 Roma Wines present suspense Roma Wines Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world Salute your health senior Roma Wines toast the world the wine for your table is Roma wine Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world This is the man in black here for the Roma wine company of Fresno, California to introduce this weekly half-hour of suspense Tonight from Hollywood Roma Wines bring you a star miss Lucille ball Who appears tonight as a Broadway lady whom you may have often seen if you are a devotee of musical comedy She is the third one from the left in the chorus line And so with this little lady's narrative about the 10 grand and with the performance of Lucille ball is miss Gigi Lewis We again hope to keep you in suspense Particular night, I'm standing in front of the Broadway Lindy's with my nose practically pasted against the window. It's late And I'm hungry. I've been pounding the pavements all day doing the rounds of the manager's offices You'd think a good hooper like I ought to be able to land something with all the shows on the big street But here I am standing like General Sherman statue in front of Lindy's looking at the pasted-up menu and Mentally overindulging in a big Juicy T-bone steak smothered onions that comfortable crowd inside there can toy politely with their chicken sandwiches and their shrimp cocktails for all I care just give me a T-bone smothered onions Here I am with five cents in my handbag literally enough for the ride home in the subway no extra charge for the empty stomach Well, anyway, I could take my shoes off when I get in the subway I turn around and give Lindy's one last sorrowful gander and then make the the subway entrance It's just the time the shows are letting out Plenty of people from the taxi set are taking the subway home these nights being short on tires and gas So I get in that Times Square jam that looks like five o'clock p.m. It feels like a Russian pincer's movement on the Polish border I'm getting shoved towards the turnstile So I quick try to get my handbag open to reach for that lonesome nickel all of a sudden I feel something jerk out of my hand. My bag is gone. I try to yell See somebody a little guy with short bow legs running toward the stairs Out of the mob and after the purse snatcher But I'm like the ace of spades being dealt off the bottom of the pack and I'm kindly in the clear little I see a tall guy running after that little guy who has my purse They both disappear around the corner and up the steps There's plenty of commotion in the crowd You think there was a million dollars in my handbag for all the fuss they're making But I don't stop to think about anything except that I lost my fair home I take out after the tall guy And I get to the foot of the stairs and tall guys coming down again, and he's got my bag in his hand He's smiling a big wide smile at me And I'm gazing gratefully up into his big brown eyes and noticing the way his hairline ain't receding them Just the guy to go around rescue and ladies in distress Regular sir Gala had or somebody is this yours miss? Yeah, gee, how can I ever thank you? Take nothing up. There you are. What about the guy though? There was a cop on the street. He'll take care of him. What about you? You're all right, aren't you? Oh sure sure. I'm all right You look kind of pale. I Guess it would have been pretty tough to lose your purse that way, especially this late at night Oh, I don't know why you bothered really nothing, but a nickel in it anyway. I don't carry much with me when I'm out at night A Nickel will get your home Smiling at me again and my heart saying Brother we both start towards the mob of the turnstile, and I'm busy hoping he's going my way so we can sort of get better acquainted Well, good night Hang on to that pocketbook. Well, aren't you? Well I'm caught in that mob at the turnstile again and the train's coming in somehow the way you're doing crowds I lose sight of that and I got a concentrate on digging out that nickel to put in the slot I Open up my bag and find the nickel all right, and then my heart almost stops Big water bills folding money cash I managed to get the nickel in the slot and get myself through to the platform and on the train all the while hanging on to that bag As if there were 10 grand in it $10,000 here could be that much the roll was big enough my head's going around the crazy circles The doors closed behind me and everybody in the car is rushing to find a seat over the noise I hear some contendance so whistling I grab a seat next to a fat man who's taking up most of it I sit there hanging on to my bag not daring to look inside They tell myself I'm dreaming. There's not really a big roll of bills in there Extreme hunger is giving me the DT. How would I get a bankroll as big as your fist? What am I doing with money? Then I remember the purse snatcher. He must have put it there, but why? Fat guy next to me tries to drum up a conversation Well, nice night ain't it? Yeah, cool. You the young lady what got her poise snatched? Yeah Lucky thing you got it back in it. Yeah, yeah, very lucky. I always say it ain't good for a young lady Especially a nice looking dame like you to carry a lot of money around when she's out nice Huh, what makes you think I got a lot of money? Well the way you're carried on when that fellow snatched your poise Yeah, I'm showing this fat paluka by my attitude that I don't go for conversant I'm sitting there looking straight at the wall ad and the one across from me is a big photo in natural color of Miss Subway in 1944 Brooklyn girl all dressed up and gripping with furs and probably wearing Chanel number five Money all the money I need No more pounding the pavements and waiting in outer offices for some two-bit job in a show that's due to close opening night Close But for maybe Chanel number five An apartment downtown with a switchboard to announce people instead of a fifth floor walk up in the Bronx People steak smothered in onions just walk right in an order Say though, maybe it's counterfeit dough, maybe see those guys coming through Their cop, how do you know they might be the Rover boys? Yeah, I can spot a plainclothes dick in a minute. They all look alike. You all got a certain courage and noise That don't prove their dick. I don't know. Maybe it's the way they part their hair Plain clothes Looking for something hot money, maybe So suppose I'm found with it. How am I gonna prove somebody planted it on me? I can see them laughing at that one now. That's a good one. Ha ha ha. She didn't steal the dough on it She just found it in her purse. Ha ha. That's a good one lock her up 25 years Good night, little lady. I'm getting off here. This your stop. No, no, thanks. I go further uptown Good night. I'm certainly glad you found your voice so Rover boys pass on through and I decide to sneak another look at my bag I open it up very carefully the bank rolls there All right, some of the bills are in big denominations too. There could be 10 grand. It looks like the real thing But there's also something else something. I didn't see before a piece of paper stuffed into the roll I reach in and get it looking around see if I'm being watched all I see in the car sleepy people So I unfold the paper and read what scribbled on it Get off at 161st Street and follow Yankee Doodle. I don't make sense. What's Yankee Doodle got to do with it? I get up and I'm making for the door when I hear it Remember I've been hearing that whistling ride along and didn't notice it I back into the first empty seat and prepare to do some thinking Somebody in this car wants that bank roll again. Could it be Sir Gallowhead? I just can't bear to think of him as a criminal type But he was awful quick to go chasing after my purse and he could have been in this car all along without me seeing him I try to get a quick look around with his people in the aisles and a dear little old lady pushing her way forward Down next to me. I was sitting next to a man who kept snoring. Do you mind if I sit here? No, not at all I didn't know there could be so much confusion in the subway this late at night in New York You get to confusion 24 hours a day. I guess I'm just not used to it. That's all I say you look like there's something wrong What's the matter? Do you feel sick? I I'm all right. Oh Hey, she's passed out. Won't somebody help me this woman's sick. Yeah Yeah, give her a slug of this Well now look lady just take a swallowing won't hurt you go on swallowing. That's it. Oh I'm terribly sorry really. I forget it. How do you feel? I can't imagine what happened all at once Everything seemed to whirl around sure you're all right now. I'll be fine in just a moment. Here's your medicine. Mr. Thanks. Okay, you're awfully kind. I didn't think people were so kind in a big city like this You better take it easy now. Where do you get off? What's that? Where do you get off? Oh? 169 feet that's where my sister lives. I'm visiting her you see and I just thought I'd go downtown tonight and see a show And have a good time Evelyn told me how to go on the subway and everything was fine until just now You're not hungry or anything. Oh, no, no, it's not that I I have plenty of money at least I did have What happened to your money? Somebody stole my life savings. No, not really. Who'd do a thing like that? Eh? Who'd do a thing like that like that? Oh, I I don't worry about it. You understand. I'll get the money back. How? Well, don't you remember the old saying it takes a thief to catch a thief Yes, well, that's just how I plan to catch the person who stole my money How much did you lose? What's that? How much did you lose? Well, I had been saving it all my life and there was at least well ten thousand dollars That's too bad Well, am I going to give it back to her if it turns out to be her money? How do I know she's not pulling a fast one? I remember that in shows It's always the dear old lady who fakes the faint to get sympathy when she's really the brains of the mob Yeah, I know that she got a big gulp from the bottle while she had the chance Well, supposing she is on the level would I give her the money when I have it here And grand need practically in the lap of luxury would I oh my? Listen, you know how to whistle What a strange thing to ask me as a matter of fact yes, I do well, I'm awfully fond of whistling Well, you know, I was judge the champion whistler of the ladies auxiliaria church back home Won't you whistle something for me? Oh, well, I couldn't not hear people would turn around and look at me Well, you already caused quite a stir when you fainted. Oh, did I? Well, then what would you like to hear? Yankee doodle. Well, I'll try That's fine And I guess it doesn't prove anything. I beg your pardon. I meant how was it? You say you lost all that money Oh the money that why the bank teller back home just ran off with the savings of practically everybody in town Oh, it happened back home, huh? When well now let me see Why it must have been five No, no, no. It was just about six years ago. Oh, yes, and why do you ask me? Well, I just thought maybe you were I thought you might have just lost it tonight the way you talk I hope I didn't alarm you But I just keep knowing I'm going to get that money back someday. Yeah, I'm sure you will. Oh, listen Somebody else is whistling Yankee doodle now. That's very fine whistling too. Isn't it though? And this time it's no old lady I got an idea. It's somebody who just possibly could have a slight case of murder on his mind Night for suspense roma wines bring you a star miss lucille ball Whom you have heard in the first act of the 10 grand by virginia radcliffe tonight's adventure in Suspense far to the south of us is our good neighbor country ecuador land of towering mountains sweeping vistas Let's imagine ourselves there now dining on the root terrace cafe of the exclusive hotel metropolitan in guaya keel ecuador Near us an american has just complimented his hosts on the magnificent dinner to which his host quickly responds Ah, yes, it is true that our foods are famous But from your land comes a rare delicacy also one which has spread the fame of your own california to many far corners of the world It is this superb wine So excellent that we in ecuador import it from your united states My friend I drink to you in your own delicious roma wine Our ecuadorian friend is right For roma wine superb quality has won such favor in many far places that they import it Enjoy it as a rare luxury But not so here in america Here millions know and enjoy roma wines as an inexpensive every day delight At mealtimes and when entertaining so many in fact that roma is america's largest Selling wine with no high import duties to pay not expensive shipping costs You enjoy these distinguished wines for only pennies a glass Ask for roma wines, which bring you old world wine making skill plus roma's own modern scientific controls and testing That's r o m a roma wines america's largest selling wine Made in california For enjoyment throughout the world And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our soundstage lucille ball in the 10 grand A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense Well, this is it. Oh Must have been dosing. Is this your station? Yeah, and the next stop is yours. Don't fall asleep. Miss it now And I will you've been very kind. I do want to thank you. I think not enough. Well, good night. Good night, my dear Now be careful crossing the street. Sure. Don't worry. I'll be plenty careful I get off the train Stand for a minute on the platform looking around I don't see sir gallowhead, but he could have gone through to another car and come out down the line Several guys are on the platform and they all hurry up the steps of the street I go up too. I look ahead at the block. I have to travel Then I hear it again from the darkness of the street I can't tell exactly where it's coming from, but i'm standing in the light and Whoever's after me has a pretty perfect target. I walk away hugging my person shaking like six hangovers I tell myself the pretty soon yankee doodle will grab me and take the money any second now He wouldn't need to kill me. I I haven't seen him so I can't identify him He could just take the money and leave But suppose he enjoys killing people Suppose he gets panicky all of a sudden and his finger slips on the trigger Suppose he's a he's a a maniac. I think about screaming But nobody'd hear me in time because screaming probably makes yankee doodles trigger finger trambole Why doesn't he do something? Why doesn't he take the money away from me and get it over with? Does he want me to offer it to him on a gold platter? Uh-uh not gigi She's got a t-bone steaks mothered in onions waiting for if she ever gets out of this in one piece And now i'm getting toward the next corner and there's a dim street lamp on the other side. I see him That's strange He's been walking ahead of me all this time Then I hear something else What's that somebody behind me? And listen That doesn't sound like the tread of somebody hurrying home to the little woman That's a steady tread of somebody trailing somebody. I don't know how I know it, but I know it There's yankee doodle up ahead, but here's also somebody behind me. I don't like just by instinct I'm sandwiched. I'm the ham between two slices of rye. Now listen again He's getting closer by the time I reach the corner he'll catch up with me. I'll try walking faster He's walking faster too. I turn around I can see his dark shape behind me with a distant street lamp back of him Then I see something else Back away across the street is another man walking fast now. I got three of them. I'm in a triple decker sandwich now I want to scream. I want to yell help But my heart's got all mixed up in my larynx somehow and I know I'd never be able to project my voice past the next crack on the sidewalk They're catching up to me fast, but this is the end sister. This is it I'm already imagining the cold steel in my back and then Walk right on past me don't even give me a tumble They're making time and is the one on my side gets ahead of me. I see him nod to the one across the street They're not tailing me. They're at the yankee doodle. They heard him whistle. They'll be catching up with him any minute now I have a big sigh of relief and consider a quick exit back to the subway with my 10 grand I can just barely see the two of them as they come close to the next street lamp They could be playing clothesmen and but I don't think so somehow in that case I got an illegal desire to get something. I think yankee doodles got Maybe yankee doodles the illegal illegal part of the deal Suppose he turns out to be sir gala head pretty confusing and I ain't happy about it either way But something I don't know what makes me take after the two robor boys instead of going my own way while I got the chance I look up ahead yankee doodles a block away now and he stops for a second under a street light He's listening. I can tell that even though he's too far away from me to tell if he's sir gala head And quickly he disappears into the shadows again I'm trying to keep my heels from clicking too loud, but they sound like drum bits. So I take my shoes off quick The robor boys are up on the corner now But I'm making it by the time they're halfway down the next block The street lamp must have burned out along here because it's blacker than the scaparelli dinner dress Only a police car would come by or something. Maybe winchill would be cruising with a boy Yeah, and then he'd begin your plug in his column and it'd be easy for me to get a job Oh, what am I thinking about things like that for now besides there ain't a car on the street There hasn't been one since I got off the subway Suddenly out of the blackness a hand grabs my arm and other covers my mouth be quiet. Don't scream It's me Let's get down on the stairway. They can't see this against the night Now They'll come back this way in a minute as soon as they found out they lost me How'd you get here? I thought you were the way ahead of them. I was I don't in here and let them pass Are you with me? Why should I be? It's my life or theirs Oh, what I got your purse back for you Yeah So go ahead You've got my money It could be their money. Yes, but it isn't wait. They're coming back I got an idea. I'll check out and say something new you all right get up there quick. Well Hi you boys fancy seeing you here. Nice night, ain't it? Never mind sister We ain't got time to chat. Well, you needn't blind me with that flashlight I just wanted to pass the time of day. Well, it ain't that time of day So step aside Hey He was trying to get up Let's make sure they're really out. Are you kidding? They're both out farther than the 12 mile limit Then let's get away from here fast. Come on. Wait a minute. What's the matter? You don't want to be picked up around here, do you? Well, I gotta put my shoes on first, don't I? Say, do you know I broke my heel on that heel? Here we are 15 minutes later sitting in an all night restaurant after running practically 12 blocks And he's forgetting all about the fact my feet was killing me a couple hours ago Sir gala had breathing just like normal, but I'm still sounding like a pair of bellows trying to catch my wind He's looking at me and laughing in a nice way and You know What you need is a little regular exercise That would get you in condition. Nice steady job hooping somewhere. I'll do that for him I wonder how long it would be before the cup span Maybe I'll report it first just to be on the safe side. No, no. It would be too dangerous. I have to get rid of the money first Oh No, I I did not rob a bank Well, there's other illegal ways to get 10 grand. Here comes the witches better order and then we can talk I can't believe I'm really going to get a steak inside of me instead of hot lead Ha ha wait until you see what the stakes like before you feel too happy What you want yet? Yeah a long time ago t-bone steak rare smothered in onion. Uh make it two please two teeth rare and very All right, shoot. What am I saying? I I'm agreed Yeah I came over here when I was about 15 My father and mother are still in Athens I couldn't get them out of the country when the italians invaded So I I don't know where they are now. Oh, gee. That's too bad Oh, I'm like a lot of people over here I want to do something for my mother country even though I am a naturalized american So in my spare time I collect contributions from other greeks living over here Oh, you mean for the relief society? Oh, no, no, no, that's that's different. This money supports the greek underground It has to be gotten and sent very quietly because certain people over here would like very much to know who's operating the underground in greeks You see, yeah, I'm beginning to what about the robor boys Who the two kids we love to sleep back there. Oh Well, I can't prove it yet, but uh, I think they're axis agents They've been following me ever since I left from this morning Today was my day off and I've been making the rounds collecting You did pretty well. How much is in that bank? Well, ten thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars Boy, you're quite a salesman I've got the good product herself Anyway, I thought I could shake those guys in the subway But then when you got your purse lifted, I did a little quick thinking and decided the money would be safer with you for a while And I do want to thank you. Oh, that's all right. Always glad to help out Well, I guess you'd like to have your 10 grand back now You know in Greece they have a law that uh, whoever finds money gets to keep 10 percent as a reward No kidding So the way we'd figure it you get one thousand forty one dollars and fifty six Say that's wonderful. That's a great custom. I wonder why they don't adopt it in america Well, I guess america has a lot of things that breeze doesn't have Uh t-bone steaks, for instance. Yeah, that's true. Well, here you are. I hope you get the dough into the right hands Thank you very very much Uh, aren't you going to count out your 10 percent? I gotta contribute something to winning the war ain't I they miss you want me? Yeah, what happened to them two t-bone steaks Oh, well, I'm sorry, but when I took your order for the steak. I forgot this was meatless tuesday. Oh, no And so closes the 10 grand starring lucille ball tonight's tale of Suspense suspense is produced and directed by william spear Have you had the thrilling experience of enjoying a meal prepared and served with delightful roma wines? 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