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00:23Philco presents the Philco Television Playhouse.
00:38Tonight's play, Run Like a Thief, by Sam Hall, based on an original story by Man Rubin.
01:12No, no, no. This is absolutely wrong.
01:16Do you want our ladies and gentlemen to spread their rolls with a fish knife?
01:20Or cut their smoke drop with a spoon?
01:23If they're hungry enough, it won't matter.
01:25To you, no. This is all wrong. This is impossible.
01:28Alexander.
01:29Madame Paula.
01:30Oh, it's certainly good to have you back again.
01:33Well, after 15 years, it becomes a pleasant habit.
01:36How's Della?
01:37Fine.
01:37You have your old room back.
01:39Yes, she's all settled.
01:40Good.
01:41Now, tell me, was the Florida season as bad as everyone said?
01:45Oh, rain, rain, sun, sun, the usual thing.
01:47That's funny.
01:48You know, we're booked solid through July.
01:51Everybody's been writing to ask if they can sit at one of your tables.
01:54You know you're not going to see a stranger all summer?
01:57That's very nice, Madame Paula.
01:58How are the college boys working out?
02:01Oh, they're working out absolutely wonderful, Madame Paula.
02:05Couldn't be that bad.
02:07Introduce them to me.
02:09Gentlemen, this is Madame Paula, who made this beautiful hotel.
02:14Out of mountains and fresh air.
02:16Chemical engineering number one.
02:18Harvey Wilkes.
02:19Harvey?
02:20Chemical engineering number two.
02:22Larry Burns, ma'am.
02:23Larry.
02:24I hope you both realize what an honor it is to work with Alexander.
02:28A very great honor.
02:30So pay close attention and you'll learn many things.
02:34I hope you both have a profitable and a happy summer.
02:38Thank you, Madame.
02:40You can teach him.
02:42That last winter spoiled me, Polly.
02:44How?
02:45I had a busboy in Florida.
02:47Robbie was his name.
02:48That boy could set a table.
02:50That boy really cared, darling.
02:52Well, why didn't you bring him along?
02:53Well, I wanted to, but you know how young people are.
02:56They're so difficult to handle.
02:57Well, you could use him.
02:59Well, I tried.
03:01I'm going to go back to my charges.
03:03I really hope this will be the best season yet.
03:09Now, look, gentlemen.
03:12A beautiful table is as much of a masterpiece as those formulas you figured out in college.
03:18Mr. Alexander, we don't eat this way in school.
03:22Look, if our guests wanted to have cafeteria food, they could spend their vacation in the cafeteria.
03:29You and I, my dear friends, are here to see that Madame Poulard's guests get exactly what they want.
03:33With as much style and distinction as we can summon from our meager resources.
03:39Look, let's play a game.
03:41Ten years from now, you are a successful, um, whatever it is.
03:45Yes?
03:46You have money, position.
03:48You come here.
03:49You're tired, desperate.
03:52Madame Poulard wants to make you so happy that every time you have a winter dream, you dream of us.
03:59Now, you arrive, you take a swim, you get a cramp.
04:03Can we help that?
04:04Then you take a ride, and the horse throws you.
04:07Did we teach the horse that?
04:09Then you dance at cocktails, and your partner steps all over your feet.
04:13You try to sleep, but your insomnia is unbearable.
04:17We can help none of these things.
04:20But, when you enter through these portals, into this beautiful room to eat,
04:26all you have to do is wear your finest clothes, pick up the correct fork, and open your mouth.
04:32Yes, we supply heaven.
04:36No matter how bad the rest of the day has been, are you, your winter dreams are ours.
04:41Do you own stock in this place?
04:43Yes.
04:44These tables.
04:47Alexander the Great and his world.
04:49My wife says that.
04:52Now, please, fellas, will you please help me?
04:56Up.
04:57Up on your toes.
04:58Always up.
04:59Up.
05:03You know, I had a busboy in Florida.
05:05He stood like mercury on his florist's advertisements.
05:09Mr. Alexander, it's getting kind of late.
05:11We're supposed to go swimming this afternoon.
05:13Swimming?
05:15With the tables in that condition?
05:17There had to be no errors on my tables.
05:20This we have to have a firm understanding about before one dinner is served.
05:25And if one of you spills a thing on my guest, you'll be transferred from my tables immediately.
05:30Huh?
05:31Robbie!
05:33What?
05:34Oh.
05:37I changed my mind.
05:39Is the job open?
05:40Is the job open?
06:02Did you see that?
06:03This is a professional.
06:05Go, fellas.
06:06Go swimming.
06:07And report at six o'clock to the headwaiter for something.
06:12Robbie.
06:13Now, why didn't you come up with us?
06:16I didn't want to tag along.
06:18I got a job as a bellhop.
06:20Bellhop.
06:20And you promised you wouldn't take any job that comes along?
06:24You went back living on the beach again.
06:27Hmm.
06:27Robbie.
06:28Robbie.
06:28Those wanderers.
06:29They're not your kind, beachcombers.
06:32You should meet nice people.
06:34Robbie, I see that you meet nice people.
06:36I get so tired of being taken care of, Alex.
06:39Oh, I'm so glad you came.
06:41Della will be so pleased.
06:43I told Della, when Robbie comes, this time we start on a new project.
06:48Was she mined?
06:50Mined.
06:50I talked it all over with Della.
06:53Look, I made you a busboy.
06:55Now I'm going to make you a great waiter.
06:58Well, I'm not working here yet, you see.
07:00You will.
07:01Two minutes after I speak to Madame Polar,
07:04they give you my own busboy.
07:06And then the guests will fight to be served on our tables.
07:09Ah, and I'll stand guard while you serve.
07:12No, no, you're too important.
07:13Chemical engineering, they stand guard.
07:18Have you seen it today?
07:19What?
07:24Taurus.
07:25Gemini.
07:26No, here, here.
07:27You brought the wrong one.
07:28I'm Gemini.
07:28No, I'm Taurus.
07:30What does Gemini say?
07:32I haven't seen a horoscope since Florida.
07:35Gemini.
07:37It's a cataclysmic day for you.
07:39Cataclysmic?
07:40With you here?
07:42When Jupiter is in the crux of the...
07:44Ah, don't read it.
07:47Today the stars must be crazy.
07:49Listen, we have much to do.
07:51Come on, help me.
07:52And then we go to Madame Polar.
07:54And we get you a room.
07:55And then we see Della.
07:59Imagine starting a season with chemical engineering.
08:03Now we work with style and distinction.
08:08Robbie,
08:09you would make a wonderful waiter.
08:30Oh, I'm sorry, Madame.
08:31This must be the wrong room.
08:32Oh, Alex, come back in here.
08:34Well, this must be a guest room.
08:37Madame Polar must have redecorated.
08:38Look at those draperies.
08:40And the bed.
08:42Della, this is not service quarters.
08:44Oh, Alex.
08:45You know, you should have been a decorator.
08:47Yes, you should.
08:48I wouldn't be much good at anything but hotel rooms.
08:52Imagine me planning a kitchen.
08:54But you know,
08:55I could design a magnificent closet.
08:58Oh, the things I could do.
09:01Hat racks, drawers,
09:03shelves with that pretty paper.
09:05A tie rack?
09:06Yes, you should have one.
09:08Honestly, every time I took a look at this one,
09:10I could cry.
09:12And they keep getting more and more stuff.
09:13We have enough for a house.
09:15This is our house.
09:18Della?
09:18Hmm?
09:20Our family is back together again.
09:23Robert, did he come?
09:24At exactly the right moment.
09:25You must be terribly pleased.
09:27Oh, yes.
09:28He's all set.
09:29I got him a room down the hall.
09:31Madame Polar hired him without even seeing him.
09:33He's getting his uniform now.
09:35Della, it's going to be the best summer yet.
09:37Alex, he said it every year.
09:39Well, isn't it true?
09:40Della, you must help him get settled.
09:43Why don't you fix his room tomorrow?
09:46Spend a little money.
09:47Make it nice.
09:48Of course.
09:48I was just thinking.
09:50Next winter, when we go back to Florida,
09:52we could get a bigger apartment for the three of us.
09:54He needs a home.
09:56A bigger apartment in the winter?
09:58A room in the summer?
09:59Is that a home?
10:00Wait till you see that boy next season.
10:02A little success.
10:03Yes, that's all he needs.
10:04He needs a permanent home.
10:06Something that lasts longer than a season.
10:09Is there anything more permanent than a hotel?
10:11I knew if he came up here this summer,
10:13he'd be on his way.
10:14Alex!
10:16Stop living his life!
10:23I'm sorry.
10:25Go on.
10:33Well, Alexander the Great, magician extraordinaire,
10:39prepares his newest trick.
10:43Can I look now?
10:45No.
10:45Oh, I forget the magic word.
10:49Abracadabra.
10:50No, no, no.
10:51Gemini, Taurus...
10:53Alex!
10:54Now, you have been reading horoscopes again.
10:56No, I haven't.
10:56I promised you I wouldn't.
10:58Della, close your eyes.
11:01Palm Beach, Pinehurst, white sulfur.
11:06Voila!
11:08Darling!
11:09It's a year-long present.
11:11Every day I bring you a new bud.
11:12Well, but then, I've just the right thing for it.
11:15Here, I've been saving this.
11:16For what?
11:17Oh, a home.
11:20We'll use it now.
11:22That's beautiful.
11:25You make everything beautiful, Della.
11:28I want to.
11:29For you.
11:30I've got something for you, too.
11:32No, you don't have to close your eyes.
11:34But I want to.
11:36Here.
11:41A bow tie.
11:43Oh, it's magnificent, Della.
11:46You know, when I wear that, I'll be the best-dressed man in a dining room.
11:50Made in Italy.
11:52Della, with this tie-on, I can only serve Italian food.
11:55Macaroni, spaghetti, lasagna, with all the smells of Italy.
11:59Mostly garlic.
12:01Oh, darling, darling, darling.
12:04I do hope it's our best season.
12:08You are happy, aren't you?
12:11Yes, I am.
12:12I always end.
12:15The first night of the season.
12:20Ah, this was perfect, Florence.
12:22An absolutely perfect dinner.
12:24The chef was inspired tonight, wasn't he, girl?
12:27Oh, yes, I am.
12:28Madame Pallard, it's a pleasure to be back, enjoying your hospitality.
12:32Please sit down, Mr. Howard.
12:34Oh, it's so nice to see you, Mrs. Howard.
12:36How are you, Madame Pallard?
12:37And your grandchildren, too.
12:39Oh, it makes me very happy to see you all here tonight.
12:42I'd like to start the new season with my old friends.
12:45Look how beautiful.
12:46Oh, look.
12:48Madame Pallard, Alexander never forgets.
12:51The day he does, I'll close my hotel.
12:53Thank you much.
12:55Mrs. Howard, I hope you'll allow your charming granddaughters to come dancing tonight.
12:59Yes, of course.
12:59It adds such a note of beauty to the evening.
13:08Well, I hope I never start a new season without you, Alex.
13:11I hope you never have to, Madame.
13:13You know, one day soon, when I feel luxurious,
13:16I'm going to ask you to serve dinner in my room, for Della and me.
13:19We'll talk about old times.
13:21That would be very nice.
13:22She all set up?
13:23Yes.
13:24Madame Pallard, thank you for hiring Robbie.
13:27He's my protege.
13:28That was very kind of you.
13:30Why nonsense.
13:31You've done more favors for me than I'll ever know.
13:35Including the Café Royale.
13:42The girls are terribly anxious.
13:44I don't think anyone's ever called them beauties before.
13:48Because they're not.
13:49Because they're not.
13:50Come on, Gail.
13:52Won't you join us, Madame Pallard?
13:54There'll be a waltz or two, I presume.
13:56Many waltzes.
13:57If there aren't, we'll have a new orchestra tomorrow night.
14:02Good night, Mrs. Howard.
14:04Good night.
14:05Good night.
14:06Good night.
14:12Alex.
14:13How did everything go?
14:15Well, my station is the last one, but I don't mind.
14:18Your people never want to leave you.
14:20Good.
14:21Thank you, Mr. Charles.
14:28Bobby, you run along. I'll finish up.
14:30This is my job, Alex.
14:32Go on. Find yourself a pretty girl.
14:34It's your first night here.
14:36You ought to meet some nice friends.
14:38We shouldn't have any trouble.
14:40Go on.
14:43Hey, waiter.
14:45What?
14:48Blow out the chandelier, Robbie.
15:14I'm sorry, but the dining room is closed.
15:17Did you lose something?
15:18Yes, my husband.
15:20Dare you.
15:20It's a new dress.
15:22Oh, it's beautiful.
15:24People look at me.
15:26They know I'm a waiter.
15:27They look at you.
15:28A guest.
15:30Tonight you should be a guest.
15:33Voila.
15:34A guest.
15:35With a magician's compliments.
15:36Oh, it's sparkly.
15:38It's blue, green.
15:39All.
15:40Real diamonds.
15:42Alex.
15:43Alex, I never expected to wear a bracelet like this.
15:47How did you get...
15:48I read an advertisement in the newspaper.
15:50Lonesome bracelet hunts for lovely ladies.
15:53Alex, it must be worth a fortune.
15:55The star said bye.
15:56I bought.
15:57No, tell me.
15:58My lips are sealed, madame.
16:00You see?
16:01Music.
16:03Extraordinary.
16:04Shall we die?
16:19Why?
16:21Why?
16:22Why did you do that?
16:24Think, Alex.
16:26Think of all the things we...
16:30I...
16:31I don't want a diamond bracelet.
16:44I want a home.
16:47I want to...
16:48I want to decorate a home.
16:51I want friends.
16:53I want them for longer than one season.
16:56Alex, I...
16:58I've got to stop moving, Alex.
17:03Alex, I'm sorry.
17:05I'm so sorry.
17:06I'm so sorry.
17:08Stella, what are you saying?
17:09Alex, I don't want you to carry trays for the rest of your life.
17:13You're not young anymore.
17:15Alex, you need a shop.
17:17You need success.
17:18I want you to be able to sit down when you're tired.
17:21Well, I found this bracelet right here on the floor.
17:26You found...
17:27You found...
17:30It's not mine.
17:31I found it.
17:33I must return it.
17:36I can't have a home.
17:38You won't have a shop.
17:41No, no, no.
17:42That would be a crime, Della.
17:51No, it's all gone.
17:54No, it can't be.
17:55Can't?
17:56I must return it.
17:59We'd be caught.
18:01We have been caught.
18:05We have been caught...
18:07For 15 years.
18:32We'll see you.
18:34I don't know.
18:35THE END
19:07You don't understand, Mr. Wheelock.
19:09My bracelet has no sentimental value for me.
19:13None of these things have.
19:16Oh, I suppose you could call it an occupational badge.
19:20Yes, of course.
19:21But, Madam Falah, you have an insurance policy with my company.
19:25If the bracelet is not returned, we are bound to pay you $10,000.
19:29My company is sentimental about losing $10,000.
19:32Therefore, we prefer to see that the bracelet is returned.
19:35All right.
19:38But you must handle it discreetly.
19:40I can't afford to turn my hotel into a cops and robbers movie.
19:44I haven't notified the police for that reason.
19:48If one guest learns that a bracelet's been stolen, my whole season's ruined.
19:52Even if it's lost.
19:54No.
19:55I've learned the people I cater to prefer hotels where the lost is found very quickly.
20:00We've searched your grounds.
20:02We've retraced your movements through the hotel.
20:04It doesn't take 24 hours to return a bracelet.
20:07No, Madam Falah.
20:08The bracelet is not lost.
20:10It has been stolen.
20:11And unless you authorize us to register plainclothesman in this hotel to check on guests and employees,
20:16we will have to ask you to sign a waiver to relieve us of all responsibility in the matter.
20:22And forget the $10,000?
20:26No, Mr. Wheelock.
20:27Please register your men.
20:30Fine.
20:31But all your snooping and prying must be done quietly.
20:34So quietly, in fact, that even the lightest sleeper remains asleep.
20:39I insist on that, Mr. Wheelock.
20:42Very well, Madam.
20:47But, Madam Falah, it has been our experience that thieves do not sleep.
20:53Good night.
20:59All right.
21:01Oxygen.
21:02Hydrogen.
21:03Hydrogen.
21:04Oxygen.
21:05Oxygen.
21:05Hydrogen.
21:06Oxygen.
21:07That's right.
21:07H2O.
21:08It works.
21:08It works, yeah.
21:11Thanks, Rob.
21:12What do I do about this side?
21:14Uh, four spoons.
21:16Let's see.
21:19Ah.
21:20Try, um, one potato, two potato, three potato, four.
21:25Which spoon?
21:26Drop it if I got the big news.
21:27Sure, sure.
21:27Oh, Nancy told me.
21:29You have to switch for it?
21:30Yeah, so it's straight.
21:32And she doesn't tell anyone else anything.
21:33What did you tell me?
21:34What did you say?
21:34Well, you gotta promise not to tell anybody else, because if it gets any farther...
21:37Oh, come on.
21:38The bracelet belongs to Madam Pallard.
21:41Madam Pallard?
21:41Yeah, but that's not all.
21:42They got plainclothesmen in the hotel.
21:44Right in this hotel room, 306, 307.
21:46Detectives?
21:47Yeah, only they're not from the police.
21:49I don't get it.
21:50Somebody's in trouble, that's all.
21:51$10,000 worth.
21:53Is that what it was worth?
21:54Gee, $10,000 bucks on her arm.
21:57Aren't women crazy, though?
21:59Well, well, they don't...
22:00Do they know who did it?
22:01No, no, Nancy didn't know.
22:02She says the police call nobody but room service.
22:05What else?
22:08Good evening.
22:09Good evening.
22:13Good evening, sir.
22:14The girls could be ready on time.
22:16Florence, it doesn't matter.
22:18I suppose you want a cocktail.
22:20Yes, I do.
22:21Well, do drink it before the girls come.
22:24They're so impressionable.
22:26And, Henry, I don't want them to think that we consider cocktails smart.
22:29I never consider them smart.
22:31I occasionally consider them necessary.
22:33Evening, Mrs. Howard.
22:34Good evening, sir.
22:35Good evening, Alexander.
22:37I'd like a Gibson before we order.
22:39Extra dry, two onions.
22:44Four.
22:46Hmm?
22:48Did you hear the latest?
22:50What?
22:50About the bracelet.
22:52What about the bracelet?
22:53Alex, are you getting Mr. Howard's Gibson?
22:55Yes.
22:55Make it a double.
22:56Yes, sir.
22:58What about the bracelet?
22:59It was Madame Pallard's.
23:01Madame Pallard's?
23:03They have got plainclothes men all over this hotel looking for it.
23:07I don't believe it.
23:08It's $10,000.
23:09Well, who told you that?
23:11Chemical engineering.
23:12Oh, then you'd have to believe it.
23:14A man who can't sit at a table can't be trusted.
23:15Well, he goes with a girl.
23:17She works on the switchboard.
23:18That's a terrible, terrible thing.
23:20Yeah.
23:21They stole it last night.
23:23Where were you?
23:25I found my tray on the table.
23:27I went in this morning to set up, and there it was.
23:29You said you were going to take care of it.
23:31Yes, I did leave it.
23:34Alex!
23:35What are you standing there for?
23:37They're waiting.
23:37Well, come on.
23:38Let's go.
23:38Let's go.
23:41Want me to get the drink?
23:43Two onions, very dry.
23:44No, no.
23:45I'll get it.
23:46What else does chemical engineering say?
23:48That's all.
23:51Here, Alex.
23:56Hey, Alex.
23:58Up, up, up.
24:04Hey, Harvey.
24:05Come here.
24:06Did you hear anything else?
24:08Hey, what's up with Alex?
24:08He's sure fouling up.
24:09Why?
24:10What do you mean?
24:10You should see his tables.
24:11The Howard's are so mad, they're getting ready to leave.
24:14Why?
24:15Well, no waiter.
24:16Hey, listen, you better get rid of that cigarette.
24:18I made it that he's really cracking that whip.
24:19Yeah.
24:22Do you like the material, Alex?
24:25Alex, look at it.
24:27Seems to me it's very good for Robert's room.
24:30I never decorated a bachelor's apartment before.
24:34It's very nice, Stella.
24:36Is that all?
24:37It's just right.
24:39Yes, it is.
24:40Oh, you don't like it.
24:43Oh, yes, I do.
24:44It's just the right color for Robbie.
24:49Alex.
24:54Oh, Della, nothing.
24:55Nothing's gone right for me today.
24:57Oh, I can't believe that.
25:01Alex, you've heard something.
25:03You won't tell me.
25:07There's nothing you should know.
25:10Alex.
25:11Alex, we found the bracelet.
25:14We didn't look for it.
25:15If we went anywhere, we shouldn't have been.
25:18Now, come on back and play.
25:21Alex, look at it the way I do.
25:23Sometimes I believe no one dropped the bracelet.
25:27It's just a kid.
25:28Yeah.
25:29Is that terrible?
25:32Please.
25:33Take a walk.
25:33No, my seat.
25:36Just one more.
25:37Come on.
25:38Oh, my darling commands.
25:40I obey.
25:44There.
25:48Here.
25:51Here.
25:51Do I have to deal again?
25:53Mm-hmm.
25:53I hate.
25:55When I deal, black threes, nothing.
25:59When you deal, my hand is magnificent.
26:02The aces just fly into it.
26:04Oh, I never knew you'd put a spell on your partner.
26:07It's nothing.
26:08The smallest of tricks.
26:23Thanks.
26:27Imposter.
26:32You know, I think when I'm 80, you will still be 18.
26:36You 80?
26:38Oh, then I would want to be a hundred.
26:41I'll never be 18.
26:42No.
26:43No.
26:44When you're in the room, I'm young.
26:47That is your most magical place.
26:50When you leave the room, I just busy myself.
26:56Can you imagine being busy, being really busy, not looking for things to do?
27:06Oh, darling, I can hardly wait until the summer's over.
27:11Della.
27:12We found it.
27:14Why do we avoid it?
27:15I know we found it, Della.
27:17If we had found a pocketbook that no one claimed.
27:20A pocketbook with $10,000 in it.
27:21$10,000?
27:22You have heard something.
27:24Is it worth $10,000?
27:26I don't know.
27:27I picked a figure.
27:28Why?
27:29I put $10,000 in a pocketbook that doesn't exist.
27:35The material is very nice, Della.
27:40What will Robbie say?
27:42I hope he likes it.
27:44I hope he does.
27:48Della.
27:49Surprise him.
27:51Go and fix his room while he's downstairs working.
27:53Make it nice.
27:54And maybe you, you know, you could invite some people in.
27:56Have a party.
27:57All right.
27:58Who?
27:58Oh, some of the younger kids.
27:59Well, how about what they made to thee?
28:02Mr. Charles and his wife.
28:03Perhaps even Madame Polar.
28:05No.
28:06That wouldn't be right?
28:07No.
28:07Why?
28:09Della.
28:11Della, I'm so tired.
28:15One minute you're my old Alex and the next you're...
28:19Is there a reason?
28:21I want to be told if there is.
28:23It's been the worst day of my life.
28:24I told you so, Della.
28:25Why was it?
28:27You know how I usually love my dining room?
28:31How I enjoy every trip.
28:33Make little bets with myself.
28:34Is Mr. Hart going to have that drink or is he not?
28:37Every trip to a guest becomes a wonderful journey.
28:40A new experience.
28:43Today it wasn't true.
28:45I didn't care.
28:47That's good.
28:47I only thought of myself.
28:49And that's wrong when you want to serve someone.
28:51Exactly what I've been telling you.
28:53It's wrong.
28:54After 20 years, no headwitter's going to shout at me.
28:57Yes, he did.
28:58Oh, my silly darling.
29:01Oh, my sweet, sweet, lovely waiter.
29:06Oh, how upset you must have been.
29:10You know, it makes me so mad.
29:12You put on that uniform and anybody can shout at you.
29:15How can you stand it?
29:16No one.
29:17No one has ever shouted at me before.
29:19This has been the worst day of my life, Della.
29:21This hotel hates me.
29:23Oh, darling, stop thinking things like this.
29:25Yes, it hates me.
29:26He's found that bracelet.
29:27Don't say that again.
29:28I know it.
29:29You know it.
29:29I know it.
29:30It hates me because it belongs to Madame Polar.
29:41Madame Polar?
29:45No.
29:46I've never seen her wearing it.
29:50Why didn't you tell me?
29:53And to 10,000...
29:56Is that true?
29:57That's what they said.
29:57What else do they say?
30:11Robbie?
30:12It's Robbie, Della.
30:13Just one of these.
30:17Come here, Robbie.
30:18What is it?
30:19Alex, something's happened.
30:20What?
30:20What happened?
30:21My room has been searched.
30:22For whom?
30:24Those policemen.
30:25I told you they were here.
30:26I don't know why they'd pick me.
30:28Alex, why didn't you tell me?
30:29Are they searching every room?
30:30I don't know.
30:31Did you see them?
30:32No.
30:33After work, I went to one of the guys' room.
30:35He said it had been searched.
30:37I didn't believe him.
30:38Then I went to mine.
30:39Oh, it's your imagination, Robbie.
30:41I don't know why they would think of me.
30:42I don't like not being...
30:43It's your imagination, Robert.
30:45No, I'm sorry.
30:46It isn't...
30:46Excuse me.
30:47You see, this bureau?
30:49Yeah.
30:49Mine's over here.
30:51No, I don't dust as much as you do.
30:53So you can see right...
30:54Right where they moved it.
30:57What?
30:58Some of the college kids must have been a joke on you, Robbie.
31:01Forget about it, will you?
31:02I can't.
31:02No, I can't.
31:02I know this happened.
31:05You see, they don't know me now.
31:07I'm new here.
31:08They're going to start asking me a lot of questions pretty soon.
31:12I don't want that.
31:14They went through my laundry.
31:16They went through my closet.
31:18The door was open when I came back.
31:19I just cleaned my room, and I know I closed it.
31:22My bed?
31:23I know how to make my own bed.
31:25They tore it up.
31:26My pillow's always like this.
31:28This is the way it...
31:48we found it, Robbie.
31:50Tell him, Della.
31:52I did find it.
31:59I don't want it.
32:08Nice people.
32:10Always hanging around nice people.
32:13Robert, understand. Don't you see what happened?
32:17You took it.
32:18I understand that.
32:20It doesn't make any difference to me whether you found it
32:23or whether you had to sneak into somebody's room for it.
32:26I wouldn't do that, Robbie. You know I wouldn't.
32:28I know you wouldn't.
32:29I know. You see, I wouldn't.
32:32You make me a waiter.
32:34It's a new project, huh?
32:37You're going to teach me to be a waiter like you.
32:40That's fine.
32:41I meant it. I meant it, Robbie.
32:43What do you think he's going to get out of it?
32:45Don't, Robbie. Don't.
32:46You're so young. You don't understand.
32:48Don't judge him, please.
32:50Robbie.
32:51Son.
32:52Oh, don't you ever call me that.
33:13You're so young.
33:14My wonderful magician.
33:40Henry, isn't that a new busboy?
33:43He looks terribly sinister.
33:45Yield, Florence.
33:47Henry, if there has been a theft, I think we should just go to Bar Harbor and forget it.
33:52Florence, it's all gossip.
33:53We can't have the girls spend this important summer in a nest of crime and violence.
33:59What makes this summer so important, Florence?
34:02The one before their sophomore year always is.
34:07Well, here it comes.
34:10That's right.
34:10All right.
34:13Bury yourself in that.
34:14We never talk anymore.
34:17Is the roast beef rare, Alexander?
34:21Alex.
34:24Yes, sir.
34:24We have roast beef.
34:25Alex.
34:26Excuse me, Mr. Howard.
34:27Alex.
34:29Excuse me.
34:30Madame Pallard wants to see you in her suite immediately.
34:33Madame Pallard?
34:34Yes.
34:34What about? Why?
34:35I don't know.
34:35But I'm serving Mr. and Mrs. Howard.
34:37I'll put somebody else on your table.
34:38You've got to go.
34:39I can't.
34:40Go on.
34:40Go.
34:42What's the matter with you?
34:43Go on.
34:51I'm afraid asking Alex up here was a mistake.
34:54I have a purpose, Madame Pallard.
34:56And your investigation is certainly not as discreet as I hoped.
35:00Every employee knows the exact number of carrots in every stone.
35:05Any day now a guest is going to check out.
35:07Then another.
35:10Soon they'll all go.
35:12I don't want people watched.
35:15I want my bracelet back and the whole affair forgotten.
35:18And it's not going to be if you waste your time watching this poor boy Robert.
35:22Madame Pallard.
35:23And bringing my waiters in one by one to be questioned.
35:25Madame Pallard.
35:26No one in this hotel knows a thing about that boy except your waiter Alexander Ingalls.
35:30There are no references on the boy in your file.
35:32We can trace him to only one previous address.
35:35A chief boarding house in Miami.
35:37His room here.
35:38There is nothing in it.
35:39Literally nothing.
35:40When a man lives with no trace of a past about him.
35:43There is usually a reason.
35:46Come in.
35:50Come in, Alex.
35:52Alex, this is Mr. Wheelock.
35:54Sir.
35:54How do you do?
35:55Madame Pallard, I'm in the midst of serving you.
35:57I know.
35:57I took you away from your station.
35:59I'm sorry.
36:00Alex, please sit down.
36:01No, thank you.
36:03Stand.
36:06Then I'll be very direct with you.
36:08I need information.
36:10Madame can rest assured that I'll answer truthfully.
36:12It's about your protege, Robert.
36:15Robbie?
36:16What about him?
36:18Well, it seems that he has so very few belongings.
36:21Mr. Wheelock can't find a list of his former employers.
36:24May I ask why?
36:27Why do you want to know about him?
36:28It's about my bracelet.
36:31Evidently, I lost it on opening night.
36:34Remember the night I came by your table and we talked?
36:38Surely he can't be excused.
36:39There's no reason to be.
36:40Why do you say that, Mr. Ingalls?
36:42I know him.
36:43Mr. Wheelock feels that he doesn't.
36:45Alex, perhaps you could help him if you'd just tell him a little bit more about Robert.
36:49A little more about...
36:51How you met him?
36:52Where you met him?
36:55Della and I met him two years ago at...
36:58at the Sanssouci.
37:00He was working there as a lifeguard.
37:02He wasn't working regularly.
37:05Della and I thought that he deserved more than he had.
37:09He's a nice fellow.
37:10He attached himself to us.
37:12You see, Della doesn't drive, so he chauffeured her around.
37:16Go on, Mr. Ingalls.
37:18And I got him a job at the hotel where I worked as a busboy.
37:21He worked out great.
37:23He has a talent to be a waiter.
37:27Della and I felt so proud of him as though he were our own son.
37:31I'm sure you did.
37:33That's why I'm surprised that anybody would accuse him.
37:36Well, Mr. Wheelock?
37:39Is that all, madame?
37:41I think so, Alex.
37:45Mr. Ingalls.
37:48You say you got Robert a job in a hotel in Florida.
37:50Yes.
37:51And I understand you are also responsible for getting him his job here.
37:55Yes.
37:55You work very closely with the boy, don't you?
37:57Well, he's my busboy.
37:58A waiter and a busboy, they work hand in hand.
38:01They're a team.
38:01I understand that.
38:02And he was working on your table opening night.
38:04Yes.
38:04You were with him all through the dinner hour.
38:06Of course, he's my busboy.
38:07Yes.
38:07And after that, you cleaned your tables together.
38:09How long does that generally take?
38:11Oh, about an hour until about 10.
38:13So that you were with him until 10 o'clock.
38:15Yes.
38:16No.
38:16I let him go earlier that night.
38:17You let him go early?
38:18You finished your tables alone?
38:20Yes, sir.
38:20Where did Robbie go?
38:23I don't know exactly.
38:24Then you couldn't account for his whereabouts after, say, 9.45.
38:28No, I couldn't.
38:30But surely he couldn't have been anywhere where your bracelet was found.
38:32Couldn't he?
38:33Robert left the dining room between 9.30 and 10.
38:37Robert was the last one to leave the dining room, except for yourself.
38:40No.
38:41So assuming that the bracelet was locked, I could say that it did not leave the dining room
38:44in Robert Warren's pocket.
38:46Mr. Wheelock, the dining room, that's sufficient for me.
38:51I trust his ability to judge character as I trust my own.
38:55You're sure, aren't you, Alex?
38:56That Robert couldn't have found the bracelet?
38:58I'm quite sure, madam.
39:00Thank you, Mr. Ingalls.
39:01I think that will be all for now.
39:03Thank you, madam.
39:05Thank you, sir.
39:12A very loyal man.
39:15Rather nervous, wasn't he?
39:19Now, look, I just took Robert off the table this morning.
39:22I can't take you off this afternoon.
39:25What is wrong with Alex?
39:26I don't know.
39:27He just isn't himself anymore.
39:28Well, you'll just have to stay and work with him.
39:30It's all right.
39:32He's my best man.
39:33Excuse me, Mr. Charles.
39:34May I see you for a minute?
39:35Well, certainly, Mr. Wheelock.
39:36I'll talk to you later.
39:37I'd like to check a few details about this Ingalls.
39:40He says he let his busboy leave the dining room at 9.30 on opening night.
39:44Do you recall that?
39:45Well, let me think back.
39:46The last guests were at Alex's table.
39:49Now, they left with Madame Pillard, and Alex was left alone at the dining room, yes?
39:53Oh?
39:54Ingalls was left alone in the dining room on opening night?
39:57Mm-hmm.
39:58I remember speaking to him after they left.
40:00He was cleaning his table, and I wondered where his busboy was.
40:03Did he seem at all nervous?
40:05No.
40:05He seemed his usual self, but something's happened.
40:09I've had a lot of trouble with him since then.
40:10I don't know why.
40:11First, the busboy was changed.
40:13Then...
40:14His busboy.
40:14He's been having trouble with his busboy.
40:17Well, I guess so, because the boy himself requested the change.
40:20He came to ask me about it this morning.
40:21Thank you, Mr. Charles.
40:23Where is, uh, Ingalls now?
40:25Well, he's probably out on the terrace serving cocktails.
40:28I see.
40:29Thank you very much.
40:30Mm-hmm.
40:43Who is it?
40:47Come in.
40:51Mrs. Ingalls?
40:52Yes?
40:53My name is Robert Wheelock.
40:55Is Mr. Ingalls in?
40:56Uh, no.
40:58I suppose he's still downstairs in the dining room.
41:00Why do you want to see him?
41:01It's about a bracelet.
41:03Do you mind if I wait for him for a few minutes?
41:05No, not at all.
41:06Please, come in.
41:09Very pleasant room.
41:11It's our home.
41:13Would you care for a cup of tea?
41:14No, thank you.
41:16Oh, yes, perhaps I would.
41:17Oh.
41:17Allow me.
41:22I'm sorry, ma'am.
41:23Sawing, it gets so untidy.
41:26Sit down, please.
41:32Tell me, are you a detective?
41:36In a way.
41:38That's a funny answer.
41:40You either are or you aren't.
41:43My husband is usually very prompt.
41:45You see, I've always a cup of tea ready for him.
41:48Well, thank you.
41:50It's the one hour of the day where we can just sit and look at one another across the table.
41:56As you and your wife probably do at dinner time.
42:00Must be a very strange life, following your husband from one hotel to another.
42:06I don't follow my husband.
42:08We go together.
42:09Oh, I'm sorry.
42:11How long have you been coming here with him?
42:13Oh, 15 years.
42:15I see.
42:16What do you do with yourself all day in such a pleasant room?
42:20Keep myself busy.
42:22Doing what?
42:24Sewing.
42:25Making things.
42:27A strange question.
42:29I'm interested, Mrs. Ingalls.
42:31What are you making now?
42:33Uh, draperies.
42:35Why did your husband have a fight with his busboy, Robert Warren?
42:40It's to the third degree, Mr.
42:42Wheelock.
42:43Well, is it?
42:45Would you care to search my room?
42:47I understand you are searching rooms.
42:50Please do.
42:52The bureau.
42:53Here.
42:54Do you put things back neatly?
42:56And what about the bed?
42:58Shall I tear it apart for you?
43:00Here.
43:02Isn't it a shame?
43:03We have so many things to go through.
43:05I just sent the laundry out today.
43:07There's no laundry bag.
43:08Is that a good place to hide things in?
43:09You're welcome to search anything you want.
43:12You're not criminals.
43:15No one would suggest that you are, Mrs. Ingalls.
43:18I'd like to stop back a little later when your husband is here.
43:20May I?
43:21If you want me to, I can ask him to find you.
43:23Oh, please don't bother.
43:25Thank you very much.
43:26I'll find him myself.
43:27I'll be back later.
43:52I'll be back later.
43:54Robbie, listen to me.
43:55Will you?
43:56Robbie.
43:59Robbie, I won't talk to you.
44:00I don't want to talk to you.
44:02Madame Polar sent for me.
44:03Excuse me.
44:03Don't tell me you're troubled.
44:05Madame Polar sent for me.
44:07Listen, it's about you.
44:10Me?
44:10About you.
44:11Why me?
44:12They asked me about you, and I made it quite clear that you couldn't be mixed up with this.
44:16And they believed me.
44:18Then I can go, huh?
44:19Go.
44:21Florida.
44:21I'm going back to Florida.
44:31I'm going back to Florida.
44:33Alex!
44:33What's the matter there?
44:34There was a detective up in our room.
44:36Did he search our room?
44:36No, no.
44:37What did he do?
44:38He just came, and he said he wanted to talk to you.
44:40Was it V-Lock?
44:41Yes.
44:41I already talked to him.
44:42Did you?
44:43Maybe he wasn't satisfied.
44:44Did he say anything?
44:45No, he just came, and he said he wanted to talk to you.
44:47I don't understand.
44:49Alex, he thinks we have it.
44:50Well, he can't think that.
44:52How do you know?
44:52What made you think so?
44:53I know, I know.
44:55What did he say?
44:56Nothing, but he, he was so sure of himself.
44:59Alex, we've, we've got to get rid of this bracelet before he finds it.
45:03You can't carry the room in here, Della.
45:06Della, please calm yourself.
45:08If they see you like this, they know.
45:09But they know.
45:11They do know.
45:12Della, whatever happens, please, remember, I'll take care of you.
45:16Darling, darling, don't you understand what I'm trying to tell you?
45:20It's you I'm worried about, not me.
45:22Then we have to hide this bracelet so no one can ever find it again.
45:24Alex, Alex, we, we will know where it is.
45:30Don't you see?
45:31Don't you see what I've done to you?
45:34You know, you would have done, taken this bracelet back immediately.
45:41I, I wouldn't let you.
45:44I appealed to you in every way I knew how.
45:48I wanted a home.
45:50I wanted a place.
45:53Darling, I was willing to give up your life.
45:57And for what?
45:59For things.
46:00How could I have done it to you?
46:02Della, Della.
46:05Alex.
46:07Alex.
46:08Alex, we found that bracelet.
46:13You can't, we lose it again.
46:16Right here.
46:18Wouldn't it be enough?
46:21For us?
46:24Maybe.
46:27But would it be enough for Robbie?
46:32Della, I'm taking the bracelet back.
46:35I'm giving it into Mme Polar's hand.
46:37What about Mr. Wheelock?
46:38What will it do?
46:39That's up to Mme Polar to decide.
46:42Della, do you know what?
46:43What have you done to that boy?
47:04I'm taking it back, Robbie.
47:15You said the day was to be cataclysmic for me.
47:21I'm taking the bracelet back, Robbie.
47:25I'm putting it right in her hand.
47:29You see why I took it, Robbie.
47:33I don't know why I took it.
47:37I don't know why I took it.
47:38I took it, Robbie, you know why?
47:39I wanted to make some happiness for Della.
47:44For me.
47:48I tried to be so good.
47:54But I'm not a magician.
48:14Della, our family is back together again.
48:21I'm taking it.
48:23I'm taking it back.
48:25Alex.
48:30Hello, huh?
49:01In just a moment, the names in tonight's cast,
49:04and we'll introduce next week's star.
49:48Closed by Mildrems.
49:49Now here is a preview of next week's Goodyear Television Playhouse.
50:14Good evening. I'm Stephen McNally.
50:17Next year at this time, next week I should say at this time,
50:20I'm going to appear on a play called Big Man on the Campus.
50:25With me in the show will be Richard Jekyll and lovely Constance Ford.
50:29Please try to be with us next week.
50:31When we present Big Man on the Campus for the Goodyear Television Playhouse.
50:37Thank you, Stephen McNally.
50:39Big Man on Campus is the story of a former All-American football player
50:42and his struggle to make his brother follow in his footsteps.
50:46Two weeks from tonight, the Philco Television Playhouse will present
50:48Middle of the Night, a new television play by award-winning dramatist Patty Chayefsky,
50:53starring Eva Marie Saint in her first television appearance since On the Waterfront.
50:57Be sure to see Big Man on Campus next week on the Goodyear Television Playhouse.
51:01Don't forget, next Saturday night over another network,
51:04Philco will present the Miss America pageant from Atlantic City.
51:07See your local paper for time and channel.
51:10The Philco Television Playhouse originates live from Radio City, New York.
51:14This is Jay Jackson speaking for Philco.
51:19I'll see you next week.
51:25Bye!
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