May 26, 2025 • 40 mins
Today's Mystery: The Falcon goes to Berlin to investigate when the books of the US occupation forces show a shortage.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 17, 1952
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Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Lily Valente; Larry Haines; Ralph Bell
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 17, 1952
Originating from New York
Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Lily Valente; Larry Haines; Ralph Bell
Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net
Patreon Supporter of the Day: Maurice, Patreon supporter since January 2024
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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You'll bite me later and now. From July seventeenth, nineteen
fifty two, here is the Case of the King of
CLOBs helone.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yes, this is the Falcon speaking Martha.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I'm glad you called.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
They like to include me out tonight, Angela on my
way to Berlin. That's right, Berlin. Seems Army Intelligence needs
a troubleshooter in Germany.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I know. I don't like it either. That's the sort
of assignment that kills me.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Once again, The National Broadcasting Company brings you the transcribed
Adventures of the Falcon, starring Less Damon. The Adventures of
the Falcon dedicated to private investigators everywhere, Those hard hitting
detectives who like Mike Wearing, risk their lives to eight
law enforcement agencies. So join him now when the Falcon
(03:03):
solves the Case of the King of Clubs.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I don't know how you feel about advertisements personally, I
love them, especially the one that goes.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Never underestimates the power of a woman. Leamy Shakespeare never
poured more truth into fewer words. Just go through the
pages of history, Eve, Delilah, Cleopatra, Lily Tiesen And if
you've never met Lily, this is your chance. She's a
luscious looking female making with the lipstick in her apartment
or the tear guard in Berlin. Though our armed forces
(03:38):
may occupy West Germany, it.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Works both ways. Lily keeps our armed force and occupied.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Who is it?
Speaker 6 (03:47):
It's me, Lily, open up just.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
A moment, Jimmy Darly, but a wonderful surprise. I thought
you'd be busy at the office.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I had to see you, Lily. I haven't gone out
of my min since last night.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
You're sweet.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Every time I think of you.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Only behave you?
Speaker 7 (04:06):
You bad boy?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Look what you've done to my hair?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Oh? I ran into some character on your landing. Who
was he?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
How should I know?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Well? It must have been up here, tall thin boy,
blonde hair. You don't trust me, You're done right, You're
not kidding me, Lily. I know all about.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
You, and I know all about you. Major Dodge why
didn't you tell me you were married?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Well, what what makes you think I am?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I met your wife yesterday when in London.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
No.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Yeah, she's a very lovely woman, Jimmy, A little sin
perhaps that morose charming Lily.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
You didn't say anything to her, of.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
Course not lebster.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Would I do anything to hurt you. I just know
now what I have to do.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Very naturally? I can't continue seeing you.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
It wouldn't be fair, Lily. I won't give you up.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
That It's very simple. You boss your wife?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
No, no, no, I can't do that to Grace.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
That you have no objections doing it to me.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Lily, you don't understand. Grace is a wonderful girl, and I.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Am a mercenary female without a conscience.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
Yes, yet you love.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I'm crazy about you, Lily. I can't give you up.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
And you won't give up your wife. You do have
a problem, darling. All right, I give you till the
end of the week to solve it, all right, Jimmy,
(05:43):
what is it?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
What's what? Grace?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Well, there's something bad, don't you You want to tell
me about it?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
There's nothing to tell.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
If there's anywhere that I can.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
I tell you it's nothing.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Now, for Pete's sake, let me alone, of course, But
I'm sorry, Grace. I don't know what's come over me.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Oh you've been working too hard? What you needed? Oh, dear,
I'll get it. That's the second.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
Good Navin good Nabin is here are your dodgy? Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I wonder if I might have.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
A word with you, Grace.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Well, it is someone to see you, jim mister.
Speaker 8 (06:18):
Keller, Fritz Keller.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
You probably don't remember me, Measure, Why no, I don't
We met for a few short minutes this afternoon. I'm
the landing at forty one Wolton Strasser. Oh comes back
to you now?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yes, what do you want?
Speaker 9 (06:32):
And I would prefer to discuss this privately, Grace to
your mind, of course.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Not Jimmy, I'll run over and talk to Twiler. It's
a good night meellion, mister Keller.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
The pleasure was all mine.
Speaker 10 (06:42):
I'll be back in about twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yes, that'll be fun. Lovely woman, your wife? How right? Keller?
What's on your mind?
Speaker 8 (06:50):
But you might at least invite me to sit down.
I don't think you'll be staying long.
Speaker 9 (06:54):
I trust you will appreciate my position, Major Dodge. We
Germans are poor people. Circumstances often compel us to do
things we cannot help.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
In my case, I have a rare.
Speaker 9 (07:05):
Opportunity to go into business with one of my compatriots.
Unfortunately we lack capital, so I would be obliged if
you would loan me forty five thousand marks. That's ten
thousand American dollars.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Are you crazy?
Speaker 9 (07:21):
It isn't as though I have no security to offer
in exchange. I am prepared to turn over this.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Where did you get these pictures? Doesn't clearly photograph beautifully?
Speaker 8 (07:34):
But personally if you think I'm going to let you
blackmail me an.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Ugly world, well I asked was a loan? Of course?
Speaker 9 (07:41):
There is the chance you will never be repaid.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
You show you up, Come on, get up.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
No one, no one I've ever struck a not regretted.
Speaker 9 (07:55):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Had your second call on.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
Me, I might even call on you myself. Good Norman,
Major Dodge.
Speaker 9 (08:02):
I'm sure we shall meet that day.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Hello that you, lily, he dies, I've got.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
To see you. Suppose we met at the Kreutz Curning.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Have you to read your wife about her?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
No? No, something's come up, Lily.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Do you know what?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Fritz Keller?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Heller?
Speaker 6 (08:29):
No, no, Keller with a K.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Why do you ask?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
He knows about us? He's even got a set of pictures.
He wants forty five thousand marks for him. Yes, he
was the same boy I met on your landing the
other day.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
You think I cooperated with him?
Speaker 6 (08:45):
I didn't say that.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Now wait a minute, Lily practically accused.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
I didn't mean that. I swear.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Well, what are you going to do?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
What do you recommend?
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Yes, this Keller do his worst. I'm not ashamed of our.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
No, no, Lily, I don't want Grace to find out about.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Us this way.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Man, you have no choice but to pay. Where will
you raise the money?
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Well, I'll manage somehow.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
You do love me, Dodgy, Lily, you silly boy, of
course I do.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Can I see you tonight. I'll tell Grace I.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Don't think you better.
Speaker 11 (09:18):
Jimmy.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
I want you to be able to give her killer
your undivided attention. He needs it, of Darling.
Speaker 11 (09:36):
And the major is of the Oh he I am
I yes.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I'm looking for major Dodd.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Oh yeah, man, I'm major Dodger. Civilionaid I help you
maybe you can at that. I'm Mike Wearring.
Speaker 11 (09:51):
Mike Wearing Wait a second, haven't I heard that name before?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I don't know, have you?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Why?
Speaker 11 (09:57):
Sure you're the private detective they call.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It not so loud. I'm trying to live it down.
Speaker 11 (10:03):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I can't recall the temporary duty with Army intelligence.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Puts it down. Thanks, I'm Alan Bruce. You just get
into Berlin now. I've been here for a week doing groundwork.
Speaker 11 (10:15):
You don't think that we've got a couple of spies
on the payroll.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It might be from the looks of your accounts. The
Pentagon cables me are ten thousand dollars short.
Speaker 12 (10:24):
Oh they're crazy.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
It's been double checked, Bruce, someone around here, sticky fingers.
How long have you known major? Don don't tell me
you think that Jimmy is a possibility. Oh well, you're
out of your mind. You might just as well suspect me.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I do.
Speaker 11 (10:39):
Well, that makes a lot more sense. Jimmy's as honest
as they come. Oh, I'm sure you know where I
can reach them? Why no, he and Grace just moved.
Wats his phone number? I don't think they've got a phone,
that's right, He told me he was having trouble getting
it transferred.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Well when he gets in and asked me to call me,
I'm staying at the him of the I'll do that.
Hearing brute, you're bad.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Operator.
Speaker 11 (11:06):
Get me grounded the air one three four one?
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Come on? Come on?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Is that you Jimmy?
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Bruce here, can you talk?
Speaker 6 (11:22):
Why? What's up?
Speaker 11 (11:23):
I don't know, but you better get down to the
office pronto. Washington sent an investigator named Mike Wearing.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
To see you.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Like Wearing. I thought he was in Rome.
Speaker 11 (11:30):
Not anymore. He claims. We're ten thousand dollars short.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
What.
Speaker 11 (11:35):
Yes, he's been sent here to find the guilty critter.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Oh, Bruce, you don't think I oh, of course not.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
What do you take me for anyway?
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Well, he's Wearing there now.
Speaker 11 (11:44):
No, No, I left him minute ago. He wants you
to get in touch with him at the Hindenburg.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
You better do it real fast.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
What's my hurry?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I'll listen, relax, and Bruce.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
I'll get to Wearing and due time. Oh, thanks for
the tip anyway.
Speaker 12 (12:04):
Exactly?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
I beg your pardon?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Do not remember me?
Speaker 5 (12:12):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
It's Keller. I was to see a husband a week ago.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Oh, of course, how are you?
Speaker 8 (12:20):
I wonder what you care to join me in a
glass of wine?
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Well, I'm sorry, I'm late for an appointment.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
Now I think this might be to your advantage. Grace
great forgive me informality, but I do hope we can
be friends.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Perhaps you will.
Speaker 9 (12:35):
Accept this portfolio. Yeah, as talking about Esteve, what is
it that is? Snapshot of Berlin? For example, here's one
of our zool.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Oh uh, isn't that Jimmy in the foreground?
Speaker 8 (12:52):
But I believe it is. And I'm sure you must
know the woman.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
Yes, I just happen to know that she's an all
these pictures your husband sister perhap?
Speaker 8 (13:04):
Yeah, very lovely and she looks at him so adoringly.
Obviously they are very fond of each other. Yes, and
I hope you will keep these little sumni.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
You're staying, Berlain, You're very kind. Now, if you'll forgive
me her color Adan long I have worked.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
That's come and my old dodge, that's right.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
I trust you will forgive this inclusion. My name is
Adolph Beimeler.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Adolf.
Speaker 13 (13:41):
Yes, I'm sure it means nothing to you, but we
do have a mutual friend, Oh, would you care to
venture again?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Look, I happen to be busy, so you don't mind.
Speaker 12 (13:51):
The typical American spirit. You must make every moment count.
Speaker 13 (13:57):
But then who can blame you out on earth for
a short time?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Quite a philosophy.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yes, in my work, one must be.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
All right, what are you getting?
Speaker 9 (14:07):
Perhaps this will clear up metals and I'll put it
a gun.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Will you show then interest in my profession?
Speaker 8 (14:15):
Why are you doing this so money?
Speaker 13 (14:17):
I know I should be ashamed of myself, but when
one is, if it's money, you want to get away
from that desk? I just want to show you, I said,
get away.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
That's the trouble with your Americans.
Speaker 13 (14:30):
You are so used to giving orders, you never learned
to take them.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
This will teach you.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Can you stop in time? Ask yourself that question the
next time you drive your car. If the car in
front of you should jam on his brakes to avoid
a stray dog, if a child should dash across an intersection,
if a tire should blow out, could you stop in
time to save a life? Slippery roads, fogged windshields, poor visibility.
(15:11):
All of these factors mean that you must be more
alert in following simple safety rules.
Speaker 14 (15:17):
At all times.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Remember, accidents don't always happen to the other fellow. And
now back to the adventures of the falcon.
Speaker 13 (15:36):
Well.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
I guess it don't improve that little thirty eight can
make some men a big shot eight off.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
By Lapumpo's slugs into Nator James Dodge.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I did a tour of the West Berlin Police headquarters.
Her General Inspector Schiller, who was in charge, was quite
proud of their facilities. A sells are complete in every detail.
This one even came equipped with a brunette Raw Dodge,
you have a visit, alumis is done?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Who are you, Mike wearing?
Speaker 12 (16:03):
You will call me when you're through?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah, thanks a lot. Her Inspector General Cigarette.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Oh yes, did the embassy send you?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
No, I'm here on my own. I'm working for Army intelligence.
I wonder if you'd mind answering a few questions.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
If it's about my husband's murder, yes it is. I
can only tell you what I told the others. I
don't know anything about it.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
They think you killed him.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And Adolf by learning No, he's the boy who pulled
the trigger?
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Does he claim I hired him?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
For the occasion, and so far they haven't been able
to ask him. He escaped to the Russian zone and
the comrade show a strange reluctance to turn him over.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
It.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Well, when they do, we will find that I didn't
hire him. Where's my motive?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Well, you know your husband was playing around with some fraeulein.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
That is a lie.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
And how do you explain those snapshots of Jimmy and
the blonde venus they found in your purse?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
I didn't mean to sing. She she was an old
friend of the family. What's her name, Gretchen, Gretchen Schumann.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Where can I find him?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
You can't. She moved to East Germany a couple of
months ago.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I look, missus, Dodd would like to help you, but
I've got to know the truth.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Who is this girl?
Speaker 5 (17:20):
I told you her name is Gretchen Schumann.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
That's what you told me.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
You don't believe me? Nope, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I'm so mine because I'm going to find him. And
if you won't help me, maybe I know the party
who will Hey tell her?
Speaker 6 (17:35):
I want not.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I wish I could give you a lead.
Speaker 11 (17:44):
Worrying, but honestly, I don't see how I can never
know unless you try it.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Broce, you think missus Dodds killed her? No?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Why should she?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
He was cheating?
Speaker 11 (17:53):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Why not? You were covering for him?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Who says? So I do?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
When I saw you at the office? Who told me
the major had moved and he didn't have a phone
in this new place? You were lying, luck, weren't you?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (18:07):
I called him right after you left. Why he was
my friend?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Even though he had his hand in Uncle Sam's pockets.
Speaker 11 (18:13):
He'll never get me to believe that.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Do you believe he was involved with some female?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (18:18):
How did you find out? I ran into them together
a couple of months ago?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Is this the girl?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Yes? That's Lily, all right, Lily, Lily Tissen, not.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
A dodge meter.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
Tell what difference does it make?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Well?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Maybe i'd like to make her acquaintance the same way.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
There's a little.
Speaker 11 (18:36):
Nightclub on Koum Strausser. It's called the kreutz Kinney. Oh,
that's the King of Clubs. Yes, she works there. I'm
doing what I don't know exactly.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Good.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Then I'll have a chance to find out for myself.
That ought to be fun?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Yeah, han, Hey, yeah, Smirnoff Martini, real dry fire parts vodka,
one of Vermouth, make it.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Too for unless the gentleman of.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Jake, Well, if I do, I'm no gentleman. Go ahead, for.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
I suppose I should introduce myself. My name is Lily Tisson.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Glad to know you, Lily. I'm Mike Wearing.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
You probably think I'm very fo.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Hell wouldn't have it any other way. Hate retiring women.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
You intend to stay long in Velini.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Well, up to a minute ago, I was ready to leave,
But now I'm beginning to like it.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
You are very gallant.
Speaker 8 (19:39):
Yeah your drinks?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
No, yeah, yeah, keep the change.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Doncle is there?
Speaker 12 (19:44):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
That's all right.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
It's most and wise. It's playing all that money. It
may give people ideas.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Hell have it gives you a he I'm all for it.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
You think your wife would approved, Well, I noticed that
wedding ring. Oh where is she?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Oh she's back in New York. She would leave the kid.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
You have children six? You are kind of young to
have so many.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Well, I got an early start.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Tell me about her.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Elsie, the greatest little girl in the world, real wonderful mother.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
A man.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
You get eight servants in the house.
Speaker 14 (20:22):
And she won't leave the kid.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
You have eight in hell?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Well, I mean on the permanent staff. Of course, when
we throw a shindig, we bring in a dozen more.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
You must be very wealthy to wearing.
Speaker 8 (20:32):
I do all right, but it's just.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
So noisy here. Why don't we go over to my place?
Why I have a little flat near the tear goten.
I think you might like it?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Well, she would? Would we have been alone?
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Surely you are not afraid?
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Oh no, I was just thinking of the little woman.
She might not understand.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Don't you have a saying what you do not know
can never hear you. Hey, that's right, then you are elsy,
can never be hurt. Shall we go? Well?
Speaker 11 (21:15):
Here we are yep, here we are waiting.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
I turn on the lights.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Hey, this is all right.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
You like it?
Speaker 8 (21:26):
You like it.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I think this is the softest touch in s lannel.
And plus, I just hope Elsie would be understand.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
I'm sure she would sit down, And what about you.
I'm just going to slip into something a little more comfortable.
Speaker 10 (21:40):
Wait, wait a minute, don't worryly, I won't be long. Hello,
an overfew drites fight five?
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Yeah, I say, I'll be right with you.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Michael, help yourself to a dream. Hello rich really? Oh
you know this is not very brightly extenuating circumstances. I
just discovered Jimmy Dodge's successor make another American?
Speaker 8 (22:10):
What is his name?
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Mike Wearing?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Is he rich?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
He also has a wife and six children.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
He sounds most interesting.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
That's why I thought you should make his acquaintance. I
bring along your camera for its. I think mister Wearing
will prove the most photogenic subject.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Oh wait, there's nobody who? Oh yeah, how would?
Speaker 14 (22:44):
I'll be right there.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
The devil is my all right, I'm coming.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I'm coming, Michael Wearing. That's right my car. So, Fritch Keller,
at your service?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 8 (22:57):
I prefer to discuss that.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Love?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 14 (23:06):
Fritz?
Speaker 8 (23:07):
And I am a photographer by trade.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
You're Wearing and so I thought perhaps you might like
a set of pictures as assumni of your visit to Germany.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
No, I don't think i'll need them. I've seen the
concentration camps and gas chambers at book and Wall and
Dark Howe, I remember that for quite a while.
Speaker 9 (23:22):
You must understand we Germans do nothing of what was
going on.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Oh sure, all you people thought they were rest homes
for the agent.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
I refused to be involved in a political discussion. I
have more important business. Perhaps you would care to see
a portfolio of my work?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Sure, love to Ah hmm, it's nice you recognize the lady. Yeah,
that's delitiation. She looks wonderful. But I don't think you
did me justice.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
But it is undoubtedly you.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Oh yeah, it's me all right.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
I'm willing to sell them for forty five thousand marks.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Do I get a discount if by buying grosser?
Speaker 9 (24:00):
If you think I'm joking, you know, I think you're
quite serious. You would not care to have your wife
receive a set with my compliments?
Speaker 6 (24:07):
My wi?
Speaker 15 (24:08):
I believe her name is Elsie. Oh, Elsie say Fritz
is a photographer. Maybe you'd like to see a picture.
And I think there was one in this magazine here
and she does a lot of modeling. Yeah, here we are.
Now what do you think of Elsie? But this is
a cow That's no way to speak of the woman
(24:28):
I love. But you totally she didn't take me serious.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I guess I should be ashamed of myself.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
I would not advise you to try that again.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You never should have said that, Fritz. I'm the kind
of a kid who can't resistant. You pull the same
this done on Make a Dog and I say you did.
Don't bother getting up, Fritz. Just stay right there and
I get dressed. I'll call you as soon as I'm ready.
Speaker 16 (25:00):
I must admit that you build a very substantial case
against the man hair wearing.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
But you don't believe he was responsible for me to
Dodge's murder.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
Franklin, No, thank you, handspect girl.
Speaker 12 (25:10):
Shut up.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
He practically admitted to me, why you dirty hair wearing?
Speaker 6 (25:16):
Please?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I'm sorry, Shell, But what does it take to convince
you people anyway?
Speaker 12 (25:21):
What it requires in you country? Evidence?
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Well, you know he and Lily Tayson were working this
blackmail racket on Major Dodge.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Can you prove it?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Yes?
Speaker 14 (25:29):
Through his wife?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
He gave her a duplicate set of those pictures.
Speaker 17 (25:32):
Ah.
Speaker 12 (25:33):
Then she knew that her husband was untrue.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Yes, she knew, all right, but she didn't have him killed.
Fritz hair dead?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Why should I?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Maybe he wouldn't pay off.
Speaker 14 (25:41):
But he did.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
If you, gentleman, will examine my bank book, you will
find a deposit entry of forty five thousand marks on
the seventh of July.
Speaker 8 (25:50):
But a dodge page of then was no reason for
me to have him.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
She and why did you give those pictures to his wife?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I thought she might be interested. Apparently she was.
Speaker 9 (26:00):
If I could be of any further service to her
during her trial.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Please feel feed to call on me. Could not went here.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
You and your children can expect to live long, thanks
largely to better medicine and surgery. But you could expect
to live even longer were it not for the danger
of automobile accidents. In the fifteen to twenty five age
group alone, traffic accidents wiped out three hundred thousand years
of life last year. If driver education could be taught
in all of our high schools instead of only a
(26:38):
third of them, it might someday help to save the
life of your own son or daughter in your own automobile.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Remember to drive as though your life.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Depends on it. It does.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
And now back to the adventures of the Falcon.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Oh, no, I know how Hitler must have felt when
I dropped a blockbuster on the right chancellery. He must
have been real upset.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
And after Fritz Keller bought himself out of Shiller's office. There,
Inspector General and I looked at each other. I don't
know what he saw, but I was disappointed, and I
thought of Grace Dodge. That didn't cheer me up either. Hello,
missus Dodge, you.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Don't look too happy.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
He isn't my fault.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Yes, I had a nomination for the party responsible for
your husband's murder, but the convention turned me down.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Who was it?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Fritz Keller? Wait?
Speaker 5 (27:37):
I don't know the gentleman, and.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
He knows you. He gave you that set of pictures
of Jimmy and Lily Tiesen.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Is that what he claimed?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
That's what he claims.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
He's lying.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
We can't prove it.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Cloud Dodge, go right ahead.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
I love Angel. If you think by denying everything you
can escape the rope, you're wrong. Fritz was blackmailing your husband.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
If he was, I had no knowledge of it.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I hate to contradict the lady, but you did.
Speaker 16 (27:58):
On the fifth of July, you were called by Maya
All Breast company.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Who are they?
Speaker 12 (28:04):
Drograge Firm? Here?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
They deal in American securities.
Speaker 16 (28:08):
Proud Dodge and her husband, joint Clear, held several shares
of stock to sell them. Both their signatures were required.
Well out Breage thought your signature was forged.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
He called you to verify, and I told him it
was genuine.
Speaker 16 (28:24):
Then obviously you knew your husband was being blackmail hold
a shill.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I think I see it now.
Speaker 12 (28:29):
It was a pattern to me long ago.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
No, I tell you're making a mistake. With a little luck,
I can prove it. If the thing's crossed, Angel, we're
gonna need all the help we can get. I don't
get rank, he'll feel help it. I do you think
that's what is big brew thing? I want to help
you at the trap. Yeah, you believe Grace had her
(28:52):
husband killed? Of course not. And that makes two of us.
What do you think was the killer's model money? That's
when I think.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Too, the ten thousand dollars Fritz kellergan Now the ten
thousand was lifted from the office.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
But you said Keller wound up with that. No, I
wasn't the same money. Jimmy rays his by selling some
personal stocks that he and his wife.
Speaker 11 (29:09):
How I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Well, you see there were two sums of ten thousand
dollars involved, the one Dodge paid off to Keller and
the one you lifted from the office. What she had
Dodge killed to cover those haft.
Speaker 12 (29:20):
Do you realize what you're saying?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Of course, why do you think I invited you to
drive me down at police headquarters? Now just keep going, Bruce,
You're on the right road. It took the wrong one
when you turn the murder. Now you're doing fine. Vieter Kellner,
(29:45):
I need to pleasure riding on Marshnell. You like it
here here, Bertie, Yeah, but it doesn't seem the same
without Lily. I sure would like to have another couple
of pictures taken with her, and well, just to show
my friends in America. I have no idea what was
on here.
Speaker 12 (30:02):
You are leaving for the United States shortly.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Tomorrow morning, and that's too far off. I leave tonight
if there was a plane out.
Speaker 9 (30:08):
A sure can see here there's a cablegram for you,
awarded from your hair.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
You open it, chill, you are not sure you I
know what it's a You're gonna leave me stuck here
in Europe forever.
Speaker 12 (30:21):
No, you are wrong. What you are to leave the
continent immediately?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I don't believe it. Let's see that.
Speaker 12 (30:27):
See they are sending you to not.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Are good night here, Inspector General.
Speaker 14 (30:48):
The Case of the Broken Key.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
The Case of the Broken Key, that's the title of
next week's Adventure of the Falcon, Wearing learns that although
love may laugh at Locksmith's murder is no joke. The
Adventures of the Falcon are based on the famous character
created by Drexel Drake, produced and transcribed by Bernardell Schubert,
(31:17):
written by Eugene Wang, and directed by Richard Lewis Les
Damon was started as the Falcon with Lily Villente as Lily.
This program came from New York, Fred Collins.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Speaking welcome back, It was fun to have the Falcon
go undercover. Six children seem to be overdoing it at Tad,
(31:49):
but it ended up working for him. Of course, the
Falcon's job could have been simplified with better communication with
the police. The key to the whole case was the
ten thousand dollars being taken twice, and the whole blackmail
thing that took up seventy percent of the episode was
just a red herring. It's a bit weird to hear
(32:13):
Hitler use so casually in dramas of this era. Now
I know how Hitler felt. Is not a line you
would expect to hear today. Of course, it's important to
keep in mind Hitler's death was relatively recent, just seven
years before this episode. I guess it'd be kind of
like using a Saddam Hussein or Molmar Kadothi reference in
(32:35):
a modern context, though they've both been dead longer at
the time of this podcast than Hitler had been when
this episode was recorded. On a more serious note, we
didn't get this idea of German's claiming to be non political,
which is a recurring theme in radio programs of the era.
(32:56):
It drew from the fact that Hitler rose to power
and maintained power to popular support, and yet the Allies
on occupied in the country found a mathematically improbable number
of people claiming to have been non political or having
nothing to do with what happened. The lack of accountability
(33:18):
and responsibility provoked these sort of references. The phrase used
in the closing tease was not one I was familiar with,
and so I went on some research about Love Laughs
at Locksmith. There was actually an eighteen oh three play
called Love Laughs at Locksmith, and then in eighteen oh
(33:43):
five the British painter Thomas Rowlandson created a painting with
that title In the foreground, an elderly man fumbles with
an oversized padlock on his door. Beside him, a servant
balances a basket of poultry on his head, and his
eyes go to the background, where a young woman is
(34:03):
descending from a window on a ladder into the arms
of her lover. In army officer phrases, Genesis goes back
a couple centuries further to William Shakespeare. Now, contrary to
the unscrupulous meme maker I found who made it a
direct quote from Shakespeare, No, that's not true. But in
(34:27):
his long poem Venus and Adonis, he wrote where beauty
under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and
picks them all at last. And I don't want to
say that. I hope everyone enjoyed the baseball replays that
we did last week. Now, i'd like to tell you
(34:49):
how our vacation went. But the nature of these recording
breaks and our recording schedule right now is I'm actually
recording this episode before where we leave, so there won't
actually be a post trip episode that I record until
either Thursday or Friday. That bit of honesty out of
(35:12):
the way. Now it's time for listener comments and feedback,
and we start out on the site called X, where
Itchy Richie rights they should rename him to the Man
called Wire or something like that. Did this series even
run at the same time as the Man Called X
back in the day, Well, a great question, thanks so much.
(35:36):
The Man Called X and the Falcon overlapped each other
quite a bit in their run. Although the Falcon first
began running earlier and stayed on radio later, The Man
Called X actually ended right before changes to the Falcon began.
(35:56):
On May twenty ninth of nineteen fifty two, the last
episode of The Man Called X air. Then on June eighth,
nineteen fifty two, you had the case of the Dirty Dollar,
where the Falcon all of a sudden was tired of
being a private investigator, and then two weeks later you
(36:18):
had the case of the Vanishing Visa, which began our
current storyline. Now we don't know why the Man Called
X ended, whether it was ratings unlikely, or it may
have been a matter of Payne Herbert Marshall's salary, but
it wasn't because interest in the Cold War had subsided. Now,
(36:40):
did somebody at NBC say we need another spy program
to keep going through the summer, and we already have
West Damon cast in the Falcon, and the private detective
shows are kind of falling out of fashion, so why
don't we make The Falcon into a spy show. Now,
(37:02):
we don't know that that happened at NBAC, but it
certainly could have. And finally we go to Instagram where
zoom to zoom rights. I'm curious, just why do they
call the guy the Falcon when it's called the Falcon.
Just chalk it up to the human tendency to put
(37:24):
the emphasis on the wrong salable. All right, Well, now
it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,
and I want to go ahead and thank Maurice, Patreon
supporter since January twenty twenty four, currently supporting the podcast
at the Shawmas level of four dollars or more per month.
Thanks so much for your support, Maurice, and that will
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do it for today. Join us back here on Thursday
for an episode of and next Thursday we'll be bringing
you the first part of a mini series based on
the novel the movie Stone, and next Monday we'll be
back with another episode of The Falcon. But join us
(38:07):
back here tomorrow for Charlie Chan.
Speaker 17 (38:10):
Where there are three or other four men. I should
like to question you regarding John Ryder, Madam's second husband.
I know he never corresponded with him.
Speaker 18 (38:22):
I don't imagine she's toll of him anymore.
Speaker 17 (38:24):
Have you the slightest idea why she separated from me?
Speaker 18 (38:27):
But I can give you a notion. Madam has had
step books of news clippings from all over the world.
I ran across this one the day before yesterday. Yes, yes,
this is it.
Speaker 17 (38:41):
Ellen Landini snowed in recently divorced singer in a cabin
up in the Revie Ellen Landini, formerly the wife of
Dudley Ward, California millionaire, but who was recently married to
John Ryder, is snowed in for the winter at Tlio Mine.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Yeah, yeah, I remember that was twenty five foot deep
that year.
Speaker 11 (39:11):
Remember John saying the burn candles all day.
Speaker 17 (39:14):
It has aspects of romantic situations rather than grounds for
the voce.
Speaker 18 (39:19):
That's exactly what I said to Madam when I read it,
all right, I just saidwhat younger? Then Madam burst into laughter. Romantic,
she cries romantic to be shut up in one room
for eternity with the most colossul boss in the world
began a talent egoist with the conversational powers of a mummy.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
In a week, I lost.
Speaker 18 (39:38):
In another, I just pised him. In a month, I
could have killed him and he me.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
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You'll bite me later and now. From July seventeenth, nineteen
fifty two, here is the Case of the King of
CLOBs helone.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yes, this is the Falcon speaking Martha.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I'm glad you called.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
They like to include me out tonight, Angela on my
way to Berlin. That's right, Berlin. Seems Army Intelligence needs
a troubleshooter in Germany.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I know. I don't like it either. That's the sort
of assignment that kills me.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Once again, The National Broadcasting Company brings you the transcribed
Adventures of the Falcon, starring Less Damon. The Adventures of
the Falcon dedicated to private investigators everywhere, Those hard hitting
detectives who like Mike Wearing, risk their lives to eight
law enforcement agencies. So join him now when the Falcon
(03:03):
solves the Case of the King of Clubs.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I don't know how you feel about advertisements personally, I
love them, especially the one that goes.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Never underestimates the power of a woman. Leamy Shakespeare never
poured more truth into fewer words. Just go through the
pages of history, Eve, Delilah, Cleopatra, Lily Tiesen And if
you've never met Lily, this is your chance. She's a
luscious looking female making with the lipstick in her apartment
or the tear guard in Berlin. Though our armed forces
(03:38):
may occupy West Germany, it.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Works both ways. Lily keeps our armed force and occupied.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Who is it?
Speaker 6 (03:47):
It's me, Lily, open up just.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
A moment, Jimmy Darly, but a wonderful surprise. I thought
you'd be busy at the office.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I had to see you, Lily. I haven't gone out
of my min since last night.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
You're sweet.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Every time I think of you.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Only behave you?
Speaker 7 (04:06):
You bad boy?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Look what you've done to my hair?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Oh? I ran into some character on your landing. Who
was he?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
How should I know?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Well? It must have been up here, tall thin boy,
blonde hair. You don't trust me, You're done right, You're
not kidding me, Lily. I know all about.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
You, and I know all about you. Major Dodge why
didn't you tell me you were married?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Well, what what makes you think I am?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I met your wife yesterday when in London.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
No.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Yeah, she's a very lovely woman, Jimmy, A little sin
perhaps that morose charming Lily.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
You didn't say anything to her, of.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
Course not lebster.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Would I do anything to hurt you. I just know
now what I have to do.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Very naturally? I can't continue seeing you.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
It wouldn't be fair, Lily. I won't give you up.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
That It's very simple. You boss your wife?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
No, no, no, I can't do that to Grace.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
That you have no objections doing it to me.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Lily, you don't understand. Grace is a wonderful girl, and I.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Am a mercenary female without a conscience.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
Yes, yet you love.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I'm crazy about you, Lily. I can't give you up.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
And you won't give up your wife. You do have
a problem, darling. All right, I give you till the
end of the week to solve it, all right, Jimmy,
(05:43):
what is it?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
What's what? Grace?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Well, there's something bad, don't you You want to tell
me about it?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
There's nothing to tell.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
If there's anywhere that I can.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
I tell you it's nothing.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Now, for Pete's sake, let me alone, of course, But
I'm sorry, Grace. I don't know what's come over me.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Oh you've been working too hard? What you needed? Oh, dear,
I'll get it. That's the second.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
Good Navin good Nabin is here are your dodgy? Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I wonder if I might have.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
A word with you, Grace.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Well, it is someone to see you, jim mister.
Speaker 8 (06:18):
Keller, Fritz Keller.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
You probably don't remember me, Measure, Why no, I don't
We met for a few short minutes this afternoon. I'm
the landing at forty one Wolton Strasser. Oh comes back
to you now?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yes, what do you want?
Speaker 9 (06:32):
And I would prefer to discuss this privately, Grace to
your mind, of course.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Not Jimmy, I'll run over and talk to Twiler. It's
a good night meellion, mister Keller.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
The pleasure was all mine.
Speaker 10 (06:42):
I'll be back in about twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yes, that'll be fun. Lovely woman, your wife? How right? Keller?
What's on your mind?
Speaker 8 (06:50):
But you might at least invite me to sit down.
I don't think you'll be staying long.
Speaker 9 (06:54):
I trust you will appreciate my position, Major Dodge. We
Germans are poor people. Circumstances often compel us to do
things we cannot help.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
In my case, I have a rare.
Speaker 9 (07:05):
Opportunity to go into business with one of my compatriots.
Unfortunately we lack capital, so I would be obliged if
you would loan me forty five thousand marks. That's ten
thousand American dollars.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Are you crazy?
Speaker 9 (07:21):
It isn't as though I have no security to offer
in exchange. I am prepared to turn over this.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Where did you get these pictures? Doesn't clearly photograph beautifully?
Speaker 8 (07:34):
But personally if you think I'm going to let you
blackmail me an.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Ugly world, well I asked was a loan? Of course?
Speaker 9 (07:41):
There is the chance you will never be repaid.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
You show you up, Come on, get up.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
No one, no one I've ever struck a not regretted.
Speaker 9 (07:55):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Had your second call on.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
Me, I might even call on you myself. Good Norman,
Major Dodge.
Speaker 9 (08:02):
I'm sure we shall meet that day.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Hello that you, lily, he dies, I've got.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
To see you. Suppose we met at the Kreutz Curning.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Have you to read your wife about her?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
No? No, something's come up, Lily.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Do you know what?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Fritz Keller?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Heller?
Speaker 6 (08:29):
No, no, Keller with a K.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Why do you ask?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
He knows about us? He's even got a set of pictures.
He wants forty five thousand marks for him. Yes, he
was the same boy I met on your landing the
other day.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
You think I cooperated with him?
Speaker 6 (08:45):
I didn't say that.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Now wait a minute, Lily practically accused.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
I didn't mean that. I swear.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Well, what are you going to do?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
What do you recommend?
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Yes, this Keller do his worst. I'm not ashamed of our.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
No, no, Lily, I don't want Grace to find out about.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Us this way.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Man, you have no choice but to pay. Where will
you raise the money?
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Well, I'll manage somehow.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
You do love me, Dodgy, Lily, you silly boy, of
course I do.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Can I see you tonight. I'll tell Grace I.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Don't think you better.
Speaker 11 (09:18):
Jimmy.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
I want you to be able to give her killer
your undivided attention. He needs it, of Darling.
Speaker 11 (09:36):
And the major is of the Oh he I am
I yes.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I'm looking for major Dodd.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Oh yeah, man, I'm major Dodger. Civilionaid I help you
maybe you can at that. I'm Mike Wearring.
Speaker 11 (09:51):
Mike Wearing Wait a second, haven't I heard that name before?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I don't know, have you?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Why?
Speaker 11 (09:57):
Sure you're the private detective they call.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It not so loud. I'm trying to live it down.
Speaker 11 (10:03):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I can't recall the temporary duty with Army intelligence.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Puts it down. Thanks, I'm Alan Bruce. You just get
into Berlin now. I've been here for a week doing groundwork.
Speaker 11 (10:15):
You don't think that we've got a couple of spies
on the payroll.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It might be from the looks of your accounts. The
Pentagon cables me are ten thousand dollars short.
Speaker 12 (10:24):
Oh they're crazy.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
It's been double checked, Bruce, someone around here, sticky fingers.
How long have you known major? Don don't tell me
you think that Jimmy is a possibility. Oh well, you're
out of your mind. You might just as well suspect me.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I do.
Speaker 11 (10:39):
Well, that makes a lot more sense. Jimmy's as honest
as they come. Oh, I'm sure you know where I
can reach them? Why no, he and Grace just moved.
Wats his phone number? I don't think they've got a phone,
that's right, He told me he was having trouble getting
it transferred.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Well when he gets in and asked me to call me,
I'm staying at the him of the I'll do that.
Hearing brute, you're bad.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Operator.
Speaker 11 (11:06):
Get me grounded the air one three four one?
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Come on? Come on?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Is that you Jimmy?
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Bruce here, can you talk?
Speaker 6 (11:22):
Why? What's up?
Speaker 11 (11:23):
I don't know, but you better get down to the
office pronto. Washington sent an investigator named Mike Wearing.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
To see you.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Like Wearing. I thought he was in Rome.
Speaker 11 (11:30):
Not anymore. He claims. We're ten thousand dollars short.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
What.
Speaker 11 (11:35):
Yes, he's been sent here to find the guilty critter.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Oh, Bruce, you don't think I oh, of course not.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
What do you take me for anyway?
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Well, he's Wearing there now.
Speaker 11 (11:44):
No, No, I left him minute ago. He wants you
to get in touch with him at the Hindenburg.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
You better do it real fast.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
What's my hurry?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I'll listen, relax, and Bruce.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
I'll get to Wearing and due time. Oh, thanks for
the tip anyway.
Speaker 12 (12:04):
Exactly?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
I beg your pardon?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Do not remember me?
Speaker 5 (12:12):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
It's Keller. I was to see a husband a week ago.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Oh, of course, how are you?
Speaker 8 (12:20):
I wonder what you care to join me in a
glass of wine?
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Well, I'm sorry, I'm late for an appointment.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
Now I think this might be to your advantage. Grace
great forgive me informality, but I do hope we can
be friends.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Perhaps you will.
Speaker 9 (12:35):
Accept this portfolio. Yeah, as talking about Esteve, what is
it that is? Snapshot of Berlin? For example, here's one
of our zool.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Oh uh, isn't that Jimmy in the foreground?
Speaker 8 (12:52):
But I believe it is. And I'm sure you must
know the woman.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
Yes, I just happen to know that she's an all
these pictures your husband sister perhap?
Speaker 8 (13:04):
Yeah, very lovely and she looks at him so adoringly.
Obviously they are very fond of each other. Yes, and
I hope you will keep these little sumni.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
You're staying, Berlain, You're very kind. Now, if you'll forgive
me her color Adan long I have worked.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
That's come and my old dodge, that's right.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
I trust you will forgive this inclusion. My name is
Adolph Beimeler.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Adolf.
Speaker 13 (13:41):
Yes, I'm sure it means nothing to you, but we
do have a mutual friend, Oh, would you care to
venture again?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Look, I happen to be busy, so you don't mind.
Speaker 12 (13:51):
The typical American spirit. You must make every moment count.
Speaker 13 (13:57):
But then who can blame you out on earth for
a short time?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Quite a philosophy.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yes, in my work, one must be.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
All right, what are you getting?
Speaker 9 (14:07):
Perhaps this will clear up metals and I'll put it
a gun.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Will you show then interest in my profession?
Speaker 8 (14:15):
Why are you doing this so money?
Speaker 13 (14:17):
I know I should be ashamed of myself, but when
one is, if it's money, you want to get away
from that desk? I just want to show you, I said,
get away.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
That's the trouble with your Americans.
Speaker 13 (14:30):
You are so used to giving orders, you never learned
to take them.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
This will teach you.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Can you stop in time? Ask yourself that question the
next time you drive your car. If the car in
front of you should jam on his brakes to avoid
a stray dog, if a child should dash across an intersection,
if a tire should blow out, could you stop in
time to save a life? Slippery roads, fogged windshields, poor visibility.
(15:11):
All of these factors mean that you must be more
alert in following simple safety rules.
Speaker 14 (15:17):
At all times.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Remember, accidents don't always happen to the other fellow. And
now back to the adventures of the falcon.
Speaker 13 (15:36):
Well.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
I guess it don't improve that little thirty eight can
make some men a big shot eight off.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
By Lapumpo's slugs into Nator James Dodge.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I did a tour of the West Berlin Police headquarters.
Her General Inspector Schiller, who was in charge, was quite
proud of their facilities. A sells are complete in every detail.
This one even came equipped with a brunette Raw Dodge,
you have a visit, alumis is done?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Who are you, Mike wearing?
Speaker 12 (16:03):
You will call me when you're through?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah, thanks a lot. Her Inspector General Cigarette.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Oh yes, did the embassy send you?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
No, I'm here on my own. I'm working for Army intelligence.
I wonder if you'd mind answering a few questions.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
If it's about my husband's murder, yes it is. I
can only tell you what I told the others. I
don't know anything about it.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
They think you killed him.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And Adolf by learning No, he's the boy who pulled
the trigger?
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Does he claim I hired him?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
For the occasion, and so far they haven't been able
to ask him. He escaped to the Russian zone and
the comrade show a strange reluctance to turn him over.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
It.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Well, when they do, we will find that I didn't
hire him. Where's my motive?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Well, you know your husband was playing around with some fraeulein.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
That is a lie.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
And how do you explain those snapshots of Jimmy and
the blonde venus they found in your purse?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
I didn't mean to sing. She she was an old
friend of the family. What's her name, Gretchen, Gretchen Schumann.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Where can I find him?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
You can't. She moved to East Germany a couple of
months ago.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I look, missus, Dodd would like to help you, but
I've got to know the truth.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Who is this girl?
Speaker 5 (17:20):
I told you her name is Gretchen Schumann.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
That's what you told me.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
You don't believe me? Nope, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I'm so mine because I'm going to find him. And
if you won't help me, maybe I know the party
who will Hey tell her?
Speaker 6 (17:35):
I want not.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I wish I could give you a lead.
Speaker 11 (17:44):
Worrying, but honestly, I don't see how I can never
know unless you try it.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Broce, you think missus Dodds killed her? No?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Why should she?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
He was cheating?
Speaker 11 (17:53):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Why not? You were covering for him?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Who says? So I do?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
When I saw you at the office? Who told me
the major had moved and he didn't have a phone
in this new place? You were lying, luck, weren't you?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (18:07):
I called him right after you left. Why he was
my friend?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Even though he had his hand in Uncle Sam's pockets.
Speaker 11 (18:13):
He'll never get me to believe that.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Do you believe he was involved with some female?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (18:18):
How did you find out? I ran into them together
a couple of months ago?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Is this the girl?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Yes? That's Lily, all right, Lily, Lily Tissen, not.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
A dodge meter.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
Tell what difference does it make?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Well?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Maybe i'd like to make her acquaintance the same way.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
There's a little.
Speaker 11 (18:36):
Nightclub on Koum Strausser. It's called the kreutz Kinney. Oh,
that's the King of Clubs. Yes, she works there. I'm
doing what I don't know exactly.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Good.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Then I'll have a chance to find out for myself.
That ought to be fun?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Yeah, han, Hey, yeah, Smirnoff Martini, real dry fire parts vodka,
one of Vermouth, make it.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Too for unless the gentleman of.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Jake, Well, if I do, I'm no gentleman. Go ahead, for.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
I suppose I should introduce myself. My name is Lily Tisson.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Glad to know you, Lily. I'm Mike Wearing.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
You probably think I'm very fo.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Hell wouldn't have it any other way. Hate retiring women.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
You intend to stay long in Velini.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Well, up to a minute ago, I was ready to leave,
But now I'm beginning to like it.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
You are very gallant.
Speaker 8 (19:39):
Yeah your drinks?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
No, yeah, yeah, keep the change.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Doncle is there?
Speaker 12 (19:44):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
That's all right.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
It's most and wise. It's playing all that money. It
may give people ideas.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Hell have it gives you a he I'm all for it.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
You think your wife would approved, Well, I noticed that
wedding ring. Oh where is she?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Oh she's back in New York. She would leave the kid.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
You have children six? You are kind of young to
have so many.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Well, I got an early start.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Tell me about her.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Elsie, the greatest little girl in the world, real wonderful mother.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
A man.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
You get eight servants in the house.
Speaker 14 (20:22):
And she won't leave the kid.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
You have eight in hell?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Well, I mean on the permanent staff. Of course, when
we throw a shindig, we bring in a dozen more.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
You must be very wealthy to wearing.
Speaker 8 (20:32):
I do all right, but it's just.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
So noisy here. Why don't we go over to my place?
Why I have a little flat near the tear goten.
I think you might like it?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Well, she would? Would we have been alone?
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Surely you are not afraid?
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Oh no, I was just thinking of the little woman.
She might not understand.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Don't you have a saying what you do not know
can never hear you. Hey, that's right, then you are elsy,
can never be hurt. Shall we go? Well?
Speaker 11 (21:15):
Here we are yep, here we are waiting.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
I turn on the lights.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Hey, this is all right.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
You like it?
Speaker 8 (21:26):
You like it.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I think this is the softest touch in s lannel.
And plus, I just hope Elsie would be understand.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
I'm sure she would sit down, And what about you.
I'm just going to slip into something a little more comfortable.
Speaker 10 (21:40):
Wait, wait a minute, don't worryly, I won't be long. Hello,
an overfew drites fight five?
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Yeah, I say, I'll be right with you.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Michael, help yourself to a dream. Hello rich really? Oh
you know this is not very brightly extenuating circumstances. I
just discovered Jimmy Dodge's successor make another American?
Speaker 8 (22:10):
What is his name?
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Mike Wearing?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Is he rich?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
He also has a wife and six children.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
He sounds most interesting.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
That's why I thought you should make his acquaintance. I
bring along your camera for its. I think mister Wearing
will prove the most photogenic subject.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Oh wait, there's nobody who? Oh yeah, how would?
Speaker 14 (22:44):
I'll be right there.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
The devil is my all right, I'm coming.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I'm coming, Michael Wearing. That's right my car. So, Fritch Keller,
at your service?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 8 (22:57):
I prefer to discuss that.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Love?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 14 (23:06):
Fritz?
Speaker 8 (23:07):
And I am a photographer by trade.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
You're Wearing and so I thought perhaps you might like
a set of pictures as assumni of your visit to Germany.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
No, I don't think i'll need them. I've seen the
concentration camps and gas chambers at book and Wall and
Dark Howe, I remember that for quite a while.
Speaker 9 (23:22):
You must understand we Germans do nothing of what was
going on.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Oh sure, all you people thought they were rest homes
for the agent.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
I refused to be involved in a political discussion. I
have more important business. Perhaps you would care to see
a portfolio of my work?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Sure, love to Ah hmm, it's nice you recognize the lady. Yeah,
that's delitiation. She looks wonderful. But I don't think you
did me justice.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
But it is undoubtedly you.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Oh yeah, it's me all right.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
I'm willing to sell them for forty five thousand marks.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Do I get a discount if by buying grosser?
Speaker 9 (24:00):
If you think I'm joking, you know, I think you're
quite serious. You would not care to have your wife
receive a set with my compliments?
Speaker 6 (24:07):
My wi?
Speaker 15 (24:08):
I believe her name is Elsie. Oh, Elsie say Fritz
is a photographer. Maybe you'd like to see a picture.
And I think there was one in this magazine here
and she does a lot of modeling. Yeah, here we are.
Now what do you think of Elsie? But this is
a cow That's no way to speak of the woman
(24:28):
I love. But you totally she didn't take me serious.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I guess I should be ashamed of myself.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
I would not advise you to try that again.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You never should have said that, Fritz. I'm the kind
of a kid who can't resistant. You pull the same
this done on Make a Dog and I say you did.
Don't bother getting up, Fritz. Just stay right there and
I get dressed. I'll call you as soon as I'm ready.
Speaker 16 (25:00):
I must admit that you build a very substantial case
against the man hair wearing.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
But you don't believe he was responsible for me to
Dodge's murder.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
Franklin, No, thank you, handspect girl.
Speaker 12 (25:10):
Shut up.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
He practically admitted to me, why you dirty hair wearing?
Speaker 6 (25:16):
Please?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I'm sorry, Shell, But what does it take to convince
you people anyway?
Speaker 12 (25:21):
What it requires in you country? Evidence?
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Well, you know he and Lily Tayson were working this
blackmail racket on Major Dodge.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Can you prove it?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Yes?
Speaker 14 (25:29):
Through his wife?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
He gave her a duplicate set of those pictures.
Speaker 17 (25:32):
Ah.
Speaker 12 (25:33):
Then she knew that her husband was untrue.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Yes, she knew, all right, but she didn't have him killed.
Fritz hair dead?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Why should I?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Maybe he wouldn't pay off.
Speaker 14 (25:41):
But he did.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
If you, gentleman, will examine my bank book, you will
find a deposit entry of forty five thousand marks on
the seventh of July.
Speaker 8 (25:50):
But a dodge page of then was no reason for
me to have him.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
She and why did you give those pictures to his wife?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I thought she might be interested. Apparently she was.
Speaker 9 (26:00):
If I could be of any further service to her
during her trial.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Please feel feed to call on me. Could not went here.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
You and your children can expect to live long, thanks
largely to better medicine and surgery. But you could expect
to live even longer were it not for the danger
of automobile accidents. In the fifteen to twenty five age
group alone, traffic accidents wiped out three hundred thousand years
of life last year. If driver education could be taught
in all of our high schools instead of only a
(26:38):
third of them, it might someday help to save the
life of your own son or daughter in your own automobile.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Remember to drive as though your life.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Depends on it. It does.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
And now back to the adventures of the Falcon.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Oh, no, I know how Hitler must have felt when
I dropped a blockbuster on the right chancellery. He must
have been real upset.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
And after Fritz Keller bought himself out of Shiller's office. There,
Inspector General and I looked at each other. I don't
know what he saw, but I was disappointed, and I
thought of Grace Dodge. That didn't cheer me up either. Hello,
missus Dodge, you.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Don't look too happy.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
He isn't my fault.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Yes, I had a nomination for the party responsible for
your husband's murder, but the convention turned me down.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Who was it?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Fritz Keller? Wait?
Speaker 5 (27:37):
I don't know the gentleman, and.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
He knows you. He gave you that set of pictures
of Jimmy and Lily Tiesen.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Is that what he claimed?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
That's what he claims.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
He's lying.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
We can't prove it.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Cloud Dodge, go right ahead.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
I love Angel. If you think by denying everything you
can escape the rope, you're wrong. Fritz was blackmailing your husband.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
If he was, I had no knowledge of it.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I hate to contradict the lady, but you did.
Speaker 16 (27:58):
On the fifth of July, you were called by Maya
All Breast company.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Who are they?
Speaker 12 (28:04):
Drograge Firm? Here?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
They deal in American securities.
Speaker 16 (28:08):
Proud Dodge and her husband, joint Clear, held several shares
of stock to sell them. Both their signatures were required.
Well out Breage thought your signature was forged.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
He called you to verify, and I told him it
was genuine.
Speaker 16 (28:24):
Then obviously you knew your husband was being blackmail hold
a shill.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I think I see it now.
Speaker 12 (28:29):
It was a pattern to me long ago.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
No, I tell you're making a mistake. With a little luck,
I can prove it. If the thing's crossed, Angel, we're
gonna need all the help we can get. I don't
get rank, he'll feel help it. I do you think
that's what is big brew thing? I want to help
you at the trap. Yeah, you believe Grace had her
(28:52):
husband killed? Of course not. And that makes two of us.
What do you think was the killer's model money? That's
when I think.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Too, the ten thousand dollars Fritz kellergan Now the ten
thousand was lifted from the office.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
But you said Keller wound up with that. No, I
wasn't the same money. Jimmy rays his by selling some
personal stocks that he and his wife.
Speaker 11 (29:09):
How I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Well, you see there were two sums of ten thousand
dollars involved, the one Dodge paid off to Keller and
the one you lifted from the office. What she had
Dodge killed to cover those haft.
Speaker 12 (29:20):
Do you realize what you're saying?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Of course, why do you think I invited you to
drive me down at police headquarters? Now just keep going, Bruce,
You're on the right road. It took the wrong one
when you turn the murder. Now you're doing fine. Vieter Kellner,
(29:45):
I need to pleasure riding on Marshnell. You like it
here here, Bertie, Yeah, but it doesn't seem the same
without Lily. I sure would like to have another couple
of pictures taken with her, and well, just to show
my friends in America. I have no idea what was
on here.
Speaker 12 (30:02):
You are leaving for the United States shortly.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Tomorrow morning, and that's too far off. I leave tonight
if there was a plane out.
Speaker 9 (30:08):
A sure can see here there's a cablegram for you,
awarded from your hair.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
You open it, chill, you are not sure you I
know what it's a You're gonna leave me stuck here
in Europe forever.
Speaker 12 (30:21):
No, you are wrong. What you are to leave the
continent immediately?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I don't believe it. Let's see that.
Speaker 12 (30:27):
See they are sending you to not.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Are good night here, Inspector General.
Speaker 14 (30:48):
The Case of the Broken Key.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
The Case of the Broken Key, that's the title of
next week's Adventure of the Falcon, Wearing learns that although
love may laugh at Locksmith's murder is no joke. The
Adventures of the Falcon are based on the famous character
created by Drexel Drake, produced and transcribed by Bernardell Schubert,
(31:17):
written by Eugene Wang, and directed by Richard Lewis Les
Damon was started as the Falcon with Lily Villente as Lily.
This program came from New York, Fred Collins.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Speaking welcome back, It was fun to have the Falcon
go undercover. Six children seem to be overdoing it at Tad,
(31:49):
but it ended up working for him. Of course, the
Falcon's job could have been simplified with better communication with
the police. The key to the whole case was the
ten thousand dollars being taken twice, and the whole blackmail
thing that took up seventy percent of the episode was
just a red herring. It's a bit weird to hear
(32:13):
Hitler use so casually in dramas of this era. Now
I know how Hitler felt. Is not a line you
would expect to hear today. Of course, it's important to
keep in mind Hitler's death was relatively recent, just seven
years before this episode. I guess it'd be kind of
like using a Saddam Hussein or Molmar Kadothi reference in
(32:35):
a modern context, though they've both been dead longer at
the time of this podcast than Hitler had been when
this episode was recorded. On a more serious note, we
didn't get this idea of German's claiming to be non political,
which is a recurring theme in radio programs of the era.
(32:56):
It drew from the fact that Hitler rose to power
and maintained power to popular support, and yet the Allies
on occupied in the country found a mathematically improbable number
of people claiming to have been non political or having
nothing to do with what happened. The lack of accountability
(33:18):
and responsibility provoked these sort of references. The phrase used
in the closing tease was not one I was familiar with,
and so I went on some research about Love Laughs
at Locksmith. There was actually an eighteen oh three play
called Love Laughs at Locksmith, and then in eighteen oh
(33:43):
five the British painter Thomas Rowlandson created a painting with
that title In the foreground, an elderly man fumbles with
an oversized padlock on his door. Beside him, a servant
balances a basket of poultry on his head, and his
eyes go to the background, where a young woman is
(34:03):
descending from a window on a ladder into the arms
of her lover. In army officer phrases, Genesis goes back
a couple centuries further to William Shakespeare. Now, contrary to
the unscrupulous meme maker I found who made it a
direct quote from Shakespeare, No, that's not true. But in
(34:27):
his long poem Venus and Adonis, he wrote where beauty
under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and
picks them all at last. And I don't want to
say that. I hope everyone enjoyed the baseball replays that
we did last week. Now, i'd like to tell you
(34:49):
how our vacation went. But the nature of these recording
breaks and our recording schedule right now is I'm actually
recording this episode before where we leave, so there won't
actually be a post trip episode that I record until
either Thursday or Friday. That bit of honesty out of
(35:12):
the way. Now it's time for listener comments and feedback,
and we start out on the site called X, where
Itchy Richie rights they should rename him to the Man
called Wire or something like that. Did this series even
run at the same time as the Man Called X
back in the day, Well, a great question, thanks so much.
(35:36):
The Man Called X and the Falcon overlapped each other
quite a bit in their run. Although the Falcon first
began running earlier and stayed on radio later, The Man
Called X actually ended right before changes to the Falcon began.
(35:56):
On May twenty ninth of nineteen fifty two, the last
episode of The Man Called X air. Then on June eighth,
nineteen fifty two, you had the case of the Dirty Dollar,
where the Falcon all of a sudden was tired of
being a private investigator, and then two weeks later you
(36:18):
had the case of the Vanishing Visa, which began our
current storyline. Now we don't know why the Man Called
X ended, whether it was ratings unlikely, or it may
have been a matter of Payne Herbert Marshall's salary, but
it wasn't because interest in the Cold War had subsided. Now,
(36:40):
did somebody at NBC say we need another spy program
to keep going through the summer, and we already have
West Damon cast in the Falcon, and the private detective
shows are kind of falling out of fashion, so why
don't we make The Falcon into a spy show. Now,
(37:02):
we don't know that that happened at NBAC, but it
certainly could have. And finally we go to Instagram where
zoom to zoom rights. I'm curious, just why do they
call the guy the Falcon when it's called the Falcon.
Just chalk it up to the human tendency to put
(37:24):
the emphasis on the wrong salable. All right, Well, now
it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,
and I want to go ahead and thank Maurice, Patreon
supporter since January twenty twenty four, currently supporting the podcast
at the Shawmas level of four dollars or more per month.
Thanks so much for your support, Maurice, and that will
(37:45):
do it for today. Join us back here on Thursday
for an episode of and next Thursday we'll be bringing
you the first part of a mini series based on
the novel the movie Stone, and next Monday we'll be
back with another episode of The Falcon. But join us
(38:07):
back here tomorrow for Charlie Chan.
Speaker 17 (38:10):
Where there are three or other four men. I should
like to question you regarding John Ryder, Madam's second husband.
I know he never corresponded with him.
Speaker 18 (38:22):
I don't imagine she's toll of him anymore.
Speaker 17 (38:24):
Have you the slightest idea why she separated from me?
Speaker 18 (38:27):
But I can give you a notion. Madam has had
step books of news clippings from all over the world.
I ran across this one the day before yesterday. Yes, yes,
this is it.
Speaker 17 (38:41):
Ellen Landini snowed in recently divorced singer in a cabin
up in the Revie Ellen Landini, formerly the wife of
Dudley Ward, California millionaire, but who was recently married to
John Ryder, is snowed in for the winter at Tlio Mine.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Yeah, yeah, I remember that was twenty five foot deep
that year.
Speaker 11 (39:11):
Remember John saying the burn candles all day.
Speaker 17 (39:14):
It has aspects of romantic situations rather than grounds for
the voce.
Speaker 18 (39:19):
That's exactly what I said to Madam when I read it,
all right, I just saidwhat younger? Then Madam burst into laughter. Romantic,
she cries romantic to be shut up in one room
for eternity with the most colossul boss in the world
began a talent egoist with the conversational powers of a mummy.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
In a week, I lost.
Speaker 18 (39:38):
In another, I just pised him. In a month, I
could have killed him and he me.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime,
send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net,
follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us
out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.
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