 Auto-Lite and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Frank Lovejoy in tonight's presentation of Suspense Tonight auto-light presents a tale about a man who felt he was bigger and more important than anything else in the world and Lost his life trying to prove it the story is called the storm our star mr. Frank Lovejoy Hello March is here in like a lion, you know, and I know the lion happens You're always right with auto life That's a good one none better half because auto light is the lifeline of your auto light equipped car and every unit including the coil distributor spark plugs generator regulator Battery and starting motor are designed to give you the smoothest performance money can buy and what does that auto light electrical system do? 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Frank Lovejoy hoping once again to keep you in suspense No one really knows how it begins the birth is invisible Attended only by seabirds that glide gracefully over the warm Caribbean sea in the cool upper air a gull hovers Then dips low toward a single unwary shrimp Suddenly the bird falters its wings beat awkwardly against the sudden turbulence at the edge of a great unseen tower of strange warm air 300 miles around the cool outer winds circles then sweeps in This is the meeting place 300 miles of winds circle of power of weak warm air conditions favorable and The thing is born I could see it and Joyce's eyes The last year and a half she changed Why? Women most of them don't know when they're well off After all we've been through getting to be the top dance team in the country You think she'd try to relax and enjoy it. We were big now 2000 a week and a percentage Nothing but the best places booked when and where we like We just finished in Miami We want to lie around for a month when the weather turned funny nothing really noticeable just something in the air That's when I got the phone call from Al Morgan. Now. This is him a long time no see. Yeah, I was joy Good good. How's that new hotel of yours? Oh nice. No skip him. What's on your mind? It's the tag Oh, we're not exactly hard up for work. Oh, well, we don't work for peanuts anymore. Al It'll have to be three thousand and twenty percent Okay, why are the deal to my agent? How's the weather there? Kind of funny here in Miami. It's something in the air Yeah, yeah, I guess so we'll drive down. I sure appreciate this Larry on us. Yeah, so long. I'll just tell you crowd. We're on the way One including me in That's supposed to be some kind of a crack joist There was a time when you used to at least ask me about a date now. I'm just part of the act Look will you get off my back? Al Morgan's new place at sea be a child newest when but you want to do a favor for an old friend Sure, I can do a favor for an old friend and without jacking the price a thousand got it out. Williard's business We're big business now. That's why I want this and that's why he'll pay us three thousand dollars That's so hard to take sure it's fine But we're all business now Everything's happened so fast for us. We've lost being man and wife I like being man and wife Larry not just a dance partner Look, it's the air in Miami. That's what's bothering you. Come on. Let's pack high over Miami clouds gather and move Far to the south the great cone of wind spins strongly now feeling Adolescent strength it starts moving across the sea. It feels for direction and curves northward The ocean is patterned with great heaping swells racing before it on the Gulf Coast beaches The tide still rises normally then a wave larger than usual crashes unevenly across the sand The sea beach looks like quite a layout a lot of money a lot of class Mm-hmm sure does Oh, come on snap out of it. Would you? Hey, there's Al's hotel. Look at that sign The westerns big as you can make sure We're big Look don't start anything. We're here for a week and the weather is nice try to get along. Will you Right on the beach nothing but the best. Ah, how are you Joyce? It's been a long time. It's really good to see you Come on. Yeah, you got one of the best sweets in the place Hey boy get these bags into 215. Will you looks like a real nice place now strictly resort Larry Entertainment and the weather I got my entertainment and the weather stays just right like Hey, hey, that's some sir. Yeah. Yeah, you started yesterday Paper says big storm down in the Gulf somewhere. They think it's moving this way Scared off some of the guests, but when I got up that Western sign it stopped the checkouts cold So we're storm bait, huh? Yeah, yeah, that's it. Oh nothing to worry about though not a cloud in the sky If you please the papers you can die for worry Mr. Morgan if you please oh, oh, yeah, Pidey. What can I do for you? It is the food, Mr. Total please. I am speaking. Oh, Mr. And Mrs. Weston, Mr. Pidey. Hi The dancing westerns. Oh an honor. I have never seen you perform, but everyone knows you are mad Divison That's an awfully nice dog. Merci madame. I am sorry Colette and madame You're not with me at the moment. They will meet you later. I hope something about the food today Oh this special diet for my dogs, monsieur. I'm afraid I lose the cooperation of the kitchen again Take care of it. Oh, merci. And now I'll wear until this evening You should see those dogs work the four of them really put on a show a Dog act sure they're good. Oh wait a minute now. That just doesn't go Well, I mean now didn't tell me he was running a circus that's all look Larry Pidey's got a good actor He wouldn't be here that's swell, but we don't work with dog. Larry. It's simple Joyce The balcony hold his crowd with the dog act fine. He doesn't need us, but he's got a contractor What what can I do and he gets a boy to put the bags back in the car out? Come on Joyce Let's go no no wait wait wait. I've already got your name up out there Okay Larry I'll I'll buy up today's contract fine. Now you understand. Don't you al I mean Well, a dog. Yeah. Yeah, sure. I understand swell swell. Then we better get our shows on You go ahead. Okay look out That was Larry talking not me. Yeah, I know honey Change Yeah We're a big team now. I guess that's it got to prove it all the time. I Don't know exactly what to do Really a nice guy Joyce. It'll wear off Hope you're right for the Gulf Coast shore the sun shines warm on the slow continuous beat of the heavy storm surf The sky remains clear until late afternoon Then a slight yellowish haze the first land warning creeps into the darkening blue The barometer is measured and from Florida to Texas Red and black hurricane flags unfold in an oddly soft breeze precautionary Nothing definite yet. The sunset is brilliant red Later, there's a halo around the moon Radios have been saying about the weather. We'll be here tomorrow night with a very special performance Sloppy tonight, honey. You can stand some rehearsal empty seat in the place Yeah, yeah, it was a good crowd. Oh, don't go up on the storm Oh, who knows the hurricane flags are up But none of the natives around here getting excited few places boarded up and nobody's leaving business as usual Hey, you know, it might be fun What but to see if we could hold a crowd here in a hurricane Us against the hurricane. I bet we could be a good act Larry, but I hope you don't get the chance I do hope you don't think I'm forward But I did so admire you and your wife out there on the floor. I feel a lot of dancing, but Honestly, I know you dance for a living, but could you what you please show me that back? Well, I have to ask my wife, please miss wet and I'll die happy of course Well as it drink choice No, I'm kidding. But for a minute. I I thought Larry meant that about the hurricane seeing clouds rush tirelessly by More rain more gusts of wind the clouds grow heavier in the haze filled sky The clock we have an appointment downstairs doing a show the rehearsal is for your benefit What's the matter with you? Oh the fun's gone out of it Larry Look, we've got to talk this out here. It comes again. Listen to it. I've got to say it Larry I've got to tell you what I feel it's about the dog. I'm not the dog act It's you. It's all you used to feel close when we dance, but Nor is such a big important showstopper all by yourself There's no room for me anymore if you're all through we'll continue with the rehearse. Please Larry listen to me. I Love you But I don't know you anymore Or you push people around nothing means anything to you nothing is important except Except that big sign the western well sure it's important The weather turns bad people get scared out puts that sign up and they stay Now I can't at Joyce can't it before you really need a wife anymore. Do you Larry all you need is someone to dance with? That's what you really feel isn't it all right? Yes. I took you I can take anybody That dumb little blonde last night as soon as we got out on the floor. I knew Joyce, what do you think you're going? Oh sure? What's a little hurricane? Is that blonde I danced with last night around ever meet me on the floor I'm filling haze thickens The barometer drops suddenly and it can almost be felt Then seaword on the edge of the horizon a low gray curve appears it climbs slowly grows darker Then stands there congealing its power into an ugly bluish black mass then Steady and deliberate the great wind monster moves toward the land The storm tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills Suspense who developed the first two-unit six-volt electrical system used as original equipment Never gave it much thought Harlow well You should have because that development was the forerunner of the precision made electrical system in modern cars Now I'll tell you auto light engineers designed that system 41 years ago. 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Mr. Frank Lovejoy in Elliott Lewis's production of the storm a tale well-calculated to keep you in Suspense eye darkens lowering ominously and from horizon to shore the sea boils white with rays The rain is continuous now falling harder and harder then from the approaching edge of fury the first flicking fingers Gouged through the rain and touch land What'd you say your name was honey? That's okay. The piano's enough. Oh, where's George? She's around look I'll go find her. What's the biggest thrill of my life to dance with you last night, Mr. West? No, I've been through stones before. You know, you dance pretty good last night How would you like to entertain the folks? You know first winds churn up the beaches whirl inland Shutter against walls and flying past trees grown the lighter branches crack and fly off A board rattles on a flimsy wooden shack tears loose and hurtles through the air And then Whining the thing steps to the land the sea drags up with it roaring and twisted foaming agony and Poles like cannon shot and all it can reach the rain no longer falls Sideways with a force of bullets the palm trees bend almost sweep the ground More stubborn front-stopper resistance then suddenly wrench from the roots the works of man Shutter and mighty man himself caught in the open is forced to return to all fours be crazy, Mr How'd you get out there? I'm looking for my wife. You can't find her now. You're lucky. You're still alive She's out there. I've got the friend. Listen. I'm trying to help you somebody's taking her take care of her someplace, too She's gonna be all right now screams at a 19 130 miles an hour the light grows black fingered with a weird electric blue rooftops crash in the streets broken power lines fit 10,000 volts Electrocution man sits in his trembling shelter Totters on the edge of security with hollow fear in his eyes Without warning the car weird uneasy silence Surrounded by the force of hell middle of the block there. That's a police station. How long is the calm last hard to tell our 15 minutes. Come on Evening first aid now listen. I gotta find my wife. What's the name Western Joyce Western? Mrs. Joyce Western Mrs. Joyce Western Mrs. West Sorry, buddy. Joy It's Larry George. What about the fire station? Could be red crosses head up there. Where is it next block over Jackson Street? Hey, buddy, you better stay here. Name is Western Joyce. Well, I'm busy with the injured mister. You'll have to look yourself Joyce Guys Yeah, I miss the day my dogs miss here. Have you seen my dogs? Look, I'm trying to find Joyce my wife Oh, but my dogs they walk away. I went up to them. Hey, will you listen to me? It'll keep come on Why did you run out teach me a lesson It was pretty small time choice you let me in the pretty Back to the hotel. They're waiting for us. You're crazy And I was crazy to kid myself that you actually came looking for me. Look Joyce. I'm not going to beg. I don't have oh You're so big the second wind struck completing the infinite anger then passed on over the lowlands to the hills Finally tearing it shrieking self-apart The sun shines once more on a whip and torn earth It is over Those who live through it stir humbly Spence Presented by auto light tonight star mr. 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That's next week on Suspense Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Lut Glaskin portions of the program were transcribed The storm was written for suspense by Richard Chandlee in tonight's story. Joan Banks was heard as Joyce Featured on the cast were Sharon Douglas, Joseph Kearns, Ralph Sedan, Jerry Hausner and Jim Nussar your narrator Larry Thor Frank Lovejoy appeared through the courtesy of Warner Brothers and can soon be seen in House of Wax in three-dimension and Warner color and Remember next week mr. Herbert Marshall in The Dead Alive This is the CBS radio network