Lux Radio Theatre - California
Lux Radio Theatre - California
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Speaker 1: Hollywood radio theater adaptations of famous motion pictures with Hollywood's
greatest stars. Where's your host, Frank Brazzy?
Speaker 2: Greetings again, ladies and gentlemen. Over a century ago, the
eyes of the world turned to California and the fabulous
wealth of the new gold Strike. Men and women with
adventure in their hearts braved incredible hardships to reach the
new empire of the West, and an epic chapter in
the history of the nation was written in their blood
and courage. All the color and romance of those fabulous
times is captured in the paramount screen hit California and
We Prison with Raymonland in his original screen role and
Elizabeth Scott as his co star. It's curtain time and
Here's California, starring Raymonland as Jonathan and Elizabeth Scott as Lily,
with Raymond Burr as Captain Coffin.
Speaker 3: The year is.
Speaker 4: Eighteen forty eight.
Speaker 5: At a Fairie town along the Western Trail, a large
wagon train is about to resume its long journey to California.
Speaker 3: Just a minute, now, what do you want, they tell me?
Speaker 6: The wagon trains getting ready to leave.
Speaker 3: Who's the boss I am?
Speaker 6: Well, then you can help me. How about to lift
to California.
Speaker 4: Got a chance home for all the rushing room for
one more. You can ride one of my wagons. I'm welcome, and.
Speaker 3: I'm worrying you.
Speaker 6: Card ain't the only thing she cheats. Thank you, missus
Everett brought her out of this town.
Speaker 7: We don't want to like the her near us.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm glad to see you, two good ladies who
soon said against weaknness. I think we can take her
off your hands.
Speaker 8: All right, Well, I think I've got someone to say
about that, mister Fabian.
Speaker 6: Or I can pay my way if that's what you're thinking.
Speaker 3: Now, luck Fabian, this is your wagon train.
Speaker 4: This is my job to get you where you're going.
Speaker 8: For one thousand dollars cash, I've guaranteed the ladys out
for down in California, all in one piece.
Speaker 4: There'll be trouble enough.
Speaker 6: Who are you afraid of me or yourself?
Speaker 8: I don't care what kind of baggage we carry on.
I don't want the boys fighting over it.
Speaker 4: You say there's trouble ahead of which, mister Trumbull, and
we'll need all the help we can get from Providence.
By doing one good deed, now, we'll improve our chances
with providence considerably. Every one of the boys get the
leader's baggage. Mister Trumbull, Oh, thank you. My name's Fabian.
This and this, mister Trumbull, I'm lily.
Speaker 3: Dish, just like that, mister Fabian Doll. Settle her.
Speaker 4: She comes with us, Gnathan, Now, what time will we
believe in? Here?
Speaker 8: Got your people together, We're leaving right now.
Speaker 4: Everything is quiet.
Speaker 9: Johnny looks like a nice calm man.
Speaker 8: Yeah, tell ab to take the cattle wash? Why warn
your section to go easy on water? I just told
the others next two days the long dry hall.
Speaker 9: You've told the others. And what about her, the girl?
And Fabian's hog, and what about her? Take a look, chick.
Speaker 8: I'll take care of her right away.
Speaker 4: What do you think you're doing? That's water?
Speaker 8: I thought it was molastic two days rises and you're
washing your hair in it? How ought I make you drinking?
Speaker 6: Am I supposed to keep clean?
Speaker 4: As to Tumbo, stay dirty like the rest of us?
What's maybe I'm and.
Speaker 6: His other wagon. We have the long good nights to trumble.
Speaker 4: Everything alright?
Speaker 8: Drawing me, Yeah, I think we lived through the night
watch in the box. Grandpa Na.
Speaker 4: Got some grape cuttons in the air. M you don't
look like much right now? Grape cuttons awful dry? Aren't there?
Don't pinnyfully dry? I uh I ain't you just now
with miss Bishop start her rough with him?
Speaker 8: Well, I'm rough on everybody. I've got to be grandpa.
Maybe you think it's easy to haul you farmers over
the trail.
Speaker 4: I'd just as soon ride.
Speaker 3: Heard on the buffalo.
Speaker 4: Then why did you hire out as a guy?
Speaker 3: Maybe I'd just like to keep moving?
Speaker 4: That could be the reason, good Man? You uh no,
Missouri at all? Yes, some been through it and I
won't send a Wingondre rich good why'd you leave it?
Because who want it? Certain the grapes need more than irk,
mister Trumbull, And they look much like grapes to me,
more like a lot of dead sticks. These dead sticks.
I've seen miracles rise every spring in my oven. You
now see it again? Please God in California, ah A
long ways from it right now?
Speaker 9: At you, troumble, I've been looking for you.
Speaker 4: What's the matter of panic? You run out of water?
Speaker 9: Patience and be more like it? How much longer is
they gotta take?
Speaker 4: We're all in a hurt. To get where we're going you,
mister Pennick, as well as the rest of us. Oh,
perhaps your reasons are different.
Speaker 9: I've paid my way, Tony. There's room for more than
farmers in California.
Speaker 4: Room for everybody. California's gonna be the next street in
the Union.
Speaker 9: God wouldn't I wouldn't be too sure if Fabian times
like please and may not even fail you.
Speaker 4: We don't need that kind of talk, mister Pinnick, not
miss training.
Speaker 9: Only have four would close his eyes to what's going
on back east. Little grase in your tongue panic, you'll
keep out of this me, will skin a. What do
you know about politics?
Speaker 3: Politics? Practically nothing.
Speaker 8: But we've got people with this outfit from Ohio and Kentucky,
Wisconsin and Georgia. The North and South is right here
and we're getting along fine.
Speaker 4: Understand.
Speaker 8: If you've got any more of that talking to you,
you better say to yourself and when we get to California.
Once we get there, you can tell each other that
pieces are all like, hey me, I'll be having a
long drink, but until then, keep your mouth shut.
Speaker 6: Kind of late to be up up, isn't it.
Speaker 4: Lily boy. I'm just reading being down to the campaign.
Speaker 6: There are women on this train popping, and they don't
like me any more than the women back in pony flats.
Speaker 4: We forget about Lily. Listen to this, the land of
wheat and barley and Venyans, the land of oil and honey,
where thou shall eat thy bread and enjoy abundance of
old things.
Speaker 6: Somebody else riding about California.
Speaker 4: This was thousands of years ago, the children of Israel
and God leading them to the Promised Lane.
Speaker 6: Oh they're pretty where it's pop. Pretty names. I know
lots of names too, Natchez, Memphis and Vanna, New Orleans.
Oh they're pretty too, with their places that can break
your heart. But I'll find a place somewhere where nobody
can throw me out. I'm I'm grateful to you, Pop.
They're taking me along to the promised Lane.
Speaker 4: Don't let them hurt you the name.
Speaker 6: They don't hurt me, Pop, They can't.
Speaker 4: All right, you, Captain, You're the best side I've seen
since I left Wazouri. Soldiers out here on the dish.
Speaker 10: Just their routine patrol. Mister Fabian, will you shoe? Thought
you were Indians when we first show you this We've
just been all through this country of Stapavia. No sign
of Indian. Now where's your guy?
Speaker 4: Well? He went on ahead, This got around a bit
it Trumbo back kid, Whitey ain't.
Speaker 10: Sending mister Fabian, Well you can tell me. How's the
water hole at Salt Lake?
Speaker 4: Three days ago? Our horse was stood in it up
to the knees. Plenty of water, Captain, Uh.
Speaker 10: Huh about your guy Trombo? Huh, that's not a common name.
He wouldn't have a brother, would he did? He spoke
and I once knew a lieutenant by that name, but
sold you to not the kind you'd expect to desert. Well,
stick to the trail and good luck song to Paul Corporal.
Speaker 8: We're moving out twenty miles today, Grandpa.
Speaker 4: Not too bad for a country like this, and plenty
of water to spare from a grape cuttings. Those guttles
still got life in them, high life. Someday you'll drink
wine from these dead little snakes.
Speaker 8: Well, I'm not planning on her, Grandpa. Well, any problems
anything Jonathan's and I think I'll go join the boys.
There's a card game tonight. Seems like Lily is winning
all their money Lily. Yeah, and she's good at her
grandpa too good. Why do you think they ran her
out of town?
Speaker 3: Cheats?
Speaker 4: You mean mar cons? There's been a rumor. I'll soon
find out. Oh Jonathan there, wait, h have you any family, Jonathan?
Any brothers? Now it's none of my business, I know,
but uh, were you ever in the army? Now?
Speaker 8: Look, you hired me to take it to California. If
you had any questions like that, you should have asked
him long ago.
Speaker 4: No questions.
Speaker 3: That's enough for me, little you're expensive company.
Speaker 4: He's too hot for me too.
Speaker 6: So you're all leaving so early too.
Speaker 3: I'm still here and I'm calling you a bet.
Speaker 6: Still wanna climb those golden stairs?
Speaker 4: Huh?
Speaker 6: Well, mister Trumbo, what have you got?
Speaker 3: Jack high?
Speaker 4: Straight?
Speaker 6: What a pity? A full house?
Speaker 4: You know you're awful? Cute? Miss Bishop. Where'd you learn poker?
At your mother's knee?
Speaker 11: No, my father's.
Speaker 6: He was a gambler, mister Trombo play the Mississippi river
boats and he always used to say, it's a cheat
who's most afraid of being cheated?
Speaker 8: You?
Speaker 6: Uh, you better stay on your horse after this. It
makes you look a lot more important. Than you really are. Oh,
just one thing more. My father also told me to
always leave a man burying money. We'll do it again, boys,
whenever you're already.
Speaker 4: Mind if I talk to you.
Speaker 3: Lily, it's not my wagon.
Speaker 6: I don't own it.
Speaker 8: I came to give you back your burying money. When
I need any favors from you, I'll ask for him.
Speaker 6: Aren't you afraid people will see you? You better get
in the wagon. It took you a long time to
make up your mind.
Speaker 4: Didn't it make up my mind?
Speaker 6: Why don't you admit it? Back there in Pawnee Flat,
there was something else you were afraid of.
Speaker 3: You know, for a woman, you're pretty smart, too smart.
Speaker 6: A woman gets tired knowing too much. Sometimes she likes
to be surprised.
Speaker 4: Like this.
Speaker 6: Maybe that was what you wanted, wasn't it to kiss
a woman. Well that's exactly what you're not going to get.
Speaker 4: So now you're paying me off. Huh?
Speaker 6: He sat like judgment on me, me out of town.
Speaker 7: You thought just what.
Speaker 6: They wanted you to think. You didn't need any proof
of No, you knew just by looking at me. You knew.
And ever since then, all these weeks trying to shame me.
They're not a hard man to figure, mister Trumbull. That
was your way of making love to me. Then you
come here and expect me to fall into your arms
and be thankful for the favor you're doing me.
Speaker 4: I came here to give you back your money.
Speaker 6: Pretty high and mighty, aren't you bars of a wagon trains?
But let me tell you this, If I live long enough,
and I will, I'm going to pull you down off
that fancy horse of yours and shove your face.
Speaker 11: Right and my muck.
Speaker 4: So help me. Anything else to tell me, it'll have
to wake well.
Speaker 6: It aren't you being called trouble, mister Trumbull?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Probably, Whatever it is.
Speaker 6: It's tamed. What you're going to get from me, now
get out of here.
Speaker 7: It's gold. Tell me pound gold in California gold.
Speaker 4: Who are these men?
Speaker 9: They just brought us the news.
Speaker 3: That's right, mister, We seen your campfire. We figured we'd.
Speaker 4: Better share the good.
Speaker 3: You where they found the gold and how to sack
the middle?
Speaker 4: Please call me.
Speaker 8: They're always finding gold in California, but nobody ever saw it.
Speaker 12: I want to stake this time, mister, mountains to gold,
tons of gold.
Speaker 3: Alright, we're heading for California if you like, you can
string along with that.
Speaker 4: Thanks, mister.
Speaker 3: We ain't waiting for no wagon.
Speaker 4: We din't to get there.
Speaker 3: Weller still standard rule.
Speaker 8: It's not use Grandpa. This is the end of your
wagon train. They're all going to look for gold gold.
Speaker 4: I hate the word. Bring us nothing but murder and greed.
We steal it out of the ground, and they'll steal
it from one another. Look at their faces, Jonathan, look
at their eyes. Hey, don't be a fool. Don't leave
the train.
Speaker 9: I'd be a Fool's tamous to Fabian.
Speaker 8: Quickier you get there, the richer you feed, but your
wagon abe all your belongings, swim your.
Speaker 12: Old trumbo from here on in on my own, boss,
you want my wagon shore.
Speaker 9: See in California.
Speaker 3: Ten you'll need those tools, Slim, you'll need your plows.
Speaker 4: Stay with a train.
Speaker 3: We're train.
Speaker 13: Ain't any train anymore.
Speaker 3: We're on my horse.
Speaker 4: Don't get me a flower too, gold fighting. He's Rightelm,
there isn't any train anymore.
Speaker 3: So you're going to Huh, I.
Speaker 6: Am nobody's going to get to California ahead of me.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 8: Look, I suppose you've got plenty of reason to hate me,
but well, I don't want anything to happen to you
breaking up the wagon train.
Speaker 4: It's liable to be dangerous.
Speaker 6: I take my chances.
Speaker 4: Now, before you.
Speaker 8: Go, There's something i'd like to say about all about
last night.
Speaker 6: I first begun, mister Trumbo, I might begin to think
you're not so sure of your.
Speaker 8: Well doctor all like, I'm trying to apologize. I'm sorry
I slapped you there.
Speaker 9: Ready to go a little? That's all you've got.
Speaker 4: You're going with him with Pennic.
Speaker 9: You got anything to say about it?
Speaker 4: Not a thing except I almost made a mistake.
Speaker 9: As long as we'm leaving, Trumbone, I got a present
for you, my bowl whip. I won't be needing it anymore.
Speaker 4: Sort yours.
Speaker 9: Stay in California, miss Touchdown.
Speaker 4: How are you feeling? Gun? Is any better?
Speaker 3: I feel like what I am the biggest fool in
the territory?
Speaker 4: Easy now, mistakes you stay, But been a broken bone
on that.
Speaker 3: Choulder, letting pinnock knock me up a horse like that.
Speaker 4: And it might have been a bulletstainable with they've all gone.
Huh yeah, I mean the only ones left were staying
here a while The child it'll take and men.
Speaker 8: Seven hundred miles of the ness in California and this
had to happen.
Speaker 4: I mean, no hurry to get there. Sen and oil
still be weakened. I wonder, I wonder if you never
see any of them again, Bennet Lily, Yeah, yeah, I
wonder at two of California will continue in a moment.
Speaker 13: What's the word for the Armed Forces Radio and Television
service today? The word is climb on the bandwagon. We've
all heard that phrase. The first bandwagon was horse drawn
and large enough to carry a full band, usually associated
with publicizing some sort.
Speaker 4: Of an event.
Speaker 13: The bandwagon is most generally thought of in connection with
the circus or a political event. From the political candidates
would ride on the bandwagon. Their supporters would climb on
the bandwagon to show their support. Often, this public display
of confidence was given in the hopes of gaining some
favor from the candidate if he was successfully elected. Then
there were the other folks who just climbed on the
bandwagon to join the crowd. Today, we still see those
who will flock to join some popular fad, whether it
be politics or a circus. They figuratively climb on the bandwagon.
That's the word for the Armed Forces radio and television service.
Speaker 2: At two of California, starring Raymonlan as Jonathan and Elizabeth
Scott as Lily.
Speaker 5: Two months have gone by, and the gold Russian California
is at the heights of a hysteria.
Speaker 4: Overnight.
Speaker 3: Scores of towns have sprung up.
Speaker 5: Among them a place called fair City, a collection of
hif built shacks and tents.
Speaker 8: The largest building in town is a saloon a golden Lily. Hello, Panic,
Trumble reaching for a gun?
Speaker 4: Best.
Speaker 3: I don't try anything. I won't not just now.
Speaker 4: Now you finally made it? Yeah, where's Lily?
Speaker 9: You can't get her off your mind?
Speaker 8: There's a lot of things I can't get off my mind.
But I'm gonna take him one at a time.
Speaker 3: Wranger, Panic.
Speaker 9: Oh, his name's Trumbo. His here's mister Pike. Welcome to
Pharaoh City, mister Trumbull. Thanks, you're a sailor.
Speaker 3: Huh. I ain't no scurvy landlord.
Speaker 9: One of these days, mister Pike, somebody's gonna cut you off.
Speaker 10: Throat where you're going, mister Trumbull from this rough talk
upset you.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna see a friend of mine.
Speaker 10: Hey't whityney hunting show.
Speaker 7: You did get it?
Speaker 4: How about you?
Speaker 6: And I had me?
Speaker 4: I'm lucky if I eat once a day. But I
thought everybody in town was really ask him what's going on?
That eieven Guger.
Speaker 9: I that's right, Pike, go on and ask him, Johnny,
him and his captain Coffin me not no more.
Speaker 6: I won't.
Speaker 4: I come here, Johnny, expecting to find a free country.
Speaker 9: Instead, I find a shark named Captain Coffin, squeezing the
life blood out of the place.
Speaker 8: Which you gotta claim. Every said, I need water to
work my claim. I gotta buy water from Coffin, pay
him for every drop. I gotta buy Coffin's food and
Coffin's prices. I gotta buy twos off of him one
hundred dollars.
Speaker 9: First shovel shut up two days ago my claim started
to pay out good.
Speaker 4: Too, all right?
Speaker 7: Then Coffin and his game move.
Speaker 9: Here, says they have foreclothing for debt. They drive me
off the place with pickhandles.
Speaker 7: I want you haze right, boys, let's take care of him.
Speaker 6: What's the damage this time?
Speaker 4: Is to pipe, couple of chairs and a mirror. Miss
Lily I'm.
Speaker 6: Beginning to think you're too expensive to have around. It
takes a long time to get furniture out here.
Speaker 3: Uh, you said you wanted to see that fella when
he came to Well, he's all right now.
Speaker 4: I guess Mike clotted him with a bottle.
Speaker 6: Where is he?
Speaker 4: I dumped him in your office, Miss Lily.
Speaker 6: Well, mister Trumble, I'm glad to see you are still alive.
Speaker 4: I came to this place looking for you.
Speaker 3: I didn't expect such a big reception.
Speaker 6: I told you once before I felt about you.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm just beginning to understand something.
Speaker 8: No woman can go around hating a man the way
you say you hate me, not unless there's something else
on my mind.
Speaker 6: This much, I'll tell you, if you ever so much
as set foot in here again, I'll have a better
man than Pike throw you out.
Speaker 4: You talk like maybe you own this place.
Speaker 3: I do. Maybe I shouldn't ask how you got it.
Speaker 6: Oh, then don't.
Speaker 8: Let's take quite a man that's take you to a
layout like this? Why just the furnishings of awe must.
Speaker 3: Hey, what's this?
Speaker 6: It's a model of a ship?
Speaker 4: Yeah, famous ship to a brig Nice here from you?
Speaker 6: Skinnery. You seem to know a lot about ship.
Speaker 4: My father was first made on Ahuela. Let me see
that model.
Speaker 3: Congo Queen, Pharaoh, Coffin, Master Coffin. You know I keep
hearing that name. Why do you mention it?
Speaker 4: Yes, Lily, eh now I understand.
Speaker 3: A lot of things.
Speaker 4: Something amuse you. Friends, I said you had company, Lily.
Speaker 8: Don't worry, I can take You're a long way from Africa,
Captain Coffin, and the slave trade my slaves, mister.
Speaker 4: Trumbull, and I can get more for a shovel than
I can for a black or.
Speaker 3: A running Helpless men off their claims of pick handles.
Speaker 4: These are fast moving Time's no room for helpless men.
This is an odd place to find a man who
remembers the Congo Queen. A fine ship, mister, a fine name.
She was a flooring graveyard.
Speaker 8: I used to hear back East, how people cross to
the other side when you walk down the street. He
said you had the stink of death about you.
Speaker 4: Anything else, mister Trumbull, Yeah.
Speaker 8: They told me no court would try you because no
one would hold it. A black was a man just
an animal to be beaten in chain.
Speaker 4: Most men love the chains they wear, mister Trumbull. They
need a master the way an infant needs its mother.
You know, Coffin, for.
Speaker 8: All your ways, I've heard it said you're a frightened man,
afraid that one day a bolt would break, a chain
would give, and the blacks would come swarming.
Speaker 4: Up out of the hold. What do you dream about
at night, Captain Coffin of California, Friend California.
Speaker 8: You never hear the drag of the chains below decks,
the chanting of the slaves over they're dead.
Speaker 3: I even heard rumors of nightmares you've had.
Speaker 4: Shut up. That's true, isn't it, Captain? In Pharaoh's City?
The truth has a price on its hit, and you
don't speak it, mister Tremble, unless you're armed. Nor do
you intrude into another man's dream. As for you, Lily Well,
I had you wrong. You don't care for anybody.
Speaker 8: But Lily Bishop who said that the wages of sin
the death looks had they come pretty high in Pharaoh's City.
Speaker 4: I'll kill you.
Speaker 11: I'll kill you.
Speaker 4: Next time. I won't spoil her aims, Tremble, I'm obliged,
Captain Happy Drain.
Speaker 7: Why did you do it?
Speaker 4: Why did you do it, cause I knew you would
cry over him afterwards. I should not like to see
you crying, lily O.
Speaker 12: Games open, gentlemen, place your bet, please place your bet.
Speaker 3: Close that table, make madam, miss Little? Ain't there money
any good?
Speaker 6: I said, close that table?
Speaker 4: You heard it?
Speaker 3: Gentlemen? Well, sorry, I.
Speaker 8: Thought I told you to stay out of here, tromboe uh,
this time I didn't come to see you little.
Speaker 4: This is business.
Speaker 6: I don't want any business from you.
Speaker 4: What's the matter? You're scared?
Speaker 6: What have you got that I should be scared of?
Speaker 3: Well, wouldn't be my luck with it. I got quite
a pile of chips here.
Speaker 6: Might get up. I'll do that.
Speaker 4: Any games still open?
Speaker 6: It's open, but only the trombo and knee. And this time, Trombo,
there won't be any dry any money.
Speaker 4: Oh thanks for the warning. Bell. I'll go ahead and deal.
Speaker 6: You win again this September.
Speaker 3: Not quitting.
Speaker 6: I I never quit? How much?
Speaker 3: How much you got four stacks of chips?
Speaker 4: Now I had four stacks? Looks like you're bidding into
a queen, Little? All right with you?
Speaker 6: Anything you say?
Speaker 3: And take three cards?
Speaker 7: Well afore.
Speaker 6: A tray.
Speaker 4: A ten?
Speaker 3: Too bad Lil, payme off, Mike.
Speaker 6: The game's closed.
Speaker 3: Well you you ain't busted, are you?
Speaker 6: Looks like I am.
Speaker 8: Just a minute, I'll cut you little every chip I've
won against this place. If you win, I'm broke. If
I win, I get the saloon everything or nothing.
Speaker 3: High card winds, layoff.
Speaker 4: Lily's too lucky tonight.
Speaker 8: Look a while back you said you weren't afraid of
anything I've got. But I got this pilot chips and
it says you've lost your live.
Speaker 6: Shuffle the cards, mister Trombo. Now cut.
Speaker 4: Not too good?
Speaker 8: Little for a diamond, got 'em licked little most anything's
better than four?
Speaker 4: Sure I don't go ahead? Cut a card.
Speaker 3: A deuce, the deuce of space.
Speaker 8: Ah, looks like I'm a new proprietor turn everything over
to him, I add, boys.
Speaker 4: That's have a drink on the house.
Speaker 6: Here's your peo piece of paper, mister Trombo, A quit clan.
Speaker 4: These You don't have to leave, Lil. You can work here,
you know.
Speaker 6: Don't do me any space.
Speaker 4: I'm not. I'll eat a good dealer.
Speaker 3: Maybe you can get a back a piece of coffin
his money.
Speaker 6: It wasn't coffing his money.
Speaker 3: No, whose wasn't mine.
Speaker 6: I bought this place from Coffin with it, but it
took me five years to say that's my business, not yours.
Speaker 4: Sure that's the way you feel.
Speaker 6: That's exactly the way I feel. Good night money.
Speaker 8: He might take a thousand dollars. See then she gets
it burying money. She won't need burying money, and not
where she's going. Why not Coffin's place.
Speaker 6: The Capitian will see you now. Rita had into the library.
Speaker 4: Mister Chamber, thanklly, I hardly expected you to accept my invitation.
I appreciate it. Just curiosity, Captain.
Speaker 8: I've heard about this place of yours, but I'll never
believe a word until now.
Speaker 3: People said it was a palace. Well they were right.
Speaker 4: I bought it from a grandee of Spain, mister Trumbull,
thousands of acres, and this hussy ender. It's more than
a palace. It's also a citadel. As I'm sure you've.
Speaker 8: Observed, arm guards, thick walls, iron gates. Are there slaves
in California too? Cap'n toff You talk like a fool,
but you didn't send for me to listen to me talk.
Speaker 4: I hear you took over the Golden Lily last night.
I like a man who takes what he wants and
doesn't ask too many questions. I like to see such
a man get ahead, but not too far ahead. I've
a good piece of this country in my hands, mister Trumbull.
You'd be stupid to think I'd let any of it go.
I'll buy the Golden Lily at a fair price, and
you can leave California, or you can stay here and
go along with me. You know what that means.
Speaker 3: I'll do all right along as a saloon keeper.
Speaker 4: I could possess all of California and the power that
goes with it if I had a handful of men
like you. Worry, no deal. At least we understand each other.
Good days to Tremble, mister Pike. No deal, he said, Uh,
no deal. We'll dispose of Tremble tonight. I find miss
Bishop should not occupied. I'll be waiting for her in
the patiom.
Speaker 14: Although she is occupied.
Speaker 4: Who should know by now that in certain matters I
am a man of unbounded patience, mister Pike, I shall still.
Speaker 3: Wait for her.
Speaker 4: Wor in all my travels, still is I never found
another islandanket such tranquility, such a paradise. Yes, a man
could well forget himself there. Why didn't you stay alone? No?
But I could return there and be happy.
Speaker 3: With you, Lily.
Speaker 4: Do you hear me?
Speaker 3: I'd like to take you there some day.
Speaker 4: Some day, maybe I'd like to go as my wife, Lily,
cause it seemed so strange.
Speaker 6: All my life, I've wanted to be just that a
wife does. That seems so strange to you.
Speaker 4: I have no illusions that you would love me, but
I believe we could be happy together. I know what
they say about me as slaver and all the rest
of it. But everything I did I did because I
had to. Nobody ever helped me. My father was a
drunken sale rigger. I took more beatings before I was
twelve than any felon does in a lifetime. I ran away,
lived under the wharves like a rat, And one day,
one day I saw a captain step from his ship
to the shore, bright buttons gleaming in the sun, giving
orders like a giant, like a king. In time, I
became the master of a ship. Now I'm a master
of dirty, stinking place that it is. But tomorrow, tomorrow
I'll be master of a country, all of California, Lily.
And when that happens, you're not even listening. There are
other thoughts in your eyes. You're thinking of someone else.
Speaker 6: Yes, who I am of a little boy. I was
trying to picture you like you said. I'm beginning to
understand you.
Speaker 14: I love you, Lily, I love you, I think, mister, I.
Speaker 6: Was trying to picture you like you said. I'm beginning
to understand you.
Speaker 4: I love you, Lily, I love you.
Speaker 3: I think mister Trumbull's ready to listening.
Speaker 6: Enough.
Speaker 4: Captain, come on in the rest of your men, get
out of his office. Close the door, mister pank. None
of this is my wish. Mister Trumbull, you made your
own decision.
Speaker 3: You didn't come here just to have me beaten up,
only to tell.
Speaker 4: You that this is your last night in Pharaoh City.
But before you leave, I want you to sign this
quit claim deed for the Golden Lily. There's a pen.
Sign it.
Speaker 7: If you want to kill him, Captain here, use a gun.
Speaker 4: Uh kill him?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: Oh, no gun, there are other ways. Put him on
a horse, tie him hand and foot, and lose him
in the desert. I'll see you tomorrow. Then at the hacienda,
I won't be there. I'm going south to meet Senator Creole. Creole,
he's here, He's here six months more, mister Pike and
di alone the entire territory of California.
Speaker 13: I'm moving on.
Speaker 6: Where are you going?
Speaker 8: I'm going to get a college education, an associate degree.
Speaker 4: A college education gives you mobility.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm moving up.
Speaker 10: What you mad?
Speaker 6: I'm going to get a bachelor's degree in computer science.
The education counselor said that all my programs experience is
worth college credit, and if I take some.
Speaker 15: Courses, college level education can help you advance in your
job specialty. There are any number of courses and programs
available to service members overseas. So if you like the
kind of mobility a college degree can give you, stop
by the education office. You could be on your way up.
Every day we go looking for trouble, and do you
know what we find? What do you think is the
biggest health problem today?
Speaker 3: Cancer?
Speaker 16: That would have to be cancer, the big sea cancer.
Speaker 15: These people are wrong and that's the trouble. While cancer
may be the most talked about problem, it isn't the
biggest For every person who dies from cancer. More than
two die from heart related problems like high blood pressure.
This not only affects almost one in four adults today,
but it's often symptomless, which means nearly seventeen and a
half million Americans are needlessly risking their lives to cardiovascular
problems without realizing it. This is the kind of trouble
we look for. We're the American Height Association, committed to
reducing death and disabilities due to heart disease through research, prevention,
improved treatments, and information which could save your life heart disease.
Speaker 3: Who'd ever think of that?
Speaker 15: The American Heart Association. Oh right, the American Heart Association.
We're fighting for your life and now your host, Frank
Brazy returns to the microphone.
Speaker 2: At three of California, starring Raymonlan as Jonathan and Elizabeth
Scott as Lily.
Speaker 5: Six weeks have gone by, saying Jonathan Trumbull sudden departure
from Pharaoh City. But now, just as unexpectedly, he's returned
not to the town, but to the shack of his
old friend.
Speaker 16: Mister Fabian.
Speaker 4: Worsn't like you to send out Jonathan run off without
telling anybody.
Speaker 8: Sell out. I was run out Captain Coffin. He did
a pretty good job too, Grandpa, almost perfect. Yeah, but
where have you been. I'm not too sure why they
over most of that desert. I guess it hadn't been
for a couple of Indians that are cashed.
Speaker 3: In long ago.
Speaker 4: What are you gonna do, Johnny?
Speaker 3: Well, first off, I'm gonna borrow your gun. What good
lad do you to kill Coffin?
Speaker 4: Men like Coffin, and like weeds in the field, you
have to dig him up by the roots, and can't
do that with a gun, Jonathan. Lots of things happen
while you've been going. They're planning a convention at Moterey
to make California another state in the Union, and when
that happens, they'll take care of men like Coffin.
Speaker 8: Sorry, Grandpa, I can't wait that long. Besides, if there
is a convention, he'll be running it. Maybe Johnny's right,
mister Fabian. But what's going on right now tonight?
Speaker 4: What I'm not sure, Jonathan. Some big shindig at Coffin's hacienda.
Senator queelers there, politicians from back East, some of them
rich Spaniards.
Speaker 7: Do She'll like to know what they're cooking?
Speaker 6: Up.
Speaker 4: So what I hawaddie, there's only one way to find out.
I'm going there. As much as we know, gentlemen, that
in the hands of the delegates will rest the decision
as to whether or not California becomes a state. As
I've told you, I intend to be a delegate myself.
Even so, even so, the convention may go against us.
That's why we're meeting here. Now.
Speaker 3: What is Sennor Coffin proposing.
Speaker 4: Immediate preparation for the arms seizure of California?
Speaker 3: Isn't that rushing things a little?
Speaker 4: I think Senator Crew can answer that.
Speaker 12: You're a banker, mister Barrett, surely you should know that
the whole country is rushing toward an armed conflict.
Speaker 4: When that happens, a strong and independent California can affect
decisively the outcome.
Speaker 17: Senor, I too would like California to be a great
and independent country. And yet if the people should be
against it, I would be a fool to fight for me.
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, you ask a great deal from our Senator Crew,
But what can we expect from you.
Speaker 16: If we're going to take the territory by force? What
do we do about weapons? Power and shot? Don't grow
on trees. No, mister Willoughby, they do not come with me. Gentlemen,
we'll take a little work.
Speaker 4: I'll show you ample evidence of Senator Creele's a good thing.
Speaker 3: Senora, Senora, Well, I suppose you could call me a guest.
He don't remember me.
Speaker 6: Oh, yes, many weeks ago to see him, Master, Please, Senor,
you do not take him.
Speaker 3: You don't tell him what I am not to come
here to the chapel.
Speaker 6: He keeps it always.
Speaker 3: Locked in you why lock up at chapel?
Speaker 11: I do not know.
Speaker 6: But if he finds up, they're coming here.
Speaker 3: Listen, there's no time to get out, get behind the order.
Speaker 9: Hurry follow me.
Speaker 3: Gentlemen.
Speaker 4: Perhaps you will find these precincts overly pious, but I
assure you they are practical here here in this ante room.
Mm behold guns, yes, guns and ammunition from the floor.
Speaker 3: To the ceiling of Heaven's enough to equip a regiment.
But how did you get it here?
Speaker 4: Our friend, Senator crew smuggled it in right under Colonel
Stuart's nose.
Speaker 3: Stuart, he's back in California.
Speaker 4: He's in camp just outside of Phero City. You don't
suppose he's got wind of this if I know Stuart
is too busy with his own political career. Shall we
return to the house, gentlemen?
Speaker 3: Those guns? Why does he have 'em? Here?
Speaker 6: I do not know, Senor, guse a scene against God. Becareful, Senor,
You're only one against men?
Speaker 3: Just forget you ever saw me here? Miss Bishop? She
here the night, see Senor?
Speaker 6: Soon they dancing, will convincingly Patio, she will.
Speaker 3: Let me, let me wait, go tumble. You know this
isn't a safe place for you. Since one of you care,
I don't, then why warn me?
Speaker 6: Because I'm not a fight anymore of you or anything.
For the first time in my life, I've got something
I've always wanted.
Speaker 3: And what would that be?
Speaker 6: I'm I'm going to marry Barrel Coffin.
Speaker 3: You don't love him, he knows it.
Speaker 6: You wouldn't understand what you that a woman can sometimes
manage without.
Speaker 4: Love providing their prices. All right?
Speaker 6: Two months ago I would have hated you for that. No,
it doesn't matter. You talk hard, Trombo, but underneath your
human like everyone else. Oh, why didn't you ever show
that side of me instead of always trying to hurt me?
Speaker 3: Why do you tell me that now?
Speaker 6: Because it's too late now to do anything about it.
Speaker 8: You know you were right about me trying to hurt you.
Don't ask me why. Maybe maybe I wanted to eaven
up a lot of other women. And I'm gonna hurt
you again, worse than ever.
Speaker 6: You can't hurt me. That's one thing I've promised myself.
You can't hurt me ever again.
Speaker 8: Look, I came here tonight to kill Coffin. Well I'm
not going to not tonight. I've found out enough about
him to maybe want to find out a little more.
But I'll come back little and when I do, nothing's
gonna save him.
Speaker 6: Oh no, No, you mustn't.
Speaker 3: Even if I loved you, you couldn't stop me. Now,
good night, little Lily.
Speaker 4: Lily, what's the matter, darling? You seem unhappy?
Speaker 6: Do I?
Speaker 4: I'm not unhappy, Lily. In all my life, I never
want to cause you a moment's sadness. If only I couldn't.
What was that I heard something?
Speaker 6: It's just the wind, Pharaoh stirring the branch. No, let's
see for yourself. The leaves are brushing against the roof.
Speaker 3: Only the wind.
Speaker 4: A moment it sounded sounded like naked feet shuffling across
the deck of a ship.
Speaker 3: I've come to see you to make a deal, Colonel Stuart.
Speaker 12: It's hardly a practice of the Army to make deals
with deserters.
Speaker 8: Colonel Stuart. I didn't wake you up in the middle
of the night just to have myself arrested. Sir, did
you ever hear of a Captain Pharaoh Coffin man who's
running for the Monterey Convention. That's not all he's running for.
He's setting himself up to take over all of California
with enough guns to start a small war. I know
all about Captain Coffin and the guns that were smuggled
in as soon as my reinforcements. So you won't need
reinforcements there. You won't need the army at all, not
if you'll agree to what I'm asking. Don't found it, Trombo.
I don't make deals with deserter. But if you help
me wipe out my court, Marshal, I'll take Coffin off
your hands.
Speaker 3: Ah, kill him something like that.
Speaker 12: Way of settling disputes is over, Trumbull. If you want
to kill this man, killing politically, run somebody against him
and break his back at the polls. Do you know
anybody who's really respected around here? An honest man?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 8: I know a farmer like that, Michael Fabian. But what
if he doesn't break Coffin's back. I will make a deal, Trombone.
Speaker 12: I'll give you your freedom for thirty days till after
the Monterey Convention. Then you report back here and you
face a court martial. If you don't, you won't get
just two years, You'll get twenty.
Speaker 14: Yes, sir, fair enough?
Speaker 12: Just one thing more? That woman fort Marcy? Just who
was chasing who a? That's your guest, sir. He was
hardly worth deserting for. Well, was either that to shoot
the husband? Anything else?
Speaker 10: Eh?
Speaker 3: You have thirty days of freedom, thank you, sir.
Speaker 18: And the final return then no, and caught it? Lady
and gentlemen, an't you elect delegate? The Monterey convection is
Mike more.
Speaker 4: Lily.
Speaker 6: Hello, mister Faban.
Speaker 4: Well now you think you drive away out here to
see me?
Speaker 6: So you won the election. In a way, I'm very
happy for you.
Speaker 4: Only in a way if you come in and they
come in and sit down.
Speaker 6: You see, I I didn't come to congratulate you. I'm
here to ask you not to go to Monterey.
Speaker 4: But why not.
Speaker 6: I'm afraid for you. Don't you see? This whole thing
is Trumbo's idea. He's using you to pay off a grudge,
is he you know? No, I know mister Trumbull, mister Famu,
and I know Captain Colfin.
Speaker 4: Surely he didn't send you here, Lily, not Coffin.
Speaker 6: No, but I heard them talking Pharaoh Pike, Senator crew. Oh,
please believe me. They'll do anything to stop you.
Speaker 4: A man can stay out of danger hiding under a bed, lily,
And they can no more keep California from becoming a
state than they can keep the sun from shining.
Speaker 6: I'll tell you once again, mister Fabian, don't go to Monterrey.
Speaker 4: I've got to cool, lily. But thanks for the warning.
Speaker 6: I didn't really think you'd listen to me. Well, good night,
mister Fabian.
Speaker 17: Pardon Sennor. Yeah, you are, Senor Trumbo. You are here
in Monterey for the convention. Yes, a lot of people
are here for the convention. Signor, as you may observe,
I am a little drunk. It is not a habit,
I assure you. I am don Luis Rivet. I Ernandez
in California that is the name of honor, and with
honor a man should be more careful.
Speaker 3: Do you agree?
Speaker 17: I wouldn't know, Senor, your friend Fabian he speaks tomorrow
and the objections do not left him? Take him away
at once, Senor? Why I do not like to see
a man killed in cold blood?
Speaker 4: Talk sense, Jonathan. The convention's about to reopen. I can't
stay here in the hotel room.
Speaker 8: There's only one place you go on, Grandpa, and that's home.
If you don't listen to me, you're gonna be killed.
Speaker 4: And who's been telling you that nonsense?
Speaker 3: A man who is drunk?
Speaker 4: Ain't you worrying about the word who was drunk?
Speaker 8: But there's something else you better know. I got you
into this, Grandpa, but I didn't give a bent Nikol
for what you were fighting for. All I wanted was
to fix Coffin. That's why I persuaded you to run
against him. I have no meant for some time, but
I'm glad you told me. You're still going back to
that convention hall.
Speaker 4: And you forget the folks who voted for me, Jonathan.
They have faith in me, and I got to keep
faith with them. You should understand that.
Speaker 3: Well, I think I do.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: If it's that important to you, it ought to be
that important to me. Let's go.
Speaker 4: We got to have some worry here.
Speaker 7: It's so well, he still has a far.
Speaker 12: I asked you again, why are certain delegates in this
hall so insistent on rushing California into the state. Statehood
will only make California pawn in the Civil War, already
threatening to.
Speaker 3: Separate the rest of the king.
Speaker 10: If Paviians measure.
Speaker 12: Has passed, it is inevitable that those of us favoring
an independent empire a Republic of California, must either separate
from it or contest the decision by force of art.
Speaker 6: The chair.
Speaker 19: The chair recognizes, mister Pavia, I just heard the words
independent empire. So did you all a slip of the tongue,
mister Willoughby.
Speaker 3: No, No, I don't think mister pavil will be.
Speaker 19: I say that's nothing but treason. We are men from
every state in the Union. We're farmers and miners and
everything else. What we want California to be is what
she should be, another state, and what I believe is
the greatest land on the.
Speaker 7: What happened to your mother?
Speaker 4: That was a bad move.
Speaker 16: Coffin, We're lucky we got out of Monterey.
Speaker 3: With our lives.
Speaker 4: I'm still curious to know just who shot mister Fabian.
Speaker 3: Are you out of your mind?
Speaker 4: Still say I don't know to Pike. Perhaps Pennock. Maybe
there are a dozen who might have done.
Speaker 16: It under your orders.
Speaker 3: Don't be a child.
Speaker 7: You know as well as I'd do, it would come
to fighting sooner or later.
Speaker 3: Let it be sooner.
Speaker 4: We're prepared and the others are not.
Speaker 16: I'll be leaving you. It's Sacramento. I suddenly feel the
need of a long sea voyage. Good luck with your war,
Captain Coffin, Get her at once, Get miss Lily at once.
Speaker 6: She's not here, and find her.
Speaker 7: Tell her there's a priest waiting in the chapel, waiting
to marry us.
Speaker 6: The priest is gone, Senor, he said, He said, you
cannot use.
Speaker 11: The Holy Church as you were your chat Lily.
Speaker 7: Find miss Lily.
Speaker 6: She went to the sun this morning, Senor, before you returned.
Speaker 3: Then you've reached your first.
Speaker 7: What news answer me? Answer me?
Speaker 6: Then your Stabian has been murdered, mister Pike.
Speaker 7: No, I've come back, Sharrow Lily, Lily, you didn't believe me.
Speaker 4: You didn't leave me.
Speaker 6: You killed and Sharaoh just as sure as if you
pull the trigger yourself.
Speaker 4: Lily, what do you care about Fabian? Yes, yes, I
killed him. I'll kill everyone who tries to stand in
my way.
Speaker 6: You'll never kill again, Pharaoh, Lily.
Speaker 4: That gun, Oh no, you wouldn't.
Speaker 6: That's the only reason I came back.
Speaker 7: I've been calling on the way here, Lily.
Speaker 3: Don't touch her. Don't touch her.
Speaker 7: Who struck her, mister pag you'll struck her.
Speaker 3: She had a gun.
Speaker 7: She tried to kill you, Lily, and Captain listened to me.
The whole towns at the gates. Trumpo's coming for you.
We've got one chance, and we've got to get out
of handsome water. Get some wine horses. At this tad
you they might still be time to make.
Speaker 4: A run for it.
Speaker 7: I call the men, pass out the rifles. No one
can touch me here.
Speaker 4: They're drown the.
Speaker 7: Men, the servants, everyone, You've got, no one left, Captain.
Speaker 3: That's you and me.
Speaker 4: Now we're both dead.
Speaker 7: And lets me run for her.
Speaker 3: Strapped, Lily, you've struck her. She just lies there.
Speaker 7: You've killed her.
Speaker 10: Kill her.
Speaker 7: Can't you see that she's breathing? Come on, I'll take
her with us. You'll touch her and I'll kill you.
Speaker 3: Listen, he across the dick.
Speaker 4: Oh, you betrayed me, didn't you, Bait, You betrayed me.
Speaker 3: This and I can hear them. You took the keys and.
Speaker 7: Unlocked the chain the slaves, I can hear them.
Speaker 4: Sleeve, you're coming up.
Speaker 7: The dead Trumbo's men. You hear I told you, Captain.
Speaker 20: Deck coming across the dick. Oh, you betrayed me. Pick
you betrayed me. Doptain you'll betrayed me.
Speaker 11: Pike, Lilly, tell them they can stop shooting.
Speaker 4: Where's he? Little You better tell us me to find
him anyway.
Speaker 6: He's in the next room. He's out of his mind,
all right. I know now that he was always out
of his mind.
Speaker 4: Covin.
Speaker 7: You never hang me, tremble, Yeah, never hang me.
Speaker 8: No, maybe it's better than now. Come on, we're going
back to town. You can stay here, lil. He'd want
you to stay here here, at his place. I remember
when those vines out there were just a bunch of
dead sticks.
Speaker 6: You know, It's as if I were seeing them for
the first time the way he always saw.
Speaker 8: Them, baby, and saw a lot of things that most
folks missed. Well, I'll say goodbye, Lily.
Speaker 6: Where are you off to tremble?
Speaker 4: I got a date with the army. Remember how long
does it mean? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Two?
Speaker 16: Maybe you'll come back, won't you?
Speaker 4: Where will you be by? Then?
Speaker 3: Right here waiting, I'll be back.
Speaker 2: Thank you for joining me for another production of the
radio theater. This is Frank Grizzy saying good night to
you from Hollywood.