October 26, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
A national broadcasting company presents the adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Sam Stay Detective Agency.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
The Sweetheart Married twenty ninth of December.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You too, Sam, Did you take a little boy hole? Yeah? Well,
not exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
F had to make a couple of emergency stops, but
we got there. What do you mean, Sam, Well, I
got my weekly not of the head for one thing.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Dam just taking a little boy hole.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Like I said, if we were derailed, there was a
dash of poison, for instance, a couple of pounds one
thousand buck notes, and an infernal machine that nearly blew
up half the mission district. But other than that, we
had a peaceful ride home, I say.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And this sounds like a cheaper which is just what
it is.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Angel, get out our special holiday bottle of Napa Valley
Wine and we'll get in our premature regards to the
new year. Following dictation of a report entitled the Prodigal.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Sam, are you sure that's the right word.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Certainly, I'm sure the wanderer will return to the.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Roost you and you're a big fab roost.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
But the last Bedtime story for nineteen fifty, namely the
Prodigal Panda.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Caper for NBC.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
William Spear, Radio's outstanding producer director of mystery and crime drama,
brings you the greatest private detective of them all in
the Adventures of Sam's Faith.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Efie, Miss Perry.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I've been looking in the dictionary, Sam, You've fallen into
the trap again. Prodigal. Here I see prodigal given to
reckless extravagance.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
He doesn't mean wandering at all.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
See people think just because the prodigo some wandered. What
are we talking about the prodigal panda caper?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
How can a panda be given to reckless extravagy? Let
me see?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Oh here definition three prodigal yielding, abundantly luxuriant panda.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Give me roods black and white right right.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
See note below It says you're ready for the note below,
Master Roebuck Dozer twenty three eighteen de Laney Street, City,
from Samuel Spade, license number one three seven five nine six,
subject the Prodigal Right goodness, deerob I spent a relatively
pleasant day running down a case of slow pay in
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North Beach, and, flushed with success, had returned to my
office for a final check of the file. Hmm Underwood
Helen not sure Roderick, pardon Dolly, where are they?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Oh spirits? Solid?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I sat down, put my hat and my feet on
the desk, and was loosening my color when I noticed
just the right of my off ankle, one large bag
of jelly beans. Sighting past it, I saw in the
corner chair an open copy of a magazine featuring on
the cover a blonde and a low cut dress taking
a thirty eight slug from a slack Jawdan thug in
the background under a big red letters spelling out thrilling
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crime comics, and behind all this sound asleep?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Was you? Hey? Hey, Sonny, Sonny, hey, hey.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Wake up?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, yeah, come on, Redley's blowing. Huh hi? Hi? How
long you been here? A long time? I guess. What's
your name? Ruby? Short for Robut well, what can I
do for you? Robin?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Right?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Them to the police. They wouldn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
They said I should come to you.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You mean you got a job for me? Yeah? Dangerous? Yeah,
a hoie? You mean a heist? What was it? Panned?
The beer? Oh? Someone stolen? Yeah, it's not mine really.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I bought it from my little brother Barney. He's five
and he's always wanted one. So when I got the
junk money don't money, Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Bottles and papers and stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I collected it from the neighbors and the six stars
and fifteen cents, and Varney wanted the panda bear, so
I bought it at Lazy's department store today and they
stole it.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Oh, stole it.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well, there was this man in the checkered coat and
the lady in the red silk dress, just like the
store and the comet here. Oh, the man looked like that,
but the lady looked different. She had black hair and
a red dress and her eyebrows went up this way
instead of sideways. I was walking down the street with
my panda bear and the lady called me over to
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a car she was sitting in and started to talk
to me. And right away the man in the checkered
coat ran up and grabbed at my panda bear, and
they chased me up a fire escape, and the man
pulled out a big black gun and said if I
didn't come down and give him the panda, he choot
me and Barney and Mom. So I came down and
gave him the panda.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Well that's quite a much. Oh, excuse me, Robie, Hello, Sam. Yeah, dundee.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh, Sam has a little fellow about.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Eight years old on his way over there here, Now, Lieutenant,
what's the deal? He gave us quite a story. Well,
how'd to go? Now? He took it down. I got
it right here. Let me see.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It's about a man and a checkered coat and a
lady in a red silk dress.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
You know. Oh, here is quote.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I was walking down the street with my panda bear
and the lady called me over to a car.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Okay, dundee, he hasn't changed it any yah.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
We got hold of his mother runs an elevator in
the rust building, and she says he reads so many
comic books.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You better send him home, okay, Lieutenant. Thanks, Come on, Roby,
you got to send me home. Lieutenant. Don They called
your mother home man, and you don't believe me either. Oh,
it's not that, Roby. It's just I can't go.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Home without the panda beer.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
What do I tell Barney? I promised him my own brother.
He's home now waiting. Yeah, well twenty one I'll do Roby.
You let me put you in a taxi and send
you a home, and I'll take the case. You'll get
my panda bed.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It wouldn't be at all surprised. So Barney's face hits
the floor. Just tell him Samuel and Speight Incorporated is
working on it.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Only one thing money left? Oh you got jelly beans? Amang?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah, okay, and pay me off on jelly beans. Come on,
let's find a taxi, which we did, Robin. Like the
psychology books said, I didn't discourage the child imagination, but
I did try to put you off thrilling crime comics
and under Alice in Wonderland.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
This I could see would takes some doing.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
It was almost closing time when I got to Lacey's,
but I talked my way past the man at the
door and hustle up to the sixth.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Floor and the toy department.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
The clerks were doing whatever clerks do with fine thirty,
but I found a handy floor walker.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Do you mean, missus Steed? I just don't know. I
just don't know. You mean you conded your cash and everything?
But you can't not that, mister Stein.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I am perfectly willing to stretch a point to please
a little fellow.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yes, we like to think we are human here, you know.
Well that's nice that you like to think, so, I.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Mean, but you see something very strange happened this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Come over this week, sir, by the escalator.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
We had the giant pandas at this country here twenty
five of the large size.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I assume that's what you're interested in. I guess I
then want that. Well for Christmas, they didn't do anything,
just sat here.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yes, but would you believe it's this afternoon all twenty
five were sold.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well, how do you count for that New Year's gaiety? Well,
if you want my personal opinion, it's me.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
An impressive panda bear Obey was hard to figure out
how you could lose anything that big, and harder still
to figure out how I'd explain this kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
To people who stopped me on market stript. Be that
as it may.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
My poor walker friend took my cash, tore off the
sales slip, and I was about to step sail with
my panda when I heard him make the kind of
a noise floor workers make when they see what he
was looking at.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Huh, miss green bar, Miss greenbro.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
She pointed, weakly, turned pale even by floor walker standards,
and slagged of the deck.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I turned in time to see this green byer collapse
at the top of the escalator.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
And watch to come down break across three steps, like
the cover of one of your books of bedtime stories, Roby.
She was the last passenger of the day, or so
I thought. When I looked closer, I saw she wasn't
a passenger. She was freight at the lamp copper on
the floor above, busily adding up.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Receipts if nothing had happened.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Was a dark type built along dragon Lady line.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Close.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I want to know about the girl who just went
down the escalator the screen brod. Yeah, I noticed anything
stranger butt her?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Why is she? Yeah? Did she look ill? I thought
there must have been something wrong. I said Helloigro, and
she didn't pay attention to me. It's only a second ago.
Where'd she come from? Around the corner? I think she's
been at the wrapping desk. She had with a ten.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Sized sheet of heavy brown paper, a bunch of metered
postage tape, and a shipping label addressed to Master Frankie
Carson two eight one, Evanita Ruez, Havana, Cuba. Downstairs, I
found my floor walker friend had come around and was
bending over Miss green Bar with an impressive looking gent
with gray.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
At the temples, good heavits. It can't be. It just
cannot be. That's all I'm afraid. Shears though in Lacy's
see it's unheard of. Why should you be good heavens
in my department? Tool, excuse me for a welcome m oh,
this is mister Speed. He was with me when it's
oh yeh, I'm doctor Kent Thorne. I was exchanging some
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Christmas gifts with any idea what killed her?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Well, it's pretty hot to tell without an examination, and
I don't have my things with me heart possibly natural causes,
of course, why do you have?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
There are more natural places to die. And at the
top of an escalator and in my department at Lacey's
too good heaven? Well, who can say? I have to
look up the girl's history if she had a heart condition,
Well sure, sure. Meanwhile, I'll call a homicide.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I like nothing better to do. For a minute, I
thought I'd been reading so many comic books reby. But
things settled down and they pulled out the records and
from miss Greenbrier had had a hard condition of long standing,
and the medical examiner wrote it off as natural causes.
So hoping you would consider a jelly being bonus for pumpness.
I pick up my panda and went outside. I'd gone
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about ten steps when I I'm fraid it was Larry
Healy and the top with barns for Lieutenant Dundee's sitting
in a patrol car.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Oh you and bulguard. Who's it for a little kid
in the mission? How come? What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
How come I'm buying a panda bear for a little
kid in a mission? Who likes panda bear?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
For that, I have to be explained. Okay, Sam, Okay, okay,
it just hit me. The bear ain't turned out quite right.
He needs a neck tie. I just happened to have
one here. My brother law got me for Christmas. Say
gimme no see. Oh Larry, Larry, how long has there
been bad blood between you and your brother? Bad blood? Listen?
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Even when we were friends, he gave me ties like this.
Yeah on your waists. Thanks, thanks, thanks, says cav Let
me out.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Near the end of the lady and I started walking
up the row of j pre earthquake flat store at your.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
House will be at the end of the street. Bark
at the curve was a.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Discordant note in this hard Press neighborhood a sleek, custom
built red convertible, one of the kind that looks like
it can go nineteen miles an hour standing still. The
same can be said for the damon. It's also a
discordant note. You see, San Francisco is a very big.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Large city.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
You just don't run into a dame at the lamp
counter and Lacey's and a half hour later in a
dumpy neighborhood in the mission unless she wants it that way.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Well, hello, hello dragon, lady of the sellers.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
You uh, you must sell a pass on the lamps
the car mm, but don't try and explain that now.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Just tell me why you followed my cab follow you?
Come on, come on, what is it? You're embarrassing me?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I know since that moment at the lamp connor you
can't get me out of your mind. Well, that's a
perfectly normal reaction, but it's not that.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It's house the panda there you want it in the
worst way. He's kind of attractive. His men go with
to spade. You give me a light, please, sure, holding
the match up to her cigarette. Three things hit me.
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The black hair, the red.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Dress, and eyebrows that went up instead of sideways at
that point, the sleeve of a checkered overcoat with a
big arm inside it came around under my.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Chin from the rear, and the fourth thing hit me.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
How long I dwelt in panda lamb, I don't know,
but it was real nice while it lasted.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I was a panda too, I remember.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
And I was going somewhere with a big overstuffed private
detective under my arm when a lady panda batted her
big brown eyes at me and began pulling my nose.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
She seemed to have a very very high voice.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I call it tennant.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Tell me, mister Spain showers. Wait, it's lucky.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Over here.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Well, well, it was this way, dundee. I was walking
down the street with my panda fair and the lady
called me over to the car she was sitting, and
it started the ports run away.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
The man in the check had cold up.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
famous detective, Sam Spain. Van Heflin stars this Sunday and
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State Fair, another outstanding sixty minute production by Theodore Guild.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
On the Air.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Co starring in this exciting broadcast is one of the
leading families in show Business, Jean Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart daughter June.
It's a gala New Year's Eve broadcast when Theater Guild
presents State Fairs Sunday over most of these NBC stations.
It also means another hour and a half with Tallulah
Bankhead in radio's greatest spectacle, The Big Show. Among Tallula's
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guests will be Ken Murray, Glorious Wantson, Margaret O'Brien, Jose Ferrer,
and many more. Now back to the Prodigal Panda Caper,
the night's adventure with Sam's pay. It was a humiliating
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experience for Away, riding back the headquarters in black defeat.
But dear good Lieutenant Dundee, however, with the soul of patience.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
And understanding, why do you take me for a spade
on ediot? Look, Dundee, all I want you to understand
is that this team and a hop ut.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Com lot three rides on that Murray go round now
and I'm sick of it. Damon a red dress and
the guy in the check at coke they take your wallet.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
No, you watch other valuable No, just my panda, Sam,
Are you.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Trying to tell me there's a hot panda of going on.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Dundee, boy, look closely now as I take off my head.
What see now? As you know, my head ordinarily does
not come to a point. But this protuberance was made
by a gunbot, not by imagination. Oh, someone slugger. I
believe that, Sam. But this panda is Dunna. Yeah, why yeah, yeah,
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you were saying something about my panda, very Dunne. And
maybe they ought to take it back. My dame at
the store of this afternoon, the one who sold them,
miss stream Bot.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, they just finished the post mortem. No heart attack,
she was poisoned.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
It's a strange thing, mister Stray, very strange. I leave
my business thoughts at the store floor walker us. Try
and remember the dragon lady's name. Huh, my good, gracious eyes,
I can't remember my own name. I'm so upset. Oh,
and I'll concentrate now.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Look, dark hair, up, tilted eyebrows, red silk dress.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Works in Lampa Park and on seventh floor. I can
picture her sole cleanly.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Dark hair floor walker, dark care, upshot eyebrows.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Five brows of the scarlet scarlet scarlett.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Easy know, I got a list of employees right here,
I'll say scarlet Scarlet Scarlet, Scarlet Townsend, Scarlet Townsend, that's
the name, Ooker.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Scarlet Townsend. Yeah, he lives here like room gay come, I.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Said, have calmly, lady, wash you.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I'd like to keep from the right trash. But her age,
you can't tell nothing. Don't keep braying that no good
thing around here.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I put my foot down, I said, scarlet Ized said,
I said.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Scarlet Ized said, you're so good? What's no good? Dame? Man?
Lady Crystal McCall ah. Here I found this just out.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I was cleaning the room picture of crystamal, cause that
ain't got a swell way to have their picture taken.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Her name rang a bell, and so did the picture Crystal,
herself and me altogether.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
When I got a ount of.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
The face on it, a stickling discovery. Crystal was also
the late miss Greenbrier.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Don't look at it all day, young man. When'd you
see this girl last night?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
This morning?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
She and no hella and her kickered coat come around
and pick up Scarlet in a big red open car.
You know the fella.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Nope, I ever saw him.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Before, but I'd show all that car. Oh, you're not
telling me a thing. Land lady I have in Los Angeles,
i'd have been dead.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
But San Francisco is not a convertible town. I found
a freephone and began calling my dealer's figuring a bright
red custom built convertible.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It's something you remember, whether you see it or sell it.
And ah, this got me nowhere. And I've begun to
wonder if the car had been smuggled up from.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
The unmentionable side of the tavy when the wind changed,
so the other one while back flanks but near missus
don't conference. But the buyer had it painted red.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Special job when you're improving. It was the buyer. Caimtone,
doctor timpone, right, doctor Jews Kimtone lives on Motley Drive
bulling games. That's only red one I know, right, That's
the only red one I need.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Mister Spade, this is utterly unbelievable, and I certainly don't
intend to stand here all night discussing the pros and
cons of Panda Bay.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
All right, Kempthorn, let's slide over into your field. Meaning
what the sweet young thing at the store. It turned
out the dirty, the heart attack, the poison.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Attack, well suicide. You suppose what do you suppose.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Well, I'm sure I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Look, why don't we hold hands and tell the truth. Huh,
you'd better run along, spade. I've had about all of
this that I intended with. The dead dame was Crystal McCall.
Does that mean anything to you?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
No, a saying Crystal McCall was running around with a
hood named Frankie Cassella, formerly of New York, now of
Havana by Department.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Of Justice request, this is all very interesting. What has
it to do with me? She was riding around in
your red convertible this morning for one thing. That's a
hot car. You know.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I took a close look at it two hours ago
and got slug. I don't know how you score these things,
kem Thorne, But in my book, this calls for a.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Couple of answers. You're right, it does. Where's the car?
It's gone? Who has it? My chauffeur? This is the
last straw.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I guess there's no point in covering up for Aim
any longer.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Who is it? Lenny Fleigo? My next con isn't he? Yes?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I thought I could straighten him out.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
He's been missing for two days. This time he just
took the car and left.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I knew he had something to do with that girl
in the toy department at Lacey's, so I went there today.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I guess I was too late. You think Fleago killed her?
I don't know. I don't know where.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Where did you see the car near the end of
the Laney Street? What's the license number?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Forty nine h eight two two. I'd better report stole him.
If you need me to testify, please.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Feel free to call that. I will, Doctor Kenathon By.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
What I had in mind, of course, was the coal
Lieutenant Dundee, and I had him to slap of twenty
four hour tail on my good doctor.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
But something intervened.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Halfway down a walk to the street, my eye fell
on a round plastic object about the size of a
nickel lying in the grass, clearly the eye of a
giant panda. Since two other eyes were obviously watching me
through doctor ken Thorne's front frickens, I continued gaily onto
my cab, drove up a half flock, got out, and
walked back just in time to see ken Thorne roll
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away from the curb and his other car heading towards
El Camino in points north. All this left me free
to poll at will and four match books later, I
had found two more eyes, a pocket full of panda skin,
and a goodly scoop of panda upholstery.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
The trail led to the garage. There's no wonder his
car was stolen.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
You must have had to leave it on the street
all night because there was no room for it in
the garage, which had been turned into a kind of
panda abatar, crammed of the raptures with panda bears, all.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
The giant size too.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
In various stages of this odeal legs, darms, eyes and innerds.
A sight to chill the heart of any but the
sturdious five A detective program.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
But I embraced myself and carried on.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Homicide.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Dundee, it's the same, Dundee, Sam, Where are you calling from?
Bone booth? And I drive in on El Camino.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Listen, my license number on the red custom job is
forty nine eighty two to two. And the guy driving
in his Lenny Fleegal the next time, don't talk to
me about that car.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Larry Heay picked it up to night going ninety on
the face. Sure right, lousy, Why what happened?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Next time I seen one of them panda bears, I'm
gonna spit righting aside. So Larry pulls a guy down
and the first thing he sees is the panda.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Bear with a night chie. What about the dragon Lady?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
She came second? Larry can think of as a hot
panda bear figures he stole it, so he takes it
back to the patrol car to return it to the kid.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
No.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yeah, the time he got the exhaust smoke out of
his eyes, they were gone. Oh set license nowhere.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Again forty nine eight two to two. You're sure positive?
I'm looking right at it? I oh, Sam.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Dundee, Yeah, we're all at Anderson's drive in on El Camino.
Put it on the air, which just shows you how
slow I can think. Well, the the red job was
staring at me with its big pomies outside the plate
glass window legal and the Dragon Lady bliss somewhere having
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a Saturday night blue plate displayed effectively on the play.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Wrecks hung from the car doors.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I saw a lot of the phone booth and through
the kitchen, thereby coming up on the car from behind.
Plenty of time, mind, if I join your fleegal She
reached and I pushed and instead of.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
His gun he came up with half a hamburger. It
was too harsh a light for the Dragon Lady to.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Operate effectively, and by the time Larry Healy and the
Powell car pulled up, they decided to do.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
It the easy way. All company back then, lovely Larry plea,
you go, Dragon Lady? Shut up? What about the rich job?
What are you gonna do with it? Larry?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Oh, I'm poled it from the lawyers that props off
and Slammy want to go by way to the Delaney Street?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah? Why Delaney Street? Larry delivered the panda huh good
under the kid broby Dozier. I'll have to go and
check it out, Lenny, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Said words, paying fifty thousand, one hundred little kids gunn yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Carcelo be disappointed for going with the tax for was
watching both him and Christal looked like a safeway to
get some of his dough out of the country.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
To him, wasn't my idea. I hated him. I did
eight years for him, Spade, I could have killed him.
I don't care anymore. Heck with it. Let the watching me.
The guy who's running things for him here has got
the chem Thorne. But Crystal had the dough. He killed it.
He took her lunch today, so I had Lenny, so
he poisoned He then what she fixed up one of
the pandas. He didn't know which stuff it was Bill's
eighty one hundred dollars. And I don't know anyway.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
You'll find the money in the red car, into the
back seat, under the seat.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
What are you talking about? It's in the panda. The
kids got it. Look, why do you think I'm telling
you this? Your stupid fuck? But I fixed that thing.
But I saw myself after we took the dough out.
What kid, it's gotta bombit it.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I don't remember much about the ride from then on Roby.
All I could see was a white line unwinding in
the headlight. But somehow we got to the end of
Villany Street and around that corner again.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Hobby, Bobby here, Robby, Robby, your no just resting? Where's
the pen?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Run through with pandas? And so is Brownie next junk money?
I'm gonna buy him a now for who a policeman
brought it. I started hold of it when a car
drove up, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Now with gray hair got out I'm thing what then
same thing?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
He grabbed it and got in his car and drove off.
What's around the corner they're playing with it?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Don't ask him. I don't care anymore. Around the corner
you mean? He period, and of report.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
A highly inconsiderate thing to do to a pan, But
I'll get in one thing. He had the good drainch
to park in front of a vacant lot before starting
to tear it apart.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
And of course the coin of phrase. You saved the
people some money. And now if you're a good efficient
girl and run that through your infernal machine, who knows
what I'll have in store for you when you're through.
No jelly jeans. Still work is done. Scoop, Scoop, scoop.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Three chimes mean good times on NDC Friday means another
visit to that entertaining eat establishment, Duffy's tavern. Archie the
manager and his whimsical friends have cooked up another fresh
half hour of laughs and typical Duffy's tavern madness, and
you're all invited. There's also another delightful adventure with Chester
Ray Riley played by William Bendix. Tonight on the Life
(27:10):
of Riley keep your dial set to NBC for the
very best in radio entertainment. An official Yeah lay off
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play off. Wain not favoraiting all the black ones in
my favor, Master Robot Dozier very as well.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Sam.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I hope Roby appreciate you, only kid, I appreciate me.
I appreciate you. I appreciate you too, Waiter, You're so
pretty and so efficient.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I'm so good about not sitting me all the time
for your back salary. Yet Hey, when I stop and
think of you, I got.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
A all Cholter.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Career Angel, It's all yours here. The rest of the
jeving Happy, oh, good night, good night. The Adventures of
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Sam Spade are produced, edited and directed by William Spears.
Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn. The reen title
is Effie Splip for Tonight's Adventure by Harold Swanton, Musical
scoring by lud Gluskin, conducted by Robert Armbrewster. Join us
again next week, same time for another adventure with Sam's faith.
(29:01):
Enjoy the Magnificent Montague, then Duffy's Tavern on NDC Boomoo
A national broadcasting company presents the adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Sam Stay Detective Agency.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
The Sweetheart Married twenty ninth of December.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You too, Sam, Did you take a little boy hole? Yeah? Well,
not exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
F had to make a couple of emergency stops, but
we got there. What do you mean, Sam, Well, I
got my weekly not of the head for one thing.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Dam just taking a little boy hole.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Like I said, if we were derailed, there was a
dash of poison, for instance, a couple of pounds one
thousand buck notes, and an infernal machine that nearly blew
up half the mission district. But other than that, we
had a peaceful ride home, I say.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And this sounds like a cheaper which is just what
it is.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Angel, get out our special holiday bottle of Napa Valley
Wine and we'll get in our premature regards to the
new year. Following dictation of a report entitled the Prodigal.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Sam, are you sure that's the right word.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Certainly, I'm sure the wanderer will return to the.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Roost you and you're a big fab roost.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
But the last Bedtime story for nineteen fifty, namely the
Prodigal Panda.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Caper for NBC.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
William Spear, Radio's outstanding producer director of mystery and crime drama,
brings you the greatest private detective of them all in
the Adventures of Sam's Faith.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Efie, Miss Perry.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I've been looking in the dictionary, Sam, You've fallen into
the trap again. Prodigal. Here I see prodigal given to
reckless extravagance.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
He doesn't mean wandering at all.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
See people think just because the prodigo some wandered. What
are we talking about the prodigal panda caper?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
How can a panda be given to reckless extravagy? Let
me see?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Oh here definition three prodigal yielding, abundantly luxuriant panda.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Give me roods black and white right right.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
See note below It says you're ready for the note below,
Master Roebuck Dozer twenty three eighteen de Laney Street, City,
from Samuel Spade, license number one three seven five nine six,
subject the Prodigal Right goodness, deerob I spent a relatively
pleasant day running down a case of slow pay in
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North Beach, and, flushed with success, had returned to my
office for a final check of the file. Hmm Underwood
Helen not sure Roderick, pardon Dolly, where are they?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Oh spirits? Solid?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I sat down, put my hat and my feet on
the desk, and was loosening my color when I noticed
just the right of my off ankle, one large bag
of jelly beans. Sighting past it, I saw in the
corner chair an open copy of a magazine featuring on
the cover a blonde and a low cut dress taking
a thirty eight slug from a slack Jawdan thug in
the background under a big red letters spelling out thrilling
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crime comics, and behind all this sound asleep?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Was you? Hey? Hey, Sonny, Sonny, hey, hey.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Wake up?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, yeah, come on, Redley's blowing. Huh hi? Hi? How
long you been here? A long time? I guess. What's
your name? Ruby? Short for Robut well, what can I
do for you? Robin?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Right?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Them to the police. They wouldn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
They said I should come to you.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You mean you got a job for me? Yeah? Dangerous? Yeah,
a hoie? You mean a heist? What was it? Panned?
The beer? Oh? Someone stolen? Yeah, it's not mine really.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I bought it from my little brother Barney. He's five
and he's always wanted one. So when I got the
junk money don't money, Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Bottles and papers and stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I collected it from the neighbors and the six stars
and fifteen cents, and Varney wanted the panda bear, so
I bought it at Lazy's department store today and they
stole it.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Oh, stole it.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well, there was this man in the checkered coat and
the lady in the red silk dress, just like the
store and the comet here. Oh, the man looked like that,
but the lady looked different. She had black hair and
a red dress and her eyebrows went up this way
instead of sideways. I was walking down the street with
my panda bear and the lady called me over to
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a car she was sitting in and started to talk
to me. And right away the man in the checkered
coat ran up and grabbed at my panda bear, and
they chased me up a fire escape, and the man
pulled out a big black gun and said if I
didn't come down and give him the panda, he choot
me and Barney and Mom. So I came down and
gave him the panda.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Well that's quite a much. Oh, excuse me, Robie, Hello, Sam. Yeah, dundee.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh, Sam has a little fellow about.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Eight years old on his way over there here, Now, Lieutenant,
what's the deal? He gave us quite a story. Well,
how'd to go? Now? He took it down. I got
it right here. Let me see.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It's about a man and a checkered coat and a
lady in a red silk dress.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
You know. Oh, here is quote.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I was walking down the street with my panda bear
and the lady called me over to a car.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Okay, dundee, he hasn't changed it any yah.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
We got hold of his mother runs an elevator in
the rust building, and she says he reads so many
comic books.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You better send him home, okay, Lieutenant. Thanks, Come on, Roby,
you got to send me home. Lieutenant. Don They called
your mother home man, and you don't believe me either. Oh,
it's not that, Roby. It's just I can't go.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Home without the panda beer.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
What do I tell Barney? I promised him my own brother.
He's home now waiting. Yeah, well twenty one I'll do Roby.
You let me put you in a taxi and send
you a home, and I'll take the case. You'll get
my panda bed.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It wouldn't be at all surprised. So Barney's face hits
the floor. Just tell him Samuel and Speight Incorporated is
working on it.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Only one thing money left? Oh you got jelly beans? Amang?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah, okay, and pay me off on jelly beans. Come on,
let's find a taxi, which we did, Robin. Like the
psychology books said, I didn't discourage the child imagination, but
I did try to put you off thrilling crime comics
and under Alice in Wonderland.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
This I could see would takes some doing.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
It was almost closing time when I got to Lacey's,
but I talked my way past the man at the
door and hustle up to the sixth.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Floor and the toy department.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
The clerks were doing whatever clerks do with fine thirty,
but I found a handy floor walker.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Do you mean, missus Steed? I just don't know. I
just don't know. You mean you conded your cash and everything?
But you can't not that, mister Stein.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I am perfectly willing to stretch a point to please
a little fellow.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yes, we like to think we are human here, you know.
Well that's nice that you like to think, so, I.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Mean, but you see something very strange happened this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Come over this week, sir, by the escalator.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
We had the giant pandas at this country here twenty
five of the large size.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I assume that's what you're interested in. I guess I
then want that. Well for Christmas, they didn't do anything,
just sat here.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yes, but would you believe it's this afternoon all twenty
five were sold.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well, how do you count for that New Year's gaiety? Well,
if you want my personal opinion, it's me.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
An impressive panda bear Obey was hard to figure out
how you could lose anything that big, and harder still
to figure out how I'd explain this kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
To people who stopped me on market stript. Be that
as it may.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
My poor walker friend took my cash, tore off the
sales slip, and I was about to step sail with
my panda when I heard him make the kind of
a noise floor workers make when they see what he
was looking at.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Huh, miss green bar, Miss greenbro.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
She pointed, weakly, turned pale even by floor walker standards,
and slagged of the deck.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I turned in time to see this green byer collapse
at the top of the escalator.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
And watch to come down break across three steps, like
the cover of one of your books of bedtime stories, Roby.
She was the last passenger of the day, or so
I thought. When I looked closer, I saw she wasn't
a passenger. She was freight at the lamp copper on
the floor above, busily adding up.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Receipts if nothing had happened.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Was a dark type built along dragon Lady line.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Close.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I want to know about the girl who just went
down the escalator the screen brod. Yeah, I noticed anything
stranger butt her?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Why is she? Yeah? Did she look ill? I thought
there must have been something wrong. I said Helloigro, and
she didn't pay attention to me. It's only a second ago.
Where'd she come from? Around the corner? I think she's
been at the wrapping desk. She had with a ten.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Sized sheet of heavy brown paper, a bunch of metered
postage tape, and a shipping label addressed to Master Frankie
Carson two eight one, Evanita Ruez, Havana, Cuba. Downstairs, I
found my floor walker friend had come around and was
bending over Miss green Bar with an impressive looking gent
with gray.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
At the temples, good heavits. It can't be. It just
cannot be. That's all I'm afraid. Shears though in Lacy's
see it's unheard of. Why should you be good heavens
in my department? Tool, excuse me for a welcome m oh,
this is mister Speed. He was with me when it's
oh yeh, I'm doctor Kent Thorne. I was exchanging some
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Christmas gifts with any idea what killed her?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Well, it's pretty hot to tell without an examination, and
I don't have my things with me heart possibly natural causes,
of course, why do you have?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
There are more natural places to die. And at the
top of an escalator and in my department at Lacey's
too good heaven? Well, who can say? I have to
look up the girl's history if she had a heart condition,
Well sure, sure. Meanwhile, I'll call a homicide.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I like nothing better to do. For a minute, I
thought I'd been reading so many comic books reby. But
things settled down and they pulled out the records and
from miss Greenbrier had had a hard condition of long standing,
and the medical examiner wrote it off as natural causes.
So hoping you would consider a jelly being bonus for pumpness.
I pick up my panda and went outside. I'd gone
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about ten steps when I I'm fraid it was Larry
Healy and the top with barns for Lieutenant Dundee's sitting
in a patrol car.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Oh you and bulguard. Who's it for a little kid
in the mission? How come? What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
How come I'm buying a panda bear for a little
kid in a mission? Who likes panda bear?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
For that, I have to be explained. Okay, Sam, Okay, okay,
it just hit me. The bear ain't turned out quite right.
He needs a neck tie. I just happened to have
one here. My brother law got me for Christmas. Say
gimme no see. Oh Larry, Larry, how long has there
been bad blood between you and your brother? Bad blood? Listen?
(10:45):
Even when we were friends, he gave me ties like this.
Yeah on your waists. Thanks, thanks, thanks, says cav Let
me out.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Near the end of the lady and I started walking
up the row of j pre earthquake flat store at your.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
House will be at the end of the street. Bark
at the curve was a.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Discordant note in this hard Press neighborhood a sleek, custom
built red convertible, one of the kind that looks like
it can go nineteen miles an hour standing still. The
same can be said for the damon. It's also a
discordant note. You see, San Francisco is a very big.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Large city.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
You just don't run into a dame at the lamp
counter and Lacey's and a half hour later in a
dumpy neighborhood in the mission unless she wants it that way.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Well, hello, hello dragon, lady of the sellers.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
You uh, you must sell a pass on the lamps
the car mm, but don't try and explain that now.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Just tell me why you followed my cab follow you?
Come on, come on, what is it? You're embarrassing me?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I know since that moment at the lamp connor you
can't get me out of your mind. Well, that's a
perfectly normal reaction, but it's not that.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It's house the panda there you want it in the
worst way. He's kind of attractive. His men go with
to spade. You give me a light, please, sure, holding
the match up to her cigarette. Three things hit me.
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The black hair, the red.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Dress, and eyebrows that went up instead of sideways at
that point, the sleeve of a checkered overcoat with a
big arm inside it came around under my.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Chin from the rear, and the fourth thing hit me.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
How long I dwelt in panda lamb, I don't know,
but it was real nice while it lasted.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I was a panda too, I remember.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
And I was going somewhere with a big overstuffed private
detective under my arm when a lady panda batted her
big brown eyes at me and began pulling my nose.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
She seemed to have a very very high voice.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I call it tennant.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Tell me, mister Spain showers. Wait, it's lucky.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Over here.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Well, well, it was this way, dundee. I was walking
down the street with my panda fair and the lady
called me over to the car she was sitting, and
it started the ports run away.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
The man in the check had cold up.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
famous detective, Sam Spain. Van Heflin stars this Sunday and
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State Fair, another outstanding sixty minute production by Theodore Guild.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
On the Air.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Co starring in this exciting broadcast is one of the
leading families in show Business, Jean Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart daughter June.
It's a gala New Year's Eve broadcast when Theater Guild
presents State Fairs Sunday over most of these NBC stations.
It also means another hour and a half with Tallulah
Bankhead in radio's greatest spectacle, The Big Show. Among Tallula's
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guests will be Ken Murray, Glorious Wantson, Margaret O'Brien, Jose Ferrer,
and many more. Now back to the Prodigal Panda Caper,
the night's adventure with Sam's pay. It was a humiliating
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experience for Away, riding back the headquarters in black defeat.
But dear good Lieutenant Dundee, however, with the soul of patience.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
And understanding, why do you take me for a spade
on ediot? Look, Dundee, all I want you to understand
is that this team and a hop ut.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Com lot three rides on that Murray go round now
and I'm sick of it. Damon a red dress and
the guy in the check at coke they take your wallet.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
No, you watch other valuable No, just my panda, Sam,
Are you.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Trying to tell me there's a hot panda of going on.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Dundee, boy, look closely now as I take off my head.
What see now? As you know, my head ordinarily does
not come to a point. But this protuberance was made
by a gunbot, not by imagination. Oh, someone slugger. I
believe that, Sam. But this panda is Dunna. Yeah, why yeah, yeah,
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you were saying something about my panda, very Dunne. And
maybe they ought to take it back. My dame at
the store of this afternoon, the one who sold them,
miss stream Bot.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, they just finished the post mortem. No heart attack,
she was poisoned.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
It's a strange thing, mister Stray, very strange. I leave
my business thoughts at the store floor walker us. Try
and remember the dragon lady's name. Huh, my good, gracious eyes,
I can't remember my own name. I'm so upset. Oh,
and I'll concentrate now.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Look, dark hair, up, tilted eyebrows, red silk dress.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Works in Lampa Park and on seventh floor. I can
picture her sole cleanly.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Dark hair floor walker, dark care, upshot eyebrows.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Five brows of the scarlet scarlet scarlett.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Easy know, I got a list of employees right here,
I'll say scarlet Scarlet Scarlet, Scarlet Townsend, Scarlet Townsend, that's
the name, Ooker.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Scarlet Townsend. Yeah, he lives here like room gay come, I.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Said, have calmly, lady, wash you.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I'd like to keep from the right trash. But her age,
you can't tell nothing. Don't keep braying that no good
thing around here.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I put my foot down, I said, scarlet Ized said,
I said.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Scarlet Ized said, you're so good? What's no good? Dame? Man?
Lady Crystal McCall ah. Here I found this just out.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I was cleaning the room picture of crystamal, cause that
ain't got a swell way to have their picture taken.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Her name rang a bell, and so did the picture Crystal,
herself and me altogether.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
When I got a ount of.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
The face on it, a stickling discovery. Crystal was also
the late miss Greenbrier.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Don't look at it all day, young man. When'd you
see this girl last night?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
This morning?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
She and no hella and her kickered coat come around
and pick up Scarlet in a big red open car.
You know the fella.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Nope, I ever saw him.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Before, but I'd show all that car. Oh, you're not
telling me a thing. Land lady I have in Los Angeles,
i'd have been dead.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
But San Francisco is not a convertible town. I found
a freephone and began calling my dealer's figuring a bright
red custom built convertible.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It's something you remember, whether you see it or sell it.
And ah, this got me nowhere. And I've begun to
wonder if the car had been smuggled up from.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
The unmentionable side of the tavy when the wind changed,
so the other one while back flanks but near missus
don't conference. But the buyer had it painted red.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Special job when you're improving. It was the buyer. Caimtone,
doctor timpone, right, doctor Jews Kimtone lives on Motley Drive
bulling games. That's only red one I know, right, That's
the only red one I need.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Mister Spade, this is utterly unbelievable, and I certainly don't
intend to stand here all night discussing the pros and
cons of Panda Bay.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
All right, Kempthorn, let's slide over into your field. Meaning
what the sweet young thing at the store. It turned
out the dirty, the heart attack, the poison.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Attack, well suicide. You suppose what do you suppose.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Well, I'm sure I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Look, why don't we hold hands and tell the truth. Huh,
you'd better run along, spade. I've had about all of
this that I intended with. The dead dame was Crystal McCall.
Does that mean anything to you?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
No, a saying Crystal McCall was running around with a
hood named Frankie Cassella, formerly of New York, now of
Havana by Department.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Of Justice request, this is all very interesting. What has
it to do with me? She was riding around in
your red convertible this morning for one thing. That's a
hot car. You know.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I took a close look at it two hours ago
and got slug. I don't know how you score these things,
kem Thorne, But in my book, this calls for a.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Couple of answers. You're right, it does. Where's the car?
It's gone? Who has it? My chauffeur? This is the
last straw.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I guess there's no point in covering up for Aim
any longer.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Who is it? Lenny Fleigo? My next con isn't he? Yes?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I thought I could straighten him out.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
He's been missing for two days. This time he just
took the car and left.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I knew he had something to do with that girl
in the toy department at Lacey's, so I went there today.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I guess I was too late. You think Fleago killed her?
I don't know. I don't know where.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Where did you see the car near the end of
the Laney Street? What's the license number?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Forty nine h eight two two. I'd better report stole him.
If you need me to testify, please.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Feel free to call that. I will, Doctor Kenathon By.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
What I had in mind, of course, was the coal
Lieutenant Dundee, and I had him to slap of twenty
four hour tail on my good doctor.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
But something intervened.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Halfway down a walk to the street, my eye fell
on a round plastic object about the size of a
nickel lying in the grass, clearly the eye of a
giant panda. Since two other eyes were obviously watching me
through doctor ken Thorne's front frickens, I continued gaily onto
my cab, drove up a half flock, got out, and
walked back just in time to see ken Thorne roll
(21:22):
away from the curb and his other car heading towards
El Camino in points north. All this left me free
to poll at will and four match books later, I
had found two more eyes, a pocket full of panda skin,
and a goodly scoop of panda upholstery.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
The trail led to the garage. There's no wonder his
car was stolen.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
You must have had to leave it on the street
all night because there was no room for it in
the garage, which had been turned into a kind of
panda abatar, crammed of the raptures with panda bears, all.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
The giant size too.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
In various stages of this odeal legs, darms, eyes and innerds.
A sight to chill the heart of any but the
sturdious five A detective program.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
But I embraced myself and carried on.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Homicide.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Dundee, it's the same, Dundee, Sam, Where are you calling from?
Bone booth? And I drive in on El Camino.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Listen, my license number on the red custom job is
forty nine eighty two to two. And the guy driving
in his Lenny Fleegal the next time, don't talk to
me about that car.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Larry Heay picked it up to night going ninety on
the face. Sure right, lousy, Why what happened?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Next time I seen one of them panda bears, I'm
gonna spit righting aside. So Larry pulls a guy down
and the first thing he sees is the panda.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Bear with a night chie. What about the dragon Lady?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
She came second? Larry can think of as a hot
panda bear figures he stole it, so he takes it
back to the patrol car to return it to the kid.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
No.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yeah, the time he got the exhaust smoke out of
his eyes, they were gone. Oh set license nowhere.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Again forty nine eight two to two. You're sure positive?
I'm looking right at it? I oh, Sam.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Dundee, Yeah, we're all at Anderson's drive in on El Camino.
Put it on the air, which just shows you how
slow I can think. Well, the the red job was
staring at me with its big pomies outside the plate
glass window legal and the Dragon Lady bliss somewhere having
(23:32):
a Saturday night blue plate displayed effectively on the play.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Wrecks hung from the car doors.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I saw a lot of the phone booth and through
the kitchen, thereby coming up on the car from behind.
Plenty of time, mind, if I join your fleegal She
reached and I pushed and instead of.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
His gun he came up with half a hamburger. It
was too harsh a light for the Dragon Lady to.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Operate effectively, and by the time Larry Healy and the
Powell car pulled up, they decided to do.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
It the easy way. All company back then, lovely Larry plea,
you go, Dragon Lady? Shut up? What about the rich job?
What are you gonna do with it? Larry?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Oh, I'm poled it from the lawyers that props off
and Slammy want to go by way to the Delaney Street?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah? Why Delaney Street? Larry delivered the panda huh good
under the kid broby Dozier. I'll have to go and
check it out, Lenny, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Said words, paying fifty thousand, one hundred little kids gunn yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Carcelo be disappointed for going with the tax for was
watching both him and Christal looked like a safeway to
get some of his dough out of the country.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
To him, wasn't my idea. I hated him. I did
eight years for him, Spade, I could have killed him.
I don't care anymore. Heck with it. Let the watching me.
The guy who's running things for him here has got
the chem Thorne. But Crystal had the dough. He killed it.
He took her lunch today, so I had Lenny, so
he poisoned He then what she fixed up one of
the pandas. He didn't know which stuff it was Bill's
eighty one hundred dollars. And I don't know anyway.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
You'll find the money in the red car, into the
back seat, under the seat.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
What are you talking about? It's in the panda. The
kids got it. Look, why do you think I'm telling
you this? Your stupid fuck? But I fixed that thing.
But I saw myself after we took the dough out.
What kid, it's gotta bombit it.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I don't remember much about the ride from then on Roby.
All I could see was a white line unwinding in
the headlight. But somehow we got to the end of
Villany Street and around that corner again.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Hobby, Bobby here, Robby, Robby, your no just resting? Where's
the pen?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Run through with pandas? And so is Brownie next junk money?
I'm gonna buy him a now for who a policeman
brought it. I started hold of it when a car
drove up, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Now with gray hair got out I'm thing what then
same thing?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
He grabbed it and got in his car and drove off.
What's around the corner they're playing with it?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Don't ask him. I don't care anymore. Around the corner
you mean? He period, and of report.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
A highly inconsiderate thing to do to a pan, But
I'll get in one thing. He had the good drainch
to park in front of a vacant lot before starting
to tear it apart.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
And of course the coin of phrase. You saved the
people some money. And now if you're a good efficient
girl and run that through your infernal machine, who knows
what I'll have in store for you when you're through.
No jelly jeans. Still work is done. Scoop, Scoop, scoop.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Three chimes mean good times on NDC Friday means another
visit to that entertaining eat establishment, Duffy's tavern. Archie the
manager and his whimsical friends have cooked up another fresh
half hour of laughs and typical Duffy's tavern madness, and
you're all invited. There's also another delightful adventure with Chester
Ray Riley played by William Bendix. Tonight on the Life
(27:10):
of Riley keep your dial set to NBC for the
very best in radio entertainment. An official Yeah lay off
(27:31):
play off. Wain not favoraiting all the black ones in
my favor, Master Robot Dozier very as well.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Sam.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I hope Roby appreciate you, only kid, I appreciate me.
I appreciate you. I appreciate you too, Waiter, You're so
pretty and so efficient.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I'm so good about not sitting me all the time
for your back salary. Yet Hey, when I stop and
think of you, I got.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
A all Cholter.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Career Angel, It's all yours here. The rest of the
jeving Happy, oh, good night, good night. The Adventures of
(28:36):
Sam Spade are produced, edited and directed by William Spears.
Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn. The reen title
is Effie Splip for Tonight's Adventure by Harold Swanton, Musical
scoring by lud Gluskin, conducted by Robert Armbrewster. Join us
again next week, same time for another adventure with Sam's faith.
(29:01):
Enjoy the Magnificent Montague, then Duffy's Tavern on NDC Boomoo
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