Today's Adventure: Tarzan and D'Arnot encounter a party in trouble after their bearers abandoned them in a search for a lost city.
Originating Radio Broadcast Date: 1936
Originating from Hollywood
Starring Carlton Kadell as Tarzan, Cy Kendall, Barbara Luddy, Ralph Scott, Victor Rodman, Gale Gordon
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David Willis article on the life of Karena Shields.
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Originating Radio Broadcast Date: 1936
Originating from Hollywood
Starring Carlton Kadell as Tarzan, Cy Kendall, Barbara Luddy, Ralph Scott, Victor Rodman, Gale Gordon
Related links: ERBZine 3140 and 3141
David Willis article on the life of Karena Shields.
To subscribe to this podcast and follow more adventures of Tarzan go to https://greatadventures.info/
Become one of our Patreon supporters at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net
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Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
going to bring you the start of a new Tarzan
Cereal and be sure to listen after the podcast for
some new details that I came across regarding the cast
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and some of the production information, not only on Fires
of Tour, but on the previous serial, The Diamonds of
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we turn to the Fires of Tour. The Fires of Tour.
The Fires of Tour was produced in nineteen thirty six.
Nobody's quite sure what the delay was, since the radio
serials were quite popular and profitable, although it was suggested
maybe they were just giving some time for the serial
(01:57):
to circulate and to see what the return bay from it.
So here are episodes one, two, and three. Expedition imperiled
Tarzan's timely arrival. An attack on the Yellow Creature.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
A hot red sun burns its swift way down through
the west, its broad orange shafts, painting in bold relief,
gray bowls of giant trees. Four whites, their bodies only
half covered by ragged, trail worn clothing, cut their way
through a dense mass of tangled underbrush and emerge into
a small natural clearing. Four exhausted whites, three men, and
(02:36):
a young woman. All that remains of the once great
Burton Ashley Expedition, which left Nairobi many weeks back with
a long queue of AmaZulu fighting men, Swahili trackers, and
Uganda carriers to plunge into the trackless jungles of south
central Africa in search of the ancient and forgotten city
of tor. The little party consists of Major Burton Ashley,
(02:58):
head of the Enterprise Burton, his American Ward Karen so
o' rourke, a happy go lucky adventurer, and the inscrutable
Chinese scientist doctor Wong Time. As they break through into
the clearing, the noises of the great jungle seem, for
the moment hushed to a mere echo of blurred sounds,
rising and falling like the surf on a remote shore.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
It's hot.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I think we've gone far enough for one. Dave camp
here in the morning.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
And in the morning, Uncle Jim, we'll cut our way
through more gender.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Ay the saints of the old side. Little of that
goes a long way.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
It's work for blacks, not for white Menary. I feel
as though I'd been cutting thorn bush through for ages.
At least, I'll admit, Uncle Jim, I am tired.
Speaker 8 (03:51):
You will do, my dear.
Speaker 9 (03:52):
You're as good a man as any others.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
Change Shine Poo Bahow, which means doctor one.
Speaker 10 (03:59):
It is anudism of the great Chinese philosopher kung fute.
Speaker 11 (04:04):
It means true gold.
Speaker 12 (04:06):
There is no fire, and it fits you like an
old shoe Workush.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Well, thanks to all you.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
Oh, but let's dispense with compliments long enough to make
some sort of camp, Uncle Jim, If you and tear,
you'll get wood for the fires, Doctor Wong and I
will start clearing away some of this brush. Come along, dar,
Doctor Wong, do you do you think we'll find our
(04:34):
way out? We can't last very much longer on a
few supplies we have left.
Speaker 11 (04:39):
You are worried, my dear.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Frankly, I am, since we lost most of our supplies
and equipment and crossing.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
That river back there, and since the Safari deserted.
Speaker 10 (04:50):
I I'm afraid, afraid, But there is nothing to fear.
Other expeditions have experienced greater difficulties.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I suppose they have. Tell me, Frankly, Doctor One, are
we lost? Uncle Jim and Terry won't admit it.
Speaker 10 (05:05):
It is better to leave all things to their natural
course and not to interfere with our destiny.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
You're quibbling, Doctor One. You're chasing the devil around the bush,
which is a.
Speaker 10 (05:17):
Great deal better, my child, than letting him catch you.
We all seeing will surely guide our footsteps in the
right direction.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Well, he hasn't been very much on the job since
our safari walked out of it.
Speaker 10 (05:32):
Like, by a reasonable amount of activity on the part
of our protecting ancestors, we shall find our way back
to civilization eventually.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Eventually, with this handful of supplies.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Quite did all those unfortunate things have to happen to
just our expeditions?
Speaker 10 (05:50):
We shadow moves as the sun direct. We shall win
through and.
Speaker 12 (05:58):
You will fall and.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Terry, but the luck of the Irish almost fell into
a water hole within a few yards of the.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Clear well, thank Heaven for that.
Speaker 12 (06:07):
But where is he right here of courser with two
canteens to fresh water?
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Now, if you'll give me yours and wungs and they
mixed the water bags, I'll be going back and I'll
fill them up.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Good heavens, what was that?
Speaker 6 (06:24):
H twas only the cry of a hutton leopard of
Chryst who never heard a leopard sing out like that?
Speaker 9 (06:28):
Terry, a human voice out of that cry?
Speaker 10 (06:31):
It is sometimes difficult to distinguish the difference.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Leasure or York should know. Nevertheless, he's wrong this time?
Why Jove, I say, perhaps work close to anied in
may add Or village. I'm going out there to have
a lot.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Oh no, uncle Jim, don't go, please, I think there
was something weird menacing in that screen.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Please, Uncle Jim, don't go.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
Don't be foolish, my dear.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
If we've stumbled onto a village, we'll be able to
high guides to lead us out.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Of this infernal jungle.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
We have plenty of time to investigate. It won't be
dark for another.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Hour or two.
Speaker 9 (07:01):
Come on, Terry, we'll have a look.
Speaker 10 (07:02):
Say that call sounded as though it came from a
great distance measure, it might be better to wait until morning.
We will have more time than.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
To Jim, Terry, look, look there at the edge of
the clearing.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Well, what is it? I don't see anything.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
It's gone now. When Terry turned, it disappeared.
Speaker 11 (07:23):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
A chushler? What did you see?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
A face, a hideous yellow face was staring at me
from behind those bushes.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Face.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Yes, it looked like oh, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (07:35):
You are certain it was not that of some animal,
a lion perhaps, or leopard.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
No, no, no, I'm sure that it was a human
face repulses, yellow, hairless, its eyes glared at.
Speaker 12 (07:48):
A touch of the sun of morning, the reflection of
one of them trees.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Erry, I saw it plainly.
Speaker 9 (07:55):
Come on, Terry, we'll.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Soon find me.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
He'll be staying here with Jeanetta, Doctor Wong, Major Terry
or Art will be the one to do the investigating.
Speaker 12 (08:02):
I'll be back before dark. If I need you on
fire a couple of shots.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Be careful, Terry.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
The sinking sun beats diagonally into the purple mist of
the jungle. As a mile distant from the clearing the Mighty,
Tarzan and his friend Paul Darna, French naval lieutenant, make
their leisurely way along the shadowed forest path. Traveling alone
through the jungle, Tarzan and Darno are on their way
to investigate the activities of Arab slave traders in a
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distant territory.
Speaker 13 (08:44):
We're nearing a waterhole, Darnod. We'll camp there tonight.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
It has always been a mystery to meet Tarzan.
Speaker 14 (08:50):
How you find your way about in these trackless waste,
and yet always manage to locate water.
Speaker 13 (08:55):
Call it my animal instinct and let it go out
there you are, But Joki, now.
Speaker 14 (09:00):
When Ami may serious more, I believe you are right.
It can be nothing less than nd strength that guide
you through the song.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
Well, why not?
Speaker 13 (09:10):
I've lived all my life here simply that time at home,
as you are in Paris.
Speaker 14 (09:16):
Yet as often as I have been in the genre
with you, I still marvel at he seemingly impossive, retains.
Speaker 13 (09:22):
You to nothing impossible about it. My training has been
different from that of other men.
Speaker 11 (09:27):
That's all.
Speaker 13 (09:29):
That is all will be an Arkhmed's territory in three
or four days that the Speedword Traveling Act made.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
And do you think he is the man we are seeking?
Speaker 9 (09:38):
I believe so.
Speaker 13 (09:40):
He's a wildly old eagle, will let the tourney hand
do anything at a price.
Speaker 14 (09:45):
Monsieur le Commissionaire certainly was surprised when you mentioned Acmed
in connection with slave treading.
Speaker 13 (09:52):
I suppose that's why he didn't take much stock in
what I had to say.
Speaker 14 (09:55):
Yet, had it not been for your vast knowledge of
the Jongle, and you're wide a quant among the natives,
he would not have agreed to this investigation.
Speaker 13 (10:03):
You know, ac made only by reputation through the natives.
Slave trading, they say, is only one of his many sidelines.
Speaker 14 (10:12):
I suppose he is not averse to smuggling a little
library now and then.
Speaker 13 (10:17):
No, he cheats the swirlies out of it or deliberately
steals it from them. At least that's the rumor.
Speaker 14 (10:23):
A man who on the coast enjoys an unviable reputation
as the grand trader in ivory and specialized on of
the chieftains of the anterior, while inland he is merely an.
Speaker 13 (10:35):
Old teeth something like that. But unless you catch him
red handed, you're going to have a hard time proving
him guilty. One of those cunning, vulnerable old Mohammedans who.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Still yeah, what is he does?
Speaker 9 (10:49):
Smoke?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Not Shia, but you have the nose of a well
found Why I do not smelly.
Speaker 13 (10:55):
Coming down the wind from the direction of the waterhole.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
And probably a native hunting party or mayatta.
Speaker 13 (11:00):
Oh, I'd have got the scent of natives, or we'd
have heard the drums.
Speaker 14 (11:03):
If not native, then Caramangani white men a small camp.
No Safari white men along in the Jean garzan.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
No for raise, not unless.
Speaker 13 (11:14):
Unless their bearers have deserted, which does happen.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
We we say, wey, sir, we shall investigate Munami.
Speaker 13 (11:25):
Wait a minute, listen, new man Chita stalking human prey
between us and that camp. We'll take to the trees
from where we can see here.
Speaker 9 (11:39):
I'll carry you.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Swing gno to a broad shoulder. The ape man takes
to the trees and heads swiftly toward the sound. Meantime, O'Rourke,
having found and followed a set of strange footprints beside
the bush indicated by Jeanette, emerges abruptly into an elephant
track a quarter mile from the clearing. In the broad path,
the Prince vanish among those countless others made by the
beasts of the forest. The Irishman turns to retrace his
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steps the flash of a tawny shaped beside.
Speaker 13 (12:08):
The trail, a low, croty snarl.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
O'Rourke glances up into the glowing yellow eyes of a huge,
black maned lion crouched square in his path just above
the Irishman's head the low hanging branch of a juniper tree.
Throwing the sling of his rifle over his shoulder, he
leaps into the air, clawing fingers hook themselves about the branch.
With the nurse shaking raw, the lion hurls himself forward,
scrambling desperately o earth pulls himself on to the broad limb,
(12:35):
and the beast hurtles through space bare inches below him.
A snarling cry from over his head causes the earth
to look up quickly. On a thick branch just above
him crouches the long lithe body of a starling lepper. Hastily,
the irishman unslings his rifle throws it to his shoulder.
The jungle terror launches itself upon him.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
With a scream of rage and pain.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
The wounded brute strikes or earth, knocking the rifle from
his hands. Together, man and beast hurdle to the ground below.
In the trail, the lion, with a savage roar, gathers
himself to spring upon the fallen man. Tarzan and Darnaud
drop down through the trees with busy speed the land
in the jungle path. Darnaud leaves the ape man's back,
unslings his rifle to face the wounded Lefford. With the
(13:19):
near spring roar, the lion charges a mighty bound and
Tarzan clears the body of the confuser urk and lands
in the path between him and the canon rushing beasts.
As the lion charges, the ape man steps nimbly aside.
Before the brute can turn and gather himself for a
second charge, Tarzan leaps upon its back, his feet locked
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beneath the tawny bellet. With the speed of a striking snake,
A bronzed muscular arm whips around the huge neck. O'
ururk staggering to his feet and stares in stunned amazement
as the great beast tries desperately to free itself from
the cleaning man pain. Then Tarzan's long, keen bladed knife
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plunges again and again deep into the great heart well
the last choking snarl, the savage brute staggers sinks lifeless
to the ground.
Speaker 15 (14:17):
Ah, by the oh by, by the great saense of
the old side.
Speaker 14 (14:31):
Bravo Tarzan, encorn foy, you have you have done the
ample Sepra Sita.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
The leopard is dead, Munami.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
As dead as that LIONO the faith man, Who are you?
What sort of man are you that kills lions with
your fair hands?
Speaker 13 (14:47):
I am Tarzan of the apes.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Tazan of the have the apes made? You are not hurt?
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Monsieur No, I was only not dizzy when that panther
and me hit the ground together, but did did I here?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Right?
Speaker 14 (15:01):
Did this, gentleman, say, Tarzan of the Apes? He did
my pram and I am Paul Darnau. Get me more
on the navy of France.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Goury it.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
It's unbelievable if I hadn't seen it with my own
two eyes.
Speaker 12 (15:16):
Oh sure, I sure didn't.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Excuse me, gentlemen.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
I'm still a bit dizzy from before.
Speaker 9 (15:22):
My name's Terrence or Rock.
Speaker 13 (15:24):
What brought you out here in the jungles are far
from your camp alone?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
I was following a trail when that big devil he
killed put me up at three and and the panther
knocked me out of it again.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
May monsieur, you had a rifle, Why did you not
shoot the lepartas?
Speaker 6 (15:38):
And I did, but I hardly wounded him. He jumped,
knocked me on one way and me the other. If
it hadn't been for you, Tarzan of the Apes, Terry
or Rock could be playing a half for the devil
this night.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I'm thanking ye forget it?
Speaker 9 (15:56):
Where is your saphari Ah?
Speaker 6 (15:57):
The Black spell beans they deserted two weeks ago and
left the four of us to find our way out
of the juncle as best we could. Four of you,
Major Ashley, Miss Burton got the Wong tire a haythen
Chinese and.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Myself, Miss Burton. There is then a woman in your party.
Speaker 11 (16:14):
There is.
Speaker 13 (16:15):
The jungle is no place for a woman.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
And we all tried to make her see that, but
she wouldn't hear of it. She's got a mind of
her on, as you'll learn when you meet her. Now,
if we're to make camp before dark, we'd.
Speaker 14 (16:28):
Better start right. Come on, Daro the trail I was
following Tarzan.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I'd like Puddy to have a look at it.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
The sun dips behind the western hills, turning the azure
sky to a deep, velvety blue as the three men
vanish in the serried ranks of giant trees in the
little clearing, the great forest rising in ramparts of green
above them. Major Ashley, Jeanette and doctor Wong are anxiously
awaiting the return of Aro.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Polp, worrying about Terry Jeanette, he's certainly capable of looking
after himself.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
That he said he'd be back before dark. And those
shots we heard, there were two shots, Uncle Jem. When
he left, Terry said that he'd fired twice if he
needed help.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
But they were too far apart to have been a signal.
Speaker 10 (17:16):
If I am not mistaken, Major, those shots we heard
were not fired from the same rife as scream.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
That's the impression I received.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Won't then that hiddiest creature I saw must have been.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
Armed, but certainly enough with a modern sporting rifle, My dear.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
If he found that Terry was following him, Oh, uncle Jim,
Terry may be lying out there and the jungle wounded
or dead.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
We must look for him.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Cary is as jungle wise as any man I know, Jeanette,
He's not going to let himself be shot by a native.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
Don't worry. He'll show up presently.
Speaker 11 (17:47):
It is coming night to my child.
Speaker 10 (17:50):
In a few minutes it will be dark five faces
beyond the circular firelight.
Speaker 11 (17:55):
And you hear that the younger beasts prowl and hunt
at night.
Speaker 10 (18:04):
However, if by chance anything has happened to a rock,
he cannot be left there alone.
Speaker 11 (18:10):
I shall find him, but can't we all go?
Speaker 5 (18:13):
It will minimize the danger of it. Oh then, oh,
thank Heaven, there he is now, Terry, Jerry, are you
all right?
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Why there are two men with him?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
You can go gm that tall man with Terry. He's
wearing a leopard skin.
Speaker 11 (18:31):
Garden and carrying a bow and arrow and a rope.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Great Scott woman, what a marvelous specimen of manhood.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Amazing by the looks of your face as you were
expecting to see Terry or Rocks ghost.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Oh, Terry, we heard the shots and you're not wounded.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Oh if you can call a dirty bump on the
head of wound, I'm all right. But if it hadn't
been for this gentleman of Cooshla, Terry or Rock would
be worse than wound.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
It.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Let me present Lieutenant Dano of the French Navy and
Tarzan of the of the Apes, Miss Burton, Major Ashley,
and doctor Juan Thai, gentlemen, a.
Speaker 9 (19:12):
Most surprising occurrence.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Gentlemen wrote trails a savage and returns with two white men.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
How did you accomplish it, Darren?
Speaker 11 (19:19):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
By Gary, I ain't shown myself yet.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
I was following that fellow Jeannette Sar when when a
lion put me up a tree. A minute later I
fell out of it with a leopard around my neck.
Then these two gentlemen dropped down out of the sky.
The Lieutenant shot the leopard and Tarzan killed the lion
with a knife.
Speaker 11 (19:39):
Killed a lion with a knife, I.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Said, with a knife.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
If I hadn't seen it with me on two eyes,
I'll well, i'd be calling myself a liar. By the crash,
mon patoor me Monsieur tells us that your safarine deserted
you some time ago.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
You are doubtful as to your present location.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
In other words, are we los frankly, Lieutenant, we are.
Our instruments, compasses, et cetera, along with practically all of
our food supplies, are in the Kilndina River. Two weeks
ago we attempted a cross while the river was in plood.
And your carriers why did they leave you?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Ah them black can It was something about it taboo.
Speaker 10 (20:16):
It was probably because of our intention to entery country,
which was taboo to the natives.
Speaker 13 (20:21):
You lost your equipment before you entered this country.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
Yes, we had not fully decided to continue. The matter
was under discussion.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
You see, gentlemen, we were convinced that we were close
to our destinations, at least near the territory in which
our goals had to be located. We didn't wish to
turn back without making an attempt to entertain if our
maps and information were direct.
Speaker 13 (20:41):
Where were you going?
Speaker 14 (20:42):
What were you looking for a place known as the
city of paw the city of two order. I have
never heard of this, Abutaza.
Speaker 13 (20:51):
No, you say you had maps of the region, Major, Yes,
but they were lost along with our other things.
Speaker 10 (20:56):
You know Africa the jungle, well, mischief Taizan, Tarzan is enough.
Speaker 13 (21:03):
Yes, I know the jungle fairly.
Speaker 11 (21:05):
Well.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Oh, then you can tell us where we are.
Speaker 13 (21:07):
You are at least three weeks hard travel from the
nearest point of civilization white men week and three or
four days from the closest native village.
Speaker 12 (21:16):
Even that will be too far for the supplis.
Speaker 11 (21:18):
We still have which.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Direction had you been traveling, Major Ashley t west, hoping
to strike a river that would take us to Lake Tanganyika.
Speaker 13 (21:25):
Tanganyika is a long way from here. Northwest. We'd better
go with us. We're headed in an opposite direction. But
you'll reach a native village in three or four days.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
We'll accept your author Tarzan, of course, and thanks your
kindly arrival will certainly relieved the situation. Your safaris camped
near here.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
We have no safaris, you mean, Tarzan, You are traveling
alone through this wilderness just you too, Yes, but where
you can to protect yourself from the animals, where you
get your food.
Speaker 13 (21:53):
The animals don't annoy us, Miss Berkland.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Ten, gentlemen, you'll remain with us, or rather we shall
join you and place ourselves in your hands.
Speaker 9 (22:01):
You will accept the leadership of our little party, tam.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Yes, well that's a relief, now, Terry.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
If you'll put some more wood on the fire, I'll
see what I can find, and this stuff for our stafond.
Speaker 12 (22:12):
Sure, a cushler. I'll have the fire going just in
a minute.
Speaker 10 (22:15):
Listen, that's strange.
Speaker 11 (22:20):
Cry again.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
It makes my flesh creep. It sounds so so stressening.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
That is the second time today, Tarizan, we have there?
Or what do you make of it? Mnami?
Speaker 13 (22:32):
Nothing, as I told you this afternoon, I've never heard
it before today.
Speaker 12 (22:36):
Name for Prince.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
I Showgi the ones I followed out there in the jungle,
half human, but two great talents instead of toys.
Speaker 12 (22:43):
But but I never caught sight of the spell team
that made them.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Good.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
It sounds close.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
It only a few minutes after we heard it this
afternoon that I saw that awful face watching behind you.
Speaker 10 (22:58):
Tasan at the edge of the searing Oh Uncle's jim.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
What an awful looking creature.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
The men about the fire leaped to their feet and
turned to the spot indicated by Jeanette. Advancing into the
circle of firelight slowly, cautiously. Is a monstrous being, its
skin a bright saffron. The repulsive creature's thickly muscled body,
naked except for a loin cloth made from the height
of some animal, is as devoid of hair as a
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slab of marble. Its feet terminate in two strong, talon
like claws. Small red, wicked eyes fixed gloatingly upon Jeanette,
glitter evily from beneath a low flattened cranium. The great
protruding jaw, with its wide mouth and thick, slappering lips,
is thrust savagely forward in its left hand. The awten
creature carries a twisted cudgel, in its right a heavy
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copprobated spear. As the men about the fire leap to
their feet, the yellow skinned creature pauses, bears savagely a Tarzan.
Speaker 11 (23:54):
Who steps to meet it.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Before the Frenchman can complete his warning, the half human
thing bounds forward with a blood curdling shriek and hurls
a heavy spears straight at the ape Man. Simultaneously with
his answering challenge. Tarzan drops to the ground, as though
struck down by an invisible Titanic fist. The deadly spear
flashes harmlessly over his shoulder without holding its blind rush.
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The gigantic creature swings the cudgel at the ape Man's head.
Swift as thought, Tarzan rolls aside. His hand darts out
to grasp the monster's talon foot with a howl of
savage rage. The half human group crashes to its knees.
Before it has time to regain its feet, Tarzan leaps
upon its back a bronze muscular arm and circles the
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yellow neck.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
The great hairless head is pulled backward.
Speaker 14 (24:52):
The ape Man's knife flashes buries itself deep in the
heavy throat.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
The strang He will scream.
Speaker 14 (25:01):
The yellow monstrosity falls forward, SAgs to the ground dead.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
Ah, gems the old girl. It's all over a cursher.
Speaker 10 (25:22):
Incredible, the creature twice the size of Kaizan.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
But you are hurting on me. There is blood on
your shoulder.
Speaker 13 (25:30):
Not mine.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
I'm going to the waterhole to watch it all be curry.
That's the way he killed the lion that had me
marked for its supper.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
There was blood, your friend, lieutenant, he's hurtles.
Speaker 14 (25:41):
The tronk came Madmoiselle. Tarzan was not even scratched. He
will return presently again.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
What a sight I thought that spear had passed completely
through him when he fell.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
And the frightful shriek he gave when he killed that day.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
It was the same cry he gave when he killed
the lion that had me tread. What does he mean, Lieutenant?
Speaker 14 (26:00):
It is the victory cry of the great Apes, the
great Apes.
Speaker 11 (26:06):
What do you men?
Speaker 14 (26:08):
Just that mosiella, doctor you see and possible as it sounds,
Tarzan was taken by the apes when he was an aphane,
raised by a she ape who had lost her own baby.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Through living his entire life in the jungle, he.
Speaker 14 (26:22):
Has learned by experience how to cope with it and
its inhabitants.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
You mean he was brought up at the apes, He lived.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
With Mademoiselle, just Moosa.
Speaker 14 (26:34):
He has learned to live and protect himself, as do
the wild beasts of the genre.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Unbelievable, they won't an.
Speaker 10 (26:42):
Utterly amazing example of the influence of environment.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
And yet one of the handsomest men I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Ray Mademoiselle.
Speaker 10 (26:53):
He is a perfect type of the strongly masculine isla,
a creature almad anticipation or brutal or degrading passion. But Lieutenant,
he speaks rather good English.
Speaker 11 (27:07):
How did he learn it?
Speaker 14 (27:09):
It was not until he had grown to young man
with that he saw his first white man or woman.
He found a little party of whites shipwrecked on a
desolate part of the African coast. I joined the party later.
It was from them that he first learned to speak English.
And he has never been out of the jungle. Knows
nothing of our civilization.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Or Hong Kong. Pre Monsieur majour.
Speaker 14 (27:30):
He has seen Paris, London, New York, money places, but
he does not appreciate our so called centras of civilization.
He much preferre his jungle and its savage denizen.
Speaker 11 (27:42):
His ancestors, his father and mother. Does he not know
who they were?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Mabe? His parents were Lord and Lady greg Stock. What's that?
The gray Stooks of gray Stook manner?
Speaker 14 (27:54):
They were Britian Louis Missius, Sir Tarzan is Lord grey Stock, however,
he feels is to be known by any other name
than Tarza.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
That's the most amazing thing I've ever heard. The great
Stokes dropped out of sight. Years ago, if I remember rightly,
Grey Stoke had been commissioned by the Foreign Office to
investigate slave trading in a British West Coast African colony.
Speaker 9 (28:17):
They disappear a.
Speaker 14 (28:18):
Major Here he comes equity may I susues that the
discussion be dropped, at least in his presence. He does
not care to speak of it, nor of his past
life in the young Abierre Parva.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
Where have you been blaring?
Speaker 13 (28:34):
There's nothing more to fear from those fellows. He is
the only one who was near the waterhole.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Jeanette, my dear, Does this this creature look anything like
the one who saw this afternoon?
Speaker 7 (28:43):
Yes, although I only caught a glimpse of its face
watching me through the fringe of underdash, I'm sure it's
the same.
Speaker 10 (28:49):
Airstually, did you happen to notice the feet of this
I suppose it might be called a man the heel,
and in step of a human being, it tools well
of an animal.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
He carries them clare feet would fit the footprints I followed.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
You saw them, Tazan, What do you make of them?
Speaker 13 (29:09):
I'd say you were right, Prince. You showed Dana and
me were probably made by this man or another like him.
Speaker 10 (29:15):
Even your younger experienced tarzan. Have you ever come across
other beings such as this?
Speaker 14 (29:21):
No?
Speaker 11 (29:22):
Have you ever seen a leopard man?
Speaker 9 (29:25):
Yes?
Speaker 13 (29:26):
Once or twice?
Speaker 3 (29:26):
I you're backing up the round three doctor.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
If you're trying to put this fellow among the leopard man, ye,
those Talon like Claud them leopard fellows are blacks cannibals,
but their human beings. This crater is neither a human
nor animal. He has the body of a man, the
tois of a vulture. Look at him, Talons, you never
saw a fur bearing animal with toys like that.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Well, wherever it is, you're not going to leave it
here in camp for.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Us to look at faith, and it's anything but a
pretty site.
Speaker 9 (29:53):
I'll be burying it.
Speaker 13 (29:54):
That's not necessary a rock. Leave it to me. I'll
return it to the jungle. I'm morning will have taken
care of it.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
Dango, who's death listen.
Speaker 13 (30:04):
Hyenas, Yes, Dongo, he and his brothers are already gathering
for the feast.
Speaker 11 (30:11):
Franks comprehend.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
You don't mean they'll eat it?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Yes, Oh, I'll give you a hand.
Speaker 13 (30:17):
Tis how stay here, I'll take care of it.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Hey, And did you see how is he picked using up?
And it wain again as much as its own self.
Be guardy that fella has the strength of ten good men.
Speaker 14 (30:30):
And may I assuse yest Nodemoiselle Berton, that if we
are to get an early start in the morning, you
get what sleep you can.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Oh, I can't sleep, Lieutenant, not after all it's happened.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Come, come, my dear Seutenant Dana is right. You've had
a rather eventful day of it.
Speaker 13 (30:45):
You need rest, Terry and Wong and I will stand
God with Tara.
Speaker 14 (30:48):
Will be no need for that, Majieur Tarzan, and I
shall relieve you of that duty tonight. It is easy
to see that you are all exhausted in need of sleep.
But you and Tarzan sleeps like an animal machine, a
doctor long with one eye. Open ourself to speak, and
where I am not fatigued. We are traveled by easy stages,
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have not tired ourselves by cutting our way through beforeest
he'll be sleeping like.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
A baby, not I'm a cooshler here. I'll fix your brankage.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Very well then, But for those lions and things roaring
and shrieking out there, I certainly don't expect to get.
Speaker 14 (31:25):
Much sleep so long as Tarzana is watching over the camp. Mademoiselle,
you need not worry about the animals. None will disturb you.
Speaker 11 (31:33):
Well.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Good night.
Speaker 11 (31:34):
And when Tarzan said that we.
Speaker 10 (31:40):
Might reach a native village in three days, lieutenant, did
he have any particular one in mind?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
The mayotta of an acquaintance of our stuff?
Speaker 14 (31:50):
Two one ashmade a trader in Shall I say I
have already?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
He will finish you with guides.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Then Tarzan must be familiar with the section strange He's
never heard of.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
The city of tour Mommasieur.
Speaker 14 (32:04):
Africa is filled with legends of loss and ancient cities.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Tazana and I.
Speaker 14 (32:09):
Have seen several as made village is beyond this section
of the country. And Tarzan is not familiar with this
particular district, then how.
Speaker 12 (32:18):
In Heaven's name does he know where he is anymore
than widow?
Speaker 14 (32:21):
How did he find his way? He calls it his
animal instinct. He has an uncanny sense of direction. And
I have never seen him as it it for a
single instanse in going directly to the place he wishes
to reach.
Speaker 9 (32:34):
I wonder what's keeping him out there? He's been gone
a long time.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
He will return when it ah. Ye, there he is
up there in the three garry. Whill you look at that?
He swings down through them branches like a young ape.
Speaker 9 (32:47):
Well, Tarzan, you had us worried. We were just about
to VISI a sleep.
Speaker 13 (32:52):
Yes, why listen drums by John Weakens Birds Book.
Speaker 11 (32:57):
What does that?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
No time to explain?
Speaker 9 (32:59):
Now?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
What shanift? Shonnift? Wake up?
Speaker 14 (33:04):
What what is it?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Don't be frightened, child? We're breaking camp?
Speaker 9 (33:09):
I believe is that it, Tarzan?
Speaker 13 (33:11):
Yes, we're taking to the trees. I fix the place
that's what kept me so long. Break camp and leave
nothing lying around. Putout that fire, Darno, and come all
of you here, Miss Burton with me now, stay close together.
Speaker 14 (33:28):
Followed by the others, Tarzan strides off into the impenetrable
gloom of the jungle. Five hundred paces from the teering,
He pauses beneath a giant podocarplass tree.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Here these vines are twisted together, easy to climb. I'll
go first with Miss Burton. Climb slowly and make as
little noise as possible.
Speaker 14 (33:47):
Come on slowly, easily, carrying Jeanette and he's left arm.
Tarzan mounts the twisted vines awkwardly but steadily.
Speaker 13 (33:56):
The four men follow.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Fifty feet above the ground, the ape man breaks through
a massive, dense foliage and steps onto a platform constructed
themitter woven limbs and branches. He puts Janette down and
turns to help the others. Presently all are gathered together
about them, a thick wall of tangled leaves and matted vegetation.
Above the jungle chorus of the night, and beneath the
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crystal stars comes the distant flooding of drums.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Welcome back. So we'll talk about the episode and the
overall setup of the story, and then we'll get into
the cast information. Now, this is a very different start
in a lot of ways, and in some ways it
was not as interesting because a lot of it is exposition.
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Now it's very similar in one way and that we're
dealing with another law civilization story, but the structure is
very different because we're getting a lot of just exposition
to tell us what has happened, rather than events, Even
though it's not a perfect analogy. In the Diamonds of
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a Shure, you didn't get this sort of lost party,
forlorn and abandoned by their bearers until after episode fifteen,
and we talked about how with the Diamond of Ashore
you had essentially the first eighteen parts were build up
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set up in Jungle adventure, and then the middle three
parts were abridged, and then the next eighteen parts were
lost city adventures. But here we're already starting to get
into some of the weird stuff in episode three by
speeding along the introduction. Whether this is going to work
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out long term, I guess is something to see. First
impression is is that these set of characters will smaller,
don't necessarily come off as lockable as the Gregory Party,
perhaps because it is a situation where they are hunting
a lost city and it's a little harder to get
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emotionally invested as opposed to the Gregory's real family motives.
It also probably doesn't help much that we get introduced
to them whining as they walk through the jungle, though
I guess for understandable reasons. Now there also is a
key change in toursan It reflects a kind of passage
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of time, perhaps because the previous Cereal had Tarzan in
Luongo and after his very first adventures, which were adapted
to radio in the nineteen thirty two toursan Cereal which
is about two thirds missing, which we didn't end up playing.
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And here you have Darnold talking about Tarzan having seen
all of these sort of big world capital cities, but
nevertheless preferring the jungle. And this puts Tarzan on the
radio in line with the character as Edgar Rice Burrows
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was writing him in the books. As Tarzan in the
books had widely traveled in civilization over the course of
many novels that just hadn't been adapted to radio. Now
let's go ahead and talk about the cast. We spent
a lot of time with the Diamond of a Shore,
and I do want to go ahead and get through
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that cast. Now, there's a quote here from and I
want to go ahead and cite my sources. It is
Bill and Sue op Hillman's erb zine, which list itself
as the official Edgar Rice Burroughs tribute and weekly webzine
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site since nineteen ninety six. So the very first year
I got on the Internet, so I definitely respect them,
and this is just some great stuff that I found
that they put out. And these are in volumes three
to one, four zero and three to one four one,
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and they have this quote from Burrows. There is one
factor that may have more effect on reducing book sales
than any number of depressions, and that is radio, to
which we are looking for far greater returns than our
book royalties ever brought us. Already with two programs, we
are netting more than we do from the sale of
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all our books, which take in connection with the fact
that there are hundreds of similar programs on the air,
suggests that people are taking their fiction this way instead
of through books. So interesting quote. And the cast from
the Diamonds of Ashore, in addition to Carlton Cadell as
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Tarzan playing Donald, was Ralph Scott. Helen was played by
Corrina Shields, Gregory by George Turner, Magra by Jeanette Nolan.
Now that's a familiar name atting Tom cy Kendall Loald
(39:41):
Tosk Don Wilson, and I assume this to be the
same Donald Wilson who was also the announcer on the
Charlie Chan series. That we played a couple years back
on Great Detectives as opposed to The Man with Jack
b Wolf, Victor Rodman, Larson, Victor Potel, and Mitchell was
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played by Fred Harrington, and the narrator was John McIntyre.
So let's talk a little bit about the cast now.
Corrina Shields was an actress and she was also the
wife of director Fred Shields. And up until last year
there was very little available on the Internet. And I
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am indebted to David Wills, writing on his substack, who
wrote a very fascinating article about Herry. He learned about
her through his research of Alan Ginsburg, who she helped.
And here I quote from his overview to give the
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barest highlights. As a shameless hook to keep you reading,
I will say that Corina Shields earned at least four degrees,
including a medical doctorate, was an actress, director and playwright,
was an aviator and explorer, made important scientific discoveries and
a wide range of disciplines, including archaeology, anthropology, and medical science,
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specifically in the field of tropical disease and mind history.
Owned a large chocolate plantation in the Jungles of Mexico.
Provided free medical care for indigenous people, while also attempting
to spread awareness of the richness of their culture. Was
a successful writer of novels, children's books, magazine articles, and
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scholarly monographs. Had the same publisher as Jack Curoc, was
represented by Alan Ginsburg as literary agent, and was a
respected educator, traveling widely to lecture on her various areas
of expertise. Now it should be said she did pretty
much get tired of the acting things and so retired
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from that to do all of this, and in many
ways she had her own adventures, including references to looking
for loss civilizations that come close to making her seem
almost fictional. And I will include a link to this
great article on Substack. Now, one thing he does note
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in here, interestingly enough, is that her radio role ends
up in some confusion with various sources like newspaper articles
stating that she was the first actress to play Jane
on film, when in fact she didn't play in Tarzan
on film, but only on the radio, and not as Jane.
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As for Ralph Scott, who plays Darno, I can't find
a ton of information on him, and the Radio Gold
Index doesn't have any radio work for him. After nineteen
thirty eight, but he also played Darno in the Tarzan
of the Apes radio serial from nineteen thirty two that's
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lost and provided some continuity in that regard. Janette Nolan
as Magra is a fairly well known presence in old
time radio. Kind of amusingly, we associate Janette Nolan with
elderly women parts, but here we got to hear a
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very different side to her performance and range, particularly at
a much younger age. Victor Patel is kind of an
interesting choice. He played Larsen and this is the only
record of him working in radio I can find, but
he was a big character actor on film. He started
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working in the Silent Films and continued to make movies
right up until his death in nineteen forty seven. Final
film released in nineteen forty eight. Now, some of these
were more extra roles.
Speaker 11 (44:18):
But.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
He got his IMDb has four hundred and fifty roles
in it, which is pretty remarkable for someone who worked
exclusively before television became mainstream. Now will turn to the
cast of the series so far, and we do have
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returning cast other than Carlton Cadell and Ralph Scott providing
the continuity throughout the thirties. Long Time is played by
Say Kendall, who also played acton Tome in the last series.
Janette is played by Dale Nash. O'Rourke is played by
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Gil Gordon. Burton Ashley is played by Victor Rodman, who
played Wolf in the last serial. Now, Gail Gordon is
obviously not unfamiliar to our audience, as he was Flash
Gordon in our first series that we played on the
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Great Adventurers of All Time Radio. Of course, he's generally
known for his more authoritative roles like Osgood Conklin and
the second mister Mitchell on Dennis the Menace the TV series.
This is a different role. But I did say on
another podcast, The Amazing World of Radio, where we featured
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an episode of Burns and Allen where he played the
uproarious Texan mister Johnson, that that was the least Gail
Gordon role that I've heard Gail Gordon take, and I
still stand by that one. But this is definitely a
bit of a departure. Victor Rodman is just another one
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of those absolutely essential Hollywood character actors. He became associated
with Jack Webb, who actually made him one of the
two leads in the or one of the three leads,
I should say, in the TV series Noah's Arc, where
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he played one of two veterinarians with their secretary. But
beyond that, in kind of a bit of everything during
the Golden Age of radio and made some Postgolden Age
appearances on Heartbeat Theater. Again, some really great information in
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some insights in this series, and once again I do
tip my hat to erb Zine and I will include
links to both volumes thirty one forty and thirty one
forty one. Well, now it's time to thank our Patreon
supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead
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Graham signing off.
Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
going to bring you the start of a new Tarzan
Cereal and be sure to listen after the podcast for
some new details that I came across regarding the cast
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and some of the production information, not only on Fires
of Tour, but on the previous serial, The Diamonds of
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we turn to the Fires of Tour. The Fires of Tour.
The Fires of Tour was produced in nineteen thirty six.
Nobody's quite sure what the delay was, since the radio
serials were quite popular and profitable, although it was suggested
maybe they were just giving some time for the serial
(01:57):
to circulate and to see what the return bay from it.
So here are episodes one, two, and three. Expedition imperiled
Tarzan's timely arrival. An attack on the Yellow Creature.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
A hot red sun burns its swift way down through
the west, its broad orange shafts, painting in bold relief,
gray bowls of giant trees. Four whites, their bodies only
half covered by ragged, trail worn clothing, cut their way
through a dense mass of tangled underbrush and emerge into
a small natural clearing. Four exhausted whites, three men, and
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a young woman. All that remains of the once great
Burton Ashley Expedition, which left Nairobi many weeks back with
a long queue of AmaZulu fighting men, Swahili trackers, and
Uganda carriers to plunge into the trackless jungles of south
central Africa in search of the ancient and forgotten city
of tor. The little party consists of Major Burton Ashley,
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head of the Enterprise Burton, his American Ward Karen so
o' rourke, a happy go lucky adventurer, and the inscrutable
Chinese scientist doctor Wong Time. As they break through into
the clearing, the noises of the great jungle seem, for
the moment hushed to a mere echo of blurred sounds,
rising and falling like the surf on a remote shore.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
It's hot.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I think we've gone far enough for one. Dave camp
here in the morning.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
And in the morning, Uncle Jim, we'll cut our way
through more gender.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Ay the saints of the old side. Little of that
goes a long way.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
It's work for blacks, not for white Menary. I feel
as though I'd been cutting thorn bush through for ages.
At least, I'll admit, Uncle Jim, I am tired.
Speaker 8 (03:51):
You will do, my dear.
Speaker 9 (03:52):
You're as good a man as any others.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
Change Shine Poo Bahow, which means doctor one.
Speaker 10 (03:59):
It is anudism of the great Chinese philosopher kung fute.
Speaker 11 (04:04):
It means true gold.
Speaker 12 (04:06):
There is no fire, and it fits you like an
old shoe Workush.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Well, thanks to all you.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
Oh, but let's dispense with compliments long enough to make
some sort of camp, Uncle Jim, If you and tear,
you'll get wood for the fires, Doctor Wong and I
will start clearing away some of this brush. Come along, dar,
Doctor Wong, do you do you think we'll find our
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way out? We can't last very much longer on a
few supplies we have left.
Speaker 11 (04:39):
You are worried, my dear.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Frankly, I am, since we lost most of our supplies
and equipment and crossing.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
That river back there, and since the Safari deserted.
Speaker 10 (04:50):
I I'm afraid, afraid, But there is nothing to fear.
Other expeditions have experienced greater difficulties.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I suppose they have. Tell me, Frankly, Doctor One, are
we lost? Uncle Jim and Terry won't admit it.
Speaker 10 (05:05):
It is better to leave all things to their natural
course and not to interfere with our destiny.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
You're quibbling, Doctor One. You're chasing the devil around the bush,
which is a.
Speaker 10 (05:17):
Great deal better, my child, than letting him catch you.
We all seeing will surely guide our footsteps in the
right direction.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Well, he hasn't been very much on the job since
our safari walked out of it.
Speaker 10 (05:32):
Like, by a reasonable amount of activity on the part
of our protecting ancestors, we shall find our way back
to civilization eventually.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Eventually, with this handful of supplies.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Quite did all those unfortunate things have to happen to
just our expeditions?
Speaker 10 (05:50):
We shadow moves as the sun direct. We shall win
through and.
Speaker 12 (05:58):
You will fall and.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Terry, but the luck of the Irish almost fell into
a water hole within a few yards of the.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Clear well, thank Heaven for that.
Speaker 12 (06:07):
But where is he right here of courser with two
canteens to fresh water?
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Now, if you'll give me yours and wungs and they
mixed the water bags, I'll be going back and I'll
fill them up.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Good heavens, what was that?
Speaker 6 (06:24):
H twas only the cry of a hutton leopard of
Chryst who never heard a leopard sing out like that?
Speaker 9 (06:28):
Terry, a human voice out of that cry?
Speaker 10 (06:31):
It is sometimes difficult to distinguish the difference.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Leasure or York should know. Nevertheless, he's wrong this time?
Why Jove, I say, perhaps work close to anied in
may add Or village. I'm going out there to have
a lot.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Oh no, uncle Jim, don't go, please, I think there
was something weird menacing in that screen.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Please, Uncle Jim, don't go.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
Don't be foolish, my dear.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
If we've stumbled onto a village, we'll be able to
high guides to lead us out.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Of this infernal jungle.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
We have plenty of time to investigate. It won't be
dark for another.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Hour or two.
Speaker 9 (07:01):
Come on, Terry, we'll have a look.
Speaker 10 (07:02):
Say that call sounded as though it came from a
great distance measure, it might be better to wait until morning.
We will have more time than.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
To Jim, Terry, look, look there at the edge of
the clearing.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Well, what is it? I don't see anything.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
It's gone now. When Terry turned, it disappeared.
Speaker 11 (07:23):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
A chushler? What did you see?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
A face, a hideous yellow face was staring at me
from behind those bushes.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Face.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Yes, it looked like oh, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (07:35):
You are certain it was not that of some animal,
a lion perhaps, or leopard.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
No, no, no, I'm sure that it was a human
face repulses, yellow, hairless, its eyes glared at.
Speaker 12 (07:48):
A touch of the sun of morning, the reflection of
one of them trees.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Erry, I saw it plainly.
Speaker 9 (07:55):
Come on, Terry, we'll.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Soon find me.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
He'll be staying here with Jeanetta, Doctor Wong, Major Terry
or Art will be the one to do the investigating.
Speaker 12 (08:02):
I'll be back before dark. If I need you on
fire a couple of shots.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Be careful, Terry.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
The sinking sun beats diagonally into the purple mist of
the jungle. As a mile distant from the clearing the Mighty,
Tarzan and his friend Paul Darna, French naval lieutenant, make
their leisurely way along the shadowed forest path. Traveling alone
through the jungle, Tarzan and Darno are on their way
to investigate the activities of Arab slave traders in a
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distant territory.
Speaker 13 (08:44):
We're nearing a waterhole, Darnod. We'll camp there tonight.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
It has always been a mystery to meet Tarzan.
Speaker 14 (08:50):
How you find your way about in these trackless waste,
and yet always manage to locate water.
Speaker 13 (08:55):
Call it my animal instinct and let it go out
there you are, But Joki, now.
Speaker 14 (09:00):
When Ami may serious more, I believe you are right.
It can be nothing less than nd strength that guide
you through the song.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
Well, why not?
Speaker 13 (09:10):
I've lived all my life here simply that time at home,
as you are in Paris.
Speaker 14 (09:16):
Yet as often as I have been in the genre
with you, I still marvel at he seemingly impossive, retains.
Speaker 13 (09:22):
You to nothing impossible about it. My training has been
different from that of other men.
Speaker 11 (09:27):
That's all.
Speaker 13 (09:29):
That is all will be an Arkhmed's territory in three
or four days that the Speedword Traveling Act made.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
And do you think he is the man we are seeking?
Speaker 9 (09:38):
I believe so.
Speaker 13 (09:40):
He's a wildly old eagle, will let the tourney hand
do anything at a price.
Speaker 14 (09:45):
Monsieur le Commissionaire certainly was surprised when you mentioned Acmed
in connection with slave treading.
Speaker 13 (09:52):
I suppose that's why he didn't take much stock in
what I had to say.
Speaker 14 (09:55):
Yet, had it not been for your vast knowledge of
the Jongle, and you're wide a quant among the natives,
he would not have agreed to this investigation.
Speaker 13 (10:03):
You know, ac made only by reputation through the natives.
Slave trading, they say, is only one of his many sidelines.
Speaker 14 (10:12):
I suppose he is not averse to smuggling a little
library now and then.
Speaker 13 (10:17):
No, he cheats the swirlies out of it or deliberately
steals it from them. At least that's the rumor.
Speaker 14 (10:23):
A man who on the coast enjoys an unviable reputation
as the grand trader in ivory and specialized on of
the chieftains of the anterior, while inland he is merely an.
Speaker 13 (10:35):
Old teeth something like that. But unless you catch him
red handed, you're going to have a hard time proving
him guilty. One of those cunning, vulnerable old Mohammedans who.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Still yeah, what is he does?
Speaker 9 (10:49):
Smoke?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Not Shia, but you have the nose of a well
found Why I do not smelly.
Speaker 13 (10:55):
Coming down the wind from the direction of the waterhole.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
And probably a native hunting party or mayatta.
Speaker 13 (11:00):
Oh, I'd have got the scent of natives, or we'd
have heard the drums.
Speaker 14 (11:03):
If not native, then Caramangani white men a small camp.
No Safari white men along in the Jean garzan.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
No for raise, not unless.
Speaker 13 (11:14):
Unless their bearers have deserted, which does happen.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
We we say, wey, sir, we shall investigate Munami.
Speaker 13 (11:25):
Wait a minute, listen, new man Chita stalking human prey
between us and that camp. We'll take to the trees
from where we can see here.
Speaker 9 (11:39):
I'll carry you.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Swing gno to a broad shoulder. The ape man takes
to the trees and heads swiftly toward the sound. Meantime, O'Rourke,
having found and followed a set of strange footprints beside
the bush indicated by Jeanette, emerges abruptly into an elephant
track a quarter mile from the clearing. In the broad path,
the Prince vanish among those countless others made by the
beasts of the forest. The Irishman turns to retrace his
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steps the flash of a tawny shaped beside.
Speaker 13 (12:08):
The trail, a low, croty snarl.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
O'Rourke glances up into the glowing yellow eyes of a huge,
black maned lion crouched square in his path just above
the Irishman's head the low hanging branch of a juniper tree.
Throwing the sling of his rifle over his shoulder, he
leaps into the air, clawing fingers hook themselves about the branch.
With the nurse shaking raw, the lion hurls himself forward,
scrambling desperately o earth pulls himself on to the broad limb,
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and the beast hurtles through space bare inches below him.
A snarling cry from over his head causes the earth
to look up quickly. On a thick branch just above
him crouches the long lithe body of a starling lepper. Hastily,
the irishman unslings his rifle throws it to his shoulder.
The jungle terror launches itself upon him.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
With a scream of rage and pain.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
The wounded brute strikes or earth, knocking the rifle from
his hands. Together, man and beast hurdle to the ground below.
In the trail, the lion, with a savage roar, gathers
himself to spring upon the fallen man. Tarzan and Darnaud
drop down through the trees with busy speed the land
in the jungle path. Darnaud leaves the ape man's back,
unslings his rifle to face the wounded Lefford. With the
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near spring roar, the lion charges a mighty bound and
Tarzan clears the body of the confuser urk and lands
in the path between him and the canon rushing beasts.
As the lion charges, the ape man steps nimbly aside.
Before the brute can turn and gather himself for a
second charge, Tarzan leaps upon its back, his feet locked
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beneath the tawny bellet. With the speed of a striking snake,
A bronzed muscular arm whips around the huge neck. O'
ururk staggering to his feet and stares in stunned amazement
as the great beast tries desperately to free itself from
the cleaning man pain. Then Tarzan's long, keen bladed knife
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plunges again and again deep into the great heart well
the last choking snarl, the savage brute staggers sinks lifeless
to the ground.
Speaker 15 (14:17):
Ah, by the oh by, by the great saense of
the old side.
Speaker 14 (14:31):
Bravo Tarzan, encorn foy, you have you have done the
ample Sepra Sita.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
The leopard is dead, Munami.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
As dead as that LIONO the faith man, Who are you?
What sort of man are you that kills lions with
your fair hands?
Speaker 13 (14:47):
I am Tarzan of the apes.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Tazan of the have the apes made? You are not hurt?
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Monsieur No, I was only not dizzy when that panther
and me hit the ground together, but did did I here?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Right?
Speaker 14 (15:01):
Did this, gentleman, say, Tarzan of the Apes? He did
my pram and I am Paul Darnau. Get me more
on the navy of France.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Goury it.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
It's unbelievable if I hadn't seen it with my own
two eyes.
Speaker 12 (15:16):
Oh sure, I sure didn't.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Excuse me, gentlemen.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
I'm still a bit dizzy from before.
Speaker 9 (15:22):
My name's Terrence or Rock.
Speaker 13 (15:24):
What brought you out here in the jungles are far
from your camp alone?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
I was following a trail when that big devil he
killed put me up at three and and the panther
knocked me out of it again.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
May monsieur, you had a rifle, Why did you not
shoot the lepartas?
Speaker 6 (15:38):
And I did, but I hardly wounded him. He jumped,
knocked me on one way and me the other. If
it hadn't been for you, Tarzan of the Apes, Terry
or Rock could be playing a half for the devil
this night.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I'm thanking ye forget it?
Speaker 9 (15:56):
Where is your saphari Ah?
Speaker 6 (15:57):
The Black spell beans they deserted two weeks ago and
left the four of us to find our way out
of the juncle as best we could. Four of you,
Major Ashley, Miss Burton got the Wong tire a haythen
Chinese and.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Myself, Miss Burton. There is then a woman in your party.
Speaker 11 (16:14):
There is.
Speaker 13 (16:15):
The jungle is no place for a woman.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
And we all tried to make her see that, but
she wouldn't hear of it. She's got a mind of
her on, as you'll learn when you meet her. Now,
if we're to make camp before dark, we'd.
Speaker 14 (16:28):
Better start right. Come on, Daro the trail I was
following Tarzan.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I'd like Puddy to have a look at it.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
The sun dips behind the western hills, turning the azure
sky to a deep, velvety blue as the three men
vanish in the serried ranks of giant trees in the
little clearing, the great forest rising in ramparts of green
above them. Major Ashley, Jeanette and doctor Wong are anxiously
awaiting the return of Aro.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Polp, worrying about Terry Jeanette, he's certainly capable of looking
after himself.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
That he said he'd be back before dark. And those
shots we heard, there were two shots, Uncle Jem. When
he left, Terry said that he'd fired twice if he
needed help.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
But they were too far apart to have been a signal.
Speaker 10 (17:16):
If I am not mistaken, Major, those shots we heard
were not fired from the same rife as scream.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
That's the impression I received.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Won't then that hiddiest creature I saw must have been.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
Armed, but certainly enough with a modern sporting rifle, My dear.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
If he found that Terry was following him, Oh, uncle Jim,
Terry may be lying out there and the jungle wounded
or dead.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
We must look for him.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Cary is as jungle wise as any man I know, Jeanette,
He's not going to let himself be shot by a native.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
Don't worry. He'll show up presently.
Speaker 11 (17:47):
It is coming night to my child.
Speaker 10 (17:50):
In a few minutes it will be dark five faces
beyond the circular firelight.
Speaker 11 (17:55):
And you hear that the younger beasts prowl and hunt
at night.
Speaker 10 (18:04):
However, if by chance anything has happened to a rock,
he cannot be left there alone.
Speaker 11 (18:10):
I shall find him, but can't we all go?
Speaker 5 (18:13):
It will minimize the danger of it. Oh then, oh,
thank Heaven, there he is now, Terry, Jerry, are you
all right?
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Why there are two men with him?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
You can go gm that tall man with Terry. He's
wearing a leopard skin.
Speaker 11 (18:31):
Garden and carrying a bow and arrow and a rope.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Great Scott woman, what a marvelous specimen of manhood.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Amazing by the looks of your face as you were
expecting to see Terry or Rocks ghost.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Oh, Terry, we heard the shots and you're not wounded.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Oh if you can call a dirty bump on the
head of wound, I'm all right. But if it hadn't
been for this gentleman of Cooshla, Terry or Rock would
be worse than wound.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
It.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Let me present Lieutenant Dano of the French Navy and
Tarzan of the of the Apes, Miss Burton, Major Ashley,
and doctor Juan Thai, gentlemen, a.
Speaker 9 (19:12):
Most surprising occurrence.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Gentlemen wrote trails a savage and returns with two white men.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
How did you accomplish it, Darren?
Speaker 11 (19:19):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
By Gary, I ain't shown myself yet.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
I was following that fellow Jeannette Sar when when a
lion put me up a tree. A minute later I
fell out of it with a leopard around my neck.
Then these two gentlemen dropped down out of the sky.
The Lieutenant shot the leopard and Tarzan killed the lion
with a knife.
Speaker 11 (19:39):
Killed a lion with a knife, I.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Said, with a knife.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
If I hadn't seen it with me on two eyes,
I'll well, i'd be calling myself a liar. By the crash,
mon patoor me Monsieur tells us that your safarine deserted
you some time ago.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
You are doubtful as to your present location.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
In other words, are we los frankly, Lieutenant, we are.
Our instruments, compasses, et cetera, along with practically all of
our food supplies, are in the Kilndina River. Two weeks
ago we attempted a cross while the river was in plood.
And your carriers why did they leave you?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Ah them black can It was something about it taboo.
Speaker 10 (20:16):
It was probably because of our intention to entery country,
which was taboo to the natives.
Speaker 13 (20:21):
You lost your equipment before you entered this country.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
Yes, we had not fully decided to continue. The matter
was under discussion.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
You see, gentlemen, we were convinced that we were close
to our destinations, at least near the territory in which
our goals had to be located. We didn't wish to
turn back without making an attempt to entertain if our
maps and information were direct.
Speaker 13 (20:41):
Where were you going?
Speaker 14 (20:42):
What were you looking for a place known as the
city of paw the city of two order. I have
never heard of this, Abutaza.
Speaker 13 (20:51):
No, you say you had maps of the region, Major, Yes,
but they were lost along with our other things.
Speaker 10 (20:56):
You know Africa the jungle, well, mischief Taizan, Tarzan is enough.
Speaker 13 (21:03):
Yes, I know the jungle fairly.
Speaker 11 (21:05):
Well.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Oh, then you can tell us where we are.
Speaker 13 (21:07):
You are at least three weeks hard travel from the
nearest point of civilization white men week and three or
four days from the closest native village.
Speaker 12 (21:16):
Even that will be too far for the supplis.
Speaker 11 (21:18):
We still have which.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Direction had you been traveling, Major Ashley t west, hoping
to strike a river that would take us to Lake Tanganyika.
Speaker 13 (21:25):
Tanganyika is a long way from here. Northwest. We'd better
go with us. We're headed in an opposite direction. But
you'll reach a native village in three or four days.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
We'll accept your author Tarzan, of course, and thanks your
kindly arrival will certainly relieved the situation. Your safaris camped
near here.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
We have no safaris, you mean, Tarzan, You are traveling
alone through this wilderness just you too, Yes, but where
you can to protect yourself from the animals, where you
get your food.
Speaker 13 (21:53):
The animals don't annoy us, Miss Berkland.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Ten, gentlemen, you'll remain with us, or rather we shall
join you and place ourselves in your hands.
Speaker 9 (22:01):
You will accept the leadership of our little party, tam.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Yes, well that's a relief, now, Terry.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
If you'll put some more wood on the fire, I'll
see what I can find, and this stuff for our stafond.
Speaker 12 (22:12):
Sure, a cushler. I'll have the fire going just in
a minute.
Speaker 10 (22:15):
Listen, that's strange.
Speaker 11 (22:20):
Cry again.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
It makes my flesh creep. It sounds so so stressening.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
That is the second time today, Tarizan, we have there?
Or what do you make of it? Mnami?
Speaker 13 (22:32):
Nothing, as I told you this afternoon, I've never heard
it before today.
Speaker 12 (22:36):
Name for Prince.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
I Showgi the ones I followed out there in the jungle,
half human, but two great talents instead of toys.
Speaker 12 (22:43):
But but I never caught sight of the spell team
that made them.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Good.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
It sounds close.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
It only a few minutes after we heard it this
afternoon that I saw that awful face watching behind you.
Speaker 10 (22:58):
Tasan at the edge of the searing Oh Uncle's jim.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
What an awful looking creature.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
The men about the fire leaped to their feet and
turned to the spot indicated by Jeanette. Advancing into the
circle of firelight slowly, cautiously. Is a monstrous being, its
skin a bright saffron. The repulsive creature's thickly muscled body,
naked except for a loin cloth made from the height
of some animal, is as devoid of hair as a
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slab of marble. Its feet terminate in two strong, talon
like claws. Small red, wicked eyes fixed gloatingly upon Jeanette,
glitter evily from beneath a low flattened cranium. The great
protruding jaw, with its wide mouth and thick, slappering lips,
is thrust savagely forward in its left hand. The awten
creature carries a twisted cudgel, in its right a heavy
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copprobated spear. As the men about the fire leap to
their feet, the yellow skinned creature pauses, bears savagely a Tarzan.
Speaker 11 (23:54):
Who steps to meet it.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Before the Frenchman can complete his warning, the half human
thing bounds forward with a blood curdling shriek and hurls
a heavy spears straight at the ape Man. Simultaneously with
his answering challenge. Tarzan drops to the ground, as though
struck down by an invisible Titanic fist. The deadly spear
flashes harmlessly over his shoulder without holding its blind rush.
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The gigantic creature swings the cudgel at the ape Man's head.
Swift as thought, Tarzan rolls aside. His hand darts out
to grasp the monster's talon foot with a howl of
savage rage. The half human group crashes to its knees.
Before it has time to regain its feet, Tarzan leaps
upon its back a bronze muscular arm and circles the
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yellow neck.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
The great hairless head is pulled backward.
Speaker 14 (24:52):
The ape Man's knife flashes buries itself deep in the
heavy throat.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
The strang He will scream.
Speaker 14 (25:01):
The yellow monstrosity falls forward, SAgs to the ground dead.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
Ah, gems the old girl. It's all over a cursher.
Speaker 10 (25:22):
Incredible, the creature twice the size of Kaizan.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
But you are hurting on me. There is blood on
your shoulder.
Speaker 13 (25:30):
Not mine.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
I'm going to the waterhole to watch it all be curry.
That's the way he killed the lion that had me
marked for its supper.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
There was blood, your friend, lieutenant, he's hurtles.
Speaker 14 (25:41):
The tronk came Madmoiselle. Tarzan was not even scratched. He
will return presently again.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
What a sight I thought that spear had passed completely
through him when he fell.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
And the frightful shriek he gave when he killed that day.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
It was the same cry he gave when he killed
the lion that had me tread. What does he mean, Lieutenant?
Speaker 14 (26:00):
It is the victory cry of the great Apes, the
great Apes.
Speaker 11 (26:06):
What do you men?
Speaker 14 (26:08):
Just that mosiella, doctor you see and possible as it sounds,
Tarzan was taken by the apes when he was an aphane,
raised by a she ape who had lost her own baby.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Through living his entire life in the jungle, he.
Speaker 14 (26:22):
Has learned by experience how to cope with it and
its inhabitants.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
You mean he was brought up at the apes, He lived.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
With Mademoiselle, just Moosa.
Speaker 14 (26:34):
He has learned to live and protect himself, as do
the wild beasts of the genre.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Unbelievable, they won't an.
Speaker 10 (26:42):
Utterly amazing example of the influence of environment.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
And yet one of the handsomest men I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Ray Mademoiselle.
Speaker 10 (26:53):
He is a perfect type of the strongly masculine isla,
a creature almad anticipation or brutal or degrading passion. But Lieutenant,
he speaks rather good English.
Speaker 11 (27:07):
How did he learn it?
Speaker 14 (27:09):
It was not until he had grown to young man
with that he saw his first white man or woman.
He found a little party of whites shipwrecked on a
desolate part of the African coast. I joined the party later.
It was from them that he first learned to speak English.
And he has never been out of the jungle. Knows
nothing of our civilization.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Or Hong Kong. Pre Monsieur majour.
Speaker 14 (27:30):
He has seen Paris, London, New York, money places, but
he does not appreciate our so called centras of civilization.
He much preferre his jungle and its savage denizen.
Speaker 11 (27:42):
His ancestors, his father and mother. Does he not know
who they were?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Mabe? His parents were Lord and Lady greg Stock. What's that?
The gray Stooks of gray Stook manner?
Speaker 14 (27:54):
They were Britian Louis Missius, Sir Tarzan is Lord grey Stock, however,
he feels is to be known by any other name
than Tarza.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
That's the most amazing thing I've ever heard. The great
Stokes dropped out of sight. Years ago, if I remember rightly,
Grey Stoke had been commissioned by the Foreign Office to
investigate slave trading in a British West Coast African colony.
Speaker 9 (28:17):
They disappear a.
Speaker 14 (28:18):
Major Here he comes equity may I susues that the
discussion be dropped, at least in his presence. He does
not care to speak of it, nor of his past
life in the young Abierre Parva.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
Where have you been blaring?
Speaker 13 (28:34):
There's nothing more to fear from those fellows. He is
the only one who was near the waterhole.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Jeanette, my dear, Does this this creature look anything like
the one who saw this afternoon?
Speaker 7 (28:43):
Yes, although I only caught a glimpse of its face
watching me through the fringe of underdash, I'm sure it's
the same.
Speaker 10 (28:49):
Airstually, did you happen to notice the feet of this
I suppose it might be called a man the heel,
and in step of a human being, it tools well
of an animal.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
He carries them clare feet would fit the footprints I followed.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
You saw them, Tazan, What do you make of them?
Speaker 13 (29:09):
I'd say you were right, Prince. You showed Dana and
me were probably made by this man or another like him.
Speaker 10 (29:15):
Even your younger experienced tarzan. Have you ever come across
other beings such as this?
Speaker 14 (29:21):
No?
Speaker 11 (29:22):
Have you ever seen a leopard man?
Speaker 9 (29:25):
Yes?
Speaker 13 (29:26):
Once or twice?
Speaker 3 (29:26):
I you're backing up the round three doctor.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
If you're trying to put this fellow among the leopard man, ye,
those Talon like Claud them leopard fellows are blacks cannibals,
but their human beings. This crater is neither a human
nor animal. He has the body of a man, the
tois of a vulture. Look at him, Talons, you never
saw a fur bearing animal with toys like that.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Well, wherever it is, you're not going to leave it
here in camp for.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Us to look at faith, and it's anything but a
pretty site.
Speaker 9 (29:53):
I'll be burying it.
Speaker 13 (29:54):
That's not necessary a rock. Leave it to me. I'll
return it to the jungle. I'm morning will have taken
care of it.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
Dango, who's death listen.
Speaker 13 (30:04):
Hyenas, Yes, Dongo, he and his brothers are already gathering
for the feast.
Speaker 11 (30:11):
Franks comprehend.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
You don't mean they'll eat it?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Yes, Oh, I'll give you a hand.
Speaker 13 (30:17):
Tis how stay here, I'll take care of it.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Hey, And did you see how is he picked using up?
And it wain again as much as its own self.
Be guardy that fella has the strength of ten good men.
Speaker 14 (30:30):
And may I assuse yest Nodemoiselle Berton, that if we
are to get an early start in the morning, you
get what sleep you can.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Oh, I can't sleep, Lieutenant, not after all it's happened.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Come, come, my dear Seutenant Dana is right. You've had
a rather eventful day of it.
Speaker 13 (30:45):
You need rest, Terry and Wong and I will stand
God with Tara.
Speaker 14 (30:48):
Will be no need for that, Majieur Tarzan, and I
shall relieve you of that duty tonight. It is easy
to see that you are all exhausted in need of sleep.
But you and Tarzan sleeps like an animal machine, a
doctor long with one eye. Open ourself to speak, and
where I am not fatigued. We are traveled by easy stages,
(31:11):
have not tired ourselves by cutting our way through beforeest
he'll be sleeping like.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
A baby, not I'm a cooshler here. I'll fix your brankage.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Very well then, But for those lions and things roaring
and shrieking out there, I certainly don't expect to get.
Speaker 14 (31:25):
Much sleep so long as Tarzana is watching over the camp. Mademoiselle,
you need not worry about the animals. None will disturb you.
Speaker 11 (31:33):
Well.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Good night.
Speaker 11 (31:34):
And when Tarzan said that we.
Speaker 10 (31:40):
Might reach a native village in three days, lieutenant, did
he have any particular one in mind?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
The mayotta of an acquaintance of our stuff?
Speaker 14 (31:50):
Two one ashmade a trader in Shall I say I
have already?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
He will finish you with guides.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Then Tarzan must be familiar with the section strange He's
never heard of.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
The city of tour Mommasieur.
Speaker 14 (32:04):
Africa is filled with legends of loss and ancient cities.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Tazana and I.
Speaker 14 (32:09):
Have seen several as made village is beyond this section
of the country. And Tarzan is not familiar with this
particular district, then how.
Speaker 12 (32:18):
In Heaven's name does he know where he is anymore
than widow?
Speaker 14 (32:21):
How did he find his way? He calls it his
animal instinct. He has an uncanny sense of direction. And
I have never seen him as it it for a
single instanse in going directly to the place he wishes
to reach.
Speaker 9 (32:34):
I wonder what's keeping him out there? He's been gone
a long time.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
He will return when it ah. Ye, there he is
up there in the three garry. Whill you look at that?
He swings down through them branches like a young ape.
Speaker 9 (32:47):
Well, Tarzan, you had us worried. We were just about
to VISI a sleep.
Speaker 13 (32:52):
Yes, why listen drums by John Weakens Birds Book.
Speaker 11 (32:57):
What does that?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
No time to explain?
Speaker 9 (32:59):
Now?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
What shanift? Shonnift? Wake up?
Speaker 14 (33:04):
What what is it?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Don't be frightened, child? We're breaking camp?
Speaker 9 (33:09):
I believe is that it, Tarzan?
Speaker 13 (33:11):
Yes, we're taking to the trees. I fix the place
that's what kept me so long. Break camp and leave
nothing lying around. Putout that fire, Darno, and come all
of you here, Miss Burton with me now, stay close together.
Speaker 14 (33:28):
Followed by the others, Tarzan strides off into the impenetrable
gloom of the jungle. Five hundred paces from the teering,
He pauses beneath a giant podocarplass tree.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Here these vines are twisted together, easy to climb. I'll
go first with Miss Burton. Climb slowly and make as
little noise as possible.
Speaker 14 (33:47):
Come on slowly, easily, carrying Jeanette and he's left arm.
Tarzan mounts the twisted vines awkwardly but steadily.
Speaker 13 (33:56):
The four men follow.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Fifty feet above the ground, the ape man breaks through
a massive, dense foliage and steps onto a platform constructed
themitter woven limbs and branches. He puts Janette down and
turns to help the others. Presently all are gathered together
about them, a thick wall of tangled leaves and matted vegetation.
Above the jungle chorus of the night, and beneath the
(34:18):
crystal stars comes the distant flooding of drums.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Welcome back. So we'll talk about the episode and the
overall setup of the story, and then we'll get into
the cast information. Now, this is a very different start
in a lot of ways, and in some ways it
was not as interesting because a lot of it is exposition.
(34:47):
Now it's very similar in one way and that we're
dealing with another law civilization story, but the structure is
very different because we're getting a lot of just exposition
to tell us what has happened, rather than events, Even
though it's not a perfect analogy. In the Diamonds of
(35:11):
a Shure, you didn't get this sort of lost party,
forlorn and abandoned by their bearers until after episode fifteen,
and we talked about how with the Diamond of Ashore
you had essentially the first eighteen parts were build up
(35:34):
set up in Jungle adventure, and then the middle three
parts were abridged, and then the next eighteen parts were
lost city adventures. But here we're already starting to get
into some of the weird stuff in episode three by
speeding along the introduction. Whether this is going to work
(35:55):
out long term, I guess is something to see. First
impression is is that these set of characters will smaller,
don't necessarily come off as lockable as the Gregory Party,
perhaps because it is a situation where they are hunting
a lost city and it's a little harder to get
(36:17):
emotionally invested as opposed to the Gregory's real family motives.
It also probably doesn't help much that we get introduced
to them whining as they walk through the jungle, though
I guess for understandable reasons. Now there also is a
key change in toursan It reflects a kind of passage
(36:40):
of time, perhaps because the previous Cereal had Tarzan in
Luongo and after his very first adventures, which were adapted
to radio in the nineteen thirty two toursan Cereal which
is about two thirds missing, which we didn't end up playing.
(37:03):
And here you have Darnold talking about Tarzan having seen
all of these sort of big world capital cities, but
nevertheless preferring the jungle. And this puts Tarzan on the
radio in line with the character as Edgar Rice Burrows
(37:26):
was writing him in the books. As Tarzan in the
books had widely traveled in civilization over the course of
many novels that just hadn't been adapted to radio. Now
let's go ahead and talk about the cast. We spent
a lot of time with the Diamond of a Shore,
and I do want to go ahead and get through
(37:50):
that cast. Now, there's a quote here from and I
want to go ahead and cite my sources. It is
Bill and Sue op Hillman's erb zine, which list itself
as the official Edgar Rice Burroughs tribute and weekly webzine
(38:14):
site since nineteen ninety six. So the very first year
I got on the Internet, so I definitely respect them,
and this is just some great stuff that I found
that they put out. And these are in volumes three
to one, four zero and three to one four one,
(38:35):
and they have this quote from Burrows. There is one
factor that may have more effect on reducing book sales
than any number of depressions, and that is radio, to
which we are looking for far greater returns than our
book royalties ever brought us. Already with two programs, we
are netting more than we do from the sale of
(38:57):
all our books, which take in connection with the fact
that there are hundreds of similar programs on the air,
suggests that people are taking their fiction this way instead
of through books. So interesting quote. And the cast from
the Diamonds of Ashore, in addition to Carlton Cadell as
(39:21):
Tarzan playing Donald, was Ralph Scott. Helen was played by
Corrina Shields, Gregory by George Turner, Magra by Jeanette Nolan.
Now that's a familiar name atting Tom cy Kendall Loald
(39:41):
Tosk Don Wilson, and I assume this to be the
same Donald Wilson who was also the announcer on the
Charlie Chan series. That we played a couple years back
on Great Detectives as opposed to The Man with Jack
b Wolf, Victor Rodman, Larson, Victor Potel, and Mitchell was
(40:07):
played by Fred Harrington, and the narrator was John McIntyre.
So let's talk a little bit about the cast now.
Corrina Shields was an actress and she was also the
wife of director Fred Shields. And up until last year
there was very little available on the Internet. And I
(40:31):
am indebted to David Wills, writing on his substack, who
wrote a very fascinating article about Herry. He learned about
her through his research of Alan Ginsburg, who she helped.
And here I quote from his overview to give the
(40:53):
barest highlights. As a shameless hook to keep you reading,
I will say that Corina Shields earned at least four degrees,
including a medical doctorate, was an actress, director and playwright,
was an aviator and explorer, made important scientific discoveries and
a wide range of disciplines, including archaeology, anthropology, and medical science,
(41:16):
specifically in the field of tropical disease and mind history.
Owned a large chocolate plantation in the Jungles of Mexico.
Provided free medical care for indigenous people, while also attempting
to spread awareness of the richness of their culture. Was
a successful writer of novels, children's books, magazine articles, and
(41:38):
scholarly monographs. Had the same publisher as Jack Curoc, was
represented by Alan Ginsburg as literary agent, and was a
respected educator, traveling widely to lecture on her various areas
of expertise. Now it should be said she did pretty
much get tired of the acting things and so retired
(42:01):
from that to do all of this, and in many
ways she had her own adventures, including references to looking
for loss civilizations that come close to making her seem
almost fictional. And I will include a link to this
great article on Substack. Now, one thing he does note
(42:22):
in here, interestingly enough, is that her radio role ends
up in some confusion with various sources like newspaper articles
stating that she was the first actress to play Jane
on film, when in fact she didn't play in Tarzan
on film, but only on the radio, and not as Jane.
(42:45):
As for Ralph Scott, who plays Darno, I can't find
a ton of information on him, and the Radio Gold
Index doesn't have any radio work for him. After nineteen
thirty eight, but he also played Darno in the Tarzan
of the Apes radio serial from nineteen thirty two that's
(43:08):
lost and provided some continuity in that regard. Janette Nolan
as Magra is a fairly well known presence in old
time radio. Kind of amusingly, we associate Janette Nolan with
elderly women parts, but here we got to hear a
(43:31):
very different side to her performance and range, particularly at
a much younger age. Victor Patel is kind of an
interesting choice. He played Larsen and this is the only
record of him working in radio I can find, but
he was a big character actor on film. He started
(43:59):
working in the Silent Films and continued to make movies
right up until his death in nineteen forty seven. Final
film released in nineteen forty eight. Now, some of these
were more extra roles.
Speaker 11 (44:18):
But.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
He got his IMDb has four hundred and fifty roles
in it, which is pretty remarkable for someone who worked
exclusively before television became mainstream. Now will turn to the
cast of the series so far, and we do have
(44:41):
returning cast other than Carlton Cadell and Ralph Scott providing
the continuity throughout the thirties. Long Time is played by
Say Kendall, who also played acton Tome in the last series.
Janette is played by Dale Nash. O'Rourke is played by
(45:03):
Gil Gordon. Burton Ashley is played by Victor Rodman, who
played Wolf in the last serial. Now, Gail Gordon is
obviously not unfamiliar to our audience, as he was Flash
Gordon in our first series that we played on the
(45:23):
Great Adventurers of All Time Radio. Of course, he's generally
known for his more authoritative roles like Osgood Conklin and
the second mister Mitchell on Dennis the Menace the TV series.
This is a different role. But I did say on
another podcast, The Amazing World of Radio, where we featured
(45:46):
an episode of Burns and Allen where he played the
uproarious Texan mister Johnson, that that was the least Gail
Gordon role that I've heard Gail Gordon take, and I
still stand by that one. But this is definitely a
bit of a departure. Victor Rodman is just another one
(46:07):
of those absolutely essential Hollywood character actors. He became associated
with Jack Webb, who actually made him one of the
two leads in the or one of the three leads,
I should say, in the TV series Noah's Arc, where
(46:29):
he played one of two veterinarians with their secretary. But
beyond that, in kind of a bit of everything during
the Golden Age of radio and made some Postgolden Age
appearances on Heartbeat Theater. Again, some really great information in
(46:51):
some insights in this series, and once again I do
tip my hat to erb Zine and I will include
links to both volumes thirty one forty and thirty one
forty one. Well, now it's time to thank our Patreon
supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead
(47:12):
and think James June of twenty sixteen, currently supporting the
podcast at the secret Agent level of four dollars or
more per month. Thanks so much for your support, James,
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