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Speaker 1: Looked out for the quiet people, for the ones who
are modest in manner, unassuming and self effacing and who
leave no more trail than a fish in the water.
Such a one is our heroine, Della McKellar, or missus
Frederick T. McKellar, as she's known legally. At this moment,
she's at the airport cab. Stand what so, lady.
Speaker 2: One two two one Torrance.
Speaker 1: One so to one Torrance. We are rof.
Speaker 2: And where do you think I'm coming from? You see,
by your posted license your name is Bernard Weissman number
three two two seven, two six or two Bernard.
Speaker 5: Huh.
Speaker 2: I can also see by the tilt of your head
that you're giving me the once over in your rear
view mirror. Well, Bernard, our wager, I know exactly how
oh you are sizing me up.
Speaker 1: This is a merry broad age, and I can't give
her much less than ninety five marks. Come secum shine.
What we got here is a respectable, quiet, mousey, middle
class name.
Speaker 2: And I can tell you've written me off because you're
not eyeing me in the mirror anyway.
Speaker 1: Oh, how little we know, Bernard.
Speaker 2: How little we know? I am in your cab because
of a chain of events, A chain that led me
into your cab and will lead me beyond it. It
began one evening. Let's call it that evening, Fred.
Speaker 7: Yes, Ella, Oh, Darling, I'm in a pressure cooker again.
Speaker 2: Hi, what is it this for a report? I have
to do a report, a complete report, tonight.
Speaker 7: If I don't take time out for sleep, I'll just
manage to have it ready for the Senate Finance Committee
by morning. Oh but Fred, I'm going right into the den.
I have to start immediately. But dinner, I'll be a sweetheart.
I bring something on a tray, a sandwich, anything, I
don't care.
Speaker 2: I'll just need plenty of black coffee. Fred, Stop, stop,
don't take another step, Darling, what's wrong? I want you
to look at what, Look at me, look at you? Yes,
what do you see?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: Oh, Fred, sit down?
Speaker 1: But I told you, I know, I know you have
a report.
Speaker 2: I also have a report, Fred, which is if you
don't sit down this minute, I'm going to take the
next plane to Reno, Nevada or Mexico City and get
a divorce.
Speaker 3: Oh, I can't wait. Well, what did you say, Fred?
Speaker 2: Surely it must be a parent even to you that
all the closeness has gone out of our marriage.
Speaker 7: Never felt as close to you as I do now.
Speaker 2: And you've never been so far away, and.
Speaker 7: So I thought, oh, I know we haven't seen much
of each other lately, but I've taken a new job.
Speaker 2: I thought I would try to put the romance back
into our relationship.
Speaker 3: It's a very demanding shut up.
Speaker 2: Listen to me. I was desperate, so I thought I'd
do what the marriage councilor suggests. What the soap opera
is the lovelorn columnist's advice, which was to create a
romantic and look, just look around you. Oh, I'm wearing
what certainly should be considered a seductive gown to get
the candles on the table, the brilliant crystal, the gleaming china,
the sparkling silver, the red roses, the soft light, the
sweet music. And let me tell you about dinner, darling.
And oh listen, we're having before bring you And I'm
so you bust in here like some traveling salesman barging
into a motel. Give me a room in a cheese sandwich, Darling.
Speaker 7: I must tell you what happened. Senator loomis the one
who hates to spend fifteen cents on education. He's in
town with an investigating committee. I met him and we started.
Speaker 3: Talking, Darling. I know I can make him see the life.
Speaker 2: Please, please, Fred, Let's have some champagne.
Speaker 7: Oh no, I need a clear head for figures, he said,
have your facts in black and white by morning.
Speaker 3: Do you realize what an opportunity this is? But I
prepared the bella.
Speaker 7: Dearest Ella, I know, I know how disappointed you are,
But you're sensible.
Speaker 3: You are, Darling, That's why.
Speaker 1: I married you.
Speaker 7: Now I must get into the den with these figures.
Keep the coffee coming.
Speaker 2: You know who Fred is. Fred is the new state
Commissioner of Education. Everybody says he's going places.
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 2: Lately he's been going a great many places without me. Well,
he went into his study and I did a few
chores around the house. Read a bit in Baswa's life.
Johnson worked on a water colored Oh.
Speaker 1: I have a great many talents for not.
Speaker 2: And in the midst of all this self expression entered
my close neighbor and casual friend, Edith. He's okay to
use the phone, Dell. Oh sure, he thinks. I hate
to bother you, But old Gus decided to stay home
today and I have this extremely important phone call Mike.
Edie Hollow, Oh, your sweet look ten on Handy Andy
in the first at Ormond, I still have time. Just
okay on the nose and Mike call me back at
this number. It's my neighbor. She's okay. Yeah, it's a
two o six three six three six. H Ch'll think
in a couple of minutes, they're all he really have
a couple of cass I'd rather have a drink. Oh,
don't bother. I see the bottle on the glasses for
you one now, I don't drink. Oh it's right, she
don't Andy, Andy, I presume is a Oh handy Andy
is a five year old Bay gelding and he cannot lose. Oh,
come on, be smart. Bet on him yourself. Oh I
never bet on anything in my life. Well you're overdue.
Put a tenor on.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: No, I was brought up to believe it's wicked to
bet on horses. Well yeah, it is wicked, but look,
if you don't do something wicked now and then come
on take the plunge. I'll call Mike and put down
a bet for you. Oh hey, if that's Mike, my
watch is slow. I was lucky to get down myself
and it's too late for me. You mean you would
have put down a bed. Look, I'll tell you what
I'll do. I'll give you half of mine five bucks.
What do you say once I talked to Mike and
find out it'll be too late. Oh come on, Dell,
what's five bucks to live a little? Well? All right, okay? Hello? Yeah, uh, okay,
Well let's go downtown and collect.
Speaker 8: Oh I don't want to go rushing downtown just to
collect five dollars.
Speaker 3: Five dollars.
Speaker 2: He went off at twenty to one. He brought home
two onondred for ten. You're entitled a half you win
a hundred? Is where we meet, Mike, it is? Are
you sure that we're getting one hundred dollars a feet?
You're a very insecure person, Della, and I can't understand
why relax hight Oh hi, Mike, I had a good
one today, Yes you did. I'd like to introduce a friend,
Della mckella.
Speaker 1: Della mckella, it sings its music.
Speaker 2: And Della had half the bet.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you won, Della mckller.
Speaker 2: Even though it's money out of your pocket.
Speaker 1: Oh not quite. You see, there were fifteen horses in
the race. Not all of the people bet. Handy Andy well,
I hope to see you again, Dela mckeller.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no. I made one bet and I won.
I'll quit. Well, I'm ahead, famous last words A Bernard
and I had every intention of quitting. But that night
Fred was late for dinner, and then he was very late,
and finally the phone rang, Honey.
Speaker 1: We have to leave for the state capitol right away.
Speaker 2: At this hour.
Speaker 1: I've got the Senator eating out of my hand, and
he wants me to testify at the committee hearings first
thing in the morning.
Speaker 2: But I thought we'd have that champagne tonight.
Speaker 8: Just let me get through this crisis, after which there'll
be another one.
Speaker 2: Well, Della, you're ready to break the bank at Monte Carlo. No, no,
thank you. I've had my mad fling. And besides, I'm
due to teach my classes at the settlement hust Oh, well,
I like Jackie's boy in the fifth How can he lose?
I got a hunch on this. Nag Okay, I'll go along.
Speaker 3: How much?
Speaker 2: Why I'm ahead one hundred? Why not all of it? Well,
it's best to do these things slowly. Why, if he's right,
he's as right for a hundred as he is for
a dollar. It shouldn't be the size of the bet,
it's the strength of the conviction. Honey, you are a
horse player. Call Mike. I didn't realize it at the time,
for not but I was books well after my classes.
I was having a sandwich and looking at the paper.
They're racing page, naturally, and I was beginning to have
second thoughts about Jackie's Boy. So I called Edith to
get her to change the bet, but there was no answer.
I didn't know Mike's phone number, but I did remember
the corner where we met him.
Speaker 1: Hello, Della mckiller.
Speaker 2: Hello, Mike, I have to talk to you.
Speaker 1: I'll buy your lunch. No, no, this is we can't
talk business on the streets. You realize we're standing in
front of Los Arets, the best restaurant in tom.
Speaker 2: How do I go about changing my bet?
Speaker 3: Mic?
Speaker 1: Well, you do is tell me?
Speaker 2: Well, uh see what it is in the paper. Jackie's
Boy likes a fast track. But if you look at
the weather map for upstate where Ormond Park is, it
rained there all night, so that track must be mud
by now now here is sweet reward. He loves mud.
He finished in the money his last three times out
so I like him?
Speaker 1: Where you got him? Did anybody ever tell you how
lovely you look when you get all excited and breathless? Life?
Speaker 2: That? Well? I wanted to uh straighten out that bet
mic once a good thing?
Speaker 1: He goes off in three minutes and I n I
don't leave? Why not tell me all about yourself? Why
are you unhappy?
Speaker 2: Who said I was unhappy?
Speaker 1: When you have to be unhappy to gamble?
Speaker 2: Where do you say that?
Speaker 1: Because real excitement and adventure missing from your life? You
had to buy it at the table or the track?
Speaker 2: Is that why you gamble?
Speaker 3: Mike?
Speaker 1: I I don't gamble. To me, gambling is a commodity.
I sell it to those who need it. Why do
you need it?
Speaker 2: Who says I need it?
Speaker 1: Have dinner with me tonight and I'll explain it.
Speaker 2: Oh listen, I'm a married woman.
Speaker 1: But are you a happily married woman?
Speaker 3: Or really? I have to go?
Speaker 1: Well, shouldn't we find out.
Speaker 3: About sweet reward? Uh?
Speaker 1: Johnny plugging a farm? Please? Thank you Tella? If not tonight,
why then?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: How about uh tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Oh he'll please the day after?
Speaker 1: Hello? They fifth of door Mount parkeet Ah, Huh, thanks
your sweet reward came into three to one a a
hundred yesterday.
Speaker 3: Three day.
Speaker 1: If I had your luck, I'd play the horses myself.
Here's your money. Oh, thank you? Now about dinner to night?
Speaker 2: No, Mike, really, there's no point in your.
Speaker 1: Asking, But there's no point in your refusal. Nolla, I'm
still upstate. This is a rough one.
Speaker 2: Ah, yes, Fred, I suppose it is, but uh, listen,
you just stay as long as it's necessary. No, no, darling,
is I understand it's your career and uh we're both
required to make sacrifices.
Speaker 1: That's my rational, mature and reasonable darling. I'll be home
tomorrow night. What are you doing now?
Speaker 2: I'm just reading what something new the Racing Form?
Speaker 1: Did it get good reviews?
Speaker 2: Mixed?
Speaker 1: Oh, Mike, Elah mckeller, you change your mind. We will
have dinner at row.
Speaker 2: Listen, Mike. Her name is Lady Marion in the first
of joy Land. Four hundred dollars to win?
Speaker 1: Aren't you living a little dangerously?
Speaker 2: Sure? And I love every minute of.
Speaker 1: It, and so would you if you want? Every time
you bet, which is what our missus Della mckeller is doing. However,
as the popular tune tells, us into each life. Some
rain must fall, and when it does, where will Della
run for shelter? Well, you just keep warm and dry
where you are, and I.
Speaker 2: Shall return with a few tips.
Speaker 1: On some winners when I bring you at two. It
should be obvious if a man has an attractive wife
and he neglects her, she will sooner or later find
something and someone to occupy her time and energy, which
is what Dela mckeller seems to have done. Not only
is she having a fantastic run of luck with the horses,
she also seems to be scoring with the bookmaker.
Speaker 2: Well Bernard, the night before I had put all my
winnings four hundred dollars on a filly named Lady Marian.
And the following afternoon I was leaving the settlement house
and at the curb was parked a brand new long
black sports car, and at the wheel the very good looking,
the smartly dressed. Might he could very well become a problem,
But I wasn't sure. I really cared hop in, Oh
really I shouldn't.
Speaker 1: I have news for you. You just won two thousand
dollars two thousand. You put four hundred on Lady marrying
at five to one.
Speaker 2: Oh my day.
Speaker 1: The proper way to thank me is to have dinner.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I told you I am married one.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm a married man, so it cancels on. Well,
I really I have to go home like, Ah, you're
a slave to convention.
Speaker 2: Ha ha, aren't we?
Speaker 1: Uh? Oh no, And that's one of the things I'm
going to teach you one day.
Speaker 2: Aphrodity Edith, why is she five to one? Well, she's
a Philly. Why is she running with one hundred and
six pounds? Why is she the lightest in the race.
Why she's won her last two starts and she's being
dropped in class? I like it for ten bucks what
you have been twenty four twenty four dollars. That's an
odd amound twenty four hundred dollars eating. No, no, tell
her you. You can't tell her you you're crazy. I
won't let y'all stop. You'll please eat us. Don't take
on you were right about me. I am a gambler.
I'm not like you, venturing five or ten dollars for
a thrill. No, sir, this to me is a living.
It's a way I never lived before. I can't explain
Howdella I wish I'd never introduced you to this well, Bernard.
That was ten o'clock in the morning, and somehow I
made the time pass in the settlement house, and I
passed by quickly because a woman reporter came round to
interview me. See I was human interest, the wife of
the dynamic new Commissioner of Education. Everybody knew that he
was going places. But how does it feel to be
the wife of such an wing man, missus mckeller. Well,
it's so marvelous. They say he has a career in
politics if he chooses, and you are certainly a great asset.
You're never in repose like your husband. You seem to
be on the go all the time. Where do you
get all your nervous energy? Could I kill her? That?
I bet on the portie, Bernard? Could I kill her that?
Even now I was waiting for the fourth race of Joyland,
where I had twenty four hundred dollars riding on a
horse named Aphrodite, and that I would have twelve thousand
dollars if she won. Is it any wonder that my
eyes were shining, that my cheeks were glowing. And finally
the later reporter had enough of me, and then I
was told that I had a phone call.
Speaker 1: I changing plans.
Speaker 2: Plans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we discussed it last night on the phone.
Speaker 2: Oh, Senator Lewis and I and some party leader.
Speaker 1: This will be in on the six o'clock plane. We're
having a victory dinner at a place called Oh you
never heard of it.
Speaker 2: It's on Lower Broadway, Lots Sordas, Los Hordas.
Speaker 1: Can you meet us there? I'll have terrific news.
Speaker 2: Well, Bernard, I kept eyeing the clock like a condemned
prisoner in a cell. And finally the hands read three o'clock,
and I knew that the race had been wrung, and
that I either had twelve thousand dollars or I had nothing.
And I looked out the window. The sports car was there.
I ran downstairs. He held open the door for me,
and I got in, and I knew, I knew my
Aphrodite had not risen from the phone.
Speaker 1: She came very close to Ella going into the stretch.
She slipped, lost ride, but she wouldn't quit. At the finish,
she was coming on. If it were a mom a quarter,
she'd have won it.
Speaker 2: Mike, would you drop me off a block from the house?
I owe you twenty four hundred.
Speaker 1: I don't want to pay, or you don't have to
do it this minute. First, let me buy a drink
and you don't drink. Why'd you do it? Della? You
can't keep letting it ryde. You have to save some
for a rainy day.
Speaker 2: You know it's been raining for a long time.
Speaker 1: Well, come out of the wet theen, Della. Away from
the cold, the dam. I know a place where it's
always bright and sunny.
Speaker 2: Is this the cheer up service you extend to all
your lady customers.
Speaker 1: It's a brand news service. Might have tried it before.
Speaker 3: Do you know?
Speaker 2: You were the absolute hit of the evening? Was my friend?
Speaker 3: You bet your work and Dell?
Speaker 2: They want me to run for office, darling, are you listening?
Don't you have an office now?
Speaker 3: I mean elective office?
Speaker 2: You mean politics.
Speaker 7: I'm in politics now, That's what this is all about.
I could do more for education if I were in
the legislature.
Speaker 1: And from there, Della, you know.
Speaker 7: What ties the ribbon around the package. You You're my
biggest asset. You're attractive and the work you've done with
the kids. Who'd ever have thought it would pay off?
Speaker 2: I work with other people's children because we have none
of our own.
Speaker 7: Senator Looma says, there's nothing like kids for a candidate.
We should give serious thoughts to adopting one for votes.
You never wanted to adopt a child, Well, Della, we
both want one and will have.
Speaker 3: To work very hard.
Speaker 2: I think that's where he lost me, Bernard on that work.
I'd been working for him ever since we were married.
I worked while he studied for his masters, his PhD,
and while he held research jobs that paid practically nothing.
And now he was asking me to work for the
rest of my life to make him president of the United.
Speaker 3: States one day.
Speaker 2: You don't want to work for a man anymore. All
I really want to do is play the horses. Mike
fifty on Forest Ranger.
Speaker 3: In the third.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Del he's out of the money.
Speaker 2: Okay, one hundred on Jelly Tarre in the sixth, twenty
five on Jersey Jerry fifty on House Guests.
Speaker 9: I'm sorry, Dylan, but how does it happen you're out
of money? Well, Fred, we do a lot of entertaining.
You know, there's food and liquids.
Speaker 3: Nope, but it seems to.
Speaker 2: Me, Oh, please don't lecture me on how to run
a household. It's the way prices are today.
Speaker 7: It's just that we seem to be broke all the time,
and I'm trying to find out where the money is going.
Speaker 2: Well, all your guests and your political friends compliment you
on our hospitality.
Speaker 3: Oh, I have to admit you're doing a terrific job.
Speaker 2: Well, see, that's where the money's going.
Speaker 7: It just seems to me it's an awful lot of money.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'll get there.
Speaker 1: Hello, tell bad knows. I'm afraid, gentleman Fin did last
anyone else you'd like?
Speaker 2: Oh? No, another time? Who was a wrong number?
Speaker 1: Oh didn't sound like a wrong number?
Speaker 2: I said it was wrong number? Aristrapic.
Speaker 1: Oh. I invited some ladies for Teita Saturday.
Speaker 7: One of them is a nut on antique silver You
know the tray Aunt Zoey got us for a wedding gift.
Speaker 2: The tray, Yeah, the solid silver tray.
Speaker 3: Use it to serve?
Speaker 2: Oh will you never use that? I mean it's ugly.
Speaker 1: I described it to missus Wheatley.
Speaker 3: She's dying to see it.
Speaker 2: Do I have to tell you what I did with
that trade, Bernard. I used it to raise five hundred
dollars to bet On a horse named Foolish Pride. When
it was a foolish bet. But if I had to
get it out of hawk, I needed five hundred dollars quickly.
How could I raise it? I'd already squeezed every possible
dollar out of my household money. But then I saw
my salvation. His name was Silver Knight. How could he
lose given these circumstances, Mike, Mike, what are the odds
on Silver Knight in the fifth?
Speaker 1: Oh? He's a favorite? Just about even money?
Speaker 2: Okay? Uh? Five hundred to whim?
Speaker 1: Hello, Devin said, I'm sorry about Silver Night, Mike.
Speaker 2: I uh, I came down here to tell you, uh
uh uh to tell you.
Speaker 3: That I can.
Speaker 1: You don't have five hundred dollars? And how did you
know when it had to come to this one day?
Speaker 2: Well, if you're so sympathetic, why did you take my bet?
Speaker 1: Oh you'd only go to some other guy and and
to him, you'd just be another customer.
Speaker 2: Oh what am I to you?
Speaker 1: If only you would, you'd give into your instincts and
enjoy life, which instincts the urge to be free. Listen, Mike,
could we talk business? Sure your credit is good and
it's unlimited.
Speaker 2: I don't want credit, I just want time to pay
you back.
Speaker 1: Sure, But meanwhile, if you see something good in tomorrow's race,
why yeah, your credit is good.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, I can't ever go through that again,
never again. I'd learned my lesson, Missus McKellar. Aren't you
going to show us that antique silver tray your husband
told us about. I'd love to have a picture of
it for the paper. The tray hmm oh yes, of course,
would you ladies excuse me for a moment, darling? What's
the problem Fred? The tray? I can't find the.
Speaker 7: Tray, but don't you always keep it here in this closet?
Speaker 2: No, look, look for yourself. It's gone.
Speaker 3: But how could it be gone?
Speaker 2: Well, it must have been stolen? Stolen, oh Fred, Fred,
I love that tray. It's been stolen, Fred, stolen, dearest
humus become? How can I become? That was the most
cherished thing I had?
Speaker 3: But who could have that?
Speaker 2: Missus Solms? Fred, Yes, that cleaning lady we had a
few years ago. It must have been Missus Solmes. I
remember how she used to look at that tray. She's stolen,
but that's hardly proof. Oh, it's gone. She's gone. Please, dear, please,
don't take on like that.
Speaker 3: It's not the end of the world.
Speaker 1: They say, your diet in the world, compulsive gambler must
eventually break all of the commandments. Now, where are we
with Della? So far stealing, lying, false witness? How about adultery?
She's been flirting with that ever since Act one. We'll
see how far she goes.
Speaker 2: When I return in just a few moments.
Speaker 1: With Act three, Dante talks about an inferno. Dont you
never met any horse players? They have a special inferno
of their very own. It's a place of illusion, a
strange land of delirious hopes at rest on quicksand where
winners and losers alike are haunted driven creatures.
Speaker 2: Well, Bernard, I held out for a week, and then
I proved I was a horse player to the very
marrow of my bones, because I came up with a system,
and it was spread of all people who inspired me.
Speaker 7: Do you realize you were the most intelligent person.
Speaker 1: In the room.
Speaker 7: Not only did you know what Einstein's formula E equals
mc squared means, you could actually explain it intelligently.
Speaker 2: It all has to do with timing, timing. That's right,
it's timing. Why didn't I see that before? It's timing.
All other systems have to do with past performance. But
the fact is, the longer an animal has to wait
an animal, the more nervous it becomes. Therefore, there or.
Speaker 3: What on a Della?
Speaker 7: Sometimes it's so hard to follow you.
Speaker 1: I notice you only met the first and the second races, Della.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's my new system. You see, the longer
a horse waits to run, the more nervous it becomes. Huh,
the more energy is drained away.
Speaker 1: It sounds crazy, but I have to admit it works.
Speaker 2: Yes, Bernard, it worked. All systems work for a while,
and then nothing worked. And I'll tell you something about
horse players. It's just as important to lose as it
is to win. The ecstatic joy of winning is made
possible only because there's that chilling fear of losing. It's
all basic philosophy, Bernard, the balancing of life by opposites.
Oh what there were dreams?
Speaker 1: Terrible?
Speaker 3: True?
Speaker 9: You are you're of a horse player.
Speaker 1: Your credit is unlimited?
Speaker 8: Ella?
Speaker 3: How could you do this to me? How would you
do this to me?
Speaker 2: You've been having an affair with a notorious gangs head.
How much money have you squandered?
Speaker 7: You sold that Zoey's silver trays have been on the wall.
Speaker 1: Alloy your oraetincts be pray a rain.
Speaker 2: Rain bella huh fellah? Oh yes, d what is it
more coffee?
Speaker 3: Dear?
Speaker 2: Sometimes it seems that you're in another world.
Speaker 7: Who I think you're exhausted and it's my fault. I've
been working you so hard, but everyone agrees you are
a terrific lady. Oh darling, could you go to the
bank for me in cash a check? I won't have
a chance, and it's one hundred dollars expense money.
Speaker 3: For my trip tomorrow. I uh, I'd rather not what, Della?
What is it? Is something wrong? Oh?
Speaker 1: No, you really have to do this for me, Darling.
I'll need the cash.
Speaker 2: I tried, Bernard, I really am truly tried. But the
horse's name was Centurion, which means leader of a hundred?
How could he lose? I rang Edith's bell. We hadn't
been seeing much of each other lately. Edith, do you
know another bookie? I see you're on the cuff with
Mike and in so deep. I only asked you if
you and you another bookie. I'll get out of the della.
He's sweet on you. He'll wait, He'll wait forever. Don't
ruin it for yourself and fray Edith. Do you know
another bookie? I wouldn't be doing you a favor. You
weren't doing me a favor of the first time either.
A cigar Stow, cross Town on Hawkin's near Twelfth Road.
Ask for Chuck. I came here as quickly as I could.
Speaker 3: What is it, Mike?
Speaker 1: Is this a way in the treat of Powell?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 3: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: A friend of mine you can call him a colleague
says he booked the cash bag for you.
Speaker 2: Well, I was so fraid to run up more credit, Mike.
Speaker 1: I told you your credit's unlimited.
Speaker 2: Oh how much do I owe you?
Speaker 1: You know it to the penny. I don't nine thousand,
two hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: But I had three winners last week.
Speaker 1: That subtracted from the total.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, And I'll pay it back. You'll
never pay me back, Yes, I will.
Speaker 1: How you and Fred are living above your income now.
Speaker 2: Mike, I'm quitting. I I'm quitting, and and and I'll
pay you back.
Speaker 1: You never have to pay me back, Della. I don't
want money from you.
Speaker 2: Oh what do you want you?
Speaker 1: I don't care if you're a gambler. I can afford
you be my extravagance. Mm and once you're with me, baby,
you'll see you won't have to gamble anymore.
Speaker 2: Mike, please, I I I have to go.
Speaker 1: You wanted this to happen, Della. You wanted an impossible
debt to be built up. You wanted me to save you. Okay,
try it. Come away with me for a weekend. No,
you're a gambler. You never dreamed of how it is
in Vegas, horses, cards, the wheel. It goes day and night,
never stops.
Speaker 3: You never have to stop.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: Alright, We'll do it this way. Two rooms, one for me,
one for you. You decide whether you keep your door
open or locked. You decide.
Speaker 2: I decided when I Which is why I'm hearing your cab.
I had to find out about the gambling about Fred,
about Mike, about me. Fred was easy. I told him
I was going to visit Anzoe on the coast. Thought
it was a great idea. The flight was uneventful. A
special limo was waiting to take me to the hotel
I was greeted with ceremony by the captain and ushered
with deference by a bellman to my room, where there
were flowers and a bottle of champagne and a basket
of fruit, and a note from Mike, Welcome to Vegas.
Speaker 1: Apart to the cashier, got as many chips as your
heart desires, meet you in the casino at four love Mike.
Speaker 2: I won and I kept winning, but somehow there was
no thrill to it. I don't know what was the matter.
Was I nervous? Was I guilty about deceiving Fred? And
then I saw Mike? Wow?
Speaker 1: What are those chips? Whether the big winner?
Speaker 2: What's the matter Mike?
Speaker 1: Nothing? Why do you ask?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Back whom you seem so care free,
so happy to go lucky, but out here you're actually
serious like everybody else around here.
Speaker 1: Sit down now, buy a drink.
Speaker 2: I don't drink.
Speaker 1: Well, let's sit down anyway. What'll happen early?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: I have a meeting? You have a what I belong to?
An association? We're having a convention here over the weekend,
and we have an important session scheduled for six o'clock.
It may run till midnight.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Honestly, Honey, there's so much action here. Hey, you'll never
even miss me.
Speaker 2: Mike, I have a husband who treats me this way.
Why do you think I'm here now?
Speaker 1: It's just this particular knife.
Speaker 2: You don't sound like the Mic. Go back home. I
didn't know that you were tied down luctually.
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 2: You said you were free to come and go as
you pleased, that you didn't have to answer to anybody. Ella,
this is just a single, tiny exception. Listen. On vacation,
I like a formal dinner at a sure tomorrow night,
and I've had a long trip, so I think i'll
go up and take a nap, and i'll be dressed
and ready for you to pick me up at eight.
Speaker 1: But I told you I have a meeting, and if.
Speaker 2: You're not there, I'll go to the airport and i'll
fly to California, where I have a wealthy aunt, and
I'll tell her the truth and you'll get your money.
Speaker 1: Della.
Speaker 2: Listen, and if you're not there at eight, Mic, I'll
be gone and we'll never know if we could have
had anything together. Come in, Mike, Yes, Ella, Mike, eight
o'clock exactly. I thought you had a meeting I did.
Did you get to talk about it?
Speaker 1: Well, it seems this is to be a weekend of
decision for us both. I guess I have to make
a decision too. Mike.
Speaker 2: You look very handsome.
Speaker 1: I feel handsome.
Speaker 3: Yes, maybe come in.
Speaker 2: You are in.
Speaker 1: Introducer, Michael, Missus mkella, may I present mister Carl Leon
and uh uh his associate Jane.
Speaker 7: How do you do missus mchla? Michael Joe tells me
you cannot make the meeting?
Speaker 1: Uh, yes, Carl, that's right. I I I can't.
Speaker 3: I see, but I need you there, Michael.
Speaker 7: Do you mind, Michael if Missus mckella and I talk
in private for a few.
Speaker 1: Moments, excuse me, please delan.
Speaker 3: You're a very attractive young lady.
Speaker 7: But then Michael always did have good taste, which is
why he married my daughter Julia.
Speaker 3: You knew he was married.
Speaker 7: Yes, I took him into my firm and placed him
in charge of a certain operation.
Speaker 3: Now I must ask you to leave him.
Speaker 2: Do you ask me?
Speaker 3: Or do you tell me ask? You? See?
Speaker 7: If he stasts with you, he will no longer have
his position in my company.
Speaker 2: I think you don't really know, Mike, and what we
have done for each other. Just as he's giving me
my freedom, I am bringing him his.
Speaker 3: He is not going to give up his position.
Speaker 2: Well shouldn't that be his decision?
Speaker 3: Of course?
Speaker 7: And he has already decided. Let us see which of
us he has chosen. Opened the door, Jean, Ah, you see,
no one is outside, and no one around anywhere in
the corridor. Michael has gone back to work. As you
can see, I see, goodbye missus mchla.
Speaker 2: Oh hello ella, Fred, how did you know?
Speaker 1: I guess I know everything. I found the pawn ticket, Oh,
and all kinds of racing papers.
Speaker 3: Oh, and I spoke to Eatith.
Speaker 1: She thought it best to tell me everything.
Speaker 2: Oh, there's a scrap of paper in the waste basket with.
Speaker 1: Your plane and a hotel reservation.
Speaker 7: I guess you really wanted me to find it.
Speaker 1: Oh is that all you can say?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Well, what do you want me to say?
Speaker 1: I want you to say you're coming right home.
Speaker 2: Oh, Fred, don't don't forgive me so quickly. I feel terrible.
Speaker 1: I feel worse. Do you think you could ever forgive me?
Here we are, lady, it's all twenty one sience. Oh
so soon, don't take modern time minute's on a free
ran it.
Speaker 2: Seems like a lifetime. Well, uh, hear you Everynard, and
keep the change. I can't tell you how much I
enjoyed our chat What chatmes.
Speaker 1: Sometimes right this one?
Speaker 3: Yes, they certainly are, and so are so many of
us out of this world.
Speaker 1: Della mckeller, prim proper, perfect wife or a rising young politician?
Speaker 3: What's going to happen?
Speaker 1: Did Della and Fred learn their lessons? Or will they
slide back into the old relationship?
Speaker 3: Do people really learn?
Speaker 1: Some do, some don't. I shall return shortly the other life.
If the Lord granted the cat nine lives, does it
stand to reason that he allows us only one? Stop
to ask yourself? How many lives are you leading? Our
cast included Mercedes McCambridge, Ralph Bell, Bryna Raeburn, and Elliott Reid.
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown Radio.
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