WEBVTT 1 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:16.800 Did you lose an election? Bet yesterday? Feel a bad 2 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:20.640 cold coming on? I want to get away from it all. 3 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:29.359 We offer you Escape. 4 00:00:33.560 --> 00:00:36.520 You are groping in the midnight dimness of a gigantic 5 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:40.719 department store, and suddenly you realize that you're not alone, 6 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:44.320 but a hundred eyes are glaring at you from the shadows, 7 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:48.479 a hundred hands reaching for your throat, and your most 8 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:52.679 urgent desire is to escape. 9 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:58.159 Escape produced and directed by William N. Robson, and carefully 10 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:00.880 plotted to free you from the four walls of today 11 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:03.880 for a half hour of high adventure. 12 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:11.000 H Tonight, we escaped to the dark labyrinth of a 13 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:14.480 giant department store in the dead of night, and to 14 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:19.359 a fantastic world of night dwellers, as John Carlier imagines 15 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:24.000 it in his eerie story Evening Primrose. 16 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:49.000 A Sita, what's the matter? 17 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:52.560 It's me, Oh Sam, you nearly scared me to death. 18 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:54.640 What do you mean coming in so quiet? 19 00:01:54.799 --> 00:01:56.959 I didn't mean to scare you. I thought you'd be asleep. 20 00:01:57.000 --> 00:01:57.959 I didn't want to work. 21 00:01:57.760 --> 00:01:58.640 Here, Sam. 22 00:01:58.799 --> 00:01:59.760 I'm glad you're home. 23 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:00.760 I have what's the matter? 24 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:01.599 What's terrible? 25 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:03.079 You gotta do something, Sam? 26 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:03.319 Oh? 27 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:04.439 Well, what's terrible. 28 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:05.359 It's this. 29 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:06.599 Just look at this. 30 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:10.199 What's terrible about that? Looks like an ordinary pad of 31 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:10.719 paper to. 32 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:13.000 Me, I just did. That's just what I thought. 33 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:15.319 But it's got writing in it. It's awful. 34 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:17.879 Oh wait a minute, maybe you better tell me what 35 00:02:17.919 --> 00:02:18.800 this is all about. 36 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:22.680 Well, today I went shopping down at Bracy's department store. 37 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:25.520 I needed some writing papers, so I picked this up 38 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:28.000 and it was on top of the pile and bought 39 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:31.159 it and brought it home. But tonight, when I opened it, 40 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:33.240 I found it's got writing in it. 41 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:36.080 Well, that's nothing, so terrible. Just take it back tomorrow 42 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:36.719 and make him give. 43 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:37.000 You a new one. 44 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:40.439 No, you don't understand. It's what's written in it. 45 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:41.360 It's so terrible. 46 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:42.719 What do you mean, what's written in it? 47 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:43.120 Here? 48 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:44.000 You got to read it? 49 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:46.599 No, no, right now, read it? 50 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:47.800 Look sadie. I'm tired. 51 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:49.000 I've been pleasing Sam. 52 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:50.840 Please just read. 53 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:59.639 It all right before Pete's sake. October thirteenth, Today I 54 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:06.599 may my decision. I decided to say goodbye to the world, 55 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:13.280 to get out, leave, break away, and I have done it. 56 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:20.719 Oh city is no one read? And now I am free, 57 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:23.280 really free? 58 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:29.159 Yes, I am free at last. The world is an 59 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:33.520 intolerable place for a poet. I was broke, starving at 60 00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:36.360 my wits end, and then I had a brilliant idea. 61 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:38.919 I would escape to a place where I had no 62 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:41.400 need to earn a living, where I could write to 63 00:03:41.479 --> 00:03:45.439 my heart's content and peace and security. Where is this 64 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:50.120 place right under your nose, so close you'd never think 65 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:53.919 of it. I am now living in Bracy's department store. 66 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:57.080 I have everything within arm's reach that anyone would need 67 00:03:57.199 --> 00:04:06.400 or desire, and it's all free, absolutely free. I arrived 68 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:09.400 this afternoon. I'd spent three days looking over all of 69 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:13.039 the department stores in town. I decided on Bracey's because 70 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:16.800 of the completeness of their food department. Therefore, this afternoon 71 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:20.279 I entered the store and went immediately to the fourth floor, 72 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:24.240 to the rug department, and hid myself in this dusty 73 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:26.720 out of the way corner behind a pile of carpets. 74 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:29.680 Once I'm settled, I'll furnish it with the best of 75 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:34.240 modern pieces from the furniture department. It's small, but I'll 76 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:39.680 be cozy enough and safe. After the store closed, I 77 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:42.800 made my first venture out. I tiptoed as far as 78 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:47.759 the stationary counter and got this paper the writer's primary need. Now, 79 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:52.120 after making my initial entry, I'll go out and get food, wine, 80 00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:56.360 the pillows for my bed, perhaps a fancy dressing gown. 81 00:04:57.079 --> 00:05:04.639 This is perfect. I'll be able to write here dawn, 82 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:09.759 October fourteenth. I'm almost too unnerved to write this. The 83 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:15.000 whole thing is unbelievable. After the store was dark and 84 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:18.839 completely quiet, I crept out and started for the food department. 85 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:23.839 Once footsteps echo hollowly in an empty department store at night, 86 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:27.680 and I found myself gliding along the floor on tiptoe, 87 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:33.959 moving as silently as possible, but the sound of footsteps persisted. 88 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:38.680 Suddenly I realized they were not my own. The night 89 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:41.800 watchman I was in the salon Madain. Quickly, I seized 90 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:44.199 a mink coat from a hangar, draped it about my shoulders, 91 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:53.839 and stood stuck still. I could have reached out and 92 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:57.439 touched him, but he passed by without so much as 93 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:03.959 a glance. He started to smile, put the smile froze 94 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:12.279 on my lips. There was someone else here. I was 95 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:17.600 looking straight into a pair of eyes, large flat, luminous 96 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:20.720 in human eyes, peering at me from among the missus 97 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:24.879 tailored suits. A dozen feet away. They belonged to a 98 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:28.000 creature dressed as a man, but he was as pale 99 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:31.800 as a creature found under a stone. His hands, hanging 100 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:33.959 motionless at his sides, looked more like the fins on 101 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:36.079 a fish than human hands. 102 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:40.920 And then he spoke, not bad for a beginner. 103 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:48.000 I I'm sorry. I didn't know anybody else er lived here. 104 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:55.759 Oh, yes, we live here. It's delightful, we yes, all 105 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:59.959 of us, don't you see? Look around? 106 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:08.639 I looked around. I saw nothing. I looked again. I 107 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:11.000 saw an old man come clambering out from behind a clock. 108 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:15.360 There were three elderly angeneus, incredibly emaciated, pale as lace, 109 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:19.879 almost transparent, simpering before the perfume counter. A chimzy lady 110 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:22.639 swam out from the curtains and drapes. They came swarming 111 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:26.600 thick around me, pale, thin, wispy, moving silently, fluttering like 112 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:29.680 gauze in the wind, whispering, how. 113 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:32.639 Raw he looks? Who is he? 114 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:34.800 As cause as the sun? 115 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:36.519 What is he doing? 116 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:38.519 A detective? 117 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:40.920 Sing for the dark man? 118 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:45.800 Yes, sin for the darkning the dark men. 119 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:49.519 They were pressing around me, climb holding me, their pale 120 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:53.879 faces controtted with venomous inhuman hatred. I was paralyzed. All 121 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:56.120 I could do was repeat over and over again. I'm 122 00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:58.000 not a detective. I'm not a detective. 123 00:07:58.040 --> 00:07:59.600 I'm not burdler. 124 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:01.079 Then a burglar. 125 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:02.319 Time up. 126 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:04.480 Hold him came to the pace. 127 00:08:04.680 --> 00:08:08.759 And for the dark men stop. Let him speak. 128 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:16.279 I'm not a detective or a burglar. I'm a poet. 129 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:17.600 Then what are you doing here? 130 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:22.519 I've I've renounced the world. I came here to live 131 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:26.839 where I could be alone, away from the world. 132 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:30.199 Why then he's come over to us. 133 00:08:30.839 --> 00:08:32.240 He's just like us. 134 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:34.919 He's come over to us. 135 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:35.639 A poet. 136 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:38.120 She must meet Missus vender Been. 137 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:42.919 Yeez, Missus vender Ben, she's coming up. 138 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:47.840 I followed their eyes talk about there. Coming down the 139 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:51.480 wall like an ancient spider, clambered an old lady, wrinkled 140 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:54.159 and cracked and emaciated. She must have been at least eighty, 141 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:58.759 a shadowy matriarch, and the things around me bowed and 142 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:01.360 scraped as she reached the floor and floated toward us. 143 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:05.480 What's going on here? Where is that stupid girl? What's 144 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:06.159 keeping her? 145 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:08.960 Oh, Missus vander pent, Well, what is it? 146 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:11.200 Who's this? Mister Roscoe? 147 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:13.720 Missus Vanderpant, May I present. 148 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:16.759 Mister Snell, Mister Snell, mister Charles Snell. 149 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:20.039 Yes, yes, of course, mister Snell. He is a poet 150 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:21.600 and he's come here to live. 151 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:25.799 Oh hey, hell's hellsy, that's. 152 00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:27.759 What he says, and I believe him. 153 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:28.600 Well. 154 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:32.720 He avoided the night Watchman quite neatly for a beginner. 155 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:35.759 Thank you very well. 156 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:41.000 We shall see a poet should find inspiration. 157 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:44.759 Here, mister Snell. Missus Vanderpant is our grand old lady. 158 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:50.679 I am quite the oldest inhabitant here, mister Snell. Three 159 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:54.080 mergers and a complete. 160 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:56.639 Rebuilding, but they didn't get rid of me. 161 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:00.840 Where is Ella? Where is my brother? She's bringing it, 162 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:05.120 Miss vanderbe O, terrible little creature. She is our foundling, 163 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:09.039 mister Snell. She's not quite our sort? 164 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:10.000 Is that? 165 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:13.519 So? I have been here, mister Snell, ever since the 166 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:18.279 terrible times of the eighties. I was a young girl 167 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:23.200 and a beauty essay, and poor Papa lost his money. 168 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:26.759 He blaces meant a lot to a young girl in 169 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:30.679 those days. So when I wasn't able to have a 170 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:36.639 charger count, I came here for good. That's better than 171 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:40.840 a charger count. I was quite alarmed when others began 172 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:44.279 to come after the crash of nineteen hundred and seven. 173 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:47.840 But it was the dear jug What do you do 174 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:54.240 the colonel, Missus Bilby, How do you do? Missus Bilby 175 00:10:54.320 --> 00:11:00.440 writes place and comes of an old Philadelphia family. Oh 176 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:03.840 you will find us quite nice here, mister Snaill. 177 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:04.639 I'm sure I will. 178 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:08.720 And of course all that dear young people came in 179 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:15.559 nineteen twenty nine. Their poor papa's jumped from skyscrapers. They 180 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:19.000 couldn't bear to be without charge accounts either. 181 00:11:19.519 --> 00:11:22.360 Do you mean all these people live here? 182 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:22.759 Oh? 183 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:25.200 And many more? You shall meet them all later. 184 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:28.000 Oh, here, come seller with my block. 185 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:29.559 Come, come your stupid thing. 186 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:31.080 Missus vander Penn is waiting. 187 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:34.399 Yes, ma'am, Yes, sir, I'm coming as fast as I can. 188 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:36.799 Now, be careful, don't spit it. 189 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:39.919 But she's young, well, of course she is a little 190 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:40.720 younger than most of it. 191 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:42.519 And she she's different. 192 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:48.679 She's beautiful, mister snell Ella is Missus Vanderpurn's me. 193 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:51.720 That's right, all men, She's really not our sort at all. 194 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:53.360 You shouldn't say such things. She can hear you. 195 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:54.360 That doesn't murder. 196 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:57.159 You'll understand these things better after you've been here a while. 197 00:11:57.240 --> 00:11:59.399 But it seems to me that you would do, Snell. 198 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:05.360 We have certain rules here. They are necessary for our survival. 199 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:10.320 I am sure you won't find it hard to observe them. Yes, 200 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:15.039 I should advise that you try. If you do not, 201 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:23.720 that would be most unfortunate, mister Snell, most unfortunate. 202 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:33.080 For you, October fifteenth. You can imagine my feelings last night. 203 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:36.159 My first thought was to escape as quickly as possible. 204 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:38.240 In fact, I planned to wait till morning when the 205 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:41.320 store opened, then quit my hiding place, mingle with the crowds, 206 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:45.559 and leave Braces forever. But just at dawn, mister Rascoe 207 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:48.120 brought me a cup of coffee, which must have been 208 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:51.639 drugged for I fell asleep, and when I awoke, I 209 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:55.399 found I had slept all day and night was closing 210 00:12:55.399 --> 00:13:04.879 over the store. Once more. Later, I've spent my second 211 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:10.720 night here. I saw Ella again, Ella, the pearl of 212 00:13:10.759 --> 00:13:15.200 this remote, fantastic cave. She's not like the others, a 213 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:20.840 trifle pale, but otherwise normal and human and beautiful. A 214 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:24.960 child of perhaps eighteen, She's the only thing that makes 215 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:36.399 this nightmare bearable. October twentieth, escape seems almost impossible. There's 216 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:38.879 a very effective burglar alarm system, and the doors are 217 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:42.720 all carefully guarded. But that's nothing compared to the dark men. 218 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:47.080 Who are the dark men? I don't know, but they 219 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:50.679 threaten any transgressor. With these dark men, I shall try 220 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:53.399 to discover who they are. At least I am sure 221 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:56.720 I'm watched, though they've begun to trust me. Now, speaking 222 00:13:56.720 --> 00:13:59.200 to the night Watchman would be suicide, even if he 223 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:01.559 believed my phantas haastic story or didn't shoot me as 224 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:04.360 a burglar. I'm convinced that neither eleanor I could get 225 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:07.000 out of here alive. She and the night Watchmen are 226 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:10.279 the only real people here. And how the others hate 227 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:10.759 the night. 228 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:14.440 Watchman, ohds Burger creature, you reeks of the course South. 229 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:17.360 Oh, Come now, missus Bilby. He's really a personable young man, 230 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:19.120 very young for a night watchman. 231 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:22.720 Mister Snow. Sometimes I wonder about your taste. 232 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:26.159 You mustn't stay so much to yourself, mister Snell. You 233 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:28.559 must become better acquainted with our wage. 234 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:31.559 It's o man who's come to the plate tonight. We're 235 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:35.039 going to be entertained with one of Missus Bilby's tragic comedies, 236 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:37.200 love and Chdowlin. I'm sure you'll enjoy. 237 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:38.200 I'm sure I will. 238 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:40.080 It's really a festive occasion. 239 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:44.320 You know, Wanamakers is coming over. Wannamakers is the entire 240 00:14:44.360 --> 00:14:46.720 colony over at Wannamakers is coming here and must to 241 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:47.320 attend the place. 242 00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:49.080 You mean there are people living in other stories? 243 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:51.559 Oh dear, yes, didn't you know? Of course? 244 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:54.840 The best people live in Graces and Wanna Makers. 245 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:58.159 Oh, come now, missus Bilby, there's some very nice people 246 00:14:58.200 --> 00:14:58.799 at Alphons. 247 00:14:59.320 --> 00:14:59.720 I beg you. 248 00:15:00.919 --> 00:15:05.120 Oh hello, Ella, good evening, Snell, Missus Bilby, Well, what 249 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:08.200 is it please, ma'am? I'd so love to see your 250 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:10.080 play tonight? May I have you? 251 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:11.120 Certainly not? 252 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:14.720 You know better than that, your stupid creature. You know 253 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:17.720 where you belong in the basement. But the garbage can. 254 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:18.960 But Missus Bilby couldn't. 255 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:22.240 Mister Snell, Ella, you're becoming entirely too forward of late. 256 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:28.000 I'd advise you to watch your step. Remember the dark Man. 257 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:31.120 Oh no, please, mister Roscolle. I'll be good, I promise 258 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:33.480 I will. No, Please don't send for the dark Man. 259 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:34.840 I'm sorry, Missus Bilby. 260 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:38.639 Excuse Ella, come back, mister Snell, you forget yourself, let 261 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:38.879 her go. 262 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:40.759 But how can you treat her like that? Why do 263 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:44.120 you always frighten her? And what is all this about 264 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:44.679 the dark Man? 265 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:50.120 Wealthy dark worh Please mister Roscoe, not now, you'll spoiler 266 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:53.159 whole evening. And I do so want mister Snell to 267 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:55.600 enjoy my playing very well. 268 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:58.360 Later, But I want to know about the dark Man. 269 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:00.039 Lay late. 270 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:12.039 October twenty first, at last I found an opportunity to 271 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:15.120 speak to Ella alone. I hadn't dared to speak to 272 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:18.279 her before. Here one has a sense always of pale 273 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:21.159 eyes secretly watching. But last night at the play I 274 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:24.080 induced a fit of hiccups as I anticipated. I was 275 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:26.639 sternly reprimanded and told to go and secrete myself in 276 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:29.279 the basement where the night watchmen wouldn't hear me. This 277 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:34.039 was exactly what I had planned. I went to the basement. There, 278 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:37.320 in the darkness, among the garbage cans and the rats, 279 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:44.080 I heard sobbing, Ella, Ella, Ella? Is that you? 280 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:45.000 Yes? 281 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:48.840 Why are you crying? What is it? 282 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:49.159 Ella? 283 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:52.320 They wouldn't even let me see the play? 284 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:53.279 Is that all? 285 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:57.080 Mister Snell? I'm so unhappy they're there. 286 00:16:57.559 --> 00:16:59.120 You mustn't cry, You're. 287 00:16:58.919 --> 00:17:01.559 The only one, the only one who's kind. 288 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:05.240 Ella, Why are you here? Why do they treat you 289 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:05.920 so differently? 290 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:09.240 Because I'm not like them. I didn't choose to come here. 291 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:10.759 You mean you're held prisoner? 292 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:14.279 Yes, you see, I was only six. I came here 293 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:16.880 on a shopping tour with my mother. I got lost 294 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:19.599 and fell asleep behind the counter. It was dark when 295 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:22.200 I awoke, and they found me. Some of them wanted 296 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:24.640 to send for the dark men because they were afraid 297 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:27.480 I would tell on them, But missus vander Pant said no, 298 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:30.359 I could stay and be your maid. I've been here 299 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:31.240 ever since. 300 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:34.799 Since you was six. Haven't you ever tried to get away? 301 00:17:35.039 --> 00:17:35.160 Oh? 302 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:40.279 No, I don't know anything about out there. I wouldn't 303 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:45.039 know what to do. Besides, I'm afraid if anyone tries 304 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:46.440 to get out, they send for. 305 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:47.039 The dark men. 306 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:47.839 Ella. 307 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:48.880 Who are the dark men? 308 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:49.759 Don't you know? 309 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:50.880 Oh? 310 00:17:50.960 --> 00:17:51.720 It's horrible. 311 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:54.160 Tell me you know how people. 312 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:56.359 Live in all the stores it Gimbals and Bloomingdale. 313 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:57.160 Yes, yes, I know. 314 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:03.799 Well, the dark men lived the undertakers good Heavens, and 315 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:07.119 whenever someone dies or breaks the rules, when a burglar 316 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:10.000 gets in and sees these people and might tell they 317 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:11.079 send for the dark man. 318 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:12.799 Horrible. 319 00:18:13.079 --> 00:18:14.759 They put the body in the butcher shop and the 320 00:18:14.759 --> 00:18:19.359 food department, and then the dark men come. I saw 321 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:21.519 them once. It was terrible. 322 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:22.680 What do they do? 323 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:25.799 They go in where the dead person is. They have 324 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:28.559 wax with them and all sorts of things, And when 325 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:31.519 they're gone, there's just a wax model left on the counter. 326 00:18:32.319 --> 00:18:34.799 Then our people put a frock on it, or bathing 327 00:18:34.839 --> 00:18:37.160 a suit, mix it up with the other wax models 328 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:39.400 in the windows, and nobody ever knows. 329 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:43.279 Ella. You mean all these dummies around us, all. 330 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:46.279 Not all of them. But if you displease these people, 331 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:48.799 the same thing will happen to you. 332 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:58.799 October thirtieth. 333 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:02.119 I haven't kept up my journal. Writing has been out 334 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:06.599 of the question once more. I'm frozen with terror, but 335 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:11.680 not for myself, now for Ella. They hate her. Any 336 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:13.599 time they might turn against her and send for the 337 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:17.160 dark men. My mind is filled with her. I dream 338 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:20.000 of her every day. I'd live to see her at night. 339 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:23.640 We've managed it several times. They trust me now and 340 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:26.880 let me roam about without interference. Finally, to night I 341 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:32.559 met her again and said it, Ella, I love you, 342 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:36.960 Oh Charles, I love you. Ella let's get married or 343 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:39.039 whatever they do here. Then we can live together in 344 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:42.319 my home in the carpet department. They wouldn't dare hurt 345 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:46.200 you then, Oh, Charles, look so dismayed. If you like, 346 00:19:46.200 --> 00:19:48.599 we'll go away from here. Maybe we can get transferred 347 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:51.720 to to Bergdorf Goodman's overlooking Central Park. 348 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:53.839 Don't, Charles, don't. You mustn't. 349 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:58.839 But I love you, Ella, you're not in love with 350 00:19:58.880 --> 00:19:59.440 someone else? 351 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:01.119 Yes, Charles, I am. 352 00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:06.480 But who I thought you hated them all? It must 353 00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:08.359 be Roscoe. He's the only one that's young enough. 354 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:12.160 Oh no, Charles, not Roscoe, especially not him. I do 355 00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:14.119 hate them all. They make me shudder. 356 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:17.880 Well who is it? Then it's him who. 357 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:19.240 The night watchman? 358 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:22.519 No, impossible, I love him. 359 00:20:22.960 --> 00:20:25.960 He smells of the sun. Ella, Oh it was wonderful 360 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:28.200 the way it happened. Don't tell on me, Charles. Are 361 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:31.200 they to punish me? No? I was careless, and there 362 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:34.000 he was, coming around the corner in the Ladies Lingerie apartment. 363 00:20:34.799 --> 00:20:37.400 I was caught. There were only some wax models in 364 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:41.519 they're underthings. There was nothing else to do. I slipped 365 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:42.799 off my dress and stood still. 366 00:20:44.279 --> 00:20:46.079 Oh I'll see. 367 00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:50.519 He stopped and looked at me and Charles. He spoke 368 00:20:50.599 --> 00:20:54.119 to me. He said, say, Honey, I wish they made 369 00:20:54.200 --> 00:20:56.559 him like you on eighth Avenue. Charles, wasn't that a 370 00:20:56.599 --> 00:20:57.480 lovely thing to say? 371 00:20:58.920 --> 00:21:01.279 Personally? I should have said it. 372 00:21:01.240 --> 00:21:04.359 Doesn't matter what street. It was a lovely thing to say. 373 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:07.400 But what can you do about him? Ella, he belongs 374 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:08.240 to another world. 375 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:13.079 Yes, to wait that avenue. I want to go there, Charles. 376 00:21:13.119 --> 00:21:14.079 Are you really my friend? 377 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:15.160 Yes, of course I am. 378 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:18.039 And I'll tell you I'm going to stand there again 379 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:20.759 in the lingerie department, so we'll see me and then 380 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:22.400 perhaps they'll speak to me again. 381 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:24.160 Ella, you're only torturing yourself. 382 00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:27.440 No, because this time I shall answer him. 383 00:21:28.119 --> 00:21:31.799 He'll take me away, take you away. Oh no, Ella, 384 00:21:31.799 --> 00:21:34.559 I couldn't bear that. You don't love him. You only 385 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:36.359 think you do because you think he'll take you out 386 00:21:36.359 --> 00:21:39.000 of here. But you don't know that he will And 387 00:21:39.119 --> 00:21:41.359 I will. Ella, I've made up my mind. 388 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:43.680 No, Charles, I couldn't let you do it, even if 389 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:45.319 I loved you. You couldn't do it, Charles. 390 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:45.680 Why not? 391 00:21:46.119 --> 00:21:51.319 Because you really belong here? You're You've become one of them. 392 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:53.319 Now, Ella, you mustn't say that it's true. 393 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:57.039 And Charles. I got to go. There's someone watching as 394 00:21:57.039 --> 00:21:57.400 I feel it. 395 00:21:57.599 --> 00:22:03.559 Wait, Ella, goodbye, Charles, Ella, come back, Ella, you'll. 396 00:22:03.400 --> 00:22:04.480 Arouse the night watchman. 397 00:22:04.640 --> 00:22:05.000 Rascal. 398 00:22:05.720 --> 00:22:12.119 Yes, love can be very upsetting, can't it you heard? Yes, 399 00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:18.680 just the last moment, or so very touching. Yet it's understandable. 400 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:22.559 I've been attracted to Ella myself. So she loves another. 401 00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:22.920