WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:22.360 Roma wines, presents, suspense. 00:22.360 --> 00:27.160 Roma wines, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:27.160 --> 00:28.160 Salud. 00:28.160 --> 00:29.960 Salud, senor. 00:29.960 --> 00:31.880 Roma wines toast the world. 00:31.880 --> 00:37.560 The wine for your table is Roma wine, made in California for enjoyment throughout the 00:37.560 --> 00:40.680 world. 00:40.680 --> 00:45.360 The Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California welcomes you again to this weekly half hour 00:45.360 --> 00:46.360 of suspense. 00:46.360 --> 00:53.120 Tonight from Hollywood, Roma wines bring you as stars, Miss Ida Lupino, currently being 00:53.120 --> 00:56.120 seen in Warner Brothers, In Our Time. 00:56.120 --> 01:01.520 And Mr. Vincent Price of 20th Century Fox, soon to be seen in the derelict Xanax production, 01:01.520 --> 01:02.520 Wilson. 01:02.520 --> 01:06.280 For the appearance of these two distinguished screen personalities, Lucille Fletcher has 01:06.280 --> 01:13.440 written a suspense play that deals with brooding anxiety and sharpening suspicion, played against 01:13.440 --> 01:17.800 the severe and forbidding background of the late Victorian era. 01:17.800 --> 01:23.200 And so with Fugue in C minor, and with the performances of Ida Lupino and Vincent Price, 01:23.200 --> 01:26.840 we again hope to keep you in suspense. 01:53.200 --> 01:57.960 April 1st, 1900. 01:57.960 --> 02:02.840 Dear Bessie, this is just to let you know that I arrived in pilot skill. 02:02.840 --> 02:05.480 Lizzie met me at the station. 02:05.480 --> 02:09.400 She's heartbroken about Papa's bankruptcy, and for some reason feels that it's up to 02:09.400 --> 02:12.000 me to remedy the family situation. 02:12.000 --> 02:16.200 I told her I'd been offered a job, but she swept away that idea in horror. 02:16.200 --> 02:19.800 A girl with your looks, Amanda Peabody, doesn't have to get a job. 02:19.800 --> 02:22.920 There are too many rich husbands floating around for that. 02:22.920 --> 02:27.080 Furthermore, she says she has a rich husband already picked up for me right here in Pilotsville. 02:27.080 --> 02:28.760 Don't you remember? 02:28.760 --> 02:30.840 I told you about him at Christmas time. 02:30.840 --> 02:38.160 He's a Mr. Evans, richest, creasest, charming, cultured, a lonely widower with two dear little 02:38.160 --> 02:39.160 children. 02:39.160 --> 02:42.880 And besides that, he's just your type, a real intellectual. 02:42.880 --> 02:44.920 You should hear him play the pipe organ. 02:44.920 --> 02:48.080 And you know, Bessie, I've met so few interesting men lately. 02:48.080 --> 02:55.080 And all you'd have to do is lift your little finger. 02:55.080 --> 03:00.000 Mr. Evans. 03:00.000 --> 03:05.840 Oh, good evening, Mrs. Chumley. 03:05.840 --> 03:07.440 How delightful to see you here. 03:07.440 --> 03:11.480 I'd like you to meet my sister, Mr. Evans, my sister, Amanda Peabody. 03:11.480 --> 03:12.480 Delighted, I'm sure. 03:12.480 --> 03:14.200 It's a lovely party, Mr. Evans. 03:14.200 --> 03:15.200 Thank you, Miss Peabody. 03:15.200 --> 03:16.680 Have you just come to Pilotsville? 03:16.680 --> 03:17.680 Yes. 03:17.680 --> 03:21.320 I'm from New York, visiting me after the whirl of the hectic social season. 03:21.320 --> 03:22.320 Oh, indeed? 03:22.320 --> 03:25.560 Well, I'm afraid our Pilotsville society must seem a bit dull to you, Miss Peabody. 03:25.560 --> 03:26.960 Oh, no, not at all. 03:26.960 --> 03:27.960 It's charming. 03:27.960 --> 03:30.040 I've enjoyed everything so much tonight. 03:30.040 --> 03:32.320 Your beautiful house, the music. 03:32.320 --> 03:34.200 I hear you're going to play for us, Mr. Evans. 03:34.200 --> 03:35.200 Oh, a bit. 03:35.200 --> 03:36.800 Do you care for organ music, Miss Peabody? 03:36.800 --> 03:37.800 Very much. 03:37.800 --> 03:39.080 I never miss a church recital. 03:39.080 --> 03:43.200 But what a luxury it must be to have your own pipe organ right here in the house. 03:43.200 --> 03:44.760 I'm afraid I couldn't do without it. 03:44.760 --> 03:45.760 It's my hobby, you know. 03:45.760 --> 03:49.080 Bach, Buxtehude, César Franck. 03:49.080 --> 03:50.080 Don't you adore their work? 03:50.080 --> 03:52.280 Oh, Amanda's very musical. 03:52.280 --> 03:54.680 You should hear her render the burning of Rome. 03:54.680 --> 03:55.680 Yes. 03:55.680 --> 03:58.840 And the delightful thing, of course, about having a pipe organ in the house is that it's 03:58.840 --> 03:59.840 everywhere. 03:59.840 --> 04:05.440 Just sit at a keyboard and hear the walls, the ceilings, the floors vibrate. 04:05.440 --> 04:08.960 You see, Miss Peabody, I've had the pipes installed all over the house. 04:08.960 --> 04:11.920 Under this floor, for example, are all the choir stops. 04:11.920 --> 04:15.000 Up in the bedroom walls are the stops for the swell manual. 04:15.000 --> 04:21.280 And the great 32 foot pedal stops, the giant diapasons are underneath the staircase. 04:21.280 --> 04:24.080 My children sleep next door to the echo chamber. 04:24.080 --> 04:29.040 So, you see, we live like angels here in a paradise of music. 04:29.040 --> 04:30.040 How thrilling. 04:30.040 --> 04:32.880 Now, ladies, come upstairs to the second floor landing, won't you? 04:32.880 --> 04:33.880 And I'll show you the console. 04:33.880 --> 04:34.880 It was made for me in Vienna. 04:34.880 --> 04:49.720 April 7th, 1900. 04:49.720 --> 04:54.000 And Bessie, dear, to tell you the truth, I really find him fascinating. 04:54.000 --> 04:55.000 I wish you could hear him play. 04:55.000 --> 04:56.000 It sweeps you off your feet. 04:56.000 --> 05:01.000 There is such wildness to it and at the same time, such dignity. 05:01.000 --> 05:06.200 And to hear the sound all through that marvelous house, rolling through those gorgeous rooms 05:06.200 --> 05:09.360 with their beautiful tapestries and potted palms. 05:09.360 --> 05:13.240 I could sit and listen to him all night. 05:13.240 --> 05:15.520 You have the most amazing eyes, Miss Peabody. 05:15.520 --> 05:16.520 What are you thinking about? 05:16.520 --> 05:17.520 The music. 05:17.520 --> 05:18.520 Oh, please don't stop. 05:18.520 --> 05:19.520 It's so beautiful. 05:19.520 --> 05:22.880 Well, you seem to be as mad about music as I am. 05:22.880 --> 05:24.240 Your sister says you play too. 05:24.240 --> 05:25.800 Oh, no, only a little. 05:25.800 --> 05:28.200 My appreciation of it is all inside, I'm afraid. 05:28.200 --> 05:29.200 That's plenty. 05:29.200 --> 05:32.120 If you can play, it's better just to enjoy the music of others. 05:32.120 --> 05:34.840 I can't bear this sentimental drumming, can you? 05:34.840 --> 05:36.200 I shouldn't think you would enjoy it. 05:36.200 --> 05:38.800 The idiotic tunes people play nowadays. 05:38.800 --> 05:40.480 Give me the old stern classics. 05:40.480 --> 05:42.640 They have strength and power. 05:42.640 --> 05:43.640 Give me something with light to it. 05:43.640 --> 05:44.640 Something that will flood the whole house with sound. 05:44.640 --> 06:04.480 Oh, that's marvelous. 06:04.480 --> 06:06.400 You're a very unusual girl, Miss Peabody. 06:06.400 --> 06:09.160 Quite unlike the run of girls here down here at Pilotsville. 06:09.160 --> 06:10.760 Yes, in what way? 06:10.760 --> 06:13.760 Oh, it's rather hard to explain. 06:13.760 --> 06:16.200 Oh, some more tea, Amanda. 06:16.200 --> 06:17.600 No, thank you. 06:17.600 --> 06:18.600 A muffin? 06:18.600 --> 06:20.520 No, thank you. 06:20.520 --> 06:22.120 You have an excellent cook, Mr. Evans. 06:22.120 --> 06:23.600 Please, please call me Theodore. 06:23.600 --> 06:24.600 You know you promised. 06:24.600 --> 06:25.600 Theodore. 06:25.600 --> 06:26.600 Amanda. 06:26.600 --> 06:30.160 And your house is beautifully run, too. 06:30.160 --> 06:32.400 You must have an excellent housekeeper. 06:32.400 --> 06:35.080 Everything always looks so charming and quiet. 06:35.080 --> 06:37.160 I haven't even heard a peep out of your children. 06:37.160 --> 06:38.160 My children? 06:38.160 --> 06:40.480 Oh, yes, the children have been away at school. 06:40.480 --> 06:41.760 You have two, haven't you? 06:41.760 --> 06:43.200 Yes, Daphne and David. 06:43.200 --> 06:44.200 What sweet names. 06:44.200 --> 06:47.760 Well, nearly I don't approve of schools for young children, but you see they were rather 06:47.760 --> 06:51.280 overwrought after Mrs. Evans passed on. 06:51.280 --> 06:52.280 I can well understand. 06:52.280 --> 06:56.400 They were almost morbidly devoted to their mother, and then of course the unfortunate 06:56.400 --> 06:58.200 circumstances of her death. 06:58.200 --> 07:01.720 But I suppose your sister, Mrs. Chumley, has told you all about that. 07:01.720 --> 07:06.400 No, not very much, except your wife was killed in a street accident, wasn't she? 07:06.400 --> 07:07.400 Yes, in Philadelphia. 07:07.400 --> 07:10.480 A brewery wagon and four horses ran her down. 07:10.480 --> 07:12.000 Oh, how terrible. 07:12.000 --> 07:15.080 It's something I don't like to think about very often. 07:15.080 --> 07:16.080 Poor beautiful Margaret. 07:16.080 --> 07:20.480 Well, it's like a nightmare, Amanda, and I still can't feel reconciled. 07:20.480 --> 07:23.520 But what I was driving at was the children. 07:23.520 --> 07:26.960 They were in school when she died and by some malicious stroke of fate. 07:26.960 --> 07:30.060 There was an epidemic of scarlet fever raging out there. 07:30.060 --> 07:33.200 The authorities wouldn't lift the quarantine and let them out for her funeral. 07:33.200 --> 07:34.200 Oh, poor little things. 07:34.200 --> 07:35.680 Yes, it upset them dreadfully. 07:35.680 --> 07:40.480 In fact, I sometimes fear it's left a mark on them, which may endure all their lives. 07:40.480 --> 07:41.940 Why, what do you mean? 07:41.940 --> 07:45.600 They suffer from delusions, delusions about her. 07:45.600 --> 07:51.440 They think that in some way she is linked, her soul is imprisoned in the organ pipes. 07:51.440 --> 07:52.440 Oh, horrible. 07:52.440 --> 07:54.200 I wish I could do something about it. 07:54.200 --> 07:58.400 It's a frightful notion, but they won't, they don't let me play when they're at home. 07:58.400 --> 08:01.120 That echo chamber in particular next door to their bedroom. 08:01.120 --> 08:02.120 Yes. 08:02.120 --> 08:04.480 You know, it's nothing but an empty sealed room with a few wires. 08:04.480 --> 08:08.000 Of course, it's all because they never saw her dead. 08:08.000 --> 08:12.280 But they have a notion that she's, well, somehow hidden there. 08:12.280 --> 08:14.400 Oh, ghastly. 08:14.400 --> 08:17.000 They really think that, do they? 08:17.000 --> 08:33.720 Children can think up such very strange things in their little minds, can't they? 08:33.720 --> 08:38.920 The night for suspense, Roma wines are bringing you as stars, Miss Ida Lupino and Mr. Vincent 08:38.920 --> 08:43.800 Price, whom you have heard in the prologue to, Hugh in C minor. 08:43.800 --> 08:55.160 Tonight's tale of suspense. 08:55.160 --> 08:57.360 Let us look in on another scene for a moment. 08:57.360 --> 09:02.840 A smart dinner party at the internationally famous Hotel de Nacional de Cuba in Havana. 09:02.840 --> 09:06.960 One of the guests, a world traveled American, sets down his wine glass and remarks that 09:06.960 --> 09:12.240 a truly fine wine always carries the unmistakable flavor of the particular vineyards from which 09:12.240 --> 09:13.240 it comes. 09:13.240 --> 09:17.880 Well, when laughs his Cuban host, you must be homesick for California right now. 09:17.880 --> 09:22.440 For the wine you are enjoying so much is from America, from California. 09:22.440 --> 09:24.320 It is Roma wine. 09:24.320 --> 09:26.320 Yes, it's true. 09:26.320 --> 09:31.400 Our own wonderful vineyard country in California produces in Roma wines that discriminating 09:31.400 --> 09:35.320 people in other lands esteem as an imported delicacy. 09:35.320 --> 09:41.380 Yet you here at home can enjoy these distinguished Roma wines for mere pennies a glass full. 09:41.380 --> 09:45.360 You pay none of the expensive overseas shipping charges and duties. 09:45.360 --> 09:50.080 Daily with your meals or when entertaining or any time, you can delight yourself with 09:50.080 --> 09:55.680 the wonderful flavor that comes from age old winemaking traditions perfected by modern 09:55.680 --> 09:57.880 quality controls and tests. 09:57.880 --> 10:03.200 Yes, only pennies a glass full for a treat you are certain to enjoy. 10:03.200 --> 10:08.400 For remember, Roma wines are America's largest selling wines. 10:08.400 --> 10:14.480 Roma, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 10:14.480 --> 10:18.960 And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage Ida Lupino as Amanda 10:18.960 --> 10:24.120 Peabody and Vincent Price as Theodore Evans in Fugue in C Minor. 10:24.120 --> 10:43.120 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 10:43.120 --> 10:44.120 April 18th. 10:44.120 --> 10:47.400 I met the children today Bessie for the first time. 10:47.400 --> 10:49.400 It was a shock. 10:49.400 --> 10:53.840 They're strange little creatures utterly unlike their father. 10:53.840 --> 10:56.040 The girl is about 11 and the boy eight. 10:56.040 --> 10:59.280 They were both dressed in deep mourning. 10:59.280 --> 11:02.680 Their large gray eyes seemed strained with terror. 11:02.680 --> 11:05.800 They listened and trembled at every sound. 11:05.800 --> 11:07.080 This is Miss Peabody children. 11:07.080 --> 11:09.520 She's a very good friend of mine. 11:09.520 --> 11:11.600 Now I want you both to shake hands with her. 11:11.600 --> 11:13.800 Oh come now Daphne. 11:13.800 --> 11:16.080 You can at least tell Miss Peabody how old you are. 11:16.080 --> 11:18.640 Oh no, please don't press her. 11:18.640 --> 11:21.880 I know when I was a little girl I hated people to talk about my age. 11:21.880 --> 11:24.800 I'd much rather hear about, well about school. 11:24.800 --> 11:28.600 We're not going back there no matter what anybody said. 11:28.600 --> 11:29.600 David. 11:29.600 --> 11:30.600 That's all right. 11:30.600 --> 11:31.840 Then you didn't like school. 11:31.840 --> 11:32.840 No. 11:32.840 --> 11:34.560 And mommy didn't like it either. 11:34.560 --> 11:36.480 She cried when we went away. 11:36.480 --> 11:40.100 Oh but your mama wanted you to be educated didn't she? 11:40.100 --> 11:43.680 She wanted you to grow up and be intelligent people didn't she? 11:43.680 --> 11:46.640 Well didn't she Daphne? 11:46.640 --> 11:48.040 Who are you? 11:48.040 --> 11:49.320 You may call me Aunt Amanda. 11:49.320 --> 11:51.120 I'm a friend of your papa's. 11:51.120 --> 11:53.360 Do you know where my mama is? 11:53.360 --> 11:54.360 Your mama? 11:54.360 --> 11:56.640 Well your mama's in heaven dear. 11:56.640 --> 11:57.640 No she's not. 11:57.640 --> 11:59.640 Then where is she dear? 11:59.640 --> 12:01.360 Please don't start the morphomand. 12:01.360 --> 12:02.360 It's too upsetting. 12:02.360 --> 12:03.360 Come along children. 12:03.360 --> 12:06.520 Now we're going to have a little music like old times. 12:06.520 --> 12:08.760 You remember when your mother was alive? 12:08.760 --> 12:10.360 We all used to play together. 12:10.360 --> 12:16.480 David, you with your cornet and Daphne at the violin and mama at the piano. 12:16.480 --> 12:19.120 Well Miss Peabody plays the piano too. 12:19.120 --> 12:23.040 Mama's promised to play Narcissus, mama's favorite piece. 12:23.040 --> 12:24.040 Well? 12:24.040 --> 12:28.400 Well perhaps some other time Theodore when they don't feel so strange. 12:28.400 --> 12:30.080 I tell you I've humored them to death. 12:30.080 --> 12:31.080 Now come David. 12:31.080 --> 12:32.520 There's your cornet on the mantelpiece. 12:32.520 --> 12:33.520 Daphne. 12:33.520 --> 12:34.520 No. 12:34.520 --> 12:35.520 I insist. 12:35.520 --> 12:37.560 Look now I'll start the melody on the organ. 12:37.560 --> 12:41.560 David, you come in with your cornet obligato in the third measure. 12:41.560 --> 12:44.560 Daphne, you can follow me. 12:44.560 --> 12:49.560 What's that? 12:49.560 --> 12:54.560 Come along children. 12:54.560 --> 12:59.560 What's that note? 12:59.560 --> 13:04.200 That note making that funny noise. 13:04.200 --> 13:05.200 What note? 13:05.200 --> 13:06.200 Oh you mean that. 13:06.200 --> 13:07.200 Oh that's just a cipher. 13:07.200 --> 13:09.400 A wire must have stuck somewhere. 13:09.400 --> 13:10.400 One of the pipe valves. 13:10.400 --> 13:11.400 It's mama. 13:11.400 --> 13:12.400 That's where mama is. 13:12.400 --> 13:13.400 She's calling for us. 13:13.400 --> 13:14.400 Don't be silly. 13:14.400 --> 13:17.400 I'll just hit the key a few times and it'll stop. 13:17.400 --> 13:19.360 You've heard these ciphers before haven't you Miss Peabody? 13:19.360 --> 13:21.160 Well I don't know much about pipe organs. 13:21.160 --> 13:23.760 It's a common technical occurrence but very annoying of course. 13:23.760 --> 13:24.760 What is she doing in there? 13:24.760 --> 13:25.760 Why doesn't it stop? 13:25.760 --> 13:26.760 That's where she is. 13:26.760 --> 13:29.360 She's in the pipe and she can't get out. 13:29.360 --> 13:30.360 Daphne stop that nonsense. 13:30.360 --> 13:32.240 Oh hush dear your papa will fix it. 13:32.240 --> 13:33.240 No he won't he can't. 13:33.240 --> 13:38.240 She won't let him because he killed her. 13:38.240 --> 13:39.240 Daphne. 13:39.240 --> 13:41.720 Daphne what did you say? 13:41.720 --> 13:42.720 She didn't. 13:42.720 --> 13:44.240 Oh the poor little thing is hysterical. 13:44.240 --> 13:46.040 We should never have tried to persuade them. 13:46.040 --> 13:50.200 Oh Amanda just because they never looked upon her face because they never saw her lying 13:50.200 --> 13:51.200 there in the coffin. 13:51.200 --> 13:52.200 Hush hush. 13:52.200 --> 13:54.280 My own children believe that I am a murderer. 13:54.280 --> 13:56.160 Theodore you're making them both sick. 13:56.160 --> 14:00.520 And so I, I who loved their mother so much who was so devoted for twelve years. 14:00.520 --> 14:03.400 Do I look like a murderer Amanda? 14:03.400 --> 14:04.400 Do I? 14:04.400 --> 14:05.400 No. 14:05.400 --> 14:06.400 There it is again. 14:06.400 --> 14:07.400 It's mama. 14:07.400 --> 14:08.400 It's mama. 14:08.400 --> 14:09.400 Shh dear. 14:09.400 --> 14:24.040 I'll take them upstairs for you Theodore while you try and fix it. 14:24.040 --> 14:25.040 April 24th. 14:25.040 --> 14:26.040 Oh Bessie. 14:26.040 --> 14:27.040 Those poor little children. 14:27.040 --> 14:32.640 We took them out to the cemetery today to show them her grave. 14:32.640 --> 14:34.160 A marble angel guarded it. 14:34.160 --> 14:37.240 It was planted with pure white tulips. 14:37.240 --> 14:39.920 How final it was and peaceful. 14:39.920 --> 14:44.480 And yet they began to tremble again the moment we set foot inside the house. 14:44.480 --> 14:45.480 Poor Theodore. 14:45.480 --> 14:48.080 The man is nearly out of his mind. 14:48.080 --> 14:49.080 What can he do? 14:49.080 --> 14:53.580 I keep asking myself that question. 14:53.580 --> 14:55.280 She died in Philadelphia you say? 14:55.280 --> 14:56.280 Yes on May 15th. 14:56.280 --> 14:58.660 Just a little less than a year ago. 14:58.660 --> 14:59.660 You weren't with her? 14:59.660 --> 15:01.480 No she went there to take a piano lesson. 15:01.480 --> 15:03.900 There was a new teacher she'd heard about. 15:03.900 --> 15:06.840 She was always so self-conscious about her technique. 15:06.840 --> 15:08.880 She never reached his studio. 15:08.880 --> 15:11.480 They notified me at midnight from the city morgue. 15:11.480 --> 15:14.000 And no one in Philadelphia saw her? 15:14.000 --> 15:15.760 No one except the attendants at the morgue. 15:15.760 --> 15:18.760 Of course and the people who picked her up after the collision. 15:18.760 --> 15:20.040 It was such a brutal accident. 15:20.040 --> 15:24.160 There had been no one from among them who could speak to the children, explain to them. 15:24.160 --> 15:25.160 Oh no. 15:25.160 --> 15:27.800 Oh it's so horrible, so sordid. 15:27.800 --> 15:29.240 I know my dear. 15:29.240 --> 15:31.280 I hate to make you suffer. 15:31.280 --> 15:35.280 But if we could find some way, if they could just believe. 15:35.280 --> 15:39.120 When you brought her back here to Pilotsville, there was a funeral. 15:39.120 --> 15:40.120 Yes. 15:40.120 --> 15:42.040 And was there anybody then who saw her? 15:42.040 --> 15:44.200 Oh no I couldn't bear it, Amanda. 15:44.200 --> 15:46.760 I didn't think at the time she'd been so beautiful. 15:46.760 --> 15:50.080 Her lovely sweet gentle face and her eyes. 15:50.080 --> 15:52.320 The horses had completely trembled. 15:52.320 --> 15:53.320 Oh. 15:53.320 --> 15:56.440 Even if the children had been able to come home I wouldn't have let them look. 15:56.440 --> 15:59.360 The coffin was sealed when I left Philadelphia. 15:59.360 --> 16:01.000 I didn't want to see her again myself. 16:01.000 --> 16:03.080 But there was a funeral. 16:03.080 --> 16:04.080 People came. 16:04.080 --> 16:05.400 Flowers an undertaker. 16:05.400 --> 16:06.400 Yes. 16:06.400 --> 16:09.440 Well if they could believe that, if there was one witness. 16:09.440 --> 16:12.920 Perhaps my own sister Lily. 16:12.920 --> 16:14.920 Funeral Amanda? 16:14.920 --> 16:21.240 Of course there was a funeral. 16:21.240 --> 16:23.200 The finest funeral in town. 16:23.200 --> 16:26.600 A snow white hearse and 25 coaches. 16:26.600 --> 16:27.600 Everybody sent flowers. 16:27.600 --> 16:32.080 The casket wasn't open but I've been to lots of funerals where they don't open the casket. 16:32.080 --> 16:35.320 And for what I understand she was pretty badly mangled. 16:35.320 --> 16:37.120 But it was a beautiful funeral. 16:37.120 --> 16:40.640 Mr Evans played the organ himself for the finest selections. 16:40.640 --> 16:43.120 All the sweet old pieces his wife liked. 16:43.120 --> 16:48.840 There was Narcissus and Mighty Like a Rose and Goodbye Forever. 16:48.840 --> 16:54.360 That's the way it was. 16:54.360 --> 16:57.360 So you see David, my sister Mrs Chomley was there. 16:57.360 --> 16:58.360 Yes. 16:58.360 --> 17:00.200 But how did she know it was Mama? 17:00.200 --> 17:01.200 Oh David. 17:01.200 --> 17:04.480 She didn't see Mama, did she? 17:04.480 --> 17:07.000 Well, nobody saw your poor Mama dear. 17:07.000 --> 17:08.960 She wouldn't have wanted anyone to see her. 17:08.960 --> 17:10.840 Mama wasn't there. 17:10.840 --> 17:12.840 She talks to us every night. 17:12.840 --> 17:14.880 She tells us to look for her. 17:14.880 --> 17:15.880 Where dear? 17:15.880 --> 17:16.880 In the pipes. 17:16.880 --> 17:19.120 But David, your Mama's dead. 17:19.120 --> 17:20.760 She's been dead for nearly a year. 17:20.760 --> 17:23.520 Now you saw her grave out in the cemetery. 17:23.520 --> 17:25.240 She's happy and at rest. 17:25.240 --> 17:27.040 Why doesn't Papa give us the key? 17:27.040 --> 17:31.440 If he'd only let us have it we could look for her. 17:31.440 --> 17:32.440 What key dear? 17:32.440 --> 17:33.440 The keys to the pipes. 17:33.440 --> 17:38.240 There's a little door just underneath the stairs. 17:38.240 --> 17:40.680 That's where they, that's where the big pipes are. 17:40.680 --> 17:42.680 And inside it's all dark. 17:42.680 --> 17:47.400 But where are the, but there are, there are tunnels. 17:47.400 --> 17:50.400 There's a little room. 17:50.400 --> 17:54.960 Go on dear. 17:54.960 --> 17:58.440 That's where she's hiding. 17:58.440 --> 17:59.440 That's where Mama is. 17:59.440 --> 18:00.920 That's where Mama is. 18:00.920 --> 18:03.520 Oh David darling, now look, come here. 18:03.520 --> 18:05.640 No, I hate you. 18:05.640 --> 18:06.760 But why do you hate me? 18:06.760 --> 18:08.160 Why don't you let me help you? 18:08.160 --> 18:09.160 Because. 18:09.160 --> 18:10.160 Because what? 18:10.160 --> 18:12.680 Because you, you like him. 18:12.680 --> 18:13.680 Him? 18:13.680 --> 18:17.560 Papa, you're going to marry him, aren't you? 18:17.560 --> 18:19.120 Yes you are. 18:19.120 --> 18:21.600 Tavina says you are. 18:21.600 --> 18:23.520 You're going to marry him. 18:23.520 --> 18:25.960 Then you'll send us back to school. 18:25.960 --> 18:28.600 And there'll be no one left to help Mama. 18:28.600 --> 18:30.920 Poor Mama will never be left out. 18:30.920 --> 18:33.440 Oh I hate you, I hate you. 18:33.440 --> 18:35.560 David, what are you doing here? 18:35.560 --> 18:37.480 David, did you strike Miss Peabody? 18:37.480 --> 18:39.160 He's sick Theodore, I'm sure he's very sick. 18:39.160 --> 18:41.200 Now go to your room at once. 18:41.200 --> 18:43.920 Oh those dreadful children. 18:43.920 --> 18:47.360 I tell you Amanda, they'll ruin whatever happiness we might have. 18:47.360 --> 18:50.560 Theodore, I love you very much. 18:50.560 --> 18:52.280 But I couldn't marry you. 18:52.280 --> 18:54.360 What with that child's cry ringing in my head? 18:54.360 --> 18:56.200 We've got to help them. 18:56.200 --> 18:57.200 Give them that key. 18:57.200 --> 18:59.960 Let them go and look in the room where the pipes are. 18:59.960 --> 19:01.720 Then they'll see for themselves that there's no ghost. 19:01.720 --> 19:02.720 Key? 19:02.720 --> 19:03.960 Who told you about a key to that room? 19:03.960 --> 19:04.960 The children. 19:04.960 --> 19:05.960 The children? 19:05.960 --> 19:09.080 Amanda, I'm going to tell you something. 19:09.080 --> 19:11.720 Something I've never told a living soul. 19:11.720 --> 19:13.160 It may frighten you. 19:13.160 --> 19:14.160 Yes. 19:14.160 --> 19:16.960 Margaret was going mad when she died. 19:16.960 --> 19:17.960 No one knew it but me. 19:17.960 --> 19:18.960 It ran in her family. 19:18.960 --> 19:20.780 I discovered it long after we were married. 19:20.780 --> 19:22.480 After the children were born. 19:22.480 --> 19:23.480 Otherwise I'd never have... 19:23.480 --> 19:24.480 And now you think the children? 19:24.480 --> 19:25.960 I'm afraid so. 19:25.960 --> 19:29.080 It was peopling of sound she had. 19:29.080 --> 19:30.080 Just like them. 19:30.080 --> 19:31.960 A fear of the dead's returning. 19:31.960 --> 19:32.960 She used to play... 19:32.960 --> 19:33.960 What's that? 19:33.960 --> 19:37.440 It sounds like the organ. 19:37.440 --> 19:38.960 But the motor isn't on. 19:38.960 --> 19:41.880 The console was locked when I left. 19:41.880 --> 19:42.940 Someone's trying to play. 19:42.940 --> 19:44.800 No one but me can touch that instrument. 19:44.800 --> 19:47.080 It's forbidden in this house and the servants are out. 19:47.080 --> 19:48.560 Unless those children. 19:48.560 --> 19:52.200 Come upstairs, Amanda. 19:52.200 --> 19:53.200 Theodore. 19:53.200 --> 19:57.560 Why there's no one here? 19:57.560 --> 19:59.400 No one of the keyboard. 19:59.400 --> 20:00.400 The organ's playing itself. 20:00.400 --> 20:01.400 That's impossible. 20:01.400 --> 20:02.400 The motor's not going. 20:02.400 --> 20:03.400 The motor? 20:03.400 --> 20:04.400 Yes, it says the bellows going. 20:04.400 --> 20:05.400 There's no air in the pipes unless it's on. 20:05.400 --> 20:06.800 No air to make the pipes speak. 20:06.800 --> 20:07.800 It's impossible, I tell you. 20:07.800 --> 20:10.000 Perhaps the children found the key and got in. 20:10.000 --> 20:11.000 Key? 20:11.000 --> 20:12.000 No, no, no. 20:12.000 --> 20:13.000 The key's here in my pocket. 20:13.000 --> 20:14.000 There's no other way in. 20:14.000 --> 20:15.000 No. 20:15.000 --> 20:16.000 Theodore, open that door. 20:16.000 --> 20:17.000 Go in there and see what's happening, please. 20:17.000 --> 20:19.000 No. 20:19.000 --> 20:20.000 Theodore. 20:20.000 --> 20:21.000 I won't give in. 20:21.000 --> 20:22.480 I won't be afraid to it. 20:22.480 --> 20:23.480 Do you hear? 20:23.480 --> 20:26.480 I won't, I won't, I won't. 20:26.480 --> 20:27.480 Here. 20:27.480 --> 20:28.480 It stopped now. 20:28.480 --> 20:29.480 Yes. 20:29.480 --> 20:33.760 It was probably, Billy, nothing but the wind. 20:33.760 --> 20:36.240 Theodore, give me the key. 20:36.240 --> 20:37.560 I'm not afraid. 20:37.560 --> 20:39.800 Are you saying that I am? 20:39.800 --> 20:40.800 I don't know. 20:40.800 --> 20:43.320 But I'll be fair with you, Theodore. 20:43.320 --> 20:46.560 I couldn't marry you and live here with that any more than your children can. 20:46.560 --> 20:47.560 What do you mean? 20:47.560 --> 20:48.560 Rip out those pipes. 20:48.560 --> 20:49.560 Rip out the whole pipe organ. 20:49.560 --> 20:50.920 Give it to a church, but don't keep it here. 20:50.920 --> 20:51.920 Get rid of the pipe organ. 20:51.920 --> 20:52.920 It's not worth it. 20:52.920 --> 20:53.920 Yes. 20:53.920 --> 20:54.920 But I couldn't. 20:54.920 --> 20:55.920 The whole house was built around it. 20:55.920 --> 20:57.720 It's been the very soul and spirit of this home. 20:57.720 --> 20:59.440 It's been the curse, you mean. 20:59.440 --> 21:04.000 Theodore, I know I'd go mad, too, if I had to listen to it night and day. 21:04.000 --> 21:05.000 It's so hollow. 21:05.000 --> 21:08.720 To think of those pipes, so huge, down there in the darkness. 21:08.720 --> 21:09.720 I'd begin to hear things, too. 21:09.720 --> 21:10.720 Oh, it! 21:10.720 --> 21:11.720 Be quiet. 21:11.720 --> 21:12.720 Be quiet. 21:12.720 --> 21:13.720 Come outside. 21:13.720 --> 21:14.720 We'll take a walk. 21:14.720 --> 21:15.720 No. 21:15.720 --> 21:16.720 No, give me the key. 21:16.720 --> 21:17.720 Give me the key. 21:17.720 --> 21:18.720 You're hysterical, Amanda. 21:18.720 --> 21:19.720 I'm sorry I've overburdened you. 21:19.720 --> 21:20.720 Why don't you want to go in there? 21:20.720 --> 21:21.720 Is it because you know something? 21:21.720 --> 21:22.720 You did something. 21:22.720 --> 21:23.720 What do you mean? 21:23.720 --> 21:24.720 Did you kill her? 21:24.720 --> 21:25.720 Amanda. 21:25.720 --> 21:26.720 Very well, Amanda. 21:26.720 --> 21:27.720 Here's the key. 21:27.720 --> 21:34.720 If that's the way you trust me, we'll go down and look around together. 21:34.720 --> 21:35.720 Come now, Amanda. 21:35.720 --> 21:36.720 I'm sorry, Theodore. 21:36.720 --> 21:37.720 I'm sorry, Theodore. 21:37.720 --> 21:38.720 I'm sorry. 21:38.720 --> 21:39.720 I'm sorry. 21:39.720 --> 21:40.720 I'm sorry. 21:40.720 --> 21:41.720 I'm sorry. 21:41.720 --> 21:42.720 I'm sorry. 21:42.720 --> 21:43.720 I'm sorry. 21:43.720 --> 21:45.720 I'm sorry, Theodore. 21:45.720 --> 21:46.720 It slipped out. 21:46.720 --> 21:48.720 It was a dreadful thing to say. 21:48.720 --> 21:49.720 It's all right. 21:49.720 --> 21:50.720 I understand. 21:50.720 --> 21:52.320 Yet it hurts a little. 21:52.320 --> 21:54.720 I've trusted you so completely, Amanda. 21:54.720 --> 21:55.720 Theodore. 21:55.720 --> 21:56.720 Yes, Amanda. 21:56.720 --> 21:58.280 Let's not go in there. 21:58.280 --> 21:59.280 I do trust you, darling. 21:59.280 --> 22:01.280 I believe everything you've told me. 22:01.280 --> 22:02.280 No. 22:02.280 --> 22:04.040 This little key. 22:04.040 --> 22:06.720 To think it should mean so much. 22:06.720 --> 22:07.720 Oh. 22:07.720 --> 22:10.720 How black it is. 22:10.720 --> 22:12.720 Yes, pitch black. 22:12.720 --> 22:13.720 And cold. 22:13.720 --> 22:14.720 Where are the pipes? 22:14.720 --> 22:15.720 I can't see them. 22:15.720 --> 22:16.720 Come in further, Amanda. 22:16.720 --> 22:17.720 You'll see them as soon as your eyes grow accustomed to the darkness. 22:17.720 --> 22:18.720 The biggest pipes packed this well under the great staircase like giants. 22:18.720 --> 22:19.720 Oh, yes. 22:19.720 --> 22:20.720 I'm beginning to see them now. 22:20.720 --> 22:21.720 Shouldn't we go and get a candle? 22:21.720 --> 22:22.720 Oh, no, no. 22:22.720 --> 22:23.720 Go in a little further. 22:23.720 --> 22:24.720 Be careful. 22:24.720 --> 22:25.720 The floor is a maze of wires. 22:25.720 --> 22:26.720 Now stand there for a second. 22:26.720 --> 22:27.720 Theodore, don't leave me. 22:27.720 --> 22:28.720 I won't be long. 22:28.720 --> 22:29.720 I thought you said you weren't afraid. 22:29.720 --> 22:30.720 No, I'm not only afraid. 22:30.720 --> 22:31.720 I'm afraid of you. 22:31.720 --> 22:32.720 I'm afraid of you. 22:32.720 --> 22:33.720 I'm afraid of you. 22:33.720 --> 22:34.720 I'm afraid of you. 22:34.720 --> 22:35.720 I'm afraid of you. 22:35.720 --> 22:36.720 I'm afraid of you. 22:36.720 --> 22:50.720 I'm afraid of you. 22:50.720 --> 22:51.720 Where are you going? 22:51.720 --> 22:52.720 Just upstairs to play for you. 22:52.720 --> 22:53.720 Theodore. 22:53.720 --> 22:54.720 I'd like you to hear how the music sounds in the darkness. 22:54.720 --> 22:55.720 It's quite an experience being so close to the pipes. 22:55.720 --> 22:59.720 You know, narrow, suffocating, especially when I play the great Passacaglia and Fugue of 22:59.720 --> 23:00.720 Bach. 23:00.720 --> 23:01.720 Oh, Theodore, please. 23:01.720 --> 23:02.720 I don't want to stay here. 23:02.720 --> 23:06.500 of the Rheinberger symphonies or the great chorales of César Frank. 23:06.500 --> 23:09.500 Margaret, of course, preferred narcissus. 23:09.500 --> 23:10.500 Margaret! 23:10.500 --> 23:12.500 You're very gullible, Amanda. 23:12.500 --> 23:14.500 Then you did kill her. 23:14.500 --> 23:16.500 You killed her in this room. 23:16.500 --> 23:18.500 And you're going to kill me! 23:18.500 --> 23:19.500 Yes, simple, isn't it? 23:19.500 --> 23:20.500 But why? 23:20.500 --> 23:21.500 I don't know. 23:21.500 --> 23:24.500 One gets tired every now and then of mere music. 23:24.500 --> 23:26.500 Sometimes the classics demand competition. 23:26.500 --> 23:31.000 A scream, for example, there's something so exciting about pulling out all the stops and 23:31.000 --> 23:33.760 drowning out all human sound. 23:33.760 --> 23:39.580 Have you ever tried to match your voice, Miss Peabody, against the thunderous voice of Bach? 23:39.580 --> 23:41.040 It's most effective. 23:41.040 --> 23:45.240 And then when the struggle gets weaker, when the air is almost gone and you choke and gasp 23:45.240 --> 23:48.720 for breath, to bring the music down softer, softer. 23:48.720 --> 23:50.720 You're mad, you're mad! 23:50.720 --> 23:51.720 Come, Amanda. 23:51.720 --> 23:53.120 Would you deny me that pleasure? 23:53.120 --> 23:54.120 No. 23:54.120 --> 23:55.120 Help! 23:55.120 --> 23:56.120 I promise you the concert will be too long. 23:56.120 --> 23:58.740 It takes about eight hours before the air gives out. 23:58.740 --> 24:02.040 Would you know, I could play for days, and don't worry about the children. 24:02.040 --> 24:04.440 I think you've convinced them about the ghosts. 24:04.440 --> 24:05.440 But that... 24:05.440 --> 24:06.440 Theodore! 24:06.440 --> 24:09.240 Someone shut the door. 24:09.240 --> 24:10.240 It's locked and the key's outside. 24:10.240 --> 24:11.240 Who's there? 24:11.240 --> 24:12.240 Let me out! 24:12.240 --> 24:13.240 Let me out! 24:13.240 --> 24:14.240 Theodore! 24:14.240 --> 24:15.240 Get away from me! 24:15.240 --> 24:16.240 Let me out of here! 24:16.240 --> 24:17.240 Let me out! 24:17.240 --> 24:18.240 Let me out! 24:18.240 --> 24:19.240 I can't breathe! 24:19.240 --> 24:20.240 I'm suffocating! 24:20.240 --> 24:21.240 It's so dark! 24:21.240 --> 24:22.240 I can't breathe! 24:22.240 --> 24:23.240 Let me out! 24:23.240 --> 24:24.240 Please! 24:24.240 --> 24:25.240 Please! 24:25.240 --> 24:26.240 I can't breathe! 24:26.240 --> 24:27.240 I can't... 24:27.240 --> 24:28.240 No! 24:28.240 --> 24:29.240 No, don't! 24:29.240 --> 24:30.240 I can't! 24:30.240 --> 24:31.240 I can't... 24:31.240 --> 24:32.240 Let me out! 24:32.240 --> 24:33.240 I can't breathe! 24:33.240 --> 24:34.240 Theodore! 24:34.240 --> 24:35.240 Theodore! 24:35.240 --> 24:36.240 Let me out! 24:36.240 --> 24:37.240 Let me out! 24:37.240 --> 24:38.240 He's dead! 24:38.240 --> 24:39.240 He's dead! 24:39.240 --> 24:40.240 Daphne! 24:40.240 --> 24:41.240 David! 24:41.240 --> 24:42.240 Where are you? 24:42.240 --> 24:43.240 Open the door! 24:43.240 --> 24:44.240 Open the door! 24:44.240 --> 24:45.240 Oh, you're back! 24:45.240 --> 24:46.240 I'm so sorry. 24:46.240 --> 24:47.240 Oh, I'm so sorry. 24:47.240 --> 24:48.240 I'm so sorry. 24:48.240 --> 24:54.880 No! Let me out! Let me out! He's dead! He's dead! 24:54.880 --> 25:01.880 F.D. David, where are you? Open the door! Help me! Help me! 25:01.880 --> 25:06.880 Oh, no! No! Help! Help! 25:12.880 --> 25:15.880 May 1st, 1900. 25:15.880 --> 25:18.880 I shall be coming home in a few days, Bessie. 25:18.880 --> 25:21.880 I still can't sleep at night. 25:21.880 --> 25:24.880 I still hear that laughter. 25:24.880 --> 25:27.880 Still hear that cornet playing its unearthly music. 25:27.880 --> 25:31.880 And Theodore Evans once more lies dead at my feet. 25:31.880 --> 25:35.880 It was his heart, Bessie. He died of fright. 25:35.880 --> 25:41.880 In those few moments he anticipated the hideous fate he had meted out to so many. 25:41.880 --> 25:45.880 And I might have died there if he had not gone so quickly. 25:45.880 --> 25:49.880 But the children hated me. They wanted to kill us both. 25:49.880 --> 25:52.880 Those terrible, pathetic children. 25:52.880 --> 25:56.880 What horrors they must have sensed in that charnel house. 25:56.880 --> 25:59.880 There were other women beside his wife. 25:59.880 --> 26:05.880 The police found them all buried and stuffed away into unused parts of the pipe organ. 26:05.880 --> 26:11.880 Bessie, I was in that pipe room alone with him for four hours before that door creaked open. 26:11.880 --> 26:14.880 There they stood. 26:14.880 --> 26:18.880 And I shall never forget their faces or the things they said. 26:18.880 --> 26:23.880 All right, Miss Peabody. You can come out now if you're really sorry. 26:23.880 --> 26:25.880 I'm sorry. 26:25.880 --> 26:27.880 Are you sure he's quite dead? 26:27.880 --> 26:29.880 Yes, he's dead. 26:29.880 --> 26:33.880 We were right all the time, weren't we, Miss Peabody? 26:33.880 --> 26:35.880 Yes, you were right. 26:35.880 --> 27:03.880 Now, will you come and help us find Mama? 27:06.880 --> 27:13.880 And so closes Fugue in C Minor, starring Miss Ida Lupino and Vincent Price. 27:13.880 --> 27:19.880 Tonight's tale of suspense. 27:19.880 --> 27:22.880 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 27:22.880 --> 27:26.880 Of all the rich treasures man gets from the earth and mother nature, 27:26.880 --> 27:30.880 none has been more highly esteemed than wine, good, delicious wine. 27:30.880 --> 27:36.880 And if you are one who does not yet know how much and how delightfully Roma wines add to your meals, 27:36.880 --> 27:40.880 well, let me urge you not to miss out any longer on such a treat as this. 27:40.880 --> 27:42.880 There's nothing complicated about it. 27:42.880 --> 27:48.880 Just get and serve Roma wine with any meal or any time in any kind of glass you wish. 27:48.880 --> 27:50.880 Serve it chilled. 27:50.880 --> 27:55.880 Try the many different kinds of Roma wine until you find those you like best of all. 27:55.880 --> 28:00.880 Try Roma California Sherry with its wonderful nut-like flavor as an appetizer, 28:00.880 --> 28:06.880 or Ruby Red Roma Burgundy, or the deliciously delicate flavored Roma Sauternes. 28:06.880 --> 28:09.880 These superb wines cost you only pennies a glass full. 28:09.880 --> 28:13.880 Yet, they make even the simplest meal taste like a million dollars. 28:13.880 --> 28:14.880 Get some today. 28:14.880 --> 28:18.880 And if your dealer is temporarily out of Roma, please try again soon. 28:18.880 --> 28:27.880 You owe it to yourself to have and regularly enjoy R-O-M-A, Roma wines, America's largest selling wines, 28:27.880 --> 28:32.880 made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 28:32.880 --> 28:33.880 This is Ida Lupino. 28:33.880 --> 28:37.880 Mr. Spear has just been telling me a little about next week's suspense show. 28:37.880 --> 28:41.880 The star will be Thomas Mitchell in the story about a man who had headaches, 28:41.880 --> 28:46.880 tried everything to cure them, finally went to a psychiatrist, and found out that he was a murderer. 28:46.880 --> 28:50.880 That certainly sounds like a broadcast we listeners won't want to miss. 28:50.880 --> 28:54.880 One more word. 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