.120 Here. 02:57.120 --> 02:58.120 Sit at the table, dear. 02:58.120 --> 02:59.120 You must be starved. 02:59.120 --> 03:00.120 Oh. 03:00.120 --> 03:01.560 Well, it's like coming home. 03:01.560 --> 03:02.560 Oh, my baby. 03:02.560 --> 03:04.520 I'm so glad to see you. 03:04.520 --> 03:07.520 You did come just to see me, didn't you? 03:07.520 --> 03:08.520 Well, Sadie Omar. 03:08.520 --> 03:10.040 Well, of course you came to see me. 03:10.040 --> 03:12.440 It's just that I always worry so about you. 03:12.440 --> 03:13.440 Forget it. 03:13.440 --> 03:14.440 Forget it. 03:14.440 --> 03:15.440 Well, what's the... 03:15.440 --> 03:16.440 I was just making a chop for my lunch. 03:16.440 --> 03:17.440 That's all. 03:17.440 --> 03:19.160 It seems to be in the house right now. 03:19.160 --> 03:20.160 It'll be enough for me. 03:20.160 --> 03:21.640 It'll be ready in a minute. 03:21.640 --> 03:23.600 Now tell me about yourself, your job. 03:23.600 --> 03:25.720 Never mind about me. 03:25.720 --> 03:26.720 How are you doing? 03:26.720 --> 03:28.760 Well, I try not to complain, Walter. 03:28.760 --> 03:30.240 Things are not easy. 03:30.240 --> 03:31.240 Prices high. 03:31.240 --> 03:33.240 Rent's going up all the time, even on this old house. 03:33.240 --> 03:35.920 Honest, I don't know what I'm going to do with things, don't you? 03:35.920 --> 03:37.720 You had some bonds Papa left you. 03:37.720 --> 03:39.720 You had about $2,000 bonds he left you. 03:39.720 --> 03:40.720 You still got... 03:40.720 --> 03:43.960 Well, I'm trying to tell you, Walter, things haven't been easy. 03:43.960 --> 03:44.960 Always the poor mouth. 03:44.960 --> 03:46.680 Every time I see her, she's putting on a poor mouth. 03:46.680 --> 03:48.280 I'm just saying things aren't easy. 03:48.280 --> 03:50.440 And for me, do you think it's a picnic? 03:50.440 --> 03:51.440 I got enough trouble. 03:51.440 --> 03:52.440 And for what? 03:52.440 --> 03:53.440 For what? 03:53.440 --> 03:54.440 All year I work like crazy. 03:54.440 --> 03:55.440 For what? 03:55.440 --> 03:56.440 A man must work, Walter. 03:56.440 --> 03:57.440 A man must work, Walter. 03:57.440 --> 03:58.440 Yes, that's true. 03:58.440 --> 04:03.080 A man must work and live like a person and not be afraid so that he can sleep without 04:03.080 --> 04:05.520 worrying about... about... 04:05.520 --> 04:07.240 About what? 04:07.240 --> 04:11.960 About a bell ringing at night or a knock on the door in the morning or someone touching 04:11.960 --> 04:12.960 you on the arm. 04:12.960 --> 04:17.320 Yes, it's a nice feeling and a free feeling to be able to walk down the street in the 04:17.320 --> 04:21.200 sun with your eyes meeting another man's without wondering if he's... 04:21.200 --> 04:22.200 Shut up! 04:22.200 --> 04:23.200 Shut up! 04:23.200 --> 04:24.200 I ain't in trouble against you. 04:24.200 --> 04:25.200 Stop mouthing at me. 04:25.200 --> 04:26.200 You're always mouthing at me. 04:26.200 --> 04:27.200 You haven't... 04:27.200 --> 04:28.200 You know what the judge said the last time, Walter? 04:28.200 --> 04:29.200 He was nice. 04:29.200 --> 04:30.200 Now he gave you another chance. 04:30.200 --> 04:34.320 He saw you were really a good boy and he gave you another chance. 04:34.320 --> 04:37.480 He got you a nice job and you promised to... you must... 04:37.480 --> 04:39.760 Oh, you're all right, Walter. 04:39.760 --> 04:40.760 You didn't... 04:40.760 --> 04:43.840 A meatball, a herring on a plate all your life. 04:43.840 --> 04:45.720 You're a tomcat in the garbage. 04:45.720 --> 04:47.600 You find a fish head and you say, thank you, mister. 04:47.600 --> 04:49.680 You chew a fish gut and you smile pretty. 04:49.680 --> 04:51.560 Well, not for me. 04:51.560 --> 04:53.400 You take a chance and you throw away the fish heads. 04:53.400 --> 04:55.920 You get one break and you're out of the garbage can for life. 04:55.920 --> 04:57.360 You throw a time clock and shiny pants. 04:57.360 --> 04:59.320 You're in a higher bracket so nobody gets you. 04:59.320 --> 05:01.720 Yeah, you're a mister with a future. 05:01.720 --> 05:04.360 You hold your nose when you walk in the daycoach of your compartment. 05:04.360 --> 05:08.640 You leave the stinks behind in a pot of dusty air in front of you and that's for me. 05:08.640 --> 05:09.960 One break. 05:09.960 --> 05:12.360 One break and you're as hot as a rocket shooting diamonds for spuds. 05:12.360 --> 05:14.400 You're a P-38 in a world full of flippers. 05:14.400 --> 05:16.400 A bucket's your two, two gets your four. 05:16.400 --> 05:21.600 Good for one blond to kicker and a kisser. 05:21.600 --> 05:23.160 It's all right. 05:23.160 --> 05:25.160 I took another chance. 05:25.160 --> 05:27.640 I tried to run it up, no dice. 05:27.640 --> 05:29.320 I got to make it good. 05:29.320 --> 05:31.240 Tomorrow morning I got to make it good. 05:31.240 --> 05:34.000 The books of the office will show up and I got to make it good. 05:34.000 --> 05:35.000 How much? 05:35.000 --> 05:36.000 1500. 05:36.000 --> 05:37.000 1500 dollars? 05:37.000 --> 05:38.000 By midnight tonight, 1500. 05:38.000 --> 05:43.000 If I miss that 1220 for Pittsburgh, it's all up. 05:43.000 --> 05:45.120 I might as well take gas. 05:45.120 --> 05:46.120 1500. 05:46.120 --> 05:48.120 By midnight tonight? 05:48.120 --> 05:49.920 Where am I going to get it, Walter? 05:49.920 --> 05:50.920 The bonds. 05:50.920 --> 05:51.920 You got the bonds, Popol. 05:51.920 --> 05:52.920 The bonds. 05:52.920 --> 05:54.920 How do you think I got you out of the last trouble? 05:54.920 --> 05:56.960 The jobs bail, paying back every dime. 05:56.960 --> 05:58.480 Where do you think I got it? 05:58.480 --> 05:59.480 I'll get ten years. 05:59.480 --> 06:00.480 You heard the judge last time. 06:00.480 --> 06:01.480 What can I do? 06:01.480 --> 06:02.480 What? 06:02.480 --> 06:03.480 Ten years and start. 06:03.480 --> 06:04.480 Ten years. 06:04.480 --> 06:05.480 There won't be no reform school this time. 06:05.480 --> 06:06.480 Oh, Walter. 06:06.480 --> 06:07.480 Oh, please, please, Mom. 06:07.480 --> 06:08.480 Please get me the money. 06:08.480 --> 06:09.480 Get it for me. 06:09.480 --> 06:10.480 I'll be good. 06:10.480 --> 06:11.480 I'll work hard. 06:11.480 --> 06:12.480 I won't give you no more trouble. 06:12.480 --> 06:13.480 Help me now. 06:13.480 --> 06:14.480 Please, Mom. 06:14.480 --> 06:15.480 Please. 06:15.480 --> 06:16.480 Where can I get it, Walter? 06:16.480 --> 06:17.480 I've got nothing left. 06:17.480 --> 06:18.480 I don't care where you get it. 06:18.480 --> 06:19.480 It's your fault and you've got to help me. 06:19.480 --> 06:20.480 I only wanted to help you. 06:20.480 --> 06:21.480 Yes. 06:21.480 --> 06:22.480 It is my fault. 06:22.480 --> 06:26.120 I've always protected you, but I can't protect you anymore. 06:26.120 --> 06:28.440 I'll give you the few dollars I have. 06:28.440 --> 06:29.440 Go away. 06:29.440 --> 06:30.440 It'll be enough to help you run away. 06:30.440 --> 06:31.440 That's all I can do. 06:31.440 --> 06:32.960 You're holding out on me. 06:32.960 --> 06:33.960 You're worrying about your old age. 06:33.960 --> 06:36.960 You're making yourself a cushy little cell. 06:36.960 --> 06:37.960 Oh. 06:37.960 --> 06:41.400 Oh, I'm sorry. 06:41.400 --> 06:43.000 I hope I'm not intruding. 06:43.000 --> 06:44.000 Who's this? 06:44.000 --> 06:45.000 Mr. Chalmers. 06:45.000 --> 06:46.000 This is Mr. Chalmers, Walter. 06:46.000 --> 06:47.000 He has the back bedroom. 06:47.000 --> 06:48.000 This is my son, Walter. 06:48.000 --> 06:49.000 He's been in the hospital for a few days. 06:49.000 --> 06:50.000 He's been in the hospital for a few days. 06:50.000 --> 06:51.000 He's been in the hospital for a few days. 06:51.000 --> 06:52.000 He's been in the hospital for a few days. 06:52.000 --> 06:53.000 He's been in the hospital for a few days. 06:53.000 --> 06:54.000 I don't know, but I'm sorry. 06:54.000 --> 06:55.000 I'm sorry. 06:55.000 --> 06:56.000 I'm sorry. 06:56.000 --> 06:57.000 I'm sorry. 06:57.000 --> 06:58.000 I'm sorry. 06:58.000 --> 06:59.000 He's gone wild, Mr. Chalmers. 06:59.000 --> 07:00.000 How do you do, Mr. Bates? 07:00.000 --> 07:01.000 I feel that I know you very well. 07:01.000 --> 07:02.000 Your mother and I sit here in the kitchen sometimes over a cup of tea, and she talks 07:02.000 --> 07:03.000 about you for hours and hours. 07:03.000 --> 07:07.060 Yes, I can see why mother is so proud of you. 07:07.060 --> 07:08.500 How do you do, Mr. Bates? 07:08.500 --> 07:11.680 Yes, you're a fine-looking young man. 07:11.680 --> 07:16.020 Mrs. Bates, if you'll excuse me, I'm just going to the corner for my paper. 07:16.020 --> 07:21.640 I think that little man with the tiny moustache, you know who I mean, the insurance agent, 07:21.640 --> 07:24.120 I think he might call again to collect. 07:24.120 --> 07:26.000 Please tell him to go away. 07:26.000 --> 07:27.540 You will do that for me, Mrs. Bates. 07:27.540 --> 07:28.640 Yes, Mr. Chalmers. 07:28.640 --> 07:30.140 Thank you, Mrs. Bates. 07:30.140 --> 07:32.340 Tell him not to come back anymore. 07:32.340 --> 07:35.000 I don't want to pay any more on the policy. 07:35.000 --> 07:38.200 You remember I told you my nephew was very sick in Spokane. 07:38.200 --> 07:39.160 Yes, Mr. Chalmers. 07:39.160 --> 07:42.280 Well, the poor young man passed away, yes. 07:42.280 --> 07:45.000 I was going to leave him a few dollars when I died. 07:45.000 --> 07:49.080 But now, well, I have no one left at all. 07:49.080 --> 07:51.800 And well, a dollar a week. 07:51.800 --> 07:54.320 You'll tell that to the little man with the tiny mustache? 07:54.320 --> 07:55.560 Yes, Mr. Chalmers. 07:55.560 --> 07:57.240 Thank you, Mrs. Bates. 07:57.240 --> 07:58.360 Good day, Mr. Bates. 08:01.320 --> 08:04.480 Walter, I have $40 in the house for the rent. 08:04.480 --> 08:06.440 You can take that. 08:06.440 --> 08:08.680 Grab me a card when you get settled someplace. 08:08.680 --> 08:10.200 Let me know where you are. 08:10.200 --> 08:12.520 I'll send you some more as soon as I can get it. 08:12.520 --> 08:14.520 Maybe later I'll be able to straighten it out. 08:14.520 --> 08:16.960 Maybe later I'll be able to speak to your boss. 08:16.960 --> 08:18.840 I'll promise to pay back every dime. 08:18.840 --> 08:20.000 But you must go away. 08:20.000 --> 08:21.440 You must. 08:21.440 --> 08:24.080 Tell me something about Mr. Chalmers. 08:24.080 --> 08:26.080 He interests me very strangely. 08:26.080 --> 08:27.200 Walter. 08:27.200 --> 08:29.800 Don't be so nervous, Ma. 08:29.800 --> 08:32.120 We've got plenty of time. 08:32.120 --> 08:33.320 We've got till midnight. 08:41.320 --> 08:44.840 Tonight for suspense, Roma wines bring you as stars 08:44.840 --> 08:47.960 Faye Bainter, Ralph Morgan, and Dane Clark. 08:47.960 --> 08:50.640 You have heard them in the prologue to our suspense 08:50.640 --> 08:53.760 play this evening, Robert Tolman's story, 08:53.760 --> 08:55.680 Life Ends at Midnight. 09:03.880 --> 09:06.320 Before we return to the scene of our play, 09:06.320 --> 09:09.640 let us journey in fancy to Havana and sit at a table 09:09.640 --> 09:13.240 in the gay restaurant Paris. 09:13.240 --> 09:16.000 At the next table, we see perhaps a farewell party 09:16.000 --> 09:17.920 given for an American visitor. 09:17.920 --> 09:20.320 The American is wondering how he'll be able to repay 09:20.320 --> 09:24.080 in his own country the hospitality shown him in Cuba. 09:24.080 --> 09:26.520 Reassuringly, his Cuban host might remark, 09:26.520 --> 09:28.800 es muy fácil, amigo. 09:28.800 --> 09:31.840 Just be sure to serve wonderful Roma wine. 09:31.840 --> 09:37.120 It is wine imported by us from your own country, Roma wine. 09:37.120 --> 09:40.840 Indeed, Americans can well be proud that judges of fine wines 09:40.840 --> 09:44.400 in so many lands now acclaim the wines of California 09:44.400 --> 09:47.600 among the world's most enjoyable of all time. 09:47.600 --> 09:50.560 Of these truly superb wines, Roma wines 09:50.560 --> 09:52.960 are especially honored for the number of countries 09:52.960 --> 09:56.720 now importing them for enjoyment as rare luxuries. 09:56.720 --> 09:58.920 But Roma wines are not lacking in honors bestowed 09:58.920 --> 10:02.600 them here in America, because Roma wines are America's 10:02.600 --> 10:05.040 largest selling wines. 10:05.040 --> 10:08.160 If you aren't already one of the millions enjoying Roma wines 10:08.160 --> 10:11.120 regularly as a delicious beverage any time, 10:11.120 --> 10:14.640 to add sparkle to any meal, to smarten your entertaining, 10:14.640 --> 10:17.960 make your own taste test to choose your favorite, 10:17.960 --> 10:21.800 choosing from Roma wines many different wine types. 10:21.800 --> 10:24.240 When you learn their modest cost here in America, 10:24.240 --> 10:27.320 with no import duty to pay, no expensive shipping 10:27.320 --> 10:29.600 charges to absorb, you'll know why 10:29.600 --> 10:33.680 we say Roma wines are for your daily enjoyment. 10:33.680 --> 10:35.360 I'll spell out the name for you. 10:35.360 --> 10:41.440 R-O-M-A, Roma wines, made in California for enjoyment 10:41.440 --> 10:44.320 throughout the world. 10:44.320 --> 10:47.880 And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our soundstage 10:47.880 --> 10:50.920 Faye Bader, Ralph Morgan, and Dane Clark. 10:50.920 --> 10:55.040 In Life Ends at Midnight, a tale well calculated 10:55.040 --> 10:56.760 to keep you in suspense. 11:10.960 --> 11:14.000 Yes, I do think I'll have another cup if you don't mind, 11:14.000 --> 11:14.680 Mrs. Bates. 11:14.680 --> 11:17.320 Now, Mr. Charmer, suppose you're looking at it this way. 11:17.320 --> 11:20.960 You've been paying one buck a week for how many years now? 11:20.960 --> 11:23.840 I'd say 20 years would be a conservative estimate. 11:23.840 --> 11:24.760 All right, 20 years. 11:24.760 --> 11:26.880 Now, let's see, that's $50 a year. 11:26.880 --> 11:29.680 Say that's $1,000 you paid in, no? 11:29.680 --> 11:31.960 Yes, $1,000. 11:31.960 --> 11:33.960 This coffee cake, Mrs. Bates, is excellent. 11:33.960 --> 11:34.400 You like it? 11:34.400 --> 11:35.560 I made it yesterday when I... 11:35.560 --> 11:36.840 Forget the coffee cake. 11:36.840 --> 11:39.520 Now, let's figure percentage. 11:39.520 --> 11:41.320 How many more years do you figure to live? 11:41.320 --> 11:41.840 Walter. 11:41.840 --> 11:44.080 Oh, that's all right, Mrs. Bates. 11:44.080 --> 11:47.920 After all, I'm an old man, and at my age, one rather. 11:47.920 --> 11:50.520 Well, it comes to terms with death. 11:50.520 --> 11:53.120 It's like the end of a long, busy day. 11:53.120 --> 11:56.680 Life ends at midnight, and a new day begins. 11:56.680 --> 11:59.400 Yes, Walter, I think you're on the verge of making 11:59.400 --> 12:01.000 a very profound observation. 12:01.000 --> 12:01.880 You see. 12:01.880 --> 12:04.520 My policy is for $2,500. 12:04.520 --> 12:06.000 And in the days that are left to me, 12:06.000 --> 12:09.040 I certainly will not be required to pay in as much as I have 12:09.040 --> 12:09.920 already paid out. 12:09.920 --> 12:11.160 That's the exact point. 12:11.160 --> 12:13.200 And if you drop it now, will you get anything back? 12:13.200 --> 12:14.400 No. 12:14.400 --> 12:17.320 You got a straight life with no cash in value. 12:17.320 --> 12:19.680 If you drop the policy now, the insurance company 12:19.680 --> 12:20.960 is the winner. 12:20.960 --> 12:23.120 But say you live another couple of years. 12:23.120 --> 12:26.320 You pay a couple hundred more, and you leave the $2,500 12:26.320 --> 12:27.520 to somebody. 12:27.520 --> 12:30.400 Now, which is a smart thing, I leave it to you. 12:30.400 --> 12:33.120 Yes, I should like to think that when I'm gone, 12:33.120 --> 12:35.880 I've left something behind for someone. 12:35.880 --> 12:36.760 Mr. Chalmers? 12:36.760 --> 12:39.680 Oh, yes, I always remember him for this. 12:39.680 --> 12:42.240 It's nice to live on in somebody's memory 12:42.240 --> 12:44.640 for a little while after we're dead. 12:44.640 --> 12:47.600 But A, I have no one in this world. 12:47.600 --> 12:50.640 And B, I must be very, very frank and tell you 12:50.640 --> 12:54.160 that I can no longer afford to pay even the dollar a week. 12:54.160 --> 12:55.440 You see, I live on a few. 12:55.440 --> 12:57.920 That's a problem of the most minor importance. 12:57.920 --> 12:59.880 For anybody who invests in you now a buck a week 12:59.880 --> 13:01.120 would be guilt edged. 13:01.120 --> 13:04.880 I mean, for instance, well, take my mother here. 13:04.880 --> 13:07.120 I suppose you made her the beneficiary. 13:07.120 --> 13:09.560 I suppose she continued to pay the buck a week. 13:09.560 --> 13:11.080 Who can lose on such a deal? 13:11.080 --> 13:11.920 Who can lose? 13:11.920 --> 13:12.560 Nobody. 13:12.560 --> 13:13.280 You get the point? 13:13.280 --> 13:14.240 No, no, I couldn't. 13:14.240 --> 13:14.740 Why? 13:14.740 --> 13:15.400 Why, it's, it's... 13:15.400 --> 13:16.600 Why not? 13:16.600 --> 13:17.680 It's simple, huh? 13:17.680 --> 13:19.680 No, no, Mr. Chalmers, no, you mustn't. 13:19.680 --> 13:21.920 Let Mr. Chalmers aside. 13:21.920 --> 13:23.240 Huh, Mr. Chalmers? 13:23.240 --> 13:24.560 It makes good sense, no? 13:24.560 --> 13:25.920 Let's everybody happy, no? 13:25.920 --> 13:27.400 But we're practically strangers. 13:27.400 --> 13:27.920 We just... 13:27.920 --> 13:29.440 What do you mean, strangers? 13:29.440 --> 13:31.080 Who's a stranger in this world? 13:31.080 --> 13:33.680 We're just little people trying to make each other happy. 13:33.680 --> 13:35.440 Huh, Mr. Chalmers? 13:35.440 --> 13:37.880 Now, Mr. Chalmers here can die feeling he didn't waste a buck 13:37.880 --> 13:38.720 a week for 20 years. 13:38.720 --> 13:40.200 And you know he'll live in your memory. 13:40.200 --> 13:41.400 That's what he wants. 13:41.400 --> 13:42.880 Now, why shouldn't he have it? 13:42.880 --> 13:45.120 Ain't every man entitled to at least live in somebody's memory? 13:45.120 --> 13:47.760 Yes, but Mr. Chalmers doesn't have to do that. 13:47.760 --> 13:49.200 I'll think about him anyway. 13:49.200 --> 13:50.800 I promise I will. 13:50.800 --> 13:51.600 He, he don't have... 13:51.600 --> 13:52.680 Let him say something. 13:52.680 --> 13:55.000 You're always mounting. 13:55.000 --> 13:58.760 Now, what are you saying, Mr. Chalmers? 13:58.760 --> 14:02.680 Oh, that must be the little man with the tiny mustache. 14:02.680 --> 14:04.560 I'll tell him I'm keeping the policy 14:04.560 --> 14:06.920 and changing the beneficiary. 14:06.920 --> 14:10.640 Oh, could you let me have the loan of a dollar, Mr. Bates? 14:10.640 --> 14:24.360 Hey, hurry it up, will you? 14:24.360 --> 14:25.880 The old man's coming home in a minute or two. 14:25.880 --> 14:27.200 He takes a nap about this time. 14:27.200 --> 14:28.240 I want this ready for him. 14:28.240 --> 14:30.120 No, relax, honey, relax. 14:30.120 --> 14:31.560 I can't finish this job today. 14:31.560 --> 14:32.640 What are you giving me? 14:32.640 --> 14:34.320 It'll take a jerk and another lent of pie. 14:34.320 --> 14:35.160 Well, fix it up. 14:35.160 --> 14:35.920 You're a good plumber. 14:35.920 --> 14:38.280 I think you can fix it up for now. 14:38.280 --> 14:40.280 The room's pretty small. 14:40.280 --> 14:42.080 Why do you want the heater so close to the bed for him? 14:42.080 --> 14:44.040 Like I told you, he's got rheumatism. 14:44.040 --> 14:45.440 He needs plenty of heat. 14:45.440 --> 14:48.160 Well, I can run a rubber extension, 14:48.160 --> 14:49.520 but with gas, I don't like it. 14:49.520 --> 14:51.400 Okay, so with gas, you don't like it, 14:51.400 --> 14:53.200 but with gas, we gotta run this heater. 14:53.200 --> 14:54.200 The old man's got rheumatics. 14:54.200 --> 14:56.000 He can take plenty of gas. 14:56.000 --> 14:56.840 Huh? 14:56.840 --> 14:58.880 The heat, I mean. 14:58.880 --> 15:01.240 He needs plenty. 15:01.240 --> 15:03.880 What are you doing now? 15:03.880 --> 15:04.720 Tightening this joint. 15:04.720 --> 15:05.680 Look, it's tight enough. 15:05.680 --> 15:07.120 Here's your three bucks and... 15:07.120 --> 15:09.160 Okay, okay, you're the boss. 15:09.160 --> 15:10.280 Bring your tools in next time. 15:10.280 --> 15:11.720 I won't be in it next time, Sonny. 15:11.720 --> 15:12.680 What are you giving me now? 15:12.680 --> 15:15.440 You can get somebody else to do your dirty work after this. 15:15.440 --> 15:16.800 So long, Skippy. 15:17.960 --> 15:18.800 Skippy? 15:20.960 --> 15:22.000 Well, come on, Skippy. 15:22.000 --> 15:22.840 Pull yourself together. 15:22.840 --> 15:23.680 We got work to do. 15:23.680 --> 15:37.880 Hiya, Pop. 15:37.880 --> 15:40.200 Well, this is a pleasant surprise. 15:40.200 --> 15:42.560 Yeah, this used to be my room. 15:42.560 --> 15:44.120 The steam don't come up here so good, 15:44.120 --> 15:46.160 so I talked the old lady into fixing this up for you. 15:46.160 --> 15:48.440 Well, that was very thoughtful of you, Walter. 15:48.440 --> 15:52.040 Thanks, I stuffed up the cracks and it went to two. 15:52.040 --> 15:54.360 Zero weather, it gets plenty of drafty in this room. 15:54.360 --> 15:56.640 You thought of everything, didn't you, Walter? 15:56.640 --> 15:57.480 Huh? 15:57.480 --> 16:00.480 Yeah, yeah, it ought to work out just fine. 16:00.480 --> 16:02.480 It'll do the job, I think. 16:02.480 --> 16:05.840 I'm going to take a little nap before dinner. 16:05.840 --> 16:07.000 Do you think the heater? 16:07.000 --> 16:07.840 Just leave it on. 16:07.840 --> 16:09.680 I'll look in after a bit to see if it's okay. 16:09.680 --> 16:11.440 Well, no, you needn't go to all that trouble. 16:11.440 --> 16:13.480 No, it's no trouble at all, Mr. Chalmers. 16:13.480 --> 16:29.480 When I do a thing, I like to do it right. 16:29.480 --> 16:32.480 Oh, who's there? 16:32.480 --> 16:33.480 Is that you, Walter? 16:33.480 --> 16:35.480 Yeah, go on back to sleep, Pop. 16:35.480 --> 16:37.480 I'm just turning the heater off. 16:37.480 --> 16:38.480 It's getting stuffy in here. 16:38.480 --> 16:41.480 Oh, you're a good, considerate boy, Walter. 16:41.480 --> 16:43.480 All right, skip it. 16:43.480 --> 16:45.480 Go on, go on back to sleep. 16:45.480 --> 16:46.480 Hmm. 16:46.480 --> 16:47.480 Hmm. 17:08.480 --> 17:10.480 Please don't walk so fast, Walt. 17:10.480 --> 17:11.480 My feet are hurting me again. 17:11.480 --> 17:13.480 You'll combine those shoes tomorrow. 17:13.480 --> 17:14.480 I'd like to know what with. 17:14.480 --> 17:15.480 Maybe you'll have dough tomorrow. 17:15.480 --> 17:16.480 Maybe we'll both have some dough. 17:16.480 --> 17:18.480 If a miracle happens. 17:18.480 --> 17:20.480 Maybe miracles do happen. 17:20.480 --> 17:21.480 Maybe if you're smart. 17:21.480 --> 17:22.480 Where are you taking me to, Walter? 17:22.480 --> 17:23.480 Oh, we're in particular. 17:23.480 --> 17:25.480 I thought we'd stroll around the old neighborhood. 17:25.480 --> 17:26.480 Look, I like old times. 17:26.480 --> 17:28.480 Well, that's a nice idea, Walter, but my feet. 17:28.480 --> 17:30.480 Hello, Mrs. Bates. 17:30.480 --> 17:32.480 Good evening, Officer Flanagan. 17:32.480 --> 17:33.480 This is my son, Walter. 17:33.480 --> 17:34.480 He's just here from Pittsburgh. 17:34.480 --> 17:36.480 Glad to know you. 17:36.480 --> 17:37.480 How's business, copper? 17:37.480 --> 17:38.480 Oh, much the same. 17:38.480 --> 17:41.480 Vagrancy, petty larceny, once in a while, suicide. 17:41.480 --> 17:42.480 Suicide? 17:42.480 --> 17:44.480 Yeah, that's what they start out to do, 17:44.480 --> 17:46.480 but it's harder to get bumped off than most people think. 17:46.480 --> 17:47.480 Huh? 17:47.480 --> 17:49.480 Case just last week over in the next precinct. 17:49.480 --> 17:53.480 Dame turned on the gas in her room and lay down on the bed. 17:53.480 --> 17:54.480 What happened? 17:54.480 --> 17:55.480 Nothing. 17:55.480 --> 17:58.480 Always bungle somewhere, amateurs. 17:58.480 --> 18:00.480 Gas petered out. 18:00.480 --> 18:02.480 She forgot to put a quarter in the meter. 18:02.480 --> 18:05.480 Ah, 7 o'clock. 18:05.480 --> 18:06.480 I've got to call in. 18:06.480 --> 18:07.480 Well, good night, Mrs. Bates. 18:07.480 --> 18:08.480 Good night, Officer. 18:08.480 --> 18:10.480 Nice to meet you, Walter. 18:10.480 --> 18:11.480 Ma. 18:11.480 --> 18:13.480 Yes, Walter? 18:13.480 --> 18:15.480 When did you put a quarter in the meter at home? 18:15.480 --> 18:17.480 Why, I don't remember. 18:17.480 --> 18:18.480 Goodness, I'd better get some change. 18:18.480 --> 18:19.480 Never mind a change. 18:19.480 --> 18:20.480 Come on. 18:20.480 --> 18:23.480 Walter, why did you ask about the gas meter? 18:23.480 --> 18:24.480 What do you think? 18:24.480 --> 18:25.480 Walter, you didn't. 18:25.480 --> 18:28.480 That isn't why you put the heater in, Mr. Chalmers. 18:28.480 --> 18:29.480 What do you think? 18:29.480 --> 18:30.480 I don't think. 18:30.480 --> 18:33.480 I just pray, pray that quarter ran out before it. 18:33.480 --> 18:34.480 Save your prayers. 18:34.480 --> 18:36.480 Of course, if that didn't work, I'll try another way. 18:36.480 --> 18:40.480 Either that old clerk is dead before midnight or I spend 10 years in a stir. 18:40.480 --> 18:42.480 He's going to be dead before midnight, see? 18:42.480 --> 18:46.480 And if you try to make any trouble, you'll be pushing daisies right along with him. 18:55.480 --> 18:56.480 Stop sniveling. 18:56.480 --> 18:58.480 We're going in there now. 18:58.480 --> 19:02.480 Now, look, if it took, scream your head off or I'll give you a reason to scream. 19:02.480 --> 19:03.480 The gas. 19:03.480 --> 19:05.480 I can smell it. 19:05.480 --> 19:07.480 Come on. 19:12.480 --> 19:13.480 Oh, I... 19:13.480 --> 19:17.480 Oh, well, good evening, Walter, Mrs. Bates. 19:17.480 --> 19:18.480 I was just on my way out. 19:18.480 --> 19:20.480 Oh, Mr. Chalmers, you're all right, you're all right. 19:20.480 --> 19:21.480 Of course he's all right. 19:21.480 --> 19:22.480 What's eating you? 19:22.480 --> 19:24.480 I have a slight headache, it's true. 19:24.480 --> 19:26.480 But a brisk walk in the open air will cure that. 19:26.480 --> 19:28.480 I'm sure. 19:28.480 --> 19:30.480 Hey, have a look at this. 19:30.480 --> 19:31.480 What is it, Walter? 19:31.480 --> 19:33.480 This hose on a heater. 19:33.480 --> 19:35.480 Got unhitched. 19:35.480 --> 19:36.480 No wonder you got a headache. 19:36.480 --> 19:38.480 I thought I smelled gas. 19:38.480 --> 19:40.480 Boy, it's lucky for you, Ma forgot to put a quarter in a meter. 19:40.480 --> 19:44.480 Providence works in strange ways, doesn't it, Walter? 19:44.480 --> 19:46.480 Well, I must be getting on. 19:46.480 --> 19:50.480 I'll be coming home rather late, Mrs. Bates, so I'll just let myself in. 19:50.480 --> 19:51.480 How late? 19:51.480 --> 19:55.480 Well, I thought I'd stop at the neighborhood picture house for dinner. 19:55.480 --> 19:57.480 That'll be around nine o'clock. 19:57.480 --> 19:59.480 So I imagine I won't be home much before eleven. 19:59.480 --> 20:01.480 Mr. Chalmers, there's something I've wanted to tell... 20:01.480 --> 20:02.480 Yes, Mrs. Bates? 20:02.480 --> 20:07.480 Walter's a good boy at heart, you know, but he's been in some trouble lately and... 20:07.480 --> 20:09.480 Is there anything I can do to help, Walter? 20:09.480 --> 20:10.480 Yeah, plenty. 20:10.480 --> 20:11.480 I'll tell you all about it when you get up. 20:11.480 --> 20:13.480 You get back, come on, you better run along now, Mr. Chalmers. 20:13.480 --> 20:15.480 You don't want to be late for that picture. 20:15.480 --> 20:16.480 Yes, yes, of course. 20:16.480 --> 20:18.480 Well, good night, Mrs. Bates. 20:18.480 --> 20:19.480 Mr. Chalmers, I... 20:19.480 --> 20:20.480 Good night, Mr. Chalmers. 20:20.480 --> 20:22.480 Yes, good night. 20:22.480 --> 20:24.480 Oh, Walter, I... 20:24.480 --> 20:25.480 Walter! 20:25.480 --> 20:26.480 Walter, no! 20:26.480 --> 20:28.480 No, no, Michael, no! 20:28.480 --> 20:29.480 You're gonna tell him, aren't you? 20:29.480 --> 20:32.480 You'd like to send me to the chair, wouldn't you? 20:32.480 --> 20:35.480 You struck me, Walter. 20:35.480 --> 20:37.480 You struck your own mother. 20:37.480 --> 20:39.480 I ought to have messed up your sad monkey face for good. 20:39.480 --> 20:41.480 It's your fault I balled us up in the first place. 20:41.480 --> 20:43.480 Why didn't you remember to put a quarter on that meter? 20:43.480 --> 20:44.480 Why didn't you? 20:44.480 --> 20:45.480 I'm glad I forgot. 20:45.480 --> 20:47.480 It wouldn't be a lie. 20:47.480 --> 20:49.480 I shouldn't have messed around with gas, trying to spare your feelings, 20:49.480 --> 20:51.480 making it look like an accident. 20:51.480 --> 20:52.480 The thanks I get for it. 20:52.480 --> 20:54.480 She wants to blab the whole thing. 20:54.480 --> 20:55.480 Turn me in, my own mother. 20:55.480 --> 20:57.480 No, no, Walter, no, no, that's not true. 20:57.480 --> 20:58.480 Why, you... 20:58.480 --> 21:00.480 Don't strike me again, Walter. 21:00.480 --> 21:01.480 I can't stand it. 21:01.480 --> 21:02.480 Okay. 21:02.480 --> 21:04.480 Maybe now you'll cooperate. 21:04.480 --> 21:06.480 Now, look, let's put it this way. 21:06.480 --> 21:08.480 It's either you or him. 21:08.480 --> 21:10.480 If it's you, I don't care whether they get me or not. 21:10.480 --> 21:11.480 Are you listening? 21:11.480 --> 21:12.480 Oh, yes, yes, Walter. 21:12.480 --> 21:14.480 Okay, now, like I said, 21:14.480 --> 21:16.480 I got very little time to get this thing done. 21:16.480 --> 21:18.480 I ought to have done it neat and clean in the first place, like I said. 21:18.480 --> 21:19.480 He's old and weak. 21:19.480 --> 21:20.480 You just push him over on that bed, 21:20.480 --> 21:22.480 hold a pillow over his face for a few minutes, 21:22.480 --> 21:23.480 and the job's done. 21:23.480 --> 21:25.480 Nobody will ask any questions of a guy that old. 21:25.480 --> 21:27.480 Well, if it's the last time, I'm begging you. 21:27.480 --> 21:29.480 Okay, make sure it's for the last time. 21:29.480 --> 21:30.480 Remember, it's you or him, like I said. 21:30.480 --> 21:32.480 What are you going to do? 21:32.480 --> 21:36.480 Now, look, I'll be waiting in his room when he comes home. 21:36.480 --> 21:39.480 I'm shot anyway, so I'll lay down and get 40 winks. 21:39.480 --> 21:40.480 You wait up for him. 21:40.480 --> 21:42.480 Tell him I'll have to catch a train. 21:42.480 --> 21:44.480 That's in case he suspects anything. 21:44.480 --> 21:46.480 When he comes to his room, 21:46.480 --> 21:48.480 I'll take care of the rest of it. 21:48.480 --> 21:50.480 How do you know I won't warn him? 21:50.480 --> 21:53.480 Because it's him or you, like I told you. 21:53.480 --> 21:56.480 I don't think you'll warn Mr. Chalmers. 21:56.480 --> 22:00.480 And don't try to stall him when he comes in. 22:00.480 --> 22:03.480 He's got to be dead by midnight. 22:03.480 --> 22:05.480 Or else. 22:13.480 --> 22:17.480 Get the paper here. 22:17.480 --> 22:20.480 Oh, Captain Mr. Chalmers. 22:20.480 --> 22:21.480 Evening, Joe. 22:21.480 --> 22:23.480 I'll have the late edition of the daily news, as usual. 22:23.480 --> 22:26.480 Oh, I saved one out for you, Mr. Chalmers. 22:26.480 --> 22:27.480 Thank you. 22:27.480 --> 22:28.480 Good night, Joe. 22:28.480 --> 22:29.480 Good night. 22:29.480 --> 22:32.480 Oh, oh, oh, by the way, Joe, I almost forgot. 22:32.480 --> 22:34.480 Can you give me the change of a dollar? 22:34.480 --> 22:36.480 Oh, sure, Mr. Chalmers. 22:36.480 --> 22:37.480 Here you are. 22:37.480 --> 22:41.480 50, 75, 85, 90, one dollar. 22:41.480 --> 22:42.480 Well, thank you. 22:42.480 --> 22:45.480 I just happen to think of something I need change for. 22:45.480 --> 22:49.480 A little good deed for a friend of mine. 23:01.480 --> 23:02.480 Oh, Mr. Chalmers. 23:02.480 --> 23:06.480 Well, I didn't think you'd be up so late, Mrs. Bates. 23:06.480 --> 23:08.480 I waited up especially. 23:08.480 --> 23:11.480 I wanted to talk to you about Walter. 23:11.480 --> 23:14.480 Mrs. Bates, your eye, it's all discolored. 23:14.480 --> 23:16.480 Yes, I... 23:16.480 --> 23:18.480 The light burned out in the bathroom, 23:18.480 --> 23:22.480 and when I went to replace it in the dark, that is, 23:22.480 --> 23:24.480 I bumped into the door. 23:24.480 --> 23:27.480 Now I would have thought Walter would have done that for me. 23:27.480 --> 23:29.480 Oh, no, Walter didn't. 23:29.480 --> 23:33.480 I mean, Walter's left already. 23:33.480 --> 23:36.480 He had to catch the 12.20 for Pittsburgh, you know. 23:36.480 --> 23:38.480 But it's only 11 now. 23:38.480 --> 23:39.480 The clock is... 23:39.480 --> 23:42.480 He had some things to do on the way, I mean... 23:42.480 --> 23:46.480 Of course. Well, I'm afraid I must be getting on to bed. 23:46.480 --> 23:48.480 No, not just yet. 23:48.480 --> 23:51.480 I mean, won't you sit down for a minute 23:51.480 --> 23:53.480 and have a cup of tea with me? 23:53.480 --> 23:56.480 Well, I'd like to, but tea keeps me awake, Mrs. Bates. 23:56.480 --> 23:59.480 I'll be getting long to my room now, if you don't mind. 23:59.480 --> 24:02.480 No. No, don't go into that room, Mr. Chalmers. 24:02.480 --> 24:04.480 Why, Mrs. Bates, whatever's the trouble... 24:04.480 --> 24:09.480 My son, Walter, there's something I must tell you. 24:09.480 --> 24:11.480 Forgive me, Mrs. Bates, but I'm an old man, 24:11.480 --> 24:13.480 and I need my rest. 24:13.480 --> 24:15.480 If it could possibly wait until morning... 24:15.480 --> 24:18.480 No, no, no, it can't wait until morning. 24:18.480 --> 24:22.480 It's got to be told before midnight. 24:22.480 --> 24:25.480 What was that? 24:25.480 --> 24:28.480 It sounds like someone moving about in the back of the house. 24:28.480 --> 24:32.480 One of the shutters. It's loose. The wind. 24:32.480 --> 24:34.480 Oh, you were saying, Mrs. Bates... 24:34.480 --> 24:36.480 Nothing. 24:36.480 --> 24:39.480 I can't tell you after all. 24:39.480 --> 24:42.480 I'm afraid. 24:42.480 --> 24:46.480 I'm afraid to tell it. 24:46.480 --> 24:48.480 Afraid. 24:48.480 --> 24:51.480 There, there, Mrs. Bates. Perhaps in the morning. 24:51.480 --> 24:53.480 Try to get some rest. 24:53.480 --> 24:56.480 You're going in there now? 24:56.480 --> 25:01.480 I think that will be the best thing to do all the way around. 25:01.480 --> 25:04.480 Don't you, Mrs. Bates? Good night. 25:04.480 --> 25:06.480 No. No, wait. 25:06.480 --> 25:08.480 Mrs. Bates, I... What is it, Mrs. Bates? 25:08.480 --> 25:10.480 That smell. 25:10.480 --> 25:13.480 Gas. 25:13.480 --> 25:16.480 Walter. Walter! 25:16.480 --> 25:19.480 Walter! 25:31.480 --> 25:34.480 Why don't you lie down for a few minutes, Mrs. Bates? 25:34.480 --> 25:37.480 I'll call you when the ambulance arrives. 25:37.480 --> 25:40.480 Listen. 25:40.480 --> 25:43.480 It's striking twelve. 25:43.480 --> 25:46.480 Dead before midnight. 25:46.480 --> 25:49.480 That's what he said. 25:49.480 --> 25:52.480 Dead before midnight. 25:52.480 --> 25:55.480 Poor lad. Fell asleep. 25:55.480 --> 25:58.480 If only I hadn't remembered to go back for that change. 25:58.480 --> 26:08.480 You did it. 26:08.480 --> 26:12.480 You put the quarter in the meter. 26:12.480 --> 26:17.480 That's what turned on the gas that killed him. 26:17.480 --> 26:21.480 Well, you mentioned the gas having gone off and forgetting to put a quarter in the meter. 26:21.480 --> 26:26.480 So on the way to the picture house I just went around to the back entry and dropped the coin. 26:26.480 --> 26:31.480 I suppose I should have remembered about the connection being loose on the heater in my room. 26:31.480 --> 26:35.480 But I wanted to surprise you with my good deed. 26:35.480 --> 26:38.480 I didn't mean to do anything wrong, Mrs. Bates. 26:38.480 --> 26:40.480 Truly I didn't. 26:40.480 --> 26:42.480 No. 26:42.480 --> 26:48.480 You didn't do anything wrong, Mr. Chalmers. 26:48.480 --> 27:06.480 You didn't do anything wrong. 27:06.480 --> 27:12.480 And so closes Life Ends at Midnight, starring Faye Bainter, Ralph Morgan and Dane Clark. 27:12.480 --> 27:18.480 Tonight's tale of suspense. 27:18.480 --> 27:22.480 Miss Bainter appeared by courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producers of Madame Curie. 27:22.480 --> 27:27.480 Dane Clark is currently being seen in the Warner Brothers production, Destination Tokyo. 27:27.480 --> 27:32.480 Before Ralph Morgan returns to our microphone, let me give you a suggestion. 27:32.480 --> 27:37.480 The suggestion you will find can add to the success of your next dinner party at home. 27:37.480 --> 27:42.480 At one end of the dining table, place a bottle of Roma wine's not sweet, not dry Burgundy. 27:42.480 --> 27:47.480 At the other table end, place a bottle of Roma wine's delicately delicious Sauternes. 27:47.480 --> 27:51.480 Then let each of your guests select the Roma wine to his liking. 27:51.480 --> 27:54.480 You will know that whatever the individual choice of a guest, 27:54.480 --> 27:59.480 both of these Roma California wines will delight by their superb quality, 27:59.480 --> 28:05.480 the quality that has made Roma wines America's largest selling wines. 28:05.480 --> 28:10.480 Whichever of Roma wine's many different California wine types you choose at your dealers, 28:10.480 --> 28:14.480 the small purchase price he asks will surprise and delight you. 28:14.480 --> 28:18.480 While the superb quality of these good Roma wines will win your full accord 28:18.480 --> 28:24.480 with the judgment of wine experts of many lands that Roma wines are truly magnificent. 28:24.480 --> 28:34.480 Let me repeat the name, R-O-M-A, Roma wines, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 28:34.480 --> 28:36.480 This is Ralph Morgan. 28:36.480 --> 28:40.480 First time sure I speak for all of us, Miss Bainter, Mr. Clark and myself, 28:40.480 --> 28:44.480 in saying how much we've enjoyed appearing on Suspense this evening. 28:44.480 --> 28:49.480 We will all be listening as we hope you will next week when Miss Agnes Moorhead is your star 28:49.480 --> 28:56.480 in one of the most talked about plays ever to be presented in this series, called Sorry Wrong Number. 28:56.480 --> 28:58.480 And now one more word. 28:58.480 --> 29:01.480 Here's something our fighting men may never forget. 29:01.480 --> 29:04.480 The price of victory is sacrifice. 29:04.480 --> 29:12.480 You help bring the victory nearer when you make the sacrifices that make it possible for you to buy more war bonds. 29:12.480 --> 29:14.480 Thank you. 29:14.480 --> 29:17.480 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 29:17.480 --> 29:23.480 Don't forget then next Monday for Agnes Moorhead in Suspense. 29:23.480 --> 29:28.480 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A. 29:28.480 --> 29:37.480 Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 29:37.480 --> 29:59.480 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.