Classic Radio 11-20-25 - The Kingfish's Turkey, Cause for Thanksgving, and the Path of Praise - Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Is your host Wyatt Cox.

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

Speaker 6 (00:39):
We are a week away from Thanksgiving, and we're going
to spend much of the next week focused on Thanksgiving shows.
And we'll get started today with episodes of Amos and Andy,
Bob Baileyans George Valentine and Let George Do It, The
Cavalcade of America of Work on the History of Thanksgiving,

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and Jack Webb as Jeff Reagan Investigator, and Pilgrim's Progress.
And we'll wrapping all up with a Night at the
Opera with Claudia and David. That's what's coming up next
on this year Happy It's Thursday, twentieth day of October
three hundred and twenty fourth day of the year, forty
one days remaining. In twenty twenty five, Francisco Madero issued

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the Plan de Santa Luis potissee but toci, rather denouncing
President Portifedo Diaz on the state. In nineteen ten, declaring
himself president and calling for a revolution to overflow the
governor of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution on the
state in nineteen ten. In nineteen forty five, trials against

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twenty four Nazi war criminals began at the Palace of
Justice at Nuremberg.

Speaker 7 (01:54):
You must plead.

Speaker 8 (01:54):
Guilty or not guilty.

Speaker 9 (02:00):
She was in at the Ancogonist troity.

Speaker 10 (02:03):
Rudolph.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yes, that will be entered as a plea of not guilty.

Speaker 6 (02:13):
The Nuremberg Ruled War trials getting underway on this date
in nineteen forty five. In nineteen forty seven, the Princess
Elizabeth Mary Lieutenant Philip Mountmatt Westminster Abbey in London, for
as marcha.

Speaker 9 (02:28):
As Philip and Elizabeth Alexandra Mary have consented together in
a hourlywd lock, and have witnessed the same before God,
and this company and thereto have given and pledged the
troupe either to others, and have declared the same. By

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giving and receiving of a ring, and by joining of hands,
would they be man and wife together in the name
of the Father and of the Son and of the
early Guns.

Speaker 6 (03:12):
Now less than five years after the princess was married,
her father, the King would die unexpectedly and she would
become Queen. She would serve as the head of Britain
for seventy years, almost seventy one years, seventy years, two

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hundred and fourteen days, and the longest serving female head
of state in world history.

Speaker 11 (03:42):
Now.

Speaker 6 (03:42):
It was on this date in nineteen fifty five Ed
Sullivan got very bent out of shape Bo Diddley, becoming
the first African American performer to appear on The Ed
Sullivan Show on the state. In nineteen fifty five, Didley,
instead of singing a cover of Tennessee Ernie Ford's sixteen Tons,
he sang his own song, Bo Didley. RCA offered a

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thirty five thousand dollars contract for Elvis Presley on this
date in nineteen fifty five. That would be over four
hundred and twenty three thousand dollars today, and it doesn't
seem like much really when you consider what Elvis would become.

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The Cuba Missile crisis ended on this state in nineteen
sixty two, when, in response to the Soviet Unions agreeing
to remove its missiles from Cuba, President Kennedy ended the
quarantine of that Caribbean nation cabaret opening at the Imperial
Theater in New York City on this state in nineteen
sixty six. It would later move from the stage to

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the screen. The US Department of Justice filed its final
anti trust suit against AT and T on this date
in nineteen seventy four that would lead to the breakup
of AT and T and the Bell System. And I
think that today it is difficult to believe to anybody
that at one point in time there was one phone

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company and it was AT and T, and basically, nationally
they controlled all phones, they controlled all landlines, they controlled
all long distance, and the lawsuit that led to the
breakup also led to what has happened with cell phones

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as well. A Spanish dictator, generally Smo Francisco Franco, died
on this date in nineteen seventy five. Just I have
his eighty third birthday. Spanish National Radio broadcast word of
his passing.

Speaker 12 (05:48):
Here.

Speaker 10 (06:00):
How about it play a bed.

Speaker 13 (06:05):
The hotel.

Speaker 6 (06:08):
The broadcast from Spanish National Radio announcing the passing of
General Lisimo Francisco Franco, the dictator of Spain, on this
date back in nineteen seventy five, Andy Kaufman Forever voted
off Saturday Night Live on this date in nineteen eighty
two by a live telephone poll in the US on

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this date in nineteen eighty three, and estimated one hundred
million people watched the controversial made for TV movie The
Day After, depicting a nuclear war and its effects on
the United States.

Speaker 13 (06:45):
President of the United States, my fellow Americans. While the
extent of damage to our country is still uncertain and
shall probably remain so for some time, preliminary reports indicate
that principal weapons impact points included military and industrial targets
in most sectors of the United States. There is at

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the present time a ceasefire with the Soviet Union, which
has sustained damage equally catastrophic.

Speaker 6 (07:16):
And many people were outraged what they saw on their television.
I will say this, ABC did a very good job
of the program the day after. What I will also
say is that what Americans saw in the day after
that terrified. Many of them don't understand that what they

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saw on their television was nowhere near as bad as
it would likely be if such an attack were launched
by the Soviet Union, North Korea, China against the US.
SETI founded on the state in nineteen eighty four, the
search for extraterrestrials intelligence that we could find some intelligence

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on our own planet prior to looking away from it.
And it was on this date. In nineteen eighty five,
Microsoft Windows one point zero released. Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer
highlighted the system's revolutionary features in this zany bit of work, Wait.

Speaker 8 (08:23):
Interestee, Windows light and Windows paint, and then listen to
what else you've got it?

Speaker 14 (08:27):
No extra charge, the ns Doss executive an appointment calendar,
a card file, and no paddal clock, a control pedal.

Speaker 6 (08:33):
And while it was done in out there Billy May's fashion,
you have to remember that at that time, in nineteen
eighty five, a lot of the functions that we take
for granted today under Windows and other operating systems wasn't there.
The multitasking wasn't there. It was all stuff that was

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being introduced for the very first time, and it was
the true evolution of computer technology in Washington on this state.
In two thousand and one, President George W. Bush dedicated
the Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F.
Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late RFK On what would

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have been his seventy sixth birthday, and it was on
this date in two thousand and three Michael Jackson arrested
by police on charges of child molestation and he was
later acquitted. Now passing away on this date in history.
Others of note include comedian Alan Sherman, Hello Mada, Hello,

(09:38):
Fada here I am at Camp Granada. Also the director
of a movies such as Mash and Nashville won an
honorary honor OSCAR for Robert Altman, and game show host
Jim Perry Card Sharks, Sale of the Century, a wonderful
game show host, all passing away on this date in history.

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Birthdays on this date, as we mentioned, a RFK senior
born on this date. Also Alistair Cook, the journalist, also
actress Judy Canova, politician Robert Byrd, also comic actress Kate Ballard,
game show host Richard Dawson, Super Dave Osborne, Bob Einstein,

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and from the Allman Brothers man Dwayne Allman, all born
on this date in history. They have all departed this
mortal coil.

Speaker 11 (10:31):
Hi, this is Jeff Foxworthy. It is now time for
the birthday announcements.

Speaker 8 (10:35):
The following people are now officially older than Dirt.

Speaker 6 (10:39):
And among those born on this date. She won an
Oscar for portraying Blanche in Monnie and Clyde A Stelle
Parsons ninety eight years old today. Dick Smothers, the last
remaining Smother's brother, eighty seven years old today. Former President
Joe Biden eighty three.

Speaker 15 (10:58):
Let's build an incredible economic product bill on what we've
already done, because this will be such a boost when
it occurs.

Speaker 6 (11:05):
Former President Joe Biden eighty three today, also turning eighty three.
Norman Greenbaum The Spirit in the Sky from Hill Street Blues,
Veronica hammil Is eighty two. Musician Joe Walsh's Life is
Still Good for Him at seventy eight from Rhoda and Younger.
Richard maser Is seventy seven from ten most well related

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to the bolero bo Derrek sixty nine from Moulan Ming
Now When is sixty two?

Speaker 14 (11:38):
Sorry, I mean sorry you have to see that, but
you know how it is when you get those manly
urgents and you just gotta kill.

Speaker 6 (11:48):
Something from the animated movie Moulan Ming Now When sixty
two today from Community and the host of Easeless Soup,
Joel McHale is fifty four.

Speaker 11 (12:00):
I'm a big fan of President Obama.

Speaker 16 (12:03):
I think he's one of the all time great presidents.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
Definitely in the top fifty.

Speaker 6 (12:08):
From the twenty fourteen White House Correspondence Dinner, Joel McHale
is fifty four years old. Today, country singers Dirk's Mentley
fifty Also country singer Josh Turner forty eight from My
Name Is Earl and the League. Nadine Velasquez is forty seven.
From the English group Girls Allowed, Kimberly Walsh is forty

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four from Cinderella Story in the Hills Have Eyes, Dan
Byrd is forty and from Glee, Ashley Fink is thirty nine.
Those just a few of the people celebrating the twentieth
day of November as their birthday. And if this happens
to be your birthday, Hi.

Speaker 17 (12:52):
We're the four Freshmen and we just want to say happy.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
Birthday to.

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Amos and Andy try to digest a turkey that just
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Speaker 6 (16:15):
We have taken a great deal of criticism for continuing
to play programs for Amos and Andy, Freeman Gosden, and
Charles Carrell from the twenties and thirties and forties and fifties.
And yet what a lot of people don't realize is
that while some people felt those shows were offensive, they
failed to understand something very critical. Those shows gave a

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lot of African American actors' jobs. They included such actors
as James Basket, Ruby Dandridge, Dorothy Dandridge, William Walker, the
wonderful Roy Glenn, whom we've talked about several times on
this program, Wonderful Smith, Jester Harrison, Eddie Green, Amanda Randolph,

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Lillian Randolph, Johnny Lee. And while a lot of people
criticize the show for Freeman, Gosen and Charles Carrell being
white men in blackface, they forget to acknowledge the fact
that African Americans really benefited a lot from the doors
that were opened by the two white guys. Now, let's

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listen to this Thanksgiving episode of Amos and Andy, going
back seventy six years November twentieth, nineteen forty.

Speaker 19 (17:29):
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amos that whistle means Rinsol white, rinsol bright, Rinso news.

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whiter and brighter than you.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
Rinzol what Rinzo? What rinso new?

Speaker 20 (18:34):
Last year, at the Thanksgiving celebration at Sapphire's mother's house,
George King Fish Stephens surprised the twenty two assembled relatives
by getting to his feet and making the following irrevocable statement.

Speaker 11 (18:46):
Yes, folks, I was telling need to have one of
you sweet people that one year from to day you
was all invited to my house for a big Thanksgiving
to the.

Speaker 7 (18:58):
Well.

Speaker 20 (18:59):
Another year is rolled around, and once again the happy
Thanksgiving season is here. And this morning, when Sapphire reminded
the Kingfish of his invitation, he turned to his wife
and said, sweetly, what.

Speaker 11 (19:10):
Have them twenty two vultures here for Thanksgiving? I won't
help them. I'll commit suicide for us.

Speaker 21 (19:16):
George Stevens, you donet invited them here, and there's coming
and that's all he is too.

Speaker 11 (19:20):
Well, now I listen, so fire. We can't feed that
marble gluttons, blackos.

Speaker 21 (19:24):
Why at Mama's house last year they all had perfect manners.

Speaker 11 (19:27):
Perfect manners. Huh. Well, when that food come on, they
charge for the table like motor Dame's backfield.

Speaker 21 (19:34):
George, you're getting all worked up over nothing. If we
get a fifteen pound turkey, that'll be plenty, not a you.

Speaker 11 (19:39):
Mama's dad won't.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
Fifteen pound turkey is just like one order to that
old locus.

Speaker 22 (19:48):
George.

Speaker 21 (19:49):
You can complain all you want, but you're the one
that invited my relatives.

Speaker 23 (19:52):
Now what you gonna do about it?

Speaker 11 (19:54):
Whoam? Maybe we can take them out to you?

Speaker 21 (19:57):
Take them out to Ea? Why could you take twenty
two people?

Speaker 22 (20:00):
Well?

Speaker 11 (20:00):
I might be able to make reservations at the Salvation
on me.

Speaker 22 (20:03):
I don't know.

Speaker 21 (20:06):
Now, listen, George, were gonna have dinner here at home
and you is gonna provide it.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
Dinner and that's fine.

Speaker 11 (20:11):
Now wait a minute, south right, I.

Speaker 21 (20:12):
Wanna style off the meal with the trim cocktail, then salad,
cranberry sauce, candied yams, mince pie, punkin pie, and a
nice turkey.

Speaker 11 (20:20):
Well, you're gonna have to get a pretty leg turkey
because all I got is a dollar on the quarter.

Speaker 21 (20:25):
Joy See that this is one thing you ain't getting
out of. I ain't gonna be embarrassed in front of
my relatives. Now you get out of hand. Fine, some
way to get us a Thanksgiving dinner. There's gonna be fireworks,
and not because it's the post that you lie. Do
you can't bet you no good, loafing bum.

Speaker 11 (20:37):
I'm going to the bedroom. Hold this smokes. Why did
I have to marry a woman with a Donna flu mouth?

Speaker 22 (21:01):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (21:02):
Come on, Anna, let's walking down to the large ar.

Speaker 19 (21:04):
Okay, game is you was really upset about your in
laws coming?

Speaker 11 (21:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm really in trouble, Laurie. I got
a pre mood of Thanksgiving dinner by Thursday.

Speaker 19 (21:14):
Well, with all the unrelatives coming, I guess you ain't
got no alterniquet.

Speaker 11 (21:20):
I wish it never started this Thanksgiving thing in the
first place. If them Pilgrims are on the state back
inside Perry where to belong, we wouldn't.

Speaker 19 (21:31):
I guess that Paul Revere as much to blame as
anybody riding around town on a horse shouting the Pilgrims
is coming.

Speaker 11 (21:40):
I started the thing, all right. Then on Thanksgiving Day,
the Pilgrims they asked all the in laws to come in,
and then they went out and shot tuckers from them. Yeah,
that's where they made the mistake. They had any sense
to the shot the in laws instead. That would have
been a nice custom to carry on through the years.

Speaker 19 (21:58):
You know, fish, if yous gotta feed all them in laws.

Speaker 11 (22:05):
Hey, did you see the way that truck skid it
around the corner the Hey wait a minute, na, where
you're going? Cave fi package just fell off the back
of that truck. Let me get it.

Speaker 19 (22:12):
Yeah, go ahead, Yeah, what is a kyfish?

Speaker 2 (22:15):
What you got.

Speaker 8 (22:17):
Wit?

Speaker 11 (22:17):
A banana? Wait a minute, there's a little hole in
the rabbit paper here. Let me take a squint inside, handy, handy,
you won't believe what's in there. The hand of FID
just slipped me a turkey. A turkey. Yeah, it's all
cooked and everything. What you got to do is to
heat it. Come on and let's take it into large
hort here while I'll get my barons here. Yeah, let

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me see the thing. Go ahead, peak through the little
hole in the bags. Yeah, it's all done up in
wax paper. Look at that.

Speaker 19 (22:43):
Oh look it there, boy, he has golden brown.

Speaker 11 (22:46):
Come on in the large hord here and let's close
the door.

Speaker 12 (22:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (22:49):
Well then that was a lucky break. And I can't
take the turkey back because the truck went by so
fair that neither one of us seed the name on
it to tell who the thing belongs to. You see,
we can't.

Speaker 19 (23:01):
It was Thompson's Market.

Speaker 11 (23:02):
I say, we can't. We can't. You got a din
of fluent mouse too. Listen.

Speaker 19 (23:12):
All I say was it was Thompson's Market.

Speaker 11 (23:15):
I didn't hear a word you say, and stop holler
Thompson's Market. Couldn't nobody see nothing.

Speaker 19 (23:20):
The address was forty seven West one hundred and thirty
fifths and the telephone number was Lee high five nine
two five six.

Speaker 11 (23:28):
Listen, man, did you ever hear the Old Sands speech
is silver in silence is gold?

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (23:34):
I hear that.

Speaker 11 (23:34):
Well, why don't you put your big mouf back on
the gold standard?

Speaker 12 (23:37):
There?

Speaker 19 (23:39):
All I can tell you is what I see with
my own eyes. I see the truck.

Speaker 11 (23:44):
You know what happened to you? Don't you?

Speaker 12 (23:45):
What?

Speaker 11 (23:46):
You don't see? The mirage?

Speaker 19 (23:48):
A miarage?

Speaker 22 (23:49):
What is that?

Speaker 11 (23:50):
Well, that's the common thing. And like when you was
out on the desert, you see something there that ain't there,
that's all.

Speaker 19 (23:57):
Well, if it ain't there, how do you see it?

Speaker 11 (24:00):
Whoa binoculars?

Speaker 22 (24:03):
Uh?

Speaker 19 (24:06):
Yeah, I never think of that, that's right. Yeah, but
it's still kind of funny that I see the truck
would let us on earlier foot high?

Speaker 11 (24:12):
Yeah yeah, funny alright. Yeah.

Speaker 19 (24:14):
But you say that that was a mirage, let's gid
it around that corner. Show was a big one.

Speaker 11 (24:20):
There's bigger mirages than that, there is. Yeah. You take
one of them steamships that cruises around the world that
I heard about. The thing docked at one of them
tropical islands in the Pacific. The passengers went ashore dance
with the natives pick bananas off the trees, eat cool oness,
and spent two glorious weeks at the place before they
found out there was no island there at all.

Speaker 19 (24:41):
Yeah, well that show make this truck mirage look like nothing.

Speaker 11 (24:44):
Oh yeah, and now that I was convinced you that
you didn't see what you saw, Now let me figure
out the way I gonna keep this turget. I wonder
if you wouldn't mind keeping the new ice bugs in.

Speaker 19 (24:55):
Well, wait a minute here, what's the matter? What that
refrigerator you got?

Speaker 11 (24:58):
K Fish? Well, I tell then, yeah, I had a
little difference of opinion with the electric company about two
months ago, and they don't sever with my connections that
that's what.

Speaker 19 (25:07):
Okay, then I'll keep it for you. But King Fish,
I still don't think you're doing the right thing keeping
the turkey that don't belong to you. That's libelous. Don't
bother your conscience.

Speaker 11 (25:16):
Well, then I just convinced it that neither one of
us know where it comes from.

Speaker 19 (25:20):
Well, I know that we don't know where it comes from.

Speaker 11 (25:22):
Yeah, well, then what does you expect me to do?

Speaker 19 (25:25):
Why don't you take it back to Thompson's Barrage one
hundred and thirty fish.

Speaker 11 (25:40):
It's three o'clock in the morning and I ain't had
a wink of sleep yet. I don't know why I
can't sleep. Oh my problems. So I got that turkey
and everything. Why can't I sleep?

Speaker 12 (25:54):
I'll tell you why you can't sleep?

Speaker 24 (25:56):
Jorge?

Speaker 12 (25:57):
Who that it's me? Me, George, your conscience?

Speaker 11 (26:02):
Conscience? What are you bothering me for now?

Speaker 25 (26:05):
It's that turkey, George. You know it doesn't belong to you.
It belongs to Thompson's Market. And mark my words, if
you insist on keeping that turkey, you'll never be able
to enjoy it.

Speaker 11 (26:17):
I won't be able to enjoy that. To you, you
ain't got as much sense as I thought you had.

Speaker 25 (26:23):
And another thing, George, it's little things like taking a
turkey that doesn't belong to you that lead to bigger things.
This may well be your first step toward a life
of crime.

Speaker 11 (26:34):
Yeah, but you don't understand conscience. On one side, there
might be a life of crime. But on the other side,
I'd have to fias twenty two of my wife's relatives
without no turkey. They give John Ark a better deal
than that.

Speaker 25 (26:48):
All right, all right, George, have it your way. But
remember what I said about starting a life of crime.
One of these days you'll find yourself in a big
gray building with bars.

Speaker 11 (27:00):
You mean, they'll put me in a.

Speaker 12 (27:02):
Yesh and it won't be a mirage either.

Speaker 26 (27:04):
Oh, No, washer and brighter than you Rinso.

Speaker 25 (27:23):
Washes Rinso Rinso wider than new Rinzol, righter than new
Rinzo Prinzo Rinso.

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Speaker 4 (28:11):
Rinso rent New.

Speaker 11 (28:27):
No me, I don't know why I feel so tired day.
I guess because I didn't get no sleep last night
with that conscience bothering me, Well, come in Shorter, greetens
or the holiday season?

Speaker 26 (28:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (28:40):
Happy?

Speaker 27 (28:41):
I mean mayor Christmas?

Speaker 23 (28:42):
I mean happy to me that you can't when what
day is it?

Speaker 27 (28:50):
Well?

Speaker 11 (28:51):
Thanksgiving is the one I was talking about, Shorter, And
I gonna tell you some you know eyes in a
mess about the thing too. You see, I'd done something
a little wrong, and oh last night a voice kept
nagging that man, keeping me awake and making them miserable. Yeah, King,
you want to put a muscle on that sapphire. Sure, no, no,

(29:14):
I'll tell you what it was that my conscience that
was bothering me.

Speaker 6 (29:18):
Why was I bothering you for?

Speaker 28 (29:21):
Well?

Speaker 11 (29:21):
The August of the thing is, uh that I found
a turkey, and well I didn't know what to do
about it. So my conscience wants me to return the thing,
you see. And the thing that really got me short
is that my conscience said to me that a little
thing like taking the turkey, just taking one turkey now
might lead to a life of crime. You think that's

(29:43):
any truth of that show?

Speaker 29 (29:44):
Oh yeah, that's why it isn't life. That's way there's
in life, can't you? Thet thet little things need I
took bigger things. Yeah yeah, look, just nobody happened.

Speaker 11 (29:56):
To my father? Yeah, well, what happened to that papa? Papa?

Speaker 30 (30:01):
He went into a market and while the clerk wasn't looking,
he took a tail of sardines, And the next day
he took a job pickled and from there he went
on to take him swiss cheees, liverwoosh, tsunami, smoke, tongue
and whole helm.

Speaker 11 (30:18):
He took all that stuff. What finally happened to him?

Speaker 31 (30:20):
Oh well, he he, He went to the police. He
gave himself up to the details. He decided to come
clean with but he he opened the delicate test.

Speaker 11 (30:42):
Oh me, uh with a conscience ball and me half
the night I didn't get much sleep. I gonna see
if I can't catch a little cat napp on the
sofa here. I lay down here in the lodge. Oh
take a little nap turger lead into a life of crimes.
That's the craziest thing I over here. I better get

(31:08):
some sleep here and forget about that crimes. After all,
you can know what happened to me. Life for crime,
Life for crime.

Speaker 32 (31:26):
Calling all cars pick up George Stevens for Turkey snatching, haling,
All cars pick up George Stevens for jewelry store robbery calling.
All cars pick up George Stephens for on bank hold
up calling, all cars pick up George Stevens for blowing
up for nance shoot on site.

Speaker 33 (31:46):
All right, Stevens, come out of that alley. We got
your Coveroared, I ain't coming out. You'll never take me.
I won't confess. I won't confess. Where do I sign?

Speaker 16 (32:03):
Fellows, gentlemen of the jury, you have reached a verdict
in the case of the State of New York versus
Mad Dog Stevens.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
Foreman, Amos Jones, what is your verdict?

Speaker 11 (32:22):
Well, we find a defender guilty on all cants and
recommended death penalty.

Speaker 16 (32:27):
Was the jury's decision unanimous?

Speaker 11 (32:28):
Well, we had no disagreement to except once there six
of us. One to hang him and six others want
to burn him. Amos, amos, you can't do this to me.

Speaker 16 (32:40):
The prisoner will please stand in front of the bench
while the judge pronounce a sentence.

Speaker 21 (32:47):
John Stevens, are you ready for me to pass sentence?

Speaker 22 (32:50):
My way?

Speaker 11 (32:50):
So fire the judge.

Speaker 21 (32:52):
You have been duly convicted by a jury of twelve turkeys,
and I hereby sentence you to be taken to Thompson'
smart where on January fifteenth of day o'clock in the evening,
you will be put to death in the electric chair.
Tickets now on sale of the box off.

Speaker 34 (33:12):
Oh no self, not the chair, not the chair. Oh
it's you, warden.

Speaker 11 (33:28):
Don't just stand there, say something to me.

Speaker 5 (33:31):
Hell lo.

Speaker 11 (33:34):
And you the warden? Yeah, what about it? And you
gotta help me? Look, the ain't fooling there has already
slipped my pants leg? What's next?

Speaker 8 (33:42):
End?

Speaker 11 (33:43):
What's next?

Speaker 19 (33:43):
Well, we usual shaves the top of the prisoner's head.
But you got a pretty clean job there.

Speaker 11 (33:48):
There, Warden. Ain't then nothing you can do for me?

Speaker 19 (33:57):
Well, I got a little surprised for your mad dog.
I was gonna give you the juice at eight o'clock,
but I got you a hour's stay of execution.

Speaker 11 (34:05):
He will, that's some hoop. What did I get to
stay for?

Speaker 19 (34:09):
Well, I'm gonna watch television tonight and I don't want
the tube to go dim during Arthur. God for it.

Speaker 11 (34:18):
Why did I ever start off by taking the turkey?

Speaker 19 (34:21):
Well, it's too late now, and I gotta run along too.
I gotta speak to the reporters. It's gonna cover the
thing for the papers.

Speaker 11 (34:28):
What is you gonna speak to him? Boss?

Speaker 19 (34:29):
Oh, I'm gonna tell him to control they're laughing and
giggling during the festive regions. All right, God, you can
bring in the prisoner's last meal.

Speaker 11 (34:40):
Oh me, my last meal?

Speaker 22 (34:42):
What is it? God?

Speaker 11 (34:43):
Well, it's gonna be parking, it's gonna be planned.

Speaker 29 (34:47):
Nice day, Virginia that I'm a roast.

Speaker 11 (34:49):
Take it with Thompson Jesson. No, No, I don't want
to turkey take it away. Tell you, Oh what a
terrible dream that was. Two minutes morning I woke up dead.

(35:10):
Oh I don't know whether to give up the turkey.
I'll face them twenty two relatives. I don't know what
to do. I can fish handy you just the man.
I want to see you. Sure of the fine? Pal?
What's the matter? Watching television while I sitting down burning
in the electric chair, and it don't ever speak to
me again?

Speaker 5 (35:40):
Vass Is can Carpenter.

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Speaker 11 (36:35):
Now, get on into Calhoun's office here. I gotta do
something about that Turkey. I couldn't stand no more of
them awful dreams. Hello, that Calhoun be with.

Speaker 14 (36:56):
You a minute, King Fish, I'd just dictating to live here.

Speaker 22 (36:59):
I'm a second time insult. Gentlemen.

Speaker 11 (37:03):
If you will take care of this matter.

Speaker 14 (37:05):
Referred to above, I'm sure we can come to term
if it will be mutually satisfactory you're very truly help
darklan Jay Calhoun.

Speaker 11 (37:17):
Wait a minute, cal who is your dictating this lot
of two? Ain't nobody else but the two of us?

Speaker 35 (37:22):
Will?

Speaker 22 (37:22):
I have a dog going?

Speaker 4 (37:23):
I keep for getting that gal quit this.

Speaker 11 (37:24):
Moment, Calhoun. The reason I come to see you. I
really in a dilemma here today. What it about Kingfish?

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (37:34):
Well, now look, I found a turkey that didn't belong
to me, and my conscience is telling me to take
it back. So on one side I got my conscience
bothered men, and on the other side, I got a
fifteen pound turkey. Now what would you do in a
spotlight that? With a turkey?

Speaker 14 (37:48):
Set the oven at four hundred and seventy degrees and
based it hell hour, But.

Speaker 11 (37:56):
You see, my conscience won't let me do it.

Speaker 22 (37:58):
Well tell me this.

Speaker 11 (38:00):
Does you know who really owned the ticket? Well, I
guess I does, forces myself Thompson's market.

Speaker 14 (38:11):
Well, the only thing I can see for you to
do do Kingfisher to raise the money and then pay Thompson.

Speaker 11 (38:17):
But who I gonna raid the money from? That's the problem.
Andy Brown is your best friend, ain't it. Yeah, he's
the best friend of God. Well, what good is a friend.

Speaker 22 (38:26):
If you can't jipp him.

Speaker 11 (38:33):
That's what I'll do. I'll figure some way to get
the money from aanda where if I don't.

Speaker 14 (38:37):
See it for the next few days. Kingfish, I hope
you have a happy Thanksgiving?

Speaker 27 (38:41):
Yeah, thank you?

Speaker 11 (38:42):
Why are you eating Thanksgiving? Calhoun? Where you see ever Thanksgiving?

Speaker 14 (38:45):
For the past three years, I've been taking a turkey
after mcgill' friend's house.

Speaker 22 (38:52):
Yeah, gir she really love it.

Speaker 14 (38:53):
You're always so grateful when I bring the ticket that
she throws arms around me and we smoots for an hour.

Speaker 11 (38:59):
Boy, is that right?

Speaker 22 (39:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (39:00):
But you know something, I got a feat suspicion that
gall is cheating on me.

Speaker 11 (39:05):
What you mean?

Speaker 14 (39:06):
I looked in the ice box last night and then
there was eighteen taking.

Speaker 11 (39:19):
And I'll get it in this room here. That's saying
the Calhoun. What good is a friend of again? Sounds
like an old proverb of mine.

Speaker 19 (39:29):
Come in, Oh hi Fish?

Speaker 11 (39:33):
Well, helldo on there, brother? Then they're glad to see you, well,
glad to see you. Well? What you doing sitting down
in the chair there?

Speaker 12 (39:39):
Brother?

Speaker 19 (39:39):
Then I'll be with you in a minute. Chare you
know I've been walking around all day and I just
changing my socks.

Speaker 11 (39:46):
Changing your socks.

Speaker 19 (39:47):
Huh yeah, I'm changing the right one to the left
foot and the left one of the.

Speaker 11 (39:51):
Right I guess, uh good, all rotating the socks a
good idea. Yeah, then the hole don't always come up
on the big toe.

Speaker 19 (40:06):
Dude, Yeah, what you're doing? You come up here to
get your turkey out of my ice box and not here.

Speaker 11 (40:13):
Then the old perlmer friend, I just come up here
to chat you a poor lonesome boy to cheer me.
I love her putting all around her here. I love you,
you know, near South. I was talking about you this morning,
talk about how sad it is that you gotta spend
this gear holiday season all by yourself.

Speaker 23 (40:32):
You know what.

Speaker 11 (40:32):
I got all choked up about it. Then you did.
Oh yeah, I bluffered so much at breakfast. I cried
right in my plate. Oh yeah, my tears filled up
all them little squares in the waffle I was. I
tell you, it's a sad thing. And you being all
the loon in this miserable room here.

Speaker 19 (40:51):
What is you driving at?

Speaker 11 (40:53):
Game face? Well then there I was extenuating you are
invitation to have Thanksgiving dinner with us.

Speaker 19 (40:58):
No fulling you You mean you want me to come
up to your place for Thanksgiving dinner.

Speaker 11 (41:02):
Yeah, Leanna, I'll invite you in consideration of our long friendship,
our lifelong association, and a small sum of fifteen dollars. Yeah,
fifteen dollars.

Speaker 19 (41:13):
You know, Kingfish, when you start slapping me on the back,
sooner or later, your hand always slips down to my wall.

Speaker 11 (41:20):
Now wait a month, Dana, Think of what you're getting
for your money. That fifteen dollars entails you to a
turkey cranburst or the fixing, plus the love and affection
of twenty two genuine relative.

Speaker 19 (41:31):
That's what you get, The love and affection of twenty
two relatives.

Speaker 11 (41:34):
That's right, or deal mall all over you, just like
you was one of the family. Yes, yea, not only
that andder but you're fifteen bucks entitled you to a
ringside seat for the carving too, breakside seat that right, ander,
you'd be right up there with the breast and the
second joint set, not back in the bleachers with the
stuffing and gravy crowds.

Speaker 19 (41:57):
I tell you, Kingfish, I'd like to come, but tell
you the truth. Finally got a couple of dollars to
tied me over the holidays.

Speaker 11 (42:03):
Only got two dollars.

Speaker 5 (42:04):
Yeah, that's all.

Speaker 11 (42:06):
Well, you wouldn't enjoy it anywhere. And I'll tell you what.
You just bring the turger by one o'clock on Thursday,
come to the back door.

Speaker 19 (42:13):
And then be on your way. Yeah, but wait a minute.
The cake fae was I gonna do for Thanksgiving? I
ain't got no place to go.

Speaker 11 (42:20):
Well, the best say for you to do is to
drop down to the mission. You liable to run into
some other penniless bum down there, and the two of
it could be thankful together. See you there. Well, I
done made an honest effort to raise the money to
pay back Thompson's Market. Now it even my fault that

(42:41):
they didn't have no money. I just keep that turken.
My conscience is clear.

Speaker 25 (42:46):
Sure it's you again. Conscious you're not doing the right thing.
Take that turkey back to Thompson's Market.

Speaker 11 (42:59):
I wear a monu condis. What do you make send
you fuss about?

Speaker 22 (43:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (43:04):
I'll be eating for you too.

Speaker 12 (43:06):
No, No, George, No, you've got to listen to me.

Speaker 11 (43:09):
Well, I listen. I gonna do what I want to do,
all right.

Speaker 25 (43:12):
All right, George, but mark my words, you will never
be able to enjoy that turkey.

Speaker 12 (43:18):
You will never enjoy.

Speaker 11 (43:20):
Hmmm, where did that kindios know? Anyway, I wasn't declared.
Even if Thompson didn't miss the turkey, ain't nobody gonna
find out that I had it? When then twenty two
relatives get through with that bird. They ain't even gonna
be no caucers that LECTI well, so far, I see

(43:46):
all the relatives is in there.

Speaker 21 (43:47):
Oh yeah, Jorge, they all showed up, all twenty two
of them.

Speaker 11 (43:50):
Yeah, they showed the mess up already. I just walked
through the living room. They all pursed up there like
a pack of timberwolves.

Speaker 23 (43:56):
What time did you say? And to be here with
the turkey?

Speaker 11 (43:58):
Well, I told him to be over here one o'clock.
You would have been here five minutes ago. And wait
a minute, that's him in the back door. Now I'll
open the door and let him in there.

Speaker 19 (44:07):
Oh brolanda hi kyfish high.

Speaker 11 (44:10):
Well see you got the turkey there, and my conscience
said that I ain't gonna enjoy this thing. Now give
me that turkey, and then you get on down to
the mission. Before they went up the beans.

Speaker 19 (44:20):
And you know something, Kingfish, I've been thinking the other
day when you found this turkey, you say that truck
had fell off.

Speaker 5 (44:27):
Was just a mirage.

Speaker 11 (44:28):
That was right, and mirages is a common thing all ready.

Speaker 19 (44:31):
The certainly is you've got another miraage on your hand.
What do you mean, Anna, Well, this ain't no real turkey.
This is one of them plastic jobs. The market decorates
the window.

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Speaker 6 (46:50):
Sister seventy six years ago, November twentieth, nineteen forty nine.
AMAS Andandi here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cock.

(47:10):
Let's go back seventy five years November twentieth, nineteen fifty
for a Thanksgiving episode of Bob Bailey as George Valentine
and let George do it.

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Speaker 6 (48:28):
We continue our pat Thanksgiving Thursday edition of Classic Radio
Theater with Wyattox with an episode to let George Do
It as it was broadcast on the West Coast of
the US seventy five years ago to day, November twentieth,
nineteen fifty cause for Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
Personal notice stans my stock in trade. If the job's
too tough for you to handle, you've got a job
for me. George Valentine right full details.

Speaker 8 (49:15):
Standard Oil Company of California on behalf of independent Chevron
Gas Stations and Standard Stations throughout the West invites you
to let George.

Speaker 13 (49:26):
Do it.

Speaker 8 (49:32):
Cause for Thanksgiving. Another adventure of George Valentine. Hello year,
mister Valentine, what hello?

Speaker 28 (49:51):
Quiet?

Speaker 22 (49:52):
I'm ten years old?

Speaker 2 (49:53):
Helly is that you?

Speaker 12 (49:55):
Well it's not Tom Turkey.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
Listen, my friend, Sure it's not. What's that ten year
old star?

Speaker 22 (50:00):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (50:00):
You've been jumping the gun on the cranberry saw.

Speaker 28 (50:02):
All right, all right, all right, I'll say it straight.
I'm boning on behalf of a little boy ten years old.

Speaker 22 (50:08):
No it's not.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
It's worse, said, little.

Speaker 38 (50:11):
Boy could no more write you a letter than he
could hope to joke.

Speaker 28 (50:14):
I doubt if you can write.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
What's the matter? He can't talk either?

Speaker 22 (50:18):
Huh you hurt me?

Speaker 7 (50:19):
I said, he can't talk.

Speaker 28 (50:21):
Oh, I don't mean there's anything wrong with him?

Speaker 22 (50:23):
Or maybe there is. I don't know.

Speaker 28 (50:24):
But look, Valentine, get over here, will you right away?

Speaker 22 (50:27):
To my house?

Speaker 12 (50:27):
Well?

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Sure, but I want your friend.

Speaker 28 (50:30):
This little boy never heard of Thanksgiving. If you're gonna
help him, you'd better bring your breass knuckles. Oh, missus.
Riley's got him in there, trying to coax and dewey.

(50:51):
But the only time he'll take a bite is when
she's turned her back.

Speaker 22 (50:53):
Oh is he?

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Where'd you get him?

Speaker 28 (50:56):
One of the boys in my department picked him up
early this morning at three am on the waterfront the
warehouse lane.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Oh, I see a little on the tough side.

Speaker 28 (51:04):
Huh Oh, they all are down there, like a bunch
of dirty seagulls and scavengers running loose.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
We can't even find out who he belongs to. Maybe nobody,
only ten years old.

Speaker 28 (51:13):
Listen, the sergeant of mine and a squad car and
then he runs him down. See, the kid was racing
across the empty street, not even looking well. Mike gets
out to help. Naturally, the kid wasn't hurt, but he
swung on him trying to get away, scared to death,
and got and scratched. And then Mike realized the kid
wasn't talking, not a sound.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Well that's the part I don't care.

Speaker 28 (51:34):
Cleared of what he right, Well, Mike couldn't even find
out where he lives, so he brought him in. My friends,
that boy hasn't spoken one single solitary word since, hardly
a noise out of him. Oh except maybe the cry
a little, only he stops that when you look at him.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
But Lieutenanty's probably a mute.

Speaker 39 (51:53):
Uh.

Speaker 28 (51:53):
Two doctors were out from juvenile hall to look at him.
One of them said, the kid's faken, but they both
agreed there's nothing wrong with his vocal cord.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
What's the other doctor say, psychic shock?

Speaker 23 (52:04):
Oh you mean he can't talk because of something that
happened to me.

Speaker 28 (52:07):
Well, they're not sure, they say, it'll take time to
be sure. I have arranged for the hall to take
him over to try to find his family if there
is one, to feed him.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
But that takes time, like you say, days, Wow, now.

Speaker 22 (52:20):
You get a pal.

Speaker 28 (52:21):
And the doc says it'll help him a lot better
if we could work fast, because the most likely thing
is that last night he saw something, what's mixed up
in something that scared the blue blazers out of him,
and he was running away.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
A little before three am last night. I saw something.

Speaker 28 (52:35):
Yeah, but what nothing happened down there? Nothing was reported.
My department can't just go bursting into him. Eh, well
hello there, cellie, Hello, you finally ate something, did you?

Speaker 35 (52:49):
Big eyes?

Speaker 8 (52:51):
He listens, he doesn't listen.

Speaker 28 (52:53):
Yeah, come on in here, son, come on, he's a
friends of mine. See ah, Now wait him and don't
jump like that I'm not going to bite you. Come
on in, hear it?

Speaker 12 (53:02):
It?

Speaker 5 (53:02):
Really?

Speaker 2 (53:02):
What time is it? Huh? One church? Oh good? Hey,
look kid, how about coming with me. I've got an
extra ticket to the big football game. Well, get you
to meet Big Mike Merrell Lefski, the All American. Maybe
you can even sit on the bench with a team. George,

(53:23):
he's just more frightened. He's crying. You see. You can't
get him interested in anything but.

Speaker 23 (53:28):
A boy in a football game.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
I think the doctors.

Speaker 28 (53:32):
Oh it's Thanksgiving. I mean, a kid belongs in somebody's
home on Thanksgiving. Why are you gonna just sit there? Valentine?

Speaker 2 (53:38):
I know, softie, I know we've got work to do
in fast. Come on, Brooks, you take the kid's hand.
We're gonna go straight at this. At the waterfront warehouse
laying great place, funny your braiders tied up, but no

(54:01):
people ship chandlers. You must have spent some time around there,
haven't you?

Speaker 11 (54:06):
A kid?

Speaker 2 (54:07):
How about the candy store? Wasting your time? George just
seems to get more and more tense. Uh, let's just
where he was picked up right.

Speaker 23 (54:16):
Here, Oh relaxed, honey, don't.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
Just sit there, look right to left, so he must
have come from this way. Okay, let's move on a
little cobblestones by the empty warehouse. Huh, George, look at it.
It's this direction, right, George.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
Look out for that boy in the street. Street, No
lovely neighborhood.

Speaker 40 (54:37):
I wonder if that boy wouldnt know anything about.

Speaker 23 (54:38):
Our friend here.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
That's an idea. A second, Hey you shorty, Oh you
want your brother yet?

Speaker 12 (54:44):
You know?

Speaker 22 (54:47):
Hey, hey shorty, shuddy, wait.

Speaker 15 (54:48):
George, George, come here, I'm having an awful table hale.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
Oh look, kid, kid stop it?

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Will you want to run to George?

Speaker 5 (54:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (54:55):
Oh easy, that's better. Yeah, he'll get away from us
if I try to catch up with that shorty. Look Brooks,
he look, there's a settlement house over there at Murphy's,
you know him. Take the kid over there and wait
for me, will you sure, George?

Speaker 23 (55:06):
Maybe they don't know something about it.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
I got at three am last night, father out there
on the periods where it happened, whatever it was, So me,
I'm gonna take it on foot by myself. Look God, alright, Sory,

(55:31):
I got you this stock, gotcha quiet, get you cut
it out. I just wanna ask you something. Do you
know that other kid I had back in the car.
They you know his name? I've never seen him before.
I ain't done nothing. Want your name?

Speaker 23 (55:45):
I don't know?

Speaker 2 (55:45):
Like god, you kids running loose out here by the
ships last night?

Speaker 23 (55:49):
How was up by the moon eating cheese?

Speaker 2 (55:51):
Let me go, old brother, great, try bunches stick together.
Never tell anybody anything going now, little kid, I'm not
a copper or anything. I just wanna find I got there.

Speaker 22 (56:02):
Don't let him jerk?

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Oh no, you on, shorty, I got you.

Speaker 13 (56:08):
Here.

Speaker 22 (56:08):
We are hold him, let me go through his pockets.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
Hey hey, wait a minute there, skipper, what are you talking?

Speaker 28 (56:13):
The cigars left him out on deck, stolen, stolen signing store.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
He hasn't got anything.

Speaker 22 (56:18):
Oh he's still biddy. Anyway, you're not goe and.

Speaker 13 (56:22):
What go on?

Speaker 2 (56:24):
Shorty? Get out of here?

Speaker 5 (56:25):
You know help?

Speaker 35 (56:26):
I tell you jerk?

Speaker 28 (56:27):
No water rats, same the world, all over all, the same.
Good cigars to first mate, give him to messid I
let him stay up tower.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
Wait a minute, skiffer, wait a minute. Were you looking
for another kid?

Speaker 12 (56:41):
No?

Speaker 2 (56:42):
Uh, yes, something stolen last night? You may I'm doing
the night here.

Speaker 28 (56:46):
Cigars, no rules, have no A few minutes ago come
up right like rats, so full of horses. I tell
you it's awful, Marseille. It was my last part, same thing,
same the world over. Nobody stops him over. They can't
stop him.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
Kid, Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute, giving this
is your ship tied up here?

Speaker 12 (57:04):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (57:05):
Riky old tub full of potatoes, frenchman like potatoes. Uh
huh looks about ready to sail. Were you here last night?

Speaker 12 (57:13):
Uh?

Speaker 22 (57:14):
What do you peddley? Dope, punchboards, cheaply.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
Guard all listen? Will you you have trouble with kids
getting aboard?

Speaker 11 (57:21):
Huh?

Speaker 28 (57:21):
Characters like you will have record too, dock loafers. Oh
it's kind of deal. Sure I have trouble. That's the
customs peer watchmen. Nobody can stop them. You see those
big rat guards right over them like monkeys.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
Huh? Did some kids get aboard your ship last night?

Speaker 10 (57:38):
No?

Speaker 22 (57:38):
No, I stopped pestering.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
Are you sure? Around three am? Fight was out of
the pier, not the ship?

Speaker 5 (57:43):
What fight?

Speaker 28 (57:44):
Oh for that's the peer watchman. He's the one spreading
the story. A couple of bombers. I guess I don't know.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
My old deck watch was sound asleep. Of course you
didn't see it.

Speaker 22 (57:54):
No, I don't know.

Speaker 28 (57:56):
Whop me up, my help, shut up out of my
port hole went back to sleep this away.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
I'm so glad to catch him.

Speaker 22 (58:02):
Oh now a sailor comes ashore.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
I'm just gonna take a minute. It's about a woman
you see, Oh that I see, and the us and eyes.
But right now I want to put that main dock.
Loafers all trying to sell something.

Speaker 22 (58:15):
Now it's telephone number's gone. Ball to get out of here.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Wait a minute, I've seen this guy before. You know,
well it's nothing mutual skip. If you just listen. Named Salvory,
I'll tell you. Yeah, I've seen him in the lineups.
Are you around here last night? I beg you pardon.

Speaker 28 (58:31):
Oh it's a great neighborhood. Salvory the big operator. Last
trip he was here selling raffle tickets for a free
wheel automobile. Oh but escape lit say well thanks and
good night.

Speaker 22 (58:42):
You passed to him. I'm going backwards.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
Yeah, look at that?

Speaker 5 (58:46):
What you now?

Speaker 2 (58:47):
What you want to see us about Salvory? That crowd
down at the pier, I know, no, no, I got
a not. Come on, let's take a look.

Speaker 41 (58:55):
After down, friends, what's going on? Don't suppose half fifty cent? Say, see, yeah,
no pell of mine? See, he was gonna buy me
Thanksgiving Dinny.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
You say, mind, what are those men doing down by
the water fishing?

Speaker 11 (59:07):
Son?

Speaker 41 (59:08):
Fifty cents is about all would take though, you see
now this old pell of mine, he would have spent
five bucks, you know, men's pie and the white you know,
said he last knife?

Speaker 10 (59:16):
Hey, hey down there?

Speaker 2 (59:19):
Awesome buster did you say last night?

Speaker 8 (59:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (59:22):
What are in New York? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (59:23):
So now yeah, Now it seems to me.

Speaker 22 (59:25):
That hell about that glory?

Speaker 2 (59:28):
Wow, he left in a hurry, didn't he?

Speaker 11 (59:29):
Holly skipper got a body? What just fishing him off?
Guy floating with a knife in him?

Speaker 2 (59:39):
Guy float Yeah, with a knife.

Speaker 41 (59:43):
Oh you see that's why I tell you. You see
a pela mine. He was gonna buy me a Thanksgiving dinner.
See only instead it looks like he got in a
fight about three am last night. I figured, yeah, that
might have seen and so, uh come, how's about the
fifty cents?

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Speaker 8 (01:03:41):
Now back to tonight's adventure of George Valentine, a boy
ten years old who's been scared to death, who either
can't or won't talk. Well, if your name is George Valentine,
you begin to understand the reason when you see the
neighborhood in which he was picked up by the police.
You understand a good deal more when you see that
the body of a man has been fixtured out of
the water off the pier. Yes, now it's certainly a

(01:04:04):
case for Lieutenant Riley.

Speaker 28 (01:04:07):
Oh, but what a case they don't get solved around here,
my friend, they just happened.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
Okay, Riley, did your boys pick up that bum? The
guy who sniffed, Oh, he won't know anything. Nobody does,
the name of the corpse is Lefty Sims.

Speaker 28 (01:04:21):
Well, you seem to know something well, everybody knew him.
He's a common thief, that's all. Few big jobs, but
nothing to steal down here. He usually worked the city.
This wasn't his territory, but Doc.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
Says the times. If I right been dead since last night,
around three or four may be killed and then tossed
in the water. What about the pair of watch one?

Speaker 28 (01:04:39):
He must heat covers five warehouses. How could he see anything?
And everybody off duty for the holly? Okay, Riley, what's.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
This stuff where the fight happened. It's a spot of blood?

Speaker 22 (01:04:51):
I figure?

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
Oh oh oh, well closer hmm, powdery little pieces of
broken glass. What hey, here's some more of it? Yeah,
doctor yeah, yeah, doctor over here?

Speaker 13 (01:05:02):
We do.

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
You thinking?

Speaker 22 (01:05:05):
What I am?

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

Speaker 22 (01:05:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 28 (01:05:06):
It Hey here take a look white powder and Donna
pier we're both h no, it's not eh talking about dope,
aren't you?

Speaker 22 (01:05:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
I don't think so, false alarm Don. And I might
explain why there was a fight. What was going on
out here?

Speaker 42 (01:05:24):
Something of value? Yes, yes, of course, smuggling you think, uh, peddling, Yes,
I'll do the thinking.

Speaker 28 (01:05:31):
Doctor.

Speaker 42 (01:05:32):
You still mess and perhaps you know something like that?
And I can run a tesk our Olmo valuable? Didn't
I say that drug drug is some kind cure people
instead of making them sick, worth a lot more than dope.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Too easier to market. Yeah, yeah, same thing, only more
in the big time. Did that watchmen say there were
any kids on the pier last night, Valentine, I try
to get the doc here to talking. Didn't watchman see
any kids?

Speaker 12 (01:05:58):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
Okay, so long? Wish I could help you, Miss Brooks.
Mister Murphy, come on, Sonny.

Speaker 28 (01:06:13):
The settlement house here is pretty badly under my dry
cleaning woman to be back tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (01:06:17):
She might know something about the bar year.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
But a sunny car over this flight, Boxy, come on,
get out of the street. You want a kid? Never
mind any place here? Duck in the alley in this neighborhood, angel,
I don't wanna.

Speaker 22 (01:06:34):
Who is that?

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
I don't know packing crate. You can't see he's gone now, Gehige,
what happened?

Speaker 23 (01:06:38):
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
Simple? Brooks? A nice simple case. My guess is the
kid here was an eye witness to murder. It'll be
a simple case if he isn't murdered. Oh kid, please talk,

(01:07:02):
please tell me? What do you what did you see
last night? Look, nobody's gonna hurt you.

Speaker 11 (01:07:08):
I won't let him.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
What you You must have seen things like this plenty
of times before.

Speaker 22 (01:07:13):
Kid.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
I don't mean murder, but you grew up in a
tough place, and you're not gonna do anybody any good
if you just.

Speaker 23 (01:07:21):
Yes, he just.

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
Cries, George, I'm taking him home.

Speaker 40 (01:07:25):
You can solve your own fancy waterfront murders.

Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
Okay, I'll leave him alone. But which one are you
covering for?

Speaker 5 (01:07:32):
Kid?

Speaker 2 (01:07:34):
Only a few men around that pier last night? Which
one is that important to you? All right? Maybe you've
given me the answer at that without talking, Ah says you.

Speaker 11 (01:07:58):
You admitted you saw your own power lefty ship before he.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
Was murdered, ied Riley along the deck.

Speaker 41 (01:08:02):
Now, look, I promised me a nice thanksgiving Denny as
he left, he does can pass walking.

Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
Up to the pair and never come back. But didn't
he say who he was coming out to meet? Didn't
he here?

Speaker 5 (01:08:11):
We are, righty?

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
What's going here? Hey, skipper? That's your cabin?

Speaker 22 (01:08:16):
Oh no, no minds for the ways, It's all right,
the owner's cabin. Nobody.

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
You just want a place to toss all. I'm gonna say,
come on, you two a skipper.

Speaker 11 (01:08:25):
The name is Stove, isn't it.

Speaker 22 (01:08:27):
Yeah, Well wait a minute, here's the other one.

Speaker 28 (01:08:29):
Bring him in here, sergeant. Let go, Let go, mister Salvor.
Now I have to stand rats.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
On my ship, right, pick him up in the neighborhood, Skipper.
That's all for our sergeant. What about the kid Valentine?
Oh he's all right, Riley. I uh, I left him
in my car out on the street. So because of
my name is Salvo. You think you were around here
last night too? Watch you always around? That's stock low

(01:08:55):
for us. Yeah, but don't try to cover up so much, Skipper.

Speaker 22 (01:08:58):
What I listen all of you.

Speaker 28 (01:09:00):
We can't find anybody else with a chance of being
out here last night, but you three.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
I was on my ship talking this peddler, I said,
don't cover so much. Salvory's a friend of yours.

Speaker 28 (01:09:11):
Sure, Sure, everybody the Salvori's frank except the law.

Speaker 12 (01:09:15):
Aw.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
Look, this is a smuggle case.

Speaker 22 (01:09:17):
Oh what not on my ship. I've never brought a lefty.

Speaker 28 (01:09:21):
The man who was killed knew his way around the city. Salvory,
you're the big water front middleman and captain.

Speaker 22 (01:09:28):
You've got a boat.

Speaker 28 (01:09:30):
See whether I mean tops They enough to spot an
ideal set up for smuggling.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
Captain Stove.

Speaker 28 (01:09:37):
You bring it in, Salvory picks it up, gets it
through customs, and left.

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
He fitted in some place in the city. I think
you crazy. Somebody was waiting a little while ago to Waley,
Miss Brooks, and a kid who was an eyewitness brokes Brooks, Skipper,
your too fat to run down an alley like he did.
Sure I heard his steps. Sniffy just shuffles. So tag Salforia,
you're rich because now I know why you ran the
first when we saw the body. It's what proves you

(01:10:02):
guys work together. No, I know you crazy because on
the pier earlier you came up yelling to the skip
or something about a woman. Well, a woman must have
been Miss Brooks. You'd seen her with a boy. The witness.
The two of you have been trying to find. Sure Skipper,
you were looking for boys when I first met you too.
Weren't you my cigars?

Speaker 22 (01:10:18):
That's all my cigar?

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
Never mind, sal Vori. The kid out there is gonna
give us the whole story, and a lot straighter than
you ever would. Because I finally figured out his whole story.
I've never been mixed up in you nor smuggling.

Speaker 22 (01:10:28):
Sure, never in the fight or use a knife. Why
did you do it?

Speaker 28 (01:10:33):
Lefty Tria double cross on you too.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
You're under arrest for murder, Samory. Come on, I'll take
him out for you. Riley, let go, you'll take the
other two.

Speaker 41 (01:10:42):
I'm not mixed up in.

Speaker 22 (01:10:42):
This material witness and accessory for you, captain.

Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
Not please please, no, com on, come on out the door,
meet you on the pier, Riley, Hey you, sir, Ory
would a sad nobody? Shamurry you come on herr he
goes down the plane.

Speaker 11 (01:10:57):
Yeah, I head it farther up on.

Speaker 22 (01:10:58):
The pier, up tod the warhouse.

Speaker 27 (01:11:00):
Sory.

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
Do you think the sergeant saw him? Yeah? Sure, sure
he'll get him all right. But that was a nice act. Yeah,
good idea. Now come on, car's back the other way.

Speaker 11 (01:11:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:11:11):
Hey, hey, did you notice that empty cabin on the ship. Yeah?
Three stains on the pillow. Empty. I'll bet I've always
even been traveling with the skipper. Sure it's a smuggling ring. Alright,
Still confused, don't you, Rilly huh? Oh it was originally
a smuggle sure, never mind. He'll never prove anything on
this bunch unless you catch him in the act. And Riley,
we're gonna do just that. Well, it's the only car

(01:11:45):
in the street. We're close enough.

Speaker 28 (01:11:49):
But there's been five minutes already, while in time that
this hunch of yours is gonna pay off at better say.

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
It's time to run the other way, hasn't he? I
don't see how you can do. Oh no, I didn't
expect a gun. Come on, come on around the side
of the building. That's my car, Riley. I hope somebody
is gonna pay for.

Speaker 13 (01:12:07):
There he is.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
You're wasting your time, Skipper. The car is empty, you
hear me? The kids up town. It was a trap, Skipper.

Speaker 5 (01:12:16):
Be careful.

Speaker 2 (01:12:17):
He's got the corner of the building there to duck behind.
The only one who'd stick his neck into what trapp
is the one who did the stabbing, right, the one
who has to get rid of the kid, the witness.
So we don't even need to ask the kid now doing.

Speaker 22 (01:12:33):
I got him?

Speaker 12 (01:12:50):
Is that?

Speaker 40 (01:12:51):
Riley still at the hospital, George, He says he I'll
get his confessions from Gas.

Speaker 23 (01:12:54):
In Stowbright.

Speaker 2 (01:12:56):
The kids in there. I'm trying out of system. We
write each other notes. What about the smuggle stuff those drugs.
They searched the ship yet.

Speaker 6 (01:13:04):
Yes, they've already found some drugs hidden.

Speaker 23 (01:13:06):
But I don't understand what did you say writing note?

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
What don't you understand? How the smuggle worked with a thief,
a middleman and a skipper involved the drugs. It couldn't
be sold in this country except through the proper channels.
It would sell for a fortune in Europe or on
the black market.

Speaker 23 (01:13:21):
Oh you mean it was to be smuggled out of
the country.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
That's right, Brooksy and Lefty. The guy who was killed
stole the drugs and delivered them last night, but he
got a knife instead of a payoff, and the kids
saw it.

Speaker 40 (01:13:33):
George, you mean the boy talked?

Speaker 23 (01:13:35):
He's all right.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
I guess he will be. See, I was afraid he was. Well,
maybe the skipper's son or something.

Speaker 40 (01:13:40):
Yeah, I know it's psychic shock his refusal.

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
To talk, but he's not. He's only known over a
few weeks. Kid didn't even know where he fitted into
the plan until a few days ago.

Speaker 40 (01:13:50):
George, for heaven's sake, See, he doesn't.

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
Have any parents, Brooksy, just a waterfront kid, but not
nearly as tough as the eggs what's missing in the
smuggle set up? This customs on the other side. You
know who gets the goods into the other country off
the ship?

Speaker 40 (01:14:05):
The boy you mean, he was a partner.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
Nobody can stop him all over the world, up and
down like monkeys. Perfect, isn't it. Yeah, if he'd been
with me, you should have noticed empty cabin on the
ship with grease stains on a pillow. But Salvori is bulled.
We'd better buy some shampoo for that kid. By the way,
he was a Yeah, he saw the captain go ashore

(01:14:28):
to meet Salvori and Lefty. He saw the murder. Then
he broke out and got away.

Speaker 40 (01:14:32):
George, let me talk to him.

Speaker 1 (01:14:33):
It's ridiculous business of riding notes.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
Oh sure, he'll talk now. Just been scared to death,
That's all only wanted was to be happy. He was
expecting to be happier than he'd ever been before. George,
if you don't stop playing clairvoyant. But captain's the only
one who could have brought the kid, therefore made him afraid,
made him run ashore. Therefore, Brooks, he the skipper was it. Well,
don't you remember how the kid reacted when I asked

(01:14:56):
him to go to a football game, just puzzled. Sure, Sure,
gives me more time to look the words up in
the dictionary.

Speaker 38 (01:15:04):
I know, memin ah.

Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
Sure, that's why I wouldn't talk before. He wants to
stay in this country, afraid we'd find him out. He's
from Marseillese.

Speaker 38 (01:15:14):
He's French wit marchie ma shimla.

Speaker 1 (01:15:18):
That week, he monsieur, you'll decot hey.

Speaker 23 (01:15:23):
Friend?

Speaker 40 (01:15:25):
Uh here, give me the pencil and the dictionary. You
think you could stand the Turkey dinner, George, Turkey.

Speaker 8 (01:15:33):
Wee.

Speaker 2 (01:15:35):
One language. I guess it is Thanksgiving, isn't it? And
now he got a pilgrim on our hands, angel hungry
little pilgrim.

Speaker 22 (01:15:56):
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The Night's Adventure of George Valentine has been brought to
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Let George Do It as written by David Victor and
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Speaker 5 (01:17:11):
Wally Mayer is Lieutenant Riley.

Speaker 8 (01:17:13):
Alan Reid was heard as Stoge, Dick Ryan as Sniffy,
Anthony Barrett at Salvory, Jeffrey Silver as Shorty, and Stephen
Chase as the Doctor. The music is composed and presented
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(01:17:42):
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Speaker 6 (01:18:16):
Broadcast on the West coast of the US on this
state seventy five years ago, November twentieth, nineteen fifty. Let
George do it here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox.
We'll wrap up this week on Friday with more Thanksgiving
shows from Lomon Abner, Maxwellhouse, Coffee Time, Jack Benny, and

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Willard Waterman. Is the Great gilder Sleep On Saturday, a
pair of shows featuring the original Guildersleeve. Harold Perry will
have a nineteen forty two Gildersleeve show and the nineteen
fifty Harold Perry's show. When he left NBC to go
to CBS, CBS thought that he would bring and the

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Great Gildersleeve with him. Crap said, Nope, We're staying in NBC,
and they got Willard Waterman to be Guildersleeve. So we'll
hear those two shows. We'll also hear Doctor Christian starring
Gene Herscheld and The Prelude to Thanksgiving and Tarzan and
the Story of African Christmas. Then on Sunday and Monday,

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we'll have two episodes of the Good News Show Good
News of nineteen forty from nineteen thirty eight, Here Come
the Pilgrims, the Aldrich Family and Jack Benny on Sunday,
and then on Monday, Good News of nineteen thirty nine,
from nineteen thirty eight, a nineteen fifty edition of Sam
Spade starring Steve Dunn, and Points Sublime starring Clip Arquette

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and Mel Blank. Then on Tuesday, Bud Abbott and Luke Costello,
The Hallmark Playhouse, Martha Scott and Jack Kirkwood in Freeland,
and the New Edgar Bergen Hour with Charlie McCarty. Then
on Wednesday, we will have Father Knows Best, Jimmy Duranty,
Bibber and Molly and Jack Benny. And on Thursday, Thanksgiving Day,

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it is a sad day as Classic Radio left Hollywood
for New York City on that date with the episodes
of Suspense, Have Gune, We'll Travel and Yours Truly Johnny Doller,
along with the Thanksgiving edition of Casey Crime Photographer. That's
all coming up a week from today here on Thanksgiving

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Day on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox. Up next,
we'll continue by bringing you an episode of the Cavalcade
of America.

Speaker 4 (01:20:48):
And Cora, I'd like you to meet my fiance.

Speaker 19 (01:20:52):
I've heard so much about you from harold aunt Cora.

Speaker 11 (01:20:55):
You're his favorite aunt.

Speaker 43 (01:20:56):
I suppose he also mentioned I was his richest Dan
and Cora. Never mind. So you saved enough money to
get married.

Speaker 23 (01:21:02):
Have you, Harold?

Speaker 4 (01:21:03):
I've tried.

Speaker 23 (01:21:04):
I've tried.

Speaker 43 (01:21:05):
Not good enough.

Speaker 22 (01:21:06):
Ever.

Speaker 43 (01:21:07):
Think of saving money on your income taxes. Save money
on income tax right, Missy. Get some free IRS publications.
Lots of money saving ideas there, like income averaging of
your income, shoots up tax credits, deducting some interest expenses.

Speaker 4 (01:21:20):
I had no idea, Yes she didn't.

Speaker 43 (01:21:22):
Well, no mind, you'll learn, hope. Here take this envelope
a little something from your aunt Kara to get you
too started.

Speaker 4 (01:21:30):
Cory, you really didn't. Publications from the IRS.

Speaker 43 (01:21:34):
Money saving ideas. Use the order forming your tax package
for more money saving IRS publications are free, but no
need to thank me. After all, what are relative's.

Speaker 4 (01:21:44):
For a message from the IRS?

Speaker 6 (01:21:47):
We continue on this Thursday before Thanksgiving a week away
I are a classic radio theater with an episode of
the Cavalcade of America and the History of Thanksgiving in
an episode entitled The Path of Preyer. This was broadcast
seventy four years ago November twentieth nineteen fifty.

Speaker 8 (01:22:16):
The Part Company of Wilmington, Delaware, makers of Better Things
for Better Living through Chemistry, presents the Cavalcade of America,
featuring a special Thanksgiving broadcast. The Path of Praise our
Star Walter Hampden. As the colors of autumn streamed down,

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the wind, scarlet in sumac and maple spun gold in
the birches, the splendor of smoldering fire in the oaks
along the hill, the last leaves flutter away, and dusk falls. Briefly,
we are stirred and made to ponder the infinite goodness

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that has set apart for us in all the moving
mystery of creation, a time of living and a home.
So wrote the late doctor Wilbur L Cross, Governor of
Connecticut in his famous Thanksgiving proclamation. The governor was following
an American tradition of three hundred years standing, and the

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history of that tradition down the years is the theme
of Tonight's Cavalcade drama. This is the history of Thanksgiving.

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When our exiled fathers crossed the sea. When the pilgrims came,
they did not come as one body in spirit. There
was dissension and disunity aboard the mayflower privation and near
mutiny afloat and a dreadful winter ashore preceded the first Thanksgiving.

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Half of the little company met death of a pestilence
in that first winter. At one time only six men
were well enough to stand, walk about and care for
the rest. When spring came there were fifty one left,
men and women and children. Now the first summer is over.

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In the common House, which has served as consul chamber
and hospital, one man and one boy remain while the
boys cut The man sits writing.

Speaker 1 (01:25:56):
Master Bradford.

Speaker 5 (01:25:59):
Yes, sir, why are you always writing?

Speaker 12 (01:26:02):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:26:03):
Because I'm still overweek the whole corn?

Speaker 22 (01:26:05):
Lad?

Speaker 8 (01:26:05):
Or you would or draw water? So I tend the
sick and scribble words.

Speaker 1 (01:26:10):
I'm feeling better this morning.

Speaker 40 (01:26:13):
It's so much cooler.

Speaker 2 (01:26:14):
Now, Could I not.

Speaker 23 (01:26:16):
Leave my bedmaster?

Speaker 2 (01:26:18):
We shall see.

Speaker 23 (01:26:21):
Would you read me what you're writing, which is a.

Speaker 8 (01:26:23):
Letter to our brethren still in England holland how to
reach some.

Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
God only knows.

Speaker 40 (01:26:28):
Then perhaps you might read it for me.

Speaker 2 (01:26:30):
Oh, surely I have written.

Speaker 8 (01:26:33):
We set the last spring some twenty acres of Indian
corn and sold some six acres of barley and peas
Our corn did prove well, God be praised, and our
barley indifferent good. But our peas were not worth the gathering,
our harvest being gotten in our governor sent four men
falling so that we might, after a more special manner,

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rejoice together in thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (01:27:00):
What's that that noise?

Speaker 8 (01:27:02):
And Captain Miles standish and his men part of the rejoicing.
They're drilling to make a show for the Indians.

Speaker 44 (01:27:09):
Indians, have the Indians right here in the village, Mister Bradford, show.

Speaker 8 (01:27:16):
You that quiet lad. This is but a salute to
impress the savages with our strength at arms.

Speaker 2 (01:27:21):
But if they are Indians, well, they came in peace.

Speaker 8 (01:27:25):
Governor Carver invited the chief to come for our day
of thanksgiving. Today the Massasot bought ninety of his braves
to the rejoicing nighty.

Speaker 2 (01:27:34):
How can they be given food when they're scarce enough
for us?

Speaker 10 (01:27:37):
Well?

Speaker 8 (01:27:37):
The savages, seeing they've caused us embarrassment, sent hunters out
to kill game. They brought back five deer, and our
own followers too had great good fortune. There'll be a
fine feast this evening, a feast, and me not there.
We shall have venison, lads, and roast duck roast, goose, spake, clams, eels,

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corn bread, leaks, water, cress.

Speaker 10 (01:28:01):
Yes, I am well, now, Oh sure, I am well.

Speaker 23 (01:28:05):
Master.

Speaker 40 (01:28:06):
Are you most horribly hungry?

Speaker 8 (01:28:09):
Well, let me touch your forehead huh and your wrists?
Why fever is quite gone. I do believe you've seen.

Speaker 23 (01:28:19):
An Indian master, and I am hungry.

Speaker 8 (01:28:22):
May I go?

Speaker 10 (01:28:23):
Please?

Speaker 27 (01:28:24):
May I go?

Speaker 8 (01:28:25):
Yes, Giles, I do believe you're well again.

Speaker 5 (01:28:27):
You may go.

Speaker 2 (01:28:28):
You're closer in the locker yacht.

Speaker 5 (01:28:29):
Giles.

Speaker 8 (01:28:31):
Do not forget to give thanks that you are well again. Oh,
forget before the feasting, Giles, before the feast, to.

Speaker 1 (01:28:39):
Be sure, are you not coming?

Speaker 8 (01:28:41):
Also, when I finished my writing, got go with your head,
so young, so young, Let me see this day of thanksgiving.
The last of our number, who was stricken with the
great sickness, a lad of twelve years, did fully shake

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off his fever and as well again.

Speaker 2 (01:29:09):
And so by much suffering we.

Speaker 8 (01:29:13):
Are become one body, cleaving each to the other in
sickness or joy.

Speaker 2 (01:29:20):
And although our fair be not always.

Speaker 8 (01:29:23):
So plentiful, yet, by the goodness of God, we are
so far from want that we often wish you also
were partakers of our plenty. Gradually the Thanksgiving customs spread

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through New England, but it remained for more than a
century entirely a New England tradition. The first Thanksgiving days
celebrated by men from all the colonies occurred a few

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months before those colonies became the thirteen original States. Are
seen the headquarters of General George Washington at Cambridge during
the Siege of Boston, shortly after Washington's arrival from Virginia
to take Common in seventeen seventy five. The General is

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dictating letters to his adjutant, Colonel Joseph Read and would
you go over that for me?

Speaker 2 (01:31:09):
Col Yes, sir.

Speaker 8 (01:31:10):
The General expressly forbids any person to bathe in the
nude at or near the bridge in Cambridge, where it
had been observed and complained of that many men, lost
to all sense of common modesty, are running about naked
upon the bridge, whilst ladies of the first fashion in
the neighborhood are passing over it.

Speaker 2 (01:31:26):
That is correct.

Speaker 8 (01:31:27):
See that the copy is applied to each of the
regimental and company commanders.

Speaker 2 (01:31:32):
Yes, I see you smile. No doubt.

Speaker 8 (01:31:35):
General Gage would laugh aloud if he knew that I
wasted my time on such on military matters, But we
must somehow teach these Ruffians to act as soldiers.

Speaker 2 (01:31:43):
There as much General Gabe doesn't know, sir.

Speaker 8 (01:31:46):
Fortunately, if you are state, he'd march out on the
morrow and scatters to the four winds. Yes, sir, the
reports are just coming in.

Speaker 10 (01:31:54):
Read.

Speaker 8 (01:31:55):
We have no powder, thirty six barrels for an army
of sixteen thousand, Colonel Gridley's artillery boasts of nine field pieces,
and no ammunition. We have no uniforms, no experienced officers,
and no discipline whatever well served. Men from different colonies
have different customs, different habits. They've never learned to work

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together or think alike. By Heaven, they must know. I've heard, sir,
that you provided some of them with a something good
lefton yesterday evening. It's an episode I as soon forget, Colonel.
I haven't heard of the tail survey. There are many
conflicting stories about the camp.

Speaker 2 (01:32:31):
Why the thing was simple enough.

Speaker 8 (01:32:34):
Colonel Glover's Massachusetts troops saw fit to pick a quarrel
with Morgan's Virginia riflemen, having no uniforms themselves. The Yankees
pretended to take a fancy to the fringed buckskins. The
Virginia lads are wearing MM. After a deal of name calling,
fists began to fly, and in a matter of minutes
a thousand men rid each other's throats.

Speaker 2 (01:32:54):
You uh, you took steps, sir, eh I did.

Speaker 8 (01:32:57):
When I reached the scene, I sees two of the
ringly is, each by the neck, and I knocked their
heads together with considerable force, and I gave the rest
of them a tongue lashing. Or I hope, Colonel, the
language I used does not become a matter of common gossip. Well,
it is said that you were not well over a
gentle there.

Speaker 2 (01:33:18):
I have learned over many years to keep a tight
rain on my temper.

Speaker 7 (01:33:22):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (01:33:23):
But these people, Colonel, if.

Speaker 8 (01:33:25):
Only there was some manner of action I could take
short of knocking their heads together. If only I could
make them see that we are one country, now, that
we must forget these provincial quarrels and work together as
a nation.

Speaker 2 (01:33:36):
Must general, Sir, I have a suggestion.

Speaker 8 (01:33:39):
Yes it's a small thing in itself, but it might
help in the matter you're trying to mend. By all means,
read well, sir, it appears to here in Massachusetts, the
people celebrate each autumn a feast of thanksgiving. Oh, the
day is set aside a proclamation of the Colonial legislature.
Now a copy of this year's announcement arride this morning,
addressed users where it is see and uh, what do

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you suggest? Let the army join in the celebration, all
of it, not just the New England and everyone north
and south. A day of prayer and feasting for all
the troops. If they pray together, then perhaps they'll fight together.

Speaker 5 (01:34:15):
And it might help a.

Speaker 8 (01:34:16):
Little, sir, It might, It might very well, Colonel, We'll
do it now. May covery this down, yes, see to
the troops of the provinces of North America. The Honorable
the legislator of this Colonnay, having seen fit to set apart, Thursday,

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the twenty third of November seventeen seventy five is a
day of public thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
The General therefore commands.

Speaker 8 (01:34:44):
That day to be observed throughout the army with all
the solemnity directed by the legislative proclamation. It is to
be hoped, henceforth from that day that all distinction of
colon in you will be laid aside, so that one
and the same spirit may animate the whole and the

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only contest shall be who shall render the most essential
service to the great cause in which we are all engaged.

Speaker 2 (01:35:36):
You are listening to a special Thanksgiving broadcast on.

Speaker 8 (01:35:39):
The Cavalcade of America, sponsored by the DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware,
makers of Better Things for Better Living through Chemistry, and
presenting Walter Hampton. Now we continue the path of praise.

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After the Revolution, the path of praise led ever westward
beyond the mountains, as the sons of New England carried
the Thanksgiving tradition toward the setting sun, over the prairie,
toward the sea, into the new savage country. Along the

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dangerous way, the old traditions took new route, the Little
Red Schoolhouse, the habit of freedom, freedom of speech, freedom
of worship. Until the part of praise had spanned the
continent had reached the western Sea. But for many years

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all of the people did not observe Thanksgiving on the
same day, and a few states undertook no official observance
at all. The credit for the establishment of Thanksgiving as
a national holiday belongs to a lady who should be
better known to all of us. Sarah Josepha Hale, pioneer

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woman journalist Sarah Hale was for forty years editor of
Goldie's Ladies Book, the leading woman's magazine of our great
grandmother's time. In eighteen forty seven she began her campaign
for a national day of Thanksgiving, and she kept it
up year after year. In eighteen sixty three, finally she

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wrote to President Abraham Lincoln?

Speaker 38 (01:39:32):
Would it not be of great advantage socially, nationally religiously
to have the day of our American Thanksgiving positively settled?
Putting aside sectional feeling?

Speaker 2 (01:39:44):
Would it not be more noble.

Speaker 38 (01:39:47):
More truly American, to act nationally in unity when we
offered to guard our tribute of joy and gratitude for
the blessings of the year.

Speaker 8 (01:40:00):
Position Has it that Sarah Hale carried her flea to
the White House itself in eighteen sixty three, late in
the war between the States. If she did, we can
imagine the scene in Abraham Lincoln's office. It is a
great pleasure, ma'am, to meet a lady editor.

Speaker 5 (01:40:18):
A great pleasure.

Speaker 8 (01:40:20):
I wouldn't say that about all editors, mind you, But
lady editors, yes.

Speaker 5 (01:40:24):
By all means thank you. Won't you sit down? Eh?
Here you are?

Speaker 38 (01:40:28):
But I don't like to take much of your time,
mister President.

Speaker 5 (01:40:31):
Don't you hurry.

Speaker 2 (01:40:32):
There are some fifty people waiting to see me. I'd
can of late.

Speaker 5 (01:40:36):
Forty nine of them want me to do something don't.

Speaker 22 (01:40:38):
Want to do.

Speaker 5 (01:40:39):
So we have plenty of time, you know, ma'am.

Speaker 8 (01:40:42):
And Missus Lincoln read your magazine every month?

Speaker 5 (01:40:45):
How nice?

Speaker 40 (01:40:46):
And does she like it?

Speaker 2 (01:40:47):
Mister Lincoln.

Speaker 8 (01:40:48):
Yes, yes she does, but I'm not at all sure
that's a good thing. Oh well, you see Missus Salmon Pechchase, she's.

Speaker 5 (01:40:58):
The wife of the Secretary of Treger.

Speaker 2 (01:41:00):
She reads it too, and it.

Speaker 5 (01:41:02):
Gives both of notions.

Speaker 8 (01:41:04):
Missus Lincoln, he sees a fancy dress in the ladies's
book and she orders it up.

Speaker 2 (01:41:09):
Missus Salmon Peace.

Speaker 8 (01:41:10):
He's married her new rig and right away she lights
up for your magazine, finds something just a little mite
more expensive to spring on the cabinet ladies at the
next ware.

Speaker 2 (01:41:20):
Sure that you're joking, mister president. No, no, no.

Speaker 8 (01:41:24):
People are beginning to talk. The newspapers too. I had
a clipping here somewhere, let's see.

Speaker 2 (01:41:32):
I never can find.

Speaker 36 (01:41:34):
Anything on this that.

Speaker 8 (01:41:35):
Oh, yes, yes, here it is. It's from the Dayton,
Ohio Empire. I'll read it to you. It says the
Lincoln Chase contest has extended into the women's department.

Speaker 2 (01:41:48):
Missus Lincoln has got a new French rig with.

Speaker 8 (01:41:50):
All the posies costing four thousand dollars, and missus Chase
Caesar and goes it one better by ordering a nice
little six thousand dollars arrangement, oh at Greenbacks while it's
yet today.

Speaker 38 (01:42:02):
But that's ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (01:42:03):
Those prices are absurd.

Speaker 10 (01:42:04):
I never heard of such a thing.

Speaker 8 (01:42:06):
Of course, it's ridiculous, ma'am. And I have been joking.
It's a habit of mine. I just wanted to show
you why I don't like some editors.

Speaker 2 (01:42:16):
They print lies about my wife.

Speaker 38 (01:42:19):
But mister President, the Ladies Book has supported you in
every move you've made for the past three years.

Speaker 5 (01:42:24):
There, I know it has, and I appreciate it, ma'am.

Speaker 2 (01:42:27):
Believe me, I do. I try to make a joke.

Speaker 8 (01:42:30):
Of these curves attacked, but sometimes I can't quite help
being hurt.

Speaker 5 (01:42:37):
At this moment, when we are fighting for our very lives.

Speaker 8 (01:42:41):
These people are not about fomenting disunity behind the line
while men are dying in the field. These little fox
has spread disunion at home. You pardon me, Today has
been hard. I'm a bit well tuckered, poor man. I'll
go then, No, don't leave me. I remember now why

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you came. You wrote me a letter about Thanksgiving. You
want me to proclaim it as a national holiday.

Speaker 38 (01:43:12):
It is a thing that it close to my heart,
mister President. I've worked for it more than sixteen years now.
I would like to see it done before I die.

Speaker 8 (01:43:22):
I have given a deal of thought to your letter
and your editorials. There are those who would say we
have little to be thankful for in the midst of.

Speaker 5 (01:43:30):
This terrible war. You know that, ma'am.

Speaker 8 (01:43:33):
Yes, and I know they would be wrong. Yes, yes,
they would be wrong. I don't know why I'm sure
of that, but I am sure.

Speaker 2 (01:43:44):
The ways of God.

Speaker 5 (01:43:45):
Torn man are beyond my skill read, ma'am. But this
I know His will prevails. In your letter, you drew
a wonderful picture for me.

Speaker 8 (01:43:57):
You made me see a whole nation singing together a
song of praise, accepting together with one voice the will
of God. Not many voices, snarling and bickering and spewing
forth venom, one voice, one voice.

Speaker 2 (01:44:14):
That is what I have worked for so many years.

Speaker 8 (01:44:18):
Why then, we have worked together, missus Hale, all day long.
I sit here and listen to the people who wish
to talk with me. No one has turned away without
a hearing. But most of them, as I said, want
something I cannot give, and so you can see it.

Speaker 2 (01:44:38):
It does me a deal of.

Speaker 8 (01:44:39):
Good when I can say, yes, petition granted. Your petition
is granted, missus Hale. Oh, I had already decided to
proclaim Thursday, the twenty sixth of November next.

Speaker 5 (01:44:53):
As a national day of Thanksgiving.

Speaker 8 (01:44:55):
Oh, thank God, thank God, ma'am, thank God. After Lincoln's proclamation,
each president in turn followed his need, and in nineteen

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forty one, the Congress itself formally set the fourth Thursday
in November as the day of praise and National Thanksgiving
by law. In sixteen twenty one, the celebration of Thanksgiving
brought a sense of brotherly oneness to a tiny colony

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wreck by suffering and.

Speaker 2 (01:45:39):
Torn by dissent.

Speaker 8 (01:45:44):
Again in seventeen seventy five, in the wisdom of General Washington,
the tradition of thankful prayer helped to well thirteen jealously
separate colonies into a single great nation. Then, in eighteen
sixty three were that nation ravaged again by fraternal strife.

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The final establishment of Thanksgiving Day by Abraham Lincoln served
as a symbol of national unity. And now today, in
times as troubled as any of the nation has known,
with freedom threatened by huge and malicious force, may we

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not again make Thanksgiving Day a day of renewal of
brotherhood all of us? Can we not join in a
prayer of thankfulness composed for his own daily use by
another great American, Benjamin Franklin. This is Franklin's prayer, And

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forasmuch as ingratitude is one of the most odious advices,
let me be not unmindful, gratefully to acknowledge the favors
I received from Heaven for food and raiment, for corn
and wine and milk, and every kind of healthful nourishment.

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Good God, y for the common benefits of air and light,
for useful.

Speaker 2 (01:47:29):
Fire and delicious water.

Speaker 24 (01:47:32):
Good God.

Speaker 8 (01:47:35):
For all thy innumerable benefits for life and reason, and
the use of speech for health and joy, and every
pleasant hour.

Speaker 10 (01:47:47):
Good God, I ange.

Speaker 45 (01:48:13):
Loday come.

Speaker 5 (01:48:17):
To the.

Speaker 8 (01:48:19):
Saying our thanks to Waldhampton and the Cavalcade players for

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Tonight's story.

Speaker 2 (01:49:05):
The path of praise.

Speaker 8 (01:49:07):
Now here's Bill Hamilton speaking for the DuPont Company. You've
seen the phrase in print, You've heard it a thousand times,
especially around Thanksgiving. You've probably used it yourself. The United
States is the land of plenty? What is plenty?

Speaker 2 (01:49:24):
What does it mean?

Speaker 8 (01:49:26):
Does it mean that everybody has every last thing he wants? No,
of course that would be downright silly. When we say
America is the land of plenty, we mean that more
people here in America have more than people in any
other country have ever had.

Speaker 2 (01:49:43):
We produce more, therefore we have more.

Speaker 11 (01:49:47):
How do we do it?

Speaker 8 (01:49:49):
Other countries have more natural resources than we in the
United States have, and still we outproduce them.

Speaker 10 (01:49:55):
What is our secret?

Speaker 8 (01:49:57):
The answer seems to be that there is no one secret,
unless it's what we call the American way of life.
An important ingredient of the American way is that Americans
are willing to take a chance in order to earn
a possible reward. Our people welcome new ideas. Seeing a
chance for profit, someone eagerly goes ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:50:19):
And develops them.

Speaker 8 (01:50:20):
That's what happened with the phonograph, cellophane, the electric light,
the automobile.

Speaker 2 (01:50:25):
Thousands of other things. Sometimes it took only a few dollars.

Speaker 8 (01:50:30):
Sometimes it took millions, as with products of chemical science
like nylon or cellophane. But in every instance, someone in
America went confidently ahead with an idea. Can it be
that the secret lies in the words confidently and profit?
An American manufacturer with a chance to make a good

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profit on a good product can afford to try out
new ideas, and he does it with confidence because our
American way protects the eye, ideas and profits of individuals
and of companies. One of many thousands of American business firms,
the DuPont Company, adds to the American standard of plenty
an increasing number of better things for better living through chemistry.

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Next week, the star of the DuPont Cavalcade will be
McDonald carey our play Incident at Lancaster. It tells the
story of one of the most exciting escapes in American history.

Speaker 5 (01:51:33):
Be sure to listen.

Speaker 8 (01:51:39):
Tonight's Dupon Cavalcade, The Path of Praise, starring Walter Hampton,
was written by George H.

Speaker 5 (01:51:45):
Waulkner.

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not as Joe Friday, but as Jeff Reagan investigator.

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Speaker 6 (01:53:45):
Who remembers Anthony Geary. If you grew up in the eighties,
you remember him as Luke from Luke and Laura from
General Hospital. Anyway, let's roll on here with an episode
of Jack Webb as Jeff Reagan and investigator. This goes
back seventy seven years, long before Dragnet. November twentieth, nineteen

(01:54:07):
forty eight. The Pilgrim's Progress.

Speaker 10 (01:54:15):
My name is Reagan. I get tenna day and expenses
from a detective bureau run by a guy named Anthony J.

Speaker 24 (01:54:21):
Lyons.

Speaker 10 (01:54:23):
They call me the Lion's Eye.

Speaker 15 (01:54:28):
With Jack Webbs Jeffreygan the Lion's Eyes stamdby for Heart
boiled action and mystery and thrilling adventure in the night.
Story of the Pilgrim's Progress.

Speaker 10 (01:54:49):
The Cosmopolitan Building, seventh Street, near Olive, downtown, la Aro,
Messa grants thrown together by an architect who must have
taken his degree on the rock pile of Elevenworth st
up on the third floor, Room three eight, right next
to a credit dentist who shared his office with a
collection agency. On the other side, there's a school for models.

(01:55:10):
And the lions got sore eyes trying to see through
that cloudy glass. International Detective Girl Anthony J. Lyon President
who's also Vice President's secretary Treasurer. I worked for him. Well,
the office isn't much, but there's enough elbow room for
a client to write a check. I went to the

(01:55:31):
office Friday night, about five twenty answering the lion's call.
He was sitting behind the desk, sucking on a quarter cigar.
He looked real pleased, like a flat lady locked in
a cream puff factory.

Speaker 39 (01:55:43):
Man I know had a baby plumber named Roman or
Groman or something like that. Muscle tull canceling the arrangements
you got for the night, I got something for you
to do got your cats in the last dash it up.

Speaker 7 (01:55:55):
You're taking a trip where two Tellabasas a man wants
to see you.

Speaker 10 (01:56:00):
I got no friends out there.

Speaker 7 (01:56:01):
Friend of mine names Hendrix.

Speaker 39 (01:56:03):
He counts money with an adding machine and his fingers
always swollen.

Speaker 24 (01:56:07):
What's the problem.

Speaker 22 (01:56:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:56:08):
He didn't say. He just call and told me to
send out a man.

Speaker 10 (01:56:12):
How much did he give you for a retina?

Speaker 39 (01:56:14):
When an important man like Hendricks calls, you don't insult him.

Speaker 7 (01:56:17):
By asking for money. Stop it.

Speaker 10 (01:56:19):
Whether you're the kind of guy who'd steal pennies out
of parking near one of them turned up empty.

Speaker 7 (01:56:23):
Through the city, here's a Hendricks address. I'll get out there.

Speaker 12 (01:56:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 39 (01:56:28):
Remember, do a good job and I'll give you Thanksgiving
off and I'll.

Speaker 10 (01:56:31):
Pay you with what Tranberry's.

Speaker 12 (01:56:40):
Well.

Speaker 10 (01:56:40):
I hit it out Beverly and then up through Hollywood.
You know, it's only November, but Santa Claus is breaking
out all over the boulevard. I thought my way over
going to pass, and by the time I was dodging
steak and wagons on Ventura, it was dark. Calabasas is
a place with a couple of service stations, a hot
dog sand and a few road signs full of bucks.

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Hendrick's place then up to be about five miles down
the roads that the Indians built for hauling firewater. I
guess they couldn't keep the cork in. But the house
itself was strickly prohibition, big pile of slate roof and
leaded windows. It was dark and lonesome. I figured somebody
had their holidays. Make high. He's a big, fat guy.

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It was holding a six foot gun in the shape
of a straightened out Cuba. And it came closer and
I could see his hat. It was a high one
with a buckle on him. He was dressed in black
and had buckles all over him. I figured that I've
been eating too much Quaker roads.

Speaker 7 (01:57:38):
Little shit and make you nervous.

Speaker 10 (01:57:41):
That's a big gun man, huge muscat balls, good for Indians.
I no, Indine, Oh, I wasn't naming. It's you and
that gun wouldn't know the difference. Is a blunderbus great wrappers,
is it?

Speaker 7 (01:57:58):
I assure you.

Speaker 24 (01:58:00):
So you pop her up on the crutch.

Speaker 10 (01:58:02):
She fooling with that thing, and you'll both need one.

Speaker 7 (01:58:05):
Got how speak? Quiet road?

Speaker 10 (01:58:08):
The barrels lots of powders like, why don't you give
a thing back to the museum?

Speaker 12 (01:58:12):
He does.

Speaker 7 (01:58:12):
It's more powders, gotta.

Speaker 10 (01:58:18):
Use lots of this black How where you need black coffee?
I'm giving that thing before you broke a window. I's
all right, it was only right you live.

Speaker 5 (01:58:32):
Here, of course, not rum.

Speaker 24 (01:58:35):
I'm Miles Sandys.

Speaker 10 (01:58:38):
Well where's the rest of the part?

Speaker 46 (01:58:39):
All inside tar rounded John Olden? Yeah, sure, sure all
You just think I'm kidding, don't you? Pilgram You just
haven't got the mayflower spirit?

Speaker 10 (01:58:50):
You know you drink it all.

Speaker 7 (01:58:51):
It's just sider.

Speaker 44 (01:58:53):
Nothing better on cold New England nights.

Speaker 10 (01:58:56):
Thanksgivings, not for a week. Come on, get off a
hot it's the latter. Hey, put that down. I'm not
going to shut him.

Speaker 7 (01:59:05):
He's a friendly tide.

Speaker 24 (01:59:09):
Brought a Reagan. Yeah if I will follow me? Please?

Speaker 10 (01:59:14):
Now you too, huh?

Speaker 24 (01:59:16):
I beg your pardon?

Speaker 10 (01:59:18):
Okay, okay, so on, yeah, keep your potter dry?

Speaker 24 (01:59:23):
Standy, okay, this way, brought a Reagan.

Speaker 10 (01:59:31):
Now let's send you work here.

Speaker 24 (01:59:33):
My name is spelled.

Speaker 10 (01:59:34):
Why don't you lock that guy up?

Speaker 24 (01:59:36):
I'd be outnumbered, sir. The twenty one Pilgrim bad winner.

Speaker 10 (01:59:41):
They make you wear those corduroy knickers knee bridges.

Speaker 24 (01:59:44):
Sir, it was Priscilla's baby.

Speaker 10 (01:59:47):
You need a union.

Speaker 24 (01:59:48):
I need most shapely legs through here.

Speaker 10 (01:59:51):
No, it's quite a place again, Well.

Speaker 24 (01:59:53):
It's better without the decorations.

Speaker 12 (01:59:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:59:56):
How do you keep from stepping on these pumpkins?

Speaker 24 (02:00:00):
Then when they use them for bowling? That it's difficult.

Speaker 10 (02:00:03):
Come on, throw me in. What's it all about Thanksgiving?

Speaker 22 (02:00:06):
Sir?

Speaker 24 (02:00:07):
Sixteen twenty one. Okay, this room he is, go right in.

Speaker 40 (02:00:13):
Okay, shut the door, shut it.

Speaker 10 (02:00:19):
Mister Hendricks around, got here, come over with the town.
Who are you, Priscilla?

Speaker 40 (02:00:25):
Don't please don't say another word of that silly rigmarro.

Speaker 10 (02:00:29):
Screen when I could use a little yell myself.

Speaker 40 (02:00:32):
I'm Agnes. I'm missus Hendricks or Agnes.

Speaker 10 (02:00:36):
It doesn't make any difference that to my friend.

Speaker 40 (02:00:41):
Didn't I see it done?

Speaker 5 (02:00:42):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (02:00:42):
She did, and I didn't. So you don't like the party, huh.

Speaker 40 (02:00:45):
I'm not much of a purret in, mister Reagan.

Speaker 10 (02:00:47):
That great Dane says the masquerade was your idea.

Speaker 44 (02:00:50):
Else it's stupid.

Speaker 40 (02:00:51):
This goes on all weekend, mister Reagan. It's called a
turkey shoot.

Speaker 2 (02:00:56):
So that's it.

Speaker 10 (02:00:56):
Who gets the bird?

Speaker 40 (02:00:57):
The two groomfathers, my husband friend. They ought to be shot,
every one of them.

Speaker 10 (02:01:03):
Yeah, well, I'm not from the spc.

Speaker 40 (02:01:05):
Oh wait a minute, I like you.

Speaker 10 (02:01:08):
That's not the point. I'll boy you. Your husband might him.

Speaker 40 (02:01:14):
He's crazy, mister Vegan, crazy as the things he does, shooting, drinking,
spending money for hard life. I don't know how I
stood it for as long as I have. My lawyer says,
I'm the most patient woman in the world.

Speaker 10 (02:01:26):
Yeah, well, thanks for the conversation, mis Hendrix.

Speaker 40 (02:01:29):
Why did my husband send for you?

Speaker 10 (02:01:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:01:32):
Yes, you do?

Speaker 12 (02:01:33):
You do?

Speaker 10 (02:01:34):
No?

Speaker 24 (02:01:34):
Tell me, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:01:35):
Please.

Speaker 40 (02:01:37):
You don't realize what kind of a man my husband
can be.

Speaker 10 (02:01:40):
I never met him.

Speaker 40 (02:01:41):
You don't know how much I need help, how lonely
I am.

Speaker 10 (02:01:45):
Where is he?

Speaker 7 (02:01:47):
Tell you if you promise to come back, No, I'll
write your letter.

Speaker 40 (02:01:52):
He's out in the shed, out the side of the patio.

Speaker 2 (02:01:54):
Thanks.

Speaker 40 (02:01:55):
I wouldn't act this way if I want to frighten.
You don't know what it is to be fighting the times.

Speaker 10 (02:02:00):
No, but I'm learning.

Speaker 40 (02:02:02):
I wish you'd stick around, mister Reagan's well.

Speaker 10 (02:02:04):
Thanks, missus Hendricks. But the pin feathers a little shot.
Missus Hendricks went back to her worrying, and I wound
my way through the house looking for the back entrance.
My legs got tired before time. They showed on the
other side of the pantry, and it poured out into
a flag stone patio as big as a palladium. A

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walk took me to a shed. It was a free story,
redwood place. And something made a loud noise on the
cash redister in a long side fence in the chicken ware.
I was a whole population a circuit.

Speaker 22 (02:02:37):
Well.

Speaker 10 (02:02:38):
I went into the shed. It was a little round
faced guy with pink skin was leaning over a barrel
of cider. He wore a blue silk smoking jacket with
gold initials e.

Speaker 7 (02:02:48):
H on the pocket.

Speaker 10 (02:02:50):
When he caught my footsteps, his head bobbed up and
he gave me a peep. Looked like he was trying
to see the back of my eyeball. Yes, I'm Reagan
International Detective Bureau's.

Speaker 7 (02:02:59):
Been executing you.

Speaker 10 (02:03:00):
I'm Hendricks. Yeah, No, why the fireworks? Eh? Oh, my
outstandings not just having fun. It's partty, you know, big
party we're having. You know the neighbors will complain. Neighbors
not for miles around.

Speaker 44 (02:03:14):
That's why I like, get out here, have trouble finding me.

Speaker 10 (02:03:17):
You got to put up sign sign glass of cider region.
I'm not thirsty. Yeah, that's not the wea. It's for
strong kind.

Speaker 46 (02:03:28):
Oh, go on Thanksgiving, Joel, get the spirit.

Speaker 10 (02:03:31):
No, I can hold out so thirsty.

Speaker 7 (02:03:33):
Suit yourself, suit me. Yeah, that's gonna be quite a
party here.

Speaker 10 (02:03:43):
You know your wife's got a different version.

Speaker 24 (02:03:46):
You spoke to h.

Speaker 10 (02:03:49):
You are told to come out here to see me.
I got side track, not good from handing your position.
I'll right, Hendricks.

Speaker 24 (02:03:54):
Why am I here? What you say to you?

Speaker 10 (02:03:57):
I forgot see and you're making me look mysterard. You
didn't get me out here to make a pilgrim out
of me?

Speaker 7 (02:04:04):
No, no, of course not.

Speaker 8 (02:04:06):
Fine woman, missus n we've been made for years, you know, happy, fine,
fine little woman.

Speaker 10 (02:04:11):
So she makes me a little nervous the time, like
the sound of guns going on. She shouldn't get so excited.

Speaker 22 (02:04:17):
Boys just having a little funs only one's here?

Speaker 44 (02:04:19):
What's wrong with that?

Speaker 7 (02:04:21):
Come on?

Speaker 10 (02:04:22):
Now, what's the job?

Speaker 24 (02:04:24):
He said? You would?

Speaker 2 (02:04:25):
Nowhere?

Speaker 12 (02:04:27):
Now?

Speaker 10 (02:04:27):
The inter be is so mysterious about they just got
a package. I want you to take them quid it is?
You got me all the way out here to play
escort to that's bird and I just wanted my friendly Yeah.

Speaker 22 (02:04:40):
Now go on, go on, go on.

Speaker 10 (02:04:42):
It's a long way back to LA and you want
to be there for thanks Giving? What's the difference? So
I got the turkey. I can celebrate anytime. Sixty miles
to do a delivery job. Bird well, I wanted back
to my car and I listened to the cricket and
the gunshots tried out to each other, and then I

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dumped the person into the back seat and I seted
the card.

Speaker 24 (02:05:04):
Out to drive.

Speaker 10 (02:05:06):
I just seted around the fend when the headlights caught
a pair of buckles, shoes and black knee bridges. Miles
Standis was lying face down on the dirt and with
a wet shine on his side, was breathing hard. The
blunderbuss was lying beside him, and I figured that he
blew out the wrong end. I would have gone for
the Hendrick's phone and the doctor, but I got a
good look at the holes in him, and I headed
for a hospital and said the plunderbus may have been

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kicking up a fuss, but the holes and Miles Standy's
for twentieth century about the size of the thirty two.

Speaker 22 (02:05:37):
Well.

Speaker 10 (02:05:37):
I turned him over to an emergency hospital, and I
put a call into the Sheriff's office. I gave the
story to Lieutenant Robinson, and then I headed back toward town.
At the Lion's place, the lights were still on, so
I figured he didn't have company. I rapped from the
door and he flung it open before the echoed the
die away. He had a carving knife in one hand
and he was wearing an apron. His eyes were big,
and he had an eager looked like a college couple

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on Mohullum Drive.

Speaker 7 (02:06:00):
Freagan, you're back.

Speaker 10 (02:06:02):
Oh No, that takes a big brain.

Speaker 7 (02:06:03):
I've been waiting for you.

Speaker 12 (02:06:04):
You know.

Speaker 39 (02:06:04):
I had a chance to go to a crassy party tonight,
rushing tevon Champagne and favorite call again.

Speaker 10 (02:06:10):
No, why I didn't go? You lost your crash suit?

Speaker 5 (02:06:13):
Huh?

Speaker 10 (02:06:13):
I said to myself, is it to.

Speaker 39 (02:06:15):
Go out and have a good time while my employee
is working real hard for international detectives?

Speaker 10 (02:06:20):
The answer came out yes, but the party was called
off well.

Speaker 39 (02:06:24):
As a matter of fact, it was, but I wouldn't
have gone anyway. Where's what the package from Hendricks?

Speaker 10 (02:06:29):
Now you can change your plans, big shot, you're getting
a bundle of trouble instead. Search He's not the only
thing you're knocking off Out on that ranch. Somebody's handy
with a thirty two and he's fought a target.

Speaker 7 (02:06:37):
You've been drinking.

Speaker 10 (02:06:38):
Check the callity emergency hospital. They'll show you the holes.

Speaker 39 (02:06:40):
I send you out on a simple little job and
you come back with a.

Speaker 7 (02:06:43):
Crazy story about a shooter. You're out of your mind.

Speaker 10 (02:06:45):
Listen to you. There's a big smell out in Calabasa.

Speaker 47 (02:06:47):
But about my turk.

Speaker 10 (02:06:49):
The sheriff's offics are gonna have a lot of questions.

Speaker 7 (02:06:50):
You got the answer, I don't know anything.

Speaker 10 (02:06:52):
I was mine as well, and find out something. Check
into the guy who shot, find out who he is,
what he does, and what he was doing. Out of Hendricks,
where are you go? Scratch it around on the Hendricks
they tell different stories about their wetted bliss. Yeah that's
it's too rich for your blood. Fatso stick the chick Well,

(02:07:13):
I left him standing there with his apron hanging miles
standis might get enough wind through that extra hole to
say who shot him? But more likely not anyway, with
a bucket load he had, he would have sworn it
was the last of the Mohegans. But there was an
angle of that Hendrix woman, even if it didn't show.
So I walked up the street to where my car
was nuzzling a lamp post and the turkey and I
were just going to wake up a newspaper office. Only

(02:07:35):
something seaned my mind. A newspaper. It was wrapped around
a bundle, and the bundle was under a guy's arm,
and the arm was shutting the door of my car.
Good evening, Pop, Hi going somewhere, sure, sure, find the
place to see bit y'all want a cigarette?

Speaker 44 (02:07:55):
See, I don't mind if I do. I choose your
glow for am in you mind if I take two?

Speaker 10 (02:08:03):
Now? Help yourself.

Speaker 44 (02:08:04):
No, brother smokes too and that much in the streets
these days. It's that all over listens not to be done,
stick around, No, no, it's sunny.

Speaker 22 (02:08:15):
You give me smokes.

Speaker 44 (02:08:16):
I don't hit you for cash to I got.

Speaker 48 (02:08:19):
I'll make the touch and said that's in the newspaper
Russia inside and the funny paper. Yeah, sure, well I
take it easy, boys, the guy's got it right to
his privacy.

Speaker 10 (02:08:32):
You went to sleeping in my car?

Speaker 44 (02:08:33):
Oh so that.

Speaker 22 (02:08:36):
Yours? Eh?

Speaker 7 (02:08:38):
Small world?

Speaker 10 (02:08:39):
And yeah, come on a sun rap.

Speaker 44 (02:08:41):
No, it's Thanksgiving. Mag, Ain't you heard Thanksgiving?

Speaker 10 (02:08:45):
Plug my ears given?

Speaker 44 (02:08:46):
Oh please, mag show me the spirit once in my life.
Both drum mistakes and stop it.

Speaker 10 (02:08:52):
You're breaking my mind.

Speaker 44 (02:08:53):
Mag Let me have it. I'll break the wishbone for you.
Sonny I will you ain't got no use for all?

Speaker 27 (02:09:00):
Let me have you.

Speaker 5 (02:09:02):
Oh you have what's along?

Speaker 12 (02:09:05):
Hey?

Speaker 10 (02:09:05):
Wait a minute, hold it, let go my arm out
of a fretty dance. But you should have changed your shoes,
wor's hairt you didn't get those fuckles in the redline. Oh,
now come, I change the record.

Speaker 2 (02:09:13):
Who I am as none of your business.

Speaker 22 (02:09:14):
I go, I get taught.

Speaker 10 (02:09:15):
I will not get from the Hendry place at out.

Speaker 44 (02:09:21):
Thank you, Philms.

Speaker 24 (02:09:22):
That's all right, got the bird?

Speaker 7 (02:09:24):
Sure, let's go.

Speaker 24 (02:09:26):
Yeah ninety nine, Pilgrid.

Speaker 15 (02:09:48):
You were listening to the story of the pilgrim's progress.
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a commission, apply to the Adjutant Generals, Washington, DC. And
now back to Jeff Reagan investigators and the story of
the Pilgrim's program, Well.

Speaker 10 (02:10:32):
None of it made sense. The lion sent me out
to pick up a turkey on the Hendrix ranch in Calabasas,
and the mister and missus we're having an old fashioned
turkey shoot, and all the guests carried blunderbusses and dressed
like pilgrims, Only it wasn't just the turkeys who were
acting as targets. One of the pilgrims ended up with
some thirty two caliber holes in them. And then the
Hendrix lackey and a buddy shoved the gun at me

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and stole the lion's burden. Now I picked myself up
and I went home. A heavy man was doing a
high drop in my ice box. He was carrying himself
a glass of milk to wash down the sandwich. He
was mudging on.

Speaker 15 (02:11:06):
Hi Reagan right ahead to help yourself. Yeah, yeah, thanks,
I didn't know how long I was gonna have to wait,
and I.

Speaker 10 (02:11:11):
Was getting hungry because the restaurant just up the block.

Speaker 24 (02:11:14):
I like it better this way, homemade. If you were sound,
which a pretty good devil's hand man.

Speaker 10 (02:11:18):
Let's close the box up in your mouth, buddy, Why
not we.

Speaker 24 (02:11:22):
Had to date?

Speaker 15 (02:11:22):
Remember Robertson share of office. I think you don't mind
me coming in like this?

Speaker 24 (02:11:27):
Do you what if I did, I'd leave sank toy
of a home.

Speaker 15 (02:11:30):
You know you can throw me out even though I
got a badge.

Speaker 10 (02:11:33):
That's the kind of way the fatness do what he want?

Speaker 7 (02:11:35):
Answer this for a couple of questions.

Speaker 10 (02:11:37):
What were you doing at the hendricks place picking up
a turkey?

Speaker 24 (02:11:41):
Well, that's a new one.

Speaker 10 (02:11:42):
Look you asked him. I'll answer, I'm never mind the
feature page. How long have you known that HENDRICKX? Never
met him before?

Speaker 24 (02:11:47):
Wrong answer?

Speaker 10 (02:11:47):
What do you mean we follow this? I was at
hendricks house.

Speaker 15 (02:11:50):
The page one out of the yellow directory with a
red circle around International Detective and it doesn't say a thing.

Speaker 24 (02:11:56):
Maybe yes, maybe no. I'm still scratching.

Speaker 10 (02:11:59):
Around ruin your manicure.

Speaker 15 (02:12:01):
You know, Reagan, you don't seem to realize the seriousness
of this.

Speaker 24 (02:12:05):
That program you dragged in died.

Speaker 10 (02:12:07):
Now I'm thinking we don't like unsolved murders messing up
our record books. And then you're wasting your time here.

Speaker 15 (02:12:13):
I've got lots of it. I don't come up a
pension for twelve more years.

Speaker 24 (02:12:17):
What was that pilgram's name?

Speaker 10 (02:12:18):
And gave me Miles Stanley? Sounds like a frail I
don't count on that. I once knew it, John Smith.

Speaker 24 (02:12:23):
Give me the real name. I don't have it.

Speaker 15 (02:12:25):
All right, he's a not a tomboy. We will track
him down now. I was straighten out something for me, Reagan.
How long did you say you knew the Hendricks?

Speaker 10 (02:12:33):
Look, I gave this to you once. Nothing's changed.

Speaker 15 (02:12:35):
How come we find a five thousand dollars check on
that joker's pocket made I'll say cash and signed by Hendricks?
All right, answer, just don't make a date. You may
not be available.

Speaker 40 (02:12:51):
Yeah, mister Reagan, this is missus Hendricks. I must see
you right away. Who did you say? This is Hendrix?
You're remember you?

Speaker 10 (02:13:00):
No, No, there's no Charlie here. You must have the
wrong number.

Speaker 24 (02:13:03):
Sort of annoying guess as Reagan. When you get a wrong.

Speaker 15 (02:13:05):
Number later tonight, that happened. Sure, sure, it does happen
to me once.

Speaker 10 (02:13:09):
Anything else you wants another doubled hand?

Speaker 22 (02:13:12):
Sandwich?

Speaker 10 (02:13:12):
Kitchen's closed?

Speaker 24 (02:13:13):
Are you were out in the hospitality?

Speaker 10 (02:13:14):
You weren't asked?

Speaker 24 (02:13:15):
Okay, I gotta move anyway, See you later, Reagan.

Speaker 10 (02:13:19):
Keep them up off your shoes.

Speaker 8 (02:13:24):
See R.

Speaker 10 (02:13:27):
Three four? Oh hey, hello, missus Hendrix is Reagan?

Speaker 7 (02:13:39):
I just caught you well.

Speaker 24 (02:13:40):
I couldn't talk.

Speaker 5 (02:13:41):
What do you want?

Speaker 40 (02:13:42):
Can you come up mister Reagan right away?

Speaker 10 (02:13:45):
He's still lonely.

Speaker 40 (02:13:46):
Things aren't going well.

Speaker 10 (02:13:47):
Murders like that to talk it somebody?

Speaker 40 (02:13:49):
Won't you please come?

Speaker 10 (02:13:51):
Give me a reason?

Speaker 40 (02:13:52):
I can tell you some things now I couldn't mention.

Speaker 10 (02:13:55):
Before, Like why your husband wrote a five thousand dollars
check to the dead man Shick.

Speaker 40 (02:14:00):
There must be some mistake. What do you mean my
husband couldn't try to check that large. He doesn't have
any money of his own. It's all in my name,
all right.

Speaker 10 (02:14:08):
Put a lantern in the window, lady. I'll need some
light while I headed out there fast. But when I
raised a racket with a brass knocker, nothing happened. I
tried a window and a couple of scratches later, I
was in the hall. Place looked tempty like the rose bowl.
On January second, I found miss Hendrick's room where I
talked to her and stepped inside, and the decorations were different.

(02:14:42):
Share his office, Robinson was rigging. I got something for you.
You're going into overtime. Bring some boys out to the
Hendricks place with a wet rag. Somebody blew out mister
Hendrick's fuse. Well, I backed out of the room and
I made it to the bar. Try to turn up
a bottle in the or something else turned up, and
stand another dead body. The turkey Phelps and his buddy

(02:15:03):
had stolen from me. Somebody re leaguer had done a
carving job on it before it was even cooked. They
torn it apart like they were looking for something. Well,
it was morning before the Sheriff's boys cleaned up to
hendrix mess. When we got back to town, Robinson had
a few more questions, but I was still short on
the answers. Ballistics had one, though the same gun did
the job on both Miles, Sandis and Hendrix. That's all

(02:15:28):
homicide was getting places in a hurry, like a snail
hauling a piano. Well, the lion was waiting for me
outside the Sheriff's office, and he pulled me to the side.

Speaker 24 (02:15:38):
His eyes were lit up.

Speaker 10 (02:15:39):
Like a pinball machine, and you could tell he'd bought
the scent up a green bag. They trick okay, regin'
good enough. No rough stuff, nothing that shows no wear
in luck.

Speaker 7 (02:15:48):
I've been turning up things. We've been playing the wrong horse.

Speaker 24 (02:15:51):
Figures you're good at picking losers.

Speaker 7 (02:15:53):
Hendricks is a piper social kibo.

Speaker 10 (02:15:55):
He's a dead one.

Speaker 7 (02:15:56):
I'll send them flowers, but I'm telling you he.

Speaker 10 (02:15:58):
Could only write checks for five He with a big bounce.

Speaker 39 (02:16:01):
Somebody else in this thing can like bigger ones. Well,
let me guess who, Missus Hendrix.

Speaker 7 (02:16:05):
That's who I tell your league, and.

Speaker 2 (02:16:07):
It pays to keep up your connection.

Speaker 24 (02:16:09):
Hi, can she go?

Speaker 7 (02:16:10):
The sky's below sea level? What else you got standis?

Speaker 10 (02:16:14):
Is a phony moniker that's grammar school.

Speaker 39 (02:16:16):
Real name Jeffrey Kelly, age forty two.

Speaker 7 (02:16:18):
He's a wholesale jeweler.

Speaker 39 (02:16:20):
He had a little business with Missus age two hundred and.

Speaker 7 (02:16:23):
Fifty thousand dollars worth.

Speaker 10 (02:16:24):
That's gonna run up his taxi.

Speaker 7 (02:16:25):
He can handle it.

Speaker 24 (02:16:27):
What do you do for her?

Speaker 39 (02:16:28):
I drew up playing, but he deposited her certified check
of the bank yesterday morning.

Speaker 10 (02:16:33):
M how to swelps figure? I don't know, well, who's
the little man in the big overcoat.

Speaker 7 (02:16:37):
I can't do everything. You gotta do somewhat tool. Yeah, sure,
Now find missus Hendricks, offer her the.

Speaker 39 (02:16:42):
Services of international detective at our usual nominal rate.

Speaker 7 (02:16:46):
But don't underplay it. Now get blessie.

Speaker 10 (02:16:48):
Where you going home to bed?

Speaker 7 (02:16:50):
The man's got to get some sleep.

Speaker 10 (02:16:55):
Well, the time was kicking out, but the game wasn't
over yet. You figure to have a fast pennis the line.
I had a pretty good idea about catching some shut eye,
so I moved for the office and the stretch out
on the couch. But through the glass I could see
there was a light on. The company was inside, and
Blosi of two O four five.

Speaker 24 (02:17:15):
Felt no luck.

Speaker 49 (02:17:18):
I looked all all right, I told you I saw
the place. Depart nothing's here. I'm trying my best stuff.
Offer all of us be someplace, though, Okay, okay.

Speaker 10 (02:17:30):
Right away, leave a nickel bussy. Huh oh, you're looking
for something.

Speaker 24 (02:17:38):
You cool group? What else?

Speaker 10 (02:17:40):
Plimouth rock come on punk level?

Speaker 7 (02:17:42):
All right?

Speaker 24 (02:17:43):
Coaxed me?

Speaker 10 (02:17:44):
All right, because you've been trying for this no what
out I felt could to watch the big guy fall
and folded in like a steeple in an earthquake. When
his head bounced on the Lion's carpet, it figured he
was due for a long sleep. So I went through
his pockets, take a stick from the prize fights, the gun,
and the pocket knife I dumped into the safe. It
was a pass to the Dons game on November twenty fifth.

(02:18:06):
He must have swiped it from his boss, so I
filed that in the Lion's desk for future reference. But
this guy Phelps had taken orders from somebody besides Henry.
I just heard him do it on the phone. So
when I turned up an old envelope with eight thirty
two North Palm stretched in the back, eye crossed my fingers.
He'd been calling a Crestview number, and the phone book
said that I had a lead. North Palm was in

(02:18:26):
the Crestview Exchange area, so I called for the cops
to sweep up brothers. Phelps and I climbed back onto
my broomstick and I drove out through Beverly Hills. I
wound up in front of a big spanning house with
potted ten dollars bills on the driveway. There was a
new nash sticking out of the garage, and I walked
around to take a look. Said, honest, John, it grieve
me to it.

Speaker 22 (02:18:45):
Who's that?

Speaker 10 (02:18:46):
Now? Stick around? I want to talk to ten They
like guys, don't you? Maybe you want a hot ride?

Speaker 7 (02:18:51):
Get away from me now.

Speaker 10 (02:18:53):
It was a little Turkey fan that i'd last seen
in an overcoach, felt buddy. He took out of there
like a Colin deer season, so I let him go.

Speaker 24 (02:19:00):
No lightning.

Speaker 7 (02:19:00):
Well.

Speaker 10 (02:19:01):
I took a look around the car he had been sniffing,
but nothing showed except the registration. It said, missus Agnes Hendrix.
I went to the house and rang the doorbell, and
she answered.

Speaker 40 (02:19:10):
Oh, what's you? It's your Reagan.

Speaker 10 (02:19:14):
All right, I'll ask myself in Yes, come in. Are
you expecting johnd No, I'm glad to see you.

Speaker 12 (02:19:21):
No.

Speaker 10 (02:19:22):
I don't like girls who break dates. Oh this, yeah,
that's one thing.

Speaker 40 (02:19:25):
I couldn't help it. I couldn't wait for you to
come all the way to Calabasas.

Speaker 10 (02:19:29):
You got impatient on account of a body in the house. Yeah,
after I tripped over him in your room, I.

Speaker 23 (02:19:34):
Didn't do it?

Speaker 10 (02:19:35):
Should I say you did? You've got to believe me, relaxed,
I look like a jury. You got multiple vision, mister Reagan.

Speaker 40 (02:19:40):
I was so frightened. I didn't know which way to turn.

Speaker 10 (02:19:43):
We've been through all that woman driver routine. You don't
like your husband. You wanted to get rid of.

Speaker 40 (02:19:46):
Them, only and Rena.

Speaker 10 (02:19:47):
All right, now, let's get back to page one. He
gave two fifty g's to a jeweler named Kelly. You
bought a rock, a rock Plymouth rock is a diamond.
That's got to be why'd you do it? Who'd you
buy it for?

Speaker 40 (02:19:58):
My sills? My lawyers said I should get it for
myself at all.

Speaker 10 (02:20:02):
He likes it pretty No, no, it is.

Speaker 40 (02:20:03):
A community property thing. He said. I could keep my
husband from knowing how much money I had when he
asked for a divorced settlement.

Speaker 10 (02:20:09):
Only how he got wind of the deal. I guess,
so you're making sense. Only why did he write a
check to Kelly?

Speaker 40 (02:20:15):
Well, it was a small woman. Must have been for
a paste imitation.

Speaker 10 (02:20:19):
Don't you think it's not my business keep dealing?

Speaker 40 (02:20:22):
I mean maybe he planned on switching them and getting
my real wim.

Speaker 10 (02:20:25):
That's been done.

Speaker 40 (02:20:26):
He actually did it, because all through this it's been
a diamond in the place where I always keep it.

Speaker 10 (02:20:31):
All right, you got a strong boy. Felts had him
out looking for the real diamond. And the other guy,
the old man, was out.

Speaker 24 (02:20:37):
In the garage.

Speaker 10 (02:20:38):
No heelps tore up my office phone. Here to you,
mister Regan. Look, he has been two guys killed.

Speaker 44 (02:20:47):
Good evening, Pilgrim.

Speaker 10 (02:20:48):
Where's your overcoat? And still please hand my foots.

Speaker 40 (02:20:52):
In the crack Regan. This is this is John.

Speaker 10 (02:20:55):
Oh Cannock William. I've seen him at one part already.

Speaker 22 (02:20:58):
It's true.

Speaker 44 (02:20:59):
Mine is the only named the's real. This is my house,
mister Reagan, lawyer.

Speaker 40 (02:21:05):
Yes, I came here to see him. Mister Reagan, I
just got here before you leave.

Speaker 12 (02:21:09):
I got it all now.

Speaker 10 (02:21:10):
You won't keep it Thupstick's orders from you.

Speaker 44 (02:21:12):
It's a waste of testimony.

Speaker 10 (02:21:13):
You study this part of the gem. Switch figured the
case in.

Speaker 44 (02:21:16):
We're losing your chipped up Willie.

Speaker 10 (02:21:18):
I got aces Hendricks out botched you. You never found
a real diamond.

Speaker 44 (02:21:21):
Hive in the hand draws blood.

Speaker 22 (02:21:22):
It's do you keep out of this, Agnes.

Speaker 10 (02:21:24):
He's not in it. You are that's allrygal.

Speaker 40 (02:21:27):
Come on, I guess I hit him with the paste
to him, huh, what the diamond it broke?

Speaker 10 (02:21:42):
Yeah, it was just luck.

Speaker 40 (02:21:44):
I have the other one too. I thought Alden was honest.
I came to tell him I found it in my
husband's spider.

Speaker 10 (02:21:51):
Oh that tears it. Come on, Priscilla, that dock's the mayflower. Well,
the whole thing folded in like an elephant on a
pogo statement.

Speaker 12 (02:22:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (02:22:05):
The lawyer did it all right, both of them. When
he spotted what Hendricks was up to with that diamond Swiss,
he moved in, but not for his client. The jeweler
Miles Sandy Jelias Kelly got bumped because he was the
only one who could tell the real diamond from a phony.
But Hendricks got right to the muscle ache and so
he got shot. Well, the lion was real happy, and

(02:22:30):
we had worked out that dame with the nerves wrote
him a check. So he invited me out to Thanksgiving dinner.
He offered me any part of the turkey that I wanted.
I told him, but I got it anyway.

Speaker 15 (02:22:59):
Jack lab is the as Jeff Reagan with her Butterfield
as Anthony J. Lyon It's CBS at the same time
next week for more hard boiled action and mystery with
Jeff Reagan Investigators, written by Larry Rowman and Jackson Gillis.

Speaker 36 (02:23:12):
Produced by Stirling Tracy.

Speaker 15 (02:23:13):
Featured into that story, We're Mary Lansing, Marvin Miller, Paul Frieze,
and Paul Dubob. Original music for this program is by
Milton Charles, Bob Stevenson speaking Listen CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Speaker 6 (02:23:42):
Honestly, while her Butterfield did an okay job as Anthony J. Lyon,
I preferred the second version when it was brought back
with Frank Graham, Reagan and Frank Nelson. Yes, that Frank
Nelson from the Jack MANI Show being Anthony Lyons. And

(02:24:07):
it did have quite the sense of humor, don't you know. Anyway,
This was a Jeff Reagan Investigator as it was broadcast
on the West coast of CBS November twentieth, nineteen forty eight.
Here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt coos Well wrap
up this pre Thanksgiving edition with Claudia and David as

(02:24:32):
Claudia and David go to the opera.

Speaker 23 (02:24:43):
Fernando Namas what are you doing here?

Speaker 50 (02:24:46):
I love to come to this neighborhood. When people still
help people, not they invite them. For instance, volunteer income
tax Assistance. The IRS trains volunteers to help people prepare
their income tax returns right in their neighborhoods. They helped
their handicapped, the non English speaking, the low income people,
and there's also tax counseling for the elderly. For those
sixty or older, the help is free. Coll your IRAS

(02:25:09):
office to find a site near as you a message
from the IRAS with.

Speaker 6 (02:25:14):
Or without the rich Clint Currinthinean Leather Okay Claudia seventy
eight years ago, November twenty ath, nineteen forty seven. For
Claudia and David go to the opro.

Speaker 51 (02:25:26):
Your Coca Cola. Botler presents Claudia Claudia based on the
original stories by Rose Franken rough to you, transcribed Monday
through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca cola.

(02:25:50):
Relax and while you're listening, repress yourself.

Speaker 22 (02:25:54):
Have a coke.

Speaker 35 (02:26:02):
Hell now, Claudia, Hello, la la la la la la
la la la la.

Speaker 1 (02:26:18):
You try to do a simple thing like washing your hair,
and its interruption interruption. Oh, wait a minute, Wait a minute,
hold your horses. Can't you see I'm coming as fast
as I can?

Speaker 35 (02:26:33):
Hello?

Speaker 23 (02:26:33):
Hello, Hello, who is it?

Speaker 13 (02:26:36):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:26:36):
Well, why didn't you say it was you?

Speaker 27 (02:26:37):
Mama?

Speaker 23 (02:26:38):
What do you think guy's doing? I'm washing my hair.

Speaker 1 (02:26:41):
Look, look, look all right, mama, But I'm standing here
dribbling all over the place. I never knew going to
the opera could be so complicated. What sure I'm gonna
use my gold evening bag? Of course I know where
it is. Oh, I never brought it over from your
place when we moved. What do you know?

Speaker 23 (02:26:59):
You sure now?

Speaker 1 (02:27:00):
They'll be fresh? Mama? And you're sure you're sure you're
passing this when you won't mind? Thanks Mammy, you're an angel.

Speaker 23 (02:27:07):
Goodbye. Mm bum bumpa bump bump, bump, bump, bump, bump bump. Oh,
I'm coming, coming, coming, No rest for the wicked, Ah, missus.
Nothing I disturb you, No.

Speaker 1 (02:27:25):
Ah, Berthie, you disturb me. Yes, come in, come in,
Come in.

Speaker 23 (02:27:28):
You're washing your hair?

Speaker 1 (02:27:29):
Yeah, I'm washing my hair. No, I mean I'm trying
to wash my hair.

Speaker 23 (02:27:33):
I fixed the ham of your dress and pressed it
nice all to the little piece around the shoulder.

Speaker 1 (02:27:38):
You didn't see no, Bertha, thank you. I don't know
what I do without you.

Speaker 45 (02:27:41):
When I do a hairm it just doesn't do you
go on and finish washing your hair and hang your dress.
Thanks so beautiful tonight at the opera. You're playing christon
such a beautiful opera.

Speaker 23 (02:27:53):
I look like a wet bird dog if I don't
get my hair done.

Speaker 1 (02:27:56):
You would Frits like the opera.

Speaker 23 (02:27:58):
Pritt and I we love the opera and the old country.
We used to go here. We've been only twice. I
can do nothing more.

Speaker 1 (02:28:08):
For you, Missus Norton, Thank you, thank you very much.

Speaker 23 (02:28:13):
Goodbye, Missus Norton, goodbye.

Speaker 1 (02:28:18):
Get off him under my feet, you kitten, you're the
nosiest little kitten I ever saw in my life. Now
the dumb waiter Bertha ba oh, she must have gone.

Speaker 2 (02:28:36):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (02:28:36):
Why don't people who ring bells give a person time
to answer them?

Speaker 12 (02:28:43):
What is it?

Speaker 11 (02:28:44):
Did your dumb waiter bell ring? Missus Norton, Yes, Press,
that's good. And the bears they've been out of order.
I've been the feeling.

Speaker 1 (02:28:53):
Oh that's not good. There have many any bells out
of order in my apartment?

Speaker 11 (02:28:58):
What's that missus Norton.

Speaker 1 (02:28:59):
Nothing, I just said, thank you. Oh this can't keep
on happening to me. It's a conspiracy. Wait a minute,
Wait a minute, hold your horses, whoever you are, you'll
be quiet too, kitten me? Oh did I step on

(02:29:20):
your Shakespeare?

Speaker 7 (02:29:21):
When you will get under my feet?

Speaker 1 (02:29:23):
Hey, listen, now, you're not killed. I hardly touched you, sissy.

Speaker 23 (02:29:28):
I am bullying.

Speaker 27 (02:29:32):
Who is it?

Speaker 22 (02:29:33):
It's me?

Speaker 27 (02:29:33):
Who do you think it is?

Speaker 8 (02:29:35):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:29:35):
It could be anybody. You would have to play jokes
at a.

Speaker 27 (02:29:38):
Time like this, at a time like what, You've got
SuDS in your hair.

Speaker 1 (02:29:44):
I've got SuDS in my hair.

Speaker 27 (02:29:45):
You look like a wet spaniel.

Speaker 1 (02:29:47):
I am a mad spaniel.

Speaker 27 (02:29:48):
What are you doing washing your hair?

Speaker 12 (02:29:50):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (02:29:50):
You see me in my head full of SuDS, and
you ask me what I'm doing. I just retrieved a
duck or whatever it is, a spaniel retrieved. Yes, I
was washing my hair, or trying to.

Speaker 27 (02:30:00):
That's what it looked like. But you washed your hair
night before last, remember I remember.

Speaker 1 (02:30:05):
But we're going to the opera tonight, So I washed
my hair this afternoon, or rather tried to.

Speaker 27 (02:30:10):
Hello darling, Hey, hey, hey, you're getting me soals, you
ought to dry yourself before you go around kissing people.

Speaker 1 (02:30:16):
I'm not going around kissing people. I'm very particular about
the people I kiss.

Speaker 27 (02:30:20):
Apparently you save your nautical displays for me.

Speaker 1 (02:30:23):
Yep, come on in. I'll let you pour water over
my head and rinse the back of my neck.

Speaker 27 (02:30:27):
No, that's a privilege you get.

Speaker 1 (02:30:28):
Answer the doorbell too, Say why'd you ring to get in?

Speaker 27 (02:30:31):
For the same reason. Anybody rings a bell to get in.

Speaker 23 (02:30:34):
But you have a key?

Speaker 27 (02:30:36):
Sure, I have a key, only I didn't.

Speaker 22 (02:30:37):
Have it with me.

Speaker 1 (02:30:38):
Oh careless, careless?

Speaker 23 (02:30:42):
Now poor and poor?

Speaker 1 (02:30:43):
Carefully? So it doesn't go down my neck? Now what
do I pour it with with a glass?

Speaker 27 (02:30:48):
Oh that's hot, my mistake. Sorry, I'll cool.

Speaker 47 (02:30:52):
Maybe I'm not doing this to your satisfaction. Not say
do you have a complex or something about washing your hair?
Every time anything important happen happens to you? You wash
your hair. But you washed your hair night before last.

Speaker 23 (02:31:07):
This is tonight.

Speaker 1 (02:31:08):
We're going to the opera tonight.

Speaker 27 (02:31:10):
Don't Most women go to beauty pollars?

Speaker 12 (02:31:12):
Not me.

Speaker 1 (02:31:13):
It takes hours and I are like sitting under a
dryer either. Ah, now you answer it? Who is it?

Speaker 11 (02:31:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 27 (02:31:22):
I haven't got there yet.

Speaker 11 (02:31:24):
Who is it?

Speaker 27 (02:31:27):
Just an old friend of mine?

Speaker 23 (02:31:29):
Oh to you, mama, you look like a drowned rat.

Speaker 1 (02:31:32):
My husband was more complimentary. He called me a wet spaniel.

Speaker 23 (02:31:36):
To bring my evening bag. Yes, ma'am, Oh, what would
I do without you? You do without your evening bag?

Speaker 1 (02:31:42):
What's that box on the table? To bring that to?

Speaker 23 (02:31:44):
I did not, David you bring me something?

Speaker 11 (02:31:47):
Why would you.

Speaker 27 (02:31:47):
Assume it was for you? Hey, leave my ankle alone.
You diluted time.

Speaker 1 (02:31:52):
Need have nothing to do with me. I just stepped
on his tail. This box is for me, isn't it.

Speaker 23 (02:31:57):
I didn't see you bring it home.

Speaker 1 (02:31:58):
Your eyes were full of Take a towel and dry
the back of my head.

Speaker 27 (02:32:02):
Be a pleasure. Don't shake. I'll take my shower later.

Speaker 45 (02:32:06):
What is it?

Speaker 12 (02:32:07):
Candy?

Speaker 23 (02:32:07):
Doesn't look like candy to me.

Speaker 1 (02:32:09):
Isn't perfume either? Perfume is heavy?

Speaker 27 (02:32:10):
How can I dry your hair if you don't stand still?

Speaker 1 (02:32:13):
This string is j oh, No, it isn't.

Speaker 27 (02:32:16):
It's orchids singular, not floral one orchid?

Speaker 1 (02:32:21):
What a smell, mama?

Speaker 27 (02:32:22):
Orchids are not for smell exactly, they're for sure.

Speaker 1 (02:32:25):
It's darling, of your darling, the orchids?

Speaker 27 (02:32:28):
You uh don't like it?

Speaker 1 (02:32:30):
It's beautiful, really, it's take an overgrown iris.

Speaker 27 (02:32:33):
You don't sound very pleased, David.

Speaker 1 (02:32:36):
Orchids are my least favorite flowers.

Speaker 23 (02:32:39):
Shouldn't have said that? You most certainly shouldn't.

Speaker 27 (02:32:42):
I can't believe my ears.

Speaker 1 (02:32:43):
Can I help it if I don't like orchids? Anyway,
it isn't the gift. It's a spirit behind it, and
I love the spirit behind the arc.

Speaker 27 (02:32:51):
You don't like orchids? M darling, you're marvelous.

Speaker 12 (02:32:56):
I am.

Speaker 27 (02:32:57):
I'm the luckiest man in the world. And the way,
you're very lucky that I married you.

Speaker 12 (02:33:02):
Why?

Speaker 23 (02:33:02):
I can think of a number of reasons.

Speaker 27 (02:33:04):
Because as a gold digger you would starve to death.
You don't like orchids or big diamonds? Oh I do?

Speaker 22 (02:33:10):
All right?

Speaker 1 (02:33:10):
I got to me or remember that was enough to
satisfy the gold digger in me for a lifetime.

Speaker 27 (02:33:16):
Thank you a soldier. Alright, And now that your hair
is dry, you have a date with Tristan to go
to the opera. A nice on your arcid, and we'll
go out to dinner. I reserved the table. Will you
join us?

Speaker 23 (02:33:27):
Mother?

Speaker 1 (02:33:27):
I reserved a table too. We got to dinner right here. Mamma,
you're gonna stay eat with us soup?

Speaker 23 (02:33:32):
I'm going.

Speaker 27 (02:33:32):
Didn't Roger give you the message? When I got back
to the office, he said he had.

Speaker 1 (02:33:36):
I am going to Mama, Yes, Roger told well. Then
then I got to figuring, figuring what will you?

Speaker 23 (02:33:43):
Two idiots? Let me get a word in edge. Why, oh, David,
I don't know if you think I can be relroad
You didn't just stay?

Speaker 1 (02:33:49):
Don't talk so much, Mama, turn the light in the oven. Mama,
say where were you going before? Before we asked you
to dinner?

Speaker 23 (02:33:55):
To a movie, a movie all alone?

Speaker 1 (02:34:00):
Since without your supper.

Speaker 23 (02:34:02):
I'm going to eat a bite later. Look, I am
quite competent to run my own light a.

Speaker 1 (02:34:07):
Lonely movie all by yourself. What's playing?

Speaker 23 (02:34:09):
I really didn't notice. It doesn't matter. There's a new
Donald Duck.

Speaker 27 (02:34:13):
A new Donald Duck.

Speaker 23 (02:34:15):
Hm hm, what's wrong with Donald Duck? May I ask?

Speaker 45 (02:34:19):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (02:34:19):
Nothing?

Speaker 10 (02:34:20):
Nothing, nothing at all?

Speaker 27 (02:34:21):
Nothing, nothing, nothing at all. He's a very remarkable.

Speaker 1 (02:34:23):
Duck, very remarkable duck. Yet, Mamma, Aunt Louisa is a
very cultured woman, isn't she quite?

Speaker 23 (02:34:28):
But I don't see the connection. You mean she would
like Donald Duck. No, I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (02:34:34):
No, I guess not. But she likes the opera and
things like that.

Speaker 23 (02:34:37):
And she has season tickets for the Philharmonic.

Speaker 28 (02:34:39):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (02:34:40):
Do you like the opera too, don't you?

Speaker 23 (02:34:41):
Mamma, I'm beginning to smell a rat in the woodpile.

Speaker 27 (02:34:45):
You know, we could be sporting and tossed for it.
I'll toss you. You call Claudia, Heads we go?

Speaker 1 (02:34:49):
Tails we don't.

Speaker 27 (02:34:50):
In view of my full dress suit hanging in the
other room, tails we go would be more appropriate.

Speaker 1 (02:34:55):
All right, tails we go?

Speaker 23 (02:34:56):
Just hold on a minute before you do so much tossing.

Speaker 26 (02:34:59):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (02:35:00):
Oh, it's tales.

Speaker 23 (02:35:01):
David Virtue survives best two.

Speaker 27 (02:35:04):
Out of three.

Speaker 1 (02:35:05):
Oh right, do it again? Heads for that?

Speaker 23 (02:35:09):
Settle keep your bargain. You said two out of three.

Speaker 1 (02:35:12):
You don't have to be stuffy about it.

Speaker 27 (02:35:14):
Oh, fell on the floor doesn't count?

Speaker 12 (02:35:17):
Oh yes, it doesn't.

Speaker 22 (02:35:18):
Head?

Speaker 7 (02:35:19):
Is that wonder?

Speaker 1 (02:35:20):
Mama and Louisa had such a wonderful time.

Speaker 23 (02:35:22):
I'm sorry to disappoint you. Uncle. Louisa is attending a
meeting about something or other, and Mama is going to
the movies and you are going to the opera.

Speaker 27 (02:35:31):
Well, looks like we're stuck, all right?

Speaker 1 (02:35:33):
Yeap?

Speaker 27 (02:35:34):
How long is Donald Duck playing around the corner?

Speaker 1 (02:35:36):
Program changes tomorrow?

Speaker 23 (02:35:37):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:35:38):
This is positively unfair. It's a cocercion, it's forced, it's
a kind of economic slavery. Julian Hartley don't want to
go to the opera, so we have to.

Speaker 23 (02:35:47):
They didn't beg you to take the tickets.

Speaker 1 (02:35:48):
But that was before Donald Duck. David, what listen? Have
you got a big soul? And how would you want
to do something wonderful for two wonderful people?

Speaker 27 (02:35:58):
Yes, Darling, I would love to do something wonderful for
two wonderful people.

Speaker 23 (02:36:13):
Missus Notton, mister Norton. Good evening, Oh and missus.

Speaker 1 (02:36:18):
Brown, sure you know, Mama, good evening, Bertha, Bertha? Are
you and Fritz busy this evening?

Speaker 52 (02:36:22):
Is there something you've wanted us for?

Speaker 23 (02:36:26):
Ah? What we were planning to do we could do
some other time.

Speaker 27 (02:36:29):
No, if you were planning something here you go ahead.

Speaker 52 (02:36:32):
No, it's more important we help you if you need
us for something we were planning, No more than to
sit and listen to the opera over the radio.

Speaker 1 (02:36:41):
Bra that's wonderful. How would you and Bertha like to
see the opera instead of hearing it?

Speaker 23 (02:36:46):
Operas? You hear not? No, no, I mean go to
the opera.

Speaker 1 (02:36:50):
Mister Norton and I have tickets and we just can't
use them.

Speaker 23 (02:36:53):
Oh that's too bad, Freez just think they won't be
able to go to the opera. Is it some sickness?
I hope no.

Speaker 1 (02:37:03):
Bertha just a very old friend who's in town and
he's going away tomorrow. He may never come back.

Speaker 52 (02:37:09):
It may not be so bad. They're southetic. Maybe his
plans change and he comes back.

Speaker 1 (02:37:13):
See, he might not, and we can't risk the chance.

Speaker 23 (02:37:16):
But you could exchange the tickets for some other nights.

Speaker 27 (02:37:18):
Oh, we thought of that, but it's too late.

Speaker 1 (02:37:21):
And really they shouldn't go away.

Speaker 27 (02:37:23):
We'd like to think of you and Fritz enjoying them. Well,
if it must be, you sound.

Speaker 23 (02:37:30):
Like a funeral.

Speaker 1 (02:37:32):
Oh it's run, then, hurry and dress.

Speaker 9 (02:37:34):
Here's the ticket.

Speaker 23 (02:37:36):
Fritz has blessed you from Lisa's wedding, and I have
a perfect press. Oh, we will tell you all about
it tomorrow. David, you have married a very devious and
wilful woman.

Speaker 27 (02:37:50):
It would seem that I have I like that.

Speaker 1 (02:37:53):
Here I am thinking I'm a very unselfish person. Her
mama comes in looking pathetic and lonely. I give up
going to a wonderful opera that I was just dying
to go to. David, What you know, I wasted a
perfectly good hair wash.

Speaker 27 (02:38:09):
Oh never mind, Donald Duck will appreciate it just as
much as Tristan.

Speaker 51 (02:38:23):
All story material used on this broadcast of Claudia was
under the supervision of Rose Franken and William Brown Maloney.
It doesn't take endless fussing to entertain well. Often the
most casual hostess is the most successful. She keeps plenty

(02:38:47):
of refreshing Coca Cola on ice, and those when to
suggest have a coke with Coca cola, you offer the
ease and friendliness that have made the pause that refreshes
America's favorite moment. To be sure you have plenty of
cocon ice always. It's a good idea to get it
by the case. Ask your grocer our service station attendant

(02:39:07):
to put a case in your car next time you shot.
Every day Monday through Friday, Claudia comes to you transcribed
with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles
coca cola. So listen again tomorrow at the same time.
And now this is Joe King saying au revoir. And remember,

(02:39:32):
whoever you are, whatever you do, wherever you may be.
When you think of refreshment, think of coca cola or
ice cold. Coca cola makes any pause, the pause that refreshes.

Speaker 6 (02:40:12):
Oh, they are just too sweet, aren't they? At least
Claudia is David and Claudia Claudia seventy eight years ago
November twentieth, nineteen forty seven. Here on Classic Radio Theater
with Wyatt Cox. Join us for our Friday podcast where
we can do with some more Thanksgiving shows, including Lomon Abner,

(02:40:34):
Maxwell House Coffee Time. We'll also have Jack Benny and
Willard Waterman as the Great Guilder Sleep and we'll hear
more about what's going on in the life of David
and Claudia. Thanks so much for making us a part
of your day, and we will see you on our
Friday edition of Classic Radio Theater. I'm Wyatt Cox.

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