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I 02:05.800 --> 02:09.120 knew where the back stairs were we'd rehearsed the whole thing on paper a 02:09.120 --> 02:12.840 hundred times more than a hundred times. It wasn't something you blundered into 02:12.840 --> 02:16.800 and it taught me that it wasn't something you did on the spur of the 02:16.800 --> 02:25.600 moment. Murder had to be a calm organized thing. Murder had to be planned. 02:26.800 --> 02:31.480 If anyone saw me going up the back stairs it might cause a little fuss but 02:31.480 --> 02:35.480 if I were calm if I were organized if I moved slowly and acted as though nothing 02:35.480 --> 02:39.520 was wrong they'd pass and ignore me. I was just an eccentric fellow who'd rather 02:39.520 --> 02:44.080 walk upstairs than ride elevators. New York was full of such people but no one 02:44.080 --> 02:49.880 saw me. All the way up to the fourth floor no one saw me. Then I stepped out 02:49.880 --> 03:00.800 onto the landing. I waited an hour or ten seconds or ten years. Time meant nothing. 03:00.800 --> 03:05.240 I wasn't aware of it passing. I slid the gun into my hand. It felt as hot and 03:05.240 --> 03:12.560 heavy as death itself. Oh you're late. You're a few minutes late. I thought you weren't coming. 03:12.560 --> 03:21.200 Where is he? In there. In there. Who is it Anne? Who is it? Do it quickly darling. Do it fast. Yeah yeah. Who is it Anne? Um. Who is it? 03:23.000 --> 03:28.080 Who are you? What do you want? 03:28.240 --> 03:32.720 That little man who was about to die looked at me at my face at my neck and 03:32.720 --> 03:38.160 his eyes flooded down into the gun that hung there. He looked like a little fish. Like a helpless 03:38.160 --> 03:44.320 harmless scared fish and the drums in my head beat louder and the wheels turned and the lights flashed and that little man melted toward me. 03:44.320 --> 03:51.320 No I say. I say no. No. I said no. I said no. I said no. I said no. 03:51.320 --> 03:54.320 No. 04:00.320 --> 04:07.320 Wait. Wait Tom. Wait. No wait. He's dead. He must be dead after that. 04:07.320 --> 04:17.320 Oh he don't know fought back or something. He just took it. No he's dead. He's dead. 04:17.320 --> 04:28.320 Now dear. Me. You've got to hit me. I didn't think it'd be like this Anne. How'd you think it'd be? A tea party? So awful and dirty and. What's the matter with you Tommy? 04:28.320 --> 04:36.320 I didn't think it'd be like this Anne. You can't weaken now Tommy. No. Take the gun. Yeah. And the rest. Do you remember the rest of it? 04:36.320 --> 04:42.320 The other things you've got to do. Yes I remember. Hit me hard. You've got to hit me hard. Hit you hard. Got to be marks. 04:42.320 --> 04:52.320 Mustn't look like I framed this. Now it must be hard. And then the jewelry and stuff. Jewelry and stuff. I put them up on the dresser. In his wallet. Here take it. 04:52.320 --> 05:03.320 It must look good darling. It must look good. Yeah. And must up the room. Now you remember? Yeah I remember. I remember. Alright now quickly. Hit me. Hit me. I love you Anne. 05:03.320 --> 05:26.320 I must love you very much. Hit me. She fell but she didn't just fall down. She fell into a graceful little ball. Even unconscious she seemed in perfect control of things. 05:26.320 --> 05:37.320 The room had to be ripped up. Ripped up. The room had to be ripped. 05:37.320 --> 05:52.320 I took the stuff she had piled up on the dresser. Bracelets, rings, pins. I stuffed his wallet into my pocket. Then I got out. I got out as fast as I could. 05:52.320 --> 06:01.320 The way was clear all the way down. Just a cellar. That was all that was left. One fast. 06:01.320 --> 06:12.320 Hey. Who's that? Who's that? Hey. Young Barrett. What are you doing down there this time? 06:12.320 --> 06:17.320 Whoever it was came straight toward me. He saw me. There was no hiding. And he was between me and the street. He shoveled toward me. I lifted the gun. 06:17.320 --> 06:28.320 Good. You're just the second young fellow. Let me get a look. I swung hard and spun back into the row of cans. 06:28.320 --> 06:40.320 I waited a moment. And then. 06:40.320 --> 06:50.320 The street was still empty when I came out. I felt like running along it. I almost ran along it. The night was cool. The air felt good. 06:50.320 --> 07:03.320 I walked away. I walked away. And I thought about love. About me being in love. 07:03.320 --> 07:14.320 What kind of love was this? What kind of love was it that made a guy behave like this? What kind of love was it that caused people to be hurt, people to be killed? 07:14.320 --> 07:30.320 What kind of love was it? I walked. I walked. Finally I looked at my watch. It took ten minutes. The whole thing had taken just ten minutes. 07:30.320 --> 07:46.320 What was the rest of it? Yeah, I had to get back to the club before it was time for me to go on again. Before it was time for me to seat myself at the piano in the lounge and soothe away the cares of tired, sophisticated New Yorkers. 07:46.320 --> 07:57.320 I had to get back quickly. 07:57.320 --> 08:14.320 No one saw me. The back way. I used the back way, the same one I'd left behind. Yeah. That was my life from now on, maybe. The back way. Sneak in, sneak out. It'd be hard to break myself of the habit after tonight. 08:14.320 --> 08:24.320 But it was cheap. The cheap price to pay for in. Any price really was cheap to pay for in. That's all I had to ever remember. 08:24.320 --> 08:31.320 I was in my little dressing room for two or three minutes. Had a chance even to wash my face. 08:31.320 --> 08:41.320 Almost 12, 15, Tommy. You awake? Yeah. Yeah, I'll be with you in a minute. Okay, Tommy. 08:41.320 --> 08:52.320 The wallets, the bracelets, the junk I'd forgotten to ditch them, get rid of them first thing Anna told me. And I'd forgotten. I didn't want them around. They might make trouble hanging around. 08:52.320 --> 09:09.320 Hello, Tommy. How's the boy Rachmaninoff? Hiya, Jimmy. Have your nap? All set to go? Yeah, I slept a little. I'll be right back. Sure, kid. Sure. 09:09.320 --> 09:23.320 Hello there, Mr. Lee. Hiya, Frank. I thought I'd get a little air. Yes, sir. Nothing like it. One thing about being a doorman, I don't make much money, but I get an awful lot of fresh air. 09:23.320 --> 09:44.320 Fresh as you can get in New York anyway, huh? Right you are, Mr. Lee. I'm gonna take a little walk. Certainly, hit it right that time. Fresh as you can get in New York. 09:44.320 --> 09:57.320 The moon was still high over Jersey. Staring. Sewer. That was the best spot. Just throw them in and let the East River take care of them. I had the wallet in my hand when I... 09:57.320 --> 10:08.320 What's the matter, Tommy? You look like you're in love. Officer, I didn't see you. Officer, is it? You're getting awful formal. Kind of jumpy, ain't you? 10:08.320 --> 10:15.320 No, no, no. No, Dan. Dan, it's just that you startled me that... 10:15.320 --> 10:25.320 How startled you did I? I was just standing there and you walked within two inches of me and didn't see me. It's you're in love. I know the symptoms. You're in love. 10:25.320 --> 10:39.320 I mean, maybe you're right, Dan. That's a great feeling, lad. Dangerous. If you need someone to help you find your way back to the club, just tell me. In your condition, no telling where you'll walk. 10:39.320 --> 11:06.320 Yeah. I'll wait until his footsteps died out and then... In the sewer. In the sewer fast. And to get... 11:06.320 --> 11:12.320 Well, back so soon, Miss Philly? Gotta go to work. Gotta... 11:12.320 --> 11:25.320 What's that? Now, this, boys, was something on her mind. Yeah. Gone down fifty-fifty, looks like from here. Somebody's in for it. 11:25.320 --> 11:47.320 I gotta be... The customers are screaming for you. Come on. Come on. 11:47.320 --> 12:00.320 I wasn't afraid. I wasn't nervous. The cops would be talking to Ann now. If she made a slip, the two of us would be dead, as dead as you could get. 12:00.320 --> 12:09.320 But I knew she wouldn't make any slips. She'd be too smart for them. We'd plan too well for them. It was all so simple. They couldn't make anything out of it. 12:09.320 --> 12:20.320 A crook slipped into her apartment, killed her husband. Her rich, fat, tired, helpless husband slugged her. That was all there was to it. 12:20.320 --> 12:30.320 Happens in New York. Happens a lot in New York. Could she help it if the whole thing made her a rich woman? 12:30.320 --> 12:40.320 Could she help it if the housebreaker freed her from her husband so she could marry someone else? Could she help that? 12:40.320 --> 12:57.320 Set up was so perfect. What could go wrong? So I sat and played Chopin, Strauss, Gershwin, Berlin. I sat and played the music of kind and great and gentleman. 12:57.320 --> 13:06.320 And I tried to keep that thing on the floor out of my mind. I tried to keep that out of my mind. 13:20.320 --> 13:23.320 Thank you. Thank you. 13:23.320 --> 13:30.320 Hey, Tommy. You know that dame that used to come in here, that Anne Thomas? 13:30.320 --> 13:31.320 I don't think I... 13:31.320 --> 13:40.320 Oh, you remember the one. The brunette. The cute one. Used to have a crush on you. Lives on 55th Street. Anne Thomas? 13:40.320 --> 13:46.320 Yeah. I remember. But... 13:46.320 --> 13:55.320 Fussed down her house tonight. Somebody broke in and messed things up. Killed her husband. Banged her around. Dan Ryan was telling me. 13:55.320 --> 13:56.320 It's too bad. 13:56.320 --> 14:02.320 Yeah. You're never safe in these big towns, are you? Never safe anywhere. 14:02.320 --> 14:25.320 You were safe if you were smart. You were safe if you had someone like Anne to think things out for you. You were safe if you had her to look forward to. To depend on. 14:25.320 --> 14:36.320 I was safe. That was all that mattered, really. I was safe. It was childish to worry about guys like Anne's husband. It was silly to get squeamish over a little blood. 14:36.320 --> 14:42.320 People died every minute in New York. They were useless and they were in the way and they died. 14:42.320 --> 14:47.320 But it didn't matter whether it was murder or something else. People died. 14:47.320 --> 15:00.320 Sure. Sure. That's what Anne would have said. That's what Anne would have told me. And that was the right way to look at it. That was the right way. 15:00.320 --> 15:23.320 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Mickey Rooney in For Love or Murder, tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 15:30.320 --> 15:43.320 Yes, Will Corkside bagged baboons from Bogota, trapped tigers in Tasmania, snared sparrows in Schenectady. 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People came, people went, stood in front of the piano, they smiled and frowned. 17:20.320 --> 17:27.320 Once in a while someone requested a number, once in a while someone applauded. It was a night like any other night. 17:27.320 --> 17:30.320 Hey, you gonna play till Christmas, Tommy? 17:30.320 --> 17:33.320 Uh, what time is it? 17:33.320 --> 17:35.320 Almost three. 17:35.320 --> 17:36.320 Oh. 17:36.320 --> 17:42.320 You sure can't tickle those keys, Tommy. You must have a beautiful soul. 17:42.320 --> 17:44.320 Well, what's the matter? 17:44.320 --> 17:45.320 Shut up. 17:45.320 --> 17:46.320 What? 17:46.320 --> 17:47.320 I said shut up! 17:47.320 --> 17:49.320 I didn't mean to say anything wrong, Tommy. What did I say? 17:49.320 --> 17:51.320 Shut up! Shut up! 17:51.320 --> 18:10.320 Talk to yourself all night, build yourself up, tell yourself things were alright and you were a great guy, smart guy. 18:10.320 --> 18:21.320 And one stupid remark mixed you all up again. One stupid remark made you see blood again, made you feel like garbage. 18:21.320 --> 18:32.320 One, one stupid remark. Beautiful soul? My soul? So what? 18:32.320 --> 18:48.320 The apartment was like a big, bare, ugly cave. I tried to sleep. 18:48.320 --> 19:11.320 I got up and tried to read. Words danced in front of me like they'd been hung on rubber bands. Nerves, nerves, nerves. It's just nerves. Anne could have talked me out of them in a minute. All I had to do was get some sleep or talk to Anne. 19:11.320 --> 19:24.320 Yeah, yeah. All night, not a word. That's why I was jumpy. Suppose she was in trouble. Suppose something had gone wrong. Suppose somewhere we'd slipped. Operator, give me... 19:24.320 --> 19:32.320 No. If the wires were tapped, no, I wouldn't do it a call. But if I went to the apartment the way I went last night, no one would see me. 19:32.320 --> 19:52.320 The police wouldn't expect that. That's the last thing they'd expect. I had to touch her. I needed her strength. I needed her to tell me things were all right. I had to see her. I had to see her. 19:52.320 --> 20:06.320 If I could get in and out again, no one would be the wiser. Four in the morning, the street was empty. The cellar was colder than it had been. The stairs were lighted. A thin red bulb at each landing. I didn't remember that, finally. 20:06.320 --> 20:08.320 Who's there? 20:08.320 --> 20:11.320 It's me. It's Tom. 20:11.320 --> 20:12.320 Oh, no, Tom. No. 20:12.320 --> 20:13.320 Let me in. 20:13.320 --> 20:15.320 We shouldn't have come. Suppose they're watching. 20:15.320 --> 20:16.320 You think they're watching? 20:16.320 --> 20:18.320 I don't know. You know what I told you. 20:18.320 --> 20:18.320 Yeah, but I... 20:18.320 --> 20:22.320 You know what we planned. You weren't to get in touch with me for days. For days. 20:22.320 --> 20:24.320 I know, but I had to see you, baby. Please, let me... 20:24.320 --> 20:27.320 No, no, no, stop it. You shouldn't have come. 20:27.320 --> 20:30.320 Just a moment. I love you so, honey. I had to be with you. Please. 20:30.320 --> 20:34.320 No, no. 20:34.320 --> 20:36.320 I had to be with you, baby. 20:36.320 --> 20:39.320 You're really a sweet boy, Tom. 20:39.320 --> 20:41.320 You're not angry with me, honey. 20:41.320 --> 20:42.320 Did anyone see you? 20:42.320 --> 20:49.320 No, no. I'm sure of it. I was careful. Let me kiss you. 20:49.320 --> 20:51.320 I feel strong again. I feel strong. 20:51.320 --> 20:54.320 I could do anything now. I was kind of mixed up tonight, but I'm all right now. I feel good now. 20:54.320 --> 20:56.320 Sweet boy. 20:56.320 --> 20:57.320 You worried? 20:57.320 --> 21:00.320 Why? Didn't we plan? 21:00.320 --> 21:02.320 Didn't we plan good enough to fool anybody? 21:02.320 --> 21:03.320 Why were you worried? 21:03.320 --> 21:04.320 I don't know. I don't know. 21:04.320 --> 21:07.320 The police believed me. I knew they would. 21:07.320 --> 21:08.320 You sure they did? 21:08.320 --> 21:12.320 Of course I'm sure. They were sympathetic and kind. They were nice. 21:12.320 --> 21:14.320 But suppose they were only pretending sometimes, you know. They pretend. 21:14.320 --> 21:16.320 When men are acting with me, I know it. 21:16.320 --> 21:17.320 Oh, baby, come here. 21:17.320 --> 21:22.320 There's no reason in the world to think this is any different than a thousand other robberies. 21:22.320 --> 21:24.320 I told you that. I told you that from the beginning. 21:24.320 --> 21:27.320 We'll be happy now, huh? Won't we? Won't we be happy together? 21:27.320 --> 21:28.320 Now tell me that, baby. We'll be happy, won't we? 21:28.320 --> 21:32.320 Yeah, we'll be happy now. 21:32.320 --> 21:33.320 You're a wild boy. 21:33.320 --> 21:37.320 I love you, baby. I love you. 21:37.320 --> 21:41.320 Aren't you a little sorry about the janitor? 21:41.320 --> 21:43.320 Janitor? 21:43.320 --> 21:45.320 What about the janitor? 21:45.320 --> 21:46.320 Oh. 21:46.320 --> 21:49.320 What about the janitor? Is he the man I met in the cellar? What about him? 21:49.320 --> 21:50.320 He's dead. 21:50.320 --> 21:51.320 What? 21:51.320 --> 21:53.320 You fractured his skull. 21:53.320 --> 21:54.320 No, no. 21:54.320 --> 21:55.320 I said you were a wild boy. 21:55.320 --> 21:59.320 I never meant that. I didn't know I hit him so hard. 21:59.320 --> 22:01.320 I like you because you're a wild boy. 22:01.320 --> 22:02.320 He turned wild. 22:02.320 --> 22:03.320 I didn't mean to kill a man. 22:03.320 --> 22:04.320 I'm sorry I told you. 22:04.320 --> 22:06.320 You're going to worry about him all night? 22:06.320 --> 22:07.320 I didn't mean to kill him. 22:07.320 --> 22:11.320 Well, I'll be careful next time when I tell you. 22:11.320 --> 22:14.320 I wish I had a piano so you could play for me. 22:14.320 --> 22:17.320 I like to hear you play, Tommy. 22:17.320 --> 22:18.320 Be careful, baby. 22:18.320 --> 22:20.320 What? It's only the phone? 22:20.320 --> 22:21.320 Careful, honey. 22:21.320 --> 22:24.320 Yes? What? 22:24.320 --> 22:25.320 What? 22:25.320 --> 22:28.320 You've got the wrong number. Wrong number. 22:28.320 --> 22:29.320 What do you want, honey? 22:29.320 --> 22:32.320 I don't know. It's the wrong number. 22:32.320 --> 22:33.320 You want a drink, Tommy? 22:33.320 --> 22:34.320 No, no. 22:34.320 --> 22:36.320 Do you mind if I make one for myself? 22:36.320 --> 22:37.320 Go ahead, honey. 22:37.320 --> 22:39.320 You know, you hit me awful hard last night. 22:39.320 --> 22:41.320 Look at the lump there. Look at it. 22:41.320 --> 22:43.320 I didn't want to hit you that hard. 22:43.320 --> 22:45.320 You made it look good. You made it look awful good. 22:45.320 --> 22:46.320 Oh, for pity's sake. 22:46.320 --> 22:47.320 Careful, baby. 22:47.320 --> 22:50.320 Yes? Oh, it's you again. 22:50.320 --> 22:53.320 You've got the wrong number. The wrong number. 22:53.320 --> 22:55.320 The way people annoy you. 22:55.320 --> 22:56.320 Annie. 22:56.320 --> 22:57.320 Yeah, Tommy? 22:57.320 --> 23:00.320 Annie, that janitor. 23:00.320 --> 23:02.320 Who? Who was he? 23:02.320 --> 23:05.320 I don't know. Just a janitor, that's all. 23:05.320 --> 23:08.320 Did he have any kids? 23:08.320 --> 23:11.320 Two or three. Yeah, I think so. Why? 23:11.320 --> 23:12.320 You want to get some ice? 23:12.320 --> 23:13.320 I don't know why I wanted to know. 23:13.320 --> 23:14.320 I'll get it. I'll get it. 23:14.320 --> 23:15.320 I'll take it. I'll tell the guy. 23:15.320 --> 23:17.320 No, Tommy. I'll get it. No, Annie. 23:17.320 --> 23:18.320 That's you, Anne? 23:18.320 --> 23:20.320 Okay, this is the last time. 23:20.320 --> 23:22.320 I love that wrong number routine. 23:22.320 --> 23:24.320 Who you got up there? 23:24.320 --> 23:27.320 The young chick who rubbed your husband out for you? 23:27.320 --> 23:29.320 You're a lulu, honey. 23:29.320 --> 23:31.320 Get rid of him as soon as you can. 23:31.320 --> 23:34.320 And I don't want him hanging around after we're married, you know. 23:34.320 --> 23:37.320 That you, Anne? Why don't you say something? 23:37.320 --> 23:38.320 Why don't you... 23:38.320 --> 23:39.320 Tommy. 23:45.320 --> 23:50.320 I sat down in the bed and I felt very calm and very organized. 23:50.320 --> 23:54.320 And I heard the drums start thumping in my brain. 23:54.320 --> 23:56.320 What delicate and far off. 23:56.320 --> 23:59.320 This time they had a sad lost beat. 23:59.320 --> 24:02.320 Was it, Tommy? Was it that same silly guy? 24:04.320 --> 24:08.320 The janitor has three kids, huh? 24:08.320 --> 24:10.320 Who's gonna feed them? 24:11.320 --> 24:13.320 Annie, who's gonna love them? 24:13.320 --> 24:15.320 What's the matter with you, Tom? 24:15.320 --> 24:17.320 Oh, Tom, come here. Let's... 24:17.320 --> 24:20.320 What have you got on me, anyway? What is there about you? 24:20.320 --> 24:21.320 Tom. 24:21.320 --> 24:23.320 You're bad for me, Anne. Awful bad for me. 24:23.320 --> 24:25.320 You could make all kinds of a sucker out of me. 24:25.320 --> 24:29.320 You could turn my stomach in 50 different directions a minute. 24:29.320 --> 24:31.320 And I'd still go on loving you. 24:32.320 --> 24:33.320 Why? 24:33.320 --> 24:36.320 I don't like it when you talk like that. I don't like it. 24:36.320 --> 24:37.320 Why would I love you? 24:37.320 --> 24:38.320 Aw, you're tired. 24:38.320 --> 24:40.320 Come on, sit down here by me. 24:40.320 --> 24:41.320 Don't touch me! 24:41.320 --> 24:44.320 Tom, what... what is it, that phone call? 24:44.320 --> 24:46.320 That's a gag. That's someone playing a joke. 24:46.320 --> 24:48.320 I was a patsy, huh? 24:48.320 --> 24:51.320 All that horror and all that fright. 24:51.320 --> 24:56.320 And I got black with two good men's blood helping you and that guy on the phone. 24:56.320 --> 24:58.320 Tom! Tom, put that gun away. 24:58.320 --> 25:00.320 Now, listen, I'll explain, Tom. Let me talk. 25:00.320 --> 25:02.320 You think I like to do those things, Anne? 25:02.320 --> 25:04.320 Tom, now listen. 25:04.320 --> 25:06.320 I killed two men to get you, Anne. 25:06.320 --> 25:08.320 But I haven't got you. No. 25:08.320 --> 25:09.320 He's got you. The guy on the phone's got you. 25:09.320 --> 25:11.320 No, Tom, no, he hasn't. 25:11.320 --> 25:13.320 And by Anne, I did. I bought you. That's not fair. 25:13.320 --> 25:15.320 By rights, you should be mine. 25:15.320 --> 25:16.320 You're not mine, are you? 25:16.320 --> 25:17.320 No, Tom. No, it was all with you. 25:17.320 --> 25:18.320 You're a hand. 25:18.320 --> 25:20.320 I gave him up. I was only kidding him. 25:20.320 --> 25:23.320 I wasted the whole night in there. I wasted all that blood on him. 25:23.320 --> 25:24.320 No, Tom, please. 25:24.320 --> 25:26.320 Wasted two guys and three kids. 25:26.320 --> 25:27.320 No. 25:27.320 --> 25:28.320 It's got to end, Anne. 25:28.320 --> 25:29.320 Tom, don't. 25:29.320 --> 25:30.320 It's got to end. 25:30.320 --> 25:31.320 No. 25:31.320 --> 25:33.320 It can't be love, can it? 25:33.320 --> 25:35.320 It couldn't have ever been love. 25:35.320 --> 25:37.320 Love doesn't hurt like this. 25:37.320 --> 25:39.320 Does it, Anne? 25:39.320 --> 25:40.320 Does it? 25:40.320 --> 25:42.320 What's going on in there? 25:47.320 --> 25:49.320 Wasn't neat, now. 25:49.320 --> 25:53.320 Just fell in a silly little lump and lay quiet. 25:53.320 --> 25:55.320 Hey in there! 25:55.320 --> 25:57.320 Hey, open up! 25:57.320 --> 25:59.320 What's going on in there? 25:59.320 --> 26:01.320 What's going on? 26:05.320 --> 26:09.320 I shall walk down the corridor the night of December 10th. 26:10.320 --> 26:12.320 And I shall die. 26:12.320 --> 26:14.320 It's not important. 26:14.320 --> 26:17.320 They've let me play the piano here. 26:17.320 --> 26:20.320 I've even composed some stuff, short pieces. 26:20.320 --> 26:24.320 I always wanted to compose, but I never had the time for it. 26:25.320 --> 26:28.320 Maybe someday somebody important will play my stuff. 26:28.320 --> 26:31.320 Maybe someday you'll hear some of it. 26:31.320 --> 26:33.320 Funnier things have happened. 26:33.320 --> 26:36.320 There are even people who get away with murder. 26:36.320 --> 26:38.320 Hey, tell me. 26:43.320 --> 26:45.320 I think a lot about Anne. 26:45.320 --> 26:47.320 For Anne. 26:47.320 --> 26:51.320 She should have picked someone older than me. 26:51.320 --> 26:55.320 Someone solid and stable and wise. 26:55.320 --> 26:59.320 Someone with a stronger stomach. 26:59.320 --> 27:03.320 And not a musician. 27:03.320 --> 27:15.320 And not a musician. 27:26.320 --> 27:28.320 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 27:28.320 --> 27:31.320 Tonight's star Mickey Rooney with Lorraine Tuttle. 27:31.320 --> 27:34.320 I like your trophies, Harro. 27:34.320 --> 27:38.320 You'll like your Auto Light staple battery even more, Remming Chester. 27:38.320 --> 27:45.320 It's just one of more than 400 products made by Auto Light for cars, trucks, planes, and boats in 28 plants coast to coast. 27:45.320 --> 27:54.320 These include complete electrical systems for many makes of America's finest cars, batteries, spark plugs, generators, coils, distributors, starting motors, and Auto Light bullseye headlights. 27:54.320 --> 27:59.320 All engineered to fit together perfectly, work together perfectly, because they're a perfect team. 27:59.320 --> 28:02.320 So don't accept electrical parts supposed to be as good. 28:02.320 --> 28:08.320 Demand and get Auto Light, original factory parts at your neighborhood service station, car dealer, garage, or repair shop. 28:08.320 --> 28:12.320 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 28:18.320 --> 28:21.320 Next Thursday for Suspense, Lana Turner will be our star. 28:21.320 --> 28:24.320 The play is called The Flame Blue Glove, and it is, as we say, 28:24.320 --> 28:29.320 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 28:31.320 --> 28:36.320 Tonight's Suspense play was produced and edited by William Spear and directed by Norman MacDonald. 28:36.320 --> 28:40.320 Music for Suspense is composed by Lucian Morrowak and conducted by Ludd Bluskin. 28:40.320 --> 28:44.320 The second prelude by George Gershwin was used as thematic material. 28:45.320 --> 28:48.320 For Love or Murder is an original radio play by John Shaw. 28:48.320 --> 28:55.320 Mickey Rooney appeared by arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producers of Battlegrounds, starring Van Johnson, John Hodiac, Ricardo Montalban, and George Murphy. 28:55.320 --> 29:00.320 In the coming weeks, you will hear such stars as Eddie Cantor, Ida Lupino, and Daddy K. 29:00.320 --> 29:05.320 Don't forget, next Thursday, same time, Auto Light will present Suspense, starring Lana Turner. 29:10.320 --> 29:14.320 You can buy Auto Light staple batteries, Auto Light resistor, or regular spark plugs, 29:14.320 --> 29:17.320 Auto Light electrical parts at your neighborhood Auto Light dealers. 29:17.320 --> 29:19.320 Switch to Auto Light. 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