 This is Robert Montgomery inviting you to join us for the story of a woman named Eve tonight study in Suspense Suspense a full 60 minutes at this time with the distinguished actor director. Mr. Robert Montgomery as your host Tonight our star is Miss June Havoc. Miss Havoc will appear in The Black Angel a suspense play produced edited and directed by William Spear Mr. Montgomery I believe an apple is honest Until a couple of days ago. I don't suppose I'd given an apple a solid thought in months But it was a warm afternoon and the striped awning over the fruit stand offered shade And besides I found myself Staring at the apples all lined up. They were in nice even rows shiny and round and red They were supposed to tempt me and they did The first thing you know, I picked one out and shined it up And then I looked at it close For the first time I think I understood why an artist ever set up an easel in front of an apple and painted it It's really very beautiful a good apple is The way the red dissolves into the yellow It's warm. It's full of promise I bit into it and then I got to thinking That coloring I thought is just a come on A private sales promotion to make you want it a as a matter of fact an apple does its advertising in an extremely honest fashion Mind you, I'm not selling apples, but even a bad apple says here's a blemish a spot a fault If you take me you take the bad of me with the good And don't say I didn't warn you So you can take an apple on its face value And that's what I was doing But as I ate it I found myself wishing that all of nature's products were as frank and open You choose a friend a sweetheart The come on the sales campaign the covering Maybe it lives up to its promise and maybe it doesn't with an apple you can tell So the one I was munching on set me to thinking about apples and people About the confusion that arose when the first apple and the first human being got together The forbidden fruit and the woman Eve That name reminded me of the only eve I ever knew very much about Eve Jeremy I didn't actually know the jeremy's personally even frank, but I don't think hollywood will ever forget them Eve and frank jeremy are memorable not as individuals but together as husband and wife Not just because she was a beautiful actress or because he was an influential producer But because of what they became in combination Let's take a look at eve and frank Look past the covering and see what we find Now with the performance of our distinguished star miss dune havoc as eve jeremy We hope once again to keep you in suspense Frank Is that you frank? Well darling, we'd better get a move on. You know how azadia is about her sit-down dinners It's off to seven now little Oh frank, you're not even driven. I can't go baby. Oh for heaven's sake. What do you mean? You can't go? I've just been on the phone half an hour Crawford won't do the part. Well, she never was right for it. I thought she was Anyway, she won't do it and now I've got to find someone else. Let's talk about it later on darling Go on get your dinner jacket on. Look, uh, you go without me honey. I will not. I will not be the odd woman there Oh, you know how azadia is about how carefully she arranges. Listen, this is serious Look, I didn't want to discuss it at home. I'm not the kind of guy who brings the office home every night Maybe I'd be a bigger shot producer if I did Anyway, business is lousy. See just lousy money's frozen all over It's all right for the big studios mgm paramount and warners But it's murder right now for an independent Guys like me depend on money from the banks, honey And even if I've got the best picture in the world with money the way it is I've got to have at least one big box office name So the banks will think their investment is protected. Oh frank. I know all about this You told me enough about it when you explained why I couldn't play the part myself Well, oh Oh frank, honey, I am sorry. I suppose it is terrible that I'm fussing over a little thing like a dinner party when you have Oh, that's better sweet Well, frank, why don't we go out to dinner anyhow? You know it might relax you and and take your mind off this No, honey now if I don't get my whole deal set within the next 48 hours and get word to new york about who my star is We can't shoot this year and frankly if I can't afford I simply just can't afford I mean it literally to lay out the rest of this year Well, fontaine can't do it croppard won't All right, who's it going to be? Eve At just one star that's been right for it from the beginning now you'll get sore again and we'll have a big shindy about it But honestly, honey now if you could just believe me when I tell you that she doesn't mean anything to me nothing But a big lorna more Yes, lorna more And I suppose you've been talking to her seeing her trying to warm up that all I just hung up the phone from talking to I'm going to see her and so that's why I can't go to dinner. She's out at the malibu beach house Oh look eve. Why can't you believe me when I leave me alone? Oh, what do you think I am? Do you think I'm going over to azadias and telling the reason I'm alone is that you couldn't come You had to go out and see lorna more at her beach house in malibu Oh, I can just see that look on azadia's face when you and lorna and azadia all used to be such great friends You never went to have dinner at azadias alone up until six months ago. Oh, no You always had lorna along even though she hadn't made a picture for you for three years She wasn't a business deal then. Oh, no All right You know, I feel about everything so you can just go and do is you exactly please darling if you just listen to me I don't care about lorna at all. You must know that I don't even care for a particularly as an actress But I need that name or i'm sunk She's the only available actress in the whole world that can play that part of Yes, she's the only actress that I can get in a hurry with a big enough name Okay, if I'm going out to malibu Honestly, honey, I I don't think I'll be any more than an hour. You can call azadia from there I'm not going to call her all right. I'll call up from there Oh, it wasn't like me It really wasn't like me But if a man would only understand that a woman is a really delicate sensitive instrument And of course that goes double if you're an actress Frank was actually a very nice sweet guy a bit older of course, but kind and and swell I guess I knew basically that lorna didn't mean anything to him but business But the whole thing seemed to explode that night My wanting to be an important actress and the The mortification of having a dinner party called off with me sitting there all dressed up and looking Well really wonderful I got up and put my coat on I was so mad. I was cold I wandered into the living room On the coffee table with a bottle of gin Frank had just gotten it out. I guess to start to make a martini I let out a little into the jigger glass and I gulped it down I bought some plastered balling off the ceiling and hit me on the chest for a minute Then I saw something lying under the love seat A little package I untied it It was from rye golds A gold compact and on it was engraved to lorna dear from frank I guess it was the gin made me decide to do it Anyway, the next thing I knew I was out in my car backing out of the driveway and turning up sunset I knew I was headed for Malibu All the way there I did the most wonderful scenes in my mind I'd knock on the door and quickly open it so they wouldn't be able to get out of each other's arms Good evening. Oh, no, no, please Don't let me disturb you I merely came to bring you this present the frank in his haste to get over to see you neglected to bring It's this lovely gold compact. He picked it out all by himself, of course And that's his very own writing on it too. Well, good night, and I'm certainly looking forward to your academy award performance in his new picture I knew which house it was a white one all by itself up on trancas beach about a mile beyond merleau browns I stopped a couple of hundred feet from the house Frank's car was nowhere in sight I opened the wrought iron gate and walked on the door. There wasn't a light on the house Oh, please. No, no, don't let me disturb you This lovely gold compact Then I saw that the door was standing open a couple of inches. I pushed it wide open It took a couple of steps in and stood there I smelled cigar smoke cigar I was looking for them, but I couldn't see anybody It was all dark in my end of the room, but at the other end 30 or 40 feet across it was quite bright and blue Well, that's where they are. I bought out there in the terrace looking at the sea having a drink I walked across the marble floor black and white checkerboard was so beautiful I stumbled over something as I made my way around the shears. I kicked at it discarded woodwall slipper But it wasn't It was a foot and a leg a silk clad leg And then I could see better It looked like a tumbled mass of woodwall pillows Perhaps a discarded negligee and a shears coverlet all intermingled and allowed to fall into a neglected heap on the floor There at that one place I got down waveringly and edged aside one of the pillows Satin it was and so soft so harmless But someone had smothered her to death with it I was sorry. I tempered with that concealing pillow. I looked for one moment at that Remacing suffused mask with a protruding tongue Panic came on I made several confused half turns this way and and then that and then I located the door and I sped for it But just as I got there The drunk was arriving It was that drunk Forgive me, but I came back. I had to come back I guess you can't speak to me lorna I guess you aren't hardly able to speak to me lorna. I'm sorry. I'm Truly sorry for anything Well, or somebody said you wanted to get married again and I I just couldn't stand lorna I didn't mean to do it. It's bad to you lorna. Do you want to speak to anybody lorna? Oh, you can't speak to anybody. No, you can't speak to anybody Oh, lorna can't come to the phone Who wants to know oh jerry, this is jack. I'm her husband by a previous marry Wait a minute. Wait a minute. All right. It sounds like you're just in the next room Uh kiss Broadway for no trouble. I'm Possible. What's the matter? What's the matter? How you fall out? lorna I hadn't been able to move I stood there for minutes after he'd gone. I remember I could hear seagulls And I wondered if seagulls were like vultures if they knew that someone was dead on their beach And about now something very strange was happening to me I was getting stronger braver more interested than shocked I thought I'll call frank. He must have gotten home by now And then I remembered my fingerprints on the telephone I wiped it off carefully with my handkerchief Even though I knew I was wiping away the drunk's fingerprints at the same time By the phone was the piece of paper. You'd scroll the message on jerry jordan. It said new york broadway I put that in my pocket Something shiny was lying on the floor near her. I thought it must be the compact Fallen out of my hand when I first stumbled I bent down to pick it up. Oh, it was awful Because it was her hand It was a gold lipstick that she had in her hand I let go Then I looked at the white square of linoleum that was there a letter She'd scroll the red letter on the marble with the lipstick A big letter j While she was being suffocated put to death with a satin pillow She'd been trying to write the name of the man who was killing her What an actress trick What a corny actress trick I thought But jay Not so many men's names begin with jay Jerry jordan begins with jay two of them and and jack her drunken ex-husband that begins with jay And frank jeremy begins with jay And frank is my husband I picked up her address book a beautiful white leather tooled address book on the phone table I was getting panicking again I was about to tear the jay page out of it, but then I thought no no that would look suspicious Very suspicious, so I put the address book in my purse The phone was still ringing when I left May I speak with azadia, please I wonder if I could take a message this is mike romanoff. Oh mike mike. This is eve jeremy Hello there darling. Are you all right? Couldn't you understand why she hadn't heard from you? Mike I've had this frightful headache just more than I could bear came on me while I was dressing and I just had to lie down. It just won't stop But didn't frank call and and tell you that we couldn't make it Haven't heard from frank, isn't he? No Um, that is he had to go out mike some business or something. You know how he is so much in his mind I think thank you. It's better now, but Well, I still don't think I'd better go out. Oh darling. I hope you understand. I did my best to see it wasn't printed What what wasn't printed? You haven't seen tonight's hollywood hush, then Oh, oh that oh well, I Of course, it's just that it was mean and it happened in my restaurant and I knew you'd understand Oh, why of course. I do mike. Good night my dear. See you soon. Take care of that headache. Thank you mike. I will good night The evening paper was where frank had dropped it. I opened it to the hollywood hush column It was the first item If frank jeremy would like to get launamore back to work for him starring in eagles nest his proposed new indy production And if launamore would like to do the part for her ex heart flutter Why can't they keep from fighting at that number one table in romanos? It started politely yesterday over the consime and ended up with shrieks for coffee round two was a today's lusty luncheon During which launar did most of the talking at a medium shout with frank eating very dark bread indeed If this keeps up mike romanos will be auctioning off seats at ringside tables We're sure that mrs. J understands. It's all just business J And then I heard them coming in. Hello, baby Don't be frightened. He's all right. It's all right. He's good. They think I Will look at you. I know I know about it. And it wasn't you tell him frank. Tell him it wasn't you tell him. Yeah, tell us frank. How did you know? Oh Radio I was there. I was right there. Baby. What do you say lady? She didn't say anything. She said she heard it on the radio I have been two hours now. It doesn't seem to have he couldn't have don't you see he couldn't have Yeah, we'd better let him go then and she says he couldn't have done it. Shut up mrs. Jeremy, did you not? Um Can you say with certainty what your husbands were abouts were have been since seven o'clock this evening baby shut up Can you mrs. Jeremy listen? I No, you know, he was going to visit out at malibu to visit miss launamore Yes, I knew that was a business thing and I gotta get going oh frank Look what have they done to you? Look They've been fighting. We ain't been fighting with them. But that launamore, you know She used to be a swimmer in the olympics your hand darling. It's all bleeding She had long fingernails too. How cat did that? I told you over and over again where they came from She wouldn't let him in but her cat raked his hand. It was outside the door. It had gotten out of Well, so much for the cat. No, no wait Wait, won't you need something? Oh, please let me give him something to take with him. It's all right sweet I ran into his bedroom looked around blindly snatched up something at random from under one of the bed pillows and I ran back with him When I got there The door was standing open And the street beyond was empty They hadn't waited. They were gone I stood there in the open doorway and the rolled up pajamas Dropped to the floor at my feet And lay there Sit down. This is jeremy. Thank you. It's just a technicality. I know it frightens people so but it isn't final It's just a a legal phrase. It's automatically spoken in these cases Honey, I've seen mr. Benedict gift more people off on appeals and reversals haven't you mort? How about a mort haven't you? Yeah? Yeah He wouldn't even let me take the stand and the compact and and the address book I do feel terrible not not being allowed to what could you have done? Don't you suppose he would have been the first to call you if it would have helped any Mr. Benedict never overlooks a witness. He thinks can help a case And he never uses one and he thinks for weakened it does he mort? Mort does he well now you see nobody saw you come or go there that night Oh, of course the jury wouldn't have believed you any more than the arresting detectives They would have thought that you were making it up to try to shield your husband And the sympathy you aroused for yourself would have worked in reverse anyhow, honey, you have to admit he was mixed up with it Surely All right, I know that as well as he does How are you mr. Jeremy? I'm fine Then it's pretty bad, isn't it? Let me have a cigarette will you mort? It's it's pretty bad, isn't it? It isn't over yet You're taking the typical layman's point of view, but isn't it all just Circumstantial evidence. I just don't see how they can sure it is sure it is Now mr. Jeremy, and I had a long talk this morning long talk You understand that I felt from the very beginning I've been very frank with you to my reasons for thinking so that you shouldn't appear on the stand Yes, I know mr. Benedict. However, I Express to mr. Jeremy your natural desire to come forward and tell the circumstances that you detailed to us Your visit to the beach house and the detail about the probable explanation for the gold compact There's no probable explanation for the compact. I told you Yes, yes At any rate mr. Jeremy, and I had a long talk again about the advisability of your going on the stand He's absolutely dead set against it now if you insist on it, of course I shall have to introduce you, but let me once again say that if you do you'll hurt our side more than you'll help it Well, you all know so much more about it. That's right. I do. That's right Mr. Jeremy It is his wish and it's also mine He doesn't want you to get all smeared up too if it can be avoided and the wife isn't required to testify Anyway, you know honey now you mustn't feel anything lost. There's one thing I haven't told you I was confused and worried about frank and Well, anyway, I didn't think of it again until just lately her address book when I was there I found I don't want to hear about it, mr. Jeremy Well You just hold on you're being wonderful about it. This is a real test and you're taking it like a major Come on. I'll take you downstairs and put you in a taxi Do you want more to the girl to ride home with you to your place? No, thank you I'll be all right I'll have to get used to going around alone From now on I guess Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict? We have your honor The defendant will rise. Oh Frank Take it easy sweet It's gonna be all right. What does the jury find? We find the defendant Frank Jeremy guilty of murder in tonight's full hour of suspense tune havoc our star appears as eve Jeremy In william spears production of eve tonight's study in suspense In just a moment we will return with act two of suspense This is cbs the columbia broadcasting system. This is robert montgomery again quote A woman is a delicate sensitive instrument and that goes double if the woman is also an actress unquote Eve Jeremy said that a long time ago Before launa moor was murdered Now the sensitive instrument that is eve Jeremy is forced to follow a course that she's never planned for herself A course dictated by somebody else's verdict A verdict of guilty of murder In the first degree We bring back to our hollywood soundstage our star miss june havoc as eve jeremy with william johnston as frank jeremy And wallymar as jerry jordan in eve tonight study in Suspense Hello there, mr. Jeremy the second booth Thank you. You have five minutes Oh sweet Now take it easy sweet. We don't have much time I have to talk to you like this through an iron screen not even to be able to touch you when that's sweet is sweet When a guy's been convicted I know you didn't do it. I know you didn't of course. I didn't sweet, but It's just one of those things Circumstantial evidence but frank there must be something I was pretty optimistic during the trial Because I knew I didn't do it. I guess but now that I look back on it They had enough coincidence piece together to convict a dozen innocent bank How can you be so calm? How can you what's the use of being anything else? Like an old man waiting to But there's one thing I want you to know dear I want to be sure you didn't believe that I was starting over with her But that she meant anything to me at all. She was a star and I was a producer. I needed it for my picture. She's a Well, she was a big name in pictures You knew I'd been seeing her and when I quarreled with her it was about you dear. Oh darling, honestly, I know I know I just wanted to be sure You know I've got nothing to hide now Frank How much more time is there two or three minutes? No, no, I mean, oh November the 16th remember this 16 six weeks. Yes bank I'm going to do something what can you do sweet don't you realize there's a murderer running around loose Some man who's free and having fun and going out with girls the man who did the thing that you're going to be here I'm going to find him. How could you find him sweet the police tried they didn't try all they wanted was to convict you But it's nice to hear you say it sweet because I What? Because it makes me know that you really did love me. Oh, you see sweet There are things you can face when you you're like this that you didn't dare talk about or even think about before I always loved you. You but you were so much younger and full of ambition and I'm sorry, sweetheart I wish I could have done things for you There won't be much left for you now You know how it is in this business. You spend it as fast as you make up. I don't Why my she'll forgive me sweet, but It's wonderful to know how you do feel Frank Frank I'm not going to let this thing happen. There must be something that there must be some clues Don't you think the police thought there are things the police didn't know Things I saw things. Maybe maybe you saw when you were up there and didn't tell them I couldn't very well have told them anything about that My whole defense was that I hadn't been up there But it wasn't anything nothing important. There must there must have been something whoever was there before you Whoever did it must have left some trace I know what i'm going to do What if her address book I took it away in my purse because Well, it was open at the letter j and your name was in it It was a silly thing to do, but I have it now and I don't do it eve I'd love you to want to but I can't stand to have you in this mess I'm an actress. I can carry it off now. Tell me please wasn't there anything you noticed when you Well, I I was only there a second. I I saw her right away and I'd have beat it It was only uh Well, well well frank a smell Cigar smoke Yes I remember that too Frank Frank, I'll I'll write every day Goodbye. So long sweet October 5th Frank darling I've been studying the address book under the jays. There are only three others besides yours And I'm going after them one at a time Tomorrow I'm going down to see lieutenant trowel at the homicide bureau I won't tell him anything But he always seemed to me to be one of the few who tried to be fair and I might need help Oh darling, I know it isn't much But you must keep on hoping something will happen And if only because I love you so desperately So desperate What's your angle mrs. Jeremy? My my angle. Yeah, why are you doing all this? Why? He's my husband and I love him and I look mrs. Jeremy the cops around this town aren't exactly dumb as you know We know what you were like before you married him. We know that uh what you kept on being After you married him Everybody seems to have known it except him. All right dick trazy a person can change can't they sure they can The cop just hates to have anyone think they can make a sucker out of them. You know how it is He can skip the apologies if that's what they're supposed to be Sure And what's this new evidence anything specific? Well, not very it well for instance Did you know that lonamore had a first husband named jack? Yeah, go on. Well, it just occurred to me that he he might be worth investigating why because Well, how do you know he wasn't some kind of madman or drunk or something that got off on a spree or something and just came out and killed her You're pretty smart. Thank you that nobody can take away from you. You're smart mrs. Jeremy I suppose you've been through the old newspaper files and you dug that up the drama appealed to you You thought of tomorrow's newspaper files Actress wife of convicted man freeze adored husband at last moment by securing evidence overlooked by bungling police You're very insulting then maybe the next day the caption would read hollywood studios by an effort to place eave jeremy glamorous actress detective under contract I want to forget everything you've just said I haven't the time to allow myself the luxury of putting you in your place Now please listen to me. Oh I'm sorry mrs. Jeremy. I really am It isn't fair to string this out any longer It's just that a policeman gets a little irritated sometimes at all the health private citizens try to give them in a case like this I withdraw any untoward remarks. I may have made mrs. Jeremy. Thank you. I forgive you Now regarding jack gordon the murdered woman's ex-husband He is a lush and he is as you say a slightly unpredictable and screwy guy However, we've already questioned him investigated him thoroughly And we're satisfied with the story We can't prove that he was near the malibu beach house that night There's nothing there that would incriminate him. No fingerprints or anything No Unless of course you want to step forward and say you were in the murder room and so on. Well, I really No, no, of course not. I Don't want to go that far. Of course not. I all right Do anything else besides gordon nothing definite will not yet But I have a plan and I want your help When I want your help. Okay. What do you want me to do? Tell me what kind of evidence would I have to have how specific to upset a first degree murder rep? Something in writing You got a suspect in mind some particular person. Well, not yet, but you might have Well, there's one other thing it's an old old trick, but it's still good. What do you mean? Yeah I've ever seen one of these things No, I don't think so. Yeah talking to this little gadget here. Oh, but you suggest I say oh anything just talk Lieutenant trout is one of the most chivalrous gentlemen I have ever met Quite a realist aren't you? Yeah, listen Lieutenant trout is one of the most chivalrous gentlemen I have ever met Huh, you see What is it? Detectograph think it might come in handy. Uh, huh? It might October 7th Darling, I saw trout and I'm afraid he's not quite the kindly so I thought he was but he did help me in one way He installed a detective graph in my new apartment Oh apartment only a room really and of course my hair is dark again really black I've changed my name and my appearance I don't think that even you my darling would recognize me now Now about those other three men who were the jays in her address book I'm afraid they're a dead end so far Johnson was her dressmaker and stanley jellico is a doctor who's definitely been in the south pacific for over a year I know that the jay she tried to write with her lipstick is one of those four names in her book Naturally, darling We know it wasn't you and for the time being at least we'd better forget about her husband jack After all frank it would incriminate me to bring that out Maybe if the last one doesn't pan out I can go after him then there's just one more Jerry jordan you remember darling He was the one who called on the telephone on that horrible drunk answer to the beach house He said he was calling from new york, but maybe that was some trick or something Anyway, I have his hollywood number Oh, uh Is this mr. Jerry jordan? Yes. Well, well, I finally found you. Well, can you guess who this is? Well, I'm afraid I'm not very good at that. All right, then. I suppose I'll have to tell you This is evelyn jarvis. Oh Well, don't you know who I am? Oh, no, I'm sorry. I don't miss jarvis. Oh, well, this this is embarrassing. Didn't didn't you get the letter? Oh, no, what letter? Oh my goodness Well a very good friend of yours who who's also a very good friend of mine wrote you a letter about me or at least he said he would I see and and I'll give you one other clue I'm from out of town And now can you guess me from san francisco? Would you well? You always did have a terrible memory for anything but phone numbers I didn't mean to bother you, but ed said to be sure. Look you are where you stay I managed to find a little place Why I hadn't really say but it's still have you got any plans for right now. Well, really, mr. Jordan, no, no seriously seriously by the time we've had a drink and got acquainted You'll be ready for dinner anyway. Oh, no No, no, no, you wouldn't want ed thought and to know you were acting that way Would you you just jump in a taxi and tell him to take you to the brown derby on bind street? Well, and uh, I'm dying to meet you Well as a matter of fact from what I know I'm sort of anxious to meet you Darling just a quick p.s. I'm going to meet him now And I have a hunch he's it. I don't know why And I'll remember what you said about cigar smoke And yet although I've got a hunch makes me feel a little shaky He's got such a nice voice To be a murderer So that's what he says about the other fine pal I'll say one thing for ed. He may be an awful liar, but he sure got good taste Well, thank you. It proves that he's no liar Tell me jerry is is this the brown derby? I mean the one you hear about this is it Are there any people you know famous people here now? It's a little early, but I'm just a small town girl San Francisco isn't such a small town. Well, I live sort of outside of San Francisco Oh, look jerry, isn't that jean terny over there? Yep. That's who it is. My goodness She looks just like her pictures, doesn't she? Oh, what a lovely skin. There's uh, gregory peck. Oh, oh, yes I thought he was He is Jared, do you know any of these people? I mean, no, no, I uh, I've never gone around with the picture crowd Oh, now I suppose you're disappointed. Oh, no, I'm not. I've always thought it was awfully silly really all this worship of stars Still hollywood must be sort of an exciting town to live in I mean from some of the things I hear that go on Oh, that's mostly newspaper talk hollywood's about like any other town they have their regular quota of divorces and fist fights and Murders Oh, you mean that laura more business. Well, I read something about it. Yes, that was a genuine tragedy. All right Jerry, I don't suppose you knew her either Well, as a matter of fact laura was one of the few celebrities I did know really what was she like Well laura was a long ways from being the sweet little thing. She seemed to be on the screen But oh, but murder. Yes, I suppose nothing really excuses that Well, anyway, they got the man who did it frank jeremy Yes, yes, I guess they did You mean You didn't oh the case looked good enough You can't always tell about those things though. Any number of people might have done it. Well, who for instance Well, jeremy's wife for one His wife Well, there was talk that jeremy's relations with laura weren't always strictly business You can't tell uh, but i'm afraid a little laura's life was kind of a mess Jerry Were you mixed up with laura? No, no, no, no, but didn't the police I mean I should think with a woman like that all of her friends Oh, they nab jeremy so quick. They didn't even question anybody else. Anyway, I was out of town when it happened jerry May I have a cigarette? Oh, of course. Waiter, please Well, what kind will you have? Oh, don't do that. I'll smoke whatever kind you have. I don't have any Yes, sir a package of cigarettes, please. Oh, what will they be there? Any kind? I don't smoke often enough to care Can't pin you down. Just use your judgment chris. Yes, sir Don't you have a favorite brand? No, no, I only smoke cigars What? I said that I only smoke cigars Darling, don't you see his name in her book and he admits he knew her and the cigars I'm positive Now if I can win his confidence get him up to my apartment near the dictograph I know I can do it. We still got four weeks darling, but I'll have to be awfully careful He's clever and intelligent Imagine a man who can carry a thing like that on his conscience and still be so terribly nice and and courteous and thoughtful But I'm going to win for you darling. I I know I am now. Hello, jerry. Hello, baby. You've been waiting long. Oh, not very Jerry Something the matter. No, no, nothing's a matter, baby. Oh, something is though. Oh, nothing that makes any difference, baby Well, what is it? I don't know Sometimes it It almost seems as though you were kidding me as though you were Well keeping some kind of a secret that you didn't want me to know. Isn't it a woman's privilege to have secrets? Oh, don't talk like that, baby Oh jerry, you know, I couldn't have any secrets from you. Well Why do we always have to meet here for instance? Why can't I pick you up at your own place once in a while? I don't even know where it is. Maybe uh, I like this place because this is where I first met you There you see you see you haven't even answered me. Well, and what about san francisco? At first you were only going to be here a few days Then you decided to stay longer. Well, that's because you asked me to jerry, but you're going to have to go back sometime, aren't you? What are you going back to in san francisco, baby? Maybe i'm not going Maybe i'm not ever going back Maybe i'll go to all new york instead Do you like new york? Oh love it if you'd be there As a matter of fact, I haven't been back to new york in three years. You haven't no, I mean um, I know so little about you Yes, yes, that's true, baby And I don't know anything about you For all I know you might even be married Oh jerry Don't you think that that's a kind of a tough thing to say after what I've been doing. Oh, baby, baby. I'm sorry. It's only that Well, you know What are we going to do? Look, baby Why don't we go out to my place for a change? A change? Well, you see I don't really live at that hotel. I mean that really isn't my home. It isn't oh, I'm a fine one to talk. I guess the fact is I've been holding out on you, baby Actually, I live in a place out in bevelly hills with about 30 rooms and a swimming pool a block long And I've got more money than I know what to do with cattle ranches in argentina oil wells in mexico I don't know what all Yes, my dad left it to me and I found out something about money from him It can be a terrible thing to be rich Oh, can it all kinds of things can happen to you like like what? Cheap promoters cheap lawyers cheap women blackmail That's why I usually don't let people know until I see Oh, baby Baby, I feel like a dog about it now, but I didn't want you to know at first until you were sure I didn't care about money Is that it? Will you will you try to forgive me, baby? Will you please? Oh, jerry. Will you will you darling? Of course, I will I do and jerry yes about those secrets of mine Suppose there were some things I couldn't tell you yet. Would that matter? Not if I was sure you would tell me someday jerry. I promise you that someday Someday, I will tell you Frank darling, I know the delay must be torture to you But you must understand how careful I've got to be Supposing I know I can't be wrong But just supposing he weren't the man That's why I've got to have the positive living truth On that detective I haven't been able to get him up there yet, but we've still got 10 days and I have a feeling it's it's going to be soon Very soon. So so please don't worry darling and and I miss you very good Oh, baby I had to honestly I couldn't help you find this place jerry Why do you think I didn't tell you where it was if I didn't have reasons? Can I come in? Please I've got to talk to you all right come in Baby Baby ed thought and arrived in town last night He came to see me He's never heard of you, baby He doesn't know anybody by the name of bevel and jarvis or anybody that Even looks like you Is that what you came up here to tell me? Oh baby, baby. I don't care what it is only please please jerry baby Oh, I want you so much I want you to I want you to go away with me tonight I want you to marry me I want you to marry me But first Oh, darling Oh, jerry, I've waited so long. There's something I've got to tell you don't don't I've got to And then you can tell me whatever it is and we can start even If if you still want to jerry do either of us have to tell anything. Does that matter? I've got to ever and I can't keep it any longer Not the way I feel about jerry. Please don't I I've I've killed someone I'm a murderer Lorna Moore And another man is going to die for it Jerry Now jerry listen to me. It doesn't matter. I don't care what you've done jerry. I love you. Don't you know that? I love you Can you still I've loved you from the beginning it it didn't matter then and it doesn't matter now I could only believe that you've got to believe it. Listen. I I can prove it to you baby What do you mean it didn't matter then? Did you know yes? I knew Do you know who I am Who I'm eve jeremy the wife of the man who's going to die for it His wife Yes, now you know and You're willing to let him die. Oh jerry. He deserves to die for things. He's done. He he'd probably killed her any way I knew what you're seeing. He was a beast I knew from the beginning it was a mistake. He he beat me. He did he tortured me I can't even tell you some of the things he did when When does it happen? At the 16th tomorrow night Tomorrow night Does that matter to you? Oh, I'd let 50 men die to get you baby. That's why I haven't seen you I was waiting. We could be in argentina tomorrow night. Yes. Yes I'll palpate. I can get plane tickets tonight from a friend. I don't have to change. Oh, no, you look lovely, baby I'll just throw a couple of things in a bag. Nobody knows about this. Make it quick though And is it perfectly logical time for me to go away for a while? But hurry baby hurry. Yes. I'm already Oh, how do I look? Oh, you look great, baby. Wait a minute. What what? I ought to write a note to him Your husband? Yes, no Just to keep both of us in the clear. He won't get it before he What are you going to say? You can read it. You can read it if you want to Oh Now here Here, I'll make it for you. No, I'll just stick it here in my handbag. I'll mail it the airport. All right Are you are you ready? Yes. Come on. There's the elevator now. Good evening, mr. Jeremy Oh, hello. You were taking a little trip. Well, wouldn't you if you were me? Sure. I know how you feel You uh, you know hurry sort of my friend here was going to run me down to the airport Lieutenant trout mr. Jordan. How do you do? Well, I won't keep you but a minute and I'll give you a fast trip down there in a squad car Let's just step in here No, no not your apartment, mr. Jeremy next door next door really lieutenant. We're in an awful hurry What do we what do we want to go in here for? Oh, we took over this apartment a couple of weeks ago, mr. Jeremy When you started going with mr. Jordan here Oh, by the way, brenner and I here we had some luck with our little gadget Yeah, what what little gadget what little gadget? Oh, you forgot mrs. Jeremy I detect a graph Lieutenant trout thought that you thought mrs. Jeremy All right I thought Mind if I turn it on oh, I go ahead. There's nothing because I forgot to turn it on Oh, uh, brennan does that in here. Don't you brennan? Yeah, very interesting I've got to ever The way I feel now about you I guess that's about all we need to know isn't it? Yes, I guess it is well I told you I'd get him didn't I? Yeah, heavily you can wrap him up and take him away lieutenant And don't forget to send me back my husband the first thing in the morning. Come on jordan eave so long sucker Eve They sure gave you the right name, baby. Yes Only you wouldn't have needed the apple Or the snake Darling if oh, it just doesn't seem possible back here in our own home out here on our own terrace again Oh and everything just the way it was Yeah Frank you remember when we first took this place how happy we were and how the agent took us out on this terrace and I'll just be too high up if we were afraid of high places Frank There's something bothering you well Eve oh, tell me darling I know you've been through so much when I think that today you may look sweet I haven't any kick coming You saved my life. Oh, and I know what the answer is anyway, but You would only pray on my mind if I didn't talk to you about it And there shouldn't be anything like that between us ever Shouldn't it? Of course not darling. What is it? I've got a record here What record that the police took off your detective graph Oh, I want to play it back for you. Sweet. I I'll put it on the phone It's all right sweet, but I know dear Jerry jerry, listen to me. It doesn't matter. I don't care what you've done jerry. I love you. Don't you know that I love you Can you still I've loved you for the beginning it didn't matter then and it doesn't matter now I could only believe that you stop to believe it now listen. I can prove it to you, baby What do you mean? It didn't matter then Did you know? Yes, I knew You know, I am is that all That was the end of the record That was all that was recorded It's all right sweet, it's all right. I know Please darling Right, don't you see? I had to play it that way. I did. I don't you see I I had to make him think that so So I could say I know sweet. I know. I just wanted you to I just wanted you to say it. I guess Please sweet now. I understand Do you really want of course I do You see Listen darling. It's all over now. It's over. I'll tell you let's celebrate I'll go down and get some wine champagne or something, huh? Honestly, that'd be wonderful. Okay. I'll go right now Only I What darling well, I just getting out of the clink. I don't have any money. Are you of course not of course Right there in my handbag darling. Well, oh Where you got plenty say Is a letter a letter It's addressed to me A letter frank frank don't don't you must have written it Frank Frank no No, frank frank listen. I didn't Is frank jeremy Terrible things just happened my wife suicide Nerves, I guess she jumped off the terrace Before I could stop her it's 14 stories suicide She gave me a note in her own handwriting Just before I'll read it to you It says Frank my darling I've been wrong all the time. Oh, so terribly wrong You know what I mean I've failed you utterly Now I can't even bear the thought of facing you When you read this I will be gone This is farewell Forever signed eve So ends the story of eve, but frank jeremy's story didn't end there He was a good guy and he didn't want it to Frank's story ended a little later After another long trial and another jury verdict of Guilty of murder in the first degree and this time the verdict in all its implications was carried out Our thanks to miss june habbock for a superb performance as eve Do you know what hate is really? Have you ever actually hated someone? The word hate is often used and misused Very few of us really experience hate the emotion But next week we'll tell you a story of hate the violent bloathing of two men for each other In a hate so desperate that it will tax our normal imaginations A hate so genuine and honest it inspires a despicable pact Where one man sets a price on another's life A bet that he can successfully kill the other within a specified length of time A hate so mutual that the wager is accepted That's the incredible premise of bet with death A story by john dixon car next week study in suspense This is robert munt gummary inviting you to be with us next week June havoc is currently being seen in the derelict zanik production gentleman's agreement Mr. Mont gummary may currently be seen in the universal international production ride the pink horse tonight's play eve was written by bob richard and sebastian Moriarty and was based on the novel the black angel by cornell wilbridge Lud gluskin is our musical director and conductor lucian moroweck composes the original scores Mr. Johnstone appeared as frank jeremy walley mayor as jerry jordan jack moiles as lieutenant trout Mike romanoff was played by prince michael romanoff Others in the cast were lorraine tuttle jack crucian dick ryan jerry hausner frank albertson and alan reed Next week hear the john dixon car story bet with death on radios outstanding theater of thrills one hour of Suspends this is cbs the columbia broadcasting system