 The signal oil program yes, the signal oil program The Whistler Whistle is your signal for the signal oil program The Whistler I'm the Whistler and I know many things for I walk by night I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak Friends here's some exciting news The latest hooper rating showed that in the last two months the listening audience of the Whistler has increased by more than 50 percent Yes, sir 50 percent and even before this increase the Whistler was rated tops in popularity for a longer period of time Than any other West Coast program in radio history What do we at signal oil think about this? Well, naturally we think it's wonderful and we want to say thanks to our regular audience and welcome to all you new listeners and Remember friends signal gasoline is tops, too And now the Whistler strange story last curtain The company's engagement at the opera house in Los Angeles had two weeks to run But Aurean Donati whose beautiful voice was largely responsible for the success of the tour had other things on her mind Aurean was no longer thrilled by the curtain going up She was not new to the music world and moreover when she allowed herself She could feel the years inside She didn't allow this often of course and certainly it was not being displayed at the moment With Charles beside her quietly reassuring Aurean founded a simple matter to face the anger of the impresario Julio Cassini have you lost your mind Aurean? You cannot just tear up a contract I'm protected by the law law law. There is only one law I recognize I do as I please and I will not desert my child And why should you might do marry Charles, but remain with us for the season at least Please It's impossible Charles will not hear of it. We are both desperately in love. Am I right my darling this you're quite right Aurean, please My mind is quite made up. Come Charles. Let's go someplace where we can be alone by all me All right play your games, but if you want my advice He was rather unpleasant him Julio He only thinks of the money he will lose enough of him though Do you really love me? Don't you know? Yes, I support That was nice darling Now I must go to my dressing room. Can you amuse yourself for a little while? Yes, but do hurry back Yes, Aurean at this point in your career in your life. The most important thing is Charles and your love for him You're thinking about this aren't you as you sit down before the mirror in your dressing room? Oh Feliz how often have I told you not to call me mama? What am I going to do with you? Oh Tell me how you coming along with your voice Very well, professor dress be as pleased with my progress. What are you up to now? I've just finished post time to take up Martha. Oh Martha. Lovely, you know, mr Cassini has a great hope for your future Do you enjoy your work in the chorus darling? Very much, but mama, how long must this pretend score now Feliz my baby It will be over sooner than you think. I I am going to be married Yes, Karamia to a very fine handsome rich man. We shall all three of us be very happy Soon Feliz very soon now child Yes If you have the time I should like a word with you. I am very busy people But well young lady you run along now. I hope the advice I have given you will help you to amount to something It will madam do nothing and thank you Well, what is it people please my daughter is it true what they are all saying that you are leaving us being married Yes, it's true. Oh, no, my lady. No, you must remain the opera needs you the opera Go away old man. Go to your world of props where you belong you fatigued me You grieve me Madonna True, I am without physical grace and beauty, but oh please In my heart, there is love Love indeed go away before go down to your room where you belong and stay out of my life Stay out of what does not concern Peppo doesn't really annoy you does the oria he only amuses you But you're genuinely disturbed about your daughter Feliz Because you haven't mentioned her to Charles have you Somehow the opportunity has never been right But you know there'll be plenty of time for that after you're married and his love for you will make him understand anything The following morning Julio sends for you and he seems in a strangely happy mood when you enter his office Rian come in come in where are the papers? Canceling my contract on the desk my dear there's six copies the sooner you sign them the sooner you can start preparing for the great day You do not want me to perform tomorrow night Necessary at all car me now if you just signed the paper Julio. Yes, tell me how is it that this morning? You seem so agreeable only yesterday. You were tearing out your hair shouting. You were ruined. I have had a change of heart I know about love. I know it cannot wait I thought it over after all who am I to oppose Cupid up Julio? You are lying What has happened? All right, you ask This morning madam Brock signed with us kitty Brock You signed her before you cancel my contract. Yes, and I hear the paper six copies sign at the bottom I signed nothing good day Julio with Orion. We must discuss this, please. There is nothing to discuss The thought that Julio has taken you at your word about leaving the company and Furious you doesn't it Oriane that he would sign someone else before you've even given the final release on your contract And of all people for him to choose kitty Brock a woman. You've never liked Since you refused to cancel your contract you continue to sing your role Then a few days later you learn even more about kitty It's during a lull in the rehearsal while you're standing in the wings that pepo the property man of the company Whispers the unpleasant news in your ear My lady, huh? What are you doing sneaking about? I would like to tell you how pleased I am that you remain with the opera After all go away people. No easy wise decision you make Madonna That poor co is not worthy of you How dare you speak of my beloved in that manner go about your business rich. I must sing in a moment Yes, my lady sing give your love to music. Do not waste it on him who deceives This is I speak the truth my lady It is him whom you would call husband that deceives you he has been seeing her these past weeks I know I follow them her who? Speak up. It is the other the one with the voice of a goat kitty oh Peppo if you speak falsely, I kill you. No, no, no, no, I speak the truth Please even out this very moment look the third box to the left. They are together Oh, do you see Madonna? They are not looking down at the opera. No indeed They look into each other's eyes. They are in love Is it her design to make me out a fool? To take all that is mine No, I shall not let her do that with the prologue of last curtain the signal oil company brings you another strange story by the whistler But just for a moment Let's suppose this were a quiz show and you were asked what gasoline is known as the go farther gasoline What would your answer be? 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There are just two things to remember one in gasoline it takes extra quality to go farther and two Signal is the famous go farther gasoline And now back to the whistler the worst has happened hasn't it Orienne Charles and Kitty The shock of it keeps you confined to your hotel rooms all the next day and the evening's performance goes badly And the day after that brings angry words between you and julio When he tells you that kitty Brock is going to sing your role tonight regardless of your contract Later the odd strangely devoted little pepo comes to your dressing room my lady Please let me be my daughter. I beg of you listen to what I have to say Look after tonight madame black will bother you no longer What are you seeing people in the room where I keep my props? There is a mirror a mirror especially created for the use of madame katzana a mirror But ah such a mirror and so so so practical You see it was purchased for madame katzana nearly 20 years ago by a man who was madly in love with her and Very jealous. Oh come now. You're speaking in riddles old man explain yourself Well, the mirror the glass was treated in such a way that the high-pitched thrill or vibrato would instantly exploded in one space It just reward for vanity Madonna would you not agree? Especially if one is accustomed to singing into one's mirror like the good Faust Marguerita How is that that you have come to possess this this mirror? Madama katzana was in love with another so she gave the mirror to me You're dreaming old man if you were telling me the truth you could not know if the mirror's treatment Gatsana herself did not know but I don't know the jealous lover told me When Gatsana sang Marguerita and the mirror did not explode the man came to see why When I told him I had the mirror he begged me to give it back for fear some innocent one would be hurt But you kept the mirror. Yes. I was certain that some day It would serve its purpose. Oh, get out of here people This thing is my reward for offering you happiness. I told you to leave people Very well my fine lady But the next time you will come to me really You think no Madonna. I shall be waiting for you There are stairs in my room with my props where I belong Where all the ugly things are kept You know in your heart there is only hatred for kitty Brock Don't you orient and you wonder why you fail to take advantage of Peppo's offer The more you think about it the more you're certain Peppo told you the truth The principle of shattering glass by by vibration has been known for more than a century And now you've sent him away the only one who could help As you leave your dressing room and start down the circular stairway Oh Charles Where have you been? I tried to reach you challenge. You have to excuse me now. I must see Julio. Oh, wait It's important. I I have something to say to you. Well, all right, but do hurry. I Hardly know how to begin. It's rather difficult to What is it? Oh, yeah, I must ask you to release me for my promise Release you sorry and please don't hate me. I so it's true The Brock woman is it? Yes. Yes, it happened all at once. It was sudden overwhelming. We Well, neither of us could help it. Oh, Charles you fool wait It's finally happened hasn't it Orianna you've lost everything Though you're still under contract Julio has replaced you in the company and now Charles has rejected you You walk backstage behind the lofty proscenium as though lost in a dream As the hours pass you can concentrate on only one thing one person Kitty Brock She's the cause of it all isn't she? Then in the distance you hear the chorus rehearsing for tonight's performance of Faust Concealed behind a flat you watch your daughter Felicia. She sings so young so alive Then another voice becomes audible kitty Brock rehearsing your role the role of Marguerita Her voice taunts you doesn't it orian you begin to tremble with rage and then a thought flickers through your mind The hatred you feel for kitty Brock swells within you you turn rush downstairs to the property room It's the first time you've been below the opera house You find the air damp And as you walk along the dark corridor, you see a dim light at the far end and you hear pepo People People hi, I am need of you help. I have no time to lose. I must have the mirror People please give it to me a moment What reason do you want it or what reason do you think? Brock woman She's robbed me of my fiance my position everything everything in my lady Or is it just that she has robbed you of your lover? Are you going to give me the mirror? Yes, I will give you the mirror take Thank you, and then now pepo. Yes, you leave the building and stay away until after the performance tonight Oh, but Madonna mr. Crassini. What will he say when he asks me what shall I do were called away suddenly? Somebody in the family was ill anything. I don't care It will be safer if you are not here. They cannot blame you an accident. Someone picks up the wrong mirror by mistakes. Yes Yes, I understand. Yes, I will go immediately You watch pepo back out of the room Twisting the tattered cap in his hand the moment. He's gone. You pick up the mirror Quickly you slip it under your wrap and hurry to your dressing room You put in the call the union station reserve a compartment on the late train in New York Moments later your backstage to the left wing where the garden sequence paraphernalia set and waiting You hurry to the jewel box on the table quickly you remove the mirror from the box Replace it with a deadly one you got from pepo. Yes, sorry and in a fraction of a second the deed is accomplished Back at your apartment you spend the rest of the afternoon packing for your trip to New York Then shortly before six that evening you hurry from the building Your train doesn't leave till 940 and you decide to have dinner at a quaint little Italian restaurant Not far from Union Station as you approach the waiting cab the driver opens the door for you You turn see Giulio Cassini hurrying down the street towards you hurry driver if you are the tally a restaurant commercial street You're relaxed aren't you Aurea? Hours later as the train pulls out of the station you lean back in your chair Give yourself up to the slow hypnotic rhythm of the wheels on the track Wheels that every moment take you further away from the opera house where the performance is now in practice Suddenly a picture flashes through your mind the opera kitty Brock and the jewel song You can see her now, can't you singing into the mirror you can almost hear the high-pitched trill and then the glass shattering Too bad madam Brock That you first performance with this company shall be your last About ten o'clock you step out of your compartment start down the narrow corridor toward the club car And then suddenly your ears become alert your brain starts spinning wildly as two voices emerge from a Compartment up ahead That's kitty Brock's voice What is she doing on this train a moment later? You see your step into the corridor followed by Charles You stand there dumbfounded unable to move unable to think you think you'll be mad because we are locked missing the performance tonight I mean he'll be furious of course I'm not very much of Orion will ever sing for Cassini again Well, it's Felice, she's quite good, you know Oriana Oh no I must get off the train immediately you must stop I'm sorry man. I've got to get back to Los Angeles Well, we'll be in Pasadena in a few minutes. You can get off there take a cab. What time is it now? 10 minutes after 10 man. All right. All right. I get off at Pasadena Oh, no, it can't be Who was keeping the operator Operator operator I'm trying to reach Crescent one seven nine four, but I keep getting busy signal Will you check that for me, please? That is a toll call madam. Oh hurry. It's important The number is Crescent one seven nine four. Yes. Yes, do hurry one moment, please Was taking her so long Operator operator I've got to reach Felice. Hello. Yes, operator Crescent one seven nine four has been reported out of order Out of order. I'm sorry if you'll place your call later, but it's important I must get through somehow. Please. Is there anything you can do? I'm sorry the line is out of order. Oh Los Angeles, can you make it in 20 minutes? I've got to be backstage before 1040 Pretty quick make it quicker if you can don't worry about traffic fines. I pay for everything Please hurry is the matter of life and death The whistler will return in just a moment with the strange ending of tonight's story Meantime a brief weather forecast No, I'm not going to predict just how cold it's going to be or how often but this much I do know the kind of weather we're likely to have during the next couple of months is tough on car batteries And you can never tell how suddenly you may need a new one That's why it'll pay every driver to keep these facts in mind about the new signal deluxe battery Unlike ordinary batteries, which may be guaranteed for 12 or 18 months Signal deluxe batteries are guaranteed for a full 30 months on a service basis The secret of this extra long life in signal deluxe batteries is their superior construction Which includes improved type rubber separators and a new design all rubber case which requires water less often as a result Signal deluxe batteries deliver up to 35 percent more power for quick dependable starting So before you buy any battery stop by your signal service station Find out the liberal trade-in your signal dealer will offer you on today's finer longer life battery a new signal deluxe battery And now back to the whistler It's a race against time isn't it orient the minutes take away precious minutes And finally your cab roars into downtown Los Angeles You must reach the opera before the jewel song begins before your daughter Felice as my Gerita Sings into the deadly mirror you would hope would shatter in kitty Brock's face Then as you're within half a block of the opera house Driver, what's the matter? Why are you stopping sorry lady? I can't run over the car in front of me Can't you go around there? Sorry again. That's impossible. All right. Here's your fare. Keep the change I run the rest of the way. I must get backstage before 1040 lady. You can't get out here. Be careful a Small crowd had gathered near the opera house stunned by the news of the tragedy They saw Giulio Cassini slip out the side entrance with Felice Donate They watched the sobbing girl a handkerchief covering her face being assisted toward the waiting ambulance Easy-peasy now. We're all right Hours later in the hospital waiting room Giulio Cassini hands clasped behind his back stood by the windows staring out into the night The room was quiet except for the gentle sobbing of the woman who sat nearby Giulio turn placed his hand on a shoulder and then a door opened softly a white clad figure stepped out into the hall and approached Mr. Giulia Cassini. Yes. Yes, will she be all right? She pulled through okay, but her face was cut quite badly by the glass Oh, may we see her now, doctor? Oh, this is Felice doctor the injured lady's daughter. May we go in or Removing yes, come along. Thank you Mr. Cassini. Yes, do you know how this accident happened or? According to the cab driver Ori and jumped from a taxi Started to run toward the upper house saying she had to get there before 1040 She did not see the car approaching 1040. Yes, that is just the time when the jewel song stops And that's when Peppo rushed onto the stage stopped the show He grabbed the mirror from me And broke it into a thousand pieces Let that whistle be your signal for the signal oil program the whistler each Sunday night at this same time Brought to you by the signal oil company marketers of signal gasoline and motor oil and fine quality automotive accessories Signal has asked me to remind you to get the most driving pleasure drive at sensible speeds be courteous and obey traffic regulations It may save a life possibly your own They were Jeanette Nolan and Mary Kroger the whistler was produced and directed by George W. Allen with story by Frank Defiletta and music by Wilbur hatch and was transmitted to our troops overseas by the armed forces radio service All characters portrayed on the whistler program or fictional any similarity of names or resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental Remember at the same time next Sunday another strange tale by the whistler Marvin Miller speaking. This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System