Classic Radio 10-04-25 - Room 203, Flying Duck Murder, and the Sweepstakes Murder - 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, The Shadow Note Washington Calling David Honey, count.

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

Speaker 4 (00:21):
The Great Eldest, Lade, Zipper McGhee and Molly dragones Gun
Alone Rang Zoe.

Speaker 5 (00:29):
Now step back into a time machine. It's your host,
Wyatt Cox.

Speaker 6 (00:34):
Good evening friend, Vionna Tanti.

Speaker 5 (00:39):
Drama on this Saturday with a great episode of suspense
from sixty six years ago, Ellen McCrae in Room two
oh three. And you know, Ellen McCrae, you do. If
you don't, for know why, I'll tell you. Also coming
up an episode of Nick Carter Master Detective starring Lawn
Clark from nineteen forty three, The Flying Duck Murder, counter

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Spy Don McLaughlan and Mandel Kramer in the Case of
the Sweepstakes Murder. And Sir Lawrence Olivier hosts an episode
of Theatre Royal but doesn't star in it because you'll
hear in the opening episode of this series Orson Wallace
starring in the Queen of Spades. And we'll wrap it
all up with the most dramatic episode of Bibber McGhee

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and Molly Ever and you'll find out why Fibber fears
for his life. He does. Thanks for being with us.
On this Saturday, fourth of October, two hundred and seventy
seventh day of the year. We have eighty eight days left.
In twenty twenty five, the first complete English language Bible,
the Matthew Bible, printed on this date in fifteen thirty seven,

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translations by William Tyndale and Miles cover Lake. In eighteen
ninety five, the first US Open Men's golf Championship, run
by the US Golf Association, played on a nine hole
course in Newport, Rhode Island. Guten's It's an Borglem began
sculpting Mount Rushmore on this date in nineteen twenty seven,

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and in nineteen thirty one the debut appearance of the
Dick Tracy comic strip created by Chuck cartoonist Chester Gould.
The launch of Speptick I on this date in nineteen
fifty seven, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth
Very Well Love.

Speaker 7 (02:21):
Key, every result of intensive work by Research Institute and
evading euro and Prince artificial earth satellite in the world
has now been created. This Earth satellite, wrote today successfully
launched in the US attire.

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Until two days ago that sounds had never been heard
on this earth. Suddenly it has become as much a
part of twentieth century life as the whir of your
vacuum cleaner. It's a report from man's farthest frontier. The
radio signal transmitted by the Soviet Sputnik, the first man
made satellite, as it passed over New York earlier of.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
The day, satellite state in orbit just three months before
falling to Earth and burning out. The success of Sputnik
one sparked the race for space, premiering on this date
in nineteen fifty seven. Leave it to Beaver and it
was on this date in nineteen seventy Janis Joplin died,

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am I.

Speaker 9 (03:22):
On okay, how John, this is Janie.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
We just got to issue a very happy birthday and
happy dry.

Speaker 10 (03:43):
On a.

Speaker 11 (04:23):
Job now.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
On October one, nineteen seventy, Janis Joplin recorded that that
old Dale Evans cowboy tune happy Trails for the former Beatle,
which is sort of spooky given the lyrics are happy
Trails to you till We Meet Again tune titled Happy
Birthday John. It would be released on the Janis box
set in nineteen ninety three, Lennon Total talk show host

(04:53):
Dick cabint her tape greeting arrived at his home after
she had passed away cause of death and over nose
of heroine. She was just twenty seven. And yes, I
know that I'm probably you're probably not going to hear
this on YouTube because of this, but you have to
hear it. It is to me, it's a relic, and

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it's a very ironic relic at that now it was
on this stage. In nineteen seventy five, Assess the three
ten Q airplane crashed over Wilmington, North Carolina, killing the
pilot severely injuring a large number of passengers. The passengers
affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance mid Atlantic Promotion. One

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of the survivors still with us today, the legendary nature
boy Rick Flair YEP. In nineteen seventy six, Agriculture Secretary
Earl Butts resigned after he had been heard making a
racial slur against blacks.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
I have submitted my resignation to the President as a
member of the cabinet.

Speaker 12 (06:00):
This is the price I pay for a gross indiscretion
in a private conversation or just.

Speaker 5 (06:05):
Being stupid with the presidential election a month away. Butts
had to go. Although you got admit having a cabinet
secretary named Butts, that should have been the clue. It
just proved he was just the big an idiot is
his name. Nineteen eighty three the first Hooters restaurant opened

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in Clearwater, Florida. Nineteen eighty eight, Jim Baker indicted for fraud.
The televangelist is back today preaching the Gospel if you Will.
Nineteen ninety three, President Russia Boris Yelson ordered tanks to
storm the Russian Parliament building in a constitutional crisis in

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the country. The second largest cash robbery in US history
occurred on this date in nineteen ninety seven at the Charlotte,
North Carolina office of Loomis Fargo and Company. An FBI
investigator eventually resulted in twenty four convictions and the recovery
of about ninety five percent of the seventeen point three
million dollars cash taken. In two thousand and two, John

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Walker Lynn, the so called American Taliban sinced to twenty
years in prison by a federal judge in Alexandra, Virginia.
In two thousand and two, Richard Reid pled guilty in
a federal court trying to blow up a transatlantic plight
with explosives hidden in these shoes. Nobody's tried it since,

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and they're gonna let us start wearing shoes again as
we get screened to go aboard airplanes. But that's why
you haven't been able to wear shoes for more than
twenty years. Going on to airplanes. Wiki leaks launched by
Julian Massage on this date in two thousand and six,
and in twenty ten, the Supreme Court began a new era,
three women serving together for the first time as Elena

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Kagan took her place at the end of the bench.
And it was four years ago today Bubble Wallace became
the first African American driver in the modern era of
NASCAR to win a major race, passing away on this date.
In history, the painter Rembrandt, astronaut Gordon Cooper, and Loretta
Lynn birthdays on this date. Of those who are no

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longer with us include the nineteenth President of the United States.
Do you remember who that is? Do you remember? Think
about it? Also born on this date who are no
longer with us? Damon Runyon, Buster Keaton, film director George Sidney,
actor Charlton Heston, author Alvin Toppler, British author Jackie Collins,

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The Vampire Diaries author Anne Rice, and president nineteen As
I mentioned Rutherford B.

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Hayes.

Speaker 5 (08:43):
All of those folks born on this date, they have
all left the building.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Hi, this is Jeff Foxworthy.

Speaker 9 (08:49):
It is now time for the birthday announcements.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
The following people are now officially older than dirt.

Speaker 5 (08:56):
Long is the Janis Joplin thing is gonna probably get
us he monetized or or or blocked on Facebook. I'm
gonna play this because Tappy ninety six, birthday to the
wonderful Leroy van Dyke.

Speaker 14 (09:13):
Give me thirty, Magan thirty, gimme thirty.

Speaker 10 (09:20):
Give it.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Would be five dollars.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
The auctioneer Leroy van Dyke ninety six years old today.
Civil rights activist h. Trap Brown is eighty two from
That's My Mama and Amen. Clifton Davis eighty Did you
also know he had several hit records including never Can
Say Goodbye for the Jackson five. Clifton Davis dead, Yeah,

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eighty years old today?

Speaker 13 (09:53):
Uh.

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Susan Sarandon Fine actress seventy nine.

Speaker 15 (09:57):
My loft are your brain to tell your hair to
move a little.

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Thing from the movie Lorenzo's Oil. Susan Sarandon's seventy nine
Today from Gotti and I The Jury, Armanda Sante is
seventy six. The Father of Jake and Maggie. Stephen Gillianol
is seventy six Today. Christopher Walls is sixty nine.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
The State place is a bounty on a man's head.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
I track that man, I find that man, I kill
that man.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
From Gujango Unchained. Christopher Walls is sixty nine Today. You
remember Miss Patrick in SpongeBob, Sarah Prance doggaber On Coach.
My favorite role of his was Tom Cullen in the
TV mini series of The Stand. Bill Fegerback is sixty
eight today Pet Shop Boys. Chris Slowe is sixty six.

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John Seccata is sixty four today. He was Abyss in
TNA Wrestling. He is now a producer for WWE and
still makes periodic appearances. Chris Parks fifty two today from Kouless.
Alicia Silverstone is forty nine from She's All That and

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Josie and the Pussycats. Rachel Lee Cook forty six and
she was in Glee, but probably best remember now as
her role on TV Supergirl. Melissa Banoist is thirty seven.

Speaker 16 (11:23):
To most people, I'm a reporter at CatCo Worldwide Media,
but in secret, I am Supergirl.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
Well it sounds so secret now you told everybody. Melissa
Banoist is thirty seven. Don Johnson's and Melanie Griffin's daughter,
Dakota Johnson, who was in the twenty twelve twenty one
Jump Street movie and also in Fifty Shades of Gray.
Dakota Johnson thirty six. Those just a few of the
people celebrating. The fourth day of October is their birthday.

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If this is your birthday.

Speaker 17 (11:58):
Happy Day too, Happy Birthday two, Happy Birthday. He people
Day Day too.

Speaker 5 (12:23):
Classic Radio Theater with Wyatcox continues now with another episode
of Suspense and it stars Ellen McCrae. And do you
know you've seen her? I know you have if you
seen anything in the past thirty years, Ellen McCrae in
Room two three. That's next.

Speaker 14 (12:51):
A well designed school can be more than a fine
building and a place for learning. It can also protect
the children, the teachers, and the whole neighborhood too. If
the architect has designed the school to serve as a
community fallout shelter as well. Over thirteen thousand architects and
engineers have been trained in fallout shielding techniques. To learn

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more about building fallout shelter into new schools, contact your
local civil defense director.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt talks on a Saturday an
episode of suspense Ellen McCrae starring in Room two oh three.
You've seen Allan McCrae, I know you have. Have you
seen any movies or any television, But we'll hear from
Ellen McCray now sixty six years ago October fourth, nineteen fifty.

Speaker 6 (13:39):
Nine, And now another tale well calculated to keep you in.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Suspense.

Speaker 18 (13:57):
You would think that the people who are clay to
you are the people you know best, But sometimes you
discover that they are the very people you don't know
at all, people who live in a private world, a
private room.

Speaker 10 (14:13):
And so suspense brings you.

Speaker 19 (14:16):
Room to three by Milton Lewis another tale well calculated
to keep you in.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Suspense.

Speaker 20 (14:29):
It was exactly one year after I married Tony our anniversary.
I managed to get away for a couple of days
from the newspaper where I work. Tony and I were
going to celebrate, and it all started out gaily enough.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
We went back to the same hotel where we'd spent
our honeymoon.

Speaker 20 (14:46):
The bellboy took care of our luggage and was hanging
around for a tip.

Speaker 16 (14:49):
You're on the south side.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
That a breeze this side of the hotel. Oh, it's
very nice, very nice here you are, Thank you, sir.

Speaker 16 (15:00):
Oh Chris, this is a lovely room.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
I'm glad you like it, Dony.

Speaker 16 (15:04):
And where did those flowers come from?

Speaker 1 (15:06):
I guess they came from an admirer.

Speaker 16 (15:08):
Oh, Chris, They're beautiful. You're the most thoughtful husband in
the whole world. And I love you.

Speaker 20 (15:14):
Roses for the first anniversary orchids for the second, and maybe.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
A mink coat for the third.

Speaker 16 (15:20):
Well that sounds nice but unnecessary? And what about the fourth, fifth,
and six?

Speaker 20 (15:24):
I don't know really donning We better get ready. I
made a reservation for us in the page room and.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
The show goes on. Just about to wait fifteen minutes here, Phil,
think I need a shave?

Speaker 16 (15:33):
Uh huh, think you better? And I have to get
my dress out. I hope it isn't too wrinkled.

Speaker 9 (15:42):
I got my.

Speaker 20 (15:42):
Shaving things on in my suitcase, went into the bathroom.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
I was just about to lather up when I heard Tony.

Speaker 20 (15:50):
Scream, Tony, Tony, what is it?

Speaker 21 (15:55):
What's the matter there in that room that went across
the courtyard to light just went out?

Speaker 1 (16:00):
What did you see?

Speaker 16 (16:02):
It was so clear? I know I saw it.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
What what did you see?

Speaker 22 (16:07):
Well?

Speaker 21 (16:07):
I went to the window to pull down the shade
and I glanced out, you know how you do, And I.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Thought, you saw what?

Speaker 16 (16:14):
That man was choking a girl?

Speaker 1 (16:16):
What man?

Speaker 16 (16:17):
The man in that room? Because he just kept choking her.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
It was awful, all right, sweet, I.

Speaker 16 (16:23):
Never saw anything like Chris, do something?

Speaker 1 (16:26):
All right, I'll call the police. The police.

Speaker 16 (16:27):
Why the police, Maybe there's some explanation for it. Why
don't you call the manager?

Speaker 1 (16:32):
All right?

Speaker 21 (16:34):
I don't understand it. I can't believe it happened, but
I know I thought, hell.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
I want to speak to the manager.

Speaker 20 (16:44):
While I was talking to the manager, I happened to
glance at my wife. She had an expression on her
face that I had never seen there before. It was
a strangely poignant look, frightened and defeated.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
I'll never forget it. Come in good evening, mister Stewart.
I'm mister Spencer.

Speaker 10 (17:11):
The night man.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
This is my wife, mister Spencer. How do you do
missus Stewart?

Speaker 16 (17:15):
How do you do?

Speaker 10 (17:17):
Well?

Speaker 20 (17:17):
Well, I understand you've had quite a shock. I'm glad
you seemed to have gotten over it. And if you
want me to send for the house position, oh no.

Speaker 16 (17:25):
Thank you, that won't be necessary.

Speaker 20 (17:27):
Sure, well, my wife said it wasn't necessary. I'm just
taking every precaution. Well, well, now will you tell me
exactly what happened, Missus Stewart.

Speaker 16 (17:39):
Well, I went to the window to pull down the shade.
I saw a man.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
Where did you see him?

Speaker 16 (17:45):
Over there? The room on the corner, the same floor
we are on.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
That would be room two oh three, But it's dark.

Speaker 16 (17:53):
Will he turn out to life?

Speaker 9 (17:54):
Did he?

Speaker 1 (17:56):
When? Did he do that?

Speaker 16 (17:57):
A few minutes ago?

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yes? I called you right away.

Speaker 16 (18:00):
You don't believe me, do you?

Speaker 9 (18:02):
Well?

Speaker 20 (18:02):
Of course, Missus Stewart. But he wouldn't expect me to
just call the police without looking into this first. I
have to make sure we'll go over there and investigate.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Now, you want to.

Speaker 20 (18:12):
Come with me, mister Stewart, Yes, honey, honey, we'll only
be a minute.

Speaker 16 (18:16):
I want to go with you, or I don't want
to be here alone. Take me with you, Chris.

Speaker 20 (18:21):
I looked at my wife and there it was again,
the same fear self talk. We went with mister Spencer's
the room two o three. He knocked on the door.
Doesn't seem to be anyone here. Well, he had plenty
of time to get away. All right, we better have
a look inside. He was my past key.

Speaker 9 (18:51):
Come in.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
There's no one here, all right? Is this the room,
Missus Stewart, Yes, yes, this.

Speaker 9 (18:58):
Is the room.

Speaker 16 (18:59):
They were standing right there near the bed where.

Speaker 20 (19:02):
The room doesn't seem to be a bit disturbed. Everything
is in place, bedspread doesn't even wrinkled.

Speaker 16 (19:07):
But I tell you I thought I did, I know
I did.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Maybe it wasn't this room, Yes.

Speaker 16 (19:13):
It was this room. I recognize this chair, mister Spencer.

Speaker 20 (19:16):
Does any other room have a chair like this one? No,
this is the only chair of this kind in the
entire hotel. Each of our rooms has its own decorating scheme.
But Missus Stewart, perhaps don't.

Speaker 16 (19:27):
Look at me that way. I tell you I thought, yes,
of course, just a moment.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
This is Stuart front desk.

Speaker 20 (19:35):
Please hello, this is missus Spencer. What is the name
of the check in for room two three today, I
see what about yesterday?

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Thank you, mister Stewart. There's been no one in this
room for more than forty.

Speaker 10 (19:59):
Eight hours sleep.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
We returned to our own.

Speaker 20 (20:07):
My wife was very upset, and I had a thousand questions.
I wanted to ask, well I didn't die. I knew
that telling herself would have to volunteer the information. She
would tell me why she was so frightened. She would
tell me because she trusted me. I wasn't going to
force her to tell me anything.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
I waited for her to speak.

Speaker 16 (20:29):
Chris, do you believe I saw it?

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Of course I do.

Speaker 20 (20:35):
But you know, Darling, it is funny the way that
room didn't look as if anybody had been in it.

Speaker 21 (20:40):
I tell you I saw it, Chris, I saw it.
I can still see it.

Speaker 16 (20:43):
I got to have seen What.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Do you mean You've got to have seen it? Couldn't
you have imagined it?

Speaker 23 (20:49):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (20:50):
Yes, I may have, Darling. Someday I'd like to tell
you a story.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
What kind of a story?

Speaker 16 (21:01):
A story you may not want to hear?

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Why don't you tell it to me now?

Speaker 16 (21:04):
No, not now, but maybe someday.

Speaker 20 (21:07):
All right, Why don't you just close your eyes now
we are all right, Chris.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
She was exhausted and she fell asleep. I just looked
at her. She was so beautiful.

Speaker 20 (21:23):
I went to the window and looked out, and suddenly
I heard Tony scream.

Speaker 16 (21:28):
I'm right here, Chris telling I saw him again. I
thought him.

Speaker 21 (21:32):
No, I wasn't.

Speaker 16 (21:33):
I can still see them. I can see him joking here, Chris.
Don't you believe me?

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yes, I believe you.

Speaker 16 (21:39):
You had long blonde hair just like you.

Speaker 22 (21:44):
Ye like me.

Speaker 16 (21:47):
Oh, Chris, I want to get out of him here.
I want to go home.

Speaker 20 (21:57):
That's a very fascinating story. You tell me, Missus Stewart.
You see a man strangle a girl from the hotel window.
Now you seem to doubt the evidence of your own senses.

Speaker 10 (22:08):
Yes, I know.

Speaker 20 (22:08):
There seems to be a good reason to doubt an
empty room going there, Missus Stewart.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Does your husband know about you?

Speaker 16 (22:15):
No, he doesn't, Doctor barr Why didn't you tell him?
I was afraid to.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
You'll have to tell him, Missus Stewart. I think that's
part of the problem.

Speaker 16 (22:25):
You don't believe me either, do you, Doctor Barnes. You
don't believe me at all?

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Is so that you Tony.

Speaker 16 (22:40):
Yes, you're home early?

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yes, I am, honey. Things were slow at the paper today,
so I got the day off. Did you go to
the city.

Speaker 16 (22:49):
I had some shopping to do and I had lunch
with Claire.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Anything else? Who is doctor Barnes Stuck? You saw him
at ten thirty this morning?

Speaker 10 (23:02):
I followed you.

Speaker 16 (23:03):
Are you spying on me?

Speaker 22 (23:04):
Chris?

Speaker 1 (23:04):
I heard you make the appointment on the phone this
morning before I got up. I had a right to
follow you.

Speaker 16 (23:10):
I just went for a checkup. I wasn't feeling you don't.

Speaker 20 (23:12):
Go to Psychiatrisburg checkup, Tony. I don't like secrets.

Speaker 16 (23:18):
Do you love me?

Speaker 10 (23:18):
Chris?

Speaker 1 (23:20):
I love the girl I married?

Speaker 16 (23:21):
I'm still girl?

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Are you the girl I married? Didn't hide things?

Speaker 16 (23:29):
All right? Chris? What do you want to know?

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Why did you go to this doctor?

Speaker 16 (23:35):
I was his patient five years ago?

Speaker 1 (23:37):
His patient?

Speaker 16 (23:39):
I was in an institution five years ago.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
What kind of an institution?

Speaker 16 (23:47):
A hospital for the mentally sick?

Speaker 1 (23:52):
My wife had been mentally ill. Maybe there had been
a murder. Maybe she imagined there was nothing I could
do but Callerfulice. Good evening, I'm Detective Green Homics. Please
come in. This is my wife missus Stewart, How do

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you do? Man?

Speaker 16 (24:15):
How do you do?

Speaker 24 (24:17):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (24:17):
What's the man of Missus Stewart? You look at me
as if you know me.

Speaker 16 (24:23):
No, No, I don't know you.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Let me explain, Detective Green. I've seen you before, your
reporter on the Examiner.

Speaker 20 (24:31):
You must have a good memory. It's been a long
time since I covered police news. That's part of my job.
What's up?

Speaker 9 (24:38):
Well?

Speaker 20 (24:38):
Uh, A few days ago, my wife and I decided
to spend our anniversary at the Towers Hotel, and Tony
looked out of our window across the courtyard and saw
a man strangle a girl.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
They were in room two oh three of that hotel.

Speaker 20 (24:56):
But you see, when the manager checked, the room was
empty and it hadn't been occupied for two days.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Did you get a good look at the man, missus?

Speaker 22 (25:07):
Turn pretty good?

Speaker 10 (25:09):
What he look like?

Speaker 16 (25:11):
Well, he was a man of about forty five. His
hair was dark but rather thinned.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Go on, it was about your height five eleven. Go on,
any distinguishing features you remember?

Speaker 21 (25:26):
Well, he looked a lot like you, like me, But
you turned to the side.

Speaker 9 (25:33):
Please sure.

Speaker 16 (25:37):
He looked exactly like you. He is you.

Speaker 20 (25:48):
I was amazed when I heard my wife say the
Detective Green was the murderer. I didn't know what to think.
Was this part of our hallucination was to Ony ill again?
And suddenly she started the cross.

Speaker 16 (26:04):
Please go away?

Speaker 1 (26:05):
All right, all right, all right, alright, Detective Green, eyes
on my Head's all right. I understand you've been against
your wife. Some help as soon as you can, please, Okay,
mis Stewart. The case is closed as far as I'm concerned.
Good night, Crazy.

Speaker 16 (26:27):
He wasn't the man, I.

Speaker 10 (26:28):
Know he was, all right.

Speaker 20 (26:30):
Tony tried to get some sleep. Finally Tony went to sleep.
I left the house. I walked a few blocks uptown
or downtown, maybe crossdown, I don't remember which.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
I didn't know what to believe, and I didn't know
what to do. And when I got home and went
to our room, Tony wasn't there.

Speaker 20 (26:53):
I went through the house and then I found a
note in the foyer, dropped against the phone, Dear.

Speaker 16 (26:58):
Chris, I'm going away. It's no fear for me to
stay here. I love you, Tony.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
I was just going out the front door to find
her when the.

Speaker 9 (27:09):
Phone r.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Hello, Hello, Stuart, it was my night editor at the Examiner.

Speaker 25 (27:14):
Say listen, here's the tip that they ke've been waiting
for him. What do you mean they just found the
valley of a girl in the river, about a quarter
of a mile from the Towers Hotel. What did she
look like? Blond hair, slender, very pretty, She couldn't have
been more than twenty, and she was strangled.

Speaker 10 (27:29):
I'll be right over in vacts.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
In just a moment. We will return for the concluding
act of suspense.

Speaker 26 (27:48):
Did you ever stop to realize that four American coins
show us the importance of elections. The first one is
the Washington Quarter. It was George Washington who reminded us
on the unity of our government depends our independence, our
peace at home and abroad, our safety, prosperity, and our freedom.

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The second coin is the Jefferson Nicol. It was Thomas
Jefferson who said no government can continue good but under
the control of the people. The third coin is a
penny bearing the likeness of Abraham Lincoln, who said among
free men there can be no successful appeal from the
ballot to the bullet. And finally, the Roosevelt dime reminds

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us of something Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, every man
and every woman in this nation, regardless of party, who
have the right to register and to vote, and the
opportunity to register and to vote, have also the sacred
obligation to register and to vote. These four Americans, by
recognizing the importance of elections, added another page to your political.

Speaker 20 (28:57):
History, writing that note, Missus Stewart was an active weakness.
If there's anything we've learned, it's that you can't run away.
I'm not going to let you stay here tonight.

Speaker 16 (29:17):
But where can I go? Doctor?

Speaker 15 (29:18):
Byrnes?

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Where do you want to go home?

Speaker 20 (29:22):
That's where I think you should go, Doctor barn speaking
Who Missus Stewart, it's your husband?

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Will you speak to him?

Speaker 10 (29:31):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (29:33):
Hello, Chris? What are you sure? No, Chris, Chris, you're
not just saying that week?

Speaker 22 (29:43):
Where?

Speaker 21 (29:44):
Give me the address? Okay, I'll take a TAXI meets
you there.

Speaker 16 (29:48):
Bye?

Speaker 10 (29:48):
What happened, Missus Stewart?

Speaker 16 (29:49):
They just found the body of a girl. Chris thinks
it's the girl I saw. I'm going to.

Speaker 23 (29:54):
Meet him at more to identify her for the police.

Speaker 20 (30:06):
I could feel my heart skip a beat when I
saw it. I knew then how much she meant. We
only had time for a quick kiss, and then we
went into the morgue. Detective Green was already there with
some mental homicide. I could feel Tony stiffen when she
recognized him. I didn't like the way she was acting,

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and I began to hate Detective Green for the way
he inspired fear in my wife.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
The men stood around like mois.

Speaker 20 (30:35):
Detective Green lifted the sheet and he turned to my wife.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Is this the girl who say was strangled? Missus Stewart? Now,
are you sure? Yes, I'm sure, all right, gentlemen, that's all.
Thank you for coming here. Missus Stewart.

Speaker 16 (30:56):
All right, Chris, that was the girl?

Speaker 1 (31:07):
And why didn't you say so? And there?

Speaker 16 (31:09):
Didn't you see the way he was looking at me?
She's the girl. I'll never forget her face never, and
he killed her.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
You take a cab and go right home.

Speaker 16 (31:16):
Where are you going?

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Never mind, I've got something to do. You go right home.

Speaker 16 (31:28):
Here you are to keep the change.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Thanks little.

Speaker 16 (31:44):
What do you think, Detective Greed? What do you want?

Speaker 1 (31:49):
I've been waiting for you and I'm not don't try
to go. I have a gun.

Speaker 16 (31:56):
What do you want?

Speaker 1 (31:58):
I know you recognize Julie, and I know where your
husband is. He's talking to the chief you know what
I have to do, don't you?

Speaker 16 (32:07):
No, I don't.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
You're the only living witness. Why did you tell your
husband I was the man you saw?

Speaker 16 (32:15):
You were the man I saw. I thought I was
out of my mind, but now I know I'm not.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
No, you're not. Would have been better for you if
you weren't.

Speaker 16 (32:25):
But the manager said the room was empty.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
That's right for forty eight hours. But two days ago
I stayed in room two or three and I kept
the key. And then yesterday I took two two with Julie.
I made a suite of two or two two or
three unregistered, so you were in two or three.

Speaker 16 (32:49):
I did seem that's.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Right, room two o three. And nobody would have known
how a body got into an unregistered room, except that
Julie raised the shape and you saw it. It's too
bad that you saw what you thought you saw, and
it made it such a nuisance for me, using a

(33:12):
linen truck to get her out of the hotel, putting
her in my police car, dumping her in the river.

Speaker 16 (33:19):
Why did you kill her?

Speaker 1 (33:21):
I'm a married man, Missus Stewart. Julie got hard to handle.
It was too bad, but I just had to get
rid of her, and I have to get rid of you, too,
missus Stewart. I've met up with a lot of killers
in my time. They always have a way of trapping themselves.
But that's not going to happen to me, becaus, John's

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going to be perfect. What's that? What's the story doing?

Speaker 27 (33:58):
Hry?

Speaker 22 (33:58):
Oh great?

Speaker 1 (34:01):
He started shooting first. They had to shoot back, Tony.
He's dead.

Speaker 16 (34:07):
Oh cheer Chris.

Speaker 21 (34:10):
You won't believe it. But I wasn't scared. I was
strangely calm all the time he was talking. But the
fact that he came here to kill me proved definitely
that I was right.

Speaker 16 (34:20):
All the time.

Speaker 21 (34:22):
I finally knew that I never imagined any of it.
I finally knew I was perfectly.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
Safe and always have been daring. Look, we still have
our anniversary to celebrate.

Speaker 27 (34:32):
That't way.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
How would you like to go to Paris? I understand
it's lovely. In the Fall.

Speaker 19 (34:42):
Suspense, you've been listening to Room to All Three by
Milton Lewis. In a moment, the names of our players,
and a word.

Speaker 10 (34:55):
About next week's story of suspense.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
In all somebody someday may recommend that the Department of
Agriculture be called the Department of General Scientific Congress because
of all things, someone from this department has helped improve
our rubber tires, our shoe leather, even our matros stuffing. However,
with all this serving of all the people, the Department
is especially set up to help the farmers now. Back

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in the days when it was just getting organized and
explaining to Congress why it needed more money, the department
acted only as a sort of clearinghouse for information farmers
picked up and passed on about better ways to grow corn,
raise pigs, and so on. Then farmers started asking questions
about getting rid of blights and parasites and other farming problems,

(35:43):
and the department had to dig up the right answers.
As an example of their success in improving farm operations,
egg production in the past fifty years has been increased
over three hundred percent as a result of the expert
advice on feeding and raising poultry developed by work in
the Department of Agriculture. Among their jobs today, department chemists

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invent bug killers, fertilizers, and discover new ways to use
products farmers have been growing since the beginning of time.
Can you imagine making mucilage from sweet potatoes, paper from
corn stocks, paint brushes from milk, and wood as strong
as steel. Hey, I wonder if the Department of Agriculture

(36:24):
will ever develop a tree that grows money.

Speaker 10 (36:27):
Huh?

Speaker 19 (36:39):
Heard in today's cast where Ellen McRae as Tony, Bernard
grant Is, Chris and Ralph Bells detective breathed. Others included
Joseph Julian, Eric Dressler, Edwin Wolf and Charles Coleman. Listen
again next week? Or Infanticides by Alan Sloan, A story

(37:01):
of a father and his sons.

Speaker 26 (37:03):
Another tale well calculated to keep you in.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Suspence.

Speaker 5 (37:20):
Our friends over at the Suspense Project pointed at that
particular Armed Forces recording of that suspense episode from sixty
six years ago. October fourth, nineteen fifty nine. Allen McCrae
wonderful actress. She won a Tony Award in nineteen seventy

(37:41):
five for same time. Next year, won the Academy Award
for her role as the widow Alice Hyatt in Martin
Scorskez's Alice Doesn't Leave Her Anymore. In nineteen seventy four,
she was nominated for an Oscar in the Last Picture
Show in the Extorsist, and also the movie version of
Same Time Next Year, and a whole bunch of other films.

(38:03):
She did win a Primetime Emmy Award as well, so
she has the triple crown for a guest role in
Law and Order in two thousand and nine, and for
a supporting role in USA's Political Animals in twenty thirteen,
and a whole bunch of Emmy nominations. Ellen McCrae, who,
by the way, was born as Edna Ray Galoulei, but

(38:28):
took the name Ellen McRae until she married in nineteen
sixty four Neil Burston. Then she took the name Ellen Burston.
Now you know the rest of the story. Yeah I

(38:49):
didn't not a good Paul Harvey, but yeah, Ellen Burston.
Who all the radio roles she was in, she was
billed as Ellen McRae, which was the name she took
when she initially went on the stage. Alrighty, there you
have it. Suspense here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox.

(39:12):
We will go to nineteen forty three. Next Mont Clark,
Nick Carter Master Detective and the case of the Well
we'll in We the Flying Duck Murders is what it'll be.

Speaker 14 (39:34):
If you are planning a new building, the architect can
make inexpensive changes in his design to shield against the
dangers of radio active full out. This technique is called
design slanting, which simply means designing for added fallout protection
without adversely affecting the use, appearance, or cost of a building.

(39:55):
To learn more about slanting, contact your local civil defense director.

Speaker 5 (40:00):
Continue now on Classic Radio Theater with Yahoux with a
nineteen forty three edition of Nick Carter Master Detective starring
Lawn Clark eighty two years ago October fourth, nineteen forty three,
The Flying Duck Murders Quack, what's another one?

Speaker 10 (40:22):
Ended?

Speaker 27 (40:23):
Another tap under?

Speaker 4 (40:36):
Yes, it's another case for that most famous of all
man hunters. The detective posibility of solving crime is unequal
in the history of detextas fiction. Nick Carter Master, Detective
Night's Curious Adventure.

Speaker 9 (40:49):
A Flying Duck Murders, Nick Carter and the Golden.

Speaker 28 (41:00):
Honor.

Speaker 4 (41:01):
Unless you think more of a large fat fee than
you do of your life, I advise you to throw
up the case at once.

Speaker 9 (41:07):
Apparently we don't look at this in the same light,
Missus del Repple. I expect danger, and I prepare to
meet it. I suppose you know that two other detectives have.

Speaker 4 (41:14):
Come out to this wild Montana country where the Flying
Duck Mine is located, trying to find the trouble. So
do you know that neither of them live to tell
what they found, how they killed mister del They went crazy,
Miss Bowen, just to the San Francisco man fell over
a cliff.

Speaker 9 (41:30):
Well Riley, the man from.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
Chicago dropped six hundred feet down the main shaft of
the mine.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
Very interesting.

Speaker 29 (41:36):
I feel quite sure that Nick won't share their faith.

Speaker 4 (41:38):
The inquire for whom you're acting, mister Carr, you may
missus Cecil Trenwick, an old friend of my father's and
a large shareholder and the Flying Duck Mine.

Speaker 9 (41:47):
He said that you'd cooperate with me in every possible way.
I she'll do what I can so good.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
I should like you to give me a letter to
the superintendent of the mine telling him that I'm a
good workman and that you promised me a job that
so disguise myself as a minor.

Speaker 9 (42:00):
The name Dave Jarvis very well, you said your name
will be Dave Jarvis, rag.

Speaker 4 (42:10):
Man, and lo what you want, give it to mister
Nate Crosby, the mind's super He happens to be here
in town this morning, unless you change your mind and
decide to return to New York. Thank you, mister dr
But I'm staying here until my work is finished.

Speaker 9 (42:25):
Good morning, good bye, good morning.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
Wait a minute, Patsy, I wonder if mister yes, no,
I want to speak to Nick Crosby.

Speaker 9 (42:39):
Ah wait, yes, things are beginning to move already.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
I open this door. Crack, we'll hear better.

Speaker 9 (42:48):
Night, mister Dalrymple.

Speaker 4 (42:50):
And he has done what he's been threatening to do
with us along. He sent Nick Carter out here to investigate.

Speaker 29 (42:55):
Yes, Nick Carter, the one man of the world.

Speaker 9 (42:58):
I'm afraid of the mark of the stuff.

Speaker 30 (43:00):
Right away.

Speaker 29 (43:01):
You can't we do long?

Speaker 9 (43:02):
Ahow No, give him the job he wants and then
take care of him.

Speaker 29 (43:07):
Yes, if your donut may mean, couldn't.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
For all of us, right, So.

Speaker 9 (43:13):
That will settle your you tull mister Nick very much.

Speaker 11 (43:18):
Said, Thanks for the attention, mister, but I intend to
take care of my own YouTube.

Speaker 9 (43:36):
So mister Dalrymple is in on the deal.

Speaker 27 (43:38):
He did me up to his neck.

Speaker 9 (43:40):
Well, at least we start off.

Speaker 27 (43:41):
With one good hot prospect.

Speaker 9 (43:42):
What do we do.

Speaker 4 (43:43):
Now get into your miners, off it and then take
this note down to this address and give it to
Nate Croby, the mine super, I remember your name's Dave
Jarvis and Crosby to give you a job in the middle. Okay, Nick,
then what a first and foremost keep your eyes open.
Crosbie will believe you're Nick.

Speaker 27 (43:58):
Carter to watch out for him and try to put
you out of the way.

Speaker 31 (44:02):
Don't forget Scuby the detectives in Chicago and Frisco book
team degree.

Speaker 9 (44:06):
Well, it's going to be different with the guy from
New York, Patsy. You wait here at the hotel where
we can get in touch with you if we need you.
All Right, it's going Scubby. I'm going out to the
mine right away.

Speaker 27 (44:15):
You wait on right up with Crosby and watch out
for him, right Nick, I'll keep one eye on him
and one on the mind.

Speaker 9 (44:37):
Thanks for the lift, Bud. That's okay. Well, that's the
super's office right there.

Speaker 11 (44:42):
Thanks.

Speaker 9 (44:43):
I'll be saying you, hey, looking for someone. You're the
super of the Flying Dot Mine.

Speaker 27 (44:52):
No, I'm the assistant super.

Speaker 9 (44:54):
Glenn Hendrix is his name? Mine name is King.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
I'm writing up an article about the mines of Montana
for the Mine Times of Kansas City. Any objection to
me is sticking around a while looking things over.

Speaker 27 (45:04):
No no, no, mister King. Just as long as you
say something good about us in your article, you want
me to show you around.

Speaker 9 (45:11):
No thanks, I'll just rift around and see what I
can pick up. If anyone stops.

Speaker 27 (45:15):
Here, tell him I said it was okay.

Speaker 9 (45:17):
Thanks, I will you seeing you.

Speaker 14 (45:21):
Now.

Speaker 9 (45:22):
Fland, the boss of the d shifts and gets an information.

Speaker 32 (45:25):
And these are the Morse stamping machines, mister King.

Speaker 9 (45:35):
They crusted.

Speaker 32 (45:36):
You are very fine. And they then thru stow the
bottery box and tied over the plate. I see the
plates off.

Speaker 28 (45:43):
Coated with quicksilver or mercury, and the QUICKSILVERA picks off
most of the gold and from the crust. All on
this combination of quicksilver and gold.

Speaker 32 (45:53):
We call them alcalm.

Speaker 4 (45:54):
And you scrape this a elgam off the plates and
take it to the refinery.

Speaker 9 (45:58):
Yes, mister Keane.

Speaker 28 (46:00):
Anally separates the gold from the quicksilver and.

Speaker 32 (46:02):
Cast it into balls.

Speaker 9 (46:04):
Very interesting. Well, thanks very much. I'll run along and
look the rest of the place over. See you later.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
Last way, up along your hands from your face in
the door.

Speaker 33 (46:17):
You're right here, bagged.

Speaker 34 (46:19):
You already, witch, And I'm going to finish the job
right on that night.

Speaker 9 (46:23):
I got that night. I said, you're the fool.

Speaker 13 (46:30):
Down with you.

Speaker 27 (46:31):
I'll show you leisure?

Speaker 35 (46:32):
What up that gun?

Speaker 9 (46:33):
I would make this pellet?

Speaker 27 (46:34):
What up the gun?

Speaker 30 (46:35):
I said?

Speaker 27 (46:36):
What are you trying to do?

Speaker 4 (46:38):
I was trying to make orlander behave just fall interfeared?

Speaker 27 (46:41):
It made me mad, Solander?

Speaker 36 (46:42):
Where is she right now?

Speaker 9 (46:44):
I'll be done? She went to run away?

Speaker 27 (46:46):
Or me and him were targing. So you interfered, did you?

Speaker 30 (46:49):
Mister?

Speaker 9 (46:50):
Certainly I did.

Speaker 27 (46:51):
You're king in the newspaper, man.

Speaker 9 (46:53):
An that's right. I mean I've been looking for you.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
I am crossby mine superintendent. I'll give you just fifteen
minutes to get out of this.

Speaker 29 (47:01):
Can so you Ordnate Crosby, I am, and I'm the
boss here, and I say get.

Speaker 4 (47:07):
Out, all right, Crosby, I'll get out, but I'll be back.
I never leave a job unfinished.

Speaker 9 (47:28):
All right, Pick them up, you and carry them. I
know they're heavy, but they have to have a solid
lead lining so we can.

Speaker 4 (47:35):
Ship bodies in them. Put them in the old powder
house and shut the.

Speaker 27 (47:39):
Door when you're through.

Speaker 9 (47:40):
Okay, Boss, I'm ill.

Speaker 29 (47:42):
Oh I get it up there.

Speaker 27 (47:49):
Now we're gonna have to move some of these empty
powder cakes to.

Speaker 4 (47:52):
Make room for all three caskets. Jarvis, Hu stay here
and pile them.

Speaker 9 (47:56):
Up out of the way.

Speaker 27 (47:58):
Rest of you get the other caskets.

Speaker 4 (48:00):
Okay, Boss, all right, hop to Itubby.

Speaker 9 (48:07):
Hebby?

Speaker 1 (48:08):
Is that you? Nick?

Speaker 11 (48:09):
Where are you behind these cakes?

Speaker 10 (48:11):
You start putting them up?

Speaker 9 (48:13):
You can talk while you went?

Speaker 27 (48:14):
Oh sure, Nick?

Speaker 1 (48:16):
What happened?

Speaker 16 (48:17):
Nick?

Speaker 29 (48:17):
Why are you hiding here?

Speaker 7 (48:19):
Or?

Speaker 4 (48:19):
He ordered me to get out half immediately the assistant
supersisted a hide here?

Speaker 11 (48:23):
Un did he get me right back to town?

Speaker 1 (48:25):
He does?

Speaker 30 (48:25):
Why?

Speaker 9 (48:25):
Cross?

Speaker 29 (48:26):
Being a bitter than I do?

Speaker 1 (48:27):
What would you?

Speaker 9 (48:28):
Well?

Speaker 27 (48:28):
I got a job as crusher man on the night show.

Speaker 9 (48:30):
At the mill. What are these boxes you're bringing in here? Caskets?

Speaker 27 (48:34):
Crosby told the chief to the body of the two
detectives who got killed were to be taken up and
shipped to their frame. Quite become the men of another box.

Speaker 13 (48:44):
All right, yeah, okay, Nick, there were only two detectives
who were killed. Who you supposed the third.

Speaker 4 (48:58):
Box is four for you man to Discubby Bo, Remember
they thank you, and Nick Carter, I'm older, mister king
newspaper reporter.

Speaker 29 (49:05):
Well, i'll certainly.

Speaker 27 (49:07):
See that that cast.

Speaker 11 (49:08):
Stay stubby, you know whether the Nicks are buried?

Speaker 27 (49:11):
Used to told me the Crosby knows because he and
a couple of the new hands took the bodies away.

Speaker 11 (49:15):
I see, scum, I've got an idea.

Speaker 4 (49:18):
But the men bring in the other casca you go
out with him and makes an excuse to come back
at you again, accompany.

Speaker 29 (49:26):
All right, fell it right here. I don't know what
I think.

Speaker 9 (49:34):
Oh, hey, by my wife inside the part?

Speaker 37 (49:38):
Forget it?

Speaker 9 (49:39):
What you want so long as you're not late for
your shift at the mill.

Speaker 27 (49:42):
Okay, Bob the hobby there, Oh Kurney.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
They've gone. No, that's your idea?

Speaker 11 (49:49):
First, shut the doors.

Speaker 9 (49:51):
Sure, i'll scubby. I want to see what's in these caskets.

Speaker 11 (50:00):
Screwed ever in my life?

Speaker 9 (50:02):
How so have I look?

Speaker 36 (50:03):
I'll help you good.

Speaker 9 (50:04):
I'm glad they only use four screws past covers out
makes it simpler.

Speaker 27 (50:10):
But why do you want to see what's inside?

Speaker 1 (50:12):
Nick?

Speaker 9 (50:12):
You gotta hunch that up.

Speaker 4 (50:14):
Yeah, set it florady, Yeah, all right, let's look her
up to me ye, right there.

Speaker 11 (50:21):
Uh huh, I hunch his right, Scubby. The caskets are
not lead line.

Speaker 9 (50:26):
The extra wait is ut.

Speaker 27 (50:27):
To this scrappton in the bottle.

Speaker 29 (50:29):
Like Cosby said, they had to have.

Speaker 11 (50:30):
Lead lighting so they could be sick at the body.

Speaker 9 (50:32):
These caskets figure in this game more than justice casket. Scubby.

Speaker 27 (50:36):
Well, Cosby told the teaser to have a fresh team
hits to the large swagon for him at midnight to night.

Speaker 11 (50:40):
I thought, so, I mean, he's gonna take these caskets.

Speaker 27 (50:43):
Somewhere tonight, and I want to know where. Yeah, but
how are you gonna find out?

Speaker 1 (50:47):
I'm going with him hidden in this casket.

Speaker 9 (50:50):
I'll get in it and you.

Speaker 27 (50:51):
Put the lid back on. Oh but Nick, your father
in there with the lid down.

Speaker 4 (50:54):
You canna put four small pieces of wood under the
coffer lid before you screwed down.

Speaker 29 (50:57):
Oh but Nicko, we'll show it rugging out.

Speaker 30 (50:59):
Are you all right?

Speaker 11 (51:02):
All right?

Speaker 27 (51:03):
I'll hurry. Okay, Nick, keep your head down when I
put the lid on it. Okay, have you learned then?

Speaker 13 (51:11):
Yes?

Speaker 27 (51:13):
The only place in the mill where the gold could
be stolen was the room of the battery box and
the plates, No, not yet, hope to earn to night
when I'm a duty in the mill.

Speaker 29 (51:25):
You'll take care of that. And how about this, well,
good luck?

Speaker 27 (51:30):
I expect they both may need it.

Speaker 4 (51:45):
Oh, how's the great Nick Carter during the night letters?

Speaker 32 (51:49):
You mean mister Dave Jarvis.

Speaker 26 (51:51):
He's doing swam Look at him.

Speaker 25 (51:54):
It's taking another dame.

Speaker 29 (51:56):
He's been hitting the water bucking steady for.

Speaker 31 (51:58):
The last half hour.

Speaker 9 (51:59):
There's the local working. I'll say, the lees are any
bonnet already famous? Nick Carter will go away the other tu.

Speaker 27 (52:10):
What are you fellas doing dancing around like that?

Speaker 30 (52:14):
You can't fool me.

Speaker 29 (52:16):
There a lot of billy goes.

Speaker 27 (52:25):
I gotta get me at three.

Speaker 4 (52:27):
If your eye on him, if he starts fighting, lay
him out with a crowbar.

Speaker 30 (52:30):
Don't take any sense, okay, right, you see that he's.

Speaker 27 (52:44):
Heading for the cliffs, just.

Speaker 30 (52:46):
Like the owners.

Speaker 27 (52:47):
Orlando's mixture hasn't failed yet.

Speaker 9 (52:50):
What's next?

Speaker 38 (52:51):
Gris me?

Speaker 4 (52:52):
I didn't get my team from the stable at midnight
to night and meet me at the old powder house.
Now we can nick Carter's name on the third cash.

Speaker 9 (53:17):
That's the last fuck.

Speaker 27 (53:18):
But all right, that is put on the top rock.

Speaker 9 (53:22):
I know that was that's hart.

Speaker 10 (53:25):
I'd like to see this.

Speaker 11 (53:27):
Thinks she knew I was in this.

Speaker 27 (53:31):
What did you take that?

Speaker 6 (53:32):
Well?

Speaker 29 (53:32):
Brother sport tuber and the only fast team in the stable.

Speaker 27 (53:36):
We got a hog run the night over.

Speaker 9 (53:38):
Rough couper where those custer possibly go.

Speaker 27 (53:41):
All right, Sam, let him go in and fight up
here with me in it. Go watch him?

Speaker 16 (53:47):
Okay?

Speaker 39 (53:55):
Who take a better.

Speaker 27 (53:57):
Ruin to dry Ny?

Speaker 32 (53:59):
Now the low car is done for Carter.

Speaker 27 (54:02):
We can bring this business to a successful finish. Oh woman,
who I hope we're not going part this race?

Speaker 10 (54:11):
You mean we're gonna quit?

Speaker 4 (54:12):
We sure, we'll market the stuff and make a clean getaway.

Speaker 9 (54:18):
This is the roughest right ever. You gonna market the start?
Say that to me, I'll say that echo again.

Speaker 38 (54:28):
Stop what don't have them?

Speaker 9 (54:32):
They're running the way.

Speaker 29 (54:33):
One of the rains is working right away.

Speaker 27 (54:36):
I can't tell time this. We're gonna trash.

Speaker 30 (54:39):
Jumps for your life.

Speaker 27 (54:44):
Oh we got time boy. Yeah, he look at that casket.

Speaker 9 (54:53):
Cause me the one with the lid torn off.

Speaker 4 (54:56):
Man, Oh that's the infirmary. I ordered to get out
of campus afternoon.

Speaker 27 (55:02):
What was he doing in that casting?

Speaker 4 (55:04):
Never money not now get him while he's only half couchy.
Come on, Sam, no you say, oh good work? Boys,
that fixts mister reporter. Hi hands and feet with that rope.

Speaker 30 (55:18):
Okay, boy, you.

Speaker 32 (55:20):
Won't fight no more for a while.

Speaker 29 (55:22):
Now, Hey looks super.

Speaker 4 (55:24):
Here's a pair of handcuffs in his pocket and a
couple of guns.

Speaker 29 (55:27):
Hey, what kind of reporter are you going around.

Speaker 4 (55:31):
With handcuffs and guns in your pocket? You'll have to
draw your own conclusions, Crosby, I've drawn them already. You're
here to help Nick Carter, But by this time Carter's
where neither you nor anyone else.

Speaker 9 (55:44):
Is going to help him.

Speaker 27 (55:45):
He's local, lom local.

Speaker 9 (55:51):
You never can be sure about Carter, Crosby.

Speaker 30 (55:53):
I can this time, and I can be sure of
you too.

Speaker 4 (55:57):
All right, put him back on the casket, boys, put
the cover off, yil down. If you can't find the screws, heah,
here's some nails and come on you in you go. No,
I got out the last time I was in your coffee,
but you won't get out this time.

Speaker 29 (56:13):
Get the little voye.

Speaker 27 (56:18):
That's dog.

Speaker 9 (56:26):
That's well, that's enough.

Speaker 27 (56:27):
He can't do anything with these hands tied. Legit, You
and Sam get the shovels.

Speaker 4 (56:33):
That we're in the wagon and dig a nice deep hole.

Speaker 27 (56:37):
We'll bury our reporter friend with our blessing.

Speaker 6 (56:58):
Hey, who are you you?

Speaker 9 (57:02):
You know what senses?

Speaker 4 (57:03):
Now?

Speaker 30 (57:04):
You see you here?

Speaker 38 (57:06):
You know what he say?

Speaker 10 (57:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (57:08):
Yeah, I know you better?

Speaker 27 (57:10):
Now who are Orlando? You save? To Lando?

Speaker 15 (57:15):
Life?

Speaker 9 (57:15):
To Landa your friend?

Speaker 27 (57:19):
He better?

Speaker 38 (57:20):
Quick?

Speaker 11 (57:20):
Thanks?

Speaker 9 (57:23):
Oh?

Speaker 29 (57:24):
Tell me how did I get here just before sun?

Speaker 15 (57:28):
Come up?

Speaker 13 (57:29):
The chase?

Speaker 15 (57:29):
Crazy man?

Speaker 9 (57:30):
So would end me? You can shoot?

Speaker 16 (57:33):
See you right?

Speaker 37 (57:34):
You come fall down by orlanda shirt in.

Speaker 4 (57:37):
Head so Land Wow, certainly glad you were around when
I passed out?

Speaker 27 (57:43):
Husby you enemy?

Speaker 9 (57:46):
Certainly is now you say you were chasing a crazy.

Speaker 27 (57:50):
Man him drink local? Had two other men come before?

Speaker 36 (57:55):
If I could have been scubby?

Speaker 9 (57:56):
What he said?

Speaker 10 (57:57):
He was local?

Speaker 6 (57:58):
Solanda?

Speaker 9 (57:59):
What did you want to find him for?

Speaker 27 (58:01):
We want to save him, not give medicine, make him aware?

Speaker 9 (58:04):
But but what did you want to save him?

Speaker 29 (58:06):
Claud Did they give him local?

Speaker 37 (58:08):
This man.

Speaker 27 (58:10):
Crosby one? Save man Crosby one Keylanda listen.

Speaker 9 (58:15):
I think this is crazy? No, no, I hate, but
it's no way, so no.

Speaker 27 (58:28):
Quick the ladder, give me some broke.

Speaker 29 (58:30):
I'll tie his hands and feet while he's unconscious court.

Speaker 9 (58:33):
Skebby as if he'd been through the war.

Speaker 27 (58:37):
You thanks hold now, think they come all better from
local scubby?

Speaker 29 (58:46):
I should hold you now, may come with.

Speaker 9 (58:52):
All right scubby? Oh boy, come on drink, Come on drinking,
Come on doubles and water.

Speaker 27 (59:00):
Come on, come on and see you all right? When
him wake up?

Speaker 9 (59:10):
Poor guy, And I'll tire your arms anyway.

Speaker 11 (59:16):
And you'll be more comfortable.

Speaker 30 (59:20):
Hey, what this.

Speaker 29 (59:24):
Coil of wire with a lot of metal.

Speaker 13 (59:28):
That's dance.

Speaker 32 (59:32):
Of course.

Speaker 9 (59:33):
The mystery of the flying duck mine is a mystery
no longer.

Speaker 4 (59:49):
Getting better now that you've had them sleep, I feel
pretty good.

Speaker 9 (59:53):
Why you don't remember what happened to you yesterday morning?

Speaker 27 (59:56):
Well, the last thing I recall is going to the
water bucket taking a long drink.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
I think this.

Speaker 4 (01:00:01):
The more I drank, the more I wanted all that water.
But that was loaded with loco weed juwics. Well, I
surprised you didn't notice it.

Speaker 27 (01:00:07):
Oh, I'm surprised at myself now. But both the amalgamators,
even crossing himself, kept drinking while pretending two.

Speaker 29 (01:00:14):
From that same bucket. Well, they certainly had me food.

Speaker 9 (01:00:18):
It looks cutty. You remember seeing these discs strung.

Speaker 29 (01:00:21):
On this coil of wire.

Speaker 27 (01:00:23):
Oh yeah, yeah, I recall seeing one of the Amalgamators
have it last night. Why did I bring it here?

Speaker 10 (01:00:30):
You did?

Speaker 9 (01:00:30):
And it breaks the case wide open?

Speaker 29 (01:00:32):
Well, good for me, even if I don't didn't know it.

Speaker 27 (01:00:35):
They tell me, Nick, what are those disc jews?

Speaker 39 (01:00:38):
For them?

Speaker 30 (01:00:38):
Here?

Speaker 6 (01:00:38):
I'll show you.

Speaker 11 (01:00:39):
Yeah, I'll watch.

Speaker 9 (01:00:42):
I see this stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:00:44):
I'm craping over the amalgam make sure of quick silver
and gold. The man who worked in the battery boxes
and the mail the Amalgamators hung these discs and a
lot more like them than the battery boxes right where
they catched the best of the gold before it blowed
over the other plate. They took out over half the
gold that flowed.

Speaker 6 (01:00:59):
Into the boxes this way.

Speaker 27 (01:01:01):
So that's where all those thousands of dollars where the
gold disappeared.

Speaker 4 (01:01:04):
To Scudi, A very clever method of stealing the gold. Now,
if we could only find out what Crosby and his
gang do.

Speaker 9 (01:01:10):
With the Amalgama after they scrape it off that.

Speaker 27 (01:01:12):
Disk, you run, catch Casbie, I'll say, we do if
we can.

Speaker 9 (01:01:18):
He look, she oh that's the Orlando. She saved my life.

Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
Oh and yours too, incidentally saved my life.

Speaker 9 (01:01:25):
Oh all that local weed juice who drank is fatal
on the land. I gave you a nice antidote for it.

Speaker 27 (01:01:31):
Oh gosh, thanks Solanda. She I'm sure much obliged.

Speaker 30 (01:01:35):
Crosby.

Speaker 27 (01:01:36):
Track your knee me if you seem Randy knew all
about Crosbie.

Speaker 9 (01:01:40):
You come with me.

Speaker 29 (01:01:42):
Where are you taking us?

Speaker 27 (01:01:43):
Cosby cave inside milk and the hide stuff?

Speaker 9 (01:01:46):
Come you show you?

Speaker 36 (01:02:00):
Ah, so this is where it Crosby hides out.

Speaker 6 (01:02:04):
Huh yeah, too bad.

Speaker 9 (01:02:06):
There's no one here now.

Speaker 27 (01:02:08):
By the been here today. Look at Scubby, but that
looks like the scrap iarn we took out of the
cast getting the old powder house before you hit in it, right, Scubby?
And this scrap iron was in the other two caskets.
So they brought them up here.

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
I wonder why.

Speaker 29 (01:02:23):
There's the answer over there in that corner and the
fayrestrun it.

Speaker 27 (01:02:29):
And it's still Warmuy.

Speaker 29 (01:02:31):
We must have scared them off, but we came up.

Speaker 11 (01:02:33):
Wait, let they take the cover up the retort.

Speaker 27 (01:02:41):
Nick.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
Is that gold in there?

Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
That's just what it is, out of the gold stolen
from the mind. This is where the gang refined the
amount them they scraped off their discs. M teacher to
handle gold this way because it weighs much left. Since
we know from what dal Remples said that they never
disposed of any of the stolen gold. They must have
eight or nine hundred onto.

Speaker 29 (01:03:00):
It by now, Hey, maybe they've got it.

Speaker 27 (01:03:03):
Hidden around here somewhere They did have skebby, but not now.

Speaker 9 (01:03:06):
Well they should think so.

Speaker 6 (01:03:08):
Yeah, take a look outside.

Speaker 4 (01:03:10):
There's been digging there very recently.

Speaker 27 (01:03:12):
Oh, but of course they had to dig up the
bodies of the two detectives to ship them back home.

Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
No, no, no, Coby.

Speaker 9 (01:03:18):
The way it looks to me is this.

Speaker 29 (01:03:19):
After I got away from last night, hawse Be and
his men took up the casket. They tried to barro
me and and thought, all.

Speaker 11 (01:03:24):
There you hey, you didn't tell me about it later, Kevy.

Speaker 9 (01:03:27):
Right now, I'm interested what happened here?

Speaker 4 (01:03:29):
They brought the three caskets up here early this morning,
loaded them up.

Speaker 9 (01:03:32):
How could they load three of them?

Speaker 27 (01:03:33):
They only had two bodies, Oh, scubby, three caskets were
loaded up.

Speaker 9 (01:03:36):
Don't you understand yet?

Speaker 27 (01:03:38):
No, they come afraid, I don't.

Speaker 9 (01:03:40):
How can they be going up?

Speaker 29 (01:03:41):
How good are you riding?

Speaker 9 (01:03:42):
A horse riding a horse.

Speaker 29 (01:03:44):
Yeah, oh, I used to ride years ago.

Speaker 4 (01:03:48):
Why good slander, and you got a couple of good,
fast horses right away?

Speaker 27 (01:03:51):
For you get two good horses quick, good.

Speaker 9 (01:03:54):
Come on, Scubby, that's got the horses.

Speaker 27 (01:03:56):
And ride to the railway station before the eastbound crane
gets in. But Nick, what's all a hurry?

Speaker 4 (01:04:13):
Unless I'm wrong, Scubby, these three caskets are going east
on the next train.

Speaker 9 (01:04:18):
We've got to get there in time to stop them. Paul,
even Crosby himself.

Speaker 27 (01:04:21):
Would recognize us these Indian costumes alive the leathers.

Speaker 9 (01:04:24):
Well, we may need to be disguised before we get through.

Speaker 29 (01:04:28):
Hey, you didn't finish telling me how you got.

Speaker 27 (01:04:30):
Away from Crosby and his gang when they started to
bury alive.

Speaker 6 (01:04:34):
What did happen?

Speaker 27 (01:04:34):
Nick, Well, they dug the hole and they put.

Speaker 9 (01:04:37):
The casket down in it. I tried to probe it
is loose, but my hands were tied behind me.

Speaker 29 (01:04:42):
I worked on them, and just as they started throwing the.

Speaker 9 (01:04:44):
Dirt back on top of the caskets, I finally got
my hands free and untied my feet. Just then I
heard shooting and some female screaming.

Speaker 29 (01:04:52):
A female hoped there in the wild.

Speaker 9 (01:04:54):
Yeah, the land.

Speaker 4 (01:04:55):
I found out later when I managed to loosen the
cover and push it up enough to see that Crosby
and the men were watching something across the clearing.

Speaker 9 (01:05:03):
So I seized my chance and climbed carefully out of
the hole.

Speaker 4 (01:05:06):
On the opposite side. I started to run, they saw
him and started shooting. Fortunately, though they were bad shots,
and I was almost free when a bullet grazed my head.
Must to stun me, because I remember nothing more till
I woke up in Zorlander's hut this morning.

Speaker 27 (01:05:21):
Well, do you know what it was that distracted the
men's attention.

Speaker 4 (01:05:25):
Orlando told me that you were chasing her, trying to
shoot her.

Speaker 9 (01:05:28):
She was screaming.

Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
You chased her on the other side of the clearing
and then went off after something else. For just about
then that you saw me running toward her. When Crosby
saw me drop, he gave up the chase.

Speaker 9 (01:05:40):
Orlando waited until they went back, and then dragged me.

Speaker 13 (01:05:42):
To her hut.

Speaker 27 (01:05:43):
Gosh, Dick, we all ottis Orlando right, scubby?

Speaker 4 (01:05:48):
And the best way we can pay that debt is
to see that Crosby and his murdering peals hand up
where they belonged behind bars or in the electric chairs.

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
Do you understand, Betsy?

Speaker 9 (01:06:12):
You want the police chief to meet you at.

Speaker 27 (01:06:13):
The station in ten minutes. You want mister Dalrymple and
the President and treasurer of the mine to meet you
in the chief office in an hour.

Speaker 9 (01:06:20):
That's right.

Speaker 27 (01:06:20):
I'll be sure you get them all. Don't worry, I'll
take care of it. These are the ones thick. Please
see here on the baggage truck.

Speaker 9 (01:06:36):
Have you noticed the names that I'm stubby?

Speaker 27 (01:06:38):
Yeah, Joe Riley, Joe Kestler. Oh look Nick Carter, rather be.

Speaker 9 (01:06:46):
Out here addressed as an Indians and in there rested
of course one s.

Speaker 30 (01:06:50):
Now reined in the face.

Speaker 27 (01:06:52):
We got to get these caskets into the baggage.

Speaker 30 (01:06:54):
Car in just a minute.

Speaker 9 (01:06:55):
You see this badge, special agent. So what what do
you want me to do? Just leave these caskets in
the baggage truck for now.

Speaker 29 (01:07:01):
But they're supposed to go on saying here quiet, hey,
look here, fagust.

Speaker 9 (01:07:05):
Master got these boxes on the train.

Speaker 29 (01:07:07):
And be click about it. No, be in hurry, mister,
Why you Indian meddler?

Speaker 27 (01:07:12):
What the deuce to do?

Speaker 15 (01:07:14):
You?

Speaker 6 (01:07:14):
Look behind you?

Speaker 16 (01:07:16):
What do you mean?

Speaker 9 (01:07:17):
Take your head off, scubby.

Speaker 29 (01:07:18):
Sure Nick, there you are, mister.

Speaker 27 (01:07:20):
Crossey, Dave Jarvis, Why.

Speaker 9 (01:07:22):
You don't try to start anything Crossy.

Speaker 27 (01:07:24):
I've got my gun boxes.

Speaker 9 (01:07:26):
I'm you man officer. These three right here, that's.

Speaker 29 (01:07:28):
Your hands to all of your past.

Speaker 4 (01:07:31):
Why all of you, you three men are under arrest,
Dodter probably the Flying Duck Mining with the murder of
detectives Riley and Tesfler. I'm mister Dalrymple. I asked you

(01:07:52):
and the officials of the Flying Duck Mine to meet
me here in the office of the Chief of Police
because I want to show you what's in the caskets
at cross they were taking back with him.

Speaker 9 (01:08:02):
How the first casket is supposed to contain.

Speaker 27 (01:08:04):
The body of Phil Kessler. Oh, it's got to open
it surely cool?

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
Yes, she.

Speaker 4 (01:08:10):
In these three caskets you'll find the entire amount of
gold stolen from the mine, stolen by Dalrymple, the mine manager, Crosby,
the mine super and four other workmen who worked in
the amalgam room of the mill. They stole the amalgam,
refined it in their own purnace, and buried it in
two holes in the ground, which was supposed to be
the graves.

Speaker 9 (01:08:25):
Of the two dead detectives. You used to cut it.

Speaker 4 (01:08:27):
That much gold would make the caskets pretty heavy.

Speaker 27 (01:08:30):
That next to wait, the noticed no cheap because.

Speaker 4 (01:08:33):
When you ship a body by train, the casket has
to be lead lined and heremetically sealed.

Speaker 10 (01:08:37):
That means it.

Speaker 4 (01:08:38):
Weighs much more than the usual casket.

Speaker 9 (01:08:40):
Crosbie, Legard and Perkins, We're each.

Speaker 4 (01:08:42):
Going to take one of the caskets, eat for them
as a personal baggage, which would prevent anybody from examine.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
Them too closely.

Speaker 29 (01:08:48):
One of the cleverest kings I've seen in a long time,
but it wasn't clever enough, not with Nick on the job.

Speaker 27 (01:08:54):
You have to get up early in the morning to
beat Nick.

Speaker 9 (01:09:14):
This was another strange experience of Nick.

Speaker 27 (01:09:16):
Carter, Master Detective called the Flying Duck Murders or Nick
Carter and the Gold.

Speaker 5 (01:09:21):
Theme eighty two years ago. October fourth, nineteen forty three.
Nick Carter, Master Detective here on Classic Radio Theater with
Wyat Cox. Lon Clark played the detective Nick Carter for
most of his career from nineteen forty three to nineteen
fifty five. He also was a district attorney in the

(01:09:42):
radio drama Front Page Feral, and did a number of
other shows as well over the years, mostly on Mutual.
He also was a prominent on the Broadway stage during
his years. He replaced Jason Robards in the nineteen fifty

(01:10:03):
six Broadway production of long Day's Journey in the Night,
and he was back in the Sydney Sheldon's Roman Candle
Back in the sixties as well. He died at the
age of eighty six, and he had quite the radio career.
Ln Clark Nick Carter Master Detective Here on Classic Radio

(01:10:25):
Theater with Wyatt Coos on this Saturday Tomorrow, Orson Wells
says Harry Lyme in the prequel to the Third Man
motion picture, The Lives of Harry Lyme from nineteen fifty one,
Jack Webb in an episode of Dragnet from nineteen fifty
Jackson Becka's Filo Vance from nineteen forty eight, and John

(01:10:45):
Dayner as the Frontier Gentleman from nineteen fifty eight. On Monday,
We'll have comedy Dems Taylor in an Armed Forces recording
of it Pays to be Ignorant and if you've never
heard this weird quiz show.

Speaker 23 (01:11:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:11:02):
Also Stan Freeberg in his short run show from nineteen
fifty seven, Jack Benny from nineteen forty six where Jack
gets to meet Dennis's mom for the first time, and
Harold Perry as the Great Guilder Sleep from nineteen forty eight.
Comedy continues on Tuesday with Fred Allen and Ozzy and
Harriet from nineteen forty five, the Who's Your Hot Shots

(01:11:23):
from nineteen fifty and Milton Burrell who will be We
will Milty be satirizing? Here I'm trying to remember here,
what is it that's on Tuesday show?

Speaker 34 (01:11:36):
There?

Speaker 5 (01:11:36):
It is, oh, a salute to the Old West, So
that'll be fun. We'll get back to crime on Wednesday
with Barry Craig Confidential Investigator, Boston Blackie, Philip Marlow, and
a ninety nine year old edition of Calling All Cars
from nineteen thirty six. On Thursday, we will have Bill
Harris and Alice Faye with Comedy from nineteen fifty three.

(01:11:57):
Neat an uncut episode of the show which includes the
warm Up to the show from nineteen fifty three, Bibber
and Molly from nineteen forty five, Guildersleeve from nineteen forty six,
and Father Knows Best from nineteen fifty two comedy again
on Friday, Amos and Andy, the Aldrich Family, Lemon Abner,

(01:12:19):
and Jack Benny. And then next Saturday we'll have more
crime with Counterspy, an episode of Escape the Elementals, also
the Lineup, and that episode of suspense you heard promoted
in Fantas Side. That's all coming up the week ahead
here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox coming up

(01:12:41):
next Counterspy.

Speaker 14 (01:12:50):
Civil Defense has now located fallout shelter spaces for more
than one hundred and sixty five million people, but that
still leaves many billions to go before we reach the
ultimate goal of fallout protection for everyone. We can build
to that goal not by constructing expensive special shelters, but

(01:13:11):
by simply making sure that fallout shielding is built into
new schools, apartments, industrial and municipal buildings that will be
put up in the next few years. That way, we
can gain additional fallout protection in new buildings without wasting space,
at little or no additional cost. For more information, consult

(01:13:37):
your local civil defense director.

Speaker 5 (01:13:40):
We continue now on Classic Radio Theater on this Saturday
with an episode of counter Spy. The Phillips h Lords
production of the Pseudo FBI, If you will, Don McLaughlin
and Mendel Kramer, starring from seventy six years ago. October fourth,
nineteen forty nine. The Case of the Sweepstakes.

Speaker 40 (01:13:59):
Murder Pepsicola p E p s I That's your Smartest
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Speaker 34 (01:14:26):
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Speaker 6 (01:14:30):
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Speaker 34 (01:14:33):
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Speaker 9 (01:14:43):
Counterspy especially appointed to investigate.

Speaker 34 (01:14:47):
And combatants the enemies of our country.

Speaker 9 (01:14:50):
Both at home and abroad.

Speaker 10 (01:14:56):
Good night.

Speaker 40 (01:14:57):
The Case of the Sweet State Murder. Another Counterspy report
to the American people. Glass you eats Tuesday and Thursday
by Pepsi Cola.

Speaker 41 (01:15:07):
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Speaker 40 (01:15:10):
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Speaker 10 (01:15:42):
Remember why cake glass when Pepsi's bed. And now to
counter spies.

Speaker 40 (01:15:58):
It was a moonless night and the small southern town
of gulf Port, near the Mexican border, and a timly left,
evil smelling corridor of a rooming house. Two shadowy men
stood before a closed door.

Speaker 10 (01:16:13):
You sure this is the room, positive, sheriff. Let's go on. Wait,
wait to get away from the door, but get back
alongside it.

Speaker 6 (01:16:23):
That's it.

Speaker 10 (01:16:24):
Let's see if it's unlocked.

Speaker 42 (01:16:28):
That is unlocked. No light in the room. Listen, I'm
going to shut the door open, shine my light in.
You stay right way? Are till I tell you?

Speaker 1 (01:16:40):
Okay?

Speaker 9 (01:16:40):
Sure?

Speaker 10 (01:16:47):
What the come on to? What is it? Look there
on the floor. It's French. What's left of him? His chest?
Look at his chest?

Speaker 24 (01:17:03):
What?

Speaker 10 (01:17:04):
I don't know? What did it? I never seen anything
like this, It's obvious.

Speaker 27 (01:17:19):
Uncle Si.

Speaker 43 (01:17:20):
The big shots in the sweep stakes. Rocket found out French.
She was going to talk to a newspaper reporter me,
so they kill him.

Speaker 10 (01:17:27):
I never saw anything so so horrible.

Speaker 38 (01:17:30):
Listen outrage Tom.

Speaker 43 (01:17:31):
If they think they've stopped me, they got another thing coming.
I found something in Frenchy's room tonight which just might
lead me to the men we want.

Speaker 1 (01:17:40):
What did you find?

Speaker 10 (01:17:41):
I'll tell you all about it when I bring in
the story. I've got to be on my way.

Speaker 36 (01:17:43):
And no, no, Tom, one man's been murdered already.

Speaker 30 (01:17:48):
I don't want anything to happen to you.

Speaker 43 (01:17:49):
Oh no, look, uncle side, this is a terrific story.
Thousands and thousands of Americans are buying tickets on what's
supposed to be an official Mexican sweep steaks, but the
Mexican government says it doesn't know anything about it. And
tonight the racketeers prove they're murderers too. Is the Gulf
fort Is that going to laugh at all?

Speaker 10 (01:18:05):
That's not the point, Tom. I can't let my own
nephew risk his life.

Speaker 43 (01:18:10):
Your nephew has to take the same chance as any
other reporter would take.

Speaker 6 (01:18:13):
See you later, Uncle Zi.

Speaker 10 (01:18:25):
Hello, it's Tom Fishing there.

Speaker 22 (01:18:28):
No, he's not. This is his wife, Ruth. Can I
take a message?

Speaker 20 (01:18:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 36 (01:18:33):
Tell um till they off. The big story's working on.
Unless he wants the same thing to happen to him
that happened to French.

Speaker 22 (01:18:47):
Tom. That man on the phone frightens me. Don'ting please
drop the story you're working on.

Speaker 10 (01:18:52):
Drop the biggest story that ever came my way.

Speaker 44 (01:18:54):
Don't be chilly rude, but I.

Speaker 22 (01:18:55):
Don't want anything to happen to you.

Speaker 10 (01:18:57):
Nothing's going to happen to me. Now where? Oh kiss?

Speaker 36 (01:19:01):
What's that something I picked up in Frenchy's room?

Speaker 16 (01:19:04):
Looks like appropriate ship?

Speaker 45 (01:19:06):
Well, I gotta get a movie.

Speaker 22 (01:19:07):
Where are you going?

Speaker 10 (01:19:08):
Tom? No, you're forgetting the rules.

Speaker 43 (01:19:10):
When Papa goes out on a big story, Mama doesn't
ask questions.

Speaker 16 (01:19:13):
Tom, don't go Hey.

Speaker 10 (01:19:14):
Stop it now, relax, I'll be back soon. Hey, you
in the launch, you got room for one more.

Speaker 27 (01:19:30):
I'm going out to the Gamley ship too.

Speaker 36 (01:19:59):
I had to, yes, Monk, big spending crowd aboard tonight, Taro.

Speaker 10 (01:20:05):
Here's to take from the wheels so far?

Speaker 6 (01:20:07):
How much monk?

Speaker 36 (01:20:09):
Twenty one hundred bucks? And the launch is still bringing
the suckers.

Speaker 10 (01:20:12):
Out here to the ship. Not bad?

Speaker 6 (01:20:14):
Huh, oh, No, he's not bad. What do you come from?

Speaker 10 (01:20:21):
Don't you trust me?

Speaker 6 (01:20:22):
Just as far as how do you say?

Speaker 45 (01:20:25):
I can see now, look, Taro, uh do I'm enjoyed
to count the money.

Speaker 10 (01:20:31):
Much money?

Speaker 36 (01:20:32):
You want to be having the time of your life
then waiting That stuff is rolling in.

Speaker 6 (01:20:38):
The door, monk the back door.

Speaker 10 (01:20:39):
Okay, oh is it?

Speaker 35 (01:20:43):
Hey?

Speaker 27 (01:20:44):
Johnny over on.

Speaker 10 (01:20:48):
All right?

Speaker 6 (01:20:49):
Get it? Oh, chake that gun out of my back.

Speaker 36 (01:20:55):
That's Tom Fisher, the reporter.

Speaker 10 (01:20:56):
Why that's right, Turro got I'm snooping around below decks.

Speaker 45 (01:21:00):
You know where your vision? You have found what you
expected below?

Speaker 15 (01:21:07):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (01:21:07):
Why, I don't know what you mean.

Speaker 45 (01:21:11):
You're a poor liar, Senor, nor are you wise? You
should have hit the advice conveyed to your wife, then
she would not become a widow. Why, Senor that I
was once a matador a fighter bulls. This case contains

(01:21:31):
two of my favorite sorts. This gold hilted one was
presented to me by enthusiastic officionalos in Mexico City after
a corrida in which I despatched six of the bravest
and fiercest bulls ever seen in any arena. As you

(01:21:52):
see from the side, the blade appears to be a strain,
But if you hold it this way, observe how the
blade curves to penetrate to the bull's hat. Now, Senor Bull,
I am sighting on your hot.

Speaker 35 (01:22:17):
People farm counter Spyfield Office, Charleston, South Carolina. And David

(01:22:38):
Harding Mortington, still another distributor of phony Mexican sweepstakes tickets
apprehended here terrified.

Speaker 30 (01:22:46):
The man pleaded his arrest.

Speaker 35 (01:22:48):
He kept secret, denied knowing leaders of racket, but said
had been worn. Had any squealer meant horrible deaths by
a golden sword.

Speaker 34 (01:23:11):
Attention all Counterspy Statistical Department personnel.

Speaker 6 (01:23:16):
It is David Harding.

Speaker 34 (01:23:18):
Referring to counterfeit Mexnican sweepstakes tickets. This case has some
strange angles and is high on the Counterspy Doctor. We've
had an official request for help from the Mexican government. Further,
thousands of Americans are being swindled. All murders of last
three months are to be reclassified as to method of homicide.

(01:23:42):
The counterfeit tickets themselves on hand here are to be
given to my assistant Harry Peters or laboratory analysis.

Speaker 46 (01:23:56):
Here it is the paper those tony sweepstake tickets were
on as a thirty four pounds supernewsprints dot. It's made
by the Southwest Pulp and Paper Mill in Orengo.

Speaker 10 (01:24:05):
Texas, Texas.

Speaker 6 (01:24:06):
Uh get a list of their customers duties. We can't
get that for day or two.

Speaker 10 (01:24:10):
The mill had a fire last week.

Speaker 6 (01:24:11):
The records were in a myth.

Speaker 10 (01:24:13):
Oh fine, they told me though.

Speaker 46 (01:24:14):
A couple of one hundred newspapers buy SuperNews sprints for
their rotographya section this particular grade. In addition to printers
all over the country.

Speaker 1 (01:24:22):
That's many.

Speaker 10 (01:24:23):
I told you this would be tough.

Speaker 36 (01:24:24):
Well, maybe we can extradite matters. What does the labs
say about the ink us on the phony ticket? Well,
it's the standard black ink. Chief colored ink or some
special variation in black might be traced. The standard black
is practically impossible. All about the printing press, it's a
flat dead press printing in large sheets of paper, not
from continuous roles. As soon as we get that list
from the paper mail, I'll instruct our agents. Yes, what

(01:24:46):
is it, miss Ferguson?

Speaker 10 (01:24:49):
Hard enough?

Speaker 22 (01:24:49):
Whin you want to see you?

Speaker 1 (01:24:51):
Well?

Speaker 6 (01:24:51):
I like your new hair do allan?

Speaker 22 (01:24:53):
Thank you, mister Peters. Only it's not you.

Speaker 1 (01:24:58):
Oh what is it?

Speaker 10 (01:24:59):
A this report?

Speaker 36 (01:25:01):
Two nights ago, a man called Frenchy, a small time
Drafter was found murdered in a rooming house in Gulfport, Texas.
He'd been killed by a long stiletto or sword that
mutilated his chest and went completely through his body. Oh wait,
Early the following morning, the body of a young newspaper reporter,
Tom Fisher was found in the gulf, just off Gulf Fort.

(01:25:23):
He'd been murdered in exactly the same way.

Speaker 46 (01:25:26):
Say that reports my constant office about the distributor who
was peddling the phony sweepstake ticket.

Speaker 10 (01:25:31):
Didn't he say something about a sword.

Speaker 6 (01:25:33):
Right, Peters?

Speaker 36 (01:25:33):
He said that anyone in the racket who squealed died
horribly by a golden sword.

Speaker 10 (01:25:40):
Let's take a look at this map.

Speaker 36 (01:25:41):
Here, Ah, what died. Here's a RNGO where you said
that paper mills located, and here's Gulf Fort about one
hundred miles away. Peters, we've got to short cut the
job of tracing this paper. I want you to grab
the first plane for Gulf Fort and go to work.

Speaker 46 (01:26:11):
Try to recall, did your husband tell you where he
was going that night? The last time he was going?

Speaker 22 (01:26:18):
I asked him, but he wouldn't tell me. Mister Peters,
I beg him not to do it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:26):
Not try to put this.

Speaker 10 (01:26:28):
Come on now, Tom's editor.

Speaker 46 (01:26:36):
His uncle said Tom didn't have any real clue to
the men behind the phony sweet stage racket. Did Tom
tell you anything that he didn't tell his uncle?

Speaker 1 (01:26:46):
No?

Speaker 22 (01:26:47):
Tom said he just looked around the room of that
cool man who who'd been murdered frenchship.

Speaker 46 (01:26:54):
Now try to remember missus Fishy, this is very important.
Tom may have said something with we might use as.

Speaker 10 (01:27:00):
A clue some some little things, but he didn't.

Speaker 22 (01:27:03):
We had a rule something poker chip, a golden cooker chip.

Speaker 10 (01:27:11):
A poker chip.

Speaker 22 (01:27:13):
This one was gold and it had the picture of
the bull on it. Tom said he found it in
Prenchy wool.

Speaker 46 (01:27:19):
Well, ordinary poker chips aren't using as gold. They're white,
red or blue, but they do have gold tips the
high priced wines and gambling houses.

Speaker 10 (01:27:28):
Are there any gambling houses.

Speaker 46 (01:27:29):
And golf court?

Speaker 27 (01:27:29):
You know?

Speaker 24 (01:27:31):
Not?

Speaker 22 (01:27:31):
In Tom there's a ship out in the golf converted
yachts with people go to diamond dance and gamble and
too called.

Speaker 10 (01:27:44):
Too means a bull in Spanish. And there was a
picture of a bull on the chip your husband had.

Speaker 22 (01:27:49):
Do you think that's where Tom went that night?

Speaker 10 (01:27:51):
It could be.

Speaker 46 (01:27:53):
That's where I'm going on.

Speaker 37 (01:27:54):
I go with you.

Speaker 10 (01:27:54):
No, no, miss SISI this might be.

Speaker 22 (01:27:56):
I don't care. I want to find a man who
killed my husband, my job.

Speaker 10 (01:28:01):
You stay here and I'll taking touch with me. I'll sell.

Speaker 27 (01:28:13):
All right, every.

Speaker 22 (01:28:25):
Good evening.

Speaker 10 (01:28:26):
Ruth Fisher?

Speaker 1 (01:28:27):
What are you doing here?

Speaker 22 (01:28:28):
I told you I want to find a man who
chose my husband?

Speaker 10 (01:28:30):
I told you to Oh what's the use you're here?

Speaker 22 (01:28:33):
Now?

Speaker 14 (01:28:33):
Have you found out?

Speaker 39 (01:28:34):
Missus?

Speaker 1 (01:28:35):
No, not yet.

Speaker 10 (01:28:36):
I've been circulating around in the crowd.

Speaker 24 (01:28:37):
But so.

Speaker 1 (01:28:40):
Say that it is again.

Speaker 10 (01:28:43):
You hear that sound end of dull hammering.

Speaker 1 (01:28:46):
It's coming from below decks.

Speaker 22 (01:28:49):
Yes, it's probably the yah thing.

Speaker 46 (01:28:52):
We're not moving vent a later punts No, oh, oh,
there's too much noise in here. Come out on deck,
but we can hear better.

Speaker 10 (01:29:07):
But yeah, mister.

Speaker 47 (01:29:27):
Yes, by George, I think I know what that sound is.
What a printing press, printing press out here on the bone.
I'm sure it is that seems to be coming from
below decks. Come on, missus, fitcher the stairs.

Speaker 22 (01:29:39):
Look mister two men behind you.

Speaker 16 (01:29:45):
You true, mister Peters.

Speaker 10 (01:29:59):
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Speaker 10 (01:31:16):
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to Cowper Spy and David Harding in Washington.

Speaker 6 (01:31:33):
That's Ferguson. Any word from Peters and go Ford yet.

Speaker 22 (01:31:37):
Not a thing. I'm worried, MACCARTI.

Speaker 6 (01:31:39):
Oh my, I'm flying down to go Ford.

Speaker 14 (01:31:42):
Say that.

Speaker 36 (01:31:43):
Call the airport, tell him to get a plane ready,
and then call Merk Kennedy at the field office in Dallas.

Speaker 6 (01:31:47):
Tell him to meet me in Gulf Ford.

Speaker 10 (01:31:48):
I'm leaving in once.

Speaker 45 (01:31:59):
Wake up your Peters, wake up, I said, you will
be silent and your official or you get it too.
Then you're Peters. Wake up, it's morning. You can sleep
all night.

Speaker 36 (01:32:17):
Johnny sure gave an awful track on mynog and Carl Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:32:20):
But he's not dead.

Speaker 45 (01:32:21):
Yeah, wake up your spine?

Speaker 10 (01:32:26):
What coming to ropes?

Speaker 6 (01:32:33):
Off my arms and up.

Speaker 10 (01:32:34):
You'll do nothing, Senor except what I tell.

Speaker 9 (01:32:38):
You, will you?

Speaker 38 (01:32:42):
I I am el Toro elt Oh you run this
gambling ship and the see see.

Speaker 45 (01:32:53):
The gambling ship and all else you can to fine.
I mean, you wish both yourself and charmings and you're
a fisher to huh naturally world, and all you need
to do to send the telegram to your how do
you say chief in Washington, the Great David Hardy. You

(01:33:15):
say to him you have investigated and the headquarter of
this week stake is nothing golf for it as you think?
First do you small town of Vernoche over in Mexico?

Speaker 6 (01:33:28):
And you think, then now, hey.

Speaker 36 (01:33:30):
That's good Tom.

Speaker 46 (01:33:31):
And after I send this wire taking the heat off you,
missus Fisher, and I get bumped off.

Speaker 10 (01:33:36):
O O, no, no, I mean to go after a
short while you're made free.

Speaker 46 (01:33:42):
I think I'm dumb enough to believe that I know
you kill that poor bump Crunchy, and you kill Tom Fisher.

Speaker 10 (01:33:49):
You grieve me.

Speaker 6 (01:33:50):
I need to go to doubt my word.

Speaker 10 (01:33:53):
But you listen to me.

Speaker 45 (01:33:54):
Then you I promise nothing but send the telegram. This
Senor will not be hard I promise.

Speaker 46 (01:34:04):
I wouldn't trust you as far as I could throw
the animal you're named after.

Speaker 10 (01:34:09):
Very well, then, Senor pities observe.

Speaker 45 (01:34:18):
Here is my gold hilted Matador sword with which I
dispatched the treacherous frenchy and reporter. Now you do as
I say, or, I killed Senor official here right before.

Speaker 6 (01:34:34):
You're right?

Speaker 10 (01:34:38):
Oh what you say, senor? Okay, I attack bueno bueno.

Speaker 6 (01:34:45):
There's a telegraph cart here on my desk and.

Speaker 10 (01:34:48):
Tain any not right?

Speaker 6 (01:34:50):
All right, and tie my hands.

Speaker 10 (01:34:52):
That is simple with the sword. But try nothing rash
from ego. I know.

Speaker 46 (01:35:01):
And I'm like, let's see it. Not much ink and
is think one. Oh, it's enough for the purpose not
to blind you from up and I am blind.

Speaker 48 (01:35:12):
Now you don't take me myy you watch.

Speaker 30 (01:35:19):
Give me that come.

Speaker 6 (01:35:23):
Carr, are you monkey?

Speaker 10 (01:35:28):
Bad luck too?

Speaker 9 (01:35:29):
Got away?

Speaker 46 (01:35:30):
You start running out into another fat b Help me
push the desk against the door.

Speaker 1 (01:35:39):
I'm trying to figure something out here.

Speaker 46 (01:35:49):
Here they come, I'll be able to hold them off
with monks down for a while. There's only one bullet
left in it.

Speaker 10 (01:36:05):
I just had a session with golf poor sheriff, mister Hardy.
Two fellas killed.

Speaker 36 (01:36:10):
A frenchchie and Tom Fisher.

Speaker 45 (01:36:12):
Two folks disappear, Peters and missus Fisher.

Speaker 36 (01:36:15):
But the Sheriff's plumb out ideas and we're gonna have
to find Peters and missus Fisher without him. And Kennedy,
did you see the newspaper editor Cyrus Manning. Yes, he's
young Fisher's uncle and he's afraid of something, and I
have an idea, but I can't do anything about it
until I hear may think that's the call I want now,
Hardy Pigging. Oh yes, mister King, have you got the

(01:36:35):
shipping figure?

Speaker 6 (01:36:37):
God, let's have it.

Speaker 36 (01:36:40):
Four four point six seven tons, thanks very much. No, No,
that's all I need right now. Thanks again.

Speaker 6 (01:36:50):
Goodbye.

Speaker 36 (01:36:51):
My hunt was right, Kennedy. I've got a plan, but
I'll need your help. I'm going back to see Cyrus Manning, editor.

Speaker 10 (01:36:57):
Of the Gulf Court Division.

Speaker 36 (01:37:06):
You want your niece, Ruth Fisher, to be found, and
you want the killers of your nephew brought to justice?

Speaker 9 (01:37:10):
Is in ned Ryan?

Speaker 10 (01:37:11):
Sure you?

Speaker 36 (01:37:11):
Mister Hardy, Well, then tell me who killed your nephew
and who's responsible for your niece's disappearance.

Speaker 10 (01:37:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 36 (01:37:18):
You're afraid to talk. You're afraid you will be killed
too by the golden sword. That's not true, mister Manning.
The man you are protecting can't afford to let you live.

Speaker 10 (01:37:29):
You know too much.

Speaker 36 (01:37:30):
Your only chance to save your life is to confide
in me. Those fellows may be planning to murder you
at this very moment.

Speaker 45 (01:37:37):
I got mister Mannie.

Speaker 6 (01:37:41):
Somebody shot at you from the window. Come back here, bad,
mister Manning.

Speaker 9 (01:37:45):
He got away.

Speaker 6 (01:37:48):
Manning, go all right.

Speaker 10 (01:37:53):
I think so good. Hey, I told you you were
in great danger. Use your head man, talk before it's
too late.

Speaker 9 (01:38:08):
Get away from the door.

Speaker 6 (01:38:10):
I'll shoot again. I have got in your cost in
your feet.

Speaker 9 (01:38:14):
You don't have no follet.

Speaker 27 (01:38:17):
Come on, wait right down the door, got her.

Speaker 37 (01:38:24):
Right?

Speaker 22 (01:38:25):
I rolled the bullets really gone.

Speaker 10 (01:38:29):
I find the bluffing and he.

Speaker 38 (01:38:30):
Cold my blood, Peter.

Speaker 22 (01:38:34):
The door is cracking.

Speaker 1 (01:38:36):
Afraid it won't be long now.

Speaker 35 (01:38:50):
Well, there's a gambling ship with Gardy Coral.

Speaker 36 (01:38:53):
Right, Kennedy, bring us in along time, Lieutenant Gardy.

Speaker 30 (01:38:58):
Aren't you scared?

Speaker 35 (01:38:58):
There's innocent patrons of board.

Speaker 6 (01:39:00):
No launches have come out of here all day.

Speaker 9 (01:39:02):
Kennedy.

Speaker 36 (01:39:03):
Right, man, check your weapons, prepare to board.

Speaker 6 (01:39:06):
Kenneth, head us in.

Speaker 10 (01:39:07):
Cut your hand. There are no body inside, mister Hattie,

(01:39:30):
and the deck's empty.

Speaker 36 (01:39:32):
I don't like it, Kennedy.

Speaker 10 (01:39:34):
I sent six men down the port side. You want
to us to go up on this side. Let's go.

Speaker 34 (01:39:43):
That's a trap head The deck man return our fire.

Speaker 10 (01:40:01):
Here he is mister Harding Toro himself caught hiding up forward.
Peters must wing him to meet mister Hardy.

Speaker 45 (01:40:09):
I bowled to a great matador in my hand.

Speaker 36 (01:40:14):
Save that belonging for your trial to all right, Kennedy,
handcuff and hold him aboard our cutter.

Speaker 6 (01:40:19):
Peters, you are right, counters Domities Gordon.

Speaker 36 (01:40:24):
So these are the presses Toro used for printing the
phony sweepstake tickets, yet pretty cleverly setting them up down
here in the hold. Well, he'll never print any more tickets, Peters.
That ex bowl fighter is going to the electric chair.

Speaker 46 (01:40:37):
By the way, that Kennedy told me about the trick
you when he pulled on Manning, the newspaper editor, firing
blank shots near him to make him think Toro was
after him.

Speaker 6 (01:40:44):
So he talked Unfortunately at worked.

Speaker 46 (01:40:46):
How did you happen to suspect that smooth Old Minsulip
was part of this gang on the.

Speaker 36 (01:40:50):
Southwest paper mill Reporter, that the gould coort is that
bought super newsprint from them. I checked their shipping records
against Manning's daily inventory. The inventory was short, which made
me he suspected Manning was diverting paper to Toro for
his sweep steak tickets.

Speaker 46 (01:41:03):
Well, it was all a well concealed connection day.

Speaker 36 (01:41:06):
Yes, Torel was very clever with his golden sword, but
you'll find it won't cut the lock to the deathhouse door.

Speaker 40 (01:41:25):
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(01:41:48):
take less when pepsi is best?

Speaker 10 (01:41:51):
Whenever you reach for refreshment, remember.

Speaker 41 (01:41:54):
Pepsicola hit the spots. Truthful glasses had the lot lot
more value, lot more zest why take less when Tensey's best.

Speaker 34 (01:42:03):
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to Counterspy. Listen on Thursday for the exciting Counterspy Case
of the Genuine Counterfeits.

Speaker 36 (01:42:31):
In the Case of the Genuine Counterfeits, we faced the
baffling situation of mixed identities. Two men died, yet who
were they? One man lived while another hovered between life
and death, and a subtle criminal came within minutes of
getting away with a long prepared, carefully rehearsed plot, the
decisive clue a knife in a man's hands. I invite

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you to be tuned in on Thursday, day after tomorrow.

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For Case of the Genuine Fit on Counterspy. The Night's
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Theatre Royal, but first or reminder to visit us over
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Speaker 5 (01:45:07):
Theatre Royal starred Sir Lawrence Olivier, and later Sir Ralph
Richardson as the host of the show, syndicated in the
United States and aired for a period of time on NBC.
Here you're hearing the first episode of the show as
it was broadcast. During this episode, as you will hear
Sir Laurence Olivier say, he was busy so he couldn't

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actually star in the show. He just hosted the show
and he arranged for somebody else to be the star.
The show, produced by Harry Allen Towers to his Towers
of London Company, broadcast in America not only as I said,
on NBC, but through syndication and continued in syndication into

(01:45:50):
the seventies. This episode was originally broadcast on NBC on
this date back in nineteen fifty three, seventy two years ago.

Speaker 14 (01:46:11):
The national broadcasting copy presents Sir Laurence Olivier, your host
in Theater Royal.

Speaker 39 (01:46:33):
This is Laurence Olivia.

Speaker 50 (01:46:36):
I'm speaking to you from the stage of the Theater Royal, Haymarket,
in the heart of London's theater land. This is one
of London's oldest theaters and it is appropriate that I
should introduce the first of this new series of programs
from here.

Speaker 39 (01:46:49):
I am at this time rehearsing a new.

Speaker 50 (01:46:51):
Play with my wife, Vivian Lee, and after a short tour,
I shall be opening in London early next month. Because
of this, although I shall be introduce using the program
each week, I am for the first few of this
new series inviting some of my own good friends of
the theater to join me and appeared in subjects of
their own choice. My first guest is a very old

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friend of mine. A good few years ago I had
the pleasure of appearing as his guest on his own
program from New York, and that is why it gives
me a particular pleasure to return the compliment and to
reintroduce you this week to Awsen Wells. Awsen has chosen
a famous story by Alexander Pushkin, which you may know.

Speaker 15 (01:47:30):
It is a tale of excitement and suspense, which I
think you like.

Speaker 50 (01:47:33):
Here he is then Awesen Wells in the role of
Hermann in The Queen of Spades.

Speaker 31 (01:47:51):
Three seven Hayce three seven Hayes three seven Hace three
seven Queen Queen.

Speaker 15 (01:48:11):
So they say I'm mad. To they, they say, I'm
out of my mind.

Speaker 31 (01:48:17):
Hearing the book of Hospital room number seventeen, just as
though I were out of my mind. Listen to my friends, Listen,
I'm no more insane than you are, no more insane
than I was that evening, that evening at Normovs.

Speaker 15 (01:48:40):
Nomov of the Horse Gods, the night of the card party.
And how did you make out?

Speaker 1 (01:48:56):
You?

Speaker 10 (01:48:56):
Did you win?

Speaker 1 (01:48:57):
No?

Speaker 15 (01:48:57):
I lost that, just as I always do. I always
have been unlucky at cards.

Speaker 50 (01:49:01):
I play carefully, never raise the stakes, keep my head,
never let myself be put out.

Speaker 10 (01:49:05):
Yet I always lose.

Speaker 15 (01:49:07):
And you've never been tempted into putting your winnings back
onto a sequence.

Speaker 31 (01:49:10):
All on one card, double on the second, double, again
on the third.

Speaker 16 (01:49:13):
Not to me.

Speaker 15 (01:49:13):
I'm afraid you surprised me. I wish I got your temperament.

Speaker 10 (01:49:16):
What about herman here?

Speaker 15 (01:49:17):
He's never had a cat in his hand in his life,
yet he sits here till five in the morning.

Speaker 9 (01:49:21):
Just watching us play.

Speaker 39 (01:49:22):
Why not play fascinates me just to watch?

Speaker 10 (01:49:27):
And you never want to join in and try your luck?

Speaker 15 (01:49:29):
No, no, no, I'm in no position to throw away
what I've.

Speaker 39 (01:49:32):
Got in the hope of winning more than I need.

Speaker 31 (01:49:35):
Well, if you never start gambling, I suppose you never
acquire a taste for it.

Speaker 15 (01:49:39):
But you know, there's one person I can't understand.

Speaker 10 (01:49:42):
I want who's there?

Speaker 15 (01:49:43):
My grandmother, the Countess Una Fedotova. She never touches a car, grandmother.

Speaker 39 (01:49:47):
The count that's why should she want to gamble? She's
over eight years old.

Speaker 15 (01:49:51):
But that only shows you've never heard the story.

Speaker 9 (01:49:53):
No, and what is her story?

Speaker 1 (01:49:54):
Then?

Speaker 15 (01:49:55):
Come on, Tomski, you cannot leave us all in the
air like that. Well, it's very simple, really.

Speaker 31 (01:50:00):
The Countess loves an infallible system.

Speaker 15 (01:50:02):
She could win every time she played.

Speaker 31 (01:50:04):
True Hans, since my dear Tomsky, there's no such thing
as an infallible system.

Speaker 51 (01:50:09):
There's always a chance of losing. That's why I always
refused to play.

Speaker 31 (01:50:14):
There is an infallible system, herman, if you know it,
and the Countess does know it.

Speaker 15 (01:50:19):
Now listen to this.

Speaker 31 (01:50:20):
About sixty years ago, she was in Paris, beautiful, rich,
and she had a passion for cards.

Speaker 15 (01:50:25):
She had a run of bad luck. She lost every
time she played, and she ended.

Speaker 31 (01:50:29):
Up after one particularly bad eating by owing the Duke
of Orleans a very tidy sum.

Speaker 15 (01:50:34):
Now you've heard of the count Saint Germain, haven't you.

Speaker 31 (01:50:37):
Wasn't that Charlatan who said he was the wandering Jew
and pretended to have found the elixir of life. He
may have been a charlatan in some ways, but he
had extraordinary powers, supernatural powers, apparently, And he was the
one who taught the countess had infallible system. Nonsense, nonsense, tomski,
I tell you there's no such thing.

Speaker 15 (01:50:56):
Very well, then, how do you explain this? The countess
asked Germaine to lend her the money. Instead, he told
her the secret system.

Speaker 31 (01:51:04):
She went back to her side that very night, and
on just three cards, doubling and redoubling the stakes, she
won back the fortune she had lost. For my dear fellow,
that was just a lucky coincidence. If she had played again,
she'd have lost her fortune again.

Speaker 27 (01:51:17):
Oh no, not when she.

Speaker 15 (01:51:19):
Knew which three cards to play. You see, it had
been one of the conditions. By the way, I didn't
tell you that after.

Speaker 31 (01:51:25):
She played them just the once, she should never touch
a card again in her life, and she never has done.
You need to say, you have a grandmother with a
secret like that, which could make you millions, and you've
never managed to wingle it.

Speaker 1 (01:51:39):
Out of her.

Speaker 31 (01:51:39):
No, nobody ever has, not even her own sons, Well,
I wish the countries would take pity on me.

Speaker 15 (01:51:45):
Sometimes three infallible cards like that, and once would.

Speaker 1 (01:51:48):
Be a nun.

Speaker 15 (01:51:48):
Nun, I should retire a wealthy man from that single game.

Speaker 52 (01:52:00):
Oh.

Speaker 31 (01:52:00):
I had scoffed at the tale, pretended to disbelieve it,
but in my heart I knew it was true. There
is such an infallible system. There are three cards that
will always win. Every gambler knows that there are knows that.

Speaker 15 (01:52:17):
There must be.

Speaker 31 (01:52:18):
Once in a lifetime someone discovers the secret, and then
the fortune is made. And it was just those three
infallible cards that I had always been trying to discover,
watching game after game, never playing until I knew which
the secret sequence really was.

Speaker 39 (01:52:36):
Well, now I know.

Speaker 31 (01:52:45):
All night long I had lain awake thinking about the
secret and the one old woman who knew it. Next morning,
I took a walk through the streets of the city.
I stopped before an imposing mansion.

Speaker 53 (01:53:01):
Excuse me, sir, whose house is that over there on
the corner? Yes, the Countess Petter toldness, a great lady
is a countess. The Countess Anna Feta toldner that's right,
So the only one.

Speaker 15 (01:53:14):
She's an old lady now, sir eighty seven, they say, And.

Speaker 39 (01:53:17):
Who is the young lady, the young one sitting at
the window.

Speaker 15 (01:53:20):
At the embroidery framed. Yes, oh, that would be the
Countess's young ward. He's a veta even.

Speaker 31 (01:53:26):
Old now he's a vert fevna. Thank you, thank you, sir.
So the Countess has a pretty young lady to look after,
has she?

Speaker 39 (01:53:37):
Well, maybe that.

Speaker 51 (01:53:40):
Will prove to be the answer. Yes, she wants to
be the answer. Away, he's a vettav no.

Speaker 15 (01:53:51):
Day after day I went back to the house, standing
there in the street.

Speaker 39 (01:53:54):
Gazing up at the figure in the window, wondering what
went on between her and the count Prince.

Speaker 15 (01:54:01):
Did she know the story of the old woman's secret?

Speaker 27 (01:54:05):
Oh?

Speaker 39 (01:54:06):
Not until I finally told her.

Speaker 31 (01:54:09):
They talked about other things up there in the countess
is dressing room.

Speaker 37 (01:54:15):
What are you gazing out of the window for a child?
Is it so indreting down in the street. I'm sorry,
I wasn't thinking, not thinking. You looked as though you
were lost in thought. Maybe you find it far too
dull for reading.

Speaker 15 (01:54:32):
To me, my lady?

Speaker 52 (01:54:34):
Should I get the book that Prince bevisen to his still?

Speaker 37 (01:54:37):
Oh no, I don't feel in the mood for being
read too. All the novels they send me a lot
of ridiculous nonsense.

Speaker 15 (01:54:47):
Is the carriage ready, yes.

Speaker 52 (01:54:49):
My lady, just getting at the door to the required
and then I shall.

Speaker 37 (01:54:51):
Get dressed and we will drive to the park. Prell
be ready to start when I am dressed.

Speaker 39 (01:54:57):
Yes, my lady.

Speaker 15 (01:55:00):
Natasha.

Speaker 16 (01:55:00):
Yes, that Morsin.

Speaker 15 (01:55:02):
Do you know that man down there in the street.

Speaker 9 (01:55:04):
He's been standing there every morning.

Speaker 15 (01:55:06):
The office, and that Morcene. No, I never saw him before.
What uniform is he wearing?

Speaker 52 (01:55:13):
Well, I am not sure that Mousim, but yes, he
is the captain in the engineers. I think it is
very handsome, the uniform, I mean, yes, flat Moisne.

Speaker 15 (01:55:26):
I knew that she had seen me standing there each morning.
I had seen her.

Speaker 31 (01:55:31):
Blush and pretend to turn away to her embroidery, not
always her eyes stole back to me, and I knew
that sooner or later I should succeed. And then one day,
and she was helping the old Countess into a carriage,
I slipped and melt into her hand. I saw her

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start of surprise, her indecision whether to throw it away
or not.

Speaker 15 (01:55:59):
Then I saw her I did it her glove as
the carriage drove away.

Speaker 52 (01:56:04):
Mob my adored one, that you are want to lead
her life itself. So I have only had the exquisite
happiness of gazing you from f I live for the
day when I should hear your voice, and when I
should have the courage to declare yourself your defaulted slave.

Speaker 15 (01:56:23):
H man, What am I to do?

Speaker 52 (01:56:27):
Whatever would the county safe? If she were to find
out a man is far too bold? I should have
to return on his letter?

Speaker 31 (01:56:35):
Yes, yes, she returned my letter, just as I knew
she would, with a brief note of her own. Sir,
It said, I am sure that your intentions are honorable,
and that you have no wish to offend me. But
I cannot begin an acquaintance in such an imprudent manner.

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I return your letter and trust you will never give
me cause to complain of your disrespect. Would give her
more cause to complain of this respect, But neither what
I give her cause to complain of.

Speaker 51 (01:57:12):
Neglect, For I had reason to believe that my boldness
was not entirely unwelcome.

Speaker 31 (01:57:20):
So her man, you know, is a weetivan of no
do you I know about side I hear of her
occasionally through a mutual forming and king.

Speaker 15 (01:57:28):
You, by any chance, to be the officer that she
seems to be thinking about the day.

Speaker 39 (01:57:32):
Of course, No, no, it's never met.

Speaker 27 (01:57:34):
What made you think that?

Speaker 38 (01:57:36):
It was rather amusing?

Speaker 31 (01:57:37):
I was asking the Counties's permission to present a friendom Mine,
a filing officer.

Speaker 15 (01:57:41):
I called him actuate with Naramov. Then Elizabeth and I
are alone together. Up she comes and whispers, who is
the officer you wish to present to the counties? Is
he a captain in the engineers?

Speaker 39 (01:57:50):
And Naramov's in the cavalry?

Speaker 15 (01:57:52):
Of course, But who is the captain of the engineers?

Speaker 44 (01:58:00):
At least you can be sure it isn't me. Oh yes,
I was in her thoughts and had every cause to
be from.

Speaker 31 (01:58:10):
Never a day went past now without my sending her
another note smuggled into her, sometimes one way, sometimes another.

Speaker 52 (01:58:17):
Please be good enough not to go to any more letters,
and tell the person who sent you that he you
ought to be ashamed of himself.

Speaker 37 (01:58:23):
But of course, mademoiselle, of course, even though he is
devoted to.

Speaker 39 (01:58:28):
You, Even though I was devoted to her.

Speaker 31 (01:58:34):
Day after day I begged her, implored her to let
me visit her, and it would not long before I
was receiving her replice, before she was telling me that
she too was in love, before she was ready to everything.

Speaker 39 (01:58:46):
I asked of her.

Speaker 31 (01:58:47):
And then at last the letter for which I had
been waiting was thrown down to me from the Countess's window.

Speaker 1 (01:58:55):
The letter that was.

Speaker 52 (01:58:58):
This evening at the ball at the German. The Countess
will be there. This is our only chance of waiting alone.
As soon as the Countess and I have left for
the ball, the servants will be going out. The reporter
will be in his lodge. Come to the house at
half past eleven. Walk straight in. If anybody happens to
stop you in the hall, go straight upstairs. If you

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needn't want me aunty room, ask for the Countess. They
will say she is out. Then you will have to leave,
but probably you will be seen by no one. If so,
turn to the left through the aunty room. You will
reach the Countess's bedroom. There you will find two doors.
The one on the right leads into a study which
is never used. The one of the left leads to
a corridor, the end of which is a staircase. It

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leads to my room.

Speaker 15 (01:59:42):
I shall have returned by two o'clock.

Speaker 31 (01:59:48):
No, there was no bouble to challenge me. The porter
was asleep in his lodge, and the servants were not about.
And half past eleven, I was safely inside the Countess's apartments.
But it was not the left hand door I opened,

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the one that led on to Evanovus home. It was
the door into the empty study, next to the bedroom
of the Countess. There I waited until two o'clock, and
in my pocket there was a pistol.

Speaker 14 (02:00:39):
In a moment, we shall return to Orson Wells in
Alexander Pushkin's transcribe story The Queen of Spades. And now
we returned to Orson Wells, starring and Alexander Pushkin's famous
story The Queen of Spades.

Speaker 39 (02:00:58):
I waited for no three hours.

Speaker 31 (02:00:59):
I waited in the deserted study, waiting for the return
of the Countess and the chance to force the secret
from her, the secret of the three cards, three cards
and the order in which to play them, three cards
that could not lose.

Speaker 39 (02:01:17):
It was her past two.

Speaker 31 (02:01:18):
Before she returned, and I heard the ment of the
bedroom just beyond the door when I was hiding.

Speaker 37 (02:01:26):
Good night, my lady, Oh so you are going to
bed already, my dear.

Speaker 15 (02:01:32):
If she will excuse me, I'm very tired.

Speaker 37 (02:01:34):
Very tired, she says, a girl of her age, And
I tired as well.

Speaker 52 (02:01:39):
I thought that Natasha would be attending your lady.

Speaker 37 (02:01:42):
To be sure, to be sure, don't brother about me
and my dear. Nobody feels for an old woman like me.

Speaker 15 (02:01:49):
Go to the day.

Speaker 37 (02:01:50):
If you are so tired, Oh, I stand there again.

Speaker 9 (02:01:53):
I'm sorry, my lady.

Speaker 37 (02:01:55):
Good night girl, Natasha unless me yes, Oh, I'll be
quick about it.

Speaker 15 (02:02:03):
Mazielle is not.

Speaker 37 (02:02:03):
The only one who is tired.

Speaker 39 (02:02:08):
And I watched the old woman through a crack in
the door. I watched the.

Speaker 31 (02:02:12):
Whole repulsive scene as weak paint patches, and every final
it was stripped away, and the gaunt, unlovely features emerged
that fashion and artistry had done so much to conceal.

Speaker 15 (02:02:26):
Had to ask the maid retired.

Speaker 37 (02:02:29):
Does your leadership wish to retire? Or shall I place
the chair by the window. The chair is well enough
where it. Please take away the candles.

Speaker 15 (02:02:38):
I will have light enough from the icon lamp.

Speaker 37 (02:02:40):
Good Night, my lady, good night, good night.

Speaker 15 (02:02:48):
But the poetry afore it was tonight the ball.

Speaker 37 (02:02:53):
It's interesting, I've forgotten what social occasions was to.

Speaker 54 (02:02:56):
Be, just as the modern world has forgotten how to
defuck itself. Who the dems to be from point Gariatekovner
and I.

Speaker 1 (02:03:13):
Who all you don't be alarmed. Don't be alarmed. I'm
not going to harm you.

Speaker 15 (02:03:18):
I have come to ask you a favor.

Speaker 4 (02:03:22):
Who are you?

Speaker 35 (02:03:23):
What you your ma?

Speaker 1 (02:03:25):
Who I am?

Speaker 31 (02:03:26):
But it is in your power to make me happy
for life, and it will cost you nothing. Madam, I
know that you can name three cards, three cards that
have to be played in sequels, three cards that cannot
fail to make the fortune of anyone who knows.

Speaker 1 (02:03:41):
So who do only?

Speaker 10 (02:03:43):
It is?

Speaker 15 (02:03:44):
I swear stupid.

Speaker 1 (02:03:46):
It is not just to me, Madam.

Speaker 15 (02:03:48):
I want you to name those cards for me.

Speaker 31 (02:03:50):
I do not know why should you keep your secrets
over for your grandson's tomski. They are all rich enough already.
They don't need to know your secrets. Besides, they have
no idea of the value of money. They would squander
it away.

Speaker 15 (02:04:02):
In a year with me. With me, it would be different.

Speaker 9 (02:04:06):
I know the value of money.

Speaker 55 (02:04:07):
I live simply. I am not a gambler. I have
never touched a pack of cards in my life. I
will only touch three cards. Tell me which they are,
car madam. If you have any feelings at all, by
all you all dear in life, tell me your secrets.

Speaker 31 (02:04:26):
If you have ever known what it needs to be
in love, if you've ever known human suffering, or sympathy
or rapture, by all you've ever felt or longed for.

Speaker 27 (02:04:33):
I beg you tell me.

Speaker 9 (02:04:38):
I do move you won't, which I'll make you answer.

Speaker 36 (02:04:45):
See, I have a pistol. Tell me, tell me, you
hack tell me.

Speaker 9 (02:04:52):
Unless you tell me those three cards, I shall. But
she's dead.

Speaker 15 (02:05:05):
She's dead dead.

Speaker 9 (02:05:08):
The secret is no.

Speaker 15 (02:05:13):
No.

Speaker 31 (02:05:19):
It was only then that I remembered Isabetta Ivanovna waiting
for me in her room and.

Speaker 15 (02:05:27):
The head of the little staircase down the corridor, that
you do I did in the Countess's bedroom.

Speaker 39 (02:05:36):
I've just left her. The old woman is dead.

Speaker 10 (02:05:40):
What are you saying?

Speaker 31 (02:05:41):
I'm saying the Countess is dead. What's more, I'm afraid
that I was the cause of her death?

Speaker 9 (02:05:47):
What do the thing had happened?

Speaker 15 (02:05:48):
She died of fright. It was an accident.

Speaker 31 (02:05:50):
She had a secret that I had to know, three cards,
A secret that connect the fortune of anyone who knows it.

Speaker 15 (02:05:57):
That was all I wanted, just three cards. I let
myselfie in, just as you told me. I hid myself
in the study next to her bedroom.

Speaker 53 (02:06:04):
I waited till she had got undressed and dismissed her maid,
and then I came out and ask first.

Speaker 15 (02:06:10):
So that was why he wanted to do let you
into the house.

Speaker 22 (02:06:13):
And I thought, what have I done?

Speaker 1 (02:06:17):
Died, old fool.

Speaker 15 (02:06:18):
I begged her to tell me.

Speaker 31 (02:06:19):
I begged her on my bended knees, but you refused
to be reasonable.

Speaker 10 (02:06:23):
What would it have cost her?

Speaker 4 (02:06:24):
Nothing?

Speaker 32 (02:06:25):
Nothing at all.

Speaker 31 (02:06:26):
But the old wish was obstinate. So I pulled out
my pistol and threatened her with it. You don't worry,
I didn't intend to kill her.

Speaker 15 (02:06:35):
The pistol wasn't even loaded.

Speaker 9 (02:06:36):
It was an accident, of pure accident.

Speaker 1 (02:06:37):
But she died.

Speaker 9 (02:06:39):
She died the secret that died with her.

Speaker 12 (02:06:43):
Just three cards, three chips.

Speaker 37 (02:06:48):
What a fool, What a fool to believe or your life,
to believe that you really loved me, even in.

Speaker 24 (02:06:54):
Three cards, three cards that were worth a fortress.

Speaker 15 (02:06:58):
Three cards. Then I was one of the god to
help you find them.

Speaker 38 (02:07:01):
What a fool life, What a wicked fool.

Speaker 24 (02:07:06):
But for me.

Speaker 15 (02:07:06):
She would never have died.

Speaker 6 (02:07:08):
It would I have killed I her own old woman
deserves her die.

Speaker 24 (02:07:12):
She didn't.

Speaker 22 (02:07:12):
She was kind to me.

Speaker 9 (02:07:15):
Nobody killed that.

Speaker 31 (02:07:16):
The old woman died because she was an obstinate old fool.
It's far more important her secret.

Speaker 15 (02:07:23):
Tied with her.

Speaker 1 (02:07:25):
Three cars, just three simple cars.

Speaker 15 (02:07:34):
Slug it out of the house.

Speaker 24 (02:07:36):
That seems little point in my staying any longer.

Speaker 17 (02:07:39):
I was going to show you down the secret, sick man,
show me it leads down from the Countess's bit.

Speaker 10 (02:07:44):
Non, come on, show me.

Speaker 27 (02:07:47):
I'm afraid afraid of see it.

Speaker 39 (02:07:50):
Don't give me the key, tell me where it is.
I'll make my own way out.

Speaker 31 (02:08:00):
Countess was dead, and her secret had died with her.
Though I hated her for it, her death was on
my hands, and the thought began to obsess me. She
had died with hatred in her eyes, hatred as well
as fear. And who can say what hatred is liable

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to do, even a hatred of the dead. Perhaps you
will say that I am superstitious, for I have no faith.
But suddenly I knew that I must pay my last
respects to her and ask her forgiveness. Poor lady, she

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died two nights ago, she'd been to a ball at
the German Embassy, and the excitement must have proved too
much for her. She died in her bedroom, peacefully, in
a chair beside her bed. I am sorry, yes, I
am going to the funeral tomorrow at the convent of
our laid that time as the funeral nine o'clock in
the morning, at the convent of a lady.

Speaker 1 (02:09:03):
I shall be there.

Speaker 15 (02:09:04):
You are a good friend. Heaven, thank you.

Speaker 31 (02:09:14):
The church was full of mournings, for the old woman
had many friends, many acquaintances. Anyone who had lived as
long as she had must have had many acquaintances, even
if they were only waiting for her to die. The
coffin stood on a catafal under a velvet canneedy. The
body was laid within it, hands crossed upon the breast,
wearing the lace cap and the satin gown. When her

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relatives had paid their last respects, I to approach the coffin.
Forgive me, old woman, forgive me. I want you know how, No, no,

(02:10:11):
say that I am mad if you like. But the
old woman's eyes were open and they were mocking me.
I heard a chuckle, chuckle horribly, and I was afraid
of her, I fought my way out of the church
and hurried away to lose myself in the noise and
bustle of the streets.

Speaker 27 (02:10:30):
All day I wrangled about the town, trying to forget
up all.

Speaker 39 (02:10:34):
That I had seen.

Speaker 31 (02:10:36):
I dined alone, and when I got back to my room,
I locked the door behind me, and at last I
fell asleep. When I woke up, suddenly the moonlight was
coming through my window. It was three o'clock in the morning,
and I heard the distant clock chiming the hour.

Speaker 39 (02:10:58):
Oh, who is it?

Speaker 15 (02:11:01):
Who's there?

Speaker 10 (02:11:03):
Who is.

Speaker 15 (02:11:06):
Cons count I.

Speaker 37 (02:11:10):
Am here to know will of my own young men.
And I am here because I have been told, compelled
to grant your request. Three seven, eight will being for
you if played in that order, but only on this

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condition that you play them one and never play again
in your life.

Speaker 15 (02:11:40):
Yes, yes, Countess, Countess, I beg your forgiveness.

Speaker 37 (02:11:46):
I I'll give you my death, but if you gamble
more than one, I shall the ten.

Speaker 15 (02:11:57):
Yes, I I accept the condition.

Speaker 31 (02:12:10):
Good evening, card, I wish you were lucky the table.

Speaker 15 (02:12:13):
Why her man, you hear a checker? Excuse? Do you
come here to watch the player as well?

Speaker 39 (02:12:18):
I have come to play play.

Speaker 15 (02:12:21):
I thought you never did play.

Speaker 39 (02:12:23):
I shall play this once? May I take a card
matter cause? Thank you?

Speaker 15 (02:12:29):
Congratulations on your phone from grace, my dear fellow.

Speaker 24 (02:12:32):
I shall watch this.

Speaker 1 (02:12:33):
Oh, the best of luck to you.

Speaker 10 (02:12:34):
Thank you.

Speaker 39 (02:12:37):
This is my card, This is my stake.

Speaker 15 (02:12:41):
God, mister, but what is the steak? I cannot see quite.

Speaker 39 (02:12:45):
What you've preferred to? Seven thousand rubles.

Speaker 15 (02:12:48):
That's a very high stakes. They did, higher than usual.

Speaker 39 (02:12:51):
Well do you accept my card or not?

Speaker 15 (02:12:54):
Literally? I must only point out that here you play
only for cash. Oh, for my part, your.

Speaker 1 (02:12:59):
Word is more than sufficient.

Speaker 39 (02:13:00):
But my power is the cash. Oh, thank you.

Speaker 15 (02:13:05):
He's got ready, the nine.

Speaker 39 (02:13:11):
And the three, the three it is.

Speaker 51 (02:13:16):
I win.

Speaker 31 (02:13:19):
I will play again and double my stake. And this
is my card, and you, Wilson, at your pleasure, the
knave and the seven seven is my card.

Speaker 39 (02:13:34):
I win again.

Speaker 15 (02:13:36):
You are remarkably lucky, sir. I will play once more
while my luck holds. I stake everything everything on this card.

Speaker 30 (02:13:49):
A queen.

Speaker 9 (02:13:51):
And an ace, an ace.

Speaker 10 (02:13:55):
The ace wins me, sir.

Speaker 15 (02:13:58):
That card is not the ace. It's the Queen. The queen.
Your queen has lost for you.

Speaker 22 (02:14:03):
The Queen the Queen of Spades.

Speaker 9 (02:14:06):
But it wasn't the Queen that I played.

Speaker 10 (02:14:08):
It was.

Speaker 26 (02:14:10):
It was the Queen of Space, the Queen of Steate.

Speaker 36 (02:14:15):
It is the custive old woman, the old woman.

Speaker 38 (02:14:19):
She's sticky, stick.

Speaker 24 (02:14:25):
Three three seven men, this.

Speaker 50 (02:14:50):
Is Lawrence Olivier again. First, I should like to thank
awesome wells for that fine performance and the Queen of
Spades and the other members of the cast, who included
Ellen Pollock as the Countess and Cecia Shepper as Liza Vetta.
I'm looking forward to next month when I shall have
the opportunity of appearing myself in the place which we
shall bring you each week. Until then, I will have
a pleasure of introducing some more of my good friends

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at the theater, including in the weeks to come Michael
Redgrave and next week Ralph Richardson.

Speaker 39 (02:15:18):
Until then, au rev while and thank you.

Speaker 14 (02:15:30):
So loans will be introduced in today's transcribe program orson Wells.
Alexander Pushkin's story The Queen of Spay the.

Speaker 5 (02:15:39):
Original premier program of Theater Royal. It would be reused
in July of nineteen fifty four, towards the end of
the series broadcast run again with orson Wells. It would
just be a rebroadcast of the same transcription. And if
the show sounds familiar to you, you know that we

(02:16:02):
aired that same show The Queen of Spades in Mystery
in the Air, the same Pushkin story, and of course
in that episode it starred Peter Lourie.

Speaker 15 (02:16:14):
Thus the.

Speaker 5 (02:16:17):
Feeling of the show very similar to what you heard
from Wells that originally broadcast seventy two years ago October fourth,
nineteen fifty three Theater Royal Here on Classic Radio Theater
with Wyatt tugs up next something even more dangerous for
Fiver McGhee in an episode of Fiver McGhee and Molly.

Speaker 49 (02:16:45):
This is basic civil defense information from the Department of Defense,
Office of Civil Defense, Washington, Especially in time of emergency,
think before you act, and follow instructions by responsible authorities.
You may receive warning of an attack by outdoor warning systems,
or by radio or television, or even by word of mouth,
unless local officials have instructed you otherwise, go immediately to

(02:17:06):
a public fallout shelter or to your home fallout shelter.
Then tune your radio to any local station that is
broadcasting and listen for official information. Follow whatever instructions are given,
don't use the telephone to obtain further information and advice
about the emergency. Depend on radio, as the government will
be broadcasting all the information it has available. The telephone

(02:17:28):
lines will be needed for official calls. Help keep them open.
Let me repeat in time of emergency for official government
information and civil defense instructions, Tune your radio to any
local station that is broadcasting.

Speaker 5 (02:17:41):
Do you wonder when I say fibbers in danger? You'll
find out why in this episode of Fiver McGhee and Mollie.
This one of their fifteen minute shows going back seventy
one years to October fourth, nineteen fifty four. Fibber Doesn't
Dare Move.

Speaker 56 (02:17:58):
It's time for mcgie and Molly. Sundays through Thursdays. MBC
brings You Fibber McGee and Molly transcribed. The show is
written by Phil Leslie and Ralph Goodman and directed by
Max Hutta. Before we get into today's story, let's listen

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to mister McGee make this point with his better half.

Speaker 33 (02:18:30):
Listen to this, Molly. Here's an article in the paper
that says the average man with a college education will
earn one hundred thousand bucks. More in his lifetime than
a man without calling one.

Speaker 3 (02:18:37):
Hundred thousand dollars mcgeep. Well, for goodness sakes.

Speaker 33 (02:18:41):
It sure is sure is fot deary for goodness sake,
just like you said, Thanks to the goodness of a
good many mothers and dads and the Prudential Swallow Education
Fund Plan, a lot of kids are going to find
the road to success a lot less bumpy than it
often is.

Speaker 3 (02:18:54):
Just a minute, McGee, what's all this about the Prudentials
Education Plan?

Speaker 33 (02:18:57):
I was just gonna tell folks, Molly. It's an education
plan provided by the Prudential Insurance Company, and it's the
sure and easy way for you parents to cover your
youngster's college expenses when the time comes. With this plan,
you can start building that education fund now, little by
a little over the years, and if anything happens to
you before junior is ready for college, well, the Prudential

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pays the amount in full.

Speaker 3 (02:19:19):
Well, that certainly makes sense, friends, It's the surest way
I know to start your youngsters on the road to success.
So call your Prudential agent tomorrow. He'll be glad to
tell you about an education fund plan.

Speaker 33 (02:19:30):
For your children.

Speaker 56 (02:19:41):
Something new has been added at seventy nine Whistel Vista today.
A handsome custom made slipcover on the big easy chair
in the living room. That's a beautiful imported material and
i'd ask missus McGee to describe it for you, but
she's upstairs dressing for a date with some friends.

Speaker 10 (02:19:58):
Oh, there goes the phone.

Speaker 33 (02:20:00):
Hey, Molly, the phone.

Speaker 3 (02:20:03):
That must be the upholstery people, answered William McGhee, tell
him the slip covers beautiful, and I'm just delighted with it.

Speaker 33 (02:20:09):
Well, I'm sorry, Kittle, but I meant to call him.

Speaker 3 (02:20:12):
About her, but I haven't had time on and have
the mail the bill to us?

Speaker 33 (02:20:15):
Will you, I'm afraid you'll have to, answered Molly. Ordinarily
I would, but I'm kind of busy.

Speaker 3 (02:20:19):
I'm trying to get drassed. Me gee, I have to
meet Mabel Toops in fifteen minutes downtown, I know, but
I'm too busy right now. The phone's a way out
there in the hall and I'm in the living room
and i can't. Heaven's sake, I'll never get to that
matinee on time. It's two o'clock now and I'm still
in my slip Seventy nine minutes ful vis to Molly
mege Ah, hello, doctor Gamble him, Yes, he's her doctor,

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But he's too busy to answer the phone, he says,
Ask him what he wants. I'm in a big brush
myself right now. Doctor, have to meet the girls in
front of the be shoe in fifteen minutes, and our
car battery is dead.

Speaker 33 (02:20:51):
Ask him what he wants.

Speaker 3 (02:20:53):
Oh you are doctor, Oh wonderful. I'll certainly appreciate the lift. Yeah,
I'll be ready, thanks by Oh boy, that's a break.
Doctor Gamble's gonna drive me downtown.

Speaker 33 (02:21:05):
Good. I always say it's no use having friends if
you don't get any good autumn on a con.

Speaker 3 (02:21:10):
Geetin Just how long you've been sitting there in that
easy chair?

Speaker 33 (02:21:15):
Oh, let me see, about twelve minutes so far? White,
Ask you mean you were.

Speaker 3 (02:21:19):
Right there, not ten feet from the telephone. You had
me run all the way downstairs to answer it.

Speaker 33 (02:21:24):
Well, gee, whiz, I told you I'd have answered it.

Speaker 3 (02:21:26):
Only I'm busy, busy sitting in an easy chair with
your feet up on the autumn and your head back
and your arms hanging over the sides, busy.

Speaker 33 (02:21:34):
Doing hot I'm guarding my health, and of all the.

Speaker 3 (02:21:38):
Chairs to sit in. Why do you have to pick
the one with the brand new slip cover?

Speaker 33 (02:21:41):
You're doing what? I'm guarding my health. I read a
survey where it says nine out of ten doctors recommend
just sitting quietly in one spot, doing absolutely nothing for
one hour every day, good.

Speaker 1 (02:21:55):
For the health.

Speaker 3 (02:21:56):
Well, you picked a fine day to start, and can't
you sit in some other chair? You'll have my new
slipcover worn out before anybody sees it.

Speaker 15 (02:22:03):
All.

Speaker 33 (02:22:03):
I can't move now, ma, I already started my one
arm of sitting quiet and not moving. If I move now,
I'll have to start all over against. Oh if this
isn't the silliest thing I ever heard of, rusher boy, Well,
it may sound silly to you, kiddle, but I can
tell a big difference already you can huh. Yes, I've
only been sitting here relaxing for about fourteen minutes so far,
and my breathing is easier, and I find I got

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lots more wind.

Speaker 12 (02:22:24):
Well on your waste your time, son, there's one thing
you don't need. It's more wind, Because who asked you?

Speaker 33 (02:22:31):
Look, old timer? Why don't you knock before you come?
But Molly, Molly, where's she go oh, is that what
that was?

Speaker 12 (02:22:38):
I see something running upstairs with a piano shawl over
its head, but it couldn't make out just what, say,
got a new slipcover for the easy chair. Huh Hey,
get up, Johnny, let's see it.

Speaker 33 (02:22:48):
I can't get up now, old timer. I can't move
for a now, can't move.

Speaker 12 (02:22:52):
What's a trouble, sir.

Speaker 33 (02:22:54):
Oh, there's nothing the matter with me. I'm just oh.

Speaker 12 (02:22:56):
You know, Papa was a lot like you, Johnny. You
never could tell when Papa was sick because he always
looked horrible. What's the matter, sons, Nothing the matter? And
if you got work to do, don't let me keep Oh,
Papa looked just like you the day he came down
with that awful wheeze bronco finilimitis.

Speaker 33 (02:23:12):
The doctors called it bad look if you got to
run along.

Speaker 12 (02:23:16):
No rare disease carried by the mail to see to Seafly.
Only during the last three days of July, on odd
years very three days that Papa ushered at the theater.

Speaker 33 (02:23:25):
What theater?

Speaker 12 (02:23:26):
The one where they were showing trade a horn. Seems
like Papa got too close to the screen drew in
the big monsoon scene and one of them to see
to see flies flew out and say this thing you
got ain't catching.

Speaker 9 (02:23:38):
Is it?

Speaker 33 (02:23:38):
Yes, now that you mention it, it's very catching. It's
called mesa bolonia and it starts with a kind of
a tightening up of the paso Finny like you see.

Speaker 10 (02:23:48):
Oh that sounds bad.

Speaker 33 (02:23:50):
I knew a guy that got it, Watson in twenty
four hours. He was gone twenty four hours.

Speaker 10 (02:23:55):
Yeah, he could learn from me, Johnny, I'm.

Speaker 27 (02:23:57):
Gone right now.

Speaker 33 (02:23:58):
So boy, I thought i'd never get rid of him.

Speaker 3 (02:24:04):
Mcguit I must be doctor gamble.

Speaker 33 (02:24:05):
Now you'll have to let him in, Molly. The front
door is locked, or I just holler come in. But
I can't get up because I only been sitting here
for seventeen minutes and I got a set still for
a whole hour.

Speaker 56 (02:24:24):
Back to Ista Vista in a minute. You know, lots
of people have different opinions on lots of different things.
But there's one thing that mister and missus McGhee of
Wistful Vista see absolutely eye to ion, and that's murine.

Speaker 3 (02:24:37):
John Yes, folks, murine for your eyes.

Speaker 33 (02:24:40):
Right, Molly. There's nothing like it. There's nothing like the
cool refreshment. Just two drops of murine can bring to
tired eyes in a matter of seconds.

Speaker 3 (02:24:47):
And you know murine as gentle as a tear, so
you can use it as often as your eyes tell
you to.

Speaker 56 (02:24:52):
Right, Fiver and Molly, a two drop bath of murine
in each eye can do wonders for eyes that are
tired after too many hours of work, for eyes that
feel heavy lidded and sleepy in the morning, for eyes
that feel uncomfortably wakeful at bedtime. So try it soon
you'll agree, just like Fibber and Molly do that. There's

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nothing like regular daily two drop baths of murine for
your eyes.

Speaker 33 (02:25:19):
That's m you r I n E murine.

Speaker 10 (02:25:24):
It makes your eyes feel good.

Speaker 3 (02:25:39):
Coming one moment.

Speaker 33 (02:25:43):
Oh, Molly, come in doctor.

Speaker 3 (02:25:45):
I'm sorry I took the long dance at the door,
but I was upstairs.

Speaker 33 (02:25:48):
Oh isn't the noisy half home today?

Speaker 3 (02:25:51):
McGhee, Well, yes he is.

Speaker 33 (02:25:53):
I'm in here, fat so i'd come out and greet
you myself, but I'm afraid I can't right now. The
little man is busy. Oh, yes, working.

Speaker 3 (02:26:00):
I'm very hard at it too, I might add.

Speaker 57 (02:26:01):
What's he doing repairing the hole in the water pipe
that he accidentally made while he was repairing the hole
in the water pipe.

Speaker 33 (02:26:06):
That the accident making.

Speaker 3 (02:26:07):
No, no, nothing like that. This is big stuff, important work.
He's safeguarding his health.

Speaker 33 (02:26:15):
I beg your pardon. Seems he read.

Speaker 3 (02:26:17):
Somewhere that the way to be healthy is to spend
an hour day sitting perfectly motionless, and that's what he's
busy doing right now.

Speaker 57 (02:26:23):
Oh does that include his mouth, too, Molly, Because if
it does, someone ought to call a gazette.

Speaker 33 (02:26:29):
I can see the headlines now. McGee's mouth motionless. Very funny,
Lord bucket, If you're ready to go to the movie, Molly,
don't keep Doc standing around. I'll miss you, but him
I can do without. No, it doesn't include his mouth.

Speaker 10 (02:26:42):
That's too bad.

Speaker 3 (02:26:43):
You pay no attention to him.

Speaker 26 (02:26:44):
Doctor.

Speaker 3 (02:26:45):
I'm ready to go. Oh, dear matter, I've got the
wrong purse. I'll have to go change purses. Just be
a minute, take good time. I'll go visit with your
LOGI little yogi in here for a minute.

Speaker 33 (02:26:58):
What's this sitting motionless routine?

Speaker 38 (02:27:00):
About?

Speaker 10 (02:27:00):
Lout?

Speaker 33 (02:27:01):
And what's new about you sitting motionless? You've spent most
of your life in a lump. I see no point
in discussing matters of how to be healthy with a
guy that makes his living keeping people sick. But for
your information, I'm not getting out of this chair for
one hour, so just keep your snide remarks to yourself,
big horse, eners not moving out of the chair. Huh,

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what happens if the house catches fire?

Speaker 3 (02:27:26):
If the house catches fire, I guess I'm supposed to
carry him in the chair outside.

Speaker 33 (02:27:30):
Oh, nothing like that's gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (02:27:31):
And I'll do it too, because that's a brand new
slipcover on that chair and it costs forty seven dollars.

Speaker 33 (02:27:36):
Oh it looks very pretty, Molly. It's beautiful material. Yeah
they ah, but upholstery people made it for us. Doc,
come back tomorrow and you can get a better look
at it when I ain't setting in it.

Speaker 3 (02:27:46):
Isn't this ridiculous? Come on, doctor, we better go. Well,
I'll be back in a few hours.

Speaker 33 (02:27:50):
McGee, So hold of a minute, Molly, I'll answer that
for you. Hello McGhee's reference. Oh well, this is doctor gamble,
but I will take the message now.

Speaker 3 (02:28:02):
Look McGee, please don't get in any trouble when I'm gone,
will you don't you or.

Speaker 33 (02:28:05):
You go right ahead, have a good time, don't worry
about me, famous last words, and I'll sit right here.
It's time to get up out of this chair, and
maybe I'll go take a nap. You won have fun. Well,
let's go, Molly, it's nearly two fifteen.

Speaker 3 (02:28:17):
I'm ready.

Speaker 57 (02:28:18):
Who was that on the phone or just the radio
stations A quiz program? I told him he was too
busy to come to the phone. Try somebody else.

Speaker 33 (02:28:25):
Uh who what do they want me?

Speaker 57 (02:28:26):
They said they wanted mister film and McGee to tell
him the name of the President of the United States
for two thousand dollars. I told them you wouldn't get
up out of your chair for.

Speaker 33 (02:28:34):
Ten thousand dollars.

Speaker 16 (02:28:35):
Doctor.

Speaker 33 (02:28:36):
Call him back, I'll talk to him. Oh, you dirty,
double crossing big relaxed, Relax. It was Mabel Tubes Molly.

Speaker 38 (02:28:43):
Oh Jack, I tell you he was just leaving.

Speaker 33 (02:28:46):
Why you get him out of here, Molly before I
forget all about my help and get out of this
chair and beat them.

Speaker 3 (02:28:52):
But you na na na relaxed, Daryton, Relax, relax.

Speaker 24 (02:28:58):
That's it.

Speaker 33 (02:29:00):
Yeah, good see.

Speaker 48 (02:29:01):
About five bye, happy rest past, stay healthy. Oh boy,
I thought they'd never get out of here. Wow, I
had to go through this again. I think i'd hello
the habit of Postry Company.

Speaker 33 (02:29:19):
This is Pepper McGhee. Yeah, the party you made that
forty seven bucks slipcover for. Look, get a man with
a needle and some material over here right away, will you.
It's urgent. I dropped my cigar in that chair about
an hour ago and burned a hole in the slipcover
about the size of a pie plate, a big pie.
My wife will be back in a couple of hours,
and if I want to stay healthy, you better snap
it up because if she finds out about this, I'm.

Speaker 56 (02:29:50):
Pepper and Molly will be right back. This Wednesday evening,
there'll be a bright new sound coming from your radio.
It's the lovely, lilting voice of.

Speaker 10 (02:30:01):
Dinah.

Speaker 56 (02:30:01):
Will be with you twice a week each Wednesday and
Friday evening with a delightful quarter hour of after dinner
listening to start your evening off in fine musical fashion.
And you'll enjoy the fun too, as Dinah brings her
cheerful and friendly manner to the entire family. So be
on hand Wednesday when the Dinoshaur Show returns to the air.
And speaking of Wednesday, there's another musical highlight in Starre

(02:30:22):
for you this Wednesday. It's the popular mister Frank Sinatra.
And you'll hear your favorite songs by Frankie and some
informal chatter in the usual Sinatra style between songs. It's
a melody treat. You'll want to hear the Dinahshaur Show
and the Frank Sinatra Show. And of course your Wednesday
lineup includes such other great shows as You Bet, Your

(02:30:43):
Life and The Big Story, all brought to you by
NBC Radio, your best bet in entertainment.

Speaker 33 (02:30:58):
How is the matinee like it?

Speaker 20 (02:31:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 33 (02:31:01):
Very good.

Speaker 3 (02:31:02):
By the way, I ran into Missus Bradley on the
way home, a terrible thing happened. Yeah, it seems your
husband was sitting on that brand new divan of Theirs,
just casually smoking a cigar and guess what happened?

Speaker 33 (02:31:12):
He dropped his cigar down.

Speaker 3 (02:31:13):
I mean what happened, Well, he suddenly got a terrible
cramp in his leg. He just couldn't get up. Send
her right out to get doctor Gamble. I can't imagine what.

Speaker 10 (02:31:22):
Brought it on. I can.

Speaker 33 (02:31:25):
I said, good night, oh good night.

Speaker 56 (02:31:27):
All siber McGee and Molly is an NBC Radio Network production,
transcribed with Bill Thompson as the old Timer and Arthur Q.
Bryan as Doctor Gamble. This is John Walld urging you
to be with us again tomorrow night, as mister McGee

(02:31:48):
finds out the facts of life concerning the so called
discout houses.

Speaker 5 (02:31:53):
Good night, One more Reason to Quit Smoking. Seventy one
years ago, October fourth, nineteen fifty four, Fibermaghan Molly here
on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox, Have yourself great
day Tomorrow. We will have more drama on this Sunday

(02:32:14):
orson Welles, The Lives of Harry Lyman, Operation Music Blocks
from London, also Jack Webbin Dragnett and The Big thirty
eight Filo Vance starring Jackson Beck and The Bulletin Murder Case,
John Dayner and Frontier Gentleman in the Story of the
Librarian from Boston and Lamon Abner and a New Observatory.

(02:32:37):
That's all coming up on our Sunday program. Thank you
for being with us and we will see you tomorrow
for more Classic Radio Theater. I'm Wyatt Cox.

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