October 23, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
I'm now for yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. The next half
hour has its baggage fact to take a trip with
America's fabulous Britance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar. At insurance investigation,
(00:29):
He's just an expert at making out his expense account.
He's an absolute feat.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Expense accounts submitted by a special investigator Johnny Dollar to
Frederick Kimball, General manager of Fine Arts of Tours Incorporated
in New York Arts.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
The following is an accounting of my.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Expenditures and the investigation of the stolen portrait of the
Duke of masson Or who opened the season on canvas.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Back to.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Expense account out of one three hundred and fifty dollars
plane fair, New York to London. Item two one hundred
and twenty five dollars replacement brand new light tan topcoat
borrowed and not returned by fellow passenger. During flight we
cleared Yander Nupman living were four hours out flying at
twenty thousand feet over the Atlantic with a ninth in
the weather, fighting it out to see which could dark
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on sky. First, most of the passengers were asleep, but
the rough weather was giving the man on the seat
beside me a rough time, although the plane had leveled
off his dinner, still trying to gain altitude among other things,
he complained to kill So I slipped on my top
coat threw it around his shoulders.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Oh thanks, I'm sorry to beat, said to bother.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Oh, I think I'll try a drink of water.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Okay, I'll post of the steward public.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
He's up forward.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Maybe they walked back too far. He stepped out for
a breath of fresh air. I didn't think anybody't sick
enough to do that. By the time I got to
the back of the ship, the rear sleep.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Passengers from milling around the aisle to know anything about
what had happened, I didn't by that, But if my
ex friend hadn't jumped out of the plane.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
He's been pushed. And that was this pantalizing question. If
he's been pushed, and since he'd been.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Wearing my light tan topcoat, was I the one who
was supposed to be taking that twenty thousand.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Foot swan dive into the Atlantic. I looked over the passengers,
and to me, they all looked guilty, but I really
couldn't be.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I also knew I had no chance of finding out
which one was something to shettled down. Everybody started asking
the stewardess for senatives to help him get back to sleep.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I asked her for some black company to keep awake.
By four o'clock the next afternoon.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I was in good health in London and in the
office of your policyholder next to Morley.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Yes, I've been expecting you to a company cable that
you were coming. Very generous of him to send you all.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
The way over here to help.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Way, I have to pad my expense accounts to make
an honest living. Don't ever accuse my clients of generosity.
Uh oh no, they aren't very soft hearted benefactors. They're
being hard head of business man. If that painting stays lost,
it'll cost them two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Well, i'd better brief you from the beginning. Oh, why
you're wondering your story.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Morning, don't mind, I'm just sleeping.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I see very well. I'll make a brief dollar. Well.
During my lifetime I have.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Developed an overwhelmed appreciation for fine paintings. Unfortunately, I have
not been able to develop the fortune that should go
with As a result, I haven't only not been able
to buy any great paintings. I've not been able to
afford to travel to the museums around the world where
the great masterpieces hanging.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I guess there must be a lot of people stuck
in the same fix exactly, And that's what gave birth
to my plan.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I have organized what you might call the Masterpiece of
the Month Club. Its members are twelve of the top
museums and galleries in the world. This plan calls for
them to rotate their most famous paintings.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
In other words, if the people can't of to come.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
To the pictures, my schemes to the pictures to the people,
and you work every month.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Well, it's very interesting, miss Morley. But let's talk about
the one that got away.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Oh yes, of course, I was merely outlining the background
of this case to dolineate my responsibility in the matter.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Well, so now we know that you feel personally responsible
for the loss of the painting.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Even though it's well, in short, mister Dollar, no amount
of money can get that picture repainted by the man
who originally painted it.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
The artist Bonnet has been dead for more than three
hundred years, a.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Real gone guy. You know.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
If we fail to recover Brenet's masterpiece, The Duke of Masson.
It would not only be a tremendous shot, but has
lost to the word about further. It would ruined my reputations.
The very first thing to be loaned arrives here in
London from Paris four days ago, and the first night
after I delivered in the museum, it has stolen off
their wall.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Oh jers the morning. So much to the story was
the museum.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
It's the new art ellery at Coventry. Here's the address.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
I won't be able to accompany myself as I am
flying across the channel immediately to try to calm the
official parish, the ones who loans the stolen painting.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
They've been calling incessiantry.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I'll phone my assistant, Miss Harding, to meet you the
main entrance in the museum.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Let's say forty five minutes. Okay, kill her.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I'll be the man asleep on the step. Fan's accounts.
I him three sixpence hapen.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
London papers to read while waiting for Miss Harding at
museum entrance. No matter what I told mister Morley, I
was afraid to go to sleep. Page one of each
newspaper referred to my reason the misadventure which had occurred
on the plane the night before, a possible attempt on
my life.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Then along came another good reason for my lids drooping.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Miss Harding was at the opener, speaking in artistic turns.
No painter could completely capture her dimensions.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
A sculptor could come closer, as far as I was concerned,
could see, and she did what mister du it wouldn't
need I, miss.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Heart, mister Morning indicated that I might find you asleep.
I say, that must be a shocking experience on the
way over.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Not only shocking but frustrating. Yes, there was nothing much
that could be done.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
We shirt a long enough to drop a few life rafts,
some players, and a big blob of yellow oil to
help mark the spot.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Then all the pilot could do was call for the air,
see recue boys and hope.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Yes, it's singing all the papers the whole day. Court chat.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, it could be that there but for the grace
of a light sands top coat. Go on, what was that? Oh? Nothing? Well,
shall we go museum prowling? Yes, of course, there.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Isn't much to see, just a black place on the wall.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well, let's take a look at it.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Hey, did you see a blank space on the wall?
You mean they stole the painting frame and oil and
they did? All right, thieves are doing things the hard
way these days. Usually they just cut the painting out
of the frames, they got out of the coat and
make a getaway.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Yes, mister, I know, but perhaps this job was done
by the beginner. Or perhaps the bird was in prop
and hap need to run for it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Frame and all.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
There are infinite possibility.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Infinite mister Dollar.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Thank you. I sin distood here at the museum.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
It is an utter waste of time.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
I've gone over the whole situation where a gentleman's stop
in the yard.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
It wasn't so much as a single finger Please, miss Harding,
I have yet to solve the case with a fingerprints.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Sorry, I forgot. Men just can't stand to be any
show woman.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Oh I wouldn't say that. It's according to what they
are applying their afficiency.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
I am speaking of business the dollar. I'm sure that
I can send you a great deal of trouble. I've
already done an extraordinar amount of research.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
On this case.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I'll be careful what you tell me, Miss Harting. At
this point, I confuse easily.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
The Dollar child could understand what I have to tell you.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Sometimes a wide awake child is better than a sleepy man.
But go ahead, well, my this is the.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Place right here there you see a blank wall, now,
mister Dollar. Of the twelve Foremouth arts in London, I
have discovered that nine are currently in prison, while is
in hospital after falling four stories off a roof, and
the other two are at large and maybe sound the
driving at the addresses I have.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Here, the youth sound more like a patron of the
criminal courts than you do.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Of the arts.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
The entire fascinates me. Now have you seen enough of
your blank wall?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah? Things are blank enough. Give me those addressers and
why you're right? I thank you? Better give me yours,
mister Dollar.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Don't I know suspicious?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
No delicious?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Spencer cow Out'm four five shillings camp fair to Scotland
Yard tip the drummer too, Bob. When it comes to money,
I speak all languages. Scalon Yards from the outside looked
like big public schools. Well that has taught a lot
of lessons to a lot of people. Inside it was
teacher and quie for the officer in charge of the robbery,
with which I was concerned.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I was led to an inspector carew First he gave
me a cup of tea, Then they gave me my lumps.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Mister Dollar, you sit here and ask me why we
haven't done something.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Believe me.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Third, the yard is not as archaic as it's architecture.
There's a simple legal procedure which must occur before we
can make either an investigation or an arrest. Well, a
complaint must be lodged by the legal owners of any
stolen property.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
At that point, and.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
At that point only, are we allowed to act.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You mean nobody called for help.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Well, naturally, when the museum discovered the painting gown, they
immediately rang us up. We went to court to gather
primary evidence. Unfortunately there was none.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Well, what about the owners of the painting the museum
in Paris? As yet we've heard nothing. We expect to
momentarily inspector just out of curiosity. What about this girl,
miss Harding.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I'd say, she's well a jolly fine time. I mean,
do you know anything about her?
Speaker 7 (09:38):
I say, didn't you Yanks carry off enough of our.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Girls after the war. I'm not in the imform business.
I mean, is she known to you?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Professionally what you suspect her? Not particularly, but she did
give me this list. In her opinion, this is the
who's who and where they are of your city's light
fingered eyed lovers.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Let me see it.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Well, quite complete and protect it had was the work
of an amateur. When the world would a young lady
like miss Hardy come into such information?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
That Inspector Carew is exactly what I'm driving at. Back
in a taxi headed from Scotland Yard on my way
to check into the Mount Royal Hotel, I gave my
eyes a rest at the risk of missing the sights thing,
but my mind refused to follow suits that now had
three blank walls to stare into the one of the museums,
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the one at Scotland Yard, and the most provocative of
the three, to look at the girl who knew too much,
Miss Burial Harding. My mind also kept ruffling my nerve
ends with a question, was I supposed to be the
guy who got dumped out of that.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Plane the night before? Where I've at the Mount Royal Hotel?
I got my answers. Here we are, that's the Mountain
Oil right head on a two way. You taught me, okay,
what's the bild he that'll be off at that? How
much till it takes sex? Oh you figured it out.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Jesus, God on everything, cabinet, Look down the.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
H That was a close one. Thanks, you're right down there.
Got me sins the cause of that.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
On the street, it's more dangerous to walk around now
than it was when them ready buzzbombs were dropping. Yeah,
a couple of good things about the buzzbombs. Though nobody
aims them at you personally, and nobody was at the
wheel to steer them.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
That made it official.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I had been set up for a pigeon, and it
was me. Somebody had tried to turn into a seagull
during that flight across the Atlantic. Expends the count that
of five three pound ten to bell Boy for services rented?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
How about that fourteen bucks for a bottle of Scotch?
And I threw forty winks that felt like only twenty.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
And I grabbed a shower, shave and a cab down
Oxford Street and over to Soo expected count out of
six five shillings the legal lemon on.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
The price of dinner in England these days. I ate
a nice place called Keetnits.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Dinner being a bit of chicken, three choices of vegetables,
Brussels sprout spoiled, Brussels sprouts creamed, and Brussels sprout's roasted.
But as there, I looked at the names and addresses
of Miss Harding's two candidates for the boys most likely
to have succeeded in swiping the missing portrait of the
Duke of Masson.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I was in the right district for one of them.
I found myself on a dark and lonely muse.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
That may sound good to you, but in soho a
muse is still only a place fit for ash cans
and cats. I broke my way up the stairs of
the address, the number one boorn on Miss Harding's list,
and a top step. I was breathing hard and I
wasn't all from the climb. Bunched my teeth, my knuckles
and knocked on the door. Then I broke roll to
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the basic constructions for the working snoop.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I opened the door that flock number went to Yale.
The door of a wood.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Burning stove across the room was open, the flames erratically
painting the walls the orange light, then erasing them back
into black darkness. I finally dared to breeze. Then I saw,
when I was looking for, lying on a table, his
edges curled upwards, an oil painting of a guy with
short breeches and a long face. I started forward with
something bred my foot. I stared down at the floor
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in front of me. First it was pitch flak. Then
the light from the stove flared up, and I saw
that the object was what I thought it was, and
the folks it wasn't a man wearing his head and
I don't mean his hair pour.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
It in the middle. I rushed across the room, slipping
off the top of the stove. More light.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
We look for a telephone. There was none in the
room of the corps, so I tried the door of
the next road, and the door I was trying started erupting.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
In just a moment, we'll turn to the second act
of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. But first we want to
remind you that those delightful, charming neighbors, Ozzy and Harriet,
are coming back home next Sunday night, coming back to CBS.
You'll be able to join them on most of these
same stations.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
At six point thirty Eastern Standard time.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Just before the Jack Benny Show. Ozzie and Harriet now
have their own sons, Ricky and David, playing themselves in
place of the young actors who formerly portrayed them. So
make it a party for your whole family when Ozzie
and Harriet, Ricky and David come home with their fun
and laughter to CBS next Sunday night, And now back
to yours truly, Johnny Dollar. When those bullets came crashing
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through the door at me, I dropped to the floor.
Still don't know whether my knees buckled or I meant
to go down and stayed where I was. But whoever
it was on the other side of that door, I
decided to take off out the window. I got my feet,
but by the time I kicked the door got to
the window, I had that old mother Hubbard feeling. The
cupboard was there, And that's what you're doing here in
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your flatness, haunting. After my little adventure, the first thing
I did was to call the police, and the second
was to come here to call on you, the girl
who steered me into that shooting gallery.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Where you needn't sound so annoyed at me. Who's I
advised you to go there? But after all, it was
your duty, and you did recover.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
The picture and almost lost my health doing it for
the third time.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Really, yes, really, First somebody tried to make a sea
going paratrooper out of me, then they try to make
part of the pavement by running me down with an auto,
and now tonight somebody on the other side of the
door tries to turn it into my personal copy of
the Pearly Gates.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
That's really enough for me.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Mister teller. Where is the painting?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Now?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Asked Scotland yard? And now let's change the subject back.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
What's bothering me? Is bothering me plenty. I want to
know who didn't want me to find that picture and why?
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Well, how he seems elementary rank after watch the thief naturally.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Didn't want you to find it, Miss Harding, Please when
I got shot at the apparentief was dead.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Well they do have hashman, you know if he was
killed by.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
An accomplice, why did the killer leave the patient?
Speaker 6 (16:11):
I'd have no way of knowing of that.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I'm still not sure.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Oh man, and mister Dollar's top, did you hardly suspect me?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I suspect you less if you'd stop saying that at
this point, I suspect everyone, even Dexter Morley, dreaming up
this whole painting of the month's scheme to bring those
paintings within stealing distance.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Oh but that's I know. I know if that was
the plan, he'd wait until he had more than one
picture on the road to steal. That's why I don't
suspect him.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Well, frankly, I don't see why you continue to worry.
After all, your part of the job is done, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, I suppose you're right when I still have a
yearning burning deep down inside.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I made a break somebody's neck. Why if I use
your phone not help you?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
So?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
All right? This is defense.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Hello, I want to talk to New York. Don't worry,
I'll call collect. My name is Johnny Dollar. I want
to place a collect call in New York. Number is
Plaza six nine one eight four.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Checks.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Please, sir, your name is John Dollar.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
To your number. Your calling is Plazas six nine one
eighty four. The call is collect, correct correct, collect your offer.
We shall ring up immediately. If that's the circuit. Thank you,
They'll call me. Well.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
While you're waiting, you probably doing a brak. Is you
care for what have we got j darling gin a
lemon gen Italian or good friends?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Wish?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
No thanks?
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Well, come and sit down over here, yst much.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
More RESTful in the eyes. Where I am here, I
can have a better look at you.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
However, when i'm mister doll, you can be charming. Do
you mind if I changed mister Johnny? It sounds much
more fun.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
We'll swap your one Johnny for every murial you let
me use It's a bargain.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Now tell me about yourself. You'll look about I'm an
active bagro on criminology.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
At the moment you're real that happens to be my
unfavorite subjects. Let's talk about you.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Where should I begin?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Just after the age of twenty one?
Speaker 6 (18:18):
You're a saucy chide. At the age of twenty one,
I was singing the wear Huh. The Women's Air Force.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Oh, you must have had a lot of exciting adventures. Rather,
what was the most exciting? Oh?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
I think perhaps to night the young US Air Force.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Captain kiss Oh, one of the boys of the wild
Blue Yonder. Maybe it was the blue of your eyes.
It made him wild? Johnny, I know, Helen, you must
have yourself.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
He Johnny.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I'll be right back, all right, John, Hello, are you there?
I of course I'm here. The dollar that's right. We're
ready to do a call to New York signal at
the end of Strey minute.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Are you ready to talk a minute?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You stop?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Got you offense?
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Get me off?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Hello? Hello? Is this the Fine Arts Insurers? I want
to talk to him at the Kimball Yeah, yeah, yeah, Dollah,
I'm on the line. Go ahead. Well you can stop worrying, Kimball.
I got the painting back.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
You say you did get it back.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
That's right, it's safe. Well, you'll have to pay is
the price of a new frame. But what happened to
the frame? Well, the guy who's swiped it took the
painting out of the frame. I don't know where it is. Well,
after the culprit, what he did with it, I'm sad
he's dead.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Well, then look for it.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
That bring it, Clint, that thousand dollars the slum paint. Okay, fred,
don't flow out any bridgework. I'll look around for it.
Everything you've come to until you're doing that already, okay,
fred o'kayble here what happened? Goodbye? Well, Muriel Vacation's over.
I just got put back to work, Gath and he'll come.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
I wanted to send you shaking off into the night
to look for the picture frame.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Oh, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
These have probably already found it somewhere, and that fellow's flat.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
We'll check that my work is personal service.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
And must you go Johnny's any hot pots?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Ten?
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Couldn't you put it off till morning?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
There's nothing I'd like better?
Speaker 6 (20:18):
But couldn't you stay even for a little pile?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Well, just long enough to calm my nerves? Big Ben
was ringing up midnight on.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Times greedy cash registered when I finally cleared it with
a bobby guying the back alley flat, but had not
so long before given up one unprecious life and one
very precious painting. The place was darker than then on
my previous visit, and when I grope for the electric switch,
I realized why there had been a brisk fire blazing before.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
In the bottom grade of the stove.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I found enough unburned portions of the hot picture frame
to justify my conclusions, and I found something else that.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Came under the category of hot rocks.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Spen's account out Am seven cabin their office of Dexter Morley.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
The front door was not only locked, it was barred.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
However, at the back of the building, I had better
lock a loose window down to the basement. I just
broken a law, but I didn't want to break my
neg so snap on the lights. The basement was loaded
with cabinet making equipment, but for my dough, they weren't
making any cabinets. I was benched with a power drill,
and on the floor below it a pile of sawdust
and wood shavings.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
That was normal enough, but the.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Sawdust pile was glimming with tiny specks of crystallized blue.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
With what I had, now, all I had to find
was Dexter Morley. He made that easy. He found me.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Stay down there, doll like where you were.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Well, welcome home from that trip to Paris. You didn't
take that gun in your hands. Suggests that I'm right
about one thing anyway, Yes, and that be that whoever
took the shots earlier tonight was probably not an Englishman.
The bobby's over here. I don't carry a gun, which
makes most English smugs afraid to You're an American.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
That's interesting, but hardly valuable.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I've got some more. How valuable is this?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I think you're in on or at the head of
a very high flat smuggling racket, and I think you
set up that painting of the month scheme of yours
to establish just about the neatest method of smuggling that.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I've ever heard of.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Very generous.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
I know how I operate, So what you could tell
me about it could do nothing more than for me.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
What I want from you are the diamonds.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Maybe I can trade you some diamonds for some answers.
You're in no.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Position at bargain. Give me the diamonds are out, shoot
you and take them ocar.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
No, wait a minute, I'd better explain my bargaining position.
I think you admit it's not the worst, since you
have to followed me here. You know I took a
cab from the murder flat one without a tail light,
so you don't have the number, but brother, I do,
and the diamonds are jammed down behind its back seat.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Now let's bargain. Who you all right?
Speaker 4 (22:52):
What do you want to know?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Just let me do the guessing and check me if
I'm wrong. You set up a chain of famous paintings
which would move around the world for your branch offices
as each one passed through your hands. Here the frame
was to be dismantled and holes bored in it at
the joints for the purpose of smuggling diamonds.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Lights are far.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Yes, I'll have right, but remember the more you are
right about, the worse it is for me, so naturally
the worse it is for you.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
We'll take care of that later. This scheme of you
is fascinating.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
The stuff moves around the world, and the picture frames
under official armed god and enjoying virtual diplomatic community through customs.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
It's great.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
It would have been greatfu it hadn't been for that
heavy handed.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Open oh that fills in a missing link from another
night comes a.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Burglar steals your first loaded picture, shoves the frame into
his stove to get rid of it. You arrive, creaming
with your guns, and I arrive, interrupting you before you
get what you want out of the burning frame.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
And you saw what.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Happened to him when he resisted medella. No, you must
realize that I won't hesitate a moment.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
It works the other way, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
You kill me who tells you the number of that taxi,
and without it you'll never get your diamonds.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
There are ways keep your hands behind you painful, I thought,
so your head will wear us before this gun peril.
Uh feel more like talking.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Just enough to tell you one more thing. You're until
I blonde accomplice of yours. I was not, I heard
from a start, Tony.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
What don't you.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I can't prepay you for those three tries you made
or I had made on my life, Morley. But here's
what it feels like being hit on the head with
a gun. Rock a bye, booby Buriel.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Look out your fall.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I told you that's a very undignified way for a
lady to went he a room through a basement window.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I was trying to help him.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
There.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
You were excusing me of being the countess after all
those nice things you.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Said to me before WHOA wait a minute, I followed you.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
I wanted to see how you were a great you and.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Your criminal ha. At least you might have stepped in
before he hit me those he.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Oh, I'm sorry, Johnny, It's just that I love crime.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Oh, come on, get up. It would be a crime.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
As mister Warley there woke up and I had to
put him back to sleep again before the police got here.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
What was it all about?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
It was about these little black things. I've got a
pocket full of them. There straight one of them with
your fingernail. Oh funny. That's the kind of glass of
fellow handss girl when he wants to be engaged to
make here joy jo. Yes, I mean only that they're diamonds.
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Expense account Item eate three hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Plane fair out of attempted matrimony by the party of
the second part. Item nine twenty five dollars gift to
Muriel Harding two books, one on the art of crime,
the other on the art of in the hopes that
the latter might havettracted for the pursuits of a more
womanly hobby. Item ten ten cents Bromo Seltzer, purchased upon
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landing at vander Newfoundland. The only thing still fighting me
on this case were those Brussels sprouts I had at
dinner in London the night before. Expense account total fifteen
hundred and sixty three.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Dollars and forty cents.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
If you find any slight discrepancy in this amount in
my favor, blame it on my confusion and lack of
understanding of the international rate of exchange. The only thing
I like to exchange at this point is my head
with its two new lumps. Wishing you the same, yours truly,
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
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Speaker 3 (27:46):
Jack Benny, of course comes to you over them all.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Listening again next week when CBS brings you Yours Truly
Johnny Dollar, with Charles Russell as Johnny Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Is written by Paul.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Dudley and Gil dah with music by Mark Warnow, and
is produced and directed by Richard Sandville for CBS, the
Columbia Broadcasting System
I'm now for yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. The next half
hour has its baggage fact to take a trip with
America's fabulous Britance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar. At insurance investigation,
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He's just an expert at making out his expense account.
He's an absolute feat.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Expense accounts submitted by a special investigator Johnny Dollar to
Frederick Kimball, General manager of Fine Arts of Tours Incorporated
in New York Arts.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
The following is an accounting of my.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Expenditures and the investigation of the stolen portrait of the
Duke of masson Or who opened the season on canvas.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Back to.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Expense account out of one three hundred and fifty dollars
plane fair, New York to London. Item two one hundred
and twenty five dollars replacement brand new light tan topcoat
borrowed and not returned by fellow passenger. During flight we
cleared Yander Nupman living were four hours out flying at
twenty thousand feet over the Atlantic with a ninth in
the weather, fighting it out to see which could dark
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on sky. First, most of the passengers were asleep, but
the rough weather was giving the man on the seat
beside me a rough time, although the plane had leveled
off his dinner, still trying to gain altitude among other things,
he complained to kill So I slipped on my top
coat threw it around his shoulders.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Oh thanks, I'm sorry to beat, said to bother.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Oh, I think I'll try a drink of water.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Okay, I'll post of the steward public.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
He's up forward.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Maybe they walked back too far. He stepped out for
a breath of fresh air. I didn't think anybody't sick
enough to do that. By the time I got to
the back of the ship, the rear sleep.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Passengers from milling around the aisle to know anything about
what had happened, I didn't by that, But if my
ex friend hadn't jumped out of the plane.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
He's been pushed. And that was this pantalizing question. If
he's been pushed, and since he'd been.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Wearing my light tan topcoat, was I the one who
was supposed to be taking that twenty thousand.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Foot swan dive into the Atlantic. I looked over the passengers,
and to me, they all looked guilty, but I really
couldn't be.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I also knew I had no chance of finding out
which one was something to shettled down. Everybody started asking
the stewardess for senatives to help him get back to sleep.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I asked her for some black company to keep awake.
By four o'clock the next afternoon.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I was in good health in London and in the
office of your policyholder next to Morley.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Yes, I've been expecting you to a company cable that
you were coming. Very generous of him to send you all.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
The way over here to help.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Way, I have to pad my expense accounts to make
an honest living. Don't ever accuse my clients of generosity.
Uh oh no, they aren't very soft hearted benefactors. They're
being hard head of business man. If that painting stays lost,
it'll cost them two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Well, i'd better brief you from the beginning. Oh, why
you're wondering your story.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Morning, don't mind, I'm just sleeping.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I see very well. I'll make a brief dollar. Well.
During my lifetime I have.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Developed an overwhelmed appreciation for fine paintings. Unfortunately, I have
not been able to develop the fortune that should go
with As a result, I haven't only not been able
to buy any great paintings. I've not been able to
afford to travel to the museums around the world where
the great masterpieces hanging.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I guess there must be a lot of people stuck
in the same fix exactly, And that's what gave birth
to my plan.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I have organized what you might call the Masterpiece of
the Month Club. Its members are twelve of the top
museums and galleries in the world. This plan calls for
them to rotate their most famous paintings.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
In other words, if the people can't of to come.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
To the pictures, my schemes to the pictures to the people,
and you work every month.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Well, it's very interesting, miss Morley. But let's talk about
the one that got away.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Oh yes, of course, I was merely outlining the background
of this case to dolineate my responsibility in the matter.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Well, so now we know that you feel personally responsible
for the loss of the painting.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Even though it's well, in short, mister Dollar, no amount
of money can get that picture repainted by the man
who originally painted it.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
The artist Bonnet has been dead for more than three
hundred years, a.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Real gone guy. You know.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
If we fail to recover Brenet's masterpiece, The Duke of Masson.
It would not only be a tremendous shot, but has
lost to the word about further. It would ruined my reputations.
The very first thing to be loaned arrives here in
London from Paris four days ago, and the first night
after I delivered in the museum, it has stolen off
their wall.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Oh jers the morning. So much to the story was
the museum.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
It's the new art ellery at Coventry. Here's the address.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
I won't be able to accompany myself as I am
flying across the channel immediately to try to calm the
official parish, the ones who loans the stolen painting.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
They've been calling incessiantry.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I'll phone my assistant, Miss Harding, to meet you the
main entrance in the museum.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Let's say forty five minutes. Okay, kill her.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I'll be the man asleep on the step. Fan's accounts.
I him three sixpence hapen.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
London papers to read while waiting for Miss Harding at
museum entrance. No matter what I told mister Morley, I
was afraid to go to sleep. Page one of each
newspaper referred to my reason the misadventure which had occurred
on the plane the night before, a possible attempt on
my life.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Then along came another good reason for my lids drooping.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Miss Harding was at the opener, speaking in artistic turns.
No painter could completely capture her dimensions.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
A sculptor could come closer, as far as I was concerned,
could see, and she did what mister du it wouldn't
need I, miss.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Heart, mister Morning indicated that I might find you asleep.
I say, that must be a shocking experience on the
way over.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Not only shocking but frustrating. Yes, there was nothing much
that could be done.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
We shirt a long enough to drop a few life rafts,
some players, and a big blob of yellow oil to
help mark the spot.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Then all the pilot could do was call for the air,
see recue boys and hope.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Yes, it's singing all the papers the whole day. Court chat.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, it could be that there but for the grace
of a light sands top coat. Go on, what was that? Oh? Nothing? Well,
shall we go museum prowling? Yes, of course, there.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Isn't much to see, just a black place on the wall.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well, let's take a look at it.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Hey, did you see a blank space on the wall?
You mean they stole the painting frame and oil and
they did? All right, thieves are doing things the hard
way these days. Usually they just cut the painting out
of the frames, they got out of the coat and
make a getaway.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Yes, mister, I know, but perhaps this job was done
by the beginner. Or perhaps the bird was in prop
and hap need to run for it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Frame and all.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
There are infinite possibility.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Infinite mister Dollar.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Thank you. I sin distood here at the museum.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
It is an utter waste of time.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
I've gone over the whole situation where a gentleman's stop
in the yard.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
It wasn't so much as a single finger Please, miss Harding,
I have yet to solve the case with a fingerprints.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Sorry, I forgot. Men just can't stand to be any
show woman.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Oh I wouldn't say that. It's according to what they
are applying their afficiency.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
I am speaking of business the dollar. I'm sure that
I can send you a great deal of trouble. I've
already done an extraordinar amount of research.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
On this case.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I'll be careful what you tell me, Miss Harting. At
this point, I confuse easily.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
The Dollar child could understand what I have to tell you.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Sometimes a wide awake child is better than a sleepy man.
But go ahead, well, my this is the.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Place right here there you see a blank wall, now,
mister Dollar. Of the twelve Foremouth arts in London, I
have discovered that nine are currently in prison, while is
in hospital after falling four stories off a roof, and
the other two are at large and maybe sound the
driving at the addresses I have.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Here, the youth sound more like a patron of the
criminal courts than you do.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Of the arts.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
The entire fascinates me. Now have you seen enough of
your blank wall?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah? Things are blank enough. Give me those addressers and
why you're right? I thank you? Better give me yours,
mister Dollar.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Don't I know suspicious?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
No delicious?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Spencer cow Out'm four five shillings camp fair to Scotland
Yard tip the drummer too, Bob. When it comes to money,
I speak all languages. Scalon Yards from the outside looked
like big public schools. Well that has taught a lot
of lessons to a lot of people. Inside it was
teacher and quie for the officer in charge of the robbery,
with which I was concerned.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I was led to an inspector carew First he gave
me a cup of tea, Then they gave me my lumps.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Mister Dollar, you sit here and ask me why we
haven't done something.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Believe me.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Third, the yard is not as archaic as it's architecture.
There's a simple legal procedure which must occur before we
can make either an investigation or an arrest. Well, a
complaint must be lodged by the legal owners of any
stolen property.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
At that point, and.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
At that point only, are we allowed to act.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You mean nobody called for help.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Well, naturally, when the museum discovered the painting gown, they
immediately rang us up. We went to court to gather
primary evidence. Unfortunately there was none.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Well, what about the owners of the painting the museum
in Paris? As yet we've heard nothing. We expect to
momentarily inspector just out of curiosity. What about this girl,
miss Harding.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I'd say, she's well a jolly fine time. I mean,
do you know anything about her?
Speaker 7 (09:38):
I say, didn't you Yanks carry off enough of our.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Girls after the war. I'm not in the imform business.
I mean, is she known to you?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Professionally what you suspect her? Not particularly, but she did
give me this list. In her opinion, this is the
who's who and where they are of your city's light
fingered eyed lovers.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Let me see it.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Well, quite complete and protect it had was the work
of an amateur. When the world would a young lady
like miss Hardy come into such information?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
That Inspector Carew is exactly what I'm driving at. Back
in a taxi headed from Scotland Yard on my way
to check into the Mount Royal Hotel, I gave my
eyes a rest at the risk of missing the sights thing,
but my mind refused to follow suits that now had
three blank walls to stare into the one of the museums,
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the one at Scotland Yard, and the most provocative of
the three, to look at the girl who knew too much,
Miss Burial Harding. My mind also kept ruffling my nerve
ends with a question, was I supposed to be the
guy who got dumped out of that.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Plane the night before? Where I've at the Mount Royal Hotel?
I got my answers. Here we are, that's the Mountain
Oil right head on a two way. You taught me, okay,
what's the bild he that'll be off at that? How
much till it takes sex? Oh you figured it out.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Jesus, God on everything, cabinet, Look down the.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
H That was a close one. Thanks, you're right down there.
Got me sins the cause of that.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
On the street, it's more dangerous to walk around now
than it was when them ready buzzbombs were dropping. Yeah,
a couple of good things about the buzzbombs. Though nobody
aims them at you personally, and nobody was at the
wheel to steer them.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
That made it official.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I had been set up for a pigeon, and it
was me. Somebody had tried to turn into a seagull
during that flight across the Atlantic. Expends the count that
of five three pound ten to bell Boy for services rented?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
How about that fourteen bucks for a bottle of Scotch?
And I threw forty winks that felt like only twenty.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
And I grabbed a shower, shave and a cab down
Oxford Street and over to Soo expected count out of
six five shillings the legal lemon on.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
The price of dinner in England these days. I ate
a nice place called Keetnits.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Dinner being a bit of chicken, three choices of vegetables,
Brussels sprout spoiled, Brussels sprouts creamed, and Brussels sprout's roasted.
But as there, I looked at the names and addresses
of Miss Harding's two candidates for the boys most likely
to have succeeded in swiping the missing portrait of the
Duke of Masson.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I was in the right district for one of them.
I found myself on a dark and lonely muse.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
That may sound good to you, but in soho a
muse is still only a place fit for ash cans
and cats. I broke my way up the stairs of
the address, the number one boorn on Miss Harding's list,
and a top step. I was breathing hard and I
wasn't all from the climb. Bunched my teeth, my knuckles
and knocked on the door. Then I broke roll to
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the basic constructions for the working snoop.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I opened the door that flock number went to Yale.
The door of a wood.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Burning stove across the room was open, the flames erratically
painting the walls the orange light, then erasing them back
into black darkness. I finally dared to breeze. Then I saw,
when I was looking for, lying on a table, his
edges curled upwards, an oil painting of a guy with
short breeches and a long face. I started forward with
something bred my foot. I stared down at the floor
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in front of me. First it was pitch flak. Then
the light from the stove flared up, and I saw
that the object was what I thought it was, and
the folks it wasn't a man wearing his head and
I don't mean his hair pour.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
It in the middle. I rushed across the room, slipping
off the top of the stove. More light.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
We look for a telephone. There was none in the
room of the corps, so I tried the door of
the next road, and the door I was trying started erupting.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
In just a moment, we'll turn to the second act
of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. But first we want to
remind you that those delightful, charming neighbors, Ozzy and Harriet,
are coming back home next Sunday night, coming back to CBS.
You'll be able to join them on most of these
same stations.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
At six point thirty Eastern Standard time.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Just before the Jack Benny Show. Ozzie and Harriet now
have their own sons, Ricky and David, playing themselves in
place of the young actors who formerly portrayed them. So
make it a party for your whole family when Ozzie
and Harriet, Ricky and David come home with their fun
and laughter to CBS next Sunday night, And now back
to yours truly, Johnny Dollar. When those bullets came crashing
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through the door at me, I dropped to the floor.
Still don't know whether my knees buckled or I meant
to go down and stayed where I was. But whoever
it was on the other side of that door, I
decided to take off out the window. I got my feet,
but by the time I kicked the door got to
the window, I had that old mother Hubbard feeling. The
cupboard was there, And that's what you're doing here in
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your flatness, haunting. After my little adventure, the first thing
I did was to call the police, and the second
was to come here to call on you, the girl
who steered me into that shooting gallery.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Where you needn't sound so annoyed at me. Who's I
advised you to go there? But after all, it was
your duty, and you did recover.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
The picture and almost lost my health doing it for
the third time.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Really, yes, really, First somebody tried to make a sea
going paratrooper out of me, then they try to make
part of the pavement by running me down with an auto,
and now tonight somebody on the other side of the
door tries to turn it into my personal copy of
the Pearly Gates.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
That's really enough for me.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Mister teller. Where is the painting?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Now?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Asked Scotland yard? And now let's change the subject back.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
What's bothering me? Is bothering me plenty. I want to
know who didn't want me to find that picture and why?
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Well, how he seems elementary rank after watch the thief naturally.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Didn't want you to find it, Miss Harding, Please when
I got shot at the apparentief was dead.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Well they do have hashman, you know if he was
killed by.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
An accomplice, why did the killer leave the patient?
Speaker 6 (16:11):
I'd have no way of knowing of that.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I'm still not sure.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Oh man, and mister Dollar's top, did you hardly suspect me?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I suspect you less if you'd stop saying that at
this point, I suspect everyone, even Dexter Morley, dreaming up
this whole painting of the month's scheme to bring those
paintings within stealing distance.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Oh but that's I know. I know if that was
the plan, he'd wait until he had more than one
picture on the road to steal. That's why I don't
suspect him.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Well, frankly, I don't see why you continue to worry.
After all, your part of the job is done, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, I suppose you're right when I still have a
yearning burning deep down inside.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I made a break somebody's neck. Why if I use
your phone not help you?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
So?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
All right? This is defense.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Hello, I want to talk to New York. Don't worry,
I'll call collect. My name is Johnny Dollar. I want
to place a collect call in New York. Number is
Plaza six nine one eight four.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Checks.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Please, sir, your name is John Dollar.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
To your number. Your calling is Plazas six nine one
eighty four. The call is collect, correct correct, collect your offer.
We shall ring up immediately. If that's the circuit. Thank you,
They'll call me. Well.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
While you're waiting, you probably doing a brak. Is you
care for what have we got j darling gin a
lemon gen Italian or good friends?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Wish?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
No thanks?
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Well, come and sit down over here, yst much.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
More RESTful in the eyes. Where I am here, I
can have a better look at you.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
However, when i'm mister doll, you can be charming. Do
you mind if I changed mister Johnny? It sounds much
more fun.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
We'll swap your one Johnny for every murial you let
me use It's a bargain.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Now tell me about yourself. You'll look about I'm an
active bagro on criminology.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
At the moment you're real that happens to be my
unfavorite subjects. Let's talk about you.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Where should I begin?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Just after the age of twenty one?
Speaker 6 (18:18):
You're a saucy chide. At the age of twenty one,
I was singing the wear Huh. The Women's Air Force.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Oh, you must have had a lot of exciting adventures. Rather,
what was the most exciting? Oh?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
I think perhaps to night the young US Air Force.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Captain kiss Oh, one of the boys of the wild
Blue Yonder. Maybe it was the blue of your eyes.
It made him wild? Johnny, I know, Helen, you must
have yourself.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
He Johnny.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I'll be right back, all right, John, Hello, are you there?
I of course I'm here. The dollar that's right. We're
ready to do a call to New York signal at
the end of Strey minute.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Are you ready to talk a minute?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You stop?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Got you offense?
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Get me off?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Hello? Hello? Is this the Fine Arts Insurers? I want
to talk to him at the Kimball Yeah, yeah, yeah, Dollah,
I'm on the line. Go ahead. Well you can stop worrying, Kimball.
I got the painting back.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
You say you did get it back.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
That's right, it's safe. Well, you'll have to pay is
the price of a new frame. But what happened to
the frame? Well, the guy who's swiped it took the
painting out of the frame. I don't know where it is. Well,
after the culprit, what he did with it, I'm sad
he's dead.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Well, then look for it.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
That bring it, Clint, that thousand dollars the slum paint. Okay, fred,
don't flow out any bridgework. I'll look around for it.
Everything you've come to until you're doing that already, okay,
fred o'kayble here what happened? Goodbye? Well, Muriel Vacation's over.
I just got put back to work, Gath and he'll come.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
I wanted to send you shaking off into the night
to look for the picture frame.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Oh, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
These have probably already found it somewhere, and that fellow's flat.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
We'll check that my work is personal service.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
And must you go Johnny's any hot pots?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Ten?
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Couldn't you put it off till morning?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
There's nothing I'd like better?
Speaker 6 (20:18):
But couldn't you stay even for a little pile?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Well, just long enough to calm my nerves? Big Ben
was ringing up midnight on.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Times greedy cash registered when I finally cleared it with
a bobby guying the back alley flat, but had not
so long before given up one unprecious life and one
very precious painting. The place was darker than then on
my previous visit, and when I grope for the electric switch,
I realized why there had been a brisk fire blazing before.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
In the bottom grade of the stove.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I found enough unburned portions of the hot picture frame
to justify my conclusions, and I found something else that.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Came under the category of hot rocks.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Spen's account out Am seven cabin their office of Dexter Morley.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
The front door was not only locked, it was barred.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
However, at the back of the building, I had better
lock a loose window down to the basement. I just
broken a law, but I didn't want to break my
neg so snap on the lights. The basement was loaded
with cabinet making equipment, but for my dough, they weren't
making any cabinets. I was benched with a power drill,
and on the floor below it a pile of sawdust
and wood shavings.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
That was normal enough, but the.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Sawdust pile was glimming with tiny specks of crystallized blue.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
With what I had, now, all I had to find
was Dexter Morley. He made that easy. He found me.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Stay down there, doll like where you were.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Well, welcome home from that trip to Paris. You didn't
take that gun in your hands. Suggests that I'm right
about one thing anyway, Yes, and that be that whoever
took the shots earlier tonight was probably not an Englishman.
The bobby's over here. I don't carry a gun, which
makes most English smugs afraid to You're an American.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
That's interesting, but hardly valuable.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I've got some more. How valuable is this?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I think you're in on or at the head of
a very high flat smuggling racket, and I think you
set up that painting of the month scheme of yours
to establish just about the neatest method of smuggling that.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I've ever heard of.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Very generous.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
I know how I operate, So what you could tell
me about it could do nothing more than for me.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
What I want from you are the diamonds.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Maybe I can trade you some diamonds for some answers.
You're in no.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Position at bargain. Give me the diamonds are out, shoot
you and take them ocar.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
No, wait a minute, I'd better explain my bargaining position.
I think you admit it's not the worst, since you
have to followed me here. You know I took a
cab from the murder flat one without a tail light,
so you don't have the number, but brother, I do,
and the diamonds are jammed down behind its back seat.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Now let's bargain. Who you all right?
Speaker 4 (22:52):
What do you want to know?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Just let me do the guessing and check me if
I'm wrong. You set up a chain of famous paintings
which would move around the world for your branch offices
as each one passed through your hands. Here the frame
was to be dismantled and holes bored in it at
the joints for the purpose of smuggling diamonds.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Lights are far.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Yes, I'll have right, but remember the more you are
right about, the worse it is for me, so naturally
the worse it is for you.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
We'll take care of that later. This scheme of you
is fascinating.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
The stuff moves around the world, and the picture frames
under official armed god and enjoying virtual diplomatic community through customs.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
It's great.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
It would have been greatfu it hadn't been for that
heavy handed.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Open oh that fills in a missing link from another
night comes a.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Burglar steals your first loaded picture, shoves the frame into
his stove to get rid of it. You arrive, creaming
with your guns, and I arrive, interrupting you before you
get what you want out of the burning frame.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
And you saw what.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Happened to him when he resisted medella. No, you must
realize that I won't hesitate a moment.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
It works the other way, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
You kill me who tells you the number of that taxi,
and without it you'll never get your diamonds.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
There are ways keep your hands behind you painful, I thought,
so your head will wear us before this gun peril.
Uh feel more like talking.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Just enough to tell you one more thing. You're until
I blonde accomplice of yours. I was not, I heard
from a start, Tony.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
What don't you.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I can't prepay you for those three tries you made
or I had made on my life, Morley. But here's
what it feels like being hit on the head with
a gun. Rock a bye, booby Buriel.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Look out your fall.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I told you that's a very undignified way for a
lady to went he a room through a basement window.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I was trying to help him.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
There.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
You were excusing me of being the countess after all
those nice things you.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Said to me before WHOA wait a minute, I followed you.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
I wanted to see how you were a great you and.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Your criminal ha. At least you might have stepped in
before he hit me those he.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Oh, I'm sorry, Johnny, It's just that I love crime.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Oh, come on, get up. It would be a crime.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
As mister Warley there woke up and I had to
put him back to sleep again before the police got here.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
What was it all about?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
It was about these little black things. I've got a
pocket full of them. There straight one of them with
your fingernail. Oh funny. That's the kind of glass of
fellow handss girl when he wants to be engaged to
make here joy jo. Yes, I mean only that they're diamonds.
(25:44):
Expense account Item eate three hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Plane fair out of attempted matrimony by the party of
the second part. Item nine twenty five dollars gift to
Muriel Harding two books, one on the art of crime,
the other on the art of in the hopes that
the latter might havettracted for the pursuits of a more
womanly hobby. Item ten ten cents Bromo Seltzer, purchased upon
(26:09):
landing at vander Newfoundland. The only thing still fighting me
on this case were those Brussels sprouts I had at
dinner in London the night before. Expense account total fifteen
hundred and sixty three.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Dollars and forty cents.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
If you find any slight discrepancy in this amount in
my favor, blame it on my confusion and lack of
understanding of the international rate of exchange. The only thing
I like to exchange at this point is my head
with its two new lumps. Wishing you the same, yours truly,
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
In just a moment more about Johnny Dollar, but first
Academy Award winner Jane Wyman comes as guests to the
Family Hour of Stars, and Ozzy and Harriet return in
triumph to CBS. These are two headline making events for
next Sunday Night. Add these two shows to the top
comedy of Jack Bennet, the feminine charm and dramatic talents
of Helen Hayes and Eve Arden, the East comedy teams
(27:27):
of Amus and Andy and Lemon Abner, and CBS Sunday
Night makes great news. On top of this, there are
the notable mystery Capers with Sam Spade and the Laughter
with Life with Luigi And it pays to be ignorant.
So don't miss a single one of cbs ten great
entertainments next Sunday Night. When they're heard over most of
these same stations.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Jack Benny, of course comes to you over them all.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Listening again next week when CBS brings you Yours Truly
Johnny Dollar, with Charles Russell as Johnny Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Is written by Paul.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Dudley and Gil dah with music by Mark Warnow, and
is produced and directed by Richard Sandville for CBS, the
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