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01:46.760 --> 01:47.760 Listen. 01:47.760 --> 01:50.720 12 years ago, I was on the cabs. 01:50.720 --> 01:52.880 Gustav Green, the hack, lice and red. 01:52.880 --> 01:55.480 Cripes, how I hated the cabs. 01:55.480 --> 01:59.960 Worked like a slob, 12 or 14 hours a day for a lousy 27 bucks a week. 01:59.960 --> 02:02.600 Now do you blame me that I took the daydreaming? 02:02.600 --> 02:07.400 Like maybe it was my limousine and I was driving because my chauffeur had a day off? 02:07.400 --> 02:10.760 I used to sit at the wheel figuring out the dondest situations. 02:10.760 --> 02:15.680 Like I'd pick up some rich old dame and she'd leave me a million bucks or I'd save a guy. 02:15.680 --> 02:17.640 All kinds of situations. 02:17.640 --> 02:20.400 But all I got was 27 per a week. 02:20.400 --> 02:23.360 Until the night I met Fann. 02:23.360 --> 02:25.320 Hey, Cab. 02:25.320 --> 02:26.320 Cabby. 02:26.320 --> 02:28.920 Take me home, driver. 02:28.920 --> 02:29.920 Home? 02:29.920 --> 02:31.880 Your home or my home, wise guy? 02:31.880 --> 02:33.480 Wait a second. 02:33.480 --> 02:37.240 Well, you got talent and you're driving a cab. 02:37.240 --> 02:38.720 Where can I get a job driving a cab? 02:38.720 --> 02:40.120 You want the radio on? 02:40.120 --> 02:41.120 Now definitely no. 02:41.120 --> 02:43.400 Oh, now don't let's be bitter, shall we? 02:43.400 --> 02:45.440 You know, radio was quite a medium. 02:45.440 --> 02:49.240 Just think, some guy says a few words into a microphone and you can hear it as far west 02:49.240 --> 02:50.240 as Georgia. 02:50.240 --> 02:51.240 Gust of Green? 02:51.240 --> 02:56.680 Well, Mr. Green, meet Van Hauser, the best gag man in the radio business. 02:56.680 --> 02:59.200 Currently freelancing, unemployed, on the beach. 02:59.200 --> 03:02.840 Well, if you're so good, why aren't you in there writing them yaks, wise guy? 03:02.840 --> 03:03.840 Why? 03:03.840 --> 03:07.800 Because words I know, rib tickling words, gags, yeah, jokes to make a corpse laugh. 03:07.800 --> 03:08.800 But plots. 03:08.800 --> 03:09.800 Situations. 03:09.800 --> 03:10.800 Situations? 03:10.800 --> 03:11.800 Yeah, that's another story. 03:11.800 --> 03:13.560 I could coin a million if I could figure them out. 03:13.560 --> 03:14.560 Well, look, situations. 03:14.560 --> 03:18.040 Now let me tell you, I am a veritable Shaharazadi on situations. 03:18.040 --> 03:19.040 I got a million. 03:19.040 --> 03:28.080 Now look, for instance, the guy who says that if I'd have followed... 03:28.080 --> 03:31.080 I don't know, something clicked between me and Van Hauser. 03:31.080 --> 03:35.640 From the beginning, I always hated his guts, the way he talked to me like I was duped. 03:35.640 --> 03:40.180 But up in his room, I started feeding him stories, stuff I dreamed up on the cab. 03:40.180 --> 03:43.560 He put it into good words and it came out very funny too. 03:43.560 --> 03:48.840 Well, inside a couple of years, I was getting 1,500 bucks a week, but I was tied to that 03:48.840 --> 03:49.840 guy. 03:49.840 --> 03:50.840 I couldn't work with nobody else. 03:50.840 --> 03:53.720 I'd sit down with another gag writer and nothing would happen. 03:53.720 --> 03:58.160 Yeah, I knew it was Van all 40 bucks a week in some broken down job. 03:58.160 --> 03:59.160 So? 03:59.160 --> 04:01.160 So I hung onto him like a barnacle. 04:01.160 --> 04:03.480 I worked with him, ate with him, played with him. 04:03.480 --> 04:06.640 My place was just down the hall from his at the hotel. 04:06.640 --> 04:11.720 Sometimes I thought I'd go nuts if I had a look at his sneer and ugly puss another day. 04:11.720 --> 04:17.200 And the only satisfaction I had was that he needed me and hated me just like I needed 04:17.200 --> 04:18.820 and hated him. 04:18.820 --> 04:24.160 But one day while we were writing a spot for Schmo for a day, he chose me a very unfunny 04:24.160 --> 04:25.160 line. 04:25.160 --> 04:28.800 Gus, my good boy, you may be interested to know that I'm going to marry Julie Phelps. 04:28.800 --> 04:30.160 Julie Phelps, a dancer? 04:30.160 --> 04:31.160 That's right. 04:31.160 --> 04:32.240 She used to be the club Catalina. 04:32.240 --> 04:33.840 She making trouble for you. 04:33.840 --> 04:34.840 Cut it. 04:34.840 --> 04:35.840 All right, all right. 04:35.840 --> 04:36.840 I didn't say nothing against her. 04:36.840 --> 04:37.840 All right, you better not. 04:37.840 --> 04:38.840 Okay. 04:38.840 --> 04:39.840 Go ahead and enjoy yourself. 04:39.840 --> 04:40.840 Thanks. 04:40.840 --> 04:46.360 So, Gus, my cornball colleague, we may not be seeing so much of each other hence. 04:46.360 --> 04:47.960 Oh, now look, you don't mean that. 04:47.960 --> 04:48.960 Hey, now, wait a minute. 04:48.960 --> 04:50.520 What's going to be with our partnership here? 04:50.520 --> 04:51.520 We'll see. 04:51.520 --> 04:52.800 I'll talk it over with Julie. 04:52.800 --> 04:53.800 No, no, Van. 04:53.800 --> 04:54.800 Now, look, I mean it. 04:54.800 --> 04:55.800 We've always done what we wanted to. 04:55.800 --> 04:59.160 Loafed all day, worked all night, ate and slept at any crazy hour. 04:59.160 --> 05:01.080 Now no dame is going to stand for that. 05:01.080 --> 05:02.080 Huh? 05:02.080 --> 05:03.080 Julie is different. 05:03.080 --> 05:04.080 No dame is different. 05:04.080 --> 05:05.160 Yeah, she knows how we operate. 05:05.160 --> 05:06.600 And she knows you, Gus. 05:06.600 --> 05:08.840 Yeah, and she's not exactly crazy about me, neither. 05:08.840 --> 05:09.840 Uh-huh. 05:09.840 --> 05:10.840 I don't care about that. 05:10.840 --> 05:12.240 Now, if you want to stay in with me, be nice to her. 05:12.240 --> 05:13.600 It won't do no good. 05:13.600 --> 05:15.720 Listen, Van, she'll make trouble between us. 05:15.720 --> 05:17.880 See, she'll work on that as soon as the knot is tied. 05:17.880 --> 05:18.880 I said... 05:18.880 --> 05:19.880 Now, listen to me. 05:19.880 --> 05:20.880 I'm your pal, Van. 05:20.880 --> 05:21.880 A dame like that is bad business. 05:21.880 --> 05:22.880 You know what? 05:22.880 --> 05:23.880 The club catalina, Gus... 05:23.880 --> 05:24.880 Well, she wasn't exactly... 05:24.880 --> 05:25.880 Gus, Julie is one in a million. 05:25.880 --> 05:26.880 A joke man like you comes a dime a dozen. 05:26.880 --> 05:28.520 Okay, okay, if that's the way you feel. 05:28.520 --> 05:29.520 That's the way I feel. 05:29.520 --> 05:31.040 Pardon me for having any feet here. 05:31.040 --> 05:32.040 All right, just be nice to her. 05:32.040 --> 05:33.040 No cracks. 05:33.040 --> 05:34.040 Okay, so I'll be nice. 05:34.040 --> 05:35.840 Now, look, about Sunday show... 05:35.840 --> 05:42.840 I said be nice to her, if you're not Gus, we're finished. 05:42.840 --> 05:49.640 Yeah, I said I'd be nice, but I knew it wouldn't do no good. 05:49.640 --> 05:53.720 Julie was a small town girl who soured on Broadway after she had a bust up with Nick 05:53.720 --> 05:57.720 Edwards, the mug who runs the club catalina, and she wanted out. 05:57.720 --> 06:00.000 And she was going to take Van with her too. 06:00.000 --> 06:04.440 So it came to me that I'd better figure out a situation and pronto. 06:04.440 --> 06:06.640 She didn't like me because she was a scare to me. 06:06.640 --> 06:09.440 I knew about her and Nick Edwards and Van didn't. 06:09.440 --> 06:14.040 So I says to myself, I says, Gus, maybe the Dame will scare away. 06:14.040 --> 06:15.040 Hey. 06:15.040 --> 06:16.040 Where's the van? 06:16.040 --> 06:17.040 Oh, Gus Green, what a surprise. 06:17.040 --> 06:18.040 Hello there, Julie. 06:18.040 --> 06:19.040 Yeah, this is for you. 06:19.040 --> 06:20.040 Flowers? 06:20.040 --> 06:21.040 Yeah, yeah, Van told me about you, too, see, and I figured... 06:21.040 --> 06:22.040 They're lovely. 06:22.040 --> 06:23.040 Come on in, Gus. 06:23.040 --> 06:24.040 Thanks. 06:24.040 --> 06:25.040 I miss flowers so much in the city. 06:25.040 --> 06:26.040 Back home, the garden's always full of them. 06:26.040 --> 06:27.040 Yeah, yeah, say, this is a nice little garden. 06:27.040 --> 06:28.040 Yeah, yeah, it's a nice little garden. 06:28.040 --> 06:29.040 It's a nice little garden. 06:29.040 --> 06:30.040 It's a nice little garden. 06:30.040 --> 06:31.040 It's a nice little garden. 06:31.040 --> 06:32.040 It's a nice little garden. 06:32.040 --> 06:35.040 Back home, the garden's always full of them. 06:35.040 --> 06:36.040 Yeah, yeah, say, this is a nice place you got here. 06:36.040 --> 06:37.040 Thanks. 06:37.040 --> 06:38.040 Yeah, very swanky. 06:38.040 --> 06:41.640 Wasn't that chair once in the lobby of the Club Catalina? 06:41.640 --> 06:44.760 Well, I bought it when they redecorated the place. 06:44.760 --> 06:47.800 Oh, sure, sure you did, honey, but it just reminded me. 06:47.800 --> 06:48.800 Of what? 06:48.800 --> 06:50.880 I just happened to see your friend Nick Edwards today. 06:50.880 --> 06:52.080 I haven't seen Nick in months. 06:52.080 --> 06:55.960 Oh, sure you haven't, honey, but he's still carrying the torchola for you. 06:55.960 --> 06:56.960 I'm not interested. 06:56.960 --> 07:01.960 No, I didn't say you were, but you might be interested in the fact that Nick said, 07:01.960 --> 07:06.000 if Van Hauser marries Julie, so help me, I'll kill him. 07:06.000 --> 07:07.280 Did he say that? 07:07.280 --> 07:09.320 Now would I lie, honey? 07:09.320 --> 07:10.800 Well, that settles it. 07:10.800 --> 07:12.120 I've had enough of show business. 07:12.120 --> 07:13.840 Van and me are going back home. 07:13.840 --> 07:15.980 Oh, no, no, you can't do that to Van, Julie. 07:15.980 --> 07:16.980 This is his life. 07:16.980 --> 07:18.160 What's he going to do in a small town? 07:18.160 --> 07:19.160 I don't care. 07:19.160 --> 07:20.160 I'm sick of it. 07:20.160 --> 07:23.600 I'm sick of all the cheap characters, the bums and the hangers-on. 07:23.600 --> 07:25.200 If I want him to, Van will come with me. 07:25.200 --> 07:26.520 Oh, look, maybe he would. 07:26.520 --> 07:31.120 Well, I'm sure he would, but Julie, what I really wanted to say was, why don't you give 07:31.120 --> 07:32.120 me a few days? 07:32.120 --> 07:36.000 I'll go talk to Nick and who knows, maybe I can fix the whole thing up. 07:36.000 --> 07:37.640 Would you, Gus? 07:37.640 --> 07:39.680 I'd like to stay for Van's sake. 07:39.680 --> 07:44.280 I'd like to see him get a good job with regular hours, maybe an advertiser. 07:44.280 --> 07:45.280 Sure, sure. 07:45.280 --> 07:46.280 Nick will listen to me. 07:46.280 --> 07:48.160 Well, at least I can try, huh? 07:48.160 --> 07:49.160 Thanks, Gus. 07:49.160 --> 07:50.160 You're nice. 07:50.160 --> 07:52.360 I didn't know. 07:52.360 --> 07:53.960 And then I get another idea. 07:53.960 --> 07:54.960 What's that? 07:54.960 --> 07:56.120 Maybe the three of us could all work together. 07:56.120 --> 07:57.560 Oh, I can't write. 07:57.560 --> 07:58.560 I can type. 07:58.560 --> 07:59.560 Well, we need a secretary. 07:59.560 --> 08:01.120 We could dictate our stuff to you. 08:01.120 --> 08:02.120 I don't know shorthand. 08:02.120 --> 08:03.520 Ah, you don't have to. 08:03.520 --> 08:05.520 After all, what is a comedy script? 08:05.520 --> 08:08.640 Along the left-hand side of the page, you put the name of the character and then you 08:08.640 --> 08:10.200 write out what he's supposed to say. 08:10.200 --> 08:11.200 Simple? 08:11.200 --> 08:12.200 Sounds simple. 08:12.200 --> 08:13.960 You could spend more time with Van. 08:13.960 --> 08:15.440 How would you like to try? 08:15.440 --> 08:16.440 I'd love to. 08:16.440 --> 08:21.440 Gus, it would be wonderful. 08:21.440 --> 08:27.840 Sure, it'd be wonderful for me. 08:27.840 --> 08:31.760 When she said she'd work with us, Julie was playing a part in a situation that I dreamed 08:31.760 --> 08:32.760 up. 08:32.760 --> 08:34.240 And let me tell you, it was a good one. 08:34.240 --> 08:39.080 Because it ended with me still making a grand and a half per week and Julie Phelps, well, 08:39.080 --> 08:42.600 Julie Phelps was just not there. 08:42.600 --> 08:46.880 A music chaser and a commercial. 08:46.880 --> 08:47.880 Credits and sign off. 08:47.880 --> 08:48.880 Got that, darling? 08:48.880 --> 08:49.880 Every word, Mr. Halsey. 08:49.880 --> 08:51.480 Well, Van, how do you like our new secretary? 08:51.480 --> 08:52.480 Oh, she's good, Gus. 08:52.480 --> 08:54.280 How come you had such a swell idea? 08:54.280 --> 08:56.880 Gus, if this works out, I'll be the happiest person alive. 08:56.880 --> 08:58.480 Oh, no, you won't, Julie. 08:58.480 --> 08:59.480 I will. 08:59.480 --> 09:01.600 Now, come on, I'd like to try dictating. 09:01.600 --> 09:02.600 Ready? 09:02.600 --> 09:04.240 OK, take a clean sheet of paper. 09:04.240 --> 09:06.800 Here's a gag sequence for the Fred Benton show. 09:06.800 --> 09:08.360 Look who's writing gags. 09:08.360 --> 09:09.360 Don't laugh. 09:09.360 --> 09:10.360 Genius. 09:10.360 --> 09:13.800 Now look, Fred's talking to Mrs. Mishmash and she starts reading the wrong page of the 09:13.800 --> 09:14.800 script, you see? 09:14.800 --> 09:15.800 Ready? 09:15.800 --> 09:16.800 Let's go. 09:16.800 --> 09:19.440 Mrs. Mishmash, please don't laugh at me. 09:19.440 --> 09:21.760 I think we've made a mistake. 09:21.760 --> 09:22.760 Mistake. 09:22.760 --> 09:23.760 Uh-huh. 09:23.760 --> 09:26.040 Now, Fred Benton, I know I have. 09:26.040 --> 09:27.040 Yes. 09:27.040 --> 09:30.760 Mrs. M, let's start all over from the beginning. 09:30.760 --> 09:32.720 All over from the beginning. 09:32.720 --> 09:35.480 Fred, if you love me, you will. 09:35.480 --> 09:36.480 That's funny. 09:36.480 --> 09:37.480 No, no, that's charming. 09:37.480 --> 09:39.080 Now, this is Mrs. Mishmash. 09:39.080 --> 09:40.080 Am I going too fast? 09:40.080 --> 09:41.080 No, no, that's fine. 09:41.080 --> 09:42.400 OK, this is Mrs. Mishmash again. 09:42.400 --> 09:44.320 I would do anything for you. 09:44.320 --> 09:45.520 Anything for you. 09:45.520 --> 09:48.840 Fred, he says, I mean, he says, I would like to see you. 09:48.840 --> 09:50.440 Oh, I'm bored. 09:50.440 --> 09:52.440 Now, Mrs. M again. 09:52.440 --> 09:53.760 Let's talk this over. 09:53.760 --> 09:54.760 How about tonight? 09:54.760 --> 09:56.360 How about tonight? 09:56.360 --> 09:57.360 Yeah. 09:57.360 --> 09:58.360 Fred, when? 09:58.360 --> 09:59.360 At midnight. 09:59.360 --> 10:00.360 Midnight. 10:00.360 --> 10:02.240 Mrs. M, come, come. 10:02.240 --> 10:03.720 I'm waiting for you right now. 10:03.720 --> 10:04.720 For you right now. 10:04.720 --> 10:05.720 Did you get it all? 10:05.720 --> 10:06.720 Uh-huh. 10:06.720 --> 10:07.720 Good. 10:07.720 --> 10:08.720 Type it right up. 10:08.720 --> 10:09.720 Wait, wait, wait. 10:09.720 --> 10:10.720 What's the matter? 10:10.720 --> 10:11.720 Don't bother, Julie. 10:11.720 --> 10:12.720 We couldn't use that corn even on the Benton show. 10:12.720 --> 10:13.720 All right, wise guy, give it to me, Julie. 10:13.720 --> 10:14.720 I'll file it under sustainers. 10:14.720 --> 10:16.920 Look, if you're going to fight, I'm not going to work for either of you. 10:16.920 --> 10:20.040 Van, be a dear and get me a pack of cigarettes downstairs, will you? 10:20.040 --> 10:21.040 All right, hon. 10:21.040 --> 10:23.760 But Gus, don't try to write any more of those charming gags. 10:23.760 --> 10:24.760 I'm a little lost. 10:24.760 --> 10:25.760 Gus? 10:25.760 --> 10:26.760 Yeah? 10:26.760 --> 10:27.760 Did you get anywhere with Nick? 10:27.760 --> 10:31.120 Well, yeah, Julie, he's softened up, but he wants to see you. 10:31.120 --> 10:32.520 Gus, I don't want that man near me. 10:32.520 --> 10:36.720 Now, look, you don't see him, you better start wearing black for Van. 10:36.720 --> 10:37.720 You know Nick Edwards. 10:37.720 --> 10:39.520 I know Nick wouldn't stop at killing, but I... 10:39.520 --> 10:42.600 Now listen, Julie, I haven't got time to argue with you now. 10:42.600 --> 10:45.400 Van will come back, but why don't you come to my place tomorrow night at 11? 10:45.400 --> 10:46.800 I'll run into Van for sure. 10:46.800 --> 10:49.000 Well, then come before eight and wait for me. 10:49.000 --> 10:50.000 We'll have rehearsals till then. 10:50.000 --> 10:51.000 What about Van? 10:51.000 --> 10:52.360 Tell him you're going to sleep early or something. 10:52.360 --> 10:53.360 What if he calls anyway? 10:53.360 --> 10:54.360 I'll cover you. 10:54.360 --> 10:56.040 I'll probably be with him anyhow. 10:56.040 --> 10:57.360 He must never know about Nick. 10:57.360 --> 10:58.360 I get it, I get it. 10:58.360 --> 11:02.720 Now, listen, Julie, you just leave everything to me and in a couple of days you won't have 11:02.720 --> 11:06.480 to worry about Nick Edwards again. 11:06.480 --> 11:12.200 Yeah, just leave everything to me and you won't have to worry about anything anymore, 11:12.200 --> 11:13.560 Julie Phelps. 11:13.560 --> 11:21.760 Not even your own funeral. 11:21.760 --> 11:25.320 From eight o'clock the next evening I paid a little visit to my apartment, long enough 11:25.320 --> 11:29.720 to see that Julie was comfortable and also to get the keys to her place out from her 11:29.720 --> 11:30.720 handbag. 11:30.720 --> 11:41.440 I drove over there and went upstairs to do some interior decorating, my kind. 11:41.440 --> 11:43.440 Gonna take Van away for Broadway, are you? 11:43.440 --> 11:47.360 Gonna send me back to 40 bucks a week in a pig's ear, you are, Julie Phelps. 11:47.360 --> 11:53.360 Get that in a pig's ear. 11:53.360 --> 12:00.360 Now, just one more touch to complete the situation. 12:00.360 --> 12:02.800 A little business outside the club, Catalina. 12:02.800 --> 12:06.040 Hey kid, hey kid, come here. 12:06.040 --> 12:07.040 Here, listen now. 12:07.040 --> 12:08.800 Here's a dime, kid. 12:08.800 --> 12:11.760 Take this note in this here envelope and give it to Nick Edwards. 12:11.760 --> 12:14.840 And if anyone asks you, say a game, a dame gave it to you. 12:14.840 --> 12:15.840 Got that? 12:15.840 --> 12:16.840 A beautiful dame. 12:16.840 --> 12:20.760 Got it from a beautiful dame, right? 12:20.760 --> 12:26.680 Look, Gus, Gus, no more work. 12:26.680 --> 12:27.680 Let's knock off. 12:27.680 --> 12:28.680 What's the matter, Van? 12:28.680 --> 12:29.680 You tired? 12:29.680 --> 12:30.680 No, no, no. 12:30.680 --> 12:31.680 What's eating you? 12:31.680 --> 12:32.680 Oh, you wouldn't understand. 12:32.680 --> 12:33.680 All right, so don't tell me. 12:33.680 --> 12:34.680 I don't care anymore. 12:34.680 --> 12:35.680 It's Julie. 12:35.680 --> 12:36.680 Said she had to go to bed early tonight. 12:36.680 --> 12:37.680 So what? 12:37.680 --> 12:38.680 It ain't legal. 12:38.680 --> 12:39.680 I called a half dozen times, no answer. 12:39.680 --> 12:40.680 Uh-huh. 12:40.680 --> 12:41.680 Afraid she's too time in your hand. 12:41.680 --> 12:42.680 I didn't say that. 12:42.680 --> 12:43.680 Yeah, but I know how you feel. 12:43.680 --> 12:44.680 Yeah, well mind your own business. 12:44.680 --> 12:47.520 Look, my friend, I'll do you a good turn. 12:47.520 --> 12:49.520 Leave me dialed the number for you. 12:49.520 --> 12:50.520 Number's on the pad. 12:50.520 --> 12:53.040 Let's see what your fat fingers can do. 12:53.040 --> 12:56.240 You could talk to her while I get down to my room to get my hat and coat. 12:56.240 --> 12:59.360 I'll take you for a drive before we hit the sack. 12:59.360 --> 13:00.360 Sometimes you're even human. 13:00.360 --> 13:01.360 Okay, here, take it. 13:01.360 --> 13:02.360 It's ringing now. 13:02.360 --> 13:03.360 I'll be right back. 13:03.360 --> 13:04.360 I'll see. 13:04.360 --> 13:05.360 Hello? 13:05.360 --> 13:06.360 Julie, darling. 13:06.360 --> 13:07.360 Van. 13:07.360 --> 13:10.360 Honey, I'm sure glad to hear your voice. 13:10.360 --> 13:11.360 Where you been? 13:11.360 --> 13:12.360 Why? 13:12.360 --> 13:13.360 What about you? 13:13.360 --> 13:16.200 I've been trying to get you all evening. 13:16.200 --> 13:17.640 No answer, then Gus tried to... 13:17.640 --> 13:18.640 Van, dear, I told you. 13:18.640 --> 13:20.880 I was going home to get some sleep. 13:20.880 --> 13:21.880 When I phoned you must have... 13:21.880 --> 13:22.880 Maybe it didn't wake me. 13:22.880 --> 13:26.880 Well, now baby, that's hardly likely with a phone right near your bed. 13:26.880 --> 13:27.880 Sometimes I sleep. 13:27.880 --> 13:28.880 Julie. 13:28.880 --> 13:29.880 I can... 13:29.880 --> 13:30.880 Julie, is there someone there with you? 13:30.880 --> 13:31.880 Of course not, Van. 13:31.880 --> 13:32.880 I'm alone. 13:32.880 --> 13:33.880 I'm by myself. 13:33.880 --> 13:34.880 What are you... 13:34.880 --> 13:35.880 No. 13:35.880 --> 13:36.880 Julie. 13:36.880 --> 13:37.880 Van! 13:37.880 --> 13:38.880 Julie! 13:38.880 --> 13:39.880 Julie, what's the matter? 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16:21.960 --> 16:22.960 Did you get her? 16:22.960 --> 16:23.960 Yeah, yeah, she answered the phone. 16:23.960 --> 16:24.960 So? 16:24.960 --> 16:26.840 Well, she sounded funny like there was someone in the same room and then suddenly she sounded 16:26.840 --> 16:28.800 like she was hit or choked or something. 16:28.800 --> 16:30.520 Well, maybe it's just a gag she was pulling. 16:30.520 --> 16:32.200 You know, dames do that sometimes. 16:32.200 --> 16:33.200 You think so? 16:33.200 --> 16:34.200 Why, sure. 16:34.200 --> 16:35.200 No, no, no, it couldn't be. 16:35.200 --> 16:36.200 I heard her, Gus. 16:36.200 --> 16:37.200 Gus, what should I do? 16:37.200 --> 16:38.200 Now, come on, keep your shite on, Van. 16:38.200 --> 16:39.200 The way she screamed. 16:39.200 --> 16:40.200 Did you call her back? 16:40.200 --> 16:41.200 No, no, I didn't. 16:41.200 --> 16:42.200 Well, why don't you? 16:42.200 --> 16:43.200 That's right. 16:43.200 --> 16:44.200 That's right, call her back. 16:44.200 --> 16:45.200 That's what I'll do. 16:45.200 --> 16:46.200 Sure. 16:46.200 --> 16:52.240 Well, here, here, something's happened, I know it has. 16:52.240 --> 16:53.240 Line busy? 16:53.240 --> 16:54.240 No, no, no answer. 16:54.240 --> 16:55.640 Maybe you just spoke to her a minute ago. 16:55.640 --> 16:56.960 Gus, I'm worried, I'm worried sick. 16:56.960 --> 16:58.480 I get it, she's all right. 16:58.480 --> 16:59.480 Come on out for a ride. 16:59.480 --> 17:00.480 Oh, no, I couldn't. 17:00.480 --> 17:02.120 Look, tell you what I'll do for a pound. 17:02.120 --> 17:03.280 I'll drive you over there. 17:03.280 --> 17:13.680 You can check up for yourself. 17:13.680 --> 17:17.080 Didn't look pretty grim as we drove over to Julie's place in the West 70s. 17:17.080 --> 17:22.360 I checked over everything I'd done and figured how I'd work out the rest of the situation. 17:22.360 --> 17:25.960 And we turned off Central Park West into the side street where Julie lived on the second 17:25.960 --> 17:27.760 floor of a converted brownstone. 17:27.760 --> 17:35.000 Hey, look, there's a guy coming out of the house. 17:35.000 --> 17:36.000 That's probably nobody. 17:36.000 --> 17:37.000 I can't see who it is. 17:37.000 --> 17:38.000 He's making a getaway. 17:38.000 --> 17:39.000 Gus, follow him. 17:39.000 --> 17:40.000 I never catch him now. 17:40.000 --> 17:43.800 Oh, gosh, Gus, if you'd only got close enough to see his license number. 17:43.800 --> 17:44.800 Well, I did. 17:44.800 --> 17:45.800 What was it? 17:45.800 --> 17:46.800 LK573498. 17:46.800 --> 17:47.800 LK573498. 17:47.800 --> 17:56.960 All right, Sam Spade, now let's go upstairs and visit Julie, huh? 17:56.960 --> 18:00.680 The door to Julie's apartment was wide open when we got upstairs and the place was just 18:00.680 --> 18:01.920 like I left it. 18:01.920 --> 18:03.400 Like there'd been some kind of a fight. 18:03.400 --> 18:06.920 And then, then I saw where I'd made a mistake. 18:06.920 --> 18:10.440 The telephone where Julie was supposed to be strangled was as neat as a pin. 18:10.440 --> 18:15.560 I watched Ben's face to see if he noticed it, but he was too broken up to notice anything. 18:15.560 --> 18:18.440 Julie, Julie. 18:18.440 --> 18:21.200 Gus, she was a sweet kid. 18:21.200 --> 18:22.200 What do you mean, was? 18:22.200 --> 18:23.200 I know. 18:23.200 --> 18:24.200 She's dead. 18:24.200 --> 18:25.200 What do you know? 18:25.200 --> 18:27.000 All you see is that her apartment is all busted up. 18:27.000 --> 18:28.360 I heard her scream tonight. 18:28.360 --> 18:32.640 Gus, I waited 20 years to meet a girl that I could marry. 18:32.640 --> 18:33.640 So help me. 18:33.640 --> 18:36.040 I'm not going to die till a guy who did this is in his grave. 18:36.040 --> 18:37.040 You'll see. 18:37.040 --> 18:38.040 You'll see, Gus. 18:38.040 --> 18:42.320 I'm kind of mixed up now, but in a little while I'll be able to think. 18:42.320 --> 18:43.800 I know what to do. 18:43.800 --> 18:45.600 Sure, I'll know what to do. 18:45.600 --> 18:47.480 Look, that's the telephone. 18:47.480 --> 18:48.480 What about the telephone? 18:48.480 --> 18:49.480 I'm going to call the police. 18:49.480 --> 18:50.480 You know, Van, now wait a minute. 18:50.480 --> 18:51.480 Don't be crazy. 18:51.480 --> 18:52.480 What? 18:52.480 --> 18:53.480 Look, put that telephone down. 18:53.480 --> 18:54.480 Why shouldn't I call the police? 18:54.480 --> 18:55.480 It's very simple. 18:55.480 --> 18:56.480 You got no evidence she was murdered. 18:56.480 --> 18:57.480 But I heard her scream. 18:57.480 --> 18:58.480 Use your eyes, Van. 18:58.480 --> 18:59.480 Will you use your eyes? 18:59.480 --> 19:00.480 Julie said she was in bed. 19:00.480 --> 19:01.920 Has the bed been slept in? 19:01.920 --> 19:02.920 And where's her coat? 19:02.920 --> 19:03.920 Where's her purse? 19:03.920 --> 19:04.920 And where's her hat? 19:04.920 --> 19:06.280 She said she... 19:06.280 --> 19:09.200 You're right, Gus. 19:09.200 --> 19:10.720 You're right, I won't phone. 19:10.720 --> 19:11.720 Maybe she's still alive. 19:11.720 --> 19:12.720 That's better. 19:12.720 --> 19:19.000 Now look, Van, sometimes we haven't felt too good towards each other, but after all, 19:19.000 --> 19:20.720 we've been partners for a long time, kid. 19:20.720 --> 19:23.200 Now tell you what, I'll do anything. 19:23.200 --> 19:24.320 Anything you say to help you out. 19:24.320 --> 19:25.320 All right, then look. 19:25.320 --> 19:29.000 Look, just on an off chance, Gus, trace that license plate, will you? 19:29.000 --> 19:35.440 Let's find out who that guy was. 19:35.440 --> 19:37.400 We went back to our hotel. 19:37.400 --> 19:42.440 I slept like a log because I knew that Julie was 10 feet from my bed in the closet. 19:42.440 --> 19:43.680 Very dead. 19:43.680 --> 19:47.040 Where she couldn't come between me and Van anymore. 19:47.040 --> 19:49.840 Next morning I told Van I'd checked at the license bureau. 19:49.840 --> 19:50.840 Whose car was it? 19:50.840 --> 19:52.120 Nick Edwards. 19:52.120 --> 19:53.120 Kathleen Edwards? 19:53.120 --> 19:54.120 That's right. 19:54.120 --> 19:55.120 Why, that dirty goon. 19:55.120 --> 19:56.120 Now look, you don't think that he... 19:56.120 --> 19:57.120 I don't have to think. 19:57.120 --> 19:58.120 I'll let the police do the... 19:58.120 --> 19:59.120 Wait a minute, hold it. 19:59.120 --> 20:04.280 Look, Van, I never told you this before, but I knew all along that Julie was playing around 20:04.280 --> 20:05.280 with Nick Edwards. 20:05.280 --> 20:06.280 With Nick Edwards? 20:06.280 --> 20:07.280 Yeah. 20:07.280 --> 20:08.280 That's why I never liked her. 20:08.280 --> 20:10.360 Now you better not call the cops. 20:10.360 --> 20:12.960 Maybe we was just busting in on a private little party last night. 20:12.960 --> 20:14.080 No, no, no, I can't believe it. 20:14.080 --> 20:15.080 No, not Julie. 20:15.080 --> 20:17.020 Well, we gotta find out where she is. 20:17.020 --> 20:18.800 And the guy who knows is Nick Edwards. 20:18.800 --> 20:20.560 What makes you think he'll tell? 20:20.560 --> 20:24.200 I'll tell you what, I'll call him at the club tonight and ask him over. 20:24.200 --> 20:28.840 I think maybe he'll accept my invitation. 20:28.840 --> 20:34.520 Well, Nick arrived at 11 p.m. 20:34.520 --> 20:39.400 And from my window, I watched him park his black car in a dark side street near the hotel, 20:39.400 --> 20:41.200 just like I told him to. 20:41.200 --> 20:45.600 And I carried Julie's body down the back stairs and put it in the luggage compartment of Nick's 20:45.600 --> 20:46.600 car. 20:46.600 --> 20:47.600 Nobody saw me. 20:47.600 --> 20:50.440 And a few minutes later, I knocked on Van's door. 20:50.440 --> 20:51.440 That you, Gus? 20:51.440 --> 20:52.440 Come in. 20:52.440 --> 20:53.440 Hi, Van. 20:53.440 --> 20:54.440 Hi, Nick. 20:54.440 --> 20:55.440 Good evening, Gus. 20:55.440 --> 20:57.440 Nick was just telling me, Gus. 20:57.440 --> 21:01.440 Look, I'm just as worried about Julie as you guys are, see? 21:01.440 --> 21:03.240 Yeah, that's easy to say. 21:03.240 --> 21:06.120 OK, OK, don't take my word for it. 21:06.120 --> 21:08.560 But I've had her house called every half hour all day. 21:08.560 --> 21:11.360 Why'd you go there last night in the first place? 21:11.360 --> 21:13.280 You haven't been around long, have you? 21:13.280 --> 21:14.280 Never mind that, wise guy. 21:14.280 --> 21:15.920 Why'd you visit my girl? 21:15.920 --> 21:17.480 Who said she was your girl? 21:17.480 --> 21:19.000 She was engaged to me. 21:19.000 --> 21:20.280 She was tired of you. 21:20.280 --> 21:21.280 Why, you little... 21:21.280 --> 21:22.280 Sit down. 21:22.280 --> 21:24.720 She told me so herself. 21:24.720 --> 21:25.720 When? 21:25.720 --> 21:26.720 Yesterday. 21:26.720 --> 21:28.720 Then you saw her yesterday, Nick? 21:28.720 --> 21:29.720 No. 21:29.720 --> 21:33.440 No, I ain't seen her since she quit working at the club and started to pal around with 21:33.440 --> 21:34.880 your friend here. 21:34.880 --> 21:36.160 But you just said that... 21:36.160 --> 21:39.920 Julie was the only gal who ever had me on the ropes, eh? 21:39.920 --> 21:43.360 But when she called it quits, I went along. 21:43.360 --> 21:47.360 She was too good for an ex-con like me anyway, I figured. 21:47.360 --> 21:50.400 But last night, someone gives me a note in her handwriting. 21:50.400 --> 21:51.400 Oh? 21:51.400 --> 21:52.400 What did the note say, Nick? 21:52.400 --> 21:55.480 Oh, it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. 21:55.480 --> 21:58.760 I read it over and over until I knew it by heart. 21:58.760 --> 22:00.200 Please don't laugh at me. 22:00.200 --> 22:01.440 I think we made a mistake. 22:01.440 --> 22:03.160 I know I have. 22:03.160 --> 22:05.800 Let's start all over from the beginning. 22:05.800 --> 22:07.080 If you really love me, you will. 22:07.080 --> 22:08.640 I love you. 22:08.640 --> 22:10.720 I'll do anything for you. 22:10.720 --> 22:11.720 I'd like to see you. 22:11.720 --> 22:13.560 Let's talk this over. 22:13.560 --> 22:14.560 How about tonight? 22:14.560 --> 22:15.560 When? 22:15.560 --> 22:16.560 At midnight? 22:16.560 --> 22:17.560 Come. 22:17.560 --> 22:26.520 I'm waiting for you right now. 22:26.520 --> 22:29.880 As soon as Nick Edwards left, I told Van I didn't believe anything he said. 22:29.880 --> 22:34.880 And as far as I was concerned, Nick either killed Julie or had taken her away. 22:34.880 --> 22:39.360 Van agreed with me and we called the police. 22:39.360 --> 22:44.400 Ah, yes. 22:44.400 --> 22:46.400 It all made a perfect situation. 22:46.400 --> 22:48.200 The best I'd ever dreamed up. 22:48.200 --> 22:51.720 All of Nick Edwards' high powered lawyers couldn't save him from being sentenced to 22:51.720 --> 22:52.720 the chair. 22:52.720 --> 22:54.840 Yes, sir, life looked pretty sweet. 22:54.840 --> 22:58.240 But there was just one thing wrong. 22:58.240 --> 23:00.840 Van's comedy was getting worse and worse. 23:00.840 --> 23:03.600 Fred Benton told us we'd have to get better or else. 23:03.600 --> 23:08.200 Now we sat in Van's room sweating out a Benton program that was a day overdue. 23:08.200 --> 23:13.000 Van, Van, for the love of Mike, will you pull yourself together? 23:13.000 --> 23:14.680 Of course I can't think. 23:14.680 --> 23:15.680 You don't have to think. 23:15.680 --> 23:16.680 I'll save you the whole situation. 23:16.680 --> 23:18.640 All you gotta do is write the gags for it. 23:18.640 --> 23:19.640 Gags? 23:19.640 --> 23:22.640 Now look, look, in the first scene, Fred and Mrs. Mishmash steal a horse. 23:22.640 --> 23:23.760 But here's the twist. 23:23.760 --> 23:24.760 The horse is blind. 23:24.760 --> 23:25.760 You get it? 23:25.760 --> 23:26.760 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 23:26.760 --> 23:27.760 Well, come on, then, give. 23:27.760 --> 23:28.760 You know hundreds of horse gags. 23:28.760 --> 23:30.760 Now just give them a twist and fit the situation. 23:30.760 --> 23:31.760 I can't. 23:31.760 --> 23:32.760 They just won't come. 23:32.760 --> 23:35.200 Look, if we don't get this script in tomorrow, Fred will can us. 23:35.200 --> 23:36.600 Now come on, Guy, will you write? 23:36.600 --> 23:37.600 Well, go write yourself. 23:37.600 --> 23:39.200 Van, you know I can't write. 23:39.200 --> 23:40.200 I'm no good without a gag man. 23:40.200 --> 23:41.560 Get yourself another gag man. 23:41.560 --> 23:42.560 I'm through. 23:42.560 --> 23:43.560 Look. 23:43.560 --> 23:44.560 Washed up. 23:44.560 --> 23:45.560 It's not gonna work, Van. 23:45.560 --> 23:46.560 You know that. 23:46.560 --> 23:47.560 I've tried it on the QT. 23:47.560 --> 23:49.760 I was afraid that someday it would break up, but it never worked. 23:49.760 --> 23:51.200 With you and me, Van, something happens. 23:51.200 --> 23:52.660 We're a great team. 23:52.660 --> 23:54.720 Without me, you're just another guy making with words. 23:54.720 --> 23:57.280 Without you, I'm just another Joe. 23:57.280 --> 23:59.160 Now don't you see, kid? 23:59.160 --> 24:01.000 That's why we gotta stick together. 24:01.000 --> 24:03.480 Even if we do hate each other's guts. 24:03.480 --> 24:05.280 That's why nobody can't never break us up. 24:05.280 --> 24:07.280 Now come on, Guy, write, will you? 24:07.280 --> 24:09.800 I can't think of anything. 24:09.800 --> 24:12.040 Look how we got something in the files we haven't used yet. 24:12.040 --> 24:13.040 Files. 24:13.040 --> 24:14.120 You had a senior dictator to Julie. 24:14.120 --> 24:15.120 What was that? 24:15.120 --> 24:16.120 Huh? 24:16.120 --> 24:17.120 That Mrs. Mishmash or something. 24:17.120 --> 24:18.120 No. 24:18.120 --> 24:19.120 Fred. 24:19.120 --> 24:20.120 Was it, please don't laugh at me or something? 24:20.120 --> 24:21.120 I think we made a mistake. 24:21.120 --> 24:22.120 No, no, no, Van. 24:22.120 --> 24:23.960 Look, that's a no good situation. 24:23.960 --> 24:24.960 That's dead. 24:24.960 --> 24:25.960 Let's get something new. 24:25.960 --> 24:26.960 Gus, it's a good situation. 24:26.960 --> 24:27.960 No, um. 24:27.960 --> 24:28.960 A very clever situation. 24:28.960 --> 24:29.960 All I need are the lines. 24:29.960 --> 24:30.960 Please don't laugh at me. 24:30.960 --> 24:31.960 Now, Van, I'm telling you, it's no good. 24:31.960 --> 24:32.960 The lines, the lines, the lines. 24:32.960 --> 24:34.960 The lines, please don't laugh at me. 24:34.960 --> 24:36.520 I'm telling you, it's no good, Van. 24:36.520 --> 24:37.520 Of course. 24:37.520 --> 24:38.780 Why didn't I think of that before? 24:38.780 --> 24:40.960 Those lines you dictated to Julie, they fit. 24:40.960 --> 24:41.960 No, they don't fit. 24:41.960 --> 24:44.200 Besides, I can't ride gags, you know that. 24:44.200 --> 24:45.200 That wasn't a gag, Gus. 24:45.200 --> 24:46.360 That was a situation. 24:46.360 --> 24:48.040 The most desperate situation you ever invented. 24:48.040 --> 24:49.040 Now, wait a minute. 24:49.040 --> 24:50.040 What are you beating your gums about here? 24:50.040 --> 24:51.040 We'll find out. 24:51.040 --> 24:52.040 What are you going to do? 24:52.040 --> 24:55.580 Operator, I want to speak to Inspector Martin of police headquarters. 24:55.580 --> 24:56.580 Get away from that door, Gus. 24:56.580 --> 24:57.580 I got a gun. 24:57.580 --> 24:58.580 Now, don't shoot, Van. 24:58.580 --> 24:59.580 Wait a minute. 24:59.580 --> 25:00.580 Don't shoot. 25:00.580 --> 25:01.580 Don't move. 25:01.580 --> 25:02.580 Police headquarters, Inspector Martin. 25:02.580 --> 25:03.760 Oh, Inspector Martin, this is Van Hauser of the Julie Phelps case. 25:03.760 --> 25:05.320 Hey, I've been trying to get... 25:05.320 --> 25:06.320 Edwards didn't kill Julie. 25:06.320 --> 25:07.320 Gus Green did. 25:07.320 --> 25:08.320 And I got proof. 25:08.320 --> 25:09.320 That makes it even worse. 25:09.320 --> 25:10.800 Edward says you framed him. 25:10.800 --> 25:11.800 Green did. 25:11.800 --> 25:14.400 And that was a script dictated to Julie, minus the character names. 25:14.400 --> 25:15.640 How about his alibi? 25:15.640 --> 25:18.280 He dialed his own number, Inspector, not hers. 25:18.280 --> 25:20.480 And killed her while she was speaking on the phone. 25:20.480 --> 25:22.520 To make things look right, he messed up her apartment. 25:22.520 --> 25:26.320 I never could quite figure out why there were no signs of struggle around her telephone. 25:26.320 --> 25:27.320 Now I know. 25:27.320 --> 25:29.720 Yeah, he must have stowed her body in Nick's car. 25:29.720 --> 25:32.640 Better send some cops over right away before I shoot him. 25:32.640 --> 25:34.720 They're coming over, Hauser, to protect you. 25:34.720 --> 25:35.720 Edwards broke out about an hour ago. 25:35.720 --> 25:36.720 Want you out for him. 25:36.720 --> 25:37.720 Nick Edwards? 25:37.720 --> 25:38.720 Yes. 25:38.720 --> 25:39.720 Yes, Nick Edwards. 25:39.720 --> 25:40.720 Huh? 25:40.720 --> 25:43.720 All right, Hauser, come across with that gun. 25:43.720 --> 25:44.720 Come on. 25:44.720 --> 25:46.600 Nick, you heard what I said, didn't you? 25:46.600 --> 25:47.600 So what? 25:47.600 --> 25:48.600 I didn't frame you. 25:48.600 --> 25:49.600 Gus did. 25:49.600 --> 25:50.600 He's a guy with a situation. 25:50.600 --> 25:51.600 So what? 25:51.600 --> 25:52.600 You took my girl away from me, didn't you? 25:52.600 --> 25:53.600 All right, give me that gun. 25:53.600 --> 25:54.600 Now, Nick, wait a minute. 25:54.600 --> 25:55.600 What are you going to do with it? 25:55.600 --> 25:56.600 Nothing except give me that gun, Hauser. 25:56.600 --> 25:57.600 Gus, don't let him get that gun, Gus. 25:57.600 --> 25:58.600 I'm a little too quick for you, Gus. 25:58.600 --> 25:59.600 Now, Nick, please. 25:59.600 --> 26:00.600 Now, don't shoot me. 26:00.600 --> 26:01.600 Let me tell you how this... 26:01.600 --> 26:02.600 Cut it, you. 26:02.600 --> 26:03.600 I've had a belly full of your stories. 26:03.600 --> 26:04.600 They put me in jail, remember? 26:04.600 --> 26:05.600 They're all stuffed up in here. 26:05.600 --> 26:12.600 But like they say, there ain't no situation that can't take a new twist. 26:12.600 --> 26:15.600 Here's the twist to this one. 26:15.600 --> 26:18.600 You ain't going to die for the murder of my poor Julie. 26:18.600 --> 26:19.600 No, no. 26:19.600 --> 26:22.600 You're going to die for something you didn't do. 26:22.600 --> 26:25.600 What do you mean, Nick? 26:25.600 --> 26:28.600 Just this. 26:28.600 --> 26:31.600 The murder of Van Dyke. 26:31.600 --> 26:36.600 The murder of Van Hauser. 26:36.600 --> 26:50.600 Well, they didn't believe me at the trial. 26:50.600 --> 26:53.600 So I'm up for killing my late, un lamented partner. 26:53.600 --> 26:56.600 But you know me, I always like a twist. 26:56.600 --> 26:58.600 They got Nick for killing Julie. 26:58.600 --> 27:04.600 Now, I guess you can understand why I can't write the prisoner's annual show, can't you, 27:04.600 --> 27:05.600 warden? 27:05.600 --> 27:06.600 Not without Van. 27:06.600 --> 27:21.600 And besides, like I said, I don't have too much time, do I, before I go to the chair? 27:21.600 --> 27:24.600 Suspense. 27:24.600 --> 27:31.600 The Twist, starring Michael O'Shea, presented by Roma Wines. 27:31.600 --> 27:38.600 That's R-O-M-A, Roma California Wines, America's largest selling wines. 27:38.600 --> 27:44.600 When your family and friends enjoy glorious golden amber Roma Sherry or ruby red Roma Port, 27:44.600 --> 27:52.600 you share the rich reward of choicest California grapes, selected and gently pressed at peak taste richness 27:52.600 --> 27:57.600 with ancient skills and winemaking resources unmatched in America. 27:57.600 --> 28:04.600 Roma master ventners guide this grape treasure unhurriedly to full taste perfection. 28:04.600 --> 28:10.600 These choice wines then are laid down with mellow Roma wines of years before, and from these, 28:10.600 --> 28:17.600 the world's great reserves of fine wines, Roma later selects for your taste pleasure. 28:17.600 --> 28:23.600 Tomorrow and every day, enjoy this naturally better taste of Roma Wines. 28:23.600 --> 28:33.600 Whether your favorite Roma Wine is not like Roma Sherry or rich Roma Port, you'll find that every Roma Wine is better tasting wine. 28:33.600 --> 28:38.600 That's why more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wines. 28:38.600 --> 28:41.600 Tonight's Suspense Play was by Baef Blau. 28:41.600 --> 28:48.600 Next Thursday same time, you will hear Donald O'Connor as star of Suspense, 28:48.600 --> 29:01.600 produced and directed by William Spear for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 29:01.600 --> 29:07.600 In the coming weeks, Suspense will present such stars as Claire Trevor, Kirk Douglas and others. 29:07.600 --> 29:23.600 Make it a point to listen each Thursday to Suspense, radio's outstanding theater thrills. 29:23.600 --> 29:37.600 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.