WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.000 And now, transcribed for tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 00:12.000 --> 00:13.000 Suspense. 00:13.000 --> 00:21.240 Tonight, the story of a dancer who's still in her dressing room after the theater is 00:21.240 --> 00:25.120 emptied spends the most terrifying moments of her life. 00:25.120 --> 00:31.560 So now, starring Shirley Mitchell and Vic Perrin, here is tonight's Suspense play, Blind 00:31.560 --> 00:32.560 Date. 00:32.560 --> 00:44.640 The DeMarcos and Mamie had said goodbye. 00:44.640 --> 00:45.640 That left me alone backstage. 00:45.640 --> 00:46.640 I'm always late anyway. 00:46.640 --> 00:47.640 Eight acts on the bill and I'm always the last to leave the theater. 00:47.640 --> 00:48.640 Hiya, cutie. 00:48.640 --> 00:49.640 What do you mean coming into a lady's dressing room without night? 00:49.640 --> 00:58.160 I never heard of a cowboy who didn't know how to say, are you decent? 00:58.160 --> 00:59.160 Oh, relax. 00:59.160 --> 01:00.160 Take it easy. 01:00.160 --> 01:01.160 We can't all be double jointed. 01:01.160 --> 01:02.160 What do you want? 01:02.160 --> 01:03.160 He's outside. 01:03.160 --> 01:04.160 Who's outside? 01:04.160 --> 01:05.160 Oh, some John you won't like. 01:05.160 --> 01:08.160 Says he's got a date with you. 01:08.160 --> 01:10.840 Oh, baby, you're closing tonight. 01:10.840 --> 01:13.360 Tomorrow you'll be in far off Detroit. 01:13.360 --> 01:15.160 And well, you wish you'd done the loop with me once. 01:15.160 --> 01:16.160 Huh. 01:16.160 --> 01:17.160 I'll let you and me go our own service. 01:17.160 --> 01:18.960 I have a date, thank you. 01:18.960 --> 01:20.440 Go out and tell him to come in if you please. 01:20.440 --> 01:21.920 I can't do better than him. 01:21.920 --> 01:23.660 You got talent in those joints. 01:23.660 --> 01:25.280 You need somebody to watch out for you. 01:25.280 --> 01:26.840 In the profession, I mean. 01:26.840 --> 01:30.160 What's a cute little trick like you taking forth billing to a lot of acrobats? 01:30.160 --> 01:34.120 You stick to your cowboy profession and I'll worry about my billing. 01:34.120 --> 01:35.120 Yeah. 01:35.120 --> 01:37.560 Still mad because I tried to kiss you. 01:37.560 --> 01:40.360 Now, Gloria, this is your last night. 01:40.360 --> 01:43.880 I told you before I don't like to be touched by you or anybody else. 01:43.880 --> 01:46.120 Hey, I'm beginning to think you mean it. 01:46.120 --> 01:47.120 Get out of here. 01:47.120 --> 01:48.120 Okay, okay. 01:48.120 --> 01:52.600 But your stage door Johnny ain't gonna be no improvement, believe me. 01:52.600 --> 01:53.600 The idea. 01:53.600 --> 01:54.600 The very idea. 01:54.600 --> 01:55.600 Oh, darn it. 01:55.600 --> 01:58.720 Where'd I put that powder pot? 01:58.720 --> 02:00.840 Oh. 02:00.840 --> 02:04.520 I believe I'm on time. 02:04.520 --> 02:06.960 The clock on the Wrigley Tower has just struck 11. 02:06.960 --> 02:07.960 I'm Vincent Hawthorne. 02:07.960 --> 02:08.960 Oh, yeah. 02:08.960 --> 02:09.960 Yeah. 02:09.960 --> 02:13.000 And I thought the day wonderful till I saw the night. 02:13.000 --> 02:14.000 Hmm? 02:14.000 --> 02:15.000 Come again? 02:15.000 --> 02:16.000 Not what you expected. 02:16.000 --> 02:17.000 Of course not. 02:17.000 --> 02:20.120 Well, I won't you come in Mr. Mr. 02:20.120 --> 02:21.120 Hawthorne. 02:21.120 --> 02:23.960 Here, let me take your hat Mr. Hawthorne. 02:23.960 --> 02:24.960 Thank you. 02:24.960 --> 02:25.960 I'll only be a minute. 02:25.960 --> 02:26.960 I'm leaving Chicago. 02:26.960 --> 02:27.960 Close tonight, you know. 02:27.960 --> 02:28.960 Detroit tomorrow. 02:28.960 --> 02:29.960 I was delayed with packing and all. 02:29.960 --> 02:30.960 I'm not quite dressed. 02:30.960 --> 02:31.960 There. 02:31.960 --> 02:33.600 That's the props anyway. 02:33.600 --> 02:35.680 A theatrical trunk. 02:35.680 --> 02:37.960 All this is a big thrill to me. 02:37.960 --> 02:40.440 Gloria Lafay, theater rush. 02:40.440 --> 02:42.600 Gloria Lafay, trends in bends. 02:42.600 --> 02:43.600 That's me. 02:43.600 --> 02:44.600 Well, well. 02:44.600 --> 02:47.800 This is my first experience meeting an artist. 02:47.800 --> 02:48.800 Oh. 02:48.800 --> 02:49.800 Gloria. 02:49.800 --> 02:50.800 A lovely name, Gloria. 02:50.800 --> 02:51.800 It fits you. 02:51.800 --> 02:52.800 You're a very lovely girl. 02:52.800 --> 02:53.800 Hmm. 02:53.800 --> 02:54.800 And what have you got there? 02:54.800 --> 02:55.800 It's a flower. 02:55.800 --> 02:56.800 A rose for you. 02:56.800 --> 02:57.800 Here. 02:57.800 --> 02:58.800 Oh, well thanks. 02:58.800 --> 02:59.800 I like roses. 02:59.800 --> 03:01.800 I thought it would look nice in your hair, Gloria. 03:01.800 --> 03:02.800 Oh, yeah. 03:02.800 --> 03:03.800 Thanks. 03:03.800 --> 03:04.800 Thanks a lot. 03:04.800 --> 03:05.800 That's real nice. 03:05.800 --> 03:06.800 Thanks. 03:06.800 --> 03:07.800 For your hair, yes. 03:07.800 --> 03:08.800 And this. 03:08.800 --> 03:10.480 This is something for the two of us. 03:10.480 --> 03:11.480 Is that whiskey? 03:11.480 --> 03:12.480 Oh, hardly. 03:12.480 --> 03:13.480 Champagne. 03:13.480 --> 03:14.960 Paul Roger, 37. 03:14.960 --> 03:20.120 It has a fine bouquet. 03:20.120 --> 03:22.760 Should lend a note of cheer to our little dressing room. 03:22.760 --> 03:23.760 Eh? 03:23.760 --> 03:24.760 See? 03:24.760 --> 03:25.760 Two glasses. 03:25.760 --> 03:27.480 I thought of everything. 03:27.480 --> 03:30.520 Fine wines should always be sipped from crystal. 03:30.520 --> 03:31.520 Don't you agree? 03:31.520 --> 03:32.760 I planned on going out. 03:32.760 --> 03:33.760 Oh, certainly. 03:33.760 --> 03:34.760 But I thought that... 03:34.760 --> 03:35.760 Well, you thought wrong. 03:35.760 --> 03:36.760 Whatever you thought, Mr. Hawthorne. 03:36.760 --> 03:37.760 We aren't staying here. 03:37.760 --> 03:38.760 Now, I'll only be a minute. 03:38.760 --> 03:39.760 I'll finish dressing behind the screen. 03:39.760 --> 03:40.760 Say, um, do you have a minute? 03:40.760 --> 03:41.760 I'm sorry. 03:41.760 --> 03:42.760 I'm sorry. 03:42.760 --> 03:43.760 Say, um, Mr. Hawthorne. 03:43.760 --> 03:44.760 Yes? 03:44.760 --> 03:45.760 Uh, what's your first name? 03:45.760 --> 03:46.760 Vincent, my dear. 03:46.760 --> 03:47.760 Say, Vincent. 03:47.760 --> 03:48.760 Um, Vincent. 03:48.760 --> 03:49.760 Just so we get everything clear on both sides, um, this is a sort of a funny situation. 03:49.760 --> 03:50.760 I don't know quite how... 03:50.760 --> 03:51.760 Are you concerned because we're having what is called a blind date? 03:51.760 --> 03:52.760 That's it. 03:52.760 --> 03:53.760 I just wanted it to be understood on both sides that I am not in the habit. 03:53.760 --> 03:54.760 But lately, I've been thinking about it. 03:54.760 --> 03:55.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 03:55.760 --> 03:56.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 03:56.760 --> 03:57.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 03:57.760 --> 03:58.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 03:58.760 --> 03:59.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 03:59.760 --> 04:00.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 04:00.760 --> 04:01.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 04:01.760 --> 04:02.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 04:02.760 --> 04:13.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 04:13.760 --> 04:22.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 04:22.760 --> 04:33.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 04:33.760 --> 04:42.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 04:42.760 --> 04:53.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 04:53.760 --> 05:02.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 05:02.760 --> 05:13.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 05:13.760 --> 05:22.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 05:22.760 --> 05:33.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 05:33.760 --> 05:42.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 05:42.760 --> 05:53.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 05:53.760 --> 06:07.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 06:07.760 --> 06:27.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 06:27.760 --> 06:35.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 06:35.760 --> 06:36.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 06:36.760 --> 06:37.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 06:37.760 --> 06:38.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 06:38.760 --> 06:39.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 06:39.760 --> 06:40.760 I'm not sure if I should be. 06:40.760 --> 06:41.760 I'm sorry, Gloria. 06:41.760 --> 06:42.760 I'm sorry my knife frightened you. 06:42.760 --> 06:43.760 I don't know. 06:43.760 --> 06:44.760 I think you'd better go. 06:44.760 --> 06:45.760 Please, Gloria, don't be angry with me. 06:45.760 --> 06:51.080 I'm most anxious to take you to Gregory's where you once went with your mother, dear Diane, 06:51.080 --> 06:52.080 many years ago. 06:52.080 --> 06:53.080 I don't know. 06:53.080 --> 06:55.840 You will have something you didn't have at that time. 06:55.840 --> 06:59.040 Cognac, French cognac. 06:59.040 --> 07:01.560 In a quiet corner by candlelight. 07:01.560 --> 07:04.080 There'll be music. 07:04.080 --> 07:06.560 What does a girl do when she draws a fellow like you? 07:06.560 --> 07:12.080 Why, she has a little glass of wine to celebrate. 07:12.080 --> 07:14.080 Good. 07:14.080 --> 07:15.680 Good. 07:15.680 --> 07:18.680 Here we go. 07:18.680 --> 07:20.920 You haven't said anything about my dress. 07:20.920 --> 07:24.080 One for you, one for me. 07:24.080 --> 07:25.720 Oh, thanks. 07:25.720 --> 07:27.680 Here's to a pleasant evening, Vincent. 07:27.680 --> 07:28.680 No, Gloria. 07:28.680 --> 07:29.680 Here's to us. 07:29.680 --> 07:30.680 Okay. 07:30.680 --> 07:31.680 Here's to us. 07:31.680 --> 07:34.280 There. 07:34.280 --> 07:39.280 That's a little better. 07:39.280 --> 07:40.280 Nice. 07:40.280 --> 07:44.520 Vincent, what does somebody like you do for a living? 07:44.520 --> 07:48.920 I was a part of Rembrandt and Morris wine merchants. 07:48.920 --> 07:50.440 Oh. 07:50.440 --> 07:57.640 Gloria, when you bend back like you do and you drink out of that glass, is that wine you 07:57.640 --> 07:58.640 drink? 07:58.640 --> 07:59.640 Oh, no. 07:59.640 --> 08:01.640 That's only colored water. 08:01.640 --> 08:07.520 Did you know that the cork in the bottle is sometimes more expensive than the wine itself? 08:07.520 --> 08:08.520 You don't say. 08:08.520 --> 08:09.880 It's imported from Spain, you know. 08:09.880 --> 08:10.880 That's what costs. 08:10.880 --> 08:11.880 Oh. 08:11.880 --> 08:17.400 Another thing I've wondered about, is it true it's bad luck to whistle in the dressing 08:17.400 --> 08:18.400 room? 08:18.400 --> 08:19.400 Oh, that's silly. 08:19.400 --> 08:21.640 That's a chorus girl superstition. 08:21.640 --> 08:22.920 Artists don't worry about that. 08:22.920 --> 08:25.760 I'm grateful you answered my note this afternoon. 08:25.760 --> 08:34.400 Vincent, why did you send the note to me with those six beautiful Cardoza sisters on the 08:34.400 --> 08:35.400 same bill? 08:35.400 --> 08:38.800 I thought them very ordinary girls, not in the least beautiful. 08:38.800 --> 08:39.800 Not as you are beautiful. 08:39.800 --> 08:40.800 Oh, now. 08:40.800 --> 08:42.280 What made you answer my note? 08:42.280 --> 08:43.960 I had three birds this morning. 08:43.960 --> 08:44.960 Birds? 08:44.960 --> 08:46.720 Tea leaves means good luck. 08:46.720 --> 08:49.140 Then when I got your note, naturally I took it to Mamie. 08:49.140 --> 08:50.420 She does handwriting too. 08:50.420 --> 08:51.760 She said you were a fine gentleman. 08:51.760 --> 08:55.080 Otherwise, I wouldn't have answered you because I've never had a blind date before. 08:55.080 --> 08:57.800 Then I'm most grateful to Mamie. 08:57.800 --> 09:01.600 Well, I think it's just about time we left. 09:01.600 --> 09:03.640 Oh, I don't know, Gloria. 09:03.640 --> 09:05.720 I see you have a portable phonograph. 09:05.720 --> 09:06.720 Travel with it? 09:06.720 --> 09:07.720 It's an old one. 09:07.720 --> 09:08.720 It doesn't work too well. 09:08.720 --> 09:09.720 I've got to have it fixed. 09:09.720 --> 09:12.720 I'm very fond of music, Gloria. 09:12.720 --> 09:14.720 What do you have here? 09:14.720 --> 09:15.720 It doesn't work. 09:15.720 --> 09:17.720 This one, Moonlight Madonna. 09:17.720 --> 09:21.200 It's the music you use in your act. 09:21.200 --> 09:22.200 Let's play it. 09:22.200 --> 09:24.640 I told you the phonograph doesn't work. 09:24.640 --> 09:25.640 All right, now come on. 09:25.640 --> 09:26.640 I think you're wrong, Gloria. 09:26.640 --> 09:27.640 You see? 09:27.640 --> 09:28.640 It works fine, see? 09:28.640 --> 09:29.640 I finished my drink, so come on. 09:29.640 --> 09:30.640 Couldn't we have another one and listen to the record? 09:30.640 --> 09:31.640 No, I've had enough and you've had enough. 09:31.640 --> 09:32.640 Now let's get the... 09:32.640 --> 09:33.640 Must you wear that fur piece? 09:33.640 --> 09:34.640 For your information, Mr. Wiseguy, this fur piece was given to me by Mr. John Meston and 09:34.640 --> 09:35.640 is practically unattainable on today's market. 09:35.640 --> 09:36.640 You just can't get it nowadays. 09:36.640 --> 09:37.640 I can wear this anywhere, anywhere at all. 09:37.640 --> 09:38.640 What I mean, Gloria, is that you can't wear it anywhere. 09:38.640 --> 09:39.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 09:39.640 --> 09:40.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 09:40.640 --> 09:41.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 09:41.640 --> 09:42.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 09:42.640 --> 09:43.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 09:43.640 --> 09:44.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 09:44.640 --> 10:05.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 10:05.640 --> 10:28.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 10:28.640 --> 10:49.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 10:49.640 --> 11:08.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 11:08.640 --> 11:23.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 11:23.640 --> 11:39.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 11:39.640 --> 11:54.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 11:54.640 --> 12:09.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 12:09.640 --> 12:24.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 12:24.640 --> 12:39.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 12:39.640 --> 12:54.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 12:54.640 --> 13:09.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 13:09.640 --> 13:24.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 13:24.640 --> 13:39.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 13:39.640 --> 13:54.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 13:54.640 --> 14:09.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 14:09.640 --> 14:24.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 14:24.640 --> 14:39.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 14:39.640 --> 14:54.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 14:54.640 --> 15:09.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 15:09.640 --> 15:24.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 15:24.640 --> 15:39.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 15:39.640 --> 15:48.640 You can't wear it anywhere. 15:48.640 --> 15:53.640 It's just that I want to see you exactly as you look when you're performing on the stage. 15:55.640 --> 15:57.640 You're so very lovely, Gloria. 15:58.640 --> 15:59.640 You're so lovely. 16:00.640 --> 16:03.640 All that isn't going to make me forget that knife or what you've done. 16:03.640 --> 16:07.640 I'm just a humble man, a human being, same as you. 16:08.640 --> 16:10.640 But I'm lonely, Gloria. 16:10.640 --> 16:13.640 Terribly, unendurably lonely. 16:13.640 --> 16:15.640 Ah, you've got a friend. 16:15.640 --> 16:17.640 Have you put on the costume, Gloria? 16:18.640 --> 16:19.640 Yes. 16:20.640 --> 16:21.640 Here it is. 16:22.640 --> 16:24.640 All right. Take your look, Mr. Hawthorne. 16:25.640 --> 16:26.640 Well? 16:27.640 --> 16:28.640 Lovely. 16:29.640 --> 16:30.640 It's lovely. 16:30.640 --> 16:31.640 All right then. Now I... 16:32.640 --> 16:33.640 Look. 16:33.640 --> 16:34.640 What are you... 16:34.640 --> 16:35.640 What are you doing? 16:35.640 --> 16:37.640 How can you perform without music? 16:37.640 --> 16:38.640 Perform? 16:38.640 --> 16:40.640 Why else would I ask you to put on your costume? 16:41.640 --> 16:43.640 You're going to perform for me. 16:43.640 --> 16:45.640 I'm not putting on a special act for anybody. 16:46.640 --> 16:49.640 You can't imagine, Gloria, the effect it has on me. 16:50.640 --> 16:54.640 Where you twist and turn, slowly, silently, 16:56.640 --> 16:58.640 so slow, so lovely, 16:59.640 --> 17:02.640 and so alone, so very much alone. 17:03.640 --> 17:06.640 Alone? How can I be alone in a theater full of people? 17:06.640 --> 17:08.640 You can be alone in a city of a million people. 17:09.640 --> 17:12.640 You had no one in the theater, Gloria, even though it was crowded. 17:12.640 --> 17:16.640 But now, here, in your dressing room, you have me to watch. 17:17.640 --> 17:18.640 And you can perform for me alone. 17:19.640 --> 17:21.640 Hey! What's the idea of turning off the lights? 17:22.640 --> 17:23.640 All but the ones around your mirror. 17:24.640 --> 17:25.640 That's your spotlight, Gloria. 17:26.640 --> 17:27.640 You're on stage. 17:28.640 --> 17:30.640 Only it's all for me and no one else. 17:30.640 --> 17:32.640 Don't... don't scream again. 17:33.640 --> 17:34.640 Don't scream whatever you do. 17:35.640 --> 17:36.640 It upsets me. 17:37.640 --> 17:39.640 If... if... if... 17:39.640 --> 17:41.640 If I do my act for you, 17:41.640 --> 17:46.640 if... if I do it just the way I do it on stage, only... only just for you, 17:46.640 --> 17:49.640 if I do it for you like that, will you go away? 17:50.640 --> 17:51.640 Yes, Gloria. 17:52.640 --> 17:54.640 That's all I want you to do. 17:55.640 --> 17:56.640 Just as if you were on stage. 17:57.640 --> 17:58.640 All... all right. 17:59.640 --> 18:00.640 All right, sure. 18:01.640 --> 18:02.640 Sure. 18:06.640 --> 18:07.640 That's right, Gloria. 18:07.640 --> 18:09.640 Graceful. 18:10.640 --> 18:12.640 Very graceful. 18:13.640 --> 18:15.640 Slowly. 18:16.640 --> 18:17.640 Slowly. 18:18.640 --> 18:20.640 Why can't you do it for me? Why? Why? 18:20.640 --> 18:23.640 You weren't clumsy in the theater when all those other people were watching. 18:23.640 --> 18:25.640 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 18:25.640 --> 18:26.640 It's such a small room. 18:26.640 --> 18:27.640 Never mind. Never mind. 18:27.640 --> 18:28.640 Go on. Go on. 18:29.640 --> 18:30.640 Go. 18:33.640 --> 18:34.640 Yes. 18:34.640 --> 18:35.640 Yes. 18:37.640 --> 18:38.640 Yes, that's right, Gloria. 18:40.640 --> 18:41.640 Easy. 18:42.640 --> 18:43.640 Slowly, remember. 18:44.640 --> 18:45.640 Slowly. 18:46.640 --> 18:48.640 I can't! I can't! I can't! 18:49.640 --> 18:51.640 No matter what you're gonna do and I don't know what it is, 18:51.640 --> 18:54.640 I just can't go on with my act anymore. 18:54.640 --> 18:56.640 I just can't do it. 18:56.640 --> 18:58.640 I'm a decent, self-respecting girl. 18:58.640 --> 19:00.640 And I accepted your invitation. 19:00.640 --> 19:02.640 I thought you were gonna be nice because of your handwriting. 19:02.640 --> 19:04.640 And you've got me so scared I don't... 19:05.640 --> 19:08.640 No matter what I do or say, I can't seem to please you. 19:08.640 --> 19:10.640 Why can't you go away? 19:10.640 --> 19:13.640 Why don't you just get out of our dressing room and leave me alone? 19:13.640 --> 19:17.640 I hate you! I hate you! You understand? 19:17.640 --> 19:19.640 I hate you! 19:21.640 --> 19:22.640 You hate me? 19:23.640 --> 19:25.640 Well, let me tell you something. 19:25.640 --> 19:28.640 Every girl with a nice dress and pretty face hates me, Gloria. 19:28.640 --> 19:29.640 I don't care anymore. 19:29.640 --> 19:32.640 I was lonely and I went to the theater and I saw you there on stage 19:32.640 --> 19:34.640 and I thought you were beautiful. 19:34.640 --> 19:38.640 I thought if I could see you alone in that same old costume, 19:38.640 --> 19:40.640 if you wore it just for me and performed just for me, 19:40.640 --> 19:42.640 then I wouldn't be lonely anymore. 19:42.640 --> 19:44.640 That would be enough, but it isn't enough. 19:44.640 --> 19:46.640 Don't... don't come near me. 19:46.640 --> 19:47.640 Don't touch me. 19:47.640 --> 19:49.640 A kiss is the cheapest thing in the world. 19:49.640 --> 19:51.640 No. No, stay away. 19:51.640 --> 19:53.640 A kiss means nothing to you. 19:53.640 --> 19:55.640 But to me it means everything. 19:55.640 --> 19:57.640 Please, no! Stay away! 19:57.640 --> 19:59.640 A kiss would cure my loneliness, Gloria. 19:59.640 --> 20:00.640 I'll never kiss you! 20:00.640 --> 20:02.640 Oh, I think you will. 20:02.640 --> 20:04.640 I think you will. 20:04.640 --> 20:07.640 A knife! Oh, please! 20:08.640 --> 20:09.640 Now... 20:11.640 --> 20:13.640 Now just tilt your head back. 20:13.640 --> 20:15.640 That's right. 20:16.640 --> 20:17.640 Now... 20:18.640 --> 20:19.640 Vincent... 20:21.640 --> 20:22.640 Darling... 20:22.640 --> 20:23.640 What? 20:23.640 --> 20:26.640 I said, darling. 20:26.640 --> 20:28.640 Why did you say that? 20:28.640 --> 20:33.640 What... what would you say if... if I really kissed you? 20:33.640 --> 20:35.640 What do you mean? 20:35.640 --> 20:40.640 You... you said a kiss means everything to you. 20:40.640 --> 20:43.640 Do you want me to really kiss you? 20:44.640 --> 20:47.640 I... I can't believe it. 20:47.640 --> 20:49.640 I... I'd kiss you. 20:49.640 --> 20:51.640 I... I really would, but... 20:51.640 --> 20:53.640 But what? 20:54.640 --> 20:55.640 Gloria? 20:55.640 --> 20:59.640 I'm... I'm afraid of... of your knife. 21:00.640 --> 21:02.640 Do you actually want to kiss me? 21:02.640 --> 21:04.640 Yes. 21:05.640 --> 21:07.640 But the knife scares me. 21:07.640 --> 21:11.640 I... I never meant to use it, Gloria. 21:13.640 --> 21:14.640 Here. 21:15.640 --> 21:16.640 You take it. 21:16.640 --> 21:18.640 Now. 21:18.640 --> 21:20.640 I'll kiss you! 21:20.640 --> 21:22.640 I'll kiss you! 21:22.640 --> 21:23.640 Gloria! 21:23.640 --> 21:24.640 Huck! 21:24.640 --> 21:25.640 Huck! 21:31.640 --> 21:34.640 What have I done? 21:36.640 --> 21:39.640 What have I done? 21:41.640 --> 21:43.640 What have I done? 21:43.640 --> 21:46.640 What have I done? 21:46.640 --> 21:48.640 What have I done? 22:00.640 --> 22:03.640 They'd been looking for him ever since he left London. 22:03.640 --> 22:06.640 They knew all about him, so they let me go. 22:06.640 --> 22:08.640 Self-defense. 22:09.640 --> 22:12.640 Loneliness is a terrible thing, he said. 22:12.640 --> 22:15.640 Well, no matter how lonesome I get, 22:15.640 --> 22:18.640 I'll never have another blind date, 22:18.640 --> 22:20.640 as long as I live. 22:20.640 --> 22:22.640 Suspense. 22:22.640 --> 22:25.640 In which Shirley Mitchell starred as Gloria 22:25.640 --> 22:29.640 and Vic Perrin as Vincent with Lee Millar as Bill. 22:29.640 --> 22:47.920 And in which the 22:47.920 --> 22:50.920 story of a motion picture producer and a young actress 22:50.920 --> 22:53.920 who finds to her dismay that she has rather more dramatic talent 22:53.920 --> 22:56.920 than even she ever hoped for. 22:56.920 --> 22:59.920 We call it Shooting Star. 22:59.920 --> 23:02.920 That's next week on... 23:02.920 --> 23:18.920 Suspense. 23:18.920 --> 23:21.920 Suspense is produced and transcribed by Norman MacDonald 23:21.920 --> 23:24.920 with music composed by Lucian Morawick 23:24.920 --> 23:26.920 and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 23:26.920 --> 23:29.920 Blind Date was specially written for Suspense 23:29.920 --> 23:32.920 by E. Jack Newman and Harrison Eggly. 23:36.920 --> 23:38.920 Listen while you work. 23:38.920 --> 23:41.920 Enjoy the second Mrs. Burton Monday through Friday in the daytime 23:41.920 --> 24:00.920 on CBS Radio Network.