August 15, 2025 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Listen to Herbert Marshall as the man called X. Wherever
there is mystery, adventure, intrigue, in all the strange and
dangerous places of the world, there you.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Will find the man called X. From the oil fields.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Of Iran to the fertile delta of the Nile, the
smoldering colds of ancient hatreds of militant nationalism threatened to
burst into a fiery inferno that could well be the
start of World War three? And who would there be
to say whether such a flaming holocaust came into being
accidentally or was deliberately ignited as a weapon of destruction
(00:59):
aimed at the Western democracies. The time is nine five pm.
The place a dark crooked alleyway near the dark area
of Cairo. The furtive figure of a man moves cautiously,
(01:20):
hesitatingly through the black, enveloping shadows of the Egyptian map.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Oh why do I do these things? Anyways? A guy
could get his throat cut out here? And for what
fu measly bos believe if it wasn't for that, I'd
never do it. Huh where is Uncle Lahmt? Anyways? He
said he'd meet me here. Where is he?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Where?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
His cousin is smile. Oh, where is anybody right?
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Who?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Oh? Oh, uncle man, it's so dark. For a minute,
I thought you were somebody else. Oh, you are somebody else.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Quiet.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Zilschmidt is the blade of a knife you feel pressing
against your throat.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
It is listen.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
There is a.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Certain man aboard the British cruise Hellenic out in the harbor,
A certain Pasha can Thurston. He must bore the chiro
Port Sah Express at midnight compartment see three with him.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
He must have.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
One hundred thousand pounds sterling.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
Repeat that kiro Port said Express midnight compartments see three,
one hundred thousand pounds sterling.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
You will see that he is there with the money.
Otherwise your life will be fulfilled.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
But what if you don't want to go? He will
go with el Schmidt.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
When you tell him that with one hundred thousand pounds
he will be able to purchase a half penny stamp.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
This story is Elschmid sounds rather like a weird it,
doesn't it. Kim could be a trap, you know, I
doubt it. Jim I had a hunt peg on and
his uncle Ahmed could help us out on this. I
think they'd done it. As el Schmidt said, this knife
wielding character did mention the help in his stamp. But
is it the one we're asked? What it has to be?
What other stamp could possibly be worth a hundred thousand pounds?
(03:34):
There's twenty times that. If it contains the data we want,
then are we to find out easy? I'll be aboard
the Cairo port Side Express at midnight. Might take a
bit of doing. Egyptians are very partial to us at
this moment. You know, I'll I'll do a bit of
this guy, change clothes, go go as an Egyptian merch Now,
wager your throats cut before you leave the station. I'll
(03:56):
let you know how I come out. No, no, hold on, ken,
It might be decent enough to wit until I.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
Got my hat.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I'm going with you.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Sure this is the right tark?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yeah, there's the compartment. Five four here we are three.
Speaker 9 (04:25):
Come in, please, gentlemen, come in.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
There's more than enough room for all of us.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Who are you.
Speaker 9 (04:30):
My name is Turos, gentlemen, the Metro Touros.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
This happens to be a private compartment to Turos. Or
didn't you know?
Speaker 9 (04:37):
Oh yes, yes, I was quite aware of that fact.
I have been waiting for you, mister Thurstan, and for
Commander Stevens.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
How do you know who we are?
Speaker 9 (04:46):
I have connections, sir, but that is not important.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Now.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
What is the fact, sir?
Speaker 9 (04:52):
That I am a philatelist stamp collector and my reason
for being here is the same as yours. A certain
he finished stamp.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
What stamp is then, gentlemen, some.
Speaker 9 (05:04):
Five years ago a British intelligence agent managed to infiltrate
into a certain organization, a Middle East strategy committee, whose
orders came from a city which might well be called Moscow.
Am I correct, Commander Stevens, you.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Were saying something about a stamp institutis.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
Yes, that agent managed to acquire quite a fund of
information about this committee, such as it's concern with the
Iranian oil situation, it's interest in the anti British riots
in Egypt. And he inscribed it all, every fact name
place upon the back of a hippen his stamp.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I'll come now, Turf, hardly write a phone number on
the back of a stamp, let alone all that data
you're mentioning.
Speaker 9 (05:48):
As you know, the agent was especially trained calligrapher, one
who could inscribe the Lord's prayer on the head.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Of a pin.
Speaker 9 (05:55):
So the agent was arrested by the committee and murdered.
The stamp disappeared. It is now somewhere in Egypt avidly
being sought by Russian agents, by British agents, by certain Arabian.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Potentates, and by the Metro Turos.
Speaker 9 (06:11):
Yes, as you say, mister Thurstan, by the Metro Turos.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
What's your interest in it?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Strictly financial?
Speaker 9 (06:19):
That stamp is with a great deal of money to
the interested parties.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I have mentioned.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Here one of my cards.
Speaker 9 (06:26):
I trust you will visit me one day soon at
my home in Potsai.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Thank you, gentlemen, good night.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Well, now what you make of that can? One thing's
for sure our front Turos is well informed about that
hate and stamp. He's not the man he came to meet.
Oh that makes you think that those blood stains on
the carpet, blood stains on the yes, right next to
that window seas what no world luggage space under that seat.
(07:01):
Let's take a look again. Yes, indeed, do you think
he was the man we were going to meet? Yes?
And who slipped that knife into him? Turos could be
and then tourists must have to stand. I doubt it.
Why he will try to make a deal with us,
though he proclaimed he entered the compartment by accident, and
(07:24):
it must be somebody else about the trainery anybody? Yeah,
may we come in?
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Gentlemen?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
You're in? What do you want? I am Major Osmond Kannard,
Egyptian Military Police. A man in the corridor?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Are my agents?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Do not attempt resistance? Piece not so interested in us?
The cops under that seat makes the answer superfluous. However,
you're both under arrest for murder. Raise your hands, Piece
can better dose, he says Jim. After all, it makes
it easier to reach the emergency corner.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Or Jim, But.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
What about the maker knocked off his beak? I'm he
sure he stays that way? HA got your genius kin
pulling an emergency court.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
There's certainly no time to mess around with the murder charge.
But where do we go from here?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
What side?
Speaker 8 (08:19):
Whats I ad?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
The stems aboard this train? That's where it's hidden.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
The window, Jim, we'll get out that way.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
Come on, lovely city, port Side.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Despite the trouble we had getting here, I must confess
I don't feel one bit closer to that stamp. That's
why I want to visit our friend, the Metro Tourros.
He's the only lead we have. Yes, well, according to
the address in his card, there should be his home.
You go on and contact your agents in town see
(09:16):
if they've learned anything. I'll talk to Torros here and
we'll meet at the ATBA Hotel tonight.
Speaker 10 (09:21):
Right, Hello, mister Thurston, welcome to Port. Say well, Lyle,
it's surprised to see me, as.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I should have known. You were aboard that train last night.
What did you do see Torros leave that compartment and
follow him here?
Speaker 7 (09:48):
That's right, only stood to reason you'd be showing up
here too.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
So when the tourist character left the.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
House, I got there.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
How long we've been here?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Only a couple of minutes, mister, nobody in the house. No,
not so well, what do we do now?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Look for a heap in the stamp, the one worth.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
One hundred thousand pounds sterling.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, and that looks like a den O library over there.
Let's try it.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Hey, it's it's blacker and hire than my aunt.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Zenobie's heart leant from this desk.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Hey, hey, ah, some joey demister rex, There'll be plenty
of door with this damp business. And look at the
painting of that cute cookie dancing will you?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
We're interested in stamps, not dancing girls, remember.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Oh shoe sure?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
So where do we start distract.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
You?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Try those albums on this disc? Hey, look at those
books all covered with leather and stuff, artificial diamonds and stuff.
Those diamonds are real, pegun.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Oh sure, I knew it all the time. Would ever
put diamonds.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
In the book?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
That's real?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
That's right?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Then what are we're waiting for? Let's grab those books
and scram out find something strict.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
H Take a look at this page.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I was that to look at just stamps, hypnes stamps. Hey,
he may be one of them. Is that the one
that jokers said? You should meet him on the train
so you could pay him often and it's worth almost
a half a million bucks.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Let's check him. But but how are you going.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
To do that, miss Tricks? What are you going to
look for?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Very little past kick and blobs, we can see both sides.
Look for writing on.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
The back, writing or what kind of writing?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
M h any kind of writing? Just sh nice and.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Mister X sleepy and sleepy.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Coming up from the lamp drug being drugged. You gotta
get out of here, sherman. Gotta get y MP drugs
coming from the lamp, got it.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
I gotta turn you out.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
We'll return to the Man called X in just a moment. Countries,
like people, have their economic ups and downs, and like people,
the countries that cut to the roots of their problems
with the greatest ease progress, the farthest and the fastest.
Our own country has become the envy of the world
in this respect. And why because the better we produce,
(13:08):
the better we live. Throughout our history, living conditions have
been geared to productivity, improving with industry's vast strides bringing
shorter work hours, more leisure time, and greater well being
to us. And American production has taken place in the
setting of liberty, the liberty to work where one desires
to profit from initiative and enterprise.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
The American way.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Has brought more benefits to more people than any other
system in the world. So that's what we mean when
we say the better we produce, the better we live.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Act two of The Man Called ex starring Herbert Marshall
with Leon Blasco as pagan Zel Schmidt.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Way.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
It is only a little colored piece of paper, a
happeny stamp, but on its back it contains information that
could quench the rising flames of unrest in the Middle
East or could lead to World War III. And now
Ken Thurston is in Port Sayid. It's Egypt, searching for
the stamp and the home of Demetro turovs. The search
(14:19):
that is suddenly terminated when he and Pagon come under
the influence of some strange drugs.
Speaker 11 (14:32):
At sendis you are regaining consciousness at last?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Yeah? Yes, looks as well. WHI you?
Speaker 11 (14:43):
I am known as Erdri Does the name mean anything
to you?
Speaker 4 (14:48):
That picture on the Warren Tourist Library for dancing there.
Speaker 11 (14:54):
I am flattered that you recognize me.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
At the.
Speaker 11 (14:58):
Hey, your companion is sleeping comfortably in the cabin next
to this one. So we're aboard ship the Abdullah Bay
anchored in the harbor of Port said, it is my
husband's yat husband, you have already met him, the metro tous.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
That is quite correct.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Why bring me here?
Speaker 11 (15:22):
Is it so difficult to Fathomande? We are all after
the same thing, the Happenings stamp.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
No, it still doesn't make sense unless you working with
your husband RB or against him.
Speaker 11 (15:35):
The Metro is a pig. Does that answer you gives
me a general idea? Yes, well, then let me give
you more specific ones. On the port side waterfront there
is a cafe known as the Star of Heaven. Tonight,
in the Star of Heaven you may be able to
find the Happiness stamp that you seek.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
That's interesting, anything else.
Speaker 11 (15:57):
I understand it will be in the cost today of
one I have heard referred to only as the man
with the third green eye.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Well, not very enlightening, is it will have to do?
I have told you all that I know, yes why, I.
Speaker 11 (16:15):
Wish that stamp to be in the hands of its
rightful owners, not in the Metros, and I intend to.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Make certain of that personally.
Speaker 11 (16:24):
Oh, how if you succeed in obtaining the stamp, you
will come back here to the yacht with it.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Where should I come back?
Speaker 11 (16:34):
There are two men wanted for a murder committed aboard
the car of Port Saide Express. A certain major Osman
Kemal is in Port Sai at this very moment. He
might well be interested in the whereabouts of one of
those men.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Not very subtle about your threat.
Speaker 11 (16:52):
There is nothing very subtle about war firston Offende.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Well, I'll try to be back tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
These characters will cut your throat for nothing even less.
Maybe why don't we give this press.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
A couple of quick parts, not until we find the
things we're looking for?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
What things?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I hate? Miss them? Remember the third green eye.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I don't know what kind of talk is bad?
Speaker 11 (17:35):
And Fendy is your orders for Endy best coffee black
teekend thank you?
Speaker 6 (17:42):
And for you have Indy Ali mel pure and sweet
from the cow milk.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
But I ordered a triple scar.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I changed the order.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
You waiter, nothing your Fendy. It has been paid for.
How do you like that? For its reloading?
Speaker 8 (17:57):
I get in six months and I'm hunt.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Up with milk, nice water? Who arranged there?
Speaker 11 (18:01):
The proprietor half door?
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Have then?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Have then? Yet?
Speaker 11 (18:05):
That is he standing near the rear door.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Famous a Thurston? That have he's been?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Joker?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
He's there here? Thank him for us, waiter and here
for you, oh nice friend.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Maybe a blessing of mister X.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Look at that?
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Have he's been guy? What's the trouble?
Speaker 4 (18:23):
He's wearing nice? Okay, a brilliant green emerald.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Sure, and it's sitting almost in the middle of his forehead.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
A guy with a.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Couple of drinks or two under his belt could even
think maybe it.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
Was it was a third green eye, missus Welshman, that's right, the.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Third green Who better guest to us?
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Or you know?
Speaker 9 (18:43):
I know, I can assure you that abdoor half he'sburn
is the man with a third green.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Eye, and the man who has the stamp?
Speaker 8 (18:51):
Quite nice?
Speaker 9 (18:51):
Have you to invite me so coldially to join your table?
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Gentlemen?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Good gun you've got inside that Napkins says, we have
much choice?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Quite right, mister soh it is only twenty two caliber.
Speaker 9 (19:02):
It would be quite badly if aimed properly. Well, sir,
shall we indulge in some friendly conversation regarding a happening stamp.
You must realize by now that I want it, sir,
want it very badly, and before this evening is out,
I shall possess it.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Then, why waste time with me, my dear sir?
Speaker 9 (19:26):
It is hardly a waste of time to remove the
last obstacle.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
From one's path.
Speaker 9 (19:31):
You will notice that the band is playing ladder. The
music will shortly reach a pitch where the sound of
two shots muffled in this napkin will go entirely unnoticed.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Just like that, eh, just like that, sir.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Well, this is time for me to finish this coffee
in my face.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
My face.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Will give you first. Let's have it to us.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
I will.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
What's the version on that real door?
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Where are we going on?
Speaker 4 (20:03):
The man with the third Green Eye?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
But why do we still hang around these joints, mister Rex?
The rest of those jokers will be after us any minutes.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Half his ben still got that hate miss stamp.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
And you think he's back here somewhere.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
He's got to have an office someplace. Maybe this is it.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
M hm oh, mister Rex, Yes, but but who.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Why Jacob look at his turban mister Rex.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
The emerald the third green eye?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yes missing?
Speaker 11 (21:13):
So the man with the third Green Eye is dead.
The first and ascendae and the happiness stamp is missing
once again.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Looks like this is too bad.
Speaker 11 (21:24):
But at least there is one consolation. The Metra did
not get his filthy hands on it.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Yeah, well, I keep my promise, as we'll be going.
Speaker 11 (21:36):
Well.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Well, Major, you remember me first ten? Sure looks like
you pulled a neat double class. Perhaps it would not
have been necessary if you had returned with the Happenny
stamp first end. So you're in on this two? What
about that military police gag Elias refused to question you
on Commander James Stevens at leisurecumstances prevented that. About the train,
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nothing shall present it. Now, what do you think you'll
find out from me.
Speaker 11 (22:07):
The present whereabouts of the stamp?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
You think I'm the one who killed has Been and
took a stamp from him? No other explanation will feed
their circumstances.
Speaker 11 (22:14):
Leisure canal start questioning him.
Speaker 9 (22:17):
He will tell us where it is hidden quickly enough.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Oh, you don't have to bother. I'll tell you where
it is. But I want to get something straight first. Why,
as I see, it has been spread the word that
he'd sell the stamp to the highest bidder, and the
vulture started gathering around Turos, who had the money to
buy it, and the two of you who sent me
to the cafe to get it for you, sir, But
you didn't figure that one of you would double cross
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the other. What do you mean while Turos and I
kept each other busy, one of you killed happy's Been
and took a stamp didn't.
Speaker 11 (22:46):
You agree you're lying?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Better not wear such spicy perfume. The scamp was still
in happits Ben's office. Now where's the emerald, the one
with got a stamp concealed inside your person?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Who stay away from there?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
No, okay, Major, it's your move you did that will
crush me A three.
Speaker 11 (23:08):
I should have known for the way that gun.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
You can't shoot me.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
You can't carry.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Everything, okay, Ken, it's under Controlsion, Thanks, you heard everything.
I didn't miss a word. Are very exciting at the
end there, and I must say we've run up against
this unsavory a character of crew of characters.
Speaker 11 (23:33):
It's ever been my misfortunate mad Who are you to
talk you feelthy capitalistic pigs. Someday we will prove to
the world to the truly superior people's und Oh.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Sure you'll start trying hard enough using the double cross, murder,
even war, or maybe someday you'll learn that there are
no superior people, only a couple of billion human beings
who want to live together in p who prays they
won't have to fight to get it.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Now here's our star, mister Herbert Marshall.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Thanks for being with us and my thanks to Lucille Meredith,
John Dana, ed Bagley, John Stephenson and Lou Krugman. Next week,
South America, The Basin of the Orinoco River, where I
believe it on a ton of dynamite and one pagon
Zelschmidt produced an explosion that Fitton's the whole country Pagan
(24:40):
Leon blesco of course, So join us, won't you? When
next I returned as the Man called X. Good Night.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
The Man Called EX, starring Herbert Marshall as a Jay
Richard Kennedy production with music by Milton Charles. Tonight's story
was written by Sidney Marshall. This program is directed by
Jack Johnstone. All characters and incidents on this program are fictitious,
and any resemblance to actual characters or incidents is purely coincidental.
(25:13):
And now until next week, same time and station. This
is Hell Gidney Saying good Night or The Man Called X.
This is NBC the National
Listen to Herbert Marshall as the man called X. Wherever
there is mystery, adventure, intrigue, in all the strange and
dangerous places of the world, there you.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Will find the man called X. From the oil fields.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Of Iran to the fertile delta of the Nile, the
smoldering colds of ancient hatreds of militant nationalism threatened to
burst into a fiery inferno that could well be the
start of World War three? And who would there be
to say whether such a flaming holocaust came into being
accidentally or was deliberately ignited as a weapon of destruction
(00:59):
aimed at the Western democracies. The time is nine five pm.
The place a dark crooked alleyway near the dark area
of Cairo. The furtive figure of a man moves cautiously,
(01:20):
hesitatingly through the black, enveloping shadows of the Egyptian map.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Oh why do I do these things? Anyways? A guy
could get his throat cut out here? And for what
fu measly bos believe if it wasn't for that, I'd
never do it. Huh where is Uncle Lahmt? Anyways? He
said he'd meet me here. Where is he?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Where?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
His cousin is smile. Oh, where is anybody right?
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Who?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Oh? Oh, uncle man, it's so dark. For a minute,
I thought you were somebody else. Oh, you are somebody else.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Quiet.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Zilschmidt is the blade of a knife you feel pressing
against your throat.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
It is listen.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
There is a.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Certain man aboard the British cruise Hellenic out in the harbor,
A certain Pasha can Thurston. He must bore the chiro
Port Sah Express at midnight compartment see three with him.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
He must have.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
One hundred thousand pounds sterling.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
Repeat that kiro Port said Express midnight compartments see three,
one hundred thousand pounds sterling.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
You will see that he is there with the money.
Otherwise your life will be fulfilled.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
But what if you don't want to go? He will
go with el Schmidt.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
When you tell him that with one hundred thousand pounds
he will be able to purchase a half penny stamp.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
This story is Elschmid sounds rather like a weird it,
doesn't it. Kim could be a trap, you know, I
doubt it. Jim I had a hunt peg on and
his uncle Ahmed could help us out on this. I
think they'd done it. As el Schmidt said, this knife
wielding character did mention the help in his stamp. But
is it the one we're asked? What it has to be?
What other stamp could possibly be worth a hundred thousand pounds?
(03:34):
There's twenty times that. If it contains the data we want,
then are we to find out easy? I'll be aboard
the Cairo port Side Express at midnight. Might take a
bit of doing. Egyptians are very partial to us at
this moment. You know, I'll I'll do a bit of
this guy, change clothes, go go as an Egyptian merch Now,
wager your throats cut before you leave the station. I'll
(03:56):
let you know how I come out. No, no, hold on, ken,
It might be decent enough to wit until I.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
Got my hat.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I'm going with you.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Sure this is the right tark?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yeah, there's the compartment. Five four here we are three.
Speaker 9 (04:25):
Come in, please, gentlemen, come in.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
There's more than enough room for all of us.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Who are you.
Speaker 9 (04:30):
My name is Turos, gentlemen, the Metro Touros.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
This happens to be a private compartment to Turos. Or
didn't you know?
Speaker 9 (04:37):
Oh yes, yes, I was quite aware of that fact.
I have been waiting for you, mister Thurstan, and for
Commander Stevens.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
How do you know who we are?
Speaker 9 (04:46):
I have connections, sir, but that is not important.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Now.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
What is the fact, sir?
Speaker 9 (04:52):
That I am a philatelist stamp collector and my reason
for being here is the same as yours. A certain
he finished stamp.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
What stamp is then, gentlemen, some.
Speaker 9 (05:04):
Five years ago a British intelligence agent managed to infiltrate
into a certain organization, a Middle East strategy committee, whose
orders came from a city which might well be called Moscow.
Am I correct, Commander Stevens, you.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Were saying something about a stamp institutis.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
Yes, that agent managed to acquire quite a fund of
information about this committee, such as it's concern with the
Iranian oil situation, it's interest in the anti British riots
in Egypt. And he inscribed it all, every fact name
place upon the back of a hippen his stamp.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I'll come now, Turf, hardly write a phone number on
the back of a stamp, let alone all that data
you're mentioning.
Speaker 9 (05:48):
As you know, the agent was especially trained calligrapher, one
who could inscribe the Lord's prayer on the head.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Of a pin.
Speaker 9 (05:55):
So the agent was arrested by the committee and murdered.
The stamp disappeared. It is now somewhere in Egypt avidly
being sought by Russian agents, by British agents, by certain Arabian.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Potentates, and by the Metro Turos.
Speaker 9 (06:11):
Yes, as you say, mister Thurstan, by the Metro Turos.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
What's your interest in it?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Strictly financial?
Speaker 9 (06:19):
That stamp is with a great deal of money to
the interested parties.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I have mentioned.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Here one of my cards.
Speaker 9 (06:26):
I trust you will visit me one day soon at
my home in Potsai.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Thank you, gentlemen, good night.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Well, now what you make of that can? One thing's
for sure our front Turos is well informed about that
hate and stamp. He's not the man he came to meet.
Oh that makes you think that those blood stains on
the carpet, blood stains on the yes, right next to
that window seas what no world luggage space under that seat.
(07:01):
Let's take a look again. Yes, indeed, do you think
he was the man we were going to meet? Yes?
And who slipped that knife into him? Turos could be
and then tourists must have to stand. I doubt it.
Why he will try to make a deal with us,
though he proclaimed he entered the compartment by accident, and
(07:24):
it must be somebody else about the trainery anybody? Yeah,
may we come in?
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Gentlemen?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
You're in? What do you want? I am Major Osmond Kannard,
Egyptian Military Police. A man in the corridor?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Are my agents?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Do not attempt resistance? Piece not so interested in us?
The cops under that seat makes the answer superfluous. However,
you're both under arrest for murder. Raise your hands, Piece
can better dose, he says Jim. After all, it makes
it easier to reach the emergency corner.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Or Jim, But.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
What about the maker knocked off his beak? I'm he
sure he stays that way? HA got your genius kin
pulling an emergency court.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
There's certainly no time to mess around with the murder charge.
But where do we go from here?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
What side?
Speaker 8 (08:19):
Whats I ad?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
The stems aboard this train? That's where it's hidden.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
The window, Jim, we'll get out that way.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
Come on, lovely city, port Side.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Despite the trouble we had getting here, I must confess
I don't feel one bit closer to that stamp. That's
why I want to visit our friend, the Metro Tourros.
He's the only lead we have. Yes, well, according to
the address in his card, there should be his home.
You go on and contact your agents in town see
(09:16):
if they've learned anything. I'll talk to Torros here and
we'll meet at the ATBA Hotel tonight.
Speaker 10 (09:21):
Right, Hello, mister Thurston, welcome to Port. Say well, Lyle,
it's surprised to see me, as.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I should have known. You were aboard that train last night.
What did you do see Torros leave that compartment and
follow him here?
Speaker 7 (09:48):
That's right, only stood to reason you'd be showing up
here too.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
So when the tourist character left the.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
House, I got there.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
How long we've been here?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Only a couple of minutes, mister, nobody in the house. No,
not so well, what do we do now?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Look for a heap in the stamp, the one worth.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
One hundred thousand pounds sterling.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, and that looks like a den O library over there.
Let's try it.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Hey, it's it's blacker and hire than my aunt.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Zenobie's heart leant from this desk.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Hey, hey, ah, some joey demister rex, There'll be plenty
of door with this damp business. And look at the
painting of that cute cookie dancing will you?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
We're interested in stamps, not dancing girls, remember.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Oh shoe sure?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
So where do we start distract.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
You?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Try those albums on this disc? Hey, look at those
books all covered with leather and stuff, artificial diamonds and stuff.
Those diamonds are real, pegun.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Oh sure, I knew it all the time. Would ever
put diamonds.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
In the book?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
That's real?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
That's right?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Then what are we're waiting for? Let's grab those books
and scram out find something strict.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
H Take a look at this page.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I was that to look at just stamps, hypnes stamps. Hey,
he may be one of them. Is that the one
that jokers said? You should meet him on the train
so you could pay him often and it's worth almost
a half a million bucks.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Let's check him. But but how are you going.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
To do that, miss Tricks? What are you going to
look for?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Very little past kick and blobs, we can see both sides.
Look for writing on.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
The back, writing or what kind of writing?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
M h any kind of writing? Just sh nice and.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Mister X sleepy and sleepy.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Coming up from the lamp drug being drugged. You gotta
get out of here, sherman. Gotta get y MP drugs
coming from the lamp, got it.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
I gotta turn you out.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
We'll return to the Man called X in just a moment. Countries,
like people, have their economic ups and downs, and like people,
the countries that cut to the roots of their problems
with the greatest ease progress, the farthest and the fastest.
Our own country has become the envy of the world
in this respect. And why because the better we produce,
(13:08):
the better we live. Throughout our history, living conditions have
been geared to productivity, improving with industry's vast strides bringing
shorter work hours, more leisure time, and greater well being
to us. And American production has taken place in the
setting of liberty, the liberty to work where one desires
to profit from initiative and enterprise.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
The American way.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Has brought more benefits to more people than any other
system in the world. So that's what we mean when
we say the better we produce, the better we live.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Act two of The Man Called ex starring Herbert Marshall
with Leon Blasco as pagan Zel Schmidt.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Way.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
It is only a little colored piece of paper, a
happeny stamp, but on its back it contains information that
could quench the rising flames of unrest in the Middle
East or could lead to World War III. And now
Ken Thurston is in Port Sayid. It's Egypt, searching for
the stamp and the home of Demetro turovs. The search
(14:19):
that is suddenly terminated when he and Pagon come under
the influence of some strange drugs.
Speaker 11 (14:32):
At sendis you are regaining consciousness at last?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Yeah? Yes, looks as well. WHI you?
Speaker 11 (14:43):
I am known as Erdri Does the name mean anything
to you?
Speaker 4 (14:48):
That picture on the Warren Tourist Library for dancing there.
Speaker 11 (14:54):
I am flattered that you recognize me.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
At the.
Speaker 11 (14:58):
Hey, your companion is sleeping comfortably in the cabin next
to this one. So we're aboard ship the Abdullah Bay
anchored in the harbor of Port said, it is my
husband's yat husband, you have already met him, the metro tous.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
That is quite correct.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Why bring me here?
Speaker 11 (15:22):
Is it so difficult to Fathomande? We are all after
the same thing, the Happenings stamp.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
No, it still doesn't make sense unless you working with
your husband RB or against him.
Speaker 11 (15:35):
The Metro is a pig. Does that answer you gives
me a general idea? Yes, well, then let me give
you more specific ones. On the port side waterfront there
is a cafe known as the Star of Heaven. Tonight,
in the Star of Heaven you may be able to
find the Happiness stamp that you seek.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
That's interesting, anything else.
Speaker 11 (15:57):
I understand it will be in the cost today of
one I have heard referred to only as the man
with the third green eye.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Well, not very enlightening, is it will have to do?
I have told you all that I know, yes why, I.
Speaker 11 (16:15):
Wish that stamp to be in the hands of its
rightful owners, not in the Metros, and I intend to.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Make certain of that personally.
Speaker 11 (16:24):
Oh, how if you succeed in obtaining the stamp, you
will come back here to the yacht with it.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Where should I come back?
Speaker 11 (16:34):
There are two men wanted for a murder committed aboard
the car of Port Saide Express. A certain major Osman
Kemal is in Port Sai at this very moment. He
might well be interested in the whereabouts of one of
those men.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Not very subtle about your threat.
Speaker 11 (16:52):
There is nothing very subtle about war firston Offende.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Well, I'll try to be back tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
These characters will cut your throat for nothing even less.
Maybe why don't we give this press.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
A couple of quick parts, not until we find the
things we're looking for?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
What things?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I hate? Miss them? Remember the third green eye.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I don't know what kind of talk is bad?
Speaker 11 (17:35):
And Fendy is your orders for Endy best coffee black
teekend thank you?
Speaker 6 (17:42):
And for you have Indy Ali mel pure and sweet
from the cow milk.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
But I ordered a triple scar.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I changed the order.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
You waiter, nothing your Fendy. It has been paid for.
How do you like that? For its reloading?
Speaker 8 (17:57):
I get in six months and I'm hunt.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Up with milk, nice water? Who arranged there?
Speaker 11 (18:01):
The proprietor half door?
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Have then?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Have then? Yet?
Speaker 11 (18:05):
That is he standing near the rear door.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Famous a Thurston? That have he's been?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Joker?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
He's there here? Thank him for us, waiter and here
for you, oh nice friend.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Maybe a blessing of mister X.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Look at that?
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Have he's been guy? What's the trouble?
Speaker 4 (18:23):
He's wearing nice? Okay, a brilliant green emerald.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Sure, and it's sitting almost in the middle of his forehead.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
A guy with a.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Couple of drinks or two under his belt could even
think maybe it.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
Was it was a third green eye, missus Welshman, that's right, the.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Third green Who better guest to us?
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Or you know?
Speaker 9 (18:43):
I know, I can assure you that abdoor half he'sburn
is the man with a third green.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Eye, and the man who has the stamp?
Speaker 8 (18:51):
Quite nice?
Speaker 9 (18:51):
Have you to invite me so coldially to join your table?
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Gentlemen?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Good gun you've got inside that Napkins says, we have
much choice?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Quite right, mister soh it is only twenty two caliber.
Speaker 9 (19:02):
It would be quite badly if aimed properly. Well, sir,
shall we indulge in some friendly conversation regarding a happening stamp.
You must realize by now that I want it, sir,
want it very badly, and before this evening is out,
I shall possess it.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Then, why waste time with me, my dear sir?
Speaker 9 (19:26):
It is hardly a waste of time to remove the
last obstacle.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
From one's path.
Speaker 9 (19:31):
You will notice that the band is playing ladder. The
music will shortly reach a pitch where the sound of
two shots muffled in this napkin will go entirely unnoticed.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Just like that, eh, just like that, sir.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Well, this is time for me to finish this coffee
in my face.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
My face.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Will give you first. Let's have it to us.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
I will.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
What's the version on that real door?
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Where are we going on?
Speaker 4 (20:03):
The man with the third Green Eye?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
But why do we still hang around these joints, mister Rex?
The rest of those jokers will be after us any minutes.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Half his ben still got that hate miss stamp.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
And you think he's back here somewhere.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
He's got to have an office someplace. Maybe this is it.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
M hm oh, mister Rex, Yes, but but who.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Why Jacob look at his turban mister Rex.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
The emerald the third green eye?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yes missing?
Speaker 11 (21:13):
So the man with the third Green Eye is dead.
The first and ascendae and the happiness stamp is missing
once again.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Looks like this is too bad.
Speaker 11 (21:24):
But at least there is one consolation. The Metra did
not get his filthy hands on it.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Yeah, well, I keep my promise, as we'll be going.
Speaker 11 (21:36):
Well.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Well, Major, you remember me first ten? Sure looks like
you pulled a neat double class. Perhaps it would not
have been necessary if you had returned with the Happenny
stamp first end. So you're in on this two? What
about that military police gag Elias refused to question you
on Commander James Stevens at leisurecumstances prevented that. About the train,
(22:02):
nothing shall present it. Now, what do you think you'll
find out from me.
Speaker 11 (22:07):
The present whereabouts of the stamp?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
You think I'm the one who killed has Been and
took a stamp from him? No other explanation will feed
their circumstances.
Speaker 11 (22:14):
Leisure canal start questioning him.
Speaker 9 (22:17):
He will tell us where it is hidden quickly enough.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Oh, you don't have to bother. I'll tell you where
it is. But I want to get something straight first. Why,
as I see, it has been spread the word that
he'd sell the stamp to the highest bidder, and the
vulture started gathering around Turos, who had the money to
buy it, and the two of you who sent me
to the cafe to get it for you, sir, But
you didn't figure that one of you would double cross
(22:40):
the other. What do you mean while Turos and I
kept each other busy, one of you killed happy's Been
and took a stamp didn't.
Speaker 11 (22:46):
You agree you're lying?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Better not wear such spicy perfume. The scamp was still
in happits Ben's office. Now where's the emerald, the one
with got a stamp concealed inside your person?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Who stay away from there?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
No, okay, Major, it's your move you did that will
crush me A three.
Speaker 11 (23:08):
I should have known for the way that gun.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
You can't shoot me.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
You can't carry.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Everything, okay, Ken, it's under Controlsion, Thanks, you heard everything.
I didn't miss a word. Are very exciting at the
end there, and I must say we've run up against
this unsavory a character of crew of characters.
Speaker 11 (23:33):
It's ever been my misfortunate mad Who are you to
talk you feelthy capitalistic pigs. Someday we will prove to
the world to the truly superior people's und Oh.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Sure you'll start trying hard enough using the double cross, murder,
even war, or maybe someday you'll learn that there are
no superior people, only a couple of billion human beings
who want to live together in p who prays they
won't have to fight to get it.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Now here's our star, mister Herbert Marshall.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Thanks for being with us and my thanks to Lucille Meredith,
John Dana, ed Bagley, John Stephenson and Lou Krugman. Next week,
South America, The Basin of the Orinoco River, where I
believe it on a ton of dynamite and one pagon
Zelschmidt produced an explosion that Fitton's the whole country Pagan
(24:40):
Leon blesco of course, So join us, won't you? When
next I returned as the Man called X. Good Night.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
The Man Called EX, starring Herbert Marshall as a Jay
Richard Kennedy production with music by Milton Charles. Tonight's story
was written by Sidney Marshall. This program is directed by
Jack Johnstone. All characters and incidents on this program are fictitious,
and any resemblance to actual characters or incidents is purely coincidental.
(25:13):
And now until next week, same time and station. This
is Hell Gidney Saying good Night or The Man Called X.
This is NBC the National
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