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Milton burl Auto light hopes once again to keep you in suspense Look when i'm walking across time square like this i'm just an ordinary man plain unnoticeable I watched the crowd you wouldn't even notice me. It's though. I were invisible Yeah, I like that Invisible but wait come here come with me through this door through here and into the darkness Now I breathe deeply of the thick dark air and I become taller My eyes drink in the gloomy shadows become lustrous birdlike noble Here in this temple of the passions I throw off my cloak of invisibility and I reveal myself my true self Or this is the theater and I I am an actor Down there beyond the empty seats lit by the single bare bulb of my fellow actors and we're all here to make a play friend norman Seated alone in the third row is our director. This is the fifth day of the rehearsal Still rather rough stiffish and so forth, but it's not a bad little play and You know norman norman will manage somehow to spoil it Norman will misdirect actors and lose values and I've known norman for years From the group theater We were in the group together. Oh no no no no no But norman why not because I'm the director and I say no no very well Try again I wish somebody would tell me what it's all about life. I mean I wish somebody would give me the word adequate thank you Uh norman. Oh, oh, hello How are we coming? I um come over here. I I want to talk to sure norman sure What is it? This is uh Well, believe me sam the most difficult thing I've ever had to say speak out norman. You know me Well, I I've had to turn over the bell ringer to luther The bell ringer But what do you mean norman? That's my part the bell ringer. What do you mean to luther? Don't make it difficult for me sam difficult. I'm not making it difficult not at all The bell ringer role is mine norman. That's all there's no difficulty involved. Please You joke no It's not as if I hadn't warned. Well, tell me what's wrong. Tell me where I've stepped off. What irritate you? What doesn't fit and I'll fix it. I'll fix it. That's my role norman I carry the whole cast with that role. Don't shout sam. You're making a fool of yourself a fool Norman why are you doing this to me because you're not right for it Not right. Yes wait You fat pig. What do you know now easy? What do you know? What do you know about acting? Easy there easy. I say easy fat fat belly fat head fat face. That's enough. You know nothing I know you I know actor you're no actor you stink I'll kill you the same I'll kill you witnesses. He's threatening me again. Yes. Listen good norman. I'm gonna kill you I'm going to kill you. You see you can't even deliver that line You stink by a gun. Yes, sir. What sort of a gun as you wished by one that will shoot through fat, sir Pardon me. I was thinking What have you got? Why pistols rifles shotguns? I don't know exactly what was it you wished to use the gun for I want to kill a rat a 22 would be about your best bet. Oh, here's a nice little item Looks pretty small. This is an awfully big rat Fat rat I think a shotgun a 410. Yeah You you think that'll do it? Oh mister that gun will I guarantee I use a gun like that myself single barrel light handy truly beautiful weapon bullets You got bullets or shells shells you use in this weapon now They're they're all kinds depending on what weight shot you want to use You choose it. I want one one box No one bullet one. Yeah This rat i'm not gonna miss It's time now he'll come out of that far door of the entrance and he'll walk this way because he's going to go into sardis for a drink I slide it out from under my coat and I smile and I say Goodbye Norman Pull a trigger heart or belly heart or belly Belly. Yes His cultivated porch Fatted with Hector's heart Yes, belly Am I invisible now? I mustn't be noticed until the moment Perhaps standing a little too tall Sag Perfect The actor plays himself as a non-actor You should see this Norman Now goodbye Norman Sam Oh Norman you're dying you're going to go to hell in a minute Norman. I'm shocked Somebody call an ambulance. Won't do you any good Norman? You're dying. You'll be dead before it gets Is this how you play your death scene Norman you're dying play it, please somebody call an ambulance for me Don't let me lie here Oh if an actor played a death scene for you as badly as you're playing your own Norman Do you know what you'd do ambulance? Help please ambulance Godgunny did it right in the middle of 40th history. Oh He brought him in an hour though give you any trouble like a land Oh, I thought you'd like to know that guy. He's still kicking Alive He's alive. Yep. So you're not a murderer not yet. I brought your lawyer What's that? I'm your lawyer How do you do? Thank you They say he's still not dead Nobody's sinking how much longer they didn't say When he dies, I become a murderer. Yes They'll electrocute me Yes I must have been crazy. I thought of that What do you mean temporary insanity? I thought we might plead that. Oh, I don't we Because you threatened him before witnesses at least twice Went to a store chose a gun with great care waited for him to appear you did all this and then you shot him That's right. I did that's premeditated murder first degree murder So the temporary insanity thing is out way out the only other thing I can think of is that With the proof you were insane all along me insane, but of course not I should say not I mean What would happen? I mean if I were Oh, they get the psychiatrist in salmon you'll send you off to be cured. Yeah You seem very calm I'm an actor Gone and I sit here seeming very calm from time to time the god passes looks at me curiously I know it's not as mine. He's saying this. It's a cold-blooded murderer I know all my life. I've studied the human beings memorized their gestures tones expressions inflections emotions I've learned to probe every moment of my own experience from early childhood Searched out my every reaction emotion learned to feel a parallel emotions of others The stanislavsky method of acting I have it Know it because if we could prove you were insane all along But I'm not the insane man moves without motive and I had a motive. I know you I know actors You're no actor. Oh, I could do it again. No actor. No actor. No actor I could do it again Insane crazy nuts. I know a joke I know a joke a wonderful joke I'm going to beat norman even in this grave. I'm going to have myself exonerated of his murder Yes, freed of the charges. It's so simple I can hear it Play the greatest role of my life Played without makeup without lights without script a cue I'm going to play a part strangely foreign to my nature I'm going to play a homicidal maniac Auto light is bringing you mr. Milton burl in rave notice tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater thrills suspense A campaign slogan for your candidate Right, oh senator the auto lights day full battery is the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use That's my candidate simple sound and superior slogan seems pretty dry to me will go Why am I droll dignitary? 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You're always right with auto light And now auto light brings back to our hollywood soundstage mr. Milton burl In elliott louis's production of rave notice a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense I'm going to play a homicidal maniac Oh What is the most terrible thing I ever did The thing closest to murder must recreate that move murder killing blood I killed a cat once Yeah I was six years old. I didn't mean to kill it, but I had this stick It was in an alley this cat and I poked it just for laughs. See he didn't run That's all I wanted to do was just to make him run Oh, he scratched me and I hit him he hit him across the back with the stick and he started this howling and squalling and oh, I thought Oh, I thought I'm gonna get into trouble. Stop that noise Stop that noise. I hit him again to make him stop and again to make him stop and again And there was blood red blood on the gray cement and struck and struck and struck out the screams Struck out the life struck out the awful gaze of those great yellow eyes Suck out the life suck out the spirit in the spark I kill a murderer. I am I kill for the thrill of silence of the cat I am a murderer a murderer. I am I kill without reason That's it. That's it. That's the character all I need for turning it on is the memory Those key points gray cement cat's eyes my feelings as a six-year-old Oh, there will be refinements. I'll refine it Oh norman if you're only here to see the scene In the house lights raise the curtain Now to get my audience in What's that sounds like the shotgun guy. He's laughing. We better go see what's up Who may I ask are you? What? Why why why oh, oh come on now mac calm down. I asked the civil question and I expect the civil answer Why why why you was so nice and quiet for a while. Yeah Hey, just answer my question. That's all I ask and that's not much reward for a hero to be asking now Is it don't you know who we are? I think he's putting on an act Don't turn your head away. We know you hear it not leave them be You think he's kidding. What does it matter better than that sam? You're supposed to be a murderer A homicidal maniac So what's the emotion? guilt Guilt you've got to be guilty guilty guilty guilty Smear yourself with the stuff guilty bloody hand. That's you guilty and you want to be punished Yeah, punished punish yourself. That'll do it But a little hurt so what so what not like it hurts when they shave your head and slit your trousers and strap you to your seat Oh, that's seat 10 000 volts coursing through this poor player's frail body with which I am cursed Murderer should be punished should be punished one Two three curtain going up Guilty guilty There he goes again. You go. Ah, what a job Murder murder I murdered him. I am a murderer I'm a murderer and I confess it. I confess Hey, I want to confess it. You don't have to do that Confess to purge myself of this guilt But you did all that when you first come in here. I am a murderer. I am guilty here I smashed him. I smashed him. You're getting yourself so worked up about that guy isn't even dead yet Not dead. He is dead. He's been dead these past 36 years 36 years. Oh, oh if you won't punish me Oh Hey, what are you doing? Hey, I am guilty. I'm guilty and I shall be smashed as he was smashed Your hands. You're gonna bust your head in that wall. I shall be smashed. It is written You know the writing in the blood that lies across the counter pain in the bed under the pillow when little boys are supposed to be far away and slumber Don't get the doctor Good good. He's getting a doctor My hand my hand is killing me I think that something broke then I don't mind the bloody scraped knuckles or even breaking the nails But not the bones. I'll be sure I can lose this young thing when I get out of here When? If I ever get out of here Two cats dead murdered by my stick Four cats dead murdered by my stick Right here doc. I'll open the cell if you want to go there. Of course I do How long has he been doing this? Well about 15 minutes doctor since just before he sent Schultz after you I think All right now you can stop that I don't stop. I don't stop. I I don't look I keep right out of the keep in the pot Murder and guilty it hurts But if I keep at it if I keep at it, I'm paying a price I am paying my way out of being electrocuted. I'm gonna be freed. I can only keep it up I'll stop it. You aren't doing yourself the real good this way man. I'll put it out All right, quick Leave me leave me alone. I want to pay I am the guilty one and I want to pay the sentence to the car. Hold him in come on Let me go. Let me go. I must pay. I must pay now. I'll steady steady At the timing needle He's pressing the syringe. It'll knock me out. I can't act. I'm unconscious I can't play the part I'm guilty I can't I can't So quiet here So white Such sweet stillness and peace Gone the darkness of the Field and concrete and the cell this white ceiling. Well, they're watching me very carefully The taller one. He's new The other gave me the hypodermic. Yes Oh, if I've been out did I say anything while I was out? Perhaps if I keep still where we'll let me know I must have been wrong Are you awake you say he showed definite suicidal tendencies suicidal immediate or simply self destructive While it was unconscious I listened to him he spoke He seemed under the delusion that he is invisible invisible. That's a new one Now let me look He's opening his eyes Hello awake Who are you you remember me don't you? No, there's something to quiet you a little while ago a little while ago You're trying to injure yourself that we think you're insane. You've decided to give that up, haven't you? If you only let me go let me out of here I have to carry out sentence, you know But how would you carry out sentence he smashed I am to be smashed as I have smashed the cat Is that the law an eye for an eye and a two through two You believe in it You believe in the eye for eye law. Don't you feel it's right that you receive the same thing you gave your victim Yes, I smashed him with a stick and the eyes that stared at me stick. You mean shotgun, don't you? Why would I say shotgun if I meant stick? I I said stick if you shot the man with a shotgun You're out of your mind after you smashed him with a stick. What happened? What what what came after he was dead? Oh I was I was frightened. I went home mama was there. She said how did you get blood on your hands? And I said a dog licked my hand and he had blood on his teeth. I understand you're an actor We are all actors We try to act innocent when we are guilty Doctor come outside the moment will you I've got them I've got them just keep playing it cold and clear What are they talking about out there? I wish I knew I have them I know that I've got them I've got them Well, I guess you'll be leaving us soon Well, that's what I asked for Thank you. Thank you. You're understanding doctor. I am guilty and I must carry out sentence You you know that what the doctor means is that you're going to a place where they'll help you to get well Get well, but I am well I'm just guilty that's all If you'll have the uh, David's drawn up outside instead of court order committee Nice means you were right all along You know, I will be sure until you've told me about the man who was shot About his recovery. Oh, yes The guards told this man he'd recovered, but uh, he didn't comprehend it He went right on screaming and punishing me See Well, let's go What would they have given him? Uh, were he saying? Well, that depends the injured party refused to pass charges He'd be out of here in an hour Recovered Recovered they didn't tell me he'd recovered How could he've recovered? I shot him. I shot him in his fat porch in his belly When did they tell me? It was while I was screaming maybe I was really into the part then deep in it Couldn't have heard them couldn't have heard and now Now he will walk out of here and I will go off to an insane asylum Married to a role that I loathe that I hate No No Doctor come back here come back here. Please. It was all a joke. Doctor come back come back What is it? Listen doctor, listen, I have a confession to make doctor. I'm not insane. Please believe me. Please believe me question Uh, that's a little confused. That's all. Yes. Yeah quite not even confused Don't you see it was all a gag. It was just a gag. Of course it was now you're going to a place Where you can rest and everything's going to be all right. Oh, no, believe me. Believe me. I am sane Why shot? I'm not shouting. I only want to impress upon you. You were shouting rather loudly Oh look I shot and my lawyer said if I could prove insanity. I wouldn't go to the chair chair I thought you were to be uh, you said mash Forget that that was part of the method method, you know the stanislavsky method. It's a system of acting What do you think? I don't know. I assume you're telling me this. I can fool you all over again If you feel it's necessary to prove my point. No, I don't believe you'll be able to fool me again Well, doctor sane I say sane. I say the man is in full control of the faculty is aware of his crime Committed it out of what society called sober motive and you sir you agree with the doctor It's what I've been telling you and I say sing That makes it unanimous Oh Glad that's over. Wow What a performance gentleman never in the history of the theater has such a performance been rendered nor under such adverse condition Uh, just one more question. Shoot. Shoot. Why did you kill him? I Kill him but I I didn't I I shot him. That's all Shot you you mean shot, don't you? Well, don't you? No Hey Norman is dead and you were sane You're going to repay society with your life Norman is dead Oh Fratuary villainy Bring down the curtain Bring down the curtain Suspense presented by auto light tonight star milton burl Well, will talk did your candidate win win senator Why the auto lights say full battery is the winningest candidate the polls have ever produced And this winsome leader is only one of over 400 auto light winners for cars trucks planes and boats made by auto light in 28 plants coast to coast These include complete electrical systems used as original equipment on many makes of america's finest cars Spark plugs batteries generators coils distributors electric windshield wipers starting motors bullseye sealed beam headlight All engineered to fit together perfectly work together perfectly because they're a perfect team So friends don't accept electrical parts supposed to be as good Ask for and insist on auto light original factory parts at your neighborhood service station car dealer garage or repair shop Remember you're always right with auto light Next week on suspense miss Barbara stanwick as a woman who gambled and the stake was death in the wages of sin And in weeks to come you will hear such famous stars as richard widmark pervert marshal and william holden All appearing in tales. Well calculated to keep you in suspense Tonight suspense play was produced and directed by elliott louis with music composed by luchin morroweck and conducted by lud bluskin Parts of this program were transcribed rave notice was written for suspense by james pole milton burrell appeared through the courtesy of texaco And remember next week on suspense miss barbara stanwick in the wages of sin The auto light faithful batteries auto light standard or resistive start plugs auto light electrical parts at your neighborhood auto light dealers Switch to auto light. Good night. This is cbs the columbia broadcasting system