1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,320 Suspense. 2 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:11,020 Tonight's Suspense brings you an all-star cast of Hollywood's finest radio players, 3 00:00:11,020 --> 00:00:13,260 in 100 In The Dark. 4 00:00:13,260 --> 00:00:19,240 But first, wherever hospitality is a gracious art, and entertaining is the last word in 5 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:24,920 luxury, the first name in wines is C-R-E-S-T-A. 6 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:29,520 B-L-A-N-C-A. 7 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:32,120 Cresta Blanca. 8 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:33,800 Cresta Blanca. 9 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:40,840 Yes, that's Cresta Blanca wines, a symbol of perfect taste, of gracious living. 10 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:47,000 To pay your guests a sincere compliment, distinguish your holiday dining by serving a fine Cresta 11 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,400 Blanca California Burgundy or Sauternes. 12 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:56,400 When you pour these proud Cresta Blanca wines from the finest of the vines, you enjoy the 13 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:57,400 best. 14 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:01,560 This is Shenley's Cresta Blanca Wine Company, Livermore, California. 15 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:08,200 And now Shenley brings you Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 16 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:13,400 Presented by Roma Wines, that's R-O-M-A. Roma Wines, for your enjoyment. 17 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:19,920 Tonight, Roma Wines of Fresno, California, presents 100 In The Dark, a study in suspense, 18 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,320 produced, edited, and directed for Shenley by William Spear. 19 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:32,240 Oh, that was a fine meal indeed. 20 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:33,680 Me for the club any time. 21 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:35,520 Yeah, you can all sit here, Queenie. 22 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:36,520 Oh, yes, yes. 23 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:38,480 If you'll just draw up that chair for Mr. Peters. 24 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:39,480 There you are, Peters. 25 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:40,480 Thank you. 26 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:41,480 You all know Peters? 27 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:42,480 Oh, this is Mr. Steingarl. 28 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:43,480 How do you do? 29 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:44,480 Glad to know you. 30 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:45,480 Mr. DeGaulia. 31 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:46,480 I believe we've met. 32 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:47,480 Yes, how are you? 33 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:48,640 You know each other. 34 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:50,520 And the one who drew up your chair, Mr. Rankin. 35 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:51,520 How's the chair? 36 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:53,520 Well, I guess we're all acquainted. 37 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,920 Now, to get back to our table discussion. 38 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:58,480 Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. 39 00:01:58,480 --> 00:01:59,760 Oh, how about some coffee? 40 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:00,760 All of us, eh? 41 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:01,760 Oh, fine. 42 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:02,760 Oh, John, John. 43 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:08,640 Well, now, Steingarl, as I said, there are only half a dozen stories in the world. 44 00:02:08,640 --> 00:02:10,360 What is more to the point, there's every... 45 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:11,360 Yes, sir? 46 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:12,360 Yeah. 47 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:14,600 Oh, yes, yes, coffee, John. 48 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:15,600 Anything else, anybody? 49 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:16,600 No, not for me. 50 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:17,600 I don't think I care. 51 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:18,600 Yes, sir. 52 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:19,600 Now, where was I? 53 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:20,600 Oh, yes. 54 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:25,480 Well, human relations are so simple and yet so fundamental that they can be eternally 55 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:30,280 played upon, redressed and reinterpreted in every language, in every age. 56 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,480 They remain inexhaustible in the possibility of variations. 57 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:35,040 Well, that's true, of course. 58 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:36,040 Yeah, well, that's very possible. 59 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:37,040 Fair now. 60 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:38,040 But you... 61 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:41,800 Take the eternal triangle, two men and a woman or two women and a man. 62 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,960 Its variations extend into the thousand. 63 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:45,960 That right, Rankin? 64 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:46,960 Well, in a way, yes. 65 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:47,960 But... 66 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:48,960 Oh, yes, coffee. 67 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:49,960 Yes, yes, set them right down here. 68 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,600 I'm afraid we can't see eye to eye, Quinny. 69 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:59,560 Now, I believe there are situations, original situations, that are independent of your human 70 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:00,560 emotions. 71 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:04,960 They exist just because they are situations, accidental and nothing else. 72 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:06,560 Now, as for instance... 73 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:07,560 Well, I... 74 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:13,040 I've sighted just an ordinary one that happens to come to my mind. 75 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:14,040 Well? 76 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:18,280 Now, you're taking in a group of five men, such as we are here. 77 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,800 A theft takes place. 78 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:23,720 One man is the thief. 79 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:24,720 Which one? 80 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,800 Now, I'd like to know what emotion that interprets. 81 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:29,680 And yet, it certainly is an original theme. 82 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:31,160 It's at the bottom of the whole literature. 83 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:32,160 No, no, no. 84 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:33,160 Detective story. 85 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:37,960 I can answer that the situation you give can be traced back to the commonest of human emotions, 86 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:38,960 curiosity. 87 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:39,960 I think we have to do that, Rankin. 88 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:40,960 Yes. 89 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,880 Why, the whole art of a detective story consists of the statement of the problem. 90 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:45,920 Why, anyone can do it. 91 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:46,920 I can do it. 92 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:47,920 Steingalt can do it. 93 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,320 Rankin, I believe even you can do it. 94 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:51,320 Yes, thank you. 95 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:53,120 The solution doesn't count. 96 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:54,120 It's usually banal. 97 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:55,680 It should be prohibited. 98 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,520 What interests us is, can we guess it? 99 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:00,080 Yes, I suppose that's true. 100 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:05,880 Now, every crime expresses itself in the terms of the picture puzzle that you feed your six-year-old. 101 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:08,360 It's only the variation that is interesting. 102 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:12,800 You know, the well-known instance of the visitor at a club and the rare coin, for example. 103 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,000 Of course, you all know that one. 104 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,000 No, I don't. 105 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,000 I don't. 106 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:18,000 I don't. 107 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Very well known. 108 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,360 Seems a distinguished visitor is brought into a club. 109 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,680 Doesn't men say present at dinner, long table? 110 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:29,520 Conversation finally veers around to curiosities and relics. 111 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:33,600 One of the members then takes from his pocket what he announces is one of the rarest coins 112 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:34,600 in existence. 113 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:36,840 Passes it around the table. 114 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:38,600 Coin travels back and forth. 115 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:39,960 Everyone examines it. 116 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:41,960 And the conversation goes to another topic. 117 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:47,240 Who say the influence of the automobile on civilian life or some other such intellectual 118 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:49,480 club topic, you know. 119 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,760 All at once the owner calls for his coin. 120 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:54,120 There's nowhere to be found. 121 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:55,720 Yes, yes, precisely. 122 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:57,320 Everyone looks at everyone else. 123 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:59,440 First they suspect a joke. 124 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:00,600 Then it becomes serious. 125 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,240 The coin is immensely valuable. 126 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:03,800 Now, who has taken it? 127 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:06,360 The owner, as a gentleman, does the correct idiotic thing. 128 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:07,920 Of course, laughs. 129 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,720 Says he knows someone is playing a practical joke on him. 130 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,640 And that the coin will be returned tomorrow. 131 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,520 The others refuse to leave the situation so. 132 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:20,120 One man proposes they all submit to a search. 133 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,960 Everyone gives his consent until it comes to the stranger. 134 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:26,000 I refuse to allow me person to be searched. 135 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,520 He is very firm, very proud, very English. 136 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:31,680 And I refuse to give the reason for my action. 137 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:33,600 Well, there's another silence. 138 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,520 The men eye him and then glance at one another. 139 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:38,280 Now, what's to be done? 140 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:39,280 Nothing. 141 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:40,360 Oh, nothing. 142 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:44,760 There is etiquette, that magnificent inflated blue. 143 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:47,480 The visitor evidently has the coin. 144 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:49,920 He is their guest and etiquette protects him. 145 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,040 Oh, nice situation, eh? 146 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:53,640 Well, the table is clear. 147 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,480 A waiter removes a dish of fruit and there, 148 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,600 under the ledge of the plate, where it had been pushed, 149 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:00,440 is the coin. 150 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:01,440 Well, I heard a different explanation. 151 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:02,880 Yes, of course, by now, explanation. 152 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:04,320 I know, I know, I know. 153 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,240 Solutions always should be. 154 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:08,920 At once, everyone is profuse with apologies. 155 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,160 Whereupon, the visitor rises and says, 156 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:15,560 now, I can give you the reason for my refusal to be searched. 157 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:19,120 There are only two known specimens of the coin in existence. 158 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:22,680 And the second happens to be here, in my best pocket. 159 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:23,800 Eh-heh-heh. 160 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:25,720 Of course, the story is very well invented, 161 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:27,800 but the turn to it is very nice, very nice indeed. 162 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,320 Well, I do like that story, but the ending, 163 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:32,960 the ending, though, is too obvious to be invented. 164 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:33,800 I think so. 165 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,680 The visitor should have had on him, not another coin, 166 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:40,720 but something absolutely different, something, 167 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:44,880 well, destructive, say, to a woman's reputation. 168 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,160 And a great tragedy should have been threatened 169 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:48,920 with a casual misplacing of the coin. 170 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:52,320 I've heard the same story told in a dozen different ways. 171 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:54,520 Oh, it's happened a hundred times. 172 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,040 It must be continually happening. 173 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:59,360 I, uh, know one extraordinary instance, 174 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,160 in fact, the most extraordinary instance 175 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:03,400 of the sort I've ever heard. 176 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:05,160 Why, Peter, you rascal. 177 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,240 I see you've quietly been letting us dress the stage for you. 178 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:13,040 Well, it's, uh, not a story that'll please everyone. 179 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:14,160 Oh, why not? 180 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,880 Because you'll want to know what no one can ever know. 181 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:18,640 It has no conclusion, then, huh? 182 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:20,600 Uh, yes and no. 183 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:22,240 As far as it concerns a woman, however, 184 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:24,840 quite the most remarkable woman I've ever met, 185 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:25,760 the story is complete. 186 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:27,880 Ah, it concerns a woman. 187 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:29,560 A woman and a crime. 188 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:32,400 A crime of fever, as such as we've been just now. 189 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:34,040 A crime of fever, yes. 190 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:35,000 Quite a story. 191 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,760 I think, uh, yes, I, uh, have just time 192 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:39,760 before I catch my train to tell it to you. 193 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,760 ["Suspense and Romer Wines"] 194 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,120 For Suspense, Romer Wines are bringing you 195 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:53,880 100 in the Dark. 196 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:55,520 Romer Wines presentation tonight 197 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:59,440 in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 198 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:06,440 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 199 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:10,400 is presented by Romer Wines. 200 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:14,640 That's R-O-M-A, Romer Wines, selected for better taste 201 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:18,760 from the world's greatest reserves of fine wines. 202 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:22,100 Next week, Americans everywhere will celebrate Thanksgiving, 203 00:08:22,100 --> 00:08:24,260 and in millions of homes, families and friends 204 00:08:24,260 --> 00:08:25,600 will give a toast of thankfulness 205 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:29,400 with better tasting Romer California wines. 206 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,640 That's because Romer wines are America's favorite wines 207 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:36,600 for festive occasions, as well as everyday enjoyment. 208 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:39,200 No matter what you're planning for Thanksgiving dinner, 209 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:43,480 there's a fine Romer wine to make every morsel a taste delight. 210 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:45,200 Glorify the flavor of your turkey 211 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,480 with golden hue, delicate Romer Saturn. 212 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:53,120 Or if you're having meat, enjoy robust, full-bodied Romer Burgundy, 213 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,400 the perfect flavor mate of your favorite roast. 214 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:59,640 That's why more Americans enjoy Romer wines. 215 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:06,400 That's R-O-M-A, Romer wines than any other wines. 216 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:10,080 And now, Romer wines bring us back to the Artists and Writers Club, 217 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:13,400 where five club members regaling themselves over after dinner coffee 218 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:16,040 are settling down to hear a story told by a guest, 219 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:18,160 a certain Mr. Peters. 220 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:21,680 His is a narrative well calculated to keep his listeners in... 221 00:09:21,680 --> 00:09:22,680 Suspense. 222 00:09:22,680 --> 00:09:30,160 Er, Quinney, before I start, I wonder, would you ask the, er, John, 223 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:31,160 I believe his name? 224 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:32,160 Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. 225 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:33,160 Er, John? 226 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:34,160 Yes, gentlemen? 227 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:35,800 Er, John, I have a train to catch. 228 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,720 Would you be good enough to get me out of here in exactly 15 minutes? 229 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:40,200 In 15 minutes, sir. 230 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:41,200 Thank you. 231 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:42,680 Well, you have our attention, Peter. 232 00:09:42,680 --> 00:09:43,680 It concerns a woman. 233 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:45,240 Do I know the woman? 234 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:46,240 Possibly. 235 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:49,280 Er, probably, I should say, but no more than anyone else. 236 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:50,280 Ah, an actress. 237 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:52,920 Er, what she's been in the past, I don't know. 238 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:55,160 A promoter would better describe her. 239 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,280 A very feminine woman, and yet, as you shall see, 240 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:02,320 with an unusual, instantaneous masculine power of, er, decision. 241 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:03,320 Oh, well... 242 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:04,880 Peters, you're destroying your story. 243 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:06,920 Your preface will bring an anticlimax. 244 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:07,920 You shall be the judge. 245 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,120 Of course, it, er, should be particularly interesting to you, 246 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:14,240 because I believe most of you are acquainted with the people involved. 247 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:17,280 The names, er, I shall use, of course, are disguises. 248 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:24,920 No! 249 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:27,400 Mrs... er, well, er... 250 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:33,080 Mrs Rita Kildare inhabited a charming bachelor girl studio, 251 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:35,560 very elegant of the duplex pattern, 252 00:10:35,560 --> 00:10:38,640 in one of the buildings just off Central Park West. 253 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:42,800 She knew pretty nearly everyone in that indescribable society in New York 254 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:44,360 that is drawn from all levels, 255 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:47,040 and it imposes but one condition for membership, 256 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:48,520 and that is to be amusing. 257 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:50,320 Ah, good phrase that Peter, good phrase. 258 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:52,680 She had a certain amount of money, 259 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:55,880 she knew a certain number of men in Wall Street affairs, 260 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:59,840 and her studio was furnished with taste and even distinction. 261 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:01,400 She was of any age, 262 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,640 she might have suffered everything or nothing at all. 263 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:06,160 In this mingled society, 264 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:07,920 her invitations were eagerly sought, 265 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:09,880 her dinners were spontaneous, 266 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:12,400 and the discussions, though gay and usually daring, 267 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:17,440 were invariably under the control of wit and good taste. 268 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:19,360 On the Sunday night of this adventure, 269 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,360 she had, according to her invariable custom, 270 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:23,920 sent away her Filipino butler 271 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:26,680 and invited to an informal chaffing dish supper 272 00:11:26,680 --> 00:11:29,200 seven of her more congenial friends. 273 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:31,240 At seven o'clock, having finished dressing, 274 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:32,680 she put in order her bedroom, 275 00:11:32,680 --> 00:11:35,160 which formed a sort of free passage between the studio 276 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,880 and a small dining room to the kitchen beyond. 277 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:40,600 Then, going into the studio, she struck a match 278 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:42,520 and was about to light the candlesticks, 279 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:44,000 which illuminated the room. 280 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,960 When the bell rang and a Mr Flanders, 281 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,560 a broker, in fact, nervously alive, well-groomed, 282 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:52,160 was waiting as she opened the door. 283 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:53,600 Well, you're early. 284 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:55,640 On the contrary, dear lady, you are late. 285 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,840 Well, in any case, hello, and come on inside. 286 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:00,320 Here, let me take your things. 287 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:02,040 Thank you. 288 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:04,120 I, uh, I'm the first, I suppose. 289 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:05,400 Of course. 290 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:07,760 And since you are, you can be a good boy 291 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:08,920 and help me light the candles. 292 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:10,760 Delighted. 293 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:12,160 Who's to be here tonight? 294 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:13,280 The Enos Jacksons. 295 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:14,880 Oh, I thought they were separated. 296 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:15,880 Not yet. 297 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:16,920 How interesting. 298 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:18,920 Only you, dear lady, would dream of serving us 299 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:19,920 a couple on the verge. 300 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:21,280 Well, it is interesting, isn't it? 301 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:22,360 Assuredly. 302 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:23,640 Where did you know the Jacksons? 303 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:25,440 Through the wearings. 304 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:28,480 Uh, Jackson's a rather doubtful person, isn't he? 305 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:30,360 Mmm, let's call him a very sharp lawyer. 306 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:31,320 Oh. 307 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:33,840 They tell me, though, he's been gambling pretty much in deep. 308 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:35,040 Oh, how about yourself? 309 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:36,080 Who, me? 310 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:37,760 I'm a bachelor, and if I lose my shirt, 311 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:38,720 it makes no difference. 312 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:39,760 Oh, is that possible? 313 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:40,640 Probable, even. 314 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:41,640 Oh. 315 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:43,560 Ah, who else is coming? 316 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:44,840 Oh, Maud Lyle. 317 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:45,440 You know her. 318 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:46,320 No, I don't think so. 319 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:47,160 You do, too. 320 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:48,440 You met her here some time ago. 321 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:49,000 A journalist. 322 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:49,560 Oh, yes, yes. 323 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:50,360 I forgot. 324 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:52,520 Mr. Harris, a club man, is coming. 325 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:53,600 And the Stanley Cheevers. 326 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:54,320 Stanley Cheevers? 327 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:54,800 Uh-huh. 328 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:55,480 Hm. 329 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:56,360 Are we going to gamble? 330 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:57,520 Well, don't tell me you object. 331 00:12:57,520 --> 00:12:58,880 Certainly not. 332 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:01,680 Only the Cheevers, they play quite a game. 333 00:13:01,680 --> 00:13:05,320 Well united, and they have an unusual streak of good luck. 334 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:07,120 Say, by the way, it's Jackson, isn't it, 335 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,320 who's so attractive to Mrs. Cheevers? 336 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:10,240 Quite right. 337 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:11,720 Well, what a charming party. 338 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:12,640 Mm-hm. 339 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,120 And where does Maud Lyle come in? 340 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:16,440 Oh, don't joke. 341 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:18,120 She's in a desperate way. 342 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:18,840 And young Harris? 343 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:21,640 Oh, he's to make the salad and cream the chicken. 344 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,040 Oh, I see the whole party. 345 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:26,560 I, of course, am to add the element of respectability. 346 00:13:26,560 --> 00:13:28,080 Of what? 347 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:28,880 I apologize. 348 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,640 That's better. 349 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:33,360 No one, of course, knows who's coming. 350 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:37,320 No one, of course. 351 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:47,320 The Stanley Cheevers entered, a short, fat man 352 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:52,440 with a vacant fat face and a slow moving eye, and his wife, 353 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:55,360 voluble, nervous, overdressed, and pretty. 354 00:13:55,360 --> 00:14:02,840 Mr. Yes, Mr. Harris came with Maud Lyle, a woman, straight, 355 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:06,160 dark, Indian, with great masses of somber hair, 356 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:09,160 held in a little too loosely for neatness, 357 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:11,600 with thick, quick lips and eyes that rolled away 358 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,000 from the person that was talking to her. 359 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,720 The Enos Jacksons were late and still agitated as they entered. 360 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:19,920 His forehead had not quite vanished the scowl, 361 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:21,920 nor her eyes the scorn. 362 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:23,800 He was of the type that never lost his temper, 363 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,160 but caused others to lose theirs. 364 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,040 Mrs. Jackson seemed fastened to her husband 365 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:29,640 by an invisible leash. 366 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:31,560 You looked at her curiously and wondered 367 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:33,400 what such a nature would do in a crisis, 368 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,240 with a lurking sense of a woman who carried with her 369 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,600 her own impending tragedy. 370 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:40,240 As soon as the company had been completed 371 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:42,600 and the incongruity of the selection had been perceived, 372 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:44,440 a smile of malicious anticipation 373 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,240 ran the rounds, which the hostess cut short. 374 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:50,600 Well, well, now everyone is here. 375 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:52,440 This is the order of the night. 376 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:54,160 You can quarrel all you want. 377 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:55,440 You can whisper all the gossip you 378 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:56,800 can think of about one another. 379 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:00,360 But everyone is to be amusing. 380 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,120 Also, also, everyone is to help with the dinner, 381 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:03,960 if you please. 382 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:06,280 Nothing formal and nothing serious. 383 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:09,960 We may all be bankrupt tomorrow, divorced or dead. 384 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:11,760 But tonight we'll be gay. 385 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:14,200 That is the invariable rule of this house. 386 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:15,040 All right? 387 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:15,880 Thank you. 388 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:16,720 Thank you. 389 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:17,560 Come on. 390 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:21,320 Now, me for the cooking apron. 391 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:23,080 Ophairus, you are to go into the kitchen 392 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:24,160 and bring in the hors d'oeuvre. 393 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:25,000 Right you are. 394 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:25,840 May I be of any help? 395 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:27,320 Oh, thank you, maud, darling. 396 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:28,160 Of course. 397 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:29,000 Mrs. Cheever? 398 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:29,840 Yes, dear. 399 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:30,680 Oh, you too? 400 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:31,960 Oh, do you want me? 401 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:32,800 Yes. 402 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:39,720 There now. 403 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,280 Oh, darling, please tie me up in the back, will you? 404 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:43,720 Oh, yes. 405 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:44,560 There you are. 406 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:45,720 Fine, thank you. 407 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:47,280 Now to get these rings off. 408 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:50,280 Soap and water always seem to do it. 409 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:51,120 Oh. 410 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:52,920 There. 411 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:55,440 Your rings are so beautiful. 412 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:56,280 Oh, thank you. 413 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:57,280 They're very nice. 414 00:15:57,280 --> 00:15:58,960 But there's only one that's very valuable. 415 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:00,320 The sapphire. 416 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:01,160 It's beautiful. 417 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:02,640 Oh, let me see. 418 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:05,600 Oh, it must be very valuable. 419 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:06,440 Mm-hmm. 420 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:08,240 Of course, 10,000 six years ago. 421 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:10,480 It's been my talisman ever since. 422 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:12,920 For the moment, however, I am cook. 423 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:16,400 Wait, are you going to leave the rings out like that? 424 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:17,440 Of course, silly. 425 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:18,520 Temptation, you know. 426 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:21,840 Oh, now I am the cook. 427 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:24,000 Maudlisle, you are scullery maid. 428 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:27,280 Harris is the chef and we're all under his orders. 429 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:28,760 Mrs. Cheever. 430 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:30,640 Did you ever peel onions? 431 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:32,480 Good heavens, no. 432 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:33,600 Ha ha ha ha. 433 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:35,120 There are no onions to peel. 434 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:37,040 All you have to do is help set the table. 435 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:37,880 Well. 436 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:47,800 Under their hostess's gay guidance, 437 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:50,280 the seven guests began to circulate busily 438 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:51,880 through the rooms, laying the table, 439 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:53,880 grouping the chairs, arranging the flowers, 440 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,960 and preparing the material for the chafing dishes. 441 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:59,960 Mrs. Kildare in the kitchen ransacked the icebox 442 00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:02,240 and with her own hands shredded the chicken 443 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:04,000 and measured the cream. 444 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,040 Flanders? 445 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:06,000 Oh, please. 446 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:06,840 Flanders. 447 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:07,680 Yes? 448 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:08,520 Here, carry this in carefully. 449 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:09,360 Now don't. 450 00:17:09,360 --> 00:17:10,200 I've got it with my life. 451 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:11,040 Oh, good boy. 452 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:12,480 Oh, Cheever, stop watching your wife 453 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:14,480 and put that salad bowl on the table. 454 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:17,000 Everything ready, Harris? 455 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:17,840 All set. 456 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:19,400 Good, all right, all right now. 457 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:21,160 Everyone, everyone sit down. 458 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:27,440 I'll be right in. 459 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:29,400 She went into her bedroom, took off her apron, 460 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:30,400 and hung it in the closet. 461 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:31,680 Then going to her dressing table, 462 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:33,840 she drew the hat pin around which were her rings 463 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:35,320 from the pin cushion and carelessly 464 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:37,280 slipped them on her fingers. 465 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:40,200 All at once she frowned and looked quickly at her hand. 466 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:44,240 Only two rings were there. 467 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:46,440 The third ring, the sapphire, was missing. 468 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:47,280 Stupid. 469 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,200 She returned to her dressing table. 470 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:51,960 Immediately she stopped. 471 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:54,440 She remembered quite clearly putting the hat pin 472 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:55,880 through the three rings. 473 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:58,520 She made no attempt to search further, 474 00:17:58,520 --> 00:17:59,800 but remained without moving, 475 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:01,600 her fingers slowly drumming on the table, 476 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:02,680 her head to one side, 477 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:05,080 her lips drawn in a little between her teeth, 478 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:08,440 listening with a frown to the babble from the outer room. 479 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:10,120 Who had taken the ring? 480 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:12,800 Each of her guests had had a dozen opportunities 481 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:14,440 in the course of the time that she'd been busy 482 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:15,280 in the kitchen. 483 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:16,920 Too much time to think about it. 484 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:18,680 Time before the mirror, dear lady. 485 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:20,280 Well, it's not Flanders. 486 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:23,120 Then she reconsidered. 487 00:18:23,120 --> 00:18:24,160 Why not? 488 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:25,000 He's clever. 489 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,520 Oh, I've got to think. 490 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:31,800 To gain time, she walked back slowly to the kitchen, 491 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:34,160 her head bowed and thumped between her teeth. 492 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:36,560 Who has taken it? 493 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:39,640 She ran over the characters of her guests 494 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,080 and their situations as she knew. 495 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,440 Strangely enough, at each her mind stopped 496 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,240 upon some reason that might explain 497 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:47,400 a sudden temptation. 498 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:49,440 Well, I'll find out nothing this way. 499 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:51,320 That's not the important thing to me, dear sir. 500 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,600 The important thing is to get that ring back. 501 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:56,200 And slowly, deliberately, 502 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:57,840 she began to walk back and forth, 503 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:00,600 her clenched hand beating the deliberate rhythmic measure 504 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:01,440 of her journey. 505 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:07,120 Five minutes later, as Harris installed his chef 506 00:19:07,120 --> 00:19:09,120 over the chafing dish, was giving directions, 507 00:19:09,120 --> 00:19:11,600 spoon in the air, Mrs. Kildare came into the room 508 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:13,080 like a lengthening shadow. 509 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:15,560 Her entrance had been made with scarcely 510 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,840 perceptible sound, and yet each guest was aware of it 511 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:21,280 at the same moment with a little nervous start. 512 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:26,720 Oh, Ms. Kildare, you came in on us like a Greek tragedy. 513 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:28,520 What is it you have for us, a surprise? 514 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:30,960 I have something to say to you. 515 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:33,920 Mr. Enos Jackson. 516 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:35,440 Yes, Mrs. Kildare. 517 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:36,640 Kindly do as I ask you. 518 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:38,160 My sir. Go to the door. 519 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:39,600 Go to the door. Please. 520 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:43,400 Yes. 521 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,520 Lock it and bring me the key, please. 522 00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:47,440 Some kind of a game. 523 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:49,760 There you are. 524 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:51,600 Thank you. And now the bedroom door. 525 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:52,440 Would you do the same? 526 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:53,280 Of course. 527 00:19:57,480 --> 00:19:58,640 Thank you, Mr. Jackson. 528 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:00,480 Mr. Cheever. 529 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:01,520 Yes. 530 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:02,880 Would you blow out all the candles, 531 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:04,480 except the candelabrum on the table? 532 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:05,360 Blow out all the candles? 533 00:20:05,360 --> 00:20:07,200 Except the candelabrum. 534 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:09,040 For goodness sakes, Mrs. Kildare, what is it? 535 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:10,640 I'm getting terribly worked up. 536 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:11,480 My nerves. 537 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:12,880 Maud Lyle. Yes. 538 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:14,240 Put the candelabrum on this table. 539 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:15,680 Here. No, no, wait a minute. 540 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:16,720 Mr. Jackson. Yes. 541 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:18,280 First, clear off the table, please. 542 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:19,200 I want nothing on it. 543 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:20,040 Mrs. Kildare. 544 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:21,040 That's it. 545 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:24,800 Now, now, please put down the candelabrum. 546 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:37,440 Well, that's the last candle. 547 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:38,280 All right. 548 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:40,000 Now listen. 549 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,680 My sapphire ring has just been stolen. 550 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:43,520 What? 551 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:44,360 Oh, you're joking. 552 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:45,200 Why, why, why? 553 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:46,520 What do you mean, Mrs. Kildare? 554 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:50,400 The ring has been taken within the last 20 minutes. 555 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:51,760 I'm not going to mince words. 556 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:55,440 The ring has been taken and the thief is among you. 557 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:56,280 What? 558 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:57,120 Mrs. Kildare. 559 00:20:57,120 --> 00:20:57,960 Stolen? 560 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,160 But, Mrs. Kildare, is it possible? 561 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:01,600 Absolutely, Mrs. Cheever. 562 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:03,080 There's not the slightest doubt. 563 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:04,520 Three of you were in my bedroom 564 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:06,280 when I placed my rings on the pincushion. 565 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:08,760 Each of you has passed through there a dozen times since. 566 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:12,920 My sapphire ring is gone and one of you has taken it. 567 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:13,760 Oh, I don't know. 568 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:15,200 Oh, that's quite true. 569 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:16,680 I was in the room when she took them off. 570 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,160 The sapphire ring was on time. 571 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:19,520 Now listen. 572 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:20,680 I'm not going to mince words. 573 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:22,960 I'm not going to stand on ceremony. 574 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:24,760 I'm going to have that ring back. 575 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:25,600 Now, dear lady. 576 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:27,080 Listen to me. 577 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:29,040 I'm going to have that ring back 578 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,960 and until I do, not a soul shall leave this room. 579 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:33,280 I don't care who's taken it. 580 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:34,640 All I want is my ring. 581 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,160 Now, I'm going to make it possible 582 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:38,800 for whoever took it to restore it 583 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:40,240 without possibility of detection. 584 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:42,360 The doors are locked and they'll stay locked. 585 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:45,400 I am going to blow out the remaining candles 586 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:46,640 in the candelabrum 587 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:50,640 and I am going to count to 100 slowly. 588 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:52,440 It will be in absolute darkness. 589 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:54,000 No one will know or see what is done. 590 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,520 But if at the end of that time 591 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,800 the ring is not here on this table, 592 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:00,760 I shall telephone the police 593 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:02,800 and have everyone in this room searched. 594 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:03,640 Am I quite clear? 595 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,480 I just can't believe it. 596 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,480 Everyone take his place about the table, please. 597 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:10,480 Excuse me, please. 598 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:12,480 That will do very nicely. 599 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,480 Now, I will blow out the candles and count 100. 600 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:16,680 No more, no less. 601 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,880 Remember, either I get that ring 602 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:37,680 or everyone in this room will be searched. 603 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:42,880 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 604 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:46,280 eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, 605 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:50,080 seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty- One, twenty two, 606 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:52,280 twenty-three, twenty four, twenty five, 607 00:22:52,280 --> 00:23:09,080 twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty, 608 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:10,280 fifty-five, fifty six, fifty seven, fifty eight, 609 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,280 fifty nine, fifty five, fifty six, ninety seven, 610 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:28,720 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 611 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:42,840 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 612 00:23:42,840 --> 00:24:09,240 victory 100, execution 100, roll call 100, Divine 613 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:16,240 and there 614 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:20,360 there you are gentle like i say it is a boy that's not all 615 00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:24,040 absolutely story and that story ends there 616 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,440 but uh... who took the ring 617 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,560 what was never found out never 618 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,680 no clothes 619 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:32,400 i'm not sure i like the story 620 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:36,760 that's not sorry at all permit me it is a story and it is complete 621 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:38,900 in fact i consider it unique 622 00:24:38,900 --> 00:24:41,720 because it has none of the abilities of a solution 623 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:45,120 leaves the problem even more confused than at the start 624 00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:49,320 i don't see of course you don't like iraq and you do not see that any 625 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,320 solution would be commonplace 626 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:52,800 whereas no solution 627 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,880 needed to intellectual problem 628 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:55,800 also 629 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,120 in the first place 630 00:24:57,120 --> 00:24:59,720 i would have the situation actually happened not what is in itself a 631 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:01,080 military reality 632 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:05,360 peter's has told it in a masterly way the brutal which is that he may be this 633 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:06,320 it's a good 634 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:10,320 each person present might have taken the ring and as a broker just come up 635 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:11,120 proper 636 00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:15,320 mod lial a woman on the ragged side of life in desperate means 637 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,560 either mister mrs cheever suspected of being caught chopped 638 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,520 and a very good touch that to be just 639 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,360 mister enos jackson a sharp lawyer or his wife about to be divorced 640 00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:28,000 even harris concerning whom very cleverly peter's is that absolutely 641 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,480 nothing to make him quite the most suspicious of all 642 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:35,560 there are therefore seven solutions all possible all logical 643 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:36,700 but beyond this 644 00:25:36,700 --> 00:25:40,040 is left a great intellectual problem also 645 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,800 was it a feminine or a masculine action to restore the ring when threatened with 646 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:44,740 the search 647 00:25:44,740 --> 00:25:46,680 knowing that mrs killed as clever x 648 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:48,800 begin to throw in the room in the darkness 649 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,280 made detection impossible 650 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:53,320 or was it a woman who lacked the necessary courage to continue 651 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,780 or was it a man who repented his first impulse 652 00:25:56,780 --> 00:25:58,300 is a man or is a woman 653 00:25:58,300 --> 00:26:02,900 a great natural criminal that's simple clearly a woman don't have gone on the 654 00:26:02,900 --> 00:26:04,560 contrary was a man 655 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:06,760 for the first action was more difficult 656 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:11,760 first man certainly restoration the ring was a logical decision i recognize most 657 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:15,280 of those characters features mrs killed their courses all you say 658 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:16,280 extraordinary woman 659 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,680 stories quite characteristic 660 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,760 friend is a not quite sure what i think i know him to 661 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:23,000 i'm positive i do 662 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:24,640 that did it really happen 663 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:28,240 exactly as i've told you know what i don't recognize it 664 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:29,680 harris 665 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,240 your humble servant 666 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:33,560 you peter's 667 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:39,480 you were there 668 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,840 on the general always uh... what is it done 669 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:43,440 mr peter said you're trained 670 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:47,100 you told me to remind us thank you i don't know so i can 671 00:26:47,100 --> 00:26:48,880 you don't want me 672 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,020 uh... yes of course 673 00:26:51,020 --> 00:26:56,840 i sort of much of all 674 00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:58,200 curious chap 675 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,080 short 676 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,880 i wonder 677 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:10,880 i wonder if we're wondering the same thing gentleman 678 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:17,880 uh... 679 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:28,720 saucepan 680 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,960 and so close as one hundred in the dark 681 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,240 peter's was played by howard duff and the other club members were joseph 682 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:38,240 kerns frank albertson john mcintyre dick ryan and harvest willard 683 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,440 therese a martial was really killed there and at her party were janet no 684 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:42,000 lind 685 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,600 while a mayor mary jane croft jerry housen and grace gillian 686 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,520 tonight study and suspense 687 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,480 resided by a role in 688 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:51,200 that's are all m a 689 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,840 role well and america's favorite lines 690 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,700 if you could see how roman alifornia winds are grown 691 00:27:57,700 --> 00:28:01,060 you'd understand why they are america's favorite lines 692 00:28:01,060 --> 00:28:05,520 first you'll see how roman selects and presses only the choices to groups 693 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:10,040 then how roman master ventner's with ancient skills and unmatched when making 694 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:11,280 resources 695 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,340 guide this luscious great goodness 696 00:28:13,340 --> 00:28:14,320 unheard of the 697 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:16,160 to tempting perfection 698 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,080 finally these better tasting roman winds are placed with other mellow roman 699 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:20,920 winds 700 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,640 to await later selection for your enjoyment 701 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:25,800 from the world's greatest reserves 702 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,840 of fine winds 703 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:31,260 this is truman bradley with a suggestion for making your thanksgiving dinner even 704 00:28:31,260 --> 00:28:32,700 more enjoyable 705 00:28:32,700 --> 00:28:36,000 top off the meal with glasses of fruity roma port 706 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,480 roma port is a truly distinguished entertainment line 707 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:40,520 ruby red 708 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:41,640 bull body 709 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,080 clear as a bill 710 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:44,900 be sure to ask for roma 711 00:28:44,900 --> 00:28:46,760 that's are all m a 712 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:51,980 roma winds america's largest selling winds 713 00:28:51,980 --> 00:28:55,160 tonight suspense radio play was adapted by jack think 714 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:59,520 for short story by all in johnson 715 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,600 produced and directed by williams bear for the roma wine company of fresno 716 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:09,000 california 717 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:30,000 this is cbs the columbia broadcasting system