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49 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:53,120 I would be glad to try that number for you. 50 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:54,120 One moment please. 51 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:55,920 I don't see how it could be busy all this time. 52 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:56,920 It's my husband's office. 53 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:59,960 He's working late tonight and I'm all alone here in the house. 54 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:03,880 My health is very poor and I've been feeling so nervous all day. 55 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:06,880 Ringing Murray Hill 40098. 56 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:07,880 Hello? 57 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:08,880 Hello? 58 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:11,880 Hello, is Mr. Stevenson there? 59 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:12,880 Hello? 60 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:13,880 Hello? 61 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:14,880 Hello? 62 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:15,880 Hello? 63 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:16,880 George? 64 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,880 Yes sir, this is George speaking. 65 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:20,880 Hello? 66 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:21,880 Who's this? 67 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:25,520 What number am I calling please? 68 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:27,720 I'm here with our client. 69 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:29,800 Oh good. 70 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:31,120 Is everything okay? 71 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,600 Is the coast clear for tonight? 72 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:34,600 Yes George. 73 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,360 He says the coast is clear for tonight. 74 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:38,360 Okay, okay. 75 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:39,360 Where are you now? 76 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:40,360 In a phone booth. 77 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:41,360 Don't worry, everything's okay. 78 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:42,360 Very well. 79 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:43,360 You know the address. 80 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:44,360 Yes, I know, I know. 81 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:45,360 Let's see now. 82 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:46,360 At eleven o'clock the private patrolman goes around to the bar on self-defense. 83 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:56,120 That's right, eleven o'clock. 84 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:57,120 Okay. 85 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:03,120 And be sure that all the lights downstairs are out. 86 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,840 There should be only one light visible from the street. 87 00:05:05,840 --> 00:05:06,840 Okay, okay. 88 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:07,840 What's that? 89 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:10,840 Oh, just a minute George. 90 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:16,960 Hello, our client tells me that at eleven fifteen a train crosses the bridge. 91 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,280 It makes a noise in case her window is open and she should scream. 92 00:05:20,280 --> 00:05:22,320 Hello, what number is this please? 93 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,840 Okay, I understand. 94 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:26,880 That's eleven fifteen the train. 95 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:27,880 Yeah. 96 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,080 Do you remember everything else George? 97 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:31,600 Yeah, yeah. 98 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:39,360 I'll make it quick, as little blood as possible, because our client does not wish to make her 99 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:40,360 suffer longer. 100 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:41,360 That's right. 101 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:42,360 You'll use a knife. 102 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:43,360 Yes, a knife will be okay. 103 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:50,600 Then afterwards I'll remove the rings and the bracelets and the jewelry in the bureau 104 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:57,320 drawer, because our client wishes it to look like simple robbery. 105 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:00,440 Don't worry, everything's okay. 106 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:01,440 I know. 107 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:02,440 Oh, how awful. 108 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:03,440 How unspeakably awful. 109 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:04,440 Oh, oh. 110 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:11,440 Your call please. 111 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:15,280 Operator, I've just been cut off. 112 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:16,960 I'm sorry, what number were you calling? 113 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,720 Why, it was supposed to be Murray Hill four oh oh nine eight, but it wasn't. 114 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:22,000 Some wires must have got crossed. 115 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,160 I was cut into a wrong number and I've just heard the most dreadful thing, something about 116 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:27,160 a murder. 117 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,520 And operator, you'll simply have to retrace that call at once. 118 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:33,200 I beg your pardon, may I help you? 119 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:37,240 Oh, I know it was a wrong number and I had no business listening, but these two men, 120 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,880 they were cold blooded fiends and they were going to murder somebody, some poor innocent 121 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,800 woman who was all alone in a house near a bridge. 122 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:44,800 And we've got to stop them. 123 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:45,800 We just got to. 124 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:46,800 What number are you calling? 125 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:47,800 Well, that doesn't matter. 126 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:51,520 This was a wrong number and you dialed it for me and we've got to find out what it was 127 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:52,680 immediately. 128 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:53,680 What number did you call? 129 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,360 Oh, why are you so stupid? 130 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:57,360 What time is it? 131 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,640 You mean to tell me you can't find out what that number was just now? 132 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:02,240 I'll connect you with the chief operator. 133 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:04,280 Oh, I think it's perfectly shameful. 134 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:08,360 Now, look, look, it was obviously a case of some little slip of the finger. 135 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:12,520 I told you to try Murray Hill 40098 for me. 136 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:15,660 You dialed it, but your finger must have slipped and I was connected with some other number 137 00:07:15,660 --> 00:07:17,760 and I could hear them, but they couldn't hear me. 138 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:21,680 Now, I simply failed to see why you couldn't make that same mistake again on purpose. 139 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:26,080 Why you couldn't try to dial Murray Hill 40098 in the same sort of careless way. 140 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:29,880 Murray Hill 40098, I will try to get it for you. 141 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:30,880 Thank you. 142 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:46,560 I am sorry, Murray Hill 40098 is busy. 143 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:47,560 I will call you in. 144 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:48,560 Operator, operator. 145 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:49,560 Your call, please. 146 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,360 You didn't try to get that wrong number at all. 147 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:55,040 I asked you explicitly and all you did was dial correctly. 148 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:56,040 I am sorry. 149 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:57,040 What number are you calling? 150 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,400 Well, can't you for once forget what number I'm calling and do something for me? 151 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:02,360 Now, I want to trace that call. 152 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:05,720 It's my civic duty and it's your civic duty to trace that call and apprehend those dangerous 153 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:07,080 killers and if you won't. 154 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:09,080 I will connect you with the chief operator. 155 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:10,080 Well, please. 156 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:11,080 Who is talking? 157 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:12,080 I can't make it. 158 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:13,080 I wonder this day. 159 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:14,080 It takes so much time. 160 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:17,080 This is the chief operator. 161 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:22,360 Oh, chief operator, I want you to trace a call, a telephone call immediately. 162 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:26,280 I don't know where it came from or who was making it, but it's absolutely necessary that 163 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:30,480 it be tracked down because it was about a murder that someone's planning, a terrible 164 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:34,520 cold blooded murder of a poor innocent woman tonight at 1115. 165 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:35,520 I see. 166 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:36,520 Can you trace it for me? 167 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:37,520 Can you track down those men? 168 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:38,520 Well, I'm not certain. 169 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:39,520 It depends. 170 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:40,520 Depends on what? 171 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:42,520 It depends on whether the call is still going on. 172 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,520 If it's a live call, we can trace it on the equipment. 173 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:47,520 If it's been disconnected, we can. 174 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:48,520 Disconnected? 175 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:50,920 If the parties have stopped talking to each other. 176 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,600 Oh, but of course they must have stopped talking to each other. 177 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:57,240 By now, that was at least five minutes ago and they didn't sound like the type who would 178 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:58,600 make a long call. 179 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:00,600 Well, I can try tracing it. 180 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:02,280 May I have your name, please? 181 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:04,280 Mrs. Stevenson, Mrs. Albert Stevenson. 182 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:05,280 But listen. 183 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:06,760 And your telephone number, please. 184 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:09,200 Plaza three two oh nine eight. 185 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:10,640 But if you go on wasting all this time. 186 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:12,640 Why do you want this call traced, please? 187 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:13,640 Why? 188 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:14,640 Oh, no reason. 189 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:19,000 I mean, I merely felt very strongly that something ought to be done about it. 190 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,440 These men sounded like killers. 191 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:21,440 They're dangerous. 192 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:23,880 They're going to murder this woman at eleven fifteen tonight. 193 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:25,360 I thought the police ought to know. 194 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:27,400 Have you reported this to the police? 195 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,360 Well, no, not yet. 196 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,040 You want this call checked purely as a private individual? 197 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:33,040 Yes, yes. 198 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:34,040 But meanwhile. 199 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,520 I'm sorry, Mrs. Stevenson, but I'm afraid we couldn't make this check for you and trace 200 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:40,920 the call just on your say so as a private individual. 201 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:43,080 We'd have to have something more official. 202 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:45,080 Oh, for heaven's sake. 203 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:48,320 You mean to tell me I can't report that there's going to be a murder without getting tied 204 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:50,240 up in all this red tape? 205 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:51,720 Why, it's perfectly idiotic. 206 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:53,400 Well, all right, all right. 207 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:54,400 I'll call the police. 208 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:55,400 Thank you. 209 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:58,400 I'm sure that would be the best way to do it. 210 00:09:58,400 --> 00:09:59,400 Ridiculous. 211 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:00,400 Curse such nonsense. 212 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:05,400 What are you on? 213 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:06,400 Your call, please. 214 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:07,400 The police department. 215 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:09,360 Get me the police department, please. 216 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:10,360 Thank you. 217 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:11,360 Ringing the police department. 218 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:12,360 Oh, can't you ring them direct? 219 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:13,360 It's time. 220 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:14,360 Time. 221 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:15,360 Time. 222 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:16,360 Time. 223 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:17,360 Time. 224 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:18,360 Time. 225 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:19,360 Time. 226 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:26,080 Police station, precinct 43, Sergeant Martin speaking. 227 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:31,440 Police department, this is Mrs. Stevenson, Mrs. Albert Smyth Stevenson of 53 North Sutton 228 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:32,440 Place. 229 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:33,440 I'm calling up to report a murder. 230 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:34,440 Huh? 231 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:37,960 I mean, the murder hasn't been committed yet, but I just overheard plans for it over the 232 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:41,440 telephone over a wrong number that the operator gave me. 233 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:45,920 I've been trying to trace down the call myself, but everybody is so stupid. 234 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:48,320 And I guess in the end, you're the only people who could do anything. 235 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:49,320 Yes, ma'am. 236 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:51,440 It was a perfectly definite murder. 237 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:53,240 I heard their plans distinctly. 238 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:57,920 Two men were talking and they were going to murder some woman at 1115 tonight. 239 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:00,120 She lived in a house near a bridge. 240 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:01,120 Are you listening to me? 241 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:02,120 Oh, yes, yes, ma'am. 242 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:06,000 And there was a private patrolman on the street. 243 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,720 He was going to go around for a beer on Second Avenue. 244 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:14,760 And there was some third man, a client, who was paying to have this poor woman murdered. 245 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:18,440 They were going to take her rings and bracelets and use a knife. 246 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:19,440 Really? 247 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:21,640 It's unnerved me dreadfully and I'm not well. 248 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:23,120 Yes, I see. 249 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:25,960 When was all this, ma'am? 250 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:26,960 About eight minutes ago. 251 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:29,800 Oh, then you can do something you do understand. 252 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:31,160 What's your name, ma'am? 253 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,840 Mrs. Stevenson, Mrs. Elbert Stevenson. 254 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:34,840 And your address? 255 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:38,440 5353 North Sutton Place. 256 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:42,000 That's near a bridge, the Queensboro Bridge, you know, and we have a private patrolman 257 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,440 on our street and Second Avenue is in it. 258 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:47,520 And what was that number you were calling? 259 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:50,120 Murray Hill 40098. 260 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:51,920 But that wasn't the number I overheard. 261 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:55,200 I mean, Murray Hill 40098 is my husband's office. 262 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:59,200 He's working late tonight and I was trying to reach him to ask him to come home. 263 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:03,600 I'm an invalid, you know, and it's the maid's night off and I hate to be alone even though 264 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:07,720 he says I'm perfectly safe as long as I have the telephone right beside my bed. 265 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:12,040 Well, we'll look into it, Mrs. Stevenson, and see if we can check it with the telephone 266 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:13,040 company. 267 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:15,800 But the telephone company said they couldn't check the call of the party, so stop talking. 268 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:17,680 I've already taken care of that. 269 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:18,680 Oh, you have? 270 00:12:18,680 --> 00:12:22,400 Yes, and personally, I feel you ought to do something far more immediate and drastic than 271 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,160 just check the call. 272 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,240 What good is checking the call do if they stop talking? 273 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:28,680 By the time you track it down, they'll already have committed the murder. 274 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:31,040 Well, we'll take care of it, don't you worry. 275 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:35,080 I'd say the whole thing calls for a search, a complete and thorough search of the whole 276 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:36,080 city. 277 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:40,240 I'm very near the bridge and I'm not far from Second Avenue and I know I'd feel a whole 278 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:43,760 lot better if you sent around a radio car to this neighborhood at once. 279 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:47,560 Well, what makes you think the murder's going to be committed in your neighborhood, ma'am? 280 00:12:47,560 --> 00:12:49,560 Well, I don't know. 281 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:52,360 Only, the coincidence is so horrible. 282 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:54,760 Second Avenue, the patrolman, the bridge? 283 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:59,080 Yeah, well, Second Avenue, you know, is a very long straight, ma'am, and you know how 284 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:03,520 many bridges there are in the city of New York alone, not to mention Brooklyn, Staten 285 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:05,520 Island, and Queens and the Bronx. 286 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:06,520 I know all that. 287 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:10,480 How do you know there isn't some little house on Staten Island, on some little Second Avenue 288 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:11,480 you never heard about? 289 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:14,320 How do you know they were even talking about New York at all? 290 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:16,960 But I heard the call in the New York dialing system. 291 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,440 Well, maybe it was a long distance call in your world. 292 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:22,440 You know, telephones are funny things. 293 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:26,760 Now, look, lady, why don't you look at it this way? 294 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:30,040 Supposing you hadn't broken in on that telephone call. 295 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:32,720 Supposing you got your husband the way you always do. 296 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:34,840 You wouldn't be so upset, would you? 297 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:39,560 Well, I suppose not, only it sounded so inhuman, so cold-blooded. 298 00:13:39,560 --> 00:13:43,000 Well, a lot of murders are plotted in this city every day, ma'am. 299 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:48,360 We manage to prevent almost all of them, but a clue of this kind is so vague, it's much 300 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:50,160 more used to us than no clue at all. 301 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:51,160 But surely you can... 302 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:54,760 Unless, of course, you have some reason for thinking this call was phony and that someone 303 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:56,760 may be planning to murder you. 304 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:57,760 Me? 305 00:13:57,760 --> 00:13:58,760 Oh, no. 306 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:01,280 No, I hardly think so. 307 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:04,160 I mean, why should anybody? 308 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:05,480 I'm alone all day and night. 309 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,920 I see nobody except my maid, Eloise. 310 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:08,920 She's a big 200-pounder. 311 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:14,600 She's too lazy to bring up my breakfast tray, and the only other person is my husband, Albert. 312 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:15,600 He's crazy about me. 313 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:16,600 He adores me. 314 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:21,520 He waits on me hand and foot and has scarcely left my side since I took sick 12 years ago. 315 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:24,520 Yeah, well, then there's nothing for you to worry about. 316 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:27,520 And now if you'll just leave the rest of this to us, we'll take care of it. 317 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:28,520 But what will you do? 318 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:29,520 It's so late. 319 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:30,520 It's nearly 11 now. 320 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:31,520 We'll take care of it, lady. 321 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:37,000 Well, will you broadcast it all over the city and send out squads and warn your radio cars 322 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,680 to watch out, especially in suspicious neighborhoods like mine? 323 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:41,880 Lady, I said we'd take care of it. 324 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:46,400 Now, I've got a couple of other matters here on my desk that require immediate attention. 325 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:47,400 So good night, ma'am. 326 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:48,400 Thank you. 327 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:49,400 Oh, you, you idiot. 328 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:55,400 Now, why did I hang up the phone like that? 329 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:58,400 Now he'll think I am a fool. 330 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:03,400 Oh, why doesn't Albert come home? 331 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:06,400 Why doesn't he? 332 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:11,400 Oh, the operator again. 333 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:12,400 Oh. 334 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:16,400 Your call, please. 335 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:21,100 Operator, for heaven's sake, will you ring that Murray Hill 40098 number again? 336 00:15:21,100 --> 00:15:23,300 I can't think what's keeping him so long. 337 00:15:23,300 --> 00:15:25,300 I will try it for you. 338 00:15:25,300 --> 00:15:30,300 Oh, god, I'm so nervous. 339 00:15:30,300 --> 00:15:41,900 I'm sorry, Murray Hill 40098 is busy. 340 00:15:41,900 --> 00:15:43,180 I can hear it. 341 00:15:43,180 --> 00:15:44,180 You don't have to tell me. 342 00:15:44,180 --> 00:15:45,180 I know it's busy. 343 00:15:45,180 --> 00:15:52,180 Oh, if I could only get out of this bed for a little while. 344 00:15:52,180 --> 00:15:58,300 If I could get a breath of fresh air or just lean out of the window and see the street. 345 00:15:58,300 --> 00:15:59,300 Hello? 346 00:15:59,300 --> 00:16:00,300 Hello? 347 00:16:00,300 --> 00:16:01,300 Hello? 348 00:16:01,300 --> 00:16:02,300 Hello? 349 00:16:02,300 --> 00:16:05,300 Oh, what's the matter with his phone? 350 00:16:05,300 --> 00:16:06,300 Hello? 351 00:16:06,300 --> 00:16:07,300 Hello? 352 00:16:07,300 --> 00:16:08,300 Hello? 353 00:16:08,300 --> 00:16:11,300 Oh, for heaven's sake, who is this? 354 00:16:11,300 --> 00:16:12,300 Hello? 355 00:16:12,300 --> 00:16:13,300 Hello? 356 00:16:13,300 --> 00:16:14,300 Hello? 357 00:16:14,300 --> 00:16:19,300 Oh, god, I think he's trying to do to me. 358 00:16:19,300 --> 00:16:20,300 Oh. 359 00:16:20,300 --> 00:16:21,300 Answer somebody. 360 00:16:21,300 --> 00:16:22,300 Answer somebody. 361 00:16:22,300 --> 00:16:23,300 Your call, please. 362 00:16:23,300 --> 00:16:24,300 Hello, operator. 363 00:16:24,300 --> 00:16:27,300 I don't know what's keeping him so long. 364 00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:31,540 Hello, operator, I don't know what's the matter with his telephone tonight, but it's positively 365 00:16:31,540 --> 00:16:32,540 driving me crazy. 366 00:16:32,540 --> 00:16:35,300 I've never seen such inefficient, miserable service. 367 00:16:35,300 --> 00:16:39,500 Now, look, I'm an invalid and I'm very nervous and I'm not supposed to be annoyed. 368 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:41,300 But if this keeps on much longer. 369 00:16:41,300 --> 00:16:42,300 What seems to be the trouble, please? 370 00:16:42,300 --> 00:16:43,300 Well, everything's wrong. 371 00:16:43,300 --> 00:16:46,300 I haven't had one bit of satisfaction out of one call I've made this evening. 372 00:16:46,300 --> 00:16:48,300 The whole world could be murdered for all you people care. 373 00:16:48,300 --> 00:16:51,300 And now my phone keeps ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing every five seconds 374 00:16:51,300 --> 00:16:53,300 or so and when I pick it up, there's no one there. 375 00:16:53,300 --> 00:16:54,300 I am sorry. 376 00:16:54,300 --> 00:16:55,300 If you will hang up, I will test it for you. 377 00:16:55,300 --> 00:16:57,300 I don't want you to test it for me. 378 00:16:57,300 --> 00:16:59,300 I want you to put that call through whatever it is at once. 379 00:16:59,300 --> 00:17:01,300 I'm afraid I cannot do that. 380 00:17:01,300 --> 00:17:02,300 You can't. 381 00:17:02,300 --> 00:17:03,300 And why? 382 00:17:03,300 --> 00:17:04,300 Why, may I ask? 383 00:17:04,300 --> 00:17:05,300 The dial system is automatic. 384 00:17:05,300 --> 00:17:10,300 If someone is trying to dial your number, there is no way to check whether the call 385 00:17:10,300 --> 00:17:14,300 is coming through the system or not unless the person who is trying to reach you complains 386 00:17:14,300 --> 00:17:15,300 to his particular operator. 387 00:17:15,300 --> 00:17:17,300 Well, of all the stupid... 388 00:17:17,300 --> 00:17:21,300 And meanwhile, I've got to sit here in my bed suffering every time that phone rings, 389 00:17:21,300 --> 00:17:22,300 imagining everything. 390 00:17:22,300 --> 00:17:24,300 I will try to check the troubles for you, madam. 391 00:17:24,300 --> 00:17:25,300 Check it. 392 00:17:25,300 --> 00:17:26,300 Check it. 393 00:17:26,300 --> 00:17:27,300 That's all anybody can do. 394 00:17:27,300 --> 00:17:28,300 Oh, what's the use of talking to you? 395 00:17:28,300 --> 00:17:29,300 You're so stupid. 396 00:17:29,300 --> 00:17:30,300 I'll fix her. 397 00:17:30,300 --> 00:17:31,300 All the impotent. 398 00:17:31,300 --> 00:17:32,300 How dare she speak to me like that? 399 00:17:32,300 --> 00:17:33,300 How dare she speak to me like that? 400 00:17:33,300 --> 00:17:34,300 No satisfaction out of anybody. 401 00:17:34,300 --> 00:17:35,300 Lancer. 402 00:17:35,300 --> 00:17:36,300 Your call, please. 403 00:17:36,300 --> 00:17:37,300 Young woman, I don't know your name, but there are ways to call you. 404 00:17:37,300 --> 00:17:38,300 I'm sorry. 405 00:17:38,300 --> 00:17:39,300 I'm sorry. 406 00:17:39,300 --> 00:17:40,300 I'm sorry. 407 00:17:40,300 --> 00:17:41,300 I'm sorry. 408 00:17:41,300 --> 00:17:42,300 I'm sorry. 409 00:17:42,300 --> 00:17:43,300 I'm sorry. 410 00:17:43,300 --> 00:17:44,300 I'm sorry. 411 00:17:44,300 --> 00:17:45,300 I'm sorry. 412 00:17:45,300 --> 00:17:46,300 I'm sorry. 413 00:17:46,300 --> 00:17:47,300 I'm sorry. 414 00:17:47,300 --> 00:17:48,300 I'm sorry. 415 00:17:48,300 --> 00:17:49,300 I'm sorry. 416 00:17:49,300 --> 00:17:50,300 I'm sorry. 417 00:17:50,300 --> 00:17:51,300 I'm sorry. 418 00:17:51,300 --> 00:17:52,300 I'm sorry. 419 00:17:52,300 --> 00:17:53,300 I'm sorry. 420 00:17:53,300 --> 00:17:54,300 I'm so sorry, young lady. 421 00:17:54,300 --> 00:17:55,300 I'm so sorry. 422 00:17:55,300 --> 00:17:56,300 I'm so sorry. 423 00:17:56,300 --> 00:17:57,300 I'm sorry. 424 00:17:57,300 --> 00:17:58,300 I'm so sorry. 425 00:17:58,300 --> 00:17:59,300 I'm so sorry. 426 00:17:59,300 --> 00:18:00,300 I'm so sorry. 427 00:18:00,300 --> 00:18:01,300 I'm so sorry. 428 00:18:01,300 --> 00:18:02,300 I'm so sorry. 429 00:18:02,300 --> 00:18:03,300 I'm so sorry. 430 00:18:03,300 --> 00:18:04,300 I'm so sorry. 431 00:18:04,300 --> 00:18:05,300 I'm so stupid. 432 00:18:05,300 --> 00:18:06,300 I'm so clumsy. 433 00:18:06,300 --> 00:18:07,300 Oh, my goodness. 434 00:18:07,300 --> 00:18:08,300 I'm so stupid. 435 00:18:08,300 --> 00:18:09,300 Oh, my gosh. 436 00:18:09,300 --> 00:18:10,300 I'm so stupid. 437 00:18:10,300 --> 00:18:11,300 Oh, my... 438 00:18:11,300 --> 00:18:12,300 I don't know who the hell broke this? 439 00:18:12,300 --> 00:18:13,300 Oh, no. 440 00:18:13,300 --> 00:18:14,300 I just didn't understand you. 441 00:18:14,300 --> 00:18:15,300 Oh, my goodness. 442 00:18:15,300 --> 00:18:16,300 I don't know who broke this. 443 00:18:16,300 --> 00:18:17,300 Oh, my goodness. 444 00:18:17,300 --> 00:18:18,300 I don't understand. 445 00:18:18,300 --> 00:18:19,300 I don't know who broke this. 446 00:18:19,300 --> 00:18:20,300 I don't know who broke this. 447 00:18:20,300 --> 00:18:21,300 Oh, my goodness. 448 00:18:21,300 --> 00:18:22,980 Stop ringing, do you hear? 449 00:18:22,980 --> 00:18:24,060 Answer me, who is this? 450 00:18:24,060 --> 00:18:25,740 Do you realize you're driving me crazy? 451 00:18:25,740 --> 00:18:26,820 Who's calling me? 452 00:18:26,820 --> 00:18:28,420 What are you doing it for? 453 00:18:28,420 --> 00:18:30,820 Now stop it, stop it, stop it, I say. 454 00:18:30,820 --> 00:18:32,460 Hello, hello, if you don't stop ringing, 455 00:18:32,460 --> 00:18:33,980 I'm gonna call the police, do you hear? 456 00:18:33,980 --> 00:18:34,820 The police! 457 00:18:34,820 --> 00:18:35,660 No! 458 00:18:37,660 --> 00:18:38,580 Oh, oh, oh. 459 00:18:40,380 --> 00:18:42,660 If Elmerd would only come home. 460 00:18:42,660 --> 00:18:45,660 Oh, let it ring, let it go on ringing. 461 00:18:45,660 --> 00:18:49,140 Let it ring, let it go on ringing. 462 00:18:49,140 --> 00:18:51,380 It's a trigger sometimes. 463 00:18:51,380 --> 00:18:53,340 I won't answer it, I won't answer it. 464 00:18:53,340 --> 00:18:55,620 I won't, even if it goes on ringing all night, 465 00:18:55,620 --> 00:18:56,900 I won't answer it. 466 00:18:56,900 --> 00:18:58,320 I won't answer it. 467 00:19:04,260 --> 00:19:07,220 Now, now what's the matter? 468 00:19:07,220 --> 00:19:09,420 Why do they stop ringing all of a sudden? 469 00:19:10,820 --> 00:19:12,660 What time is it? 470 00:19:12,660 --> 00:19:13,660 Where's my clock? 471 00:19:13,660 --> 00:19:14,660 Where is it? 472 00:19:16,780 --> 00:19:18,540 Five to 11. 473 00:19:18,540 --> 00:19:19,900 They've decided something. 474 00:19:19,900 --> 00:19:21,100 They sure I'm home. 475 00:19:21,100 --> 00:19:22,540 They've heard my voice answer them just now, 476 00:19:22,540 --> 00:19:23,780 that's why they've been ringing me. 477 00:19:23,780 --> 00:19:25,220 Why no one has answered me? 478 00:19:26,220 --> 00:19:27,060 Oh. 479 00:19:27,060 --> 00:19:27,900 Oh. 480 00:19:27,900 --> 00:19:28,740 Oh. 481 00:19:28,740 --> 00:19:29,580 Oh. 482 00:19:29,580 --> 00:19:30,420 Oh. 483 00:19:30,420 --> 00:19:32,420 Oh, oh, where is she? 484 00:19:32,420 --> 00:19:34,460 Where is she, why doesn't she answer? 485 00:19:36,020 --> 00:19:37,180 You are called, please. 486 00:19:37,180 --> 00:19:38,260 Where were you just now? 487 00:19:38,260 --> 00:19:39,180 Why didn't you answer it once? 488 00:19:39,180 --> 00:19:44,180 Give me the police department. 489 00:19:50,620 --> 00:19:52,180 I'm sorry, the line is busy. 490 00:19:52,180 --> 00:19:53,020 I will call you. 491 00:19:53,020 --> 00:19:54,380 Busy, but that's impossible. 492 00:19:54,380 --> 00:19:55,660 The police department can't be busy. 493 00:19:55,660 --> 00:19:57,140 There must be other lines available. 494 00:19:57,140 --> 00:19:58,420 The line is busy. 495 00:19:58,420 --> 00:20:00,020 I will try to get them for you later. 496 00:20:00,020 --> 00:20:01,660 No, no, I've got to speak to them now. 497 00:20:01,660 --> 00:20:02,500 It may be too late. 498 00:20:02,500 --> 00:20:04,860 I've got to talk to someone. 499 00:20:04,860 --> 00:20:06,460 What number do you wish to speak to? 500 00:20:06,460 --> 00:20:08,060 I don't know, but there must be someone 501 00:20:08,060 --> 00:20:10,260 to protect people beside the police department. 502 00:20:10,260 --> 00:20:12,940 A detective agency. 503 00:20:12,940 --> 00:20:15,460 You will find agencies listed in the classified directory. 504 00:20:15,460 --> 00:20:17,100 I don't have a classified. 505 00:20:17,100 --> 00:20:18,420 I mean, I'm too nervous to look it up 506 00:20:18,420 --> 00:20:20,220 and I don't know how to use the book. 507 00:20:20,220 --> 00:20:21,940 I will connect you with information. 508 00:20:21,940 --> 00:20:23,340 Perhaps she will be able to help you. 509 00:20:23,340 --> 00:20:24,180 No, no. 510 00:20:26,020 --> 00:20:29,140 Oh, you're being spiteful, aren't you? 511 00:20:29,140 --> 00:20:31,220 You don't care, do you, what happens to me? 512 00:20:31,220 --> 00:20:33,140 I could die and you wouldn't care. 513 00:20:33,140 --> 00:20:38,140 Oh, stop it, stop it, I can't stand anymore. 514 00:20:38,140 --> 00:20:39,460 Hello, what do you want? 515 00:20:39,460 --> 00:20:40,620 Stop ringing, will you stop it? 516 00:20:40,620 --> 00:20:44,220 Hello, is this Plaza 32099? 517 00:20:44,220 --> 00:20:47,180 Yes, yes, I'm sorry. 518 00:20:47,180 --> 00:20:49,860 This is Plaza 32099. 519 00:20:49,860 --> 00:20:50,900 This is Western Union. 520 00:20:50,900 --> 00:20:53,460 I have a telegram here for Mrs. Albert Stevenson. 521 00:20:53,460 --> 00:20:55,420 Is there anyone there to receive the message? 522 00:20:55,420 --> 00:20:58,220 I am Mrs. Stevenson. 523 00:20:58,220 --> 00:21:00,140 The telegram is as follows. 524 00:21:00,140 --> 00:21:02,940 Mrs. Albert Stevenson, 53 North Sutton Place, 525 00:21:02,940 --> 00:21:03,900 New York, New York. 526 00:21:04,820 --> 00:21:06,740 Darling, terribly sorry. 527 00:21:06,740 --> 00:21:09,340 Tried to get you for last hour but line busy. 528 00:21:09,340 --> 00:21:12,700 Leaving for Boston 11 p.m. tonight on urgent business. 529 00:21:12,700 --> 00:21:16,180 Beg tomorrow afternoon, keep happy, love signed Albert. 530 00:21:16,180 --> 00:21:17,020 Oh no. 531 00:21:17,020 --> 00:21:19,420 Do you wish us to deliver a copy of the message? 532 00:21:19,420 --> 00:21:21,340 No, no thank you. 533 00:21:21,340 --> 00:21:23,500 Thank you, madam, good night. 534 00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:24,340 Good night. 535 00:21:26,460 --> 00:21:30,580 No, oh no, I don't believe it. 536 00:21:30,580 --> 00:21:33,580 He couldn't do it, he couldn't do it. 537 00:21:33,580 --> 00:21:36,220 Not when he knows I'll be all alone, it's some trick. 538 00:21:36,220 --> 00:21:39,140 It's some trick, some feeny's trick, I know it. 539 00:21:39,140 --> 00:21:44,140 Your call please. 540 00:21:44,140 --> 00:21:49,140 Operator, try that Murray Hill 40098 number for me 541 00:21:49,140 --> 00:21:50,820 just once more, please. 542 00:21:50,820 --> 00:21:52,820 You may dial that number direct. 543 00:21:52,820 --> 00:21:53,660 Oh. 544 00:21:53,660 --> 00:21:58,660 Oh, you, four, oh, oh, five, six. 545 00:22:07,660 --> 00:22:12,660 Oh, oh no, he's gone. 546 00:22:12,660 --> 00:22:17,660 Oh Albert, how could you, how could you? 547 00:22:19,660 --> 00:22:22,660 Oh, but I can't be alone tonight, I can't. 548 00:22:22,660 --> 00:22:25,660 If I'm alone one more second, I'll go mad. 549 00:22:25,660 --> 00:22:28,420 I don't care what he says or what the expense is, 550 00:22:28,420 --> 00:22:33,420 I'm a sick woman, I'm entitled to some consideration. 551 00:22:33,420 --> 00:22:38,420 This is information, may I help you? 552 00:22:38,420 --> 00:22:41,420 I want the telephone number of Henshley Hospital. 553 00:22:41,420 --> 00:22:43,420 Henshley Hospital, do you have the street address? 554 00:22:43,420 --> 00:22:45,420 No, no, it's somewhere in the 70s, 555 00:22:45,420 --> 00:22:47,420 it's a very small private and exclusive hospital 556 00:22:47,420 --> 00:22:49,420 where I had my appendix out two years ago. 557 00:22:49,420 --> 00:22:51,420 Henshley, H-E-N-C-H-L. 558 00:22:51,420 --> 00:22:52,420 One moment please. 559 00:22:52,420 --> 00:22:55,420 Please hurry, and please, what is the time? 560 00:22:55,420 --> 00:22:56,420 You may call the number, 561 00:22:56,420 --> 00:22:59,420 I'll be there in a minute, I'll be there in a minute. 562 00:22:59,420 --> 00:23:03,420 Please hurry, and please, what is the time? 563 00:23:03,420 --> 00:23:07,420 You may find out the time by dialing Meridian 7-1-2-1-2. 564 00:23:07,420 --> 00:23:10,420 Oh for heaven's sake, I've no time to be dialing. 565 00:23:10,420 --> 00:23:15,420 The number of Henshley Hospital is Butterfield 8-9-9-7-0. 566 00:23:15,420 --> 00:23:31,420 Henshley Hospital, good evening. 567 00:23:31,420 --> 00:23:33,420 Nurse's registry. 568 00:23:33,420 --> 00:23:35,420 Who was it you wished to speak to? 569 00:23:35,420 --> 00:23:37,420 I want the nurse's registry at once. 570 00:23:37,420 --> 00:23:38,420 I want a trained nurse, 571 00:23:38,420 --> 00:23:40,420 I want to hire her immediately for the night. 572 00:23:40,420 --> 00:23:43,420 I see, and what is the nature of the case, madam? 573 00:23:43,420 --> 00:23:46,420 Nerves, I'm very nervous, I need soothing and companionship. 574 00:23:46,420 --> 00:23:48,420 You see, my husband is away, and I'm... 575 00:23:48,420 --> 00:23:51,420 Have you been recommended to us by any doctor in particular, madam? 576 00:23:51,420 --> 00:23:54,420 No, but I really don't see why all this catechizing is necessary. 577 00:23:54,420 --> 00:23:56,420 I want a trained nurse. 578 00:23:56,420 --> 00:23:58,420 I was a patient in your hospital two years ago, 579 00:23:58,420 --> 00:24:01,420 and after all, I do expect to pay this person for attending me. 580 00:24:01,420 --> 00:24:05,420 We quite understand that, madam, but these are war times, you know. 581 00:24:05,420 --> 00:24:06,420 I... 582 00:24:06,420 --> 00:24:08,420 Registered nurses are very scarce just now, 583 00:24:08,420 --> 00:24:12,420 and our superintendent has asked us to send people out only on cases 584 00:24:12,420 --> 00:24:15,420 where the physician in charge feels it is absolutely necessary. 585 00:24:15,420 --> 00:24:17,420 Well, it is absolutely necessary! 586 00:24:17,420 --> 00:24:19,420 I'm a sick woman, I'm very upset, very. 587 00:24:19,420 --> 00:24:21,420 I'm alone in this house, and I'm an invalid, 588 00:24:21,420 --> 00:24:24,420 and tonight I overheard a telephone conversation that upset me dreadfully. 589 00:24:24,420 --> 00:24:26,420 A woman's going to be killed when a... 590 00:24:26,420 --> 00:24:30,420 In fact, if someone doesn't come at once, I'm afraid I'll go out of my mind! 591 00:24:30,420 --> 00:24:31,420 I see. 592 00:24:31,420 --> 00:24:35,420 Well, I'll speak to Miss Phillips as soon as she comes in. 593 00:24:35,420 --> 00:24:36,420 What is your name, madam? 594 00:24:36,420 --> 00:24:38,420 Miss Phillips? And when do you expect her in? 595 00:24:38,420 --> 00:24:42,420 I really couldn't say. She went out to supper at 11 o'clock. 596 00:24:42,420 --> 00:24:43,420 Eleven o'clock? 597 00:24:43,420 --> 00:24:45,420 It's not eleven yet! 598 00:24:45,420 --> 00:24:49,420 Oh! Oh, my clock has stopped! 599 00:24:49,420 --> 00:24:51,420 I thought it was running down. 600 00:24:51,420 --> 00:24:52,420 What time is it? 601 00:24:52,420 --> 00:24:54,420 Just fifteen minutes past eleven. 602 00:24:54,420 --> 00:24:57,420 What? What was that? 603 00:24:57,420 --> 00:24:58,420 What was what, madam? 604 00:24:58,420 --> 00:25:02,420 That... that click just now in my own telephone 605 00:25:02,420 --> 00:25:04,420 is though someone has lifted the receiver off the hook 606 00:25:04,420 --> 00:25:06,420 off the extension telephone downstairs. 607 00:25:06,420 --> 00:25:08,420 I didn't hear it, madam. 608 00:25:08,420 --> 00:25:09,420 Now about the... 609 00:25:09,420 --> 00:25:12,420 I did! There's someone in this house! 610 00:25:12,420 --> 00:25:15,420 Someone downstairs in the kitchen, and they're listening to me now! 611 00:25:15,420 --> 00:25:17,420 They're li... 612 00:25:17,420 --> 00:25:19,420 I won't pick it up. 613 00:25:19,420 --> 00:25:22,420 I won't... I won't let them hear me. 614 00:25:22,420 --> 00:25:24,420 I'll be quiet and they'll think. 615 00:25:24,420 --> 00:25:27,420 But if I don't call someone now while they're still down there, 616 00:25:27,420 --> 00:25:29,420 there'll be no time. 617 00:25:29,420 --> 00:25:31,420 I've got to get that operator. 618 00:25:31,420 --> 00:25:33,420 I've got to get that operator. 619 00:25:33,420 --> 00:25:36,420 I've got to get that operator. 620 00:25:36,420 --> 00:25:38,420 Oh, madam. 621 00:25:38,420 --> 00:25:39,420 Your call, please. 622 00:25:39,420 --> 00:25:42,420 Operator, I'm... I'm in desperate trouble. 623 00:25:42,420 --> 00:25:44,420 I... I'm sorry, I cannot hear you. 624 00:25:44,420 --> 00:25:45,420 Please speak louder. 625 00:25:45,420 --> 00:25:47,420 Oh, dear, dear, I... there's someone listening. 626 00:25:47,420 --> 00:25:48,420 Can you hear me now? 627 00:25:48,420 --> 00:25:49,420 I am sorry. 628 00:25:49,420 --> 00:25:50,420 But you've got to hear me. 629 00:25:50,420 --> 00:25:52,420 Please, please, you've got to help me. 630 00:25:52,420 --> 00:25:55,420 There's someone in this house, someone who's going to murder me, 631 00:25:55,420 --> 00:25:57,420 and you've got to get in touch with the... 632 00:25:57,420 --> 00:25:59,420 There it is! There it is! 633 00:25:59,420 --> 00:26:00,420 He's put it down! 634 00:26:00,420 --> 00:26:01,420 He's put down the extension phone! 635 00:26:01,420 --> 00:26:03,420 He's coming upstairs! 636 00:26:03,420 --> 00:26:04,420 He's... he's coming up the stairs! 637 00:26:04,420 --> 00:26:06,420 Give me the police department! 638 00:26:06,420 --> 00:26:07,420 The police department! 639 00:26:07,420 --> 00:26:08,420 One moment, please. 640 00:26:08,420 --> 00:26:09,420 I will connect you. 641 00:26:09,420 --> 00:26:10,420 Okay. 642 00:26:10,420 --> 00:26:11,420 Please. 643 00:26:11,420 --> 00:26:12,420 Oh, no. 644 00:26:12,420 --> 00:26:13,420 Oh, no. 645 00:26:13,420 --> 00:26:15,420 Oh, no, come here. 646 00:26:15,420 --> 00:26:17,420 Oh, please, I didn't do anything. 647 00:26:17,420 --> 00:26:19,420 Oh, no, come here, my love. 648 00:26:19,420 --> 00:26:20,420 Please, no. 649 00:26:20,420 --> 00:26:21,420 Please, no. 650 00:26:21,420 --> 00:26:49,420 Please, no. 651 00:26:49,420 --> 00:26:51,420 Hello, speaking. 652 00:26:51,420 --> 00:26:53,420 Police department? 653 00:26:53,420 --> 00:26:54,420 Well, I'm sorry. 654 00:26:54,420 --> 00:26:56,420 Must have got the wrong number. 655 00:26:56,420 --> 00:26:57,420 Don't worry. 656 00:26:57,420 --> 00:27:15,420 Everything's okay. 657 00:27:15,420 --> 00:27:18,420 And so closes Sorry, Wrong Number. 658 00:27:18,420 --> 00:27:20,420 Starring Agnes Moorhead. 659 00:27:20,420 --> 00:27:21,420 Tonight's tale of... 660 00:27:21,420 --> 00:27:24,420 Suspense! 661 00:27:24,420 --> 00:27:27,420 Before we tell you about next week's stars and story, 662 00:27:27,420 --> 00:27:31,420 Roma Wine, sponsor of these weekly suspense dramas, 663 00:27:31,420 --> 00:27:33,420 asks you to consider this. 664 00:27:33,420 --> 00:27:35,420 When entertaining guests at your home, 665 00:27:35,420 --> 00:27:38,420 are you able to go into your Roma wine cellar and say, 666 00:27:38,420 --> 00:27:40,420 which would you prefer, this delightful sherry 667 00:27:40,420 --> 00:27:43,420 or this sweeter, heavier port? 668 00:27:43,420 --> 00:27:46,420 Whichever of these or any others of the many equally fine 669 00:27:46,420 --> 00:27:49,420 Roma California wines you offered your guests, 670 00:27:49,420 --> 00:27:51,420 they would find you had poured a world of satisfaction 671 00:27:51,420 --> 00:27:53,420 into their glasses. 672 00:27:53,420 --> 00:27:56,420 If you are not one of the millions already enjoying 673 00:27:56,420 --> 00:27:58,420 these good Roma wines, 674 00:27:58,420 --> 00:28:00,420 don't put off this great treat another day. 675 00:28:00,420 --> 00:28:03,420 You'll be surprised at the tiny cost your Roma wine dealer 676 00:28:03,420 --> 00:28:05,420 will ask for such great enjoyment. 677 00:28:05,420 --> 00:28:08,420 Only pennies a glass by actual check. 678 00:28:08,420 --> 00:28:11,420 Now you can boast of your own private wine cellar, 679 00:28:11,420 --> 00:28:14,420 your private Roma wine cellar. 680 00:28:14,420 --> 00:28:17,420 Then, inspired by the great qualities of Roma wines, 681 00:28:17,420 --> 00:28:20,420 you will add your voice to the swelling international chorus 682 00:28:20,420 --> 00:28:24,420 that says, Roma wines are truly magnificent. 683 00:28:24,420 --> 00:28:26,420 Let me repeat the name. 684 00:28:26,420 --> 00:28:30,420 R-O-M-A, Roma wines. 685 00:28:30,420 --> 00:28:34,420 Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 686 00:28:34,420 --> 00:28:36,420 This is Agnes Moorhead. 687 00:28:36,420 --> 00:28:39,420 I'm always flattered and delighted when I'm asked to appear 688 00:28:39,420 --> 00:28:43,420 on Suspense, because I have such very great admiration 689 00:28:43,420 --> 00:28:45,420 for this program. 690 00:28:45,420 --> 00:28:48,420 I know you'll want to be listening next week, as I will, 691 00:28:48,420 --> 00:28:51,420 when Michelle Morgan and Philip Dorne will be your stars 692 00:28:51,420 --> 00:28:53,420 with George Koloris. 693 00:28:53,420 --> 00:28:55,420 One more word. 694 00:28:55,420 --> 00:28:57,420 The attack for victory is on. 695 00:28:57,420 --> 00:29:00,420 You help make the victory surer, 696 00:29:00,420 --> 00:29:04,420 and bring it sooner when you buy more war bonds. 697 00:29:04,420 --> 00:29:07,420 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 698 00:29:07,420 --> 00:29:11,420 Don't forget then next Monday, same time, for Michelle Morgan, 699 00:29:11,420 --> 00:29:16,420 Philip Dorne, with George Koloris in Suspense. 700 00:29:16,420 --> 00:29:18,420 Presented by Roma wines. 701 00:29:18,420 --> 00:29:22,420 Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 702 00:29:22,420 --> 00:29:48,420 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.