Speaker 1: Set up with the everyday grind, died out from the
Speaker 1: summer heat, I want to get away from it, Dawn.
Speaker 2: We offer you.
Speaker 3: Escape, escape designed to free you from the four walls
Speaker 3: of today, for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: You are groping through the midnight dimness of a gigantic
Speaker 1: department store, and suddenly you realize that a hundred eyes
Speaker 1: are staring at you from the shadows, and a hundred
Speaker 1: hands are reaching for your throat, and your most urgent
Speaker 1: desire is to escape.
Speaker 3: Tonight we escape to a fantastic world of night dwellers,
Speaker 3: as John Collier imagines it in his Eerie story Evening Primrose.
Speaker 4: SAIDA what's a moody?
Speaker 5: It's me?
Speaker 6: You last gave me to death?
Speaker 5: What do you mean?
Speaker 7: Coming in so quiet? I thought you be asleep. I
Speaker 7: don't want to wake you.
Speaker 8: Sam.
Speaker 9: I'm so glad you're home.
Speaker 2: What's a many?
Speaker 6: What's terrible?
Speaker 9: You gotta do something, Sam?
Speaker 7: What's terrible?
Speaker 6: It is? Just look at this?
Speaker 7: What's terrible about that? Looks like an ordinary pair of paper?
Speaker 2: To me, that's just it.
Speaker 6: That's just what I thought. But it's got writing in it.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's awful.
Speaker 7: And now wait a minute, Maybe you better tell me
Speaker 7: what this is all about.
Speaker 9: Well, today I went chopping at races the Yeah, I
Speaker 9: needed some writing papers, so I picked this up. It
Speaker 9: was on top of the pile, so I bought it,
Speaker 9: and I brought it home tonight. When I opened it,
Speaker 9: I thought.
Speaker 7: Well, that's not so terrible. Just take it back tomorrow
Speaker 7: and make him give you a knowing.
Speaker 9: You don't understand. It's what's written in it that's so terrible.
Speaker 7: What do you mean what's written in it? All right now?
Speaker 9: And I'll read it.
Speaker 7: Look Sadie, I'm tired. I've been bawling all of the night.
Speaker 6: Sam, Please just read it, but for Pete's Sam.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 7: October nineteenth. Today I made my decision. I decided to
Speaker 7: say goodbye to the world, to get out, leave, break away.
Speaker 7: And I have done it, Sadie, And now I am free,
Speaker 7: really free. Yes I am free.
Speaker 1: At least, Yes I am free at last. The world
Speaker 1: is an intolerable place for a poet. I was broke, starving,
Speaker 1: at my wits end, and then I had the brilliant
Speaker 1: idea I'd escaped to a place where I'd had no
Speaker 1: need to earn a living, where I could write to
Speaker 1: my heart's content in peace and security. And where is
Speaker 1: this place right under your nose, so close you'd never
Speaker 1: think of it. I am now living in Bracy's department store.
Speaker 1: I have everything within arm's reach that anyone would need
Speaker 1: a desire, and it's all free, absolutely free. I arrived
Speaker 1: this afternoon. I'd spent three days looking over all the
Speaker 1: department stores in town. I decided on Bracey's because of
Speaker 1: the completeness of their food department. Therefore, this afternoon I
Speaker 1: entered the store and went immediately to the fourth floor,
Speaker 1: to the rug department, and hid myself in this dusty
Speaker 1: out of the way corner behind the pile of carpets.
Speaker 1: Once I'm settled, i'll furnish it with the best of
Speaker 1: modern pieces from the furniture department. It's small, but it'll
Speaker 1: be cozy enough and safe. After the store closed, I
Speaker 1: made my first venture out. I tiptoed as far as
Speaker 1: the stationary counter and got this paper, the writer's primary need. Now,
Speaker 1: after making my first entry, I'll go out and get food,
Speaker 1: the wine, and the pillars from my bed, perhaps even
Speaker 1: a fancy dressing gown.
Speaker 2: This is perfect. Here I'll be able to write.
Speaker 1: Dawn October fourteenth. I am almost too unnerved to write this.
Speaker 1: The whole thing is unbelievable. After the store was dark
Speaker 1: and completely quiet, I crept out and started for the
Speaker 1: food department. One steps echo hollowly in an empty department
Speaker 1: store at night, and I found myself gliding along the
Speaker 1: floor on tiptoe, moving as silently as possible. But the
Speaker 1: sound of footsteps persisted, and suddenly I realized that they
Speaker 1: were not my own, the night watchman. I was in
Speaker 1: the salon modern so quickly I seized a mink coat
Speaker 1: from a hanger and drinked it about my.
Speaker 2: Shoulders and stood stock still.
Speaker 1: I could have reached out and touched him, but he
Speaker 1: passed without so much.
Speaker 2: As a glance.
Speaker 1: I started to smile, but the smile froze on my lips.
Speaker 1: There was someone else here. I was looking straight into
Speaker 1: a pair of eyes, large, flat, luminous in human eyes
Speaker 1: a dozen feet away. They belonged to a creature dressed
Speaker 1: as a man, but he was as pale as something
Speaker 1: found under a stone. His hands, hanging motionless at his sides,
Speaker 1: looked more like the fins on a fish than human hands.
Speaker 1: And then he not bad for a beginner, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I didn't know anybody else lived here.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, we live here. It's delightful. We yes, all
Speaker 2: of us, don't you see? Look around you?
Speaker 1: I looked around and saw nothing. I looked again and
Speaker 1: saw an old one come clamoring out from behind a clock.
Speaker 1: And there were three elderly angeneus, incredibly emaciated, pale as
Speaker 1: lace almost transparent, simmering before a perfume counter and a
Speaker 1: chenzy lady swam out from the curtains and the drapes.
Speaker 1: Then they came swarming thick around me, pale, thin, wispy,
Speaker 1: moving silently, fluttering like gauze in the wind, whispery important
Speaker 1: the darkning. They were pressing around me, clawing, holding me,
Speaker 1: their pale faces contorted with venomous and human hatred. I
Speaker 1: was paralyzed. All I could do was repeat over and
Speaker 1: over again.
Speaker 2: I am not a detective. I'm not a detective.
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 2: The sickly stop let him speak.
Speaker 1: I am not a detective or a burglar. I'm a poet.
Speaker 2: What are you doing here? I've renounced the world.
Speaker 1: I came here to live where I could be alone,
Speaker 1: away from the world.
Speaker 6: Why didn't you come over? To the world.
Speaker 5: She's coming now.
Speaker 1: I followed their eyes toward the balcony, and the hair
Speaker 1: on my neck rose again. They're coming down the wall
Speaker 1: like an ancient spider. Clambered an old lady, wrinkled and
Speaker 1: crackled and emaciated. She must have been at least eighty,
Speaker 1: a shadowy matriarch, and the things around me bowed and scraped.
Speaker 2: As she reached the floor and floated tortoisesh.
Speaker 5: What's going on here? Where is that stupid girl? What's
Speaker 5: keeping her?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Missus vanderpan what is it?
Speaker 5: Who's this?
Speaker 2: Mister Roscoe, Missus Vanderpant, May I present mister mister Snell,
Speaker 2: Charles Snell. Yes, mister Snell, he's a poet. He has
Speaker 2: come here to live. Oh he has he That's what
Speaker 2: he says, and I believe him.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 2: He avoided the night watchman quite neatly for a beginner.
Speaker 1: Thank you very well.
Speaker 5: We shall see. A poet should find inspiration here.
Speaker 2: Mister Snell. Missus Vanderpant is our grand old lady.
Speaker 5: Oh I am quite the oldest inhabitant here, mister Snell.
Speaker 5: Three mergers in a complete rebuilding, but they didn't get
Speaker 5: rid of me. Oh, where is Ella?
Speaker 2: Where is my bras see? He was bringing in missus
Speaker 2: vonderpant it will come.
Speaker 5: Terrible little creature. She's our founding, mister Snall, she's not
Speaker 5: quite our sort.
Speaker 2: Oh is that so?
Speaker 5: I have been here, mister Snell, ever since the terrible
Speaker 5: times of the eighties. I was a young girl, then
Speaker 5: a beauty, they said, I'm sure, and poor Papa lost
Speaker 5: his money. Racy's meant a lot to a young girl
Speaker 5: in those days. So when I wasn't able to have
Speaker 5: a charge account.
Speaker 10: I came here to live. That's better than a charge account.
Speaker 10: I was quite alarmed when others began to come after
Speaker 10: the crash of nineteen hundred and seven. But it was
Speaker 10: the dear judge, the colonel, missus, how are you, missus?
Speaker 10: Bilbay right plays and it comes of an old Philadelphia family.
Speaker 10: You'll find us quite nice here, I'm sure I will.
Speaker 10: And of course our dear young people came in nineteen
Speaker 10: twenty nine. Their poor paupers jumped from skyscrapers. They couldn't
Speaker 10: bear to be without charge accounts either.
Speaker 2: But you mean all these nice people live here ooh,
Speaker 2: and many more. You shall meet them all later.
Speaker 5: Oh, here comes Ella with my bras come hear you, stupid.
Speaker 2: Thing, Missus vander Patters waiting, Ella, Yes.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, I'm coming as fast as I can here
Speaker 5: on the table over there. Now, be careful, don't spill it.
Speaker 2: But she's young, well, of course, she is a little
Speaker 2: younger than most of us.
Speaker 1: She's different, she's beautiful.
Speaker 2: That's right, old fellow. She's really not our sort.
Speaker 1: Or you shouldn't say such things.
Speaker 2: She can hear you.
Speaker 5: Oh that doesn't matter, Missus Bilby.
Speaker 2: Please, mister Snow will understand these things better after you've
Speaker 2: been here for a while. But it seems to me.
Speaker 5: Miss Snail, we have certain rules here. They are necessary
Speaker 5: for our survival. I'm sure you won't find it hard
Speaker 5: to observe them.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, but I should.
Speaker 5: Advise you that you try. If you do not, it
Speaker 5: would be most unfortunate, mister Snail, most unfortunate for you.
Speaker 1: October fifteenth. You can imagine my feelings last night. My
Speaker 1: first thought was to escape as quickly as possible. In fact,
Speaker 1: I planned to quit my hiding place and mingle with
Speaker 1: the crowds and leave Braceeds forever. But just at dawn,
Speaker 1: mister Roscoe brought me a cup of coffee, which must
Speaker 1: have been drugged for I fell asleep, and when I awoke,
Speaker 1: I found that I'd slept all day, and night was
Speaker 1: closing over the store.
Speaker 2: Once more.
Speaker 1: Later, I have spent my second night here. I saw
Speaker 1: Ella again, Ella, the pearl of this remote, fantastic cave.
Speaker 1: She's not like the others, a trifle pale, but otherwise
Speaker 1: normal and human and.
Speaker 2: Beautiful. A child of perhaps eighteen, she is.
Speaker 1: The only thing that makes this nightmare bearable. October twentieth
Speaker 1: Escape seems almost impossible. There is a very effective burglar
Speaker 1: alarm system, and the doors are all carefully guarded, but
Speaker 1: that is nothing compared to the dark men.
Speaker 2: Who are the dark men?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but the inhabitants here threaten any transgressor.
Speaker 1: With these dark men, I shall try to discover who
Speaker 1: they are. I am sure I'm watched, though they've begun
Speaker 1: to trust me.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: Speaking to the night watchman would be suicide, even if
Speaker 1: he believed my fantastic story or didn't shoot me as
Speaker 1: a burglar. I'm convinced that neither eleanor I could get
Speaker 1: out of here alive. She and the night watchmen are
Speaker 1: the only real people here. And how the others hate
Speaker 1: the night watchman.
Speaker 5: Odious vulgar creature. He reeks of the coarse sun.
Speaker 2: Oh, come now, missus Bilby.
Speaker 1: He's really a very personable young man, very young for
Speaker 1: a night watchman.
Speaker 2: Mister Snow, Sometimes I wonder about your taste.
Speaker 11: You must not stay so much to yourself. You must
Speaker 11: become dead acquainted with our ways.
Speaker 2: That's quite true, old man. Oh, you must come to
Speaker 2: the plate tonight. We're going to be entertained with one
Speaker 2: of Missus Bilby's tragic comedies, Love in Shadowland. I'm sure
Speaker 2: you will enjoy it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I will.
Speaker 5: It's really a festive occasion.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: One of is coming over Wannamakers.
Speaker 2: Yes, the entire colony over at Wannamakers is coming here
Speaker 2: en mass, to attend the play.
Speaker 1: You mean there are people living in other.
Speaker 11: Stores, Oh dear, yes, didn't you know? Of course, the
Speaker 11: best people live in Braces and Wanna Makers.
Speaker 2: Come now, missus Bilby, there are some very nice people
Speaker 2: at Altman's.
Speaker 1: Miss Bilby, Hello, Ella, good evening, mister Snall.
Speaker 5: Well what is it ella.
Speaker 6: Please, ma'am. I i'd so love to see your play tonight.
Speaker 6: May I have your permission, certainly not.
Speaker 11: You know better than that, your stupid creature. You know
Speaker 11: where you belong, in the basement by the garbage can.
Speaker 2: But Missus Bilby, mister sna Ella, you're becoming entirely too
Speaker 2: forward of late. I advise you to watch your step.
Speaker 2: Remember the dark men.
Speaker 6: Oh no, please, mister Roscoe. I'll be good, I promise
Speaker 6: I will.
Speaker 7: Oh no, please, don't send.
Speaker 4: For the dark man.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, Missus Bilby.
Speaker 2: Ella, I'll come back. Charles. You forget yourself, let her go.
Speaker 2: But how can you treat her like that? Why are
Speaker 2: you always frighten her? And what is all this about
Speaker 2: the dark men? Wailed mister Snellight.
Speaker 11: Please, mister Rascal, not now, you'll spoil our whole evening.
Speaker 11: And I do so want mister Snell to enjoy.
Speaker 2: My play very well, Missus Bilby. Later, Charles, but I
Speaker 2: want to know about the dark men.
Speaker 5: Later, later October.
Speaker 1: Twenty first, I found an opportunity to speak to Ella alone.
Speaker 1: I had not dared to speak to her before. Here
Speaker 1: one has the sense always of pale eyes secretly watching.
Speaker 1: But last night at the play, I induced a fit
Speaker 1: of hiccups as I anticipated I was sternly reprimanded and
Speaker 1: told to go and secret myself in the basement where
Speaker 1: the night watchman wouldn't hear me. This was exactly what
Speaker 1: I'd planned. I went to the basement, and there, in
Speaker 1: the darkness, among the garbage cans and the rats, I
Speaker 1: heard sobbing.
Speaker 2: Ella, Ella, Oh, Ella, is that you?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Why are you crying? What is it? Ella?
Speaker 6: They wouldn't even let me see the plane.
Speaker 2: Oh is that all?
Speaker 6: Oh, mister Snellert, I'm so unhappy?
Speaker 4: Are there they?
Speaker 2: You mustn't cry.
Speaker 6: You're the only one, the only one who is kind.
Speaker 2: Ella. Why are you here?
Speaker 1: Why did they treat you so differently?
Speaker 6: Because I'm not like them? I didn't choose to come here.
Speaker 2: You mean you are hell prisoner?
Speaker 6: Yes, you see, I was only six. I came here
Speaker 6: on a shopping tour with my mother. I got lost
Speaker 6: and fell asleep behind the counter. It was dark when
Speaker 6: I awoke, and they found me. Some of them wanted
Speaker 6: to send for the dark men because they were afraid
Speaker 6: I would tell on em, But missus Vonderpant said now
Speaker 6: I could stay and be her maid. I've been here ever.
Speaker 1: Since since you were six. But haven't you ever tried
Speaker 1: to get away.
Speaker 6: Oh no, I don't know anything about out there. I
Speaker 6: wouldn't know what to do. Besides her, I'm afraid to
Speaker 6: take the chance. If anyone tries to get out, they
Speaker 6: send for the dark men.
Speaker 2: Ella, who are the dark men?
Speaker 6: Don't you know? Oh, it's horrible. Tell me you know
Speaker 6: how people live in all the stores at Gimbals and Bloomingdales.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I know.
Speaker 6: Will the dark men live at the Undertakers Good Heavens.
Speaker 6: And whenever someone dies or breaks the rules, or when
Speaker 6: a burglar gets in and sees these people and might tell,
Speaker 6: they send for the dark men.
Speaker 2: That's horrible.
Speaker 6: They put the body in the butcher's shop and the
Speaker 6: food department, and then the dark men come. I saw
Speaker 6: them once.
Speaker 2: It was terrible. What do they do?
Speaker 6: They go in where the dead person is. They have
Speaker 6: wax with them and all sorts of things, And when
Speaker 6: they're gone, there's just a wax model left on the counter.
Speaker 6: Then our people put a frock on it or a
Speaker 6: bathing suit and mix it up with all the other
Speaker 6: wax models in the windows. And nobody ever knows.
Speaker 1: Ellie, you mean all these dummies.
Speaker 6: Hut, No, at least not all of them. But if
Speaker 6: you displease these people, the same thing might happen to you.
Speaker 1: October thirtieth, I've not kept up my journal. Writing has
Speaker 1: been out of the question once more. I'm frozen with terror,
Speaker 1: not for myself now, but for Ella.
Speaker 2: They hate her.
Speaker 1: Any time, they might turn against her and send her
Speaker 1: to the dark men. My mind is filled with her.
Speaker 1: I dream of her every day. I live to see
Speaker 1: her at night. We've managed it several times. They trust
Speaker 1: me now and let me roam about without interference.
Speaker 2: And finally tonight.
Speaker 1: I met her again and said it, Ella, I love you.
Speaker 2: I love you. Ella.
Speaker 1: Let let's get married or whatever they do here, and
Speaker 1: then we can live together in my home in.
Speaker 2: The carpet department.
Speaker 1: They wouldn't dare hurt you then, Oh, don't look so dismayed.
Speaker 1: If you like, we'll go away from here. Maybe we
Speaker 1: can get transferred to Bergdorf Goodman overlooking Central Park.
Speaker 6: Charles.
Speaker 2: Don't you but I love you, Ella?
Speaker 1: You're not in love with someone else?
Speaker 6: Charles, Yes, I am.
Speaker 2: But who? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I thought you hated them ally, Ah, it must be Roscoe.
Speaker 1: He's the only one that's young enough.
Speaker 6: Oh No, Charles, not Roscoe, especially not him. I do
Speaker 6: hate them more make me shudder.
Speaker 2: Well who is it? Then?
Speaker 6: Is he who the night watchman?
Speaker 2: No, it's impossible.
Speaker 6: Oh I love him. He smells of the sun.
Speaker 2: Ella.
Speaker 6: Oh it was wonderful the way it happened. Don't tell
Speaker 6: on me, Charles, or they're punishment.
Speaker 1: Oh no, No, I was careless.
Speaker 6: And there he was coming around the corner in the
Speaker 6: ladies lingerie department. I was caught. There were only some
Speaker 6: wax models in there under things. There was nothing else
Speaker 6: to do. I slipped off night dress and stood still.
Speaker 2: M m, I see he.
Speaker 6: Stopped near me. He looked at me. Oh, Charles. If
Speaker 6: he spoke to me, he said, say, honey, I wish
Speaker 6: they made them like you on Eighth Avenue. Oh, Charles,
Speaker 6: wasn't that a lovely thing to say?
Speaker 1: Personally, I should have said Park Avenue.
Speaker 6: Charles, don't get like these people here. It doesn't matter
Speaker 6: what avenue, Charles. It was just a lovely thing to say.
Speaker 2: But what can you do about him? Allow? He belongs
Speaker 2: to another world.
Speaker 6: Yes, to Eighth Avenue, And I want to go there, Charles.
Speaker 6: Are you really my friend?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, of course I am.
Speaker 6: Then I'll tell you I'm going to stand there again
Speaker 6: in a laundry department, so he'll see me, and then
Speaker 6: perhaps you'll speak to me again.
Speaker 2: Oh Ella, you're only torturing yourself.
Speaker 6: No, because this time I shall answer him and he'll
Speaker 6: take me.
Speaker 1: Away, take you away. Oh no, no, no, no, Ella.
Speaker 2: I couldn't bear that you don't love him.
Speaker 1: You only think you do because you think you'll take
Speaker 1: you out of here, But you don't know that he
Speaker 1: will and I will. Ella, I've made up my mind.
Speaker 6: I couldn't let you do it, even if I loved you.
Speaker 6: You couldn't do it, Charles. Why not because you really
Speaker 6: belong here. You've become one of.
Speaker 1: Them now, Ella, Ella, you mustn't say that it's true.
Speaker 6: And Charles, I've got to go with someone watching.
Speaker 8: Wait Hella, No Ella, come back, Ella, please, old fellow,
Speaker 8: you'll arouse the night watchman Rascal. Yes, love can be
Speaker 8: very upsetting, can't it. You heard just the last moment,
Speaker 8: or so very touching.
Speaker 2: I was rather surprised, And yet it's understandable. I've been
Speaker 2: attracted to Ella myself. We're still young, you know, and
Speaker 2: so she loves another too bad old fellow. Who could
Speaker 2: it be? Could it be that I am the cause
Speaker 2: of your heart break. You flatter yourself too much, Rascal.
Speaker 2: Then who the old judge? M certainly not the colonel, hardly,
Speaker 2: none of those, not one of the customers. She loves
Speaker 2: the night watchman. Can you imagine that she loves the
Speaker 2: night ooh.
Speaker 1: Er Roscoe. I shouldn't have said that. It's not true.
Speaker 1: At least I don't think it's true.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't you said you'll love her too.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't do anything tell anybody. This is a secret
Speaker 1: between us, between friends, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Of course, old man, as secret as the grave.
Speaker 1: She's young. Perhaps he'll leave and she'll forget him in time.
Speaker 1: Who knows, perhaps she will learn to love you er me,
Speaker 1: of course, in time, and we'll figure a way to
Speaker 1: keep her safe.
Speaker 2: Here, absolutely safe. Now, don't you worry about it? Well,
Speaker 2: it's almost dawn. Time for bed. Good morning, Charles, early evening,
Speaker 2: November fourth. I was a fool.
Speaker 1: I should have known he couldn't be trusted. You must
Speaker 1: have gone straight to missus von der Pant This evening,
Speaker 1: the atmosphere has changed. People flickered to and fro, smiling
Speaker 1: nervously horribly, with a sort of frightened sadistic exultation. An
Speaker 1: informal dance in the record apartment's been called off, and
Speaker 1: I can't find Ella.
Speaker 2: I'm going out again now. Who look for her? Roscoe?
Speaker 2: What have you done with her? Quiet? Night watchman? I
Speaker 2: don't care what have you done with her? Whatever I did,
Speaker 2: I did for your own good as well as the
Speaker 2: good of us all. Wait a minute, what is that?
Speaker 2: What are those people carrying? White Sella? She's tied up.
Speaker 2: They're carrying her Ella, Hella.
Speaker 1: Stop big doll, stop it, let me go, Let me go,
Speaker 1: stop it.
Speaker 2: I watching me.
Speaker 1: But they're taking her into the butcher shop.
Speaker 4: Hella, hella, hella, Yes, Charles, those are the dark men.
Speaker 2: Midnight.
Speaker 1: I am scribbling this last entry hurriedly. There and there
Speaker 1: in the butcher shop with Ella the dark Man.
Speaker 2: There's only one thing to do.
Speaker 1: I'm going to find the night Watchman and tell him
Speaker 1: he and I will save her if we can, and
Speaker 1: if we're overpowered, well, I will leave this pad on
Speaker 1: the stationary counter tomorrow.
Speaker 2: If I live, I will recover it.
Speaker 1: If I do not, whoever finds this and reads it,
Speaker 1: look in the windows. Look for three new wax dummies,
Speaker 1: two men, one rather sensitive looking and a girl. She
Speaker 1: has blonde hair and blue eyes, and her nose turns
Speaker 1: up a little.
Speaker 2: Look for us. And then find them, smoke them out,
Speaker 2: exterminate them.
Speaker 7: Adventures find them, smoke them out to extiminate them. Adventures same,
Speaker 7: not horrible.
Speaker 9: We gotta do something, kill somebody something, Oh Sam, what'll
Speaker 9: we do?
Speaker 6: Do?
Speaker 2: Not go to bad?
Speaker 4: But Sam, whoever wrote.
Speaker 7: This is sure got a weird senswer. You may probably
Speaker 7: some clock down and braces o to be fired.
Speaker 9: You mean you think it's just a storm.
Speaker 2: You couldn't You don't believe that stuff? Do you what?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I just thought I forget it, baby, snap out of it.
Speaker 7: I shouldn't leave you alone. You get too many ideas
Speaker 7: when I go bowling at night.
Speaker 9: Sam, Sam, don't you think maybe we ought to just
Speaker 9: take it back and show somebody nuts?
Speaker 7: It's not what the bother? They laugh at your baby,
Speaker 7: think you were crazy or something.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker 9: I guess I was silly.
Speaker 2: Forget it.
Speaker 7: Come on, let's go to bed. I'm tired.
Speaker 9: Sure, Sam, Golly, you know, for a while I was
Speaker 9: sure scared.
Speaker 6: I even forgot what I.
Speaker 9: Was gonna tell you what Sam, I found the cutest
Speaker 9: dress today only nineteen ninety five. Yeah, yeah, it was
Speaker 9: in the window with Bracy's. It was on a beautiful
Speaker 9: little wet smartled don hair. Oh why, and I don't
Speaker 9: up to no two minutes.
Speaker 3: Escape is produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Tonight we
Speaker 3: have brought you Evening Primrose by John Collier, adapted for
Speaker 3: radio by John Douncle. Featured in Tonight's story were Bill
Speaker 3: Conrad as Charles and Constance Cavendish is Ella with Harry Bartel,
Speaker 3: Lillian Bayer, Jeff Corey K. Miller and Irene ted Rose.
Speaker 3: Special music by Ivan Ditmar.
Speaker 1: Next week, when you've had all you can stand of routine,
Speaker 1: when your every day chose offer you no release, when
Speaker 1: the four walls are closing in on you, join us for.
Speaker 2: Escape.
Speaker 3: Next week we escape with another great story by one
Speaker 3: of the world's outstanding authors.
Speaker 2: Good Night then until this same time.
Speaker 3: Next week, when once again we offer you Escape. Roy Rowin,
Speaker 3: speaking for CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System