 In just a moment auto light presents suspense starring Margaret O'Brien Over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go The horse knows the way to carry the slave. Why hap hap That's not the way to sing her off a Thanksgiving day. What are you telling me Harlow Wilcox? Why no, no hap This is the way it goes today over the river and through the woods and never mind the snow Grandpa is happy with his jalapie his batteries never low over the river and through the woods blow high he wins blow low The cars as snappy as grandmine pappy with an auto light stay full you know when Harlow You see hap auto light stay full batteries have changed a lot of things today. Hello, isn't anything sacred anymore? It's Thanksgiving day. Let's listen to Margaret O'Brien on suspense Suspends so light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you radio's outstanding theater of thrills Starring tonight miss Margaret O'Brien in Anton leader's production of the screaming woman a Tale well calculated to keep you in Suspends I'm Margaret Larry and I've got to tell you how it happened. It was Thanksgiving day and it was nice and sunshine Almost like summer except cooler mama was cooking the turkey and I was watching and mama said to me good heavens I forgot your aunt Cynthia's made some cranberry relays for us run over and get it Margaret So her feelings aren't hurt and hurry this turkeys down to a turn So I ran to aunt Cynthia's and on the way back. I took a shortcut through mr. Kelly's lot It's a big lot more like the side of the hill that slides down to Monument Creek It's a swell place play Indians and cowboys or explorers are hunting for treasures because trucks dump all kinds of stuff there Loads of dirt and junk and even big things like old cars and big pipes and chunks of concrete Well this day coming back from on Cynthia's I saw that a lot of new junk and dirt had been dumped there since Saturday They'd even covered up our swell big concrete pipe that us kids called our fort covered it clear up I was looking around to see where it used to be when all of a sudden I Stopped and listen the sound was coming up out of the ground And she was screaming all wild and horrible for somebody to dig her out I started to run I fell down and got up and ran some more It was an awful awful long way to our house that day Margaret haven't I told you not to slam the door is that the relays listen mama There's a screaming woman in the lot wash your hands Margaret. She was screaming and screaming and screaming Mama listen to me. We've got to dig her out. She's buried under tons and tons of dirt I'm sure she can wait till after dinner. Oh next year. I swear. I'm going to buy a bigger platter Mama, don't you believe me? You've got to believe me Margaret. I've got a million things to do Good gosh look at you. How'd you get your knees so dirty for running back from the lot? I never mind scoot and tell your dad we're about to eat. He's in the front room reading his paper. Yes, mama Daddy, oh daddy, I've got to tell you something Daddy, there's a screaming woman in the lot We've got to get pigs and shovels and dig her up like we're an egyptian mummy Don't feel much like an archaeologist today Margaret. I can't think of anything but food Let's have an expedition next Sunday and dig her up. But we can't wait that long. Oh daddy should die if we don't do it now I'll give you some money. Oh So it's a business proposition Well, how much do you pay by the hour? I've got five whole dollars. It took me a year to save Come here boys You know i'm touched. Oh, but daddy you want me to play with you and you're willing to pay me for my time Wait here. You're shaking calm down. Oh daddy, please. After our Thanksgiving dinner I'll come out and listen to your screaming woman. How's that? Oh, no now daddy Maybe she'll die if you don't come out now. Oh, you've got to come now Margaret if you believe me you wouldn't wait. You never believe me. Mama doesn't believe me. Nobody believes me quiet down right this minute Or I not only won't go with you, but you go to your room and stay in without your Thanksgiving dinner Now is that clear Yes, sir, it's clear I always like Thanksgiving Almost next best to christmas But that was an awful one Dinner was a million years long Everybody moves so slow like a slow motion movie Forks and knives and spoons move slow and dad's cheek muscles move slow when he chewed I'm gonna try to make things faster Margaret You heard your mother now don't eat so fast, but daddy the screaming woman. We've got to hurry my dear young lady This is Thanksgiving dinner an occasion when we do not hurry I intend to eat four or five helpings of everything until I can't eat anymore And I'm going to make an extra effort and find room for pumpkin pie a few walnuts Stuff dates Oh, please please daddy you pastor me anymore if you mention her again this screaming watsis I won't go out with you to hear a recital at all I don't understood Yes, sir. It's understood I wanted to yell oh, please rush get up run around come on hurry But I had to sit still Well out there in the lot with the sun shining down all alone with nobody to hear or to help her Was the screaming woman I could hear in my mind screaming Mom and daddy couldn't hear they just kept on eating and talking Well now that I can be thankful for a full stomach I guess we should consider what other things we have to be thankful for Well, we're all healthy Prices are sky-high, but we're not in debt yet Those are mundane things my dear I'm thankful for my big daughter, right puss Yes, dad And for my loving wife who is still the most romantic woman. I know oh silly I'm thankful. I didn't marry somebody else Who nearly married dora lampel Even gave her a ring Well, I never meant a thing no one now You're the only one who's been the serious competitor since we were all kids Oh There's only one one other Helen nesbitt Yeah, Helen is my first love when she was about as old as margaret I gave her a present one christmas and she gave me one. I still have it. Oh that paperweight on your desk Funny how we hang on to things that were important when we were kids daddy just a little longer I want my coffee. What are you there? You know what? I'm thankful for dear seriously that we stayed here in this same town where we grew up Here you are dear The same friends even the same street Hmm. It's been a peaceful life Not very exciting, but daddy margaret finds it pretty exciting. Yes, you better take her out of the lot before she collapses Where is your screaming woman? Lead me to her Over here where our fort used to be Fort the big concrete pipe. It's all covered up now Kelly's really getting the slot filled in All right, where's the lady? Right about here daddy. Listen Don't hear a thing Except the wind better button up your sweater push Listen, that's the trolley over on aspen street. Hey there looks like the dolens are starting out for a drive Well, I guess your screaming woman's let you down for us But she was here daddy right under here where they dumped all the dirt I heard her screaming and screaming like she was underneath the fort Somebody's dumped tons and tons right on top of our fort. Yeah, too bad. They buried your fort margaret I saw two of kelly's big trucks back in here last evening. There was a dump truck in her this morning too It isn't because they covered the fort That must be your screaming woman doesn't like grown-ups only delivers her solo for kids again Maybe she can't scream anymore. Well, I'm going back and take a nap. Let my dinner settle Who aren't you going to help me dig now? Listen my dear Don't you think this is a sort of a silly game, but it's not a game. I don't stay too long there Mama probably likes some help with those dishes Daddy daddy I know I heard her scream. I know it Oh darn darn darn You're still there. Hey scream. Did you scream before? Why didn't you scream so daddy could hear you? Don't just scream for me. I can't help you all by myself Feel your head please dad Well, you've got a fever. You're going to lie down young lady. We can't leave it down there dad. We just can come along come on into your room That's right. It's awful dad listening nobody gary lie down post lie down now. Come on She'll choke where there isn't any more air and she'll die Now you're going to lie down the rest of the afternoon before you make yourself sick No, I've got to dig I've got to dig her up. It's all those comic books you read now. I forbid you to leave the house Close your eyes now and take a nap That's my good girl It's going to do For suspense auto light is bringing you miss margaret o' brian in radio's outstanding theater of thrills Suspense I think you're going to give me another auto light stay full battery. Thanksgiving song. No, not me hap No, no siri by cornelius. I'm going to tell a thanksgiving story. It's a fable It couldn't be anything else. Have you told it now? Listen to this my trigger tongue trooper Last year at this time my car called me out to the garage Quite a car too hap once a year. She overhauls me Wow and on thanksgiving day two harlow. She said I have an empty feeling and I'm so confounded thirsty all the time I think you ought to do something about it I'd like to end up thanksgiving day with that fine full feeling that lulls you to sleep as soon as the mince pie disappears Well, how my pretty says I can always be accomplished easy. She chimes I need to switch to an auto light stay full battery. Why with an auto light stay full battery? I'll never be thirsty and if you use me normally, I'll need only three drinks a year And what's more with the oversized electrical capacity and fiberglass insulation of that auto light stay full battery I'll have more power stay lively longer and save you time trouble work and worry And harlow for a fellow as lazy as you are think what all this means Well, when she came up with all those points in my favor I hurried I hastened I hurdled till I was exhausted and by christopher I got an auto light stay full battery and gave it to clarissa. I call my car clarissa Thanksgiving morning. We took a spin and I could tell she was happier than a penguin with skis Sounds like harlow in wonderland. Well, now let's get back to margaret o' brian and the screaming woman And now auto light brings back to our hollywood soundstage Miss margaret o' brian as margaret in the screaming woman A tale well calculated to keep you in Suspended After a while I stopped crying I had to get back to the lot where that woman was screaming But I was locked in I tied his sheet to the bed and let it out the window and chinny down to the ground And chinny down to the ground then I ran to the garage and got shovels and ran to the empty lot The sun was almost down and it was getting cold I started to dig fast. Hi, it was dippy smith who was 10 years old the same as me He goes to my school. What you digging for for a screaming woman. She's down in the ground and I'm going to dig her up You can help me dig dippy There's an extra shovel. I don't hear nothing. I don't dig unless I hear a scream then listen I don't hear nothing Just wait you will Did you hear it? Hey, that's okay. Do it again. Do what again the scream do it again. Go on I'll give you this egg. You can teach me to do it Dog, did you get that ventriloquist book for our dine from that magic company? You got one of those 10 things in your mouth I won't tell unless you help me dig Okay, swell give me the shovel Dog and and you got to dig fast like this dippy made her up a name Oh, sure Her name is wilmish weigher and he's a rich old lady 160 years old and she was buried by a crook named spike Come on dippy dig is a woman buried here. Oh, don't you believe me? I wasn't throwing my voice come back dippy I'm gonna dig in now. Look dippy. I'll go way over here and then you listen. Okay How's she breathing do you think? I Think she's in the fork remember a would be nice to hear here. What do you kids think you're doing? I'm tired of chasing you out of this lot if one of you gets hurt it may be your folks at sue me But mr. Kelly, there's a woman screaming You kids beat it. Do you hear? Yes, sir, but listen mr. Kelly. Don't you hear? I don't hear a thing and neither do you now now beat it Come on naggy. Mr. Kelly somebody's got to dig her up. Don't argue with me or I'll phone your folks This is my property. Do I have to put up a fence? Why should I spend money to keep people off my own property? Dippy, it's him. He's the one. Huh? He murdered mrs. Kelly He hit her on the head and stuck her in the fort and dumped loads of dirt on top But she wasn't dead. She came to why you saw him He stood right there when she screamed and wouldn't pay any attention. Hey, that's right. He stood right there and lied to us What do we do Maggie? There's only one thing to do. We'll phone the police and tell them to come and arrest mr. Kelly Hey, they sure got here fast Maggie Don't make a sound Mr. Kelly in the house Yes, he went right home from the lot. Mr. Kelly. Yes, sir. What can I do for you? Is mrs. Kelly at home this evening? Why sure, can I see her sir? Why sure? Hey Anna What's up? We got a call Oh, good evening, ma'am. What do you do? Oh, I'm sorry folks We got a call that mrs. Kelly was buried alive in an empty lot So I like some kid calling him, but we had to make sure Always checking all It's ghost blasted kids if I ever catch them I'll break their necks Maggie Jesus Mr. Kelly telephones my dad. I'll get a licking What do we do about the screaming woman? What the heck with her? I'm not going near that lot again. Wait, Dippy I know why he didn't hear the screams Kelly sort of deaf mama says he's hard of hearing He heard us didn't he? He heard the cop He reads people's lips, but he couldn't hear the screaming woman because he couldn't see her Dippy come on. We got to dig some more. No sir, but we've got to we're already in a peck of trouble over your darn Old ventriloquist voice. I'm not going to get in any more trouble. No sir And he went off and left me alone I wanted to crawl down under the ground with the screaming woman and die too It was dark now and dad would be hunting for me if he found me I get a licking and be put to bed and then nobody would help the screaming woman at all There was only one last thing to do So I did it to go all over the neighborhood from house to house and find out who's missing Hello, dear Hello, mrs. Griswold Is anybody missing from your house? Is your sister from detroit still here? Yes, she's sitting right over there by the radio. Don't you see her? I only wanted to see her mrs. Griswold I was just wondering. I just wanted to know if she was here Hello, mrs. Pikes. You're looking good. I'm glad to see you're at home mrs. Pikes. I'm awful glad Is your wife still here? Dora? Aren't you out pretty late, Margaret? Yes. Oh, hello, mrs. Hyde What is it Margaret? I just wanted to see you mrs. Hyde. That's all The hours were just rolling along and I rang bells and knocked and I rang bells I was about to give up when I came to the nesbitt's house The house was quiet like nobody was at home, but I saw a dim spooky light inside somewhere So I just kept knocking and knocking Nothing, mr. Nesbitt. I only wanted to see mrs. Nesbitt. She's not here. She's gone to the store at night Besides, it's closed today. I think the drugstore down on Clark street Oh, well then she ought to be back pretty quick. I'll come in and wait Hey, wait, wait a minute. I'll just sit down here and wait. I sure like this rocking chair Go right ahead and do whatever you were doing, mr. Nesbitt. I wasn't doing anything Oh Looks like you were packing or something with all those boxes and trunks around Going away. Oh, Helen's been sorting things out getting rid of a lot of stuff Oh Burning it up in the fireplace. Uh, yeah, that's right. Dad always burns our junk out in the alley Clown smell awful when they burn. Look here. Helen may have gone on from the store to visit a friend Well, if she doesn't come back soon, I'll leave. Yeah, I'll tell you we're here What do you want to see her about? Oh, nothing much Hey, that's too bad. What I guess you lost the key to that box. You had to break the lock. No, no, it was broken already Hey, I bet your folks don't know where you are kid. No, sir. They think I'm in bed What friend did mrs. Nesbitt go to visit? Well, I don't know what I mean, look kid. I ought to tell you she won't be back tonight Oh, no, she went to the store like I said, but She was going from there over to beach with a visit her mother On a bus she'd be gone two or three days. Oh, that's a shame. Why? Well, mama was expecting mrs. Nesbitt to come over tomorrow. Maybe to sell you you better not tell your mother You see it's kind of secret about Helen going away. She she doesn't want people to know for a while Oh, you know how to keep a secret kid. I guess so I'll give you something for not telling I'll give you a reward Let's see Hey, here's something for a kid A doll a doll. Yeah Helen was going to give it to you. I heard a say when she was sorting the stuff she said I'll give this to the little leery girl. Mrs. Nesbitt always calls me Margaret. Well, sure. That's what she said Margaret It's quite a doll Old-fashioned It's made of leather and faces china or something. See Thank you, mr. Nesbitt. It's a reward for not saying anything about Helen being gone, understand Now come on. I'll snap on the porch light Mr. Nesbitt, did you finish your driveway? What do you mean? Did you get all the dirt hauled off to make it smooth? Sure Sure now come on. I saw your dump truck in the lot this morning and what do you mean? Were you in a lot this morning? No, no, I was at home. I looked out the window Please mr. Nesbitt let go of my arm. You've been playing out there today. Answer me. Oh, don't that hurts I wasn't playing. It's no fun now without a photo covered up in the fort What's that? Nothing. Nothing mr. Nesbitt. Tell me what you're talking about nothing but that old concrete pipe You know something That's why you came there. You've been snooping around that lot and you found out something. What do you know? I don't know anything. Let me go mr. Nesbitt. If you don't let me go out I'll give you something else I'll give you something else Mr. Nesbitt yell because I kicked him bit his hand then I ran but I heard him running after me It was dark and quiet and scary on the streets and more scary out there in the lot I ran straight across the place where I heard the screaming and it was so quiet And all of a sudden there was a man in the lot right in front of me stop margaret. Oh margaret Oh, oh daddy margaret. Where have you been? Do you have any idea how your mama's worried? Do you know how late it is daddy daddy's after me we've been down alleys and clear down to clark street I was about to call the police the screaming woman. It's mrs. Nesbitt down there I'm going to give you a good lick mr. Nesbitt killed her and now he wants to kill me I've had all of that idiotic talk I can stand. It's true. You've got to be Margaret, I'm going to lick you right now right here. I've had enough of What have you got there? What did you get that doll? Well, I gave it to a leery Kid stopped by the house. I remember Helen said she wanted to throw it away Helen said to throw it away. He's lying dad. He gave it to me so I wouldn't tell about her It was locked. I'm in a box. He didn't have the key. He broke it open She's a high strung kid leery all the stuff she was telling me he's lying dad. Yes. He is lying Why are you lying charlie lying? How do you get that leery? Helen never let you have that doll. It was locked up That was a present. I gave her a long time ago. She wouldn't throw it away anymore And I'd throw away the paperweight she gave me. Why are you lying charlie? I'm not They don't look at me that way leery as god is my witness It's her dad. It's the screaming woman as god is your witness Margaret run to the house Phone the police and tell them to hurry tell them we've got to dig Everything's worked out keen The screaming woman isn't screaming anymore and they've got a lot of people down there digging her up Hey, that's well hot dog and you know what else to be They're going to uncover our fort again Oh dippy, wasn't it a keen Thanksgiving? Thank you Margaret O'Brien for a splendid performance. Ms. O'Brien will return in just a moment I know that auto light stay full battery fable wasn't bad coming from a fairly fabulous fibu Ah, but you haven't heard all of it hap by by Cornelius Clarissa That's my car spoke to me again this morning. Thanks to you. She said and that auto light stay full battery This has been the happiest year of my life why even these cruel cold mornings I've got that auto light pep that stay full battery get up and go Well, Clarissa. I says to my gas buggy You're the queen of the may the last with the delicate air and the pride of wilcox alley all in one What do you want now my Thanksgiving precious? And she says just to go to sleep out in the garage once again Why harlow you can even use my auto light stay full battery for a pillow happy slumber and good night everybody and remember Auto light means batteries stay full battery Auto light means spark plug ignition engineered resistor spark plug Auto light means ignition systems the lifeline of your car And now here again is miss margaret o'Brien. It's been just wonderful being on suspense And I hope you let me come back again sometime. We will margaret and now let me tell our listeners about next week Claude reins and vincent price in the famous mystery story The hands of mr. Ottermole another gripping study in suspense margaret o'Brien appeared by arrangement with metro golden mayor producers of the technical or picture the three musketeers starting lana turner gene Kelly and june alison Tonight suspense play was by ray bradbury adapted for radio by sylvia richards with music composed by lucian moroak And conducted by led bluskin the entire production was under the direction of anton m leader In the coming weeks suspense will present such stars as rosalind russell james cagney ronald colman william bendix and many others Make it a point to listen each thursday to suspense radios outstanding theater of thrills And next thursday same time here claude reins and vincent price in the hands of mr. 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