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Hello from Boise, Idaho. This
is Adam Graham and Christmas and Christmas Eve.

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We'll be sharing holiday related encores on
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listen today's program and Merry Christmas.
Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time

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Radio and it's our two thousand,
seven hundredth episode special from Boise, Idaho.

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This is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment,

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have a listen. Well, This is

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a special that I knew I would
really want to play right around Christmas time.

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It is not a Christmas episode by
any means, however, the ending

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part is so Christmas a that I
really felt it would make a nice holiday

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trait. Typically I save our long
specials for every two hundred episodes, so

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typically we wouldn't do another one till
episode twenty eight hundred. However, this

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one landed just right, so I
just decided to go ahead and live dangerously.

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It is an episode of The Campbell's
Playhouse, which, if you've not

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heard an episode before, I think
we've only played one was the sponsored version

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of Orson Wells Mercury Theater. So
one of our stars tonight will be mister

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Orson Wells. The play is There's
Always a Woman, and the original air

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date is December the seventeenth of nineteen
thirty nine. The makers of Campbell's Soup

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present The Campbell Playhouse, Arson Wells
producer Good Evening. This is Orson Welles.

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The motion pictures and even the radio
and the living stage have made it

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clear by now that the female of
the species is not only more deadly than

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the opposite sex, more desirable,
but also more durable in times of stress,

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and more to be relied on for
the solution of even the bloodiest murders.

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And in case these observations may seem
as irrelevant as they are certainly irreverent,

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let me break down right here and
admiss the subject of the night's broadcast

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is the bloodiest of bloody murders.
Now, as to the ladies, time

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was when all the girls used to
do in a mystery story with the scream

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scream loudly and degrasp that by horrible
a clutching clause. But all that's been

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changed, and the heroines of these
modern romances are ladies of parts. They

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are not the ones to find themselves
flad only in something filmy and feminine,

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being carried off by a gorilla whose
identity you will be subsequently requested not to

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divulge. They are not susceptible to
hypnosis, to the blandishments of sinister latins,

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and they never faint. They are
accomplished in the use of firearms and

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can escape from anything, including suspicions. But the gentleman, I am sorry

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to say, have degenerated in our
new fiction into a pretty pathetic low among

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human things. There seems to be
no excuse for us, I say us,

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because tonight I am fated to attempt
before this microphone the portrayal of one

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of these wretched beings. No,
the Lady Bloodhounds could do without us if

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they didn't still insist just for appearances
on the old traditional turnout of likely suspects.

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There's always a woman, which is
Tonight's story contains no less than two

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murders and Miss Mary Wilson. Miss
Wilson is one of the most promising of

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the talented and personable young women whom
Hollywood is discovered in recent days. Her

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frequent appearance is what is called a
dumb and dizzy blonde is let it be

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noted an outstanding example of what is
known as the entertainment world as casting against

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type. In as Always a Woman, Miss Wilson demonstrates again that dumbness and

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dizziness can be surface disguises of infinite
resources and a far seeing purpose. But

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before our story of the evening,
mister Ernest Chapple has a question to ask

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us, the answer to which I
am pretty sure will be unanimous. Chapel,

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thank you us, the wells and
ladies and gentlemen. The question is

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simply this, what one soup would
you say most deserves to be called a

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family stand by? As Arsenwell suggested, I am pretty sure of your answer.

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Isn't it vegetable soup? Bowls of
home made vegetable soup, I imagine,

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are among the very earliest memories of
nearly all of us. Maybe we

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also recall the time and trouble mother
took to make that soup, simmering the

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stocks and preparing the vegetables. Yet, as Mother's wills, she always felt

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rewarded when she saw how much the
family enjoyed us. Today, most of

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us still have a keen liking for
vegetable soup, but wives and mothers increasingly

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are giving up making it and instead
are serving Campbell's vegetable soup. Are you

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at your house? Of course it
will save much kitchen time and trouble,

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But the far more important reason is
that one taste of Campbell's will convince you

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that it's made in the time,
honored, good homeway. Grown ups and

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children alike enjoy the fifteen different garden
vegetables and the rich beef stock that together

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make Campbell's vegetable soup so stout and
hearty and nourishing. You'll realize why women

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everywhere agree that it's almost a meal
in itself. Wooden't piping hot bowls of

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Campbell's vegetable soup just hits the spot
with everyone at your house tomorrow and now

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us and Wells, and there's always
a woman with Marie Wilson to William H.

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Sh Reardan for three months, rent
you three hundred and seventy five dollars

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unless this bill is paid in on
the floor, the first to undersigned reserve

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the right to re rent the premises, Signed Frank F. Carter. Oh,

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Bill, what are we going to
do? I know what I'm going

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to do? Get my old job
back. Hello? Is this office?

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Shut up? This is Bill Reardon. Hello Joe, let me be in.

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Have no off things, old Bill, where your pride? I just

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swallow that. It's the only thing
you can swallow on credit. Come on,

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Sally, we'll go down and see
the DA together. You can make

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up your mind. Your husband is
just too dumb to make a go of

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this detective business. Not me.
I'm going to carry on here, all

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right. You carry on, but
make sure to get out of here by

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the first of the month unless you
want the Takata to rerent you too.

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I hope you don't get the job. If I don't, there's a cute

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little bench in Central Park where we
can spend the summer. Oh bit,

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And don't be too sure of that
bench. It's first come, first served

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in Central Park. Come in,
pardon me, is mister in No?

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But could you tell me when you'll
be And I want to see him on

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business of business? Oh well,
won't you sit down, don't you?

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I'm mister riard is out right now
in a very important case. But if

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there's anything that's say, could I
have him call you? I prefer not

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to give my name. Well,
just as you wish, missus Frasier,

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How did you know my name is
Brases? What your picture was in the

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papers when you were married? And
if the detective's business ever to forget a

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faith? Are you a detective?
I'm mister Riardon as chief operator. I

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handle all his women clients. You
see, women often feel that they can

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talk more freely to another woman.
And you keep this not a confidential.

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I won't even discuss it with mister
riardoon, but you have to know not

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unless you want him to. You
see, you'll be entered in our books

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as a number. Now just the
mom let's see the last case was let

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me see number three seven five.
Your case will be number three seven six.

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And now then what can I do
for you? Well, there's a

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person I'd like to have shadowed.
Her name is Calhoun, and Calhoun with

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a picture. Oh thanks? He
nice lucky? Isn't he a to Lola

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who is doing a much better job
than I would have done? Anne?

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Has this inscription anything to do with
the case. Anne Calhoun was engaged to

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my husband before before, I understand, but there hasn't been anything to understand

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until a week ago. Then quite
suddenly, mister Fraser began getting letters and

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phone calls. Some I haven't suspired, but I know her handwriting and I

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know her voice. There's something going
on between them, and you've got to

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find out. If I don't solve
it by the first of the month,

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missus Fraser, i'll retire from business. I'll just leave this all by the

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way if you want to get a
good look at her at Miss Calhoun,

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She and my husband and I and
Joey Molo are dropping into the Skyline Club

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tonight, a Skyline club. I'll
be there now. They say you want

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some advance money for expenses. I
dare say, I don't know what your

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rates on this, but how would
three hundred dollars do? Three hundred dollars?

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Why? I'm sorry, it's all
I have to have with me.

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Of course, if you insist no, no, that's all right, And

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of course it's less than I use
your rate. But I'm delighted to make

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the exception of vacuous Operator seven.
Just call me that. Goodbye three seven

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six weird a detective agency Operator seven. You turned awfully happy. I am,

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I got my got back. Let's
celebrate. What's the salary? Celebrate?

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What do you get paid seventy every
week? Oh? Isn't that nice?

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Isn't that nice? Say? What
did you say about celebrations? But

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what's the free We gotta tell a
football Okay, if you don't mind being

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lonesome, tell me. How's the
Reared and Agency coming along under its new

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management? Splendidly? Thank you,
splendidly. Customers are popping in all over

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the place a RARED and detective agency. He never reveals the name of his

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clients. That's part of the RARED
and policy and policy they're on. They

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Reared and Clients anymore. Bills come
in several, three great big ones.

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Say, didn't you say something about
well, how about the Skyline Club?

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Bill, we can afford it,
can't Well, we can't afford the Skyline.

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Just this one. It's always just
this one, Oh Bill, I

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just love the Skyline, Sally,
we can't afford the sky Line. We

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love the Skyline Club, don't you
Bill? Well, don't you Bill?

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No, it's too expensive, but
it is pretty. And this man wants

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to take your order. He's not
waiting to ask you to dance. Oh

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excuse me, let's see after the
pure mongol. And that's how takes a

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Philly name. You mean instead of
no, i'd mean you got to have

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a Pilly minya and some slice tomatoes, nice tomatoes. Yes we're done,

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And some potato salad, and some
potatoes and potato salad. Oh yeah,

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I'm some coffee. The strawberry goat
might tea madam. We'll find out too

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sweet to dumb and hume shoe is
a small glass of water in the hard

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roll, toasted. If you insist
with the regular dinners, if you and

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he will, no, thanks,
sir, I mean no, wait a

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minute, I might want them.
Why don't you have no wine? Way

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and make it quick? Very good, monsieur, No, just mathematics.

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All I have is a twenty dollar
bill. You don't buy any chance to

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have a couple of dollars in your
purse money? Well why didn't you say

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so? Now let's see, I've
got to at a half a dollar and

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just chewing gum. I mean a
half a dollar. You can keep the

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chewing gum. Oh wait a minute, mister Shane's the man I want to

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see this shame? Will you wear
cash? You check for me? Mis

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Shane? How much do you want? Much? At twenty five bucks?

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Better make it fifty in case you
want a champagne? Missus and mister Shane,

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Oh, how do you do?
Mister Shane? Mess? Here's your

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fifth Thanks, got a pan,
I'll write your check. I'm oh,

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you're taking an awful chance, mister
Cha. I don't think he's got fifty

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dollars in his account. Well,
I'm sorry used to taking chances. Your

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wife has a great chance of you
and mister Reared have you noticed it too?

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Here's your check? Thanks? Haven't
seen you around lately, mister Red.

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Now I've been busy. How do
you like being on your own.

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I'm not exactly on my own anymore. I'm back to the Oh that reminds

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me. You don't happen to have
his home phone number to the end when

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you did me a favor Lexington eight
sixty seven two, and he won't be

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home a pretty late Lectionington eight six
seven two. Thank you. Oh,

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don't tell him where you got it. Excuse me, mister sha And the

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captain told me to tell you there's
a call for you in the author excuse

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me name. I'll probably see you
around later. Oh sure, nice personality

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most gamblers have. Gambler, I
thought you said he owned this play.

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Well, he also happened throwing the
casino across the river. Why couldn't I

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have married a man like that instead
of a prohibitionist. See, I'll bet

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he could have got us a better
table than this one too. We're lucky

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to have a table at all.
Do you remember, way back, Sally

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on the phone, when you promised
if I brought you to the Skyline Club,

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you go light on everything that was
before you made a fifty dollars what's

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fifty dollars? Fifty dollars you just
got from mister Shane. Oh, excuse

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me, I forgot about that.
Of course, there's always a chance that

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he might deposit that check. If
he does, you still have fifty dollars

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more than when you started out.
That's certainly a prophet. Certainly is to

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do me a favor with this,
Sally. And don't mention it's the income

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tax people. They don't understand finance
as well as you do. You know

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you can trust me there. Sure, I hate your sup not Super's pure

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mango. Try not eat so noise, even if you had a couple of

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Martine's. That's quality folks. The
next thing, Wow, that's not called

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quality folk either. I'll bet they're
just as unimportant as you and I for

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your information, missus, Redd.
And they are people that any one pretending

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to be a detective ought to know
at first sight. There, mister Faber

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of f r A sEH, I
get it, I get it. This

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other man is Jerry Marlow trans Continental
Copper and the girls and cal who you

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know and just going off again,
bill Ard, And I don't think you

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know anything about it. Not so
loud, Sally, please, that's as

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loud as they are, Terry.
I don't say who's engaged anyhow, If

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you think you're put anything, turn
around. They'll notice you're staring at them.

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Sally. I'll bet they love it. Why if I was a society,

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I want everybody to stare me all
the time. I wonder if you'd

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answer me one question? What question? How did a smart guy like me

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happen to marry a dumb cluck like
you? Oh? I don't know.

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I don't think there's any explanations.
Probably not one of those things you know.

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You know this silly is delicious.
It's that you enjoy it, eating

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your lands hungry. Well, you're
paid for it. Don't be extreme.

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I don't want anything. Mary,
wait and bring me something to drink.

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Champagne one glade, Yes, more
than enough to drink, Sally, Well,

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I can steal spell Mississippi? Am
I s I p I correct?

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It's as closed as you will have
again, what is it now? We're

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going to get another chance to learn
how to talk when we get into society,

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Miss Cows. This is what I've
I've been dancing with somebody else.

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Well, it wouldn't be the first
time you lost you, Anne, What

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do you mean by that? I'll
tell you what I mean by that?

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And is engaged to me now don't
know still the fist guy that's trying to

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take her away from us, that's
just trip. A conversation is non of

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you. I know you were expressing
yourself so beautifully. I couldn't help but

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listen in Sally, will you please
shut up? Yes, this gentleman's name.

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I'd be glad, but well let's
go. Oh you think mister Fraser

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means that check to Bally? You
better shut up? What do you think?

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So come on, let's look mister. Would you like me to shoot

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out? See? There? You
are wrong? They won't even answer me.

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You're lucky waiter. Yes, mister
rhythm, you can give missus reared

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in the check. Please? Hello? Is it true and says here in

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your paper? It says here in
your paper that Walter Fraser was shot shot

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dead and Jerry Marlow's a pomp the
city? Okay? Oh, can you

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tell me if it's too about Walter
Fraser? Madam kidding? Well? It

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is here in the headlines. It's
as Fraser was shot in Jerry Marlow's apart.

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You think we put it into improved
circulation? What do you want?

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But who did? I could interest
you in the Fraser murder Why did you

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kill him? No, but I
think I know who did. I'm sally

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reared and is a reard and detective
agency. You know, No, I

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don't know, but go ahead.
Well, if you don't want her know

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about a threat that Marlow made,
I can call a globe. You know

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there's more the one paper in New
York. Yes, okay, okay,

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we'll send somebody over. What's the
address. I'll take it easy, Marlow.

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I don't want to take it easy, and you're a fine lawyer.

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I must say take it easy.
Can't you read? Marlow? Guilty?

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Says London investigator. Why should I
hire anybody who says that? To make

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us stop saying that bribery ling?
I don't want any poppits. You made

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the threat? Yes, yes,
I made the threat, but I didn't

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kill it. That's important too,
not as important as you think. The

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important thing is to make sure you're
not convicted, and you'd be like for

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Jerry one nice where I'd like to
kill him. Keep on talking about liking

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to kill people, and you'll be
a suspect and every murdered twiler in New

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York. Hold are you doing?
Oh? Are you? Mister? Don't

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you how well? We met last
night, given't we? I mean,

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well, maybe we didn't meet,
but we fought Missus Ridden. I've explained

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to mister Marlow that you've agreed to
do some investigating for us. Well you

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understand, mister Marlow. We're very
busy down at the office just now,

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but this was such an interesting case. I felt I couldn't afford to turn

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it down. That's very generous about
Missus Ridon, don't you think so,

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Jerry, Yeah, very general,
very general. Yes, mister Cadling and

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I agreed upon two hundred a week
and expenses, didn't we, mister Ketling.

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That's right, And here's your check. Missus. Wait a minute,

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this is Ridden. How are you
going to fix that? Us type of

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story? Oh? That excuse me
for waiting this check in your face,

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mister Marlow. But I want the
ink to dry. Hello, give me

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the city desk. Hello, this
is missus Rido. Uh huh, I've

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got a new story for you.
Got your pencil ready, all right?

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A Marlow innocent? Innocent, says
blonde investigator. May got your mind,

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lady? Well, I know I
said he was guilty, but just this

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minute I picked up some new evidence
and I hope it doesn't sound Bill Whole,

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I'm home. Why did you repeat
that crack of milist the reporters,

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which crack when a man trying to
kill a rival in the nightclub. You

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know he's not going to do it. Why did you repeat it to the

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reporters. I didn't repeat anything.
I just happened to be talking to the

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Daily Bulletin in one way or another, Sally read and you tell me the

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truth, so help me, I'll
kill you. Everybody wants to kill somebody

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lately. Have you noticed, Sally
Well, I told him I was going

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to get some publicity, or rather
I told you I was going to get

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publicity. Well, after all,
Marlow did say that he was drunk,

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and I'm supposed to be working for
the district attorney up trying cases in the

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newspapers. I didn't need to do
anything wrong by I appreciate what you're trying

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to do. What I told you
before. It's the man's place to make

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the money for the home, and
it's a woman's place to take care of

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the man when he comes home.
Sally, Bill, you're perfectly right and

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Agreeve I. I'm going into the
kitchen right now and I'm going to get

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you the best stupper you ever had. How do you want your coffee week

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or strong? Strong? I've got
things to do tonight. I thought you

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were going into the kitchen, but
Bill wif you'd take an interested what her

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husband is doing, don't you think? No? Are you in the DA

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going to arrest everybody tonight? No? But I'll tell you who the DA

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would like to arrest who you if
tomorrow You're not going to get anywhere by

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trying to oppose this. What the
DA wants is the truth. If you

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smart, you cooperate with us.
You'll all cooperate with us. Missus Fraser,

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you know, District Attorney, mister
Evans, I think sorry, of

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course trouble you had a time like
this, but it can't be helped.

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I can. We want to know
exactly where in this apartment each person was

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when the shot was fired? How
about you, Miss Caroline. I was

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in the kitchen mixing a dress.
Where was mister I don't know. I'm

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sure he was in the living.
Is it true that you were once engaged

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in mister Fraser, Miss Calhoun,
yes I was, and now you're engaged

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to mister Marlow. It nothing mis
to Marlow. I may have to dig

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into some of these relations battle.
Where were you, Missus Fraser when the

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shot was fired? I was in
the library. I was reaching for the

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phone. Where were you, Malow
To tell the truth, I've had a

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couple of drinks I couldn't wear well. I was by Jerry. You were

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in the kitchen with me with I
thought, yes, Missus Fraser, you

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were about to say something. Jerry
had just walked me through the living room

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to show me whe the phone was. The shot came almost to meet you

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then. I didn't think he had
time to get back to the He had

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just come back when the shot was
fired. Well, what about it,

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Marlo, I told you, I
don't remember. Nobody seems to remember much

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anything about this affair. What is
it? Officer? Put you come out

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in the hall for you, Bobby
right back. It's a crazy thing.

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But trying to get in here,
I told her she couldn't. She told

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me to memorize this message and to
give it to you, dearest Darlan.

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Don't forget the butler Sally. She
said you were dearest Darlan, and you'd

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know who she was. I know
who she was. No land to go

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back to your poet Hey you there, come back here. You're the butler.

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Yes, what's your name? Wick? Where were you last night?

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Gregson? When missus rather mister Fraser
was murdered. I was a sleeper.

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The shot liked me. I'll put
on a bathrob and I came down hollow.

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If you worked for mister Morrow,
I engaged him in London. Is

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nothing wrong with your memory now?
Misus am'le always there? Well you better

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start remembering from recent night. I
want to take a look at your Patrick

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Gregson. Yes, come on looking
at Gregson. I I know you haven't

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seen it? Have you? No? Get away from that door? What

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are you trying to do? Conceal
something that night? But I wasn't trying

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to con Take a look anyway.
It's all right. Wait a minute,

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that's the funny place for an ice
cube tray? Well, I I didn't

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have time to put it back in
the right take a look at it.

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Well what have you got to say
now? I didn't think I understand.

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It's not so hard to understand.
There's a gun frozen into that tray,

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that's all. What are you fuck? Nothing much? Just this gun?

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Well? What in the ice cube
tray? How do you help for that

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Grigson. I don't know you ever
handle a gun. No, ye,

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take all of this gun of mine. Don't get scared. I'm taking the

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cartridge out. You say you have
a shot a gun. No, here's

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your first lesson? Shoot this?
Oh no, I couldn't. I wouldn't

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know how to call the trigger.
Give me that gun. You never shot

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a gun before? No, you
don't have to release the safety catch for

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you pull the trigger. You were
told to stay on the other to want

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to go along as tomorrow? Like
fine, Maybe they can help you to

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remember down there where you were last
year. Just a minute, Bill,

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Yeah, whatever made you suspect the
butt? Oh? Justine? Think you

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know it is? You get a
hunch, just one of those things?

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Just to turn his busy? Well, will you be telling that missus?

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Reardon is here? Sorry, you
have to wait. You have a chair?

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Pee? How do you do with
Oh, mister Shane, fancy meeting

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you here? Can I sit next
to you? You would tell me,

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mister Shane, what is a high
class restaurant owner doing in the District Attorney's

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office? You'll find me as I
get around, say, I hope you

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are here to complain about my husband's
chair. No, that hasn't bounced yet.

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But Mike, you be doing in
the District Attorney's office. If I

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may ask missus Ridens the new clues
on the Fraser murder. How did you

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know I've been following you. You've
been following me in the papers. I

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understand it. You no longer think
Jerry Morlo is guilty. Oh no,

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that first story I gave out with
your red Herring inspect butler. Oh no,

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it's never the butler. When you've
read as many I mean, when

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you've handled as many detective cases as
I have, you know it's never the

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butler. Oh they always look guilty, but it turns out they never are.

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They found the gun on they always
do. That's just to throw you

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off the track. Now, Uh
No, there's just one clue that may

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be worth mister Shane. Maybe you
can help me. I'd appreciate the opportunity.

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I guessed what was in that envelope
that and Calhoun gave you the other

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night. I've looked and Calhoun gave
me not I was in the Skyline club

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with my husband. I don't know
what you're talking about. Yeah, how

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dread then I'm sorry, but I
won't have time to see. When I

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called you the other night, you
said to be sure and dropping this time.

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Know, I know, but that
was before this phrase the case turned

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up. But come in and see
me next week. I'm all right.

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I'll call you when I read it
for you. Okay, goodbye, goodbye,

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mister Shane, think it over.
Oh could I have a moment please,

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Miss Jevins, I must talk to
you. I have some very important

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clues. I've been reading all about
your clues, but this is a new

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one. Yes, tell him to
your husband, maybe he'll listen to you.

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Oh no, you see, he
isn't speaking to me these days.

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Yes, smart Feller Ridden. You
know, mister Alan, I think he's

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mixed up in this case. Oh, your husband, As it happens,

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I was talking to Shane over the
telephone just about the time the murder was

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committed. What do you think he
was doing? Holding a receiver in one

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hand the revolver in the other.
Look, missus Ridden, I have great

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sympathy with your husband, greater now
than with any man I have ever met.

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And if you don't stop butting into
this case kind helps her The end

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of just the ends of justice have
gotten along very well now until without you,

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So will you please go away?
All right? Anon Drickson, if

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you've got any sense at all,
you've stopped attending your dumb We've been here

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for three hours talking to you,
and we're prepared to stay for thirty.

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It's up to you. I don't
know anything. Don't get into your pantry.

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Grigson. I don't know. How
did that gunn take your fingerpricks,

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I don't know. You can't pay
that this month you went to a pawn

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shop located treat them for him Chriss
Drive Newark. No, you want to

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revolver there for fifteen dollars. No, I don't. Brokers identified you from

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your photograph. Boy, you bought
the revolver breaks from you? Examine have

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a rifle? No, I didn't. He tried to walk into that grig

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Who Well, I bought the gun
to mister Marlall sent you to a pawn

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shop. No, he gave me
twenty dollars to go and buy twenty dollars

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to fire gun, and you bought
one for fifteen dollars. Hits on a

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matter of five dollars. Well,
I hit the gun, I said,

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hide the gun. Oh I bought
the gun, mister Marlow kept getting the

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drawer in his room about the way. You know the gun was missing.

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You pick a mama about it.
No, I didn't think it was any

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of my pa. Oh. When
the shot was tired, I put on

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my bathroom and I rushed out.
I just bought it was lying on the

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floor. A woman was crimpy.
Yeah, mister Motow about that. Tell

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us about mister Marlow, Well,
he was trying to tie the ladies,

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missus Spiser and miss Callen. I
show a gun line by the French winner

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gun you bought a porn shop.
Yes, I picked it up and I

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slipped in the bathroom. Now it
isn't the Panama told you to hide it?

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No, what did he say when
you told him where it was?

403
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,640
I didn't you expect us to believe
that. I don't care what you believe.

404
00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:03,440
It's the two mister Morrow. I
regular statement we got from Brixton.

405
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,359
What haven't you got to say about
it? All right? All right?

406
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:07,359
I did have Brickton by it done? What off it? But gun just

407
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,519
up here about a week the gun
just walked out of your dad. I

408
00:28:10,559 --> 00:28:11,759
don't know what happened to it.
Did you ant Briton about it? No?

409
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,640
And when I saw it was missing, I was playing. Why were

410
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,000
you glad, mister Marlow? I
was afraid I might use it on praise?

411
00:28:17,039 --> 00:28:18,720
You brought it? He was on
praise it didn't you? Yeah?

412
00:28:18,799 --> 00:28:22,319
Why? Because he was up to
something with Ann with Calhoun. I mean,

413
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,039
she's been worried to step about something
and she's been writing. How do

414
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:26,079
you know she was writing to him? I was with him and his aposta

415
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,519
one day when a maid brought his
mail in. I know Ann's handwriting.

416
00:28:29,759 --> 00:28:32,359
He didn't know them the letter.
He just looked confused and slipped it into

417
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:34,119
his pop Any idea was all about
it? No, she denied everything he

418
00:28:34,279 --> 00:28:37,920
lied. I was going crazy.
I just killed him, all right,

419
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:41,160
I'm sorry. I didn't cheer up
Marlow. Maybe we could prove you did.

420
00:28:59,839 --> 00:29:07,440
You are listening to Watson Wells and
the Campbell Playoffs presentation of There's Always

421
00:29:07,519 --> 00:29:51,160
a Woman with Marie Wilson. This
is the Columbia Broadcasting System. This is

422
00:29:51,279 --> 00:29:53,519
Ernest Chapel, Ladies and gentlemen,
welcoming you back to the Campbell Playhouse.

423
00:29:55,079 --> 00:29:57,279
In a moment, we shall resume
our presentation of There's Always a Woman.

424
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,920
But first, as we all realize
In a very few days now, the

425
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,039
Christmas holidays will be upon us,
and with the children home for vacation,

426
00:30:06,799 --> 00:30:10,920
we usher in the happiest and the
busiest season of the year. Perhaps the

427
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:15,759
busiest person of all in every home
will be mother. There'll be entertaining dinners

428
00:30:15,799 --> 00:30:18,960
to be given, gay parties for
the young people, possibly relative staying over,

429
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,519
and the task of planning, preparing, and carrying through this round of

430
00:30:23,599 --> 00:30:27,759
yew Tide activities will of course fall
mainly upon mother, as the hearts and

431
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:33,079
center of the home. Among these
tasks of hers, none will loom larger,

432
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,759
probably than the planning of meals.
And so I'd like to remind every

433
00:30:36,799 --> 00:30:41,440
mother listening tonight of the part that
well chosen soups can play in holiday menus.

434
00:30:41,319 --> 00:30:45,759
Apart from the wholesome nourishment you know, good soup provides for everyone,

435
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:49,039
not forgetting the children. You'll be
delighted to see how the serving of attempting

436
00:30:49,119 --> 00:30:53,279
soup can dress up even your simplest
meal, give it a really festive touch.

437
00:30:55,279 --> 00:30:59,119
During the holidays just ahead, I'm
sure you'll want to serve Campbell's soups

438
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:03,519
often for their I'm homelike flavor and
for the real help they can give you

439
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:08,119
in meal planning these busy days.
And now Orson Wells resumes our camera playoffs

440
00:31:08,119 --> 00:31:14,200
presentation of There's always a Woman with
Marie Wilson. Thank you, mister Chappell,

441
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:18,480
and we'll proceed in just a minute. But before we do, who

442
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:25,400
killed Walter Fraser? Did you do
it? Mister Wells? Well, that

443
00:31:25,559 --> 00:31:30,319
isn't fair. I'm the detective,
but you never know. How about Marie

444
00:31:30,319 --> 00:31:36,000
Wilson Sally, mister Chappell, you're
speaking of my wife, but she knows

445
00:31:36,079 --> 00:31:40,279
more than she's telling, or she's
telling more than she knows. Why deal

446
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:44,039
I new kid? In fact,
I think there's less to miss Wilson and

447
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,720
meets the eye. Who are you? You know perfectly, well, Orson

448
00:31:47,759 --> 00:31:51,000
Wells. I'm Ray Collins, heavily
disguised as Nicky Shane, a gambler,

449
00:31:51,039 --> 00:31:52,960
and I'd like to know what Griggson, the butler is doing with Marlow's revolver

450
00:31:53,079 --> 00:31:56,960
in the ice cube. Grigs Everett
Sloane, you're playing Gregson. Now just

451
00:31:56,039 --> 00:32:00,480
a minute. I must warn you, Everett Sloane that anything you say we'll

452
00:32:00,519 --> 00:32:02,599
be held against Gregson. Well,
I don't want to name any names,

453
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:07,480
but the gun belongs to Edgar Barrier, who's playing marlow But I don't keep

454
00:32:07,519 --> 00:32:10,559
my guns on eye, shall we
suspect the lady had Vonda? That was

455
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:15,039
Mary Taylor and Georgia Beachus in the
order of their appearance. Mary Taylor plays

456
00:32:15,079 --> 00:32:19,599
Lola, the first client of the
Reared and Detective Agency, the wife of

457
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:23,559
the murdered man, and Georgia Bacus
plays and Calhoun, who was engaged to

458
00:32:23,599 --> 00:32:28,880
the murdered man who is now interestingly
enough, engaged to mister Marlowe. This

459
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,680
is irrelevant name, please, Frank
Reddick. Never mind the billing, Frank.

460
00:32:30,799 --> 00:32:34,640
Okay, I'm playing your boss,
the district attorney, and I'll thank

461
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,119
you to get on with the case. Remember please, that a murder has

462
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,200
been committed. That's right, there's
another member in the cast, mister Richard

463
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:44,240
Wilson. I'm sorry, mister Willis. I'm Walter Frasier. I can't step

464
00:32:44,279 --> 00:32:49,160
out of character. I'm dead.
I think this has gone far enough.

465
00:33:01,599 --> 00:33:07,799
Hello, mister Ketling please, Oh
hello, mister Caroling. Oh, it's

466
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,400
marvelous news for you. Uh huh. I try to get you earlier and

467
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:14,279
then later I was out myself shopping. Huh. I just didn't got in

468
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:19,720
this minute. Huhh the good news, Well it's not exactly good. I

469
00:33:19,799 --> 00:33:22,720
mean, well, I look pretty
bad for our client, poor mister Marlowe.

470
00:33:22,319 --> 00:33:24,240
Yes, but don't you worry.
I have a plan if I can

471
00:33:24,279 --> 00:33:29,200
get rid of my husband. I'm
starting out of data clocking. No,

472
00:33:29,359 --> 00:33:32,359
I can't tell you yet, well, because I'm not quite here what the

473
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:37,880
plan is. Goodbye, mister Ketling. All right, you double crosses.

474
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,759
You heard the phone call. I
had thought of it. I wasn't interested

475
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:45,319
much. Oh you weren't interested much? No, after a manage discovered his

476
00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:46,839
wife is double crossing, and nothing
she can say can interest in. And

477
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:51,519
besides, the man at headquarters is
listening in and taking down the full conversation.

478
00:33:51,759 --> 00:33:53,920
You mean need wiser passing in a
way and you know everything. No,

479
00:33:54,079 --> 00:33:57,480
I'm not that good, but I
do know that Ketling and marlow have

480
00:33:57,599 --> 00:34:00,640
hired you. How did you find
that out? I'm a smart detective in

481
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:02,319
town. You told me so yourself
once. Of course, that was before

482
00:34:02,359 --> 00:34:06,640
you thought you were the smartest detective
in town. Anyhow, I got some

483
00:34:06,799 --> 00:34:09,360
client, Yes, he got one
client, a potential murderer. Me the

484
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:13,559
most convincing proof that Marla was guilty
is that he hired you. Only a

485
00:34:13,599 --> 00:34:15,719
desperate man would do that. But
he's not guilty. That's your story,

486
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:19,920
and you're being paid to think it. He had his man by a gun

487
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,119
in order to kill Frasier, and
Frasier was killed. That adds up,

488
00:34:22,119 --> 00:34:23,199
doesn't it. No, it doesn't
add up. The gun was stolen from

489
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:27,480
him a week ago. Can you
prove that? No? But I'm going

490
00:34:27,559 --> 00:34:30,079
there a chance? Well? If
I do, will you admit that I'm

491
00:34:30,119 --> 00:34:32,760
a better, better man than you
are? Are? Am well anyway,

492
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,320
just as good you're bad. I
know when I'm late, Well, I

493
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:37,960
must be running along. I suppose
I ought to warn you that wherever you

494
00:34:38,079 --> 00:34:40,880
go tonight, you'll probably be shadowed
by one of my men. Oh that's

495
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:47,360
not fair, bit, All fair
in love and war is too, I

496
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:51,119
guess or right have divorced you long
ago? So long, dear, Oh,

497
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:52,480
so long? Always a matter of
fact, I'm going out too,

498
00:34:53,079 --> 00:34:57,519
oh dear. Yeah, doesn't this
remind you of the Civil War stories?

499
00:34:57,559 --> 00:35:00,320
You know, where the northern captain
falls in love with a beautiful southern spire.

500
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,639
And when you get back home,
if you're not too tired there,

501
00:35:04,679 --> 00:35:07,119
I wish you'd go through my dressing. Look over my socks. I think

502
00:35:07,159 --> 00:35:09,079
some of them need mending. Oh
that's what I like about you, Bill,

503
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:42,039
You're so romantic. Yeah, pick
him up on moving up? Do

504
00:35:42,079 --> 00:35:46,719
you go? I didn't know anybody
ever leave this room alive. I married

505
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:50,360
you the greatest detectives in the whole
world. If you'll track you down,

506
00:35:50,599 --> 00:35:55,840
Yes for your You don't mean Bill
Riridon. Oh Bill, I'm never so

507
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:59,480
glad to see anybody in my whole
life. Look with you. I was

508
00:35:59,559 --> 00:36:02,599
here and tell I would have plunged
you. Legs is shaking. I was

509
00:36:02,679 --> 00:36:07,440
really scared. I'm glad you had
that much sense. What are you doing

510
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,320
here and missus Fraser's apartment? Thinking
you are looking for a clue. Now

511
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:13,239
you're starting to get silly. Why
don't you go home and man those socks?

512
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,599
I told you about this. You
are searching together. If you find

513
00:36:15,639 --> 00:36:19,760
a clue, you tell me and
time I know, if you find a

514
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:24,880
clue, you tell the newspapers.
Well, why don't you answer it?

515
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:30,119
You're crazy? All right, I'll
answer. Let go my wrists. You

516
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,719
met with I think you would have
answered it. It might be a clue.

517
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:36,679
Now we'll never know who is called
that's right now. Whoever was calling

518
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:38,159
thinks this apartment is empty. I've
got a hunt. That's why the call

519
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:42,559
was made. I never thought of
that belt is now from now on,

520
00:36:43,159 --> 00:36:45,239
every time I hear a phone ring, that's the first thing I'll suspend.

521
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:49,559
You talk too much? Oh,
this is missus Frazier's dresser. All right,

522
00:36:49,639 --> 00:36:52,079
Look look, Bill's talking got any
better than mine? Are you searching

523
00:36:52,199 --> 00:36:55,760
or are you sight seeing? Look
at that person? Isn't that lover?

524
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,599
M that's the kindy words? All
right? What it is? Investment number

525
00:37:01,679 --> 00:37:05,599
five? Oh? By something me
for my birthday? Will you? Because

526
00:37:05,599 --> 00:37:07,800
it's only twenty five dollars an hour. Stop drenching yourself in that perfume?

527
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:12,000
You little space? All right?
Hey, where are you going go?

528
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,119
Invo? I'll say here, I'm
going to take a crack at that wall

529
00:37:15,199 --> 00:37:36,320
space. I'll bet there's a lot
of clues in it. Three d ray,

530
00:37:36,639 --> 00:37:38,599
I thought it was a wall space
radio. I almost feel sorry for

531
00:37:38,679 --> 00:37:42,480
Marm having to work for it.
Anybody to make a mistake, not as

532
00:37:42,519 --> 00:37:45,679
many mistakes as you make, I
promise. Let's trying to get in have

533
00:37:45,840 --> 00:38:00,960
that life? Which pretty Why is
I know what that letter you got in

534
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:02,960
your hands. You just took it
out of the door, didn't you.

535
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,000
That's what you came here for,
isn't it. What are you doing here?

536
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,039
I don't try to change the subject, mister Calhoun. Give me that

537
00:38:08,159 --> 00:38:15,199
letter. That's my data. You
cant that by now? Sallyally had that

538
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,199
letter. I get a letter later, Miss Calhoun said on Why don't you

539
00:38:17,199 --> 00:38:20,920
tell me all about it? You
wouldn't believe me anyway? Maybe not,

540
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:22,599
But I'll tell you what I believe
now that you wrote Walter Fraser a blackmailing

541
00:38:22,679 --> 00:38:25,000
letter. Yes, me, blackmail, and when he wouldn't be blackmail,

542
00:38:25,079 --> 00:38:29,639
you killed him. No, no, no, I'll tell you. I'll

543
00:38:29,679 --> 00:38:31,000
make it the truth, because I'll
find out pretty soon. Honey. I

544
00:38:31,159 --> 00:38:36,719
was desperate. I've lost two thousand
dollars in Roule where change across the river.

545
00:38:37,079 --> 00:38:39,079
I gave him a bad check for
I was going to ask Jerry Marlow

546
00:38:39,119 --> 00:38:40,960
for the money, but I couldn't. Why not you engaged to him?

547
00:38:42,039 --> 00:38:44,360
But I didn't want him to think
I was marrying him for his money,

548
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,840
So I wrote Walter and asked him, for all times sake to lend me,

549
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,880
and he did. That was all. Why did you take your life

550
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,840
and your hands to steal in here
because I thought Lola might find the letter.

551
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,920
I didn't want Jerry to know.
Can't you understand? Are you sure?

552
00:38:55,119 --> 00:38:58,840
Sure Jerry doesn't know? And suspect
the worst. You're just trying to

553
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,280
trap me and say that Jerry kill
He didn't if anybody did it with Lola,

554
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:05,320
she was jealous. Oh, I
don't know what she say? Yes

555
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,639
you do. I'm sorry, Miss
Calhoun, but I'll have to arrest you.

556
00:39:07,679 --> 00:39:09,280
You can't. You have nothing to
arrest me for. Have you got

557
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:13,280
a permit to carry this gun in
your first No? And I can hold

558
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,480
you in the SULLI an act better, isn't it? Miss Calhoun? And

559
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:30,039
suspicion of murder? Hello Cartwright apartment, Miss Lola Frasier, Please just tell

560
00:39:30,079 --> 00:39:35,320
her operator number seven is calling.
Oh hello, three seven six, and

561
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,639
I can make an appointment to see
well. I come across a little and

562
00:39:37,679 --> 00:39:40,519
I feel sure we'll interest you nine
o'clock. A fine, It is your

563
00:39:40,519 --> 00:39:52,960
apartment, thank you? Three seven
six. Yeah. I had a dictograph

564
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,760
put into missus Frazier's apartment early this
morning, joining to somebody right now now

565
00:39:55,840 --> 00:40:01,719
listen there it is you haven't okay, I've got a little higher card,

566
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:09,360
pay me the wrong money. I'm
besides that her husband was writing out text

567
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:15,960
coul and you know about smart suspect
you. I've got a found out that

568
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:19,760
you and then I left you.
They might tell you than you. Maybe

569
00:40:20,639 --> 00:40:23,679
what are you sing around before?
She'll be here any minute? Because you

570
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:28,679
wanted to see up? Don't say
I know that voice, because even if

571
00:40:28,679 --> 00:40:30,440
you say hello to her, that
dame think she has a clue the wrong

572
00:40:30,519 --> 00:40:37,079
blue but clue you better go up? Okay, I wish I could twice

573
00:40:37,119 --> 00:40:40,400
that voice. WI certainly knows my
wife, and I think, hey,

574
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:50,119
what's much? I'm sure? Oh
he has a letter from L and Cow

575
00:40:50,519 --> 00:40:57,119
your husband suspected. I want to
forget that a clue? What's a letter

576
00:40:57,559 --> 00:41:00,199
your husband for? Between your mind? You's very threatening. Look, it's

577
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:04,239
practically black Bailey. Of course you
didn't have to know how to read it.

578
00:41:04,679 --> 00:41:07,159
It could mean not finding the murderer. I'd rather not do that.

579
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:12,719
I have anything. Oh you haven't
right and feel that way, then I

580
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:14,960
don't care to read it, missus
Rieddon, But I do care to do

581
00:41:15,079 --> 00:41:21,679
this. But I won't have any
slugs on my husband's memory. Don't you

582
00:41:21,679 --> 00:41:29,239
want your husband to It just means
I've got to find another clue, that's

583
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,360
how. But don't you worry,
missus Frazier. I get one every minute

584
00:41:35,079 --> 00:41:37,039
I knew you'd have one. I
fell hearriot. If I tell you you

585
00:41:37,559 --> 00:41:42,440
promised never to reveal it when he
was why three seven six? You could

586
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,639
trust me? Well? When I
went to that phone over there, just

587
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:47,880
before the shots furred that night,
I had someone on the did you get

588
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,400
there? Yeah? Wrong number?
No, No, no, Some people

589
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,440
was talking in this apartment on the
extention phone. Someone who was talking on

590
00:41:53,599 --> 00:41:58,360
the phone, even the Bible.
Yes, there was nobody and here except

591
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:07,280
you for the butler. Who was
I don't know, but I do know

592
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,599
who he was talking to, and
I do know what he was talking about.

593
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:22,199
You will wait a minute. You
don't think i'm the district attorneys,

594
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:31,159
Yes, the district Attorney's don't really
where you feel it goes? What do

595
00:42:31,199 --> 00:42:35,199
you know about that? That's we're
about to find out who it was.

596
00:42:36,119 --> 00:42:39,559
Yeah, your wife is either the
smartest woman or the biggest fool in America.

597
00:42:39,639 --> 00:42:43,280
She could be both. In fact, I think she is both.

598
00:42:54,679 --> 00:42:57,840
That is right. We know there
was a man in your apartment earlier this

599
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:01,000
evening. Never mind we hurt him, you might as well tell us it

600
00:43:01,159 --> 00:43:04,679
was Shane, Shane, That's what
it was. What was he there for?

601
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,559
He wanted fifty thousand dollars? What
he wanted to him? What po?

602
00:43:09,119 --> 00:43:12,920
I lost the money playing? Let
time to lose gambling, isn't it?

603
00:43:13,119 --> 00:43:15,440
Did you ever play roulette? Oh? Yes, for dimes? We

604
00:43:15,559 --> 00:43:17,519
weren't playing for dime. I see
he promised to give me time to play.

605
00:43:17,559 --> 00:43:22,559
But when when this happened, he
started pressingly. I didn't give him

606
00:43:22,559 --> 00:43:23,840
the money. I didn't have it, not yet. Shane seems to have

607
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:27,239
done all right in that joint of
is. Did you know that Dane Caron

608
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,599
had lost money that, Missus Fraser. Yes, we've been there together a

609
00:43:29,639 --> 00:43:31,280
couple of times, and we both
doro. You knew Shane before you married

610
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:36,519
Fraser. Yes, a long time
ago when I was just that's right,

611
00:43:36,679 --> 00:43:38,440
I thought I left all that behind
me when I started to married Water.

612
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,159
I s all right, Missus Frasier. You tell us all we want to

613
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:45,239
know. I just I didn't know. You can go now, Missus Frasier,

614
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:47,559
and you will be disturbed again,
I promised, thank you? All

615
00:43:47,679 --> 00:43:52,400
right? Well, it seems to
let her out, wouldn't you suspect?

616
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:53,920
Now? How about Shane? He
keeps turning up in Okay, Shane's a

617
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:57,760
gambl he's a strong arm. Methods
to collect the all do. But I

618
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,639
don't see Shane is the same.
I'm not overlooking the fan. The praiser

619
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:01,920
took his girl away from him.
I when somebody to do the same for

620
00:44:02,039 --> 00:44:07,199
me. Yes, I guess we'll
have to be grilling her for five hours,

621
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,400
read blowing over the works. We
can't get a thing out of her.

622
00:44:12,079 --> 00:44:15,400
Good morning? Is it a lovely
day? Listen, honey, I

623
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:19,239
want you to realize how serious this
is. Oh gosh, bil I love

624
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,880
you. A man has been murdered. The killer must be found. How

625
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:23,320
do you understand that you just let
me out? I could do. This

626
00:44:23,519 --> 00:44:28,159
is a matter for the police,
if you work with them. If you

627
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:30,079
work with them, I promised to
taking another crack to private detective business.

628
00:44:30,119 --> 00:44:34,960
How's that? Well across your heart? Well? I adn't expected to promise

629
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,320
as strong as that? All right, cross my heart? Now? Then,

630
00:44:37,679 --> 00:44:39,480
what did miss this praise at tell
you after you ripped out that dictaphone?

631
00:44:40,119 --> 00:44:44,239
Well, Lola Todely. A few
minutes before the shot was fired.

632
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:46,480
She picked up the phone and amansa
weere in her apartment was talking to the

633
00:44:46,519 --> 00:44:51,360
district Attackey. They ain't yeah about
damblers Shane. Of course I told that

634
00:44:51,519 --> 00:44:52,960
sad head boss of yours at the
very beginning, but he wouldn't listen.

635
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:58,440
Oh hell lovely Hello, Well,
mister Evans, there you are all the

636
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:00,960
praise. I heard your conversation with
Shane. She did as she heard it

637
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,599
on the Milo telephone. You checked
that phone. No cast came out of

638
00:45:02,639 --> 00:45:05,760
there's no record. Well, I
don't know where Shane phone from or how

639
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:07,280
the wires got crossed, but that
call to you was planning in advances in

640
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:12,239
alibi, and that means the change
is the murderer right, certainly do How

641
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:15,280
can I go out? Certainly not? You're going back to jail. I

642
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,239
don't want to. Well, we're
going to keep you locked up before you

643
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:21,000
get another clue on me. I
like this one, and I don't plot

644
00:45:21,039 --> 00:45:35,559
it spoiled by God cause aristic Shade
wanted for a murder forty years, dark

645
00:45:35,599 --> 00:45:39,920
complexion, slight, build arms and
desperate, take no chances God, cause

646
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:51,199
I've got to get out of here, I thought my lawyer, Why does

647
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,960
he do something. Sometimes your lawyer
can't get here right away, Jerry,

648
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:58,800
I've been hearing this jail four months, waiting for my lawyer. But I've

649
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:01,039
got a job to do. I'll
beat them on this case if i have

650
00:46:01,119 --> 00:46:05,400
to burn for it. The nerves
putting me in jail so he can found

651
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:08,960
the case on my clue. Money
in for Jerry for a murder that I'm

652
00:46:09,119 --> 00:46:23,159
going to commit. Hello, I'll
still rare and give it to the ah

653
00:46:23,199 --> 00:46:27,920
private wire along mister Havn's listen.
I busted the Praiser murder wide open.

654
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:30,440
I think I've got the whole face
cured. And I'll bet you can't guess

655
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:32,880
where I'm phoning from now. I'm
in Shane's appartment. I found the phoning

656
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:37,199
action very interesting. Yeah, I'm
better get home. Jane was just found

657
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:40,199
stabbing that in your apartment? In
my apartment? Why where Stallely? Where's

658
00:46:40,199 --> 00:46:54,480
my wife? The policea Haldinger,
she's in your apartment. Toe. It

659
00:46:54,519 --> 00:46:58,920
looks tough, missus weird and yourself, mate Donovan jail tells them you say

660
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:00,840
you'd get someone or other you had
to burn for it. He always just

661
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:06,880
kidding office. No way to kid
who they all that perfume on you.

662
00:47:07,199 --> 00:47:08,360
No, it was on Shane.
The place was just reeking with it when

663
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:12,639
I came in. Say it was
reaping. Where are you going? You're

664
00:47:12,639 --> 00:47:15,239
a marful week in my knees?
All right, So you're off a week

665
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:17,840
in your knees like some smelling sauce
in the bathroom. I can go in

666
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:22,039
along kind of right, yes,
joy, you do? So, hey

667
00:47:22,079 --> 00:47:24,719
there, you can't do that.
I'm gonna break down the door. Lady.

668
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:30,920
You're gonna break down the door,
all right, lady. What do

669
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,320
you know? Hey, lady,
come back here. You break your neck

670
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:44,320
in the water. Wait, lady, Hello, Missus Frazier, why didn't

671
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:46,679
you kill Nick Shane? What?
You don't be very surprised that he's dead?

672
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:50,079
Well, I'm not. As a
matter of I got me in.

673
00:47:50,519 --> 00:47:52,280
You aren't surprised. People were afraid
of him and hated me. Well,

674
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:55,199
I'm coming in. You've heard an
Asian too, didn't you, Missus Fraser?

675
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:57,960
Yes? I did, But I
didn't kill him? Maybe not?

676
00:47:58,159 --> 00:48:01,440
But did you ever see the handkerchief? Ready to get that? I'm sorry,

677
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:06,760
Missus Frasier. I found it beside
his body. Right, I killed

678
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:08,840
him. I'm not afraid now,
well, there's nothing to be afraid of.

679
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:13,159
Can I use the phone? Yes? Thanks, I don't worry.

680
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:23,519
We'll plead the unwritten law. Say
what is the unwritten law? Darling?

681
00:48:23,559 --> 00:48:27,440
Are you sure you're all right?
He's a confession? Did you sign this?

682
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:30,239
Missus Fasher? Sally? How on
earth did she went up to my

683
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,880
apartment to see you? With no
intention of killing anybody. She was minding

684
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:36,800
her own business. But this man
change followed her and made a round you

685
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:38,719
because she told me he was guilty. Then he pulled a knife on her.

686
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:42,840
One word led to another. There
your arts all in the confession.

687
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,639
Let's go. I'm ready for what
for the truth? Oh Bill Darling?

688
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:47,199
I just told I know you just
told me. Now I'll tell you.

689
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:52,519
Walter Fraser wanted a divorce. His
lawyer swear to that Missus Fraser wasn't satisfied

690
00:48:52,559 --> 00:48:54,480
with the settlement. The offer much
less than a widow would receive. Missus

691
00:48:54,519 --> 00:48:59,400
Fraser, you offer change fifty thousand
dollars to kill your husband. Yes,

692
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:01,199
the bookshell that you never lost more
than two hundred dollars of roulette. Shane

693
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:05,280
shot your husband standing on the window
lets outside your library. Shot him in

694
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:06,920
the bank. While you were talking
to him, the others were in the

695
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,480
kitchen. Two days ago, Shane
started pressing you for the money, threatening

696
00:49:09,559 --> 00:49:12,880
you. You began to realize the
fifty thousand and wrong view the beginning.

697
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,079
You killed Nick Shane overtly premeditated.
No, No, he had a nise.

698
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:17,840
He don't know that. I told
him about the post called his alibi.

699
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:28,639
Take what a client? Congratulations and
now this is ridden. If you

700
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:30,840
don't mind telling me, how did
you ever suspect it? Come on,

701
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:35,239
let's have it, Sally. Well, when I got home, the apartment

702
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:37,000
was still full of her perfume.
And then when I accused, he didn't

703
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:40,000
He didn't ask any questions. You
know how it was killed or whom?

704
00:49:40,519 --> 00:49:43,639
Oh? I just knew he'd done
it. You got a confession out of

705
00:49:43,679 --> 00:49:45,199
her with no more to go on
than that. Well, I pretended I've

706
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:47,400
done her. Hand it chef beside
the bar? Where did you find it?

707
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:52,039
I resign from now on, mister
Evans, I'm her office boy.

708
00:50:00,199 --> 00:50:02,679
It is Bill? What is it? The inside story of the Fraser case

709
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:07,000
or a secret of the girl detect
who wrote it? I did what?

710
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:10,679
Four? For five hundred dollars?
We're going to put it on the radio.

711
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:15,679
Give it here. Oh, you're
tearing it up. I certainly am

712
00:50:15,679 --> 00:50:20,119
all right. What's five hundred dollars
to us anyway? Five hundred dollars no

713
00:50:20,159 --> 00:50:22,079
matter who says it, but Sally, Oh but Bill, I wasn't going

714
00:50:22,119 --> 00:50:25,440
to give them any real inside dope. Sally, I'm crazy about you.

715
00:50:25,559 --> 00:50:30,159
But there's one thing that bothers me. If you're ever found murdered, there'll

716
00:50:30,199 --> 00:50:47,159
never be anyone to prove that I
didn't do it. You're listening to Orson

717
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:59,239
Wells in the Campbell Playoffs presentation.
There's always a woman with Marie Wilson in

718
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:01,199
the moments, and Wells and his
guests. We'll be back with us.

719
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:06,280
Meanwhile, I'd like to say this. I'll play tonight told the story of

720
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:09,719
a woman who helped her husband to
success. Dolly Riddan's methods of doing this

721
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:14,639
we're not exactly conventional. Still,
in the end things turned out all right.

722
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:19,000
But seriously, helping a husband to
success, isn't this what every good

723
00:51:19,039 --> 00:51:22,039
wife is doing every day, inspiring
and encouraging him, keeping him well and

724
00:51:22,559 --> 00:51:27,400
well fed. Now, I'm sure
that you among the wives listening tonight,

725
00:51:27,519 --> 00:51:30,320
realize that the success of the work
your husband does can be influenced by the

726
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:35,239
kind of meals you serve him.
And in these meals you realize too the

727
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:38,840
importance of good soup, particularly a
soup is hearty and nourishing. Is Campbell's

728
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:44,440
Vegetable Soup as Campbells make it,
It's always a special favorite with men.

729
00:51:45,119 --> 00:51:47,920
They like the rich, rugged beef
stock thick with a variety of tender garden

730
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:52,800
vegetables. Have you tried it at
your house? If not, want to

731
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:55,599
get some tomorrow and serve it.
If you'll do that, and compare its

732
00:51:55,719 --> 00:52:00,119
fine flavor and hearty substance with the
best vegetable soup ever ladled from a home

733
00:52:00,159 --> 00:52:06,280
soup suttle. I do believe Campbell's
Vegetable Soup will make its appearance regularly on

734
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,199
your family table. And now I
see orson Wells. As we turned to

735
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:13,280
his microphone, mister well, it
gives me great pleasure to present our guests

736
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:17,800
of the evening, Miss Mary Wilson, thank orson Wells. Good evening,

737
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:21,840
ladies and gentlemen. Mary Wilson,
as you all know, ladies and gentlemen,

738
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:24,440
has been making a series of highly
successful personal appearances throughout the country,

739
00:52:25,079 --> 00:52:31,079
and from this tour of hers one
remarkable phenomenon has emerged. Wherever Mary Wilson

740
00:52:31,119 --> 00:52:35,280
has been, reporters and columnists have
been fighting with each other to be the

741
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:40,719
first to record those weird confusions of
thought and language that are rapidly becoming known

742
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:45,840
as Wilsonism's are you yawning? Miss
WILSONO? Why don't you put your hand

743
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:49,840
over your mouth? Yeah? Get
this, that's the kind of thing I

744
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:52,719
mean. Let me assure you,
though, that despite these flagrant misrepresentations of

745
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:58,360
her trench and observations on life and
letters, Miss Wilson's sole and single concern

746
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:02,360
remains the eternal art of history.
Now you're going to quarrel us in Wales.

747
00:53:04,079 --> 00:53:07,320
I never did care for history.
I'm an actress. Indeed, you

748
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:12,079
are Mary Wilson, and a very
beautiful and charming one. We hope you'll

749
00:53:12,079 --> 00:53:21,039
be with us again soon. And
now that's the next Sunday night. Next

750
00:53:21,119 --> 00:53:44,159
Sunday night, ladies and gentlemen,
it's Christmas Eve. And it came to

751
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:49,760
pass in those days that they went
out at the cree from Caesar Augustus that

752
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:54,880
all the world should be text,
and all went to be text. Everyone

753
00:53:55,000 --> 00:54:00,800
into his own city. And Joseph
also went up from Galilee out of the

754
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:07,440
city of Nazareth into Judea under the
city of David, which is called Bethlehem,

755
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:12,519
to be taxed with Mary his spouse, wife, being great with child,

756
00:54:14,559 --> 00:54:17,719
and so it was that while they
were there, the days were accomplished

757
00:54:19,079 --> 00:54:23,519
that she should be delivered. And
she brought forth her first son and wrapped

758
00:54:23,559 --> 00:54:28,920
him in swaddling clothes and laid him
in a mangeld, because there was no

759
00:54:29,039 --> 00:54:34,840
room for them in the inns.
And they were in the same country shepherds

760
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:39,719
abiding in the fields, keeping watch
over their flock by night. And we

761
00:54:42,039 --> 00:54:45,480
the Angel of the Lord appeared before
them, and the glory of the Lord

762
00:54:45,559 --> 00:54:52,320
shone round the bosoms, and they
were sore afraid, and the Angel said,

763
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:55,840
unto them, fear not, for
behold, I bring you good tidings

764
00:54:55,880 --> 00:55:00,760
of great joy, which shall be
to all people, or unto you,

765
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:04,119
is born this day in the city
of David, a savior, which is

766
00:55:04,199 --> 00:55:07,840
Christ the Lord. And this shall
be a sign. Unto you. You

767
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:12,280
shall find the babe, wrapped in
swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

768
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:23,480
Since the days of Caesar Augustus,
all people have celebrated by joy. The

769
00:55:23,559 --> 00:55:28,800
great joy which shall be to all
people or unto us, was born this

770
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,360
day in the city of David,
a savior, which is Christ the Lord.

771
00:55:32,159 --> 00:55:35,559
And on this day, at least
in the calendar of our years,

772
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:40,519
we affirm the glory of our God
by the laster of our children. Every

773
00:55:40,639 --> 00:55:45,719
nation, according to its character and
its taste, by some gifts of gaiety,

774
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:52,360
as enriched the tradition of this are
solemnest festivals. And because America is

775
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:57,599
what it is, we are the
fortunate heirs of the accumulated customs of almost

776
00:55:58,079 --> 00:56:02,840
two thousand years of keeping Christmas.
The best songs that have been sung are

777
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:07,360
sung by us. The best games
that have been played we play. And

778
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:13,800
the best stories ever told are ours
to tell. A storytelling has persisted as

779
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:17,960
a Christmas ritual in spite of the
printing press. A ceremony is hilarious and

780
00:56:19,039 --> 00:56:22,440
as serious as hanging a starking,
dressing the tree, and kissing under the

781
00:56:22,519 --> 00:56:29,960
mistletoe. And because Christmas is first
of all for children, Christmas stories are

782
00:56:30,199 --> 00:56:36,920
fairy stories. First of all.
It's mildly surprising that the best of them

783
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:42,639
all, which we are telling againstudents
for you. Next week is for everybody

784
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:47,320
and turns out to be a ghost
story I've endeavored, writes his author on

785
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:52,559
its title page. I have endeavored
in this ghostly little story to raise the

786
00:56:52,639 --> 00:56:58,480
ghosts of an idea which shall not
put my readers out of humor with themselves,

787
00:56:58,599 --> 00:57:01,440
with each other, with the season, with me. May it haunt

788
00:57:01,559 --> 00:57:08,239
their hours and houses pleasantly, and
no one wished to lay it designed your

789
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:16,440
faithful friend and servants, Charles Dickens. And Charles Dickens, as everybody but

790
00:57:16,559 --> 00:57:20,159
I knew his friends will know,
is the author of next week's story.

791
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:27,960
And our star, as all our
old friends will know too, is that

792
00:57:28,119 --> 00:57:30,280
best loved of American actors and the
special favorite of all of us on the

793
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:36,679
Campbell Playhouse, mister Lionel Barrymore,
who will be keeping an engagement with us

794
00:57:36,719 --> 00:57:40,480
on that night that he has kept
for a number of years, an engagement

795
00:57:40,519 --> 00:57:45,920
to place Scrooge in that most human
and heartwarming of Christmas stories, a Christmas

796
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:51,519
Carol by Charles Dickens. This will
be the fifth Christmas that Campbell's has chosen

797
00:57:51,559 --> 00:57:55,360
this good old tale as their Christmas
present to their friends. So I think

798
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:59,960
that this year, perhaps more than
ever, it becomes clear, how diric,

799
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:04,599
how all important is the message that
Charles Dickens gave the world in that

800
00:58:04,719 --> 00:58:12,559
little story. Wherever anywhere in the
world people pause next Sunday night to listen

801
00:58:12,639 --> 00:58:15,800
to Lionel Barrymore and the Christmas Carol, there will be people a little kinder,

802
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:22,639
a little happier, a little more
at peace with themselves, their neighbors.

803
00:58:35,119 --> 00:58:38,679
And so until then, until a
Christmas Carol with Lionel Barrymore, my

804
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:43,360
sponsors, the makers of Campbell Soups, and all of us here in the

805
00:58:43,400 --> 00:59:15,880
Campbell Playhouse remain as always obedient for
yours. The makers of Campbell's Soups join

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Arson Wells in inviting you to be
with us in the Campbell Playhouse again next

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Sunday evening, when we bring you
our fifth annual presentation of Charles Dickens's Immortal

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Story, a Christmas Carol, starring
Lionel Barrymore in his favorite role as Ebenezer

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is Screwed. In the meantime,
if you have enjoyed Tonight's Playhouse presentation,

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won't you tell your grocer so tomorrow
when you order Campbell's Vegetable Soup. This

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is ernest Chappele saying thank you and
good night. This is the Columbia Broadcasting

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System. This is Andrew from Otinrwesterns
dot com. I want to invite you

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to come take a look at her
Saint where we put on podcasts of old

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time radio Westerns. Check us out
at O Tirowesterns dot com. You're listening

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to the great detectives of Old Time
Radio with Adam Graham. Now let's get

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back into the show. Welcome back. Well, I think on a story

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like that, I will avoid commenting
at all on the plot because it is

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a bit of a screwball comedy,
so I'm not going to expect it to

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be the most logical story in the
world. But it's not bad, certainly,

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and some really enjoyable performances. I
definitely enjoy the Christmas time bits at

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the end. Of course, it
makes reference to Lionel Barrymore's role as Ebon

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Scrooge, and this will probably be
a surprise to many fans of classic movies

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if you're not too far into it. The only thing you'll remember Linel Barrymore

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for is mister Potter in It's a
Wonderful Life. But during the Golden Age

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of radio, he was probably best
known for Ebenezer Scrooge, which I guess

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made him a perfect casting choice for
mister Potter. He appeared sixteen times in

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live radio adaptations of a Christmas Carol, the last time being in nineteen fifty

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three. Several of those are in
circulation, and we did do one of

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those for the War that I did
at the Wardock Great Detectives dot Net.

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That's actually episode thirty six. But
as the play itself, Orison Welles's performance

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was interesting. He seemed to be
enjoying himself. Throughout the year, and

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throughout his radio career he does a
lot of really interesting, unique characters and

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performances, but here he's just enjoying
himself doing the sort of B movie detective

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work that was done by police foils
in the Torchy Blaine movies or the Mister

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Wong movies. And Marie Wilson is
good. As the intro indicated she was

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really known for the dumb blonde sort
of roles and made much of her career

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over it. She had a very
successful radio sitcom called My Friend Irma,

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which ended up being parlayed into two
movies, into a TV series, and

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also even into a comic book.
I prefer her characterization in this because it's

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really shown that despite the dumba act, that there is a certain cleverness that

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her character possesses, and it's interesting
and it's fun to listen to. It

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makes it a little less one dimensional
than it might otherwise be. All right,

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Well, that will do it for
today. Join us back here tomorrow

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as we go to mister Keen,
tracer of lost Persons. In the meantime,

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send your comments to Box thirteen at
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Adam Grahamson and Off