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don't have the time oh my god look i don't have the time anyways i i couldn't do it ridiculous a guy with your reputation yeah a guy with my reputation yeah what do you know listen 12 years ago i was on the calves gustav green the hack lison red cripes how i hated the calves work like a slab 12 or 14 hours a day for a lousy 27 bucks a week now do you blame me that i took the day dreaming like like maybe it was my limousine and i was driving because my chauffeur had a day off i used to sit at the wheel figuring out the down to situations like i'd pick up some rich old daemon she'd leave me a million bucks or or i'd save a guy all all kinds of situations but all i got was 27 per a week until the night i met fan take me home driver home your home or my home wise guy well you got talent you're driving a cab where can i get a job driving a cab you want the radio on now definitely no oh now don't let's be bitter shall we you know radio was quite immediate yeah just think some guy says a few words into a microphone and you can hear it as far west as georgia gustav green well well mr green meet van hauser the best gag man in the radio business currently freelancing unemployed on the beach well if you're so good why aren't you in there writing them yaks wise guy why because words i know rip tickling words gags yeah jokes to make a corp slap but plots situations situations that's another story i could i could coin a million if i could figure them out well look situations now let me tell you i am a veritable shahara zady on situations i got a million i look at for instance the guy who says that if i don't know i don't know something clicked between me and van hauser from the beginning i always hated his guts the way he talked to me like i was date but up in his room i started feeding him stories stuff i dreamed up on the cab he put in the put it into good words and it came out very funny too well inside a couple of years i was getting 1500 bucks a week but i was tied to that guy i couldn't work with nobody else i'd sit down with another gag writer and nothing would happen yeah i knew it was van or 40 bucks a week in some broken down job so so i hung on to him like a barnacle i worked with him ate with him played with him my place was just down the hall from his at the hotel sometimes i thought i'd go nuts if i had to look at his sneer and ugly puss another day and the the only satisfaction i had was that he needed me and hated me just like i needed and hated him but one day while we were riding a spot for schmo for a day he chose me a very unfunny line gus my good boy you uh maybe interested to know that i'm gonna marry julie felps julie felps a dancer that's right he used to be the club katalina she uh making trouble for you cut it all right all right i didn't say nothing against it all right you better not okay go ahead and enjoy yourself thanks so gus my cornball colleague we uh we may not be seeing so much of each other hence oh now look you don't mean that bigger hey now wait a minute what's going to be with our partnership here we'll see i'll uh i'll talk it over with julie no no van now look i mean it well we've always done what we wanted to loafed all day worked all night hadn't slept at any crazy hour now no dame is going to stand for that uh julie is different no dame is different yeah she knows how we operate and uh she knows you guys yeah and she's not exactly crazy about me neither i was just coming to that now uh if you want to stay in with me be nice to her it won't do no good listen van she'll make trouble between us see she'll work on that as soon as the knot is tied i said now listen to me i'm your pal van a dame like that is hot busy you know what the club catalyzer she was an exact gus julie is one of the million a joke man like you comes a dime a dozen okay okay if that's the way you feel the way i feel pardon me for having any feed hey i just be nice to her no cracks okay so i'll be nice now look about sunday show i said be nice to her but you're not thus we're finished yeah i should have been nice but i knew it wouldn't do no good julie was a small town girl who sowed on broadway after she had a bust up with nick edwards the the mug who runs the club catalyzer and she wanted out and she was going to take van with her too so it came to me that i'd better figure out a situation and pronto she didn't like me because she was a scared of me i knew about her and nick edwards and van didn't so i says to myself i says gus maybe the dame will scare away hey who is it van oh gus green what a surprise hello there julie yeah this is for you flowers yeah yeah van told me about you to see and i figured lovely come on in gus thanks i miss flowers so much in the city back home the garden's always full of them yeah yeah say this is a nice place you got him thanks yeah very swanky and wasn't that chair once in the lobby of the club catalina well i bought it when they redecorated the place oh sure sure you did honey but it it just reminded me but what i just happened to see your friend nick edwards today i haven't seen nick in months oh sure you haven't honey but he's still carrying the torchola for you i'm not interested no i didn't say you were but uh you might be interested in the fact that nick said if van hauser marries julie so help me i'll kill him did he say that now would i lie honey well that settles it i've had enough of show business van and me are going back home oh no no you can't do that to van julie this is his life what's he gonna do in a small town i don't care i'm sick of sick of all the cheap characters the bums and the hangers on if i want him too van will come with oh look maybe he would well i'm sure he would but julie what i what i really wanted to say was why don't you give me a few days i'll go talk to nick and who knows maybe i can fix the whole thing up would you guys i'd like to stay for van sake i'd like to see him get a good job with regular hours maybe an advertiser sure sure nick will listen to me and i'll at least i can try thanks gus you're nice i didn't know and and then i get another idea what's that maybe the three of us could all work together oh i can't write i can tie well we need a secretary we could dictate our stuff to you i don't know sure that you don't have to after all what is a comedy script along the left hand side of the page you put the name of the character and then you write out what he's supposed to say simple sounds simple you could spend more time with van how would you like to try i'd love to gus it would be wonderful sure it would be wonderful for me when she said she'd work with us julie was playing a part in a situation that i dreamed up and let me tell you it was a good one because it ended with me still making a grand and a half per week and julie phelps well julie phelps was just not there music chaser and a commercial credits and sign off got that darling every word mr housing well then how do you like our new secretary oh she's good guess how come you had such a swell idea because if this works out i'll be the happiest person alive oh no you won't julie i will now come on i'd like to try dictating ready okay take a clean sheet of paper here's a gag sequence for the fred benton show oh look who's writing gags don't laugh genius now look fred's talking to mrs mishmash and she starts reading the wrong page of the script you see ready let's go mrs mishmash please don't laugh at me i think we've made a mistake mistake now fred benton i know i have mrs m let's start all over from the beginning from beginning fred if you love me you will that's funny no no that's charming now this is mrs my going too fast no no okay this is mrs mishmash again i would do anything for you fred he says him he says i would like to see you i'm bored okay mrs m again let's talk this over how about tonight about tonight yeah fred when at midnight mrs m come come i'm waiting for you right now you're right now did you get it all good tight the right way wait wait don't bother julie we couldn't use that corn even on the benton show all right wise guy give it to me julie i'll file it under sustainers look if you're gonna fight i'm not gonna work for either of you van be a deer and get me a pack of cigarettes downstairs when you all right but gus don't try to write any more of those charming guys get lost gus yeah did you get anywhere with nick well uh yeah julie he's softening up but uh he wants to see you gus i don't want that man near me now look you don't see him you better start wearing black for van you know nick edwards i know nick wouldn't stop it killing but i now listen julie i i i haven't got time to argue with you now van will come back but why don't you come to my place tomorrow night at 11 i'll run in a van for sure well then come before eight and wait for me we'll have rehearsals till then what about that tell him you're going to sleep earlier so what if he calls anyway i'll cover you i'll probably be with him anyhow he must never know about nick i get it i get it now listen julie you just leave everything to me and in a couple of days you won't have to worry about nick edwards again yeah just leave everything to me and you won't have to worry about anything anymore julie phelps not even your own funeral come eight o'clock the next evening i paid a little visit to my apartment long enough to see that julie was comfortable and also to get the keys to her place out from her handbag i drove over there and went upstairs to do some interior decorating my kind take van away from broadway are you gonna send me back to 40 bucks a week and a pig's ear you are julie phelps get that and a pig's ear now just one more touch to complete the situation a little business outside the club catalina hey kid i kid come in here listen now here's a dime kid take this note and this here envelope and give it to nick edwards and if anyone asked you say a game a dame gave it to you got that a beautiful dame you got it from a beautiful dame right look gus gus no more work let's not call what's the matter van you're tired no no no what's eating you well you wouldn't understand all right so don't tell me i don't care anyhow all right it's julie said she had to go to bed early tonight so what it ain't legal i called a half dozen times no answer uh-huh afraid she's two time in your hand i didn't say that yeah but i know how you feel yeah well mind your own business look my friend i'll do you a good turn leave me dial the number for you the number's on the pad let's see what your fat fingers can do you could talk to her while i go down to my room to get my hat and coat i'll take you for a drive before we hit the sack sometimes you're even you okay here take it it's ringing now i'll be right back let's see julie darling van honey i'm sure glad to hear your voice where you've been why what i've been trying to get you all evening no answer then then that's right i told you i i was going home to get some sleep when i phoned you must have maybe it didn't wake me well now baby that's hardly likely with a phone right in your bed sometimes i i sleep julie i i can julie is there someone there with you of course not van i'm alone by myself i'm julie julie the very neat situation you're granted warden sure julie being killed in her apartment two miles away van hearing it over the phone and me in the next room to him at the hotel you like it ham warden yeah i like it too and i did it that was a very sensational situation for suspense roma wines are bringing you mr michael oshae in the twist roma wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills suspense suspense radio's outstanding theater of thrills is presented by roma that's r o m a roma wines selected from the world's greatest reserves of fine wines have you discovered how much roma california wines add to your everyday enjoyment for example millions of american homemakers serve delicious 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i opened the door because something's happened to julie something's happened to julie how do you know did you get her yeah she answered the phone so well she sounded funny like there was someone in the same room and then suddenly she sounded like she was hit or choked or something ah maybe it's just a gag she was pulling you know dames do that sometimes you think so why sure no no no it couldn't be i heard a gust gust what should i do now come on keep your shirt on van she screamed did you call her back no no i didn't well why don't you so i call her back that's what i'll do sure of course i'll call her hand me a phone yeah yeah that's what's happened i know it lying busy oh no no answer you just spoke to her a minute ago because i'm worried i'm worried sick that get it she's all right come on out for a ride although i couldn't look tell you what i'll do for a pal i'll drive you over there you can check up for yourself van looked pretty grim as we drove over to julie's place in the west 70s i checked over everything i'd done and figured how i'd work out the rest of the situation and we turned off central park west into the side street where julie lived on the second floor of a converted brownstone look there's a guy coming out of the house that's probably nobody he's making a getaway gust follow him i never catch him now oh gosh gus if you'd only got close enough to see his license number well i did what was it lk 573498 okay 573498 all right sam spade now let's go upstairs and visit julie the door to julie's apartment was wide open when we got upstairs and the place was just like i left it like to defend some kind of a fight and then then i saw where i'd made a mistake the telephone where julie was supposed to be strangled was as neat as a pin i watched van's face to see if he noticed it but well he was too broken up to notice anything julie because she was a sweet kid what do you mean was i know she's dead what do you know all you see is that her apartment is all busted up i heard her scream tonight guess i waited 20 years to meet a girl that i could marry so help me i'm not gonna die till a guy who did this is in his grave you'll see you'll see this i'm kind of mixed up now in a little while i'll be able to think i'll know what to do sure i'll know what to do look that's a telephone what about the telephone i'm gonna call the police uh no van now wait a minute don't be crazy what look put that telephone down why shouldn't i call the police it's very simply i got no evidence she was murdered but i heard a scream use your eyes van will you use your eyes julie said she was in bed has the bed been slept in and where's her coat where's her poison where's her hat they're not here but she said she you're right you're right i won't call you maybe she's still alive that's better now look van sometimes we haven't felt too good towards each other but after all we've been partners for a long time kid now tell you what i'll do anything anything you say to help you all right then look look just on an off chance cause trace that license plate will you let's find out who that guy was we went back to our hotel i slept like a log because i knew that julie was 10 feet from my bed in the closet very dead where she couldn't come between me and van anymore next morning i told van i checked at the license bureau whose car was it nick edwards catelyn edwards that's right why that dirty goon i look you don't think that i don't have to think i'll let the police now wait a minute hold it look van i i i never told you this before but i knew all along that julie was playing around with nick edwards with nick edwards yeah that's why i never liked it now you better not call the cops maybe we was just busting in on a private little party oh no i can't believe it no not julie well we gotta find out where she is and the guy who knows is nick edwards what makes you think i'll tell i'll tell you what i'll call him at the club tonight and ask him over i think maybe he'll accept me invitation well nick arrived at 11 p.m and from my window i watched him park his black car in a dark side street near the hotel just like i told him to and i carried julie's body down the back stairs and put it in the luggage compartment of nick's car nobody saw me and a few minutes later i knocked on van's door that's you guys come in hi van hi nick good evening gus nick was just telling me gus i look i'm just as worried about julie as you guys are see yeah that's easy to say okay okay don't take my word for it but i've had her house called every half hour all day why'd you go there last night in the first place you haven't been around long have you never mind that wise guy why'd you visit my girl who said she was your girl she was engaged to me she was tired of you why you sit down she told me so herself when yesterday then you saw her yesterday nick no no i ain't seen her since she quit working at the club and started to pile around with your friend here but you just said that julie was the only girl who ever had me on the rope see but when she called it quits i went along she was too good for an ex-con like me anyway i figured but the last night someone gives me a note in her handwriting oh what did the note say it was the most beautiful thing i'd ever seen i read it over and over until i knew it by heart please don't laugh at me i think we made a mistake i know i have let's start all over from the beginning if you really love me you will i love you i'll do anything for you i'd like to see you let's talk this over how about tonight when at midnight come come i'm waiting for you right now as soon as nick edwards left i told van i didn't believe anything he said and as far as i was concerned nick either killed julie or had taken her away van agreed with me and we called the police ah yes it all made a perfect situation the best i'd ever dreamed up all and nick edwards is high powered lawyers couldn't save him from being sentenced to the chair yes sir life looked pretty sweet but there was just one thing wrong van's comedy was getting worse and worse fred benton told us would have to get better or else now we sat in van's room sweating out a benton program that was a day overdue and van for the love of mike will you pull yourself together of course i i can't think you don't have to think i gave you the whole situation all you gotta do is write the gags for it gags now look look in the first scene fred and mrs mish ma steal a horse but here's the twist the horse is blind you get it well come on then give you know hundreds of horse gags now just give them a twist and fit the situation i can't they just won't come look if we don't get this script in tomorrow fred will can us now come on guy will you write all right yourself van you know i can't write i'm no good without a guy get yourself another gag man i'm through look washed up you know it won't work van you'll know that i've tried it under qt i was afraid that someday would break up but it never worked with you and me van something happens we're a great team without me you're just another guy making good words without you i'm just another joe now don't you see kid that's why we got to stick together even if we do hate each other's guts that's why nobody can't never break us up now come on guy right will you i can't think of anything look how we got something the files we haven't used you you got a senior dictator to julie what was that that mrs mish ma she's on the fred was it please don't laugh at me or something i i think we made a mistake no no van look that's a no good situation that's dead let's get something new it's a good situation no um a very clever situation all i need are the lines please don't laugh now van i'm telling you it's no good lines the lines please don't laugh i'm telling you it's no good van of course why didn't i think of that before those lines you dictated the julie they fit no they don't fit besides i can't ride gag you know that wasn't a gag us that was a situation the most desperate situation you ever invented now wait a minute what are you beating your gums about it find out what are you gonna do operator i want to speak to inspector martin a police headquarters get away from that door gus i got a gun now don't shoot van wait a minute listen to him don't move police headquarters inspector martin no inspector martin this is van hauser of the julie felps case hey i've been trying to get edwards didn't kill julie gus green did and i got proof that makes it even worse edward says you framed him green did nick's note was a script dictated to julie minus the character names how about his alibi he dialed his own number inspector not hers and killed her while she was speaking on the phone to make things look right he messed up her apartment i never could quite figure out why there were no signs of struggle around her telephone now i know he must have stowed her body in nick's car better send some cops over right away before i shoot him they're coming over hauser to protect you edwards broke out about an hour ago watch out for him nick edwards yes nick edwards all right hauser come across with that gun nick nick you heard what i said didn't you so what i i didn't frame you gusted he's a guy with a situation so what you took my girl away from me didn't you all right give me that gun now now nick wait a minute what are you gonna do with nothing except give me that gun hauser i'm a little too quick for you now now nick please now don't shoot me let me tell you how this car is going i've got a belly full of your stories they put me in jail remember they're all stuffed to me now see but like they say there ain't no situation that can't take a new twist here's the twist to this one you ain't gonna die for the murder of my poor julie no no you're going to die for something you didn't do what what do you mean nick just this the murder of van hauser well hey they didn't believe me at the trial so i'm up for killing my late unlimited partner but you know me i always like a twist they got nick for killing julie now i guess you can understand why i can't write the prisoner's annual show can't you warden not without van and besides like i said i don't have too much time do i before i go to the chair suspense the twist starring michael o'Shea presented by roma wines that's r o m a roma california wines america's largest selling wines when your family and friends enjoy glorious golden amber roma sherry or ruby red roma port you share the rich reward of choicest california grapes selected and gently pressed at peak taste richness with ancient skills and wine making resources unmatched in america roma master ventures guide this great treasure unhurriedly to full taste perfection these choice wines then are laid down with mellow roma wines of years before and from these the world's great reserves of fine wines roma later selects for your taste pleasure tomorrow and every day enjoy this naturally better taste of roma wines whether your favorite roma wine is not like roma sherry or rich roma port you'll find that every roma wine is better tasting wine that's why more americans enjoy roma than any other wines tonight's suspense play was by bave blau next thursday same time you will hear donald o'connor as star of suspense produced and directed by william spear for the roma wine company of fresno california in the coming week suspense will present such stars as claire trevor kirk douglas and others make it a point to listen each thursday to suspense radio's outstanding theater of thrills this is cbs the columbia broadcasting system