Lux Radio Theatre - Sorry Wrong Number

Lux Radio Theatre - Sorry Wrong Number

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Speaker 1: Lux Resents Hollywood.

Speaker 2: Leaver Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, bring

you the Lux Radio Theater starring Barbara Stanwick and Burt

Lancaster in Sorry Wrong Number, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your producer,

mister William.

Speaker 1: Keeling greetings from Hollywood, Ladies and Gentlemen. Tonight's play reverses

the usual relation between radio and motion pictures. Sorry Wrong

Number was first a radio drama, and it achieved such

success on the air that how Wallace decided to make

a picture of it. He assigned the author, Lucille Fletcher,

to expand her short drama into a full length screenplay,

and the result was a triumph of suspense drama. The

rest of the success story you know, because the paramount

picture with Barbara Stanwick and Bert Lancaster as the stars,

was one of the top films of the year. Tonight,

Sorry Wrong Number completes the circle and comes back to

radio with Miss Stanwick and mister Lancaster in their original

screen roles. Just as our drama had a double success story,

so has our product, Lux Toilet Soap. It's been a

favorite for years in the regular size and now the

new bath size has made Lux soap a hit all

over again. The curtain rises now for the first act

of Sorry Wrong Number, starring Barbara Stanwick as Leona and

Bert Lancaster as Henry in the Tangles Network of a

Great City. The telephone is the unseen link between a

million lives, servant of our common needs, confidence of our

inmost sequence, life and happiness, wait upon its wings, and

horror and loneliness, and sometimes even.

Speaker 3: Then operator, Operator, Operator, your call, please, Operator, I've been

ringing murray Hill three two four nine one for the

last half hour, and the line is always busy. Will

you ring it for me? Please?

Speaker 4: Murray Hill three two four nine one one moment.

Speaker 5: Please.

Speaker 3: It's my husband's office. He should have been home hours ago.

I can't think why that ridiculous wire should be busy.

They always closed that office at six o'clock.

Speaker 4: I am ringing your number.

Speaker 3: Thank you. Oh it's busy again. Operator, The line is

busy now, will you please hello hello missus Stevenson. Please,

I want to speak to mister Henry Stephenson. Hello, George, Hello,

what number?

Speaker 4: Is this?

Speaker 6: Everything?

Speaker 4: Okay for the night?

Speaker 6: George as costs plans.

Speaker 3: I beg your pardon, but I'm using this wire.

Speaker 7: What about the time still eleven fifteen, eleven fifteen, He

got it all straight down.

Speaker 8: Hello, Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 7: At eleven o'clock, the private patrol and goes around to

the bar on Second Avenue for a beer. Then I

get in through the kitchen window. I wait until the

train goes over the bridge in case a window is open,

and she should screak.

Speaker 3: Who is this?

Speaker 4: Hello?

Speaker 6: A plan says he doesn't want her to summer long.

You know me, George, And don't forget the jewelry. He

wants it to look like a robbery. See that's very important.

Speaker 8: Okay, now let me check that.

Speaker 4: Hello.

Speaker 3: Hello, Oh that's awful. That's horrible. Operator opready you you

just gave me a wrong number. I was calling murray

Hill three two four nine one, but instead I was

cut into some other number that you dialed. The wires

must have been crossed to something, and I just heard

the most dreadful thing, a murder. Yes, madam, I want

you to get that wrong number back for me at once.

Speaker 4: I'm sorry, madam, I do not understand.

Speaker 3: I just told you you dialed a number for me,

and then those those horrible men came on and well

it's it's unnerved me dreadfully. I'm an invalidator. Man, We'll

do something please.

Speaker 6: This is the chief operator. May I help you?

Speaker 4: Well?

Speaker 3: Oh, oh, yes, yes you may. I'm an invalid and

I've just had a dreadful shop just now on this telephone,

and I'm very anxious to trace the call. It was

about a murder, a terrible, cold blooded murder of a

poor innocent woman. Tonight, at eleven fifteen, I was trying

to reach my husband's office. He should have been home

hours ago. It's almost ten o'clock. I'm all alone tonight.

My nurse has the night off because my husband promised

he'd be home by six. I don't know any of

the neighbors, as we live permanently in Chicago. And it

so happens that the couple I have working for me

had some important data or other I don't know, a movie.

I suppose they said it was promised them three weeks ago.

You'd think that at least have checked with me before

leading they they know I'm not well. Phone call, madam,

I told you. I kept getting a busy signal. Then

I asked the operator to call for me, and then

out of a clear sky, I was cutting to this

ghastly conversation between two killers. Oh, for heaven's sake, all

this idiotic red tape. You just sit there and let

people die.

Speaker 9: Oh, is it.

Speaker 3: Is anyone downstairs? Gertrude, Gertrude, are you down there?

Speaker 9: Oh?

Speaker 3: Give me the police.

Speaker 10: I just told you.

Speaker 11: Man.

Speaker 10: First of all, there's a lot of people named George

as for the private patrolman and second Avenue when the bridge,

when Second Avenue was a very long street.

Speaker 3: I don't care about it.

Speaker 10: I don't know how many bridges.

Speaker 3: Oh this is insane. I tell you, a woman is

going to be murdered.

Speaker 6: A clue of this short way.

Speaker 10: It's not much more used to worse than no clue

at all, unless you think there's something funny about all that.

Speaker 6: Only what that somebody's trying to murder you me?

Speaker 3: Oh, that would be ridiculous. I mean, why should anybody?

Speaker 6: What have I yeah to worry?

Speaker 12: No?

Speaker 3: Just a minute, all right, don't listen to me. Who cares? Oh, Henry,

why did you leave me alone? Why did you leave

me alone here?

Speaker 5: Oh?

Speaker 3: His secretary, Henry's secretary, she'd know her numbers on the pad. Jennings,

Miss Jennings, Elizabeth Jennings.

Speaker 12: I know, Missus Stevens, and I haven't any idea where

mister Stephenson is.

Speaker 3: He was supposed to be home hours ago.

Speaker 12: Well that's odd, isn't it. The last time I saw

him was when he left this afternoon to keep an appointment.

Speaker 3: Appointment where Well, I don't know, but.

Speaker 4: I do know. We had a lunch and date with

a young lady.

Speaker 3: What young lady tell me, Miss Jennings, Oh, missus Lord.

Speaker 4: Missus Frederick Lord. She seemed very anxious to see mister Stevens.

Speaker 3: Missus Lord.

Speaker 4: I heard him make a date to meet her for lunch.

Speaker 3: Why, missus Lord, von here this afternoon? Oh yes, the

nurse answered, I have the memorandum right here, missus Lord,

four fifty pm.

Speaker 12: I'm afraid that's all I know, Missus Stevenson, But I'm

sure it's nothing to worry about. Mister Stevenson's so devoted,

he speaks so beautifully of you.

Speaker 4: Well, if there's anything.

Speaker 3: I can no, no, thank you, Miss Jennings.

Speaker 4: I do hope I haven't let a cat out of

the bad.

Speaker 3: Good night, Miss Jennings, missus Lord, A young lady, she said,

lunch and gone on afternoon.

Speaker 5: Hello, mister Stevenson.

Speaker 3: Please, he's not in. Who's calling?

Speaker 13: It's it's mister Evans again. Do you know where I

could reach you?

Speaker 3: I'm sure I don't know where mister Stevenson is called

back to.

Speaker 5: Fifteen minutes. Be all right, I haven't much time.

Speaker 3: Yes, fifteen minutes.

Speaker 13: And if he should come in, the name is Evans.

It's very important.

Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I'll tell him. Miss Lord telephone four fifty pm,

Murray Hill three nine two six six.

Speaker 14: Hello is missus lord in? This is missus Lord. Who's calling?

Speaker 3: Please?

Speaker 4: Missus Henry Stephenson. It so happens my husband hasn't come

home this evening. I thought perhaps you might give me

some idea.

Speaker 14: Yes, yes, but I can't talk now.

Speaker 6: Why can't you?

Speaker 14: Could I call you back?

Speaker 4: Call me back?

Speaker 3: Why is anything wrong?

Speaker 14: Leona? This is Sally Sally Hunt.

Speaker 4: Sally Hunt.

Speaker 14: I'm sorry if I sound ridiculous, but I can't talk now.

Speaker 3: No, no, no, wait.

Speaker 4: If you're the Sally Hunt.

Speaker 14: I used to, I'll call you back as soon as I.

Speaker 1: Can, Leona, Sally, who was it?

Speaker 3: Uh?

Speaker 14: Just one of the girls, dear she she wanted a recipe.

Speaker 7: He joyed like a bottle of beer.

Speaker 8: You got a neon ice?

Speaker 14: Oh no, I'm afraid not. I'll run down to the store.

Speaker 8: Thanks honey, and hurry back.

Speaker 15: Joel is dying.

Speaker 3: Sally Sally Hunt. Oh yes, yes, that was long ago

college spring dance. He was Sally's date. He was with

her when I met him. Henry Henry dancing with Sally.

Speaker 14: Hello, Leona, this is mister Henry Stevens.

Speaker 3: Hello Henry, Well, can I cut in?

Speaker 8: You don't mind miss where I come from. It's the

man who does the picture.

Speaker 3: All right, go ahead, Look, why.

Speaker 16: Don't you get somebody your own speed? I'm sure there

are better dances around.

Speaker 14: Oh you'll do all right, Henry. Leona knows a way

around the floor.

Speaker 3: Thank you, darling. Well, Henry, let's dance.

Speaker 8: So your name's Cutter?

Speaker 9: Huh?

Speaker 8: No relation to uh JV. Cutter?

Speaker 3: Distant? He's my father father. Anything wrong with that?

Speaker 8: Oh no, no, nothing wrong. What do they call you?

They asked, by nearest you from out of town? Well

that depends on what you call out of town.

Speaker 3: Oh I don't know, Carvid.

Speaker 8: I'm trying to be funny.

Speaker 3: Okay, what do you call out of town?

Speaker 8: Rescil?

Speaker 3: Oh? What college is up?

Speaker 8: There no college, Misscutter, just factories. I never even finished

high school.

Speaker 3: Neither did my father. He always says, if a man

has talent for making money, why should he waste his

time in school?

Speaker 8: I guess your old man ought to know.

Speaker 3: Why do you say we said the next dance out?

Why I've got a car, mister Stevens, and a brand

new one, a Laganda have a drive one.

Speaker 8: I never even heard of him. Besides, I'm with selling.

Speaker 3: Oh, don't worries. She'll never miss you, but.

Speaker 8: Maybe i'll miss her. Why didn't you think of that?

Speaker 4: Oh?

Speaker 3: Come on, he'll be silly. Oh once, I'm not kidding.

Speaker 8: Neither am I so long?

Speaker 5: Was well?

Speaker 3: Henry? It took me a few days, but I finally

got you in my car?

Speaker 6: How do you like it?

Speaker 8: Fine? Only we don't go together.

Speaker 3: It's a lot easier to see you here than well

with Sally Hunt. I'd never put the two of you

together in a million years.

Speaker 8: Why not?

Speaker 3: Oh, you're both so different, you belong in different worlds.

Speaker 8: What are you stopping for?

Speaker 12: We?

Speaker 3: Why not? It's nice here?

Speaker 8: Sure, it's nice here. Take a look. This is grassview.

Stick around a few years, and then see how much.

Speaker 17: You like it.

Speaker 3: What do you do, Henry, I work in a drug store.

Well that's a coincidence.

Speaker 8: Sure, I work in a drug store and your father

owns a hundred of them.

Speaker 3: Would you like to meet him? So?

Speaker 8: Who are you kidding?

Speaker 3: Nobody? Dad will like you. You're young, healthy, ambitious.

Speaker 8: Why don't you stop? What does a girl like you

want with a guy like me?

Speaker 3: Dad's coming to New York next weekend. I'm cutting my

classes on Saturday. Want to come with me?

Speaker 8: I don't know? And you look at me like that.

I come on, let's get out of here.

Speaker 3: No, not yet, Henry, not yet, Darling.

Speaker 11: Sure, sure, I like him, honey, But he's nobody leon?

Speaker 6: And what has he got?

Speaker 11: Nothing?

Speaker 3: And what did you have dad when you started?

Speaker 11: Besides, I thought you said he was sort of engaged

to that girlfriend of yours, that Sally something.

Speaker 3: Oh that's all over with Dad.

Speaker 13: I love him, love him?

Speaker 17: Oh?

Speaker 3: Come on?

Speaker 11: If I really thought you did you know, I'd be No.

Speaker 3: Don't start telling me.

Speaker 11: That, Leona.

Speaker 3: What's the you make me laugh? What does it really

matter to you? If I love Henry, You're not. All

you want is for me to stay here with you

for the rest of your life.

Speaker 11: You're afraid of losing, haven't I always let you do

anything you ever wanted to do. But marriage is something else.

Speaker 15: I've worked hard.

Speaker 18: I built up a big business just for you, and

you yourself.

Speaker 11: Wouldn't want to see some worthless clock of a husband,

a guy who alone.

Speaker 3: You don't care about me. You're thinking only of yourself

and your business. You're hateful, selverish and hateful laoner.

Speaker 4: Stop it here.

Speaker 1: You'll make yourself sick.

Speaker 3: And what good is your wonderful money and your wonderful

business If I'm dead, Yes, that's what you want to do.

Drive me into my grave. You don't care, just as

long as your business is safe.

Speaker 8: Oh can you say?

Speaker 4: Things? Go away?

Speaker 3: Don't touch me. Don't you dare touch.

Speaker 15: Me, darling, listen to me.

Speaker 1: I don't mean you.

Speaker 11: Oh look, we'll talk it all over again, it says, oh,

Leonor Wilson Wilson Quick color.

Speaker 3: Doctor Sally, Sally Hunt. I took Henry away from her.

She couldn't stand it, even after all these years. She

couldn't stand it going to him today, seeing him in

his office.

Speaker 4: Hello, Leona, this is Sally again. I'm sorry I had

to be so mysterious before, but I just couldn't talk

at home. My husband was there.

Speaker 3: Well, this is all certainly rather odd, to say the least.

Speaker 4: This whole thing must seem very peculiar to you, Leona,

hearing from me after.

Speaker 14: All these years. But I had to see Henry again today.

I've been so worried about.

Speaker 4: Him, about what well, my my husband, he's with the

District Attorney's office. And a couple of weeks ago, there's.

Speaker 18: Something funny, Sally here in the newspaper about an old

boyfriend of yours. Old boyfriend, remember Henry Stevenson. Pictures in

the paper. Mister and missus Henry Stevenson, She's the formerly

owner Catteral of Lake Forest, Illinois, taken a house for

the summer in Sutton Place. Missus Stevenson, in poor health

for several years, is here to consult with specialists. Mister Stevenson,

vice president of the cader Old Drug Corporation.

Speaker 14: Are you tearing it out for me?

Speaker 17: Oh?

Speaker 18: No, Now I may come in handy in a case

I'm working on.

Speaker 14: What sort of case?

Speaker 18: Oh, special investigation? Joe's annot wouldn't.

Speaker 14: Henry hasn't done anything wrong? Has he?

Speaker 17: Sorry?

Speaker 18: I won too many questions Hey, don't tell me you're

still stuck on that guy.

Speaker 14: Oh, don't be silly.

Speaker 18: Hello, anything happened Joe and Stevenson fell for Oh sure,

we'll go look. Tell Volga line it up. Hell, five

thousands enough one hundred dollar bills and.

Speaker 17: Make sure that marked.

Speaker 18: And for Pete's sake, keep your mouth shut.

Speaker 15: Thursday. Huh okay, ten o'clock in Soln.

Speaker 14: Sorry, this seems involved.

Speaker 4: I sisly don't know what you're trying to tell. Well,

wait till I finish. I know I didn't have any

right to do it. But that Thursday I went to

South Ferry. I don't know what I expected to see

that well, anyway, I spotted Fred and his friend Joe

from the police. There was another man with them, I guess,

the one who was to bring the five thousand dollars

in mark bills.

Speaker 3: Well, I followed them.

Speaker 4: Aboard the ferry and over to staff Eye. They went

far out to a very desolated stretch of beach, nothing

but a few broken down shacks in an old, deserted house.

I had to stay away behind them so they wouldn't

see me. But then they went in the house. That

gave me a chance to come closer. There was a

freshly painted sign out front twenty dunstan Terrace.

Speaker 14: It said, and the name Evans w Evans.

Speaker 4: Evan do you know it? I've never heard of him.

What happened? Well, after a while, a motor boat came

into shore and tied up at a pier in the

back of a house. A man sort of elderly got

out of the boat and went into the house.

Speaker 14: He was carrying a suitcase.

Speaker 4: A little later, my husband came out, only now he

had the suitcase. Well, he didn't come home until late

that night, and I was dying to ask him what happened,

what possible.

Speaker 14: Connection it could have with Henry. Well, I didn't dare

ask him, Leona.

Speaker 4: But things have happened since, and unless we'd do something,

something drastic, it may be too late. You're five minutes up.

Please depart for the next five minutes, just a minute, please,

I know I have another Nicola.

Speaker 14: Are you still there, Leona, I'm here.

Speaker 4: This is one of the queerest things I've ever heard. Yes,

I know, and I just didn't seem to be able

to connect Henry with it. That's why I finally went

to see him today.

Speaker 3: What did you find out.

Speaker 14: I met him for lunch.

Speaker 4: He told the captain he was expecting a very important

phone call, and then we sat down.

Speaker 16: It's been a long time, Sally, eight years. Tell me

how's dear Old Grassville these days?

Speaker 14: I don't know, Henry. I haven't been back.

Speaker 8: So you're married on living here in New York.

Speaker 4: Yes, my husband's with the District Attorney's office. That's why

I wanted, Henry. What I But what I'm trying.

Speaker 14: To say is this.

Speaker 4: A few days ago I saw a picture of you

in the newspaper Vice President.

Speaker 8: Now sounds beautiful, doesn't it. Biggest drug business in the country.

Speaker 14: I was sorry to read that the owner isn't well.

Speaker 16: Yes, Chicago doctors don't seem to know just what it is.

How trouble I.

Speaker 4: Mean, Henry, what do you do in the drug business?

Speaker 8: Push buttons like all other vice presidents?

Speaker 16: Oh, but I'm serious, so am I I'm almost as

important as the office.

Speaker 4: Boy, don't mean to be inquisitive. I only need this

for your own good.

Speaker 8: I mean, what for my own good?

Speaker 4: Well? Yesterday my husband was making out a record your

phone call.

Speaker 17: Mister Stevens.

Speaker 8: Oh thanks, excuse me, Sally.

Speaker 4: I'll be right back well, I waited a while, Leona,

but Henry didn't come back. And then for the next

five minutes, Operator, but I haven't been talking five minutes,

I deposited another NICOLOONEA sorry man, I'm please departit another.

Speaker 14: Five cents, but I haven't any more chance. No, hello, Leona,

I will have to call you back.

Speaker 4: But I only wanted to say that Henry never came

back to the table, and that he is in trouble.

Fret's been talking to the police. I've heard him mention

Henry's name over and over again. And there's someone else

in it too, that man called Evan. Your five minutes

are up, Madam Waldo. Evans he owns that house of

to that night. I am sorry, madam. I will have

to connect you.

Speaker 3: Please the chargers put them on this board. Operator.

Speaker 1: In a few moments, we'll bring you back two of Sorry,

wrong number. Now here's Libby Collins, our Hollywood reporter. Well, Libby,

that was a gaily evening we all had at the

premiere of twentieth century Boxer's new picture twelve o'clock High.

Speaker 19: Yes, indeed, and for one person in particular, it must

have been the thrill of a lifetime. I'm thinking about

our little Lux Girl, Jackie Barnes.

Speaker 1: The winner of the national contest for the prettiest fifteen

year old Lux Girl. Jackie was an honored guest at

the premiere. She certainly was a radiant youngster.

Speaker 19: She got more compliments than she could count that evening.

Speaker 8: Well, that's the way it is with Lux girls.

Speaker 1: Libby, you know, Jackie was telling me how impressed she

was with Twelve o'clock.

Speaker 3: High, as everyone was.

Speaker 19: It's always good news when Gregory peck haads a cast,

and this time I think he has the best role

of his career.

Speaker 1: Yes, he makes the tough commander of a war time

bomber group an unforgettable personality.

Speaker 3: It's a gripping story.

Speaker 19: You feel intensely the dangerous flying sequences, the day by

days strain those men endured.

Speaker 3: The whole cast is magnificent.

Speaker 1: Twelve o'clock High is one picture live in where the

men take the honor.

Speaker 19: Yes, except for Joyce mackenzie. She plays the one feminine role.

Makes her debut in pictures as the army nurse.

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protecting care. Now our producer, mister William Keeley, Act two.

Speaker 1: Of Sorry Wrong Numbers, starring Barbara Stanwick as Leona and

Burt Lancaster as Henry. It's a moment or so later,

through an open window, the night air lifts slowly in

Leona's window, heavy with the heat of a New York summer.

Leona lies motionless on the bed and the sounds of

the night become magnified. The tugboats on the river, the

hum of distant traffic, the muffled roar of a train

passing over a bridge.

Speaker 3: And then suddenly, Hello, Leona, this is Sally again.

Speaker 4: Can you hear me?

Speaker 3: I can hear you?

Speaker 4: I'm calling from the subway station. The stores around here

are all closed. I've just been home, Leona, and some

more has happened. That house on Staten Island, the one

I told you about, but it was burned down this afternoon.

He had captured three minutes. But this Waldo Evans escape.

Speaker 3: But who is Waldo Evans? And for heaven's sake, what's

his connection with my husband?

Speaker 4: I still don't know, Leona, And I do know the

whole thing has something to do with your father's coming.

Speaker 3: Oh that's absurd. My father called me from Chicago this afternoon.

He never mentioned a word. Now, Look who's been arrested

and why?

Speaker 4: Three men? And I don't know why?

Speaker 3: And why do you think Henry's one of them?

Speaker 4: I didn't say that. I only know that somehow he's

terribly involved.

Speaker 3: Did anyone say he was going to be arrested?

Speaker 4: No, not exactly.

Speaker 3: Then what are you talking about? Why are you calling

me like this? Are you still jealous that I took

Henry away from you? Can't you bear to see me happy?

Can't you stop telling lies and making trouble? Even now?

I kept talking again, and I'm right, you are just

trying to make trouble no, no, Fred and Joe.

Speaker 4: They're coming down the subway patform. If my husband should

see me here, Leo, I've got to hang up. Hello.

Speaker 9: Oh, yes, this.

Speaker 6: Is Western Union. We have a message for missus Henry Stevens.

Speaker 3: This is missus Stevenson.

Speaker 6: The telegram is as follows Darling. Terribly sorry but last

minute remembered annual drug convention tomorrow in Boston. Taking next

train out back Sunday morning. Keep well all my love

and signed Henry. That is all, madam. Do you wish

us to deliver a copy.

Speaker 9: Of the Oh?

Speaker 3: Oh, then I wait till.

Speaker 6: The tree goes over the bridge. Case your windows open

and she.

Speaker 10: Should streak class as the cos I got your message, George,

everything o chafer tonight, he.

Speaker 6: Read, terribly sorry to get a green back. Then I

wait till the train goes.

Speaker 17: Over the bridge.

Speaker 6: Then I wait till the grain the bridge.

Speaker 3: Ah ah, Hello doctor Alexander, doctor, this is missus Stevenson.

Speaker 6: Oh yes, Missus Stevenson.

Speaker 8: How are you?

Speaker 3: I need you right away? Doctor, Please come right over.

Speaker 6: Now now, Missus Stevenson. What seems to me I.

Speaker 3: Said I want you to come over at once.

Speaker 17: I'm afraid I can Tonight missus Stevenson, now be sensible

if you just make up your mind to cooperate with

your husband and me and our plan.

Speaker 3: It back Maranda Hutchin, what are you talking about.

Speaker 6: Missus Stevenson. I explained everything in my letter over a

week ago letter?

Speaker 1: What letter?

Speaker 6: But surely your husband hasn't he spoken to you, Missus.

Speaker 3: Stevens about what?

Speaker 17: Look you you try to compose yourself now and perhaps

we can discuss it tomorrow.

Speaker 3: We'll discuss it now, do you hear me now this

very minute?

Speaker 6: Well, if you insist upon knowing? Your husband called at

my office about ten days ago.

Speaker 17: He seemed quite concerned about your condition. Naturally, anyway, we

discussed your illness at greatly.

Speaker 8: Still a pleasant in doctor. I still don't know what's

wrong with her.

Speaker 17: Well, mister Stephenson, your wife Sylna seems to date far

back to her early childhood. Is that true?

Speaker 8: Yes? I suppose so.

Speaker 17: But you knew nothing about it when you married her.

Speaker 8: No, not all that for a couple of years. You see,

we were we were living with her father then in

Lake Forest, I remember early.

Speaker 3: One more, why did you do that, Henry? Why did

you send the maid for my handbag?

Speaker 8: Why because there's something in it that I need.

Speaker 3: Well, how much money do you want?

Speaker 16: I'm sorry to disappoint you, Leona, but this time it

isn't money. Simply that I wrote Ferguson's telephone number in

your notebook last night and I want to call him.

Speaker 8: We have a date for lunch.

Speaker 3: You know perfectly well, you're having lunch with me to day.

Speaker 16: I know, Leona, but but I won't be able to

make it this state with Ferguson's rather.

Speaker 3: Important, oh more important than me.

Speaker 8: I suppose It isn't that, Leona, It's just that, well,

it's about a job.

Speaker 3: You have a job. What on earth are you talking about, Leona?

Speaker 16: Leona, I have been meaning to say this for you,

to you for weeks. I just don't belong in your

father's business.

Speaker 3: Who says you don't I do?

Speaker 16: I say it working for your father like running in

a dream. No matter how hard you try, you know

you'll never get anywhere. I don't want to graft off

your charity for the rest of my life. I want

a chance, a chance on my own.

Speaker 3: Only you're not getting the chance. I won't have you

trapesing around you here just because Dad doesn't go falling

all over himself. You're not going to throw away a

million dollar business like cotter elth for an idle whim.

It happens to be my business too, you know. And

to think my own husband turns up his nose at it. Now,

call Ferguson and tell him you've changed your mind. Go on, Henry,

call him.

Speaker 8: But I haven't changed my mind.

Speaker 3: You're still going.

Speaker 8: Yes, someday you'll see. It'll be better for both, Henry.

Speaker 3: Henry.

Speaker 8: Wait, Now that's a little silly, isn't it. Locking the door.

Speaker 3: You're not going, Henry, not as long as you're my husband.

Speaker 8: Oh, come on, le only give me that.

Speaker 3: You can't do it. You can't do this to me.

Nobody's ever done it, nobody, nobody.

Speaker 8: Will you please stop and give me that?

Speaker 1: Nay?

Speaker 3: Please? If you love me, if you love me at all, Henry,

I beg you. I'll talk to Dad. I'll do anything

anything you want. Only don't leave me.

Speaker 8: Don't go away, give me that.

Speaker 3: No, No, I won't, I won't. I won't.

Speaker 9: Oh are you heading?

Speaker 10: Harry?

Speaker 17: Your husband told me missus Stevenson that, in spite of

your opposition, he had lunched that day with mister Ferguson

when he got home that evening, he said, your father

was waiting for him at the door, angry and worried.

All right, Henry, come in the library.

Speaker 8: I want to talk to you. What's the matter. Where's Leona?

Speaker 11: Leona's in bed. She had an attack, a heart attack.

She almost died a heart attack. Did you too quarrel

this morning?

Speaker 17: Yes?

Speaker 8: But are you supposed to have lunch with leonor?

Speaker 4: Yes?

Speaker 16: But I had to see someone else. Look, mister Carr,

if you don't mind, I'd like to see Leona.

Speaker 11: You'll see Leona when she is ready to see you,

Just in case you don't know it. Leona's had a

hot condition since childhood. Her mother died of it the

day Leona was born. Leona can't stand being treated the

way you did this morning. She never has been before,

and she is not going to be now by you

or anyone else.

Speaker 8: And what happens if once in a while I have

an opinion of my own.

Speaker 11: I don't give about your opinions, Henry, have them.

Speaker 8: Think anything you like.

Speaker 11: But while you're in this house, you'll do what my

daughter tells you to do.

Speaker 8: I think you should know that the argument this morning

was about a very important decision.

Speaker 16: Don't be a fool, A decision I made as much

for the sake of Leon as future is for my own.

Speaker 11: Was it for her that you had lunch with Ferguson?

Speaker 17: Well?

Speaker 1: Did you get the job?

Speaker 17: No?

Speaker 8: No, I didn't, and I'll tell you why you didn't.

It so happens.

Speaker 11: I'm a pretty good customer of Ferguson's. I buy more

than two million dollars worth of dies every year. And

I who do you think he's going to care about

you or me?

Speaker 8: So that's what happened.

Speaker 11: Now, who else in Chicago would you like to have

lunch with about a job? Oh, face up to it, Henry.

Just as long as you're my son in law, you're

working for me and nobody else. If you really cared

for Leo another way I do, you'd have done the

same thing in my place. Besides, you haven't done so

badly for yourself. I go upstairs and see Leona.

Speaker 17: She's been asked, well, missus Stevenson, As I say, we

discussed all these things in my office ten days ago,

your husband and I. I asked, mister Stevenson, how long

this heart attack of yours lasted?

Speaker 8: Oh she got well right away.

Speaker 17: Doctor.

Speaker 8: Maybe I maybe I should have pulled out then and there,

but I didn't full up.

Speaker 16: Somehow I couldn't. My father wasn't altogether wrong. I hadn't

done too badly for myself anyway. From that time on,

I began to compromise, always with the hope that somehow

someday i'd went out on my own. But it wasn't

long before we were right back where we started another attack.

Speaker 8: Yes, sir, I remember one day in particular, I had

an idea that I thought that I hoped might.

Speaker 6: Help with it.

Speaker 3: Henry. You me, and you've brought me here just to

look at an apartment.

Speaker 8: Well, you'd be crazy about it, Leona. Now come on,

let's go and look at us.

Speaker 3: I'm not interested, Henry, but.

Speaker 8: You haven't even seen it. Why there are terraces on

all four sides.

Speaker 3: A thousand times. We don't need an apartment.

Speaker 16: Leon, Leona, it's not an apartment. I'm looking for. What

I want is a home, a home borrow. You just

can't go on living with your father and deafinitely.

Speaker 3: I don't see why not. There's plenty of room, and

I like it. Besides, who's going to pay for this

little penthouse.

Speaker 8: Well, I hope eventually.

Speaker 3: I will, oh eventually. But in the meantime, it's my money,

and I'm the one who's going to pay for it.

Speaker 8: Okay, Leona, let's go, Henry.

Speaker 3: You're so naive, You're like a little boy with a

box of candy. I just can't throw my money away

on everything you happen to see.

Speaker 8: There's a limit.

Speaker 16: I'm supposed to follow you around like a pet dog

tied to a chain.

Speaker 8: I'm supposed to like whatever crumbs you want.

Speaker 17: To throw it.

Speaker 3: Oh, don't be ridiculous.

Speaker 16: You've got me sewed up sixteen different ways, three meals

a day in pocket money.

Speaker 3: That's all you care about. That's all. You married me

for my money. I should have known it. I should

have known it.

Speaker 8: Stop it, Leona, please, just for once, will you listen?

Speaker 3: You hate me, You're bored with me. All you want

to do is get away.

Speaker 8: Okay, I'm bored or it's stiff. It wouldn't be with

that neat little routine you've got cooked up for me.

Speaker 17: What do I have?

Speaker 15: Nothing?

Speaker 8: Nothing on my own but.

Speaker 16: Even the studs on my shair of the mattress of life.

Speaker 3: Henry, how can you say this to me?

Speaker 16: He once told me I'd love this kind of life, remember,

or do you want to know something I do?

Speaker 6: Not it?

Speaker 16: I love it now more than you'll ever know what.

I want to be my own boss, profiting by every

bit of it, not just a stooge on the outside

looking in.

Speaker 3: Henry, Henry gave me some water.

Speaker 6: Quick.

Speaker 8: Listen to me, Leon, Please, it isn't that I want

to be without you.

Speaker 16: I could love you still, if only you'd try to

understand Henry.

Speaker 3: The pills.

Speaker 16: That attack kept her in the hospital in only three weeks.

Doctor the time, well, I thought it was all my fault.

But no matter what I did, her attacks increased in

violence and became more frequent. What a year ago, Leanna, Well,

she she just seemed to give up hope of ever

getting well. She took to her bed more or less permanently.

It was my idea to come to New York and

see you. The doctor's Chicago said she didn't have much

of a chance. Anyway, we rented the house on Ston

Place and here we are. Believe me, it's been more

and more like a nightmare. Mister Stephenson. There's absolutely nothing

wrong organically with your wife's heart.

Speaker 8: Nothing wrong.

Speaker 17: I have examined her thoroughly, and what you've just told

me confirms what I've thought from the star, and that

is her condition is mostly mental.

Speaker 1: Mental.

Speaker 17: She's what we call a cardiac neurotic. Her attacks are

brought on by her emotions, the lack of control of frustrations.

Whole thing is probably quite unconscious on her part. Now

I'm not seeing your wife isn't sick mentally. She is sick,

and her attacks are real enough, but given the proper treatment,

she may snap out of it entirely. Well, I'll I'll

call on her to morrow as a psychiatrist. I wanted

to see doctor Ah. I wish you could wait a

few days. I'd like to think this over, think it over. Yes,

you see, she's so easily upset. I think that, well,

that maybe I ought to prepare her, you know, get

it used to the idea. Well, a few days more

or less won't matter, I suppose.

Speaker 8: Unless unless you wanted to write a letter, it might

make it easy for her to take and it well,

it would give me more time to talk to her.

Speaker 17: Well, it's extremely delicate matter, mister Stephenson. But if you

think you can manage it. Let's find that way. Give

me a ring in a couple of days. Meanwhile, I'll

write the letter.

Speaker 8: Thanks doctor, thanks for everything.

Speaker 17: Well that's exactly the way I left things, Missus Stevenson.

Ten days ago, as your husband requested, I wrote you

the letter, and.

Speaker 3: I'm telling you I never received a letter.

Speaker 17: Well, let's not worry about that. Now. I've told you everything,

and now I want you to relax.

Speaker 6: You have I prescribe?

Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it's here.

Speaker 6: Well, then takes double the dose out.

Speaker 20: Liar, liars, liars, liars.

Speaker 6: Hello is Stephenson?

Speaker 9: Who is it, mister Evans.

Speaker 13: I've been trying to get you, but your line has

been busy. Has mister Stevenson come home?

Speaker 3: No, no, he isn't here. He won't be back until Sunday.

And will you please please tell me what this is

all about? Why are you calling him? Who are you?

Speaker 13: I've already told you, Missus Stevenson, and I'm very sorry

if I've annoyed you. But there are names and addresses

that are very important for mister Stevenson to know. So

if you will be good enough to take the following message,

what are you talking about?

Speaker 3: I can't take any messages.

Speaker 13: Now, if you will please tell mister Stephenson that the

house at twenty dunstan Terrace has been burned down.

Speaker 5: I burned it down.

Speaker 13: You you are also that I do not believe it

was mister Millano. The name is spelled to kim oh

r A and O will betrayed us to the police.

Speaker 5: And since mister Millano have been arrested by.

Speaker 13: The District Attorney's office, there is no necessity for the money.

Speaker 3: Oh oh, this is fantastic.

Speaker 4: What money?

Speaker 3: Who's Morano?

Speaker 13: Sadly tell mister Stephenson that I escaped and I am

now a coming at my address. However, I do not

expect to be here after midnight. If he wishes to

find me, he may call me at a phone number Bowie.

Speaker 5: Two one thousand and Now, if you'll be so good

as to.

Speaker 3: Repeat you're insane. Do you realize I'm a terribly sick woman.

Speaker 5: I'm very sorry for you, missus Stevenson.

Speaker 13: I don't know. Perhaps it would be better to tell

you the two facts I mean now before they are

gobbled by the police. Maybe then you'll understand.

Speaker 3: But if you're here, I don't know what a whom

to believe, So much has happened to me tonight, and

I'm sick.

Speaker 4: My doctor says, I'll tell you all I know, missus

A well, tell me then tell me.

Speaker 13: It started over a little a year ago at your

father's factory in Chicago.

Speaker 4: You see, missus.

Speaker 13: Stephenson Company for many years. I'm a chemist. Anyway, late

one afternoon, your husband walk into the labor.

Speaker 8: We pause now for station identification.

Speaker 2: This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Speaker 1: In a few moments we'll continue with Act three of

Sorry wrong number. Our guest tonight is Barbara and Newtson,

young paramount starlet. Aren't you glad? Barbara? You were present

at a certain little theater production one evening.

Speaker 20: A lucky evening for me, Mister Keiley, a talon scout

saw me, arranged for a screen.

Speaker 8: Test, and here you are in picture.

Speaker 20: Yes, and from now on I'm going to work like

mad Oh. It must be wonderful to be a great actress,

like like Olivia de Havlin.

Speaker 1: I gather you've seen her new picture, The Heiress.

Speaker 13: Not once, but three times.

Speaker 20: I can understand why the New York Motion Picture Critics

gave mister Havelin the Award for the best performance of

the year.

Speaker 1: And how did you like Montgomery Cliff as the money

conscious suitor in The Heiress.

Speaker 20: He's splendid, so dashing and and romantic too. And Ralph

Richardson as a stern father is simply perfect.

Speaker 1: Do you remember the scene where he compares his unpopular

daughter with her sought after cousin.

Speaker 5: Oh?

Speaker 20: Yes, the party scene where Morna Freeman is the reigning bell.

She's like a Dresden doll, so blonde and dainty.

Speaker 2: Those lavish costumes of the Crinoline era suit her beauty very.

Speaker 14: Well, yes, mister Kennedy. And she's just as delicate and

lovely in real life, always so beautifully.

Speaker 8: Groomed, real luck sloveliness, huh exactly.

Speaker 20: Mura Freeman gives her complexion daily luck soap care, and

she's really keen about the new bath size cake.

Speaker 2: Nine out of ten screen stars say they're delighted with

this new product of Liver Brothers Company. For a luxurious, refreshing,

relaxing beauty bath, you simply can't buy a finer soap.

Speaker 20: That's the way I feel. I love the nice fragments

that leaves on the skin.

Speaker 2: Thank you, Miss Barbara and Nudsen. Women who use the

generous new bath size Lux toilet soape will agree its rich,

abundant lather and delicate flower like fragrance make a wonderfully

refreshing beauty bath. So for all over lux loveliness, why

not get the satin smooth bath size Lux toilet soap tomorrow.

Here's our producer, mister William Keeley.

Speaker 1: The curtain rises on the third act of Sorry Wrong Number,

starring Barbara Stanwick as Leona and Bert Lancaster as Henry.

Speaker 8: I give it from the kitchen window.

Speaker 6: I wait till the train got over the bridge.

Speaker 8: Eleven fifteen.

Speaker 6: You've got it all straight, bar.

Speaker 8: B eleven thirteen.

Speaker 1: The clock on the table says ten minutes to eleven o'clock.

But Leona Stevenson, clutching the telephone, listens with mounting the

Wildermington fright to the voice of a man named Waldo Evans.

Speaker 13: Yes, missus Stevenson, your husband came into the laboratory and

started asking me questions about of the drugs were used

and how we prepare them.

Speaker 16: Well, this is very interesting, mister Evans. So this is

where the formula for all our products are developed. Huh,

that's right, some of these drugs must be very valuable.

Speaker 13: Oh yes, Missus Stevenson, very valuable.

Speaker 8: See and tell me what do you do with them?

Speaker 13: Well, they go into the various catwell products.

Speaker 3: Uh m hm.

Speaker 16: And you're the man in chargia huh yes, sir, I see. Well,

thanks for your time, mister Evans, I was just curious.

Speaker 13: Thank you, sir. Good night, mister Stevenson. That was my

first meeting with your husband, Missus Stevenson. From time to

time he drove me into the laboratory and visited with me,

and one night, when it was storming, he offered to

drive me home.

Speaker 8: So you're a bachelor, mister Evans. Well, I didn't know that.

Speaker 13: Yes, sir, I live in a rooming house on Chestnut Street.

Speaker 16: A man all by himself, no responsibilities. Tell me why

do you work so hard well.

Speaker 13: To tell you the truth, sir? Because because I have

a hope, an ideal. You might say, in a few years,

I hope to retire, retire, Oh, I have it all plan, sir.

I'm going back to England. I hope to raise horses, sir. Well,

not not race horses, just horses, sir. Do you care

for horses? Mister Stevenson.

Speaker 8: Well, I'm afraid I haven't thought very much about them.

Speaker 13: Then you're missing a great deal. Well that's my hope, sir,

to live there quietly and raise horses.

Speaker 8: Why have you waited this long? Money?

Speaker 13: Money, of course, but someday I'll.

Speaker 16: Why wait until you're old? What good is a dream

when you're too old to enjoy it?

Speaker 13: Oh, I've thought of that, mister Stephenson. I suppose the

zest does come out of things with the encroachments of

old age?

Speaker 8: Are you talking, Wally? My motto is, if you want something,

get it now.

Speaker 13: It's it's the next turn to the right, mister Stephenson,

chestnuts stay.

Speaker 8: You know, Wally, Wally, I've been thinking there might be

a way out, a way out, yes, to have you a.

Speaker 16: Little place in England everything you want, indeed, sir. And

all you have to do is to make a little

mistake every now and then.

Speaker 8: Mistake in the laboratory. I've been checking out it, Wally.

The way you're set up, no one would ever know.

Speaker 13: Mister Stephenson, i'd better say good night, sir.

Speaker 8: Wait a minute. The differences in the amounts of those

rules drugs you handle need be so slight that nobody

but yourself would ever know.

Speaker 13: I don't understand, Sam.

Speaker 16: Look what you've done for the company all these years,

and what have you gotten out of it? Not a

tenth of the salary you should be getting.

Speaker 13: No, no, please, mister Stevenson.

Speaker 8: Don't be silly. I've already talked it over with someone.

Speaker 13: Else, talked it over with with whom.

Speaker 8: A man named Morano. He can have all the raw

drugs that we can get, and then we split you

Mirano and I.

Speaker 13: Mister Stevenson, I just can't believe it. You're a young man,

vice president of the company, a wonderful future ahead of you.

Speaker 16: Don't make me laugh. Yes, I'm young, young enough not

to waste my life and dreaming. There are things I

want to do, big things, and the only way to

do them.

Speaker 8: I'm sorry why I thought you were my kind of

a person. I trusted you. But what if we were caught?

Why should we be caught. We'll make our pile and

stop before anyone even guesses what went on.

Speaker 16: Marano knows just what to do. Besides, for once, there's

an advantage in being cautural.

Speaker 8: Son in law.

Speaker 13: Yes, yes, I see, I.

Speaker 8: Thought you would Wally well partner.

Speaker 21: We're in business, and so we started, missus Stevenson, a

systematic plan.

Speaker 13: Of robbing your father's company. By September of last year,

I had banked a sum of seven thousand, five hundred dollars.

But then I received a memorandum from the personnel office.

Speaker 16: Will you please stop your whining? Didn't you read the memo.

You're not fired. They're simply transferring you to the New

Jersey plant.

Speaker 13: But they must suspect this is a warning. I'm sure

of it. I'm through, mister Stevenson.

Speaker 16: Care you old fool. We've been stoo just up till now.

Morano's played us for suckers. This is our chance to

get rid of it. That transfer of yours is just

what I've been looking for.

Speaker 13: I don't understand.

Speaker 16: I'll tell Marana you've been fired, that the deal's all

washed up. Meanwhile, you're back there in New Jersey. We'll

operate on our own and we'll split Morano's share between us.

Speaker 13: But I'm just a chemist, mister Stevenson. I don't know

anything about disposing of drugs.

Speaker 8: But I know all about it.

Speaker 6: Now.

Speaker 16: Listen, the Cattural plant in New Jersey is in Bayone,

and just across the bay from Byone is Staten Island.

I happen to know a little about Statney.

Speaker 13: About six weeks later we began operations Missus Stevenson on

Staten Island, New York. My headquarters was an old abandoned

house twenty dunstan Terrace. There, twice a week after work,

I would come from your father's plant in Bayone, and

there mister Stevenson would telephone me or mail me his

instructions from Chicago. A little over three months ago, mister

Stevenson arrived in New York. A few nights later, when

I went to twenty Dunston Terrace, I found that your

husband was not alone.

Speaker 8: Come right in.

Speaker 15: We be waiting for you, Wally, this is Morano, Morano.

You didn't expect me, did you, mister Evans Well needed it,

mister Stephenson. But here I am. You see, I have

ways of finding things out. For instance, ever since the

two of you broke off our president little association in Chicago,

I find you've accumulated a rather large bank account. All right,

what about it?

Speaker 16: I'm warning you right now, Marna, don't you try any

funny relax. I'm wanting you, I said, relax, shure.

Speaker 15: You're a big, strong guy, mister Stevens, but messing me

up won't get you anywhere. You see, I merely represent

an organization. But we had what you might call a

board meeting and the vote was seven to one against you.

And that's pretty serious. That's like a death senting.

Speaker 8: Cut a short marna. What do you want, mister Stevenson?

Speaker 13: Please give them what they want. Mister Morano, you can

take everything I've got.

Speaker 17: Shut up now.

Speaker 15: If you were to turned back what you've accumulated, mister

Stevenson and pay us two hundred thousand dollars for our

injured feelings, I might get the board to reconsider the decision.

Speaker 8: You know as well as I do. I don't have

that kind of money.

Speaker 15: But you have such wonderful connections. A millionaire father in law,

very rich. Wis somebody good?

Speaker 1: Dut does?

Speaker 8: What do you suppose I went into this racket and.

Speaker 15: I thought I read somewhere about your wife being sick,

very sick.

Speaker 17: What about her? Well?

Speaker 15: She has life insurance? Hasn't she made out in your name?

I'm pretty sure the board will give you, say, ninety

days to raise the money on something like that for

ninety days. Isn't that what the doctor in Chicago said

she wouldn't get better?

Speaker 8: Yes, that's what he said.

Speaker 17: But what's that?

Speaker 15: Well, just a little io you to make it legal.

You see, everything can be straightened out without any trouble,

without any rough stuff.

Speaker 8: I suppose something happened, but my wife didn't. I mean,

I mean, if she got better, I.

Speaker 15: Wouldn't worry about that. Mister Stevenson. You've got a doctor's

word for it, haven't you. They know their business. So here,

take the pen and sign the piece of paper.

Speaker 13: What I have just told you, Missus Stevenson took place

three months ago. I need not describe mister steven Stevenson's

distress when the IOU became due last Wednesday. As I understand,

mister Stevenson saw mister Mullano, but his request when extension

was refused. And now, inasmuch as I am already given

you the final message, I believe the rest explains itself

quite simply.

Speaker 3: Mister Evans, where is my husband? Where is mister Stevenson?

Speaker 9: Now?

Speaker 5: I wish I knew perhaps if you tried to blow bowing.

Speaker 3: The bowery number? What bowery number?

Speaker 7: The one I gave you.

Speaker 13: When I first started to talk, Missus Stevenson. I'm afraid

I must ask you.

Speaker 4: To check it all.

Speaker 3: I can't. I can't.

Speaker 13: I'll repeat it once more. Point one the house at

twenty dunstan Terrace was burned.

Speaker 5: Down this afternoon. I did it. Point two I escaped.

Speaker 13: Point three mister Mullano has been arrested, so it will

not be necessary to raise the money. Point four it

was not mister Mullano or told the police just.

Speaker 3: Give me the bowery number, the one for my husband.

Speaker 13: Point five I am anh half my address now, but

I'm leaving and.

Speaker 5: May be found that bowed two one.

Speaker 3: Thousand, worry two one thousand, Yes.

Speaker 13: After midnight, good night, Missus Stevenson, and thank you very much.

Speaker 3: Bowry two one thousand, Barry two. About oh Henry Henry?

Is this bar is mister Stephenson there? Mister who Stephenson?

Mister Henry Stephenson. I was told to call by mister Evans.

Speaker 6: Yes, a minute, I'll see Stevenson.

Speaker 3: Yes, yes, Stephenson, hold on.

Speaker 6: Hello, yes, No he's not here man.

Speaker 3: Oh well, mister Evans said he might be expected. Could

I could I leave a message message.

Speaker 6: I'll look, lady, this is your.

Speaker 3: Idea, but you oh, please please help me. What number

is this? What am I calling?

Speaker 6: Two one thousand City Morgue.

Speaker 3: Oh oh, oh, operator, operator, Please give me the police quickly. No, no,

wait a minute, give me the hospital. I can't be alone.

It's eleven o'clock. Hurry, please, it's eleven o'clock. Operator. I

can't hear you. Are you calling the hospital? Operator? Operator?

Is this a hospital? I want the nurse's registry. I

want to hire a trained nurse immediately for the night.

I am sorry, it doesn't matter. I've got to have

a nurse.

Speaker 4: I understand that I'm.

Speaker 3: Sick, and I'm all alone, all alone in this horrible

empty house. I overheard a conversation, a telephone conversation about

a murder, a murder to be committed at eleven fifteen.

I don't know what's happened to my husband. If something

isn't done, I'm afraid.

Speaker 4: What was that that?

Speaker 3: The click just now on my telephone, as though someone

had lifted the hook of the extension downstairs.

Speaker 4: I did not hear this, madam, and if you.

Speaker 3: Well, I did. There's someone in this house. There's someone

downstairs and they're listening to me.

Speaker 4: Now then.

Speaker 3: Who is it? Who's down there?

Speaker 14: Oh?

Speaker 4: Hello, new Haven is calling missus, Henry Stephenson. Is she there?

Speaker 3: I can't talk now, call back later.

Speaker 12: I have a person call from mister Stephenson.

Speaker 6: Do you not?

Speaker 3: Did you say, mister Stevenson, mister Stevenson from new Haven?

Speaker 4: Do you wish to accept the call? Madam?

Speaker 3: Oh?

Speaker 20: Yes, yes, one.

Speaker 4: Moment please, here's your party there?

Speaker 3: Hello, darling, Henry Henry, where are.

Speaker 6: You coming off between trains and New Haven? Did you

get my wife?

Speaker 3: Yes? Yes, I got it.

Speaker 6: I'm sorry I couldn't reach you my phone before I left,

but of course.

Speaker 3: I knew you'd be well, I'm not all right. I'm

there's someone in this house, Henry, right now, I'm sure

of it.

Speaker 6: There be don't tell me you're still alone.

Speaker 3: Well, of course I'm alone. Who else could be here?

You promise to be home at six o'clock. I've been

alone for hours. I've been upright to every kind of

horrible call. And Henry, Henry, I want you to call

the police.

Speaker 4: Do you hear me?

Speaker 3: Tell him to come over at once?

Speaker 6: You know you're perfectly safe. The doors are all locked.

And there's a private controlment. You're right in the heart

of New York City in the phones.

Speaker 3: There at you, Henry, Henry, what do you know? What

do you know about a man named Waldo Evans?

Speaker 4: Evans?

Speaker 6: Why what he was?

Speaker 3: I had a long talk with him just a little

while ago about you. But what about Oh he told

me some terrible things. Some of it sounded insane, but

some of it maybe it was true.

Speaker 6: Now just try to forget.

Speaker 3: He said you'd been stealing from Dad's company. Is that true, Henry, true? Well,

he left some kind of a message for you, that

the house on Staten Island had been burned down, and

that they least knew everything, and that Morano had been arrested.

And Henry, are you still there? They said you were

a criminal, Henry, a desperate man, and Heaven said, Kevin said,

you wanted me to die. And that money, Henry, that

money does people wanted? Why didn't you ask me for it?

Why I'd have given it to you gladly if it

would have saved your life. I'll give it to you now,

if it isn't.

Speaker 4: Too late, forget.

Speaker 3: I didn't mean to be so awful to you, Henry.

I only did it because I loved you and I

thought you didn't love me, and that you go away

and leave me.

Speaker 4: Yes, I want you to do something.

Speaker 3: Will you forgive me first, Henry? Will you please, Henry?

Speaker 4: Please?

Speaker 2: I can't.

Speaker 4: I can't get out of bed.

Speaker 3: I can't move, Henry. I'm too frightened that I keep trying.

Speaker 6: You've only got three more minutes time.

Speaker 4: Everything from your bottle.

Speaker 3: That hid, Henry. I can hear what steps.

Speaker 4: Somebody's coming up his day walk on the floor.

Speaker 3: No, I can't, Henry, Oh, Henry, save me. The train.

I can hear the train that's near the bridge.

Speaker 5: Please no, no, they'll find out from a rat.

Speaker 3: Oh no, no, please please don't. Oh please please don't

give you anything?

Speaker 4: Please no, no, Ready with your pocketar Oh.

Speaker 15: Sorry, wrong number.

Speaker 1: For a thrilling experience in the theater, Our thanks go

to this evening stars Barbara Stanwick and Burt Lancaster. They're

coming downstage now for a curtain call.

Speaker 13: You know, it's good to have you both back, and

it's nice to be back.

Speaker 8: Bill says, you got him in bed with the audience, Bava,

in what way? Well?

Speaker 1: We keep getting letters asking why you haven't been here

for so long, and we have to keep explaining that

you've made one picture right after another with no time

off in between.

Speaker 3: One thing is sure, Bill, I haven't forgotten a Lux

Radio theater or Lux soap. It's my favorite complexion Can

has been for years, and.

Speaker 1: That's one of the nicest compliments Lux has ever received.

Speaker 16: Barbara, tell me if you can how she says, she

sounds like Andy Devine. Tell me, Barbara, how many pictures

have you made that still aren't released?

Speaker 1: And what's the first one we'll see?

Speaker 3: The hell Wallace production, Thelma Jordan.

Speaker 1: Oh, yes, Wendell Corey's in that tool. You know, when

you and Hal Wallace get together on a picture, we

know it's going to be a hit. Bird. I hear

you are off for New York in a few days.

Speaker 16: Yes, I've just finished my own normal FRT production of

The Hawk and the Arrow at Warner Brothers, and now

I'm going to New York too, see.

Speaker 8: A few shows and take a brief vacation.

Speaker 1: Well, your last vacation you spent out on the road

with a circus is an acrobat. Nothing like that this time,

not unless.

Speaker 8: You have to be an acroback to get tickets to

South Pacific. Bill, tell me what's next Monday's show.

Speaker 1: Next week, Bert, one of America's best love characters, will

return to this stage. The gentleman I'm talking about is

mister Belvidere, and our play is the twentieth century Fox

hit Mister Belvidere Goes to College. Naturally, we'll have the

original Misster Belvidere here to play the part, the amazing

Clifton Webb. And besides mister Webb, we have two other stars,

Colleen Gray and popular Robert Stack. A great comedy and

the return of mister Belvedere, all on next Monday Night.

Speaker 13: Everybody will love it.

Speaker 3: Bill, good night, good.

Speaker 1: Night, good night, and thank you, ladies and gentlemen. There's

a great deal of vague and sentimental craw about the

American economic system, but here are some cold facts. Since

nineteen ten, we have increased the income of each household

from twenty four hundred dollars to about four thousand, and

the figures are in dollars of the same purchasing power.

We've done it by increased production, and yet we work

eighteen hours less each week for this extra money. This

is the miracle of America. Leave a Brothers Company, the

makers of Lux Toilet Soap, join me in inviting you

to be with us again next Monday evening when the

Lux Raise Theio Theater presents Clifton Webb, Robert Stack and

Colleen Gray in Mister Belvedere Goes to College. This is

William Keeley saying good night to you from Hollywood.

Speaker 2: Our clay was adapted by S. H. S. Barnett and

our music was directed by Lois Silburts.

Speaker 3: Here's a fashion flash from Hollywood.

Speaker 19: Barbara Stanwick has one of those smart, new, finely pleaded

nylon nighties that stays inlete when you wash it. Of course,

she insists on lux Flake's care for it, just as

she does for all her lovely langerie.

Speaker 3: One of her favorite shades is a pale green orchid.

Speaker 19: This spring, you'll be seeing more and more delicate and

unusual colors and slips and nineties, so play safe.

Speaker 3: Wash them with gentle lux Flakes.

Speaker 19: Tests prove that wrong washing soon fades colors often tears

delicate lace. Lux Flake's care keeps pretty slips and nineties

new looking three times as long. Use lux Flakes to

give your nice washables that lovely lux luck.

Speaker 2: This is your announcer John Milton Kennedy reminding you to

join us again next Monday night to hear the Lux

Radio Theater presentation of Mister Belvedere Goes to College, starring

Clifton Webb, Colleen Gray, and Robert Stack. Stay tuned for

My Friend IRMA, which follows over these same stations. This

is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.