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In this episode of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, hosted by EG Marshall, we delve into the mysterious and esoteric world of the "over self" and the concept of existence beyond the physical realm. Amanda Phillips, a young aspiring actress, moves into a charming apartment in New York City, only to find herself entangled in a haunting mystery involving the ghost of Morley Norcross, a dramatic coach from the past. As Amanda navigates her new life and the eerie occurrences in her apartment, she discovers a deep connection to Morley, leading to a profound exploration of love, existence, and the supernatural.
The episode, titled "Picture on a Wall," written by George Loser, explores themes of love, despair, and redemption as Amanda becomes involved with the ghostly presence of Morley Norcross. With the backdrop of a mysterious painting and a legend surrounding a fountain that ceased to flow, Amanda's journey becomes one of self-discovery and understanding the complexities of life and death. As the story unfolds, listeners are taken on a captivating journey that challenges the boundaries of reality and the power of selfless acts.
(01:19) Introduction to the Mystery Theater
(02:58) The Concept of Over Self and Amanda's Confusion
(06:14) Amanda's New Apartment and the Mysterious Garden
(12:07) Meeting Morley Norcross
(20:57) The Legend of the Fountain
(26:01) The Game of Imagination
(34:12) Amanda's Love for a Ghost
(42:15) The Midnight Encounter
(48:25) The Illusion of Life and Death
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The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents Come in. Welcome. I'm EG Marshall. Welcome to the world of your over self. What is the man talking about? Over self. What's that? Well, you might say it's that part of you where your imagination resides. The truth is that according to any number of religionists, you don't exist at all, only your imagination. When you refer to myself, you are actually talking about an illusion created by your over self. Confusing? Certainly is to me. And it was more than confusing to Amanda Phillips. You are not a ghost, Morley? Of course not, Amanda.
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I dare say you would call me a ghost, but ghosts don't really exist. They're people. They simply live on a different plane of existence.
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I don't know what to say. But then don't say anything.
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That's the trouble with people on your plane. They say too much. But these
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different planes of existence, really, it's confusing.
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I simply don't understand. You will, my darling. You will, if you dare.
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No. I didn't say you don't exist, that you are not really yourself. Those who devote lifetimes to the study of what we are and why we are here, who try to understand God and our relation to him. I'm talking, of course, of priests, ministers, Buddhist monks, even philosophers. They say it. They say that the self is your conscious. The over self, your subconscious. And the super self, your unconscious. You understand? If you do, you're far more knowledgeable than I am because I don't understand at all. And as I said earlier on, neither did Amanda Phillips.
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Well, here it is, Amanda. Hope you like. Gil Franklin.
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It's beautiful.
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I figured it would grab you even though you did say you wanted to live in Greenwich Village.
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Yes. I did. All my life in Gladesville, Iowa, I've yearned to be an actress living in Greenwich Village. But this, it's it's so lovely.
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Who what? May I come in? Oh, missus Broly. Of course. Let me introduce you. Amanda Phillips, rising young star of the Broadway Theater or soon to be anyway. Missus Broly, landlady. Delighted to meet you, dear.
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Is, everything alright? Oh, it couldn't be more so. I never expected to find anything as, well, really enchanting as as this. Not in what I can afford to pay anyhow. It is only $45 a week, isn't it? Yes. How can you afford to let it go at that? A place like this furnished so nicely, those beautiful paintings on the walls, especially that big one over the fireplace and the garden. You can walk straight from this room into the garden. It's just lovely. I should think you could rent this for two or three times what you're asking. Perhaps so. But, yeah. Well, you see, dear, I'm not only extremely old, but I'm extremely particular about whom I rent to. And as your fiance will tell you Mister Franklin isn't my fiancee, missus Broly.
Oh. Oh. Oh. I thought I, have hopes, missus Broly. High hopes. Well, now you're such a nice man. I hope you realize them because certainly, miss Phillips is the most attractive and desirable. Something wrong, miss Phillips? That smell.
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Smell?
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Aroma. I I should say, a scent. The the scent of lavender. Why, it's a cologne I use. Yes. A cologne, lavender. Now, if there's anything I can do to help you get settled in, dear, anything you need, then you just pick up the telephone. Just to pick it up? It connects to a switchboard. I'll answer. Well, make yourselves comfortable. Strange.
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What?
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The smell of lavender. I didn't smell it until at least several minutes after she came in here. And another thing, it seemed to come from that direction out there in the garden. And Gil?
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Yes?
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She's gone, but the scent,
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it's stronger. You're imagining things. I don't smell anything. And, no, I don't have a cold.
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Very strange.
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Look, I've got to get back to the office or the law firm of Belding and Maxwell will be firing their youngest partner. But I'll see you for dinner tonight. Okay? Very okay. Pick you up at seven.
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Well, better unpack my bag, put things away. That scent, it is. It must be coming from the garden. Locked. No key. Yes, miss Phillips. Missus Broly, the French doors into the garden, they're locked. Yes, dear. I keep them locked. You do? For your protection.
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You see, anyone who wanted to could get over the fence around the garden and,
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well, an ounce of prevention, you know? Yes. But I want to, use the garden. What I can see through the French doors, it's it's enchanting that fountain. The fountain
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doesn't work. I'm sorry to say.
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Hasn't in years. Even so, it'd be a nice place to sit. Those stone benches and everything. Would you bring me the key, please?
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Why, why, yes. If I can find it. Find it? I'm not quite sure what I did with it, but don't you worry now. I'll do what I can to find it. I certainly shall.
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Well, I never. I just never.
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Never what, ma'am? Who? What?
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Who are you?
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Norcross is my name. Morley Norcross. Do please forgive me. I had absolutely no intention of startling you. I turned around to find you leaning casually against the French doors.
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The open French doors. And you how? How did you get here? Over the fence, you might say. And how did you open those locked doors?
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I didn't find them locked. Well, I did. Perhaps it's one of those knobs. You can open them from one side but not the other. Let's have a look, shall we? I'd rather not if you don't mind. I'm sorry. You're angry with me. I've offended you, Amanda.
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You know my name.
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Tifrita. You know mine. But you told me yours. Then it's altogether possible that that rather huge label on your luggage told me yours.
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Of course. Please. For a moment I well, you won't believe it. But I thought you might be some kind of ghost or something.
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I believe. Might I have the pleasure of showing you your garden? If you will step through your French doors into your garden then, miss Phillips, You can all but smell fall in the air. And,
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lavender. Yet, I I I don't see any in the garden. My cologne, I dare say.
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You use lavender cologne? Yeah. Old fashioned, isn't it? For for a man, I mean. Why?
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Perhaps. But,
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I like it, mister Brown. Why say call me Morley. If we're going to be friends that is, and I hope we are. Do you?
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Why not? Why not indeed? Beautiful fountain, isn't it? Yes.
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Yes. It's beautiful. Simple. The peasant girl holding a tilted picture on her shoulder. A picture from which the water used to pull into that large stone base in her feet. Used to? Sixty years ago or so, yes.
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Sixty? How do you know that? Oh, how how do I, Well, yes. You can't be more than 40 say. Thank you. Thank you, my dear. So how would you know that this fountain hasn't, fountained in more than
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sixty years? Sixteen years. I said sixteen. And, well, I know because I once lived where you're about to live. In that service flat, living room and kitchenette? Mhmm.
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What did you do?
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Oh, what kind of work? I was a dramatic coach.
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You don't mean it. A dramatic coach? An excellent one I might say. Would you, well, I hardly dare ask this, but, would you
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coach me? Of course. I fully intended to. You? Yes.
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Oh, now, mister Norcross. Morley. Morley. Well, you might have got my name off the luggage label, but but you couldn't you couldn't possibly know that I I want to be an actress. No? No.
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What is it? Ever read Sherlock Holmes story? No. That's too bad. They're fascinating. Fascinating. Holmes could look at someone he'd never seen in all his life before and tell him everything about himself. I was an avid reader of Holmes, and somehow, I picked up the technique. For example, your makeup. Oh, what about it? Unless I'm mistaken, on your cheeks, that's anastique rosy glow, isn't it? Yes. And a touch of daylight orange in the corner of each eye. You're amazing. Of course, on stage, you'd use vermilion. But for daytime wear, you're most astute. And then, of course, your clothes are a dead giveaway to say nothing, my dear, nothing of your warmth. Unbelievable, Morley. My elementary what? Elementary.
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Would you like some tea? Do you have any? I mean, you will just move in. In my suitcase. Then I'd love it. Come along inside. No. No. No. I'll sit here. I'll I'll sit here. It's such a pleasant afternoon. I'll be as quick as I can. Yes? Come in. Oh, missus Broly. Found the key to the French doors, my dear. Well, thank you. Though I am not sure I'll need them now. I'm glad you've decided to leave them locked. Much safer. But I haven't decided to leave them locked. As you can see, the doors are As I can see what? Closed.
I didn't close them. And if Morley had, I'd have I'd have heard him. Morley? Did you say Morley? Mister Morley Norcross. He's sitting in the garden by the fountain. There's no one sitting in the garden, miss Phillips. No one? Why? He's gone. And the door's locked. Of course. Why? Are you looking at me like that, missus Brodie? Miss Phillips, finding this key put a very old woman to considerable trouble. Now I don't mind that. I'm accustomed to it and delighted to make my tenants as comfortable as possible. But I don't like having games played on me, miss Phillips. I don't enjoy being made a fool of. Here are the keys you ask for.
Please take care to lock those doors before retiring at night. But missus Bowen
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Amanda, you were dead tired, beat. You probably stretched out on that couch to rest and fell off to sleep. You dreamed it all. You had to. I I
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don't remember lying down. Gil, I I didn't. I started to unpack and and then the scent of lavender came to me even stronger than before. It came from the garden. I tried to go into the garden, but found the doors locked.
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And so I called missus Brody. Yes. Yes. You told me all this. But sweetheart, it couldn't have happened. It just couldn't. Well, if if it didn't
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oh, I don't know. I just don't know.
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Neither do I. One thing I do know though, I'm taking you off for the best dinner you ever had. You need it.
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I guess I do. Won't be a minute. Put on a new face.
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Okay. Know something?
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What?
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I did alright by you finding this place. Comfortable, homey. Even the paintings on the wall, not the usual crummy stuff you find in a place like this. Pretty good art. This one over the fireplace is a knockout.
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I haven't had a chance to look at it, really. It's by,
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I don't know. Some name here at the bottom. Can't can't make it out. Dated I can make that out. Nineteen o nine. It's called the dramatic coach.
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Oh? Shows him the coach, teaching a girl how to act. Very handsome guy.
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Tall, wavy chestnut hair, worn kind of long, blue eyes, I think. Gray at the temples, strong nose, very strong nose. Oh,
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ready so soon? Let me see that. The painting? Yes. The Amanda, what is it? The man in the painting. The dramatic coach, Gil. That's Morley Norcross.
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Well, we may be talking about the self, the over self, and the super self. But so far as I'm concerned, Morley Norcross is a ghost. Now maybe he isn't, only my opinion. But the things going on in that Ninth Street flap, the things that happened to Amanda in that garden, You ask me, they're more than strange. They're uncanny. I wouldn't be concerned, except I remember Amanda saying she felt scared. I don't like that. It worries me. I'll be back shortly for act two.
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We're involved with an experience having to do with the occult, the esoteric, or rather, lovely young Amanda Phillips is. As we know, she has come to New York City from Gladesville, Iowa, hopefully to become a successful actress. One can expect all sorts of things to happen to one in the Big Apple, of course. But what has already happened to Amanda on her first day is, well,
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to say the least,
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odd. The man in the painting is Norcross? The man you think you met out there in the garden? Gil, I know you think I'm spaced out. No. No. I just think you dreamed it all. Fell asleep and dreamed. Dreamed? About a man who was the living image of the man in that picture?
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A dramatic coach to boot? Well, it figures, doesn't it? What do you mean it figures?
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Well, there he is in the painting. The painting is is titled the dramatic coach. Your eyes may have just glanced at it, but your brain, it it registered you clearly. You were tired, worn out from your trip, stretched out to rest, fell asleep, and, well, named of the man in the painting. The man who said he was a dramatic coach.
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Well,
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I don't remember falling asleep. But, what you say makes sense. That's what must have happened to you. Sure.
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And speaking of getting rest, young lady, you've had a long tiring day. So, I'm going to spook. Oh, it's only 10:00, Gil. You don't have to. No. No. No. You're tired. And now that I've got you here in New York, you, you can count on seeing a lot of me if you want. Of course, I want to. You sound as if you really mean that, Amanda. Oh, Gil.
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Sweetheart, you know how I feel about you.
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It's just that It's the great white way beckons. It's a career on Broadway or nothing.
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No. A career on Broadway or marriage and kids. Oh, Gil, darling. Look. I've I've gotta try it first. But to satisfy myself that I've I've got talent or I haven't. But I can make it or I can't. That look. I I I just got to have my chance. Be patient, please. For you will outdo the patience of Job. Good night, honey. Good night, my darling. I am tired. Into bed, Ethel Barrymore Phillips. What? Lavender. The scent of Lavender again from the garden. He's there sitting by the fountain, and I'm not sleeping, not dreaming. Oh, locked.
Keys.
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Morley? Amanda.
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What are you doing here at this hour? Oh, it's such a beautiful evening.
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Full white moon.
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Yes. Isn't it enchantment?
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The jet black buildings tall against the night sky, lights shining yellow and orange, windows here and there. And here, right here in the midst of it all, a small oasis of peace and quiet loveliness.
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You keep talking like that, Morley, and you will cast a spell over me. I will, won't I?
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Amanda, do you mind if I coming here in an evening now and then? I won't if you say no. Well, no. I I
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suppose it's alright.
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You come when you want to. Thank you, my dear. Thank you.
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Morley? Yes. There's a painting over the fireplace. It's it's called the dramatic coach. And the man in the painting, the coach, looks exactly like you. Yes.
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Yes, he does. It was painted by Scott Costain in '28. The man in the painting is my grandfather whose name was also Morley Norcross. Oh.
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You didn't I You didn't think Yeah. I'm afraid I did. No, you couldn't have. But, look, if you haven't lived here in sixteen years, you said? Yes, sixteen. Well, what's the painting doing for now?
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You have no doubt heard of actors being forced to leave their luggage behind because of nonpayment of rent. And you? Oh, Morley. But it's quite alright, Amanda. It's quite alright, especially since I can look at it almost as much as I want to. I can take a peek now and then through the French doors. You poor man.
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You love that painting, don't you? You're very
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perceptive. Yes. I do love it as much as I love this fountain.
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The fountain? Yes.
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Did missus Brodie tell you? No. No. I don't suppose she did. There's a legend goes along with this fountain.
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A legend? It's rather tragic. Oh, the better. The more romantic.
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Perhaps. A man, someone who lived in a flat where you live now as I lived, a man committed suicide
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at this very spot. Oh, no. Why?
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I think the phrase at the time was unrequited love.
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Oh, oh, lovely.
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That is romantic. It didn't seem so then. What? I mean, to say, the man must have felt the very depths of misery, experienced the most frightful emotional horrors to kill himself. He committed the greatest sin known to man or God.
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Suicide? No. No. No. No. Despair.
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And in despairing, renounced his faith in God. No one who believes in God truly believes can ever give way to despair. Amanda, you remember that?
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Yes, Morley. I shall.
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As for the legend, the fountain ran red with blood. His blood. And then it stopped flowing. Just stopped. They've tried to get it flowing again and again, but they have failed every time. According to the legend, it never will flow again until Until? Until someone, somewhere, sometime does something so supremely unselfish, so totally and completely selfless that the sin of suicide committed here is paid for.
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Beautiful.
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So beautiful. And when that happens, if ever it does, the fountain will gush forth once more. I was wondering. Yes? Would you have any objection if I came in? Well, only for a moment to have a closer look at that painting.
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Why, of course not. Come along.
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Thank you, Amanda.
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Your grandfather, was, he a dramatic coach too?
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Or did he just pose for No. No. No. He coached actors and actresses just as I do.
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Well, there it is.
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Yes. There it is. Amazing, the resemblance. Isn't it?
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Yes. Isn't it? Was your grandfather was with well, was he the man who killed himself in the garden? Yes. Yes. And she, the girl in the painting? Oh, he loved her.
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He loved her, and she loved him. Or so she let him believe. She was one of his pupils. Beautiful. Talented. I can't tell you how beautiful.
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How talented. Oh, I shouldn't think you could since you weren't born yet. Yes.
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Yes. That's that's quite true. Quite true. It's only hearsay. Well, what happened? Well, she began to get rather good parts and began to be known. And well, she met a wealthy man and fell in love with him. Or some said his money.
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Oh, dear. It must have been tragic. It was more than I could bear. You?
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My my my grandfather, of course. But but you you said more than you could bear. My imagination. I have a flare. I have a talent for placing myself in a situation of becoming the the people involved. I imagine myself. Well, you've played the game called imagination, of course. No. I I've never even heard of it. No. It's a wonderful game. And, incidentally, extremely helpful to an actor or actress. Would you care to play it? Well, I well Let's do. Now, let's imagine ourselves to be well, those those two people in the painting.
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Alright. How do we go about it? First,
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look closely at the painting. Mhmm. Try to see every detail. Every detail. For instance, the furniture.
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Old fashioned. High backed couch with brocaded upholstery and enema gasses. That's right. And the table lamps, beaded lamps, they call them, I think. That's right. That's right.
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And the gas jets on the walls.
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Notice? How could I help but notice? I feel as if those lamps are actually lit. As if the gas jets are really glowing as if I Yes. Yes. Yes. And in the room with him, his arms around me, his lips close to mine. God. It's all so real. I am that woman in the painting. You are. You are.
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You have become her. You have become Iris Jordan. Iris Jordan? That was her name. Is her name because you bring it to life again. Iris.
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Oh, Iris. Iris. No. No. Iris. Darling, darling. Let me go. I love you. I love you. Molly. Mister Norcross. Please, Iris. Unhand me, sir. Iris. You hear me, sir? Unhand me. Please. I told you I no longer love you. I love another, Thomas Broly. And I'm going to marry you. Don't do this to me, Iris. I beg you. Miss, finish. I bet you stole
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I can't bear it. I can't bear it. Miss Phillips. I'll kill myself. Do you hear me? I'll kill myself. Miss Phillips.
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Miss Phillips. What is Why were you crying out like that? We I guess, I I got carried away, but we were only playing a game. A game? We? Morley Norcross and why? He's not here. Missus Broly? Broly? Is your first name Iris? Oh oh, what if it is? Are you were you the girl in that painting? I well, you know, I I I think you're out of your mind. You were the girl in that painting, weren't you? You were an actress. And you were in love with Molly Norcross, but you jilted him for a man named Broly. Thomas Broly. Miss Phillips, I will ask you to vacate these premises in the morning. This room, that garden, they're haunted, aren't they? I don't know what you're talking about. Oh, yes. You do.
Not only the room and the garden, but that painting all haunted by the ghost of Molly Norcross, the man you loved and then killed it more than sixty years ago. I I that's why you rent this place so cheaply, $45 a week. Tenants just don't stay here very long, do they? How long has it been since the last tenant, missus Broly? How long? Well, more than a year. I see. What happened to the last tenant? Dead. Found dead in the garden. She'd been strangled. And that's why you weren't able to rent the place? No. The tenant before her Found dead? Strangled? Yes. I oh, my dear child, I only pretended to be angry with you and demanded you to leave to to save your life. After letting me rent the place. I hope the haunting was over, but I see now it isn't.
Morley's ghost will haunt this place, haunt me till the moment I die. You must go in the morning. No. No. I'm not afraid of ghosts, missus Broly. But more than that, I don't want to leave. Don't ask me why. I don't know. I'm afraid I do. What? Because you've done what I'm almost sure the others did. They couldn't bring themselves to leave either, and they didn't know why nor did I then. But I think I'm beginning to know that. You've fallen in love with Morley nor cross, miss Phillips. You've fallen in love with a ghost.
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Well, there's a twist for you. Has Amanda fallen in love with the ghost of Morley Norcross? Or is some other power, some other force at work? Let's not forget that we've been talking about not ghosts, but the baffling, the mysterious complexities of the human mind. I'll return shortly with act three.
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When you say fun, why
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Aniza Bush, Saint Louis.
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To fall in love with a ghost, that surely must be a curious experience to say nothing of a dangerous one. Especially when if previous tenants of Amanda's little apartment did the same thing. They were strangled to death as a result. But why? Morley Norcross, his ghost that is, seems a charming, gentle, anything but violent spirit. So why? Amanda certainly has no answer.
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As for Gil, the man who wants to marry her, I just don't quite believe it. The story of yours of what happened here last night. Reveal every word of it. You can check it out if you want to. You're a lawyer.
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Go to police headquarters or wherever you go. Find out if two women were strangled here or not. If you believe all this, what are you staying here for? Missus Broly says but thinks. I've fallen in love with Morley.
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Now I've heard everything. You in love with a ghost. Amanda, you don't think you are, do you? If you think that, then you need help, sweetie. You need help in a bad way. No. You're telling me I'm crazy. Well, if you're not, you're certainly sound it. I think you better go, Gil. Now wait a minute. Please, Gil. I take time off from the office to come down here and drive you to a tryout. Your first audition for a Broadway play and now you tell me to get lost.
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I'm sorry, but you're getting so upset, so angry with you
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and we've never quarreled like this before, never. Sweetheart, I am sorry. I really am. Come on now. Why are the eyes?
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Oh, Gil.
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I can't believe you're in love with the ghost. But you wouldn't be in love with another man with you. Don't be silly.
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Let's go or I'll be late for my audition. Billy and Maxwell. Gilbert Franklin, please.
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One moment. Hello?
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Gil? Amanda? Oh, Gil, I'm so excited. You got the part. Not the little part. The walk on. But Gil, they listened to me for the ingenue lead,
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and I got it. I got it. The ingenue lead. Hey. That's fantastic. I can't believe it. I can't either. So this call's for a celebration.
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I'll take you out to dinner tonight. Champagne dinner. No. No. No. Let's celebrate here. At your place? I haven't cooked in a week. I'll go out and do some shopping.
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Okay. And I'll bring the champagne. Enough for the three of us. The three of us? You, me, and your ghost boyfriend I don't think that's very funny, Gil oh, I put my foot in it again Forgive me now come on, tell me you forgive me I forgive you And, honey? Yeah? May I ask Orly Norcross to forgive me too?
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Well, I never. I just never
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I just never You know, Amanda, that's virtually becoming a queue line for me Why? Why you're going so white? Why are you trembling so?
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I I know now
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that you're a ghost. Oh. It makes me feel scary. Oh, please. No. The last thing in the world I want is to frighten you. That you ought to know that, particularly since I did all I could today to help you get the answer to your lead and hope springs eternal. You?
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Didn't you know? Yes. I did. I felt something. Something that lifted me above myself, above my talent. It made me act as I've never acted before. But I didn't know it was you. It was.
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I was there all the time, coaching you. Now, still frightened of me? No. Not really.
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Only
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Yes.
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Did you strangle them, Molly?
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The two women who lived here before you? Yes. I confess that I did. Why? The painting there above the fireplace. I didn't tell you the whole story behind it. Why not? I was ashamed. Ashamed? Of what I did to Iris or tried to do. You see, my dear, she didn't leave me for Thomas Broly just because she'd fallen out of love with me. I was the reason she fell out of love. My ungovernable temper. Temper? Rage is a closer word. Violent rage. Another word for it would be ego. My ego that demanded its way or I would fly into an insane fury. Iris, yes, the withered little woman, who is your landlady, feared me.
Loved me, but feared me. And that is why she left me. That is why let me also confess. I killed myself out there by the fountain. Not from despair as I told you. Not from misery, But from sheer limitless violent rage. And I have been paying for it ever since. Oh, Morley.
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You helped me today. How can I help you?
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Amanda, are you sure you want to? Oh, yes.
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Very sure. Very sure. Then meet
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me meet me by the fountain tonight at ten minutes of twelve tonight. Ten minutes of twelve? That was the hour I took my life. Promise you'll be there. I'll be there, Molly. I promise.
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Alright, Amanda. Alright. I'll leave. K. Oh, don't be angry. Where'd you expect me to be? I invite you to dinner to celebrate. You say, oh, no. Come to my place. I'll make dinner. I come. I bring the champagne. And from the minute dinner is over, you keep suggesting I leave. Jill, it's late. A quarter to twelve midnight is late. It is for me. I've had a long nerve wracking day and I'm not Okay. Okay. I'm going. Do you wanna know something? I may not be back.
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Oh, Gil. Gil. Descent Descent of lavender coming from the garden. Yes, Morley. I'm coming. Coming. Yes?
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Yes. Who is it? Gil Franklin, missus Brody.
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Just a minute. Just a minute. What do you mean disturbing an old woman at this hour of the night? I need my rest.
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And I need my girl, missus Brodie. The girl I intend to marry. Oh, what's that got to do with me? Maybe nothing, maybe everything. All I know, there's something queer going on here, especially tonight, and I intend to get to the bottom of it. Missus Brodie, I wanna know the whole story. The whole story. You understand? Of what's happened in that room since Morley Norcross committed suicide over sixty years ago.
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Anna? Morley. I startled you again.
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Not really. It it's just ten of twelve. And a beautiful moonlit night. Very beautiful.
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You're ready. You're sure you're ready
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to keep your promise. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. What do you want me to do? Amanda,
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you think of me as a ghost. You are. Ghost ghost. It it's only a word, my dear. Because because I am dead doesn't mean I don't exist. I do. I am as alive as you. Only, I live on a different plane of existence now. A different plane of existence? You might even say a different level of consciousness. I I don't understand. No mortal does. No mortal can. Try. It's it's as simple as this. Nothing is. Nothing begins. Nothing ends. It's all the same. A continuum. Only on different levels, varying planes of life, of living. To sum it up, my darling, there is no such thing as life.
No such thing as death.
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I I guess I don't understand. You know, the level I'm on,
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I don't understand all of it either. This only do I know. The world that was once mine and is now yours is nothing but illusion. Illusion, my dearest. That is all it is. So it will be only an illusion you leave now. Leave My world? To enter mine. Oh. You promised. Remember, you promised. Yes. But,
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oh, Morley, how can I leave it? My world? Illusion. Illusion. Reality. Call it what you like. I don't know. But, Morley Morley, I'm I'm going to be the Anjan who lead in a Broadway play. It's what I've wanted, dreamed up, yearned for since I was a child. I can't leave that. You must. I can't. I tell you, you must.
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Can't you understand? What you're what you're leaving is nothing. Nothing to what you'll find on my plane. I'm not taking anything from you. I'm giving you everything. But what I want promised. You promised. Rotten Hill, you didn't promise.
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You're strangling me. You promised me. You promised me. Gandalf, keep my promise. I didn't say I wouldn't. Only that that I wanted something else. So much. So much.
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You wanted it that much? You want it that much? Yes. But you would give it up
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for me? A promise is a promise.
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Oh, and a selfless act is a selfless act. What?
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Amanda?
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Amanda? She's not here in the room. The cook. Amanda.
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Cook. And listen.
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The fountain, it's flowing again. And birds
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singing in the garden at midnight. Remember I said the fountain would never flow again. The birds sing no more until someone, somewhere, sometime did something so supremely unselfish, so totally and completely selfless that the act of suicide committed to you, my suicide, would be painful. Oh, Amanda. Amanda. Amanda. I know a good video.
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You. I knew it. Amanda.
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Amanda. Oh, Gil.
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Darling. Darling. Darling.
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The fountain. Oh, my God. The fountain. Yes. It's flowing again, missus Broly. And the birds are singing. I don't understand. I Don't try. Just don't bother trying, Mrs. Broly. But but I must because I've always had the feeling that if ever the fountain started again, I I would stop.
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You you would? Oh.
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Oh. Oh. Gil catch her? She's fainted.
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No, Amanda. She's dead. Not
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dead, Gil. Alive. Very much alive on another level. Another plane of existence. And, oh, God. Make it a happier one for her and morally.
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Planes of existence, levels of consciousness, the self, the over self, the super self? What do I know? It comes to that. What do you know? We don't. Because if what I read, what they tell me is so, our brains simply aren't equipped to understand. I once asked a Buddhist monk about this, and he said, you mustn't try to understand. Just experience. That says it all, I guess. I'll be back shortly. If you take a look at the 1975
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cars, you'll notice a European influence. And there are some new American cars that rival the Europeans. One being Buick's new Skylark SR with its touring car interior and spirited little v six engine. But don't think of the Skylark SR as a European tourer. We're proud of the fact that it's a Buick. You will be too.
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Buick. Florence Dedicated to the fifteen o six. Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa. Hudson and Landry are there with sun sweet prunes.
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Look, esenor. How many times I gotta tell you all I want is an Angelica smile? Listen, Leonardo. Get off my back. I I've been trying to give you a smile for six weeks now. First, just say I'm smiling too much, then not enough. I'm wasted. Besides, I'm hungry.
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Hey, have us some sun sweet to prunes. They'll make me smile? Sun sweet to prunes. Full of vitamins and minerals and other good things. They give you stamina. You need to sit here another six weeks till I get you smile right. But why sun sweet prunes? Because more people eat sun sweet than any other prunes. They're always fresh and moist and tender. Now eat your prunes and smile. Oh,
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your eyes sparkle when you get mad, Lenny.
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Cheer up with some sweet prunes. Think of them as vitamins, but with wrinkles.
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Amanda Phillips didn't become a Broadway star. She became missus Gilbert Franklin. Oh, she played the annual lead in Hope Springs Eternal, alright. But the play folded in New Haven. Well, if Morley Norcross was right, it doesn't much matter. After all, the world we live in, you and I, nothing but illusion. Some illusion. Our cast included Diane Baker, John Newland, Anne Seymour, and Dennis Cole. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
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Now
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approve you of our next poll. I'm not with the police. I swear it. And why all the questions? Why all the nosing around? Now you're hurting me. Take it easy. I don't want no trouble in here. Something. She's gotta be. Best told her I do business in your place and now she shows up here the next morning. Don't that sound fishy to you? Well, it's funny. Come on, baby. Just Fishy me don't. I I was just this statue.
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Oh, I just wanted the statue.
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The what? I I just used this thing. What's the statue gotta do with
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wait a minute. Wait. Wait. Wait. You're
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you're right, Warma. She's not a cop. Yeah. She's been acting like a cop, but that's not what she is. Please, please. Please let me go. I I didn't mean any harm. Please let me go. Oh, no. Oh, sugar. You're not a cop at all. What you are is a nun. Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division. This is EG Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time. Pleasant dreams.
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It's acid indigestion and this pressure. It's gas again. Digel has told you that acid indigestion and heartburn are often accompanied by gas. DiGel calls it gasset indigestion. Now a report from the US government confirms that the only ingredients recognized effective against both acid indigestion and gas are an antacid combined with simethicone. That's what DiGel is. No antacid alone relieves like DiGel does. Use only as directed. Digel in regular mint flavor and now new lemon orange. The news authority. KRLV Dallas.
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The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents Come in. Welcome. I'm EG Marshall. Welcome to the world of your over self. What is the man talking about? Over self. What's that? Well, you might say it's that part of you where your imagination resides. The truth is that according to any number of religionists, you don't exist at all, only your imagination. When you refer to myself, you are actually talking about an illusion created by your over self. Confusing? Certainly is to me. And it was more than confusing to Amanda Phillips. You are not a ghost, Morley? Of course not, Amanda.
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I dare say you would call me a ghost, but ghosts don't really exist. They're people. They simply live on a different plane of existence.
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I don't know what to say. But then don't say anything.
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That's the trouble with people on your plane. They say too much. But these
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different planes of existence, really, it's confusing.
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I simply don't understand. You will, my darling. You will, if you dare.
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Our mystery drama, Picture on a Wall, was written especially for the mystery theater by George Loser and stars Diane Baker. It is sponsored in part by Contact, the twelve hour cold capsule, and Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser. I'll be back shortly with act one. There is a fresh new spirit sweeping the land. A free spirit that demands good products. Products that satisfy your sense of good taste and desire for economy. But above all products that perform. Buick has been touched by this spirit. And this year, our crispy design solidly built Buicks will bring joy even to the most demanding of free spirits. The nineteen seventy five Buicks, dedicated to the free spirit in just about every
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Hi. My name is Sammy Davis Junior. Would you believe that a whole generation has grown up since the first American kids went out to trick or treat for UNICEF on Halloween? In In those twenty years, they've helped the United Nations Children's Fund provide better food, medical care, education for millions of children in developing countries. This Halloween, our kids will be on your doorstep again. Please drop a few coins in the orange box. For damn Halloween is a lot of fun. For USF's children, it's a chance for a better life. Thank you. Peace.
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How many things can your family do together? Go to a movie? Go to a circus? Go on a picnic? Go on a vacation? Face it. In today's America, family fun is hard to come by. And with busy schedules, just getting the family together is not an easy thing to do. How would you like to have a little family fun every week? How would you like to learn together? How would you like to grow together? And how would you like to help your son get an edge on growing up? Cub scouting is helping families like yours be a family. It's your helped hours. Today's Cub Scout program is just as much for families as it is for boys.
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No. I didn't say you don't exist, that you are not really yourself. Those who devote lifetimes to the study of what we are and why we are here, who try to understand God and our relation to him. I'm talking, of course, of priests, ministers, Buddhist monks, even philosophers. They say it. They say that the self is your conscious. The over self, your subconscious. And the super self, your unconscious. You understand? If you do, you're far more knowledgeable than I am because I don't understand at all. And as I said earlier on, neither did Amanda Phillips.
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Well, here it is, Amanda. Hope you like. Gil Franklin.
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It's beautiful.
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I figured it would grab you even though you did say you wanted to live in Greenwich Village.
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Yes. I did. All my life in Gladesville, Iowa, I've yearned to be an actress living in Greenwich Village. But this, it's it's so lovely.
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Who what? May I come in? Oh, missus Broly. Of course. Let me introduce you. Amanda Phillips, rising young star of the Broadway Theater or soon to be anyway. Missus Broly, landlady. Delighted to meet you, dear.
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Is, everything alright? Oh, it couldn't be more so. I never expected to find anything as, well, really enchanting as as this. Not in what I can afford to pay anyhow. It is only $45 a week, isn't it? Yes. How can you afford to let it go at that? A place like this furnished so nicely, those beautiful paintings on the walls, especially that big one over the fireplace and the garden. You can walk straight from this room into the garden. It's just lovely. I should think you could rent this for two or three times what you're asking. Perhaps so. But, yeah. Well, you see, dear, I'm not only extremely old, but I'm extremely particular about whom I rent to. And as your fiance will tell you Mister Franklin isn't my fiancee, missus Broly.
Oh. Oh. Oh. I thought I, have hopes, missus Broly. High hopes. Well, now you're such a nice man. I hope you realize them because certainly, miss Phillips is the most attractive and desirable. Something wrong, miss Phillips? That smell.
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Smell?
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Aroma. I I should say, a scent. The the scent of lavender. Why, it's a cologne I use. Yes. A cologne, lavender. Now, if there's anything I can do to help you get settled in, dear, anything you need, then you just pick up the telephone. Just to pick it up? It connects to a switchboard. I'll answer. Well, make yourselves comfortable. Strange.
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What?
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The smell of lavender. I didn't smell it until at least several minutes after she came in here. And another thing, it seemed to come from that direction out there in the garden. And Gil?
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Yes?
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She's gone, but the scent,
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it's stronger. You're imagining things. I don't smell anything. And, no, I don't have a cold.
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Very strange.
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Look, I've got to get back to the office or the law firm of Belding and Maxwell will be firing their youngest partner. But I'll see you for dinner tonight. Okay? Very okay. Pick you up at seven.
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Well, better unpack my bag, put things away. That scent, it is. It must be coming from the garden. Locked. No key. Yes, miss Phillips. Missus Broly, the French doors into the garden, they're locked. Yes, dear. I keep them locked. You do? For your protection.
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You see, anyone who wanted to could get over the fence around the garden and,
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well, an ounce of prevention, you know? Yes. But I want to, use the garden. What I can see through the French doors, it's it's enchanting that fountain. The fountain
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doesn't work. I'm sorry to say.
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Hasn't in years. Even so, it'd be a nice place to sit. Those stone benches and everything. Would you bring me the key, please?
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Why, why, yes. If I can find it. Find it? I'm not quite sure what I did with it, but don't you worry now. I'll do what I can to find it. I certainly shall.
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Well, I never. I just never.
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Never what, ma'am? Who? What?
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Who are you?
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Norcross is my name. Morley Norcross. Do please forgive me. I had absolutely no intention of startling you. I turned around to find you leaning casually against the French doors.
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The open French doors. And you how? How did you get here? Over the fence, you might say. And how did you open those locked doors?
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I didn't find them locked. Well, I did. Perhaps it's one of those knobs. You can open them from one side but not the other. Let's have a look, shall we? I'd rather not if you don't mind. I'm sorry. You're angry with me. I've offended you, Amanda.
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You know my name.
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Tifrita. You know mine. But you told me yours. Then it's altogether possible that that rather huge label on your luggage told me yours.
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Of course. Please. For a moment I well, you won't believe it. But I thought you might be some kind of ghost or something.
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I believe. Might I have the pleasure of showing you your garden? If you will step through your French doors into your garden then, miss Phillips, You can all but smell fall in the air. And,
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lavender. Yet, I I I don't see any in the garden. My cologne, I dare say.
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You use lavender cologne? Yeah. Old fashioned, isn't it? For for a man, I mean. Why?
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Perhaps. But,
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I like it, mister Brown. Why say call me Morley. If we're going to be friends that is, and I hope we are. Do you?
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Why not? Why not indeed? Beautiful fountain, isn't it? Yes.
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Yes. It's beautiful. Simple. The peasant girl holding a tilted picture on her shoulder. A picture from which the water used to pull into that large stone base in her feet. Used to? Sixty years ago or so, yes.
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Sixty? How do you know that? Oh, how how do I, Well, yes. You can't be more than 40 say. Thank you. Thank you, my dear. So how would you know that this fountain hasn't, fountained in more than
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sixty years? Sixteen years. I said sixteen. And, well, I know because I once lived where you're about to live. In that service flat, living room and kitchenette? Mhmm.
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What did you do?
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Oh, what kind of work? I was a dramatic coach.
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You don't mean it. A dramatic coach? An excellent one I might say. Would you, well, I hardly dare ask this, but, would you
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coach me? Of course. I fully intended to. You? Yes.
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Oh, now, mister Norcross. Morley. Morley. Well, you might have got my name off the luggage label, but but you couldn't you couldn't possibly know that I I want to be an actress. No? No.
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What is it? Ever read Sherlock Holmes story? No. That's too bad. They're fascinating. Fascinating. Holmes could look at someone he'd never seen in all his life before and tell him everything about himself. I was an avid reader of Holmes, and somehow, I picked up the technique. For example, your makeup. Oh, what about it? Unless I'm mistaken, on your cheeks, that's anastique rosy glow, isn't it? Yes. And a touch of daylight orange in the corner of each eye. You're amazing. Of course, on stage, you'd use vermilion. But for daytime wear, you're most astute. And then, of course, your clothes are a dead giveaway to say nothing, my dear, nothing of your warmth. Unbelievable, Morley. My elementary what? Elementary.
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Would you like some tea? Do you have any? I mean, you will just move in. In my suitcase. Then I'd love it. Come along inside. No. No. No. I'll sit here. I'll I'll sit here. It's such a pleasant afternoon. I'll be as quick as I can. Yes? Come in. Oh, missus Broly. Found the key to the French doors, my dear. Well, thank you. Though I am not sure I'll need them now. I'm glad you've decided to leave them locked. Much safer. But I haven't decided to leave them locked. As you can see, the doors are As I can see what? Closed.
I didn't close them. And if Morley had, I'd have I'd have heard him. Morley? Did you say Morley? Mister Morley Norcross. He's sitting in the garden by the fountain. There's no one sitting in the garden, miss Phillips. No one? Why? He's gone. And the door's locked. Of course. Why? Are you looking at me like that, missus Brodie? Miss Phillips, finding this key put a very old woman to considerable trouble. Now I don't mind that. I'm accustomed to it and delighted to make my tenants as comfortable as possible. But I don't like having games played on me, miss Phillips. I don't enjoy being made a fool of. Here are the keys you ask for.
Please take care to lock those doors before retiring at night. But missus Bowen
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Amanda, you were dead tired, beat. You probably stretched out on that couch to rest and fell off to sleep. You dreamed it all. You had to. I I
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don't remember lying down. Gil, I I didn't. I started to unpack and and then the scent of lavender came to me even stronger than before. It came from the garden. I tried to go into the garden, but found the doors locked.
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And so I called missus Brody. Yes. Yes. You told me all this. But sweetheart, it couldn't have happened. It just couldn't. Well, if if it didn't
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oh, I don't know. I just don't know.
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Neither do I. One thing I do know though, I'm taking you off for the best dinner you ever had. You need it.
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I guess I do. Won't be a minute. Put on a new face.
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Okay. Know something?
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What?
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I did alright by you finding this place. Comfortable, homey. Even the paintings on the wall, not the usual crummy stuff you find in a place like this. Pretty good art. This one over the fireplace is a knockout.
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I haven't had a chance to look at it, really. It's by,
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I don't know. Some name here at the bottom. Can't can't make it out. Dated I can make that out. Nineteen o nine. It's called the dramatic coach.
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Oh? Shows him the coach, teaching a girl how to act. Very handsome guy.
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Tall, wavy chestnut hair, worn kind of long, blue eyes, I think. Gray at the temples, strong nose, very strong nose. Oh,
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ready so soon? Let me see that. The painting? Yes. The Amanda, what is it? The man in the painting. The dramatic coach, Gil. That's Morley Norcross.
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Well, we may be talking about the self, the over self, and the super self. But so far as I'm concerned, Morley Norcross is a ghost. Now maybe he isn't, only my opinion. But the things going on in that Ninth Street flap, the things that happened to Amanda in that garden, You ask me, they're more than strange. They're uncanny. I wouldn't be concerned, except I remember Amanda saying she felt scared. I don't like that. It worries me. I'll be back shortly for act two.
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We're involved with an experience having to do with the occult, the esoteric, or rather, lovely young Amanda Phillips is. As we know, she has come to New York City from Gladesville, Iowa, hopefully to become a successful actress. One can expect all sorts of things to happen to one in the Big Apple, of course. But what has already happened to Amanda on her first day is, well,
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to say the least,
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odd. The man in the painting is Norcross? The man you think you met out there in the garden? Gil, I know you think I'm spaced out. No. No. I just think you dreamed it all. Fell asleep and dreamed. Dreamed? About a man who was the living image of the man in that picture?
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A dramatic coach to boot? Well, it figures, doesn't it? What do you mean it figures?
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Well, there he is in the painting. The painting is is titled the dramatic coach. Your eyes may have just glanced at it, but your brain, it it registered you clearly. You were tired, worn out from your trip, stretched out to rest, fell asleep, and, well, named of the man in the painting. The man who said he was a dramatic coach.
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Well,
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I don't remember falling asleep. But, what you say makes sense. That's what must have happened to you. Sure.
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And speaking of getting rest, young lady, you've had a long tiring day. So, I'm going to spook. Oh, it's only 10:00, Gil. You don't have to. No. No. No. You're tired. And now that I've got you here in New York, you, you can count on seeing a lot of me if you want. Of course, I want to. You sound as if you really mean that, Amanda. Oh, Gil.
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Sweetheart, you know how I feel about you.
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It's just that It's the great white way beckons. It's a career on Broadway or nothing.
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No. A career on Broadway or marriage and kids. Oh, Gil, darling. Look. I've I've gotta try it first. But to satisfy myself that I've I've got talent or I haven't. But I can make it or I can't. That look. I I I just got to have my chance. Be patient, please. For you will outdo the patience of Job. Good night, honey. Good night, my darling. I am tired. Into bed, Ethel Barrymore Phillips. What? Lavender. The scent of Lavender again from the garden. He's there sitting by the fountain, and I'm not sleeping, not dreaming. Oh, locked.
Keys.
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Morley? Amanda.
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What are you doing here at this hour? Oh, it's such a beautiful evening.
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Full white moon.
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Yes. Isn't it enchantment?
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The jet black buildings tall against the night sky, lights shining yellow and orange, windows here and there. And here, right here in the midst of it all, a small oasis of peace and quiet loveliness.
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You keep talking like that, Morley, and you will cast a spell over me. I will, won't I?
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Amanda, do you mind if I coming here in an evening now and then? I won't if you say no. Well, no. I I
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suppose it's alright.
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You come when you want to. Thank you, my dear. Thank you.
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Morley? Yes. There's a painting over the fireplace. It's it's called the dramatic coach. And the man in the painting, the coach, looks exactly like you. Yes.
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Yes, he does. It was painted by Scott Costain in '28. The man in the painting is my grandfather whose name was also Morley Norcross. Oh.
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You didn't I You didn't think Yeah. I'm afraid I did. No, you couldn't have. But, look, if you haven't lived here in sixteen years, you said? Yes, sixteen. Well, what's the painting doing for now?
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You have no doubt heard of actors being forced to leave their luggage behind because of nonpayment of rent. And you? Oh, Morley. But it's quite alright, Amanda. It's quite alright, especially since I can look at it almost as much as I want to. I can take a peek now and then through the French doors. You poor man.
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You love that painting, don't you? You're very
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perceptive. Yes. I do love it as much as I love this fountain.
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The fountain? Yes.
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Did missus Brodie tell you? No. No. I don't suppose she did. There's a legend goes along with this fountain.
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A legend? It's rather tragic. Oh, the better. The more romantic.
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Perhaps. A man, someone who lived in a flat where you live now as I lived, a man committed suicide
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at this very spot. Oh, no. Why?
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I think the phrase at the time was unrequited love.
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Oh, oh, lovely.
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That is romantic. It didn't seem so then. What? I mean, to say, the man must have felt the very depths of misery, experienced the most frightful emotional horrors to kill himself. He committed the greatest sin known to man or God.
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Suicide? No. No. No. No. Despair.
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And in despairing, renounced his faith in God. No one who believes in God truly believes can ever give way to despair. Amanda, you remember that?
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Yes, Morley. I shall.
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As for the legend, the fountain ran red with blood. His blood. And then it stopped flowing. Just stopped. They've tried to get it flowing again and again, but they have failed every time. According to the legend, it never will flow again until Until? Until someone, somewhere, sometime does something so supremely unselfish, so totally and completely selfless that the sin of suicide committed here is paid for.
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Beautiful.
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So beautiful. And when that happens, if ever it does, the fountain will gush forth once more. I was wondering. Yes? Would you have any objection if I came in? Well, only for a moment to have a closer look at that painting.
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Why, of course not. Come along.
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Thank you, Amanda.
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Your grandfather, was, he a dramatic coach too?
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Or did he just pose for No. No. No. He coached actors and actresses just as I do.
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Well, there it is.
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Yes. There it is. Amazing, the resemblance. Isn't it?
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Yes. Isn't it? Was your grandfather was with well, was he the man who killed himself in the garden? Yes. Yes. And she, the girl in the painting? Oh, he loved her.
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He loved her, and she loved him. Or so she let him believe. She was one of his pupils. Beautiful. Talented. I can't tell you how beautiful.
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How talented. Oh, I shouldn't think you could since you weren't born yet. Yes.
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Yes. That's that's quite true. Quite true. It's only hearsay. Well, what happened? Well, she began to get rather good parts and began to be known. And well, she met a wealthy man and fell in love with him. Or some said his money.
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Oh, dear. It must have been tragic. It was more than I could bear. You?
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My my my grandfather, of course. But but you you said more than you could bear. My imagination. I have a flare. I have a talent for placing myself in a situation of becoming the the people involved. I imagine myself. Well, you've played the game called imagination, of course. No. I I've never even heard of it. No. It's a wonderful game. And, incidentally, extremely helpful to an actor or actress. Would you care to play it? Well, I well Let's do. Now, let's imagine ourselves to be well, those those two people in the painting.
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Alright. How do we go about it? First,
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look closely at the painting. Mhmm. Try to see every detail. Every detail. For instance, the furniture.
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Old fashioned. High backed couch with brocaded upholstery and enema gasses. That's right. And the table lamps, beaded lamps, they call them, I think. That's right. That's right.
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And the gas jets on the walls.
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Notice? How could I help but notice? I feel as if those lamps are actually lit. As if the gas jets are really glowing as if I Yes. Yes. Yes. And in the room with him, his arms around me, his lips close to mine. God. It's all so real. I am that woman in the painting. You are. You are.
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You have become her. You have become Iris Jordan. Iris Jordan? That was her name. Is her name because you bring it to life again. Iris.
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Oh, Iris. Iris. No. No. Iris. Darling, darling. Let me go. I love you. I love you. Molly. Mister Norcross. Please, Iris. Unhand me, sir. Iris. You hear me, sir? Unhand me. Please. I told you I no longer love you. I love another, Thomas Broly. And I'm going to marry you. Don't do this to me, Iris. I beg you. Miss, finish. I bet you stole
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I can't bear it. I can't bear it. Miss Phillips. I'll kill myself. Do you hear me? I'll kill myself. Miss Phillips.
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Miss Phillips. What is Why were you crying out like that? We I guess, I I got carried away, but we were only playing a game. A game? We? Morley Norcross and why? He's not here. Missus Broly? Broly? Is your first name Iris? Oh oh, what if it is? Are you were you the girl in that painting? I well, you know, I I I think you're out of your mind. You were the girl in that painting, weren't you? You were an actress. And you were in love with Molly Norcross, but you jilted him for a man named Broly. Thomas Broly. Miss Phillips, I will ask you to vacate these premises in the morning. This room, that garden, they're haunted, aren't they? I don't know what you're talking about. Oh, yes. You do.
Not only the room and the garden, but that painting all haunted by the ghost of Molly Norcross, the man you loved and then killed it more than sixty years ago. I I that's why you rent this place so cheaply, $45 a week. Tenants just don't stay here very long, do they? How long has it been since the last tenant, missus Broly? How long? Well, more than a year. I see. What happened to the last tenant? Dead. Found dead in the garden. She'd been strangled. And that's why you weren't able to rent the place? No. The tenant before her Found dead? Strangled? Yes. I oh, my dear child, I only pretended to be angry with you and demanded you to leave to to save your life. After letting me rent the place. I hope the haunting was over, but I see now it isn't.
Morley's ghost will haunt this place, haunt me till the moment I die. You must go in the morning. No. No. I'm not afraid of ghosts, missus Broly. But more than that, I don't want to leave. Don't ask me why. I don't know. I'm afraid I do. What? Because you've done what I'm almost sure the others did. They couldn't bring themselves to leave either, and they didn't know why nor did I then. But I think I'm beginning to know that. You've fallen in love with Morley nor cross, miss Phillips. You've fallen in love with a ghost.
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Well, there's a twist for you. Has Amanda fallen in love with the ghost of Morley Norcross? Or is some other power, some other force at work? Let's not forget that we've been talking about not ghosts, but the baffling, the mysterious complexities of the human mind. I'll return shortly with act three.
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When you say fun, why
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Aniza Bush, Saint Louis.
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At McDonald's, our hamburgers are 100% beef, lean beef, leaner than most ground beef you could buy, and you can count on it. You can count on our beef. It's 100%. You deserve a 100% beef. You can count on it. Hey, Mellow, Nice sounds like these are really sensational over a Delco car stereo tape system. The one with the tape deck concealed behind the radio dial. Ingenious. Order yours from your GM dealer. He can wrap it up in most models of GM's new 1975 cars and trucks. It's the only way you can get telco stereo. Telco electronics, sound of General Motors.
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To fall in love with a ghost, that surely must be a curious experience to say nothing of a dangerous one. Especially when if previous tenants of Amanda's little apartment did the same thing. They were strangled to death as a result. But why? Morley Norcross, his ghost that is, seems a charming, gentle, anything but violent spirit. So why? Amanda certainly has no answer.
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As for Gil, the man who wants to marry her, I just don't quite believe it. The story of yours of what happened here last night. Reveal every word of it. You can check it out if you want to. You're a lawyer.
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Go to police headquarters or wherever you go. Find out if two women were strangled here or not. If you believe all this, what are you staying here for? Missus Broly says but thinks. I've fallen in love with Morley.
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Now I've heard everything. You in love with a ghost. Amanda, you don't think you are, do you? If you think that, then you need help, sweetie. You need help in a bad way. No. You're telling me I'm crazy. Well, if you're not, you're certainly sound it. I think you better go, Gil. Now wait a minute. Please, Gil. I take time off from the office to come down here and drive you to a tryout. Your first audition for a Broadway play and now you tell me to get lost.
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I'm sorry, but you're getting so upset, so angry with you
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and we've never quarreled like this before, never. Sweetheart, I am sorry. I really am. Come on now. Why are the eyes?
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Oh, Gil.
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I can't believe you're in love with the ghost. But you wouldn't be in love with another man with you. Don't be silly.
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Let's go or I'll be late for my audition. Billy and Maxwell. Gilbert Franklin, please.
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One moment. Hello?
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Gil? Amanda? Oh, Gil, I'm so excited. You got the part. Not the little part. The walk on. But Gil, they listened to me for the ingenue lead,
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and I got it. I got it. The ingenue lead. Hey. That's fantastic. I can't believe it. I can't either. So this call's for a celebration.
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I'll take you out to dinner tonight. Champagne dinner. No. No. No. Let's celebrate here. At your place? I haven't cooked in a week. I'll go out and do some shopping.
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Okay. And I'll bring the champagne. Enough for the three of us. The three of us? You, me, and your ghost boyfriend I don't think that's very funny, Gil oh, I put my foot in it again Forgive me now come on, tell me you forgive me I forgive you And, honey? Yeah? May I ask Orly Norcross to forgive me too?
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Well, I never. I just never
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I just never You know, Amanda, that's virtually becoming a queue line for me Why? Why you're going so white? Why are you trembling so?
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I I know now
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that you're a ghost. Oh. It makes me feel scary. Oh, please. No. The last thing in the world I want is to frighten you. That you ought to know that, particularly since I did all I could today to help you get the answer to your lead and hope springs eternal. You?
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Didn't you know? Yes. I did. I felt something. Something that lifted me above myself, above my talent. It made me act as I've never acted before. But I didn't know it was you. It was.
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I was there all the time, coaching you. Now, still frightened of me? No. Not really.
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Only
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Yes.
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Did you strangle them, Molly?
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The two women who lived here before you? Yes. I confess that I did. Why? The painting there above the fireplace. I didn't tell you the whole story behind it. Why not? I was ashamed. Ashamed? Of what I did to Iris or tried to do. You see, my dear, she didn't leave me for Thomas Broly just because she'd fallen out of love with me. I was the reason she fell out of love. My ungovernable temper. Temper? Rage is a closer word. Violent rage. Another word for it would be ego. My ego that demanded its way or I would fly into an insane fury. Iris, yes, the withered little woman, who is your landlady, feared me.
Loved me, but feared me. And that is why she left me. That is why let me also confess. I killed myself out there by the fountain. Not from despair as I told you. Not from misery, But from sheer limitless violent rage. And I have been paying for it ever since. Oh, Morley.
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You helped me today. How can I help you?
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Amanda, are you sure you want to? Oh, yes.
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Very sure. Very sure. Then meet
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me meet me by the fountain tonight at ten minutes of twelve tonight. Ten minutes of twelve? That was the hour I took my life. Promise you'll be there. I'll be there, Molly. I promise.
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Alright, Amanda. Alright. I'll leave. K. Oh, don't be angry. Where'd you expect me to be? I invite you to dinner to celebrate. You say, oh, no. Come to my place. I'll make dinner. I come. I bring the champagne. And from the minute dinner is over, you keep suggesting I leave. Jill, it's late. A quarter to twelve midnight is late. It is for me. I've had a long nerve wracking day and I'm not Okay. Okay. I'm going. Do you wanna know something? I may not be back.
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Oh, Gil. Gil. Descent Descent of lavender coming from the garden. Yes, Morley. I'm coming. Coming. Yes?
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Yes. Who is it? Gil Franklin, missus Brody.
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Just a minute. Just a minute. What do you mean disturbing an old woman at this hour of the night? I need my rest.
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And I need my girl, missus Brodie. The girl I intend to marry. Oh, what's that got to do with me? Maybe nothing, maybe everything. All I know, there's something queer going on here, especially tonight, and I intend to get to the bottom of it. Missus Brodie, I wanna know the whole story. The whole story. You understand? Of what's happened in that room since Morley Norcross committed suicide over sixty years ago.
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Anna? Morley. I startled you again.
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Not really. It it's just ten of twelve. And a beautiful moonlit night. Very beautiful.
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You're ready. You're sure you're ready
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to keep your promise. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. What do you want me to do? Amanda,
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you think of me as a ghost. You are. Ghost ghost. It it's only a word, my dear. Because because I am dead doesn't mean I don't exist. I do. I am as alive as you. Only, I live on a different plane of existence now. A different plane of existence? You might even say a different level of consciousness. I I don't understand. No mortal does. No mortal can. Try. It's it's as simple as this. Nothing is. Nothing begins. Nothing ends. It's all the same. A continuum. Only on different levels, varying planes of life, of living. To sum it up, my darling, there is no such thing as life.
No such thing as death.
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I I guess I don't understand. You know, the level I'm on,
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I don't understand all of it either. This only do I know. The world that was once mine and is now yours is nothing but illusion. Illusion, my dearest. That is all it is. So it will be only an illusion you leave now. Leave My world? To enter mine. Oh. You promised. Remember, you promised. Yes. But,
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oh, Morley, how can I leave it? My world? Illusion. Illusion. Reality. Call it what you like. I don't know. But, Morley Morley, I'm I'm going to be the Anjan who lead in a Broadway play. It's what I've wanted, dreamed up, yearned for since I was a child. I can't leave that. You must. I can't. I tell you, you must.
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Can't you understand? What you're what you're leaving is nothing. Nothing to what you'll find on my plane. I'm not taking anything from you. I'm giving you everything. But what I want promised. You promised. Rotten Hill, you didn't promise.
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You're strangling me. You promised me. You promised me. Gandalf, keep my promise. I didn't say I wouldn't. Only that that I wanted something else. So much. So much.
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You wanted it that much? You want it that much? Yes. But you would give it up
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for me? A promise is a promise.
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Oh, and a selfless act is a selfless act. What?
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Amanda?
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Amanda? She's not here in the room. The cook. Amanda.
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Cook. And listen.
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The fountain, it's flowing again. And birds
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singing in the garden at midnight. Remember I said the fountain would never flow again. The birds sing no more until someone, somewhere, sometime did something so supremely unselfish, so totally and completely selfless that the act of suicide committed to you, my suicide, would be painful. Oh, Amanda. Amanda. Amanda. I know a good video.
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You. I knew it. Amanda.
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Amanda. Oh, Gil.
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Darling. Darling. Darling.
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The fountain. Oh, my God. The fountain. Yes. It's flowing again, missus Broly. And the birds are singing. I don't understand. I Don't try. Just don't bother trying, Mrs. Broly. But but I must because I've always had the feeling that if ever the fountain started again, I I would stop.
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You you would? Oh.
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Oh. Oh. Gil catch her? She's fainted.
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No, Amanda. She's dead. Not
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dead, Gil. Alive. Very much alive on another level. Another plane of existence. And, oh, God. Make it a happier one for her and morally.
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Planes of existence, levels of consciousness, the self, the over self, the super self? What do I know? It comes to that. What do you know? We don't. Because if what I read, what they tell me is so, our brains simply aren't equipped to understand. I once asked a Buddhist monk about this, and he said, you mustn't try to understand. Just experience. That says it all, I guess. I'll be back shortly. If you take a look at the 1975
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cars, you'll notice a European influence. And there are some new American cars that rival the Europeans. One being Buick's new Skylark SR with its touring car interior and spirited little v six engine. But don't think of the Skylark SR as a European tourer. We're proud of the fact that it's a Buick. You will be too.
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Buick. Florence Dedicated to the fifteen o six. Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa. Hudson and Landry are there with sun sweet prunes.
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Look, esenor. How many times I gotta tell you all I want is an Angelica smile? Listen, Leonardo. Get off my back. I I've been trying to give you a smile for six weeks now. First, just say I'm smiling too much, then not enough. I'm wasted. Besides, I'm hungry.
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Hey, have us some sun sweet to prunes. They'll make me smile? Sun sweet to prunes. Full of vitamins and minerals and other good things. They give you stamina. You need to sit here another six weeks till I get you smile right. But why sun sweet prunes? Because more people eat sun sweet than any other prunes. They're always fresh and moist and tender. Now eat your prunes and smile. Oh,
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your eyes sparkle when you get mad, Lenny.
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Cheer up with some sweet prunes. Think of them as vitamins, but with wrinkles.
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Amanda Phillips didn't become a Broadway star. She became missus Gilbert Franklin. Oh, she played the annual lead in Hope Springs Eternal, alright. But the play folded in New Haven. Well, if Morley Norcross was right, it doesn't much matter. After all, the world we live in, you and I, nothing but illusion. Some illusion. Our cast included Diane Baker, John Newland, Anne Seymour, and Dennis Cole. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
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Now
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approve you of our next poll. I'm not with the police. I swear it. And why all the questions? Why all the nosing around? Now you're hurting me. Take it easy. I don't want no trouble in here. Something. She's gotta be. Best told her I do business in your place and now she shows up here the next morning. Don't that sound fishy to you? Well, it's funny. Come on, baby. Just Fishy me don't. I I was just this statue.
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Oh, I just wanted the statue.
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The what? I I just used this thing. What's the statue gotta do with
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wait a minute. Wait. Wait. Wait. You're
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you're right, Warma. She's not a cop. Yeah. She's been acting like a cop, but that's not what she is. Please, please. Please let me go. I I didn't mean any harm. Please let me go. Oh, no. Oh, sugar. You're not a cop at all. What you are is a nun. Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division. This is EG Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time. Pleasant dreams.
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It's acid indigestion and this pressure. It's gas again. Digel has told you that acid indigestion and heartburn are often accompanied by gas. DiGel calls it gasset indigestion. Now a report from the US government confirms that the only ingredients recognized effective against both acid indigestion and gas are an antacid combined with simethicone. That's what DiGel is. No antacid alone relieves like DiGel does. Use only as directed. Digel in regular mint flavor and now new lemon orange. The news authority. KRLV Dallas.
Introduction to the Mystery Theater
The Concept of Over Self and Amanda's Confusion
Amanda's New Apartment and the Mysterious Garden
Meeting Morley Norcross
The Legend of the Fountain
The Game of Imagination
Amanda's Love for a Ghost
The Midnight Encounter
The Illusion of Life and Death
