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Well, now let's get into today's
episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlowe.

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The original airdate on This one is
August and nineteenth, nineteen forty seven and

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the title is Robin in the Hood. For the safety of your smile,

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Marlowe, the screen's most famous private
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to you on the air by Pepsident
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Van Heflin. Now, families all
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Heflin as the Hollywood private Eye.
Shellop Marlowe. All right, roll the

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speed action all the time. Here
is short Mary, It married your very

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own Mary. Frive talk little John
prete Englishman, notch us all it's made

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merry God, that's it printed.
All right, it's a wrap up here,

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move over to stage three. They
were filming a new technicolor version of

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Robin Hood over at the Big Studios
in Santa Monica Boulevard, and I was

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there on salary. At the request
to the director of the picture. Robin

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Hood and Maid Marian came off the
set. Robin Hood was a magnetic if

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it's in sight in its Lincoln green
and carrying that big English longbow and quiver

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of arrows made Marian and her slinkily
cut medieval white gown was something to make

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more than an arrow whistle. They
spied me and walked over to him quickly.

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Mister Philip Marlow, Yeah, that's
right. My name is Suet Spencer.

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Yeah, I know. This is
my leading lady, Jinny Kane.

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Yeah, I know. How do
you do, mister morn Oh? How

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do you do? Miss Kane?
Let's go over to stage nine and talk,

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shall we? Morlot talk? Every
time I open my mouth on one

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of these sets, somebody hollers,
quiet, what you see whatever? Having

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a free speech in America? In
Hollywood anyways, Stage nine isn't a set.

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It's a little cafe across the street
on Santa Monica. Oh a lot

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to talk about, Molow, I
know, let's go. You see de

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Metro Sato. My to hire ju
for it is to me a very embarrassing

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reason. It seems I'm supposed to
protect you. I feel very well able

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to take care of myself. Well, it's not safe for that half mad

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brother of you as at large,
Did mister Sador tell you the whole story?

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My long I said for me to
get it from you, Well,

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it was my fault that we have
a sent for Caxton. But he's my

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brother and he looks like me,
and he's an absolutely terrific archer Stuart.

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He is much better looking though Suar
is the bow but Caxton is the bowman.

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Oh, they could have faked the
scenes where I'm supposed to perform marvels

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of archery, but well, we
were all against that. Man. I

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remembered my brother, who was sporting
good salesman in Philadelphia and the champion archer.

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And so you suggested that they send
for Caxton to devil for you in

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the shooting scene. Yes, in
spite of the fact that Caxton hates the

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sight of it. And go on. I told mister Sador he could get

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the shots he needed with Caxton doubling
for me. Might go to my lodge

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at Big Bed during those three days. Caxton always resented toward here because he

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made good and Caxton didn't. Let's
see, there was some thing about Caxton

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leaving Hollywood, only not leaving Hollywood. What about that? Oh he never

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picked up the return ticket, but
the studio reserved for him at the airport.

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Do you figure the Caxtons still in
town? Definitely, you think you'd

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picked a fight with you. He
picked a fight with Freddie Cole's Freddie Cole,

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a perfectly harmless makeup man on the
lot, and all Freddie asked was

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for Caxton to where brown contact lenses
over his eyes, so he looked like

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seward here for the medium close up. My brother has blue eyes, you

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see, and he wouldn't wear the
brown contact lenses. Refused slightly, he

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said, let my big shot brother
wear blue contact lenses. What an unreasonable

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creature. It sounds reasonable to me. You said that he fought with a

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makeup man, not for long.
Freddie's half Caxton's size, but he knocked

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my brother kicking. I suppose your
brother swore to get him for that.

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How did you know? I don't
know instinct. Oh here, mister said,

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oh here tomorrow. This is terrible, simply terrible. They just found

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fred Cole in Sherwood Forest. He's
been shot shot how. I don't know

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who, but there's two feet of
arrows sticking out of his bay. You

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better show me where Freddy is,
missus saida come on, let's go on.

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The Sherwood Forest is a wood where
dud Fairbank Senior made the Silent version

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of Robin Hood and they've called it
that ever since. Freddy Cole was lying

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across the steps of the trailer that
served as a field makeup room in Sherwood

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Forest. Mister Sayler's information was not
correct. There were not two feet of

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arrows sticking out of Freddy's back.
It was less than eighteen inches. A

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bow of terrific power had done that
job. Another trailer stood across the clearing

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from Freddy's body, about a hundred
yards away. I walked through the clearing

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and knocked on the door. Yes, sir, the name Spiller Marl.

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I'm a private detective. Oh it's
about poor Freddy. That's right, Come

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in, come in, woll see
this trailer is my workshop. Mister Marlow.

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You have a regular arsenal of bows
and arrows in here, AMaGA.

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Yes, sir, I make can
repair bows and arrows for the men in

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the picture. Say it's about a
hundred yards so' here to where Freddie was

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shot? Isn't it just about?
Did you have a service the bow of

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Caxon spencer the stars, brother,
I did? Powerful weapon, very good

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shot, very bad man. Yes, very okay, Well thanks, then

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I'll see you. What that you
said? I said, I'll see you.

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You call me something? Oh oh
dad, Yes, so long,

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mister Marlow, so long, son, so long? A murder on this

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lot is bad enough, but an
unsolved murder is worse. I am very

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worried and bad your stars he would
Spencer, among other things. Mister Morrow,

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why does Spencer? Why doesn't he
leave town while his homicidal brother of

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his is still around? Or he
wouldn't go even if I asked him it.

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Besides, every day lost now means
money, and the bank wouldn't tolerate

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anymore. Tol is making this picture
in more delays, bend delays. I

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started making robin Hood four years ago. I got this head spilled and then

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had to stop because I couldn't find
the ideal man to play Robin Hood.

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What was the ideal? Talk of
them said he had to be a romantic,

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good looking power and where then helpful
if he could shoot along bow?

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Yeah, a Stewart Spencer couldn't shoot
along bow four years ago any better than

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he candidate. Now? Why didn't
you hire him four years ago? He

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wasn't a big enough starting. He's
beg enough now to remind us he's another

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gable, so he doesn't have to
know how to shoot a longbow now,

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No, especially since his brother,
who resembles him closely, could shoot the

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long bow. Tell me where did
the Spencer stay while his brother was whooping

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it up here at the studio?
Spencer had a lodge up with the Big

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Bear? Why and the ideas?
Really? The Spencer is known all over

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the world, right, but he's
correct, and his double would have a

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hard time hiding out unless he hid
in places where people expected the stewart to

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be right. I hadn't thought about
it, or exactly as the Spencer's logic.

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Bear you you think his brother may
be up there posing a Spencer.

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It's an idea. Where did you
say that lodge was? Now? It

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was a peachy hunch, and I
was proud of it, proud Only no

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one answered my knock when I got
up to Spencer's lodged Big Bear and getting

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in without a key, wos relatively
small pumpkins. But it didn't pay off

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until I opened a closet door under
a staircase. A body didn't fall out,

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but something else fell out and grabbed
it before it hit the floor.

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It was a beautiful example of the
bulmaker's art, curved and recurved and polished

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like glass under the thin layer of
dust. I looked closely at the maker's

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name because it was beginning to get
an idea, and then the grandfather of

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all hornets zinged past my year,
a fraction of an inch from my cheek,

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quiveredly shaft of a wicked looking arrow, its steelhead almost buried in the

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solid oak paneling behind me. A
man was standing in the open door way.

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Then what's the what's the idea?
Make a move towards your gun,

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Marlow, and I'll pin your hand
on the wall. Caxton, Yeah,

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Caxton Spencer. Right. He's a
little taller than his celebrated brother. His

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cheeks were a little more sunken.
In his eyes, unlike his brothers,

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were an icy, glassy, deadly
blue. He shot that second arrow as

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fast as I could think. Believe
it or not, that second arrow was

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split the first one, right down
to the head. There was another thing

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about this lad that was different from
Suard Spencer. He could shoot a longbow?

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Brother? Could he shoot a longbow? Hell? Aren't you going to

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reach for your gun? Well,
Robin hoodlum of Sherwood Forest, You know

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what might be one a contest the
old versus the new medieval archer versus twentieth

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century gun. You know you're just
as crazy as your brother. Thanks you

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are? I see Sue has been
talking too much again. Look, Caxton,

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tell me just one thing. Ranchers
mixed up. I'm robin Hood,

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remember not, William? Tell what
was this dusty bow doing in the closet

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that's mine? Well? How did
it get in this close? I was

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out here four years ago. Oh, you and your brother were a little

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friendlier then. My brother wasn't such
a big shot then. Beginning to get

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it, your brother sent for you
four years ago to teach him how to

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shoot. We're looking for someone to
play robin Hood. Your brother wasn't a

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big enough name then, but he
figured if he learned to shoot a long

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bow well enough, it might make
up for other shortcomings. Not bad genius.

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The robin Hood picture was shelved before
Suart could learn to shoot, so

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now he had to send for you
again. But you had to quarrel with

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Freddie Cole and plant an arrow between
his shoulder blades. Maybe somebody was celebrating

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Arbor Day and planting thing. It's
very amusing, Catson. But let me

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say this. Don't say anything.
Just get off this case. Understand that's

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what else? This only next time? Four inches more to than left?

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Catch my catch, all right,
don't forg get it. Just don't you

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forget it? So on, so
if you bows clean. Hello operator operator,

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this is a police call. Connect
me with the Santa Monica Boulevard Studios

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of Rhinegold Pictures. I want to
talk to mister Seward Spencer. It's a

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matter of life and death. And
that's no mere figure of speech. You

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are listening to the Adventures of Philip
Marlowe starring Van Hefflen. Yes, families

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all over America I have named their
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Families three to one say new Pepsident
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conviction of the Pains and other families
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without delay. We continue with the adventures

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of Philip Marlowe starring Van Hefflen,
who appears by arrangement with Metro Golden Mare

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reducers of the Romance of Rosy Ridge
starring Van Johnson. I couldn't reach Seats

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Spencer the studio to telling that his
brother was around and on the warpath hung

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up for a second, and I
tried something else, just for fun,

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just another hunch. Hello operator,
give me Western Union please. It was

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late afternoon, therefore too late to
telephone Philadelphia on account of the time difference.

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I sent my telegram and gave my
apartment address back in Hollywood for the

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answer that I expected in the morning. Then I drove back to Hollywood.

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It was dark when I gave up
trying to locate Seward Spencer, but a

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bright moon was climbing the sky by
the time I got to the archery trailer

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on location in Sherwood Forest. Yeah, hello, Dad, Oh, mister

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Marlowe, come in, Philip,
come in. Leave the door open for

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a breath of air. You don't
mind a late visitor, mind, I'm

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crazy about it. It's mighty lonely
Philip. Yeah, it would out here

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in this wilderness, and does any
place for old people? Oh? Can

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I offer you some hot coffee?
Son? Well? Thanks, said,

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I'd appreciate it, but I'd rather
have some information out of you. What

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is it, my boy? Tell
me? Is it possible for an expert

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archer to conceal the fact that he's
death with a long bowl? I think

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so? Or can he conceal the
fact that he can handle a bow at

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all? Oh? No, No, No matter how clumsy he was,

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he'd be too clumsy. Oh,
I get it. A guilty man trying

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to look any city he overdoes it
exactly. Yeah, look, dad,

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I'm gonna pick up a bowl and
I'm gonna string it, put an arrow

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in it, and draw it.
I want you to stop me at any

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point where you can tell it.
I can't shoot a bowl, all right,

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I picked up this bowl here,
you can stop now. I didn't

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do anything yet. Picked up the
bow and you're holding it upside down.

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I mean, there's an upside and
downside of these things. This isn't matter

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matters very much. You might at
least is played along with me a minute.

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After all, even a detective as
his pride. You asked me to

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stop you and I did. Oh, I was just kidding you. Then

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there's anything wrong? No, nothing
wrong, Excuse me. It's just that

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everybody else calls me Pop. Oh
well love k now if you'd rather I

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call you? No, No,
I hate it. It's what smart,

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strong young people call old fellows like
me pop, treating us like children.

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Old folks ain't idiot who says they
are dead dead. That's different. It's

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got respect and love in it.
And that's what we keep on calling you.

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See, I haven't any children,
not anymore. I had a daughter,

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but not anymore. Sorry. Oh
no, no, it's not what

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you think. She's alive. She
just didn't want anybody to know she had

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me for her father. What she
didn't want anybody to know she was married

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to a plain makeup man at the
studio. It might hurt her career.

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Her dog gone old career. Dad. Is your daughter in pictures? She's

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in this picture. She's playing maid
Marian. Jenny Kane is your daughter.

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Yes, And I'm telling you because
you treat an old man respectful. How

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could Jenny for your daughter and be
so different? People are like bows on

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the same flesh and bone. And
blood, but entirely different. Now look

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at this graceful little bow here English. You would pulls only forty easily pounds,

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but it'll shoot a straight and as
far as that eighty five pound bow

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made out of the same material.
Why workmanship and design? In people,

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it's called character. I mean your
girls. Jenny got too big for Freddy

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or a makeup man, too big
for him and too good for me?

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Dad, is Jenny in love with
Suart Spencer? Son? The girl's vain

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and proud and foolish. But she
didn't kill Freddie. She couldn't pull that

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size his bow. But she just
said that a forty pound bow up good

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design will do the work of much
heavier bows. She didn't do it.

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Boy, all right, Look you've
seen Seward shoot after a fashion. Does

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he handle a bowl like a man
who could do better but is concealing his

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real skill? Dad, Yeah,
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking

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if Seward Spencer loved my girl but
she already had a husband that had to

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be got rid of. I'm asking
you if Seward is faking his clumsiness with

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a long bow. No, Son, the lad just can't handle a bow.

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He's the world's greenest starcher. Well, and that puts the rap right

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back on his brother Caxton. He
had a mood threatened for it. Cool.

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I thought I'd told you something a
few hours ago. I spun around.

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Caxton Spencer stood outside of the trailer
in the yellow light flowing out of

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the doorway. He stood there,
casually and casually, balancing that powerful long

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bow in his left hand. I
wondered how he'd found me here, of

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all places, hours after he'd left
me at his brother's mountain lodge. He

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took a step near the trailer door. I told you to get off the

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case at night. Why it just
slipped my mind. Now what do you

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want? I went back to the
lodge after you left the send a telegram

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to Philadelphia. Maybe not, maybe
you did. I got the reply.

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That reply wasn't going to come in
until morning. Into my apartment. Slight

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error. Genius whired the Public Directory
of Philadelphia asking about Caxton Spencer. It

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so happens they have a department that's
opened all night. They wired back to

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the lodge. Funny thing, my
loo. They say that no one named

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Caxton Spencer lives in Philadelphia. How
did you find me here? I called

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the big director, mister Sadar.
He said, you might be out here.

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That's funny. I knew that Sado
never would have told that voice whereabouts

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he to call the police. I
looked with new interest at Caxton, standing

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just outside of the trailer doorway.
My examination got down to his shoes.

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The shoes were almost new, and
his ankles were a full inch and a

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half above the tops of his Oxfords. Caxton spencer. He was wearing elevator

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shoes to make him look taller.
Well, figured me out, yet,

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Marlow, and put it all together, and put it together fast. Caxton

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moved, He whipped in the arrow
under his bow, and my left leg

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shot out and kicked the door of
the trailer shot. I jumped to the

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window and opened fire. Did I
missed him? Missed him a mile?

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He's beat it now. Can't you
see him anywhere? No, yep,

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I don't know. The moonlight out
there and there's bushes. Turn out the

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lights. Got us on the hook. He turn out the lights and get

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down on the floor. Got him
got it out, get out all right,

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all right? Safety here. He
can't shoot through these walls. He's

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good, but he's now that good. Don't know, son, What do

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you mean you don't know? Might
he could get to us even in here

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with a bow and arrow. He's
smart and he's meaning. He knows his

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way around is here for us.
Can't shoot through this trailer. He can

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shoot through the windows. We don't
have to stand at the windows. He

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don't have to hit us. I
don't get it. We got some scenes

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of while back while Caxton was with
us, Robin hoodsman shooting flaming arrows into

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some old castle, flaming arrows,
arrows soaked in pitch and sit on fire

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over medieval custom. Oh fie,
there's plenty of that pitch still around here,

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where out yonder barrels of it?
What did I tell you? There

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it is. There's the first of
your flaming arrows. One, let's put

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it out. He'll pick us off
if we try that. He then let's

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get out of here. Yeah,
let's just do that. God go out

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first. You follow me and lose
yourself someplace, you understand, Oh,

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folks, saint idiots? All right, follow me? Now, keep blow

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right after you, son, You
can blow now yet? All right,

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run for it. Dashed into the
moonlight, hornet, flipped my cheek and

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wanged into the wall of the trailer. Run dad and lose yourself. See

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you later, son, See you
later. I dropped to the ground and

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didn't move, but my eye measured
the angle of that last arrow in the

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side of the trailer, in the
direction that had come from. I raised

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myself on my elbow and fired back. A wise guy. Eh that dirty

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reload, Marlow, Come on,
reload, reload, just furnishing your extra

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thrill? Hollow you or is that
one getting stale? Mollow? Two shots?

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Two shots. I've got two more
arrows mollow. That means one more

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fun and last one for real?
One shot, one shot? One now?

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Any last words? Any rayed hot
boss? Any remarks for us?

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Thirty you cheap ten twenty thirty Ham. I waited for the laughter, taunting

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baked Ham. Laughter didn't come.
I waited with my empty gun clenched in

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my fist. He was coming toward
me. He knew I had fired fourteen

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shots and then I was finished.
He could hit me from any distance.

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Why was he moving in on me? What was new? What was dirty

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with Caxton? Now? I jumped
to my feet from drew back my arm

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to throw my gun at the first
thing that walked out of those bushes ahead

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of it. Don't throw it,
Oh dad, you are right? Son?

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Where's Caxton dead? I got him
in with my last shot? I

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got him hate to disappoint a smart
young lad like you, son. Oh

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you said he's dead. I didn't
say you killed him. He's got a

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twenty eight inch arrow in his chest. Looks good too. How did you

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when I followed you out of the
trailer, I grabbed some arrows from at

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forty pound bow. I've been hunting, son, and let me tell you

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for what. There never was a
Caxton Spencer. Caxton Spencer fought against wearing

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brown contact lenses over his eyes for
a very good reason. He was already

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wearing blue contact lenses. Seward Spencer
never had a brother. He'd learned to

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shoot along bow four years ago,
but he kept a secret. When they

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finally decided to film Robin Hood,
he had a better use for his skill

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with a bow. He was already
planning Fred Cole's murder and invented a non

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existent brother to pin the murder on. Ever, very clever. I knew

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it all the time. What that's
what? Well, then, why did

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you tell me that? Seward Spencer
couldn't shoot Seward Spencer corrupted my girl and

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turned her against her rightful husband and
her daddy. I wanted to get him

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myself, and you did Barren square
and in defense of an officer of law.

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Well, I see that flaming aeratric
fizzled. Oh oh yeah, still

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it didn't like to step inside in
here at coffee now, so I sure

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would then come on, you know, like you said. That's just like

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you told me. Old folks aren't
fools, not by a long shot dead.

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week, Here again is Van Heflin. Philip Marlowe paused in the stealthy darkness

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of the deserted brewery. There was
invisible death lying in wait for him down

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in the bottom of the unused fermentation
vat. But a very visible dancing death

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was approaching behind him, dancing and
weaving. And at the two risks,

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Philip Marlowe, unarmed and stunned,
preferred the invisible one at the bottom of

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the great wooden vat. The night
story was written by Milton Geiger, based

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on the famous character and modern detective
fiction Philip Marlowe created Raymond Chandler. The

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original music was composed and conducted by
Lynn Murray. This is Wendell Niles inviting

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you to listen again next week at
the same time to another exciting mystery on

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the Adventures of Philip Marlowe, starring
Van Heflin with a distinguished chest. This

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is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company
Welcome back. Well, I found Marlowe's

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relationship with the archery Expert can be
really endearing and an interesting look at a

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view of how to refer to older
people that he is just not around anymore.

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Nobody really calls any man not related
to them or who they don't have

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a close relationship with dad. And
honestly, at least since when I've been

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in since I was in my twenties, because I was raised to call,

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you know, people older mister,
or to call them sir. But at

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the time I got to be an
adult. In the adult world, it's

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everything's on a first name basis,
and it's a tricky world to imnavigate.

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If you demand something else as an
older person, then culturally it can be

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viewed as being a bit stodgy and
a stuff being a stuffed shirt. If

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on the other hand, as a
younger person, you you know, call

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someone you know by some other time
idle like misters or what have you,

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you see just a bit too formal
and maybe a bit too green. And

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so I've had this experience where essentially
the cultural norm is to call people you

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know, at least where I'm am
out West. Maybe this is you know,

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different in other parts of the country, but where the cultural norm is

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to call people by their first nat
and I'm not comfortable saying it. And

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I can tell that the person who
I'm referred to is it comfortable being referred

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to that way, but neither one
of us. I feel like you can

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go another route, So it's a
bit odd. It's always interesting to hear

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Jeff Chandler in these old time radio
programs. He was one of the,

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you know, the few actors who
started out in radio and went on to

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be a fairly big start, not
just in radio, but yeah, in

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movies, particularly in A Broken Arrow. Jeff Chandler. I guess when we're

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talking on a Philip Martl program,
we should particular what Chandler we're talking about.

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Was really very fortunate to come to
Hollywood at a time when radio was

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so prominent because he actually had had
a car accident that left a pretty significant

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scar on his forehead, which took
quite a while to heel that was going

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to be a big problem of getting
a screen role. So he worked a

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lot of radio. That's where he
started, you know, and then he

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his talent and his looks took him
into stardom in films. This story is

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interesting too because it kind of gives
some additional insight into the direction that Van

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Hefflin took in playing Marlow, which
in many ways is a lot more down

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to earth and not quite as tough
as Chandler wrote the character, or as

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Gerald Moore portrayed him. I think
it would have been interesting if Hefflin had

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gotten his own radio detective series apart
from the Marlow franchise, but unfortunately that

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wasn't to be. Now, I
also do want to let you know that

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next week we will get to hear
Gerald Moore episode before we leave behind Philip

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Marlow. Now listener comments and feedback, and we've got some feedback regarding the

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final episode of Mystery Is My Hobby
and in Rice over on Facebook, Mystery

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my Hobby has been very good fun. Though Barton's Drake Smarty Pants Detective does

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remind me of John Hillerman's self regarding
radio detective Simon Brenner in the nineteen seventy

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five TV series The Adventures of Ellery
Queen. Uh, I think that's actually

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a really good comparison. In of
course, John Hillerman today, I think

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it's safe to say that most people, and most fans of detective fiction probably

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remember Hillerman for playing Higgins on Magnum
Pi, but he was one of two

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rotating foils for Ellery Queen. He
played that role of Simon Brenner. The

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other was Ken Swofford as a Flanagan, but with Simon Brenner, he was

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a criminologist who it was kind of
an interesting combination. He dramatized cases that

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he had allegedly solved or may just
have been fictional cases that he made up,

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which would definitely be a mysterious my
hobby tie in, and then he

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also tried to solve actual crimes on
his programs and a couple of times came

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up with really smart, intriguing solutions
that just happened to be wrong, and

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Ellery needed to sort out the truth. So I could imagine Barton Drake as

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the basis for that character. And
thanks so much for the comment and for

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reminded me of Ellery Queen. It
was a really good series and lasted one

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season, but it was the nineteen
seventies there were so many good mystery programs

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on that a lot of really well
made programs ended up just lasting a season.

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