WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:08.599 The National Broadcasting Company presents Radio City Playhouse Attraction eighteen, 2 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:34.320 Ladies and Gentlemen, here's the director of Radio City Playhouse, 3 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:37.439 Harry W. Junkins, to tell you something of tonight's play. 4 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:40.240 Thank you, Bob One, ladies and gentlemen. 5 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:43.000 In response to your many hundreds of letters asking to 6 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:46.359 hear him again, we're very happy to welcome mister John 7 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:50.320 Larkin back to Radio City Playhouse. Two weeks ago he 8 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:53.200 played the part of Lloyd Bruckner in The Door and 9 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:56.119 gave a performance which drew rave notices from all over 10 00:00:56.159 --> 00:00:59.920 the country. Tonight, mister Larkin appears in a similar type 11 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:02.759 of play, but in a diametrically opposite type of role, 12 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:06.200 the role of a writer, an intellectual who is a 13 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:10.319 little cynical, a little disillusioned, and highly indignant at society 14 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:13.200 over the conviction of a twenty year old boy from murder. 15 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:18.120 The script is called five Extra Newses and was written 16 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:21.560 by Charles Lee Hutchings, a writer new to Radio City 17 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:24.280 Playhouse and from whom we hope to receive more plays 18 00:01:24.319 --> 00:01:28.239 in the very near future. We like this particular script 19 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:32.879 because it is both entertaining and socially significant, a combination 20 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:36.719 of ingredients, which few writers achieve. Here then is John 21 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:40.719 Larkin as the writer in five extra newses by Charles 22 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:44.959 Lee Hutchings Attraction eighteen on Radio City Playhouse. 23 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:01.280 Nice jail you got here, Warden? 24 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:02.319 Yeah? 25 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:06.000 All these cells empty? Yeah, maybe you got an answer 26 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:07.879 to the housing shortage. Look. 27 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:11.120 I don't like reporters, and I don't think that was funny. 28 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:14.719 I'm not a reporter. I write for magazine and I 29 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:16.479 don't particularly care what you think. 30 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:18.759 This kid's done a murder and he's gonna hang in 31 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:21.159 the morning, and you come nosing around like a dog. 32 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:23.439 Stick to your job, Warden. You know I got permission 33 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:25.120 from way up top where I wouldn't be here tonight. 34 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:30.680 All the kids in this cell here, Hi, Jake, it's 35 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:31.759 the writing guy I. 36 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:32.560 Was telling you about. 37 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:39.319 What's the type? 38 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:41.560 Nah, you don't have to talk to this guy if 39 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:43.759 you don't want to see That's what the boss told me. 40 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:47.840 He said, you don't have to hold it, Bob, hold it. Look, kid, 41 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:49.800 here's the setup. I went to a lot of trouble 42 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:52.159 to get the okay to see you. I want to 43 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:54.000 get in that cell and talk to you a few minutes. 44 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:55.960 I'm gonna write a story. For a magazine. 45 00:02:56.360 --> 00:02:57.159 Was he here before? 46 00:02:57.439 --> 00:02:59.400 No, No, I'm not a newspaper reporter. I just want 47 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:00.479 to talk to you for a few minutes. 48 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:02.319 Now, you don't have to you don't have to even 49 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:03.080 talk to him if I. 50 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:06.759 Wait a minute. Look, kid, I got permission from the 51 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:09.080 top guy to come and see you tonight. I'll just 52 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:10.919 come in there and you can well, you can watch 53 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:13.120 me write my story. Did you ever see anybody write 54 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:16.439 a story? Won't do any harm, might do some good 55 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:18.120 for somebody. 56 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:20.840 I don't know. I guess it'll be all right. 57 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:23.039 I mean, you don't have the kid open the door 58 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:34.759 and let me. And you heard the kids say it's okay. 59 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:35.919 Hmm. 60 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:40.759 Don't go in for space. Not enough room in here 61 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:45.680 to swing a cat. I'll sit on the edge of 62 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:46.800 this cot and get going. 63 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:47.319 What's that? 64 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:48.520 What's what? 65 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:50.800 What you got in a black bag? You're a doctor? 66 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:53.240 Who are you? Anyway? 67 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:55.360 Take it easy now, that's not a black bag. That's 68 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:59.479 my typewriter in a black case. Hey see, it opens up, 69 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:03.159 that's up on its own legs like this. I've set 70 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:04.759 that baby up on the deck of a battleship and 71 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:06.840 then a tent in Holland and Berlin and Tokyo. 72 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:10.080 I never seen no typewriter like that. Was you at 73 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:10.400 the war? 74 00:04:10.919 --> 00:04:14.080 Yeah? Yeah, war correspondent fought the Battle of the Space Bar. 75 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:18.160 What were you doing while the war was on? Oh? 76 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:20.439 Moving around? They said. I wasn't old enough to get 77 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:25.040 in the air force. Hey, you heard anything about but me? 78 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:26.120 What do you mean? 79 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:29.040 You know what I mean? Yesterday they told me. 80 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:34.040 He said, No, Oh, you mean about your sentence. I 81 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:39.199 heard that No, was final tomorrow morning. What's the time 82 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:41.720 now it's about ten thirty. Now, let's get going. 83 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:42.920 What's the time? I asked you. 84 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:50.000 Twenty five minutes to eleven, and that's right by radio. Now. Look, 85 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:52.839 I'm here to write a story. I can watch if 86 00:04:52.839 --> 00:05:08.040 you like. Tonight, I am sitting on the edge of 87 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:11.879 a prison cot in the cell of a condemned murderer. 88 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:16.199 Between him and the rope which will break his neck 89 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:21.680 and choke the breath from his throat are nine hours 90 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:28.680 of tortured darkness. Soon, the collective hand of society will 91 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:31.800 reach out and pull the lever that will spring the 92 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:35.680 trap and send his feet kicking in mid air in 93 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:41.240 the death struggle. Perhaps the collective conscience of society will 94 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:45.800 permit itself a slight qualm. As I write, the murderer 95 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:50.720 watches me. He is nothing more than a big, bone hulking, 96 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:58.480 somewhat dull kid who continually trembles, And he will die 97 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:03.319 in the first light of the morning. I shall write 98 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:07.560 them about the court which should have fried him. It 99 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:11.240 is a purely imaginary court, a court that exists only 100 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:14.000 in this article that I write. But it is a 101 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:30.240 special court, a very special court. 102 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:38.120 This is a special court, a most unusual court, sitting 103 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:43.240 tonight in judgment on the ordinary people, you and you, 104 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:47.199 and you. 105 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:48.600 Who lead what might be called a blame his life. 106 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:52.759 But now you see a new American law is being past, 107 00:06:52.839 --> 00:06:57.759 which reads, in part quote, whereas the state decrees that 108 00:06:57.839 --> 00:07:00.920 no one lacking twenty one full years age can now 109 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:05.680 alone be held responsible for any murder. It is ordered 110 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:09.319 that a minimum of six shall then be hanged if 111 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:13.800 one such youth is condemned to die. 112 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:15.560 Now that's the law. 113 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:19.600 And suddenly we find that such a youth, coming under 114 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:23.800 the requirements of the Act, is to be hanged tomorrow morning. 115 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:28.040 And so this court's been called to quickly find the 116 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:31.240 necessary five the five additional newses which you wait along 117 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:36.920 with the one society's decreed for the young murderer acting 118 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:38.879 for the state in this emergency, A young man or 119 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:40.839 writing fellow, I believe, will now address the. 120 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:43.439 Court ur honor. There is little time. The crack of 121 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:46.160 dawns are deadline, and there seems to be a wealth 122 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:50.480 of candidates for those five extra mooses. Your officers are 123 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:54.199 rounding up some prospects. Now I must request a brief 124 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:57.800 recess while I investigate a few and gather evidence to 125 00:07:57.839 --> 00:08:00.720 find the next Which do most rightfully? You belong in 126 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:01.639 those five. 127 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:17.920 Extra belong in those five extra nuss? 128 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:21.680 What time is it's about? 129 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:26.240 It's exactly twenty one minutes to eleven. 130 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:28.480 What's all that stuff you're putting down there? 131 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:31.519 That's what we call a lead on my story. It's 132 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:36.759 about an imaginary court that doesn't really exist in that Look, kid, 133 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:39.039 you don't need to be afraid of me. I can't 134 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:40.840 do any harm or any good. 135 00:08:40.960 --> 00:08:45.159 I'm not scared of you or anybody. What time is it? Look? Here, 136 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:46.440 you why don't you go away? 137 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:47.559 Here? 138 00:08:47.639 --> 00:08:47.679 You? 139 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:53.960 Look kid? Take it easy. Now tell me about where 140 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:55.279 you went to school, things like that? 141 00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:56.120 What four? 142 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:57.080 Oh, never mind? 143 00:08:57.080 --> 00:08:57.320 What for? 144 00:08:58.919 --> 00:08:59.759 How do you get along with the. 145 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:03.600 Teacher is okay, except for old lady pastness. 146 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:06.879 She put me out of class one day, hoson through 147 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:08.639 and nothing, she just jumps me. 148 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:14.000 Then, the first person we shall call in this imaginary 149 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:18.679 court of mind, this very special court, is the teacher 150 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:34.679 of this boy who is to hang tomorrow a the 151 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:40.000 You're the teacher of the boy who is to hang tomorrow? 152 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:41.159 What if I was? 153 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:43.720 Is any reason to haul a president in the public court? 154 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:45.480 We don't know yet. 155 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:48.720 We'll see if your indignant neck will fit into one 156 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:50.200 of our five news. 157 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:53.840 Will our write prosecutor state the facts. You didn't like 158 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:56.480 this boy. You put him out of class one day. 159 00:09:57.559 --> 00:10:00.799 That day I think was chapter one in this particular story. 160 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:03.799 Did six? He was a bad one? 161 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:04.679 Bad? 162 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:11.840 I well remember him here bother little girls. If you 163 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:13.200 know what I mean. 164 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:16.600 Fare is the details, and get on. You tossed him up? 165 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:17.279 What then? 166 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:20.200 I don't have time at trifle with his type? Do 167 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.559 you know what happens when one apple in the basket 168 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:23.120 is not good? 169 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:27.120 It isn't headline news? Now then, as inspector of this 170 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:30.320 human fruit, how did you dispose of this bad apple? 171 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:33.600 Which I think was only slightly bruised? About that time? 172 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:36.559 I sent him to the principle and got on with 173 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:40.159 the lessons. I remember I wrote a note. It said 174 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:45.080 I will not have this youth fat in my class. 175 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:50.159 He is a potential murderer. Did you write that? I 176 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:55.799 know he could not, but he was just a boy 177 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:58.360 the honor. We waste time, I think with her, this 178 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:01.200 teacher is no better and no worse than others. And 179 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:03.960 it's true she has no time to spend on battered fruit. 180 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:13.720 Let's have the principle. I am the principal, and I 181 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:16.799 consider it an imposition to be summoned intercourse. I have 182 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:18.080 more important. 183 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:20.559 Let's share what the prosecution thinks. We've got to find 184 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:22.759 sun necks for these five newses. 185 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:27.399 How then did you dispose of this unworthy apple cast 186 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:30.320 out from the perfect company? You mean, this fellow that 187 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:33.200 they're going to hang? Now, let's have no nonsense. I 188 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:36.759 simply strapped him sound adding yet another brules or driving 189 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:39.759 deeper the same blemish. And what then? 190 00:11:40.279 --> 00:11:41.080 I sent him home? 191 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:45.240 I gave him a sharp note to show his parents. Look, 192 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:47.960 do you know I have six hundred pupils in my school, 193 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:50.240 and there's no time for nonsense with just one. He 194 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:53.080 tore that note to pieces and wandered to a racetrack, 195 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:55.200 where an older fellow told him how to beat this 196 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:58.440 little rap. I did my duty to my pupil and 197 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:03.799 helped the boy to graduate to murder. Your honor, I 198 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:06.799 would say, we have but sympathy for this, and all 199 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:10.639 for work. And under bestowed official who sees his simple beauty, 200 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:15.399 he has no time. He says, it happens all that 201 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:19.039 through his minor punishments, justly and sternly meet it out 202 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:22.440 for minor crimes. He did set the rigid pattern for 203 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:25.120 the larger crime, and so as he must share the 204 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:29.639 larger punishment. I find it so. In that enclosure, we 205 00:12:29.720 --> 00:12:33.120 have set five places for five people. Those to fill 206 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:33.679 the five. 207 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:37.720 Additional news is now decreed by our new law. You, sir, 208 00:12:37.799 --> 00:12:40.279 the principle, may take your place in the first of these, 209 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:43.879 and may God give you full marks and pass you on. 210 00:12:55.279 --> 00:13:02.320 So we hang the principle. How many were there in 211 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:02.919 your family? 212 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:07.320 Me, Tom and Harry, and Isabelle and Sarah. 213 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:08.559 Were you afraid of your father? 214 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:09.000 Nah? 215 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:11.600 I wasn't afraid of him or anybody else. He used 216 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:14.679 to come home stinking on Saturday nights. We'd all run 217 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:16.320 out and hide in the dump behind our house. 218 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:18.919 Did he ever catch you? 219 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:22.320 Yeah? Mostly he'd go back in the house and pass out. 220 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:24.120 Has your father been to see you here? 221 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:27.679 Hah hah. I ain't seen him since the cops ran 222 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:28.320 him out of town. 223 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:33.480 And so to this imaginary court about which I write, 224 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:38.200 we will summon this youth's parents, his mother and his father. 225 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:43.080 Let them be heard in this strange and special court. First, 226 00:13:43.120 --> 00:14:03.679 we'll call upon the mother. Quiet, you are the mother 227 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:04.279 of this youth. 228 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:06.360 Yes, there you're. 229 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:12.679 An He was one of mine. I've always done my best, 230 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:17.840 but Jake was too much for me. I looked him 231 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:24.960 all right, proper, but Jake had never bore. He'd stand 232 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:29.200 and kind of shiver as I whack him with a strap. 233 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:33.039 He never was no good. 234 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:38.919 But once he stood up to his paw and he 235 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:44.840 was kicking little Sarah I I I kind of liked 236 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:48.440 the way he he heed that rock and hit his paw. 237 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:52.600 Rana were wasting time with his poor travesy of motherhood. 238 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:55.360 That's the moment when this woman's hands were needed to 239 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:58.360 caress with tenderness and loving care. They were filled with 240 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:01.919 scouring wolves and busy with the corridors in someone else's 241 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:06.159 house and when her understanding might have torn away dark fears, 242 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:09.879 permitting her poor brood to see the light, her mind 243 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:13.240 was occupied with pennies dropping in the jar to pay 244 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:17.720 the rent and buy the jug, the liquid equalizer that 245 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:21.720 made her just as good as anyone. Take it away 246 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:25.320 and send her home, Bring us the father and the peace. 247 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:26.600 Then they do something. 248 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:34.600 Then, I ain't been in trouble now for years. He 249 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:37.639 ain't got not on me. See I want. 250 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:39.360 About I'd jake in the papers. I was three hundred 251 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:43.559 miles away from here. I can prove it all. If 252 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:46.159 your small confession for a court which has more time, 253 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:50.480 there are four nooses left to fill. One morning comes 254 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:52.759 so very soon, four nooses. 255 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:54.879 He what is this? 256 00:15:55.960 --> 00:15:58.919 I ain't never done, no waste in some receiving. You 257 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:00.159 can string up a guy for that. 258 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:01.440 Now. 259 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:02.879 Look, I know my rights. 260 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:06.039 I'm white told the angels not killing you. 261 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:07.919 You can't mix mean any mode, red. 262 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:12.279 By some quaint caprice of nature. You are in it. 263 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:14.440 It seems to me that we can save some time 264 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:19.159 here by nominating for a noose. This bright eyed dodging rodent, 265 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:22.759 to whom fatherhood was but an odious consequence of turning 266 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:24.879 in his bed one wretched knight. 267 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:31.480 He hangs, remove him to the place mark number two, 268 00:16:32.279 --> 00:16:34.759 and may God finds something where. 269 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:35.960 Your soul should be. 270 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:47.559 What are you putting down all that stuff for? About 271 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:49.279 extra noosis? 272 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:52.960 He wrote something about my father. He ain't even here, skipper. 273 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:55.120 It's just a magazine article about a court that doesn't 274 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:58.960 even exist. So you went to industrial school and you 275 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:02.759 worked as an exercise boy at the track. Did you 276 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:06.079 ever get into court, that is before before? Now? 277 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:09.559 Nah? They didn't catch me, but once that was just 278 00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:12.480 a juvenile court. All I had to do was report. 279 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:16.319 Say where did you learn how to use a gun? 280 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:19.000 What do you mean? Say? What are you trying to do? Anyway? 281 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:20.759 I don't have to even talk to you, like the 282 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:21.599 warden said. 283 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:23.720 Hey, okay, I just wondered if he used to practice 284 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:25.519 on a rock or a bottle or something. 285 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:26.519 Nah. 286 00:17:27.240 --> 00:17:29.279 I never even fired a gun before in my life. 287 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:32.559 I never even seen a real gun before. 288 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:37.920 When you fired that first shot, did it seem to 289 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:40.799 make a lot more noise than you'd seen in the movies. 290 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:45.960 Yeah? Yeah it did, and it sort of jumped in 291 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:46.359 my hand. 292 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:50.440 I'd never seen that neither. And there was a funny 293 00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:54.440 burning smell. Hey, what you're getting at huh. I don't 294 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:56.359 have to tell you. I don't even have to cut. 295 00:17:56.240 --> 00:18:06.240 Up, sit down, or even smelled powder. And so we'll 296 00:18:06.279 --> 00:18:25.000 call upon a social worker in my imaginary court. You, sir, 297 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:28.480 are a social worker. Let us hear from you. 298 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:31.839 I do my work, and that's all I know. These 299 00:18:31.960 --> 00:18:34.759 theorists who build up pedestals for petty crooks. They talk 300 00:18:34.839 --> 00:18:39.000 and talk of recreation centers and flower boarded playgrounds where 301 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:41.480 there is no sin, and boys will all be boys 302 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:45.920 or captains of the local nine. I think if they 303 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:49.319 would step outside and see their precious little heroes happily 304 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:53.279 engage in gouging eyes or picking locks, then they might. 305 00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:53.799 Do some good. 306 00:18:54.039 --> 00:18:57.480 And further all on, my little man, and we'll explain 307 00:18:58.720 --> 00:19:01.480 you are a candidate for our next news, and we 308 00:19:01.559 --> 00:19:02.200 will see. 309 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:05.599 How well you fit it. Let's have the evidence. The 310 00:19:05.599 --> 00:19:09.000 facts are playing your honor, that this embittered civil servant 311 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:12.559 is employed in juvenile affairs, and thus he specializes in 312 00:19:12.599 --> 00:19:15.119 the task of bending the twig so that the three 313 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:19.240 shall grow up fine and straight. I feel that he's 314 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:21.839 not to blame. It's just that he has not the time, 315 00:19:22.039 --> 00:19:25.680 the wit, nor the weight for such a monumental task. 316 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:30.720 Take him away. Let's have words with his superior, his legislator. 317 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:33.920 You call on me. 318 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:38.079 I represent the people and can say without the fear 319 00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:41.359 of contradiction, that I do my duty by those pine 320 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:44.839 upstanding souls who vote for me. O, what is this 321 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:45.759 a farse. 322 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:47.240 And mockery in the name of justice? 323 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:50.720 A court without a prisoner, a trial which brings out 324 00:19:50.759 --> 00:19:52.079 honest people from their beds. 325 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:57.319 A politician, We've no time for speeches. Our job is 326 00:19:57.359 --> 00:20:00.880 finning news, is not extracting votes. You figure in this 327 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:03.599 piece by having hired such little men as these, who 328 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:06.119 juggled juvenile delinquents and fill out the. 329 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:10.960 Necessary forms, give us the facts. They are all directed 330 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:14.240 at this man, who was elected by the people who 331 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:16.359 speak up for the rights of all the families in 332 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:19.279 the very district from which our youth in waiting sprung. 333 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:23.480 I nominate him for a noose, your honor, for he 334 00:20:23.559 --> 00:20:26.599 did nothing when the need for action screamed out loud 335 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:30.839 from every dirty hovel and dead end. He voted thousands 336 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:34.039 for a waterway and kept his eyes uplifted as he 337 00:20:34.119 --> 00:20:36.680 cried for all to see how well he carried out 338 00:20:36.680 --> 00:20:40.200 his solemn pledges won by little What What is. 339 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:43.359 This arrant nonsense? Didn't I applaud the move to build 340 00:20:43.359 --> 00:20:46.839 more parks and carry out my promises? Why I even 341 00:20:46.920 --> 00:20:50.119 voted for a grant to beautify the waterfront? And if 342 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:52.799 our appointed courts cantled their start, a buck. 343 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:56.880 Is swiftly, deftly passed along without more time. I'll state 344 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:01.240 sufficient reason why this man should rate a noose. He 345 00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:04.640 sees the value of transplanting shrubs and trees to where 346 00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:08.119 they'll get more chance. What shuts his eyes and leaves 347 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:10.759 a human being to twist and struggle, and perhaps to 348 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:13.319 rock among the garbage in which fell the sea. 349 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:17.200 We have no time to belabor our decisions in this court. 350 00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:20.480 You take place three and wait until we have the 351 00:21:20.519 --> 00:21:26.839 other two. You, the politician, are elected next the man. 352 00:21:26.759 --> 00:21:28.880 Who hatched the murder plot, the one who gave the 353 00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:33.880 lesson on the guns. Ah, look, your honor, I'm a 354 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:38.039 movie producer, but radio magazines are all the same guns 355 00:21:38.119 --> 00:21:41.440 murder plots. What else? I'm sick to death of amateurs 356 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:43.759 who make a couple of bucks a day and yet 357 00:21:43.799 --> 00:21:46.200 can tell me how to run my business. How I 358 00:21:46.319 --> 00:21:49.240 make pictures forced our pictures that you see by making 359 00:21:49.319 --> 00:21:52.000 up your mind that you will pay to go into 360 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:54.640 the show. I don't drag you in this time. You've 361 00:21:54.640 --> 00:21:59.039 gone too far, m maybe not quite far enough. Your 362 00:21:59.079 --> 00:22:01.799 picture showed the youth that he could scare a big 363 00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:03.200 man with a little gun. 364 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:05.359 And did you see the picture to my friends? 365 00:22:05.880 --> 00:22:09.000 And did you see the criminal at last waiting, waiting 366 00:22:09.039 --> 00:22:11.720 with fear for his reward in jail? And so again 367 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:16.599 crime did not pay what pictures pay. And Bogart lived again, 368 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:19.880 and Robinson and Ladd again next week will swagger with 369 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:23.559 their rods and set a million youthful trigger fingers twitching. 370 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:27.279 Sure you showed the criminal and irons, but in full 371 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:30.240 grease painting, with lights picking the romantic sweat beads on 372 00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:33.720 his brow. I'll show you a murderer in a cell 373 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:38.000 and send you creeping out with crawling flesh. His drooping 374 00:22:38.039 --> 00:22:42.000 mouth wouldn't take well. He whimples, and then he throws 375 00:22:42.039 --> 00:22:45.680 out on the floor. Oh you can't show that now. Now, look, 376 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:48.240 I've got to get away. We're shooting at each minute. 377 00:22:47.960 --> 00:22:48.519 Costs a foe. 378 00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:52.960 Stay here and I'll support the lead In this particular piece. 379 00:22:53.920 --> 00:22:55.559 You got a young man started up to where the 380 00:22:55.599 --> 00:22:58.079 gun went off. Then He was on his own, no lines, 381 00:22:58.119 --> 00:23:01.359 no lights, no pattern. Now you direct him to the end. 382 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:05.559 Number four now has an eck, And so we move 383 00:23:05.599 --> 00:23:10.000 along and hope the critics will approve your closing sequence. 384 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:14.559 There is but one noose left to fill. Who is 385 00:23:14.599 --> 00:23:18.519 this candidate, your honor. He's an average citizen and far 386 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:21.319 removed from any part of crime or sin. Heh you're 387 00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:23.440 done right, and I'll have you know. I'd pay my 388 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:28.160 taxes and plenty those. We put an office own enough, 389 00:23:28.160 --> 00:23:30.799 why throw out and put some others in. We found 390 00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:33.160 him in his slippers by the fire, listening to the radio, 391 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:35.119 and his hand was on the knob so that he 392 00:23:35.160 --> 00:23:37.200 could turn it down and air his views in no 393 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:38.519 uncertain term. 394 00:23:38.680 --> 00:23:42.079 You're done right. I'm not a politician. If I were, 395 00:23:42.160 --> 00:23:45.839 you'd see some action. You can bet it's crime wave. Now, 396 00:23:46.519 --> 00:23:48.000 don't spare the rod. 397 00:23:48.279 --> 00:23:50.039 It's good old fashioned discipline. 398 00:23:50.039 --> 00:23:51.279 We need the lash and things like that. 399 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:55.279 You're somewhat in coherent, like the headlines, but you study 400 00:23:55.359 --> 00:23:59.559 firstily to gain your meager knowledge of your time. Do 401 00:23:59.640 --> 00:24:01.240