WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:18.800 Suspense! 00:18.800 --> 00:25.440 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Mr. Joseph Cotton in Blood Sacrifice, a suspense 00:25.440 --> 00:32.880 play produced and edited by William Spear. 00:32.880 --> 00:36.800 Hap me boy, here's one that'll rattle the ivory between your ears. 00:36.800 --> 00:41.200 What is it that carries water, has plates, gives continuous service, and is associated 00:41.200 --> 00:42.200 with a good tip? 00:42.200 --> 00:43.200 A waiter! 00:43.200 --> 00:44.200 Oh, how dumb can you be? 00:44.200 --> 00:45.520 Listen, I'll make it easy. 00:45.520 --> 00:49.880 It needs water only three times a year in normal car use, and it's a tough little bundle 00:49.880 --> 00:50.880 of potent energy. 00:50.880 --> 00:51.880 Now, what is it? 00:51.880 --> 00:52.880 A camel? 00:52.880 --> 00:53.880 Oh, give me strength. 00:53.880 --> 00:59.000 Look, Slap Happy, it's the famous Auto Light Stay Full Battery, the battery that needs 00:59.000 --> 01:02.080 water only three times a year in normal car use. 01:02.080 --> 01:06.560 Why, the Stay Full has over three times more liquid reserve above the plates than batteries 01:06.560 --> 01:08.240 without Stay Full features. 01:08.240 --> 01:10.560 You caught me with my brains down, Wilcox. 01:10.560 --> 01:14.600 Glad to hear you admit it, because the Auto Light Stay Full battery is known from coast 01:14.600 --> 01:20.540 to coast as the battery that gives 70% longer average life as compared to batteries without 01:20.540 --> 01:22.160 Stay Full features. 01:22.160 --> 01:26.560 And this is proven by tests conducted according to SAE life cycle standards. 01:26.560 --> 01:28.200 You're absolutely right, Harlow. 01:28.200 --> 01:31.480 Of course, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:31.480 --> 01:37.040 And now with blood sacrifice and the performance of Joseph Cotton, Auto Light hopes once again 01:37.040 --> 01:41.840 to keep you in suspense. 01:41.840 --> 01:55.080 Seeing his dressing room, Gary, his arm through mine, his great beautiful voice purring assuringly 01:55.080 --> 01:56.080 in my ear. 01:56.080 --> 01:57.080 It's wonderful, Johnny, wonderful. 01:57.080 --> 01:58.080 Two hundred thousand. 01:58.080 --> 02:01.080 Why, they didn't pay that for Gone with the Wind. 02:01.080 --> 02:03.080 You're a success, boy, a success. 02:03.080 --> 02:04.080 A success. 02:04.080 --> 02:07.240 And well on the way towards being rich. 02:07.240 --> 02:12.440 On the marquee above the theater in lights, Garrick Drury in Bitter Laurel and then in 02:12.440 --> 02:16.520 slightly smaller lights by John Scales. 02:16.520 --> 02:20.720 New clothes, best food, a fashionable hotel, new and fashionable queen. 02:20.720 --> 02:24.320 And I owed it every bit of it to Garrick Drury. 02:24.320 --> 02:26.960 Everyone said that, everyone except Gary. 02:26.960 --> 02:30.320 We're just finished seeing the men from the Motion Picture Company. 02:30.320 --> 02:36.520 Gary had been charming, courteous, thoughtful, protecting my royalties, protecting his rights. 02:36.520 --> 02:37.960 And finally they were gone. 02:37.960 --> 02:40.120 Walters, Gary's valet, came into the room. 02:40.120 --> 02:41.520 Anything else, Mr. Drury? 02:41.520 --> 02:42.520 Not tonight. 02:42.520 --> 02:44.560 I'll pick you up in the car at the stage door at five minutes. 02:44.560 --> 02:45.560 Yes, sir. 02:45.560 --> 02:47.240 I'm going to see Mr. Scales to his taxi. 02:47.240 --> 02:49.040 Sure I can't drop you anywhere, John? 02:49.040 --> 02:50.040 No, no, quite sure. 02:50.040 --> 02:51.040 Thanks. 02:51.040 --> 02:52.040 Glad to, you know. 02:52.040 --> 02:53.040 Oh, Walters. 02:53.040 --> 02:54.040 Yes, sir. 02:54.040 --> 02:57.000 Bring along that play of young, what's his name, ruggles, buggles, you know who I mean. 02:57.000 --> 03:01.360 I promised Fanny Taylor I'd read it, but well, it's perfectly useless, of course. 03:01.360 --> 03:04.160 We'll be playing Bitter Laurel for another two or three years yet. 03:04.160 --> 03:05.160 Eh, Walton? 03:05.160 --> 03:06.160 Well, come along. 03:06.160 --> 03:07.160 Five minutes, Walters. 03:07.160 --> 03:08.160 Yes, sir. 03:08.160 --> 03:11.800 Now look here, John. 03:11.800 --> 03:13.880 Don't you worry about his movie deal. 03:13.880 --> 03:15.880 I've handled these characters before. 03:15.880 --> 03:16.880 Before. 03:16.880 --> 03:17.880 Before! 03:17.880 --> 03:22.680 Listen to that, John. 03:22.680 --> 03:24.720 Wonderful sound. 03:24.720 --> 03:26.120 The empty theater. 03:26.120 --> 03:29.600 The empty, echoing, endless theater. 03:29.600 --> 03:31.680 John, you know what? 03:31.680 --> 03:32.680 Sure. 03:32.680 --> 03:33.680 There's a play in it. 03:33.680 --> 03:38.640 In the last scene, the actor dies in the empty, endless theater, pouring out his death on 03:38.640 --> 03:43.600 eight pages to the ghosts of all the audience who didn't realize how great he was. 03:43.600 --> 03:44.600 Alone. 03:44.600 --> 03:46.600 His wife's gone to, uh, Hollywood. 03:46.600 --> 03:47.600 Perfect. 03:47.600 --> 03:49.520 Well, what are we waiting for, Johnny? 03:49.520 --> 03:50.640 I'll put you in your taxi. 03:50.640 --> 03:51.640 You go home and write it. 03:51.640 --> 03:53.000 Bring it to me tomorrow night. 03:53.000 --> 03:54.960 We'll fix it, and there we are. 03:54.960 --> 03:56.400 I can read the notices now. 03:56.400 --> 03:57.840 It is sensational, aren't they? 03:57.840 --> 03:59.640 Gary Grury does it again. 03:59.640 --> 04:01.840 Actor's death scene draws bravo. 04:01.840 --> 04:03.800 Sir Gary Grury, maybe. 04:03.800 --> 04:04.800 Well, come on. 04:04.800 --> 04:05.800 We'll get you on your way. 04:05.800 --> 04:06.800 Good night, Mr. Grury. 04:06.800 --> 04:11.040 I thought your performance was exceedingly fine tonight. 04:11.040 --> 04:12.040 Thank you. 04:12.040 --> 04:13.040 Good night, Scotty. 04:13.040 --> 04:14.040 Waters will be right out. 04:14.040 --> 04:15.040 You can lock up. 04:15.040 --> 04:16.040 Good night, Mr. Grury, Mr. Scales. 04:16.040 --> 04:17.040 Good night, Scotty. 04:17.040 --> 04:20.040 Well, this is as raining. 04:20.040 --> 04:21.600 There's a cab stand right at the corner. 04:21.600 --> 04:22.600 We make a run for it. 04:22.600 --> 04:23.600 John, look out! 04:23.600 --> 04:24.600 John, are you all right? 04:24.600 --> 04:25.600 I... 04:25.600 --> 04:26.600 Oh, my God. 04:26.600 --> 04:27.600 Oh, my God. 04:27.600 --> 04:28.600 Oh, my God. 04:28.600 --> 04:29.600 Oh, my God. 04:29.600 --> 04:30.600 Oh, my God. 04:30.600 --> 04:31.600 Oh, my God. 04:31.600 --> 04:32.600 Oh, I don't know. 04:32.600 --> 04:33.600 Doctor, the... 04:33.600 --> 04:34.600 Doctor, the breath out of me. 04:34.600 --> 04:35.600 My side... 04:35.600 --> 04:36.600 How about you? 04:36.600 --> 04:37.600 You all right? 04:37.600 --> 04:38.600 No. 04:38.600 --> 04:39.600 Here, let me help you. 04:39.600 --> 04:40.600 Bye. 04:40.600 --> 04:41.600 You are hurt. 04:41.600 --> 04:42.600 No, no, no. 04:42.600 --> 04:43.600 Just jarred up a little. 04:43.600 --> 04:44.600 No broken bones. 04:44.600 --> 04:45.600 Gary! 04:45.600 --> 04:46.600 Oh, my Lord. 04:46.600 --> 04:51.600 I picked myself up from the curb where the car had thrown me, but it hit us. 04:51.600 --> 04:54.600 My side hurt in my head. 04:54.600 --> 04:55.600 Oh, my God. 04:55.600 --> 04:56.600 Oh, my God. 04:56.600 --> 04:57.600 Oh, my God. 04:57.600 --> 04:58.600 Oh, my God. 04:58.600 --> 04:59.600 Oh, my God. 04:59.600 --> 05:00.600 Oh, my God. 05:00.600 --> 05:03.600 I was hurt in my head real, but Gary... 05:03.600 --> 05:09.960 So I staggered out from the other side of the car, saw the jagged pain of broken glass in 05:09.960 --> 05:15.000 the store window, saw the bright spurts dying the pavement crimson where Gary's right hand 05:15.000 --> 05:16.440 clutched his left arm. 05:16.440 --> 05:18.160 A policeman came running towards us. 05:18.160 --> 05:19.240 Yeah, yeah, what happened? 05:19.240 --> 05:20.240 It's Mr. Dury, officer. 05:20.240 --> 05:22.720 They car skidded over the curb and knocked it through the window. 05:22.720 --> 05:24.380 Yeah, yeah, but they will look now. 05:24.380 --> 05:25.380 Catch him, catch him. 05:25.380 --> 05:26.380 He's going faint. 05:26.380 --> 05:27.380 They've got him now. 05:27.380 --> 05:28.380 Oh, no wonder. 05:28.380 --> 05:29.380 He's got an artery. 05:29.380 --> 05:31.120 Hey, you, call an ambulance. 05:31.120 --> 05:32.120 Get a doctor. 05:32.120 --> 05:34.000 This man will bleed to death if we're not quick. 05:34.000 --> 05:35.000 Are you all right, sir? 05:35.000 --> 05:36.000 I hurt my side a little, sir. 05:36.000 --> 05:37.000 I feel a bit faint. 05:37.000 --> 05:38.000 I'll be all right. 05:38.000 --> 05:39.000 Good, good. 05:39.000 --> 05:40.480 We've got to stop this bleeding here. 05:40.480 --> 05:41.720 Now, help me. 05:41.720 --> 05:43.000 You put your hand right here. 05:43.000 --> 05:44.000 That's right, yeah. 05:44.000 --> 05:45.000 Now, squeeze hard. 05:45.000 --> 05:46.000 Yes. 05:46.000 --> 05:47.000 And keep on squeezing. 05:47.000 --> 05:48.000 You, you over there. 05:48.000 --> 05:49.000 Come on, give us a hand. 05:49.000 --> 05:50.160 I'll take his head. 05:50.160 --> 05:51.160 You take his feet now. 05:51.160 --> 05:52.160 Easy does it. 05:52.160 --> 05:53.160 All right. 05:53.160 --> 05:54.160 Yeah, yeah. 05:54.160 --> 05:55.160 What happened to you? 05:55.160 --> 05:56.160 Mr. Dury. 05:56.160 --> 05:59.520 What happened to you? 05:59.520 --> 06:00.520 Mr. Dury. 06:00.520 --> 06:01.520 There's been an accident. 06:01.520 --> 06:02.520 Walter, here. 06:02.520 --> 06:03.520 Come on, give him your hand. 06:03.520 --> 06:04.520 Hang on to the artery. 06:04.520 --> 06:05.520 I'm trying to. 06:05.520 --> 06:06.520 What is it, Mr. Skeff? 06:06.520 --> 06:07.520 Accident. 06:07.520 --> 06:08.520 Mr. Dury cut an artery. 06:08.520 --> 06:09.520 Here. 06:09.520 --> 06:10.520 There's a couch. 06:10.520 --> 06:11.520 Mr. Dury's dressing room officer right around this way. 06:11.520 --> 06:12.520 What's the matter? 06:12.520 --> 06:13.520 What happened to the light? 06:13.520 --> 06:14.520 Turn off the light. 06:14.520 --> 06:15.520 He fainted, Gary. 06:15.520 --> 06:16.520 Oh, I see. 06:16.520 --> 06:17.520 All right, all right. 06:17.520 --> 06:18.520 Here, here on the couch. 06:18.520 --> 06:19.520 Easy now. 06:19.520 --> 06:20.520 Down we go. 06:20.520 --> 06:21.520 Now, you, get an ambulance and a doctor. 06:21.520 --> 06:22.520 All right. 06:22.520 --> 06:27.520 My left arm, eh, John? 06:27.520 --> 06:31.520 Do you suppose I'll lose the use of it? 06:31.520 --> 06:35.680 Oh, well, it's lucky it's the army in play, isn't it, John? 06:35.680 --> 06:38.520 I can always go on playing key. 06:38.520 --> 06:39.520 Always. 06:39.520 --> 06:45.240 For the rest of my life. 06:45.240 --> 06:46.240 My play. 06:46.240 --> 06:49.240 All the rest of his life. 06:49.240 --> 06:52.480 The blood, I'm going to be sick. 06:52.480 --> 06:57.440 The officer took his strong hand and gripped the artery in Gary's arm above my own shaking 06:57.440 --> 06:58.440 fingers. 06:58.440 --> 06:59.440 Now, you look peaking. 06:59.440 --> 07:00.440 Lie down, Mr. Skeff. 07:00.440 --> 07:01.440 Let me hold that. 07:01.440 --> 07:03.440 Now, you, help rig up a tourniquet. 07:03.440 --> 07:04.440 Walters, whatever your name is. 07:04.440 --> 07:05.440 Yes, sir. 07:05.440 --> 07:06.440 Will someone try to get a doctor? 07:06.440 --> 07:08.120 Just call for the doctor. 07:08.120 --> 07:09.120 There's no one on emergency. 07:09.120 --> 07:11.040 Everyone's out, and so are the ambulances. 07:11.040 --> 07:12.280 Then call a private hospital. 07:12.280 --> 07:13.920 This man is bleeding to death. 07:13.920 --> 07:19.080 Bleeding to death. 07:19.080 --> 07:20.520 This was the end with it. 07:20.520 --> 07:24.280 No doctor on duty, and Garrick Drilly bleeding to death. 07:24.280 --> 07:26.480 Then I came to. 07:26.480 --> 07:34.520 I'll find a doctor. 07:34.520 --> 07:37.640 But it was 40 minutes before the doctor finally came. 07:37.640 --> 07:42.960 40 minutes while Garrick Drilly's life seeped out from the improvised tourniquet. 07:42.960 --> 07:45.160 The doctor sat down his bag and took one look. 07:45.160 --> 07:47.320 We're still trying to get hold of an ambulance, Dr. 07:47.320 --> 07:49.560 Drilly, but we couldn't move him now anyway. 07:49.560 --> 07:51.080 There's only one thing to do. 07:51.080 --> 07:52.520 Give him a transfusion right here. 07:52.520 --> 07:53.520 Yes. 07:53.520 --> 07:55.080 Well, first we'll make a decent tourniquet. 07:55.080 --> 07:57.080 I'll test his blood for type. 07:57.080 --> 07:59.720 Oh, by the by, wait around, all of you. 07:59.720 --> 08:07.640 I have to find someone among you with type of blood that matches his. 08:07.640 --> 08:11.040 Garrick lay on a couch behind a screen in his dressing room. 08:11.040 --> 08:15.480 There was a plate on the table, one with a border of pink roses, which during rehearsals 08:15.480 --> 08:18.200 we'd often eat in hasty sandwiches. 08:18.200 --> 08:22.000 Now there were four round blobs of red on it. 08:22.000 --> 08:26.440 Blood, two blobs of mine and two of Garrick's valid, Walters. 08:26.440 --> 08:30.280 Behind the screen, Walters was blubbering with grief while an intern arrived at last 08:30.280 --> 08:32.080 for the ambulance was murmuring fearfully. 08:32.080 --> 08:34.080 Doctor, I can't find his pulse. 08:34.080 --> 08:35.080 You can't? 08:35.080 --> 08:36.080 What? 08:36.080 --> 08:37.080 Wait a minute. 08:37.080 --> 08:38.080 Here, you idiot, let me see. 08:38.080 --> 08:39.080 Yes, of course, here it is. 08:39.080 --> 08:40.080 But we must hurry or we'll be gone. 08:40.080 --> 08:41.080 Steady now, Walter, steady. 08:41.080 --> 08:42.080 We know you love him. 08:42.080 --> 08:43.080 We're doing our best. 08:43.080 --> 08:45.760 Now, let's go look at those tests. 08:45.760 --> 08:48.800 The important thing is to give transfusion as soon as possible. 08:48.800 --> 08:49.800 Let me give it to him. 08:49.800 --> 08:50.800 I'll give my life for Mr. Drury. 08:50.800 --> 08:51.800 Let me give the transfusion. 08:51.800 --> 08:52.800 Now, now, now, now, we'll see. 08:52.800 --> 08:55.800 I've already told you, Drury's blood is type three, very difficult. 08:55.800 --> 09:00.600 We can only give him a transfusion from someone of his own type or a type four universal donor. 09:00.600 --> 09:03.600 Anything else would be like giving him prussic acid. 09:03.600 --> 09:06.600 I only hope that you or Mr. Scales will do. 09:06.600 --> 09:07.600 We'll have to make sure. 09:07.600 --> 09:08.600 All right, now let me see. 09:08.600 --> 09:09.600 All right, now, Walter, let me see. 09:09.600 --> 09:16.600 We'll have to make sure. 09:16.600 --> 09:21.040 The doctor bent over the plate, pouring liquid out of vials onto the red drops. 09:21.040 --> 09:25.240 I stood where I'd been standing when he put the blood onto the plate before the intern's 09:25.240 --> 09:26.240 voice had cried out, 09:26.240 --> 09:27.240 Dr. I can't find his pulse. 09:27.240 --> 09:32.200 Walter's and the doctor had plunged around the screen to where Gary lay unconscious. 09:32.200 --> 09:34.440 I watched while the doctor finished with the vials. 09:34.440 --> 09:38.560 Then he picked up a grease pencil from the dressing table and drew a line across the 09:38.560 --> 09:40.560 plate, cutting it in half. 09:40.560 --> 09:45.160 Then with a pencil, he marked the side on which I stood with an S and the side on which 09:45.160 --> 09:47.320 Walter's had stood with a W. 09:47.320 --> 09:48.320 There now. 09:48.320 --> 09:50.000 Now we'll be sure of which is which. 09:50.000 --> 09:53.040 It will take a few minutes to see if there's any agglutination. 09:53.040 --> 09:55.920 Oh, that's hope. 09:55.920 --> 09:57.960 That's all we can do is hope. 09:57.960 --> 10:01.280 And he disappeared once again behind the screen. 10:01.280 --> 10:06.360 It was then that I noticed the one rose on the border of the plate which had been blurred 10:06.360 --> 10:07.360 in the firing. 10:07.360 --> 10:08.840 I noticed it before. 10:08.840 --> 10:14.040 Many times I've noticed it today in the last few minutes, looking stupidly at it as you 10:14.040 --> 10:16.280 do at such things. 10:16.280 --> 10:21.760 But before, before the doctor had marked it, before he and Walter's had gone running behind 10:21.760 --> 10:29.560 the screen, then hadn't the blurred rose been on the left, my left, but now it was on the 10:29.560 --> 10:31.560 right. 10:31.560 --> 10:36.360 Might Walter's in passing have brushed it and turned it around? 10:36.360 --> 10:42.280 I stood and stared at the tiny pool on the side marked W. Little hard purple crystals 10:42.280 --> 10:44.600 were beginning to form around the edges. 10:44.600 --> 10:49.360 I looked at the side of the plate marked S, my side, supposedly. 10:49.360 --> 10:52.160 The blood was clear and bright. 10:52.160 --> 10:57.000 But what if the plate had been turned around and the blood on the other side was mine? 10:57.000 --> 11:01.200 It was mine that was forming little purple crystals. 11:01.200 --> 11:04.480 I stood staring at the plate as the doctor came around from behind the screen. 11:04.480 --> 11:06.680 Now let's have a look at this. 11:06.680 --> 11:07.680 Hmm, where? 11:07.680 --> 11:09.680 Looks as though we're in luck. 11:09.680 --> 11:10.680 Is it mine? 11:10.680 --> 11:12.480 May I give him the transfusion, sir? 11:12.480 --> 11:13.600 Oh, sorry, old man. 11:13.600 --> 11:15.080 Not unless you want to murder him. 11:15.080 --> 11:20.280 No, no, but Mr. Scales here, it looks as if he were that useful animal, a universal donor. 11:20.280 --> 11:22.800 All right, Mr. Scales, let's make ready. 11:22.800 --> 11:23.800 What? 11:23.800 --> 11:24.800 You're it, Mr. Scales. 11:24.800 --> 11:28.280 I, oh, there's something I ought, well, I ought to mention that... 11:28.280 --> 11:29.280 You're not frightened, are you? 11:29.280 --> 11:30.280 Not that, I... 11:30.280 --> 11:31.280 There's no danger from giving a transfusion, you know. 11:31.280 --> 11:32.280 I don't know that. 11:32.280 --> 11:33.280 No, no, no, no, I'm not frightened, doctor. 11:33.280 --> 11:35.720 Then come around here and let's get busy. 11:35.720 --> 11:36.720 We haven't much time. 11:36.720 --> 11:37.720 Doctor, I... 11:37.720 --> 11:38.720 Hello, John, old fellow. 11:38.720 --> 11:39.720 What's this? 11:39.720 --> 11:40.720 Final curtain. 11:40.720 --> 11:41.720 Don't be silly. 11:41.720 --> 11:42.720 That's a rotten exit. 11:42.720 --> 11:43.720 Dying Egypt. 11:43.720 --> 11:44.720 Dying... 11:44.720 --> 11:45.720 Not dead yet. 11:45.720 --> 11:46.720 My long shot. 11:46.720 --> 11:47.720 Take off your coat, please, Mr. Scales, and roll up your sleeve. 11:47.720 --> 11:48.720 Rotten exit. 11:48.720 --> 11:49.720 Rotten rake for you too, John. 11:49.720 --> 11:50.720 I have to close the play. 11:50.720 --> 11:51.720 Close the play. 11:51.720 --> 11:52.720 Close the play. 11:52.720 --> 11:53.720 Close the play. 11:53.720 --> 11:54.720 Close the play. 11:54.720 --> 11:55.720 Close the play. 11:55.720 --> 11:56.720 Close the play. 11:56.720 --> 11:57.720 Close the play. 11:57.720 --> 11:58.720 Close the play. 11:58.720 --> 11:59.720 Close the play. 11:59.720 --> 12:00.720 Close the play. 12:00.720 --> 12:01.720 Close the play. 12:01.720 --> 12:02.720 Close the play. 12:02.720 --> 12:03.720 Close the play. 12:03.720 --> 12:04.720 Close the play. 12:04.720 --> 12:05.720 Close the play. 12:05.720 --> 12:06.720 I'm ready, doctor. 12:06.720 --> 12:07.720 That's to be sure. 12:07.720 --> 12:08.720 Sit down here. 12:08.720 --> 12:09.720 Hold still. 12:09.720 --> 12:10.720 You will hardly notice this. 12:10.720 --> 12:11.720 Make a fist. 12:11.720 --> 12:12.720 Tight. 12:12.720 --> 12:13.720 That's it. 12:13.720 --> 12:18.720 Maybe feel a little dizzy for a minute afterward, but in an hour you'll be right as rain. 12:18.720 --> 12:19.720 That's all right. 12:19.720 --> 12:20.720 Now, now, still. 12:20.720 --> 12:21.720 There. 12:21.720 --> 12:22.720 Yeah. 12:22.720 --> 12:23.720 Not bad, was it? 12:23.720 --> 12:24.720 Lie back. 12:24.720 --> 12:25.720 That's right. 12:25.720 --> 12:26.720 Good old John. 12:26.720 --> 12:27.720 Give me... 12:27.720 --> 12:39.720 Lord, what a publicity story this will make. 12:39.720 --> 12:47.720 Playwright had actors bedside, gives blood to save famous star's life. 12:47.720 --> 12:55.280 If he had kept quiet, if he'd only... 12:55.280 --> 13:00.920 It might not have been too late then, but then I knew, I knew that I would never tell 13:00.920 --> 13:01.920 the doctor. 13:01.920 --> 13:02.920 I would never tell anyone. 13:02.920 --> 13:05.720 I would only wait and see. 13:05.720 --> 13:10.160 The revulsion, the contempt, the hatred that had been caged up in me for that smiling, 13:10.160 --> 13:17.320 posturing ape on the couch, leaped now, clawing at the bars, howling for revenge. 13:17.320 --> 13:18.320 Going all right, Scales? 13:18.320 --> 13:19.320 Yes. 13:19.320 --> 13:20.320 Yes, perfectly. 13:20.320 --> 13:21.320 Thank you, doctor. 13:21.320 --> 13:43.960 Auto Light is bringing you Joseph Cotton in Blood Sacrifice, tonight's production in radio's 13:43.960 --> 13:54.080 outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 13:54.080 --> 13:55.920 Now it's my turn, Wilcox. 13:55.920 --> 13:57.220 Riddle me this. 13:57.220 --> 14:02.280 What is it that lives a long time, has great power and endurance, and can store water? 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17:18.880 --> 17:19.880 Keith wouldn't have acted that way. 17:19.880 --> 17:20.880 He'd have been shocked and hurt and angry. 17:20.880 --> 17:25.880 He'd have denounced her and left the party. 17:25.880 --> 17:26.880 Wonderful scene. 17:26.880 --> 17:31.880 And then at the very end, Keith rolls up his uniformed tunic with all the decorations on 17:31.880 --> 17:36.880 it and lays it under his head for a pillow and lies down on the bed. 17:36.880 --> 17:38.880 Oh, wonderful curtain line. 17:38.880 --> 17:41.880 He said, I rest upon my laurels. 17:41.880 --> 17:42.880 Wonderful. 17:42.880 --> 17:43.880 Can you write it, boy? 17:43.880 --> 17:44.880 You are not serious. 17:44.880 --> 17:45.880 Of course I'm serious. 17:45.880 --> 17:46.880 I look here, Johnny. 17:46.880 --> 17:47.880 I'm not serious. 17:47.880 --> 17:50.880 Of course I'm serious. 17:50.880 --> 17:51.880 This is your play. 17:51.880 --> 17:52.880 I'm only concerned. 17:52.880 --> 17:54.880 That's not the play, Gary. 17:54.880 --> 17:56.880 It's all out of key with the rest of it. 17:56.880 --> 17:57.880 Oh, you said it reminds me. 17:57.880 --> 17:59.880 I've been a little bothered about the ending, too. 17:59.880 --> 18:02.880 Of course, very dramatic, of course. 18:02.880 --> 18:11.880 But just at this time, it seems a little bad taste, don't you think? 18:11.880 --> 18:14.880 The play altered, butchered, finally opened. 18:14.880 --> 18:17.880 We sat up waiting for the morning papers, and then they came. 18:17.880 --> 18:20.880 I read them, and I wanted to run away. 18:20.880 --> 18:21.880 I couldn't. 18:21.880 --> 18:24.880 The voices of the critics sang to the public. 18:24.880 --> 18:30.880 This broken-back play is only held together by the magnificent acting of Mr. Garrick Drury. 18:30.880 --> 18:35.880 Saccharin, as it is, fitter laurel, provides a personal triumph for Mr. Garrick Drury. 18:35.880 --> 18:40.880 Nothing in the play is consistent except the assured acting of Garrick Drury. 18:40.880 --> 18:47.880 Mr. John Scales has constructed his situations with great skill to display Mr. Drury in all his attitudes, 18:47.880 --> 18:49.880 and that is a sure recipe for success. 18:49.880 --> 18:58.880 We prophesy a long run for bitter laurel. 18:58.880 --> 19:01.880 And run it dead, there was no stopping it. 19:01.880 --> 19:06.880 I caught myself wishing Garrick Drury would die or lose his looks or his voice or his popularity 19:06.880 --> 19:14.880 so that the whole thing could be buried and forgotten. 19:14.880 --> 19:18.880 Well, now, perhaps he was going to die. 19:18.880 --> 19:21.880 I watched the blood from my veins fill up the container. 19:21.880 --> 19:26.880 I thought of the blurred rose on the plate that might have got turned around. 19:26.880 --> 19:29.880 I heard Walter still complaining about something. I listened to the doctor. 19:29.880 --> 19:36.880 Our blood won't do at all, Walter. Lucky for Mr. Drury that Mr. Scales was around, good man to have around, universal donor. 19:36.880 --> 19:41.880 Blood mixes with all types. 19:41.880 --> 19:46.880 What was it, my blood, or Walter's, that mixed with all types? I didn't know. I couldn't be sure. 19:46.880 --> 19:54.880 Yet somehow I was sure that the plate had been turned around, and that would mean that if the doctor used my blood for a transfusion, 19:54.880 --> 20:03.880 it would be like giving Garrick prussic acid. It would be murder. 20:03.880 --> 20:09.880 No one would ever know. The doctor might guess, but he would never dare speak. It would be put down to his own negligence. 20:09.880 --> 20:17.880 He came over to me and looked at the level in the container, nodded his head approvingly, and turned to Garrick again. 20:17.880 --> 20:24.880 I felt myself pulsing and drifting like a man dozing in a snowdrift. 20:24.880 --> 20:26.880 Flower for your left hand, sir. Flower for your left hand. 20:26.880 --> 20:27.880 Good evening, Flora. 20:27.880 --> 20:30.880 Oh, good evening, Mr. Drury. Looks like Ryan Drury. 20:30.880 --> 20:34.880 He does indeed. But then we can't complain. Well, John, you must let me run. 20:34.880 --> 20:36.880 Here, sir. Take a flower. 20:36.880 --> 20:39.880 Thank you, Flora. The show must go on, you know. 20:39.880 --> 20:42.880 Bless you. Oh, good evening, Mr. Scales. 20:42.880 --> 20:44.880 Flora, may I have a carnation? 20:44.880 --> 20:46.880 Yes, sir. Two shillings, sir. 20:46.880 --> 20:47.880 Here you are. 20:47.880 --> 20:48.880 Can I turn it on for you? 20:48.880 --> 20:49.880 Oh, thank you. 20:49.880 --> 20:55.880 It's wonderful about your play, Mr. Scales. It's been a wonderful run. But then Mr. Drury does know how to pick them. 20:55.880 --> 20:58.880 Yes, yes. It looks as if it might run forever, doesn't it? 20:58.880 --> 21:03.880 No matter what he's in, they all come to see him. Not that yours isn't a wonderful play. 21:03.880 --> 21:06.880 Mr. Drury gave me a ticket for the second night. 21:06.880 --> 21:07.880 Oh. 21:07.880 --> 21:08.880 He's always so thoughtful. 21:08.880 --> 21:09.880 What did you think of it? 21:09.880 --> 21:18.880 I thought it was lovely. I cried ever so. When Mr. Drury came back with only one arm and found his fiancée with that other fellow at the cocktail party. 21:18.880 --> 21:19.880 Exactly. 21:19.880 --> 21:26.880 I will rest on my laurels. It was a beautiful curtain line you gave him there, Mr. Scales, and the way you put it over. 21:26.880 --> 21:31.880 Yes, there's no one like Drury to put over that kind of line. Good evening, Flora. 21:31.880 --> 21:33.880 Good evening, Mr. Scales. 21:33.880 --> 21:38.880 Better logo. 21:38.880 --> 21:43.880 Oh, good Lord, Molly. Sheridan. Hello. It's good to see you. It's been months. 21:43.880 --> 21:46.880 Look who's here. New York's rising drama. 21:46.880 --> 21:49.880 Oh, no, don't, don't. Have you seen it? I sent you tickets. 21:49.880 --> 21:54.880 Yes. Kind of, if you think of us in your busy life. Yes, we saw the show. 21:54.880 --> 22:03.880 I know, I know. But like a fool, I signed a contract without a controlling clause, and by the time Drury and his producer had finished knocking the script around, there wasn't one. 22:03.880 --> 22:05.880 Oh, John, it's a shame. 22:05.880 --> 22:08.880 Now, look, let's forget the play and go have a drink together, shall we? 22:08.880 --> 22:14.880 Oh, sorry, Obot. We have to think of our reputations, you know. Good night, John. Come along, Sheridan. 22:16.880 --> 22:17.880 John. 22:17.880 --> 22:26.880 John, it was a good play. How under any circumstances could you have let them do this to it? Come along, Sheridan. 22:26.880 --> 22:29.880 Good night, John. Good night. 22:34.880 --> 22:39.880 Ah, fine. Almost full court. That ought to do it. Feel all right, Mr. Scales? 22:39.880 --> 22:40.880 Yes. 22:40.880 --> 22:44.880 Good. Now, we'll throw you out of here and go to work. 22:44.880 --> 22:52.880 The doctor ushered me out of the room onto the stage. I saw him disappearing around the screen with a flag in his hands as I closed the door. 22:52.880 --> 23:00.880 Just as I thought. There were the reporters waiting. I sat down. I felt weak, not right at all. 23:00.880 --> 23:03.880 Mr. Scales, how is he? Will he live, do they think? 23:03.880 --> 23:06.880 Well, they think he may. They're giving him a transfusion. 23:06.880 --> 23:08.880 With your blood. Oh, what a story. 23:08.880 --> 23:09.880 Please don't use that. 23:09.880 --> 23:11.880 Oh, yes, we know how you feel, Dr. Rollins. 23:11.880 --> 23:15.880 I'm just doing what anyone else would do. He was my friend. I owed him everything. 23:15.880 --> 23:18.880 Of course, but you're a hero. You don't know how people feel about Gary Drury. 23:18.880 --> 23:19.880 Don't I? 23:19.880 --> 23:22.880 Incidentally, Mr. Scales, we hear you sold these screenwriters on the play. 23:22.880 --> 23:28.880 Oh, no, no, not yet. It was, well, we'd been talking it over tonight. But if anything happens to Mr. Drury... 23:28.880 --> 23:29.880 You mean you, we won't sell them? 23:29.880 --> 23:34.880 If anything happens to Gary, Bitter Laurel will never be performed again. 23:34.880 --> 23:40.880 My hands were wet and cold, and I could feel the perspiration running down my back. 23:40.880 --> 23:44.880 My head was light, and I seemed to be walking on air. 23:44.880 --> 23:47.880 The voices of the reporters were distant and indistinct. 23:47.880 --> 23:51.880 I felt the sudden need to lie down to rest. Sleep. 23:51.880 --> 23:57.880 The door to Gary's dressing room opened, and I saw the doctor stand in there, his face and his voice were blurred. 23:57.880 --> 24:00.880 Scales, I... will you come, please? 24:00.880 --> 24:01.880 What is it? 24:01.880 --> 24:06.880 He's complaining of a pain in his back. He did almost immediately. We started the transfusion. He's asking for you. 24:06.880 --> 24:07.880 Of course. 24:07.880 --> 24:11.880 I just don't understand it. I don't understand. 24:11.880 --> 24:15.880 We all did our best. So much hemorrhage, shock, cardiac strain. 24:15.880 --> 24:18.880 It's always a gamble, you see, when the operation is left so late. 24:18.880 --> 24:21.880 Sometimes there is a particular idiosyncrasy. 24:21.880 --> 24:26.880 I should have preferred a direct test, but that's no good if the patient dies while you wait to make sure. 24:26.880 --> 24:28.880 Mr. Drury, oh, Mr. Drury. 24:28.880 --> 24:29.880 What is it? 24:29.880 --> 24:31.880 Where's Bran? 24:31.880 --> 24:32.880 Oh, your son? 24:32.880 --> 24:33.880 No, no, he's under study. 24:33.880 --> 24:35.880 He'll be here in a minute, Mr. Drury. 24:35.880 --> 24:37.880 They're waiting. 24:37.880 --> 24:38.880 Bran! 24:38.880 --> 24:40.880 That's Bran! 24:40.880 --> 24:44.880 The curtain must go up! 24:49.880 --> 24:52.880 I don't understand it. 24:52.880 --> 24:54.880 Yes, yes, he's dead. 24:54.880 --> 24:56.880 Why did he die, doctor? 24:56.880 --> 24:59.880 There's blood transfusion, but I don't understand it. 24:59.880 --> 25:02.880 This is scales of the type four, universal donor. 25:02.880 --> 25:06.880 Still there are sometimes personal idiosyncrasies. 25:06.880 --> 25:08.880 Here, I... 25:10.880 --> 25:13.880 I caught Walter's gaze and followed it. 25:13.880 --> 25:17.880 He was staring fascinated at the plate, which still stood on the table. 25:17.880 --> 25:21.880 The rose. That one there that smudged from the filing. 25:21.880 --> 25:24.880 I remember noticing it. It was originally on my right. 25:24.880 --> 25:25.880 Now it's on my left. 25:25.880 --> 25:27.880 You did it! You turned the plate around! 25:27.880 --> 25:30.880 Because you knew that my blood would save him and that yours wouldn't! 25:30.880 --> 25:31.880 Oh, don't be a fool, Walters! 25:31.880 --> 25:33.880 I lost everything by his death. Why should I want him dead? 25:33.880 --> 25:36.880 You hated him. I've known I've seen it all the time. 25:36.880 --> 25:37.880 Because of the plate! 25:37.880 --> 25:38.880 Walter! 25:38.880 --> 25:39.880 You killed him! 25:39.880 --> 25:40.880 Don't be a fool! 25:40.880 --> 25:42.880 Too fantastic! What coroner! Coroner's due... 25:42.880 --> 25:45.880 Oh! Oh! What coroner! 25:49.880 --> 25:52.880 Oh, there it happens. 25:52.880 --> 25:59.880 The roaring in my ears, the spastic constriction of my stomach. 26:01.880 --> 26:05.880 The room began to teeter and twirl and stagger toward a chair. 26:05.880 --> 26:11.880 I can hear the doctor faintly slow from a long, long way on. 26:11.880 --> 26:13.880 What's the matter? What's the matter? 26:15.880 --> 26:17.880 He's in shock. 26:17.880 --> 26:23.880 No, no, no. Here. Here, my... my thigh, where the car hit me. 26:23.880 --> 26:24.880 Where? Show me. 26:24.880 --> 26:26.880 Just here. 26:26.880 --> 26:29.880 Good Lord, man. Why didn't you tell us? You're hurt! 26:29.880 --> 26:30.880 Walters. 26:30.880 --> 26:31.880 Yes, sir. 26:31.880 --> 26:33.880 Tell them to bring in the stretcher from the ambulance, quickly, man. 26:33.880 --> 26:34.880 Yes, sir. 26:39.880 --> 26:41.880 It's ironic. 26:41.880 --> 26:47.880 When the car hit me, it was an injury to the spleen. 26:47.880 --> 26:51.880 The spleen, think of it. 26:51.880 --> 26:57.880 So, you see, all the time I was giving Gary blood for a transfusion, 26:57.880 --> 27:01.880 I was bleeding to death inside myself. 27:03.880 --> 27:09.880 Ironic, isn't it? Death from shock and loss of blood. 27:09.880 --> 27:15.880 They gave me a transfusion too, too late. 27:15.880 --> 27:18.880 But I wouldn't have to die, they said. 27:18.880 --> 27:40.880 I would have lived if I hadn't given my blood to kill Gary Crury. 27:40.880 --> 27:47.880 Suspense, presented by Auto Light, the night star Joseph Cotton. 27:47.880 --> 27:51.880 Simmer down, Harlow. 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