Classic Radio 09-19-25 - 77 years ago, danger - Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Now the greatest radio shows of all time.

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Huspends the Shadow Node Washington calling David Honey count.

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As my classic radio theater, the Great Yeldesslide Zipper McGhee
and Molly Dragones Guns Alone, Ranger.

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Now step back into a time machine.

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It's your host, Wyatt Cox.

Speaker 5 (00:34):
Good evening friend, Vionna Tanto.

Speaker 6 (00:39):
Drama from seventy seven years ago with episodes of the
Adventures of Sam Spade starring Howard Duck, Nick Carter Master
Detective starring Lawn Clark. Herbert Marshall is the man called
X and Ben Right is the man who could work
miracles from Escape. All broadcast on Sunday, September nineteenth, nineteen
forty eight. And we're wrapping all up with a nineteen

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fifty four episode of Bipper McGhee and Molly. That's all
straight ahead on this Friday. This is the nineteenth day
of September, two hundred and sixty second day of the year,
and one hundred and three days left in the year.
It was on this date in seventeen ninety six that
George Washington made his farewell address.

Speaker 7 (01:20):
I am unconscious of intentional error. I am nevertheless too
sensible of my defects, not to think it probable that
I may have committed many errors.

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A nineteen thirteen recreation by Harry Humphrey. In nineteen hundred,
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid committed their first robbery together.
It was on this date. In nineteen twenty eight Mickey
Mouse made his film debut in Steamboat Willie. Steamboat Woollie.

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By the way, and Mickey Mouse, or at least the
Steamboat Woollie version of him, are now in the public domain,
and Disney is this kind of backed away from having
anything to do with Mickey lately. Bruno Hopman arrested on
this date in nineteen thirty fourth for the murder of
Charles Lindburg Junior. In nineteen fifty two, the US barred
Charlie Chaplin from re entering the country after a trip

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to England. In nineteen fifty seven, the first underground nuclear
bomb test in the United States, and it was on
this date. In nineteen fifty nine Tikita kruz Chef barred
from visiting Disneyland. Of course, they said they couldn't guarantee
his safety. Well, I can understand why. Biggest record of

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the nineteen sixties hit number one on this date in
nineteen sixty The Twist now Hank Ballard and the Midnighters
originally recorded this song, but he couldn't appear on Dick
Clark's American Bandstand.

Speaker 8 (03:11):
Well.

Speaker 6 (03:11):
Clark found a local artist to re record the song
a Bella. Ernest Evans was his name, but he was
a little plump. Everybody called him Chubby. He had performed
a Fats Domino impression. Dick Clark's wife came up with
Chubby as in Checkers. All the wordplay stuck based on
Fats Domino. Ernest Evans became Chubby Checker. Paul Simon and

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Art Garfunkle reunited on this date in nineteen eighty one
for a free concert in New York City Central Park.
It was on this date in nineteen eighty two Scott
Bauman posted the first recorded instance of the emoticon, the
smiley face you know, made with a colon and a
dash and a write parentheses so it looked like a

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Sideway smile face to an online bulletin board. Nineteen eighty five,
Tipper Gore and other politicians politicians' wives, i should say,
formed the Parents' Music Resource Center testifying before Congress well
on that same date. In nineteen eighty five, Frank Zappa

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and other musicians testified at those congressional hearings.

Speaker 9 (04:24):
The PMRC proposal is an ill conceived piece of nonsense
which fails to deliver any real benefits to children, infringes
the civil liberties of people who are not children, and
promises to keep the courts busy for years dealing with
the interpretational and enforcemental problems inherent in the proposal's design.

Speaker 6 (04:43):
That's the way it is with a lot of laws
that are supposed to protect people but instead infringe on rights.
Back in nineteen eighty five, that was Frank Zappa. The
first episode of ER aired in the US on this date.
In nineteen ninety four, ER on NBA, and that would
become one of the most watched shows of all time.

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Washington Post New York Times both published the Unibomber's Manifesto
on this date thirty years ago today, nineteen ninety five,
and it was on this date. In two thousand and eight,
struggling to avoid financial catastrophe, President George Bush George W.
Bush laid out a radical bailout plan. It called for

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a takeover half trillion dollars or more in bad debt
held by teetering institutions.

Speaker 5 (05:32):
These measures will act as grease for the gears of
our financial system, which were at risk of grinding to.

Speaker 6 (05:39):
A ho The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of two thousand
and eight would be signed into law by President George W.
Bush less than a month later, October three, two thousand
and eight, rushed through Congress. The leaking oil well in
the deep Water Horizon oil spill capped off sealed on
this date teen years ago today in twenty ten, and

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on this date in twenty sixteen, in the wake of
a man hunt, the suspect in a series of bombings
in New York and New Jersey apprehended after a shootout
with police. On the thirty second anniversary of the nineteen
eighty five Mexico City earthquake, another earthquake suck Mexico on
the state in twenty seventeen, three hundred and seventy dead,

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six thousand injured, and there was extensive damage. On this date,
three years ago today, the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth,
the Second Being of the United Kingdom held Westminster Abbey
in London.

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Take out of this transitory life onto his divine mercy,
the late, most High, most Mighty and most Excellent Monarch
Elizabeth the Second.

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The state funeral for the Queen drew, presidents and king's
princes and prime ministers in crowds who thronged the streets
of London. Passing away on this date in nineteen sixty eight,
Red Poley.

Speaker 11 (07:12):
Here he is the man you've been waiting for.

Speaker 12 (07:14):
Red Polly, I dreamed I wrote to him, and I
said not he got off on.

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The road road I can hear.

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Stayle sage, Just come on back, come on, just come
on back. Oh, I've got a special placement out for you,
as you saw.

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Y for the common here Inny.

Speaker 6 (07:44):
That from the nineteen forty eight Grand Old Opry broadcast
read Boley passing away on this date back in nineteen
sixty and also passing away on this date, publisher Conte Nast,
musician Graham Parsons, singer Skeeter Davis, the singer, saxophonist Chuck Rio,
Bob Hope's wife Dolores Hope, and Jackie Collins, a novelist,

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all passing away on this date. In history, born on
this date, Adam West.

Speaker 13 (08:16):
From that day forward, I vowed to avenge my parents'
fate by devoting my life to fighting crime. Worked hard
at it, building my body, and I studied too countless hours.
I learned that criminals are a cowardly lot, which gave
me the idea to where a disguise that would strike
fear in their hearts?

Speaker 5 (08:35):
But what disguise?

Speaker 13 (08:37):
And then the answer came to me like an omens,
and so I became Batman, the Man with No Fear.

Speaker 6 (08:45):
Adam West's most iconic role the nineteen sixties Batman, and
he was a regular here. Believe it or not. He
was in Elie, Nevada quite a bit during his lifetime,
least in the later years of his life. He did
pass away in twenty seventeen the age of eighty eight.

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Also born on this date in history singer Brooke Benton
The Rainy Night in Georgia, Wonderful singer. The Man from
Uncle and ncis David McCallum, who passed away two years
ago at the age of ninety. David McCallum born on
this date in history, and Mama cass Elliott all born

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on this date in history. They have all left the building.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
Hi, this is Jeff Foxworthy.

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It is now time for the birthday announcements.

Speaker 15 (09:40):
The following people are now officially older than.

Speaker 6 (09:44):
Dirt Oh the Righteous Brothers. Bill Medley eighty five years
old today, as is singer songwriter Paul Williams. The Lynas
remember from from Smoky in the Bandit and wrote so
much great music from Adam twelve an Emergency. Randolph Mentoth
eighty years old today, The Band of Gold Free to

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Payne eighty three Today. Model Twiggy seventy six years old Today,
Joan London, the TV host seventy five Today, singer Rex
Smith seventy lead A Ford sixty seven, Trisha Gearwood sixty one.
Jimmy Fallon is a fifty one.

Speaker 16 (10:30):
Thank you opening a tab at a bar for being
the prequel to for getting your credit card at a bar,
and now the time you.

Speaker 5 (10:39):
Guys open that.

Speaker 16 (10:39):
I think I left her Day's under the name Seth Myers.
Thank you Squeeze Ketchup Bottles for giving me two options,
no ketchup at all or blinding laser of ketchup goo
God rip My.

Speaker 6 (10:59):
Hamber likely to be the last late night talk show
host standing. Jimmy Fallon fifty one Today you knew her
from Days of Our Lives and from the Biggest Loser
Allison Sweeney forty nine today AWTV personality used to be
in the WWE. Now she's in aw with her husband,

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Renee Paquette forty years old. Today From Arrow and Flash,
Danielle Panabaker is thirty eight, and for thirty Rock and
the Bold and the Beautiful, Katrina Bowden is thirty seven.
Those just few of the people celebrating the nineteenth day
of September as their birthday. If this is your birthday.

Speaker 5 (11:43):
Happy Birthday, Happy hearth.

Speaker 6 (12:01):
And on this Friday, we're going to go back to
a Sunday, this Sunday, September nineteenth, nineteen forty eight, seventy
seven years ago, and we're going to start off on
CBS at eight o'clock Eastern time for an episode of
the Adventures of Sam Spade in a moment.

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Eight o'clock Eastern Time, Sunday, September nineteenth, nineteen forty eight,
seventy seven years ago, Howard does the Adventures of Sam
Spade and the Hot one hundred Grand Caper.

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Speaker 18 (13:33):
This is Sam Blackleg Spade, the third most dangerous gamber
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Speaker 1 (13:37):
Oh, Sam, not horses again horses.

Speaker 5 (13:40):
Women in the gaming table, Sevy the versions of the elite.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Well divert yourself with this, Sam. The phone company is
sent the pink notice.

Speaker 5 (13:47):
I pay it no mind, sweetheart. We are healed.

Speaker 18 (13:50):
We have hit the cashier's cage and next the pot
broken the bank and we're.

Speaker 5 (13:54):
Standing on velvet.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Sam, are you sober?

Speaker 5 (13:57):
Definitely? Veld warm too? From?

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Where are you calling from?

Speaker 5 (14:01):
You're wrong? If it's a drugstore, Stay where we are.

Speaker 18 (14:04):
I'll be right down at dayl out my report on
the Hot hundred Grand Caper.

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Speaker 18 (15:30):
Date September nineteen, nineteen forty eight to robbery detail San
Francisco Police, A tansy sergeant watch from Samuel Spade lies
a number one throeventy five ninety six the Joe. Here's
the rundown on that hot hundred brand. It started pleasantly
enough on my secretary, Miss Eppie Rain, cute little moss.

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He's into my private office, closed the door behind her,
and leaned back against it with that air of pained resignation,
which generally means as a customer outside that she doesn't
approve of, but that I'll see her anyway.

Speaker 19 (16:01):
It's up to you, Sam.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
She's very well dressed, and I imagine she can afford you.

Speaker 5 (16:05):
How do you deduce that?

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Oh, she dropped her purse. I didn't get time to
count at all, but there was one hundred dollar bill
on top.

Speaker 5 (16:12):
Oh sure, an Ethie, Sam, go ahead, Sae.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Oh, I don't know, Sam. Sometimes well, there's just money.

Speaker 5 (16:21):
No, No, that's one of the reasons I hire you.
What's the matter with it?

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Nothing, that's just it, Sam. She's very good looking, cultivated,
and very kind and considerate, and she seems sincerely troubled.

Speaker 5 (16:33):
You mean her act is a little too good.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
I felt that too, Sam.

Speaker 5 (16:36):
Thanks, Angel, I'll keep that in mind. Tell her to
come in, all right.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Sam, mister Speide will see you, missus Kilcourse.

Speaker 19 (16:43):
Thank you, thank you for seeing me, mister.

Speaker 5 (16:46):
Spade, my pleasure. Won't you sit down?

Speaker 19 (16:50):
Oh, thank you. I'm Lorraine kill Course, mister Spade. It's
about my husband, Leonard.

Speaker 5 (16:57):
Kill Coourse husband. Oh.

Speaker 19 (16:59):
We've only been married a short time. It was a
quiet ceremony at the San Seedro mission. Leonard didn't want
to subject me to any publicity. The difference in our ages.

Speaker 5 (17:08):
You know. You mean you want me to keep it asake.

Speaker 19 (17:10):
Oh no, no, except for the newspapers, of course, naturally
all of Leonard's friends.

Speaker 5 (17:15):
No, he doesn't have money. From what I've heard, I've.

Speaker 19 (17:18):
Thought it strange too that such a prominent man should
have such a small circle of acquaintances. I met him
only a short time before I married him. He's been
very kind and absolutely devoted to me, and I suppose
I should feel ashamed of myself for for coming to you.
But there are so many things of him, mysterious act.

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Sometimes I can't seem to find my handkerchief here cleanex
I'm sorry, thank you, I.

Speaker 5 (17:49):
Take it you're not a San Francisco girl.

Speaker 19 (17:52):
No, no, I met him at a Jude ranch.

Speaker 18 (17:54):
Well, maybe I can clear up some of your mysries
for freight. The raising your husband doesn't have many friends
is because they keep dropping dead.

Speaker 19 (18:02):
I don't understand you, forget it.

Speaker 18 (18:04):
He's a big public sermon. He's bull a lot of sidewalks.
The straits of the city have paid with his gut intentions.
His name is on a thousand manhole covers. If the
names of his former business associates land on headstones, it's
stuffing to me.

Speaker 5 (18:15):
I got my own racket. Well what I.

Speaker 19 (18:20):
Think my husband is paying blackmail to someone?

Speaker 5 (18:22):
Ahh? And upon what do you base your suspicions, missus
k It.

Speaker 19 (18:27):
Started about a month ago. He began withdrawing large sums
from our joint account. First it was ten thousand, then
twenty thousand, and last week fifty thousand, and this morning
he closed out the balance of the account one hundred
thousand dollars.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
Well he's got it to span missus country.

Speaker 19 (18:47):
I won't pretend the money doesn't interest me, But what's
behind it? Mister Spade? Each time he withdraws these cash sums,
he leaves the house without a word. To me and
sometimes doesn't return until dawn. My husband is not fond
of night life, mister Spade. Only a desperate situation could
induce him to leave the house after dark.

Speaker 18 (19:06):
Yeah, so I've heard they say that's how he kept
his health as long as he has. All right, you
want me to trail and find out what he does
with the money. Just one question? Why'd you pick me
for the job?

Speaker 19 (19:16):
I I why your reputation?

Speaker 5 (19:19):
That's local? You say you're new in San Francisco.

Speaker 19 (19:22):
Well, I do read the local papers. Your picture was
in only two weeks ago.

Speaker 5 (19:26):
Yeah, well that cave I didn't have my reputation.

Speaker 19 (19:28):
I like your looks, A nice, honest face, A man
I could trust.

Speaker 5 (19:35):
Don't buy that.

Speaker 19 (19:36):
And I'm sentimental too. Your picture reminded me of someone
who is very dear to me, my brother. Of course
you're nothing like him, really, but but you do look alike.
I suppose that sounds like a silly woman's reason. Yeah,
address well, I have a little place of my own
out on the Visadero, the Belleboe apartments near Normandy Terrace.

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You'd better keep in touch with me there. I don't
want Leonard to know the kill course mentioned is at
thirteen sixteen Clarendon thirteen sixty. He returns from his office
around six in the evening. Do you have a car?

Speaker 5 (20:10):
No, I need one.

Speaker 19 (20:12):
I don't know where he may go. Now here are
the keys to my cars? Parked in front of the
main entrance, a great Plymouth. He won't recognize the car.
My brothers know about your fee.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
One hundred bucks.

Speaker 18 (20:23):
Now if I need more, I'll leave you now. I
had an uneasy feeling I would need more. The last
detective that tried to follow Leonard kill Course had hospital
and shirt. I don't, but I'm a gambler at heart.
So I parked Lorraine's Plymouth across the straight from the
killed Course match and I'll waited. At nine and a pm,

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mister kill Course, much much too old for her, came
out the front door and flagged down a taxi. I
made an illegal U turn and followed the trail and
across the Golden Gate Bridge. In Maren County. It was
a country club type building on top of a hill
overlooking the bay at the business under the name of

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Perny now Gallas's Racket Club. The racket had nothing to
do with tennis. It came from two sauces, the moans
and groans of the customers losing money at the roulette
whales and crap tables, and the glad hand the management
throw at my quarry.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
As I followed an end.

Speaker 20 (21:26):
Price to see you cease when you go out out
the docks, I thought.

Speaker 8 (21:30):
A little nightlif might agree with me.

Speaker 5 (21:33):
So that sounds like I didn't know you better. I
think you was afraid.

Speaker 21 (21:37):
To go out night.

Speaker 5 (21:40):
Well, now, I was thinking of buying this place to
retire to, but I figured it to be cheaper to
win it at your roulette table.

Speaker 8 (21:47):
What's your limit here?

Speaker 5 (21:48):
Ten couch?

Speaker 4 (21:49):
But for you wide o scot one hundred grand for
a starter.

Speaker 20 (21:54):
Any time they got you with hot loney, mister, I'm out.
The cashier, I said, you keeps myself.

Speaker 18 (22:03):
I didn't have to bother making myself inconspicuous. Everybody in
the joint stopped playing to watch kill course while he
shoved his hundred grand rolls through the cashiers, when no
one scooped up four sacks of thousand bucks chips.

Speaker 22 (22:15):
Make your best free, all right?

Speaker 8 (22:16):
You spin that wheel?

Speaker 5 (22:18):
How much you got there?

Speaker 8 (22:19):
Twenty five grand? Any objections?

Speaker 5 (22:21):
Is that? No? Kay?

Speaker 20 (22:22):
Mister nogalas spina, Joe, I'm covering through the table, person.

Speaker 5 (22:27):
Okayse around and round a little ball, go fifteen pairs,
fifteen and the.

Speaker 20 (22:35):
Red maybe next time, mister Keveley, why did you double
up play the red in the blacks?

Speaker 23 (22:42):
Safer?

Speaker 8 (22:42):
I'll stay with the numbers. Fifty thou fifteen.

Speaker 5 (22:46):
Spinning. It's okay, Joe, I'm still covering.

Speaker 24 (22:51):
Well, it's your money, mister Nogalis page come before and
the red again?

Speaker 8 (23:04):
Twenty five grand yore on fifteen.

Speaker 20 (23:07):
Look, mister Kors, go on and joy yourself. Think it
off your income tax, but please spin those spread the
mouth a little there of those chips.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
Huh, it looks bad for the house.

Speaker 8 (23:16):
What kind of a joint is this? Can't you cover
the bets?

Speaker 5 (23:19):
Okay, Joe? He asked for me. Okay, sick.

Speaker 18 (23:28):
I didn't wait to see where the little ball went
on the last spin of the wheel.

Speaker 5 (23:32):
I would have made a side bet with any taker
that killed Cours wanted.

Speaker 18 (23:35):
To lose one hundred brand. I would also have made book.
You knew I was following him. As I left the
table and walked out of the club, I braced myself
for what usually comes next. There would either be a
dead body in the car or somebody would crease my
knoggin with a sap. But nothing happened. I switched on
the head lights and stood in the glare obm for
fully a minute, but nobody even shot at me. I
flushed the shrubbery. No gunman, check the ignition wires, no booby.

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Driving back to town, I racked my brain for some
way to bring them out unto the open. I felt
like a man with these life savings all on one number,
waiting for the wheel to stop spinning, which wasn't far
from the truth. Not much of a cliffhanger, but the
best we can do.

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now back to the hot one hundred grand Caper Tonight's
adventure with Sam Spade.

Speaker 18 (26:09):
Yeah uh, this missus Kilcross is a farmer.

Speaker 5 (26:12):
Yeah. See here? Yeah, well can I come in? Yeah?

Speaker 19 (26:18):
Tommy?

Speaker 5 (26:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (26:20):
Who is that mister Spade?

Speaker 5 (26:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (26:23):
Oh, this is this is the detective I was telling
you about. Tommy, remember, yeah, the one who looked so
much like you. Yeah, no, oh excuse me, this is
my brother Tommy Lane.

Speaker 5 (26:35):
Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 19 (26:38):
Tommy. Won't you run down to the corner and buy
me some cigarettes for about twenty minutes. I have something
to talk over with mister Spade.

Speaker 18 (26:44):
Yeah, nice boy, you brother, small vocabulary but big fake.

Speaker 19 (26:53):
Well he's shy. Now what did you find out about,
mister My husband and mister Spade.

Speaker 18 (26:59):
Hey, Yeah, dropped a hundred grand and a gambling joint.
Ernie no Gallas's racket club.

Speaker 19 (27:04):
You know it, No, But I know Ernie no Gallus.
I knew him and Reno before I met Leonard. He
lost his license there for running a crooked.

Speaker 18 (27:12):
Wheel the way he killed cars was playing the night
that wheale didn't have to be crooked.

Speaker 5 (27:15):
He was trying to lose that hundred grand.

Speaker 19 (27:17):
But why why would he do a thing like that?

Speaker 5 (27:19):
One of two reasons.

Speaker 18 (27:20):
Either he's paying off the no Gallus or he's paying
off to somebody else and the Gallas is to go between.

Speaker 19 (27:25):
Well, I don't believe it. Ernie is a crooked gambler,
but he doesn't touch black man.

Speaker 18 (27:29):
And your husband isn't stupid enough to drop a hundred
grand and three turns of a wheel anyway. I'm not
tangling with him and or the earning No Gallus mob
for a hundred bucks a year money or anybody else's.

Speaker 5 (27:38):
Yeah, take it. Well, here are your car keys?

Speaker 25 (27:40):
No?

Speaker 19 (27:41):
No, wait, please, you can't desert me now?

Speaker 5 (27:43):
Why Well?

Speaker 19 (27:44):
I haven't told you everything I'd hoped I wouldn't have.

Speaker 5 (27:47):
To about your brother.

Speaker 18 (27:49):
How do you know the only place you get a
green sun tan is in a poky Besides the acts
kind of stir crazy. Spent a little time in solitary,
didn't he?

Speaker 19 (27:57):
He won't talk about it, but that's it's that's why
Leonard is paying that blackmail money to Nogallas.

Speaker 18 (28:03):
You just said Norgallus wouldn't touch blackmail. Any other corrections
you'd like to make in your copy before we perceive?

Speaker 19 (28:08):
Yes, well, I might as well tell you everything.

Speaker 5 (28:11):
Why not?

Speaker 19 (28:12):
I knew when I came to you this morning that
my husband was paying this money to Nogallas. I knew
because I asked him to.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
You and Ernie Nogallas are working together.

Speaker 19 (28:21):
I'm not that rotten.

Speaker 5 (28:22):
I didn't say you were. But you're a Ratten liar.
There's that much in your favor.

Speaker 19 (28:26):
But I'm telling the truth now, Sam. You must believe me.
Everything that has happened is my fault. I persuaded Nogallus
to give my brother a job and his place in Reno.
They quarreled, and when he got closed down here, he
blamed Tommy. He's worried kill him when he got out
of prison. That's why I begged my husband to pay
him to save Tommy's life.

Speaker 18 (28:43):
Who did write on her gallus about that crooked whale
at Reno?

Speaker 19 (28:46):
I did. That's why I feel responsible. Leonard is so fine,
so generous, but I can't let him go on paying
for my mistake.

Speaker 5 (28:55):
Yeah, like you said, he's going to run out of money.

Speaker 19 (28:58):
Look at me, Sam, Do I look like the kind
of a woman to whom money means everything in the world.

Speaker 5 (29:04):
No, but you're like an at may, not a kel Corse.

Speaker 19 (29:07):
You're laughing at me. Oh, I know what you think.
Perhaps I did make a mistake in marrying Leonard, but
he was so kind, so considerate, like my father.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
Everybody reminds you of your relatives.

Speaker 19 (29:20):
You don't believe my story, wow, said you, Well, all right,
then here's the truth. I'm really Jack the Ripper's granddaughter.
My parents were terribly wealthy. I harpooned my mother in
her Beverly Hills swimming pool, set fire to my father
with a fifty thousand dollars negotiable bond and eloped with
John Wilkes booth. That brings us up to eighteen sixty five.
Shall I go on?

Speaker 5 (29:38):
STAPs? Great?

Speaker 19 (29:39):
Oh, get out of here, Get out of here and
leave me alone.

Speaker 5 (29:41):
After you've told me all your secrets, I'm not that right.

Speaker 19 (29:45):
You won't help me. You never intended to go on tortury.

Speaker 18 (29:49):
Hona, stop that, please please? I believe. Yeah, I believe
all your stories.

Speaker 5 (29:54):
Now? Uh, what is my next smart move?

Speaker 19 (29:56):
Sam? The only way to stop earning nor Gallas is
to prove that he's running a crooked wheel. Let me
pay back all that blackmail money. And he wouldn't dare
lay a hand on Tommy.

Speaker 5 (30:06):
It's going to be hard to prove and expensive.

Speaker 18 (30:09):
I'll have to lose a little on that whale before
I can figure that way it's rigged.

Speaker 5 (30:13):
How much can you invest?

Speaker 26 (30:14):
Well?

Speaker 19 (30:14):
I have about a thousand dollars of my own with you. Yes, here,
you'll take it.

Speaker 5 (30:22):
M smells nice?

Speaker 19 (30:25):
Sam? Yeah, Sam, after all this is over and after
I've put things to write with Leonard, I should have
told him before this, but I owed him so much.
I Oh, Sam, I'm so glad it's you.

Speaker 5 (30:42):
Me too, Angel, Go.

Speaker 19 (30:46):
Now, darling, before I beg you not to.

Speaker 5 (30:49):
What time is that giant close?

Speaker 19 (30:51):
Well, well it runs all night, I think.

Speaker 18 (30:54):
Okay, let's stay up late and raid the ice box
around two and the am. When I low geared the
Plymouth up the long steep driveway or any of the
Gallas's racket club backed into the parking space nearest the
road with the car headed downhill for a quick getaway
just in case, and I went in. The joint was

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still going full blast. I bought five hundred bucks with
a chip, swag it over to the table where a
killed course it dropped this hundred brand and nonchalantly flipped
the blue chip under the red Appelli.

Speaker 5 (31:27):
Ladies and gentlemen, make your game. Okay, that's all around
and round the little ball goes.

Speaker 18 (31:33):
And I didn't look to see when the little ball went.
Most of the money was on red, so it was
bound to turn up black.

Speaker 5 (31:39):
Oh a red page one number fifteen fleet, Hey make
your game. Wages around around again.

Speaker 18 (31:47):
The chips were spead around more the next turn, so
I stacked one hundred at the bottom of the one.

Speaker 5 (31:52):
To thirty four column with a crooked way.

Speaker 18 (31:54):
Oh, my hundred made it the best bet the lose,
and nineteen named the red Wings a gamey. I plucked
five hundred down on number five and raked him seventeen thousand,
five hundred. I left my original bet on the table.
When the little ball fell into the pocket, I was
thirty five thousand bucks to the good from my point

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of view, but not for my clients. I doubled my
bet and looked apprehensively around. There were no surly characters
edging up behind me. In fact, the only surly character
in sight was Eernie no Gallis, and he looked happy.
That didn't make much sense. When my bank roll got
to one hundred and five thousand, I played a hunch.
I threw five grand at it back on the table
and lost it. That made a kind of sense. I

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cashed in the rest of my chips and squeezed one
hundred grand US currency into my inside pocket. If anybody
aimed for my heart, it was thinking up to stop
the slug, which was some comfort. But what I saw
when I walked out to the parking lot was no
comfort at all. I'd gotten just a glimpse of it,
drew some trees, I said, Dan backed into a driveway

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halfway down the hill. It was blacked out except the
five blowing cigar ends that showed through the windows. I
could think of only one reason for five cigar smokers
to be parked in that particular spot at that particular moment.
The Plymouth is where I had parked it, pointing straight
down the hill. I slammed the door but didn't get in,
and I listened the car down the hill was getting

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ready to I cracked the door of the Plymouth wide
enough to get my arm inside and pressed the stotter
with a heel of my hand. I switched on the
lights the clutch with my left hand, used my right
to shipped in the low and I pulled a hand
froddle out all away and let it go.

Speaker 21 (34:01):
What's the big idea busting in the myle.

Speaker 5 (34:04):
We're gonna have a talk now, gallus.

Speaker 21 (34:06):
Please don't wave that heather at me. It makes me nervous.
I don't like God.

Speaker 18 (34:10):
I don't either, That's why I'm here. Put your hands
on top of the desk and keeping there all right.

Speaker 5 (34:17):
Give me back that roll.

Speaker 21 (34:18):
I give you clean money for it was a gamble,
so I lost.

Speaker 5 (34:21):
Can you blame me? Where'd you get this money?

Speaker 20 (34:24):
Buy fifty cents on the dollar. I don't ask where
it came from, but I read the papers. I figured
it was that ship roll, that shipyard payroll job a
few days back.

Speaker 5 (34:34):
Like it just fell in my lap.

Speaker 20 (34:35):
I figured it'd make fifty grand instead of kill course five.
I guess that was dirty trick. You just out of
stirt on me.

Speaker 18 (34:43):
I had news for you, now, Gallus, I didn't know
this money was hot, and I am not Tommy Lane. No,
then what private deck? Tommy's sister hired me to take
the fall for him. Look, I've got most of the cape,
but kill Cours wanted to pay Tommy one hundred grand.
You wrecked the wheel, so kill Cours ad loser one
night and Tommy would win it back the next night.

Speaker 5 (35:02):
Now what was kill coss paying them off for no caper? Legitimate?

Speaker 21 (35:07):
It was stand up for bribing a public officasu.

Speaker 5 (35:11):
I mean, here was the playoff man for kill Cosses,
contracting sure legitimate business.

Speaker 20 (35:15):
When the grand jury went out after a kill course,
Tommy took the rap.

Speaker 5 (35:20):
That's all for the price, Yeah, one hundred grand, thanks
nor Gallas. That's all I needed.

Speaker 19 (35:26):
I was afraid I might be too late. You are sweet,
I have so many things to explain.

Speaker 5 (35:30):
Where can you talk right in here?

Speaker 19 (35:33):
Who's this man?

Speaker 5 (35:33):
Why that's you're all sweety from Reno earning the gallas?
Remember what's the matter with you? Too? Crazy?

Speaker 19 (35:39):
Oh? Sam?

Speaker 5 (35:39):
I should have told you the truth from the beginning
A gallas?

Speaker 18 (35:42):
Yeah, and I can understand. Or why did you tell
me you were kill Crosses wife?

Speaker 19 (35:45):
I was desperate. I had to say something. It was
the only explanation I could think of for my interest
in this case without telling the truth.

Speaker 5 (35:51):
But you were making a pigeon that I mate.

Speaker 19 (35:52):
I don't know about such things, Sam. All I know
is I'm here in time to warn you. You mustn't
walk out of here with that money.

Speaker 18 (35:58):
They may kill you to get it back already did
they're calmbing the wreckage of that car right now, looking
for my body.

Speaker 19 (36:04):
Then Tommy was right. They did mean to kill him.

Speaker 5 (36:06):
How do you get the rum?

Speaker 19 (36:07):
While he was in prison from another man that killed
cours framed, he was in for life, so it was
safe for him to talk.

Speaker 5 (36:12):
Hey, yeah, gollics that car they just drove up. I
think that's mister what's your hurry.

Speaker 19 (36:20):
Tommy's out there in that cab. I got to warn him.

Speaker 5 (36:23):
Tip off kill Cours, which says it No, Sam, You've
got to believe stop that you two have fun. I'm
getting all of here.

Speaker 18 (36:30):
Go ahead, I listened swayt Lorraine. You may as well
save your breath of those explanations. Just staying right here
until the cape is all wrapped up.

Speaker 19 (36:37):
Here he comes guns, Sam, Yeah, well you do better.

Speaker 8 (36:40):
Have it ready, but go I want to see him.

Speaker 5 (36:44):
He was called out of town, sir. I'm in charge you,
mister killed Coss.

Speaker 8 (36:47):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
I want to know why you people have been interfering
with my business. It might interest you to know that
this building site's on an old Spanish land grant titles
very shaky.

Speaker 8 (36:56):
I'll run an eight lane highway.

Speaker 5 (36:58):
Straight through the middle of it and turn the red
stuff it into a game preserve. That's what I do
to people who double cross me. I tried to tell
mister Nogallus that, sir, he wouldn't listen to me. He
tipped Tommy off for a split on one hundred grand.
But I knew sooner or later we'd have to answer
to you. Mister Kilcross. Oh, what's that? Here's your hundred
grand sir? Count it.

Speaker 8 (37:16):
Well, what's your name?

Speaker 5 (37:19):
Son? Sam Spade? Sir, I'm glad to meet an honest lad.
Come along, are you too, young lady? We'll all walk
out together.

Speaker 19 (37:26):
Sam, what are you Spade?

Speaker 18 (37:30):
Yes, sir, I'm a private detective, but I'm ambitious m politics.

Speaker 5 (37:35):
Yes sir, Well we'll run you for assembly in the meantime,
I believe there's an opening in one of the Public
services garbage disposal executive end of course.

Speaker 8 (37:46):
Where the devil is that man with my car? Oh,
there is a you drop around to my office in
the morning.

Speaker 5 (37:52):
Thank you and good night, mister Kilcross.

Speaker 19 (37:54):
Drive on horace, Sam, how could you all those lies
and just handing over the money like that.

Speaker 5 (38:03):
It wasn't yours, It wasn't Tommy's here this sweet art
get in, Tommy.

Speaker 19 (38:08):
Are you all right?

Speaker 5 (38:09):
Yeah? Drivers across the bridge, Tommy, well they.

Speaker 19 (38:13):
Yeah, Tommy, Yeah, Tommy, I'm afraid we'll have to do
without the money. Yeah, Sam gave it to mister Kurse.

Speaker 27 (38:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (38:22):
Now don't get excited, Tommy. I'm sure Sam had a reason,
didn't you, Sam?

Speaker 5 (38:27):
Yeah? I mean that was mark money from a payroll job.

Speaker 19 (38:31):
Oh then it won't do him any good.

Speaker 18 (38:33):
It'll sign him up for a good long stretch of
the eyewitness story that goes along with it is good enough,
and you're just the girl to tell it, sweetet Am.

Speaker 5 (38:39):
I right, Tommy, Yeah, period.

Speaker 21 (38:52):
Of report already.

Speaker 19 (38:53):
But Sam, what happened?

Speaker 1 (38:55):
Who were the five men in the car? The ones
who shot at that plymouth and the mistaken belief that.

Speaker 5 (38:59):
You were in it? Their names are of little account of.

Speaker 18 (39:01):
He suffice it to say that Kilcorus pointed his pudgy
finger at them in the hopes of keeping the charge
of attempted murder out of his indictment.

Speaker 5 (39:08):
But I was too clever. I identified them.

Speaker 28 (39:10):
That's Sam.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
You didn't see anything, but there's cigars glowing in the darkness.

Speaker 18 (39:14):
Have you never heard of Sherlock Holmes monograph and the
forty nine Varieties of Tobacco?

Speaker 5 (39:18):
Ash you full?

Speaker 1 (39:19):
But Sam, Sherlock Holmes is only the segment of someone's imagination.
He's a tectitional detective. Well gimme, oh, Sam, you're tired,
Yes I am. It's affected your mind winning all that money?

Speaker 19 (39:31):
Are you just sit here and rest?

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Think of the snowy mountaintops and loose skies.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
I'll just go and tight this snowy mountaintops winter sports
yet and now listen to this.

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Speaker 1 (40:22):
Well here it is Sam, not that it made any difference,
But how did you guess that she wasn't missus Kilcours.

Speaker 5 (40:27):
Surple Kill cars didn't recognize it?

Speaker 1 (40:29):
It's Sam, that was after you denounced her.

Speaker 5 (40:31):
I did no such thing.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
From the report, Samon Black and White quote, why did
you tell me you were kill Course's wife? Unquote? At
that point you assumed that she was not missus Leonard Kilcourse.

Speaker 5 (40:41):
I did not. I merely wanted why she had told me.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
Well, with all the lies she told, you might have
assumed anything she said was totally devoid of.

Speaker 5 (40:48):
Truth, and I did, Sweetheart, I did.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
Oh, oh well, i's to believe. I was afraid for
a while she'd taken your in.

Speaker 5 (40:56):
What's that got to do with the truth? Nights here, good, nice, Sweetheart.

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This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Speaker 6 (42:38):
Eight o'clock Eastern Time on Sunday, September nineteenth, nineteen forty eight.
Sam Spade here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatcocks. Take
a look at some of the headlines from that Sunday,
seventy seven years ago.

Speaker 15 (42:51):
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of fully cases in this country is going up. Instead
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to the March of Dimes. Give today so that the
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ever and a really potent fighting force against polio.

Speaker 6 (43:24):
On this Friday edition of the program, we have four
shows from Sunday, the nineteenth day of September nineteen forty eight,
seventy seven years ago. These are some of the headlines
and that newspapers of that day. President Truman totally yelling
corn Belt crowd yesterday. Democrats are fighting the farmer's battle
against gluttons of privilege threatening agriculture with another Republican blight

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for their own protection, Truman said in a major campaign speech,
Farmer's auto bout Democrat this fall. Governor Thomas Dewey, the
Republican candidate, headed for Iowa today. He'll deliver a major
speech des Moines tomorrow. Both major party candidates have laid
out cross country stumping tours that will take them to
the Pacific coast and back. Clarence Petticourt groped his sightless

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way into the lower aid of sleeping car thirty three
forty one on a fast train New York last night,
almost too happy and full of hope to sleep for
the slight thirty year old blind man, a wearing week
of hitch hiking day and night across the nation from Portland, Oregon.
Insert p aid for his eyes over, but he wasn't
aware of the full extent of his sudden good fortune.

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He didn't know as he boarded the trade. Henry Carlin,
a Saratoga Springs, New York, businessman offered a pay for
the cornea transplant. Petticourt needs to restore his sight that
he lost eleven years ago in an explosion. The Israeli
government announced last night more than two hundred persons, including
some of the supposed leaders of the Stern Gang, had

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been arrested in the intensive hunt for the assassins of
Count Bernadotte and Colonel Andre Sarat. The un mediator and
Sarat his French aid slain Friday in the Jewish part
of Jerusalem. Israeli government has accused Stewart the Stern Gang,
a Jewish extremist group, with responsibility for the shooting in Moscow.

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The envoys of the US, British and France. Britain and
France met with Soviet Foreign Minister BM Molotov, possibly to
receive the final Russian word on proposals for settling the
Berlin crisis. After the meeting the eleventh Kremlin Conference on
the East West Differences in fifty one days, US Ambassador
Walter Betel Smith said the three Western envoys had a

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delightful two hour and thirty minute talk with mister Molotov.
I have no comment. Meanwhile, US and British military planes
made eight hundred ninety five cargo flights to Russian blockaded
Berlin in a demonstration of peacetime airpower, in a record
smashing feat which dwarfed the famed wartime Hump Shuttle from

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India to China. US planes through six hundred and fifty
one sorties with five and a half thousand tons of
coal for Western Berlin's two and a half million inhabitants.
India named a military governor for the conquered princely state
of Hyderabad. The steps taken as troops surrendered unconditionally to

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India six days after India invaded the state for the
announced purpose of restoring order there. In Burma, Brigadier Utintan
a excuse me u tin Tut, a leader in the
struggle against Burma's communists, led rebellion near death for mounds
inflicted by it would be assassin who booby trapped his car.

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In Grenoble, France and the southeastern part of the nation,
one man shot to death, seventeen injured. With opponents of
General Charles de Gaul tried to break up a rally
he addressed, troops were called out to halt the fight.
Male Ludwig World, renowned German biographer whose books were burned
by the Nazis, died in his sleep Friday night. He

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was sixty seven years of age and in Plymouth, Wisconsin,
eighty two year old TV Vulk still rolling his own
cigars and other men's cigars too. Volk retired thirteen years ago.
Shortage of skilled cigar makers forced him back into business.
He's now turning out one hundred stogies in the six

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hours he works every day. Those some of the day's
news stories, as reported in the newspapers of Sunday, September nineteenth,
nineteen forty eight. Up next, we moved to mutual for
Nick Carter, Master.

Speaker 5 (47:43):
Detective driving tonight.

Speaker 17 (47:50):
Then remember this, most highway deaths are caused by two
temptations to cut out of line and to go too fast.
Crossing the center line of the road is more dangerous
than you realize. Statistics proven excessive speed is just as
dangerous as officials say. You can predict your own impulses,
but you can never predict the other drivers. When driving tonight,

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drive cautiously.

Speaker 6 (48:11):
Please, as we continue our look at Sunday, the nineteenth
day of September nineteen forty eight. Seventy seven years ago,
we go to six thirty Eastern time over on Mutual
for an episode of Nick Carter, Master Detective starring Lawn Clark.

Speaker 29 (48:30):
New Postwar old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing dirt, presents
Nick Carter, famous for chasing crime.

Speaker 23 (48:44):
Every week.

Speaker 29 (48:44):
At this time, two great names are joined as new
Postwar old Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the most
resourceful and daring characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter,
Master Detective.

Speaker 5 (49:02):
Miss Perry. I want you to take a look at
this picture of Barclay's body.

Speaker 30 (49:04):
Oh please, Nick wants to know is whether mister Berkley
was lying in that same position when you left the cab.

Speaker 28 (49:10):
Stop talking about it, I said, I killed him. What
more do you want?

Speaker 5 (49:13):
I want a lot more. I want to get you
out of this jail, and the best way to do
it is by putting someone else in here instead.

Speaker 29 (49:22):
And now the Case of the Homely Bride, Today's adventure
starring Lawn Clark as Nick Carter, brought to you my
new post war old Dutch Cleanser. Agnes Perry is not
a pretty girl, and she's so painfully timid that the
gossips predicted she'd never get a husband, even with her
father's millions, but you never can tell. It's early evening

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in the Perry home as Tony Barkley, handsome and self assured,
sits facing Agnes's father and her best friend, Linda Foresight.

Speaker 5 (49:50):
Mister Perry, I rapped in to tell you that Agnes
won't be home for dinner tonight. You see, we're elping,
Tony not Oh, I'm so happy for you both. Well,
I uh, an elopement isn't necessary, my boy, Agnes loves you,
loves me. Huh, she's mad about me.

Speaker 31 (50:10):
Oh, Tony, you plowed give me a handkerchief. Somebody thanks,
And don't say I'm crying either. It's just that my
glasses are getting misty.

Speaker 5 (50:18):
Agnes and I plan to meet in a little town
upstate and be married tonight. In fact, she's waiting there
for me. Now, well, I don't understand. Isn't it a
bit unusual to inform the bride's father before an elopement. Yes,
but in this case it makes no difference. You couldn't
stop us if you wanted to, But I don't want to,

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my boy. Of course, I don't know you very well.
But just before you came here from the West Coast,
we had a letter from my old friend Judge Hamilton,
I know, a letter telling you that I was a
fine young man, plenty of money, good family. How did
you know that I wrote the letter myself? What and
since Judge Hamilton has been abroad, naturally you haven't been

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able to check up on you wrote that letter. Yes,
forgery is one of my many accomplishments. You should ask
the police about me. I'm quite a notorious character. Really,
you're joking, not at all. I have a very interesting
record swindling, fraud, picking pockets, armed robbery. Of course, those
when I was younger in my methods were more crude

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than they are not Barclay. Incidentally, my real name is
Tony Blaise. What's the point of all this? Well, I
was thinking it's going to be a wonderful story for
the newspapers. Millionaire's daughter wedd's criminal. I am beginning to
understand you think I'll pay you not to marry my

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daughter is that it precisely the only way to stop
the wedding now, mister Perry, is by writing me a
check for one hundred thousand dollars a hundred thousands.

Speaker 31 (51:52):
While you're out of your mind, mister Perry, you know
what would happen to a sensitive girl like Agnes if
she married this man. You can afford the money for
Agnes's sake.

Speaker 5 (52:02):
Pay him then, I'll give you ten thousand and not
one cent more. Oh No, marrying Agnes will be much
more profitable than that, Tony.

Speaker 31 (52:09):
You're not serious.

Speaker 5 (52:10):
Oh but I am, my dear. I've just decided in
a few months, mister Perry will be willing to pay
twice one hundred thousand for a nice, quiet divorce if
I make Agnes. I'mhappy enough, and believe me, I can
and will end the call of police. Stay where you are,
Miss Foresight. That revolver doesn't frighten me. If either of
you charming people tries to stop me, I'll show you

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I'm not bluffy.

Speaker 31 (52:33):
If you dare to marry, I suppose you tell me all.

Speaker 5 (52:35):
About it when I return from my honeymoon, Miss Foresight.
It's been almost an hour since he left, mister Carter.
I tried everywhere to find you. I'm sorry, mister Perry,
but Miss Bowen and I were both out of the office.

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Got to stop them no matter what it costs. Well,
it isn't money that's important now, mister Perry, it's time.

Speaker 30 (53:01):
Well, they can't get married tonight, Nick, even if they
could get a license, there's a three day waiting period
in this state.

Speaker 5 (53:06):
If he doesn't have a license already, Patsy, and if
they plan to get married in this state. If there
were only some way to warn every minister and justice
of the peace in this part of the country, and
to tell them, wait a minute, Uh, there is a
way by radio.

Speaker 19 (53:20):
Why.

Speaker 5 (53:20):
Yes, the station manager of w q XQ is a
friend of mine. And if you let us run an
announcement every now and then, Oh no, no, we can't
put the story on the Aircutter, I think of the scandal.

Speaker 32 (53:29):
Mister Perry. The important thing is to keep your daughter
from marrying this man, isn't it.

Speaker 33 (53:33):
I yes, of course, all right, go ahead with the
radio Announcement's catter, I, Agnes.

Speaker 30 (53:50):
Take the anthony to be my lawful wedded husband, to love, honor,
and cherish so long as we both may live.

Speaker 5 (53:59):
They didn't bury the virgin two of the power vested
in you. I know, well, this is our cabin AGNs
not much of a honeymoon cottage.

Speaker 30 (54:13):
Oh, I don't mind, darling, Nothing matters except that we're married, Tony.

Speaker 32 (54:19):
I'm through happy here.

Speaker 5 (54:22):
Stop there there that's the girl. Oh, I'd better go
put the car out of site. I don't want anybody
to spot all.

Speaker 19 (54:29):
Right, darling.

Speaker 30 (54:29):
And while you're gonna unpack your suitcase for you for
my suitcase with Tonia was only going to I.

Speaker 5 (54:36):
Know, darling, but I'm rather fussy about my things. Well, look,
there's a radio in this cabin. See if you can
get some music.

Speaker 30 (54:42):
Huh.

Speaker 5 (54:42):
I don't want my bride feeling unhappy. Yeah, I believe
to be in the vicinity of the state line. We
ask all ministers and justices of the peace who may

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hear this broadcast not to marry any couple answering the
description we have just given you, and to communicate with
the station immediately.

Speaker 4 (55:10):
The man has boasted that the marriage is.

Speaker 5 (55:12):
Merely an attempt to extort money from the girl's father,
and that he has a long criminal record. Your cooperation
may tragedy. We now resume our midnight Musicam.

Speaker 30 (55:24):
But why did he act that way about the suitcase,
as if he had something in it that he didn't
want me to see, I've got to know.

Speaker 32 (55:32):
I've got to.

Speaker 19 (55:37):
A revolver.

Speaker 5 (55:40):
I told you not to open that suitcase, Tony.

Speaker 32 (55:44):
Why are you carrying this?

Speaker 4 (55:45):
Why?

Speaker 5 (55:46):
Iye, okay, I always carry a gun, baby for protection.

Speaker 22 (55:50):
That don't lie to me.

Speaker 30 (55:52):
It was on the radio that you're a criminal, that
you only married me because of my father's money.

Speaker 5 (55:55):
All right, so I did. Why else would anyone marry
a stupid little frump like you?

Speaker 28 (56:00):
Tony? Oh no, no, no, I don't believe it.

Speaker 5 (56:04):
You said I said I loved you, huh, and you
were sad enough to believe me. But it's cash. I'm
in love with Darling. Papa's cash tot. Do you.

Speaker 34 (56:16):
Hate?

Speaker 5 (56:18):
Good? God? I want it that way. You're going to
hate me a lot more unless Papa pays up.

Speaker 28 (56:23):
You won't stay here a minute longer and going home.
You're not take your hands off me toly?

Speaker 5 (56:29):
Why you little slap me? Well you no dame can
get away or that keep away from me, Tony, I
can play a rough tone.

Speaker 32 (56:35):
Don't you touch me.

Speaker 28 (56:36):
I'll I'll kill you if you do.

Speaker 23 (56:39):
I kid me.

Speaker 5 (56:40):
You haven't got nerve enough to use that guy.

Speaker 28 (56:41):
I will, I swear I will.

Speaker 5 (56:43):
I'm going to give you a little lesson and wife
for you, you, you little fool, you.

Speaker 35 (56:52):
Tony mister Perry, where have you been? You realize it's
eight o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 5 (57:06):
I've been walking the streets for hours. When we didn't
hear anything. By midnight, I knew it wasn't any use.

Speaker 30 (57:11):
Well, it's a good thing somebody stayed here at the
radio station. Nick's on the phone.

Speaker 5 (57:15):
Now, you mean they've been found?

Speaker 36 (57:17):
I think so.

Speaker 32 (57:18):
Listen.

Speaker 5 (57:19):
I see well, thank you, mister mclee. Yes, I'm sorry too,
but it was good of you to call goodbye. What
was it, Carter? A justice of the peace from upstate?
I heard the announcement of the morning newscast.

Speaker 32 (57:31):
A justice of the peace. You mean they're married?

Speaker 5 (57:34):
Yes, oh, he said, he performed the ceremony at ten
thirty last night. I see, well, I suppose there's nothing
to do now but go home and wait. Oh, I'll
get a pencil.

Speaker 37 (57:47):
Huh.

Speaker 5 (57:48):
You better go tell the annuncer not to broadcast any
more of those notices. Nick Carter speaking.

Speaker 31 (57:53):
This is Linda Forsyde. Mister Carter is Agnes's father.

Speaker 4 (57:56):
There.

Speaker 5 (57:56):
Oh, yes, just a moment for you, mister Perry. Miss
foresight slender to stay at my house last night. I
wonder if Agnes is called her Hello, lind.

Speaker 31 (58:04):
Mister Perry, I have wonderful news. Agnes is back.

Speaker 5 (58:07):
She's there at the house now.

Speaker 31 (58:08):
Yeah, she must have come home during the night.

Speaker 5 (58:10):
Sometimes that man with her.

Speaker 26 (58:11):
No.

Speaker 31 (58:12):
One of the maids found Agnes to sleep in her
own room a few minutes ago. But but she's locked
herself in and.

Speaker 5 (58:18):
Won't talk to me. I never mind. We will be
home in ten minutes.

Speaker 28 (58:30):
Leave me alone, Leave me alone. I won't tell you
anything about it.

Speaker 5 (58:33):
But miss Perry, I know you and Tony Blaize were married, Yes,
I didn't. Naturally, your father wants to know why you
came home alone.

Speaker 30 (58:39):
Yeah, why don't you give her a chance to get
control of herself before you start firing.

Speaker 38 (58:42):
Questions at her.

Speaker 5 (58:44):
Maybe you're right, Patsy. Perhaps you would feel better if
you had some breakfast.

Speaker 28 (58:47):
I don't want anything, my big pardon.

Speaker 5 (58:50):
Yes, Garden, there's a gentleman who insists up on seeing
miss Agnes. My daughter isn't seeing anyone. Tell him to
go away. It wouldn't do any good if he did.
Tell me.

Speaker 32 (58:58):
Mister Perry sgr Medicine Patsy.

Speaker 5 (59:00):
I am Matty. What are you doing here?

Speaker 8 (59:02):
Official business?

Speaker 5 (59:03):
Nick? What do you mean official business? I didn't send
for the police.

Speaker 38 (59:06):
The police.

Speaker 28 (59:07):
No, I didn't do anything.

Speaker 8 (59:09):
Not there.

Speaker 5 (59:10):
He isn't here to see you. And that's where you're wrong,
mister Perry. I'm here to arrest your daughter on suspicion
of murder.

Speaker 29 (59:22):
Agnes Perry's despair is equaled by the shock and grief
in the eyes of her father as Matty makes the arrest.
We'll see what happens in just a moment. Now back
to the case of the homely Bride. Today's adventure with
Nick Carter brought to you by new post war old
Dutch cleanser. It's a couple of hours later, and at

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police headquarters, Agnes Perry is giving her version of what
happened in the tourist cabin the.

Speaker 30 (59:49):
Night before, when Tony admitted that he only married me
in order to get money out of father.

Speaker 28 (59:54):
I said, I was going home.

Speaker 5 (59:56):
He grabbed me and you had a fight. That's when
you fell against the chair near the bed. Your watch,
wasn't it, No.

Speaker 28 (01:00:01):
No, there wasn't any fine.

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
I noticed the crystal is missing from your watch and
we found thin pieces of curved glass near that upset chair.

Speaker 28 (01:00:09):
I don't know anything about that.

Speaker 5 (01:00:10):
Okay, okay, go ahead.

Speaker 32 (01:00:13):
What time was all this, Well about twelve thirty, I think, Eh.

Speaker 23 (01:00:17):
Then what happened?

Speaker 28 (01:00:18):
Well, I broke away from him right outside in my
car and drove home.

Speaker 5 (01:00:21):
And during the time it took you to get in
the car, start the motor and put it in gear.
Why did he catch up with you?

Speaker 28 (01:00:27):
Well, hate, he didn't try.

Speaker 32 (01:00:29):
He only chased me as far as the door.

Speaker 5 (01:00:31):
He chased you to the door. Yet you still found
time to stop and pick up your coat.

Speaker 32 (01:00:35):
No, I didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:00:36):
I just ran.

Speaker 28 (01:00:37):
I didn't stop for anything.

Speaker 5 (01:00:38):
Okay, okay, Now I'll tell you what really happened. You
fought the Tony Blaze about three o'clock, not twelve thirty,
because the medical examiner says he was shot sometime between
three and four.

Speaker 30 (01:00:50):
As it was twelve thirty, I tell you, I mean
that's when I left the cabin.

Speaker 5 (01:00:54):
Oh, and when you broke away, you didn't run out
the door. You picked up that gun of his and
shirlot No, no, oh, I didn't. After that, you didn't
need to hurry, so you got your coat and purse,
walked out.

Speaker 11 (01:01:04):
To the car and came home.

Speaker 28 (01:01:05):
It's a lie.

Speaker 5 (01:01:06):
I didn't shoot him all right, then, why are your
fingerprints all over the gun and only your finger be
he told you I.

Speaker 32 (01:01:12):
Found it in his suitcase.

Speaker 28 (01:01:13):
I picked it up.

Speaker 5 (01:01:15):
Excuse me, mad, Yeah, Nick, I suppose you've had ballistics
check the revolready, be sure it's the one that killed
Tony Blaze. Well, naturally, all three bullets came out of
the same gun. We dug two out of the wall,
the one that missed him completely and the one that
grazed his head. There was a third bullet in his heart.
And I see why you're so sure. It happened at
exactly three point fifteen. Because Nick, something aroused the woman

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who runs the camp. She realized later it must have
been the shooting. Of course, she looked out her window
and saw miss Purry here leaving wearing a coat. Yeah,
a white coat you could see a mile off. That's
how the woman knew who it was. Miss Purry was
wearing that same coat when she checked into the place.

Speaker 28 (01:01:55):
She's lying. I left my coat at the cabin when
I ran out.

Speaker 5 (01:01:58):
It's not there now, Miss Purry. Wait a minute, Wait
a minute, let's forget the quarter a minute, Maddy, Huh
about the time element. Couldn't the woman be mistaken?

Speaker 11 (01:02:06):
No, not a chance, Nick.

Speaker 5 (01:02:08):
In the first place, she looked at her clock. In
the second place, she wasn't even home until after two thirty.
Oh you see, Nick, none of the other cabins were
rented last night, so the woman went into town to
a party. I see now, Look, miss Perry, everybody knows
Tony Blaize was a king size heel.

Speaker 4 (01:02:26):
So maybe if you would admit the truth, I.

Speaker 38 (01:02:28):
Won't admit anything.

Speaker 28 (01:02:29):
You trying to trap me?

Speaker 5 (01:02:31):
Okay, okay, then I'll have to hold you for the
grand jury. And I hope you've got a better story
then than you have now.

Speaker 8 (01:02:50):
I can't believe it.

Speaker 5 (01:02:52):
Agnes accused murder. Policemen here in my home searching for evidence.

Speaker 31 (01:02:56):
Please don't worry, mister Perry. No jury will ever convict
Agnes under the circumstances.

Speaker 5 (01:03:01):
Maybe they won't, Miss Forestide. If she'd admit the circumstances,
and if she sticks to the story she told it headquarter,
she may be charged with first degree murder. You're probably right, Carter.
Even I can see that Agnes is lie, And why
should she lie? About such unimportant things the time, and
whether or not she was wearing a coat.

Speaker 31 (01:03:18):
She's hysterical, that's all. You don't know Agnes's I do,
mister Carter. She's always been terribly shy, frightened of everybody.

Speaker 5 (01:03:26):
How long have you known of miss Foreside?

Speaker 31 (01:03:28):
Well only about six months really, but we've been like sisters.

Speaker 5 (01:03:32):
Oh, Nick, that's mat.

Speaker 30 (01:03:34):
I asked Gordon of the butler you know, Oh yes, yes,
sah Well, I asked him to come down here and
tell you what he just tells Sargian Madison tell them.

Speaker 5 (01:03:40):
Gordon, Well, sir, it's just that I heard miss Agnes
come home last night? And why didn't you tell somebody? Gordon?
You knew how frantic we all are. I'm sorry, mister Perry,
but I didn't know it was miss Agnes at the time.

Speaker 39 (01:03:51):
I thought it was you, sir.

Speaker 5 (01:03:53):
Why should you think that could have have been Miss
Foresid here or one of the servants. Oh no, sir.
The only persons with a leeched key on miss Agnes,
mister Perry and my anyone else would have to ring
the doorbell to get you in. What time? Was this
about four thirty, mister Carton? I see How did you
happen to be awake at that time, Gordon? Well, after
I locked the house at one o'clock, Sir, I didn't
sleep will worrying about miss Agnes. That's how I happened

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to be a weak at four thirty and heard the
front door open and close. Then a moment later I
heard her open the door to the basement. The basement.
Why should Agnes have gone down there?

Speaker 32 (01:04:23):
That's what Sagean Madison wanted to know, so he went down.

Speaker 38 (01:04:25):
To have a look.

Speaker 5 (01:04:26):
Agnes was telling the truth about leaving the tourist camp
at twelve thirty or one. She'd have been home long
before that, But.

Speaker 30 (01:04:32):
If she left it three point fifteen, the time would
be just about right, That's what I was thinking.

Speaker 5 (01:04:36):
Well, Nick, I found it. What matter the white coat?
Miss Perry said she didn't wear home. She tried to
burn it in the furnace, but there's still plenty left
for identification. And look at those blood stains. Is that
Agnes's coat, mister Perry, Yes, eh, I'm afraid it is.

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And it's the last piece of evidence needed to smash
that's story of hers to smither reasons, Oh.

Speaker 28 (01:05:12):
What's the use? Yes, yes, yes, I shot him knowing
who you.

Speaker 5 (01:05:16):
Said this fun Please, miss Perry, don't look on us
said enemies. Patsy and I came here to the jail
hoping we could help you.

Speaker 32 (01:05:22):
That's the truth, Miss Perry. Why don't you tell Nick
just what happened?

Speaker 28 (01:05:26):
Who he was going to hit me?

Speaker 30 (01:05:28):
I warned him to stay away, but he kept coming
with that awful look on his face. I was almost
out of my mind with fear. I didn't even realize
what I was doing.

Speaker 32 (01:05:36):
Look, you mustn't get excited. You see nigga was self defense.

Speaker 5 (01:05:40):
But the next thing is to prove it.

Speaker 32 (01:05:42):
Oh well, can you with everybody lying about me? Nobody's
lying about you.

Speaker 28 (01:05:45):
They're all lying that woman of the camp, the police,
even Gordon.

Speaker 30 (01:05:49):
They lied about the code, about the time it happened,
even about by breaking my watch.

Speaker 5 (01:05:52):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute. You still insist that
the shooting took place at twelve thirty and that you
came back home without your coat.

Speaker 32 (01:06:00):
And of course I do because it's the truth.

Speaker 30 (01:06:02):
And you didn't fall against that chair and break your watch, Chris,
I didn't fall against anything.

Speaker 5 (01:06:08):
Look, miss Perry, how many times did you fire that revolver?

Speaker 1 (01:06:10):
Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 31 (01:06:11):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:06:13):
Wait, I have a picture here that the police photographer
took of the body.

Speaker 32 (01:06:16):
I don't want to see it.

Speaker 5 (01:06:17):
You've got to this is important, all right. Now tell
me was this the way he was lying when you
left the cabin? No?

Speaker 32 (01:06:27):
No, he was bor on his side and not next
to the baby. He was over by the easy chair.
He must have lived long enough to crawl a few feet.

Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
Patty. That last bullet killed him instantly.

Speaker 28 (01:06:36):
Please stop talking about it. I said, I killed him.
What more do you want?

Speaker 5 (01:06:41):
I want a lot more, Miss Perry. I want to
get you out of this cell, and the best way
to do it is by putting someone else here instead.

Speaker 30 (01:06:57):
Hello, Sergeant Matheson, missus Patsy Nick just got back to
the office and he wants to know whether you have
any report on those.

Speaker 5 (01:07:03):
Fingerprints yet and the broken glass Toobe.

Speaker 30 (01:07:05):
Oh yes, the glass fragment's two sergeant, Okay, I'll hold on.
He's gone for the report now, ne good. Why this
sudden interesting fingerprints? You know, the only prince on the
revolve of the kill Tony Blaze was agnes'es.

Speaker 5 (01:07:17):
I know, but these are different. I got one of
them from a teacup and the other off the lock
button on the Perry's front door off the What a
little button on the lock that you press when you
want to leave the door off the latch?

Speaker 30 (01:07:28):
But what the Oh, yes, sergeant, they were And how
about the glass I see? Yes, yes, I'll tell him goodbye?

Speaker 5 (01:07:41):
What did he say?

Speaker 30 (01:07:42):
Those fingerprints were both made by the same person, But
it wasn't Agnes Perry.

Speaker 5 (01:07:46):
That's what I hoped for. And how about the pieces
of glass?

Speaker 30 (01:07:48):
Well, it seems that Agnes is telling the truth about
a watch. At least those fragments weren't from a watch crystal.
After all, they were optical glass.

Speaker 5 (01:07:55):
That makes things more interesting. Gotta get your hat, Patsy,
we're going to travel.

Speaker 32 (01:08:09):
H it's sounding nice for you to drive us up here,
miss Forsyde.

Speaker 31 (01:08:11):
Well, naturally, if talking to this woman at the tourist
camp will helped poor Agnes's defense, I'm only too glad.

Speaker 40 (01:08:17):
Uh?

Speaker 31 (01:08:18):
Is it straight ahead on this road?

Speaker 41 (01:08:20):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:08:20):
You turn left at the next corner and follow the
river road?

Speaker 31 (01:08:23):
Turn left?

Speaker 10 (01:08:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:08:24):
Haven't you ever even up this way before?

Speaker 26 (01:08:26):
No?

Speaker 31 (01:08:27):
And I had no idea it was some mountainous Do
you really think you can do anything to help Agnes.

Speaker 5 (01:08:32):
Mister Carter, I do. As a matter of fact, I
intend to prove that Agnes Perry didn't kill.

Speaker 22 (01:08:36):
Her husband, but she confessed.

Speaker 5 (01:08:38):
I know she did. But I found a fingerprint on
the last button of the front door. That's going to
convict the real murderer.

Speaker 31 (01:08:43):
I don't understand.

Speaker 32 (01:08:44):
Here's the turn, Miss forsyde Oh, I.

Speaker 31 (01:08:49):
Almost missed that.

Speaker 5 (01:08:50):
Yeah, and you turn right, Miss Foreside. I told you
to make a left turn.

Speaker 31 (01:08:54):
Oh oh, how stupid of me. I'll turn around.

Speaker 5 (01:08:58):
No, no, never mind. The camp is on this road.
But how did you know?

Speaker 26 (01:09:03):
What?

Speaker 5 (01:09:04):
Why?

Speaker 31 (01:09:04):
I didn't? What's the roads to go over the cliff?
It's all right, I just swerve to avoid that dog.
I didn't see it until it was almost under our wheel.
You you almost gave me heart failure. Must be one
hundred feet down to the river.

Speaker 5 (01:09:19):
Miss Porside probably didn't notice the dog because she doesn't
see so well without her glasses. Patsy, my glasses. How
did you know that? I usually wear them while driving,
don't you? Of course I do. But they're broken, aren't they,
Miss Foresid You broke them last night in the tourist
cabin where you killed Tony Blaze.

Speaker 31 (01:09:35):
That's utally ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (01:09:37):
You say you've never been over this road before. I
haven't yet. Because you were excited, you took the right
hand turn, even though I purposely told you to turn left.

Speaker 31 (01:09:43):
That doesn't mean anything.

Speaker 5 (01:09:45):
I'd say. It means you made the same trip before
last night, when you slipped the latch of the front
door of the Perry home so that you can get
back in unobserved.

Speaker 31 (01:09:52):
I did no such thing.

Speaker 5 (01:09:53):
Oh yes you did. Your fingerprint was on the push
button of the automatic luck, the same print you left
on a teacup this afternoon.

Speaker 31 (01:10:01):
Suppose I did touch that push button. You still can't
prove I was ever in that cabin.

Speaker 5 (01:10:06):
I think we can by having an oculist compare the
pieces of broken glass found in the cabin with a
prescription for your eyeglasses.

Speaker 31 (01:10:13):
All right, smart boy, So I did kill him, but
I won't go to the chair for it. I'd rather
dive this way.

Speaker 5 (01:10:21):
You're going over the.

Speaker 29 (01:10:21):
Con Linda foresight twists the wheel of the speeding car
toward the edge of the cliff with its hundred foot drop,
intended to kill not only herself but Nick and Patsy
As well, we'll see what happens in just a moment.

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Now for the conclusion of the case of the Homely Bride,
Today's adventure with Nick Carter drop to you by new
post warhold Dutch cleanser. Rather than take a chance on
the electric chair, Linda Foresyth turns the wheel of a
fast moving car toward the side of the mountain road
where there's a sheer one hundred foot If.

Speaker 31 (01:11:01):
You're going over the clive, let go the wheel.

Speaker 32 (01:11:03):
Yes up, Oh, thank heaven. We hit a tree instead
of going over.

Speaker 5 (01:11:12):
Yeah. I managed to twist the wheel enough to avoid that.

Speaker 42 (01:11:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 32 (01:11:15):
But even hitting a tree at that speed, I mean.

Speaker 19 (01:11:18):
Why are we smashed up?

Speaker 5 (01:11:19):
More? I managed to get my foot on the brake
and jammed it down hard.

Speaker 31 (01:11:23):
Why did you have to go snooping around? May have
acquitted Agnes.

Speaker 5 (01:11:26):
But but it made me a different story for you.
Why did you kill Tony Blaze? Anyway?

Speaker 22 (01:11:32):
He double crossed me.

Speaker 31 (01:11:34):
I was the one he was going to marry, not Agnes.
He said it would only be a bluff to get
money out of her father.

Speaker 32 (01:11:39):
Then you were in on the whole scheme, of course
I was.

Speaker 31 (01:11:42):
Tony would never have been able to meet Agnes if
I hadn't made friends with her and introduced him, and.

Speaker 5 (01:11:46):
Then you stayed right with her, so that you're gonna
encourage the courtship. Uh.

Speaker 31 (01:11:49):
I did it because I loved it, and he said
he loved me. We were going to take the money get.

Speaker 5 (01:11:56):
Married, and then he and then he decided to be
more profitable in the long run to marry Agnes and
collect afterward.

Speaker 31 (01:12:03):
Yes, I knew where they'd gone, so I came up
here to have it out with him, and then he
got nasty.

Speaker 5 (01:12:09):
He hit me.

Speaker 32 (01:12:10):
It was vell over the chair and broke your glasses.

Speaker 31 (01:12:13):
Yes, I must have gone crazy. I grabbed up the gun.

Speaker 32 (01:12:16):
Agnes said she shot him.

Speaker 1 (01:12:18):
She did.

Speaker 31 (01:12:18):
One bullet went wild, and another grazed his head and
made him unconscious. He'd just come out of it a
little while before I got.

Speaker 5 (01:12:24):
There, And you got the idea of putting the blame
on her. Huh.

Speaker 31 (01:12:27):
Yes, I was sure her fingerprints were still on the gun.
Tony was still groggy. He didn't notice what I was doing,
so I picked it up with my.

Speaker 5 (01:12:34):
Handkerchief and finished the job. Then you put on Agnes's
white coat before leaving the cabin, so that if anyone
saw you, they think it was she.

Speaker 31 (01:12:41):
It's right, Oh, mister cut What do you think they'll
do to me?

Speaker 5 (01:12:45):
I don't know, miss Fortsight, But since you're so fond
of wearing Agnes Perry's clothes, we'll see how that prison
uniform of hers will fit you.

Speaker 29 (01:12:59):
Well, Nick, what about the adventure new postwar old Dutch
cleanser will bring us next week?

Speaker 5 (01:13:03):
It's a story mic about a politician who found an
Oriental dancer in his bathtub.

Speaker 30 (01:13:07):
Dead, And Nick didn't like the costume the corpse was
wearing because it exposed an uneven suntan.

Speaker 29 (01:13:13):
But what suntan got to do with murder?

Speaker 5 (01:13:15):
It had plenty to do with this one mic, along
with a jealous wife and a sideshow barker and an
old fashioned political rally.

Speaker 29 (01:13:21):
Well, now that sounds like quite an adventure.

Speaker 23 (01:13:23):
What do you call it, Nick?

Speaker 5 (01:13:24):
I call it the Case of the Candidate's Corpse?

Speaker 29 (01:13:39):
Nick Carter Master Detective is presented each week at this
time by The Cutdaheap Packing Company. It is produced and
directed by Jock McGregor and is copyrighted by Street and
Smith Publications Incorporated. Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy ed
Latimer plays Matty. Today's script was written by Jim Parsons.
Original music is played by Henry Silvern. This program is

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fictional and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead
is purely coincidental. This is Michael Fitzmaras saying, when minutes count,
use new post war old Dutch cleanser. This is the
Mutual Broadcasting system.

Speaker 6 (01:14:22):
And from Sunday seventy seven years ago, September nineteenth, nineteen
forty eight, six thirty Eastern Time on Mutual, that was
Nick Carter, Master Detective here on Classic Radio Theater with
Wyatt cos Let's look a week ahead Here coming up tomorrow,
we have Westerns. Jimmy Stewart is the six shooter. We

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had the Melody Ranch with Gene Autry, have Gun, We'll
travel and gun smoke. On Sunday, Jack Benny Jack Parr,
father knows best in front and center as we keep
the mood light. On Monday, though, we get serious again
with mister Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, Barry Craig Potential Investigator,
Romance and suspense. And then on Tuesday more comedy with

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the Great Guildersleeve Milton Burrough, Charlie McCarthy and the screen
Director's Playhouse production Don't Trust Your Husband starring Fred McMurray.
On Wednesday, more to Crime with Let George Do It
starring Bob Bailey, The Whistler and The Man Who Died Twice,
William john Stone as the Shadow going back to nineteen

(01:15:27):
thirty nine, and Romance The Winds of June starring Vic
Perrin and Virginia Gregg. On Thursday, we will have another
episode of Mystery in the Air Peter Lourie, Yes, the
adaptation of Crime and Punishment and how You do that
in thirty minutes? It Ain't Easy. Also another episode of
Sam Spade Detective and Yours Truly Johnny Bella The Five

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Down Matter, and we hit the mean streets of Culver City,
California for another episode of night Watch. And then on
Friday we have an hour of the Lux Radio Theater
as we get back to comedy with seven Years Excuse Me,
Seven Keys to Ballplate starring Mary Livingston and her husband

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Jack Bennie. Also a preview of the forthcoming Lomon Abner
half hour primetime show from nineteen forty eight and Gravcho
Marx and You Bet your life. That's all coming up
a week from today here on Classic Radio Theater with
Wyatt Cox. But right now we're going to head back
to CBS for an episode of The Man Called X.

Speaker 15 (01:16:43):
Americans have always been noted for their nohow, and you,
young men in search of a career, you can put
this practical talent to excellent use in one of our
nation's many engineering schools. At the present time, we need engineers.
We need them to maintain our scientific and engineering superior
or so look to your future, to America's future. Plan

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now to become an engineer.

Speaker 6 (01:17:06):
Classic Radio Theater with Wyat Talks continues now eight thirty
Eastern Time on Sunday, the nineteenth day of September nineteen
forty eight. Herbert Marshall, the Man called.

Speaker 43 (01:17:22):
X, or twice as Sure with two great names Frigidnaire
and General Motorsdaire.

Speaker 44 (01:17:34):
Presents Herbert Marshall as the man called X.

Speaker 43 (01:17:37):
Wherever there is mystery, intrigue, romance, in all the strange
and dangerous places of the world, there you will find
the land called X. You're christ is sure with two

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great names Frigidaire and General Motors for frigid are refrigerators
are made only by Frigidaire, a division of General Motors,
And it is disassociation of Frigidaire. This association of experience
with experience, of skill with skill that makes Frigidaire America's

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favorite refrigerator.

Speaker 44 (01:18:24):
Remember this when you choose your new refrigerator.

Speaker 43 (01:18:27):
Remember that millions of Frigidaires in Midgedaire and homes have
established Frigidaire's reputation for complete defendability for lasting satisfaction. Yes,
you're twice as sure with two great names, Frigidaire and
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a division of General Motors. More frigid Are refrigerators serve
in more American homes than any other make.

Speaker 44 (01:19:03):
And our fridge there presents Herbert Marshall as ken Thurston.
The man called x.

Speaker 23 (01:19:18):
Hello jeep, first so iry to wait a two o'clock
in the morning.

Speaker 44 (01:19:23):
That's all right? What's up?

Speaker 23 (01:19:24):
You remember doctor Alfred Brenner.

Speaker 18 (01:19:26):
Brenner, Yes, nuclear physicists retired about twenty years ago, didn't he?

Speaker 23 (01:19:30):
Yep, he's working again.

Speaker 44 (01:19:31):
Oh nice going for man his age.

Speaker 40 (01:19:33):
And there's a young man with me here named Ellsworth
Gilbert claims he's Brenner's assistant, also claims the Brenner's on
the verge of making an important atomic discovery. What else
did he claim the booth Brenner and his discovery are
in great danger.

Speaker 44 (01:19:47):
Ken, I'll be right over. Where are you in your office?
My office?

Speaker 23 (01:19:52):
The night watchman called your secretary when he found this
Gilbert trying to break in?

Speaker 26 (01:20:09):
Must I repeat this over and over again like a
parrot while you're sitting here wasting time with these questions?

Speaker 44 (01:20:15):
Heaven knows what they're doing to doctor Brenner.

Speaker 43 (01:20:17):
Mister Gilbert, and a man's court trying to break into
this office at two in the morning.

Speaker 5 (01:20:22):
I think some questions are in order.

Speaker 26 (01:20:24):
I had to get in here. I'm going back to
join doctor Brenner and Madagascar tonight.

Speaker 22 (01:20:28):
I had to see.

Speaker 23 (01:20:28):
Somebody tell us something about doctor Brenner's discovery.

Speaker 26 (01:20:32):
He's working on a method of using common metals like
iron or lead for nuclear fission, not quite perfected yet.
That's why the doctor sent me to America to get
all possible information on atomic energy. And did you this
information I have is all doctor Brenner needs to complete
his experiments successfully.

Speaker 23 (01:20:48):
Why do you say, Doctor Brenna's in danger.

Speaker 44 (01:20:49):
There's a man who owns a nightclub in Madagascar called
the Black Rose.

Speaker 38 (01:20:54):
Name is Rocky Grant.

Speaker 26 (01:20:55):
He's a cheap racketeer, but a dangerous one, especially when
he wants something.

Speaker 23 (01:21:00):
Something like the Doctor's Discovery. Yes, han me that telephone. Sure, Hello, Pagan,
this is Ken Thurston. Tell me all you know about
a man named Rocky Grant.

Speaker 22 (01:21:16):
Rock that's bloodthirsty gangster who would kill his best friend
for a quarter.

Speaker 45 (01:21:20):
It is a thirst and I've never heard of him.

Speaker 23 (01:21:22):
That's all I wanted to know, Pagan. Meet meet the
airport in half an hour where we're going Madagasca.

Speaker 22 (01:22:01):
I wish somebody would be good enough to tell me
what I am doing here in Madagascar.

Speaker 23 (01:22:04):
Sorry, Pagan, I had to bring you along. You know
enough about Rocky Grant to be useful.

Speaker 44 (01:22:12):
Who is there?

Speaker 26 (01:22:13):
Hello, Doctor Brenner Gilvert. I am so delighted to see doctor.
This is mister Thurston, mister Delfshmidt. Hello, I'll please excuse
my bad manners, gentlemen. I'm so happy to see Gilbert.
I forget common Curtsey. It's a pleasure to meet you,
doctor Gilbert.

Speaker 46 (01:22:29):
I'm impatient to know was your treat success more successful
than we dared?

Speaker 22 (01:22:33):
Hope, I'm showing what you brought.

Speaker 23 (01:22:35):
We've come all the way from America to talk to you, sir,
talk to me. But why you're in danger here? We
want to take you where you'll be safe.

Speaker 46 (01:22:42):
I'm a million old man thinking with science for my
own amusement. Mister Thurston, who would possibly want to harm me?

Speaker 23 (01:22:49):
Possibly Rocky Grant?

Speaker 46 (01:22:51):
Rocky Grant. Oh, I see that Gilbert had been telling
you tales?

Speaker 23 (01:22:54):
Is that another way of saying you won't return to
America with us?

Speaker 46 (01:22:58):
As you see, I'm getting on my phone and I
cannot afford the time to become inmaged in these plots
of intrigue. Believe me, I'm more than grateful for your
deep concern about me.

Speaker 5 (01:23:08):
But you won't leave. No, I won't leave.

Speaker 22 (01:23:33):
Tell me, mister Thurston, what are we doing in the
Black Rose nightclub?

Speaker 23 (01:23:37):
We're waiting for pa Oh you know him?

Speaker 5 (01:23:39):
No, you do.

Speaker 23 (01:23:40):
This is Rockie Grand's place.

Speaker 22 (01:23:42):
Rocky Grants, you're using me as a piece of bait,
a warm and a fish hook. Well this warm is
not only gonna turn, it's gonna scramp.

Speaker 38 (01:23:49):
Well, it is Pagan del schmid Renoir.

Speaker 23 (01:23:52):
Aren't you going to introduce me the lady Pagan?

Speaker 22 (01:23:55):
This is my friend, mister can Thurst.

Speaker 38 (01:23:57):
So you're can Thurston.

Speaker 23 (01:23:59):
Won't you join?

Speaker 5 (01:24:00):
Ms?

Speaker 23 (01:24:00):
Von Will?

Speaker 38 (01:24:00):
Thanks? I will. I've got a few minutes before I
go on again.

Speaker 23 (01:24:03):
You work here, I am the floor show. If you please,
then perhaps you would tell me where I can find
Rocky Grant.

Speaker 19 (01:24:09):
No, I couldn't.

Speaker 38 (01:24:10):
Rocky left here a few minutes ago and said he
wouldn't be back tonight.

Speaker 23 (01:24:13):
Pegan, I'm aren't you a little late for your appointment?

Speaker 44 (01:24:17):
My appointment with the doctor.

Speaker 22 (01:24:20):
The doctor. Oh, yes, that's right, doctor, I'll see you all.

Speaker 47 (01:24:23):
The Pagan's changed when I used to know him. He
never ran around with respectable persons like you.

Speaker 23 (01:24:29):
Well, thank you. If you don't even know.

Speaker 47 (01:24:31):
Me, don't I would you like me to tell you
what you were doing? On September twenty third of last year.

Speaker 23 (01:24:37):
I couldn't even tell you that myself.

Speaker 47 (01:24:39):
A man named Ken Thurston had just won the semifinal
round in an amateur golf tournament at the West End
Country Club, but he lost the finals by default because
he was mysteriously called.

Speaker 38 (01:24:50):
Away on urgent business. How did you know that that
story was an ap dispatch?

Speaker 23 (01:24:55):
But do you remember everything you read?

Speaker 47 (01:24:57):
I remember everything. That's my profession. I have a memory
which retains everything I see or hear. Vinoir the girl
who never forgets?

Speaker 38 (01:25:07):
What's the matter? You're looking at me as though I
were a freak or something.

Speaker 23 (01:25:11):
Well, just thinking a memory like yours would be invaluable
to certain people who for instance, oh, someone who wanted
secret mathematical formulae. For instance, you might have something there, Yes,
miss Venture, I might have something there.

Speaker 5 (01:25:26):
Indeed, I've got to talk to you.

Speaker 44 (01:25:30):
You've got to get doctor Brenner out of Madagascar tonight.

Speaker 23 (01:25:33):
I have no way of forcing the doctor.

Speaker 26 (01:25:34):
Doctor changed his mind. Grant just threatened to kill the
doctor unless he give him a discovery.

Speaker 23 (01:25:40):
Where's doctor Brenna now the airport?

Speaker 38 (01:25:42):
He's waiting for us?

Speaker 23 (01:25:42):
Where's Lucky Grant?

Speaker 44 (01:25:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 23 (01:25:44):
You should never let the doctor. Sorry, come on, mister Thurston.

Speaker 46 (01:26:07):
I'm still not so sure I should leave with you.
Maybe be at acting too hastily.

Speaker 23 (01:26:10):
Ran threatened to kill you, didn't he?

Speaker 4 (01:26:12):
Yes?

Speaker 22 (01:26:12):
But leaving Madagascar like this with so much work still undone?

Speaker 44 (01:26:16):
You have your notebook with your doctor look.

Speaker 22 (01:26:19):
With the first over there, that automobile racing across the field.
It's coming right, daughters.

Speaker 38 (01:26:29):
And wait, if you must take me with you, please
don't say no, don't say anything.

Speaker 30 (01:26:32):
Just take me.

Speaker 38 (01:26:33):
I've got to get out of Madagascar now on this plane.

Speaker 23 (01:26:35):
You have a trick memory, Miss don How do I
know you don't have a few other tricks up the sleeve?
You don't, except for that gun that's now in your hands.

Speaker 38 (01:26:42):
I'm just desperate enough to use it, mister Thurston.

Speaker 23 (01:26:45):
Oh another event the step aboard after use, mister Thurston

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with Vnwell, we're far enough away from Madagascar now for
you to stop pointing that gun at me.

Speaker 22 (01:27:13):
Okay, mister Thurston, you know I'm so happy to be
flying away from that rocky grant. I can't begin to tent,
and don't even try.

Speaker 48 (01:27:20):
Big rocky, small world.

Speaker 49 (01:27:22):
Isn't it.

Speaker 23 (01:27:23):
How did you get in here?

Speaker 48 (01:27:24):
Grand awfully uncomfortable back in that little baggage compartment, so
I decided to come in with you. As I look
around me, I see a lot of my old friends here.
Don't look at me, Doctor Brenner, mister Gilbert pay Gun,
and the lovely Miss van Nooir stay away from Iraqi.
I was disappointed when you ran away last night without
saying goodbye.

Speaker 23 (01:27:44):
It hurt me.

Speaker 5 (01:27:46):
You didn't mean to hurt me.

Speaker 48 (01:27:47):
Did you to hit her next time? Please say goodbye
when you're going any place, my love, No matter, mister Thurston,
don't care for my manners.

Speaker 23 (01:27:59):
You're a man as of the least offensive part of you.

Speaker 48 (01:28:02):
I see this gun doesn't frighten you.

Speaker 5 (01:28:04):
But this is a friendly gathering.

Speaker 23 (01:28:06):
I'm sure very friendly is I imagine even the pilot
is some kind of friend of yours.

Speaker 48 (01:28:11):
No, he surprised me a little. I actually had to
remind him of what he owes me before.

Speaker 23 (01:28:15):
It would be come along and maybe getting better. The
crash into that island just ahead is his own idea.

Speaker 22 (01:28:20):
What island we're going to crush?

Speaker 5 (01:28:21):
And pilot lost his mind?

Speaker 23 (01:28:23):
Get down on the floor, Hey, you on?

Speaker 22 (01:28:49):
Well there you armies? A person you disappeared right after
the crash.

Speaker 23 (01:28:52):
I wanted to have a look around.

Speaker 22 (01:28:53):
Well where are we?

Speaker 23 (01:28:55):
I don't know, some tiny I inhabited island in the
Indian Ocean. If we all don't start to death.

Speaker 50 (01:29:01):
If Rock and me are stuck on a small island,
I ain't gonna die of servision.

Speaker 23 (01:29:05):
Where's doctor Brennan and the others.

Speaker 22 (01:29:07):
Put it down the beach? Well, accept the pilot. He's
somewhere inside the record's trying to fix the radio so
that we can send for help.

Speaker 2 (01:29:12):
Wait here, Pegan, I'm going to speak to the pilot. Oh,
mister Thurston know anything about fixing radios?

Speaker 23 (01:29:23):
Captain, i'd I don't know why we crashed on this island. Well,
it's hard to explain his lies. Always hard to explain.

Speaker 36 (01:29:30):
Captain, you would have done the same thing if a
man had a gun at your head, telling you'd blow
it off if you didn't crash.

Speaker 5 (01:29:34):
What man was that?

Speaker 44 (01:29:36):
Ellsworth? Gilbert?

Speaker 5 (01:29:37):
Gilbert?

Speaker 44 (01:29:38):
You can ask him yourself.

Speaker 23 (01:29:40):
I'm afraid I can. I swa him a little while
ago on the beach, ELL's Worth Gilbert is dead. Captain murdered.

Speaker 44 (01:30:12):
In just a moment.

Speaker 43 (01:30:13):
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called ex starring Herbert Marshall. Ken Thurston was flying doctor

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Brenner from Madagascar back to the United States because Rocky Grant,
a racketeer, had tried to seize the doctor's atomic discovery.
While in flight, Grant entered from the baggage compartment where
he'd been hiding. Suddenly, the plane crash landed on a
small desert island somewhere in the Indian Ocean. The pilot
explained to mister Thurston that he'd been forced to land
there by doctor Brenner's assistant, Ellsworth Gilbert. Mister Thurston was

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unable to verify this since he had just seen Ellsworth
Gilbert on the beach he'd been murdered. But now it's
the following morning, and mister Thurston has just awakened from
a troubled, fitful sleep. He sees Miss van Nooir working
busily over a small fire.

Speaker 23 (01:32:44):
Good morning, Miss Benoir.

Speaker 38 (01:32:45):
Hello, you're just in time for some.

Speaker 5 (01:32:47):
Coffee, Poppish.

Speaker 23 (01:32:49):
Where did you dig up at the luxury on this
bleak face.

Speaker 47 (01:32:51):
We formed a salvaging party early this morning to look
for food and somebody found a pound of coffee in
the plain with mister Thurston. I'm sorry for the way
I acted last night, but I just had to get
out of Madagascar. Remember you suggested that I might use
my memory on secret formulae. Well, someone else came to

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me with the same idea last night. Only wasn't suggesting.
He was demanding.

Speaker 38 (01:33:16):
Cop he's ready.

Speaker 23 (01:33:17):
Don't you have you any hap to you?

Speaker 38 (01:33:19):
We only have one drinking cup?

Speaker 23 (01:33:21):
Thanks? Tell me was the man who demanded that you
memorize formerly our friend, mister Grant.

Speaker 48 (01:33:26):
I think I can answer that question. I was crude
enough to eavesdropped from behind those bushes. The memory of
yours is too valuable for me to kill you. But
I'm afraid I'm going to have to deprive you of
your companion.

Speaker 5 (01:33:39):
Mister Thurst, me your poolgram.

Speaker 48 (01:33:41):
Sorry, Thurston, the talkative miss van Wise told you too
much for your own good solo.

Speaker 22 (01:33:49):
Shoot hey, Grant to look awfully silly standing they're shooting
an empty pistol empty.

Speaker 50 (01:33:53):
I unloaded it last night while you were asleep. Where
you are, Rocky, Why where'd you get a gun?

Speaker 5 (01:33:59):
Wait?

Speaker 44 (01:33:59):
I'm minute, baby, You wouldn't shoot me?

Speaker 4 (01:34:02):
Why not?

Speaker 48 (01:34:04):
I've put the gun down, baby, put it on.

Speaker 38 (01:34:06):
Why I've seen you kill people so often?

Speaker 5 (01:34:08):
I'm used to Nald Thurst and Stopper.

Speaker 23 (01:34:11):
I don't know if I can ground.

Speaker 22 (01:34:12):
I'll do anything you say.

Speaker 44 (01:34:13):
Just give me a break.

Speaker 23 (01:34:14):
Why did you stow away on that plane?

Speaker 44 (01:34:16):
I knew bren It's discovery be worth millions.

Speaker 22 (01:34:18):
I tried to lay my hands on it, that's all.

Speaker 23 (01:34:19):
Why did we crash on this highland?

Speaker 22 (01:34:21):
I had nothing to do with that. I have no
idea why we crashed here?

Speaker 23 (01:34:23):
I told you, have no idea why Gilbert was murdered?

Speaker 22 (01:34:25):
No, no, I don't.

Speaker 44 (01:34:25):
I didn't care who did.

Speaker 40 (01:34:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 22 (01:34:27):
All I know is I didn't do it.

Speaker 44 (01:34:29):
Thurston.

Speaker 22 (01:34:29):
You've got to believe my story.

Speaker 44 (01:34:30):
I didn't do it.

Speaker 5 (01:34:31):
Tell you get hold of yourself.

Speaker 23 (01:34:33):
Yeah, you better drink my coffee. You need it more
than I do.

Speaker 44 (01:34:42):
Thanks mister Thurston, Thanks a lot.

Speaker 23 (01:34:46):
Do you think any better ground?

Speaker 5 (01:34:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 44 (01:34:49):
Yeah, I feel fine.

Speaker 5 (01:34:52):
I feel just just let.

Speaker 22 (01:34:58):
He fainted?

Speaker 38 (01:34:59):
What are some quick well? The dangerous killer passed out
from fright.

Speaker 23 (01:35:06):
He didn't faint. That cup of coffee had enough poison
in it to kill all of us.

Speaker 5 (01:35:11):
Plans dead poison?

Speaker 38 (01:35:14):
Who would have done that.

Speaker 23 (01:35:15):
A very good question, miss Benoir.

Speaker 38 (01:35:17):
Oh you don't think that you're not accusing me.

Speaker 23 (01:35:20):
I'm not accusing anybody. Where did you get that copy?
I told you from the red plane, and you had
no idea it was poison, of course not. I was
going to drink some myself, but you made sure to
give me the first cup. You said it was a
sarvage part. Yes, everyone was finding things in the plane
and handing them out to me. I don't remember. I
was so anxious to see what they were giving me.
I didn't even look at their faces. All I remember
is hands range god uns, a living by a pizza

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of memory. I can't remember who gave her a pound
of coffee less than an hour.

Speaker 38 (01:35:45):
I can't remember.

Speaker 8 (01:35:47):
I just can't remember.

Speaker 22 (01:36:04):
I've been looking all over for you. Boy, have I
got bad news. The radio is busted.

Speaker 23 (01:36:08):
The radio has been busted since the moment we crashed here.

Speaker 22 (01:36:10):
Yeah, but it was fixed, and now it's busted again.
That was our last chance. Now nobody will ever know
what happened to us.

Speaker 23 (01:36:17):
Somebody knows. See that small boat out there.

Speaker 22 (01:36:20):
Quote where I see it, See, I see We're saved,
be found us OHI there, we're over here.

Speaker 50 (01:36:51):
Look a man from the bullet waiting ashore. Mister Presley's
got a gun. I suppose he thinks were wild savages. Hey,
t mister, you don't need the gun.

Speaker 22 (01:36:59):
Everybody back at your hands up. You're making a big mistake.

Speaker 5 (01:37:02):
Shout at you. Didn't you come here to rest your
What do you want?

Speaker 36 (01:37:05):
I want Brenner's notebook, Give it to doctor if you
say so, mister Turston Brenner, I think I'll take you
along with me. And if I refuse to go with you, look,
my boss wants the information in that notebook. He wants
it absolutely exclusive. So there's nothing else to do but
take you with us where we can keep an eye
on you. What shall I do, mister, We have no

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choice but to go with him. He has the gun.

Speaker 46 (01:37:30):
Well, goodbye, goodbye, and good luck.

Speaker 23 (01:37:34):
Good luck to you. Doctor.

Speaker 22 (01:37:36):
Listen, mister, if you leave us stranded here, we'll all die.

Speaker 44 (01:37:39):
That's the general idea. Mac okay, Brenner.

Speaker 38 (01:38:09):
I'm beginning to envy Kilbert and Grant. At least they're
not dying.

Speaker 44 (01:38:13):
Slowly like we are.

Speaker 23 (01:38:14):
It's entirely possible that within a few minutes will be
picked up by an American destroyer.

Speaker 22 (01:38:18):
Mister Thurst, you sound delirious.

Speaker 5 (01:38:21):
Maybe, but look out there across the water. Tell them
what you see.

Speaker 22 (01:38:25):
There's a Could it be a mirage?

Speaker 50 (01:38:29):
No, no, it's a boat, mister Thurston, A destroyer, like
you said, a beautiful American destroyer.

Speaker 47 (01:39:05):
Well, I'd call this the happy ending, mister Thurston. Now
that we're being taken back to America by courtesy of
the United States Navy.

Speaker 23 (01:39:12):
You feel perfectly safe and secure, now, don't you, miss
van Wire.

Speaker 47 (01:39:16):
I can't feel perfectly safe in the presence of a
man who can predict destroyers dropping from out of nowhere.

Speaker 23 (01:39:22):
It's uncanny, not so uncanny. On the island, I set
out a call for help over the radio. Just destroyer,
pick it up.

Speaker 38 (01:39:29):
The radio was smashed.

Speaker 23 (01:39:30):
How I always kept an eye on the pilot on
his progress with the radio. When he finally got it fixed,
he ran off to find me. While he was gone,
I sent the message for help.

Speaker 38 (01:39:38):
Then it was you.

Speaker 5 (01:39:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:39:40):
I smashed the radio once I was sure that help
was on the way. I destroyed it to keep the
person who was after doctor Brennett discovery from using it.

Speaker 38 (01:39:47):
Do you know who that person is?

Speaker 23 (01:39:48):
Don't you, miss Benwire?

Speaker 38 (01:39:50):
How should I know you?

Speaker 45 (01:39:51):
Still?

Speaker 38 (01:39:52):
Thinking?

Speaker 22 (01:39:54):
Here you are, mister Thurston, I've been looking all over
to you to tell you the good news.

Speaker 23 (01:39:59):
I already know the good news, Pagan. It captured the
boat that took doctor Brenner off the island. You see,
I told the captain of this destroyer to be on
the lookout for that boat.

Speaker 50 (01:40:06):
Well, they're bringing that gang of crooks aboard now, and
I thought, well to see if doctor Brenner is all right.

Speaker 23 (01:40:11):
Good idea of Pegan. Won't you join us, miss Benware?

Speaker 38 (01:40:15):
Sounds more like an order than an invitation.

Speaker 23 (01:40:17):
First year, I may do you good a few Miss
ben Wire.

Speaker 22 (01:40:30):
I can't wait to see the surprise look on doctor Brener's.

Speaker 44 (01:40:33):
Face when he sees us.

Speaker 23 (01:40:33):
He's coming on deck now, good evening, doctor Brenner.

Speaker 22 (01:40:37):
It's a surprise, doctor, very pleasantly surprised.

Speaker 23 (01:40:41):
Now, perhaps we won't put our heads together and figure
out who kill Gilbert and grant your.

Speaker 46 (01:40:45):
Problems like these are a little out of my line,
mister Thurstan.

Speaker 5 (01:40:48):
But I will do my best, Miss Benoir.

Speaker 38 (01:40:51):
He'll think I did it. Nothing will change your mind.
What possible reason would I have?

Speaker 23 (01:40:55):
We'll examine your motives later, But first I'd like to
see if doctor Brenner might have had some you're accusing
me not a order, But as a scientist, you know
that one must study every possibility before reaching the correct solution.
Of course, now let's take a hypothetical case. Suppose doctor,
that you had decided to sell your atomic secret to
the highest bidder. Now Grant threatens your life. You would

(01:41:19):
have had to leave Madagascar with me just to shake
off Grant. But before you left, you might have made
arrangement for someone to pick you up on an island somewhere.
You might have forced the plane down by convincing your
assistant Gilbert it was the thing to do. Gilbert had
too much respect for you, the doubt you once we crashed.
It's possible that you murdered Gilbert, since you could be
of no further use to you. Now, mind you, this

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is a this is all hypothetical.

Speaker 22 (01:41:43):
Oh, it's closer to sheer fantasy.

Speaker 5 (01:41:45):
Mister Urston.

Speaker 44 (01:41:46):
May I trouble you for a cigarette?

Speaker 5 (01:41:48):
Here?

Speaker 47 (01:41:48):
Doctor, have one of mine? Oh, thank you very Much's
hands I remember now those were the hands that gave
me the coffee.

Speaker 5 (01:41:55):
Hi him afraid you are an extended stay on the island.
This affected your mind.

Speaker 38 (01:41:59):
You don't know back I see it?

Speaker 23 (01:42:02):
What made me forget you gotten forget me? Spanwa. You
remember that the doctor handry to that poison coffee, but
your conscious mind refused to accept the idea that he
could be a murderer.

Speaker 46 (01:42:12):
Well, doctor Mana, I to have a hypothetical case to present,
mister Tuston, supposing I did commit those murders. Do you
think that society can afford to destroy a man like me?

Speaker 23 (01:42:24):
That can't afford not? Though, God, misters, he's reaching for
a good gentlemen.

Speaker 46 (01:42:29):
I have here in my hands a much more potent weapon,
my notebook.

Speaker 22 (01:42:33):
But you're assistant.

Speaker 46 (01:42:34):
There is still a chance for me to get away,
mister Thurstan, and no one will blame you. I'll trade
you this notebook against my freedoms. No, can'tsider carefully. I'm
an old man. It is a small triumph for justice
to deny me my few remaining giars, and a great
triumph for progress to have my life wisdom contained.

Speaker 44 (01:42:54):
In this notebook.

Speaker 23 (01:42:55):
There was no wisdom in your life, doctor, There's knowledges
and it's in that notebook. Well, it's useless to us
as long as you're alive and free. But even a
single day to sell it to the highest bidder, No,
doctor Brenner, It's no deal, all right.

Speaker 22 (01:43:10):
And he did it, mister First, He actually did it.
It threw it overboard.

Speaker 5 (01:43:18):
It's lost, yes, Pegan, it's lost.

Speaker 23 (01:43:23):
In other hands. It could have made all our lives happier.
But rather than commit Dr Burner to use his knowledge
for destruction, it's better that his precious notebook should lie
at the bottom of the sea. Perhaps someday, somewhere, maybe
at this very moment, some scientist is making that discovery again.

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Let's hope that that man will use his knowledge for
gord instead of evil. Let's hope for the best pagan.

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Fourth of our four shows from Sunday, September nineteenth, nineteen
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on CBS. Ben Rights staring in this episode of Escape,
the man who Could Work Miracles.

Speaker 49 (01:48:05):
Fed up with the everyday grind, tired out by the
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Speaker 39 (01:48:14):
We offer you.

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Escape, Escape, designed to free you from the four walls
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Speaker 49 (01:48:29):
You are crouched in the middle of an immense hurricane, houses, animals,
trees sweeping past you, and you suddenly realize that you've
tampered with a universe that you're bringing about the destruction
of the world.

Speaker 14 (01:48:53):
Tonight we escape to a placid English village and the
presence of an equally placid little man who one day
shook the world.

Speaker 48 (01:49:02):
As H. G.

Speaker 14 (01:49:03):
Wells told it in his delightful and famous story The
Man who Could Work Miracles.

Speaker 4 (01:49:17):
And now I might say right in the beginning, that
I ain't the kind of chap who as a naturally
argumentative disposition, meaning the kind who's always engaging in hostile
discussions with perfect strangers. Quite the contrary, I'm a reasonable
man who always takes proper thought before he speaks, and
one who has due respect for scientific truth. Why I

(01:49:40):
ain't never opened my mouth to utter a word that
wasn't a pure ahn diluted effect. That's what you say, Howsoever,
when a man of inferior intellect such as Tuddy Beamish
showed himself to be more than once. When a man
like that insists upon airing his ridiculous opinions in a

(01:50:03):
public place such as the Long Dragon Bar, then I've
got no choice but to confound him with the superior
knowledge which I possesses.

Speaker 45 (01:50:11):
That may be well and good, perhaps, But it's only
what you say.

Speaker 4 (01:50:16):
On the contrary, mister Beamish. The statements which I have
just made are such as might come from any intelligent
human being with a true knowledge of scientific a principle,
which same can't be said for some of us here
at this bar. So you say, that's right, So I say.
And if you can't contribute nothing but the same three

(01:50:37):
words to this discussion. I will thank you to admit
that you are defeated, and a shut your mouth.

Speaker 5 (01:50:42):
Well, now, mister father, I appeal to you, he does it.

Speaker 4 (01:50:47):
I appeal to you, constable, when I'm only trying to
enlighten the man from the bog of ignorance. He's a
floundering in and he keeps coming up with his infernal
So you say, well, I'm not wasting my words, that's all.

Speaker 45 (01:51:00):
If the pints of stout and aisle flown across this
bar of why words to why, then I'd have been
retiring years ago.

Speaker 39 (01:51:08):
Quite right, miss Bridges, I'll have another the same if
you don't mind.

Speaker 4 (01:51:12):
Let's see, that was quite a bit of why. All right,
study beanish. I shouldn't be wasting me time on you,
But doubt of the goodness of my heart, I'll do
it anyhow, So it yourself. Now, let's take, for example,
that pint of ale that you're holding in your end.

Speaker 45 (01:51:29):
It's pretty an eye empty.

Speaker 4 (01:51:31):
I've paid for the last one, all right. Now, suppose,
for instance, if that ale was to turn into wine.

Speaker 5 (01:51:39):
I never cared much for wine.

Speaker 4 (01:51:41):
I was like dale by Now, if that ale there
was to turn into wine, then you'd have a miracle.

Speaker 5 (01:51:48):
So you say so.

Speaker 4 (01:51:49):
Anybody says, perhaps you ain't even aware of the proper
definition of what a miracle is, mister Beamish.

Speaker 45 (01:51:57):
Well, some midkles is one ki and summer's another.

Speaker 31 (01:52:02):
If anybody left so much as toughens on the bar
is a gratuity for my services, that would be a miracle,
all right, Be.

Speaker 4 (01:52:09):
That as it may, Miss Bridges. But a miracle ain't
of one kind or another. A true miracle is something
contrariy wise to the course of nature, done by the
power of will. So you say something what couldn't happen
without being specially willed to happen? And miracles ain't possible,
easy led, Easy.

Speaker 54 (01:52:29):
Enough, Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say
they ain't.

Speaker 4 (01:52:33):
It's your ignorance that's talking. Look you see that lamp
sitting there on the end of the bar, burning as
bright as you please.

Speaker 39 (01:52:41):
I said, right enough.

Speaker 4 (01:52:42):
Now, that lamp, in the natural course of nature couldn't
burn like that if it was turned upside down and
hanging in the air. You say it couldn't, mister Beech,
Do you mean to tell me that you're all right?

Speaker 5 (01:52:56):
All right?

Speaker 45 (01:52:57):
Maybe it couldn't, and.

Speaker 4 (01:53:00):
If he did it, it'd be her miracle.

Speaker 5 (01:53:03):
Very well.

Speaker 4 (01:53:04):
Now supposing somebody was to come along through like me,
for instance, And he pointed his finger at that lamp
like this and said, turn upside down now. If the lamp,
if it's m's preservice, if it aren't doing it well now,
BlimE men and the other visible means of support. I

(01:53:25):
can't keep it up there much longer.

Speaker 54 (01:53:27):
Remarkable remark, bothering again, stop it stopping immediately, And that's
my official order.

Speaker 4 (01:53:33):
I have a care constable watch out there.

Speaker 5 (01:53:35):
It goes.

Speaker 19 (01:53:38):
Now.

Speaker 55 (01:53:38):
See what you've done, mister fother and got my best
lamp chimney I cleaner more than an hour ago, smashed
in dismillory.

Speaker 4 (01:53:46):
But I didn't try to do it for you.

Speaker 28 (01:53:48):
Knew you might have caught the whole place of fire.

Speaker 39 (01:53:51):
Mostly irregular and illegal. Besides, like he's not, we'll have
no more of it, you understand.

Speaker 4 (01:53:56):
But I'll tell you I didn't mean you when you're
silly conjuring tree. It wasn't a conjuring trick, ah, that's
what's you, sir.

Speaker 39 (01:54:02):
No doubt you've had a bit too much to drink.

Speaker 4 (01:54:05):
All i'd done was to point my finger at it
like that.

Speaker 5 (01:54:08):
Stop it now, don't you dare?

Speaker 4 (01:54:10):
But that's all I've.

Speaker 54 (01:54:11):
Done in that case, mister father and Gay, you defeat
your own argument right out of your own mouth.

Speaker 5 (01:54:18):
And how is that?

Speaker 4 (01:54:19):
Might I ask?

Speaker 54 (01:54:20):
If it weren't caused by some form of trickery, then
what happened to that lamp was a miracle?

Speaker 39 (01:54:27):
Oh here?

Speaker 4 (01:54:27):
Now, I ain't hold him with no bloomy miracles old
with them, or as the case might blame, mister father
and Gay.

Speaker 39 (01:54:34):
But you just stood right there and.

Speaker 54 (01:54:37):
Performed a real, true, honest, genuine miracle.

Speaker 5 (01:54:42):
That's what you'd done.

Speaker 4 (01:54:49):
It wasn't a matter of being asked to leave the
long greg And you understand I already had my mind
set on going anyhow. A place what's full of hignorant
superstition ain't the kind of place for an a rational
intellect to be doing his thinking, And thinking with just
one was called for. On the one end, I weren't
ready to swallow no miracle theory. But on the other end,

(01:55:11):
I wasn't able to recollect no scientific a principle, but
might account for what that which had happened, As you
might say, the question had dissolved itself into a dilemma.
Oh my landlady missus Deeverington was sitting up in the
parlor when I come in. Good evening, mister Fotheringay, but
I can't recall saying anything to her.

Speaker 5 (01:55:33):
Well, very well, mister.

Speaker 4 (01:55:37):
I went straight to my own room, closed me door,
lit the candle, and then I sat there on the
edge of my bed and grappling with the problem in
heroic fashion, and trying to puzzle out the ultimate solution.
Weren't no easy thing to do. It couldn't have happened,
but it had happened, which ain't logic no matter how

(01:55:59):
you look at it. Why, it'd be the same situation
if I was to point my finger at that candle
there and say, be raised up in the air, and.

Speaker 5 (01:56:08):
It was the.

Speaker 4 (01:56:10):
Climby hanging there like a blooming firefly. But it's contrary
wise that poor up there, it goes, oh black as
your hat. Now where in that tire nation did that
confounded thing get to? At any rate? There should be
some matches around here somewhere. Oh, I say, maybe I

(01:56:34):
could let there be a match in behave.

Speaker 5 (01:56:41):
Well, now.

Speaker 4 (01:56:43):
Just like that, Oh, a safety match a lot of
blooming good that's going to.

Speaker 23 (01:56:53):
Half a mo half.

Speaker 4 (01:56:54):
Now, maybe I don't need no match. Maybe I could
candle wherever you are be lighted. Oh you now, not
in the middle of my bed, or I will not
be having any of them. Now, well, come here, you
ain't lot.

Speaker 28 (01:57:14):
Mister fothering guy.

Speaker 55 (01:57:16):
Can't I inquire what's coming off a here?

Speaker 4 (01:57:18):
You might inquire and took places with you. Can't you
recognize a man who's got his hands.

Speaker 22 (01:57:22):
Full of trouble tables?

Speaker 55 (01:57:24):
Indeed, I'll have you wonderstand, Oh, mister furthering guy, why
you smoke coming out.

Speaker 4 (01:57:30):
Of that bed because it caught on fire? That's why?

Speaker 55 (01:57:34):
Oh may world comforter with a null band in it
and taking lighted candles to bed with you?

Speaker 4 (01:57:40):
I am not taking no candles anywhere, and I will
thank you to leave me the privacy of my own
a bed chamber.

Speaker 32 (01:57:46):
Well, I never you have been drinken.

Speaker 4 (01:57:50):
On the contrary, I have been cogitating upon matters of science,
which is far beyond the range of your feeble hintellect.

Speaker 55 (01:57:58):
And with all the money I have to spend on candles,
I'll let you know that if any candles are going
to be tossed around loose like in this house.

Speaker 4 (01:58:06):
I'll do the tousson missus Teverington. I might remind you
that good steady lodgers such as a man like myself,
ain't so easy to come by nowadays, with which I
will bill you are highly a respectable, A good a night.

Speaker 55 (01:58:23):
I've never been so insulted in all my life.

Speaker 4 (01:58:25):
And you can rest assure you haven't done.

Speaker 5 (01:58:27):
The last of this.

Speaker 44 (01:58:30):
Old vulture.

Speaker 4 (01:58:32):
Don't know who she's talking to me, A bloke what's
only got to point his finger and say bee, and
it is I'm it If I ain't suddenly got the
power to perform miracles, real genuine miracles like as not

(01:58:52):
the result of my long devotion to the true principles
of science. Well I got through the next day without
no trouble, and come evening I went walking down the
lane that leads around Millsdale's Pond, tempting to put my
mental processes into order. As you might say, mostly I

(01:59:15):
kept trying to cogitate on some honest and betsy miracle
I might up and perform. But it ain't such an
easy matter for a chap who's unaccustomed to goings on
at that nature. Oh what I wanted was the genuine art,
all you understand, no little shenanigans, one with which to
make people stop and say, blame me now if that
ain't a real down right miracle for you, And all

(01:59:38):
of a sudden I had it. I just happened to
recollect a chat somewhere who stuck his staff into the
ground and commanded it to blossom. So I pope me
walking stick into the edge of the turf, our backed
awful wee bit and pointed my finger at it. Walking

(01:59:59):
stick become a blooming bush of flowering posies roses by heaven,
I've done it, just like that fellow in the opera
what's going on here? Constable winch confound a man anyhow.

Speaker 39 (02:00:18):
Says and assist whatever it is you're doing in the
name of the crowd.

Speaker 4 (02:00:22):
You there, rose bush, go bet now faster?

Speaker 39 (02:00:27):
How a mind who is your?

Speaker 5 (02:00:29):
Thrown bramble bushes at last and gone swite into a
man severely.

Speaker 4 (02:00:34):
Yeah, confounded, blundering idiot.

Speaker 39 (02:00:37):
I have seen now who's conducting the various activities under
the cover of darkness, assaulting an officer and gains in
the pursuit of his natural well so it's you, mister fotheringay,
the fact.

Speaker 4 (02:00:51):
Being self evident. Mister Winch, I will not bother myself
to hands.

Speaker 39 (02:00:55):
So you will not bother yourself to aunts. Maybe you'll
also deny that you just threw a great heavy mass
of foliage at me.

Speaker 4 (02:01:03):
I do deny it.

Speaker 39 (02:01:05):
They're no doubt. It just up and flew through the
air all by itself.

Speaker 4 (02:01:09):
Constable Wench, you have just hit the nail on the head.

Speaker 39 (02:01:12):
So that's the way the wind blows some more of
them blasted hanky pink conjuring tricks of yours?

Speaker 5 (02:01:18):
Is that it?

Speaker 4 (02:01:19):
On the contrary, it was merely a small miracle.

Speaker 39 (02:01:22):
You don't say so, in which cases, honor might enjoy
hearing you tell about it. So come along with you
an now.

Speaker 4 (02:01:29):
I will do nothing of the kind, Oh, resistant an officer.

Speaker 39 (02:01:33):
There'll be another charge against you.

Speaker 4 (02:01:35):
Charge indeed, mister witch, you can take your charges and
and go to hades. Whoa constable, Oh, mister Winch, would
blame me if he had gone and disappeared complete like
wonder if he I'm thinking this miracle business ain't all

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it's talking up to me. Why a man might find
himself in a whole peck of trouble before he learns
the knack of the thing. I'm thinking i'd best go
and get myself some really professional advice right away.

Speaker 45 (02:02:21):
Good evening to you, brother, a very pleasant evening.

Speaker 4 (02:02:24):
And the same to you with many of the mister Maidig,
that that is your reverence.

Speaker 45 (02:02:29):
No, no formality now done at all. No, just call
me mister Maidig.

Speaker 4 (02:02:34):
Well, thank you kindly, or maidig ship.

Speaker 45 (02:02:38):
Won't you step inside?

Speaker 4 (02:02:40):
Much obliged to you, mister reverend.

Speaker 45 (02:02:44):
Just follow me now this way, mister, I can't say
that I caught the.

Speaker 4 (02:02:49):
Name fatheringay a George W fathering Gay.

Speaker 45 (02:02:53):
Oh yes, not from my perish well.

Speaker 4 (02:02:56):
Yes, attended services last Christmas.

Speaker 45 (02:02:59):
Indeed, so many people did last Christmas. Well, here we are,
mister Bothering Bayture.

Speaker 4 (02:03:06):
It's a farthering gay. Nice diggings you've got here.

Speaker 45 (02:03:12):
Oh adequate, mister mothering way, adequate for my simple wants.
Now now, just feel entirely free to lay your burdens
upon my shoulders.

Speaker 4 (02:03:22):
Well, the fact is, huh, the matter which I've come
here to talk about might be considered of a somewhat
delicate nature.

Speaker 45 (02:03:32):
Oh oh, think nothing of it to you, please, feel
free to speak, will speak freely.

Speaker 4 (02:03:38):
My housekeeper retires very early. Oh no, your reverendship is
nothing like that. Then, Like what the subject about which
I'm inquiring is miracles?

Speaker 5 (02:03:51):
Miracles? Oh?

Speaker 45 (02:03:52):
Yes, yes, indeed miracles, any special kind of miracles?

Speaker 4 (02:03:57):
Oh yes, the kind which I put myself.

Speaker 5 (02:04:00):
Oh which you perform? You let me see?

Speaker 45 (02:04:06):
And what sort of miracles do you perform?

Speaker 4 (02:04:09):
Well, for one thing, I have just finished sending Constable
Winch to Hades Hades.

Speaker 45 (02:04:15):
Indeed, now that's it very interesting.

Speaker 4 (02:04:18):
Of course, when I realized what had happened, I had
him transferred to San Francisco wherever that is.

Speaker 45 (02:04:25):
Oh, I'm sure sure he likes San Francisco much better.

Speaker 4 (02:04:29):
You don't believe me. I can't say that I blame
you none.

Speaker 45 (02:04:32):
Either, we'll laft or mister dutheringle.

Speaker 4 (02:04:35):
It's Fotheringay, well, very well, there ain't nothing else to
do but for me to go up and perform a
few miracles before we go any farther.

Speaker 45 (02:04:44):
Well, that's very interesting. I'm sure.

Speaker 4 (02:04:48):
You just take that jar of tobacco there on the table,
for instance. Suppose I just point my finger at it
like this and become a bowl of violets.

Speaker 45 (02:04:59):
Yes, indeed, it's it's very inter.

Speaker 5 (02:05:02):
You see.

Speaker 4 (02:05:03):
It ain't no tobacco jar no more, it's a bowl
of pilots. Well, god BlimE, I mean so it is.
Of course, it ain't nothing very spectacular, your O friendship,
but it is the sort of a miracle a man
can pass without tangling himself up in a mass of trouble.

Speaker 45 (02:05:19):
Extraordinary, very will extraordinary.

Speaker 4 (02:05:25):
You can see for yourself. They're real violets.

Speaker 45 (02:05:27):
Indeed, yes, indeed, Now take.

Speaker 4 (02:05:31):
This, for example, become a bowl of fish, No, not
that kind, live fish in a goldfish bowl, swimming around.
Now that's better.

Speaker 45 (02:05:46):
It's amazing. How did you do it?

Speaker 4 (02:05:50):
I just told it to That's that's all. That's all.
When I tells the thing to do it, it does
it incredible? Come on, miss, like you might say, And
I'd like to know if it's a real genuine miracle
or if it ain't. Well, seeing as our miracles ought
to come under your Reverendship Special Province.

Speaker 45 (02:06:10):
More or less, yes, yes, yes, indeed, however usually in
somewhat more academic fashion, these are more will be more astonishing.

Speaker 4 (02:06:20):
As far as I can tell, there ain't no limit
to it, like, for instance, bowl of fish turn into
a pigeon. What heavens, look at the thing here here, now,
none of that, or you will stay away from mister maydig. Now,
perhaps i'd better become that jar of tobacco again. Huh, well, reverend,

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what do you think about it? Amazing?

Speaker 45 (02:06:45):
It's the most extraordinary thing I've ever seen in my life,
ever expected to see. No, no, no, I've got to
think about it too, Consider the possibilities. Well, I might
come back in the morning. No, no, no, no no,
wouldn't hear of it. I was out to dine when
you rang her. Wonder if you join me? Of course,
I'm afraid there's only cold mutton more. Well, now, maybe

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there's something else you might like better anything. Frankly, I've
grown to hit the sight of eh, you don't mean
why not just.

Speaker 4 (02:07:15):
Name it pheasant? I haven't tasted pheasant in years, and
now is the time. Let there be a pheasant on
the table, then I know. Now, No, no, no, no,
not like not like that. Let it be dead and
roasted and ready to eat. Look look at it. What's beautiful.

Speaker 56 (02:07:36):
Smells good too.

Speaker 4 (02:07:38):
Maybe we'd best let there be two pheasants and traffle
traffles it maybe some oyster, two dozen oysters, you better
make it three dozen, and some cheddar. Oh you must
have some cheddar, a pound of cheddar. And what to
drink your reflection, champagne?

Speaker 45 (02:07:53):
Will I really shouldn't you know, but will perhaps a
small bottle of those hills sputtles of moselle, a gig
of stout, and a case of champagne.

Speaker 4 (02:08:12):
There wasn't no mistake about it. I had come to
the right place for said Once Smiss Amiti got over
his first astonishment, he turned out full of ideas for
brand new miracles, things even I might never have thought of,
like as not well, we polished off that meal in
no time at all, as easy as a cat frying

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eggs had. An hour later we was out walking in
the dark streets of the village, turning out miraculous jobs
so fast I fairly wore out my finger appointing with it.
I couldn't begin to tell you all the wonderful things
we did. In a couple of hours. He stalled a
new railway line, drained flinders swamp, turned it into a meadow,

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cured the vicar's warts, paved all the roads, eliminated taxation,
reformed the Lord Mayor and made all the girls in
the village beautiful. Ah, these weren't none of you are
eightny miracles.

Speaker 5 (02:09:10):
All of these were big.

Speaker 4 (02:09:13):
We went right on turning him out, one every two minutes,
just as regular as clockwork. By midnight we passed clean
through the village and were walking along the lane by
Millsdale's pond, fairly tired out by all that thinking and
pointing and performing of miracles. In mister Fotheringhame, I've just

(02:09:34):
thought of another one, indeed, And what might it be?

Speaker 45 (02:09:37):
The village clock there there and the steeple.

Speaker 4 (02:09:40):
Listen, listen to it. It's terrible, true enough, it ain't
got a very melodious sound to it. Then let's give
them a good clock, a great, rich, blooming one, all right,
mister maydig. Let that their clock become a genuine London's
style cathedral clock.

Speaker 45 (02:10:08):
Ah, much better, much better. The people of this village
are going to have a big surprise when they wake
up in the morning, after all we've done for them tonight.

Speaker 4 (02:10:19):
I might say, there's one or two things we've done
that I ain't so sure about, Oh like turning every
drop of alcoholic beverages into plain waters.

Speaker 45 (02:10:28):
Nothing to worry about, mister Follingay. You can always turn
out a miraculous pint or two for your own purposes,
and it will reform all the drunkards in the village.

Speaker 4 (02:10:36):
Maybe, so at any rate, we might as well wait
and see what comes of it. Well, what do we
perform next?

Speaker 23 (02:10:45):
I really don't know.

Speaker 45 (02:10:48):
Can't think of another single miracle that we haven't already
half a moment, mister.

Speaker 4 (02:10:51):
Maydig, I just thought of one of my own. I'd
best take care of. Let Constable Wench be right back
in San Francisco again. He might be catching a boat
or a train or something, you understand. I think the
best idea is just to keep sending him back there
every once in a while.

Speaker 45 (02:11:09):
I don't you have any anything to worry about. San
Francisco is some distance away, you.

Speaker 23 (02:11:14):
Know, Oh, is it?

Speaker 4 (02:11:16):
I'm glad to hear it.

Speaker 45 (02:11:17):
I keep trying to think of one more miracle, a
big one, something worthy of ending the night with, eh,
But I just don't.

Speaker 4 (02:11:28):
Oh, well, now I see there is one, you know,
such as he. You see that moon, mister Fotheringay, naturally
almost full by the looks of it. Remember Joshua Joshua, Joshua, Oh,
come off it now.

Speaker 45 (02:11:48):
It would be a wonderous thing to see.

Speaker 4 (02:11:51):
Well, now that's a pretty tall horder maakeing the moon
stand still? Actually it only appears to stand still. What
really happens is that the earth rotating. You don't have
to inform me about scientific principles of which I'm already familiar,
mister Maydie House. However, I think we'd best not go
monkeying around with the universe.

Speaker 45 (02:12:10):
Well, you probably don't have the power to do it anyway.
It's really a superior class of miracle.

Speaker 36 (02:12:16):
You know.

Speaker 4 (02:12:16):
I got the power, all right, but I ain't so
sure it's a good idea. I could do it if
I wanted to.

Speaker 45 (02:12:22):
Oh, of course of course you could. Well, perhaps we'd
better get along home, half am.

Speaker 4 (02:12:28):
Now, I I might just leave it stopped for a
little while.

Speaker 45 (02:12:35):
If you couldn't stop it at all.

Speaker 4 (02:12:36):
Oh well, now, if that's the way you feel, you
just take a look at this, you'ld blinking world stop rotating?

Speaker 5 (02:12:47):
We are now?

Speaker 4 (02:12:47):
Who it's all?

Speaker 26 (02:12:48):
This?

Speaker 4 (02:12:48):
I didn't order know? Whin Botheringay?

Speaker 44 (02:12:50):
What have you done?

Speaker 4 (02:12:51):
I don't rightly know? Look out, things is starting to
blow off. Oh, you confound it, blundering idiot, duck your head.
It comes a cow through the air, missed. You better
lie down in the ditch before it gets blown away.
It's getting worse all the time, and I can't see
the pome wits together. Oh I got it. When the

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earth stopped rotating, everything on the surface kept right on
moving five six hundred miles an hour, houses, cows, the wind, everything.
It's a scientific principle. A lot of good that does
a stop it. Man, stop't do something to war. Mister Maiding, Oh,

(02:13:35):
mister Maiding, Oh blimey, if he ain't blown clean away?
Gor Oh, now I got myself in a fine kettle
of fish for certain, only there weren't so much confusion.
Maybe I could Oh whoop, I say, no, that's it.
It's the only answer, all right now. Let nothing happen

(02:13:55):
until I say the word go, And when I do,
then I think, go back, exactly like it was just
before I turned that bloomy lamp upside down in the
long dragon bar. And at the same time, let me
lose see a miraculous power, complete light. Forget all about it.

Speaker 23 (02:14:16):
Have you got it?

Speaker 34 (02:14:16):
Now?

Speaker 4 (02:14:17):
Everything just as it were no more miracles. Let me
forget the old thing, all right, think ready, dot, that's
only what you say, and the same as anybody might say,

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who's got the least bit of scientific knowledge inside of
their thick heads? Ain't a right constable.

Speaker 39 (02:14:45):
Winch you couldn't right? The same as to following the subject.
Ain't exactly in my problems, you know? And all of
the same, Miss Bridges, right are.

Speaker 4 (02:14:53):
Constable here regardless, mister Beamish, Miracles ain't possible, so you say, so,
I say, maybe you don't even know what a miracle is.
Maybe if I was to point my finger at that
lamp there on the bar and tell it to turn
upside down, I suppose you think.

Speaker 22 (02:15:11):
It might do it?

Speaker 45 (02:15:13):
Well, I wouldn't say it would.

Speaker 4 (02:15:16):
You wouldn't say it, wouldn't mister be miss You ain't
got a brain in your head. And I'm only wasting
the time trying to enlighten you, which I ain't going
to do any longer.

Speaker 31 (02:15:26):
Here you are, Miss Bridges, I thank you cardly, mister father,
and guy.

Speaker 4 (02:15:31):
I'll be dropping in again when the place ain't quite
so crowded. I bid you all a respectful how good
a night.

Speaker 39 (02:15:44):
I'd say you got the best of the argument tonight,
I never saw it be.

Speaker 4 (02:15:48):
Will you take a look at this?

Speaker 39 (02:15:50):
What's harp?

Speaker 45 (02:15:51):
Miss Bridges sixpence?

Speaker 28 (02:15:53):
He left me a sixpence right here on the bar.

Speaker 39 (02:15:56):
Big is anything, and so he did the like of it.

Speaker 19 (02:15:59):
I never happened before. Science Preservacy be dyed A downright
lumen miracle.

Speaker 4 (02:16:06):
That's what it is, a bloomin miracle.

Speaker 14 (02:16:18):
Escape is produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Tonight, we
have brought you The Man Who Could Work Miracles by H. G. Wells,
adapted for radio by Less Crutchfield, with editorial supervision by
John Buncle. Featured in tonight's story was Ben Wright as
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Toddy Beamish and Jeff Corey as Constable Winch Eleanor Audley
was Missus Tetherington, and Constance Cavendish was Bridges. Special music
by Ivan dit Mars. With tonight's program, we bring will
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Speaker 42 (02:20:19):
The time earlier, today, the place Kramer's drug Store and
wistful vista, and the people Fiber, McGhee and Mollie.

Speaker 5 (02:20:30):
Now will there be anything else razor blades, aspirin, beach balls, toothpaste. No,
we have a wonderful special today on one man. Rubber
Life rafts, mister McGee, great for fishing, regular ten dollar
value only a buck ninety eight.

Speaker 56 (02:20:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:20:43):
Oh they're genuine, certified factory seconds.

Speaker 56 (02:20:46):
What does that mean they leak?

Speaker 18 (02:20:48):
Nah?

Speaker 56 (02:20:49):
This is everything we need, throt and sack. We're in
a hurry.

Speaker 5 (02:20:51):
Oh, Charley, have enough light bulbs, epicac absorbent cotton.

Speaker 56 (02:20:56):
Absorbent cotton that reminds me.

Speaker 45 (02:20:57):
I'll have any rolls please?

Speaker 59 (02:20:59):
No, just give me a free blotters Brianie. No, no,
not the ones with the monkeys. Haven't you got any
movie stars?

Speaker 5 (02:21:04):
Ah?

Speaker 39 (02:21:04):
Yes, here you are.

Speaker 5 (02:21:07):
Kids.

Speaker 3 (02:21:08):
Come on, McGee, if we're going to get out to
the country this afternoon. Oh, there's your little girlfriend.

Speaker 56 (02:21:12):
Uh huh oh teeny, hey, let's take her along with us.
You want to?

Speaker 5 (02:21:15):
Oh?

Speaker 25 (02:21:15):
Sure, she'd enjoy it.

Speaker 27 (02:21:16):
Hey, teeny, Hi, mister McGhee, Hi, miss McGhee, Hello, teeny.

Speaker 56 (02:21:22):
Hey, how'd you like to take a ride on us
out the fern down and help us dig ferns?

Speaker 27 (02:21:25):
Dig fer and swant? And which fern friend Cooper? Or
for an appleby? Because I can't dig that crazy friend Cooper?

Speaker 56 (02:21:33):
Now, these are just plain green plant ferns. Teenie, that's right.

Speaker 3 (02:21:35):
I want to dig up a few wild ones and
plant them in some pops at home.

Speaker 25 (02:21:38):
Teeny, So you want to go with us?

Speaker 5 (02:21:40):
Sure? That?

Speaker 27 (02:21:41):
Have you lots of fun?

Speaker 28 (02:21:42):
I bet you?

Speaker 27 (02:21:43):
Only First I have to telephone.

Speaker 56 (02:21:45):
My mom and ask her, can I good idea?

Speaker 3 (02:21:48):
Give her a diamond?

Speaker 10 (02:21:49):
Gee?

Speaker 59 (02:21:50):
Oh, I was just looking for one. There's nickel quarters, funny,
no dimeon you got a dime teeny? Shure, we'll go
ahead and use it. I'll give you another one soon
as I get changed.

Speaker 27 (02:21:59):
Don't forget now I'm your guest all the way. Hello,
I'll ray you give me a wistful vista two eight by?

Speaker 28 (02:22:13):
Is that you marry?

Speaker 5 (02:22:14):
Huh oh?

Speaker 56 (02:22:15):
Not her too, sh let's hear this.

Speaker 27 (02:22:18):
Huh every little thing mark tears huh oh, nothing much
this morning I washed my hair and I can't do
a thing with it.

Speaker 56 (02:22:27):
Now, that's not so. Your hair looks perfectly okay, how
do you know?

Speaker 27 (02:22:31):
It's a Belgian hair and it's home drying off.

Speaker 42 (02:22:33):
Mm?

Speaker 27 (02:22:34):
What's e mert? My line's busy. Huh well, I'll call
back return my dime. Please.

Speaker 3 (02:22:44):
We'll drive by your house, hen and you can run
in and tell your mother.

Speaker 56 (02:22:47):
Yeah, let's go.

Speaker 27 (02:22:49):
Okay just a minute.

Speaker 56 (02:22:53):
No, oh mind, what's the trouble.

Speaker 27 (02:22:57):
I put my hand in the little hole to get
my da Now I can't get my hand there.

Speaker 56 (02:23:02):
Oh you can too. Let me see what is it?

Speaker 5 (02:23:04):
McGee?

Speaker 59 (02:23:05):
Teina got her hand in the coin return on the
phone box. It seems to be stuck. Wait a minute,
I don't get excited. I'll take it easy. Let me
get in there with you.

Speaker 25 (02:23:15):
Now, look, Sis, maybe if you relax and sort open
your hand a little it Mi.

Speaker 27 (02:23:18):
I can't open my hand. Oh isn't this a pretty pickle?

Speaker 25 (02:23:24):
Molly, come in here and see if you can suggest anything.

Speaker 5 (02:23:26):
Let me see.

Speaker 25 (02:23:29):
Goodness, but it's not. With the three of us in here,
see how our hand is that it doesn't hurt?

Speaker 56 (02:23:33):
Does a teeny?

Speaker 5 (02:23:34):
No?

Speaker 27 (02:23:34):
Molly feels like I got tight shoes on my hand.

Speaker 25 (02:23:37):
We'll get it out now. Let me see if I
had a diamond elbow room to die, I could call
a plumber.

Speaker 56 (02:23:41):
Or maybe excuse me, mister McGee, what is it, Brianie.

Speaker 5 (02:23:45):
Just as soon as you three are finished with the booth,
there are four others waiting to use it. Only they
want to use it one at a time.

Speaker 25 (02:23:51):
Now, just keep your high color white smock on, Briani.
Little girl's got her hand caught in the coin return
and can't get it out.

Speaker 27 (02:23:57):
Stuck like a pig.

Speaker 3 (02:23:58):
But she's a brave girl. Now take it easy, sweetheart.
I'm trying to open this lock with a hairpin.

Speaker 5 (02:24:03):
Hadn't I better phone the phone company?

Speaker 3 (02:24:05):
Well, let me not be necessary. I think I've got
something loose here, Yes, definitely, Oh, here it comes.

Speaker 5 (02:24:10):
Well, what do you know?

Speaker 25 (02:24:12):
The box is coming out? One more twitter with that hairpin?

Speaker 5 (02:24:14):
Kiddle? One more?

Speaker 4 (02:24:16):
He does it?

Speaker 5 (02:24:16):
Missus Mcgeeh, you hit the jet time?

Speaker 25 (02:24:22):
You sure did?

Speaker 3 (02:24:23):
Yes, Only one thing's wrong. The part that open has
nothing to do with the slope. Wortini's hand is caught. Oh,
dear you, poor child.

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There's more fun with the McGee shortly.

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Wait, why what is it?

Speaker 56 (02:25:58):
TV?

Speaker 23 (02:26:01):
Guys?

Speaker 25 (02:26:01):
This we don't dare feed you only make you fatter
and harder to get your hand out of telephone.

Speaker 27 (02:26:05):
I don't care, I'm hungry, I'm awful, lonely.

Speaker 25 (02:26:09):
No, no, little girl, Now what would you like to eat?

Speaker 23 (02:26:12):
Uh?

Speaker 25 (02:26:12):
How about settling for a nice stick of gum?

Speaker 27 (02:26:14):
Who's a woman gosh off of doing?

Speaker 25 (02:26:16):
What in the name of Duncan Hines is that?

Speaker 5 (02:26:18):
It's a sudden he served in a soup plate with
three kinds of ice cream, hot fudge, milk, chocolate, bittersweet,
marshmallow and cherries.

Speaker 4 (02:26:25):
I'll fix it.

Speaker 25 (02:26:26):
You don't forget the nuts, Okay, I think I'll have
one of them myself later McGhee.

Speaker 3 (02:26:31):
Right now, we've got to figure out how to get
this child's hand free.

Speaker 25 (02:26:34):
Is it bad, teeny, yes, it is.

Speaker 27 (02:26:36):
It's terrible. I can't scratch my nose with bad hand
at all.

Speaker 25 (02:26:41):
Here. Let uncle Fiver do it?

Speaker 5 (02:26:44):
Say?

Speaker 34 (02:26:44):
If you folks aren't phoning, would you mind holding your
convention outside the booth?

Speaker 5 (02:26:48):
I've got it?

Speaker 3 (02:26:48):
Why doctor Gamble?

Speaker 39 (02:26:50):
Oh ho molly and piccularly puss?

Speaker 5 (02:26:53):
And who's that?

Speaker 8 (02:26:54):
Oh teeny gooy.

Speaker 38 (02:26:56):
Doctor Gamble?

Speaker 28 (02:26:58):
Don't I look silly? Where this telephone?

Speaker 56 (02:27:00):
Pritch?

Speaker 27 (02:27:01):
Armbrace? Don't I hear arms tack?

Speaker 25 (02:27:05):
Got her hand caught in the slot?

Speaker 26 (02:27:06):
No?

Speaker 5 (02:27:07):
Really, here, let me see Let me in there.

Speaker 25 (02:27:09):
Take it easy, beefy. You might be able to get
in here with us, but that stomach of yours.

Speaker 39 (02:27:13):
Has gotta stay out.

Speaker 25 (02:27:14):
Oh nonsense, I can squeeze in there. Excuse me, my
I am coming through.

Speaker 22 (02:27:19):
Thank you.

Speaker 25 (02:27:21):
Hold your elbow up, teeny let me see.

Speaker 5 (02:27:24):
Hmm, here's your gosh awful, gooey little girl. Why it's
doctor Gamble, Hello doctor small world, isn't it?

Speaker 24 (02:27:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 34 (02:27:32):
Positively stuffy at times? See here, Briannie, you can't get
in here too.

Speaker 5 (02:27:36):
I don't want him. I just want to give the
child her ice cream Sunday later.

Speaker 56 (02:27:40):
I'm trying to get her hand.

Speaker 28 (02:27:41):
No want my sunday now.

Speaker 27 (02:27:43):
If I don't get it, I'm gonna cry. I think
i'll cry anyhow.

Speaker 25 (02:27:47):
Yeah, now, now you see what you've done. You're big
satisage there.

Speaker 3 (02:27:50):
Now you'll get your Sunday.

Speaker 25 (02:27:52):
I'm getting it all over my coat.

Speaker 5 (02:27:54):
Can't you be more careful?

Speaker 39 (02:27:55):
Brianie on you?

Speaker 25 (02:27:56):
It looks better on the outside and on the inside
comes off easier too. Here, make yourself useful, Doc all
a dish well ten eats.

Speaker 34 (02:28:03):
If you get your elbow out of my face and
your nose out of my ear, I might be able
to This is the silliest predicament you've ever gotten me
involved in, you corumbhead.

Speaker 25 (02:28:11):
I ever got you in I did nobody asked you
in here, your big butter in her. It was your
own nosey proboscus that got you.

Speaker 39 (02:28:18):
Into this, all the ignorant word manglers.

Speaker 25 (02:28:20):
You mean my nosey probossies. I didn't expect you to
admit it, muitey big of you, but then you're the
large economy size anyhow, inferring that I'm cheap while everybody
in town talks about it, even the children. Oh oh,
asked teeny teeny, My dear, do you think that who's
going to.

Speaker 39 (02:28:36):
Pay for the gosh awful gooey this kid's eating?

Speaker 34 (02:28:38):
Brian, he's talking to you, Doc, hmm, how much is
this terrifying combination of highly colored carbohydrates?

Speaker 5 (02:28:44):
Brianni eighty five cents? Put it on my bill?

Speaker 34 (02:28:49):
Teeny Something was said about even the children thought I
was a tight wide Oh no, doctor.

Speaker 27 (02:28:55):
Gam no, no, of course, now well it Joops even
said you're not.

Speaker 5 (02:29:00):
I bet you well?

Speaker 25 (02:29:01):
Good will he toobsh sure.

Speaker 27 (02:29:04):
Willie says nobody was such a baggy skin. Could be
a tide wine, That's what he said.

Speaker 25 (02:29:10):
Will I've had enough, I'm getting out of here.

Speaker 3 (02:29:12):
Well, first, can't you suggest something we can do to
get her hand loose?

Speaker 25 (02:29:15):
Doctor, yes, I'll go call the foam company.

Speaker 59 (02:29:19):
But let's all get out of here and let me
have another look at her hand. You finished with that
ice cream?

Speaker 27 (02:29:22):
Teeny, Yes, so there's no more laughed?

Speaker 25 (02:29:25):
Well then you can go, Branie.

Speaker 45 (02:29:27):
Thanks, I've been looking forward to this.

Speaker 3 (02:29:29):
I'm getting out of here.

Speaker 56 (02:29:33):
You staying here though, TEENI what else?

Speaker 43 (02:29:35):
Now?

Speaker 25 (02:29:35):
Let me scrunch down here and look. Maybe I can
see how your hand is caught.

Speaker 27 (02:29:40):
Now, poor heart, it feels like it no no want
to come out.

Speaker 25 (02:29:47):
Let me see there, well, no wonder, it won't come out.
You're holding your fist closed.

Speaker 22 (02:29:53):
Open up your fist.

Speaker 25 (02:29:54):
I'll bet it'll come out. Open it up.

Speaker 27 (02:29:56):
But I can't, mister McGee, I can't open my pists.

Speaker 25 (02:29:59):
You've got plenty of room that's not going open your fist.
Why can't you open it?

Speaker 28 (02:30:02):
Because I'll have to lend you on my dame show.

Speaker 27 (02:30:05):
It's doing down when.

Speaker 6 (02:30:06):
Gad, oh, well, here's the dime, here's a quarter a
dollar buck.

Speaker 22 (02:30:11):
Come on, let's get out again in the hole.

Speaker 42 (02:30:25):
We'll say good night to Fiber and Molly in a moment.
This is John Walld and I'd like to tell you
a little about the original show.

Speaker 5 (02:30:32):
With a heart.

Speaker 42 (02:30:34):
I mean Strike it Rich, of course, and Strike It
Rich is called the Show with the Heart for good reason.
It's a program that lends a helping hand to people
from all over the world. And you can hear it
tomorrow morning on NBC. Your Master of Ceremonies is Warren Hull,
and he's an ambassador of goodwill who brings you some
exciting quiz fun, some laughs, and some wonderful inspiring stories

(02:30:56):
every morning on Strike It Rich. And you know that's
just one the big daytime shows in store for you tomorrow.
There's more quiz fun with a phrase that pays, drama
with just Plain Bill Stella, Dallas Young, Widder Brown, and
many more news with Pauline Frederick reporting, and so many
other fine features. There just isn't time to list them all.
But here's a better suggestion. Stay with NBC Radio morning

(02:31:20):
and afternoon and find out for yourself. It's the best
in daytime listening all through the week.

Speaker 56 (02:31:35):
Interesting article in the paper here about old man McDonald,
president of the bank.

Speaker 5 (02:31:39):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 59 (02:31:40):
Seems one of his rich depositors was Don and Floor
and needed some money in a hurry, so old man
McDonald flew down there and delivered a time so all
the newspapers ran the headline, See since President the bank
goes south with depositors' funds, ain't that amusing?

Speaker 3 (02:31:55):
Not to mister McDonald o't bet no?

Speaker 56 (02:31:57):
Good night, good night.

Speaker 42 (02:31:58):
All Fever McGee and Molly is an NBC Radio Network
production transcribed with Arthur Q. Bryan as Doctor Gamble and
Joe Kerns as Briney. This is John Wall telling you
that tomorrow a generous gesture by mister McGee gets him

(02:32:20):
involved in a situation that threatens to make him a millionaire.
I know you won't want to miss it, so tune
in again tomorrow night to Fibber McGhee and Molly.

Speaker 6 (02:32:43):
September nineteenth, nineteen fifty four. Fiver McGee and Mollie westerns
tomorrow with the six Shooter Melody Branch, have Gun, We'll
travel and gun smoke, and of course another episode of
Fibber and Mollie Have yourself Great Briday. We'll see you Saturday.
For more class radio theater, I'm Wyatt Cox

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