WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:25.000 Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage. Katty Lewis Elliott Lewis, 2 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:28.519 two of the most distinguished names in radio, appearing each 3 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:31.079 week in their own theater, starring in a repertory of 4 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:35.240 transcribed stories of their own. And you're choosing radio's foremost 5 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:40.719 players and radio's foremost plays. Drama, comedy, adventure, mystery, melodrama, 6 00:00:41.240 --> 00:00:51.560 Ladies and gentlemen. Mister Elliott Lewis, good evening, May I 7 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:55.399 present my wife Jack Good Evening. A thief and his 8 00:00:55.560 --> 00:01:00.200 money are soon parted. What is there a misquote? It 9 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:02.520 should be a fool, But I want to explain something 10 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:03.880 about tonight's story. 11 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:06.560 Which is called Dig the Thief and is about a 12 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:09.480 man named John Digby played by you. 13 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:12.359 And his adventures in the state of New Mexico with 14 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:15.120 a lovely girl named Cecily played by you. 15 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:18.280 The script was written by Morton Sein and David Freakin, 16 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:21.719 and as a matter of fact, there are several thieves involved. 17 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:23.200 I'm not the only one. 18 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:25.519 But to find that out, we Dig the Thief. 19 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:50.719 Oh oh, oh, oh, well there it is. There's the 20 00:01:50.799 --> 00:01:54.840 town spread out like she is like a little jewel 21 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:58.120 in the valley. Can I say something atter? Digby, it's allowed. 22 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:02.920 All the tona is looking so pretty, full of moon 23 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:06.480 and all I love a love people sleeping peaceful. 24 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:08.520 Ain't gonna last long? 25 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:08.800 Is it? 26 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:11.719 Long as I've been hanging around the ranch? Mister Digby, 27 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:15.520 we never had a chivalry like this. Ah you sure something? Well? 28 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:18.400 Good to have you bored? Did Jamison girl? 29 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:21.120 Okay, I'm right here beside you, mister Digby. I'm fine 30 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:23.840 riding the way you said, posting the way you said. 31 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:25.319 You know it works out real night. 32 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:28.919 Well pass the word back. Get ready, I get ready, get. 33 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:33.120 Ready, get ready, you get ready. 34 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:36.919 I'll sat, mister Digby, I'll set then all right, let's go, 35 00:02:57.039 --> 00:03:05.080 ah man, you. 36 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:17.000 Me uh to me, me. 37 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:44.719 Spream and the board all right on him. 38 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:48.120 I've hosted there for you. You can get out, go home, 39 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:50.639 you can get back to the ranch, and you, dig Me, 40 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:54.240 you can drop dead. What'll I do? I didn't do anything. 41 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:57.120 You've been chewing local weeks, dig Me? What are they? 42 00:03:57.520 --> 00:03:59.319 You take a bunch of guests from a dude ranch? 43 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:01.000 You chew up? It's a town of otis. What do 44 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:04.319 you use blacks? Mister Conell? You to I told you 45 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:06.479 to take the guests for a moonlight ride. I told 46 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:09.400 you no hanky panky, dig be he specifically, I told you, 47 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:12.120 I remember saying it, haggern Card. You were leaning up 48 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:14.520 against the corral fins, chopping on a straw and covering 49 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:16.600 up the turb and I told you yet no, Yeah, 50 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:22.480 now I remember. Uh, mister Cornell, you're fired. Mister Conwell, 51 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:25.519 when you hired me to take charge of guest relations, 52 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:28.480 you said I could have a free reign. You impressed 53 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:31.000 me with the importance of recreating the Old West. I 54 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:36.079 also old you no hanky panky. Well, that's the kind 55 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:39.519 of ombre you are not i'd heard. Okay, mister Conel. 56 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:42.360 Three days I worked for you, fifteen dollars a day, 57 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:44.439 he means, join me five. Your bar was fifty. 58 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:47.879 Well, we'll pay for him. Wiltie Feller, No sure, sure 59 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:50.000 what you're always. 60 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:52.959 So sleepy, mister Southgate. We are taking a collection for 61 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:54.519 Digby five dollars. 62 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:57.560 Oh well, I'll pass the words. We're taking. Oh, here's 63 00:04:57.639 --> 00:05:01.439 five bucks. It was worth it. You happy now, mus Codels, 64 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:04.240 get out of here, dig Me, get back to the ranch, 65 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:05.959 get your gear and get. 66 00:05:16.279 --> 00:05:23.439 As I was walking the speed, some lout radio. 67 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:34.199 Hey, Hey, how about a lift. Hey are you. 68 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:52.519 A uh hey, hey, you going my way? 69 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:58.879 As in the riot? You got your get inna sit 70 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:08.439 up front of me? A fine? Ah no, what begin 71 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:10.879 to think this ride would never come? I'm sorry I 72 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:15.120 was a little late leaving the house, he ended. Uh uh, 73 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:19.800 ask you a question. Sure what tribe you come from? 74 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:24.600 Apache left the reservation last year? House tricks can't complain. 75 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:26.680 What are you doing now? 76 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:26.959 You know? 77 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:31.199 Yeah, you know, took up a trade at the reservation school, 78 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:34.879 or how to drive a Cadillac? Got a job? All 79 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:37.759 the boys are doing that now, all the boys still 80 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:40.759 wearing the long braids like you. I'll have mister Ramsey's 81 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:44.680 idea for local color. You know how mister Ramsey is. 82 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:49.839 Mister Ramsey, Uh how he is? Oh? Well, sure, sure 83 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:52.839 glad I caught you. Else mister Ramsey would have well, 84 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:56.759 you know, oh we had your biting butts. Eh, let's 85 00:06:56.759 --> 00:06:59.759 say nh uh you got a cigarette if you like 86 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:10.839 work too? Yeah? Sure here that's Oh, mister Ramsey's sure 87 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:28.360 gonna be glad to see you. Just walk right up 88 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:31.519 there into the house. You're expected. Thanks a lot, cheafie, 89 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:59.959 get along with thank you, Haldie. Oh Hali, please come in. 90 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:06.079 I'm Cicely Ramsey. 91 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:09.800 Uh, of course. Uh, how's mister Ramsey? 92 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:12.120 Fine, Dad and I just came in from a gallop. 93 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:13.079 He's tethering the horses. 94 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:15.759 Uh, Dad's tethering 'em. 95 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:17.040 He never let anyone else do it. 96 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:22.839 Well, well, what, well, I hope I'm not interrupting anything. 97 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:26.639 Oh no, no, oh. 98 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:27.879 What's the matter Why he's staring at me? 99 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:33.480 I'm sorry, you're not the type, that's all. Oh, please 100 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:36.679 don't do that. It scuffs the rug Yuh sorry, No, 101 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:38.200 you're not the type at all. 102 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:41.840 Well, I've had the virus some of who. 103 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:43.639 Goes around digging in tombs like you do? 104 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:45.279 What? Uh? 105 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:47.679 I guess it's silly of me, miss Johnny Wall, but 106 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:54.639 I expected someone to. Uh Dusty was a pis helman. No, 107 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:56.720 don't do that the rug. 108 00:08:56.879 --> 00:08:57.919 No, I'm sorry. 109 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:00.000 You're the most bashful archaeologian. 110 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:04.399 Oh uh, well, we we don't come up very often. 111 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:07.919 That's why all the sunlight. Uh whew. 112 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:12.840 Must be very interesting work though. Oh my yes, digging 113 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:13.840 up artifacts. 114 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:16.159 Well that's the best part. Uh. 115 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:20.360 You and Dennis will get along just fine. Dennis, my 116 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:22.879 fancy daddy wrote you about him. 117 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:26.320 Sure. Oh oh that Dennis yeah, Dennis. I can hardly 118 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:28.799 wait to meet him. Is he here? 119 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:29.919 He's flying in? 120 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:31.720 Dennis is flying in? 121 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:33.120 Is he as soon as he heard? 122 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:37.440 Oh about the pot? Oh, of course he'll. 123 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:39.399 Be here the first thing in the morning. You too 124 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:40.039 will get along. 125 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:41.320 Wa. 126 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:44.039 Well, he's he's so very interesting like you. 127 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:48.440 Oh well, sure that's because he's in archaeology. Sure. 128 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:51.000 Oh yeah, he's just a student. He's at Harvard, you know, 129 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:54.399 majoring in archaeology. But he's having such a difficult time. 130 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:57.600 You know, this is the second time he's repeating Assyrian 131 00:09:57.679 --> 00:09:58.519 tombs one. 132 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:01.879 Well, no wonder, that's the hardest part. 133 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:07.480 Oh, royal in here. Look he's here, daddy. 134 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:17.080 Well, hello, young man, howdy good, very good, your honeywell, 135 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:17.519 aren't you. 136 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:19.919 I've made arrangements that mister Honeywell take the spare suite 137 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:20.480 in the west wing. 138 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:24.279 Good, very good. Now, uh you run along, Sesaly. Mister 139 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:25.799 Honeywell and I have a lot to talk about. 140 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:29.480 We were having such an interesting conversation. Isn't he the 141 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:32.559 youngest darkiologist ever? It was such a reputation. 142 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:37.039 Yep. Uh, don't do that to the rug. Honeywell. Sorry, 143 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:41.519 run along, sessily. You'll see mister honeywell, and dinners honeywell, bye, 144 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:47.639 ma'am whoa honeywell? Let me take a look at you, Yes, sir, 145 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:53.000 cert indeed, sir, you do. You'll do fine? Now, Uh look, 146 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:56.240 mister Ramsey, my time's pretty valuable. There's digging to be done. 147 00:10:56.399 --> 00:11:02.399 You'll do? You do fine? Yes, sir? Yes, archaeologists come high, 148 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:06.559 expensive education supplies, pith helmets and all. I wrote you 149 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:09.559 in the letter ten percent, didn't I ten percent? Well, yeah, 150 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:12.600 I just dropped in to day to tell you wasn't enough. 151 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:15.960 All the way from Chicago, I was passing by anyhow, 152 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:20.000 on my way to Pultepec, the Inca country. You know. Okay, 153 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:23.720 make it fifteen percent. Well that's a lot better. Come on, 154 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:33.200 I'll show it to you this way, I'll bet you. Eh. Well, 155 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:36.799 what have you got to say? I hardly know? I 156 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:41.200 thought so stunners, aren't they all? Three? Have you ever 157 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:45.399 seen better examples of prehistoric Indian pottery in your life? Hardly? Ever? 158 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:48.559 Those pots are four or five thousand years old, wouldn't 159 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:52.759 you say? Ooh, give a little, take a little without 160 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:56.320 a crack? Well, I really build them in those days. 161 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:01.080 I think we can get ten grand apiece for them. Yeah, uh, 162 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:04.480 ten grand sounds fair, especially since the ceiling's off. Huh 163 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:07.679 uh uh? Which one do you like? Who cares? Oh? 164 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:11.519 That middle one is my favorite? Black buffaloes too. Who's he? Who? 165 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:14.759 The Indian boy that made him four or five thousand 166 00:12:14.840 --> 00:12:18.879 years ago last Thursday? Now, remember my daughter thinks they're yours. 167 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:21.200 You shipped him a head. That's the story in case 168 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:23.679 anyone asks you might if I ask you a question, 169 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:27.440 mister Ramsey, well, how else you gonna know who's going 170 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:31.120 to give you ten thousand apiece for last Thursday's pots? 171 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:37.360 Have you ever heard of Harvard boy Dennis, your daughter's fiance, 172 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:41.440 loaded boy, and I'm the archaeologist who's gonna tell him 173 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:43.960 they're worth ten thousand? He worships you? Why that boy 174 00:12:44.039 --> 00:12:47.000 rocks himself to sleep reading or pat pipathies? Pots are phony? 175 00:12:47.080 --> 00:12:50.039 They foods? You didn't they any well? Or flash judgment? 176 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:54.320 I didn't put the calipers on them or even uh 177 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:59.360 e phony? Yeah, well, these Harvard boys haven't got your ear. 178 00:12:59.799 --> 00:13:03.399 And Dennis is loaded a four million and he ain't 179 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:07.480 reel bright. He collects old crocs sill. He's my intended 180 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:09.519 son in law. I shouldn't speak too harshly. He's a 181 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:14.639 fine boy, great swimmer, always swims underwater, remarkable, and you're 182 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:17.440 going to swindle him out of thirty thousand dollars. We 183 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:22.960 are you and me for twenty percent. I am listen you. 184 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:25.200 I found out about you. You have You've got a 185 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:27.279 good reputation, but you haven't got two shovels to rub 186 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:34.159 to get take it or leave it. I'll take it fine. Well, 187 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:47.080 what times did it? Sir mister Ramsey? You are listening 188 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:50.679 to Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage tonight's play Dig 189 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:54.159 the Thief in your town, in the next town across 190 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:56.679 the nation, you will find the Red Cross. But the 191 00:13:56.720 --> 00:13:59.519 Red Cross is above and beyond all boundary lines, for 192 00:13:59.679 --> 00:14:04.200 it is infinite in its scope. In time of hardships, epidemics, floods, fires, 193 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:06.960 the Red Cross is the symbol and soul of humanity. 194 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:09.799 You are part of that symbol because it is the 195 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:12.360 money you contribute that enables the Red Cross to continue 196 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:16.120 its great work. Answer the call, and humanity will answer 197 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:35.759 you with gratitude. Hey with Cecily, Hi, Hi, Hi, good 198 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:37.879 morning morning. What are you doing out here so early? 199 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:42.600 Scanning the horizon? Where Hey plays the whole horizons for Dennis. 200 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:45.919 He's arriving this morning. He flies, you know, oh, his 201 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:48.799 own plane. He'd be furious if he knew I was 202 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:51.039 scanning for it. Oh, he doesn't like people have watched 203 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:54.159 swims a lot underwater. 204 00:14:53.799 --> 00:14:55.919 You know. Well, things like that you have to respect 205 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:58.879 with Cecily. Why don't we just take a walk, work 206 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:01.639 up an appetite for breakfast. Just see the haze on the gorse, 207 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:03.000 you know. Walk. 208 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:08.879 I'd love to, But uh huh, what should we talk about? 209 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:09.840 Pick a subject? 210 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:15.799 Atioch who Patioch Jans was telling me about the remarkable 211 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:18.960 work you did there. Most are so fascinating working in 212 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:20.039 those old excavations. 213 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:23.639 Yure, Well, there's no excavation like an old excavation. 214 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:26.120 Dennis always says that too. 215 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:28.799 Well, he must have read it in one of my pamphlets. 216 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:31.320 That was the title of one of your pamples. Don't 217 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:31.960 you remember it? 218 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:35.200 Or of you? Necessily. Let's not talk about old ruins. 219 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:36.080 Let's talk about you. 220 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:38.639 Why I'm really nothing? 221 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:41.279 No, no, I I must tell you something that's amazing, and 222 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:44.279 perhaps you won't believe it, but it's true. When I 223 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:48.879 dug up the sarcophagus of a wondrous and beautiful Egyptian princess. No, uh, 224 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:51.120 don't walk, stay here. I I really must tell you 225 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:54.240 about it all right on her tomb was painted, her 226 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:58.799 portrait unbelievably beautiful, with a serenity almost got its slightly. 227 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:01.840 The first time I saw you, I said to myself, 228 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:06.440 Princess or Cyrus of the Seventh Moon, you are wade. 229 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:09.360 What let's take off our moccasins and wade. 230 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:12.039 Yeah, that's just what I've been trying to say, necessily, 231 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:19.759 Let's take off our moccasins and wade. Yeah. I haven't 232 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:22.960 had a cold foot bath before breakfast since Antiyok, you better. 233 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:28.039 Hold my hands to honey, thank you? Yet, this is 234 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:30.120 this wonderful Dennis ever goes in here with me? 235 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:33.960 But you love him anyhow, don't you very much? Why? 236 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:39.519 He's sweet, he's charming and and really he's only bashful 237 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:41.360 when other people are around. When Dennis and I. 238 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:42.879 Are a lot, But don't tell me about it. 239 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:47.799 He's a very gentle boy. It's all that's daddy. 240 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:55.159 Yes, I know here we are, Daddy. What how did 241 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:56.080 he get you in that street? 242 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:57.759 Cecily was my idea? 243 00:16:57.879 --> 00:17:00.480 Daddy, what's the matter get your shoes on, Honeywell, and 244 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:02.480 come with me. You want to try this, mister Ramsey, 245 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:04.240 I was just telling your daughter when I was an abbey. 246 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:07.160 I heard what I said, get your shoes on. Something's happened, 247 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:17.599 mister Honeywell. You still haven't told me. What's the matter, 248 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:26.920 mister Ramsey in here in the library, Oh you know, 249 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:31.759 allow me to introduce myself. I'm mister Honeywell. Oh no, 250 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:34.480 you're not well the heck I'm not. I am Honeywell 251 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:39.000 the archaeologist. Oh no, you're not sure I am. You 252 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:42.559 just asked mister Ramsey here. Oh no, you're not two 253 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:45.680 against one. Huh? All right? Who am I? Who are 254 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:48.680 you eliminate? Honeywell? I'm Honeywell. I asked you a question. 255 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:51.799 Who are you? Your chauffeur said I was Honeywell. Your 256 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:54.559 daughter said I was Honeywell. You said I was Honeywell. 257 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:58.720 Now I'm confused. My chauffer was supposed to pick up 258 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:01.160 mister Honeywell in front of that dude ranch yesterday. He 259 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:04.160 picked you up, so we all fought you were Honeywell. 260 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:07.240 How dare this young man has so Honeywell? Yes, how 261 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:10.920 dare you assume mister Honeywell's identity. You assumed it for me, Ramsey. 262 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:12.920 Let's not turn blue over a mistake you made. 263 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:15.160 I must say, mister Ramsey, the whole thing is your 264 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:18.000 Schoffer's fault, just because I arrived at the Dud's ranch 265 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:18.960 a few hours later. 266 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:23.960 Yes, now you what's your real name? Digby? Johnny Digby 267 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:28.440 and your Honeywell, the dishonest archaeologist. I won't be called dishonest. 268 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:32.240 Your profession's robbing graves, isn't it? Thirty old babes? Nobody 269 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:34.200 wants them anyhow? All I can say is you fellows 270 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:37.319 that got yourselves in a vine here. You are gonna 271 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:40.279 cheat Dennis out of thirty thousand dollars. Boy mm hmm, 272 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:43.000 stop at the kitchen and have the cook picture a 273 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:47.839 real chuck wagon lunch. Then blow a real big vine 274 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:51.400 and his fifty dollars for your trump. That all right 275 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:53.680 with you, mister Honeywell. I don't care if I never 276 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:55.759 see you again, sir, But think what would happen to 277 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:58.119 your reputation if I went out and spread it around 278 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:00.839 among your buddies of the shovel You were party to 279 00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:05.039 a fraud that you verified that last Thursday's pots were 280 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:09.039 old in the relics. How about that? How much the honeyway? Hi? 281 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:11.599 Ready must call Hey, Now wait a minute, this young 282 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:13.400 man is perfectly right, and I listen, Honeyway. 283 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:16.480 We had a deal. Those pots in the closet were 284 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:19.279 supposed to be your pots. Dennis would take your word 285 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:22.759 for us that they're authentic. Ten thousand dollars apiece. You 286 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:25.920 can't run out on me, nily, mister Ramsey, really what really? 287 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:34.000 I must go? Hello, mister Ramsey, Hello, mister Honeywell, name 288 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:42.079 is Digbie, Johnny Digby. A flat fee a thousand dollars? 289 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:47.720 Oh listen and now come here to the window. Plane overhead, 290 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:50.359 get away from the window. Dennis don't like anybody to 291 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:53.920 watch it. Dennis, don't huh? Where were you saying? Ramsey? 292 00:19:54.960 --> 00:19:58.079 A flat fee one thousand? Last night? You offered me 293 00:19:58.119 --> 00:20:01.720 twenty percent of thirty thousand dollars I offered, doctor Honeywell, 294 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:05.920 who am I? How are you? Mister Honeywell? Very well, 295 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:08.400 thank you, I'm just fine. I'll take six thousand dollars. 296 00:20:08.440 --> 00:20:12.480 Please a loud question. I write your check. Please do 297 00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:23.400 make it out to John Digby. Hey you are boy Ramsey. Yes, 298 00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:27.119 you signed Honeywell's name to the check I did. Sounds 299 00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:29.559 like Dennis's plane is coming in for a landing, Ramsey. 300 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:32.119 I'd hate to disillusion Dennis about his future father in law. 301 00:20:32.119 --> 00:20:34.559 You better write me another check. But you're the biggest 302 00:20:34.599 --> 00:20:36.440 seat from the state of New Mexican. You write the check, 303 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:38.440 sign your name, than call your chauffeur. I want to 304 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:40.759 get to the bank and cash this check before I 305 00:20:40.839 --> 00:20:43.000 say hello's to Dennis. As a matter of fact, to 306 00:20:43.079 --> 00:20:53.359 the whole Southwest. Write the check, Ramsey put her there. 307 00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:55.119 I'm so sorry I wasn't able to meet you at 308 00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:56.160 the plane, Dennis, but. 309 00:20:56.200 --> 00:20:59.799 I had to stop at the bank. Mister Honeywell. Oh yes, 310 00:21:01.240 --> 00:21:05.880 mister honeywey oh yes, geez, you don't mention it. 311 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:08.880 Oh I must your last paper, the one on the 312 00:21:08.839 --> 00:21:11.400 Ptolemies of eg Yes, it had a certain style in this. 313 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:14.519 The way you just looked at that sand dune in 314 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:17.039 the middle of the Sahara and then made an X 315 00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:19.480 on the sands and said dig here. 316 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:27.079 Oh that was the most everybody messed everybody else. Oh well, 317 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:28.039 from mister Ramsey. 318 00:21:28.039 --> 00:21:32.119 My intended father in law dad to be my boy 319 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:35.839 when he wrote that you would be here expressly. 320 00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:37.839 To meet me. Oh well, well, what didn't it? 321 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:40.400 And when mister Ramsey, my intended father in law yet 322 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:43.759 to be, of course, when he told me that he 323 00:21:43.799 --> 00:21:47.119 was interceding in my behalf and that the pots could 324 00:21:47.119 --> 00:21:49.519 be bought for only thirty thousand dollars. 325 00:21:49.319 --> 00:21:52.200 Or Dad to be drives a hard bargain. Of course, 326 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:56.960 you know I would have paid twice that much, mister Honeywell, 327 00:21:57.599 --> 00:22:00.640 may I see you for a minute before Well, if 328 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:03.640 Dennis feels the old pots are under priced, we don't 329 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:06.240 wanna take advantage of for that's no, no, no, no, no, 330 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:08.680 my pleasure. I know they'll be in good hands. 331 00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:10.720 We're gonna have a place in New York, and we've 332 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:12.519 got a spot in the living room for them. 333 00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:14.480 A niche cicely a nich. 334 00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:17.440 Oh, Denny's been keeping them from me. I haven't seen 335 00:22:17.480 --> 00:22:17.920 them yet. 336 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:21.880 Well, Dennis, I. 337 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:22.680 I guess now's as good a time as any. 338 00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:25.960 Hell, let's take a look Ramsey right uh this way 339 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:29.519 next door to the sun room, mister Honeywell, and I 340 00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:37.920 need a display. Well, Dennis, my boy, what do you think? 341 00:22:39.200 --> 00:22:44.440 Oh my, oh, Dennis, they're in love. 342 00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:51.960 You feel that quality? Dennis? Oh my oh, wait on 343 00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:54.440 my friends at Harvard Cedre. We keep them away from 344 00:22:54.440 --> 00:22:57.160 the hasty pudding boys. And only thirty thousand dollars. I 345 00:22:57.200 --> 00:23:00.240 feel like a thief if you've forgotten your check book. Boy. 346 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:03.200 Oh no, I brought along a certified check for thirty 347 00:23:03.279 --> 00:23:07.599 thousand dollars, of course, made out to mister Honeywell. Oh good, 348 00:23:07.799 --> 00:23:15.240 here and thank you, thank you so much. You're white. Welcome, Honeywell, 349 00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:16.160 what are you doing? 350 00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:17.319 Dennis? 351 00:23:17.880 --> 00:23:20.359 He drew up the check. Oh, it was too good 352 00:23:20.359 --> 00:23:24.880 to be true. Dennis, will pay you any price. These 353 00:23:25.079 --> 00:23:29.440 two kids have got to fiddle their niches. Honeywell, Dennis, Yes, sir, 354 00:23:29.720 --> 00:23:33.240 will you go forty thousand? Yes, sir Honeywell, forty thousand? 355 00:23:33.480 --> 00:23:36.519 Take it or leave it. Cecily, I hate you, Oh 356 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:39.200 I don't hate you. What do you want, Cecily? I 357 00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:41.319 think you're one of the loveliest young ladies I've ever met. 358 00:23:41.359 --> 00:23:43.279 How much do you want, mister Honeywell? 359 00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:43.759 Nothing? 360 00:23:43.960 --> 00:23:45.920 Oh no, I don't understand you. 361 00:23:46.200 --> 00:23:49.319 I don't understand him either, cessor all the trouble he 362 00:23:49.400 --> 00:23:53.799 went through digging out these perfect they're yours, a wedding 363 00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:55.559 present from me to you. 364 00:23:56.480 --> 00:23:58.640 Oh, I can't accept them. Well, of course you can't. 365 00:23:59.119 --> 00:24:00.680 I'm going to be your father or no, And I 366 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:05.519 say you can't accept them. It's it's impossible, Cecily. 367 00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:07.559 You're a very sweet man. 368 00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:09.759 I want you to have them. 369 00:24:09.839 --> 00:24:13.599 Yeah, i'd like to kiss you. Mister Honeywell, I wish 370 00:24:13.599 --> 00:24:14.000 you would. 371 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:18.279 Oh, thank you, bless you both, my children. 372 00:24:20.680 --> 00:24:23.000 This has been the most touching day of our lives, 373 00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:23.680 hasn't it been? 374 00:24:23.759 --> 00:24:29.400 Dennis, mister Honeywell, yes, Dennis, you're a very superior man. 375 00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:47.200 Is I was walking the streets a movie, you know, Hey, 376 00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:53.400 how about a lift? Uh huh? Hop in? Yeah, hey 377 00:24:53.440 --> 00:25:00.000 give me way ahead of Texas? Nice place, Texas. 378 00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:02.279 I used to think so, but maybe I ain't gonna 379 00:25:02.359 --> 00:25:05.240 like it anymore. Got a couple of hundred acres north Amilla. 380 00:25:05.720 --> 00:25:08.759 Used to be peaceful there, I gonna be peaceful no more. 381 00:25:08.839 --> 00:25:10.200 Oh what's the matter? 382 00:25:10.720 --> 00:25:13.000 Wife called me this morning in Albuquerque where I was 383 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:13.960 selling some hogs. 384 00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:16.880 Wife says the hog drought back in Texas is running oil. 385 00:25:17.160 --> 00:25:20.000 H Yeah, I know hogs, but I don't know oil. 386 00:25:20.839 --> 00:25:27.079 I know oil. Who are you headed for? Amarilla? Do tell? Hey? 387 00:25:27.160 --> 00:25:29.599 Uh y, you wouldn't consider I might if the deal 388 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:33.480 was right. Yes, cigarette. If you roll your own only way, 389 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:35.920 I smoke 'em. Thank you. 390 00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:40.640 I like a man rolls his own signed honesty. 391 00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:42.480 We ain't gonna have any. 392 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:56.680 Troubles, none at all. Dig The Thief, starring Kathy and 393 00:25:56.720 --> 00:25:59.279 Elliott Lewis in a moment, mister and missus, Lewis won't 394 00:25:59.319 --> 00:26:03.119 tell you about that. Next week's play. Colleges preoccupy two 395 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:06.319 of our leading programs this weekend on CBS Radio, The 396 00:26:06.400 --> 00:26:09.559 Von Monroe Show will originate in Boston College, with Vaughn 397 00:26:09.559 --> 00:26:11.559 and Company serving up the top tunes of this week. 398 00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:15.400 To mark the occasion, Gangbusters approaches learning from another tangent, 399 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:18.839 bringing us its true crime case history, The College Caper. 400 00:26:19.319 --> 00:26:22.039 Also Saturday night on most of these same stations, The 401 00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:25.960