Now, Roma Wine presents...
Suspense!
Tonight, The Man Who Couldn't Lose, starring Gene Kelly.
Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wine.
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To your happiness and entertaining guests.
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Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma Wines bring you...
Suspense!
This is The Man in Black.
Tonight from Hollywood, we bring you a star, Mr. Gene Kelly, in a suspense play by Emile
C. Teppelman called The Man Who Couldn't Lose.
It is a tale of dawn till midnight in a man's life.
A tale of murder and money and luck.
Such luck as pursues a man once in a hundred years.
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A cool glass of appetizing Roma California sherry before dinner.
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And now with the man who couldn't lose and with the performance of Gene Kelly as Leonard
Snell, the lucky New Yorker, we again hope to keep you in suspense.
You feeling all right now?
Sure, sure I feel swell.
You better not talk anymore though.
Why not?
I got nothing to worry about.
That's what I'm telling you.
Something's happened to me.
I'm not scared.
Just like old man Mothrey said, it doesn't happen often but when it does, well, it's
happened to me.
Something's happened to me that doesn't happen once in a hundred years and it all happened
in one day.
Yeah, it began this morning.
Leonard, Leonard, don't try to kid me.
You're not asleep.
Get up.
Sure, sure, sure.
Okay.
I cook your breakfast.
I come home and cook your dinner.
In between, I work behind that counter all day until I'm so tired I can't hardly stand
up.
The least you can do is get up and drive me to work.
Sure, I will.
And what do you do?
Nothing.
Now listen, you don't call what you do work, I hope.
When did you last sell an insurance policy?
When?
I'll bet you can't even remember.
I'm sure I can.
All right, all right.
And when you do get up enough energy to sell one once in a while, I never see the money.
Horses, sweepstakes, tickets and numbers, anything.
Just so long as you can gamble it away.
But do you ever bring a dollar home?
Not that I ever hear any of it.
Ah, shut up.
Don't you tell me to shut up, Leonard Smell.
I pay the rent when it gets paid.
I pay the grocery bill.
I pay for everything.
You'd think at least I'd get a little appreciation once in a while.
I appreciate it.
I hear about it enough.
Well, why don't you do something about it then?
Listen, Celia, I don't feel so good today.
Sure, that's what you said yesterday and the day before.
That's what you always say every time anybody talks about work.
Well, I'm sick and tired of it.
You promised you were going to get a job this week and you're going to get a job this week.
I'm not going to get a job this week.
I knew I'd have to do that to you someday.
I'm not going to get a job this week.