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The National Broadcasting Company presents Radio City
Playhouse Attraction eighteen, Ladies and Gentlemen,

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here's the director of Radio City Playhouse, Harry W. Junkins, to tell

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you something of tonight's play. Thank
you, Bob One, ladies and gentlemen.

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In response to your many hundreds of
letters asking to hear him again,

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we're very happy to welcome mister John
Larkin back to Radio City Playhouse. Two

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weeks ago he played the part of
Lloyd Bruckner in The Door and gave a

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performance which drew rave notices from all
over the country. Tonight, mister Larkin

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appears in a similar type of play, but in a diametrically opposite type of

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role, the role of a writer, an intellectual who is a little cynical,

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a little disillusioned, and highly indignant
at society over the conviction of a

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twenty year old boy from murder.
The script is called five Extra Newses and

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was written by Charles Lee Hutchings,
a writer new to Radio City Playhouse and

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from whom we hope to receive more
plays in the very near future. We

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like this particular script because it is
both entertaining and socially significant, a combination

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of ingredients, which few writers achieve. Here then is John Larkin as the

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writer in five extra newses by Charles
Lee Hutchings Attraction eighteen on Radio City Playhouse.

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Nice jail you got here, Warden? Yeah? All these cells empty?

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Yeah, maybe you got an answer
to the housing shortage. Look.

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I don't like reporters, and I
don't think that was funny. I'm not

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a reporter. I write for magazine
and I don't particularly care what you think.

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This kid's done a murder and he's
gonna hang in the morning, and

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you come nosing around like a dog. Stick to your job, Warden.

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You know I got permission from way
up top where I wouldn't be here tonight.

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All the kids in this cell here, Hi, Jake, it's the

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writing guy I was telling you about. What's the type? Nah, you

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don't have to talk to this guy
if you don't want to see That's what

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the boss told me. He said, you don't have to hold it,

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Bob, hold it. Look,
kid, here's the setup. I went

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to a lot of trouble to get
the okay to see you. I want

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to get in that cell and talk
to you a few minutes. I'm gonna

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write a story. For a magazine. Was he here before? No,

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No, I'm not a newspaper reporter. I just want to talk to you

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for a few minutes. Now,
you don't have to you don't have to

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even talk to him if I wait
a minute. Look, kid, I

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got permission from the top guy to
come and see you tonight. I'll just

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come in there and you can well, you can watch me write my story.

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Did you ever see anybody write a
story? Won't do any harm,

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might do some good for somebody.
I don't know. I guess it'll be

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all right. I mean, you
don't have the kid open the door and

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let me. And you heard the
kids say it's okay. Hmm. Don't

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go in for space. Not enough
room in here to swing a cat.

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I'll sit on the edge of this
cot and get going. What's that?

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What's what? What you got in
a black bag? You're a doctor?

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Who are you? Anyway? Take
it easy now, that's not a black

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bag. That's my typewriter in a
black case. Hey see, it opens

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up, that's up on its own
legs like this. I've set that baby

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up on the deck of a battleship
and then a tent in Holland and Berlin

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and Tokyo. I never seen no
typewriter like that. Was you at the

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war? Yeah? Yeah, war
correspondent fought the Battle of the Space Bar.

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What were you doing while the war
was on? Oh? Moving around?

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They said. I wasn't old enough
to get in the air force.

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Hey, you heard anything about but
me? What do you mean? You

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know what I mean? Yesterday they
told me. He said, No,

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Oh, you mean about your sentence. I heard that No, was final

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tomorrow morning. What's the time now
it's about ten thirty. Now, let's

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get going. What's the time?
I asked you twenty five minutes to eleven,

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and that's right by radio. Now. Look, I'm here to write

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a story. I can watch if
you like. Tonight, I am sitting

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on the edge of a prison cot
in the cell of a condemned murderer.

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Between him and the rope which will
break his neck and choke the breath from

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his throat are nine hours of tortured
darkness. Soon, the collective hand of

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society will reach out and pull the
lever that will spring the trap and send

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his feet kicking in mid air in
the death struggle. Perhaps the collective conscience

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of society will permit itself a slight
qualm. As I write, the murderer

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watches me. He is nothing more
than a big, bone hulking, somewhat

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dull kid who continually trembles, And
he will die in the first light of

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the morning. I shall write them
about the court which should have fried him.

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It is a purely imaginary court,
a court that exists only in this

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article that I write. But it
is a special court, a very special

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court. This is a special court, a most unusual court, sitting tonight

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in judgment on the ordinary people,
you and you, and you, who

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lead what might be called a blame
his life. But now you see a

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new American law is being past,
which reads, in part quote, whereas

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the state decrees that no one lacking
twenty one full years age can now alone

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be held responsible for any murder.
It is ordered that a minimum of six

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shall then be hanged if one such
youth is condemned to die. Now that's

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the law. And suddenly we find
that such a youth, coming under the

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requirements of the Act, is to
be hanged tomorrow morning. And so this

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court's been called to quickly find the
necessary five the five additional newses which you

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wait along with the one society's decreed
for the young murderer acting for the state

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in this emergency, A young man
or writing fellow, I believe, will

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now address the court ur honor.
There is little time. The crack of

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dawns are deadline, and there seems
to be a wealth of candidates for those

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five extra mooses. Your officers are
rounding up some prospects. Now I must

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request a brief recess while I investigate
a few and gather evidence to find the

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next Which do most rightfully? You
belong in those five extra belong in those

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five extra nuss? What time is
it's about? It's exactly twenty one minutes

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to eleven. What's all that stuff
you're putting down there? That's what we

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call a lead on my story.
It's about an imaginary court that doesn't really

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exist in that Look, kid,
you don't need to be afraid of me.

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I can't do any harm or any
good. I'm not scared of you

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or anybody. What time is it? Look? Here, you why don't

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you go away? Here? You? Look kid? Take it easy.

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Now tell me about where you went
to school, things like that? What

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four? Oh, never mind?
What for? How do you get along

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with the teacher is okay, except
for old lady pastness. She put me

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out of class one day, hoson
through and nothing, she just jumps me.

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Then, the first person we shall
call in this imaginary court of mind,

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this very special court, is the
teacher of this boy who is to

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hang tomorrow a the You're the teacher
of the boy who is to hang tomorrow?

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What if I was? Is any
reason to haul a president in the

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public court? We don't know yet. We'll see if your indignant neck will

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fit into one of our five news. Will our write prosecutor state the facts.

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You didn't like this boy. You
put him out of class one day.

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That day I think was chapter one
in this particular story. Did six?

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He was a bad one? Bad? I well remember him here bother

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little girls. If you know what
I mean, fare is the details,

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and get on. You tossed him
up? What then? I don't have

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time at trifle with his type?
Do you know what happens when one apple

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in the basket is not good?
It isn't headline news? Now then,

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as inspector of this human fruit,
how did you dispose of this bad apple?

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Which I think was only slightly bruised? About that time? I sent

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him to the principle and got on
with the lessons. I remember I wrote

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a note. It said I will
not have this youth fat in my class.

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He is a potential murderer. Did
you write that? I know he

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could not, but he was just
a boy the honor. We waste time,

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I think with her, this teacher
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others. And it's true she has
no time to spend on battered fruit.

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Let's have the principle. I am
the principal, and I consider it an

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imposition to be summoned intercourse. I
have more important Let's share what the prosecution

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thinks. We've got to find sun
necks for these five newses. How then

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did you dispose of this unworthy apple
cast out from the perfect company? You

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mean, this fellow that they're going
to hang? Now, let's have no

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nonsense. I simply strapped him sound
adding yet another brules or driving deeper the

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same blemish. And what then?
I sent him home? I gave him

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a sharp note to show his parents. Look, do you know I have

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six hundred pupils in my school,
and there's no time for nonsense with just

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one. He tore that note to
pieces and wandered to a racetrack, where

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an older fellow told him how to
beat this little rap. I did my

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duty to my pupil and helped the
boy to graduate to murder. Your honor,

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I would say, we have but
sympathy for this, and all for

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work. And under bestowed official who
sees his simple beauty, he has no

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time. He says, it happens
all that through his minor punishments, justly

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and sternly meet it out for minor
crimes. He did set the rigid pattern

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for the larger crime, and so
as he must share the larger punishment.

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I find it so. In that
enclosure, we have set five places for

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five people. Those to fill the
five additional news is now decreed by our

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new law. You, sir,
the principle, may take your place in

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the first of these, and may
God give you full marks and pass you

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on. So we hang the principle. How many were there in your family?

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Me, Tom and Harry, and
Isabelle and Sarah. Were you afraid

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of your father? Nah? I
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He used to come home stinking on
Saturday nights. We'd all run out and

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hide in the dump behind our house. Did he ever catch you? Yeah?

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Mostly he'd go back in the house
and pass out. Has your father

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been to see you here? Hah
hah. I ain't seen him since the

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cops ran him out of town.
And so to this imaginary court about which

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I write, we will summon this
youth's parents, his mother and his father.

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Let them be heard in this strange
and special court. First, we'll

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call upon the mother. Quiet,
you are the mother of this youth.

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Yes, there you're an He was
one of mine. I've always done my

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best, but Jake was too much
for me. I looked him all right,

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proper, but Jake had never bore. He'd stand and kind of shiver

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as I whack him with a strap. He never was no good. But

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once he stood up to his paw
and he was kicking little Sarah I I

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I kind of liked the way he
he heed that rock and hit his paw.

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Rana were wasting time with his poor
travesy of motherhood. That's the moment

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when this woman's hands were needed to
caress with tenderness and loving care. They

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were filled with scouring wolves and busy
with the corridors in someone else's house and

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when her understanding might have torn away
dark fears, permitting her poor brood to

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see the light, her mind was
occupied with pennies dropping in the jar to

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pay the rent and buy the jug, the liquid equalizer that made her just

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as good as anyone. Take it
away and send her home, Bring us

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the father and the peace. Then
they do something. Then, I ain't

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been in trouble now for years.
He ain't got not on me. See

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I want about I'd jake in the
papers. I was three hundred miles away

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from here. I can prove it
all. If your small confession for a

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court which has more time, there
are four nooses left to fill. One

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morning comes so very soon, four
nooses. He what is this? I

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ain't never done, no waste in
some receiving. You can string up a

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guy for that. Now. Look, I know my rights. I'm white

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told the angels not killing you.
You can't mix mean any mode, red

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by some quaint caprice of nature.
You are in it. It seems to

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me that we can save some time
here by nominating for a noose. This

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bright eyed dodging rodent, to whom
fatherhood was but an odious consequence of turning

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in his bed one wretched knight.
He hangs, remove him to the place

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mark number two, and may God
finds something where your soul should be.

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What are you putting down all that
stuff for? About extra noosis? He

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wrote something about my father. He
ain't even here, skipper. It's just

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a magazine article about a court that
doesn't even exist. So you went to

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industrial school and you worked as an
exercise boy at the track. Did you

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ever get into court, that is
before before? Now? Nah? They

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didn't catch me, but once that
was just a juvenile court. All I

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had to do was report, Say
where did you learn how to use a

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gun? What do you mean?
Say? What are you trying to do?

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Anyway? I don't have to even
talk to you, like the warden

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said, Hey, okay, I
just wondered if he used to practice on

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a rock or a bottle or something. Nah. I never even fired a

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gun before in my life. I
never even seen a real gun before.

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When you fired that first shot,
did it seem to make a lot more

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noise than you'd seen in the movies. Yeah? Yeah it did, and

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it sort of jumped in my hand. I'd never seen that neither. And

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there was a funny burning smell.
Hey, what you're getting at huh.

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I don't have to tell you.
I don't even have to cut up,

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sit down, or even smelled powder. And so we'll call upon a social

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worker in my imaginary court. You, sir, are a social worker.

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Let us hear from you. I
do my work, and that's all I

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know. These theorists who build up
pedestals for petty crooks. They talk and

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talk of recreation centers and flower boarded
playgrounds where there is no sin, and

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boys will all be boys or captains
of the local nine. I think if

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they would step outside and see their
precious little heroes happily engage in gouging eyes

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or picking locks, then they might
do some good. And further all on,

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my little man, and we'll explain
you are a candidate for our next

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news, and we will see how
well you fit it. Let's have the

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evidence. The facts are playing your
honor, that this embittered civil servant is

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employed in juvenile affairs, and thus
he specializes in the task of bending the

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twig so that the three shall grow
up fine and straight. I feel that

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he's not to blame. It's just
that he has not the time, the

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wit, nor the weight for such
a monumental task. Take him away.

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Let's have words with his superior,
his legislator. You call on me.

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I represent the people and can say
without the fear of contradiction, that I

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do my duty by those pine upstanding
souls who vote for me. O,

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what is this a farse and mockery
in the name of justice? A court

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without a prisoner, a trial which
brings out honest people from their beds.

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A politician, We've no time for
speeches. Our job is finning news,

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is not extracting votes. You figure
in this piece by having hired such little

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men as these, who juggled juvenile
delinquents and fill out the necessary forms,

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give us the facts. They are
all directed at this man, who was

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elected by the people who speak up
for the rights of all the families in

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the very district from which our youth
in waiting sprung. I nominate him for

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a noose, your honor, for
he did nothing when the need for action

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screamed out loud from every dirty hovel
and dead end. He voted thousands for

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a waterway and kept his eyes uplifted
as he cried for all to see how

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well he carried out his solemn pledges
won by little What What is this arrant

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nonsense? Didn't I applaud the move
to build more parks and carry out my

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promises? Why I even voted for
a grant to beautify the waterfront? And

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if our appointed courts cantled their start, a buck is swiftly, deftly passed

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along without more time. I'll state
sufficient reason why this man should rate a

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noose. He sees the value of
transplanting shrubs and trees to where they'll get

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more chance. What shuts his eyes
and leaves a human being to twist and

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struggle, and perhaps to rock among
the garbage in which fell the sea.

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We have no time to belabor our
decisions in this court. You take place

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three and wait until we have the
other two. You, the politician,

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are elected next the man who hatched
the murder plot, the one who gave

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the lesson on the guns. Ah, look, your honor, I'm a

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movie producer, but radio magazines are
all the same guns murder plots. What

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else? I'm sick to death of
amateurs who make a couple of bucks a

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day and yet can tell me how
to run my business. How I make

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pictures forced our pictures that you see
by making up your mind that you will

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pay to go into the show.
I don't drag you in this time.

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You've gone too far, m maybe
not quite far enough. Your picture showed

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the youth that he could scare a
big man with a little gun. And

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did you see the picture to my
friends? And did you see the criminal

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at last waiting, waiting with fear
for his reward in jail? And so

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again crime did not pay what pictures
pay. And Bogart lived again, and

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Robinson and Ladd again next week will
swagger with their rods and set a million

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youthful trigger fingers twitching. Sure you
showed the criminal and irons, but in

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full grease painting, with lights picking
the romantic sweat beads on his brow.

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I'll show you a murderer in a
cell and send you creeping out with crawling

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flesh. His drooping mouth wouldn't take
well. He whimples, and then he

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throws out on the floor. Oh
you can't show that now. Now,

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look, I've got to get away. We're shooting at each minute costs a

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foe. Stay here and I'll support
the lead In this particular piece. You

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got a young man started up to
where the gun went off. Then He

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was on his own, no lines, no lights, no pattern. Now

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you direct him to the end.
Number four now has an eck, And

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so we move along and hope the
critics will approve your closing sequence. There

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is but one noose left to fill. Who is this candidate, your honor.

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He's an average citizen and far removed
from any part of crime or sin.

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Heh you're done right, and I'll
have you know. I'd pay my

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taxes and plenty those. We put
an office own enough, why throw out

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and put some others in. We
found him in his slippers by the fire,

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listening to the radio, and his
hand was on the knob so that

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he could turn it down and air
his views in no uncertain term. You're

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done right. I'm not a politician. If I were, you'd see some

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action. You can bet it's crime
wave. Now, don't spare the rod.

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It's good old fashioned discipline. We
need the lash and things like that.

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You're somewhat in coherent, like the
headlines, but you study firstily to

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gain your meager knowledge of your times. Do you know I assisted in the

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murder for which a youth will hang
tomorrow morning. All I know is that

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we need protection, that the honest
may sleep safe within their home. Perhaps

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there's been too much of this sound
sleeping. Perhaps you'd better stay awake and

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take a look, because, my
friend, you figure in this murder.

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If I may make a joke right
up to your neck. Now, first

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we'll have the Institute of Learning,
a man you hired to educate the boy

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his school principal. I trapped him
soundly, and I sent him home.

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I have no time. I have
too many pupils. I did my duty

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and I threw him up. And
here all, citizen, your chosen speaker,

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who carries out your business, makes
your laws, your legislator. Oh,

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enough of this. I have no
time for trifling. You know my

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stand on crime. I'm against it. Still no time, mister, citizens.

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These men you hire are burden down
with matters of great importance. Who

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is then to turn a hand to
helping this fellow He was tossing in that

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giant stream which flows by your front
door. Now look at it here.

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I know you're angled, but I
wonder if you've heard about the outfits which

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go round doing things to help the
poor. We've all seen in the plot

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of that brave, slim trickle of
human kindness which drips so gallantly into an

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arid, deserted in humanity. Wait
a minute, where's the kid's father.

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He's the one I always say that
crime begins at home. Now you take

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my two boys. We know them
well. They shine and glow and grow

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up, all surrounded by the fences
which you built to keep them safe from

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nasty things like crime. Here is
the father. I ain't been in trouble

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now for years. Jake shot this
guy. I was even here in my

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wrath. So there, you,
citizen. That's how you got another son.

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Not one so bright or well behaved
as those two you have mentioned,

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but one abandoned, one kicked out, bruised and battered, one not quite

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so well endowed in the beginning.
He is a son of yours, not

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by an act of father but or
love, but by a greater principal example

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some two thousand years ago. He
is your son, your honor. The

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time is getting on. I say
that this citizen should sit the final news

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that's file. I do agree.
Since he does cries so long and lustily

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for the rewards which do arise from
membership and our fair state, then he

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must help to put the bill.
With this citizen the fifth and final,

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hey you and your time's up,
come on out, okay, Warden,

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Well let's all kid tell and pick
this typewriter. And then and how you

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fix the smokes? I do smoke? Are you gonna do anything about but

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me? No, nothing I can
do. How about? How about all

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that stuff you put down? Was
that just just a story? Yeah,

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just a story. That's why.
Hey you, yes, you have just

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heard. Radio City Playhouse attracts in
eighteen five Extra Noises, written by Charles

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Lee Hutsings and directed by Harry W. Duncan. John Lockin starred as the

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writer. Others in the cast were
Paul Nugent, Jack Lloyd, Adelaide Klein,

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mart Lawrence, Eugene Francis and Joe
Helgerson. The music was composed and

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conducted by doctor Roy Shield. Radio
City Playhouse is supervised for the National Broadcasting

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Company by Richard P. McDonough.
This is Harry Juncan again. Next week

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The Heritage of Wimpole Street, the
story of what happened when the son of

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning returned to England after
his mother's death in Italy. It's a

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warm and beguiling story and we're sure
you'll enjoy it be with us next week

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for the Heritage of Wimpole Street Attraction
nineteen on Radio City Playhouse, Robert Warren

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speaking, This is NBC, the
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