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Speaker 3: While in Helsinki, Finland.
Speaker 2: Mister Ford will sign the treaty that came out of
the thirty five nation European Security Conference. Critics claim the
agreement gives tacit recognition to Soviet domination of Eastern Europe,
but the President insists America is giving away nothing and
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and the Advertising Council. Suicides always rate a few lines
of newsprints, but every newspaper headline the shocking and totally
unexpected death of the legendary superstar for Grennelle from an
overdose of sleeping bills. The question on everyone's mind was
had this fantastic woman taken her own life? In Los Angeles,
the medical Examiner's office was off limits to reporters seeking
the answer.
Speaker 3: One man, however, had been admitted, given a report, and
now he walks slowly down the long corridor, out of
the building and into the bright California sunshine. Mister Ducoll,
mister Duco, I have nothing to.
Speaker 5: Add to what I've already said. Now you've got me wrong.
I'm not a reporter. Eh, here's my card, Dereld Jones,
private investigator.
Speaker 3: I have no need for a private detective, but I
need you. You see, someone's hired me to look into
this death. Then I'm not the only one who feels
there's something very strange about the so called suicide.
Speaker 5: You can say my client has some doubts and who's
your client. I'll come on, mister Oh, you know that
information must be confidential. Good day, mister Jones. Oh no,
well wait a minute. Where are you going to my car?
It's in the parking lot. Okay, if that's the way
you want to play it.
Speaker 7: Have you ever thought how much better your chances are
of proving your wife didn't commit suicide if you had
some professional help.
Speaker 5: That was my introduction to mister Durell Jones. Other introductions
are in order. My name is Lawrence Duco, the man
who accompanied Jennifer Garnell through life, her only husband, but
a husband who remained so discreetly in the background throughout
her flamboyant career that only her intimates knew she was married. Nevertheless,
I loved her and I could not allow the world
to believe she'd taken the coward's way out. And so
I found myself in a quiet restaurant drinking coffee with
Durell Johns. I'd like to know why you're so sure
that Jennifer Garnell didn't come that suicide.
Speaker 3: I should know. I was married to her. We lived
the part, but we kept in touch.
Speaker 7: On give it up, Duco, You're never going to make
anyone believe you and Grnell had a close relationship. I
was under the impression you were going to be of
some help, but you're just the same as the police.
Speaker 3: I don't know why you bothered to ask me to.
Speaker 7: Talk, because I'm getting paid to do a job and
you've made a lot of waves by.
Speaker 3: Going around insisting she never would have killed herself.
Speaker 5: I'm no expert, but don't most suicides leave a note,
not all of them, but more do than don't.
Speaker 7: There was no note, a point, but not conclusive. Do
you believe in extrasensory perception? Now there's something that would
look great in my report. No hard evidence, but husband
says that his esp tells him Grennell was murdered.
Speaker 3: How about a tape recording? You have a tape proving
she was murdered, not exactly, but if you want to
come out to my house, I think you'll find it interesting. No,
where's the tape? Let me explain.
Speaker 5: I can't afford servants, so I had this telephone answering
tape and scalled, and since Jenny and I spoke frequently,
I've kept the tape recording of every phone call very clear.
Speaker 3: Ten days ago I called her. Here's the call. Here
are her words.
Speaker 10: Oh hello, it's me Jenny.
Speaker 8: Oh Larry, I'm so glad you called.
Speaker 3: You're in trouble, aren't you? Yes?
Speaker 10: Money?
Speaker 8: Oh course, can I help? I was just writing a
letter to you.
Speaker 3: You can tell me about it.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, not over the phone.
Speaker 10: You're frightened?
Speaker 3: No, what is it?
Speaker 7: Jenny?
Speaker 8: The one secret I ever kept from you, my pig
for tell me the letter I have just written to you.
It should explain enough. Goodbye, love. You were so sweet to.
Speaker 3: Call, Jenny. Don't hang up, Jenny.
Speaker 5: Now that you've heard that conversation, what do you think
I can understand why the police weren't interesting.
Speaker 3: You don't believe that she was frightened? Sure, but of
what she didn't mention anything specific.
Speaker 5: If the police and the medical examiner say that Grinnell
killed herself, I'm not about to argue with him.
Speaker 3: Well, when why did you take the case. That's the
way I earn my living.
Speaker 7: A client asks me to look into something, I look
into it. That's why I'm here. But I'm not on anybody's.
Speaker 5: Side, and I don't like to make myself look like
a fool, especially in front of the cops. I see
she said something about a letter she was writing you.
Speaker 3: Did you ever get it? No, she must have had
second thoughts after she talked to me. I never received
the letter. It was a lie.
Speaker 7: I had received the letter, but I felt that it
would have been useless to show him. His mind seemed
to be made up, and so is mine. Jenny had
said one secret she never told me. I felt that
Jenny's secretly in her past. I went to the man
with whom she'd had her longest and closest relationship, the
spectacularly successful novelist Bruce Brown. He was working at his
latest retreat, a remotely situated house on the Greek island
of Sammos.
Speaker 3: You hear about our girl. How can I help? Well?
First by telling me whether you think she committed suicidence?
Speaker 5: Hell no, That's why I hired a private detective by
the name of Durell Jones. That's my boy. Has he
been in touch, Yes, he has, and he thinks she
did it. Does that make you change your mind? But
it bothers me. Jones is good.
Speaker 3: Who would want Jenny dead? Bruce? She was scared, scared
our Jenny. Scared our Jenny. Hey, look, do I catch
a whiff of jealousy after all these years. I'm Shall
we stick to.
Speaker 5: The subject right after I tell you something, if you
don't mind, Bruce, I think it only take a minute.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 7: You know when I first met Jenny, and you know
how I fell for her. But what you don't know
is that I proposed to her. You know what she said,
Not only what she said, but how she said it.
She told you didn't have to I know the routine.
Speaker 3: She opened those violet eyes wide and in her best
angrenue voice, said, but I am married, Hella. What you
don't know is that I asked her to get a divorce.
She refused. Welcome to the club. You say she was scared?
What was scaring her? I received this letter postmarked the
day of her death. Shall I read it to you?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, let me, dear heart.
Speaker 11: There is no way you will make any sense out
of this letter. But I do not see any other way.
If one week after you receive this craziness I am
still alive, you will destroy it and forget it. If
something should happen to me, then you will make your
own decision. Yes, I am afraid of what of a
mistake I made? Back in the days of innocence, I
never told you, but now it has come back to
haunt me.
Speaker 8: But I also have another secret. I kept a diary,
A diary.
Speaker 7: Jenny, a diary like any school girl. I don't believe
that she's putting you on. I'll finished the letter and
then we'll talk.
Speaker 11: I have written both too much and not enough. But
for your own dear sake, I warn you trust no one,
no one at you.
Speaker 8: Jenny.
Speaker 7: Well, why do you think I think if this letter
had been written by anyone but Jenny, I'd say it
was a woman who was going in.
Speaker 3: But with Jenny, there's no question she was scared. And fear, well,
fear is just the wrong emotion to associate with Jenny.
If we think that way, we're not going to get anywhere.
But what do we want to get? I want to
get whoever killed her? Do you think we can? She
has the answer in her diary. Do you know where
it is? I have an idea? Excuse me, mortal, Yeah, Bruce,
this is Jones. Yes, yes, Jones. You got something on
the grounud case.
Speaker 12: Look, I'm calling to tell you that there is no case.
The name took an overdose of sleeping pills period. There
wouldn't have been any talk at all if it weren't
for her husband. He made nos just by turning up.
Very few people knew that she was still married to him.
Speaker 3: But did you talk to him?
Speaker 10: Sure?
Speaker 12: I even listened to a tape of a phone conversation
he had with her, but that just proved she was upset.
Speaker 3: Larry, did you show Jones the letter?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 10: Hell?
Speaker 12: Oh you're still there, Bruce.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, I'm still there.
Speaker 10: Oh.
Speaker 12: Look, I haven't got a single clue that points anywhere
except the suicide.
Speaker 3: Okay, you made your report.
Speaker 7: I want you to stay on the case until I
tell you to quit, or until you tell me you're quitting.
Speaker 3: Okay, you're paying.
Speaker 12: A hell of a price for what I think is
plenty of nothing.
Speaker 3: I understand. You keep pitching, and I'll keep the money coming.
Speaker 10: Bye.
Speaker 3: You heard, Larry, I heard he's convinced that suicide.
Speaker 5: I'm glad you didn't tell him about Jenny's note, But
I didn't because you didn't.
Speaker 3: And, come to think of it, why didn't you? Because
Jenny specifically wrote for me not to trust anyone, But
you've already disregarded that bit of advice. By telling me
what Bruce Brown said was true. But I hadn't told
him everything.
Speaker 5: I hadn't told him that Jenny's favorite song was Le'Veon Rose,
or that I felt Jenny was trying to tell me
something about the diary and how to locate it. That's
why I stood on the cobblestones outside Renee Pergamot's florist's
shop on the Real Cliche, just two days after I
talked with Brown. Renee's window, with its usual bounteous and
beautiful display, brought back memories. As I stood there, Renee
himself came rushing out.
Speaker 7: Mister deco, monsieur, may I express my condolences and shock
at the sennuance. When I heard, I could not believe
I know, Renee, thank you come inside. You're most welcome
on any and expected expected that, of course, if you
days ago this little package arrived from Madame I tell
us to you and marked old for arrival. There are
people who have actually died from fright. Medical testimony bears
that out. The question in our tale seems to be
can fear actually drive a person to take his own life?
Speaker 3: A large iCal answer would be some.
Speaker 7: People, But would a woman like Jennifer Grennell be driven
to this act of desperation.
Speaker 3: We'll be back with the answer right after. These messages come.
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Speaker 7: First time I can remember really going fishing with my dad.
I'm sure i'd been with him before, but the first
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Speaker 7: Now what does anyone expect to find in a florist
shop in Paris in the spring? Fresh cut flowers, certainly,
the lovely scent of burgeoning spring plants, and of course
the undertones of romance which accompany the annual springtime awakening
of the City of Light. But for Lawrence Duco, the
florist shop of Rene Pagamo might hold the answer to
a riddle, the proof that his glamorous wife did not
take her own life. How long are you staying in Palis? Mensidico?
That depends renee on what is in this package?
Speaker 3: Should let me assure you if there is any way
I can be a bit. Well, that's very fine of you, Renee.
Let me get the door for you. These are not
just words.
Speaker 8: Oh right, don't you.
Speaker 3: Mishi watch out? Well that live go Renee. But I
won't forget that. I'm even further in your death. You know,
he really might have hit me. This was almost as
if he were trying. That is a Parisian drivers for you,
happy Luco quick Jones. What are you come on? And
we're going to lose that car that almost got you?
You know you're you're talking like a man who believes
that car really tried to run me over.
Speaker 7: It's a lot easier to believe that. And you're sorry
that your wife didn't kill herself. Still, why would anyone
want to rub you out because perhaps of this package?
Damn you lost him?
Speaker 5: Now that's such a big deal about that package. It's
my wife diary complete up until the day of her death.
Do you intend to follow me wherever I go from
now on? I think you need protection to go maybe,
but I can't afford your fee.
Speaker 3: And I don't let the fee were you I'm already
being paid.
Speaker 7: Oh, our room service place is your client paying for
this too, of course, Oh yes, at two special lunches,
The Aphile of Soul and care Off of White Wine
to seven point thirty one mister Duco's room.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 7: If you've really got your hands on her diary, it
might change a lot of things. But somehow I never
thought of Grenelle as the type would keep a diary.
Speaker 3: For once we're in agreement. But here it is. Do
you recognize her writing?
Speaker 7: I don't take your word for it, but before you
start to read it, think no one, not even you,
suspected she kept a diary.
Speaker 5: Maybe there are some things she didn't want anyone, I mean,
anyone to know. Jones, you're a fool.
Speaker 7: I was married to Jennifer Grannell twenty three years, and
I knew her a lot better than anyone guessed. We're
not going to find anything in this diary she'd be
ashamed of.
Speaker 3: For years.
Speaker 5: Fell away, and memories came flooding back as I read
the entries and found myself again under the spell she'd
always cast for me.
Speaker 3: I could see her sitting in the small, cramped flat
we'd had in Paris right after our marriage. I could
smell her perfume, i'd hear her as she wrote in
the diary. I never suspected she kept.
Speaker 8: And such foolishness.
Speaker 11: Today, Mudsi, my agent who adores me, has made an
appointment for me with Anton Kraziski for the lead.
Speaker 8: In Woman from Hell. I told Larry, thinking we would laugh,
but he thinks I should go.
Speaker 11: I told him I would, but I refused to make
a fool of myself.
Speaker 3: Jenny, Jenny, your home lay.
Speaker 8: I will give you only one guess what we have
for dinner? Did you go to a small clue? It
is heaven?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 3: What about Krazuski? Did you like him? What did he say?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 11: He said I was a fat cow who would be
fine as a milkmaid. But to play the lead in
a picture as big as Woman from Hell?
Speaker 3: Are you lying? Of course I did not go.
Speaker 8: It would have only been a great waste of time.
Speaker 3: Yes, may I speak with Jennifer Glenhead who's calling?
Speaker 11: Who is.
Speaker 3: Your waste of time? Anton Krazuski, Young.
Speaker 7: Lady, you will tell me why you failed to keep
an appointment with Anton Krazuski yesterday?
Speaker 8: Nay, I have a light.
Speaker 3: Please do you want the part?
Speaker 8: Are you offering it to me?
Speaker 3: It is your light. The part can be horse, depending
depending on how much you really wanted.
Speaker 8: Why do you choose me.
Speaker 11: An unknown actress dreaming of a career, for the lead
in the most important film.
Speaker 7: Of the year, Because I have seen your might flow back,
because your insolence and your beauty are perfect for the part.
Speaker 11: Were pardon me for being slow, but I thought there
were other considerations.
Speaker 3: Only one join the Valpurgis Club.
Speaker 8: The Valpurgis Club, and what is that?
Speaker 3: A club of witches? Exactly?
Speaker 8: It was a desolate house.
Speaker 11: In the country, knt only by firelight and candles, with
weird music and people drunk, not with liquor, but with
some kind of frenzied belief in the magical power.
Speaker 3: Of the devil.
Speaker 11: As Krazuski took me through the various rooms, he watched
and then asked, perceptively.
Speaker 3: You'll find this amusing.
Speaker 7: That disappoints you not at all, But I must warn
you that this is literally playing with fire.
Speaker 3: With hell fire, a most exact description. And now I
would like you to see the altar.
Speaker 11: The altar is impressive, but I was more impressed with
the worshippers.
Speaker 8: They believed, and people who believe as deeply as they did,
can be dangerous.
Speaker 11: Krazeuski was most cordial today when I again visited his office.
Speaker 3: It is my belief that you were born a witch.
Speaker 7: I only wish to reawaken your slumbering destiny, as I'm
sure I can make the hidden fire in your eye
is burst into flame with the proper caresses.
Speaker 11: Not do, but just what plans do you have for
me in Devopurgus Club? If I should join.
Speaker 3: You will be a star.
Speaker 7: Believe me, the club has helped me in my career,
and I know.
Speaker 3: We can help you.
Speaker 11: I will do as I always have helped myself. What
I was asking was what does the club expect of me?
Speaker 3: Only to recruit members?
Speaker 8: And suppose I should fail?
Speaker 3: You fail? Unthinkable? But we are not monsters.
Speaker 7: As long as you send the membership papers and are
bound by our rules, you will find us most agreeable.
Speaker 8: And you know enough about me to know that I
like to make my own rules.
Speaker 3: Not in this game, surey, not in this game? Ever?
Speaker 8: How can I tell Harry the truth?
Speaker 11: He smugly keeps reminding me that he was right about
me getting the part a woman from hell? How I
ache to tell him about the volpourgris club.
Speaker 8: But I cannot, and.
Speaker 11: Even if I did, he would just laugh and dismiss
it as a silly joke. On Krazewski's part, I must
admit I felt the same. But there are certain things
that worry me. As for example, today, when we rehearsing
privately the scene where I shall carry you the torches.
Speaker 8: He will suffer in Hell if he allows me to
seduce him.
Speaker 13: Oh no, no, it is all wrong.
Speaker 8: And how many men have you seduce? Danton?
Speaker 7: You will listen to me, because when this man takes
you in his arms, he.
Speaker 8: Is doomed for all time.
Speaker 3: If you do not believe, how do you expect the
audience to believe?
Speaker 8: This is your picture?
Speaker 3: You are the woman I chose. A woman from Hell
would know. She would see immediately that this is a
man who.
Speaker 7: Likes to suffer, who enjoys being tortured so that he
will have the best.
Speaker 3: Of both worlds, you in this and eternal punishment in
the next. You know this, and you are amused.
Speaker 8: I am not confused. Tell me, Anton, how do you.
Speaker 3: Know all this? Don't you know? I have a hotline
directly to Hell. I do not like it.
Speaker 7: I do not like it.
Speaker 11: At all, But I cannot withdraw now, and the picture
promises to be a success. It is almost frightening the
knowledgeability that Anton shows about the workings of Hell. I
even accused him of it the other day during a
break on the set.
Speaker 7: But why should you question my knowledge of witchcraft and diabolism?
You and I belong to the same club. I am
leaping the benefits of years of research and.
Speaker 11: Your payment Anton for these benefits. How much is it
and when is it due?
Speaker 3: I will tell you, or perhaps you will know when
the picture is finished. Ah.
Speaker 11: I loathe the fidgitive men, and Anton has become extraordinarily fidgity.
He has also become a bore about other men. He
blames everything upon Hollywood and the cleague lifrinity quality of
our success.
Speaker 8: But this is nonsense, and he knows it.
Speaker 3: When are you seeing him again?
Speaker 7: You, me and Bruce, you are forgetting an obligation to
the club to which we both belong.
Speaker 8: I cannot help it if I am not a good saleswoman.
Speaker 3: Isn't that an understatement? Your record is imaccurate.
Speaker 7: Not one convert to the Valpurgiese club since you became
a member.
Speaker 11: Remember I warned you about the possibility of my failure.
Speaker 3: I remember, and now it is I afterward you.
Speaker 7: Either Bruce Brown becomes a member or you will suffer
severe consequences.
Speaker 8: They overestimate my influence on Bruce.
Speaker 7: They're not just how infatuated with you, Bruces and you
have never really believed Harry Jenny, and you won't until
it is too late. However, we have a problem we
do you mean you the club or me all of us.
You remember jacques Inefournier, of course, then you may also
remember that she was announced for the part that I
gave you A.
Speaker 3: Woman from her?
Speaker 8: Must we go through this ancient history?
Speaker 3: I am afraid we must.
Speaker 7: You see, she has heard rumors about the balpar of
this club, and she threatens to do a whole expose,
claiming you got the part through witchcraft.
Speaker 3: Letter the club does not think that would be wise.
Speaker 8: Then let the club stop her.
Speaker 3: As to what they intend to do.
Speaker 7: Fourny can be appeased with your influence. You could get
ridpat In a picture and she would be happy.
Speaker 8: I do not pay blackmail.
Speaker 7: I told him what your answer would be. But Jenny,
for your own sake, get Bruce Brown to join the coven.
Speaker 3: Hello, have you seen the night's paper?
Speaker 12: No, I thought you should know that Jacquelin Fournier met
with a tragic accident.
Speaker 3: Her car ran off Mohallnd Drive and crushed. She died
almost instantly, which, of course, is something to be thankful for.
Speaker 7: Accidents can happen anytime, anywhere, and today everyone knows what
you mean when you designate a person as accident prone.
Speaker 3: On the other hand, would we be so willing to.
Speaker 7: Say someone was accident of prone if we knew that
a coven of modern witches wanted that person dead. That
knowledge bothered even the strong minded Jennifer Grennell.
Speaker 3: I'll be back shortly with Act three.
Speaker 7: The following fable is presented to make you want to
buy a buick.
Speaker 14: As a girl, I had certain aspirations for myself that
were not quite the same as the aspirations that others
had for me. Daddy, when I grow up, I want
to be president.
Speaker 3: That's nice, honey, of what in the United States. Don't
be ridiculous, Dear. The best you can hope for is
first Lady.
Speaker 14: Even when I got older, things weren't much better.
Speaker 13: Dad.
Speaker 8: I want to go to law school and have my
own practice.
Speaker 3: But dear, wouldn't you rather go to charm school and
have a big wedding.
Speaker 8: But today a woman can do anything a man can take.
Speaker 14: The car I just bought a Buick Century, not cute,
but sporty and good looking, the kind of.
Speaker 8: Car only men are supposed to know about. When I
told my father.
Speaker 14: The Century was the only American made mid sized car
with a V six engine, he was surprised. When I
told him about the great deal I got on the Sentry,
he was impressed and said I would make somebody a
good wife. Then when I told him I was running
for Congress, he bit off the arm of his chair.
Speaker 3: Buick dedicated to the free spirit and just about everyone.
Speaker 7: Radio It's been doing nice things for you for years.
It wakes you up, It keeps you company in your car.
It fills your life with music. It fills your mind
with ideas. It informs and attains. And radio does something else.
It sells quickly, easily, creatively, efficiently. Consider that last word efficiently.
As a business man, you know how all costs, including advertising,
have been skyrocketing.
Speaker 3: You know what adflation means.
Speaker 7: A major advertising agency has just reported that line rates
for the largest metropolitan dailies in the top fifty markets
rows twelve percent over the past year.
Speaker 3: But what about radio?
Speaker 7: The same study revealed the cost for buying radio in
the top fifty markets increased only three percent. What else
can you buy today that only costs three percent more
than it did a year ago? Get radio selling for you?
Call this station will suggest ways radio can help you
fight adflation. Furnished by Radio Advertising Bureau. One of the
most famous and dramatic moments in the theater occurs in
the play Peter Pan when the actress playing that immortal
boy turns to the audience and asks them to applaud
if they believe in fairies. Invariably, the house breaks into a.
Speaker 3: Storm of applause.
Speaker 7: However, would the audience's response be the same if the
actress asked for applause.
Speaker 3: From those who believe in witches?
Speaker 7: That was precisely the problem that faced Lawrence Duco as
he tried to prove that his wife didn't commit suicide.
Her diary asked him to believe in witchcraft. Now, if
you want to waste some more time, we'll continue reading
the diary, But my advice would be for you to
burn it less than two hours ago, you were all
enthused over the chances of finding the answer to Jenny's death,
and now.
Speaker 3: You're not thinking chom.
Speaker 7: You started all this because you wanted to clear the
stigma of suicide from your wife's name, and I still do,
even if you now brand her as a believer in witchcraft,
a wheeler dealer in the occult who built her whole
career upon a deal with a coven of modern witches.
I don't see that it has to be put just
that way, and I'll make my decision when I finished reading.
Speaker 3: The whole diary. So I reopened Jenny's diary.
Speaker 5: And again found myself reliving those days when Jennifer Greno
was Hollywood's biggest star and I her husband was a
forgotten man, while her romance with America's favorite writer, Bruce Brown.
Speaker 3: Headed the list of items in every gossip column.
Speaker 8: Hello, Jenny, it's me.
Speaker 3: I'll pick you up at the usual place at nine.
Speaker 8: Oh, that is not possible, Bruce. I thought we had
gone beyond questions.
Speaker 3: I thought so too, But that was before we stopped
seeing each other. Or haven't we stopped seeing each other?
Speaker 11: More questions? I'll pick you up at night, No, not tonight,
really tomorrow.
Speaker 8: I suppose I owe you that much stuff.
Speaker 3: You don't owe me a thing, and I'll explain when
I see you tomorrow.
Speaker 11: Tomorrow will be the last time I see Bruce. It
is something I have refused to face for too long now.
But I am afraid. I believe that the Volpourgris Club
is an evil and vicious thing. If they are not
witches with supernatural powers, then they are criminals. Because I
cannot believe that Pooniar's car crash was an accident. And
I will not even talk to Bruce about joining Poor Anton.
Speaker 8: I must lie to him, or maybe not, Maybe the
truth would free him.
Speaker 3: Come in, Anton, isn't that your phone? I hearing?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 3: Why don't you answer it?
Speaker 11: You know me better than to question me. Anton, I
do what I choose. If I do not want to answer.
Speaker 7: The phone, I do not because you know very well
that was Bruce Brown calling and you did not want
to talk to him. So you have deliberately broken off
your relationship with him. And if I have, if you have,
you have done something I have never known you to
do since we met. You have broken your word, so
I have, and it is.
Speaker 11: About time you should find the courage to break yours.
Speaker 3: Also, don't talk to me your courage.
Speaker 7: You could continue to see Bruce Brown and never bring
up the question if he's joining the club, but that
way you might get into trouble if the club members
are really which is at warlocks?
Speaker 3: So you take this cowards way out and it ruins me.
Speaker 8: What can they do to you?
Speaker 3: For starters? They can take me off the picture.
Speaker 8: I will not allow them to do that. I have
already done it.
Speaker 3: Will you answer the phone?
Speaker 8: What do they expect to gain by punishing you?
Speaker 7: First discipline for the ranks. I was the one who
recruited you at that it was an error. Two they
think perhaps had a feeling for me. You will change
your mind about trying to recruit Brown ridiculous, Yes, I know,
but you will suffer too, just to wait until you
see they knew that actor.
Speaker 5: At this point I closed the diary. Jones looked at
me inquiringly. Had enough to go now? I understand what
Anton Krazuski was trying to tell me.
Speaker 3: You went to see him when as soon as I
heard he'd been taken off Jenny's picture and replaced by
Luigi Firelli. You seem to be pretty buddy. Buddy with
a lot of your wife's lovers, we had a lot
in common. Would you like to hear what happened when
I went to see Krazuski. I'm still on the case
and my report has to be written. Go ahead.
Speaker 5: Of course, you never knew Krazuski, so you wouldn't have noticed,
as I did, the changes. As I approached his house,
it used to be crowded and well lit. This night
it was empty and almost deserted. I crossed the driveway,
rapped on the door.
Speaker 3: Larry, come in. It is very nice of you to
come and see me.
Speaker 10: What happened?
Speaker 3: Why did they take you off the picture?
Speaker 7: And they said they wanted a director who would be
less dazzled by Jenny. Well, that's nonsense. Jenny's the star.
You did two great pictures with her. Nevertheless, they seem
to be logical when they chose for Ellie. Do you
know any director who is less dazzled by Jenny than Farelli?
Speaker 5: He hates her and she It almost seems as if
someone wants to ruin Jenny and her.
Speaker 7: Career and me, no, here, yeah, look inside my forearm.
Wait wait till I rule up the sleeve. Ah, tell
me what you see.
Speaker 3: Are you sure you're all right?
Speaker 7: Tell me what you see?
Speaker 3: Wow, a small scar. It's shaped like a horseshoe or
a hoof. That's right.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 3: Ask Jenny, ask her to show you hers. Oh, and
that's when I walked out on him. Did you ask
Jenny about her scarne? No, I never did. When she
broke her leg and was taken off the picture, it
completely slipped my mind.
Speaker 7: And then, well, you know what happened? Then everybody does.
Your girl couldn't get herself arrested in Hollywood. She was
finished in pictures.
Speaker 10: You don't know what that meant to.
Speaker 7: I am still interested in finding out what happened just
before she died, and I think we ought to skip
ahead in that diary and see if we can find out.
Speaker 3: Yes, you're right, let's see. Sometimes she dated entries and
other times not so. Oh. Yes, here, this one's dated
just a month ago, and here's what she says.
Speaker 8: It has happened.
Speaker 11: I suppose I should have known that someday it would happen,
but I really thought I was finished with Developolgris Club.
So many years had passed and no word from them,
and so it came as a surprise when I did here,
and in a way I never would have expected. My
agent fought and told me that Tyler Campbell wanted to
see me. I confess I felt some of the old
excitement of meeting a talented motion picture director.
Speaker 3: I've only been one of your greatest fans.
Speaker 7: Every scene in Woman from Hell is etched indelibly on
my memory. I'll quote the dialog for you if you like.
Speaker 8: Would not you be embarrassed if I said, please do.
Speaker 7: If you want my company, all you have to do
is pay for it. If you want my love, you
will pay more, a price that I advise you no.
Speaker 8: One can afford enough. I am convinced.
Speaker 7: Aha, I can't understand why a talent like yours shouldn't
still be working. Oh, I agree with you, and that's
why I've come to see you. How do you feel
about trying to come back in a film?
Speaker 3: I'le direct.
Speaker 7: Of course, I wouldn't expect a commitment until you've seen
the script.
Speaker 3: You haven't even asked what the film will be about.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was not up to that in my mind.
Speaker 3: Mmm, it's about witchcraft? H Does that turn you off?
Speaker 8: And it it is too soon to say, you know?
Speaker 3: I don't do ordinary films, Miss Grenelle. Yes I know,
and I assure you the film is well worth doing. Today.
Speaker 7: Witchcraft is in, but I intend to use it somewhat differently.
I see you as fate, beautiful, enigmatic and inescapable, interestingly good.
I promise that I shall shoot you so that even
in the cruelest close up, your scar won't show my.
Speaker 8: My scar.
Speaker 7: Don't tell me that that little mark inside your wrist
is no longer there even plastic surgery world eradicated, and
it's exactly the.
Speaker 3: Same as the one I have here behind my ear. See, yes,
I see.
Speaker 8: So this was all a trick. You are a member
of the Volporgis Club.
Speaker 7: In good standing, miss Gunnel, which is more than I
can say for you. But my offer to do a
picture with you is very real.
Speaker 8: I am not interested too fast.
Speaker 3: You make a decision before you know any of the fact.
Speaker 8: We have nothing more process you.
Speaker 3: Listen. If you think you've paid your dues in full,
you're mistaken. You betrayed us, and you betrayed your oath.
Speaker 8: I am finished with you, and with the club you
will be.
Speaker 3: I promise you.
Speaker 7: Do one small favor and you'll be a big star
again and no strings attached?
Speaker 8: How do you mean no strings?
Speaker 7: You will be allowed to resign from the Valpurgis Club,
the only member in this three hundred year history to
be given that privilege.
Speaker 8: I have already resigned. I have not been to a meeting.
Have in mind.
Speaker 7: Does not necessitate your going to a meeting. You've heard
of Jason Albright, who has not.
Speaker 8: Is the sixth or seventh richest man in the world.
Speaker 7: Did you know that Jason Albright is one of your
greatest fans. He's worshiped you for years?
Speaker 8: All nice?
Speaker 3: Jason Albright is very ill. In fact, he's terminal.
Speaker 8: Well, that is too bad. My fan club will be
reading used by one.
Speaker 7: True enough, But you can make a dying man very
happy simply by talking with him, visiting, spending a little
time with him.
Speaker 8: Are you out of your mind? Why would I?
Speaker 3: It has no heirs.
Speaker 7: His will leaves all his money to various charities. But
wills can be changed. I see, of course, simplicity itself.
Nothing for you to do except spend a little time
with Albright, be your charming.
Speaker 11: Self and persuade the old man that de Valpurgis Club
is worthier than all of his other charities put together precisely.
Speaker 3: Couldn't have put it better myself. Before you answer that,
I have a feeling it will be Jason Albright. What
we managed to get word to him that you'd be
receptive to a call?
Speaker 11: I see hell, Oh, who is this? No, No, this
is not miss Granell's. She is not at home. She
will not be in for sometime.
Speaker 8: No, I do not know. Goodbye, that Miss Grannell was
very foolish.
Speaker 7: I want you to think carefully, Think what a small
thing we're asking of you, and then consider the alternative.
Speaker 3: We can make things very definitely unpleasant for you, Miss Grannell.
Think it over.
Speaker 8: How long do I have to think?
Speaker 3: We can give you only twelve hours and then we'll
be here for your answer.
Speaker 11: What alternative do I have? I cannot go to the police,
and I will not have anything to do with the
club or its scheme. So I turn to my diary
and write, and I get an inspiration. I cannot go
to the police, but I can hire a private detective
to protect me without telling.
Speaker 8: Him why I am hiring him.
Speaker 11: And I remember I had heard of a good one.
I will call him this minute. There I feel better.
I have called, and he is on his way. I
hope he is intelligent, and that may be too much
to ask.
Speaker 8: But his name is.
Speaker 3: Am Baaduko.
Speaker 10: I know my name.
Speaker 5: You you were the detective Jenny call. I'll take that diary.
Now look closely at my wrist. You'll see the mark
that her diary described so well.
Speaker 7: And now, of course you understand why the cause of
her death must remain a suicide. Now, I know there
are some scholars in the audience who will say that
Valpurgis knocked. The Witch's Sabbath Night named after Saint Valpurgis
is a fake, and the Valpurgis Club therefore must also
be phony, for the simple reason that Saint Valpurgis was
an english woman who never committed an evil deed in
her life. I'll be back shortly with some more thoughts
on witches and witchcraft.
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This elevator is activated by your voice.
Speaker 8: I want the maternity shop at.
Speaker 10: Twelve flour once the door. Are you pregnant yes?
Speaker 8: Are you sure you're a recording?
Speaker 10: I am a recording. Have you seen a doctor yes.
Speaker 8: At the beginning of my pregnancy, and I'll see him
often doing it.
Speaker 10: I do you plan to follow his advice?
Speaker 14: Of course, I'm not going to take any medicine unless
he prescribes it.
Speaker 8: I'll get plenty of rest and do some moderate exercise.
Speaker 10: And what about your diet.
Speaker 8: I'll eat the right foods, foods that are good for
me and good for my baby.
Speaker 3: Twelve four maternity Thanks a recording.
Speaker 8: I'm talking to a recording.
Speaker 10: Remember what the March of Diners says, be good, dear
baby before.
Speaker 7: It is born. Witches and warlocks have been part of
man's history and development since the beginning of time, and
frightening demons and demonology abound in the history of civilization
and also.
Speaker 3: In man's progress.
Speaker 7: Scientists for years have solemnly announced that there are no demons.
Speaker 3: No witches.
Speaker 7: Then why do these myths persist? I think perhaps because
we need them. If they really don't exist, then we'll
invent them to answer this need. It's something to think
about till next time. Our cast included Joan Lovejoy, Norman Rose,
Mandel Kramer, Paul Hecht, and Natt Pohlan. The entire production
was under the direction of Hymen Brown and now a
preview of our next tale.
Speaker 3: How long does murder keep fresh? Forever?
Speaker 8: Even twenty years?
Speaker 3: Who's murder? He killed? A priest? A priest?
Speaker 10: Follow Jim Morgan? What have you got? What you got?
Speaker 3: You got my word that your sentence will be cut.
I made deals while you was in diapers. Now I'll
do it this way. My mouthpiece has.
Speaker 7: To meet with a da get dotted, and all the
peace get crossed.
Speaker 10: How do I know you've got anything?
Speaker 7: Only three guys know about something that could sit Mike
Perry down on a chair, Mike, Me and Pop Morrison,
and I like your couple.
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got a deal.
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from breathing possibly poisonous gas during re entry. Probably will
have no lasting lung damage. Good morning, I'm Mike Stanley
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and Deeke Slayton probably will spend at least three days
as patients at Tripler Army Hospital in Honolulu as doctors
watch for the possible development of pulmonary edema accumulation of
fluidin the lungs. First X rays, it was reported, showed
lesions in Slayton's lungs.
Speaker 3: Condition appears to have stabilized.
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generally confined to bed, but we're allowed up to telephone
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The Pentagon is withholding orders to some seven thousand US
servicemen in Turkey, pending clarification of just how severely American
use of some two dozen bases will be limited. Turkey,
angered by congressional refusal to okay resumption of American armed shipments,
ordered all activity to stop today by five pm Eastern time.
The situation is being watched carefully from Brussels, as we
hear in this report from Michael Landers. NATO is waiting
for clarification.
Speaker 15: Of just what the anchor of government has in mind,
and Alliance diplomats say what happens to the bases now
is a matter for the United States and Turkey to
work out, because the agreements covering the bases are between
Washington and Anchora and do not involve NATO directly. There
is no question that the American bases in Turkey are
vital to the Atlantic Alliance along its strategic southern flank.
They guard a common border between Turkey and the Soviet Union,
and they provide NATO with extremely valuable intelligence about Russian
military maneuvers several hundred miles inside the Soviet Union and
in the Black Seas, and the loss of those bases,
if they should be lost, would be a very serious
blow to the Alliance. Michael Landers for cbsu's Prussels.
Speaker 2: President Ford asked Congress to reconsider lifting the arms embargo
to Turkey, saying at the same time he deeply regretted
Turkey's decision to suspend American activities at the joint US
Turkish military bases. The President, delivering his thirty fifth veto,
rejected the seven point nine billion dollar Education Appropriation Act
of nineteen seventy six, noting it increased his budget proposal
by a billion and a half dollars. Mister Ford said
neither the federal budget nor the economy could afford it.
The President has a request for Capitol Hill. As outlined
by CBS News correspondent Cunny.
Speaker 16: Chun, President Ford reluctantly asked Congress for an additional three
billion dollars to continue funding the food stamp program for
the remainder of this fiscal year. In a message to Congress,
the President said he is forced to ask for the
money over the three point eight billion he requested in
his budget because the existing law quote invited almost unlimited
expansion of the program. The cost of the food stamp program,
he said, has doubled in the past six months. He
reminded members of Congress that they had rejected his proposal
submitted earlier this year, which would have required all participants
in the program to pay a proportionate share of their
total income for food stamps. He noted that his proposal
would have saved one billion dollars in fiscal year nineteen
seventy six. The President said now he must request the
additional three billion dollars, but he also asked the legislators
to change the Food Stamp Act by focusing more assistance
to those in need and by tightening eligibility and participation requirements.
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Speaker 5: It doesn't seem like it, but it's been twenty five
years since you're Brenner debut as the King of Siam
and The King and I on Broadway.
Speaker 3: Well, the King is back shaved head.
Speaker 5: At all in a musical tale of Homer's classic Odyssey.
This is Jerry Dunfey, your host for Entertainment West, heard
every Saturday over most of these CBS Radio Network stations. Tomorrow,
I'll be talking with Brenner about the origins of his
famous shaved head, his lack of vanity, and his strange
definition of work. That's entertainment West Tomorrow on the CBS
Radio Network.
Speaker 2: President Ford leaves today for a ten day visit to
five East and West europe nations. A high point of
the trip a stop in Helsinki, where he'll join with
leaders of thirty four other nations in signing a statement
of principles involving a code of conduct for the governments
of Europe and North America.
Speaker 3: Mike Stanley, CBS News.
Speaker 17: Nineteen year old Erman Rodgers Junior, a Navy sailor from Alabama,
was placed on five years probation with six months in
jail today for robbing Portland taxi.
Speaker 3: Driver Ronald Breiler.
Speaker 17: On April twenty sixth. Nineteen year old Jesse Holloway, a
sailor from North Dakota, earlier pleaded guilty of first degree
robbery in the case and was placed on five years
probation and given a one year jail sentence. The Socialist
Workers' Party has appealed to Portland Mayor Neil Goldschmid to
order Police Chief Bruce Baker to make public any intelligence
files on the party and its political candidates police have
accumulated John's tutor. Party chairman says he's convinced the police
Bureau has files on the party, the Young Socialist Alliance
and several Socialist candidates. Baker and apply to a June
seventeenth written request to inspect such files. Says it would be,
in his words, improper even to say whether the Bureau
has any intelligence files.
Speaker 3: On the party.
Speaker 17: A Portland woman who alleges she was denied a job
as a grocery checker because she is a woman, has
filed a class action discrimination suit in US federal court
in Portland against fred Meyer Incorporated. Phyllis Cohen charges fred
Meyer also denies equal promotional opportunity to women in its
food departments and other departments. A prisoner's strike at the
British Columbia Penitentiary may continue until Monday night. A prison
union committee spokesman says the strike was originally to last
two days, but the spokesman says nothing positive has taken place,
so it will continue. Prison officials say the strike, which
began Wednesday morning, has been without violence. The differences between
the Spokane School District and its fifteen hundred teachers will
be examined by an impass committee now next week. The
state Superintendent of Schools has appointed the committee to work
with the negotiators in the state's second largest school district.
A Northwest climbing team is on its way home after
failing to scale the world's second highest peak in Pakistan.
The team, headed by Jim Whitaker of Seattle, had attempted
to climb the twenty eight thousand, seven hundred foot mountain
known as K two, but twenty days of severe storm
stop the climbers from reaching the top. At last report,
the team is waiting at Skardu, about two hundred miles
north of Rowapini, for transportation home. Another cover up is
going on, and this time it's the tavern and bar
owners who aren't happy about it. A Washington Liquor Control
Board ban on topless table dancing has gone into effect.
Although one court has already upheld the regulation, the tavern
owners are preparing to appeal the ruling. The weather for Portland,
Vancouver and Vicinity sunny and hot today and Sunday high
both days ninety to ninety five. The lowes at night
will be fifty five to sixty winds northwest ten to
twenty miles per hour today. The chance of measurable rain
is near zero today and tonight. I'm Pat Callahan. That's
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