 In just a moment, suspense with Anne Southern. Billy, turn that radio down. How can we play bridge? Okay, Mom. I like the auto light show, but not too loud. Whose deal is it, Mae? Mine, Mary. My husband, Ed, always listens to. When he's home on Thursdays, our house sounds just like his service station. I know what you mean. Tonight's probably spark plug night. You'd think the announcer with his commercials would be enough, but no. It's switched to auto light resistor. I know. Batteries and ignition systems. Well, Dara, what are you dreaming about? Oh, auto light? You mean the show with Anne Southern? Oh, Mary, tell Billy to turn up the radio again. I wouldn't miss suspense. Billy, will you turn the radio up, your Aunt Dara? Yes, ma'am. Suspense. Auto light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you radio's outstanding theater of thrills. Starring tonight, Miss Anne Southern in Anton Leader's production of Beware the Quiet Man. A tale well-calculated to keep you in. Suspense. Berman and soda with a twist of lemon. Okay, coming right up. Say, your name, Margie? Yeah. How'd you know? You generally come in here with a heavy set guy, black wavy hair, wears a dye big diamond? Yeah. Now, he was in a while ago. Said that he'd be late, but for you to be sure and wait for him. But I can't wait. I got to get home to my... I got to get home. How late do you say it'd be? Oh, pardon now. Oh, for crying out loud. Okay, give me some nickels. Yeah. Here you are. Thanks. Mr. Banning, please. Yeah, Mr. Arthur Banning. Margie, I'm going to be late for supper. Yeah, I ran into a girl I used to know at Lincoln High. She wants me to have a drink with her. Yeah. And say, will you pick up some hamburger on the way home and start the potatoes? I'll be there as quick as I can. Bye. Here's your drink. Well, here's mud in your eye. There's a young fella down the end of the bar who wants to buy you one. No, thanks. Well, it looks like a nice guy. That tall blonde fella over by the mirror? None other. And you got a whole hour to kill. Is he... He isn't drunk, is he? No, he's had a few, but he always carries it good. It might help pass the time. Hey, what's it to you anyway? Five bucks. Is that sure appreciated. He offers you five bucks to get me to have a drink with him? Yeah. He is kind of good-looking. Well, okay. Sure, what the heck, I'll have a drink with him. Okay, so you're married. Nothing wrong with having a drink together. So what? I figure what your old man don't know won't hurt him. I said I'd have a drink with you. If you've got any other ideas, I'll buy my own. Oh, no, don't get me wrong, honey. I thought you was a good kid to manage your ankle in here. You just like excitement, that's all. And I'm the guy that can dish it out. Yeah. Yeah. You see, I'm a private eye. Yeah, no kidding, like you hear about on radio. Gee, what a break for me. You just stick around me, honey, and you'll get plenty of excitement. Yeah, I'll bet. You know, you take this new client of mine now. Bet you anything, he makes our headlines tomorrow. Ten to one, he'll murder his wife. Oh, yes, sure. He hired me to find out if his wife's been stepping out. I felt kind of sorry for the guy. He probably doesn't have the money to take her out himself. He's a bank teller over at Second National. Bank teller? Bank teller? My... What's his name? No, no, that stops confidential. Matter of fact, I'm not supposed to talk about cases at all. Oh, go on. I won't tell anybody. Well, you don't look like the kind of babe that blabs everything she knows. How about that drink? Sure. Hey, Charlie, two over here, huh? In the works. You know, he sort of gave me the creeps, this guy. He sat there eating his lunch, calm as you please, and all the time figuring how to kill his wife. How'd you know what he was figuring? Well, for one thing, he didn't want evidence for a divorce. He sort of looked at me funny and said, I just want to know, that's all. If Margie is stepping out, I'll take her of it my own way. Margie? Yeah, yeah, that's his wife's name, Margie. Hey, what's the matter? Nothing, nothing at all. Hey, you don't look so good. Maybe you drank the last one too fast. No, no, I'm fine. I'm just naturally pale, that's all. You were saying about this client? You figure he's going to murder his wife? Oh, sure, sure. It's in the back. Either that or suicide. Suicide? But he's more the type for murder. Oh, one of those big, brutal guys sort of mean-looking, huh? No, quiet, Marcie. Kind doesn't have much to say. Those are the guys you got to watch. But why? Because they never let you know what they're really thinking, not until it's too late. They don't? You know, most guys, when they find their wife's stepping, will raise Cain. Maybe they'll even get a divorce, but they don't get so enough to murder. Yeah. But these quiet fellas, you know, they put the little woman on a pedestal. You wouldn't catch them out with other women, not in a million years. And when they discover they're wanting only has been kicking up her heels. Oh, brother, watch out. Sorry. The worst of it is, they go on acting like nothing's wrong, you see, and then all of a sudden, wango, they explode. They explode? Yeah, yeah. You know, like I always say, beware the quiet man. Like this new client of mine, for example, calm, you never met anybody calmer. But I'll be back. What does he look like? Oh, well, just about average, I guess. Brown hair, getting sort of thin on the top, a little bit stoop-shouldered. Medium height? Wear glasses? Yeah. Yeah, you know him? No, I don't know any of the boys. Excuse me. Hey, where you going? I gotta make a phone call just to remember something. Don't go away, I'll be right back. Margie, I can't see you this afternoon. No, I'm not sorry about you being late. But whatever you do, don't come into Charlie's place. Yeah, that's where I am now. You'll bet there's something wrong. There's plenty wrong. Either this guy I'm talking to is crazy, or else Arthur's planning to murder me. For suspense, auto light is bringing you Miss Anne Southern. In radio's outstanding theatre of thrills, suspense. $200 on that hand. It's easy to see there's no playing bridge with you girls with suspense on. So let's stop playing and switch to auto light spark plugs or whatever for the rest of the half hour, huh? Oh, Mary, I could kiss you. You're such an understanding, sister-in-law. And I don't want to miss a single word. What about you, Mae? Dora, did you know that my husband knows Frank Martin, the auto light salesman? He does? Well then let's listen to Mr. Martin. Right now you can get auto light resistor spark plugs almost anywhere in the United States. They're sensational. Why, no other spark plug will give and maintain such performance. 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And now auto light brings back to a Hollywood soundstage, Miss Ann Southern as Margie in Beware the Quiet Man. A tale well calculated to keep you in. Suspend. I stood there in the phone booth a minute after I hung up. I wasn't scared exactly, but I had to let those words sink in. Either this guy I'm talking to is crazy. Or else Arthur's planning to murder me. I went back to the bar. I had to find out. Oh, beautiful. I thought you got a lot. Sit down, sit down. Thanks. Now, about this fella, the one who's going to murder his wife. Oh, let's count the shop talk. I want to hear about you. I don't even know your name. Did he say what made him think she was stepping out? Ah, she's supposed to belong to some bridge club. The bank teller's wife's got up. His friends of his saw her downtown a couple of times on her bridge days. Isn't that all? You know, honey, you're pretty smart. You make like you're really interested in that guy's work. Oh, but I am. You know, I had a little doll once. I thought plenty of. I would have married her, maybe, but only every time I started talking about a case, she'd shut me up. Never mind about your little dolls. What about this guy? Hey, you're jealous. What do you know? I'm not jealous. I only want to know. It's okay, honey. It's okay. Sure, a cute little doll like you doesn't want to hear a guy spotting off about another time. You know, maybe I had a few, two minutes. I just want to hear about this bank teller. Have you met his wife, maybe? No, but he showed me a picture of it. Oh, then you know what she looks like. Hey, what's so funny? Maybe you better not have him any more to drink. You're acting kind of spoiled. Oh, I feel wonderful. Well, here's to you. A long life. Yeah. A long, long life. Yeah, Donna Hatch. Yeah, poor little Margie. You know, he showed me a snapshot of her in her bathing suit. Oh boy, when she's stacked. As a matter of fact, about your height and the build, they're blonde like you, too. Well, she's pretty as I am. I couldn't see her face. It's kind of blurred. Oh. Oh, I think I'd like another drink. You know, honey, you better start taking vitamins or something. You'll pay her as a sheet. I said I wanted another drink. Oh, oh, sure. Hey, Charlie, two more are the same, huh? Yeah, poor little Margie. You know, that's one thing I could never figure out. The cute little dolls with flirtation eyes always pick some homely, quiet gink when it comes to settling down and the handsome he-man who has to beat off the dames with a club. What does he do? He marries a drab little pigeon. Yeah, that's why we get so many axe murders, I guess. Axe murders? Only in this case, he'll use a gun. But he doesn't have a... I mean, most bank clerks don't own guns. Oh, well, this one does, now. Give me a like, will you? Yeah, sure. There you are. Hey, maybe if you lay off a booze, honey, and take a tonic or something, you'll feel better. Look at your hands, they're trembling. How do you know he has a gun? Oh. Oh, I get it. Why don't you tell me? Tell you what? You've got a squeamish stomach. Let's talk about guns and shooting. No, honey, I'm sorry. I want to say one more word about it, I promise. I'm not squeamish and I don't need vitamins. I want to know how you know this bank teller guy has a gun. All right, so I'm going to a pawn shop and buy one. You know, honey, I could really go for you. It's a funny thing we never even introduced ourselves. That's something we've got to do. My name's Clewson. Lem Clewson. What's yours? You mean that man bought a gun and now he's home waiting to murder his wife in cold blood? Oh, no, no, he won't do anything until he gets my report. You see, tomorrow I check with her friends to see if she's been going to Bridge Club like she's supposed to. Yeah. And I meet my client for lunch and get a picture of him, aren't you? And I take it around to the downtown bars to find out if she's been seen with anybody. And then I give my client the report when he gets off work. Yeah. And then? And if his suspicions are right, and they usually are, it's all over with the shooting. The shooting? Yeah. Bang, bang, honey. That's all. Bang, bang. Say, what'd you say your name was? I've got to get home. Hello, dear. Hello, auntie. I was beginning to worry about you. Well, I really couldn't help being late for dinner. I wanted to leave, but Mae Bell, that's her name. You know, the girl I used to go to school with, she kept talking, yatter-ty-yatter, and I just couldn't walk out hard in the middle of a sentence. That's all right. I didn't mind. Say the potatoes are already like you told me. No, no. I'll hurry dinner. You just sit down and read the paper, huh? Well, I thank you, dear. You all right? You look a little flushed. Oh, I'm fine. I was just rushing. That's all. Be ready in a minute. Did you have a hard day, darling? Oh, usual. People are taking out more money these days, and they're putting in. Yeah. Prices are awful, aren't they? Hmm. Nothing unusual? I mean, nothing happened today? Oh, a funny thing. Man came rushing in this morning, first thing the doors were opened. Wanted to withdraw all the money from their joint account before his wife beat him to it. Seems she was leaving him for another man. Oh, how awful. Oh, yeah. While he was there, she appeared. You should have heard her carry on. She was a real shrew. Oh, what happened? Oh, nothing. He didn't say a word. He was a gentleman. But I'll bet if he'd had a gun, he'd have killed her. Oh, well. Seems things like that happen all the time. Newspapers full of it. Are you mad at me, Arthur? Hmm? Are you mad at me? Am I mad at you? I know. Should I be? Arthur, darling, I've got something to confess. Well, far away. I didn't go to Bridge Club last week. No? I thought you'd die before you gave up Bridge. Really, honey? You look awfully seedy. No, I'm fine. I feel fine. I had sort of a quarrel with Lorraine. I didn't want to tell you because you're always talking about how women can't get along with each other. Instead of going to Bridge Club, I went shopping. Instead. Well, fine. Only, I hope you didn't go over the budget. Oh, no. That's good. I always said Bridge was a waste of time. Then you're not angry about anything? I know. Why should I be? Oh, Arthur. What's the matter now? I don't deserve a swell husband like you. Oh, I'm not so hot. Oh, you always do the dinner dishes and bring me my breakfast and bed on Sunday mornings. The only morning you have to sleep. Arthur, I'd feel terrible if anything ever happened to us. Well, what's going to happen? Suppose someday you got real mad and exploded. Exploded? Yeah. What if you got a gun and shot me dead? Well, for heaven's sakes, Margie, where do you get those crazy ideas? You mean, no matter how magical? No matter what I did to make you mad, you wouldn't shoot me dead? Margie, you know I'd rather die than hurt one hair on your head. Oh, well, not suicide. Say, how many drinks did you and Maybell have? Arthur, I want you to know I'm going to change. I'm going to be a better wife from now on. I'll stay home all the time and down your socks. You? Darling socks. You just wait and see. I'll get up every morning and make your breakfast. Margie, you know you won't do any of those things. I will, too. The nonsense. Women like you never change. I will, too. I'll change right away. Tomorrow. Besides, I don't want you to. Oh, come here, baby. I want you to stay just exactly the way you are right now. Just exactly, Arthur? I love you very much. Just the way you are. Oh, God. That reminds me. I made an appointment for you tomorrow at 10. You're having your picture taken. My picture? I showed a fella that old snapshot of you today, the one we took at the beach. It was so dog-eared he couldn't see what you looked like, and I realized we didn't have a single decent picture of you at all. So I... But why have it taken tomorrow? Well, the studio next to the bank is having a special advertising the new 60-minute service. 60-minute service? Yeah. That way I can pick up the finished picture before I go to lunch. I don't want my picture taken. Well, now you're being silly. I won't. I won't do it. Oh, honey, what's the matter? Don't touch me. I won't have my picture taken. I won't. I've sat there, eating as lunch. Calm as you please. All the time, figuring how to kill his wife. Quiet. Marcy. That's the kind you got to watch. Never let you know what they're really thinking. All of a sudden, wango. They explode. Bang, bang, honey. That's all. Bang, bang. Oh, no. There must be some mistake. Arthur wouldn't hurt me. He wouldn't. I won't think about it. I'll take a sleeping powder and go to bed. The gun. He did buy a gun. It's all true. Every word of it's true. I told you never to call me here. No, no, it isn't all right. Arthur bought a gun home last night. Yes, a gun. He claimed he was keeping it for a friend. That's all he'd say. Here, I think so. Just a minute. I'll look. Ralph, the gun's gone. He must have taken it to work. Oh, well, don't you see? As soon as he finds out for sure he'll kill... No, no, no, no, no. And I think... Oh, not the doorbell. Well, who'd you expect, darling? Frankenstein? Aren't you gonna invite me in? Well, I was just going out. Don't be silly. You're not dressed. I'm in a hurry, Lorraine. You're so am I. I'm late at the beauty shop now. But I was driving past anyway, so I thought I'd drop in and give you the latest on the girls at the bridge club. Well, some of the day I've... Honestly, Margie, this is choice. You know what I heard about Mrs. Dentler. You know, she's the wife of Ben Dentler, the new teller at the bank. The one from Chicago. Lorraine, if you don't mind. Oh, that's right. You haven't met her. Of course, you haven't been around lately. Well, she's kind of a pretty little thing in a plucked eyebrow sort of way. But it... You should hear what her husband told my husband. Lorraine, I... Of course, I promised Ed, I wouldn't breathe a word. But try and outlaw Lorraine. Well, what brought that on? I haven't time to stand in gossip. What's wrong with you today anyway? You're as nervous as a cat. I'm all right, perfectly all right. But here it is, 1030. 1030? Good heavens, I'm a half hour late. Well, goodbye. I gotta run. Oh, darling. Be sure and read the Gazette tomorrow. They're running a story about our bridge benefit. Okay, goodbye. Pictures and everything. They didn't have time to take a new picture, but I gave them one when we took the Valentine party. The one I was in? They're publishing it? Why, sure. I don't want my picture in the paper. But yours was the only flattering one in the group. The reporter picked you out right away. He seemed quite smitten. He? Oh, yes, yes. He asked all about you. Of course, I told him that you didn't come to meetings very often. The Gazette doesn't use men reporters for society? Well, they do now, dear. He didn't sound much like a reporter, though. He kept calling me, honey. Tall blonde, fast talker? Well, yes. And you gave him my picture? Well, of course. What was his name? Oh, well, that's the, uh... Yeah. Funny name. I think it was Clewson. Lem Clewson. But, Charlie, it's a matter of life and death. I've got to get a hold of Lem before noon. Well, like I said, he ain't been in. You sure he never told you where he works? No, he's come short for some private detective outfit. Oh, give me some knickles. Lots of knickles. I've got some telephoning to do. At me, Detective Agency, you have a man named Clewson working for you. Lem Clewson? No? Thanks. Brandon Agency, I want Mr. Clewson. Lem Clewson. Oh. Yeah, I guess I have the wrong number. Huxrow Detectives. I'm looking for a man named Lem Clewson. No, I don't want to hire you to find him. But you're the last one in the book he's got. Okay, sorry. No. I just remembered. Lem said the guy he worked for just opened up in town. Probably ain't in the phone book yet. Go on, kick it out of here. They're fresh kids just because I won't let them in here peddling his papers. He yells in the door. Did he say banks you, sir? He yells in here every time. Hey, wait, wait. Hey, you didn't finish your drink. Hey, Newsy. Newsy. Oh, I told you. Hey, boy. Paper lady. Did you say suicide? Right in the second national bank. You want a paper? Yeah. Here. Guy's wife steps out with another joke. So the poor dope says goodbye, Margie, and pulls the trigger. Here you are, lady. Bank suicide. Read all about him. Well, well, if it isn't Margie. Get away from me, Lem Clewson. I heard you were looking for him. Here I am. Boy, have I got a lot to tell you. Let me alone. I want to read. Oh, that write-up's no good. Here, give it here. Yeah, that's better. Now come on into Charlie's and I'll give you the insight. Give me back my paper. You murder it? Murder it? Hey, wait a minute. Oh, I get it. You figure he bumped himself off on account of my report. That's a screwy part. He didn't even wait for the report. I got it right here in my pocket. Take your hand off my arm. Oh, look, honey. Now come on. You're coming into Charlie's if I have to drag you. Why don't you leave me alone? I figured you'd be so. I'd spot him off the way I did in Charlie's yesterday. But how did I know who you were? Here we are. Hey, Charlie, two bourbon highs double. I don't want a drink. I should have seen my face this morning when that screwy friend of yours gave me the picture of your bridge club. Oh, never mind. And there you were, as real as life and just as cute. I says to myself, why, you dumb ox, you got that little doll worried sick. And then when I read in the paper about my client giving your husband the gun to keep, for fear he'll use it on himself, I think, holy cow. What did you say? And then I think I bet she figures I planned the whole thing just to scare it. What do you mean? Oh, now don't try to kid me, Margie. You know you figure that client of mine was your husband. That he was going to bump you off? You mean he wasn't? No, no. Your name's Banning, isn't it? Yeah. My client's name was Dentler, Benjamin Dentler. Funny thing his wife being named Margie, too. Yeah, I never thought he'd do it anyway. Oh, I think I'd like that drink after all. Well, here it starts, honey. So that's the gossip Lorraine was trying to tell me. Dentler, the teller from Chicago. You know, I've been thinking a lot about you. And Arthur really was keeping the gun for a friend of his. Hey, I'll tell you what, honey. I know a quiet little spot across town where we can eat, dance, anything we want. He might have told me about Dentler. It's a cute little place, baby. They got a knocked out van and what a floor shop. I wonder why Arthur wouldn't talk to me about it. Well, what do you say? Say, to what? Well, you and me, honey. Our date. Oh, you're asking me to step out with you? Well, why not? How about my husband? Oh, that mousy little guy. We got nothing to worry about from him. But I thought you always said, beware the quiet man. You never know what they're really thinking. But this is... No but. If you'll pardon me, Mr. Lemcluson, I'm going home and start his supper. Thank you, Anne Southern, for a splendid performance. Miss Southern will be back in just a moment. Dora, I apologize. That show was better than a sixth no trumpet. Why, Mary, first thing you know, you'll be an Ed's class, but auto-light resistor spark plugs like Donald Duck deal me a great big hand, Mary, and watch me get back that 200 we went down. You know, I must get me a set of those spark plugs. Why not? Ask Ed tomorrow to put a set of those auto-light resistor spark plugs in your car. Oh, well, then, May, will you tell Ed I'll be over tomorrow? I certainly will. 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