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get into the last episode of Ohara. Jack Moyles reprised the role of Ohara
for seven episodes between May and July of nineteen fifty six. The series returned
to CBS October the first of nineteen fifty six. However, Stacy Harris was
cast as the lead. Stacy Harris is probably best known to listeners of this
program as someone who was often a supporting character or a heavy in programs like
Yours Truly, Johnny Dowler and also Dragnet And if you listen to the aforementioned
Old Time Radio Superman podcast when I was first playing it, you may have
heard Stacy Harris as the voice of Batman. But Harris's best remembered role was
as FBI agent Jim Taylor on This is Your FBI. So it was definitely
up to the task of taking on the role of O'Hara for five weeks.
Now, why CBS chose to bring it back for five weeks it's in only
five weeks, I don't know. But this is the last episode of the
series. The original air date is October the twenty ninth of nineteen fifty six,
and the title is The Lost Boy Oh Huh Hong Kong. October twenty
nine. Here is the story of a very unfortunate little boy who got stranded
down an old McCaw Oh Hurrah, transcribe reports from one of America's noted foreign
correspondence who syndicated column appears throughout the world. Whenever I feel in the need
of a little excitement, or when I find myself becoming bored with Hong Kong,
or I'm running short on stories for the column, I make the thirty
five mile trip to the Portuguese colony of Macau. They call it the Monte
Carlo or the Orient, and they boast that if you can't get it in
Macau, you can't get it anywhere. A friend of mine lives in Macau.
His name is General Yip Kim Chung, and last Thursday I decided to
pay him a visit. So a little past eight in the morning, I
was leaning against the rail of the small passenger steamer watching a school of porpoise
racing along in front of the bow. I've been standing there maybe five minutes
when he came out of the cabin to join me. Or they sure can't
swim fast, can't? Oh yeah, yeah, they sure can. How
fast you think they're going now? Oh, maybe sixteen seventeen knots. Well,
how many miles an hour is there? Let's see that's almost twenty I
think ye. I should wish I could swim twenty miles an hour. How
would you do if you could? All getting the Olympics and stuff like that.
You want some gum? It's American and I like sun how right?
Now? Are you a sailor? No? No, not, I look
like one, not exactly. But you know all about knots and those porpoises.
Well, I used to do some sailing on weekends. A friend of
mine had a boat. Gee, sure must have been fun. Will you
look at the jumps foy, hundreds of them. They're all fishing. See
those black ones remind me of pirate ships. Your suppose we'll meet up with
any pirates today? Oh, I doubt it. Pirates were chased out of
these waters almost twenty years ago. Well, that's not what my pop says
in his letter. He said a lot of smugglers make their headquarters in Macau,
and he said a lot of pirates have gone into business there. You
know something, I have to admit your pops right, sure he is.
My papa wouldn't say anything. It wasnay, you look at those porpoises.
John, Where do you live? Tommy in Tokyo with my mom and stepdad.
We moved there last week when he got transferred. Before that, we
lived on Ho'd you know my name? It's on the tag. It's been
on your coat. Oh, I forgot about that. Are you traveling along?
Yeah, I'm going to visit my pop in Macau for a couple of
weeks. What's your name? Oh, Harrah Babo Hara. I'm glad to
meet you, mister Harra. Thank you. I'm glad to meet ever disappear
like that again? Oh gee, I just came on to watch the porpoises.
Johns matter sturdus, give me your trouble, not really with your hair,
but it is my doing to watch him. And every time I turned
my back, he's gone, just like a firecrack. I'm making noise.
Now you come along inside, Tommy, I want you to finish your milk.
I talked to the boy once more before we rounded the point. It
marks the entrance to the small harbor of the car. I learned that his
father was a Portuguese national. He had met Tommy's mother while in the States
going to college. And then a few years after Tommy was born they were
divorced. It was just eleven when they lowered the gang plank. I went
ashore and stood in line with the other passengers, waiting for the immigration officer
to check my passport. Hey missed your hair? Yeah, Tommy, do
you know how long was take? How long? I take? A few
minutes? You got your passport? Handy? Sure? Can you see your
father anyway? Tommy? How can I get so crowded? Very exactly?
Did you say it for you? You to meet him right here? Worthy?
Look at your passport. You should be waiting on the other side of
the entrance, gape. No, I told you he said he'd meet me
right here. Don't you worry about it, Tommy, here'll show up.
Oh I'm not mister Harrott. My pop always does everything he says he's gonna
do. He'll be here. Because I go over to Macau quite often,
most of the immigration officers know me, and a moment later, one of
them handed me my usual twenty four hour tourist permit. I said goodbye to
Tommy and told the stewartist that I'd be going back on the same steamer that
afternoon. A few minutes later I arrived at the business establishment of my friend
Yep Kim Chung. Kim Chung had once been a general in the Nationalist Tommy.
Since his arrival in Macau, he had acquired the most luxurious gambling house
on the inappropriated named Street of Happiness. A general seemed taller and heavier than
I murmured. We had a long talk and even longer lunch, and then
I returned with the doctor to board the steamer. Please, what is it
store the Castro board Tommy, or what about him? His father has not
yet come to meet him when he feels very bad. That's a shame.
Where's the boy over there against the wall watching everyone who comes in from the
street. I said, did you try calling mister Castro several times but to
us no answer? Please see what you can do to help him. Sure
he cannot stay here in this place because he is a child. It will
not allow him to enter Macaw unless an Adultisum's full responsibility for him. They
they want him to go back to Hong Kong this afternoon. It will be
difficult to make him leave. Mistro, har take care of Hi Hi I.
Your father must have his dates mixed up. I guess I think you're
arriving tomorrow instead of today. Normal Stroe Harry, he couldn't be mixed up.
He bought the airplane tickets and reserved the seat, and in his litter,
he's to take this boat today. Wow. Maybe these little labs in
minded maybe forgot Tommy. If you had a son and he was coming to
visit you for the first time in seven years, would you forget? Oh?
I guess you're right Tommy, So, Harry, I must go aboard
now, will you? Yes? Sure, I'll catch the lake boat tonight
or the early one to mom wanting you. You go right ahead and started.
Thank you, Tommy. I hope your father comes for you very soon.
He will. I know it. Good Bye, Tommy, Bye,
Thanks tom You you still got some of that American showing gam Oh yeah,
in a raspberry. I don't really care. Raspberries are best here, thanks
to you. Mind if I sit on that beside you? Oh no,
it's not very clean. That's okay, Tommy. We're gonna have to figure
out something. I guess you know those immigration men don't want you staying here.
I won't come back to Hong Kong or any place else they can't make
me. Oh, yes, they could if they wanted to. But we're
going to see if we can't fix it so that they don't want to.
Huh. Well, if they'll let me, i'll be responsible for you until
my permit runs out tomorrow morning. GOSSA, wait a minute, young man.
Huh, I don't know yet. If they'll let me, i'll tell
you what. You stay right here and I'll go and ask him how to
deal. Yes, sir, Oh, Tommy, you know what your father
does, don't you. I mean, what kind of a job he has.
Oh? Sure, he's the principle of one of the schools here.
Oh do you know which one? Oh? Sorry, don't worry about it.
I'll look. Here's what we'll do. I'll call your father's house again,
and if he isn't there, we'll find out where he teachers. Okay,
sure, mister okay. I signed the necessary papers and then tried to
reach mister Castro by phone, but there was still no answer. So with
Tommy's help, we carried these things out to a cab and asked the driver
to take us to the Macanese equivalent of the Board of Education. It was
in a large stone building. Tommy stayed with a cab while I went inside.
Whoa friend, I'm sorry, I don't understand you. Do you speak
English? Yes? I said, we're closed for the day. Come to
I won't have time tomorrow. I'm leaving for Hong Kong on the early boat.
Suddy said, I wait a minute, Oh hold it. Look all
I want is the name of the school where Lewis Castro is the principal,
the head teacher. You had an American and you're not, sir, Noah,
that's right. What are you staying? Do you have your passport?
For sure? But may I see it? Please? I look? Don't
you understand all I want? All right? Thank you? Anybody? Mister
n Hannah, you're satisfied now that you're an American? Yes, excuse me,
I hope you don't mind talking out here in the whole. I found
it to be much safer, safer from what your mad school still had.
A Why are you so interested in locating, mister custom because your son is
waiting outside now. Castor was supposed to meeting this morning when the boat docked,
but he didn't show up, and I'm helping the boy find him.
Okay, that is your only reason. And I look, mister, I've
answered all the questions I intend to tell me. The name of that school
is in him, does not matter. Castre is not there right Where is
he? I don't know. All I do know is that he telephoned his
school's office this morning before the first class. He said he would not be
in today. That's all. It didn't He didn't say why or he isn't
seconding no, and he has not been at home all day. We know
that already. Well. Next thing to do is check the hospital. He
is not in a hospital, mister Haa, I inquired this afternoon. Why
would you do that? Mister Hannah. I'm sure I could be more helped
you later tonight, if you would care to meet me all right where any
public place where we would not be conspicuous about general yeps, gambling callas.
Fine, say at eleven oh it is usually a very crowded. Perhaps we
should arrange to meet in a particular section. I'll be right outside the General's
office. I shall find you. Mister mahah. You better. I didn't
trust the little clerk anymore than he had trusted me, and I knew we'd
be watching. As I walked to the cab, so when I reached it,
I had Tommy step out on the curb for a moment. Then we
started for the Bella vistore. I was wondering why that clerk had been so
cautious. When I noticed that Tommy was watching me, I smiled at him
and hoped he hadn't realized just how worried I was. There's a terrorist dining
room with a dance floor, orchestra and a view with the billavista, and
to give our morale a boost, I decided that we should have dinner out
there. We finished our dessert and we're watching the dancers when a waiter approached
and handed me a note. Who is it from mister hair, mister Harris.
I'll let let me finish one. I'm not sure, Tommy, isn't
it signed? Yeah? Yeah, But Tommy, you're getting to be a
big boy. Now, you're almost a man, and it's time that you
know that people have to do things sometimes it seemed cruel to other people are
really the best thing for everybody, Like mom making me to kiss that's right.
Well, sometimes when they do these things, they can't always explain why
they're doing it. Nothing do you understand, right? Yes or I think
so. I'm good. I'm Tommy. Would you recognize your father's handwriting as
you saw? I'm sure you write from my pap? Isn't a misty hair?
Yeah? Tommy, Tommy? Is it going to be a nighter in
the morning? Tommy? Will Tommy stop it? Will you? Oh?
Look, wait a minute, you read this, but first I want you
to tell me if that's your father's handwriting. Let's see. Yeah, are
you sure? Yes? Or Pop Roth? And this we always signs his
name. Didn't you believe me? Rude? I just wanted to be sure.
Tommy, I'll let you. You go ahead and read it now,
Okay, dear mister Harrod, how come I didn't send it to me?
Just read it to me, will you? Yes? I regret not being
able to thank you personally for the great kindness you have acted. Oh yeah,
for the great kindness you have accorded my son, Tommy. However,
business affairs which arose while my son was a root allow me no time to
see the boy, much as I would care to go on. Go on,
smers, remember what I told you. I'm closed. You will find
his return Plaine ticket. Please see he leaves at the earliest possible moment.
Thanks again, who was Castrol? I'm sorry? Someone he could have at
least found time to see how low to me? He could have brought this
letter himself called on the phone. Why didn't he, Mistra Hera, It
isn't fair, she We made all kinds of plans. We're gonna go hiking,
do so many things, so already got busy. But why couldn't he
take time on just to see me for a minute. Why, mister Hera,
why couldn't he? I don't know, son, I just don't know.
I've been around a long time. I've seen a lot, and there
isn't much that one human being can do to another. We'll really bother me,
but this did upstairs. I told Tommy I was sure his father really
wanted to see him, and he probably felt just as bad as Tommy did
because he couldn't. Tommy didn't believe me. I didn't believe it myself.
I wanted to meet this Lewis Castro. I wanted to see a man who
was so busy he couldn't spare five minutes for his son. Finally I managed
to get Tommy into bed, and about an hour later he was sound asleep.
I asked one of the bellboys to keep an eye on our room,
and then I walked down to a General Yip Kim Chung's gambling colors. I
had told the general at lunch that I was leaving on the afternoon steamer for
Hong Kong, so I knew he'd be surprised to see me. Oh,
miss Oha, you go all right in your please thank you pan. No,
by my troll, no man who is mottle can possibly be here in
this I need Hong Kong at the same time. So whold fiend or double
whatever you'd be a staid, your papas or else. I won't buy you
a drink after that bit of literary murder you ought to buy Shakespeare? And
how I would like to what wonderful gutty stuff that man wrote? What I
sold you I could have made of him. General you probably would have ah,
I see your point. Well, I'm glad you're staying overnight, but
you should have let me know earlier. We could have a rinked something.
There. You are, my friend nice. I really didn't know until after
I reached the boat that I was whoa gol nah no a little boy's father
didn't show up to meet him, so I'm taking care of him. Oh,
where is his father? He's busy, too busy to see him even
once. Instead, he sent a note telling the boy to go back home
to his mother's. So he's doing that in the morning. Father and mother
are divorced. H that is sad. Excuse me? Who is sap?
Yeah? I have heard you tell miss o'harror, miss o'harror. There is
man. He saw you and here portuguee man. He say he mean with
you. Now you're telling to forget it? Pan, Tell him that isn't
important anymore. Yes, I tell you, mag say who who is it?
Portugue man? Oh? Man? Who might know where Tommy's father is?
All right now, I don't care if you drink my friend. Oh,
it's fine, it's just fine. You know you're tired. You should
elect more O'Hara. Sure, he's a good thing. You're not in my
business. You would soon be bancroft. Now it makes you think. So,
oh you let the troubles of other people become your own. Sometimes I
can't help it. General how many Portuguese live here? Macau last sent us
twelve hundred on four of which almost seventy three per Some favorite this house when
they play more than you know most of them, or not by their faces,
but by their characters on wealth or lack of wealth? Or do you
know a man named Louis Castro. He's the principal head teacher for one of
the schools here. Oh, I know of the man. To my knowledge,
he has never been inside this husband. What do you know about him?
Only would I have heard the two sons of my nephew attend his school.
My nephew believes that mister Custro is a man who should be much respected.
Already. Well, I have a story for your nephew. Castro was
the man who's too busy to see his own son, Luis Custro. No,
I find that hard to believe. I can show you the nobody sent
me. Oh, I don't doubt your word or horror. But for a
man who loves children as Castro does, enough to have made them his life's
work, it is indeed strange you would treat his son the way you have
described. What was? You're not listening when I speak? No, No,
I heard you, general, I heard you. Fine. What the
general had said was an obvious fact, a truth. Yet it hadn't occurred
to me because I had wanted to believe only the worst of Lewis Castro.
I'd started disliking him at the dock when he hadn't shown up to meet Tommy.
And this with the effect the note had had on me, had made
me blind to the facts, so blind that someone who didn't want me asking
questions about castor disappearance had been able to make a first class fool of me.
I looked around the gambling hall a couple of times, and then went
outside, said, are you a doctor? No, No, I'm not.
Excuse me, I must blinding a doctor. I might husband sad.
He ran on into the gambling police, looked down into the street where several
people were gathering, and then I started down towards him. Excuse me,
high, let me throw a excuse me, Please, don't don't try to
talk today. Yeah, one miss asked him to it. I will.
I'll get him for what you wanted to know. It numbers dragon society one
Castro. He wouldn't listen. The chack him. No priest. All the
time I found a priest, work was dead. I needed a couple of
stiff drinks and a lot of help. So I went back to the General
and I told him what had happened. But it was not your fault,
and I don't try to con me General. Of course, it was my
fall. All I had to do when he came here with stand up and
walked to that door and ask him to come in, and then our leader
you would have had a knife in your back maybe, but in the meantime
we'd have known where to find Castor. We can still know this. Oh
wow. The Dragon Society is not a large organization or her, but it
is a rich one. Most of the members are merchants, and most of
them play here. Among the names in my fire, I am sure there
are many who belong to this society. I will choose one with a little
courage, right, And we asked him to take us to Castro, and
of course he does, yes, exactly. It may take a few minutes
before he's willing to do this. If you do not care to witness the
interrogation to her, you may wait outside. I played fan Tan, lost
a few dollars, then tried Majng and lost a few more. Then pne
general servant told me it was time to go back into the office. A
friend or horror, Allow me to present another friend of mine. This is
mister Sun a yee. He is a member of the famed Dragon Society and
has asked to meet you. Yeah, I'm just bet he is. Is
he not a miserable specimen? You will never imagine where my men found him?
Okay, I give up? Where playing fantan amusing? Oh and before
I forget this night, you may have for a souvenir. It was his
duty to silence the clerk. He's the boy, probably chalk like a magpie.
Oh please I tell you anything? Please? Alright? Alright? Where
is Castro here? He is being held at the loom Cheap You know where
that is? General? Oh yeah, it is a what tell not far
from here? Why are you holding him prisoner? What did he do to
you? He did nothing to me personally, but to the Dragon Society he
is a dangerous man. Tomorrow they send him to China. Keep talking,
mister Sun please, yes, yes, Dragon Society members are merchants. Traders
do most of business with the Red China. If trade with China stopped,
we would be bankrupt. Mister Castro dangerous mind? But why how could he
hurt your trade with China. He is a strong anti communist. He's teacher.
He teaches communism not good. He is respected by many people. They
listen to him, they believe what he say. And now he is to
be given government post. Who can say what changes he will make, of
course to be made. Perhaps China become angry with us a lot more trade.
Ah or general, I think it's time we call the police. Oh
please, my friend, not the police. They would raid long cheese and
find only the usual fifth. So you're a general, you tell me.
I have ten Koreans working here. They are very tall, very large man.
They would welcome the exercise. You knew what you are to do?
Oh, yes, I know? Repeat it please. I do not want
you to have any trouble. All right. I'm to wait out here and
at the entrance until you bring Castro out, and it will be my job
to get him away from here. That is correct, No, you wit
here. It was dawn by the time I got back to the hotel.
I had Tommy get up and dress. I didn't tell him where we were
going on Hawaii, and he didn't care. He sat beside me, quietly,
expressionless, like a little lost boy. At the hospital. I asked
him to go inside with me to visit a friend. Okay, tell me,
go on in. This is my friend's rooming. Go on in,
go on. I waited a few minutes, and then I went in to
speak to mister Kestro. He told me he had known Dragon Society men were
after him, and just before they caught him, he had talked to the
clerk from the schoolboard. Then he sent the note to me so that Tommy
would not become involved. It's funny about kids. In a moment, Tommy
had forgotten everything bad that had happened to him. He wasn't lost anymore.
I don't think he ever will be again. Oh Harrow stars Stacy Harris.
It is transcribed and directed in Hollywood by Anthony Ellis. Tonight's story was written
by Charles B. Smith. Featured in our cast were Richard Beale's Virginia,
greg Don Diamond, Charlie Long, and Ben Wright. Musical supervision by carl
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CBS Radio. Welcome back. The one thing I did question about this episode
was the way that O'Hara jumped to a conclusion about the father even after he
had talked to the clerk of the school, who gave an impression that something
else was going on. Also, I have to say that I really enjoyed
that closing music on this just a solid piece for the music and listen to
that for quite a while. All Right, Well, I do want to
go ahead and thank our Patreon supporter of the day. Thank you to Melanie,
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