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And get ready for unique, rare
in little known treasures from the Golden Age

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of Radio. You're listening to the
Amazing World of Radio with Adam Graham.

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Welcome to the Amazing World of Radio
from Boise, Idaho. This is your

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host, Adam Graham. If you
have a comment, email it to me

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Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot nett
Well. Our final look at radio adaptations

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of films based on radio programs takes
a dramatic turn if we're going to be

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presenting the Luck's radio theater version of
Sorry Wrong Number, Sorry Wrong Number was

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a huge success for the radio series
Suspense. It was one of the stories

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that helped put that series on the
app and made it a radio institution right

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up until the end of the Golden
Age radio. And The story follows Missus

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Stevenson, an elderly bedrid and woman
whose only outlet to the rest of the

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world is her telephone and wires get
crossed and she hears a murder being planned

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now here. I'm going to go
ahead and give a spoiler warning. Yeah,

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we're giving a spoiler warning for an
eighty year old radio program. Let's

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let's go ahead and do that.
So we'll give a spoiler warning and you

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can go and listen to suspense.
Sorry, wrong number if you want to

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hear it for yourself, and you
have not. If you're listening to this

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on YouTube, I'll try to pop
up a card that you can collect to

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go over and listen to the Great
Detectives when we did that over there,

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So we're gonna go ahead and pause
for about ten seconds, all right,

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and that's your spoiler warning. Through
the course of the episode, Missus Stevenson

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finds out that the murder being planned
is her own, and the play ends

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with her being murdered as she was
too late trying to get ahold of the

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police. The police called back to
find out what the nature of the emergency

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was, but the killer picked up
and said, sorry, wrong number.

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And this was such a massive sensation. There were multiple reperformances of it by

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Agnes Moorehead throughout the history of suspense, the last time in nineteen sixty.

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There was a stage play adaptation released
in nineteen forty six, and then we

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get this film from nineteen forty eight, starring two great stars in Barbara Stanwick

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and Burt Lancaster. We are going
to go ahead and listen to the Lux

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Radio Theater adaptation of that one and
a half hour movie. The original air

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date is January the ninth of nineteen
fifty and the title is Sorry Wrong Number,

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Lux Resents Hollywood Leave the Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap

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bring You the Lux Radio Theater,
starring Barbara Stanwick and Burt Lancaster in Sorry

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Wrong Number, Ladies and your producer, mister William Keay readings from Hollywood Ladies

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and Develin. Tonight's play verses the
usual relation between radio and motion pictures.

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Sorry Wrong Number was first a radio
drama and had achieved such success on the

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air that hal Wallace decided to make
a picture of it. He assigned the

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author, Lucille Fletcher to expand her
short drama into a full length screenplay,

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and the result was a triumph of
suspense drama. The rest of the success

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story you know, because the paramount
picture, with Barbara Stanwick and Bert Lancaster

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as the stars, was one of
the top films of the year. Tonight,

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Sorry Wrong Number completes the circle and
comes back to radio with Miss Stanwick

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and mister Lancaster in their original screen
roles. Just as our drama had a

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double success story. So has our
product, Lux Toilets Soup. It's been

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a favorite for years in the regular
size, and now the new bath size

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has made Lux Soap a hit all
over again. The curtain rises now for

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the first act of Sorry Wrong Number, starring Barbara Stanwick as Leona and Burt

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Lancaster as Henry in the Tangles Network
of a Great City. The telephone is

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the unseen link between a million lives, servant of our common needs, confidence

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of our inmost sequence, life and
happiness, wait upon its wings, and

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horror and loneliness, and sometimes even
death. Operator Operator, Operator Operator.

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I've been ringing Murray Hill three two
four nine one for the last half hour,

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and the line is always busy.
Will you ring it for me?

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Please? Hurry Hill three two four
nine and one one moment Please. It's

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my husband's office. He should have
been home hours ago. I can't think

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why that ridiculous wire should be busy. They always close office at six o'clock.

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I am ringing your number. Thank
you. Oh it's busy again.

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Operative, The line is busy now, will you please hello hello missus Stevenson,

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Please hello, I want to speak
to mister Henry Stevenson. Hello,

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George, Hello, what number is
this? Everything'll for tonight? George?

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I beg your pardon, but I'm
using this wire about the time still eleven

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fifteen, eleven fifteen, got it
all straight? Now? Hello? I

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think so. At eleven o'clock,
the private the throw and goes around to

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the bar on Second Avenue for a
beer, and I get in through the

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kitchen window. I wait until the
train goes over the bridge in case the

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window is open and she should scream
who is this hello? Clan says he

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doesn't want her to supper long.
You know me, George, and don't

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forget the jewelry. He want us
to look like a robbery cy. That's

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very important. Okay, now let
me check that. Hello Hello, Oh

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that's awful. That's horrible, operator
operator you you just gave me a wrong

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number. I was calling murray Hill
three two four nine one, but instead

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I was cut into some other number
that you dialed. The wires must have

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been crossed or something, and I
just heard the most dreadful thing, a

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murder. Yes, I want you
to get that wrong number back for me

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at once. I'm I just told
you you dialed a number for me and

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then those those horrible men came on, and well, it's it's unnerved me

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dreadfully. I'm an invalid and opator
man, We'll do something please at the

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cheap operator, May I help you? Well, oh, oh, yes,

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yes you may. I'm an invalid
and I've just had a dreadful shop

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just now on this telephone, and
I'm very anxious to trace the call.

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It was about a murder, a
terrible, cold blooded murder of a poor

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innocent woman. Tonight, at eleven
fifteen, I was trying to reach my

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husband's office. He should have been
home hours ago. It's almost ten o'clock.

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I'm all alone tonight. My nurse
has the night off because my husband

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promised he'd be home by six.
I don't know any of the neighbors as

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we leave permanently in Chicago. And
it it so happens that the couple I

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have working for me had some important
data or other I don't know, a

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movie. I suppose they They said
it was promised them three weeks ago.

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You think that at least I've checked
with me before leaving. They know I'm

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not well. I told you,
I kept getting a busy signal. Then

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I asked the operator to call for
me, and then I'm of a clear

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sky. I was cut into this
ghastly conversation between two killers. Oh,

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for heaven's sake, all this idiotic
red tape. You just sit there and

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let people die. Oh, is
anyone downstairs? Gertrude, Gertrude, are

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you down there? Oh? Oh, worry, give me the police.

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I just told you. Man.
First of all, there's a lot of

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people named George, as for the
private patrolman and second avenue when the bridgeman

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the second avenue was a very long
street. I don't care about. I

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don't know how many bridges. Oh, this is insane. I tell you,

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a woman is going to be murdered
of this sort. It's not much

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more used to worse than no clue
at all, unless you think there's something

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funny about ally, somebody's trying to
murder you me. Oh, that would

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be ridiculous. I mean, why
should anybody? What if I to worry?

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Now just a minute, all right, don't listen to me. Who

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cares? Oh, Henry, why
did you leave me a little? Why

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did you leave me alone here?
Oh he's secretary, Henry's secretary. She'd

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know her numbers on the path Jennys, Miss Jennings, Elizabeth Jennings, Oh,

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I know, Missus Stevenson. I
haven't any idea where mister Stevenson is.

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He was supposed to be home hours
ago. Well that's odd, isn't

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it. The last time I saw
him was when he left this afternoon to

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keep an appointment. What appointment?
Where? Where are? I don't know?

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But I do know he had a
lunchon date with a young lady.

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What young lady? Tell me,
Miss Jennings, missus Lord, missus Frederick

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Lord. She seems very anxious to
see mister Stevens. Missus Lord. I

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heard him make a date to meet
her for lunch. Why, missus Lord

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fawn here this afternoon? Oh yes, the nurse answered, I have the

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memorandum right here, missus Lord.
Four fifty pm. I'm afraid that's all

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I know, Missus Stevenson, But
I'm sure it's nothing to worry about.

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Mister Stevenson, so devoted, he
speaks so beautifully of you. Well,

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if there's anything I can no,
no, thank you, Miss Jennings.

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I do hope I haven't been a
cat out of the bed. Good night,

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Miss Jennings, missus Lord. A
young lady, she said llynch and

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gone all afternoon. Hello, mister
Stevenson, he's not in. Who's calling?

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It's it's mister Evans again. You
know where I could reach you?

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I'm sure I don't know where mister
Stevenson is. Called back later. I

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haven't much time. Yes, fifteen
minutes. And if he should come in.

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Her name is Heavens. It's very
important. Yes, yes, I'll

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tell him. Missus Lord telephone four
fifty pm, murray Hill three nine two

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six six. Hello is missus lord? I this is missus Lord. Who's

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calling? Please? Missus Henry Stevenson. It so happens my husband hasn't come

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home this evening. I've perhaps you
might give me some idea. Yes,

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yes, but I can't talk.
No, you could? I call you

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back? Call me back? Why
is anything wrong? Leona? This is

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Sally, Sally Hunt. Sally,
I'm sorry if I sound ridiculous, but

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I can't talk now. If you're
the Sally Hunt, I'll call you back

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as soon as I can. Leona, Sally, who was just one of

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the girls. Dear she she wanted
a recipe. It joyed like a bottle

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of beer. You got any on
ice? Oh? No, I'm afraid

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not. I'll run down to the
store, Henny, and hurry back.

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Joel is dying Sally Sally Hunt Oh
yes, yes, that was long ago

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college spring dance. He was Sally's
dad. He was with her when I

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met him. Henry Henry dancing with
Sally. Hello, Leona, this is

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mister Henry Stephens. Hello Henry,
Well, can I cut in? You

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don't mind, missfere I come from. It's the man who does the thick.

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All right, go ahead. Why
don't you get somebody your own speed?

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I'm sure there are better dances around. Oh, you'll do all right,

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Henry. Leona knows a way around
the floor. Thank you, darling.

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Well, Henry, let's dance.
So your name is Cutter alone,

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no relation to J. B.
Cuttle distance. He's my father father.

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Anything wrong with her? Oh no, no, nothing wrong. What do

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they call you the asper An eer? You from out of town? Well

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that depends on what you call out
of town. Oh I don't know,

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Carvin. I'm trying to be funny. Okay, what do you call out

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of town? Rasco? Oh?
What college is up there? No college,

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Miss Cultrol, just factories. I
never even finished high school. Neither

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did my father. He always says, if a man has talent for making

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money, why should he waste his
time in school? I guess your old

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man out to know? What do
you say? We sit the next dance

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out. I've got a car,
mister Stevens, and a brand new one,

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a Laganda have a drive one I
never even heard of it. Besides,

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I'm with selling. Oh, don't
worries. She'll never miss you,

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but maybe i'll miss her. Why
didn't you think of that? Oh?

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Come on, he'll be silly.
Oh once, I'm not kidding? So

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long? Was cut a well?
Henry? It took me a few days,

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but I finally got you in my
car. How do you like it?

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Fine? Only we don't go together. It's a lot easier to see

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you here than well with Sally Hunt. I'd never put the two of you

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together in a million years. Why
not? Oh, you're both so different,

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you belong in different worlds. What
are you stopping for? Well?

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Why not? It's nice here?
Sure, it's nice here. Take a

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look. This is grassbrol Stick around
few years and then see how much you

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like it. What do you do, Henry? I work in a drug

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store. Well that's a coincidence.
Sure, I work in a drug store

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and your father owns a hundred of
them? Would you like to meet him?

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Say? Who are you kidding?
Nobody? Dad will like you,

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your young, healthy ambitions. Don't
you stop? What does a girl like

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you want with a guy like me? Dad's coming to New York next weekend.

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I'm cutting my classes on Saturday.
I want to come with me?

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I don't know, And you look
at me like that. I come on,

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let's get out of here. No, not yet, Henry, not

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yet, Darling. Sure I like
him, honey, but he's nobody.

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Layon? And what has he got? Nothing? And what did you have

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Dad? When you started? As
I thought you said, he was sort

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of engaged to that girlfriend of yours, that Sally something. Oh that's all

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over with Dad. I love him, love him? Come on, if

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I really thought you did you know, I'd be No. Don't start telling

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me that, Leona. What's them? You make me laugh? What does

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it really matter to you? If
I love Henry? You're not. All

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you want is for me to stay
here with you for the rest of your

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life. You're afraid of losing that
have don't I always let you do anything

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you ever wanted to do? But
marriage is something else. I've worked hard.

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I built up a big business just
for you, and you yourself,

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wouldn't want to see some worthless clock
of a husband, a guy who alone.

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You don't care about me. You're
thinking only of yourself and your business.

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You're hateful, selfish and hate Leona. Stop it, dude. You'll

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make yourself safe. And what good
is your wonderful money and your wonderful business

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If I'm dead, Yes, that's
what you want to do. Drive me

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into my grave. You don't care, just as long as your business is

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saying. Oh can you say things? Oh wait, don't touch me.

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Don't you dare touch me, darling, Listen to me. I don't mean

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Oh look, we'll talk it all
over again, says oh Leona Wilson Wilson

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quick color doctor Sally Sally, and
I took Henry away from her. She

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couldn't stand it, even after all
these years. She couldn't stand it going

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to him today, seeing him in
his office. Helloa, this is Sally

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again. I'm sorry I had to
be so mysterious before, but I just

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couldn't talk at home my husband.
Well, this is all certainly rather odd,

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to say the least. This whole
thing was seemed very peculiar to you,

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Leona, hearing from me after all
these years. But I had to

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see Henry again today. I've been
so worried about him, worry about what

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well my my husband. He's with
the District Attorney's office. And a couple

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of weeks ago, funny Sally here
in the newspaper about an old boyfriend of

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yours old boyfriend, Remember Henry Stevenson. Picture is in the paper. Mister

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and missus Henry Stevenson. She's the
formerly owned could Roll of Lake Forest,

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Illinois, taken a house for the
summer and Sutton Place, Missus Stevenson and

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poor health for several years. Is
here to consult with specialists, Mister Stevenson,

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advice president of the cut Roll Drug
Corporation. Are you tearing it out

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for me? Oh? No,
Now I make him in a handy in

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the case I'm working on. What's
sort of the case? Oh, special

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investigation? Joe's nive wouldn't Henry hasn't
done anything wrong? As sorry, I

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one too many questions. Hey,
don't tell me you're still stuck on that

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guy. Oh, don't be sick. Hello, anything happened Joe and Stevenson

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fell for Oh, shure, we'll
go look. Tell Ball can line it

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up now, five thousands enough one
hundred dollar bills and make sure they marked.

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And for Pete's sake, keep your
mouth shut. It seems involved the

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I don't know what you're trying to
tell. Await my finish. I know

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I didn't have any right to do
it. But that Thursday I went to

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South Ferry. I don't know what
I expected to see that well, anyway,

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I spotted Fred and his friend Joe
from the police. There was another

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man with them, I guess the
one who was to bring the five thousand

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dollars in mark bills. Well,
I followed them aboard the ferry and over

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to Staten Island. They went far
out to a very desolated stretch of beach,

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nothing but a few broken down shacks
in an old, deserted house.

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I had to stay way behind them
so they wouldn't see me. But then

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they went in the house. That
gave me a chance to come closer.

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There was a freshly painted sign out
the front twenty dunstan Terrace. It said,

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and the name Evans w Evans.
Do you know it? I've never

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heard of it? Well, what
happened. Well. After a while,

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a motor boat came into shore and
tied up at a pier and back of

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a house. A man sort of
elderly got out of the boat and went

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into the house. He was carrying
a suit case. A little later,

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my husband came out, only now
he had the suit case. While he

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didn't come mom until late that night. Now I was dying to ask him

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what happened, what possible connection it
could have with Henley. Well, I

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didn't dare ask him, Leona,
but things have happened since, and unless

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we do something, something drastic,
it may be too late. You're five

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minutes are up? Please depart for
the next five minutes, Just a minute,

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please, I know I have another
Nicola. Are still there? Leon

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him? This is one of the
queerest things I've ever heard. Yes,

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I know, and I just didn't
seem to be able to connect Henry with

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it. That's why I finally went
to see him today. What did you

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find out? I met him for
lunch. He told the captain he was

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expecting a very important phone call,
and then we sat down. It's been

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a long time, Sally, eight
year. Tell me how's dear old dress?

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For all these days. I don't
know, Henry, I haven't been

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there. So you're married, how
living here in New York. Yes,

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my husband's with the District Attorney's office. That's why I wanted Henry. What

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I But what I'm trying to say
is this. A few days ago,

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I saw a picture of you in
the newspaper Vice President. Now sounds beautiful,

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doesn't it. Biggest drug business in
the country. I was sorry to

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read that the owner isn't well.
Yes, Chicago doctors don't seem to know

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just what it is her trouble.
I mean, Henry, what do you

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do in the drug business? Push
buttons like all other vice presidents? Oh,

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but I'm serious, so am I
I'm almost as important as the office.

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Boy. Don't mean to be inquisitive. I only need this for your

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own good. I mean, what
for my own good? Well, yesterday

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my husband was making out a record
a phone call mister Stevens. Oh thanks,

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excuse me, Sallie, I'll be
right back. Well I waited a

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while the owner, but Henry didn't
come back, and then five cents for

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the next five minutes. Operator,
but I haven't been talking five minutes.

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I deposited another nickel one please depart
another five fins, but I haven't any

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more changed. Hello, Leon,
I'll have to call you back, but

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I only want to say that Henry
never came back to the table and that

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he is in trouble. Fris been
talking to the police. I've heard him

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mention Henry's name over and over again. And if someone else man called Evan.

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Your five minutes are up, Madam
bulldo Evan me owned that house?

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Dotnot? And I am sorry,
madam. I will have to be connect

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you. He verse. The chargers
put them on this floor the later in

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a few moments, we'll bring you
back to Oh. Sorry, wrong number.

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Now here's Libby Collins, our Hollywood
reporter. Well, Libby, that

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was a gaily evening we all had
at the premiere of twentieth Century Fox's new

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picture twelve o'clock High. Yes,
indeed, and for one person in particular,

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it must have been the thrill of
a lifetime. I'm thinking about our

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little lux girl, Jackie Barne,
a winner of the national contest for the

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prettiest fifteen year old Lux Girl.
Huh. Jackie was an honor a guest

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at the premiere. She certainly was
a radiant youngster. She got more compliments

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than she could count that evening.
Well, that's the way it is with

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Lux girls, Livy. You know, Jackie was telling me how impressed she

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was with twelve o'clock High, as
everyone was. It's always good news when

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Gregory Peck has a cast, and
this time I think he has the best

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role of his career. Yes,
he makes the tough commander of a wartime

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bomber group an unforgettable personality. It's
a gripping story. You feel intensely,

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the dangerous flying sequences, the day
by day's strain those men endured. The

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whole cast is magnificent. Twelve o'clock
High is one picture living where the men

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take the honor. Yes, except
for Joyce Mackenzie. She plays the one

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feminine role, makes her debut in
pictures as the army nurse m there's another

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lovely Lux girl. She is indeed
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three out of four cases, skin
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No wonder luck Stolet soap is the
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Hollywood but all over the country.
If you hadn't tried it, why not

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begin your luck soap facials tomorrow.
Remember nine out of ten screen stars recommend

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this gentle protecting care. Now our
producer, mister William Keeley Act two of

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Sorry Wrong Numbers, starring Barbara Stanwick
as Leona and Bert Lancaster as Henry.

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It's a moment or so later.
Through an open window, the night air

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lifts slowly in Leona's window, heavy
with the heat of a New York summer.

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Leona lies motionless on the bed,
and the sounds of the night become

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magnified. The tugboats on the river, the hum of distant traffic, the

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muffle roar, the train passing over
a bridge, and then suddenly, Hello,

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Leona, this is Sally again.
Can you hear me? I can

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hear you. I'm calling from the
subway station. The stores around here are

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all closed. I've just been home, Leona, and some morn has happened.

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That house on Statf Island, the
one I told you about when it

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was burned down this afternoon. The
police have captured three men, but this

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Waldo Evans escape. But who is
Waldo Evans? And but Heaven's sake,

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what's his connection with my husband?
I still don't know, Leona, and

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I do know the whole thing has
something to do with your father's car.

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Oh, that's absurd. My father
called me from Chicago this afternoon. He

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never mentioned a word. Now,
look who's been arrested and why? Three

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men? And I don't know why? And why do you think Henry's one

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of them? I didn't say that. I only know that somehow he's terribly

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involved. Did anyone say he was
going to be arrested? No, not

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exactly. Then what are you talking
about? Why are you calling me like

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this? Are you still jealous that
I took Henry away from you? Can't

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you bear to see me happy?
Can't you stop telling lies and making trouble?

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Even I can't talking, and I'm
right, you are just trying to

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make trouble. Oh no, Fred
and Joe, they're coming down the subway

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platform. If my husband should see
me, Leon, I've got to hang

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up. Hello. Oh, yes, this is Western Union. We have

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a message for missus Henry Stevens.
This is Missus Stevenson. The telegram is

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as follows, Darling terribly sorry,
but last minute remembered annual drug convention tomorrow

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in Boston, taking next train out. Thanks Sunday morning. Keep well all

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my love and signed Henry. That
is all, madam. Do you wish

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us to deliver a copy of it? Oh? Oh, I waies the

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bridge, kiss your windows. Sorry, I got your message, George.

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Everything okay for tonight, and I
wait till the train goes over the bridge

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and I wait ah ah, hello
doctor Alexander. Doctor, this is missus

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Stevenson. Oh yes, Missus Stevenson. How are you? I need you

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right away? Doctor? Please come
right over. No, no, Missus

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Stevenson. What seems to be I
said? I want you to come over

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at once. I'm afraid I can
tonight, Missus Stevenson, Now be sensible

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if you just make up your mind
to co operate with your husband and me

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and our plane. Lana Hutton,
what are you talking about, Missus Stevenson.

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I explained everything in my letter over
a week ago. Letter. What

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letter? But surely your husband hasn't
he spoken to you, Missus Stevens about

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what? Look? You try to
compose yourself now and perhaps we can discuss

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it tomorrow. We discuss it now. Do you hear me now this very

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minute? If you insist upon knowing? Your husband called at my office about

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ten days ago. You seem concerned
about your continuing natural thing. Anyway,

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we discussed your illness a great place. It's still a positive me doctor.

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I still don't know what's wrong with
her where mister Stevenson, your wife's illness

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seems to date far back to her
early childhood. Is that true? Yes?

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I suppose so. But you knew
nothing about it when you married her.

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No, not only for a couple
of years. You see, we

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were we were living with her father
then in Lake Forest, I remember early.

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One more, why did you do
that, Henry? Why did you

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send the maid for my handbag?
Why? Because there's something in it that

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I mean, Well, how much
money do you want? I'm sorry to

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disappoint a leon it, but this
time it isn't money. Simply that I

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wrote Ferguson's telephone number in your notebook
last night. I want to call him.

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We have a date for lunch.
You know perfectly well, you're having

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lunch with me today, but I
won't be able to make it to State

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with Ferguson's rather important Oh more important
than me. I suppose, isn't that,

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Leona. It's just that, well, it's about a job. You

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have a job. What on earth
are you talking about, Leona? Leone

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have been meaning to say this for
you, to you for weeks. I

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just don't belong in your father's business. Who says you don't I do?

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I say it working for your fallowers
like like running in a dream. No

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matter how hard you try, you
know you'll never get anywhere. I don't

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want to graft off your charity for
the rest of my life. I want

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a chance, a chance on my
own. Only you're not getting the chance.

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I won't have you trapesing around you
here just because dad doesn't go falling

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all over himself. You're not going
to throw away a million dollar business like

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carrot for an idle whim. It
happens to be my business too, you

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know, And to think my own
husband turns up his nose at it.

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Now'll call Ferguson and tell him you've
changed your mind. Go on, Henry,

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call him, But I haven't changed
my mind. You're still going.

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Yes, someday you'll see it'll be
better for both of Henry Henry Wade.

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That's a little silly. Isn't it
the door? You're not going, Henry,

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not as long as you're my husband. Come on, I want to

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give me that. You can't do
what you can't do this to me,

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nobody's ever done, and nobody,
nobody. Will you please stop and give

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me that, Henny, Please,
if you love me, if you love

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me at all, Henry, I
beg you. I'll talk to Dad.

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I'll do anything, anything you want, or they don't leave me. Don't

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go away? Give me that.
No, No, I won't, I

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won't. I won't. Oh,
your husband told me, missus Stevenson,

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that in spite of your opposition,
he had lunch that day with mister Ferguson.

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When he got home that evening,
he said, your father was waiting

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for him at the door, angry
and worried. All right, Henry,

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come at the library. I want
to talk to you. What's the matter?

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Where's Leona? Leona's in bed.
She had an attack, a heart

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attack, She almost died a heart
attack. Did you too, Quarrel this

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morning? Yes? But what you're
supposed to have lunch with Leona? Yes?

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But I had to see someone else. Look, mister Carl, if

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you don't mind I'd like to see
Leona. You'll see Leona when she's ready

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to see you. Just in case
you don't know it. Leona has had

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a hot condition since childhood. Her
mother died of it the day Leona was

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born. Leona can't stand being treated
the way you did this morning. She

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never has been before, and she's
not going to be now by you or

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anyone else. And what happens if
once in a while I have an opinion

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of my own. I don't give
a hoot about your opinions, Henry,

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have them. Think anything you like, But while you're in this house,

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you'll do what my daughter tells you
to do. I think you should know

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that the argument this morning was about
a very important decision. Don't be a

407
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,079
fool, and decision I made as
much for the sake of Leona's futurist for

408
00:31:33,119 --> 00:31:38,279
my own. Was it for her
that you had lunch with Ferguson? Well?

409
00:31:40,559 --> 00:31:45,400
Did you get the job? No? No, I didn't, And

410
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,799
I'll tell you why you didn't.
It so happens. I'm a pretty good

411
00:31:48,799 --> 00:31:52,119
customer of Ferguson's. I buy more
than two million dollars worth of dies every

412
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:53,279
year. And who do you think
he's going to care about you or me.

413
00:31:55,799 --> 00:31:57,880
So that's what happened. Now,
who else in Chicago would you like

414
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,400
to have lunch with about a job? Oh, face up to it,

415
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,640
Henry. Just as long as you're
my son in law, you're working for

416
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:09,799
me and nobody else. If you're
really carefully on another way, I do,

417
00:32:12,039 --> 00:32:15,200
you'd have done the same thing in
my place. Besides, you haven't

418
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:21,359
done so badly for yourself. I'll
go upstairs and see Leona. She's been

419
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:30,279
asking, were missus Stevenson as I
say, we discussed all these things in

420
00:32:30,319 --> 00:32:32,680
my office ten days ago, your
husband and I. I asked, mister

421
00:32:32,759 --> 00:32:37,039
Stevenson, how long this heart attack
of yours lasting? Or she got well

422
00:32:37,119 --> 00:32:43,680
right away? Doctor? Maybe I
maybe I should have pulled out then and

423
00:32:43,759 --> 00:32:49,240
there. But I didn't pull out. Somehow I couldn't. Her father wasn't

424
00:32:49,279 --> 00:32:53,759
altogether wrong. I hadn't done too
badly for myself anyway. From that time

425
00:32:53,759 --> 00:32:58,799
on, I began to compromise,
always with the hope that somehow someday I'd

426
00:32:58,799 --> 00:33:02,359
went out on my own. But
it wasn't long before we were right back

427
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,799
where we started another a day,
Yes, sir, I remember one day

428
00:33:06,799 --> 00:33:09,160
in particular. I had an idea
that I thought that I hoped might help

429
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:13,599
with it. Henry, you mean
you brought me here just to look at

430
00:33:13,599 --> 00:33:15,279
an apartment, or you'd be crazy
about a leonor now come on, let's

431
00:33:15,279 --> 00:33:17,640
go and look at all. I'm
not interested, Henry, but you haven't

432
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:21,240
even seen him. Why there are
terracest on all four sights? I do

433
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,319
do a thousand times. We don't
need an apartment, Leon, It's not

434
00:33:24,359 --> 00:33:28,359
an apartment. I'm looking for.
What I want is a home, a

435
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,119
home of our own. You just
can't go on living with your father in

436
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,519
Definitely, I don't see why not. There's plenty of room, and I

437
00:33:32,599 --> 00:33:37,400
like it. Besides, who's going
to pay for this little penthouse? Well,

438
00:33:37,599 --> 00:33:42,079
I hope eventually, I would,
oh eventually, But in the meantime,

439
00:33:42,079 --> 00:33:44,720
it's my money, and I'm the
one who's going to pay for it.

440
00:33:45,599 --> 00:33:50,839
Okay, let's go, Henry.
You're so naive. You're like a

441
00:33:50,839 --> 00:33:53,720
little boy with a box of candy. I just can't throw my money away

442
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:58,599
on everything you happen to see.
There's a limit. I'm supposed to follow

443
00:33:58,599 --> 00:34:00,599
you around like a pet dog tied
to a chain. I'm supposed to like

444
00:34:00,599 --> 00:34:04,160
whatever crumbs you want to throw.
Oh, don't be ridiculous. You've got

445
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,119
me sold up sixteen different ways for
three meals a day and pocket money.

446
00:34:07,279 --> 00:34:10,119
That's all you care about. That's
all you married me for my money.

447
00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:15,239
I should have known it. I
should have known. Stop at Leona,

448
00:34:15,519 --> 00:34:17,400
Please, just for once, will
you listen? You hate me, You're

449
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,920
bored with me. All you want
to do is get away. Okay,

450
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,199
I'm bored. Bored, stiff who
wouldn't be with that neat little routine you've

451
00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:27,039
got cooked up on me? What
do I have? Nothing? Nothing on

452
00:34:27,079 --> 00:34:29,599
my own but even the studs on
my trade, of the matches in my

453
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,719
body? Henry, how can you
say this to me? You once told

454
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,760
me I'd love this kind of life, remember, or do you want to

455
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,760
know something? I do love it. I love it now more than you'll

456
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:39,360
ever know what. I want to
be my own boss, profiting by every

457
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:43,840
bit of it, not just a
stooge on the outside looking in, Henry,

458
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,920
Henry, get me some more.
Listen to me. Please. It

459
00:34:47,039 --> 00:34:50,519
isn't that I want to be without
you. I could love you still if

460
00:34:50,679 --> 00:35:01,360
only you try to understand, Henry, the bills that attack kept her in

461
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:06,280
the hospital only three weeks. Doctor
the time I well, I thought it

462
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,639
was all my fault. But no
matter what I did, her attacks increased

463
00:35:08,639 --> 00:35:13,400
in violence and became more frequent.
Or a year ago, on her well,

464
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,400
she just seemed to give up hope
of ever getting well. She took

465
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:19,599
to her bed more less permanently.
It was my idea to come to New

466
00:35:19,679 --> 00:35:22,840
York and see you. The doctors
in Chicago said she didn't have much of

467
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,360
a chance. Anyway, we rented
the house on a sudden place and here

468
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:30,639
we are. Believe me, it's
been more and more like a nightmare.

469
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:38,360
Mister Stevenson. There's absolutely nothing wrong
organically with your wife's heart, nothing wrong.

470
00:35:38,639 --> 00:35:43,679
I've examined her thoroughly, and what
you've just told me confirms what I

471
00:35:43,679 --> 00:35:49,960
have thought from the start, and
that is her condition is mostly mental.

472
00:35:51,119 --> 00:35:54,599
She's what we call her cardiac neurotic. Her attacks are brought on by her

473
00:35:54,599 --> 00:36:00,840
emotions, the lack of control of
frustrations thing. It's probably quite unconscious on

474
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:06,039
her part. Now I'm not seeing
your wife isn't sick mentally. She is

475
00:36:06,079 --> 00:36:09,199
sick, and her attacks aren't really
not. Given the proper treatment, she

476
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:14,840
may snap out of it. Entirely. Well, i'll call on her tomorrow

477
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:19,199
as a psychiatrist. I wanted to
see doctor. I wish you could wait

478
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:22,239
a few days. I'd like to
think it over, think it over.

479
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,159
Yes, you see, she's so
easily upset, and I think that,

480
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,960
well that maybe I ought to prepare
her, you know, getting used to

481
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,280
the idea. Well, a few
days more and this won't matter, I

482
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:35,480
suppose, unless unless you wanted to
write her a letter. It might make

483
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:37,000
it easy for her to take and
it well, it would give me more

484
00:36:37,039 --> 00:36:42,360
time to talk to her. Well, it's extremely delicate matter, mister Stevenson,

485
00:36:43,119 --> 00:36:45,400
but if you think you can manage
it, let's try it that Wayne,

486
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:47,400
give me a ring in a couple
of days. Meanwhile, I'll write

487
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:58,679
the letter. Thanks doctor, thanks
for every Well, that's exactly the way

488
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,480
I left things, Missus Stevens.
Isn't ten days ago, as your husband

489
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:05,599
requested, I wrote you the letter, and I'm telling you I never received

490
00:37:05,599 --> 00:37:07,719
the letter. Well, let's not
worry about that. Now I've told you

491
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:13,840
everything, and now I want you
to relax. Prescribed. Yes, yes

492
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:20,239
it's here. Well, let's think
so. Liars, liars, liars,

493
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:36,639
lions, Hello, who is it
heavens, I've been trying to get you

494
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:38,920
with your line has been busy.
Has mister Stevenson come home? No,

495
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:43,079
no, he isn't here. He
won't be back until Sunday. And will

496
00:37:43,159 --> 00:37:46,199
you please please tell me what this
is all about? Why are you calling

497
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:50,760
him? Who are you? I've
already told you Missus Stevenson, and I'm

498
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,559
very sorry if I've annoyed you.
But there are names and addresses that are

499
00:37:53,679 --> 00:37:57,960
very important for mister Stevenson to know. So if you won't be good enough

500
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,519
to take the following message, what
are you talking about? But I can't

501
00:38:00,559 --> 00:38:05,199
take any messages now, If you'll
please tell mister Stevenson that the house at

502
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,719
twenty dunstan tell Us has been burned
down. I burned it down. You

503
00:38:09,599 --> 00:38:15,039
are also that I do not believe
it was mister Millano. The name is

504
00:38:15,079 --> 00:38:20,679
spelled him. Oh a n O
who betrayed us? Please? And since

505
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:24,039
mister Millano has been arrested by the
District Attorney's office, there is no necessity

506
00:38:24,079 --> 00:38:29,639
for the money. Oh this is
fantastic, what money? Who's Mollano?

507
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:34,639
Badley tell mister Stevenson that I escaped
and I am now a coming to happen

508
00:38:34,639 --> 00:38:38,519
address. However, I do not
expect to be here after midnight. If

509
00:38:38,519 --> 00:38:43,039
he wishes to find me, he
may call me at a phone number Bowie

510
00:38:43,159 --> 00:38:47,119
two one thousand and Now, if
you'll be so good as to repeat you're

511
00:38:47,159 --> 00:38:52,480
insane. Do you realize I'm a
terribly sick woman. I'm very sorry for

512
00:38:52,559 --> 00:38:54,800
you, Missus Stevenson. I don't
know. Perhaps it would be better to

513
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:59,519
tell you the true facts, I
mean now before they are gobbled by the

514
00:38:59,519 --> 00:39:04,280
police. Maybe then you'll understand.
But if I don't know what a home

515
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,760
to believe. So much has happened
to me tonight, and I'm sick.

516
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:12,199
My doctor says, I don't cut
you all irmous, Well tell me,

517
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:16,480
then tell me. It started over
a little a year ago at your father's

518
00:39:16,519 --> 00:39:22,280
factory in Chicago. You see,
Missus Stephenson. I had worked in your

519
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:28,559
father's company for many years. I'm
a chemist. Anyway, late one afternoon,

520
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:43,440
your husband walked into the laboratory.
We pause now for stakes and identification.

521
00:39:43,760 --> 00:40:06,800
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting
System. In a few moments,

522
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:12,320
we'll continue with Act three of Sorry
Wrong Number. Our guest tonight is Barbara

523
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,920
Anne Newtson Young paramount starlet. Aren't
you glad? Barbara? You were present

524
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:20,719
at a certain little theater production one
evening. A lucky evening for me,

525
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,639
mister Keeley. A talent scout saw
me for arrange for a screen test,

526
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:28,199
and here you are in picture.
Yes, and from now on I'm going

527
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,400
to work like mad Oh, it
must be wonderful to be a great actress

528
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:35,639
like like Olivia. To Haveln,
well, I gather you've seen her new

529
00:40:35,679 --> 00:40:39,119
picture The Heiress, not once,
but three times. I can understand why

530
00:40:39,119 --> 00:40:44,480
the New York Motion Picture Critics gave
mister Haveln the award for the best performance

531
00:40:44,519 --> 00:40:46,840
of the Year. And how did
you like Montgomery Cliff as the money conscious

532
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:52,400
suitor in The Heiress? He splendid, so dashing and and romantic too.

533
00:40:52,039 --> 00:40:55,559
And Ralph Richardson as a stern father
is simply perfect. Do you remember the

534
00:40:55,599 --> 00:41:00,760
scene where he compares his unpopular daughter
with her sought after cousin. Oh?

535
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:05,159
Yes, the party scene where Mona
Freeman is the reigning bell. She's like

536
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:09,400
a dressden doll, so blond and
dainty. Those lavish costumes of the Crinoline

537
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:14,760
era suit her beauty very well.
Yes, mister Kennedy, and she's just

538
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:20,159
as delicate and lovely in real life, always so beautifully groomed. Real Luck's

539
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:24,280
loveliness, huh exactly. Mona Freeman
gives her complexion daily Luck soap care,

540
00:41:24,639 --> 00:41:29,199
and she's really keen about the new
bath size cake. Nine out of ten

541
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:32,679
screen stars say they're delighted with this
new product of Leaver Brothers Company. For

542
00:41:34,159 --> 00:41:38,639
a luxurious, refreshing, relaxing beauty
bath, you simply can't buy a finer

543
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:43,920
soape. That's the way I feel. I love the nice fragrance that leaves

544
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,760
on the skin. Thank you,
miss Barbara and Nudsen. Women who use

545
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:52,679
the generous new bath size Luck toilets
hope will agree. It's rich, abundant

546
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:59,360
lather and delicate flower like fragrance make
a wonderfully refreshing beauty bath. So we're

547
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:04,039
all over Luck's loveliness. Why not
get the satin smooth bath size lux toilet

548
00:42:04,079 --> 00:42:08,960
soap tomorrow. Here's our producer,
mister William Keeley. The curtain rises on

549
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:15,320
the third act of Sorry Wrong Number, starring Barbara Stanwick as Leona and Bert

550
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:24,960
Lancaster as Henry. I give into
the kitchen window. Now wait till the

551
00:42:25,079 --> 00:42:30,119
train goes over the bridge. Thirteen. You've got it all straight. Tile.

552
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,679
The clock on the table says ten
minutes to eleven o'clock. But Leone

553
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:46,559
Stevenson, clutching the telephone, listens
with mounting bewilderment and fright the voice of

554
00:42:46,559 --> 00:42:52,440
a man named Waldo Evans. Yes, missus Stevenson, your husband came in

555
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:57,880
the laboratory and started asking me questions
about the clocks for you use me and

556
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:02,599
how we began. Well, this
is very interesting, mister Evans. So

557
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,199
this is where the formula for all
our products are developed. Him. That's

558
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:12,519
right. Some of these drugs must
be very valuable. Oh yes, mister

559
00:43:12,559 --> 00:43:17,239
Stevenson, very valuable. And tell
me what do you do with them?

560
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:22,760
Why they go into the various Cottowell
products? Sir? And you're the man

561
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:27,480
in charge here, huh, yes, sir, I see. Well,

562
00:43:27,559 --> 00:43:30,760
thanks for your time, mister Evans. I was just curious, Thank you,

563
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:37,679
sir. Good night, mister Stevenson. That was my first reading with

564
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:45,199
your husband, Missus Stevenson, and
I'm time to time laboratory and visited me

565
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:49,239
and one night when it was storming, he offered to drive me home.

566
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:53,679
So you're a bachelor, mister Evans, Well, I didn't know that.

567
00:43:54,159 --> 00:43:58,400
Yes, sir, I live in
a booming house on Chestnut State, a

568
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,559
man all by himself, no response
abilities. Tell me, why do you

569
00:44:00,559 --> 00:44:05,599
work so hard well to tell you
the tooth, sir? Because because I

570
00:44:05,639 --> 00:44:07,880
have a hope, an ideal.
You might say, in a few years,

571
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:12,440
I hope to retire, retire.
Oh, I have at all plan,

572
00:44:12,559 --> 00:44:15,079
sir. I'm going back to England. I hope to raise horses,

573
00:44:15,079 --> 00:44:21,639
sir, not race horses, just
horses. Said, do you care for

574
00:44:21,679 --> 00:44:23,559
horses, mister Stevenson, Hell,
I'm afraid I haven't thought very much about

575
00:44:23,599 --> 00:44:28,400
them. Oh, then you're missing
a great deal. Well that's my hope,

576
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:31,920
sir, to live there quietly and
raise horses. Why have you waited

577
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:37,840
this long? Money? Money,
of course, But someday I'll wait until

578
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:39,440
you're road. What good is a
dream when you're too old to enjoy it?

579
00:44:39,559 --> 00:44:44,159
Oh I thought of that, mister
Stevenson. I suppose the zest does

580
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:45,880
come out of things with the en
coachments of old age. Oh, you're

581
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:50,000
talking, Wally. My motto was, if you want something, get it

582
00:44:50,079 --> 00:44:53,719
now. It's the next turn to
the right, mister Stevenson Chestnutstick. You

583
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:59,079
know, Wally, Wally, I've
been thinking there might be a way out,

584
00:45:00,119 --> 00:45:02,599
way out, yes, to have
your little place in England. Everything

585
00:45:02,639 --> 00:45:07,519
you want, indeed, sir,
and all you have to do is to

586
00:45:07,519 --> 00:45:12,360
make a little mistake every now and
then, mistake in the laboratory. I've

587
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,760
been checking out it, Wally.
The way you're set up, no one

588
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:19,440
would ever know, mister Stevenson,
I better say good nights. Wait a

589
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:22,880
minute, the differences in the amounts
of those raw drugs you handle, he'd

590
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:27,320
be so slight that nobody but yourself
would ever know. I don't understand s.

591
00:45:27,519 --> 00:45:29,440
Look what you've done to the company
all these years, and what have

592
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:30,800
you gotten out of it? Not
a tenth of the salary you should be

593
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:35,920
getting. No, please, mister
Stevenson, don't be silly. I've already

594
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:39,039
talked it over to someone else,
talked it over with with whom a man

595
00:45:39,119 --> 00:45:42,719
named Morano. He can handle all
the raw drugs that we can get,

596
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:46,960
and then we split you Morano and
die. Mister Stevenson, I just can't

597
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:51,639
believe it. You're a young man, vice president of the company, a

598
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:53,719
wonderful future ahead of you. Don't
make me laugh. Yes, I'm young,

599
00:45:54,079 --> 00:45:57,519
young enough not to waste my life
and dreaming. There are things I

600
00:45:57,559 --> 00:46:00,280
want to do, big things,
and the only way to do them.

601
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:05,880
I'm sorry. I thought you were
my kind of a person. I trusted

602
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,880
you at what if we were caught? Why should we be caught. We'll

603
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:13,639
make our pile and stop before anyone
even guesses what went on. Morano knows

604
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:17,119
just what to do. Besides,
for once, there's an advantage in being

605
00:46:17,199 --> 00:46:22,960
cutural son in law. Yes,
yes, I see, I thought you

606
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:35,320
would Whalley. You well, partner. We're in business, and so we

607
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,960
started, missus Stevenson, a systematic
plan of robbing your father's company. By

608
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:44,079
September of last year, I had
thanked the sum of seven thousand, five

609
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:49,280
hundred dollars. But then I received
the memo land On from the personnel office.

610
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:52,079
You please stop your whinning. Didn't
you read the memo? You're not

611
00:46:52,159 --> 00:46:54,719
fired. They're simply transferring you to
the new Jersey plan. But they must

612
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:59,400
suspect this is a warning. I'm
sure of it. I'm too, mister

613
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:01,519
Stevenson. Here you walked fool.
We've been stooges up till now. Morano's

614
00:47:01,519 --> 00:47:05,119
played us for suckers. This is
our chance to get rid of them.

615
00:47:05,159 --> 00:47:07,960
That transfer of yours is just what
I've been looking for. I don't understand.

616
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:12,079
I'll tell Morano you've been fired,
that the deal's all washed up.

617
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:15,159
Meanwhile, you're back there in New
Jersey. We'll operate on our own,

618
00:47:15,159 --> 00:47:17,760
and we'll split Morano's share between us. But I'm just a chemist, mister

619
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:21,679
Stevenson. I don't know anything about
disposing of drugs, but I do.

620
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,239
I know all about it now.
Listen. The cultural plant in New Jersey

621
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:28,800
is in Bayonne, and just across
the bay from Bayonne is Staten Island.

622
00:47:29,559 --> 00:47:37,400
I happen to know a little about
stat About six weeks later, we began

623
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:42,719
operations Missus Stevenson on Staten Island,
New York. I headquarters was an old

624
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:46,920
abandoned house twenty dunstan Terrace. There, twice a week after work, I

625
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:52,119
would come from your father's plant in
Bayonne, and there mister Stevenson would telephone

626
00:47:52,119 --> 00:47:55,480
me or mail me his instructions from
Chicago. A little over three months ago,

627
00:47:55,880 --> 00:48:00,360
mister Stevenson arrived in New York.
A few nights later, when I

628
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:04,760
went to twenty Dunston, tell us
I found that your husband was not alone.

629
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:10,079
Come right in. We're waiting for
you. Weally, this is morono.

630
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,920
You didn't expect me, did you, mister Evans Well needed it,

631
00:48:14,079 --> 00:48:16,920
mister Stevenson. But here I am. You see, I have ways of

632
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:21,079
finding things out. For instance,
ever since the two of you broke off

633
00:48:21,079 --> 00:48:25,519
our pleasant little association in Chicago,
I find you're accumulated rather large bank account.

634
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:29,440
All right, what about it?
I'm warning you right now, Morona

635
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:34,840
doesn't try any funny relax. I'm
warning it, ter relax. Sure you're

636
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:37,280
a big strong guy, mister Stevenson, but messing me up won't get you

637
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:42,880
anywhere. You see, I merely
represent an organization. But we had what

638
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:46,320
you might call a board meeting,
and the vote was seven to one against

639
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:52,119
you. And that's pretty serious.
That's like a death center. Cut a

640
00:48:52,159 --> 00:48:53,840
short morn. What do you want, mister Stevenson. Please give them what

641
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:57,960
they want. Mister mallono, you
can take everything I've got. Shut up

642
00:48:58,199 --> 00:49:00,599
now. If you were to turned
back what you've accumulated, mister Stevenson and

643
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:06,480
pay us two hundred thousand dollars for
our injured feelings, I might get the

644
00:49:06,519 --> 00:49:08,280
board to reconsider their decision, you
know as well as I do. I

645
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:12,960
don't have that kind of money,
but you have such wonderful connections, A

646
00:49:13,079 --> 00:49:15,239
millionaire father in law, very rich
wire. Yes, a lot of good

647
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:19,599
that does. Why do you suppose
I went into this racket and I thought

648
00:49:19,639 --> 00:49:24,239
I read somewhere about your wife being
sick, very sick. What about her?

649
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:28,519
Well, she has life insurance.
Hasn't she made out in your name?

650
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:31,559
I'm pretty sure the board would give
you, say, ninety days to

651
00:49:31,639 --> 00:49:36,760
raise the money on something like that. On ninety days, isn't that what

652
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,960
the doctor in Chicago said she wouldn't
get better? Yes, that's what he

653
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:45,159
said. But what's that? Well, just a little lie? Owe you

654
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:47,760
to make it league or you see, everything can be straightened out without any

655
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:52,760
trouble, without any rough step.
But suppose something happened and my wife didn't

656
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:57,280
I mean, I mean, if
she got better, I wouldn't worry about

657
00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:00,039
that. Mister Stevens, You've got
a doctor's word for At Evans, they

658
00:50:00,199 --> 00:50:04,199
know their business. So here,
take the pen and sign the piece of

659
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:13,719
paper. What I have just told
you, missus Stevenson took place three months

660
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:17,719
ago. I need not describe,
mister Stephen Stevenson's distest when the IOU became

661
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:23,199
due last Wednesday. As I understand
it, mister Stevenson saw mister Mollano,

662
00:50:23,639 --> 00:50:29,000
but his request when extension was refused. And now, inasmuch as I have

663
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:32,639
already given you the final message,
I believe the list explains itself quite simply.

664
00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:37,400
Mister Evans, where is my husband? Where is mister Stevenson. Now

665
00:50:37,599 --> 00:50:42,360
I wish I knew, perhaps by
number, what bowering number, and what

666
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:45,079
I gave you when I first started
to talk Missus Stevenson. I'm afraid I

667
00:50:45,159 --> 00:50:49,920
must ask you to check. I
can't. I can't. I repeat it

668
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:53,159
once more. Point one the house
at twenty Dunston tell Us was burned on

669
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:59,599
this afternoon. I didn't. Point
two I escaped. Point three Mister Mollano

670
00:50:59,599 --> 00:51:01,360
has been away, so it will
not be necessary to raise the money.

671
00:51:01,679 --> 00:51:06,559
Point it was not. Mister Molan
told the police just give me the bowery

672
00:51:06,639 --> 00:51:09,880
number, the one for my husband. Point five. I am now,

673
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:16,840
but I'm leaving and maybe found Barry
two one thousand, Yes, after midnight,

674
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:27,679
good night, mister Stephenson, thank
you very much. Sorry two one

675
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:42,639
thousand Barry two. Oh, this
is mister Stevenson. There, Stephenson,

676
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:46,480
Mister Henry Stevenson. I was told
to call by mister Evans. Stevens.

677
00:51:46,679 --> 00:51:55,239
Yes, yes, Stevenson on hell, yes, no, he's not here

678
00:51:55,280 --> 00:52:00,760
man. Oh well, mister Evans
said he might be expected. Could I

679
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:06,519
could I leave a message? Oh? Look, lady? Oh please please

680
00:52:06,599 --> 00:52:15,360
help me? What number is this? What am I calling? Oh?

681
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:25,800
Oh oh, I hurried? Operate, Please give me the police quickly.

682
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:30,920
No, no, wait a minute, give me the hospital. I can't

683
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:35,320
be alone. It's eleven o'clock.
Hurry, please, it's eleven o'clock.

684
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:39,760
Obad, I can't hear you.
Are you calling the hospital? Operator?

685
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:45,639
Operator? Is this a hospital here? I want the nurses registry. I

686
00:52:45,679 --> 00:52:50,519
want to hire a trained nurse immediately
for the night. I am sorry,

687
00:52:50,559 --> 00:52:52,920
it doesn't matter. I've got to
have a nurse. I understand that matter.

688
00:52:53,079 --> 00:52:58,199
I'm sick and I'm all alone,
all alone in this horrible empty house.

689
00:52:58,679 --> 00:53:02,239
I overheard a conversation and a telephone
conversation about a murder, A murdered

690
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:07,280
to be committed at eleven fifteen.
I don't know what's happened to my husband.

691
00:53:07,679 --> 00:53:13,480
If something isn't done, I'm abra
What was that What was what?

692
00:53:13,679 --> 00:53:20,039
Madam? That click just now on
my telephone as though someone had lifted the

693
00:53:20,079 --> 00:53:23,920
hook of the extension downstairs. I
did not hear it, madam, Well

694
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:30,960
I did. There's someone in this
house. There's someone downstairs and they're listening

695
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:39,960
to me now that Who is it? Who's done? There? Oh?

696
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:45,800
Hello, new Haven is calling missus, Henry Stevenson. I can't talk now.

697
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:50,719
Called back later from mister Stevenson.
Do you not, did you say,

698
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:54,800
mister Stevenson, mister Stevenson from new
Haven? Wid Oh? Yes,

699
00:53:55,079 --> 00:54:01,559
yes, one moment please, here's
hello Henry, Henry. Where are you

700
00:54:04,559 --> 00:54:07,639
between trains and new Did you get
my wife? Yes? Yes, I

701
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:09,519
got it. I was sorry I
couldn't reach my phone before I left,

702
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:14,960
but of course I knew. Well
I'm not all right. I'm there's someone

703
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:19,760
in his house, Henry, right
now, I'm sure of him. Don't

704
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,239
tell me you're still abone. Well, of course I'm alone. Who else

705
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:27,039
could be here? You'll promise to
be home at six o'clock. I've been

706
00:54:27,079 --> 00:54:30,400
alone for hours. I've been afraid
of every kind of horrible call. And

707
00:54:30,639 --> 00:54:34,239
Henry, Henry, I want you
to call the police. Do you hear

708
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:37,400
me? Tell him to come over
at once. Do you know you're perfectly

709
00:54:37,519 --> 00:54:39,280
shaped? The doors are all locked, and there's a private controlman. You're

710
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:44,519
right in the heart of New York
City and the phone, Henry, Henry,

711
00:54:44,559 --> 00:54:47,000
what do you know? What do
you know about a man named Waldo

712
00:54:47,119 --> 00:54:53,840
Evans? Why? I had a
long talk with him just a little while

713
00:54:53,880 --> 00:55:00,599
ago about you. Oh, he
told me some terrible things. Some of

714
00:55:00,599 --> 00:55:07,760
it sounded insane, but some of
it maybe it was true. Not just

715
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:10,440
trying to forgive it. He said, you've been stealing from Dad's company.

716
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:15,880
Is that true, Henry? Well, he loves some kind of a message

717
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:20,679
for you. That the house on
Statn Island had been burned down, and

718
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:25,360
that the police knew everything, and
that Morano had been arrested. And Henry,

719
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:30,519
are you still there? They said
you were a criminal, Henry,

720
00:55:30,559 --> 00:55:37,079
a desperate man, And Heaven said, Heaven said you wanted me to die.

721
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:42,800
And that money, Henry, that
money those people wanted. Why didn't

722
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:45,239
you ask me for it? Why
I'd have given it to you gladly if

723
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:49,480
it would have saved your life.
I'll give it to you now, if

724
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:53,159
it isn't too late. I didn't
mean to be so awful to you,

725
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:58,760
Henry. I I only did it
because I loved you and I thought you

726
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:01,559
didn't love me, and then you
go away and leave me. Yes,

727
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:05,639
I want you to do something.
Will you forgive me first, Henry?

728
00:56:05,639 --> 00:56:07,000
Will you I want you to try
to get out, please, Henry,

729
00:56:07,079 --> 00:56:14,880
Please, I can't. I can't
get out of bed. Everyone stop swing

730
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:19,639
me on a screamer. I can't
move, Henry, I'm too frightened and

731
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:25,960
I can't trying. Why should only
got three more minutes time? Just gottathing

732
00:56:27,039 --> 00:56:36,599
everything? I didn't your bold,
Henry. I can hear what steps somebody's

733
00:56:36,679 --> 00:56:42,480
coming up in the day. Walk
me on the b No, I can't,

734
00:56:43,039 --> 00:56:46,480
Henry, Oh, Henry, save
me. That's rain. I can

735
00:56:46,599 --> 00:56:52,199
hear the drain that's near the bridge. I don't know. Then't find out

736
00:56:52,239 --> 00:57:01,599
from my d him. Oh no
no, please please don't all please,

737
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:30,719
please don't give you anything? Please
no, no? M ready with your

738
00:57:30,719 --> 00:58:17,639
pocket? Oh I don't know,
sorry, wrong number? M H.

739
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:25,960
What a thrilling experience in the theater. Our thanks go to this evening stars

740
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:30,960
Barbara Stanwick and Bert Lancaster. They're
coming downstage now for a curtain call.

741
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:35,159
You know it's good to have you
both back, and it's nice to be

742
00:58:35,239 --> 00:58:38,320
back. Bill says, you got
them in bed with the audience blob in

743
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:44,639
what way? Well, we keep
getting letters asking why you haven't been here

744
00:58:44,639 --> 00:58:47,400
for so long, and we have
to keep explaining that you've made one picture

745
00:58:47,519 --> 00:58:51,880
right after another with no time off
in between. One thing is sure,

746
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:55,360
Bill, I haven't forgotten a Lux
radio theater or Lux soap. It's my

747
00:58:55,400 --> 00:59:00,559
favorite complexion can has been for years, and that's one of the nicest compliments

748
00:59:00,599 --> 00:59:10,400
Lux has ever received. Barbara,
tell me if you can sound, she

749
00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:14,800
says, she sounds like Andy Devine. Tell me, Barbara, how many

750
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:17,800
pictures have you made that still aren't
released? And what's the first one we'll

751
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:25,159
see? The Hell Wallace production,
Elma Jordan. Oh, yes, Wendell

752
00:59:25,239 --> 00:59:29,519
Corey's in that tool. You know, when you and Hall Wallace get together

753
00:59:29,559 --> 00:59:32,039
on a picture, we know it's
going to be a hit. Bird I

754
00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:35,840
here you are off for New York
in a few days. Yes, I've

755
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:38,800
just finished my own norma EPO production
of The Hawk and the Arrow at Warner

756
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:42,760
Brothers, and now I'm going to
New York to see a few shows and

757
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:45,199
take a brief vacation where You're last
vacation, you spent out on the road

758
00:59:45,239 --> 00:59:50,079
with a circus as an acrobat.
Nothing like that this time, not unless

759
00:59:50,119 --> 00:59:53,519
you have to be an acrobat to
get tickets to South Pacific. Bill,

760
00:59:53,559 --> 00:59:58,159
tell me what's next Monday's show.
Next week, Bert, one of America's

761
00:59:58,159 --> 01:00:02,079
best love characters will return to this
stage. The gentleman I'm talking about is

762
01:00:02,119 --> 01:00:08,639
mister Belvetere, and our play is
the twentieth century Fox hit Mister Belveteer Goes

763
01:00:08,679 --> 01:00:14,159
to College. Naturally, we'll have
the original mister Belvetere here to play the

764
01:00:14,239 --> 01:00:19,039
part, the amazing Clifton Webb.
And besides mister Webb, we have two

765
01:00:19,039 --> 01:00:24,280
other stars, Colleen Gray and the
popular Robert Stack. A great comedy and

766
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:28,840
the return of mister Belveteer. All
hard, deck, mob de nighted.

767
01:00:29,519 --> 01:00:31,679
Everybody will love it. Bella good
night, good night, good night.

768
01:00:32,039 --> 01:00:40,199
I'm Stack here, ladies and gentlemen. There's a great deal of vague and

769
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:46,239
sentimental talk about the American economic system, but here of some cold facts.

770
01:00:46,719 --> 01:00:52,320
Since nineteen ten, we have increased
the income of each household from twenty four

771
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:57,920
hundred dollars to about four thousand,
and the figures are in dollars of the

772
01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:02,199
same purchasing power. We've it by
increased production, and yet we work eighteen

773
01:01:02,239 --> 01:01:08,239
hours less each week for this extra
money. This is the miracle of America.

774
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:17,079
Leave her brother's company. The makers
of Luxe Toilet Soap join me in

775
01:01:17,079 --> 01:01:21,360
inviting you to be with us again. Next Monday evening, when the lux

776
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:27,760
Radio Theater presents Clipton Webb, Robert
Stack, and Colleen Gray in Mister Belvedere

777
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:32,159
Goes to College. This is William
Healey saying good night to you from Hollywood.

778
01:01:38,199 --> 01:01:40,760
Our clay was attapted by S.
H. S. Barnett, and

779
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:52,119
our music was directed by Lewis Silberns. Here's a fashion flash from Hollywood.

780
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:55,239
Barbara Stanwick has one of those smart
and new, finely pleated nylon nighties that

781
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:59,960
stays in fleet when you wash it. Of course, she insists on Luxe

782
01:02:00,039 --> 01:02:02,199
Flakes care for it, just as
she does for all her lovely langerie.

783
01:02:02,719 --> 01:02:07,679
One of her favorite shade is a
pale green orchid. This spring, you'll

784
01:02:07,719 --> 01:02:10,679
be seeing more and more delicate and
unusual colors and slips and nineties, so

785
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:16,000
play safe. Wash them with gentle
lux flakes. Tests prove that wrong washing

786
01:02:16,079 --> 01:02:22,199
soon fades, colors often tears,
delicate lace. Lux Flake's care keeps pretty

787
01:02:22,199 --> 01:02:25,800
slips in nineties new looking three times
as long you use lux Flakes to give

788
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:32,760
your nice washables that lovely lux look. This is your announcer, John Milton

789
01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:36,960
Kennedy, reminding you to join us
again next Monday night to hear the Lux

790
01:02:37,039 --> 01:02:40,599
Radio Theater presentation of Mister Belvet Here
Goes to College, starring Clifton Webb,

791
01:02:40,639 --> 01:02:45,000
Colleen Gray, and Robert Stack.
Stay tuned for My Friend Emma, which

792
01:02:45,039 --> 01:03:08,679
follows over these same stations as the
CBS the Columbia broadcast with Crystals Welcome Back.

793
01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:16,679
That performance dust took out Barbara Stanwick's
voice. Stanwick was a veteran of

794
01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:24,559
Lux Radio Theater and a lot of
long form radio movie adaptations Lux Green Director's

795
01:03:24,719 --> 01:03:30,760
Playhouse, So it wasn't like she
was inexperience, but the role was just

796
01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:37,679
so intense and she had to put
so much energy into it throughout this entire

797
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:42,800
hour that you know, you get
to the end and you know you can

798
01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:47,159
totally see how she blew her voice
out. One advantage of films, you

799
01:03:47,199 --> 01:03:52,239
know, even though they can't end
up doing multiple takes, is that the

800
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:58,719
movie was filmed over a period of
time. She had to do the radio

801
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:03,440
version all in one take than an
hour. That is a lot. She

802
01:04:03,639 --> 01:04:10,079
definitely gave all to turn in a
very good performance in recreating one of her

803
01:04:10,159 --> 01:04:17,440
four Academy Award nominated roles. One
interesting thing about this one is William Conrad

804
01:04:17,719 --> 01:04:24,599
in the film. William Conrad actually
played a different role. He played Morono

805
01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:30,079
in the film, but in the
radio version he gets a better part as

806
01:04:30,960 --> 01:04:36,760
Missus Stevenson's father. Now, in
looking at radio adaptation, I think there

807
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:41,400
are a few questions that we can
ask. First, let's go ahead and

808
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:47,639
start with the film was sorry wrong
number just as a film? Good filming?

809
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:54,039
Yes, Yes, I think it
was a really solid bit of Noir's

810
01:04:54,400 --> 01:05:00,079
storytelling. The acting is all on
point. The directing is really pub throughout.

811
01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:04,800
I like the way that they use
light and shadow in the film and

812
01:05:04,920 --> 01:05:11,079
have some nice stark visuals, as
well as some cases where they use some

813
01:05:11,280 --> 01:05:18,639
overwhelming sounds. There was a case
where Sally was calling in the subway and

814
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:25,280
what she was saying was covered up
by the passing of the subway train.

815
01:05:25,559 --> 01:05:30,639
The music is also really superb,
does a great job building the tension as

816
01:05:30,679 --> 01:05:35,079
a film, I think that even
though missus Stevenson is kind of front and

817
01:05:35,159 --> 01:05:41,880
center in the action, the film
is much more about the consequences of her

818
01:05:42,079 --> 01:05:47,960
husband's decisions and he is actions.
I think that healthy adults make mistakes.

819
01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:55,960
They don't always make the best decision, but you take responsibility for your choices

820
01:05:56,280 --> 01:06:00,960
and you make the best of it. Instead, he made a voice to

821
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:06,599
marry Leona and to accept what comes
with being married to a wealthy woman who's

822
01:06:06,719 --> 01:06:13,480
used to getting everything that she wants. When Leona and her father make it

823
01:06:13,639 --> 01:06:18,280
clear that he's going to continue to
work as a vice president or her father's

824
01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:24,719
company, there are things he could
do to advance his career, to prove

825
01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:30,880
himself, to make good and do
as much as he can to earn his

826
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:35,239
place in the firm and deal with
the handicap, if you will, of

827
01:06:35,639 --> 01:06:41,920
being married to the boss's daughter.
Or he could go to Reno, get

828
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:46,480
a divorce and start over. Instead, he does neither of those things.

829
01:06:46,719 --> 01:06:55,480
He, in essence, takes revenge
and holds something for himself by stealing from

830
01:06:55,599 --> 01:06:59,719
his father in law's firm. He
is the victim, after all, He

831
01:06:59,840 --> 01:07:04,280
is the man who is being wronged
and being held back from finding his own

832
01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:10,159
way and becoming a success in his
own right, and that continues on when

833
01:07:10,480 --> 01:07:15,840
he is in the criminal career and
waldle what Evans is relocated to New Jersey.

834
01:07:16,039 --> 01:07:21,840
He decides that he's a victim of
Morano taking too much of the prophets

835
01:07:23,199 --> 01:07:28,639
and therefore he's entitled to go into
business for himself. And at the end,

836
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:31,679
Leona says that she would have given
him the money, but you see,

837
01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:38,360
that would have required him taking responsibility
for something in his own life,

838
01:07:38,639 --> 01:07:45,599
and that's ultimately why she ended up
daying, because he couldn't face up to

839
01:07:45,679 --> 01:07:51,320
what he had done. Well,
Leona demanding harsh and it is spoiled.

840
01:07:51,599 --> 01:07:57,679
I think that she does come off
quite a bit more sympathetic. I mean,

841
01:07:58,039 --> 01:08:01,639
she does try to figure out what's
going on with the murder call,

842
01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:08,800
long before she suspects that it involves
her. He's trying to save a life,

843
01:08:09,039 --> 01:08:13,159
even though it may not be her
own as far as she knows.

844
01:08:13,519 --> 01:08:18,239
At the same time, she is
spoiled. She's often prone to wid erratic

845
01:08:18,319 --> 01:08:23,159
twings, such as when she accused
her father of wanting to kill her,

846
01:08:23,399 --> 01:08:30,319
and seems unable to really see or
even try to understand what Henry's needs might

847
01:08:30,439 --> 01:08:33,319
be ought to put to find a
point on it. But to the degree

848
01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:40,840
that Henry is this very weak sort
of man, the fact that she picked

849
01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:45,960
him does say something about her.
But at the same time there's also the

850
01:08:46,159 --> 01:08:55,680
issue of her untreated mental conditions,
which certainly for many modern listeners and viewers

851
01:08:55,880 --> 01:09:00,199
will lead to a bit more understanding
about her behavior during the night, because

852
01:09:00,279 --> 01:09:06,239
obviously the situation put her on edge, and that sense of panic grows throughout

853
01:09:06,319 --> 01:09:13,000
the night. The other character that
I think is worth talking about a little

854
01:09:13,079 --> 01:09:20,720
bit is Waldo Evans. I love
how his character remains such an enigma throughout

855
01:09:20,840 --> 01:09:28,079
most of the movie. They did
a great job really keeping him in shadow,

856
01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:34,560
and the way he spoke really is
just top notch. Riding there and

857
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:40,119
a good performance. I think the
radio version is close to as good as

858
01:09:40,319 --> 01:09:45,880
the film version on that count,
and implications of him saying that he could

859
01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:53,840
be reached at the Bowery Number only
really became clear after she learned it was

860
01:09:53,880 --> 01:09:59,199
the Morgue. This was a guy
who just absolutely wanted to live a quiet

861
01:09:59,239 --> 01:10:04,720
life and got talked to doing things
the easy way and just ended up destroying

862
01:10:04,840 --> 01:10:11,239
himself. Now, I will say
that the film does have its flaws,

863
01:10:11,359 --> 01:10:16,159
and these I think a couple of
them fall into more of the don't think

864
01:10:16,199 --> 01:10:23,279
too much about this. The idea
that they had to bring her to New

865
01:10:23,399 --> 01:10:30,039
York or someone to suggest she had
cardiac psychosis, Now that is a real

866
01:10:30,239 --> 01:10:36,000
thing, but it's not such an
off the wall diagnosis that no doctor in

867
01:10:36,119 --> 01:10:42,840
Chicago could figure it out. And
of course there's the idea of renting an

868
01:10:42,880 --> 01:10:49,720
apartment for your wife who has mobility
issues and heart issues and putting her at

869
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:57,520
the top of a very large staircase. Given that Turtter wasn't the plan when

870
01:10:57,520 --> 01:11:03,319
they moved in, this seems like
a very dumb idea. It only serves

871
01:11:03,359 --> 01:11:06,840
the plot and the visuals of the
film, even if it doesn't make a

872
01:11:06,880 --> 01:11:13,119
lot of sense. But probably the
biggest problem I had with the film was

873
01:11:13,359 --> 01:11:19,319
Sally. She plays such a big
role in getting information to Missus Stevenson,

874
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:28,159
but her entire situation is just ridiculous
and full of so many coincidences. Her

875
01:11:28,279 --> 01:11:36,600
husband happening to be the district attorney
who is prosecuting her ex boyfriend, and

876
01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:44,439
who drops hints and says things that
she overhears, and then she is able

877
01:11:44,600 --> 01:11:53,439
to tail police officers without being seen, even when going to sparsely populated areas

878
01:11:53,760 --> 01:11:58,800
where a well dressed woman would stand
out. And this is the silliest part

879
01:11:58,840 --> 01:12:02,680
of the film, But that said, it doesn't stop it from being a

880
01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:09,319
pretty entertaining one. If you like
noir films, this is worth watching.

881
01:12:09,479 --> 01:12:14,880
I bought mine on Amazon on DVD
for five dollars and nine in non sense,

882
01:12:14,920 --> 01:12:17,399
and I'd say it was money well
spent. Now, in terms of

883
01:12:17,439 --> 01:12:24,760
the radio adaptation, I think the
radio adaptation does a fine job. It's

884
01:12:24,840 --> 01:12:29,039
not nearly as good as the movie
in many ways. This is a movie

885
01:12:29,239 --> 01:12:36,039
that was made with full awareness of
radio and it was based on a radio

886
01:12:36,159 --> 01:12:42,600
play that tens of millions of people
had heard, and you wanted to appeal

887
01:12:42,600 --> 01:12:46,960
to them and provide them with an
experience that was beyond listening to the radio.

888
01:12:47,159 --> 01:12:53,359
And with the films, sorry wrong
number, the visuals are really important.

889
01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:59,760
The use of sounds occasionally that are
too overpowering to use in an audio

890
01:13:00,039 --> 01:13:04,119
only medium are important, and so
I think the flaws stand out a little

891
01:13:04,119 --> 01:13:10,199
bit more over radio. It's still
a good video play, and I thought

892
01:13:10,199 --> 01:13:15,720
it was entertaining. Now, how
do I think it serves the original radio

893
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:21,720
play disis in terms of really capturing
the spirit and the elements that made Sorry

894
01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:29,680
Wrong Number as a radio play so
popular and so iconic even to this day.

895
01:13:29,760 --> 01:13:33,199
And I think the answer to that
is no. There is a sense

896
01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:43,880
with the movie that story was given
perhaps an overdose of Hollywood glamor if you

897
01:13:44,199 --> 01:13:55,199
listen to the original Spans radio play, Agnes Moorehead pitches Missus Stevenson as a

898
01:13:55,239 --> 01:14:00,520
woman who is late middle age to
elder I'd say, you know, late

899
01:14:00,560 --> 01:14:06,439
fifties into her sixties, and part
of I think the overall sense of the

900
01:14:06,560 --> 01:14:15,199
play is that she is just an
average person with perhaps a few personality quirks,

901
01:14:15,199 --> 01:14:21,399
but still justice average person at the
mercy of the telephone, at the

902
01:14:21,479 --> 01:14:30,600
mercy of society. I think that
everyone who heard this play was either like

903
01:14:30,079 --> 01:14:36,119
Missus Stevenson and probably wouldn't admit it, or knew someone who was just like

904
01:14:36,399 --> 01:14:43,840
her. That doesn't really job with
the movie version. As a wealthy and

905
01:14:43,960 --> 01:14:49,680
attractive woman who is able to land
Lancaster as her husband, and when you

906
01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:59,079
add in all of the mechan nations
around that in terms of large criminal enterprises

907
01:14:59,279 --> 01:15:05,720
and massive corporate backstabbing. It substracts
from that element that I think we would

908
01:15:05,800 --> 01:15:12,239
call today and I know it's probably
an overused term that we'd call relatability.

909
01:15:12,720 --> 01:15:19,159
In addition, the original Sorry Wrong
Number radio play was a very intense experience

910
01:15:19,439 --> 01:15:27,319
that created terror through its focus on
a woman who was utterly alone and that

911
01:15:27,439 --> 01:15:33,560
growing sense of terror. It also
played into and explored the idea of how

912
01:15:33,600 --> 01:15:42,800
dependent people were on the most powerful
communications technology of the day, in that

913
01:15:42,880 --> 01:15:46,199
case, the telephone, and all
the ways that we might use it,

914
01:15:46,279 --> 01:15:50,960
and how we could either use it
wrongly or run out of time. It

915
01:15:51,079 --> 01:15:58,760
was wanting few that focused on this
idea of the telephone, its power,

916
01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:02,960
and the drawback of it. In
the case of Sorry Wrong Number, the

917
01:16:04,079 --> 01:16:10,520
sense of tension is broken up by
a lot of flashback on a lot of

918
01:16:10,560 --> 01:16:15,640
other things that are going on throughout
the film. Although it's probably not reasonable

919
01:16:15,720 --> 01:16:20,159
to expect that you would have ninety
minutes of straight building action, you also

920
01:16:20,399 --> 01:16:29,520
don't have quite that exploration of the
telephone that you have in the radio version.

921
01:16:29,680 --> 01:16:34,399
Certainly the beginning of the film you
have the narration that is said by

922
01:16:34,439 --> 01:16:40,000
the host of the lux Radio theater, but the theme is not really well

923
01:16:40,079 --> 01:16:47,079
explored in this film version or in
the radio adaptation. And probably the biggest

924
01:16:47,319 --> 01:16:56,800
letdown from the radio play to the
movie is that the radio play didn't actually

925
01:16:56,880 --> 01:17:00,600
provide answers to a lot of things. A listener would leave the radio version

926
01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:05,600
of Sorry Wrong Number with a lot
of question. The movie gives answers,

927
01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:12,439
but I have to say they're not
all that interesting. That the whole thing

928
01:17:12,640 --> 01:17:17,279
comes down to an embezzlemot racket gum
bad. It's kind of a dull turn

929
01:17:17,439 --> 01:17:20,920
for the era. And in this
case, you know, in terms of

930
01:17:20,960 --> 01:17:28,439
aligning with the spirit of Sorry Wrong
Number, I the original radio play,

931
01:17:28,479 --> 01:17:33,560
I think that last resolution would actually
make more sense in that regard. Well.

932
01:17:33,600 --> 01:17:38,079
That concludes our spring series. I
hope you enjoyed it. If you

933
01:17:38,079 --> 01:17:42,319
do have a comment, email it
to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot

934
01:17:42,399 --> 01:17:46,520
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shows on April eighth. In the meantime,

935
01:17:46,640 --> 01:17:51,399
do send your comments to Box thirteen
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936
01:17:51,560 --> 01:17:56,720
Boise Idahol, this is your host, Adam graham Son and off