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Speaker 1: For a half hour of adventure.
Speaker 2: You are stranded with a carnival the side of the
Speaker 2: iron curtains one out of nowhere. A fortune is within
Speaker 2: your grass, riding a number on a roulette wheel hundreds
Speaker 2: of feet high? Why is your shoulder laughing at you?
Speaker 2: A killer clown from whom there is no escape?
Speaker 4: Listen now as Escape brings you David Creek an important
Speaker 4: fine story carnival in Vienna.
Speaker 1: In the old the role of tenements used to be
Speaker 1: called the shutting off.
Speaker 2: Then there was a war and it was called rubble,
Speaker 2: and it was cleaned up, and it was just an
Speaker 2: empty space.
Speaker 1: In the older part of Vienna.
Speaker 2: That's where the carnival set up Fitch and windstands, wheels,
Speaker 2: the midway act of the high wire for a valley rides,
Speaker 2: parm readers and the biggest ferris wheel this side of
Speaker 2: the Rhine. Twenty carriages and a four minute rides and
Speaker 2: myself front gate Superintendent John Ashcroft Allison, the nice founding name,
Speaker 2: John Ashcroft Allison. The help calls me hair, which is mister,
Speaker 2: that's the way it is. And there's Lily who works
Speaker 2: at Gap whenever it's needed.
Speaker 1: He's got red hair.
Speaker 5: We get alongside.
Speaker 6: Wait, Hannah us African.
Speaker 1: You pass a shiny thing.
Speaker 7: And you are anything and stop and broken, looks at
Speaker 7: your hair.
Speaker 8: One of the good boys.
Speaker 2: And now it's the American money maroon shir think joke,
Speaker 2: can't he? And liar what you mean? Liar?
Speaker 1: You are vain, you are powdering, have nothing to be
Speaker 1: proud of.
Speaker 6: You are hate me?
Speaker 1: You are you are?
Speaker 9: You mean?
Speaker 1: One who up from another?
Speaker 6: Tell you what you when you re cleanse your hair.
Speaker 9: One of these days back to the stay.
Speaker 10: You'll never go to this thing.
Speaker 2: You cannot, I know, Joey tell you last nice And I.
Speaker 1: Did not want to, oh I bet you didn't. Oh,
Speaker 1: I did not.
Speaker 11: Want to hear Joey told me you were a thought
Speaker 11: in a Statehold your joy.
Speaker 8: You were a carnival as a man who is?
Speaker 12: Who is?
Speaker 8: Handwritings like that here and.
Speaker 2: Once the guy wrote down and claimed for me to analyze,
Speaker 2: and I saved the signature in ford you for three
Speaker 2: months all over the place football.
Speaker 8: They almost caught up with me one day.
Speaker 5: I would have told you he didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't do anything.
Speaker 11: There was something he told me.
Speaker 1: And he told me how you fled from your country
Speaker 1: to yours?
Speaker 8: Has you met me? And how you been.
Speaker 1: Traveling from kindival to con.
Speaker 8: H Come on, just what.
Speaker 5: That's really one of these days I'm going to get
Speaker 5: my hands on enough Joe.
Speaker 12: That's true talking about.
Speaker 8: Probably a clown. Why don't you do something about a clown?
Speaker 1: Why should I do something about him?
Speaker 8: I like him hundreds by the way.
Speaker 2: He laught, but a wooden, cloudy, wooden clown and mechanism.
Speaker 8: Listen to him, Listen to handle.
Speaker 13: It's a purely mechanical love compared to lose customers into
Speaker 13: my hall of.
Speaker 2: Mir Quite of the upset here any if he makes this,
Speaker 2: come on, you wouldn't a commander.
Speaker 13: But as easy hair as if you know your name
Speaker 13: and love that show and knows your stop and bring
Speaker 13: like a peacock and love bedch Just want to.
Speaker 2: Tell you something, cut my advice, change the record in
Speaker 2: a hunter and a clown.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but what you want?
Speaker 7: You up on your shoulder laughing.
Speaker 1: Huh hands all right, it's not fatty laughing at you.
Speaker 8: Let's forget it.
Speaker 12: I oh, why heaven?
Speaker 1: I want to be.
Speaker 8: I though, I love you, I love you, watch you the.
Speaker 2: Phone in a safety apartment. What's the man? Y? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Wah, where are you going?
Speaker 9: Just wait?
Speaker 11: Without being very pick and.
Speaker 1: Dark, Joey, I want to be Let's take a look.
Speaker 10: See that's also important you.
Speaker 1: Need How about here?
Speaker 5: Joey's back of the trailer?
Speaker 8: What for that?
Speaker 1: Hi, Julia? What's not as you?
Speaker 9: Then?
Speaker 1: Friends?
Speaker 5: Haven't we jumped into each other in a silver bar?
Speaker 5: And Buddy's right off?
Speaker 2: J Beside the fact you're a lush you're a good boy,
Speaker 2: good friends, good shield for any conny in the world.
Speaker 5: Right, Oh, I don't mind it. Took a drink and
Speaker 5: spilled a lily about me.
Speaker 1: One way or another.
Speaker 8: She had to find out, Well, what's this all about?
Speaker 1: Heist of the wallet just now, huh.
Speaker 5: I'm a guy, touristly.
Speaker 8: Tourists, huh.
Speaker 1: He was with a blonde from Maxis. He had to
Speaker 1: be a.
Speaker 6: Tourist the way he was dressed, green short and a
Speaker 6: feather in his hat.
Speaker 1: Give me the wallet, Julie.
Speaker 11: I'm taking no one to talk to me like that, Julie, coach.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. Come on, Joe, I will take a
Speaker 1: lot of that. Joey.
Speaker 9: Here, Joey and you shake.
Speaker 2: Sure, Let's see.
Speaker 1: You're right all right?
Speaker 5: Oh my walk the mad.
Speaker 2: Card?
Speaker 1: Where's a toe? You a ready enough?
Speaker 8: Wait a minute?
Speaker 5: You know what, Joey, you'll never know five half some
Speaker 5: friend of mine.
Speaker 1: Then I'll catch up to you. We'll catch up to you.
Speaker 2: I didn't look at him anymore, not at Joey. That
Speaker 2: John Ashcroft Allison looking out at me from the aluminum
Speaker 2: side of the trailer.
Speaker 1: And I'm amount of.
Speaker 9: A ten dollar high.
Speaker 2: And he winked back at me, and his lips shaped
Speaker 2: the words I was saying. Ninety three thousand dollars letter
Speaker 2: of credit in mister Paul Max Wallace, complete with identification cards.
Speaker 2: So I looked around for the green short A man
Speaker 2: with a feather in his hat with a blonde from
Speaker 2: Max and the way it happened, and I pumped into
Speaker 2: them coming out of all a mirror. I trailed them
Speaker 2: over to the ferry's wheel, watched mister Max flatdowns and
Speaker 2: change a couple of tickets, waited until they get into
Speaker 2: a carriage in a wheel.
Speaker 8: And started. Then I walked over at heperism.
Speaker 1: A got organ high.
Speaker 9: Push this six wheels back?
Speaker 1: Hey, how about you and Maleen Malen. I never got
Speaker 1: to see although she works right over there.
Speaker 9: We only get the waves then and.
Speaker 1: We are both off.
Speaker 5: Her boyfriend comes and takes her away.
Speaker 11: And once you go over and talk to us, sure, go.
Speaker 5: Ahead, I'll take over the wheeling.
Speaker 10: I would certainly like to see money.
Speaker 5: Go on, get it? They get carrots side of the river,
Speaker 5: twenty carriages in a formative rise.
Speaker 2: Mister Paul Max from bought the mad and the green
Speaker 2: one for the blonde, enjoying.
Speaker 8: To keep him in the carriage like get it twenty.
Speaker 6: Three thousand dollars alp with a trick a twenty.
Speaker 2: To one shot goop a handful of sand and gravel
Speaker 2: off the g into the oil and taken a.
Speaker 5: Handful four minutes with fourteen.
Speaker 1: Times around bike trimp, a big splip.
Speaker 10: Eleven we could sweet in the world, tiny gap it
Speaker 10: become a.
Speaker 9: Green but I got my handful. Maybe it wouldn't work it,
Speaker 9: Maybe I needed another killing me.
Speaker 8: Maybe I.
Speaker 10: Haven't gon by carry green.
Speaker 1: Parent with a wad like in the neck and they
Speaker 1: bore my.
Speaker 8: Water and the cat and I closed my eye.
Speaker 5: When I opened them, the wheel it stopped spinning.
Speaker 2: Carriage at the top was green, and I knew there
Speaker 2: wasn't a chance of that wheel coming down for a
Speaker 2: long long time, and there wasn't a ladder that high
Speaker 2: that could get them down.
Speaker 8: Twenty three thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: On a twenty to one shot, I just hit.
Speaker 4: You are listening to Carnival in Vienna, the night's presentation
Speaker 4: of Escape. Edgar Bergen fans will be doubly delighted with
Speaker 4: the New Edgar Bergan Show with Charlie McCarthy. Remember Sunday
Speaker 4: nights on most of these sacans The New Edgar Bergen
Speaker 4: Show with Charlie McCarthy. And now back to Escape and
Speaker 4: the second act of Carnival in Vienna.
Speaker 2: Carnival and the big Wheel not spinning anymore against the
Speaker 2: Vienna sky and for a little while the small riot
Speaker 2: of Carnie wound down, no attraction at it to early
Speaker 2: afternoon with a Danube close, and all the kids took
Speaker 2: to it, climbed the girders and hung from them like
Speaker 2: skinny rag dolls, and kicked their feet in. The watter's
Speaker 2: face was going crazy trying to fix the ferrett wheels,
Speaker 2: and a small detail of Russian soldiers took to it too,
Speaker 2: grinning up at the merchandise display of black cotton stockings,
Speaker 2: Boedian petticoats, and at a very very very top, all
Speaker 2: very a gent from Boston mat with his arms wrapped
Speaker 2: around up blonde from everywhere. I told out of the handle,
Speaker 2: it's the best way he could. I'd round up some
Speaker 2: refugees to give my hands, and I walked away from it,
Speaker 2: away half the gas last the shooting gallery.
Speaker 1: Ask him at the close fighting the.
Speaker 2: Face half where the cornie started.
Speaker 8: To die and got to be mud and litter and
Speaker 8: broken straw where the.
Speaker 5: Trailers were mine bright and shiners.
Speaker 8: And the wreck because there was a displaced straw line.
Speaker 5: Very handy with a dust cloth and needed the work.
Speaker 1: And the job.
Speaker 2: Class in penmanship, uh gentle, the writing hands scroll circles
Speaker 2: and plants, and then Johnnie Allison into Paul mc MPEd
Speaker 2: from Boston, mass.
Speaker 8: Oh, Max, Oh, what you're.
Speaker 14: Doing, Johnny boy?
Speaker 8: What you're doing?
Speaker 14: Johnny boy?
Speaker 1: The pober snaps over the cup of Joey drink yourself
Speaker 1: did huh huh?
Speaker 14: No, huh huh.
Speaker 5: Maybe you don't understand because you're fussed up.
Speaker 1: You're not wanted Joey.
Speaker 8: Oh no, that hurt.
Speaker 14: So that's when you say it to an old friend.
Speaker 14: But you could buy back my affection. I like you, Johnny, Honey,
Speaker 14: I don't want not to like you.
Speaker 9: Lush beat the lush.
Speaker 14: Don't talk like that, Johnny. You made a noise like
Speaker 14: twenty three thousand dollars when I hear you laugh. I
Speaker 14: don't know the angle, but I won't end half.
Speaker 2: Johnny appeally you have dreamed about them bother. That's her
Speaker 2: picture of mindy.
Speaker 14: What was you doing when I come in? Johnny written
Speaker 14: a letter? Practice you maybe get no feelings digits just
Speaker 14: says you let me see Johnny way. You didn't even
Speaker 14: let me spee. But I got something I wanted you
Speaker 14: to see, Johnny. I brung it just to show you.
Speaker 5: Oh h Joey, Joey, You're really our fight, don't you.
Speaker 14: Huh. No, all this shr gun does, Johnny, all it
Speaker 14: does in the world is to make you and me, buddy.
Speaker 14: I squeeze it on it just a little bit, and
Speaker 14: all it says you hear it, Johnny.
Speaker 11: All it says is buddy, buddy, buddy, like.
Speaker 1: It was Mama dog.
Speaker 14: You say half me, Johnny, say half a twenty three
Speaker 14: grand I don't squeeze them all.
Speaker 2: Give it me, Joey, give me the gun, and then
Speaker 2: you can go hip shops.
Speaker 5: Final, gim me, Joey, you can squeeze the shop.
Speaker 14: Just sit right down on the floor, Johnny, so it'll
Speaker 14: go off right between your eyes.
Speaker 10: Give me, Joey, I'll drop it. I'll throw it away, Jimmy,
Speaker 10: give me.
Speaker 1: Nobody exclese you for a sucker, Johnny, boy. You helped
Speaker 1: me up and I Johnny.
Speaker 8: Got to be drier.
Speaker 1: This just like this.
Speaker 9: Uh, he was as dead as I could make him.
Speaker 2: I picked him up and carried him to my car,
Speaker 2: dropped his body in the front seat next to me.
Speaker 2: Whoever may have seen it figured the only thing to figure.
Speaker 1: Joey was stoned again.
Speaker 2: Johnny Allison was nursing him like he'd done a thousand
Speaker 2: and two times. It took a few minutes to drive
Speaker 2: out of the edge of the Russian zone, wlong it
Speaker 2: to a square block of rubble.
Speaker 1: Behind it to an alley.
Speaker 2: I opened a bottle of schnop I'd remember to bring along,
Speaker 2: then sed out my mouth with it and poured the rest.
Speaker 8: Down Joey's tross.
Speaker 5: I slid the bottle into his coat pocket, sneezed them
Speaker 5: out of the car.
Speaker 2: What was in the alley with some garbage cans straped clean,
Speaker 2: some bony dogs who just stared, and.
Speaker 9: Unknown name rush.
Speaker 8: In the trailer.
Speaker 2: By half past one I could forge the signature of
Speaker 2: mister Paul Mac with a pen between my teeth, eight letters,
Speaker 2: straight up and down, with a couple of curls in between.
Speaker 2: By two, when I was in the Vienna State National Tank,
Speaker 2: and it'll.
Speaker 8: Stuck to as the noon, sir, what can we do
Speaker 8: for you this after noon?
Speaker 1: Give you your business with me this afternoon?
Speaker 2: My hair, here, my letter of credit by identification card.
Speaker 1: I am Paul Mac.
Speaker 5: Thousand messages.
Speaker 1: Of course, well my name, let's.
Speaker 11: Give it of course of course all nine something nothing
Speaker 11: nothing but nothing. Everything is a popular that's only year
Speaker 11: only one. Can you telephone yesterday to informed us she would.
Speaker 1: Not come here until ten tomorrow morning?
Speaker 8: Oh you mean ben't you telephone yesterday? It was after noon.
Speaker 2: Surely you're doing member, surely I do remember my nare
Speaker 2: something came up to think my plan?
Speaker 1: So I'm here now.
Speaker 5: This afternoon didn't make a difference.
Speaker 1: So no, no, no, surely no.
Speaker 11: Except told you that it gets a short no to
Speaker 11: gather the money five thousand and fifty dollars but not
Speaker 11: twenty three thousand thousands. My here, that's the notation I
Speaker 11: had here.
Speaker 8: I'll show you here that your telephone yesterday that you would.
Speaker 11: Come tomorrow, that is a five thousand or your groups.
Speaker 5: Somebody made a mistake. A look, I've got ideal.
Speaker 2: I need every cent left on my letter of credit
Speaker 2: twenty three thousand scholars with all American make.
Speaker 11: A choice of course, approson from MAC Did you sign
Speaker 11: this space for me so that I may compare signature
Speaker 11: the formality only.
Speaker 1: I want to.
Speaker 2: Thank you, m.
Speaker 11: Hm tange and now only moments long that I must
Speaker 11: corroborate the machine.
Speaker 8: That's the formatic. Oh sure, ah wait m hm what.
Speaker 1: H h m hm.
Speaker 8: H it's all that it should be missed from that.
Speaker 8: Your money's in this pass. Can you see thousand dollars?
Speaker 9: Thank you?
Speaker 1: Nay?
Speaker 8: Not a thing to sign the precept?
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 9: H m hm.
Speaker 8: That's sure. You understand how much the necessity of caution. However,
Speaker 8: there's the.
Speaker 1: Thing if you don't mind it.
Speaker 8: I'm in a hurry.
Speaker 1: What's dating here?
Speaker 8: How does it feel?
Speaker 11: How does and then see when you can get into
Speaker 11: a band ask for tens of thousands of dollars and
Speaker 11: get it.
Speaker 9: M h.
Speaker 1: Good, feels good, wonderful.
Speaker 5: It's Johnny, baby?
Speaker 2: How up.
Speaker 8: There you see.
Speaker 9: Coming?
Speaker 8: Oh baby, baby? An hour and I missed to.
Speaker 1: Time of fool.
Speaker 8: Uh huh over n the excitement diseasing.
Speaker 6: Stop in a minute, the very sup of it.
Speaker 1: Screaming and screaming that you at your home? How is
Speaker 1: your man home to keep from? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, funny Lily were leaving?
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, what do you want?
Speaker 8: Lily?
Speaker 2: One of the Greens Paris Rome, London. Dream one over
Speaker 2: me baby, Johnny Allison makes it come true? And I
Speaker 2: grab a coat, Lily, and this minute it's all you
Speaker 2: live A need where it's going? I told you whatever
Speaker 2: ride you want whatever bubble to lay against your neck,
Speaker 2: to your fingers and your toes.
Speaker 7: The money you have saved is front Gate, Superintendent of
Speaker 7: the Chief side, Peace Connivent.
Speaker 5: With twenty three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about it?
Speaker 8: Like I always said I were twenty three thousand dollars worth.
Speaker 1: Now come on, cover it with a coat. Will you
Speaker 1: get such money?
Speaker 8: Johnny? What difference? It's green?
Speaker 5: It makes a pretty sound, and rub together, make it
Speaker 5: whisper and advise. Mink for you and silk for me.
Speaker 8: Like I saw once in a shopping room. That's a baby.
Speaker 8: First stop room, sir.
Speaker 5: Johnny can look good, so Johnny can look swell?
Speaker 1: So Johnny, can you stole it?
Speaker 8: I promoted this baby.
Speaker 7: You stole it from the American who screamed from the
Speaker 7: top of the.
Speaker 8: Fair, cree me, baby me, Johnny Allison, come on, get out.
Speaker 1: I want no part of you me. You're talking to Lily,
Speaker 1: the man with the promises, the man with the dreams.
Speaker 1: So don't tell me. Dream men, men of nothing deep.
Speaker 8: Who not Lily?
Speaker 14: Not?
Speaker 1: I love baby? Not with you homis men.
Speaker 7: Dream men You'll feed men of angers and he makes
Speaker 7: them from mornings.
Speaker 5: Anything else you need to say, you had Joey and.
Speaker 7: Lush drunk down with yourselves, down with your stupidity, Turn
Speaker 7: with yours, joe joe jo it's Johnny anything, who is Joey.
Speaker 6: Joey Joey.
Speaker 8: No Joy, shouldn't call me that joy, you shudden.
Speaker 1: H uh. I stood over for a long time, for.
Speaker 8: All the time that we needed.
Speaker 2: Thur Finger's done, clenched and trail along the floor for
Speaker 2: the life to go out of her, and then get out,
Speaker 2: walk to run to the midway crowd.
Speaker 1: In the ferris wheel. Moving now midway in.
Speaker 5: The Palace of Fun.
Speaker 9: I'm back aged into the world through the.
Speaker 8: Hall of Mirrors, and I was on my way answer
Speaker 8: the cloud laugh.
Speaker 2: At this time I didn't care Johnny Allison on his
Speaker 2: way with twenty three grand to take him wherever he
Speaker 2: wanted to go.
Speaker 1: All of Mirrors, I know it like a boy like
Speaker 1: I knew the backup.
Speaker 8: Back in my hands, turn at the corner.
Speaker 9: Way.
Speaker 1: Sometimes a guy forgets.
Speaker 8: Palace of Fun, Hall of Mirrors.
Speaker 5: They had time to get it and kept fun trying
Speaker 5: to get out.
Speaker 1: Whoever I went, Johnny Allison came right back at me.
Speaker 8: I wasn't Johnny Allison. We trying to beat attention.
Speaker 1: Gage, I didn't see myself. I wouldn't be there when
Speaker 1: I would.
Speaker 11: I I couldn't get all wrong.
Speaker 1: Too many, too many.
Speaker 11: With me.
Speaker 1: He didn't look like her anymore.
Speaker 8: It didn't look like anybody I who, yeah.
Speaker 15: Like me?
Speaker 9: But you.
Speaker 1: The way she said?
Speaker 8: He said, yes, yeah, he is there on the floor. Mh.
Speaker 2: To kill a girl tan to hide in the hell
Speaker 2: of mirrors?
Speaker 15: Such stupidity, perhaps not for here a man can laugh
Speaker 15: and say that, Johnny laughs the Jans. And here a
Speaker 15: man can observe himself in.
Speaker 1: A thousand mirrors.
Speaker 15: From every anger.
Speaker 11: That is, if a man can stand looking at himself.
Speaker 8: Come, come, h.
Speaker 11: M hm.
Speaker 4: Escape has brought you Carnival in Vienna, a story written
Speaker 4: and directed by David Friedkin and Morton Line. Featured in
Speaker 4: the cast were Jack Moyles, William Bias, Jack Krusian, and
Speaker 4: Hans Conried. Also heard were Barney Phillips, Robert Boone and
Speaker 4: George Baroni. You're announcer George Walls. The special music for
Speaker 4: Escape is composed and conducted by Leif Stephens.
Speaker 3: Next week, you are flying a plane high above the
Speaker 3: island of Masabuera three hundred miles of the coast of Chiles.
Speaker 3: Beside you a beautiful woman, and only she knows. It's
Speaker 3: the last stop, the last time around, a death trap
Speaker 3: from which there is no escape.
Speaker 4: So listen next week when Escape brings you Tony Barrett's
Speaker 4: story There was a crooked man.