WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 00:10.000 --> 00:21.000 Tonight, Auto Light brings you a suspense play of love and death in a New York penthouse, 00:21.000 --> 00:30.000 The Well-Dressed Corpse, and starring Miss Eve Arden. 00:30.000 --> 00:36.000 Before our play begins, here is a word about Auto Light from our good friend, Harlow Wilcox. 00:36.000 --> 00:38.000 Hi, Mr. Wilcox. What can I do for you? 00:38.000 --> 00:45.000 Well, Sam, my friendly Auto Light spark plug man, you can tell me what you think of those fresh, frisky, and frolicsome 00:45.000 --> 00:47.000 ignition-engineered Auto Light spark plugs. 00:47.000 --> 00:49.000 They're tops, Mr. Wilcox. 00:49.000 --> 00:55.000 Now, tell me, if replacing worn-out spark plugs with ignition-engineered Auto Light spark plugs will give a car 00:55.000 --> 00:59.000 smoother performance, quick starts, gas savings. 00:59.000 --> 01:01.000 You bet. What else would you like to know? 01:01.000 --> 01:08.000 Well, are Auto Light spark plugs made by the same Auto Light engineers who design coils, distributors, 01:08.000 --> 01:13.000 and all the other important parts of the complete ignition system used as original factory equipment 01:13.000 --> 01:15.000 on many leading makes of our finest cars? 01:15.000 --> 01:16.000 Why, of course. 01:16.000 --> 01:22.000 Oh, and that's why we say Auto Light spark plugs are ignition-engineered, designed to perform as a perfect team 01:22.000 --> 01:24.000 with your car's ignition system. 01:24.000 --> 01:25.000 Sure. Can I tell you more? 01:25.000 --> 01:32.000 Yes. Do Auto Light spark plug dealers, like you, replace worn-out spark plugs with ignition-engineered Auto Light spark plugs, 01:32.000 --> 01:34.000 either standard or resistor type? 01:34.000 --> 01:37.000 Of course. But you know all about that, Mr. Wilcox. 01:37.000 --> 01:39.000 Yeah, but I just love to hear it. 01:39.000 --> 01:40.000 But you said it. 01:40.000 --> 01:44.000 And I'll say it again, because you're always right with Auto Light. 01:44.000 --> 01:53.000 And now with the well-dressed corpse and the performance of Miss Eve Arden, Auto Light hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 01:59.000 --> 02:03.000 She's lying on the couch in my office. Thought I'd just let her alone until you showed up, Captain Roark. 02:03.000 --> 02:05.000 Well, that was considerate of you, Lieutenant. 02:05.000 --> 02:08.000 Here we are. Inside. 02:10.000 --> 02:11.000 Are you sure that's her? 02:11.000 --> 02:12.000 I'm positive. 02:12.000 --> 02:14.000 Where was she picked up? In her bedroom? 02:14.000 --> 02:19.000 Hell's Kitchen, on Alley. She lost her dress in one of the boys' gay risotto. 02:23.000 --> 02:24.000 What's your name? 02:24.000 --> 02:26.000 My name is Ruth Franklin. 02:26.000 --> 02:27.000 How old are you? 02:27.000 --> 02:29.000 Thirty-three. 02:29.000 --> 02:30.000 Where do you live? 02:30.000 --> 02:33.000 Pickwick Arms, on Riverside Drive. 02:33.000 --> 02:34.000 Do you drive a car? 02:34.000 --> 02:39.000 Yes. A blue convertible. Mediterranean blue. 02:39.000 --> 02:41.000 Did you go to school in this city? 02:41.000 --> 02:48.000 Graduate school, Columbia University. I went to Stanford. I worked for the Carrington Green advertising agency. 02:48.000 --> 02:54.000 My secretary's name is Petey Wright. I'm the murderer you're looking for. 02:54.000 --> 02:58.000 Okay. I guess you're Ruth Franklin, all right. 02:58.000 --> 03:01.000 I guess I can't blame you for not recognizing me. 03:01.000 --> 03:07.000 Did you know that six weeks ago I was voted one of the ten best-dressed women in America? 03:07.000 --> 03:09.000 Yeah, I read something about it. 03:09.000 --> 03:12.000 I always knew that someday I would be. 03:12.000 --> 03:19.000 But when it actually happened, it was just as exciting as if it had been a total surprise. 03:19.000 --> 03:24.000 The invitation to the buffet luncheon to meet the press came on Friday. 03:24.000 --> 03:29.000 I ran right out and bought the most elegant and expensive dress I could find. 03:29.000 --> 03:38.000 And when I swept into the luncheon, everyone was looking at me, including the other nine well-dressed women. 03:38.000 --> 03:48.000 Percy Hamilton of Radcliffe, a little bald-headed man who moved and looked like a startled chipmunk, met me as I came in. 03:48.000 --> 03:55.000 Oh, Miss Franklin, I'm so happy to see you. Right this way, please. You're a little late, you know. 03:55.000 --> 04:00.000 Percy, baby, you've confused me perhaps with the debutante. I work for a living. 04:00.000 --> 04:05.000 I'm going to put you here at table 13. Oh, pardon me, Mr. Mason. 04:05.000 --> 04:06.000 It's all right. 04:06.000 --> 04:08.000 Mr. Mason, may I present Miss Franklin? 04:08.000 --> 04:10.000 How do you do? 04:10.000 --> 04:11.000 How do you do? 04:11.000 --> 04:14.000 You two are going to be luncheon partners. 04:14.000 --> 04:17.000 Well, I'll run along. 04:20.000 --> 04:24.000 You, of course, couldn't be anyone else but the best dressed Franklin. 04:24.000 --> 04:27.000 I'm not sure I like the way you said that, Mr. Mason. 04:27.000 --> 04:32.000 My tone was not meant to imply a personal indictment, Miss Franklin. In fact, it's a commendation. 04:32.000 --> 04:35.000 You play your part very well in this racket. 04:35.000 --> 04:36.000 Racket? 04:36.000 --> 04:37.000 Racket. 04:37.000 --> 04:41.000 Oh, I always draw the most charming luncheon partners. 04:41.000 --> 04:47.000 It was undoubtedly something in your childhood. They made you wear buster brown collars or velveteen knickers. 04:47.000 --> 04:49.000 I wore dungarees. 04:49.000 --> 04:56.000 No, it's just that I have the best prima facie evidence anyone ever had that this is a travesty on good taste and artistic judgment. 04:56.000 --> 05:02.000 Before I move to another table, Mr. Mason, I'd be utterly amused to hear one sentence telling me why you feel this way. 05:02.000 --> 05:04.000 I'd be happy to oblige. 05:04.000 --> 05:08.000 You see, I was picked as one of the best dressed men. 05:08.000 --> 05:13.000 Mr. Mason, for the first time, I'm beginning to savor the sweetness of your judgment. 05:19.000 --> 05:25.000 Well, that was the way it began. A little careless banter while we sized each other up. 05:25.000 --> 05:28.000 And something in our measurements had meaning. 05:28.000 --> 05:35.000 Because despite speeches and cold chicken a la king and news photographers interfering with most of our conversation, 05:35.000 --> 05:42.000 we later found ourselves at the Stork Club analyzing everything from Picasso to paper hanging. 05:42.000 --> 05:48.000 Sometime in the evening, he said he had to catch a plane somewhere, but he'd get in touch with me soon. 05:48.000 --> 05:56.000 The next morning when I walked into my office, Petey, my secretary, was wearing the smug smile of a girl who had caught her older sister 05:56.000 --> 05:59.000 with a boy on the back porch hammock. 05:59.000 --> 06:00.000 Seen it yet, boss? 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 The Gimbal ads? How were they? 06:02.000 --> 06:05.000 Da da da da da. I can wait. 06:05.000 --> 06:07.000 All right. Seen what? 06:07.000 --> 06:09.000 The picture of you and Roy Mason. 06:09.000 --> 06:12.000 Mason? I hardly spoke a word to the man. 06:12.000 --> 06:16.000 They told me to look at him as if he'd just found a cure for the common cold. 06:16.000 --> 06:21.000 Hardly a word, huh? How'd you converse at the Stork Club? Smoke signals with your cigarettes? 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 Petey, you're very close to being fired. 06:23.000 --> 06:26.000 Let me read what some of the columnists say. 06:26.000 --> 06:32.000 The most handsome twosome in town last night were Ruth Franklin, the best dressed huckster, and Roy Mason, who... 06:32.000 --> 06:35.000 Petey, what do you know about him? 06:35.000 --> 06:40.000 I'll save you the embarrassment of asking me to get a file on him. I've already done it. 06:40.000 --> 06:47.000 Here you are, boss. The life and loves of Roy Mason, assembled by Pete Wright, girl Boswell. 06:47.000 --> 06:48.000 All right, tell it. 06:48.000 --> 06:53.000 He was a war correspondent, distinguished. He's written two books on world politics, 06:53.000 --> 06:56.000 The Long Road of Destruction and the Coming Asiatic War. 06:56.000 --> 06:59.000 I've ordered both of them so you can talk his language. 06:59.000 --> 07:04.000 He has a weekly column and a weekly radio program. Yale, 38, Unmarried. 07:04.000 --> 07:06.000 Just call me quick. 07:06.000 --> 07:08.000 Thank you and goodbye. 07:08.000 --> 07:12.000 I'll just leave these things here so you can drool over them. Have fun. 07:12.000 --> 07:13.000 Petey. 07:13.000 --> 07:15.000 Yes, boss mad? 07:15.000 --> 07:20.000 You've had your fun. Now hands off. I'm going to marry him. 07:26.000 --> 07:29.000 I read those clippings through from beginning to end. 07:29.000 --> 07:33.000 And when I went home that night, I took both of Roy Mason's books with me. 07:33.000 --> 07:36.000 And the following night he called me. 07:36.000 --> 07:38.000 And then it was practically every evening. 07:38.000 --> 07:44.000 And cocktails and weekends and meals and fireplaces and books and talk and talk. 07:44.000 --> 07:50.000 I knew and I let the papers know that Ruth Franklin finally found a man 07:50.000 --> 07:52.000 who came up to her epic requirements. 07:52.000 --> 07:56.000 I had him hooked. Now it was time to reel him in. 07:58.000 --> 08:01.000 Roy, I have some news I know you'll be interested in. 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 Are you going to run for president? 08:03.000 --> 08:05.000 Oh no, nothing as small as that. 08:05.000 --> 08:07.000 I'm going to get married. 08:08.000 --> 08:10.000 You're going to get what? 08:10.000 --> 08:12.000 Married. 08:12.000 --> 08:15.000 Oh? To whom? 08:15.000 --> 08:19.000 A man named Roy Mason. I just decided. 08:19.000 --> 08:24.000 Ruth, I'm sorry. I can't. 08:25.000 --> 08:27.000 I'm already engaged. 08:27.000 --> 08:28.000 Who is it, Roy? 08:28.000 --> 08:32.000 A Long Island socialite, Elizabeth Granger. 08:32.000 --> 08:33.000 You know her? 08:33.000 --> 08:35.000 No, and I don't believe I'd want to. 08:35.000 --> 08:38.000 Oh Ruth, did you think we were going to be married? 08:38.000 --> 08:41.000 Of course I did. And so did every newspaper and columnist in town. 08:41.000 --> 08:43.000 I never pay any attention to the gossip columnists. 08:43.000 --> 08:45.000 Well a lot of people do. 08:45.000 --> 08:49.000 Oh Ruthie, now don't take it like this. You must have known I had a life before I met you. 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 I should have known a lot more, I guess, than I do. 08:51.000 --> 08:53.000 Ruth, don't lose your head over this. 08:53.000 --> 08:55.000 What do you expect me to do? 08:55.000 --> 08:58.000 Break down and beg you to change your mind and marry me? 08:58.000 --> 09:11.000 I'm sorry, Roy. I'll go home and read an old coward play and get over it. 09:11.000 --> 09:13.000 So that's the way it was. 09:13.000 --> 09:16.000 I'd saved myself for the one man who had what I had. 09:16.000 --> 09:19.000 Brains and guts and talent. 09:19.000 --> 09:23.000 And I suddenly found out I'd saved myself for what I couldn't have. 09:23.000 --> 09:29.000 I went home, threw his books in the fireplace, and sat down to have a long look at me. 09:29.000 --> 09:33.000 And all I found was a big ugly hurt. 09:33.000 --> 09:37.000 Then it was light and time to go to the office. 09:37.000 --> 09:40.000 Petey, what are you doing at my desk? 09:40.000 --> 09:45.000 Hello, boss. I really didn't think you'd be in today, considering everything. 09:45.000 --> 09:47.000 Why shouldn't I be in? 09:47.000 --> 09:52.000 One of the best dressed women in America doesn't find out that her boyfriend is a wolf in best dressed clothes every day. 09:52.000 --> 09:55.000 That's enough, Petey. Get out of here and get to work. 09:55.000 --> 09:58.000 All right, boss. But it's happened to all of us one time or another. 09:58.000 --> 10:02.000 You should have practiced when you were young, then you'd know more about what happened to you. 10:02.000 --> 10:06.000 Listen, you brainless little typist, get out of here. Go on, get out. 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 Okay, I'm going. 10:08.000 --> 10:16.000 But I know a good psychiatrist. He has a couch just made for people like you. 10:16.000 --> 10:25.000 You know, I could quit, too. 10:25.000 --> 10:27.000 The whole office knew about it. 10:27.000 --> 10:31.000 It pleased their tight little minds that I'd been caught off guard. 10:31.000 --> 10:39.000 Most everyone, including our three vice presidents, found some sort of excuse to come in and see the woman who'd been taken and loved. 10:39.000 --> 10:43.000 They were disappointed when they didn't find me planning a sudden trip to London 10:43.000 --> 10:47.000 or enrolling in Helena Rubenstein's Charm School. 10:47.000 --> 10:51.000 But the lower echelon was even worse, especially the stenographers. 10:51.000 --> 10:59.000 They handed me those grief sharing eyes, usually reserved for 16 year old girls who'd been jilted by the high school fullback. 10:59.000 --> 11:08.000 But by five o'clock, I swallowed two aspirin and my pride and called Roy. 11:08.000 --> 11:11.000 You've had three cigarettes and two martinis. 11:11.000 --> 11:14.000 Any conversation coming up? 11:14.000 --> 11:16.000 What is it, Rose? 11:16.000 --> 11:21.000 Newsprint, for one thing. Those nasty little black tracks on those clean sheets of white paper. 11:21.000 --> 11:24.000 They came right out and said you jilted me. 11:24.000 --> 11:27.000 The same way they came out and said we were a torrid twosome. 11:27.000 --> 11:32.000 Oh, yeah. It's my fault. I'll phone them tomorrow and tell them how wrong they've been. 11:32.000 --> 11:35.000 You will not. It'd only make me look a bigger fool. 11:35.000 --> 11:38.000 Besides, they aren't the only ones. 11:38.000 --> 11:43.000 Oh, for heaven's sakes, Roy, ask that strange looking little man to fill my glass. It's empty. 11:43.000 --> 11:44.000 Sure. Waiter? 11:44.000 --> 11:48.000 I haven't seen one person today who isn't in high glee over the whole thing. 11:48.000 --> 11:52.000 And incidentally, you look a little too smug to suit my taste right now. 11:52.000 --> 11:55.000 Ruthie, don't. Don't do this to yourself. You're too good a guy. 11:55.000 --> 11:59.000 It's easy for you to say. I wish I were in your position and you were in mine. 11:59.000 --> 12:00.000 Oh, Ruth. 12:00.000 --> 12:02.000 Oh, don't you look at me that way. 12:02.000 --> 12:07.000 I'm... I'm truly sorry it's embarrassed you. You're distressed now, but it'll pass. 12:07.000 --> 12:10.000 How can you marry someone like her? You'll be bored to death in six weeks. 12:10.000 --> 12:11.000 Let's not talk about her. 12:11.000 --> 12:16.000 What's she ever done to deserve you? Gone to a few parties? Made a trip to Europe every year? 12:16.000 --> 12:20.000 Learned how to play six-hand canasta? Or maybe it's her figure, Roy. 12:20.000 --> 12:21.000 Ruth. 12:21.000 --> 12:26.000 If it's her figure, remember, somebody pounds it back into shape every morning after those big nights. 12:26.000 --> 12:29.000 And if it weren't for several dozen foundation garments... 12:29.000 --> 12:30.000 Oh, stop it, Ruth. 12:30.000 --> 12:35.000 You've made a fool out of me for some grown-up child who probably never did anything for herself. 12:35.000 --> 12:37.000 Well, servants paid the lip for her. 12:37.000 --> 12:39.000 Ruth, please. You're raising your voice. People are looking. 12:39.000 --> 12:43.000 Let them look. A scene in a cocktail lounge makes good reading. 12:43.000 --> 12:45.000 And we always make the papers, don't we? 12:45.000 --> 12:47.000 Oh, voice. Will you keep your voice down? 12:47.000 --> 12:51.000 Why don't you go back to Asia or someplace and write another book? 12:51.000 --> 12:53.000 I hope I never see you again. 12:53.000 --> 12:55.000 Ruth. Ruth! 12:55.000 --> 12:58.000 Roy looked foolish shouting after me. 12:58.000 --> 13:03.000 I looked even more foolish trying to make a dignified exit through the tears. 13:03.000 --> 13:06.000 Oh, leave it to me. I did a good job. 13:06.000 --> 13:11.000 I went off stage like a second lead in a little theater production. 13:11.000 --> 13:13.000 The next day, I didn't go to the office. 13:13.000 --> 13:17.000 I felt weak and weary and sick all over. 13:17.000 --> 13:19.000 And I didn't answer any of the questions. 13:19.000 --> 13:21.000 I was just a little girl. 13:21.000 --> 13:25.000 I was feeling weary and sick all over. 13:25.000 --> 13:29.000 And I didn't answer the phone until 3 in the afternoon. 13:29.000 --> 13:30.000 Hello? 13:30.000 --> 13:31.000 Me. 13:31.000 --> 13:33.000 Oh. 13:33.000 --> 13:35.000 I've been trying to get you all day. 13:35.000 --> 13:36.000 What for? 13:36.000 --> 13:39.000 To tell you that we're friends, you and I. 13:39.000 --> 13:44.000 I hate like the devil to think that you really meant it when you said you never wanted to see me again. 13:44.000 --> 13:48.000 I sent you a letter last night, but I'd rather tell you what I said in person. 13:48.000 --> 13:51.000 Oh, look, Roy. 13:51.000 --> 13:54.000 A man rarely meets a woman like you. I was lucky. 13:54.000 --> 13:56.000 Real lucky. 13:56.000 --> 14:01.000 Ruth, you can send me away altogether if you want to, but I'd miss you for the rest of my life, and that's the truth. 14:01.000 --> 14:03.000 But you're going to marry her. 14:03.000 --> 14:10.000 Ruth, I want to talk with you calmly, decently, honestly. I want you for a friend. 14:10.000 --> 14:14.000 I'm mixing a couple of drinks in my apartment around 5 tonight. 14:14.000 --> 14:18.000 I hope you'll be there. 14:25.000 --> 14:32.000 All of a sudden, I saw a way out of everything, and I spent the next two hours getting ready for Roy. 14:32.000 --> 14:38.000 I remember I was wearing a new black crepe sheath by Dior and my pastel mink. 14:38.000 --> 14:44.000 It was a cold night, but the air made me feel good, better than I've ever felt. 14:44.000 --> 14:47.000 I was politely late. 14:50.000 --> 14:53.000 You came. Let me take your coat, huh? 14:53.000 --> 14:55.000 It's a little chilly. I think I'll keep it on. 14:55.000 --> 14:58.000 Martini? Manhattan? 14:58.000 --> 15:01.000 Music, I think. 15:01.000 --> 15:03.000 Now a martini. 15:03.000 --> 15:08.000 I already had them fixed. I knew you wouldn't pass up a Mason special. 15:08.000 --> 15:12.000 You were rather certain in your pretty speech on the phone, weren't you? 15:12.000 --> 15:14.000 I meant it. 15:14.000 --> 15:21.000 And I am glad you're here, Ruth. All of that highly lacquered veneer, you're sure your public is all right for them, but as for me, I'll take you the way I know you. 15:21.000 --> 15:24.000 Oh? Tell me more. 15:24.000 --> 15:30.000 Underneath $40,000 a year and being the best dressed, you're quite a gal. 15:30.000 --> 15:32.000 One look told me that. 15:32.000 --> 15:34.000 This amounts to a hats off conversation. 15:34.000 --> 15:38.000 Now, Ruth, we're ready to talk you and I. Let's do it, huh? 15:38.000 --> 15:41.000 For the first time since we met, I know all about you. I know what makes you work. 15:41.000 --> 15:46.000 And I don't like that one bit, Roy. I don't like being ripped open for the public to watch. 15:46.000 --> 15:47.000 You don't understand. 15:47.000 --> 15:49.000 Don't touch me. 15:49.000 --> 15:50.000 Ruth. 15:50.000 --> 15:51.000 Yes, it's a gun, Roy. 15:51.000 --> 15:54.000 Now, for heaven's sake, Ruth. 15:54.000 --> 15:57.000 Ruth, stop this. 15:57.000 --> 16:02.000 You got it all wrong. Put down that gun. 16:02.000 --> 16:04.000 Get a doctor. 16:04.000 --> 16:06.000 We'll say it was an accident. 16:06.000 --> 16:07.000 Stay away from me. 16:07.000 --> 16:09.000 Phone a doctor. 16:09.000 --> 16:11.000 No. 16:11.000 --> 16:14.000 No, it wasn't supposed to be this way at all. 16:19.000 --> 16:22.000 I wrote you. 16:22.000 --> 16:27.000 I stood there looking down at him. 16:27.000 --> 16:32.000 He tried to talk again, but he couldn't say a word. 16:32.000 --> 16:36.000 And then, all of a sudden, he was dead. 16:36.000 --> 16:42.000 He was dead. 16:48.000 --> 16:52.000 Auto Light is bringing you Miss Eve Arden in the well-dressed corpse. 16:52.000 --> 17:06.000 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 17:06.000 --> 17:08.000 Check your spark plugs, Mr. Wilcox? 17:08.000 --> 17:13.000 You sure can, Sam, because it pays to have spark plugs checked and cleaned regularly. 17:13.000 --> 17:14.000 Helps keep a car running right. 17:14.000 --> 17:16.000 Sure does, Mr. Wilcox. 17:16.000 --> 17:20.000 And it only takes a couple of minutes for an auto light spark plug dealer like myself. 17:20.000 --> 17:25.000 Why, when worn out spark plugs are replaced with new ignition engineered auto light spark plugs, 17:25.000 --> 17:30.000 you'll get away in a flash for a ride that's smoother than a gigolo's line. 17:30.000 --> 17:33.000 Because you'll get smoother performance, quick starts, and gas savings. 17:33.000 --> 17:34.000 He's off again? 17:34.000 --> 17:39.000 Ignition engineered auto light spark plugs, you know, are installed right on the assembly line 17:39.000 --> 17:44.000 as original factory equipment on millions of leading makes of our finest cars and trucks. 17:44.000 --> 17:48.000 Money just can't buy better spark plugs for your car than auto light. 17:48.000 --> 17:50.000 You're right, Mr. Wilcox. 17:50.000 --> 17:53.000 So friends, see your neighborhood auto light spark plug dealer soon. 17:53.000 --> 17:59.000 And have him replace worn out spark plugs with world famous ignition engineered auto light spark plugs. 17:59.000 --> 18:04.000 And whether you choose the resistor type or the standard type, you can be sure you're right. 18:04.000 --> 18:08.000 Because you're always right with auto light. 18:08.000 --> 18:13.000 And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, Miss Eve Arden. 18:13.000 --> 18:17.000 In Elliot Lewis's production of the well-dressed corpse. 18:17.000 --> 18:22.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 18:32.000 --> 18:38.000 It hadn't occurred to me exactly what I was going to do after I had killed Roy Mason. 18:38.000 --> 18:43.000 I remember though I finished my martini, wiped up the spilled drink, 18:43.000 --> 18:48.000 and then just sat and looked at Roy lying there on the floor. 18:48.000 --> 18:50.000 Hello, is anyone here? 18:50.000 --> 18:52.000 And then I was aware of someone pounding. 18:52.000 --> 18:54.000 Hello in there, what happened? 18:54.000 --> 18:58.000 Hello, answer me somebody. 18:58.000 --> 19:01.000 Hello, is everything alright in there? 19:01.000 --> 19:07.000 Oh, hello miss, I live in the apartment next door and I thought I heard gunshots in here. 19:07.000 --> 19:08.000 You did? 19:08.000 --> 19:10.000 What? 19:10.000 --> 19:12.000 Over there. 19:12.000 --> 19:17.000 Oh, well I better phone the police. 19:17.000 --> 19:19.000 Is there a phone? 19:19.000 --> 19:21.000 On the desk. 19:21.000 --> 19:27.000 Hello, operator, get me the police. 19:27.000 --> 19:29.000 Yes, I said the police. 19:29.000 --> 19:32.000 Right away, there's been a shooting. 19:38.000 --> 19:41.000 No one lifted a hand to stop me. 19:41.000 --> 19:47.000 Downstairs I got a taxi back to my own apartment, changed, threw some things into a bag, 19:47.000 --> 19:50.000 gathered up my jewelry and what money I had. 19:50.000 --> 19:56.000 I took my car out of the garage and drove to the station and caught a train as far as Greenwich. 19:56.000 --> 20:00.000 There I registered under another name at a small hotel. 20:00.000 --> 20:03.000 I was going to go on up to Canada the next day, 20:03.000 --> 20:07.000 but there was something I just had to see before I left the country. 20:07.000 --> 20:11.000 So instead I caught a train back to New York. 20:17.000 --> 20:19.000 Sergeant Collins, homicide. 20:19.000 --> 20:22.000 Sergeant, I wonder if you could give me some information. 20:22.000 --> 20:23.000 I'll try miss. 20:23.000 --> 20:25.000 I'm from the Kansas City Star. 20:25.000 --> 20:30.000 I happen to be on vacation in New York, but as long as I'm here I'm trying to cover the Mason case. 20:30.000 --> 20:31.000 Yeah, well. 20:31.000 --> 20:35.000 Has Mr. Mason been buried yet or do you... 20:35.000 --> 20:39.000 I'll call the morgue mortuary. Rosary tonight. Burial tomorrow. 20:39.000 --> 20:41.000 Thank you, Sergeant. 20:45.000 --> 20:49.000 I was at the Edge Flower early, waiting across the street. 20:49.000 --> 20:54.000 It was cold and blustery, but I wanted to see her walk in. 20:54.000 --> 20:57.000 I wanted to see how well she could take it. 20:57.000 --> 21:02.000 But Elizabeth Granger didn't appear at his rosary. 21:02.000 --> 21:05.000 The next morning I wore dark glasses and a veil. 21:05.000 --> 21:09.000 I went to his funeral, but she didn't. 21:19.000 --> 21:21.000 Hello, Petey. I've been waiting for you. 21:21.000 --> 21:22.000 Boss. 21:22.000 --> 21:25.000 Don't you know the police are looking all over town for you? 21:25.000 --> 21:29.000 Petey, who is Elizabeth Granger? Where does she live? 21:29.000 --> 21:30.000 Oh, that. 21:30.000 --> 21:33.000 She isn't in the phone book. She wasn't at his funeral. 21:33.000 --> 21:35.000 There are no pictures of her in the papers. 21:35.000 --> 21:38.000 You know these things. Tell me, please. 21:38.000 --> 21:43.000 I can't help you. Nobody can help you now. 21:43.000 --> 21:45.000 You're a walking dead woman. 21:45.000 --> 21:46.000 Petey, listen to me. 21:46.000 --> 21:48.000 I don't want to listen to you. I'm afraid to. 21:48.000 --> 21:50.000 I'm afraid I'll end up like you someday. 21:50.000 --> 21:55.000 Well-fed, well-dressed, successful, well-known, but dead. 21:55.000 --> 21:58.000 I came here for help, not to listen to your opinions. 21:58.000 --> 22:00.000 Everything you ever said in your life was a lie. 22:00.000 --> 22:04.000 I did your legwork, looked up things for you, verified them, checked them. 22:04.000 --> 22:07.000 Well, I checked about you just to satisfy my curiosity. 22:07.000 --> 22:10.000 You didn't go to Stanford or graduate school at Columbia. 22:10.000 --> 22:12.000 You were born and brought up in Hell's Kitchen. 22:12.000 --> 22:15.000 You went as far as P.S. 432. 22:15.000 --> 22:18.000 You hated everything you had and were, and you tried to wipe it out. 22:18.000 --> 22:21.000 Petey, you must know. Tell me about Elizabeth Granger. 22:21.000 --> 22:24.000 I'll tell you this much. 22:24.000 --> 22:28.000 You're not going to have the pleasure of watching her suffer along with you. 22:28.000 --> 22:30.000 You know why? 22:30.000 --> 22:34.000 Because Roy Mason wrote you a letter that came this morning. 22:34.000 --> 22:38.000 I read it because I never thought I'd see you again. 22:38.000 --> 22:40.000 Do you want to know what's in it? 22:40.000 --> 22:42.000 Yes, please. 22:42.000 --> 22:47.000 It makes you look ten times as foolish as you do even now. 22:47.000 --> 22:52.000 He said that there was no such person as Elizabeth Granger. 22:52.000 --> 22:53.000 You're lying. 22:53.000 --> 22:55.000 He just invented her. 22:55.000 --> 22:57.000 Just invented her to get away from you. 22:57.000 --> 23:00.000 You're lying. There has to be an Elizabeth Granger. 23:00.000 --> 23:03.000 Here's the letter. Look for yourself. 23:09.000 --> 23:12.000 It was true. Every word of it. 23:12.000 --> 23:15.000 There was no Elizabeth Granger. 23:15.000 --> 23:20.000 Roy just didn't want me and had to find some excuse. 23:20.000 --> 23:25.000 I walked to the door wondering what to do, where to go. 23:25.000 --> 23:28.000 One more thing, boss. 23:28.000 --> 23:32.000 Ten seconds after you're out that door, I'm going to call the police. 23:36.000 --> 23:38.000 I didn't answer or look back. 23:38.000 --> 23:41.000 I just ran out of the apartment house and found a cab 23:41.000 --> 23:47.000 and had him drive me around and around, through streets and down streets and across streets. 23:47.000 --> 23:51.000 I scarcely even saw policemen or people. 23:51.000 --> 23:57.000 Finally I left the cab and began walking around, trying to understand myself 23:57.000 --> 24:00.000 and why I'd killed Roy. 24:00.000 --> 24:04.000 And everything that came out of my mind revolted me. 24:04.000 --> 24:07.000 I wanted to drink. A dozen drinks, a hundred drinks. 24:07.000 --> 24:09.000 You sure you're in the right place, lady? 24:09.000 --> 24:13.000 Just give me a double bourbon, scotch, triple, I don't care. 24:13.000 --> 24:15.000 Well, you're old enough. 24:15.000 --> 24:18.000 Hurry it up, here's my money. 24:18.000 --> 24:21.000 Hey, Eddie, get a load of the dough. 24:21.000 --> 24:25.000 How about with any dame dressed like that come into a place like this? 24:25.000 --> 24:28.000 Slammin'. What are you, stupid or something? 24:28.000 --> 24:31.000 I like to come down where life is rough, where men are men. 24:31.000 --> 24:34.000 I seen lots of them in my day, looking for thrills. 24:34.000 --> 24:35.000 Yeah? 24:35.000 --> 24:38.000 Yeah. What do you think she came in here for? 24:38.000 --> 24:40.000 Thought it was the White House or something? 24:40.000 --> 24:42.000 Oh, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. 24:42.000 --> 24:45.000 We ought to handle a doll like that. 24:47.000 --> 24:49.000 Buy your drink, ma'am. 24:49.000 --> 24:52.000 Huh? No, get away from me. 24:52.000 --> 24:54.000 Oh, now you don't really mean that. 24:54.000 --> 24:57.000 Tony, the drink's on me. 24:57.000 --> 25:01.000 Why don't we have it in the booth over here? We can talk, huh? 25:01.000 --> 25:03.000 Get away from me! Who do you think you are? 25:03.000 --> 25:05.000 All right, Eddie, no sale. 25:05.000 --> 25:07.000 Who does she think she is, anyway? 25:07.000 --> 25:09.000 She's got no right in here unless she wants to be sociable. 25:09.000 --> 25:11.000 She's a bum and you know it, Tony. 25:11.000 --> 25:13.000 She's a lady, not go for a walk. 25:13.000 --> 25:15.000 Lady? Since when have we had ladies in here? 25:15.000 --> 25:17.000 Give me the drink, bartender. 25:17.000 --> 25:18.000 Hey, wait a minute. 25:18.000 --> 25:20.000 You cheap little bum. 25:20.000 --> 25:22.000 Hey, Eddie, that dame, her picture was in the paper this morning. 25:22.000 --> 25:24.000 She killed somebody. 25:29.000 --> 25:31.000 I ran out of there. 25:31.000 --> 25:35.000 It was only a matter of seconds until they called the police, so I just ran. 25:35.000 --> 25:38.000 I saw a police car and I ran the other way. 25:38.000 --> 25:41.000 Two blocks away, there was another police car at the intersection. 25:41.000 --> 25:47.000 I found an alley and ran down and fell a full-on over a garbage can 25:47.000 --> 25:50.000 into the dirty, foul snow. 25:50.000 --> 25:54.000 I couldn't get up and I cried cold tears. 25:56.000 --> 25:58.000 Come on, dearie, come on. 25:58.000 --> 25:59.000 What are you doing? 25:59.000 --> 26:01.000 You won't need this coat where you're going. 26:01.000 --> 26:02.000 Leave my coat alone. 26:02.000 --> 26:04.000 That's all right, dearie, that's all right. 26:04.000 --> 26:05.000 Come on, the dress now. 26:05.000 --> 26:06.000 My dress! 26:06.000 --> 26:07.000 Ruby, help me get it off. 26:07.000 --> 26:09.000 You can't take my dress, only! 26:09.000 --> 26:13.000 I can use a fancy dress like that and you can't wear it in jail. 26:13.000 --> 26:15.000 I'll tear it off you if I have to. 26:15.000 --> 26:18.000 No, please, you can't! 26:18.000 --> 26:19.000 All right, here we are. 26:19.000 --> 26:22.000 Cops, grab her shoes, Ruby, and let's go. 26:22.000 --> 26:24.000 My dress, they took my dress. 26:24.000 --> 26:26.000 OK, get ready now, sweetie. 26:26.000 --> 26:28.000 You let them do it. 26:28.000 --> 26:29.000 Why did you let them do it? 26:29.000 --> 26:30.000 We'll get them. 26:30.000 --> 26:33.000 Now, come on, lift up your head. 26:33.000 --> 26:34.000 I got to see. 26:34.000 --> 26:36.000 Oh, don't hurt me, please. 26:36.000 --> 26:38.000 I'm somebody. 26:38.000 --> 26:40.000 Oh, yeah. 26:40.000 --> 26:42.000 Yeah, that's what I thought. 26:42.000 --> 26:44.000 Ruth Franklin. 26:44.000 --> 26:46.000 I'm somebody! 26:46.000 --> 27:13.000 Suspense presented by Autolite, tonight's star, Miss Eve Arden. 27:13.000 --> 27:16.000 Hey, Sam, de-dust my windshield, will you? 27:16.000 --> 27:18.000 I can write my name on it. 27:18.000 --> 27:20.000 You can write, too, Mr. Wilcox? 27:20.000 --> 27:21.000 Can I write? 27:21.000 --> 27:26.000 Why, I blister blackboards writing about the over 400 products made by Autolite for cars, 27:26.000 --> 27:30.000 trucks, planes, and boats in 28 plants from coast to coast. 27:30.000 --> 27:35.000 These include complete ignition systems used as original factory equipment on many leading 27:35.000 --> 27:41.080 makes of America's finest cars, generators, coils, and 27:41.080 --> 27:46.080 distributors, electric windshield wipers, voltage regulators, wire and cable, starting 27:46.080 --> 27:51.080 motors, all engineered to fit together perfectly, work together perfectly, because they're part 27:51.080 --> 27:53.080 of the Autolite team. 27:53.080 --> 27:57.080 So, friends, don't accept electrical parts supposed to be as good. 27:57.080 --> 28:02.080 Ask for and insist on original factory parts at your neighborhood service station, car 28:02.080 --> 28:04.080 dealer, garage, or repair shop. 28:04.080 --> 28:09.080 And because all Autolite parts are original factory parts, you can get them from the Autolite 28:09.080 --> 28:14.080 team. 28:14.080 --> 28:19.080 Next week on Suspense, the appearance of the distinguished star of the New York stage in 28:19.080 --> 28:24.080 the Metropolitan Opera, Mr. Ezio Pinza in Aria from Murder. 28:24.080 --> 28:28.080 In the weeks to follow, we will present such famous stars as Paul Douglas. 28:28.080 --> 28:33.080 Then, in one of his infrequent radio appearances, Fred McMurray, to be followed by the First 28:33.080 --> 28:36.080 Lady of Suspense, Miss Agnes Morehead. 28:36.080 --> 28:43.080 All appearing in tales well calculated to keep you in Suspense. 28:43.080 --> 28:48.080 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music composed by Lucien Morrowek 28:48.080 --> 28:50.080 and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 28:50.080 --> 28:56.080 The well-dressed corpse was written for Suspense by E. 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