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Fast One, by Arch Oboler · Lawrence University: Theatre of the Air

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  00:41 --> 00:51 Tonight, taped before a live audience in the F Theodore Cloak Studio Theatre on the campus of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, we celebrate the best of old-time radio. 00:51 --> 00:59 This year's Radio Drama Festival explores the macabre twists and stunning range of one of radio's most popular dramatists, Arch Oval. 01:00 --> 01:09 This is your host, Keegan White, welcoming you on behalf of the staff and students of the Department of Theatre and Drama. 01:10 --> 01:16Our Arch Oboler Festival continues with Fast Work from Mr. Oval's long-running series, Lights Out. 01:17 --> 01:25 This episode was originally broadcast on January 5th, 1943, and we bring you this play complete with the commercials and a public service announcement. 01:26 --> 01:29 Hold on to your seats. Here comes some classic Arch Oboler.
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  01:43 --> 01:45 Lights Out, everybody. 01:47 --> 01:53 It is later than you think. 01:54 --> 02:01 Lights Out brings you stories of the supernatural and the supernormal, dramatizing the fantasies and the mysteries of the unknown. 02:01 --> 02:10 We tell you this frankly, so if you wish to avoid the excitement and tension of these imaginative plays, we urge you calmly but sincerely to turn off your radio now. 02:11 --> 02:19 My name, Arch Oboler. Someone recently asked me what I would do if you could get your hands on all the money in the world. 02:20 --> 02:27 And by one of those peculiar back\ips, peculiar only to a playwright's mind, tonight's story happened. 02:27 --> 02:30 This is the story of a super crime. 02:30 --> 02:34 But before we start, a word from our sponsor. 02:34 --> 02:42 We're all expecting big things in this new year, 1943, and I personally hope that everything you're hoping for comes true. 02:43 --> 02:46 On the other hand, you can scarcely expect to win out if you don't feel good. So, if you're miserably thin and run down, weak and nervous, always tired, and if it's only because you need more vitamin B and iron than you're getting from your meals, take this friendly tip. Try Ironized Yeast. 03:02 --> 03:05 Lights out, everybody. 03:30 --> 03:33 But my dear Mr. Fenn, $5,000. 03:34 --> 03:41 $5,000. $5,000? What did you think you're doing, bidding at an auction sale? 03:41 --> 03:44 I am bidding for your services. 03:44 --> 03:49 And if a $5,000 retainer isn't enough, why, then name your own price. 03:50 --> 04:01 I'm not here as an individual. I'm here as a representative of a group of casualty insurance companies who handle practically all of the burglary insurance in this entire area. 04:01 --> 04:05 Well, if you're that important, talk important money. 04:06 --> 04:07 $10,000 cash. 04:08 --> 04:10 Very well. I'll write you a check. 04:10 --> 04:15 Fenn Detective Agency. F. E. N. N. N. 04:15 --> 04:24 A half a million dollars, stolen in broad daylight, no witnesses. A very clever criminal, whoever he is. 04:24 --> 04:29 But surely you don't believe that only one man has committed all these crimes. 04:29 --> 04:36 Whenever there is greatness, even in crime, the answer is a man. One man. 04:36 --> 04:46 25 places robbed, both sides of State Street. 25 stores robbed in the space of 30 minutes. And you talk of one man? 04:46 --> 04:47 He's very clever. 04:47 --> 04:54 No man could rob 25 places, spreading over a distance of three blocks in the space of 30 minutes. 04:55 --> 04:55 No? 04:55 --> 05:03 Of course not. Banks and department stores and loan companies. Cash registers cleaned out and not a clue. Not a witness. 05:04 --> 05:07 The devil alone knows what this is all about. 05:07 --> 05:08 The devil alone. 05:17 --> 05:41 City Morgue. Oh, hello, Chief. Yeah, he's been here two days in a row. Yeah, all he does. He looks at the bodies of the hit and run. Listen, Chief. Oh, here he comes now. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I'll try to dnd out. Yep. 05:42 --> 05:44 Hiya, Mr. Fenn. Early today, ain't ya? 05:45 --> 05:46 Quickly, show me the new ones. 05:47 --> 05:49 Okay, sure. Why not? Same kind? 05:49 --> 05:49 Yes. 05:49 --> 05:53 Okay. This one's name's, uh... 05:53 --> 06:01 Hmm. It's on the tag here. Morrison something. The relatives haven't claimed him yet. Look at him. Mashed up pretty, ain't he? 06:01 --> 06:03 Never knew what struck him. 06:03 --> 06:08 I'll say he didn't. The way that skull... I'll betcha he just went out like that. 06:08 --> 06:11 I'm no longer interested in this one. Where's the next? 06:11 --> 06:14 Coming up. Way to like put this fella back on ice. 06:15 --> 06:16 Let me see. 06:17 --> 06:18 Where'd I put the dame? 06:20 --> 06:35 Oh, yeah. Here she is. Oof. Whoever is the rat that hit her must have busted the front end of his crate. Look ather. Ain't much of her left to tell who she was, is there? The only identidcation was her drst name in a book. Let me see. 06:36 --> 06:44 Ah, Libby. That's what it was. Libby. Gosh, if this were my girlfriend and any hidden red rat did this, I'd dnd him even if I had... 06:44 --> 06:47 Hey, Mr. Friend, what's the matter? What are you laughing about? 06:48 --> 06:52 It ain't funny. The girls faced it. It smashed it. What are you laughing about? 06:53 --> 06:56 Now, now I know. Now, I know. 06:56 --> 07:23 Paper. Read all about it. Hit and run driver killed. Two more. Paper. Read all about it. Hit and run driver. Hey, paper, mister? Which one will it be, sir? 07:23 --> 07:27 No, I don't want a paper. I want to talk to you. Here. 07:27 --> 07:31 Oh, thanks, mister. Thanks. What do you want to know? 07:31 --> 07:34 There was a little accident on this corner yesterday, wasn't there? 07:34 --> 07:42 Yeah, yeah, sure. Some dame almost got her head cut off by one of them there hit and run guys. Hey, mister, you should have seen him, mister. I couldn't even begin to... 07:42 --> 07:48 Yes, yes, yes, yes. But that doesn't concern me. What I want to know is, did you see the accident? 07:49 --> 07:50 What, you mean the car what done it? 07:51 --> 07:51 Yes. 07:51 --> 07:55 Well, no. So you could really say you seen it. 07:55 --> 07:55 Speak up, speak up. 07:55 --> 08:23 Don't get sore. I'm telling you. I was just closing up my stand, ready to go home, see? And I had my back kind of to the street, see? And all at once I hear the whooshing, see? And dame screams. And then the whoosh again. Like one of them there race cars at the speedway. Like you see in the newsreels. When I turns around, there's a dame dying out there. And... Well, honest, mister. The hats are out of sight. Really? I didn't see nothing. No, sir. No, sir. 08:23 --> 08:25 You don't see nothing, huh? 08:25 --> 08:34 Oh, no, sir. Why, that car must have been going a hundred miles an hour. He ain't even got his lights on. No, sir. Hey, I'll catch you later, sir. Hey, son. Come on. 08:43 --> 08:47 You. Hey, you. Hold on there. I want to talk to you. 08:47 --> 08:48 Are you talking to me, copper? 08:49 --> 08:54 Oh, wise guy, huh? Listen, you. What's the idea of cross-examining everybody in the neighborhood? 08:54 --> 08:59 Now, just a minute. Before you start using that nightstick, you better have a look at this. 09:00 --> 09:02 Why? Oh, you're a private detective. 09:03 --> 09:03 Brilliant. 09:04 --> 09:05 How was I supposed to know? 09:05 --> 09:10 Well, you know it now. Tell me this. What do you know about the hit-and-run cases in this district? 09:11 --> 09:19 Oh, that's bad, sir. But what can I do? Drunken rats driving without lights and giving no warning. We'll get in tonight, sir. Believe me, we will. 09:19 --> 09:20 What do you mean? 09:20 --> 09:23 There's going to be ten squad cars to her in this district. 09:23 --> 09:32 Just a moment. One question. Have you been hearing any peculiar noises on your beat? Noises like an airplane motor when there wasn't anything in the sky? 09:33 --> 09:44 Oh, go on now. You're kidding me. Say, look at the time. I better get moving on me a bit or the sergeant be shooting his mouth off. Anything else I can tell you? 09:44 --> 09:47 Yes, this restaurant we're in front of. Is it a good place to eat? 09:49 --> 09:58 Yeah, Bedouche's place is okay. He's off in Washington, but his wife's running it. Nothing like the Ritz, but it's okay. Well, I'll be seeing you. 09:58 --> 09:59 You're mistaken. 10:06 --> 10:07 What do you have, sir? Nice dinner? 10:07 --> 10:09 Uh, coffee. 10:09 --> 10:11 Piece of nice fresh pie. Apple, peach, cherry? 10:12 --> 10:12 Apple. 10:12 --> 10:13 Yes, sir. Right away. 10:14 --> 10:16 I beg your pardon. 10:17 --> 10:20 Where did you come from? 10:20 --> 10:22 I followed you in. I wish to speak with you. 10:22 --> 10:23 Don't want to buy anything. 10:23 --> 10:27 I am not selling. Just like you, I am asking questions. 10:28 --> 10:34 Are you? I have been watching you all afternoon, and you have been asking many questions. 10:34 --> 10:35 What's that to you? 10:36 --> 10:43 I am Bellini, Dr. Bellini. I live in the neighborhood. I am interested in whatever goes on in it. 10:44 --> 10:55 Well, glad to meet you, doctor. Maybe you can tell me. Have you heard any unusual noises? Maybe during the late afternoon hours and evening hours? A noise you couldn't quite locate or explain. 10:55 --> 10:58 Noises? What noises? Are you a detective? 10:59 --> 11:01 Why do you ask that? 11:01 --> 11:08 As a physician, I pride myself in my powers of observation. You are a detective, eh, my friend? 11:08 --> 11:09 Yes. 11:09 --> 11:17 Then come with me. Do not raise your voice now. This gun in my pocket will kill you. Walk slowly toward the door. Make no noise. 11:19 --> 11:26 Now, open the door. Step outside. I advise discretion. I will be close behind you. 11:29 --> 11:36 Now, walk beside me down the street. A gun in your side. And you laugh? Why do you laugh? Tell me. 11:37 --> 11:41 I've been looking for you, Bellini. Yeah? Why? 11:41 --> 11:43 I must know your secret. I must. 11:44 --> 11:48 Very well. But there is a price to pay. 11:48 --> 11:50 Price? What is your price? 11:51 --> 11:52 Death. 12:06 --> 12:16 Ladies and gentlemen, a breath and a moment of relaxation before we return to this strange story of Bellini and Mr. Fenn and the secret price, which is death. 12:16 --> 12:24 Yes, before going on with tonight's Lights Out, a story, a moment for relaxation, and return to the realities of today. 12:24 --> 12:28 For instance, here's a lady with a problem that's facing a lot of us these days. 12:28 --> 12:35 Life is so hard lately. I feel it's my duty to do war work. Of course, I've got my home and children to take care of. 12:36 --> 12:40 But how can I keep going when I'm losing weight, can't eat or sleep? 12:40 --> 12:45 Oh, honestly, I'm so worn out and on edge. I don't know which way to turn. 12:45 --> 12:47 Hmm. You have a problem. 12:47 --> 12:52 But the solution may be easier than you think. As simple as more vitamin B and iron. 12:53 --> 12:55 More vitamin B and iron? I don't understand. 12:56 --> 13:04 Well, you see, when you don't get enough vitamin B from your food, then your appetite may be so poor that you don't eat enough to keep up your weight and strength. 13:05 --> 13:14 Or your food may not do you the good it should. And when you don't get enough iron from your meals, you may be weak and pale and listless. 13:14 --> 13:17 But if I do need more vitamin B and iron, then what? 13:18 --> 13:24 Then try ironized yeast tablets. They're ever so pleasant and easy to take. And they give you both vitamin B and iron. 13:25 --> 13:31 That's why ironized yeast tablets have been of such amazing help to thousands who only needed more of these substances. 13:31 --> 13:37 Help them gain wonderful new pep and strength. And dve, ten, even more pounds of good new \esh. 13:37 --> 13:38 Often in a few short weeks. 13:39 --> 13:45 Yes, indeed, ma'am. If you need more vitamin B and iron, then by all means, get ironized yeast tablets. 13:45 --> 13:47 Then see if pretty soon you aren't saying... 13:47 --> 13:56 What a relief to be doing things again. I've forgotten what tired means. I've gained pounds, and thanks to ironized yeast, I feel wonderful. 13:57 --> 14:06 And now, back to Lights Out. Mark Fenn and Bellini are alone, and the detective is about to hear the secret whose price is death. 14:17 --> 14:22 So, now we will not be disturbed, Mr. uh... 14:22 --> 14:24 Fenn. Mark Fenn. 14:24 --> 14:28 Mark Fenn. The man who is willing to die to learn my secret. 14:29 --> 14:32 I'll take my chances. Just tell me. How did you do it? 14:32 --> 14:39 But first, I will ask you questions. You are either a very clever man, Mr. Fenn, or a very lucky one. 14:39 --> 14:43 How did you suspect that it was only one man? 14:43 --> 14:45 I knew. It had to be one man. 14:45 --> 14:49 But how did you correlate the missing money and the dead in the streets? 14:49 --> 14:56 Thirty minutes to collect half a million and twenty-dve stores. I knew you'd have to move fast. I dgured someone would get hurt. 14:56 --> 14:57 You are very clever. 14:58 --> 14:59 You did do it, didn't you? 14:59 --> 15:06 Come. I will show you. You will be the drst to know, and the last. Here, sit down. 15:06 --> 15:07 Yes, yes, yes. 15:07 --> 15:09 Now, what do you see in my hand, Mark Fenn? 15:09 --> 15:13 I, uh, a bottle. It's full of oil. 15:13 --> 15:24 Not oil, you blind fool, but power. The key to the world. Listen to me, Mark Fenn. One drop of this and the world is mine. You believe, Mark Fenn. You believe what I tell you. 15:24 --> 15:29 But, uh, what does that stuff do? I mean, you've got to tell me. 15:29 --> 15:35 Speed. That's what it gives. Speed. Faster, faster, faster. Every atom in me. Faster. 15:35 --> 15:37 You do believe, Mark Fenn. You've got to believe. 15:38 --> 15:42 But what, what, I don't understand. What does that stuff do to you? 15:42 --> 15:43 You fool. Why don't you listen? 15:44 --> 15:44 But, uh... 15:44 --> 15:54 Speed, that's what it gives me. Speed, that's what it gives me. Every physical process, every mental activity, it speeds them up ten, twenty times the normal rate. 15:54 --> 15:57 Faster, faster. Every molecule. Listen. 15:58 --> 16:05 The average man walks three miles an hour. One drop of this, I walk sixty miles an hour. 16:05 --> 16:14 Now you know my secret. A chemical which speeds up my activities until I am a god among men. 16:14 --> 16:24 A drop of this, one drop, and I walk, and I talk, and I think twenty times faster than any man in the world. 16:24 --> 16:27 Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That can't be. 16:27 --> 16:31 No? Then watch. I drink. 16:34 --> 16:40 The doctor? Dr. Bellini? Where are you, doctor? Where are you? 16:41 --> 16:49 Oh, Bellini? Bellini? What are you talking about? What are you saying? I don't understand. Stop it. Stop it, I say. Stop it. 16:50 --> 16:54 Bellini, you went away. Where? What happened to you? Why do you talk? 16:54 --> 17:04 Like that. I told you the physical, mental processes speed up. Wait a second. The chemical effect will wear off briefy. 17:04 --> 17:08 That stuff. It makes you talk fast. Is that it? 17:08 --> 17:14 Ah, there. The effect is a worn off. I am back to normal rate again. 17:15 --> 17:16 Where did you go? Where? 17:16 --> 17:21 To prove to you that what I say is true. Look at what I have in my hands. 17:21 --> 17:25 Diamonds? A diamond necklace? Where did you dnd that? 17:25 --> 17:29 From the window of that jewelry store three blocks away. 17:29 --> 17:31 You were there and back in these few seconds? 17:31 --> 17:35 Twenty times faster than any man can run. I ran in those few seconds. Twenty times faster than any man can think. I thought in those few seconds. Now. Now do you believe me, Mark Fenn? 17:44 --> 17:49 Was it you moving at one hundred miles an hour that knocked down those people and killed them? 17:49 --> 17:52 It was you moving so fast that they were hurt, but not you. 17:53 --> 17:54 Yes, yes. It was I. 17:55 --> 18:00 It was you moving so fast that they couldn't see you. You took that half million in cash from those stores. 18:00 --> 18:02 Yes, yes. I. 18:02 --> 18:03 Well, me too. 18:04 --> 18:04 You? 18:05 --> 18:12 Yes, me. All my life I've wanted it, Bellini. The power you got. Bellini, I want it too. 18:12 --> 18:16 But why? Why should I share it with you? 18:16 --> 18:25 Because I could help you. Yes, that's it. I could help you. There's so much to do. You could rule the world. But you cannot conquer it alone. You need help, and I'll need your help. You hear me, Bellini? I'll help you. 18:32 --> 18:37 I'll do anything you say, but you must let me join you. It's the dream of all my life coming true. 18:37 --> 18:43 Power like... like God. Let me join you, Bellini. Let me. 18:43 --> 18:50 Yes. I need a man like you. Together, we will have the world. 18:56 --> 19:25 And I say to you that this great and unprecedented crime wave, which is sweeping our city, is due to the unholy alliance of crime and politics. 19:25 --> 19:26 Absolutely. 19:26 --> 19:32 Sweep the culprits out of office, and I say to you that... 19:32 --> 19:42 I tell you, Mr. Mayor, I'm doing everything I can do. I've sworn in a thousand extra deputies. I've got the roads blocked. I can't gas everybody. It's just due to... 19:46 --> 19:59 And I tell you, fellow citizens, that this alliance of the underworld and their masters can never be broken until we, the people, take matters into our own hands. 19:59 --> 20:28 So, now we are vampires. This revolution is cracked. An unholy alliance of crime and politics. We have done well in these ten days. Eh, Mark Fenn? I'll say we have, Bellini. 20:28 --> 20:34 Mm, ten million dollars. Nobody in the world ever collected money that fast. 20:34 --> 20:36 It was good letting you join me. 20:36 --> 20:37 I told you. 20:37 --> 20:40 All the places where money is, you know. 20:40 --> 21:08 But, it's not money alone we want, Bellini. Oh, I know, I know. We have been just, how do you say it, testing our wind. And now, we're ready to go. Yes. A new concentrate of my chemical is ready. Today, we have a tickle city. Tomorrow, the world. The world. But now, while the city we left behind us boils and the madness we brought it to, you and I, we will rest. Eh, Mark Fenn? 21:08 --> 21:11 You laugh again. You laugh again. Why? 21:11 --> 21:15 Mm, I was, I was thinking of the fun I had this morning. 21:15 --> 21:24 Oh, you and me when we liquidated your enemies. Dead. Every mother's son of them. Everyone that everlaughed at me. 21:24 --> 21:30 Yes, every, every one of them. And you go on to new triumphs. 21:30 --> 21:36 Ah, they never knew what hit them. That's the only trouble with moving so fast, Bellini. 21:36 --> 21:40 You mean when you struck them at dfty times the norm of rate. 21:40 --> 21:47 Yes. It was like hitting them with a six-inch shell. The skull smashed in like empty eggs. 21:48 --> 21:55 And you are disappointed because your revenge is over too quickly. Eh, Mark Fenn? 21:55 --> 22:13 Yes. What if I were to tell you that my new concentrate, the one we will use tomorrow when we arrive at theseat of your government, what if I were to tell you that this new concentrate is indnitely more powerful than theone we have been using? 22:13 --> 22:16 More powerful? How can that be? 22:16 --> 22:24 Listen, the one we have been using increases the physical and mental rate twenty times. Is that not so? 22:24 --> 22:28 Yes. Talk, walk, run, and think twenty times faster. 22:28 --> 22:38 So, there you have it. With the new concentrate, talk, and walk, and run, and think an indnite number of times faster, no? 22:39 --> 22:41 You, you mean there's no limit? 22:41 --> 22:42 No limit. 22:42 --> 22:44 We move faster. 22:44 --> 22:45 As fast as you like. 22:45 --> 22:55 Say, as fast as you like. The limit will only be our desires. The curve of light. Here, there, the next place. Masters of men. 22:56 --> 23:01 Because compared to us, men are snails who crawl while we run. 23:01 --> 23:03 Masters of men. 23:03 --> 23:07 I brought a bottle. The new concentrate. 23:07 --> 23:09 It looks the same, yes. 23:10 --> 23:12 Shall we try some, Mark Fenn? 23:12 --> 23:14 I, uh, I, I don't know. 23:14 --> 23:15 We must try it sometime. 23:16 --> 23:17 Yes. 23:17 --> 23:20 This is the same basic formula as the other. 23:20 --> 23:21 You sure? 23:21 --> 23:25 I do not ask you to do what I will not do myself. 23:25 --> 23:29 We will take equal amounts and compare reactions. 23:29 --> 23:31 How much will we? 23:31 --> 23:32 Two drops each. 23:33 --> 23:35 I have two medicine droppers ready. 23:36 --> 23:36 Yes? 23:36 --> 23:42 The moment we swallow the drops, we'll move toward, um, you see that barn across the deld? 23:42 --> 23:43 Yes, yes. 23:44 --> 23:48 We'll meet there and compare how fast we can move. 23:48 --> 23:50 Here are your drops, Mark Fenn. 23:51 --> 23:52 I, um, I... 23:52 --> 23:55 Surely you're not afraid, my friend. 23:55 --> 23:57 Afraid? Me? No, of course not. 23:59 --> 24:0 Give me those drops. We will drink together. 24:04 --> 24:04 Yes. 24:13 --> 24:15 Mark, Mark Fenn. 24:16 --> 24:16 What is it? 24:16 --> 24:19 Mark, Mark Fenn. 24:19 --> 24:20 Bellini. 24:20 --> 24:20 What? 24:21 --> 24:22 What happened? 24:22 --> 24:23 I, I, I am not quite sure. 24:24 --> 24:26 The, the, the, the, the barn. 24:27 --> 24:28 We are lying by the barn. 24:29 --> 24:31 How, how, how did we get here? 24:32 --> 24:35 Mark Fenn, your clothes. 24:35 --> 24:37 My clothes. 24:38 --> 24:40 Oh, well, I'll be. 24:40 --> 24:41 I'm naked. 24:42 --> 24:42I, too. 24:43 --> 24:44Mark Fenn, listen. We moved so quickly through the air, our clothes were torn off. 24:49 --> 24:53 Our new concentrate, infnitely more powerful. We moved through the air at a tremendous rate, hundreds of miles an hour. 24:58 --> 24:59 Bellini. 24:59 --> 25:00 What? 25:00 --> 25:01 Your lips. 25:02 --> 25:04 They're not moving, yet I hear you. 25:05 --> 25:06 Your lips. 25:07 --> 25:10 They don't move either, and yet I hear you, too. 25:11 --> 25:12 That cannot be. 25:12 --> 25:15 What, what is it, Bellini? 25:15 --> 25:20 Our reactions, they're concentrated and speeded up so intensely. 25:21 --> 25:22 We read each other's thoughts. 25:22 --> 25:23 No, no, no. 25:23 --> 25:24 Do not move. 25:24 --> 25:25 Why not? 25:26 --> 25:27 The concentrate. It is too powerful. 25:29 --> 25:33 We must lie quiet until the effects wear off. 25:33 --> 25:34 Yes, but, Bellini! 25:35 --> 25:38 Fenn, why are you looking at me like that? 25:38 --> 25:41 Your, your face. 25:41 --> 25:43 My, my face? 25:43 --> 25:47 Something's to, to happen to it. 25:47 --> 25:47 What? 25:47 --> 25:48 Speak up. 25:49 --> 25:50 What's wrong with my face? 25:50 --> 25:53 What is, oh, yours. 25:53 --> 25:54 What? 25:54 --> 25:55 Your face. 25:56 --> 25:58 Creases and lines in it. 25:58 --> 26:00 Oh, and yours. 26:01 --> 26:03 That's what's happening to yours. 26:04 --> 26:08 Bellini, have you, Bellini, what's happening to make us? 26:09 --> 26:10 Age. 26:10 --> 26:11 That is it. 26:12 --> 26:13 Age. 26:13 --> 26:13 Age? 26:14 --> 26:14 What? 26:14 --> 26:15 That is it. 26:15 --> 26:17 We are aging. Aging. 26:19 --> 26:20 Aging? 26:21 --> 26:22 What are you talking about? 26:22 --> 26:28 The concentrate, our physical reactions, they have speeded up too much. 26:28 --> 26:31Tell me, what, what's that got to do with? Listen to me. 26:32 --> 26:37It has speeded up our life processes to indnity. 26:38 --> 26:41We, every second is aging us a year. Every second. 26:43 --> 26:43 No. No. 26:45 --> 26:47 I'm a young man, Bellini. 26:48 --> 26:49 You're lying. 26:49 --> 26:52 I'm not getting older. 26:52 --> 26:53 I am not. I am not. 26:55 --> 26:57 We are, we are dying, Mark, Fenn. 26:58 --> 26:58 Dying. Dying. 27:00 --> 27:03Oh, you lie, Bellini. 27:04 --> 27:05 I won't die. I won't die. I won't die. 27:10 --> 27:11 Fenn. 27:12 --> 27:16 And yet, the solution works on his \esh. 27:17 --> 27:17 Decay. 27:18 --> 27:20 No, no, no, no, no. 27:20 --> 27:24I cannot die, master of men. 27:24 --> 27:30I cannot die, master of death. 27:50 --> 28:03 Mr. Obler, men who move at the speed of light, I ask you. 28:03 --> 28:07 Well, not exactly at the speed of light, but fast enough. It's all quite possible. 28:09 --> 28:13 But before talking of that and other pertinent matters, a word from you, please. Remember now, friends, if you simply need more vitamin B and iron in order to get back your old-time pep and strength, 28:20 --> 28:25 your zest for living, then by all means try ironized yeast tablets. Try them on this no-risk, money-back basis. 28:28 --> 28:34 If you don't quickly begin to eat better, sleep better, feel much stronger, more alive, yes, 28:34 --> 28:40 and you're not convinced that ironized yeast tablets will help you gain the pounds of good new \esh you need, 28:40 --> 28:44 the cost of the drst bottle will be refunded to you in full by Ironized Yeast Company. 28:45 --> 28:48 Remember, too, there's only one ironized yeast. 28:48 --> 28:52 You'll know it instantly by the big IY on the package and on each tablet. 28:53 --> 28:58 And now, Mr. Obler, what is this about human beings moving as fast as light? 28:58 --> 29:07 Well, rather than talk of that, I'd like to speak to you about something as real as the air you're breathing right now. 29:07 --> 29:11You know, if we could put a little lights-out fantasy into the war effort, 29:12 --> 29:17 all we'd have to do to get more ships and planes and guns for our dghting men is to, well, inject some of Bellini's wonderful speed-up serum into the arms of our workers. 29:22 --> 29:26 But the Japs and the Nazis aren't dghting this war with mere fantasy. 29:26 --> 29:33 They're using real bombs and bullets, and the only way to get more of the weapons of war into the hands of men dghting and dying for us is for more of those not working in war jobs to get into war industry. 29:38 --> 29:40 Your work can help win this war. 29:41 --> 29:45 If you live in an area where there's a shortage of workers in a nearby war plant, get a war job. 29:45 --> 29:49 Go to your local United States Employment Service ojce. 29:49 --> 29:53 They'll tell you where to get free training courses and where you can be of most help. 29:54 --> 29:58 Remember, that's only if you live in a production center that's short of workers. 29:59 --> 30:02 f you don't now live in such a place, don't move to one. 30:02 --> 30:09 Jobs will open up in other centers as soon as the acute housing and transportation problems have been solved. Now, the surest way to put a Jap in the White House, 30:13 --> 30:17 yes, a Jap in the White House and a Nazi in your front door, is to expect the other fella to win the war for you. 30:20 --> 30:2 To work for victory is just another way of dghting for it.Thank you, Mr. Obler. 30:31 --> 30:34You've been listening to Fast One by Arch Obler, brought to you by the Lawrence University Theater of the Air and the Department of Theater and Drama. 30:39 --> 30:42 This episode was directed by our very special guest director, Norman Gilliland. 30:44 --> 30:46 Fast One by Arch Obler starred, 30:46 --> 30:48 Nick Endress as Mark Fenn, and Timothy Troy as Dr. Bellini. 30:51 --> 30:53 Richmond Freeland portrayed Mr. Obler. 30:53 --> 30:56 Also featured in this episode were Chris Warman, Sarada Earnshaw, Arthur Frieland, 30:59 --> 31:00Emma DeCourcy, Deanna Wanner, Heidi Wormuth, Meredith Nimke, and Tim Sullivan. 31:05 --> 31:14 Music for this program and Lawrence Theater of the Air theme music was composed and conducted by Kenneth Hembaugh and performed by the Lawrence Radio Orchestra. 31:15 --> 31:16 Miranda Wardell, Patrick Davis, mStacey Anderson, Jonathan Jacobson, 31:20 --> 31:20Elliot Dupuis, and Scott Palmer. 31:22 --> 31:24 Sound effects by Chad Close. 31:24 --> 31:26 He was assisted by Chris Warman. 31:26 --> 31:28 Our sound engineer is David Owens. 31:30 --> 31:31 For Lawrence Theater of the Air, this is your host,Keegan White. 31:35 --> 31:41 That moment of silence was sponsored by Susan Richards and the rest of the staff at the Lawrence's Sealy G.Mudd Library, 31:42 --> 31:48 where Lawrence students gathered to study and Lawrence professors like to put very long books on only two-hour reserve.