Lux presents Hollywood. Lever Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, bring you the Lux Radio Theatre, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Bert Landcaster in Sorry Wrong Number. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keely. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight's play reverses the usual relation between radio and motion pictures. Sorry Wrong Number was first a radio drama and it achieved such success on the air that Hal Wallace decided to make a picture of it. He assigned the author, Lucille Fletcher, to expand her short drama into a full-length screenplay. And the result was a triumph of suspense drama. The rest of the success story you know, because the Paramount picture with Barbara Stanwyck and Bert Landcaster as the stars was one of the top films of the year. Tonight, Sorry Wrong Number completes the circle and comes back to radio with Ms. Stanwyck and Mr. Landcaster in their original screen roles. Just as our drama had a double success story, so has our product, Lux Toilet Soap. It's been a favorite for years in the regular size and now the new bath size has made Lux Soap a hit all over again. The curtain rises now for the first act of Sorry Wrong Number, starring Barbara Stanwyck as Leona and Bert Landcaster as Henry. In the tangled network of a great city, the telephone is the unseen link between a million lives, servant of our common needs, confident of our inmost secrets. Life and happiness wait upon its ring and horror and loneliness and sometimes even death. Operator! Operator! Operator! Your call, please. Operator, I've been ringing Murray Hill 32491 for the last half hour and the line is always busy. Will you ring it for me, please? Murray Hill, please. It's my husband's office. He should have been home hours ago. I can't think why that ridiculous wire should be busy. They always close that office at six o'clock. I am ringing your number. Thank you. Oh, it's busy again. Operator, the line is busy. Now will you please? Hello? Hello, Mrs. Stevenson, please. Hello? I want to speak to Mr. Henry Stevenson. Hello, George. Speaking. Hello, what number is this? Everything looks clear. I beg your pardon, but I'm using this wire. What about that? So awful. That's horrible. You just gave me a wrong number. I was calling Murray Hill 32491, but instead I was cut into some other number that you dialed. The wires must have been crossed or something, and I just heard the most dreadful thing, a murder. Yes, madam. I want you to get that wrong number back for me at once. I'm sorry. I just told you you dialed a number for me and then those horrible men came on and, well, it's unnerved me dreadfully. I'm an invalid and I... I'll connect you with the chief operator, madam. Well, do something, please. Oh, yes, yes, you may. I'm an invalid and I've just had a dreadful shock just now on this telephone, and I'm very anxious to trace the call. It was about a murder, a terrible cold-blooded murder of a poor innocent woman tonight at 11.15. Yes, madam. I was trying to reach my husband's office. He should have been home hours ago. It's almost 10 o'clock. I'm all alone tonight. My nurse has the night off because my husband promised he'd be home by six. About the call, madam. I don't know any of the neighbors as we live permanently in Chicago, and it so happens that the couple I have working for me had some important data rather. I don't know, a movie, I suppose. They said it was promised them three weeks ago. You'd think they'd at least have checked with me before leaving. They know I'm not well. About the phone call, madam. I told you I kept getting a busy signal. Then I asked the operator to call for me. And then, out of a clear sky, I was cut into this ghastly conversation between two killers. I suggest you call the police, madam.   Is anyone downstairs? Gertrude. Gertrude, are you down there? Sane, I tell you, a woman is going to be murdered. What a clue. Oh, that would be ridiculous.  Hey. Just a minute. All right. Don't listen to me. Who cares? Oh, Henry, why did you leave me alone? Why did you leave me alone here? Oh, his secretary. Henry's secretary, she'd know. Her number's on the pad. Jennings. Ms. Jennings. Elizabeth Jennings. He was supposed to be home hours ago. What appointment? Where? What young lady? Tell me, Ms. Jennings. I'm Ms. Stevenson. Mrs. Lord? Why? Mrs. Lord phoned here this afternoon. Oh. Yes, the nurse answered. I have the memorandum right here. Mrs. Lord, 4.50 p.m. No. No, thank you, Ms. Jennings. Thank you. Good night, Ms. Jennings. Mrs. Lord. A young lady, she said. Lunch and gone all afternoon. Hello? Mr. Stevenson, please. He's not in. I'm sure I don't know where Mr. Stevenson is. Call back later. Yes, 15 minutes. Yes, yes, I'll tell him. Mrs. Lord, telephone. 4.50 p.m. Murray Hill, 3. 9266. Hello? Is Mrs. Lord in? This is Mrs. Lord. Who's calling, please? Mrs. Henry, you might give me some idea. Yes, yes, but I can't talk now. I can't hear you.  Call me wrong? Leona, this is Sally. Sally Hunt. Sally Hunt? I'm sorry if I sound ridiculous, but I can't talk now. No, no, no. I'll call you back as soon as I can, Leona. Hey, Sally, who was it? Uh, just one of the girls, dear. She wanted a recipe. Hey, Joe, I'd like a bottle of beer. You got any on ice? Oh, no, I'm afraid not. I'll run down to the store. Thanks, honey. And hurry back. Joe was dying. Sally Hunt. Yes, that was long ago. College spring dance. He was Sally's date. He was with her when I met him. Henry. Henry dancing with Sally. Hello, Leona. This, uh, this is Mr. Henry Stevens. Hello, Henry. Well, can I cut in? You don't mind, miss, where I come from, it's the man who does the picture. All right, go ahead. Why don't you get somebody your own speed? I'm sure there are better dances around. Oh, you'll do all right, Henry. Leona knows her way around the floor. Thank you, darling. Well, Henry, let's dance. So your name's Carter, huh? No relation to, uh, J.B. Carter. Distant. He's my father. Your father? Anything wrong with that? Oh, no, no, nothing wrong. What do they call you? The Asperin Eris? You from out of town? Well, that depends on what you call out of town. Oh, I don't know. Harvard? I'm trying to be funny. Okay. What do you call out of town? Grassfield. Oh. What college is up there? No college, miss Carter. Just factories. I never even finished high school. Neither did my father. He always says if a man has talent for making money, why should he waste his time in school? I guess your old man ought to know. What do you say we sit the next dance out? Why? I've got a car, Mr. Stevenson. A brand new one. A Lagonda. Ever drive one? I never even heard of one. Besides, I'm with Sally. Oh, don't worry. She'll never miss you. But maybe I'll miss her. What didn't you think of that? Oh, come on. Don't be silly. For once, I'm not kidding. Neither am I. So long, Miss Carter. Well, Henry, it took me a few days, but I finally got you in my car. How do you like it? Fine. Only we don't go together. It's a lot easier to see you here than, well, with Sally Hunt. I'd never put the two of you together in a million years. Why not? Oh, you're both so different. You belong in different worlds. Yeah. What are you stopping for? Why not? It's nice here. Sure, it's nice here. Take a look. This is Grassfield. Stick around a few years and then see how much you'll like it. What do you do, Henry? I work in a drugstore. Well, that's a coincidence. Sure. I work in a drugstore and your father owns a hundred of them. Would you like to meet him? Say, who are you kidding? Nobody.  You're young, healthy, ambitious. Why don't you stop? What does a girl like you want with a guy like me? Dad's coming to New York next weekend. I'm cutting my classes on Saturday. Want to come with me? I don't know. When you look at me like that, I...  No, not yet, Henry. Not yet, darling. Like him, honey, but he's nobody, Leon. And what has he got? Nothing. And what did you have, Dad, when you started? Besides, I thought you said he was sort of engaged to that girlfriend of yours, that Sally something. Oh, that's all over with. Dad, I... I love him. Love him? Oh, come on. If I really thought you did, you know I'd be the first one. Oh, no. Don't start telling me that. Leon, what's the matter?  What does it really matter to you if I love Henry or not?  You're afraid of losing me. Haven't I always let you do anything you ever wanted to do? But marriage is something else. I... I've worked hard. I've built up a big business just for you. And you yourself wouldn't want to see some worthless clock of a husband, a guy who doesn't... Let me alone. Leon, please. You don't care about me. You're thinking only you're hateful, selfish, and hateful. Leon, stop it, dear. You'll make yourself sick again. And what good is your wonderful money and your wonderful business if I'm dead? Yes, that's what you want to do. Drive me into my grave. You don't care just as long as your business is safe. How can you say things like that? Oh, go away. Don't touch me.  Darling, listen to me. I don't mean to... Look, we'll talk it all over again as soon as... Leon, Wilson! Wilson, quick! Call a doctor! Sally Hunt. I took Henry away from her. She couldn't stand it. Even after all these years, she couldn't stand it. Going to him today, seeing him in his office. Hello? Leon? Well, this is all certainly rather odd to say the least. But I had to see Henry again today. I've been so worried about him. Worryed? About what? Well, my... my husband, he's with the district attorney's office. And a couple of weeks ago. Hey, Sally, here in the newspaper about an old boyfriend of yours. Old boyfriend? Ah, remember Henry Stevenson? Oh. Pictures in the paper. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stevenson, she's the formerly owner Cotterill of Lake Forest, Illinois, have taken her house for the summer in a certain place. Mrs. Stevenson in poor health for several years is here to consult with specialists. Mr. Stevenson is vice president of the Cotterill Drug Corporation. Are you tearing it out for me? Oh, no. No, it may come in handy in the case I'm working on. What sort of a case? Oh, special investigation. Joe's on it, wouldn't he? Henry hasn't done anything wrong, has he? Sorry. I've won too many questions.   Hello. Anything happen, Joe? And Stevenson fell for her. Oh, well, sure, we'll go. Look, tell Bogey to line it up. Five thousands enough and a hundred dollar bills and make sure they're marked.  Thursday, huh? Okay, ten o'clock. I'm sorry, this scene's involved, Leon. Involved? I simply don't know what you're trying to tell me. Well, wait till I finish. I know I didn't have any right to do it, but that Thursday I went to Southbury. I don't know what I expected to see, but anyway, I spotted Fred and his friend Joe from the police. There was another man with them. I guess the one who was to bring the five thousand dollars in marked bills. Well, I followed them. Followed them? Where? Abored the ferry and over to Staten Island. They went far out to a very desolated stretch of beach, nothing but a few broken down shacks in an old deserted house. I had to stay way behind them so they wouldn't see me. But then they went in the house. That gave me a chance to come closer. There was a freshly painted sign out front. Twenty Dunston Terrace, it said. And the name, Evans, W. Evans. Evans? Do you know it? I... Well, we were in back of the house. A man sort of elderly got out of the boat and went into the house. He was carrying a suitcase. A little later my husband came out. Only now he had the suitcase. Well, he didn't come home until late that night. I was dying to ask him what happened, what possible connection it could have with Henry. Well... I... I didn't dare ask him, Leona. But things have happened since, and unless we do something, something drastic, it may be too late. You're five minutes... Just a minute, please. I know I have another nickel. I still there, Leona. I'm here. Yes, I know. And I just didn't seem to be able to connect Henry with it. That's why I finally went to see him today. What did you find out? Well, I met him for lunch. He told the captain he was expecting a very important phone call, and then we sat down. It's been a long time, Sally. Eight years. Tell me, how's dear old Gratzville these days? I don't know, Henry. I haven't been back. So you're married now, huh? Living here in New York? Yes. My husband's with the district attorney's office. Oh. That's why I want to... Henry, what I... But what I'm trying to say is this. A few days ago, I saw a picture of you in the newspaper. Vice president now. Sounds beautiful, doesn't it? Biggest drug business in the country. I was sorry to read that Leona isn't well. Yes. Chicago doctors don't seem to know just what it is. Her trouble, I mean. Henry, what do you do in the drug business? Push buttons, like all other vice presidents. Oh, but I'm serious. So am I. I'm almost as important as the office boy. Don't mean to be inquisitive. I only mean this for your own good. I mean, what for my own good? Well, yesterday my husband was making out a report. You have your phone call, Mr. Stevens. Oh, thanks. Excuse me, Sally. I'll be right back. Well, I waited a while, Leona. But Henry didn't come back. And then I... Operator, but I haven't been talking five minutes. I deposited another nickel. Only a couple of... I am sorry, then. But I haven't any more change. Hello, hello.  But I only wanted to say that Henry never came back to the table and that he is in trouble. Fred's been talking to the police. I've heard him mention Henry's name over and over again. And there's someone else in it, too. That man called Evan. Your five minutes are up, madam. Waldo Evans. He owns that house on Staten Island. I am sorry, madam. I will have to disconnect you. Reverse the charges. Put them on this phone. I'll be later. I'll... This will bring you back to a sorry wrong number. Now, here's Libby Collins, our Hollywood reporter. Well, Libby, that was a gala evening we all had at the premiere of 20th Century Fox's new picture, 12 o'clock high. Yes, indeed. And for one person in particular, it must have been the thrill of a lifetime. I'm thinking about our little luxe girl, Jackie Barnes. The winner of the national contest for the prettiest 15-year-old luxe girl. Jackie was an honored guest at the premiere. She certainly was a radiant youngster. She got more compliments than she could count that evening. Well, that's the way it is with luxe girls, Libby. 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No wonder luxe toilet soap is the leading beauty soap, not only in Hollywood, but all over the country. If you haven't tried it, why not begin your luxe soap facials tomorrow? Remember, nine out of ten screen stars recommend this gentle protecting care. Now, our producer, Mr. William Keely. Act two of Sorry Wrong Numbers, starring Barbara Stanwyck as Leona and Bert Lancaster as Henry. It's a moment or so later. Through an open window, the night air rips slowly in Leona's window, heavy with the heat of a New York summer. Leona lies motionless on the bed and the sounds of the night become magnified. The tugboats on the river, the hum of distant traffic, the muffled roar of a train passing over a bridge, and then suddenly... Hello? I can hear you. I'm calling on the one I told you about. But who is Waldo Evans? And for heaven's sake, what's his connection with my husband? I still don't... Oh, that's absurd. My father called me from Chicago this afternoon. He never mentioned a word. Now, look, who's been arrested and why? Three men. And why do you think Henry's one of them? I didn't say... Did anyone say he was going to be arrested? No, not exactly. Then what are you talking about? Why are you calling me like this? Are you still jealous that I took Henry away from you? Can't you bear to see me happy? Can't you stop telling lies and making trouble even now? I can't talk any more. Then I'm right. You are just trying to make trouble. No, no. This is Mrs. Stevenson. I need you right away, doctor. Please, come right over. No. I want you to come over at once. Of action. What are you talking about? What letter? Discuss it now. Do you hear me? Now... Anyway, we discussed your illness at great length. I still don't know what's wrong with her. Well, Mr. Stevenson, your wife's illness seems to date far back to her early childhood. Is that true? Yes, I suppose so. But you knew nothing about it when you married her? No. Not until after a couple of years. You see, we were... we were living with her father then, in Lake Forest. I remember early one morning. Why did you send the maid for my handbag? Why? Because there's something in it that I need. Well, how much money do you want? I'm sorry to disappoint you, Leona, but this time it isn't money. It's simply that I wrote Ferguson's telephone number in your notebook last night. And I want to call them. We have a day for lunch. You know perfectly well you're having lunch with me today. I know, Leona, but I won't be able to make it. This date with Ferguson's rather important. Oh, more important than me, I suppose? Isn't that, Leona? It's just that... well, it's about a job. You have a job. What on earth are you talking about? Leona. Leona, I've been meaning to say this for you to you for weeks. I just don't belong in your father's business. Who says you don't? I do. I say it. Working for your father is like... like running in a dream. No matter how hard you try, you know you'll never get anywhere.  I want a chance. A chance on my own. Leona, you're not getting the chance. I won't have you traipsing around. You hear? Just because Dad doesn't go falling all over himself, you're not going to throw away a million-dollar business like Cotter else for an idle whim. It happens to be my business, too, you know. And to think my own husband turns up his nose at it. Now call Ferguson and tell him you've changed your mind. Go on, Henry. Call him. But I haven't changed my mind. You're still going? Yes. Someday you'll see it'll be better for both of us. Henry! Now that's a little silly, isn't it? Locking the door? You're not going, Henry. Not as long as you're my husband. Oh, come on, Leona. Give me that key. You can't do it. You can't do this to me. Nobody's ever done it. Nobody, nobody. Will you please stop and give me that key? Henry, please. If you love me. If you love me at all. Henry, I beg you. I'll talk to Dad. I'll do anything. Anything you want only. Don't leave me. Don't go away. Give me that key. No! No, I won't. I won't. Your husband told me, Mrs. Stevenson, that in spite of your opposition, he had lunch that day with Mr. Ferguson. When he got home that evening, he said your father was waiting for him at the door, angry and worried. All right, Henry. Come to the library. I want to talk to you. What's the matter? Where's Leona? Leona's in bed. She had an attack. A heart attack. She almost died. A heart attack? Did you too quarrel this morning? Yes, but... But what's that done? Aren't you supposed to have lunch with Leona? Yes, but I had to see someone else. Look, Mr. Carter, if you don't mind, I'd like to see Leona. You'll see Leona when she's ready to see you. Just in case you don't know it, Leona's had a heart condition since childhood. Her mother died of it the day Leona was born. Leona can't stand being treated the way you did this morning. She never has been before, and she's not going to be now by you or anyone else. And what happens if once in a while I have an opinion of my own?  Henry, have them. Think anything you like. But while you're in this house, you'll do what my daughter tells you to do. I think you should know that the argument this morning was about a very important decision.  A decision I made as much for the sake of Leona's future as for my own. Was it for her that you had lunch with Ferguson? Well, did you get the job? No. No, I didn't. And I'll tell you why you didn't. It so happens I'm a pretty good customer of Ferguson's. I buy more than $2 million worth of dyes every year, and who do you think he's going to care about, you or me? So that's what happened. Now, who else in Chicago would you like to have lunch with about a job? Oh, face up to it, Henry. Just as long as you're my son-in-law, you're working for me and nobody else. If you really cared for Leona the way I do, you'd have done the same thing in my place. Besides, you haven't done so badly for yourself. I'll go upstairs and see Leona. She's been asking for it. Well, Mrs. Stevenson, as I say, we discussed all these things in my office 10 days ago, your husband and I. I asked Mr. Stevenson how long this heart attack of yours lasted. Oh, she got well right away, doctor. Maybe I... Maybe I should have pulled out then and there, but I didn't pull out. Somehow I couldn't. My father wasn't altogether wrong. I hadn't done too badly for myself. Anyway, from that time on I began to compromise, always with the hope that somehow, someday I'd win out on my own. But it wasn't long before we were right back where we started. Another attack? Yes, sir. I remember one day in particular. I had an idea that I thought that I hoped might help us.  Oh, you'd be crazy about it, Leona.  I'm not interested, Henry. But you haven't even seen it. Why, there are terraces on all four sides... I've told you a thousand times we don't need an apartment. Leona, Leona, it's not an apartment I'm looking for. What I want is a home, a home of our own. You just can't go on living with your father indefinitely. I don't see why not. There's plenty of room and I like it. Besides, who's going to pay for this little penthouse? Well, I hope eventually I will. Oh, eventually. But in the meantime, it's my money and I'm the one who's going to pay for it. Okay, Leona, let's go. Henry, you're so naive.   There's a limit. Sure, there's a limit. I'm supposed to follow you around like a pet dog tied to a chain. I'm supposed to like whatever crumbs you want to throw.  Yes, you've got me sewed up 16 different ways for three meals a day in pocket money. That's all you care about. That's all you married me for, my money. I should have known it. I should have known it. Oh, stop it, Leona. Please, just for once, will you listen to me?  You're bored with me. All you want to do is get away. Okay, I'm bored. Bored stiff. Who wouldn't be with that neat little routine you've got cooked up for me? What do I have? Nothing. Nothing on my own. Not even the studs on my shoulder, the matches in my pocket. Henry, Henry, how can you say this to me? You once told me I'd love this kind of life. Remember? Well, do you want to know something? I do love it. I love it now more than you'll ever know. But I want to be my own boss, profiting by every bit of it, not just a stooge on the outside looking in. Henry! Henry, get me some water. Quick. Listen to me, Leona. Please. It isn't that I want to be without you. I could love you still if only you'd try to understand. Henry, my birds. Henry, the pails and my birds. That attack kept her in the hospital nearly three weeks, doctor. At the time, I... well, I thought it was all my fault. But no matter what I did, her attacks increased in violence and became more frequent. A year ago, Leona... well, she just seemed to give up hope of ever getting well. She took to her bed more or less permanently. It was my idea to come to New York and see you. The doctors in Chicago said she didn't have much of a chance. Anyway, we rented the house on Sutton Place and here we are. And believe me, it's been more and more like a nightmare. Mr. Stevenson, there's absolutely nothing wrong organically with your wife's heart. Nothing wrong? I've examined her thoroughly. And what you've just told me confirms what I've thought from the start. And... And that is... Her condition is mostly mental. Mental? She's what we call a cardiac neurotic. Her attacks are brought on by her emotions, the lack of control, the frustrations.    But, given the proper treatment, she may snap out of it entirely. Well, I'll... I'll call on her tomorrow. There's a psychiatrist I wanted to see. Doctor, I wish you could wait a few days. I'd like to think this over. Think it over? Yes, you see, she's so easily upset. But I think that, well, maybe I ought to prepare her. You know, get her used to the idea. Well, a few days more or less won't matter, I suppose. Unless... Unless you wanted to write her a letter. It might make it easy for her to take in it. Well, it would give me more time to talk to her. Well, it's an extremely delicate matter, Mr. Stevenson. But if you think you can manage it, let's try it that way. Give me a ring in a couple of days. Meanwhile, I'll write the letter. Thanks, Doctor. Thanks for everything. Well, that's exactly the way I left things, Mrs. Stevenson, ten days ago. As your husband requested, I wrote you the letter. And I'm telling you, I never received a letter. Well, let's not worry about that now. I've told you everything, and now I want you to relax. Do you have that sedative I prescribed? Yes, yes, it's here. Well, then take some. Double the dose and I'll... Lies! Fantastic! What money? Who's more as I'm a terribly sick woman? A chemist. Anyway, late one afternoon, your husband walked into the laboratory. We pause now for station identification. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. In a few moments, we'll continue with Act Three of Sorry, Wrong Number. Our guest tonight is Barbara Ann Newton, young Paramount starlet. Aren't you glad, Barbara, you were present at a certain little theater production one evening? A lucky evening for me, Mr. Keely. A talent scout saw me for range first screen testing. And here you are in picture. Yes. And from now on, I'm going to work like mad. Oh, it must be wonderful to be a great actress like... like Olivia DeHavilland. Well, I gather you've seen her new picture of the heiress. Not once, but three times. I can understand why the New York Motion Picture Critics gave Mr. Havilland the award for the best performance of the year. And how did you like Montgomery Clift as the money-conscious suitor in the heiress? He's splendid, so dashing and... and romantic, too. And Ralph Richardson as a stern father is simply perfect. Do you remember the scene where he compares his unpopular daughter sought after cousin? Oh, yes. The party scene where Mona Freeman is the reigning bell. She's like a Dresden doll, so blonde and dainty. Those lavish costumes of the crinoline era suit her beauty very well. Yes, Mr. Kennedy. And she's just as delicate and lovely in real life. Always so beautifully groomed. Real luxe loveliness, huh? Exactly. Mona Freeman gives her complexion daily luxe soap care. And she's really keen about the new bath size cake. Nine out of ten screen stars say they're delighted with this new product of Lever Brothers Company. For a luxurious, refreshing, relaxing beauty bath, you simply can't buy a finer soap. That's the way I feel. I love the nice fragrance that leaves on the skin. Thank you, Ms. Barbara Ann Knudsen. Women who use the generous new bath size luxe toilet soap will agree. Its rich, abundant lather and delicate flower-like fragrance make a wonderfully refreshing beauty bath. So, for all over luxe loveliness, why not get the satin-smooth bath size luxe toilet soap tomorrow? Here's our producer, Mr. William Keely. The curtain rises on the third act of sorry, wrong number, starring Barbara Stanwick as Leona and Bert Lancaster as Henry. Up on the table says ten minutes to eleven o'clock. But Leona Stevenson clutching the telephone listens with mounting the wilderness in fright the voice of a man named Waldo Evans. Well, this is very interesting, Mr. Evans. So, uh, this is where the formula for all our products are developed, huh? That's right. Some of these drugs must be very valuable. Oh, yes, Mr. Stevenson, very valuable. And tell me, what do you do with them? Well, they go into the various cartwell products, sir. And you're the man in charge here, huh? Yes, sir. I see. Well, thanks for your time, Mr. Evans. I was just curious. Thank you, sir. Good night, Mr. Stevenson. And one night, when it was storming, he offered to drive me home.  Well, I didn't know that. Yes, sir. I live in a rooming house on Chestnut Street. A man all by himself, no responsibilities. Tell me, why do you work so hard? Well, to tell you the truth, sir, because I have a hope, an ideal, you might say. In a few years, I hope to retire. Retire, huh? Oh, I have it all planned, sir. I'm going back to England. I hope to raise horses, sir. Well, not, uh, not raise horses. Just horses, sir. Do you care for horses, Mr. Stevenson? Well, I'm afraid I haven't thought very much about them. Oh, then you're missing a great deal. Well, that's my hope, sir, to live there quietly and raise horses. Why have you waited this long? Money? Money, of course. But someday I'll... Why wait until you're old? What good is a dream when you're too old to enjoy it? Oh, I've thought of that, Mr. Stevenson. I suppose the zest does come out of things with the encroachments of old age. Now you're talking, Wally. My motto is, if you want something, get it now. It's, uh, it's the next turn to the light, Mr. Stevenson, uh, Chestnut Street. You know, Wally, Wally, I've been thinking, there might be a way out. A way out? Yes. To have your little place in England. Everything you want. Indeed, sir. And all you have to do is to make a little mistake every now and then. Mistake? In the laboratory. I've been checking on it, Wally. The way you're set up, no one would ever know. Mr. Stevenson, I... I better say goodnight, sir. Wait a minute. The differences in the amounts of those raw drugs you handle need be so slight that nobody but yourself would ever know. I... I don't understand, sir. Look what you've done to the company all these years. And what have you gotten out of it? There's a tenth of the salary you should be getting. No, no, please, Mr. Stevenson.  I've already talked it over with someone else. Talked it over with... with whom? A man named Marano. He can handle all the raw drugs that we can get. And then we split. You, Marano and I. Mr. Stevenson, I just can't believe it. You're a young man. Vice President of the company. A wonderful future ahead of you. You don't make me laugh. Yes, I'm young. Young enough not to waste my life in dreaming. There are things I want to do, big things. And the only way to do them is... I'm sorry, Wally. I thought you were my kind of a person. I trusted you. But... but... What if we were caught? Why should we be caught? We'll make our pile and stop before anyone even guesses what we're not. Marano knows just what to do. Besides, for once there's an advantage in being Kotterl's son-in-law. Yes. Yes, I... I see. I thought you would, Wally. Well, partner, we're in business. And so we started, Mrs. Stevenson. A systematic plan of robbing your father's company. By September of last year, I had banked the sum of $7,500. But then, I received a memo random from the personnel office. Will you please stop your whining? Did you read the memo? You're not fired. They're simply transferring you to the New Jersey plant. But they must suspect. This is a warning. I'm sure of it. I'm through, Mr. Stevenson.  We've been stooges up till now. Marano's plate is for suckers. This is our chance to get rid of him. That transfer of yours is just what I've been looking for. I don't understand. I'll tell Marano you've been fired. That the deal's all washed up. Meanwhile, you're back there in New Jersey. We'll operate on our own and we'll split Marano's share between us. But I'm just a chemist, Mr. Stevenson. I don't know anything about disposing of drugs. But I do. I know all about it. Now listen, the Kotterl plant in New Jersey is in Bayonne. And just across the bay from Bayonne is Staten Island. I happen to know a little about Staten Island. About six weeks later, we began operations, Mr. Stevenson, on Staten Island, New York. Our headquarters was an old abandoned house, 20 Dunstan Terrace. There, twice a week after work, I would come from your father's plant in Bayonne. And there, Mr. Stevenson would telephone me or mail me his instructions from Chicago.  A few nights later, when I went to 20 Dunstan Terrace, I found that your husband was not alone. Come right in. We've been waiting for you. Wally? This is Marano. Marano? You didn't expect me, did you, Mr. Evans? Well, neither did Mr. Stevenson. But here I am. You see, I have ways of finding things out. For instance, ever since the two of you broke off our pleasant little association in Chicago, I find you a cumulative rather large bank account. Am I right? What about it? I'm warning you right now, Marano. Don't you try any funny business. Relax, Mr. Evans. I'm warning you. I said, relax.  You see, I merely represent an organization, but we had what you might call a board meeting, and the vote was 7 to 1 against you. Now, that's pretty serious. That's like a death sentence. Cut it short, Marano. What do you want? Mr. Stevenson, please, give them what they want. Mr. Marano, you can take everything I've got.  Now, if you were to turn back what you've accumulated, Mr. Stevenson, and pay us $200,000 for our injured feelings, I might get the board to reconsider the decision. You know as well as I do. I don't have that kind of money. But you have such wonderful connections. I mean, you and her father-in-law are very rich wives. Yes, a lot of good that does. Why do you suppose I went into this racket? But I thought I read somewhere about your wife being sick. Very sick. What about her? Well, she has life insurance, hasn't she? Made out in your name. Now, I'm pretty sure the board will give you, say, 90 days to raise the money on something like that. Why 90 days? Isn't that what the doctor in Chicago said? She wouldn't get better? Yes, that's what it said, but... Well, what's that? Well, just a little IOU to make it legal, you see. Everything can be straightened out without any trouble, without any rough stuff. But suppose something happened, that my wife didn't. I mean, I mean, if she got better. I wouldn't worry about that, Mr. Stevenson. You've got a doctor's word for it, haven't you? They know their business. So here, take the pen and sign the piece of paper. What I have just told you, Mr. Stevenson, took place three months ago. I need not describe Mr. Stevenson's distress when the IOU became due last Wednesday. As I understand it, Mr. Stevenson saw Mr. Milano, but his request when extension was refused, already giving you the final message. I believe the rest explains itself quite simply. Mr. Evans, where is my husband? Where is Mr. Stevenson now? I wish I knew. Perhaps if you tried the Bowery number... The Bowery number? What Bowery number? The one I gave you when I first started to talk. I can't, I can't! I'll repeat it once more. Just give me the Bowery number, the one for my husband. Point five. Bowery two, one thousand. Bowery two, one thousand. Bowery two, one thousand. Henry, Henry. Is this Bowery... Is Mr. Stevenson there? Mr. Who? Stevenson, Mr. Henry Stevenson. I was told to call by Mr. Evans. Yes, yes, Stevenson. Hold on. Mr. Evans said he might be expected. Could I, could I leave a message? Message? Oh please, please help me. What number is this? What am I calling? Bowery two. Can it give me the hospital? I can't be alone. I want the nurse's registry. I want to hire a trained nurse immediately for the night. I am sorry, but this is a city hospital. It doesn't matter. I've got to have a nurse. I understand. Conversation, a telephone conversation about a murder. A murder to be committed at eleven fifteen. I, I don't know what's happened to my husband. Just now on my telephone. As though someone had lifted the hook of the extension downstairs. Well, I did. There's someone in this house. There's someone downstairs. And they're listening to me now. Stevenson from New Haven. Do you wish to accept a call madam? Oh yes. Yes, I got it. How's Henry? Right now. I, I'm sure of it. Oh honey. I want you to call the police. Do you hear me? Tell him to come over at once. What do you know? What do you know about a man named Waldo Evans? I talked with him just a little while ago. About you. About me. He told me some terrible things. Some of it sounded insane, but some of it, maybe it was true. He said you'd been stealing from Dad's company. Is that true, Henry? He left some kind of a message for you that the, the house on Staten Island had been burned down and that the police knew everything and that Morano had been arrested and that, Henry, for a criminal, Henry, a desperate man, and Evans said, Evans said you wanted me to, to die. And that money, Henry, that money those people wanted. Why didn't you ask me for it? I, I'd have given it to you gladly if it would have saved your life. I, I, I'll give it to you now if it isn't too late. That's all right. I didn't mean to be so awful to you, Henry. I, I only did it because I loved you and I, I thought you didn't love me and that you'd go away and leave me. Leona. Yes? We want you to do something for me. Will you forgive me first, Henry? Will you? I want you to bring experience in the theater. Our thanks go to this evening stars, Barbara Stanwick and Bert Lancaster. They're coming downstage now for a curtain call. You know, it's good to have you both back. And it's nice to be back. Bill says you got him in bed with the audience, Barbara. In what way? Well, we keep getting letters asking why you haven't been here for so long. And we have to keep explaining that you've made one picture right after another with no time off in between. One thing is sure, Bill. I haven't forgotten the Luxe Radio Theater or Luxe soap. It's my favorite complexion can has been for years. And that's one of the nicest compliments Luxe has ever received. Barbara, tell me if you can. Isn't she wonderful? I sound like Andy Devine. She says she sounds like Andy Devine. Tell me, Barbara, how many pictures have you made that still aren't released? Four, Bert. And what's the first one we'll see? The Hal Wallace production with Alma Jordan. Oh, yes, Wendell Corey's in that too. You know when you and Hal Wallace get together on a picture, we know it's going to be a hit. Bert, I hear you are off for New York in a few days. Yes, I've just finished my own Norma FR production of The Hawk and the Arrow at Warner Brothers. And now I'm going to New York to see a few shows and take a brief vacation. Well, your last vacation you spent out on the road with a circus is an acrobat. Nothing like that this time? Not unless you have to be an acrobat to get tickets to South Pacific. Bill, tell me, what's next Monday's show? Next week, Bert, one of America's best-loved characters will return to this stage. The gentleman I'm talking about is Mr. Belvedere. And our play is the 20th Century Fox hit Mr. Belvedere Goes to College. Naturally, we'll have the original Mr. Belvedere here to play the part, the amazing Clifton Webb. And besides Mr. Webb, we have two other stars, Colleen Gray and the popular Robert Stack. A great comedy and the return of Mr. Belvedere all on next Monday night. Everybody will love it, Bill. Good night. Good night. Good night. And thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, there's a great deal of vague and sentimental talk about the American economic system. But here are some full facts. Since 1910, we have increased the income of each household from $2,400 to about $4,000. And the figures are in dollars of the same purchasing power. We've done it by increased production, and yet we work 18 hours less each week for this extra money. This is the miracle of America. 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Welcome to Yes, We're Here. I'm Meredith Moracovitz, alongside James Paxton, who's hanging out in Wisconsin right now. James, first and foremost, how are you? How are your family right now? We're doing good. We're healthy, luckily. Everyone's doing well. We're just hanging out, waiting patiently to get our lives back going again like everybody else. Now, Erin Boone mentioned the other day when I talked to him that you've been throwing bullpens already. How many bullpens have you thrown, and how is that back feeling? Oh, man, I think I've thrown probably 12 to 14 bullpens. It's feeling really good. Back is a non-issue. I feel totally healthy, so I'll be ready to go as soon as the season comes about. Even though you had said, even when we were in spring training, that you were feeling better day by day, when you threw that first bullpeng, was there any prepidation wondering how the back was going to feel afterwards? Oh, yeah, for sure. I was nervous going into it. I was feeling really good playing catch, so that was a really good sign. But it's always different when you get off the mound. So I was really interested to see how I was going to feel the next day, and it turned out feeling really good. I never really had too many issues with the back after I kind of got going. But it's been getting better and better. The velocity is getting better and better, breaking balls and stuff like that, getting a feel for my pitches. So everything's going really well.  I have some new routines that I do pre-workout and pre-bullpeng now, just to make sure that back is nice and loose and activated. The muscles are all activated, so there's a little bit of pre-work that goes into it. But right now, it's just kind of maintenance stuff. I think I'm back to full strength. If a season was ready to start tomorrow, or spring training would be ready to start tomorrow, I'd be ready to be just like one of the other guys and do all the regular stuff. Now I'm just curious, if you're throwing bullpens, that means somebody has to be catching. So who did you enlist as your partner to help you out? Well, I'm lucky. I have a friend here that has a private facility, baseball facility, and I have some workout equipment in there that I'm able to work out with. And it's called Turn 2 Sports here. And he gets down, he plays catch with me five days a week, and we throw two bullpens a week. Now, Matt Blake spoke a lot during spring training about how they were incorporating all this new technology, the cameras for the pitchers. Have you been in correspondence with him at all? Have you been sending him any video? We have been talking, and I have been sending him video of my bullpens and stuff like that. Unfortunately, I don't have the same kind of technology that they have down in spring training or even in New York to track my pitches and spin rate and all that interesting stuff. I did, there is a ball we have here that tracks spin rate to a degree. And I have been working on a few things to increase my spin rate, and I've seen some good results there. So continuing to try and improve over this time, even though we're not playing. James, how do you change that? How do you tinker around to increase your spin rate? Well, for me, what I found was how I hold the ball, how I hold my fastball. I'm trying to hold it a little bit differently with less contact on my thumb, because I guess that's supposed to kind of like put some drag on the ball. So I've been trying not to touch my thumb as much to the ball, and I have this like, pitch hiker's thumb, you can see. So I kind of hold it with this part of my thumb instead of this part. And I've been noticing some more spin and backspin when I throw the ball. I have to imagine when you first tried that, it's a little bit awkward. Does it take a while to feel confident about changing that a little bit? Yeah, it was a little bit weird. I know, I've heard guys say that when you tuck your thumb underneath the fastball, that's when you get the most spin, but I just have no feel for the balls going when it's there. So I still have kind of that guiding thing with my thumb here, but because I still have my thumb on the ball, I have that pad of my thumb off of the ball. I still experienced some increase in spin, which has been fun to see. How anxious are you to face hitters again? Oh, I can't wait. You know, I'm really excited to get back out there, feel the adrenaline, getting some competition. It'll be great once we get going again. How much have you been keeping up with guys on the team? I've talked to a few. I've been talking to Garrett, a decent amount, and Zach Britton and some other guys. Seems like everyone's kind of in the same boat, just trying to stay as ready as possible for whenever something can get going.  How do you gauge your workouts, not knowing when that start date is going to be? Well, I think I'm just trying to continue to progress. You know, at some point, it will be a bit of a holding pattern because you can only go so far when you're not facing, you know, getting into a live game and facing other teams and getting that adrenaline going, but I'm still trying to create more and more feel for my breaking balls. Working on a changeup is actually coming out pretty good right now. And just continuing to work on the repeatability of my delivery and my location of my pitches and everything. And as far as amount of throws, you know, I've got to the point where I'm throwing a bullpen and then I'll do like two mock innings. I've had some guys come in and stand in so I kind of can see what a hitter looks like in the box and run through some counts and stuff like that to try and get myself as ready as possible. Now we saw a video of Garrett Cole playing catch with his wife. Did you ever try to convince your wife, Katie, Joe, to stand in just so you have somebody if those guys aren't available, stand in the batter's box for you? I don't think she'd be too comfortable standing in but we did play a little bit of catch. And we played catch quite a bit actually for about a week and then her arm got sore and she was like, all right, I'm done. You can't have her get injured on top of it during this quarantine period. Exactly.  What have you guys been up to with social media and just gathering? You guys seem to be laughing and having a good time. Yeah. Well, Katie's kind of got into doing some TikTok videos. I know it's been a little bit since her last one but she got into doing some of those. She's been practicing in the kitchen and I've been her video guy to get some of those on camera for her. We got bikes, we bought bikes and we've been going for bike rides around town here and stuff and trying to keep ourselves busy. Would you consider yourself a TikTok master yet? Absolutely not. I barely know what I'm doing. I don't even know what I'm doing with Instagram. Katie tells me she has to teach me how to do Instagram because I did a couple podcasts and I put one out on my Instagram the other day and she was saying, oh, you need to learn how to put the link on there so people can just press it and go to it. And I'm like, I have no idea what that is. So I'm still learning and all that technology stuff. Well, keep the stories coming. I know the fans love to hear from you and they love to see what all of you guys are up to. Thank you so much for joining me. Stay safe and I hope to see you at the ballpark soon, James. You bet. Same to you.


Paula Bedossa vs. Tamara Zedinsek is the first quarterfinal for the women's event at the French Open for 2021. Both players have been very impressive in their lead up to this quarterfinal. The unseeded Zedinsek started the tournament off having to face the number six seed Bianca on Drescu. And after a couple of tie breaks in the first two sets, Zedinsek prevailed in an epic third set, 6-7, 7-6, 9-7. In her second round matchup she would take on American Bregel winning that one in straight sets, 6-4, 6-1. In her third round she take on another unseeded opponent, Sinyakova. And after losing the first set badly, she came back to win in 3, 0-6, 7-6, 6-2. Her fourth round opponent was another unseeded player, Castella. But Zedinsek got through this one in straight sets, 7-6, 6-1. Bedossa came into the French Open as the 33rd seed and would take on Davis in the first round, getting through in straight sets, 6-2, 7-6. Her second round opponent was Kovnić and again a straight sets win for Bedossa. 6-2, 6-1. Her third round opponent was another unseeded player, Bogdan. And after going down in the first set, Bedossa had to fight to win in 3, 2-6, 7-6, 6-4. Her fourth round opponent was 2019 French Open finalist and number 20 seed, Bondrasova. And this match was an absolute battle with Bedossa eventually prevailing in 3, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 to advance to the quarter finals. These two have never played before so this is a first time meeting which is always very tough to figure out who's actually going to win this one. Zedinsek after beating Andrescu in that first round has been very, very impressive all the way up to this round. But Bedossa is in very, very good form not only just at this tournament but through the whole Claycourt season having won her first career title along the way. If Zedinsek is going to win she's going to have to take all her chances against Bedossa and probably win the first set just to give herself a little bit of peace of mind because she's going to be very nervous in the biggest match of her life. If Bedossa is going to win she's going to have to be the more aggressive player. She is the taller player of the two so she's going to have to be the bigger hitter and take the offense and make Zedinsek run side to side so she can win the points. This is the first time quarter final for both of these players at Grand Slam level but I'm going to go with Bedossa to win this one in three sets because I think she has a little bit more experience on the Clay especially her form going into this tournament. But let me know down in the comments below who do you think is going to win this one.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com coming at you with a 2020-2021 Panini Donner's basketball hobby pack, random team break number 30. We're going to do the break itself first and then we'll re-randomize everybody's names and the name on top will get the Warriors in the contenders basketball break. So big thanks to this group right here for getting in on the action, appreciate it. There are all the basketball teams right here so we're going to do the pack break first and then we'll re-randomize everybody's names with a different dice roll. For the break, we'll go 11 times names and teams. One, two, three, and 11th and final time. Six and a five, 11 times for the teams. One, two, nine, 10, and finally 11th and final time. All right so here's the first half of the list right here and here's the second half of the list right over here. Let's sort by column B, sort by team alphabetically. Let's print, let's rip. So we're going to do this pack right here. That's the fresh case of contenders that's in the next video, separate video. All right here is the official list, hot off the presses. Thanks everyone. Just set that right there. Thanks everyone. You got a nonograph, rated rookie auto, Cassius Stanley. It's Brian Watford and the Pacers. There's Andrew Wiggins to 349 for the Warriors. That's a Torrin Prince, eight out of 10. It's a nice low number there for the Nets. Anthony with the Brooklyn Nets. The Wiggins will go to Sean B and the Warriors. Giving away the Warriors at the end of the break. One spot out of the 30. Can they get it? There's a Marvel's insert, Pascal Siakam. Really like those. Where's Ben Simmons going to end up? There's Obi Toppin, Kira Lewis Jr., Jalen Smith, and a Lamello Ball. Nice. That looks like a bronze parallel as well. Look at the foil. Jason Travis got randomized to Charlotte Hornets. And you can kind of see the bronze foil right there. Nice. And we got the rookie's insert, Obi Toppin. That will be for New York. That's going to go to Jason Travis as well. And the Marvel's insert, Brian Watford, Toronto Raptors. Not bad. And all the rated rookies and inserts will shift. Only vet comments that won't end up shipping. There you go, boys and girls. Let's flip back to this screen. There's going to be one happy person, a lot of sad people. New dice, new list. Let's roll it and randomize it. Snake Eyes. Name on top after two gets the Warriors and Contenders hoops. One and two. Now there's 29 sad spots here, but thanks everybody for giving this a shot. I appreciate it. A lot of sad faces. Very close, Anthony. All right. But the name on top, it's going to be Sean Matic. Congrats to you. You're going to get the Warriors and that Contenders break. I'm Joe for jasmizcasebreaks.com. I'll see you for that in the next video. Bye-bye.


What's up everybody I'm TheMangoose you were awesome and this is another call to arms where I ask Metabuff and Omega Studios to correct some of the things that went wrong with Paragon. Actually this one also applies to undying and visionary with their games. What I'm going to be talking about today is keeping complexity in the game. Paragon started out with a great amount of depth to the gameplay. Assips for each hero, skill based abilities, and jungle minions that posed a challenge in the early game were but a few examples. However as the game went on they started implementing hero kits with lock on abilities, the absolute most brainless last hitting system ever, push over jungle camps, and entire kits that were designed around passive abilities. Complexity in a MOBA sometimes serves as a barrier of entry for new players, however it's also what makes the game fun for those of us that devote ourselves to learning the ins and outs of a game. If there isn't a way to separate the wheat from the chaff then you end up with shitty bread in a dead game. Let's talk about the introduction of lock on heroes, mainly Moragesh and Revenant. One of the ways Paragon took advantage of the Z axis was having both basic attacks and abilities that had to be carefully targeted thereby rewarding skilled aim. Moragesh and especially Revenant took this away for no reason. Why was Mori's mark a lock on? I know it had a shorter range than most abilities, but I would rather it be a longer ranged aimed ability. Why did three of Rev's abilities require no targeting on the part of the player? You could literally close your eyes on Revenant and hit somebody with his ultimate, scar, and obliterate all in a row. The basic reasoning was to give PS4 players some heroes that negated the need for the control of a mouse to aim. However, I know plenty of console players that had zero problem aiming. Yes, a mouse does have more control than a stick, but PS4 players seem to do just fine to me. Furthermore, no one from the console community was asking for heroes that had easy to target abilities.  I'm just saying that they were a poor solution to a problem that did not exist.  If you didn't stick around long enough for it, what would happen is when the minions fell below a certain health threshold, their health bar would turn red and you could execute them to earn your last hit. This completely removed any nuance involved in last hitting your minions for more gold. Gobas are a game of economy and figure out how to gain an economic advantage over your opponents. One of the staple ways of doing this is by being able to better predict when an attack will apply the killing blow to a minion, therefore rewarding your aim, hero knowledge and game knowledge all at once. You could always tell you had yourself a good ADC on your hands when they were snatching up them last hits. With the new system though, anybody could do it. At best it was a game of whack-a-bowl, just waiting for a minion to pop red then hit it. At worst, it completely eliminated all skill and allowed you to just blast away at a minion wave knowing that you will get the last hit if you just keep firing.    Who thought that giving everyone a constant low-key sparrow ult was a good idea?  Then we have jungle camps. The jungle camps on Paragon were an absolute joy, especially the monolith camps to be honest. It took skill to know how to rubberband in and out while kiting the minions around all the while trying to maximize the amount of damage you dealt to increase the efficiency of your jungle clear. To be successful in the jungle, you needed to pick a decent jungler, plan your route, and pay attention to the jungle spawn times. They took this away from us too.  Yes, some heroes still had faster clear times, but there was no danger to it.   Did he DC in the jungle? I'm all four people being able to play whatever hero they want, but the jungle should be a dangerous prospect reserved for heroes designed for it. Not a nature walk for supports to enjoy.  A once proud hero with an interesting kit that took some real skill to use. If you've never placed a strategic static trap, then push someone back into it and then drill them down with basics, then I feel sorry for you. He had such an enjoyable ability set and it was reduced to two passives and an active.   I had quit playing a few months before the end was announced and coming back to this version of Murdoch, it straight up hurt my soul. There were other examples of kits being dumbed down, but Murdoch is the most glaring one. I'm sure there are plenty more examples of the game being dumbed down, so feel free to let me know what you think in the comments. Let's all hope that Metabuff and Omeda bring the complexity back to Paragon and that undying games and visionary games start off with complexity in ethereal and phoenix rising and make a stick. I understand that an overly complex game can scare away new players, but it's also what brings the true fans back day after day. If you liked this video, hit that like button, be sure to subscribe now or you'll never find my channel again. This is the Mangoo signing off, you guys have a good one.


Live from Las Vegas, Nevada, it's theCUBE. Covering Knowledge 15, brought to you by ServiceNow. Everyone, we are here live in Las Vegas. This is Silicon Angle and Wikibon's theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the ceiling from the noise. I'm John Furrier with my co-host, Dave Vellante, David Smolley, CIO AstraZeneca. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. So tell us, you're at the CIO decision, just came down, John Cleese was talking. He's going to come on theCUBE later. We're going to interview him, see how he goes. But the creativity was the theme of his speech and as CIO, being strategic is about being creative. We've heard that before. So tell us, what's going on with you right now? Tell us about the business you're involved in as CIO and just a quick overview and we'll go into some of the questions. Okay, yeah, so AstraZeneca, I think we're the seventh largest pharmaceutical company globally, we're the most global of the pharmaceuticals. We do business in over 100 countries. We're about 26 billion in sales. And we are, like many of the pharmas, dealing with tremendous pressure as many of our major blockbuster drugs come off patent. So we have to look for new sources of revenue. There's also a lot of pressure from governments around the rising cost of healthcare. So they're looking at reducing the amount of money that we spend. And what we've done at AstraZeneca is we've gone back to focus on the science. So we have invested heavily in drug development. We've spent about $5 billion a year on research. We've got about 10,000 scientists in six countries. And so we're very focused on building the pipeline of molecules, the areas we focus on are cardiovascular, respiratory, immunocology. And so the other thing that's quite interesting is science is changing with the rise of the biologic. So traditionally, pharma companies did small molecules, which are chemicals. And increasingly, we're investing more in biologics, which are sort of proteins derived from life cells. So flu vaccine comes from eggs, basically. And the specific cells that are manufactured to deliver these transport mechanisms, which is what biologics are. And now we're looking at combining the small molecule and the large molecule into these new combinations, which target very specific illnesses and diseases. So really, really exciting time to be able to do this. So you got operational, you got a lot of R&D, which you guys try to keep the patents from going to the market until the last minute. So a lot of IT involved, a lot of strategic assets, not just to make sure the computers are provisioned and people have access to the applications. Really mission critical, pretty much, across the board. It was a challenge and all that. Very diverse. I mean, it's exciting. On the science side, there's a lot of big data and analytic problems. Obviously, testing drugs in animals and humans is expensive and time consuming. So the more you can do it in silica through simulations, that's kind of the future, compressing the cycle times. On the other end of the spectrum, sales, we've got 30,000 sales folks around the world, including 6,000 in China, making them mobile enabled, giving these guys the tools they need so they can get in and out with the doctors and the payers. And then you've got the whole supply chain and enabling in between. So lots of different IT challenges. It's an exciting time.  You've got a big R&D engine, like you said before, high risk. You got to get stuff out of R&D into the pipeline, which we're in Vegas, a lot of it's a crapshoot. But you increase the probability of a blockbuster. And then when you get the blockbuster, you're under tremendous pressure. You got generics coming in, governments beating on you. You're regulated to the point where your general counselor's like, no, don't do that, don't do this. You got your job, you're balancing risk and reward constantly. So, and you came from Flextronics, right? Correct. So you mentioned you live in Silicon Valley. So a little bit now you're in London, a little different world. So talk about that whole change in your... Yeah, it's exciting, I mean, it's both frustrating and exciting, but I think it's a fabulous opportunity for a lot of industries like this because the pharma industry has been very focused on sort of inward looking and very tightly networked group of people and they're quite collaborative. But until recently, they haven't looked as much outside the industry. And so right now, I think there's a great opportunity to look at other industries and figure out about doing the impossible. So the exciting opportunity for me is to come in from a very speed-oriented industry and look at many of the things that people who've been raised in pharma, raised in AstraZeneca, take as a given, they don't challenge them and to come in and sort of ask why not? Why are we doing things this way and push the boundaries? And so it's been exciting to bring some of that radical thinking in, stir the pot a little bit. And then of course, technology is changing so fast. With companies like ServiceNow, these cloud-oriented companies are totally changing the paradigm of the cost it takes to get up and running, the speed, the different future roadmap and evolution of new technology. So it's a really exciting time. So what are some of the interesting things you've worked on since coming to AstraZeneca that you would consider transformative? Well, I mean, we've had two key thrusts, I guess, to our IT strategy. One is around insourcing. So we were about 70% outsourced to third parties. We had eight different third-party vendors that were helping us in our IT ecosystem and it was very complex. There were a lot of handoffs and a lot of waste. So we've been very focused on bringing that work in and simplifying it and cleaning it up. And the others were pushing very hard into cloud and mobile. And so in the last year, we've gone live with ServiceNow, Viva, which is for the Salesforce. We've gone cloud with Office 365 for mail. We've implemented Box, Documents Store, DocuSign, we went live on ServiceNow. We have, I'm trying to think what the others are. So multiple cloud solutions that have been implemented have given us tremendous speed and at the same time, all these tools are available on mobile devices. So as we push to that sort of any device, anywhere approach where the primary question is can I access it on my iPhone or my Samsung device? And then the secondary question is, oh, by the way, can I also look at it on the tablet or on my laptop? And so those sorts of things are transformative because it makes doing work much easier. It's interesting, you mentioned, I've heard right, since you're insourcing, 70% of your activity was outsourced. Correct.  I thought that was the whole idea of outsourcing. Right, right, right. So it didn't work out well. We know the pendulum swings a bit. I think if you go back 10 years ago, the early 2000s, the du jour strategy was to outsource, right? And so a lot of companies went big that way. And I think the thinking, which at the time was logical, was we're not an IT company, we're a drugs company. My mess for less. Yeah, I'll give it to somebody else in IBM or Cognizant or whatever, they'll take care of it. But the reality is that these guys, they're in the business to make money for themselves, not to make money for you. And if you don't manage it carefully and if you set it up incorrectly and so on, then you find that you're not very efficient. And in our case, we had eight different vendors that were involved in a system. So if you think about doing an incident remediation on a system failure, and you'd have to get eight different companies in the room or on the phone to figure out what happened and then troubleshoot, it's incredibly painful.  So I know you're in the CIO decisions sort of tracks today, but I probably had an opportunity to see the keynotes this morning. Yeah, absolutely. So big theme was productivity, email hell. I tweeted out, Frank Slutlans made a career out of selling aspirin and painkiller. And he's found some pain. So as a CIO, I wonder, what are your thoughts on what you heard this morning in terms of some of the data that was shown, what you out of five days are spent on admin tasks? That sort of email description that Frank put forth, is that sort of reflective of what's going on in organizations today? Absolutely. I think it is probably more than we realize. You know, I think obviously, you know, Frank is promoting the platform and the sort of the service process capabilities, which are very powerful. And we've certainly found, so I've implemented ServiceNow at two companies now. And in each cases, the productivity was transformative. And some of that comes from getting all the different players on a single source of truth, a single source of data, and then following common processes. And that's extremely powerful. When you think about the global, the scalability, the multi-language, it's very, very helpful. So, you know, what I see today was ServiceNow and Frank just kind of going the next logical step, was to say, look, if you can do it for an IT service desk, why can't you do it for facilities? Why can't you do it for finance? There's so many processes that are critical for a business to run. And when you have a tool like that that creates that speed and enablement, it's easy to use. The IT department knows how to configure it, so you can pretty quickly respond in an agile method to solving problems. And ServiceNow came in under your watch? Or was it? Yeah, that's it. So we brought it in about seven years ago at Flextronics, super, super successful there. And then this past year we implemented AstraZeneca. So we're up now running it across globally and inside and outside. So these service partners, you know, the Cognizants and Infosys of the world, they're on the same instance of ServiceNow. So we're all seeing them from the same song book. It started with ITSM, sort of change management. ITIL based, yep. Okay, and are you running a single CMDB at this point? We are, yeah. We're running a single CMDB. That's a continuous improvement initiative. So we made some pretty big investments this past year in a lot of tools to allow us to monitor and collect data and things like that. There's actually a lot of really cool new technology, companies like TANIUM, which are able to scan the network, give you real-time intelligence around devices, configurations, things like that. Tools like Skyhide Networks, which enable you to actually see what's happening with usage patterns, internet, sort of things like that, so, real powerful stuff. And are you now in the process of, are you thinking about where you're at in terms of extending it into other businesses? You know, we've heard a lot about HR and facilities and marketing and finance. Yeah, so we already have the finance shared services is using it, and as well as facilities. I think we're just going live on Workday in May, and, you know, Workday is a HR tool. That will be the platform for a lot of change in our HR operation. So I think, you know, we've got the tool now and we're able to pace with the business, and the business has got an initiative around how do we simplify things, and I think it'll be an obvious choice for us as we look at cleaning up some of those different areas. Talk about the changing role of the CIO, obviously, in IT, shifting so much. Just go back 10 years ago when you mentioned, companies like SIRS now being highly successful, certainly productivity. As an executive dealing with vendors and suppliers, having business outcomes on one side, managing the relationships on another, it's really important to get the value. Talk about what's different in the past 10 years on the purchasing decisions, the platform decisions, the personnel decisions. You know, I saw that with Frank Slutman earlier about the sailing analogy, because he sails boat, crew, conditions, similar executive concepts that the CIO deals with. 10 years ago, much different timetables, to get upfront licenses, huge integration costs, and then you kind of, there's a time period you kind of get to a point where you go, you got there or you did or you didn't, you didn't like it, some people love it. So what's changed as you make these decisions as an executive? You hit on it right there. I think the number one thing that has changed the most is the cycle time, the speed.  So cloud has given us incredible flexibility and agility and speed in our ability to deliver. So, you know, Frank talked today about how just for this conference, they set up 40,000 instances in service now. On AWS. On AWS in like hours, right? And two people manage it. I mean, that's nuts. I got seeing Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the three questions. You know, can you support cloud? Yes. Okay, next. Can you support mobile? What? The speed of a swallow. I don't know. I think we've been the John Cleese to be on later. But in a way, there should be that kind of global consumption contract. We've heard from other CIOs who've been on theCUBE that there's a global now contract from a consumption standpoint. And there are some table stakes. And I'll serious now, what are some of those table stakes with a consumption contract? You know, and it's on both sides, right? So, it's sort of increased opportunity as well as increased risk. I mean, one of the things that's changed dramatically, obviously read about every day is the whole cyber security angle, right? Which, by the way, is enabled by the internet and the cloud and all these things. I mean, the way these guys can be so incredibly aggressive and creative in how they're attacking companies is because of some of the technology evolution.  Oh, it's crazy. It's crazy. So that's something, I mean, there's real risk there, right? For companies and for individuals leading. So, you have to be very, very much on top of that. And it's moving so fast. I mean, no one knows. You know, they used to say, there were two companies, you know, companies that had been hacked and companies that were going to be hacked. Now it's kind of like there's two companies, there's companies that know they've been hacked and companies that have been hacked. But don't know they've been hacked, right? So it's just- That's a quote. Yeah, that's totally true. So kind of staying ahead of that is kind of the defensive part, I guess. You know, on the other side, there's just so much opportunity. And, you know, I think the companies and the teams and the CIOs who go for those opportunities aggressively are going to have competitive plans for the others. There's a lever of opportunity. The lever there is, you can move the ball down the field big time. But the risk is the security. With the perimeter going away, how do you deal with that? Is it cryptography? Is it, you know, virtualization? I mean, that must be one of the top conversations you have. It is. I mean, I think the posture of most companies is more offensive and less defensive these days. I mean, not in an attacking sense, but, you know, I think people are beginning to recognize you cannot operate with walls and moats anymore. You mean not waiting for an incident or a breach? Exactly. Being more proactive in the pattern recognition. That's right. And do your best. Recently, the assumption is you are a breach. You're going to be breached. So you can't keep them out. But what you can do is keep them from leaving with anything of value and stop them. So how do you, how do you sense it? One of the early employees of Illumio, one of the hot startups in Silicon Valley just got a hundred million dollars in funding. Like only a couple of years old, they said there's no more lock and key at the front door. It's a thousand soldiers inside the company, around the apps. Do you believe in that philosophy? Do you see it that way? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And I think so, the key is what assets do you need to watch? What individuals do you need to watch? How are you looking at anomalies in behavior, pattern recognition, those sorts of things, so that you can move in quickly with the right assets, the right mitigating factors to solve things. So I got to ask you the question on the, because you're CIO, a blue bit bias, but not always comes up. Cause it's always kind of like a jump ball at this point depending on who you talk to. The CISO is a new role. That report to the CIO, some say, some say it should report to the CEO, both dotted lines. The Chief Information Security Officer, I see RSA is going on in San Francisco right now, it's a big debate, things like that. And things like reporting breaches and incidents, or incidents to share with other companies. What's your philosophy on both those concepts? I think reporting relationships are overrated. So the answer is it depends. And the most important thing is not the reporting relationship, but it's the effectivity of the individual. So in my case, I have a CISO who reports to my head of infrastructure or not. So he's actually one level down from me. However, I know that guy really well. In fact, we worked together at previous companies. He's like Lieutenant, but he's close to the action. He's close to the action. He deals with the audit committee at the board level. He deals with the CEO, he deals with me. And so he's able to navigate, negotiate, work with the individuals. He's got great relationships outside. The company, what's most important with CISOs these days is do they have the right relationships with government, with third party experts, with other CISOs so that they're sharing information to kind of. So what you're saying if I translate, politics doesn't really matter when life's on the line with security because you want to get the job done. So it doesn't really matter where you are. It's pretty hot position. I mean, I think so. I think the question is, are you effective? Do you have the information you need? Do you have the resources you need? And are you able to make the decisions without getting slowed down? And by the way, same for the CIO, right? So when you think about the remediation pie for security, we've heard service now talk about some new security apps and capabilities. Where does that fit in relative to, I mean, you mentioned two types of companies. Those could act, those that haven't don't know it. It's, I don't know, what the stat, 250 days before you realize this is intrusion. Okay, so in thinking about spending more money, not just on the perimeter, protecting a bit of figuring out where the hacks are coming from and other remediation techniques, how much of a difference can service now and technologies like service now make in your opinion? Just one arrow in the quiver? Is it a big chunk of the? No, it's huge because it's knowledge, right? So it's data. What service now gives you is a repository and a series of processes for effectively understanding a situation. Now, as far as security specifically, it's one part of the story. So you need other tools to collect security data and to mitigate and so on. But what that becomes is a bit of, they're calling it the ERP of IT. It's sort of where you go to understand your devices, where you go to understand the key processes and people and deal with them. So visibility, really. Absolutely. Dave, we really appreciate you taking the time. I just put a tweet inside of there because that was a really awesome candidate answer on the great answer on the CISO. Just overall, great insight. Thanks for taking the time. I'll give you the final word here. Get your thoughts and the segment on what is everything as a service to you as a CIS? I put the marketing stuff aside. It is good marketing. I got a hand at the service now on that. It does imply where we're going, basically cloud. But what does that mean to you as you've moved that into practical terms into your organization?  Translate that for us into practical execution terms for you at CIO. Well, for me, service is important. I'm coming into an environment which was probably overly emphasizing the service and not enough emphasizing the performance and the technology. So I'm sort of, in AstraZeneca, we're downplaying the service a little bit to focus on technology leadership, operational excellence, customer focus, simplification, collaboration, those kinds of things. Foundational like services? Foundational stuff, yeah. So the service itself simply says, look, you're going to do a piece of work. You've got a customer, right? So there's a piece of work. You've got inputs and you've got outputs and you've got to be real clear on what those are and where the boundaries start and stop and how you're going to measure it. That's what service is about. You might have heard the buzz word. That's been Keith Brown at Silicon Valley, right, that's pretty hot, microservices. Right.  A part of a service? Is it more app-driven and is it more? Because you hear it more in the DevOps on the Edge app side. Right, right. What does that mean to you? What, honestly, hadn't thought about it. I don't know. But what I assume it means is, again, as we bring DevOps more closely together, you're able to decompose into smaller pieces. It's much more modular. You're able to actually move parts and pieces around. Yeah, you can docker container. These are the new trends about interoperability. I think that's where they're trying to. Let's get some traction.  Yeah, yeah. David, thanks for coming out on theCUBE. Really appreciate it. It's Molly, the CIO here inside theCUBE. Sharing the data with you, extracting the signal from the noise. Here at ServiceNow, live in Las Vegas. We're on day one of three days of wall-to-wall coverage, Dave. We got a lot more coming. This is theCUBE. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. Go to SiliconANGLE.tv, go to CrowdChat.net, slash no 15 for all the conversations. Join the conversations. We'll be right back after the short break.