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Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. Well, our Olivia
to Havelin tribute continues. Olivia to Haveln did a lot
of radio adaptations of films her own as well as others,
and so essentially sitting there looking at all of these adaptations,
all of the great leading men she played beside, I
was having difficulty narrowing down which episodes to bring to you,
so I ask my Patreon supporters for some help, and
Gary writes in on Patreon, I would like to hear Suspicion,
and that's what we're going to bring you. Suspicion starring
Olivia to Havelnd and William Powell. The original aired eight
is September eighteenth, nineteen forty four. And let's go ahead
and take a listen.
Speaker 2: LUTs Presents Hollywood.
Speaker 3: The Lux Radio Theater brings you William Powell and Olivia
de Heavilen in Suspicion, Ladies and Gentlemen, your producer, mister
Cecil B.
Speaker 4: De Mill, Greetings from Hollywood, Ladies and gentlemen. Not long ago,
a noted editor sat down to figure out what he
called the basic elements of human interest, that is, the
things that interest people most and motivate their thoughts and actions. Love,
of course, was at the top of the list, and
close after love came feared and then curiosity. Goodnight in
the Lux Radio Theater play the KO screen hit Suspicion.
We have a mixture of these elements, two people very
much in love whose lives are shadowed by a dark
fear and bitter curiosity. And out of this combination comes
what I think you'll agree is one of the most
absorbing grammars of our time, and to do full justice
to it, we have as our stars that able master
of mystery, William Powell and the ever versatil and lovely
Olivia de haviln. In just a moment, we'll start to
satisfy your curiosity, But first, don't forget that we want
you to satisfy our curiosity on an important matter, our
tenth anniversary celebration four weeks from to day. We'd like
you to help us select the play and stars you
want to hear on that eventful date, October the sixteenth.
Write your choice on a postcard. Address it to me
at Post Office Box nine, Hollywood, twenty eight, California. Your
suggestions and your interests are what makes the Luxe Theater
a truly national institution, just as you have purchasers of
lux toilet Soap help raise this curtain for you every
Monday night, so you really get two prizes and one package,
a fine product and fine entertainment. Clocke is fighting now
at a curtain time. And here's the first act of Suspicion,
starring William Powell as Johnny and Olivia de Haviland as Lena,
with Charles Irwin as beakie, Let me go, Let me.
Speaker 5: Go, stop be a little fool.
Speaker 2: Let me go.
Speaker 4: On a hilltop overlooking the English countryside, the trees bend
low before the morning wind, smoke gray clouds weaves swiftly
across a smoke gray sky. Against the sky, I scilhouetted
the figures.
Speaker 2: Of a man and a woman. A man's arms.
Speaker 4: Are about her shoulders. She struggles wildly, frantically, then breaks
away again. His arms reach out, her hands are caught
and held as an advice.
Speaker 5: What did you think I was trying to do?
Speaker 2: Kill you?
Speaker 5: Nothing less than murder could justify such a violent self defense.
Speaker 2: Look at you?
Speaker 6: Let me go.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm just beginning to understand. You thought I was
going to kiss you, didn't you?
Speaker 6: Weren't you?
Speaker 2: Of course not.
Speaker 5: I was merely reaching around you, trying to fetch your hair.
Speaker 6: What's wrong with my hair?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm glad you asked me that. It would have
been extremely discourteous for me to bring the subject up.
Speaker 6: Are you serious?
Speaker 5: Of course I'm serious.
Speaker 6: Away, just give me the feelings. You're laughing at me.
I give you my word, what's wrong with my hair?
Speaker 5: Let me show you? I goes back away, I'm not
going to hurt you. Let me see. Yeah, this will
do it.
Speaker 7: What are you thinking of a week ago?
Speaker 6: I've never even seen you.
Speaker 5: Oh, now here we are on a Sunday morning, miss Church.
While I unbraid your hair.
Speaker 7: I think you've done enough fool in my hair.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got a mirror. You look splendid.
Speaker 7: I must be quite a novel if I contrast to
the women you're photographed with in the newspapers.
Speaker 5: Oh well, how do you like your hair? Don't screw
your face up like that. It looks like a monkey.
What do your family call you? Monkey face?
Speaker 6: I'll have to go now. I shall be late to
luncheon anyway.
Speaker 7: If my father saw me come home both late and beautiful,
you might have a stroke.
Speaker 2: Are you sure Massine isn't in her room? Button?
Speaker 6: I knocked her just before I announced that. She said
she was going to church.
Speaker 3: Oh what were you saying?
Speaker 2: Just before?
Speaker 8: My dear about Lena?
Speaker 6: I do wish she'd get married.
Speaker 2: Then, I don't believe Lena will ever marry.
Speaker 5: She's not the marrying all anyway, She's no need to worry.
There'll be enough to take care of her.
Speaker 6: I suppose you're right I'm afraid she is rather since tourish.
What's wrong with that?
Speaker 5: The Old Maid's a respectable institution, and Lena has intellect
and a fine solid character.
Speaker 6: Sorry, aren't they? Oh, Lina dear?
Speaker 5: Couldn't sit down, Lina?
Speaker 6: What kept you so long at church?
Speaker 9: Dear?
Speaker 6: I didn't go to church. I went for a walk,
a walk with a man, A man. Yes, his name's
John John Ay's gar, Tommy's Garson.
Speaker 2: How did you meet him?
Speaker 5: He's turned out so wild.
Speaker 2: Rob tom What do you mean? Well? He was turned
out of some club for cheating at cars, wasn't he?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I didn't ask him something unpleasant.
Speaker 2: Anyway, what's he doing down here?
Speaker 6: He's staying at Pen's Hayes.
Speaker 7: I shouldn't have thought Lord Midland would have had him there,
had ever been turned out of a club for cheating.
Speaker 5: Well, perhaps it is a woman. He was correspondent or something,
I believe what ought to have been correspondent?
Speaker 6: Well, anyway, I'm going to see him again this afternoon.
Speaker 2: He's calling for me.
Speaker 3: His three miss LEI.
Speaker 5: On the talentpon, Oh, thank you Bertie, Sandy.
Speaker 6: She seems quite excited.
Speaker 7: Hello, oh hello Johnny. What oh, yes, a long time ago.
When you're coming at Oh you can't? Oh, yes, of
course I understand. Yes, please write and thank you for calling. Goodbye.
Speaker 3: Hello.
Speaker 6: Yes, this is miss McClay daw a telegram. Will you
read it?
Speaker 7: Please? I will see you yes Thursday, Yes, at beaching
hunt Fall, signed Johnny.
Speaker 6: Yes, I have it.
Speaker 5: Oh, Johnny, I believe this is our lance, isn't it? Hello?
Monkey pace?
Speaker 7: Hello, Hello, monkey face, Hello Johnny.
Speaker 5: Come on, we're getting out of there?
Speaker 7: Would we come?
Speaker 2: Of course?
Speaker 5: We can't this way, monkey base, Johnny?
Speaker 6: Where are we going?
Speaker 5: What is your car?
Speaker 7: This is ridiculous, it's over there.
Speaker 5: Good? Come on? Tell me? Have you ever been kissed
the car before?
Speaker 6: Johnny?
Speaker 5: Johnny?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 6: You mustn't joke with me. I'm no good at joking.
I don't know how to flirt.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm not joking. I'm serious. Have you ever been
kissed in a car?
Speaker 6: Never?
Speaker 5: Would you like to be?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 5: Well, you're the first woman i've met who says yes
when she means yes.
Speaker 6: What do the others say?
Speaker 5: If I know anything? But yes?
Speaker 7: But they kiss you? Well?
Speaker 5: Usually?
Speaker 6: Have there been?
Speaker 5: Have there been?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 5: Monkey face?
Speaker 6: Have there been many?
Speaker 5: I'm afraid so quite a few.
Speaker 6: I've always frank with them like this.
Speaker 5: No, No, not particularly.
Speaker 6: And why are you frank with me because I'm different?
Speaker 5: No, didn't that. I'm honest because with you, I think
it's the best way to get results.
Speaker 6: Johnny, I hope I'm not saying the wrong thing.
Speaker 10: But I love you.
Speaker 5: No, you haven't said the wrong thing. Monkey Daz. I
think I'm falling in love with you too, but I
don't quite like it. That's why I stayed away from
you for a week. I was afraid of you. I
never thought it would happened like this.
Speaker 10: Nither did I.
Speaker 2: Johnny and I were married last night. We're all for
a month's hollingwoon on the continent.
Speaker 5: Please forgive me.
Speaker 2: I love him very very much.
Speaker 5: There. How do you like your new house?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: Because if you don't like it, just blame it all.
I'm mister Bailey here. You rented the house while we
were on our honeymoon. Yes, sir, even decorated the place.
But if you do like it.
Speaker 6: Oh, I adore it.
Speaker 11: I'm not about it.
Speaker 5: Oh. Well, in that case, you are talking to the
right man, because I am gauge with mister Bailey. Didn't
I mister Bailey.
Speaker 2: Quite right, missus, Oh Johnny, you're a genius. Mister. I
still have to be getting along now.
Speaker 5: So what shall I do about the bill? Oh let's
just drop it on that pretty little table on your
way out. Oh boy, yes, thank you mister, Thank you,
mister Bailey.
Speaker 7: Oh Johnny, I never dreamt I'd ever have such a
gorgeous place? Are you sure you can afford it?
Speaker 5: Look? Just press that button there on a phonograph. There
we are, I believe.
Speaker 6: Oh yes, that's a handful. What else in Venus.
Speaker 11: And Naples and Cakrie and Niche and Paris? I bet
your father, sir?
Speaker 5: Yes, oh darling, this is Oh I forgot your name?
Speaker 6: Oh yes, well the telegram for you, sir?
Speaker 5: Oh, thank you, Ethel. What do you think of ep?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 6: She seems perfect?
Speaker 5: Mmm?
Speaker 9: It isn't that news, is it?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: No? No, it's an old friend of mine, stupid follow He
wants a thousand pounds. You couldn't spare a thousand? Could
you a thousand?
Speaker 6: What does he bother for?
Speaker 5: If I know? Probably because I borrowed it from him?
Speaker 6: Borrowed it?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 5: Because I was going on her honeymoon? The loveliest girl
in the world. I wanted her to be happy.
Speaker 11: Didn't you have any money of your own?
Speaker 7: No? Not a silly but I thought I have the
im questions, john are you are you broke?
Speaker 5: Monkey face? I've been broke all my life?
Speaker 6: Why didn't you tell me?
Speaker 7: And whatever made you take this extravagant house?
Speaker 5: But I didn't think you want to live in a shack?
Cur like you going to come into plenty of money someday.
Speaker 6: Wait a minute, I can't quite get this into my head.
Were you thinking of my inheritance when you're.
Speaker 7: Oh, I don't know what to say.
Speaker 5: Oh, my darling, Really, isn't it silly to spend the
best years of our life waiting? Why not be comfortable.
Speaker 7: Now, Johnny, I'm just beginning to understand you.
Speaker 10: You're a baby.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 7: I know you didn't marry me for my money, but
my income will never pay for all this?
Speaker 5: Never Well, what about your father?
Speaker 7: Well, I couldn't possibly ask my father?
Speaker 9: Are you moving?
Speaker 6: You saw how a strange she was when she med
ed at the station.
Speaker 7: Anyway, you wouldn't actually want to live on your wife's allowance?
Speaker 5: What you do, of course not done?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 5: Then, well, I suppose that the worst comes for the worst,
and there was I know the way out of it. Well,
I suppose.
Speaker 2: I'd have to.
Speaker 5: Borrow some more.
Speaker 2: I haven't touched to the middle of yet.
Speaker 5: You ought to be good for a month or two's housekeeping.
Speaker 6: I think you must be mad.
Speaker 5: Oh, darling, Johnny, listen to me.
Speaker 6: Well, there's going to be.
Speaker 9: No more borrowing.
Speaker 5: What what else, sister to do?
Speaker 6: You've got to go to work?
Speaker 5: Yeah, work, you mean put on old clothes and go
out with a shovel. Don't be sp what do you mean.
I'm afraid you're a bit of a dream of darling.
You realize that in order to be a plumber or
carpenter or an electrician, Darling, you haven't been around.
Speaker 6: There are all sorts of jobs. Johnny.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm broad minded. Let's there's some tea and talk
it over. We can make out a list of jobs.
Might be fun. Oh who's that? It's right there behind you, Darling.
Speaker 6: Hello, oh hello mother? Oh yes, yes, it's wonderful and
most beautiful house.
Speaker 7: Would you tell father how badly I felt?
Speaker 6: Oh he is?
Speaker 7: Oh wait wait a minute till I tell Johnny, Johnny. Yeah,
father is sending his a wedding present.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 6: Mother told him how happy I looked him.
Speaker 12: Oh, I can't tell.
Speaker 6: You how much this means to me.
Speaker 2: Me too, Yes, father, yes, go on ask him when
he's sending it.
Speaker 7: It can right away by messengers.
Speaker 5: Well, invite him over for dinner, and if you can
start it in just say that. We were in the
throes of job hunting when he telephoned.
Speaker 6: Oh Johnny, really you are be dinit what father?
Speaker 7: Yes, Johnny and I were just discussing that very subject,
and he has several interesting ideas on the kind of
job he's like to do.
Speaker 6: There's a messenger from General mcleadlaw.
Speaker 7: Oh, it's just come, father, hold on bleing it in
little Yes, I think I know what it is.
Speaker 6: Oh, Johnny, you'll be thrilled in here.
Speaker 7: Oh it is.
Speaker 6: Oh, how wonderful, Johnny.
Speaker 5: Look what is the thing?
Speaker 7: It's a chair doll and a Queen Anne chair.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 6: We had them in a family before I was born.
Speaker 2: Here's another one, man, how many more?
Speaker 5: For Haven's sake?
Speaker 6: He send us both albums.
Speaker 7: Oh, Johnny, these are our first heirlooms to be handed
down to our children. And then today are children.
Speaker 5: Well that's the thing to do with them, all right?
Speaker 6: I'm not to tell him.
Speaker 7: Oh, father, you're so good too that it makes you
want to cry. Yes, you've made me very happy.
Speaker 6: Oh you've made Johnny very happy too.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 7: Wait a minute, father, he wants to say something to you. No,
I don't say something very nice. These chairs really belong
in the museum.
Speaker 5: Go on, hello, general. Yeah yeah, but really shouldn't you
have sent them to a museum? Well, naturally, we're relevant
a job. Oh yes, yes, Lena and I were just
going into that. Well, I have several excellent opportunities. I
just to see the letter from my Captain mel Bank.
You want someone to manage his estate for him. I
thought i'd take the job. Well, I'm glad you'll approved. Yes, yes,
well we'll get together soon. Good Bye, sir.
Speaker 6: That is a tip about Captain Melbury.
Speaker 5: Button wasn't listen to this letter. We'll give you an idea,
the fullest consideration. Let me know if you would like
to take the job. Yours, sincerely, George Melbank.
Speaker 6: Did you have this letter all the time?
Speaker 5: I did?
Speaker 6: Why didn't you tell me?
Speaker 5: Because dear, I have never dreamed i'd be using it
anymore than I have a dream that we'd be receiving
these two beautiful chairs.
Speaker 6: Hello, mister a'sgarth at home? Yet no man that there's
a gentleman waiting for him in the drawing room.
Speaker 8: Oh thank you, Well, i'd say, nice days.
Speaker 5: Johnny's got here.
Speaker 2: I'm three. You must be, oh Johnny, right, Yes, I am.
Speaker 5: Did he ever tell you about me?
Speaker 6: Peaky? Oh you're beaky.
Speaker 8: I haven't been driving by. I thought i'd just pop
into the cup of tea.
Speaker 6: I've had so much about you, mister twaite.
Speaker 8: Johnny told me about you too, Ran Andrewman, you'll be
racist last week. Oh but my foot into it is usual,
he said, didn't he tell you?
Speaker 6: But Johnny has a job. He could have been at
the races. Besides, he's given up, Betty.
Speaker 2: Oh he has has he? Don't you believe it? Not Johnny.
He's a great lad. He is.
Speaker 8: You mustn't mind Johnny cutting up. That's what makes some Johnny.
Speaker 2: Besides, he thinks you're a toper.
Speaker 6: Won't you sit down, mister twait? I'm sure, Johnny?
Speaker 8: Oh, something wrong?
Speaker 7: Yes, there were two chairs here this morning before I left.
Speaker 2: Chairs disappeared?
Speaker 6: Have they yes?
Speaker 5: Were they expensive?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 6: They were museum pieces.
Speaker 2: Johnny he'll be the death of me. Don't you understand?
Speaker 6: No, I don't.
Speaker 5: I bet you twenty to one.
Speaker 2: Old Johnny has sold them, so them what for the money?
Speaker 8: Of course, Tello's got a past racing gets, hasn't he
at these bookies? Don't trusted chap for long?
Speaker 2: Not a chap like Johnny, that is.
Speaker 6: I don't believe you. I don't believe a word you say.
Speaker 8: Put my foot in again, have I I do? You
mustn't take it so serious for all its Johnny, wonderful
chair Johnny.
Speaker 6: He couldn't have sold him. He wouldn't without asking me.
Speaker 2: He's not a home metal Yes, sir, here he comes now.
Speaker 8: Don't tell them a word I've said. But if you
want to see Johnny is very best you just say
something about chairs.
Speaker 2: Ricky, Johnny, how I'll be fair fine?
Speaker 5: What are you doing here?
Speaker 2: Just pump, didn't see you?
Speaker 5: Old bye, good, good well, ipent to the monkey face.
What's the matter, darling?
Speaker 6: Nothing by you?
Speaker 8: Sure your wife seems to be missing some chairs?
Speaker 4: Oh boy?
Speaker 5: Uh, Vicky your pipe snap, lip, Let me give you
a match?
Speaker 4: Thanks boy?
Speaker 8: About those chairs, old bean? Huh the missing chairs, old man?
Speaker 5: Oh yes, yes, the chairs? Well I suppose that American
must have come for them this morning.
Speaker 11: What Americans?
Speaker 2: Oh didn't I tell you?
Speaker 5: Darling?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Stupid about me? Well, he dropped by about a week ago,
friend of Meilbanks.
Speaker 2: Go on, old man.
Speaker 5: Anyway, he admired the chairs, offered a hundred apiece for them.
Anybody would take that?
Speaker 6: I wouldn't.
Speaker 5: Oh wouldn't you really do? Or has that never occurred
to me?
Speaker 6: Why didn't you mention it?
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, darling, I thought I did.
Speaker 7: Oh that's all right, they're gone, They're gone, They're gone,
all right?
Speaker 6: Shall we change for dinner?
Speaker 5: You're an angel?
Speaker 2: Hold on a minute.
Speaker 6: You say he offered you aroun under the peace room.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 2: Let's have a look at the check. Oh, he'll send
it along.
Speaker 8: I'll bet you ten pounds were shilling you wouldn't dare?
Speaker 5: Let your right pick up the telephone and.
Speaker 8: Arsen Old mel Bank or or whatever his name is,
if he ever saw his American?
Speaker 7: Are you implying that my husband is a lion?
Speaker 5: Mister kweit Ah, now, monkey face, don't mind speeky. He's
only joking.
Speaker 6: Well, I prefer jokes on other subjects. Are you staying
for dinners to kweit dinner.
Speaker 8: I'm spending the weekend unless you throw me out.
Speaker 13: Johnny's friends are always welcome, as long as they remain
Johnny's friends.
Speaker 3: Mister Dean ill and are stars William Powell and Olivia
de Heavilyn will be back with K two of Suspicion Now.
Libby Collins, our Hollywood reporter, tell us, Libby, what's the latest.
Speaker 9: Hat, mister Kennedy.
Speaker 6: Hat something new and quite different than hat?
Speaker 3: You mean, the wind blown, heckless Vogue.
Speaker 2: Is out, Libby.
Speaker 12: It will be when women try on these news styles
chokes they call them, with their clothes fitting trimmings of
flowers or steadies, or they're so utterly feminine.
Speaker 9: No woman can resist them, and no man either.
Speaker 3: I might if that's a top you're wearing right now, Libby,
I believe you.
Speaker 6: Oh I thank you, mister Kennedy.
Speaker 12: You know styles are going to be very soft and
feminine this year, frills and food through out of Vogue.
Irene Don, one of the loveliest and best jest stars
in Hollywood, has one of these little tope.
Speaker 3: Seems to me, Lemy, that kind of had is bound
to be a winner. If it's combined with a soft,
lovely complexion, a real lux complexion.
Speaker 6: I should say so. In fact, this kind of had
is artful.
Speaker 12: It's actually designed to set off a nice complexion.
Speaker 3: Well, Libby, Hollywood stars like Irene done No just how
to keep their skin soft and smooth. With daily Lux
Toilets officials, they can be sure their precious complexions get gentle,
cherish and care.
Speaker 6: Yes, those facials are quick and easy, but so effective.
Speaker 3: Lovely lux complexions everywhere are proof of that, Libby, and
I'd like to point out that recent tests of luxAB
facials showed that actually three out of four complexions improved
in a short time. So here's a Hollywood tip for
skin that's truly feminine, soft and appealing. Why not use
this gentle soap recommended by nine out of ten famous
screen stars. You'll find it's a beauticare that really works.
If ever, your dealer happens to be out of stock
due to wartime conditions, you'll surely have more soon. Remember
Lux Toilet.
Speaker 5: Soap is worth waiting for.
Speaker 3: And now mister Banil returns to the Microphone act too.
Speaker 4: Of Suspicion, starring William Powell as Johnny and Olivia de
Haviland as Lina with Charles Erwin as Viki. A week
has passed, but in Lena's mind there is still a
dim shadow of doubt, a faint, indefinable fear, the dawning
of suspicion. Now on the quiet main street of the town,
she meets the local celebrity, a writer of mystery stars.
Speaker 9: Lena.
Speaker 5: Dear.
Speaker 7: Oh, hello, Isabelle.
Speaker 6: I've just been admiring your display in the.
Speaker 7: Bookshelf room the footbridge. Yes, they're doing very well by it.
How's Johnny, Oh, he's fine.
Speaker 6: He's not an admirer of yours. I don't believe there's
one of your stories he hasn't read.
Speaker 9: Blended.
Speaker 7: By the way, here is the intel Brooks window, the
antique shot not lately. Well, my dear, they've got the
bost beautiful things through lovely old Queen Anne chairs.
Speaker 6: I'd give my soul to omen chairs.
Speaker 2: Lovely.
Speaker 9: But goodbye, dear.
Speaker 7: I think you put dinner food.
Speaker 11: Yes, of course.
Speaker 6: I'll go you leaders.
Speaker 2: Cheers. Hello girl, that's so soon.
Speaker 6: Vicky, I owe you an apology.
Speaker 2: Good I mean for Paul.
Speaker 6: I'll explain to you later.
Speaker 8: You should do the raw on the collar must be
about old Johnny.
Speaker 5: Idea.
Speaker 8: You mustn't be angry with Johnny, so waste his time now.
Speaker 5: If you want to get solved with me, that's different.
Speaker 8: I annoy everybody always, did you know?
Speaker 2: Vicky? What are you?
Speaker 7: Hello?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 5: I don't move either of you. I must watch the
expressions on your faces. So when you've got those peggages
O being piggie, this is a red letter day, Meana.
Look do you remember that little necklace you admired in
Regent Street? Yeah? Well, and Bickie is a little present
for you followers.
Speaker 4: Is ob oh sick darling?
Speaker 2: Do you remember this coat?
Speaker 5: I saw the hungry eye you gave it the last
time we were up in London. It's yours? Well, what
do you say, Johnny?
Speaker 6: I don't understand what made you do all this?
Speaker 5: Oh no, dear, don't be angry Johnny.
Speaker 6: I want to know what this is all about?
Speaker 2: What should the whole borrow be?
Speaker 5: Where of my friends? I have the pleasure of announcing
that the Goodwood Couples run today. And I happened to
look back the winner a ten to one shot ladies
and gentlemen, and I had two hundred pounds on him.
Speaker 2: Two hundred pounds at ten to one. That's two thousand quid.
Speaker 5: Darling, what's happened your tongue? I suppose you disapprove of
my betty. Now, come on, Darling.
Speaker 6: Smile, Johnny. Where did you get the two hundred pounds?
Speaker 2: Shall girl?
Speaker 8: That's not a day that question.
Speaker 6: Where did you get it?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: You know very well there was no American I got
it for the chairs.
Speaker 6: Of course, you sow the chairs to gamble all your
money on a horse.
Speaker 5: Well, not exactly. I owed the bookie some money. I
got the two.
Speaker 2: Hundred pounds to free them off.
Speaker 5: But then along came this hot tip. God, Darling, give
us a smile.
Speaker 4: Come on, old girl.
Speaker 8: Oh I know you take your chin and I'll make
a noise like a duck.
Speaker 5: No, no good, biggie, no good, no. Oh, I forgot something, darling.
Look this is a receipt from a certain antique shop.
Hey didn't fall for a certain pair of chairs. They'll
deliver within the hour. Oh, Johnny, there she's smiling.
Speaker 8: I jo so she is, Johnny, he's done, old b
I say, what about celebrating?
Speaker 5: Trust Vickie to say the right thing at the right time.
Look at me, darling happy.
Speaker 2: Yes, got you here, Arlia, this is yours ott girl,
Thank you, Bete, here's yours old being now for a turk.
Speaker 5: So wait a minute, bekie, what are you drinking? Brandon
or justice? Ob Oh you know that's not good for you.
Oh well maybe just this once, oh monkey face, I
drink to the last bet that will ever be made
by Johnny. A's good last. That old be bottoms up?
Speaker 2: Eh, y with him?
Speaker 6: Johnny gets somewhere.
Speaker 5: It won't help. That scene has happened before. That's nothing
much you're gonna do about it. His color, He can't
you sing. It will either kill him or it'll go
away by itself. Sorry, old One of these days it
will kill him.
Speaker 6: Oh, good afternoon, missus a's got good afternoon? Is my
husband in his office? Mister A's god?
Speaker 9: Why no? When you expect him? Well, I really couldn't say.
Speaker 6: Perhaps you'd like to talk to Captain Neilback.
Speaker 7: Yes, I would very much please this way, missus as
to see you, sir.
Speaker 5: Oh, come in, This is a GoF what a pleasure
to see you.
Speaker 6: Good afternoon, Captain Neilbeck.
Speaker 5: Do sit done?
Speaker 11: Thank you?
Speaker 7: Captain Elberck. I don't want him pose on you. But
you're Johnny's cousin as well as his employer. I thought
i'd come in and see you.
Speaker 3: Of course, I've been feeling very badly about Johnny ever since.
Speaker 5: I had to discharge him this charge.
Speaker 2: Don't worry missus aasgarf.
Speaker 5: I told him I wouldn't prosecute. I don't understand I
told him I wouldn't prosecute.
Speaker 6: What on earth are you talking about? When did you
discharge him?
Speaker 5: Six weeks ago?
Speaker 4: We had an unexpected audit.
Speaker 2: You can't show the deficit of two.
Speaker 3: Thousand pounds when I looked into Johnny's records.
Speaker 2: I'm terribly sorry, missus A's garth.
Speaker 5: He should have told me.
Speaker 11: Johnny, I am leaving you.
Speaker 6: It is very.
Speaker 7: Important that we never see each other again.
Speaker 5: Yes, that told me. She packed your grips.
Speaker 6: Yes, and you've heard, Yes, I've heard.
Speaker 5: I'm so sorry, Darling, terribly sorry. This telegram just came
from the doctor. Tells what happened.
Speaker 9: Telegram, deeply regret.
Speaker 5: Your father died earlier this morning in heart failure. Your
mother wishes you could come at once.
Speaker 9: Oh enough, a little.
Speaker 5: One nasty week for you. I'd be glad to get
your home men, you ever have any regrets you married me?
Speaker 6: Why do you ask?
Speaker 2: S Well?
Speaker 5: I was thinking of the will. Seems pretty obvious that
your father would have left you a lot more than
his portious if you've than anybody else with missus? John
as Good?
Speaker 6: Oh that's what you meant.
Speaker 5: You have an answer my question?
Speaker 6: What about you? Have you any regrets?
Speaker 5: Want your face? Marrying you is the one thing I've
never changed my mind about.
Speaker 6: Do you really mean that, Johnny?
Speaker 5: Yes, I really mean that. I want nothing but to
spend the rest of my life with you. If you
were to die.
Speaker 2: First, I would die first.
Speaker 5: Well, listen, what about you?
Speaker 6: I couldn't stop loving you if I tried?
Speaker 5: Have you tried?
Speaker 2: Yes? Once?
Speaker 7: When and I found out you lost your job with
Captain Elbeck.
Speaker 6: How long do you know since last Friday? Who told
you Captain Neilbert? I met him?
Speaker 2: Did he tell you?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: I suppose you tell me?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 5: Oh? Well, we just didn't get along.
Speaker 2: I say, it's quite nice here shall we stop at at.
Speaker 5: To see hell? Yeah? Quite a drop off this cliff,
wouldn't it.
Speaker 6: Why didn't you get along with Captain Mailbrick?
Speaker 5: Oh? I don't know. He's a been an old folly,
you know, monkey face. I have always had the notion
that the secret of success is the start at the top.
A way to make money is to think in a
big way. Look at all this land, for instance, Look
at the view of these cliffs, and why isn't something
done about it? By ten thousand pounds or still about
a twenty thousand, I could start a development here?
Speaker 9: Or didn't he just twenty thousand pounds?
Speaker 5: Huh? What's sday like? Ten thousand? Would thirty thousand pounds?
That's all I need?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: You can save their old name of course?
Speaker 5: Now are you see, Biki?
Speaker 8: This is the ground plan, wonderful old I need to
put a large hotel up there on the cliff there.
Speaker 5: That's the idea.
Speaker 6: Hello, what's going on in here, pokey face?
Speaker 5: We're organizing a real estate company. We're about to buy
a very beautiful piece of land right by the sea.
What of you?
Speaker 2: What? Sun? What?
Speaker 5: Then we sell pop the profit?
Speaker 6: I see?
Speaker 7: But you you'll need financing for all this?
Speaker 9: Of course?
Speaker 6: Well have you found someone to put up the money?
Speaker 4: Of cause?
Speaker 9: Who me?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 6: I see?
Speaker 5: Well the idea is mine, but the money is Beakie's
and the corporation. Well, the beaky borrows against some securities
as in Paris our the company is going to be
in my name, Yes, darling, let me show you how
simple it is.
Speaker 6: Does Beckie understand it?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Perfectly, I think I bet your part, mister, Yes, I'll
want it on the proof. Oh, thank you, Edel, excuse me, Beckey, all.
Speaker 6: Right, n man, Now, Vickie please explain it to me,
will you?
Speaker 2: Will you see my dear girl, will you see me?
Speaker 8: We buy up this land, then we sell a part
that gives us one hundred percent profit, then on the
other part we build something or other.
Speaker 7: Oh yes, but from whom you buy the land to
whom you sell it?
Speaker 5: WHOA? That shouldn't be difficult, do.
Speaker 8: You think, Vicky?
Speaker 6: Isn't it about time you grew up?
Speaker 2: I say you're scolding?
Speaker 6: Yes, you need a scolding? You are, Yes, you do?
Speaker 8: Shall I go and stand in the corner?
Speaker 6: Viki, you're not being fair to Johnny, I sell.
Speaker 8: That's a bit thick. You know why he's the president
of the whole very thing. Jake gets your cellary, writes
his own chick.
Speaker 6: Yes, that's what I mean. What's wrong about this?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 8: What is wrong about well, Lena, I sall Ben, Lina
tell me a little bit soft in my head?
Speaker 2: Is that it? When it sounded like that to me?
Speaker 5: Becky, haven't you got to be changing for dinner?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Ben?
Speaker 5: I won't be a what might have you to interfere
in my affairs?
Speaker 9: But I wasn't really, I was only you don't know what?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 7: I was only trying to tell VICKI that he shouldn't
need everything to you.
Speaker 6: It's it's not as if you were both experienced businessman.
Speaker 5: What double do you know about business?
Speaker 11: Very little?
Speaker 5: I only taking me seriously.
Speaker 2: You ruined the whole scheme. You realize that.
Speaker 6: Yes, but if it weren't good, well, that's my business,
not yours.
Speaker 5: If I say it's good, it's good. But I don't
want anything in appearance from you or anyone else.
Speaker 6: The clear, Yes, that's clear.
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 9: Who is it?
Speaker 6: Yes? Johnny?
Speaker 5: Well, I thought you might like to know. I'm calling
off the real estate plan.
Speaker 6: Why what happened?
Speaker 2: Oh? I don't know.
Speaker 5: Pers the land isn't any good. Oh, perhaps I don't
like the idea of risking Peeky's money. Or perhaps it's
a stiff job and I'm too lazy.
Speaker 8: I don't know what it is, but every time I
play on the grams, I can only make three letter words.
Speaker 2: G O you b g O you be no words?
Try this g O you b T doubt thank you,
old girl. Your turn, Dear Johnny. I don't see why
you want to call off this real estate scheme.
Speaker 5: It's no good.
Speaker 8: The corporation's phone ball ready, the management put up the name.
Speaker 5: Old boy, the deals off speak.
Speaker 2: Why do we have to drive all the way up
there to look at it?
Speaker 5: Well, I won't be responsible for calling this scheme off
without first proving to you it's no good. We're going
up there early tomorrow morning and take a look. Why
are you so, sister, Because as I told you, I won't.
Speaker 2: Be responsible old boy.
Speaker 4: What's the word you got there?
Speaker 8: Elina?
Speaker 2: And you l d e r Oh?
Speaker 11: This word is there?
Speaker 8: Try the R instead of the al murder, that's better, murder, Johnny.
Speaker 2: I don't like going up there in the morning. Why
do we have to go too early?
Speaker 5: Nahki oh, well.
Speaker 6: We have to lit it on the gate money. I say, Lena,
here to the clip, say web, Lena, I say, you'll.
Speaker 4: Put you on.
Speaker 6: He'll call you murder murder.
Speaker 5: Nina what's the matter, Nina, give me your hand here,
she's fainted.
Speaker 6: What time did miss as God leave by? About seven?
Speaker 14: Man and mister Thwaite went with him.
Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am, why didn't you wake me? Well, mister A's
God said not to disturb you. What car do they use? Well, ma'am,
I don't what car? Which one?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 6: That's mister A's God, now, ma'am.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 6: He's come back.
Speaker 2: Johnny eating better?
Speaker 5: That's the matter. You're white as a sheet, well.
Speaker 6: Speaking?
Speaker 13: What?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Go hi? Feeling any better? What is it?
Speaker 6: Oh, Johnny, I'm too glad?
Speaker 5: Well, what's all this? I won't have been away a
few hours?
Speaker 11: It seems like a town to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like that to me too.
Speaker 5: No, shut up, it was nothing nothing. I came by
and to.
Speaker 2: Lose my life. You call it nothing?
Speaker 6: You nearly lost your life, came very close to it.
Speaker 5: Let's drop the subject.
Speaker 14: No, go on, Vikie, I want to hear about it.
Speaker 5: Whoa very well?
Speaker 8: On top of the cliff, I was trying to turn.
Speaker 2: My car near the edge.
Speaker 6: Johnny in the car?
Speaker 4: No, it was a few feet away.
Speaker 2: Go on, Well, I didn't realize I was back in
the car.
Speaker 8: Toward the dead, but I was, And if old Johnny
hadn't taken a fly and leap and grabbed the break,
I should have been Kingdom.
Speaker 6: Come by now, Johnny saved your life. Oh Johnny, I
can ever tell.
Speaker 7: You what this means to me?
Speaker 2: You donnie, Yes, it means a good bit to me too.
I think the old fellow deserves reward.
Speaker 8: How about a night out sports?
Speaker 5: Shall bring on me, old bee? Oh well, I was
very kind of you, bikie. But don't you have to
go to Paris?
Speaker 8: Paris fish fish of course, So I do my securities.
I've got to go over there and kench the arrangements form.
Speaker 2: Why don't you come up with me?
Speaker 5: Oh all right? The cat seems to forget I'm a
married man. Say, I'll tell you what I might do, Biggie.
I might drive up, drive up as far as London
with you. How about that monkey vase?
Speaker 8: Yes, maggy vas, I mean no, Lina, you let me come.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 5: It seems to me that, yes, I know a job. Well,
it seems to me that I'll have much more chance
of getting a job in London than I would around here.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course he would do.
Speaker 4: Let him.
Speaker 2: Lina, Well, I.
Speaker 6: Don't see very well how I can stop good?
Speaker 11: Yes, ethel They have an.
Speaker 6: Inspector Hudson in the hall, ma'am. He wants to see
mister Ascar showing you a nettle. Very good man. Will
you come this way?
Speaker 4: Thank you?
Speaker 2: Yes, by name's Hodge and Inspector Hodgeon from the County Police.
How do you do I understand your.
Speaker 6: Husband's not in man, No, he's been up in London
for two days.
Speaker 2: Or perhaps you might be able to help him. Yes,
of course I believe you know a mister Thwaite.
Speaker 6: Yes, he's a close friend of my husband.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know how to put it quite Perhaps
it would be easier if I showed you this in
this afternoon's paper.
Speaker 6: Right here, man englishman found dead.
Speaker 7: An Englishman met with a mysterious death in.
Speaker 6: A house in Paris is believed to be mister Gordon Carkan's.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry I have to do this, man, but we're
making inquiries for the Paris police. They found some papers
on mister Thwaite's person which indicates he just formed the
corporation with your husband.
Speaker 7: But what did the French police think caused the death?
Speaker 2: Well, this is a copy of a telegram that we
received from Paris. Great visited the place.
Speaker 3: In the company of another Englishman, I will Fwight ordered
a bottle of brandy.
Speaker 2: According to one of the waiters, Twite's companion asked for
the brandy to be served in large beakers. Apparently as
a result of a bit between the two men, Sweit
filled one of these beakers to the brim and drank
it all. The other man was not present when the
actual tragedy happened. I'm sorry, man, but do you or
your husband happened to nerve any friend of mister Twaits
who might have been there with him. No, then perhaps
you could enlighten us about this corporation.
Speaker 9: Yes, I believe I can.
Speaker 7: My husband had planned a real estate development with him.
Mister Thwaite had gone to Paris to deserve the corporation.
Speaker 5: Thank you, ma'am. That's all.
Speaker 2: Good day, Good day.
Speaker 15: Hello O God's Club, ye speakers, today's guard things.
Speaker 6: He left the twins yesterday morning.
Speaker 11: No, no, it doesn't matter, thank you, because.
Speaker 3: Now for faith and identification, listen is CBS they Columbia
Broadcasting System. In a few minutes, mister de Mille and
our stars William Powell and Olivia de Haviland will return
and Act three of Now here's a very reasonable question
from an American housewife.
Speaker 16: Now that it seems likely the war in Europe may
soon come to an end, why should I keep on
saving my used cooking fat?
Speaker 3: Why missus America? Because the need is still critical, perhaps
more critical than ever.
Speaker 16: But will fats be needed as urgently to manufacture war
materials and medicines to send abroad.
Speaker 3: After Germany's defeat. There's still Japan, remember this too. The
Jets still have the fat. They hold the countries from
which we used to import about one billion pounds of
fats and oils each year.
Speaker 6: A billion pounds.
Speaker 11: That's a lot of fat.
Speaker 3: It is indeed enough to help manufacture the supplies of ammunition, medicines, parachutes,
and other war materials that must keep on going to
our fighting men abroad. Remember till our domestic production of
fats is short, it has had to fall off during
the war.
Speaker 16: Well, I guess I'd better keep that salvage tin handy
on the stove, just as I've been doing.
Speaker 3: You're doing a necessary patriotic service when you continue to
save every drop of used kitchen fats and turn them
in to your butcher. Every bit you throw away, nay,
deprive one of our men of some vital thing he needs.
Speaker 2: The war isn't over.
Speaker 3: Till our boys come home. We need to keep on
doing everything we can to get them home sooner. Fats
are essential materials of war. Don't waste them. Save them
every day, turn them into your butcher. Remember he still
gives you four cents a pounds and two red ration
points for every pound you turn in. That's the message
your government sends you. Here's what mister Lee Marshall, director
of Distribution War Food Administration, tells you. Saving used fats
is not a glamorous task. It takes effort, but it
is one that only you, the American housewife, can perform
for the country. We ask you to continue the wonderful
job you are doing to help speed final victory. And now,
mister de mill returns to the microphone.
Speaker 4: When the prayers are where we hope you will join
us behind the scenes for an informal chat for our stars.
Now here's Act three of Suspicion, starring William Powell as
Johnny and Olivia de Haviland as Lina. Lena's mind. The
sharp sting of suspicion has given way to the dull,
sickening ache of certain day. Certain day to her husband
is a murderer.
Speaker 2: Returning to the house, he stands.
Speaker 4: Framed in the doorway, looking at her. She turns toward
him with fear.
Speaker 5: In her eyes. You've read about Beakie, Heather. I was
terribly fond of Bikie, were you. Yes? I love that sully,
generous and good hearted fool.
Speaker 6: Did you?
Speaker 5: Of course I did? Next to you. I loved him
more than anybody in the world.
Speaker 6: Next to me.
Speaker 5: Oh, poor monkey face here, I am thinking only of
myself for forgetting about you. You like him too, didn't you?
Speaker 6: I like him very much. The police were here, What
do they want? They wanted you to help them. They
had a telegram from Paris, and it seems to was
an Englishman who made it.
Speaker 5: Yes, the whole story was in the late edition. What else?
Speaker 7: The inspector wants you to phone him? Thought perhaps you
could help identify this englishman.
Speaker 5: What did you tell them? Did you mention the corporation?
Speaker 6: Naturally? I told him that he was planning to dissolve it.
Speaker 5: I wish you left all that to me. Hello, which
the police station. Please, What else did you tell them?
Speaker 7: That's about all?
Speaker 5: Hello, Hello, inspector, this is John Asgott. Yes, well I
drove up to London with him Jues evening. Yes, I
saw him off at Croydon Airport. No no, I stayed
in London until this afternoon at my clubana.
Speaker 9: How nice to see to dolve this.
Speaker 6: Here's Abel.
Speaker 7: You know, I couldn't put my light out until three
this morning. I was so interested in your last book
I had to come over and talk.
Speaker 6: To you about it.
Speaker 9: That's the nicest complement I have forgot.
Speaker 14: I was completely fascinated by the way you are.
Speaker 6: Villain enticed his victim.
Speaker 7: Across the footbridge, knowing that the bridge had been sown through, and.
Speaker 9: He also knew his victim couldn't swim. Don't forget that.
Speaker 6: Well, what I want to know is this, Would you
call that an actual murder?
Speaker 9: From a moral standpoint, there's no question at all.
Speaker 6: It is murden, I suppose it is.
Speaker 9: What does Johnny think?
Speaker 6: Johnny? Oh, I haven't discussed it for him. Why I
think he'd be interruted.
Speaker 7: The same situation with his brand is in Paris, the
same well that Brandy business is just like my footbridge.
Speaker 9: By the way, this branded thing isn't new at all.
Speaker 6: You know it's been done before.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, and in real life too. I haven't here
a book called the Trial of Richard Palmer.
Speaker 2: A will that book?
Speaker 9: The Trial of Oh?
Speaker 3: I remember what it is?
Speaker 7: It's in your house, my house, yes, John, they borrowed
it a week ago.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 6: Oh, may I speak to mister raise Gard Please, he
isn't in. This is missus Asta speaking.
Speaker 13: Well, this is the Garandar's Life Insurance Company.
Speaker 6: Yes, would you tell mister raise Gard has been a second.
Speaker 5: We've written him fully and he should.
Speaker 17: Get our letter in the morning.
Speaker 14: Dear sir, replying to your inquiry regarding a loan of
fire policy, we regret that such a loan cannot be granted.
According to the terms of the policy. Payments can only
be made in the event of your wife said, if you.
Speaker 5: Can let this for me?
Speaker 2: What's the mother?
Speaker 8: Nothing?
Speaker 5: Well, you're not sugaring, are you?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 6: I have a bit of a chill.
Speaker 5: It's cold and all this sunshine all my poor little
shivering baby. How do you feel now?
Speaker 2: Better?
Speaker 5: Much good? What are you doing tonight?
Speaker 6: We're going to Isabel's to die?
Speaker 2: Oh? What a bore.
Speaker 5: Well, let's get back to that new book of yours.
As a well, you mean to tell me that a
fund who sits down at the piano, it starts to
strum and in two seconds later he shot?
Speaker 2: Is that the idea?
Speaker 7: Hey, a certain note on the piano was wired or
a revolver concealed in the wall?
Speaker 5: Oh, I don't care much for that. As a belt,
you're slipping, old girl.
Speaker 9: What's wrong with this?
Speaker 5: Too complicated? You're going to kill somebody to do it simply?
Speaker 6: How would you do it simply?
Speaker 11: Johnny?
Speaker 5: No, I don't know there. Just use the most obvious
method for instant well poison, Just use the first one
that came to my mind, say Awesoenic Awsen.
Speaker 9: It could be traced in the body's cool.
Speaker 5: But it isn't always.
Speaker 9: No, it's very minute.
Speaker 7: There are probably hundreds of murders walking about, Johnny.
Speaker 6: Do you suppose those murderers are happy?
Speaker 5: I don't know. I shouldn't they?
Speaker 2: Well, anyway, it's a belle.
Speaker 5: It seems to me that by now somebody would have
discovered a poison that can't be traced. But what about it?
Speaker 7: Isn't that an untraceable poison? No?
Speaker 5: Do that thing, Isabelle? You are hiding something from it.
Speaker 6: Johnny, you're locking up? What about Ethel?
Speaker 5: Well, it's Ethel tonight. Off. She won't be back till morning.
Speaker 6: What about Cook?
Speaker 5: Have you forgotten Cook's away on a holiday. Oh, darling,
you're showing again. You suppose you're catching cold?
Speaker 16: Yes, I think that's what it must be.
Speaker 5: Oh well, we'll have to touch you in the bed,
get you nice and warm.
Speaker 6: I'm on, Johnny, please please don't.
Speaker 2: What's the trouble, Johnny.
Speaker 6: I'm in the street tonight. I don't know why, but
I'd like to be alone. Would you mind sitting in
your dressing room? Of course, that's mind, Johnny. I I
have been sitting very well lately.
Speaker 5: Oh, I understand you used to sleep badly when I
wasn't here.
Speaker 2: Now you.
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 2: That's the way you feel about it? Good night?
Speaker 5: You come on, Nina, wake up here?
Speaker 2: You better?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 9: Yes, that hello, darling, it's still I came over this moment.
We were quite worried about Uli.
Speaker 6: It's more I happen to sleep all day.
Speaker 5: The doctor give you a kill, Army, that's all you needed. Rest.
I'll run down and tell athletic supper right back.
Speaker 7: Oh, he's won in a millionaire Johnny of yours. I
warn you, if you leave me alone much longer with you,
my career will soon be over.
Speaker 6: It blurted if you write as blurted.
Speaker 9: Worse than that, he's wearing all my secrets.
Speaker 2: Out of me.
Speaker 6: Did you tell him anything today?
Speaker 9: Did I old?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 7: Honestly have you ever been able to deny Johnny anything?
Speaker 6: It was about that poison, wasn't it as it was?
Speaker 9: And if he writes a story on that one before
I do lead it?
Speaker 2: Need it?
Speaker 9: Imagine a substance in daily use.
Speaker 7: Anyone can get it and within a minute after taking
the victims beautifully out of the way, and mind you,
it's undetectable after this.
Speaker 6: Whatever it is painful, let him in lease.
Speaker 9: In fact, I should think it would be a most pleasant.
Speaker 18: Say, Nina, are you awake?
Speaker 15: Yes?
Speaker 5: I brought you a sandwich in a glass of milk.
You might drink the milk before you go to sleep.
I'll just leave it here night dog. Why don't you
let me help you back?
Speaker 6: Oh, there's no need do I.
Speaker 5: What's the matter with you this morning? You're still annoyed
with me, aren't you?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 6: Johnny, Really, I still don't for you will, that's all?
Speaker 5: And a few days that your mother's will do more
good than staying at home.
Speaker 6: Well, it's not exactly that, don't you understand?
Speaker 7: Mother?
Speaker 5: Telephone that phorn off it early.
Speaker 6: It seems to me, Well, mother gets up early.
Speaker 7: I happened to mention that I was a bit nervy,
and before I knew it, I'd agreed to spend a
few days with her.
Speaker 5: All right, I'll run down and get the car ready.
Speaker 6: Oh no, don't, I'll drive it myself.
Speaker 5: I prefer to.
Speaker 6: Oh you're going to fast, Johnny.
Speaker 5: Well you want to get there, don't you?
Speaker 6: Did you?
Speaker 7: Did you have to go by this road?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 5: The short way, isn't it? There's the hotel site. Another
thing I've failed that.
Speaker 1: He's going to kill me.
Speaker 10: Your door is open.
Speaker 12: He's going to kill me.
Speaker 6: The curve the door was swing.
Speaker 7: He's going to push me out down.
Speaker 15: I'm down, over and over, Madam, down and down, over
and over.
Speaker 5: Hand at all?
Speaker 2: You know? Let me go, Let me go, young, let
me go.
Speaker 5: What's gone?
Speaker 2: Leave me? Leave fool?
Speaker 5: Poppa enough? How much do you think a man can
Beare you turned me out of your room, you go
running away to your mother's. Now you shrink away from me,
so you hated me, my wife. You almost killed the
booth back to her because you had to pull away
from me, even when I was reaching over to save
from pulling out of the car. Well, you don't have
to put up with me anymore, doney.
Speaker 4: Wait, where are you going?
Speaker 5: First time? Taking on to your mother's and then don't worry.
I won't follow you again.
Speaker 6: Johnny, you mean you're going to Johnny? Why were you
asking us a bill about that point? What were you
planning to do with Johnny? You were going to kill yourself?
Speaker 5: Oh my god, yes, but I changed my mind. I'm
going back to see it through present time.
Speaker 6: And you mean mail back that money you took.
Speaker 5: I can't pay it back. I made the last attempt
to raise the money when I went away.
Speaker 6: With Beki Paris.
Speaker 5: I went to Liverpool. I tried to follow your insurance.
It didn't work.
Speaker 6: You were in Liverpool and by then you didn't go
to Paris.
Speaker 5: Of course, you think I'd let some idiot for big
that brandy of my head.
Speaker 6: Oh Johnny, if ony i'd known. This is as much
my fault as yours.
Speaker 17: I was only thinking of myself, not what you were
going through. If I'd really been close to you, you
could have confided in me that you were ashamed to do.
Oh if I don't understood it, Oh, Johnny, it'll be different.
Speaker 6: Now, we'll make it difference.
Speaker 5: People don't change over nightly. I'm no good.
Speaker 6: Let's turn back, Johnny. Let's go home and see it
all through together.
Speaker 5: It won't work.
Speaker 6: It will work, I know it will, Johnny.
Speaker 7: Please, you can't shut me out.
Speaker 15: Turn the car around and let's go home.
Speaker 6: Please, Johnny.
Speaker 9: I'll get in the car, Johnny.
Speaker 6: Where are we going?
Speaker 5: We're running back and we're going home.
Speaker 4: It's more than a matter of suspicion. And that's a
nice performance. Will be long remembered by millions of listeners
to the Lux Radio Theater. And for that we can
thank our stars, William Powell and Olivia to have of them.
Speaker 5: Thank you so sol, You gave us a great play
when you picked the Suspicion.
Speaker 4: Now you want to be an authority on mysteries, Bell,
One of the best pits of news I've heard is
that you're going to do another picture in the Finman.
Speaker 6: Series, but still for the thin Man haven't you been
putting on a little weight?
Speaker 5: Livia? How can you say that? But I'm scared of
my own shadow.
Speaker 4: You mean it looks as if a crowd were following.
Speaker 5: What week I have come from my iron constitution. Every
morning when I get up, I turn on those exercises
of the radio and do them. No, my wife does
I watch it.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't understand you. When I was your age,
I used to think nothing of a ten mile walk.
Speaker 5: I don't think much of it myself. But look, if
you want to know, I'm on an a diet.
Speaker 9: An a diet.
Speaker 4: What's that?
Speaker 5: A steak, a baked potato, a piece of pie?
Speaker 6: Sounds like omni rations?
Speaker 4: Well it goes to the front.
Speaker 5: Well, in spite of all you say about me, I'll
confess you're looking.
Speaker 2: As lovely as ever Libby, Yes, isn't she?
Speaker 5: And now that I've planted before your settle, you wouldn't
like to tell us one of the reasons, would you?
Speaker 2: Nay?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Come on, plenty of fresh air, sunshine and.
Speaker 5: LUs toilet soap. I'll say it for you, but.
Speaker 6: There's no need to be modest about a CD. I
use let's toilet so faithfully and it does wonder well.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Olivia, and I think we'd better take back
all we said about Bill's figure, or you dial us
off his radio next Monday night.
Speaker 6: Not when he hears what's coming up? CV?
Speaker 5: What do you have the next Monday settle play?
Speaker 4: I think you'll like well the RKO romantic comedy Lucky Partners,
and our stars will be Dna Mitchi and Lucille Ball
with Jack Corson. It's the story of two young people
falling in love who take their future on a horse race.
When you gamble both love and horses, you're riding for
plenty of excitement, but.
Speaker 6: It sounds like another entertainment. CD will be listening.
Speaker 11: Good Night, good night, good night.
Speaker 4: Fishing years of dot com.
Speaker 2: Harspontrum.
Speaker 4: The makers of Lux Toilet Coach join me in inviting
you to be with us again next Monday Night, when
the Lux Radio Theater presents Lucille Ball and Dana Michi
in Lucky Partners with Jack Cosson. This is Sasaba Mayo Fay.
Good night to you from Hollywood.
Speaker 3: Next month, October sixteenth, the Lux Radio Theater celebrates its
tenth anniversary on the air. We'd like you to share
in this celebration by helping us select the play in
stars you'd like most to hear. Send your suggestions on
a postcard to see Bleeds and Mill post Office, Box nine, Hollywood,
twenty eight, California, or use the ballot with your lux
Toilet soap dealer will be glad to give you. Suspicion
was presented through the courtesy of RKO, producers of Bride
By a Mistake. Olivia de Haviln will soon be seen
in her latest Warner Brothers picture Devotion. William Powell appeared
through the courtesy of Metro Goldwen Mayer, producers of the
Technicolor picture Kis. Men heard in tonight's play were Charles Irwin,
Is Beaky, Lois Corbett, Vernon Steele, Gloria Gordon, Charles Seal,
Dwayne Thompson, Eric Snowden.
Speaker 5: And Claire Verdera.
Speaker 3: Our music was directed by Lewis Silvers. This program is
broadcast to our fighting forces overseas through cooperation with the
Armed Forces Radio Service and now an announcement aims straight
at the fun, loving hearts of America's people. Your beloved
old friends Amos and Andy are returning to the air
on Friday night. Yes, the Boys are back again with
their big cast in their grand half hour show. Their
guest for Friday evening, John Charles Thomas, famous Metropolitan Opera star,
will be a riot in his Amos and Andy role.
There will be super music and as you know, each
broadcast is a complete episode, so see your paper for time.
I am in station and don't miss amoson Andy on
this Friday. This is jo and I'm Sir John M.
Kennedy reminding you to tune in again next Monday night
to here Lucky Partners with Dona, Michi the Seal Ball
and Jack Carson.
Speaker 2: Fry sp Ry.
Speaker 6: Cook with.
Speaker 3: Song, cakes, pies, fried foods. Everything tastes better made with
you easy mix.
Speaker 5: Fry short things.
Speaker 3: So for light fluffy cakes, tender flaky pastry, Chris didjustable
fried foods.
Speaker 5: This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. As a film, Suspicion was originally released in
nineteen forty one and it starred Joan Fontaine, Pavelin's sister,
and Carrie Grant, and Fontaine actually won the Best Actress
oscar as well as being recognized for her acting in
the film by the National Board Review and the New
York Film Critics Circle Award the one thing about Lucks
and a lot of episodes, because there are some episodes
of Lux Radio Theater where you get a substitute of
leads and it just comes down to the fact that
at that point the original leads they couldn't afford. You know,
that's the case when you get saying to the nineteen fifties.
But oftentimes you get to explore the idea of alternate casting,
where we go ahead and we say, well, what if
we replace these two famous Hollywood leads with two other
famous Hollywood leads? How would the movie be different?
Speaker 2: And it's fun to explore that.
Speaker 1: And I honestly think that Haviland does a great job
here and really gets us invested in her emotions as
well as understanding and believing in her feeling of being threatened.
William Powell is good, although I don't think he makes
much of an attempt to make us believe that he
is British. There's no type of accent that's attempted at all,
and you get a really American accent. But that wasn't
totally unheard of for the era. It is something that
I kind of guessed at and checked, but in the film,
Beackie was actually played by Nigel Bruce, and that does
explain part of the performance that we get in this
as we're trying to say just I am giving you
my best Nogel Bruce interpersonation here, and it's a decent
enough taking that regard. I find the story really interesting.
It was a Hitchcock film, and so you kind of
expect things to turn out to be as dark and
sinister as she expects, if not more so. So it's
a surprise when it turns out the things that she
thought were sinister or weren't quite what she thought they were.
And I think it's an interesting journey for her as
a character. I don't think that she is irrational really
in her fears. I think her fears make sense. But
the reason they make sense is that she married Johnny
without really knowing who he was other than she. He
was aware that he married her for her money and
began to become aware that he had lied to her
about things, or he was not quite what he seemed
to be. But people do change, and I think that's
really hard to process or believe if you're dealing in
a relationship where because of choices you've both made, you've
ended up not trusting this person at all. So I
think it plays out as a really interesting and different dynamic,
particularly if you come into it thinking, well, I kind
of know what this is going to be, like it's
a Hitchcock story and it just turns another direction, then
you would typically expect all right, Well, I hope you've
enjoyed this episode. We've got another full week of Olivia
de Havilan, so join us back here on Monday for
the fourth episode in their series. In the meantime, send
your comments to Bocks thirteen at Great Detectives dot net
from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.