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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hollywood, California, Monday, November ninth, The LUTs Radio Theater presents
Pat O'Brien and mad Evins in alias Jimmy Valentines, with
Alan Jenkins and William Crowley. Lux Presents Hollywood's Our stars,
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Pat O'Brian, mad Evns, Alan Jenkins, and William Crawley.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Our guests Melvin Purvis, Greatest g Man in History and.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Carolyn Muell Show Girl. Our producer Cecil B. De Mille,
our conductor Louis Silberys.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
To the visible audience with.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Us tonight in our theater on Hollywood Boulevard, and to
our unseen listeners the world over. Greetings and good wishes
from Bluts. And now a brief word to the ladies.
Suppose you had spent millions of Dallas just for clothes.
Wouldn't it be logical for you to spare nothing to
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safeguard so huge an investments. Well, that's exactly the position
motion pictures are in. Yet go to all the leading
studios here in Hollywood, and you'll find they use inexpensive
Lux flakes.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Try a box tomorrow. Your clothes will well longer and
look newer when cared for in.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
These gentle marvelously effective flakes and now mister Cecil b.
Demill Greetings from Hollywood Ladies and gentlemen. Tonight's play came
out of the darkest chapter in the life of O Henry.
(01:38):
Under his real name William Sidney Porter, oh Henry served
a term in the Ohio State Penitentiary. While there he
met Jimmy Connor, the safe Cracker, who told the author
the history of his life. But oh Henry wrote into
a short story, and from this Paul Armstrong fashioned our
play alias Jimmy Valentine. Tonight's Jimmy Valentine. Pat O'Brien made
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his debut on the stage as an angel in a
Christmas pageant, a rather disastrous beginning because his wings kept
falling off. Years later, Pat landed on Broadway and came
to Hollywood as Hilde Johnson, the star reporter of the
Front Page. Pat has remained a headliner ever since and
is seen next in The Great O'Malley. Madge Evans made
(02:22):
her screen debut at the age of three. She had
been chosen by She has been chosen by sixty nine
universities as the typical American college girl, but she never
went to college. Madge whose current picture is Piccadilly. Jim
is heard tonight as Mary Lane. Besides Pat, there are
two other irishmen on our program, Alan Jenkins heard as
Red and William Frawley as Doyle the Detective. And here
(02:46):
goes the curtain as the Lux Radio Theater presents Alias
Jimmy Valentine, starring Pat O'Brien and the title role and
Madge Evans with Alan Jenkins and William Frawley.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Arston.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Our story begins behind the grim forbidding walls of sing
Sing Prison, Arsening New York, in the gray light of
early morning, an endless line of men blood steadily through
an endless corridor. Somewhere in that line is a quiet,
easy manner at young prisoner Valentine number eighty seven four
(03:40):
oh three, serving a term for safe cracking. As the
men near the entrance to the jute mill, the gods
keep careful watch.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Oh number eight seven or three, step out eight seven
four oh three.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Here the warden wants to see you, Valentine, go to
hisselfice right away, right away, Thanks right ay, d.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Oh, I'm in Valentine.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yes, sir, God said you wanted to see me.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yes, I suppose you know what it's about.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
The pardon it came through last night.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
You'll be leaving tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I have had certainly good news.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Three years old.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I told you behave yourself in here, Yes, sir, it
also pays to behave yourself.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
When you're out, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
What are you going to do, Valentine?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Get a job? I hope a steady one if I
can good.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
I'm not going to give you the usual talk, Valentine.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I don't think you need it.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You're smart enough to know your way around, and nothing
I can say is going to make much different just
from my that From now on.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
It's up to you.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
You can go straight, or you can crack a couple
of safes and land back here with a second offender's sentence.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
How which is it going to be?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Oh, I'm going straight, sure of that. Positive.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
That'll be all.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
You can report to Wilson now or over the juke mill,
tell him I said you to be off all duty today,
Thank you, sir, See you tomorrow morning.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Yes, sir, little Bell the time Ward said to report
to you, I'm off judy today. Oh you're gonna leave
us hey tomorrow morning?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Well make you Larus.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Look at the juke mill. Thanks, I'm seeing enough of
it right now.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I just wanted you to remember what it's like so you.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Won't be itching to get back. Don't worry, I'll be
hearing this noise in my sleep for the next ten years.
I'm gonna get a job.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
In a nice, quiet office with even when silence is
on the pencil shop in it so well, lots of lot.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Tell you. You seem to know what it's all about, Valentine.
Do you think you could hold on a job like.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
This pretty important?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well, i'd certainly like to try. Well, I'm almost tempted
to let you. Where'd you work least? I haven't had
a job for a long time, mister Norlan. You see, well,
i've been in prison.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Prison.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yes, I thought i'd better tell the truth about it,
and maybe prison. I'm afraid that kills your chances, Valentine now,
but I'm straight now, if you only let me, I'm sorry.
I appreciate your telling the truth, but you won't be
able to take you on good morning. I had to
come back today at the shop. I thought it was
(06:47):
all set.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Well it was, but I've been doing a little investigating. Valentine,
you're not the man for the job.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Oh, I get it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Why didn't you tell me you'd served time?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Could have made any difference?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Well, I don't know. I'm sorry, Valentine.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
All right, thanks, any there must be some mistake. Mister
Willie told me was completely satisfied.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
All I know is that he doesn't want to see you.
Speaker 8 (07:18):
You to get your checks from the cashier.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Fire Eh, I'm afraid though.
Speaker 8 (07:23):
You see there was a man in yesterday of protective and.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Well sure, sure I know, checking up on me. Okay,
give me a little time to clean up my desk.
Speaker 9 (07:39):
I'm also sorry. That's a Valentine. Maybe even got another
job too.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 10 (07:49):
May have some ham an egg toes over here?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Let me have a hurry.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Was it black coffee you wanted, mister?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
That's right?
Speaker 8 (07:58):
Anything else they had toast down the brack?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
No, I don't bother, Yes, sir, Hello Valentine.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Huh oh, well but this isn't mister dole. How's the
detective business? Doyle?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Fine? You mind if I sit down?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Suit yourself?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Thanks?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I saw you come in here, Valentine, and thought i'd
come over and pass the time of day.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, well that's nice to you. What time is it?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Still a smart guy. Huh.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I guess being in the big house ain't changed you.
And he who sprung you.
Speaker 11 (08:31):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
You know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Who got you out of stir oh? Oh the governor?
He pardoned me when about a month ago.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
M hm, that's great.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Heah. You don't seem very pleased, dor.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Why should I be? I had enough trouble putting.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Me up there.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Sure you did unframed evidence.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
What do you mean, frame devil?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
That's what I said.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I didn't pull that bank job on danfel on your note,
but you brought a couple of double cross stool pigeons
to sweaar. They saw me in Danville the night the
bank was cracked. You weren't smart enough to get me
on your own, Doyle.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
You got to frame me?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Why, you cheap little crook. I ought to suck you right.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
On the chair.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Sure you ought to, and I wouldn't. I fire you.
You haven't got me in a jug now I'm a decent,
law abiding citizen.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Well it won't be for long. I'll slap a big
stretch on you if I have to follow you at China. Yeah,
but you'd have to get something on me first.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
I'll take care of that. Mister. Where do you pull
your next job?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
How do you know I'm gonna pull one?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
How do I know I get you?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
You're gonna hand me that line about going straight? Huh, Well,
I'd like to believe you, Valentine. I'd be the first
guy to give you a break. But guys like you
can't go straight.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It's in your blood.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
You'll be cracking another safe inside of a month, and
when you're due, I'll be right behind you with a
pair of bracelets.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
All right, copper, but you'll get this until that time
comes down. Once you lay off of me, let me alone.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Oh no, I'm gonna keep my eye on you, Valentine.
I'm gonna watch every.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Move you make.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
You What a nice, pleasant guy you are. A man's
got a swell chance to go straight with a flatful
like you tail them every minute. I've done my bed,
haven't I?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yeah, part of it?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
What are you talking about? I just told you I
was pardoned.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I wasn't thinking about the stretch you did for the
Danville job. Oh what I meant was that you never
served a day for cracking that safe in Springfield, Springfield.
I don't play innocent, Valentine. No one ever did find
out who was responsible for that job. But we've been
digging up a little more evidence lately, and that looks
like you. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I was never in Springfield in my life.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
What spring?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Now?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Spring?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Wait a minute, I happen to know you were see
in Springfield math, You were there the same night the
job was pulled.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, but you've got to prove that, mister.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Don't worry. I will.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
It may take a little time, a year, maybe five years,
but as long as we're both alive, I'll be working
on it. So long, Valentine, I'll see you in the
DA's office.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Rest waitress, Yes, sir, give me a check, will it please?
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Okay, orange juicing? Two cups of coffee, thirty five cents?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
All right, keep the change, Thank you?
Speaker 12 (10:54):
Sare Hey Jimmy, Jimmy, how are you fell on red vetter?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Than of a gee? It's good to see you, Jamal And.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
That goes double for you kid. You're looking swell no
fall him? Well, I feel all right. I didn't think
you were gonna come right. I've been waiting and signed
all the morning.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, the train was two hours late. I just got
in about fifteen minutes ago. Then I seen flat foot
Doyle something with you, so I stayed out here.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Come on, we can't talk here. We'll go to my place. Sure,
well here we are read not much, but it'll do.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
This place is okay.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I like the old one, though, Yeah, the bank is
not like the old one either. Sit down. Yeah. Say
what does.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Doyle want with you anyway?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Doyle? Oh, nothing much. I guess, just trying to put
the crews in. I mean, that's all he would says
he's got some new evidence about that Springfield business. You
don't think he has, do you? No? I don't think so,
mostly bluff. I guess. Well read what have you been
doing with this self?
Speaker 13 (11:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I've been doing all right, little jobs here and there
out in the coast, nothing much to speak of. I've
been kind of waiting for you. Yeah, say that reminds
me what was all that junk about you going straight?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I said, you know all that stuff you.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Wrote in a letter about getting a job and going straight?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Oh? Oh yeah, that I get it right.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Sure I knew you was only kidding.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
You ever trying to be honest? Read?
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Oh me, No, No, it's a pretty thankless job. I
came out of stair a month ago. The mind all
made up to go on the straight and narrow. I'll
go look for a position, a steady one throwing what.
Oh No, I didn't care much what I did.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I was in the jug.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I worked in the jude middle of the morning and
on the books in the afternoon, you know. In the office.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Taught me a lot about accounting. I thought maybe I
could get something on that line accounting.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Huh. Well, oh, I guess I should have known better.
I haven't got a chance.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, jobs is kind of scarce, No, read, it isn't
that so much.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
It's my record, my record, and a couple of rats
like Doyle keep pounding you every minute of the day,
every day of the week.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, nice guys, Am Dick's.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Oh it's not all of them. I guess most of
the men on the force are all right. I got
their jobs, and they do them just like you do yours.
So I always find a few they are looking for
a soft job behind the desk, and they don't care
how they get it. Fellas like Doyle. He's hounding me
now for something that happened three years ago. I told
him I wanted to go straight.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
But what demon is it didn't make he'd like to
send me up for life.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
He's gonna follow me all over them apturally, does what
are you gonna do? I'm gonna blow this towne on
the first rattler, I canna get Where are you going?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I don't know? Sticks?
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Probably when nobody knows me, Well change my name, keep
on the moved little dog gets tired of looking for me.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Oh what name is gonna use? Jimmy?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
In case I wanna reach it, Randall Lee, Randall, Randall,
go on, and I'm gonna pull a job, just one red.
But it's gonna be a pet.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Now your talk. I'mike enough in one haule.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
That set me up for life, catch the first boat
for Europe and spend the rest of my days making
mud pies on the French rav airs.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Well, when do you need the stake for me?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
For sure? I ain't gonna crack on sight without me.
I hit the.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Tickets, all tickets.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Please have your tickets for a day tickets forster. Here are.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Time to arrive in Glendale the belt here four fifty eight?
Thank you tickets Please, where's your ticket?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Lady?
Speaker 8 (14:25):
My ticket?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Well, I've been waiting for you to come to.
Speaker 8 (14:29):
The train contactors. You see, I haven't got a ticket.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You got on at Warren's Town, didn't you, Yes, I did.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
I'm going to Glendale, Glendale.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I let me say, now, Quarrenstown to Glenndale. That be
seven dollars and twenty two cents.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Oh, but don't you see I am well, I haven't
any money either.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
What's there?
Speaker 8 (14:48):
No, I lost my test just before I got on
the train. I left it on account of the information book,
and my ticket was in it. And well, I thought
perhaps I could explain.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
It to you. And I'm sorry in this book, I
don't well, just what I can do about?
Speaker 8 (15:01):
Well, my mother's need to meet the station in Glendale.
She'll give you the money.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Then, well, we change conductors four stations this side of Glendale.
I don't know the conductor. Yes, sir, I'm getting off
at Glendale. I'll pay the young ladies fair. Oh well
that'll be all right.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
Oh thank you, but I couldn't let you do that way.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
It's quite all right. Your mother can pay me back
when we arrived. See I think you said seven thirty
two conductor. Yes, sir, there you are, Thank you, sir,
seven thirty two and eight is seven fifty and fifty
is eight dollars. Thank you tickets? Have your ticket.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
That was awfully nice of you.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
That's all right.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
I feel like a perfect fool.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Or have I been on the same boat myself? I'll
probably be in and again sometimes.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
Well, I only hope you will meet someone as kind
hearted if you've been to me.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Thanks.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
I don't know what I would have done. Really, I
haven't a penny with me. You see, I'm not used
to being away from.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Home very much. You live in Glendale?
Speaker 8 (16:03):
Oh, yes, I've always lived there.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
That's where I was born.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
I suppose I ought to introduce myself. My name is
Mary Lane.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well how do you do, miss Lane? My name is Randall,
Lee Randall.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
How do you do? I'm offully glad to meet you.
I er, I guess I ordered be Eh. You're going
to Glendale too, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yes? I am.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
Have you ever been there before?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
No, this will be my first visit, I thought so.
Speaker 8 (16:27):
Why, Well, I've never seen you before. It's a very
small town. Well you get to know everybody. Do you
expect to stay long?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Well? That depends.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
Oh this is just a business trip.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Uh, yes, in a way. You see, I have no business.
I am just sort of looking around.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
You want to invest in something?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
No, not exactly. I'm gonna pull up m I'm gonna
look for a job.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Well why I go to Glendale?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Well, I don't know. I've just thought I might have
more of a chance in a small town.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
Oh, I see what you mean.
Speaker 12 (17:00):
What sort of work do you do.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Mister Randall? Well, I am an accountant.
Speaker 8 (17:04):
An accountant? Will did you work last last?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yes? Or I I worked for the state? Yes? State?
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Oh well, a government job.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Oh yes, you might call it that.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I hope you.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
Don't think I am impertinent asking you questions like this.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Oh, not at all.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
But you see, I have a reason. I well, when
you said you were an accountant, I.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Thought I might be able to help you help me.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Oh yes, not directly, of course, But I think my
father might be able to find you something. I'll speak
to him to night.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Ah No, please don't bother.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
But I'd like to.
Speaker 8 (17:41):
You were so awfully nice to me, and I I
feel as though I were returning the favor. At least
I could introduce you to him, and even if he
couldn't use you himself, to be a good contact for
you here. Well, he's rather a prominent person than Glendale.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Yes, he's the president of the Farmer's Bank.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Oh I see, Well, what's the matter.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Wouldn't you care to work in a bank, mister random?
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Oh yes, yes, I think I'd feel right at home
working in a bank.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Said mister Randalls.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Soda, thank you.
Speaker 11 (18:23):
My daughter tells her that you're.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Looking for a job. That's right, mister Lane, I've been
looking for one for quite some time.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
You're an accouncil, eh, that's right. Ever, work in a bank, No,
I haven't. Mary seems to think that I ought to
put you on.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yes, I know she told me she was gonna speak
to you. I asked her not to bother. But you
understand my position, mister Randall, Why of course I do.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
You don't know anything about me that in itself would
be enough reason for not giving me a job.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I'm glad you see it in that light, of course.
Speaker 10 (18:54):
But on the other hand, the fact that I'm not
acquainted with you is not evidence that you couldn't fill
up a position that is satisfactorily. As a matter of fact,
we need a tell her right now, and I'm quite
willing to see.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
What I can do for you. Oh, thank you, that's
very kind. I suppose you have references, Yes, I have.
I brought them with me. If you like to look
them over, I'd like to very much. First, one hears
from the general manager of a firm I worked for
several years ago, A mohawk lock company.
Speaker 11 (19:23):
A mohawk lock, don't believe I've ever heard of it.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
What sort of a firm was it?
Speaker 6 (19:29):
A manufacturing company? Ay uh, manufactured saves.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I was with the Mohawk Company for about two years,
and then I got an offer for another firm to
watch card and take over the office.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Hello long distance, he told me I was connected with
New York. But oh I am thank you. Hello, Hello Red,
this is Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah, yeah, I'm up in Glendale, d Glendale and listen, Red,
I landed a job. Why are you here? I'm gonna
tell her. In a bank bank, B, A and K bank.
(20:31):
In a moment, we will continue with the Lux Radio
Theater presentation of Alias Jimmy Valentine, starring Pat Obrian and
Madge Evans. But first we'll take you to a pleasant
home on Outpost Drive, not far from Hollywood Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Eight year old Katherine is holding.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
A step ladder while her mother fixes a picture which
hangs crooked.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
Mommy, do you have to weld stockings around the house?
Speaker 8 (20:50):
These aren't old, dear, I just seem to be unlucky
about always getting wrong.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
I saw funny in the paper yesterday about cutting down runs.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Oh, there isn't anything you can do about it.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
But mommy, I have the paper right here. It says
washing stockings with lucks cuts down runs because safe las
e laugh.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
The word is elasticity darling.
Speaker 9 (21:13):
Well if luck say it, mommy, why don't you try some?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Well maybe I should.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
In fact, I will let you and I go to.
Speaker 8 (21:21):
The store and get some.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
When stockings go into runs too quickly, it's extravagant to
throw them away, a nuisance to.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Mend them, and untidy to wear them around the house.
That's why more and more women are taking to Lux
for stockings. Lucks preserves the elasticity of the silk, so
stockings give without breaking into runs so easily under suddain
strains cake soap rubbing and soaps with harmful alkali tend
to weaken elasticity. Lux has no harmful alkali, saves elasticity.
(21:48):
Make a note to buy some lucks tomorrow. See how
it cuts down your run. And once more, mister de Mill.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
We continue with our story Alias Jimmy Valentine, starring Patoan
and Madge Evans with Alan Jenkins and William Frawley.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Six months have passed.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
The little town of Glendale has gone peacefully on its way.
For strangely enough, no burglar alarms have disturbed the choir
of the night, and the Farmer's National Bank is still intact.
We're in the living room of the Lane home, where
Mary is carelessly turning over the pages of the town newspaper.
Suddenly she sees an interesting item in the social social
column and turns eagerly to her mother.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Look, mother, it's in the Glendale News. What Mary about Lee? Listen,
mister Lee Randall and you come at a Glendale has
been making quite a name for himself down at the
Farmer's Bank. We understand that mister Lane has given him
two promotions within six months. More power to you, mister Randal.
We are glad to have you in our midst. Isn't
it marvelous?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Mother?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Well, I should say so.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
I won't to please seeing it yet, I'll say it
in shure too when.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
He comes you like mister Randolph to Mary.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Why, yes, everybody does.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Well, everybody isn't in love with him, Mother, the whole.
You needn't be so shocked. You are in love with him,
aren't you.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
Well, yes, a little bit.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I knew you were. Did he care for you, Mary?
Speaker 8 (23:16):
I think so. He hasn't said very much, but he
manages to give that impression.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
Well, if I must lose you, I can't think of
anyone I'd rather lose you too, I'll.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Mother, You're sweet, mother.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Yes, kid it i'll's making noises in the door.
Speaker 8 (23:33):
I am not.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
He's fain.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Mother, Bobby, you stop that.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I'll be up there a minute. If you don't, I.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
Hold those children. I'll take it.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
Mother.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Hello, Hello, Lee?
Speaker 11 (23:46):
Yes, how are you?
Speaker 13 (23:49):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Now?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
What's the murther?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (23:53):
Oh, I see tomorrow night? All right, I'll wait for
you to call goodbye for me.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
He can't come over tonight. He has to stay home
and entertain entertain. Yes, an old friend of his just
arrived in town. I think Lee said he was from
New York.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
What's it all about, Jimmy? What's eating anyhow?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I don't know myself.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I don't give me that there's something wrong. You don't.
I've been waiting to have me for the last six months.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I wrote to you tonight.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah, nice little friendly letters about the weather up here,
and what a nice little town it is, and whose
pig had puppies? But nothing about pulling off the job.
Not a word about cracking a bank.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
What bank? The Farmer's National Bank. I never said I
was gonna pull a job down. Oh yeah, I did not.
I told you I was working there. That's all. Well
for crying out loud.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Ain't that the way you took the job? So he
cracked the vault?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Yeah, maybe I'm gonna change my mind.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Oh no, ain't that noble? Wait a second, is there
a dame mixed up into something?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Is that? Yes? But she's not a Dame Red, She's
a girl. You know what.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I knew it. Whenever a guy starts calling the dame
a girl, you can expect trouble. You ain't thinking to
get married.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
To her, No, I'd like to someday.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
You know. I think this country air is going to
your head. Have you thought about Doyle?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
What about him?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Suppose he catch us up with you? He'd follow you?
It at the sounds poll of he thought he could
hook the bracelets on him for that Springfield job. What
do you think he might have the evidence right now?
Speaker 6 (25:21):
I'm not worried about the Springfield job. Oh no, no,
I got an alibi, right, I've been working on it
for the last three months and it's a builty all right.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
So you got an alibi. So what even if Doyle
swallows it, you'll be in a soup anyway.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
You mean you'll tell everyone about my record?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Sure, and I guess that'll be kind of a surprise
to that dame, I mean, that girl of yours.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Well, that's a chance I'll have to take red. There's
one thing I'm sure. I'm staying here, and I'm staying straight.
And when about those mud pies and a French river
era that's out? Huh yeah, right, that's how to me.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
It's very discouraging. Jimmy here, you are the best cracksman
in the business.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
The only guy in the world is gonna.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Open a site without using tools a nitro, and you're
throwing away your whole future for as straight.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I'm not throwing it away, right, I'm making it.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I don't suppose there's nothing I can say.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
That the chance of my mind. No, oh, I got
my chance now right, I'm not gonna uff it.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, I guess that's that. I feel kind of bad, Jimmy.
I mean, well, we've been pals for a long time.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Oh, gee, kid, can't we still be pals?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah? A banker and a crook that I make a
swell combination.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Oh, wouldn't have to be a crook? Read well, you
could go straight too, Not so I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I ain't gonna slave my life away in no regular
job eight hours a day for a chicken feed.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
No, Oh, you've got the wrong idea. Red. You think
a regular job is dull and interesting? Now it isn't.
It's a big kick in.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
It's not for me.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
They wouldn't be cost I would. I used to think
exactly the same as you do. But look at me now, yeah,
look at you now? That's softy all all right? But
I'm happy, right, I'm happier than I've ever been in
my life.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Why don't you take a word out of kid, I
can get your job up here in Glen Days.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
You want to be right near each other? What do
you say?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I don't know, Jimmy. There ain't nothing I can do anyhow.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I signed something you can do when you take it.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Will you yes or no?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Alright?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Well, but get this, I ain't doing it because I
want to go straight. See, I'm doing it because you're
asking me.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
All right, then be tough.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
You said it. Now, what do I do?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Well, if a fella's made up his mind to go straight,
there's only one thing to do, exposing the temptation right
off the bat, and if he pulls through, he's all right.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Okay, spillers, what's the job? Read?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I'm gonna make you a night watchman and the Farmer's
National Bank. Hello Randal speaking. Oh yes, mister Williams. Well
(27:44):
you see I just got to the office. I haven't
had time to check on that yet. Suppose you drop
in and seeing me? Salf No, al right, by good
morning for us. Hello, right, come on in. How's the
night watchman?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I'm all right, kind of tired, though.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I'll say you ought to be if you wanted might
tee a bad time.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Hey, I ain't sleeping on a job, believe me.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
What are you doing around here this time of the morning.
Ought to be home in bed.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yeah, but they're just finishing a new vault. I've been
helping him put it in. You've seen it again?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
No, only the blueprints. I hear. It's a neat job.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
It's a pip moves like clockwork and safe. Say I
couldn't open that vault inside of a month.
Speaker 11 (28:18):
We'll say that.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
You don't try him and say, I don't worry. I'm said,
as what, No, kid, Now, you're right on the level.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, it's funny in it.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Sometimes I don't think I'm the same guy. Yeah, a
couple of years gonna make a big difference.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I'll say, look at you, the system cashit and all
set them married. The boys's daughter.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
No, she's a great girl.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
You're tell him me?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Hell oh yes, tell him. I'll be out there in
a couple of minutes. Are a come in, Mary? How
are you?
Speaker 8 (28:47):
I just got sight with Kitty and Bobby. They wanted
to see father. Hello, mister David, Mamas lane, I see
they have the new vaulting already.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I was just telling mister Ramdler about it.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
Father's out there now giving it the warm SILVERA.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, well I'll I ain't allowed to say it. It's
something I can do.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Excuse me, Well, how are you downing? All right?
Speaker 8 (29:09):
I don't know if I get a kiss, think you
deserve one?
Speaker 2 (29:12):
What do you think? GM crazy about you? Mary? Are you?
Speaker 8 (29:19):
I love you too?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
No, honey, I.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
Can't wait for next month to roll around. Wonder what
it's going to be like waiting up there at the
oiler while you can walking down the.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
Aisle, stumbling down the aisle. I'll probably be so nervous
I won't be able to stand. Look, I've been shopping
this morning.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
God, what'd you get? Wait?
Speaker 8 (29:36):
Do you see bed? How do you like it?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Say? That's well, it's beautiful? What is it?
Speaker 7 (29:47):
It's material for Kirstens.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I thought it was a bridal veil.
Speaker 9 (29:51):
It has so, Bobby, it has not. It has so?
Speaker 11 (29:55):
I tell you it has.
Speaker 9 (29:56):
Not, Kitty Bobby, what's the matter, he said a new voice.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
Win it a radio?
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yes you have?
Speaker 9 (30:02):
Mary has a round thing with numbers.
Speaker 7 (30:05):
She lays a dial on the outside.
Speaker 9 (30:07):
Isn't that a radio? Isn't it? Mister Randall?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Well, no, kiddy, I'm afraid it isn't. But I haven't
put anything like it there.
Speaker 8 (30:14):
Yeah, Marty, Bobby behaves yourself. I'm going in to see father,
and if you don't stop acting like the young Hudlam
will tell him right doing nothing. Well, see that you're doing.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Wait a second, Mary, I'll go with you. I want
to speak to the teller of better.
Speaker 13 (30:28):
Bobby, what wanna play something? No, oh, Bobby, come on
play something with me. Well, all right, you'll play banker.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
I'll be fathering.
Speaker 9 (30:40):
You be somebody that wants to borrow money. Now I
don't want to play dank. Just play elephant. You can
be the elephant. No, I'm gonna be a banker. No
one sit down? Met him. Why don't ask questions? Sit
down or right?
Speaker 7 (30:58):
I understand you? What shr lould?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Let him? Uh?
Speaker 7 (31:00):
Huh, well I thought so.
Speaker 9 (31:02):
Now how much how much can I get?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
No?
Speaker 7 (31:05):
No, you say a whole lot at first?
Speaker 9 (31:07):
Just two thousand dollars. That's a great deal of money.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
Met him.
Speaker 9 (31:10):
Well that's the most I could think of. Don't talk
that way. You'd be put out for saying things like that.
He Uh, I suppose you've got some kind of security.
Met him. Well I don't know, sure you have. Uh
you got a farm, haven't just?
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (31:24):
Yes, I got a farm, all a larger farms of biglins.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
Well that's good. Uh, Now what's growth on this farm er?
Speaker 9 (31:33):
The cacos, anything else? The cacos and vegetables. That's silly.
But they are vegetables too, they are not they are too.
I'm going to ask mister Randall. Mister Randall, go ahead
and ask him. You see, mister Randall or mister Rando.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Uh I told him, I say this afternoon, Smithy better
let me take care of him. That's what rand I'll
be off Smithy. Yes, sir, No, go ahead and ask
you ask you say, no, What's what's going on here?
Another argument?
Speaker 9 (32:06):
Bobby, the Chavis are vegetables? Sure they are?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Are they?
Speaker 11 (32:10):
Missed?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Deranda? Well, now, Kitty, that's a question that requires a
lot of thoughts. Hey, boss, yes, Reddy.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
I gotta speak to you right away. Get rid of
them kids.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
All right? I list new youngsters run out and play?
Will you sure?
Speaker 8 (32:21):
Come on?
Speaker 9 (32:21):
Sid you sure he's a new ball? I'm miss random.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
All right, red what's the excitement?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Come in through your office quick? I gotta speak to you. Well,
I wasn't there, plenty Doyle's here? What Doyle the Copper?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
He's here? Where in mister Lane's office.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
I've seen him go in.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Holy he's after you, Jimmy, Sure shootings about Springfield? Jobby said,
he were digging up new evidence. He must have found it.
Come on, Jimy, let's get out way Manu Does he
know you? I don't think so? All right, then sit
tight out handled Doyle, What do you mean? Just keep quiet?
Let me do the talking. I'm going to ali by
them guided he's dizzy, alibi, un listen, you get this.
I'm not Jimmy Valentine redd. I never heard of him.
I've been straight on my life and I can prove it.
What are you talking from? Here? See? Where is this?
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Yes, yes, here we are. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
In his book, yeah, scrap of full newspaper clippings, every clippings.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
About Lee Randall.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Lee Randall sherp was awesome, my cousin. You had a
cousin by that men, that's right.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
He lived in San Francisco, went to a last a
couple of years ago and never came back. This was
his book, A newspaper clippings.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
He read this one San Francisco News, January twelfth, nineteen
twenty nine. Lee Randall, principal speaker at Club Bank.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
Take another look at that dateline read January twelvey me
anything do you no?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
No? Well? The Springfield job was pulled on January the eleventh.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I get it. Oh wait a minute, you could have grabbed.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
A plane, couldn't. No.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
I checked on that too. They didn't have twenty four
hour service in nineteen twenty nine. That sounds good, But listen, Jimmy,
Doyle knows you.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
He ain't gonna let you walk out under his nose
just because you got some newspaper clippings.
Speaker 13 (33:47):
No.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I got more than clippings. Got a picture here.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
Look at this through picture of the banquet, the date
on it, and my face right in the front road.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Oh read, gee, it is you. I don't get this.
Jimmy since had a photography do a double negative job
for me, took out one of the other faces and
putting mine at its place. Bred I've been waiting for
this day, hoping it would never come. With waiting for
it just the same, I've been going straight now for
almost three years. I got a chance to marry the
(34:18):
swellest girl in the world, and I'm not gonna let
anything slip. Or did you get away with it? We'll
Doyle swallow that stuff. He's got to. Yeah, But if
he don't, what are you doos in I do ten
more years in the Jolke Mill.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
We paused for station identification. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. O'Brien,
(35:00):
Madge Evans and are all star cast resume the events
of Alias Jimmy Valentine.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
In a few moments.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
The girl we hear next never made the headlines, but
she's an important part of Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
The Chorus Girl.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
As captain of a group of Hollywood's fairest, all twelve
of whom are in the audience tonight. She leaves this
week on an airplane tour to exploit Warner Brothers musical
gold Diggers of nineteen thirty seven. If you want to
meet a screen show girl, here's your chance. She's not
only blonde, beautiful, shapely, but I understand capable of completing
(35:32):
a whole sentence. Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Carolyne Newell.
Speaker 7 (35:42):
Oh, Hello, mister Dean miil G. You're cute.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Well, you're not so bad you. We're on the air, Miss.
Speaker 7 (35:47):
Newell, Oh, just like a radio program, practically the same,
and everybody hears whatever I say. Yes they do, Oh goodie,
Hello Jack, Hello Mortis.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Don't say anything until I ask you a question, then
talk straight into this. This is a microphone, miss new
ufie microphone, but of course.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
An apparatus for converting audio energy into electrical energy. Anybody
knows that upun my words microphone, It comes from the
Greek word micro's meaning small.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Oh you know, a little Greek not anymore.
Speaker 7 (36:19):
I haven't seen him in years.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Oh, Nicolas, you're quite an enigma.
Speaker 7 (36:24):
Oh and I like you too.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
What I am struggling to determine is how you got
into pictures? Well, when I was in high school, you
were in high school.
Speaker 7 (36:32):
I'll thank you for not interrupting me, sir.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
How did you get into pictures?
Speaker 7 (36:36):
Well, a Spanish boy I knew taught me to speak Spanish,
and I got a job in a foreign language studio.
After that, I was with Geen Horlow. I was Jean
Hollow standing a metro, and then I went to Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Our All show girls like you? Are they?
Speaker 7 (36:49):
Mister mil You say the nicest things?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Oh? Well, what are your latest pictures?
Speaker 7 (36:54):
Stay Struck, Canon, Mabel? And now gold Diggers?
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Do you smoke or drink?
Speaker 7 (36:58):
Thanks? But hadn't we better wait till we're through?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
What's the show girls idea of marriage?
Speaker 7 (37:02):
Well, it's like this, If a man came along with
plenty of money. I think most of us would like
to get married, providing we fell in love. That's important too,
But personally, if a man without money wanted to marry,
I don't think it would be fair to either of us.
You see, showgirls are really too independent.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
I'm afraid that. I'm afraid that at the pilot of
that plane he's going to find himself and a spin
with all you gold diggers aboard. Do you like the
idea of.
Speaker 7 (37:26):
Flying twell, the only trouble is that with twelve of
us in one plane, there won't be much room left
for clothes. But we know how to get around that.
How did you ever hear of lux flakes?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
That sounds familiar.
Speaker 7 (37:38):
They solve our problem. Each night when we stop off
at a hotel, we do a little washing with lux flakes.
We use luck all the time at the studio for
our sweaters and costumes, and we use it on our
trip not only for convenience, but because we want to
look our best always. You ought to try it.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Sometime I will.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
It sounds like lots of fun.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
Yes, indeed, mister Demil, this has been lots of fun.
If I haven't given the audience a very concrete the
idea of what a Hollywood show girl is really like.
Maybe it's because we're actually no different than other girls.
No smarter and well, I guess, no dumber, Just trying
to make good and waiting for the right man. Thanks loads,
and good night.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
And good night pers. Back to our play Alias Jimmy
Valentine starring Pat o'brann and Made Evans with Alan Jenkins
and William Crowley. It's just a few minutes since Jimmy
(38:31):
learned that Doyle was in the bank looking for him.
Alone in his office, Jimmy is pacing the floor nervously.
The door opened and Mary enters hurriedly.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Lee, Yes, Mary, see, I just came.
Speaker 8 (38:46):
From father's office. There's a man there, a detective. He'd
been asking Father a lot of questions about you, about me. Well,
he said, you're not Lee Randalls. He says, your name
is Jimmy Valentine.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Valentine, Lee. What's wrong?
Speaker 8 (38:58):
What's it all about?
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Oh no, I'll take it easy, Mary, Everything will be
all right.
Speaker 8 (39:03):
But he's going to arrest you, he said, So I
sneaked out of the office to warn you.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Lie. I tell you, mister Doyle. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Maybe it is and maybe it ain't. Lee.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yes, mister Lane, this man has just been asking me
some questions about you. He's a detective. Oh, yes, says
his name is Doyle.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
And that's all right, mister Lane. He don't need an
introduction to me, do your Valentine?
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Valentine, my name is Randall.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Oh come on, come on. I wasn't born yesterday. I
know your face like I know my own.
Speaker 8 (39:30):
Mister Dorley making a mistake.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Oh no, I ain't.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
He's Jimmy Valentine, wanted in the state of Massachusetts for
cracking a safe in Springfield.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
I got all the evidence I need.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Maybe you have, but you've got the wrong man.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Of course you have.
Speaker 11 (39:42):
This is preposterous.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Now listen to me, all of you.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
I came all the way up here to put the
bracelets on this bird, and I'm gonna do it. See now,
do you come peacefully, Valentine? Or do I have to
use force?
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Oh? I wouldn't try to add for you. You've evidently
mistaken me for someone.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
No, I told you to can that stuff?
Speaker 6 (39:58):
Why should I. I'm entitled to a chance to.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Prove to you that I'm really Lee Randall, never mind that.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
How about proving you're not Jimmy Valentine.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
He doesn't have to, that's right, mister Lane. The burden
of proof rests upon mister Doyle. He has to show
beyond a reasonable doubt that I am Jimmy Valentine.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
I'll do that when the right time comes.
Speaker 8 (40:15):
Why don't you do it now?
Speaker 3 (40:17):
All right, lady, Well Valentine, suppose you tell us where
you've been for the last six years or so.
Speaker 6 (40:24):
Of course, my name is Randal, But I don't mind
answering your question. I came to Glendale three years ago.
Before that, I spent the rest of my life in
San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
You weren't doing a stretch about three and a half
years ago, of course not. And I suppose you weren't
in Springfield either, on the night of January eleventh, nineteen
twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
I've answered that question.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
I was in San Francisco, all right, All right, maybe
you can prove that.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yes, I think I can.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
Oh, I don't know exactly. But wait a minute, I
can't prove it. Look you see the scram book.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Well, it's full of clippings about me. See.
Speaker 6 (41:00):
Well, maybe I can find something. Yeah, sure, sure, here
we are.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
I think you said I was in prison three and
a half years ago. That would be nineteen thirty two,
wouldn't it. Oh, sort of be close enough. Clip San
Francisco Times, February twenty second, nineteen thirty two. That's the
list of names of people who attended the holiday ball.
You'll find mine at the bottom. Say it, say it,
Lee Randall.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
Yeah, I see it.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
So you see I was there? All right? I don't know.
Maybe I can find something around another time in nineteen
twenty nine. Anuay, No, maybe I can't get the exact day.
Wait a minute, right here, you said January the eleventh,
didn't you. Well, here's a clubbing from the twelfth. I
made a speech at the club banquet. That's a picture too,
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not in the paper, of course, but you can see
it must have been the same banquet. The photographery even
dated there. See where am I miss? There? There? I
am right in the front row.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Let me see, well, I'll be.
Speaker 8 (41:58):
I guess that settles it.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
You certainly do want any more proof, do you?
Speaker 4 (42:02):
I don't know. I don't understand this.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Why not? It's very simple?
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Yeah, that's just it. You know, you look enough like
Valentine to be his twin brothers.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
It's a good thing. I'm not. You've seem pretty intent
on catching up with him.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
I've been after him for almost three years.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
You must want him pretty badly.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Yeah, if you see, he's the only man in the
country who can open a safe by the sense of touch.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
I have a sense of touch.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Impossible, not for him, It ain't.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
He rubs his fingers with sandpaper, see sandpaper, Yeah, scrapes
the skin clean off him so they'll be more sensitive.
Speaker 8 (42:36):
How terrible.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
You don't really believe that, No, you must to do.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
Sure I do. Why not?
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Why I don't believe that any man could have so
delicate a sense of touch?
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Well, how he has, and it's been the ambition of
my life to see him, work to catch him with
the goods.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Well, for the sake of the community, I hope you do.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
Thanks. What's the talk?
Speaker 11 (42:56):
Me?
Speaker 3 (42:56):
The cave?
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Here? Read? What's the matter out there?
Speaker 1 (43:00):
What's happened? Right? It's it's kitty, kitty.
Speaker 8 (43:02):
What's the matter with this?
Speaker 3 (43:03):
Talk?
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Up?
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Man?
Speaker 11 (43:04):
What's happened? She's locked in the fall?
Speaker 2 (43:06):
Why did you say? Who falls?
Speaker 1 (43:07):
She's locked in there?
Speaker 9 (43:08):
Locked in the brook?
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Mary?
Speaker 11 (43:09):
How did this.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Happen, Bobby. They were playing and he closed the door
on her. Baby.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
People take it easy, mister Lane. Where's the combination?
Speaker 11 (43:15):
They haven't sent the combination yet. Nobody knows it.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Now quiet Mary, please, I'm going out to stay where
you are, mister Lane.
Speaker 11 (43:21):
But she's locked in there.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
You can't do any good. Red Rotten played the bank.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Okay, mister Ryndold.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
I'll sit down Mary, please and be quiet.
Speaker 11 (43:29):
Random, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (43:32):
Hello, Mims Simpson, give me the glove saving park Come
he right away. I know the combination of the office.
Do you think so? Late? Take a chance?
Speaker 4 (43:40):
How big is the vault? She said, mister Lane, Oh
it's very small.
Speaker 11 (43:42):
It's full of safe to hark clay up to the ceiling.
Speaker 4 (43:44):
That's not so good.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
Why what do you mean? Shut up, Doyle, take clearing
the bank.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
Peter's attendant to it.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
All right, Sit tied for a minute. Here we are hello,
Globe Landels speaking Farmer's National Bank. Grand They listen, I've
gotta have the combination of that new vault right away.
Yet the new vault, what.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
Where is it?
Speaker 2 (44:08):
Oh? Let's see, all right, Lee?
Speaker 8 (44:11):
What did they say?
Speaker 2 (44:12):
They can't get it? Only one man in the office
knows that the combination is. He's out for the day.
Good God, what are we going to do?
Speaker 11 (44:20):
There must be somebody who can op it. It must
be somebody.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
There's only one person I could think of, Jimmy Valentine.
Speaker 4 (44:26):
Too bad, he.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Ain't here now, man, Randall, cut up with you.
Speaker 11 (44:29):
She can't last much longer. There's nothing off here. She's suffolkating,
don't marry.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
We'll get her out of there.
Speaker 12 (44:35):
But how howley?
Speaker 2 (44:37):
I know way? It's an awfully hard away for me,
But I'll get her out.
Speaker 4 (44:44):
How are you gonna do it? Mister Randall?
Speaker 2 (44:46):
Stick around toile and watch red.
Speaker 6 (44:48):
Yeah, bred been on the workshop and bring me back
four sheets of rough.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
Sand favor sand faper.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
Well that's a coincidence.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
May they must be quiet, cold work. You can do that?
Speaker 8 (45:06):
Yes, twelve?
Speaker 2 (45:07):
How was it going for? I don't know yet. I
don't know. You can't feel. I mean, it's sand paper
again right here? You got? Oh hope you think I've
done enough of that? Shut up? Let me alone, you'll please?
Oh what don't talk that to that? I heard it,
Mum missed it again. I tell at that time I
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felt that dog lift.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
There it is twenty one.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
It's twenty one, right, remember that.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
I gotta give me that paper.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
Indeed, be quiet, mess, it's the only way you can work.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Fifty two left, fifty two lefts.
Speaker 4 (45:44):
I don't get in there.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
I can feel every job, but how only bolts This
dog got ready? Twelve twelve and we are again. This
is a live I think I know this is rotation.
Oh I'm right, l are you getting hit a minute?
That's the lame?
Speaker 4 (46:03):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (46:04):
You just kick him with them to become the door
here getting stop? Don't wait your lungs, Red, keep your knives.
Forty two, forty two. That's what it ought to be.
No one one she old rotation, all right? Ten off
the first. I'm two three and back no one more. Red, alright,
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I can't get stop. She might be dead. Oh no,
wait a minute, Wait a minute, hardy, who open keep
that door open? Here it come kify, kimty.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
Yeah, she is on the floor.
Speaker 11 (46:35):
She give it to me.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
She did. No, she's breathing.
Speaker 6 (46:37):
She'd be all right, get on the dock and then
quick come on coming be daddy, come carry her sure, let.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Me check up at the lame. I don't worry.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
She'll be alright, just pick it now.
Speaker 8 (46:47):
Ohle, look at your poor fingers.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
Huh oh oh yeah, Oh.
Speaker 4 (46:57):
Alright, that was a neat job opening. That's safe.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Hmm, yeah, wasn't it. Yes, she wouldn't after all though. Well,
I'm not gonna go with you. Go where Massachusetts?
Speaker 3 (47:08):
Oh no, I ain't going to Massachusetts. I ain't going
any place in particular, and neither are you. She needs
you more than the state of Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (47:18):
I mean that you were right? See I made a
big mistake a few minutes ago. I thought you were
Jimmy Valentine. Ain't that a riot? Well, I guess I'll
run along. I don't suppose we'll ever meet again, mister Randall,
so I'll say goodbye for good. But wait a minute,
just to retain your respect, Jimmy, don't think I felt
for that double negative photograph?
Speaker 2 (47:40):
So long.
Speaker 8 (47:45):
Well, he he's gone.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
Yes, he knows who I am. Mary, So do you?
Speaker 8 (47:52):
Yes, Darling, your name is Lee.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
Randall alias Jimmy Valentine Lee.
Speaker 8 (47:57):
Randalls, and we're going to be married next month.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
You mean that?
Speaker 8 (48:02):
Oh you know, I do.
Speaker 6 (48:05):
See that's funny. I told read once I was going
to create one more safe.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
I guess it was it.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
Jimmy Valentine's last job is finished, but not Padobrand's. With
Madge Evans, he returned shortly to the microphone. In the
Annals of law Enforcement, no name struck greater fear in
the hearts of criminals, or will be remembered by this
nation with greater gratitude than that of Melvin Purvis. Mister
Purvis received his law degree from the University of his
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native South Carolina, and practiced law before entering the Department
of Justice. So he was less than five feet nine
inches in height and weighed not quite one hundred and
thirty pounds. He became head of the Chicago office of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the powerful organization which waged
a relentless battle against such wanton outlaws as Pretty Boy Floyd,
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Baby Face, Nelson, Verne Miller, the Tuey Coppis and Barker Gangs,
Vern Sanke, and John Dellinger. Today, mister Pervis is an
attorney in San Francisco, as quiet and soft spoken as
when he proceeded to rid the country of its public enemies.
Ladies and gentlemen, mister Melvin Purvis.
Speaker 10 (49:48):
Thank you mister Demil, I've listened with interest to the
story of the safe cracker, Jimmy Valentine. Few of Jimmy
Valentine's kind a leap will I remember one I met
while running down a lead on John Dillinger. He had
only the greatest scorn for bank robbers of to day.
Their greed for large halls, their quickness on the trigger,
and their wanton murders of innocent people thoroughly disgusted him.
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Is it true that during the past several months crime
has been at a fortunate ebb? Yes, but it must
be emphasized that whatever gains order have attained over organized
crime will be turned into disastrous defeat if any apathy
is shown now by the public or by law enforcement officials.
The last few years have demonstrated that crime can be
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successfully fought, if intelligently fought. But do you agree, mister Purvis,
with those who think an American Scotland Yard would hold
crime in greater check. No, mister Demil, Scotland Yard, although
a highly efficient organization and one for which I have
the utmost respect, is really nothing more than the Metropolitan Police.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Force of London.
Speaker 10 (50:53):
In nineteen thirty five, there were twenty eight murders in
Scotland Yard's territory. In the same year, three hundred eve
and seventy five murders were committed in New York and
one thousand, six hundred and thirty in Memphis, Tennessee. In
other words, the Yard has never had to combat problems
like ours. And what do you suggest as a means
of halting crime feist? It is the duty of Americans
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to see that the youth of our country is properly
trained by giving more time and money to organizations that
take boys off the street and out of dives. Second,
modernization of local and state police. This can be done
by giving our police at least as good equipment as
the criminals have, by rewarding merit and weeding out incompetency. Third,
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our prison system must be improved. Few men emerge from
prison without a pH d in crime, and few fail
to put this newly acquired knowledge into practice. Until prisoners
are properly segregated in jail.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
Until our parole and prison.
Speaker 10 (51:54):
Systems work hand in hand, the penitentiary will remain little
more than a breeding place for more crime. Fourth, the
public must cooperate with law enforcement officials at all times,
citizens who pay tribute to racketeering thugs only tie the
noose more tightly around their own necks.
Speaker 1 (52:15):
These ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 10 (52:17):
Are problems which must be solved, and while the country
has a breathing spell, is the time to do something
about solving them. Thank you, mister Demill, not only for
your courtesy, but for the many hours of excellent entertainment
provided by the Lux Radio Theater.
Speaker 11 (52:31):
Good Night, good night, Pass a pad.
Speaker 1 (52:42):
And now let's get our Irish up and bring par
o'bran back to the microphone with Madge evidence.
Speaker 8 (52:53):
I guess there'll be no holding path, mister Demill, since
you told us the real Jimmy Valentine was named Connors,
another irishman.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
I knew that all the time.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
Speaking of the fighting Irish, pat, how did it happen
that you played football for Marquette instead of Notre Dame.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
We'll tell you. After the one game I was in
against the fighting Irish, most people thought I did play
for Notre Dame.
Speaker 8 (53:12):
Why I understood you ran ninety five yards for a touchdown.
Speaker 6 (53:15):
Oh, I have just the dream of a publicity man
magic to tell the truth. They carried me off after
the first few plays. Took Marquette several years to climb
back from where.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
I left them. But look at him now, unbeaten and untied,
And how many of those are there?
Speaker 1 (53:27):
It looks like Marquette for the Roseboro pat. Maybe you're
practically on the field now, Yes, sir, I'm so happy
I could sing I dare you too.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
Oh well, there are people listening. I've never known an
irishman who wouldn't take it there. Well, what can a
man do?
Speaker 8 (53:44):
Well, mister O'Brien, what will it be?
Speaker 2 (53:46):
But all right, then I'll sing that Charlady's bob. You
asked for it, and you're gonna give us the char ladies. Paul.
Speaker 1 (53:59):
People said, one and all, you're the bell of the ball.
Speaker 2 (54:03):
Missus Mulligan. We had one steps and two steps, and
the devil knows what new steps. We swore that we'd
never be Dullagan, be dad. We had wine, portal and jamison,
we'd cocktails and coco and all. We'd rumbles and tangles,
half steps and fandangles. The night we danced at the
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Charladies Ball, I made it well. I hope you learned
your lesson, never dare an irishman.
Speaker 8 (54:39):
It was lovely tests. But before someone dares me to sing,
I want to congratulate Lucks for making Monday Night my
favorite evening at the radio, and to say good night.
Speaker 2 (54:47):
Good night match, Thank you, missu Demel and listen. If
you ever have any consideration for your audience, never let
an actor sing again. Good night.
Speaker 1 (54:54):
Listen, good night me by it.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
Thank you, Miss Evans and mister O'Brien. Ladies and gentlemen,
this is your announcer, Melvill Ruick. Next week's program will
be announce shortly by mister de Mill, mister O'Brien, Miss
Newell and mister Jenkins appeared through courtesy of Warner Brothers.
Miss Evans, Metro Golden Mayor, mister Demill and mister Frawley
Paramount and mister Silver's twentieth Century Fox where he directed
music for the new film Lloyd's of London. Four and
a half year old Joanfield, who plays the part of Kitty,
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appeared through courtesy of B. P.
Speaker 1 (55:23):
Schulberg, her discoverer and now mister de Mill. I look
forward to next Monday Night as a highlight in the
history of the Lux Radio Theater. The event will be
the presentation of Noah Coward's Delightful Romance Conversation Piece, a
musical and dramatic play which takes place in France and
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England during the Napoleonic era. Our stars, Miss Lilley Ponds
of the Metropolitan Opera and mister Adolph Marjoo, our sponsors,
the makers of Lux Flake's join I mean inviting you
to be with us again next Monday night, when the
lux Radio Theater brings you Lily Ponds and add Off
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minds you in Conversation Piece. Before closing, May I call
your attention to the annual membership drive of the American
Red Cross. Had it not been for this great legion
of mercy, one hundred and thirty one thousand families throughout
the United States would be facing a tragic future.
Speaker 2 (56:22):
Today, the Red Cross.
Speaker 1 (56:24):
Has rebuilt and repaired homes, provided food, clothing, shelter, and
medical attention for the victims of one hundred and five disasters.
This year, millions of Americans are enrolling in the Red
Cross in order that its service may continue.
Speaker 2 (56:37):
Won't you please share on the Red Cross work.
Speaker 1 (56:39):
Contribute your dollar and enroll now through your local chapter.
This is cecrol b de Mill saying good night. To
you from Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (56:49):
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System m
Hollywood, California, Monday, November ninth, The LUTs Radio Theater presents
Pat O'Brien and mad Evins in alias Jimmy Valentines, with
Alan Jenkins and William Crowley. Lux Presents Hollywood's Our stars,
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Pat O'Brian, mad Evns, Alan Jenkins, and William Crawley.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Our guests Melvin Purvis, Greatest g Man in History and.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Carolyn Muell Show Girl. Our producer Cecil B. De Mille,
our conductor Louis Silberys.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
To the visible audience with.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Us tonight in our theater on Hollywood Boulevard, and to
our unseen listeners the world over. Greetings and good wishes
from Bluts. And now a brief word to the ladies.
Suppose you had spent millions of Dallas just for clothes.
Wouldn't it be logical for you to spare nothing to
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safeguard so huge an investments. Well, that's exactly the position
motion pictures are in. Yet go to all the leading
studios here in Hollywood, and you'll find they use inexpensive
Lux flakes.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Try a box tomorrow. Your clothes will well longer and
look newer when cared for in.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
These gentle marvelously effective flakes and now mister Cecil b.
Demill Greetings from Hollywood Ladies and gentlemen. Tonight's play came
out of the darkest chapter in the life of O Henry.
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Under his real name William Sidney Porter, oh Henry served
a term in the Ohio State Penitentiary. While there he
met Jimmy Connor, the safe Cracker, who told the author
the history of his life. But oh Henry wrote into
a short story, and from this Paul Armstrong fashioned our
play alias Jimmy Valentine. Tonight's Jimmy Valentine. Pat O'Brien made
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his debut on the stage as an angel in a
Christmas pageant, a rather disastrous beginning because his wings kept
falling off. Years later, Pat landed on Broadway and came
to Hollywood as Hilde Johnson, the star reporter of the
Front Page. Pat has remained a headliner ever since and
is seen next in The Great O'Malley. Madge Evans made
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her screen debut at the age of three. She had
been chosen by She has been chosen by sixty nine
universities as the typical American college girl, but she never
went to college. Madge whose current picture is Piccadilly. Jim
is heard tonight as Mary Lane. Besides Pat, there are
two other irishmen on our program, Alan Jenkins heard as
Red and William Frawley as Doyle the Detective. And here
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goes the curtain as the Lux Radio Theater presents Alias
Jimmy Valentine, starring Pat O'Brien and the title role and
Madge Evans with Alan Jenkins and William Frawley.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Arston.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Our story begins behind the grim forbidding walls of sing
Sing Prison, Arsening New York, in the gray light of
early morning, an endless line of men blood steadily through
an endless corridor. Somewhere in that line is a quiet,
easy manner at young prisoner Valentine number eighty seven four
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oh three, serving a term for safe cracking. As the
men near the entrance to the jute mill, the gods
keep careful watch.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Oh number eight seven or three, step out eight seven
four oh three.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Here the warden wants to see you, Valentine, go to
hisselfice right away, right away, Thanks right ay, d.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Oh, I'm in Valentine.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yes, sir, God said you wanted to see me.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yes, I suppose you know what it's about.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
The pardon it came through last night.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
You'll be leaving tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I have had certainly good news.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Three years old.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I told you behave yourself in here, Yes, sir, it
also pays to behave yourself.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
When you're out, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
What are you going to do, Valentine?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Get a job? I hope a steady one if I
can good.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
I'm not going to give you the usual talk, Valentine.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I don't think you need it.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You're smart enough to know your way around, and nothing
I can say is going to make much different just
from my that From now on.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
It's up to you.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
You can go straight, or you can crack a couple
of safes and land back here with a second offender's sentence.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
How which is it going to be?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Oh, I'm going straight, sure of that. Positive.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
That'll be all.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
You can report to Wilson now or over the juke mill,
tell him I said you to be off all duty today,
Thank you, sir, See you tomorrow morning.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Yes, sir, little Bell the time Ward said to report
to you, I'm off judy today. Oh you're gonna leave
us hey tomorrow morning?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Well make you Larus.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Look at the juke mill. Thanks, I'm seeing enough of
it right now.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I just wanted you to remember what it's like so you.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Won't be itching to get back. Don't worry, I'll be
hearing this noise in my sleep for the next ten years.
I'm gonna get a job.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
In a nice, quiet office with even when silence is
on the pencil shop in it so well, lots of lot.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Tell you. You seem to know what it's all about, Valentine.
Do you think you could hold on a job like.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
This pretty important?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well, i'd certainly like to try. Well, I'm almost tempted
to let you. Where'd you work least? I haven't had
a job for a long time, mister Norlan. You see, well,
i've been in prison.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Prison.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yes, I thought i'd better tell the truth about it,
and maybe prison. I'm afraid that kills your chances, Valentine now,
but I'm straight now, if you only let me, I'm sorry.
I appreciate your telling the truth, but you won't be
able to take you on good morning. I had to
come back today at the shop. I thought it was
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all set.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Well it was, but I've been doing a little investigating. Valentine,
you're not the man for the job.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Oh, I get it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Why didn't you tell me you'd served time?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Could have made any difference?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Well, I don't know. I'm sorry, Valentine.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
All right, thanks, any there must be some mistake. Mister
Willie told me was completely satisfied.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
All I know is that he doesn't want to see you.
Speaker 8 (07:18):
You to get your checks from the cashier.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Fire Eh, I'm afraid though.
Speaker 8 (07:23):
You see there was a man in yesterday of protective and.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Well sure, sure I know, checking up on me. Okay,
give me a little time to clean up my desk.
Speaker 9 (07:39):
I'm also sorry. That's a Valentine. Maybe even got another
job too.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 10 (07:49):
May have some ham an egg toes over here?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Let me have a hurry.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Was it black coffee you wanted, mister?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
That's right?
Speaker 8 (07:58):
Anything else they had toast down the brack?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
No, I don't bother, Yes, sir, Hello Valentine.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Huh oh, well but this isn't mister dole. How's the
detective business? Doyle?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Fine? You mind if I sit down?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Suit yourself?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Thanks?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I saw you come in here, Valentine, and thought i'd
come over and pass the time of day.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, well that's nice to you. What time is it?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Still a smart guy. Huh.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I guess being in the big house ain't changed you.
And he who sprung you.
Speaker 11 (08:31):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
You know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Who got you out of stir oh? Oh the governor?
He pardoned me when about a month ago.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
M hm, that's great.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Heah. You don't seem very pleased, dor.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Why should I be? I had enough trouble putting.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Me up there.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Sure you did unframed evidence.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
What do you mean, frame devil?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
That's what I said.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I didn't pull that bank job on danfel on your note,
but you brought a couple of double cross stool pigeons
to sweaar. They saw me in Danville the night the
bank was cracked. You weren't smart enough to get me
on your own, Doyle.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
You got to frame me?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Why, you cheap little crook. I ought to suck you right.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
On the chair.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Sure you ought to, and I wouldn't. I fire you.
You haven't got me in a jug now I'm a decent,
law abiding citizen.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Well it won't be for long. I'll slap a big
stretch on you if I have to follow you at China. Yeah,
but you'd have to get something on me first.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
I'll take care of that. Mister. Where do you pull
your next job?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
How do you know I'm gonna pull one?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
How do I know I get you?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
You're gonna hand me that line about going straight? Huh, Well,
I'd like to believe you, Valentine. I'd be the first
guy to give you a break. But guys like you
can't go straight.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It's in your blood.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
You'll be cracking another safe inside of a month, and
when you're due, I'll be right behind you with a
pair of bracelets.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
All right, copper, but you'll get this until that time
comes down. Once you lay off of me, let me alone.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Oh no, I'm gonna keep my eye on you, Valentine.
I'm gonna watch every.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Move you make.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
You What a nice, pleasant guy you are. A man's
got a swell chance to go straight with a flatful
like you tail them every minute. I've done my bed,
haven't I?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yeah, part of it?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
What are you talking about? I just told you I
was pardoned.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I wasn't thinking about the stretch you did for the
Danville job. Oh what I meant was that you never
served a day for cracking that safe in Springfield, Springfield.
I don't play innocent, Valentine. No one ever did find
out who was responsible for that job. But we've been
digging up a little more evidence lately, and that looks
like you. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I was never in Springfield in my life.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
What spring?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Now?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Spring?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Wait a minute, I happen to know you were see
in Springfield math, You were there the same night the
job was pulled.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, but you've got to prove that, mister.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Don't worry. I will.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
It may take a little time, a year, maybe five years,
but as long as we're both alive, I'll be working
on it. So long, Valentine, I'll see you in the
DA's office.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Rest waitress, Yes, sir, give me a check, will it please?
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Okay, orange juicing? Two cups of coffee, thirty five cents?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
All right, keep the change, Thank you?
Speaker 12 (10:54):
Sare Hey Jimmy, Jimmy, how are you fell on red vetter?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Than of a gee? It's good to see you, Jamal And.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
That goes double for you kid. You're looking swell no
fall him? Well, I feel all right. I didn't think
you were gonna come right. I've been waiting and signed
all the morning.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, the train was two hours late. I just got
in about fifteen minutes ago. Then I seen flat foot
Doyle something with you, so I stayed out here.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Come on, we can't talk here. We'll go to my place. Sure,
well here we are read not much, but it'll do.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
This place is okay.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I like the old one, though, Yeah, the bank is
not like the old one either. Sit down. Yeah. Say
what does.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Doyle want with you anyway?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Doyle? Oh, nothing much. I guess, just trying to put
the crews in. I mean, that's all he would says
he's got some new evidence about that Springfield business. You
don't think he has, do you? No? I don't think so,
mostly bluff. I guess. Well read what have you been
doing with this self?
Speaker 13 (11:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I've been doing all right, little jobs here and there
out in the coast, nothing much to speak of. I've
been kind of waiting for you. Yeah, say that reminds
me what was all that junk about you going straight?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I said, you know all that stuff you.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Wrote in a letter about getting a job and going straight?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Oh? Oh yeah, that I get it right.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Sure I knew you was only kidding.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
You ever trying to be honest? Read?
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Oh me, No, No, it's a pretty thankless job. I
came out of stair a month ago. The mind all
made up to go on the straight and narrow. I'll
go look for a position, a steady one throwing what.
Oh No, I didn't care much what I did.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I was in the jug.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I worked in the jude middle of the morning and
on the books in the afternoon, you know. In the office.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Taught me a lot about accounting. I thought maybe I
could get something on that line accounting.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Huh. Well, oh, I guess I should have known better.
I haven't got a chance.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, jobs is kind of scarce, No, read, it isn't
that so much.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
It's my record, my record, and a couple of rats
like Doyle keep pounding you every minute of the day,
every day of the week.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, nice guys, Am Dick's.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Oh it's not all of them. I guess most of
the men on the force are all right. I got
their jobs, and they do them just like you do yours.
So I always find a few they are looking for
a soft job behind the desk, and they don't care
how they get it. Fellas like Doyle. He's hounding me
now for something that happened three years ago. I told
him I wanted to go straight.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
But what demon is it didn't make he'd like to
send me up for life.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
He's gonna follow me all over them apturally, does what
are you gonna do? I'm gonna blow this towne on
the first rattler, I canna get Where are you going?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I don't know? Sticks?
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Probably when nobody knows me, Well change my name, keep
on the moved little dog gets tired of looking for me.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Oh what name is gonna use? Jimmy?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
In case I wanna reach it, Randall Lee, Randall, Randall,
go on, and I'm gonna pull a job, just one red.
But it's gonna be a pet.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Now your talk. I'mike enough in one haule.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
That set me up for life, catch the first boat
for Europe and spend the rest of my days making
mud pies on the French rav airs.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Well, when do you need the stake for me?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
For sure? I ain't gonna crack on sight without me.
I hit the.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Tickets, all tickets.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Please have your tickets for a day tickets forster. Here are.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Time to arrive in Glendale the belt here four fifty eight?
Thank you tickets Please, where's your ticket?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Lady?
Speaker 8 (14:25):
My ticket?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Well, I've been waiting for you to come to.
Speaker 8 (14:29):
The train contactors. You see, I haven't got a ticket.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You got on at Warren's Town, didn't you, Yes, I did.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
I'm going to Glendale, Glendale.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I let me say, now, Quarrenstown to Glenndale. That be
seven dollars and twenty two cents.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Oh, but don't you see I am well, I haven't
any money either.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
What's there?
Speaker 8 (14:48):
No, I lost my test just before I got on
the train. I left it on account of the information book,
and my ticket was in it. And well, I thought
perhaps I could explain.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
It to you. And I'm sorry in this book, I
don't well, just what I can do about?
Speaker 8 (15:01):
Well, my mother's need to meet the station in Glendale.
She'll give you the money.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Then, well, we change conductors four stations this side of Glendale.
I don't know the conductor. Yes, sir, I'm getting off
at Glendale. I'll pay the young ladies fair. Oh well
that'll be all right.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
Oh thank you, but I couldn't let you do that way.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
It's quite all right. Your mother can pay me back
when we arrived. See I think you said seven thirty
two conductor. Yes, sir, there you are, Thank you, sir,
seven thirty two and eight is seven fifty and fifty
is eight dollars. Thank you tickets? Have your ticket.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
That was awfully nice of you.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
That's all right.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
I feel like a perfect fool.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Or have I been on the same boat myself? I'll
probably be in and again sometimes.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
Well, I only hope you will meet someone as kind
hearted if you've been to me.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Thanks.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
I don't know what I would have done. Really, I
haven't a penny with me. You see, I'm not used
to being away from.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Home very much. You live in Glendale?
Speaker 8 (16:03):
Oh, yes, I've always lived there.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
That's where I was born.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
I suppose I ought to introduce myself. My name is
Mary Lane.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well how do you do, miss Lane? My name is Randall,
Lee Randall.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
How do you do? I'm offully glad to meet you.
I er, I guess I ordered be Eh. You're going
to Glendale too, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yes? I am.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
Have you ever been there before?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
No, this will be my first visit, I thought so.
Speaker 8 (16:27):
Why, Well, I've never seen you before. It's a very
small town. Well you get to know everybody. Do you
expect to stay long?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Well? That depends.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
Oh this is just a business trip.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Uh, yes, in a way. You see, I have no business.
I am just sort of looking around.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
You want to invest in something?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
No, not exactly. I'm gonna pull up m I'm gonna
look for a job.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Well why I go to Glendale?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Well, I don't know. I've just thought I might have
more of a chance in a small town.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
Oh, I see what you mean.
Speaker 12 (17:00):
What sort of work do you do.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Mister Randall? Well, I am an accountant.
Speaker 8 (17:04):
An accountant? Will did you work last last?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yes? Or I I worked for the state? Yes? State?
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Oh well, a government job.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Oh yes, you might call it that.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I hope you.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
Don't think I am impertinent asking you questions like this.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Oh, not at all.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
But you see, I have a reason. I well, when
you said you were an accountant, I.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Thought I might be able to help you help me.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Oh yes, not directly, of course, But I think my
father might be able to find you something. I'll speak
to him to night.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Ah No, please don't bother.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
But I'd like to.
Speaker 8 (17:41):
You were so awfully nice to me, and I I
feel as though I were returning the favor. At least
I could introduce you to him, and even if he
couldn't use you himself, to be a good contact for
you here. Well, he's rather a prominent person than Glendale.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Yes, he's the president of the Farmer's Bank.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Oh I see, Well, what's the matter.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Wouldn't you care to work in a bank, mister random?
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Oh yes, yes, I think I'd feel right at home
working in a bank.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Said mister Randalls.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Soda, thank you.
Speaker 11 (18:23):
My daughter tells her that you're.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Looking for a job. That's right, mister Lane, I've been
looking for one for quite some time.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
You're an accouncil, eh, that's right. Ever, work in a bank, No,
I haven't. Mary seems to think that I ought to
put you on.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yes, I know she told me she was gonna speak
to you. I asked her not to bother. But you
understand my position, mister Randall, Why of course I do.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
You don't know anything about me that in itself would
be enough reason for not giving me a job.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I'm glad you see it in that light, of course.
Speaker 10 (18:54):
But on the other hand, the fact that I'm not
acquainted with you is not evidence that you couldn't fill
up a position that is satisfactorily. As a matter of fact,
we need a tell her right now, and I'm quite
willing to see.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
What I can do for you. Oh, thank you, that's
very kind. I suppose you have references, Yes, I have.
I brought them with me. If you like to look
them over, I'd like to very much. First, one hears
from the general manager of a firm I worked for
several years ago, A mohawk lock company.
Speaker 11 (19:23):
A mohawk lock, don't believe I've ever heard of it.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
What sort of a firm was it?
Speaker 6 (19:29):
A manufacturing company? Ay uh, manufactured saves.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I was with the Mohawk Company for about two years,
and then I got an offer for another firm to
watch card and take over the office.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Hello long distance, he told me I was connected with
New York. But oh I am thank you. Hello, Hello Red,
this is Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah, yeah, I'm up in Glendale, d Glendale and listen, Red,
I landed a job. Why are you here? I'm gonna
tell her. In a bank bank, B, A and K bank.
(20:31):
In a moment, we will continue with the Lux Radio
Theater presentation of Alias Jimmy Valentine, starring Pat Obrian and
Madge Evans. But first we'll take you to a pleasant
home on Outpost Drive, not far from Hollywood Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Eight year old Katherine is holding.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
A step ladder while her mother fixes a picture which
hangs crooked.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
Mommy, do you have to weld stockings around the house?
Speaker 8 (20:50):
These aren't old, dear, I just seem to be unlucky
about always getting wrong.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
I saw funny in the paper yesterday about cutting down runs.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Oh, there isn't anything you can do about it.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
But mommy, I have the paper right here. It says
washing stockings with lucks cuts down runs because safe las
e laugh.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
The word is elasticity darling.
Speaker 9 (21:13):
Well if luck say it, mommy, why don't you try some?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Well maybe I should.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
In fact, I will let you and I go to.
Speaker 8 (21:21):
The store and get some.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
When stockings go into runs too quickly, it's extravagant to
throw them away, a nuisance to.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Mend them, and untidy to wear them around the house.
That's why more and more women are taking to Lux
for stockings. Lucks preserves the elasticity of the silk, so
stockings give without breaking into runs so easily under suddain
strains cake soap rubbing and soaps with harmful alkali tend
to weaken elasticity. Lux has no harmful alkali, saves elasticity.
(21:48):
Make a note to buy some lucks tomorrow. See how
it cuts down your run. And once more, mister de Mill.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
We continue with our story Alias Jimmy Valentine, starring Patoan
and Madge Evans with Alan Jenkins and William Frawley.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Six months have passed.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
The little town of Glendale has gone peacefully on its way.
For strangely enough, no burglar alarms have disturbed the choir
of the night, and the Farmer's National Bank is still intact.
We're in the living room of the Lane home, where
Mary is carelessly turning over the pages of the town newspaper.
Suddenly she sees an interesting item in the social social
column and turns eagerly to her mother.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Look, mother, it's in the Glendale News. What Mary about Lee? Listen,
mister Lee Randall and you come at a Glendale has
been making quite a name for himself down at the
Farmer's Bank. We understand that mister Lane has given him
two promotions within six months. More power to you, mister Randal.
We are glad to have you in our midst. Isn't
it marvelous?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Mother?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Well, I should say so.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
I won't to please seeing it yet, I'll say it
in shure too when.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
He comes you like mister Randolph to Mary.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Why, yes, everybody does.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Well, everybody isn't in love with him, Mother, the whole.
You needn't be so shocked. You are in love with him,
aren't you.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
Well, yes, a little bit.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I knew you were. Did he care for you, Mary?
Speaker 8 (23:16):
I think so. He hasn't said very much, but he
manages to give that impression.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
Well, if I must lose you, I can't think of
anyone I'd rather lose you too, I'll.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Mother, You're sweet, mother.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Yes, kid it i'll's making noises in the door.
Speaker 8 (23:33):
I am not.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
He's fain.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Mother, Bobby, you stop that.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I'll be up there a minute. If you don't, I.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
Hold those children. I'll take it.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
Mother.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Hello, Hello, Lee?
Speaker 11 (23:46):
Yes, how are you?
Speaker 13 (23:49):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Now?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
What's the murther?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (23:53):
Oh, I see tomorrow night? All right, I'll wait for
you to call goodbye for me.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
He can't come over tonight. He has to stay home
and entertain entertain. Yes, an old friend of his just
arrived in town. I think Lee said he was from
New York.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
What's it all about, Jimmy? What's eating anyhow?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I don't know myself.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I don't give me that there's something wrong. You don't.
I've been waiting to have me for the last six months.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I wrote to you tonight.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah, nice little friendly letters about the weather up here,
and what a nice little town it is, and whose
pig had puppies? But nothing about pulling off the job.
Not a word about cracking a bank.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
What bank? The Farmer's National Bank. I never said I
was gonna pull a job down. Oh yeah, I did not.
I told you I was working there. That's all. Well
for crying out loud.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Ain't that the way you took the job? So he
cracked the vault?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Yeah, maybe I'm gonna change my mind.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Oh no, ain't that noble? Wait a second, is there
a dame mixed up into something?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Is that? Yes? But she's not a Dame Red, She's
a girl. You know what.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I knew it. Whenever a guy starts calling the dame
a girl, you can expect trouble. You ain't thinking to
get married.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
To her, No, I'd like to someday.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
You know. I think this country air is going to
your head. Have you thought about Doyle?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
What about him?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Suppose he catch us up with you? He'd follow you?
It at the sounds poll of he thought he could
hook the bracelets on him for that Springfield job. What
do you think he might have the evidence right now?
Speaker 6 (25:21):
I'm not worried about the Springfield job. Oh no, no,
I got an alibi, right, I've been working on it
for the last three months and it's a builty all right.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
So you got an alibi. So what even if Doyle
swallows it, you'll be in a soup anyway.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
You mean you'll tell everyone about my record?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Sure, and I guess that'll be kind of a surprise
to that dame, I mean, that girl of yours.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Well, that's a chance I'll have to take red. There's
one thing I'm sure. I'm staying here, and I'm staying straight.
And when about those mud pies and a French river
era that's out? Huh yeah, right, that's how to me.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
It's very discouraging. Jimmy here, you are the best cracksman
in the business.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
The only guy in the world is gonna.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Open a site without using tools a nitro, and you're
throwing away your whole future for as straight.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I'm not throwing it away, right, I'm making it.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I don't suppose there's nothing I can say.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
That the chance of my mind. No, oh, I got
my chance now right, I'm not gonna uff it.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, I guess that's that. I feel kind of bad, Jimmy.
I mean, well, we've been pals for a long time.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Oh, gee, kid, can't we still be pals?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah? A banker and a crook that I make a
swell combination.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Oh, wouldn't have to be a crook? Read well, you
could go straight too, Not so I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I ain't gonna slave my life away in no regular
job eight hours a day for a chicken feed.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
No, Oh, you've got the wrong idea. Red. You think
a regular job is dull and interesting? Now it isn't.
It's a big kick in.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
It's not for me.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
They wouldn't be cost I would. I used to think
exactly the same as you do. But look at me now, yeah,
look at you now? That's softy all all right? But
I'm happy, right, I'm happier than I've ever been in
my life.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Why don't you take a word out of kid, I
can get your job up here in Glen Days.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
You want to be right near each other? What do
you say?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I don't know, Jimmy. There ain't nothing I can do anyhow.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I signed something you can do when you take it.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Will you yes or no?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Alright?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Well, but get this, I ain't doing it because I
want to go straight. See, I'm doing it because you're
asking me.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
All right, then be tough.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
You said it. Now, what do I do?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Well, if a fella's made up his mind to go straight,
there's only one thing to do, exposing the temptation right
off the bat, and if he pulls through, he's all right.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Okay, spillers, what's the job? Read?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I'm gonna make you a night watchman and the Farmer's
National Bank. Hello Randal speaking. Oh yes, mister Williams. Well
(27:44):
you see I just got to the office. I haven't
had time to check on that yet. Suppose you drop
in and seeing me? Salf No, al right, by good
morning for us. Hello, right, come on in. How's the
night watchman?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I'm all right, kind of tired, though.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I'll say you ought to be if you wanted might
tee a bad time.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Hey, I ain't sleeping on a job, believe me.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
What are you doing around here this time of the morning.
Ought to be home in bed.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yeah, but they're just finishing a new vault. I've been
helping him put it in. You've seen it again?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
No, only the blueprints. I hear. It's a neat job.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
It's a pip moves like clockwork and safe. Say I
couldn't open that vault inside of a month.
Speaker 11 (28:18):
We'll say that.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
You don't try him and say, I don't worry. I'm said,
as what, No, kid, Now, you're right on the level.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, it's funny in it.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Sometimes I don't think I'm the same guy. Yeah, a
couple of years gonna make a big difference.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I'll say, look at you, the system cashit and all
set them married. The boys's daughter.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
No, she's a great girl.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
You're tell him me?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Hell oh yes, tell him. I'll be out there in
a couple of minutes. Are a come in, Mary? How
are you?
Speaker 8 (28:47):
I just got sight with Kitty and Bobby. They wanted
to see father. Hello, mister David, Mamas lane, I see
they have the new vaulting already.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I was just telling mister Ramdler about it.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
Father's out there now giving it the warm SILVERA.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, well I'll I ain't allowed to say it. It's
something I can do.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Excuse me, Well, how are you downing? All right?
Speaker 8 (29:09):
I don't know if I get a kiss, think you
deserve one?
Speaker 2 (29:12):
What do you think? GM crazy about you? Mary? Are you?
Speaker 8 (29:19):
I love you too?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
No, honey, I.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
Can't wait for next month to roll around. Wonder what
it's going to be like waiting up there at the
oiler while you can walking down the.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
Aisle, stumbling down the aisle. I'll probably be so nervous
I won't be able to stand. Look, I've been shopping
this morning.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
God, what'd you get? Wait?
Speaker 8 (29:36):
Do you see bed? How do you like it?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Say? That's well, it's beautiful? What is it?
Speaker 7 (29:47):
It's material for Kirstens.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I thought it was a bridal veil.
Speaker 9 (29:51):
It has so, Bobby, it has not. It has so?
Speaker 11 (29:55):
I tell you it has.
Speaker 9 (29:56):
Not, Kitty Bobby, what's the matter, he said a new voice.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
Win it a radio?
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yes you have?
Speaker 9 (30:02):
Mary has a round thing with numbers.
Speaker 7 (30:05):
She lays a dial on the outside.
Speaker 9 (30:07):
Isn't that a radio? Isn't it? Mister Randall?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Well, no, kiddy, I'm afraid it isn't. But I haven't
put anything like it there.
Speaker 8 (30:14):
Yeah, Marty, Bobby behaves yourself. I'm going in to see father,
and if you don't stop acting like the young Hudlam
will tell him right doing nothing. Well, see that you're doing.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Wait a second, Mary, I'll go with you. I want
to speak to the teller of better.
Speaker 13 (30:28):
Bobby, what wanna play something? No, oh, Bobby, come on
play something with me. Well, all right, you'll play banker.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
I'll be fathering.
Speaker 9 (30:40):
You be somebody that wants to borrow money. Now I
don't want to play dank. Just play elephant. You can
be the elephant. No, I'm gonna be a banker. No
one sit down? Met him. Why don't ask questions? Sit
down or right?
Speaker 7 (30:58):
I understand you? What shr lould?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Let him? Uh?
Speaker 7 (31:00):
Huh, well I thought so.
Speaker 9 (31:02):
Now how much how much can I get?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
No?
Speaker 7 (31:05):
No, you say a whole lot at first?
Speaker 9 (31:07):
Just two thousand dollars. That's a great deal of money.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
Met him.
Speaker 9 (31:10):
Well that's the most I could think of. Don't talk
that way. You'd be put out for saying things like that.
He Uh, I suppose you've got some kind of security.
Met him. Well I don't know, sure you have. Uh
you got a farm, haven't just?
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (31:24):
Yes, I got a farm, all a larger farms of biglins.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
Well that's good. Uh, Now what's growth on this farm er?
Speaker 9 (31:33):
The cacos, anything else? The cacos and vegetables. That's silly.
But they are vegetables too, they are not they are too.
I'm going to ask mister Randall. Mister Randall, go ahead
and ask him. You see, mister Randall or mister Rando.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Uh I told him, I say this afternoon, Smithy better
let me take care of him. That's what rand I'll
be off Smithy. Yes, sir, No, go ahead and ask
you ask you say, no, What's what's going on here?
Another argument?
Speaker 9 (32:06):
Bobby, the Chavis are vegetables? Sure they are?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Are they?
Speaker 11 (32:10):
Missed?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Deranda? Well, now, Kitty, that's a question that requires a
lot of thoughts. Hey, boss, yes, Reddy.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
I gotta speak to you right away. Get rid of
them kids.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
All right? I list new youngsters run out and play?
Will you sure?
Speaker 8 (32:21):
Come on?
Speaker 9 (32:21):
Sid you sure he's a new ball? I'm miss random.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
All right, red what's the excitement?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Come in through your office quick? I gotta speak to you. Well,
I wasn't there, plenty Doyle's here? What Doyle the Copper?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
He's here? Where in mister Lane's office.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
I've seen him go in.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Holy he's after you, Jimmy, Sure shootings about Springfield? Jobby said,
he were digging up new evidence. He must have found it.
Come on, Jimy, let's get out way Manu Does he
know you? I don't think so? All right, then sit
tight out handled Doyle, What do you mean? Just keep quiet?
Let me do the talking. I'm going to ali by
them guided he's dizzy, alibi, un listen, you get this.
I'm not Jimmy Valentine redd. I never heard of him.
I've been straight on my life and I can prove it.
What are you talking from? Here? See? Where is this?
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Yes, yes, here we are. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
In his book, yeah, scrap of full newspaper clippings, every clippings.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
About Lee Randall.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Lee Randall sherp was awesome, my cousin. You had a
cousin by that men, that's right.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
He lived in San Francisco, went to a last a
couple of years ago and never came back. This was
his book, A newspaper clippings.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
He read this one San Francisco News, January twelfth, nineteen
twenty nine. Lee Randall, principal speaker at Club Bank.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
Take another look at that dateline read January twelvey me
anything do you no?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
No? Well? The Springfield job was pulled on January the eleventh.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I get it. Oh wait a minute, you could have grabbed.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
A plane, couldn't. No.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
I checked on that too. They didn't have twenty four
hour service in nineteen twenty nine. That sounds good, But listen, Jimmy,
Doyle knows you.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
He ain't gonna let you walk out under his nose
just because you got some newspaper clippings.
Speaker 13 (33:47):
No.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I got more than clippings. Got a picture here.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
Look at this through picture of the banquet, the date
on it, and my face right in the front road.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Oh read, gee, it is you. I don't get this.
Jimmy since had a photography do a double negative job
for me, took out one of the other faces and
putting mine at its place. Bred I've been waiting for
this day, hoping it would never come. With waiting for
it just the same, I've been going straight now for
almost three years. I got a chance to marry the
(34:18):
swellest girl in the world, and I'm not gonna let
anything slip. Or did you get away with it? We'll
Doyle swallow that stuff. He's got to. Yeah, But if
he don't, what are you doos in I do ten
more years in the Jolke Mill.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
We paused for station identification. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. O'Brien,
(35:00):
Madge Evans and are all star cast resume the events
of Alias Jimmy Valentine.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
In a few moments.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
The girl we hear next never made the headlines, but
she's an important part of Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
The Chorus Girl.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
As captain of a group of Hollywood's fairest, all twelve
of whom are in the audience tonight. She leaves this
week on an airplane tour to exploit Warner Brothers musical
gold Diggers of nineteen thirty seven. If you want to
meet a screen show girl, here's your chance. She's not
only blonde, beautiful, shapely, but I understand capable of completing
(35:32):
a whole sentence. Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Carolyne Newell.
Speaker 7 (35:42):
Oh, Hello, mister Dean miil G. You're cute.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Well, you're not so bad you. We're on the air, Miss.
Speaker 7 (35:47):
Newell, Oh, just like a radio program, practically the same,
and everybody hears whatever I say. Yes they do, Oh goodie,
Hello Jack, Hello Mortis.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Don't say anything until I ask you a question, then
talk straight into this. This is a microphone, miss new
ufie microphone, but of course.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
An apparatus for converting audio energy into electrical energy. Anybody
knows that upun my words microphone, It comes from the
Greek word micro's meaning small.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Oh you know, a little Greek not anymore.
Speaker 7 (36:19):
I haven't seen him in years.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Oh, Nicolas, you're quite an enigma.
Speaker 7 (36:24):
Oh and I like you too.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
What I am struggling to determine is how you got
into pictures? Well, when I was in high school, you
were in high school.
Speaker 7 (36:32):
I'll thank you for not interrupting me, sir.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
How did you get into pictures?
Speaker 7 (36:36):
Well, a Spanish boy I knew taught me to speak Spanish,
and I got a job in a foreign language studio.
After that, I was with Geen Horlow. I was Jean
Hollow standing a metro, and then I went to Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Our All show girls like you? Are they?
Speaker 7 (36:49):
Mister mil You say the nicest things?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Oh? Well, what are your latest pictures?
Speaker 7 (36:54):
Stay Struck, Canon, Mabel? And now gold Diggers?
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Do you smoke or drink?
Speaker 7 (36:58):
Thanks? But hadn't we better wait till we're through?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
What's the show girls idea of marriage?
Speaker 7 (37:02):
Well, it's like this, If a man came along with
plenty of money. I think most of us would like
to get married, providing we fell in love. That's important too,
But personally, if a man without money wanted to marry,
I don't think it would be fair to either of us.
You see, showgirls are really too independent.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
I'm afraid that. I'm afraid that at the pilot of
that plane he's going to find himself and a spin
with all you gold diggers aboard. Do you like the
idea of.
Speaker 7 (37:26):
Flying twell, the only trouble is that with twelve of
us in one plane, there won't be much room left
for clothes. But we know how to get around that.
How did you ever hear of lux flakes?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
That sounds familiar.
Speaker 7 (37:38):
They solve our problem. Each night when we stop off
at a hotel, we do a little washing with lux flakes.
We use luck all the time at the studio for
our sweaters and costumes, and we use it on our
trip not only for convenience, but because we want to
look our best always. You ought to try it.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Sometime I will.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
It sounds like lots of fun.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
Yes, indeed, mister Demil, this has been lots of fun.
If I haven't given the audience a very concrete the
idea of what a Hollywood show girl is really like.
Maybe it's because we're actually no different than other girls.
No smarter and well, I guess, no dumber, Just trying
to make good and waiting for the right man. Thanks loads,
and good night.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
And good night pers. Back to our play Alias Jimmy
Valentine starring Pat o'brann and Made Evans with Alan Jenkins
and William Crowley. It's just a few minutes since Jimmy
(38:31):
learned that Doyle was in the bank looking for him.
Alone in his office, Jimmy is pacing the floor nervously.
The door opened and Mary enters hurriedly.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Lee, Yes, Mary, see, I just came.
Speaker 8 (38:46):
From father's office. There's a man there, a detective. He'd
been asking Father a lot of questions about you, about me. Well,
he said, you're not Lee Randalls. He says, your name
is Jimmy Valentine.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Valentine, Lee. What's wrong?
Speaker 8 (38:58):
What's it all about?
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Oh no, I'll take it easy, Mary, Everything will be
all right.
Speaker 8 (39:03):
But he's going to arrest you, he said, So I
sneaked out of the office to warn you.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Lie. I tell you, mister Doyle. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Maybe it is and maybe it ain't. Lee.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yes, mister Lane, this man has just been asking me
some questions about you. He's a detective. Oh, yes, says
his name is Doyle.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
And that's all right, mister Lane. He don't need an
introduction to me, do your Valentine?
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Valentine, my name is Randall.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Oh come on, come on. I wasn't born yesterday. I
know your face like I know my own.
Speaker 8 (39:30):
Mister Dorley making a mistake.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Oh no, I ain't.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
He's Jimmy Valentine, wanted in the state of Massachusetts for
cracking a safe in Springfield.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
I got all the evidence I need.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Maybe you have, but you've got the wrong man.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Of course you have.
Speaker 11 (39:42):
This is preposterous.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Now listen to me, all of you.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
I came all the way up here to put the
bracelets on this bird, and I'm gonna do it. See now,
do you come peacefully, Valentine? Or do I have to
use force?
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Oh? I wouldn't try to add for you. You've evidently
mistaken me for someone.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
No, I told you to can that stuff?
Speaker 6 (39:58):
Why should I. I'm entitled to a chance to.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Prove to you that I'm really Lee Randall, never mind that.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
How about proving you're not Jimmy Valentine.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
He doesn't have to, that's right, mister Lane. The burden
of proof rests upon mister Doyle. He has to show
beyond a reasonable doubt that I am Jimmy Valentine.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
I'll do that when the right time comes.
Speaker 8 (40:15):
Why don't you do it now?
Speaker 3 (40:17):
All right, lady, Well Valentine, suppose you tell us where
you've been for the last six years or so.
Speaker 6 (40:24):
Of course, my name is Randal, But I don't mind
answering your question. I came to Glendale three years ago.
Before that, I spent the rest of my life in
San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
You weren't doing a stretch about three and a half
years ago, of course not. And I suppose you weren't
in Springfield either, on the night of January eleventh, nineteen
twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
I've answered that question.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
I was in San Francisco, all right, All right, maybe
you can prove that.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yes, I think I can.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
Oh, I don't know exactly. But wait a minute, I
can't prove it. Look you see the scram book.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Well, it's full of clippings about me. See.
Speaker 6 (41:00):
Well, maybe I can find something. Yeah, sure, sure, here
we are.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
I think you said I was in prison three and
a half years ago. That would be nineteen thirty two,
wouldn't it. Oh, sort of be close enough. Clip San
Francisco Times, February twenty second, nineteen thirty two. That's the
list of names of people who attended the holiday ball.
You'll find mine at the bottom. Say it, say it,
Lee Randall.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
Yeah, I see it.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
So you see I was there? All right? I don't know.
Maybe I can find something around another time in nineteen
twenty nine. Anuay, No, maybe I can't get the exact day.
Wait a minute, right here, you said January the eleventh,
didn't you. Well, here's a clubbing from the twelfth. I
made a speech at the club banquet. That's a picture too,
(41:46):
not in the paper, of course, but you can see
it must have been the same banquet. The photographery even
dated there. See where am I miss? There? There? I
am right in the front row.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Let me see, well, I'll be.
Speaker 8 (41:58):
I guess that settles it.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
You certainly do want any more proof, do you?
Speaker 4 (42:02):
I don't know. I don't understand this.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Why not? It's very simple?
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Yeah, that's just it. You know, you look enough like
Valentine to be his twin brothers.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
It's a good thing. I'm not. You've seem pretty intent
on catching up with him.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
I've been after him for almost three years.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
You must want him pretty badly.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Yeah, if you see, he's the only man in the
country who can open a safe by the sense of touch.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
I have a sense of touch.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Impossible, not for him, It ain't.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
He rubs his fingers with sandpaper, see sandpaper, Yeah, scrapes
the skin clean off him so they'll be more sensitive.
Speaker 8 (42:36):
How terrible.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
You don't really believe that, No, you must to do.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
Sure I do. Why not?
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Why I don't believe that any man could have so
delicate a sense of touch?
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Well, how he has, and it's been the ambition of
my life to see him, work to catch him with
the goods.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Well, for the sake of the community, I hope you do.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
Thanks. What's the talk?
Speaker 11 (42:56):
Me?
Speaker 3 (42:56):
The cave?
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Here? Read? What's the matter out there?
Speaker 1 (43:00):
What's happened? Right? It's it's kitty, kitty.
Speaker 8 (43:02):
What's the matter with this?
Speaker 3 (43:03):
Talk?
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Up?
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Man?
Speaker 11 (43:04):
What's happened? She's locked in the fall?
Speaker 2 (43:06):
Why did you say? Who falls?
Speaker 1 (43:07):
She's locked in there?
Speaker 9 (43:08):
Locked in the brook?
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Mary?
Speaker 11 (43:09):
How did this.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Happen, Bobby. They were playing and he closed the door
on her. Baby.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
People take it easy, mister Lane. Where's the combination?
Speaker 11 (43:15):
They haven't sent the combination yet. Nobody knows it.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Now quiet Mary, please, I'm going out to stay where
you are, mister Lane.
Speaker 11 (43:21):
But she's locked in there.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
You can't do any good. Red Rotten played the bank.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Okay, mister Ryndold.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
I'll sit down Mary, please and be quiet.
Speaker 11 (43:29):
Random, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (43:32):
Hello, Mims Simpson, give me the glove saving park Come
he right away. I know the combination of the office.
Do you think so? Late? Take a chance?
Speaker 4 (43:40):
How big is the vault? She said, mister Lane, Oh
it's very small.
Speaker 11 (43:42):
It's full of safe to hark clay up to the ceiling.
Speaker 4 (43:44):
That's not so good.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
Why what do you mean? Shut up, Doyle, take clearing
the bank.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
Peter's attendant to it.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
All right, Sit tied for a minute. Here we are hello,
Globe Landels speaking Farmer's National Bank. Grand They listen, I've
gotta have the combination of that new vault right away.
Yet the new vault, what.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
Where is it?
Speaker 2 (44:08):
Oh? Let's see, all right, Lee?
Speaker 8 (44:11):
What did they say?
Speaker 2 (44:12):
They can't get it? Only one man in the office
knows that the combination is. He's out for the day.
Good God, what are we going to do?
Speaker 11 (44:20):
There must be somebody who can op it. It must
be somebody.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
There's only one person I could think of, Jimmy Valentine.
Speaker 4 (44:26):
Too bad, he.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Ain't here now, man, Randall, cut up with you.
Speaker 11 (44:29):
She can't last much longer. There's nothing off here. She's suffolkating,
don't marry.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
We'll get her out of there.
Speaker 12 (44:35):
But how howley?
Speaker 2 (44:37):
I know way? It's an awfully hard away for me,
But I'll get her out.
Speaker 4 (44:44):
How are you gonna do it? Mister Randall?
Speaker 2 (44:46):
Stick around toile and watch red.
Speaker 6 (44:48):
Yeah, bred been on the workshop and bring me back
four sheets of rough.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
Sand favor sand faper.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
Well that's a coincidence.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
May they must be quiet, cold work. You can do that?
Speaker 8 (45:06):
Yes, twelve?
Speaker 2 (45:07):
How was it going for? I don't know yet. I
don't know. You can't feel. I mean, it's sand paper
again right here? You got? Oh hope you think I've
done enough of that? Shut up? Let me alone, you'll please?
Oh what don't talk that to that? I heard it,
Mum missed it again. I tell at that time I
(45:31):
felt that dog lift.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
There it is twenty one.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
It's twenty one, right, remember that.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
I gotta give me that paper.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
Indeed, be quiet, mess, it's the only way you can work.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Fifty two left, fifty two lefts.
Speaker 4 (45:44):
I don't get in there.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
I can feel every job, but how only bolts This
dog got ready? Twelve twelve and we are again. This
is a live I think I know this is rotation.
Oh I'm right, l are you getting hit a minute?
That's the lame?
Speaker 4 (46:03):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (46:04):
You just kick him with them to become the door
here getting stop? Don't wait your lungs, Red, keep your knives.
Forty two, forty two. That's what it ought to be.
No one one she old rotation, all right? Ten off
the first. I'm two three and back no one more. Red, alright,
(46:25):
I can't get stop. She might be dead. Oh no,
wait a minute, Wait a minute, hardy, who open keep
that door open? Here it come kify, kimty.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
Yeah, she is on the floor.
Speaker 11 (46:35):
She give it to me.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
She did. No, she's breathing.
Speaker 6 (46:37):
She'd be all right, get on the dock and then
quick come on coming be daddy, come carry her sure, let.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Me check up at the lame. I don't worry.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
She'll be alright, just pick it now.
Speaker 8 (46:47):
Ohle, look at your poor fingers.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
Huh oh oh yeah, Oh.
Speaker 4 (46:57):
Alright, that was a neat job opening. That's safe.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Hmm, yeah, wasn't it. Yes, she wouldn't after all though. Well,
I'm not gonna go with you. Go where Massachusetts?
Speaker 3 (47:08):
Oh no, I ain't going to Massachusetts. I ain't going
any place in particular, and neither are you. She needs
you more than the state of Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (47:18):
I mean that you were right? See I made a
big mistake a few minutes ago. I thought you were
Jimmy Valentine. Ain't that a riot? Well, I guess I'll
run along. I don't suppose we'll ever meet again, mister Randall,
so I'll say goodbye for good. But wait a minute,
just to retain your respect, Jimmy, don't think I felt
for that double negative photograph?
Speaker 2 (47:40):
So long.
Speaker 8 (47:45):
Well, he he's gone.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
Yes, he knows who I am. Mary, So do you?
Speaker 8 (47:52):
Yes, Darling, your name is Lee.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
Randall alias Jimmy Valentine Lee.
Speaker 8 (47:57):
Randalls, and we're going to be married next month.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
You mean that?
Speaker 8 (48:02):
Oh you know, I do.
Speaker 6 (48:05):
See that's funny. I told read once I was going
to create one more safe.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
I guess it was it.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
Jimmy Valentine's last job is finished, but not Padobrand's. With
Madge Evans, he returned shortly to the microphone. In the
Annals of law Enforcement, no name struck greater fear in
the hearts of criminals, or will be remembered by this
nation with greater gratitude than that of Melvin Purvis. Mister
Purvis received his law degree from the University of his
(48:53):
native South Carolina, and practiced law before entering the Department
of Justice. So he was less than five feet nine
inches in height and weighed not quite one hundred and
thirty pounds. He became head of the Chicago office of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the powerful organization which waged
a relentless battle against such wanton outlaws as Pretty Boy Floyd,
(49:17):
Baby Face, Nelson, Verne Miller, the Tuey Coppis and Barker Gangs,
Vern Sanke, and John Dellinger. Today, mister Pervis is an
attorney in San Francisco, as quiet and soft spoken as
when he proceeded to rid the country of its public enemies.
Ladies and gentlemen, mister Melvin Purvis.
Speaker 10 (49:48):
Thank you mister Demil, I've listened with interest to the
story of the safe cracker, Jimmy Valentine. Few of Jimmy
Valentine's kind a leap will I remember one I met
while running down a lead on John Dillinger. He had
only the greatest scorn for bank robbers of to day.
Their greed for large halls, their quickness on the trigger,
and their wanton murders of innocent people thoroughly disgusted him.
(50:10):
Is it true that during the past several months crime
has been at a fortunate ebb? Yes, but it must
be emphasized that whatever gains order have attained over organized
crime will be turned into disastrous defeat if any apathy
is shown now by the public or by law enforcement officials.
The last few years have demonstrated that crime can be
(50:32):
successfully fought, if intelligently fought. But do you agree, mister Purvis,
with those who think an American Scotland Yard would hold
crime in greater check. No, mister Demil, Scotland Yard, although
a highly efficient organization and one for which I have
the utmost respect, is really nothing more than the Metropolitan Police.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Force of London.
Speaker 10 (50:53):
In nineteen thirty five, there were twenty eight murders in
Scotland Yard's territory. In the same year, three hundred eve
and seventy five murders were committed in New York and
one thousand, six hundred and thirty in Memphis, Tennessee. In
other words, the Yard has never had to combat problems
like ours. And what do you suggest as a means
of halting crime feist? It is the duty of Americans
(51:14):
to see that the youth of our country is properly
trained by giving more time and money to organizations that
take boys off the street and out of dives. Second,
modernization of local and state police. This can be done
by giving our police at least as good equipment as
the criminals have, by rewarding merit and weeding out incompetency. Third,
(51:38):
our prison system must be improved. Few men emerge from
prison without a pH d in crime, and few fail
to put this newly acquired knowledge into practice. Until prisoners
are properly segregated in jail.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
Until our parole and prison.
Speaker 10 (51:54):
Systems work hand in hand, the penitentiary will remain little
more than a breeding place for more crime. Fourth, the
public must cooperate with law enforcement officials at all times,
citizens who pay tribute to racketeering thugs only tie the
noose more tightly around their own necks.
Speaker 1 (52:15):
These ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 10 (52:17):
Are problems which must be solved, and while the country
has a breathing spell, is the time to do something
about solving them. Thank you, mister Demill, not only for
your courtesy, but for the many hours of excellent entertainment
provided by the Lux Radio Theater.
Speaker 11 (52:31):
Good Night, good night, Pass a pad.
Speaker 1 (52:42):
And now let's get our Irish up and bring par
o'bran back to the microphone with Madge evidence.
Speaker 8 (52:53):
I guess there'll be no holding path, mister Demill, since
you told us the real Jimmy Valentine was named Connors,
another irishman.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
I knew that all the time.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
Speaking of the fighting Irish, pat, how did it happen
that you played football for Marquette instead of Notre Dame.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
We'll tell you. After the one game I was in
against the fighting Irish, most people thought I did play
for Notre Dame.
Speaker 8 (53:12):
Why I understood you ran ninety five yards for a touchdown.
Speaker 6 (53:15):
Oh, I have just the dream of a publicity man
magic to tell the truth. They carried me off after
the first few plays. Took Marquette several years to climb
back from where.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
I left them. But look at him now, unbeaten and untied,
And how many of those are there?
Speaker 1 (53:27):
It looks like Marquette for the Roseboro pat. Maybe you're
practically on the field now, Yes, sir, I'm so happy
I could sing I dare you too.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
Oh well, there are people listening. I've never known an
irishman who wouldn't take it there. Well, what can a
man do?
Speaker 8 (53:44):
Well, mister O'Brien, what will it be?
Speaker 2 (53:46):
But all right, then I'll sing that Charlady's bob. You
asked for it, and you're gonna give us the char ladies. Paul.
Speaker 1 (53:59):
People said, one and all, you're the bell of the ball.
Speaker 2 (54:03):
Missus Mulligan. We had one steps and two steps, and
the devil knows what new steps. We swore that we'd
never be Dullagan, be dad. We had wine, portal and jamison,
we'd cocktails and coco and all. We'd rumbles and tangles,
half steps and fandangles. The night we danced at the
(54:24):
Charladies Ball, I made it well. I hope you learned
your lesson, never dare an irishman.
Speaker 8 (54:39):
It was lovely tests. But before someone dares me to sing,
I want to congratulate Lucks for making Monday Night my
favorite evening at the radio, and to say good night.
Speaker 2 (54:47):
Good night match, Thank you, missu Demel and listen. If
you ever have any consideration for your audience, never let
an actor sing again. Good night.
Speaker 1 (54:54):
Listen, good night me by it.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
Thank you, Miss Evans and mister O'Brien. Ladies and gentlemen,
this is your announcer, Melvill Ruick. Next week's program will
be announce shortly by mister de Mill, mister O'Brien, Miss
Newell and mister Jenkins appeared through courtesy of Warner Brothers.
Miss Evans, Metro Golden Mayor, mister Demill and mister Frawley
Paramount and mister Silver's twentieth Century Fox where he directed
music for the new film Lloyd's of London. Four and
a half year old Joanfield, who plays the part of Kitty,
(55:21):
appeared through courtesy of B. P.
Speaker 1 (55:23):
Schulberg, her discoverer and now mister de Mill. I look
forward to next Monday Night as a highlight in the
history of the Lux Radio Theater. The event will be
the presentation of Noah Coward's Delightful Romance Conversation Piece, a
musical and dramatic play which takes place in France and
(55:43):
England during the Napoleonic era. Our stars, Miss Lilley Ponds
of the Metropolitan Opera and mister Adolph Marjoo, our sponsors,
the makers of Lux Flake's join I mean inviting you
to be with us again next Monday night, when the
lux Radio Theater brings you Lily Ponds and add Off
(56:06):
minds you in Conversation Piece. Before closing, May I call
your attention to the annual membership drive of the American
Red Cross. Had it not been for this great legion
of mercy, one hundred and thirty one thousand families throughout
the United States would be facing a tragic future.
Speaker 2 (56:22):
Today, the Red Cross.
Speaker 1 (56:24):
Has rebuilt and repaired homes, provided food, clothing, shelter, and
medical attention for the victims of one hundred and five disasters.
This year, millions of Americans are enrolling in the Red
Cross in order that its service may continue.
Speaker 2 (56:37):
Won't you please share on the Red Cross work.
Speaker 1 (56:39):
Contribute your dollar and enroll now through your local chapter.
This is cecrol b de Mill saying good night. To
you from Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (56:49):
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System m
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