WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:19.000 Roma wines presents Suspense. 00:19.000 --> 00:24.160 Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:24.160 --> 00:25.160 Salud. 00:25.160 --> 00:26.920 Your health, senor. 00:26.920 --> 00:29.120 Roma wines toast the world. 00:29.120 --> 00:37.000 The wine for your table is Roma wine made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:37.000 --> 00:42.120 This is the Man in Black here to introduce this weekly half hour of Suspense. 00:42.120 --> 00:46.120 Tonight from Hollywood we bring you Mr. Orson Welles. 00:46.120 --> 00:52.920 Mr. Welles will appear as star of the suspense drama called The Dark Tower from the play by 00:52.920 --> 00:56.120 George S. 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03:29.000 --> 03:32.400 They turned my picture to the wall at the Brown Derby yet? 03:32.400 --> 03:33.640 No, it's still there. 03:33.640 --> 03:36.200 I despise myself for wanting to know of course. 03:36.200 --> 03:38.600 It's marvelous to have you back Ben, old boy. 03:38.600 --> 03:39.600 Seen Jessica yet? 03:39.600 --> 03:40.600 Yes, I've seen her. 03:40.600 --> 03:42.600 Isn't she looking fine? 03:42.600 --> 03:44.520 Feeling better than she has for years I think. 03:44.520 --> 03:48.600 You've got a great thing in this play Ben, changed quite a bit from the original of course, 03:48.600 --> 03:51.600 sort of a satire on the family. 03:51.600 --> 03:56.400 Perhaps it might be more dignified to say that the family is a satire on the play. 03:56.400 --> 03:57.840 Yes, I heard about it. 03:57.840 --> 04:01.320 For instance those lines you heard me declaiming at you and it actually happened to me once, 04:01.320 --> 04:05.720 you know that German, what's his name, who directed Macbeth, he called me a ham. 04:05.720 --> 04:12.680 And I chased him out of the theater and for four city blocks in full costume with a two 04:12.680 --> 04:13.680 edged sword. 04:13.680 --> 04:17.640 Damon, here's a little thing I like in the second act too. 04:17.640 --> 04:21.460 Jessica asked me why I don't stop drinking and I say what? 04:21.460 --> 04:27.580 Would you have me subsist entirely on food and reach the gargantuan proportions of an 04:27.580 --> 04:28.580 Orson Welles? 04:28.580 --> 04:31.640 That ought to needle a boy wonder. 04:31.640 --> 04:32.640 Amen. 04:32.640 --> 04:34.920 Damon, can't you stop clowning for a minute? 04:34.920 --> 04:35.920 Of course I can. 04:35.920 --> 04:38.040 Oh what a rogue and peasant slave I am. 04:38.040 --> 04:40.040 Damon, please, please be serious. 04:40.040 --> 04:42.280 What's the matter old man? 04:42.280 --> 04:44.080 You know as well as I do what's the matter. 04:44.080 --> 04:46.360 No frankly I can't say that I do. 04:46.360 --> 04:48.320 Me the world looks rather well. 04:48.320 --> 04:49.320 Does it? 04:49.320 --> 04:52.560 And Jessica feeling better than she has for years, is she? 04:52.560 --> 04:53.560 Well isn't she? 04:53.560 --> 04:54.560 Of course not. 04:54.560 --> 04:55.560 How could she be? 04:55.560 --> 04:56.840 And why shouldn't she be? 04:56.840 --> 04:59.280 Damon, don't you realize there's been a murder? 04:59.280 --> 05:02.800 Well to be sure sir there has and a good thing too if you ask me. 05:02.800 --> 05:03.800 What of it? 05:03.800 --> 05:04.800 What of it? 05:04.800 --> 05:08.000 Can't you see the thing is hanging over this house like a curse? 05:08.000 --> 05:13.160 I hadn't noticed anything hanging over this house, profane or otherwise. 05:13.160 --> 05:14.160 And what about Jessica? 05:14.160 --> 05:18.000 Oh I suppose it's bound to upset her a little that she's really in fine shape Ben. 05:18.000 --> 05:20.600 It's going to be marvelous in this play. 05:20.600 --> 05:23.360 There's more at stake in this than a play Damon. 05:23.360 --> 05:25.080 The thing has never been solved. 05:25.080 --> 05:26.080 Perhaps it never will be. 05:26.080 --> 05:29.360 That's just as well. 05:29.360 --> 05:31.640 But Jessica can't remember don't you understand Damon? 05:31.640 --> 05:32.640 She can't remember. 05:32.640 --> 05:35.000 Well then Jessica can't remember. 05:35.000 --> 05:36.460 Listen to me Damon. 05:36.460 --> 05:39.840 I wouldn't mind it if it was just that other people thought she might have done it but 05:39.840 --> 05:41.800 they would do that anyway. 05:41.800 --> 05:43.680 But she does. 05:43.680 --> 05:46.000 Ah come on Ben I don't believe it. 05:46.000 --> 05:47.440 I've talked to her Damon I know. 05:47.440 --> 05:48.440 Oh I see. 05:48.440 --> 05:50.940 Damon I love Jessica more than anything else in the world. 05:50.940 --> 05:51.940 You know that. 05:51.940 --> 05:52.940 Yes Ben I do. 05:52.940 --> 05:55.780 But this way I couldn't. 05:55.780 --> 05:58.560 You couldn't marry a murderess. 05:58.560 --> 06:00.960 I just think it would be rather exciting. 06:00.960 --> 06:03.640 Now that you mention it I rather wish I had. 06:03.640 --> 06:06.240 Instead of some of those I did marry. 06:06.240 --> 06:07.240 Damon. 06:07.240 --> 06:08.240 I'm sorry. 06:08.240 --> 06:10.640 Pretty serious to you isn't it old man? 06:10.640 --> 06:11.640 Did you think it wouldn't be? 06:11.640 --> 06:14.440 I'll tell you the truth Ben I hadn't thought about it at all. 06:14.440 --> 06:18.320 That's the trouble with being an actor as long as your heart's good you don't give a 06:18.320 --> 06:20.280 hang about the rest of the play. 06:20.280 --> 06:22.600 Have you told Jessica? 06:22.600 --> 06:23.600 Yes. 06:23.600 --> 06:24.600 We had a long talk. 06:24.600 --> 06:25.600 How did she take it? 06:25.600 --> 06:29.160 You know Jessica she carried it off of course. 06:29.160 --> 06:37.680 Ben you know in spite of all our histrionic bickering I'm rather nuts about Jessica myself. 06:37.680 --> 06:38.840 I know you are Damon. 06:38.840 --> 06:42.760 I have no very fundamental objections to you either. 06:42.760 --> 06:46.360 I would describe you my dear Benjamin as adequate. 06:46.360 --> 06:47.360 Thanks. 06:47.360 --> 06:52.320 So I think perhaps you and I better have a nice long heart to heart talk. 06:52.320 --> 06:53.400 What good will talking do? 06:53.400 --> 06:57.840 I think if you'll do the listening and let me do the talking you'll see. 06:57.840 --> 07:00.120 Lend me your ears. 07:00.120 --> 07:13.600 I will a tale unfold. 07:13.600 --> 07:17.280 Well Jessica as you know had been in a sanitarium for nearly a year. 07:17.280 --> 07:19.840 She hadn't been on the stage in more than two years. 07:19.840 --> 07:25.200 The dark tower was to be her first attempt to work again all that time. 07:25.200 --> 07:30.280 I know it isn't the greatest play in the world but it has a sure fire box office appeal. 07:30.280 --> 07:32.840 Jessica needed that to get her confidence back. 07:32.840 --> 07:37.440 Well we were just polishing up a few last minute changes here at the house. 07:37.440 --> 07:42.920 David Torrance the producer you know he was there with us and of course the usual little 07:42.920 --> 07:49.640 different. 07:49.640 --> 07:54.480 And another thing Damon when you kick me in the middle of the second act. 07:54.480 --> 07:55.480 Where? 07:55.480 --> 07:58.360 You know perfectly well where. 07:58.360 --> 08:02.080 Is it absolutely essential that you boot me halfway across the stage? 08:02.080 --> 08:04.640 What do you want me to do pull my punches? 08:04.640 --> 08:06.480 That's one of the high spots in the show. 08:06.480 --> 08:11.840 It may be a high spot to you darling but it's just a black and blue spot to me. 08:11.840 --> 08:16.260 Very well henceforth I shall appear for the second act on crutches. 08:16.260 --> 08:18.560 You know Uncle David that's not a bad idea. 08:18.560 --> 08:21.360 Well now Damon let's be serious there's a lot of work to do. 08:21.360 --> 08:22.360 I'm quite serious. 08:22.360 --> 08:23.720 I could throw a matter. 08:23.720 --> 08:26.080 You might try throwing me a cue once in a while. 08:26.080 --> 08:28.800 The use of having a play if you just make up the lines as you go along. 08:28.800 --> 08:32.080 The critics thought my ad libbing very witty remember dear. 08:32.080 --> 08:35.120 Oh Damon you're such an insufferable ham. 08:35.120 --> 08:36.120 A ham? 08:36.120 --> 08:37.120 A ham? 08:37.120 --> 08:38.120 Me? 08:38.120 --> 08:39.120 A ham? 08:39.120 --> 08:40.120 Now children please. 08:40.120 --> 08:45.320 I fail to see why I should permit that little minx to insult me with impunity David. 08:45.320 --> 08:47.280 How dare you speak to me that way. 08:47.280 --> 08:48.280 You started it. 08:48.280 --> 08:49.280 I did not. 08:49.280 --> 08:50.280 You started it. 08:50.280 --> 08:51.280 You called me a ham. 08:51.280 --> 08:52.280 You are ham. 08:52.280 --> 08:53.280 Ham. 08:53.280 --> 08:54.280 Ham. 08:54.280 --> 08:55.280 Minx. 08:55.280 --> 08:56.280 Minx. 08:56.280 --> 08:57.280 Minx. 08:57.280 --> 08:58.280 Stop that brawling. 08:58.280 --> 08:59.280 But soft. 08:59.280 --> 09:00.280 What light through yonder window breaks. 09:00.280 --> 09:03.680 It is the east and Martha is the sun. 09:03.680 --> 09:04.680 I quite agree. 09:04.680 --> 09:05.680 What? 09:05.680 --> 09:06.680 That you're a ham. 09:06.680 --> 09:07.680 Gah. 09:07.680 --> 09:09.680 I'm beset by harpies. 09:09.680 --> 09:13.080 David, haven't you any control over these hirelings of yours? 09:13.080 --> 09:15.720 Oh I'm only the producer my dear Martha. 09:15.720 --> 09:17.640 You at least are a member of the family. 09:17.640 --> 09:19.360 You at least can quit. 09:19.360 --> 09:21.800 We're terribly sorry Aunt Martha. 09:21.800 --> 09:25.160 We've been a nuisance I know and I apologize. 09:25.160 --> 09:28.040 Damon, I even apologize to you. 09:28.040 --> 09:29.040 Don't be silly. 09:29.040 --> 09:35.000 I've been much the worst I know but I've really been terribly keyed up working again and you 09:35.000 --> 09:38.360 know Ben is coming east for the opening. 09:38.360 --> 09:40.440 Love rears its ugly head. 09:40.440 --> 09:42.160 Don't be hurried Damon. 09:42.160 --> 09:43.160 It's all right. 09:43.160 --> 09:45.760 I couldn't even be angry if he was. 09:45.760 --> 09:49.320 Anyway I'll have a husband to protect me by this time next week. 09:49.320 --> 09:52.680 I can lick him with one hand tied behind me. 09:52.680 --> 09:57.240 Damon seriously I know I owe you an awful lot. 09:57.240 --> 09:58.320 Me? 09:58.320 --> 10:02.000 I hadn't actually realized how far I'd gone. 10:02.000 --> 10:06.480 These last six months have been like coming alive again. 10:06.480 --> 10:09.560 The play and Ben. 10:09.560 --> 10:10.560 Thanks Damon. 10:10.560 --> 10:12.320 Good Lord. 10:12.320 --> 10:13.320 Now I think I'll dress for dinner. 10:13.320 --> 10:14.320 Let's all go out to the... 10:14.320 --> 10:15.320 I'll get it. 10:15.320 --> 10:17.400 Aunt Martha where would you like to go? 10:17.400 --> 10:19.400 To a rest home. 10:19.400 --> 10:20.400 Hello? 10:20.400 --> 10:21.400 Who? 10:21.400 --> 10:22.400 No. 10:22.400 --> 10:25.400 No he's not here. 10:25.400 --> 10:32.280 He's not here I tell you. 10:32.280 --> 10:35.560 He's dead. 10:35.560 --> 10:40.000 Oh darling what is it? 10:40.000 --> 10:42.200 It was for Stanley. 10:42.200 --> 10:44.440 For Stanley. 10:44.440 --> 10:46.840 Never mind darling it's all right. 10:46.840 --> 10:48.720 Just some fool who didn't know. 10:48.720 --> 10:49.720 Of course. 10:49.720 --> 10:53.320 Damon you take David and Martha out to dinner will you? 10:53.320 --> 10:55.800 I think I'll lie down for a little while. 10:55.800 --> 10:58.800 Come on Jess you mustn't let a little thing like that upset you. 10:58.800 --> 11:02.720 I know but I'm awfully tired. 11:02.720 --> 11:05.720 Please Jessica. 11:05.720 --> 11:08.560 You'd better leave her alone for a while Martha. 11:08.560 --> 11:10.240 Oh I suppose so. 11:10.240 --> 11:13.040 It was for Stanley Vance the husband huh? 11:13.040 --> 11:14.040 Yes. 11:14.040 --> 11:15.040 He's dead you say? 11:15.040 --> 11:17.320 Might as well tell him about it Martha. 11:17.320 --> 11:19.120 I was always for telling about it. 11:19.120 --> 11:20.320 Well you don't have to. 11:20.320 --> 11:21.320 I'd rather. 11:21.320 --> 11:23.480 He was the cause of her breakdown of course. 11:23.480 --> 11:26.680 Should have been an actor that's why Jessica married him. 11:26.680 --> 11:29.320 She married him because he forced her to marry him. 11:29.320 --> 11:32.440 He controlled that girl's mind like some sort of fiendish hypnotist. 11:32.440 --> 11:38.400 My dear Martha I've always said that if Jessica was fool enough to marry a psychoanalyst. 11:38.400 --> 11:41.400 Damon stop playing the heartless brother. 11:41.400 --> 11:43.160 You saw what Stanley did to her. 11:43.160 --> 11:45.200 I was in Hollywood. 11:45.200 --> 11:47.600 Perhaps that's why Damon went to Hollywood huh? 11:47.600 --> 11:49.240 Well what could one do? 11:49.240 --> 11:51.040 She was legally married to the man. 11:51.040 --> 11:52.920 She'd listened to no one but him. 11:52.920 --> 11:54.360 Here's what happened David. 11:54.360 --> 11:59.000 She went to this fellow to be psychoanalyzed and in the process something happened. 11:59.000 --> 12:03.040 I don't know what it was but Vance acquired a power over Jessica's mind that was utterly 12:03.040 --> 12:04.200 inhuman. 12:04.200 --> 12:06.920 He married her quite frankly to have her support him. 12:06.920 --> 12:11.720 Then he found he'd over played his hand and sent her into a complete mental collapse. 12:11.720 --> 12:15.240 Then he found he couldn't snap her out of it and she was no longer a source of revenue 12:15.240 --> 12:16.240 to him. 12:16.240 --> 12:17.240 He simply decamped. 12:17.240 --> 12:18.240 Hmm. 12:18.240 --> 12:20.440 Can you say Vance is now dead? 12:20.440 --> 12:23.700 We heard the happy news about six months ago. 12:23.700 --> 12:26.560 Some public benefactor had shot him. 12:26.560 --> 12:28.920 I've always meant to look that fellow up. 12:28.920 --> 12:31.480 From that very day she began to get better. 12:31.480 --> 12:36.880 From the moment she heard the news it was as though a spell had been lifted. 12:36.880 --> 12:38.680 Now she's practically all well. 12:38.680 --> 12:43.320 You know it's odd that that's someone phoning for him after all these months. 12:43.320 --> 12:45.200 Probably the sheriff just catching up. 12:45.200 --> 12:47.680 Oh I wonder who that could be. 12:47.680 --> 12:48.680 Damon. 12:48.680 --> 12:49.680 You don't suppose? 12:49.680 --> 12:50.680 I'll go. 12:50.680 --> 12:55.960 It may be a peasant with a petition. 12:55.960 --> 12:58.280 Good evening. 12:58.280 --> 13:00.280 My dear Martha. 13:00.280 --> 13:03.240 You are positively psychic. 13:03.240 --> 13:07.200 The honorable Stanley Vance. 13:07.200 --> 13:08.200 Thank you. 13:08.200 --> 13:10.760 I trust the shock will not be too great. 13:10.760 --> 13:15.720 One knoweth not the place nor the hour when the bridegroom cometh does one. 13:15.720 --> 13:17.280 My luggage will be here shortly. 13:17.280 --> 13:18.680 Listen to me Stanley Vance. 13:18.680 --> 13:19.680 Good evening Martha. 13:19.680 --> 13:23.320 I regret to arrive so unceremoniously I have been ill. 13:23.320 --> 13:24.520 So we have been told. 13:24.520 --> 13:28.120 We have been assured however that your illness was fatal. 13:28.120 --> 13:30.800 Damon I thought I... 13:30.800 --> 13:32.120 Stanley. 13:32.120 --> 13:33.640 Jessica. 13:33.640 --> 13:35.680 My poor, poor darling. 13:35.680 --> 13:36.680 Stanley. 13:36.680 --> 13:38.800 Oh but you're ill my dear aren't you? 13:38.800 --> 13:39.800 You're ill. 13:39.800 --> 13:40.800 You should be resting. 13:40.800 --> 13:43.440 You're tired and exhausted aren't you? 13:43.440 --> 13:46.280 Terribly, terribly tired. 13:46.280 --> 13:47.920 Yes. 13:47.920 --> 13:49.840 I am tired. 13:49.840 --> 13:50.840 Oh great. 13:50.840 --> 13:51.840 Terribly tired. 13:51.840 --> 13:54.280 I'll take you up to your room darling. 13:54.280 --> 13:56.520 I take it we still have the same room Martha. 13:56.520 --> 13:58.840 Listen to me Stanley Vance. 13:58.840 --> 14:01.120 The poor girl you can see how weak she is. 14:01.120 --> 14:04.320 If you think you're going to stay under this roof for a single minute. 14:04.320 --> 14:05.320 Get out. 14:05.320 --> 14:06.320 Very well. 14:06.320 --> 14:11.400 Very well if you insist on being inhospitable Martha. 14:11.400 --> 14:13.240 You'll pack your things Jessica. 14:13.240 --> 14:15.240 We'll go to a hotel. 14:15.240 --> 14:16.240 Yes. 14:16.240 --> 14:17.240 Yes Stanley. 14:17.240 --> 14:18.240 Jessica. 14:18.240 --> 14:22.080 But I'm so tired. 14:22.080 --> 14:23.840 Will you help me Stanley? 14:23.840 --> 14:25.800 Of course I will my dear. 14:25.800 --> 14:26.800 Come along. 14:26.800 --> 14:27.800 Stanley. 14:27.800 --> 14:28.800 Yes Martha. 14:28.800 --> 14:32.520 All right Stanley. 14:32.520 --> 14:33.520 You win. 14:33.520 --> 14:38.600 You're asking us to avail ourselves of your hospitality Martha. 14:38.600 --> 14:39.600 Yes. 14:39.600 --> 14:41.160 You can stay. 14:41.160 --> 14:43.920 That's very sweet of you Martha. 14:43.920 --> 14:44.920 Isn't it darling? 14:44.920 --> 14:45.920 Yes. 14:45.920 --> 14:46.920 Yes Stanley. 14:46.920 --> 14:53.360 But somehow, someday there'll be a time of reckoning for you Stanley Vance. 14:53.360 --> 14:56.520 And until it comes keep out of my sight. 14:56.520 --> 14:59.620 The pleasure will be all mine. 14:59.620 --> 15:00.620 Come darling. 15:00.620 --> 15:03.720 We'll go to our room now. 15:03.720 --> 15:06.320 Yes Stanley. 15:06.320 --> 15:07.320 Damon. 15:07.320 --> 15:09.320 Yes my agent auntie. 15:09.320 --> 15:10.320 Damon. 15:10.320 --> 15:11.600 What are we going to do? 15:11.600 --> 15:14.360 I don't know what you're going to do ducky. 15:14.360 --> 15:24.400 But I'm going down to the lambs club and have a quadruple scotch and soda. 15:24.400 --> 15:29.120 You may think it heartless of me but during the next few days I simply stayed away. 15:29.120 --> 15:31.440 I think you'll understand my reasons later. 15:31.440 --> 15:36.720 As for Jessica, she was of course completely in his power again and about a week later there 15:36.720 --> 15:41.440 appeared before the scene a gentleman who was destined to play a very substantial role 15:41.440 --> 15:43.160 in our little drama. 15:43.160 --> 15:45.160 I think you've already met him. 15:45.160 --> 15:48.160 At least on one occasion. 15:48.160 --> 15:53.080 I'll get it Jessica darling. 15:53.080 --> 15:54.080 Hello? 15:54.080 --> 15:57.760 No Mr. Damon Wellington isn't here. 15:57.760 --> 16:00.240 Can I take a message please? 16:00.240 --> 16:01.240 Mr. Max Hartzfeld. 16:01.240 --> 16:02.240 Hartzfeld. 16:02.240 --> 16:05.920 I'll tell him you called Mr. Hartzfeld. 16:05.920 --> 16:08.760 I really couldn't say. 16:08.760 --> 16:12.840 You can come up and wait if you like of course but I can't promise he'll see you. 16:12.840 --> 16:15.800 Very well goodbye. 16:15.800 --> 16:17.360 Jessica. 16:17.360 --> 16:19.880 Yes Stanley. 16:19.880 --> 16:25.040 Do you know any friend of Damon's named Max Hartzfeld? 16:25.040 --> 16:26.600 No Stanley. 16:26.600 --> 16:28.200 He seemed extremely eager to see him. 16:28.200 --> 16:30.000 He said he'd come up here and wait. 16:30.000 --> 16:32.200 Oh I see. 16:32.200 --> 16:34.600 That's no matter. 16:34.600 --> 16:39.840 Tell me darling have you been feeling a little stronger these last few days? 16:39.840 --> 16:41.360 Yes. 16:41.360 --> 16:44.480 I think perhaps I am Stanley. 16:44.480 --> 16:49.840 But of course you're not ready to go back on the stage again are you darling? 16:49.840 --> 16:53.600 No of course not Stanley. 16:53.600 --> 16:54.600 Poor darling. 16:54.600 --> 16:57.880 No more love no more. 16:57.880 --> 17:00.200 Well my little lovebirds. 17:00.200 --> 17:01.400 How are you two? 17:01.400 --> 17:03.280 How are you Jessica? 17:03.280 --> 17:05.920 A little stronger I think. 17:05.920 --> 17:07.840 Am I a little stronger Stanley? 17:07.840 --> 17:10.120 Of course you are my dear. 17:10.120 --> 17:12.640 Jessica I think you'd better leave us now. 17:12.640 --> 17:14.800 There's something I want to talk over with Damon. 17:14.800 --> 17:15.800 Yes Stanley. 17:15.800 --> 17:18.800 I'll see you again very shortly darling. 17:18.800 --> 17:21.960 Yes Stanley. 17:21.960 --> 17:25.040 Well Damon I've been wanting to talk to you for some time. 17:25.040 --> 17:28.000 Really I wish I could say the same. 17:28.000 --> 17:32.840 I suppose you realize Damon that it's out of the question for Jessica to go on in the 17:32.840 --> 17:34.240 play in her present condition. 17:34.240 --> 17:38.960 I've come to the point where you then have a pressing engagement with a pin up girl and 17:38.960 --> 17:42.280 I have got to change into my zoot suit. 17:42.280 --> 17:48.400 No seriously Damon I know that you somehow connect me with Jessica's condition. 17:48.400 --> 17:50.400 By an odd coincidence I do. 17:50.400 --> 17:51.560 What of it? 17:51.560 --> 17:57.480 I know it would make you and everyone very happy if Jessica could go on in the play. 17:57.480 --> 18:02.640 Aha the light at last illuminates maddled wits so it's a shakedown. 18:02.640 --> 18:04.440 A shakedown is it Stanley? 18:04.440 --> 18:06.400 My dear Damon I really don't know what you're talking about. 18:06.400 --> 18:11.360 Look here my larceness in law I've been shaken down by experts on every conceivable count 18:11.360 --> 18:15.680 including the man act in my time and I can smell them a mile away. 18:15.680 --> 18:20.800 What you propose is that for certain financial considerations you will leave this happy home 18:20.800 --> 18:24.720 Jessica will recover and she can go on in the play. 18:24.720 --> 18:26.240 The answer is no. 18:26.240 --> 18:28.080 There won't be any play without her Damon. 18:28.080 --> 18:30.880 Are you suggesting that my name is not sufficient to draw the suckers? 18:30.880 --> 18:33.560 I can get a dozen people to play Jessica's part. 18:33.560 --> 18:39.520 Margaret O'Brien, Marjorie Maine, Daisy, Agnes Morehead, makes no difference to me anybody 18:39.520 --> 18:40.520 at all. 18:40.520 --> 18:45.800 Don't try to bluff me Damon after all this build up you won't dare go on without Jessica. 18:45.800 --> 18:47.520 You little know me stinky. 18:47.520 --> 18:51.320 You may consider your little farce as having closed on opening night. 18:51.320 --> 18:55.360 As for Jessica I'm very much afraid that she's made her bed and now she'll have to lie in 18:55.360 --> 18:56.360 it. 18:56.360 --> 19:00.520 There's no cure for her short of murder with yourself as a victim and I do not propose to 19:00.520 --> 19:03.440 put my neck in the hangman's noose. 19:03.440 --> 19:04.440 Good night. 19:04.440 --> 19:08.520 I think you'll see things my way a little later Damon. 19:08.520 --> 19:09.520 God forbid. 19:09.520 --> 19:10.960 By the way did I have any calls? 19:10.960 --> 19:13.160 Oh yes a Max Hartzfeld call. 19:13.160 --> 19:14.160 Max Hartzfeld. 19:14.160 --> 19:15.440 That he was coming up here to wait for you. 19:15.440 --> 19:16.440 Good heavens when? 19:16.440 --> 19:18.520 He's on his way now I imagine. 19:18.520 --> 19:19.520 Tell him I'm out. 19:19.520 --> 19:20.520 Will you go on to Hollywood or something? 19:20.520 --> 19:23.640 A fellow's been pestering me all week wants to buy into the show and I simply don't want 19:23.640 --> 19:24.640 to see him. 19:24.640 --> 19:26.640 Well he wants to buy into the show. 19:26.640 --> 19:31.160 Yes he does not share your lamentable lack of faith in my talent Stanley and he's dying 19:31.160 --> 19:32.160 to buy into the show. 19:32.160 --> 19:35.640 Does he know Jessica won't be able to appear? 19:35.640 --> 19:37.680 Of course he does you idiot. 19:37.680 --> 19:38.680 Everybody does. 19:38.680 --> 19:42.000 Don't you read the trade papers and now good night repulsive. 19:42.000 --> 19:45.000 I have other fish to fry. 19:45.000 --> 19:46.760 Toodle-oo. 19:46.760 --> 19:49.760 Flat top. 19:49.760 --> 19:51.760 Jessica. 19:51.760 --> 19:53.160 Oh Jessica my dear. 19:53.160 --> 19:58.560 I'm coming Stanley. 19:58.560 --> 20:04.600 Tell me Jessica the dark tower the play you are going to appear in with Damon. 20:04.600 --> 20:07.320 You have an interest in it don't you? 20:07.320 --> 20:08.320 Yes. 20:08.320 --> 20:10.280 Yes I think I do. 20:10.280 --> 20:12.400 An equal interest with Damon? 20:12.400 --> 20:13.400 With Damon. 20:13.400 --> 20:14.400 Yes. 20:14.400 --> 20:18.320 How much do you suppose that interest is worth Jessica? 20:18.320 --> 20:21.440 A hundred thousand dollars I think. 20:21.440 --> 20:24.200 A hundred thousand dollars huh? 20:24.200 --> 20:26.200 Yes that was it. 20:26.200 --> 20:31.440 Have you thought about what you're going to do with it now that you can't appear in the 20:31.440 --> 20:32.440 play yourself? 20:32.440 --> 20:35.800 No Stanley I haven't. 20:35.800 --> 20:41.600 You see I'm not at all sure the play will be a success without you Jessica. 20:41.600 --> 20:43.720 I don't know Stanley. 20:43.720 --> 20:49.080 And so it might be wise to sell your share of it before it opens. 20:49.080 --> 20:50.880 Don't you agree Jessica? 20:50.880 --> 20:51.880 Yes. 20:51.880 --> 20:54.000 Yes I do agree. 20:54.000 --> 20:59.840 And Jessica if I could find a buyer and I think perhaps I can it might be best if I 20:59.840 --> 21:02.560 were to handle the details for you. 21:02.560 --> 21:03.560 Don't you think? 21:03.560 --> 21:05.320 Yes Stanley. 21:05.320 --> 21:06.320 You handle it. 21:06.320 --> 21:10.040 The fact of the matter is there's a man coming up here this evening a friend of Damon's 21:10.040 --> 21:12.240 Max Hartzfeld. 21:12.240 --> 21:14.400 Do you remember I asked you about him? 21:14.400 --> 21:15.400 Yes. 21:15.400 --> 21:17.560 Won't be any trouble to you darling. 21:17.560 --> 21:21.280 All you'll have to do is sign the necessary papers. 21:21.280 --> 21:27.880 Excuse me is this the residence of Mr. Damon Wellington? 21:27.880 --> 21:28.880 Mr. Hartzfeld. 21:28.880 --> 21:29.880 Yes. 21:29.880 --> 21:30.880 Oh come in please. 21:30.880 --> 21:31.880 Thank you. 21:31.880 --> 21:33.800 Mr. Wellington is at home? 21:33.800 --> 21:38.560 No and we don't expect him but he's discussed with me the reason for your visit and I think 21:38.560 --> 21:42.320 perhaps you and I can reach a satisfactory agreement. 21:42.320 --> 21:43.320 And you are? 21:43.320 --> 21:44.320 Stanley Vance. 21:44.320 --> 21:45.800 I'm Miss Wellington's husband. 21:45.800 --> 21:46.800 This is my wife. 21:46.800 --> 21:47.800 How do you do? 21:47.800 --> 21:49.200 I'm very glad to meet you. 21:49.200 --> 21:50.600 Sit down please Mr. Hartzfeld. 21:50.600 --> 21:51.960 May I have your hat and coat? 21:51.960 --> 21:52.960 Thank you. 21:52.960 --> 21:53.960 And your gloves please. 21:53.960 --> 21:54.960 I'm sorry. 21:54.960 --> 21:56.960 It's an eccentricity perhaps. 21:56.960 --> 21:58.200 I always keep them on. 21:58.200 --> 21:59.200 Oh. 21:59.200 --> 22:01.160 Now Mr. Hartzfeld. 22:01.160 --> 22:05.720 Damon tells me that you wish to buy an interest in the new Wellington play The Dark Tower. 22:05.720 --> 22:08.680 Yes I've been seeking an interview with Mr. Wellington. 22:08.680 --> 22:09.680 Yes so he's told me. 22:09.680 --> 22:15.000 However Damon has very definitely made up his mind not to sell any part of his interest 22:15.000 --> 22:16.000 in the play. 22:16.000 --> 22:18.320 You are sure of this Mr. Vance? 22:18.320 --> 22:19.320 Oh yes quite sure. 22:19.320 --> 22:21.160 I had a long talk with him about it only this evening. 22:21.160 --> 22:22.160 I see. 22:22.160 --> 22:26.080 I will not conceal from you that this is a source of great disappointment to me Mr. Vance. 22:26.080 --> 22:29.000 I have such a deep admiration for the talents of Mr. Wellington. 22:29.000 --> 22:32.120 I've ventured in a few previous theatrical enterprises. 22:32.120 --> 22:33.120 Now at last I hope. 22:33.120 --> 22:39.080 I quite understand your feelings Mr. Hartzfeld and I think that I may be able to help you. 22:39.080 --> 22:40.080 Yes? 22:40.080 --> 22:44.720 Yes you see Damon owns only half of the Wellington interest in the play. 22:44.720 --> 22:51.760 My wife Miss Jessica Wellington owns the other half and she, we if the offer were sufficiently 22:51.760 --> 22:52.760 attractive. 22:52.760 --> 22:56.800 And indeed you are willing to sell then Miss Wellington? 22:56.800 --> 22:59.680 Yes whatever stand this is. 22:59.680 --> 23:00.760 Good. 23:00.760 --> 23:03.280 Then perhaps we should get down to detail. 23:03.280 --> 23:07.560 Yes Mr. Vance and Miss Wellington I'm afraid you will think me very rude. 23:07.560 --> 23:08.560 Not at all. 23:08.560 --> 23:09.560 What is it? 23:09.560 --> 23:15.720 Since the talents of Miss Wellington's brother must be considered the very essence of our 23:15.720 --> 23:20.240 bargaining and since you are acting as her agent in any event I wonder if she would forgive 23:20.240 --> 23:25.680 me if I asked that you and I conclude this part of our business alone Mr. Vance. 23:25.680 --> 23:27.360 Oh of course. 23:27.360 --> 23:30.360 Jessica will understand perfectly. 23:30.360 --> 23:31.360 Won't you my dear? 23:31.360 --> 23:33.040 Yes Stanley. 23:33.040 --> 23:34.480 Run along then darling. 23:34.480 --> 23:36.680 I'll call you when we need you. 23:36.680 --> 23:39.040 Yes Stanley. 23:39.040 --> 23:42.800 Now Mr. Vance I imagine you wish to know a little more about the man with whom you are 23:42.800 --> 23:43.800 dealing. 23:43.800 --> 23:44.800 Here's my card I'm staying at the Waldorf. 23:44.800 --> 23:46.880 I've written the room number on the card for you. 23:46.880 --> 23:48.520 Oh there's no need really. 23:48.520 --> 23:53.760 Yes but before we discuss terms there is one other thing. 23:53.760 --> 23:54.760 Yes? 23:54.760 --> 23:58.920 I wonder you do not know me do you Mr. Vance? 23:58.920 --> 24:00.320 No you I... 24:00.320 --> 24:04.280 You do not know who I have been looking for with such pleasure to an interview with you 24:04.280 --> 24:05.280 alone. 24:05.280 --> 24:07.280 If I know I... 24:07.280 --> 24:09.640 It's very simple. 24:09.640 --> 24:13.120 It's very simple really Mr. Vance. 24:13.120 --> 24:19.400 It's just that I'm going to kill you. 24:19.400 --> 24:21.040 To kill me? 24:21.040 --> 24:22.040 Really Mr. Hartzfeld? 24:22.040 --> 24:26.120 With these two hands. 24:26.120 --> 24:35.360 And before you die, before you die I want you to know the reason. 24:35.360 --> 24:36.360 Jessica. 24:36.360 --> 24:37.360 No. 24:37.360 --> 24:38.360 No. 24:38.360 --> 24:39.360 No. 24:39.360 --> 24:40.360 No. 24:40.360 --> 24:41.360 No. 24:41.360 --> 24:42.360 No. 24:42.360 --> 24:43.360 No. 24:43.360 --> 24:44.360 No. 24:44.360 --> 24:45.360 No. 24:45.360 --> 24:46.360 No. 24:46.360 --> 24:47.360 No. 24:47.360 --> 24:48.360 No. 24:48.360 --> 24:49.360 No. 24:49.360 --> 24:50.360 No. 24:50.360 --> 24:51.360 No. 24:51.360 --> 24:52.360 No. 24:52.360 --> 24:53.360 No. 24:53.360 --> 24:54.360 No. 24:54.360 --> 24:55.360 No. 24:55.360 --> 24:56.360 No. 24:56.360 --> 25:04.560 So you see Ben there is your murderer Mr. Max Hartzfeld and I hope you're duly grateful 25:04.560 --> 25:08.020 to him an elusive fellow Hartzfeld. 25:08.020 --> 25:10.360 The police have been trying to find him for two weeks. 25:10.360 --> 25:12.360 They never will. 25:12.360 --> 25:17.160 Left no fingerprints you see. 25:17.160 --> 25:19.280 He always kept his gloves on. 25:19.280 --> 25:21.320 It's an eccentricity. 25:21.320 --> 25:22.320 Damon. 25:22.320 --> 25:24.320 Wait a minute. 25:24.320 --> 25:26.440 Do you mean you? 25:26.440 --> 25:27.440 My dear mutton. 25:27.440 --> 25:29.040 My dear mutton head. 25:29.040 --> 25:31.800 Listen darling the whole thing's perfectly clear. 25:31.800 --> 25:35.600 It's as plain as the putty nose on Max Hartzfeld's face. 25:35.600 --> 25:37.960 I still can't get it into my head. 25:37.960 --> 25:43.440 Benjamin if you don't know who Max Hartzfeld is by now you are the only person within the 25:43.440 --> 25:46.920 sound of my voice who does not. 25:46.920 --> 25:51.040 You mean you impersonated then it wasn't Jessica. 25:51.040 --> 25:52.040 Jessica? 25:52.040 --> 25:54.440 She never could have done it. 25:54.440 --> 25:57.240 The girl has talent but no genius. 25:57.240 --> 25:59.440 But Damon murder. 25:59.440 --> 26:00.800 Murder he says. 26:00.800 --> 26:05.160 Dear friend you share with me a guilty secret. 26:05.160 --> 26:06.880 Your lips are sealed. 26:06.880 --> 26:13.920 Come in the words of Hamlet never so help you mercy. 26:13.920 --> 26:16.880 Note that you know ought of be. 26:16.880 --> 26:19.080 Swear by my sword. 26:19.080 --> 26:20.480 What? 26:20.480 --> 26:22.600 Swear. 26:22.600 --> 26:23.960 I swear. 26:23.960 --> 26:25.960 Well said old mole. 26:25.960 --> 26:30.640 Well I think that winds up the case Watson. 26:30.640 --> 26:39.160 Jessica will receive by registered post a signed confession by Max Hartzfeld bound in vellum. 26:39.160 --> 26:41.280 That should end her worries. 26:41.280 --> 26:44.120 You may consider it as my wedding present. 26:44.120 --> 26:50.240 It will be a work not without literary merit although written lefty. 26:50.240 --> 26:52.840 I should prefer it to be published posthumously. 26:52.840 --> 26:56.960 I look forward to a long and brilliant career in the theater. 26:56.960 --> 27:00.000 I should not care to terminate it abruptly. 27:00.000 --> 27:24.760 I afford so paltry a characterization as the late Max Hartzfeld music curtain. 27:24.760 --> 27:29.940 And so closes the dark tower by Alexander Wolcott and George S. 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