1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,280 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Miss Agnes Moorhead in tonight's presentation 2 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:14,400 of Suspense. 3 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:25,540 Tonight, Auto Light salutes the American Automobile Association and its traffic safety program 4 00:00:25,540 --> 00:00:32,840 as we present a dramatic report called, The Empty Chair, our star, the first lady of Suspense, 5 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:40,400 Miss Agnes Moorhead. 6 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:44,360 This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for the worldwide Auto Light family. 7 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:51,960 Since 1922, the American Automobile Association, with the cooperation of 276 affiliated clubs, 8 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:57,960 has been active in helping schools develop educational programs designed to protect children 9 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:04,520 on their way to and from school, and to make them careful drivers upon graduation. 10 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:07,880 Traffic safety is, as you know, everyone's business. 11 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:13,880 So our story tonight will dramatize how we all can help ourselves and our children by 12 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:19,640 driving carefully and by cooperating with traffic safety instructions. 13 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:24,380 Here in the program, we will hear from Mr. Royce G. Martin, chairman of the board and 14 00:01:24,380 --> 00:01:29,400 president of the Electric Auto Light Company, and Mr. Ralph Thomas, president of the American 15 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,320 Automobile Association. 16 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:39,080 And now, Auto Light presents transcribed, The Empty Chair, starring Miss Agnes Moorhead, 17 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:45,200 hoping once again to keep you in suspense. 18 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:55,200 Now, are we all settled down? 19 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,120 That's good. 20 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:00,500 Miss Barbara Warner. 21 00:02:00,500 --> 00:02:04,520 You may call me Miss Barbara or Miss Warner, either one, which gives you young ladies and 22 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:08,080 gentlemen at least two choices when you wish to attract my attention, so that there'll 23 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:11,320 be no need to yell out, hey, teacher. 24 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:20,320 Besides, 10B3, 10B3, and your homeroom, high school at last. 25 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:22,640 And today's the first day. 26 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:26,100 Young ladies and gentlemen, truly, and today's the day it really starts. 27 00:02:26,100 --> 00:02:28,800 So now let's get to know each other, shall we? 28 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:31,720 All of you will get up and go to the back of the room, please. 29 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:34,440 I have your study cards here, and I've arranged them alphabetically. 30 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:38,440 We'll start with the first row and the first seat, and as I call your names, you'll be 31 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:39,440 seated. 32 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:45,680 Sidney Aronson, Mary Avanti, right in back of Sidney. 33 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:47,400 Yes, that's right. 34 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:51,240 David Coop, George Darley. 35 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:52,240 Just a minute, George. 36 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:56,480 Leave an empty seat, Jessica Bromley, and then skip one, and then you, George. 37 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:58,360 An empty seat for David Cooper. 38 00:02:58,360 --> 00:02:59,360 For now. 39 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:16,480 How'd you like that, Miss Warner? 40 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:17,480 Bobby. 41 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:18,480 What? 42 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:19,480 Nothing. 43 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:20,480 I didn't say anything. 44 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:25,480 Don't worry about a thing, Miss Warner. 45 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:29,680 Home. 46 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:30,680 And how'd you like your ride? 47 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:32,640 Well, I'm glad it's over. 48 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:35,080 And I was just getting a compliment ready for you. 49 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:36,080 Oh, you were? 50 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,240 I've never had a teacher in my car before. 51 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:39,240 And? 52 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,880 I wanted to see how one of them would react to going 65 miles an hour. 53 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:46,420 Nearly 70, Bobby, and in a residential section, too. 54 00:03:46,420 --> 00:03:48,880 Just for the last six blocks, Miss Warner. 55 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:53,120 I was going to say how I was surprised you didn't scream at me or get hysterical. 56 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:56,720 I was going to say I'm glad, since you're that kind of person, I'm glad you're going 57 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:58,080 to board with my mother and me. 58 00:03:58,080 --> 00:03:59,520 Now you're sorry about the whole thing. 59 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:00,520 Oh, no, no. 60 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:02,120 I didn't mean that. 61 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:03,520 I'm a good driver, Miss Warner. 62 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:04,960 Yes, I'm sure you are. 63 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:05,960 And this is a good car. 64 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:06,960 Yes, it's beautiful. 65 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:07,960 You mean it? 66 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:10,960 Yes, of course I do, Bobby. 67 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:16,280 But what about school, the traffic classes, and the sessions on safety? 68 00:04:16,280 --> 00:04:17,280 What about them? 69 00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:18,800 Well, didn't they impress you? 70 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,680 Most of the boys and girls learn to drive through school classes, didn't you? 71 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:23,800 Yes, ma'am. 72 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:28,320 And reaction times, you were taught about those and how no one's reaction time is really 73 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:32,200 fast enough to cope with an emergency at high speed. 74 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:36,640 You drive as if you'd forgot all about that as soon as you walked out of class. 75 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:37,640 And you sound like a- 76 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:38,640 Bobby! 77 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:39,640 Miss Warner! 78 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:40,640 That's my mother. 79 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:42,640 Well, what are you two out here for? 80 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:43,640 Come on in. 81 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:44,640 I've got tea made. 82 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:47,200 Oh, I'm so glad you're here, Miss Warner. 83 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:52,200 I wasn't sure when you'd arrive. 84 00:04:52,200 --> 00:05:01,760 Mrs. Morrison, mother of Bobby, a woman in her forties perhaps or younger, in a plain 85 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:06,040 cotton house dress that hung loosely about her and her hands were almost delicate and 86 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,920 quite thin and worn. 87 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:13,280 And her fingers quickly and nervously pushed strands of graying hair tied against her temples 88 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:18,120 and on her face the trace and not yet deep of lines of strain. 89 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,280 Don't let Miss Warner carry her bag herself, Bobby. 90 00:05:20,280 --> 00:05:21,280 You take it. 91 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:24,280 Take it to her room. 92 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:25,600 Bobby! 93 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:30,840 And then her touch on my arm and Mrs. Morrison led me into her house, into her home and showed 94 00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:35,680 me the living room, neat, sparingly furnished and said that I was welcome to use it any 95 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:39,120 evening for my guests if I just let her know beforehand. 96 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:43,520 She would arrange to go to a movie or call on a neighbor, just let her know beforehand. 97 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:47,120 And the kitchen and where she kept the toaster and the coffee canister and the sugar and 98 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:51,400 the other things I'd need for breakfast or a snack whenever I pleased. 99 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,040 She didn't mind a bit. 100 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:54,040 And then my room. 101 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:59,280 I, uh, I had Bobby fix up the little radio on your bed table. 102 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:01,000 I thought it might be nice. 103 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,720 A pleasant room. 104 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,320 A summer blanket neatly folded at the foot of the bed. 105 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,840 A window open to a small wire fence vegetable garden. 106 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:14,800 A desk, a chair, a pleasant room. 107 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,880 Unpacked now and change and lie down and rest. 108 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,600 Listen to the radio. 109 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:22,600 And doze. 110 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:23,600 Lay off me, Ma. 111 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:24,600 Leave me alone. 112 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:25,600 Just lay off me. 113 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:26,600 Do you hear me? 114 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:31,000 And wake in then to summer evening and do something more harsh. 115 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,000 I'm fed up, Ma. 116 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Fed up. 117 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Do I reach your mind? 118 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:35,000 Is it getting through to you? 119 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,000 Listen to me, Bobby. 120 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,000 I've had it listening to you, Ma. 121 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Bobby, she'll hear you. 122 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Miss Warner will hear you. 123 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Let her hear! 124 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:41,000 You hear me, Miss Warner? 125 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:42,000 You're listening real good? 126 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,000 Hey, Warner, wake up! 127 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Hit the deck! 128 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Wake up and get an earful! 129 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,000 All right. 130 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,000 We'll do that, Bobby. 131 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:58,000 We'll let Miss Warner listen so you won't have to yell at her. 132 00:06:58,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Miss Warner? 133 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Miss Warner? 134 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Yes? 135 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:02,000 Would you come out, please? 136 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:03,000 I want you to... 137 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,000 Would you please? 138 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Yes, Mrs. Martin. 139 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Good evening, Bobby. 140 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:20,600 Can you flip or something, Ma? 141 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:24,920 My son was yelling and screaming at his mother and then at you. 142 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,360 And he said he didn't care if you heard. 143 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:29,360 Go on, Bobby. 144 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,800 Tell me and tell Miss Warner how fed up you are with your mother. 145 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,400 I told you and told you, Ma, just lay off me. 146 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:41,220 You've had experience, haven't you, Miss Warner, with boys like Bobby and the others he runs 147 00:07:41,220 --> 00:07:42,760 around with? 148 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:48,360 They must confide in you and tell you their things that they won't tell their mothers, 149 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:52,960 that their mothers can't possibly understand or know or share. 150 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:57,800 You're younger and more experienced and they must. 151 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,300 Bobby? 152 00:08:00,300 --> 00:08:02,760 You're getting it blow by blow, Miss Warner. 153 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:06,000 You stick with Ma and me and you'll get it every night, all night. 154 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:07,480 Where are you going tonight, Bobby? 155 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:09,120 Who will you be with tonight, Bobby? 156 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,200 Where will I find you if I need you, Bobby? 157 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,200 If you need me, Bobby? 158 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:21,000 Look, I'm 17 and there's a joint that's got a jukebox in it and girls with pockets full 159 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:22,920 of dimes and me, I got a car. 160 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,560 I got a car, hot, real hot. 161 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:28,760 Are you on the high school teacher here, Ma? 162 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:33,760 You put your heads together and maybe it'll come out mathematical where your baby boy is 163 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,160 nice. 164 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:42,600 Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Warner. 165 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:44,560 Forgive us, please. 166 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:45,560 Don't mention it. 167 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:46,560 He's... 168 00:08:46,560 --> 00:08:50,240 No, I want to tell you about my boy. 169 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,000 He's had no father since he was eight. 170 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,800 When he was 13, Bobby got some work around the garage after school. 171 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:00,600 It helped, it helped out a lot and I was glad to see it. 172 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,680 He loved working around motors and... 173 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:08,760 Well, you saw that car he built and a boy's 17 to have built such a car. 174 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:09,760 Mrs. Morrison. 175 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:10,760 Yes? 176 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,400 Has Bobby ever told you about Mr. Douglas? 177 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:14,400 I don't think so. 178 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:17,400 He's a teacher at our school, a manual arts teacher. 179 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:18,400 No. 180 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,760 He takes special interest in boys like Bobby. 181 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:25,320 He's also our driver education teacher, we call him. 182 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:30,000 He works with the boys and girls and the local automobile club helps him. 183 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,000 Sometimes I... 184 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,480 I just think my son is wild, that's all. 185 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:36,120 That's just what I'm telling you. 186 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:39,160 Mr. Douglas teaches safety and sanity in driving. 187 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:40,640 He tries to tell the young people... 188 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:41,640 Mrs. Morrison. 189 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:42,640 Hey, Mrs. Morrison. 190 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:43,640 Oh, oh, hello, David. 191 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:44,640 Come in. 192 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:49,680 Oh, David, this is Miss Warner. 193 00:09:49,680 --> 00:09:52,920 She teaches at the high school where you're going to go this year. 194 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:55,720 Miss Warner, this is David Cooper, a neighbor boy. 195 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:56,720 Hi, Miss Warner. 196 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:57,720 Hello, David. 197 00:09:57,720 --> 00:09:58,720 I'm glad to know you. 198 00:09:58,720 --> 00:09:59,720 Me too. 199 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:01,480 Where's Bobby, Mrs. Morrison? 200 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:02,480 He's not here, David. 201 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:04,200 Oh, out in the garage, huh? 202 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,080 Working on that super neat job of his, I'll bet. 203 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:07,080 I don't think so. 204 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:08,640 Well, where'd he go, Mrs. Morrison? 205 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:09,640 I don't know. 206 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:11,760 He promised me. 207 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,160 He promised me for sure this time. 208 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:15,160 Promised you what, David? 209 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:18,280 Well, he said next time he was in a race, I could ride with him. 210 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:20,480 And I know there's one tonight. 211 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:22,560 He welshes out on me. 212 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:25,520 Well, he's the best, Mrs. Morrison. 213 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:26,520 Real absolute best. 214 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:28,520 Well, he's got all those other guys... 215 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:29,520 How old are you, David? 216 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:30,520 Huh? 217 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:32,520 I ask how old you were. 218 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:33,520 Thirteen. 219 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,000 What's that got to do with it? 220 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:37,000 Bobby promised me. 221 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,040 He said I was old enough now for him to break me in. 222 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:44,680 Well, good night, Mrs. Morrison. 223 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:50,160 Miss Warner. 224 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:52,360 David's our neighbor boy. 225 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:56,480 Not many years ago, I used to babysit for his mother. 226 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:00,960 Read to him, he and Bobby. 227 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:14,960 Could I fix you something to eat, Miss Warner? 228 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,600 And here, this picture was taken at Lake Louise, too. 229 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:19,760 You can hardly tell I'm the one in the middle, can you? 230 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:21,600 The way Miss Reba and I dressed up there. 231 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:23,440 It must have been very expensive. 232 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:24,440 Oh, and restful. 233 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:28,040 I've got a lot of reading done that I've been promising myself to get... 234 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:29,680 Oh, sit still, Mrs. Morrison. 235 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:30,680 I'll get it. 236 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:31,680 Good evening. 237 00:11:31,680 --> 00:11:32,680 Good evening. 238 00:11:32,680 --> 00:11:33,680 Does this young man belong here? 239 00:11:33,680 --> 00:11:34,680 Yes, he does, officer. 240 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:35,680 Please come in. 241 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:36,680 Who is it? 242 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:37,680 Now, don't get excited, Mom. 243 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:38,680 Oh! 244 00:11:38,680 --> 00:11:39,680 I said don't get excited. 245 00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:40,680 Are you Mrs. Morrison? 246 00:11:40,680 --> 00:11:41,680 Oh, yes. 247 00:11:41,680 --> 00:11:42,680 Yes. 248 00:11:42,680 --> 00:11:43,680 I'm Officer Cleaver. 249 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:44,680 The man who was in the room. 250 00:11:44,680 --> 00:11:45,680 I'm the man who was in the room. 251 00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:46,680 I'm the man who was in the room. 252 00:11:46,680 --> 00:11:47,680 I'm the man who was in the room. 253 00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:48,680 I'm the man who was in the room. 254 00:11:48,680 --> 00:11:49,680 I'm the man who was in the room. 255 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:51,600 I'm Officer Cleaver. 256 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:55,840 The only reason your son isn't in juvenile court right now is because, as far as I know, 257 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:57,760 it's the first time he's pulled a trick like he did tonight. 258 00:11:57,760 --> 00:11:59,400 What are you talking about? 259 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:00,400 In his car. 260 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,680 Him and another one speeding down Presbury Street. 261 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:06,320 Your son headed north and the other one south, headed toward each other. 262 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,640 Front wheels on the white dividing line to see who'd give way. 263 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:11,040 Going over 70 miles an hour. 264 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:12,040 Oh, Bobby. 265 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:13,840 Who the other kid was, I don't know, ma'am. 266 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:15,560 We can only catch one of them. 267 00:12:15,560 --> 00:12:16,560 Him. 268 00:12:16,560 --> 00:12:32,920 Auto Light is bringing you Miss Agnes Moorhead in The Empty Chair, tonight's presentation 269 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:43,560 in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 270 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:50,320 We'll continue with Suspense in a moment. 271 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:54,880 Now here is Mr. Royce G. Martin, Chairman of the Board and President of the Electric 272 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:58,440 Auto Light Company, to introduce our special guest. 273 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:07,040 Tonight, the worldwide auto light family is privileged to salute the American Automobile 274 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:11,960 Association and its traffic safety program. 275 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:19,880 To tell us how this practical safety program is helping to reduce traffic accidents by 276 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:24,600 teaching future drivers how to be careful drivers. 277 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:33,560 Here is the President of the American Automobile Association, Mr. Ralph Thomas. 278 00:13:33,560 --> 00:13:34,560 Thank you, Mr. Martin. 279 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:38,840 We at the American Automobile Association are grateful for the interest shown in our 280 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:43,560 work by the auto light family, as evidenced by this program tonight. 281 00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:48,240 The problem presented in this dramatization is unfortunately a very real one and a very 282 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:49,560 common one. 283 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:54,840 However, cooperating with school and community authorities, we are engaged in stimulating 284 00:13:54,840 --> 00:14:00,600 and aiding an active educational program to teach our young drivers and pedestrians safety 285 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:01,880 first. 286 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:07,000 This year alone, 3A materials and services are being widely used in grammar and high 287 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,040 school class instruction. 288 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:12,520 Indeed, will help over 12 million students. 289 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:15,200 This of course is important to all of us. 290 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:20,240 If you have a son or a daughter in school, ask about this program and set a good example 291 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:23,760 yourself by practicing safety behind the wheel. 292 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:28,440 If you are a student, take an active part in class and when you are behind the wheel, 293 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:31,520 be the best amongst the young drivers. 294 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:34,440 Be a sportsman-like driver. 295 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:36,680 Thank you, Mr. Thomas. 296 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:47,280 And as an 8-year-old boy said when he was asked what safety meant, safety is thinking 297 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:51,280 not to get hurt or to hurt. 298 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:55,920 There is a definition we should all remember. 299 00:14:55,920 --> 00:15:02,120 And now, auto light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Miss Agnes Moorhead in Elliot 300 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:22,280 Lewis's production of The Empty Chair, a dramatic report well calculated to keep you in suspense. 301 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:26,920 Friday night in a quiet room and a window that opens onto the silences of a town already 302 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:28,240 asleep. 303 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:33,160 Friday night and an end to summer, last weekend before school's opening and the last book 304 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:36,960 you've promised yourself to read before summer's closed. 305 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:48,840 And read now to the undercurrent of voices from another room in Mrs. Morrison's home. 306 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:54,720 The night stillness and Mrs. Morrison's search through it for the words to speak to her 17-year-old 307 00:15:54,720 --> 00:16:00,160 son. 308 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:03,880 Saturday morning and Mrs. Morrison has made breakfast and over coffee. 309 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:08,240 Will you try and do something about my boy, Miss Warner? 310 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:10,820 Maybe you could do something, please. 311 00:16:10,820 --> 00:16:13,800 And dress then and go to the school. 312 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:14,800 Try to save a boy. 313 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:15,800 Doors open. 314 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:16,800 Come on in. 315 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:23,960 Oh, hello, Miss Warner. 316 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:25,560 I don't want to interrupt, Mr. Douglas. 317 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:26,560 I just... 318 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:27,560 No, you're not. 319 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:29,680 I'm just getting everything ready for when school opens Monday. 320 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:32,120 What are you doing here today? 321 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:33,280 Anxious to get back in honors? 322 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:34,280 I don't know. 323 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:36,640 I think so. 324 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:37,640 Mr. Douglas. 325 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:38,640 Yes? 326 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:40,360 Do you know a boy named Bobby Morrison? 327 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:42,120 Why, yes. 328 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:43,120 What about Bobby? 329 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:44,320 I'm boarding with him and his mother. 330 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:45,320 I wanted to... 331 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,360 I heard the police picked him up racing last night. 332 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:50,400 Some of the boys came in and told me about it. 333 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,600 I'm sorry to hear... 334 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:54,360 His mother is very troubled. 335 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,680 She asked me to help. 336 00:16:57,680 --> 00:16:59,160 Bobby's very bright. 337 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:02,520 A real bright, intelligent boy. 338 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:05,640 And sensitive. 339 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:09,760 You were going to say something else, Mr. Douglas, about Bobby. 340 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:11,600 He's a boy without a father. 341 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:13,480 When he was eight. 342 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:16,040 Bobby's a boy who's looking for something. 343 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:20,340 And he finds it in speed and in danger, in ways that could kill him. 344 00:17:20,340 --> 00:17:21,360 We try, Miss Warner. 345 00:17:21,360 --> 00:17:23,220 We try real hard. 346 00:17:23,220 --> 00:17:25,440 We cooperate with the auto clubs. 347 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:28,000 You know about the classes I give in driver instructions. 348 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:29,000 Mr. Douglas... 349 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,440 And I tell the kids, you kids drive like that, I say one out of a thousand of you'll be a 350 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:34,360 corpse before the year's out. 351 00:17:34,360 --> 00:17:36,720 One out of 45 hurt crippled. 352 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:38,840 We tell them why traffic laws are made. 353 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,640 For the protection and survival of the community. 354 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:45,800 By actual demonstration, we show them what a tremendous force they're handling when they're 355 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:47,800 behind the wheel of an automobile. 356 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,440 We go out and demonstrate the different conditions. 357 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:55,880 The distances it takes to stop a car on a dry and slippery pavement from different speeds. 358 00:17:55,880 --> 00:18:01,720 Together, we study accident reports and actual photographs of what happens when you're arrogant 359 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:04,240 or careless with a car. 360 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:07,400 Smashed cars from head-on collisions. 361 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:08,800 Smashed people. 362 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,600 We give them visual and muscular coordination tests. 363 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:15,360 So they'll understand what speed and hundreds of horsepower can do to them. 364 00:18:15,360 --> 00:18:19,160 And how to face emergencies behind the wheel. 365 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:24,520 We try to make sportsmen-like drivers out of them. 366 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:25,520 Miss Warner. 367 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:26,520 Yes? 368 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:28,920 Boys like Bobby. 369 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:32,600 Whatever their reasons, they won't listen. 370 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:36,280 Nights they gather and go out to the hub in their souped-up cars and they dance to the 371 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:40,360 jukebox and they won't listen. 372 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:41,360 The hub? 373 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:44,520 A place out on State Highway 52, south side of the bridge. 374 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:46,080 Used to be a kind of general store. 375 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:48,080 A fountain and hamburgers. 376 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:52,320 The kids picked it up, had Charlie Phillips, the owner, put in a jukebox and a big neon 377 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:54,120 sign. 378 00:18:54,120 --> 00:18:55,600 They gather their nights. 379 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:56,600 For races. 380 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:58,640 Will you take me there, Mr. Douglas? 381 00:18:58,640 --> 00:18:59,640 What? 382 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:01,120 I want to see for myself. 383 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:02,880 Tonight, around nine. 384 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:05,240 I'm at Mrs. Morrison's on Benton, 853. 385 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:06,240 Will you call for me? 386 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:07,240 Why, of course. 387 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:08,240 Thank you. 388 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:22,320 And later, when I got back to the house, Mrs. Morrison said Bobby hadn't been home all day. 389 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:24,760 But it wasn't unusual, she said. 390 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:25,760 He'd show up for dinner. 391 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:26,760 But he didn't. 392 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:33,000 And Mrs. Morrison picked at her food and got up from the table too often and walked around 393 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,360 and made excuses which could cover Bobby's not being there. 394 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:38,560 A double feature Bobby had to see twice. 395 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:41,840 A friend had him to dinner and Bobby forgot to call. 396 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:45,920 The ordinary excuses we all make to hold back the truth for a while. 397 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:51,320 And after dinner, dishes and her trying to chat brightly, but somehow sentences trailing 398 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:52,800 off and not being finished. 399 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:57,760 And glances through the window onto the night street and the head cocked to the sound of 400 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:00,560 every passing automobile. 401 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:07,320 And when the doorbell rang, a mother hurrying for news of her son. 402 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:08,320 And the disappointment. 403 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:10,520 Please come in, Mr. Douglas. 404 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:11,520 Thank you. 405 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:12,520 Oh, Miss Warner. 406 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:15,160 Mr. Douglas is here. 407 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:21,160 And the ride down State Highway 52, south through good countryside of Sycamore and Birch, 408 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,200 across a wooden bridge. 409 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:29,120 And the intrusion now upon a time of evening quiet of a thing, a wheel, an enormous wheel 410 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:31,000 of red neon. 411 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:37,320 A wheel whose each spoke displaced a tube of sky when it lit, one spoke after another. 412 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:41,920 And when the huge and clever wheel was finally complete, a thing happened. 413 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:47,600 The word hub announced itself at the split second when the center of the wheel appeared. 414 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:48,600 This is the place. 415 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:49,600 Let's go inside. 416 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:57,040 You and your friend can have this booth right here, Mr. Douglas. 417 00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:58,040 Thanks, Charlie. 418 00:20:58,040 --> 00:20:59,560 Oh, don't go away. 419 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:02,600 I want you to meet a friend of mine, Miss Warner, Charlie Phillips. 420 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:03,600 How do you do, Mr. Douglas? 421 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:04,600 Hello. 422 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:05,600 The hub belongs to Charlie. 423 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:06,600 Yes, ma'am. 424 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:09,080 Our things, Charlie. 425 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,600 Last night, that kid over there, you see him? 426 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:12,600 That one near the music box. 427 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:13,600 Gordon Matthews? 428 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:14,600 Who knows what his name is? 429 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:16,080 Well, that's Gordon, all right. 430 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:17,440 He was in my homeroom last year. 431 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:21,000 You should have made him write a few hundred times, don't play with matches. 432 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,120 He would like to set fire to the place last night. 433 00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:26,520 Why, that boy's barely 15 years old. 434 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:30,720 What's he doing out here five miles outside of town this late at night? 435 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,480 Listen, he's got a pair in a toon can ask that question, I mean. 436 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:35,360 Oh, why don't you just tell him to go home, Charlie? 437 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:36,800 Why don't you keep him out of here? 438 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:41,640 For the same reason you're teaching school, to eat, to make a living. 439 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:43,280 Once this was a nice place. 440 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:46,440 Why, there's David, David Cooper. 441 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:47,440 David? 442 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:48,440 David? 443 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,440 Oh, hello, Miss Warner. 444 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:54,080 What are you doing here, David? 445 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:56,160 David, I'm talking to you. 446 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:57,160 I know you are. 447 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:58,160 How did you get out here? 448 00:21:58,160 --> 00:21:59,160 I hitched. 449 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,760 Mr. Douglas and I are going to take you home. 450 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:03,760 I'm sorry, Miss Warner, but I... 451 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:04,760 Oh, hi, Bobby. 452 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:05,760 You ready, kid? 453 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:06,760 What is this, Bobby? 454 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:07,760 School opens Monday. 455 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:12,760 Then you ask questions and ask for hands. 456 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:14,680 Saturday night don't belong to you, Miss Warner. 457 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:15,680 Come on, kid. 458 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:16,680 Please, Miss Warner, let me go. 459 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:17,680 What's the trouble? 460 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:21,360 Look, you'd better stay out of this, Mr. Douglas. 461 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:22,760 David is going someplace with Bobby. 462 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:24,280 I want to know where. 463 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:25,280 Where, Bobby? 464 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:26,280 Where? 465 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,200 All right. 466 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:29,840 Outside is my car. 467 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:31,320 And outside is two other cars. 468 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,440 And the boys in them are impatient. 469 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,120 That's how we tell each other we're impatient. 470 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:37,240 You're going to race, Bobby? 471 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:38,240 Yeah. 472 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,280 And down the road a few yards is a bridge. 473 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:41,280 You get the picture? 474 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:42,280 You're crazy. 475 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:43,280 What's he going to do? 476 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:44,280 Tell her. 477 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:48,040 The three of them will line up abreast on the road. 478 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:49,920 Then they'll race to the bridge and over it. 479 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:53,280 But there's only room for two cars across that bridge. 480 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:54,280 That's right. 481 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:55,280 And the three of us will have to drop back. 482 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:56,280 Come on, Davey. 483 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:57,280 Okay. 484 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:58,280 Oh, you stay here, David. 485 00:22:58,280 --> 00:22:59,760 Now listen, you can get killed. 486 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:01,080 Let go of me. 487 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,920 I would if I were you, Mr. Douglas. 488 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,440 I'd really let him go. 489 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:07,440 Mr. Douglas, hey. 490 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:08,920 What do you want, Charlie? 491 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,880 These kids, they turn into a wolf pack. 492 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:13,400 Don't get yourself into any trouble. 493 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,120 These boys wouldn't dare to. 494 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:19,600 Listen, Miss Warner, last month an older brother, there must have been a man about 30, very 495 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,840 hefty fellow with muscles on his forearm. 496 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,880 This fellow came in here and tried to pull his kid brother out of here. 497 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:27,920 He landed in the hospital. 498 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:28,920 Cut. 499 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:32,160 There's 16 kids here, Miss Warner. 500 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:36,240 But what Bobby is going to do, that race over the bridge with David, both of them can be 501 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:37,240 killed. 502 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:40,080 The way they handle those cars, you don't know. 503 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:41,800 Come on, Davey. 504 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,800 You coming? 505 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,800 Sure. 506 00:23:45,800 --> 00:24:03,880 name, Mr.Douglas & Mr.panzee as the prices are,21 507 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:40,600 And Mary Wheeler, you start the last row, Mary, will you please? 508 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,220 Take the seat down front. 509 00:24:42,220 --> 00:24:43,840 Then Judy Wilton. 510 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,680 Then John Young, the third seat. 511 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:47,960 And Martin Young. 512 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:48,960 Your brothers, aren't you? 513 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:50,760 I can tell. 514 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,600 And next to the last, Audrey Zant. 515 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,400 And George Zimmerman. 516 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:56,400 There. 517 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,400 Now, young ladies and gentlemen, here we are. 518 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,440 10B3 at Alexander Hamilton High School. 519 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,960 Oh, come right in, Bobby. 520 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:10,000 And so, class, this is the first day of our new school year, and this is where we'll meet 521 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,960 to start each day and to end it. 522 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:17,560 The young gentleman who just came in to visit is a senior, and his name is Bobby Morrison. 523 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,440 He asked if he could talk to you, and I said he could. 524 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:21,880 All right, Bobby. 525 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,960 Thank you. 526 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:29,840 I guess, first of all, I want to apologize to you. 527 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:31,160 All of you. 528 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:37,560 Miss Warner, and, well, all of you, because of that empty chair. 529 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:39,440 It's my fault. 530 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,320 I guess you know about it. 531 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,720 I guess you've heard. 532 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,580 But I want to tell you how sorry I am. 533 00:25:46,580 --> 00:25:48,560 It was my fault. 534 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:54,480 Now, soon you'll be taking those driver training courses, and that way you're going to learn 535 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,660 what safety means. 536 00:25:56,660 --> 00:25:59,040 That it means respecting the lives of others. 537 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:04,400 Now, that's something I didn't do, and that's why you've got that empty chair instead of 538 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,680 David Cooper. 539 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:08,760 But David's going to be all right. 540 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:14,920 I've been spending a lot of time at the hospital, and today they told me that. 541 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:18,480 That's about all, Miss Warner, and thank you for letting me say it. 542 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:19,480 Thank you, Bobby. 543 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,800 And that's why we'll save David's seat for him. 544 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,440 He's coming back. 545 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:29,600 I want to wish you all a fine, productive, and safe school year. 546 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:33,200 And if there's anything you want to talk to me about, I'll always be here. 547 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:56,560 You may go to your first class. 548 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:58,000 Suspense. 549 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:03,720 Brought to you by Auto Light, tonight's star, Miss Agnes Moorhead, will return in just a 550 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:04,720 moment. 551 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:08,680 Tonight, our worldwide Auto Light family has been privileged to salute the American Automobile 552 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:12,320 Association and its traffic safety program. 553 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:17,640 In fact, everyone who helps bring traffic safety and driver training programs to boys 554 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,560 and girls in their school classrooms throughout the world. 555 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:27,760 You too can aid in promoting safety by driving carefully at all times, and by making sure 556 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:33,440 that schools in your community are teaching traffic safety in their classrooms. 557 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:38,760 Full information on programs available can be secured from your local automobile club 558 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:45,000 affiliated with the American Automobile Association or from the American Automobile Association, 559 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:55,720 Washington, D.C. 560 00:27:55,720 --> 00:28:00,320 And now I'd like to present Agnes Moorhead and our producer director, Elliot Lewis. 561 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:01,320 Thank you, Harlow. 562 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:05,720 Agnes, I'm happy to inform you that you have been voted Auto Light's Golden Mike Award 563 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:09,520 for the best female performance of the year on Suspense. 564 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,080 Congratulations, and here, this is for you. 565 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:13,880 Oh, thank you, Elliot. 566 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:18,200 As you know, Suspense has always been my favorite radio show, so receiving this award is a double 567 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:19,200 honor. 568 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,520 Thank you very, very much. 569 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:27,440 Next week, a story based on fact as we recreate the excitement and violence of a fire in an 570 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:28,720 oil field. 571 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,680 The story is called Hellfire. 572 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,840 Our star, Mr. John Hodiac. 573 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:45,600 That's next week on Suspense. 574 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:50,680 Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Ranny Garragenk 575 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,240 and conducted by Lud Gluskin. 576 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:57,920 The Empty Chair was written for Suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. 577 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,920 In tonight's story, Sam Edwards was heard as Bobby. 578 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:06,920 Featured in the cast were Michael Chapin, Paula Winslow, Joseph Kearns, and Herb Butterfield. 579 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:12,360 Agnes Moorhead will soon be seen in the magnificent obsession. 580 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:21,840 And remember, next week, Mr. John Hodiac in Hellfire. 581 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:27,040 And now, this is Harlow Wilcox saying good night for the Autolite family with this reminder. 582 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:35,320 You're always right to be careful. 583 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:50,960 This is the CBS Radio Network.