WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:21.000 And now, tonight's presentation of Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:21.000 --> 00:25.960 Tonight we bring you a story of jealousy and hatred in a circus aerial act. 00:25.960 --> 00:27.560 We call it, Galardo. 00:27.560 --> 00:46.800 So now, starring Victor Perrin, here is tonight's Suspense play, Galardo. 00:46.800 --> 00:51.680 I am not sure just when it was that I first knew I must kill Nicky. 00:51.680 --> 00:56.440 But when I knew, I accepted it and waited. 00:56.440 --> 01:01.120 This night, as always before our turn, we had been out in our coveralls and slapshoes 01:01.120 --> 01:06.640 for our last minute check of the rig, testing the guy lines, tightening the screws. 01:06.640 --> 01:10.600 We did our work, but now it was not the same between us. 01:10.600 --> 01:13.040 We did not meet with our eyes. 01:13.040 --> 01:17.000 When we passed each other in the dressing room, we did not speak. 01:17.000 --> 01:24.440 Parted down the entrance tunnel to the ring, I saw Nicky slow a moment to wait for feather. 01:24.440 --> 01:29.440 Then he put his arm on her shoulder and leaned over to whisper to her. 01:29.440 --> 01:34.440 I saw her smile for him. 01:34.440 --> 01:53.560 Ladies and gentlemen, the Galardo, the sensational world famous aerialist with her daring, dazzling, 01:53.560 --> 02:07.080 and death defying performance of the Flying Jump Bees. 02:07.080 --> 02:10.240 And the waiting was over. 02:10.240 --> 02:13.280 This night I would kill Nicky. 02:13.280 --> 02:17.640 I went up the ladder and took my place in the catch trap. 02:17.640 --> 02:21.520 Then I watched while feather climbed to the pedestal board. 02:21.520 --> 02:25.720 So graceful, so lovely, so cruel. 02:25.720 --> 02:29.680 I shut my eyes tight with the pain of loving feather. 02:29.680 --> 02:36.800 And I thought of that day she joined us. 02:36.800 --> 02:37.880 Just call me feather. 02:37.880 --> 02:39.320 I am Nicky. 02:39.320 --> 02:40.920 This is Rudy, Galardo. 02:40.920 --> 02:41.920 Brothers? 02:41.920 --> 02:43.320 We are the same as brothers. 02:43.320 --> 02:44.540 You don't look alike. 02:44.540 --> 02:46.160 I am ugly. 02:46.160 --> 02:47.160 Nicky is beautiful. 02:47.160 --> 02:48.160 Oh, I didn't mean that. 02:48.160 --> 02:49.160 There now. 02:49.160 --> 02:51.280 I do not mean to embarrass you. 02:51.280 --> 02:53.600 You see, I know I am ugly. 02:53.600 --> 02:55.920 And I have great pride in Nicky's beauty. 02:55.920 --> 02:57.440 Rudy, stop that. 02:57.440 --> 02:59.760 I was raised with Rudy by his family. 02:59.760 --> 03:01.760 I caught Nicky's first leap. 03:01.760 --> 03:03.920 When I was six and he was nine. 03:03.920 --> 03:08.080 Even at nine, one could see I had the shoulders for catching, but could never be a flyer like 03:08.080 --> 03:09.640 my father before me. 03:09.640 --> 03:11.000 Circus family, huh? 03:11.000 --> 03:15.160 In the circus, there have been Gallardos for over 100 years. 03:15.160 --> 03:17.760 I joined the circus to get away from a farm in Nebraska. 03:17.760 --> 03:19.600 You are recommended by Concello. 03:19.600 --> 03:22.440 Yeah, I toured with the big show last season. 03:22.440 --> 03:24.000 An act with six girls in Delamie. 03:24.000 --> 03:25.000 He was the principal flyer. 03:25.000 --> 03:26.000 He is good. 03:26.000 --> 03:27.000 Yeah. 03:27.000 --> 03:29.640 Now, here is the set up of our act, Miss Feather. 03:29.640 --> 03:30.640 Oh, just Feather. 03:30.640 --> 03:32.840 I left my real name in Nebraska. 03:32.840 --> 03:33.840 I see. 03:33.840 --> 03:39.080 Now, we open with you doing a seat jump, then a fliffy and maybe a double. 03:39.080 --> 03:40.080 You do the double. 03:40.080 --> 03:41.920 Well, I will have to work on it. 03:41.920 --> 03:42.920 You will practice. 03:42.920 --> 03:44.280 Then we do some passing leaps. 03:44.280 --> 03:47.200 I do a double full twister, a cutaway maybe. 03:47.200 --> 03:48.200 We will work it out. 03:48.200 --> 03:49.840 And of course, I finish with the triple. 03:49.840 --> 03:51.520 Oh, I've heard about your triple. 03:51.520 --> 03:52.520 Oh, you have? 03:52.520 --> 03:53.520 I've heard you're as good as Cordona. 03:53.520 --> 03:54.520 Oh, no, no. 03:54.520 --> 03:57.080 Cordona was the master. 03:57.080 --> 03:58.400 Maybe someday I shall be as good. 03:58.400 --> 03:59.800 He is better than Cordona. 03:59.800 --> 04:01.200 He is the best ever. 04:01.200 --> 04:06.120 Rudy, if I am that good, it's only because I have the best catcher ever. 04:06.120 --> 04:09.440 The flyer is only as good as his catcher and you are the best. 04:09.440 --> 04:12.880 You boys have quite a mutual admiration society going, haven't you? 04:12.880 --> 04:14.880 But this is true. 04:14.880 --> 04:18.360 The net is there and Rudy's strong wrists right there when I need them. 04:18.360 --> 04:19.840 You use a net, of course. 04:19.840 --> 04:21.320 The net is there, yes, but... 04:21.320 --> 04:23.640 The net is nothing in Nicky's triple. 04:23.640 --> 04:27.400 After the third spin on the breakout, so fast he comes, he would overshoot the apron every 04:27.400 --> 04:28.400 time. 04:28.400 --> 04:31.080 But we never think about that. 04:31.080 --> 04:40.160 There will always be Rudy there to catch me. 04:40.160 --> 04:44.840 Nicky had climbed to the pedestal board and was dipping into the rosin. 04:44.840 --> 04:47.800 Feather reached for the fly bar ready for her first leap. 04:47.800 --> 04:52.800 As she started her swing, I locked my legs in the uprights and hung head down to catch 04:52.800 --> 04:56.600 her. 04:56.600 --> 05:03.680 On the catch, I thought of that day we started rehearsals, the first time I caught Feather. 05:03.680 --> 05:08.840 It was the first time there had ever been bad words between Nicky and me. 05:08.840 --> 05:12.480 I remembered that and the things that came after. 05:12.480 --> 05:14.080 That's terrible! 05:14.080 --> 05:15.360 Come down here! 05:15.360 --> 05:16.360 Wait, Feather. 05:16.360 --> 05:17.360 What's that? 05:17.360 --> 05:18.360 I said come down here! 05:18.360 --> 05:19.360 Feather! 05:19.360 --> 05:20.360 You too, Rudy! 05:20.360 --> 05:21.360 What's eating him? 05:21.360 --> 05:22.360 We will see. 05:22.360 --> 05:24.400 But don't try a come down drive in the net. 05:24.400 --> 05:25.400 Take the rope. 05:25.400 --> 05:28.400 Hey, why do you get a spirit level on that long bar? 05:28.400 --> 05:29.400 The frame looks stock-eyed. 05:29.400 --> 05:32.400 Here, I will help you. 05:32.400 --> 05:33.400 Thanks. 05:33.400 --> 05:38.000 You handled that net up there like it was a mattress. 05:38.000 --> 05:41.560 No, the net is never friendly. 05:41.560 --> 05:43.320 But it is better now than in the old days. 05:43.320 --> 05:48.040 In my father's time, the nets were made by fishermen and they had knots at the joints. 05:48.040 --> 05:49.040 What's the trouble, Nicky? 05:49.040 --> 05:50.900 Why did you call us down? 05:50.900 --> 05:54.520 Because I thought it might be interesting to find out from Feather here just what she 05:54.520 --> 05:56.600 calls that stunt she favored us with. 05:56.600 --> 05:57.600 Well, I'm sorry. 05:57.600 --> 05:59.880 It was a flyer we wanted, not a clown. 05:59.880 --> 06:01.280 I know it was bad. 06:01.280 --> 06:02.280 Bad? 06:02.280 --> 06:05.200 Never saw such a belt of arms and legs going in all directions. 06:05.200 --> 06:06.480 Well, the first try is... 06:06.480 --> 06:08.080 I thought you were a flyer. 06:08.080 --> 06:09.080 I'll do it again. 06:09.080 --> 06:12.400 Yes, you'll do it again and again and again. 06:12.400 --> 06:15.600 You will please not make me sick with such a performance as I just saw. 06:15.600 --> 06:17.920 Nicky, do not be so hard on her. 06:17.920 --> 06:18.920 Anyone can get rusty. 06:18.920 --> 06:20.960 We've got three weeks to get this act ready. 06:20.960 --> 06:23.240 You will please not boss my act. 06:23.240 --> 06:24.680 Your act? 06:24.680 --> 06:25.680 Feather will rest. 06:25.680 --> 06:26.680 You will rehearse. 06:26.680 --> 06:28.280 Get up on the fly bar. 06:28.280 --> 06:29.440 You cannot order me around like this. 06:29.440 --> 06:30.440 Get up on the fly bar. 06:30.440 --> 06:31.440 I'm sorry, Rudy. 06:31.440 --> 06:33.920 I guess we better call this rehearsal off. 06:33.920 --> 06:35.360 You do not make the decisions. 06:35.360 --> 06:37.120 I am Gallardo. 06:37.120 --> 06:38.840 Just the same. 06:38.840 --> 06:42.720 I am going to my dressing room. 06:42.720 --> 06:49.560 Come in. 06:49.560 --> 06:56.320 Nicky, what have I done? 06:56.320 --> 06:58.880 Rudy, what's the matter with you? 06:58.880 --> 07:00.320 I do not know, truly. 07:00.320 --> 07:01.320 I do not know. 07:01.320 --> 07:03.160 I never saw you so touchy. 07:03.160 --> 07:06.760 To think I would talk to you like that, just the same as my own brother you are. 07:06.760 --> 07:08.360 I'm sorry, Nicky. 07:08.360 --> 07:09.840 That's all right. 07:09.840 --> 07:12.520 But Rudy, watch it. 07:12.520 --> 07:14.080 It's no good for a catcher to get jumpy. 07:14.080 --> 07:17.800 It is just the last few days since that woman has been here. 07:17.800 --> 07:18.800 Feather? 07:18.800 --> 07:19.800 Yes. 07:19.800 --> 07:22.320 Did you ever see anything so beautiful? 07:22.320 --> 07:23.320 And yet there is something. 07:23.320 --> 07:25.200 I do not know. 07:25.200 --> 07:27.040 I cannot explain it. 07:27.040 --> 07:28.840 You cannot reach her. 07:28.840 --> 07:29.840 Like her eyes. 07:29.840 --> 07:30.840 Have you noticed her eyes? 07:30.840 --> 07:31.840 Well, of course. 07:31.840 --> 07:35.520 They are big and yellow like the eyes of a cat. 07:35.520 --> 07:41.800 And you look into them for a deepness that should be there and see only that they are 07:41.800 --> 07:42.800 big and yellow. 07:42.800 --> 07:43.800 No, come now, Rudy. 07:43.800 --> 07:44.800 That's... 07:44.800 --> 07:49.180 And you wonder if maybe the deepness is not for you to see. 07:49.180 --> 07:54.040 So you look again and again and it becomes a frantic searching for something that should 07:54.040 --> 07:55.320 be there. 07:55.320 --> 07:58.320 I'm afraid I don't understand. 07:58.320 --> 08:02.720 I guess I do not understand either, but she bothers me. 08:02.720 --> 08:05.560 Rudy, she's only been here a few days. 08:05.560 --> 08:08.000 Yes, that is it, Nicky. 08:08.000 --> 08:10.800 It is because she is new. 08:10.800 --> 08:25.840 My friend, Feather is as old as Eve. 08:25.840 --> 08:30.440 Rudy, don't jump like that. 08:30.440 --> 08:32.480 I'm not going to bite you. 08:32.480 --> 08:34.800 You startled me. 08:34.800 --> 08:36.920 I was thinking about that cat. 08:36.920 --> 08:39.080 I think you're scared of me. 08:39.080 --> 08:41.880 We've been on the road for over a month and you've hardly talked to me. 08:41.880 --> 08:43.480 No, it is not that. 08:43.480 --> 08:44.480 Maybe you're shy. 08:44.480 --> 08:45.480 Is that it? 08:45.480 --> 08:46.480 Maybe. 08:46.480 --> 08:49.480 Oh, Rudy, you're cute. 08:49.480 --> 08:55.560 Hey, I've seen you staring into that cage before. 08:55.560 --> 08:56.560 What's the fascination? 08:56.560 --> 08:58.760 I do not know. 08:58.760 --> 08:59.760 She's lovely. 08:59.760 --> 09:02.440 I think you're in love with that cat. 09:02.440 --> 09:06.600 Did you know a black panther like that one killed Nicky's father? 09:06.600 --> 09:07.600 No. 09:07.600 --> 09:09.480 Not many people work with black panthers. 09:09.480 --> 09:13.000 Nicky's father had eight tigers and the panther, which he loved. 09:13.000 --> 09:14.880 A beautiful animal. 09:14.880 --> 09:18.000 One night in the ring, the panther ripped him open. 09:18.000 --> 09:23.720 When they brought him to the dressing room already dead, Nicky's mother looked at him, 09:23.720 --> 09:28.160 and took a gun to the menagerie and shot each cat between the eyes. 09:28.160 --> 09:30.360 Then she turned the gun on herself. 09:30.360 --> 09:33.480 That is when my mother took Nicky to raise. 09:33.480 --> 09:35.160 Oh, that's horrible. 09:35.160 --> 09:37.800 That is life. 09:37.800 --> 09:38.800 Things happen. 09:38.800 --> 09:42.880 But why do you come so often to stare into this cage? 09:42.880 --> 09:44.880 I do not know. 09:44.880 --> 09:45.880 She's so beautiful. 09:45.880 --> 09:49.560 I cannot figure out her treachery. 09:49.560 --> 09:53.200 You're a strange one. 09:53.200 --> 09:54.200 We're moving tomorrow. 09:54.200 --> 09:57.200 Yeah, I know. 09:57.200 --> 10:02.200 Rudy, don't you think I'm beautiful? 10:02.200 --> 10:03.200 Oh, yes. 10:03.200 --> 10:06.560 Well, what's the matter? 10:06.560 --> 10:08.600 Don't you like me? 10:08.600 --> 10:12.200 Rudy, don't you like me? 10:12.200 --> 10:13.680 Feather. 10:13.680 --> 10:21.800 Well, that's better. 10:21.800 --> 10:23.200 I don't like to be ignored. 10:23.200 --> 10:26.200 It bothers me. 10:26.200 --> 10:27.200 Feather. 10:27.200 --> 10:28.200 Beautiful feather. 10:28.200 --> 10:29.200 Rudy, you're cute. 10:29.200 --> 10:30.200 You're real cute. 10:30.200 --> 10:31.200 Hey, Rudy, hand me that towel. 10:31.200 --> 10:32.200 Catch. 10:32.200 --> 10:33.200 Thanks. 10:33.200 --> 10:34.200 Well, it's a good show tonight, huh? 10:34.200 --> 10:54.680 Yes. 10:54.680 --> 10:56.040 Your best clothes are up. 10:56.040 --> 10:57.840 I'm going into town tonight. 10:57.840 --> 10:58.840 We're moving tomorrow. 10:58.840 --> 10:59.840 I know it. 10:59.840 --> 11:00.840 Where are you going? 11:00.840 --> 11:01.840 What are you going to do tonight yourself? 11:01.840 --> 11:06.560 I think I will go play pinnacle with Princess Olga. 11:06.560 --> 11:07.560 Princess Olga? 11:07.560 --> 11:08.560 She's over 70. 11:08.560 --> 11:14.200 Rudy, why don't you get yourself a girl and have a little fun, huh? 11:14.200 --> 11:15.200 You have a girl, Nicky? 11:15.200 --> 11:18.200 I'm taking Feather into town. 11:18.200 --> 11:19.200 You're taking Feather? 11:19.200 --> 11:20.200 Yeah. 11:20.200 --> 11:22.440 I'm going to have a little fun. 11:22.440 --> 11:23.440 You like Feather? 11:23.440 --> 11:25.720 Oh, she's quite a girl. 11:25.720 --> 11:27.600 Are you in love with her? 11:27.600 --> 11:28.880 No. 11:28.880 --> 11:30.440 Maybe I am. 11:30.440 --> 11:32.040 I love her. 11:32.040 --> 11:34.040 What? 11:34.040 --> 11:36.480 I love Feather. 11:36.480 --> 11:38.720 But you hardly talk to her. 11:38.720 --> 11:40.400 What do you mean? 11:40.400 --> 11:42.880 I guess I have loved her from the first time I saw her. 11:42.880 --> 11:45.160 Today she followed me into the menagerie after matinee. 11:45.160 --> 11:46.300 I kissed her. 11:46.300 --> 11:47.300 She wanted me to. 11:47.300 --> 11:49.040 Oh, Rudy, she was teasing you. 11:49.040 --> 11:50.040 Don't say that. 11:50.040 --> 11:51.040 All right, all right. 11:51.040 --> 11:52.040 Don't get sore. 11:52.040 --> 11:56.380 But look, she's my girl. 11:56.380 --> 11:58.000 Why should you have everything? 11:58.000 --> 12:00.400 What's the matter with you, Rudy? 12:00.400 --> 12:01.400 I'm jealous. 12:01.400 --> 12:05.200 You know, lots of times I don't understand you. 12:05.200 --> 12:07.600 Right now I don't understand you at all. 12:07.600 --> 12:08.600 This is silly. 12:08.600 --> 12:11.520 There shouldn't be this trouble between us. 12:11.520 --> 12:13.560 You are right, Nicky. 12:13.560 --> 12:20.720 It is not good. 12:20.720 --> 12:27.440 But the trouble was there and it grew until now, this night, when I knew that I must kill 12:27.440 --> 12:28.440 Nicky. 12:28.440 --> 12:31.920 I knew how it must be done, in the triple. 12:31.920 --> 12:34.280 Then there would be no mistake. 12:34.280 --> 12:37.760 Just a little higher on my backswing. 12:37.760 --> 12:41.680 Just a little slower coming in, a part of a second. 12:41.680 --> 13:04.800 And then, after the third spin, on the breakout, Nicky would reach and I would not be there. 13:04.800 --> 13:11.440 You are listening to Gallardo, tonight's presentation in Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 13:11.440 --> 13:12.440 Suspense. 13:12.440 --> 13:23.520 Now, a public service message from CBS Radio. 13:23.520 --> 13:29.080 In time of flood or fire or other disaster, feeling sorry for the victims is not enough. 13:29.080 --> 13:33.200 When disaster strikes, someone must be on the spot and on the job to help. 13:33.200 --> 13:35.760 With your support, the Red Cross will be there. 13:35.760 --> 13:40.200 Join and serve your local Red Cross chapter now. 13:40.200 --> 13:47.600 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Victor Perrin, starring in tonight's production, 13:47.600 --> 13:48.600 Gallardo. 13:48.600 --> 14:02.840 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 14:02.840 --> 14:06.520 We were midway through the act, preparing for the passing leap. 14:06.520 --> 14:11.720 It is a flashy thing, not difficult, but our timing had to be perfect. 14:11.720 --> 14:16.120 I sat on the bar of the catch trap and checked the tape on my wrists. 14:16.120 --> 14:18.860 Feather and Nicky dipped into the rosin. 14:18.860 --> 14:27.880 I waited for the signal and I remembered. 14:27.880 --> 14:32.320 I remembered we'd been out about three months when we hit the storm. 14:32.320 --> 14:35.400 Rain, rain day and night. 14:35.400 --> 14:38.840 We played to empty houses and lived in mud. 14:38.840 --> 14:43.420 Then came the wind that ripped the canvas and splintered the king pole. 14:43.420 --> 14:44.420 We had to cancel. 14:44.420 --> 14:49.560 We could not move on because a washout had closed the roads to all but emergency traffic 14:49.560 --> 14:52.140 and our wagons could not get through. 14:52.140 --> 14:59.600 This is not good for circus people to sit and wait. 14:59.600 --> 15:03.120 Allow me to remind you again, Princess Olga, it was your trick. 15:03.120 --> 15:04.120 You draw. 15:04.120 --> 15:06.120 Oh, oh yeah. 15:06.120 --> 15:11.840 Roger, for goodness sake, stop that drumming with your fingers. 15:11.840 --> 15:13.360 Sorry. 15:13.360 --> 15:15.120 And what is that, please? 15:15.120 --> 15:16.120 My melt. 15:16.120 --> 15:18.280 You melt before you draw. 15:18.280 --> 15:20.080 You have already drawn a card. 15:20.080 --> 15:23.120 Rodolfo Gallardo, I have had enough of your susanus. 15:23.120 --> 15:28.040 I have been playing pinnacle for twice as many years as you have been born now. 15:28.040 --> 15:29.040 Mind your manners. 15:29.040 --> 15:30.040 I am sorry. 15:30.040 --> 15:31.040 I should hope so. 15:31.040 --> 15:32.040 Forget the cards. 15:32.040 --> 15:35.040 I will make us some tea. 15:35.040 --> 15:39.640 I visited the stables this morning. 15:39.640 --> 15:42.760 My horses are as ill-tempered as the rest of us. 15:42.760 --> 15:44.400 Ah, it is this waiting... 15:44.400 --> 15:47.880 This circus must move to breathe free. 15:47.880 --> 15:53.800 I will have tea ready soon. 15:53.800 --> 15:54.800 Roger. 15:54.800 --> 15:55.800 Yes? 15:55.800 --> 16:04.160 I have known you since you were born and your parents before you. 16:04.160 --> 16:05.760 Nicky too. 16:05.760 --> 16:07.760 I was on the show. 16:07.760 --> 16:12.200 I remember so well. 16:12.200 --> 16:14.600 I was ready for my turn. 16:14.600 --> 16:18.240 Waiting in the tunnel. 16:18.240 --> 16:21.080 That night the panther... 16:21.080 --> 16:29.200 Well, anyway, I am not just a meddlesome old woman. 16:29.200 --> 16:31.080 Is it true what I hear? 16:31.080 --> 16:32.080 What is that? 16:32.080 --> 16:35.120 That Nicky is running with that woman and drinking. 16:35.120 --> 16:37.240 A flier does not drink during season. 16:37.240 --> 16:43.440 They are saying that Nicky goes into the towns with that woman and comes back drunk. 16:43.440 --> 16:44.440 You didn't, no? 16:44.440 --> 16:45.440 No. 16:45.440 --> 16:48.720 No, I guess Nicky has not had much time for me lately. 16:48.720 --> 16:49.720 No, that woman. 16:49.720 --> 16:50.720 She is bad. 16:50.720 --> 16:51.720 The feather? 16:51.720 --> 16:52.720 That genicum lately. 16:52.720 --> 16:53.720 She doesn't belong. 16:53.720 --> 16:54.720 She is not certain. 16:54.720 --> 16:56.440 She is a good flier. 16:56.440 --> 16:59.320 She is a perfect machine. 16:59.320 --> 17:04.560 The precision of her movements is like a mathematical truth, but there is something missing. 17:04.560 --> 17:05.560 What, heart? 17:05.560 --> 17:06.560 Heart? 17:06.560 --> 17:07.560 She has no heart. 17:07.560 --> 17:08.560 She is beautiful. 17:08.560 --> 17:09.560 Ah! 17:09.560 --> 17:10.560 Well, all right. 17:10.560 --> 17:11.560 So she is. 17:11.560 --> 17:12.560 This is no reason for Nicky to lose his head. 17:12.560 --> 17:13.560 Let him have his fun. 17:13.560 --> 17:14.560 He is a beautiful man. 17:14.560 --> 17:15.560 Yes, he is. 17:15.560 --> 17:21.000 But drinking at late hours is not for a flier, not during season. 17:21.000 --> 17:22.560 I will talk to him. 17:22.560 --> 17:24.560 Do that, Rudy. 17:24.560 --> 17:38.520 I don't want to meddle, but do that. 17:38.520 --> 17:40.120 I have been looking for you, Nicky. 17:40.120 --> 17:41.280 What are you doing? 17:41.280 --> 17:43.040 I had some money locked in my trunk. 17:43.040 --> 17:44.040 I wanted to get it. 17:44.040 --> 17:45.040 I'm going into town. 17:45.040 --> 17:48.680 Whitey has permission to take a truck through to get supplies. 17:48.680 --> 17:49.680 I'm going with him. 17:49.680 --> 17:51.920 This waiting is driving me crazy. 17:51.920 --> 17:53.920 Are you taking Feather? 17:53.920 --> 17:55.080 No. 17:55.080 --> 17:57.600 What difference would it make if I was? 17:57.600 --> 17:59.600 No difference, I guess. 17:59.600 --> 18:02.960 Rudy, why don't you try minding your own business? 18:02.960 --> 18:03.960 What do you mean? 18:03.960 --> 18:06.480 You're always clucking around like an old mother hen. 18:06.480 --> 18:07.480 No, I am not. 18:07.480 --> 18:09.520 I have hardly talked to you lately. 18:09.520 --> 18:11.200 The way you look at me, I don't like it. 18:11.200 --> 18:12.960 What are you saying, Nicky? 18:12.960 --> 18:17.240 I haven't seen enough of you to even know if what they are saying is true. 18:17.240 --> 18:19.360 They are saying? 18:19.360 --> 18:21.080 Tell me, what is it that they are saying? 18:21.080 --> 18:22.720 That you have been drinking. 18:22.720 --> 18:24.440 Is it true? 18:24.440 --> 18:25.440 Is it true? 18:25.440 --> 18:26.440 I am not a child, Rudy. 18:26.440 --> 18:28.760 They say you take Feather into town and that you come back drunk. 18:28.760 --> 18:29.760 That's it. 18:29.760 --> 18:30.760 You are jealous. 18:30.760 --> 18:31.760 No, I am not. 18:31.760 --> 18:32.760 You are. 18:32.760 --> 18:34.640 You're jealous because Feather prefers me. 18:34.640 --> 18:36.120 That is not what counts now. 18:36.120 --> 18:38.080 A flyer does not drink during the season. 18:38.080 --> 18:39.280 I do my act, do I not? 18:39.280 --> 18:40.280 I'm good. 18:40.280 --> 18:41.280 The triple? 18:41.280 --> 18:42.280 I'm as good as Codona, you say so yourself. 18:42.280 --> 18:45.880 You are splendid, Nicky, but you can't afford one mistake. 18:45.880 --> 18:46.880 You make me sick. 18:46.880 --> 18:47.880 I know you, Rudy. 18:47.880 --> 18:49.160 You are jealous of that too. 18:49.160 --> 18:50.160 What? 18:50.160 --> 18:52.120 That I am the flyer while you hang in the catch trap. 18:52.120 --> 18:55.040 Yes, you are gayado, but the applause is for me, huh? 18:55.040 --> 18:56.040 Oh no, Nicky. 18:56.040 --> 18:57.040 Come on, be honest, Rudy. 18:57.040 --> 18:58.040 You hate me. 18:58.040 --> 18:59.040 Nicky, no. 18:59.040 --> 19:00.040 Oh no. 19:00.040 --> 19:01.040 Hi. 19:01.040 --> 19:04.600 Oh, I've got to have somebody to talk to. 19:04.600 --> 19:07.880 I don't know how you boys feel about it, but if we don't move out of this soggy dump pretty 19:07.880 --> 19:09.320 soon I'm going nuts. 19:09.320 --> 19:10.320 Hello, Feather. 19:10.320 --> 19:12.480 Hey, Nicky, you're all dressed up. 19:12.480 --> 19:13.480 Where are you going? 19:13.480 --> 19:14.480 Into town. 19:14.480 --> 19:15.480 Whitey's taking a truck in. 19:15.480 --> 19:16.480 Take me with you? 19:16.480 --> 19:17.480 I'm afraid I can't. 19:17.480 --> 19:18.480 Oh, please, Nicky. 19:18.480 --> 19:19.480 I want to get away from this place. 19:19.480 --> 19:20.480 It's not possible. 19:20.480 --> 19:21.480 Nicky, please. 19:21.480 --> 19:22.480 No. 19:22.480 --> 19:23.480 Nicky. 19:23.480 --> 19:27.560 Well, how do you like that? 19:27.560 --> 19:31.040 Feather, your clothes, they are wet. 19:31.040 --> 19:32.380 What else? 19:32.380 --> 19:34.480 In case you'd like to know, it's raining. 19:34.480 --> 19:37.720 Look at these shoes, soaked. 19:37.720 --> 19:38.720 No. 19:38.720 --> 19:39.720 What's the matter? 19:39.720 --> 19:40.720 Your shoes. 19:40.720 --> 19:41.720 Well? 19:41.720 --> 19:42.720 On the makeup shelf. 19:42.720 --> 19:43.720 So? 19:43.720 --> 19:44.720 Take them off. 19:44.720 --> 19:45.720 What? 19:45.720 --> 19:46.720 Take them off! 19:46.720 --> 19:48.080 Rudy, what's eating you? 19:48.080 --> 19:49.640 It is bad luck. 19:49.640 --> 19:52.720 Oh, I think this rain's driving everybody nuts. 19:52.720 --> 19:55.440 In a tent, show shoes on the makeup shelf bring bad luck. 19:55.440 --> 19:56.960 All circus people know that. 19:56.960 --> 20:01.040 Honestly, if that isn't the silliest thing I ever heard, you circus people. 20:01.040 --> 20:02.040 Never mind, Feather. 20:02.040 --> 20:03.040 Forget it. 20:03.040 --> 20:04.040 Oh, Rudy. 20:04.040 --> 20:05.040 You're cute. 20:05.040 --> 20:12.520 Why don't you come over to my wagon and keep me company? 20:12.520 --> 20:14.600 I have some wine. 20:14.600 --> 20:15.600 Thank you, Feather. 20:15.600 --> 20:16.600 I do not drink. 20:16.600 --> 20:17.600 That's all right. 20:17.600 --> 20:19.600 Come and keep me company anyway. 20:19.600 --> 20:21.600 I don't want to be alone. 20:21.600 --> 20:22.800 This rain. 20:22.800 --> 20:24.520 I would like that. 20:24.520 --> 20:25.720 Oh, wait. 20:25.720 --> 20:26.720 My shoes. 20:26.720 --> 20:27.720 Here. 20:27.720 --> 20:30.560 Here, let me help you. 20:30.560 --> 20:32.560 What's the matter, Rudy? 20:32.560 --> 20:33.560 Matter? 20:33.560 --> 20:35.240 You're shaking. 20:35.240 --> 20:36.240 What? 20:36.240 --> 20:37.240 Why, I... 20:37.240 --> 20:38.240 Okay, Rudy. 20:38.240 --> 20:39.240 Well, come on. 20:39.240 --> 20:51.280 I don't think I'd like that nifty going off like that without me. 20:51.280 --> 20:58.320 There, now. 20:58.320 --> 21:04.560 That little wine didn't hurt you, did it? 21:04.560 --> 21:05.560 Now we'll have one together. 21:05.560 --> 21:06.560 Here, let me fill your glass. 21:06.560 --> 21:07.560 No, no, no. 21:07.560 --> 21:08.560 I don't think so, Feather. 21:08.560 --> 21:09.560 No more. 21:09.560 --> 21:10.560 Don't be silly. 21:10.560 --> 21:18.840 I feel much better since I got those wet clothes off and into something comfortable. 21:18.840 --> 21:19.840 Come on, Rudy. 21:19.840 --> 21:20.840 We'll drink a toast. 21:20.840 --> 21:21.840 To us. 21:21.840 --> 21:22.840 To us? 21:22.840 --> 21:25.840 To you and to me? 21:25.840 --> 21:26.840 Feather. 21:26.840 --> 21:30.480 Rudy, for heaven's sakes, quit mooning at me like that. 21:30.480 --> 21:31.480 Don't. 21:31.480 --> 21:34.000 Do not make fun of me. 21:34.000 --> 21:35.000 I love you. 21:35.000 --> 21:36.000 Oh, Rudy. 21:36.000 --> 21:38.720 Please, Feather. 21:38.720 --> 21:42.480 I love you, but you are Nicky's girl. 21:42.480 --> 21:43.480 Nick? 21:43.480 --> 21:47.720 Say, who does he think he is going off like that without me? 21:47.720 --> 21:49.920 I would never leave you. 21:49.920 --> 21:52.760 No, I guess you wouldn't. 21:52.760 --> 21:57.120 But Nicky leaves and then you are here with me. 21:57.120 --> 21:59.520 He can't get away with that stuff with me. 21:59.520 --> 22:02.760 Without Nicky, there would be you and me. 22:02.760 --> 22:04.960 I ought to show him a thing or two. 22:04.960 --> 22:05.960 No, Nicky. 22:05.960 --> 22:06.960 Who does he think he is anyway? 22:06.960 --> 22:08.760 Just us. 22:08.760 --> 22:09.760 More wine. 22:09.760 --> 22:10.760 Who does he think he is? 22:10.760 --> 22:11.760 Feather? 22:11.760 --> 22:12.760 Feather? 22:12.760 --> 22:13.760 Huh? 22:13.760 --> 22:14.760 What? 22:14.760 --> 22:15.760 More wine. 22:15.760 --> 22:18.640 I want to drink again. 22:18.640 --> 22:19.640 To us. 22:19.640 --> 22:20.640 You are right. 22:20.640 --> 22:23.560 You aren't used to this stuff, are you, Rudy? 22:23.560 --> 22:24.560 It is nice. 22:24.560 --> 22:25.560 Yeah. 22:25.560 --> 22:31.360 It is nice to be warm inside and happy with us. 22:31.360 --> 22:32.360 No, Nicky. 22:32.360 --> 22:33.360 Just us. 22:33.360 --> 22:34.360 Not Nicky. 22:34.360 --> 22:38.880 To you, my beautiful panther. 22:38.880 --> 22:39.880 What? 22:39.880 --> 22:42.760 You are beautiful like the panther is beautiful. 22:42.760 --> 22:45.920 Well, I've been called a lot of things. 22:45.920 --> 22:48.200 Yellow eyes like the panther. 22:48.200 --> 22:49.200 You're tight. 22:49.200 --> 22:50.200 What? 22:50.200 --> 22:51.200 You're drunk. 22:51.200 --> 22:52.200 Is that it? 22:52.200 --> 22:53.200 It is nice. 22:53.200 --> 22:58.400 Oh, Rudy, you're cute. 22:58.400 --> 23:01.800 I have not known much happiness such as this. 23:01.800 --> 23:06.160 To sit comfortably with a woman as lovely as you. 23:06.160 --> 23:09.040 To be warm inside. 23:09.040 --> 23:10.040 It's good. 23:10.040 --> 23:11.040 It is very pleasant. 23:11.040 --> 23:12.040 Hey, Feather. 23:12.040 --> 23:14.600 If you can be ready in three minutes, you can go into town. 23:14.600 --> 23:16.560 We'll be down by the cook tent. 23:16.560 --> 23:17.560 Three minutes now. 23:17.560 --> 23:18.560 We don't wait. 23:18.560 --> 23:19.560 Nicky. 23:19.560 --> 23:20.560 What? 23:20.560 --> 23:21.560 You aren't going with him. 23:21.560 --> 23:33.120 Of course I'm going with him, you clown. 23:33.120 --> 23:34.660 The storm passed. 23:34.660 --> 23:36.360 The roads cleared. 23:36.360 --> 23:40.440 And we moved on to the next town and the next and the next. 23:40.440 --> 23:48.080 And always with me was the memory of the warmth and pleasantness of that moment with the woman. 23:48.080 --> 23:51.440 The cruel and beautiful woman. 23:51.440 --> 24:00.240 And the knowing that as long as there was Nicky, this... this could not be for me. 24:00.240 --> 24:07.400 Until finally this night when I knew Nicky must die. 24:07.400 --> 24:10.600 We passed the signal to time the passing leap. 24:10.600 --> 24:16.760 Feather reached for the fly bar and I locked in the uprights ready for the catch. 24:16.760 --> 24:21.680 Feather, then Nicky, then Feather, then Nicky. 24:21.680 --> 24:23.080 Feather, Nicky. 24:23.080 --> 24:26.120 Faster, faster, Feather, Nicky. 24:26.120 --> 24:28.920 Like a juggler, like a crazy juggling act. 24:28.920 --> 24:29.920 Feather, Nicky. 24:29.920 --> 24:31.920 But wait, something was wrong. 24:31.920 --> 24:35.000 Feather, Nicky, it was Nicky. 24:35.000 --> 24:36.000 His timing was off. 24:36.000 --> 24:37.000 Nicky! 24:37.000 --> 24:40.640 He came in too fast at the end of his swing. 24:40.640 --> 24:43.960 I felt that my arms were tearing out but I held. 24:43.960 --> 24:50.120 And in that second I knew Nicky, my brother, my friend, I could not hear Nicky. 24:50.120 --> 24:53.320 What madness had been on me it was that woman. 24:53.320 --> 24:54.320 She did not belong. 24:54.320 --> 24:55.320 She was not Circus Feather. 24:55.320 --> 24:56.320 Nicky, Nicky was taking too much lift. 24:56.320 --> 24:57.320 He was going to... 24:57.320 --> 25:26.240 Ladies and gentlemen, Hansa, direct from the continent of Europe, with her unequaled, 25:26.240 --> 25:43.320 unique question, Interloaf. 25:43.320 --> 25:45.800 That is how it happened. 25:45.800 --> 25:47.960 We were off rhythm. 25:47.960 --> 25:50.080 Nicky took too much lift. 25:50.080 --> 25:54.920 He came in high and crashed me. 25:54.920 --> 26:02.320 In the circus for over 100 years there have been Gallardos. 26:02.320 --> 26:11.600 I am the first Gallardo to tend the cats, the lions, the tigers, the panther. 26:11.600 --> 26:14.560 I find it pleasant enough. 26:14.560 --> 26:20.600 But of course I often think how fine it would be to climb the ladder, to take my place in 26:20.600 --> 26:27.680 the catch trap, wait for the signal, lock in the uprights and get ready for the catch. 26:27.680 --> 26:31.480 Perhaps even in the big show with Nicky and Feather. 26:31.480 --> 26:35.400 Now there is nothing but to watch them. 26:35.400 --> 26:40.800 And this brace, I must wear this brace for always. 26:40.800 --> 26:44.860 Since that night Nicky crashed me and I fell. 26:44.860 --> 26:49.160 I no longer have the shoulders for catching. 26:49.160 --> 26:53.920 There, that is life. 26:53.920 --> 27:01.160 Things happen. 27:01.160 --> 27:13.920 Suspense. 27:13.920 --> 27:19.880 In which Victor Perrin starred with Tony Barrett in tonight's presentation of Gallardo. 27:19.880 --> 27:25.360 Next week we bring you the story of a day in the life of a woman who awaits an execution. 27:25.360 --> 27:27.880 We call it the murderous. 27:27.880 --> 27:43.880 That's next week on Suspense. 27:43.880 --> 28:04.240 Tomorrow night over most of these same stations the FBI in Peace and War takes you along when 28:04.240 --> 28:06.520 they crack open another crime case. 28:06.520 --> 28:10.520 And though you're just an innocent bystander, you'll be in on every single thrill in this 28:10.520 --> 28:14.760 fast moving demonstration of the law in action. 28:14.760 --> 28:20.960 Don't miss the excitement as the FBI in Peace and War goes out to get its man at this time 28:20.960 --> 28:23.120 tomorrow night. 28:23.120 --> 28:27.960 Stay tuned for five minutes of CBS News to be followed on most of these same stations 28:27.960 --> 28:35.480 by the Jack Carson Show. 28:35.480 --> 28:59.000 Thursday nights there's action in the 21st precinct on the CBS Radio Network. 28:59.000 --> 29:18.980 6