1 00:00:03,759 --> 00:00:26,039 Speaker 1: The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Present. Come in, You're welcome. 2 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:30,320 I'm e. G. Marshall. Won't you sit down and relax 3 00:00:30,399 --> 00:00:33,600 with me for the next oh a little lesson an 4 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,159 hour and listen to a tale of murder? Or is 5 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:41,799 that statement exactly fair? The Dictionary definition of murder is 6 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:46,840 the unlawful killing of another human being with malice of forethought. Well, 7 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:51,960 undoubtedly there is killing and malice of forethought. But the 8 00:00:52,039 --> 00:00:56,479 question here is what or who was killed. Don't try 9 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:58,840 to blame it on me. That's always blamed on me. 10 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,000 I want to get any longer. I won't take the 11 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:06,680 guilt where I'll start it. Worry not on me, not 12 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:10,120 on me? Ever again, I'll make sure better. I'll kill you. 13 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:14,519 How can your cure is not alive? Only one way. 14 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:17,359 Speaker 2: I'll carry your part. 15 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,400 Speaker 3: Here here for cure. 16 00:01:19,879 --> 00:01:23,519 Speaker 1: No lies, what crep thing? 17 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:24,599 Speaker 2: I no wanta care? 18 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:30,519 Speaker 1: Carry your part live from limb suck up, I suck 19 00:01:30,599 --> 00:01:32,400 at love me? 20 00:01:32,519 --> 00:01:33,159 Speaker 3: What are you doing? 21 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 2: I'm despraying or his the straying way? 22 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 3: But here is no art without the two of you. 23 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 1: Has known me as long as he exists. You know 24 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:53,400 that's better than anyone. Sellahy's done forever. Maybe now I 25 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:58,040 can live. Maybe it's worth murder to achieve some kind 26 00:01:58,079 --> 00:02:10,759 of freedom. And our mystery drama, The Voice of Death, 27 00:02:11,439 --> 00:02:14,199 was written especially for the Mystery theater by Ian Martin 28 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:18,520 and stars Victor Jori. It is sponsored in part by 29 00:02:18,599 --> 00:02:22,719 Buick Motor Division and Time Magazine. I'll be back shortly 30 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:34,319 with that one. Then. Triloquism one of man's most ancient arts. 31 00:02:34,759 --> 00:02:38,439 It's as old as the Chinese cultures, and almost certainly 32 00:02:38,479 --> 00:02:42,120 it was practiced by priests who created such seeming miracles 33 00:02:42,439 --> 00:02:45,400 as the speaking statues of Egypt and the Greek oracles. 34 00:02:46,039 --> 00:02:49,400 Down through the millennia it flourished, and when it became 35 00:02:49,599 --> 00:02:53,479 sheer entertainment through Vaueville Radio and TV, it reached its 36 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:58,919 highest popularity. Then as suddenly, then triloquism suddenly lost its popularity. 37 00:02:59,159 --> 00:03:02,800 The fact that the Great is not yet prepared to face. 38 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:11,840 Who was I? Fat? Pretty girls seen from the east, bronx, 39 00:03:11,879 --> 00:03:14,719 a little schlip. I was scared to go to school, 40 00:03:14,759 --> 00:03:16,639 even they beat up on me all the time because 41 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:18,879 I wouldn't fight back, and it was funny to watch 42 00:03:18,879 --> 00:03:22,360 a fat kid cry. Then I read an ad in 43 00:03:22,439 --> 00:03:24,520 the paper and saved up my lunch money to send 44 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:28,719 away for professor of Pantasorio's magical method of voice projection. 45 00:03:29,159 --> 00:03:31,680 Amazed the light and mystify friends and pose a light 46 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:35,039 by the ancient and mystical art of a proloquism that 47 00:03:35,199 --> 00:03:38,240 changed my life because for some reason it was easy 48 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,800 to me. My massively art in a month and held 49 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:45,319 a golden key that unlocked the world for me. At sixteen, 50 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,719 I was playing parties and school dates. I got in 51 00:03:47,759 --> 00:03:50,879 at the very end of radio's golden era, but where 52 00:03:50,919 --> 00:03:54,199 I really hit a big was television. By then I 53 00:03:54,319 --> 00:03:59,120 was calling myself Janus and alias, and then suddenly, by 54 00:03:59,159 --> 00:04:03,120 the late nineteenth fixed is I was a husband. The 55 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:07,159 gold all faded. The club dates I played were a disaster, 56 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,479 and a lifetime of splitting myself in two ended in murder. 57 00:04:12,919 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 3: Fred, look what you've done doing. We'll never put him 58 00:04:16,199 --> 00:04:16,879 back together. Now? 59 00:04:17,199 --> 00:04:20,439 Speaker 1: What are your care Sarah? What do you mean? Isn't 60 00:04:20,439 --> 00:04:21,639 the way you've always wanted? 61 00:04:21,879 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 3: Oh Fred, You're sick? 62 00:04:23,879 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: You always thought he came between you and me? Who 63 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:27,639 him has dune me? 64 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 3: I never said that once all these years, but you 65 00:04:30,959 --> 00:04:31,399 thought it. 66 00:04:31,879 --> 00:04:32,160 Speaker 1: Well. 67 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 3: He was always the first thing in your thoughts. You 68 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:38,439 combed his hair, pressed his clothes, washed his face, even 69 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:41,560 behind his ears, like he was a child. He never 70 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:43,800 even kept him in a box. He was always there 71 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:48,079 wherever we were. We were never alone. You even used 72 00:04:48,079 --> 00:04:52,040 to talk to him off stage. Yes, I won't tell 73 00:04:52,079 --> 00:04:55,600 it now. Maybe I'm glad you've destroyed him. Maybe now 74 00:04:55,639 --> 00:04:56,120 we can have. 75 00:04:56,079 --> 00:04:58,959 Speaker 1: What you've never let me have? What? What did I 76 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,000 ever refuse you? 77 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 3: A child? A child of my own? 78 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: How could we have a child, Sarah? Always on the road, 79 00:05:06,319 --> 00:05:09,800 always moving, living in hotels. Children aren't for us. 80 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,399 Speaker 3: You could have left me behind with our child. 81 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: Or our children travel alone. 82 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:16,639 Speaker 3: Don't you think that I could have gone ahead and 83 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,480 had a child? How could you stop me? But I 84 00:05:20,519 --> 00:05:25,079 didn't because because it wouldn't have been fair to the child. 85 00:05:25,879 --> 00:05:28,040 She would have been my child, that something we shared, 86 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:32,079 just as he was your child. Oh, freddie, what's wrong 87 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:34,600 with you? How could you have done that to him? 88 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:36,639 Speaker 1: Doesn't matter? He's gone. 89 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 3: Let's see if we can't put him together again? 90 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:43,439 Speaker 1: No, leave him wrong, don't touch him, Fred, he's dead, smashed. 91 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:46,319 He couldn't be repaired, and he's not going to be 92 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,680 repaired because there's nothing to repair him. 93 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 3: For telling what is it. 94 00:05:50,519 --> 00:05:53,879 Speaker 1: Don't you see I'm as dead as he is. 95 00:05:54,639 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 3: You got fired again. 96 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:02,079 Speaker 1: I'm through, Sarah. It's all over. There's no Janus the Great. 97 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:05,439 Speaker 3: That isn't true, Darling. You're tired, you've been overworking. A 98 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:06,360 good night's rest. 99 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 1: What am I going to do? We have no money, 100 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:11,240 I have no other talents. I'm back once again to 101 00:06:11,319 --> 00:06:14,639 where I began, back fready from the East Bronx. When 102 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:22,480 I killed Atheas, I might as well have killed myself. 103 00:06:22,519 --> 00:06:25,319 I had no rest that night. Oh what a night 104 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:29,600 it was. Doctor Sarah, worrying herself, frantic about me, finally 105 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:34,560 got to sleep. The things began happening. The first pain, 106 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,759 when it came, was so intense and piercing that, in 107 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:45,000 spite of myself, My God, I bit my lips till 108 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:47,560 a blood came, trying to stifle my cry. So I 109 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:50,560 shouldn't bought, Sarah. But my arm felt as though some 110 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,040 giant had broken it across his means. And then the 111 00:06:54,079 --> 00:06:58,439 second one came, a blow that compressed my brain and 112 00:06:58,519 --> 00:06:59,519 sent it spinning. 113 00:07:00,199 --> 00:07:05,759 Speaker 3: Wow, God, what happened to me? Read there where? What 114 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,680 do you think, darling? Are you all right right? It's 115 00:07:09,759 --> 00:07:11,240 five in the morning. You're still awing. 116 00:07:11,399 --> 00:07:16,839 Speaker 1: Uh huh, Sarah, uh uh A dream? What a dream? 117 00:07:16,879 --> 00:07:19,040 I felt like I was broken on the rack. 118 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 3: I'll get you some aspen. You're coming down with something, 119 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:23,959 mark my words, coming. 120 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:28,759 Speaker 1: Down with something. All right, Tomorrow, first thing, I'll take 121 00:07:28,759 --> 00:07:31,319 care of that, take care of what what I did 122 00:07:31,319 --> 00:07:34,759 to my portal dummy. Tomorrow I'll go to the professor 123 00:07:35,279 --> 00:07:37,800 and see if he can put alias together again. If 124 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,360 that what you want, never mind if it's what I 125 00:07:40,399 --> 00:07:42,839 want or not, it's what must be done. 126 00:07:43,279 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 3: So now you've made up your mind, maybe you could 127 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:45,680 sleep a little. 128 00:07:45,879 --> 00:07:49,079 Speaker 1: What I am I am too late to change about 129 00:07:49,079 --> 00:07:52,120 the dummy and me. But one thing it isn't too 130 00:07:52,199 --> 00:07:54,160 late for is a child. 131 00:07:55,079 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 3: If you all, well, what could I do with a child? 132 00:07:59,319 --> 00:08:03,600 I already have one in my arms. Sleep a little darling, sleep, 133 00:08:04,839 --> 00:08:07,519 and maybe we could find a new tomorrow. 134 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 1: I could sleep now. The pains were all still there, 135 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,959 but dull and able to be forgotten. I nestled close 136 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,639 to Sarah, and she held me close, and suddenly it 137 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:26,879 came the blessed curtain of sleep, and the wonderful feeling 138 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:30,040 that all the decisions had been made, and the future smooth, 139 00:08:30,279 --> 00:08:36,679 The way you did this to my creation. That's what 140 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:39,080 I paid for him for. He interested balance of wire 141 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,679 and joints. She gave him reality, and more than that, 142 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:44,639 the control of the eyes. The mouth had turned between 143 00:08:44,639 --> 00:08:47,840 the taste, a model of the human figure, a scarce 144 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:54,559 step below actuality. He's been destroyed, the odd belief. It's vandalism. 145 00:08:55,399 --> 00:08:58,919 It cannot be repaired. You must forgive me, Professor Manzini. 146 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,559 But my art is a lost art in yours? Maybe two? 147 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:06,559 What what you say if we live in a world 148 00:09:06,639 --> 00:09:11,440 where miracle, illusion magic are forgotten, words and symbols mean 149 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:13,840 little more than what they state, We live in a 150 00:09:13,919 --> 00:09:17,399 world where nothing that is said, no words, no statement, 151 00:09:17,519 --> 00:09:22,320 means anything at all. If you are right about our profession, 152 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:26,879 I had my dissatisfactions too. It should let me put 153 00:09:26,879 --> 00:09:30,559 it deeper into the recreation of form, the humanoid form, 154 00:09:31,039 --> 00:09:36,799 the complete replica man him, So near genus, so near? 155 00:09:37,279 --> 00:09:40,960 What are you saying? I have created a dummy? No, No, 156 00:09:41,039 --> 00:09:46,639 forget that awful word. A robot half life size, capable 157 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:53,519 of everything, movement, reaction, everything, accept actual speech. By electronic control. 158 00:09:53,759 --> 00:09:56,320 You can move this figure activated, make it sit or 159 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:01,960 stand up, end to make it speak that is beyond me. 160 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:08,240 Only a master of ventriloquism can affect that. Will you 161 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:13,039 lend your artistic talent to my mechanical genius and create 162 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:16,080 a new miracle? Need you ask? I'm I'm desperate and 163 00:10:16,279 --> 00:10:18,840 you don't have to worry any longer. Genius here has 164 00:10:18,919 --> 00:10:20,919 come with me a moment. Let me show you my 165 00:10:21,039 --> 00:10:22,120 new masterpiece? 166 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:24,559 Speaker 3: There is. 167 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 1: How do you like him? Why his face? It's the 168 00:10:33,399 --> 00:10:35,840 exact image of mind that I had to have? A model? 169 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:40,519 Who better than you? Here? Take this control? Ask him 170 00:10:40,519 --> 00:10:42,919 to get up and come to you. What do I 171 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:43,360 call him? 172 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:44,159 Speaker 3: Yeah? 173 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 1: He's he's you to the life. And it's a great title, 174 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:57,360 the great genius and uh self, Yes that's its name. Self? 175 00:10:59,799 --> 00:11:05,399 I'm famous. Will you come to me? Do you want 176 00:11:05,399 --> 00:11:09,840 me to be your master? Why don't you make it? 177 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:14,320 I'm crying to but maybe I'm out of practice. I'll 178 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:19,360 cry again. Do you know me? Will you answer me 179 00:11:19,399 --> 00:11:25,600 when I talk? If you tell me the answers? How 180 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:27,799 did you find the cargo? I just got off the 181 00:11:27,919 --> 00:11:33,080 playing and there it was. I don't know if I 182 00:11:33,279 --> 00:11:37,000 want the stumma propity elements are sensational. This is only 183 00:11:37,039 --> 00:11:40,159 a working model. Let me build you the complete dummy, 184 00:11:40,159 --> 00:11:43,799 as you'll thank me forever. I've told you, Professor, I 185 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:47,759 haven't the money here, say no, So I offer you 186 00:11:47,759 --> 00:11:52,159 a propositions. Now build you a humanoid that will walk, move, 187 00:11:52,279 --> 00:11:56,960 then jump, do anything you ask it to. That's my contribution, 188 00:11:58,159 --> 00:12:03,159 or you must provide. Is the voice that is beyond me. 189 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:08,639 We go into a simple partnership. Fifty to fifty of 190 00:12:08,759 --> 00:12:12,720 all our earns. You accept that I don't have to 191 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:16,440 put up any money to own a humanoid that moves 192 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:22,080 and acts like any other person. You will pay. Now leave, 193 00:12:22,159 --> 00:12:26,879 I must get to work. I will finish self Rivedercy 194 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:30,919 Jeneis or RIVEDERTI how I know? I will call you 195 00:12:32,279 --> 00:12:34,960 the moment she has finished. I don't know how to 196 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:43,279 thank you, Professor Mandy. Oh, yes, sometimes you need to 197 00:12:43,399 --> 00:12:47,759 thank me. No when you want to. When I'm finished 198 00:12:47,799 --> 00:12:56,399 with you, murderer assession to have killed one of my children, 199 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:02,399 that you will pay. I could have structural diad today 200 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:05,440 for what you did to one of mine. That I 201 00:13:05,639 --> 00:13:11,240 stood my hand a little while. There have other plans 202 00:13:11,399 --> 00:13:24,519 for you than just revenge, though the Professor's apparent kindness 203 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:27,440 is only a mask to hide his revenge for the 204 00:13:27,519 --> 00:13:30,720 destruction of one of his creations. But how does he 205 00:13:30,799 --> 00:13:34,600 expect to accomplish that? And what other plans does he 206 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:51,360 have in mind? I'll return shortly with that too. Then. Filoquism, 207 00:13:52,159 --> 00:13:55,200 the name is a misnomer, since its Latin roots mean 208 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:59,879 simply speaking from the belly. In actual fact, do you? 209 00:14:00,039 --> 00:14:03,759 Usion is produced by depressing the vocal cords, pulling the 210 00:14:03,879 --> 00:14:07,799 tongue inside the mouth to create words, and by keeping 211 00:14:07,879 --> 00:14:12,080 the lips from moving. Still practiced by a master, the 212 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:17,120 illusion is indistinguishable from reality, so much so that the 213 00:14:17,159 --> 00:14:20,840 great English philosopher Henry Moore was moved to say, who knows, 214 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:25,360 But some of these counterfeit ventriloquists may prove true ones, 215 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:28,840 which is another way of saying which is the dummy 216 00:14:29,519 --> 00:14:37,240 and which is the master. When I got home to 217 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,679 Sarah with the news about the new act and how 218 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:41,840 I was forward put me back in the headlines again, 219 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,679 she was less enthusiastic, and I'd hoped. Oh, I knew 220 00:14:45,759 --> 00:14:48,559 she was pleased for me, But behind the pleasure and 221 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:51,399 the love in her eyes I could censor a darkness 222 00:14:51,519 --> 00:14:53,879 or foreboding she couldn't hide. 223 00:14:54,799 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 3: I'm so glad, paid you know what a fear so 224 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:00,960 old warrior, the professor is, I thought I never forgive. 225 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:02,879 Speaker 1: You for what you've done. D a masterpiece, so did die. 226 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,200 I think this new thing is building is what saved me. Well, 227 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:07,120 what do you mean now? 228 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:10,279 Speaker 3: It is an exact retic of me, like a twin brother. 229 00:15:11,159 --> 00:15:14,240 Just as long as you'll be happy, You're not. Oh, 230 00:15:14,279 --> 00:15:17,559 I don't know, Fred, the twenty's so big, so different. 231 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,639 Speaker 1: The other little fellow is like like a child, don't Sarah. 232 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 3: I I wouldn't care if you drove a bus or 233 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:29,639 sew shoes or collected trash. At least, well, at least 234 00:15:29,679 --> 00:15:30,559 i'd have you to myself. 235 00:15:31,039 --> 00:15:33,879 Speaker 1: You've always had me, Sarah. There's never been anyone else, 236 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:35,600 no right women, I never had. 237 00:15:35,519 --> 00:15:38,279 Speaker 3: To worry about, no matter how they gathered about you. 238 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:41,799 Speaker 1: You're a very handsome man. For it, I have to 239 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:44,919 be look at what I married, the most beautiful woman 240 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:45,679 in the world. 241 00:15:45,799 --> 00:15:49,159 Speaker 3: That old lady like me. Since I first saw you, 242 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,200 there was nobody but you for me. 243 00:15:51,759 --> 00:15:53,039 Speaker 1: Now you're regretted, Oh. 244 00:15:53,159 --> 00:15:58,039 Speaker 3: Never, I It's just that I'm I'm so completely yours, 245 00:15:58,159 --> 00:16:02,679 all of me. I I wish me sometimes I could 246 00:16:02,759 --> 00:16:04,200 have you to myself the same way. 247 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: But you'll do the dummies alias any of them. They 248 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:12,919 aren't your rivals, Darling, not in any way, are you shoot? 249 00:16:13,279 --> 00:16:15,879 I raise my hand to God, Oh your Joe? Why not? 250 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:20,879 Speaker 3: Because you're only lying to him and to yourself, don't 251 00:16:20,879 --> 00:16:24,120 you see, Fred? They're all your children, the children I 252 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:25,840 never had, the children I can't share. 253 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,919 Speaker 1: Mum. Why have you stuck with me all these years? 254 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:32,159 Speaker 3: Because I love you the part of you I've had. 255 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:35,879 I wish I, oh, how I wish I could have. 256 00:16:35,919 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 1: Had all of you, Sarah. Listen, it's going to take 257 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:42,279 the professor a couple of months to finish the work 258 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,559 on myself. Sycapain can take care of all the bookings. 259 00:16:45,559 --> 00:16:47,720 I've already talked to him and he's sure we got 260 00:16:47,759 --> 00:16:50,440 a smash going. I got all the material I need, 261 00:16:50,519 --> 00:16:52,200 and Joe and Irving can be running me up some 262 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,600 topical stuff. They'll do it on spec for me. So 263 00:16:55,919 --> 00:16:59,480 why don't you and me just run away, run away 264 00:17:00,279 --> 00:17:03,240 the spot, just so we have enough. Casure can borrow 265 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:05,960 enough to make it from you to the Bahamas Mexico. 266 00:17:06,279 --> 00:17:08,519 Speaker 3: Fred, I can be packed tonight. 267 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:14,839 Speaker 1: We had nearly two months on an island in the 268 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:18,000 Caribbean where the beach from our cabin stretched as far 269 00:17:18,039 --> 00:17:21,799 as you could look from left to right. The long walks, 270 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:24,759 the swims, the fish diet, and the simple local foods 271 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,440 trimmed me down and took five years off my looks. 272 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:33,279 Most of all, the peace and a strange transformation that 273 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:37,640 was happening inside my own mind. From the beginning, I'd 274 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:42,000 always known what Sarah meant by my split personality. From 275 00:17:42,039 --> 00:17:44,119 the moment we landed on the island. I had set 276 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:48,359 myself to persuade her that it no longer existed, and 277 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:51,799 in the process I found that I no longer had 278 00:17:51,839 --> 00:17:56,759 to persuade myself it was gone. I called a professor 279 00:17:56,839 --> 00:18:00,920 only once during our long vacation, A bets a it 280 00:18:01,039 --> 00:18:06,359 fed ghost Venus sco. Mistermitch, wonderful. 281 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:09,079 Speaker 2: Self is not yet finished. 282 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:14,559 Speaker 1: Good good. I mean only that I'm enjoying the only 283 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:16,079 vacation I've ever had my life. 284 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:19,759 Speaker 2: So if you to enjoy it to the full. When 285 00:18:19,759 --> 00:18:23,880 I've completed your altery, girl, you'll have little time for play. 286 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 1: You're that optimistic. 287 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:29,839 Speaker 2: I am that optimistic. I have an instinct about these things. 288 00:18:30,799 --> 00:18:35,799 I think you will find yourself when you see your self. 289 00:18:37,279 --> 00:18:40,799 I'll send you a message soon when I'm ready, you'll come. 290 00:18:40,759 --> 00:18:45,279 Speaker 1: Straight back, sure, Professor show under the circumstances, I'm at 291 00:18:45,319 --> 00:18:56,480 your command until I hear from your Joe. Riding back 292 00:18:56,559 --> 00:18:59,599 to our each cottage. From the Nerve Pound where the phone, 293 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:02,279 I found a host of things running through my mind. 294 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,400 How happy and carefully the last week's been what they 295 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:10,880 had meant a Sorroh paramount overall was my return to 296 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:15,079 my own personal freedom, to being my own man, not 297 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:17,799 to have to depend on a fabrication of wood, steel 298 00:19:17,839 --> 00:19:20,519 and wires to which I had left half my own 299 00:19:20,599 --> 00:19:25,119 personality over which I had to split myself. It was 300 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,640 in that frame of mind I should have decided my life, 301 00:19:28,319 --> 00:19:32,480 except when I got back home the decision wasn't mine. 302 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:38,680 Oh what is it, Sarah? 303 00:19:39,319 --> 00:19:40,799 Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know what. 304 00:19:41,599 --> 00:19:42,640 Speaker 1: I'm afraid to hope. 305 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:45,759 Speaker 3: I've heard you've got to get me to the hospital. 306 00:19:45,839 --> 00:19:46,759 Speaker 1: What does it lead to now? 307 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,079 Speaker 3: Well, I think I'm making a better image for you 308 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,400 than Professor Manse, with all his skills, could ever make. 309 00:19:54,519 --> 00:20:00,519 I think I'm pregnant with our childfraid, Oh, don't anything 310 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:01,200 happened to you? 311 00:20:01,279 --> 00:20:08,839 Speaker 1: It was a wild, cryptical local airscript which hardened plane 312 00:20:08,839 --> 00:20:11,759 and on internasaus. Sarah had spent two weeks in bed 313 00:20:11,799 --> 00:20:14,720 there resting before we were allowed to return home. We 314 00:20:14,759 --> 00:20:16,880 wouldn't have left them if it hadn't been for a 315 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:26,720 flurry of phone calls. The professor hadn't finished during a 316 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:33,480 shirre comist stop any maestro, gently gently each thing to 317 00:20:33,599 --> 00:20:38,680 its own time. If you had a good vacation, you 318 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,240 look like a fellow. I just I picked up quite 319 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,640 a tan. That was your good wife, Sarah. Or she's 320 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:47,799 fine now. She didn't lose the churn. No, thank god, 321 00:20:49,079 --> 00:20:52,200 it was just an early threatened miscarriage. But we got 322 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,440 the NASA on time. And I made a decision while 323 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:59,240 you were gone. Since we're breaking convention moving into a 324 00:20:59,319 --> 00:21:04,799 new relationship, I made certain uh structural changes. All right, 325 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:07,319 what have you decide? You're the master builder and you 326 00:21:07,759 --> 00:21:10,720 the master magician. Needed both of us to create the 327 00:21:10,759 --> 00:21:20,920 illusion too, Just so long as it is illusion seniority 328 00:21:22,519 --> 00:21:27,680 m pills in the middle battle of the laid table. Yeah, 329 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:33,720 do you need water? No, t just my po glicemen 330 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:40,880 one under the tongue. I have an old heart that 331 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:45,839 has been working too long. Think you, Is there anything 332 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,599 else I can get for you? Not any more than 333 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:55,759 you will be getting me very soon. H h yeah, 334 00:21:57,759 --> 00:22:02,799 now I'm alright there you will you wish to meet 335 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,880 your old Why? Girl? You can imagine I'm dying to 336 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,000 meet the dummy, which will bring van prolocrism and me 337 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:15,680 backing up a spotlight again. They It will be the 338 00:22:15,799 --> 00:22:22,400 same as before, except that now physically he is perfect. 339 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:31,359 You will move, work, perform any physical functions except talk. 340 00:22:32,599 --> 00:22:34,599 That is where you are the creative ones. 341 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:38,440 Speaker 3: There's h. 342 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:46,920 Speaker 1: He's he's absolute perfection. How how could you tell him 343 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:52,440 from a human being? He cannot speak? Only you can 344 00:22:52,559 --> 00:22:56,920 teach him that. Uh? Teach him well, Uh, provide him 345 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:01,440 with a voice and language. Should we dress them first? 346 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,240 By all means, let us grissom and then find out 347 00:23:05,319 --> 00:23:10,519 what we have. Whereas the Bible would have said, what has. 348 00:23:10,519 --> 00:23:11,319 Speaker 3: Been brought. 349 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:19,519 Speaker 1: Together? We dressed the flexible but unresponsive body, a body 350 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:23,559 so like mine, except so much younger and more perfect. 351 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:27,480 And all the while we worked this curious stealing, whenever 352 00:23:27,519 --> 00:23:31,480 I glanced up to find myself looking at me, or 353 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,519 me looking at self. Finally, the moment was there to 354 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:42,359 animating too. Okay, this very small remote control you holding 355 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:46,000 your hand can make him do everything but speak. Let 356 00:23:46,039 --> 00:23:50,839 me show you how the control works self. Would you 357 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,279 make us both a drink and Scotch and the rocks 358 00:23:53,319 --> 00:23:59,680 for me as those cases for mister Jason. Fantastic should 359 00:23:59,839 --> 00:24:03,119 be for the fact was Altoba. This is a replica 360 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:06,880 of a human being who could tell the difference to 361 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:11,279 no one. They accept us. He needs only one more 362 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:16,200 thing to make him complete. A those he's too terrifying. 363 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,079 What right have we to invest a complete human being 364 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:24,839 with a voice. It's the oldness he lacks. No, if 365 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,279 we are to be an act, there is something also 366 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:32,200 he lacks totally a brain, the power of thought, whatever 367 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:37,119 issue from his mouth or my thoughts, my words. Think 368 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:40,720 of the magic of it all, a figure able to 369 00:24:40,759 --> 00:24:43,920 move exactly as a human engaged in a dialogue which 370 00:24:44,079 --> 00:24:49,799 you alone control. But how is an audience conscious of that? 371 00:24:50,599 --> 00:24:53,480 How do they know that there is any magic happening 372 00:24:53,519 --> 00:24:56,119 before them? Because at the end of the act, or before, 373 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,640 however you build it, you turn this figure around so 374 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,720 and you open this door, and his back like that, 375 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:09,400 and he is revealed as a robot. A messageers can 376 00:25:09,599 --> 00:25:13,839 springs the antipathies of a human a piece of machinery 377 00:25:14,039 --> 00:25:19,319 constructed of moving parts. Something nags at me and tells 378 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:21,960 me that there's a flaw in this, or you have 379 00:25:22,039 --> 00:25:25,799 a mountain of dits, how else do you repay them? 380 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:30,400 And I suppose I'm just a sentimental fool, but somehow 381 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:34,599 you you make me sound like faust. No right, this 382 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:36,440 is the only way I can dig myself out of 383 00:25:36,519 --> 00:25:40,000 debt and start a future for my child. You have 384 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,720 an act, professor Janas himself. I'll start to work it 385 00:25:43,799 --> 00:25:47,440 up immediately, and I hope it'll catch on. I know 386 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:51,000 it will. I have a feeling it will. But is 387 00:25:51,079 --> 00:25:54,279 it the success I want? I wish I could be 388 00:25:54,359 --> 00:26:05,599 sure of that. Another old time quote on Brentuilochism was 389 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:09,240 one that had an evil spirit speaking in his belly, 390 00:26:10,079 --> 00:26:14,279 but supposed by some supernatural act the reverse were true, 391 00:26:14,839 --> 00:26:19,319 that somehow the ventriloquist became the victim, and that the doll, 392 00:26:19,599 --> 00:26:22,880 the dummy, the alter ego, tipped the scales and took 393 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,519 over from him. Let's see what happens. When I returned 394 00:26:26,559 --> 00:26:41,160 with Act three, Janis himself were an instant hit. For 395 00:26:41,279 --> 00:26:43,720 two months, the act was shaped and polished, and then 396 00:26:43,759 --> 00:26:47,160 brought into New York were opened to raves. Show after 397 00:26:47,279 --> 00:26:51,480 show was designed and built around them. International offers poured 398 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,839 in the countrywide tour was planned. Only two wrists in 399 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,200 the lute. The first had to do with Professor Manzini. 400 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:05,319 It was the day I was to pick up self 401 00:27:06,079 --> 00:27:08,440 the math. Codd wanted to make a two final adjustments, 402 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,119 he said, And I had been working desperately to finally 403 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,880 come up with a voice that I hoped was completely humanoid. 404 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,319 Sarah Felder was so that my agent. I was anxious 405 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,960 to let the Professor hear it himself. But I never 406 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:28,839 had the chance. No answer. That's strange. He knew I 407 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:38,200 was coming. Why would he have gone out? Bap his heart? Professor, 408 00:27:40,079 --> 00:27:47,640 Professor Mandanny, it's me Jane's professed. He was seated in 409 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,200 his old arm chair, headlonging to one side, one hand 410 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,799 over the chair as if to receive a pellet from 411 00:27:53,799 --> 00:27:58,039 the bottle, held himself hand self himself was bent over 412 00:27:58,759 --> 00:28:01,640 folds and the active fling it out of the already 413 00:28:01,759 --> 00:28:05,279 open bottle. I took his pulse, quickly listened to his heart. 414 00:28:06,759 --> 00:28:12,079 The Professor was dead. I stooped and picked up the 415 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:18,799 control box, depressing the button. You can straighten up Nowsel 416 00:28:21,079 --> 00:28:27,640 give me the bottle. Thanks. When did he die? Of course? 417 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,880 How stupid of me? What a triumph you are that 418 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,279 I shall forget, even for a moment, at a moment 419 00:28:35,319 --> 00:28:38,240 as crucial and heartbreaking as this, that you're only a dummy? 420 00:28:39,319 --> 00:28:45,000 Isn't that right? Yes, Master, that's right. I shouldn't make 421 00:28:45,079 --> 00:28:48,680 you call me that. Do you mind? Why should I mind? 422 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:54,200 Darn't you control me? Yes? I suppose I do, except 423 00:28:54,279 --> 00:28:58,519 you seem so human and a little frightening because I'm 424 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:03,480 so much your two. Wait a minute, a lot of assist. 425 00:29:05,839 --> 00:29:09,079 Attached to this note is a copy of my will 426 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,160 that makes you the executor and sole heir to all 427 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:16,319 my possessions. May they bring you all you deserve. I 428 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,400 have done everything in my power to make sure you 429 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,839 will get everything that's coming to you. And did you 430 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:27,039 hear that self? You're all mine now, I am all your. 431 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,119 Speaker 3: Wait a minute, don't be so signity. Let me tell 432 00:29:38,119 --> 00:29:38,599 you tied. 433 00:29:38,759 --> 00:29:43,559 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Sarah, that's ale schedule. I just hope my 434 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:44,359 voice holds. 435 00:29:44,119 --> 00:29:45,759 Speaker 3: Out and I got some lemon and honey for you 436 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:46,400 can drink. 437 00:29:47,079 --> 00:29:49,759 Speaker 1: What would I do without you? Said? 438 00:29:50,599 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 3: Why don't you give it all up? 439 00:29:52,279 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 1: Who we do till the bills are paid. 440 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,519 Speaker 3: Well, not with what the professor's left. 441 00:29:56,839 --> 00:29:59,319 Speaker 1: I don't want his money. I want my own. 442 00:30:00,079 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 3: Oh what is it, honey, it's he kicked so much 443 00:30:05,039 --> 00:30:08,079 these days, regular soccer players. 444 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,960 Speaker 1: It's got to be you take care of yourself and 445 00:30:11,079 --> 00:30:14,079 don't worry about me. I don't want her have to 446 00:30:14,119 --> 00:30:15,119 stop worrying about you. 447 00:30:16,039 --> 00:30:19,440 Speaker 3: What else is that you're worried about, Freda Nothing, just 448 00:30:19,559 --> 00:30:22,400 the grind. Well, you'll tell me. If it's anything. 449 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,319 Speaker 1: Else, I'll tell your What could I ever keep from you, Sarah? 450 00:30:30,319 --> 00:30:33,440 But there were things I was keeping from Sarah. Things 451 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:38,119 I even tried to keep from myself. Something something strange 452 00:30:38,319 --> 00:30:42,000 was happening, and react sometimes I thought of blank out 453 00:30:42,039 --> 00:30:44,559 on the stage. There would be periods when I was 454 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:49,200 never sure exactly what had been said, and then there 455 00:30:49,359 --> 00:30:53,000 was a growing pressure on my throat, creating a voice 456 00:30:53,039 --> 00:30:56,200 that was unnatural for a ventriloqus, no matter how natural 457 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,799 it might be to the audience. I went to my 458 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,200 doctor about it, and you'd buy his wrist, but that 459 00:31:01,359 --> 00:31:06,160 was impossible with the contracts I had to fulfill. I 460 00:31:06,279 --> 00:31:07,720 took my problem. Mister Sarah. 461 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,759 Speaker 3: You mean he talked without you. 462 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:15,640 Speaker 1: I don't know Sarah and seeing that way, but how 463 00:31:16,279 --> 00:31:20,079 well you know the old routine? Just to take for example, 464 00:31:20,119 --> 00:31:22,440 where I say where were you born? He says in 465 00:31:22,519 --> 00:31:25,279 a hospital? And I say why, and he says, because 466 00:31:25,279 --> 00:31:27,960 I wanted to be near my mother. I've done it 467 00:31:28,039 --> 00:31:33,359 so often his change seems completely authentic. But last night, 468 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,440 the strangest thing happened like it's happened before. I think 469 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:42,039 only maybe I'm crazy. I asked the question where were 470 00:31:42,119 --> 00:31:42,480 you born? 471 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,960 Speaker 2: And he answered, oh, who cares about me? Where were 472 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:46,599 you born? 473 00:31:46,799 --> 00:31:51,119 Speaker 1: And I said in a hospital? And he said why? 474 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,880 And I said because I wanted to be near my mother. 475 00:31:54,839 --> 00:31:58,960 It's it's crazy turned upside down, top to turvy, like 476 00:31:59,119 --> 00:31:59,839 he controlled me. 477 00:32:00,039 --> 00:32:03,960 Speaker 3: I said, You've got to quick. It isn't worth it anymore. 478 00:32:04,039 --> 00:32:12,599 Speaker 1: You're killing yourself. Why didn't I listen to her? But 479 00:32:12,759 --> 00:32:14,400 there was a child to think of In the usual 480 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:18,319 obsession money. The climax came at the end of my 481 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:22,000 engagement of the music hall. These moments of blanking out 482 00:32:22,079 --> 00:32:24,519 in the middle of the actor become more and more frequent, 483 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,480 and so had the visits for the doctor for my horseness. 484 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,559 It took all my strength to go on this performance. 485 00:32:31,119 --> 00:32:33,640 Except that I knew Sarah was in the audience. I 486 00:32:33,759 --> 00:32:37,240 loaded myself with pet pills, goggled, drank coffee by the gallon, 487 00:32:37,279 --> 00:32:40,519 and made my appearance. But I was so grugged shaken 488 00:32:40,559 --> 00:32:43,400 out of myself that the performance was strictly by a 489 00:32:43,519 --> 00:32:51,319 rope routine mechanical until So, do you think that's funny? 490 00:32:51,359 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 3: Do you because I help it? 491 00:32:53,319 --> 00:32:57,599 Speaker 1: What do you mean? Do you think I think? Very wrong? Time? 492 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:02,079 You'll learn to thank for yourself. Okay, if we have 493 00:33:02,279 --> 00:33:06,519 to pretend we're doing this silly ventriloquist act, I don't 494 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,440 sit on your knee. Not so silly a thing to say. 495 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:14,119 It's like everything else I get to why not just 496 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,519 as big as I am, butt be ridiculous, not anymore 497 00:33:17,599 --> 00:33:21,279 than the rest of this act? Anyway? Why do you 498 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,680 always get to sit down and I have to stand? 499 00:33:24,119 --> 00:33:26,680 Don't get mad. I'm not the one who's crazy and 500 00:33:26,759 --> 00:33:29,079 you have to be if I sound that way, all right? 501 00:33:29,519 --> 00:33:31,519 If you want to set down them all up, come on, 502 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:36,440 thank you, daddy. Isn't it just like old times? It's 503 00:33:36,519 --> 00:33:40,160 too cunny, boy? When they're all gray skuys, What can 504 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,119 they all be? Daddy? Let them all be gray skuys. 505 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,960 What did I do with him? You make them blue? 506 00:33:46,319 --> 00:33:49,960 That's my name? Funny boy? What about your friend? Why 507 00:33:50,039 --> 00:33:50,720 in the moment. 508 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:56,039 Speaker 3: I had a trouble proposition It's something terrible and for 509 00:33:56,079 --> 00:33:59,799 a long while, so well, how could I stop a boy? 510 00:34:00,359 --> 00:34:03,319 The audience was can car behind you? I had gone 511 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,519 terribly all about me and that also seen it happens 512 00:34:06,559 --> 00:34:09,679 only in active dreams, was taking trade right up here 513 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,519 in the state, right where my high schood, making a 514 00:34:12,599 --> 00:34:15,719 school run down and seemingly powerless discount. 515 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,639 Speaker 1: And all a final unbelievable moment. Let me offer you 516 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,159 the promatic pool of what you're known from the beginning. 517 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,480 But despite the evidence of your eyes, here's and all 518 00:34:27,519 --> 00:34:30,320 the other senses that is on this stage only one 519 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:36,440 living man myself the others turn around, so the writer's 520 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,920 living war But the world has ever known are humanoid, 521 00:34:40,639 --> 00:34:44,800 complete and ever since except that here his voiceless Now 522 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:51,480 I opened the back over here, not right, not a 523 00:34:51,639 --> 00:35:00,920 human but the mechanical contrivance of human engenuity. What's the matter, Well, 524 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:06,079 this is not your n jeeves. Why don't you turn 525 00:35:06,159 --> 00:35:08,360 around and let the audience know the truth? 526 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,760 Speaker 3: Turn drumble. 527 00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:18,840 Speaker 1: Ress all bress No what then see the truth? 528 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,800 Speaker 3: The ordiance reacted is always as the door in the 529 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:30,760 dummy's back swung open. My reaction was horrifyingly difference because 530 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,880 the door that had been opened was not in the 531 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:39,360 dummy back, but for twenty years of near his life had. 532 00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:47,920 Speaker 1: Been my husband. What happened off their self? Since we 533 00:35:48,039 --> 00:35:53,719 are alone and the time is right, I will reveal 534 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:59,440 myself professor none other. I can't tell you how many 535 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,000 bodies I've used, stolen a soul from them to house 536 00:36:03,079 --> 00:36:06,880 my own, the only children ever had, and my puppets, 537 00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:11,519 my marionettes, my dummies. When you murdered Alius, I made 538 00:36:11,559 --> 00:36:14,440 up my mind to take your body and punish you 539 00:36:14,559 --> 00:36:18,639 in the process. I've had my revenge. I told you 540 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:20,760 in my will i'd make sure you got everything that 541 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:26,000 was coming to you. I think I kept my promise. 542 00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:29,079 I will not finish the curse that was laid on me. 543 00:36:29,159 --> 00:36:33,000 As quite specific, I must signed a body to occupy 544 00:36:33,199 --> 00:36:36,440 for at least ten years before I make an exchange 545 00:36:37,159 --> 00:36:41,519 or descent, whoever lasting hell. When I've taken from you 546 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:46,599 will serve you have your choice, continue as a voiceless dummy, 547 00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:52,559 or destroy yourself I couldn't tell her. What's I have 548 00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:56,920 no more use for either of you. I behave. Oh, 549 00:36:57,079 --> 00:37:01,599 missus Goldstein, you might need this. What is the control 550 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:05,199 box to make your husband move? I'll even leave you 551 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:11,239 his voice since it's become so hoarse and unpleasant. Ideal 552 00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:14,280 I've had my revain. 553 00:37:16,599 --> 00:37:17,559 Speaker 3: What am I to do with this? 554 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:19,159 Speaker 1: Fred? 555 00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:22,000 Speaker 3: Are you a roboty? Now? 556 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:26,639 Speaker 1: I was I should be, except that God is merciful 557 00:37:27,039 --> 00:37:29,639 and evil doesn't always fly him. Well, what do you mean? 558 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,960 I don't know exactly, but listen to me? 559 00:37:32,159 --> 00:37:33,840 Speaker 3: Are you sound like my friend again? 560 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,880 Speaker 1: I feel like you're old Fred again, and not so old. 561 00:37:37,639 --> 00:37:40,360 I'm aware of blood coursing through my veins. My heart 562 00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:43,639 is pumping, my brain moving and reacting. Look at me, Sarah, 563 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:45,599 Is there a door in my back? 564 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:46,000 Speaker 3: No? 565 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:51,199 Speaker 1: No, but how beyond me to explain. Except every time 566 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,480 before that ghoul stole another body. The soul was lost 567 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,920 till this time because there was already a body made 568 00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:02,239 in my image from my soul to invest Then you 569 00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,719 are my friends. Thanks to God. Even my voice is back, 570 00:38:06,119 --> 00:38:09,280 most of all my voice. That's the greatest Sireny of all. 571 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:10,320 Speaker 3: What do you mean? Garding? 572 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,840 Speaker 1: For months, I kept it from you, But now I 573 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:17,639 don't need to anymore. He self, the Professor, whatever he 574 00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,280 was or is, stole my body and left me the 575 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,760 image to dwell in now, and by so doing saved 576 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:27,320 my life and condemned himself. The body he left me 577 00:38:27,679 --> 00:38:31,000 is new and capable of long life. My body that 578 00:38:31,079 --> 00:38:34,360 he stole has less than a month to live it 579 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:45,480 has I had endurable cancer of the larynx. Oh, the 580 00:38:45,599 --> 00:38:48,719 collapse of a star and his disappearance from the stage 581 00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,920 with a three day wonder in the press, But the 582 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,760 public is sickle. Within weeks the Great Janus was out 583 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,599 of mind. Fred's in real estate, now happy to forget 584 00:38:59,679 --> 00:39:03,119 Janice the Great, and Sarah has provided a new member 585 00:39:03,199 --> 00:39:06,599 for the act, a lusty young son whose voice as 586 00:39:06,679 --> 00:39:09,679 all the range of his father's, at least in decibels, 587 00:39:10,119 --> 00:39:26,000 if not in trickery. I'll be back shortly. As for 588 00:39:26,079 --> 00:39:30,480 that mysterious and indefinable character, the Professor, whoever he was, 589 00:39:31,199 --> 00:39:33,559 his car went out of control on the Harlem River 590 00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:37,960 drive and plunged into the canal. Since he could not swim, 591 00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,440 Whether or not his life might have been saved will 592 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,840 never be answered, since by that time his larynx was 593 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:48,239 so deeply infected by the growth that strangled it he 594 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:52,960 had no voice to cry for help. Our cast included 595 00:39:53,039 --> 00:39:57,440 Victor Jury, Amsy Strickland, and Brett Morrison. The entire production 596 00:39:57,679 --> 00:40:03,599 was under the direction of Hymon Brown. And now a 597 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:09,039 preview of our next tale. Look here, mm more doubloons. 598 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:13,800 Wonder how many he's got me? Just a few, he says, 599 00:40:14,079 --> 00:40:17,000 Old Silence Back's supposed to have had thousands of 'em. 600 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,400 But even if that old room's full of them, I 601 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:22,039 wouldn't go near it with an army. He'd gotten over 602 00:40:22,159 --> 00:40:24,920 his scare, no, and I never will. That was the 603 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,760 awfulest thing I ever saw, That poor half of them 604 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,639 pulled under the water by some fang. And what it 605 00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,719 did look like what I saw it was a kind 606 00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,440 of red color around and fat, and it had the 607 00:40:38,159 --> 00:40:41,760 horns kind of sticking out in front, like uh, like feelers. 608 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,599 He ain't no such thing, Johnny back upon that Billy Lee, 609 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,320 I saw a thing, you say, The new owner's showing 610 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:51,719 up to Borrower specs so, and let me tell you 611 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,679 stay away from the leak and keep them away from 612 00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:59,039 it too. Radio Mystery Theater were sponsored in part by 613 00:40:59,199 --> 00:41:02,719 Time Magazine and Bulick Mocher Division. This is V. G. 614 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:06,199 Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for 615 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:13,320 another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.