WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 In just a moment, suspense with Ann Southern. 00:07.000 --> 00:12.520 Dilly, turn that radio down. How can we play bridge? 00:12.520 --> 00:13.520 Okay, Ma. 00:13.520 --> 00:17.800 I like the auto light show, but not too loud. Whose deal is it, May? 00:17.800 --> 00:22.760 Mine, Mary. My husband Ed always listens, too. When he's home on Thursdays, our house 00:22.760 --> 00:24.600 sounds just like his service station. 00:24.600 --> 00:25.600 I know what you mean. 00:25.600 --> 00:29.440 Tonight's probably spark plug night. You'd think the announcer with his commercials would 00:29.440 --> 00:33.600 be enough, but no. It's switched to auto light resistor. 00:33.600 --> 00:37.440 Spark plug. I know. Batteries and ignition systems. 00:37.440 --> 00:40.440 Well, Dara, what are you dreaming about? 00:40.440 --> 00:45.400 Oh, auto light? You mean the show with Ann Southern? Oh, Mary, tell Billy to turn up 00:45.400 --> 00:47.840 the radio again. I wouldn't miss the suspense for a... 00:47.840 --> 00:50.320 Billy, will you turn the radio up? Your Aunt Dara went... 00:50.320 --> 00:51.320 Yes, ma'am. 00:51.320 --> 01:15.400 Suspense. Auto light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you Radio's outstanding 01:15.400 --> 01:21.440 theater of thrills, starring tonight, Miss Ann Southern, in Anton Leder's production 01:21.440 --> 01:46.720 of The Quiet Man, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 01:46.720 --> 01:52.080 What do you have? 01:52.080 --> 01:55.560 Vermin and soda with a twist of lemon. 01:55.560 --> 02:00.320 Okay, coming right up. Say, your name Margie? 02:00.320 --> 02:02.320 Yeah. How'd you know? 02:02.320 --> 02:06.920 You generally come in here with a heavy set guy, black wavy hair, wears a big diamond? 02:06.920 --> 02:07.920 Yeah. 02:07.920 --> 02:10.880 Yeah, he was in a while ago. Said to tell you he'd be late, but for you to be sure and 02:10.880 --> 02:11.880 wait for him. 02:11.880 --> 02:16.640 But I can't wait. I gotta get home to my... I gotta get home. How late do you say he'd 02:16.640 --> 02:17.640 be? 02:17.640 --> 02:18.640 Oh, pardon now. 02:18.640 --> 02:22.360 Oh, for crying out loud. Okay, give me some nickels. 02:22.360 --> 02:23.360 Here. 02:23.360 --> 02:26.360 Here you are. 02:26.360 --> 02:28.360 Thanks. 02:28.360 --> 02:45.720 Hello? Mr. Banning, please. Yeah, Mr. Arthur Banning. 02:45.720 --> 02:56.000 Arthur? Margie. I'm gonna be late for supper. Yeah, I ran into a girl I used to know at 02:56.000 --> 03:00.840 Lincoln High. She wants me to have a drink with her. Yeah. And say, will you pick up 03:00.840 --> 03:05.360 some hamburger on the way home and start the potatoes? I'll be there as quick as I can. 03:05.360 --> 03:06.360 Bye. 03:06.360 --> 03:09.360 Here's your drink. 03:09.360 --> 03:13.840 Well, here's mud in your eye. 03:13.840 --> 03:18.960 Um, there's a young fellow down at the end of the bar wants to buy you one. 03:18.960 --> 03:19.960 No, thanks. 03:19.960 --> 03:22.000 Well, it looks like a nice guy. 03:22.000 --> 03:24.240 That tall blonde fellow over by the mirror? 03:24.240 --> 03:26.720 Another. And you got a whole lot to kill. 03:26.720 --> 03:29.120 Is he... he isn't drunk, is he? 03:29.120 --> 03:33.520 Nah, he's had a few, but he always carries it good. It might help pass the time. 03:33.520 --> 03:36.600 Say, what's it to you, anyway? 03:36.600 --> 03:39.440 Five bucks. I'd sure appreciate it. 03:39.440 --> 03:42.920 He offered you five bucks to get me to have a drink with him? 03:42.920 --> 03:54.720 He is kind of good-looking. Well, okay. Sure, what the heck, I'll have a drink with him. 03:54.720 --> 04:02.760 Okay, so you're married. Nothing wrong with having a drink together. So what? I figure 04:02.760 --> 04:04.880 what your old man don't know won't hurt him. 04:04.880 --> 04:08.400 I said I'd have a drink with you. If you've got any other ideas, I'll buy my own. 04:08.400 --> 04:11.720 Oh, now, don't get me wrong, honey. I spotted you as a good kid the minute you ankle in 04:11.720 --> 04:17.000 here. You just like excitement, that's all. And I'm the guy that can dish it out. 04:17.000 --> 04:22.720 Yeah. Yeah. You see, I'm a private eye. Yeah, no kidding, 04:22.720 --> 04:25.360 like you hear about on the radio. Gee, what a break for me. 04:25.360 --> 04:27.960 You just stick around me, honey, and you'll get plenty of excitement. 04:27.960 --> 04:30.920 Yeah, I'll bet. You know, you take this new client of mine 04:30.920 --> 04:36.360 now, bet you anything he makes the headlines tomorrow. Ten to one, he'll murder his wife. 04:36.360 --> 04:39.280 Oh, yes, sure. He hired me to find out if his wife's been 04:39.280 --> 04:43.040 stepping out. I felt kind of sorry for the guy. He probably doesn't have the money to 04:43.040 --> 04:46.560 take her out himself. He's a bank teller at Second National. 04:46.560 --> 04:51.480 Bank teller? Bank teller? My... What's his name? 04:51.480 --> 04:55.840 Honey, no, no, that stuff's confidential. Matter of fact, I'm not supposed to talk about 04:55.840 --> 04:59.440 cases at all. Oh, go on. I won't tell anybody. 04:59.440 --> 05:03.760 Well, you don't look like the kind of babe that blabs everything she knows. How about 05:03.760 --> 05:04.760 that drink? Sure. 05:04.760 --> 05:10.840 Hey, Charlie, two over here. In the works. You know, he sort of gave me the creeps. This 05:10.840 --> 05:17.720 guy sat there eating his lunch calm as you please and all the time figuring how to kill 05:17.720 --> 05:20.200 his wife. How'd you know what he was figuring? 05:20.200 --> 05:24.840 Well, for one thing, he didn't want evidence for a divorce. He sort of looked at me funny 05:24.840 --> 05:30.160 and said, I just want to know, that's all. If Margie is stepping out, I'll take care 05:30.160 --> 05:32.000 of it my own way. Margie? 05:32.000 --> 05:36.560 Yeah, yeah, that's his wife's name, Margie. Hey, what's the matter? 05:36.560 --> 05:41.560 Nothing. Nothing at all. Hey, you don't look so good. Maybe you drank the last one too 05:41.560 --> 05:47.080 fast. No, no, I'm fine. I'm just naturally pale, that's all. You were saying about this 05:47.080 --> 05:49.600 client you figure he's going to murder his wife? 05:49.600 --> 05:53.000 Oh, sure, sure. It's in her back. Either that or suicide. 05:53.000 --> 05:55.600 Suicide? But he's more the type for murder. 05:55.600 --> 06:00.600 Oh, one of those big, brutal guys. Sort of mean looking, huh? 06:00.600 --> 06:06.200 Quiet, Marcie. Kind doesn't have much to say. Those are the guys you got to watch. 06:06.200 --> 06:08.240 But why? Because they never let you know what they're 06:08.240 --> 06:11.680 really thinking. Not until it's too late. They don't? 06:11.680 --> 06:14.640 You know, most guys, when they find their wives stepping, they'll raise cane. Maybe 06:14.640 --> 06:18.120 they'll even get a divorce. But they don't get sore enough to murder. 06:18.120 --> 06:20.800 Yeah. But these quiet fellas, you know, they put 06:20.800 --> 06:25.120 the little woman on a pedestal. You wouldn't catch them out with other women, not in a 06:25.120 --> 06:29.080 million years. And when they discover they're one and only has been kicking up her heels. 06:29.080 --> 06:33.200 The whole brother, watch out. The worst of it is they go on acting like 06:33.200 --> 06:38.320 nothing's wrong, you see. And all of a sudden, wanko. They explode. 06:38.320 --> 06:42.200 They explode? Yeah. You know, like I always say, beware the 06:42.200 --> 06:47.680 quiet man. Like this new client of mine, for example. Calm. You never met anybody calmer. 06:47.680 --> 06:49.680 But I'll bet. What does he look like? 06:49.680 --> 06:54.720 Oh, well, just about average, I guess. Brown hair, getting sort of thin on the top. 06:54.720 --> 06:58.560 A little bit stoop-shouldered. Medium height? Wear glasses? 06:58.560 --> 07:02.240 Yeah. Yeah, you know him? No. No, I don't know any of the boys. 07:02.240 --> 07:04.240 Excuse me. Hey, where you going? 07:04.240 --> 07:08.240 I gotta make a phone call. Just remember something. Don't go away. I'll be right back. 07:08.240 --> 07:10.240 Oh. 07:10.240 --> 07:12.240 Jesus. 07:12.240 --> 07:14.240 Oh. 07:14.240 --> 07:16.240 Ralph? 07:16.240 --> 07:18.240 Margie. 07:18.240 --> 07:20.240 I can't see you this afternoon. 07:20.240 --> 07:26.040 No, I'm not sorry about you being late. But whatever you do, don't come into Charlie's 07:26.040 --> 07:31.040 place. Yeah, that's where I am now. You bet there's something wrong. There's plenty wrong. 07:31.040 --> 07:36.040 Either this guy I'm talking to is crazy, or else Arthur's planning to murder me. 07:50.040 --> 07:55.520 For suspense, Auto Light is bringing you Miss Anne Southern in Radio's outstanding 07:55.520 --> 07:58.520 theater of thrills, Suspense. 08:06.520 --> 08:09.520 Well, Dora, we're down 200 on that hand. 08:09.520 --> 08:14.520 Oh, are we? It's easy to see there's no playing bridge with you girls with Suspense on. 08:14.520 --> 08:18.520 So let's stop playing and switch to Auto Light spark plugs or whatever for the rest of the 08:18.520 --> 08:23.520 half hour, huh? Oh, Mary, I could kiss you. You're such an understanding sister-in-law. 08:23.520 --> 08:26.520 And I don't want to miss a single word. What about you, May? 08:26.520 --> 08:30.520 Dora, did you know that my husband knows Frank Martin, the Auto Light salesman? 08:30.520 --> 08:33.520 He does? Well, then let's listen to Mr. Martin. 08:33.520 --> 08:38.520 Right now you can get Auto Light resistor spark plugs almost anywhere in the United States. 08:38.520 --> 08:43.520 They're sensational. Why, no other spark plug will give and maintain such performance. 08:43.520 --> 08:48.520 Auto Light worked with leading car and truck manufacturers, and they ignition engineered 08:48.520 --> 08:53.520 a 10,000 ohm resistor right into the Auto Light spark plug that permits a wider spark gap 08:53.520 --> 08:57.520 setting and maintains it far longer than another spark plugs. 08:57.520 --> 09:01.520 Actually, when you replace your narrow gap spark plugs with a set of wide gap Auto Light 09:01.520 --> 09:05.520 resistor spark plugs, you can tell the difference in your car. 09:05.520 --> 09:09.520 Oh dear. 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I wasn't scared exactly, 10:01.520 --> 10:06.520 but I had to let those words sink in. Either this guy I'm talking to is crazy, 10:06.520 --> 10:13.520 or else Arthur's planning to murder me. I went back to the bar. I had to find out. 10:13.520 --> 10:17.520 Oh, beautiful. I thought you got a lot. Sit down, sit down. 10:17.520 --> 10:21.520 Thanks. Now about this fella, the one who's going to murder his wife. 10:21.520 --> 10:25.520 Oh, let's scan the shop, Tuck. I want to hear about you. I don't even know your name. 10:25.520 --> 10:28.520 Did he say what made him think she was stepping out? 10:28.520 --> 10:32.520 Ah, she's supposed to belong to some bridge club the bank tell his wife's got up. 10:32.520 --> 10:37.520 But friends of his saw her downtown a couple of times on our bridge days. 10:37.520 --> 10:38.520 Is that all? 10:38.520 --> 10:42.520 You know, honey, you're pretty smart. You make like you're really interested in that guy's work. 10:42.520 --> 10:43.520 Oh, but I am. 10:43.520 --> 10:47.520 You know, I had a little doll once I thought plenty. I would have married her maybe, 10:47.520 --> 10:50.520 but only every time I started talking about her case, she shut me up. 10:50.520 --> 10:53.520 Never mind about your little dolls. What about this guy? 10:53.520 --> 10:55.520 Hey, you're jealous. What do you know? 10:55.520 --> 10:57.520 I'm not jealous. I only want to know. 10:57.520 --> 11:00.520 It's okay, honey. It's okay. Sure, a cute little doll like you 11:00.520 --> 11:03.520 doesn't want to hear a guy spouting off about another dame. 11:03.520 --> 11:04.520 Yeah, maybe I had a few too many. 11:04.520 --> 11:09.520 I just want to hear about this bank teller. Have you met his wife maybe? 11:09.520 --> 11:11.520 No, but he showed me a picture of her. 11:11.520 --> 11:15.520 Oh, then you know what she looks like. 11:17.520 --> 11:18.520 Hey, what's so funny? 11:19.520 --> 11:22.520 Never mind the jokes on me. 11:23.520 --> 11:27.520 Maybe you better not have many more to drink. You're acting kind of screwy. 11:27.520 --> 11:31.520 Oh, I feel wonderful. Well, here's to you. 11:31.520 --> 11:35.520 A long life. A long, long life. 11:35.520 --> 11:37.520 Yeah, down the hatch. 11:40.520 --> 11:42.520 Yeah, poor little Margie. 11:42.520 --> 11:45.520 You know, you showed me a snapshot of her in her bathing suit. 11:45.520 --> 11:47.520 Oh, boy, was she stacked. 11:47.520 --> 11:52.520 As a matter of fact, about your height and build, 11:52.520 --> 11:54.520 you're blonde like you too. 11:54.520 --> 11:56.520 Was she as pretty as I am? 11:56.520 --> 11:58.520 I couldn't see her face. It's kind of blurred. 11:58.520 --> 12:01.520 He's bringing me a better picture of her tomorrow. 12:01.520 --> 12:04.520 Oh, I think I'd like another drink. 12:04.520 --> 12:06.520 You know, honey, you better start taking vitamins or something. 12:06.520 --> 12:07.520 You're pale as a sheet. 12:07.520 --> 12:09.520 I said I wanted another drink. 12:09.520 --> 12:12.520 Oh, sure. Hey, Charlie, two more the same, huh? 12:13.520 --> 12:15.520 Yeah, poor little Margie. 12:15.520 --> 12:17.520 You know, that's one thing I could never figure out. 12:17.520 --> 12:19.520 The cute little dolls with flirtatious eyes 12:19.520 --> 12:23.520 always pick some homely, quiet gink when it comes to settling down. 12:23.520 --> 12:27.520 And the handsome he-man who has to beat off the James with a club, 12:27.520 --> 12:28.520 what does he do? 12:28.520 --> 12:30.520 He marries a drab little pigeon. 12:30.520 --> 12:33.520 Yeah, that's why we get so many axe murders, I guess. 12:33.520 --> 12:34.520 Axe murders? 12:34.520 --> 12:35.520 Only in this case he'll use a gun. 12:35.520 --> 12:37.520 But he doesn't have a... 12:37.520 --> 12:40.520 I mean, most bank clerks don't own guns. 12:40.520 --> 12:42.520 Oh, well, this one does. Now. 12:43.520 --> 12:44.520 Give me a light, will you? 12:44.520 --> 12:46.520 Yeah, sure. 12:46.520 --> 12:48.520 There you are. 12:48.520 --> 12:51.520 Hey, maybe if you lay off for booze, honey, 12:51.520 --> 12:53.520 take a tonic or something, you'll feel better. 12:53.520 --> 12:55.520 Look at your hands, they're trembling. 12:55.520 --> 12:57.520 How do you know he has a gun? 12:57.520 --> 13:00.520 Oh. Oh, I get it. 13:02.520 --> 13:03.520 Why don't you tell me? 13:03.520 --> 13:04.520 Tell you what? 13:04.520 --> 13:05.520 You got a squeamish stomach. 13:05.520 --> 13:07.520 All this talk about guns and shooting. 13:07.520 --> 13:08.520 No, honey, I'm sorry. 13:08.520 --> 13:10.520 I won't say one more word about it, I promise. 13:10.520 --> 13:12.520 I'm not squeamish and I don't need vitamins. 13:12.520 --> 13:15.520 I want to know how you know this bank teller guy has a gun. 13:15.520 --> 13:18.520 All right, so I'm going to a pawn shop and buy one. 13:18.520 --> 13:20.520 You know, honey, I could really go for you. 13:20.520 --> 13:22.520 It's a funny thing we never even introduced ourselves. 13:22.520 --> 13:23.520 That's something we got to do. 13:23.520 --> 13:25.520 My name's Clusen, Lem Clusen. 13:25.520 --> 13:26.520 What's yours? 13:26.520 --> 13:28.520 You mean that man bought a gun and now he's home 13:28.520 --> 13:30.520 waiting to murder his wife in cold blood? 13:30.520 --> 13:31.520 Oh, no, no. 13:31.520 --> 13:33.520 He won't do anything until he gets my report. 13:33.520 --> 13:34.520 Oh. 13:34.520 --> 13:36.520 You see, tomorrow I check with her friends to see 13:36.520 --> 13:38.520 if she's been going to Bridge Club like she's supposed to. 13:38.520 --> 13:39.520 Yeah. 13:39.520 --> 13:41.520 And I meet my client for lunch and get a picture of him, 13:41.520 --> 13:42.520 aren't you? 13:41.520 --> 13:42.520 Mm-hmm. 13:42.520 --> 13:43.520 And I take it around to the downtown bars 13:43.520 --> 13:46.520 to find out if she's been seen with anybody. 13:46.520 --> 13:49.520 And then I give my client the report when he gets off work. 13:49.520 --> 13:50.520 Yeah. 13:50.520 --> 13:51.520 And then? 13:51.520 --> 13:54.520 And if his suspicions are right, and they usually are, 13:54.520 --> 13:56.520 it's all over but the shooting. 13:56.520 --> 13:57.520 The shooting? 13:57.520 --> 13:58.520 Yeah. 13:58.520 --> 13:59.520 Bang, bang, honey. 13:59.520 --> 14:00.520 That's all. 14:00.520 --> 14:01.520 Bang, bang. 14:01.520 --> 14:03.520 Say, what'd you say your name was? 14:03.520 --> 14:04.520 I've got to get home. 14:16.520 --> 14:17.520 Hello, dear. 14:17.520 --> 14:18.520 Hello, Arthur. 14:18.520 --> 14:20.520 I was beginning to worry about you. 14:20.520 --> 14:23.520 Well, I really couldn't help being late for dinner. 14:23.520 --> 14:25.520 I wanted to leave, but May Belle, that's her name, 14:25.520 --> 14:27.520 you know the girl I used to go to school with, 14:27.520 --> 14:28.520 she kept talking yatcha to yatcha, 14:28.520 --> 14:31.520 and I just couldn't walk out on her in the middle of a sentence. 14:31.520 --> 14:32.520 That's all right. 14:32.520 --> 14:33.520 I didn't mind. 14:33.520 --> 14:34.520 Say, the potatoes are all ready, like you told me. 14:34.520 --> 14:35.520 Shall I... 14:35.520 --> 14:36.520 No, no, I'll hurry dinner. 14:36.520 --> 14:38.520 You just sit down and read the paper. 14:38.520 --> 14:40.520 Well, why, thank you, dear. 14:40.520 --> 14:41.520 You all right? 14:41.520 --> 14:42.520 You look a little flushed. 14:42.520 --> 14:43.520 Oh, I'm fine. 14:43.520 --> 14:45.520 I was just rushing, that's all. 14:45.520 --> 14:47.520 Be ready in a minute. 14:47.520 --> 14:50.520 Did you have a hard day, darling? 14:50.520 --> 14:51.520 Oh, usual. 14:51.520 --> 14:54.520 People are taking out more money these days than they're putting in. 14:54.520 --> 14:56.520 Yeah, prices are awful, aren't they? 14:56.520 --> 14:57.520 Hmm. 14:59.520 --> 15:00.520 Nothing unusual? 15:00.520 --> 15:03.520 I mean, nothing happened today? 15:03.520 --> 15:05.520 Oh, a funny thing. 15:05.520 --> 15:07.520 The man came rushing in this morning, 15:07.520 --> 15:09.520 first thing the doors were opened, 15:09.520 --> 15:11.520 wanted to withdraw all the money from their joint account 15:11.520 --> 15:13.520 before his wife beat him to it. 15:13.520 --> 15:15.520 Seems she was leaving him for another man. 15:15.520 --> 15:16.520 Oh, how awful. 15:16.520 --> 15:17.520 Oh, yeah. 15:17.520 --> 15:19.520 While he was there, she appeared. 15:19.520 --> 15:21.520 You should have heard her carry on. 15:21.520 --> 15:22.520 Ha! 15:22.520 --> 15:23.520 She was a real shrew. 15:23.520 --> 15:24.520 Well, what happened? 15:24.520 --> 15:25.520 Oh, nothing. 15:25.520 --> 15:27.520 He didn't say a word. 15:27.520 --> 15:28.520 He was a gentleman. 15:28.520 --> 15:32.520 But I'll bet if he'd had a gun, he'd have killed her. 15:32.520 --> 15:33.520 Oh, well. 15:33.520 --> 15:36.520 Seems things like that happen all the time. 15:36.520 --> 15:38.520 Newspapers full of it. 15:40.520 --> 15:42.520 Are you mad at me, Arthur? 15:42.520 --> 15:43.520 Hmm? 15:43.520 --> 15:44.520 Are you mad at me? 15:44.520 --> 15:46.520 Am I mad at you? 15:46.520 --> 15:47.520 Oh, I know. 15:47.520 --> 15:48.520 Should I be? 15:48.520 --> 15:51.520 Arthur, darling, I've got something to confess. 15:51.520 --> 15:52.520 Well, fire away. 15:52.520 --> 15:54.520 I didn't go to Bridge Club last week. 15:54.520 --> 15:55.520 No? 15:55.520 --> 15:58.520 I thought you'd die before you gave up Bridge. 15:58.520 --> 15:59.520 Oh. 15:59.520 --> 16:02.520 Really, honey, you look awfully seedy. 16:02.520 --> 16:03.520 No, I'm fine. 16:03.520 --> 16:04.520 I feel fine. 16:04.520 --> 16:06.520 I had sort of a quarrel with Lorraine. 16:06.520 --> 16:09.520 I didn't want to tell you because you're always talking about 16:09.520 --> 16:11.520 how women can't get along with each other. 16:11.520 --> 16:14.520 Instead of going to Bridge Club, I went shopping. 16:14.520 --> 16:15.520 Instead. 16:15.520 --> 16:16.520 Fine. 16:16.520 --> 16:19.520 Only I hope you didn't go over the budget. 16:19.520 --> 16:20.520 Oh, no. 16:20.520 --> 16:21.520 That's good. 16:21.520 --> 16:24.520 I always said Bridge was a waste of time. 16:24.520 --> 16:26.520 Then you're not angry about anything? 16:26.520 --> 16:27.520 Why, no. 16:27.520 --> 16:28.520 Why should I be? 16:28.520 --> 16:29.520 Oh, Arthur. 16:29.520 --> 16:31.520 What's the matter now? 16:31.520 --> 16:34.520 I don't deserve a swell husband like you. 16:34.520 --> 16:36.520 Oh, I'm not so hot. 16:36.520 --> 16:38.520 You always do the dinner dishes 16:38.520 --> 16:40.520 and bring me my breakfast in bed on Sunday mornings. 16:40.520 --> 16:42.520 The only morning you have to sleep. 16:42.520 --> 16:45.520 Arthur, I'd feel terrible if anything ever happened to us. 16:45.520 --> 16:47.520 What's going to happen? 16:47.520 --> 16:49.520 Suppose some day you got real mad and exploded. 16:49.520 --> 16:50.520 Exploded? 16:50.520 --> 16:51.520 Yeah. 16:51.520 --> 16:53.520 What if you got a gun and shot me dead? 16:53.520 --> 16:56.520 Oh, for heaven's sakes, Margie, where do you get those crazy ideas? 16:56.520 --> 16:59.520 You mean no matter how mad you got, 16:59.520 --> 17:02.520 no matter what I did to make you mad, you wouldn't shoot me dead? 17:02.520 --> 17:05.520 Margie, you know I'd rather die than hurt one hair on your head. 17:05.520 --> 17:07.520 Oh, Arthur, not suicide. 17:07.520 --> 17:09.520 Say, how many drinks did you and Maybel have? 17:09.520 --> 17:12.520 Arthur, I want you to know I'm going to change. 17:12.520 --> 17:14.520 I'm going to be a better wife from now on. 17:14.520 --> 17:17.520 I'll stay home all the time and darn your socks. 17:17.520 --> 17:18.520 You? 17:18.520 --> 17:20.520 Darn your socks? 17:20.520 --> 17:22.520 You just wait and see. 17:22.520 --> 17:24.520 I'll get up every morning and make you breakfast. 17:24.520 --> 17:26.520 Oh, Margie, you know you won't do any of those things. 17:26.520 --> 17:27.520 I will, too. 17:27.520 --> 17:29.520 Nonsense. Women like you never change. 17:29.520 --> 17:32.520 I will, too. I'll change right away. Tomorrow. 17:32.520 --> 17:34.520 Besides, I don't want you to. 17:34.520 --> 17:36.520 Oh, come here, baby. 17:36.520 --> 17:39.520 I want you to stay just exactly the way you are right now. 17:39.520 --> 17:41.520 Just exactly, Arthur? 17:41.520 --> 17:44.520 I love you very much. Just the way you are. 17:44.520 --> 17:46.520 Oh, Arthur. 17:48.520 --> 17:51.520 That reminds me, I made an appointment for you tomorrow at 10. 17:51.520 --> 17:52.520 You're having your picture taken. 17:52.520 --> 17:53.520 My picture? 17:53.520 --> 17:55.520 I shot a photo of that old snapshot of you today. 17:55.520 --> 17:56.520 The one we took at the beach. 17:56.520 --> 17:58.520 It was so dog-eared he couldn't see what you looked like, 17:58.520 --> 18:01.520 and I realized we didn't have a single decent picture of you at all, so... 18:01.520 --> 18:03.520 But why have it taken tomorrow? 18:03.520 --> 18:07.520 Well, the studio next to the bank is having a special advertising the new 60-minute service. 18:07.520 --> 18:08.520 60-minute service? 18:08.520 --> 18:11.520 Yeah. That way I can pick up the finished picture before I go to lunch. 18:11.520 --> 18:12.520 I don't want my picture taken. 18:12.520 --> 18:13.520 Well, now you're being silly. 18:13.520 --> 18:14.520 I won't. I won't do it. 18:14.520 --> 18:15.520 Oh, honey, what's the matter? 18:15.520 --> 18:17.520 Don't touch me. I won't have my picture taken. I won't. 18:17.520 --> 18:19.520 Good night. 18:25.520 --> 18:27.520 Sort of gave me the creeps, this guy. 18:27.520 --> 18:30.520 Sat there eating his lunch, calm as you please. 18:30.520 --> 18:33.520 All the time figuring how to kill his wife. 18:34.520 --> 18:36.520 Quiet, Marcy. 18:36.520 --> 18:38.520 That's the kind you gotta watch. 18:38.520 --> 18:40.520 Never let you know what they're really thinking. 18:41.520 --> 18:44.520 All of a sudden, wangle, they explode. 18:44.520 --> 18:46.520 Bang, bang, that's all. 18:46.520 --> 18:47.520 Bang, bang. 18:47.520 --> 18:50.520 Oh, no. There must be some mistake. 18:50.520 --> 18:53.520 Arthur wouldn't hurt me. He wouldn't. 18:53.520 --> 18:55.520 I won't think about it. 18:55.520 --> 18:57.520 I'll take a sleeping powder and go to bed. 18:57.520 --> 19:00.520 The gun. He did buy a gun. 19:00.520 --> 19:02.520 It's all true. 19:02.520 --> 19:04.520 Every word of it's true. 19:18.520 --> 19:20.520 Hello? Ralph. 19:20.520 --> 19:22.520 I told you never to call me here. 19:22.520 --> 19:24.520 No, no, it isn't all right. 19:24.520 --> 19:26.520 Arthur bought a gun hole. 19:26.520 --> 19:28.520 Arthur bought a gun home last night. 19:28.520 --> 19:29.520 Yes, a gun. 19:29.520 --> 19:31.520 He claimed he was keeping it for a friend. 19:31.520 --> 19:32.520 That's all he'd say. 19:32.520 --> 19:34.520 Here, I think so. 19:34.520 --> 19:36.520 Just a minute, I'll look. 19:36.520 --> 19:38.520 Ralph, the gun's gone. 19:38.520 --> 19:40.520 He must have taken it to work. 19:40.520 --> 19:42.520 Oh, well, don't you see? 19:42.520 --> 19:44.520 As soon as he finds out for sure, he'll kill... 19:44.520 --> 19:46.520 No, no, no, no, no. 19:46.520 --> 19:48.520 I never want to hear from you again. 19:49.520 --> 19:51.520 I've got to think. I've got to think. 19:51.520 --> 19:55.520 Oh, not the doorbell. 19:58.520 --> 20:00.520 Oh, Lorraine. 20:00.520 --> 20:02.520 Well, who'd you expect, darling? 20:02.520 --> 20:04.520 Frankenstein. 20:04.520 --> 20:06.520 Aren't you going to invite me in? 20:06.520 --> 20:07.520 I was just going out. 20:07.520 --> 20:08.520 Don't be silly. You're not dressed. 20:08.520 --> 20:09.520 I'm in a hurry, Lorraine. 20:09.520 --> 20:11.520 So am I. I'm late at the beauty shop now. 20:11.520 --> 20:13.520 But I was driving past anyway, so I thought I'd drop in 20:13.520 --> 20:15.520 and give you the latest on the girls at the bridge club. 20:15.520 --> 20:16.520 Well, some other day. 20:16.520 --> 20:18.520 Honestly, Margie, this is choice. 20:18.520 --> 20:20.520 You know what I heard about Mrs. Dentler? 20:20.520 --> 20:22.520 You know she's the wife of Ben Dentler, 20:22.520 --> 20:24.520 the new teller at the bank, the one from Chicago. 20:24.520 --> 20:25.520 Lorraine, if you don't mind... 20:25.520 --> 20:27.520 Oh, that's right. You haven't met her. 20:27.520 --> 20:29.520 Of course, you haven't been around lately. 20:29.520 --> 20:31.520 Well, she's kind of a pretty little thing 20:31.520 --> 20:33.520 in a plucked eyebrow sort of way. 20:33.520 --> 20:36.520 But you should hear what her husband told my husband. 20:36.520 --> 20:37.520 Lorraine, I... 20:37.520 --> 20:40.520 Of course, I promised Ed I wouldn't breathe a word. 20:40.520 --> 20:42.520 You're trying out loud, Lorraine. 20:42.520 --> 20:44.520 Well, what brought that on? 20:44.520 --> 20:46.520 I haven't time to stand and gossip. 20:46.520 --> 20:48.520 What's wrong with you today anyway? You're as nervous as a cat. 20:48.520 --> 20:50.520 I'm all right, perfectly all right, but here it is, 10.30. 20:50.520 --> 20:52.520 10.30? Good heavens, I'm a half-hour late. 20:52.520 --> 20:53.520 Well, good-bye. 20:53.520 --> 20:54.520 I've got to run. 20:54.520 --> 20:57.520 Oh, darling, be sure and read the Gazette tomorrow. 20:57.520 --> 20:59.520 They're running a story about our bridge benefits. 20:59.520 --> 21:00.520 Okay, good-bye. 21:00.520 --> 21:01.520 Pictures and everything. 21:01.520 --> 21:03.520 They didn't have time to take a new picture, 21:03.520 --> 21:05.520 but I gave them one we took at the Valentine party. 21:05.520 --> 21:07.520 The one I was in? They're publishing it? 21:07.520 --> 21:08.520 Why, sure. 21:08.520 --> 21:10.520 And it won my picture in the paper. 21:10.520 --> 21:13.520 But yours was the only flattering one in the group. 21:13.520 --> 21:15.520 The reporter picked you out right away. 21:15.520 --> 21:17.520 He seemed quite smitten. 21:17.520 --> 21:18.520 He? 21:18.520 --> 21:21.520 Oh, yes, yes, he asked all about you. 21:21.520 --> 21:24.520 Of course, I told him that you didn't come to meetings very often. 21:24.520 --> 21:27.520 The Gazette doesn't use men reporters for society. 21:27.520 --> 21:29.520 Well, they do now, dear. 21:29.520 --> 21:31.520 He didn't sound much like a reporter, though. 21:31.520 --> 21:33.520 He kept calling me, honey. 21:33.520 --> 21:35.520 Tall, blonde, fast talker? 21:35.520 --> 21:36.520 Well, yes. 21:36.520 --> 21:37.520 And you gave him my picture? 21:37.520 --> 21:38.520 Well, of course. 21:38.520 --> 21:39.520 What was his name? 21:39.520 --> 21:43.520 Oh, well, that's the funny name. 21:43.520 --> 21:46.520 I think it was Clusen, Lem Clusen. 21:46.520 --> 21:58.520 But, Charlie, it's a matter of life and death. 21:58.520 --> 22:00.520 I've got to get a hold of Lem before noon. 22:00.520 --> 22:01.520 Well, like I said, he ain't been in. 22:01.520 --> 22:03.520 You sure he never told you where he works? 22:03.520 --> 22:05.520 No, he's come short for some private detective outfit. 22:05.520 --> 22:07.520 Oh, give me some nickels, lots of nickels. 22:07.520 --> 22:09.520 I got some telephoning to do. 22:09.520 --> 22:13.520 At me, detective agency. 22:13.520 --> 22:15.520 You have a man named Clusen working for you. 22:15.520 --> 22:16.520 Lem Clusen? 22:16.520 --> 22:17.520 No. 22:17.520 --> 22:18.520 Thanks. 22:18.520 --> 22:23.520 Brandon agency, I want Mr. Clusen, Lem Clusen. 22:23.520 --> 22:29.520 Oh, yeah, I guess I have the wrong number. 22:29.520 --> 22:32.520 Hawkshawks, detectives, I'm looking for a man named Lem Clusen. 22:32.520 --> 22:37.520 No, I don't want to hire you to find him. 22:37.520 --> 22:40.520 But you're the last one in the book he's got. 22:40.520 --> 22:48.520 Okay, sorry. 22:48.520 --> 22:49.520 No luck? 22:49.520 --> 22:50.520 No. 22:50.520 --> 22:53.520 I just remembered, Lem said the guy he worked for just opened up in town. 22:53.520 --> 22:56.520 Probably ain't no phone book yet. 22:56.520 --> 23:00.520 Go on, kid, get out of here. 23:00.520 --> 23:04.520 Ah, that fresh kid, just because I won't let him in here peddling his papers, he yells in the door. 23:04.520 --> 23:05.520 Did he say banks to you, son? 23:05.520 --> 23:07.520 He yells in here every darn day. 23:07.520 --> 23:09.520 Hey, wait, wait, hey, you didn't finish your drink, huh? 23:09.520 --> 23:10.520 Newsy, Newsy. 23:10.520 --> 23:11.520 Oh, I told him. 23:11.520 --> 23:13.520 Hey, boy, hey, newspaper, boy. 23:13.520 --> 23:15.520 Give me a, boy, boy. 23:15.520 --> 23:17.520 Hey, you, boy. 23:17.520 --> 23:18.520 Paper, lady? 23:18.520 --> 23:20.520 Did you say suicide? 23:20.520 --> 23:22.520 Right in the second national bank. 23:22.520 --> 23:23.520 You want a paper? 23:23.520 --> 23:24.520 Yeah, here. 23:24.520 --> 23:26.520 Guy's wife steps out with another joke. 23:26.520 --> 23:29.520 So the poor dope says goodbye, Margie, and pulls the trigger. 23:29.520 --> 23:30.520 Here you are, lady. 23:30.520 --> 23:31.520 Bank suicide. 23:31.520 --> 23:32.520 Read all about it. 23:32.520 --> 23:34.520 Well, well, if it isn't Margie. 23:34.520 --> 23:36.520 Get away from me, Lem Clusen. 23:36.520 --> 23:37.520 Heard you were looking for me. 23:37.520 --> 23:38.520 Well, here I am. 23:38.520 --> 23:39.520 Boy, have I got a lot to tell you. 23:39.520 --> 23:40.520 Let me alone. 23:40.520 --> 23:41.520 I want to read. 23:41.520 --> 23:42.520 Oh, that write-up's no good. 23:42.520 --> 23:43.520 Here, give it here. 23:43.520 --> 23:44.520 There, that's better. 23:44.520 --> 23:46.520 Now, come on into Charlie's, and I'll give you the inside. 23:46.520 --> 23:48.520 Give me back my paper, you murderer. 23:48.520 --> 23:49.520 Murderer? 23:49.520 --> 23:50.520 Hey, wait a minute. 23:50.520 --> 23:51.520 Oh, I get it. 23:51.520 --> 23:54.520 You figure he bumped himself off on account of my report. 23:54.520 --> 23:55.520 That's a screwy part. 23:55.520 --> 23:56.520 He didn't even wait for the report. 23:56.520 --> 23:57.520 I got it right here in my pocket. 23:57.520 --> 23:58.520 Take your hand off my arm. 23:58.520 --> 24:00.520 Oh, look, honey, now, come on. 24:00.520 --> 24:02.520 You're coming into Charlie's if I have to drag you. 24:02.520 --> 24:03.520 Why don't you leave me alone? 24:03.520 --> 24:05.520 I figured you'd be so. 24:05.520 --> 24:08.520 Nice popping off the way I did in Charlie's yesterday. 24:08.520 --> 24:09.520 But how did I know who you were? 24:09.520 --> 24:10.520 Here we are. 24:10.520 --> 24:12.520 Hey, Charlie, two bourbon highs, double. 24:12.520 --> 24:13.520 I don't want a drink. 24:13.520 --> 24:18.520 Should have seen my face this morning when that screwy friend of yours gave me the picture of your bridge club. 24:18.520 --> 24:19.520 Oh, never mind. 24:19.520 --> 24:21.520 And there you were, as real as life and just as cute. 24:21.520 --> 24:25.520 I says to myself, why, you dumb ox, you got that little doll worried sick. 24:25.520 --> 24:32.520 And then when I read in the paper about my client giving your husband the gun to keep for fear he'll use it on himself, I think, holy cow. 24:32.520 --> 24:34.520 What did you say? 24:34.520 --> 24:38.520 And then I think I bet she figures I planned the whole thing just to scare her. 24:38.520 --> 24:39.520 What do you mean? 24:39.520 --> 24:40.520 Oh, now, don't try to kid me, Margie. 24:40.520 --> 24:44.520 You know you figured that client of mine was your husband, that he was going to bump you off. 24:44.520 --> 24:45.520 You mean he wasn't? 24:45.520 --> 24:47.520 No, no, your name's Banning, isn't it? 24:47.520 --> 24:48.520 Yeah. 24:48.520 --> 24:51.520 But my client's name was Dendler, Benjamin Dendler. 24:51.520 --> 24:54.520 Funny thing, his wife being named Margie, too. 24:54.520 --> 24:56.520 Yeah, I never thought he'd do it anyway. 24:56.520 --> 24:58.520 Oh, I think I'd like that drink after all. 24:58.520 --> 25:00.520 Well, here's to us, honey. 25:00.520 --> 25:03.520 So that's the gossip Lorraine was trying to tell me. 25:03.520 --> 25:05.520 Dendler, the teller from Chicago. 25:05.520 --> 25:07.520 You know, I've been thinking a lot about you, Margie. 25:07.520 --> 25:09.520 And Arthur really was keeping the gun for a friend of his. 25:09.520 --> 25:14.520 I'll tell you what, honey, I know a quiet little spot across town where we can eat, dance, anything we want. 25:14.520 --> 25:16.520 You might have told me about Dendler. 25:16.520 --> 25:19.520 It's a cute little place, baby. They've got a knocked-out band and what a floor show. 25:19.520 --> 25:21.520 I wonder why Arthur wouldn't talk to me about it. 25:21.520 --> 25:22.520 Well, what do you say? 25:22.520 --> 25:24.520 Say? To what? 25:24.520 --> 25:27.520 Well, you and me, honey, our date. 25:27.520 --> 25:32.520 Oh, you're asking me to step out with you? 25:32.520 --> 25:34.520 Well, why not? 25:34.520 --> 25:35.520 How about my husband? 25:35.520 --> 25:39.520 Oh, that mousy little guy. We got nothing to worry about from him. 25:39.520 --> 25:42.520 But I thought you always said, beware the quiet man. 25:42.520 --> 25:44.520 You never know what they're really thinking. 25:44.520 --> 25:45.520 But, listen... 25:45.520 --> 25:46.520 No buts. 25:46.520 --> 26:09.520 If you'll pardon me, Mr. Lemclouson, I'm going home and start his supper. 26:09.520 --> 26:12.520 Thank you, Anne Southern, for a splendid performance. 26:12.520 --> 26:15.520 Miss Southern will be back in just a moment. 26:15.520 --> 26:19.520 Dora, I apologize. That show was better than a sixth No Trump had. 26:19.520 --> 26:22.520 Why, Mary, first thing you know, you'll be in Ed's class, 26:22.520 --> 26:26.520 quacking about auto-light resistor spark plugs like Donald Duck. 26:26.520 --> 26:31.520 Deal me a great big hand, Mary, and watch me get back that 200 we went down. 26:31.520 --> 26:34.520 You know, I must get me a set of those spark plugs. 26:34.520 --> 26:39.520 Why not? Ask Ed tomorrow to put a set of those auto-light resistor spark plugs in your car. 26:39.520 --> 26:43.520 Oh, well, then, May, will you tell Ed I'll be over tomorrow? 26:43.520 --> 26:44.520 I certainly will. 26:44.520 --> 26:48.520 My old car is going to get auto-light resistor spark plugs, too. 26:48.520 --> 26:52.520 Yes, switching to auto-light is safe, sane, sound, sober judgment, 26:52.520 --> 26:55.520 and a sure way to spark plug satisfaction. 26:55.520 --> 26:58.520 That's why everybody's switching to auto-light. 26:58.520 --> 27:00.520 Auto-light means resistor spark plugs. 27:00.520 --> 27:03.520 Ignition engineered spark plugs. 27:03.520 --> 27:05.520 Auto-light means batteries. 27:05.520 --> 27:07.520 Stay full, batteries. 27:07.520 --> 27:09.520 Auto-light means ignition systems. 27:09.520 --> 27:14.520 The lifeline of your car. 27:20.520 --> 27:23.520 And now here again is Miss Anne Southern. 27:23.520 --> 27:26.520 I've enjoyed this appearance on Suspense very much. 27:26.520 --> 27:29.520 And as a regular Suspense listener, I'm looking forward to next week 27:29.520 --> 27:34.520 when Martha Scott stars in Crisis, a powerful study in... 27:34.520 --> 27:39.520 Suspense. 27:46.520 --> 27:50.520 Anne Southern appears by courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, 27:50.520 --> 27:54.520 producers of Julia Misbehaves, starring Walter Pigeon and Greer Garson. 27:54.520 --> 27:57.520 Tonight, Suspense play was written by Toby Hall, 27:57.520 --> 28:01.520 with music composed by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Lud Bluscombe. 28:01.520 --> 28:04.520 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. 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