 Autolight and its 96,000 dealers bring you Mr. Joseph Cotton in tonight's presentation of Souspens Tonight Autolight presents Carnival the story about a man whose only emotion became hate starring Mr. Joseph Cotton Well hoist my hub caps it's Oscar Otto see my new ignition engineered auto light spark plug Why sure Oscar and spark plugs at the very heart of a car's ignition system? 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I joined the sideshow at the age of 22 if you would like a photograph me I have them right here all right over here to the next stand ladies and gentlemen to the star Attraction of the sideshow that's right. That's right right over here gather around real close. That's it right up front Yeah, sure little boy. You get right up close here. See something you never saw before Ladies and gentlemen Renee the robot Renee the magnificent Handsome isn't he beautiful man. Look at him how elegantly he stands the elegant clothes the gloved hand Just so the mouth smiling the noble head poise for all to admire Renee the robot Renee the man without emotion lift your hand Renee Like on pulleys and wheels ladies and gentlemen like a mechanical doll You and I lift our arms this way ladies and gentlemen, but Renee lift your other arm Renee bow Makes you forget his flesh and blood doesn't he Walk Renee a mechanical doll ladies and gentlemen and now with your permission. We'll have Renee do a little dance for us Put your drum on Renee Look at him look at him ladies and gentlemen the way he responds to me to a Mara is if I were pressing a button No question. No argument. No emotion. He hears my voice and responds Are you ready Renee? Dance have a beautiful mechanical doll like Renee to take home girls Of course you would and he even talks listen. Tell us about yourself Renee. I am Renee Orlando I was born in Louisiana a small town near the Gulf my father was a fisherman. I do not remember my mother I was 15 years old when we moved to Baton Rouge There I discovered my talent My talent is to control all emotion My talent is to live as a machine as well-ordered and without emotion as a machine They stare at me the faces looking up at me idiot faces fools faces who see in me their own Reflection who stand with open mouths before the image of the robots that they are they are the puppets They are the mechanical dolls the effigies without emotion and I The torrents within me the ecstasies the floods the pure singing passions that wash over me And Gabrielle my wife Gabrielle she knows she knows the man who makes a fuss of himself before an audience Is no robot knows when the day's mockery of carnival is ended It is a man who comes to her a man who loves hates Undo my hair and it coils over your shoulders like dark fire and lies against the secret hauls of your throat black See my name Gabrielle again see Who else knows these secrets? What oh Mara? How many times Renee how many times do I have to tell you oh Mara is nothing you walk and oh Mara's eyes Follow you perform on the trapeze and oh Mara stands below and watches your flight and his fingers stretch out for you How many ways must I prove to you? I love you with him often why we discuss matters of costumes of new ways of doing it And me also you talk of me. No, you lie like Gabrielle He says my name to you and tells you I'm a mechanical man isn't that so Renee you're jealous. Yes jealous And happy for it know it know that I am not a mechanical man, but a man of emotion one who loves and is jealous What will make you believe me? There is a way if If what? If there were no oh Mara What if oh Mara were dead? Gabrielle my darling and that is why they called me Renee the robot and If you'd like a token of your visit with me. I have some photographs They are for sale They are autograph Don't be bashful ladies and gentlemen come on by Or maybe you still don't believe don't believe that Renee is a mechanical man A little boy little boy come here here. I'll lift you up on the stand Hey, here. We are Now slap him a little boy slap the mechanical man's face slap him Renee doesn't move a muscle nor does he even blink by his pictures ladies and gentlemen by from Renee the robot Why you've come to my trailer Renee for my compliments on your last performance You were brilliant Mara you must listen to me. Oh not for compliments then for what? It's well what happened in there in the tent in the side show Then you resent the little boy who slapped you. I thought it was quite a nice touch You're going too far Mara tonight was the last indignity you're quitting the stop then you've come to say goodbye Yes, how many times have you said goodbye 20 times 150 times this time this time a thousand times How many times in 15 years Renee? You can't leave. I won't permit it. All right. I gave you that much of Mara 15 years that long of Dancing with toy drums. It's done now over finished For a mechanical man. Oh But I always forget you're not a mechanical man. You're a person of passion. You always tell me you've got feelings. Yes Yes, this is true. I always forget 15 years a man can forget in that length of time What was that girl's name? No, no, no the one I mean I told you I want you. What was her name? Her name was Celia. Yes, I killed her you strangled her Renee with her hair her name was Celia Barton and I killed her of course and you saw it and You told no one. I'll never tell anyone. You're my major attraction Renee. Why should I tell anyone? You're not going to leave are you? Yeah, you'll stay and So will Gabrielle. Yeah Puzzles me a man like you and a woman like Gabrielle. Ah, so different What do you do? What do you talk about? We're not different robot cold without heart and no soul Gabrielle flame you're wrong. La Mara. You have no understanding. You do not know what's inside of me Without heart and no soul. I know it's inside of you Renee pulleys and strings and wheels someday someday Are you'll kill me? Yes Yes, I'll kill you Mara. I'll kill you ready. I bow Turn around Get out. There is a reason why I did that for a Mara bowed for him Left him 15 years and listened to his voice that long performed for him Habit becomes strong as all of it had become habit Oh Mara the carnival the moving from here to another village to yet another and another and perform perform and the nights of the Mist like tonight walk through it Wet desert pale reflections of light the pockets of wind that swirled up the confetti had drifted away empty rides the carnival that had run down and Shadows on peeling paint and shadows on shadows And Gabrielle in our trailer waiting. I saw what he did to you today That child slapping you it amuses him everything. I do amuses him The boy slapped you here. Yes The shame is gone. No Now only your lips are gone the shame is still there. Why do you permit it's really no more? Yes, no more. We'll go away from this place from a mile. He'd find us far from here Renee to a place I said it he'd find this well let him what difference does it make you don't understand understand what understand How he makes a fool of you ten times a day understand Gabrielle my darling. What is it? Oh Mara? Yes, kill him Kill him for me Gabrielle you you kill him Kill him kill him. Don't you see it's the only way Gabrielle listen to me believe me. It's the only way we can be happy. Oh Mara has to die must die Gabrielle then We can be together always always together You mustn't do this for me Just now I tried and I cannot you hate him and you want us to be together and you can't kill him Why because oh because 15 years on the platform performing for him moving according to his demand and now I'm just talking to him. He speaks my name and I perform I could not get close enough to kill him I Can only only perform Then you are You are the mechanical man. Everything. Oh Mara says about you. It's true. He loves you Dance with him drink with him poison kill him Renee the robot Does a robot hate does a robot know jealousy does he love? Am I a robot? Gabrielle Kill him Auto light is bringing you mr. 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Joseph cotton in Elliot Lewis's production of carnival a dramatic report well calculated to keep you in Tickets here for the spectacular Attractions that you will see inside Rollo the giant stands eight feet nine inches tall his little finger as big around as your wrist Renee the robot the man who walks and talks and thinks like a machine Renee the mechanical man Yes, you'll see them all and many more inside one ticket takes you all the way through so step right It was sunlight when we listened to him when Gabrielle and I listened to O'Mara Sunlight of the day he was going to die The carnival stood red and gold and green and bronze against the heat shivering sky Through the dull glinting dust the crowd funneled to the stand of that to this novelty to that attraction it kept on all day the procession of seekers and later when the Sun went down First miss descended and later when it was night and it was shadows again and Then it became a certain time a time of importance the our interval before my last performance The are when no Mara would die And Gabrielle would kill him I'm frightened Renee. Yes, but you must wipe the fright from your face and you are with him be gay Gabrielle Frivolous for a while then warm. I know yeah, yeah near the cage. Let there's no one will see us You will be warm for O'Mara Gabrielle. We will wait on him and be beautiful for him And he will drink a toast to your beauty with this Where did you get it? I got it a Few drops from this bottle into his glass take it Take it Gabrielle Alright, and when O'Mara dies Renee the robot will die with him. Yes, my last performance is at 11 My last performance will not happen. Will it know because at a few minutes you will meet O'Mara in our trailer He will be there only you asked him there. Yes. Yes Renee what is it Renee? Nothing I Will do it I go to him Kill him who caged the leopard wait with me you behind your bars. I behind mine wait Walk with me wait with me Oh leopard forgive me. I am more fortunate than you who time passes and the minutes go and my prison will dissolve a Man will die and with his dying. I will be free and Time passes like what a man is dying and I am coming alive The things I feel now you would understand if those bars were being torn aside for you the crouch a little longer a little longer and Then exhilaration the joy the leap O'Mara is dead Where have you been Renee? Oh I've been looking for you. There are people in there in the tent. They are waiting for me for Renee the robot Come on makes you forget his flesh and blood doesn't he ladies and gentlemen Walk Renee mechanical doll like a puffin on strings And now what a bet is more Ladies and gentlemen, I have here in my hand a bottle a small bottle a brown bottle You sir in the audience would you mind holding it for me? Oh sure give it to me now hold it up Let everybody see it a small brown bottle ladies and gentlemen, sir. What does it say on the label says poison poison? That's right and screw the cap. There's nothing to be afraid of. Thank you You crazy you don't respond when I tell you to do something do you sir drink it you crazy Then you believe it's poison. Do you not if it says poison? I'm not taking any chances Here's your bottle back, mr. No, no hand it to that girl that lovely girl there who just laughed yeah take it from me miss If I asked you to drink it would you drink it? No, and why not? Because it's poison poison a young woman gave me this bottle a little while ago. Her name is Gabrielle Oh, but this is of no interest to you ladies and gentlemen What's of interest to you is Renee the robot may I have the bottle back? Thank you Would you drink from this bottle Renee? Yes, I would even though you know it's poison. Yes Because I tell you to yes because you tell me to drink You see you see ladies and gentlemen he drank it drained it, but don't worry It wasn't poison or once the bottle held poison, but that's another story It was only colored water that Renee drank and now with your permission We will have Renee do a little dance for us, but on your drum Renee who dance very well tonight Renee beautifully dance Renee dance and listen I Went to Gabrielle spoke love to her. I was right about her. She is a flame unforgettable love and wine When she handed me the glass her hand shook or dance Renee the people love you Her hand shook and then she dropped it. She dropped the glass Beautiful mechanical doll like this to take home girls alive hold me just hold me what happened Why is he alive love me Renee? Tell me it's all right tomorrow's alive. Why I tried to do what you told me I permitted him to hold me in his arms. I permitted him to kiss me. I laughed. I was gay then from the bottle From the bottle Renee The poison I poured him a drink and your hands shook and you dropped it Yes, how could you know how could I know? Your hands shook and you dropped it why? You kissed him it was so present that you know I love you Renee even now that I know everything about you I love what do you know Why you wanted a Mara dead what did he tell you about a girl a girl named Celia a girl you killed how you killed She was beautiful Like me like you So many things I understand now Renee Why you are what you are why you do what am I? To me my love To the world what a Mara has made of you a robot you could have Ended it for me Gabrielle. I cannot ever Renee. I cannot kill more and more and more of what a Mara does to me A word from a Mara a movement of a Mara's mouth a gesture from him and I respond Renee you You told him everything gave him the bottle of poison confessed. You could not kill him. Why wait With you I I was alive a little bit I could be jealous Now I'm lost. No wait My hair Renee you're not lost You're here with me With Gabrielle You should have killed him because you love him You and oh Mara the puppet of both of you a mechanical doll a mechanical doll to play with like a toy That other one too Celia to like her you I'm Gabrielle. I love you like her Renee No Like he lay there Gabrielle her hair avail across her mouth against her throat where I had twisted it I brushed it aside leaned over Whispered her name on her lips. She didn't answer me She lay still Gabrielle lay still I lifted her held her in my arms a pale light from outside touched her cheek held And through the window outside was missed and the carnival and the seekers still there for the last show Here and there the carnival lights die one by one And the light on Gabrielle's cheek dies too Gabrielle She's dead Renee You killed her Put her down. No Mara put her down Renee Walk turn left Renee to the tent They're waiting for you. You strangle tonight Renee Again strangled Renee walk Renee Married and no children. I joined the sideshow at the age of 22. I am Renee Orlando I was born in Louisiana small town near the gulf. My father was a fisherman I do not remember my mother I was 15 years old when we moved to baton rouge They I discovered my talent My talent Is killing Long ago. I killed Celia Tonight I killed Gabrielle And oh Mara Now I will dance for you Friends Presented by autolight tonight star mr. Joseph cotton This is harlow wilcox speaking for autolight world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment Autolight is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. That's why during the early months of 1952 The autolight family will join together in saluting the leading car manufacturers who install autolight products as original equipment Our autolight family is made up of the nearly 30 000 men and women in 28 great autolight plants from coast to coast And in still other autolight plants in many foreign countries Our family also includes more than 18 000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in autolight As well as 96 000 autolight distributors and dealers throughout the world Our autolight family will salute willis overland on the next autolight suspense television program If you live in a television area check today and time of suspense on television So that you will be sure to see this program And remember be with us next week for another thrilling autolight suspense program on radio Next week our star will be mr. j carol nash as a man who searched for and found buried treasure And a curse a tale we call the treasure chest of don jose In weeks to come we shall also present mr. james mason miss barbara stanwick and mr. richard widmark all on suspense Suspense is produced and directed by elliot lewis with music composed by lucian morroweck and conducted by ludd gluskin Carnival was written for suspense by morten fine and david freedkin in tonight's story Mary jane croft was heard as gabrielle and joseph curin's isomara featured in the cast where dick ryan charles calbert and sylvia simms joseph curin uh joseph cotton is currently starring in the mgm production man with a cloak And remember next week on suspense mr. j carol nash in the treasure chest of don jose This is the cbs radio network