The Adventures of the Thin Man - The Thin Man

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hollywood, California, Monday, June eighth, the NUX Radio Theater presented
from its new home on Hollywood Boulevards, Hollywood, California. NUX

(00:30):
presents Hollywood That's great personalities as William Powell, Myrna Loy,
w Wes Van Duyk, Leeder, Baron, James Devour, Minna Gamble,
Porter Hall, and many others will take part in this
presentation sent you by the makers of Lux Toilet Soap,
the Beauty Soap of the Stars.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Appearing before he distinguished Hollywood audience, Mister Powell, Miss Roy
and the cast of eighteen great players presents the play
that has broken box off and records from coast to coast,
The Thin Man, and as producer, tonight we present the
director who did The Thin Man on the screen, together

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with such.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Triumph as Naughty Marietta Trader Horn, Rose, Marie I Lived
My Life and Compless other smashed hit pictures. Mister w
Wes Van Dyke, Mister van Dyke.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Hello everybody. Well, it's a great scene of the Plus
Radio Theater Tonight. In our audience we have Betty Davis,
Jimmy Luciel Gleeson, Bob Armstrong, Oley, Olsen, a Poulson of Johnson,
Stu Erwin, Jimmy starring Communists, Devil Inventible, Mister and Missus
Leons slashing, sledsing. Maybe it would interest you a little

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inside the information on the show we're doing tonight, The
Thin Man, and about William Powell and Myrna Loyd, who
are going to do it for you. As you know,
The Man was the best selling novel by nashal Hammer
Hunt Stromberg. Out of the studio MGM got a hold
of it and brought it to me Wood. He said,
if you'll make this picture out by the story, Well,
I read it and a lot. It was a good
enough mystery story. There was something else about the book

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that struck me. Here was something new and fresh and
very charming. A romance between a man and his wife.
It's a story of a couple of kids that understood
each other and had a blessed confidence in each other.
Beneath all the casualness and all the wise cracking, there's
a lovely, wholesome relationship, something really deep and sweet inspiring. Well,
we decided to make the picture. Albert Hackett and Prancess
Goodrich rode a swell script William Powell and Martin Lloyd

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played the parts and how they played them beautifully because
Powell was just Paul and Lawyer was just Lloyd, both
of them wise cracking all the time and flowning way
through the picture. I suppose you know the plenty of
motion pictures say from two months to a year to shoot.
We did The Thin Man in sixteen days, retakes and all.
Of course it wasn't a pretentious picture. We didn't make
it as one. I hate epics, but it is evident

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that people liked it. It has been very interesting to
study out how they can tell this story.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
On the radio.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
Dyl and Murna have had a lot of fun getting
ready for you, just as they did make him a picture,
and from the original story, from the original motion picture
cast we have and are Forceman having minegamdo Porta Hall,
William Henry and Thomas Jackson here tonight.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
So here we go with William Powell and Nick Charles
and Martina Lloy is Nora in The Thin Man. Here
they come byl Powell and Marna Lloyd. We're in a
fashionable cafe Momart, New York City. It's Christmas Eve, and

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the well appointed dining room is Phillographity. From the bar
comes a good looking young fellow of about thirty five, tall,
casual and worldly wise. He's Nick Charles, the well known
private detective played by William Powell, and he's waiting for
his charming wife Norah played by Martina Lloyd. As he
takes his place at the table, a young girl on
the other side of the room recognizes him and hurries over.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
I think your son, aren't you mister Nick Charles the detective?

Speaker 1 (04:11):
So I am, Yes, I'm Nick Charles.

Speaker 5 (04:13):
I thought I recognized you. My name is Dorothy Whynan.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Oh yes, how you do you mind if I down
from No, but I expect my wife a few minutes.
You don't mind explaining her presence of her?

Speaker 5 (04:23):
Of course, that's my fiancee over there to have a table.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Oh well, I'm having all right, don't missed it down?
Thank you. Your name is Dorothy Whining.

Speaker 5 (04:32):
I'm cride winning.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Their oh has court. You'll follow us having some trouble
about one of the inventions a few years ago. I
am a taste for it, I know.

Speaker 6 (04:42):
That's that's why I want to speak to you now.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Oh well, I'm not practicing any more. Miss Why not.
You see, I retired, mister Charles, I need you that
seems were trouble.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
It's dead. He went away about three months ago and
I haven't heard from him, not a word. I'm worried, sick.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Oh, I wouldn't vie with you. After all, he's go.
He gets an idea he wants to work on. It's
only not talking. Should hide away somewhere.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
He's done it before, yes, but never for three months.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Did you see him before he left?

Speaker 5 (05:08):
No, mister McCauley was the only one he spoke to. Well,
McCauley and Julia Woolf she's dead.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Secretary Julia Wolf, Yes, I met her. And McCauley is
your father's lawyer. Is this Yes, his lawyer and his
secretary of both speak to him before he leaves, but
no one knows where he was.

Speaker 5 (05:25):
He wouldn't tell me.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
What about your mother? He wouldn't tell her.

Speaker 5 (05:28):
Rather, No, mother and dad aren't. They haven't seen each
other for some time.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
I see, Well, I don't know just what I can
do for you. Why don't you speak to McCauley. Maybe
he's hurts me your father and forgot to let you know.

Speaker 5 (05:41):
Oh, well, I'll call.

Speaker 7 (05:43):
Him no, I mean it turns off with of course.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
I'll be back in a few minutes.

Speaker 8 (05:46):
I'll be here, madam. You can't bring that dog in here.
Dog joyed aloud. I'm sorry, but I'll be here. I
that I stick him here?

Speaker 1 (05:59):
Boy, yeah, boy, doing your dog?

Speaker 3 (06:03):
We allowed everyone?

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Oh here you are, I said quiet? I said quiet? Norah,
I hear you brought the dog. I didn't bring him,
he'd me. I think you do.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
A man's mad Madam, I'm afraid you have to take
the dog outside.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
All right, Joe, it's my dog and my wife.

Speaker 5 (06:22):
You might have mentioned me first.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Good mister Charles, you should, cause I'm sure he's well trained.
You behave himself and nobody might bite Sama, only me, Joe.
He only bites me.

Speaker 7 (06:32):
Yest what he.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Got, Joe. I'll respond before any well, sir, if you say,
s are you all idea? Is he what an influential husband?
You've gone?

Speaker 9 (06:42):
You do? Stand in the door man?

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Or yes? The thing?

Speaker 5 (06:46):
May I introduce my fiance and he reads the job.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
How do you do? How do you do this? And hey, look, Melida,
yes he ste around the corner. Your father. No, no,
mister McCall, we're going to see no, oh fine, fine
over me, yes, my dear, oh, I beg your pardon,
missus Wyeth, mister reed to my wife?

Speaker 5 (07:06):
How do you do?

Speaker 1 (07:06):
How do you do?

Speaker 5 (07:07):
I'm sorry we have to rush.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
You'll excuse it, Jar of course, the weirdest Normandy for
a couple of weeks. Why don't you drop her around?

Speaker 5 (07:13):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (07:14):
We will, good time, right, good, good, all right? But
you go you like blonde? You got only you darling
lanky brunettes with wicked jaws?

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Who is she? S?

Speaker 1 (07:30):
A whining daughter of Clyde Winnet. I work on a
case for her father, so I'm not wanted.

Speaker 5 (07:34):
To kill him, jarmy.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
What's the matter now? Whineus disappeared? Not afraid something happened
to him?

Speaker 7 (07:41):
Has anything happened to him?

Speaker 1 (07:43):
My darling wife? Lhino funny though that secretary of his automo?

Speaker 7 (07:49):
Something next usually do?

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Who is she? You? You wolf mark girl? Judy? I
always suspect her. She had some kind of hold on wine.
That's why he kept her on. Maybe you want to
give her?

Speaker 7 (08:01):
Oh yes to say?

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Hello?

Speaker 5 (08:04):
What a nickel?

Speaker 9 (08:06):
No?

Speaker 1 (08:06):
No, no, I've got one right ray Hello, I want
the Skyler four O nine six Woo.

Speaker 6 (08:19):
No Skyler h I paul O nine, Hello, Yes, God
was speaking?

Speaker 5 (08:34):
Who oh oh hello mister Charles.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yes, what was that you wanted to Oh?

Speaker 5 (08:46):
Oh no, I don't He didn't tell me, not a word.
I'm sorry, that's all right, goodbye.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Really well, it was dead, Nick Charle an objective.

Speaker 7 (09:03):
He wanted to know where Winan was.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Oh yeah, why he didn't say, did anyone see whine
that come here that night?

Speaker 1 (09:13):
That night you and him had the scrap? I don't know.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
Oh no, well it gets a scrap where you're going
or taking a little stool.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
That's all Nick.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Carl is gonna pop up around here. I want to
be far away when he does.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
Don't be a pool man.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
He was the sister. I got a recognize it, and
to come face to face with no, dick, do.

Speaker 5 (09:35):
You need money?

Speaker 6 (09:36):
Don't you?

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (09:39):
What about it?

Speaker 7 (09:40):
You got some plenty.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
I'm wine and secretary.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Oh yeah, what do you mean by that?

Speaker 5 (09:51):
Wouldn't you like to know your friend here? Say's good dinners?

Speaker 1 (10:02):
M M all right.

Speaker 5 (10:04):
He still doesn't tell me what Julie would have to say.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Sorry, he didn't know where he was. That's all finished, Finnish.
Let's get out, grab a cab your back for self?
That did well?

Speaker 9 (10:13):
Where's my bird? Come on as us.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yo want a cab? Hello?

Speaker 5 (10:34):
Hello, as to be quiet shop it?

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Hello?

Speaker 5 (10:38):
Yes sweet, oh, yes, I said, thank you? Oh nicky.
If mister McCauley he's on his way up, what would
he want?

Speaker 9 (10:48):
He want a lawyer?

Speaker 7 (10:50):
Yes, if he's got news?

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Well ye are say. You're worrying an awful lot about
this business.

Speaker 7 (10:56):
But yet it.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Ill of it, I know.

Speaker 10 (11:04):
Charles come in with from call.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
So mccally he Charles, wellw are you fine? Don Thanks?
Dorothy told me you were here. I took the liberty
of coming to see him, of course, Charles, Uh, what's
meet me up to? Ami?

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Dorothy's mother. She has to be up to something. She
usually is trying one way or another to get money
out of wine. And I wanted to find out if
you were sluting for I haven't been a detector four years.
You don't say so. My wife's father died and left
the lumbermil Marrigg's railroad and uh, oh, couple of other things.

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I'm looking after them. Let me see see what's all
fuss about? Its winding and hiding. You know as much
about it as I do. I haven't seen him in
three months. He sends word through Judy wolf When he
wants money, he give it to her and he gives
it to him by.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
Hello.

Speaker 6 (12:03):
Oh just a moment, but for you, mister Nicolo your office?

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Hello? What is he worries?

Speaker 1 (12:15):
He?

Speaker 11 (12:16):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Very well, Well he's back in town. Yes, thanks, Kevin,
he's waiting for me. Well, I've got to rush, and
I'll tell you there's no joke working for a man
like that, don't jobis a child by child.

Speaker 9 (12:28):
Paw Merry Christmas, same to you, eleven thirty almost Christmas.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Joy. Because that's a hint. You can drop it. You
get your presents at breakfast not a minute before sez
you know.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
Nick Iden thinking it's funny the way Ryan's popped up
all of a study.

Speaker 9 (12:59):
Yes, what do you think there's anything behind it?

Speaker 1 (13:03):
I should it be?

Speaker 7 (13:05):
Just drack me as being funny.

Speaker 12 (13:06):
That's all You're nearer than I am.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Darling Hello speaking, Oh hello now they bob what when? Oh, well,
guess the course I'll do.

Speaker 7 (13:27):
What is it, darling, darling?

Speaker 3 (13:29):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Julia Wolfe has just been murdered.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
You are listening to William Poul and Marna Lawyer and
the Story of the Thin Man the stage of the
luxe Radio Theater in Hollywood Boulevard. Before you go onto
the story of Nick Nora, we want to take you
on a quick tour of Hollywood.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Lobby of the Hotel Roosevelt, where stars and newcomers gather.
A young actress just breaking into pictures is telling her
friends for success.

Speaker 5 (14:17):
Well, there's one thing. I've got one of the best
managers in Hollywood.

Speaker 6 (14:20):
Let me in the lock.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Oh, but the rules is laid down for me. Geez,
what do you mean, Rue, Well, you.

Speaker 5 (14:25):
Think I've been going into training for the Olympics. I've
got them five pounds.

Speaker 10 (14:29):
I've got to take lessons in singing and dictions, and
of course my complex has got to be present.

Speaker 5 (14:34):
I've got to be more careful than ever. I love
to get little blemishes or in large pores than what
they call called metic skins.

Speaker 12 (14:40):
Thank goodness, I know enough to use Luck's toilets so
regularly the way everybody around here does.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Nine out of ten beautiful Hollywood screen stars use luck
toilet though, and have four years. Here's what the famous
crowded Colbert has to say when I tell people how
simple my complexion care is they always seem surprised. I
use cosmetics, of course, but I always use Luck's toilet
so to guard against cosmetic skin. It's easy to keep

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skin lovely my way.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
And now on with the shows of thin Man. Why
an hour has gone by since Nick heard about the
murder of Julia Wolf In the living room of their
sweetest hotel, Nick and Nora listening to the radio, A
news reporter is broadcasting the latest development of the case.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
And again's the latest news of the.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Julia Wolf matter. The please have found out that the
beautiful bone.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Secretary was the gang, says girl, the spreading the drag
net for one, Joe Morelli says.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
The hiding out somewhere in the city in Paris today
is the chamber of Deputy.

Speaker 5 (15:40):
Never mind the chamber of Deputy Joe Morell.

Speaker 7 (15:43):
That's what I want to know about. Well, did you
get any more information out at headquarters?

Speaker 1 (15:47):
As much as they had? Julia Wolf was shot to
kill about nine or nine thirty body discovered on the
floor of a living room, and all after eleven.

Speaker 7 (15:54):
Who discovered it?

Speaker 1 (15:55):
That'll surprise you, Memi Whineman, Josh's mother.

Speaker 7 (15:59):
What was she doing there?

Speaker 1 (16:00):
I don't know where's Clyde winking?

Speaker 5 (16:02):
Moving, listening?

Speaker 7 (16:04):
But McCaulay was going to see him. They had an appointment.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
I spoke to McCaulay. Why I never showed up. Nobody
knows who he is.

Speaker 7 (16:11):
He's going to be pretty tough on Dorothy. Isn't it
m why meaning hard? It looks as it Clyde wine
and shipped one appointment.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
In order to keep another.

Speaker 7 (16:20):
Was Julia Wolf?

Speaker 1 (16:21):
You think he killed him?

Speaker 7 (16:22):
It was just she was a detective around here.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Dollis h nice? Dolladay? Spect you wanted to see me? Yeah,
come in Balladay? Thank you?

Speaker 7 (16:34):
Anyone here?

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Have a seat.

Speaker 7 (16:37):
Hello, Dorothy.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
And I'm sorry for breaking in on you like this.

Speaker 7 (16:41):
Oh that's all right. We're used to it.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Anything wrong.

Speaker 6 (16:44):
Ju Julia Wolf is dead, Yes, we know that.

Speaker 5 (16:46):
Here's the gun she was shut with.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
How are you trying to tell me that you didn't?

Speaker 9 (16:51):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (16:52):
I hate it.

Speaker 6 (16:53):
So she's she kept me from seeing my father.

Speaker 5 (16:55):
I went down there to ask her where he was.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
She wouldn't tell me.

Speaker 5 (16:59):
I shut her.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Where did you hit her?

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Why?

Speaker 1 (17:02):
In the heart? Pretty good shot? You are? What did
she do?

Speaker 6 (17:05):
Sew down?

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Did she make any sound? Didn't scream? I don't know
which way did she fall? She sew her back. Oh yeah,
people fall toward a shot, you know, not back from it.
I knew you were lying.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
Oh, come on up.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
Where did you get this here? I brought it in
a show, I thought. So why did you say you
did it? Who are you trying to shoot him?

Speaker 9 (17:30):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (17:31):
Please, don't nut.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
You got to tell me, let me him?

Speaker 7 (17:34):
Will you this story? Look at me naked trying to
help you. Why don't you help him? You were trying
to shield your.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Mother, weren't you?

Speaker 5 (17:41):
No your father then, Dorothy, Yes, my father.

Speaker 7 (17:48):
Why did you think he did it?

Speaker 5 (17:50):
It was the first one time, Judah Wolf she saw
something in Julia.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
And she took it.

Speaker 9 (17:55):
What was it?

Speaker 6 (17:56):
A watch change?

Speaker 3 (17:57):
It belonged to my apartment?

Speaker 7 (18:00):
So you think your father did it?

Speaker 5 (18:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (18:03):
Did your mother turn the chain over to the police.

Speaker 9 (18:05):
No, she she kept.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
She didn't tell him anything about it, but she showed
it to you.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
Why did your mother go to Julia Wilf's possible for
the first place?

Speaker 5 (18:12):
She she went to us for money?

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Oh? Money again? Yes? Oh uh, I don't come up.
Who is it, Dorothy? I wonder if you'd mind waiting
in the bed room, of course, be only a minute. Well, Nick,
Mimi Wyman alone, She's never alone? Thought of his brothers

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with a screwy college kid. I'm a guy for the
name of Chris Jorgenson.

Speaker 7 (18:41):
Jordan who is he?

Speaker 1 (18:43):
A colleague told me about him. I'm gonna hang her
on type. I think he's after me.

Speaker 7 (18:47):
He's dull, but she hasn't any.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Maybe that's why she wanted to get some from Judith.
I'll figure.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
Oh, Nick, how old are you Ryan?

Speaker 1 (18:59):
Thank you?

Speaker 9 (18:59):
Nick?

Speaker 6 (19:00):
Isn't my son, Gilbert?

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Are you very well? Thank you?

Speaker 5 (19:03):
And mister Chris Jorganson, he's no friend of mine.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Huh? My wife win Gilbert winus and mister Georgians how
do you do well?

Speaker 5 (19:15):
I mean, Nick, I've really been in such a state
in my life. You know, of course, that I was
the one who found Julia Wall.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
Though we've heard.

Speaker 5 (19:22):
Oh my dear, it was terrible. I walked him there.
She was lying dead on the floor.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
I meant to ask you, mother, wasn't that much blood?

Speaker 5 (19:29):
Gilbert, don't be so morbid.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
But I'm interest didn't murdered, you know, mister Charles. I've
formed a theory about this when already so, in my opinion,
the man who did it?

Speaker 5 (19:38):
But be Chriet, you don't know anything about it?

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Oh but I do.

Speaker 12 (19:41):
Quiet you were saying, missus Ynan, about finding Julia Wall,
I was so tetrified.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
I'm such a mysterress, sride minus crazy, absolutely crazy to
say away a time like this though, What all the
police think he had something to do with it?

Speaker 3 (19:56):
What do you think?

Speaker 7 (19:57):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (19:57):
I know he didn't, but I wish I could find him.
I have something very important to tell him.

Speaker 7 (20:02):
And McCauley won't help at all.

Speaker 5 (20:04):
He thinks I just want money.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Well, don't you, Nick? You're always easy.

Speaker 7 (20:10):
Missus Rylon. Were you alone when you found Julie Wolf?

Speaker 5 (20:14):
Why?

Speaker 7 (20:14):
Of course I was presently to Jobinson with you.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
I sutinite enough. I don't know anything about it. That's
what I had that Julia Wolf was dead. Was a
Missus Rylan called midnight club?

Speaker 3 (20:25):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (20:25):
She called you?

Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yes? Why I beg your pardon?

Speaker 5 (20:29):
Only try to even talk about it. The thing to
do is to times Clyde. And that's why I've come
to you for Nick. You will help me find him,
won't you?

Speaker 3 (20:37):
Coy on it?

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Free? Now, Mimi, there are a thousand detectives in New
York hire one of them. But Clyde knows you.

Speaker 10 (20:44):
All you have to do is to get in touch
with him and tell him that Mimi says everything is
all right, but that I've got to see him.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
I'll tell you again, I don't want any part of it.

Speaker 7 (20:53):
Is that final file.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
Well, if that's the way you feel, you'll turn up.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
You just help all your can give a police every
possible system.

Speaker 7 (21:01):
What do you mean by that?

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Oh, nothing in particular. Oh well, you'll say good night.
I'm sorry I can't help you. Hello. Is this the

(21:25):
Normandy Hotel? I want to speak to mister Charles.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yeah, Nick Charles.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Hello, mister Charles. Say, I'm sorry I woke you up.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
I bet mister Charles would like to lay a proposition
before you.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
It's about the murder of Julio World. What's the different?

Speaker 3 (21:49):
Who I am?

Speaker 1 (21:50):
Wait a minute, all right, don't hang up. I'll tell
you who I am, but you gotta keep it under
your hat. I'm none him. Yeah, nonheim. Now listen, I
know whom word that Julia won't say.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
Sure I do, and I'll.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Spill it to you about five grand I'll tell you
how I know because I was outside of her apartments
when she was shot, and I saw the one who
did it.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
And I'll spill it to you when.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
I get to take a wait a minute, Hey, I
can't talk now, I'll.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Call you again. Huh hello, Hello, are you still there? Oh? Futher?

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Fuck come with them? I don't know I'm cranking. I
guess you. Huh tell you WoT to get back to
bed and get some sleep?

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Nick?

Speaker 7 (23:01):
Nick, are you asleep?

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (23:04):
Good, I wanna talk to you.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Thanks, jolly him.

Speaker 9 (23:08):
Don't you think you'd like to.

Speaker 7 (23:09):
Go back to detect him once in a while, just
for the front of it.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Can't you get to sleep?

Speaker 3 (23:14):
No?

Speaker 5 (23:14):
Everybody says you were a grand detective.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
They were kidding you. I'd like to see you work tomorrow.
I buy you a whole lot of detective story.

Speaker 7 (23:23):
Oh that poor girls in an awful spot.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Nothing I can do to help her, she thinks you can.

Speaker 7 (23:28):
It wouldn't hurt you to find out if.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
You could, would I'm darling. My guess is the wine
have killed Julia and Darthy knows it, and the police
will catch him without my help. Oh please, without life.
I'm tired.

Speaker 7 (23:40):
Oh all right, so I'm mad.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
At you, Nick?

Speaker 9 (23:47):
Mm did you hear a knock? H?

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Shut up?

Speaker 9 (23:52):
After?

Speaker 7 (23:53):
Do you wanna answer?

Speaker 11 (23:54):
Nick?

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Oh? Good lord? Oh?

Speaker 7 (23:57):
I staying dead. I'll do it myself.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Will Charles here? Yes, I gotta talk to him right away?

Speaker 3 (24:07):
What about what's going on? What's going on?

Speaker 7 (24:11):
For someone to see you?

Speaker 1 (24:12):
That's great. I was afraid i'd have to go to
sleep ill him.

Speaker 7 (24:16):
Yeah, how about a chair?

Speaker 1 (24:19):
There you are, body, I got your covert, so I
don't move. I need a stick up. I gotta talk
to you. Over to Charles. I want you to tell
me something, and I want you to give it to
me straight. You get me? Do you mind putting that
gun down? My wife doesn't care, but I'm a very
nervous person. Thank you? All right? Shoot, I mean, what's

(24:42):
on your mind? You don't need to tell me you're tough.
How I heard about you?

Speaker 3 (24:47):
I'm Joe Morelli.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
I don't hear about you. I didn't bump up Julia,
all right, you didn't.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
I haven't seen my pretty much. We were all watched up.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
I kill me.

Speaker 11 (24:57):
I wouldn't have any reason to hurt her. She was
always on the open with me. But that dirty little
wreck you, I'm he got sore because she liked me
and hated him, so he put the.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
Finger on me.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
That's all right, swell brother, don't only your pedaling your
fish in the wrong market. I thought nothing to do
with it.

Speaker 11 (25:13):
Yeah, listen, the boys used to say that you were, okay,
a square guy. Now that's why I'm here.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
What's the law doing to me?

Speaker 3 (25:23):
Did they think I did it? Or was it just
something else uping on me?

Speaker 1 (25:26):
I can tell you if i'd you, but I'm not
lost the police.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
That would be very smart.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
The boys would love to have me come in and
ask questions.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
They'd like it right down to the end of the
Black Jacks. Now, I came to you on the level.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
The boys say you're on the level.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Be on the level.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
I'm on the level. If I know anything, it's that
I don't know. This is your party over the.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Police did two times?

Speaker 1 (25:51):
Got off you right off your I got that gun.
You'll come across me when you let me go. I'll
take that gun. Thanks officer. He almost had me get
some more to Joe. Norah. Are you all right, Norah?
I'm inspect to give her a homicide A good place inspect.
Who's that woman on the floor?

Speaker 3 (26:10):
My wife.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
This guy shoot us now.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
He tried to shoot me.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
I sawed her on a jar to get her out
of the line of fire because they hit her too hard. Nora, Oh,
look at me, Naura.

Speaker 7 (26:17):
You all right, Donny? Oh, you John fool. He didn't
have to knock me out. I knew you'd take him,
but I.

Speaker 9 (26:25):
Wanted to see you do it.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
She's all right, okay, sluttering? Take Marelli downstairs.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
Come on, I said, how do you people have to
pop in?

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Inspector?

Speaker 3 (26:35):
We here?

Speaker 1 (26:35):
This is getting to be a sort of a meeting
place for the Ryman's family, so we figured we'd stick
around in case the old man himself shows up. Then
we've seen Morelli sneaking and we decided to come up.
And I was pretty lucky for you, dear Morelli a
friend of yours. I never saw him before. What's he
want of you? Want to tell me he didn't kill
Julia woolf? What's that to you? Nohing? What did he
think it was to you? How's Kim? I don't know.

(26:57):
I'm asking you keep on out, kid, so you're gonna
keep him on man? Alright, mister Charles, I won't bother
you tonight, But I'll be in tomorrow morning. A lot,
have plenty of things to ask. Good night, Thank you.

Speaker 7 (27:10):
Inspect the gills next time you come. Try to stay longer.

Speaker 5 (27:22):
Nick, wake up.

Speaker 7 (27:23):
It's Christmas. Oh yeah, look, here's the telegram for you.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Just came open it. Will you probably a touch from somebody?

Speaker 7 (27:34):
Well, it's from Clyde Wine.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Listen.

Speaker 7 (27:38):
Will you take charge of investigation on Julia Wolfe murder?

Speaker 12 (27:42):
Communicate with Herbert McCauley.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Clyde won, Where's it's from? Philadelphia?

Speaker 7 (27:47):
Then he didn't do it?

Speaker 1 (27:48):
Did he make? I don't know. Communicate with McCauley. All right,
we will ask him up here this morning. Here you
are mcaulley. What do you think he wants you to

(28:11):
handle the kid?

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Well, what are the chimes? Are you doing it? Slam?

Speaker 9 (28:15):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Please mate?

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Quiet year?

Speaker 1 (28:18):
I wish you would, mister Charles. It would it help
any if I could persuade him to meet you and
my I had a word from one up myself last night.
He gave me a code message doing certain newspapers and
case that I wanted to get in touch with him.
Wouldn't do any harm for them? I'm sure you could
clear this up. Oh why it won't only come back.
It doesn't look well he's staying away at a time

(28:38):
like this.

Speaker 12 (28:41):
Yes, oh, oh, just a minute, do you miss McCauley
Police Department, Police department?

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Hello? Where in Allentown?

Speaker 3 (28:54):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Well, when's the next train fight?

Speaker 3 (28:58):
I'll get that. Why has tried to comit suicide?

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Don't ed me go down and identify me? Well, I
guess this changes the whole story, doesn't it. That looks
like an admission of guilt. I had such hopes.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
I thought if you got on this case.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Uh well, well it's no use thinking about it now.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Well, I'm sorry, don't waste so much of your time.
You will excuse me?

Speaker 9 (29:19):
What?

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Of course?

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Goodbye? By Well that's that. I smile of you.

Speaker 7 (29:26):
Oh, the mystery is all gone. And I wanted you
to find out who did it?

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Maybe I will? Good? Why? I don't please? He did it?
I don't no reading, that's fine, but I'm going to
find out. Hold doctor Watson. We're going places, but I
want to speak to infected Gil a Manda man, Mister Charles,

(29:53):
are you working on this case?

Speaker 3 (29:54):
Mando man?

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Inspected Gill and I'm not, but he's I don't mind
telling you. I'd rather have you in on the right side.
You mean it's not on the Wyman's side. I'd rather
have your working with us than against it. So it's
a bargain.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
Then do you know about the case.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
I've read the papers. What about the suicide? Oh that's
a phony. The men didn't even have to go down.
I thought it might be from now on, are you
going to think of every thin man over six feet
with white hair and whineym.

Speaker 9 (30:18):
Do you think Wyat did it?

Speaker 1 (30:19):
It looks like he plans something. He shut up his
apartment and his shot, but there's nothing yet to clinch
it set they'll get your hundred if the winey didn't
do it, who's your candidate? I haven't got that, boyet.
I don't think that everything points to Wynut. How about
the Alibis. They're all okay, missus Wynant, the boy, Dorothy McCauley,
even Mariley. So what about the Jorgans. M Oh, I'll

(30:42):
check on that when I'm afraid this is kind of
double for you, missus Charles.

Speaker 7 (30:46):
No, I'm sitting on the edge of my chair.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Frankly, I'm stunned. I don't know what to do next.
What about you, Charles feet Oh, but I've got a hunch.
What is it?

Speaker 3 (30:59):
A hall?

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Last night I thought up with from a crying, But
I have changed my mind, for it was new something
and I've got a feeling out here from him again?
What time is it?

Speaker 12 (31:18):
Almost ten?

Speaker 5 (31:19):
Still waiting to hear him to cry?

Speaker 1 (31:21):
And how here hear me that?

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Quick?

Speaker 9 (31:23):
Hello?

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yeah? He was Nick? Charles? Who can't hear you? I
gotta can't hear you speak louder.

Speaker 9 (31:37):
I can't speak any louder.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Hey, this is al Nnheim again.

Speaker 7 (31:43):
You know I caught you last night.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Hey, listen, I still interested in that proposition?

Speaker 3 (31:50):
Yeuh huh? All right, then, now here's the dope and
get this straight. The man who killed Julia without.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
What this? Gil? Do you think Wyna killed Julie wolf
am Manheim? Right? Why?

Speaker 3 (32:28):
Two reasons?

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Fast off mee Whynant came across with the watch change
he plucked off Julia's body? Oh she did it? Belonged
to Clyde Wan. Yes, what's the second reason? The pit
the bullet that killed Nunheang came from the same gun.
That's all right, and Stucker, all right, it's perfect Clyde
Wynan is giving of both though it murders. Maybe what,
but you'll still get you a hundred. I say, why

(32:52):
it's innocent. You can say what you want, but I'm
spreading a dragnet for that guy over every count of
the United States, and I'll get him too. Co Sleeping City.
Make a plain whe.

Speaker 7 (33:20):
You think they'll find him?

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Mixed? Nothing in New York probably is.

Speaker 7 (33:24):
Oh, it's getting me down. Hush our dogs.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
He today.

Speaker 7 (33:27):
Yeah, she's broken off her engagement. What's no, asked me.

Speaker 12 (33:31):
She was a little hysterical, something about not wanting to
ruin her fiance, his life, daughter of a murder.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
And all that. Kids, Well do you lay the dog?
Where do you think you're going? I'm going to take
out to walk.

Speaker 5 (33:45):
He's just been for a walk.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
We're going to sight thing are we asked that Nick?

Speaker 7 (33:48):
What are you up to?

Speaker 1 (33:50):
I've got a hunch. I'm going down to look at
wine and shop. I'm gonna find out why it's closed.

Speaker 7 (33:55):
Oh I shouldn't be closed, he went away.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
You want to wait. Lots of times when my anuala,
but they never closed the shop. I can hunt something up.

Speaker 7 (34:01):
Me might be hiding there.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
I don't know, but those things have got my goat.
I got to find out.

Speaker 12 (34:06):
Nick pick I won't have you going down there this
all of the night.

Speaker 7 (34:09):
He's a crazy man.

Speaker 5 (34:11):
He might kill you.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
We'll be all right. I got asked her to protect me,
all right, go on, go on see.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
If I care.

Speaker 7 (34:17):
But it's a dirty trick, bringing me all away from
New York just to make me a widow.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
You wouldn't be a widow along, you bet.

Speaker 7 (34:22):
I wouldn't, not with all your money, you dogs. Goodbye,
doting Nicky. Take care of yourself, won't you sure?

Speaker 3 (34:29):
I will?

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Don't say it that way, he says that human Why
do the little woman who cares?

Speaker 7 (34:34):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
I'm just used to you. That's all.

Speaker 12 (34:41):
Right, Call me, darling, please, I'll be waiting to hear
from you after after If you let anything happen to him,
you'll never wag that tail again.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
You are listening to the Lux Radio Theater's production of
The Thin Man, starring William Powell and man A Layer,
with the music under the direction of Louis Silver's. This
is W. S. Van Dyk speaking. We have here tonight
the man who wrote the great picture Lawyer man or
Bill Powell.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Here.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
He's a producer too, but just on the writing end.
He's done many great pictures Forty Second Street, The Gold Diggers,
King of Burless, and lots of others, including an original musical,
Ladies in London, which you'll be seeing Zoon and here
he is the man whose name you'll see on the
screen before the picture starts. One of Hollywood's greatest picture writers.
James Seymour Ndjam.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
Thanks Woody. I've been a movie writer for ten years.
That's the first kind word anybody is said to me.
What listens, Jim?

Speaker 3 (35:50):
The average person thinks the movie writer is a fellow
that sits by himself as a typewriter, hammers out a
lot of dialogue and hands it in. Would you like
to direct correct that impression?

Speaker 1 (35:58):
I certainly would. Nobody works alone and by himself to
make a picture. It's a matter of constant cooperation between producer, director, technician,
actors and the writers. Some of the best story ideas
come out of the conferences.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
Jim, how many writers would you say there are on
an average picture?

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Plenty, believe it or not. I've seen pictures where there
were more writers than actors. If all the people who
contributed to the story got screen credit, would look like
a page from the.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
Telephone directory you reponable the stage and screen, Jim telephones,
how they're different.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
Well, pictures have less talk, but they tell more and
less time by concentrated foods, all the good and none
of the waste. In the theata, everything must be brought
to the audience. On the screen, you take your audience
wherever the camera can go. And here's another important point
that comes right back to your Lux Radio theater. On
the stage, the star just enters, but on the screen

(36:50):
she's introduced to the big close up, a picture of
the star's face many times larger than life size. Every
time a movie star's complexion is mentioned in this Lux
Radio SATA, I think of those close up. Those stars
just have to be beautiful, and they found that Lux
toilet soap helped them look their best. Producers know it too,
and that's why it's the official soap in all the

(37:12):
great studios in Hollywood. Right Woody, all right on the nosium,
Thanks for coming over, thanks for asking me.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
Good night Connected.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Befoors for station identification. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
The thin man Nick is on his way to Taguan
has deserved laboratory in a dark and desolate section of
the city. His cap deer is sharply around the corner
and pulls up in front of a gloomy, old rickety building.

(37:50):
Same sir, Are you sure this is the place you
wanted first?

Speaker 1 (37:52):
Wagon? Come on that jump? How I show?

Speaker 9 (37:55):
Are you?

Speaker 1 (37:56):
I tell us twenty?

Speaker 11 (37:57):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (37:57):
Do you want me to wait?

Speaker 1 (37:58):
No?

Speaker 3 (37:58):
On ever mine?

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Oh that's good. You have to say no. Neighborhood have
been at two o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
I want to get out of here.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
They are thanks, he come on after up for here? Hello, Noah,
what are you doing here?

Speaker 7 (38:18):
I beat you down. I want to go with you, nigga.

Speaker 12 (38:21):
No, you're not going in that place alone, in.

Speaker 5 (38:24):
That settlement now, I'll get out that scale up and
tears you rus not from that door.

Speaker 7 (38:28):
I'm here today, all right?

Speaker 3 (38:30):
Come on.

Speaker 7 (38:34):
Nice neighborhood wine and picked out his laboratory. I can
almost hear the change rattling.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
Do you believe in ghost?

Speaker 1 (38:41):
NICKI?

Speaker 3 (38:43):
Here? We are.

Speaker 7 (38:46):
Me quiet, darking?

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Yeah, I got a flashlight.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
We're like toss the doll.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
Aster? Shut up? Going on?

Speaker 9 (38:57):
Which way straight ahead?

Speaker 3 (38:59):
Could you get that?

Speaker 4 (39:00):
Places?

Speaker 9 (39:01):
Looks also?

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Stay to me? Okay, you canna stay into the corner
but the shadows right you? Who's fine?

Speaker 7 (39:06):
What matter?

Speaker 9 (39:10):
This looks like?

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Why? That's work table and you're like a slab in
the moor.

Speaker 7 (39:15):
Look is this a man's all around?

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Yeah? There probably a lot of weakers on our table.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
Come off way to now there's a little desk.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
But I'm on a wrong I wanna take a look
at it.

Speaker 7 (39:24):
What do you expect to fine?

Speaker 1 (39:26):
Dating? If I knew what I fine, I wouldn't be
hy work with me. There's a loose board.

Speaker 7 (39:33):
I guess it don't like somebody was walking over that way.

Speaker 9 (39:37):
Just imagination.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
There's no one anyre with us? No, what about whine
on its workshop?

Speaker 7 (39:43):
I hiding out shop?

Speaker 9 (39:47):
What's that Scotsta?

Speaker 3 (39:48):
I said from here?

Speaker 13 (39:50):
It's Scotch.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
I'm'na smell around the work table in fast.

Speaker 9 (39:53):
Stop it, stop it?

Speaker 1 (39:56):
What do you want?

Speaker 9 (39:56):
I said?

Speaker 1 (39:57):
Past?

Speaker 7 (39:58):
They look at him, stood after something. I didn't inscribe
the ground life that one when one he was looking.

Speaker 13 (40:02):
For sh I start ast, No, look look at this
and you send me here to listen. It's hollow and
when I can find something to figure up.

Speaker 7 (40:19):
There's an iron bar on the table.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
I just saw it. Ah, good, now, I guess not
a hole in my cement. We'll find out what's under there.
Come scared aster quiet if you keep away north to
come here once barb But there she goes. I'm through

(40:42):
the cement, I said, get away from there? Get away? Whoayck?

Speaker 11 (40:51):
What is it?

Speaker 7 (40:52):
What's the after?

Speaker 1 (40:54):
We just gotta inspect to go here?

Speaker 3 (40:55):
That's under there?

Speaker 1 (40:57):
A body must have been there for weeks. Who wait,
now you report it.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
You'll get your story a sort as I.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Can give it to you until then you gotta leave
you to more. Go on, now get out. Those reporters
are enough to drive a guy nuts. Well, you were right, Nick,
it was about him a skeleton rather buried in line.
I wonder what Wynan had against this one. Did you
find any clothes? Yeah, there's no identification on them, just
a silver felt buckle with the initial d W R

(41:41):
W H. Who is that? I got a good idea
that case. You worked on the guy who threatened to
kill Winning. What was his name? H? Rose Water? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (41:51):
Rose Water?

Speaker 1 (41:52):
He said Winning tried to steal an invention, didn't he? Yes,
But we figured it was just black man, just the
same wine. It wouldn't mind having him out of the way,
would he? And according to the death nobody has been there,
at least a couple of my own. That's just about
the time, whine it closed the shop right if you
put the skeleton under the fluoroscopia. Half an hour ago
we found the bullet he was killed with, and something

(42:15):
in the leg bone, an old piece of shrapnel trapel, Yeah,
why shop moel in the legbone? He probably limped. What
do you mean? Oh? Nothing, Well, so I inspect her.
I'm going to pick up my wife. Take a home.
It's been a long night, so long. Give her my best.

Speaker 9 (42:32):
What where are we going, mate?

Speaker 1 (42:41):
I hotel of my sweet back our bags and make
a knife drift somewhere the trip. Oh no, my soul woman,
I give you three murders and you aren't satisfied.

Speaker 7 (42:50):
I want you to stand side.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
I did find it. What do you mean he was
done in the shop. H It was his body that
was buried there. Why boy?

Speaker 7 (43:01):
But they all said it was rose water.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
Oh that's the big thing.

Speaker 7 (43:04):
What makes you show chew its wine and body.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
Several things, clothes, for instance, they were carefully they were
carefully preserved. The body was just careclic destroyed. First the
chill him cut of the one thing that all Scott
the look alike. We don't say sure, but I remember
that wine. I've had some shropshon in his shim. They
found it under the fluoroscope.

Speaker 5 (43:27):
How long has he been dead?

Speaker 1 (43:28):
A couple of months anyway, And he couldn't have committed
those other murders, Mark Kettle.

Speaker 7 (43:34):
Why not here?

Speaker 1 (43:36):
No nobody but you. I didn't even tell Jill.

Speaker 9 (43:38):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (43:40):
I want to lie load like at the whole dope.
I don't want to go off op cluck. What are
you going to do? I'm going to get the real murderer.
I've got an idea. Want to see me take him? Yes,
you got a knife? Even Ingray, Well, I've gotta lose
plut I'm gonna have a pop. They've been a pump
everything from the Russian Cario office, canabet cheese, an orchestra,
behind the palms, a dudeliking.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
What is this?

Speaker 1 (44:01):
And I'm going to invite all of the suspects, the
suspect they won't come, No, they'll come. I'll have guilt
issue the invitation.

Speaker 7 (44:08):
May who's going to beat me?

Speaker 3 (44:09):
Everybody?

Speaker 9 (44:09):
You mean?

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Donathy? Eric say his name is Andy? All right? McCauley
mean Gilbert, Jorgason and burrelly Oh.

Speaker 10 (44:17):
Joy, what a lovely party?

Speaker 1 (44:31):
All right? Way anything everybody, child?

Speaker 7 (44:36):
What is the leading of this?

Speaker 1 (44:37):
The meaning of what?

Speaker 9 (44:38):
Need me? I would be all bounded up like common
criminals and talk to the students to eat me and talk.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
Will everyone please be seated, dot I be here, Andy
next to her please, mister Charles please very well meet
me on the other side of Andy. And mister Jackson
over there please, and they can come at all. Mister McCauley. Next,
of course, Brell, what fight?

Speaker 3 (44:59):
Where you are?

Speaker 1 (45:00):
I say, listen? Said, and Gilbert you can sit just
top of his mama. Mister Joe's I have a theory.
I will listen to it later in second gil you
and your men will stand by the door. Please sure,
fine now, Nora, if you will sit here by me,
delight of mister Joe, mister shows. Now we're all ready
to begin.

Speaker 7 (45:19):
Oh will please try to tell me missus Yon, No,
I will not.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
I demanded to know why we are here before dinner.
All right, I've got some important news I've seen wining.
Certainly I'm in it.

Speaker 7 (45:32):
That's nothing.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
I saw him myself, yes mee, when black.

Speaker 5 (45:36):
Night he came to see me in my apartment.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
Oh it is What did you say?

Speaker 3 (45:41):
You didn't say very much.

Speaker 5 (45:42):
You won't know how I was and how the children were.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
I am afraid you're lying, Mimi. You see I really
did see wine at last night? Are you kidding?

Speaker 3 (45:50):
Now?

Speaker 1 (45:51):
Why don't you tell me? Why didn't you hold him?
Because I found out for certain? But he didn't come
up the murders. You know that? Thank you, Marley. You
knew Julia was she dripping winey taking doll on the fly.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
Well, she don't say she is, but I figure she is.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
Yeah, thank you. Now I'll tell you why I no,
Wyant didn't commit those murders. Three months ago, Whiney found
out that Julia was cheating him and it was splitting
with some man. He went to find the man, and
he did. That man was desperate. He knew that he
was caught, dead to rights and at prison, setting him
in the face, he took the only way out. He killed.

(46:30):
Oh terrible to tell you this way, dought be that
your father's dead dead. He's been dead for three months dead. Oh, oh, darling,
I'll cry. I know it's terrible. Isn't really.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
Better?

Speaker 7 (46:47):
Take a home?

Speaker 3 (46:47):
Man?

Speaker 7 (46:49):
Come on, let the MoU second.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
Don't cry, darling, This is absurd.

Speaker 5 (47:01):
How can he cried? He did you set yourself to
the shot him last night?

Speaker 1 (47:04):
So I did? I saw him lying buried in his shop.
You mean that body was wman per sickly up, sir,
And the murderer is right here in this room tonight.
He's sitting at this table, fusy. I don't know, but
I thought we all had a little get together we
might be able to find out. I'll tell you as
much as I know. This murderer is a very clever man.

(47:28):
He planned the whole thing beautifully. After he killed Wyman,
he wired mcaulay using Wymant's name, and hold him.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
The shut up the shop.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Then he took Winyt's body and buried it in the
shop with another man's clothes to throw it off the track.
Even put a self buck over the r on it,
hoping that we'd think up a rose water an old
enemy of Winan to drop out of sight years ago.
I'm a ruddy yeah. Would you mind holding your knife
out the way? You're worrying and guilty.

Speaker 9 (47:56):
That night's missing.

Speaker 7 (47:57):
I'll look for your bath.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
I'll help you look. Uh, well, after our hero had
killed Wyett, He's got a brilliant idea. He realized that
he and Julia could still collect money. Wynett was supposed
to be on the trip, no one knew where, so
at dinner, Guess wrote letters to McCauley, signing Wynett's name
so that McCauley would continue to send the money to Julia.

(48:18):
He even telephone McCauley. Do you remember McCauley. The first
day that you came to see me, he telephoned that
he was in town. It must have been Wineant. I
should have known if it weren't his voice. Oh, he
was clever about that. He called when you were out,
And that same afternoon Julia telephoned him. She said that
you were coming Mimi to ask about Winett.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
He got terrified.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
He was afraid that Junior would break down and tell
so he went to Julia and killed her and left
Wymyt's watch chain in her hand. He wanted to kill
him up. Makes sense, Cliatt, Please, His plan was still
working beautifully. The only hitch was a man named Mennheim

(49:01):
who found out something. Oh how he wrote pumped him
off too. But our hero overlook just one item. The telegrams,
Wiles and telephone grew very well, but no one had
seen Winer. So the murderer picked on poor Mimi. He
had to strengthen his case. Mimi is the only one
at this table who can tell us who the real
murder is. See me, who was it? Told you to

(49:25):
say you've seen Winey?

Speaker 5 (49:26):
Nobody told me I did see?

Speaker 1 (49:28):
What did he pay you? Mimi?

Speaker 3 (49:28):
To stick to that story isn't a story.

Speaker 5 (49:30):
It's true, I did see Nyon. He's not dead.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
You're lying, mean, But then you do anything for money.
You're getting a good price for saying you saw Linet.

Speaker 5 (49:38):
I'm not going to stay here and he and shut
this a doown.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
You're getting a good price, Mimi. But don't forget this.
Two other people who are in with him on this deal,
Julia and Mennheim. When he thought they might spell something,
he bumped them off. You ought to know don well
that he's not going to take any champeles on you.
What do you want to do?

Speaker 3 (49:55):
Be mixed on his list?

Speaker 7 (49:56):
No?

Speaker 1 (49:56):
No, And who is he who paid you that money?

Speaker 3 (49:59):
Mcallis?

Speaker 1 (50:00):
But you, buddy little, I think that will hold him
a while. Hey, nice, wake mister Jonges a's your man, inspector,
mister McCauley. I can't believe it. So you want me
to do? Wrap him up and sell a frame, take
him home and get him out of here. Come on, boy, Graham,
let me get ahead of me.

Speaker 5 (50:18):
Took him.

Speaker 7 (50:19):
I knew you would.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
Yeah, another case like this. Not if I'm in a
reprise by that.

Speaker 7 (50:22):
Oh, Missus, you're grand, You're glorious.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
I'll bet you say that to all the boys.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
Well that's the the story of the thin Man, William
Powell and men lay. I'm going to get them back
out of here in a minute. Tell to you, as
you know, these broadcasts from Lux Radio Theater quite an
event in Hollywood and among our many friends here tonight.
As one of the greatest stars of the silent pictures,
I admired her from Afar when she was doing such
magnificence spectacles as Cleopatra, and I was just next her
Today she is the wife of one of our leading

(51:15):
film directors. I've known her for many years as the
most charming and vicious lady, and I want you to
meet her now, Miss Tita Barratt.

Speaker 7 (51:30):
Thank you, Woody.

Speaker 10 (51:31):
Our Hollywood entertainment has certainly developed amazingly since I.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
Was making pictures.

Speaker 9 (51:36):
Yes, there were things different now as you and I know,
we saw our pictures grew up and started to talk.

Speaker 10 (51:41):
We had to translate all in nation into pant mine.
Oh you may think you have trouble today, but do
you really none of the difficulties.

Speaker 7 (51:48):
We had working with a flit screen.

Speaker 6 (51:51):
We had to express jealousy, hate, love or devotion.

Speaker 10 (51:55):
Or in pantnme and at the same time keep pace
as a director died of.

Speaker 6 (52:00):
With a one, two, three four, just as a metronome,
God's appear it.

Speaker 3 (52:05):
Pan of mine has always been one of the greatest arts.
And may I say, miss Fara, I've always thought that
you were one of the greatest masters of that arty.
Oh you're very kind, Woody.

Speaker 10 (52:13):
We worked awfully hard making those pictures. For instance, in
making clear Passa, we had no.

Speaker 6 (52:19):
Research department at the studio.

Speaker 5 (52:21):
I worked myself a month with the curator of.

Speaker 10 (52:23):
Egyptology at the Metropolitan Museum in New York's great fun, though, and.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
The senas FERI you're going to make some radio appearances.

Speaker 9 (52:31):
Yes I am, and I'm also going to do some
motion picture work.

Speaker 3 (52:34):
Now that's good notes.

Speaker 10 (52:35):
I'm considering an author now running through STIPs and ideas. Oh,
I just hope everyone will be as happy about.

Speaker 6 (52:42):
Another pseudo Barol picture as I am.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
The public has been very good to me.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
In the past, and I know they'll be awfully beat
to see you again. I'm sure it would be a
great thrill. And I've only seen you hear your voice.
Thanks to Sara for joining us tonight.

Speaker 6 (52:54):
I'm glad as said good night.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Hearing Petero Barrett talk of her plans brings to my
mind some other plans and I have heard discussed in
Hollywood this week. Sature people are talking about Charlie Chaplin's
recent statements where he will start working on a new
picture very shortly. Miss Paula Goddard will be starred. Chaplin
will write and direct, but will not act in it,
and disappointment to many of us, Barbara Stambrick and Robert
Taylor is starting a new picture today and I'm tackled

(53:24):
to death that I got the job directing. It's call
his brother's wife. Speaking of Bob Taylor, there's a lad
who is going places. He's got a great future, and
sometime in that future he's going to do armand to
Rhta Garbo's Camille, Bill Powell and Marna lay here interested
in the making of MGM's Picture of Good Earth. Louise Rayner,
who is with them in the great zig Field, and
Paul me and any of the stars. And now Bill

(53:45):
Powell and Mernon Lawyer are coming out on the stage. Arise,
Bill Murna, kid, you did a great show. You'll read
them off us.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
Want no retakes, no no property man.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
Yeah, Bill, I'll bet your bet. My property man isn't
dear you Remember how I used to swatch it with
a room mistake when you won't going on the set
fast enough? Yes, and hurry.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
Is a great fellow. He's the most in the kind
of customer, whole picture business.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
Medison, Bill. That fellow was with me and he already
going to be made Eskimo. He was with me an
African jungle wan and made Trader Horn. And after a
man is handle crocodile, sharks, pythons and polar bears, you
can't expect him be afraid of a mere actor.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
Yeah, there's only one thing I can never understand about
our picture, Eskimo. Would he how did they tear you
from the polar bears?

Speaker 3 (54:32):
You wore rubbers. I wore a hat.

Speaker 12 (54:37):
Must be pretty tough, Woody, when you have to tell
through swamps, the Tropics and the Arctics. I suppose when
you call up and say you're going on location, your
wife says, oh, yes, location.

Speaker 7 (54:48):
Do you want the snow shoes or to take by medison.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
Unfortunately she doesn't say that. When I say I'm going
on location, she just says you are not. Instantly, I
thought all about that traveling. I thought all about it.
Him the lock soap people asked me to do this broadcast,
isn't it funny? And the Arctic soap is something they
like to eat. In the Tropics, they use soap for money,
and here in Hollywood, soap is something that keeps the
stars beautiful.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
And I can see that, Keith murna beautiful Woody. But
when are you going to start using.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
The ninety lot of nice s? Well? I do use
a vet, and that's no kidding anyway, Thanks for gotting
he kid, you're my Woody. Right before I tell you

(55:40):
about next week's show, I'm going to ask our announcement
mister Rick, to tell you about more about the cast
and about Hollywood studios who were cooperating with us.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
Our cast of characters Tonight, Nick William Paul Norah, Murna Lloyd,
Mimi Minagambo, Ncauley, Porter Hall, Dorothy, Barbara Luddy, Jilibert, William Henry,
Chris Jorgins, Brett Morrison, Julia Bold, Margaret Briton, Inspector gild
Thomas Jackson, Morelli, Wally Mayer, Nunnheim, Ernie Adams, our director

(56:10):
w Wes Van Dyke, and our stars William Powell and
Murna Lloyd appeared through courtesy of Metro Golden Mayor, as
did mister William Henry and Porter Hall through the courtesy
of Paramount.

Speaker 3 (56:20):
The musical director of this program, mister Lewis Silbers.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
Appears through the kindness of twentieth Century Fox. And now
here is your producer, mister w Wes Van Dyke.

Speaker 3 (56:29):
Thanks to all of you in the casts. It is
a swell job. Nice week, ladies and gentlemen. The Lusts
Radio Theater is going to have a great show for you,
and believe me, l Joson Ruby Keeler are going to
be here to appear in Burless. It was a smash
it on Broadway and then a great moving picture and
now I was going to make a Marves radio vehicle
for L. Jolson Ruby Keeper. I think you'll like it.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
After see some beat and hill return to the last
radio theater in.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
Time from to produced pur less, and you know you'll
give you a great show. I've enjoyed being with you all,
and good night.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
This was the Columbia Broadcasting System.