Classic Radio 10-01-25 - Night Marauders, Mermaid, and Invitation to a Murder - Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox

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

Speaker 2 (00:15):
The Shadow, Node Washington calling David Honey count.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
As my classic radios Theater.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
The Great Elderslide, Zipper McGhee and Molly dragonest Guns Alone Ranger.

Speaker 5 (00:29):
Now step back into a time machine.

Speaker 6 (00:31):
It's your host, Wyatt Cox.

Speaker 7 (00:34):
Good evening friend, Vionna Tanto.

Speaker 8 (00:39):
Crime on this Wednesday. Bill Johnstone stars as the Shadow.
Also an episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow starring
Gerald mooreph from nineteen forty nine, The Man Called That
Herbert Marshall from nineteen fifty one, Nick Carter Master Detective
starring Lawn Clark, and the US Murder. And we'll wrap

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it all up with another episode of Claudia. That's all
straight ahead on this Wednesday, Brand New mounth October one,
two hundred and seventy fourth day of twenty twenty five,
ninety one days left until we get to twenty twenty six.
First steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrived in New
Orleans on this date. In eighteen eleven, John Philip Sousa

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became the leader of the US Marine Corps Band. The
first electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison in eighteen
eighty and YO seventy National Park and Yellowstone National Park
established by Congress on this date in eighteen ninety. A
year later, Stanford University opened its stores in California. It

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was on this date. In nineteen oh eight Henry Ford
put the model T car on the market at a
price of eight hundred and twenty five dollars that would
be over twenty eight thousand dollar almost twenty nine thousand
dollars today.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Now.

Speaker 8 (02:03):
Ford often cited hard work is the reason for his success.

Speaker 7 (02:07):
Thirty No substitute for hard.

Speaker 8 (02:10):
Work unless you're very, very rich, in which case there
is a substitute. On this date, in nineteen ten, a
large bomb destroyed the Los Angeles Times building in downtown
LA by a union member belonging to the International Association
of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. The exposion started to fire.

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Twenty one employees of the newspaper killed, one hundred more
were injured. An oil field accident on this date in
nineteen twenty six cost aviator Wiley post his left eye,
but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft.
It was on this date in nineteen thirty one, the
George Washington Bridge leaking New Jersey and New York opened,

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and it was on this date. In nineteen thirty two,
during the third game of the World Series at Wrigley Field,
Babe Ruth pointed to center field with his bat, and
on the next pitch he had a home run straight
that way. There's some dispute about why he pointed that way,
but Babe Bruth maintained it was not a coincidence.

Speaker 9 (03:15):
And I looked out to center field and I played,
and I'm going to the next pitch, ball might pass
apply Well, good.

Speaker 8 (03:23):
Lauren, the sound of Bay Bruth ninety three years ago.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Today.

Speaker 8 (03:28):
Pennsylvania Turnpike often considered the first super highway in the US,
open to traffic on this date. In nineteen forty, the
first appearance of In God We Trust on our news
paper currency, and in nineteen fifty eight, NASA was created
to replace Nackup. And in nineteen sixty one, Roger Merris

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Mickey Mannle of the New York Yankees engaged in an
epic battle to break Babe Bruth's single season home run
record of sixty Back in nineteen twenty seven, Marris ended
up hitting his sixty first homer against the Boston Red Sox,
passing Ruth.

Speaker 10 (04:07):
It balls, no strikes on Roger Morris.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Here's the wind up fastball hits yet way back the.

Speaker 11 (04:26):
Whole up shot, another se ovasion for Roger Morris.

Speaker 12 (04:33):
Let's be one home one and that's.

Speaker 10 (04:35):
Go fighting for that man.

Speaker 8 (04:36):
Yankee announcer philm Berzuto himself a lifer for the New
York Yankees, uh he spent thirteen years there as a shortstop.
The record challenged by then Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, who
had been a friend of Ruth, who said Marris needed
to break the record in one hundred and fifty four
games instead of the schedule of one hundred and sixty two.

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Mister ed premiering on CBS Television on this date in
nineteen sixty one, starring actor the late Alan Young he
passed in twenty sixteen. He played second fiddle to a
horse voiced by former leading man Alan Lane Rocky Lane,
who died in nineteen seventy three of cancer. He was
sixty four. Interestingly, the show premiered in independent syndication from

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January of nineteen fifty eight to July of nineteen sixty one,
becoming one of the few series to debut in syndication
and be picked up by a major network for prime time,
premiering on this date in nineteen sixty two with its
third host, The Tonight Show starring that Boy from Nebraska,
Johnny Carson. Carson would host the show for nearly thirty

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years and to date the longest serving host of the show,
and there'll probably be never never be another one who
will serve that long again, given how the ratings have
never been the same since Carson left. And the theme
written by Paul anka Well and Johnny Carson, although we
don't know if Carson wrote any of it or he

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just got put on there, because that happened with a
lot of celebrities when people would write songs for them anyway.
Other events that took place on this date in history,
Concord Supersonic Transport broke the sound barrier for the first
time in nineteen sixty nine. Nineteen seventy one, Walt Disney
World Open near Orlando, the Thrilla in Manila. Mohammad Ali

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defeated Joe Fraser in a boxing match in Manila in
the Philippines, the US returned sovereignty to the Panama Canal
to Panama on this date in nineteen seventy nine, and
in nineteen eighty two, Epcot Center opened at Walt Disney
World near Orlando. Sony launched the first consumer compact disc

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player on this date in nineteen eighty two. In nineteen
eighty five, President Reagan named his former head of Health
and Human Services to an ambassadorship.

Speaker 13 (07:10):
I am delighted, happier than I've been in a long time.
Margaret Heckler has agreed to my request that she become
the ambassador to Ireland.

Speaker 8 (07:24):
The former congresswoman going through a nasty and very public
divorce while she was in the cabinet. The move seen
as a way to get her out of Washington, but
Margaret Heckler confirmed in December, and she was seen as
a very effective ambassador. President Reagan moving Margaret Heckler to Iowa, Iowa,
Ireland forty years ago today. Can I be ambassador to Iowa?

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Might be a little corny.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (07:52):
Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan asserted his innocence as he appeared
in New York for arraiment with seven officials of his
former instruction company on charges of falsifying records for a
one hundred and eighty six million dollars subway project.

Speaker 14 (08:07):
I am outraged and disgusted by the actions and the
obviously partisan timing of the Bronx District Attorney. I have
not seen the indictment, but I can assure you that
it is not worth the paper that it's written on.
My concerns are that my family has to endure this

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mindless inquisition and that this not reflect negatively upon the President.
To assure that this matter does not become a part
of the current election campaign. I have asked the President
tonight to accept my request for a leave of absence

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without pay, effective immediately, and he has granted my request and.

Speaker 8 (08:59):
All of the defendants, including Donovan, acquitted, after which Donovan
was famously quoted as asking which office do I go
to to get my reputation back? It's that whole thing.
Indicted on page one, acquitted on page ninety. Nineteen ninety eight,

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Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council
of the Russian Federation. He continues to this day to
have the iron fist in Russia. Supreme Court suspended former
President Bill Clinton from practicing before the High Court on
this date. In two thousand and one, two thousand and eight,

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a seven hundred billion dollar financial industry bailout one lopsided
passage in the Senate seventy four to twenty five, but
that after it was loaded with tax brakes and other
sweeteners more pork if you will. And it was on
this date. Back in twenty seventeen, one October in Las Vegas,

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a gunman opened fire from a room at the Mandalay
Bay Casino Hotel in Las Vegas, overlooking a crowd of
twenty two thousand country music bands had a concert below.
This person was a survivor. It was nothing like anything
I've ever been through my life.

Speaker 6 (10:21):
This is the scariest thing I've ever been through my life.

Speaker 8 (10:24):
Fifty eight people died, more than eight hundred injured, the
deadliest mass shooting in modern US history to this date.
That was an incident that one of the few that
could not have been stopped by a good person with
a gun unless they were able, unless they had a
rifle with them and could shoot up to that floor,

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because they were shooting out a window of a big
mass skyscraper. And it was a sad situation. But again,
a lot of people tried to use that to you know,
make it possible to you know, disarm people who were
good people, so that criminals could be the only ones

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with weapons.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
You know.

Speaker 8 (11:10):
That's I know, I shouldn't be political during this show,
but it just irritates me. Okay, Curtis la May passing
away on this date. The General Curtis Lamy was a
vice presidential candidate with George Wallace, author Tom Clancy passing
away on this date, and pro wrestler and politician Antonio Inoki.

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He was in the I don't remember what do they
have a parliament? Do they have a parliament in Japan?
Is that what it is? Well, the big legislative body.
He he passed away on this date three years ago today.
Among people born on this date in history who are

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no longer with us include Declaration of Independent signer Richard Stockton,
engineer William Boeing, Everett Sloan, Fine radio actor you hear
referred to often. He also was in Citizen Kane, Outlaw
Bonnie Parker, Bonnie and Clive. I'm still not sure whether
the death car is gonna end up, you know some

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of those casinos, and I believe this was at Buffalo
Bills on the California Nevada border, and they're closing most
of those casinos for an indefinite period. And one of
those casinos is where they had the car where Bonnie
and Clyde were killed. And I'm not sure they're just

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gonna leave it there or if they're gonna take it
somewhere else where it can actually be seen again, okay.
Also born on this date in history, Walter Matthow, wonderful actor.
Also actor James Whitmore. President Jimmy Carter born on this date.

Speaker 15 (12:54):
You have given me a great responsibility to stay close
to you, to be worthy off you.

Speaker 8 (13:06):
Jimmy Carter a wonderful man, a man with a great
heart when you look at some of the things he
did outside of office. Inside of office, he was probably
one of the least effective presidents in years, but a wonderful,
good hearted man. We lost him last year. He made
it to one hundred. Also born on this day, Jimmy Bourn.

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On this date in nineteen twenty four, Roger Williams, the
pianist Autumn leaves great hit. Born on this date in history,
actor Tom Bosley. You remember him from Happy Days. Actor
George Papard Dumbledore born on this date who actually had
a hit record. Yes, MacArthur Park by Sir Richard Harris.

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Richard Harris born on this date from the original Nutty
Professor Movies Silencers, the Poseidon Adventure actress Stella Stevens born
on this date, and the sole musician composer Donnie Hathaway.
All those folks born on this date in history, and
they have shuffled up this mortal coil.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Hi, this is Jeff Foxworthy.

Speaker 16 (14:14):
It is now time for the birthday announcements.

Speaker 9 (14:17):
The following people are now officially older than dirt?

Speaker 8 (14:21):
Can you believe? Mary Poppins is ten years away from
one hundred? Dame Julie Andrews ninety years old today from
Seventh Heaven. Stephen Collins is seventy eight from National Lampoon's
Vacation LBJ, The Early Years, King Penn Independence Day, Randy
Quaid three quarters of a century seventy five. Super model

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Cindy Margolis sixty years old today from the Hangover trilogy.
Zach Gallipanakus is fifty six.

Speaker 7 (14:57):
It's where I keep on my things.

Speaker 17 (14:58):
Got a lot of compliments on this, plus it's not
a man purse, it's called a satchel Indiana Jones, Where's one?

Speaker 8 (15:04):
From The Hangover, Zach Gallipanakus is fifty six, Captain Marvel
Brie Larson is thirty six. From Fresh Off the Boat
and Manifest, Luna Blaze is twenty four, and from Stranger
Things Prea Fernuson is nineteen. Though just a few of
the people celebrating the first day of October is their birthday.

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If this is your birthday, hi.

Speaker 18 (15:30):
We're the four Freshmen and we just want to say happy.

Speaker 7 (15:33):
Birthday to.

Speaker 8 (15:38):
And we'll get started on this first day of October
Wednesday edition of Classic Radio Theater by going back eighty
six years October first, nineteen thirty nine, William Johnstone as.

Speaker 19 (15:51):
The shadow Shadow.

Speaker 20 (15:56):
In a recent study, anothered traffic expert estimates that inadequate
highways and resultant traffic jams cost the American economy billions
of dollars every year, and suggests that the cost of
modernizing our roads would quickly be regained in time saved.
Discussing motor accidents, this same expert suggests that legislation may
be needed to curb the speed of our powerful automobiles

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before they ever leave the factories. This is a controversy
of question on which the experts disagree, but all traffic
experts agree on one thing. Common sense cannot be legislated
into the automobile driver. He has to learn it by himself. Anger, bravado,
and the spirit of competition often are expressed on the
highway by excessive speeding, disregard of traffic signs and signals,

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and other risky maneuvers. Psychologists sum it up by saying
that careless drivers are emotionally immature. Put more bluntly, it
means that careless driving is kid stuff.

Speaker 8 (16:52):
Okay, we'll roll on here on this Wednesday, Classic radio
theater William Johnstone starring as The Shadow eighty six years
ago today, October one, nineteen thirty nine, The Night Marauders.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
The Shadow knows.

Speaker 11 (17:44):
And now for another thrilling adventure of the Shadow. Today's
story The Night Marauders. The Shadow, mysterious character who furthers
the forces of law and order, is in reality Lamont Cranston,
wealthy young man about town. The Shadow uses his hnotic
power to cloud men's minds so that I cannot see him.

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Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane, is the
only person who knows to whom the unseen voice of
the shadow belongs. As the scene opens in our story,
it is night, dark, still night, and we find ourselves
the unseen observers of two vague figures, moving almost silently
across a window sill and into a darkened bedroom where

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lies asleep a beautiful girl at peace with the world.
Then out of the still.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Oh, oh, hello, Dary.

Speaker 7 (19:08):
What.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Well what happened? Are you all right? But who was it?
A short, powerful man? A monster? You're dreaming, daring? Yes,
they ransect your whole room. That sounds like the night marauders. Muggo,

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I'm coming right over as soon as I call Commissioner Western. Now,
don't worry, I'll be right there. Goodbye. Come in the mind, muggle.
Are you all right?

Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yes?

Speaker 21 (19:47):
I guess so. My throat's a little bruised. Your throat, yes,
one of them had his fingers wrapped around my neck.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
It's horrible.

Speaker 21 (19:54):
I guess that's what's known as getting fingerprints the hard way.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Now, this is no joking matter, Margot.

Speaker 21 (20:00):
I'm aware of that every time I swallow.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Did you see what they looked like?

Speaker 21 (20:03):
Only the one by my bed, but I could hear
the other one crawling around the room. Oh it was creepy.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
What are the one by your bed looked like?

Speaker 22 (20:11):
Well?

Speaker 21 (20:12):
The best description I can think of at the moment
is Frankenstein's homely brother. He was quite short, with long
arms and a really beast.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Your face, it's an ugly description.

Speaker 21 (20:21):
It was an ugly face.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
That's probably Commissioner Western. I asked him to come over,
Come in, Commissioner.

Speaker 4 (20:27):
Thank you, Christon? How are you, miss Lane?

Speaker 5 (20:31):
All right?

Speaker 21 (20:31):
Now?

Speaker 5 (20:32):
Thanks?

Speaker 4 (20:32):
Oh? Where did it happen?

Speaker 21 (20:34):
Right in here?

Speaker 3 (20:34):
In my bedroom?

Speaker 4 (20:35):
Didn't they take anything of value?

Speaker 21 (20:37):
A few years off my life?

Speaker 7 (20:38):
Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
Oh tell me just what took place, miss Lane.

Speaker 21 (20:43):
Well I'm a little hazy as to detail. You see,
I was asleep and I was dreaming about punkin pies.

Speaker 23 (20:48):
You what, honest?

Speaker 5 (20:50):
Punkin pies?

Speaker 21 (20:51):
You know the kind of mother never makes Ah?

Speaker 4 (20:54):
Yes, miss Lane, but tell me about your waking moments.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Don't you like punkin pies?

Speaker 4 (20:59):
I adore all punkin pies, miss Laie. But this is
a police investigation, not a cooking class.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
I listen to your dream later, Margot.

Speaker 21 (21:06):
Thank you?

Speaker 7 (21:06):
Do you mind?

Speaker 5 (21:08):
Sorry?

Speaker 21 (21:09):
Well, I was awakened by the realization that something was
grasping my throat, and it incidentally wasn't punkin.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
Parks, miss Lane.

Speaker 21 (21:16):
Please, I started to scream. The man put his other
hand across.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
My mouth, and then the other man ransacked your room.
Is that right?

Speaker 24 (21:23):
Yes?

Speaker 22 (21:23):
How do you know?

Speaker 2 (21:24):
He ought to know the same. Two nocturnal nimrods have
been driving Commissioner Western and his department slightly insane.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
It's not that bad, Cranston. We'll have them both under
lock and key any day now. Oh, then you know
who they are, well, not exactly.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
Do you even vaguely know who they are? Well, not exactly, Commissioner.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
We know how they're working well, and you know they're burglar, Yes,
we know they're I mean the department always catches up
with crimes. Miss Lane.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Well, i'd like to catch up with these criminals myself. Commissioner,
if you need a running mate, I wishould count on me.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
No, thanks, but I appreciate your offers.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
I see.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
There's just one thing I think you should know before
I leave, Miss Layne.

Speaker 12 (22:06):
Yes, Commissioner, I really do like punk and pie.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
Good night.

Speaker 21 (22:13):
Well, there was a nice, chummy little investigation, but I
failed to see that it proved anything.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
It didn't, and Weston's plenty worried.

Speaker 21 (22:20):
Too, Lamond, I don't like that glint in your eye.
Are you going to get mixed up in this?

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Definitely?

Speaker 5 (22:27):
Oh, Lama.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
Now you go back to bed, Margot. I come over
in the morning and we'll figure out how the Shadow
can track down the night marauders. Eh, Margaret, you don't
know how fortunate you were last night. What do you mean, Lamont,
I look at this newspaper. Night Marauders turned to murder.

Speaker 25 (22:48):
Murder.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yes, the body of John Kenyon was discovered this morning
by his valet. He'd been brutally murdered some time before
dawn to day due to the deep bruises on his
throat and the fact that his bedroom had been ransacked.
Commissioner Western admitted that the night Marauders were unquestionably guilty.

Speaker 21 (23:06):
Oh lemnt, it might have been our.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yes, Margot, May I use your phone?

Speaker 21 (23:10):
Yes, surely.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
I'm going to ask Weston again if I can work
with him. If he doesn't want me, I'm going to
work on this case by myself.

Speaker 21 (23:18):
You can't tell the Mott. Maybe you'll make your special
deputy or something.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
That's right, he might, Hello, Police Department, I'd like to
speak to Commissioner Western. Please, Commissioner Western, No, no, no, Western,
W E S T O N. You know the head
of your department. Yes, that's it, that's right. Olperator said
he'd try to find him.

Speaker 21 (23:41):
Oh, that's fine. They're supposed to catch criminals and they
can't even find their commissioner.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
Hello, this is Crimeston. Commissioner. I just read about the
night Marauder's latest crime, and I'd still like to lend
a hand in running them up. I think that I could. Oh,
I see you are not running a school for detectives. Eh, goodbye,
nice fellow.

Speaker 21 (24:05):
Did you read this?

Speaker 4 (24:05):
Lamont?

Speaker 21 (24:07):
Henry Burns, an employee of the city, is quoted as
having seen two figures leap from Kenyon's window at about
the same hour that the crime was committed.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Good, that's something to work on.

Speaker 21 (24:16):
Well, what do you plan to do?

Speaker 2 (24:17):
I wouldn't be surprised if the Shadow paid a call
on Henry Burns tonight.

Speaker 22 (24:39):
Thanks for making sure I got home safely. I guess
you can go now, officer.

Speaker 26 (24:45):
Not until I take a look around your apartment. Mister Burns,
you are so nervous. If I'm out.

Speaker 22 (24:49):
Nervous, How would you like to be locked up all
day in a room the size of a cigar box?
An hour after hour, faced the inquisition of questions? Hammead
at your head?

Speaker 4 (24:58):
Ahna, they were only trying. Would you like it?

Speaker 27 (25:01):
Answer me?

Speaker 22 (25:01):
How would you like it?

Speaker 7 (25:02):
Say?

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Look, mister Burns, you'd better take it easy.

Speaker 22 (25:05):
I'll be dead before morning.

Speaker 26 (25:07):
No one's going to kill you, mister Burns, not with
me on the job. I'll be right downstairs.

Speaker 7 (25:13):
Good night.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Wasn't read.

Speaker 7 (25:22):
Well?

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Mister Burns?

Speaker 22 (25:25):
Who said that?

Speaker 2 (25:26):
I did? Well?

Speaker 4 (25:28):
Where are you? Who are you?

Speaker 2 (25:29):
I have the shadow shadow?

Speaker 22 (25:34):
I've heard of you, but I can't see you.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
I cloud men's minds so they cannot see me. Oh
he did that to me? Huh, yes, I'll see him,
mister Burns. I haven't come here for any other purpose
than to act as your friend, to help you.

Speaker 22 (25:49):
Please believe me somehow, I don't believe your shadow.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Good Then tell me what you saw last night.

Speaker 22 (25:55):
Oh I can't, I can't.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
I tell you. I just can't. Why.

Speaker 22 (25:58):
I was hoping that you'll be different from But it's
just the same series of questions, What did you see?

Speaker 4 (26:03):
What did they look like?

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Wait a minute, mister Burns, I came in with you
and the officer that escorted you home. You told him
you expected to die. Yeah, to die.

Speaker 22 (26:13):
Yeah, that's right. I expect to be killed. I'm not
afraid to die.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Since you're not afraid to die, mister Burns, Why shouldn't
you tell me what you saw last night?

Speaker 22 (26:24):
I hadn't thought of it that way. As long as
you're gonna get me anyway, why shouldn't I tell? All right,
I did see something. It was horrible, shadow horrible.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
I tell you don't be afraid.

Speaker 22 (26:36):
Well, I I was walking home. I passed the apartment
house where the murder was committed. I heard a weird
call and unearthly sound from nowhere. I turned and saw
two figures that appeared silently from a second story window.
They slipped to the ground without a sound and hurried,
half running, half walking. Disappeared in the shrubbery across the
street at the edge of the park. One of them

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was short, massive, unbelievably horrible to see, and the other
in his hands as what as that.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Look at your peece huh? A piece of rock? With
some paper tied to it.

Speaker 22 (27:07):
I know, I know it's the Night Marauders. I know
it's from them.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
Read it, Take it up and read it.

Speaker 7 (27:13):
All right?

Speaker 22 (27:15):
All right, dead men and wise men say nothing. You
have the choice of being either dead or wise sign
the Night Marauders, dead or wise.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Put the note on the table. All right. It's the
first clue, and from that very scrap of paper the
police may be able to get fingerprints A hundred leads
to the solution of these crimes.

Speaker 22 (27:39):
Maybe you're right, Maybe the police could find the Night Marauders.

Speaker 4 (27:43):
Hurry, take it. Take it to the police. That note
may save my life.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
I will. And now, mister Burtons, I suggest that you
try to get some rest. The police are on. God,
you're safe enough here.

Speaker 22 (27:55):
I guess you're right. You go out this way, good night.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
Good night, rest, well, rest well, h.

Speaker 22 (28:14):
Dead men and wise men say nothing.

Speaker 28 (28:38):
Mister hold holo, no answer, Come on, help you bread
this luck? Okay?

Speaker 29 (28:48):
Oh here we are well.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
Oh oh, look at the poor devil. Look at lords
Is he dead?

Speaker 27 (28:57):
Let me look at the body.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
I can't stand quite.

Speaker 7 (29:00):
Still breathing a little?

Speaker 27 (29:01):
We quite stand back, mister, can you hear me?

Speaker 30 (29:08):
Can you hear me, the Shadow, Shadow, the Shadow. Oh,
he's the guy behind the Riddle of the Night Marauders.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
Murphy Murphy. Yes, Commissioners, I want a list of every
piece of jewelry that the Night Writters have stolen from
their victim, Yes, sir, and then ever turned up the
pawn shops. Yet no, so not a piece. We've been
checking every fence for months. All right, then we'll.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yes, good morning, Commissioner. I believe you're looking for me
for the murder of Henry Burns.

Speaker 31 (29:57):
Who's this, the Shadow, Commissioner, the Shadow, Yes, Buffy, have
this call trace at once, Get every squad car and
towering action right, sir. Now where what did you say,
Shadow Commissioner.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
I know you're having this call trace, but I called
to tell you that I was in Henry Burn's apartment
last night. While I was there, a stone was thrown
through the window. It had a note attached to it.

Speaker 4 (30:24):
We didn't find any note.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
I know you didn't. I have the note. I'll send
it to you tomorrow. I'd better hang up now. You
may trace this call faster than I anticipate. Goodbye, Commissioner.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
Wait, wait, Commissioner, VI trace a call. Yes, squad cars
on the way. No, why not? The car came from
the phone booth here in headquarters, the call here in headquarter.
Where did you get him? No, sir, there was no
one in sights. Well this is great. The shadow is

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now insulting the department where the department own Nichols Park's
beautiful to.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Night, isn't it, yester mon?

Speaker 5 (31:14):
What good does it do me?

Speaker 2 (31:15):
No, Margo, don't feel alarmed.

Speaker 21 (31:17):
I'll behave you know the mond I made a dreadful
mistake last night, And well I just remembered it wasn't
the kind of punkin pies that mother made at all.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
What wasn't the kind of punkin pies my dream?

Speaker 21 (31:30):
It was apple dumplings.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
That wasn't that silly of me?

Speaker 21 (31:34):
Whatever made me think it was punk?

Speaker 2 (31:35):
And head driver, I watch up of my cars cutting
off the road.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
I believe you, mister Crichton.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Commissioner Western say you gave us a scare.

Speaker 21 (31:47):
Oh I'm sorry, Commissioner, I was just telling the mont
it wasn't punkin pie at all last night? It was
apple dumpling.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
What was which I dream, commission ate last night?

Speaker 3 (31:56):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yes, well I recognized you to riding along and I
thought i'd give you a little tip on detecting mister Cranston.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Really, and what's that while.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
You're driving around the park or a breath of fresh
air enjoying the sunset after a good dinner and.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
A very good dinner. It was two, Commissioner.

Speaker 4 (32:15):
I'm driving around of the park because after analysis, I
discovered that all of the crimes of the night marauders
have taken place within a block of the park. What
do you think of that?

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Where is that what you call a clue? Commissioner?

Speaker 4 (32:28):
Is that what I call it? It's the first significant
fact we've on Earth?

Speaker 21 (32:33):
Do you really think that the shadow was guilty?

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Commissioner?

Speaker 4 (32:35):
What else am I to think he tried to misleaders
today by calling up about some phony letter. And furthermore,
I think he's right here.

Speaker 7 (32:43):
In this park?

Speaker 4 (32:43):
Oh no, Commissioner, Yes, sir, that's what I think. And
I have a hunch will pick him up tonight. Well
I must be going by.

Speaker 21 (32:54):
Well, maybe he's gonna beat you to the punch.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
After all, maybe you've got something there the month. What
is the masa? You're white as a sheep?

Speaker 21 (33:07):
Did you hear that weird call?

Speaker 4 (33:09):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Well, what about it?

Speaker 21 (33:10):
That's the call I heard last night. I heard it
while that man still had his hand on my throat,
and when he heard it, he looked up and then
let go immediately.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Are you sure it's the same call?

Speaker 29 (33:20):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (33:20):
The month? Do you think I could forget one the
tail of that awful experience driver?

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Stop here?

Speaker 7 (33:25):
Yes, sir, it sounds.

Speaker 21 (33:26):
As though it came from over there.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
But the zoo. We're going to walk a bit. We'll
be back shortly. Very good, sir, All right down, you
get Manga, all right and Margo. On second thought, I
think you'd better go back and stay in the carriage.

Speaker 21 (33:41):
All right, Oh, but be careful a month please.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
I'll be as quiet as a shadow.

Speaker 32 (33:56):
Get back, ready, get back? You want me to clean
your cage, don't you there?

Speaker 2 (34:01):
That's better?

Speaker 32 (34:03):
Now you'll stay over there where you belong. Freddy, You know, Freddie,
you're a very interesting playmate. Oh you're a little rough
once in a while, but once you figure it out,
you're quite like a human. We've been friends for a
long time.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
A Freddy.

Speaker 32 (34:20):
Yes, I remember when you first came here.

Speaker 7 (34:22):
Yes, you were just a little fellow.

Speaker 32 (34:24):
Now you're a full grown gorilla, the finest specimen in captivity.
Why when you came here you weren't any bigger than jocko.

Speaker 14 (34:39):
A.

Speaker 27 (34:40):
You could only.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Read Freddy, you'd laugh too. Do you know what the
papers said.

Speaker 29 (34:47):
Today, fred.

Speaker 32 (34:49):
They said that the Shadow killed that man last night.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yes, silly fools.

Speaker 32 (34:56):
If the Shadow had the strength to do what you
did to that man, what folds? Why should he get
credit for those murders? Oh, but it's just as well
until you get more experienced, Freddy. Yes, yes, then no
one will take fred for our way. You know, Freddy,

(35:18):
we can rule this whole city. And do you know how,
Freddy flu Field?

Speaker 2 (35:27):
You know?

Speaker 4 (35:27):
Now, what's the matter with your?

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Matter? Shut up? And he shut up? There? Now, what's
the matter with you? What was that? It's the shadow?

Speaker 7 (35:36):
Shadow?

Speaker 2 (35:37):
Where are you here in the cage with you and
your gorilla?

Speaker 32 (35:41):
Oh you're the man nobody can see.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
What are you doing here? I've been standing here listening
to you talk to your friend, Freddy. You've heard everything
I said. Yes, we keepers always talk to our animals there.
They are more.

Speaker 32 (35:55):
Quiet when they hear our voices. It doesn't make any
difference what we say, just so long as we talk.
Now what I said meant nothing? Shadow nothing at all.

Speaker 23 (36:04):
No.

Speaker 32 (36:09):
Now, Shadow, you and Freddy are locked alone in the cage,
and he knows you're in the cage. You may be
able to hypnotize my mind, so I can't see you.
But you can't do it to a gorilla, can you.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
You're right? I can. Oh. The Shadow isn't afraid of Freddy.

Speaker 32 (36:33):
Isy, No, but you will be, because in a minute
I'm going to tell Freddy.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
To kill you. But first.

Speaker 32 (36:41):
I thought maybe you'd like to ask me about the
Night Marauders.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
Shadow.

Speaker 32 (36:47):
May I present the Night Marauders Little Jacko, the monkey
who is in the cage down at the end, Freddy,
the gorilla, and their trainer and brains.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
Joseph Shankroll.

Speaker 32 (37:01):
Yes, it's a pleasure to at last be able to
introduce us, even if it is only to a doomed man. Yes,
tell me, Shadow, Will you be visible after Freddy kills you?

Speaker 2 (37:19):
That remains to be seen. But tell me more about
your crimes Joseph Shancro.

Speaker 32 (37:25):
So you are not crimes, they are adventures. You're not quiet,
Freddy Quiet. It's not quite the time yet, Shadow. I'm
going to be a great power. Power through fear is
my motto.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Why did you turn to murder.

Speaker 32 (37:43):
Oh, I was tired of taking jewelry. I wanted a
new adventure. I have all the jewelry I need right now,
hidden beneath you, beneath the cage you're standing in. But
now shadow comes the newest to my adventures.

Speaker 33 (37:59):
I am going to see you die.

Speaker 32 (38:03):
Yes, you know too much to me, said, I'm tired
of talking to you.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
Oh, this is guy to be fun.

Speaker 32 (38:12):
There's body of Musyay, now's the time.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
Kill kill Paddy?

Speaker 32 (38:18):
Kill ready?

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Do you hear me? Kill him?

Speaker 32 (38:23):
Ask him to that?

Speaker 2 (38:24):
Kill him? Well, Joseph Shancro, your power is gone. Your
gorilla will no longer do what you want.

Speaker 4 (38:33):
Wray, you hear me?

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Chill him? He will not obey you anymore. Joseph Shankro
belongs to me. I too know and understand animals. Freddy
won't kill me.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
Yes he will, Freddy? Chill him? Do you hear me?

Speaker 32 (38:48):
I'm coming in there with a whip. I have put
you the ribbons, Paddy. Then you'll know who you're master in,
you fool.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Don't open the.

Speaker 32 (38:55):
Door, stay out, stay away from him, and you learn
your master's here.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Don't hit him?

Speaker 7 (39:01):
Then you chill when I tell you you feel.

Speaker 11 (39:06):
I'm gonna tell you what.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
You know.

Speaker 4 (39:10):
You know who You'll do what I say?

Speaker 32 (39:15):
Cheery, cheer, nor.

Speaker 4 (39:24):
Stay like ms plain say back. Are you all right?
Ms Lane?

Speaker 2 (39:32):
Yes?

Speaker 21 (39:32):
Who commissioned Western? Did you fire those shots?

Speaker 7 (39:34):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (39:35):
I did. I standing behind that trigger just a second.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
What are you doing?

Speaker 4 (39:39):
I am shouting the case door. These shadows in here.

Speaker 7 (39:43):
Uh, this is a.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
Great moment for me. The gorilla is dead night marauders
and no more. And I have at last caught the shadow.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Not quite good, Commissioner, the shadow.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
I was right here. I heard everything that went on
between you and Joseph Jancro. I know you not guilty
of murder, but still there are a lot of things
I want to know about you, and you won't get
out of that cage until I find them out.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
But I am out, Commissioner. I came out when the
gorilla escaped, and if you don't believe it, you'll find
a bullet in the back of the gorilla that didn't
come from your gun. Better luck next time, Commissioner Chris Layne.

Speaker 4 (40:18):
If you were not here, I'd say a few things
that no gentleman should ever say.

Speaker 21 (40:22):
Well, I don't mind if you do say them. But
let me first say thank you for saving my life.

Speaker 4 (40:26):
Well, I did my bit, but I'm afraid that some
of the thanks belongs to the Shadow, and so help me.
Someday I'm going to find out who he is.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
All right, Yes, Lamon, I heard shut Heaven said he
didn't hurt you, did he?

Speaker 21 (40:38):
No, Laman, he was dead before he got near me.
The Commissioner saved my life.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
Well for that, Commissioner, I shall never be able to
thank you enough.

Speaker 4 (40:45):
Hell Sir, you weren't in on the kill Lamont. In
case the Night Marauders has been solved, and Lamont, except
for a very bad break, I would have been able
to introduce you to the Shadow.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
Really, Commissioner, I can think of nothing more interesting than
to have you in produce me to the Shadow.

Speaker 11 (41:11):
Today's program is based on a story copyrighted by The
Shadow Magazine. All the characters and all the places named
are fictitious. Any similarity to person's living or dead is
purely coincidental. The Shadow magazine is on sale at your
local news.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
Tame theld of Crime, There's Bitter Fruit. Crime does not
pay The Shadow.

Speaker 8 (41:46):
Eighty six years ago, October one, nineteen thirty nine, The
Shadow on Classic Radio Theater with Wyat Cocks. Up next,
we'll go to nineteen forty nine for an episode of
the Adventures of Develop Marlowe.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
We live in an age of specialization.

Speaker 7 (42:10):
We work in it too.

Speaker 34 (42:12):
The legendary jack of all trades is lost out to
the master of one too often, However, twentieth century employers
find it difficult to find the highly trained, highly skilled
workers they need. Like any problem, however, theirs will yield
to thought and consideration. A physically handicapped worker, for example,
may not be able to do every job well, but

(42:32):
if he's trained to do the one job you want done,
you can rest assured he'll do.

Speaker 7 (42:36):
That job well.

Speaker 34 (42:38):
A physical disability is not, and need not be, a
job disability. Very often, a handicap will even add to
the worker's efficiency. Where excessive room noise is a factor,
a deaf employee may prove more efficient than his colleagues.

Speaker 7 (42:51):
Weekdays, call the local office of.

Speaker 34 (42:53):
Your state Employment Service and hire the handicap to fill
job openings in your organization. You will find the state
Employment service listed in your telephone directory.

Speaker 8 (43:03):
Classic Radio Theater with Wyatcocks continues with an episode of
the Adventures of Philip marlow starring Gerald Moore from seventy
six years ago October first, nineteen forty nine, The Tail
of the Mermaid.

Speaker 23 (43:16):
Get this and Get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road,
and those who travel had wind up in the gut
of the prison of the Grave. This started with a
wreck and went from there to double murder over seventy
five thousand bucks worth of glitter that nobody got me
ind because I found out just in time what was
fishy about? The Tale of the Mermaid.

Speaker 17 (43:36):
From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime
fiction comes as most famous character in the Adventures of
Philip Marlow Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe,
we bring you tonight's exciting story, The Tale of the Murma.

Speaker 23 (44:14):
Ninem thirty. I was still in my office, tucking in
the loose ends on a report while I listened with
half an ear to the fabric of city sounds rising
from the street below. Fabric ripped suddenly by tires clawing concrete.
A shattering crash that followed brought me to my feet.
It was a traffic accident, and a bad one. I
ran to the window, but it had happened around the corner,
out of sight for my office, so I watched others

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run for it, and remembered grimly that every thirty seconds,
somewhere in the country a thing like that happened, and
one out of every sixteen minutes was fatal. I wondered
it would have been chewed up in a chromium meat
grinder this time, as I listened to first the police
and the emergency ambulance, and finally the scavenger truck cleaned
the wreck off the street. After that, I went back

(44:58):
to my report again and tried to forget about it.
But an hour later that same accident came back into
my office.

Speaker 24 (45:04):
Mister Marlow, Yeah, this is Corey Riggs. Uh.

Speaker 23 (45:07):
Yes, Miss Riggs.

Speaker 24 (45:08):
I'm a nurse at the Warwick Emergency Hospital.

Speaker 7 (45:11):
Huh.

Speaker 24 (45:11):
About an hour ago a man named Stanley Ott was
brought in and he's been calling for you for me.
He was badly injured in an automobile accident on Kowan
on his way to your office.

Speaker 23 (45:20):
Wait a minute, who did you say this one.

Speaker 24 (45:22):
I'm the nurse assigned to mister Ottapha hospital. I just
got off Duriena. I had to wait until I was
relieved before I could call you.

Speaker 23 (45:28):
I see, well, look, miss Riggs, I'd like to help
in any way I can, but it's.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
Nice to gollo.

Speaker 24 (45:32):
Mister Ott gave me two hundred and fifty dollars and
told me to call you. Yeah, I know, but and
he said that I should give you two hundred and
keep the fifty for myself.

Speaker 23 (45:40):
Oh fine, Now I get clients by proxy. I beg
your pardon nothing, I'll be right over, miss Riggs. I
didn't know anyone named Stanley out, and I felt a
little like an ambulance chaser. But I was only fifteen
minutes and getting the emergency hospital. As I walked up
the ambulance ramp of a smart looking brunette came toward me.

Speaker 24 (46:02):
Mister Morrow, I'm Corey Riggs, the nurse who called hello.

Speaker 23 (46:06):
Can I see him now?

Speaker 24 (46:06):
It wouldn't do any good, you see. He went into
a coma a few minutes after I.

Speaker 23 (46:11):
Caught Oh it's too late, is Eddie.

Speaker 24 (46:14):
Let's move away from the door.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
Shall we?

Speaker 24 (46:15):
Sure you see mister Marlow before he went into the coma,
art wasn't rational.

Speaker 23 (46:20):
He was raving about what sort of things about you
and a girl?

Speaker 24 (46:24):
Oh as near as I could make out, she's supposed
to meet someone tonight at two o'clock and collect seventy
five thousand dollars.

Speaker 23 (46:31):
It's quite an assignment. Who's the girl?

Speaker 24 (46:32):
I don't know? All Odd said was something about a
plaid coade is identification.

Speaker 23 (46:37):
Laid code. Huh any idea? What he wanted me to do? Chaperone?

Speaker 7 (46:40):
Maybe?

Speaker 4 (46:41):
No?

Speaker 24 (46:41):
He kept pleading, stopper, stopper, she can't do it. So
I'm sure that he wanted you to prevent this girl
from keeping that appointment for some reason that seems absolutely
imperative to him.

Speaker 23 (46:52):
Where was this two o'clock meeting supposed to take place?

Speaker 35 (46:54):
I have no idea.

Speaker 23 (46:55):
Oh fine, So it boils down to this girl we
don't know in a plaid code is meeting someone we
don't know what a place we don't know at two am.
It's a man who wants me to prevent it is
in a coma and can't talk. Didn't he say anything else.

Speaker 7 (47:07):
Miss Rings.

Speaker 24 (47:08):
He just kept saying, you've got to help me, Marlowe.
It's life and death.

Speaker 36 (47:13):
You know.

Speaker 23 (47:13):
We can stir up an awful hornet's nest, poking our
noses into seventy five thousand bucks worth of business we
know nothing about. I doubt that we can do any
good anyway, because we don't have enough to go on.
If he said anything else to even point in the.

Speaker 24 (47:25):
Right Marlowe, Well wait a minute. He mumbles something once
about a constantine.

Speaker 23 (47:32):
Constantine.

Speaker 24 (47:33):
Yes, it's u pier.

Speaker 23 (47:34):
What is it a boat?

Speaker 24 (47:35):
I don't know, but at least it's a.

Speaker 22 (47:37):
Lead, isn't it?

Speaker 23 (47:38):
M anything else?

Speaker 2 (47:40):
No?

Speaker 23 (47:42):
Okay, where can I reach you?

Speaker 24 (47:43):
I'll be at my quarters Cresview five seven eight one, five.

Speaker 23 (47:46):
Seven eight one, and keep track of Stanleyout's condition. Will
you if he comes out of it, talk to him.
We've only got three short hours. I'll call you, Corey.
I felt a little weird as I left the hospital
because I was traveling on strictly secondhand information as to

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what had gone on in a delirious mind. But in
spite of that, there was still enough coherence in what
Corey Riggs told me to make a case. My first
stop was a phone booth and a call to the police,
but I found out from the accident report that Stanley
Out was thirty, unmarried, small time lawyer in an LA
resident with a clean police record. My next call was
the hobbomaster's officer, San Pedro.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
Constantine.

Speaker 37 (48:33):
Nope, don't remember, no visial for that name. SA just
a minute, I'll love her up in the registry at
she Constanta Constant Constantine. Only one listed is a former
mastered schooners ungle Pirates Point near Monterey in eighteen seven days.

Speaker 23 (48:53):
A little before my time. Not the one, eh, not
the one. So I tried the.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
No fishing boat called Constantine on this coast. Master.

Speaker 23 (49:06):
I was followed by a check of yacht Harbord long
Beach negative and the call of the pleasure boat anchorage
is Santa Monica.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
No Constantine registered here, sir.

Speaker 23 (49:16):
After that a long future reconnaissance of the waterfront from
one end to the other. It left me one solid
hour later, out at the end of a tottering almost
abandoned concessions peer in venice, swearing and blind frustration at
the black seating ocean below. I will select.

Speaker 27 (49:34):
He ain't thinking of jumping in. How are you a pow?

Speaker 2 (49:38):
Hey?

Speaker 27 (49:39):
You looked like you lost your best friend.

Speaker 23 (49:42):
I did buster me. I was sunk with a Constantine
in eighteen seventy Coyzantine.

Speaker 27 (49:47):
You know him too, eh?

Speaker 23 (49:49):
Him?

Speaker 22 (49:50):
You mean Constantine's a guy. Sure, pal, there's a shock there.
Wait till the beacon light comes around again.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
Yeah you see see that?

Speaker 23 (49:59):
Well, I'll be Prince Constantine chevnov accoletais promised and medium
personal consultant by appointment only.

Speaker 27 (50:06):
Yeah, but that's a fake, all them guys. He knows
everybody around he even if the me for one bucket
or something. But he's a genuine Russian prince. Hey, hey,
where were you going?

Speaker 23 (50:20):
I have a look. Prince Constantine chevnov could be my boy.

Speaker 27 (50:23):
He who wouldn't want you losing around here?

Speaker 23 (50:26):
That's too bad? Does he live here?

Speaker 27 (50:28):
Yeah, in the back. He runs his pitch in the
front where all in the green curtains are.

Speaker 23 (50:34):
I suppose he always leaves his door unlocked.

Speaker 27 (50:38):
Hey, that's kind of funny.

Speaker 23 (50:41):
Yeah yeah, but that'll be a light switch here sometimes.
Oh yeah, now let's see what?

Speaker 7 (50:49):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (50:50):
Oh catch why mister.

Speaker 23 (51:00):
As a little warp rad darted through the door and
scampered away into the darkness. I went over the body,
face up on the cheap, gaudy carpet at the seance room.
It was about thirty five in a substantial gray business
suit stained red in front where the bullets had gone
in as wallet was missing, there was no other identification
on him. His gray snap brim hat was spilled a

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few feet away, so I picked it up to look
for initials and found instead a small file card stuck
into the sweatband type. To the top was the heading
the mermaid onna Otis vanoen only relative Evelyn van O
and niece mermaids Stole November twelfth, nineteen forty eight. Insurance
paid in full in ink Vano and died August nineteen

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forty nine, and under that in pencil Konstantine Chevna Venice
Pier and Louis Paradise, nine thirteen Seacrest Road, Pacific Palisades.
It took twenty minutes to find nine thirteen Seacrest, And
when I stopped and got close enough of what I
saw through an open window made constantine trap, I just
left because reliable as a post office by comparison. It

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was a miniature Egyptian temple, exotic and dainties seconding lushness
of red velvet and yellow silk. And in the center
of the room was a bloated little man balancing a
long cigarette holder in one hand. Well, he's simple into
a honeycolored French.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
Phone in the other arrangement.

Speaker 23 (52:19):
I moved up quietly until I could hear.

Speaker 38 (52:20):
Him sentimental agreement. That is right, every and your uncle
Otis and I were the best of friends for years. Well,
thank you child.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
Where are you now?

Speaker 39 (52:33):
Oh deservertoil good good? I advise you to stay there
until a few minutes before two. And aha, you will
not forget to wear a plaid coat, just to be
sure I won't make a mistake.

Speaker 40 (52:47):
Careful now, sudden nights like this, gun gone off. Upset mister,
they find some interesting inside.

Speaker 23 (52:54):
Conversation about the mermaid.

Speaker 40 (52:56):
Probably, oh oh, I bad to drop that one. But
because I'd bump you for a nickel to say nothing
to seventy.

Speaker 23 (53:02):
Five g's, I don't talk things over with punks. I
reserve it for the head man. Go do something about it, okay,
but I.

Speaker 40 (53:09):
Will go on move under the doorn inside, Mister Paradise
gets some kind of kick out of stepping on big
guys like you.

Speaker 23 (53:18):
The gopher face shoved his automatic into the smaller my
back and marched me inside, where the air was thick
with cheap incense. The bloated little king with a long
cigarette holder. It stepped out. He came back fast. When
the gopher called mister Paradise. He stared at me from
across the room, and his nostrils flat for an instant,
and he simped again and sidled toward me. A gopher
dug in my spine with his gun.

Speaker 40 (53:38):
Well, now what is this foodie snopper? Mister Paradise caught
him outside picking in the window.

Speaker 4 (53:44):
Oh, it is a bad night for snoopers.

Speaker 23 (53:48):
Who are you name? Smallow?

Speaker 2 (53:50):
And the business snooping?

Speaker 40 (53:52):
He knows about the mermaid, mister Paradise.

Speaker 41 (53:54):
He does, does he? How much do you know? Speak ups?

Speaker 23 (53:59):
She's got a fish tail instead of legs.

Speaker 40 (54:01):
You dare to joke and just stand here and take
a big man you asked for.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
Make a move and I'll drop you.

Speaker 38 (54:08):
I know what you are, Marlowe, but not how much
you have found out. Now tell me because the next
time I slap you, it will carry more weight than
my bare hand.

Speaker 23 (54:18):
I promise you you have company, Paradise.

Speaker 38 (54:21):
No, you keep this babboon under control, routie, I will
answer the door.

Speaker 42 (54:27):
Oh friend, nice, have a nice.

Speaker 4 (54:31):
How far do you think you can go with my reputation?

Speaker 29 (54:34):
Do you want to get me hanged.

Speaker 38 (54:36):
What is the matter, Constantine?

Speaker 35 (54:37):
You are upset, upset, I'm out of my mind with
a shock, and such a stupid thing for you to do.

Speaker 41 (54:44):
What are you raving about?

Speaker 23 (54:45):
He found that body on his front room floor, right, Constantine.

Speaker 35 (54:48):
Exactly precisely. And what is more, eye did not put
it there all the places in the world. Why did
you pick this one?

Speaker 7 (54:56):
Paradise?

Speaker 2 (54:57):
Who is this? This stranger here?

Speaker 38 (55:00):
If you would close your mouth and open your eyes
more often, Prince Constantine, you would not be the nervous
wreck you are. This is, mister Marlowe, another snooper.

Speaker 7 (55:10):
Another one.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
But listen to me.

Speaker 35 (55:13):
It's better if we quit. It's better if we don't
try it tonight. It's out of hand.

Speaker 41 (55:17):
I don't like it now. We should get away and
come back next.

Speaker 4 (55:20):
Year and do it.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
You jellyfish, There nothing to worry about now.

Speaker 38 (55:24):
Insurance investigators often work in pairs, Is that not soul?

Speaker 23 (55:28):
Marlow You're pitch round man. You don't need any help
from me.

Speaker 38 (55:31):
You are so right, Rudy, and I caught the first
of your place content. Now we have the second one here.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
That is all there are. The danger is over. It's
clear ceiling for you.

Speaker 7 (55:42):
But what about that cateaverory.

Speaker 35 (55:43):
You had your audacity to leave lying in myself give
me Constantine.

Speaker 23 (55:48):
That was a necessity. I am sorry.

Speaker 41 (55:51):
Now is.

Speaker 7 (55:53):
Just going all the time?

Speaker 2 (55:54):
Yeah? Awful?

Speaker 38 (55:56):
And think all the champagne caviar with my last strongle
off you can buy with the mermaids.

Speaker 41 (56:02):
I don't care, just to bracelet.

Speaker 38 (56:04):
But at the same time, it is seventy five thousand
dollars worth of diamonds in platinum.

Speaker 35 (56:08):
Okay, Paradise, I trust you. Now we go on my gaso, yesso,
And mister Paradise, what should I do with the big
boy here?

Speaker 23 (56:22):
Yeah, you're kind of leaving a loose end around, aren't
you fatting?

Speaker 2 (56:25):
If I had the.

Speaker 38 (56:26):
Time, marlow I would beat the arrogance out of you
a little chunk at the time.

Speaker 41 (56:31):
Ruddie.

Speaker 38 (56:32):
Yeah, you've got no initiative, but you do have imagination,
so use it.

Speaker 41 (56:37):
Good buy marlow.

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Speaker 17 (57:41):
Now with our star Gerald Moore, we return to the
second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story, The Tale
of the Mermaid.

Speaker 23 (57:58):
When Louis Paradise has at the door, snarled the suggestion
that this henchman used his imagination and disposing of me
and left in the lockstep with the white Russian screwball.
I got the point, But even if I'd missed it entirely,
one look in the brother Rudy's eyes would have done
the trick. There were no pupils, just slits of lethal
viciousness windows to his warped little mind where I could
practically see the montage going on that ran from ancient

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thumb screws by candle light up to a generous beating
by street lamp with brass nuts. I felt a cold
not grow in the pit of my stomach as Rudy,
with a cannon in his hand, pointed at my head,
started toward me, and from someplace outside I got a break.
Two romantic cats, Rudy spun told the sound. One chance
to accustomer.

Speaker 4 (58:41):
Ruddy and you miss.

Speaker 23 (58:44):
Mall thlow your head off, not to night, gentle soul,
give it me. I don't want you to hurt yourself
until we've had a.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
Chance to talk.

Speaker 23 (58:49):
That's it, now, light on. You know there was some
reason why I like cats their voices. Okay, Rudy, you've
had enough rest. Now let's get back to business.

Speaker 4 (58:58):
Come on, get up, we're gonna talk.

Speaker 42 (59:00):
Wait, holdly, please, no reason for any more rough stuff.

Speaker 2 (59:04):
I'll cough.

Speaker 23 (59:05):
That's better. But I did paradise in his highness head
for the ganas doo. Where is it?

Speaker 29 (59:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 23 (59:09):
Come on, you said there was.

Speaker 4 (59:10):
No reason for rough that remember now?

Speaker 23 (59:13):
Yeah, yeah, I remember that. That's something I never heard of.
Unhappy coincidence, Rudy. It's one thing I'm interested in heah, wait,
there must be something else. You want to know, something
mel I could tell you the day.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
Hey, Hey, what are you gonna do?

Speaker 23 (59:27):
You mean you can't tell Rudy it's funny. All it
takes is a little imagination. With Rudy out of the way,
I started through the place looking for all important answer
to what was the Ganas doough. But twenty minutes of
turning drawers and closets inside out revealed nothing more exciting

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than Lowie Paradise's address book, first names only, and the
picture of a girl named Toodles, who belonged to the
Roaring twenties and by this time should have caught a
death of coal his sister, no doubt put no lead
on the ganasdo so, on the slim chance of my client,
Stanleyott might already be back in this world and able
to help, I got outside into my car and drove

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to the first drug store we're after checking the phone
books under everything from bazz to bath houses for a
gnasdo and getting no place. I called Corey Riggs at
the nurses home.

Speaker 24 (01:00:18):
No, Marlo, Stanleyott's still unconscious. I just talked to the
night nurse on his floor. They expect him to come
out of it soon. Uh why what happened?

Speaker 23 (01:00:27):
Oh it's too much to explain now, Corey. But that girl,
the one in the plaid code. I found out that
her name's Evelyn Van. Oh, and then she's staying at
the Surf Hotel. Now see if that much checks without
when he comes to will you?

Speaker 9 (01:00:37):
Oh?

Speaker 23 (01:00:38):
Also there's a diamond studded item called the Mermaid, which
accounts for that seventy five thousand. He mentioned a Constantine
and the pier. Now equal a phony Russian prince who
runs a spook palace out on the old Venice Pier.
Now you got all that? Uh huh good Now, look, honey,
listen real hot before Rot passed out, did he buy
any chance say the word ganasdo gonsdo? Yeah?

Speaker 24 (01:01:00):
No, what does it mean?

Speaker 23 (01:01:01):
I don't know. I think it's the name of a place.

Speaker 24 (01:01:03):
Oh have you checked the phone books?

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 23 (01:01:06):
Yeah, it's no dice Cory. Also I checked one, mister
louis Paradise, so you might mention Marlow.

Speaker 24 (01:01:11):
Marlow, Wait a minute, Well there's a girl here, one
of the nurses who's trying to tell me something. It's
the Canasto Marlo, Wait a minute, she knows something about
it here, it's it's Rosemary.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
You talk to her.

Speaker 44 (01:01:24):
Hello, Hello, You want to know what nasdo mean? Yeah,
when it's Russian like parshla maya noda, So well, what does.

Speaker 23 (01:01:33):
It mean in English? Rosemary?

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
Fast?

Speaker 23 (01:01:34):
Please is important?

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
Well?

Speaker 44 (01:01:36):
That means let's go to my place. Nasdau's the word
for nest selda like cozy of parkmand cottage.

Speaker 23 (01:01:44):
My place nest.

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
You sure that I'm positive?

Speaker 44 (01:01:47):
I was an army nurse in the war, and I
spent two years in Germany after the shooting. Park was
over two years a half a block away from the
Russian zone.

Speaker 23 (01:01:56):
That's close enough thanks to a million Rosemary.

Speaker 44 (01:01:58):
I don't mention it, Carra, do it?

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
Marlow? Yeah?

Speaker 23 (01:02:03):
I think so at any rate, unless I'm way off
basis where both the mermaid and all parties concerned are
going to Rendez who at two am. That's less than
a half hour from now the Prince's place on the pier.
I want to be early, so goodbye, Corey. I'll call
again when I know more. Yeah, and give my everlasting
love to girlfriend Rosemary. She all is show a peach

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and there was still a few parts missing the way
they're always are. And as I drove fast for the
old Venice Pier, and added as I went along it
came out something like a team of Paradise and Prince
watching McCall it, ready willing and able to pay seventy
five grand for a piece of jewelry that one Evelyn
van Owen now on a Mermaid, which, according to the
data I'd found on the insurance man's body, had once

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been stolen from Evelyn's late uncle. But I left it there.
When I rear view mirrors had a long grace, said Dan,
that had been tagging me discreetly for three blocks, it's
now being indelicate about it, and closing fast drive. It
was old pal Rudy, And as he came abreast heading.

Speaker 45 (01:03:07):
For me, all right, all right, you're okay, you're rokay, Mac.
Don't you worry about it thing. We'll have you out
of there in a minute. That hey, can't you knock
out that horn?

Speaker 12 (01:03:26):
And knock out the horn.

Speaker 4 (01:03:27):
And says, what do you think we're trying to do?

Speaker 36 (01:03:29):
Me?

Speaker 22 (01:03:30):
Ain't so we should get my hand past his preaking hood.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:03:34):
Oh oh that's better.

Speaker 23 (01:03:36):
Hey, hey, Cabby, what I hit?

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:03:39):
In the order of their appearance.

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
Make your car into a telephone pole, and then.

Speaker 23 (01:03:43):
You went to the advantage board.

Speaker 22 (01:03:45):
Yeah you're sure, lucky bounced off the car, personal load
you down plenty.

Speaker 12 (01:03:49):
Oh hey, here comes the ivy role.

Speaker 30 (01:03:52):
Not for me.

Speaker 23 (01:03:53):
I'm all right, Hey, come on, Kebby, help me out
of this. Were the sure, and that's what we're trying
to do.

Speaker 45 (01:03:58):
But don't you worry. The ambulance ain't for you. But
a guy that sideswiped Jen and tried to get away.
I seen what happened, and I went after him and
we cabbed. He turned into a dead end, no less
trying to shake me.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
Who is he?

Speaker 23 (01:04:10):
A mess?

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
But I guess he'll live?

Speaker 23 (01:04:11):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
Hey, what you got against you?

Speaker 23 (01:04:14):
Anyhow? Make just my life? Listen to your cab? Still
all right?

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
Sure to someplace you gotta go.

Speaker 23 (01:04:18):
There is the old Venice concessions, pier my friend, and
the sooner the better come on. Maybe my head against
the dashboard was exactly what I needed, because right then
and there, the method of Rudy's handywork made me think
of an angle that I neglected almost completely. My unconscious
client had not wanted me to get the Mermaid or

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the seventy five thousand bucks, but to stop Evelyn from
keeping herondevoom, which at this point I figured could mean
but one thing. It was exactly two o'clock from the
cab slamed to stop near the pier. I piled out
and ran out of the empty fog, damp and planking
that led the Prince Constantine check Nothing but mist moved
over the pier. No unusual sound broke the pattern of

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water noises, but I thought momentarily that I was still
in time to prevent what stanleyout somehow knew was going
to happen. That Louis Paradise and his eccentric sidekick intended
to get the Mermaid from Evelyn, but payoff and only
one one way. I ran to the rear of the

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Chakron Stilson, got close to the half open door where
I could see in here and found out just what
I'd expected, and the storeroom spread out and very still
on the oil soak planks that were a makeshift floor
with a lifeless form a girl who, according to the
plaid Kochy wall, was the late Evelyn van On and
kneeling close to a gun in one hand. The sparkling
mermaid and the other as her execution on Louis Paradise.

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Next to him his number one boy, Prince Konstantine Chevnov
not very happy.

Speaker 38 (01:05:47):
Foot was stupid, yes, seventy five grand stupid. How would
you have preferred that I paim is ven noon in cash.

Speaker 41 (01:05:57):
I had to kill her, yes, yes, yes, but the
gun so much noise. We can't afford to attract that tender.

Speaker 23 (01:06:03):
Two cops is on hand, I should say not, don't try.

Speaker 41 (01:06:06):
And the mermaid the face between the balls, Oh.

Speaker 23 (01:06:15):
It's in the water. You have no shame.

Speaker 41 (01:06:18):
Yeah, ye, it's a shame. We did so much, worked
so hardly.

Speaker 23 (01:06:26):
Yeah, killed so often, and I run for it, johanness
run no.

Speaker 7 (01:06:33):
Paradice is dead here without paradise.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
I am not so brave.

Speaker 23 (01:06:39):
You keep quiet, don't make a sound. You have no
we got company?

Speaker 46 (01:06:45):
H pardon me? Can you please tell me where Louis
Paradise can be for?

Speaker 23 (01:06:51):
And slowly paradise there? Who are you?

Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
Then?

Speaker 23 (01:06:55):
On and on the woman who was supposed to sell
the Mermaid to Paradise.

Speaker 46 (01:07:01):
That's right. But on my way over here, just after
I left my hotel, somebody struck me, knocked me out,
took my cop there, and my purson.

Speaker 23 (01:07:11):
Ran your purse with a mermaid, no doubt. Yes, and
that miss Fano and makes this angle shooter here, Yeah,
very dead, Nurse Corey Riggs. M let's get out of here.

Speaker 27 (01:07:39):
So there's nothing to worry about in this manner. What
Stanley's going to be?

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
All right?

Speaker 4 (01:07:43):
I'm so happy.

Speaker 23 (01:07:45):
Why is it women always cry when they're so happy.

Speaker 27 (01:07:47):
I don't know, but it's effective. Well, I'll run along now, goodbye,
bye dog.

Speaker 46 (01:07:54):
You know, mister Marlowe, when I was in the Stanley's
room with the doctor, stan said he didn't lose control
with his car at all when he had that accident
in front of your place.

Speaker 23 (01:08:03):
He was run off the road, I grace Sedan. I
know because I had the same treatment. It was one
of Louis Paradise's henchman, Rudy. Where's your car, honey.

Speaker 46 (01:08:12):
I'll walk yet, just outside the front door.

Speaker 4 (01:08:15):
Tell me.

Speaker 23 (01:08:16):
Did I tell you why Rudy roughed him up?

Speaker 3 (01:08:18):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
In a way.

Speaker 46 (01:08:20):
You see, I told Stanley about the deal with the mermaid,
and he thought it all sounded a little phony.

Speaker 23 (01:08:25):
I can't understand why he's a lawyer, you know, legal
type mind.

Speaker 46 (01:08:30):
He said meeting anyone at two in the morning was ridiculous,
so he investigated as much as he could because he
was worried about me. We're engaged now.

Speaker 23 (01:08:40):
I never would have guessed, and he.

Speaker 46 (01:08:42):
Found out that mister Paradise was a fence and Stan
said that probably he never intended to give me the
seventy five thousand dollars for the mermaid at all, that
they intended to kill me.

Speaker 23 (01:08:52):
Here we are tell me why did you get in
touch with Paradise in the first place.

Speaker 46 (01:08:56):
It was just following Uncle Otis's instructions. He gave me
the mermaid when he was dying, and he told me
if I wanted money, to sell it only to a
mister Paradise, but not to mention it to anyone.

Speaker 23 (01:09:05):
Your uncle fake the robbery, collected the insurance money, and
then let you sell the mermaid to offense.

Speaker 7 (01:09:09):
Huh.

Speaker 23 (01:09:10):
Just lucky for you that nurse Corey Riggs was clever.
She put together just enough of voters is gibberish to
know that there was something good to be had, and
then got me to unravel it for her, and she
got killed taking my place when she tried to collect
your seventy five thousand bucks.

Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
Yeah, oh, here's my car.

Speaker 23 (01:09:29):
Well, Evelyn, for a little while you were a rich woman.
Now it's all gone. How do you feel well?

Speaker 46 (01:09:37):
I'm alive and love.

Speaker 23 (01:09:40):
Yes, well that answers my question. Good night, baby, and
good luck. When I left the hospital, I wanted back
to the old Venice Pia and Prince Konstantine Gnasdo. Was

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five in the morning, and the police had finished cleaning
the place up. But the word had gotten out. Crowd
had gathered they always do, curious, restless, sordid crowd equipped
with everything from grappling hooks to homemade diving helmets, all
climbing over each other for a chance to fish for
the mermaid she who had brought death to three people

(01:10:23):
injury to two others in the course of one night.
I suppose they found there what then, a lot of
glittering pieces of white coal set in a metal frame
we call precious. Look at the Sucker's grand That's all
Marlon home into bed.

Speaker 17 (01:10:47):
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most
famous character, star Gerald Moore and are produced and directed
by Norman MacDonald. Script is by meldonell A, Robert Mitchell,

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and Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast were Rita Lynn,
John Dayner, Michael Ann, Barrett Wilms, Herbert Junius, Matthews, Herb Bigron,
and Mark Lawrence. The special music is composed and conducted
by Richard Ran.

Speaker 23 (01:11:24):
Be sure and be with us next week.

Speaker 17 (01:11:26):
When Philip Marlowe says.

Speaker 23 (01:11:29):
It started with a terrified woman, lost in a maze
of memories she couldn't explain, and waiting for outside an
open window, was death.

Speaker 17 (01:11:49):
Another show is joined the CBS Sunday Night Parade. It's
the Contented Hour, starring Buddy Clark and featuring the finest
and popular and semi classical music. It comes to you
on most of these CBS stations for the first time
tomorrow night, making its debut on CBS the same night
as Red Skelton and Edgar Berghan and Charles McCarthy. Yes,
this fall you hear them all on CBS. This is

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Paul Masterson speaking. Now stay tuned for Gangbusters, which follows
immediately over most of these same CBS stations. This is CBS,
the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Speaker 8 (01:12:37):
And that's from seventy six years ago. October one, nineteen
forty nine, The Adventures of Philip Marlowe on Classic Radio
Theater with Wyatt Cocks. Okay, coming up tomorrow. Well, on Thursday,
we'll have Comedy with Fiber McGee and Mollie, The Greek Guildersleeve,
Phil Harrison, Analysy and our Miss Brooks. On Friday, The

(01:12:59):
Adventures Sherlock Homes starring John Stanley and Alfred Shirley from
nineteen forty eight. Doctor Christian starring Gene Herschel from nineteen
forty five. Love to Mama, also Sam Spade, Howard Duff
starring there from nineteen forty eight, The Sugarcane Keeper and
The Whistler from nineteen forty eight, The Big Gamble On Saturday. Suspense.

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Ellen McCrae is starring in Room two oh three from
nineteen fifty nine. Of course you know her by another name,
Ellen Burston, Lon Clark as Nick Carter, Master Detective from
nineteen forty three, Counterspy from nineteen forty nine, and Theodore
Royal from nineteen fifty three. Orsonwall starring in the Queen
of Spades. On Sunday, we'll have the Lives of Harry

(01:13:46):
Lyme starring Wells as well from nineteen fifty one, Dragonnet
starring Jack Webb from nineteen fifty, Jackson Becka's File of
Vance from nineteen forty eight, and John Daaner as the
Frontier Gentleman from nineteen fifty eight. Comedy on Monday with
It Pays to Be Ignorant to Stan Freeburg, Jack Benny
and Harold Perry as the Great Guildersleep. More Comedy on

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Tuesday with Fred Allen and Ozzy and Harriet from nineteen
forty five, The Hoosier hot Shots from nineteen fifty and
Milton Burrough from nineteen forty seven. One week from today,
we'll have another episode of Philip Marlow, along with Calling
All Cars from ninety nine years ago, Boston Blackie from
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Investigator William Gargan from nineteen fifty two. That's what's coming
up the next week here on Classic Radio Theater with
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There's an invitation to a murder.

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Listen to Herbert Marshall as the man called X. Wherever
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those that have gained the greatest notoriety are the guided missiles,
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But perhaps the deadliest, the most vicious weapon of all
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A widow.

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When a mondest New York apartment receives a mysterious telephone.

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Call I got out from a guy who was drafted
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right away and he hasn't.

Speaker 29 (01:17:16):
Even learned how to fire or rifle.

Speaker 2 (01:17:19):
I just thought you're to know.

Speaker 47 (01:17:26):
The rumor spreads throughout a minority community in Los Angeles, California.

Speaker 10 (01:17:31):
Yeah, yeah, they're really getting a raw deal. All your
guys in career being used as a sort of troops.
They get themselves bumped off knocking out enemy positions, and
the other boys move up without even getting their hair massed.

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
Talk about a.

Speaker 7 (01:17:45):
Raw deer in a small town just outside Normy camp
in Tennessee. The way I had it. They don't know
how good these no Adam rockets would work against troops,
so they shipped A and B companies after the proving
grounds last week to use them as human guinea pigs.
They say.

Speaker 10 (01:18:05):
The hospital's already full of guys dying from Adam burns.

Speaker 7 (01:18:15):
So it looks like we're faced with another operation big lie, Chief.

Speaker 4 (01:18:19):
If you don't think so, can look at these reports Dallas,
New York, Kansas City, San Francisco.

Speaker 7 (01:18:26):
The same thing everywhere, Rumors, rumors room now the old
story play race against race and religion against religion, those
suspicion on our whole defense program. What's been done about it? Jef?

Speaker 4 (01:18:37):
I've got men assigned to every principal city. So far
they've turned up nothing, not one lead as to where
those rumors are coming from. I tell you, chimist. Thing
has got me so upset that I excuse me, Yes, Miss.

Speaker 48 (01:18:50):
Brooks, call agent Jack Doyle.

Speaker 4 (01:18:54):
Oh good, put him on please, Miss Brooks? Hello Jack,
what's going on there in Chicago? What have you got
for me?

Speaker 29 (01:19:02):
Mister Chief?

Speaker 4 (01:19:03):
This is hey God? What the devil are you doing
on that phone? Miss Brooks said? Jack Doyle was calling me?

Speaker 2 (01:19:10):
Sure, is what? Well?

Speaker 29 (01:19:12):
That is I'm making the call for him, you understand
only now I don't know if he meant you or
maybe if Bureau of Missing People?

Speaker 7 (01:19:18):
Bureau of Missing People?

Speaker 2 (01:19:20):
Sure?

Speaker 29 (01:19:21):
Who else do you call when somebody's missing for a
couple of days? Or two?

Speaker 7 (01:19:24):
Who's been missing for a couple of days?

Speaker 29 (01:19:26):
That's right?

Speaker 7 (01:19:26):
What's rise?

Speaker 29 (01:19:27):
He's been missing for a couple of days?

Speaker 36 (01:19:29):
Who are you?

Speaker 7 (01:19:29):
Idiot? Jack Doyle?

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
No, Schmidt?

Speaker 29 (01:19:33):
What's the matter? Don't you hear so good? Or something?

Speaker 7 (01:19:35):
Deelschmid? So help me if you don't start making sense
and faster.

Speaker 29 (01:19:38):
I'm making sense, mister chief. That's why I'm calling you.
Jack Doyle's missing, and you tol me if it happened
to him, I should call you.

Speaker 7 (01:19:46):
Yeah, what's happened to him?

Speaker 3 (01:19:47):
Where?

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
How that?

Speaker 29 (01:19:49):
You ask me that, mister chief? And I can give
you the answer right out.

Speaker 2 (01:19:52):
Of my cough. What happens?

Speaker 7 (01:19:55):
Sel Smith? Sel Schmitt? What happened there?

Speaker 2 (01:19:58):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 7 (01:20:00):
Let's see there were some shots?

Speaker 4 (01:20:01):
Can yes, sir, get that Chicago operator see if she
can trace that call fast?

Speaker 37 (01:20:07):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:20:08):
What was he going to tell you about Jack Doyle?
From what I could make out of his double talk.
Jack's been missing for a couple of days.

Speaker 7 (01:20:13):
Was he the man who assigned to Chicago tracing down
those rumors?

Speaker 4 (01:20:16):
Yes, and I haven't had a report from him for
a week. And then that call from Zelschmidt.

Speaker 7 (01:20:20):
I'll get him.

Speaker 6 (01:20:22):
Hello, I have that information on the phone call from
Oh did you missus Thurston?

Speaker 7 (01:20:27):
That's like this Books? Did you trace that call?

Speaker 24 (01:20:29):
Yes, mister Thurston, it came from a public phone booth
in a nightclub, the Cafe.

Speaker 7 (01:20:34):
Arcity Cafe Arcady, thanks miss Books.

Speaker 33 (01:20:36):
Oh you are well?

Speaker 7 (01:20:37):
Now I've got one more favorite to usk.

Speaker 29 (01:20:39):
Yes, sir, your tickets waiting at the airport.

Speaker 24 (01:20:41):
It's like two eleven for Chicago.

Speaker 49 (01:21:07):
Good evening, sir, Welcome to the cafe ARKI, thanks to
I have a table.

Speaker 7 (01:21:11):
Please do you have a reservation?

Speaker 29 (01:21:12):
Sir?

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
No, I didn't make one.

Speaker 49 (01:21:14):
Well, then I'm sorry we won't be able to accommodate
you tonight.

Speaker 7 (01:21:17):
But he crowded, are you very sir? Well? I'm glad
to hear the shooting didn't keep the customers away. Watch shooting.
I heard a rumor that a few shots were fired
around here early today. The aroma was wrong. Yeah, so
many of them are shure, there's no table for me,
not even for old time's sake. Old time's sake, we've

(01:21:39):
never met before. Oh sure we have Becker. Back in
nineteen forty we had a little running concerning subversive propaganda
and the German American bomb.

Speaker 49 (01:21:48):
Remember my name's de Kosta, not Becker. I never had
anything to do with the bond. You've got me mixed
up with somebody else. Form for a reservation the next time,
mister wheel me to accommodate you.

Speaker 7 (01:22:01):
Thanks, I may take you up on that. Good night
for Custer.

Speaker 49 (01:22:04):
Good night, sir, Joe, Joe, take over, William. I've good
business in the office.

Speaker 2 (01:22:17):
I mean.

Speaker 7 (01:22:23):
Good evening, Edward. What brings you into my office?

Speaker 2 (01:22:26):
Sorely?

Speaker 49 (01:22:27):
Trouble, mister rockerty trouble. Just had a visitor by the
name of Thurston. Uh yes, Durst.

Speaker 19 (01:22:34):
And the one we were told was a friend of
Jack Dowg's m And did he remember also he was
an old friend of yours?

Speaker 7 (01:22:43):
He did? Is that what brought in here?

Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
Well?

Speaker 7 (01:22:47):
He said he'd heard a rumor about a shooting here. Ah,
I see, Edward.

Speaker 19 (01:22:54):
I dislike rumors intensely when they might interfere with my business.

Speaker 7 (01:23:01):
I think maybe we shall have to do something about
mister Thurst.

Speaker 29 (01:23:27):
Oh coming into Papa's arms.

Speaker 7 (01:23:29):
Baby, the drinks are already and oh, oh, it's you
expecting someone lego, come right in, mister X right now?
What are you doing in Jack Doyle's hotel room. What's
happened to him coming out with it?

Speaker 33 (01:23:45):
Well, the way it happened is the X.

Speaker 19 (01:23:47):
I was stuck here in Chicago, temporarily embarrassed without funds.
You understand when I ran into him, naturally, he was
so happy to see me, insisted.

Speaker 33 (01:23:56):
I shouldn't get out of his sight.

Speaker 7 (01:23:58):
Oh sure, then what he said I I could use
his room for.

Speaker 33 (01:24:00):
A couple of days.

Speaker 19 (01:24:02):
He was going to be out on some job or something,
and if he didn't come back, I was to call the.

Speaker 33 (01:24:07):
Chief and tell him he didn't.

Speaker 19 (01:24:09):
So I called, you called him the cleibacady. Sure, I
was looking for him. He was always hanging round there.

Speaker 7 (01:24:15):
What were those shots the chief heard?

Speaker 2 (01:24:17):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (01:24:17):
So somebody got trigger happy in mister Arcadey's office. Naturally,
I ran to the rescue, and you know what happened?

Speaker 7 (01:24:25):
You got lost in miss alone across the street. How
did you know? Never mind? Did Doyle tell you what
he was working on? Mention anything about rumors?

Speaker 33 (01:24:34):
Roomors?

Speaker 19 (01:24:35):
I am the only rumor he's got. He wasn't working
on anything? Or why should you go looking for a
job for a job? Sure I found the ones ad
he clipped out of the paper I got right here somewheys.

Speaker 33 (01:24:48):
Sure here it is.

Speaker 7 (01:24:49):
Let me see that how to be successful through talk?
Learn how to sway people with words? See the out
of verbal mass communication lectures and study groups at moderate
cost See Doctor Ralph Townsend, Sweet eleven B one six'
One North Clark, Street Doctor Ralph. Townsend you see.

Speaker 33 (01:25:11):
What i'm, In miss. X he was looking for a.

Speaker 7 (01:25:13):
Job he was looking for something At townsend's. Place wasn't
for a?

Speaker 2 (01:25:16):
Job?

Speaker 33 (01:25:18):
Down what what was going? On Miss?

Speaker 7 (01:25:23):
Thaks somebody to? Shoot he had us ay non from
the other wing of the. Hotel BUT i didn't hear no?
Shots did you will hear of a? Silencer?

Speaker 33 (01:25:30):
Oh but why would anyone want to kill?

Speaker 7 (01:25:33):
Us i'll see IF i can get an answer across the.

Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
Court shooting in this, hotel surely you must be, mistaken Mister,
perks Not Miss.

Speaker 7 (01:25:47):
Rogers two shots were five from this wing of the
hotel into that. Room directly across from.

Speaker 1 (01:25:51):
Yours BUT i didn't hear any Did did you, say
into the room directly across the court from this? One that's,
Right but that's Mister doyle's, room is? It, yes, yes,
sir Mister doyle is a customer of. MINE i operate
the lending library in the. Hotel i've memorized the room
numbers of all my regular customers AND i.

Speaker 25 (01:26:13):
But but wait a, minute why didn't he come to my?

Speaker 7 (01:26:17):
Room Jack doyleer's, Disappeared Miss rogers, disappeared be missing for two?

Speaker 25 (01:26:21):
Days but why would anyone want to kill Mister doyle or?

Speaker 7 (01:26:26):
YOU i was hoping That jew might be able to tell.

Speaker 25 (01:26:28):
ME i BUT i only know Mister doyle is a
customer of my.

Speaker 1 (01:26:33):
Library why would you THINK i could possibly know anything
about this?

Speaker 25 (01:26:37):
Shooting unless unless you believe that the shots came from this,
room do.

Speaker 7 (01:26:44):
You Miss. Rogers i'm merely trying to get the answers
to a few.

Speaker 1 (01:26:47):
Questions you've got all the answers you're going to get here,
tonight Mister.

Speaker 25 (01:26:49):
Thurston, now if you don't mind, leaving.

Speaker 7 (01:26:53):
No of, course, no. Sorr If i've upset you by the,
Way Miss, rogers do you happen to be interested in rumors, room,
Yes or in the use of words as a method
of mass, conditioning or in a study course and how
to talk your way into? Success are you being?

Speaker 25 (01:27:10):
Serious very much? SO i don't even know what you're talking.

Speaker 7 (01:27:13):
About that book on your coffee table, Book, yeah The
psychology Of lies written By Dr Ralph. Thomsend, look MISTER,

(01:27:40):
X i'm.

Speaker 19 (01:27:40):
Tired why don't we stop chasing wild gooses and on
LUs over a couple of short, Piers.

Speaker 7 (01:27:46):
Not until we learn what happened To Jack. Director but we've.

Speaker 19 (01:27:49):
Been driving around all day, long all over the city Of.

Speaker 4 (01:27:53):
Chicago we haven't learned.

Speaker 7 (01:27:55):
NOTHING i don't know in a bowling, heller we'll learned
that our soldiers will freeze in career this winter while
the army sells heavy clothing for. Surplus h. Huh and
the waitress in A southside restaurant told us that The
kremlin is a direct pipeline into the atomic labs at those.
Animals but but so story stores make, Sense, carsey don't
be lies so big that people believe that there must
be some truth to. Them we've got to stop.

Speaker 33 (01:28:17):
'em, well that's okay with.

Speaker 19 (01:28:19):
Me.

Speaker 33 (01:28:19):
Mistakes but what do we?

Speaker 2 (01:28:20):
Do go to night? School night?

Speaker 7 (01:28:23):
School, yeah to take a course from Doctor ralphtown's and
in how to talk our way into?

Speaker 19 (01:28:28):
Success, oh this is, crazy miss thirsty picking looks to
get in?

Speaker 33 (01:28:46):
School who ever heard of such a?

Speaker 7 (01:28:48):
Scene you're hearing it? Now you get a move? On, okay,
okay so?

Speaker 2 (01:28:53):
There now what you go?

Speaker 19 (01:28:55):
In at least they got a night life burning that
other officer over.

Speaker 33 (01:29:00):
THERE i can see what we're looking for IF.

Speaker 21 (01:29:03):
I only knew what it.

Speaker 7 (01:29:04):
Was filing cabinet is always a good. Bit let's try.

Speaker 2 (01:29:07):
Them, hey what do you?

Speaker 33 (01:29:10):
Know this one's? Empty this one?

Speaker 2 (01:29:13):
Too say what cooks you?

Speaker 19 (01:29:17):
Anyway mister x Stones that Doctor townsend even keep his
lunch in his.

Speaker 4 (01:29:20):
Files let's try his.

Speaker 7 (01:29:21):
Desk, mmm looks like we got here too. Late you
mean schools are at that Doctor townsend took it on a?
Lamp doesn't make? Sense not Missus Jack doyle was able?

Speaker 33 (01:29:33):
Mistakes? Somebody somebody isn't that at the.

Speaker 19 (01:29:36):
Office, yeah let's get this joint to brush out before
he gets mad At usn't?

Speaker 7 (01:29:41):
Right he he turned out the.

Speaker 33 (01:29:44):
Light oh, quiet.

Speaker 7 (01:29:47):
Shut watch it, Right. Pigne let's go in. There where's
the switch MISTER. X, Yes Jack, doyle we return to

(01:30:18):
the man CALLED x in just a.

Speaker 47 (01:30:20):
Moment community chests throughout the country have accepted the responsibility
of raising sixteen and one half million dollars extra this
year for the services included in The United Defense, fund
THE Uso services to hard hit defense, communities.

Speaker 7 (01:30:37):
And American relief For.

Speaker 47 (01:30:38):
Korea this means that each of us must give generously
if we're to expect continued help from community chest. Services
in addition to this extra amount for defense related national,
services normal community demands for Local Red feather services such
as day, care, nursing family, counseling and recreation are rising

(01:30:58):
as the population increases and the draft and stepped up
defense production make themselves felt across the.

Speaker 7 (01:31:03):
Country by eliminating many.

Speaker 47 (01:31:06):
Separate appeals which would be more costly in, money time and,
Effort Read feather, campaigns joint planning and budgeting benefit the,
contributors the volunteer, workers and the, community as well as
those who benefit directly from those. Services so, remember when
you make your gift to The United Red Feather, campaigns

(01:31:26):
you are giving to fifteen thousand local. Services Now act
two of The man called Ect Starling Herbert Marshall Ken
thurston believes a rumor factory is operating somewhere In, chicago

(01:31:48):
organized to disrupt civilian and military morale and to hamper
our defense. Program in the officers of a Doctor Ralph
Townsend kin exchanged shots with an unknown, attacker and now
he and Egg anna entered the private office where the
shots came from and find themselves looking at the body
Of Jack doyle and missing your.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
Owagents.

Speaker 33 (01:32:07):
OH i don't get mister. X why should Mister doyle
go shooting at us and make you kill?

Speaker 7 (01:32:12):
HIM i didn't kill, Him, egan but look at.

Speaker 50 (01:32:15):
Him he's stiff as a. Poker he's been dead at
these three. Hours that then who bumped him?

Speaker 19 (01:32:20):
Out and what happened to the joker was taking those
potluck shots at?

Speaker 7 (01:32:24):
Us there's a fire escape outside the.

Speaker 50 (01:32:26):
Window, oh that's, right he must have taken a couple of. Powers,
well what do we do, now Mister?

Speaker 33 (01:32:32):
Thurston?

Speaker 10 (01:32:34):
MAN i offer a few, Suggestions and my first suggestion
is for you to drop that.

Speaker 7 (01:32:39):
Gun.

Speaker 10 (01:32:40):
Sure, oh and my second suggestion is that you offer
some words of explanation for your presence here and the
rather unusual situation in WHICH i find you you lock
The times.

Speaker 7 (01:32:51):
IN i can conceive of no reason WHY i should deny.
It and you my Name's Kim, thurston And.

Speaker 33 (01:32:56):
I'm Mister Egan. Selschmidt thank.

Speaker 7 (01:32:59):
You now shall we proceed with the? Explanations suppose we
make that mutual, Doctor now you're telling us Why Jack
doyle was killed and why we've found him in your private.

Speaker 10 (01:33:10):
Office hardly a reasonable request under the, circumstances is, it Mister,
Thurston particularly WHEN i expect the answers to those questions
to be forthcoming from, you and if they're, not silence
may be golden in the copy, books but here in
my offices it might well prove. Fatal who he, means
said Mister, Thurston, well do you talk or DO i resort?

(01:33:30):
It excuse, me, please, gentlemen and kindly remain quietly where
you are.

Speaker 7 (01:33:38):
Townsend HERE.

Speaker 3 (01:33:41):
I.

Speaker 10 (01:33:41):
See thank you very much for informing.

Speaker 2 (01:33:44):
Me good.

Speaker 7 (01:33:45):
Bye it would appear you are having good fortune to, night.

Speaker 10 (01:33:50):
GENTLEMEN a colleague of mine in the lobby informs me
that the police are on their way.

Speaker 7 (01:33:54):
Up our respective explanations will have to be given to.
Them i'll still make a chance to hear yours in, private,
doctor do you think you're gonna arrange that? SOMETIME i am,
POSITIVE I, ken Mister, THURSTON i am POSITIVE i can.

(01:34:19):
Well couldn't the police help, You? Ken they didn't know
anymore out THAN i. Did. Chief the tip that sent
them To townsend's office was anonymous.

Speaker 9 (01:34:28):
Anonymous chips murder hilpy.

Speaker 7 (01:34:30):
Lyings what have you got for?

Speaker 2 (01:34:32):
Me?

Speaker 9 (01:34:33):
Okay, first The Cafe, archety owned By Leo, rockety Ex,
russian came here at thirty nine suspected of being in the.

Speaker 2 (01:34:40):
Rackets no. Convictions?

Speaker 7 (01:34:42):
Huh what about his right hand?

Speaker 9 (01:34:43):
Man George becker, alright Former German american board, member served
five years less ten. Months no file record since he
was released and changed his. NAME o file record On
Anne rogers, either but her family was checked and cleared
for top secret defense work during the. War Porto Manufacturing.

Speaker 7 (01:35:01):
Company and Doctor, townsend former.

Speaker 9 (01:35:03):
Psychology professor with THE wy during the, WAR a big
wheel of psychological. Warfare his record's been checked a half dozen,
times and it's cleaner the.

Speaker 2 (01:35:12):
Whistle how does it help any?

Speaker 7 (01:35:14):
Camp it, Might, chief if you, could IF i could
tie any of it in with, engines. Engines Jack donald
had a smear of diesel oil in his shoes and.

Speaker 19 (01:35:24):
TROUSERS i don't be bashful with, that calvier, baby there's
plenty more fish in the ocean where that came. From
and have a couple of more glasses of shrumpage one to,

(01:35:47):
drink and want to watch the.

Speaker 7 (01:35:49):
Publics lost your beating not expensive counter. Death you might
pour one from me.

Speaker 4 (01:35:54):
Too, ego, oh be glad to nothing too good for any.

Speaker 7 (01:35:58):
Friends, hello Mister, thurston do you mind IF i joined?
You Missus?

Speaker 2 (01:36:03):
Rodgers of course.

Speaker 25 (01:36:04):
Not please sit down?

Speaker 7 (01:36:05):
Nice how'd you two get? Together just a mutual.

Speaker 25 (01:36:08):
ATTRACTION i came here because Of Jack, doyle Mister.

Speaker 1 (01:36:11):
Thurston, OH i KEPT i kept thinking of what you told,
me AND i remember that i'd heard him mention the
Cafe arcty several. Times it was a foolish, IMPULSE.

Speaker 25 (01:36:22):
I, Suppose but, WELL i just had to come down
here to see IF i could learn anything about.

Speaker 7 (01:36:27):
Him and did, you Miss, Rogers i'm afraid.

Speaker 1 (01:36:30):
Not THEN i saw Mister, zelschmidt the man who'd been
sharing Mister doyle's, Room so when he asked me to join,
HIM i.

Speaker 19 (01:36:37):
Did the strictly business was, me Mister, THURSTON i got
the hunch's cookie nose, Plenty.

Speaker 33 (01:36:43):
So i've been pouring under some pain until she gives.
It excuse, me the, talks you?

Speaker 7 (01:36:49):
Understand no sacrifice too great a egger you said?

Speaker 33 (01:36:52):
It excuse?

Speaker 25 (01:36:53):
Me, uh Mister, thurston do you mind IF i ask
you a couple of?

Speaker 2 (01:36:58):
Questions? Oh go right.

Speaker 25 (01:36:59):
Ahead you asked me earlier IF i were interested in?

Speaker 7 (01:37:03):
Rumors, yeah that's.

Speaker 1 (01:37:04):
Right, WELL i SUPPOSE i said That i've heard The
russians are sneaking a bomb components into every major city
in The United states to be set off simultaneously ON D.

Speaker 25 (01:37:17):
Day is that the kind of a rumor you?

Speaker 7 (01:37:20):
Mean did you hear? That Miss?

Speaker 33 (01:37:22):
Rodgers here?

Speaker 7 (01:37:24):
Tonight remember who said?

Speaker 25 (01:37:25):
It the man at the third table to the, Left,
mmm mister.

Speaker 33 (01:37:29):
Thirst that Structor.

Speaker 7 (01:37:31):
Thompson, yes why do you want to be so, helpful Miss?

Speaker 25 (01:37:34):
Rodgers DO i need a strong reason than a man's?

Speaker 33 (01:37:37):
Murder Mister, Thurston, NO i guess. Not, hey look The
thomson joke us going into that back.

Speaker 19 (01:37:43):
Room do you think he's got business with the bustless.

Speaker 7 (01:37:45):
Joint might be interesting to find? Out he suppose the
true of your wait here for?

Speaker 2 (01:37:50):
Me i'll let you know that's far.

Speaker 29 (01:38:00):
Enough, FIRST.

Speaker 19 (01:38:14):
I am quite regretful of the manner in Which Edward
decasta invited you to my.

Speaker 7 (01:38:20):
Apartment Mister, thurston violence was not intended to be.

Speaker 19 (01:38:24):
Employed will you accept my apologies before we begin our little.

Speaker 7 (01:38:29):
Talk you're in the driver's sea dogety very, well Mister.

Speaker 19 (01:38:34):
THURSTON i am an honest. Citizen you will represent my wonderful.
Government that is WHY i wish to speak with you
to set my record straight with the. Government both you
And Jack doyle have been investigating something In chicago for
some time. Now is it not true that neither of
you has uncovered any criminal evidence against?

Speaker 7 (01:38:58):
Me never hear of The Big, ugly of. Course, WELL
i heard a very choice one in your cafe. TONIGHT
i am beginning to see THAT i have been laboring
under a. Misapprehension Mister. TURSTON i thought you were here
to investigate me on entirely different. Grounds but let me

(01:39:19):
assure you, that no matter what else you may believe of,
me no one can question my loyalty to this.

Speaker 2 (01:39:25):
Country you, know you.

Speaker 7 (01:39:26):
Almost make me believe that, argurly just one thing that stops.
Me he's booked some pamphlets on your. Desk looks to
me like you've been taking some courses from Doctor. TOWNSEND
i had why for the simplest of.

Speaker 19 (01:39:39):
REASONS i am a native Born russian who has adopted
this country for my. OWN i naturally wish to express
myself in the best Of. English DO i make myself?
Clear i'll give your credit for a good. Try so
are there any other? Questions, no, man you like to ask? Me,
no good, night Mister, thurston good night. Dark that's, right Mister.

Speaker 7 (01:40:13):
Thurston that Missus rogers took a.

Speaker 33 (01:40:15):
Powder said she was tired of waiting.

Speaker 7 (01:40:17):
For, you probably combat. FATIGUE a young couldn't take those
popping champagne corps in the. Longer, huh what champagne? Cocks come,
on we've got work to.

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Do.

Speaker 7 (01:40:27):
Work they're going to visit a factory where they manufacture.
Rumors that has no.

Speaker 33 (01:40:47):
Factory it's nothing but an, old worn out yat.

Speaker 22 (01:40:50):
Tied to the?

Speaker 4 (01:40:50):
Duck is?

Speaker 7 (01:40:51):
It let's get a board and. SEE i don't get.

Speaker 29 (01:41:08):
It MISTER.

Speaker 33 (01:41:09):
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this old? Chip anyway was used as.

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diesel engines made by The Quartro Manufacturing. Company so what
remember the oil. Smears I'm Jack doyle's pants and. Trousers
huh those came from the engine. Room come, on?

Speaker 19 (01:41:31):
Huh t that lamp don't give much like Miss, STACKS
i can hardly see anything In.

Speaker 7 (01:41:43):
Mistacks, Yeah Doctor, Townsend paul that like a door. Knough,
Yeah i'd say taught somebody all they needed to know
about the psychology of the big Lie. Eger that, Right Miss,
rogers Missus. Rogers where else would you f expect to
find the boss of the? Outfit oh, no how did
you find?

Speaker 29 (01:42:03):
Out Mister?

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Friston claravoyance or sheer? Genius simple?

Speaker 7 (01:42:07):
Arithmetic diesel oil and diesel? Engines add up and you'll
help me prove. It At ark at his. CAFE i,
yes you said you hadn't learned anything About doyle. There
then you tipped your hand when you said your reason
for wanting to help me Was doyle's. Murder what happened?
Then Was doyle kill? Here then taking The townshend's?

Speaker 1 (01:42:25):
Office, yes Then townsend was to be killed there, too
after we moved all the incriminating evidence to the. Ship
when you came in off, schedule it upset. Things what
are we waiting? For MISTER, x let's take her along
to the.

Speaker 7 (01:42:36):
Pokey it's not that easy a. Going, sure she hasn't
got a, gun that's, Right but the guy who Shot
townsend has? It guy who?

Speaker 27 (01:42:42):
Who he means?

Speaker 7 (01:42:43):
Me still up your old tricks To? Coster first for the,
Bond now For Ann rodgers and her. Busses why? Not
i've got lots of answers for that. One The. Custer,
MEANWHILE i better smash that.

Speaker 2 (01:42:56):
Lamp should better. Way where are?

Speaker 18 (01:43:03):
You?

Speaker 7 (01:43:03):
Thurston you can't get?

Speaker 4 (01:43:05):
Away thurston.

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Over?

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Here The, coster he's over, Here.

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Thurston right? Here the cost? O you, hey don you all?
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Tell in all this?

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Dark how CAN i all of? That the flashlight helps,
it MISTER, x that that cute? Cookie what happened to?
Her one of because the shots got about a? Mistake oh,
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what was she doing mixed up in a racket like.

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This that's the puzzling thing about people like, her. Frightening
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here is our, star Mister Herbert. Marshall thanks for being with,
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Speaker 41 (01:46:47):
Murder what the?

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Speaker 7 (01:47:00):
Carter Master.

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Speaker 52 (01:48:43):
Offer Today's Mysterious adventure With Nick. Carter our story opens
in a dingy little saloon on a. Backstreet, so, yeah
you finally hit it, it.

Speaker 53 (01:48:52):
Bunny, yeah three years have been playing them numbers and
doing nothing but lose?

Speaker 7 (01:48:57):
Today oh, boy fifty?

Speaker 53 (01:48:59):
Dollars which?

Speaker 3 (01:49:01):
Numbers?

Speaker 29 (01:49:01):
Was you're?

Speaker 7 (01:49:01):
Playing Benny Duke Dawson's You're Lucky Combs The.

Speaker 53 (01:49:04):
Dukes he's a square, shooter always pays off on the
nose when you. Win he's a great.

Speaker 22 (01:49:09):
Guy The.

Speaker 9 (01:49:10):
Douke you think it's safe to go around telling everybody
you want all that, dough the something might happen to
you before you get to spend.

Speaker 53 (01:49:15):
IT i ain't no, fool BUT i ain't.

Speaker 49 (01:49:18):
Told only a couple of more pals and the duke
would want me to tell him he likes.

Speaker 2 (01:49:23):
To have the.

Speaker 53 (01:49:23):
Guys, no he pays when he. Loses fifty grand all. Mine,
GEE i can't believe it.

Speaker 42 (01:49:31):
Yet, yeah but as long as you got it in your,
pocket it's easy to believe.

Speaker 2 (01:49:34):
It, yeah you're right.

Speaker 53 (01:49:35):
There, well it's a long.

Speaker 2 (01:49:37):
FELLOW i gotta be getting on.

Speaker 53 (01:49:39):
HOME i ain't got to tell the old lady we're
rich now on cheevy.

Speaker 7 (01:49:44):
Tickle so, Long, benny don't spend it all on the way.

Speaker 53 (01:49:47):
Home spend it. All, hey you can't spend that much
dough without you do some thinking about.

Speaker 7 (01:49:53):
It fifty. Grand that duke's a swell.

Speaker 53 (01:49:58):
Guy we when you got the winning, ticket you know
you got to.

Speaker 4 (01:50:03):
Go oh it's.

Speaker 53 (01:50:07):
You glad to see.

Speaker 4 (01:50:08):
You how's the boy got your?

Speaker 7 (01:50:10):
Luck?

Speaker 4 (01:50:10):
Benny want to congratulate?

Speaker 53 (01:50:12):
You oh, yeah, thanks the best Luck i've had in.

Speaker 2 (01:50:15):
Hears got it with?

Speaker 4 (01:50:16):
YOU i suppose SURE i got it with.

Speaker 53 (01:50:18):
Me you don't THINK I, hey put down that.

Speaker 54 (01:50:20):
Gun you.

Speaker 4 (01:50:21):
Can't how fifty grand thanks, pal, which together with the
evidence already sets forth, above proves conclusively that the man

(01:50:42):
not so.

Speaker 3 (01:50:42):
FAST i can't keep up with.

Speaker 4 (01:50:44):
You it's matter pancy got cramps in your.

Speaker 55 (01:50:46):
Fingers oh, No nigga's not. That we've been working on
this report for over three hours without. STOPPING i can't
keep it up all.

Speaker 4 (01:50:54):
Day all, Right, patsy let's rest for a few. Minutes
it wouldn't be so anxious to finish this.

Speaker 3 (01:50:59):
Report, It, Nicholas, Hello, pasi Is nick? There oh, Yes
lieutenant Just.

Speaker 7 (01:51:06):
Man Thanks?

Speaker 22 (01:51:08):
Hello?

Speaker 4 (01:51:08):
Riley what's on the royal mind this? Evening? Now, nick
lay off the kidna a.

Speaker 42 (01:51:12):
Minute just because you're called the masterminding all the yellow
journals in the, city don't.

Speaker 4 (01:51:16):
Mean the time. Ride all, Right, RILEY i withdraw my.
Remark what's wrong with the world? Now just a, Murder,
Nick just a? Murder nothing new about a? Murder? Riley
why ie rag me in?

Speaker 2 (01:51:25):
Now?

Speaker 42 (01:51:25):
Nick i'm asking you as a personal, fever will you
give me a hand on. This if we don't get
this one solved and solved, quick the commission is going
to be done On it's like a ton of.

Speaker 4 (01:51:33):
Bricks what's the special about this particular?

Speaker 42 (01:51:35):
Murder meet me in front of seven five Six Brownlee
avenue as soon as you, can And i'll tell.

Speaker 2 (01:51:40):
You all about.

Speaker 29 (01:51:40):
It what do you, Say?

Speaker 4 (01:51:41):
Riley it's after. Eleven now CAN i wait until?

Speaker 18 (01:51:44):
Tomorrow?

Speaker 29 (01:51:44):
Oh, nick it. Can't we got to get to it right.

Speaker 2 (01:51:46):
Now will you meet?

Speaker 23 (01:51:47):
Me all?

Speaker 4 (01:51:48):
Right meet you then five or ten?

Speaker 7 (01:51:50):
Minutes?

Speaker 29 (01:51:50):
Thanks, Nick i'll be seeing you so.

Speaker 7 (01:51:52):
Long so?

Speaker 4 (01:51:52):
Long Who, Yes, Patsy we're going to have a look
at somebody who just suddenly and violently passed out of this.
World get your head and That's, Gore.

Speaker 29 (01:52:08):
Nick but how are, You?

Speaker 3 (01:52:09):
Patsy, okay, thanks.

Speaker 4 (01:52:10):
Lieutenant where's the? Remains? Rallying right over?

Speaker 36 (01:52:12):
Here?

Speaker 4 (01:52:12):
Nick just the way my men found, HIM i, say
two shots right through the.

Speaker 7 (01:52:17):
Heart never know what hit?

Speaker 4 (01:52:19):
Him looks as if they might have come from a forty.

Speaker 2 (01:52:22):
Five, Right?

Speaker 7 (01:52:23):
Nick all, right?

Speaker 4 (01:52:24):
Rally who is? In why SHOULD i? Care his Name's Benny.

Speaker 42 (01:52:26):
Smith he's one of the characters that hang around the
edge of the underworld record but a great guy for
playing the. Numbers he's been playing them since they were,
tarted AND i think that's what killed.

Speaker 3 (01:52:36):
Him oh, Now, lieutenant how could the numbers kill?

Speaker 42 (01:52:38):
Him benny connected, Today. Patsy he won himself fifty thousand
dollars and they had it on him when he started,
home they tell. Me but he ain't got a cent of.
It now he's as clean as a.

Speaker 4 (01:52:48):
Whistle very, Interesting probably talk too much about his. Luck
where DO i come?

Speaker 42 (01:52:53):
In benny Played Duke dawson's. Numbers nick And dukes had
two heavy winners this. Month both of them were killed
in the same way before they got, home and both
of them lost their. Roles now once could be a
play and hold, up but twice it's like a regular,
thing AND i want to find out the killing's, like
this has gotta. Stop that's where you come, In, NICK
i need some of your fancy ideas on how to stop.

Speaker 4 (01:53:15):
Them Lucky combs runs the other numbers, game doesn't.

Speaker 42 (01:53:18):
He, yeah, Yeah him and The duke have been at
each other's throats for the last six.

Speaker 4 (01:53:21):
Months Maybe lucky think this is a good way to
persuade the public that if you win with The, duke
you don't live to spend what you.

Speaker 42 (01:53:27):
Win it could Be, nick and it could be a
tool that The duke needs the coin bad enough to
want to get it.

Speaker 3 (01:53:32):
Back i'd hate to play any numbers game WHERE i
had to lose my life WHEN.

Speaker 2 (01:53:36):
I want any.

Speaker 4 (01:53:36):
Money there's no percentage in the numbers game from any
point of. View badly it's a suckers. Game, Well, riley
why do you want me to?

Speaker 7 (01:53:42):
Start good for?

Speaker 24 (01:53:43):
You?

Speaker 42 (01:53:43):
NICK i knew you couldn't stay out of, It but
what do you say we go to call on The
duke and see what he's got to say for.

Speaker 4 (01:53:49):
Himself, Okay, rilly you drive on, ahead we'll follow. YOU
i don't let the cops catch your. Speeding never was
in a place like this, Before, nick and you probably
won't ever want to be.

Speaker 7 (01:54:07):
Again.

Speaker 3 (01:54:07):
Passing is that piano the only music there?

Speaker 7 (01:54:09):
Is?

Speaker 4 (01:54:10):
Yes, Well Steve corey is a good piano. Player none,
better and that only is a good piano. Player he
also serves as a lookout for The. Duke see how
the piano is right at the foot of the stairs
to the second. Floor, well that's where The duke's officers,
are and no one can get up there Without steve Seeing,
oh he signals ahead with his. Piano let The duke
know whether it's a friend or an enemy who's coming.

Speaker 42 (01:54:30):
Up, hey how do you know so much about this?

Speaker 29 (01:54:32):
Place?

Speaker 7 (01:54:32):
Nick?

Speaker 4 (01:54:32):
OH i get around rally now and, then AND i.

Speaker 55 (01:54:34):
Suppose It's steve signals that it's the wrong kind of
company coming to. Call they get the wrong kind of.

Speaker 4 (01:54:39):
Reception that's about. It Passing, Hi steve The duke In, Yeah,
hey what do you smoke in that pipe of? Yours
old cabbage, leaves shoe leather? Taste it smells like the?
Deuce whatever it?

Speaker 42 (01:54:54):
Is, one come, On, nick we got to be moving.

Speaker 4 (01:54:56):
Right which is his? Office?

Speaker 47 (01:55:08):
Here?

Speaker 7 (01:55:09):
Nick this one? Here it's. Funny tried the.

Speaker 2 (01:55:15):
Door maybe he's not in.

Speaker 4 (01:55:17):
There it must. Be steve told us to come, up
AND i can see there's a light. Inside maybe there's something.

Speaker 7 (01:55:25):
Wrong, like let's, HERE i have a little.

Speaker 4 (01:55:26):
TASSON i THINK i better come, on come, on let me,
now come on again? AGAIN i got breaking, it rally breaking?

Speaker 7 (01:55:33):
It are you?

Speaker 36 (01:55:37):
Hurt?

Speaker 7 (01:55:37):
Rally?

Speaker 4 (01:55:37):
No did you get?

Speaker 3 (01:55:38):
You?

Speaker 4 (01:55:38):
No what's going on in? Here? Nothing? Now patsy can come.
In you look at Your nick dead got right through the,
Forehead is that the? Duke Ask? Patsy that was the?

Speaker 42 (01:55:48):
Duke, Hey look that's where the killer, Went, nick through
that window.

Speaker 4 (01:55:50):
There, yes and down the fire escape. Below there's a
dozen ways he could have.

Speaker 7 (01:55:55):
Gone we never see.

Speaker 42 (01:55:56):
Him if we'd only gotten in a little, Sooner, nick.

Speaker 4 (01:55:59):
That wouldn't have made any. Difference, RALEY i suppose.

Speaker 42 (01:56:01):
Not he was out to get The, duke and he
had gotten them, anyway and it was just as easy
for the killer to get out on the pirate escape
and wait for.

Speaker 3 (01:56:08):
Us it's a good thing he was a poor. Shot
he'd both be.

Speaker 4 (01:56:10):
DEAD i don't think, So. Betty what do you? Mean
look how high as bullets went up above the door?

Speaker 42 (01:56:15):
There, oh you think he was just trying to scare,
us snake looks that.

Speaker 4 (01:56:18):
Way he could certainly shoot straighter than.

Speaker 3 (01:56:20):
That now we've got two murders to solve instead of.

Speaker 4 (01:56:23):
One, Yes i'm beginning to get interested in. This, now
let's see what The duke can tell us about. This
The duke had no, weapons so we apparently wasn't expecting
in a. Deck must have known the man who killed.

Speaker 42 (01:56:38):
Him, Hey, NICK i thought The duke didn't.

Speaker 36 (01:56:40):
Smoke he.

Speaker 42 (01:56:41):
Didn't there's an awful lot of burned matches here in
this ash tray for a guy who don't, smoke.

Speaker 4 (01:56:47):
And they're all burned pretty well down. Too and here's
a cigarette. Button it's a you a.

Speaker 3 (01:56:53):
DOOR i never heard of that, brand.

Speaker 4 (01:56:56):
Mate very few people smoked, him And Lucky coombs is
one of them. Cools then maybe he doesn't let's not
jump too. Fast i'll just take this but and these
matches along with. Me they may come in handy before
we threw a.

Speaker 42 (01:57:10):
Better call headquarters and get some of the boys up.

Speaker 4 (01:57:12):
Here right while you take care of. This and if
It patsy And i'll go and call Him. Lucky maybe
he can tell us something about.

Speaker 42 (01:57:17):
This, Okay, Nick but be careful That. Lucky he's a tough.

Speaker 4 (01:57:21):
BAD i WILL i know how to handle. Him, Oh, Steve,
yeah did The duke have many callers? Tonight? No, no
how About Lucky? Coombs he wasn't away, here was?

Speaker 7 (01:57:41):
He? Yeah, yeah he?

Speaker 2 (01:57:44):
Was what of?

Speaker 7 (01:57:46):
It? Nothing?

Speaker 4 (01:57:47):
Maybe by the, way you better get this crowd out of.
Here The duke's been. Murdered this place is going to
be filled a cop reporter's photographer's fingerprint meant a detective
in about ten, Minutes duke D, yeah so long to see.

Speaker 7 (01:58:00):
You come, On.

Speaker 4 (01:58:02):
Betsy let's see What lucky has to.

Speaker 56 (01:58:03):
Say eleven, Please, No i's ought to put an end
of the numbers racket in the, Town nick for a.

Speaker 3 (01:58:19):
While, anyway with The duke dead And lucky.

Speaker 4 (01:58:22):
In jim for his, murder, maybe but let's not get
ahead of. Ourselves, Oh, pat you stay in the cars?
Outside maybe careful go in Someplace?

Speaker 7 (01:58:34):
Flintford? Why?

Speaker 4 (01:58:35):
Yes that the friendly. VISIT i want to See lucky Minute,
lucky he's not receiving, tonight not cops, Anyways i'm no.
Cop it's won to friendly talk with. Him well you, Can't,
NO i THINK i.

Speaker 7 (01:58:51):
Can.

Speaker 4 (01:58:51):
Yeah, well me and my buddy here is gonna see
that you're. Down we sure you got a search? Warrant have?

Speaker 7 (01:58:59):
You?

Speaker 4 (01:59:00):
Oh you want to see my search?

Speaker 2 (01:59:02):
One do?

Speaker 3 (01:59:02):
You?

Speaker 4 (01:59:02):
Well here an Amnsel, yeah And i'm gonna drink us a.

Speaker 53 (01:59:07):
Fall.

Speaker 52 (01:59:17):
Well nick seems to be having difficulty getting into Sea.
Lucky does this Mean lucky is the man who killed the?
Duke and What's nick going to do about? It we'll
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Speaker 4 (02:00:42):
Tone and now back to our.

Speaker 52 (02:00:48):
Story we Left nick fighting it out with one Of
Lucky kom's gunmen as he tried to get Into Sea
lucky to question him about the killing Of Duke. Dunson
i'm gonna drag yourself, Well, shy you're all.

Speaker 4 (02:01:00):
RIGHT i just knocked your gun out of your.

Speaker 2 (02:01:02):
Hand that's all.

Speaker 4 (02:01:03):
Here i'll take, it and just to be, sure i'll
take your pal gun. Too now you'll both be good little.
BOYS i won't Tell lucky on.

Speaker 29 (02:01:12):
YOU i won't Tell lucky.

Speaker 4 (02:01:13):
What oh, Hello, Lucky i've enjoyed meeting your welcoming.

Speaker 2 (02:01:16):
Committee, well sometimes their ambition gets the better of their common.
Sense they told me it was you coming, up.

Speaker 4 (02:01:23):
CUTTER i would have advised them to let you in
and see themselves a. Headache, here your boys pop, guns
give them back to them AFTER i, go, hey you
can come out, Now, Patty well as your.

Speaker 3 (02:01:35):
Daily doesn't for this, EVENING i always enjoy watching you.
Exercise it does need so much.

Speaker 27 (02:01:40):
Good what CAN i do for?

Speaker 3 (02:01:41):
You?

Speaker 4 (02:01:41):
CAT i suppose you Know Benny smith was killed, tonight
right after he collected the fifty thousand he won On
Duke dawson's numbers. Game, YEAH i heard about.

Speaker 2 (02:01:50):
That you don't THINK i.

Speaker 7 (02:01:53):
Had anything to do with?

Speaker 4 (02:01:54):
That and did you also hear That Duke dawson himself
was murdered a little while, Later so.

Speaker 2 (02:02:01):
You think you can pin that on?

Speaker 4 (02:02:03):
Me we found one of your cigarettes half smoked in
the ash tray on The duke's, Desk, Lucky, well and
the duke didn't. Smoke not three people in the city
smoke your. Brand how did your cigarette get in the duke's?
Astray my?

Speaker 2 (02:02:19):
Cigarette? Huh you could.

Speaker 4 (02:02:21):
Easily be held for the murder and the evidence we, Have.
Lucky BUT i suppose you have an. Alibi if, so
let's have.

Speaker 27 (02:02:28):
It, well why hadn't been out of my?

Speaker 2 (02:02:32):
Apartment or even no?

Speaker 4 (02:02:34):
Alibi? Eh, well well that's very. Interesting no alibi and
a shame to admit.

Speaker 3 (02:02:40):
It then he must be the.

Speaker 4 (02:02:41):
One if you THINK i did, it why didn't you
run me? In, No, lucky we're not going to run you.
In but you will stick, around won't, You just in
case we need you for a witness or.

Speaker 3 (02:02:50):
Something, Oh, nike surely you're not going to let him?

Speaker 2 (02:02:51):
Go why?

Speaker 4 (02:02:52):
Not you will stick, Around? Lucky? Yeah, Fine, Yeah i'll stick.
Around then let me know when you need me for. Something,
THANKS i. Will, well good, Night, Lucky Mount. Patsy let's be.
Going why it is so, Quiet? Betsy you haven't said

(02:03:21):
a word since we Left.

Speaker 3 (02:03:22):
Lucky's, WELL i can't understand.

Speaker 55 (02:03:23):
It, nick you have what looks like good reason to
Believe lucky killed the duke and you let him go doesn't.

Speaker 3 (02:03:28):
Make sense to.

Speaker 4 (02:03:29):
Me, Why, Patsy that's all part of my. PLAN i
THINK i have the answer to both killings, now and
Leaving lucky loose is part of my way of proving.

Speaker 3 (02:03:37):
It AND i suppose that phone call you made after
we Left lucky's was part of your plan.

Speaker 4 (02:03:41):
Too, Wright, betsy all part of my.

Speaker 3 (02:03:43):
Plan and did your phone call accomplish what you hoped it?

Speaker 4 (02:03:46):
For ada, Did? Patsy And aida?

Speaker 3 (02:03:48):
DID i asked what it?

Speaker 38 (02:03:50):
Was you, May?

Speaker 3 (02:03:51):
Nick why don't you tell me what's going? ON i
don't get it at.

Speaker 4 (02:03:54):
ALL i phoned a certain party to get a certain,
address AND i got.

Speaker 7 (02:03:58):
It that's.

Speaker 4 (02:03:58):
All you know who the kill? IS i think so well,
that UNFORTUNATELY i am not prepared to evulge at this precise. Moment, Nick,
well here we. Are, here we are ware at the

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ADDRESS i got on the. Phone it's the third house up,
there the rooming.

Speaker 2 (02:04:23):
House and what do we do?

Speaker 29 (02:04:25):
There?

Speaker 4 (02:04:25):
Now betsy listened carefully WHAT i tell. You i'm going
inside that house, alone, yes, Alone and as soon AS i,
DO i want you to go to the phone and
the drug store across the street and Phone. Riley he'll
be back at headquarters by this. Time tell him to
come up here just as fast as he.

Speaker 2 (02:04:40):
CAN i may need.

Speaker 4 (02:04:41):
Him tell him to bring some of his men in
the hurry up, wagon but not to use the. Siren
when he gets. Here tell him to wait out here
with you UNTIL i come, out or IF i don't come,
out tell him to rush in after me just as
soon as he hears.

Speaker 3 (02:04:54):
Gunshots, nick can't you better wait until he gets here
before you go in.

Speaker 7 (02:04:57):
THERE i can't do, It.

Speaker 4 (02:04:58):
Betty i've got to get inside before the next visitor.
Does that's the important part of my. Plan now you
have a STRAIGHT i think so. Good i'm counting on Your.
Patsy don't fail. ME i don't wish me.

Speaker 7 (02:05:10):
LUCK i may need.

Speaker 2 (02:05:12):
It, oh who's?

Speaker 29 (02:05:27):
There?

Speaker 4 (02:05:28):
Nick carter got a few Questions i'd like to ask him? Questions,
Yes i'm. Alone, WELL i see you're packing your, Suitcase.
Steve you weren't getting ready to leave town with?

Speaker 2 (02:05:44):
You what IF i? Was you shouldn't do.

Speaker 4 (02:05:47):
That we might need your testimony and clearing Up Duke dawson's.
Murder you're the only witness we have to testify That
Lucky khomb's called on The duke just before he was. Murdered,
yeah that's just Why i'm getting.

Speaker 17 (02:06:00):
Now i'm not staying here to be taking for a
ride By lucky's.

Speaker 4 (02:06:03):
Guerrillas and that's what happened to. Me IF i send
anything against, him you won't be taken for a ride
By lucky's. Gun And i'll guarantee you THAT i ain't
taking no. Chances, yeah got a?

Speaker 2 (02:06:13):
Match?

Speaker 7 (02:06:14):
Sure, thanks.

Speaker 4 (02:06:17):
H still smoking old cabbage leaves in that pipe of?
YOURS i see why don't you try to back of for? It,
CHAIN i shut. UP i ain't taking no more riding from,
you no from. Nobody, Okay? Steve oh do you mind
IF i keep this? Match you just? Used what do
you want it? FOR i THINK i can use? It,
hey what's going on, Here? Carter what can you use

(02:06:40):
a point match?

Speaker 2 (02:06:40):
For for one?

Speaker 4 (02:06:41):
THING i can use it to send you to, jail to, jail,
yes for. Murder you won't send me to jail for.
Murder up that, Gun, Steve, yeah that's not from.

Speaker 2 (02:06:51):
You give me that.

Speaker 41 (02:06:51):
DIE i will like give me.

Speaker 2 (02:06:53):
THAT i.

Speaker 4 (02:07:00):
Didn't have to break my, arm did?

Speaker 7 (02:07:01):
You? Lucky for?

Speaker 4 (02:07:02):
Me you're shot in a, hurry otherwise you might have
got me somewhere else and just in the fleshure part
of my. Arm, oh let's see what's in that? Suitcase are?

Speaker 3 (02:07:10):
You keep on me where you, Are.

Speaker 4 (02:07:12):
Steve i've got the. Gun, now set down on a.
Chair i'm.

Speaker 2 (02:07:17):
Requiet.

Speaker 4 (02:07:20):
Ah quite a nice roll of bills you have, here
at least fifty thousand, DOLLARS i should, say by the
size of the, Roll, eh what's it to? You it
was a nice racket you were, Working. Steve whenever The
duke paid off any big, money you knew who got
the money laid for them and killed. Him That duke
knew it was bad business to have his winners killed that.
Way so somehow he must have gotten wise to, you

(02:07:41):
probably by having someone Trail, benny someone who saw you kill,
him so he called you in to have a talk with,
you and you killed. Him any, TRUE i, DIDN'T i.
Didn't Lucky coombs did. It that's so we'll see What
lucky has to say when you tell him that he'll
be here in a few. Minutes If i'm not. Mistaken, no,
NO i.

Speaker 3 (02:07:58):
Couldn't he'd kill.

Speaker 2 (02:07:59):
Me kill.

Speaker 7 (02:08:00):
You stay where you.

Speaker 4 (02:08:01):
Are i'll stand behind the. Door You're eddy double Crossing.
Red that's, Enough lucky drop that?

Speaker 2 (02:08:06):
Gun is he? Is? He did you kill?

Speaker 7 (02:08:16):
Him?

Speaker 4 (02:08:16):
NO i just shot him through the. Shoulder the shot
knocked him.

Speaker 2 (02:08:19):
Out he live to go to the.

Speaker 4 (02:08:22):
Electric chair with. You, Nick you all, right all, right
it's all, right everything's under. Control all, Right riley there
a you're two, Murderers steve in the chair And lucky
on the. Floor glory by's, rally two of. Them you
better get your handcuffs on them before they decide to
run out of, here and do just.

Speaker 42 (02:08:40):
That now we find Friend, steve hold out your hand
and You, lucky you can't, help, basically just put him
on your your.

Speaker 29 (02:08:48):
Set and all right when you wake.

Speaker 4 (02:08:50):
Up then it Was, Lucky, Nick, Yes, Bessie lucky And steve.
Together this is a great day for the police.

Speaker 42 (02:08:57):
Department two men killed and.

Speaker 24 (02:08:59):
The two is.

Speaker 4 (02:09:00):
Caught.

Speaker 3 (02:09:00):
Lieutenant are you giving all the credit to the police,
Department it seems to.

Speaker 4 (02:09:04):
Me, No, no of course. NOT i just meant it all, Right,
rally it's all. Right my part of it's. Done your
precious police department can have all the glory if they want.

Speaker 3 (02:09:12):
It you tell me about. It how did they do,
it and who?

Speaker 4 (02:09:15):
Killed who hold? It i'll meet you down at your
office and half an hour and give you all the
details and the evidence you. Need right, NOW i want
to get my arm.

Speaker 3 (02:09:22):
Fixed, Oh, Nick you're?

Speaker 30 (02:09:23):
Hair is it?

Speaker 3 (02:09:24):
Bad let me get it doctor.

Speaker 4 (02:09:25):
Quick it's not, Serious, patsy just a flesh wound and
it's rather, painful and like to get it taken care.
Of come, On, PATSY i guess you would have to.
Drive i'll see you.

Speaker 7 (02:09:32):
Later.

Speaker 4 (02:09:32):
Rally, well that feels. Better good doctor is a wonderful
thing when you need. Him and doctor Sturge is is
as good a man as there.

Speaker 3 (02:09:51):
Is and, now Mister, CARTER i want to hear all about.

Speaker 4 (02:09:54):
It, Oh, patsy can't you wait until we get To rally's.
OFFICE i don't want to go through the story? Twice got?

Speaker 3 (02:10:00):
It if you don't give me all the details right
here and, Now i'll stuff this car and we won't
move an inch until you decide to tell me WHAT.

Speaker 5 (02:10:06):
I want to?

Speaker 4 (02:10:06):
Know all, right all, right you're a hard, woman Miss.
BOONE i Guess i'll have to give. In, well what
do you want to?

Speaker 3 (02:10:13):
Know?

Speaker 7 (02:10:13):
First?

Speaker 3 (02:10:14):
Hirst where Did steve come into?

Speaker 2 (02:10:16):
This he did the.

Speaker 4 (02:10:17):
Killing then what About. Lucky lucky was the man behind the,
throne so to. Speak lucky wanted to cut in on
The duke's, customers so we had The duke's winners. Killed, steve,
however did the actual killing and got most of the
money for his. Reward but when The duke caught on To,
Steve steve killed him and double Crossed.

Speaker 3 (02:10:33):
Lucky how do you mean double?

Speaker 4 (02:10:35):
Crossed steve planted one Of lucky cigarettes in The duke's.
Astray he undoubtedly had some of them from being associated With,
lucky so he just smoked one half way down and
left it where we'd be sure to find.

Speaker 3 (02:10:45):
It then who shot at you, In Lieutenant riley when
you broke into The duke's.

Speaker 4 (02:10:48):
Room earlier this. Evening that Was?

Speaker 3 (02:10:50):
Steve that Nixt steve was downstairs playing the.

Speaker 4 (02:10:53):
Piano he was there when we left, him, yes and
he was there when we went. Back but in between
he slipped out the back up the fire, escape fired
over our heads as we entered to make us think
the killer was just, leaving and then went back to his.
Piano he thought he had a perfect. Alibi how did
you know that it Was? Steve by the, matches and
the ash.

Speaker 3 (02:11:10):
Tray how could they tell you, Anything?

Speaker 4 (02:11:12):
Patsy how'd you light a? Cigarette? Here here's a? Match try?

Speaker 53 (02:11:15):
It?

Speaker 55 (02:11:16):
Okay, WELL i suppose you'd light the match like, this
light your cigarette and put out the match like.

Speaker 2 (02:11:22):
This.

Speaker 4 (02:11:23):
EXACTLY i look at that match he just. Used m,
h it's only slightly burned at the. END i look
at this match WHICH i took from the, ashtray.

Speaker 3 (02:11:33):
That burned almost all the way.

Speaker 55 (02:11:34):
Down.

Speaker 4 (02:11:34):
Exactly he was used to light a, pipe not a.
Cigarette And steve's a pipe. Smoker he probably smoked as
he talked to The duke before he killed him before
we got, There you, See, PATSY i knew The duke
was dead when we got there this.

Speaker 3 (02:11:46):
Evening if you Knew steve did the, killings how did
you find out About? Lucky?

Speaker 4 (02:11:50):
WELL i felt Sure steve wouldn't dare to do it
without strong. Backing but there was no evidence Against. Lucky
so that's WHY i went to him and told him
about one of his cigarettes being left in The duke's.
Astray that's also WHY i didn't want to take him.
In oh, NO i, SEE i felt sure he'd go
to See steve and give himself away and he.

Speaker 55 (02:12:06):
Did, NICK i just realized what you said a minute.
Ago you said you knew that The duke was dead
before you went upstairs to his office. Tonight how could
you possibly know?

Speaker 4 (02:12:15):
That very, Simple, Patsy steve was The duke's lookout. Man
he used the piano as a. Signal the top key
on the piano was wired to a buzzer that sounded
in The duke's. Room that meant someone was coming. Up
but when we went up, tonight he didn't hit that.
NOTE i watched him, carefully and he didn't hit it
because he knew there was no one alive to hear.
It he hit the wrong.

Speaker 3 (02:12:35):
Note i'll say he hit the wrong note in more
ways than.

Speaker 55 (02:12:39):
One how do you, mean, Passy, well considering that tonight
you've sold three, murders ended the numbers, racket and recovered
the stolen, MONEY i say That steve hit the wrong
note when he tried to fool.

Speaker 52 (02:12:49):
You in just a, Moment nick And patsy will bring
you a preview of next week's exciting. Case but, first
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gets them and you get them as quickly as. Possible and, Now,
nick how about next week's?

Speaker 7 (02:14:23):
Adventure?

Speaker 4 (02:14:24):
Well can the main ingredients of next week's story are
a small boy and a sling? Shot, WELL i didn't
know you went in for cases of juvenile.

Speaker 3 (02:14:31):
Delinquency he doesn't unless you call it juvenile.

Speaker 55 (02:14:34):
Delinquency when an organized gang of thugs holds up an armored,
car kills the, guards and gets away with thousands of
dollars of the bank's.

Speaker 52 (02:14:41):
Money well that's a really big time. Stuff but where
did the small boy and the slingshot come into?

Speaker 4 (02:14:45):
It they were the means of my being able to
catch the, killers get back the, money and break up the,
gang and.

Speaker 3 (02:14:49):
It Gave nick one of the most unpleasant and dangerous
two hours he ever.

Speaker 52 (02:14:53):
Spent, Well i'll certainly look forward to hearing. That any further, Hints,
Nick oh that's all for. Now Can i'll tell you
the rest next?

Speaker 4 (02:14:59):
TIME i call this story the sling shot murders or
The mystery of The Broken.

Speaker 3 (02:15:04):
Window so, Long so, long, everybody.

Speaker 36 (02:15:06):
And so long to You nick And.

Speaker 52 (02:15:08):
Patsy we'll be looking forward to seeing you again Next sunday.
Afternoon next, week at the same, time listen to another
curious experience Of Nick Catter Master detective Entitled the.

Speaker 4 (02:15:23):
Sling Shot murder Or Nick carter and The mystery of
The Broken.

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Speaker 8 (02:16:30):
Eighty one years, Ago october, one nineteen forty. Four Nick
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(02:16:51):
with an episode Of. Claudia, next.

Speaker 54 (02:17:00):
Make it a habit to break the. Law if you think,
not what sort of driving habits do you? Have figures
from The National Safety council show that about sixty percent
of the fatal traffic accidents each year involve the violation
of one or more traffic. Laws many drivers just don't
pay attention to the. Signs diamond, shape round and crossbuck

(02:17:21):
signs call for extra, caution take it easy until the
condition they describe has been safely. Passed when crossing railroad,
tracks watch for that second train you may not have.
Seen if there are any protective devices like flashing, lights wigwag, signals, gates,
bells and, lights wait until they stop operating before stepping

(02:17:42):
on the.

Speaker 22 (02:17:42):
Gas these are your signs of, lights know them o they.

Speaker 8 (02:17:48):
Them time first to see what's going on in the
life Of david And. Claudia this episode Of claudia goes
back To october, one nineteen forty, seven and is seventy
eight years ago, today.

Speaker 16 (02:18:02):
Your Coca Cola butler Presents. Claudia claudia based on the

(02:18:30):
original stories By Rose, franken brought to you Transcribed monday
Through friday by your friendly neighbor who, Bottles coca. Cola
relax and while you're, listening refresh. Yourself have a? Coke and, Now, Claudia, David, yes,

(02:19:12):
dear are you?

Speaker 29 (02:19:13):
Awake?

Speaker 2 (02:19:13):
Darling, Yes i'm.

Speaker 6 (02:19:15):
Awake, OH i think that's?

Speaker 18 (02:19:17):
Mean what's mean for me to be?

Speaker 48 (02:19:19):
Awake you've been awake and pretending to be, asleep And
i've been awake for hours and not, moving SO i
wouldn't disturb you or.

Speaker 6 (02:19:25):
Not i've got a criok in my.

Speaker 18 (02:19:26):
Neck BUT i was sound asleep till you call.

Speaker 21 (02:19:29):
Me you couldn't have.

Speaker 6 (02:19:29):
Been people never bounce awake like.

Speaker 3 (02:19:31):
That all full of good SPIRITS i.

Speaker 18 (02:19:33):
Do good, morning my little crook in the.

Speaker 6 (02:19:36):
Neck good, Morning.

Speaker 2 (02:19:37):
David.

Speaker 6 (02:19:38):
OH i can't decide WHICH i like, better waking up
with you.

Speaker 18 (02:19:41):
Or going to sleep with what's the? Difference you got them?
Both that's.

Speaker 12 (02:19:44):
True It's, claudia, reckless recklessness. Cloud, oh It's.

Speaker 6 (02:19:48):
MINERVA i forgot it Was.

Speaker 5 (02:19:49):
Wednesday Who's?

Speaker 18 (02:19:50):
Minerva What's wednesday got to do with?

Speaker 6 (02:19:52):
Uh she cants for cleaning On? Wednesdays you Remember? Minerva?

Speaker 2 (02:19:55):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (02:19:55):
SURE i thought her name was many.

Speaker 5 (02:19:57):
Though minerva for?

Speaker 6 (02:19:58):
Sure Recklessness clauda.

Speaker 18 (02:20:01):
Missus claudia does not live here.

Speaker 6 (02:20:03):
Anymore excuse, Me i'm meant to, Say Miss, norton that's much.

Speaker 12 (02:20:06):
Better come, In, Minerva, marty Missus, Claudia, marty Mister, dave
glad to see your home.

Speaker 6 (02:20:14):
Again, oh it's good to be.

Speaker 18 (02:20:15):
Home and hand me my pipe over, There William.

Speaker 12 (02:20:17):
Minerva, yes, sir it shows a shock to see you
In Miss claudia's room soil in the. Morning Mister, NORTON i.

Speaker 18 (02:20:23):
Can give you the name of a very reputable minister
who says it's quite all, Right, minerva perfectly proper and.

Speaker 2 (02:20:29):
Leak but still some of it is.

Speaker 6 (02:20:31):
SHOCK i know What minerva. Means say what is the
idea of breakfast in?

Speaker 5 (02:20:35):
Bed for heaven's, sake.

Speaker 12 (02:20:36):
Your mama said to bring?

Speaker 6 (02:20:37):
It Is mama up or put the train on the
table between the Bed's, minerva move the lap.

Speaker 18 (02:20:42):
Daby, hey wait a, minute don't take my ash.

Speaker 12 (02:20:44):
Tray, Yes i'm your mama's.

Speaker 18 (02:20:46):
Out mama's. Cute yesterday she went out before we had,
breakfast and today we've got a tray and.

Speaker 6 (02:20:51):
Nerve it'sac she doesn't want to eat with, us.

Speaker 3 (02:20:53):
Bacon wonder what she'll do.

Speaker 18 (02:20:55):
Tomorrow we just have to find a place of her,
OWN i, guess so she can, relax poor. DEAR i
hope she.

Speaker 5 (02:21:01):
Gets one with a room in it for, Me so
we'll be lucky if we have a room in it for.

Speaker 6 (02:21:05):
Ourselves, Minerva i'm gonna have you once a week for
laundry and, cleaning saying As mama has.

Speaker 18 (02:21:09):
You maybe we'll have you every single.

Speaker 6 (02:21:11):
Day we'll do nothing of the kind you'll do with
my cooking and like? It Mister, Norton i'll do with.

Speaker 4 (02:21:16):
It but DO i have to like?

Speaker 6 (02:21:18):
It you certainly. Do it's part of the marriage ceremony
for you to like.

Speaker 18 (02:21:21):
It uh, SEE I david take this woman love honored
death to his. Part, SAY i don't remember anything about
cooking in.

Speaker 38 (02:21:30):
It reg Missus claudia means the better or worse, part Mister,
Norton Miss, claudia did you SAY.

Speaker 12 (02:21:36):
I, Mean Miss, norton Missus, Claudia mama told me told.

Speaker 5 (02:21:40):
Me what do you tell?

Speaker 53 (02:21:41):
You?

Speaker 18 (02:21:41):
Minerva you need a knife when you spread your.

Speaker 12 (02:21:44):
Butter DIDN'T i bring you a? Knife i'll get one
straight off and.

Speaker 6 (02:21:48):
A spoon for my coffee while you're about. It, oh
come back What mama tell, You?

Speaker 12 (02:21:52):
Minerva to ask you what Mister david would like for his,
dinner so she can.

Speaker 48 (02:21:55):
All, oh that's easy, steak apple, pie and he doesn't
care what else with?

Speaker 2 (02:21:59):
Chee what kind of?

Speaker 18 (02:22:01):
Tea just plain, old, ordinary everyday. Wretches, yeah, wonderful wonderful.

Speaker 6 (02:22:07):
Woman Who minerva or?

Speaker 4 (02:22:09):
Me your?

Speaker 7 (02:22:10):
Mother?

Speaker 2 (02:22:10):
Oh but do we.

Speaker 18 (02:22:12):
Always have to have breakfast in?

Speaker 16 (02:22:13):
Bed don't you like?

Speaker 18 (02:22:15):
IT i have a feeling it's going to make me
late for the, Office no later than if we didn't
didn what have it in?

Speaker 48 (02:22:21):
Bed but PERSONALLY i like to pop into a bath
in the, morning brush my, teeth put on all my,
clothes and eat my breakfast and an honest to goodness
chair at an honest to goodness.

Speaker 18 (02:22:30):
TABLE i wake up every morning of the world to
find out something new and remarkable about, You. Claudia TODAY
i Find i'm married to a frontier.

Speaker 6 (02:22:38):
Woman MAYBE i should have married a farmer or a.

Speaker 18 (02:22:40):
Fisherman they get up early.

Speaker 3 (02:22:41):
Too oh, no, no, No, david never a.

Speaker 18 (02:22:43):
Fisherman you sound so very sure of. Yourself is there
a reason this?

Speaker 6 (02:22:47):
Time of, course farmer can milk cows and things like.

Speaker 5 (02:22:51):
That but what can you do with?

Speaker 18 (02:22:52):
Fish that's the sort of QUESTION i find it hard
to answer in the middle of my breakfast.

Speaker 5 (02:22:57):
Place, well IF i.

Speaker 6 (02:22:58):
Still remember it after, Breakfast i'll ask you. Again see
what you.

Speaker 18 (02:23:00):
Say, first Let's finnish breakfast and see what you remember all? Right,
hey by the, way this is wonderful? Coffee can you
make good?

Speaker 4 (02:23:08):
Coffee? Very how do you?

Speaker 18 (02:23:09):
Know do you ever make any sure you ever give
me dish? Water i'll wring your neck now you hear?

Speaker 5 (02:23:14):
That mm hm your knife and tea spoom has.

Speaker 12 (02:23:16):
Clawed here and more wedding presents and a whole heap
of Le, oh business is?

Speaker 18 (02:23:21):
Good say how long the wedding presents keep? Up anyway
till the first?

Speaker 6 (02:23:24):
Baby isn't it? Wonderful i'll open this, One, david and
you opened the big. One, hey wait and see what they.

Speaker 56 (02:23:30):
Are i'm.

Speaker 12 (02:23:31):
Nerva such a lot of wind and presents when you get.

Speaker 6 (02:23:34):
Mad, oh that's one of the nicest things about getting.

Speaker 7 (02:23:36):
Married mm Hm.

Speaker 6 (02:23:37):
Oh for heaven's, sakes another bonbon dish.

Speaker 18 (02:23:40):
Mine is salt. Cellars don't people ever think a bride
does anything but eat candy and salt with.

Speaker 6 (02:23:46):
An occasional candlestick thrown in? HERE i, meanever you can
take my, tray but you hardly eat.

Speaker 12 (02:23:51):
Anything you can't live on.

Speaker 6 (02:23:53):
Low yes you. Can you'd be surprised to a lot
of vitamins it has in.

Speaker 12 (02:23:57):
IT i never heard of. It that's. Funny vitamins in
law to.

Speaker 6 (02:24:03):
Be taken every, minute every day.

Speaker 18 (02:24:06):
Years Missus, Brown what would you say IF i were
to ask you for another piece of?

Speaker 5 (02:24:22):
Pie i've already decided to raise your.

Speaker 6 (02:24:24):
Board, david that's your third?

Speaker 5 (02:24:25):
Piece will you let him? Alone, claudia he likes my.

Speaker 18 (02:24:27):
Pie she's jealous because she didn't make, it un did you?

Speaker 6 (02:24:30):
Guess COME i.

Speaker 5 (02:24:31):
Not let's eat it in the living and drop crumbs
all over the.

Speaker 2 (02:24:33):
Place what for?

Speaker 18 (02:24:35):
ANYWAY i might want another piece after the other?

Speaker 6 (02:24:37):
Piece all, Right i'll bring everything in, here then everything
what you'll?

Speaker 3 (02:24:40):
See?

Speaker 4 (02:24:41):
Now?

Speaker 7 (02:24:41):
What?

Speaker 18 (02:24:42):
Mother better?

Speaker 53 (02:24:43):
Do?

Speaker 18 (02:24:43):
What she, Says, DAVID i might have known. It you
can't depend on anyone these, days not even the mother in.

Speaker 5 (02:24:48):
LAW i take no. Sides, now go, on both of.
You i'll clear the. Table no time for, that will
do it. LATER i will not leave a table full of,
dishes close the door and we won't see. Them would
you think you're? Fooling nobody?

Speaker 18 (02:25:00):
Is she, says, Mother come on you, Learnt, David i'm.

Speaker 5 (02:25:04):
Coming what's the Right you'll see for.

Speaker 18 (02:25:06):
ONCE i don't want to. SEE i want to be.

Speaker 5 (02:25:08):
Told he's going to be. Difficult. Mama good for, You,
david stand up for your.

Speaker 18 (02:25:12):
Right it is not, easy, Mother i'm telling, YOU i.
Know tell me what do you do when you don't
want to do What claudia.

Speaker 2 (02:25:19):
Want you to? DO i do?

Speaker 6 (02:25:21):
It what was that, Again?

Speaker 2 (02:25:22):
David hush?

Speaker 4 (02:25:23):
Up your mother AND i.

Speaker 18 (02:25:24):
Are planning a campaign for the survival of the.

Speaker 6 (02:25:27):
Fitties, honestly nobody pays any attention to me around here
Since i'm.

Speaker 18 (02:25:30):
Married, yeah my heart bleeds for.

Speaker 6 (02:25:32):
You he's getting very, Fresh. Mama come, On, david now
eat your pie in the living.

Speaker 18 (02:25:37):
Room, well this is the crucial.

Speaker 2 (02:25:39):
Moment. Mother what DO i?

Speaker 5 (02:25:40):
Do he's strong, minded don't.

Speaker 12 (02:25:42):
BUDGE i.

Speaker 18 (02:25:43):
Won't come.

Speaker 2 (02:25:44):
On let's go.

Speaker 6 (02:25:46):
Handpicked now you sit over, there mom in the big.

Speaker 5 (02:25:49):
Chair MAY i have your permission to knit Missus norton
if you do.

Speaker 18 (02:25:53):
It quietly and don't drop any.

Speaker 36 (02:25:54):
Stitches thank.

Speaker 6 (02:25:55):
You, Now, david you sit, there And.

Speaker 18 (02:25:57):
I'm sitting there. Already oh so you. Are would you
mind telling me what this is all.

Speaker 6 (02:26:01):
About it's about wedding. Presents, yeah we've got to decide
which we're going to keep and which we're going to.

Speaker 18 (02:26:07):
Return, ooh return them, All, david dare.

Speaker 5 (02:26:10):
We know you dn't have you no, sentiment none at?

Speaker 18 (02:26:13):
All, anyway it's the simplest. WAY i can't open my
closet with that boxes falling on all of.

Speaker 5 (02:26:18):
ME i don't see what you're complaining. ABOUT i sleep
with them piled up all.

Speaker 6 (02:26:22):
Around, See, david she's always finding, fault never.

Speaker 5 (02:26:25):
Complaining, oh, shap what are you going to do with?
Them that's the. Point it's.

Speaker 6 (02:26:30):
Simple when we decide what to, keep we'll hide them
away like squirrels till we find our own.

Speaker 18 (02:26:34):
Apartment they hand me my pipe from over? There would
you squirrel?

Speaker 6 (02:26:37):
Here i'm glad you're the pipe?

Speaker 5 (02:26:39):
Type what type is the pipe?

Speaker 29 (02:26:43):
Type?

Speaker 5 (02:26:43):
Precisely?

Speaker 2 (02:26:45):
Oh you? Know Like.

Speaker 18 (02:26:46):
David there you have, it, mother the perfect.

Speaker 3 (02:26:48):
Definition aren't you going to kiss me before we?

Speaker 29 (02:26:51):
Start?

Speaker 2 (02:26:52):
OH i just assume not to.

Speaker 6 (02:26:54):
START i just assume not Too what time is it.

Speaker 18 (02:26:58):
Too early early for what to?

Speaker 7 (02:27:01):
Wash the?

Speaker 6 (02:27:01):
Dishes much too early for the, Dishes so we'll do
the presence. Instead now what about this? One shall we
return it or keep?

Speaker 7 (02:27:09):
It what is?

Speaker 2 (02:27:09):
It can't you?

Speaker 53 (02:27:10):
Tell?

Speaker 4 (02:27:10):
Nope can you?

Speaker 5 (02:27:11):
Nope?

Speaker 2 (02:27:12):
Mama what is?

Speaker 36 (02:27:13):
It?

Speaker 5 (02:27:13):
Oh, WELL i think it must be for?

Speaker 36 (02:27:16):
Shrimp?

Speaker 18 (02:27:17):
Mm what makes you think it?

Speaker 5 (02:27:18):
Much don't pin me.

Speaker 6 (02:27:19):
Down mama's, right it's for.

Speaker 5 (02:27:20):
SHRIMP i love, shrimp me, too you. Do never told me.

Speaker 18 (02:27:24):
Keep the shrimp.

Speaker 36 (02:27:24):
Dish how about?

Speaker 53 (02:27:25):
Clams?

Speaker 18 (02:27:26):
Oh i'm, crazy bat Cl have you got a clam?

Speaker 29 (02:27:27):
Dish?

Speaker 5 (02:27:28):
No use a soup?

Speaker 24 (02:27:28):
Plate what about?

Speaker 32 (02:27:29):
Crabs?

Speaker 18 (02:27:29):
David, well what about?

Speaker 2 (02:27:31):
Them do you like? 'em?

Speaker 18 (02:27:33):
Mm too much?

Speaker 4 (02:27:34):
WORK i prefer.

Speaker 5 (02:27:34):
LOBSTER i adore.

Speaker 6 (02:27:35):
Lobsters how about? Snails?

Speaker 12 (02:27:37):
No who asked?

Speaker 2 (02:27:38):
You?

Speaker 3 (02:27:38):
Missus brad?

Speaker 18 (02:27:39):
Uh claudia AND i are just getting. Acquainted.

Speaker 6 (02:27:41):
Mother, well DO i put the shrimp dish to the
right of me or the left of? Me everything to
the left of me will be to.

Speaker 18 (02:27:46):
Be, returned shrimp dish to the.

Speaker 2 (02:27:49):
Right it's?

Speaker 5 (02:27:50):
Put?

Speaker 3 (02:27:51):
Now what about?

Speaker 6 (02:27:52):
This return it or keep?

Speaker 2 (02:27:55):
It what is?

Speaker 18 (02:27:55):
It soup to ring looks like a silver bathb it
does a.

Speaker 6 (02:28:00):
Little what's the matter With Aunt? Louisa nobody ever ate
that much soup in their.

Speaker 18 (02:28:04):
LIFE i don't even like.

Speaker 4 (02:28:05):
Soup OH i DO i like?

Speaker 2 (02:28:07):
SOUP i like. Chowder.

Speaker 6 (02:28:08):
David it's more practical to like. Soup you'll just have
to learn.

Speaker 5 (02:28:11):
To but this is too much. Soup, still it's a
very handsome. Terene you can use it for plants.

Speaker 6 (02:28:18):
If you like it so, Much, mama we'll give it
to you and you can use it for. PLANT i
haven't got a. Plant then to the left of, Me.
Todia wait a, Minute, no, no it's too. Late we
are not about to discuss the fish knives that look
like little.

Speaker 5 (02:28:29):
Fishes it's From antaisa fish.

Speaker 6 (02:28:31):
Knives they are not there From Uncle george To.

Speaker 18 (02:28:33):
Lureene, well just Because Aunt louisa likes.

Speaker 2 (02:28:35):
No he likes.

Speaker 5 (02:28:37):
Toreenes she's been giving them for years wedding. Presents and
there's three.

Speaker 18 (02:28:41):
Presents but what about?

Speaker 5 (02:28:41):
Birds probably handy to wash the baby.

Speaker 18 (02:28:44):
In we have no, baby so we'll return.

Speaker 48 (02:28:46):
It, yes let's comes from pacyas that means it must
have cost an awful lot of.

Speaker 6 (02:28:50):
Money, well now let's. See how about the fish.

Speaker 18 (02:28:53):
Knives you're running, this young.

Speaker 2 (02:28:54):
Lady, well they're.

Speaker 6 (02:28:56):
Quite nice and we both like, fish Don't we.

Speaker 5 (02:29:00):
Just went through that. ROUTINE i don't THINK i can
take it.

Speaker 22 (02:29:02):
Again those are.

Speaker 6 (02:29:03):
Shellfish, hey what's you, hurry where are you going the? Dishes,
HONESTLY i think we're more interesting than dirty, dishes don't, You?

Speaker 2 (02:29:09):
David?

Speaker 4 (02:29:09):
Oh lots, Lots.

Speaker 6 (02:29:11):
Mama will you come with me tomorrow return the?

Speaker 5 (02:29:13):
TREE i will not what's in all those other?

Speaker 6 (02:29:15):
BOXES i can tell you blind folded butter, plates.

Speaker 18 (02:29:18):
Ash, trays unbun, dishes.

Speaker 6 (02:29:20):
Salt so don't forget.

Speaker 5 (02:29:21):
The napkin ring with your names on. Them serve you're
right you have to keep.

Speaker 6 (02:29:25):
Them, well at least they don't have he And she
engraved on. Them that's, Towels, oh, towels nap can, ring same.
Thing what's the. Difference, look let's keep everything but the soup, tree.

Speaker 2 (02:29:35):
EVERYTHING i.

Speaker 18 (02:29:36):
Think so when did you decide?

Speaker 2 (02:29:38):
That?

Speaker 7 (02:29:38):
Cloudy just?

Speaker 6 (02:29:39):
Now i'm?

Speaker 18 (02:29:40):
Sleepy so AM i come.

Speaker 4 (02:29:43):
On we'll help with the.

Speaker 29 (02:29:45):
Dishes.

Speaker 5 (02:29:45):
First you don't have to alle. HELP i can get
them done faster without. You but at least have the
decency to take all that stuff off the sofa SO
i can go to. Bed i'll put them under the.

Speaker 18 (02:29:54):
Sofa don't forget. Mother she said she was a.

Speaker 53 (02:29:57):
Squirrel, David what do you like?

Speaker 2 (02:30:00):
SQUIRRELS i love.

Speaker 5 (02:30:02):
Squirrels we are, silly aren't we.

Speaker 6 (02:30:04):
Verry, oh it's so nice to be silly with people you.

Speaker 18 (02:30:08):
Love i'll tell you a secret why you can't be
silly if you're not in.

Speaker 16 (02:30:14):
Love all story material used in this broadcast Of claudia

(02:30:38):
was under the supervision Of Rose franken And William Brown.
Maloney in these changing, times here's one thing that hasn't.
Changed through two world, wars through two periods of rising,

(02:31:00):
prices the quality of coca cola has remained, unchanged and
the price is still five. Cents there's more coke, now
so that you can enjoy the pause that refreshes with
ice cold coca cola more. Often every, Day monday Through,

(02:31:39):
Friday claudia comes to, you transcribed with the best wishes
of your friendly neighbor who bottles coca. Cola so listen
again tomorrow at the same. Time and now this Is
Joe king saying a. Revoir and, remember whoever you, are
whatever you, do wherever you may, be and you think of,

(02:32:00):
represhment think of coca cola or ice cold coca cola
makes any, pause the pause that.

Speaker 36 (02:32:08):
Represhes what a lovely.

Speaker 8 (02:32:41):
Show it's too sweet to call It Soap opera seventy
eight years Ago october, first nineteen forty. Seven claudia the
third episode of the Program here On Classic Radio theater
With Wyatt. Cousin we're going to do our best to
bring you the entire. Run all, righty thank you for
making us a part of your. Name visit our web
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