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now we're going to return to the Adventures of Philip Marlow, and we aren't
going to start back with the Gerald Moore series, which is the better known
and more popular, a series that continued on for two years and then came
back as a summer replacement series from nineteen forty eight to fifty and then summer
of fifty one. We're going to start out with the first Philip Marlowe series,
which was a summer series that starred Van Heflin and aired over NBC and
was sponsored by Pepcident. At this point, Van Heflin was very much a
big up and coming star in Hollywood, having won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar,
although these days he's probably best remembered for his work on Shane, where
he was not the main character that honor fell to Alan Land. But at
any rate, this episode that we're going to play today was the third episode
in the series. Original air date July the first, nineteen forty seven,
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see midget auto races. I want to see Mitchet's when I prefer sawdust to
start list and popcorn to all other kinds of corn available in Hollywood. The
circus was moving in on the grounds at Washington Boulevard and Hill Street, and
I was turning in my usual fine job as sidewalk supervisor. It was exciting.
It brought back all of the sounds and sensations and convictions of childhood.
And then someone had me firmly by the wrist, and I turned to look
into a pair of steady, smoky, dark eyes that could be dangerous.
Excuse me, sir, but you are a private detective. I'm a detective,
but I don't get much privacy. My name is Ralph Cassanari, who
told you I was a detective. My feet aren't that flat. Do you
know a gentleman named Alfikonolf? Well, I know and Alsikonolf he pointed you
out. He asked me, what was the big idea? What was my
angle hiring a private detective? Give me an idea? And al Sigonolf he
had any ideas to spare Miss Camardo. Besides, only one third of the
very fine little circus. I am Tosari Cassanari, the Swede and Glorian traffista.
The most brilliantary election of business. I own this circus with Gorian and
the Sweet where there's our second out he fit in. Now this we get
drunk and gambles contactic sums of money. The circus is worth a fourt of
a million dollars already. The Swede at gambled away much more than he third
of the circus. And a partner may sell out his other partner without even
consulting them. You're afraid the Swede will sell you out to pay for his
debts. Yeah, and if he did that, I should not hit a
day or watches. Yeah, uh, checking off. We has made it
plain that the gamblers expect payment immediately. Now, would you consider giving us
your protection during the days we're going to be here? What if five dollars
a day and expenses? That's then cheap enough. I know, but you
see, I'm a sucker for a circus. Yeah? Is it the office
of Philip Marlow? Better still, this is Philip Marlow? Go ahead.
The partner Glorianne. I'm in a downtown bar with a Swede and he's terribly
drunk. I know this didn't go a job, won't you'll come down and
help me get him? All right, mother, Marlow will be right down.
I found the main street bar where Glorianne said i'd find her in the
Swede. The Swede was potted like Grandma's Begonia, and with the help of
the bartender and pour professional loafers, we got him into my car. I
told Gloriane to drive. Let me just take it easy. George the street
receiving hospital. I'll stay back here and wrestle a suite for the champions.
Just let him along for now to do some shopping. Yeah, I'm telling
you something, honey girl. At Tessonari makes any more passes at you,
I'll beat him Randling, Oh please, don't pay any attention to him.
The tomorrow he thinks everyone is okay. Back in your seat, yeah yeah,
and then that doctor so still. I'm telling you something, honey girl.
One of these days I'm gonna get up some money on that trapeze and
I'm not gonna cut your friend Totsnario. How's that tomorrow? Then tell Muscles
to let go of my ear. Perfect crime. Who know was an accident
on the night and the night on have a circus instead of just a bird.
He's drunk, but drunk or sob he's got one dusy have an idea.
They're drunk or so. I knew some interns of Georgia Street Receiving Hospital
who obliged with some oxygen and a math. A half hour of breathing that
oxygen deeply in the Sweden was stone cold, sober, and back in my
car again. He was making certain cage explanations. Er marlow, or you
don't want to take that stuff. I was mumbling about. Seriously, you
know I I was drunk, after all. Glory and my wife, oh
naturally, I don't like other guys giving her the eye. But let's screwy
talk about me dropping Tessnari accidentally on purposeful but yet it the perfect crime.
I was only talking molo. I wouldn't do that, the Tessnari. Of
course, now you'd be all broken up about it, wouldn't he. I
sat in a field box that evening with the small neat circus unwound to the
big act, and the big moment arrived, with butterflies warming up in my
stomach and posts something madly my neck. You that's scenaria. The swede came
bounding into the room and over to the two spidery ladders that zoomed up into
the very peak of the big tent, up there where it was hot,
high and dangerous too magnificently made men climbing that slim ladder. The brilliant keeps
flowing behind and growing up higher, smaller higher, And then they were on
their tiny platforms, removing their case manuels. They turned faced each other across
the board like divers. Not a voice, not a breath, not a
sound that I began to perspire. The net was being gathered back. Then
suddenly Passinari raised his right arm and smiled, dropped his arm, and the
swede shot out into space like a comet, and the gay waltzing. Somehow
insane music began. It was all the announcer said, at least to me,
daring and terrifying. Whirl and spin and contact, swings, swings,
swing and spin, spinning and whirling, contact and break, hands locked to
ross and hands contact and break, spin, whirled, cartwheeling, contact,
swings, swings, swing and leap, split second tiny and the split second
split again with Happy's bars flying into place square, and when they were needed.
I looked away, my head drumming and swimming, and I looked up
again. I looked up in the thing that had been tying my stomach in
cool, hard nuts. The thing I was afraid of happened. The music
played a gate when the clowns poured into the arena, grinning happily. I
saw the youngish, handsome doctor race across the sawdust, followed by Gloriana across
the arena. I saw al seconalf. They get up and disappear into the
crowd. I went out too outside I managed to get a shaking match to
a quaking cigarette. In my mind, I heard it again and again,
drunken voice of the flying Swede come back to me on the days I'm gonna
get up somebody on that happis, and I'm not gonna catch your friend.
Only it was all wrong. It didn't add because the body that had plummeted
to the ground hadn't been the body of Ralph Cassanari, but of the man
who had plotted the perfect clime, Gloriana's husband, a flying Swede. What
oh, oh, you were in there, Yes, I saw it,
brilliant. I think I could kill rout with it. You think Cassonari dropped
your husband purpose? What do you think? Look, Land, I took
this job, you know why? And well, all this reminded me of
myself when I was a kid reading Tom Sawyer and Huck Fan and believing,
Well, I still believe in me. I felt the same way about the
circus, the last childish illusions. A man holds Auntie so he doesn't get
too hard. You're not tough at all. If I was gonna like this
job and then he's happening, do you know what I'm talking about? Yes,
I was sales. Look, Glorianne the Sweet is dead, and you
think Tessonary killed him. But it's the perfect crime. You can't prove anything.
Maybe I didn't love the Sweet, but it was my husband, and
I'm the square. Did you love Tessinary? If I did it all over
enough, I'm going to prove to everybody in circus business at least he killed
my husband. Well, how you'll tell you a little boys. I watched
her go back into the biggest tent, and then I drove home and dreamed
all night about second of If he's smiling his yellow smile and disappearing into the
crowd. I got up late and went down for coffee in a newspaper.
The story was there on page one. Also a silky lady picture Glorianna beneath
it. The caption reading, show must Go on, Dar's High Trapeze and
Passionary. After Nate falls to death. I looked at my watch. It
was late, later than I thought for the daring young dame on the flying
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the Lion actors going on. When I arrived at the circus grounds and practically
ran the Glorianne, she was in her tights and cloak ready to go on,
blood, Glorianne, you're you're kidding, this is our gag. You're
not going up there, Well, you're out of your mind. I'm going
up with pass and I to prove me to kill the scree You add that
up? My arms are full of bundles. How can I agree to go
off? Why? Why? On his nail shattered after yesterday? Because he
knows he didn't make a mistake yesterday. He knows he dropped my husband perfectly,
and not because his time and all the actions were wrong. To mix
it up to a point, you're thinking he may drop like that, you
won't drop me. What makes you so sure? I love you? What
does that make sense? Yeah, yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
We'll go to it, little girl. I watched glorian so small and
slim and fragile as she went up that thin ladder, and my throat swelled
tight, and butterflies took off in my stomach again. She was on the
platform, removing her silk cape, folding and carefully over the rail. They
were facing each other, smiling, smiling, dead soul free silence. Then
the minutes I sat there, petrified, watching your cold sweat channel and down
my back for ten minutes, I stopped breathing. I died once, only
once. I had to close my eyes. And then that second I heard
the crowd roar. Everyone was standing up, screaming and goggle eyed. I
broke to my feet and there she was bound, laughing and throwing kisses into
the crowd and a Tassinarian at me. Then she pirouetted and ran up the
ramp to her dressing tent. I got there with Taessinary. Her eyes warmed,
Familia, and then froze again for Tessinari, come in, little boy,
and you, tassan I, Cassina, Ralph Folsos and a bear.
Today I talked to Tssanai. Now I want miss Molly hear what I have
to say to you. Just first that I'm through you, Gloriana. Look,
not because of the accidence, because it was not an accident. You
don't believe that. May I suggest that maybe Al sick and off he has
a meaty part in this picture. No half, and that's not true.
Ah, Yes, doctor, I did pass your tent last night after the
accident. Accident, I heard you in the cafide unsuccessful doctor speaking together.
Oh so intimately you're in and I think together, deciding conveniently, perhaps that
I killed a Suede should never all, he's the one, Richard. If
I wanted to murder a man, it would be easy to take my gun
from my trunk and show them. But that wouldn't be the perfect crime.
Why should I want to kill the Swede because he might have sold you out
to pay his debts, because you'd get half of the share of the circus,
because you were in love with his wife. I see you think you're
ever case. I hope not. Glorian knows what I mean, only perhaps
talk to you. Better go now, Yeah, yeah, I'm very sorry,
Glorian for all of us. Good day, Good day, mister Morrow,
and patted out softly like a panther's resentment, and a hecred smoldering in
his eyes. It was horrible, boy, I don't now. I left
wondering if there'd be a show that night, tradition or no tradition. I
walked for half an hour, and then a police squad car came screaming down
Washington Boulevard to the circus grounds. Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the
noonday sun, but Marlow runs in it. I found a small colony of
cops in one of the dressing tents. The man on the cut had taken
a lot of pulses in his time, but he didn't have a single one
to show for it, Not even his own good looking youngish doctor Richard W.
Stowe was dead. Detective Lieutenant de Bearer held out a small automatic to
me, Hello, Marlon, I hear you've messed the minding things around here?
Later ever see this gun before? I may have heard of it.
A man name Ralph Tessinari, connected with his show has disappeared. No,
something about that he was fresh from a lover's quarrel lasts him, or maybe
just out walking it off. Possible, but the dead doctor and Tessinari both
went for a putty little clapis queen named Glory Anne. There was anything stolen
here? No, The circus hand who heard the muffle shot came running before
anything could have been taken. Were a gala Glorianne. How does you feel
about this? She's in her ten heavily committed to a case of hystories.
Morrow Divvy's on any information you get out of her. You can't go on
right now. Let me get something. Justice said it to settle your nerve.
Oh, no, we never take that thing. Bad for going up
on the track. No, that's the basic. You can't go up there
right anyway. Tascenari's missing. I will see what I can find for you.
I rumage to doctor Stowe's medical bag while Liberta watched him across the tent.
I found a small black book, at least threw it with my hands.
Still. Hidden in the bag was a small case history book with sketchy
data about these cases, the treatment given, the medication prescribe. I very
quietly tore out the last page, ponded and slipped in my pocket as eye
creaked you an approximate upright position. Find anything to quiet the little woman moral?
No, not a thing. I'll try a drug store tablets of cyclo
dome grins, one under her, one tablet with warm water for nerves or
asleep. What is it? It's a common sedative. But I can't sell
you any without a prescription. What can you tell me anything about those drugs?
Some? But you will find a lot more in doctor Torrel Soulman textbook
on pharmacology. Pharmacology. It's only in the main library, I think,
but it's complete that'll tell you all you want to know. I'm sure,
and Druggist was right. The Textbook of Pharmacology told me all I wanted to
know. Also, this was a very limited edition. It was probably the
only one of its kind that had on the page devoted to cyclodrome a smudge
of lipstick in the shape of a woman's finger. It was all and more
than I wanted to know, and all at once. I was old,
very old. From now on I was going to leave allusions to high school
girls and magicians. Hello boy again, I see your dress to work,
Griana, I return. I wouldn't know, but I think I do know
who killed the Swede to night. I gravely doubt that, Elsey Lorian.
You're a dainty little thing, and that's a particular reason why you should break
yourself a little unsightly habits like touching your fingers to your mouth to turn back
pages in books. Are you all right? Was the Swede all right when
he went up protestinary last night, of course? Or was he just slightly
under the influence of a seditie drug that calms the nerves, yes, but
slows up their reaction time. I don't understand such man. You admitted to
me to day that it isn't wise to take such seditudes before your act,
but you did get a prescription for such habits from doctor Stowe. You said
nothing about I needed to. But according to doctor Stoe's case book, you
got the tablets before the Swede was killed, and you left him at the
bar for an hour yesterday while you did a little medical research at the main
library. And that night the swedes split second timing didn't quite split, did
it. Of course, you weren't afraid to go up with Tassinary didating he
didn't miss the Swede. The Swede missed him. I hated him. You
didn't want him. You just wanted to surface all of it. So you
killed the Swede with his own perfect crime. Only it was too perfect.
You couldn't pin the murder on Taessonary. You had to think of something more
down to earth. Go on, my glory and crowd of you. Doctor
Stow knew that you hated your husband, knew that you had those tablets.
He knew that the Swede didn't make mistakes. Last night when Tessonary her view
and still whispering together in Stow was telling you what he suspected, wasn't he
He was a doctor, and he is furious at the thought of being used
in a murder. Well, if you didn't shut up the doctor, he
talked, So you shot him with Tessinary's gun. After staging a very nice
row with Tessinary in front of me. That would paint it on Tessinary.
You let Stoe take you in his arms to muffle a shop that was particularly
pretty. No, no, no, boy, you had a bigger day.
Well, it's time that I grew up. Anyway, that's act and
Glorian, I've sent for the police. Glorian, I'll be here pretty soon.
Now there arena. She came back. He doesn't even know he's wanted.
Probably a little boy. I have let you down. Let me make
it up a little Let me go out there. Will you come down again?
Yes, of course, by the ladder, I mean I won't let
you down again, little boy? Who brought it? We second people wanted
Toup poach you again? Please? They're waiting. Well, the show must
go on, Mercenary. All right, go ahead, lady, they're waiting.
She ran out, laughing, throwing kisses, and I walked out after
stood in the runway, watching I watched the small, delicate figure going up
the ladder. Then she was at the platform, rosin on shoes, rosin
on the hands and wrists, and sultry silence, not a voice, not
a breath, raising her hand in a gesture of exquisite grace and sureness,
and smiling and pessinage smiling, And there it was. This was it.
The ghost link packs of small fries in my school days gaped up with me
and shivered with kid delight. I was a kid again, walking up at
the circus guy and the circus lady, the daring young dame on the flying
trappees, passinary in glory Anne or positively the last performance anywhere on Earth.
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Van Heflin, Star of Adventures of Philip Marlowe, King LEOPARDI had the hottest
trumpet and the coldest eye in show bins, and he loved yellow silk,
so they call him the King in Yellow. We consider his short, eventful
life. Next week, when is Philip Marlowe. I have some business with
the King in Yellow. The Night Star was written by Milton Geiger, based
on the character of Philip Marlowe, the screen's most famous private detective, created
by Raymond Chandler. Heard with Van Heflin's tonight as Glory Anne was Loreene Tuckle.
The original music was composed and conducted by Lynn Murray. This is Wendell
Niles inviting you to listen again next week at this same time to another exciting
mystery on the Adventures of Philip Marlowe starring Van Heflin with a distinguished cast.
This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company. Welcome back. The three episodes
that were actually in circulation back when we did The Adventures of Philip marlow on
the podcast were all based on short stories by Raymond Chandler. By this,
of course, I mainly NBC series starring half one. This one the next
one are different in that they are original stories. This one was a pretty
decent detective program. I did struggle with a couple of things on here.
I'm not certain I buy the idea of Marlow being someone who hasn't been disabused
of his childish notions about the circus. I also found the whole little boy
name that's used repeatedly to be a bit over much. Now. To be
fair, Chandler stories and chandler Esque stories often had a characters give somebody a
nickname and keep, you know, using it over and over again. But
for a half hour story, I think that this was perhaps a bit too
much and came off as too repetitive. While Raymond Chandler characters will often have
that repeated note, it's not often that they begin every sentence to Marlowe with
their pet nickname. One other thing to note, while he is uncredited,
I am fairly certain that I heard the voice of Jeff Chandler as the Swede.
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