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Peter Lorre and a talking bird come to visit Duffy’s Tavern. Sometime during that visit, someone steals a sandwich. Who could it be?
Originally aired on October 19, 1943. This is episode 100 of Duffy's Tavern.
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Welcome to classic comedy of old time radio. I'm your host,
Ronick Labarger. Peter Lourie and a talking bird come to
visit Duffy's Tavern. Sometime during that visit, somebody steals a sandwich.
Who could it be? This is episode number one hundred
of Duffy's Tavern, entitled Guest Peter Lourie. It originally aired
(00:40):
on October nineteenth, nineteen forty.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Three, Bristol Myers.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
The makers of sal have had aga famous laxaviv and
minute rubs Modern Chess.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Rubbs brings you stuffy. Hello, Duffy's when he late me?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Dad?
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Aren't you to manad just baking? Duffy ain't here? Hello,
Duffy tonight?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Peter Laurie and Missus carvertt Wells and a talking bird.
Missus Wells, talking bird. Now, don't get excited, Duffy.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It ain't a horse.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
And now this bird you can shut up once in
a while. Yeah, well you want to say the bird, Duffy.
It's wonderful. He talks, he whistles, he even sings. Well,
you ought to say him. He's he's practically human. Huh
at for f.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
He's got flat feet? Well if they call him a
minor bird.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
He comes from the Melee Peninsula, Yeah, where the malarians
come from. Yeah, and Missus Wells find him in a
juggle went on when he was just a little puppy. Well,
what do you call us? More burt A gosling? Hi, Gosh, Duffy,
you kill me. A gosling is a Norwegian trader. I'll
(02:18):
tell you back, Duffy.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
How on, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Duffies.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Come in and meet Finnegan, Edie the Waiter, Miss Duffy,
Johnny Johnston, Paul Weston and his orchestra, our special guests tonight,
Peter Laurie and missus Carbon Wells, minor Bird Raffles and
Archie himself.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Ed Gardner, Harry, don't forget the announcement about the book
Duffy's fist graded. Oh yes, I'll make it now, Yeah,
fram frap place.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Thank you, go ahead, Harry.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Ever since Duffies has been on the air, people have
been asking why Archie hasn't written the book. Well, it's happened.
It has been written by the great genius Harry.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Please, folks, he means it has been wrote Manzille watch addiction.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, excuse yeah, Archie has really wrote a unique book.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
It is called Duffy's First Reader.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
And there are chapters on mathematics, etiquette, history, and grammar.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Not to mention me hut of boreography.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's right. And Duffy's First Reader is profusely illustrated.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
And Harry Tollman's got pictures too.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yes, pictures not only of Archie but of the famous
personalities who have visited Duffies in the past. Forty eight
pages of pictures and labs. And all it will cost you,
ladies and gentlemen, is the cost of postage and handling
in round numbers.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Ten cents. That's all.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Simply send your dime no stamps, please to Duffy's First Reader,
Post Office Box sixty seven, New York City, New York,
miss Art.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Not just talking bird. What do they call it?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
They call it a minor bird? Why do they call
it a minor bird? That is difficult for me to
explain to one I'm familiar with their natural habit. Choose
a by knowledge, Oh you don't know, huh. Look, Eddie,
I never talked on the subject of which I am ignorant.
Now that quiet, nobody could be.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Tell me why do they call it.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
A minor bird because it's a bird that ain't twenty
one years old?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
What do they call the bird after they become twenty one?
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Nothing? They die at twenty.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Would you like any more information, Eddie?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, keep it flying. Where do you get all this stuff?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Well, don't forget Eddie got For a long time, I
was associated with the Explorers Club as a busboy.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Made in the water.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
They call me.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Naturally.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Working an Explorer's club, it makes one practically an explorer
one self. I was a waiter at the Stalk Club
for two years. I ain't never had a baby.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Well what did this bird look like?
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Why it look it looks like sort of one of
them malted falcons, only darker, more of a chocolate malted choccery.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Oh yeah, my Duffie, Who did you say was coming
down here tonight?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Peter Laurie and a talking bird?
Speaker 7 (05:35):
A fine choice, they give me?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
What's wrong with Laurie has the role? He has all
the requirements.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
You're the man.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
He's a man.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
He's too short. I never go out with small men.
It ain't sportsmanlike.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Oh he's short, but he's tricky anyway, what's wrong with
short guys? Your own father is short than your mother,
ain't he?
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Well they were the same craig when they were married.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Yeah, well, I guess all that banging on my head
has dwarfed my look messed up? He can't you think
of anything but men?
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Sure I can, But why should I punish myself?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
How a missus carbon Wells is here with the birds.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Oh well, good evening, missus Wells. We are indeed grafted
by your humble presence at the night. Speaking of jungles,
you know I'm an old time hunt myself. You are, Yeah,
Many's the time I hunted elephants, lines, tigers, hyenas. Yeah,
(06:44):
Eddie over there used to pay me safari uh, priceless Sordi.
Many's the time he has checked me out of the jungle?
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Which jon uh?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Which?
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Well, what was the name of that one again, Eddie? Sorry,
this is the one you gotta treck yourself out of. Well, anyways,
as I was saying.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Can't we hear the big talk?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Change say?
Speaker 5 (07:05):
That is a very good idea.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
How about it, missus Wells?
Speaker 8 (07:08):
All right, I'll take Raffles out of his cage.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
HM had they hear a bird talk.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
That the bird going on?
Speaker 9 (07:18):
Raffles, Whistle your favorite tune. Whistle your favorite tune. Whistle
your favorite tune. Whistle, Whistle your favorite.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Tune better trauma gray whistle, your favorite tune.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
Whistle. Now all my country is of the raffles. Whistle.
My country is the whistle. My country is the whistle.
You're gonna whistle. You're gonna whistle.
Speaker 10 (07:44):
Hell here, the games all here, hell, hell whistle, hell,
Hell's a whistle?
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Whistle really the song you like this? Whistle your favorite tune?
Now this is your favorite?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (08:01):
Now what what did raffles? You're gonna whistle your favorite
tune again?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
All right?
Speaker 8 (08:05):
When you saw Duff this picture, did you lie, Raffles,
did what do you say? This pretty girl?
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Likewise? Thank you?
Speaker 8 (08:13):
When you saw Duff his picture? Did you laugh? Did
you laugh?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That's a very right thing.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
Whistle your favorite tune. What's your favorite tune? What's your
favorite tune? Fine, Raffles, But you're gonna say hello Joe, Joe.
Gonna say hello Joe, Joe, say hello Jo Joe, Joe.
Not now, Raffles, change your voice. Now, Raffles, I know
(08:46):
that you have a tune you like best of all,
how about whistling the tune that you like best off?
Speaker 8 (08:50):
Whistle whistle whistle.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Excuse me, hello, hello, Duffy. Uh uh well yeah, it
writes here. Well, we don't worry, had Duffy. Don't worry,
I'm watching him. Yeah. Besides, anyhow, I got my hat
on And what now, Duffy, You're wrong, No, Tuffy, your
(09:18):
wors not Nah.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I thought it was Gabriel hated. That was wonderful.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Ain't there nothing this fati quiz kid can't do well?
Speaker 8 (09:29):
Raffles can't give you advice, he can't.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Well, touche.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
We got a bird that can give oneself gladly, gladly, archie,
ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
One of these days you may wake up in the
morning with that dull headache you feeling that comes from
the need of a laxative. And if it's a crowded day,
or if you have special plans, you may be inclined
to put off taking that laxative till bedtime, even though
it means you'll continue to feel under the weather. Well,
now that's not necessary. Simply take sal hepatica right away. Well, then,
sal hepatica brings gentle speedy relief, in fact, usually within
(10:00):
an hour, so you can see you don't have to
wait till night to take the laxative needed in the
morning and don't have to go through the whole day
feeling out of sorts.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
And this famous salien.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Has an additional advantage. Sparkling salhapatica also helps sweeten an
upset stomach by helping to reduce excess gastric acidity. So
tonight our first thing tomorrow get salvapatka from your druggists.
Remembering this caution, use only as directed. Then, anytime you
need a laxative, whether morning, noon or night, see if
you don't feel better faster when you take gentle speedy salhapatica.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Hello, Archie Hollout Johnson.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Look, Johnny, I've been meaning to apologize to you. You
know I've been a little rough line you are the
last couple of weeks and now want you and out.
I really think you're a great singer.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Oh okay, but now look about this bird.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
It happens that you know, I'm the singer around here,
and I don't like to see a bird cutting in
on my racket. Johnson, it may be knows to you,
But then Bridge was in a singing racket long before
you was. Well.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I want you to know that I'm not taking second
billing to a crow Johnson.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
What is your son tonight?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Sunday Monday are always?
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Sunday Monday are always Notice you left that payday Johnson
sing You were very wise leaving out that payday.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Won't you tell me when.
Speaker 11 (11:37):
We will meet again? Sunday Monday are all worse? If
you are satisfied, I'll be as you were sad Sunday
Monday are all? Well?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
All need to tell me now?
Speaker 11 (12:02):
What makes the world go round?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
When at the sight.
Speaker 11 (12:08):
Of you, my heart begins to pom and pond And.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
What am I to do? And I'll be with you.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Sunday Monday?
Speaker 11 (12:24):
You're always.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
All?
Speaker 11 (12:42):
You tell me where we will meet her again? Sunday
Monday always if you're satisfide and I'll be your side
(13:02):
Sunday My name way, no need to tell me now
what makes the world go round? Way at the side
of you, my heart begins to palm and.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Palm, And what am I to do?
Speaker 11 (13:28):
Can I be with you Sunday.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Monday? Oh?
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Ah, way, Alick, how is very good?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
You know? Wait, wait, Mellie walked.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
On you like we though.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Oh that's all right, Arts, I'm like a rug, you know,
and I'm better after a good beating.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Why do I try to get friendly with this guy?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, Finigan, you're wait, you missed the talking, but so
what we had chicken for dinner.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
But you should have been here, Penny and this, but
really talk words, you know?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, tell me briefly.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
What did he show? Well, he said, want to think,
like take a bit? Hello Joe Jones, Rebecca, Hello.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Joe, Joe shows like a moron to merge. Where is
your spoy come from?
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Mike?
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Well, he's the offspring of missus comments wells the explorer.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Oh, I know quite a number of off sprung explorers.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Fenny, and stop lying. What explorers do you know?
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Doctor presume, doctor presume?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, doctor Livingstone, I pray jone. Anyway, the man's name
was Stanley, I pre joon.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
What's the man?
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Addy?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Look? Yeah, the man who's been sitting over in that car.
You know who he is, mister Peter.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Lauren, Well, miss Glaurie, it's a pleasure to have your hair,
thank you, sir. Yeah, make the rest of the gang
here look less grossome.
Speaker 12 (15:40):
Please, achy, I I don't want you to think of
me as a horrible person.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Oh, I don't try not that.
Speaker 12 (15:46):
No, please think of me as a sweet, lovable man
who makes certain people fame. Sort of non music Frank Sinatra.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Sort of a Frankenstein att.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Yeah, but you don't scare me. You know, I work
for a guy who makes you look like little up
in the anti? Who is that guy named Duffy? He's
half faith?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
What is the other half?
Speaker 7 (16:11):
What?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
What is the other half? Ape? You should see him?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
He stands out five feet six sitting down and the
stocking feet and has a neck that starts at his waist. Yeah,
guy's all shoulders. In fact, when he buys a soak,
he only buys the coat.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
But what does he do with the pants?
Speaker 5 (16:28):
His wife wears him?
Speaker 12 (16:30):
Oh, he sounds like a monstrosity.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yes, weldfall. Yeah, and he loves your pictures.
Speaker 13 (16:39):
You know.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
He's always so happy at the finish when you'll finally
get the ghol.
Speaker 12 (16:43):
Oh, I am very tired of that sort of picture.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Well, what are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Well? You know I've been offered a radio program.
Speaker 12 (16:50):
Where I can be something different, entirely different, a Children's Hour.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
It sounds like a natural for you. Good evening keddies.
This is your uncle, Jack the Ripper.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I'm serious, Archie.
Speaker 12 (17:08):
I've always loved little children and I'm going to write
this program for them myself. Oh it's lovely. The first story,
you know, is about a.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Little boy and girl, little blind girl.
Speaker 12 (17:18):
Yes, a little boy and girl, and they are late
for dinner because on their way home from school they
have fallen into a concrete mixer.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
And oh, the joys of childhood. Where is their parents?
Speaker 12 (17:34):
Well, their parents would have been there, but they were
strolling down a country lane and got their heads cut
off by a windmill.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
I'll certainly get the kiddies to take them milk.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I think so too. Yes, you see.
Speaker 12 (17:50):
So the police try to find their uncle, but uncle
is busy in the backyard having a barbecue.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
And what do you think is uncle barbecuing? Huh?
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Auntie?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Oh you read the story.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Well it sounds pretty good, Peter. Maybe I can get
some PLAYERSMA Company to sponsor.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
But I like it, Antie, do you mind introducing me?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Oh, I'm sorry, mister Lourie. This is miss Duffie, the
daughter of the establishment.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
You know, mister Lord you're even Leslie positive person. If
you are on the screen, thank you.
Speaker 12 (18:29):
I have never seen you on the screen, so I
can't return a compliment.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
Thank you?
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Can I ask you a personal question.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Is what is it?
Speaker 12 (18:40):
Do girls go out with you for once in a while?
Speaker 7 (18:45):
How did they explain you to their folks?
Speaker 12 (18:49):
They usually say, mamma, see what I'll marry if you
don't let me go out with Joel.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Well, mister Lolly, don't feel too bad. Remember any girl
who would go out with you with having anyhow.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Looked mus Uffie. I don't want to break up this courtship.
But why don't you show mister Lorry around the joint
entertain him?
Speaker 11 (19:11):
Maybe?
Speaker 5 (19:12):
I think to him that kind of horror even he
couldn't stand list and take him over and show him
the bird to leave them amaze each other. Okay, come on, Missager, Yeah, Ddie.
Crime on the premises, crime, what happened? Somebody has stole
a sandwich? Perish forbid.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
From where?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
From the free or dirves tona But I just put
up a sign free you Dirves do not touch want
a rap swiping a sandwich mark free or Dirves.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Even a cop wouldn't do that what's the matter, Archie.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Well, Fanzelle, we got to conduct an investigation, you know,
a c X A cross examination. Well, I'll be very
happy to tell you all I know about the sandwiches.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
No about minute rub.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Listen, Finzelle, would you please tell me how minute rub
fits in here?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Well, in the first place, minute rub is one of
the two fine products that make it possible for our
listeners to hear duffies. And in the second place, if
any of those listeners are suffering from aggravating cold symptoms,
their noses are stuffed up, and that they have that
aching feeling in their muscles, minute rub.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Fits in perfectly.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Simply do this, ladies and gentlemen, get yourself some minute
rub modern chest rub right away and massage it briskly
on your back and chests.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
That's all you do.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Then, even before you finish, you'll feel a gratifying sensation
of warmth as minute rub gets to work, begins to
soothe the discomfort and tightness caused by your cold and
minute rub at the same time gives off active memthol
vapors that help relieve that congested feeling in your nose
and throat. Nationally famous minute rub is greaseless, and it's
stainless too, seems to disappear as you rub it on.
(20:54):
So get after those annoying cold symptoms with this modern
chest rub that takes only a minute to use, only
a minute to start ringing.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Welcome release minute rough.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
So now you know the whole story, mister all right.
That brings us up to date in the case of
the missing salami. We gotta find the crook. Now you
willing to take the case, Frank Iacchi. It doesn't quite
intrigue me.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Well why not?
Speaker 12 (22:54):
Well, you've seen the movies. The scene is usually more grouveesome,
you know, bodies on the floor.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Body's and for h Finnegan, god Fagan, h lay down.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Hot your Oh that's too gruesome?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Uh too grossome high?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You better lay face down.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Now leave us start the cross examination and grill some
of these rats. And mister Lorry, out of courtesy to
you as our guest, I think you're the first rat
we should grow.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Thank you, thank you, Go ahead, okay Lawry, now come clean?
Where was he one tonight? At tonight I came down
here to Duffy's for what reason? I was out of
my mind? Honey, your mind huh the logical man to
eat the sandwich? Any please, this is a criminal investigation.
(23:49):
It's sure, is it's sure?
Speaker 11 (23:53):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Now, my dear mister Lorry, can you explain the location
of your whereabouts during the misdemeanor of the sandwich?
Speaker 12 (24:00):
When the sandwich was stolen? I was sitting on that
chair next to the free orderver counter, listening to the
bird sing songs.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Sitting next to the counter, listening to the bird. Yeah,
but as you see, when I sit in this chair,
I cannot possibly reach up to the sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Well, that eliminates you. Next witness me.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Yeah, yes, you anna just call me mister da take
the stand please for the third degree?
Speaker 12 (24:27):
Oh, let me do this out you please, Miss Duffy,
Where were you born?
Speaker 7 (24:33):
A hairy athney six plocks from the navy yard.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
He just asked you for your birth place, not your hobby.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Now, Miss Duffie, were you ever convicted or for crime?
Speaker 12 (24:46):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (24:46):
I just want a minor traffic violation?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
And what was the violation?
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Next on an intersection?
Speaker 6 (24:54):
Is that all?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (24:56):
We weren't in a car.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Corps. If they liked you?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Huh? Well, pro sed prosecution.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Of prosecution rests and needs it m well, if we
only had some clothes, Eddie, ye, hey take the stand,
say oh yes straight times, oh yes, oh yes, Okay,
the quart is now in season. Hey, if you recall
the exact day that Solami sandwich was made.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Up, I think it was Labor Day.
Speaker 13 (25:27):
Yeah, yeah, there must have been labor Day because the
previous Easter. Everybody said these sandwiches must be left over
from Christmas. What year was that, Well, I remember Roosevelt
had just been elected, Yes, and everybody said Teddy's gonna make.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
A wonderful president.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
Well, thank you, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
And next witness Clifton Finnegan. Now tell me, Finnegan, did
you steal a sandwich?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Chuck out the lullaboys?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Maan an alibi, No lullaby I was asleep.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
In the chair.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Well that this members youpen again, Laurie, I'm strumped.
Speaker 12 (26:09):
Well, there's only one thing left to do. Sheres Sheila FuMB.
Huh shere Sheila FuMB find a woman. No, Laurie, Lee,
lave us get the case south first. You never can
tell about these little guys.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
See Anti, I have an idea. What about that lady?
You know the bird that whistles the StarSpangled banner.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
The star spangled banner, you rubber the case itself? Put
down at it just a second, mister Laurie, your alibi
was that you were sitting down and so couldn't reach
the sandwich. Yes, mister Lorry, are you or are you?
Ain't a patriotic citizen?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I am? When the bird whistled the star spangled banner,
what did you do? Why?
Speaker 5 (26:54):
I'll tell you you stood up and stole a sandwich.
Pe Laurie, You're guilty. Justice has trump.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
The case of the stolen salami is south.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Well, it's time to leave Duffies for the evening.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
But let's all meet here again next week, when our
guest will be Ida Lapino. And remember to obtain your
copy of Duffy's First Reader. Address your requests to Duffy's
First Reader, post Office box sixty seven, New York City,
send one time to cover cost of handling. No stamps
will be accepted. That's post Office box sixty seven, New
York City. In the meantime, if you have a cold,
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remember minutrub If you need a laxity, remember Sala Pelican.
And if you have a half hour next Tuesday evening
at the same time.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Remember Duffy's were the elate met Tadachie s bacon while Duffy, Yeah,
that's right. Next week out all the pano I'm gonna
ask you to help me get Duffy's face Rada scenarioized
for the movie.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Well, Duffy, by the way, have you sent away for
the book?
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Well, one out, It's only a dime. We'll sending a
dime to Duffy's first trader, a post office box sixty seven,
New York City. Huh, you'd rather way what comes out
in a cheaper edition.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Okay, good night, Duffy. This program came to you from
(29:00):
Hollywood is the Blue Network.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Peter Lourie was born Loslo Lowenstein in what is now Roosenbarack, Slovakia.
It was a village in Hungary then in nineteen o four.
He is of Hungarian Jewish descent. He started acting in
Vienna when he was only seventeen. He moved to Berlin
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in the nineteen twenties and acted on the stage and screen.
His big break came when he was cast in the
role of psychopathic child killer Hans Beckert in the German
film m in nineteen thirty one. Laurie left Germany when
Hitler came to power in nineteen thirty three, and he
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ended up in London, where Alfred Hitchcock cast him in
a number of his early films. Moving to the United States,
he starred as mister Mo in eight films for twentieth
Century Fox in the late nineteen thirties. In nineteen forty one,
Peter Laurie became a US citizen, and that's when he
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got roles. Not because he was a US citizen, but
it was just about that time that he got roles
in some of the greatest films of all time. He
was Joel Cairo in The Maltese Falcon Ugarti in Casablanca
that both of these films also starred Humphrey Bogart and
Sidney green Street. In fact, Peter Lourie made a total
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of nine films with Sidney green Street during his career.
In nineteen forty four, he was Doctor Einstein in Frank
Capra's version of Arsenic and Old Lace with Kerrie Grant
and Raymond Massey, and then in nineteen forty seven he
played Kismet in Bob Hope's My Favorite Brunette. Peter Laurie's
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later films included the nineteen fifty four to twenty thousand
Leagues under the Sea, where he played alongside Kirk Douglas
and James Mason, the nineteen sixty one Voyage to the
Bottom of the Sea, Tales of Terror in nineteen sixty
two with Vincent Price in Basil Rathbone, and The Raven
in nineteen sixty three, again with Vincent Price as well
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as Boris Karloff and a young Jack Nicholson. Peter Lourie
had quite a few TV roles in the fifties and
early sixties as well. Throughout his career. He was best
known for playing the villain or being cast in creepy
sinister roles. He played them all quite well. Peter Lourie
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died of a stroke in nineteen sixty four. He was
fifty nine. Please send your questions and comments to host
at classiccomedyotr dot com until next time. In the words
of James Baldwin, the moment we cease to hold each other,
the moment we break faith with one another, the sea
engulfs us and the light goes out.
Welcome to classic comedy of old time radio. I'm your host,
Ronick Labarger. Peter Lourie and a talking bird come to
visit Duffy's Tavern. Sometime during that visit, somebody steals a sandwich.
Who could it be? This is episode number one hundred
of Duffy's Tavern, entitled Guest Peter Lourie. It originally aired
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on October nineteenth, nineteen forty.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Three, Bristol Myers.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
The makers of sal have had aga famous laxaviv and
minute rubs Modern Chess.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Rubbs brings you stuffy. Hello, Duffy's when he late me?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Dad?
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Aren't you to manad just baking? Duffy ain't here? Hello,
Duffy tonight?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Peter Laurie and Missus carvertt Wells and a talking bird.
Missus Wells, talking bird. Now, don't get excited, Duffy.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It ain't a horse.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
And now this bird you can shut up once in
a while. Yeah, well you want to say the bird, Duffy.
It's wonderful. He talks, he whistles, he even sings. Well,
you ought to say him. He's he's practically human. Huh
at for f.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
He's got flat feet? Well if they call him a
minor bird.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
He comes from the Melee Peninsula, Yeah, where the malarians
come from. Yeah, and Missus Wells find him in a
juggle went on when he was just a little puppy. Well,
what do you call us? More burt A gosling? Hi, Gosh, Duffy,
you kill me. A gosling is a Norwegian trader. I'll
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tell you back, Duffy.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
How on, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Duffies.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Come in and meet Finnegan, Edie the Waiter, Miss Duffy,
Johnny Johnston, Paul Weston and his orchestra, our special guests tonight,
Peter Laurie and missus Carbon Wells, minor Bird Raffles and
Archie himself.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Ed Gardner, Harry, don't forget the announcement about the book
Duffy's fist graded. Oh yes, I'll make it now, Yeah,
fram frap place.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Thank you, go ahead, Harry.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Ever since Duffies has been on the air, people have
been asking why Archie hasn't written the book. Well, it's happened.
It has been written by the great genius Harry.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Please, folks, he means it has been wrote Manzille watch addiction.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, excuse yeah, Archie has really wrote a unique book.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
It is called Duffy's First Reader.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
And there are chapters on mathematics, etiquette, history, and grammar.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Not to mention me hut of boreography.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's right. And Duffy's First Reader is profusely illustrated.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
And Harry Tollman's got pictures too.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yes, pictures not only of Archie but of the famous
personalities who have visited Duffies in the past. Forty eight
pages of pictures and labs. And all it will cost you,
ladies and gentlemen, is the cost of postage and handling
in round numbers.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Ten cents. That's all.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Simply send your dime no stamps, please to Duffy's First Reader,
Post Office Box sixty seven, New York City, New York,
miss Art.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Not just talking bird. What do they call it?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
They call it a minor bird? Why do they call
it a minor bird? That is difficult for me to
explain to one I'm familiar with their natural habit. Choose
a by knowledge, Oh you don't know, huh. Look, Eddie,
I never talked on the subject of which I am ignorant.
Now that quiet, nobody could be.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Tell me why do they call it.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
A minor bird because it's a bird that ain't twenty
one years old?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
What do they call the bird after they become twenty one?
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Nothing? They die at twenty.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Would you like any more information, Eddie?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, keep it flying. Where do you get all this stuff?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Well, don't forget Eddie got For a long time, I
was associated with the Explorers Club as a busboy.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Made in the water.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
They call me.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Naturally.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Working an Explorer's club, it makes one practically an explorer
one self. I was a waiter at the Stalk Club
for two years. I ain't never had a baby.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Well what did this bird look like?
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Why it look it looks like sort of one of
them malted falcons, only darker, more of a chocolate malted choccery.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Oh yeah, my Duffie, Who did you say was coming
down here tonight?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Peter Laurie and a talking bird?
Speaker 7 (05:35):
A fine choice, they give me?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
What's wrong with Laurie has the role? He has all
the requirements.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
You're the man.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
He's a man.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
He's too short. I never go out with small men.
It ain't sportsmanlike.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Oh he's short, but he's tricky anyway, what's wrong with
short guys? Your own father is short than your mother,
ain't he?
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Well they were the same craig when they were married.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Yeah, well, I guess all that banging on my head
has dwarfed my look messed up? He can't you think
of anything but men?
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Sure I can, But why should I punish myself?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
How a missus carbon Wells is here with the birds.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Oh well, good evening, missus Wells. We are indeed grafted
by your humble presence at the night. Speaking of jungles,
you know I'm an old time hunt myself. You are, Yeah,
Many's the time I hunted elephants, lines, tigers, hyenas. Yeah,
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Eddie over there used to pay me safari uh, priceless Sordi.
Many's the time he has checked me out of the jungle?
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Which jon uh?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Which?
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Well, what was the name of that one again, Eddie? Sorry,
this is the one you gotta treck yourself out of. Well, anyways,
as I was saying.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Can't we hear the big talk?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Change say?
Speaker 5 (07:05):
That is a very good idea.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
How about it, missus Wells?
Speaker 8 (07:08):
All right, I'll take Raffles out of his cage.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
HM had they hear a bird talk.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
That the bird going on?
Speaker 9 (07:18):
Raffles, Whistle your favorite tune. Whistle your favorite tune. Whistle
your favorite tune. Whistle, Whistle your favorite.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Tune better trauma gray whistle, your favorite tune.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
Whistle. Now all my country is of the raffles. Whistle.
My country is the whistle. My country is the whistle.
You're gonna whistle. You're gonna whistle.
Speaker 10 (07:44):
Hell here, the games all here, hell, hell whistle, hell,
Hell's a whistle?
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Whistle really the song you like this? Whistle your favorite tune?
Now this is your favorite?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (08:01):
Now what what did raffles? You're gonna whistle your favorite
tune again?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
All right?
Speaker 8 (08:05):
When you saw Duff this picture, did you lie, Raffles,
did what do you say? This pretty girl?
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Likewise? Thank you?
Speaker 8 (08:13):
When you saw Duff his picture? Did you laugh? Did
you laugh?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That's a very right thing.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
Whistle your favorite tune. What's your favorite tune? What's your
favorite tune? Fine, Raffles, But you're gonna say hello Joe, Joe.
Gonna say hello Joe, Joe, say hello Jo Joe, Joe.
Not now, Raffles, change your voice. Now, Raffles, I know
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that you have a tune you like best of all,
how about whistling the tune that you like best off?
Speaker 8 (08:50):
Whistle whistle whistle.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Excuse me, hello, hello, Duffy. Uh uh well yeah, it
writes here. Well, we don't worry, had Duffy. Don't worry,
I'm watching him. Yeah. Besides, anyhow, I got my hat
on And what now, Duffy, You're wrong, No, Tuffy, your
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wors not Nah.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I thought it was Gabriel hated. That was wonderful.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Ain't there nothing this fati quiz kid can't do well?
Speaker 8 (09:29):
Raffles can't give you advice, he can't.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Well, touche.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
We got a bird that can give oneself gladly, gladly, archie,
ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
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morning with that dull headache you feeling that comes from
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morning and don't have to go through the whole day
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Speaker 4 (10:08):
And this famous salien.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
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Remembering this caution, use only as directed. Then, anytime you
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you don't feel better faster when you take gentle speedy salhapatica.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Hello, Archie Hollout Johnson.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Look, Johnny, I've been meaning to apologize to you. You
know I've been a little rough line you are the
last couple of weeks and now want you and out.
I really think you're a great singer.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Oh okay, but now look about this bird.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
It happens that you know, I'm the singer around here,
and I don't like to see a bird cutting in
on my racket. Johnson, it may be knows to you,
But then Bridge was in a singing racket long before
you was. Well.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I want you to know that I'm not taking second
billing to a crow Johnson.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
What is your son tonight?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Sunday Monday are always?
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Sunday Monday are always Notice you left that payday Johnson
sing You were very wise leaving out that payday.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Won't you tell me when.
Speaker 11 (11:37):
We will meet again? Sunday Monday are all worse? If
you are satisfied, I'll be as you were sad Sunday
Monday are all? Well?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
All need to tell me now?
Speaker 11 (12:02):
What makes the world go round?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
When at the sight.
Speaker 11 (12:08):
Of you, my heart begins to pom and pond And.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
What am I to do? And I'll be with you.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Sunday Monday?
Speaker 11 (12:24):
You're always.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
All?
Speaker 11 (12:42):
You tell me where we will meet her again? Sunday
Monday always if you're satisfide and I'll be your side
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Sunday My name way, no need to tell me now
what makes the world go round? Way at the side
of you, my heart begins to palm and.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Palm, And what am I to do?
Speaker 11 (13:28):
Can I be with you Sunday.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Monday? Oh?
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Ah, way, Alick, how is very good?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
You know? Wait, wait, Mellie walked.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
On you like we though.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Oh that's all right, Arts, I'm like a rug, you know,
and I'm better after a good beating.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Why do I try to get friendly with this guy?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, Finigan, you're wait, you missed the talking, but so
what we had chicken for dinner.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
But you should have been here, Penny and this, but
really talk words, you know?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, tell me briefly.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
What did he show? Well, he said, want to think,
like take a bit? Hello Joe Jones, Rebecca, Hello.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Joe, Joe shows like a moron to merge. Where is
your spoy come from?
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Mike?
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Well, he's the offspring of missus comments wells the explorer.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Oh, I know quite a number of off sprung explorers.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Fenny, and stop lying. What explorers do you know?
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Doctor presume, doctor presume?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, doctor Livingstone, I pray jone. Anyway, the man's name
was Stanley, I pre joon.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
What's the man?
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Addy?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Look? Yeah, the man who's been sitting over in that car.
You know who he is, mister Peter.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Lauren, Well, miss Glaurie, it's a pleasure to have your hair,
thank you, sir. Yeah, make the rest of the gang
here look less grossome.
Speaker 12 (15:40):
Please, achy, I I don't want you to think of
me as a horrible person.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Oh, I don't try not that.
Speaker 12 (15:46):
No, please think of me as a sweet, lovable man
who makes certain people fame. Sort of non music Frank Sinatra.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Sort of a Frankenstein att.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Yeah, but you don't scare me. You know, I work
for a guy who makes you look like little up
in the anti? Who is that guy named Duffy? He's
half faith?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
What is the other half?
Speaker 7 (16:11):
What?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
What is the other half? Ape? You should see him?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
He stands out five feet six sitting down and the
stocking feet and has a neck that starts at his waist. Yeah,
guy's all shoulders. In fact, when he buys a soak,
he only buys the coat.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
But what does he do with the pants?
Speaker 5 (16:28):
His wife wears him?
Speaker 12 (16:30):
Oh, he sounds like a monstrosity.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yes, weldfall. Yeah, and he loves your pictures.
Speaker 13 (16:39):
You know.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
He's always so happy at the finish when you'll finally
get the ghol.
Speaker 12 (16:43):
Oh, I am very tired of that sort of picture.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Well, what are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Well? You know I've been offered a radio program.
Speaker 12 (16:50):
Where I can be something different, entirely different, a Children's Hour.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
It sounds like a natural for you. Good evening keddies.
This is your uncle, Jack the Ripper.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I'm serious, Archie.
Speaker 12 (17:08):
I've always loved little children and I'm going to write
this program for them myself. Oh it's lovely. The first story,
you know, is about a.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Little boy and girl, little blind girl.
Speaker 12 (17:18):
Yes, a little boy and girl, and they are late
for dinner because on their way home from school they
have fallen into a concrete mixer.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
And oh, the joys of childhood. Where is their parents?
Speaker 12 (17:34):
Well, their parents would have been there, but they were
strolling down a country lane and got their heads cut
off by a windmill.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
I'll certainly get the kiddies to take them milk.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I think so too. Yes, you see.
Speaker 12 (17:50):
So the police try to find their uncle, but uncle
is busy in the backyard having a barbecue.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
And what do you think is uncle barbecuing? Huh?
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Auntie?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Oh you read the story.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Well it sounds pretty good, Peter. Maybe I can get
some PLAYERSMA Company to sponsor.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
But I like it, Antie, do you mind introducing me?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Oh, I'm sorry, mister Lourie. This is miss Duffie, the
daughter of the establishment.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
You know, mister Lord you're even Leslie positive person. If
you are on the screen, thank you.
Speaker 12 (18:29):
I have never seen you on the screen, so I
can't return a compliment.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
Thank you?
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Can I ask you a personal question.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Is what is it?
Speaker 12 (18:40):
Do girls go out with you for once in a while?
Speaker 7 (18:45):
How did they explain you to their folks?
Speaker 12 (18:49):
They usually say, mamma, see what I'll marry if you
don't let me go out with Joel.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Well, mister Lolly, don't feel too bad. Remember any girl
who would go out with you with having anyhow.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Looked mus Uffie. I don't want to break up this courtship.
But why don't you show mister Lorry around the joint
entertain him?
Speaker 11 (19:11):
Maybe?
Speaker 5 (19:12):
I think to him that kind of horror even he
couldn't stand list and take him over and show him
the bird to leave them amaze each other. Okay, come on, Missager, Yeah, Ddie.
Crime on the premises, crime, what happened? Somebody has stole
a sandwich? Perish forbid.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
From where?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
From the free or dirves tona But I just put
up a sign free you Dirves do not touch want
a rap swiping a sandwich mark free or Dirves.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Even a cop wouldn't do that what's the matter, Archie.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Well, Fanzelle, we got to conduct an investigation, you know,
a c X A cross examination. Well, I'll be very
happy to tell you all I know about the sandwiches.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
No about minute rub.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Listen, Finzelle, would you please tell me how minute rub
fits in here?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Well, in the first place, minute rub is one of
the two fine products that make it possible for our
listeners to hear duffies. And in the second place, if
any of those listeners are suffering from aggravating cold symptoms,
their noses are stuffed up, and that they have that
aching feeling in their muscles, minute rub.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Fits in perfectly.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Simply do this, ladies and gentlemen, get yourself some minute
rub modern chest rub right away and massage it briskly
on your back and chests.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
That's all you do.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Then, even before you finish, you'll feel a gratifying sensation
of warmth as minute rub gets to work, begins to
soothe the discomfort and tightness caused by your cold and
minute rub at the same time gives off active memthol
vapors that help relieve that congested feeling in your nose
and throat. Nationally famous minute rub is greaseless, and it's
stainless too, seems to disappear as you rub it on.
(20:54):
So get after those annoying cold symptoms with this modern
chest rub that takes only a minute to use, only
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Speaker 2 (21:00):
Welcome release minute rough.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
So now you know the whole story, mister all right.
That brings us up to date in the case of
the missing salami. We gotta find the crook. Now you
willing to take the case, Frank Iacchi. It doesn't quite
intrigue me.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Well why not?
Speaker 12 (22:54):
Well, you've seen the movies. The scene is usually more grouveesome,
you know, bodies on the floor.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Body's and for h Finnegan, god Fagan, h lay down.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Hot your Oh that's too gruesome?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Uh too grossome high?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You better lay face down.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Now leave us start the cross examination and grill some
of these rats. And mister Lorry, out of courtesy to
you as our guest, I think you're the first rat
we should grow.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Thank you, thank you, Go ahead, okay Lawry, now come clean?
Where was he one tonight? At tonight I came down
here to Duffy's for what reason? I was out of
my mind? Honey, your mind huh the logical man to
eat the sandwich? Any please, this is a criminal investigation.
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It's sure, is it's sure?
Speaker 11 (23:53):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Now, my dear mister Lorry, can you explain the location
of your whereabouts during the misdemeanor of the sandwich?
Speaker 12 (24:00):
When the sandwich was stolen? I was sitting on that
chair next to the free orderver counter, listening to the
bird sing songs.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Sitting next to the counter, listening to the bird. Yeah,
but as you see, when I sit in this chair,
I cannot possibly reach up to the sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Well, that eliminates you. Next witness me.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Yeah, yes, you anna just call me mister da take
the stand please for the third degree?
Speaker 12 (24:27):
Oh, let me do this out you please, Miss Duffy,
Where were you born?
Speaker 7 (24:33):
A hairy athney six plocks from the navy yard.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
He just asked you for your birth place, not your hobby.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Now, Miss Duffie, were you ever convicted or for crime?
Speaker 12 (24:46):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (24:46):
I just want a minor traffic violation?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
And what was the violation?
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Next on an intersection?
Speaker 6 (24:54):
Is that all?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (24:56):
We weren't in a car.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Corps. If they liked you?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Huh? Well, pro sed prosecution.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Of prosecution rests and needs it m well, if we
only had some clothes, Eddie, ye, hey take the stand,
say oh yes straight times, oh yes, oh yes, Okay,
the quart is now in season. Hey, if you recall
the exact day that Solami sandwich was made.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Up, I think it was Labor Day.
Speaker 13 (25:27):
Yeah, yeah, there must have been labor Day because the
previous Easter. Everybody said these sandwiches must be left over
from Christmas. What year was that, Well, I remember Roosevelt
had just been elected, Yes, and everybody said Teddy's gonna make.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
A wonderful president.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
Well, thank you, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
And next witness Clifton Finnegan. Now tell me, Finnegan, did
you steal a sandwich?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Chuck out the lullaboys?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Maan an alibi, No lullaby I was asleep.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
In the chair.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Well that this members youpen again, Laurie, I'm strumped.
Speaker 12 (26:09):
Well, there's only one thing left to do. Sheres Sheila FuMB.
Huh shere Sheila FuMB find a woman. No, Laurie, Lee,
lave us get the case south first. You never can
tell about these little guys.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
See Anti, I have an idea. What about that lady?
You know the bird that whistles the StarSpangled banner.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
The star spangled banner, you rubber the case itself? Put
down at it just a second, mister Laurie, your alibi
was that you were sitting down and so couldn't reach
the sandwich. Yes, mister Lorry, are you or are you?
Ain't a patriotic citizen?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I am? When the bird whistled the star spangled banner,
what did you do? Why?
Speaker 5 (26:54):
I'll tell you you stood up and stole a sandwich.
Pe Laurie, You're guilty. Justice has trump.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
The case of the stolen salami is south.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Well, it's time to leave Duffies for the evening.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
But let's all meet here again next week, when our
guest will be Ida Lapino. And remember to obtain your
copy of Duffy's First Reader. Address your requests to Duffy's
First Reader, post Office box sixty seven, New York City,
send one time to cover cost of handling. No stamps
will be accepted. That's post Office box sixty seven, New
York City. In the meantime, if you have a cold,
(27:48):
remember minutrub If you need a laxity, remember Sala Pelican.
And if you have a half hour next Tuesday evening
at the same time.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Remember Duffy's were the elate met Tadachie s bacon while Duffy, Yeah,
that's right. Next week out all the pano I'm gonna
ask you to help me get Duffy's face Rada scenarioized
for the movie.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Well, Duffy, by the way, have you sent away for
the book?
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Well, one out, It's only a dime. We'll sending a
dime to Duffy's first trader, a post office box sixty seven,
New York City. Huh, you'd rather way what comes out
in a cheaper edition.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Okay, good night, Duffy. This program came to you from
(29:00):
Hollywood is the Blue Network.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Peter Lourie was born Loslo Lowenstein in what is now Roosenbarack, Slovakia.
It was a village in Hungary then in nineteen o four.
He is of Hungarian Jewish descent. He started acting in
Vienna when he was only seventeen. He moved to Berlin
(29:29):
in the nineteen twenties and acted on the stage and screen.
His big break came when he was cast in the
role of psychopathic child killer Hans Beckert in the German
film m in nineteen thirty one. Laurie left Germany when
Hitler came to power in nineteen thirty three, and he
(29:50):
ended up in London, where Alfred Hitchcock cast him in
a number of his early films. Moving to the United States,
he starred as mister Mo in eight films for twentieth
Century Fox in the late nineteen thirties. In nineteen forty one,
Peter Laurie became a US citizen, and that's when he
(30:11):
got roles. Not because he was a US citizen, but
it was just about that time that he got roles
in some of the greatest films of all time. He
was Joel Cairo in The Maltese Falcon Ugarti in Casablanca
that both of these films also starred Humphrey Bogart and
Sidney green Street. In fact, Peter Lourie made a total
(30:33):
of nine films with Sidney green Street during his career.
In nineteen forty four, he was Doctor Einstein in Frank
Capra's version of Arsenic and Old Lace with Kerrie Grant
and Raymond Massey, and then in nineteen forty seven he
played Kismet in Bob Hope's My Favorite Brunette. Peter Laurie's
(30:55):
later films included the nineteen fifty four to twenty thousand
Leagues under the Sea, where he played alongside Kirk Douglas
and James Mason, the nineteen sixty one Voyage to the
Bottom of the Sea, Tales of Terror in nineteen sixty
two with Vincent Price in Basil Rathbone, and The Raven
in nineteen sixty three, again with Vincent Price as well
(31:17):
as Boris Karloff and a young Jack Nicholson. Peter Lourie
had quite a few TV roles in the fifties and
early sixties as well. Throughout his career. He was best
known for playing the villain or being cast in creepy
sinister roles. He played them all quite well. Peter Lourie
(31:39):
died of a stroke in nineteen sixty four. He was
fifty nine. Please send your questions and comments to host
at classiccomedyotr dot com until next time. In the words
of James Baldwin, the moment we cease to hold each other,
the moment we break faith with one another, the sea
engulfs us and the light goes out.
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