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Suspense.

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Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present tonight two stars, Mr. Charles Lawton and

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Miss June Havoc in Blind Date, a suspense play produced and edited by William Spear.

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be seen in many parts of the country every Tuesday night. And now with Blind Date and with the

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performances of Charles Lotton and June Havoc, Auto Light hopes once again to keep you in suspense.

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The DeMarcos and Mamie had said goodbye. That left me alone backstage. I'm always late anyway.

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Adax on the bill and I'm always the last to leave the theater. Say, just what do you mean

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coming into a lady's dressing room without knocking? Hi, cutie. I never heard of a

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cowboy who didn't know how to say, are you decent? Oh, relax, relax. Take it easy. We

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can't all be double-jointed. All right, what do you want? He's outside. Who is outside?

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Oh, some John you won't like. Says he's got a date with you. Oh, baby, you're closing the

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night. Tomorrow you'll be in far-off Detroit. Then you'll wish you'd done the loop with me

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once. Come on, let you and me do our own circuit tonight. I have a date. Thank you. Oh. Now,

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will you go out and tell him to come in, if you please? You can do better than him. Yeah?

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Yeah. Me. Oh. Oh, you know, you got real talent, honey. You need somebody to watch out for you.

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In the profession, I mean. Now, what's a cute little trick like you taking fourth billing to

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a lot of hoofers? Look. Oh, Gloria, baby, this is your last night. I told you before,

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I don't like to be touched by you or anybody else. You need to think you mean it. Get out of here.

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Okay, okay. Your stage door, Johnny, ain't gonna be no improvement. Believe me. The idea,

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the very idea. Doggone it. Where did I put that? I believe I'm on time. The clock on the

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regular tower has just struck 11. I'm Vincent Hawthorne. Oh, yes. She walks in beauty like the

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night of cloudless climbs and starry skies. Huh? Come again? I'm not what you expected,

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of course. Won't you come in, Mr. Hawthorne? Here, let me take your hat, Mr. Hawthorne.

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I'll only be a minute. I'm leaving Chicago. I close tonight, you know, Detroit tomorrow.

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I was delayed at packing and all. I'm not quite dressed. Props, anyway. A theatrical trunk. This

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is a big thrill to me. Gloria Le Fay. Theater. Rush. Gloria Le Fay. Trends in bends. Yeah,

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that's me. Well, well, this is my first experience in meeting an artist. Wow, really? Gloria. It's a

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lovely name, Gloria. It fits you. You're a very lovely girl. I, I, I... She had a woman's mouth

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with all its pearls complete. And for her eyes, what could such eyes do there but weep and weep

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that they were born so fair. Well, it's something of your own. I only wish it were. There's a narrative

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poem of Keats about a woman who turned into a serpent. Well, gee, that's a cheerful little

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earful, I must say. And what do you got there? That's a flower, a rose for you here. Oh, thanks.

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Yeah, I like roses. I thought it looked nice in your hair, Gloria. Oh, yeah, well, thanks. Thanks a

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lot. That's real nice. For your hair, yes. And this. Now, this is something for both of us. Is that

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whiskey? No, no, hardly. It's wine. It's shabby. It is a fine bouquet. Should lend a note of cheer

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to our little dressing room. And two glasses. Gee, I thought of everything. Fine wine should always

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be sipped from crystal, don't you think? I planned on going out. Oh, yes, certainly, but I thought...

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I'll only be a minute. I'll finish dressing behind the screen. Same, Mr. Hawthorne. Oh, yes? What's

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your first name? Vincent, my dear. Oh, say Vincent. Oh, thank you. Vincent, just so we get everything

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clear on both sides, I... Well, it's a funny situation, you see, because I don't quite know...

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Are you concerned because we are having what is called a blind date? Yeah, that's it. Yeah, you were in

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my mind. I just wanted it to be understood on both sides that I am not in the habit. Of course not.

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But lately, I've been thinking that after all, how is an artiste like myself, who spent practically

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all her life training for a profession and then finally goes out on the road since vaudeville's

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coming back now, you know, how's she ever going to meet people? Get the point? Certainly. Of course,

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I understand that completely. We'll just have our little midnight supper. I was coming to that. When

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I was a little girl, say, by the way, did you ever catch an act called Diane? Diane? I'm not

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quite positive. Well, you'd hardly have forgotten her if you had. Diane was my mother. Oh, indeed.

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She was an... An acrobatic dancer. Yeah. It's almost entirely her act that I'm doing. Really?

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Well, when we were playing Chicago once, when I was a little girl, we went to a little restaurant

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off the Gold Coast, which enjoyed largely theatrical clientele. It's called Gregory's.

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I thought we'd go there. Are you game, Mr. Halberd? It sounds delightful. You say that your mother is

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dead? Yes. Diane died three months ago. I'm terribly, terribly sorry, my dear. Well, thanks.

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You were very close to your mother, weren't you? She was an artiste too. And she taught you how to

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accomplish all of those remarkable feats that you've been performing on the stage.

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Diane taught me everything I know. It's really remarkable what you do at the end of your act,

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when you stand on that chair and bend all the way back so slowly and then take the goblet of wine

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with your teeth and drink it. Well, thank you. I've worked hard. Of course, either you are double

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jointed or you're not. Of course. What did she die of? You might say that when Vaudeville began to die,

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mother began to die too. It wasn't the money, but with radio and you see, you have to see a dancer

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and radio. In view of those circumstances, you could almost say that your mother was murdered.

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Say, where do you live? I was born in London. London. We were thinking about playing Australia

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once. London is a great many miles from Australia, Gloria. I'd sure like to get over to London. They

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say Australia is great. London is a very lonely place. Palladium, I'll bet that's a big one. It's full of lonely people.

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Oh, say, let's not. The world is full of lonely people, Gloria. In your short lifetime, has that

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fact come to your attention? Well, really, that kind of talk can ruin an evening. You're going to talk

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like that. I don't know about us. Well, here we... Hey, what are you doing? Put away that knife.

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I'm just opening our bottle, Gloria. Oh, I told you, I don't want to drink here. I want to go to

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Gregory's. Come on, come on, let's put the show on the road. Here's one for the road. A glass of wine

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will do us both good. No, I don't like the looks of that knife. Nobody needs a knife that big to open

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a bottle with. This is a trick knife, see? You press the little button and the knife's gone. Just like

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that, it disappears into the handle. Well, I don't like it. People get hurt with knives. No, no, you're

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wrong. You're wrong about that. People get... Knife's a very handy instrument. A good knife is hard to

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find. A good knife is a friend, Gloria. The only friend you can depend on sometimes. They say steel

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is cold, but it's really warm. It's warm as the human body. Well, just for your information, I don't

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like your knife. And while we're at it, I don't think I like you either. I'm very sorry, Gloria.

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I'm sorry that my knife frightened you. I don't know. I think maybe you'd better go. Please, Gloria,

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don't be angry with me. I'm most anxious to take you to Gregory's, where you once went with your

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mother many, many years ago. I don't know. I think... We'll have something that you didn't have at that

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time, champagne. A quiet corner by candlelight will be music. I... See, what does a girl do when she

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draws a gentleman like you, huh? Why, she has a little glass of wine to celebrate.

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It's...

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A good, good. Here we go.

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You haven't said anything about my dress. One for you. One for me.

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Here's to a pleasant evening, Vincent. No, Gloria. Here's to us. Well, okay then. Here's to us.

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Ah, there. That's a little better. That's nice. Vincent, I'd like to ask you a personal question.

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Certainly. What does somebody like you do for a living? Oh, I was a part of Rembrandt and Silvers.

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Yeah? Sounds like a soft shoe. No, they're wine merchants. Oh.

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Gloria, when you bend back like you do and you drink out of that glass,

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is that wine you drink? Oh, of course not. That's only colored water. Oh.

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Did you know that the cork in the bottle is sometimes more expensive than the wine itself?

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Hmm. We don't say. Yes, it's imported from Spain, you know.

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Imported. That's what costs money, you see. Hmm. Another thing I have wondered about.

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Is it true that it's bad luck to whistle in a dressing room? No, that's silly. That's a chorus

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girl superstition. Artists, they don't worry about that. Oh, I see. I'm most grateful that

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you answered my note this afternoon. Vincent, why did you send the note to me with those six

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beautiful Cardoza sisters on the same bill? I thought them very ordinary girls. They were

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not the least beautiful. I'm not beautiful like you. No? Well, no. What made you answer my note?

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I had three birds this morning. Birds? Uh-huh. Tea leaves. Oh, yes. That means good luck.

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And then when I got your note, naturally, I took it to Mamie. She does handwriting too.

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And she said, you must be a fine gentleman. And otherwise, I wouldn't have answered you because

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I've never had a blind date before. Then I'm most grateful to Mamie. Well, I think it's about time

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we left. Oh, I don't know, Gloria. I see that you have a portable phonograph to travel with that.

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That's an old one. It's no good. It doesn't work too well. I've got to have it fixed. I'm very fond

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of music, Gloria. What have you got? It doesn't work. Let's try one before we leave. Hey, Mr.

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Looknight. What about this one? Moonlight Madonna. Why, that's the music you use in your act.

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It's plain. I told you that phonograph doesn't work. Oh, come on. Why don't you...

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You're wrong, Gloria. I see that that works fine, you see.

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All right. Now, come on. I finished my drink. Let's go.

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Could we have another one and listen to the record? No. I've had enough and you've had enough too.

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So let's get the... Must you wear that fur piece?

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For your information, Mr. Wiseguy, this fur piece was given to Diane by Mr. Nat Kalsheim

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of the Morris office and is practically unobtainable on today's market. You just can't get it nowadays.

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I can wear this anywhere, anywhere at all. What I mean, Gloria, is that it doesn't do you justice.

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Nothing, nothing is beautiful enough for a girl with lips. Don't you touch me. Oh. Don't you ever

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touch me, see. You, you, you shouldn't have done that. When I was a little girl, one night I was

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standing in the wings watching Diane on a stagehand kiss the floor. I was so happy.

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Diane on a stagehand kissed me on the neck and I just... He's still carrying the scar in his forehead.

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I took the heel on my shoe and I hit him. And he... Listen, don't you ever try to touch me again, see.

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Never. Come on now. We had our wine. It's a quarter after 11 and we're going to go.

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We're going right now. Do you understand? We didn't hear the rest of this record, Gloria.

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You get out. You get out of my dressing room. I do not want to leave yet, Gloria.

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I'll show you, you... Hey, what are you... What are you... It's no use. I have the key.

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You have... Bill! Bill! Come on, you're not me, Bill! Bill!

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Bill is the name of the stage nobleman that I met coming in. A liberal gratuity, a gentle hint,

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and he obligingly left you and me alone, Gloria.

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And there we were in the dressing room, backstage in that empty theater. Mr. Hawthorne, his knife, and me.

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Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Charles Lawton and Miss June Havoc in Blind Eight.

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Tonight's production in Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense.

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Hey, Hap, listen to this. A letter from my old Arab pal, Hassam Ben Aad, the Karachi camel keeper.

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Dear Harlow, he says, you win wager. I now have a dozen droopy dromedaries dying for a drink.

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Charles Lawton and June Havoc in Blind Date, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.

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Get out. Get out of my dressing room. There is no reason to be afraid of me, Gloria. You take your

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while and sit down and listen to the music. I don't want it. Now, why did you do that?

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Because I don't want to have another drink here. I want to leave. Unlock that door. Don't you be

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impatient, Gloria. We'll leave in a minute. Why can't we leave now? I want to get out for

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some fresh air. You aren't frightened? No, I'm not. Why are you... You promised to take me to

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Gregory's for supper. I've done four shows a day for six days and I'd like to relax and tomorrow

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I've got to go. Of course you would. Listen, I'll even change my fur piece, Mr. Hawthorne.

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You know, Gloria, loneliness is a terrible thing. You can wander in a city of a million people and

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yet have no one to speak with and you wonder and you think there is no cure for loneliness

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and there is a cure. As I watched you there dancing on the stage, I knew that loneliness has a cure.

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Just a simple kiss will banish loneliness forever. Well, you're not going to kiss me.

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I'll tell you that much. I don't care how lonely you are. And I'm sick of this record.

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I wish I'd never answered your note. I'll tell you that much. But you did answer it and here we are.

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Girl can make a mistake. No, Gloria, you didn't make a mistake. I'm a humble man and I apologize

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to you. Unlock the door. I have been studying you, Gloria, ever since I came into the dressing room

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tonight. There is more to you than just a pretty face. Oh, that kind of talk doesn't impress me.

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That kind of talk will get you exactly nowhere. Unlock the door. Now, what if I told you that

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you'd successfully passed the test? I really have been testing you. Oh, yeah. Yeah, when first I saw

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you six days ago, I knew there was a lot more to you than just a pretty face and that's why I've

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been to see you dance every day. I wanted to make sure and I came here tonight to test you.

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Well, what do you mean? When I tried to kiss you, that was the test. I had to find out what you were

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like. A man has to be careful too about a girl, I mean. And when you wouldn't let me kiss you,

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I knew you were someone that I could... Oh, oh, oh, Gloria. Yeah, I don't get you at all.

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Now you're almost as if you were going to cry. I have a confession, Gloria. I have cried a great

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deal in my life. Really? Have you really? A very great deal. Huh. Well, well then look, now that

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I've passed your test, you know what kind of a girl I am, don't you? I know exactly what kind of a

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girl you are, Gloria. All right, and then we understand each other. And I know you and you know me.

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All right, then, then come on, let's put the show on the road. There is just one thing. What? It's

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your dress. Well, so now it's my dress, is it? Yes. First it was with my fur piece and now it's my dress.

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It's a very, very beautiful dress. But before we go out, I would like to see you for the last time

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in the costume you wear for your act. Oh, you would. Just what do you think? I like the green one best,

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the golden spotlight. Well, it's not here. I've already sent the trunk to the station. I don't

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believe that. What's this then? That's, that's my other trunk. You give me the key, will you? I will.

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All right, then I'll open it my own way. Put the knife away, will you? I told you, Gloria, a knife is a very handy

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instrument. It's a very handy instrument. Stop that, will you? Stop that, you're going to break the lock.

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Get away from that trunk. Don't you do that. Don't you ever try to take my knife away from me.

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Don't you ever try to take my knife away from me.

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I asked you to do a simple little thing. I asked you to wear your costume for me because you look

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very pretty in it. A simple thing like that. It'd take only a minute of your time. You say it's packed

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and shipped, but I don't think it is. I'm going to find out whether it is. It's all right. I am going to find out.

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There, I've got it. And here's the dress right on top. Your beautiful green costume. I won't put it on,

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now, do you hear me? I won't put it on for you or for anybody else. On top of everything else,

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you've broken my trunk. I just had that lock. Go behind that screen and put it on. I will not. Go on.

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All right. All right. All right. I'll put it on. That's a good girl.

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You know, Gloria, I didn't mean anything by showing you my knife. It's only just that I

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want to see you. I want to see you exactly as you look when you're performing on the stage. You're

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so beautiful, Gloria. Your eyes are greener than the sea. You're so lovely. And all that isn't going

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to make me forget that knife or what you've done either. I'm just a humble man. I'm a human being

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the same as you are, but I'm only lonely, Gloria. I'm terribly, unendurably lonely. You've got friends

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all right. How does that go? I have no friends, said Lamia. No, not one. My presence in wide

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currents, hardly known. My parents' bones are in their dusty urns, sepulchred where no kindly

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incense burns. Seeing all their luckless race are dead, save me. And I neglect the holy right for

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the... Have you put on the costume? Yeah. Well, now here it is. All right. Now you take your look, Mr. Hawthorne.

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Well. That's lovely. It is. All right. All right then. Then I can...

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What are you doing? How can you perform without music? Perform? Why else would I ask you to put

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on your costume? You better dance for me. I'm not putting on a special act for anybody.

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You can't imagine the effect that this has on me. It is the way you twist and turn slowly and silently.

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So slow, so lovely and so alone. Oh, so very much alone. Alone? How could I be alone in a theater full

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of people? You can be alone in a city of a million people. You had no one in that theater, Gloria,

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even though it was crowded. And now here in your dressing room, you have me to watch you and you

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can perform for me alone. Hey, what's the idea of turning off the lights? All but the ones around

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your mirror. You see, that's your spotlight. You're on stage. Now that's for me and no one else.

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Don't you scream again. Don't you scream whatever you do. That upsets me.

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Look, Vincent, if I do my act for you, if I do it just the way I do it on the stage,

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only only this time just for you, if I do it for you like that, will you please go away? Yes,

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yes, Gloria. That's all I want you to do. I just want you to do it as if you were on the stage.

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All right, all right then. Sure. Sure.

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Why can't you do that for me? Why you went clumsy in the theater when all those other people were

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watching? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It's such a small room and when I do my kicks, I can't.

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Never mind, never mind. You go on, will you? No, I said no. That's right.

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Oh, slowly, slowly. Please remember to do it slowly.

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I'm a decent self-respecting girl. I accepted your invitation. I thought you were going to be nice

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because you're handwriting. You got me so scared. I don't know what I want you to do or say. I just

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can't see the please. Why can't you go away? Why don't you get out of my dressing room and leave me

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alone? I hate you. I hate you. You hate me. You hate me. I knew that when I came in that door tonight

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that you hated me. And I'm accustomed to being hated. And let me tell you something. Every girl

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with a nice dress and a pretty face hates me, Gloria. I don't care anymore. I was lonely. I

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went to the theater. I saw you there on the stage. I thought you were beautiful. I thought if I could

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see you alone in the same costume that you can wear it just for me and perform just for me,

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that I wouldn't be lonely anymore. That'd be enough. But it isn't enough.

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Don't, don't, don't, don't you come near me. Don't you touch me. A kiss is the cheapest thing in the

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world. A kiss means nothing to you. To me it means everything. A kiss would cure my loneliness,

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Gloria. I will never kiss you again. I think you will. I think you will.

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My knife. Oh please, please. Now then, just touch your head.

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That's right. Now. Vincent, darling. What'd you say? I said darling. Why did you say that?

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What would you say if I really kissed you? What do you mean? You said it. A kiss means

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everything to you. Do you want me to really kiss you? I can't believe it. Oh, I'd kiss you.

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Really I would, but. But what? No, I'm, I'm afraid of your knife. Do you actually want to kiss me?

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Yes, I guess. But, but the knife scares me. Oh, I never meant to use that, Gloria. Here, you take it.

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Here. Now. I'll kill you. I'll kill you. Kill, kill, kill, kill.

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No. What have I done? What have I done? What have I done?

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Oh, they'd been looking for him ever since he left London. They knew all about him.

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So they let me go. Self-defense. Loneliness is a terrible thing, he said.

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I'll never have another blind date as long as I live.

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Suspense presented by Auto Light. Tonight's stars, Charles Lawton and June Havoc in Blind Date.

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Mr. Lawton, if you'll release Miss Havoc from your clutches, I'd like to get her in mine.

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From clutches to cliches. Well, we might say that, yes, Mr. Lawton. All right, Mr. Wilcox,

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I'll do that. But I may say that it's being done with a great deal of reluctance, June.

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Thank you. Mr. Wilcox, I'll bet you want, want me to tell you about the Auto Light

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stay full battery in my car. I surely do, June. What is the woman's slant?

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Well, Harlow, women are traditionally supposed to be unaware of an automobile's innards. However,

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I'm one who wants to know what's in my car. Well, more women should, for more women drive cars

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today than ever before. And an Auto Light stay full battery is my insurance that I'll get to the

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studio and other appointments on schedule. I get a hurry call, step on the starter, and I'm off.

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June, you've got the best car starting insurance there is with an Auto Light stay full battery.

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Next Thursday for Suspense, Van Johnson will be our star. The play is called Defense Rests,

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and it is, as we say, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.

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Tonight's Suspense play was produced and edited by William Spear and directed by Norman MacDonald.

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Music for Suspense is composed by Lucian Morrowek and conducted by Lud Bluskin.

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Blind Date was a radio play by E. Jack Newman and Harrison Negley. During the next 10 weeks,

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Charles Lawton will appear at Eastern universities and concert halls reading from his favorite books.

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June Havoc will soon be seen starring in the Universal International Picture, The Story of

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Molly X. In the coming weeks, you will hear such stars as Edward Arnold, Betty Davis, and Victor

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