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Well, without any further ado, we're gonna get into 45 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:59.759 today's episode of Box thirteen Extra Extra. We'll go ahead and listen and then 46 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:16.160 come back Box thirteen with the star of Paramount Pictures Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday 47 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:39.240 Box thirteen, Box thirteen, Box thirteen, Box Box. He leaned over 48 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:47.519 the shining halo of her blonde hair reflected in the soft flow of the new 49 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:56.879 moon. Oh no, no, no, not that Holiday, my boy. 50 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:00.120 Why did you ever decide to write fiction for a living? You know 51 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:04.360 you could have gone into something interesting, like being a truck driver with the 52 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:11.000 open road in front of you in a motorcycle copping back. Hey, Susie, 53 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:14.120 where have you been? Don't you remember, mister Holiday? I went 54 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:19.040 down Star Time's office. Oh oh, so you did tell me? What's 55 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:41.920 new in Box thirteen, Box thirteen starring Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday. Now 56 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:54.199 for Box thirteen starring Allan Ladd as Dan Holiday. Well, what now, 57 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:59.800 mister Holiday? What's new in Box thirteen? Yesterday a man wanted to sell 58 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:02.439 me a horse for a thousand dollars and a ranch to go round the horse 59 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:06.839 for twenty five times that much. The day before, my ad for adventure 60 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:12.920 brought me a reply from a golf professional who simply wanted to drive golf balls 61 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:16.800 off the tip of my nose. Mister Holliday, I was at Susie. 62 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:20.680 When a nice young man like you runs an ad he should get a whole 63 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:24.680 box full of answers. Oh, well, thank you, Susie. He 64 00:07:24.680 --> 00:07:29.319 should get bushel baskets for all well, thanks again. The press should be 65 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:31.720 loaded with letters, all right, all right? Now? What did I 66 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:36.319 get? One postcard? And from a kid? At that? A kid? 67 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:46.160 Do you mean a child? Sure? Let me see it. Postcard 68 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:50.839 from a youngster. It's probably a gag. Some small girl selling ten cent 69 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:56.680 packages of flower seeds for fifty cents, sell five thousand packages and she gets 70 00:07:56.720 --> 00:08:01.279 absolutely free a Saint Bernard dog. Well, let's see what really is on 71 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:07.680 this post guard. M I wrote to you care of box thir team because 72 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:11.480 I thought you wanted it that way. I gotta see you right away on 73 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:16.959 a very important matter. I am still doing business at the old stand, 74 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:26.439 Signed Johnny Moran. Johnny Moran. Why he's a little boy, your sales 75 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:28.439 newspapers on the corner. Hey, Susie, you're Johnny Moran. Up, 76 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:31.679 you're right away? Oh I can't do that, mister Holiday. Why can't 77 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:35.360 you do it? Cause you here already? Well, mister Holiday, Oh 78 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:39.039 Johnny, how are you, my boy? Why didn't you just come up 79 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:41.159 and see me instead of riding a post guard first? Well, I'm like 80 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:45.200 to do things sort of businesslike. Besides, it was fun to answer in 81 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:48.440 anford event you wanted. Would you really do anything, mister Holliday sad on, 82 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:52.639 Johnny, tell me what your trouble is. Oh oh, I kind 83 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:58.639 of wanted to see you alone, sort of private light. Oh that man 84 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:01.399 the man stuff. Yeah, that's it. Well, how would you like 85 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:05.440 to talk? Well, I thought maybe you'd come down to the corner with 86 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:11.360 me. I'll buy you a drink, a drink. You entert me strangely, 87 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:13.879 Johnny, come on, let's go. Okay, Oh, Susan, 88 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:16.919 you'll excuse us, won't you. Well, I don't know. You better 89 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:20.240 be careful, mister Holiday. Careful. I don't want Johnny teaching you bad 90 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:31.120 habits. Johnny Moran is a very nice boy, can't be more than twelve, 91 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:35.159 but he certainly seems to noise way around. Yes, Holiday, if 92 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:39.759 you were ordering a small boy, this is just the model you would choose. 93 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:43.720 But there's drinking business. I'm worried about you, mister Holiday. You 94 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:48.200 should that lemon coake is enough. Lemon cokes are always enough for me, 95 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:52.320 Johnny, especially when I spike him with an ice cube. Say how's your 96 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:54.720 banana split? Well, Listen's got a little too much chocolate. I like 97 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:58.960 the lasting. Better better finish it, my boy. You want to talk 98 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:01.759 business, remember, Yeah, Well I thought you might have read about it 99 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:05.639 in newspapers. Of course you could have missed it. It was way back 100 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:09.320 on page five. I was on page five here. I got a clip 101 00:10:09.399 --> 00:10:18.240 into the story. Read it. Police announced that recovered a portion of the 102 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:24.799 jewelry stolen in last Tuesday's raid on Maury Jewelry Company held under suspicion of grand 103 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:31.320 theft as John Moran. John Moran, Johnny let your father. Yes, 104 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:35.200 and he didn't do it, mister Holiday. I know he didn't. Just 105 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:39.240 a second, a part of the loot was found in Moran's apartment. I 106 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:41.440 don't care what they put in the newspapers. Mister Holiday, he didn't do 107 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:45.759 it. That's why I came to see you. What about your mother, 108 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:48.720 Johnny, Oh, she died when I was a baby. Cop and I 109 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:52.799 lived together. But he didn't do it, mister Holiday. Only they won't 110 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:56.000 believe me. Oh you've been down to the police. Sure, I went 111 00:10:56.039 --> 00:11:00.200 there right away. I even offered them my eighteen bucks for bail. What 112 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:03.360 quiet the old deal just patted me on the head and told me to go 113 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:07.440 home. I bet you could go down and talk to that district attorney in 114 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:11.559 making rip my father out. You can do anything, not quite anything, 115 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:15.759 Johnny. Yeah, but this would be easy for a guy like you. 116 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:20.679 So you're not afraid of anything, not even a policeman. Well that's very 117 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:22.159 flattering, Johnny. But I don't know what I can do. Well, 118 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:26.960 you'll think of something, mister Holliday. You're a writer, you're smart. 119 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:28.120 Let listen to my boy. Let you get my father out of jail, 120 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:39.720 time for dinner? Okay, Holiday, the boy says, you can get 121 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:45.399 his father out of jail and time but dinner. But what day story in 122 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:48.559 the paper makes it look like they caught John Moran cold. You don't find 123 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:56.759 stolen jewelry in a man's apartment if he didn't do the stealing. But there's 124 00:11:56.799 --> 00:12:03.399 a small boy waiting, waiting with all the faith in the world. So 125 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:09.000 Holiday, do something, the attorney. You'll see you now as the holiday. 126 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:16.159 Oh thanks, Holiday, haven't seen you for a long time. Yeah, 127 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:18.840 I know, I've been pretty busy busy. Eh. Well, then 128 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:22.799 what brings a promising young author down to city hall? Because he's a promising 129 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:26.679 young author who made a promise, and I hope he didn't make a mistake. 130 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:31.039 What in the world are you talking about about a man named John Moran. 131 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:33.919 You've got him locked up in your nice new jail, yes, and 132 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:37.759 from what we've got on him, he's going to stay there for a while. 133 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:41.000 His son thinks Moran is innoc imply. I feel sorry for that boy. 134 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:43.919 He came down and talk to me, But what could I do for 135 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:48.720 him? You've got the goods on Moran, then, absolutely. The police 136 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:52.399 found some of the stolen stuff in his appointment. Oh what's Moran's story? 137 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:56.039 A woman who works in the same building with Moran asked him to stop in 138 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:58.480 at the jewelry store and pick up her watch. While he was there, 139 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:01.639 the stick up artist walked in and held up the place, and that makes 140 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:05.480 Moran guilty. Don't be in a hurry. The stick up artist used him 141 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:07.320 as a shield when he beat it. Rand claims a man forced him to 142 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:11.840 drive to get away card into the country. That still doesn't make him guilty. 143 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:15.039 I think you've got the wrong person. This is where Moran's story went 144 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:18.480 wrong. He walked in the police headquarters and told it, but it sounded 145 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:20.960 too good. To be true. They detained him wile the detective went over 146 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:26.039 and searched his apartment. The detective found part of the loot. Ran couldn't 147 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:30.200 explain where it came from. For the wire office, it looks like he 148 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:33.399 pulled a clever gang. We think he's in with a hold of men. 149 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:37.279 What about the woman, the one who sent Moran after the watch, Grace 150 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:39.799 Willard. We don't have a thing on her. She's in the clearing. 151 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:43.879 I see. So, holiday, you better forget about playing don Quixote. 152 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:50.840 Day of fighting Windmills is over. Go home, forget about Johnny Moran. 153 00:13:54.399 --> 00:14:00.240 Sure, holiday, just forget all about John Moran right beneath of the story 154 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:03.120 and take it out of the typewriter. But how are you going to write 155 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:07.759 the dialogue from a man who has to tell a small boy that his father 156 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:15.240 hasn't got a chance? I described a look in that boy's eyes. I 157 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:18.000 don't care what that old district attorney said. My father isn't a crook. 158 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:22.600 And your father should have been able to explain the stolen jewelry they found at 159 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:24.840 your place. Oh, Betty could too. They just wouldn't listen to him. 160 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:28.360 Oh not, Johnny. If your father is innocent. They'll let him 161 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:31.360 go, so you won't help me either. But I'm trying, my boy. 162 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:35.960 What else can I do? I heard nothing? I guess see you, 163 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:37.519 lady, mister Holliday. Oh, Johnny, listened to me. I'm 164 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:39.759 kind of busy right now. I got to earn a lot of doe, 165 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:45.080 I guess, Johnny, because lawyers come pretty expensive. Oh look, you 166 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:48.440 better go home, mister Holiday. I should have handed it personally in the 167 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:56.840 first place. Small boys have that neck, don't they. They can just 168 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:01.559 vanish into thin air when they want to. It's quite a character. Holiday. 169 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:07.799 Go home and write this on your type rid right about the small boy 170 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:11.039 who wanted you to get his father out of jail, and you didn't quite 171 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:18.600 make the grade. Hello, mister Holiday, this is Johnny. I'm up 172 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:22.360 with the place where we live. Johnny. There's something funny going on. 173 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:24.200 What are you talking about. I'm afraid to go into our place. There's 174 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:28.159 a man in there. Do you annoy him? He's going through the place, 175 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:31.240 so he's looking for something. Johnny. Listen, run outside, find 176 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:33.120 a policeman. I'll be right over. I gotta get out of here, 177 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:35.080 Johnny. Do what I said. Just walked out of the door. He 178 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:41.120 saw me get over to Moran's place fast, Holiday, You've got no time 179 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:50.159 for fooling. He's not outside, Maybe he's upstairs. Oh, Johnny, 180 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:58.519 Johnny, where could that boy have gone to? Grace Willard a woman who 181 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:07.120 sent Moran up to the watch because she knows Moran, she knows his boy. 182 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:12.440 Yes, oh, miss Willard, Yes, Oh, I'm Dan Holiday. 183 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:18.039 Would you know where little Johnny Morann is come in? Now? What's 184 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:21.159 this about? Johnny? Well, he phoned me a few minutes ago from 185 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:23.399 his place. There was a man going through it. He saw Johnny making 186 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:27.600 the call. Johnny's disappeared. Yes, you phoned the police. Do you 187 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:32.600 think he's been hurt? The police knew nothing about it. I don't know 188 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:33.720 what happened to the boy. That's why I came over here. I figured 189 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:36.799 that if you know his father, you knew Johnny. You're not poor mister 190 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:38.720 Morann. I feel so badly about him. You know, if I hadn't 191 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:41.279 asked him to get my watch, this never would have happened. But that 192 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:44.720 doesn't make it your fault, Miss Willard. No, I feel terrible about 193 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:48.200 it, just the same. And not Johnny disappearing. He hasn't been here 194 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:52.360 at all. No, let me think of it. Oh, by the 195 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:55.720 way, I was just having some coffee. Would you care to join me? 196 00:16:56.200 --> 00:17:00.840 Miss Willard is a very nice person, really worried about the boy. 197 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:06.039 Perhaps you'll come back with an idea. Here's your coffee, mister Holiday. 198 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:11.240 Now we're at all. Oh thanks. Oh did Johnny recognize the man? 199 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:12.920 No, he didn't have time to say. Well, perhaps he found a 200 00:17:12.920 --> 00:17:15.079 policeman on the street. He might have gone back to the house. Oh 201 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:22.680 my god, A called back. Johnny's cute little fellow. Johnny has a 202 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:29.319 father who's in jail. Johnny is quite concerned about his father and would like 203 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:34.400 to set him free. Grace Wallowed is stalling Holiday, waiting for something. 204 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:38.279 I don't know if Johnny will get his wish or not. You see, 205 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:45.920 his father looks very guilty to the police. Holiday, you idiot. That 206 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:51.000 coffee was doped, the oldest gag in the world, and you swallowed it. 207 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:56.119 You look sleepy, mister Holiday. Are you feeling all right? She 208 00:17:56.319 --> 00:18:03.640 looks like a reflection than one of those mosman park Yes, she's she's long 209 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:11.799 and skinny. No, no, she's shot short and fat. Holiday Holiday, 210 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:17.279 get up on you feel, mister Holiday, Are you all right? 211 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:25.759 And get on your feet? I said, walk Holiday, walk, Walk 212 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:30.079 this thing off before it's too late. You look very tired, mister Holiday. 213 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:36.240 Let me get you a pillow. Come on, Holiday one. How 214 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:47.440 do you feel, mister Holiday? I can't can't make it. You are 215 00:18:47.480 --> 00:19:07.480 listening to Box thirteen, darring Ellen lad As Dan Holiday Walks thirteen starring Alan 216 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:21.480 Ladd as Dan Holiday. Oh take it easy, Holiday, Take it easy. 217 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:30.440 Turn slowly now. Maybe your head still is connected to the top of 218 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:45.039 your neck. That's better. Better? H What am I saying? Where 219 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:56.799 am i an alley? Oh? Fine, Dan Holiday, author found lying 220 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:07.759 in an alley between yesterday's newspapers and tomorrow's trash. What you need write this 221 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:11.400 minute is a quick change of fast path, a little chat with a district 222 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:18.440 attorney. I've got a man going up to the Willard woman's place right this 223 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:22.119 minute, Holiday, Thanks o' clock. This ties her up with a Moraine 224 00:20:22.119 --> 00:20:26.279 case. Sure else? Why would she give me knockout drops and have me 225 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:30.039 dumped in an alley? I'll bet anything she's disappeared. But why just knock 226 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:33.680 you out? Why not dispose of you permanently? I don't know unless she 227 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:37.839 was trying to kill time, enough time to get something done. Well, 228 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:41.200 he can't do anything now. If she's disappeared, she won't stay lost for 229 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:44.559 long. My men will bring her in. Don't let her give him any 230 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:49.000 coffee. She'd be out again. Puddenly, District Attorney's always clark S figging, 231 00:20:49.880 --> 00:21:03.000 yesh, where when how is he? I'll see a later o'clock. 232 00:21:03.079 --> 00:21:04.680 I want to go over and see Johnny Moran. I don't think you'll find 233 00:21:04.759 --> 00:21:08.880 him at home? Holiday? Why not? That was a hospital who just 234 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:14.319 called Johnny Moran was brought in a while ago, the victim of a hit 235 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:22.119 and run driver. And on top of that phone call about Johnny Moran is 236 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:26.000 another one. Grace Weller checked out of the Wharton Hotel an hour ago, 237 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:30.160 saw mister Holiday. They got you out of the way long enough to get 238 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:34.480 the little Johnny. A small boy in a hospital, me with an aching 239 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:44.640 head and an aching feeling that something is very very wrong. I think this 240 00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:56.079 is it. Room. You don't know Johnny ohmstualday. How do you feel? 241 00:21:56.160 --> 00:22:00.039 Kids kind of bang up? Yeah? I know. The nurse said 242 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:03.680 you want to do too much talking, So just let me ask a couple 243 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:07.839 of questions. It wasn't an accident, mister Holiday. He did it on 244 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:11.240 purpose. You're sure about that, Johnny. Yeah, I was walking down 245 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:15.440 a side street. He had just swing way over to the wrong side to 246 00:22:15.559 --> 00:22:18.440 hit me. Johnny, Did he look like the same man who was in 247 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:22.079 your place? I didn't get a good look at him. He was bent 248 00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:26.720 down way behind the wheel. Well, could you give me just a hint? 249 00:22:26.119 --> 00:22:30.279 Was he tall? Short? Thin? Fat? Oh? I knows, 250 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:44.480 yes, Johnny. Johnny, Johnny passed out, won't be permitted to 251 00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:48.000 talk for a while. That puts it up to you, Holiday. Come 252 00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:52.240 on, you are an author. You're right. Hundreds of situations like this 253 00:22:52.359 --> 00:23:00.839 one. Thank the boarding hospital Johnny lives. Maybe the landlady saw them. 254 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:07.319 I certainly hope so. Johnny Moran, Yes, I saw him come home, 255 00:23:07.319 --> 00:23:10.839 but it was quite some time ago. Did you see him leave? 256 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:12.839 Yes, he went upstairs. I heard him on the telephone. Then he 257 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:18.440 came running down. Who was the man chasing him? Chasing him? There 258 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:22.559 was no one chasing him? Are you sure of that? Of course, 259 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:26.880 I've been here all the time. Poor little fella. I don't know what's 260 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:30.480 going to happen to him, what with his father in law? This doesn't 261 00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:36.559 make sense. I beg your pardon. Oh nothing you say. Johnny called 262 00:23:36.599 --> 00:23:38.599 me, told me there was a strange man in his place. The man 263 00:23:38.680 --> 00:23:41.400 saw him, He hung up the phone and disappeared. But I saw no 264 00:23:41.559 --> 00:23:45.519 man. Are you sure? Only Joe coldly? But he's one of my 265 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:52.599 rumors? That is he was? Was he moved today just after Johnny left? 266 00:23:53.119 --> 00:24:00.319 Was he upstairs while Johnny was? Yes, yes he was. Was 267 00:24:00.359 --> 00:24:03.079 he a friend of John Moran's. Oh no, no, he never spoke 268 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:06.319 to anyone, stayed in his room all day and went out at night. 269 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:11.000 Oh, one of those night flies. Could I see the room he occupied? 270 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:21.759 This is Cokeley's room, but it's empty. Well, holiday, it 271 00:24:21.799 --> 00:24:30.720 looks like you're on the wrong track track or are you stubbed from a dance 272 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:38.920 hall ticket? I'd better talk to Johnny about this, Johnny. The man 273 00:24:38.920 --> 00:24:42.680 who came out of your room? Was he about my height? Did he 274 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:45.920 have grace here? Did he wear a bronze suit? Yeah? Yeah, 275 00:24:45.920 --> 00:24:49.200 that's the man, mister Hardy. I'll come. You never saw him before? 276 00:24:49.519 --> 00:24:52.680 Did it right across the hall from him? That guy? He only 277 00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:57.079 went out at night after I was in bed. Oh, I'll see you 278 00:24:57.119 --> 00:25:00.559 later. Johnny, Hey, where are you going tonight? I'm going dancing. 279 00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:15.680 This is a very nice place. Holiday admission sixty cents, which includes 280 00:25:15.720 --> 00:25:18.160 an evening of dancing, and from the looks of the customers, they're trying 281 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:22.440 to get their money's worth, like to dance? Fella, Whomi and a 282 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:26.960 twins? Are you? I'm sorry, I'm afraid I'm a very bad dancing 283 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:30.279 Are you? Let me be the judge of that? Come on, shit, 284 00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:36.200 you look good to me. I wait a second, say, isn't 285 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:38.119 that Joe Cockley over there? Ah? You know Joe? Yeah? And 286 00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:42.279 the girl with him that his girlfriend, Chriece Willard. Oh, thanks, 287 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:48.680 I'll see you later. Hey, where are you going? This is that 288 00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:52.680 holiday only? What are you going to do? They're leaving and if you 289 00:25:52.680 --> 00:25:56.599 stop to make a phone call, you lose them. And I wouldn't like 290 00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:00.119 to lose that man. He's the one who hits small boys. But they 291 00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:07.319 automobiles. They're going into the apartment house. This begins to look like the 292 00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:14.720 final chapter. Now to make a fast telephone call from an old friend, 293 00:26:14.759 --> 00:26:22.440 and better to get to the payoff. That's a very nice door. You 294 00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:27.240 can hear quite distinctly throw it. Well. Holiday here's where you ceased to 295 00:26:27.240 --> 00:26:33.200 be a wallflower and become the life of the party. Holiday up your hands, 296 00:26:33.200 --> 00:26:45.039 fellow, sure sure, closet door, Grace. Well here we are, 297 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:52.000 aren't we finds? Joe? What are we gonna do? You finished 298 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:55.000 packing that junk? We'll figure out something. We can't let him steal a 299 00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:56.279 lot. Finish the packing, I said, too bad. I didn't use 300 00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:02.960 poison in that coffee. I gave it quiet. Noticed you were packing going 301 00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:04.880 away someplace? What do you think and get away from it? Bag Holliday. 302 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:10.359 Oh that's the stuff that was stolen from the start. Huh any of 303 00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:18.000 your business or going away together? You and miss Willard? Maybe you pull 304 00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:22.079 that go down and pick up my watch routine in a lot of cities on 305 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:25.599 Joe making me quad? Joe? Hey, Joe, who was a girl 306 00:27:25.599 --> 00:27:27.440 who worked with you before you met Grace? You know, the one who 307 00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:32.480 lived in Cleveland or was it Chicago? I always forget, Come on, 308 00:27:32.599 --> 00:27:37.519 Joe, what happened? What happened to her? Joe or the girl before? 309 00:27:40.119 --> 00:27:42.200 How do you know there was another girl? Holiday? Well, missus 310 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:47.200 Willard, you don't think you're the only one, do you? You're crazy? 311 00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:52.119 Yeah? Asking where he was last night. Don't pay any attention to 312 00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:57.680 him, Grace, he wasn't with you know where he was? How do 313 00:27:57.720 --> 00:28:02.680 you know he wasn't with me? The stub of a dance hall ticket I 314 00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:07.200 found in the other room. It calls for only one an issue? Shut 315 00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:11.319 up by saydst a minute. Joe, were you down there last night? 316 00:28:11.559 --> 00:28:18.000 Were you dancing with that blonde again? So you've got a lot you have 317 00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:21.039 me set up his whole deal. Have me find John Miranda, pay Sucker 318 00:28:21.079 --> 00:28:22.359 for us? Help me frame the business of picking up my watch? I 319 00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:26.279 time it out perfect for you. What do you do? You've got dancing? 320 00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:30.599 Grace? Be quiet. This fellow's up to something. Me now, 321 00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:33.319 what would I be up to? What about that other girl? He talked 322 00:28:33.319 --> 00:28:37.400 about? What happened? I heard you? Why don't you tell her? 323 00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:40.920 Joe? Cut it out? Will here? Did she plant stolen Joey in 324 00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:44.720 a Sucker's room like I did to morand Grace? Listen? Yeah, I'm 325 00:28:44.759 --> 00:28:48.880 listening. Go on, explain, Holliday, where are you going? Just 326 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:52.880 opening the door? You see? I'd like the district attorney to hear the 327 00:28:52.880 --> 00:29:17.799 rest of your explanation too. This is the last chapter to a story I 328 00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:22.440 was afraid it might have an unhappy ending. But Johnny Moran's father is free, 329 00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:26.759 the district attorney has Grace Willard, Joe Cockley and the stolen jewelry, 330 00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:33.400 and Johnny m Johnny is out of the hospital. Mister Holliday, What did 331 00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:34.960 you say, Johnny? I said you might have been killed going up to 332 00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:40.440 the department like that. No, I was safe for the DA just outside 333 00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:44.039 the door. Gosh, and you figured it all out by yourself. No, 334 00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:47.720 you helped too when you telephoned me. And I hate to mention this 335 00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:52.680 kid, but did you bring the eighteen dollars with you? Sure? I 336 00:29:52.759 --> 00:29:57.279 did? I pay off you know here? Oh? Thanks get. I 337 00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:00.400 was just a little worried. I was going to paid before mister Holiday. 338 00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:04.519 But I didn't think he needed money that man. Oh yeah, needed it 339 00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:10.279 to put with this check. Yeah. There was a five hundred dollars reward 340 00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:12.160 for recovering the jewelry, and it's going to a bank account for you. 341 00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:18.480 Five hundred dollars. Gee, gosh, I guess I'm rich. Johnny. 342 00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:21.759 What are you gonna do with all that money? Well, the first thing 343 00:30:21.799 --> 00:30:23.720 I'm gonna do is take you out and buy your drink. How about an 344 00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:29.119 idiot's delight? Oh, oh, what idiots delight? It's got a pint 345 00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:32.680 of ice cream, three bananas, some oranges and seven flavors. Oh, 346 00:30:32.759 --> 00:30:36.559 Johnny, I I don't know, mister Holliday. I just tried that, 347 00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:40.319 Johnny. Get out of the Oh there yard, Johnny. How do you 348 00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:42.880 feel? Feels swell? Sussie? I just invited mister Holiday out to have 349 00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:47.119 a drink. He can't go out, Johnny, He's got some very important 350 00:30:47.160 --> 00:30:51.839 work to do. Gee whiz, Thanks a lot, Sussie. Thanks? 351 00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:55.400 What are you thanking me for? You don't know it, but you've just 352 00:30:55.519 --> 00:31:03.960 saved me from a horrible fate. Next week, same time. Alan Ladd 353 00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:18.920 stars as Dan Holiday and Box thirteen. Alan Ladd appears through the courtesy if 354 00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:25.160 Paramount Pictures and may currently be seen in Wild Harvest. Box thirteen has written 355 00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:29.799 and directed by Ted Hediger. A part of Susie is played by Sylvia Pickard. 356 00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:36.119 Original music was composed and conducted by Rudy Schrager. This is a Mayfair 357 00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:47.720 production. Welcome back, um, you know, and as you listen to 358 00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:53.640 Alan Ladd here, what really comes out is how Alan Ladd may not have 359 00:31:53.720 --> 00:32:00.640 been as Dan Holiday may not have been the the tough detective on Old Time 360 00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:06.240 Radio. There were quite a few that could have that could have left him. 361 00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:12.839 He may not have been the smartest, but Alan Ladd simply may have 362 00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:16.720 been one of the finest actors to take the role. I really like what 363 00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:22.240 he's got going on with Lad. This this kind of sense of questioning uh 364 00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:30.359 and almost uh uh almost brooding. Uh. It's it's kind of reminiscent when 365 00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:35.000 you hear Lad doing it. It's kind of reminiscent of the inner monologue of 366 00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:38.319 Spider Man in a way. Um. You listen to this, he's questioning 367 00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:44.440 himself, struggling with himself and what he ought to do. Um. And 368 00:32:44.759 --> 00:32:49.880 it really makes for great drama in the midst of this detective story. Uh. 369 00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:52.200 And I think it makes us feel like he's a real person and to 370 00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:57.480 connect with him. Um. And you usually don't see that in a lot 371 00:32:57.519 --> 00:33:02.480 of these detective shows. Uh. Really, Allen Land may have done it 372 00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:07.119 better than anybody up until Bob Bailey took the role of Johnny Dollers. So 373 00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:14.160 all right, Well that's it for this episode of the Great Detectives of Old 374 00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:20.240 Time Radio. 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