The Adventures of the Thin Man - After The Thin Man

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Luck's Presents, Hollywood the Nuts Radio Theater brings you William
Powell and Myrna Lloyd in activate in the Ladies and gentlemen,

(00:21):
your producer, mister Ceste D. Demill, greetings from Hollywood, Ladies
and gentlemen. When Edgar Allan Poe popularized the detective story,
he found a great common denominator of American entertainment. Millions
of us have stayed up past bedtime to explore the

(00:44):
fascinating realm of who done, including the President of the
United States. And you can find deputies in every walk
of life rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, and
probably policeman too. Perhaps we haven't investigated this branch of
the drama as often as we should in the Lux
Radio Theater, but when we do engage a man hunter,
we get the very best. Tonight, our play is After

(01:08):
the Thin Man, adapted from the MGM picture and naturally
starring the same two players that go with a thin
Man story, Mina Lay and William Powell. It's an occasion
for great rejoicing, but we also must hang our heads
a little because it's exactly four years since Miss Lloyd
was last at this microphone There's more to the story

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of After the Thin Man than just the exciting quest
of a criminal, because our detective is the extraordinary Nick Charles.
And Nick has a lovely wife named Nora. They happen
to be very much in love, but even love can't
keep Nora from interfering with her husband's business. When she
has an idea, and Nora is a girl with many ideas, Together,

(01:51):
they can solve just about any problem you give them.
But you don't really need a detective to discover that
lux Flakes is the simple answer to your households. It's
a deduction that millions of women have made after giving
lux flakes. To try up now, if your wits have
been thoroughly sharpened and you're ready for anything to happen.
We raised the curtain on the first act of After

(02:13):
the Thin Man, starring William Powell as Nick Charles and
men Ali as Norah. The railroad station in San Francisco.
Into the dim maze of tracks, rolls a mighty streamliner,
sleek and shining after its mad dash across the country.
For the final throb of its powerful engines, it comes

(02:36):
to rest from the gate, tumbles a crowd of reporters
and photographers. They rushed recklessly up and down the length
of the blackform, eager to be the first to greet
the arriving celebrities. Mister and missus Nick Charles Is, Nick
Dars and this car child cass back. Thanks, Oh boy
is hey may?

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Hello?

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Hecky, how does it be you're gonna say? Chronicle guys?
He he wanted that time, darling. He's a gentleman of
the press. Gentlemen, my wife, how do you do? And
I was about a statement, Nick, are you going to
keep on with your detective word? No, gentlemen, I've retired
now on. I'm just going to take care of my
wife's money so i'll have something in my old age. Oh,

(03:18):
you said you'd retired at four. But I know she
took that tin men case in New Yorker, that thin
man with a puke. They're still talking about it. You
take a case like that, now, wouldn't You're not a chance.
I just took about to please my wife. She wanted
some excitement. Well, I guess you had a miss Jones.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Oh, it was wonderful.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Two men tried to kill him.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
But he's not going to take any more cases.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Just con since that that's the girl. Solong. Gentlemen, come on,
you want good bye?

Speaker 3 (03:41):
I said, next?

Speaker 1 (03:42):
You next?

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Slow down? I can't see up today.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
You'll excuse me, lady. I guess I wasn't looking where
I was going.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
No, I guess you.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Were, hi Fingers.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Well, well, Nick, Charles, how are you fine?

Speaker 1 (03:54):
I'm business, Fingers business? Oh I quit that racket.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
It's my first it's gone.

Speaker 6 (03:59):
Oh shame, all right, I want you to meet Fingers McCoy.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
This is my wife. Fingers, your wife say, I didn't
know she Oh, I'm sorry about your price, missus Charles,
but I do Nick.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
I know I had it with me.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Oh it'll turn up, wanted Fingers, I certainly hope.

Speaker 7 (04:17):
So sure?

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Well so Nick, glad I've jumped into it.

Speaker 5 (04:23):
By Nick, I've got to go.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Back to train.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Oh, I wouldn't bother die. And let's get home.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
I just can't walk.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Come on, now, come.

Speaker 6 (04:30):
On, you don't want to embarrass him, do you? What
do you mean, Fingers, he's a purse snatcher.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Think of his feeling.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
A purse snatcher.

Speaker 6 (04:37):
Well he must have taken it, certainly, But you see,
he didn't know you were my wife. You'll get it
back in my morning mail, dolling. He's a very honest bickbucket.

Speaker 5 (04:44):
Oh, Nick, you do know the nicest people.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Hi, Nick, welcome home. Hi a bounce? How's the boy
at Nick? In the thing? See you around?

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Cried by the dollar?

Speaker 1 (04:53):
No? No, wrestler, Oh, wrestler, let's just what's the goody? Well? Hello, slats,
how's everything? I'm feel okay, I can see it out.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
Likewise, Now there's a sweet character.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
You ought to be in jail. Just place a he.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Got out last two?

Speaker 4 (05:08):
Oh, welcome home, Laurah.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
Oh hello, thank you.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Nice to see you by day.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
And who are those people.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Daring you wouldn't know them?

Speaker 5 (05:16):
They're respect you.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Know, dog?

Speaker 5 (05:30):
The best thing about going away is coming back home.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
I suppose you remember that tonight is New Year's.

Speaker 5 (05:35):
I know, got your key, dog?

Speaker 8 (05:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
I also suppose you've got some ideas on the subject.
I's afraid of that.

Speaker 7 (05:43):
I want to lock the doors and plug the bells,
cut off the telephone, and crawl into.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Bed for months.

Speaker 6 (05:48):
Missus Charles, you're a woman out of my own heart.
I won't be awake up mid the I s I
I'll kitchen ole Happing you here.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
In orda happy New Year doll?

Speaker 4 (06:00):
Hi am, folks.

Speaker 7 (06:01):
What's your standing out there for?

Speaker 4 (06:02):
Con hey?

Speaker 1 (06:04):
What is this?

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Well?

Speaker 9 (06:05):
Donald House?

Speaker 3 (06:05):
All right? Had come on?

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Make you dobing home? Folks.

Speaker 5 (06:09):
Well let's go in, darling, you got it's all right?

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Oh well longs we're invited. There's a bar right in there.
Help your shelf, thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
Okay, what's the delibrations?

Speaker 1 (06:18):
We're giving a surprise party to Nick and Nora. Nick
and Nora. You don't tune know Nick and Nora?

Speaker 4 (06:24):
No over there do I?

Speaker 3 (06:26):
So that's not gonna spoil my fun.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
It's New Year's what's the yard?

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Go on in? Fake it?

Speaker 3 (06:31):
It's a sip. Oh, thanks for the tip.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
You get it there and get coming at Napoleon Fland.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Before it's all gone.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Dude, I mean I have this dance with Charles. Thank you, sir.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
You're a gents.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Who are all these people?

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Let's see? It looks like most Stone over there, he's
a booking. I follow with him at the police captain,
and I believe a gentleman alw shoot runs a full room,
that fellow when the fireman's hat.

Speaker 5 (06:56):
Never mind, I get the general idea.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Missus Charles. Welcome home, madam, thank you? How are you? Peter?
Never better? Missus Charles, I'm sorry about the partiesha, but
they forced their way in there, annoying my friends. I
can believe that Nick.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
I know something, Burnie, probably just.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
The living room rug, or if I may be allowed
to suggest, that's probably Missus Charles Arms. She's been calling
all day and very much annoyed. She wants you to
come to dinner this evening, Missus Charles, Oh, dear, goodbye, Darling.
See you next year.

Speaker 7 (07:21):
She expects you to.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Mister Charles, me, I'm Katon wants me to come to dinner.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
They must be showing mistakes.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
She couldn't want you, Nick, I'll take it in the bedroom.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Peter's Nick, come with me.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
It's your aunt Katin. Get out of it.

Speaker 6 (07:33):
No more family dinners. I wouldn't go through that again
if you had twice as much money.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Hello hello now who is it? Oh?

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Hello darling Darling, I'm Catherin.

Speaker 7 (07:48):
Shut up my.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Cousin, Shelma. How are you, Selma? I had to I
wanted to make sure you were coming tonight.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
Well I'm mad not Shellman, you see nor.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
You've got to come I'm in terrible trouble. What read that?
All right?

Speaker 2 (08:05):
I won't hello.

Speaker 7 (08:07):
I told you not to call anyone.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
Hello, Sheelma give me the boat?

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Hello, dear, Hello, is this is as Catherine? Well?

Speaker 3 (08:15):
What's the matter with Selma? Oh?

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Nothing at all, dear. You know we do not take
much attention to us. See you the night?

Speaker 5 (08:23):
Well, you see it's New Year's Evan Casson, the old
battle acts.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
Shut up? Excuse me, a Casson.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
I was talking to the dog with expect all right,
An Casson, we'll come to buy.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
What did you say?

Speaker 3 (08:38):
I said we deal for dinner?

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Oh my own wife.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
I'm sorry, Nicky, but I had to do it with Selma.
She's in trouble. You like Shelma, don't you?

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Not as much as Ra?

Speaker 3 (08:48):
But she sounded so stony as that.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
She's been crying living with your aunt. I can't say
blam her?

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Sell me that crying?

Speaker 5 (08:58):
Do you want the servants to hear?

Speaker 4 (08:59):
I don't care around Catherine.

Speaker 7 (09:01):
I'm going crazy.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
I can't stand it any longer.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
I'm going to call the police.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
You do nothing of the sort.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
Haven't we paid out enough to hush up with other scandal?
We never did anything like this before.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
How do we know?

Speaker 4 (09:13):
But what he may be there?

Speaker 3 (09:14):
I told you i'd handle this.

Speaker 7 (09:16):
I can't go on this way, cabas my husband, Yes,
Henry big.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Pardon madam, that you have a place from mister Robins tonight.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Certainly mister Roberts will be here. No, he won't be
here on casey, I know nothing of the sort. Now
go upstairs and make yourself presented. When Noura comes, I'm
going to tell her who will not tell us.

Speaker 5 (09:35):
I will not have that husband of her snooping into
our family.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
If they don't care he can help us. I'm going
to tell him the whole story.

Speaker 7 (09:51):
And Catherine wants to speak to you.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
What I do now?

Speaker 4 (09:53):
He's the wrong fok Nick, listen, you know why Roberts
wasn't here tonight.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Sure because he's smile.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
I'm not woman.

Speaker 5 (10:00):
He disappeared.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
That's swell. Now we can only get rid of our
captain and we'll be all set.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Come on, she's in the Library of the Sun. Here
he is, aunt Cassin.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
Oh, Nicholas, I'm sorry to take you away from the family.

Speaker 6 (10:15):
Oh that's fine, I mean, it's quite all right. Well,
what's what's all this about?

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Summer. How long is rather than gone three days? Three
days without a word, you notify the police?

Speaker 4 (10:27):
Certainly not and.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
We're not going to so.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
No Robert that he kidnapped. You may be lying dead somewhere,
but we mustn't do anything about it. A precious name
might get in the place.

Speaker 5 (10:35):
Oh, don't pay any attention to us.

Speaker 9 (10:36):
He's exaggerating the whole affair, however, to please or I
thought you might investigate the matter quietly with your experience
as as a flat foot.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
And I didn't mean to be as blunt as that.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
I'm not as all as family Shelman.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
Have you any idea where Robert might be?

Speaker 7 (10:50):
No, but there's a woman makes up at at I know, Teller,
you know nothing at the st quit about the.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
Vanity case they send me from that Chinese restaurant. Let
just keep a mistake on there for a stake. Some
woman learnt he was there with some woman that the
man who know that? Robert w can you say that?

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Do you know he hates me?

Speaker 4 (11:05):
He only married me for my money.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
He never did love me.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
Sometimes I wish he wouldn't there.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
Well, I'm a little confused. Tell me, Selma, do you
want him back? Or don't you she wants him back.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Don't Shelma call him Selma. I'll take you up to
you and doctor till here at the moment you do something, well, Nick,
what do you think about it?

Speaker 1 (11:27):
I'm not thinking at all? What are you getting me into?
There are lots of detectives in this car. I'm a
man who need the job.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Did no one as good as you? Nikki?

Speaker 1 (11:36):
I don'ton't get you a thing. I retired, but this
is different.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
This is the Selma.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
You will help finan.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Robert, won't you?

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Why I didn't lose him?

Speaker 3 (11:43):
It's your chance, Nick. He didn't get you into that
with a family.

Speaker 6 (11:46):
That's that's what I'm afraid of. NICKI get jaft, doy,
we're going to get out it here?

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Why we still got the jaft?

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Well?

Speaker 1 (11:57):
This wanna be still in New Year's Eve? We gotta
go somewhere, all right, Let's go look for Robert. Oh listen,
my sweet oh ay yea David y even.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
How nice to see you.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
What are you standing out here for? Oh? They don't
let me in the house anymore. Tell us that you
pry and meet me later.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
I'm as glad you won't be able to make it
if you know that Robbins had disappeared.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
If he has, it's the only decent thing he's ever done.
What's he been up to lately? David? The last thing
he pulled on me was a couple of days ago,
all up and said that if I'd give him twenty
five thousand dollars, he'd go away and leave some of
the meat. Lovely boy, what did you say? I asked
him to give me a couple of days to think
it over. You know twenty five thousand would be cheap.
I'd be ready to go. Why don't you chick up
a collection? A lot of people would write against trivia?

(12:36):
Tell me did you see someone?

Speaker 6 (12:38):
How is she?

Speaker 3 (12:38):
I'm terribly worried about her?

Speaker 1 (12:40):
I know I am too.

Speaker 6 (12:41):
Come on, David, We're going to go someplace and get
that taste of respectability out of our miles.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Thanks, but I couldn't, Oh, David, why not? I've got
too much on my mind. Well, I'm glad you back anyway.

Speaker 7 (12:51):
Happy New Year to you.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Happy here.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Selma was a fool not to have married him instead
of Robert.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
They can't all be as lucky you, darling. Well, where
are we going?

Speaker 5 (13:02):
How do you feel about some Chinese food.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Awful.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Oh, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 5 (13:06):
Because we're going to that Chinese restaurant that sent the
compact films the Li cheese.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Please do mouse see here. I'm not looking for Roberts.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Of course you're not.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
I am.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Hello, here one was a table. I'll tell him I
all failed up? I did, he says to end of
his name is Nick Chown, Nick Charles? Where is he? Hopeful?

Speaker 2 (13:37):
My ah, this is more like it.

Speaker 5 (13:46):
You must feel right home in a place like this.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Didn't bring aunt tastin?

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Hello Nick? Oh? Hello, down sair. Tell me how many tables? Oh,
I guess I can find one? Saying? Is it you?
You just slumming? That's all Downsid just wanted to make
sure I don't like business clothes on New Year's Oh, hey,
I want you my partner. Hey, I'm key, come in, Yes,
I want you to be the friend of mine. I'm key.

(14:11):
This is Nick Chung and missus joh oh, I'm your friend.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Duel with you?

Speaker 6 (14:16):
You sent his brother up Nick rum ying remember Oh yes, yes,
he's the one who spread a palm wore out to
include sticking up a bank.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Oh you kill you, bet you you catch you my bother.
You played trick on him.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Don't play trick on him. Catch him. He'll bet you
he's still in jail.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oh you bet you?

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Oh five years more?

Speaker 4 (14:36):
Goo bye out my star.

Speaker 7 (14:38):
Is he a tongue man to missus Danson?

Speaker 1 (14:40):
No, but you never can tell how close brothers are.
And I thought you might like to know Nick. Thanks,
he's a good guy to have a liking you. Oh
that's a table a little out of the wall this.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
Way, miss Charles NICKI, there's Robert.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
I know I saw him before.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
Why didn't you tell me Robert Robert?

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Oh? Hello leaving rob that happy New year?

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Is it?

Speaker 7 (15:02):
Roberts?

Speaker 3 (15:03):
What are you doing in a place last year? We
just saw Selma Roberts.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, he's terribly worried about you.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
Don't you think he'd.

Speaker 7 (15:09):
Better go home?

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Sure, go home when I feel like get in loved
before lettle go actually play with me. Ah, there's not
a friend of yours.

Speaker 6 (15:20):
On the contrary, he's a relation. He's been hanging around
here drunk for three days. He's got a case on
a primadama.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
I wish you'd tossing off.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
His wife is going crazy.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
Oh that's too bad. I'll speak to his girlfriend.

Speaker 5 (15:32):
Well, I don't n d.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
Hey, HOI, OHI come here?

Speaker 3 (15:39):
What's up?

Speaker 1 (15:39):
JOm to rush and boyfriend? You're just pretty drunk so far.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
I thought that was the idea of keep him happy.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
Sure, but a couple of his relations just blew in relations?

Speaker 3 (15:48):
What do we do?

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Give the customers one more song and a knockoff for
the night and takes him out of here.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
Okay, but I'm getting sick of that guy.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
It'll just beat Lamara hunting and then he can turn
them loose.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
Tomorrow's a holiday, the banks will be.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
Closed that well.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Then the next day. I'll watch the difference, ain't it worthed?
I guess, so asked that girl. I'll make a snappy Polly.
I'll keep an eye on him, ain't Polly?

Speaker 9 (16:09):
Yell?

Speaker 1 (16:09):
What I got a message for you?

Speaker 3 (16:11):
What is this?

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Your brother's looking for you?

Speaker 2 (16:13):
My brother?

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Where is he in your dressing room? He wants to
see you right away?

Speaker 2 (16:21):
Hello, Polly, But come matter, they'll look happy to see me.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
Please, Still, don't try to start anything.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
I'm in a hurry.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
You've been in a hurry ever since I got back,
can I know? But if I gotta work, that's not
what I'm thinking about, but go along with this drunk
Robert Landers Nothing?

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Oh no? Then what this check doing on your dressing table?

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Give me this a check made out to you, signed
by Robert Landa got out of here?

Speaker 3 (16:39):
What are you got up?

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Ralf?

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Smack you right in the teeth.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
I'm in on this, you though, still, Please if you
don't cut me in the parties.

Speaker 4 (16:45):
Off, I can't cut you in.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
But check yours?

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Ain't it dead?

Speaker 3 (16:47):
But what? But what?

Speaker 9 (16:49):
Let me go?

Speaker 1 (16:50):
Let me sure? But this is just to remind you
that I'm in.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
On the deal.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
Shoot, big lug. Look what you've done to my face?
How am I going to explain that?

Speaker 1 (16:59):
There's a lot of things You'll have to explain before
I am through you and dance for are taking this
land of guy for plenty of dough? Aren't you?

Speaker 3 (17:04):
What about it? How much? Come on?

Speaker 6 (17:07):
How much?

Speaker 4 (17:08):
Twenty five thousand?

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Did you get it?

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Get? No?

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Go ahead, spill it.

Speaker 7 (17:11):
Some friend of his wife's is putting it up to
get him to leave her alone.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
So you're gonna keep him drunk and then collect it
for him when.

Speaker 6 (17:18):
I don't know where I sim tomorrow night, Okay, I'll
be around the next morning.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Early. What are you doing here?

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (17:28):
A dancer? Just leave him so long? Polly, what is that?

Speaker 3 (17:33):
Who?

Speaker 1 (17:34):
You want?

Speaker 8 (17:34):
Nothing?

Speaker 1 (17:35):
I'll listen. There's a switch in their plans. I just
heard of that dough is being handed over tonight. Tonight
that David guys meeting Landers in front of his house.
Now you better be with flantasy.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
I'll be there.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
I told Nick that you were taking Landa's home. I'll
make sure they see it as you go on. Sure,
and when the doe's delivered, you know what to do.
I'll be across the street just in case something goes wrong.
I'll get going and no slippers.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
I want to call sum.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Come on out to be a born and dances off
healing line. Well man, what are you doing in this office?
Was calling a number an objection? Once a gum heel?

(18:37):
Or was a gum heel? I don't like gum heels,
and I thought you could it when you're married a
pot of money?

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Did he call me a pot?

Speaker 1 (18:45):
I don't like to be critical.

Speaker 6 (18:46):
Dancer doesn't look quite right when you and your paper
and your preema donna and your best customer all go
out at the same time.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
It gives the place a sort of a vacant. Look.
Have you ever been thrown out of a place, mister Choes?
How many places was it up to yesterday? Missus Charles?

Speaker 4 (19:02):
How many places have you been in?

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Mister Charles?

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Oh, I'm covering this is Nick h Nicholas. But when
I see yes, I will bye. If you're thrown here,
can beat it?

Speaker 3 (19:22):
What's the matter?

Speaker 7 (19:23):
Nick?

Speaker 5 (19:23):
Bad news dancer?

Speaker 1 (19:25):
You're getting ah, probably come in.

Speaker 6 (19:27):
Another of our travelers is returned. Now if only lum
Key no sooner said them done, or someone called by
the gathering the clan.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Isn't it.

Speaker 6 (19:38):
I wonder which one of you would be most surprised
if Robert land has walked in? Now you know there's
no chance of that, don't you all of you?

Speaker 1 (19:44):
Now, I don't know what you're talking about. Now get
out of here.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
What is it, Nick, what's happened?

Speaker 6 (19:48):
Robert's been killed killed? He's killed in the front steps
of your aunt's house. Police are christing someone.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
What's that gotta do with us? Go on, get out?
You said that before down fair is foolish. I'm not
going to get out. On the contrary, We're gonna have
a lot more people in. Listen you hello, Nick, Charles speaking.
I want to get hold of Liu term at Abram
the homicide squad. Why are you calling him? It's a
sense none of us h atlandis. That's all? Well, then

(20:15):
maybe you'd like to explain how you knew he was shot.

Speaker 6 (20:29):
The hurting polls on act run of After the Thin
Man with Murner Loi and William Powell.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
During this short intermission before mister DeMille presents Act two,
we introduced a very charming guest. Strike up the vampoo
that music, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 6 (20:48):
Welcomes the real Southern Bell, Miss Mary Nell Porter from Memphis, Tennessee.
In private life, she's a debutante, but this spring she's
touring the country in a very important role as Made
of Cotton, representing our huge cotton industry. We're certainly delighted
to welcome you to the Lux Radio Theater.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
Miss Porter.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 7 (21:07):
Mister rud I'm so glad to be here.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
I hear that you've been doing quite a little flying
the last three months a.

Speaker 4 (21:12):
Sunny how over twelve thousand miles, and on.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
Top of that, I understand that you've had a staggering
schedule of fashion shows and radio speeches and personal appearances
in thirty different cities.

Speaker 7 (21:23):
It has been a very interesting experience, and I've enjoyed
meeting so many nice people all over the country. We've
had such large crowds at all of cotton fashion shows.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
Well, I'm sure the women want to hear about that, and.

Speaker 7 (21:34):
I'd love to talk about it. You know, Kane is
taverly smart this year for playsuits and street dresses and
evening fox now here.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Just a minute, fleet, how about giving it some details?

Speaker 7 (21:45):
Well, that has a very good looking red white striped
daytime dress with big sleeves and has a very full
skirt with a cute stretch boy pocket. I'll wear it
with blue shoes.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
That sounds very patriotic.

Speaker 7 (21:56):
It surely is red, white and blue. Is office fashionable.
A lot of the dresses I show off patriarch I.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
See where the stripes sit in Then, well they're smart.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
Too, and sew a flower print.

Speaker 7 (22:08):
My bathing suit has tropical flowers scattered.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
All over it.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Oh, so cotton goes swimming, I should say it does.

Speaker 7 (22:15):
And dancing too. You should see one eating dress in
our fashion show. It's a brilliant red muslin with large
white Hawaiian flowers.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
All over it, straight from the south seas.

Speaker 7 (22:25):
Well, straight from a starry brook. It has the sweetest
puff sleeves and a long vast bodies.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Well tell me is cotton or glimmer goodness snow?

Speaker 7 (22:34):
It's simply wonderful for wan in town too. Things like
gingham Wall, Piquet or still suck On make beautifully tailored
suits the coolest can be.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
And all the easier to take care of, Miss Porter.
Don't you find it hard to keep all these lovely
cottons fresh on your trip?

Speaker 3 (22:49):
Not at all?

Speaker 7 (22:50):
You see, the whole wardrobe is luxible, even some of
my shoes and bags.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
That makes things easy, doesn't it?

Speaker 7 (22:56):
I should say so when new quick lux fakes are
simp it's so wonderful They take such beautiful chare of
all the love and new cottons. You know everything safe
and water is safe and.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Luck ladies, please note this year's smart Cottons are really
fine fabrics. And then they must be treated gently, just
like washable silks, rayons and wullens. You quick Lucks is
so mild it keeps them new looking longer.

Speaker 7 (23:21):
That's why we use it for everything in our cotton show.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
Well, we've certainly enjoyed having you with us tonight, miss.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
Porter, Thank you so much.

Speaker 7 (23:27):
Am I glad to met you all.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Well, good night and good luck on your trip home.

Speaker 7 (23:31):
Thank good night.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Now our producer mister de Bill act too well. After
The Thin Man darring William Powell as Nick Charles and
man a lawyer as Norah, it's two hours later, with
mystery shrouding the death of Robert Landers. The police have
been questioning Soma, who discovered the body. Now the grilling

(24:00):
is over, the breaking point.

Speaker 7 (24:04):
They're going to arrest me.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
They're going to arrest me.

Speaker 9 (24:07):
Nora.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
No, no, of course him.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
They all believe I did it. Don't cut from everyone.

Speaker 5 (24:10):
They don't tell me.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
They don't take that at all. I know I heard
them now. I didn't kill it, Nora.

Speaker 7 (24:15):
I didn't.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
I'm sure I didn't. I couldn't know what What do
you mean, Nora?

Speaker 5 (24:21):
You'll help me, won't you tell me what happened everything?

Speaker 4 (24:24):
He came to the house at midnight to get his things.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
He said he was waving me.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
I tried to stop him. He pushed me away and
went down the stairs. I foundered into the front door
while he was letting himself out.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
I went to the library table.

Speaker 4 (24:36):
There was a gun there, a gun, Sell.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
I didn't mean to use it.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
I only wanted to frighten him, to make him go
back and listen to me.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
All right, go on.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
I went to the door.

Speaker 5 (24:44):
He was standing on the step looking up and down
the street.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
And then I know the shot and he fell. Where
did the shot come from?

Speaker 7 (24:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
All right, darling, never mind, You've been through enough.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
You'd better lie down now and rest. I can't, I can't.
I've got to think of.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
No, yes, David, What about David? Do he thinks I'm
guilty too? Do you think I killed Robert Sell?

Speaker 1 (25:08):
The house?

Speaker 4 (25:09):
He must think so?

Speaker 7 (25:10):
Here he wouldn't have taken He wouldn't have taken what?

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Nothing?

Speaker 4 (25:13):
But he mustn't think. Hey, if I couldn't bear it,
you must tell n tell him I didn't do it.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Couldn't you tell him?

Speaker 4 (25:19):
No, No, somebody might be listening.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
You go through him.

Speaker 7 (25:21):
Tell him hurry, who is it?

Speaker 9 (25:33):
It's me?

Speaker 1 (25:34):
No, hell alone, Nora, this is a surprise. Come in.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
I got over as soon as I could, David Sell, No.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
Is anything wrong?

Speaker 3 (25:43):
What do you mean? You don't know what?

Speaker 1 (25:44):
What's happened? Robertson killed killed, that's impossible.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
What do you mean?

Speaker 1 (25:49):
I saw him only a little while ago?

Speaker 5 (25:51):
How long ago?

Speaker 1 (25:52):
About ten o'clock. I never been in front of the
house and give him twenty five thousand dollars in bonds.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
Wait a minute, this is too much for me. Where'd
you go?

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Then he went inside the house to get his things?

Speaker 3 (26:02):
Oh? Then it was when he came out again. If
he was shot.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
I've got to see Soma. Will you come with me?

Speaker 3 (26:07):
Come on?

Speaker 1 (26:09):
You know, still right me? Here? The body?

Speaker 3 (26:11):
What is this? Who are you?

Speaker 4 (26:12):
Dective Maloy homicide squad.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
We've had our eye on you, buddy.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Try to make a getaway.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
Here are you crazy?

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Listen?

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Someone's been kidding you. Office. I sure remember you were
kidding too, and you were sitting throwing that gun into
the river. David, It's all right, there's been a mistake.
I'll tell Soma. Will you all right? Come here, sister.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
You're not telling anybody anything.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
You're going along with us.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
Where on the headquarters?

Speaker 5 (26:33):
Oh oh, you don't understand.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
I'm missus Nick Charles, Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
And I'm mother Goose. Come on, step on it. He
nicks the name from down at headquarters.

Speaker 6 (26:51):
Aisle sat, Nick, we picked up a woman a few
minutes and moment David gleams upot he you wis my wife?

Speaker 9 (27:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Jason names noora? What amount of th Nora Nora?

Speaker 6 (27:05):
Oh sounds like a phony to me? The better putting
the jug to like it down there in the joking horse.

Speaker 7 (27:16):
Right, y'll here, mister Charles, Thank.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
You major Nick.

Speaker 5 (27:20):
Nick here I am over here.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
Hell hello, final way to start the new year getting.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Thrown in the cam, Nikki, get me out here.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
How long is this thing with David been going on? Oh?

Speaker 5 (27:31):
Nick, stop that and get me out here.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
I've got something to tell you about the case. Yes, no,
I'll get you out in one condition. No more cases,
no more detecting promise, but.

Speaker 9 (27:41):
This is important.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
Do you want me to let her out? Mister Charles?
Definitely not.

Speaker 5 (27:44):
NICKI plee well, promise I've drawn.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
It all right, let her out me.

Speaker 4 (27:49):
Nick, have you been working on the tree.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
I've been getting hit my undivided attention.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
What have you found out?

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Nothing? Oh? Nick? The only new development is that Polly
has a brother where.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
We don't know what got her and Dancer lun Key all.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
In the neighborhood at the time of the shooting. We've
established that, but we can't approve a thing.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
But Nick, somebody killed him.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yes, I think that's been proved.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
Yes, ten neighborhams ants different, questioning, questioning, NICKI they don't
think I'm mixed.

Speaker 7 (28:15):
Up in this.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Don't worry, darling. If they find you guilty, I'll write
you every day. That's wife, Nicky. I'll tell me, mister.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
Graham, Will you and Robert Landis on good times?

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Decidedly?

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Not on bad times, mister Graham, very bad. You and
missus Landis were once engaged.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Why don't you until Landis came along? Yes, have asked
her to divorce him and marry you. I may have.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
She never said she wouldn't, but y'all hoped she would,
and you thought that with him out of the way,
she might.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
I didn't kill Robert, no, of course not.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
But you did pay him to go away?

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yes, an of Abrahms my wife, Oh, come on in.
I got to ask her some questions, mister Chiles. I'm sorry,
quite all right.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
I'm missus Charles. Why did you go to mister Graham's apart?

Speaker 9 (28:58):
But but.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Maybe I'd better leave?

Speaker 5 (29:02):
No, Selma had a silly idea that David thought she
killed Robert.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
She wanted me to tell him that she didn't.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Why. I can't imagine how she could think a thing
like that. It's ridiculous. I haven't seen her for a
couple of days.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
Here's missus landers boss.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
No, will you come in, missus landis David?

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Oh, I didn't want you dragged into bed.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Oh no, it's all right, do missus Lambis.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Why did mister Graham think you killed Josh? I never
said that.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
I never thought it for one minute.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
Oh, David, he had every right to think I did it.
He's just trying to protect me. He heard a shot.
He rushed up to me and saw me standing near
Robert with a gun in my hand.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
But I didn't fire a shot. It came from the street.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
You mean you didn't kill him.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
No, look at the gun, David. It hasn't been fired.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Oh, Selma forgive me, of course, I forgive you. Well,
that's all cleared up.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Oh, it isn't cleared up as far as I'm concerned.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
I've got to have something more than that.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Where's that gun, missus lambdis, I've got to.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
See that gun.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
Well, I haven't got it.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
Why, Well, David took it on me.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
David's the gun.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
You're David Summer. I thought you were guilty. I thought
I was doing the only thing. I threw it away.

Speaker 7 (30:05):
You threw it away.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
I threw it into the river. Oh that's marvelous. But
they can get it. I'll tell them why I threw it.
I'll get diversty good. I don't have to, I'll find it.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Say much slowy. She didn't want that gun back anymore
than you could.

Speaker 9 (30:16):
Am.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
I swear out a ward for the arrest.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
I'll make this Robert Land. This aunt suspicion of murder.

Speaker 5 (30:29):
Nicki, nickis un away. M h no, no not, Oh
I thought you were Did you say something about scrambled eggs?

Speaker 3 (30:42):
No? No, I.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Suppose that means you'd like me to set up and
fix some oil.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
Oh no, I don't care about them. Sure, really good
good night, good night as through all. If I want
scrambled eggs, let me get in for myself, cos I'm
not as good a cook as you are. Oh, I
don't bother about me. You go on sleeping. I love
to watch his sleep. He looks so cute.

Speaker 5 (31:11):
Nikki, have you any pictures of yourself taken as a baby.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
M No, oh that's a shame. I wanted to see what.

Speaker 5 (31:18):
You look like.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
I have one taken in the morning, four sona four days, Nikki.
Can you reach the water?

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Huh? Oh yeah, that's.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
Oh I didn't want it.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
I just wanted to be sure you can reach him.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Please go to sleep.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
I can't.

Speaker 5 (31:42):
I keep sending them Selma down in that jail, Dotty,
there's nothing.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
To worry about.

Speaker 4 (31:47):
Comorrow they'll find the gun.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
It won't have been fired.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Salo will be free.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
Then you don't think she did it for the tenth time.

Speaker 5 (31:56):
No, you're not saying that just to make me happy.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yeah, I need it.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
Of course you are right.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
She didn't do it.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
She couldn't have done it. I don't think i'd kill
you if you ran off of another woman, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Joddy might though, No, uh, don't be morbid. Don't see
what naick the window? Keep pick her down?

Speaker 4 (32:21):
Heck, somebody smash the window.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
No really, Look, there's a rock.

Speaker 5 (32:26):
With a note attached to it.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
Make you a note.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Let's see what does it? What did he say? Mm hmm,
silly little woman. I told her to stop writing for me.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
Oh, charling, please read it.

Speaker 6 (32:38):
Mister Nick Charles, if you want to know something about
the murder of Robert Landers, got a line on Phil Burns,
the guy Polly says as her brother. He's an ex
KHN and was married to Polly and to peak at
Kansas three years ago.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
Married three years ago.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
What are we supposed to do to send an anniversary president?
By the way, the fellow spells to peak at tea
O K E K e R.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
What's the matter with that?

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Nothing? Darling?

Speaker 3 (33:08):
Am I?

Speaker 1 (33:09):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Nick you can't go back to sleep now?

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Why didn't have him here keeping us up all night?

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Oh? Don't you see? If Phil as her husband, then
he shot Robert because he found out about him in Polly.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Oh, Nicky, you've got to call him, just as you say,
can you have me the phone? Oh?

Speaker 3 (33:25):
Is that wonderful?

Speaker 5 (33:26):
Everything's getting out due to say. All he has to
do is find this fellow Phil Bends. We got the murderers,
dear Darling, call him and tell.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Now who can that bee?

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (33:37):
Hello, Nick? Oh, I'm just gonna call you. Yeah, well,
maybe you're better get down. You know that guy Fells fine,
Polly's brother? What about him? We placed him to Which
hotel you find him. Yeah, when somebody else from him
play he's been parted. Oh, well, there he is.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
That's the way we found him, Nick tad for two hours.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
At least strangle. It's like he was beating up at it.
Before the strangling, he set in any finger flints all
over the place.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
We're checking on him.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Now, what else do you find him? Now? Let him much?
He had a thirty eight of his drawer, six bullet
in it and a little dog.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Oh yeah, this key.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
I guess it's the key to Polly's apartment. It's got
hunch enough to stand on. Another good guess would be
that some of Milanders didn't do this fair enough. But
he wasn't killed the way Landers was either. Might be
a good idea to check the chambers on that thirty eight.
He might have fired it and swift in a new shell. Okay,
anything else on your mind? Uh? Yes, the key to
Polly's apartment. Good, I bought that for an hour. Sure, here,

(34:41):
maybe we're gonna give me a skeleton key too, that's
for good measure. Okay, what do you look at that?
Tell the faintest idea, just a hunch, call you later.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
Okay, Look, what did you find him?

Speaker 1 (34:53):
There dead man? Is that all is not enough?

Speaker 3 (34:58):
Where are we going now?

Speaker 1 (34:59):
Well, I don't know about you. I'm going to visit
Polly Burns.

Speaker 5 (35:03):
At this time of night without a chaperone.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Nor this is purely business for me too.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
I'm ondo. She's not home. Miss Burns keeps late hours,
doesn't she? Nick? Where'd you get that che.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
From Abrams Phil Burns's pocket?

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (35:31):
So could you have an answer for that?

Speaker 1 (35:34):
Go on in quiet?

Speaker 3 (35:36):
Here's a light switch, you turn it on. What did
you expect to find in here? I don't know.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
Well, how do I know what to look for?

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Don't look for anything? Go over the answerdam suppose she
comes in?

Speaker 3 (35:46):
What do we do? Thought?

Speaker 1 (35:47):
That's a surprise.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
Why if anything in the floor didn't give you a chance?
Don't used? Because people who want a hole in the stool,
they don't. Some people do. Look up there? Where up there?
See in the corner a little hole in the plaster.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
What did that mean? Well, it might mean that the
ceiling is falling down, or it mightn't. What what's put
im to this apartment?

Speaker 9 (36:13):
Mm?

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Three D?

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Whever lives in an apartment four D upstairs? And find out.

Speaker 3 (36:24):
Here it is for a d this is right over
Polly Burne's apartment.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
What's the name on the feller?

Speaker 3 (36:30):
Uh? Anderson?

Speaker 5 (36:33):
See where did you dig up.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
All these keys? We'll go up this mister Harbison.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Or miss Anderson, It doesn't say which. Anybody home. Put
on my right.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Let's see hold in the ceiling downstairs or right under
this corner. But I'm right These floorboards onto the loose.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
I get it.

Speaker 5 (36:55):
Somebody took this apartment so they could see what went
on downstairs exactly.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Slip through the hole, nikky, what do you see?

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Well, that's funny. What is it?

Speaker 10 (37:04):
You can't see anything. It's the hole's been plugged up
from the other side. What and how there's somebody down
there now, somebody who knows about this. People where that
is plugged it up while we were coming upstairs.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
Yeah, you stay here, were looked maybe the moor here?

Speaker 4 (37:19):
Make you wait to get to see what it is.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Listen wherever it is, just left. I can hear him
going downstairs. You go and goo.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
I won't be beat to catch you. Everybody gets to
the street, look, wait for me.

Speaker 3 (37:39):
Well did you see who it was?

Speaker 1 (37:40):
No, he went through that door at the end of
the hall.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
That must go to the cell.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Wait here and don't move.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
Make me careful if block is pitch down there like
I do.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Would you like to come on upstairs? Don't have to
come and get you all right now that you're away,
come on, I can see you over that, Come on
out or I.

Speaker 5 (38:21):
Look loot tell you all right.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
I'm okay, come on now, I can't see I think
he could get you.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Oh but I didn't get him either. You gottall throw
a window over there.

Speaker 5 (38:33):
Oh Jo, I'm so scared from Oh that's young.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Don Are you sure you are?

Speaker 7 (38:41):
Rah?

Speaker 3 (38:42):
Oh, Nikki, you'll bleed me?

Speaker 1 (38:44):
What are you talking about? I'm not bleeding?

Speaker 7 (38:46):
Nick?

Speaker 4 (38:47):
Where are you?

Speaker 7 (38:48):
I'm here?

Speaker 5 (38:50):
Don't here's this lad over here.

Speaker 6 (39:06):
We've just heard Act too after The Thin Men with
William Paul and Lenni Lloyd. During this brief intermission before
mister DeMille presents Act three, we'll bring you.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
Another story about Mary.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
She's washing dishes.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
Oh boy, is she mad? I say, look at her hands,
they're all red and of course yeah, let's see your soap, Mary.
Oh it's harsh and soap. That's harsh.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Pecks away at.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
Your hands, no wonder, they're red and rough here's a
friendly tip. Try and new quick blots. It's so kind
to your hands, so mild, so pure. I want you
to hear about our one hand test of five dish
washing soaps, including LUTs. I'll here's the story in the

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words of one of the women who took the test.
This is Youugh Renny of New York.

Speaker 9 (40:07):
She says, for twenty minutes, three times a day, and
that's just about the time I send doing my own dishes,
I get one hand in Lut SuDS and the other
in SuDS from another soap.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Missus Rennie took that test for several weeks under conditions
similar to home dish washing.

Speaker 9 (40:23):
She goes on to say, at the end of the test,
my luck's hand was still nice and smooth, while the other.

Speaker 4 (40:29):
Hand was coarse and red.

Speaker 9 (40:31):
I hadn't realized there was such a difference in dish
washing soaps. I'll never use anything but LUTs.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Hundreds of women took that one hand test with similar results.
It proved LUTs kindness to hands. Cry it yourself and
see ask for the generous large box of new quick
LUTs tomorrow and use it for dishes every day. It's
so thrifty even in hard water.

Speaker 6 (40:54):
It gives more SuDS ounce for ounce than any of
ten other leading soaps. Test It's fast too, yet it
costs you no more, remember you, quick bucks in the
same familiar box. We pause now for station identification.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. Curtain rises an act

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three of After the Thin Man. In the thick blackness
of a cellar, Norah has bumped into a man she
thought with Nick. Now she discovers her mistake, and Nick
rushes to her side with quick, tense fingers. He strikes
a match there in the wavering light a man's hands.

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The sms the wall as they stare at his greening
pipe face. He slumps to the floor at their foot. Nick,
All right, take it easy.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
That's the matter with him? Is it?

Speaker 7 (42:11):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (42:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (42:12):
He's dead shot him from was he?

Speaker 3 (42:16):
I've seen that man before? You know him? Who is he?

Speaker 2 (42:20):
Right?

Speaker 3 (42:20):
Another match? Quick? Well, of course I know. His name
is Pedro Dmingdez. Used to be my father's gardener about
six years ago.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Your father's gardener. Well, that there's a lot of good.
Come on, we're gonna call Abrams. What'd you find out?

Speaker 4 (42:44):
Was that right about his name?

Speaker 7 (42:45):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (42:45):
You were missus Chiles. Heyd to mingus, but he wasn't
a gardener anymore. He was jenfor this building.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
Probably shot up out five hours before you, father, But he's.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
A very funny thing.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
Go ahead with this fand alive right now.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
The telephone company tells us that about eleven thirty last
night got it beat. Just before he was shot, someone
here called up information and asked for Nick.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Charles's number, our number. What would pat the names be
calling Nick paws?

Speaker 1 (43:10):
No, I don't know, are you Nick? I can't imagine.
I haven't even heard his name for six years. Did
you remember him when he saw his face? Now that's
funny seeing it used to be missus Charles Gardner who
remembers the gardener lest he squirts the hose at you?

Speaker 2 (43:24):
Did you recognize him right away, Missus Charles?

Speaker 3 (43:26):
I had to look twice. He's a lot grayer than
he used to be.

Speaker 6 (43:29):
And by the way, what did you find out about
the person in the apartment over polly Burns?

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Not a thing, not a fingerprint in a place, not
a stitch of closed Only a hunkle lead pipe and
a ladder.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
He used to lead pipe and a ladder. That's interesting.
Anything in paid those books. Now, just that someone named
Anderson took the apartment a week ago, paid cash in advance.
That's all. That's all.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
And the name is Anderson, no front name, no mister
missus or miss.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
That's just dandy.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
You know.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
I had a feeling that a we could just find
out who took that room, we might have our murderer.
Well what do you think we ought to do?

Speaker 6 (44:03):
Get them all together and the Anderson Poplin, everyone that's
mixed up in this. Let's shake them all up and
see what happens.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
Yere on, are you going to take the murderer tonight?

Speaker 1 (44:13):
I'm gonna try.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
How are you gonna do it?

Speaker 9 (44:15):
Nicky?

Speaker 1 (44:15):
I haven't the slightest tied there. I'm just gonna listen,
pray that somebody makes a slip, just one slip. You
got it? Get them all here, all shot and waiting.

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Nick picked up Dancer and lump Key at the Lai
Chief probably was with them. Then there's that David Graham
guy and your wife's cousin. Sell them a lambs Nowe house.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
Yeah, a fat day may call in catlic I've brought
him along for luck. Swell, oh shay, before you go
in I check filled things apart them dancer's finger prints.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
We're all over that joint, dancers. Sure, sure, I'm sure
you haven't told him? How do you not yet? All right? Don't?
What's your plan? Build up a case against each other,
Throw all we've got at him, and throw it hard
enough to bounce. I'll make it bounce, all right, and
keep them.

Speaker 5 (45:08):
Talking, Nick, come on, the party is getting done.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
He ain't you shut that door? Please? It's enough.

Speaker 6 (45:18):
Sure, ladies and gentlemen, I'll ask you all down here,
because we've just found that another murder.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
Has been committed.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
He's a man. I think you all know Pedro Dominge
Pedro cute. Yes, what do you know about it? Polly?

Speaker 7 (45:35):
I think I only saw him a couple of times
when I went down to came a rent.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
What about you, dancer? You're in and out of this apartment.
You must have known him? Sure I know him? So
what you lumkey? I up in the soft before you
know him?

Speaker 3 (45:48):
Sell them? Well? No, I don't think I remember Selma.
He was our gardener six years ago.

Speaker 5 (45:54):
Oh, David, you remember Pegro Dimandez.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
Yes, vaguely, and then the long white mustaches.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
What did you know?

Speaker 1 (45:59):
About mister William Nothing. That was six years ago. I
haven't seen him since, Nicholas.

Speaker 5 (46:04):
I can't see what possible connection this can have with us.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
It's very simple on Catherine. You see, Pedro and Robert
were both shot with the same gun. There was some
monkey business going on. We want to find out about seems.

Speaker 6 (46:19):
But one week ago Pedro randered an apartment to someone
calling himself or herself Anderson.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Did you ever see miss Anderson, Polly?

Speaker 3 (46:28):
No?

Speaker 1 (46:29):
Did you ever hear anyone in the apartment just over you?

Speaker 7 (46:31):
No?

Speaker 3 (46:32):
I thought not.

Speaker 6 (46:33):
Miss Anderson intended to climb down into your apartment one
night with the aid of a ladder and polish off
Robert with this lead pipe. Then he was going to
climb up to his place again and leave you holding
the bag for Robert's murder.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
Now do you know anyone who would be interested in
nothing you to do that? I know your dancer's girl,
aren't you. I worked for it, that's not what he is. Well,
did dancer know that you were going away with Robert? Why?

Speaker 2 (46:57):
Come on, come on, you told.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
Us before he said you'd keep that secret.

Speaker 4 (47:00):
I'll never tough the cop again.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
You made a dicker with the police. Okay, Polly, but
that letter starts a lot of malathee. Nick. No one
did come down that letter, and Landers wasn't killed.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
In her place.

Speaker 6 (47:11):
The only reason the murderer didn't kill him that way
was because he was found out. Pedro came in yesterday
to clean up Anderson's apartment and discovered the loose boards
on the floor.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
He didn't like the looks of things, so he put
a new lock on the door. When Anderson came in,
he found he was locked out. He heard Pedro telephoning
me he killed him. So what so who is Anderson?
Oh bright? Who Polly still out a key to your apartment?
And Dancer had one?

Speaker 3 (47:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (47:40):
Who else?

Speaker 2 (47:41):
Nobody? He's trying to hang his murder up on us
to pro take his own family. That selmer dame, she
knocked her husband.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
If everybody knows that he didn't turn then you got
your boyfriend David to throw away the gun. That's a line, Ah,
just a minute, Please look, Dancer, let's come clean.

Speaker 6 (47:54):
You and Polly and lum Key were out to shake
Robert Landers down for twenty five grand right off?

Speaker 1 (48:00):
Then I suppose I knock him off and stir up
all this fuss before I get to Dole. What kind
of a stumble bumb does that make me out to be?

Speaker 2 (48:07):
He's a kind of a stumble bump that left your
finger prints all over the room. When you kill Phil Burns?

Speaker 3 (48:11):
Still Phil dead?

Speaker 1 (48:12):
Yes? Strangled?

Speaker 3 (48:13):
Well I didn't do it?

Speaker 1 (48:14):
Why did you go to his place? Of course? I
thought he'd gummed up my game. I figured he'd try
to stick up Randers and had to kill him. So
I pushed him around a little the random manners, and
when I left him he had a split lip and
a couple of tents in him. But he was just
as much alive as you are, if that means anything. Polly,
who knew Phil was your husband? What you were married?

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Weren't you? Ye?

Speaker 2 (48:36):
So phill with your husband?

Speaker 3 (48:37):
As if you didn't know?

Speaker 1 (48:38):
I never know her now, but I wish I had.

Speaker 7 (48:41):
Probably.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
Didn't you ever tell anyone that you were mad at Potty?

Speaker 7 (48:44):
No?

Speaker 1 (48:45):
Would Phil ap told?

Speaker 3 (48:46):
No?

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Did you and Phil talk about it?

Speaker 3 (48:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (48:48):
One night last week, but no one could have heard.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
We were alone, down in my room alone.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
Don't forget Anderson could hear everything and going on in
your room? You're telling him? When was Phil Burns? Killed
oh too. Here as we can figure, at three point
thirty Anderson threw this note in at my window. He
was meaning to use some of the information he gathered
while he was up there, Dancer, how he just felt
a peaking none of your visits. This note is a

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poor attempt at literacy. The easy words is felt wrong
and a tough one's right like to see it, Lumpy.
It was meant just to steer me down to Phil's
place to find his body and your fingerprints, dancer. Someone's
flaming you, Dancer. Yeah, you say you don't know this paper, lumty, No,
but I got a picture of him right here. This

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picture was taken about six years ago.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
When Nick, what is it?

Speaker 1 (49:41):
Nothing except.

Speaker 6 (49:44):
Except that all this time I've been waiting for someone
to make a slip, and someone has made it.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
Who We've been wrong? This wasn't a killing for money.
It was a murder of hatred, revenge, Polly, What did
Phil go.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
To the pen for blackmail?

Speaker 1 (50:03):
Blackmail? David? When were you supposed to give her up
with the money to go away this morning in cash? Yes?
But when he decided to go last night you had
to give him bonds.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (50:17):
Where were you going to get cash on New Year's Day,
a bank holiday funny I forgot about then, No, you didn't, David.
You never meant to give her up with that money.
You didn't want it to go away. You wanted to
kill him. You were going to get even with him
for taking Selim away from him. Nor is he fooling?

Speaker 3 (50:37):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (50:38):
And you were fooling when you said you haven't seen
Pedro for six years. You said Pedro had long white mustaches.
But he's got long white mustaches now. I look at
this picture. There he is six years ago. His mustache
was neither white nor long. You didn't notice him six
years ago any more than I did. You remember him
as he was last night when you shot him, You

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kill him him, and then you killed Robert. Phil saw
you do it.

Speaker 6 (51:04):
He was going to Blackmailia, so you had to kill
him too. And then you threw that note in my
window or he could put me off your trail.

Speaker 3 (51:10):
Hey, David, don't let.

Speaker 4 (51:11):
Him say the terrible things.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
Tell him it isn't true.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
Asked him why he threw away your gun, Slomon. He
knew it hadn't been fired. You only had to show
it to fool your medicence yet he threw it away.
Asked him why he did that?

Speaker 3 (51:22):
David, why don't you speak?

Speaker 1 (51:24):
Wasn't because you hated her as much as Robert. Wasn't
because you wanted to get even referred to. Wasn't it
because you wanted to see her hang for Robert's murders?
Got the truth, not David. You don't have to pretend anymore.
That is the truth. I've hated you, Selma and Robert
ever since you threw me over with him.

Speaker 6 (51:41):
I've been watching, waiting for the time when I could
get even with you for having ruined my life.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
I did kill Robert, but not the way I wanted to.
It was too easy, too quick. I wanted to see
himself of the way he'd made me suffer. And you,
and you, I wanted to see you go gradually madder
and madders. That day came when you were going to
hang well. I'm not going to see you hang well.
I'm still going to see you die down.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
I've got six puts, one for her and one for myself,
and the rest running one who ties to stop me. Okay, Graham,
I'll take that gun now.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
Nice work, lum key, Nice work, Nick.

Speaker 4 (52:22):
You saved you and you send his brother up.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
Oh sure, mister Charles, send him up. No more, one, detective.
I don't like my brother. I like his girls. I'm
your friend.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
All you bet?

Speaker 1 (52:33):
You tired?

Speaker 3 (52:41):
Do not there where?

Speaker 1 (52:44):
Can you believe it? For a loan? No reporters, no friends,
no surprises.

Speaker 5 (52:49):
I suppose we really should decide where we're going.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
Oh you care, no, But I have many clothes.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
You won't have to pack. All I need in the
world is you and a toothbrush. Hey, that's what you're doing.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
I'm living something.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
I've gotten very far with it.

Speaker 5 (53:09):
Yes, I have there.

Speaker 3 (53:12):
It's done done.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
R Hey, that looks like is that a baby's sock?

Speaker 3 (53:20):
And you call yourself a detective?

Speaker 1 (53:24):
Why missus Charles? We draw the curtain on after the

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thin man. In a moment, mister DeMille returns with our stars.
While we're waiting, let's talk about babies. You know, families
often speculate on the chancewers of the stork bringing twins
or triplets.

Speaker 6 (54:03):
Well, here are some figures that may interest you. The
chances of having twins is about one in eighty four.
Of having triplets one.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
In seven thousand, five hundred. That makes triplets of pretulare occurrence.

Speaker 6 (54:18):
Missus Francis Bardall of Wholebrook, Massachusetts, was one of the
mothers who drew the lucky number in nineteen thirty nine,
and she's doubly lucky now because she has New Quick
Lucks to help her in caring for her three small babies.

Speaker 3 (54:31):
She says, the triplet.

Speaker 4 (54:33):
Has such sensitive skins. I wouldn't dream of washing their.

Speaker 5 (54:36):
Clothes and harsh soaps, or rubbing them with cake soap.

Speaker 9 (54:40):
I just won't take chances on having woolens or diavers
getting rough and scratchy.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
She's a wise mother, isn't she.

Speaker 9 (54:47):
She goes on to say, New Quick Blucks is so
mild and gentle. It's the only thing I'd use for
the baby's clothes. It's so safe for everything safe and
water alone, I can depend on it. Never to make
woolund's harsh and scratchy. I'll fade the pretty colors of
little dresses and suns.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
Is yes, New Quick Blucks is so wonderfully gentle and
so easy to use too, so fast in water, as
cool as your hand. It dissolves three times as fast
as any of ten of the leading selfs tested. Ask
for the generous big box of new quick lucks tomorrow.
It comes in the same familiar package and costs you

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no more. Here's mister de Mill with our stars, as
Bill Powell and Marna Loi returned to the microphone.

Speaker 8 (55:35):
We offer our congratulations to the Thin Man and some
first class detective work.

Speaker 6 (55:40):
Cecil, You're seldom wrong, but I'll have to mark babble
up against you. However, there's any consolation anybody makes the
same mistake.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
Raise yourself for a sharpness. De Mill. Bill is not
and never was, the thin Man.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
He isn't he never has been. Mercy Murna, can't we
even believe what we see in the movie. Just for
the record, the Thin Man was murder in the first
Thin Man picture. We haven't seen him.

Speaker 5 (56:02):
Since except in the titles where he seems amazingly healthy.

Speaker 1 (56:06):
What's the name for all the picture? By any name
you like, so long as you and will remain as
our favorite detectives. What's going to happen next to Norah
and Nick?

Speaker 5 (56:16):
Well, there's another Thin Man picture plan that we haven't
started making it yet.

Speaker 1 (56:20):
It's called The Shadow of the Thin Man, very promising
man hunt. I have entire confidence in both of you.
By the way, secl didn't I hear you say that
you're going to do Showboat next week? You certainly did, Bill,
and we are.

Speaker 3 (56:32):
Who's going to be in your cast, mister Dene.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
We'll have Irene Done, Alan Jones and Charles Wimminger.

Speaker 8 (56:40):
They were all in the cast of the motion picture,
and they'll all be here on this stage to bring
us the exciting glamour of show Boat and the great
song hits by Jerome Kern. We embark at the usual
time next Monday night for this cruise of adventure and
romance along the Mississippi, and we hope you'll all be
on board.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
Show Boat is practically at command to listen, good night, shustle, good.

Speaker 3 (57:01):
Night, good night, good night.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
Where are you two on another?

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Pay our sponsors, the makers of MutS.

Speaker 8 (57:17):
Take n me and invite you to be with us
again next Monday.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
Night, when the LUTs Radio Theater presents Irene Dunn, Alan
Jones and Charles Wenninger in Showboat. Is successibly to Marl
saying good night to you, Rum Holly heard him.

Speaker 6 (57:47):
Tonight's play were Julie Bannon as Selma, That Mackay as
David Edward Marr as Abrams, Mary Lou Simpson is Polly
Walleren Ash as dancer, Wally Mayer is lum Key and
Arthur Q. Block, Anne hey Brendel's, Walter white Inn as
Sea Berry, Tristran Coffin, Eric Snowden, Russell Fillmore, Lou Merrill,
and Fred Shields. The American Red Cross needs millions of

(58:10):
dollars for European.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
War relief work. They're asking for your contribution now, anything
you can give, the place to give your local Red
Cross chapter the time as soon as you possibly can.
William Powell and Marna Lloy appeared tonight through the courtesy
of Metro Goglan Mayor. They will soon be seen together
on the screen in If I Love You Again.

Speaker 6 (58:35):
Our music was directed by Lois Silvers and your announcer
has been Melville Rowick.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
This is the Columbia ad guesting System.