 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 Night from Hollywood Roma Wines bring you a stars and old friend of these proceedings Mr. Peter Lorraine and a newcomer mr. Richard Connick For their appearance tonight Joe Isinger has written an original suspense play with sporting blood in its veins and In which death has a ringside seat It's title with apologies to mr. Steinbeck is of maestro and man And so with the performance of Peter Lorraine as the maestro and of Richard Conte as the man We again hope to keep you in suspense From Decatur get aboard cumulate put down a handful pick up a head for the money is eight Make the point and break the joint seven to one the hard way the man wants to pause He'll make it the hard way. He's got a hunch he bets a bunch get aboard boys He's in the week seven and the man's down past the dice and make some ice Everybody plays and everybody wins lay it on the line. We pay it on the line Three to two or six or an eighth even money ten or four right lay it and take it right a wrong I go a lot tough on the loose my son Mr. Crepe did I frighten you? Oh, no, no, no, it's just that I didn't be a nurse need looking up a maestro I think I'd have jitters too, but drop the bundle like you did tonight. What time is it three in the a.m. Too late to play again. Oh, please another hour. I don't mean the time I mean, I think I got enough for your paper for one night My stick man just handed me these tabs 15g You know that my I will use our goodness to Chris. You know that that's what I wanted to talk to you about You ever see my private office my instrument right this way Sit down maestro. Well, it's growing late and it's only take a minute How's Ricky? Oh Ricky? He's in the mountains. He has a vacationer a little rest You know, it's a great little welter that Ricky Martin punch like a heavy feet like a fly weight Yeah, fine boy to having a stable. I don't have what you call a stable mr. Crepe Ricky Martin is all I've got All my life I dreamed I have a boy like Ricky Martin Not for the money not for what he'd bring just to own them like a fast horse carrying your colors He leaves them all behind You know, I'd be willing to trade you any three of my boys for Ricky Martin That's very generous of you mr. Crepe, but I don't think I don't think you wouldn't Well, you're a lucky man maestro finding a boy like that. Yes, I sometimes wonder how you did it Haven't been in the fight game long in this town. I remember the first time I see you and your boy hanging around the garden Yes, that's right. The fighting profession is still a little little strange to me. You see all my life I've been a well-unimpresario you might say in Paris in Brussels, Vienna Billy opera plays And when I came to this country and found Ricky, I well, I could see that here was a you could see all right Cigar, thank you Yeah Now we say there's nothing like a good cigar to promote good feeling in the business talk business talk. What do you mean? Little matter of 32g. Oh 17 you dropped last week in 15 tonight. Yes, my my luck has been a little bit You know, that's a very impressive signature. You've got my astro like a Professor something almost curls and loops very impressive looks like a million bucks on these tabs I'm sure it's good for 32 g Of course it yeah, I'm glad to hear you say that well if that's all mr. Cripper. That's all my astro Well, then good night mr. Crip Just a minute my friend You leave him something behind what Here I owe you I Don't understand. I figure I got enough of your paper. I want my money now Can't I Get it. I must have time. I run a cash business, but you gave me credit you got assets what Ricky Martin? No, then pay No, I won't let you steal him from me. He's mine. Do you hear me? He's mine I found him. I build him and you can't steal him from me. I want that boy No, I love him like a brother not you swindle him on a very fight I won't give him up then you'll pay my collector's 32g But it's a gambling bet you can't collect my collectors don't carry a summons a Barrel and 50 pounds of cement All right, mr. Crip You leave me no arguments And you have added greatly to my education. I Don't think there's much I can teach you my astro Only this time I'm out in front. I'll show you I'm a generous man honest John Crip Run an honest game and to make a square deal 50g for the boy 32 and tabs 18 and cash no beefs later. Thank you Sure, you'd be sensible about this my astro and the contract drawn up Just put that impressive signature on the dotted line May I use your pen? Sure. Thank you There you are mr. Crip Ricky Martin now belongs to me. Mm-hmm your pen writes very easily. You can keep it Part of the deal. Thank you I shall treasure it as the most expensive pen in the world How soon will Ricky be back in town? I expect him in my office tomorrow good You'll tell him he now belongs to honest John Crip. Yes, I'll tell him You know mr. Crip. I I don't think Ricky Martin is going to like being owned by you You just leave that worry to me my astro. I have a way of making people like me Even if it kills him Night for suspense Roma wines are bringing you the play called of maestro and man You have heard peter lorry in the prologue for this study in suspense And now for a moment. Let's conjure up a scene of our own Let's imagine ourselves in Sun drenched Havana Let's imagine that we're dining in the gay club Momart as you listen to the music You put down your wine glass to tell our host how much you enjoy his hospitality Part of the credit belongs to Cuba. 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A Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our soundstage Peter Laurie as the maestro and Richard Conte is Ricky Martin in of Maestro and man a tale well calculated to keep you in Say Ricky hasn't come yet. Oh, oh, no boss I've been sitting here in your office like you told me but he ain't coming he ain't called I don't understand it. I can't and he's train arrived two hours ago. Hello. Oh my stroke Sam Ricky Who have you? Oh my stroke. This is Lynn Carter. How do you do? How do you do miss Carter and this is Sam Lynn. He was my trainer hello Ricky has told me so much about you during the past two weeks that I feel like yeah, you know how it is my stroke Out on a lake at night the guy gets the rambling and I found it all very colorful Ricky here There's something I must tell you it if miss Carter will excuse us for it But there's something I must tell you my stroke it It's about Lynn and me You see we did it Ricky Well, Lynn and me we're we're gonna be married married what yeah, we we just well when I met Lynn I I Don't know how to tell you this my stroke, you know, I feel about you Ricky Ricky, what are you trying to say? It's tell me it's just that I Ricky is trying to tell you my stroke He's quitting the ring Ricky's quitting the ring Ricky quit. I must my stroke. I'm going away with the Lynn the South America her father owns a He wants us to live down there. I'm I'm going to work for him, but Rick Ricky you can't not now. I'm sorry my stroke But don't make it tougher for me. You know, I was one of the quit always hated it now. I have a good reason We're taking a plane to Rio tonight, but you can't Ricky you you can't run out of me like this I don't figure I'm running out on anybody, but you don't know what's happened to Ricky you you can't quit I sold you what Crip the Crip To that Why didn't you ask me first? I couldn't drink here? Buying and selling me so much beef on the hook for so much a pound but you buy me and sell me until I can't take any more punishment There's no buyer. That's why I'm getting out Lynn was right two three years in the Crips stable I'm a punching bag for the new boys a jibbering idiot like poor Sam here Don't call me I'll kill you Shut up Sam So Lynn was right, huh? I knew it was her fault. I knew it the minute she walked in here smelling of her perfume Yes, it's all your fault. Why didn't you leave him alone my soul? He's different from you He's not your no no you like the way he looked in a sun in trunks, huh? These muscles and that beautiful bar you you just had to have him You had to bring him back to show it to your friends, huh great catch you you scheming conniving I'm all right now I should have killed him for that come on. Let's get out of here almost You like to kill you then Your face is a funny color Sure boy sure Hey, are you all right now boys? I'm all right no Sam. You're a good boy Sam Sure, so Sam's a good boy Sam Sam's no rapper Ricky's a rat her boys Ricky's a rat Sam we Must do something Sam sure was that Ricky is a ratty. He called me a idiot. I'll kill him boys Sam's a good boy. He don't like but for Ricky to do the boss. No hate. I'll kill him You must not get excited Sam we must think sure boys Let's think Your lip is is all the bleed. Yes, you're a good boy. He called you an idiot. Yes, but you're a good boy Sam. I like when you pat me on the head like that boys. We have a problem Sam Mr.. Krip must not hear about Ricky quitting Ricky quitting boys. Something happened to Ricky an Accident they happen every day Sam. Oh sure accidents happen. Well when I was a little boy It's a tragic thing mr.. Krip Fine boy like that You a boy mr.. Krip you were a fifty thousand dollar boy mr.. Krip. It's a tragic thing Here's Tragic finale to a promising career. Oh, yeah boys. That would be some tragic some some finale There must be an accident Sam. Mr.. Krip must never be able to say do you understand that Sam? Sure, but when I was a little boy Yeah, boys, Sam Lankin's gym, you know what a main steam valve for the steam room is What boys the valve Sam the one that lets the life steaming to the steam room They do that. Oh, oh sure, but the gadget that the guy turns off and on the steam way No, that's right. Oh sure boys It's under the stairs in the basement on the other side of the gym You know on the side where the pipe. Yes. Do you think you could get under the stairs into the basement? Oh sure Nobody cares if I go to the basement Sometimes I go And do you think you could open the valve as wide as it'll go Open this For all the steam to go fast into the steam room. Yes, Sam. Oh boy. That's some hot all that steam boys You can't stay in and all that hot The jewel was up the gym when poor shock he got all the hot because the valve broke and the door was stuck The jewel was there when they brung them up boy. That was some looking dead shocky. All right, all right I'm a very tragic accident. Some tragic. All right, Sam. Come here. Take my watch Can you read the time? Sure. What do you think? I'm a dumb The little hand that is on a tool and the big hand is on a six That's right. That means a half past two. No, that's right Sam When the little hand will be on a five, you know and a big hand on a 12 here It'll be a five o'clock. That's right. You see I'm no dumb five o'clock and at five o'clock Sam You must be in a basement at Langton's gym by the steam valve and exactly five o'clock Sam You'll open the valve all the way for all the hot. Yes, Sam all the hot Oh, but you can't stay in the joe is up the gym one shot won't be in the steam room Sam But Ricky will alone Ricky Martin's apartment, please Ricky hello Ricky this is what you want Ricky, please I don't know how to begin but you've you've got I've got to see you there is so much I want to say to you. Sorry my sir. Look Ricky, please just for a few minutes. Please Ricky Look meet me at Langton's gymnasium Look, you have all you have all your old boxing things like in my locker room. I Want you to give them to me. I I want to keep them Ricky as a as a souvenir. Well, okay, maestro Just for a few minutes though. I have to meet Linda the airport at six. Oh, thank you, Ricky Forget it. Meet you at Langton's in a half an hour. Fine. Goodbye Ricky You'll come Ricky And you'll get them in a steam room. Yes, Sam. Hmm. Yes I'll get him into the steam room and I'll sit there with him and talk to him And talk to him about this and about that With a steam thick around us hiding us from each other When I begin to feel the life heat Sam at five o'clock Sam At five o'clock I'll be talking about all times as I quietly slip out of the room and he'll be sitting there alone thinking of all times Not knowing I'm gone and that he's alone Until it is too late He will hear the sudden rush of steam and feel the scalding heat And he'll run to the door, but it will not open and he'll pound and scream in agony But the door will stick and he's scream will throw a burning steam into his lungs And then they'll find him too late Too late It will be too late Ricky hello. I'm so glad you came see I was just going to take my steam bath I had a wait until Lynn called me. I told her to meet us at the airport at six. Good. Good. Come Ricky Let's go to the locker room, huh? Look here is your old locker Ricky. You have the key. Yes Here you open it. Thank you. But first Ricky, please. I I want to tell you how I feel how I've been so miserable because You should have killed me Ricky Maestro. Yes Ricky you I deserved it You see, I wasn't myself. You know that let's forget it Maestro. Go ahead open the locker. All right. Thank you see look Your punching bag look your trunks your gloves and here look here Ricky this pair This pair you wore the night you beat kid for it Wasn't that a fight Ricky? How can be ever forget the third round? Remember what the newspaper said? Every word is burned into my memory Last night a new star of the ring was born Ricky Martin Sensational new well cut up Maestro Yeah, sure I'm sorry, Ricky. I know how you feel Ricky Ricky are you sure? Isn't there one chance that you've changed your mind? No Maestro not a prayer What time is it? Well, it's only about quarter to five Come on Ricky. Don't you don't you want to have your last team with the old Maestro? Well, I don't come Well, okay, but remember old Maestro five o'clock to my deadline. Oh, well Ricky that I guarantee Say who's around at this time of the day, huh? Oh, yeah, Sam. I wanted to tell you how sorry. Oh sure It's I'm sorry. All right. Call me. I'd put on the boss a slug Oh boy, you're gonna be some hot. Sorry. All right, Sam. Stop mumbling get going some hot tragic All right head calling That poor guy See Maestro, that's why I'm getting out now. I Don't want to look like that in five years. Here's your towel Ricky. Are you ready? Yeah? I'm ready How much time we got? Well, it's just a couple of minutes before five It's time for a quick steam in a shower and then we meet Lynn Okay Good old steam room. I really got that steam up today. Yeah, so I think you can't see your hand in front of you Yeah, but it's good for you Come on here. Feel your way over here Ricky. Come sit here with me on a second challenge. Yeah Yeah, that's right Just keep your head down and your eyes closed and Relax like me. Yes. This feels fine You'll begin to feel even better later Tell me Ricky. Tell me are you micklin? Well She was staying at the same hotel with a mother and father He came up on business a right guy Maestro. You'd like him Yes, I'm sure I would one night. I just found myself dancing with her. I don't know yet. How it happened But there we were And after that well, it seemed like there was nobody else in the world that we too. I Don't know Maestro, but But suddenly I realized that what I wanted most in the world was right there Something I I can't remember having Something I wanted all the time and with all my heart I'm tired of hotel rooms and training camps and fight talk and no one and nothing to come home to I love Lynn. I love a family. They love me That's all there is Maestro. I guess that's the crop for any man Hey, it's getting kind of hot Maestro Remember Ricky. Remember the day we first met Maestro Steam is getting a little too much Remember it was it was backstage at the Met He wanted to be a valid dancer I must laugh when I think of those days You had muscle and you had grace and you had power but He didn't know what to do with him And I I showed you Not ballot Years of sacrifice For what? I found you and I I found the ring and I I brought the two of you together in one year. You were near the top Yes, it was a long year Ricky, but But we went through it together Yes, I I can't help feeling that you're leaving is It's almost a tragic finale to a A brilliant ring career What? It's a tragic finale And then We got your first fight in New York How nervous you were Your New York debut Not at the Met to the music off Of Offenbach, Skete, Paesien, no But at the Madison Square Garden To the roar of 15,000 throats And do you remember the The last thing you said to me before you went into the ring Remember Hey, Ricky Ricky Ricky Where are you? Ricky, where Where are you, Ricky? Ricky 17 ready Mr. Gluskin, Ms. Thompson, Captain Jay Stevens Mr. Mrs. Ricky Martin Flight 17, board please Sorry, I'm late Come on, we've only got Where's the maestro? The maestro I left him in the steam room at the gym Slipped out on a mic I couldn't take it Poor guy's all broken up He feels like it's Well, what? What he'd call a tragic finale Mr. and Mrs. Ricky Martin Board Flight 17, please Come on, darling, let's go So closes up maestro and man Starring Peter Lorre with Richard Conte Night's tale of Suspense Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear It's my job It's my privilege To tell you how much pleasure and enjoyment You can add to everyday living By serving Roma wines With meals when entertaining or anytime And in hot weather Let me suggest Roma wine cooler offers Just put ice cubes in a tall glass Have fill it with your favorite Roma wine Then fill it up with sparkling water For a sweeter drink, add sugar Ah, that's my people It's really something And it's so simple, so good And so inexpensive It's a fact The cost of Roma wines is only Penny's a glassful Get Roma wines today Enjoy them regularly If your dealer is temporarily out Please try again soon Just be sure you ask for R-O-M-A Roma wines America's largest selling wines Made in California For enjoyment throughout the world Richard Conte appeared through the courtesy Of 20th Century Fox Producers of the Technicolor production Wilson Next Monday, same time You will hear two distinguished Leading ladies Ms. Maureen O'Sullivan And Dame Mae Whitty As stars of Suspense Presented by Roma wines R-O-M-A Made in California For enjoyment throughout the world This is CBS The Columbia Broadcasting System