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of The Saint. The original airdate July the eighth of nineteen fifty one and
the title Satan's Angels The Adventures of the Saint starring Tom Conway. The Saint
They Saw characters created by Leslie Choppers and known to millions from books, magazines,
and motion pictures. The robin Hood of Modern Crime now comes transcribe to
radio, starring Hollywood's brilliant and talented actor Tom Conway as the Saint Yams template.
Thanks juniors think anybody. No, it still feels as if they're building
the new Third Avenue subway right through my head. Honest to band, I
don't mind the digging so much, but I wish they'd be a little more
gentle when they throw the track down around A quiet in here tonight anyway,
Yeah, well it's raining, you know. The people they stay home on
our rains. It was quiet last night, too well done. It was
nice out. The people they don't like to go indoors when it's nice out.
Oh, I see what this business needs is nice intermediate wedding. But
who's going to go on proposition nature. I'm glad to see you take the
ups and downs of the saluting business philosophically. Mister Templer a guy. He's
got no philosophy in him. He's got no business in a salone business.
Besides, I don't mind a couple of quiet nights. Give me a chance
to catch up on the newspapers. I wants the headline then, oh,
that's the same thing. Russia here, Russian Russia. That other calamity in
order local one? Oh which French La Salle, that's the former calamities,
the Julius. They're burying this out tomorrow. Well, that's what the cops
say, but you don't believe it. Him ignorance believes nothing, mister Templer,
and me I am ignorant. They know I have to change your rating
on my little list, Julius, I've mistakenly marked you Dona's wife there in
many ways, ignorant, mister Templer, Like, for instance, how do
they know? How do you mean? How all for six months the cops
have been hut and high and loftus La Salle. They've got a reservation for
him and sing sing in all private rule and a chair that's equipped with a
bilgim toaster. Hi. Yeah, they're gonna fry him, and believe me,
nobody deserved it better. And they finally find this frenchie less sand You
see, he's dead in the river. Three weeks in a river, mister
Tepler. So how do they know? You mean a man doesn't look like
he used to look after three unhealthy weeks in the Hudson. That's my point.
It ain't that I take the caps maybe a donut. I'm poipers,
but you know they makes sometimes mistake, not very often, but sometimes in
a certain of paper. He didn't even have no fingerprints left, you know,
three weeks in a river. No, but you forget he was wearing
a ring that Lassalo always wore. The scraps of clothing were definitely established as
less amazon the shoes, and oh there were a few other things. Yeah,
but Julius, a scientist can reconstruct the face and body of a man
dead almost a million years just from a couple of bleached bones. Oh gnaws.
Huh. Well, they say that this is what the fellow looked like
a million years ago. But you and me, we're gonna tell him.
No, what a fellow. Maybe you're a sin it now, mister tepla,
just ignorant man. What's the difference? They say that as frauncula sala
putting on the tomorrow. So all right, it's you will stut by meat
too. Good night, Julius, let us a templer. Hey, that
headache, you know, as you should put it to bed on a rainy
night like this. That's exactly what I'm going to do with my headache and
with the rest of me too. Oh no, no, all right,
all right, please lift the door. They'll go back to sleep. Kind
show. Now, what's all this? You? Simon Templer, Yes,
but Simon Templer, who is known as the same. Look here, what
is the way back to come in? Come in, Mabel? I'm nice
if oh this is a nice joint. Business must be good. See here,
would you too? Please? Oh you're the same, the same.
Look. I never give autographs, and if I did, it wouldn't be
at two in the morning. Oh, we couldn't make it any earlier.
The saint, you know, Midge, he's cute. Look who are you
doing for angels? Huh? Angel Julius was right. I should never have
had scotch on top of champagne. So you're angel, h huh. That's
why we couldn't get here any sooner. You mean you had a rough crossing?
No, not especially. There's never much traffic at this hour. There
isn't, huh. And we didn't have to wait very long for the bus
either, did we nedge five minutes the bus? You mean there's a bus
between here and there, her Hus number fourteen. You change at Union Square.
Of course the subway is quicker that Harry doesn't like for us Angels to
ride the subways so late at night. Harry Satan our boss. We call
him Harry. It's a temper. You're all right, you tell me?
I mean, now, what are you pinching yourself like that? Pol can't
you see that I'm trying to wake myself up. Oh you seem awake enough
to me, doesn't be Mabel? Yeah, but well, miss Chandler,
what are you looking so unhappy? Don't angels ever have nightmares? Sure?
Why sometimes? I? Oh? Do you know what I think? What?
Mabel? I think? He thinks we think we're real angel Mabel?
Do we sell a girl Chandler honestly for your own private information? We're positively
not real angels. I mean, that's the kind of gin even for instance.
No, no, we're Satan's Angel. Oh no, oh, you've
heard about of Cord not since the last time I read dantist Inferno. Don't
you like music? Of course I like music, But Chandler Satan's Angel?
Or putting it another way, Harry Satan and his all girl orchestra. Oh,
for the love of you're an orchestra, tennis sacks, bass tuba.
It's a good thing. Neither of you said the huff. We've been for
an the round of confusion. Look, girls, I'm not feeling very well
at the moment, and I one day to wouldn't mind continuing this camp.
We have a problem. Take her to Phillispittown there and after we came all
the way across town following our last performance at the Paradise Paradise. Look,
let's not start that stuff again. We need your hand, they really do.
But I don't know anything about your music. I mean, oh,
we didn't come to see you about our music. No, it's something worse,
much worse. One could it be worse? Our second trombone has disappeared,
completely vanished. Oh it'll turn up in some phone shop, I'm sure.
And if it doesn't, why not all chip in and buy another one
and let me go back to bed. Huh. But it isn't. Then
it it's a she, our second trombone, Mary Miller, and she's disappeared.
I seen tell me. Have you ever heard of a thriving little institution
known as the Missing Person's Brown? Yeah, we call them. They won't
handle it, they said, they don't consider Mary missing just because she's been
gone one and a half day. Good for them. I'm glad to see
if they're alert down there. But it isn't like Mary, not at all.
It may be only one and a half days to ordinary people, but
to us it's fourteen performances she's been missing, and Mary never missed a performance
in all the six months he's been with the band. I see it.
You must help it. You must wear frank. Yes, I was afraid
you were. Please please help he look, ladies, just because a girl
trombone player has been missing for thirty six thirty seven. Now, okay,
okay, I'll tell you what I did. You hear he's gonna do something.
What well, if you will get out of here and let me get
back to bed and remove myself as this headache, I promise you that first
thing tomorrow I'll visit you at the theater and look into this trombone business.
Oh isn't he wonderful? It's the Paradise, the one on the east side,
the Paradise. Yeah. Our first show is at two pm. I'll
be there. No, good night, please good night, and give my
love to the rest of the angels. Oh no, no, not those
two again. All right, all right, all right, angel For heaven's
sake, girls, I don't look like girls, do I? As a
matter of fact, you don't look like anything I've ever seen before coming insane.
Come on, why be different? What's the gun for? Ugly you?
Yes, a nice joint you guy here, that's what they're all saying.
Cigarette. Thanks, it's a poisoned you know I've been poisoned before.
Yeah. Are we talk now? Huh you're holding the gun. Yeah,
yeah, I'm glad you notice things. I'm here about them tomatoes, saying
trombones tomatoes tonight. I'm doing a bigger business than maces and dames. I
mean them angels. Keep clear, saying, tell them don't go looking for
our missing dames, saying he won't be finding out trouble. You get it,
the general drift. You know, I'm beginning to think I knew you
from somewhere. Yeah, then it's time to stop thinking the faces for a
minute. But I can't seem to place the nose. No, if not,
he'll lose it. That nose was flat the last time I sawined about
a year ago. So you've brought yourself a new schmuzzle. Jake, the
names, George, the names, Jake, Jake Florio. You work for
FRENCHI Lassalle I drop it ahead of his arto record every saint. But right
now is when you're going to start feeling sorry you wasn't born dumb. I
stand where you're knock it out of here. Well, that's one way to
get rid of a hittache. Come in, mister Satan. That's right.
My name's Temper. Hey, did you catch a shell? As a matter
of fact, mister Satan, we minded the people today, midled them almost
as big as that day. Interbute you hear that? Applause bud uh huh,
I heard it. Well, William probe, that's a great little outfit.
I got here, a great bunch of girls. You should have caught
us that day in debut. You just should have caught it. Maybe next
time. There's something I wanted to talk to you about. I love pel
If it's about them, paymous for those rains. I'm not collecting bills.
I'm I'm looking for a girl. So it's like that. I know it's
like this. I understand your second trump bone players missing second trump Hey,
this is news to you. Married never miss a performance. Most conscientious girl
in a vand loves music. The only one in the whole hopital does while
she behind her trombone. Just now you mean in the show we just now
given right you're the leader, don't you know? Well sometimes you know?
Yeah, come in hyeah, listen, Chanceler, Hello, you did come,
I promise? Hey? Wait, look, how come I don't know
about this guy? Huh? It hasn't as yet. Then we put it
in the racing. Foom, that's how come, mister Templer, What can
we do? Where can we begin? Well, then you and mister Satan
can start the ball game by telling me a few things about the lady everything
I know. First, literally seem worried about anything these last few days,
nervous, perhaps so frightened. It's hard to tell. Well, Mary's such
a quiet girl. I became her roommate when she joined the Angels about six
months ago, and even loving with her, I never really felt I knew
her, I see, not that I didn't try to know her. I
myself am a rather friendly person. Yeah, Harry, shut up. Of
course, Mary was always nice and sweet to everyone, and such a perfect
little lady in all. But yet why well, every now and then,
something sort of well I thought, a tough like seemed to show up in
her out Harry, I want you she and she seemed like she was carrying
secrets, mister Temple deep sorrowful one. Of course, I never asked her
to Eluciday, not much. Where was she from? Well, that was
one of the secrets. Every time I asked her, she'd make what she
didn't hear me. But Harry, you should know me. Yeah, I
don't know anything, not anything period I wanted you do before she became one
of Satan. I don't know that either. Didn't she tell you anything of
what she'd be doing before? What orchestras she had been playing with? For
example? No, I never asked, And if I did ask, I
don't remember. And if I asked, if she told me, I don't
remember that either. If she was a hush, you'd remember. If she
was a hut, you didn't even know how many hands hi her grandmother was,
you'd remember everything. Yeah, you remember everything. You see how it
is, Belly. Most guys go true life get nagged by just one of
them. But not Harry Saton. I got to hook up with twenty two.
I'll go on your buck. You know something I think I will be
saying if Belly remember her name, Harry, he's such a lovable jack,
I'd be a little more inclined to go along with you on that. If
he were a little listen inclined to hiding things. You think he's holding out
something about Mary? I am sure of it. Tell me did you go
through her belongings? Oh? Why, I wouldn't dream of such a thing
before. She doesn't have very much to go through. I don't take a
look myself later. Did you take anything with her? Not so much as
a tooth fresh, not even a trash? Yes, maybo? Come on?
What happened? Oh Harry? Who's your Harry? I don't know.
I didn't stay, came through the window. Get a doctor, no,
no doctor? Proud about Mary? Yes, if you don't, if you
don't find him? Who? Why? Look? I know, don't killing.
I don't know why. But she's a good kid. Only one mistake,
only one mistake. Oh Harry, Oh Harry, Oh temper, he's
dead. Our room is down the middle of the hall, mister Templer,
this way, thank you. It's a real cheesy hotel. But even sharing
a room, Mary and I could just bairey of wood. Oh here we
are, well, at least the duel works. It's mister Chanceller. Just
look, you haven't been entertaining any tornadoes like the he you well, I
never who could have done such a thing? Who could have torn our room
apart? Like this? Was looking for something? Obviously? What's point number
one? Point number two is did you find it? I don't know what's
Oh that's Mary's first aid kit. You know, bandage is niagine, and
heaven knows what else. It's rather professional looking, wouldn't you saying? Mary
never went traveling anywhere without it? Why anytime any of us girls got a
fingernail too close so it got a little burned from a curly Ye? Was
Mary nake him like Florence Nightingale? I see how are used to poor Harry?
He used to say, having Mary with the orchestra was like having a
doctor in that you weren't listening? Is this Mary? That's me on the
left? Midge took it last month? Oh look at this room? What
on earth could anyone have been looking for in here? I wish I knew
Mabel, but I do know this. Whatever it was, he didn't find
it, you can tell. But how the wallpaper? See how I ripped
it off in places, places that make no sense because there's no possible hiding
face behind where the paper was. But the worst it was an act of
frustration. Not finding what he was after in any of the probable places he
looked, he lost his head and started on the improbable one and began to
tear down the wall. Oh, I'd like to get my hands on him,
just for one little minute, so Di. But not because of the
wallpaper what he did to Harry. Come on, let's get out of here.
Yes, this room is just all together too depressing. Wait a minute,
maybel is this Mary's trombone? Are they coming two pieces? Don't they?
The sliding part can be slid right off the blowing part. And what
is it? Did you find something? Mister Temper? Let you know as
soon as I work whatever it is out of there. We are they've rolled
they're rolled up. Well, i'll be x ray pictures. Now. Why
would Mary have X ray pictures rolled up in her trombone? She figured?
And rightly it seems that her trombone would be the one place whoever was looking
for them wouldn't look. But I don't Why should anyone just as puzzled as
you are, mister Templer, you could never be well. Of course I
don't know all the registered nurses in town, mister Templer, but I do
have a large agency and a rather good memory. And the name Mary Miller
rings no bells, missus oil hunt. I'm sorry, I'd like to help
you. Perhaps one of the other nurses agency perhaps, or perhaps Mary Miller
was known as something else, or perhaps she wasn't a nurse at all.
Oh you're not sure then that she? M No. I looked into a
box and found a hunch. Ba's a first aid kid. One that seemed
just a trifle to elaborate for a simple citizen to own. Oh, I
see you're sure that the snapshot doesn't m no, doesn't look like any of
the nurses at this age. M I wonder would you mind wondering out loud?
Please? Of course her hair was dark. If I could just see
this girl as a brunette, Oh that's easy. Why go to aunt runs
when you have templar the picture? Please? And that soft pencil? Well,
I mademoiselle is brunette? Now why it is? It's Mary Webster.
You say that name with an exclamation point after it, several exclamation points go
on. She was doctor Burton's nurse, and so you don't recall doctor Burton,
who was quite notorious. What did you do? Flunked his cigarette?
Tast He had some rather interesting patience, mister Templer, the underworld hoodlums and
gangsters, and a remarkable, if rather specialized specialty. That's hight gunshot wounds,
wounds caused by hand grenades, knifings. And he just never bothered to
report any of his patient's battle wounds to the police as required by law.
Huh, that's right. He died in prison shortly after his conviction, and
Mary Miller or Websters the case may be him also sent to prison, but
with a light sentence. And of course her license was revoked. She had
to give up nursing when she got out, and so she became a trombone
player and a collector. Oh what does she collect, mister Temple? X
ray pictures, old and rare ones. It sounds like a doll hobby,
I admit, but I think there's money in it. Well, Raymond,
very interesting X ray plate Simon. But what am I supposed to do about
them? Just tell me about them, doctor Simon. I'm a physician employed
by the office of the City Medical Examiner. You know, I'm not allowed
to give private consultations. Here. I think this consultation might develop into a
rather public one. It's a riddle you're making. I'm trying to make answers,
my friend, not riddles very well. They're pictures of a shin bone,
that's all. That's all. Well, slightly different sort of a shin
bone. You see see right here, this darker portion through here. It's
a silver plate. Man evidently was in an accident of im sort or he
was shot. Yes, yes, a bullet would just about break off that
amount of bone. He might have been shot. Any horris position had placed
the missing bone of a silver blade. That's all. It's done all the
time. Have you done any autopsies around here lately on a body with a
silver shinbone? Doctor Low? What are you trying to find out? Simon?
What about French? A LaSalle LaSalle? I did that Outisey myself,
not Si Blades. But then it wasn't LaSalle they buried this morning? What
Simon? You crazy? That body they dragged out of the river checked up
his Lasale on at least a dozen points, planted points. The body was
dressed up to give that impression before it was dumped into the river. Ah,
Oh, it's simple enough. French's body comes out of the river and
into a grave. And the police closed the files on frenchship. The heat
is off and nasal beats the chair. Aaron Hardy and are that these x
ray pictures show a sow shin borne. A killer named Jake Florio who used
to be French's right arm told me not to go looking for a missing girl
named Mary Miller. M Either you have too much imagination or I don't have
enough. Mary worked for the doctor who did the operation on this leg.
She's probably one of the few living persons who knows that LaSalle has a silver
plate to his shin, and she had the x rays to prove it.
So so if the man buried today in Frenchness How's bad name didn't have a
silver plate in his leg, then this smell a girl had some pretty important
information. Why didn't she come to gus with it? Because she wanted more
than to be paid off with her with her thank you. She isn't that
good a citizen. You think she tried to shake down herself, and I
think Lasan refused to shake He's probably at this very moment twisting her arm,
trying to make her tell where these pictures are. I can see where he'd
consider them important. They're the only thing in this world that can prove he's
still alive and still a candidate for the electric chair. Yes, very noble
and me mid Hello girls, it's always nice to welcome a couple of angels.
Mister Chandler. We would like to know what, if anything, you
are doing. We insist on knowing. As a matter of fact, I
was reading a book. Reading a book, mister Chandler. It's called in
one head and out the other. Very amusing, full of laughs. You
can laugh at a time like this, with poor Mary's still among the missing
and poor Harry among the murdered. Pushn't you the outlooking That's exactly what I
would be doing if I went at home, waiting, waiting for what.
I expect that at any moment the doorbell will ring and a man named Jake
Florio will be among us. For what may I ask? Just to kill
me, mister Templer at a turn like thank you tell you, mister Templer,
No, don't, lady, I'll do my bet. But why should
anybody want to tell you? For the same reason he killed Harry Saton,
I know too much about Mary Miller, and knowing too much about Mary,
he's afraid might leave me to knowing just enough about frenchillaself, I don't understand
you. It's healthier that way, mister Templer. Are you sure that this
for your person is coming? Not positive? But it figures that he should
But shouldn't you do something to protect yourselfers? I have you get in the
other room quick, do as I say? All right? Come on,
yes, hem hello, saying why it isn't a telegram at all. It's
jake for you, and I'll bet you come to shoot me at inside,
saying come on, come on. Anything to oblige a man with a thirty
eighth I warned you not to poke around, saying you know what happens to
smart guys who can't take a suggestion. Well, Simon, did they do
it as he told me to? The operation is a complete success, doctor,
and now let's bring him back to life for a while so he can
tell us where French alssells hiding. I'm all right, I'm all right,
doctor. I'd like you to meet a couple of angels. How do you
do? Hello? Teenage? He's kid? He is I've never noticed before,
Simon, who is there? Delivery? You got around? Apart amount?
I'm not expecting anything I guess mister Floria must have given us the wrong
address. Where are you from? Meat laboratories? Have not some X ray
pictures here? Love you? You're talking to bring them here? Yeah,
but I guess I got the wrong address, or I'll just be wait,
maybe I ought to take a look at them all right now? And in
that envelope you hello, I'm coming in have a nice naplace, huh,
And stop worrying about those old X ray pictures. You'll you'll probably be needing
some brand new ones when you wake up. So this is your room,
miss Miller. Oh, don't worry, I'll I'll tell you. But before
I remove the gag from your mouth and give you a chance to talk,
Bank, I want you to listen to a little lecture I prepared concerning the
folly of trying to blackmail gangs to now. To begin with, when a
ruthless filler like French Lass, you have been listening to another transcrid adventure of
the Saint the robin Hood of modern crime. Now Here is our star,
Tom Conway. Ladies and gentlemen. In our cast, you had Sandra Gould
as Mabel and Margaret Brayton as Missus Sawyer. Sheldon Leonard played Julius and Poor
Richards j Doctor Raymond was Stanley Farrah and Harry Benny Rubin. This is Don
Conway inviting you to join us again next week at the same time for another
exciting adventure of the Saint. Good Night. The script of The Saint was
written by Michael Crunell. The Saint, based on characters created by Leslie Choppers,
is of James L. Safia production and is directed by Helen make Tom
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Detectives of Old Time Radio with Adam Graham and now let's get back into the
show. Welcome back. Well this actually, of all the Tom Conway stories
so far, this has been my favorite because this really felt like this was
written to fit his unique style and his unique take on the character, which
is different from Vincent Prices. But it still played very well here, with
a lot of great moments and great lines and a very good and involved mystery.
I did think the lecture about why not to blackmail gangsters was something we
could have used to hear, or at least characters and other detective shows could
use could stand here. The doctor inserted in the case of knocking out the
Gunman was probably more of a case of not introducing an extra character when you
didn't have to. But other than that, a very solid and enjoyable episode
that really shows the strength of Tom Conway as an actor. Over on Facebook,
John wrote regarding the first episode with Simon Templar or with Tom Conway as
Simon Templar, someone got some Sherlock in my saint. Of course, Tom
Conway over radio is probably better known as the Sherlock Holmes that immediately followed Basil
Rathbone, still teamed up with Nigel Bruce. So far, I think he's
probably a better Saint than he was Sherlock Holmes. But that may just have
been all the challenges of following Basil Rathbone and still having that rapport with Nigel
Bruce, which can be a bit of a challenge. So that's not to
say he wasn't a solid Holmes. He's a very strong actor. Finally,
we do have a comment from Mirth, who writes in, thanks very much,
Adam. I continue to enjoy your show and it's a staple of my
life. Well, thanks so much for your continued support of the program.
It's definitely appreciated. And that will do it for today. We will be
back tomorrow with the Adventures of Hollery Queen, a special one hour episode,
and then next week our final episode of The Saint with Tom Conway. In
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