Classic Radio 10-03-25 - Frightened Bookeeper, Sugar Kane, and Love to Mama - Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox

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

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Suspense, Shadow Note Washington calling David Honey count.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
As my classic radio theater, the Great Elderslie Viper McGhee
and Molly Dragones guns Alone Ranger.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Now step back into a time machine.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
It's your host, Wyatt Cox.

Speaker 5 (00:34):
Good evening friend, Leona Tanco.

Speaker 6 (00:39):
A very dramatic Friday for you with episodes of the
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring John Stanley and Alfred Shirley.
Jeane Hirshold is doctor Christian uh Sam Spade Detective and
we will also have an episode of The Whistler. We'll

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wrap it all up with Claudia. That's what's coming up
on this Friday. This is the third day of October,
two hundred and seventy sixth day of the year, and
we have eighty nine days left. In twenty twenty five,
British Captain James Cook anchoring an Alaska on this date.
In seventeen seventy eight, George Washington proclaiming the first Thanksgiving

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Day on this date. In seventeen eighty nine, Thanksgiving Day
was declared it the fourth Thursday in November. In eighteen
sixty three by President Lincoln, and in nineteen thirty two,
Iraq gained independence from Britain. It was on this date
in nineteen fifty one Bobby Thompson and the New York
Giants hit a home run out of the Polo Grounds

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in the bottom of the ninth inning of a National
League playoff game against the Brooklyn Dodgers, known as the
shot Heard Wound the World.

Speaker 7 (02:03):
Father, What kind of about I've a.

Speaker 6 (02:09):
Private favorite, Giants announcer Russ Hodges making that famous call.
The family comedy Father Knows Best, formerly on NBC Radio,
premiered on CBSTV on this date in nineteen fifty four.

Speaker 8 (02:31):
Hi Dad, Hello?

Speaker 7 (02:32):
What say?

Speaker 9 (02:33):
Can I talk to you alone?

Speaker 10 (02:34):
Just you and me?

Speaker 6 (02:36):
Robert Young and Billy Gray in a scene from that show, Gray,
by the way, still with us at the age of
eighty seven. In fact, the last word that we have
is that he is living in Topanga, California, in the
same house he bought in nineteen fifty seven while working

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on Father Knows Best. That's kind of meat, at least
it seems so to me anyway, all right. Other things
from this date in history, the Mickey Mouse Club premiering
a bunch of talented kids performing on that show as Mouseketeers.
In the original four year run, you had a net Buonicello,

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Paul Peterson, who would go on to the Donna Reed Show.
You had Mickey Rooney Junior and Don Grady later on
My Three Sons. One notable who didn't make the call
Candice Bergen later Murphy Brown Thing, premiering on this date
in nineteen fifty seven on ABC Walter Brennan, Richard Kranna,

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Kathy Nolan, The Real McCoy's. That show ran on five
seasons on ABC. The last season that ran on CBS,
so six seasons. Show revolving around an Appalachian farm family,
Appalachian mountain family, I should say they moved to California
to farm and Griffith Show debuting on this date back

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in nineteen sixty So many great shows got their start
on this date. And also on this date in a
year later, in nineteen sixty one, you had the Dick
Van Dyke Show Get Going.

Speaker 11 (04:14):
We have been invited to Alan Brady's penthouse apartment to
mingle with rich people.

Speaker 6 (04:19):
And that was another one Dick's to I think Dick
is the only one that's still with us at one
hundred years of age. You know he had Mary Tyler,
Moore and Morey Amsterdam Rosemarine On this date in nineteen
sixty two at Cape Canaveral, Mercury eight blasted off with
astronauts Wally Sharra aboard Poor a nine hour flight. In

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nineteen seventy two, President Nixon Soviet Union's President Pod Gourney
ratifying this Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.

Speaker 12 (04:52):
These agreements mean a first step in reducing the danger
of war in the world and increasing the chances of peace.

Speaker 6 (05:04):
And I think every day we still pray for peace.
For the first time during the Cold War, US and
Soviet Union agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles
in their arsenals. What it was on this date. In
nineteen seventy four, Cleveland, the Indians made Frank Robinson major
League baseball's first black manager, and Robinson said at the
time he hoped he wouldn't be the last.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
I hope that baseball people.

Speaker 13 (05:29):
I'm not saying, okay, Frank Robinson is the first black manager.

Speaker 14 (05:33):
We have one here.

Speaker 15 (05:34):
He is.

Speaker 16 (05:35):
That's it.

Speaker 6 (05:37):
Well a player, Robinson played for five teams over twenty
one seasons, the Reds, the Oreos, the Dodgers, the California Angels,
and the Indians. And as we said in seventy five,
he became the first black manager in Big League history
as the player manager of the Indians, Rank Robinson of

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Friends all Right. Also on this date in history, Space
Shuttle Atlantis flew its first voyage on this date. In
nineteen eighty five, the Reunification of Germany East Germany ceased
to exist on this date. In nineteen ninety, East German
citizens became part of the European Community, which later became
the European Union that.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Was on this date.

Speaker 6 (06:21):
In nineteen ninety five, O. J. Simpson found not guilty
of murder.

Speaker 17 (06:26):
With the jury and the ambulveing title action find a
defendant or involved. James Simpson not guilty of a crime
of murder in violation of Penal Coult Section one eighty
seven a a felony upon the Cole Brown Simpson a
human being as charge and count one of the information.

Speaker 6 (06:41):
Now later he would be found civilly liable but not
criminally liable. Now exactly thirteen years later, Simpson found guilty
of robbing two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a
Las Vegas hotel room.

Speaker 18 (06:57):
Count one, conspiracy committed crime guilty two, conspiracy comitt kidnapping guilty,
Count three, conspiracy comitt robbery guilty, Count four, Burglar while
in possession of a deadly weapon guilty.

Speaker 6 (07:09):
Clark Sandra Jeter Simpson released on parole in twenty seventeen.
He passed away last year.

Speaker 8 (07:18):
It was on this date.

Speaker 6 (07:19):
In two thousand and three a tiger attack magician Roy
Horn of the duo Sigfried and Roy during a performance
in Las Vegas. It left Roy partially paralyzed. He would
pass away in twenty twenty. His partner in the act,
Siegfried Fischbacher, passed away in twenty twenty one, the Act

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of Sigfried and Roy basically coming to an end, not
of their own choosing on this date in two thousand
and three two thousand and eight, the Emergency Economic Stabilization
Act of two thousand and eight, often called the Bank
Bail Out of two thousand and eight, signed by President
George W.

Speaker 16 (08:00):
Bush.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
It was on this date.

Speaker 6 (08:02):
In twenty eleven, an Italian appeals court free Demanda Knox
after four years in prison, tossing murder convictions against her
and her ex boyfriend In the stabbing of their British roommate.
Knox emotional when she got back home to Seattle.

Speaker 19 (08:18):
It's important for me to say, it's just thank you
to everyone who's believed in me, who's defended me, who's
in my family.

Speaker 6 (08:29):
And it was two years ago. Today's speaker, Kevin McCarthy
booted from his job in an extraordinary showdown forced by
a contingent of Conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Here he is speaking after the historic vote that ended
his reign.

Speaker 20 (08:47):
I do not regret negotiating.

Speaker 11 (08:49):
Our government is designed to find compromise.

Speaker 19 (08:53):
I don't regret my efforts to build coalitions and find solutions.

Speaker 11 (08:59):
I was raised solve problems, not create them.

Speaker 6 (09:02):
I think McCarthy's the biggest problem is he didn't get
a lot done during his time. He kept saying he
was going to do this, do that, and it was
a time of obstruction, and just not much got done.
By the way. I was wrong. Nick van Dyke will
be turning one hundred in December, so yeah, he's still
ninety nine. But my goodness that he can still do

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what he does. I'm still shocked and amazed. Anyway, that's
some of the stuff that happened on this date in history.
Okay passing away, the man who had been in the
sewing machine, Elias Howe, Zachary Scott, Wonderful, actor singer songwriter
Woody Guthrie, actor Roddy McDowell, from My Two Dads, and

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Barney Miller, the old judge Florence Stanley, and from Psycho Genetly,
all passing away on this date in history. Birthdays of
those who are no longer with us include etiquette advisor
Emily Post Sadly, most of the etiquette in this world
has gone away, actress Gertrude Berg, author Thomas Wolfe, author

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Gore Vidal, singer Eddie Cochrane, Alan O'Day, the man who
sang about that undercover angel, and this musician Stevie or Avon.
They have all born on this date, but they have
all left the building.

Speaker 11 (10:22):
Hi, this is Jeff Foxworthy. It is now time for
the birthday announcements. The following people are now officially older
than dirt.

Speaker 6 (10:31):
Those who are still with us include Chubby Checker.

Speaker 21 (10:35):
Right right now, it's it's it's.

Speaker 22 (10:39):
It's three o'clock or so in LA and in some
part of the world it's probably eight o'clock at night somewhere,
and people are going to go out and dance, and
they're going to be dancing Chevy Checker.

Speaker 21 (10:51):
And then three or four hours from now, in any
place that that music is played and people are dancing,
they're probably dancing Chevy Checker. I mean, the Checker effect
on music is as constant as music is.

Speaker 6 (11:05):
Solf not wrong Chubby Checker eighty four Today. Lindsey Buckingham
from Fleetwood Mac seventy six today, Al Sharpton sixty eight,
also from Melrose Place in General Hospital. Jack Wagner is
sixty six. Greg Proops from Whose Line Is It Anyway?

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Also sixty sixth day, Motley Cruz, Tommy Lee sixty three,
Missus Blake Shelton when Stefani from No Doubt fifty six
Backstreet Boys, Kevin Richardson fifty four from Party of Five.
Nev Campbell is fifty two from Game of Thrones, The
three hundred and the Purge. Lena Hedley is fifty two.

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R and B singer India Ari is fifty from Westworld.
We have Tessa Thompson forty two today, the younger sister
of Jessica Simpson Ashley Simpson forty one and from Smallville
in the Flash. Jessica Parker Kennedy also forty one, and

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she won an Emmy for the bear Ioedebrie is thirty
years old. I probably massacred that and I am so sorry.

Speaker 16 (12:21):
Though.

Speaker 6 (12:22):
Some of the people celebrating the third day of October
is their birthday. If this is your birthday, hi, We're
the four Freshmen and we just want to say have your.

Speaker 8 (12:32):
Birthday to.

Speaker 15 (12:37):
No.

Speaker 23 (12:37):
We hit to joy Old England.

Speaker 6 (12:39):
See what's going on with the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
That comes up next on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cocks.

Speaker 24 (12:56):
Can you get this cunning news back in the store?

Speaker 4 (12:58):
Can keep your money?

Speaker 8 (13:00):
Why? Yes?

Speaker 4 (13:01):
But what made you think about doing that all of.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
A sudden, Well, heck, mom, they got a big sign
in the store about it.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
They're paying real money for this used fat.

Speaker 8 (13:08):
Now.

Speaker 25 (13:09):
Yes, you may be surprised at how much dealers are
paying for used fats these days.

Speaker 8 (13:13):
It soon counts up.

Speaker 23 (13:14):
You see, used.

Speaker 11 (13:15):
Fats are still needed very much. This country and the
whole world are still.

Speaker 25 (13:18):
Short of oils for making soap and other industrial products.

Speaker 5 (13:22):
So whether you let.

Speaker 11 (13:22):
Junior keep the change or use the money to cut down.

Speaker 5 (13:25):
Your grocery bills. It pays to save every drop of
used fat.

Speaker 6 (13:29):
Classic radio Theater with Wyatt Coogs continues now with an
episode of Sherlock Holmes, John Stanley as Holmes, Alfred Shirley
as Doctor Watson. This goes back seventy seven years October three,
nineteen forty eight, and it's the Case of the Frightened Bookkeeper.

Speaker 26 (13:49):
Seven o'clock by Long Jean, the World's most honored watch
product of the Long Jean Whitnor Watch Company. Your Mutual
Station will broadcast exclusively the American League playoff game in
Boston tomorrow between the Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians.
The playoff is on the air at one fifteen pm
Eastern Standard Time. That's tomorrow afternoon at one fifteen Eastern Time.

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For the American League Playoff on your Mutual Station Now.
Sherlock Holmes, the.

Speaker 25 (14:27):
Makers of clipper Craft clothes for men at more than
twelve hundred leading retail stores from coast to coast. Presenter
Arthur Colin Doyle's immortal character, the world's most famous detective,
Sherlock Holmes, starring John Stanley. This week's adventure, The Case

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of the frightened bookkeeper.

Speaker 14 (14:57):
I recruct using my hunting cup on your hands on
to a rock obstinate, and you are wanted for murder.
I shall stop the training. We shall return to London.
I shall have the pleasure of turning you over to
Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard as a gift compliments of
mister Sharck Homes.

Speaker 25 (15:20):
Well, here we are again at the door of doctor
Watson's study, ready to hear another exciting.

Speaker 16 (15:23):
Story from the good doctor's memoirs. Ah good easing, delighted
to see you again, Doctor Watson.

Speaker 25 (15:30):
Which of your spine singling adventures with mister Holmes do we.

Speaker 16 (15:32):
Hear about tonight?

Speaker 14 (15:33):
Well, it's the case of the Frightened book given mister Harris.
It concerned the murder under fantastic circumstances.

Speaker 16 (15:40):
And it ended with the stranger's doings in the court
of law that I have ever witnessed.

Speaker 25 (15:45):
Well, Doctor, two things always amaze me, mister Holmes cases
for one, and from may.

Speaker 16 (15:51):
I venture to give the other. Fourth of your amazement
has to do with the clipper craft cloth. It certainly does.
Dr Watson.

Speaker 25 (15:59):
If you think or really fine suit should cost you
a young fortune, why You'll be glad to know you're wrong,
absolutely wrong, because you can only suit that looks like
an expensively tailored model without going haywire impossible.

Speaker 16 (16:13):
Well, just slip into a clipper Craft suit.

Speaker 25 (16:15):
Study the tailoring, examine the fabrics, don't think you can
afford it, Then glance at the price tag. No, your
eyes aren't playing you a trick. The price is only
forty or forty seven fifty. You wonder how it's done, well, listen,
more than twelve hundred of this country's finest independence stores,
from Maine to California, have combined the vast purchasing power

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to keep your budget happy. That's why you'll pay only
forty seven fifty for the handsome clipper Craft worsted suit
you'll hardly ever wear out. Try one on at the
Clippercraft's store in your community. You're barn to agree. Clippercraft's
values in suits, top coats, and sport coats are flabbergasting.
Compare clipper Craft with clothes selling for many, many dollars.

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More and now, doctor Watson, just what was the frightened
bookkeeper offraider?

Speaker 14 (17:12):
This story at there Is begins shortly after nine in
the morning on Lombard Street. The customary swarm of office
workers was dashing about, but no one was hurrying quite
as quickly as our bookkeeper, mister Humphrey Littleton. He scurried
across the street like a startled rabbit and ran into
the overseas Back he raced across the bath marble doors

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to his cubicle in the park corner. There he hastened
to hang his coat on a hook and wipe his
aspiring brow.

Speaker 16 (17:43):
Then he mounted his toes tool and opened a huge lender.

Speaker 14 (17:48):
Mister Littleton, Yes, mister Mitchon, I presume you realize that
you are late.

Speaker 16 (17:52):
Yes, mister miissnon, I'm terribly sorry. Who beat precise?

Speaker 14 (17:56):
Mister Littleton? You are eighteen minutes late?

Speaker 16 (17:58):
Yes, I believe the little did.

Speaker 14 (18:00):
This is the first time in twenty one years that you.

Speaker 16 (18:03):
Have been late. That is correctness. The MEAs the bench
is shot, I know, sir.

Speaker 14 (18:07):
I presume there is some reasonable explanation for this unpatronist parent.

Speaker 16 (18:12):
There is, sir, it's the bell. What ben If you
step to the window with me, sir, then I can
explain the window. Please.

Speaker 14 (18:18):
Oh very well, now, sir, if you will look across
the way of the crowd in front of the Merchant's building.

Speaker 16 (18:23):
What of it? It's the old bell, the bill.

Speaker 14 (18:25):
On top of the building. It didn't ring this morning,
so first time in years. And what concern is it
of yours when you see.

Speaker 16 (18:31):
Mister Basion.

Speaker 14 (18:31):
I always stopped to my breakfast down the street. I
always tie myself.

Speaker 16 (18:34):
By listening to the bell. But it didn't ring this morning,
and that's why I was late. Wait, miss ooh, I say,
what on earth have those policemen doing. It appears as
though they are carrying something, doesn't it. It's a man.
They're carrying someone out of the building on a stretcher.
An accident, no doubt. Oh see they're covering his face
with a blanket. He must be dead.

Speaker 14 (18:54):
Indeedn't they have been inspected? Lestrada startling yard out there?

Speaker 16 (18:58):
I have never met the coffee here.

Speaker 14 (19:00):
He's coming into the bank. Now we shall see what's
what and who's been killed?

Speaker 16 (19:11):
Mister Yes, missmiss.

Speaker 14 (19:13):
May, I present Inspector Lestrada's tootling John happy to make
your acquaintance, Inspector.

Speaker 16 (19:19):
How you doing, mister Lytton? You were late this morning.

Speaker 14 (19:22):
Because the bell on the top of the merchants building
failed to strike the hour of nine. Yes, missmiss inspected
Lestrad informs me that the bell did not strike because
something had fallen into the mechanisms.

Speaker 16 (19:34):
Do you know what it was? I hadn't noticed it.

Speaker 14 (19:36):
It was a dead body. It was the body of
the mister Henry Bennett. Henry, mister Bennett was murdered. You
committed the murder, mister little Why you were late because
you did not simply stop for breakfast.

Speaker 16 (19:50):
You also stopped to do away with Henry Bennett. I'm belittledent. No, no,
I didn't. You can't arrest me or inspector. Thank gone there,
I haven't gun now out of my way, or I'll
shoot you. Haven't a chance, Littleton. We'll find it. I
don't think so, Inspector. I'll take my purse.

Speaker 14 (20:07):
If you don't find don't call to your men. I
can still see you very well. If you budge or
say a.

Speaker 16 (20:12):
Word, I shall kid.

Speaker 14 (20:13):
I never thought he had anything, mister. Now we'll have
to search all London for the rascal. Stop that man,
Stop him, I say.

Speaker 7 (20:20):
I'll answered homes.

Speaker 16 (20:33):
The morning, the morning. Thems, well, that's hard.

Speaker 14 (20:37):
What information he wished to impart Aside from the fact
that you've found a cadaver in a small, inaccessible area,
that you've lost a prisoner, and that you're desperately anxious
to discuss the case.

Speaker 16 (20:46):
Homes. The inspector's hardly said a word. How do you
know what this is all about?

Speaker 14 (20:50):
He's hardly said a word, my dear Watson, but his
appearance is most eloquent.

Speaker 15 (20:53):
Is it?

Speaker 8 (20:54):
Mister?

Speaker 14 (20:55):
You've dust on the knees of your trousers and the
elbows of your coat, indicating clearly that you've been square
about in an area that's fairly accessible you find a corpse.
Since a considerable number of woolen threads are on your jacket,
they are the distinctive colored threads found on the blankets
used by the coroner when precing dead bodies in his wagons.

Speaker 16 (21:13):
Markable.

Speaker 14 (21:14):
Your confection is livid and your breathless. You have therefore
been running, surely not in haste to pay us a
social call. Rather, I should say, in pursuit of someone.
And the manner in which you're nervous it singling a
notebook inspector can only signify that you are impatient to
discuss the case. Prediscuss it in understand the term I'm
telling you this because you have been somewhat helpful on

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previous occasions, a masterpiece of understanding. I'm not asking your assistance,
It's just if you should come across anything that you'll
be brought to by attention. Now, then our information is fragmentary.
Perhaps I may imbllish it. We've found a corpse lying
across the mechanism of the gigantic bell on top of
the Merchant's building.

Speaker 16 (21:55):
On Lombard Street. Who was the dead man? A mister Henry.

Speaker 14 (21:58):
Bennett bennete Hees sign up a card on him?

Speaker 16 (22:02):
Who is he home or a petty seat?

Speaker 14 (22:04):
Tiresome record of criminal trivial and served a few short
prison terms.

Speaker 16 (22:07):
Did a Floxham on the sea of a London underworld.
Then its skull was split open.

Speaker 14 (22:11):
We found the weapon with a walking stick with a
cast iron tops.

Speaker 16 (22:15):
Of walking stick.

Speaker 14 (22:16):
We couldn't tad them where it came from, but a
girl in the crowd recognized this. He's the secretary of
the Overseas Banks. To crusted the way.

Speaker 16 (22:23):
The bank had.

Speaker 14 (22:24):
Presented the walking stick to one of his bookkeepers, a
momento of twenty years service and the bookkeeper's name Humphrey
Littleton find anything else here. There's a letter on the body,
obviously a blackmail note addressed to Humphrey Littleton.

Speaker 8 (22:37):
Four.

Speaker 14 (22:37):
The note dreams, uh it sad merchants building Tuesday morning,
bring usual payments. Be sure you keep mummy. The scrawled
in pencil wasn't signed, of course. In a eyewitness two
of his fellow employees saw Littleton.

Speaker 16 (22:53):
Leave the merchant's building. You then crossed the streets.

Speaker 14 (22:56):
And entered the bank and attempted to arrest Humphrey Littleton,
but he the stick Am I correct? The stron yes,
as the homes he banished, He took the guns from
the kassier's drawer, forced his way past us. Evidently the
little bookkeeper was tired of being blackmailed by Bennett, so
he did away with him. As how does the body
get into the mechanism of the bell instead of the
down I Littleson met his man in the building this morning,

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struck him on the head, killing him instantly dragged the
body to the roof. He intended to push it off,
so we'd believe Bennett had fallen or committed suicide.

Speaker 16 (23:26):
And that's all very well. But you see, I'm coming
to that doctor Watson.

Speaker 14 (23:30):
The killer must have been startled by a noise and
believed he was about to be caught seen by someone
on the roof a chimney, sweet fat as the trap
door on the roof at least of the bell. Littleman
must have dropped him there when he became afraid, lest
he wouldn't have time to push him off the roof
anything further he wished to stay for strant. Oh no, no,
honest the offer. I don't suppose you'll have occasion to

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do so as the home, but if you should come
across the crew as the whereabout of Littleton, you might
tell the odds the strong. I need the solution of
this case entirely in your capable hand. It will rest
well there, mister hum, I've no doubt for a time.
Good morning, Good morning God were confounded homes. You're not

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just going to sit there while Inspectora's drums steal the
march on you. Oh bit of it, my dear Watson.
I'm merely giving him time to lead the moment he's
sufficient to cart away, We're off to the overseas bank.
We shall see if we come to low case. Mister Humphrey,
Littleton and the frightened bookkeeper. Perhaps we may shake saws
on the tail of this bird who's flown the cave.

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This is the photograph of mister Littleton, mister.

Speaker 16 (24:39):
Holmes from mar files as miss Mason. And this is
a cage where he works. Yes, doctor Watson has said, Holmes,
what are you doing crawling about on the floor?

Speaker 14 (24:49):
Mister man When he made his escape, you say, he
sees the revolver from.

Speaker 16 (24:52):
The drawer, then his coat hanging on that hook, and
then left the bank. Exactly. I don't know how an
earthy lever would be found in all of London. Ah,
a hunting hell.

Speaker 14 (25:01):
This pink pill, it's roll under the desk, and this
microscopic bit of green paper. Note the geometric design of
the paper. Both items are most informative.

Speaker 23 (25:11):
Two green papers.

Speaker 14 (25:12):
That copy of the Evening Star on the death Watson says, oh, her,
you find a pill.

Speaker 16 (25:16):
And then you want to read the newspaper? What are
you up to the homes? Huh? There we are this
stage m hm. Excellent, come Watson, mister Mason.

Speaker 14 (25:27):
We shall have the killer in a jiffy. But no time,
no time, Good morning, mister Mason. Yes, where we are
to homes Victoria Station as quickly as a Campbell carriers.
And why may I ask the cause, my dear Watson.
It's there we shall find mister Humphy Littleton. If they're
not too late. We shall find him with the aid
of this pink pill and the geometrically designed speck.

Speaker 16 (25:46):
Of green paper.

Speaker 14 (25:56):
The most fortunate Watson to train mister Littleton has chosen
for his departure to the continent, is still here in
the stiion, come along.

Speaker 16 (26:03):
I've searched his tickets for its we report it. What train?
How do you know all this?

Speaker 14 (26:07):
The answer is the pink pill I discovered in his
cage at the bank. I recognize it immediately. Its mate
is missing the pink pill and the brown pill ingredients
a form of utile alcohol, hyocine, bromide and caffeine, more
commonly known as sea sick pills. I've seen the pill
pails from Littleton's pocket when he lifted his coat from
the hook pill by George, he was preparing for a

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sea voyage. Positively brilliant by dear Watson. Yes, our bookkeeper
was prepared to post from the clutches of his blackmailer
to abandoned his position at the bank he was preparing
for sea voyage, timid soul that he is by securing
pills the skate Watson, all right, but why did you
read the Evening Star to examine the camel sections? Got
a single passengership sails today for a part off pot

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that are simply the regular daily sailing across the channel
to front. Of course, I had to fortify this clue
with more tangible evidence. The particle of green paper easily identifiable.
It is a familiar green paper utilized for the printing
of railway tickets. As for the meat pattern of it,
it was definitely the portion punched out by the ticket seller.
The railways maintain an infallible system of tracing those punch

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marks buttons. Each punch has a peculiar design of its own.
I was quite correct in surmising that Littleton was headed
across the channels via Victoria Station his tickets for the
train to Dover. The train we're about to board, cherry
of this compartment, said the agent. Sen I say, Holmes,
do you expect the killer in this compartment?

Speaker 23 (27:32):
Yes?

Speaker 14 (27:32):
I realize it emptly now, but he've arrives most assuredly.
All right, stepping on the step in.

Speaker 16 (27:36):
Thank you, Oh by the bye. While I was waiting
at the gate.

Speaker 14 (27:41):
Eye glances and newspaper homes. There's a knight of about
this crime. The eminent counselor, mister Francis Ridgeway, upon being
informed of it, has volunteered to defend litism without a fee.

Speaker 16 (27:52):
Really, you know this is an extremely dangerous method of dealing.

Speaker 23 (27:56):
With the killer.

Speaker 16 (27:58):
My homes were leaving and here in the board. You
must have made an error in your deduction.

Speaker 14 (28:02):
Impossible, we're moving, Yes, when someone's out there trying to
jump on open the door up right, Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 16 (28:12):
I thought I'd never make it. Are you gentlemen going
to Dover?

Speaker 20 (28:18):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (28:19):
And you to Dover then the tetnel steamer.

Speaker 14 (28:23):
Well, since we have a journey of two hours together,
perhaps we should introduce ourselves.

Speaker 16 (28:28):
This is doctor John Watson. How do you know? My
name is Shumack Holmes. What is your name, sir? What
is your name? Time Buckley, George B. I beg your pardon.
Your name is Humpter.

Speaker 14 (28:43):
Littleton and you want it in London for committing murder?

Speaker 16 (28:57):
Well, Dr Watson.

Speaker 25 (28:58):
Mister Holmes was brazenly in fighting disaster in challenging.

Speaker 16 (29:01):
The arm killer, wasn't he? Ah? He certainly was as
dea headed.

Speaker 14 (29:05):
But at this point I've an invitation for you concerning
a much more pleasant copy.

Speaker 16 (29:11):
Won't you tell us more about Clippercrafts clothes weill? I
accept the invitation gladly. Doctor.

Speaker 25 (29:17):
One of these days, you're going to walk into the
Clippercrafts store in your community and walk out wearing a
happy smile and a handsome suit by Clippercraft. You'll pay
only forty or forty seven fifty, depending on your choice,
but you'll deserve all the admiration your friends will voice,
because yours will be an investment in one of America's
greatest clothing values. Yes, clipper Craft is just about the

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finest clothing value America can offer you. You see, more
than twelve hundred fine stores from coast to coast have
concentrated their enormous buying power to really put the brakes
on your high.

Speaker 16 (29:51):
Cost of living.

Speaker 25 (29:52):
Why, it's clear as daylight that a project of Clippercraft's
code keeps Clippercraft's great tailoring plants operating at full speed
the a full year round.

Speaker 16 (30:01):
You get the savings. This money saving plan makes possible.

Speaker 25 (30:05):
Yes, Clippercraft suits are phenomenal values at only forty and
forty seven fifty. That's why men who know insist on
clipper Craft clothes. So be sure to visit the clipper
Craft store in your city.

Speaker 27 (30:19):
These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
add their names to Clippercraft and your suits, top coats
and sports jackets. In Manhattan, John wanna make a men's
stores Broadway at eighth and sixty seven Liberty Street, Sachs,
thirty fourth Broadway at thirty fourth in Brooklyn, Abraham and
Strauss in Newark, New Jersey Boulevard Men's Shop, Presley Ewarck,

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And in Jamaica the B and B Clothes Shop, one
sixty four oh eight Jamaica Avenue.

Speaker 14 (30:53):
Now shall we return to the frightened booking on as
the heads?

Speaker 16 (30:56):
We can't return to that train fast enough for me,
Doctor Watson.

Speaker 14 (31:05):
Well, you remember that Holmes and I were in the
compartment of the Dover train face to face with Humphrey Littleton,
the murderer.

Speaker 16 (31:13):
Holmes had just identified him. What makes you think that
I'm Littleton?

Speaker 14 (31:18):
Because you answer one question, sir, would you leave this
train and return to London in our custerday, or.

Speaker 16 (31:23):
You choose to be stopporn. I'll not return to London.
I'll take that for barber. Mister Littleton, you'll not take
me back.

Speaker 14 (31:27):
I repeat, you're about No, you're behaving like an idiot.
London's most brilliant criminal attorney, mister Francis Bridgway, has announced
he will defend you greatest.

Speaker 16 (31:37):
He has never lost the case. You've an excellent chance. No, No,
I won't, I won't.

Speaker 14 (31:43):
Oh, don't be sidy man. You've no possible avenue of
his cape. Scott and Yard are surely telegraphed.

Speaker 16 (31:47):
The French surinty.

Speaker 14 (31:48):
I'm waiting, mister Littleton. Turn Once I saw rendered to you,
I'm finished.

Speaker 16 (31:53):
I'd rather kill both of you.

Speaker 14 (31:54):
Once you're out of the way, I can jump.

Speaker 16 (31:55):
Off the train.

Speaker 14 (31:56):
And then what dashing from village to village?

Speaker 16 (31:57):
How long can you hide out on the downs like
a stricken anim shunt widen. My mind is made of
I'll take my chances very well if you insist them.
It missed, it's gone, and I haven't home.

Speaker 14 (32:10):
I resgrect the necessity of using my hunting crop on
your hand, mister Littleton.

Speaker 16 (32:13):
But you are rather obstinately.

Speaker 14 (32:15):
I shall stop the train and we shall return to London.
There I shall have the pleasure of turning you over
to inspect the astrand as a gift with the compliments
of mister Shellock home. While Holmes the morning newspaper say

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that Littleton is safely locked in prisons, I must say,
you handle that case with a dnating speed. I've hardly
even a time to catch my breath, and it's over.

Speaker 16 (32:48):
It's not over.

Speaker 14 (32:49):
What's what do you mean it isn't over, I'd say
from the moment the murder was committed, events.

Speaker 16 (32:55):
Moved with a relentless logic and hardly employed the word logic,
my dear wants.

Speaker 14 (32:58):
And that's what disturbed me. So hurry finish a breakfast.
We're off to the merchants buildings. But why Holmes to
visit mister Francis Ridgeway Council for Lyttleton's defense. Why to
ascertain how he plans to defend the bookkeeper. But it
should be a simple, speedy trial, shouldn't it.

Speaker 28 (33:13):
Perhaps I'm delighted that you've dropped in here to my office,
mister Holmes and doctor Watts.

Speaker 16 (33:24):
Oh thank you. As the Ridway. It is an incredibly
exclusive office.

Speaker 14 (33:28):
Those draperies, magnificent drugs, most striking, don't you agree, Holmes?

Speaker 16 (33:34):
Yes, yes, quite.

Speaker 14 (33:36):
May I ask mister Ridgway, what sort of defense you
plan for Humphy Littleton.

Speaker 28 (33:40):
Well, there isn't a scrap of evidence on his behalf,
mister Holmes, and he admits he was being blackmailed by
the dead man. You see, Littleton once needed money desperately
for his wife were with ill. He took some from
the bank and juggled his books to cover up. Thennett
knew about it. But Littleton denies committing the murder, said
he was.

Speaker 14 (33:57):
Never on the roof of the merchant's buildings, said his
walking stick was stolen.

Speaker 16 (34:01):
From his plattt. No one will believe him. I'm afraid.
I don't suppose you've learned anything that would help me,
have you?

Speaker 14 (34:08):
No, I had not to make matters worse. He bought
that ticket to front. He claimed he wanted to chuck
his position and run away just to avoid the blackmailer.
But the jury will interpret it as a plan for
escaping after committing murder. Oh, I feel painters tarring a
picture as I can of the miserable creature hounded by
a petty thief.

Speaker 16 (34:26):
He he became fed up. That's about all.

Speaker 14 (34:28):
I shall fight every inch of the way, but confidentially,
this may be the first case I've ever learnt.

Speaker 16 (34:41):
It's two in the morning, and where the dickens.

Speaker 5 (34:43):
Have you've been?

Speaker 14 (34:44):
I couldn't wait for you to return from a hospital, Watson.
My mission was urgent as but where were you. I've
been searching for evidence that might interest was the ridgeway
or did you go on this urgent mission carrying that
pair of shoes under your arm? I did not start
out on the mission that way. No, really, you do
perform the most extraordinary antics. Why the the trial against tomorrow?
You mean you've got something that might acquit the bookkeeper?

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The grim fesselation of a trial for homicide? Watch because
that the results almost unpredictable.

Speaker 16 (35:22):
I last I lost the car.

Speaker 14 (35:26):
Here you are held two seats. There's business in the
doc sum and fences with you in the park corner.
The talk of ther size is about to read. The
indictment of the journey, gentle enough.

Speaker 16 (35:34):
The journey.

Speaker 29 (35:36):
The prisoner at the bar, Humphry little Time is indicted
and the charge against him is murdered upon this indictment.

Speaker 16 (35:44):
He has been arranged.

Speaker 29 (35:46):
Upon his arraignment, he has pleaded that he is not
guilty and has put himself upon his country.

Speaker 16 (35:52):
With country you are. It is for you to inquire
whether he be guilty or not, and will hearken to
the evidence.

Speaker 29 (36:01):
The ground God is that on the morning of July nineteen,
Henry Bennett was ruthlessly attacked and died instantaneously when he
was struck up on the skoll.

Speaker 16 (36:12):
Mister Francis Ridgeway.

Speaker 14 (36:17):
Mister Holmes, what is the reason for these disturbance?

Speaker 16 (36:22):
May appeace your lordship. Gentlemen of the jury.

Speaker 14 (36:25):
Henry Bennett was not murdered by Humphy Littleton, the prisoner
of the dock, but by mister Francis Bridgeway.

Speaker 16 (36:30):
Councils for the defense may teach your lodghip.

Speaker 14 (36:35):
I do not know why mister Holmes has chosen to
interject this fantastical mister mister who Mi lord, you haven't
many previous occasions.

Speaker 16 (36:45):
Made a substantial contribution to the enforcement of law and honor.
Will entertain I protest your lodghip, mister Holmes, tell them,
tell them I didn't do it.

Speaker 7 (36:55):
I didn't God help me?

Speaker 23 (36:57):
I don't.

Speaker 15 (37:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (37:01):
The course will entertain the statement by mister Curler.

Speaker 16 (37:05):
Come, mister Ridgway, It.

Speaker 14 (37:10):
Originally struck me as curious that the consul possessing your
perfect records should volunteer for a case so obviously doomed
to defeat.

Speaker 16 (37:19):
Could it have been that you wanted to have the
case because you wanted to lose it? Idle speculation.

Speaker 14 (37:25):
I visited your office to develop my theory, Doctor Watson.
Admired your draperies, but I noticed a black spot on
your rug.

Speaker 16 (37:33):
It was tar. Although you may have vigorously cleaned.

Speaker 14 (37:36):
The remainder of your office, you'll neglected to remove that
one second for gone, Home's gone. Where did the tar
come from, mister Ridgeway, Well, the murder was committed on
an extremely hot day on the roof of the merchants building.
The tar melted. It came off on your shoes. After
killing Bennett on the roof, you returned to your office,
soiling your rug. Preposterous conjecture on your past. Last night,

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I was on the roof of.

Speaker 16 (37:58):
The Merchant's building.

Speaker 14 (37:59):
I made plaster crusts of the killer's footprints. I then
paid a midnight visit to your deserted office, mister Ridgeway,
I found a pair of your shoes in a closet.
The crust, which I'm prepared to submit as evidence, match.

Speaker 28 (38:14):
Your foot prints perfectly, inconclusive evidence, utterly inconclusive.

Speaker 14 (38:17):
In addition, in addition, I took a sample of the
tar from that same roof and compared it with a
sample from the tar on your rug.

Speaker 16 (38:24):
Now I have here a report.

Speaker 14 (38:26):
Based on experimentation at home to be affected. Both samples
match perfectly in chemical content. PROFI demand proof, sir, that
I actually committed the murder, and you shall have it.
There is a young gentleman waiting outside of my request.
His name is Bob Dexter. What is most important about
this young gentleman, however, is not his name. It is
his occupation, mister Dexter, is a chimney sweek. My friend

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in specula strad thesis was correct. There was a noise
that startled the killer.

Speaker 16 (38:53):
It was a.

Speaker 14 (38:54):
Chimneysweek, mister you witness. Now, in a moment, my lord,
I made inquiries. I found this young gentleman at his
home and stepped me. I persuaded him that accepting your
brides to keep silent, mister Ridgway, was a disgraceful crime.
He is prepared to testify that he overheard your angry
conversation with Bennet upon the roof.

Speaker 16 (39:14):
After her what wro with subject of the count mid Odd.
The conversation revealed that while.

Speaker 14 (39:20):
Bennett was in prison, he secured information from his fellow prisoners,
from your victims, Mister Ridgeway, your gifts who served while
your clients was cut free once released. Bennett's patiently gammoned,
canceled checks, no photograph, overwhelming evidence about your career. Your
brilliant career was founded upon a tissue of lives, primary forgery, coercions.

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You invited Bennett to the building to purchase his collection,
but you killed him with Littleton's walking sticks, with Jude
stolen to be sure.

Speaker 16 (39:49):
The evidence pointed to the helpless bookkeeper. Now shall we call.

Speaker 14 (39:55):
Mister Dexter who saw you do away with Bennett?

Speaker 16 (40:00):
Please, your lordship, I should like to make a request.
Oh see, mister Ridgway.

Speaker 28 (40:05):
I moved that the indictment against mister Humphrey Littleton was
stricken from the record and a new indictment be drawn
up by the grand jury charging the murder of Henry Bennett,
mister Francis Ridgeway.

Speaker 14 (40:28):
By Jeromes, Now that you're relaxed in your chair with
your pipe, you must take the time to tell me
precisely what.

Speaker 16 (40:33):
Did happen on the morning of the murder.

Speaker 14 (40:35):
I confess, I'm still a bid puzzled, and it's pinsly obvious, Watson.
Bennett was blackmailing both the bookkeeper and mister Ridgway. Ridgeway
knew it, Littleton didn't. Bridgeway sent a message to the
bookkeeper enticing him to the merchants building that morning. He'd
previously stolen the walking stick, I say, but before the
bookkeeper was due to a rhyme, Ridgeway killed Bennett with

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Littleton's walking sticks. Then Littleton came along innocently announced, expecting
me only to make his regular insignificant payment to Bennett.
He saw a crowd, became frightened and dashed off to
work at the bank where I'm still amazed at how
you arrived at the proper solution, confounded Homes, how do
you do these things? Elementary, my dear Watson, Elementary, special

(41:30):
doctor Watson. The case of the frightened bookkeeper was really
very surprising I'm sure you've an equally startling adventure plan
for next week.

Speaker 16 (41:38):
The hell as I have.

Speaker 14 (41:39):
It's called the Adventure of the Guy Fox Society, a
secret count whose membership consisted entirely of phonetics, devoted to
one of the most horrible purposes imaginable. Of course, nothing
on earth could keep homes from joining the society.

Speaker 16 (41:56):
As well, Doctor Watson.

Speaker 25 (41:57):
We shall be standing impatiently at the door of your
studied week for the Adventure of the Guy Fark Society.
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(42:20):
Sherlock Holmes. Our stories are based upon the character Sherlock Holmes,
created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the program is
produced and directed by Basil Luckman. Sherlock Holmes is played
by John Stanley, Doctor Watson by Ian Martin. This week's

(42:41):
story was written by Howard Merrill, with special music by
Albert Berman. If you don't know your Clippercraft dealer right,
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(43:05):
to listen next week to Sherlock Holmes.

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Speaker 6 (43:55):
I am absolutely embarrassed. I should have the wont checked,
but Miss Shirley is not on the scripts for this show,
and I just glanced at everything and came to an
assumption that Alfred Shirley was doing Watson and he didn't.

(44:19):
It was Ian Martin. So yes, we salute Ian Martin
as a doctor Watson in this episode of the Adventures
of Sherlock Home seventy seven years ago October third, nineteen
forty eight. In a moment, We're going to hear another
show from that night at the Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective.

Speaker 31 (44:45):
Millions, and Europe and Asia are going hungry and facing
actual starvation. Therefore, it's up to us, the best fed
nation in the world, to tighten our belts. We can
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Speaker 5 (44:57):
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Speaker 11 (45:06):
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Speaker 31 (45:07):
At the food store, Proptly flat a garden, and raise
as much of your family's food as you can. You
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when you buy less, especially when you use up those leftovers.

Speaker 6 (45:20):
Let's take a quick moment to look at the news
headlines from Sunday, October third, nineteen forty eight. A course,
there were still concerns making sure that Europe had plenty
to eat. Curtain dropping on the tumultuous second act of
the nineteen forty eight political thriller As a Republican nominee,
Thomas E. Dewey heading homeward to Albany after his trans

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continental campaign trip. President Truman, the Democrat nominee, got back
to Washington from his own speaking tour to the Pacific coast.
Harold Ikey's, the veteran new dealer who resigned from the
cabinet in a hub in February of nineteen forty six,
going to call on President Truman tomorrow. Purpose of the
call not known, It was reported the former Interior Secretary,

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who served thirteen years under Presidents Truman and Roosevelt, had
requested the appointment. He will see Truman tomorrow afternoon. Bill
Marshall Montgomery gave General Eisenhower more worry than any other
individual in the entire Atlantic Allied Command. That in the
opinion of Eisenhower's wartime personal secretary and aid K Somersby,

(46:26):
the former Whack captain sets down sharp criticism her own
and others of the British hero of Rommel's Desert campaign
in an intimate volume of her war experiences and impressions
published by Prentice Hall tomorrow. Russia changed signals unexpectedly yesterday
and demanded the UN ban the atomic momb and set

(46:47):
up atomic energy controls at the same time, sobey Union
those still insisting upon veto power over the control machinery. Meanwhile,
Marshall Basileski d Sklovski, the Soviet commander in Germany, declared
yesterday Russia is willing to resume talks on the Berlin crisis.
He added, a practical solution rests solely on the desire

(47:09):
of the US, Britain and France to achieve a settlement.
And though some of the stories from the newspapers. On Sunday,
October third, nineteen forty eight, let me take just a
quick pause here, and then we will get to our
good friend, Who else but Sam Spade Detective.

Speaker 23 (47:37):
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Now to Howard Duff portraying Nashal Hammett's Sam Spade in
the Adventures of Sam Spade to also from seventy seven
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Speaker 33 (48:30):
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Speaker 34 (48:40):
Why didn't you take it?

Speaker 11 (48:41):
Oh?

Speaker 34 (48:42):
But you couldn't have called that's right, angel taxes. Oh
you mean it would put you in a bracket.

Speaker 5 (48:47):
The colonel's name, in case you were going to ask,
was sugarcane?

Speaker 15 (48:50):
Was she sweet?

Speaker 23 (48:52):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (48:52):
F a few minutes joke, Not much of one, though.

Speaker 16 (48:55):
That is true.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
But even though you do seem to me as you
would say in a jugular vein, I shall be right down,
serious and frowning to dictate a chronic goes steep in
the bitter tea of general confusion, brood in a witch's
caldron of murder, green and apharice.

Speaker 5 (49:10):
That's what gives it that nutty flavor.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
What silly girl, I refer to the sugar cane caper,
on which I will forth with my report be dona
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Speaker 23 (49:21):
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Speaker 33 (50:44):
Hello Sam, Hi Sam, You are so lugubrious over the
phone sometimes just so you're calling tonight?

Speaker 35 (50:51):
What amaya?

Speaker 1 (50:52):
When lugubrious tonight?

Speaker 5 (50:55):
Just bowling over you were possibly mean? I'm being lush
with my Verbie.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Well, that's because I've been at work in the environs
of snob Hill, where they never used one word if
twelve will do?

Speaker 5 (51:09):
Are you ready for the dictation? I guess it is.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
I planned to be most amusing tonight already I am yet.
Look I haven't even started. Oh really, I haven't. All
right now, pencil date Allen should have as an audience date.
October third, nineteen forty eight to Clifton Kavanaugh, esquire down
Eye from Samuel's Fate, last number one, three, seven, five,

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nine six, subject the sugar Cane cap on Thursday last
at eleven am, as I waited for the traffic signal
so that I might legally cross Powell Straight in order
to board a cable car, a cat rubbed up against
my leg. I leaned over the strugget and noticed that
it had six toes. I wondered if that meant anything.

Speaker 5 (51:55):
It didn't.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Most knob Hill addresses don't mean much anymore.

Speaker 5 (52:00):
Are but yours still does. The house was big, hideous
and reassuring. Oh are you from pepper Snow? Uh No,
I'm in business for myself, mister Kavanaugh in.

Speaker 8 (52:14):
Oh, I'm come on in.

Speaker 36 (52:16):
I can't understand what happened to that boy from Pepper Snow. Oh,
pardon me if I seem a little hungover.

Speaker 5 (52:23):
Gladly, but can you ever forgive yourself?

Speaker 16 (52:26):
I like you.

Speaker 5 (52:27):
You got a sense of humor.

Speaker 8 (52:29):
You'll need it.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
You are trying to tell me you don't approve of
mister Kavanaugh.

Speaker 35 (52:32):
That perfume coththead?

Speaker 5 (52:34):
What did he do to you?

Speaker 9 (52:35):
He married my mother?

Speaker 2 (52:36):
Oh stepfather? Yeah, I'm Fred Blair Spades my name? Where
do I find him?

Speaker 9 (52:43):
Detective check?

Speaker 5 (52:45):
I'll give you a clue. Look behind you, I did.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
I turned and found myself looking straight into your handsome face.
You looked several years younger than your step son, with
regular aquillent features, dark, widely spaced eyes, and blue black hair. Well,
so you're the notorious Sam's Pain. Well, I don't want
to see modest come into the conservatory. There's just the
barest chance that we will not be overheard.

Speaker 23 (53:10):
To go.

Speaker 8 (53:13):
There.

Speaker 9 (53:14):
Sit down?

Speaker 5 (53:17):
What's your problem, mister Kavanaugh? Problem?

Speaker 2 (53:19):
Indeed, problems plural, starting with that junior grade lush that
called you at the door.

Speaker 5 (53:24):
He's very fond of you too.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Why you can't imagine what a trial that boy has
been to me both the children. For some reason, the
Fred nor his sister Eunus ever quite accepted me as
their father.

Speaker 5 (53:33):
You don't say, I suppose my youth.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
Counted against me. I think they misinterpreted my motives. When
any man marries a wealthy widow twice his age, Yeah,
why did you sand for me, mister Kavanaugh. But it
all started several months back before my wife their mother.

Speaker 9 (53:51):
Where was I oh died? The scandal quite literally.

Speaker 5 (53:56):
Killed her, you're sure of that's what did the trick.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
Fred Uh, among other talents, was a positive genius for
knowing the wrong sort of people, struck up an acquaintance
with a hoodlum named Johnny Verona Nice crane cut gangs.
The drive runs a joint on preservic straight precisely with
a positively hysterical name of the subtropical well. There was
a sordid brawl of some sort of man shot obviously,

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this Johnny Verona shot him.

Speaker 9 (54:20):
Fred had to give testimony before the grand jury. It
was all we could do to keep it out of
the paper.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
But you then no old eleanor my wife that is,
Uh dropped dead when the butler brought in the chronicle.

Speaker 9 (54:32):
But the worst was yet to comes.

Speaker 5 (54:34):
Well, Uh, don't keep me hanging, cliff er.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
Well, Fred continued to frequent this bistrol, this dive of
aronis I understand. I believe the bait is a toothsome
little teaser with the unlikely name of sugar Cae.

Speaker 5 (54:49):
She likes Fred.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
No woman in her right mind would look twice at
that idiot, even if he were twice as rich and
only half.

Speaker 9 (54:54):
A sodden Then uh where was I?

Speaker 16 (54:58):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (54:58):
Yes, this this Verona.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
Person came here several times on the pretext of pouring
Fred through the front door, and thereby be met my
stepdaughter Eunie. Well, that's a very interesting story, mister Kavanaugh. Now, uh,
maybe you'll tell me what you want to detect it for.
Because my stepdaughter has brazenly informed me that she intends
to marry this gangster. I want you to help me
prevent that marriage. I don't see, don't see what. I

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don't see how I can.

Speaker 9 (55:25):
Perhaps I didn't make myself clear.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
When Verona was arrested for that shooting in his club,
Fred didn't tell the grand jury all he knew. Now,
if you could prove that Varona is guilty, then we'd
be rid of him for good?

Speaker 5 (55:36):
Is it? Varoni? You want to get rid of your stepson?
Good Lord? You don't.

Speaker 9 (55:40):
You don't think Fred did it?

Speaker 23 (55:41):
Do you quite?

Speaker 16 (55:42):
No?

Speaker 5 (55:42):
Of course not? Okay?

Speaker 2 (55:43):
Supposing Verona did it, then Fred goes up in a
persery wrap maybe accessory.

Speaker 9 (55:48):
Oh well, I have no overwhelming desire to injure Fred.

Speaker 5 (55:53):
Why don't you tell me what?

Speaker 23 (55:54):
You have?

Speaker 5 (55:54):
An overwhelming desire for her?

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Under the terms of her mother's will, Eunus will inherit
three million dollars she marries.

Speaker 5 (56:02):
When when?

Speaker 15 (56:04):
What?

Speaker 5 (56:05):
When do I meet her?

Speaker 9 (56:06):
The serious man?

Speaker 2 (56:08):
Now, I will pay Verona fifty thousand dollars in cash
if he'll stay away from that? Would you take fifty
grand as the playoff in a three million dollar caper?

Speaker 9 (56:16):
In this instance? Yes, Unus is not very well.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
And you may quote me on that book, chapter and
verse two, Johnny Verona two, Johnny Verona. Okay, what's mighty
cold this time of the year at the bottom of
the bay. But if you don't care, I don't thank you.

Speaker 9 (56:30):
Let me know how it comes out.

Speaker 5 (56:31):
Don't give it a second thought. You don't know. Don't
get out, mister Kavanaugh. I know the way out. It's
page wait up, Well, you're like a little bett.

Speaker 35 (56:42):
Listen.

Speaker 36 (56:42):
It's something you are to know. He was my sister's
boyfriend before he married my mother. He did it out
of revenge because you and to threw him over. He
still wants to.

Speaker 5 (56:49):
Marry her any particular reason.

Speaker 36 (56:51):
Oh, my mother put that crazy marriage cause in her will.
He's been systematically getting rid of every man who's been
interested in her bottom off, threatened them off anyway you
could why. He thinks yunis will eventually marry him to
get her inheritance, but she won't do You're killing first,
and if she doesn't.

Speaker 8 (57:07):
I'll do it for her.

Speaker 37 (57:08):
Huh.

Speaker 5 (57:09):
Well yeah, Fred, what on earth are you saying?

Speaker 38 (57:12):
Who is this man?

Speaker 5 (57:13):
Well he's the detective Sam Spade. Your unis black.

Speaker 34 (57:16):
Yes, I want to talk to you, Fred, go and yeah,
see you later.

Speaker 16 (57:20):
Spade.

Speaker 34 (57:23):
I know why my stepfather hired you. Mister Spade. If
you need the money, go ahead, but this time it
won't work.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
You look as if you'd like the band nice girl.
How did you happen to settle for a cheap drift
like Johnny Verona?

Speaker 34 (57:34):
Because we understand each other and he can't be scared.

Speaker 5 (57:36):
Off any message. I can take him from you.

Speaker 34 (57:39):
Tell Johnny I'll meet him at the usual place and
tell him I still like my coffee black, no sugar.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
I didn't ask her what kind of sugar. She didn't
want any over, I thought I knew the only thing
wrong with the Sugarcane's dance was her dancing. But the
customers didn't see the mind and I didn't either. It
was a pleasure to size her up carefully, as I

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would have felt obliged to them anyway in my professional capacity.
She was a black head number with accle intraces and
widely spaced dark eyes. It was a beautiful combination, and
I wondered where I'd seen it before. Quite recently, I
decided to find out.

Speaker 39 (58:40):
Hey, what's the idea of barging in here? Asking me,
can't you see the sign on the door?

Speaker 5 (58:44):
No customers in the ad resting, un Let's go someplace else.
I want to talk to you. He did, take it easy.
This is sign's business.

Speaker 40 (58:50):
Don't pick it up with the balls, Johnie, Yeah, sure,
what's the matter?

Speaker 11 (58:55):
Is Joe giving you trouble?

Speaker 39 (58:56):
I tailed here after me to cheap masher on the
pretext of this costing.

Speaker 40 (59:00):
Business affairs Okay, come on him back. Well, sorry, I
had to get that bum's rush rooky. I don't want
to get her excited. She's a nice kid and she
doesn't know why you're here.

Speaker 5 (59:13):
I take it you do. Yeah, Unus called me and
told me you'd be down.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
Okay, Johnny, I'll give it to you fast and get out.
Clifton Kavanaugh will pay you fifty grand to leave Eunice alone.
He also made a few idle or not so idle
threats about what might happen to her if you don't
take his money. For example, he said she hasn't been
feeling well, might not live long enough to get married.
I don't have to tell you what I think about
that kind of talk, and I wouldn't be peddling it
if my office rent wasn't due. That's why when you

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started giving me that bums rush, I made only, shall
we say, a token resistance?

Speaker 40 (59:44):
Yeah about me Mary and Eunice. You can tell Clifton
to stop worrying. Yeah, Eunice and I got married three
weeks ago.

Speaker 5 (59:52):
You what married? How do you want to see the papers?
By the secrecy?

Speaker 9 (59:58):
I don't want it to get hurt.

Speaker 5 (01:00:00):
You're scared of Clifton.

Speaker 40 (01:00:02):
Nah, Sugar, she's got a very little boiling point. She's
oh her pardner, Yeah, yan Nick, what it is?

Speaker 23 (01:00:12):
Go ahead?

Speaker 8 (01:00:14):
Yeah, I heard you.

Speaker 40 (01:00:15):
No, No, don't touch anything, don't let anybody.

Speaker 8 (01:00:18):
I'll be right over.

Speaker 5 (01:00:19):
Bad news.

Speaker 40 (01:00:20):
Yeah, Eunice she's dead.

Speaker 35 (01:00:23):
Oh uh.

Speaker 40 (01:00:24):
One of my boys found her my apartment. She was
supposed to wait for me there.

Speaker 5 (01:00:28):
How did it happen?

Speaker 40 (01:00:29):
He's not sure.

Speaker 20 (01:00:31):
He thinks she took poison.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
I had to give Johnny Verona one thing. She didn't
make any pretense about being grief stricken. And after Ralli
just inherited three million bucks. Sugar Kane to I got
standing out too, but she just lost the rival and
got her man back three million bucks richer. I wasn't
with you when you got the nurse, mister Kavanaugh. But
the one I really wanted about was Eunice's brother Fred.

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But brought that on was something I picked up and
Johnny Verona's apart where we find Unison's body sprawled out
over a tray of coffee things. There was a medicine
bottle with a doctor's prescription number on the label, the
name of the Druggists that.

Speaker 5 (01:01:09):
Had put it up was Fefish.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
Now, I remember what Fred had said to me when
he admitted me to your house that afternoon.

Speaker 9 (01:01:14):
Quote, I you a man from Fefish snows.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
I wanted if I had answered yes, would unus.

Speaker 5 (01:01:20):
Still be alive?

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to the sugar cane Caper to Night's adventure with Sam Spae.
The Morning Papers didn't carry anything new on Unus's death.
Cause was put down and went overdose of a toxic drug.
The doctor who prescribed that said she'd requested it the

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migraine headaches, which she suggested might have driven her a suicide.

Speaker 5 (01:03:24):
He did not explain why she had taken four.

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
Doses in capsule form and dissolved the rest of it
under the counter of coffee. I thought somebody else had
dosed the coffee, and so did you, mister Kavanaugh.

Speaker 9 (01:03:37):
Verona did it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
Of course he knew she was taking those pills and
dosed the coffee just enough to be fatal and added
to what she took voluntarily. You knew all I had too,
so did Gray, But you had more reasons, three million more.
Thought they were already married, you know, that when you
hired me. Yes, and how come I knew she was
planning to do away with herself. I thought if we
could put it on Verona. After all, he's guilty of

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that old murder. It's a witness to that.

Speaker 9 (01:04:01):
Well, if you were convicted, the money would re wurt
to me.

Speaker 23 (01:04:03):
Nuts.

Speaker 5 (01:04:04):
You don't believe me she wasn't planning suicide and.

Speaker 35 (01:04:06):
You know it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
Well then I don't care who takes the fall. But
I got less on Verona than I got on you,
and I'll give you something.

Speaker 9 (01:04:16):
Yeah, take a look.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
Barona's lawyer sent this around before her body was cold.
Acclaim for three million dollars notarized yesterday while Eunus was
still alive.

Speaker 9 (01:04:27):
Well, mister Spade, pardon.

Speaker 5 (01:04:29):
Me when I dropped dead.

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
You did and waited hopefully, But I managed to stay
on my feet. I even managed to make it down
the hall of the bar where I found your steps on,
ambushed behind a row of empty bottles.

Speaker 36 (01:04:45):
Find the chective you turn out to be, I warned
you set up like a man, Sorr.

Speaker 38 (01:04:52):
I'll take on.

Speaker 5 (01:04:53):
Come on sober, it makes sense.

Speaker 38 (01:04:54):
Where's my drenk who drugged my glass?

Speaker 2 (01:04:57):
Here it is?

Speaker 5 (01:04:58):
Give me it sure, you kill it?

Speaker 35 (01:05:03):
Oh my shirt.

Speaker 5 (01:05:04):
Listen to me. This is very important important.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
You were expecting a delivery from a drug store when
I arrived there yesterday morning.

Speaker 23 (01:05:09):
Who ordered it?

Speaker 15 (01:05:10):
She?

Speaker 10 (01:05:11):
Did?

Speaker 15 (01:05:12):
You know?

Speaker 5 (01:05:12):
She told me to watch for and bring it to her.
Did you do that?

Speaker 15 (01:05:15):
No?

Speaker 35 (01:05:15):
No, she wasn't here.

Speaker 5 (01:05:16):
What did you do with that bottle of medicine? I'm
sleep I gotta get some wake up, I said, wake up.

Speaker 23 (01:05:24):
Listen.

Speaker 5 (01:05:25):
You took that bottle with you when you went out?

Speaker 8 (01:05:26):
Where did you take it?

Speaker 5 (01:05:28):
I tell you when you let me go to sleep,
you took that bottle with you, didn't you?

Speaker 9 (01:05:31):
You're guessing?

Speaker 5 (01:05:32):
Oh, I know your third agree. You went to Verona's apartment,
didn't you?

Speaker 8 (01:05:36):
You yell in the room, welly, Shakespeare.

Speaker 5 (01:05:39):
You doped that coffee, didn't you? But the poison that
killed your sister. I didn't mean it for her.

Speaker 35 (01:05:44):
I didn't know she was going there.

Speaker 16 (01:05:46):
Go on talking.

Speaker 10 (01:05:48):
I want a lawyer, I am I right.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
Listen, I'm not a cop. I'm not taking a statement.
You're too drunk for it the whole anyway, So you
can tell me.

Speaker 36 (01:05:55):
Okay, there's nothing happened. She took her four pills and
went to bed. Yeah, I sneaked a bottle of the
medicine chest and I went over to his place. His
boy and Nickers are making.

Speaker 8 (01:06:10):
Coffee for the boss, he said.

Speaker 36 (01:06:11):
When he got home, I hung around talking for a runner.
I slipped some of the stuff in the percolator while
he was getting out of the cups.

Speaker 35 (01:06:19):
And now that's all.

Speaker 5 (01:06:20):
Why did you want to kill Johnny Verona so you
just wouldn't have to marry him?

Speaker 23 (01:06:24):
What do you mean have to?

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
She was doing it for me so he'd keep quiet
about that brawl in the club, that old killing they
tried to nail Johnny for.

Speaker 8 (01:06:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's it that.

Speaker 36 (01:06:33):
Here's the gun, didn't he got rid of it before
the cops arrived.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
That was my gun, Brad's straighten that. Look, Yeah, Johnny
dictated the story you told the grand jury. How do
I know he didn't dictate the one you're telling me?

Speaker 8 (01:06:44):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:06:45):
Who are you covering for? I didn't say anything.

Speaker 38 (01:06:48):
I didn't tell you anything.

Speaker 16 (01:06:49):
Get out of here, that's.

Speaker 5 (01:06:50):
Matter with you.

Speaker 10 (01:06:51):
Get down the window.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
Revolver barrel that crashed through the dock. And when the
I came behind the bar spoke twice.

Speaker 5 (01:07:02):
I answered it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
I looked down into the darkness, making myself a good.

Speaker 5 (01:07:05):
Enough target to draw some fire.

Speaker 25 (01:07:08):
I fired back at the flash of time.

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
I was defending more on luck than name, and luck
was what I wasn't having much of. I went back
to the place where tread had fallen.

Speaker 5 (01:07:18):
The shots that had dropped him were lucky. He'd been
dead before he hit the floor.

Speaker 23 (01:07:23):
What is it?

Speaker 9 (01:07:24):
What's happened here?

Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
Safe for yourself? Who shots through the window? Couldn't say anything?
But the gun muzzle looked like a forty five?

Speaker 9 (01:07:32):
Johnny Verona, he backed a forty five?

Speaker 5 (01:07:34):
Who told you that?

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
It came out of that investigation? One of the reasons
they couldn't indict for that old shooting.

Speaker 5 (01:07:39):
There are a lot of reasons they couldn't get that indictment.

Speaker 9 (01:07:41):
What are you driving that?

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
Neither one of the leading suspects was Gilly, I don't
follow you. Sugarcane did that job?

Speaker 9 (01:07:48):
Well, that's wild.

Speaker 5 (01:07:50):
What if I told you Fred made a statement of
that effect before he was shot?

Speaker 9 (01:07:53):
You're liar, he confessed.

Speaker 5 (01:07:56):
Did I tell you then?

Speaker 23 (01:07:57):
But he must have?

Speaker 9 (01:07:58):
He always talked about it when he was run.

Speaker 5 (01:08:00):
All right, all right, I was bluffing?

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
Why just a crazy hintsch I thought there might be
something between you and Sugar, and now I'm sure there isn't.
Of course I should have spotted it before. You too
much the same type, even look alike.

Speaker 5 (01:08:12):
I can't make you well, well, don't try. It's not
worth it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
You better call homicide about Freddie. Tell Lieutenant Dundy if
he wants my statement. I'll be at my apartment. After
I pretended to leave, I came back into the little
eavesdropping of my own. You didn't phone homicide, but you
did spend an hour filing out the barrel of a
forty five automatic.

Speaker 5 (01:08:35):
Then you went out. I telled you to an.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
Address on Slope Boulevard. A short time after you went in,
Sugarcane came out alone. I followed other you know the
answer my apartment. I went in the back way via
the fire escape and arrived in time to answer her.

Speaker 5 (01:08:49):
Buzz how much?

Speaker 12 (01:08:52):
Just pay?

Speaker 38 (01:08:52):
Thank haven't I found you at home?

Speaker 5 (01:08:54):
So am I come in?

Speaker 9 (01:08:55):
I know it's terribly late, I get it.

Speaker 5 (01:08:58):
Why don't you take off your coat?

Speaker 39 (01:09:00):
You can't stay very long.

Speaker 25 (01:09:01):
It's not safe.

Speaker 9 (01:09:02):
I may have been followed here, Oh surely not.

Speaker 10 (01:09:04):
Sam.

Speaker 37 (01:09:05):
You don't mind if I call you Sam?

Speaker 39 (01:09:07):
No, I'm so frightened. It's about Johnny Verona. I don't
know what he may do. He's convinced that Fred killed Eunice,
and he's out gunning Born right now. We've got to
stop him before he does anything.

Speaker 35 (01:09:16):
Rest.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
He's kind of a wrong party, Sugar. I'm working for
the enemy, enemy Kavanaugh.

Speaker 5 (01:09:22):
It's no skin off his nose.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
If Johnny Verona drops Red Blair, if you all drop,
all he does is sit back and collect.

Speaker 39 (01:09:28):
He can't be as cynical as that.

Speaker 23 (01:09:29):
You ought to know?

Speaker 37 (01:09:31):
Has he told you anything about me?

Speaker 5 (01:09:33):
I'd rather hear it from you.

Speaker 9 (01:09:35):
Maybe sit down?

Speaker 39 (01:09:38):
Well, not much to tell. I played along with Johnny
for one reason, and one reason alone, to save Fred,
not old Murderette.

Speaker 5 (01:09:46):
Were you figuring on marn under that family too?

Speaker 15 (01:09:49):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:09:49):
A regular pencil's movement, wasn't it, Johnny and Eunice? You
and Fred?

Speaker 8 (01:09:52):
All right?

Speaker 38 (01:09:54):
It's true.

Speaker 39 (01:09:54):
I wasn't in love with Fred, but it wasn't all
the money.

Speaker 8 (01:09:58):
I was sorry for him.

Speaker 39 (01:10:00):
Money's not what I really want.

Speaker 9 (01:10:02):
I know that.

Speaker 20 (01:10:03):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:10:04):
What do you want?

Speaker 21 (01:10:05):
Someone?

Speaker 37 (01:10:06):
Someone I can trust me too?

Speaker 20 (01:10:09):
Sugar?

Speaker 37 (01:10:10):
Right? Oh, Sam, you're what I want? Say you want
me to please say it don't matter. It's Sam.

Speaker 23 (01:10:23):
Why not?

Speaker 39 (01:10:24):
Johnny may have followed me here.

Speaker 37 (01:10:26):
He's insanely jealous man, and I got.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
To face it out of him center or later. Might
as well be now, Sam, be careful standing out of
the way.

Speaker 5 (01:10:34):
Sugar.

Speaker 2 (01:10:34):
No, Sam, no, no, Please don't rate Johnny. I'm not
gunning for you Spade in that case, Come on in, well, Sugar.
I didn't believe him that you were coming here.

Speaker 39 (01:10:46):
I had to Johnny. He got some crazy confession out
of Fred while he was drunk. I had to stole
him to you and Clip could talk to him. Just
save Fred.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
I mean, I stop horsing around. We all know that
we all know Fred is dead, and we all know
that we all know who killed him. Uh, the Clip
was Lettling. You are trying to pin that on me.

Speaker 5 (01:11:00):
I don't need it, but if you want it, you
can have it.

Speaker 40 (01:11:02):
There's three million bucks in my part of it. I'll
split down with the middle with you. If you're throwing
with them, it's a three waistclit.

Speaker 2 (01:11:08):
There's no split at all. If you take the rap
for Unus's killing, and you will. If you're throwing with me,
it's their word against mine. Two witnesses against one, and
all I've got is a confession by a drunk who
is now dead.

Speaker 38 (01:11:17):
Sam Oh, Sam Oh, sure a room.

Speaker 5 (01:11:18):
Moment you get away from it, go on, go to
work on him.

Speaker 40 (01:11:23):
I should have given you a little more time. That
wasn't fair, was it, Sugar?

Speaker 38 (01:11:26):
I hate you, light your boat. I never want to
see you again.

Speaker 9 (01:11:30):
Get back in that room, Sugarlip.

Speaker 5 (01:11:33):
What happened to you?

Speaker 9 (01:11:34):
Why were you running away?

Speaker 39 (01:11:35):
Johnny double crosses? Now Sam knows everything?

Speaker 5 (01:11:38):
What does he know?

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
The whole caver part of it I wasn't quite sure
of until I saw you and Sugar standing side by side,
that blue black hair, the same eyes, plus the fact
that the bell on Sugar's apartment and slowed boulevard reds
cane parenthesis, Cavanaugh, it took a crazy chance when you
knocked a fred with me right there in the room,
the kind of a crazy chance a brother would take
to keep his sister clear. I could have told you

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that it would have helped a lot, Johnny, but you didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:12:03):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Let's his sister go on dancing in a joint like
yours after he's in the chips and she goes on
liking it? You can be sure they're both playing for
big stakes and for nobody but themselves.

Speaker 5 (01:12:13):
What do you think you were supposed to wind up? Johnny?

Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
I'll tell you drinking that poisoned coffee that Eunice got
hold of by mistake.

Speaker 38 (01:12:19):
It isn't tru Johnny.

Speaker 39 (01:12:20):
I never told fed a thing he thought you really
loved Unis. I don't know how he found out you
were forcing her into that marriage.

Speaker 40 (01:12:26):
Did you also neglect to tell him that he was innocent,
That you pulled a trigger that all killing, and shoved
the gun into his hand while he was too drunk
to know what he was doing.

Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
I've heard enough watch of Johnny. I winged this, but
second before you fired, you aim went wild. All I
saw at first was that it missed Johnny, and I
saw him move forward and heard direction. She was leaning
against the wall, a puzzled expression on her face, her
hand plucking nervously at a spot of red that was

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spreading against the white of her dress. He caught her
as she pitched forward, and carried her over to a couch.
She didn't speak it can you? And Johnny knelt beside
her until the cops arrived. If you were aware of
each other's presence. Neither of you showed it period, and
the report.

Speaker 1 (01:13:11):
That was a sad ending Sam, Yes it is.

Speaker 10 (01:13:14):
I'm sorry it ended so sadly.

Speaker 5 (01:13:16):
Well, it was bound to one way or the other.

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
There wasn't anybody in the whole gallery that thought about
anybody in himself except poor fred I guess and his
only friends arrived in bottles and left in the ash can.

Speaker 34 (01:13:27):
All those minions and millions who get the money.

Speaker 2 (01:13:30):
Now, sand, I'm glad you asked that it leaves me cold.
Go type that up while I nip myself a sweater.

Speaker 5 (01:13:38):
And now listen to this.

Speaker 2 (01:13:41):
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Speaker 33 (01:14:13):
Well hear this then, goodness, but a terrible group of unfortunates,
as you.

Speaker 34 (01:14:18):
Say, it just had to end badly.

Speaker 2 (01:14:19):
If you hope to get back in my good graces
by quoting me to trick me into agreeing with you,
you have succeeded.

Speaker 34 (01:14:26):
There you go, Sam, So lugubrious?

Speaker 5 (01:14:28):
Okay, what is this? What means laguba?

Speaker 16 (01:14:29):
We're saying?

Speaker 33 (01:14:30):
It's wonderfully it's mine. You have it every time I
read a book. Now, and you know, like you read
a book and it's a word, you don't know what
it means and you're not sure. Well, I'll make it
a practice now to write down and learn three new
words per day and learn the definitions to use them
in conversation, you know, like desultory and lugubrius.

Speaker 1 (01:14:46):
Yeah, that's one of my three for the day.

Speaker 34 (01:14:47):
Seek lugubrius right here.

Speaker 33 (01:14:48):
It is to talk a great deal you call it,
say to being sorrowful, and we're both to be out
in the country.

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
I see, I see very praiseworthy in lies in your vocabulary.

Speaker 34 (01:15:01):
Yeah, but I don't expect to be really lugubrious.

Speaker 2 (01:15:04):
For Oh look, effie, why don't you go for bos
for the weekend. It's the best cure for the bucolic
Oh Sam, Look.

Speaker 1 (01:15:11):
When I've done, what have you done?

Speaker 33 (01:15:12):
I've put the wrong definition to the right words, for instance,
lugubrious all it isn't at all and bucolic. Oh same,
I've learned them wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:15:24):
I wasn't gonna tell you, Effie. It's better to find
out for yourself. It's more fie.

Speaker 5 (01:15:28):
Cases my new habits. Oh good night, sir, good night sweetheart.

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Adventures of Sam Spade Detective Here on Classic Radio Theater
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find out what's going on in Room two three on
an episode of Suspense from nineteen fifty nine starring Ellen McCrae,
whom you know better as Ellen Burston, also Long Clark
as Nick Carter, Master Detective in The Flying Duck Murder
from nineteen forty three, The Sweet Steake's Murder as counter
Spy moves in from nineteen forty nine starring Don McLaughlin

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and Mendel Kramer, and Theatre Royal from nineteen fifty three,
and The Queen of Spade starring Orson Wells. Wells Returns
on Sunday with the Lives of Harry Lyme from nineteen
fifty one, Operation Music Box, Jack Webb and Dragnet from
nineteen fifty The Big thirty eight Jackson Becke's File Advance

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from nineteen forty eight, The Bullets and Murder Case, and
John Dayner from nineteen fifty eight in an episode of
Frontier Gentlemen The Librarian comedy on Monday with Deames Taylor
in an Armed Forces recording of It Pays to Be Ignorant,
Stan Freiberg from nineteen fifty seven, Jack Benny from nineteen

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forty six and Harold Perry The Great Guildersleep from nineteen
forty eight. On Tuesday, we'll have a para shows from
nineteen forty five with Fred Allen and Ozzy and Harriet.
We'll have the Who's Your hot Shots from nineteen fifty
and Milton Burrough from nineteen forty seven. On Wednesday, William
Gargan starring as Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator from nineteen fifty two,

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Boston Blackie starring Dick Calmer from nineteen forty six, Philip
Marlowe There of The Adventures of Same star Gerald Moore,
and a ninety nine year old episode of Calling All Cars.
Thursday comedy with Bill Harrison Alice Fay and It's an
uncut show. You'll hear everything from the beginning of the
warm up all the way to the dead conclusion of

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the show of Alice's First Day, so you'll hear extra
long show tomorrow, Biver McGinn Molly from nineteen forty five
as the couple goes to buy a new used car,
The Great Guildersleeve, Harold Perry, Leela leaves town, and Father
Knows Best Betty the Crooner from nineteen fifty two Comedy

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on Friday, as well with a nineteen forty eight episode
of babbott Amos and Andy. I should say also the
Aldridge Family from nineteen thirty nine, Lomon Abner run the
half hour show from nineteen forty eight, and Jack Benny
going back to nineteen thirty seven. That's what's coming up
the weekend here on Classic Radio Theater with Wife Dogs

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Anytime online and Classic Radio Dot stream. Right now, we'll
go to River's End and see what's going on with
Doctor Christian.

Speaker 5 (01:20:14):
Ladies and Gentlemen.

Speaker 41 (01:20:16):
Last year's traffic death tolls thirty seven thousand, five hundred,
a seven percent increase over nineteen fifty. The National Safety
Council believes that the best way to promote safety on
the road is for each of us to know and
obey traffic laws to read.

Speaker 5 (01:20:32):
And heed traffic signs, So be careful. The life you
save may be your own.

Speaker 6 (01:20:38):
We continue now on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Talks
with an episode of Doctor Christian starring Geene Herscheldt. This
episode goes back eighty years October third, nineteen forty five,
Love Tomama.

Speaker 42 (01:20:55):
Doctor Christian's Office, and It's the Basoline Program, the only
show in radio where the audience writes the scripts. Tonight, Brooklyn,
New York gets the spotlight with a prize play by
Patrick Kaylor of three point thirty.

Speaker 5 (01:21:09):
Five South Second Street.

Speaker 42 (01:21:11):
It's called Love to Mama and.

Speaker 5 (01:21:13):
It stars Jean herscheld as Doctor.

Speaker 42 (01:21:15):
Christian with Rosemary DeCamp and the role of Judy Price.

Speaker 8 (01:21:24):
Ladies.

Speaker 42 (01:21:24):
The season for Permanence is on definitely, but before you
make an appointment at your beauty.

Speaker 5 (01:21:29):
Shop, ask yourself if your hair is.

Speaker 42 (01:21:31):
In good enough condition to take a permanent To make
sure your hair is soft and free from dryness. To
protect yourself from dry scalp, use vasileine hair tonic. Give
your hair this simple Vasileine Hairtonic glamour treatment before your
next shampoo. Massage the scalp briskly with plenty of vasileine
hair tonic. Then wrap a steaming hot towel around your

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head for several minutes before proceeding to wash your hair.
After the shampoo, brush on a feud drops of vasileine
hairtonic as you what a brilliant team. Vasiline hair tonic
used regularly. This easy way supplements natural scalpoils helps keep
hair silky soft attractive. Try this simple toning up and

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see how much nicer, more natural your wave will look.
See how obediently, how smartly each curl falls into place
when you comb your new hairdoo. Give your hair the
vasileine hairtonic glamour treatment tonight. Ask your druggist for vasileine
hair tonic. Entering Doctor Christian's office tonight, we find him

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saying goodbye to Lieutenant Madeleine Ronaldi of Uncle Sam's Waves.
Judy Price busy at her typewriter. Here's only a final
fragment of their conversation as they come out of the
inner office.

Speaker 10 (01:22:56):
I guess you guess that this is goodbye, doctor Listen
until we meet again.

Speaker 20 (01:23:01):
I'll see you then, Madelene, when all our heroes and
heroines come home again.

Speaker 10 (01:23:07):
Thanks for all you did for mamma. She had to go,
you know, but you made it easy, almost without pain.
You sent her out with a smile. But what I
really mean is thanks for keeping the secret. Bye, Judy,
good luck.

Speaker 20 (01:23:28):
Madelyn go on and show them what wenality's are made of.
And what's the matter, Judy? You look as if somebody
hit you.

Speaker 1 (01:23:38):
Somebody did Madelyn didn't mean to, but she slapped my
face hard, hurts all the way down in my heart.

Speaker 20 (01:23:46):
Why what did she say?

Speaker 10 (01:23:47):
Because I spilled the secret? Oh no, gude, Yes, I
spilled the secret. She would have given her life to keep.

Speaker 20 (01:23:52):
Oh wait a minute, Judy, for your own peace of mind,
listen to me. Let's go back a while when Mammory
Naldy was still a no.

Speaker 10 (01:24:00):
It's no use doctor to cut my tongue out.

Speaker 20 (01:24:02):
It was a hot summer day and Madeline came home
from a job in the paper mill, tired and hungry
and lonely to the uppy little cottage down by the
railroad tide.

Speaker 10 (01:24:18):
Madlina, he is see you?

Speaker 23 (01:24:20):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (01:24:21):
Mom? Why are you late?

Speaker 5 (01:24:23):
Or it's late?

Speaker 10 (01:24:24):
I worked over time? How do you feel, mom?

Speaker 37 (01:24:28):
How can I feel all the time?

Speaker 1 (01:24:30):
I'm a cry for the journey.

Speaker 10 (01:24:32):
Mustn't mom stop worrying about all the day?

Speaker 1 (01:24:35):
Hold the net.

Speaker 37 (01:24:36):
I'm a praise.

Speaker 10 (01:24:38):
God, I'm a pray Send my journey home to me,
Send him home, and I'm a mama. Please, Oh, I
have a surprise. Let her see letter to you from Johnny?

Speaker 1 (01:24:53):
You girl, why you're not telling me right away?

Speaker 10 (01:24:58):
I forgot my letter?

Speaker 38 (01:25:00):
Read to him a quick.

Speaker 10 (01:25:03):
Let me see. Now how does it go? You're not
skipping overard? Did you hear? It begins? Dear darling Mama,
after I ran away from home. He run away, well,
because he got into so much trouble here that robbery
in the prison and all that.

Speaker 38 (01:25:21):
So now here's a fat He's so good.

Speaker 10 (01:25:23):
The boy, well, he wanted to start all over again,
get away from his bad friends. That's what his letter says.
So he went far far away. What is so far away?
Oh California, mamma. And look what he says. I've settled
down and I have a nice, honest job. And when
I make enough money, I'm going to send you a

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fur coat. Mama.

Speaker 38 (01:25:48):
Oh my, you hear what he has to say.

Speaker 1 (01:25:52):
It's so goodn't buy here's a.

Speaker 10 (01:25:53):
Mama for a cot. And afterward afterward. Maybe when I
get married to a nice girl, I'll send for you
and you'll live with this in a beautiful house. Oh
my love to you, Mama, Johnny.

Speaker 36 (01:26:06):
You see, it's like I'm gonna say, he's a good boy,
he love, he's a mama, you give him me his
a litter?

Speaker 10 (01:26:15):
What for you can't read.

Speaker 1 (01:26:16):
I'm gonna sure everybody.

Speaker 10 (01:26:17):
I'm sure Missus Kowatska and the missus Fitzpatrick and the
girl three man, I'm sure everybody.

Speaker 14 (01:26:23):
My wonderful enough.

Speaker 10 (01:26:25):
No, I'm turning it up, Ma Dliva, stop in the
tiny pieces. See now now you can't show it to anybody.

Speaker 24 (01:26:36):
You the bad, the girl you hurt to miss.

Speaker 20 (01:26:40):
So Mama visited me the next day. Judy. She was
seriously ill, but she didn't know it yet. And oh

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how she bragged about Johnny's letters.

Speaker 1 (01:27:05):
Here right to me, most beautiful thing, said doctor.

Speaker 38 (01:27:08):
He's gonna take me far away, too nice to lamb.
He's on a home and all the day I'm a.

Speaker 10 (01:27:15):
Serril as tournis shine, and maybe I'm a singing.

Speaker 8 (01:27:18):
This song to he's a little bit well.

Speaker 20 (01:27:21):
Then he turned out to be a fine boy after all,
notwithstanding the scrape she got into here.

Speaker 8 (01:27:25):
The trouble was not his fault.

Speaker 10 (01:27:28):
Doctor, In here's a letter he said, he love, But Mamma,
he's a very sweet I'm very.

Speaker 20 (01:27:35):
Happy for you, missus Ronaldi. For Johnny's sake too, one
assure you.

Speaker 10 (01:27:39):
Here's a letter.

Speaker 1 (01:27:40):
But the mad Doleina, she's a teary dupe.

Speaker 20 (01:27:43):
Toy it up.

Speaker 10 (01:27:44):
But why But the girl Madlena, she's a treat to
mam and uncle.

Speaker 20 (01:27:48):
Oh really now, Madeleine's all right. She keeps the house
and takes care of you.

Speaker 5 (01:27:54):
Mamma.

Speaker 10 (01:27:54):
Honely, Johnny, I'm a love honli mana Johnny.

Speaker 1 (01:28:00):
I guess some mothers are funny that way, doctor, The
child who breaks their heart is the child they love
the best.

Speaker 20 (01:28:06):
Yes, Judy, the Bible is not merely a book of
the past, but the book of the present, the play
in which we play our parts. All Oh, one O
way again. Johnny was the prodigal son, the last one
who had been found. So Mamma's heart was full of him,
and she had no room in it for her daughter.
I er spoke to Madeline about it one day when

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she came to my office to seek the truth about
her mother's condition.

Speaker 1 (01:28:31):
Is that when you told her she had to know.

Speaker 20 (01:28:34):
Somebody had to know.

Speaker 10 (01:28:38):
Then nothing can save it.

Speaker 20 (01:28:41):
Doctor, I'm sorry, Madeline. No surgery, my dear girl. All
the world of Midas could not buy her, not our.
But one thing will help.

Speaker 10 (01:28:51):
What's that?

Speaker 20 (01:28:52):
Love and kindness? They'd make it easier. I every bet,
do you, maddlin?

Speaker 10 (01:29:00):
Doctor? Don't you think I love my mother?

Speaker 20 (01:29:02):
What about those letters from Johnny?

Speaker 10 (01:29:05):
I see she's told her about those.

Speaker 20 (01:29:08):
Why do you destroy them?

Speaker 10 (01:29:10):
She had no right to tell you.

Speaker 20 (01:29:12):
Those scraps of paper, although she can't read them, more
precious than diamonds to her.

Speaker 15 (01:29:16):
I know.

Speaker 20 (01:29:17):
Yet she tells me that you will never read them
more than once, and then you destroyed.

Speaker 10 (01:29:22):
That's my affair.

Speaker 20 (01:29:24):
Are you jealous of her greater love for your brother?

Speaker 10 (01:29:26):
Why should I be jealous?

Speaker 15 (01:29:27):
Now?

Speaker 10 (01:29:28):
She always gave all her love to that black sheep.

Speaker 20 (01:29:31):
He was on the wrong road, Madeline. He needed all
her love and devotion to set him straight.

Speaker 10 (01:29:37):
And don't you think I am human too?

Speaker 20 (01:29:39):
Yes, but you're always on the right side of the path.
Nobody had to pray for you. I've seen you walking
to church ever since you could turtle. You were safe.

Speaker 10 (01:29:49):
I worked so hard it's only fifteen when my father died.

Speaker 20 (01:29:53):
Yes, I remember, and Johnny had gotten his diploma from
her form school and was taking a postgrad cause in prison.
But now he's shut the door on his old life
and has opened the door on a new one. Why
why shouldn't your mother rejoice? And why shouldn't you.

Speaker 10 (01:30:10):
I'm only doing what I've got to do.

Speaker 20 (01:30:13):
What does that mean?

Speaker 10 (01:30:15):
I can't tell you not now?

Speaker 20 (01:30:18):
Then you wounded mamma? Keep her letters.

Speaker 10 (01:30:21):
I'm doing what I've got to do.

Speaker 20 (01:30:35):
I thought she was blinded, jealous. Judy delivered he cruel
to my mother because of Mamma's one sided love. And
then another thing? What was that Maden stopped bringing home
out of pay?

Speaker 15 (01:30:47):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:30:48):
Standing on clothes? I suppose?

Speaker 20 (01:30:49):
No, No, she still wore the same old, threadbare things,
shows and dances.

Speaker 1 (01:30:54):
No, then what did Madeline do with the money?

Speaker 10 (01:31:00):
Eight nine ten?

Speaker 15 (01:31:02):
Ma?

Speaker 35 (01:31:03):
Blina?

Speaker 10 (01:31:04):
Only a pen dollars? Yes, mamma, I spent the rest.
You're a spend for a what for a what? That's
my best?

Speaker 8 (01:31:11):
What you buy?

Speaker 10 (01:31:12):
I can't tell you.

Speaker 38 (01:31:13):
You got the boyfriend?

Speaker 10 (01:31:15):
Now you give him a money? I have no boyfriend, mamma.
Why every week there is a less of money. Why
you can keep it all? I won't eat at home, Billina,
you have a secret and.

Speaker 8 (01:31:26):
You not can I tell you?

Speaker 10 (01:31:27):
Mamma you are a bad girl. You just don't understand. Mamma,
my Johnny love is a mamma. You're in no love me.

Speaker 20 (01:31:51):
Madeleine was growing thin and pale. I met her once
in the street in her appearance word duty, hello madam,
Then hello doctor. That's a lovely day for walking my
lunch hour. Swell, how about joining me?

Speaker 10 (01:32:06):
I I don't need any lunch.

Speaker 20 (01:32:09):
Oh n diving.

Speaker 10 (01:32:11):
That's as good a reason as any.

Speaker 20 (01:32:14):
If you don't mind an old family doctor getting personal.
You must be down to about ninety five pounds.

Speaker 10 (01:32:19):
Makes me look like a movie star, don't think makes.

Speaker 20 (01:32:22):
You look like a mighty sick girl. How about dropping
around for Chekhov? I don't need any A free one
on the house.

Speaker 10 (01:32:29):
I distinctly said, I don't need any.

Speaker 20 (01:32:35):
Well A conduct was certainly queer duty. I was beginning
to think that her mind was affected.

Speaker 1 (01:32:41):
I shouldn't wonder.

Speaker 20 (01:32:42):
Jealousy seemed to be the only answer, A deep, consuming jealousy.

Speaker 1 (01:32:47):
And what about Johnny's letter?

Speaker 20 (01:32:48):
The still arrived melt him read them, each one of them,
and then she burned it, burned it, yes see, called mamma.
Searching the waste basket for scraps, one particularly happy letter
came into sample, along with the promised fur coat. A
very happy letter, read the.

Speaker 10 (01:33:10):
Too fast to Magdalena. I got another raised, Mama, that's
what he writes. And now that I've bought you the coat,
I'll start saving for our house. The slow Magdalena. Don't
finish her too fast, and it'll be a beautiful house, Mama,
A garden of flowers and lots of sunshine. A pretty

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rocking chair we can sit all day, a nice white
kitchen where you can cook from the low of Magdalena.

Speaker 34 (01:33:38):
More slow, Please don't make the lettery and the twost.

Speaker 20 (01:33:53):
And that night Judy Mama came to me after I
had retired. She drying my bell, and I quickly put
on a rope went to the door. All right, all right,
I'm coming. Somebody is in an awful hurry. Why mammay
nowdy please, what winds you here on this terrible cold night? Well,

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come on inside here now, I never mind the snow
on your shoes. Come over to this chair.

Speaker 35 (01:34:23):
Magdalena she's a run away.

Speaker 20 (01:34:25):
Oh now, now, control yourself. Madelene's not a running away kind.

Speaker 1 (01:34:30):
Of room, an empty dusted you're a southwice.

Speaker 10 (01:34:34):
Maybe you can't help me.

Speaker 20 (01:34:36):
Let's begin at the beginning. Just what happened?

Speaker 10 (01:34:39):
First? Does she bring me a letter from the journey?

Speaker 14 (01:34:42):
How beautiful letter?

Speaker 10 (01:34:44):
First thing?

Speaker 1 (01:34:45):
You giving me a cat?

Speaker 43 (01:34:46):
Now he's a gonna buy a.

Speaker 1 (01:34:48):
House for mamma.

Speaker 20 (01:34:49):
But what about Madeline.

Speaker 8 (01:34:51):
She's a read the letter and she's a good to
her room.

Speaker 10 (01:34:54):
This is a letter. She's an oburn, but she's a
high bit and she's a lock in the door. And
so me hear her cry. She's a cry and the
cry and I'm gonna go to do it.

Speaker 1 (01:35:04):
And I'm gonna say, Magdalena, what for you cry?

Speaker 10 (01:35:08):
But she's anance.

Speaker 5 (01:35:09):
And then what i'ma got to sleep?

Speaker 10 (01:35:12):
I'm'a dream.

Speaker 38 (01:35:13):
I mean, he scream, an awfullest scream. I may hear
my journey, Manna, Johnny is a collar for me.

Speaker 10 (01:35:21):
I'm'a wake up.

Speaker 38 (01:35:23):
I'm gonna go to Magdalena at the room and she's
a god.

Speaker 20 (01:35:25):
Oh now, stop worrying about foolish nightmare.

Speaker 1 (01:35:28):
Why Johnny's a scream for his Mama, and know why
Magdalena crying run away.

Speaker 20 (01:35:34):
I'll find out what I can. Believe me.

Speaker 15 (01:35:36):
I will.

Speaker 20 (01:35:37):
Now you wait out here while I go and dress,
and I'll drive you home. Well, this is a freezing
night to be walking out there and the heavy snow.

Speaker 1 (01:35:47):
Talk about a mother's intuition hearing Johnny's call at that
particular hour.

Speaker 20 (01:35:52):
Yes, Judy, somehow a mother nose. So I dove home,
and as I came back, a funny hunch me choose
a side street along to the church where Madeline used
to go every Sunday. And there, on the fallen snow,
kneeling on the steps of the church, I found her.

Speaker 10 (01:36:13):
You found Madeline, Yes.

Speaker 20 (01:36:16):
I heard her voice, soddened with prayer, got.

Speaker 15 (01:36:19):
Her take him into thirtieth.

Speaker 34 (01:36:27):
Wedem him and shelter him with thy.

Speaker 20 (01:36:29):
Lit I listened for a minute to a sweet, clear voice,
and then I spoke to her, Madeleine doctor Christian, And

(01:36:54):
there duty I learned the truth about Johnny's letters to Mamma.

Speaker 1 (01:36:58):
And in the meanwhile, Mama had found one.

Speaker 10 (01:37:00):
Of the letters.

Speaker 20 (01:37:01):
Oh that's the part of you today that I don't understand.

Speaker 10 (01:37:05):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:37:05):
The next morning, she searched Madeline's room carefully and found
the last one. She hit it quickly in an apron pocket,
and she put on her new fur coat and went
out on the street and asked a few people to
read the letter again to her, but they were all
too busy.

Speaker 20 (01:37:18):
Oh, I see. She thought it was so beautiful. She
wanted to hear it over and over.

Speaker 1 (01:37:24):
She went to the post office to ask the clerks,
and they were busy. She stopped the policeman and he
just glanced at the envelope and refused. Finally, doctor, she
thought of you, okay here, Oh, good morning missus Rinaldo
doug here, No, he's making his morning rounds.

Speaker 2 (01:37:42):
Man.

Speaker 10 (01:37:42):
You look happy, Mamma, I'm so happy.

Speaker 38 (01:37:45):
I'ma die.

Speaker 44 (01:37:46):
No, what's that.

Speaker 7 (01:37:48):
To hit the madama?

Speaker 1 (01:37:49):
Oh you don't say it's the one I'm kitha always.
Oh it sounds like a love letter, Billy.

Speaker 34 (01:37:56):
The first I must say, please to mud Billy, make
a finish at the read.

Speaker 1 (01:38:01):
The more slow you want to prolong the pleasure.

Speaker 38 (01:38:04):
So you read it to me, please, very very clow please.

Speaker 1 (01:38:10):
Of course, Doctor Cushion. At the time, I had no
idea about the game her daughter.

Speaker 20 (01:38:14):
Was playing, naturally judy, So I.

Speaker 1 (01:38:16):
Read the letter aloud. I thought Mama already knew what
was really in it, at least at the beginning. I
did dear Mamma, about the time you receive this, I
will be dead. I don't care much now I'm.

Speaker 10 (01:38:31):
Not afraid of the electric chair.

Speaker 1 (01:38:34):
After all these months in jail, I was so astound
at Doctor Christian. I forgot that Mama Renaldi was listening.
I just forgot everything, and I read on and on.

Speaker 20 (01:38:44):
Yes, Judy, that was Madeline's secret. There was no job,
no cottage, no and she.

Speaker 1 (01:38:50):
Went without lunches, almost without eating, to buy Mama the
fur coat, just to build a beautiful lie.

Speaker 20 (01:38:56):
Johnny was executed the very night I found her praying
in the snow.

Speaker 1 (01:39:00):
Suddenly, as I read the letter, I realized what I
was doing. I looked at Mamma Renaldi.

Speaker 10 (01:39:05):
She was deadly white.

Speaker 1 (01:39:07):
She just stood there like a statue of marble. And
then you returned up.

Speaker 20 (01:39:13):
Well, I say, what's the matter, missus.

Speaker 10 (01:39:16):
Renaldi's very ill. Doctor.

Speaker 20 (01:39:18):
We'll come into my office. Mamma, uer take my aunt.

Speaker 10 (01:39:22):
I'm come, doctor.

Speaker 20 (01:39:25):
Said, don now listen to me.

Speaker 16 (01:39:28):
To make Delida.

Speaker 20 (01:39:30):
She's a last she dated for you.

Speaker 23 (01:39:32):
She has to make a fool of me.

Speaker 10 (01:39:35):
She has to make a big joke of a mamma.

Speaker 20 (01:39:37):
You got to understand why she didd it was no
joke to her.

Speaker 14 (01:39:41):
Believe me, Manda, johnnyss a die and she's a lie
to Mama.

Speaker 20 (01:39:48):
Let me tell you where I found her last night.
I found Madeline in the snow on the steps of
the church. Do you hear me, mamma? She was praying
for the salvation of Johnny's soul. She was not happy.
What could she be happy for?

Speaker 10 (01:40:03):
Because she hate the Johnny. She burnt the letters.

Speaker 20 (01:40:07):
Madelyn did not hate her brother. She burnt his letters
to keep you from knowing the truth. It was a
brave and magnificent lie, mamma, lovable fables to make you happy.
Don't you see? It was Madelyn who gave it a
coat and the house and everything that Johnny could never
give you could he.

Speaker 10 (01:40:26):
I'm Anne not the truth. I'm I'm a coward and fool.

Speaker 20 (01:40:32):
You're the dearest one she has in the world. She
bet her heart for your happiness was her happiness?

Speaker 10 (01:40:40):
Will you you would open up my eyes?

Speaker 8 (01:40:43):
I must see you the last Magdalena.

Speaker 38 (01:40:47):
She's to make it a big lie because she's a.

Speaker 8 (01:40:49):
Laugh of it.

Speaker 20 (01:40:50):
And what would you say to her?

Speaker 8 (01:40:51):
Mamma, I want to know.

Speaker 10 (01:40:53):
You are a wise and doctor, a fairy wise to
make her happy?

Speaker 20 (01:40:58):
Then I'm almost be so And what would you do?

Speaker 10 (01:41:02):
I will be happy, I will laugh.

Speaker 34 (01:41:05):
I will let her go on with magnificent life. So
I will make Magdalena happy.

Speaker 35 (01:41:16):
Magdalena?

Speaker 1 (01:41:18):
Did you call me Magdalenamanda Darling?

Speaker 24 (01:41:22):
This is no letter from a journey?

Speaker 10 (01:41:26):
Oh yeah, here this piece of paper in my purse.
I want to hear it. Mom used to say love
to Mama cour Oh, mama, how happy you love?

Speaker 24 (01:41:39):
Yes, I am a very happy.

Speaker 38 (01:41:42):
I'm my own way to be happy. Read the Journey's
letter to me.

Speaker 24 (01:41:47):
Lucky you always to read it. Man, the good the Magdalena, so.

Speaker 20 (01:41:55):
You said, Judy, you didn't hurt anyone by telling Mamma
and Alder to say good. No, you gave us strengthened
and courage and pride. No wonder. You went out with
a smile. The queen with the gist was hers.

Speaker 42 (01:42:18):
And the curtain comes down on another Doctor Christian Prize
play with our star. Jean herscheld waiting to greet you,
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Speaker 20 (01:43:42):
Thank you very much. Before I tell you about next
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(01:44:07):
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Next week we plan to present chain letter by Bill
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(01:44:28):
basilin shown next week, same time and same station. And
until then I'll say good night.

Speaker 42 (01:44:42):
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(01:45:14):
the Doctor Christian Prize play Chain Letter.

Speaker 5 (01:45:17):
Bob Anderson speaking.

Speaker 42 (01:45:19):
This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Speaker 6 (01:45:23):
We didn't hear much about the Community War Fund on
these shows. You know, a lot of that went to
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people involved in World War Two. One of the great
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(01:45:44):
they kept having all of their prize plays. A lot
of listeners wrote plays which went to Hollywood, got polished
up and got on the air. And it was interesting
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And the course, there's a lot more money in today's cash,

(01:46:04):
don't you know, Doctor Christian Gene Herschel eighty years ago,
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Speaker 45 (01:46:22):
But right now, the whistler, ladies and gentlemen, the chief
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Speaker 13 (01:46:41):
Let's not spread prejudice. A divided America is a week America.
Through our behavior, we encourage the respect of our children
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remind them that being good neighbors has helped make our
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Speaker 6 (01:46:58):
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Speaker 8 (01:47:25):
Wait a minute, is that the whistler?

Speaker 38 (01:47:27):
Sure didn't you know?

Speaker 15 (01:47:29):
No? What?

Speaker 38 (01:47:29):
Why the Whistler's on Sunday now at this new time.

Speaker 8 (01:47:32):
The whistler Sunday.

Speaker 38 (01:47:34):
Now, that's right, every Sunday at the same time.

Speaker 23 (01:47:38):
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Speaker 8 (01:47:40):
The whistler is my favorite mystery.

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Speaker 46 (01:48:01):
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Speaker 25 (01:48:07):
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Speaker 5 (01:48:14):
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Speaker 35 (01:48:32):
I am the whistler, and I know many things. For
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(01:49:15):
strange story, the Big Gambo.

Speaker 35 (01:49:26):
The crowd in the stands was on its feet, shouting, excited,
straining to see as the thoroughbred's on the track below
pound around the three quarter post in a neck and
neck drive for the finish.

Speaker 2 (01:49:38):
And in the long stretch it's star Girl and matchless
neck and neck with Warlord moving up on the inside.

Speaker 16 (01:49:45):
It's matchless, matchless fire corner. It's matchless by hal Stargirl second.

Speaker 23 (01:49:51):
And Walllart third.

Speaker 35 (01:49:53):
Wonder Boy, the favorite.

Speaker 23 (01:49:54):
Was out of the money.

Speaker 2 (01:50:00):
Oh Mark, Mark, you lost, Uh huh, wonder Boy Lush,
Oh well, we can't win every time. Come on, then
let's get out this kraft.

Speaker 8 (01:50:10):
Ah.

Speaker 38 (01:50:10):
But he was such a favorite. I was so sure
he'd win.

Speaker 15 (01:50:14):
Er.

Speaker 35 (01:50:15):
Well, that's what makes horse racing, honey, Yes, to Mark
Kroner and countless other sportsmen and owners, that's what makes
horse racing. But few men are able to take defeat
so easily, so quietly, are they? Mark Handelin Carton? A

(01:50:38):
soft haired girl with a quick smile. This matter of
factness is puzzling. But it was all part of a plan,
wasn't it, Mark, A plan that was born when a
near miracle happened at Glenbrook, your stables a few years ago.
It was your trainer Andy who excitedly called you that
night and took you into the straw filled stall to
give you the surprise of your life.

Speaker 8 (01:51:02):
Well, how do you like you?

Speaker 7 (01:51:03):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:51:04):
Oh, here's a little beauty, Andy, and you're quite a doctor.
I say, say, how's golden girl?

Speaker 23 (01:51:09):
Perfect? Okay, But look over here, Mark under.

Speaker 8 (01:51:14):
The blanket, what are you talking?

Speaker 23 (01:51:17):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (01:51:17):
Am I seeing double twins? Mark twins? But I am sure.
I know it's almost a miracle.

Speaker 2 (01:51:24):
Statistics say it happens about once in three hundred thousand times.

Speaker 8 (01:51:29):
What's more, I've been over him like a picket and
detective and they're identical. Mark, not the slightest difference.

Speaker 2 (01:51:35):
Good lord, Andy. Yeah, Andy, does anybody else know about this?
Well no, not Yeah, and nobody's gonna know either, Andy,
not even Mimi, even if she is your own daughter.

Speaker 10 (01:51:45):
Huh.

Speaker 8 (01:51:45):
Now, look, there was only one Culte bond here tonight,
one culte one.

Speaker 2 (01:51:51):
Oh what about the registry the jockeys are going to register, Andy,
but only one.

Speaker 8 (01:51:56):
And I even have a name for him, wonder Boy.

Speaker 16 (01:51:59):
What what about the other?

Speaker 8 (01:52:01):
Well, I'm naming him wonder Boy too.

Speaker 2 (01:52:04):
Look at simple, Andy, there's a chance that one of
these colts is a future champion. That's right, Well, it
won't be hard to find out which one here. I'll
go on, and after that we train the other.

Speaker 8 (01:52:13):
One to lose to Loo. You heard me. Now, look Andy, we'll.

Speaker 2 (01:52:17):
Have him so no jockey and the business can boot
him home. But he'll still go to the post a
favorite when we want him to. Sure, sure, because because
of the way his brother will have won his recent races.
Oh you got it, Andy, We'll operate from here. We'll
keep both horses under cover here at glen Brook. Then
when we decide which horse we want to run, we'll
load him on the van and take him to the track. Well, yeah, sure,

(01:52:40):
nobody'll ever know the difference. Ha ha Oh, We're going
to have a sweet set up, Andy, win or lose.

Speaker 8 (01:52:45):
We win.

Speaker 25 (01:52:57):
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Speaker 5 (01:54:27):
And now back to the whistler.

Speaker 35 (01:54:48):
Well, Mark, a card game and a small miracle turned
opportunity in your direction, did it, Golden girl? A great
thoroughbred gave you twin folds, identical twins, and you were
quick to realize their possibilities. But it didn't happen overnight,
did it?

Speaker 23 (01:55:04):
Mark?

Speaker 35 (01:55:05):
The training took many months, hours, weeks of patience from
you and Andy, because it's almost difficult to teach your
thoroughbred not to run, as it is to provide him
with all the techniques that will make him a winner,
a champion.

Speaker 16 (01:55:22):
There, did you get it?

Speaker 8 (01:55:23):
Andy? Did you get the time? He's the right one?

Speaker 35 (01:55:25):
Mark?

Speaker 23 (01:55:25):
Look at that watch?

Speaker 38 (01:55:27):
Oh dead mean, Mark, he's the right one.

Speaker 2 (01:55:30):
Huh Oh, Well, he just means that wonder boy is
going to be a winner. That's all me me And
if he wins his first race, I'll buy a mink coat.

Speaker 35 (01:55:46):
You almost wanted to tell Andy's daughter, didn't you, Mark,
that you had two race horses. But the secret was
too dangerous to share, and it was to become even
more dangerous. It took time, and in the weeks that followed,
your winnings weren't lige. But Wonder Boy's occasional brilliant performances
open the doors for you. But you amidst the kind
of people you enjoy, the kind that can do you

(01:56:09):
so much good. The lovely Lynn Carton, for instance, you
know that she's interested in you, and each evening that
you are together you gain ground. The night on the
dance floor at the club Madrid is no exception.

Speaker 38 (01:56:28):
Happy darling with you Lynn?

Speaker 23 (01:56:31):
Who wouldn't be.

Speaker 38 (01:56:33):
Always an answer, haven't you?

Speaker 16 (01:56:36):
Well?

Speaker 8 (01:56:36):
I try?

Speaker 38 (01:56:37):
Incidentally, Darling, I'm not supposed to say anything, but somebody
is very interested in you.

Speaker 46 (01:56:43):
Oh you've heard of Colonel Johnny. Oh sure, well, he
looks as if Wonder Boy had his blood pressure up.
I wouldn't be surprised if he came.

Speaker 38 (01:56:52):
Round to see you.

Speaker 8 (01:56:53):
Sometimes I'd rather talk to you.

Speaker 11 (01:56:58):
You know.

Speaker 38 (01:56:58):
I think that's why I take nothing goes to your head.

Speaker 23 (01:57:03):
Only you.

Speaker 38 (01:57:04):
I'm Champagne. Shall we go back to the table and
finish our.

Speaker 2 (01:57:07):
I'm just the boy that follows you around, Sweetheart. You
try to say all the right things, don't you.

Speaker 20 (01:57:19):
Mom.

Speaker 35 (01:57:20):
Above all, try not to give away any sign that
this is what you've been waiting for. Colonel Jolly his
money a setup that it can provide, And in the
morning you almost can't wait to get down to the
stable to be there when he arrives. As you start
to leave your apartment, the phone rings. You walk back
impatiently and lift the receiver.

Speaker 15 (01:57:41):
Oh hello, it's me me, Mark.

Speaker 8 (01:57:43):
Oh hello, Mimi?

Speaker 15 (01:57:45):
What is it? You sound as if you wish I
hadn't called, or.

Speaker 8 (01:57:48):
Don't be silly, Yes, said, I'm in a hurry. That's
all Mark.

Speaker 15 (01:57:51):
What is it you keep breaking dates? It was another
excuse last.

Speaker 9 (01:57:54):
Night, it looks Mimi.

Speaker 8 (01:57:55):
Look, I've told you I'm onto something big. Mark.

Speaker 15 (01:58:00):
Are you with Lynn Carton last night?

Speaker 8 (01:58:01):
Well? Sure, sure, but it was business. I've told you, honey,
nothing's changed between us. Will I see you and I
Well if I can, but I'm not sure tomorrow night, Yeah, sure,
sure baby, sure, And some day it'll be for keeps
like I've always said, all right, goodbye, darling bye.

Speaker 35 (01:58:27):
Mimi is beginning to give you trouble, isn't she? But
you're afraid to break with her because of Andy, even
though you know that it can't go on forever. Lynn
Carlton is the nicest girl you've ever known, isn't she?

Speaker 15 (01:58:40):
Mon?

Speaker 35 (01:58:41):
And you're thinking about her as you drive out to
the stables and get out of the car and start
toward Wonder Boy's stall. But before you round the corner,
you hear something laughter, and then a voice that you recognize,
and you stop to listen.

Speaker 44 (01:58:54):
Now, my boy, that's no attitude. You've ridden wonder Boy
a few times. I already want your opinion, that's all.

Speaker 47 (01:59:01):
It's just like I told you, Colonel Jolly. Sometimes you win,
sometimes you lose. I only give him a ride.

Speaker 23 (01:59:08):
Quite through, my boy, quite through.

Speaker 8 (01:59:10):
But when wonder Boy loses, why last?

Speaker 23 (01:59:13):
Always ferst or last? It doesn't make sense.

Speaker 11 (01:59:16):
Neither is wonder Boy.

Speaker 47 (01:59:17):
Sometimes well, I brought him in five links ahead, gave
him just as good a ride the next time, and
find I'm trying to boot home a turtle.

Speaker 8 (01:59:25):
I don't know why.

Speaker 44 (01:59:26):
Curious, Curious, Indeed, Croda wouldn't try doping too easily detected.

Speaker 8 (01:59:31):
If it isn't the jockeys, well it isn't, colonel, believe me.
Just a screwy horse, that's all. You can't mean wonder Boy.

Speaker 35 (01:59:38):
Gentlemen, Oh, good morning, mister Croone.

Speaker 8 (01:59:41):
Well you're not giving away any of my training secrets.

Speaker 47 (01:59:44):
Oh no, no, I was just telling the colonel here
that well, I haven't even got time to talk.

Speaker 8 (01:59:48):
I have to take a work.

Speaker 35 (01:59:49):
I see las.

Speaker 23 (01:59:52):
Well you've got them well trained too, Croda. Oh I'm
colonel jolly. Oh how do you do, sir? I do
my best. Only I couldn't get anywhere with that boy.

Speaker 2 (02:00:04):
Wanted some information about that horse of yours, wonder Boy.
Well they're bringing him out right now. Come on, let's
get down to the store.

Speaker 23 (02:00:12):
Lighted in lighted.

Speaker 8 (02:00:14):
Cigarette, colonel, No, thank you, my boy, chewing.

Speaker 23 (02:00:17):
Gums my special advice. I have a stick. Thanks. Last
time out, wonder Boy lost rather badly.

Speaker 2 (02:00:27):
Yes, yes, that's right, not only lost the race for me,
but lost me some of my friends who bet on him.

Speaker 23 (02:00:34):
And that's good.

Speaker 44 (02:00:35):
Stabs the rumors anyway, rumors if you do all right
with Wonder Boy, win or lose, almost as though you're
know in advance I was going to run nonsense though,
just idle tongue.

Speaker 8 (02:00:47):
Eh No, not exactly.

Speaker 16 (02:00:49):
Oh, I do know.

Speaker 8 (02:00:52):
It seems like I can just look at wonder Boy
before he goes to the post and tell what he's
gonna do. Oh, here we are, Colonel, Beautiful.

Speaker 23 (02:01:04):
Isn't he.

Speaker 2 (02:01:05):
That's my trainer with him, Andy Collins used to be
a jockey himself, and he's all right too, Andy. Bring
boy over, Colonel jolly Andy Collins.

Speaker 44 (02:01:15):
How do you do, Colonel hellol Collins? So this is
wonder Boy, beautiful animal Kroner expensive though to all of us.
Expensive In that last race, i'd been at him against
my own horse matchless what well, shyes, I did. I'm
a businessman. I've seen boy gallop off with every race
he had entered before. Seemed a reasonable gamble.

Speaker 8 (02:01:39):
I lost, but not as much as you'll lose on
the Weddington handicap.

Speaker 23 (02:01:43):
The handicap.

Speaker 44 (02:01:46):
Look chromer, my horse carsays the heaviest favorite and handicap history.

Speaker 23 (02:01:51):
I'm putting a hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:01:54):
Wow, that's a lot of money, colonel. Would it be
worth twenty five thousands to keep from losing that?

Speaker 16 (02:02:02):
Uh?

Speaker 23 (02:02:02):
Hundred grand losing it.

Speaker 8 (02:02:04):
Well, of course Sair hasn't got a chance against wonder Boy.

Speaker 5 (02:02:08):
That's so.

Speaker 16 (02:02:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (02:02:10):
Let me show you, colonel. I've uh, I've never let
anyone know just how fast boy is.

Speaker 15 (02:02:16):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:02:16):
Look, you have your horse and a jockey down here
early in the morning, and we'll breeze 'em.

Speaker 23 (02:02:22):
You intrigue me, my boy, you intique me.

Speaker 2 (02:02:25):
I'll be here, sure you will, and I'll not only
save that hundred grand for you, I'll show you how
to make three times that much. All right, said, see
you in the morning. What's the matter with your horse, Colonel,

(02:02:45):
Johnny must be holding your bit. No, no, no, it's
just that wonder Boy.

Speaker 8 (02:02:48):
Is being let out for a change. How here they come,
here they come. Keep your eye on that watch.

Speaker 2 (02:02:55):
Ah there ah, take a look at that time, colonel,
could your say come anywhere near it?

Speaker 23 (02:03:04):
Quite a horse, that wonder boy. Quite a horse.

Speaker 8 (02:03:07):
You can save yourself a lot of money, colonel, if
you play it smart.

Speaker 44 (02:03:12):
Uh huh, smart eh. If you have a proposition, I'm
willing to listen. Well, it's simple enough, colonel.

Speaker 2 (02:03:19):
If you think I've earned my twenty five thousand from you,
keep it, keep it and bet it on Wonder Boy
for me, and if you're smart, you'll do the same
at the yards he'll bring.

Speaker 8 (02:03:29):
It'll be a clean up.

Speaker 44 (02:03:31):
It's a temptation, but there's too much money going on Corsair.
If he loses and it gets out that my money.

Speaker 23 (02:03:37):
Was on wonder Boy.

Speaker 8 (02:03:38):
You want to stay healthy.

Speaker 23 (02:03:40):
Uh, that's the idea.

Speaker 20 (02:03:44):
Well what do you suggest?

Speaker 2 (02:03:47):
Why not, Uh put our money on Corsair. Let Wonder
Boy lose. What about the odds be changed quite simply
for instance. Uh suppose he Corsair should hit a slump.

Speaker 8 (02:04:02):
And Wonder Boy wins every race between now and the handicap.

Speaker 23 (02:04:05):
That's the idea, sir, every race, but not the handicap.

Speaker 8 (02:04:12):
You've just made yourself a deal, colonel.

Speaker 23 (02:04:14):
Serve you, my boy, and don't forget it.

Speaker 44 (02:04:17):
Wonder Boy loses in the handicap, well, the only thing
either of us will collect will be a long ride
and a bullet. Do you understand Wonder Boy has to
lose or it's curtains for both of us.

Speaker 8 (02:04:27):
You just leave it to me, colonel. We haven't got
a thing to worry.

Speaker 35 (02:04:31):
About, no mark, nothing to worry about. And in the
weeks that follow you come closer and closer to the
big goal you set a couple of years ago when
Golden Girl provided you with Twin four. You and Andy
send the real Boy to the post again and again

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to watch him ramp home under the wire to win
Going Away, And then the night before.

Speaker 8 (02:04:58):
The big race, you're roughly quiet, Lynne.

Speaker 46 (02:05:06):
Sorry, guess I shouldn't forget that tomorrow's the handicap and
I'm dancing with the man of the Houri. I wouldn't
be too sure about that, Lynn, With all the races
wonder Boy has been winning, I should think.

Speaker 2 (02:05:18):
Look, look, he is a great horse, Linn, one of
the best. But don't don't put any of your money
on tomorrow.

Speaker 38 (02:05:25):
That's a strange thing for you to say.

Speaker 2 (02:05:29):
Let's talk about something else, Lynn, You huh no, Let's
talk about that girl in the bar.

Speaker 23 (02:05:36):
Girl.

Speaker 38 (02:05:37):
She's been watching us all evening.

Speaker 8 (02:05:39):
Do you know her?

Speaker 23 (02:05:41):
Well?

Speaker 8 (02:05:42):
Lynn, I see someone I do know. Would you excuse me?

Speaker 20 (02:05:45):
Please?

Speaker 38 (02:05:46):
Certainly I'll go fix my face.

Speaker 43 (02:05:52):
Hello, Mimi, surprised you could get away, Mark, She's been hanging.

Speaker 10 (02:05:56):
On to you so closely.

Speaker 8 (02:05:57):
Listen, Mimi, I've explained it to you before.

Speaker 43 (02:06:00):
I know, and nothing's changed till I think it has
only not quite as much as it's going to. Oh
I love you, Mark, that's something I can't help.

Speaker 15 (02:06:11):
But I'm not going to be made.

Speaker 8 (02:06:12):
A fool of me. Me, you're not being made a
fool of No.

Speaker 43 (02:06:16):
You know, Mark, I suspected you of leading a double life.
It was only this afternoon I found out that wonder
Boy does too.

Speaker 10 (02:06:25):
Me.

Speaker 15 (02:06:25):
Me.

Speaker 43 (02:06:26):
It should interest the Racing Association and some of your
new friends.

Speaker 8 (02:06:30):
Your father, and he's in a tool.

Speaker 43 (02:06:32):
That doesn't make it right. I suppose I love you
enough that you could make it right how by leaving
with me right now?

Speaker 8 (02:06:42):
Me, Me, I just can't walk out.

Speaker 15 (02:06:44):
You'd better.

Speaker 10 (02:06:45):
You'd better walk or I'll talk.

Speaker 8 (02:06:47):
But I I all right, Mem, My car's just outside.

Speaker 20 (02:06:54):
Let's go.

Speaker 8 (02:06:55):
You mean it, Mark, Sure, Sure, we'll go out this way.

Speaker 20 (02:06:58):
There's no need to make a scene.

Speaker 23 (02:06:59):
I'll be bout.

Speaker 43 (02:07:00):
Maybe maybe we could drive down by the river like
old times.

Speaker 8 (02:07:05):
The river.

Speaker 2 (02:07:07):
Yes, yes, it's only a couple of minutes from here, Mem, Yes,
that's exactly where I'd like to go, the river, just.

Speaker 10 (02:07:15):
The two of its.

Speaker 43 (02:07:17):
Oh, Mark, I'm so sorry I said any.

Speaker 20 (02:07:20):
But it's all right.

Speaker 8 (02:07:22):
From now on out, everything's.

Speaker 20 (02:07:25):
Going for you.

Speaker 38 (02:07:25):
All right, I thought you'd given me up.

Speaker 2 (02:07:42):
I'm sorry I was so long, but well, old friends
can be difficult, you know, especially old girlfriends.

Speaker 38 (02:07:49):
Oh, I understand, Mark. You're not nervous about anything, are
you nervous?

Speaker 11 (02:07:54):
Well?

Speaker 2 (02:07:54):
Sure, sure, I'm nervous. I've got a lot of steak
and tomorrow is a big day.

Speaker 38 (02:07:59):
Well, let's start it off together.

Speaker 8 (02:08:00):
Kick me up.

Speaker 38 (02:08:01):
We'll have breakfast at Nathan. We can go onto the
track from there, all right, and Mark, yes, dear about
the race. I wouldn't worry. The first day I met you,
I said to myself, there's a man who'd let nothing
stand in his way. There's a man who can't listen.

Speaker 25 (02:08:18):
You know, Lynn, I've got to hunch you're right. The
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Speaker 5 (02:09:52):
And now back to the whistler.

Speaker 35 (02:10:00):
Oh, it's been a big gamble, hasn't it mine? All
the way? But it's working out the way you thought
it would. It has to because as you sit with
Lynn Carlton in the box section of the crowded grandstands
waiting for the horses to go to the post. You're
aware of the two strangers sitting with Colonel Jolly a
few boxes away. They're not pleasant men to look at,

(02:10:22):
are they mine? And if there's any doubt in your
mind about them, Colonel Jolly makes it all too clear
as he excuses himself and comes over.

Speaker 38 (02:10:29):
To hello you too, Oh, Colonel Jolly.

Speaker 23 (02:10:34):
Colonel, I'll set my boy, I think so.

Speaker 2 (02:10:39):
Yes.

Speaker 23 (02:10:39):
Sorry, I'm going to have to defeat your colors today.

Speaker 8 (02:10:43):
That remains to be seen. Colonel. I see you have
guests over there.

Speaker 23 (02:10:49):
Yes, you could meet them after the race, old friend.
Uh huh.

Speaker 44 (02:10:55):
They're very close friends. They have quite a bit of money,
of course, solve a lot of other people. I wouldn't
want to disappoint them.

Speaker 38 (02:11:05):
Oh, well they're coming on. Ah, there's your horse, Colonel,
and there's wonder Boy.

Speaker 23 (02:11:13):
I hope they finished that way.

Speaker 15 (02:11:15):
Well, I don't not.

Speaker 38 (02:11:16):
With all that money I have on wonder Boy, you.

Speaker 44 (02:11:19):
Will eat too much, Colonel, do I? Perhaps then I
have reason to worry. Well, I'll see you later, Mark Trim,
excuse me, please.

Speaker 35 (02:11:33):
You watch the colonel go back to his friend. The
two men who are staying close by to take care
of you and the Colonel just in case anything goes wrong,
in case wonder Boy should win. But Wonder Boy isn't
going to win today, is he marked? He sense the
excitement running through the crowd as the horses filed past
the stands back to the starting gates.

Speaker 23 (02:11:54):
And then.

Speaker 35 (02:11:58):
And you try to hide a smile as one boy
makes a slow rolling start, stays far back in the field.
Try to look disappointed as Lynn glances at you nervously.
You turn away from Lynn, exchange a confident nob with
Colonel Jolly, and settle back to watch the race. Then,
as the horses go pounding down the back stretch, it happens.

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You jump to your feet as Wonder Boy begins to
close the gap, driving furiously on the outside.

Speaker 16 (02:12:27):
The back stretch.

Speaker 35 (02:12:27):
On the inside, it's courser by two lego ambition and matchless.

Speaker 36 (02:12:32):
Neck and neck arragon, And now comes Wonder Bulk.

Speaker 35 (02:12:40):
Look wait going, but you don't wait, don't answer as
you hurry away from Lynn and push away through the
excited crowd and rush from the stands. From the moment
you saw Wonder Boys start his drive in the back stretch,
you knew something was wrong, that Andy had sent the
wrong horse to the post, and you can't understand why.

(02:13:00):
And then as you race toward the stables, you can
hear still hear the shouts of the crowd, the pounding
hoods of the horses. Come around into the home stretch.

Speaker 14 (02:13:07):
It's wonder Boy, wonder Boy by two legs ross their
second and ambition Arragon and matchless wonder Boy.

Speaker 16 (02:13:14):
It's wonder Boy on the outside.

Speaker 35 (02:13:15):
You rush to wonder Boy's tall, grab the stable boy
who stands on the fence watching the ray.

Speaker 10 (02:13:20):
Turn on, Wonder Boy turn on?

Speaker 7 (02:13:22):
Where is he?

Speaker 23 (02:13:22):
Where is he?

Speaker 8 (02:13:23):
Where's Andy?

Speaker 22 (02:13:23):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (02:13:24):
Hello?

Speaker 16 (02:13:24):
Was the coroner?

Speaker 8 (02:13:24):
Where's Andy?

Speaker 35 (02:13:25):
Well, mister coroner, what's the matter?

Speaker 16 (02:13:27):
What the winner is?

Speaker 7 (02:13:28):
Wonder Boy by pre Hey you hear, mister coronery one?

Speaker 8 (02:13:33):
Wonder Boy? Are you gonna tell me where Andy is?

Speaker 20 (02:13:35):
Ursy?

Speaker 47 (02:13:37):
He ain't around here, mister coronerd.

Speaker 2 (02:13:39):
Corona, who certainly took care of everything to Colonel Kindel, Look,
something went wrong. You've got to believe me. I know
my friends here want to talk to.

Speaker 20 (02:13:48):
Us about it.

Speaker 8 (02:13:48):
Yeah, that's right. I didn't think you'd double cross me, Crone.
I didn't.

Speaker 16 (02:13:53):
I didn't.

Speaker 8 (02:13:53):
I had nothing to do with Adavid boys. It's a
nice act, but it won't work.

Speaker 2 (02:13:56):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, I tell you I
had nothing to head to talk about it out in
the country, you and the colonel adjoining us for a
night's little ride.

Speaker 8 (02:14:04):
You only let me explain. I look, kidwar is Anty,
what happened to him?

Speaker 5 (02:14:08):
I thought you knew. Mister Croner.

Speaker 47 (02:14:10):
Last night he got a call from the police about
his daughter Mimi. They found her in the river, cops
thinking suicide. He took off right then. I ain't seen
him since. Oh no, you can't blame him for leaving
like that, mister Croner. Poor guy won all the pieces.
Why she meant more to him than anything in the world.
When he didn't come back, why I drove out the

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glen Brook your stables, got wonder Boy into the van
and drove him here to the track.

Speaker 38 (02:14:34):
Well, I thought you knew Mark wasn't wonder Boy marvel As.
I can't believe. I want to Oh am I interrupting.

Speaker 2 (02:14:41):
Huh, Lynn, I'm sorry, but I have to go for
a little drive with these gentlemen.

Speaker 38 (02:14:48):
Oh that's all right, Shall I wait for you?

Speaker 11 (02:14:51):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (02:14:51):
I don't think so. Lynn I'm afraid you'd have a
pretty long wait.

Speaker 5 (02:15:16):
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil program.

Speaker 25 (02:15:20):
The Whistler each Sunday night at the same time, brought
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Featured into night's story was Wally Mayer. The Whistler was
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Remember at the same time, Next Sunday, another strange tale

(02:16:18):
by the Whistler, Marvin Miller speaking, This is CBS for
Columbia Broadcasting System.

Speaker 6 (02:16:38):
A show that really should have been national, It really
should have been under a different sponsor, But sadly it
was a West Coast show, all right. The Whistler seventy
seven years ago, October third, nineteen forty eight. Here on
Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Coos. Let's wrap up our
first week of bringing back our old friends David and Claudia,

(02:17:00):
shall we.

Speaker 35 (02:17:06):
You know this is still the season for carefree holidays
and vacations, but don't be care free on the highway.
With roads jammed with traffic, this is the time to
be extra careful when driving. When you plan a trip,
be sure to allow plenty of time so that you
won't be forced to drive too fast or too long.
When you get tired at the wheel, you lose your

(02:17:27):
skill and your judgment. So don't drive too many hours
at a stretch. Plan your trip so that you can
stop frequently and get plenty of rest. And when you
start that trip, resolve that you're going to obey traffic
laws and regulations. Don't gamble with safety.

Speaker 8 (02:17:43):
Remember the life you save, maybe your own.

Speaker 6 (02:17:47):
Somebody posed one of those questions, where do these old
transcriptions come from?

Speaker 7 (02:17:52):
Well?

Speaker 6 (02:17:52):
I can pretty much tell you that the transcriptions from
this show came from the sponsor set of all of
the Claudia programs. And who else would keep them but
Coca Cola. You know that that had to be the
original source for them. Either Coca Cola, a Coca cola

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bottler who got the transcriptions for the local radio station
or somebody like that. That's gotta be where they came from.
Let's go back seventy eight years October third, nineteen forty
seven for today's episode with Claudia.

Speaker 25 (02:18:33):
Your Coca Cola Bottler presents Claudia. Claudia based on the
original story is by Rose Franken, brought to you, transcribed
Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca cola.

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Relax and while you're listening, repress yourself. Have a coke,
and now Claudia.

Speaker 4 (02:19:29):
Claudia tell us all I hear it.

Speaker 24 (02:19:32):
Mama's probably David.

Speaker 4 (02:19:33):
I those you recognize the ring of first.

Speaker 12 (02:19:35):
I do.

Speaker 24 (02:19:36):
David has a very special ring. Hello, Hello, darling, we're
just talking about you. I told you it was David.
Mama what or I was just telling Mama.

Speaker 4 (02:19:46):
I told her it was you. I'm listening.

Speaker 15 (02:19:49):
What is it?

Speaker 7 (02:19:50):
Wait?

Speaker 24 (02:19:51):
Can't you tell me?

Speaker 15 (02:19:52):
So?

Speaker 24 (02:19:52):
You didn't buy a car, did you?

Speaker 15 (02:19:53):
David? Oh?

Speaker 24 (02:19:57):
Well, certainly we'll be there, of course.

Speaker 4 (02:19:59):
Goodbye, Darling.

Speaker 10 (02:20:01):
That was David.

Speaker 15 (02:20:02):
Though I judged.

Speaker 4 (02:20:03):
What did he have to say? It's not a very mistake.

Speaker 24 (02:20:05):
I guess you hatting coat on.

Speaker 4 (02:20:06):
I'll do no such thing at this time of the evening.

Speaker 24 (02:20:08):
What for I don't know, But David says to meet
him at the corner drug store in half an hour.
Why he didn't say, why he's your husband. You'll go
find out, but don't drag me along in any wild goose.
So you have to come, he insist.

Speaker 4 (02:20:19):
What about my roast? Oh leave it in the oven.
It won't walk away.

Speaker 24 (02:20:22):
David said it was very important, So I wonder what
it can be.

Speaker 4 (02:20:39):
Why did you rush me? We're early, so it's David.

Speaker 24 (02:20:41):
I can see him on the corner. He's very pleased
with himself.

Speaker 4 (02:20:44):
You're not that good. You can't see David's face from here.

Speaker 24 (02:20:47):
No, But whenever he's pleased to himself, he kind of
relaxes all over, trying to look see if he wasn't
pleased with himself.

Speaker 1 (02:20:54):
He sees us.

Speaker 4 (02:20:54):
Stop jumping up and down like that. Everybody'll think you're crazy.

Speaker 38 (02:20:57):
Can't wait.

Speaker 24 (02:20:57):
He's coming over to meet us, Say mama, let not
ask him.

Speaker 10 (02:21:00):
It'll be much more fun to make him tell us.

Speaker 48 (02:21:02):
Your father acted the same way when he bought three
lights in Florida. He found out later they were underwater.

Speaker 24 (02:21:07):
Mamma, you don't think David could have bought Let's walk
a little faster.

Speaker 4 (02:21:11):
Laudia, have a little pity on your old mother. I'm
out of breath as it is.

Speaker 37 (02:21:15):
Hell.

Speaker 11 (02:21:15):
Hello, hello, missus Brown, Hello David.

Speaker 7 (02:21:18):
What'd you do?

Speaker 4 (02:21:19):
And I thought you said it'd be more fun not
to ask?

Speaker 24 (02:21:21):
I couldn't wait, Mama, Say, David, you didn't buy any
real estate?

Speaker 10 (02:21:24):
Did you?

Speaker 5 (02:21:24):
Real estate?

Speaker 23 (02:21:25):
Hardly?

Speaker 15 (02:21:25):
Then?

Speaker 24 (02:21:25):
Why do you ask mom and me to meet you here?

Speaker 11 (02:21:27):
All thought you two girls might like to go for
a walk before dinner.

Speaker 24 (02:21:30):
We had to walk with shopping this afternoon.

Speaker 48 (02:21:32):
No use, Claudia, He's not gonna tell us anything to
Lea's good and ready tell you anything.

Speaker 11 (02:21:37):
By the way you two girls are carrying on, you'd
think it was unusual for a man to invite his
family for a walk.

Speaker 24 (02:21:41):
It's perfectly usual, only not for you, darling. Any particular
direction you'd.

Speaker 8 (02:21:46):
Like to steer us?

Speaker 10 (02:21:47):
Oooh?

Speaker 11 (02:21:48):
Any, wait at all?

Speaker 10 (02:21:49):
Good?

Speaker 11 (02:21:49):
Then let's go back up except that way. I've seen
that street. Let's uh, let's walk this way.

Speaker 4 (02:21:54):
Fine, you have gone this way since you left for
work this morning.

Speaker 11 (02:21:57):
We hardly noticed it them. Hey, watch up with the curb,
we'll acrossover. Hey, careful, careful, wait for the light.

Speaker 24 (02:22:03):
Oh it just turned that woman driver.

Speaker 11 (02:22:05):
Of course, all Claire, let's go.

Speaker 4 (02:22:08):
Of course, we are hardly conscious that we are being steered.

Speaker 11 (02:22:11):
Such a thought never entered my head, missus Brown. I
simply suggested going this way because it's a short.

Speaker 24 (02:22:16):
Didn't you know, Mom's only your block out of the way.

Speaker 7 (02:22:19):
Nice.

Speaker 4 (02:22:19):
The block out of the way is the shortest distance
between two points.

Speaker 11 (02:22:22):
Why you two girls don't get run over will always
be a mystery with me. Hey, watch up for the
car coming.

Speaker 10 (02:22:27):
We saw it.

Speaker 11 (02:22:30):
I never feel safe crossing the street with you two.

Speaker 4 (02:22:33):
That's funny. I feel safe with you curb mother Brown. David,
you're treating me like a run away from the old
ladies home.

Speaker 5 (02:22:40):
That's because I think so highly of you.

Speaker 24 (02:22:42):
And now down in this way, David, you're not being fair.

Speaker 38 (02:22:45):
Where are we going?

Speaker 7 (02:22:46):
And why?

Speaker 35 (02:22:47):
No place?

Speaker 11 (02:22:48):
No reason?

Speaker 15 (02:22:48):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (02:22:48):
Incidentally, what did you two girls think of that house?
We just passed it?

Speaker 24 (02:22:53):
Not which one?

Speaker 11 (02:22:54):
Number?

Speaker 44 (02:22:54):
One?

Speaker 11 (02:22:54):
Four one? I thought it was pretty nice. That's why
I sublet an apartment post had this?

Speaker 24 (02:23:01):
David say that again?

Speaker 11 (02:23:03):
I said I thought it was nice. That's why I said,
let an apartment there this afternoon, David.

Speaker 4 (02:23:07):
Really, then, this is a wonderful supprise.

Speaker 24 (02:23:09):
David, an apartment of our own. Why didn't you tell me,
Mom's a wonderful apartment of our own. Say, let's walk
by that building again. Oh it's a beautiful building, David.

Speaker 4 (02:23:20):
How many rooms?

Speaker 24 (02:23:20):
Can I see the apartment?

Speaker 15 (02:23:21):
Now?

Speaker 11 (02:23:22):
Wait a minute?

Speaker 24 (02:23:22):
Oh, I just want to stand here and.

Speaker 4 (02:23:24):
Admire that building. How in the world did you get it, David?

Speaker 15 (02:23:27):
True?

Speaker 11 (02:23:27):
Roger, one of our clients, mister Tucker, a writer, moved
to Hollywood. He'll be out there for at least a year.
So Roger sold him a bill of goods that he
should sublet it to me.

Speaker 24 (02:23:36):
Oh, it is such a beautiful building, David.

Speaker 38 (02:23:38):
Can we afford it?

Speaker 11 (02:23:39):
It's our budget to a t.

Speaker 24 (02:23:40):
Sounds better all the time.

Speaker 4 (02:23:41):
I've just got to see it.

Speaker 24 (02:23:43):
How many rooms?

Speaker 11 (02:23:44):
Four rooms and a large for you? And you can't
see it now? Anyway? I saw it this afternoon with Roger,
and it looks fine.

Speaker 4 (02:23:50):
Why can't we see it, David?

Speaker 11 (02:23:51):
Well, the fellow owns the apartment is something of a
well eccentric, he said. If I wanted it, I'd have
to come over right away.

Speaker 24 (02:23:59):
I called you to it, seem I told you we
shouldn't have, But Roger and I went on over and.

Speaker 11 (02:24:03):
He showed us the place, and he wanted an immediate answer.
I said yes, and he said, well, now you and
your wife can move in next Friday. I'll be out
by then. Meanwhile, I don't want to be disturbed.

Speaker 9 (02:24:12):
I'll be thinking he doesn't.

Speaker 24 (02:24:14):
Care how to disturb that I get while he thinks, oh,
I won't be able to sleep come next Friday. Is
it very nice, David?

Speaker 11 (02:24:20):
Very very nice? I told him we'd take care of
his gold fish.

Speaker 24 (02:24:24):
Another mouth to.

Speaker 11 (02:24:25):
Feed, another four mouths to feed. There's one in each room.

Speaker 10 (02:24:27):
Wonderful.

Speaker 4 (02:24:28):
I won't be lonesome.

Speaker 10 (02:24:29):
Then Mama will be alone.

Speaker 4 (02:24:31):
Then, Oh, don't worry about me. I'll be glad to
settle down to a nice, quiet, normal existence with you
two out of Oh.

Speaker 24 (02:24:37):
Now, look, you know you're like a nice, abnormal existence
with us all around you.

Speaker 11 (02:24:42):
It isn't as though we were moving to Alaska.

Speaker 20 (02:24:43):
Young lady.

Speaker 11 (02:24:44):
You're only one block away from mother's apartment. That's why
I thought you'd be specially pleased.

Speaker 4 (02:24:47):
I and I'm gonna take care of myself call up
whenever you're lonesome?

Speaker 24 (02:24:52):
Is there telephone, David?

Speaker 11 (02:24:53):
Two one in the foyer and a beautiful gold one
in the bedroom, A.

Speaker 3 (02:24:58):
Gold phone off youl, just like me, Adam do Barry.
I'll call you up every morning as soon as we
wake up, Mama, and you better not when you too
clear out. I'm going to start a new life. I'm
going to sleep late every morning.

Speaker 11 (02:25:09):
Good for you.

Speaker 24 (02:25:11):
You couldn't you know? You get up automatically every morning
at eight o'clock, and I'm going to learn how to
roll over and sleep until nine.

Speaker 7 (02:25:17):
David.

Speaker 4 (02:25:17):
I'm so glad for both of you.

Speaker 11 (02:25:19):
No, I know you are, mother.

Speaker 5 (02:25:20):
Thank you.

Speaker 24 (02:25:20):
Furniture, David, What about furniture?

Speaker 11 (02:25:22):
Mister Tucker's leaving his furniture in the apartment, so we'll
be using his.

Speaker 24 (02:25:26):
Oh be almost like living in a hotel, then, won't it.
I mean we won't have the fun of buying our
own furniture and oh little things around the house.

Speaker 11 (02:25:34):
Well we will when we get our own apartment. This
is just a sublease, remember, and say, wait a minute,
we look rather silly just standing here gaping at the building.

Speaker 35 (02:25:41):
We do, don't we.

Speaker 4 (02:25:42):
I saw your elevated man to be watching us. I
think he thinks with suspicious characters.

Speaker 24 (02:25:47):
So let's go back to Mama's house. We won't be
spending much time there. Only a week longer, Mama.

Speaker 4 (02:25:53):
We're gotta hurry. I look my roast in the oven
under the slow flame.

Speaker 11 (02:25:56):
Roast beef, favorite food next to state.

Speaker 48 (02:26:00):
Had stake three times this week, so I'm not apologizing
for the road none required, Missus b How about eating
in your new apartment?

Speaker 11 (02:26:06):
Oh, Claudia and I live like King's mother.

Speaker 24 (02:26:08):
You'll live like a king. I'll live like a queen.

Speaker 11 (02:26:10):
Don't take me so literally. I was choosing a figure
of speech, so.

Speaker 4 (02:26:13):
As I I meant, is mister Tucker going to leave
you the silver ware in China?

Speaker 11 (02:26:17):
Well, this is a matter of fact. I didn't ask.

Speaker 24 (02:26:20):
You can call up when we get home.

Speaker 11 (02:26:22):
He doesn't want to be disturbed.

Speaker 24 (02:26:23):
Oh, yes, that's right, he'll be thinking. Would be nice
to know, though, wouldn't it.

Speaker 11 (02:26:27):
Well we'll have to wait until Friday to find out.
How about lenen table, class.

Speaker 24 (02:26:30):
And sheets for the bed?

Speaker 10 (02:26:31):
Will he leave his thosees?

Speaker 24 (02:26:32):
Should we got and buy some?

Speaker 11 (02:26:33):
Missus and Missus Brown, I looked at the apartment and
told him we'd take it. I didn't ask questions about
unimportant details.

Speaker 24 (02:26:39):
Unimportant details, just like a man. See have you ever
tried sleeping out of bed without sheets?

Speaker 11 (02:26:44):
Once?

Speaker 20 (02:26:45):
I didn't like it.

Speaker 11 (02:26:46):
We'll bring a set of our own sheets long, just
to make sure.

Speaker 4 (02:26:48):
How about cross ventilation?

Speaker 11 (02:26:50):
I am sure that the wind howls through the apartment.

Speaker 23 (02:26:53):
Good.

Speaker 4 (02:26:53):
Must have plenty of windows there.

Speaker 11 (02:26:55):
Well, I didn't notice. All I know about the place
is that it has four rooms, a four your two phones.
We move in on Friday and like it.

Speaker 4 (02:27:18):
David, will you help me with this zipper?

Speaker 15 (02:27:20):
Now?

Speaker 11 (02:27:20):
I don't know if I should. You haven't thanked me,
probably for finding out.

Speaker 4 (02:27:23):
Apartment yet there proper enough?

Speaker 34 (02:27:27):
Fair, Let me zip that zipper.

Speaker 11 (02:27:30):
Hey, hey, pincher, No.

Speaker 24 (02:27:32):
But you could have now. I guess I had too
much roast beef for dinner. Whenever I have too much
roast beef, my dress shrinks.

Speaker 11 (02:27:39):
It's funny, the same thing happens to my parents. Really there,
you're a free woman now, need help getting out of
that dress?

Speaker 15 (02:27:45):
No?

Speaker 10 (02:27:45):
Thanks?

Speaker 44 (02:27:46):
Uh?

Speaker 11 (02:27:46):
Sure, Miss mother's cooking when we move into her own place, Claudia,
I miss mama, of course you will. Claudia, she's a
marvelous person. And I love her, but I'm glad we'll
be moving out. She probably will be too, she.

Speaker 24 (02:27:59):
Has been working.

Speaker 10 (02:28:00):
Can you rather harder with both of this?

Speaker 20 (02:28:02):
Well?

Speaker 11 (02:28:02):
Not for that reason, dear, Why then, David, Claudia, we're
a newly married couple. There's there's a lot we've got
to find out about each other.

Speaker 5 (02:28:11):
I know all I.

Speaker 10 (02:28:12):
Wanna know about you, David.

Speaker 20 (02:28:13):
Mm do you yes?

Speaker 15 (02:28:15):
I do.

Speaker 11 (02:28:16):
But what I mean is we've got to be selfish
about her marriage for a while. We'll have to make
certain decisions which can only be made by your feelings
and mine. There'll be experiences which should only be ours.
Do you understand me, Claudia?

Speaker 10 (02:28:30):
I I think I do, David. Oh, David, don't think
I'm a mama baby. Only a eye I know.

Speaker 15 (02:28:35):
I know.

Speaker 10 (02:28:36):
Come here, old David, Hold me tighter. I get so
sad I thinking of Mamma here all alone. After we leave.

Speaker 11 (02:28:46):
Oh, she'll get used to it, Claudia, just as she
will get used to being without her. It's the way
of life and her other people's lives for a short time,
and then we go out of 'em.

Speaker 10 (02:28:57):
I never wanna go out of your life, David.

Speaker 11 (02:29:00):
You won't, Darling, that is, if I have anything to
say about it, I won't.

Speaker 8 (02:29:06):
Let it happen.

Speaker 4 (02:29:09):
Oh, a midnight visitor, nine thirty. You two are sleeping there.

Speaker 24 (02:29:13):
We haven't gone to bed yet. Man, we're talking.

Speaker 15 (02:29:14):
Come on in.

Speaker 4 (02:29:15):
I don't wanna come in. I've seen enough of you.
I just want David to open my window for me.
It's stuck.

Speaker 11 (02:29:20):
Be right there, mother, I'll go.

Speaker 24 (02:29:22):
Brust my teeth.

Speaker 4 (02:29:22):
Hey, if you talk, talk lord, so I can hear.
You'll only hear the things we want you to hear. Oh,
this one to mother, that's the one.

Speaker 11 (02:29:36):
It wasn't stuck, was it?

Speaker 20 (02:29:37):
Mother?

Speaker 11 (02:29:38):
No, David, what do you wanna talk to me about
about us leaving?

Speaker 48 (02:29:43):
Yes, David, you know that pretty speeches don't come too
easily to me. I know, Mother, I'm gonna miss having
both of you with me terribly. It's natural I should,
But it's not natural for Claudia to miss me like that.
Hit know, in funny little ways without her even knowing it,
she might try to convince you that you ought not
to take the apartment. You mustn't let her, David, I won't.

Speaker 20 (02:30:05):
Mother.

Speaker 48 (02:30:06):
If it were two rooms in a cellar, it's right
for you to be by yourselves. It's the way it
should be and the way I want it to be.

Speaker 15 (02:30:13):
Good luck, David.

Speaker 11 (02:30:15):
Thanks thanks for saying everything you said.

Speaker 24 (02:30:17):
Mother, Hang in there, stop whispering.

Speaker 10 (02:30:19):
I can't hear you.

Speaker 4 (02:30:20):
Nothing to hear, Miss Nosey. The windows open, and I'm
sending your husband back to you. He's cluttering up my room.

Speaker 23 (02:30:26):
Let me come in here and.

Speaker 3 (02:30:27):
Clutter up mine.

Speaker 15 (02:30:28):
Here, go in and.

Speaker 4 (02:30:29):
Clutter up a room. Good night, David, Good night Mother.

Speaker 25 (02:30:56):
All story material used on this broadcast of Claudia was
under the supervision of Rose Franken and William Brown Maloney.
After five long years, the supply of coca cola is

(02:31:17):
almost normal. Now you can stock up your refrigerator for
the family and for guests. You can step right up
to the familiar red cooler and find coke there in
its accustomed place, frosty and inviting. You can play refreshed work,
refreshed dry, refreshed chop, refreshed with delicious ice cold coke,

(02:31:39):
and the price is still five cents. Every day, Monday
through Friday, Claudia comes to you, transcribed with the best

(02:31:59):
wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles coca cola. So
listen again Monday 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. When you think
of refreshment, think of coca cola or ice cold. Coca

(02:32:21):
cola makes any pause, the pause that refreshes.

Speaker 16 (02:32:26):
No no, no, no, no, no no no no no
no no no no no no no no no no
no no no no no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 10 (02:32:47):
No no.

Speaker 6 (02:33:02):
Such a sweet, sweet show from seventy eight years ago.
October third, nineteen forty seven. Claudia here on Classic Radio
Theater with Wyathcox. We'll hear from Claudia and David and
Mama again on Monday tomorrow. We will have Bember McGhee
and Molly along with Crime with Suspense Ellen Burston, Yes,

(02:33:25):
under the name Ellen McCrae. We will also here in
Suspense Nick Carter, Master Detective and the Flying Duck Murders,
Don McLachlan, can Mandel Kramer counter spies in the case
of the Sweepstakes murder, and we will hear Theatre Royal
Sir Laurence Olivier, the host of the show, and he

(02:33:46):
will star in later episodes of the show, but at
the moment he was busy doing other acting and so
Orson Wells took the lead in this story the Queen
of Spades, and as I said, we'll go to Wills
to see what's going on. Spending a quarter hour with
Pipper McGee and Molly. That's all up on our Saturday show.

(02:34:07):
Have yourself a great weekend straight ahead. We'll see you
on Saturday. For more classic radio theater, I'm Wyatt Cox.

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