Speaker 1: The last No Broadcasting Company presents Radio City Playhouse Attraction
Speaker 1: twenty two. And here, ladies and gentlemen, is you're director
Speaker 1: Harry W. Junkin, Thank you, Bob Warren Friends.
Speaker 2: Four weeks ago, Radio City Playhouse presented a play called
Speaker 2: five Extra Newses by Charles Lee Hutchings. Listeners across the
Speaker 2: country wrote to us commending the script in its theme
Speaker 2: Tonight we present another script by this penetrating enable writer.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, we feel.
Speaker 3: Very warm towards mister Hutchings, because, whether he knows it
Speaker 3: or not, he has the much to be value talent
Speaker 3: of pointing a moral while still remaining entertaining his storage.
Speaker 3: Knight is called correction and stars are good friend, mister
Speaker 3: John Larkin. The characters and organizations in the player imaginary,
Speaker 3: and any resemblance to persons living or dead or to
Speaker 3: actual organizations is unintentional. Here, then, is Radio City Playhouse
Speaker 3: Attraction twenty two. Correction by Charles Lee Hutchings.
Speaker 4: Read all about it, say we can't commit suicide when
Speaker 4: leap until read all about.
Speaker 5: His latest positions. Registered News Examiner, Hi you Zach.
Speaker 6: The Register.
Speaker 7: I uh so you got your name in a paper
Speaker 7: not sleeping till deal Register gives you quite a play. Yes,
Speaker 7: say your doc, what's a low down on that dame
Speaker 7: which takes the powder?
Speaker 6: Where she give me the paper? You don't have to
Speaker 6: read all about it in the Register?
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, doc, don't.
Speaker 4: Need to get good read all about it society, then
Speaker 4: commit suicide with sleep until read all.
Speaker 6: Take me to the office of the night editor.
Speaker 8: Okay, he's on the fourth floor.
Speaker 6: I seen him that much. See you all right, son, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm all right. I kept going with him.
Speaker 8: Unit editor is Charlie Jorgison. You know him no where
Speaker 8: most everybody knows Charlie Jorgison. Him and me has been
Speaker 8: on the Daily Register for twenty odd years. He's a
Speaker 8: mighty busy Man's Charlie when he says, you know you're coming.
Speaker 6: No, it doesn't matter, he'll see me. I have a
Speaker 6: story for him. Ooh story.
Speaker 8: Eh, Well, here's his floor, mister.
Speaker 5: Here you find Charlie in that corner.
Speaker 6: Roll or slide across there.
Speaker 9: Hey bye, where the hag us that kid? Hey pie, listen, Turner,
Speaker 9: don't call me again. I'm not going to argue with you.
Speaker 9: I'm telling you so downfall. I'll be with you in
Speaker 9: a minute. Listen Turner, I said tomorrow, and I mean tomorrow.
Speaker 9: I get going, mister Jogieson, Yes, I'm Jergison.
Speaker 6: What can I do for you? You have an identity
Speaker 6: that's rights there?
Speaker 9: Excuse me, Jarguson, Lesson, Baxter, it goes on paid one,
Speaker 9: So stop bothering me.
Speaker 6: How you were saying, mister.
Speaker 9: Lumsden, Doctor Roger Lumsdon, Well how are you, doctor Lumsdon?
Speaker 6: Your paper has been running my name in the story
Speaker 6: all day. That girl who died last night the party
Speaker 6: on Long Island.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, you were the Excuse me, doc, This place
Speaker 9: gets busy this time and night. Arguson, Yeah, McLaren's got it,
Speaker 9: check it, will you?
Speaker 6: Okay? Yeah right. I wasn't at the party at mister
Speaker 6: Ramsey or whatever it is. I'm really busy.
Speaker 9: Can't you come back some time at.
Speaker 6: Your paper said I was a guest at this point.
Speaker 6: I wasn't.
Speaker 10: I live a few blocks away. A friend of mine
Speaker 10: called me over to see if I could do anything.
Speaker 6: For the girl.
Speaker 10: Your paper got it mixed up, made it sound like
Speaker 10: I was a guest at this party.
Speaker 9: Well there's two bad doctor.
Speaker 5: What was it?
Speaker 6: Lumsdon? Doctor, Roger Lumsdon.
Speaker 9: I'm sorry if you were annoyed, doctor, but I don't
Speaker 9: see what difference it makes.
Speaker 6: After all, you were the part I was called at
Speaker 6: the party in my professional capacity. I wasn't a guest.
Speaker 9: Isn't that a technicality?
Speaker 10: Yes, that technicality has finished me as a reputable doctor.
Speaker 9: Oh come now, doctor Lumson. It isn't that bad after
Speaker 9: all you were.
Speaker 6: It is that bad. The hospital asked me to resign tonight.
Speaker 6: I'm finished. Patients have been canceling appointments all day. Why
Speaker 6: can you windo an implication?
Speaker 10: Your story says I'm a fast and loose society doctor
Speaker 10: who gets roaring drunk with people of dubious morals and
Speaker 10: supplies than with drugs.
Speaker 6: We said no such things, not in so many words. No,
Speaker 6: But that's the impression you created.
Speaker 9: Look, Lumson, you're putting your own construction on the story.
Speaker 9: We didn't say anything of the sort.
Speaker 6: I don't think I can help you. There's nothing I
Speaker 6: can yes, there is what I want to talk to.
Speaker 6: The reporter who came out of the house where the
Speaker 6: girl died. Young fellow wore.
Speaker 9: Classes might be me. She's off duty. Now excuse me, Jargison.
Speaker 9: Heh yeah, all right, call extension four nine seven Jim Monroe. Okay,
Speaker 9: Mike Bami, she is off duty.
Speaker 6: Leave your number and I'll have him. Hey, Hey, put
Speaker 6: that gun away. Don't make any noise, Joorgison, don't try
Speaker 6: to push any of your buzzes. Hey is that thing loaded?
Speaker 6: Full clip? I'll tell your operator you don't want any
Speaker 6: more telephone calls in here.
Speaker 10: Tell her now, are you pick up the receiver and
Speaker 10: say no more calls. And I'm warning your Joorgison. If
Speaker 10: you say anything out of order, I'll kill you.
Speaker 6: I mean it.
Speaker 9: I'll listen, doc, you can't no more calls? Quick, Hello,
Speaker 9: ethel no more calls. I'm in conference. Okay, right, I'll
Speaker 9: look London. Let's be reasonable. You're an intelligent man. This
Speaker 9: sort of thing isn't going to get you anywhere. This
Speaker 9: isn't the way to do it.
Speaker 6: You're not using your head.
Speaker 9: Let's talk this thing over in a calm, intelligent, reasonable way.
Speaker 6: Reasonable, calm, those are fine sounding words, Jogson. I've been
Speaker 6: walking around the streets for the last two hours trying
Speaker 6: to be calm and reasonable. You know how long it
Speaker 6: takes to become a doctor. It's taken me ten years.
Speaker 6: Ten years, ten years of slugging and skimping and going
Speaker 6: without food.
Speaker 10: To buy books, ten years of living on nothing, of
Speaker 10: interurning on a few lousy bucks, a month of staying
Speaker 10: up all night studying.
Speaker 6: And it's gone finished. Washed up? Why because your paper
Speaker 6: decided to have some fun because you thought, shut up.
Speaker 10: I'm sick, Joson, sick at my stomach. I'm sick at
Speaker 10: my stomach and I'm washed up. If you press that buzzer,
Speaker 10: I'll kill you.
Speaker 6: And that's better. What do you want me to do?
Speaker 6: Might bemished down here? Now?
Speaker 5: Okay, Hi Charlie? What's the pitch?
Speaker 6: When I got your phone call.
Speaker 5: At Oh we Go?
Speaker 6: Are you Mike Beamish? Yeah? I'm Beamish, Say Charlie? What
Speaker 6: goes on? What gives with this guy in the gun?
Speaker 6: Damn Beamish? Over there beside, jordis into it, fella. You
Speaker 6: can't do anyhing, Mike.
Speaker 10: The gun is loaded. It's to keep things tidy until
Speaker 10: I'm finished. Do you remember me Beamish?
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's a doctor that was at the party last night.
Speaker 6: Your story was a bit vivid, wasn't it. What do
Speaker 6: you mean where did you get that information about my father.
Speaker 11: Oh, like we dug it out of the files. One
Speaker 11: of the editors remembered your father then well known, and.
Speaker 6: Stop playing games?
Speaker 10: Shall we suppose I refresh your memory? Suicide, wild party,
Speaker 10: glamorous Joyce Farley, beautiful Broadway show girl died last night by.
Speaker 6: Her own hand.
Speaker 10: Quiet only gonna diaph inous white chiffon nightgown. It wasn't
Speaker 10: a nightgown, it was an evening dress.
Speaker 6: Oh, for gosh sakes.
Speaker 11: Doc, I I mean nightgown, evening gown.
Speaker 6: How am I supposed to end? There's a mighty big difference.
Speaker 10: A white evening gown su guests, dignity and refinements, A
Speaker 10: white cheffon nightgown, sugguests, all sorts of things.
Speaker 11: Now, look, Doc, you're making a mountain out of a mold.
Speaker 6: He like quiet at the end of a while, Champaigne party,
Speaker 6: and so on and so on. Doctor Roger Lumsden, well known,
Speaker 6: society doctor. What do you mean by society? Doctor?
Speaker 9: Look here, Lumsonmi's just reports what he says.
Speaker 6: I'm asking him what he means by society doctor. Well,
Speaker 6: I'm I'm winning beamish. Oh they were pretty fancy people.
Speaker 10: I aim that I'm a high priced gentleman that panders
Speaker 10: to weak minded rich women who have nothing better to
Speaker 10: do than take pills.
Speaker 6: Did you know on no, I did you know that?
Speaker 6: I had never.
Speaker 10: Seen one of these people before in my life, not
Speaker 10: one of them.
Speaker 6: Did you know that? Why?
Speaker 10: No, there was somewhat strange coincidence. Doctor Roger Lumsdon, who
Speaker 10: pronounced the girl dead, is the only son of the
Speaker 10: late Professor Kenneth Lumsdon, who also.
Speaker 6: Ended his life through an overdose of sleeping fools.
Speaker 10: The late Professor Lumsdon was one of America's foremost authorities
Speaker 10: on serial chemistry. He resigned from academic life following a
Speaker 10: scandal in connection with reported irregularities and faculty student relationships.
Speaker 6: That makes me sick. I know every word of it,
Speaker 6: and it makes me some Now, Look, doctor I.
Speaker 11: Or maybe I wrote that story a little bit fast. I,
Speaker 11: but I didn't dick up.
Speaker 6: The stuff about your fat father. I'd like to know
Speaker 6: what brilliant journalist is mine remembered my father's trouble well, beamish.
Speaker 6: I hope you gentlemen are aware that since I have
Speaker 6: nothing to live for myself, it wouldn't cost me a
Speaker 6: thought to shoot both of you who's Myers are managing
Speaker 6: this guy's praise the matter? Mister Jorgeson, you men have
Speaker 6: a path to cover up each other's dirt. Myers Myers
Speaker 6: Myers was the.
Speaker 10: Name of the dirty keyhole columnist who wrote that item
Speaker 10: about my father's school.
Speaker 6: Is he still working for the Register. That's right, he's
Speaker 6: our managing editor, Suck Lumson.
Speaker 9: The Register will predit correction, Adam tomorrow, we'll overlook this
Speaker 9: business with a gun, will cret a full denial.
Speaker 6: Denial correction. Your paper ran an apology to my father.
Speaker 10: It was buried back on page ten with the obituary notices.
Speaker 10: It protected you from legal action, but it didn't help
Speaker 10: my father's reputation.
Speaker 6: Correction.
Speaker 11: Look, doctor Lumsdon, honest, I'm sorry about this. I I'll
Speaker 11: do anything I can. I Oh gosh, doc, I just worked.
Speaker 6: Sure, sure, nobody's responsible, nobody did it, but my father's
Speaker 6: reputation is ruined. And now I'm ruined. Twice in ten years,
Speaker 6: the same family, the same paper, but nobody did anything.
Speaker 6: You who want me to be reasonable? Why why should
Speaker 6: I be reasonable? Because you don't expect the doctor to
Speaker 6: behave like this? Well, I'm not a doctor. Anymore. And
Speaker 6: I know exactly what I'm going to do. Get Myers
Speaker 6: down here tonight, tonight, right now. What's the matter, bemish
Speaker 6: you impressed? Well?
Speaker 9: Either Myers is a very busy man long sudden, he's
Speaker 9: probably out of town. Well you can't get a man
Speaker 9: like mister Myers just for the.
Speaker 6: Asking, this gun says. I can pick up that telephone
Speaker 6: and call him, and don't try any front page dramatics, Georgie,
Speaker 6: And I can't miss from here.
Speaker 12: Okay, Hello, it is mister Myers there.
Speaker 9: Please, it's Charlie Jargison at the register. Yes, it's very important, Organs.
Speaker 10: If you'll let your hand touch those buttons on your
Speaker 10: desk once more, Doc, you can't do quiet, beanish, Georgis,
Speaker 10: And I'm not fooling Hello, sir.
Speaker 9: I am sorry to disturb you at home, but WHOA,
Speaker 9: something very important has come up.
Speaker 6: Well I can't.
Speaker 9: I can't talk about.
Speaker 6: It on the phone.
Speaker 9: Well I know, sir, but I'm afraid you'll have to
Speaker 9: come down right away.
Speaker 6: Oh, sir, I really.
Speaker 9: Can't discuss it on the phone.
Speaker 6: It's very urgent.
Speaker 9: Yes, now, I'm afraid you'll have to come down right away.
Speaker 9: All right, mister Meyers.
Speaker 10: Thanks, Well, mister Myers will be right down good, and
Speaker 10: we just sit here and wait for him. We've all
Speaker 10: got a lot to think about.
Speaker 8: What kind of nonsense is this jarguson? And have you
Speaker 8: heard the war as a that it's quite possible to
Speaker 8: talk about things on the telephone.
Speaker 6: What's the matter with you, Jogerson? Famish? What is it
Speaker 6: behind you? Mister Myers? Huh huh? Who's this? What are
Speaker 6: you doing with that gun?
Speaker 10: I'm pointing that gun at your fat belly. Mister Myerson
Speaker 10: will blow a hole into your guts unless you sit
Speaker 10: down and shut up.
Speaker 6: No, no, sit over there with your hired help so
Speaker 6: I can see the whole pretty freesome.
Speaker 8: I've seen Triggerman before this. You look like an amateur
Speaker 8: to me. Suppose you explain what you want.
Speaker 9: He's Lumsdon, the doctor got mixed up in that suicide
Speaker 9: party on Long Island.
Speaker 6: You remember, the son of the late Professor Lumsden.
Speaker 8: Oh, now I can place you, doctor Lumsdon. Well, that
Speaker 8: was a very sad affair last night, very sad. We'll
Speaker 8: be glad to do anything we can.
Speaker 6: Myers. Do you remember seeing me before?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 8: I can't say that I do of course, if you'd
Speaker 8: put that gun away, it might ease the social situation.
Speaker 10: I'm asking you to remember back ten years I came
Speaker 10: to your office with my father. You had published a
Speaker 10: story at some off color behavior in the dormitories at
Speaker 10: my father's school. It was a particularly foul story, even
Speaker 10: for your column. Where did you get at, Myers?
Speaker 8: A newspaper man never reveals the source of that.
Speaker 6: That's what you told my father when we came to
Speaker 6: you ten years ago. I'm asking you now, Myers, and
Speaker 6: you'd better talk fast.
Speaker 8: I can't reveal the source.
Speaker 6: It was reliable, this gun has loaded, it's reliable. Well.
Speaker 8: Ten years is a long time, as I remember it.
Speaker 8: I got the story straight from a friend of mine,
Speaker 8: the father of one of the pupil You wrecked.
Speaker 10: My father's reputation with the dirty lies told by a
Speaker 10: man whose son was expelled from school.
Speaker 8: I made no charges. Those columns are checked by the
Speaker 8: paper's lawyers. How do you think I run my business
Speaker 8: all sweetness and light.
Speaker 6: I'm learning fast, and I don't like when I'm learning.
Speaker 6: When we came to your office, my father invited you
Speaker 6: to consider the facts. You jeered at it and dared
Speaker 6: him to sue you.
Speaker 8: Eh, there's no point in raking over the past to
Speaker 8: doctor Lemerston.
Speaker 6: Okay, Myers, let's talk about the present.
Speaker 10: You were the one who told Beamies to dig that
Speaker 10: old lie out of the files and make over into.
Speaker 6: The day's news. I think you hated my father, Myers,
Speaker 6: because he was a gentleman.
Speaker 10: And you are a cheap, dirty year responsible in one minute,
Speaker 10: your father's reputation was not as important as the responsibility
Speaker 10: of this paper to.
Speaker 6: Safeguard the public morals. Saved that stuff for your editorial
Speaker 6: page and your public speeches. You're a disgrace to every
Speaker 6: decent newspaper man.
Speaker 9: No matter what happened, Lonson, We've got to have a
Speaker 9: free press, your kind of free pressed.
Speaker 6: Jorgison, free from the restrictions of good taste, Free to
Speaker 6: blast a man's reputation, yet stay an inch within the law.
Speaker 8: As I remembered, your father was cleared of all suspicion.
Speaker 6: That's right, Myers. An investigation proved what you already knew,
Speaker 6: that your item was based on nothing but malicious gossip. Yes,
Speaker 6: my father was cleared with everybody except the public. He
Speaker 6: had to resign. He couldn't get a job in any
Speaker 6: school in this country. And finally you killed him, Myers,
Speaker 6: he took his own life. Nevertheless, you killed him with
Speaker 6: your printer's inc You killed him just as surely as
Speaker 6: I am going to kill you.
Speaker 9: What howl at London?
Speaker 6: You're all worked up right now? It's right, Doc. I
Speaker 6: think you're getting a bit melodramatic.
Speaker 10: Yes, yes, perhaps I am. It's a really good material
Speaker 10: for a melodrama.
Speaker 6: Corny.
Speaker 10: In fact, the renowned professor Kenneth Lumsdon trailing his string
Speaker 10: of degrees from town to town.
Speaker 6: From humiliation to humiliation.
Speaker 10: Haunted by that little stick of type, a silly bit
Speaker 10: of gossip which helped to pedal your papers just one day.
Speaker 6: That's water over the dam.
Speaker 8: Now let's get busy and see what we can do
Speaker 8: to help clear up the present misunderstanding. Suppose we have
Speaker 8: Beamish write another story for tomorrow's paper making it clear
Speaker 8: that you were not a guest at the party.
Speaker 6: Lums how'd you know I wasn't a guest? Myers leab story?
Speaker 8: What's the difference? The story is gone tomorrow the public
Speaker 8: will have forgotten all about it.
Speaker 6: Oh, the public forgets, does it? I wonder if you
Speaker 6: know what you're talking.
Speaker 8: About I've been in the newspaper business for thirty years.
Speaker 8: I know the public.
Speaker 6: And you know that a paragraph of type can kill
Speaker 6: a man's reputation. You know that, don't you? Myers?
Speaker 8: I know I'm not going to sit here at ten
Speaker 8: o'clock at night discussing my business with every Tom, Dick
Speaker 8: and Harry who roams in.
Speaker 6: I'm leaving hal admirers. This can haul in right now.
Speaker 6: That's how you want it. Sit down?
Speaker 8: Oh suppose I admit that we have caused you some embarrassment.
Speaker 10: There have been six generations of teachers, doctors, and professional
Speaker 10: men and our family.
Speaker 6: Your story in today's paper has put an end to
Speaker 6: it all.
Speaker 10: You're exaggerating, lumsday am I Do you really think that, Jorgieson?
Speaker 6: Do you Myers? Do you think that I'm exaggerating?
Speaker 8: The story is routine news. It'll be forgotten right now.
Speaker 8: It's ten hours old and it'll be forgotten right now.
Speaker 6: I'll make you a bet on that, mister Myers. I
Speaker 6: think this thing all boils down to something between you
Speaker 6: and me.
Speaker 10: Beamish here is as a kid, we still get a
Speaker 10: chance to become a decent reporter. Georgison just sort of
Speaker 10: let things happen.
Speaker 6: I think you're the man who's important. So I'll make
Speaker 6: you a bet. I'll bet you that I'm finished. I'll
Speaker 6: bet you that ten years of work and struggle and
Speaker 6: hardship are wasting you.
Speaker 10: See myers, I know what happened to my father. So
Speaker 10: we're going to do a little experiment. You're going to
Speaker 10: telephone twelve people. Just pick them out of the telephone book,
Speaker 10: and I'll bet you that not one of them has
Speaker 10: forgotten this story. I'll bet you that every single one
Speaker 10: of the twelve will not only know about the story,
Speaker 10: know about me, but will have added all sorts of spicy,
Speaker 10: dirty details, details which you imply but don't print it.
Speaker 6: You want to make the bet, certainly, I'll make the bet.
Speaker 8: How much.
Speaker 6: Your life? What if you lose, I'll kill you. The
Speaker 6: bet is your life. Foeversh Georgson. This man is crazy.
Speaker 6: God it get on the phone now. I I don't understand.
Speaker 6: I picked the numbers out of the telephone book at random.
Speaker 6: But that's not fair.
Speaker 8: I how can I tell whether they that's just it?
Speaker 6: You can't. We'll let them give the verdict on me.
Speaker 6: But it's only routine news.
Speaker 8: I can't. Well, it's impossible to basically act.
Speaker 10: Are calling Myers, Get on that telephone. Just pick any
Speaker 10: numbers you like. We'll keep this extension open and listen.
Speaker 6: Now keep going.
Speaker 8: Hello, Uh, this is the Daily Register calling. We're we're
Speaker 8: checking up on a story. Did you read in the
Speaker 8: Register today about the girl who killed herself at the
Speaker 8: party on Long Island?
Speaker 6: Oh? You did? What was your reaction?
Speaker 5: Nation? All go to jail those.
Speaker 1: So signing people with a high prices.
Speaker 5: Nothing that's doing the time a thru party.
Speaker 6: Oh that was.
Speaker 8: A wonderful story.
Speaker 6: The dead girl looked so beautiful.
Speaker 9: I don't print this, but somebody told me today that
Speaker 9: doctor Lumsdon had been supplying drugs to the whole crime out.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 6: I hope you'll get more details. Yes, I read every word.
Speaker 6: My husband says, there must have been some hanky panky
Speaker 6: going on or us. You couldn't print the names, so
Speaker 6: I guess there will be criminal charges. The fools, the fools,
Speaker 6: Oh Lumson, I had no idea.
Speaker 8: We'll put an apology the correction tomorrow and app ad Myers.
Speaker 6: You've lost your debt.
Speaker 9: Oh luck, Lumsden. Most of us in this business try
Speaker 9: to do the decent thing. I admit that we've done
Speaker 9: a lot of harm with the careless.
Speaker 6: I don't know he was talking. Jeorgieson, mister Myers has
Speaker 6: lost his death.
Speaker 8: Oh look, doctor will we will print a full story
Speaker 8: about your father.
Speaker 6: We'll print anything you like.
Speaker 8: We'll print a notory on about the carelessness and an
Speaker 8: unethical newspaper practices that in't you innocent people?
Speaker 6: And right.
Speaker 10: Well, and keep perfectly still, mister Myers, sit down at
Speaker 10: that typewriter and write an honest story for change, and
Speaker 10: you better make it good.
Speaker 6: I just want the truth, the truth as you know
Speaker 6: it to be. I'll go ahead, all right, all right,
Speaker 6: I will.
Speaker 9: Hey, miss Georgison, a couple of guys are being held
Speaker 9: in v Chart for that bank robbery, and.
Speaker 6: Hey, what's this? Shut the door, actually get the police.
Speaker 8: This matter's a killer Shu.
Speaker 6: I'm still you. You'd never make the door. I'll go
Speaker 6: over beside Jorgison v Mesh and keep quiet.
Speaker 8: Hey now look what.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 9: Doc, help him?
Speaker 6: He stated, that's all. He'll come around.
Speaker 11: Well, Doc, Baxter's supposed to have a bad heart.
Speaker 6: Don't move any of you. He's all right. He just
Speaker 6: passed out. He'll be all right, Okay, Myers, get going
Speaker 6: on that story.
Speaker 8: There's a story, doctor Lumson. You see, I've cleared both
Speaker 8: your father and you.
Speaker 10: Can I go now supposing you read it out aloud first,
Speaker 10: Sorry you fainted, mister Baxter.
Speaker 6: You won't understand what this is all about. There's no doubt,
Speaker 6: mister Jorgison and mister beamichhe will be pleased to tell
Speaker 6: you all about it. Now. Relax, gentlemen, Let's listen to
Speaker 6: mister Myers read us his story. Go ahead, Myers.
Speaker 8: This is to certify that I, Walter J. Myers, contrary
Speaker 8: to all good newspaper ethics, used an unchecked rumor as
Speaker 8: the base of a news item in my paper. The
Speaker 8: rumor turned out to be false. It destroyed the reputation
Speaker 8: of Professor Kenneth Lumsdon. I also instructed Michael Beamish to
Speaker 8: repeat the item yesterday in a story concerning doctor Roger Lumsdon,
Speaker 8: his son. Yesterday's story deliberately and in a sensational manner,
Speaker 8: delineated doctor Lumsdon in such a way as to defame
Speaker 8: his character. I, as editor of this paper, will do
Speaker 8: anything doctor Lumson suggests in order to correct the error
Speaker 8: in the public's mind.
Speaker 6: That's it not in view of what happened to my father.
Speaker 6: This reads like a confession of murder.
Speaker 10: You know now that you killed my father with printer's inc.
Speaker 10: You admit that, don't you, Myers? And you admit that
Speaker 10: not one of a New York paper handle this story
Speaker 10: the way you did.
Speaker 6: You admit that, don't you?
Speaker 8: Myus, I admit that beamish was he wrote a sloppish story.
Speaker 8: I'll fire and fire me.
Speaker 11: Wait a minute, mister Myers, I admit I stink, but
Speaker 11: I'm just learning.
Speaker 8: How bad I quit.
Speaker 6: I quit before I begin to think for life.
Speaker 11: You can take your lousy scandal sheet and hire some
Speaker 11: more little gossip pickers.
Speaker 6: I'll get a job on.
Speaker 11: A decent paper if anyone will hire me after I've
Speaker 11: worked for you.
Speaker 6: What about you, Jorgison? I am afraid I have nothing
Speaker 6: to say.
Speaker 9: I'll just take what you're deming.
Speaker 6: Doc. It isn't Jorgison's fault. He wouldn't be on the
Speaker 6: night shift if you go along with Myers. But he's
Speaker 6: got a wife.
Speaker 11: And kids to think about.
Speaker 6: He Oh, he's okay, Doc, Well Myers, that leaves you.
Speaker 6: You seem to stand out in this little company ah,
Speaker 6: how about the bet you ready to pay?
Speaker 8: You You're not serious, you can't be it.
Speaker 6: I'm serious.
Speaker 8: What are you gonna do?
Speaker 6: You lost your beat, didn't you? But that's smurt it.
Speaker 6: You're crazy. You'll be caught. You'll be caught. You'll behind you,
Speaker 6: I know, he's Doc. Don't be a fool. You can't
Speaker 6: get away with and I Jogison. You're wrong, You'll be caught. No, no,
Speaker 6: I won't be caught. Get up, Myers, get up off
Speaker 6: that chair.
Speaker 8: No, no, I look, Doc, I'll do one of it
Speaker 8: in your saying, I'll give you.
Speaker 6: I'll give you a thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: I'll give you five thousand dollars.
Speaker 6: Shut up, bemiche yes, doctor, the lead on your story
Speaker 6: the night will read an I rate citizen shot and
Speaker 6: kill the managing editor of the register. You got that, Doc,
Speaker 6: Please don't be a fool. And Myers, No, no.
Speaker 5: You're mad, you're mad.
Speaker 6: Stop him, Georges and babies, stop him. I'll pay out
Speaker 6: that holy cow, Georgison, remember that, and you too, beaniche
Speaker 6: Ow Baxter. We haven't paid much attention to you and
Speaker 6: all this. You've got anything to say?
Speaker 11: No, No, I haven't, quick, Doc, When the leads out
Speaker 11: to the fire escape. There'll be a million guys in
Speaker 11: here in about thirty seconds.
Speaker 10: I guess I'll stick around bemiche there's only one place
Speaker 10: for me to go, no time.
Speaker 6: Don't do that. Stop him person, he's going to kill himself.
Speaker 5: Read all about it. Had a Trupp register shoting office.
Speaker 5: Doctor suicides. Read all about it.
Speaker 4: Editor Register shutting office, doctor suicide. Read all about it.
Speaker 1: You have just heard Correction Attraction twenty two on Radio
Speaker 1: City Playhouse. Correction was written by Charles Lee Hutchings and
Speaker 1: directed by Harry W.
Speaker 6: Jenkins.
Speaker 1: Doctor Lumsden was played by mister John Larkin. Other members
Speaker 1: of the cast included Lou Hall, Floyd Buckley, Bill Lipton,
Speaker 1: Joe Helglison, and Betty Harrison. The music was composed and
Speaker 1: conducted by doctor Roy Shield. Radio City Playhouse is supervised
Speaker 1: for the National Broadcasting Company by Richard P.
Speaker 6: McDonough. This is Harry Juncan again. Next week on Radio
Speaker 6: City Playhouse.
Speaker 2: I Remember Mama, based on the delightful story Mama's Bank
Speaker 2: Account by Catherine Forbes. The same story, characters are all
Speaker 2: back in their own inimitable charm, and the story deals
Speaker 2: with Papa's long and finally successful attempt to become a
Speaker 2: United States citizen. So join us next week for I
Speaker 2: Remember Mama Attraction twenty three on Radio City Playhouse.
Speaker 6: Good night, everybody.
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