1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 In just a moment, Auto Light presents Suspense, starring Margaret O'Brien. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go. 3 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,000 The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh. 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:18,000 Why, Hap, Hap, that's not the way to sing hurrah for Thanksgiving Day. 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,000 What are you telling me, Harlow Wilcox? Why, I've said that so... 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,000 No, no, Hap, this is the way it goes today. 7 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,000 Over the river and through the woods and never mind the snow, 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:30,000 Grandpa is happy with his jalopy, his battery's never low. 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Over the river and through the woods blow high, ye winds blow low. 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:39,000 The car's as snappy as Grandma and Papi with an Auto Light stay-full, you know. 11 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:40,000 But Harlow, that's not... 12 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,000 Why, you see, Hap, Auto Light stay-full batteries have changed a lot of things today. 13 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Harlow, isn't anything sacred anymore, it's Thanksgiving Day. 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Let's listen to Margaret O'Brien on Suspense. 15 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,000 Suspense. 16 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:13,000 Auto Light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you 17 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Radio's outstanding Theatre of Thrills. 18 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:21,000 Starring tonight, Miss Margaret O'Brien in Anton Leder's production of 19 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,000 The Screaming Woman. 20 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:29,000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 21 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,000 I'm Margaret Leary and I've got to tell you how it happened. 22 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,000 It was Thanksgiving Day and it was nice and sunshiny. 23 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,000 Almost like summer except cooler. 24 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,000 Mama was cooking the turkey and I was watching. 25 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,000 And Mama said to me, Good heavens, I forgot. 26 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Your Aunt Cynthia's made some cranberry relish for us. 27 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Run over and get it, Margaret, so her feelings aren't hurt. 28 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,000 And hurry, this turkey's down to a turn. 29 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:10,000 So I ran to Aunt Cynthia's and on the way back I took a shortcut through Mr. Kelly's lot. 30 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,000 It's a big lot, more like the side of a hill that slides down to Monument Creek. 31 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:19,000 It's a swell place to play Indians and cowboys or explorers are hunting for treasures 32 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,000 because trucks dump all kinds of stuff there. 33 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Loads of dirt and junk and even big things like old cars and big pipes and chunks of concrete. 34 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:34,000 Well, this day, coming back from Aunt Cynthia's, I saw that a lot of new junk and dirt had been dumped there since Saturday. 35 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:39,000 They'd even covered up our swell big concrete pipe that us kids called our fort. 36 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Covered it clear up. 37 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:46,000 I was looking around to see where it used to be when all of a sudden... 38 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000 I stopped and listened. 39 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,000 The sound was coming up out of the ground. 40 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 A woman was buried under the junk and dirt and glass 41 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,000 and she was screaming all wild and horrible for somebody to dig her out. 42 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,000 I started to run. I fell down and got up and ran some more. 43 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,000 It was an awful, awful long way to our house that day. 44 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Mama! Mama! Mama! Mama! Mama! 45 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Oh, Margaret, haven't I told you not to slam the door? 46 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Is that the relish? 47 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Listen, Mama, there's a screaming woman in the lot. 48 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:18,000 Wash your hands, Margaret. 49 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,000 She was screaming and screaming and screaming. 50 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Mama, listen to me. We've got to dig her out. 51 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,000 She's buried under tons and tons of dirt. 52 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,000 I'm sure she can wait till after dinner. 53 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Oh, next year I swear I'm going to buy a bigger platter. 54 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Mama, don't you believe me? You've got to believe me. 55 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,000 Margaret, I've got a million things to do. 56 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Good gosh, look at you. 57 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,000 How'd you get your knees so dirty? 58 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Well, when he backs in the lot, I... 59 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Never mind. Scoot and tell your dad we're about to eat. 60 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,000 He's in the front room reading his paper. 61 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Yes, Mama. 62 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Daddy! Oh, Daddy, I've got to tell you something. 63 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Getting hungry, baby? 64 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Daddy, there's a screaming woman in the lot. 65 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,000 I never knew a woman who didn't. 66 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Smell that turkey. 67 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,000 We've got to get picks and shovels and dig her up 68 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,000 like we're an Egyptian mummy. Oh, Daddy! 69 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,000 I don't feel much like an archaeologist today, Margaret. 70 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,000 I can't think of anything but food. 71 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Let's have an expedition next Sunday and dig her up. 72 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,000 But we can't wait that long. 73 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Oh, Daddy, she'll die if we don't do it now. 74 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,000 I'll give you some money. 75 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Oh, so it's a business proposition. 76 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Well, how much do you pay by the hour? 77 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,000 I've got five whole dollars. It took me a year to save. 78 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Come here, boy. You know I'm touched. 79 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Oh, but Daddy... 80 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,000 You want me to play with you and you're willing to pay me for my time. 81 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Oh, but... 82 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Why, dear, you're shaking. Calm down. 83 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Oh, Daddy, please. 84 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:33,000 After our Thanksgiving dinner, 85 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 I'll come out and listen to your screaming woman. 86 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,000 How's that? 87 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:37,000 Oh, no, now, Daddy. 88 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Maybe she'll die if you don't come out now. 89 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Oh, you've got to come now. 90 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,000 Margaret. 91 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,000 If you believe me, you wouldn't wait. 92 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,000 You never believe me. 93 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:44,000 Mama doesn't believe me. 94 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Nobody believes me. 95 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,000 Margaret, quiet down right this minute. 96 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Or I not only won't go with you, 97 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,000 but you'll go to your room and stay in without your Thanksgiving dinner. 98 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Oh, is that clear? 99 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Yes, sir. It's clear. 100 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,000 I always like Thanksgiving. 101 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Almost next best to Christmas. 102 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 But that was an awful one. 103 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Dinner was a million years long. 104 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Everybody moved so slow, like a slow motion movie. 105 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,000 Forks and knives and spoons move slow. 106 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,000 And Dad's cheek muscles moved slow when he chewed. 107 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,000 I won't try to make things faster. 108 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Margaret, you heard your mother now. 109 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Don't eat so fast. 110 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,000 But, Daddy, the screaming woman, we've got to hurry. 111 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,000 My dear young lady, this is Thanksgiving dinner. 112 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,000 An occasion when we do not hurry. 113 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,000 I intend to eat four or five helpings of everything 114 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,000 until I can't eat anymore. 115 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,000 And I'm going to make an extra effort 116 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:49,000 and find room for pumpkin pie, a few walnuts, stuffed dates. 117 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,000 Oh, please, please, Daddy. 118 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,000 If you pester me anymore, if you mention her again, 119 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:58,000 this screaming watsis, I won't go out with you to hear a recital at all. 120 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Am I understood? 121 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Yes, sir, it's understood. 122 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,000 I wanted to yell. 123 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Oh, please, rush, get up, run around, come on, hurry. 124 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,000 But I had to sit still while out there in the lot 125 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,000 with the sun shining down, all alone with nobody to hear or to help her. 126 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,000 It was the screaming woman. 127 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,000 I could hear in my mind screaming. 128 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Mom and Daddy couldn't hear. 129 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000 They just kept on eating and talking. 130 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,000 Well, now that I can be thankful for a full stomach, 131 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,000 I guess we should consider what other things we have to be thankful for. 132 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Well, we're all healthy. 133 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Prices are sky high, but we're not in debt. 134 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Yet. 135 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Those are mundane things, my dear. 136 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,000 I am thankful for my big daughter. 137 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Right, Puss? 138 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Yes, Dad. 139 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,000 And for my loving wife, who is still the most romantic woman I know. 140 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Oh, silly. 141 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,000 I'm thankful I didn't marry somebody else. 142 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Who nearly married Dora Lampelle. 143 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Even gave her a ring. 144 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,000 I never meant a thing. 145 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,000 No one. 146 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:06,000 No. 147 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,000 You're the only one who's been the serious competitor since we were all kids. 148 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Oh. 149 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,000 There's only one. One other. 150 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Who? 151 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Helen Nesbitt. 152 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Oh. 153 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Helen was my first love. 154 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,000 When she was about as old as Margaret, I gave her a present one Christmas, 155 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,000 and she gave me one, but I still have it. 156 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Oh, that paperweight on your desk. 157 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Funny how we hang on to things that were important when we were kids. 158 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:32,000 Daddy. 159 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,000 Just a little longer, Puss. 160 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Want to open my coffee, will you, dear? 161 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,000 You know what I'm thankful for, dear? 162 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Seriously. 163 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,000 That we stayed here in this same town where we grew up. 164 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:45,000 Here you are, dear. 165 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Thank you. 166 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,000 The same friends. 167 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,000 Even the same street. 168 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,000 It's been a peaceful life. 169 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:52,000 Not very exciting, but... 170 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Daddy! 171 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:54,000 Margaret finds it pretty exciting. 172 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:55,000 Yes. 173 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,000 You better take her out to the lot before she collapses. 174 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,000 All right, now, where is your screaming woman? 175 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:13,000 Lead me to her. 176 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,000 Over here, where our fort used to be. 177 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Fort? 178 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,000 The big concrete pipe. 179 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,000 It's all covered up now. 180 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,000 Kelly's really getting this lot filled in. 181 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,000 All right, where's the lady? 182 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Right about here, Daddy. 183 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:26,000 Listen. 184 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,000 Don't hear a thing. 185 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Except the wind. 186 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Better button up your sweater, Puss. 187 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,000 Shh! 188 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Listen. 189 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,000 That's the trolley over on Aspen Street. 190 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Hey, there! 191 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Screaming woman! 192 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:42,000 Hey! 193 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,000 Looks like the Dolans are starting out for a drive. 194 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,000 Well, I guess your screaming woman's let you down, Puss. 195 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:52,000 But she was here, Daddy. 196 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,000 Right under here where they dumped all this dirt. 197 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,000 I heard her screaming and screaming like she was underneath the fort. 198 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Somebody's dumped tons and tons right on top of our fort. 199 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Yeah, too bad they buried your fort, Margaret. 200 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,000 I saw two of Kelly's big trucks back in here last evening. 201 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,000 There was a dump truck in here this morning, too. 202 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,000 It isn't because they covered the fort. 203 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,000 That must be your screaming woman doesn't like grown-ups. 204 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Only delivers her solo for kids, I guess. 205 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,000 Maybe she can't scream anymore. 206 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,000 Well, I'm going back and take a nap. 207 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,000 Let my dinner settle. 208 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,000 Well, aren't you going to help me dig? 209 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,000 Now, listen, my dear, don't you think this is a sort of a silly game? 210 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,000 But it's not a game. 211 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Now, don't stay too long, dear. 212 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Mama probably likes some help with those dishes. 213 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,000 Daddy! 214 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Daddy! 215 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,000 I know I heard her scream. 216 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:36,000 I know it. 217 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,000 Oh, darn, darn, darn! 218 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,000 You're there! 219 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:44,000 You're still there! 220 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,000 Hey, screaming woman! 221 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Why did you scream before? 222 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,000 Why didn't you scream so Daddy could hear you? 223 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Don't just scream for me. 224 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,000 I can't help you all by myself. 225 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:05,000 Daddy! 226 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Daddy, where are you? 227 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Up there, my dear. 228 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Daddy! 229 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Daddy, she's screaming again. 230 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,000 Right after you left, she started to scream. 231 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:14,000 You've got to come back. 232 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,000 Oh, there, now. 233 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Come here. 234 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Let me feel your head. 235 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:18,000 Please, Dad. 236 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,000 Why, you've got a fever. 237 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,000 You're going to lie down, young lady. 238 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,000 We can't leave her down there, Dad. 239 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:23,000 We just can't. 240 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Come on along. 241 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:25,000 Come on into your room. 242 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,000 That's right. 243 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,000 It's awful, Dad. 244 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,000 It's awful for her to be screaming and nobody listening. 245 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Nobody caring. 246 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,000 You lie down, folks. 247 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,000 Lie down. 248 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:33,000 Now, come on. 249 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:34,000 She'll choke where there isn't any more air and she'll die. 250 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Now, you're going to lie down the rest of the afternoon before you make yourself sick. 251 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,000 No, I've got to dig. 252 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,000 I've got to dig her up. 253 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,000 All those comic books you read. 254 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Now, I forbid you to leave the house. 255 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,000 Close your eyes now and take a nap. 256 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,000 That's my good girl. 257 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:53,000 Oh, what am I going to do? 258 00:10:53,000 --> 00:11:08,000 What am I going to do? 259 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:14,000 For suspense, Auto Light is bringing you Miss Margaret O'Brien in radio's outstanding theater 260 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:17,000 of thrills, Suspense. 261 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:28,160 I have a hunch you're going to give me another Auto Light stay full battery Thanksgiving 262 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:29,160 song. 263 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:30,160 No, not me, Hap. 264 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:31,160 No? 265 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:32,160 No, sirree. 266 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:34,520 By Cornelius, I'm going to tell a Thanksgiving story. 267 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:35,520 It's a fable. 268 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:37,000 Couldn't be anything else if you told it. 269 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,000 Now, listen to this, my trigger tongue trooper. 270 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Last year at this time, my car called me out to the garage. 271 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:45,400 Quite a car too, Hap. 272 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:47,000 Once a year she overhauls me. 273 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,000 Wow, and on Thanksgiving Day too. 274 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,440 Harlow, she said, I have an empty feeling and I'm so confounded thirsty all the time, 275 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:55,600 I think you ought to do something about it. 276 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:59,620 I'd like to end up Thanksgiving Day with that fine fool feeling that lulls you to sleep 277 00:11:59,620 --> 00:12:01,600 as soon as the mince pie disappears. 278 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:05,280 Well, how, my pretty, says I, can all this be accomplished? 279 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:06,720 Easy, she chimes. 280 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:09,800 I need to switch to an Auto Light stay full battery. 281 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:14,120 Why, with an Auto Light stay full battery, I'll never be thirsty, and if you use me normally, 282 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,200 I'll need only three drinks a year. 283 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:20,320 And what's more, with the oversized electrical capacity and fiberglass insulation of that 284 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:26,000 Auto Light stay full battery, I'll have more power, stay lively longer, and save you time, 285 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:27,960 trouble, work, and worry. 286 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:31,680 And Harlow, for a fellow as lazy as you are, think what all this means. 287 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:37,320 Well, when she came up with all those points in my favor, I hurried, I hastened, I hurdled 288 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:42,080 till I was exhausted, and by Christopher, I got an Auto Light stay full battery and 289 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:47,160 gave it to Clarissa, I call my car Clarissa, Thanksgiving morning. 290 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:51,320 We took a spin, and I could tell she was happier than a penguin with skis. 291 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:53,240 Sounds like Harlow in Wonderland. 292 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:59,520 Well, now, let's get back to Margaret O'Brien and the Screaming Woman. 293 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:06,480 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, Miss Margaret O'Brien as Margaret 294 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:24,000 in the Screaming Woman, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 295 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,920 After a while, I stopped crying. 296 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:30,280 I had to get back to the lot where that woman was screaming, but I was locked in. 297 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:33,880 I tied a sheet to the bed and let it out the window and shunned down to the ground. 298 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:37,240 Then I ran to the garage and got shovels and ran to the empty lot. 299 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:40,400 The sun was almost down and it was getting cold. 300 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:41,880 I started to dig fast. 301 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:42,880 Hiya, Maggie. 302 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:46,280 It was Dippy Smith who was 10 years old, the same as me. 303 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:47,280 He goes to my school. 304 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:48,880 What you digging for? 305 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:49,880 For a screaming woman. 306 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:52,240 She's down in the ground and I'm going to dig her up. 307 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:54,040 You can help me dig, Dippy. 308 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,120 There's an extra shovel. 309 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:57,120 I don't hear nothing. 310 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:59,600 And I don't dig unless I hear a scream. 311 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,640 Then listen. 312 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:03,840 I don't hear nothing. 313 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:04,840 Just wait. 314 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:05,840 You will. 315 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:06,840 There. 316 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:07,840 Did you hear it? 317 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:08,840 Hey, that's okay. 318 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:09,840 Do it again. 319 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:10,840 Do what again? 320 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:11,840 Scream. 321 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:12,840 Do it again. 322 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:13,840 Go on. 323 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,840 I'll give you this Aggie to teach me to do it. 324 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:23,920 Hot dog, did you get that Ben Trilliquist book for a dime from that magic company? 325 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:26,440 You got one of those 10 things in your mouth? 326 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:28,600 I won't tell unless you help me dig. 327 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:29,600 Okay, swell. 328 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:30,600 Give me the shovel. 329 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:31,600 Hot dog. 330 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:32,600 And you got to dig fast. 331 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:33,600 Like this, Dippy. 332 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:34,600 Boy, you think she will right under our feet. 333 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:35,600 You're wonderful, Aggie. 334 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:36,600 Say, what's the screaming woman's name? 335 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:37,600 You must have made her up a name. 336 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:38,600 Oh sure. 337 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:39,600 Her name is Wilma Schwager and she's a rich old lady, 160 years old. 338 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:40,600 And she was buried by a crook named Spike. 339 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:41,600 Come on, Dippy. 340 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:42,600 Dig. 341 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:43,600 I can't. 342 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:44,600 I can't. 343 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:45,600 I can't. 344 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:46,600 I can't. 345 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:47,600 I can't. 346 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:48,600 I can't. 347 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:49,600 I can't. 348 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:50,600 I can't. 349 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:51,600 I can't. 350 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:52,600 I can't. 351 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:53,600 I can't. 352 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:54,600 I can't. 353 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:55,600 I can't. 354 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:56,600 I can't. 355 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:57,600 I can't. 356 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:58,600 I can't. 357 00:14:58,600 --> 00:14:59,600 I can't. 358 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:00,600 I can't. 359 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:01,600 I can't. 360 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:02,600 I can't. 361 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:03,600 I can't. 362 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:04,600 I can't. 363 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:05,600 I can't. 364 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:06,600 I can't. 365 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:07,600 I can't. 366 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:08,600 I can't. 367 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:09,600 I can't. 368 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:10,600 I can't. 369 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:11,600 I can't. 370 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:12,600 I can't. 371 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:13,600 I can't. 372 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:14,600 I can't. 373 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:15,600 I can't. 374 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:16,600 I can't. 375 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:17,600 I can't. 376 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:18,600 I can't. 377 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:19,600 I can't. 378 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:20,600 I can't. 379 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:21,600 I can't. 380 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:22,600 I can't. 381 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:23,600 I can't. 382 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:24,600 I can't. 383 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:25,600 OK? 384 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:26,600 Yeah. 385 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:27,600 I can't. 386 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:28,600 I can't. 387 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:29,600 I can't. 388 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:30,600 I can't. 389 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,600 Now look, Dibby, I'll go way over here, and then you listen. 390 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:34,600 Okay. 391 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:35,600 Listen. 392 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:40,600 Hey, there really is a woman here. 393 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:41,600 That's what I told you. 394 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:43,600 Come on, let's dig. 395 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:47,600 How's she breathing, do you think? 396 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,600 I think she's in the fort, remember? 397 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,600 Sure, that's where she must be. 398 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:59,600 Five or six of us kids could get in it so it's big enough. 399 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,600 I sure hope it isn't just a radio or something. 400 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,600 Well, a radio would be nice too. 401 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:07,600 Here, here, what do you kids think you're doing? 402 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,600 Oh, hello, Mr. Kelly. 403 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,600 I'm tired of chasing you out of this lot. 404 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:14,600 If one of you gets hurt, it may be your folks at Sue Me. 405 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:16,600 But Mr. Kelly, there's a woman screaming. 406 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:18,600 You kids beat her, do you hear? 407 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:19,600 Yes, sir. 408 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:21,600 But listen, Mr. Kelly, don't you hear? 409 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:23,600 There. 410 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:25,600 I don't hear a thing, and neither do you now. 411 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:26,600 Now beat it. 412 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:27,600 Come on, Maggie. 413 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:29,600 Mr. Kelly, somebody's got to dig her up. 414 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:31,600 Don't argue with me or I'll phone your folks. 415 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:32,600 This is my property. 416 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:34,600 Do I have to put up a fence? 417 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,600 Why should I spend money to keep people off my own property? 418 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:39,600 Dippy, it's him. He's the one. 419 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:40,600 Huh? 420 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:42,600 He murdered Mrs. Kelly. 421 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:44,600 He hit her on the head and stuck her in the fort 422 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:46,600 and dumped loads of dirt on top. 423 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:48,600 But she wasn't dead. She came, too. 424 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:49,600 Why, you saw him. 425 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:50,600 He stood right there when she screamed 426 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:51,600 and wouldn't pay any attention. 427 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:52,600 Hey, that's right. 428 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,600 He stood right there and lied to us. 429 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:57,600 What'll we do, Maggie? 430 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:58,600 There's only one thing to do. 431 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:00,600 We'll phone the police and tell them 432 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:02,600 to come and arrest Mr. Kelly. 433 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:21,600 Hey, they sure got here fast, Maggie. 434 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:25,600 Shh. Don't make a sound. 435 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:29,600 Is Mr. Kelly in the house? 436 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:32,600 Yes. He went right home from the lot. 437 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:38,600 Yes, officer. 438 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:39,600 You, Mr. Kelly? 439 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:40,600 Yes, sir. 440 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:41,600 What can I do for you? 441 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:43,600 Is Mrs. Kelly at home this evening? 442 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:44,600 Why, sure. 443 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:45,600 Can I see her, sir? 444 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:46,600 Why, sure. 445 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:48,600 Hey, Anna. 446 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:49,600 What's up? 447 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:50,600 We got a call. 448 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:51,600 Oh, good evening, ma'am. 449 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:52,600 What did he do? 450 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:53,600 Oh. 451 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:54,600 I'm sorry, folks. 452 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:56,600 We got a call that Mrs. Kelly was buried alive 453 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:58,600 in an empty lot. 454 00:17:58,600 --> 00:17:59,600 Sounded like some kid calling, 455 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:01,600 but we had to make sure. 456 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:02,600 Always check, you know. 457 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:03,600 Oh, yeah, I can't understand what you're... 458 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:05,600 It's those blasted kids. 459 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:07,600 If I ever catch them, I'll break their necks. 460 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:23,600 Maggie, jeez it! 461 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:25,600 Boy, if Mr. Kelly telephones my dad, 462 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:26,600 I'll get a lickin'. 463 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:28,600 What'll we do about the screaming woman? 464 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:29,600 What the heck with her? 465 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:31,600 I'm not going near that lot again. 466 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:32,600 Wait, Dippy. 467 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:33,600 Huh? 468 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:35,600 I know why he didn't hear the screams. 469 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:36,600 Kelly's sort of deaf. 470 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:38,600 Mama says he's hard of hearing. 471 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:39,600 He heard us, didn't he? 472 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:40,600 He heard the cop. 473 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:41,600 He reads people's lips, 474 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:43,600 but he couldn't hear the screaming woman 475 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:44,600 because he couldn't see her. 476 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:45,600 Dippy, come on. 477 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:46,600 We gotta dig some more. 478 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:47,600 No, sir. 479 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:48,600 But we've got to. 480 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:50,600 We're already in a peck of trouble 481 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:52,600 over your darn old ventriloquist voice. 482 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:54,600 I'm not going to get in any more trouble. 483 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:55,600 No, sir. 484 00:18:55,600 --> 00:19:01,600 And he went off and left me alone. 485 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:03,600 I wanted to crawl down under the ground 486 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:05,600 with the screaming woman and die, too. 487 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:06,600 It was dark now, 488 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:08,600 and Dad would be hunting for me. 489 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:10,600 If he found me, I'd get a licking and be put to bed. 490 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,600 And then nobody would help the screaming woman at all. 491 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:15,600 There was only one last thing to do. 492 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:16,600 So I did it, 493 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,600 to go all over the neighborhood from house to house 494 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:21,600 and find out who's missing. 495 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:24,600 Why, hello, dear. 496 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:25,600 Hello, Mrs. Griswold. 497 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:27,600 Is anybody missing from your house? 498 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:29,600 Is your sister from Detroit still here? 499 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:32,600 Yes, she's sitting right over there by the radio. 500 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:33,600 Don't you see her? 501 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:35,600 Em, little Margaret Leary wants to... 502 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,600 No, I only wanted to see her, Mrs. Griswold. 503 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:39,600 I was just wondering. 504 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:41,600 I just wanted to know if she was here. 505 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:48,600 Hello, Mrs. Pikes. 506 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:49,600 You're looking good. 507 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:51,600 I'm glad to see you're at home, Mrs. Pikes. 508 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:53,600 I'm awful glad. 509 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:00,600 Mr. Hyde, is your wife still here? 510 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,600 Dora, aren't you out pretty late, Margaret? 511 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:05,600 Yes. Oh, hello, Mrs. Hyde. 512 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:07,600 What is it, Margaret? 513 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:09,600 I just wanted to see you, Mrs. Hyde. 514 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:10,600 That's all. 515 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:18,600 The hours were just rolling along 516 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:21,600 and I rang bells and knocked and I rang bells. 517 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:25,600 I was about to give up when I came to the Nesbitt's house. 518 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,600 The house was quiet like nobody was at home. 519 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,600 But I saw a dim, spooky light inside somewhere. 520 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,600 So I just kept knocking and knocking. 521 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:41,600 Oh. 522 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:42,600 What do you want? 523 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:43,600 Oh, nothing, Mr. Nesbitt. 524 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:45,600 I only wanted to see Mrs. Nesbitt. 525 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:48,600 She's not here. She's gone to the store. 526 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:49,600 At night? 527 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,600 Besides, it's closed today, I think. 528 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,600 The drug store down on Clark Street. 529 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,600 Oh, well, then she ought to be back pretty quick. 530 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:57,600 I'll come in and wait. 531 00:20:57,600 --> 00:20:58,600 Hey, wait, wait a minute. 532 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:00,600 I'll just sit down here and wait. 533 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:02,600 I sure like this rocking chair. 534 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,600 Go right ahead and do whatever you were doing, Mr. Nesbitt. 535 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:07,600 I wasn't doing anything. 536 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,600 Oh, looks like you were packing or something 537 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,600 with all those boxes and trunks around. 538 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:13,600 Going away? 539 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,600 Oh, Helen's been sorting things out, 540 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:18,600 getting rid of a lot of stuff. 541 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:20,600 Oh, burning it up in the fireplace. 542 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:22,600 Yeah, that's right. 543 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:24,600 Dad always burns our junk out in the alley. 544 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:26,600 Clothes smell awful when they burn. 545 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:30,600 Look, Helen may have gone on from the store to visit a friend. 546 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,600 Well, if she doesn't come back soon, I'll leave. 547 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:34,600 Yeah, I'll tell her you were here. 548 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,600 What do you want to see her about? 549 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:39,600 Oh, nothing much. 550 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:41,600 Hey, that's too bad. 551 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:42,600 What? 552 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:43,600 I guess you lost the key to that box. 553 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:44,600 You had to break the lock. 554 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:46,600 No, no, it was broken already. 555 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,600 Yeah, I bet your folks don't know where you are, kid. 556 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:52,600 No, sir, they think I'm in bed. 557 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:54,600 What friend did Mrs. Nesbitt go to visit? 558 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:56,600 I don't know what... 559 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:59,600 I mean, look, kid, I ought to tell you, she won't be back tonight. 560 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:00,600 Oh? 561 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:02,600 No, she went to the store, like I said, 562 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:08,600 but she was going from there over to Beechwood to visit her mother on a bus. 563 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:10,600 She'll be gone in two or three days. 564 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:11,600 Oh, that's a shame. 565 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:12,600 Why? 566 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:16,600 Well, Mama was expecting Mrs. Nesbitt to come over tomorrow, maybe to sell. 567 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:18,600 You better not tell your mother. 568 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:22,600 You see, it's kind of secret about Helen going away. 569 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,600 She doesn't want people to know for a while. 570 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:25,600 Oh. 571 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:27,600 You know how to keep a secret, kid? 572 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:28,600 I guess so. 573 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:30,600 I'll give you something for not telling. 574 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,600 I'll give you a reward. 575 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,600 Let's see. 576 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:36,600 Hey, here, here's something for a kid. 577 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:37,600 A doll. 578 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:38,600 A doll? 579 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:40,600 Yeah, Helen was going to give it to you. 580 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:44,600 I heard her say when she was sorting the stuff, she said, 581 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,600 I'll give this to the little leery girl. 582 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,600 Mrs. Nesbitt always calls me Margaret. 583 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,600 Well, sure, that's what she said. 584 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:52,600 Margaret. 585 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:54,600 That's quite a doll. 586 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,600 Old-fashioned. 587 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:57,600 It's made of leather. 588 00:22:57,600 --> 00:22:59,600 It faces China or something. 589 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:00,600 See? 590 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:01,600 Mm-hmm. 591 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:02,600 Thank you, Mr. Nesbitt. 592 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:06,600 It's a reward for not saying anything about Helen being gone. 593 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:07,600 Understand? 594 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:09,600 Now, come on. 595 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:11,600 I'll snap on the porch light. 596 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,600 Mr. Nesbitt, did you finish your driveway? 597 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:15,600 What do you mean? 598 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:17,600 Did you get all the dirt hauled off to make it smooth? 599 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:18,600 Sure. 600 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:19,600 Sure. 601 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:20,600 Now, come on. 602 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,600 I saw your dump truck in the lot this morning and... 603 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:24,600 What do you mean? 604 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:25,600 Were you in the lot this morning? 605 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,600 No, no, I was at home. 606 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:28,600 I looked out the window. 607 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:30,600 Please, Mr. Nesbitt, let go of my arm. 608 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,600 You've been playing out there today? 609 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:33,600 Answer me. 610 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:34,600 Oh, don't, that hurts. 611 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:35,600 I wasn't playing. 612 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:37,600 It's no fun now with our fort all covered up and... 613 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:38,600 The fort? 614 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:39,600 What's that? 615 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:40,600 Nothing. 616 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:41,600 Nothing, Mr. Nesbitt. 617 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:43,600 Tell me what you're talking about. 618 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:44,600 Nothing but that old concrete pipe. 619 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:45,600 You know something. 620 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:46,600 That's why you came here. 621 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,600 You've been snooping around that lot and you found out something. 622 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:50,600 What do you know? 623 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:51,600 I don't know anything. 624 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:52,600 Let me go, Mr. Nesbitt. 625 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:53,600 If you don't let me go, I'll... 626 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:54,600 Ow! 627 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:55,600 Bear! 628 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:56,600 Come back! 629 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:57,600 Come back, kid. 630 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:58,600 I'll give you something else. 631 00:23:58,600 --> 00:23:59,600 I'll give you something else. 632 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:00,600 Come back, kid. 633 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:01,600 Come back. 634 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:02,600 Mr. Nesbitt yelled because I kicked and bit his hand. 635 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:03,600 Then I ran, but I heard him running after me. 636 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:18,600 It was dark and quiet and scary on the streets, and more scary out there in the lot. 637 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:22,600 I ran straight across the place where I heard the screaming, and it was so quiet. 638 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,600 And all of a sudden there was a man in the lot, right in front of me. 639 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:26,600 Stop, Margaret. 640 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:27,600 Oh. 641 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:28,600 Margaret. 642 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:29,600 Oh, Daddy. 643 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:30,600 Margaret, where have you been? 644 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:32,600 Do you have any idea how your mama's worried? 645 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:33,600 Do you know how late it is? 646 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:34,600 Daddy, Daddy, he's after me. 647 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,600 We've been up and down alleys and clear down to Clark Street. 648 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:38,600 I was about to call the police. 649 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:39,600 The screaming woman. 650 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:40,600 It's Mrs. Nesbitt down there. 651 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:41,600 I'm going to give you a good licking. 652 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:42,600 Mr. Nesbitt killed her, and now he wants to kill me. 653 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:43,600 I've had all of that idiotic talk. 654 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:44,600 I can stand. 655 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:45,600 It's true. 656 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,600 You've got to be with me. 657 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,600 Margaret, I'm going to lick you right now, right here. 658 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:52,600 I've had enough. 659 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,600 What have you got there? 660 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:56,600 Where did you get that doll? 661 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,600 Well, I gave it to her, Leary. 662 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:00,600 The kid stopped by the house. 663 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:05,600 I remembered Helen said she wanted to throw it away. 664 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:06,600 Helen said to throw it away? 665 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:07,600 He's lying, Dad. 666 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,600 He gave it to me so I wouldn't tell about her. 667 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:10,600 It was locked up in a box. 668 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:11,600 He didn't have the key. 669 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:12,600 He broke it open. 670 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,600 She's a high strung kid, Leary. 671 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,600 All the stuff she was telling me. 672 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:17,600 He's lying, Dad. 673 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,600 Yes, he is lying. 674 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,600 Why are you lying, Charlie? 675 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:22,600 Lying? 676 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:24,600 How do you get that, Leary? 677 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:25,600 Helen never let you have that doll. 678 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,600 It was locked up. 679 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:29,600 It was a present I gave her a long time ago. 680 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:30,600 She wouldn't throw it away anymore, 681 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,600 and I'd throw away the paperweight she gave me. 682 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:33,600 Why are you lying, Charlie? 683 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:34,600 I'm not. 684 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:36,600 Don't look at me that way, Leary. 685 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,600 As God is my witness, I... 686 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:47,600 It's her. 687 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:51,600 Dad is the screaming woman. 688 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,600 As God is your witness. 689 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,600 No, Leary, don't. 690 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,600 Oh, God. 691 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:05,600 Margaret, run to the house. 692 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,600 Phone the police and tell them to hurry. 693 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:25,600 Tell them we've got to dig. 694 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:26,600 Hello? 695 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:27,600 Hi, Dippy. 696 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:28,600 Everything's fine. 697 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,600 Everything's worked out keen. 698 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,600 The screaming woman isn't screaming anymore, 699 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,600 and they've got a lot of people down there digging her up. 700 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:37,600 Hey, that's swell. Hot dog. 701 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:39,600 And you know what else, Dippy? 702 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,600 They're going to uncover our fort again. 703 00:26:41,600 --> 00:27:01,600 Oh, Dippy, wasn't it a keen Thanksgiving? 704 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,600 Thank you, Margaret O'Brien, for a splendid performance. 705 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,600 Miss O'Brien will return in just a moment. 706 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,600 Oh, no, that autolite stay-full-battery fable wasn't bad, 707 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,600 coming from a fairly fabulous fiver. 708 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:14,600 Ah, but you haven't heard all of it, Hap. 709 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:16,600 Why, bye, Cornelius. 710 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,600 Clarissa, that's my car, spoke to me again this morning. 711 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,600 Thanks to you, she said, and that autolite stay-full-battery, 712 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,600 this has been the happiest year of my life. 713 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,600 Why, even these cruel cold mornings, I've got that autolite pep, 714 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,600 that stay-full-battery, get up and go. 715 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:35,600 Well, Clarissa, I says to my gas buggy, you're the Queen of the May, 716 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:39,600 the last with the delicate air, and the pride of Wilcox Alley all in one. 717 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,600 What do you want now, my Thanksgiving precious? 718 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,600 And she says, just to go to sleep out in the garage once again. 719 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:49,600 Why, Harlow, you can even use my autolite stay-full-battery for a pillow. 720 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:51,600 Happy slumber and good night, everybody. 721 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:52,600 And remember... 722 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,600 Autolite means batteries. 723 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,600 Stay-full-battery. 724 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:58,600 Autolite means spark plug. 725 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,600 Ignition-engineered resistor spark plug. 726 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:02,600 Autolite means ignition systems. 727 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,600 The lifeline of your car. 728 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,600 And now here again is Miss Margaret O'Brien. 729 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,600 It's been just wonderful being on suspense, 730 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,600 and I hope you let me come back again sometime. 731 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,600 We will, Margaret. 732 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,600 And now let me tell our listeners about next week. 733 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:27,600 Claude Rains and Vincent Price in the famous mystery story, 734 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,600 The Hands of Mr. Ottermole. 735 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,600 Another gripping study in... 736 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,600 Suspense. 737 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,600 Margaret O'Brien appeared by arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 738 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,600 producers of the Technicolor picture, The Three Musketeers, 739 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,600 starring Lana Turner, Gene Kelly and June Allison. 740 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,600 Tonight's suspense play was by Ray Bradbury, 741 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,600 adapted for radio by Sylvia Richards, 742 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,600 with music composed by Lucian Morawak and conducted by Lud Gluskin. 743 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,600 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. Lieder. 744 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:57,600 In the coming weeks, Suspense will present such stars 745 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,600 as Rosalind Russell, James Cagney, Ronald Coleman, William Bendix 746 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:01,600 and many others. 747 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,600 Make it a point to listen each Thursday to 748 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:07,600 Suspense, Radio's outstanding theater of thrills. 749 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:11,600 And next Thursday, same time, hear Claude Rains and Vincent Price 750 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,600 in The Hands of Mr. Ottermole. 751 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,600 This is the Autolite Suspense Show signing off. 752 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,600 Good night. Switch to Autolite. 753 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,600 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.