July 24, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hello, you gone to eight two nine? Yes, this is
Candy Madson.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
The National Broadcasting Company presents Candy Matson. You con two
eight two oh nine?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Candy, Candy over here?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
What?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Why? Marah Fisher? What are you doing here in a
department store with your work clothes on?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I work here, dear, I'm a wage slave.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Well I must say on you it looks good. What
do you slave that.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I'm head of advertising and promotion? Well quite a spot,
hey girl, Now it was until this morning. Oh now
my neck is in the fire.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
What do you do forget to proof read one of.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Your nothing so trivial?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Dear? Believe me?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
But am I glad to have bumped into you?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Maybe you'll change your mind when I tell you I've
been shoplifting.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
No, I'm serious, Candy. Could you spare a moment come
on up to my office.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
My sure, and wipe that frown from off your brow.
It's wrinkling your makeup.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Well, yours would wrinkle. Two if you had a missing
Santa Claus helper on your hands.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, well, now there's a situation. And it almost broke
Candy Matson's heart when someone told her there was no
Santa Claus's helper one Jack Frost. Listen here she is
now to tell you about it.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
That's right what the man said. I ran into a
deal where we had a missing Santa Claus helper, Jack Frost.
The jet with the icicles was supposed to talk to
the tiny tots of the Brownstone, one of San Francisco's
larger and classier department stores. I had gone down there
that afternoon shopping. I wanted a bow tie for my
old pal, Inspector Ray Mall out of the San Francisco
Police Department, a bow tie that lit up and felled
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cossack when you pressed the button on the battery. That
was when I bumped into this Galmyra Fisher. He went
up to her office on the sixth floor, and she
sat me down. Cigaretted me too.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
You think I'm fooling about this Jack Frost thing, don't you, Candy.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Well, now, look, dear, we all have our little peccadillos.
Yours just nearly happens to be a missing Jack Frost.
You'll get over it.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I refrain from hurling this ashtray at you, Candy, only
because of our long acquaintance.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Good.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Now, listen to me. We've had a Santa Claus Helper
here for almost a month, and a darned good one.
The kids were crazy about him. This morning he didn't show.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
You don't suppose Jackie Boy got in the mood and
caught the Christmas pant Do you the kind that comes
in pints?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
No, he wasn't that sort of Joe.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
When your answer is simple, hire a new one.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
They're hired through an agency I call the one we
do business with, and they're fresh out of Jack Frost's
and I've got to get one, Candy, otherwise I come
down ten notches in the opinion of the brass.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I don't want you to think I'm unsympathetic, Mara, but
what can I do?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
You get around? You know people find me somebody, anybody
who'll take over the job of being Jack Frost.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Well, okay, I'll do the best I can. Marra Candy,
you're a dear, Yeah, one of Santa's DearS. Okay, I'll
try and find you a Jack Frost Marrow, but don't
hold it against me if he turns out to look
more like Humpty Dumpty. I went home and looked up
the Webster definition of saw. It said sawt easily yielding
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the pressure that was me candy mats and girl dope here.
I had all my Christmas shopping to do, and I
agree to find the substitute Jack Frost. I had no
idea where to start, so I changed into something red
and green for a stop and go also for Christmas,
and went over to see my friendly advisor, rem Brandt Watson.
Rem brand is a photographer and excellent too, now that
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he doesn't have the sherry shivers or the port palsies.
He lives on California Street, just kitten rumpers from old
Saint Mary's with a statue of sun yat Sen for
company in a park next door.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
And I'm delightful to come in, won't you?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Thanksd O Pett.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
You're acquitted with my friend Diogenes Murphy.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
An oh yes, hello again, mister Murphy is good afternoon.
Lest you look pretty near to the left time I saw.
Oh here comes the blarning young lady.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Diogenes Murphy. The honest irishman never says the world It
doesn't mean now how do you think I managed to
sell some many used cars that be placed out on Vannas.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Alue Because you're an honest irishman Oh.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
You're so right there.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Incidentally, if you need a good car, I can get
you one of the very reasonable eagenies. Oh sorry, I
got carried away.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I didn't mean to bargein.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
And you like this, rem Brand, non'll be ridiculous, Da, No,
don't be thinking nothing of it.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Last I'm on the way now.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Rem Brand and I were only discussing the situation of
the world.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
And to what conclusion did you come It.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Stinks the bottom of the afternoon to the boss of you.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Oh he's quite a boy.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Yes, I'm very fond of diagenes. What brings you around
this video, Jack Frost? Yes, now getting on with all conversation.
What brings you around this radio?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Jack Frost?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Maybe the needle's bad? Shall we try again?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I know how you feel. I reacted the same way myself.
I'll give you the pocket sized edition the brown Stone
Department Stores without a Santa Claus Helper Jack Frost. He
didn't show up for work this morning. I said I'd
find him a new one.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
That's fairly sweet of you, Dove.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Very dumb of me, Dove. I know of only one
character who even remotely looks like Jack Frost. I met
him up in Alaska when I was traveling with the USO.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Won't do you much good down here with it?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
No, that's why I came to see you. Reun bred.
Don't you keep a cross file on models you've used
in photography?
Speaker 5 (05:31):
As a matter of fact, I do here in this
little book. Let's see men thin extremely, I have just
one Pietro Tarantello. Would you care for a Sicilian Jack
Frost in Sicily?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yes? Hey? What's there? Well on that chair next to you, Oh,
that's the afternoon paper.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
Dear Diugini's left it, I imagine, yes, but on the
front page.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Here's the whole story about the missing Jack Frost on
the front page. Oh what he got in his Christmas?
Talking a slug through the head. That's no way to
treat Jack Frost. And here's a picture of the guy
without his fault icicles.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
What the ham looks like?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
He stepped right out of an eighteen ninety Shakespearean play.
I hate to say this, Mbred, but he resembles you.
I take back what I said, Rembrandt Devoch yourself from
that tone of voice, Candy, I.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Don't like it.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Brand I've got an idea you usually do you like
little children? Them. Do you like to talk to people?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
I have conversation.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
You'd like to be charming?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Boss me charm gay, lost me gay.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
With the help of a few icicles, Duckie, you're going
to be Jack Fross, Rembrandt thought, he argued. He paced
the floor, he had the vapors. He fainted. I brought
him to I won the argument. I got my friend
Mayra Fisher on the phone and informed her that one R.
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Watson would assume the role of Jolly Jack Frost on tomorrow.
She was delighted. I couldn't say the same for rembrand
Then I went home. I was greeted by a sound
very much like that of a phone ringing. Using my
keen instincts, so I figured it was the phone. It
was Hello, Candy Madson.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
How do you do, miss Madison? Allow me to introduce myself.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Allowed.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
My name is Burke. Brendis Burke. I'm the first assistant
vice president of.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
The round Stone Roundstone. Yes, that's a store of some
kind isness.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (07:26):
Now the reason for my call there has been, shall
I say, rather unfortunate occurrence in our store today.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
So I read I need the help of.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
A professional salut You were highly recommended by the head
of our advertising department, Miss my Ruficia.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Uh the sick button. I beg your pardon, No, no
need do you didn't do anything? Okay, here to talk
to me now, mister Burke.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I'd much rather have you come down to my office,
Miss Patson. This matter is of an extremely confidential nature.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I'm your girl. Then, figuratively speaking, how long will you
be there?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
As long as necessary? That's up to you.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Very well, I'll be there in half an hour if
I find a paste apart. I only had time for
a fast change, so I made it from Anderes Gray
to Taboo. I sniffed at it and felt I was
on the right send. Then I climbed in my car.
I drove down Carney Street, waved a crisp single under
the nose of a hotel doorman, and had my car
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taken care of. Then into the Brownstone and up to
mister Prendis Burke's office. I flipped a hip past the
girl's secretary and walked on in. Burke was waiting for me.
That was obvious. I could tell by the expression on
his face. It was worried. Look number twelve B. How
do you do mister Burke.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
I'm Candy mets Oh sit down, won't you?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Thank you? Now? Our subject is what a man named
Jordan that's on another network. I beg your pardon now
about this Jordan.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Yes, Sir Ralph Jordan, to be exact.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Well, that's a relief for a moment. I thought you
wanted to talk about Jack Frost.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
That's just it.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
He was Jack Frost, Oh me and my big mouve.
He was working here up until yesterday afternoon, and maybe
you read about it. He was found shocked today.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yes, yes, I read about it.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
That's the reason I've called you.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Why didn't you have your own store detectives take over,
mister burt.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
No, No, that would never do.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
I want no one in the store to know what's
going on.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Intrigue.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
Quite possibly, I have reason to suspect that Jordan was
killed by someone in our employee. I want to find
out who that someone was before the police do and
get it splashed all over the.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Front pages publicity. Can't you say?
Speaker 8 (09:29):
Well, business has been off a whole year and any
bad breaks in the press would hurt us that much more.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Maybe you've got a point there. I don't know. I
know I have okay, I'll take the job. You say
you have a suspicion. What is it?
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Well, nothing tangible, It's just a feeling I have.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Oh that's a big help. Well, I'll mush round and
see what I can pick up. I'll bill you tomorrow
for my first day's work. It's much easier to sustain
a friendship on a day basis. I left Burke looking
as though someone had just called his store a bizarre
It was closing time, so I hefted my way through
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the crush and retrieved my car from the doorman. The
Hall of Justice is right on my way home, so
I decided to drop in on my old Palm Mallard,
Inspector Ray Mallard of San Francisco Homicide. A nice guy
to serve coffee two on Sunday mornings. If you could
ever last you in, I never could get strong enough.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Rope Tandy, what brings you around here?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I hate to have my Christmas ruined so early. What
about that Jack Frost character?
Speaker 9 (10:33):
Oh yeah, poor guy got a good Where'd you find
him in his apartment over on seventeenth He lived near
Seal Stadium?
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Why so interested?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Kenny Rembrandt's a dead ringer for the guy.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
I still don't get the.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Girl who's head of advertising for the Brownstone was going
out of her head for another Jack Frost. I talked
Rembrand into taking the job. Oh does sound funny? Doesn't
ring me up to date? Mellie, Did you get any
dope on the killing?
Speaker 9 (10:57):
Nothing but a forty five slug out of the guy's wall.
Ballistics is checking it now.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Nothing else.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
If I did, I should tell you no, No, I
guess not.
Speaker 9 (11:06):
This goes beyond just a normal curiosity. Candy, what are
you drilling for?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh, it's only that I'm worried about Rainbred. I got
him the job. I'm responsible. I wouldn't want anything to
happen to him.
Speaker 9 (11:17):
Ask the silly question, Mallard, and you get a silly answer. Okay,
let's forget it. How's about dinner tonight?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I thought this thing long enough? Okay?
Speaker 9 (11:26):
Uh, Candy, Yes, we've known each other a good long time,
haven't we.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
It's right.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
Every since the Fair and Treja Allen, we've had our
little quarrels, little misunderstanding.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Oh, they never see the last long No duty.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
No, That's why I feel I have every right to
ask you a question.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Wait, yes, i'd say, you do, Mallard.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Maybe I'll ask you tonight.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
No, no, go ahead. Not as good a time as any.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Perhaps it is Candy.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
You get around a lot, you meet people. Do you
know where I can get a couple of tickets to
the Rose Bowl game?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
My brain lit up like a Roman candle high storm
for the door, turned back, stood there, my jaw waggling helplessly,
and I stuck my tongue out at Mellard and left.
It was the only thing I could think of doing. Oh,
he can make me so mad. But inside half an
hour after I got home, I started to last. It
felt much better. Just as I was puttering around getting
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ready the apartment, buzzer buzz He had Mallard much too early.
But I was wrong. It wasn't Mellard. Well, Mora, what
a surprise. Do come in, won't you?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
No thanks, Candy. A friend of mine's waiting in his
car outside. He's driving me home.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh, I'm sorry, you can't stay for a moment.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Oh my dear, I just dropped by to leave. This
merely a little token of thanks for getting me off
the hook.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Oh Mayra that there wasn't a need to do that,
just a.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Few pair of old stockings. Dear, getting me my new
jack frost means more than you know here. Please take
them along with my very deepest thing.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Thanks so much. A girl can always use them. Are
you all sat with my friend mister Watson.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Yes, he came in this afternoon and filled out his
withholding tax and so on. Very nice.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I think you'll find him very efficient.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Mara.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Oh, what's the matter.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Pardon me?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I didn't mean to frighten you, oh Mallard.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Silly of me. I must have jumped a foot.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Oh that's all right. He frightens me too, Mara. I'd
like to have you meet Inspector Mallard. Inspector, miss Fisher,
how do you do? Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Fine? Thank you. Now that I've caught my breath, do
forgive me candy, But I must rush so you soon.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I hold tomorrow, Mara, I'll be down to see how
my lad's doing. A jack frust Thanks for the stockings.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Well aren't you going to invite me?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
No, I'm not. Here's my coat right here with a hurry,
come on, let's go on, Star.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
I thought we could have a cocktail here before we left.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You thought wrong. Two tickets to the rose bowl. From
now on, you earn your cocktails, Mallard. We went downstairs
and as I locked the front door, a car was
just driving off. It was Mara, and she waved and driving.
If the tired old eyes hadn't deceive me, was mister
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Princess Burke, vice president of the Brownstone. Well, oh well,
Mallard and I climbed into our car and drove out
of the cliffhouse. It was that kind of an evening.
We had dinner, and after I suggested we walk a bit.
The night was crisp and clear, and the evening star
was hanging out above the dark waters of the Pacific
like an iridescent Japanese lantern. It cut across the little
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road above Sutro Baths, where an old car barn had
once stood, and worked our way over the cliffs and
stood high above lands In It was exhilarating.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Honey, for your thoughts, Candy.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Inflation is still here.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
All right? Take you two pennies.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Well, I was just thinking, Mallard, Dear, when you see
a star in the sky, soft water below, feel Christmas
in the air. How can there be violence in the world?
Speaker 9 (15:12):
An age old question, pal one I can't answer I'm
too small. Hey, you're cold. I better put my arm
around it.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Mallard. No headlights and that automobile you're shining right down
on us and we.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Mallard, Chandy, what's wrong?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Got your flashlight with you?
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Sure? Also my gun and my handcuffs. Anything else? We
need a mortar?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Maybe lights from that car. They shone on something down
there under that tree.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Oh, Candy, just for once, can't you stop digging up
a mystery? Be human?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I am being human. Come on, Mallard, I don't want to
see what's under that tree. We scrambled around through the brush,
slipped into some sliding sand, and rolled the crest down
to the tree. It wasn't easy to get around some
of those brambles, but get there. I fully intended doing
because what I saw was red, bright red?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
You okay, Candy.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Nothing that a new care of nylons won't fix. Shoot
the flashlight over this way a bit, No, that's it?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Do you think I'm dreaming things up?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I hold it up.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Wow, looks like some kind of a costume.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Right, and look if those aren't blood stains, I'm a
Labrador retriever.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Oh you're a candy mats and those are blood stains.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
How was your boy dressed when you found him?
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Torn slack, sweater, shoes, no socks.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
This was most likely his costume.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Man.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
Yeah, don't move around too much, Candy, I want to
have a good look at the ground.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Hey, what are you doing down there?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Who's that?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Believe I'll get up here.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Don't try any fricks. That's all right, officer, this is
Inspector Mallard Homicide.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
Oh sorry, right.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
There, that's all right, stay right way off. We'll be
right up. Oh this is a freak, Candy. I want
you to drive me into a phone. I'll leave the
officer here to guard the place. You can go home.
I've got work to do here.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Okay, yeah, yeah, sure. For once, we had dinner before
you had a chance to break the date. This baby
was hard to reconstruct. Was the guy knocked off out
there at Land's End? Or was he bumped off at
his apartment? The killer driving way out to the beach
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and hiding the costume. Only time would tell. I went home,
climbed into bed, and logged about eight hours, enough to
give me fuel for the next day. In the morning,
I went down to the Brownstone the shoppers were already
swarming through the place. I spotted a floor walker and
strolled over to him. Pardon me, sir, I said, pardon me, sir.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
I'm very busy, young lady. Make it as brief as possible.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
You do work here, don't you? Of course you are
the floor walker A side of this section.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
That is correct. Come to the point, please, oh the well.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I have a good mind to report you as you wish.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
As I said, I'm very busy. Now what is it
you wanted to know?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
The words are like gall in my mouth now, but
where do I find Jack Cross?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Right over there? Back two miles over?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Thank you, not at all very much. All the high
handed characters people like that make me steam. I was
getting up a full head of dander, but it simmered
out before I had a chance to boil over because
as I rounded a corner, I saw Frosty Boy or
rem Bread if you choose, up on his platform with
the cutest little blonde kid sitting in his lap.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Well, Well, well look who we have here, great big boy,
Hello there son Jack class.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
What is your name?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Popper?
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Popper? My, what a fine name? How old are you? Tapper?
Speaker 7 (18:52):
Five and a half five and a half. Well, hell,
you must go to school, Tapper, which one Garfield Hawfield?
That's a school. Now tell me what would you like
to have me? Tell Santa Claus to bring you for Christmas?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Popper.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I like your train and the baseball bat, and I
like to be in the seals for luck.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
You'll do. I'll see what I can do to arrange that, Tappa.
I'll tell Santa Claus bye now.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Goodbye, and thank you and my Christmas. I hope you
can make the boys wish come true. Oldol could use him.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Candy, I'm so glad you're here, Doug. Look around into
the back room for a moment. I've got to talk
to you.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Aren't you working fasty boy?
Speaker 5 (19:33):
I got ten minutes spot every hour. I'll take a
break now, right around there, Candy, Okay, I'll.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
See you in a moment. What's the matter, rem Brand,
Even under those icicles, you look warm under the collar.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Here look at this. Every now and then one of
these muppets toddles up to me with a Christmas letter
in its hand. A little redheaded girl handed me this
is about half an hour ago. I've been shaking ever since.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Let me see, Dear Jack, Frost. A word of the
wise is sufficient when you take your lunch or keep
on going, don't come back, but otherwise you'll meet the
same fate as your predecessor. Hmm, just about what I expected, Candy.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Do you mean to say that you're de liberately using
near the sacrificial lamb?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I no mean, ducky. Go ahead, take your lunch, then
do as the note says, keep on going. As a
matter of fact, why don't you take off now? I'll
meet you at your place in about an hour.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
It's the best news I've heard since Nelson's victory at Trapolga.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I whipped upstairs, reported Princes Burke got my first day's check,
and on my way out told his secretary she better
get burks and smelling salts. Then I went back down
on the floor again. Sure enough, there was my boy,
the floor walker. I wanted to have a few more
words with him.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Oh you're again.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
If you don't mind, I just have to see miss
Mayra Fisher. She wasn't in. Have you seen her down here? No?
Speaker 10 (21:03):
And what's more, I won't see her all day. She
phone saying she was feeling you don't been considered, I
must say. During the holiday rush.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yes, I must. Could you give me her address? She's
a friend of mine.
Speaker 10 (21:13):
I've got to see her an address, Yes, write it
down here on one of my cards for you, Marah
Fisher two two seven f Union Street.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
There, thank you, you're so kind. I had all the ammunition.
I wanted a check signed by Burke and a card
written by the floor walker. His name was Simon Liggett.
With that, I ducked into a phone booth and called Meller.
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I'm a side Mallett speaker, Good boy, this is candy.
What did you find out at lands In last night?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
A couple of very juicy footprints? I give us nothing.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Did you make any casts of them?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Why?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Mind if I borrow a couple of them for a
few hours? Mallard?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Well, I don't see how it will hurt.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Sure, okay, Thank melid dear. I'll be buying a moment,
and I want to borrow you too. I stopped by
the Hall of Justice, got the cast of the footprints,
shoved Mallard into the car, and then picked up Rembrandt.
The thing was only a hunch, but my hunches are
paid off, so I never ignore them. First, we went
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out to an address on Fifth Avenue near Clement. We
got in the back door and went to work. Nothing
made sense there, so we drove over to receipt Away
in the marina. Again, we got in and did some sleuthing.
This time we hit the jackpot. A pair of shoes
in the closet matched the casts we had brought with us. Rembrandt,
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go out in the kitchen and see if this place
has any ketchup.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
I'm not hungry, dog, but oh look, what are you
up to, Candy? We've got enough to swing a case here.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I'm working for a voluntary confession. Mallard. Tell me what
was the position that the jack trust was in when
you found him dead?
Speaker 9 (23:00):
In a chair like that one, his head slumped down
on his chest. Good, here's the concept, dog, When are
you putting it on?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
You want without the buner relish ducky sit down there?
Will you remember it? Now? Just go limp and let
your head hang downe. That's it, now for a little
seasoning chat. You're smearing me with this sticky stuff all
for the sake of art. Still there, How does he look, Mellard?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Oh, Caddy, it looks like the same guy, the real thing.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Good? Now remember it? You just sit like that. Don't move, Mallard.
You duck into that closet over there, and I'll hide
in here. You've got a good view of the front
door from both places. Okay, okay, there are times, Candy
when I admit I admire your genius. Genius, menius, Come on,
let's hide. The golden shafts of sun splashing in through
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the window from the ocean slowly turned pink, then purple,
and into twilight. The minutes ticked on once, bless you,
but quiet though, rem brand you must catchup. Five minutes
ten and we heard muffle footsteps coming down the hall
and a key inserted in the lock of the apartment door.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
No oh, no, can't the old fool I killed No, No, okay, buddy,
that'll be about.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Enough, getting mallardyes, ducking nice tackle Mallard, all.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
Right, make you're gonna remain peaceful, And do I have
to give you a little tap?
Speaker 5 (24:55):
No help me? Quiet, cut me.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I did it.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
I did it both of them.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
I killed him.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I killed him, I killed both of them them.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
So the girl, wait a minute, Mallard.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Had to Mallard.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yes, no, friend of mine, late Myra Fisher. The whole
thing was jealousy. Not the jealousy of a man for
a woman, but the jealousy of a man for a job.
Simon Leggett had been with the Brownstone for almost twenty years.
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He'd worked himself up from the stock boy to a
place where he'd been promised the job of head of
Advertising and Promotion. He almost got it, except at the
last moment Prinisburg gave the position to Mara Fisher. That
had only been two weeks before. He knew that Myra
was on a probationary term, so he did everything he
could to under mine her little things like changing ad coffee,
sending out false stories to newspapers. He figured that if
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he could keep the store without a Santa Claus helper,
he'd break Myra's back and get the job. By the
first of the year. He paid a visit to the
first Jack Frost and tried to bribe him into quitting.
That the guy would have none of it. There was
a struggle. Liggott lost his head and whipped out a
gun and shot him. He was still in his costume,
so Leggot stripped him, put some old clothes on him,
drove out to Land's End and ditched his costume. Then
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he felt sure there would be no Jack Frost the
next day. But that's when Myra met me and I
talked rembrand into taking over. By this time, Liggott was
in a frenzy and would stop at nothing. He trailed
Myra and Burke to Myra's home, killed her, took her
body over to his place, and ditched it behind the sofa.
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The next morning, he wrote a note to rembrand and
gave it to one of the little girls waiting in
line to see him. Peer and envy were taking their
toll on the poor guy's mind. I wanted to compare
the handwriting, so I had Burke write me a check
and Leggett write myer's address on a card. Also, we
had the footprint cast between the two. Everything pointed toward Liggott.
That's when I staged my little parlor charade with Rembrandt
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playing the part of a corpse. The sight with Rembrandt's
resemblance to the dead Jack Frost would shatter anybody into
a confession. But Christmas, in spite of everything, is a
lovely time of year, and there is a Santa Claus,
three of them for me. As a matter of fact,
mister Prentiss Burke, who sent me a very nice check
for my efforts, Rembrandt Watson, who, out of sure love
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for the job, went back to playing Jack Frost for
all the kids at the Brownstone, and last but not least,
Inspector Ray Mallard. He gave me a Christmas sock right
on my mouth, just where any well placed Christmas sock
should go.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Listen again next week at this same time for excitement
and adventure, Just.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Diyle, Candy Madson, and a Merry Christmas to you of
Ukon two eight two o nine.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Heard Tonight, where Helen Kleeb as Myra Fisher, Lewthobin as
Prettis Burke, and John Grover as Simon Liggett. Jack Thomas
plays the role of brim Brandt Watson, and Henry Leff
is heard as Inspector Mallard. The program stars Natalie Masters
as Candy and is written and produced by Manti Masters.
Sound effects work created by Bill Brownell and Jay Rendon.
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Elowise Rowan is heard at the organ. The characters in
Tonight's story are entirely fictitious, with the exception of the
part of Topper, which was played by himself. Any resemblance
to actual people is purely coincidental. The program came to
you from San Francisco. Dudley Man loves speaking. You are
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tuned for the stars on NDC O H
Hello, you gone to eight two nine? Yes, this is
Candy Madson.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
The National Broadcasting Company presents Candy Matson. You con two
eight two oh nine?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Candy, Candy over here?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
What?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Why? Marah Fisher? What are you doing here in a
department store with your work clothes on?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I work here, dear, I'm a wage slave.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Well I must say on you it looks good. What
do you slave that.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I'm head of advertising and promotion? Well quite a spot,
hey girl, Now it was until this morning. Oh now
my neck is in the fire.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
What do you do forget to proof read one of.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Your nothing so trivial?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Dear? Believe me?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
But am I glad to have bumped into you?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Maybe you'll change your mind when I tell you I've
been shoplifting.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
No, I'm serious, Candy. Could you spare a moment come
on up to my office.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
My sure, and wipe that frown from off your brow.
It's wrinkling your makeup.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Well, yours would wrinkle. Two if you had a missing
Santa Claus helper on your hands.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, well, now there's a situation. And it almost broke
Candy Matson's heart when someone told her there was no
Santa Claus's helper one Jack Frost. Listen here she is
now to tell you about it.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
That's right what the man said. I ran into a
deal where we had a missing Santa Claus helper, Jack Frost.
The jet with the icicles was supposed to talk to
the tiny tots of the Brownstone, one of San Francisco's
larger and classier department stores. I had gone down there
that afternoon shopping. I wanted a bow tie for my
old pal, Inspector Ray Mall out of the San Francisco
Police Department, a bow tie that lit up and felled
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cossack when you pressed the button on the battery. That
was when I bumped into this Galmyra Fisher. He went
up to her office on the sixth floor, and she
sat me down. Cigaretted me too.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
You think I'm fooling about this Jack Frost thing, don't you, Candy.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Well, now, look, dear, we all have our little peccadillos.
Yours just nearly happens to be a missing Jack Frost.
You'll get over it.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I refrain from hurling this ashtray at you, Candy, only
because of our long acquaintance.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Good.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Now, listen to me. We've had a Santa Claus Helper
here for almost a month, and a darned good one.
The kids were crazy about him. This morning he didn't show.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
You don't suppose Jackie Boy got in the mood and
caught the Christmas pant Do you the kind that comes
in pints?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
No, he wasn't that sort of Joe.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
When your answer is simple, hire a new one.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
They're hired through an agency I call the one we
do business with, and they're fresh out of Jack Frost's
and I've got to get one, Candy, otherwise I come
down ten notches in the opinion of the brass.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I don't want you to think I'm unsympathetic, Mara, but
what can I do?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
You get around? You know people find me somebody, anybody
who'll take over the job of being Jack Frost.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Well, okay, I'll do the best I can. Marra Candy,
you're a dear, Yeah, one of Santa's DearS. Okay, I'll
try and find you a Jack Frost Marrow, but don't
hold it against me if he turns out to look
more like Humpty Dumpty. I went home and looked up
the Webster definition of saw. It said sawt easily yielding
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the pressure that was me candy mats and girl dope here.
I had all my Christmas shopping to do, and I
agree to find the substitute Jack Frost. I had no
idea where to start, so I changed into something red
and green for a stop and go also for Christmas,
and went over to see my friendly advisor, rem Brandt Watson.
Rem brand is a photographer and excellent too, now that
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he doesn't have the sherry shivers or the port palsies.
He lives on California Street, just kitten rumpers from old
Saint Mary's with a statue of sun yat Sen for
company in a park next door.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
And I'm delightful to come in, won't you?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Thanksd O Pett.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
You're acquitted with my friend Diogenes Murphy.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
An oh yes, hello again, mister Murphy is good afternoon.
Lest you look pretty near to the left time I saw.
Oh here comes the blarning young lady.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Diogenes Murphy. The honest irishman never says the world It
doesn't mean now how do you think I managed to
sell some many used cars that be placed out on Vannas.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Alue Because you're an honest irishman Oh.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
You're so right there.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Incidentally, if you need a good car, I can get
you one of the very reasonable eagenies. Oh sorry, I
got carried away.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I didn't mean to bargein.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
And you like this, rem Brand, non'll be ridiculous, Da, No,
don't be thinking nothing of it.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Last I'm on the way now.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Rem Brand and I were only discussing the situation of
the world.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
And to what conclusion did you come It.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Stinks the bottom of the afternoon to the boss of you.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Oh he's quite a boy.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Yes, I'm very fond of diagenes. What brings you around
this video, Jack Frost? Yes, now getting on with all conversation.
What brings you around this radio?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Jack Frost?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Maybe the needle's bad? Shall we try again?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I know how you feel. I reacted the same way myself.
I'll give you the pocket sized edition the brown Stone
Department Stores without a Santa Claus Helper Jack Frost. He
didn't show up for work this morning. I said I'd
find him a new one.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
That's fairly sweet of you, Dove.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Very dumb of me, Dove. I know of only one
character who even remotely looks like Jack Frost. I met
him up in Alaska when I was traveling with the USO.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Won't do you much good down here with it?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
No, that's why I came to see you. Reun bred.
Don't you keep a cross file on models you've used
in photography?
Speaker 5 (05:31):
As a matter of fact, I do here in this
little book. Let's see men thin extremely, I have just
one Pietro Tarantello. Would you care for a Sicilian Jack
Frost in Sicily?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yes? Hey? What's there? Well on that chair next to you, Oh,
that's the afternoon paper.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
Dear Diugini's left it, I imagine, yes, but on the
front page.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Here's the whole story about the missing Jack Frost on
the front page. Oh what he got in his Christmas?
Talking a slug through the head. That's no way to
treat Jack Frost. And here's a picture of the guy
without his fault icicles.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
What the ham looks like?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
He stepped right out of an eighteen ninety Shakespearean play.
I hate to say this, Mbred, but he resembles you.
I take back what I said, Rembrandt Devoch yourself from
that tone of voice, Candy, I.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Don't like it.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Brand I've got an idea you usually do you like
little children? Them. Do you like to talk to people?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
I have conversation.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
You'd like to be charming?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Boss me charm gay, lost me gay.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
With the help of a few icicles, Duckie, you're going
to be Jack Fross, Rembrandt thought, he argued. He paced
the floor, he had the vapors. He fainted. I brought
him to I won the argument. I got my friend
Mayra Fisher on the phone and informed her that one R.
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Watson would assume the role of Jolly Jack Frost on tomorrow.
She was delighted. I couldn't say the same for rembrand
Then I went home. I was greeted by a sound
very much like that of a phone ringing. Using my
keen instincts, so I figured it was the phone. It
was Hello, Candy Madson.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
How do you do, miss Madison? Allow me to introduce myself.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Allowed.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
My name is Burke. Brendis Burke. I'm the first assistant
vice president of.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
The round Stone Roundstone. Yes, that's a store of some
kind isness.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (07:26):
Now the reason for my call there has been, shall
I say, rather unfortunate occurrence in our store today.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
So I read I need the help of.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
A professional salut You were highly recommended by the head
of our advertising department, Miss my Ruficia.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Uh the sick button. I beg your pardon, No, no
need do you didn't do anything? Okay, here to talk
to me now, mister Burke.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I'd much rather have you come down to my office,
Miss Patson. This matter is of an extremely confidential nature.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I'm your girl. Then, figuratively speaking, how long will you
be there?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
As long as necessary? That's up to you.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Very well, I'll be there in half an hour if
I find a paste apart. I only had time for
a fast change, so I made it from Anderes Gray
to Taboo. I sniffed at it and felt I was
on the right send. Then I climbed in my car.
I drove down Carney Street, waved a crisp single under
the nose of a hotel doorman, and had my car
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taken care of. Then into the Brownstone and up to
mister Prendis Burke's office. I flipped a hip past the
girl's secretary and walked on in. Burke was waiting for me.
That was obvious. I could tell by the expression on
his face. It was worried. Look number twelve B. How
do you do mister Burke.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
I'm Candy mets Oh sit down, won't you?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Thank you? Now? Our subject is what a man named
Jordan that's on another network. I beg your pardon now
about this Jordan.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Yes, Sir Ralph Jordan, to be exact.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Well, that's a relief for a moment. I thought you
wanted to talk about Jack Frost.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
That's just it.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
He was Jack Frost, Oh me and my big mouve.
He was working here up until yesterday afternoon, and maybe
you read about it. He was found shocked today.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yes, yes, I read about it.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
That's the reason I've called you.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Why didn't you have your own store detectives take over,
mister burt.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
No, No, that would never do.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
I want no one in the store to know what's
going on.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Intrigue.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
Quite possibly, I have reason to suspect that Jordan was
killed by someone in our employee. I want to find
out who that someone was before the police do and
get it splashed all over the.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Front pages publicity. Can't you say?
Speaker 8 (09:29):
Well, business has been off a whole year and any
bad breaks in the press would hurt us that much more.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Maybe you've got a point there. I don't know. I
know I have okay, I'll take the job. You say
you have a suspicion. What is it?
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Well, nothing tangible, It's just a feeling I have.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Oh that's a big help. Well, I'll mush round and
see what I can pick up. I'll bill you tomorrow
for my first day's work. It's much easier to sustain
a friendship on a day basis. I left Burke looking
as though someone had just called his store a bizarre
It was closing time, so I hefted my way through
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the crush and retrieved my car from the doorman. The
Hall of Justice is right on my way home, so
I decided to drop in on my old Palm Mallard,
Inspector Ray Mallard of San Francisco Homicide. A nice guy
to serve coffee two on Sunday mornings. If you could
ever last you in, I never could get strong enough.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Rope Tandy, what brings you around here?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I hate to have my Christmas ruined so early. What
about that Jack Frost character?
Speaker 9 (10:33):
Oh yeah, poor guy got a good Where'd you find
him in his apartment over on seventeenth He lived near
Seal Stadium?
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Why so interested?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Kenny Rembrandt's a dead ringer for the guy.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
I still don't get the.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Girl who's head of advertising for the Brownstone was going
out of her head for another Jack Frost. I talked
Rembrand into taking the job. Oh does sound funny? Doesn't
ring me up to date? Mellie, Did you get any
dope on the killing?
Speaker 9 (10:57):
Nothing but a forty five slug out of the guy's wall.
Ballistics is checking it now.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Nothing else.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
If I did, I should tell you no, No, I
guess not.
Speaker 9 (11:06):
This goes beyond just a normal curiosity. Candy, what are
you drilling for?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh, it's only that I'm worried about Rainbred. I got
him the job. I'm responsible. I wouldn't want anything to
happen to him.
Speaker 9 (11:17):
Ask the silly question, Mallard, and you get a silly answer. Okay,
let's forget it. How's about dinner tonight?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I thought this thing long enough? Okay?
Speaker 9 (11:26):
Uh, Candy, Yes, we've known each other a good long time,
haven't we.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
It's right.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
Every since the Fair and Treja Allen, we've had our
little quarrels, little misunderstanding.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Oh, they never see the last long No duty.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
No, That's why I feel I have every right to
ask you a question.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Wait, yes, i'd say, you do, Mallard.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Maybe I'll ask you tonight.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
No, no, go ahead. Not as good a time as any.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Perhaps it is Candy.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
You get around a lot, you meet people. Do you
know where I can get a couple of tickets to
the Rose Bowl game?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
My brain lit up like a Roman candle high storm
for the door, turned back, stood there, my jaw waggling helplessly,
and I stuck my tongue out at Mellard and left.
It was the only thing I could think of doing. Oh,
he can make me so mad. But inside half an
hour after I got home, I started to last. It
felt much better. Just as I was puttering around getting
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ready the apartment, buzzer buzz He had Mallard much too early.
But I was wrong. It wasn't Mellard. Well, Mora, what
a surprise. Do come in, won't you?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
No thanks, Candy. A friend of mine's waiting in his
car outside. He's driving me home.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh, I'm sorry, you can't stay for a moment.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Oh my dear, I just dropped by to leave. This
merely a little token of thanks for getting me off
the hook.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Oh Mayra that there wasn't a need to do that,
just a.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Few pair of old stockings. Dear, getting me my new
jack frost means more than you know here. Please take
them along with my very deepest thing.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Thanks so much. A girl can always use them. Are
you all sat with my friend mister Watson.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Yes, he came in this afternoon and filled out his
withholding tax and so on. Very nice.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I think you'll find him very efficient.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Mara.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Oh, what's the matter.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Pardon me?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I didn't mean to frighten you, oh Mallard.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Silly of me. I must have jumped a foot.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Oh that's all right. He frightens me too, Mara. I'd
like to have you meet Inspector Mallard. Inspector, miss Fisher,
how do you do? Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Fine? Thank you. Now that I've caught my breath, do
forgive me candy, But I must rush so you soon.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I hold tomorrow, Mara, I'll be down to see how
my lad's doing. A jack frust Thanks for the stockings.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Well aren't you going to invite me?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
No, I'm not. Here's my coat right here with a hurry,
come on, let's go on, Star.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
I thought we could have a cocktail here before we left.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You thought wrong. Two tickets to the rose bowl. From
now on, you earn your cocktails, Mallard. We went downstairs
and as I locked the front door, a car was
just driving off. It was Mara, and she waved and driving.
If the tired old eyes hadn't deceive me, was mister
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Princess Burke, vice president of the Brownstone. Well, oh well,
Mallard and I climbed into our car and drove out
of the cliffhouse. It was that kind of an evening.
We had dinner, and after I suggested we walk a bit.
The night was crisp and clear, and the evening star
was hanging out above the dark waters of the Pacific
like an iridescent Japanese lantern. It cut across the little
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road above Sutro Baths, where an old car barn had
once stood, and worked our way over the cliffs and
stood high above lands In It was exhilarating.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Honey, for your thoughts, Candy.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Inflation is still here.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
All right? Take you two pennies.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Well, I was just thinking, Mallard, Dear, when you see
a star in the sky, soft water below, feel Christmas
in the air. How can there be violence in the world?
Speaker 9 (15:12):
An age old question, pal one I can't answer I'm
too small. Hey, you're cold. I better put my arm
around it.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Mallard. No headlights and that automobile you're shining right down
on us and we.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Mallard, Chandy, what's wrong?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Got your flashlight with you?
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Sure? Also my gun and my handcuffs. Anything else? We
need a mortar?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Maybe lights from that car. They shone on something down
there under that tree.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Oh, Candy, just for once, can't you stop digging up
a mystery? Be human?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I am being human. Come on, Mallard, I don't want to
see what's under that tree. We scrambled around through the brush,
slipped into some sliding sand, and rolled the crest down
to the tree. It wasn't easy to get around some
of those brambles, but get there. I fully intended doing
because what I saw was red, bright red?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
You okay, Candy.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Nothing that a new care of nylons won't fix. Shoot
the flashlight over this way a bit, No, that's it?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Do you think I'm dreaming things up?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I hold it up.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Wow, looks like some kind of a costume.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Right, and look if those aren't blood stains, I'm a
Labrador retriever.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Oh you're a candy mats and those are blood stains.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
How was your boy dressed when you found him?
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Torn slack, sweater, shoes, no socks.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
This was most likely his costume.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Man.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
Yeah, don't move around too much, Candy, I want to
have a good look at the ground.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Hey, what are you doing down there?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Who's that?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Believe I'll get up here.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Don't try any fricks. That's all right, officer, this is
Inspector Mallard Homicide.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
Oh sorry, right.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
There, that's all right, stay right way off. We'll be
right up. Oh this is a freak, Candy. I want
you to drive me into a phone. I'll leave the
officer here to guard the place. You can go home.
I've got work to do here.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Okay, yeah, yeah, sure. For once, we had dinner before
you had a chance to break the date. This baby
was hard to reconstruct. Was the guy knocked off out
there at Land's End? Or was he bumped off at
his apartment? The killer driving way out to the beach
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and hiding the costume. Only time would tell. I went home,
climbed into bed, and logged about eight hours, enough to
give me fuel for the next day. In the morning,
I went down to the Brownstone the shoppers were already
swarming through the place. I spotted a floor walker and
strolled over to him. Pardon me, sir, I said, pardon me, sir.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
I'm very busy, young lady. Make it as brief as possible.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
You do work here, don't you? Of course you are
the floor walker A side of this section.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
That is correct. Come to the point, please, oh the well.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I have a good mind to report you as you wish.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
As I said, I'm very busy. Now what is it
you wanted to know?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
The words are like gall in my mouth now, but
where do I find Jack Cross?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Right over there? Back two miles over?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Thank you, not at all very much. All the high
handed characters people like that make me steam. I was
getting up a full head of dander, but it simmered
out before I had a chance to boil over because
as I rounded a corner, I saw Frosty Boy or
rem Bread if you choose, up on his platform with
the cutest little blonde kid sitting in his lap.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Well, Well, well look who we have here, great big boy,
Hello there son Jack class.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
What is your name?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Popper?
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Popper? My, what a fine name? How old are you? Tapper?
Speaker 7 (18:52):
Five and a half five and a half. Well, hell,
you must go to school, Tapper, which one Garfield Hawfield?
That's a school. Now tell me what would you like
to have me? Tell Santa Claus to bring you for Christmas?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Popper.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I like your train and the baseball bat, and I
like to be in the seals for luck.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
You'll do. I'll see what I can do to arrange that, Tappa.
I'll tell Santa Claus bye now.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Goodbye, and thank you and my Christmas. I hope you
can make the boys wish come true. Oldol could use him.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Candy, I'm so glad you're here, Doug. Look around into
the back room for a moment. I've got to talk
to you.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Aren't you working fasty boy?
Speaker 5 (19:33):
I got ten minutes spot every hour. I'll take a
break now, right around there, Candy, Okay, I'll.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
See you in a moment. What's the matter, rem Brand,
Even under those icicles, you look warm under the collar.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Here look at this. Every now and then one of
these muppets toddles up to me with a Christmas letter
in its hand. A little redheaded girl handed me this
is about half an hour ago. I've been shaking ever since.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Let me see, Dear Jack, Frost. A word of the
wise is sufficient when you take your lunch or keep
on going, don't come back, but otherwise you'll meet the
same fate as your predecessor. Hmm, just about what I expected, Candy.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Do you mean to say that you're de liberately using
near the sacrificial lamb?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I no mean, ducky. Go ahead, take your lunch, then
do as the note says, keep on going. As a
matter of fact, why don't you take off now? I'll
meet you at your place in about an hour.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
It's the best news I've heard since Nelson's victory at Trapolga.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I whipped upstairs, reported Princes Burke got my first day's check,
and on my way out told his secretary she better
get burks and smelling salts. Then I went back down
on the floor again. Sure enough, there was my boy,
the floor walker. I wanted to have a few more
words with him.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Oh you're again.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
If you don't mind, I just have to see miss
Mayra Fisher. She wasn't in. Have you seen her down here? No?
Speaker 10 (21:03):
And what's more, I won't see her all day. She
phone saying she was feeling you don't been considered, I
must say. During the holiday rush.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yes, I must. Could you give me her address? She's
a friend of mine.
Speaker 10 (21:13):
I've got to see her an address, Yes, write it
down here on one of my cards for you, Marah
Fisher two two seven f Union Street.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
There, thank you, you're so kind. I had all the ammunition.
I wanted a check signed by Burke and a card
written by the floor walker. His name was Simon Liggett.
With that, I ducked into a phone booth and called Meller.
(21:46):
I'm a side Mallett speaker, Good boy, this is candy.
What did you find out at lands In last night?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
A couple of very juicy footprints? I give us nothing.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Did you make any casts of them?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Why?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Mind if I borrow a couple of them for a
few hours? Mallard?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Well, I don't see how it will hurt.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Sure, okay, Thank melid dear. I'll be buying a moment,
and I want to borrow you too. I stopped by
the Hall of Justice, got the cast of the footprints,
shoved Mallard into the car, and then picked up Rembrandt.
The thing was only a hunch, but my hunches are
paid off, so I never ignore them. First, we went
(22:24):
out to an address on Fifth Avenue near Clement. We
got in the back door and went to work. Nothing
made sense there, so we drove over to receipt Away
in the marina. Again, we got in and did some sleuthing.
This time we hit the jackpot. A pair of shoes
in the closet matched the casts we had brought with us. Rembrandt,
(22:44):
go out in the kitchen and see if this place
has any ketchup.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
I'm not hungry, dog, but oh look, what are you
up to, Candy? We've got enough to swing a case here.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I'm working for a voluntary confession. Mallard. Tell me what
was the position that the jack trust was in when
you found him dead?
Speaker 9 (23:00):
In a chair like that one, his head slumped down
on his chest. Good, here's the concept, dog, When are
you putting it on?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
You want without the buner relish ducky sit down there?
Will you remember it? Now? Just go limp and let
your head hang downe. That's it, now for a little
seasoning chat. You're smearing me with this sticky stuff all
for the sake of art. Still there, How does he look, Mellard?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Oh, Caddy, it looks like the same guy, the real thing.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Good? Now remember it? You just sit like that. Don't move, Mallard.
You duck into that closet over there, and I'll hide
in here. You've got a good view of the front
door from both places. Okay, okay, there are times, Candy
when I admit I admire your genius. Genius, menius, Come on,
let's hide. The golden shafts of sun splashing in through
(23:59):
the window from the ocean slowly turned pink, then purple,
and into twilight. The minutes ticked on once, bless you,
but quiet though, rem brand you must catchup. Five minutes
ten and we heard muffle footsteps coming down the hall
and a key inserted in the lock of the apartment door.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
No oh, no, can't the old fool I killed No, No, okay, buddy,
that'll be about.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Enough, getting mallardyes, ducking nice tackle Mallard, all.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
Right, make you're gonna remain peaceful, And do I have
to give you a little tap?
Speaker 5 (24:55):
No help me? Quiet, cut me.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I did it.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
I did it both of them.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
I killed him.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I killed him, I killed both of them them.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
So the girl, wait a minute, Mallard.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Had to Mallard.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yes, no, friend of mine, late Myra Fisher. The whole
thing was jealousy. Not the jealousy of a man for
a woman, but the jealousy of a man for a job.
Simon Leggett had been with the Brownstone for almost twenty years.
(25:45):
He'd worked himself up from the stock boy to a
place where he'd been promised the job of head of
Advertising and Promotion. He almost got it, except at the
last moment Prinisburg gave the position to Mara Fisher. That
had only been two weeks before. He knew that Myra
was on a probationary term, so he did everything he
could to under mine her little things like changing ad coffee,
sending out false stories to newspapers. He figured that if
(26:07):
he could keep the store without a Santa Claus helper,
he'd break Myra's back and get the job. By the
first of the year. He paid a visit to the
first Jack Frost and tried to bribe him into quitting.
That the guy would have none of it. There was
a struggle. Liggott lost his head and whipped out a
gun and shot him. He was still in his costume,
so Leggot stripped him, put some old clothes on him,
drove out to Land's End and ditched his costume. Then
(26:30):
he felt sure there would be no Jack Frost the
next day. But that's when Myra met me and I
talked rembrand into taking over. By this time, Liggott was
in a frenzy and would stop at nothing. He trailed
Myra and Burke to Myra's home, killed her, took her
body over to his place, and ditched it behind the sofa.
(26:52):
The next morning, he wrote a note to rembrand and
gave it to one of the little girls waiting in
line to see him. Peer and envy were taking their
toll on the poor guy's mind. I wanted to compare
the handwriting, so I had Burke write me a check
and Leggett write myer's address on a card. Also, we
had the footprint cast between the two. Everything pointed toward Liggott.
That's when I staged my little parlor charade with Rembrandt
(27:13):
playing the part of a corpse. The sight with Rembrandt's
resemblance to the dead Jack Frost would shatter anybody into
a confession. But Christmas, in spite of everything, is a
lovely time of year, and there is a Santa Claus,
three of them for me. As a matter of fact,
mister Prentiss Burke, who sent me a very nice check
for my efforts, Rembrandt Watson, who, out of sure love
(27:35):
for the job, went back to playing Jack Frost for
all the kids at the Brownstone, and last but not least,
Inspector Ray Mallard. He gave me a Christmas sock right
on my mouth, just where any well placed Christmas sock
should go.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Listen again next week at this same time for excitement
and adventure, Just.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Diyle, Candy Madson, and a Merry Christmas to you of
Ukon two eight two o nine.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Heard Tonight, where Helen Kleeb as Myra Fisher, Lewthobin as
Prettis Burke, and John Grover as Simon Liggett. Jack Thomas
plays the role of brim Brandt Watson, and Henry Leff
is heard as Inspector Mallard. The program stars Natalie Masters
as Candy and is written and produced by Manti Masters.
Sound effects work created by Bill Brownell and Jay Rendon.
(28:41):
Elowise Rowan is heard at the organ. The characters in
Tonight's story are entirely fictitious, with the exception of the
part of Topper, which was played by himself. Any resemblance
to actual people is purely coincidental. The program came to
you from San Francisco. Dudley Man loves speaking. You are
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