WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.319 --> 00:00:06.960 The last No Broadcasting Company presents Radio City Playhouse Attraction 2 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:30.199 twenty two. And here, ladies and gentlemen, is you're director 3 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:33.479 Harry W. Junkin, Thank you, Bob Warren Friends. 4 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:37.240 Four weeks ago, Radio City Playhouse presented a play called 5 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:41.960 five Extra Newses by Charles Lee Hutchings. Listeners across the 6 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:45.200 country wrote to us commending the script in its theme 7 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:49.479 Tonight we present another script by this penetrating enable writer. 8 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:52.000 As a matter of fact, we feel. 9 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:55.039 Very warm towards mister Hutchings, because, whether he knows it 10 00:00:55.159 --> 00:00:57.520 or not, he has the much to be value talent 11 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:02.039 of pointing a moral while still remaining entertaining his storage. 12 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:05.640 Knight is called correction and stars are good friend, mister 13 00:01:05.719 --> 00:01:10.599 John Larkin. The characters and organizations in the player imaginary, 14 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:13.159 and any resemblance to persons living or dead or to 15 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:19.120 actual organizations is unintentional. Here, then, is Radio City Playhouse 16 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:23.560 Attraction twenty two. Correction by Charles Lee Hutchings. 17 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:50.359 Read all about it, say we can't commit suicide when 18 00:01:50.519 --> 00:01:53.680 leap until read all about. 19 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:59.239 His latest positions. Registered News Examiner, Hi you Zach. 20 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:01.200 The Register. 21 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:04.280 I uh so you got your name in a paper 22 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:09.039 not sleeping till deal Register gives you quite a play. Yes, 23 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:13.319 say your doc, what's a low down on that dame 24 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:14.520 which takes the powder? 25 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:18.840 Where she give me the paper? You don't have to 26 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:20.360 read all about it in the Register? 27 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:22.759 Okay, okay, doc, don't. 28 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:26.680 Need to get good read all about it society, then 29 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:56.840 commit suicide with sleep until read all. 30 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:58.400 Take me to the office of the night editor. 31 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:00.199 Okay, he's on the fourth floor. 32 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:04.159 I seen him that much. See you all right, son, Yeah, yeah, 33 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:06.520 I'm all right. I kept going with him. 34 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:11.599 Unit editor is Charlie Jorgison. You know him no where 35 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:14.240 most everybody knows Charlie Jorgison. Him and me has been 36 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:17.319 on the Daily Register for twenty odd years. He's a 37 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:20.680 mighty busy Man's Charlie when he says, you know you're coming. 38 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:23.560 No, it doesn't matter, he'll see me. I have a 39 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:25.120 story for him. Ooh story. 40 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:27.319 Eh, Well, here's his floor, mister. 41 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:30.319 Here you find Charlie in that corner. 42 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:31.639 Roll or slide across there. 43 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:44.680 Hey bye, where the hag us that kid? Hey pie, listen, Turner, 44 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:48.479 don't call me again. I'm not going to argue with you. 45 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:51.639 I'm telling you so downfall. I'll be with you in 46 00:03:51.639 --> 00:03:55.280 a minute. Listen Turner, I said tomorrow, and I mean tomorrow. 47 00:03:56.240 --> 00:04:01.240 I get going, mister Jogieson, Yes, I'm Jergison. 48 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:03.680 What can I do for you? You have an identity 49 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:05.240 that's rights there? 50 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:13.360 Excuse me, Jarguson, Lesson, Baxter, it goes on paid one, 51 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:14.400 So stop bothering me. 52 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:18.480 How you were saying, mister. 53 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:22.800 Lumsden, Doctor Roger Lumsdon, Well how are you, doctor Lumsdon? 54 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:24.800 Your paper has been running my name in the story 55 00:04:24.839 --> 00:04:27.079 all day. That girl who died last night the party 56 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:27.720 on Long Island. 57 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:32.160 Oh yeah, you were the Excuse me, doc, This place 58 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:38.560 gets busy this time and night. Arguson, Yeah, McLaren's got it, 59 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:40.800 check it, will you? 60 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:46.920 Okay? Yeah right. I wasn't at the party at mister 61 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:48.959 Ramsey or whatever it is. I'm really busy. 62 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:50.360 Can't you come back some time at. 63 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:53.319 Your paper said I was a guest at this point. 64 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:54.319 I wasn't. 65 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:56.399 I live a few blocks away. A friend of mine 66 00:04:56.399 --> 00:04:58.199 called me over to see if I could do anything. 67 00:04:57.879 --> 00:04:58.439 For the girl. 68 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:01.519 Your paper got it mixed up, made it sound like 69 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:02.600 I was a guest at this party. 70 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:04.560 Well there's two bad doctor. 71 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:05.399 What was it? 72 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:07.920 Lumsdon? Doctor, Roger Lumsdon. 73 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:10.319 I'm sorry if you were annoyed, doctor, but I don't 74 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:11.480 see what difference it makes. 75 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:13.560 After all, you were the part I was called at 76 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:16.000 the party in my professional capacity. I wasn't a guest. 77 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:17.759 Isn't that a technicality? 78 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:23.000 Yes, that technicality has finished me as a reputable doctor. 79 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:26.040 Oh come now, doctor Lumson. It isn't that bad after 80 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:26.560 all you were. 81 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:30.240 It is that bad. The hospital asked me to resign tonight. 82 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:34.519 I'm finished. Patients have been canceling appointments all day. Why 83 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:35.560 can you windo an implication? 84 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:37.759 Your story says I'm a fast and loose society doctor 85 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:39.879 who gets roaring drunk with people of dubious morals and 86 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:40.879 supplies than with drugs. 87 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:43.040 We said no such things, not in so many words. No, 88 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:44.839 But that's the impression you created. 89 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:47.120 Look, Lumson, you're putting your own construction on the story. 90 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:48.519 We didn't say anything of the sort. 91 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:50.319 I don't think I can help you. There's nothing I 92 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:52.920 can yes, there is what I want to talk to. 93 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:54.399 The reporter who came out of the house where the 94 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:56.040 girl died. Young fellow wore. 95 00:05:55.839 --> 00:06:01.560 Classes might be me. She's off duty. Now excuse me, Jargison. 96 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:09.079 Heh yeah, all right, call extension four nine seven Jim Monroe. Okay, 97 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:11.680 Mike Bami, she is off duty. 98 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:15.040 Leave your number and I'll have him. Hey, Hey, put 99 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:17.040 that gun away. Don't make any noise, Joorgison, don't try 100 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:20.040 to push any of your buzzes. Hey is that thing loaded? 101 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:22.600 Full clip? I'll tell your operator you don't want any 102 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:23.639 more telephone calls in here. 103 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:25.839 Tell her now, are you pick up the receiver and 104 00:06:25.879 --> 00:06:27.680 say no more calls. And I'm warning your Joorgison. If 105 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:29.399 you say anything out of order, I'll kill you. 106 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:30.160 I mean it. 107 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:39.639 I'll listen, doc, you can't no more calls? Quick, Hello, 108 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:47.680 ethel no more calls. I'm in conference. Okay, right, I'll 109 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:50.839 look London. Let's be reasonable. You're an intelligent man. This 110 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:53.199 sort of thing isn't going to get you anywhere. This 111 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:54.160 isn't the way to do it. 112 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:56.040 You're not using your head. 113 00:06:56.519 --> 00:06:59.160 Let's talk this thing over in a calm, intelligent, reasonable way. 114 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:03.480 Reasonable, calm, those are fine sounding words, Jogson. I've been 115 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:05.480 walking around the streets for the last two hours trying 116 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:08.319 to be calm and reasonable. You know how long it 117 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:11.279 takes to become a doctor. It's taken me ten years. 118 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:15.120 Ten years, ten years of slugging and skimping and going 119 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:15.959 without food. 120 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:17.759 To buy books, ten years of living on nothing, of 121 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:19.800 interurning on a few lousy bucks, a month of staying 122 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:21.240 up all night studying. 123 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:26.560 And it's gone finished. Washed up? Why because your paper 124 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:30.560 decided to have some fun because you thought, shut up. 125 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:36.160 I'm sick, Joson, sick at my stomach. I'm sick at 126 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:39.480 my stomach and I'm washed up. If you press that buzzer, 127 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:40.000 I'll kill you. 128 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:45.000 And that's better. What do you want me to do? 129 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:47.720 Might bemished down here? Now? 130 00:07:49.759 --> 00:08:11.720 Okay, Hi Charlie? What's the pitch? 131 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:12.839 When I got your phone call. 132 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:15.759 At Oh we Go? 133 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:19.879 Are you Mike Beamish? Yeah? I'm Beamish, Say Charlie? What 134 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:21.360 goes on? What gives with this guy in the gun? 135 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:24.199 Damn Beamish? Over there beside, jordis into it, fella. You 136 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:25.800 can't do anyhing, Mike. 137 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:29.720 The gun is loaded. It's to keep things tidy until 138 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:33.039 I'm finished. Do you remember me Beamish? 139 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:37.840 Yeah, he's a doctor that was at the party last night. 140 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:41.600 Your story was a bit vivid, wasn't it. What do 141 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:43.919 you mean where did you get that information about my father. 142 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:47.480 Oh, like we dug it out of the files. One 143 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:50.000 of the editors remembered your father then well known, and. 144 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:50.960 Stop playing games? 145 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:57.559 Shall we suppose I refresh your memory? Suicide, wild party, 146 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:02.120 glamorous Joyce Farley, beautiful Broadway show girl died last night by. 147 00:09:02.039 --> 00:09:02.600 Her own hand. 148 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:06.639 Quiet only gonna diaph inous white chiffon nightgown. It wasn't 149 00:09:06.679 --> 00:09:08.279 a nightgown, it was an evening dress. 150 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:09.759 Oh, for gosh sakes. 151 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:13.000 Doc, I I mean nightgown, evening gown. 152 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:14.879 How am I supposed to end? There's a mighty big difference. 153 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:17.759 A white evening gown su guests, dignity and refinements, A 154 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:21.039 white cheffon nightgown, sugguests, all sorts of things. 155 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:23.519 Now, look, Doc, you're making a mountain out of a mold. 156 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:27.559 He like quiet at the end of a while, Champaigne party, 157 00:09:27.559 --> 00:09:31.559 and so on and so on. Doctor Roger Lumsden, well known, 158 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:35.480 society doctor. What do you mean by society? Doctor? 159 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:37.600 Look here, Lumsonmi's just reports what he says. 160 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:41.879 I'm asking him what he means by society doctor. Well, 161 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:47.840 I'm I'm winning beamish. Oh they were pretty fancy people. 162 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:50.480 I aim that I'm a high priced gentleman that panders 163 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:52.600 to weak minded rich women who have nothing better to 164 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:53.919 do than take pills. 165 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:56.919 Did you know on no, I did you know that? 166 00:09:57.000 --> 00:09:57.759 I had never. 167 00:09:57.639 --> 00:10:00.159 Seen one of these people before in my life, not 168 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:01.200 one of them. 169 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:03.720 Did you know that? Why? 170 00:10:04.919 --> 00:10:08.240 No, there was somewhat strange coincidence. Doctor Roger Lumsdon, who 171 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:10.279 pronounced the girl dead, is the only son of the 172 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:12.799 late Professor Kenneth Lumsdon, who also. 173 00:10:12.679 --> 00:10:14.639 Ended his life through an overdose of sleeping fools. 174 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:18.279 The late Professor Lumsdon was one of America's foremost authorities 175 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:21.840 on serial chemistry. He resigned from academic life following a 176 00:10:21.879 --> 00:10:26.000 scandal in connection with reported irregularities and faculty student relationships. 177 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:30.279 That makes me sick. I know every word of it, 178 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:33.879 and it makes me some Now, Look, doctor I. 179 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:35.919 Or maybe I wrote that story a little bit fast. I, 180 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:37.399 but I didn't dick up. 181 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:40.159 The stuff about your fat father. I'd like to know 182 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:48.519 what brilliant journalist is mine remembered my father's trouble well, beamish. 183 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:51.600 I hope you gentlemen are aware that since I have 184 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:53.559 nothing to live for myself, it wouldn't cost me a 185 00:10:53.639 --> 00:10:55.840 thought to shoot both of you who's Myers are managing 186 00:10:56.960 --> 00:11:00.080 this guy's praise the matter? Mister Jorgeson, you men have 187 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:05.759 a path to cover up each other's dirt. Myers Myers 188 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:07.799 Myers was the. 189 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:09.840 Name of the dirty keyhole columnist who wrote that item 190 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:11.000 about my father's school. 191 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:13.840 Is he still working for the Register. That's right, he's 192 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:15.519 our managing editor, Suck Lumson. 193 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:19.519 The Register will predit correction, Adam tomorrow, we'll overlook this 194 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:22.399 business with a gun, will cret a full denial. 195 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:25.440 Denial correction. Your paper ran an apology to my father. 196 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:27.960 It was buried back on page ten with the obituary notices. 197 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.720 It protected you from legal action, but it didn't help 198 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:32.720 my father's reputation. 199 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:34.120 Correction. 200 00:11:34.519 --> 00:11:37.679 Look, doctor Lumsdon, honest, I'm sorry about this. I I'll 201 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:41.759 do anything I can. I Oh gosh, doc, I just worked. 202 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:45.320 Sure, sure, nobody's responsible, nobody did it, but my father's 203 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:48.960 reputation is ruined. And now I'm ruined. Twice in ten years, 204 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:51.320 the same family, the same paper, but nobody did anything. 205 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:58.080 You who want me to be reasonable? Why why should 206 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:01.440 I be reasonable? Because you don't expect the doctor to 207 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:05.679 behave like this? Well, I'm not a doctor. Anymore. And 208 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:09.320 I know exactly what I'm going to do. Get Myers 209 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:14.080 down here tonight, tonight, right now. What's the matter, bemish 210 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:15.559 you impressed? Well? 211 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:18.519 Either Myers is a very busy man long sudden, he's 212 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:22.240 probably out of town. Well you can't get a man 213 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:23.679 like mister Myers just for the. 214 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:27.200 Asking, this gun says. I can pick up that telephone 215 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:30.519 and call him, and don't try any front page dramatics, Georgie, 216 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:32.279 And I can't miss from here. 217 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:47.120 Okay, Hello, it is mister Myers there. 218 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:51.840 Please, it's Charlie Jargison at the register. Yes, it's very important, Organs. 219 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:53.440 If you'll let your hand touch those buttons on your 220 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:57.600 desk once more, Doc, you can't do quiet, beanish, Georgis, 221 00:12:57.639 --> 00:12:59.440 And I'm not fooling Hello, sir. 222 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:02.759 I am sorry to disturb you at home, but WHOA, 223 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:04.879 something very important has come up. 224 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:07.799 Well I can't. 225 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:10.279 I can't talk about. 226 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:10.679 It on the phone. 227 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:14.559 Well I know, sir, but I'm afraid you'll have to 228 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:16.879 come down right away. 229 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:18.559 Oh, sir, I really. 230 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:19.559 Can't discuss it on the phone. 231 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:22.120 It's very urgent. 232 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:26.120 Yes, now, I'm afraid you'll have to come down right away. 233 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:29.320 All right, mister Meyers. 234 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:35.960 Thanks, Well, mister Myers will be right down good, and 235 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:38.639 we just sit here and wait for him. We've all 236 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:39.919 got a lot to think about. 237 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:58.919 What kind of nonsense is this jarguson? And have you 238 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:01.279 heard the war as a that it's quite possible to 239 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:02.639 talk about things on the telephone. 240 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:06.000 What's the matter with you, Jogerson? Famish? What is it 241 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:10.639 behind you? Mister Myers? Huh huh? Who's this? What are 242 00:14:10.679 --> 00:14:11.519 you doing with that gun? 243 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:13.879 I'm pointing that gun at your fat belly. Mister Myerson 244 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:15.759 will blow a hole into your guts unless you sit 245 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:16.600 down and shut up. 246 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:19.519 No, no, sit over there with your hired help so 247 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:21.519 I can see the whole pretty freesome. 248 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:24.799 I've seen Triggerman before this. You look like an amateur 249 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:27.360 to me. Suppose you explain what you want. 250 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:30.120 He's Lumsdon, the doctor got mixed up in that suicide 251 00:14:30.120 --> 00:14:31.080 party on Long Island. 252 00:14:32.159 --> 00:14:34.320 You remember, the son of the late Professor Lumsden. 253 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:38.600 Oh, now I can place you, doctor Lumsdon. Well, that 254 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:41.960 was a very sad affair last night, very sad. We'll 255 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:43.320 be glad to do anything we can. 256 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:45.960 Myers. Do you remember seeing me before? 257 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:47.039 No? 258 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:49.279 I can't say that I do of course, if you'd 259 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:52.080 put that gun away, it might ease the social situation. 260 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:56.559 I'm asking you to remember back ten years I came 261 00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:59.519 to your office with my father. You had published a 262 00:14:59.559 --> 00:15:02.480 story at some off color behavior in the dormitories at 263 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:05.840 my father's school. It was a particularly foul story, even 264 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:08.720 for your column. Where did you get at, Myers? 265 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:12.600 A newspaper man never reveals the source of that. 266 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:14.360 That's what you told my father when we came to 267 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:17.399 you ten years ago. I'm asking you now, Myers, and 268 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:18.559 you'd better talk fast. 269 00:15:19.159 --> 00:15:20.360 I can't reveal the source. 270 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:25.240 It was reliable, this gun has loaded, it's reliable. Well. 271 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:28.720 Ten years is a long time, as I remember it. 272 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:30.360 I got the story straight from a friend of mine, 273 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:32.159 the father of one of the pupil You wrecked. 274 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:34.120 My father's reputation with the dirty lies told by a 275 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:35.720 man whose son was expelled from school. 276 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:38.480 I made no charges. Those columns are checked by the 277 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:41.120 paper's lawyers. How do you think I run my business 278 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:42.240 all sweetness and light. 279 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:44.639 I'm learning fast, and I don't like when I'm learning. 280 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:47.960 When we came to your office, my father invited you 281 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:50.879 to consider the facts. You jeered at it and dared 282 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:51.440 him to sue you. 283 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:53.679 Eh, there's no point in raking over the past to 284 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:54.799 doctor Lemerston. 285 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:56.519 Okay, Myers, let's talk about the present. 286 00:15:57.039 --> 00:15:58.600 You were the one who told Beamies to dig that 287 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:00.600 old lie out of the files and make over into. 288 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:04.200 The day's news. I think you hated my father, Myers, 289 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:05.600 because he was a gentleman. 290 00:16:05.879 --> 00:16:09.240 And you are a cheap, dirty year responsible in one minute, 291 00:16:09.559 --> 00:16:12.639 your father's reputation was not as important as the responsibility 292 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:13.320 of this paper to. 293 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:16.120 Safeguard the public morals. Saved that stuff for your editorial 294 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:18.519 page and your public speeches. You're a disgrace to every 295 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:19.679 decent newspaper man. 296 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:22.279 No matter what happened, Lonson, We've got to have a 297 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:24.240 free press, your kind of free pressed. 298 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.120 Jorgison, free from the restrictions of good taste, Free to 299 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:29.440 blast a man's reputation, yet stay an inch within the law. 300 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:32.679 As I remembered, your father was cleared of all suspicion. 301 00:16:32.759 --> 00:16:36.679 That's right, Myers. An investigation proved what you already knew, 302 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:40.559 that your item was based on nothing but malicious gossip. Yes, 303 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:45.519 my father was cleared with everybody except the public. He 304 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:48.360 had to resign. He couldn't get a job in any 305 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:51.919 school in this country. And finally you killed him, Myers, 306 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:55.120 he took his own life. Nevertheless, you killed him with 307 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:58.679 your printer's inc You killed him just as surely as 308 00:16:58.720 --> 00:16:59.720 I am going to kill you. 309 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:02.159 What howl at London? 310 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:04.920 You're all worked up right now? It's right, Doc. I 311 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:06.559 think you're getting a bit melodramatic. 312 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:10.279 Yes, yes, perhaps I am. It's a really good material 313 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:11.039 for a melodrama. 314 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:11.599 Corny. 315 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:15.480 In fact, the renowned professor Kenneth Lumsdon trailing his string 316 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:17.240 of degrees from town to town. 317 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:20.279 From humiliation to humiliation. 318 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:23.799 Haunted by that little stick of type, a silly bit 319 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:26.079 of gossip which helped to pedal your papers just one day. 320 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:27.400 That's water over the dam. 321 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:29.200 Now let's get busy and see what we can do 322 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:33.640 to help clear up the present misunderstanding. Suppose we have 323 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:36.559 Beamish write another story for tomorrow's paper making it clear 324 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:38.119 that you were not a guest at the party. 325 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:40.559 Lums how'd you know I wasn't a guest? Myers leab story? 326 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:44.559 What's the difference? The story is gone tomorrow the public 327 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:45.720 will have forgotten all about it. 328 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:49.039 Oh, the public forgets, does it? I wonder if you 329 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:50.200 know what you're talking. 330 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:52.519 About I've been in the newspaper business for thirty years. 331 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:53.559 I know the public. 332 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:55.279 And you know that a paragraph of type can kill 333 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:57.359 a man's reputation. You know that, don't you? Myers? 334 00:17:57.400 --> 00:17:58.759 I know I'm not going to sit here at ten 335 00:17:58.759 --> 00:18:01.160 o'clock at night discussing my business with every Tom, Dick 336 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:02.079 and Harry who roams in. 337 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:08.240 I'm leaving hal admirers. This can haul in right now. 338 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:11.440 That's how you want it. Sit down? 339 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:19.279 Oh suppose I admit that we have caused you some embarrassment. 340 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:22.519 There have been six generations of teachers, doctors, and professional 341 00:18:22.599 --> 00:18:23.359 men and our family. 342 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:26.240 Your story in today's paper has put an end to 343 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:26.559 it all. 344 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:30.920 You're exaggerating, lumsday am I Do you really think that, Jorgieson? 345 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:34.279 Do you Myers? Do you think that I'm exaggerating? 346 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:37.640 The story is routine news. It'll be forgotten right now. 347 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:40.559 It's ten hours old and it'll be forgotten right now. 348 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:43.240 I'll make you a bet on that, mister Myers. I 349 00:18:43.240 --> 00:18:45.559 think this thing all boils down to something between you 350 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:45.960 and me. 351 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:48.200 Beamish here is as a kid, we still get a 352 00:18:48.279 --> 00:18:51.000 chance to become a decent reporter. Georgison just sort of 353 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:51.880 let things happen. 354 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:55.400 I think you're the man who's important. So I'll make 355 00:18:55.440 --> 00:19:00.440 you a bet. I'll bet you that I'm finished. I'll 356 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:02.480 bet you that ten years of work and struggle and 357 00:19:02.519 --> 00:19:05.000 hardship are wasting you. 358 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:08.640 See myers, I know what happened to my father. So 359 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:11.759 we're going to do a little experiment. You're going to 360 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:14.240 telephone twelve people. Just pick them out of the telephone book, 361 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:16.720 and I'll bet you that not one of them has 362 00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:20.079 forgotten this story. I'll bet you that every single one 363 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:22.200 of the twelve will not only know about the story, 364 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:25.920 know about me, but will have added all sorts of spicy, 365 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:29.920 dirty details, details which you imply but don't print it. 366 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:33.640 You want to make the bet, certainly, I'll make the bet. 367 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:34.359 How much. 368 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:43.160 Your life? What if you lose, I'll kill you. The 369 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:48.759 bet is your life. Foeversh Georgson. This man is crazy. 370 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:53.759 God it get on the phone now. I I don't understand. 371 00:19:53.880 --> 00:19:55.920 I picked the numbers out of the telephone book at random. 372 00:19:55.960 --> 00:19:57.000 But that's not fair. 373 00:19:57.039 --> 00:19:59.680 I how can I tell whether they that's just it? 374 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:03.319 You can't. We'll let them give the verdict on me. 375 00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:04.839 But it's only routine news. 376 00:20:05.119 --> 00:20:07.599 I can't. Well, it's impossible to basically act. 377 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:10.440 Are calling Myers, Get on that telephone. Just pick any 378 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:12.880 numbers you like. We'll keep this extension open and listen. 379 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:13.599 Now keep going. 380 00:20:25.079 --> 00:20:29.680 Hello, Uh, this is the Daily Register calling. We're we're 381 00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:32.480 checking up on a story. Did you read in the 382 00:20:32.519 --> 00:20:34.839 Register today about the girl who killed herself at the 383 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:35.839 party on Long Island? 384 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:40.039 Oh? You did? What was your reaction? 385 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:44.559 Nation? All go to jail those. 386 00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:46.480 So signing people with a high prices. 387 00:20:46.599 --> 00:20:48.559 Nothing that's doing the time a thru party. 388 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:51.279 Oh that was. 389 00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:52.079 A wonderful story. 390 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:53.759 The dead girl looked so beautiful. 391 00:20:54.039 --> 00:20:57.119 I don't print this, but somebody told me today that 392 00:20:57.200 --> 00:21:00.279 doctor Lumsdon had been supplying drugs to the whole crime out. 393 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:00.799 Oh. 394 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:08.000 I hope you'll get more details. Yes, I read every word. 395 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:11.240 My husband says, there must have been some hanky panky 396 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:13.960 going on or us. You couldn't print the names, so 397 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:32.400 I guess there will be criminal charges. The fools, the fools, 398 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:34.079 Oh Lumson, I had no idea. 399 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:37.559 We'll put an apology the correction tomorrow and app ad Myers. 400 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:40.200 You've lost your debt. 401 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:43.480